#and it's literally not smart to give these companies that info

[friendrat]

But I don't wanna live in a dystopian world!!!

[haveagarbageday]

Got a secret, can you keep it? \\ Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen (Lestappen)

summary: You're looking for your runaway driver in the paddock when you see something you shouldn't have. Before you know it, you become a part of this well-kept secret.

additional info: I'm on a roll! No, actually, I posted the Max one while I was at work, and then I had half a day left with nothing to do. This idea came to my mind and I had to write it down.

“The moment I find you, Lando, I’m going to skin you,” you hissed into your phone as you searched the paddock for the problem child.

But he only laughed at you, clearly enjoying the hide and seek game he had decided to play with you today. The problem is that he stopped in front of a camera, ready to give an interview, but two sentences in, his attention was diverted by some drama in the background, and he left to check it out. You had to apologize several times, promising to catch him and drag him back to do this properly. But damn it, he was good at hiding. This wasn’t the first time he hid from you, and something told you he could be literally anywhere, even in another team’s motorhome. Anything was possible with this little gremlin.

You reached a quieter part of the paddock that was full of spaces protected from the crowd, the perfect spot for Lando to hide. So, you methodically began to search for him, not missing any of the hidden corners and narrow alleys between the buildings either, but you found nothing. Your frustration was growing with each passing second, with each empty space that seemed to be free of him. When you reached the last one of the alleys, you saw movement in the back, and you were happy that you finally found the runaway driver.

Well, you couldn’t be more wrong. Because it wasn’t Lando, and it wasn’t just one person either. The signature blue and red colors of their shirts made it clear which team they were from, but when you looked at their faces, blood froze in your veins. You knew about all the jokes, all the fan theories and hopes, but never, not even in your wildest dreams could you imagine this happening. Sure, they clearly looked more at ease in each other’s company after sessions in recent years, which was good, people loved it, yet you still couldn’t wrap your head around the sight in front of you.

After seeing them almost swallow each other, Lestappen wasn’t just an urban legend to you anymore. Fuck. You wished you didn’t see that. You could already feel the heavy weight on your shoulder.

Before they could spot you, you decided to do the sensible thing and turned around to leave as quietly and as soon as you could. But not two steps later you heard a voice behind you. “Wait, let’s talk about this, okay?” Max said, taking a step closer to you, his hand resting on Charles’s arm.

Letting out the breath you’d been holding, you folded your hands behind your back and took a step closer to them. “I didn’t see anything, I swear. My lips are sealed, you don’t need to worry about that,” you were quick to assure them. Silence fell between the three of you, but then you remembered why you were here in the first place. “Have you guys seen Lando? He’s being difficult today.”

“Have you tried his driver’s room? He’s probably in the most obvious place,” Max offered, knowing the Brit well enough to give you his best guess.

Okay, you already knew he was smart, but this was the best idea you had heard in a while. Lando would surely pull something like this; chilling in his room, maybe playing some games, then giving you a surprised look as he went: “What do you mean? I’ve been here the whole time!” Wouldn’t be the first prank he pulled on you, that’s for sure.

You thanked him, then turned to leave again, and this time they didn’t stop you. But you heard murmuring, a quiet conversation that didn’t sound panicked, in fact, it sounded like they were discussing something excitedly. Whatever it was, it wasn’t your business. None of this was your business, so you were trying your damn best to forget the whole thing.

The problems began the next day after qualifying, when you were in the media pen with Lando, watching him like a hawk, and shepherding him around to make sure he did exactly what he was supposed to. You were between two interviews, discussing a few things, when Max approached you and stopped next to you to talk to his friend. You greeted him like you normally would, but otherwise you didn’t dare to move or speak, afraid it would become obvious you were hiding something. It probably takes time to get comfortable with the secret you knew, it couldn’t be more than that.

But then you felt a jolt of electricity run through your body as Max casually put a hand on your back while he talked, making it look like it was just a friendly move and nothing more. How could this be an innocent move when you could feel his thumb pressing into your skin, drawing slow circles to drive you crazy? You glanced over at him, and you could have sworn you saw a smug smirk tugging at his lips for a moment when he felt your eyes on him.

Lando was oblivious to the whole scene, he was just smiling brightly and giggling as they talked, too lost in their conversation to notice the way the Red Bull driver teased you. Out of the corner of your eye you noticed the reporter you’d been waiting for signal you that they were ready for the chat with your driver, so you apologized for interrupting them, then gently pushed him in the right direction. This left you and Max alone, and he finally let his hand drop to his side as he turned to you, the mischievous glint in his eyes giving away that whatever he was about to say would make you mad.

“How does it feel to know?” he asked casually, sipping on his Red Bull as if you were talking about the weather. Your eyes turned to him, silently begging him to drop this topic, but he didn’t seem to be interested in letting you off the hook. “We talked last night, you know. It feels so good that someone apart from the two of us knows the truth. Seriously, it’s so tiring to hide from the whole world, not having the chance to talk about the highs and the lows or ask for an outsider’s opinion when there’s a fight or disagreement.”

At first, you were just the kind of friend they’d been waiting for, serving as a neutral outsider when they needed another opinion about something. Then you began to hang out with them, one at the time, eventually serving as a glue between the two rivals who hadn’t really been seen together outside the paddock. Because one day you followed a well-prepared choreography at a bistro, making it look like you were out with Charles, while Max jumped in to get some food to go. Then you noticed each other, started talking, and he ended up taking a seat and joining you for dinner.

The same thing happened a few weeks later, when you and Max went to a club, where surprise, surprise, Charles showed up to greet you. The three of you got comfortable on a curvy couch in a corner of the VIP section, downing shots like there was no tomorrow, too lost in your little bubble to notice what you were doing. Because Max had an arm around your shoulder, talking to you while Charles moved forward to capture your lips in a drunken kiss, and only then did you catch the Dutchman whisper into your ear how much fun the three of you could have if you went home with them that night.

You only realized their relationship turned into your relationship, when Lando asked you about a photo of the three of you hanging out in the paddock on a race weekend, chatting and joking freely over your breakfasts. “You’ve been spending a lot of time with them off the track too. Why don’t you ever hang out with me when you’re in Monaco? You’re so mean,” he said with a pout.

Friends. That’s what you were for outsiders. It was good. With the days spent together getting more frequent though, you knew it was only a matter of time before someone sniffed out the truth. All the nights spent tangled up in bed, with the two of them making a competition out of pulling as many orgasms out of you as they could, surely had a toll on you. Physically, you were more than okay, they made sure of that, but being in this relationship was surely difficult to handle mentally.

“I’m not hanging out with you, you muppet, because I might drown you in a glass of water after five minutes. Babysitting you on race weekends is more than enough, thank you,” you told him with your tongue stuck out.

This conversation made you think, it made you reconsider what you’d been doing in the past months with the boys. For one, it was a dangerous game. Hanging out together more and more, especially when you were at a place where they couldn’t keep themselves under control thanks to the level of alcohol in their bloodstreams, the risk of someone finding out their little secret was higher than before you had been dragged into their life. Then there was the fact that you felt like shit. It felt like you were a piece that didn’t fit. They were so good together, why would you stand between them?

You knew that ending a relationship in a text was the worst, but you didn’t want to give them the chance to start negotiating. So, after the race weekend was over, you sent them a text that you wouldn’t go with them this time, then left the group chat, blocked the both of them, and got on the plane back home. The plan was simple: you would spend a few days watching movies and TV shows that were in your backlog while eating unhealthy snacks, and maybe you would meet some of your friends if they still remembered you.

What could possibly go wrong with that?

Well, everything. It was only your first full day at home when your doorbell rang in the early afternoon, and when you opened it, you found a very disheveled Charles standing there, watching you with a disapproving look on his face. You were ready to tell him to leave you alone, but then he gave you the puppy eyes as he let out a tired sigh, and there was no way you could shut the door in his face. You stepped aside and let him in, stopping in the living room door as you watched him sit down on the couch, and when he patted the empty space next to him, you were stupid enough to do exactly what he wanted. If things went like this, you would agree to whatever he came up with. 

“Blocking us? Really?” he asked you, the hint of disappointment not missing from his voice. “You could’ve at least talked to us in person, give us a proper explanation instead of disappearing like that. What the hell were you thinking? We would meet at race weekends anyway, you can’t think we wouldn’t corner you there.”

