#(at least outside of politcs)

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

The zoomer anon, you know that official works with the malice part remind how I got into comics

“Man I love this complex character I sure do-aaaand the next writer character assassinate the living fuck out of them because of personal bias or editorial mandates”

I could work at the marvel and dc comic divisions, I would either murder about 50% of my coworkers or burn down the HQs

Actually both most likely sorry with modern “takes” on Tony stark, Damian Wayne, and dear LORD what they did to Starfire and Barbra Gordan

I often wonder

“How the FUCK did these writers went with such interpretations?!”

Welcome to the pain of being a long time comic reader, my friend.

I've said a few times that I gave up on Marvel with Civil War, but what made me give up on mainstream comics as a whole was twofold. One, I hated the New 52 reboot. It ripped everything up everything I liked about DC and replaced it with cheap knockoffs and diversity hires. But after Rebirth, I started to soften a bit on DC. I read a few of the Scott Snyder Batman comics and didn't hate them. But the thing that really intrigued me was Peter Tomasi's Super Sons. I discovered it late into the run through image sets and meta a mutual from my old, non-politcs blog posted and it looked like a lot of fun. I heard the book was ending and I decided to wait until it was done to start reading it properly, so I could have a nice contained story to read and maybe use as a jumping on point to dip my toes back into DC full time. Maybe I'd even finally get into Superman, which I've tried a few times over the years, but he'd never really caught on with me the way Batman did.

Then I heard what Bendis did to Jon Kent, and I realized there was no point in ever getting invested in any of the Big Two ever again. Anything you like will inevitably be changed, and changed in a big, negative way. Editorial mandates and writers with a grudge against a character will always find a way to mess up anything that manages to somehow be good. Mainstream comics is a fully compromised art form. The days of Denny O'Neil, Chuck Dixon, Greg Rucka, Chris Claremont and the like were well and truly dead. The days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby seem like a fever dream, because how could comics ever actually be that good?

Honestly, the best thing that could happen to our favorite characters is entering the public domain. The horrible takes will multiply, but there will at least be a non-zero chance of seeing a long running story with those characters done right for the first time in years, if not decades.

Until then, if that ever happens, we either reread the books we used to love and ignore the rest, or we try to find new voices outside of mainstream comics. For the latter, I can't recommend Eric July's Rippaverse enough. They even have Chuck Dixon writing for them now, and his first book, Alphacore, was great.

[tincansamurai]

pifo oc monday, pls read the last question about putting them in a victorian au, which HAS possessed me utterly

original post <3

1. Did [x] go to university or receive some other tertiary education? What did they study?

mat: programming (with a focus on python)

kaz: archaeology

2. Describe one of [x]'s dreams or nightmares.

mat: he only really has short bursts of dreams, he doesn't sleep super soundly. when he can remember them there's a lot of wandering, mostly through real places and crowds

kaz: drowning. always the same fucking pool, so deep the world outside it stops existing

3. Does [x] have any tattoos?

mat: nope, that's scary

kaz: nope, just doesn't care about em

4. How does [x] most often use expletives?

mat: pretty often with friends, rarely with strangers or professional acquaintances 

kaz: it's an every other word kind of thing regardless of situation

5. Is [x] envious of anyone? Why?

mat: he's envious of like a conceptual person more than a real person. envious of, like, a self he could have been but never will be. he doesn't really know enough people to envy any of them in a way that's notable

kaz: he honestly doesn't really feel envy. total lack of any sense of jealousy. he's never going "why can't i have that?", rather "it's fucked up of me to even think i would deserve that"

6. What does [x] like least about themselves?

mat: he thinks he's a coward and he hates his meekness (another thing he thinks about himself which is not necessarily true but simply unchallenged)

kaz: his self destructive urge, which he interprets as selfishness/self-centered-ness bc it manifests through overindulgence

7. How would you change [x] for a Victorian AU?

ok picture it, it's the very end of the victorian period, and there's a strike on at the steel mill that semi-established journalist matsuo saito (writing under a pseudonym like idk matthew saunders or some shit, smth white sounding) sets out to cover, and he meets a boisterous socialist worker (who does more womanizing than organizing) who coaxes him into attending a meeting which turns into going drinking which turns into oh, you know (juicy politcal drama and cop raids and crime)(also gay sex) 

i think mat would know he's gay already in this, and he'd be less publically anxious but worse in private. he'd be doing whatever fucked up victorian tonics and drugs they have for that. he'd be real obsessed with keeping up a presentable appearance, especially since moving to the east coast where he would stand out even more as a japanese american

kaz would basically be the same lol. more on the dl and way more involved with politics. he'd definitely be just some laborer and mad as fuck about everything, as the bastard son of an eastern european immigrant. he might actually go by kazmer in this wow

why am i not writing THIS?? (the research is why(do you know how much i googled even for this relatively vague and generic summary(too much))) and i know "victorian" makes everyone else think of like antebellum shit (in the US) but that is not sexy to me give me the rise of labor that's sexy

[dragonofthestone]

Tim has complex thoughts on Mustang- in part dependent on their first meeting n such but beyond that,

He's a fairly decent judge of character so he can tell that Mustang seems like a decent enough guy, pretty genuine in his words. Someone who could be trusted... maybe

Unfortunately Tim doesn't exactly have the luxury to simply trust someone based solely on 'coulds' , 'maybes' or anything else of the sort. If there's even a sprinkle of doubt he keeps caution up.

As both a Chimera and technically uh illegally in Amestris because the military kidnapped his ass from his home....

After all this man works for the Government. Worse the MILITARY and even if say he wouldn't willingly give out info if anything in anyway got out, slipped or could even be perceived by those people as suspicious besides trouble for Mustang it puts him (and his friends, those who are still alive if it's post raid) in danger

While no expert of the goings on in Creta and especially Milos/Table city if /once deemed trustworthy enough he would share what he knows. How Amestris' Military have taken over Milos, taken the land it from its very people. People whom they came in claiming they were there to protect them and free them from Creta who had annexed them. Accept after Creta got pushed out they moved in.

He'd also just in general want to hear if he had any thoughts/plans/consideration for the other countries and the conflicts. Cause yes he's very happy to hear he'd want to help rebuild and basically try to atone for the atrocity for Ishval that ain't nothing to sneeze at he knows. Hell he's not even Amestrian and he'd happily pitch in but what about everywhere else.

Again yes admittedly he doesn't know all the politcal shit and goings on, he's hardly defending Creta's actions and their own part in the conflicts and what not however there's no denying to some extent that conflict started because of Amestris expanding its borders and trying to invade/take land from its neighboring countries so what about that? Doesn't Creta or Aerugo deserve to have what land was taken over back too?

