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eights-world · 4 months ago
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for doodle request how bout ghost and luvbug interacting? like luvbugs first impressions or smth? (can you tell i've run out of ideas?/silly)
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i went a little too crazy oopsy
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arolesbianism · 13 days ago
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I am making a rough world map for the staliens home planet atm and it's been a lot of me going wee yay yippee :D until the mountains hit
#rat rambles#oc posting#eternal gales#Ive been doing a lot better than the last time I tried doing this tho!#starting with tectonic plates rly does do wonders#I mostly wanted to go for a planet with two main strips where most of the landmasses are streched out connected by one of the poles#in my minds eye most of the longer strip still are fairly well connected from a societal standpoint with most of the broken apart#landmasses in the area still being close enough that oversea travel isnt particularly arguous and the seas are potentially shallow enough#that some of the deep underground cave systems this planet have are still fairly in tact if not a bit flooded#the cave systems are of course doomed to be the most bullshit part of my worldbuilding but shhhh lets pretend#now the continent that the main cast live on isn't part of that main land chain but the base of it is close enough to one of the poles that#its possible that one could travel from one pole to the other and then to that continent while traving mostly by land#itd be incredibly ill advised but you sure could theoretically do it#theres also some miscellaneous islands but Im going to be mostly ignoring them for now#mostly because I dont think the exposed energy veins that staliens need to be created would be present there#so while theoretically staliens could sail to those places it's probably be impossible to set up shop there long term#unless the herd in question has like a massive oceanic based migration cycle going on with a fairly large intake population#basically an important element of a herds migration cycle is being around when spawning grounds are active#so the longer the migration cycle the more sub herds the herd will typically have#either that or multiple seperate herds will use similar or the same cycle#so typically migration cycles are based in relatively small and hospitable radiuses with two or more herds/sub herds per region#as Ive mentioned in the past staliens tend to develop quite differently based on their environment during development#which is how these sorts of arrangements work out as the different groups tend to be specialized for different things#so staliens born in hotter environments will generally be specialized to thrive in said environments#this is a big part of the reason why most societies generally dont fight over territory often as its borderline necessary to share#migration maps in order to maintain stable migration cycles and population sizes#staliens are some of the largest comsumers of energy in most ecosystems and as such when theyre not around most of that overflow goes#into spawning more staliens which is in fact usually how these overlapping herds form but even if the original herd did have those guys#wait to be picked up and assimilated into the main herd then the same thing would happen in the region next time they left#so eventually the herd will have to either break apart into sub herds or just let new herds form to manage those spots when theyre gone
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cryptv0id · 2 years ago
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diabetes is so lonely.
i grew up being the only diabetic person my age i knew. heck, the only diabetic person anyone else my age knew either. it was always the "oh my grandma has diabetes !" or "oh my uncle has diabetes but he ate way too many sweets so thats why hes diabetic now."
as a young child, my mom put me into all these advertisement and awareness raising situations that i didnt want to do. i became a poster child for JDRF at age 9, and it was the strangest feeling having all these grown adults crying crocodile tears at the "tragedy" that my life was to them. i felt singled out, and every eye in the room was on me.
at age 11, i did a speech about my diabetes in front of the whole school, again against my will. my parents had saved every single one of those little orange needle caps from when i was diagnosed at 2, until i went on my pump at 11. these tiny orange pieces of plastic where what caused my entire school to fall silent and stare at me as i pulled 16 enormous ziploc bags of them out of a backpack that was the same size as i was. i felt odd, almost ostracized in that moment.
i stopped telling people i was diabetic for a while, unless i was in dire need of help. i stopped answering questions when i was asked. i hid a huge part of myself and my life away, because for so long i was forced to talk about it. i didnt have the words at 9, or at 11 to express the fact that i was uncomfortable with this. my story about diabetes was in newspaper articles, a small documentary, a letter sent out to essentially the whole country when JDRF wanted donations, and probably more things i dont remember, because i blocked a lot of it out.
im now 25, and now, whenever i see someone with a sensor or a pump i make a point of telling them i like their device, and then showing them mine. whether theyre young or old, every single person ive started a conversation with has been thrilled, and all have reacted like "oh my god another one !!" because this disease doesnt HAVE to be isolating and lonely. and now, i get to choose to talk about it instead of having my life and my disease being used as a pity card for adults. i get to share lived experience with people like me, and bond with strangers in a world that already is isolating without having a condition where your life is in your hands every day.
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adanaac · 3 months ago
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ok sick i love being enabled
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now to preface maybe i should say im not particularly interested in the fucking aspect of selfcest, it just doesnt do much for me beyond what selfcest as a premise is already doing for me, and what im far more into is like choking or stabbing each other to death (like in mozaik role) or if one of them is already a corpse
i went at it in sort of a center out approach bc the question that prompted this was "does jerking off count as selfcest" which is obviously no bc there has to be at least 2 bodies i think
1 step removed from "you", that dark grey circle, is sort of the platonic ideal of "another you". this 2nd you is EXACTLY EXACTLY identical to you. im inclined to think that even though this Could be considered "selfcest" in the technical definition of the word, it doesnt have the Spirit of selfcest, or what makes selfcest appealing most of the time.
mind you, by exactly identical i MEAN exactly identical. its like fucking a mirror. this is mostly a hypothetical, because i dont think ive actually ever seen selfcest done this way? theres always at least Some minor difference. personally, if this ever actually happened, i feel like it would be almost robotic, just going through the motions, knowing exactly what the other person is doing and would do and wants
the charm of selfcest, like most things, lies in the imperfection and differences, i think. although my philosophy friend has different opinions
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and tbh now that ive had more time to think on it, do you even know what "exactly you" is? is it possible to know the entirety of "who you are"? i wouldnt say i know even 60% of who i am. would you recognise you if you passed you on the street? (although i guess if you did "pass you" on the street, then that other you wasnt "exactly you" anyway) or maybe, would another you who is "exactly you" be completely unrecognizable to you yourself? in the way 100% pure food compounds taste sterile? this is sort of why the concept of "exactly you" is just a hypothetical thought experiment to me, it just serves to emphasize what selfcest is about.