Looking away, you gulped and thought about what to say. There were so many things you wanted to say, so many stupid, fake explanations for your decision, but deep inside you knew you had to be honest with him. “You were fine together, Charles. Before I found out the truth, you had everything under control, and you were happy. But then you dragged me into your little secret, eventually poisoning our so-called friendship with casual sex, and–”

“So-called friendship? And casual sex?” he asked, his head slightly tilted to the side, eyes narrowed as he watched you. “Did it ever mean anything to you?” 

You hesitated, unsure of what to say. You really liked them, but the fact their relationship had a lot more history always made you feel like someone who didn’t belong. To you it was casual, just an outlet for getting rid of all the stress your job and keeping their secret came with. Just sex, nothing more. No emotions were supposed to be involved. Sure, they were friends, but it wasn’t love.

Apparently, you were an open book to Charles, because he ran a hand through his hair with a groan as he watched you. “We trusted you.”

“You can still trust me, I won’t tell anyone,” you assured him. 

He let out a desperate laugh. “It’s not that kind of trust, we know you wouldn’t tell anyone. I’m talking about us, about our relationship. We thought you felt the same way we did, that you loved us too. You could’ve been honest, you could’ve told us it didn’t mean anything to you before we caught feelings,” he told you, his voice forced to stay calm. 

“Charles, just try to hear me out. The two of you, that’s the relationship that can work in the long term,” you began to explain. “Me? I’m just… I don’t even know what I was to you. A plaything? A brand new shiny toy?”

“You’re not some toy!” he snapped, finally showing you how he truly felt about this conversation. “You, Max, and me? This could work so well if you just stopped being stubborn. Okay, I admit, we never thought about the possibility of a relationship like this, we always thought it would be just the two of us, but that’s because we had to keep it a secret. But you finding us that day? That was the best thing that could happen to us. We love you just as much as we love each other, that’s what you need to understand,” he explained as he grabbed your chin to force you to look at him. 

You took a deep breath to calm yourself, but the way he was watching you, silently begging you to accept the truth… It was too much. Tears began to roll down your cheeks, but he wiped them away, he kept telling you that it was okay, that everything would be okay, and there was no reason to cry. He repeated this enough times to make you believe it. You were beginning to believe they truly loved you, and you actually thought about the possibility of continuing this from where you had left off. Once your tears stopped coming, he leaned in to kiss you with a small smile on his lips. 

His stupid green eyes were mesmerizing as he watched you, and no matter how hard you wanted to resist, how badly you wanted to be strong and step back, you just couldn’t get yourself to say no to him. Sadly, he was well aware of this ability of his, he had used it on both Max and you a few times before to get what he wanted, and this time he looked just as smug as he always did after a win. 

“Pack a suitcase, because you’re coming with me,” he whispered to you. “Until you get ready, I’ll call Max to tell him the good news.” 

You began to wonder how long it would take you to admit to yourself just how important they had always been to you. Because they were important, no matter how many times you told yourself this meant nothing to you, otherwise you wouldn't be in your bedroom now, packing the suitcase as he asked. You wanted to please him, you wanted them to be happy, and why would you feel this way if you were indifferent?

Maybe this time you would be able to let yourself go and enjoy the relationship, and you would finally believe this could work.

As you were thinking about this, your phone that you left on your nightstand began to vibrate and the screen lit up. You picked it up and saw a message from Lando: “Have you seen this? Max's jet is at an airport near you, but I know for a fact he's at home. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING????”

Okay, maybe letting yourself go wasn't an option.

[eldritch-bf]

Herbert West identity related headcanons:

ftm (obviously) gay and demi

if he’s 24 in 1985 then he was born in 1961 oof

I’m also using some info from the novelization as canon so he is Canadian and his parents died in a chemical fire in the house when he was 12-13

was forced to take ballet when be was 5-10 (something Jeffry Combs joked about in the commentary from Bride)

his parents were neglectful of him and didn’t really care about him wanting to have short hair or boy clothes plus they chalked it up to his presumably undiagnosed autism

realized he felt weird about the older boy in the foster home (13-18) but didn’t really understand it; mostly he is jealous when girls take away the boy’s attention; closest friend he ever had as they were alone together but Herbert knew he could never act on it so he kept those feelings to himself

he wants sex but only from someone he’s emotionally connected with which itself is rare and at the same time intellectually he considers sex to be debasing, while also being curious about the sensation and knowing the benefits of the chemicals produced during orgasm

this is coupled with the fact that at least before starting T any thought of sex or masturbation made him extremely dysphoric and repulsed so his whole relationship with sex is very complicated

he is deeply repulsed by femininity bc it reminds him of his childhood spend as his agab and the stupid gender norms his parents thrust upon him including dismissing him being a scientist just because he had the wrong parts

he is canonically annoyed by pretty much all sounds and I suspect higher pitched sounds including women’s voices are worse; lower register sounds like thunder and men’s voices can be calming to him

upon moving from Canada to the U.S. as a student at NYU he used his new name on everything and making a clean break from his old identity was a big reason why he picked a different country to study in

hated NYU and the only good thing was it was easy to synthesize testosterone

T made him so fucking horny and also eviscerated his dysphoria; man was cranking it fucking constantly for a year straight and did some of his best work before moving to Switzerland for 3 years

Dr Gruber immediately figured out what his deal was but didn’t say anything and just treated him normal and for that Herbert was extremely devoted to him; Dr Gruber also did his top surgery in Switzerland despite having never done such an operation before

Dr Gruber was the one and only member of his support system the only person who knew everything about him and understood him and accepted him, losing him was a devastating blow and Herbert decided he would keep himself closed off

Also Dr Gruber didn’t have anyone either and adored Herbert and according to the book fucking left Herbert his money when he died which paid for his tuition and moving costs etc

if I didn’t genuinely like the father/son dynamic they have, I would absolutely say he was fucking that old man

So he was cool and clipped to Dan when he first met him and when he moved in trying to keep Dan at arm’s length away but he saw how smart and hardworking Dan was and he knew how difficult it was to conduct this research alone and he desperately wanted the company

and Dan reminded him a lot of the first boy he ever had a crush on and it would give him a certain satisfaction to vicariously have his first crush through Dan yet also knowing that Dan is way better than the idiot teen boy he was in the foster home with who never gave him the time of day; he’s also pleased with the idea of dragging Dan (normal, supposedly heterosexual, law-abiding) down with him; he’s pulling the brightest kindest handsomest hardest working med student out of Miskatonic into his orbit and making Dan’s life revolve around him

literally “look at the bad bitch I pulled by being a little freak” absolute nightmare Herbert West takes personal pleasure in ruining sweaterboy Daniel Cain’s life

the chaos of everything they do is so much more important that when Dan finds out Herbert is trans and gay it doesn’t even phase him.

(Daniel Cain is bisexual and basically decided it was just easier to be pretend to be straight and get a girlfriend so he ignored his feelings for men. But now with Herbert he doesn’t have to.)

he is completely shocked by sex with Dan however despite knowing that Dan is experienced he was not prepared nor was Dan prepared for how awkward yet demanding the virginal Herbert West would be, yelling at him one moment before becoming cock stupid the next

[typhea]

✮﹒❄️﹐BNHA BOYS + ‘MY KIND OF WOMAN’

﹐♡﹒featuring : izuku, shoto, katsuki, eijirou, dabi, hanta ♡

﹐♡﹒infos : fluff , gn!reader, reader is called a pervert, reader is called kinky, it’s just for fun dww ♡

﹐♡﹒summary : judging you according to ur fav (don’t take me seriously 😭) ♡

──﹐MIDORIYA IZUKU

i wanna be friends with you.

you’re the sweetest, kindest, and most caring darling and everyone knows it.

you act cute and innocence to hide that you’re a pervert.

you’re the “it’s mean, it’s not funny.” friend.

you have abandonment issues.

you’re either really smart or really dumb, no in between.

you have the prettiest smile like, smile rq? 😍

izuku would definitely love you <3

──﹐TODOROKI SHOTO

you overthink a lot.

you’re quiet but you have wild thoughts, like are you ok?

you probably have family/parents issues or you have the weirdest friends.

i bet you got a pretty voice.

you’re sweet but .. nobody knows it?

you have mood swings.

you’re really funny when you want to.

