#30 under 30 list

[elchaqueno]

Peso Pluma reconocido en la lista "30 under 30" de Forbes

En un reconocimiento a la innovación y talento emergente, el cantante mexicano Peso Pluma ha sido incluído en la lista “30 under 30” de la revista Forbes. Nacido en Guadalajara en 1999, Peso Pluma se ha destacado fusionando géneros como corridos, reguetón y cumbia, logrando un impacto significativo en la escena musical internacional. El reconocimiento de Forbes eleva su éxito individual y destaca…

[wulfhalls]

they're doing a ted talk on how to juggle autocracy and despotic rulership while being newlyweds

[revasserium]

hi rain! i've been a lover of your opla and l&ds fics for quite some time & i recently found out you write for haikyuu as well :) congratulations on 30!

could i request a kuroo fic? maybe something cute and fluffy? i've been struggling with falling asleep lately since a lot of things are happening all at once and it is a bit overwhelming, so perhaps him just gently talking the oc to sleep would be quite comforting. of course, this is all up to you so please feel free to change it as much as you'd like! thank you, and once again, a very happy birthday!!!

(i hope it's fine if i sign off using an emoji!) — 🪶anon

rain's b-day event!

sleep less

tetsuro kuroo; fluff

When sleep does not come, and it does not come, you resort to doing these few things:

Drinking some hot decaf tea, because Kuroo had once sent you a whole box from his travels abroad for the JVA, and because he’d told you that a warm drink helps wind the body down.

Closing your eyes, and remembering the last time you spoke, which was only a few hours ago, but god does it feel like forever — and you both knew long distance would be hard, but you were also both willing to try. Because what other choice was there than to try?

Calling Kuroo, smiling when he picks up on the second ring, his voice lilted into that teasing smile he knows you love as he says “What is it baby? Can’t sleep again?” And when you tell him yes, he tells you that he wishes he were there with you, wishes he could hold you, wishes he could distract you from the insomnia monster (because what else is it, if not a monster; and what else is he, if not your ever-loyal knight).

Closing your eyes (again), as Kuroo chats to you about his day, the depth and cadence of his voice as deep and clear as a sunrise sea.

Taking a few deep breaths, and telling him that you’re starting to feel sleepy, but that you don’t want him to hang up. “Alright then, I’ll stay on the phone with you for just a bit longer. But… if you start snoring —” “I don’t snore!” “Yeah, sure you don’t.”

It never takes long after that, because your body knows, perhaps better than your mind, that so long as Kuroo is here, it’ll always be safe to fall asleep.

final wc: 298 || be part of my taglist!

[autumnmobile12]

[trans-ralsei]

that i came this far was a surprise, even to me.

i mean, it wasn't unique. i'd interviewed at this specific broadcaster twice. people love my stupid CV with 'award-winning' (yes I won 2nd prize for my reporting some years back) and the name brand of the wire agency they all love.

but yeah. i came this far, again.

i've been thinking of this job in general. of seeing if i could still do it, the breaking news aspect of it all. the fact i quit to try to do something else and then Flunked Out of the something else is really jarring isn't it?

and then there's the unemployable stuff. i mean, i do community organising on the side. i do that pretty loudly too. in effect, my efforts have caused some change, at the domestic paper i worked for, and hopefully on the pan-Asian level. but yeah you wouldn't consider 'being trans' a value here. i can't put that on a resume because it outs me immediately

i should have dropped it. i shouldn't have picked up the second interview round at this broadcaster. i guess i wanted to see if i could still do it, four years after aspiring to be the best reporter from my batch at J-school and two years leaving my niche visual verification position.

if i spoke to my 24-year-old self, they'd have probably asked me why i wasn't on track to the goal we set out at the start. they'd probably have asked what we did in this time. they might be happy that I am a girl but they wouldn't be happy that I couldn't be a girl and an esteemed journalist at the same time. they might wonder why i felt overwhelmed. 'keep running', they might say.

they'd been full of energy then. they would be terrified about how the world was, but they were full of energy. to do things. to change things for the better.

i don't know what i'm supposed to be doing

[theleseroftwoweevils]

how my mom feels trying to start a fight with me after picking me up over 20 minutes late bc I walked laps around my school to kill time + see if she parked somewhere unexpected (I literally came into the car completely calm ready to have a good day?? she had 50 minutes to make a 5 minute drive?? like. what? why are YOU starting a fight with me??)

[spaghett-onaplate]

it's literally not a good idea in any way shape or form but I want to get a second job in fast food

[peepersponies]

Listen I know that like... Screens and lighting make colors vary. But man these are just not the colors I ordered though. I just. These aren't the same colors.

(and flash just makes it worse)

Any chance someone wants to trade some brand new saran and nylon with me?? 😭

[keeps-ache]

workin on a thaaang

[lecklect]

Working women | Forbes Under30 Summit Africa 2024

[oseathepebble]

100 FUCKING PULLS.

[nancywheeeler]

i don't care whether or not timmy can pull off bob dylan. i care about who's playing the members of the band.