anyway my friend invented noncon selfcest in a effort to figure out what situation "exactly you" would happen in
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the green zone is sort of your standard selfcest, most selfcest falls here. i dont feel like i have to elaborate too much since im not trying to classify the taxonomy of the different sources of selfcest (i.e. cloning, mimics, time travel, splitting a person, just plain alternate universe, etc etc) and thats not the point of this, since all types of selfcest are just a means to an end (selfcest), and selfcest is also just a means to an end (character study)
the yellow zone is a bit hard to put into words but its like, not exactly "2 of the same person", but it still has the spirit of selfcest. most mimics would fall here. seimei and haruaki are actually in this category i think because theyre different enough people. you could say haruaki is seimei, but idk if you can say seimei is haruaki.
now white haru and normal haru. thats SOLIDLY in the green zone thats THE MOST classic definition of selfcest (a la hetalia 2P). thank u tanaka mai for the fanservice.
(actually now that im googling hetalia 2p there isnt even that much color palette inverting. where did that come from if not hetalia. i know i have ocs from 10+ years ago that was 2 of the same guy but color inverted and i knew other ppl who had ocs like that or was doing that to minecraft youtubers. hell i still have ocs like that)
BONUS ROUND the so-called selfcest pipeline. i dont fully buy it bc i think selfcest is super easy to get into but also we dont have the sample size. if u read until here ur the sample size now. how did u get into selfcest
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BONUS BONUS ROUND the whatever this is
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BONUS BONUS BONUS ROUND the response for the person who originally raised the "is jerking off selfcest" question
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strawbubbysugar · 1 year ago
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Happy birthday Bubby!
Couple more questions!
-Are you able to say everyone’s ages in So(u)l, including the animatronics?
-Does June ever play his guitar and sing in public or at bars or anything or does he only do that at home now?
-Soulmate question, kinda regarding Rush and Morgan’s bond, does that imply that if you don’t have a soulmate due to your previous one passing away, you can get a new bond later even if your future soulmate already exists? Like the string will “wait” kinda until they’re ready? Or was Morgan and Rush’s string there right when Rush woke up?
-What are June, Hello, and Goodbye’s main fidgets/stims?
-Okay this might be weird lol but I’m curious, what are Hello and Goodbye’s favorite little things that June does in his sleep? Does he talk, twitch, unconsciously cling to them like a koala, anything like that?
-What kind of odd jobs does June do on the side?
Thank you!!
i wanna keep it vague, but June is roughly in his mid 20's matt is roughly in his mid-late 30's Marlow is roughly one year younger than June Morgan is two years older than June Hello is a year old (his AI is somewhere around June's age) Goodbye was a year older than June (now the same age as Hello) Rush is around 8 years old (his ai is early 30's) Wibble is around 6 years old (his ai is the same as Rush) Cammie is 4 around years old (her ai is the same as wibble and rush) Octavia is around 2 years old, but was technically never completed (her size makes it much easier to fit a more complex system in her, so her mental age is around 40) The skrittles have the same AI age as toddlers, but theyre a few months old Astro Cadet has been worked on off and on for about six years, and his ai is about the same age. It grows much slower than the WOW branded animatronics
Absolutely no in public things. He's gotten a lot more shy about performing since his band days. He only ever plays for hello/goodbye and piper
Soulmate marks are all about right time, right place. if you arent the version of yourself that would be soulmates with someone, no markings will show up. Morgan was a very different person with their last soulmate, and their life experiences changed who they are. it happens! people change, especially as they get older. its why a lot of people are told not to be upset if they dont get any markings until later on (SPOILERS BELOW) Its why samir and june didnt have any soul marks until samir was goodbye. he wasnt the person that wouldve been soulmates with june yet, he needed to experience and change and grow before that would happen. So did june!
June chews his lip a lot, and sighs. Sometimes he sighs for no reason just because he forgot to breathe. I think his favourite fidget toy would be one of those fidget cubes Hello stims by waving/flapping his arms, or playing with his hands. I think he'd enjoy fidget spinners or rubix cubes! Goodbye stims with squeezing/pressure. He'd enjoy weighted blankets, and I think he'd enjoy stress balls. Ones with thick stuff inside so he can really squeeze down
Hello likes it when June sighs in his sleep, or mumbles. Goodbye thinks its funny when he snores on occasion, and records it to play it back while pretending to nap. (taking inspiration from my roommate bc its hilarious, sometimes june will make the saddest, softest little sigh in his sleep and hello will wake him up like "WERE YOU HAVING A BAD DREAM ARE YOU OKAY" & june will be entirely confused)
June does a lil of everything. people in town come to him for a lot of stuff like yard work, painting houses/fences, cleaning houses. He occasionally comes into bryn's office and helps with anything they might need too, like fixing the chairs, etc. He's known as a jack of all trades around town (which makes him feel nostalgic, since that used to be what he called his childhood best friend)
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rowavolo · 6 months ago
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how dare you not elaborate on maleko,,,, “oh he’s basically just my take on capitano” what Is It,,,,, holds out a plate like a poor victorian boy,,,,
— blue (ty for the acct and the tag btw!! i will go snooping now)
HELLO im so sorry. i genuinely forgot not everyone has the same exact brand of capitano brainrot that my partner and i do . so some ramblies below the cut in a very disorganised fashion :3
there may also be some spoilers in here for the capitano x kemonomimi reader fic im working on which will totally get updated one day i prommy
Ok so Maleko (hereby referred to as capitano) is indeed my take on GI capitano but better in every single way (joking but only a little)
I sort of passively imagine him to also be from the old mondstadt, so he has some knowledge surrounding that, and it's extra jarring when he tries to speak Mondstad's native language, people are just sort of like. "um. why are you speaking in ye olde german mondstadt"
despite what his muscle and strength might have you believe, he's genuinely not a very violent guy, he just happens to be willing to use anything and everything at his disposal to reach whatever end goals are in his mind (presumably something god-hating. or maybe hes just tagging along for the funny)
he's also fiercely loyal, as in would die and kill for someone at a moment's notice level of loyal. its almost unnerving.