shoto would take a while to confess tbh but he would definitely give you the best signs 🤭

──﹐BAKUGOU KATSUKI

you got serious issues to be liking this type of men.

i bet you would make him shut his mouth sometimes, like in awe with how crazy you are.

you’re not cute i’m sorry, maybe you’re hot? 😏

all your clothes are black.

you’re delusional, like.. really.

you’re cute when you shut your mouth, not in a mean way like you really are. i mean like lost in thoughts idk i’m sorry, dont punch me 😞

you’re sensitive..

katsuki literally hates you but he’s even more pissed when you’re not there like, he loves to hate you :D

──﹐KAMINARI DENKI

hii, i wanna be your friend.

i bet you’re literally a sunshine. like YOU’RE MAKING ME SMILE

no one notices when you’re sad but denki will

you have insomnia! :D

you got the best taste in everything ; clothes, music, food, .. anything!

you’re unable to say no to anyone, scared to hurt them. sometimes you even let them disrespect you or your boundaries BUT YOU SHOULDNT 😫

your handwriting looks like a 6 years old’s, im sorry. are you left-handed by any chance..?

denki would be obsessed with you ngll <33

──﹐KIRISHIMA EIJIROU

you’re cute.

you look like a mitski song and a the weeknd song at the same time.

smile more? im obsessed.

you’re the sweetest butterfly in the world, you deserve love and affection 🤭

i bet people be telling you you’re beautiful but you still think the opposite :<

i see you with 7 kids.

you’re so patient and understanding, i know you listen to everyone vent but you never vent to anyone.

eijirou would treat you like the most precious person in the world <3

──﹐DABI

um .. you’re scary.

you’re kinky.

you get wild murder and bloody thoughts when you’re bored.

you love sweet food.

you’re mentally ill.

you’re manipulative, ahhh.

you got the prettiest eyes, IM SHAKING.

dabi would definitely fuc.. i mean he would enjoy ur company ig..

──﹐SERO HANTA

you got the best vibes fr!

i know you’re a great dancer, you’re just shy.

i bet you’re stunning, like only beautiful people likes him.

you’re kinda nonchalant.

you got a mirroring personality, you love making others comfortable with you.

your cooking skills are amazing like lemme have a taste 🙇‍♀️

you act dumb but you’re really smart.

sero would be your bestest bsf fr with benefits

thanks for reading darlin! don’t forget to like and leave a comment :)

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[pancakeke]

I made a customer so mad on a call today that he muted and turned his camera off lol.

I did it on purpose though.

We needed to create a process but this dude always dominates the convo to give long pointless monologues about how *something* needs to be done in relation to vague nonspecific things (like "I don't like what I'm seeing here" ok then WHAT are you seeing??) He absolutely refuses to give concrete details or make actionable requests, plus he's always extremely disrespectful, accusatory, and lies about things. So I kept cutting off his unhelpful monologues to ask for specifics and when he didn't give them I gave options for what we could do rather than letting him continue to make the same whiny statements over and over but with different wording each time.

Then he tried to derail by doing this needlessly dramatic arm waving and wandering away from the camera thing, then wandering back with his head in his hands while saying weird phrases I assume were some kind of worthless business speak phrases? (Example, the last one he said was "Just take the weekend off". Maybe this means like "we need to take a break and regroup"? I legit do not know the intent. I directly asked "What do you mean by that?", no paraphrasing, but he ignored me so maybe he was telling me to go fuck myself. idk).

Anyway I kept being direct and trying to sort out a plan of action with our salesperson meanwhile this dude kept interjecting with absolutely asinine statements like "YOU need to figure this out" referring to my company, not me specifically. But like that was literally what we were doing at that moment?? So I asked him "Are you asking us to create new procedures without your company's input? Ideally need to know specifically where you're having issues to know how I should create reporting." Then he shut his webcam and mic off.

Progress was made at this point since he wasn't interrupting anymore but that didn't last long cause he jumped back in to make a big deal about how he couldn't stay on the call longer because he had another meeting soon. But if he has just explained that in one sentence rather than monologuing about his time we could have made more actual plans.

idk if this guy is purposely trying to stop us from creating a process though cause he blew up at us when we had extra inventory on hand (that he told us to buy) which then led him to tell us that we weren't allowed to make any purchases for them without approval. After this we sent a purchase request over to them for approval and they didn't approve it (we were ghosted, not denied), which made this guy is blow up at us again for not just buying the components immediately without asking.

I think he just wants us to do whatever benefits him in the moment and also he doesn't ever want us to hold his company accountable (per our contract...) for any unused components. and since documentation and processes creates accountability, they're bad for someone who wants instant gratification and no responsibility.

This call was so fucking bewildering though. It was like this guy had a book of business speak phrases and thought that if he kept reading them off he would look smart and important and then we would just flagellate ourselves at his feet. Even though the problem is pretty much his fault for not managing his side of the business. These guys have turned derailing conversation into a goal so I went robot mode and wouldn't let myself say a word that wasn't data-focused. I really hoped this would force their side to speak in numbers and facts so I could get info and ideas from them that we could actually use to build a new procedure.

But now I see that my plan was doomed from the start cause this guy will just disappear if I don't let him spend the whole meeting listening to himself talk while not actually saying anything.

I have some kind of brain problem where I always think that if I can figure out how to communicate with people in juuust the right way they'll stop being cunts and cooperate with me. Cause I'm working for their benefit so they should want to work together, right? :)

Wrong. People are fucking bonkers. They do not care about problem solving. It's all about ego. And somehow their egos do not recognise how purposely creating problems leads to failures that might reflect poorly on them.

[ishihirasenma]

except for suika and gen, who do you think would be an interesting character for the survival arc after the second worldwide petrification?

ahhh this is such!! an interesting question!!1! ✨✨✨ヽ(° ∇ ° )ﾉ after really thinking about it, i'd actually Love to see hyoga in that situation! AHHH hyoga would have been the perfect character for a wholesome plot after suika!!1! (」°ロ°)」✨

of course, he'd have to had come back from his mission with tsukasa and kohaku, or not have been on that mission at all, but putting those factors aside!

i think since no one can really tell what he's thinking most of the time, the kingdom would just remain doubtful and skeptical of his loyalty—though they would still rely on him and keep hoping he'll do the right thing. while i find his redemptions wonderful, they aren't enough to make them all 100% assured that he'll never betray them if he gets the chance.

and being the first to revive is Literally his biggest chance to do that. as someone who dedicated his life to martial arts, he might not be that good with chemicals—would probably take some time to figure out how to make nitric acid and fail at getting the exact ratio for a while, but i believe he is smart enough to be successful after just a few weeks.

food would be no problem to him at all. he might not even eat whatever preserved food the kingdom has left to save it for whoever he'll be reviving. surviving on his own would be a breeze.

betraying them would definitely cross his mind, but he has a conscience. and i believe he's still capable of feeling happy, deep down, whenever the kingdom relies on him (at least, that's how i see it in the treasure island arc!). i want to see him contemplate only for a moment before he just sighs and fully gives up on his ideal world, because memories of the others trusting him and accepting him as one of their own would keep replaying in his head—and he would hate to admit it, but he wants to keep his relationship with the kingdom just the way it is, because he's never had friends quite like them before.

i want to see him revive senkuu first, and i want to see senkuu be surprised when he tells him he'll focus on hunting and doing whatever needs physical labor, and tell senkuu to focus on making revival fluids for whoever needs to be revived next. because if hyoga already knew how to make the revival fluid on his own and wanted to betray them, he wouldn't have revived senkuu first—if at all, let alone give him the freedom to choose who to revive.

their few weeks alone together would be pretty quiet, in a good way, with senkuu doing 80% of the talking while hyoga mostly listens to him info dump about anything and everything. senkuu can't help it because it's the kind of company senkuu must have also wanted when he revived by himself before, because being alone in the dark for a long time and still having no one to talk to right after waking up sucked. but here hyoga was, being the perfect listener while also being the most dependable person senkuu could ever ask for while others were still stone. i just think senkuu would be visibly thrilled with this outcome.

