#Working for the sake of work is pointless
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Veilguard gave us the reason why Solas, a man who seemed so distrustful of despots and tyrants, was yet so skeptical of an Inquisitor who hinted at sharing power.
It's because he had to deal with the oligarchy that was the Evanuris. The idea of 'sharing power' is naive and pointless to him if there is no one at the helm giving the final say because it either devolves into stalemates, or someone with the biggest personality comes to monopolize the power regardless, i.e. Elgar'nan. If there is to be power held by someone, Solas would prefer a single ruler who could lead with wisdom and prudence, who is able to listen and use their judgement to filter good and bad information (which is what Wisdom does), to preside as a referee or an overseer of sorts to make sure everything is in working order and to ensure everyone is playing nice to step in and correct only when it is needed.
This is why when he asks you what you will do in the aftermath of What Pride Had Wrought, he disapproves when you say "I will rely on our allies". Assuming he has faith in your abilities to lead, he disagrees with this sentiment. You have shown yourself capable of handling the power that has been given to you. To divvy up your power out of some reflexively good-natured desire for the sake of democracy would prove disastrous. The more cooks in the kitchen, the more different agendas and personalities that need to be juggled, the more discordant that the operation becomes because it is far easier for power to be effective when you have a single accountable, capable person who has the final say.
Not only that, but given the allies that the Inquisitor does pick up, it's a nice gesture that would be squandered on people who didn't have enough sense to put aside their differences and work together without being strong-armed or getting their asses saved. It's a tiny drop of ubermensch, "great man theory" tempered with "let's be absolutely real here. Why would you ruin a good thing you have going? Why switch up what's working? To avoid hurting peoples' feelings? To make them feel included? You're a good friend/ma'vhenan but please don't be stupid about this."
And then you have this banter between Solas and Vivienne
Solas is skirting around the fact he is an ancient elf (though of course he is not omniscient) but in his ideal state of the world he would be omniscient + immortal and would be the arbiter to punish wrong doers. He would not allow vigilantes this power because in this thought experiment he has the most sound judgment. Wisdom is dipping a bit into Pride here, Pride and the mind of a man who believes he has the wherewithal to judge a person fairly.
But then, ho ho, you get THIS banter with them
If there is anything Solas hates, it's naked ambition and overestimation of one's abilities (yes this is hypocritical). To Solas, Vivienne is undeserving of this political power she is casually dropping her interest in pursuing because from his perspective she has done nothing substantial to help mages. For Solas, helping mages would be securing their freedom and place in general society. For Vivienne, it's keeping them sequestered so they aren't hunted down by superstitious magic-fearing Andrastians and can be kept monitored for possible abominations. Solas sees Vivienne as someone who only wants power to play her little political games in court and become someone who is eminent and powerful for herself chiefly. If mages benefit, it is coincidental or an afterthought, or so he predicts for her.
He prefers blatant and honest declarations of activism, because then someone can be measured by their actions thereafter and graded based on how they've lived up to them. Vivienne going "Well others have failed, I could try my hand at it" pisses Solas off because it comes off as so flippant to him. He takes conversations about power and politics very seriously, as you can tell, and with his past it's understandable given how he had to fight millennia-long rebellion dealing with the Evanuris and then walked through how many dreams and memories of how many kingdoms and civilizations and villages and towns and cities crumbling because of power struggles and ill-fitted rulers seeking only the position while eschewing the responsibilities it came with.
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despite having a day off due to some pointless catholic holiday, I'm so tired of work. Why do I have to dedicate over 40 hours of my life each week to this. Why does capitalism exist.
I want this system to be wiped from existence.
