#fire's ramblings

[ndrayton]

ask game - 16, 17?

omg. an ask.

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

I checked, it's "Omniscient Reader Epilogue Spoilers", unsurprisingly. I think every orv fic I've written is lowkey about the epilogue. It haunts me.

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

It was probably Yoo Joonghyuk. He's very funny to write. Guy who has deep melancholic and thoughtful inner monologue and then says out loud, "I'll kill you." I tend to use his POV sparingly but always have fun with it.

Questions from Ao3 wrapped ask game. Feel free to send me more.

[a-fire-left-unchecked]

I made cookies! Excited to see how they taste. I was supposed to make them for my dnd group for our character creation meet up, but I didn't realize the butter and egg needed to be room temperature and the dough chilled.

I'll know for next time! If you wanna try these for yourself, the recipe is on [ critical role books . com / cookies ] (take out spaces).

[sadmages]

Having ocs is fucked up they make you wake up and think stuff like what if i learn to code in renpy and make this into a visual novel. Who said that

[shadebloopnik]

Radioapple twitter goin thru a thing rn

LIKE AMIR????

AMIR???? CHAT???? AMIR WHAT IS THIS BEHAVIOR?????

[some-pers0n]

So the cover for the Japanese translation of TDP just dropped. Looks really neat!! Lookat him! Clay!!

Art by Lee Yamamura

[daenerys-targaryen]

real tumblr girl vibe is rechecking peoples bios before you say their name in an ask even if we've been mutuals for 10 years bec i don't want to make a Mistake

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’ve been fired exactly once in my life. In my early twenties I was working at a pizza place. The pizzas were artisanal, thin crust and personal. They’re a huge chain now but when I first started the company was in its infancy. It was the wild west of management, and the core investors would frequently stop by to check on things. One of these people was this round little man with rage issues. A knock off Danny Devito with no charisma at all.

His favorite thing to do was to come in on a Friday or Saturday night. We'd be at our stations: taking orders, making pizza, manning the oven, finishing orders off, running the cash register. He'd shove his way onto the line and start rearranging people. "You, get off orders and work the cash register, you come over and make the pizzas!" With a line of customers snaking out the door he'd throw off all our grooves and rattle us.

Then, inevitably, a mistake would happen.

When it did he'd call the person over and say, "Hey c'mere. You're fired." Just like that. No inflection, just a flat "You're fired." It was absolutely a power kink, and because of his involvement the average turn over was three months. You were a veteran at five months.

One night there was only three of us manning the front. I took an order than went to the cash register to ring them out before I made the pizza. This horrible man watched that then called me into the back. I didn't know if I was about to be fired. But I wasn't. In fact, he had one other move besides firing people. He yelled.

In the back he absolutely lost his mind screaming at me for being on the cash register. I'm talking veins popping, spit flying, red with rage, this man just started bellowing nonsensically about where I should be and how I was just such a failure. It was truly like his brain had shut off, nothing he was saying even made sense. I stood there in the face of this tirade for a minute and then set a record for being the first person to ever cut him short by bursting into tears.

He instantly stopped yelling and it was like Jekyll and Hyde. He was remorseful and consoling, deeply embarrassed by my display of emotion. All my male coworkers just took the abuse but faced with my weeping he about faced and instantly backed off. I went outside to cry and when I came back in he pretended it had never happened.

That was the state of things. The investors knew they desperately needed to keep this man out of the stores, but they couldn't just give him the boot. They needed to move him aside and fill his position with someone. The store manager was this lovely woman who had hired me on the spot at my interview. The entire staff adored her. She was the best fit to get this roided out investor out of the stores for good.

Her replacement was this man called Anthony. He was instantly loathed by the entire staff. Condescending, critical, and lazy he started off his reign by letting go a core lead who "back talked." He spent a whole morning berating the opening crew because the closing crew (who had sold 100 more pizzas than we were even supposed to have on hand) had forgotten to windex the doors. He left the entire crew to close without him while he flirted with a girl who wasn't his pregnant girlfriend. He hired his roommate to replace the lead he fired and even that guy hated his guts.

Our antipathy toward him made him paranoid and resentful and one by one he started finding excuses to fire the whole staff, certain that if he could clean house he'd be able to do the job. My time came, and he sat me down with his boss, my former manager. She cried as he announced I wasn't personable enough and used too many pepperonis.

I looked at her, the woman who had trained me on how many pepperoni to use, but she said nothing. What could she say? He was the boss now and had determined I was going to be let go regardless. Too many in this case was seven. Seven pepperonis on a personal pizza. The correct number was five according to him, which is one pepperoni per slice, and one in the middle.

I sat there for a moment, taking it in. I smiled at my old manager, obviously miserable. I looked back at him and said, "You're a terrible manager, you're doing the worst imaginable job." I outlined some of the things he'd done so she could hear them, then I stood up and left. I made it to the back room before I started crying.

