#I have a bunch more that I might post later

[overbiots]

I DESPERATELY need Dottore c.ai bots that aren't "Hes insane, evil and horny!" as the opening or "im dottore" I NEED bots that have a bunch of interaction straight from the first interaction ( shout out @vaampiired for that )

Not so little rant about wrong accusations of dottore utc, if you don't wanna read about S/A mentions feel free to ignore what's under the cut.

And another thing most people don't seem to grasp is the fact that he NEVER S/A'd Collei. Not once has it been stated or implied that he has. He's known for CRUEL EXPERIMENTS. I'm not quite sure how the rumor that he assaulted Collei even started, but it's not even remotely factual. Even so, he cured Collei AND experimented on her. LET ME REITERATE, HE'S NEVER S/A'D COLLEI. He never did; people just like to make up reasons to further their hatred for Dottore and his stans. Tbh, it’s more of people act like a hive mind than them making their own decisions. They probably saw one post from an anti saying that Dottore assaulted her and that they should hate Dottore and now everyone echoes the same reason. Dottore isn’t a problematic villain; he’s just a villain. Which again, I don’t get why they make up shit that isn't stated by the game or its mangas. because without an actual villain genshin would be boring. Everyone always complains how “baby” this game is but when a villain comes along that’s actually evil, everyone suddenly hates it, and throws around false claims that arent true. HOWEVER, Dottore never had an onscreen interaction with her and never mentions her both in game and webtoon. But, Collei's connection with Dottore is the only thing a select few are pinning their focus on, they are legit mad the story moved past her trauma and now Collei is... just a girl trying to grow up, with a few side effects from the didease she used to have. She is shy, anxious, and not as important as she was in webtoon, which I believe is a part of reason the why some people are so hyper-fixated on Dottore, and bounce around infactual accusations. This type of thing is nothing new: so long as a character who is morally gray or morally “wrong” exists, people will come up with reasons (canon or otherwise) to hate them and shame people for liking them, which is asinine might I add. Collei has only one mention of him in her voicelines, saying that she was sent to him to cure her Eleazar. Collei doesn't mention him in her character stories, nor she talked about him in any event or quest. Same for the manga. The only people at fault are always or abstract "fatui", or Barnabas.

There are a lot of interesting moments around her cure. As we know, she was injected with god's resedue (GR). Pulling from reddit, In the Baizhu story quest, GR was used as a cure, and at the end (after the twist), it was portrayed as a last-resort-ish medicine. So now we have two instances of using GR as a somewhat valid cure. An ending of the webtoon is implying that Webtorre disposed of Barnabas, who was responsible for experiments on Collei, and Omega build later erased Webtorre. But this plot point is such a sheer horror for people, who expect that their fav will be relevant 'til Celestia chapters, they you rarely see it being aknowledged, let alone accepted. Dottore is a villain. It's not a diabolical, evil one. Just a villain to the plot, A well written one at that.

And to anyone that actually took the time to read all of this, I commend you.

[zylphiacrowley]

Ways to keep warm in the cold:

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[artifeast]

some more telesphore :3

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[unnamedcrane]

So it's a common headcanon (actually idk if its not canon but whatever) that fell bros have a cat Doomfanger and that Red hates it for… some…. reason

but! 

What if Reds s/o also had a cat? So not only he has to deal with Doomfanger at home, but also y/n’s cat when he's at theirs, and you know he can’t say shit he doesn’t want to lose points with them because of such a stupid thing right?

so here I have some ideas of how it could go: 

he tries to avoid the cat as much as he can, but the cat adores him completely

y/n? oh they're so excited! Usually their cat is extremely antisocial, so they're delighted to see that their cat likes Red so much, just literally the best thing!

since you know, they were worried that the cat wouldn’t like their bf, but look! The cat actually loves being around Red

…much to Red’s annoyance, the cat just. Won’t. Leave. Him. A L O N E.

whenever y/n isn’t around Red makes sure to let the cat know how much he hates it, calling the cat names, or you know (gently) pushes it away if its been snuggling up to his legs for too long

but… maybe eventually he stops minding it as much? maybe he even starts to like the cat- not that he would EVER admit to that, especially to Edge, he doesn’t want to become a designated babysitter for Doomfanger

and just maybe he starts playing with the cat or petting it, when no one is looking obviously

or when he thinks no one is, I bet y/n would notice at some point and take couple of sneaky photos, just cause they think it's so cute

…and probably also to send to certain younger brother

[wayfinderships]

[Looks around] Ok I don't think anyone is looking...

