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"tell us why you're interested in the position" i want MONEYYYY. i want to be able to afford the things i need to survive. do you need me to lie? do you need me to beg like a dog? get on my hands and knees and kiss the floor you walk on? ohhhhh ever since i was a small child i've dreamt of a life where i spend half of my waking hours putting numbers into a machine and working under people who are less competent than i am. now give me the fucking job

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The Santa Ana winds??

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Seiros! feat. tiny Cichol in the background lol

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since the yearly "certain medications can cause heat intolerance" PSAs are out in full force, let us fondly remember last year when I was at Pennsic (big ass medieval recreation event) and our group was tearing down our giant tent lodge we use for our kitchen and dining hall. and there's a part at the very end where the roof is sort of on the ground, but still tented on a pole in the middle. and someone has to go under there to unhook the roof from the pole. but it's hot as fuck in that part since it's been baking in the sun for two weeks, so it's called "Satan's asshole". which resulted in somebody VERY solemnly telling me, "going into Satan's asshole is NOT a job for somebody on SSRIs"

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Mona Lisa cat nest 😭

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What drives me crazy is that Juri is right. "Miracles are not real. Eternity is not real. That castle is not real." She gets it from the beginning. She sees through the comphet, the gender roles, the system, and it makes her so powerful. She rightfully hands Utena's ass to her in both their duels, and is the older, more experienced lesbian who challenges Utena's comphet.

By every standard, Juri has seen through the world, and it's astounding that she doesn't escape by the end. Not only that, but Nanami, who is absent in the follow up movie, is the next to escape instead of Juri. A series of women are escaping the world one by one, but Juri lingers.

It adds another layer of tragedy to her character because, in the end, Juri herself is the one choosing to stay despite knowing there is nothing for her there. Juri denies both the miracle that her feelings can be known and the miracle promised to her by conforming to cishet standards. Although Juri firmly refuses to buy into the system she finds herself in, she also doesn't believe that there is anything beyond it.

Better to linger in this space where her feelings aren't known. Better to never open the door and see what's beyond. Better to refuse revolution.

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young, naïve, and really miserable

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Imagine being cast in a Lady Gaga concert as Lady Gaga because Lady Gaga wants to do this to Lady Gaga

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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

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You know, on the one hand, I always appreciate seeing women get to eat in media.

On the other hand, when it's all skinny women stuffing themselves, you start to loose me.

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Im hungryyyy why wont my chicken cook fasterrrrr

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revolution

[ID by @jesus-iscariot: an illustration of anthy and utena. anthy is shown in her rose bride dress, with long wavy purple hair. utena is drawn in her uniform, with long pink hair. they both appear to be floating, with utena falling slightly backwards and anthy leaning towards her. their faces are close together and their eyes are closed, and they look as if they’re about to kiss. their hair appears to be flowing loosely upwards. anthy’s dress is also flowing. behind them is what appears to be a stroke of blue paint, patterned and coloured to look like a night sky, with a black silhouette of an inverted castle. the background is plain white. End ID.]

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sigh. just another day scrubbing the floor and mowing the lawn and dusting and doing the laundry for the rest of my pack. but the house has to be in especially perfect shape today because Alpha Jameson has an important meeting with another Alpha from across the river. If they come to an agreement, the Newport and Cincinnati packs might finally have peace for the first time in decades. No more fighting….But they say the Newport Alpha is the most ruthless wolf who’s ever lived. Can our hotheaded Alpha really find a compromise with a man like that? I have to hope for the best…with a deal between our packs, the months of new business negotiations will have everyone so busy, they won’t have time to push me around. Alpha Jameson might even be too distracted to think about me. The thought is almost too good to be true. I’ve been his scapegoat to treat like trash ever since he and my younger sister claimed each other as mates. There was a time when we were kids when it was me on his arm at dinners and parties. But then we grew up, and…..I never got my Wolf. I’m a freak, and everyone knows it. Of course he couldn’t stay with me. Not that I’d want to be with him now anyway. These days he can’t even say my name without spitting it. Sometimes I think it would be easier if I never get my Wolf, and I get banished to live among humans. But then I remember my childhood best friend. She was so pretty—brown eyes, with brunette hair she always wore in a bun. I was homeschooled with my pack, of course, and she went to the local high school. We met at the library….our shared sanctuary. She didn’t have any other friends, and neither did I. We hung out every chance we got. Until one day when we were 16…her brother told me she was gone. I found out that their mom gave her away to a boy band, and I haven’t seen her since. That’s when I realized the human world is just as ruthless as the wolfen. No, banishment wouldn’t be better. But I don’t know how much longer I’ll survive this place either. Most days, keeping my head down and doing what I’m told isn’t enough to keep me out of trouble.

But things could be worse. Yesterday I overheard my sister talking to Beta Devon about the deal Alpha Jameson is making with the Newport Alpha. Apparently, he’s requested a woman from our pack as his mate. With his reputation, I could almost feel bad for whoever Alpha Jameson chooses for him, even though the women in our pack treat me even worse than the men. I’m an embarrassment to them because I don’t have my Wolf.

Whatever. At least I know it won’t be me, because I’m not important enough to be married off……..

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I'm noticing some interesting choices with regards to pronouns in Laura Pohl's translation of All Systems Red. See, in Portuguese we don't have object pronouns like "it/its" and neutral neopronouns like "elu/delu" are considered more analogous to the English "they/them", so gendering Murderbot the way that it is gendered in the original was always going to be tricky. There's also the other difficulty that adjectives are gendered in Portuguese, so whenever Murderbot describes itself or it's emotional state or anything, necessarily it was going to gender itself grammatically in some way. What this translation does at first is that the Murderbot's internal dialogue it genders itself in the masculine which I assumed to be just sort of defaulting Murderbot to be a masculine character, but in reflection of a different detail, I think it's just defaulting to this formal almost archaic notion of the masculine as neutral. Now, the detail that made me rethink this is this line that I just came upon of Dr Mensah's:

"UniSeg, preciso que você fique parada aí até eu chegar."

[SecUnit, I need you to stay still (female form) until I arrive]

The reason that Mensah is referring to Murderbot in the feminine in this case is that it's referring to it as a security unit, right, and the word Unidade, Unit, in Portuguese, is a feminine word. So I just went back now and I found one other previous instance in which characters refer to Murderbot in the third person and, Ratthi, he calls Murderbot by masculine pronouns but that's when it's being referred to as a robô, robot, which in Portuguese is a masculine word. So I guess the way that Pohl found to express Murderbot's object pronouns is by just using whatever pronouns are in agreement with the word being used to describe it. Which to be fair makes a lot of sense for treating objects in Portuguese. If you call something a cadeira, chair, you're going to refer to it with feminine pronouns, but if you call the exact same object a sofá, sofa, you will be using the masculine pronouns.

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my friend is actively trying to kill me