[eviltothecore13]

PSA (look at me using Americanisms even here):

The US is not currently being colonised or oppressed by the UK. If you're a white American (note: please do not take my words out of context and act like I'm attacking Indian people or other groups with a legitimate history of suffering because of the UK for making some snarky comments about us!), comments about British people (that aren't specifically about the royals, the government, or JKR) are very likely NOT punching up. Comments about how we "talk the language wrong" or other cultural mockery is in fact very likely to be punching DOWN because US culture is incredibly globally dominant--what you're essentially saying is "why can't these silly foreigners talk/eat/live the American Way which is clearly superior and which everyone in the world should follow?"--or at least, it will invariably come across that way.

If I responded to a post mentioning Tootsie Rolls with "haha that can't be real, this has to be a troll post, I know America is a stupid dumb country with a stupid language for babies but they can't possibly have a sweet called Tootsie Rolls, that's too ridiculous even for the ridiculous Americans", I would at bare minimum get the response "how tf have you never had a Tootsie Roll do you live under a rock", probably also "your country doesn't have Tootsie Rolls? you must all live sad lives!", and very likely someone would get offended by my mocking language (to be clear I would never actually phrase a comment so rudely! it's not a pleasant way to talk to people, even to Americans!).

But a post mentioning some British brand names (some of which sound funny, yes--but that's not "proof the UK is a silly fake country where everyone speaks in babytalk"--it's proof that these brands are aimed at kids so have childish names--the US has Tootsie Rolls, the UK has Nobbly Bobbly ice creams, Spain has Chupa Chups [which we have here too, but it sounds even sillier in Spanish when you know it means Sucky Sucks], etc) gets a lot of people going "lol what a ridiculous country, everything is babytalk", and a ridiculous number of people going "this has to be a troll post, these names must be made up", without considering A) other reasons why you as a USAmerican might not have heard of foreign things (such as, because you mostly interact with USAmerican media because most media that gets big IS USAmerican--combined with them simply not existing in your country so of course you don't see them every day!), B) why anyone would go to the trouble of making all this up, C) you can in fact google things and find that they exist.

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i don't use amazon but something i often think about. several years ago my mom ordered me some books for my birthday on amazon and one of them i asked for was the oxford world's classics edition of the rover and other plays by aphra behn edited and with an introduction by jane spencer. it was supposedly new but when it got to me, the cover (paperback) was folded at an angle and the edges of the pages were dirty like they were left somewhere contaminated. and you see i don't mind like a not-pristine book at all; most of my books are used. but what the fuck was that.

[my-current-obsession]

I've been playing a lot of Hades lately, and I love the game as much as I did a few years ago when I last binged it, but I do have a small complaint. I wish less of the 'plot' was clearly meant to take place before you "beat" the game by getting past the last boss 10 times.

Like it's so obvious that around 30-40% of the plot is MEANT to take place before you even REACH said boss for the first time, and another 40-ish takes place between then and getting ten complete runs.

Only the remaining 25-ish percent is either nebulous or generic enough to take place at ANY time, or explicitly after "beating" the game.

Just as an example, judging by what she says in the conversation that unlocks Meg's hearts and allows you to continue befriending and/or romancing her, her unlock condition is literally just having Alecto and Tisiphone in the game. I'm not sure WHAT condition they have for first appearing (reaching the final boss once maybe?) but I've literally NEVER gotten to the point where Meg is locked before her sisters appear. Or even before "beating" the game.

I've also NEVER reunited any of the estranged pairs in this game prior to beating it, even though it seems like you CAN (and at least in the case of Orpheus & Eurydice, are probably expected to) do so before then. And I know that some of the "summons" are initially locked since the people you're calling for help CAN'T defy Hades, but again, the only one I've ever gotten in time use against him before that restriction is lifted is Skelly's, who WILL come anyway. I guess that's on me for trying to raise everyone roughly equally with nectar instead of favoring anyone. Skelly and Charon usually end up ahead just because they run out of dialogue and I want more from them.

It's a really dumb and perhaps conceited thing to say, but I've gotten TOO good at the "early" game of Hades. The Pact of Punishment can kick my ass, but without it, or with only 1 or 2 restrictions that I'm decent at? From a completely new file, I can consistently REACH the final boss in 15 runs, beat him at least once in 25, and beat him 10 times in 45. And it's a lose-lose situation because I KNOW I'm missing a lot of dialogue that will either be gone forever or eventually crop up way late and hilariously out of place (Zag, you're really bemoaning to Achilles about killing live vermin NOW, after you've done so at least 20 times before?), OR I have to deliberately lose, which... bothers me.

The bulk of the GAMEPLAY for this game is post-game, due to chipping away at the Pact and raising the heat with all your weapons. But the bulk of the STORY takes place before that, and if you go too fast you either miss out on a lot or get some really jarring dialogue at times. As much as I love this game, that discrepancy bothers me.