#i train the new developers

[outrosword]

when you talk back at a superior at work : am i gonna get fired

[kizzer55555]

The Vampire Aesthetic

Ok so Danny knows two billionaires personally and they really couldn’t be more different. Yet they had one thing in common. A vampire aesthetic. Sam is fully into goth. Spiderwebs, bats, the color black. She enjoys fangs and fake blood and the darkness of her soul. Meanwhile, Vlad is Vlad. If his name wasn’t enough, the dark clothing, pale skin, and flying around with a cape and fangs with coffins in his mansion really sells it.

Danny doesn’t know many rich people so he thinks this might be some kind of trend. (If Paulina is rich, her family likes the chupacabra) So he just thinks that all rich people have some kind of vampire thing going on.

Cue Danny somehow ending in the Wayne household. Maybe he was brought over as a friend of one of the bats, maybe rescued from a field trip/vacation gone wrong, maybe some other situation. But he is there in civilian form with civilian Waynes and Danny just takes a good long look around the inside of the mansion.

“So where’s the vampire aesthetic?

Everyone freezes.

Danny just starts looking around, checking behind paintings and feeling the walls for secret levers. Used to secret passages with Vlad and possibly Sam. The Fentons definitely had them when they were temporarily rich.

“Come on, I know you guys are hiding it.”

Cue the entire batfamily thinking that this is another Tim and that he is fully aware that these people are the batfamily. Danny hangs around the mansion more and the bats just start dropping their disguises and not even bothering to hide stuff around Danny because they assume he already knows. (Possibly even trying to recruit him to be a new bat) Meanwhile, Danny, who does not know these people are batman and his birds, just does not pick up on any of it.

He grew up in a health violation with a giant ballon observatory lab above his head and a portal to the afterlife in his basement. He is a half dead teenager who has tea with the god of time and his godfather is the other parent to his clone child. He’s used to death lazers being scattered across his home and mysterious stains on clothing.

People are weird! He doesn’t judge!

[mariocki]

Jacqueline Pearce guest stars as fashion model Leonie Peters, but it could be she's mixed up in bank robbery and murder in New Scotland Yard: The Banker (1.10, LWT, 1972)

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[lycemagee]

You have no inspiration? No motivation? No ideas?

Then develop some hilarious crack ships. I swear just try as hard as you can, with the characters who literally have NOTHING in common or something. When you come up with interesting plots for CRACK ships then you can write anything anytime.

Just don't take it too seriously

[whistlingstarlight]

Yet another reason New Starlight is way better than people give it credit for, Ashley's line of "I'm a smoker, the last one in the land" gives her character so much inferred depth.

Ashley's a victim of modernization, like Rusty, Poppa, even Greaseball. She's the only dedicated smoking car in active service in the country (usually implied to be America, but the rolling stock have a lot of British inspiration), how terrifying must that be for her? All other smoking cars have been converted, preserved, or scrapped. It's only a matter of time before the same happens to her.

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

broke: Will hates being a healer because it makes him feel weak when compared to the fighters

woke: Will loves being a healer because his entire sense of self-worth depends on helping other people

bespoke: Will loves being a healer because it allows him to skip camp activities and just be a little shit in general.

Does he have to monitor Nyssa in the infirmary for two hours because of a minor burn? Not necessarily. But is it preferable to cleaning out the stables?? Absolutely.

Is there technically a less painful way to set a broken bone? His father is literally the deity of healing, so of course. Does the owner of said broken bone (who has been particularly annoying this week) know that?? Well, why would they need to when good old Will is here to heal all wounds?

Was Will an accomplice in the prank against the Ares cabin? Yeah. Is Clarisse aware of that? Probably. Will she do anything about it? To the head medic?? Will hopes for her sake that the answer is no (see point 2)

(also the self-worth things but like. whatever)

[velvetjune]

i played the remastered alan wake a while back and am replaying the original on steam, and, honestly, they’re so similar, I couldn’t tell which is which if you held up comparisons. ive come across reviews about the game looking outdated and bad (mostly compared to other releases in that time), but the original looks great and I like the hazy dark lighting for both this and awan

[eagleeyethree]

thinking about an alternate universe where betty returns but not everything is well

[xxstarl1ghtxx]

why is night hunter's blink cycle so ^-^

kicking screaming aaaa <3

[dispadaferisce]

Astarion Ancunin - Character Info

[pynkhues]

I'm so glad your friends are both okay. That's so horrible.

Thanks, anon. It was about a decade ago (although the incidents happened in different years), so time's marched on. They're both doing well now.

[whentherewerebicycles]

question: when you're starting a new job, what do you most want out of your first week of onboarding? what's most helpful for you to know/understand upfront? also... what's not helpful? tell me your onboarding nightmare stories too lol

[mqfx]

i miss my fic (hasn't worked on her in days even though ch2 publish time is less than 72 hours away)

[millerflintstone]

I just sent back my signed contract for the technical writer gig. It's for a paid test 10 hour project so we can both see if we're a fit for each other, which I like. I kinda thought that's what the next step would be in the first company's interview process but it wasn't.

I didn't really talk about how that interview went on here. Just realized that! It was only 30 minutes long. I met with the director of documentation and senior technical writer. It was structured so cleanly - 3 specific questions, about 10 -15 minutes of the director explaining what areas they work in, any questions I had and then any follow up questions they had.

There was none of the song and dance selling of yourself that was expected. They could see I have database experience and asked a couple of questions about that. They also asked about my writing experience. I explained that I had not produced any external/ customer facing documents but that they were all internal for fellow developers and QA folks. I also added that it wasn't documentation that was requested / assigned to me. I just created it because there was a need. They didn't even need to see a portfolio or writing samples.

In the follow up questions, the technical writer was SO SURPRISED that I created documentation on my own. It's honestly what I do for myself in a haphazard and understandable-to-me way anyway. I'm never able to remember all of the fine details of stuff so I create my own notes/ cheat sheets / likely over-document my own code. The things I created people told me were helpful. I am not a fan of information living in one person to where if something happened to that person, people were screwed.

So, we shall see. It will take up to 2 weeks for their side to sign things and get the project Statement of Work ready. And then from there we'll collaborate on a date that works for us both.

I'm glad I decided to take the plunge into freelancing for this. The way the job market is, I seriously doubt I'd find a job doing what I want to try out. This way, I can take my small steps and assess without the stress of having to be in a job that I hate until I can find a different one.

Friday my test scoring gig starts and that's a steady 9 -5:30 through the 24th. No weekends, so I can work on the other content writing thing over the weekend, too.

[gizkalord]

my friend once said j/j/k was the most overhyped mid manga/anime she's seen and she's so right tbh