(He's certainly not expecting some detailed 5 year plan or anything more so I think he say something more as away to get him to think, there's more to do then JUst taking care of Ishval in the long run. Even if that is a good place to start)

On a lighter note Tim just asking Mustang if uh 'hey maybe once you're leader think you could get me some like..legal documentation so I don't get deported or thrown in prison' (Even if he doesn't stay in Amestris forever he'd rather have stuff covered before he gets caught you know. I mean Greed probably already managed to pull someone of his own strings may but you know he wants to be safe)

The other thing he would swiftly in form Mustang was how the same Military he works for slaughtered his friends/family without so much as a warning. All because of what? Because people didn't want to be treated as lab rats. To be some living weapon? Because they decided they wanted no part in the military anymore took a chance to live free and run away?

From his perspective anyway clearly the Military only cares for those in its ranks and if you try to leave then they'll just throw you aside like trash.

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Sure no one at the Nest was perfect and yah Greed certainly had connections with the underworld part of town/amestris. He has no idea what everyones past is/was so he won't claim they were "innocent" in a sense but in that moment they were just trying to live their lives.

He's only vaguely aware of Ed n Al and that whole thing, he certainly heard the fighting. But he hardly believes even that deserved calling military forces led by the countries leader and just slaughtering everyone.

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More then anything he wants to be able to give them proper burials or at least be able to put up some kind of proper grave/marker in their memory so they won't be forgotten and tossed aside as they were in life.

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I guess just the idea of Tim him having a very outside and different perspective on things compared to Mustang perhaps able to see or think of things that perhaps even he may have missed.

[toxictac]

Got some of that "ai translator vs localisor" drama on my twitter feed, here is my unsolited two cents

On one hand i think is the undenyable that there are bad localisacions be that small or big, some localisacions directly or undirectly can change the tone and information a scene displays in many ways While it can be to the benefit of making it easier for an outside audience of another country to understand or simply add on some fun extra characterisation, it more than not it can and sometimes does affect how that dialogue is percive This can mischaracterise or maybe create a seudo narrative the original work did not have

This is the biggest draw back and what i feel most people are upset about localisations, because localisations by nature modified in small or big ways how the text is conbaveyed it can alter the original intent of the game/story This is potencially even more so when things like politics or lingo enter to the mix (as someone who lives in latino america and watched cartoons, i can atest the last point) I am not saying that "those damn localisors made the games political", but it is undenyable for me there are too many examples to not say there isnt at the very least a passing intent, whenever you belive its good or bad goes more out to the person

That being said the ai translation is dumb, just for starter i am not a suporter of making people lossing jobs (shocking i know), nor people getting payed less because of ai (double shocking) A lot of the time ai supporters, gravitated to the idea of translators being "lazy" or "buyest" to an idology they spray on everything they touch, while i feel there is a point to it, the idea that a direct translation is better is kinda bafeling to me I mean for starters direct translations arent always possible, sometimes somthing either doesnt have an equivelent or it does but it has multiple ways to be said or added meaning (or both) There is a sence of the belive of "sanctity" to the idea of the "original intent" to this people, which leads to an almost elist way to look at the work, kinda ironicly regardless of the original intent or the autors intent Not to even say even tho they sell themselfs as almost apolitical they are (more likely than not) people with extreme politcal views that will be angry if an ip does something they dont like

Then looking at both groups it is quite clear why that both groups are both right and wrong in some aspects, and there is a deeper discousion about the works as is, the way that lenguage changes its meaning, to what extend we can change what was another autors works to fit more in what is consider "correct" and many more that are always promply shove aside for the sake of our daily dosis of politcal drama Personaly, i am a very beliver of enjoying the autors works as is, meaning that i always prefer a more closer to the original translator, however i am able to conside with changes for the sake of reading compreantion, some changes can be fun and make the reading expirience better, some feel out of place and detrimental Overall my biggest problem always come with online discousion and to consilidate what a story does, because you need to make it compreinsible but to add stuff that isnt on the text carelessly or even more to add contridictory stuff to "fix it" is bad in many cases However ai translation is bad because it takes away jobs, give you a mediocer version of a translation, does not have nuence about things like intent or context and is just kinda a shitty thing to propose In my humble opinion, translation has to be done carefully and with the direct intent to not change the overall idea of the translated story, in my view if this is not meet, you should be told you did a bad job, however to amke it so all trasnlations are bad because a select few are bad is dumb

[progressivemother]

Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day

As someone who comes a from a military family, veterans day is important to some extent. But knowing the history of Veterans Days and the military is also of great importance. This is something I remind me children of each year.

Regardless of politcal leanings or attitudes, am I sure we can all agree that the military does have an important part to play within and without a country. My family tends to be apart of the Marines on both sides (mother's and father's) and two are veterans. My brother broke unspoken family "rule" and joined the army. But we celebrate them and others who joined and lived through different wars.

A brief history of the military is important to teach ourselves and our children in order for them to learn where is came from and why it was created. Violent conflict, and the organization of society for such conflict, has always been a vital part of history. No matter what country you are in, there is a history of the military and why it was needed from the oldest battle accounts of the Egyptian king Thutmose III to Mongols. Armed force is a constituent element of a country’s combined military services. Modern armed forces are commonly divided into specialized branches dealing with land, naval, and air warfare. The military is a socialist program that citizens pay for members and their families to be well taken care of so that citizens are protected from potential threats.

The most amazing thing about the military, at least in the USA, is that it is one of the most diverse groups you will ever see. There are different races, cultures, lgbtqia, religions, political leanings, etc and they are able to forget those differences and just be together in a symbol of brotherhood while watching each other's backs. It would be amazing to see this outside of the military.

November 11th was chosen for a reason. In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington, D.C., became the focal point of reverence for America’s veterans. Similar ceremonies occurred earlier in England and France, where an unknown soldier was buried in each nation’s highest place of honor (in England, Westminster Abbey; in France, the Arc de Triomphe). These memorial gestures all took place on November 11, giving universal recognition to the celebrated ending of World War I fighting at 11 a.m., November 11, 1918 (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month). It's significant.

Here are some ways to teach children about veterans day:

1. Let them speak to veterans. It could be someone in your family or simply someone you know.

2. Read a book about veterans and what it means to the people of country you live in. The website Teaching With Children’s Books has a number of options for kids of all ages.

3. Raise money. I have noticed within my country that many veterans are forgotten about and forced into situations such as homelessness due to health issues from war that they don't have control over. It's saddening to see. Find veteran organizations near you amd have your kids give some money to those organizations. Our veterans need to be cared for.

