#if you dont think i work the worlds most thankless job

[ceasarslegion]

Well that's my last night shift done. I'm back on days as of this week.

I also have an exam for a job opportunity on Monday and an interview on Wednesday if I pass the exam. So wish me luck for that and maybe I won't have to be stuck at the most thankless job in the world for much longer

[shigayokagayama]

sakurai hato or minegishi :3? my faves

sakurai:

Sexuality Headcanon:

this man is gay

Gender Headcanon:

honestly nothing in specific. cis but in a "never really put much thought into it" kinda way. could he be inclined to question or transition? perhaps, but he is too busy cleaning up the giant comical jar of disgusting orange sauce that spilled all over the floor because a customer insisted they could fit a weeks worth of groceries into one cheap reusable grocery bag and it predictably split open and went everywhere and now the whole store smells like nondescript orange sauce and he has a headache from the smell but the manager will be pissed if he closes the register and moves to one further away so he just has to mop it between customers and the stain remains until they redo the nylon in 30 years.

A ship I have with said character:

koyama. made for each other.

A BROTP I have with said character:

i really like thinking abt post canon 7th division staying friends :] i think they hang out sometimes

A NOTP I have with said character:

none that come to mind? obvious stuff aside i suppose

A random headcanon:

a common theme between all three of these characters is that theyre young enough to fall in the age range where they could have been kidnapped by claw and i choose to believe that's what happened. especially sakurai. this kid screams kidnapped. no one would have looked for him....

General Opinion over said character:

i dont think about the 7th division members all that much just because they all get introduced in my least favorite arc so i dont really have a reason to reread/rewatch unless im doing a full series rewatch, but as a background character enjoyer seeing people have thoughts on them makes me very happy

hatori:

Sexuality Headcanon:

gay asexual seems right for him i think :]

Gender Headcanon:

definitely some flavor of transmasc

A ship I have with said character:

computers. other than that ive seen people ship him with joseph and i see the vision.

A BROTP I have with said character:

similar to above i think he and the rest of the super five are still buddies after everything.

A NOTP I have with said character:

this is a weird question to answer for the more minor/background characters so instead ill say "i used to sorta ship him and minegishi in like a qpp sorta way when i thought they were like the same age but learning minegishi was like 19 and punching the numbers meant that unless they didnt meet until less than a year precanon there's no way to make that not weird so i dropped it". so it goes.

A random headcanon:

ditto to above and also reddit moderator. i know he's a reddit moderator on some tech forum giving the world's most smarmy and least helpful advice

General Opinion over said character:

i like him! i dont think of him too often but im fond of all the super five.

minegishi:

Sexuality Headcanon:

ace aro :]

Gender Headcanon:

transfemme nonbinary <3

A ship I have with said character:

none really. they dont have time for that they have a thankless minimum wage job to work.

A BROTP I have with said character:

super five but also i realized hoshida from the reigen manga is in the age range to have gone to middle school with them before they became a terrorist and the idea of them having been childhood friends who fell out of touch and then him turning on the news to find out the kid who used to make him clover necklaces is wreaking havoc on downtown is REALLY funny

A NOTP I have with said character:

most things honestly at this point. i am so sorry shimamine shippers they took everything from you with the fanbook

A random headcanon:

i feel like post canon theyd become a bug person. like, getting big terrariums with self sustaining ecosystems of invertabrates :]

General Opinion over said character:

i actually like them a lot! i feel like its clear from the answers to these that theyre the one out of these i think about the most frequently lol. i just. how did you join the upper echelon of a terrorist organization at age 16. what happened.

[5sosfanfictioncatalogue]

Bad Boy Masterlist

"Ah, sorry Doll." (ao3) - cliff0rd michael/luke T, 4k

Summary: Luke is a shy, quiet boy who works in a small Café and Bad boy Mikey just loves seeing him blush.

Arthurian Romances (ao3) - therjolras michael/ashton T, 5k

Summary: Ashton's in a bit of a tangle when he's rescued by a purple-haired knight-in-leather-jacket.

baby i'm gonna drink you in like oxygen (ao3) - booksteaandcake luke/ashton N/R, 1k

Summary: bad boy ashton has taken young luke hemmings under his wing. it's kind of a surprise when they sleep together... but also not a surprise at all.

'“I’m not wrecking you.” Ashton scoffed, “I’m going to take care of you.”'

do the things that you'd only read about (ao3) - heartbreakgirl michael/luke N/R, 5k

Summary: When he looks over, Michael's eyes are open and he's grinning from ear to ear.

“I love you.”

He smiles shyly, eyes rolling fondly. “I love you too, Michael.”

or, book worm Luke & bad boy Michael

every now and then the stars align (ao3) - merlypops luke/calum E, 3k

Summary: 'The sheer force of the love unfurling in Luke’s chest took his breath away often but he liked it that way, liked being reminded by his pulse thundering in his veins that Calum was his, and that he loved Luke back.'

Calum gets in trouble a lot, Luke's had a bad life, and Calum would do anything to keep him safe. Anything at all.

Feeling Naughty (ao3) - im_just_a_sucker_for_bromance michael/calum E, 2k

Summary: Calum is giving himself too much freedom and Michael is mad. Now, it's up to Calum make it up to him.

fight so dirty but your love's so sweet (ao3) - softirwin luke/ashton, michael/calum T, 11k

Summary: Luke hates a good ninety-five percent of his job.