AHHH this would have been. hyoga's perfect redemption agh 👊🤧 thank you for this ask omg 🤧 i know i practically already wrote a fic answering this question but now i kinda wanna actually write it as a proper fic o(TᯅTo)

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Hey, I'm messaging random people out of desperation, so please forgive me if this is annoying- my partner is looking for a remote job while studying for his CompTIA A+ cert, and hasn't been able to find anything. We've hit a wall as far as where to look (LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. are filled with scams and useless) and I'm reaching out to whoever I can think of/feel called to ask, to see if they have any ideas/directions to point us in. Thank you for your time, and I hope you have a good night

Shit this is really hard because I usually gotta ask follow up questions before giving specified advice.

But I'm a misogyny experiencing person in the tech fields. So I'll try.

First of all. Is your partner a person that experiences misogyny or a person of color? (I use "person that experiences misogyny because trans-men or enbies that are AFAB that don't medically transition can experience sexism in the field.)

Another trait I have that I say "gives me experience in the struggles of the field" is I've been unemployed for over a year twice. (Not by choice).

Gaps in your resume, anything in your resume that can indicate you're a person that experiences misogyny, or anything that can give away that you're a person of color will make it harder for your partner.

You can apply to large companies if you want, but don't get your hopes up. Large companies get thousands of applicants and rely on AI to filter resumes. Unfortunately AI is racist and sexist. Because it was trained by people with an unconscious bias. Small companies around 100 employees is literally how I keep finding my jobs.

Go to career fairs. My resume wasn't that great, but I knew I was smart enough to get the job if I could get them to just meet me. Which sucked because I never got an interview. One employer met me, and I guess I said something right because he put a big ole star on my resume and I was put on top of the applicants list.

Use Christian resources. "But fae. I'm not Christian." Yeah. It was really fucking weird for a long time to constantly be told like "I'm so glad we're if the same beliefs. This is a Christian company." But like... companies that want to keep is "in-house" so to speak will only send job descriptions to Christian resources. And honestly I've seen near no competition at these places for jobs.

I'm not saying lie or exaggerate on your resume. I'm saying floof on your resume. Instead of "developed the website". Maybe think "Hey. I realize I was the primary person working on the website, and the person everyone went to for help." BAM. Put "lead web developer" on the job description (not job title).

Look at the type of job the description is asking for. If they're a company that contracts their employees time. You want to focus your job description on how much time you saved and money you made fit the company. If they build products. You want to focus on your skill sets.

POST YOUR RESUME EVERYWHERE. Put it up on indeed. LinkedIn. Monster. Everywhere. Check the box that says you're looking for a job. Make it visible. Many companies don't want to go through the hiring process and will pay a contractor to do the work. Those jobs won't be posted. The contractor will be searching resumes on these sites and making calls.

Have a job already. It makes you look desirable to employers.

If you have gaps in your resume. Pencil it in. You weren't unemployed during that year you were studying for your certification.

Your resume should only be 1 page (longer if you have work experience but no more than 2 pages) and the first third of the first page should have the most important info. A quick blurb about you. Your skills/certifications. Your work experience. If you don't catch their attention by then, your resume will go on the trash.

I see a lot of people put irrelevant information on their resume. You don't want gaps in your resume but they don't need to know about that baby sitter job when you were 16. They don't need to know that you also made the coffee in that job as a web developer. Don't include information that you can't relate to the job.

It never worked out for me but a lot of people suggest using those sites that scan your resume against the job description and it's honestly worth a shot.

Don't let anyone throw a thesaurus at you when they offer to help with your resume. If you have people that help by thesaurusing your words, don't listen to them. Hiring managers and recruiters see through that shit.

It's honestly been a hot minute, so I'm probably forgetting stuff, but I do hope this helps!

-fae

[gyubby99]

@disneyanddisneyships how it would be like dating my ocs (hehe)

Only like.. the story im writing and everything

Marianne

She'd be like the best gf ever.

Elizabeth tells u Marianne's deepest darkest secrets

Slight nsfw but if u kiss her bare back u go straight under the sheets idc idc

WOULD listen to you rant about literally anything. Rant about frogs and shit and it's better than anything she's ever heard her entire life.

She's a workaholic bc she's the heiress, so when she knows she can't spend time with you she writes you a handwritten letter instead.

Lets you proofread what she writes

I feel like she's both a morning bird and a night owl, so like when you wake up she'll be right there excited to hold you and at night, if you beg her to read one of her works, like-- pleaaaseee with a cherry on top, she does it until u fall asleep.

She likes to tease u. It's her way of showing u how comfortable she is.

She spoils you to death. If you asked her for McDonald's she'd buy the company.

Sometimes she judges herself too much, or think what she writes ain't good enough, so you hype her up.

Has the BIGGEST smile when you're around like are you kidding me? You make her the happiest girl in the world.

Lots of aftercare with this woman.

She would write you a poem, a letter, a whole book on why she loves you. Literally.

She's stubborn. When you fight abt something she somehow gets the upper hand most of the time.

She bites when doing the yk what

Secretly very thirsty and vocal (hehe)

She's a sucky cook so if she cooks for you pretend u like it

Elizabeth would yell "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE JUST KISS"

--squeals when you DO kiss.

She's such a boomer. Bear with her if she doesn't even know what "asdfghjkl" means.

In the modern world it's canon she plays candy crush, so it would take up a lot of her time

Gives u back massage

Her love language is words of affirmation.

Hope to god her mom ages out. Pls.

Damian

Has a lot of hyperfixations so if u listen to him rant about them he's a goner

Draws you little butterflies. He can't draw but he can try because he loves u

He would talk to u abt his mom a lot

Scenario: he would be sparring with Jake and as soon as he sees you?? Motivation = 📈📈📈📈

Speaking of Jake he's wondering "HOW THE FUCK DID HE PULL"

Don't be surprised if one day by some miracle he brings home a ferret. He loves ferrets.

You're a writer??? HE WILL analyze your book, or anything you write. He WILL proofread anything you write. He WILL give out honest opinion

The thing is he would lie sometimes. But like, only lie about if he fought a raccoon or something. Like he would lie to u about the secret stash of sweets, or if he threw heart shaped confetti in your room. But get this, he's a bad liar.

If your favorite color is green you have no right to break up with him. He has green eyes.

His love language is gift giving and quality time

A cuddly man. He wants to feel u physically every second of the day

"Hey can u write me something"

Plant nerd. Instant info-dump

Loves people of all body types. Thin? Smash. Plus sized? Smash. Chubby? Smash dear god. He's a lover AND a fighter.

Recommend him a book and he'll read it for you.

He's like a male version of Belle. So, he's academically smart. But emotionally very dumb.

Please don't mind this man being silly and a little childish at times. It's his way of showing he's healing his inner child with you..

Reassurance would never be a problem with him. He'll give you that before u realize you need it.

Severe abandonment issues.

Do you sing? Good luck. He's gonna keep bothering you to sing for him.

Also he's a choir kid.. you might even go for a "Fly Me To The Moon" duet.

HE needs insane amount of reassurance. Give him ALL OF IT.

He has big hands.. i think u know where this is going

"Is this okay?" While doing IT. AGSAGDASJJAKSAAJ

Elizabeth

She braids your hair.

A ball of sunshine, actually. She acts like a teenage girl with a massive crush around u

She needs kisses and you'll give her all of it.

She adores dancing so pls dance with her

Love language is physical touch.

You + her = PDA

She takes commissions from you but instead pay her with a date

She loves strawberries and sometimes you would pick strawberries together

"They listen to u rant--" bitch no. With Elizabeth? You rant TOGETHER.

"I love you more" competitions.

Marianne gives u a locket of Elizabeth

Ava loves you for her actually. You and Elizabeth would go visit the tavern and she would be like "EEEEEEEEEEE"

Cheesiest petnames beware.

Hold her as she tells you about her mommy issues.

"Slay the house boots down houston im deceased" "Liza, what language are you speaking?"

She loves idioms sometimes even no one gets it, and you kinda have to deal with it.

HAND HOLDING IS A MUST

Selene/ Lady May

Shes the most introverted person that has ever introverted. So indoor dates.

Love language is quality time

I feel like there would be more to her character.. so we'll see (free space)

Loves combing your hair

Would dedicate like 10 songs to you and you've just brushed your hand with hers

A hopeless romantic so she aint lettin u go

Family issues. So, her parents do not approve of you

Yest despite her family disapproving, you fight for her.

Only lets you touch her hair

Hates horror movies. She hides her face behind you a lot.

"Darling" is her petname for you.