he's also very very quiet - folks dont tend to notice it due to how loud his presence seems, but he barely utters a word - his orders usually get passed through his generals or simple grunts or hand gestures. it's shockingly effective.
on a similar note, i do imagine he actually has selective mutism that kicks in around more than a handful of people, but it's not really something that seems to hinder him
I know he's some species of Creature to me. not entirely sure which. definitely dragon-adjacent (of course), but there's also a part of me that wants him to be something with an exoskeleton, so that in some places, the armour is literally just Him. He definitely has a more beasty form to go along with the humanoid one too!
hes actually a huge softie, but hides it well enough that nobody ever really notices or questions it (though his fellow harbingers do like to speculate behind his back. theyre just Like That. gossipy mom group)
wears his hair tightly wound/braided in protective styles, it's super long and he needs it out of the way especially during battle (yes hes creature. yes he can have hair. these two can coexist). He'll occasionally adorn it with little trinkets and the like, but his main concern is keeping it from hindering him Without lopping it all off (he finds it more difficult to care for and make look Good when it's short. it just goes FLOOF).
Actually really enjoys strategizing. He's a powerhouse on the field and can turn the tide of a battle at a moments notice, but given time to plan ahead, he usually doesn't need to (i imagine him and kokomi would actually have a lot to talk about!). Because of this, there are also some board games he enjoys, as well as genius invocation.
he is not very expressive. it is very hard to tell when/if he likes someone because the line between tolerance and annoyance is so so blurred. folks say it's due to the helmet but in actuality his face is just Like That.
he is, however, very polite. unless someone is actively hindering him in some way while hes trying to do something, he will not do anything about it. but if they start getting in the way, theyre getting grabbed by the scruff like a kitten and put at arm's length.
oh hes also very big. VERY BIG. closer in size to the robot we see sandrone with in the trailer, if anything. like. brick wall of a man big. has to duck under most doorways big. HUUUUGE. foul legacy sized at the very LEAST. just broader.
he doesn't often find time to indulge in any hobbies, and even if he does, he tends to spend it training instead because the idea of not doing useful things sets him on edge.
HOWEVER if someone (cough . me . cough. ) were to force him to take a break, he'd enjoy hobbies that involve creating things for the ones he loves. Woodcarving is definitely a past time of his, he's a very good cook (but refuses to do it because he knows others will bother him about it), and he has a soft spot for cheesy romance books (like.. they stare wistfully at each other from across the ballroom level cheesy) and period pieces.
i feel like theres so so much more to say about him but i cant THINK of it right now. but anyways my cappy my beloved hes soooo silly <3!!!!!!
I hope this was enough to feed you, Blue!!
Friendly reminder not to copy or repost my work, feed it to AI learning modules, or otherwise steal it!
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willard-begins · 8 months ago
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okay i dont know how to tag this but point is i need to get this out, but i think i MIGHT Be able to pick apart the eeveelutions based on what real animal theyre based on, domestic or not
here i go!
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Eevee. we all know what eevee looks like. i mean i hope you would 'cause then why are you reading this...
from what i see, eevee is shaped similarly to a lot of younger animals, which makes some sense since its supposed to be the first of an evolution like, which tends to be more cutesy, like how puppies and kittens are. i'm getting a lot of rabbit from it? it has a large amount of neck fur, which could be seen as a dewlap, but maybe im just looking too far into it. dewlaps are common in domestic rabbits and are usually seen on females. they can come in different sizes, too. the large, fluffy tail on eevee can bee seen on cartoony depictions of rabbits sometimes, albeit much smaller. the long ears are also rabbit-like. it's sort of shaped like a small dog, too.
what i get from eevee is like.. a weird mix of a puppy and a rabbit.
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umbreons are next! (i added this late because i misremembered the alphabet)
umbreons appear to be VERY similar to bombay cats. its body shape is very cat-like, but i pick up a hint of dog from it. specifically a doberman. it has a pointy-ish snout like how doberman dogs do.
catdog...
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NEXT! jolteon. who i've actually thought about the most out of these.
jolteons look a LOT like american bullies to me. not the ones who are bred to have wide shoulders, but the more nooormal looking ones? i dont know if thats the word im looking for. they have stubby snouts with wide mouths, and slightly broader shoulders than most of the eeveelutions. i think they also look to have slightly smaller eyes than the others. they have big paws too, which looks like a bully thing?
all i can see in jolteon is an american bully but thats okay
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flareon has something in common with both eevee and jolteon.
flareon appears to have a HUMONGOUS dewlap, and the same broadish shoulders as jolteon does. It has the same big paws that jolteon does, and long ears like how eevee does. I can also see some fennec fox with how the face is shaped and how fluffy the tail and ears are.
flareon is a weird bully-rabbit-fox thing. and also seems to be who i'd pick as eevee's sole evolution if eevee only had one.
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next up leafeon. i think our first cat!
leafeon's got a weird face. i'd compare it to those cats with flat faces, like persian cats, but leafeon has shorter fur. I think leafeon reminds me of those cats that have longer fur in some spots, especially on the chest to where it sticks out like a weird little moustache. the leaves on its legs remind me of feathers on horses. leafeon also has some fennec fox-like features, like head and ear shapes.
leafeon is primarily cat-like, but has a smidge of fox in there.
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glafoen
glaceon feels more dog-like than leafeon did. it likely has something to do with stance. it kind of reminds me of a poodle in a weird way? honestly dont get me wrong glaceon's awesome but its kind of hard to work with.. its a little more. basic. than the other eeveelutions. i also think it wouldve been interesting to have the. side bangs. things. be the ears for glaceon.
the best i can give for glaceon is a mutt or a domestic shorthair.
