#best possible service

[kindlythevoid]

Friendly reminder that Merry knew about the Ring before Bilbo even left. Friendly reminder that all of Frodo’s hobbit friends were spying on him through Sam to make sure that he was alright and that he wasn’t going to leave without saying goodbye. Friendly reminder that Merry and Pippin knew about the Ring and its importance to the Enemy and still decided to go with Frodo. Friendly reminder that Frodo wasn’t going to ask them to leave the Shire. Friendly reminder that Fredegar Bolger was one of Frodo’s close friends and knew about the Ring as well, but stayed behind in order to keep Frodo’s disappearance a secret for as long as possible.

[kronos-lungbarrow-oakdown]

thoschei haters

"they are like siblings"

ok, explain this then:

"oh, but that's pure fan-service to please new viewers of the show"

*googling* what media source popularized the term "fan-service" as we know it today? ¹

*googling* neon genesis evangelion release date ²

*googling* doctor who release date ³

....

thoschei wins

suck it

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REFERENCES

¹ Let's Talk: The History of Fan-Service.

² Neon Genesis Evangelion Premier.

³ Doctor Who [classic] Premier.

[kissthebridee]

taps microphone can anyone hear me hello hello

[skiitter]

Nothing fucks the way the Citadel DLC for ME3 fucks

[the-blind-geisha]

Before you is a picture of Lady Timpani and Lord Blumiere's silhouettes in Super Mario-kun... But that's not what I see.

I failed the Professor Layton test...

[srapsodia]

ghost trick really is such a great game I GET THE HYPE NOW I GET IT!!!! IM RIGHT THERE WITH YALL!!!!

[justyourtypicalwriter]

Hi gang! I took a hot minute to sit on this and I think I’m gonna delay the scheduled uploads I had planned for at least a week. The reason? They’re all angsty as shit and I feel like we need something happy to read rn. So if anyone has anything specific for the service dog au that they want to see, I am taking reqs for fluff

[obstinatecondolement]

I'm quite grimly fascinated by the YouTube pen pal creator sphere. Like… first of all, these people are just putting their full name and address on screen, huh?

Also, Idk, it just feels kind of disingenuous that they're always all "It isn't about the decoration or the extras! A simple heartfelt letter is what's important!" when they've built their entire online brand around elaborately decorated letters—that they, again, show in full on screen to millions of people who are not the recipient—with a bunch of stickers and tea bags and bits of confetti and washi tape samples added as gifts on top of what's used for decoration. Like, I don't know, if you have to disclaim a million times that having a pen pal is Not A Stationery Swap and that people shouldn't expect to be given these things, maybe you could reflect for a moment on what may have created this impression?

Like, personally, I never for a second believed that I needed more than "just an ordinary sheet of paper and any pen at all uwu" to send a letter, so it's sort of baffling to be gently reassured by people spending hours of work designing a visual aesthetic for their letters that, of course, I don't have to do it like that. Like, yeah, no shit, Sherlock.

I mean, I'm all for people having fun with stickers and washi tape and markers and whatever, but I feel like they've created this very false barrier to entry that I'm not about. It's bullet journals all over again.

[peachsayshi]

speaking of jjk threesomes, I feel like I might have been neglecting the following: yuki x choso x reader.

[thelegendofmrrager]

Finally working as a social worker in the field and yeah we're cops too. We're churning ppl thru the system too. Most fucked up thing is my job is considered a "mental health" agency and we're supposed to prioritize linking ppl to mental health resources... whole time like 95% of our clients are homeless and utilize us primarily for a hotel stay. These ppl are worrying about where they're gonna get their next meal, what's going to happen to them after their hotel stay runs out. I have clients who are single mothers on the verge of homelessness and I'm supposed to ask "how do you feel about outpatient counseling? Psychiatry? Mental health skill building?" It's fucked.

[watery-melon-baller]

fun fact im an ao3 god. i can navigate shit so easy. have a fic you read a few years ago but dont remember much except for like the basic plot? im your fucking GAL.

[donatellokinnersinner]

Was serving today and this little toddler was there. His parents were ordering food and he just turned and stared at me for a second, then smiled.

His mom was like"what do you do?" And this adorable little guy started blowing me kisses❤

Later he was running around and he reached out to me, and I offered him my hand and he high-fives it twice, then starts clapping and smiling cause he did such a good job.

The table was 14 people, 4 tickets with over $200 in food, destroyed my section, was there for over two hours while I had a killer headache, and tipped me less than $20, so suffice it to say that child was the only thing keeping me from drop-kicking the lot of them

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 209

Adjective: Voracious

Noun: Churchyard

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Voracious: wanting or devouring great quantities of food; having a very eager approach to an activity

Churchyard: an enclosed area surrounding a church, especially as used for burials

[weatheringtea]

Oh dear.

But, you know, there was a design flaw and Winry had to fix it... and make it better... she's a perfectionist and that's just what they do.

I wrote it, I may as well share it, and I hope you have a laugh lol.

Reinventing the Happy Metal Serpent - AO3 Summary:

Necessity is not the mother of all invention, Winry’s propensity to optimize AutoMail is. If those other manufacturers don't have all your best interests in mind, at least you know Winry's got you. Ed ends up learning more than he ever wanted to know about Cosmetic AutoMail.

[madwickedawesome]

ok everyone im going sleepy time honk shoo mimimi

[armeleia]

The sample is really skewed... I mean, here's another statistic to juxtapose with that: 44% of Americans say that they wouldn't be able to cover a $1000 emergency expense with their savings. (Bankrate survey, 2023)

But to the people hating on the "how much money you should have by a certain age" article... it's not intended to shame you or say how "rich" you should be by a certain age. They're saying that if you have that much in retirement savings (invested, with the expectation of a certain percentage of annual growth, rather than just sitting in savings), you might be able to retire at like 65 and not run out of money before you die. It's not a class statement, it's math.

The math isn't the problem. The problem is that a lot of people don't make enough to make that math work. :/