#Rant#Vent#Working for the sake of work is pointless#What about the joys of life#Like sleeping#Or literally anything else but working
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it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#hod#hod lobcorp#lobotomy corp spoilers#I GUESS i almost forgot i drew her box form#lobcorp spoilers#and michelle actually. ..#both very tiny. itty bitty. microscopic#other sephirah there too as normal. i cant have her alone. and Angelina as well on the top patting her#i have a hard time fully capturing her for some reason. in my mind. maybe its because is the disconnected period!!! mentally#she genuinely wishes to care and be kind yet theres a dissonance with what she does..? or how it ends up being taken or what she does to en#up bringing those actions into reality. she can be forceful? wanting to have employees attend therapy sessions and meetings for suppression#tactics. which i think is also something the safety team is incharge of iirc. so that means shes doing way more that what she needs to on#her job as a sephirah. just for the sake of employees#she really does care as shes one of the only to Directly attempt to change their circumstances and quality of life and health#sure chesed doesnt punish employees when they dont do their work assigned or stress them out with work#but he doesnt actively push to attempt to make changes to aid employees besides the research perks which is to the manager#yesod IS right next to her and does also genuinely care but when it comes to employees hes distant at best when it comes to them and the#way he tries to protect them is by enforcing rules but he doesnt really create or attempt to help them like hod does#yesod is sort of a passive? way of doing it. yes he doesn make a push to enforce said rules but he doesnt make new ones. just follows what#is already there in place. hod tries to make new ways and not just for the safety of people like how yesod's has them physically fine and#not letting them over a certain threshold of mental corruption but she tries to have a program to Directly Address such a thing#its born out of care but the genuine worry of being a good person and her naivety ends up having it do more harm than good#sure there may be some employees that actually like and find it useful but so many are just accepting to their fate of Dying to where#her care seems pointless. shes a sephirah and to them a literal metal box why would they go ahead and feel bad for what an 'ai' is feeling#as she is interrupting their free time in the company#which is rude. and shit. iirc the counseling is compulsory but people go because shes a sephirah and their superior. the thought was there#but again it comes off wrong and ends up not working because shes their superior in the end#EEK!!! yeah... hod. the hod. there is WAY more but i can't fit it all here and i already typed enough
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contemplating something abt these two bits together
#but I'm walking to work & it's raining so it'll have to wait#<- something something how these two both separately came to perceive the church as an another sort of power/hierarchy/authority#alongside the government/legal system/etc rather than any real connection to god something something speaking to th role the church plays i#the lives of ordinary people & the disadvantaged#<- not wrll phrased but my phone is getting wet#thoughts#yeah the valjean one is ironic & sweet in context since he's talking to a bishop & doesn't realize it but he's not exactly wrong. this#bishop is very much the exception like even other members of the church seem to find him very weird#+ yeah javert's but is in context a character moment wrt to his worldview & his not having seen the forest (god) for the trees (the church)#& the pointlessness of authority sort of for authority's sake etc etc#BUT. idk i think it's interesting#les mis
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god the internet is such a wild place. you have people realising truths about the world that others have known since time immemorial and acting like theyre the first person to have thought about it immediately followed by people being complete garbage trash under the guise, want, or desire of/to be morally righteous in every possible way! it's great!
#i went on twitter again#it was awful#i got mad at a vegan not understanding how consumption works#like no shit other animals have complex brains with thoughts and emotions#we've understood this as a species for like ever#well some of us have anyway#veganism as a form of moral righteousness is inherently flawed because it's built upon two things#1. putting others beneath you for an arbitrary reason#and 2. not understanding that consumption IS 'natural' and isnt 'bad' or 'pointless'#plants have complex thoughts and emotions too! should we stop eating them? No!#im all for veganism for the sake of saving the environment pr dietary restrictions or personal preference what have you#but GOD are morally righteous people the FUCKING WORST#just. fuckin. eat animals dude. it's fine. everything is meant to be consumed in like an eating way so just. consume. in like an eating way#also the whole thing about 'moral righteousness' is a topic i could complain about ad nauseum#you aren't better than anyone else in the world because of what you dont do. inaction is the same level as negative actions#i think thats in the bible somewhere#anyway that's all for my tag rambling
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previously horrible now blank-slate amnesiac depressed suicidal human-dumpstefire disco cop and traumatized repressed occasional-power-tripper speedfreak moralist cop my beloveds
what a fucked up duo, do not separate them