4. Talk about the freedoms that the country has due to the military. Discuss these with your child to help make them aware of the everyday liberties they have thanks to veteran and explain how many of those in the military often cannot see family members due to fighting for the country.

5. Watch a Veterans Day video for kids. A great way to impart Veterans Day knowledge on your little one while providing visuals is to show them a Veterans Day video for kids.

So let us not make this day about something political. Make it about the ones who survived the horrors of war and who deserve to be recognized for that. Make it about the history of the day and of the military what it represents to us and why it something worth having. Make it a teaching moment for our kids about the history of the military and the history of the day and what it represents. The sacrifices of each nation’s military are big and small – made up of heroic moments that define a person and lifelong concessions for the sake of defending freedoms.

[bitchfitch]

Tbh on the watsonian level I kinda think it might be more than just a politcing thing. Im chewing on it while i wind down for the night and to me at least the three of them as a throuple feels a lot better than just sidlink now. Like I love me some angst, but this version of Link has never felt to me like someone who would stay put very long or like someone who could come back quickly when he does eventually need to just Go. and Sidon sorta deserves better than that even if that wildness is something he admires and loves in Link.

Sidon and Yona Vibe well and the whole childhood friends getting to be in love and eventually marry as adults after actual decades of growing up in this long distance friendship feels Good, can you Imagine the pining? I need to spend more time with Yona to continue getting a feel for her personality and Whole deal and like what she'd get out of an arrangement like this. But from what I've seen of her so far, she really doesn't seem like someone who would be ultra fussed about her guy having a little something on the side with his 'closest companion'.

I do have some anxieties that are far more doyalist in nature but those are like. Idk. It makes sense for a prince character to end up engaged in a sequel, but I've seen so many showrunners and creative teams behind projects i enjoy give previously single characters opposite sex partners purely bc the character in question was too popular amongst the queer community or were too commonly shipped in same sex pairings to not be like a Little sus about this.

I guess my tldr is that i feel Yona really balances things out and makes something good better. but her existence within this work feels a Little icky especially when the developers spent so much time in the last game establishing just how single Sidon was. Like i love him, but Sidon was very obviously written to appeal to women in that kinda misogynistic corporate way where the thinking is that Obviously the only reason a Girl or young woman would care about a video game is if there's a man she can crush on and, for lack of a better term, ship herself with in it.

Its probably even why he was written to be so affectionate towards Link, the vessel these suits were expecting the women to wholly project onto. Its a form of fanservice people don't tend to recognize As fanservice because it's so disconnected from the reality of how people are going to interact with this world. Maybe if Link was just a blank slate character you could customize at the start of the game it wouldve been more obvious and actually worked. but he's not. he's Link. the characters in this story interact with him and not his puppeteer. Sidon being ultra smiley with Link even when he's not smiling outside of their conversation animations, extremely friendly towards him, and telling the player how much he wants Link to visit him more often doesn't read as crush material for 15 to 25 year old women. it reads as deeply homosexual.

Those kinds of characters basically never get cannon love interests because it defeats the point and destroys the 'illusion' that would let the ~silly girls~ who only care about boys and Romance in a story self ship with them.

So in that context with the knowledge of how Insanely popular Sidon is with gay men, and fanfic writers... Yona's existence within the narrative Feels Weird and kind Rough and Bad even if i like her as a character and think she works well even in the context of the broader fanon surrounding Sidon and Link.

this post got away from me. you can tell from the tldr where i meant it to end. but Yeah. Watsonian good, Doyalist is suspect.

MOTHER FUCKER SPOTTED T POSING. GAY SHIT IM GOING TO HAVE TO BANISH THE CHILD FOR TO ENSUE.

[ahnsael]

Semi-long post, but no “read more” because I’m just too ANGRY to even bother.

So...we have a guy who comes into my work once in a while Maybe two-three times a week (although I only saw him once this work week, and he left without being served before I could tell him he wasn’t welcome).

He’s usually already VERY drunk when he arrives. Once in a while, he’s not, and we’ll sell him a beer or two before we decide he’s had enough (he’s “perma-drunk” enough that it doesn’t take much to get him back to his normal drunken state). I mean, we’re a casino. We usually give away drinks for free. But this guy doesn’t gamble, so we make him pay for his drinks. Despite what some people think about drinking in casinos, we’re not an open bar. Maybe it’s different in Reno or Vegas, but...we’re a small casino in a small town. We’re GOING to notice, when there are less than 10 people in the casino, when you’re asking for a drink but not gambling (or, in the case of other people we charge for drinks, if you’re gambling 1¢ per game, in which case we’re gonna charge you for your drink -- we have certain levels of gambling you have to meet if we’re gonna comp you a drink).

But we’re also not “all-you-can-drink.” We do our best to serve responsibly. Even our big gamblers have to wait 20 minutes between drinks. The human body can process two drinks per hour, so even at 20 minutes in between, we’re serving more than the body can process in an hour -- but we don’t mind people getting tipsy (if they have a designated driver)...that’s good for business, in all honesty, in the casino game. But...what’s bad for business is letting people get HAMMERED and creeping out other guests (or our staff).

When we cut this person off (we know his name, but we mostly refer to him as “Tall Guy” since he’s about 7′ tall), it’s final for the night. Which the shift before me, knowing that I have dealt with this jerk many times, is very good about telling me that he’s been there and that they cut him off or refused to serve him due to him already being drunk when he showed up.

I mean, even when this guy is deemed okay for a drink or two at my work until we cut him off, he then walks to another casino a couple blocks away and drinks more there until THEY cut him off (and they take WAY longer to cut someone off than we do), and then he comes back to our casino to try to drink more. I’ve honestly turned this guy down for drinks WAY more often than we’ve served him.

I tried to talk one of my bosses into letting us permanently cut him off -- just not serve him any alcohol, ever, no matter how sober he may seem. I lost that battle. To be fair to this boss, he fought the same battle over someone else, and lost that battle to HIS boss, so he was basically just giving me the same answer he got.

But last week, on one of my days off, he came in. Drunk, of course.

Our other graveyard manager is a lady. And he came in on my night off and was not just hitting on her, but following her around after she said she wasn’t interested, accused her of “leading him on” (trust me, I know this lady -- she does NOT lead people on; she’s not looking for a man), and apparently badgered her for quite a while during her shift. She has been nice to him in the past because IT’S OUR JOB TO BE NICE TO PEOPLE. And she’s been on the job for maybe 5 months. It took me three years in this job to realize that sometimes you HAVE to be an asshole to people (like one guy last night, different guy than the one I’m talking about, who came in drunk off his keister, and got mad and me for not being willing to give him a beer even though he was gambling; he said “why can’t I get a beer?” and while all my Disney training says to respond in a kind and non-confrontational way, my current state of mind had me ready with my reply of “because you’re already drunk” -- no sugarcoating required on a casino graveyard shift; when he argued that he wasn’t drunk, I just replied with “yes, you are” and walked away).

