#i'm basically a celebrity

[systemdeez]

Who are you people?

[daffythefox]

me when i keep getting notes bc i keep posting bangers and other people keep giving me the fame i deserve

[zoyalannister]

My friend sent me a post and I couldn’t open it because this other user blocked me.

I think I can officially say it: finally, finally, I have haters 🥳🥳

I just hope that this other user hates me for something I actually did and not for my non-existing anti posts or because the first offended user brainwashed them into believing that I'm an anti-post machine or that I insult people for the characters/ship they like.

[smilefullofcaligari]

More half-assed voxval doodles before I pass out

They're so romantic it's killing me

[ruvviks]

the two most normal best friends in night city to share a birthday. happy birthday vitali and mikhail, here's to many more years of nobody knowing how to label your relationship <3

taglist (opt in/out)

@nistarot, @deadrlngers, @euryalex, @ordinarymaine, @mojaves;

@shellibisshe, @dickytwister, @mnwlk, @rindemption, @ncytiri;

@calenhads, @noirapocalypto, @florbelles, @radioactiveshitstorm, @strafethesesinners;

@fashionablyfyrdraaca, @radioactive-synth, @katsigian, @estevnys, @devilbrakers;

@aezyrraesh, @carlosoliveiraa, @adelaidedrubman, @batwomxns

[rhupi]

Hi! I'm accompanying this mysterious little ghost while he's trick or treating. So far, this is all the candy we got. Your team Minato doodles, ESPECIALLY those of a certain boy named Obito are awesome and hilarious, so the ghost is humbly asking for a treat OR ELSE

Charlie brown reference 😋

Nah im just playin, bought the chocolate factory for my lil bby boy, the best forda best🫶

[shootingstarpilot]

saw your post last week about your job i hope it went okay!

First off, thank you so much for checking in, that is genuinely so sweet of you and I appreciate it tremendously. Now, am I answering this three weeks late because I wanted to have an actual resolution for you?

Yes. Yes I am.

Am I also about to vent for several paragraphs, screaming incoherently into the void as the insane stress of the past few months searches desperately for an open valve?

Yeah, that too.

So. February 14, 2025. With no formal warning and only 24 hours of informal warning from other rank-and-file staff, myself and several thousand other probationary employees (meaning those with less than a year in their current position) were unceremoniously and illegally terminated. Termination notifications stated that our "subject matter knowledge, skills, and abilities do not meet the Department's current needs." This comes into play later, because this is patently false. Myself and many others had promotions to permanent status in the works before the federal hiring freeze condemned them to the void. These terminations did not involve any of our direct supervisors or anyone who had actual knowledge of the quality of our work.

These notifications were rolled out by region. Sitting at my computer, watching the texts roll in from friends at parks across the country, knowing mine was coming and not being able to do a damn thing about it...

Yeah. That was fucking miserable.

I get very lucky. My boss goes to bat hard for me and gets me a position with our partner organization; I am unemployed only for the weekend. A lot of national parks have these (most libraries and the like have them too). These partner organizations are often vital to the functioning of the park. As an example of what they can do- because they're non-governmental non-profits, they can assist in fundraising efforts and solicit donations that federal regulations bar parks (as federal entities) from participating in.

I am, again, tremendously lucky. Other probies have families to support. Other probies are left without paychecks entirely. We are supposed to have access to our benefits for a month after being terminated; many find their health insurance is now inactive. Other probies, after uprooting their whole lives to move to remote locations for their dream jobs, are suddenly left isolated and unmoored. Many have to move back home, closer to friends and family who can help support them.

And then March 13 rolls around, and two separate judges (US District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco and US District Judge James Bredar of Baltimore) order the Trump administration to reinstate all fired probationary employees by March 18. Fully reinstated, meaning they can't just put employees on paid admin leave and call them "reinstated."