#ok disco elysium is becomin my new obsession just roll with it it will tone down in a few days#disco elysium#pointless microblogging#blank slate because you can decide how to act in the game#you can become fascist and kim swallows it and defends you at the end of the day for the sake of the rcm because despite everything#you're good at your job. obsessed#(<- even more nuance if you're not a total piece of shit to him he thinks you're just a sad misguided dude)#peak moralism I think#(he dropped the moralist label but the rcm still works for them and he supports it above everything so)#flawed people in two different ways#their job both harms them and makes them worse people but they can't quit. they're in this together now
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god i jst want these fucking wisdom teeth out. im in so much pain i can’t even sleep. im exhausted i cant eat properly i cant fucking do anything it hurts too much
#please i just want them out so badly#the whole left side of my face and neck hurts so bad#im on so many painkillers and it takes them like over an hour to take effect every time#im so tired n it hurts i jst can’t do this#im so tired#it’s one fucking thing after the other after the other after the other for fucks sake#im tired of being sick and in pain im ducking tired !!!!!! i want to fucking kill myself#and i mean that. if im dead it won’t hurt anymore will it#sure feels like all this bullshit is the universe telling me i should just kill myself bc it clearly wants me to#ive been out of commission for like three fucking months now#im so tired. I don’t want to do this anymore#i don’t care about Nything it doesn’t matter#i just want to not be in pain anymore and if killing myself will do that then i will consider it seriously#im depressed im hopeless im in so much pain i just want it to stop#i just want it ALL to stop#please#i will slice open my fucking wrists right now if i can guarantee it’ll work. im so fucking done with all of this shit#it’s all pointless. it’s all for suffering and pain and bulls hit and i don’t want it#im tired of always being in pain and depressed and ignored and worthless i just want to be dead. i won’t feel anything the#that’s a win to me#i just don’t know how much longer i can do this#plum.txt#dl#feel free 2 ignore
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what do you do when you don’t depend on romantic love in your life and you’re not obsessed with it but you can’t help but repeatedly fall for people and then frequently end up heartbroken because of it
#like I almost never wanna actually be with anyone i like cos I’m like. it wouldn’t work lol#and every time I try actively to be celibate it’s pointless#because I meet so many people that I can’t help but end up feeling things for one or two of them#like my life is so wonderful and I don’t necessarily crave romance or yearn for the sake of it#but there is also always a subject of my affection and I want it to go away!!!!
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Am finally continuing to read Acotar and tbh tho I don’t like Nesta’s behavior in the beginning there is something so wonderful about her going after Feyre
#also her hiring mercenary lady to help#acotar#I like Nesta a lot more with that tbh#like I hadn’t read the points of dialogue which actually broached the topic until just now#and her just being like LISTEN everyone else somehow acted like it was fine but it WASNT so I acted#which is like SUCH a big deal coming from someone who before DIDNT act#she watched Feyre work tirelessly for their family’s sake and stole the money she earned to buy pointless things#or insist on new shoes when Feyre’s were falling apart
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oh yeah uh i forgot to talk about my day. i havent rly been existing as a person whoops. uh
work kinda sucked but not NEARLY as bad as yesterday. honestly yesterday was probably the worst shift ive had in uh. well at least a year im betting. it was really so very bad.
today was better except Whoops my bike broke a little bit. forgot to mention that too. i left it at work overnight in the storage room n im gonna bring it to the bike shop tomorrow. so im gonna be without my bike for a few days </3
uhm. otherwise ive been procrastinating, still not doing my dishes, reading trigun fanfic and rewatching trigun stampede and reading trigun maximum. and also browsing etsy for trigun merch, of which i bought a few things.
now im thinking about skipping class again bc it's accidentally oh so late and i am very tired. i can rationalize it to myself that it's Totally for the sake of finishing my lab tomorrow. but really ive just lost control of this semester and i barely wanna do shit anymore. lol.
#speculation nation#also listened thru the 2nd trigun stampede OST album two whole times#went walking home bc i got no bike rn and i was just meandering down the scenic path#(it's thankfully not flooded anymore. a lil muddy at spots but i managed to avoid it)#saw some deer tracks. crouched by the river for a little bit. all while sipping at a hibiscus tea i brought from work#went home. read embarrassing fanfiction. swore i was gonna do the dishes and then just watched trigun stampede#went looking on etsy. went reading the manga. i swear it's overtaking my entire life.#im trying to be gentle with myself tho. saturday's shift did Not help me with the mental breakdown ive been fending off for weeks#oh yeah and easter. fucking easter. i was neutral/negative leaning but the shop i wanted to go to was closed today#which pushed it solidly in the negative direction. like for fuck's sake this is a fucking witchy shop and they're closed for EASTER?????#i wanted to go buy a tarot deck wtf. and the Spiritual Shop is closed for a Christian Holiday??? okay lmfao#meanwhile we kept having ppl call to ask if we were open today n it was just like 'man this is a bubble tea shop what do you think'#O Lord Bless This Bubble Tea for it was Made In Your Image.............#or some shit like that idfk. like yes we did have a few ppl call off for easter but majority of us are gay and/or Definitely not christian#the handful of us there kept laughing about how little we care about easter. one girl saying she completely forgot about it#and like. man. yea. easter's one of the most pointless ass holidays outside of christianity#at least there's fun in christmas for non christians in the gift giving. easter is just like. there are eggs now???#and this is to celebrate The Lord?????? ok lol#anyways yea my days r happening. i keep skipping class. probably will again. Whoops sorry professor man but im just tryin to survive now