I found out later through a bus boy that he replaced the whole staff with college kids who had such limited availability that the store couldn't run, then quit three months later leaving the whole place in shambles. Most of the old staff returned, but I'd moved onto the sex shop already and was enjoying a job with significantly less risk of being fired on a whim.

However I do have to disclose on job applications if I've ever been fired. I always says yes and list the reason as, "Excessive use of pepperoni." It has never failed to get a laugh from my interviewer.

[gaylactic-fire]

On the topic of short Link, here's your forced reminder that Link is smaller than Zelda in

Wind Waker

Twilight Princess

A Link Between Worlds

Breath Of The Wild / Age Of Calamity/ Tears Of The Kingdom

Hell even in the ORIGINAL Legend Of Zelda she looks like.. a pixel taller than him.. maybe...

Every time you draw Link taller than Zelda Eiji Aonuma cries. I've seen it, you guys, he just bursts into tears.

[puppyeared]

learned something about myself lately

[winterstarfall]

[demaparbat-hp]

Golden Boy (and Silver Girl) for the Kintsugi AU.

[ndrayton]

my favourite thing about the art @hehearse made for the new fic is of course everything about it

but my second favourite thing is

E E P Y

[a-fire-left-unchecked]

Reading The Smoke 01.01.2024

Even after all this time, I am still a baby witch and don't know all the card meanings off the top of my head (still using a guide). But I'm looking forward to getting the practice in this year~

Pull -The Moon (Reversed) -Eight of Wands -Ten of Pentacles (Reversed)

Meanings -The Moon (R): Release of Fear, Repressed Emotion, Inner Confusion -Eight of Wands: Speed, Action, Air Travel, Movement, Swift Change -Ten of Pentacles (R): The dark side of wealth, Financial failure or loss

Intent / Interpretation: My intent with this pull was to get a sort of baseline. Taking my goals and current plans into account, I wanted to see what the future looks like on this path.

The Moon reversed pulled as my first card. Honestly, this one made a lot of sense, particularly with the release of fear. I just recently confronted someone close to me on how they've been treating me and set some boundaries with a deadline for them. I had been putting it off for a few months, giving them the benefit of the doubt and taking on certain responsibilities onto myself. I finally took the time to stand up for myself, while the result of that is yet to be seen.

The Eight of Wands was a bit on the nose, but not in a bad way! Swift change is probably referencing my roommate situation (considering the ultimatums I gave to continue living with them) or just with my plans to better myself. A lot of change all at once that will take a lot to keep up. Even daily pulls is a massive change. Air travel also makes sense, considering I have a work trip coming up and some plans to travel out of state for a bit.

The Ten of Pentacles reversed worries me a bit. A lot of my goals and plans involve finances and money to back them. A financial loss could be seen as a good thing in literal senses, since it could mean that the loss is played in tandem with completing some of my goals. A financial failure could also mean that I don't do any of what I intend to do. It's hard to tell at this point.

Overall, this feels optimistic to me. I choose to see this as optimistic, regardless of how much the final card worries me. I'm starting on a better foot this year, with more respect for myself and surrounded by people who want what's best for me. I can do this!

[wolfram-but-art]

drew one of the memes in this person's post again

reblogs > likes

[some-pers0n]

Battlewinner is such a cool character and I feel like she should've deserved way more time. Like just conceptually the idea of a lost queen, the ruler of the once highly regarded and prophetic NightWings, reduced to living in lava to survive. She had gone into battle herself, a duty practically unheard of for a regular queen, and came out with an IceWing having shot frostbreath straight down her throat. From then forth, she's been stirring and plotting within the streams of magma within the NightWing volcano, biding her time until they can rise from the darkness and claim what they believe is rightly theirs

She's a wicked cool character conceptually and I wish she had like more than two scenes lol. Like look at her in the official art!! Woawhh!!!!

[bluerosefox]

Little Danny's Big Adventure

New idea.

Okay now hear me out.

-Pulls out AU idea cauldron and tosses stuff into it-

Let's put in some Ghost King/Prince Danny.... But also some deaged to toddlerhood Danny that gets yeeted into the DCverse!

Like imagine, tiny baby Danny with his tiny crown of ice floating above his head and his galaxy cape wrapped around him and uses it like a baby blanket. He didn't mean to fall into a different universe, a natural portal opened up and he was being a curious little thing! He didn't mean to trip and fall in during his nap time.

Nor was he expecting to fall into this realm during a rogue attack and knock out said rogue cause they were being a meanie and harming people and now Danny just wants his nap time cause he spent a lot of his tiny engery and he wants to find a nice spot.

Danny finds a place to crash, snuggling himself into his cape and the astronaut bear Danielle got him during her last visit that he takes everywhere since.

He's out like a light as the door to this safe house that belongs to one of the Bats opens up.

Meanwhile. In the Infinite Realms, Queen Regent Jazz is going into Mama Bear Jazz Mode trying to find her deaged brother, keeping the Realms in check, and is resisting the urge to put CW in time out Soup Time because he's being cyptided again about Danny whereabouts!!! UGH!