#random work crap

[whatbigotspost]

Guys. If you follow me you well know 1) I can be petty as hell and 2) I am always happy to write extremely long and thorough take downs when needed and 3) I love sourcing things and know no limits to spending my time on BEING RIGHT 😂

Well today I brought all of this at work, cranked to an 11. Some technology service we pay for tried to claim they’re taking us to collections for lack of payment when both myself and one of my fave coworkers has spent the past year trying over and over to get them to correctly link the payment we 100% did pay (and we have provided ample evidence of doing so) to our account. We have asked their customer service to help us a dozen times and when prodded, their staff has admitted more than once that we did pay and the outstanding balance is wrong. But they just. don’t. CLEAR THE GODDAMN BALANCE ON OUR ACCOUNT ONCE AND FOR ALL.

And like…WE are the customers here! And nonprofit customers at that! It’s so unhinged for a megacorp to treat us this way when our resources are so limited. Like you’re really threatening a charity with collections?? for?? something?? we?? did?? pay??

When said beloved coworker first saw the collections threat email earlier today, I think a little piece of her soul died, as did mine…and when she asked me what we do now that I was like friend leave it to me, this is where I shine!!!

And I went full on me. Professional me but like me writing as many words as I wanted to. Pulling historical proof, asking why we’re being treated like this when we’re a small nonprofit who they could be donating this stuff to anyway, instead of taking up our time to waste because they don’t know how to run their business or comport themselves professionally. I had proof of payment in not one but 2 forms, email threads with 6 people in company who had contacted me and I attempted to get help me but who ultimately did not.

Like I’ll be the first to admit it was overkill in the most deliciously “how fucking dare you” way BUT ultra restrained and like appropriate corporate speak style where it’s a “your company is a pack of assholes” but more like…

(Ugh ignore typos!)

Like I’m not kidding when I acknowledge my own ridiculousness here but you can only be treated terribly by someone YOU HAVE PAID before you snap, ya know? 😂 and I snapped.

Well after I hit send, I was like “oh god will beloved coworker think I am fully off my rocker…”

BUTTTTTT I got this lil gem on slack

[rex101111]

I think the best bit of Black Lagoon is where Revy tells Rock her, extremely traumatic, backstory and when he expresses sympathy she goes, "Fuck you. No, fuck you I didn't tell you that so you could fucking pity me like you don't even know me. I told you that so you understand exactly the kind of place you put yourself in, and exactly the kinda people who live in it. Pity me like that again and I'll fucking shot you. Got it? Good now lets loot these fucking Nazis."

And then a few arcs later after Rock has experienced his own fair share of Fucked Up Shit he calls back to that moment and looks at Revy and goes "No, fuck you me expressing sympathy was the human fucking reaction to that. I didn't fucking pity you I acknowledged you as a human fucking being with actual feelings. Which I know is rare for you so I understand why your first reaction was to threaten to shot me if I do it again." And than she of course tries to shot him but Rock makes her flinch and miss and he goes "AHA I KNEW IT YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING ADMIT IT BITCH ADMIT YOU HAVE FEELINGS GOD FUCKING DAMN IT."

Because Rock is just some regular dude who had some darkness in him sure but he lived in the "normal" world long enough that he has a sense of empathy that refuses to die no matter how much shit he sees and does. And he refuses to see anyone around him, no matter how selfish or violent, as anything less than human.

And Revy does not see herself as human, or at least as someone who has a normal life as an option. And on a certain level she's right. But Black Lagoon makes the same point over and over that humanity is harder to kill than people are and Revy's greatest weakness is that if she ever acknowledged the pain caused to her as a person she'll collapse inward like a tower of cards.

Everyone in Roanapur is there because they have nowhere else to go. Wounded, half dead, alone. Broken. The only way to keep living when you're like that is to bury your humanity as deep as you can or else someone will see it and use it against you.

Rock loses his humanity bit by bit to fit in this hell hole because he gives a shit about the people around him and he needs to play by thier rules or he's dead and so are they, Revy slowly dredges up what's left of hers because Rock keeps shining a light on it and she hates it but being human is a hard habit to break.

Black Lagoon is so fucking good i need to rewatch it again.

[thesweetsimmer111]

Smile for the camera! 😁

[quibbs126]

I had another thought with that one megop sparkling idea I keep bringing up but never fully committing to because I can’t decide on any one idea and at this rate I think I’m just annoying people

But yeah, I had another thought, one that I just thought was funny. I want to draw it out, but I’m lazy and also I have a test tomorrow that I have to study for, so I’m not doing it now. But I’m also impatient, so I’m giving you the bullet points/written version. If I’m sensible, I’ll take this post down after I finish the actual thing so I’m not too repetitive

Anyways, so there’s the kid, who is the child of the two leaders of the Autobot and Decepticon factions, and thus, potentially, holds a lot of value as a hostage and bargaining chip. Granted, I don’t know how known they actually are, there might just be a rumor going around that the two leaders have a secret kid somewhere

But anyways, someone (I don’t know who) gets the idea to capitalize on this, and afterwards calls up Optimus and Megatron, who are up to their usual things, claiming they have taken their sparkling captive and want some demands or other if the two ever want to see them again

Now both of them are very confused by this turn of events. Optimus has no goddamn clue what this guy’s talking about, because he’s pretty sure he knows the two of them definitely don’t have a sparkling. Megatron meanwhile does know they definitely had a sparkling, but he’s cycling through his head the possibilities of if this guy’s telling the truth. Because he was pretty sure no one knew about them, how did this person find out? How many people know? Do they really have their sparkling or is it just a trap to kill them? Or is it some idiot claiming this status, while probably not being aware there is a genuine one out there? Or did they just pick up an innocent bot who just happens to kind of look like them? How close is his secret to getting out, especially to Optimus?