I found out about this situation four days ago from another guest who was there and saw it. The next day, the manager involved texted me to tell me about it herself (which I was glad she did, because the guest who told me about it is known to embellish things). And I unfortunately know this guy well enough from his past behavior in the casino to know, once she told me about it and it wasn’t hearsay from another guest, that it’s true. I don’t NEED Tall Guy’s side of the story (even if he actually remembers it in his perma-drunk state).

I’ve been nice to this guy in the past. It led to my first dates in 11 years (not with him, obviously), but more on that below.

So I reminded our other grave manager when I worked with her this week that she DOES have the power to 86 this guy for up to 72 hours without getting higher approval. I also showed her how to get our county sheriff’s department (the non-emergency line) on speed dial, which I have programmed into our wireless phones (obviously if she feels in danger 9-1-1 is best) in case she doesn’t have time to look up their non-emergency number, and told her that if this happens again when I’m not there to help, CALL THEM. And if she wants to 86 him, CALL THEM before she presents the trespass notice so a deputy or two can be there in case he has the urge to react in a stupid way -- he’s usually good at rejection from me, when I refuse to serve him or ask him to leave, but...given what I learned about him this week, that may not be the case with my other grave manager (and honestly it pisses me off more that he reacts differently to her if I’m not there than he does to me when I am there than anything else -- if he’s treating her as “less-than” because she has boobs, that is inexcusable). In this county, at least, deputies are MORE THAN HAPPY to back us up on stuff like this (and, trust me, I much prefer being on their good side to being on their bad side -- they LOVE doing their jobs).

But, aside from policy and aside from “call the cops if you need them,” the next time I see this guy, he and I are going to have some SERIOUS words with each other.

I mean, it’s gonna be off the record. I’m not going to report it unless it escalates (and I will grab my cell phone, which I’m not supposed to carry at work, just in case I need to call for backup, though I doubt I will need it), and it will be on surveillance since the door I take him out of leads to an area that is covered by several cameras, but...the next time I see him, which will likely be within the next week, I’m going to ask him to accompany me outside for a conversation, so I can do this out of the view/hearing of our other guests. And then I am going to verbally LAY INTO HIM. In more crass terms, I’m going to CHEW HIS ASS OUT.

I had to clarify with the other manager last night that when I said I was going to “take him outside and have words with him” that I wasn’t saying I was going to take him outside and beat him up. Even though I kind of want to, that’s not my style. I’d rather use words than fists. And I’m honestly probably more effective that way in an altercation.

I mean, on the off chance that he does square up against me, I am confident in my ability against him (I’m not overly confident in my fighting abilities overall, and would rather not test them, but if it came to that and deputies couldn’t get there in time, this guy is perma-drunk enough that I’m pretty sure I could fake an uppercut or left hook and then go for his knees to take him down, and hopefully hold him in place until the law arrived).

But I’m gonna go off on him. He can NOT treat my fellow employees like that. Manager or not. He cannot keep bugging guests, like he was doing before I tried to get my boss to let me permanently cut him off from alcohol.

(Come to think of it, I think I’m going to make the solo call to permanently cut him off anyway, despite my boss -- who has never seen this guy -- saying no; that’s a liability that we do NOT need, and I’d rather get in trouble for refusing to sell someone a $2.50 beer than to end up on the hook for him doing something stupid after we served him alcohol -- the basic rule of running a bar is that if someone does something stupid, or gets hurt, or worse, hurts someone else while drunk, it’s on the last place that served them, unless they were drinking out of a bottle at home in which case there’s no bar to blame).

But...

I mean, this is the guy who set me up on the two dates I had a few months ago (and then immediately acted like he was jealous that she was going to go out with me when she wouldn’t go out with him, even though HE was the one who tried to get us together). He later told me he tried to set me up with her because he had offered her a place to stay, and he hoped that after a couple dates I’d let her move in with me so he could get her out of his house (I’ve learned to know better than to do that -- through experience). She moved on from his house before our second date and was staying with a co-worker -- she wasn’t for me, but she WAS smart enough to get away from this asshole.

So...aside from the fact that I’ve had to tell this guy on at least a dozen occasions that I’m not going to let him drink at our casino because he’s already drunk as heck, I’ve got history with him.

And I’m DONE being nice to him, regardless of his blood alcohol content when he shows up.

I can handle my own stuff (most of the time, until about 6-10 years later when I have a total meltdown like I did recently -- but since I just had one I’m hoping I should be good for a while now). But...you fuck with my co-worker? You’ve fucked with me, whether you meant to or not.

I had a TERRIBLE co-worker’s back when a regular guest flirted with her to the point it made her uncomfortable (in that case, he was pretty much harmless, but I had to tell him to back off, but in a friendly non-confrontational “Please lay off on that, she’s not comfortable with that kind of flirting” sort of way).

But this situation is different. Tall Guy followed this other manager around wherever she went. He kept interrupting her while she was doing regulatory things that she HAS to do. He told her that she was LEADING HIM ON because she’s been nice to him in the past -- but IT’S OUR JOB TO BE NICE TO PEOPLE. She ended up hiding in the women’s restroom to get away from him. And I CANNOT have my co-workers having to fear dealing with our guests. That’s not on her, she’s a strong woman who, in the time we’ve worked together, I’ve seen stand up to things that I would struggle with. This is ENTIRELY on this one asshole who doesn’t know when to say when -- on alcohol, or on interpersonal communications. Because no matter how many times she excused herself, or how blatant she was about “I have work to do, leave me alone,” he just kept at it.

So...the next time I see this guy, I’m going to tell him that he is not welcome in our casino. I don’t have the power to permanently 86 someone, but I’m going to pretend that I do, and I’m just going to start issuing 72 hours trespass notices as many times as it takes for him to take the hint. And if he comes in DURING one of those 72-hour periods, I’m going to have him arrested for trespassing.

But none of that is going to happen until I have my chance to CHEW HIM OUT. I don’t know that I can teach him manners, but I’m certainly going to let him know that he lacks them.

[drwcn]

Hi,

how do you feel about that whole scene where it was revealed jc had wwx's core. Because reading it in the manhua now (I've read in the translated novel and watched cql) I really hate wwx and lwj during that scene. I think they were in the wrong (wwx had himself expelled from the sect and lwj is an outsider that has no business being in there) and I was curious how you see that whole thing.

Hope you have a nice day.

Hi friend!

My personal opinion is that the only person in the wrong in that scene is Wen Ning.

I'm referring to more or less the cql plot line.

