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yardsards · 7 months ago

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i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

#eliot posts #dunme #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #sorry to put toshiro in the roll of shitty job interviewer lmao #but he was the best fit for ''guy that wants me to read their mind''#laios being my internal monologue here #i was on my THIRD interview of the day i was Dying #tho since the prev two interviews i had were for similar positions and told me their salaries outright at least i could use that number #(though tbh my work persona is more of a kabru. my customer service voice is unparalleled)#(at my first job even my coworkers thought i was sooo cheerful til i got too comfy and casually made a joke abt wanting to asphyxiate on a #plastic shopping bag like a sea turtle. in front of my sweet elderly coworker. oops!)#(also this job was during quarantine and after weeks of working together i took my mask off in front of one coworker for the first time #and she called like half the department over from their registers to look at how pretty i was??? prettyboy powers unmatched ig)#(also my first interview today went SO well i charmed that interviewer so good despite my lack of qualifications)#(she even complimented my social skills and said i seemed like the type who could get along well and make good conversation with anyone!)#(which is important bc i was interviewing for an elder care position. also old people especially tend to think i am a Delightful Young Lad)#(unless i accidentally make a morbid joke around them ig lmaooo. or. well. some of them like those too. but not that one coworker lol)#(if only that skill transferred over to actually making friends irl. my autistic ass has so few close irl connections)#(i hope my exceedingly short list of character references does not prevent me from getting hired)#AND ALSO my first job asked the same wage question and i said twelve dollars #and they were like all our new employees start at 7.75 #the union insists that we pay all new employees a whopping 50 cents above min wage. (we'd pay less if we could)#like dawg why did you ask that then??? if my answer did not matter at all???

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aeolianblues · 3 months ago

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I'm not an extrovert. At all. In everyday life, I'm a yapper, sure, but I need someone to first assure me I am okay to yap, so I don't start conversations, even when I really want to join in sometimes! It's just the social anxiety acting up. God knows where from and why I lose a lot of my inhibitions when it comes to talking to people about music. I don't know where the confidence has suddenly sprung from. I've made a crazy amount of friends in musical circles, either just talking to people about common music or (since it is after all in music circles) talking to bands about their own music. I let out a sigh of relief any time an interaction goes well, because in truth it's going against my every instinct. I wish I could do that in everyday life

#like that's the point where we need to remind everyone around me that as much as I say #radio is 'a job'-- it's not 'my job' lol. I wish I was this interested in data science #but like. Honestly?? I'm not even a data scientist!? I answered a few questions about classical AI having come from a computer science back #background and now people are saying to me 'I know you're a data scientist and not a programmer' sir I am a computer scientist #what are you on about #and like I guess I get to google things and they're paying me so I'm not complaining but like I am not a data scientist #my biggest data scientist moment was when I asked 'do things in data science ever make sense???' and a bunch of data scientists went #'no :) Welcome to the club' ???????#why did I do a whole ass computer science degree then. Does anyone at all even want that anymore. Has everything in the realm of #computer science just been Solved. What of all the problems I learned and researched about. Which were cool. Are they just dead #Ugh the worst thing the AI hype has done rn is it has genuinely required everyone to pretend they're a data scientist #even MORE than before. I hate this #anyway; I wish I didn't hate it and I was curious and talked to many people in the field #like it's tragicomedy when every person I meet in music is like 'you've got to pursue this man you're a great interviewer blah blah blah'#and like I appreciate that this is coming from people who themselves have/are taking a chance on life #but. I kinda feel like my career does not exist anymore realistically so unless 1) commercial radio gets less shitty FAST #2) media companies that are laying off 50% of their staff miraculously stop or 3) Tom Power is suddenly feeling generous and wants #a completely unknown idiot to step into the biggest fucking culture show in the country (that I am in no way qualified for)#yeah there's very very little else. There's nothing else lol #Our country does not hype. They don't really care for who you are. f you make a decent connection with them musically they will come to you #Canada does not make heroes out of its talent. They will not be putting money into any of that. Greenlight in your dreams.#this is something I've been told (and seen) multiple times. We'll see it next week-- there are Olympic medallists returning to uni next wee #no one cares: the phrase is 'America makes celebrities out of their sportspeople'; we do not. Replace sportspeople with any public professi #Canada does not care for press about their musicians. The only reason NME sold here was because Anglophilia not because of music journalism #anyway; personal

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pumpkinrootbeer · 1 day ago

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Aang being a shitty dad is fine, but it's the way tlok makes Aang a shitty I have a problem with. You're telling me a guy who's entire culture was whipped out and whole family was massacred wasn't overjoyed at the possibility of sharing his culture with his entire family?