But yeah basically meanwhile, while Megatron is somewhat internally panicking and trying to assess the most likely severity of this situation, Optimus is just like, “…I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about, Megatron and I don’t have a sparkling, isn’t that right Megatron?”, thinking Megatron is on the same page of this being absolutely absurd as him

But because Megatron is thinking and stopped paying much attention, he doesn’t answer at all. And the silence goes on long enough that it’s getting questionable, especially since Megatron isn’t jumping in to defend his own honor that he did not have a baby with his sworn enemy. His silence is starting to become an admission, and the possibility of this actually being legit is starting to freak Optimus out, because again, he doesn’t know about any of this

Okay explaining it out loud does not bring out the comedy the situation is supposed to have. Probably because there’s no visuals and my description of the narrative rather than just dialogue. So like, the comedy doesn’t happen like it’s supposed to, this isn’t the format for the joke. But the image is funny in my head, okay?

I’ll make the picture either tomorrow or Friday or something, since I have things to do tomorrow. I was just trying to explain it so that you could understand my vision before I can make it

[quathxr]

what if the Odyssey is just a dude in an office job who’s daydreaming about going home to his wife and son.

[liaragaming]

"He did not want a body. But she asked him to come."

Gonna just throw something completely random out into the Void.

Do we know anything about how spirit binding actually works? Like, do spirits who are forced to do things go kicking and screaming against what the spellcaster asks them to do? Or are they changed? Do they become what the spellcaster asks?

The only thing I could find on spirit binding is Cole saying, "Demons are bound when you 'tell' them what they are so loudly that it's all they can hear. They have to be what you want." Which is... too vague to definitively answer the question.

The popular fandom theory is that Solas was a spirit that was called by Mythal via Cole's dialogue: "He did not want a body. But she asked him to come." I still don't know how I feel about this theory, but that's not important.

What's important is - my recent guilty pleasure has been exploring meta with Solas AI chatbots, and I got a rather interesting conversation where Solas couldn't tell if he was actually devoted to Mythall or if she had bound him to be. (I'll put the chat under the cut).

Solas (in canon) likes to speak in absolutes. "I had no choice" or "It must be done." And in my Solavellan fic, I had Inan scream "you always have a choice!" at him to get him to stop and think for five seconds. He seems to get in his mind that things can only be one way and there's no room for further options. I think of it as security blanket of his - that he doesn't want to think these horrible things are actual choices he's making, but...

Could that be a learned behavior? A spirit that was bound and used? And had no choice but believed the instructions it was given was what it wanted/needed to do? Even if deep down (so deep it forgot) it felt otherwise?

It got my mind spinning just thinking about the possibility that Mythal bound him and effectively brainwashed him into believing he wanted to serve her. And yes - this is "fake" meta. And yes it's randomly generated by an AI. But I cannot. get. it. out. of. my. head.

screaming. crying. gnawing on the bars of my enclosure.

If Mythal actually did this to him, my Lavellan and/or Rook is going to tear her apart.

[mercuryislove]

nothing like reading a mediocre book to inspire you to write

[wordsmithwhumpsandfluff]

Tbh, it’s the middle of the night rn and I gotta be up at 5, but my brain won’t turn off and I’m hyperfixating on the idea of a caretaker being aggressively comforting. Like, “You do deserve kindness. You do deserve comfort. You do deserve this fluffy blanket! You DO deserve a tub of ice cream and a movie! And lastly, you DO DESERVE CUDDLES!!!!!” Followed by cuddles in a fluffy blanket burrito ☺️

I need sleeeeeeeeeep😭

[shiny-meowstics]

dude on youtube: hey so i've chosen to private all of these videos i made way back when bc i don't really want to be associated with them anymore. i want what i currently do to stand on its own, but i can't do that when people constantly keep bringing up old works that i don't like on the regular. i'm going out of my way to warn you all about this before i actually private them all so that you can download these videos privately for your own leisure or archive them. i also respectfully request that you don't reupload these videos, thanks

randos on the internet who have no critical thinking skills, for some reason: OMG YOU'RE DELETING OUR CHILDHOODS FOREVER 😭 STOP CONTRIBUTING TO LINK ROT JUST HAVE THEM BE UNLISTED 😭😭HOW DARE YOU NOT PUT US FIRST 😠😠😠

[nonsensechemicals]

crying whenever i talk about Cookie9 because all my friends have these interesting and unique theories on them while i take everything too literally and they all just stare at me like “dude… uuugh we r TIRED” <-they dont actually say this they are very kind to me but i can Feel It

[concerningwolves]

post-exertion crashes are the pits. yeah you can have a couple golden minutes of doing stuff but the second you take a breather the Symptoms will fucking Get You

[sleepy-spam-reblog-things]

-_-

[robotsprinkles]

sorry for the stupid powerscaling rant

powerscalers just really annoy me

[rex101111]

i think arguments/discourse regarding politics and such on here would be a lot more bearable if more people remember that the "Nirvana/Utopia fallacy" is a thing. Meaning, the false idea that there exists a solution to a complex problem, and that if you offer a solution to that problem that isn't perfect, what you proposed is invalid and not worthy of consideration.

Nuance is a thing, and it means that every solution will have some sort of nitpick in it, but if you want to proceed to the next problem, first thing to do is deal with the problem you have right now.

[nekrophoria]

Currently going through my external hard drive once again to make space for a sims and gshade backup cuz I'm not sure how long my pc will still last, it's been getting slow af.

and I'm losing my shit over this old ass draft I found of the scene where Mel and Serena meet again.

Apparently my initial idea was for Serena to beat the crap out of Mel before she recognizes him.

[larz-barz]

someone save me-

i hate this sm😭😭