Ok so I just wanted to let out some design ideas I have for a C.yberpunk 2077 Panchi and some little facts I've thought up about them! The main thing being that their Design is heavily inspired by C.elty from D.urarara! Mainly just the Blue/Yellow/Black Helmet with cat ears and maybe they use a motorcycle like she does! The outfit itself would probably be quite different but I've yet to decide on the rest of the outfit

Speaking of the helmet, it's a pretty noticeable part of them! Mainly because they rarely take it off. Seeing them without their iconic helmet is a big sign of trust for them! It's not limited to romantic partners, it could also be for close friends as well! Though if you notice that a certain rockstar mentions how they've seen Panchi without the helmet...no you don't- Speaking of that rockstar! If you see Panchi wear a piece of jewelry that they got from that rockstar years ago and still wear it in present day...no you don't-

Oh and also they don't have a lot of cyberware on them, the most noticable (if not the only) piece of cyberware they have is one on their Left Eye. Though I've yet to figure out the details of it ^^

[nowimabeliever]

How do we feel about Dougzer since the Reddit comment Parkzer posted? He basically said he's not comfortable with the ship. I feel a bit weird about everything now. It was a very human and frank reply to a lot of his issues with Doug's community

honestly it's a lot less bad than I thought?

i feel like there's a big difference between what happened on the wiki, which is very public, doug knows about it and kinda encourages the Weirdness, which is how people take things too far, prompting parkzer's post, and what we do on tumbr/ao3, where doug has spent all of 10 seconds on tumblr and has probably never been on ao3, even if he's aware the website exists.

like. honestly i might archive-lock the fics that are written to be more "plausible" (by which i mean they're not obviously false like the evil science ones) but that's about it on my end?

it's people that are pushing this in the face of the two of them that are causing these issues. and i'm not doing that. i don't want anybody to do that. i feel like i'm pretty clear about the fact that i don't believe this is reality and that my works (and by extension my tumblr) shouldn't be shared with anyone portrayed in them.

they have twitch, youtube, twitter, reddit, wiki, etc. we have tumblr and ao3. and never the twain shall meet.

[e77y]

Augehhrhghfg homework. Big explosion

[lizziiebennet]

If your Endgame fix-it involves Sam getting the shield from Bucky, Skrull!Steve, or Bucky being the first choice I don't want it.

[bacon-neko]

Nano 2023 Day 17

hey wait a minute! how did you get here? (and where is that large automobile...)

“And I suppose you have special insight into his fate?” said Hermes. “Like where he is now? How to find him?”

“Bold to assume my visions would be helpful,” replied Apollo.

Hermes doubled down. “You found your way here, didn’t you?”

“Several hours late.”

“Sure, but you came.” Hermes pulled to the front, forcing his brother to a stop. “You’d never leave Hyperborea without a reason, come on. You had to have seen something big.”

Apollo stared Hermes down a moment before releasing a puff of white breath and scrubbing his hands through his curls. “I didn’t see much,” he said, eventually, leveling carefully against his brother’s gaze. “Just a crumbling Olympus, a boy with dark hair and grey eyes, and halo of storm clouds above him. I felt motion in the weave, so I let the strings pull me here.”

Hermes frowned. “You’re lying. There’s something else.”

Apollo smiled and shifted past him to continue walking. “Good luck proving that in court.”

“Pretty sure the god of liars can smell a rat,” Hermes called after him.