I don't know how the other agencies handled this, but just for the DOI:

Going completely against the court orders, the DOI splits all probationary employees into two groups. Group A are mostly front-line probies, those involved in visitor services, maintenance, etc., and are to be reinstated immediately. Group B are mostly back-of-house- admin, resource management, and the like- to be placed on paid admin leave. I'm in cultural resource management, so I was placed in Group B. Also worth noting- all of those notifications about group designations and reinstatements? We got absolutely nothing in writing. All of this is conveyed by phone calls from our direct supervisors, who are as baffled and furious as the rest of us.

(If you had any faith left that "oh, they're doing this to save money!", let that put those to rest. Paid admin leave means you're paying people to do nothing. We all were chomping at the bit to GET BACK TO DOING OUR JOBS.)

So, of course, this sets off a ruckus. We are contacting the courts, we are contacting our union reps, we are contacting our congressional reps, those of us who live or work in one of the 19 states that filed the lawsuits are contacting our attorney generals. We care about the work we do. We are not content with paid admin leave.

And the ruckus works. The next day, we receive notice that the group designations are no longer valid. Everyone is being reinstated, effective immediately.

Great.

Until the Supreme Court strikes this down on a legal technicality, saying that the states and the union do not have "standing" to sue. Importantly, they're not ruling on the legality of the firings themselves; that question is still making its way through the courts.

The Department of Commerce, which includes agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, immediately re-fires all their probationary employees. This is because DOC leadership is full of a bunch of stupid cunts.

DOI leadership does one thing right and decides not to re-fire their probies until the legality of doing so is decided. This is good, because it gives more time for current probationary employees to make it to a year of service, thereby taking them off probationary status. This is also what happens to me- three days after the SC ruling comes down, I make it off probationary status and breathe a (very tentative) sigh of relief.

Now I am faced with a different problem.

There are a few different categories of employment. You can be permanent, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can be seasonal, which is also exactly what it sounds like. Or you can be term. Term employees function on an annual renewal; positions can be renewed for up to four years. Normally, while the renewals themselves are only processed the week before your term is up (for some godforsaken reason), you'll usually know whether or not you're getting renewed a few months beforehand because your supervisor will tell you whether or not they've filed the paperwork to extend your term. This is generally fine, because having the advance notice lets you prepare and search for new jobs. HR basically rubber-stamps your supervisor's decision.

However, in this new hellscape, whether or not you get renewed is no longer up to your supervisor. It's up to the Office of Personnel Management, led by the guy who said he wanted to "traumatize" federal employees. Also, I cannot stress enough-

THE GOAL OF THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TO GUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

So. You know. We're all having a great time.

There is no uniformity and no guidance. Some terms are getting renewed. Some are not. These are scattered across regions and divisions and offices; there is no pattern to be found. This is becoming the depressing norm.

Again, my boss goes to bat for me. He tells me he filed the paperwork for my renewal the moment he found out I was getting reinstated. He is arguing that in order to meet the new order to "prioritize keeping parks open" (I'm not even fucking touching that right now), he needs to be allowed to keep his staff so he can reassign them if necessary. He is giving me multiple long-term projects to work on. He says he is optimistic, even though he doesn't look it.

I am not.

I am back-of-house, meaning that I do not directly impact the visitor experience the same way a staff shortage of front-line rangers would. I work in cultural resource management, which this administration is aiming to demolish. I spend the next few weeks tidying things up as much as I can for my successor, trying to process the grief of losing a fantastic job, doing very bleak math with my meager savings to figure out how far I can stretch them (the answer: not very), and applying for other positions. I try to take some sick time and fail because I actually really love my job.

This would all be so much easier if I hated my job.

Fast-forward to today. It's the last day of my term. I resigned myself last week to not being renewed. I still have not heard anything, not even about a termination notice- non-renewal of the term still requires paperwork actions. I am plodding along and trying to prioritize the most enjoyable parts of my job.

Then, with less than six hours of my term left, I find out that my term has been extended.

I have so much work to do.

I can't wait.

[susartwork]

It's Basic's 4th birthday!