Would Aang have given more attention to Tenzin? Probably, them being the only airbenders would have almost certainly fostered a complex dynamic between the two— even to the extent that it would damage the father/son relationship. I think it's also worth pointing out that Aang was raised in a culture without the nuclear family dynamic we see him participarting in with Katara and their kids, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that Aang would fall short of the expectations and responibilities being a typical father figure brings especially when he himself never experienced that dynamic. Especially, especially compounded with the task of rebuilding a struggling world and maintaining peace.

However, do I think he would neglect to show his kids his culture? Their culture? No. Certainly not the extent he did, and especially not when we see how excited he is to share it with his friends in the show. Why wouldn't he be excited to share it with his kids? With all his kids? How the writers of The Legend of Korra make him a bad dad is a complex series of failures not the least of which stem from racism, the unwillingness to even attempt an understanding of multicultural families, TLOK originally being a 12 episode miniseries that then got greenlit for another season and was suddenly taxed with building upon a world that was never intended to exist beyond its original scope, and a fundamental misunderstanding of Aang as a character.

tldr:

#he probably would have been a kinda shitty dad just Not Like That #and while were here #why is bumi portrayed as essentially cultureless? certainly there were non benders in the air nomads #and why does the show act like only Bolin is from the earth nation and Mako from the fire nation?#because these white! creators fundamentally do not understand what living in a multicultural household is like #and were completely incurious to what the experience might've been like for these characters #and again. to harp on the whole building upon a world that was never intended to exist outside its original premise thing #that's why the writing gets weaker in the second season and picks back up in the third #these writers are clearly talented but so obviously fumbled when it came to expanded on these characters #who were written for a short quick one off series and then suddenly had to exist outside of that #all of the arcs and story beats were pretty one note and quick because book 1 is a full complete story #that's why only book 1 ties into the name conventions of atla #because all of the legend of korra was originally built to just be book one #and then suddenly your stuck with this story that you had completely wrapped up #and characters who now have to be expanded beyond what they were intended to be #and the writers very clearly could not do that. that's why Aang being a shitty dad comes out of left field almost.#and why none of the villains tie into each other until the very end with a quick little explanation #and it's also why the world building is so much weaker than atla #atla was know for it's compelling world building and dynamic side characters None of which exist in tlok #or well. they do! in a much smaller diluted form.#because functionally the story is still trapped in the original confines of the first season #and also trapped in the back there is 50% less content every season #no time to experience a small village in the fire nation! we gotta get to plot!#no time to flesh out the comic relief character!! plot! gotta get to the plot!!#and they couldn't even make that plot good in the second season.#atla #tlok #aang

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crimeronan · 1 year ago

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i'm very unlikely to be able to make this work which is why i'm posting about it instead of writing it but. i DESPERATELY want a bit in a princess luz AU fic wherein amity is just kinda like listen. luz. look. i honest to god don't care if you killed your dad. it's FINE. we ALL want to murder our parents sometimes. and i'm not just saying that because i don't want you to kill me too even though it would be so awesome for you not to kill me too

and luz, who is still in friendly princess-empress mode, which is VERY DIFFICULT for her to turn off in front of anyone other than hunter, is like whaaaat!! noo haha :) why would i do that :) i had an extremely normal well-adjusted childhood alongside my hunter :) i'd never Need to kill my dad :)

and amity is like. [head in hands] luz. listen. people who had normal well-adjusted childhoods don't openly have panic attacks every time their hunter is further than a whole entire two hallways away,

