#officers club

[pls-bees]

Jackdaw; a bird in the crow family, used as a slang term for crows.

Happy April 6th and 7th.

[allforanofficerslife]

We visited Thiepval Memorial yesterday! It poured rain all day long while we were at the Somme. But it was well worth it to see a fellow fan had beat us there!!!

Fun facts: this memorial has 72,000 names of missing men from the French & British forces inscribed on its sides! Wait, did I say fun? I meant 'heartbreaking.'

[autisticrosewilson]

Thinking about the newer bats (Duke, Cass, Steph, Tim) speculating on Jason's age because he looks like a recently divorced 30 y/o but he's younger than Dick, and he acts like a 50 year old man (he still has a Nokia, out of the loop on Internet and pop culture, primarily listens to dad rock), and after they've exhausted all their guesses Dick breezes in, informs them he's like 24, and then leaves.

The bats then have to come to terms with the fact that Jason NINETEEN when he took over the criminal underground.

[wilwheaton]

The 11 year old girl in my house has developed an intense crush on your character from Star Trek. So in case you ever wondered if you had fan girls who screamed when you came on screen:

“But he’s the smartest, handsomest, best boy ever!!! I’m never having a boyfriend because none of them will be Wesley Crusher”

Well this just made my nerd heart, my dad heart, and my Wesley Crusher Fan Club heart grow three sizes.

[respectthepetty]

I should've given an award to Oh No! Here Comes Trouble last year for the red thread of a fate, but Unknown's final episodes just solidified that this WILL be a Colors Award this year.

Because I just really love when the colors color so fucking well.

The red stairs were a character all on their own.

Those red stairs continuously showed they were connected.

And it worked so well since Qian and Yuan were black and white.

So every time the red showed up between them, it was just a reminder of their connection.

And that they were meant to be together.

Because with Yuan, Qian is lighter.

Without him, he is completely dark.

That red street brought them together.

It's where their story began, both as brothers, and as partners.

And it was extended even to San Pang and Lili.

Yuan and Qian's light and dark dynamic was constantly reinforced.

Again and again

And when Yuan told Qian not to be afraid of the cracks because that's where the light comes in, it reinforced the whole purpose of this light and dark dynamic.

In Qian's dark world, Yuan brought light. When Qian thought he was flawed, Yuan showed him he was loved. Where Qian thought he was broken, Yuan healed him.

So for Yuan to say that he thinks Qian's mother brought them together, and for us to always see in her red . . .

In a painful way, Yuan is right. Qian is who he is because of the hurt from his mother. Qian would have never met Yuan, would have never protected Yuan, and would have never loved Yuan the way he had if he hadn't been so adamant to never be his mother.

And because of that, Yuan can return that love to Qian (while they are balanced in similar colors)

AND THE BLACK BRACELET! (Since Qian is color coded black, him giving Yuan his color is so significant, and now Yuan is giving him back all that love!)

The red brought them together.

And now they get to sit there in this soft blinding light of love in their soft pinks being happy and in love with each other!

Take your award, Unknown!

Fucking Taiwan, hurting me twice with this damn red thread.

[morlock-holmes]

I will spare the OP of that post on movies about stifling office life more of my ranting because I respect them, but I have more to say about Office Space.

Office Space does not depict a "9 to 5" job, this is a major plot point in the movie:

This is a white collar job where all the workers are constantly subjected to crunch time and seven day work weeks while, at the same time, they spend hours on utterly pointless tasks like changing the cover sheets on reports.

They are subjected to countless tiny indignities for more than half of their waking hours; Milton prefers a different brand of stapler to the one that the company uses and it gets repossessed by the boss.

I have more than one white collar, office job working mutual who has posted about how intolerable such jobs are and how they have worked to escape them.

Movies like Office Space are about the tyranny of the boss; the way that he can subject you to a million tiny little indignities while simultaneously demanding that you pretend that you are happy to work there and see yourself as part of the team that is really actually looking out for you:

What the movie is also about, (and you can definitely add Fight Club in here too, and even The Matrix to some extent) is the psychological effect of spending an enormous chunk of your life enduring these kinds of repeated small indignities and dissatisfactions because, logically and objectively, the pay you are receiving for them is more than enough compensation and the danger of attempting to respond to them and maintain your dignity is not worth it. That's objective fact, and to believe otherwise constitutes a kind of delusion.

The protagonists in both Fight Club and Office Space have simultaneously internalized this to the point where they hold themselves back from any kind of rebellion as impossible, and, at the same time, remain unable to actually believe it; the movies are about what happens when that internal contradiction can no longer be maintained and you reach a breaking point.

PS - I think it is a bit of a "theory of mind" failure to imagine that Hollywood people make movies about petty internal politics, backbiting and insincere friendliness because they like living in Hollywood so much and don't experience that kind of thing there.

[icantalk710]

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[maskedjane24]

Should I wear this to the office?

[sunlit-mess]

too busy in school

[melodysbookhaven]

“And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. So that’s why you need to be a little bit brave.”

Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

[gooblenoodle]

HAHEHHSHEHWA IM DEVOURING THIS BOXER! AU KM LOVING IT‼️🗣️ THE ART(IST) IS AMAZING AHAHEJAHSH💥💥💥💥

i couldn’t help but draw jax muahahhaha

the AU is by @burrotello !!!! PLEASE GO CHECK THEM AND THE AU OUT IM BEGGING 🙏

[pls-bees]

1917 + Over the Garden Wall

[thecandlewasters]

https://thecandlewasters.substack.com/

[incorrect-losers]

Went *Scolding Richie*: We are not mad, just disappointed

Maggie: No, we are mad

Went: Yes, we are mad. We are livid. But we are going to let this one slide

Maggie: No, we are not

Went: I’m not a mind reader, Margret!

[best-fictional-band-poll]

The top FOUR bands from this poll will go through! Good luck!

[beautyandlifestyleblog86]

Rice and shrimp 🍤