She plays ukelele and sings to u often

Jake (I'm including him because I love him. Yes. I do. Despite what he pulled in the 2nd chapter. If u can love canon alistar then im allowed to love jake 😔)

Overprotective mf

Never lets u near damian

Pretty toxic lol

Only loves you. Literally. This man loves no one else lmao

Jealous guy

Simp

"Hold me im angry" "why what's wrong?" "Damian beat me at UNO"

You have to rlly empathize with this man. He has mental health issues

Communication issues. *runs from u*

Bad flirt but you love him anyways

You have to put up with his dark humor

Level 2-3 asshole around you, level 10 at everyone.

If you're shorter than him then he wont let u live a single day without letting you know "how the air up here feels like"

Love language is physical touch.

Nerfed Chaz Thurman.

[lauvra]

up all night agonising over the passive voice. having a writing detox, this is it. lowercase. let's brainstorm harder ways than necessary to get simply achievable things. how to get a job. sound official cc official sounding people then instruct a new hire be added to the piece of paper with names on it or like claim it's interstate transfer given wrong info by you personally in your power and your boss so angry you feel awful but don't say that you're up there you don't care, company jargon. say this is a business. they're threatening to sue and own a gold mine just want a weekend job on top maybe even suggest they hold a second interview in case then you get an interview so much easier than asking in person. just do it 'til you find a big enough one with poor enough internal communication and cc enough names that sound important surely you'll fool someone maybe send it late afternoon. not paid much longer to think. irony is the job in my head for this fool proof master plan so worth trying is base shithouse type cus creative plus smart is unplugged. pay for premium subscription. hey this ain't no better. im on smoko leavemealone someone should create a sincere slow sad version of that. like pained. they just won't leave me alone. this is my brain massage low energy relaxed sipping raspberry strawberry ice tea activity. say dumb things. turn it into a segment. surely hackers could swindle their way onto i bet that would be another stupid thing to say but this entire post is designed to encourage the um, actually crowd to confess their secrets cus it's worth a thrill to call me stupid. i then pass info to the authorities who i love. the other day i was thinking about what qualifies as impressive in terms of street taggers, graffers, artists like essentially access difficulty. how well surveilled how heavily penalised. then the question of what kinda tag or hack turns the community against you and jack said like when people took down the internet archive and like you just don't do that because i've saved a lot of offensive post screenshots on there because some days i'm a bad person who goes against her values which seem malleable and confusingly so like jack said a ginger cat had been run over outside the day prior and my first thought was i literally know which cat that is and she has been taunting our girls at the bedroom windows for a while, she saw me see her and slinked away but not that night and waltzed onto the road brushing her tail in a sexy way against a parked car tire and i thought that is not smart and alas 'twas not. my first cat was a ginger named ginger she got hit by a car and dad threw her in the bin out front i don't care about your cat unless they've got a cool personality or i love you so much i'm willing to give them a fair shot flicking through your pictures like your friend's boyfriends you know. if you say he's ok i can pretend. i love april's cat because he's penny's brother. they lived beneath the same house as strays and sucked their mothers splooge toob so that was a poor call obviously but let's call c***s splooge toobs sorry wobbly parts banned during downtime.

[starseedfxofficial]

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[semi-imaginary-place]

ai somnium files playthrough

eyes, ai, ai in eyes, the ferris wheel is an eye observing the murder scene, hmm idk maybe eyes are a recurring motif.

so something happened 6 years ago. date lost his eye and memories. 5 years ago befriended renju. 4 years ago more or less took over parenting renju's daughter(deadbeat?). and now the mom is dead and daughter found at the scene.

AI, ai, eye, I. aiba, AI ball, eyeball, aibou. Wow the devs are really going at it

Everyone in this game is deranged. I love it.

Oh no mom! She better not be delusional.

Is date on antipsychotics?

He's 24?? I wasn't sure if i'd misread that since everyone calls him a kid. But yeah date would do that. Ok really don't call it a "relationship" mizuki's like 12.

Is she blackmailing date? That's hilarious. Yeah she is. Lol get bullied by a teenager date

She's an egirl minecraft streamer! D: cant tell if thats better or worse than instagram infuencer, probably better honestly

Aiba need to hack line ah nile to find who messages mizuki. 1 isnt that illegal. 2 with a warrant the company would give that info. 3 it could be a burner account. Ip address isnt a sure way either if they're smart

It's been less than 24 hours give the poor girl a break before you potentially permanently damage her mind. So no guardian permission you basically kidnapped a kid and she can't communicate. Ok this feels really scummy. I mean she's non verbal sure but shes literate right she could right down answers

Keitai ah another ai. Bleh i hate timed mechanics and pc controls are bad (it was on sale on steam). Uhhh i did not know what i was doing. I raised the balloons and unintentionally used her abusive mom's voice to calm her. Was there a better outcome? Shoutouts to the dude keeping gay porn at work. Ok i definitely messed up but im curious where this branch goes. How was i suppose to know "comforting voice" was going to be her moms i thought it'd be date or something.

Hmm while mizuki was at bloom park someone might have contacted her. But they only discontinued the 2nd rental phone number after date called? That's pretty sloppy for someone otherwise trying to cover their tracks.

Wow iris you're missing peak hours 5-10. Also all this date stuff is uncomfortable she's 18. Mom's dead calling it

Hmm i thought the phone had been planted to contact mizuki. But if its shoko's phone...

Is mizuki a year behind? If hitomi is an elementary school teacher and mizuki is in her homeroom she's in 6th grade at most or maybe im forgetting school ages

Date's poor back. Buy a second bed

Hah did i miss something. Mizuki got a nile message from renju on saturday? So that was before or after the psynch. Is this a translation error? The message should have been sent friday but today is sunday

So that whole psynch dive was unnecessary and dangerous since mizuki gives us all the same info like 10 hours later like shoko's phone

Date's memory incident was 7 years ago. Hitomi was shot 6 years ago. Why did date dream of her shot

A-set aseto aseto-n chan. I am now hearing acetone whenever ota speaks

The disrespect! Date just calling yakuza guy by his given name.

Uh... why do i feel like that self destruct function is going to become a plot point like date will say 40125(?) to prove he isnt lying or something

also i switched from mouse and keyboard to controller because yeah this game was designed for controller. i should have gotten it for switch... but it was on sale on stream for 7 bucks! anyways using switch joycons (ha!) and idk what it is but there lag or a delay for inputs on the right joystick.

Ok i was not expecting the iris murder, good foreshadowing but i thought she would continue bothering date for the rest of the game. I've been playing too much ace attorney that im now expecting the weird teen girl sidekick. Did sejima actually do it? Why not hire someone to do the actual killing. Date is convinced of his guilt but I'm not. Also i failed that psync...

The game already established date is on some sort of drug given how aiba comments his dosage needs to be increased every time he gets too weird but now the game drops that date doesnt even know he's on the drug which wow flag just went up.

Ooh and then they cant find the body. Pewter said the psyncher brings in a bit of their memory into the pynchie's(?) somnium. How convenient that aiba ran out of batteries. It's totally possible there was no corpse and date hallucinated it and then his own beliefs and memories influenced the somnium given the presentation of events and also the hints that there's something up with date psychologically. Game's making me doubt his sanity. Good writing. I did find it ood he didnt stay with the body, why did he need to rush to hq, what was at hq? The most he needed to go was the car to recharge aiba. Also another time not actually having a cell phone bites him.

And iris isn't dead. Yup game is making me doubt date. Maybe those actually are anti psychotics

Huh is it me or was there another box in the warehouse last night. Also yeah 1.5 hour internal police response seems slow. I cant tell what is a red herring and what isnt.

i was already doubting hitomi's taste in men given the whole teen mom thing. But she foud a mob dude bleeding out who grabbed and kissed her and decided to date him. Says she loves iris more than her own life but introduced this shady af dude to her home life and 12 year old daughter? uhh. Hmm so this partly explains the opening dream. Let's see if im getting this right old boyfriend did crimes and had a dude trying to kill him, hitomi took the shot and almost died and lost control function in her right arm. Police arrested gundude and boyfriend. Now why does date remember the scene? And if boyfriend didn't actually die why was he shown... Actually i don't remember if he was dead in the dream. But i do remember the gouged out eye. Something also happened to date 6 years ago since thats when his memories begin and he's missing his left? Eye. In so's somnium it's speculated by boss and pewter that the faceless person was so's image of himself, then in date's dream was that his image of himself? I guess this is the begining if the hitomi boyfriend hypothesis although that would necessitate hitomi and iris pretending they didnt know date. Date's scared of ghosts. There also the earlier dialogue about how memories are left behind by the psyncher during somnium mostly only the ego/personality/programming is retained not the memories. Ok redid the opening dream, skeleton with a bloody left eye socket. Took a closer look at iris's drawing, criminal boyfriend looks like the guy seen in the dream dark hair red shirt black jacket and pants. Which means date is more likely the shooter.