“And I invented lawyers!” said Apollo. “I like my chances. Now, if you don’t mind, we have bigger fish to fry.”

Hermes huffed and bit back a groan. Despite himself, he asked, “What kind of fish?”

“The kind that keeps father from clocking us as traitors the minute we get home,” replied Apollo cheerily. “Let’s hop to it.”

[ulmus-spellook]

Made a set of mini runes with polymer clay. I might paint them later. I didn’t have molds or stamps so I ended up cutting out the shape with a little clay cutter (like a cookie cutter but smaller) and then writing all the runes by hand. I rounded them out a bit too because I liked how it looked when I altered the shape a little.

I’ve only been using polymer clay for two weeks so this could have probably gone faster if I was more experienced. I think I left my glass set at my parents house when I moved and i still need to find it. But I saw it as an opportunity to practice working with clay! Well, polymer clay. I miss real clay 🥲

[thethingything]

I'm still not over the fact that Lucy will just randomly go "you're gonna have a really bad migraine later. you should probably prepare for that" and they're always right about this but when I ask how they now it's always either "I just got a specific vibe" or it's like 3 symptoms I barely picked up on and would never have registered as being connected if they didn't point it out

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

help I've been dragged into a rabbithole of investigating knockoff ninjago minifigures and this one specific Mr. E one I saw

[lokilysolbitch]

hello i would like to add

i'm an age regressor it's just that instead of me regressing it's more like a completely separate child with a separate consciousness and separate memories and likes and dislikes taking over

looks at things they just got from a store right after leaving the store bc i don't really remember what i got and it's like seeing everything with a fresh set of eyes

yeah i get that thing where you enter a room and forget why you went there, it's just that i get it all the time when i do anything. like i open the fridge and forgot what i needed and what i was doing and how i even got to the kitchen

how old am i? uh eightee--twent--forty--seventee--twentyyyyyy uhhh i mean i remember there was a lot of talk of alcohol my last birthday. so 21? yeah

my pronouns are ____. except when i'm in a mood. then don't use that. actually just never use it. i don't like it. nvm it's perfect. ew don't call me that actually. wait no that's the perfect pronoun actually

im actually really impulsive internally and it just doesn't look like it bc when i make major decisions i wait several weeks while my brain keeps switching between completely differing priorities and opinions and then i go off of what opinion came up the most often in that time

why does my self perception change so drastically when i _____. it's almost like. it's almost like i Become A Different Person

i forget what happens in a movie or musical right after i watch it. i have to study it if i want to be able to talk about it

i hate baking but idk it's like i start getting out the baking stuff and then a few seconds pass and it's like already over and a desert is sitting there. so at least there's that

hold on, i can't figure out if i like this thing i just got, give me a minute to settle in my brain. like it's definitely my taste but i don't,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yeah okay yeah i love it lol this is the best

why am i talking like this, this isn't on purpose but i can't stop

why can't i feel a mix of emotions like in the movies. i just flip between two really fast but they never mix

i don't understand this class at all. got an A on the test tho. idk how tf i did that like i still dont understand the concepts at all

*reading texts i sent an hour ago* this sounds nothing like something i'd say but it's funny as hell

one of my mental illnesses just like. turns on and off like a switch. it's so weird. i don't even feel like i'm in control when it's switched on

i kinda relate to the hulk/bruce banner idk. you know, like how they share a body but not the same mind?

my body is having a panic attack without me. also so is my brain. like. it's not my panic attack. i'm just in here.

hold on i'm waiting for my brain to give me my memory of that. no, i'm not remembering it, my brain is just giving me the memory. it's like someone else is telling me but in my brain

Things from Before the OSDDID Realization that now make heaps of sense:

Taking personality tests multiple times because even when I answered them completely honest they’d always come out different

Orientation impossible to pin down (simultaneously aroace/pansexual/lesbian/gay trans guy/queer fucking mess)

Same with gender

Conflicting opinions that somehow exist at once (I love weed/I fucking HATE all drugs and don’t want to be anywhere near them)

Frantic desire to run home and change into something totally different out of nowhere because the clothes I loved this morning are suddenly Awful

Keeps changing name every few months

If I do not journal/scrapbook/take photos of EVERY DAILY EXPERIENCE I WILL FORGET and my whole life will be a blank empty space!!!