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I need to find a way to retrigger my ed idk what to do anymore but my weight and appearance are getting out of hand
#idk what to do anymore#when I tell you I've been at this for nearly a decade#and nothing ever worked#maybe that's why my ed's gone dormant#because even I understand that starving is pointless#but I don't only wanna starve for the sake of losing weight yk#there's other reasons#still I just#idk I can't#jax rants#rant#vent#vent post#ed vent#ed but not ed sheeran#ed but not sheeran#ed blr
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ugh you’re all so exhausting. just let people fucking live
#why is everyone so intent on having the most aggressively bad faith takes on the most pointless shit all the fucking time#get over yourselves#fucks sake#life is filled with nuance. which is more than i can say for most of you#i log on here for fun so that i don’t have to think about work or politics or family drama or having fucking /cancer/#only to find everyone having a fucking pissing contest over who can concoct the most horseshit us-vs-them wank in the shortest timeframe#get a fucking grip#anyway let’s file this under posts i will definitely be deleting later#jesus fucking christ#days like this make me reconsider keeping this blog#whispers from the mycelium
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Not to name any names but i think the day i truly understood the importance of having a connected "theme" in your work is when i read this person's story and it was all this angst and drama but felt so,,, disconnected and MEANINGLESS i came out feeling the most neutral-faced and "well wtf was that all about" i ever did and when i asked if they had written it with any "theme" in mind they were like "oh i let my work speak for itself, the readers can interpret it" that's a cool idea!!!!! IF you were a reader!!!! do you have an idea on what you're WRITING about though??????
#gu6chan's musings#tl;dr - I'm certainly not saying you HAVE to have a theme by your first draft ofc but by the time that shits published please have some....#intention behind all that????#otherwise it's just jangling sad events; characters; etc in front of another person's face saying 'ISNT THAT SOOOO SAD AND COOL AND AWESOME'#and ofc there's a risk of your theme NOT resonating with an audience and them going 'well it's all meaningless anyways'#but 'Leave the interpretation up to the audience' works a LOT better when they have a built intention they can make their interpretations#off in the first place!!!!#this convo recently popped into memory again and i figured I'd try putting it both into words#for myself but also maybe someone else might have had the same question#'themes are nice; but WHY are they so important???' question answered: saying all those events happened just cause you thought it would be#cool and nice could on SOME level even be a theme/intention in itself - 'shit happens without reasoning' but without the conscious effort to#ACKNOWLEDGE that or any theme at all and just having these things happen... for the sake of happening kinda will strike some readers as#pointless after a bit
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they should invent a my grandma who understands other people not being like her
#like. objectively i should go on walks. it would benefit me & my health#but in fucking practice I HATE IT. i don't like it. i don't enjoy it. it fucking sucks. i don't want to do it.#forcing myself to do it is fucking terrible. it makes my body hurt. it feels like a waste of time.#it requires an amount of prep work that i just Don't have the energy for on most days#and i just am 0% motivated to do it because I Do Not Like Walking. if it's walking to go somewhere then. fine.#walking just for the sake of walking ? with no destination ? pure fucking bullshit. boring. pointless. awful.#how am i supposed to be motivated for it when there's no end goal ?#if i go outside to idk get groceries then that's what keeps me going. i need to get groceries#if i'm outside and the only goal i have is one i set up myself which is just a nebulous ''go around the block a few times''#which i am in no way obligated to do Or interested in doing and that i can just. decide Not to do without consequences#then i won't have the fucking drive to do it ! man i can just walk back into my home right now#SO ANYWAY grandma is like the exact opposite of that. bitch loves walking. walks Everywhere. can walk miles. will walk in any weather#and she just... doesn't get that we feel very different ways gkfjdjd#''oooh you should walk and walk everyday It's Good For Youuuu'' and she acts like i don't walk because I Don't Understand That It's Good#sis i'm not fucking stupid i know the health benefits & everything I DONT ENJOY IT THOUGH#same way i know the health benefits of eating veggies but i still Don't do that because i can't stand them !!!!#god fuck Whatever about my health lmao like. i'm here for a good time not a long one !!!!#do you think when i'm old and dying i'm gonna be like ''aaah i'm glad i spent so much time doing things i hated so i could live longer''#nah mate i'm gonna think ''well this was a GOOD one i got to do all the stuff i loved yippee'' and croak
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Mc accidently got splashed with a (obsessive) "love potion" and she falls in giddy love with first person she lays her eyes on.