[mylawcitrus]

Good God

I never thought losing a device would bring me such a fucking series of headaches.

Sons of fucking bitches! I don't know if it was people on that disgusting network called Faceflow or if it was Pornhub, I should be ashamed of visiting both, and this is not the Catholic in me, it's more the smart in me, cause it's not fucking safe... but typing in robot spam websites to see what's up? I must've lost my mind. They took advantage of my mental health condition... waiting for something new, my social condition, waiting for change...

And now I try to nogotiate an anticipation of payment with a client (because I talk about sex but I still work, can you believe?) and the guy totally leaves me in the dark, but he's got an MBA and shit...

Then the cherry on top is I can't fucking tell the truth about the company I worked for, because they wanna fight back. How the fuck do they know what I'm saying? They should put on the contract that "as long as" I'm working for the company, they have access to sensitive data. There should be a conversation highlighting, AT LEAST, the points that they wanna look over and WHY, and an opt in which is not mandatory. But remote companies decided they could run businesses in whatever way they fucking woke up one day and decided to, and the industry is a shameful disaster, and my voice is not heard... then the student I dissed them to keeps having classes with them, doesn't respond and I have to deal with something ELSE, because everyday it's aa new thing.

OH! AND APPARENTLY IF I COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING HACKED ON LINKEDIN, I'M A CHILD THROWING TANTRUM!

I can't believe this shit.

I created an account separate from my artist account, Twitter and Facebook, each for different reasons, had suspended or deleted my accounts associated with that email, in the midst of that, WHICH I HAVE NO IDEA WHY, is freaking Coinbase, and so I switch again to reshape my social presence, manually adding trusted contacts on a new account. I start with looking for people on Bumble. The idea was not to run classes with that account. But I also didn't wanna use my work account because that would compromise my fucking work, with all the data analysis they did when I had the website, with the call history and the Drive documents and everything, and also LinkedIn and a bunch of HR companies and contacts services and marketing tools. I didn't want them to have access to what I was trying to do. I didn't trust the clients weren't accessing, because the feeling was that they were like, all stalkers. And then I stay, on my artist account, talking about fucking green energy and great communicators and hosting business events and all that shit that English coursebooks by Pearson tell you to do, but the info is with ONErpm -- who doesn't give a flying fuck! And there's like "a deal"? A deal with who? When the fuck did I agree to this? It's insane what they did.

But what's interesting is that I kept my artist account only for the classes, it was the second time I had tried to restore a Google account, so to speak, filtering the contacts and reregistering on social media. When I did more risky things, like signing up to an adult website, I didn't fucking use my artist account. If I did, I changed my mind very quickly. And Twitter was still on board, so to speak. It was a promise of whatever. Then I told the pair of boys to fuck off and it ended in suspension, brought to you by a pissed off cam model accusing me of harassment because I said, to a woman whose tits are literally bigger than her head, "nice tits". I mean, it must have been an insult -- I should say at least "divine". "Marvelous rack, princess!" That would have passed. The British snobbishness and everything. They just ruined it, and then came the Snap talk.

Snap is acting like the most cynical company on planet Earth, if it weren't for the pharmaceutical industry, and let's not even talk about food and beverages. When it comes to setting policies for conversations with large groups of people, they have NO POLICY. And they leave the user in the dark while bad actors go through your whole portfolio and destroy your presence one link at a time.

Give it up, people! What are you gonna do next, pur a bomb in this fucking desktop? You gotta learn to live with me, I see your tricks and I don't like them, but if I had the proof of how you're acting abandoning all ethics and being biased AS FUCK you'd be facing a few lawsuits... fucking Congressman who thinks Humanities students are all raging faggots, get dickslapped by fucking Mandigo! Piece of shit!

And it goes on and on and on...

I'm tired, I sit here, I produce, it all goes to the same fucking pockets, the same fucking people benefit, and they make it look like democracy. Like, wake the fuck up! You start getting informed, you start getting tracked. You speak out, they hunt you down. You make an impression, they tear you down. It's a systematical operation motivated by these fucking "liberals" who only care about money, but guess what? I happen to care about money too and I got so much shit to say about each of you that I could leech you off and make you bleed in your treasuries... I'm not fucking scared of some retarded tech bro. I'm definitely not scared of a delusional extreme right activist. I'm more worried about what my neighborhood thinks about me reaching out to people who only fuck things up for me, and probably for them, because we live in a community. Leave us the fuck alone, and if you happen to realize you're just gonna bother someone else, spare some fucking pussy for me, cause I'm not gonna change, fuck you and your morals, I am who I am!

[lovingdabeessss]

You’re so right @nicc-universes I apologize

I should not have to defend this stance as I believe it speaks for itself however to not dump the info would be an insult to you all and I would never do that

They all have autism all of the tism all the different flavors

Ruby- needs no introduction but especially in the first seasons we see her do pretty much nothing BUT stim she’s socially awkward in the not getting social cues or understanding what people mean when trying to make friends with Weiss she trys over and over to get “making friends” right she suggests they go buy school supplies together which is like a practice safe thing to say but she says it to the richest girl in school and then when Weiss answers back with sarcasm Ruby fully doesn’t catch it and assumes it’s genuine she can’t mask at ALL fully the worst at masking she has hyperfixations In huntresses and fairytales that she re reads all the time weapons and fighting to the point she’s on par to a better fighter then people two years older then her or more she’s definitely the more obvious one she’s bad at school things she’s not interested in however it’s not due to lack of effort or laziness she just can’t focus on that her coping mechanisms seem to be a lot of dissociation she prefers to fight on her own had a ton of trouble communicating with her teammates at first talking while fighting is hard for her and she’d prefer to listen to music get in her own head just focus on the fighting part she loves and she’s still bad at communicating but for different reasons

Weiss- I think she’s on the exact opposite side of the spectrum of autism with the really really good at school version she’s seen as smart and mean and cold to others she has her own safety interactions to use where she talks about her family and standing and her expectations on how to be treated is part of this safety net of hers so she knows how to act in a situation when Ruby bumps into her Weiss gives her a saftey manual on dust and then info dumps so fast ruby molecular mass altering super speed rose can’t keep up she can’t make friends well either despite desperately wanting to be friends with Pyrrha which again she relays on what she assumes people like which is Weiss talking about how jaune shouldn’t be talking to her cause Pyrrhas so far above him she doesn’t understand how to make jokes and mimics yangs shes very cold and stern and serious till she actually gets comfortable with her little found family and unmasks a bunch and then she’s over the top and kind and a little ridiculous and then when they go out of their usual circle she’s back to stern and serious she’s a lot better at masking then Ruby we literally see her practicing her smile in an elevator that one time

Blake- HAVE YOU WATCHED THE CURRENT SEASON SHES JUST INFO DUMPING ITS SO GREAT also her FIRST SCENE is her info dumping about the Schnee Dust Company in the first season she wouldn’t talk other then one of two words unless it was her rambling she became so intensely obsessed with Roman and the white gang she didn’t eat or sleep or participate in class she’s very closed off in the “if I don’t talk I’m masking” like she’s fooling anyone she has SUCH a strong sense of justice and I mean they all do but it’s Blake’s whole character she wanted to help the world and so she was manipulated using that idea by Adam but because it was a genuine need to help the world and not revenge she eventually figured it out and was able to escape him the fact that she has four ears means she’s got a ton of noise based sensory issues just off logic she can see in the dark those are pretty autism of her she loves reading so much she and Ruby canonically would bond over their respective hyperfixations about their books she has nervous stims where she’ll grab her arm her bow is basically just a physical version of masking as it covers a part of herself that’s very very expressive she REALLY likes fish which yeah ha ha cat I love her but also!! Comfort food I see you belladonna

