#Situation Report

[diedinacrash]

Hey guys, I want to talk about a few things.

So I was thinking about this for some time amd I'm gonna stop taking requests, at least temporarily. I will make all the requests I recieved until now (2024. 09. 08.) but I won't take new ones until I feel like I can have enough time reserved for them.

I enjoy making these art pieces and hear your opinions and ideas, but I don't want to think about them as a tasks that I have to make.

I said it before and I say it again, these are, as much as I love them, the least of my priorities with school, mature exams and admissions coming up this year. I'm sorry if I disapoint any of you with this decision.

On the other hand to end this post on a happier note, I work on other artworks now, for said mature exam, so I can post those. And I also have plenty stupid ideas about footballers so I could talk about those as well.

Anyone intrested?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

A French Foreign Legion officer radios a situation report as he and his radio bearer cross a swollen stream. (Ullstein Bild, Getty Images)

[applesaucesupremacy]

shooting a low level embassy staffer and his partner who had been leaving a function aimed at providing aid for gaza no less for no other reason than they're israeli as opposed to say ben gvir for example who was in the us some time ago and also is significantly more involved in pushing for the aggressive campaign in gaza is exactly the issue i have with the us pro palestine movement. they don't know anything about what's actually happening, and care more about hurting jews israelis than actually helping gaza. the movement has consistently refused to address the antisemitism in their ranks and is confused why jews are uncomfortable associating with them! they just make living as a jew unsafe and make the lives of the people in palestine they claim to care about even more unsafe.

[whirlpool-blogs]

hey remember when the vibes were so off in plymouth that quentin musty called his dad to come pick him up?? idk what could have possibly tipped him off tbh...

was it greg cronin's underage street fighting classes? is it the fact that your parents have to sign over legal guardianship and power of attorney to billet parents? the same billets who receive monthly checks from USA Hockey and therefore have it in their best interest to keep receiving those checks?

was it when they forced 15- and 16-year-olds to dress and undress in the public hallways of the USA Hockey Arena for a month until they "earned" the right to privacy? you know, those hallways that have security cameras up in the corners? but don't worry about that. the NTDP staff has plenty of experience of storing, editing, and streaming hours and hours of footage of their boys!

not that the kids have anyone to complain to, really! after all, after the Jack Hughes class the NTDP switched to 100% online school instead of regular high schools like Plymouth High or Northville High where there are, oh I don't know, mandated reporters who aren't also paid by USA Hockey, or god forbid other kids they might befriend outside of the hockey bubble.

what could possibly go wrong or unreported in a system like that? ha ha! surely not USA Hockey, who hired Brad Aldrich AFTER his sexual abuse scandal with the Blackhawks! surely not NTDP, which emphasizes "breaking down the individuality" for the incoming 15-year-olds!

(not my own words, of course. words from beloved NTDP founding member and pillar Kirk Culik, the man responsible for team and culture building, player mentoring, and off-ice conditioning for 20+ years, whose only qualifications pre-NTDP seem to be boxing coach/thoroughbred horse trainer/corrections officer, and who was later charged of murdering a 16-year-old boy)

again. i don't know what musty was possibly talking about. this is a totally normal place to make teenagers change

[elowhinn]

I FOUND THE GREATEST DISCOVERY EVER

I WAS WATCHING THE BILIBILI PV FOR X AND DOES X RAP????????????

[reallyseally]

rigorous debate happening on the sleepy girl forums rn about best in class plushies for cuddling to sleep

(rigorous over there means like, 5 replies half of which trail off before they even finish the thought)

[jesncin]

National City lion dancers, made up of the kids from National City High.

Why yes I did harness the power of minor Superboy '94 characters to create a group of AAPI solidarity!!! Hillary Chang and Robert Lai were Conner's school friends in his original run. Taonui Mun is my take on the infamous Tana Moon, Conner's first love interest. He is Korean Hawaiian in my version. And a boy. His age.

Superboy is upset his girlfriend's ex isn't hitting on him.

[ovrrdogg]

Hfjone au where instead of kidnapping people for his reality show he accidentally discovers twitch and starts a stream and becomes the most popular twitch streamer ever. People love tuning in to watch forest man and his wacky antics. They love the “larp.” Twitch keeps trying to get him to come to cons he can never attend. People make wildly popular edits and gifs of him to share on stan twitter.

Instead of getting people to entertain him, he works to entertain people.

[birbwell]

being tormented by @ardate about the silly simpsons ocs we made a bunch of months ago. so i let her out of her cage.

barbara welles, channel 6 reporter, committing the crime of being a big, spineless liberal. she legally cannot swear- bleeps them out with her mouth, loves to DIY, and reaally likes the springfield elementary superintendent. oh and shes besties with kent brockman ^_^ and tha other simpsonas of my friends

[astralzeraphias]

“he was mentally ill. this monster was a- was a sick fantasy. a product of his dementia.”

“…i saw it too. does that make me disturbed? demented? does… that make me sick too?”

[lesbianforlottie]

The Pitt (TV) tag on this website is a fucking nightmare and it is painfully obvious to me that a lot of the people arguing about Santos versus Langdon have,

a) not worked in emergency medicine and

b) never had to deal with a situation like that with their coworkers

There is very much a hierarchy in emergency medicine. If you are new you gotta respect the hierarchy. Now contrast the hierarchy with someone who has been at your agency for longer than you, who everyone else knows and you barely know and they do something that needs to be reported to higher ups.

