#also prev my friend:

[jtownraindancer]

for some reason that makes me think of when I worked front desk for B[redacted]n hotel chain. They refused to hire enough staff, and it wasn't uncommon for me to pull 16-hour shifts.

when I'd finally get home for a few blessed hours of sleep, one of the other receptionists would call me asking me some of The. Dumbest. Questions. which, hey, okay. I'm an understanding person. there was a lot to do there and keep tabs on. so I'd answer the questions, printed out helpful logs and charts and step-by-step binders for different things (night audit, laundry, breakfast set-up & tear down, resetting room keys, printing out housekeeping schedules, navigating crazy knife-weilding abusive exes of housekeeping staff out of the hotel without getting someone stabbed, replacing the soap in the bathrooms, etc etc).

but after about 3 months of making only $8/hour and running on 4 hours of sleep a night (if I was lucky) I finally said fuck it.

I had reached the point when I was very seriously considering Harming Myself so I would admitted into the hospital, and let me have a few days away from the place.

they fucked me over on taxes; they never withheld a single CENT from my paychecks (in spite of my W4s), but luckily the paid interest on my student loans balanced me back. they offered no insurance of any kind. they were truly no benefits whatsoever. and they didn't offer lunch breaks.

working in amerikkka is a fucking nightmare, and I would kill for even half the protections and privileges so many of these other nations get.

all lunch breaks should be paid im serious. im not even enjoying this im literally just making sure i dont pass out or something. this is part of The Job as far as im concerned

[yardsards]

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

[meamiki]

vtuber loop !!!

[reverse entry au? the reverse isekai part of it? tangentially related to this post here, and also the last part of this post too]

[f0rgetf0rgetting]

You will never love me in the same way I did, but that’s okay. I will let you hate me for a thousand springs if it meant you would love me in a winter.

extra doodle or whatever

[icharchivist]

it still makes me genuinely offended that DAVG opens on Varric narrating about Solas and going "Solas is very against slavery, one of the only thing we agree on", because i've seen people say "well yeah i hope so it's the bare minimum" and like

Literally half the cast of DAI for example, yknow, the game Solas and Varric met on, were pro-slavery in one shape or form. The one thing DAVG doesn't tell you is what Solas considers to be Slavery to start with, because it is how some companions will tell you "yeah i'm against slavery" and then will talk about somehow removing someone's freedom completely in one shape or form. Look at DAI's Solas' banters with Dorian (who's in DAVG and is a slavery abolitionist SPECIFICALLY, as said in the books, because Solas changed his mind in DAI) or with Iron Bull and you'll learn a lot.

"the one thing we agreed on" is super fucking funny from the character who has always famously been a Centrist, who genuinely didn't want to listen to Anders in da2 when Anders was talking about the inherent slavery of the Circles, and, if Hawke sides with the System rather than the oppressed in da2, Varric will disapprove of Mage Freedom in DAI, which is one of the type of slavery Solas is fighting against for example. Just because the game doesn't allow you to import Varric's past doesn't erase that Varric is a centrist as fuck.

Like sorry it's not our fault DAVG have the most innoffensive companion cast in the whole franchise that you don't know how it's like to have companions with actual offensive opinions that exists to challenge your point of view but that doesn't mean you know exactly how DA companions usually work and why it's an important part of Solas' character.

And sorry also that the game talks so little about Slavery and the multiple ways it manifest in Thedas but that doesn't mean you should just take that at face value.

"gngngn Solas being anti-slavery is the bare minimum" tell that to Varric the Centrist for fuck's sake you DONT KNOW HIM.

[bipedalcapybara]

Retreat to the covers from the sound of the rain.

[daylighteclipsed]

While Aerith is looking for Zack in Cloud and subconsciously, I think, expecting Cloud to respond to her like Zack, I do think that Tifa also, initially, has her own false expectations about Cloud. Not in the sense that she’s subconsciously expecting him to act like someone else — Tifa is never not looking for Cloud in Cloud. But in the sense that it seems like, initially, Tifa’s subconsciously expecting Cloud to act like he’s a closer friend to her than he is.