“That’s not what you said last time I asked …”

Idk sometimes it’s my Favorite Thing and sometimes I couldn’t care less 🤷

I actually handle trauma really well because right after it happens I don’t even remember! 😇

Hate hypothetical questions because I have no clue how I’d react to any given thing until it happens and any answer feels like a lie

There’s def more but y’all should add your own 💖

[weaselle]

it was too much i had to make my own post

line cook here. ACCURATE

if you don't get the hate, here's what you don't understand.

it takes up to 2 hours to close down the kitchen.

The last 60-90 minutes before closing time you do almost no cooking because the restaurant doesn't have many people in it and you've already cooked most of their diners.

So if someone walks in during, like, the last hour, the cook is in the middle of an industrial deep clean of the kitchen.

(these numbers can vary quite a bit from place to place but i have worked several restaurants with these actual times and the concept remains the same)

Say the place closes at 10. If you wait til the restaurant is already closed to start all your cleaning duties, you'll be there until at least midnight.

More than that your boss knows that on an average night you can start your clean up as soon as the last rush ends and get out of there around 10:45, even 10:15 on a slow night if you get lucky. That means there are plenty of restaurants where if you do take until midnight the manager is going to come up to you at some point that week and ask you what went wrong that night, and you'd better have an answer.

So this example restaurant closes at 10 pm. The dinner rush ends around 8:30, and shortly after that the cook is going to start getting every single dish possible over to the dishwasher because the dishwasher always gets hit hard and late, and the machine runs for 2 full minutes and only holds so many dishes, so the way that works out is if you wait an extra 30 minutes to give the dishwasher all your stuff it can mean adding like 60 minutes to the end of his shift. And you're gonna KEEP finding shit to send to the dishpit right up until you leave probably.

all these little square and rectangle containers in this cold table have to be pulled out and changed over into new containers, replaced by new full ones, or in some cases filled from larger containers in the back, which can result in even more empty containers to send to the dishwasher.

while it's all pulled apart to do this, you have to clean up all the spilled food and sauce and juices and stuff from the joints and ledges and shelves and drip trays

Once you get your line changed over in this way, and fully stocked, anytime someone orders something that makes use of a bunch of that stuff, you have to restock and re-clean it some. It might already be covered in plastic. Some of it might already be stuck in the back to make room to take apart your cutting board counter to clean. To cook a dish isn't TOO much of a problem at this point, but you're really hoping for zero orders because you still have so much other cleaning to do.

Meanwhile the salad bar and appetizer section and server station and everybody are all doing the same thing. Even the bartenders are stocking olives and lemons and sending back whisks and stir spoons and shakers and empty 4quart storage containers that used to hold the back-up lemons and olives and things. Every section is dumping their must-be-cleaneds to the dishpit as fast as possible because early and fast is the only thing they can do to to help that dishpit not absolutely drown into overtime.

The poor dishwasher is always the last to clock out, soaking wet and exhausted.

Around this time you probably scrub the flat top, which has turned black from cooked on grease and is still about 500 degrees. Line cooks are divided in opinion on water-based or oil based cleaning methods for this, but they all involve scrubbing with (usually) a brick of pumice stone using every ounce of your strength while you try not to burn yourself

you scrub it from fully blackened to gleaming silver and now if somebody orders something that needs the flat top to cook, you can either fuck up your cleaning job or fake it in a couple frying pans and pass that tiny fuck you down to your dishwasher (who usually understands, especially if you help them take the garbage out or clean your own floor drain later)

If there's deep fried stuff on the menu then the fryers have to be cleaned out, which includes straining the oil out into enormous and super-heavy pots full of oil so hot that if you spill on yourself then it's probably a hospital visit and if you slip and fall face first into it it'll be the last thing you ever do.