I don't feel either Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji or Wei Wuxian are in the wrong based on the stance that they take and the information they know.

If you take Jiang Cheng's stance: you don't know jack shit. Nobody tells you anything. You still don't really know why after your shixiong went missing, he became a sith lord. You tried approaching him about it when he was alive the first time around but he just pushed you away. I mean at that time you were barely more than a kid yourself, trying to keep it together for your new found sect, trying to play at being an adult and incidentally being played by every other adult who was way better at the politcs game than you were. And then your shixiong chose to protect the Wen Remnants, which in and of itself was not a bad thing and you knew it. But you couldn't help. You wanted to, at least for Wen Qing, but you couldn't. You knew you couldn't because you're a Jiang and the Wens killed your family- slaughtered your parents - and maybe not these specific Wens, but that didn't matter and that was just how things were in the world you lived in (if you're not cn and you don't get it, just trust me on this trope, take my word for it). That was why you went to find Wei Wuxian and tried to talk to him about it but instead of explaining shit to you, Wei Wuxian decided to "defect" and then you had to fake fight about it. And then you had to pretend to hate him in front of other people. And you know...you were faking it until you made it and you thought everything would be fine. Things were kinda quiet for a while. You invited Wei Wuxian to your nephew's celebration and then HE KILLED JIN ZIXUAN. WHAT?? And then before you knew it the Wen Remnants were giving themselves up and everyone was storming Nevernight and Wei Wuxian was Sith Lord on Meth and giving Anankin Skywalker a run for his money.

And then your sister died and you just lost it. Yeah you tried stabbing Wei Wuxian, but who didn't those days am I right? Besides, he let go of Lan Wangji's hand himself...

The point is, it's been 16 years and you still don't know anything. You don't know why Wei Wuxian is doing ANY of this bullshit and you just wish you know something for once for fuck sake. The running theory is that Wei Wuxian = Evil, and you know that's not true. Wei Wuxian = Jackass, yeah, that might be true. You just don't understand why Wei Wuxian doesn't give a shit about being a Yunmeng Jiang, why he would stand with literally anyone else - the Wen Remnants, Lan Wangji, Wen Ning - but not with you.

And you're SO angry, you just want to fight him. Like the ways boys do, one fight to settle the score. Maybe you can punch the truth out of him. How did he get resurrected in the first place huh? What the fuck is that all about?

And then you know. Because Wen Ning tells you in the cruellest way possible. You know now why he couldn't stay because Wei Wuxian had given you everything he could give, and that there was nothing else left he could offer.

The truth is worse than you ever imagined, and knowing the truth doesn't fix you. You're still alone, still broken.

If you take Wei Wuxian's stance: sure you might have "defected" but you never really defected, not in your heart. You'll always be a Yunmeng Jiang. Lotus Pier is your home. You swore to Madam Yu you'd protect Jiang Cheng and you did that. Look at him, he's a sect leader now, a goddamn strong one at that. That's a success right? Then why doesn't it feel like one. Why are you still miserable, still cast out, when all you want is to come home.

Oh, yeah you know why. Because shijie is dead. She died more or less because of you, at least it feels that way. That peacock Jin Zixuan too. You still don't understand how it all went so wrong. But you're tangled up in the thick of it, and you can't extract yourself. You are responsible, at least in some sense. Responsible for being stubborn, for thinking you had everything under control. Responsible for your pride and arrogance.

You know why you can't come home. Because you still carry that one giant secret you swore you'd carry to you grave and never let anyone know. And you did technically carry that shit to the grave, but now you're alive again, and honestly who the fuck prepares for this kind of scenario? This is not the kind of truth that should ever see the light of day. You don't ever regret a single goddamn thing you ever did on that hill in Yiling, but jesus christ you miss home and you just want to come home. So now that you're here, in the ancestral hall, how can you not pay your respects?

And of course Jiang Cheng is angry, you know why he's angry. YOu never told him jack shit. But you're too tired to fight him. It's been so many years and you just want to move on. Let Jiang Cheng hate you if he wants to; you've made peace with that.

If you take Lan Wangji's stance: this fucking Jiang family drama is worse than soup drama. You're not really sure what the ever loving fuck went down between Jiang Wanyin and Wei Ying but at this point, it's too late to go through all that history. The love of your life was dead and came back to life!! Who else gets that kind of second chance?! You have your priorities, and that's to keep Wei Ying safe. There is a conspiracy going on and everybody has bigger problems now, problems like Jin Guangyao and what he did to all those people all those years ago, and the things he's still doing. That's what the focus should be.

And besides, you look at Wei Ying and you know that he never stopped loving this place - Lotus Pier. That this place is his Cloud Recesses, and no matter how far he goes, even as far as death, he will never stop seeing this place as home. So of course you follow him into the ancestral hall to pay your respects. This man is the man you want to spend the rest of your life with; his family is your family. It's only right. Of course Jiang Wanyin is angry about it, but that guy clearly has problems and you're above starting a fight with him as long as Wei Ying wants to keep it civil.

Wen Ning - fuck this guy. I don't like him and I don't care to explain it.

:)

[tevinteredeemer]

Can I also get a little “Dear boyfriend”

Accepting || Dear... (x)

Dearest Makani,

     I hope you are faring well. I know we didn’t part on great terms, but I still believe it was for the best. You’re a former slave who ran off with the son of a well-known upper class family! You simply aren’t safe here. Even more so now with your connection to the Inquisition. I’m waved away as simply having a one-time fancy for adventure. You... Well. I will simply say they would not treat you well. Even if I were to keep you on my residence, you would likely be secreted away upon a quiet night. I regret that I’ve put you in such harm’s way... But I don’t regret our time together. I meant it when I told you I loved you. I still do. Maker, imagine the scandal this would cause! I almost wish I could have you here simply for that drama alone.

     Mae and I’s movement is going well. As well as a new politcal group founded by outsiders can do, I suppose. We’re making headway, at least. More have joined us as allies. Undoing the laws and traditions of slavery in the Imperium will be quite the feat. Seen as impossible by most smart individuals. But that simply makes me all the more determined to accomplish it. You know me, I love a challenge.

     All that aside... I think of you often. Too often for my own good. I miss you terribly, Tevinter simply isn’t the same without you. It never was. From the moment we met as children all those years ago, you changed things for me. For the better. I endeavor to make Tevinter safe for you. For us. One day, all will be okay. We’ll be together and safe and happy. I hope you can wait until then. Please do stay safe either way, I don’t know what I would do if I heard you were harmed in some way. I will do the same, of course. I have quite the incentive not to perish, after all. A rather handsome and loving elf I must see again.