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espeon
oriental shorthair. next question
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hskv
sylveons are VERY clearly meant to be like a show animal. like, y'know how cosplay pikachu is supposed to be like used in performances 'n' stuff? thats what sylveons are but for eeveelutions. i can see a bit of chihuahua (or deer) in it because of the tail, and maybe a smidge of rabbit from the ears..
cosplay eevee
AND THATS ALL! But wait! What about vaporeon? thats right, you might be wondering where vaporeon is. don't get me wrong, i love vaporeon, with my whole heart, but i can't see any other animal in there but fish and a frilled lizard..
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i mean, i guess i can see some cat.. and if you really want to, i'd say seal is probably related, too.
sorry for dissing on glaceon and sylveon a bit
im so tired
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mayakern · 2 years ago
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Hi sorry i sent an ask earlier. Didnt realize you were getting so many as i saw the poll earlier, did it, then got off tumblr until later and didnt check your blog before voicing my thoughts. I didnt mean to cause any stress and reading some of the asks from before i sent mine answered a lot of what i was wondering/helped give voice to why i was so personally disappointed/invested. (What you said about fat/queer bodies and feeling very invested in what we put on those bodies especially rang true.) I guess people feel more entitled to an opinion when it feels like theyre involved in the process via polls and stuff so its more personal when things dont go our way.
Apologies again.
no worries! again i completely understand.
i’ve had many years of experience Receiving Opinions On The Internet and at this point i’ve reached a much more comfortable place with it than when i was younger. at the heart of it all, when it comes to these sorts of responses, i know it all comes from people who love my work and my art. that’s why the feelings are so strong, because they love it and feel invested in the process and the product.
i did just need to draw a line tho in terms of how many i was receiving because it gets overwhelming after a while. someone sends me an ask and i respond and for them, that’s it, but usually i’ve received that same opinion or question at least once before, if not several or dozens of times. and that compounds over the several social media platforms i am on as well. and a lot of it is stuff that is too short lived or topical for it to be added to my faq. and that’s just kind of how making a living on social media is!
so while i don’t have unlimited patience and i do need to draw boundaries from time to time, i am not upset or hurt or mad. i am also not at all hesitant to speak up when i think someone is being rude or weird and i do not feel that way in this situation. tbh considering the size of my audience, the actual amount of rude/nasty people is tiny and i am eternally shocked by and grateful for that.
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stars-in-our-skies · 2 years ago
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rant warning-- so thinking about it again, that whole “hawks killed twice & everyone hates him” thing (but also, the ENTIRE war) still makes me mad but not even because he killed twice in specific. i dont care that he killed a villain. I just want to know why society cared that he killed a villain. it was him or twice, the fuck did you want him to do? die? you’ll sleep better at night, in your evacuation shelter, knowing the number 2 hero is fucking dead? if the point was “bluh all might made people feel safe and now theyre stupid :(” oh so it’s all mights fault? the hell do you want him to do about it, NOT save people? that’s kinda in the job description of a PRO HERO. why are you mad that villains are dead. do they think the villains just... disappear? would you rather the villains NOT die? because only a few days later those same villains that were apprehended got released from fucking prison. you know, nearly ALL of the villains that caused the war? Oh that’s soooo much better. i feel much better knowing that we didn’t kill any of the villains that would later be released from prison! So that was pointless.
and then they have the gall to blame THE HEROES for the destruction THE VILLAINS CAUSED. Like i’m no hero apologist (quite the opposite, i think criticizing the way hero society works is correct) but why are we blaming them for something they didnt do? Is it because they didnt prevent it? Mount lady couldnt stop him and she was his size. I would like to see the civilians try to apprehend a GIANT FUCKING MONSTER. If we should be mad at anyone we should be mad at the 20-something highschoolers that couldnt stop him -- but logically, society doesnt even know that they were there, so I get that. better question: how do the children sleep at night knowing THEY caused mass destruction by not stopping machia first? Why didn’t momo just create a bomb? She made an entire fucking canon before, she can surely make a hand grenade, right? It doesn’t even have to be something destructive, there were so many options, why a sedative? She’s one of the smartest people in her group to the point of being temporarily the leader, and that’s the best she can do? Even so how did NOBODY, out of a group of 20-something kids, have the aim to get the sedative in his mouth the first time? God i hate those kids. And i’m reading my hero academia! I’m supposed to like them! Let alone the fact that we barely see the kids these days. what’s the point of having them there if they barely do anything? If you’re going to have a series focused on kids essentially enrolling in the equivalent of military school, at least have them do actual things that the school teaches them? Or at LEAST let them be in the spotlight, not the fifty thousand heroes that teach them? But I digress before i blow an artery. -_-
I love this series but there’s not a single part of that whole arc that made sense. it was a while ago at this point and i still dont get why this was written this way & literally everything afterwards hinges upon it. It’s so stupid. gahhhhh
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littlecomets-littleitaly · 1 year ago
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is there a reason why no one has common sense anymore?
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this is about online customer service.
it is my first day back after a 10 day vacation. i am beyond burnt out, i took the vacation time all in one go to hope it would help, but it did not.
first of all, it costs 0 to be neutral to customer service agents. im not asking for "hello! thank you so much for your help! i want to rate you 1000/10 on your survey!" all i am asking for is that you give me more than 20 seconds to type out a reply to you, and for you to realize i am a human being. belittling me does not get you above and beyond service, it gets you flagged no more compensation, and piss poor customer service.
also Stop Typing Like This. You Aren't Quirky, This Is Hard To Read, And It Doubles How Long It Takes You To Type. same with emojis. I don't 🚫 really care 🤷‍♀️ that you want 🎁 free merch 🛍👠👗🧢 because your package 📦 was delivered 🚛 while it was raining ☔️ and the box got wet 🌊.
second of all, just give the agents the info they ask for. no more, no less.
if you tell me youre pretty sure your package was stolen, that can and will be used to deny your claim.