Tifa’s hurt at the start of Rebirth when it seems like Cloud’s choosing not to tell her where he’s been for the past five years. She’s hurt by his distrust and doubt that she’s real, and she tells him that maybe she shouldn’t have been so glad to have him back — a callback to Remake when she tells him she’s really glad to have him back the first time Cloud starts dropping his facade (“losing that hard edge”) and shows that he remembers the promise he made to her as kids. Tifa keeps trying to reconnect with Cloud by trying to jog his memory, but it doesn’t work that well. This arguably comes to a head in the Under Junon inn. Tifa and Cloud have a chance to talk privately again and apologize for their words before. But then Tifa brings up Emilio and, regardless of whether you have Cloud answer that he remembers Emilio or not, she launches into a story about seeing Emilio again. And you can hear her growing excited as she speaks, almost like she forgets Cloud was not friends with Emilio, was not friends with her friends growing up, until she notices that Cloud is standing there awkwardly and she realizes… She does not have the old friend in Cloud that she thought she did.

Cloud and Tifa were close when they were very little, but that was a very long time ago. They didn’t hang out as adolescents. Cloud is willing to listen to Tifa’s story because he cares about her — and this is another callback to that same scene in Remake I mentioned before when Cloud first loses his facade; he says if Tifa wants to talk, he’s listening — but he has no personal investment in this story about Emilio. And it’s like Tifa realizes then that she’s got their connection wrong… She’s been trying to jog Cloud’s memory to rekindle a close friendship that never exactly existed. She’s been expecting Cloud to act like her close friend when they were never really that close to begin with — or at least, they haven’t been that close since they were 7-8 years old. That’s not fair to him.

Noticeably, Tifa lets this expectation go, which enables Cloud and Tifa to bond and reconnect organically (and much more successfully) instead. They grow very close when they’re not expected to already be close. And idk I think it’s interesting.

[xbasement-baitx]

Nothing brings me joy more then the fact that every tumblr man who has ever done me wrong either deletes or abandons their blog after

[creatureprofessor]

Peglar and Bridgens for day 2 of @terroryuriweek - pride 💕🏳️‍🌈

details and inspirations are found in my tags

[bottle-of-allay]

You've got mail!

Hermit-a-day May #26 groups and collabs (post office crew!)

[daily-hanamura]

[the-meme-monarch]

tumblr is actually fucking diabolical for several reasons but this one is for bothering me with notification pings and then trying to Shame me for turning them off. I'll look at my notifications when I open the app ok. you don't need to make pings at me while my phone is off to tell me someone liked my post

[ohsweetflips]

my neutral dragon age trait is that 50% of the time i'm like "the more i critique the games, the more i love them. i can appreciate each game for what they are but my criticism and frustration over what they could be are a sign of love" and the other 50% is like "this is the writing of the dragon age series. sure. why not. this may as well happen."

[shinakazami1]

Been replaying New Tales and--

I get Anu in one thing. She saw her home Planet get destroyed. She had to take care of her younger brother who in her eyes was good for nothing. She somehow landed a job and thought it wss because Rhys saw potential in her. Her hero did. She wanted to get approval and safety, she forgot to care for others before the game.

I get Anu.

She found security in Atlas.

Too bad Rhys has changed....

[skitskatdacat63]

Thank you so much for the tag @rubyreadd here are nine books I'd like to read this year

Icl basically half of these are sitting on my desk already, waiting for me to read 😭 but anyways as you can probably tell: I'm a huge nerd. Tbf anytime I hear about smth new historically, I instantly want to pick up a book about it, but then forget, so here are the ones I do actually remember lol

I'm not exactly sure who to tag but I shall say hmm @chaotic-history @beechicory @foxantoine and anyone else who'd like to do it!

[outofthiisworld]

👽// let it be known. my love for telenovela plot-lines 💕✨