#house where nobody lives

[girl4music]

The problem with Maya as Captain over Andy or Jack.

It’s not that she’s power hungry, as Jack put it. Being power hungry isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you know and understand the benefits of collective power as well as individual power and know how to use both and to delegate effectively. I totally understand where Maya’s coming from being a woman myself that has also been made to feel like they are less than they’re worth and then the one day they get a leg up - they’re going to take it because they know what they’re worth even if they may not be ready for what they’re worth.

But Andy has a right to feel upset about being passed over for Captain because she knows she’s worth it too.

No, the problem with Maya as Captain is that she makes everyone work to HER high standards, not THEIRS. Being an Olympic gold medalist who won her victory on a sprained ankle and all, her all out certainly isn’t everyone’s all out and she’s not recognizing that. Her philosophy of “embrace the pain” won’t be helpful or even inspirational to everyone because everyone does differently, thinks differently, feels differently.

A true leader knows the difference between being a leader and being a boss. Yes, they’re both, but they recognize when one is needed over the other in different situations and circumstances with different people. Andy does. Jack does. Maya doesn’t because she’ll push and she’ll push forgetting that her limit on being pushed is way above everybody else’s limit and this is something she would learn about her team if she spent enough time in the position of a lieutenant. She’s jumping the gun because she’s being offered it and she’s hungry for it. Not because she’s ready for it.

Now if Sullivan truly thought that he had to make the call not to make Andy Captain… then he should have chosen Jack over Maya instead. I’m guessing the reasons as to why he didn’t choose Jack was because of his recent PTSD problem and the fact that he is a man and he wants a woman in leading power for once. The problem with that? They’re both discriminatory reasons because Jack has earned his position as Captain. Has had worked through and overcome his PTSD problem and he is well aware of some things that are in desperate need of change and solution and he really cares to change and resolve them. But he can only attempt to change and resolve those things if he is in a position of power. He can’t do it as a lieutenant. Being passed over for Captain just because he is a man is not right just as much as it wouldn’t be if a woman earned the position and was passed over because she’s a woman. Sullivan was discriminative in not choosing Jack if he wasn’t going to choose Andy.

If it wasn’t going to be Andy, it had to be Jack. It should not have been Maya. Maya is not ready for Captain because while she may know the team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them, she doesn’t recognize that they can’t work to her high standards. Both Andy and Jack would recognize that along with knowing their team well enough to know their individual strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to their most influential and beneficial purpose. Maya is ready for a lieutenant position, but she’s not ready for Captain because she has a lot to learn about true leadership. That’s just the truth of it no matter how much blood, sweat and tears she’s put into finally getting a leg up as a woman in a position of power.

A woman should definitely be in a position of power. But it should be Andy, not Maya, that was chosen. That’s what Andy is upset and has gone into passive-aggressive mode against Maya and Sullivan about. That she knows it’s her time to lead. She’s right. Her father has intervened yet again to prevent it because HE thinks she’s not ready for it when she absolutely is. HE thinks she’s not ready because he has no respect for her as a grown woman who knows her autonomy. Sullivan didn’t know what to do about Pruitt’s request of him. Not only may it be the final words he says to him but also Pruitt has already caught on to his feelings for Andy and so if he chose Andy as Captain against his request to not to, he’d worry that Pruitt would think that he only did it because he is in love with Andy and not because he believes she’s earned it.

The ironic thing about all this though is that’s exactly why Sullivan has fell in love with Andy. It’s because he has seen her earn her rightful position as Captain of Station 19 that has what has enamoured her to him. And he has made the wrong call to go with Pruitt’s request over his genuine love for and belief in Andy.

Sullivan should have went with his gut… And his heart.

In only one day, Maya has proven Sullivan wrong about his choice to make her Captain and Maya’s aware of it. This is only going to cause more complication and conflict within the team’s ranks and they really do not need that right now when changes need to be made. When they really need to work as a well-oiled machine and only Andy or Jack know how to run the rig right.

