#same with work emails

[lazylittledragon]

what if i broke all the bones in your legs actually

[local-vastard]

had crippling artblock since december but at least i drew jmart as hollow knight characters

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i can't stress enough how this is probably like top five interactions between scott and charles for me its so silly

[X-Men Unlimited #1: "Follow The Leader"]

[telesodalite]

Never getting over Fulcrum being a project manager...

Idk why, but something about that is so funny to me. Not just because the title of "project manager" is inherently kinda funny for a Decepticon, but also because-

1. It's vague sounding and hard to explain irl because it technically exists in multiple fields, like healthcare or manufacturing, which surely translates into canon in some way.

2. In canon, it's simultaneously a really mundane, innocuous sounding job, yet it's also a super morally awful position to reside over depending on the context. (*cough* forced colonization and cyberforming *cough*)

And 3. It solidifies the fact that behind all the surface level militaristic work we get with both the Decepticons and Autobots, there's also Cons and Bots with "normal" jobs in both factions.

Like, sure yeah we get scientists and doctors, engineers and programmers, but usually in big important or warfront positions. (For plot reasons, understandably.) But it's also really funny and interesting to think of those that worked background positions, or minor jobs.

Like an Autobot working in their equivalent of an HR department, or a Decepticon who runs one of their outpost's or starship's kitchens.

Just all the pre-war jobs that didn't just disappear with the war, but instead evolved to exist within the factions.

It's particularly funny with the Decepticons though, because it could be a super mundane job or situation, but because it's them, it has to have an air of ~e v i l~ to it, either legitimately and/or merely for the vibes, like Tarn's "performance reviews".

[heartorbit]

a mob of emus for an artstyle game on twt! ^_^

[marzipanandminutiae]

a cheer for my various workplaces

ready? okay!

DON'T WANNA GET ON DISCORD!

DON'T WANNA GET ON SLACK!

I WORK WITH OLD SHIT, NOT IN TECH;

APP OVERLOAD IS WACK!

I'VE GOT MYSELF A CELL PHONE!

I'VE GOT AN EMAIL TOO!

SO IF YOU STILL CAN'T CONTACT ME,

THE PROBLEM MIGHT BE YOU!

GOOOOOO MUSEUM WORKERS!

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

[simcardiac-arrested]

ur probably sick of seeing posts like these but i just want to sit here and muse about how, well, i enjoy tumblr #mytumblr not just because of all the obvious stuff like how it’s not run on an algorithm, and because it’s one of the only social media that i don’t have to jump through hoops to use and that isn’t phone-exclusive (for me)

but i think my favorite thing has to be the askblogs, and running one. which is weird, because if you asked me as little as 3 years ago what i loved most about tumblr, i’d probably say “uh, looking at owl house posts, i guess?”, it’s weird because i never actually planned to make one and created it on a whim based on a few random people’s tags, and even then it was made mostly as a joke. i just never thought about it before—i grew up with askblogs, an era of tumblr that was truly as magical as it was catastrophic (as all things that get vaguely popular), but i never thought about making one because: it’s a commitment, it seems like a lot, i’m inconsistent, how would i draw for it every single time, etc etc all that good stuff

but then i just made it. and fuck me is it the most fun thing ever. it doesn’t have to be consistent. it doesn’t have to be perfect, or polished, or anything really. it just has to be. to exist out there in the world and be open to messages. the most it has to be is loved by me and by u guys.

and that’s the thing! the best thing—i love involving u guys in my writing, pushing the characters in one direction and then the next, seeing where that takes us (because i don’t always know either, that’s what writing is all about babeyyy). i love that i don’t have to just post the most important plot beats one after the other and have the story be done there. i love that i get to weave the development through vaguely connected, sometimes relevant but sometimes completely random joke asks. that i don’t have to write a whole ass novel of build-up or draw everything as one long-running comic just to make my characters feel like they actually exist and react to the things around them, that they’re not just here to get from point a to b. and i love that you’re all part of it. the story seriously just wouldn’t be the way it is without all of you guys who are always so curious to ask something, or call a character out (depending on how much they need to be humbled COUGHHHHCOUGHHHHH)

so yeah, i’m just forever grateful for all of you and for the fact that tumblr allows things like these to happen. i have no idea what other site could possibly offer the same sort of experience, or anything similar, but i am just forever in love with the fact that it’s something you can do here. i wouldn’t trade it for anything. what a cool fucking thing to be able to do

[fantasykiri5]

Update; I got back into working on charms today!

I had a busy last week or two and hadn’t really had a chance or the energy to start drawing this once since i finished Ayda, for reasons that frankly are a bit boring to go into detail about here, but I’m excited to get back into the swing of things now!

I’m really quite happy with his wings so far, i think i figured out a good method for drawing them >:3

[tj-crochets]

My department had a meeting with IT today about the new contractor website that will be launching soon and IT was like "We know the words are different, but they'll understand, surely" And I had to say "Yeah, some of them will understand, but I had a contractor call me by his own name today and another sent in a receipt for bananas* so I would not bet on all of them understanding". If we have large quantities of people using an interface we have to make the interface as clear and unambiguous as possible. If it's only a few people, we can teach them, but it's a lot and some of these people are uncomfortable with even using emails, we have to be as user-friendly as possible *we do accept some receipts for reimbursement for job-related expenses, especially for safety-related expenses, but this was neither

[monstermoviedean]

if you have a good vibe/kind thought to spare and could send it my way. i'd really appreciate it.

[thethiefandtheairbender]

when your sensitivity reader gets back to you with feedback and says you did good / there are no glaring issues

[caitlynmeow]

GUYS I HAVE AN ETA!!!

I think my misery will be somewhat over by May 25??? (at least they want everything done by this date so) Granted i have TONES of work and deadlines to meet before then (I literally have to cram so much work in under a week because people are making these deadlines while ignoring how taxing the work is???) anyway im still alive i just need to finish one more week of hell before i can come on here and post like i normally do

I miss you all so much and i miss the dimitrescu daughters and their mama you just wait until i come back i have IDEAS

and a fanfic to continue ofc!!

[quicksilversquared]

So I have been having A Time the past couple of weeks with my statistical tests for my thesis project, and had to call yet another meeting with my advisor this Friday after running into another problem (after both staring at it for a bit, she has told me to contact the author of the program that I'm using).

...somehow I don't think that it's a good sign that she suggested that I take a week's vacation once I get past this latest bump in order to get some space from it to make sure I don't have any other concerns.

[wife]

i hate sending passive aggressive emails but wtf else am i supposed to do

[froschli96]

you know, i always find it really funny when dudebros complain about syndicate and odyssey being too "jokey" or not "taking its characters seriously" or whatever…

like, did y'all collectively sleep through "it's-a me, mario!", "i meant besides vaginas", ezio inventing the latte, bartolomeo's... just... *gestures vaguely* entire character, etc?

like, it's fine to have preferences of course, i myself prefer a more serious and grounded tone, but these are usually the same people who tout the ezio trilogy as "peak assassin's creed", call ac1 a glorified tech demo and hate on connor for being "too serious and boring", like? make it make sense!