Yours forevermore,

Magister Dorian of House Pavus of Minrathous

[asparklethatisblue]

Was talking to @hattedhedgehog and here’s our Hobbit Characters in Lockdown (modern AU):

Thorin: sitting outside in swimtrunks, a hoodie, and crocs, don’t touch him, he is tuned out

Fíli and Kíli: have their own home, Fíli is doing 100% of what he can, only leaves for essential stuff or to help others, always wears a mask, quietly dies inside as he watches Kíli do the same but keeping forgetting not to touch his face or removes his mask or do tiny bad things because he forgot

Óin and Glóin: retired, but tries to leave the house every single day because he was a doctor, Glóin has to force him back inside every single day because “YOU’RE OLD”

Balin: works from home, does quite well, is quite content other than the worry for society/his family, tries to do what he can to influence city politcs

Dwalin: does crafts all day, is content but is extremely frustrated occasionally, has used every item of furniture for work out, posts videos or photos of his DYI home-workouts, only leaves the house if he has to, doesn’t go to shops other than food every two weeks, he has what he needs

Bombur: cooks lunchboxes and meals for those who need it all day, tries to find things to occupy his doyen kids

Bofur: Delivers said meals on his moped, wears novelty masks, kind of chats with everyone at least 12 foot distance, is freakishly cheerful

Bifur: sort of doing well, was keeping to himself anyway, goes on frequent walks a lot, tries to make little gifts for Bofur to deliver to people, doesn’t like the general anxiety around him

Dori: going stir crazy, hates everything, polite and wears neat clothes while at home, THIS close to murdering Nori

Nori: bored as all fuck, contemplates to cut off his hair at least once a day because he’s bored, contemplates breaking into other people’s houses cause he’s bored but everyone is at home, THIS close to murdering Dori

Ori: has locked himself into his room with more books than were in the house before, where are they from??? Tries to make Dori forget he’s in the house

Bilbo: writes passive aggressive letters to extended family regarding them leaving the house, tries to write carefully worded letters to people living on his properties to assure them he’ll help if he can, quite happy that nobody visits

Thranduil: posts all the fancy things he’s up to “we’re all in this together locked inside our mansions houses UwU” 

Legolas: currently living in the small lakeside cottage belonging to the family, quite happy, buys more food than he needs to donate the surplus, goes to shops way too much cause he remembers a thing, is glad his boyfriend is there

Gimli: staying at Legolas’ lakeside cottage, pretends to be in his dorm when calling Glóin 

[catbountry]

I saw that post telling people to block you because you were a KF mod and followed you lmao. I don’t have an account but I’ve been lurking pretty hard for a few years now

I try to stay out of the heavily politcal forums because they quickly tend to fuck me off. What happened with Null? He always struck me as a fairly decent guy

Null is, like most people, complex. I have given him a lot of credit for his work trying to help Chris-chan, which was one of the biggest reasons I never wrote him off completely and was convinced that he was not entirely bad. But this is also a guy who, in a post detailing his dilemma between continuing to keep the site up and quitting to have his desired tradwife with multiple children, felt the need to say that single parents and gay parents cannot properly raise children and that children raised by those families have a higher rate of becoming criminals. You know, that type of shit. This was a completely unnecessary tangent to the point he was trying to make about how much the site was eating into his life, but he felt the need to make it anyway, just because.

His handling of the request from the New Zealand police to take down the footage of the Christchurch shooting also probably did more to draw in Christchurch shooter fanboys, who infected the thread on the situation. While Null was legally within his rights to deny this request, he did so in the most inflammatory way possible, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that after he posted his open letter to the NZ police, calling New Zealand a “shithole country” among other things, that you had more posts in support of the massacre. There was one post I remember responding to in which the poster was mad that the shooter didn’t kill himself afterwards or die in a shootout, because then he would have been more of a martyr for the cause and he wouldn’t do damage to it by, say, having one of his cringey letters from jail posted to the Farms, exposing him for the fucking edgelord loser he is. This poster was mad… because the shooter made the cause of white nationalism and his plans to start a race war though accelerationism via gun control laws… look bad. Like, bruh.

For me, I feel like Null’s reluctance to do anything about these people, even though he knew they were a problem in the community and they were driving away many of the old guard users, spoke a lot about his character. I felt afraid to ban any of these people for being fucking idiots because I thought I’d get shit for overstepping my bounds as a mod. I know Null felt very strongly about First Amendment protections; I do as well, and it’s probably one of the only bits of common ground we share politically. But at the same time, by creating an environment where merely challenging these guys feels more and more like a lost cause because they keep coming in, well, it’s not exactly conducive to free and open discussion, now is it?

This approach worked a lot better when the forum was smaller, where the community itself would dogpile upon these type of posters to make fun of them. Yes, they would be allowed to say the shit they wanted to say, but they always had pushback from the userbase. Hell, we had an entire subforum dedicated to at least one flavor of the types of users that made the site less tolerable, that being the Manosphere subforum. These were in the days where Null was less overtly political. As Null began to more openly espouse his opinions on topics outside of the realm of free speech, it acted as sort of a signal to these potential posters that they’d be welcome here, because, well, the admin shared a lot of their racist and homophobic views.

I should also note that Null is often mistakenly attributed as being the founder of the Farms; he wasn’t, though he was head admin when Kiwi Farms changed its name from the CWCki Forums. The original founder was a user named Champthom, who from what I’ve seen, seems pretty chill, but either couldn’t or didn’t want to be in charge of keeping the site running. Null had experience from 8chan in running a site, and in the early days, Null did try and keep his politics to himself, which allowed the forum to not be very hostile when discussing politics. I remember many users saying that this was a benefit to the Farms in the early days, as they felt like they could express opposing opinions without feeling like Internet Bloodsports… which hadn’t even become a thing yet. Boy, that candle burnt bright and fizzled out quickly, huh?

After Trump got elected, Null just kept getting bolder and bolder with expressing his views, like when Null practically welcomed self-proclaimed and proud fascist Weev into his own thread with open arms. There’s a lot of free speech advocates who view Weev as something of a martyr due to his time in prison (it’s also worth noting that Weev became a fascist in prison, while under the protection of the Aryan Nation), but when I asked Weev about his conflict of interest in advocating for absolute freedom of speech while also wanting a fascist government, Weev flat-out stated that freedom of speech was little more than a means to an end for him before spewing a bunch of nonsense about the fall of Rome or some shit I didn’t even ask about. Null, to his credit, has begrudgingly allowed threads on people who he would prefer didn’t have threads and doesn’t see as lolcows (like Emily Youcis, who he definitely has or at least had a crush on), but he makes sure to complain about it in those threads. By that point, I felt like I was managing a bunch of threads and felt that, should I leave, that those mini communities might fall apart. I could have left at any time, but didn’t, because I kept inventing reasons in my head about why things might get worse if I left. I felt like I was one of the few voices willing to challenge these points of view. This was all me doing this to myself, though. Null never forced or pressured me into staying. And as I’ve said before, he accepted my resignation quite gracefully, and dissolved the Tumblr subforum upon my departure, since that subforum was the main one I managed.

