#I'm done with this crap.

[psilactis]

My fucking therapist just sent me a text that basically reads "ure sad bc u made horrible life choices and are a horrible person :)"

I'm so breaking up with her lol I'm fucking done

[exilethegame]

Hi there :) what does this rewrite entail? Will the torture backstory still be a thing because that was good drama

All the major plot points are the same! The rewrite is just for expanding + rearranging the story, not actually retconning anything major :)

[emojifarm]

I'm so fucking tired of nearly every emoji creator having some form of drama attached to them. It's gotten worse this year. So much worse. This space has become so toxic and hateful when it should be loving and uplifting. All the ones that actually are loving and uplifting either go ignored yet post away or give up after a few months and just disappear with an abandoned blog or randomly deactivate.

I want to preserve content and provide for those that need it, but there's so many creators that I just can't turn a blind eye to shit for anymore that this blog would be basically empty if I stopped platforming those bad apples. This shit is why I'm so goddamned burned out. This isn't even a community anymore. Just a popularity contest of "who can I hurt more?", "who can steal the most?", "who can recover from the most cancellations?" (looking you in the eyes Custom-emojis). I'm over the middle school/high drama of it all. Why can't y'all just create art in peace and help those that need this for accessibility? Why make it a fucking thing?

I'm so disappointed and ashamed of so many of you. I'm 25. I'm too old for this shit. A chunk of y'all are too old to be acting this foolish. Get your shit together or you just might see my retirement soon. I'm done with y'all.

PS: To those in the community that are good noodles and actively help me: I see you and I appreciate y'all so much. You make my days on this hellsite and Discord so much more bearable. Know this is not about y'all. You're wonderful. Keep doing you.

[taralen]

Big shot Spamton being flirty but failing on the attempt, pathetically.

(Ps. I take this opportunity to say I love your art! It's very inspiring for me and I bet for others too. ＾∇＾)💖💖

Credit: Text Box Generator

(Thank you for the compliment! (⁀ᗢ⁀))

[starlene]

I've been seeing a post on my dash where some USAmerican tumblrina feels sorry for the rest of the world because we don't have Halloween, and that we should steal it for ourselves, too.

I just... uuuugggghhh. Dear worried USAmerican tumblrina: please do not feel sorry for us, at least not about that particular issue.

Like. As far as Finland goes (but I'm 100% certain this applies to a bunch of other countries all over the globe too), our supermarkets and our shopping centres are trying their absolute hardest to shove Halloween down our throats. They really, really try. From Halloween themed doughnuts to Halloween balls and Halloween garlands (for our Halloween trees?? I really have no idea), it's all over the place. It may not actually be celebrated to the extent it is in the US, but it certainly cannot be escaped, and as long as there's plastic crap to sell, it's not going away.

If I could, I'd shove all that nonsense into a cargo container and return it to where it came from. But I can't! You'll catch me dead before you'll catch me buying a Halloween themed Runeberg torte, though.

[thedreadvampy]

my friend invited me to go with them to a show tonight

and the thing is it was not good. it was a cabaret with some amazing circus acts but each of them got like. 5-10 minute slots. and were interspersed with 20+ minutes EVERY TIME of some of the most tedious standup work I have ever seen from the MC and the same 5 physical comedy bits repeated ad nauseum. this guy literally did a Borat bit. in the year of our lord 2024. he sang 2 entire rounds of the Family Guy theme.

and it just KEPT GOING. it was meant to be a 90 minute show, which imo is already a slog for a show starting at 11:30PM but within the bounds of reasonable. it finished. at fucking 1:50 AM. ALMOST TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF THIS SHIT. and it did not help that the 5 bits were all of the 'OH NO SOMETHING HAS DISRUPTED THE SHOW' variety which is funny for a bit, less funny when you're literally 45 minutes past the end of your scheduled finish and still fucking going.

HOWEVER. what I did not realise was that this was in fact. my friend's favourite comedian. and if I had known this I might not have gathered up my stuff and walked out during the curtain call and probably would not have announced on the way out, 'that was the most tedious fucking thing I have ever endured.' and I almost certainly, when someone overheard me complaining about the length and tedium and said 'yeah it ran a bit long huh,' have replied, at the actual near-shouting top of my voice, "I AM GOING TO KILL MYSELF."

I feel. bad for spoiling the show for them.

in my defence I have been very tired this week, I got home at 2:30 AM, and raked seating really hurts my hips so I was in agony by the end of the first hour. but mostly I'm just a bitch who loves to hate tbh.

[vodka-and-ocs]

L + ratio + firebolt + quickened spell scorching rays

aka the sorcerer's gatling

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

Dinner time! And it's Mori's turn to cook. What does she make? Is she a good cook? Do you think the other companions look forward to her meals, or do they make themselves scarce when dinner time comes around?

So, here's the thing about Mori: she kind of hates a formal dinner. Historically, for her, an actual sit-down meal meant a dull and dreary affair with some Nevarran nobility who got very uppity about how they would be received by the Watch and who insisted on things like table manners and small talk. So even now, surrounded as she is by her friends, Mori tends to eschew the idea of formal dinner in every possible way.