I'll never stop redrawing this scene haha, and this time I even decided to animate it q(≧▽≦q) I really should draw these two more often

Happy b-day, my glitchy cinnamon roll ♡

Basic!S̷̗̀ả̶̰n̸̢̑s̸̰̀ belongs to me Ruby!Sans belongs to @rubytale-chapter2

[sergle]

I got something for you to chew on. when I was in chickasha yesterday, at the food truck festival, a girl asked to take a picture with me (and I said yes and I threw a peace sign By The Way) and I still don't know. why. she wanted a picture.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

So it was established in the last episode that Taylor still believes in Santa (tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up prior to this ep too but anyways-) so... Do you think (saint) Nicky been has portalling in every year since the betrayal to sneak in a gift for his son amongst the pile? That Cassandra doesn't even notice because it's just one among the many many presents she herself has bought and wrapped? But every year without fail... Taylor gets one gift that simply says "from: Nick" and well, obviously that has to mean it's from Santa (a conclusion which Nicky expects him to come to, and why he can sign his name at all, though he misses when he could just write "dad"). And one year when he's still quite young, a sleepy little Taylor actually catches Nicky in the act, and Nicky wishes more than anything that he could just *stay*, but instead he only softly tells Taylor to go back to bed, and Taylor thinks that Santa is a lot younger and a bit sadder than he expected, but what's he gonna do- not listen to Santa Claus? So he smiles meekly at the man he does not know to be his father, and hurriedly heads back to his room.

Also yes of course Nicky eats the fucking cookies left out of course he's not gonna pass up on free cookies (which are home-baked to top it off) come on that's a given.

[probablyaparadox]

I'm not usually one for autism hc's but ykw movie shadow is VERY autistic/neurotypical coded imo. I think it's the "beware the alien freak" that does it for me thematically. He struggles to relate to people, so the people who he can relate to and who care about are SUPER valuable to him, because it feels like there is something wrong with him. People look at him like there is something wrong with him, or something bad and different. Like idk I feel like a lot of media I've seen doesn't address THAT aspect. Behaviours in representation is one thing, but experience is another, and the experience aspect is really important to me, which is why I see it more with Shadow. Before I first had it brought up that I might be autistic, I FELT like the "alien freak", and to other people who have felt that way, I think knowing you can be loved and seeing people like you is important. Also revenge Guac.

[trembling-amber]

the Wistful Fabulist, during the time when they were still somewhat new to the Neath, when they were known as the Saccharine Balladeer, roughly 21 and with eyes like two ambers.

[stardestroyer81]

So, how about the Thousand Year Door remaster going by the game's Japanese translation, thereby confirming Vivian is canonically a trans woman?

This was such an exciting revelation to me personally that I decided to draw fanart of Vivian repping her trans pride... alongside a certain Koopa I haven't drawn in a little while! 💙🏳️‍⚧️💜

[fruitcompote]

thank you everyone for the very kind congratulations they really do mean a lot to me, given that there's essentially a paper trail of textposts on here from the past 3 years of me becoming the type of person i hate which is someone who just talks about grad school all the time

but my defence went so much better than i could have expected or maybe that was because i was psyching myself out by reading reddit threads over the past 2 days and was guarding myself for the worst but when they asked me to step out for deliberation i KNEW i nailed it and that i was going to pass. and my committee approved my thesis without revisions which is crazy (they didn't even catch the all typos i only noticed AFTER i submitted it which i WILL be fixing)

[rwby-confess]

Confession #411

[charliexspring]

ah, dearest readers,

let us turn our attention to a most momentous occasion. it is with great pleasure and a heart full of gratitude that i announce the achievement of a most splendid milestone: i have now amassed 2000 loyal followers. to each and every one of you who has joined me on this delightful journey, i extend my deepest thanks. your unwavering support is the very tonic that fuels my photoshop.

in celebration of this grand event, i have prepared a most delightful diversion. a poll, if you will, featuring my favourite tv shows, characters, otps (one true pairing, for the uninitiated), and found family dynamics that grace my humble blog. i urge you, dear readers, to cast your vote for your favourites.

so, click away, my dear followers. vote with the same passion with which you devour my latest art, and together we shall create a veritable treasure trove of visual delights.

yours in wit and wonder, charliexspring

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