#Astonishing.

[thatsnotmygunflash]

I need a spinoff series of the Legends called Jumpship Logs where it's just anyone and everyone who has ever taken the jumpship for a joyride and what shenanigans they got into. It's the log for all seven seasons. The last episode of season six is just endless clips of the last six years of Mick out on beer runs.

[cycas]

Seriously, the more I think about this post, the more outraged I am that it's framed as some kind of win.

He got just a week or so's work on an hourly rate (OK, it was a relatively high one with a bonus, but it's nothing like enough to support him and his family for any length of time), gave up his holiday, and lost his job.

The outrageous thing about this story is how pathetically low his expectations were.

How much do you think Client was paying Employer for this work? Given that Employer has layers of management, an HR team, co-workers in his department, I'm guessing at least many tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands or more, in order to cover the costs of such a large team producing custom results against legislative requirement.

And instead, they got the job done freelance for pocket money to both companies, and didn't even offer him a guaranteed job for doing it! He gave up his very reasonable 'I'd like a couple months paid holiday every year' requirement almost instantly.

He even agreed to the 'I only get a bonus if I finish on time' clause, despite the fact that there are SO many factors that could have stopped him completing it! What if he'd had a car accident or his kids were sick?

And it was the client company that caused the whole problem anyway! Why did he roll over for them? That business manager was laughing at him.

I would have walked away and not looked back: if I'd asked for money, it would have been AT LEAST a year's full pay, maybe two, and half of it up front without penalties for nondelivery or delay.

[lilyveselka]

THE BOTS ARE CALLING ME FUCKIN SLURS NOW

[paddington-two]

no thoughts just link in drag

[betweentheheavesofstorm]

the year is 2024. I am watching The X Files 1x08 with my blissfully offline boyfriend. We reach the scene where, in confinement, Mulder and Scully examine each other's backs for alien marks. My boyfriend, who has never seen the show before, makes an amused noise and utters a strong contender for understatement of the year:

"I'm guessing there's fanfiction about these two"

[foldingfittedsheets]

I think something a lot of other people can relate to is the way that you get so conditioned to discomfort that you stop registering it.

I remember sitting at the table with my family, eating dinner as a child. I’d try to eat, because of course I was hungry. But sometimes the flavor or texture was so repugnant that it moved into a category of Not Food.

“Two more bites before you can leave the table.”

“I can’t,” I’d say, trying to explain the impossibility.

But because I was a child they heard, “I won’t,” and made me sit at the table. I’d sit in dull agonized silence, bored and hungry for hours until bedtime when they’d give up. I’d hate myself for not eating and my parents for forcing me to sit there. The few forcefeeding moments ended in vomit.

They’d say, “If you don’t eat this you can’t eat a snack later,” and I moved past trying to communicate my discomfort into accepting that I’d just be hungry.

That state of affairs didn’t last, because my parents realized nothing could force me to eat so they catered to my palate, worrying they’d starve me. But the message stuck. If you can’t do anything about a situation, just accept the suffering.

A few years later my mother called me off the playground to ask, “Are you limping?”

I shrugged. My feet had hurt for a long time, but that was just the way things were now. My mom pulled my socks and shoes off and gasped. The soles of my feet were covered in huge painful planters warts.

“Why didn’t you say anything?!” She demanded but I could only shrug at her. I’d learned a long time ago that saying things about my discomfort didn’t matter, so now I had no words. Sometimes things hurt and sometimes they don’t. I simply accepted and did my best.

Now as an adult trying to learn to improve my own conditions can be hard. If I make food that I can’t eat I’ll force myself to sit at the counter still, full of guilt and self loathing, trying to will myself to eat it.

At first I needed my betrothed to gently take it away to present me with something I could eat. Now on my own I can usually admit that it’s not happening before too long and get something else, but I still feel guilty.

Laying in bed at night waiting for my betrothed to finish getting ready I let out a huge sigh of relief when they turned the lights off.

“Why didn’t you turn them off if they bothered you?” they asked the first time it happened.

“I didn’t even know it was bothering me until it was gone.”

Assessing my physical state now to see if I can improve it is something I’m still relearning but I’m relieved to finally have the space and support to do it.

[culverton]

average friendship

[goldinavonlea]

i don’t think the emperor or any of his surviving original lyctors can possibly comprehend how grateful they should be for whatever harrow’s done to scoop gideon out of her brain because if harrowhark nonagesimus was in possession of the the full knowledge that her first enemy and only friend in the whole world Gideon Nav had given her life so that Harrow could sit at a dining room table while God and his first two saints got wine drunk and argued about which of the cavaliers they’d murdered to achieve immortality was the most bangable and made your mom jokes then i do not believe there would be any force in the known or unknown universe that could keep her from deicide

[strangenewwords]

Astonishing X-Men #8 (2004)

Logan’s so into it. (And so am I)

[alienssstufff]

from that one convo they had in the 12 Hour Limited Life special

The sprites (updated their liml designs a lil)

[feykrorovaan]

Shh babygirl, I know it's not actually 7,000 steps to High Hrothgar. It's actually 763, but canonically, it's 7,000. Shh, I know love. It's ok. It's Skyrim Darling,followers can get trapped in walls,people can swim in mid air and you can break doors with dinner plates. Let it go. It will all be alright.

[nutongzhi]

cramping so bad rn

[soracities]

we NEED more cleaners and bricklayers and scaffolders and delivery drivers in MFA poetry programs. like. immediately.

[callsthefaithful]

thing for @celestialalpacaron's overlord husk au

closeups under the cut

[stingrayextraordinaire]

I don’t think there is any art in the world quite as astonishing as Kinuko Craft’s illustrations for Patricia McKillip’s novels

[scourgebff]

GUYS NEW OFFICIAL SCOURGE ART DROPPED from the polish version of “enter the clans”, illustrated by @kynoph0bia on twitter! the urge to buy this book is consuming me