#if hunter's around he immediately cuts in with 'how would you know that. you're not exactly a model of well-adjusted childhood yourself'#which has a 50/50 chance of pissing amity off enough to distract her and make her forget what they were originally talking about #STUNNING use of diplomacy and manipulation. that said i don't think amity ever WOULD bring it up in front of hunter #it would have to be a private moment when she doesn't feel like the convo would be an uphill battle #i can't find a place or circumstances to make this work exactly. But I Want It #toh #princess luz au #shitty idiot repression gang #horrible mindscape trauma pals #and who is that other witch #lumity #luz pretending she hasnt done murder to both of her endgame life partners who FULLY know she did murder #remains so compelling and occasionally hilarious to me. babygirl give it up it's OKAAAYYYY

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damiemontclair · 2 months ago

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Hey, person who asked for more on the longest fic I've ever written *by far*. (like 10 times longer than my highest word-count before that?)

Congrats.

You've just ruined everybody's chance to get any kind of prequel, sequel or extra.

Hope you enjoyed the fic because I likely won't be able to touch anything related to it again without feeling annoyed and demotivated for quite a while.

#I got this comment as I sat down to eat my japanese curry. The *one* highlight of a truly shitty day. Ruined bc of one comment email.#So yeah. Any plans I had for this are now shelved. Sorry to all of you who were super supportive.#I've seen all the comments I just haven't had the time to sit down and reply to everything yet.#I'll hopefully find the time sometime this week.#But one shitty comment ruined the motivation from the 50-something amazing comments I got before that...#So yeah. Sorry.#damie talks

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lilyaceofdiamonds · 3 months ago

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My pizza bar apparently closed a couple weeks ago, and i’m so fucking sad now

#my ramblings #i hadn’t been in a month or two #because i was hella fucking broke and didn’t want to risk having to pay full price for everything #(i got discounts a lot from the servers i’d gotten to know well and it was occasionally the only thing keeping me fed)#(but a lot of them had left or were only there certain days so it wasn’t a sure thing)#i was saving my money for pride and the renn faire for those months instead #and i’ve had some shitty days at work and paid my rent and got paid two days ago so i had money in case i had to pay the full 50$#(+ the 10$ tip i always paid even when my bill was only 11$ because they gave me half off the pizza and free drinks)#and now they’re CLOSED and their other location is somewhere in suburbia which is much less convenient than three blocks #and i guess now i’m eating my last nine chicken nuggets (and the last two fingers of cheap-ass bourbon i’d been saving for emergencies)#i’m so fucking sad now

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calliopechild · 3 months ago

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Listen, I wouldn't normally cite Cosmo as support for an argument, but I can't think of anything that sums up the dangers of the stay-at-home girlfriend/tradwife nonsense like this quote:

“If you give a man the power to feed you, he also has the power to starve you.”

#ladies no matter how good your relationship is PLEASE don't ever put yourself in a situation #where your partner is your only source of income and you have no bank account of your own and no means to support yourself #if you want to play history revisionist and pretend the 50s were the era of your pastoral suburban fantasy #and not full of reasons why shitty husbands kept ending up dead when women couldn't escape them through divorce #then that's your business #but for the love of all the suffragettes who fought for the rights you want to hand back over to some guy #please at least read this article and the warnings from ladies who did the stay-at-home girlfriend thing #and had to start over from scratch when things crashed and burned #it wouldn't take much for a woman to be completely trapped--especially if things keep going the way the gop wants #you give up your job to play tiktok housewife barbie for your man. he knocks you up. the relationship goes sour #a miscarriage could get you arrested and you can't get an abortion because you live in a red state #you can't move out with no job/income and definitely can't afford to juggle pregnancy expenses on your own. now what?#and this is not meant to be a 'men are trash' or 'being a stay-at-home mom is a prison' thing #there are a lot of good men in the world and for a lot of families having one stay-at-home parent #is actually more cost-effective than having two incomes and paying for daycare #but having financial autonomy is so so important #don't give that up for any relationship #financial abuse

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beaniebabs · 7 months ago

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i don't wanna brag or anything but i finished my first college semester with 3 A's B)