Null has done some good things, like helping Chris out after the house fire, or getting him out of the grasp of the Idea Guys. Null also regularly likes to drop slurs in his posts and make some jokes that are pretty nnnnyyyeehhhh, but as soon as two dudes on YouTube try and make fun of a pitiful apology from a zoosadist, he fucking loses his shit because that’s just too far. At first I used to just attribute a lot of his actions due to him just being a *chan edgelord libertarian dude. He’s fallen deeper and deeper into the siren song of the trad dream, however, but he also will never be able to attain it so long as he keeps the site up. He knows this. He’s said as much himself. But he keeps the site up and running out of spite, because he knows a lot of people, including a lot of very bad, nasty people, would celebrate when it shuts down. He almost did shut the site down on the day of Trump’s inauguration due to threats his mother was getting, but it came back up in a month.

A part of me looks at Null helping Chris, or Null’s very personal and intense involvement in covering the zoosadist leaks, and I think he is capable of doing a lot of good. That part of Null I admire. But it’s really hard to say that he’s a decent guy when he sees a clip of Stephen Colbert making fun of Emily Youcis being fired from her job as the Pistachio Girl for the fucking vile, racist shit she said on social media and his response is to call Colbert a “kike.” Like Jesus, dude. You even got the man’s ethnicity wrong; he’s Irish. I know he hasn’t been that funny for a long time but god damn.

I’ve said a lot about Null here, and a lot of my criticisms of him, and admittedly, I feel a twinge of regret for it because despite all these disagreements and clashes we had, he still seems to have some respect for me for some reason. I mean, I was a jannie for like five years; I did this for free. It’s very strange. I don’t wish to make an enemy out of him, but he’s a big boy, I’m sure he can handle some criticism on the internet, and I think I’ve been more generous than some people would prefer. Realistically I don’t think he’d be too miffed but, you know. Anxiety and all.

Also, if nothing else, Null making Ethan Ralph’s life even more of a living hell is pretty funny. Unlike Null, I have absolutely nothing nice to say about Ethan Ralph at all. That man is scum of the earth and I will gladly watch from the sidelines as Null’s continued existence torments Ralph, who is already tormenting himself enough with literally every single decision he has made and will continue to make in his life. I know it’s not much of an accomplishment to be a better person than The Gunt, it’s a pretty low bar, but between the dude who was willing to help Chris-chan out of multiple situations with trolls and even raise money to send him to a brony con, and the dude who recorded Chris-chan on his livestream to try and get an interview with him solely for clout and to get back at the first guy, I will side with the first dude. That’s just me, though.

[argyrocratie]

when discussing the reason there is no increase (so far) of electroral success for the far right in the belgian french speaking region of walonia in comparaison with the belgian dutch speaking region of flanders and with the rest of europe in general, it is sometimes point out (mostly by flemish commentators) that it’s due the clientelist nature of the politcal parties in walonia, an explanation which never convince me in part due to the fact that i don’t think that walonia is that much more clientelist than flanders and secondly i don’t see how in itself it would prevent an increase of the electoral score of the far right, an other explanation (given by francophone journalist) is that the belgian french speaking media do a good job at respecting the so called “sanitary cordon” a no platforming  principel against the far right, which i find a more concrete explanation but only a partial one and in need of it’s own explanation

my own (limited) explanation is that it is in part due to the the “subaltern” position of present day walonia in belgium which reduce the hand of far right parties even if there is still part of the french speaking population (at least not much less than elsewhere) that might resonate with far right theme. they can’t seriously play the card of belgian nationalism in a federal belgium where the richer and more populous flemish region lean regionalist/regional nationalist, they can’t play the card of of walloon nationalism  or anti european union when it is nowadays pretty clear that a more independant wallonia or one outside the EU would just be poorer, even a french unionist type of pan nationalist has not much appeal in the general belgian french speaking population in whom the inner “little man” often like disliking the french.

[hanahaki-cure]

Truther Tagging Game

The lovely @academic-glowup tagged me for this game. Thanks, dear, and sorry it took so long to actually answer!

RULES – Bold the statements that are true

APPEARANCE

I am over 5′5″ / I wear glasses/contacts / I have blonde hair / I wear sweatshirts a lot / I prefer loose clothing to tight clothing / I have one or more piercings / I have at least one tattoo / I have blue eyes / I have dyed or highlighted my hair / I have gotten plastic surgery / I have or had braces / I sunburn easily / I have freckles / I paint my nails / I typically wear makeup / I don’t often smile / I am pleased with how I look / I prefer Nike to Adidas / I wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS

I play a sport / I can play an instrument / I am artistic / I know more than one language / I have won a trophy in some sort of competition / I can cook or bake without a recipe / I know how to swim / I enjoy writing / I can do origami / I prefer movies to TV shows / I can execute a perfect somersault / I enjoy singing / I could survive in the wild on my own / I have read a new book series this year / I enjoy spending time with friends / I travel during school or work breaks / I can do a handstand

EXPERIENCES

I have had my first kiss / I have gotten drunk / I have told a crush I like them / I have traveled outside of the country / I have flown on an airplane / I have stayed awake for more than 48 hours / I have had a near-death experience / I have caught something on fire / I have performed in a talent show / I have shot a gun / I have been on TV / I have gone scuba diving / I have broken a bone / I have slow-danced / I have gone on a shopping spree (and hated it, I dislike going shopping)

RELATIONSHIPS

I am in a relationship / I have been single for over a year / I have a crush / I have a best friend / I have known a friend for over ten years / I have a brother/ I have dated my best friend / I am adopted / My crush has confessed to me/ I have had a long-distance relationship / I am an only child / I give advice to my friends / I have made an online friend / I met up with someone I have met online

AESTHETICS

I have heard the ocean in a conch shell / I have watched the sun rise / I enjoy rainy days / I have slept under the stars / I meditate outside / The sound of chirping calms me / I enjoy the smell of the beach / I know what snow tastes like (like water?!) / I listen to music to fall asleep / I enjoy thunderstorms / I enjoy cloud watching / I have attended a bonfire / I pay close attention to colors / I find mystery in the ocean / I enjoy hiking on nature paths / Autumn is my favorite season

MISCELLANEOUS

I can fall asleep in a moving vehicle / I am the mom friend / I live by a certain quote / I like the smell of Sharpies / I am involved in extracurricular activities/ I enjoy Mexican food / I can drive stick-shift / I have memorized an entire song in a day / I believe in true love / I dream up scenarios to fall asleep / I sing in the shower / I wish I lived in a video game / I have a canopy above my bed / I am multi-racial etchnic*/ I am a redhead / I own at least three dogs / I am LGBT

tagging @bengalaas, @rainhalydia, @anaeeve, and @kisamesfacioplegia. I hope you’ve fun with these!