💖✨yang✨💖- BBY!!! I love her also literally the definition of “you don’t look autistic?” “That’s because I’m really hot” by far the best at masking again mostly helped by people’s views of her it’s a big point of her character in the beginning of putting up this specific image of herself that people would like it’s so good it’s a strategy she uses when fighting to get peoples guard down it’s so there that she acts like a reckless person and a bad Student when she’s really not she’s very smart and calculated she can dodge blasts and hits really well she decides not to because it helps her semblance she is best at fighting solo like with her trailer and a lot of other fights against groups of trained enemies yet she picks up fighting in a team faster then anyone else their team attacks is often just her just throwing her at people and she works with Blake so well (and Blake learned how to fight specifically in a duo she was already there she’s just amazing love her) and she wants to seem bad at school but logically she’d be the second best student of team Rwby if not on par with Weiss because she actually has gone through the schooling to get her Ruby moved up to grades Weiss only started training for this pretty recently when she got her semblance and Blake hasn’t seen a school sense she ran away so it’s just about that safe image so she knows how to interact with people and she knows how people will talk to her, no one is allowed to touch her hair she’s super protective of it and will freak out if anyone gets to close to it when she’s overwhelmed she literally explodes she’s admitted to also getting so obsessed with things it’s effected her life and rubys she has such high empathy she has one of the most emotionally intelligent conversations of the early seasons where she talks Blake out of being unhealthy and how does she show that she connects? Sharing a story about herself!! Not very neurotypical of her ALSO THE “are you sure you didn’t hit your head?” Line to penny when Blake had to remind her to say her name? Accidental rude Autism of her

I HAVE OTHER POINTS HOWEVER THIS IS ALREADY VERY LONG AND WORDY

EVERY MEMBER OF TEAM RWBY IS AUTISTIC I WILL BE TAKING NO CRITICISM

In this essay I will-

[queeniecamps]

Wait why don’t we want season 5 anymore what happened or am i missing a joke

to put it VERY short; (here's a link to Kdin's statement which is a great starter, there's a TL;DR in the end)

it turns out a LOT of people in rooster teeth (including the founding members) were being homophobic and transphobic towards Kdin Jenzen, calling her a f*gg*t and coming up with a nickname for ther that allowed them to call her that on camera and such (with people such as MICHEAL JONES (VOICE OF MAX CAMP CAMP) HIMSELF coming up with it (although micheal has apologized privately years ago and apparently was forgiven)

On top of this, RT wasn't paying people for a lot of work, and they were also threatening to replace voice actors (such as Blake Belladonna's VA and Samantha Ireland, the voice of all of the flower scouts)

As well as the fact that apparently, Jordan Cweriz (CO-CREATOR OF CAMP CAMP) was threatening Geordan Whitman (art director and animator for camp camp, as well as Preston Goodplay's original voice actor) with a lot of different things, forcing him to make so many changes to his series, Nomad of Nowhere and basically ruined his own show and it's vision, as well as literally REPLACING his voice for Preston. For years we were lead to believe Geordan left because preston was hard to voice and also creative differences, but it's a LOT worse :( (apparently, Miles Luna (Co-Creator of Camp Camp / voice of David) was one of the few people who actually supported Geordan and his work, and (miles) had left RT on his own a while ago, so I thiiiink he's in the clear, but don't quote me on that

With that and their history of racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other bullshit, I expect RT to shut down by next summer. They are SCREWED and people have had enough of their BS

You can find SO MUCH MORE info on this on twitter, everyday employees (ex employees, animators, voice actors, etc) are coming out with their own statements, some RT ppl are coming out with apologies (like Michael's public apology, Gavin Free's apology, Geoff Ramsey's apology, etc)

This shit is crazy, and I'm so done with RT and their bullshit

I will say, I do still love camp camp, but it's definitely a "separate the art from the company" situation, and I hope Miles boots Jordan off the team and either locks that shit up in a vault away from RT or even sells it to a better company or even reboots it.

I'll still be making content for camp camp, working on my OCs n such the best I can, but my desire for Rooster Teeth to make a new season has died.

I hope that Kdin is doing okay and finds some better work, if RT is smart they'll hopefully pay her back the money she's owed and also give her credit for the work she did

[jewishbarbies]

Genuine question, why don't you like Tony Stark? Not trying to be rude, just genuinely curious and wanting another perspective.

just a quick note: what i’m saying below is directed at tonky, not at you, this is just me expressing my disgust for the character and not meant to be taken personally by anyone. also, if you’d like sources and visual rep for my claims, watch this video i put together here.

both mcu AND comics tony stark are arrogant, selfish, war profiteering assholes who benefit from and take no responsibility for the deaths of a LOT of people (comics tony is even to blame for the deaths of heroes during civil war, including almost spider-man), and my “#anti tony stark” tag has a lot of posts from other people who explain a lot of my points in depth, if you’d like more info on certain specifics.

[i’m making a list and checking it twice below the cut because this list is LONG]

tony inherited his father’s company at 21 (old enough and -canonically- smart enough to know better already) and immediately started IMPROVING the weapons, yet claimed later he somehow didn’t know “what the weapons were capable of in the wrong hands” (still maintaining that the us military is somehow the “right hands” for his weapons) and that he “shut it down, stopped manufacturing” even though he continued to build the iron man suit, the iron legion, pepper’s suit, rhodey’s suit, a suit for peter, and also ULTRON. so, he’s a hypocrite and liar of monstrous proportions.

he claimed howard being apart of the manhattan project was being a “hero”, agreed with howard when he said peace was “having a bigger stick than the other guy”, and claimed that the best weapon was the one you “only have to fire once”, all while arab people referred to him as “the merchant of death” and claimed whoever owned stark tech “controlled the middle east”. his “come to jesus” moment was when his weapons finally effected him personally.

he blackmailed A CHILD into a war/fight he had no real knowledge of (peter says all tony told him was that steve would say he was in the right even though they were wrong, which is shady and irresponsible af) by taking advantage of his position of power/influence and involved the child without telling his legal guardian and then left the child in the hands of his driver?? assistant?? whatever tf happy is at this point and STILL didn’t tell his legal guardian. he then gave said child weapons of mass destruction when the child had NO training whatsoever, then admonished the child when the child misused them, and never took responsibility.

he has consistently sexually harassed multiple women, including while he was officially dating pepper. treating natasha like a piece of meat? googling sexual photos of her alias when he’d JUST met her? saying “I want one’? pepper had to remind him he could face a “very expensive sexual harassment lawsuit” and he still didn’t stop because he didn’t care. he couldn’t give a straight answer to any of christine everhart’s questions when being interviewed because he was too busy trying to get into her pants. he even asked happy “is she hot?” and only turned around when happy nodded yes, so he wasn’t going to speak to her or even LOOK in her direction until it was confirmed that she was sexually attractive enough. he sexual objectified aunt may as well (IN FRONT OF AND TO PETER WTF) multiple times in a single interaction.

tony literally told steve he was fighting for the accords because he wanted his girlfriend back. enough said. but on a much more real note, he used the death of (1) AMERICAN teen killed by ultron to justify the accords because “we need to be put in check” when the direct cause for ultron was tony and bruce, bruce of which being the only person who felt remorse and expressed regret. meanwhile tony was barking at the avengers that they didn’t “get why they needed [ultron]”. funny enough, tony admits later that ultron was his fault during civil war. “and then ultron. my fault.” of course, he’s saying this while trying to convince steve to sign, and explaining he wants the accords to “split the difference” and convince his girlfriend to take him back.

he put his “best friend” rhodey in very real danger by making a transphobic joke at his expense IN FRONT OF OTHER SOLDIERS during “don’t ask don’t tell”. i really shouldn’t have to say more here. and the fact that rdj improvised that? gtfo. he also made a sexist AND transphobic joke or two about a female soldier when in transit before the convoy is attacked, claiming he “couldn’t tell” she was a woman. i don’t have a link for it but it’s in the first like 10-20 minutes of iron man 1.

his nicknames for everyone he interacts with are insensitive and often target the person’s trauma (ie. “manchurian canidate” for bucky, fucking “capsicle” for steve???) and made comments like “they should have left him in the ice” during avengers when steve had been thawed out (1) movie prior. his “everything special about you came out of a bottle” line, propping himself up with “billionaire, playboy, philanthropist” as if that means anything to anyone present. constantly trying to FORCE bruce to let out the hulk with no regard to anyone’s safety, much less bruce’s.

he claims he hates his father and never once mentioned his mother in any way, and the stans claim howard was an abusive dad, making literally thousands of fics about his “abuse”, and then tony is somehow upset that his father was murdered by bucky, when the nickname HE GAVE BUCKY is because bucky was being used against his will and tony knew that before bucky had ever escaped custody. he had full prior knowledge of this AND that it was hydra that was controlling bucky, yet continued to attempt to outright murder both bucky AND captain fucking america and then demanded the shield from steve because howard made it (for steve so...wtf) because steve “didn’t deserve it”. make it make sense.

he shot sam wilson nearly point blank in the chest after rhodey was shot out of the sky by HIS OWN TEAM and sam dove to help, but was too late.

stark weapons killed wanda’s and pietro’s parents, driving them to join hydra in order to get back at him, and tony calls her a “weapon of mass destruction” and keeps her under forced house arrest “to protect her” loooong after the twins joined the “good side”. then when she was arrested, wanda was put in a straight jacket and electric collar in a cell in the raft.