if i tell you that the address you just provided me was not used on the order, giving me the same address four more times does not help either of us.
if i ask you to clarify what package you are missing and you say "the first one", that unfortunately, tells me nothing.
if you order more than one of the same item in a different colorway or size, telling me the items name does not actually tell me what item you are referring to.
if i ask for six pieces of information, each on their own line break to make it clear exactly what im asking for, i should be getting those 6 pieces of information back from you. not 4 and two half pieces of information. i asked for your full name, that means first and last. i asked for your complete address, not just the city, state and zipcode. this is for your security. not to be malicious.
this especially goes for inventory inquiries. i work for a fashion retailer as online chat. we aren't in store. we aren't local to you. everything on our website has like 3+ different tiers of sizing, hundreds of colors, and hell, even hundreds of design variations within the same model. not to mention hundreds of store locations. thousands even.
all i ask for is product number, size, and a complete store address. i never get all three in one go.
"ugg slipper in six" the fluff yeahs? the tasmans? the nuemels? what color, since theres 10+ each for each model above. size 6? 6 womens? 6 grade school? what store? we have 800 under one banner alone?
"nike tech fleece black large" the hoodie, the sweatshirt, the half zip, the full zip, the joggers, or the shorts? which version of the black? theres all black, theres black with white logos, theres black with red logos, theres black with white screen printing? size large? large what? large womens, large mens, large grade school, large toddler? what store?
"timberland 6 inch black at inkster" aight. 6 inch what? the field boots? the waterproof? do you want iridescent black, sparkly black, black with red laces, black with black laces, all black? what store? theres two inksters, and theyre 9 hours apart.
do you know what answers all those questions? giving the product number, size and a complete store address.
if you give a product number, that tells me EXACTLY what item you want. so instead of ugg slipper size 6, instead it tells me ugg tasman in color chestnut in womens sizes. so the size 6 is no longer a guess between women's and kids sizes, since the gender size is tied directly into the product number. its no longer a guess to what color, because the color is tied directly into the product number. and obviously, if you give me a complete address, its no longer a guess if you want inkster in michigan, or inkster in new jersey.
again, im not asking for this information because i dont want to do my job. i am asking for this information because only you know the exact item you want, in the exact size that you want at the exact store you want. why would you want me to play 20 questions to have me guess if the item i picked out for you is correct, when you can give me the correct item from the get go.
third of all, i should not have to repeat the same questions ive already asked you multiple times in a row. nor should i have to repeat the same information i have already given to you because you didnt read my message in the first place.
if im collecting information for an IT ticket, or to even just access your order, and you do not have a piece of information that i need, just say that. "i dont have x piece of information." "i did not receive my order number so I cannot provide it" "i do not have wifi at home, so I cannot provide my wifi IP address"
do not string me along, having to ask you the same question 40 times in a row because you just dont have the common sense to say "i dont have that"
or when people give me bits and pieces of information, and when i ask for the rest they get mad "well i gave it all to you." no you didnt. scroll up to my last message. all 6 pieces i need are clearly outlined along with directions on how to find each piece of information. i asked for 6 pieces of information, and you only given me the word "iphone" and a diatribe on how much you hate biden.
which leads into customer not reading my responses. 9/10 times my response covers everything you currently need to know, and everything to expect in the future, so you dont have to contact back and ask again.
but instead, customers will read say the first 6 words of your reply, and skip the rest, or skim the rest and create their own narrative.
"why was my order canceled"
"it was declined by payment verification. you money will return to your account in 3-7 business days. this does not include weekends or holidays. here is some trouble shooting you can try, we recommend trying a different payment, and verifying that the info you provided to us is the same as on your bank as well."
3 days later
"my money still isnt in my account and its been 3 days" your order canceled on friday and it is now monday, there has been approx 0 business days that have passed.
"the bank says my information is correct" you put your name as only emojis and you put two separate addresses in separate states on address line 1 and address line 2. i 100% you lied about asking your bank.
"but i used *one recommended payment method* and it didnt go through" you used ONE of the recommended payment methods, and recommended does not mean your order is guaranteed to go through.
"why did my order cancel again" literally scroll up, you mustard packet.
conclusion: just use your brain a little. treat us as a human. realize we have no ability to change company policies no matter how much you belittle us. and when an agent asks for a specific list of information, just give it. for you, its 30 seconds of inconvenience having to type out your zipcode. for us, its 8 hours of inconvenience because we have to ask for this information multiple times in a row to every customer we get. read agent replies completely, as they probably already answered your question 3 messages ago. help us help you.
pps, we more likely to compensate you or break company policy for you if you are nice or even just neutral. i have comped people solely on not being a piece of shit to me, and even i broke policy today and took a return 80+ days past time frame because they gave me all their info the first time i asked and werent obnoxious about the mixup.
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transgenderer · 2 years ago
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hot(?) take: i feel like capitalism and colonialism (19th century and thereabouts) and colonialism (ancient) arent actually that similar. like there's this idea that theyre all predicated on limitless growth, which is unsustainable and therefore bad, which i think is a shallow understanding of what's bad about these things, and a shallow similarity?
because like...okay, so where does the growth in capitalism come from? just like...causally. this is a hard question! because there *is* illusory growth but its not *all* illusory growth. theres the consuming more natural resources theory, which is definitely part of it, a necessary part of it, but obviously not all of it, and the technology theory, again major but i think not all of it and theres the efficiency theory, which is the most pro-capitalsit one, and i think not entirely bullshit, with the same resources and same technology you can distribute those resources in different ways, some of which provide more benefit to people than other arrangements (ex: economies of scale). and there's sort of the dark side of efficiency, that its about extracting more labor/value from the working classes (often the idea is that its *exclusively* this, which is silly imo), but regardless, its complicated, and fraught, and changes over time, and i think *mostly* about neither capturing new markets or capturing new resources. the "requirement" for unsustainable infinite growth here is mostly in the resource extraction part, which like, maybe? idk, imo theres not really a human society that's ever existed without unsustainably extracting resources from their environment, its just a matter of speed.