[rastronomicals]

12:48 AM EDT September 20, 2023:

Tom Waits - "House Where Nobody Lives" From the album Mule Variations (April 16, 1999)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[aboutoriginality]

Watch "House Where Nobody Lives" on YouTube

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[amygdalae]

have never understood why squatting is considered a crime. loitering too. sir you have been arrested for the crime of....chilling. and hanging out. and taking a little nap

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Anyway I got notified that I'll be getting a nice $$ bonus from work today and I wish that I could celebrate with someone in a way that didn't just feel like obnoxious bragging. Like beyond the financial aspect, it's just nice to be recognized for good work and I actually feel... good?? about this job??

But it feels so silly to say I want to celebrate when I just got back from what felt like my first real vacation in a very long time and am doing cool comic con stuff this weekend and am scheduled for a new tattoo next weekend. I am already doing lots of things to try to make myself feel good! It feels selfish to want more!

But I guess even with all of that, there's just still a hunger for external validation from trusted sources. Will I ever grow out of wanting someone to be proud of me?

[atalante241]

Do people genuinely forget that the Traveler had had zero intimate/purely positive interactions with Furina before the whole execution thing? Because I feel like they do. The Traveler became semi-friends / acquaintances with her during her story quest and that became more cemented during the 4.3 event

[marypsue]

In my stints in fandom for The Lost Boys, I've noticed that (for obvious reasons) it tends to attract people for whom the boys are wish fulfilment. And like, that's so fair, I respect literally all of you people, but also, I think I've reached a point in my life where I can comfortably admit that the real wish fulfilment in that movie is Grandpa.

[gothwizardmagic]

i saw @strange-and-off-putting do this meme and i was flung delightfully back in time and immediately had to jump on the bandwagon!!

i remember doing this exact voice meme 10+ years ago and it was so fun to revisit with my voice being so different since being on t lmao

(also when i said syllables i meant consonants!!!! no consonants only vowels!!!!!!!)

i tag anyone who wants to do this it would be v cute to bring voice memes back i think!

[guinevereslancelot]

not to be ungrateful but i don't get paid enough at my job lol

[dhwty-writes]

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[screamingay]

somehow these current roommates we have are the worst that ive known yet and last semester we literally had a girl who smoked cigs IN her bedroom. list of grievances below lol

[monkee-mobile]

Not the right season AT ALL but

The guys all helping Davy dress up for Halloween and taking him trick or treating. Of course the guys are also dressed up but some of them Michael use Davy as an excuse to why he’s dressing up and going out.

All the other people their age are going to big crazy parties and the guys are just happily trick or treating. And of course there’s one neighbour (probably Babbitt) who always chooses trick and Davy busts out a little dance all excitedly. They then all go crazy on a sugar high :p

TRICK OR TREATING YES!!!

the boys love trick or treating. like whaddaya mean they’re adults? Naw! gotta get the free candy!!

of course davy loves dressing up, mike tags along with him as the tired parent™️ (even though he secretly loves it. davy will sit mike down and start dressing him up in all sorts of things and mike thinks it’s very cute… until he almost gets poked in the eye with a makeup brush and they have to have a talk about watching for people’s eyes. but its halloween, any chance to get a ton of free sweets, c’mon?)

micky LOVES halloween, he’s having a groovy time. his goal is to spook peter, but for some reason the kid won’t get spooked! peter is sometimes worried the holiday will be too scary for him, but he’s found he really likes it! he finds a way to sympathize with all the monsters and so micky has a hard time getting him to be just plain scared.

[puppyeared]

how cool are you with like. spam reblogs bc i keep staring at ur art really hard and then doing a total 180 and end up not reblogging anything which is REALLY lame but it's bc i know myself and wanted to avoid spamming as much as possible bc id end up reblogging 95% of ur posts BAUDHJSF

MEGA 10000000% ENCOURAGED ACTUALLY if you like it a lot then go for it!! i dont find it annoying at all and im surethat goes for a lot of artists. i think i can safely say we're just glad u like it enough to go "HEY LOOK WGAT THIS PERSON MADE". also id take it over a row of likes any day

if you are worried about spamming notifications you could always try queueing or saving it as a draft!! so you can decide when you want it reblogged or let the site decide for u <3

[idolsgf]

we found a place we really like but of course an offer has already been put in 😖

[strohller27]

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