Then you gotta scrub out the fryer. Like you gotta take the (hot) screen out and reach your arm down into the weird rounded pipes and curved areas (so hot, burn you if you brush against them hot) and scrub off whatever is down there

Depending on your kitchen you might have to do up to four of these. Then you'll have to pour the (dangerously hot) oil back in

oh, and if you didn't dry the pipes and get ALL the water out of the trap and tank?

water reacts with hot oil in a sort of mentos and coke way that can send a tidal wave of oil past the open flame of the pilot light ...HUGE dangerous mess and/or burn down the kitchen if the oil lights up.

Unless! If the oil has been used too hard and needs to be changed, it's time to carry those open topped super heavy pots full of will-kill-you-hot oil and dump them in the barrel outside by the dumpsters so you can put room temp fresh oil in the fryers. whew!

The clean up is not just some light wiping down that can be easily interrupted, is what i'm saying.

You might have to do some kind of walk-in duty (moving around 50lb cases of lettuce and 50lb bags of onions to get to the stacks of five gallon buckets full of salad dressings and sauces to move so you can reach the giant metal pots and bus tubs full of prep and get it all organized and make sure it's all labeled and i have to stop now i'm having flashbacks)

THE POINT IS

by 15 or however many minutes to close, the line cook is doing an intense deep clean and probably has the whole stove taken apart to detail.

For some industrial stoves this means lifting off large cast iron plates that weigh like 20 lbs each and are still quite hot. Whatever metal burners are on there, you gotta take off and clean, you can see here the lines that indicate the large thick cast iron rectangles that sit on top of the burners to allow heavy pots to rest on. Those five (each has one front burner hole and one back burner hole, see?) have to be lifted off and cleaned with soap and a wire brush usually, and then the underneath area also has to be cleaned because a lot of shit falls through the burner holes on a busy night.

if you didn't do it when you did the flat top you have to do the grease trap (which can be like a full five minutes and is always disgusting).. You gotta clean out all the little gas jets in each burner with a wire or something so the burners all flame evenly, and sometimes you have to remove some of the natural gas piping that connects the burners to access where you have to clean.

you gotta clean out the bottom of the oven and the wire racks, and, oh gods, you gotta take down the filter vents from the hood fans above the stove.

See all the lined parts along the top of the wall?

those are hood vents, and as they pull air up they also pull a lot of grease and they have to be taken down and cleaned, then you gotta climb up there and scrub where they go before you put them back...

And then there's the mopping and floor drains and...

Anyway, that's what the line cook is doing when you walk in fifteen minutes before closing and order something that needs to be cooked on that stove. They are doing an entire industrial cleaning of a professional kitchen.

In some restaurants maybe one or two of these jobs will be every other night or even only twice a week, but in many, possibly most kitchens, ALL of these things happen EVERY night. You don't want to leave any food mess that might attract insects or rodents for one thing, so a really good kitchen is as close to brand new as you can get it every night.

IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO ORDER SOMETHING ANYWAY, HERE IS WHAT TO DO

open with an apology and ask the server to go ask what the cook would prefer you to order.

Any good server will already know what the cook is hoping for and what will make their line cook go into the walk in and scream. If it's significantly less than an hour to close and they say some variant of "oh anything is fine" they are either telling the lie their boss wants them to say, or they actually do not know what their line cook wants, and you can either use human connection and a conspiratorial just-between-us tone to get them to drop the customer-is-always-right act, or get them to actually go ask the cook.

It might be as specific as "the lasagna is easiest on the kitchen" or it might be a simple guideline like "nothing that requires the flat top" or "any of the sautés are easy" but a good line cook will probably have a system for if they have to make a couple of the most popular items after they start their close, so the answer is likely to include something most people like and you should be good to order that.

but for the love of all that's holy, please only do so at great need. Leave that last 30-60 minutes to the truly desperate and the crew's duties.