so then, colonialism! well, while colonialism (ancient) and colonialism (premodern) are superficially similar, i think theyre actually not very similar in terms of where the wealth comes from? aiui, ancient colonialism is *mostly* about taxes (which can take many forms. food or slaves (which is basically a weird iform of taxation)), which for an ancient state are like, pretty unambiguously like, theft. or at least largely theft. you get some new territory, take grain or slaves, theres the implication that this is some sense "paying" for greater protection for invaders, but obviously its by no means *mostly* going to that purpose, its theft with extra steps. and then the taxes enrich the metropole. rome. china. etc. but anyway i dont think this actually *requires* unsustainable infinite growth? i mean, it did in rome, because they organized their society around a land-based ponzi scheme (become a soldier, conquer land, get land as pension) but lots of ancient colonial societies just like, stopped expanding without collapsing, with the metropole "permanently" (until collapse for other reasons) enriched
anyway the next step is premodern colonialism. and the source of wealth here is weird? its all very econony. like obviously there was *some* resource extraction here, especially early on, straight up taking gold was spain's whole deal, but the spanish empire wasnt nearly as succesful as the british empire, which had a much subtler thing of like, controlling captive markets and then like selling stuff *back* to their colonies, which is like...i guess kind of just indirect taxation? but like, their modern wealth doesnt come from physical gold or spices or whatever they took 200 years ago, it comes from like...developing their economy. its complicated. but also doesnt seem like it requires infinite growth? the size of the british empire plateaued for a while, and it didnt collapse cuz they werent growing anymore (or at least, i dont think thats why it collapsed? it collapsed for like, idk, political reasons. and the world wars)
so anyway these systems just dont seem very similar, at least wrt economic growth?
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symphonicmetal101 · 3 years ago
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RANKED
Worst to Best: Storytelling
Based on: emotion, immersion, staying on topic, interest/dtamatics
11. Beel: not very good at telling stories, as he finds the main point, illustrates it as quickly as possible in the most monotone voice ever. In some ways its nice but sometimes you want a little drama. "I scored the final touchdown and won the game :)" and then move on to monchin his sandwich.
10. Belphie: Better at emoting than his twin, but too lazy to add any sort of flair, resulting in the same sort of barebones "story" as Beel's.
9. Lucifer: would be good at storytelling if he didnt always find something to be sad or salty about while hes telling it. His stories always end up being bittersweet, as theyre all about his past.
8. Diavolo: though being a royal has its perks, a strict father makes it difficult to have childhood stories that dont come with sneaking around and/or disappointment. Stories that happen now are either somewhat mundane for most people, like "I got to have fast food for the first time! :D" (but I love him so I would listen to his story anyways, dw bby boi). Other stories are hard to follow, as he bounces from subject to subject excitedly, so you might have to remind him what the original story was gonna be bc of the tangent he went off on.
7. Mammon: has a lot of interesting stories both from his past and more recent endeavours. Very enthused to share them, but also gets side tracked easily, starting one story that accidentally ends in a totally different one.
6. Barbatos: has a ton of hot gossip that makes for good conversation, but anything from his past does not make for too much of a happy story. Doesnt really remember his childhood, nor does he want to. If you can get him to talk about what he likes to do, he is able to tell some very interesting and engaging stories about himself. (Also didnt Barb say he used to dance/alluded to working at The Fall at one point? Thats one hell of a story in itself. If it wasnt Barb it was Luci, idk)
5. Simeon: as an author, he knows how to set a scene, a mood, stick to a plot line *once its been established*. Hes a pretty good story teller, with a lot of ebb and flow to his voice. He is able to catch and keep your interest quickly, but sometimes as he tells stories he gets another idea for the way it "should" have gone, and sometimes that takes away from his focus in the moment, so the story will be dry and boring for a minute before he gets back into it properly.
4. Levi: once you get him going, its hard to get him to stop, and who would want him to? He uses various hand gestures as he gets more and more into the story hes telling, whether its one of his own from times at sea or a retelling of something hes watched/read/played. As long as you reassure him that youre interested in what hes saying as he goes by asking questions and listening, hes happy to go on and on. If its some sort of water trick, he will absolutely dive into Henrys tank, demonstrate it, and hop back out/lean over the edge of the tank to continue the story without missing a beat. (Also, goldfish grow to the size of their tank so WHY the fuck does Henry 2.0 need such a big tank??? Levi??? You planning to ride a giant ass goldfish into your next battle? Or is Henry 2.0 secretly Lotans next giant treat- bc goldfish are so fatty it would be fucking junk food for your sea serpant- but like why the hell do you need a giant goldfish? Is the fish holding you hostage? Threatening you? "Give me big tank or else blub blub motherfucker " ????? Anyways)
3. Asmo: also has hot gossip, but he mixes it into his stories well, and he has plenty from parties hes been to, to Solomons embarrassing moments, to anything hes seen on social media- hes full of stories. He also has a mind like a trap, so if you want him to tell a story again, he can do it almost word for word but with the same energy from the first time. Very engaging and fun to listen too.
2. Satan: has read enough books to recount many from heart. He enjoys doing different voices and often does it subconsciously; if you point it out he'll get flustered and be hesitant to do it again, actively trying not to until he gets pulled into the story again. His enthusiasm makes it very engaging, and he knows how to make the mood right for the scene hes telling.
1. Solomon: yeah ok I had to make the bastard the best at something, and here it is. Having been alive in the human realm for centuries, in contact with demons and angels alike, and a magic user, he has *plenty* of stories to tell and knows exactly how to tell them in order to leave you wanting more. With certain stories he will use magic to animate the story in front of you as he speaks. (Kinda like that scene with Elsa in Frozen 2 when shes singing Into the Unknown). He loves to leave his stories with cliffhangers or tell them so that they sound questionable enough youre not sure if he made it up or if it actually happened. Is almost always down to tell you a story.