#not gonna do decimals bc i'm too lazy so i'll round down if needed #i got a 92 in principles of accounting. 90 in computer applications. and 91 in college algebra [:#also a 73/C in english composition but that was online and i hate writing essays so i consider that a massive win for me #and. i failed my also-online art appreciation class with a 50/F. but idc i'm just gonna retake a different fine art later #related. if you're in high school still and thinking about college. DO NOT TAKE ONLINE CLASSES IF YOU CAN HELP IT.#even if it's an “easy” class. i thought english and art were gonna be easy classes for me. and maybe they wouldve been if i went in person.#but i promise you it's SO much harder online. it's very hard to make yourself keep up with the work and it's way harder to learn (for me)#take in-person classes as much as you are able to. you have your work right there in front of you physically #and your teacher is there so you can ask questions and get an immediate answer and not have to talk over people on a shitty live call #ok that's the end of my life advice for now. end post B)

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bunnyb34r · 11 months ago

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I miss that Bon Bons brand of shitty 50 cent/ $1 makeup and nail polish from Walmart

Like that was so great as a kid to be able to buy your own mini bottle of nail polish with glitter, and get bright blue eyeshadow or maybe body shimmer for like $1 while your mom shopped

Idk where I'm going with this but I miss those tiny bottles of nail polish and glitter spray 🥺

#they were on a wall in an aisle and there was clear containers on the wall for each item #idk i think kids should be able to buy shitty little 50 cent nail polish in a small little bottle #like sure elf brand is there but it's not specifically for kids it's not them sized #and yeah Claire's exists but that shit is expensive and some of it had like asbestos or something sggdgdgd #i remember buying the nail polish and shitty little body shimmer and wearing it to sunday school all proud bc i bought it myself shhdhdhdh #thought i was so grown up and pretty for wearing make up #i was like 7 sgsgdggs #marquilla

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gemharvest · 1 year ago

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Two daysssss until I can try and get old art of mine off the old desktop hard drive dude I am so fucking excited.

#ramblings #if theres anything particularly good i might rb this and dump the highlights lollll #were talking like 2012/2013 up to like miiiid 2017 ?#i realized that if i want the rest of 2017 im gonna have to ask if they still have that laptop i used during that time but idk if i want to #those not caught up on the karl lore some really stupid/ shitty stuff happened late 2017 and it still messes with me a tad #it has nothing to do with that laptop and i dont rlly think my parents would remember tbh?#but its a sore/ awkward topic for me even tho its been nearly 6 years lmfao #i doooo wonder if that old laptop still works i could access some accounts ive been missing #(also would be fucking awesome to private my old youtube account bc i dooonnnt want that stuff public anymore)#<- my current youtube is fine but i had one in 2017 with my given name attached to it cuz i didnt know how to change the channel name #so. yk :/#UH FUCK i didnt wanna go off about that stuff uh anyways #i was surprised by how into the idea my dad was but tbh it makes sense. he has a lottt of hard drives he wants to go through so o7 #hes making me do it first so i can tell him how it works and tbhhhh its kinda funny. girl its like a build ur own usb-stick #(hes in his 50s tho so whatever he can be a little technologically illiterate. as a treat)

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add1ctedt0you · 1 year ago

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Few things:

( saying that one day he'd make definitely Jin ZiXuan die in his hands) Do we all remember how jzx died? :-|

jc has clearly stated that his hands are tied when it comes to his sect (if you beat him up, what should I, the Sect Leader, do?) There's a passage where when asked by wwx why jc brought with him jyl to the Phoenix Mountain, he said: the Jin asked me and I don't have enough face to refuse them.

About the wen remnants... Their argument isn't about justice or revenge. It's about power-hungry men. Both wwx and jc brought up the debt they owned and both were shut down.

#I've a shitty memory #And 1. the wen remnants were cultivators #(I find disgusting the argument about how they aren't cultivators so they can't be tortured implying that cultivators can be tortured)#wwx took only the ones under wn and wq' leadership. 50 of them #Honestly they are all in such a shitty situation that I don't know how they could have handled it better #I should revisit the source material more often lol because I forgot so much #mar reading mdzs

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jasontoddenthusiastt · 1 year ago

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“Good”, “general” comic recommendations for Jason and the only ones listed are utrh, lost days, and ul. URBAN LEGENDS.