*sorry to be politcal here, but the places, and evironemnts in which I was raised “race” was a term only neo-facists use.

[vangoghsunflowersposts]

Isource https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/la-repubblica-delle-idee-2019/2019/06/05/news/repidee_per_tre_giorni_bologna_capitale_dello_spettacolo-228018561/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I226924226-C12-P2-S3.3-T1&refresh_ce

Mahmood “Art breaks barriers”

"Soldi” is taking you abroad more and more often.

I’m really happy, it’s always been my dream taking my music also outside Italy. That means there is an interest, like music has really no limits and a person could keep striving for more.

Speaking of duets, there is one very exciting online by a sign language intepreter

I have found it out surfing the web too and I shared it immediately, because I really like it. That’s another way to break down borders “Soldi” at Sanremo has immediately drawn politcal criticism far beyond the song’s meaning.  What remains today of those criticisms?

Salvini has texted me only once, to explain that his was a comment of his taste. I never heard from him again. Those critics ended up as they should, after a month it was all over, people are not stupid What pleased you the most and the least in this period of great media exposure?

I enjoy the possibility to do what I love every day: singing. My least favorite is not be able to fully understand what I’m doing, my private life is a little difficult to handle

Could it be an ispiration for a song?

I have already written two, as a matter of fact: there’s the theme of flying and I talk about how ruining fast could make me lose the people that I love

Among the good things there is also the public meeting with Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milano

It has been a very pleasant meeting and it was educational both for me and the guys who were there, I think. We talked about how young people could grow up in Milan today and how the state could help out. The idea of building places of meeting for young people is really beautiful

You brought the urban music at Sanremo Festival: had it been an event or do you think to have scored a trend for the future?

I don’t call myself a champion, I’m champion of nothing, but I think this event has prompted many people to think italian music can be also like this. Next year the festival will certainly be different, a movement has emerged, a music openness to Europe and the world. And like me Achille Lauro and Ghemon have contributed doing that. There is a rash of young italians who want to do nice things, especially things competitive with the rest of the world

When will the new album be released?

I don’t know, I have already lots of pieces, seven are pretty much ready now.

After so much glory with “Soldi”, have you heard from your father again?

Yes, we went to eat together a couple of time, we talked a little, he congratuleted me, he was shocked that people came out to me in the street: “Who’d have thought it?”

The song has been therapeutic

I wouldn’t go that far, what could have been solved it’s solved, for the rest we have to live

Now if he asked you some money, you would surely have something more in your pocket

Don’t get me started, I have gotten nothing with these 90 working days contracts. But now I can say I have a job 

[irrfahrer]

‘ why did you book us one room? ’

There was a permanent buzzing in Zivs ears like the humming of a instect that was biting, biting, biting her constantly. The vibrations of the walls caused by the starstations engines wore the Tynnan down like a fever- it was a permanent remainder that she was not on a planet and free to leave, that she was caged on the starstation like a animal in acage, that past those durasteelwalls there was nothing but coldness and airless death. Accordingly Padmes question did not earned her more than a tiered flick of the Tynnans ears as she walked wobbly into the room.

"I booked us two rooms, but under my name and as it happens my kriffing name is the name of a kriffing nobody and not the name of the kriffing famous senator Padme Amidala, so I was treated like the kriffing nobody I was and instead of two rooms I got one room. Kriffing pity." , Ziv explained and dragged her rucksack with her to put it unlovingly down in one cornr of the room, as far away of the scuttle behind which was nothing but darkness and stars as if someone had poked holes in a black cloth- Ziv did not wanted to look outside the scuttle as she did nto needed any other remainder that she was (trapped, ) (trapped, ) ( trapped !) spending time on a starstation. The room was big at least in the Tynnans eyes who not only grew up in the Jeid Temple and had been teached to be humble but who also susally lived in small quarters in the enrichment domes on planets that were in the process of terraforming and where every inch used was a precious as gems. Accordingly with the lack of interest from somone who was used to small, humble places and felt in a strange way exposed in big rooms the young woman simply grabbed a datapad out of her bag and scuttled to one corne rof the room where she could sit down on a stool with her back to the wall , her knees puled up to her chest and her fluffy tail like a blanket put over her hindpaws. "Good kriffing night, pup, I think my kriffing insomnia will another night have the krififng fun of its life with me so make yourself comfortable in the bed, because I will probbaly not use it.", she explained, already tapping her razorsharp claws nt he datapad to continue reading the text about flora that she had started to read during the flight: "Sweet dreams of kriffing politcal debates or whatever you have fun with."

[ @peacefaithed ]

[pxndxrasbox-archieved]

A Job Like Any Other

    Well, as far as palaces went- this one was rather impressive on the outside. But, the redhead didn’t feel at all welcome here (when did she ever?), more for the ominous feeling surrounding this place. Her mama always said that her senses were far too sensitive for her own good, mother always knew best. Rest her soul. Still, a job was a job and at least the opulence assured her that she would actually get paid this time.

    Last time to she had to break into the fortress to get the money herself- and the idiot general’s eyes as warning to anyone else who tried to skint her. She’d rather not do the same to any royalty, messy business. Still, being hired to help solve some deeply rooted politcal matters seemed almost too much trouble for what it was worth- but, something in her gut told her to at least scope it out. Her gut was usually right.

    The guards didn’t seem all that keen to let her through to the main hall where she was to meet her employers- she gussied up for no one, royalty be dammed. Her clothes, already foreign in nature, were weathered and bore the lingering marks of past exploits. Hardly the clothes befitting a woman. Who gave a fuck. The guards did, only letting her through after she waved her summons bearing the royal seal in their arrogant faces and letting her pass. Some footman announced her name- and tried for her country but failed, settling for ‘of the west’ instead. Typical. Still, she stopped at a respectable distance but didn’t bow until her employer addressed her, and even then it was only a slight tip of the head at most.

    “I hope I’m not late, would hate to miss the party after coming all this way. Are you the one who summoned me, highness?” she held up her papers for emphasis. Some people were probably appalled by her coarse manner, but then again she wasn’t here for their approval now. Besides, it was easier to gauge just what kind of employer she’d be dealing with.

@antimundi