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joelletwo · 1 year ago
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every time i read shitty fish customer stories that are the same as the shitty fish customers i get every day im just. shocked at the strategy. like yesterday had a guy come back in my assistant store manager had sold fish specifically w.o a replacement guarantee bc he was putting them in a tank theyd die in. what tank? who knows bc every time they tried to tell him those fish couldnt go together or theyd die hed argue about it for ten minutes and then suddenly go Oh and theyre not even going in that tank dumbasses theyre going in my SECOND/THIRD TANK [describes a tank they will also die in]. anyways they died obviously and he came back for a replacement the store manager had to honor bc he argued w her for ten minutes and then said theyre going in a different tank anyways and we cant like. accuse ppl of lying
and at that point im like. you think we're dumbasses we think youre an asshole youve been doing fish for sO lOnG and you "know what youre doing" so why even bother playing along with our questions just LIE just lie from the start just say whatever tank size we want to hear and that its empty!!!!! why tell us youre gonna kill ur fish and then get mad we dont like that and dont want to give u fish and then more fish to kill!!!! whats the STRATEGY
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steelycunt · 2 years ago
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ridi ridi hiiii !!! how are youuu how was yr dayyy i started mine off by rereading yr otiofad ficc did you know every sentence in it is a masterpiece did you know every word is like worthy of an auditoriumesque applause now yk i wanted to ask you to talk about that particular bit tho (if you wouldn't mind ofc !!) where sirius slams the book shut on an insect bc it's sooo like it's sooo !! it reads like premonition and also like r can't help but be wary of s and s can't help but be just like capable of harm regardless of intention & carelessly and i think it's sooo genius I think yr soooo genius for that and if you have more to say abt what that bit meant to youu + process of writing it + foreshadowing you wanted to get across w it etc. etc. i would be vv interested to hear <333 mwah love you loads xx
hello my lovely omg!!! my day was GOOD actually surprisingly good i am recovering from my illnesses and i played badminton and ate tangerines it was a very content day!! how was yours!! also warning you now in advance i wrote way too long a reply to this. like WAY too long NOBODY needed this im so sorry!! the very final paragraph provides like a little tl;dr you DO NOT need to read the essay that is under the cut!! im so sorry!!
okay firstly the idea that someone would not only read one of my little stories but read it more than once?? crazy actually!! insane!! so glad that it could be a part of ur morning n i would love to talk abt it!! hang on opening it in a new tab rn let me remember what it was i actually wrote huh lol
firstly with the flashback scenes in otiofad in general they had to serve two different purposes. they obviously needed to show the intense love and intimacy between the boys prior to The Incident, in order to juxtapose the post-prank scenes and serve as a marker for measuring the size of the rift in their relationship that its caused (which is why theres lots of kissing and cuddling and cloying monologues in the flashback scenes), but at the same time they had to demonstrate the little parts of their relationship which are a little bit fucked! a little bit unhealthy and obsessive. and they had to portray sirius as a person who has the capacity to do what he ends up doing. i didnt want to accidentally work against myself by over-idealizing their relationship to the point where it became difficult to believe sirius could be so thoughtless as to do what he does. like if ive just made you read fifteen hundred words of him being the Best Boyfriend Ever and then switch to him begging forgiveness for an attempted murder, his character becomes a little disjointed, and i really wanted it to feel like you're consistently reading the same people, just in very different circumstances. so the flashbacks very much needed to stress their intensity rather than their health as a couple.
im definitely roaming beyond the parameters of your question (but i promise it all circles back xx) but some of the sort of. i dont want to say red flag as much as cause for concern moments that i tried to include especially in the flashbacks include for instance: [Sirius says that sort of thing often, and with a confidence that Remus cannot ever fathom. Good god, how he would like to ask Sirius, them or me, that or me, and never fear the answer.] in the first scene, because i think remus' low self-esteem and his insecurity definitely affects their relationship + how he perceives it, which isn't anyone's fault as much as it is just them being young and imperfect like. theyre like sixteen here nobody had it together when they were sixteen right :-/ you have sirius utterly utterly obsessed with being in love with remus declaring that he doesnt want anything else from life and he's. sixteen years old. he's got no idea. like its that sort of rashness and impulsivity when he's speaking and acting which ends up fucking him over :-/
TO GET BACK to the bit you actually asked about (im so sorry for how long this is <3) the part where he closes the book on the spider. i mean honestly ur interpretation in the ask is pretty spot on!! its another one of the little stitches in the flashback scenes that sort of...slightly changes/sobers/brings the tone back down the reality a little, after theyve spent most of the scene cuddling and kissing etc. i'd already sort of tried (and i want to emphasise try at every point in this answer sfdghsh because i am not necessarily claiming that any of this was necessarily successful lol) to show sirius' capacity for being rash and obsessive, and the spider moment was just this tiny act of unnecessary, arguably cruel? violence that was meant to be jarring against the very over-sweet and gentle affection he's just shown remus. and although theyre acts of violence on such different scales, he gives just as much thought to sending snape to the willow as he does to squashing the spider. one of the things about sirius that i love soooo much is his relationship with violence and the way his anger translates into violence and cruelty (which remus mentions in the final scene when he says “You’ve got to stop being the kind of person who hurts people when they’re angry.”). its why hes SO fun to write angry because his anger is so distinctive lol. so the spider moment is just meant to serve as a little reminder of this random, mindless aggression that sirius carries around with him and that exists in tandem with all the affection we've seen him show remus, who starts in surprise when sirius slams the book shut. (i'll let u in on a super little fun (or not) fact that in my head when i was writing it i always drew a little parallel between the twitching insect leg thats left on the page and the similarly uncomfortable sensation of the eyelash that remus feels scratching his own eye immediately afterwards. thats not necessarily meant to come across n i expect it doesnt because i didnt develope the idea...at all...but in my head they were always a little linked teehee like even sirius' smallest acts of violence still have an effect on remus somehow xx)
but yeah!! apologies i didnt think this would be such a long explanation for a simple question fbhsdfhs im very embarrassed by this but like!! in short the spider was another little jarring moment designed to tether the version of sirius you get in the flashback to the version you get in the post-prank scenes, because ultimately he's the same guy with the same flaws both before and after the prank!! there was no reason for him to kill the spider like that and thats why hes so fucked. it was just his instinctive response to seeing it there.