Now you're thinking, well fuck it's my word against theirs. They've been at this for much longer than me. Who would believe me, I'm brand new here. What if I report this person and I am taken seriously and they get kicked out and everyone finds out and hates me because I got someone they liked kicked off. What if I report this and this person retaliates against me and I get kicked off and potentially blacklisted?

Want to guess how long it took me to report what happened? Close to TWO MONTHS. And before this I had had concerns about this person for three months because of things they said/done. Other things that probably would have been enough to report on their own. Two months. That's how terrified I was because I'm new and this person isn't. And this wasn't a situation where maybe it could have been that person or maybe it wasn't. No this was cut and dry they did something they shouldn't be doing inside our ambulance (albeit we were not on shift at the time, so there wasn't any risk to patients).

I have a lot of sympathy for Santos because I am dealing with a situation which is similar to hers right now, I know what is it is like to have a superior who is rude to you (she did kind of have it coming though). I have a lot of sympathy for Langdon because I know how debilitating chronic pain is, I know what it is like to have to try and deal with people like Santos who think they know everything and are rude. (The person in my situation acts a lot like Santos lmao. It annoys me to no end.)

Can we just look critically at what is happening in this show? Both characters have their issues that both need addressing, but the season is only 2/3 of the way done. Have a look past your blind hatred/adoration of each character and see what the show is actually trying to tell us. Sure these are fictional characters but this stuff happens all the time in real life. So just like... think about that a little.

[i-wish-i-were-softer]

I just realised the minstrels in rote are basically reporters and starling is the chief journalist of The Buckkeep Times. Suddenly her bitchy attitude makes so much sense.

[cleverreports]

We report: tonight, the sky looks like us a few billion years ago, or so we like to think. The very bare bones of us, at least. The clouds that we only see after stewing in darkness for a long time remind us of distant galaxies. It is rather cold in outer space.

[so-you-melted-22]

Honestly, I forget how little representation there is for ace and aro people every year, until pride month rolls around.

There are all these posts going around recommending queer movies and books and tv shows and comics and what not and it covers most identities and has a wide variety of different stories, but if there is anything with aces or aros included it’s always the same three shows. It’s kinda sad and annoying.

Most (of the few) depictions of asexual and/or aromantic characters are in tv shows aimed at highschoolers, which isn’t wrong, but once you’ve graduated it stops being particularly relatable. I wish I had some extensive history of aro-ace film and literature where I could pick and choose based on my mood and personal preferences. Instead I have to scavenge the internet high and low for something that might possibly have characters that are like me. Wether or not the rest of the plot seems enticing to me be damned.

[leaveharmony]

Babe you've been there since yesterday, how did you miss the ten thousand uruk-hai on the doorstep?

[diabolichare]

(4/?)

The next day, the Terrans are with Bumblebee while Tfe goes to the meeting with the Autobot High Command (It was quite a shock when the seeker basically dumped the kids with the yellow scout then left). They're the center of attention, everyone is friendly overall and very interested in the first sparklings they've seen in ages. But the Terrans were getting uncomfortable, luckily Bumblebee steered them away to somewhere else more quiet.

They get to watch soap operas with the Autobots and play old videos, they have a great time. The Terrans talk about technology in their time, and what they usually do back home for fun. Hashtag mentioned Bumblebee being much taller in the future, so the scout asks more about his relationship with them. The kids think back to what Tfe Starscream told them, as long as it's not about the Emberstone it should be fine right? (completely forgetting the future part)

So they gave some vague stories about Tfe Bumblebee being their mentor, teaching them. And some more stories about their siblings. Everyone is invested. Then someone asked about their "sire". The trio quieted down, sharing glances. This makes the bots suspicious.

"What's wrong? Do your parents have strange rules about talking to strangers? You can tell us"

"No not that, our parents love us. It's just that Starscream doesn't like them much. But we're working on it!" (What does that even mean)

"There's this human organization called GHOST, that worked with the Autobots to catch and imprison Decepticons to "protect" Earth. But they were actually experimenting on their prisoners. Starscream, still won't tell us what happened just that it was Shockwave's level of bad?" (What)

"The humans were involved with our birth actually. Starscream didn't really want us at first but Hashtag managed to get through him so here we are! Now most of the time he is down in Nightshade's lab doing nerd stuff with them and Dad 2" (The Autobots are starting to get not very good feelings about how this story is going. Also who is Dad 2???)

The conversation stops when the Terrans see Tfe Starscream arriving, the kids circle him telling him about their day and all of these things the Autobots show them. The seeker goes along with their stories, ooh and aah while steering them to a table and dug around in his subspace to give them some snacks (barely bothered by the loud cheers or the fact that Hashtag is like a limpet attached to his leg). He spared a glance at the frozen Autobots who were giving him strange looks. Tfe Starscream is pulled back to the kids when the kids continue to talk about the soap operas they are watching.

The Autobots who were listening (eavesdropping) to the conversation - plus Ravage who was in the vent - are now horrified by the implications of how the sparklings came to be and Tfe Starscream's situation.

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