This means that when she cooks, she tends to lean into a "make your own meal" sort of thing. She makes big tureens of rice or lentils and then puts out bowls of pickled veggies, roasted broccoli, chopped cucumber, etc., and throws in something like mushroom or chickpea fritters for a little protein. (She's not quite fully vegetarian like Emmrich is, but she doesn't particularly like meat either, so almost all of her dinners are meat-free.) Then she just gestures to all of it in a sort of "have at it" way LMAO.

She's also one of those people who, if they're all busy on the day that she is scheduled to cook, will just put out a tray of dry sausage and cheese and fruit and a bunch of recently-made flatbread with about six different dips and just lets everyone come in and grab something when they're hungry. Mori was always a scavenger rather than a meal-prepper, so this sort of thing really speaks to her sensibilities.

And I think that is especially appreciated by certain people! Neve, I think, especially likes having something that she can swing by and grab without a big to-do. But Mori is also one of those people who tends to, uh. have like one meal that they can eat forever??? So. She does not provide much in the way of VARIETY when it is her turn in the kitchen. Which I think drives Lucanis a little crazy. But Mori isn't cooking EVERY night, and she's made the same meal often enough that it's still flavorful and decent in terms of quality, so she doesn't get the same hesitant reception that, say, Harding does. 😬

[nekrophoria]

ʀᴏʟᴀɴᴅ - ʀᴇɴᴏᴡɴᴇᴅ ʟᴀɴᴅ

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Derailing project of the moment, Project "Nephew's Birthday Gift" is... Technically done. Added side seams, because he's turning four, and pockets, because cool rocks exist.

I also kept the promise of it not taking up much space. It's about the size of a T-shirt, and I'm so very very tempted to just... Buy a T-shirt and play an innocent prank on the birthday boy.

And then the fiber craft demons struck, in the shape of a very charming man in the open air museum doing a demonstration with five dozen cards and sewing thread on a +5m inkle loom, and I decided nephew needs a knighty belt. Because that's what kindergartners care about: handmade decorative techniques that were available to people in the era. It's definitely not just that he wants a dress-up outfit to boink his brother on the butt with a toy sword in.

[icewindandboringhorror]

It's always interesting to hear about people's weird/unexpected "alternate life paths". Like, something that you could have done with your life, a job you almost took, a school you almost went to, etc - that was still actually realistic enough that it could have happened, but NOW it seems to not suit your current personality.

Like for example, I currently hate advertising (how manipulative it is, brands trying to be 'relatable', social media amplifying it to an obnoxious extreme, etc.) so much that even seeing a little ad before a youtube video is grating to even witness, but there was a point in time where I was genuinely seriously considering going into marketing/making commercials as a career lol. Or like, I have a relative who was very inclined to be a pastor when they were younger, even though today they're a super strong atheist, etc. etc.

[weedle-testaburger]

i kinda find it really fucking gross how tankies will act like they're such huge allies to lgbtq people ackshully. because as we all know dictatorial so-called communist states were and are so tolerant of queer people protesting their rights

[manyrepulsivethoughts]

[shinondraws]

I came across this video that talks about how giving mundane, repetitive tasks for AI won't actually boost productivity like people claim it will and this angle just happens to also perfectly (partially) explain why the work life nowadays is a lot more demanding than it used to be and why 4-day work weeks are so effective.

The core idea is that by giving up the mundane tasks people give up low intensity, low threshold work that takes up a lot of an employee's time. This time that is freed is can supposedly be used on more demanding, high intensity tasks.

Now, I fully agree that some tasks really are better off automated because there is no end to pointless clicking. However, according to this video, giving up on the mundane tasks to only focus on high intensity tasks is counterproductive because high intensity tasks are obviously cognitively more draining. The mundane tasks that offered respite from the high intensity tasks are now gone so your brain has to go at 90% all the time instead of the occasional low 30% or so. The mundane tasks allowed you to still be productive while not having to commit to it so much.

There are multiple reasons as to why work life is so much more demanding these days compared to a few decades ago. Aiming for more growth, productivity, optimization as well as decrease in specialized roles and more cluttered job descriptions. But automation has for sure played a part. Machines can do things at a higher speed than a human can, maybe to the point where humans can't keep up. The working hours haven't really changed at all so people still need to work the same hours while having a bigger influx of high intensity tasks than before.

I think this also backs up the efficiency and benefits of a 4-day work week. It has been reported to be increasing both productivity and employee satisfaction in office jobs. For sure the time optimization plays one part and having to do the same amount of work in a shorter time drives for smarter scheduling and organization of work as well as cutting all those unnecessary meetings no one wants to participate. To me it just makes sense that instead of tiring your brain for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, you only do it for 4 and the three days are rest time which obviously lets your brain recharge from the corporate bullshit.

No one has actually done conductive research on AI's effects on productivity in this scale, people just assume it'll work like that because of simple logic. But humans are not machines. Human brain isn't built for infinitely increased productivity.

Now fucking wonder people are burning out. No fucking wonder competition is tougher, deadlines tighter and budgets stingier.

The more I kept thinking about this the more vicious the cycle becomes and eventually leads to economic collapse and I'm just both flabbergasted as well as fuming from the bullshit of the corporate world.

[eggsnatcheskneecaps]

Anyone got any idea how many tickets a suit takes? Do they comeback in rotation ever again? How long is one staying? Any strategy?

[mattmonss]

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