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porcelain-rob0t · 2 years ago
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what are your top 20 fashion history facts
aw yesss i love this question
let's go 20 fashion history facts. most of my knowledge is primarily from western countries and 19th-20th century, just as a little disclaimer. also this is stream of consciousness infodump so you can fact check and tell me if i got stuff wrong. some may be well known, others more obscure, im just happy to talk
in the 1940s, a lot of traditional beauty products were in short supply bc of the war and rations, so people had to get creative. one example is that fabric was being rationed so shorter simpler dresses and less hats. thats why the 1940s is known for all the really elaborate hairstyles.
a lot of things that we call corsets aren't actually corsets. if it's before the 19th century, support garments were called stays. also corsets weren't evil torture devices, they're just like bras that distribute the weight of the bust through the abdomen rather than the shoulders. they were only dangerous when worn incorrectly or ill-fittingly, kinda like wearing the wrong bra size.
bellbottom pants had their roots in older navy uniforms. the idea is that if you go overboard, you can tie off the ends of your pants to be used as floatation devices. my grandfather was in the navy and during my 70s fashion era, he told me that cool little fact.
a lot of makeup throughout the ages was made using what you had available. one of my favorite examples is carmine, a red pigment that was used in rouge, lip products, and blush. carmine is made from bugs!! isnt that cool?
pretty much everything that has ever trended has trended before, we call this nostalgia cycles, usually it's every 30 years but it can be as short as 10 years. for example, the 2010s was interested in replicating some 80s aesthetics, the same way we're seeing that with the 2000s now.
my favorite fashion subcultures in recent history is the mod look from the early-mid 1960s. it was built around rebelling from the restriction of 50s. this came from less structured dresses, shorter skirts, bright colors, and expressive eye makeup. if you think about it, the mod look is kind of a 30-40 year nostalgia cycle with the flapper movement of the 1920s.
speaking of subcultures, theyre all started by marginalized people working with what they have. prime examples are the punk and grunge movement being very proletariat in origin, most of the fashion staples are what people could get secondhand/cheap. this is your reminder that you dont need to buy from "punk" brands to dress punk, work with what you got! have fun, get creative, tear shit up, upcycle it, decorate how you want, add pins and stuff!!! :D
tight-laced corsets were not common during the Victorian/Edwardian. in the photos of women with seemingly tiny waists, those were often created with padding the bust and hips. photo editing also existed, it's always been there, it was usually painting in parts of the photo. setting the subject up in front of a dark background, using lots of contrast, and then you can use a bit of black paint on the photograph to make the waist smaller.
Christian Dior was the guy who popularized fake pockets in women's pants, so if hell is real and i end up there, i will hunt him down.
in the late 19th-early 20th century, models were called "living mannequins"
i only have 10 so far but expect a part 2
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liquidstar · 3 years ago
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Me reading the post about the colored cards: what the fuck is this it's totally not a thing what insane school would do this
Me checking the notes and seeing two people are like "yea": .
its literally so fucked up like, i was a little nd kid who could not understand or keep up w a lot of the rules most of the time and instead of helping they just enforce them harder which honestly just does nothing lol. like i still dont get it and now im just distressed, but id get punished more for being distressed. eventually i was resolved to be Good (which meant a lot of masking so job well fucking done i guess) and i tried my hardest to Not flip a card at all for a whole year, it was like, my resolution for that year basically.
and that may sound like the card thing "worked" but i still didnt understand the rules at all i just understood the consequences which is just the wrong way to go about doing things, its not teaching kids anything at all its only keeping them in line for the adults' convivence, we were being taught obedience not life lessons that would actually help us growing up.
i remember i made it a fair amount of time w/o flipping my card until one day my teacher helped me clean out my folder and saw i had unfinished work, and she made me flip it because i was playing earlier even though i had unfinished work... but the only reason was because my folder was so messy i couldnt see the work in question! but the card rules were so absolute that circumstance didnt matter, and no matter how hard i tried to justify it shed just get more angry at my distress and she told me to just go cry in the bathroom for a while and then i should come back and flip my card twice (an extra time for being a crybaby i guess). as a kid i didnt understand but i figured she must be right because shes an adult, and im still not good. as an adult i think she was just on a weird powertrip w all this authority she held over 7 year olds and i genuinely think shes a bitch for that lol
on top of that its fucked up that the card flipping thing was so public, it was on a board just sitting there for the class to see with our names on it and everything, like, it just feels so intentional. a way to shame the kids through their peers to further force this sort of conformity between them. and this often caused bullying! i remember there were kids who hard their cards flipped all the way to red almost every day, they were always made fun of by the other kids for being like, Bad. and this would just make it worse, kids would lash out in frustration of their situation, teachers wouldnt help them and would just keep using the same card flip method thats obviously failed them, and is just further encouraging their behavior as well as that of their peers. like, for what? does this tactic just make these poor kids to be sacrificial lambs? "dont be like The Bad Kid or this could be you so stay in line and be Good"? assassination classroom was right bro they were right
it really just prioritizes the overall conformity of the class over any of the students growth in any healthy way, its too one-size-fits-all, but children grown differently and arent a monolith, and circumstances can be different too. you have to actually communicate with those kids, even if theyre very young and communication is hard for them. like, its your fucking job to help them, talk to them and see what the problem is instead of trying to correct it like theyre dogs wearing a shock collar. its just a pavlovian response, they understand "action causes card to flip>card flip causes punishment>dont do action" but they dont understand why they shouldnt do it at all unless you actually talk with them. theyre kids but theyre people too
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