HE INTENTIONALLY REVEALED CLINT’S SECRET FAMILY TO THE GOVERNMENT ACTIVELY HUNTING CLINT’S ALLIES, FORCING CLINT TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM SAFE. TONY DID THIS UNPROMPTED. UNPROVOKED. THERE WAS NO REASON FOR THIS.

tony refused to help when asked after the snap because he had what he wanted and the billions of other families with missing people weren’t worth his (1) child, when he wouldn’t even have to change that, just use the stones to bring all the missing people back. his wife had to CONVINCE him to help. when he gets off the plane he says “I lost the kid” (a kid that wasn’t his and was only involved BECAUSE of him) and steve says “WE lost...”. in conclusion, selfish prick.

these are all the main reasons i can think of right now.

[meltingpenguins]

The issue with 'miscommunication' on the show, imho, is that the characters flipflop drastically between their book personality and their show one in s1. Aziraphale not telling Crowley about the book makes more sense in the book where aziraphale is very much bibliophile. He's gone into tunnel vision mode when he realizes what he's got there. And Crowley interprets Aziraphale's reaction as the angel needing alone time to sort his thoughts, and Crowley respects that. Which, in the book, is why they don't talk until saturday, AFTER aziraphale contacted Heaven.

The whole bit about not telling Crowley is, as you said, cause of Aziraphale reasoning that thwarting Armageddon might very well be part of the Plan, whether Great or Ineffable. In the book, I'd say, Crowley isn't really certain about it either.

And Shadwell? They are both kind of embarrassed about it, yeah. Again, no miscommunication, just a for the characters logical reaction.

The issue with s1 with these points is the crammed and shoehorned in bits and bobs that are there for... i still don't know what? Drama? Trailerscenes? Shipbaiting? In the book, Aziraphale, by all means never talks to Heaven about Armageddon in 11 years, and after the Metatron tells him Heaven wants this war, he immediately regrets not telling Crowley first and calls crowley (while Heaven might very well be listening in) On the show almost literally every scene with Gabriel is Aziraphale being told that Heaven wants this war, and he just doesn't get it because... your guess is as good as mine. And then Crowley doesn't respect the angel needing time alone. Instead we have Crowley saying JUMP and expecting Aziraphale to ask How High. The gazebo scene is pointless and makes no sense unless Aziraphale is actually 100% truthful about the whole 'I don't even like you'.* Also that scene is really just for drama.

I reckon that had book!Crowley called Aziraphale between finding the address and contacting Heaven, Aziraphale would have spilled the beans, deeming this a Thumbs Up from God. But show!Aziraphale...

The Hellhound bit, likewise, doesn't make as much sense on the show as in the book. In the book Crowley only learned about it the day prior, and thus is pretty much telling Aziraphale directly. But show? Look at all the stuff Crowley does beforehand, it really feels as if the info bout the hound is only there because the book lot demands it.

And the Holy Water fight doesn't even make any sense, not on a Watsonian nor on a Doylist level. In universe we had no reason for Crowley to ask this. S2 tried to give us a half-baked reason only to then tell us that it can't have been a reason because Crowley's too smart and hell is 'full of idiots' >_> and on a meta level it's... simply explaining something that didn't need an explanation because... either cause someone really things the audience dumb or... i dunno.

*This is a very, very very sinister bit looking at s2. With pretty much all of book!Aziraphale's personality gone and replaced with what we got on the show and the whole new information about their 'relationship' (which just contradicts the entire book plot, just saying), it's reasonable to say that Aziraphale, on the show, genuinely doesn't like Crowley and would absolutely splash a glass of Holy Water in his face if he wouldn't feel so guilty about getting Crowley to Fall. Seriously. The show took a chance relationship between two beings that would never have sought out each others company as such, but who did by chance and found they have a lot in common and actually enjoy each others company.... to... this. Aziraphale has been reduced down to a dimwitted manic-pixie-dream-girl cheerleader who is so dreadfully submissive and only lives to make the dark broody (abusive) bad boy happy, by all means. And Crowley and Az aren't the only couple this happens to in the ship. On another blog someone said Beelzebub got 'Stepford-Wived' and... yeah. This quite literally happened to ALL the 'female' parts in the relationships on the show to some degree and it's just wtf.

I keep seeing people saying Aziraphale & Crowley had apparently "never been able to communicate" even in s1 and I also saw references to Aziraphale not telling Crowley about Agnes's book, Crowley not telling Aziraphale about the Hellhound and Aziraphale and Crowley not knowing that they both employed Shadwell as their "agent network" as examples of that "miscommunication".

And like. Hate to break it to you. But it's literally not.

The only actual... uh... thing worth talking about here is the first one, the one with Aziraphale basically lying to Crowley. But... It's actually, like, motivated. It doesn't come from Aziraphale not understanding things about Crowley, it's the opposite: Aziraphale knows that if he told Crowley about the book, Crowley would immediately jump to action and would try to convince him go to Tadfield and find the Antichrist (and presumably kill him) now, while it's not too late, and at this point Aziraphale still believes that he can convince Heaven to call the whole thing off, if only he could reach to the right people, and so he doesn't want to rebel, and so he doesn't want Crowley jumping to action because that would mean rebelling. He's not being right, but it's not a tragic miscommunication, it's his conscious decision that is actually based on him knowing full well how Crowley sees the world and predicting his behaviour quite correctly. And also I need to rewatch to remember everything better, but I wouldn't even say Crowley doesn't see he's lying? I mean I'd say at the very least he suspects something's off, he just doesn't really act on it because a) he trusts Aziraphale and b) he's under a fuckton of stress, honestly, there's only so much considerations a demon can handle at the face of the Apocalypse.

The other two (the hellhound thing and the Shadwell thing) say literally nothing. If Crowley not telling Aziraphale about the hellhound is an example of something, it's an example of Crowley and Aziraphale not being very competent at what they do, nothing else. Like, yeah, it never occurred to Crowley to tell Aziraphale about the hellhound. It's not because they don't communicate. It's because they (esp Crowley) are quite bad at planning and yes, it probably never occurred to both of them that they should have a more detailed plan for The Actual Day (well. Week?) to ensure everything goes well. But after all, their plan all along was to raise Warlock as a Normal Child so he wouldn't start the Apocalypse, and they didn't account on being involved in the actual process of not starting the Apocalypse.

The Shadwell thing happened because it's literally not important. They clearly mostly try to stay out of eachother's work when they don't need to invoke the Arrangement. Do you expect them to sit in the bookshop with some wine and discuss what human agents do they have? To discuss Shadwell? That weirdo who runs errands for them sometimes and who may ot may not actually be a part of a wider organisation, which doesn't matter, because the organisation still sucks, and they both clearly don't even trust him that much? It's not like that's some essential information. It wouldn't be even if they did discuss work a lot. It's just Shadwell.

That said, season 1 actually does have one (1) real miscommunication scene, at least one that I can think of, and it's the Holy Water Fight, and there's a lot to it, but it's not a matter for this post. What is a matter for this post is that it's still nowhere near the level of miscommunication they have in season 2. And it's still the only one occurrence as opposed to the whole fucking season. So. No, Aziraphale and Crowley didn't have "big communication problems" all along. It came out of nowhere for drama. And it's OOC.