#and i KNOW those coworkers have more

[baekuras]

Sometimes I think I like my coworkers as people but then they go gossip about a dude with long hair, whine about jobless people receiving THEIR MONEY (taxes) so they get paid for doing nothing, a homeless man owning 1 nice jacket he paid for in cash, someone being too fat to fit into our chairs, trans people existing and misgendering them afterwards even when they already said what they're pronouns are(especially funny after the 'oh no idc/am fine w/ trans ppl-just curious and don't understand it fully but i am fine w/ them no problems there'-chats), about gay men being too flamboyant bc that other gay man isn't, about us paying for inmates' wages (again-taxes, also where do you think your money is going into eventually anyway? our wages are also paid for by other ppl-money is supposed to move around??), about how there were so many covid regulations and suddenly there is nothing about it so that means it was all a hoax and not that covid is still there and killing but it'd be too expensive to keep up quarantine so it was faded out despite still being on going

sometimes it's really fucking hard to like people when you fundamentally disagree with how they want other people to be treated or what they get mad about

[teaboot]

Okay so I may have been struggling under a miscommunication issue

[ganondoodle]

1 year since i got scammed by nintedno leaving me forever yearning for a game we will never get and an extreme worry for the future

[lobotomy-lady]

the most batshit insane traumatizing thing happened at work today & I won't know if people are dead bc of my inability to talk a man down from a mass murder until the news reports start coming out lollll

edit: it's all good there was nothing about a shootout on the news 🙏

[welcometogrouchland]

Batman #149 by chip zdarsky is mostly unremarkable, but I'm really fascinated by how it makes a great case for 'good' endings not saving 'bad' stories*. Because there's a lot of interesting concepts in this issue (bruce having to deal with his rapidly aging and decaying clone making him think about his own life, re-establishing a 'nest' so to speak for his family after pushing them away, etc) but bc of the OOC slog that came before it, almost every moment w/ the batfamily comes off as unearned and disingenuous imo.

Like, everything with Damian is the perfect example in this. Because in isolation it's...fine. admittedly it's a missed opportunity to not go deeper into how Damian would feel about a clone of his dad who tried to kill considering Damian's relationships with clones of himself (the heretic rejects and respawn) or with former enemies who wanted him dead but who were manipulated and/or brainwashed (like suren and maya).

Zdarsky doesn't go into any of this but you could maybe excuse it as the issue not being about Damian. However, coupled with the previous bizarre characterizations of Damian in 147 and 148, it ends up not being fine- instead it starts to feel...icky how Damian (who, despite often being drawn and written as white, will never have his connection to the non-white al ghuls forgotten and will always be effected by racism even when not portrayed as a poc) is constantly written as overly violent, uncaring and narrow minded in this run. Coupled w/ trying to recanonize the morrison origin for Damian it's like. OH this is badly written and laden with subtle bigotry, sick**

That's me going into detail on it with Damian but it's applicable to other things in this issue- the way Cass, Steph and Duke have all been ignored or turned into jobbers makes their inclusion in the 'family' here feel hollow instead of satisfying. Bruce proclaiming that Zur was still a part of him and he needs to accept responsibility for his actions (when it means taking in clone son) wrings hollow when just last issue zdarsky was bending over backwards to separate Bruce and Zur bc otherwise the Jason thing would get really awkward. Ends are achieved through means that feel hollow or strange. I'm at my destination but damn why'd the bus have to do all that???

I only really have opinions on this latest arc of zdarskys Batman bc it's the one I've read the closest (bc I'm a hater, masochist and avid follower of even the bad damian storylines) but it's not saying great things.

Bc zdarsky can do one thing good in this book, and it's write Bruce and Tim. And yet this entire story, whether of his own volition or editorial mandate, includes other characters who aren't Bruce and Tim, the fabric starts to unravel in very telling ways.

(p.s, I think pennyworth manor is an interesting idea but I feel like in execution it's just gonna be 'bruce living in a house haunted by the memory of the people he couldn't save' but with a different dead guy this time. Illusion of change and whatnot)

*whether or not the ending is good is up to you ofc, as is your opinion on the proceeding arc! I saw some ppl complain that the ending was too "WFA" for them, which I get even if I dont think it'll literally be the same premise. If anything it's probably a lead into the new tec run. Likewise many ppl who aren't in the weeds of Damian and Jason characterization liked the previous arc! But I have my opinions and rest my case before the bench

**disclaimer, I'm white and portrayals of bigotry in comics are complicated and subjective, but I am basing my point here off what other poc comic fans on socmed have been saying about 149. Also the "sick" is sarcasm incase that wasn't obvious

[binah-beloved]

despairful day. remember to take comfort in anything that brings you joy. for me, that is Binah. for you, it might also be Binah. that is alright. she has hugs enough for all.

[sollucets]

. . .

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Every time Prapai gives Sky medicine, he's narcoleptic inside 5 minutes.

[starscr0ss]

i actually have a hard time understanding childe's character and is mostly because of other people's takes + im like so scared of mischaracterizing him

[j-esbian]

i lost the post but i saw someone talking about how some of y’all act like being weird is a choice and like. YEAHHHHHHH.

that’s fine, it might be for you. but i just live like this and don’t know any other way. like yeah i’ve worked customer service, i can do innocuous small talk, but anything beyond that, i don’t understand what i’m missing. and it’s frustrating to see the tonal disconnect especially from people who are like “uwu embrace weirdness!!” where they’re like. dressing quirky and talking about bugs and listening to obscure music and eschewing small talk to ask Deep Questions on the first date and unlearning their tendency to not infodump. and generally have an idea of what Weirdness is supposed to look like. idk man some of us wake up and get out of bed and can’t figure out why the rest of their coworkers chitchat with each other but when they join the conversation it dies.

weirdness is value neutral. let’s stop trying to turn it into a badge because quite frankly, it’s not a choice for everyone. it’s fucking exhausting to never be on the same wavelength as other people and they’re going to react the way they do and label you the way they will without any conscious actions on your end. it’s difficult to talk about this without feeling like you’ll be dismissed as immature, a teenager whining “no one understands me” but the thing is. sometimes you don’t grow out of feeling alone and different, and there’s no good way to talk about it without feeling like people will think you’re just fishing for pity.

[scattered-winter]

working retail is making me remember how much i hate stupid customers btw

[terrorbirb]

I'm bored at work so I'm seeing if I should report my old company for violating labor standards.

[my-unorthodox-life]

not to be an angry punk on my love and light blog but FUCK MAN i really can NOT take non-jewish (or jewish adjacent like me) liberals seriously anymore with everything going on. you can tell them that news outlets have admitted to favoring palestine and that people in israel are also being killed and yanno suffering from their country being at war, and bring up hundreds of thousands of examples of antisemitism ALL OVER THE WORLD and how (for us americans) we DONT want to leave despite the election because while it's uncertain safety here we at least have our community and wouldn't be STARTING OVER IN A NEW COUNTRY WHERE ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE IS WORSE THAN WHERE I'M AT and they'll sit there, with their "i'm a good ally" listening face to all of that just to turn around and say

"well yea but what about gaza? there's no excuse for that"

like there's a fucking excuse for all that israel and jewish people everywhere have been going through these past few years

[yellobb]

If things could stop going in exactly the wrong wrong direction that would be excellent

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Chapter 10 done \o/

[martinskiseyes]

i wish my only response to a conflict wasn't giving up