All she wants to do is give them kisses and hugs...and yea she also is clingy and she follows them around even duuring class. She is ready to do anything for her "love" ( like whatever they ask of her) she wants them to be happy . She is convinced that they are dating and it's honestly pointless to try and explain things to her.
How would Azul, Jamil, Malleus, Duece and Floyd hanndle the situation/what's their reaction? ( they were not dating before )
Azul Ashengrotto:
Azul was doomed by yet another situation he couldn’t see himself out of. He hardly knows how to handle you normally, or rather how to handle his feelings for you, but you’re much harder when you’re like this. Having you clinging to his side and demanding his attention made it impossible for him to concentrate, and feelings be damned he wasn’t going to let his business suffer. Since Jade and Floyd refused to escort you from his office (finding Azul’s flustered face and inability to actually push you away the best comedy bit they’d seen in years) he ordered them to instead find a cure for the nightmarish love potion that ailed you. They do agree but take longer than they need to, wanting Azul to endure his torturous thoughts a bit longer.
Deuce Spade:
You have poor Deuce stressed OUT. He’s too worried about your well-being to hear any of Ace’s teasing, also focused on keeping his lips covered in case of another surprise attack. He wouldn’t mind under normal circumstances but this doesn’t feel genuine (and he had a much more romantic first kiss in mind for the two of you). He boldly confided in his seniors about you in hopes of them helping with a solution, tightly holding your hand to keep you at bay. He’s willing to go to any length to cure you, even if he’d miss the closeness.
Floyd Leech:
Floyd is willing to milk this situation for all that it’s worth. He particularly enjoyed the squeezing contest you had, and how tightly you clung to him even after he clearly won. He would have loved to keep you all to himself, using your condition to get out of working at Mostro Lounge as it would be hard to cook with you attached to him like you were. Jade is surprised with how long Floyd indulged your clingy behavior, even when he seemed fed up, he knew if he really wanted to push you away and lock you up so you’d leave him alone, he would do it.
Jamil Viper:
Jamil would have used you for all you were worth if he didn’t have feelings for you. He’s frustrated that yet another responsibility was thrust upon him, but turning his back on you was not a choice under these circumstances. It makes it hard to go about his day when he has two different people bothering him all day, but you proved to be the bigger challenge (for now). If he could concentrate he’d have an easier time of finding a solution but there was a part of him that longed for you to continue to worship him, curious how much of this might mirror your relationship if you ended up dating.
Malleus Draconia:
You had always been more honest with Malleus than others, but this was certainly new. As much as he enjoyed your emboldened behavior it didn’t take him long to detect something was off, leaving him conflicted. He wouldn’t mind having a close relationship like this with you, maybe some more boundaries discussed for the sake of Sebek’s heart and everyone else's eardrums, but he was disappointed to know this wasn’t you acting on ‘real’ feelings. He’s even more suspicious about how and why you were splashed with such a potion to begin with, growing rather possessive at the concept of someone trying to steal your heart away from him.
#Twisted Wonderland#TWST#Twisted Wonderland Imagines#Twisted Wonderland x Reader#TWST Imagines#TWST x Reader#Azul Ashengrotto#Deuce Spade#Floyd Leech#Jamil Viper#Malleus Draconia#azul ashengrotto x reader#deuce spade x reader#floyd leech x reader#jamil viper x reader#malleus draconia x reader
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hmm. I think I am maybe not coping very well 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
#sorry for angry venting im very upset + frustrated + have to put it somewhere just ignore me#I hate being on such a hair trigger all the time hate feeling everything so violently why can't I just feel shit like a normal person!!!!#most stupid and pointless thing to say ever but its so not fair!!!!!!!! its so fucking unfair#like I would never want anyone else to feel like this ever but why should I!!!!! fucks sake fucking hell i want to bash my head thru a wall#whatever. whatever!!!!!!#I wish I had someone safe to talk to I wish I could trust ppl and be open with them and not have to control every tiny fucking thing#just to make myself small enough and tolerable enough for anyone to be around I wish I was enough!!!!!!#but its fucking stupid to even wish bc I have to do all the work myself and its never enough and eventually ill die abt it. whatever.#backup coping mechanisms arent even accessible rn how the fuck am I supposed to vent these feelings safely. ugh#its fine ill be fine i need to take a fucking shower and eat#.vent
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