A solid thirty percent of that comes from the fact that he works as a receptionist at a hotel, which he thinks is possibly the most thankless job humanity could possibly have created. A further ten comes from the fact that his desk is right next to the kitchen, meaning mouth-watering smells are constantly wafting under his nose, and Luke’s not allowed to eat on shift.

Fifty-five percent of it, though, is Ashton.  

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written for the prompt 'lashton bad boy'

Have Faith In This Fragile World (ao3) - SilentlyFighting michael/calum, luke/ashton N/R, 19k

Summary: Michael Clifford is well known in his school, not for being popular, far from it, he is the nerd. The goody-two-shoes hasn't had the best past but his peers do not know this and a couple of the football team decide that he is their next target. A mysterious group of boys make an appearance, saving him multiple times, and when Michael runs out of money to buy food, they even find ways to get him food.

The boys do not scare him that much but they certainly catch his attention. Michael learns the names of two of the boys but the leader is set to keep his identity a secret. But, when Michael has another run in with the football team and they use him as bait, will the boys identity reveal itself?

Mr. H (ao3) - jeepies luke/ashton G, 3k

Summary: Luke is The Joker and Ashton is Harley Quinn

Pull Up in Your Fast Car Whistlin' My Name (ao3) - blakecoffeeandcigarettes luke/ashton E, 3k

Summary: "What seems to be the problem officer?" Luke asked, making sure to raise his voice a couple of octaves higher as he fiddled with the hem of his dress, revealing the hot pink, lace edge of his panties.

say you want me and dont be nice (send those shivers running down my spine) (ao3) - orphan_account michael/calum N/R, 5k

Summary: :+: Calum and Michael are in gangs, and when Calum gets slightly turned on by the gun in Michael's hands, things get dirty :+:

snap backs and tattoos (ao3) - crankgameplays michael/calum N/R, 3k

Summary: Calum Hood is 16, almost 17, when hes warned to stay away from Michael Clifford. His dad catches a gaze of him from the kitchen window and hes got a new tattoo that's wrapped around his pale arm and there's tufts of pink hair peeking out from his snap back and oh my fucking god is that a fucking eyebrow piercing. Calum has died and gone to heaven. Or hell. Maybes hes being a little dramatic. Whatever. But his dad turns to him and he goes,

"Calum, I want you to stay away from that Clifford boy," pointing a finger in the direction of his son. "Hes no good." And Calum nods and mumbles, yes dad, and walks to his room and that's that.

But really. No one ever listens to their dads.

We're like noughts and crosses (ao3) - emptygoldss michael/calum G, 1k

Summary: it’s like Michael’s made of glass and Calum turns him to sand.

Yeah, I Want You Baby (ao3) - flowercrownmikey michael/luke M, 4k

Summary: "That what you wanna do, princess? Fuck the delinquent right outta me?"

OR// Officer! Luke and Bad Boy! Michael.

[semi-imaginary-place]

more kubera posting 2

New airavata likes to present herself as a calm and rational leader but between the sidestory and this she's violently insecure self serving.

why do I always end up liking the doomed side characters with no screen time.

when claude recieved that oracle and lifespan from brahma, brahma was in that cloaked form. so im wondering how claude's oracle was suppose to help the losers of the previous universe.

I was thinking about asha in season 2. She originally gained power to take revenge on the suras who killed her village and the plot to resurrect ananta as a whole assuming her pointing out former god kubera to leez was mostly honest. Now though she seems to resent visnu's manipulations and is gaining ananta's power so that she can decide her own future? Her ambitions become unclear to me towards the end of season 2. a good part of this is that asha becomes increasingly unstable in season 2 as yuta notes her soul cannot handle the power she already has not to mention all of ananta's power. i empathize with asha but most of her suffering is self inflicted she resented the kids around her as a child and sought to prove to everyone how great she is, to stick it to them and be at the top of the world. she resents leez for having had rao as a father and other for their bonds to others but asha had many people who wanted to know her as a person and genuinely cared about her like brilith and lorraine.

Oh yeah and since asha failed to kill lorraine her chances of "winning" fell from 90% to almost 0. I think about how yuta said asha's soul could not withstand the power she already had not to mention all of ananta's power. In that sense a motive decay would make sense. I was also thinking asha and leez are alike in that both of them respect and abide by the decisions their past selves made instead of trying to take another path

We see indra mind controlling? Idk manipulating the human king into starting a war and we know indra killed aruna and caused the electrical storms. So i always wondered why human kinnara named time (rao) as the one behind the human king's executions. But its because kinnara wanted to lure kubera to the temple of time. The question is why kinnara-airavata would want that since kubera tries to stop the name transfer. It could be to make human kinnara more desperate to help her but i think human kinnara would have done that anyways.

I just remembered currygom compared agni to a fireball and everything he eats burns up so i dont know how fleshy gods are and there was that statue made out of gods blood that asha fed to yuta so they have blood?? Anyways i was thinking a vampire could make a pretty good living drinking god blood. Or like you could feed a sura that way

"Literally a thought that keeps plaguing my mind ever since god blood was introduced was "were sura meant to feed on gods?" And then it turns out Nastikas regain vigor by eating the environment, thus symbolically feeding on the gods by eating their domains I very much think that in an "ideal" world, gods would be fed to sura on the regular so that they reach a real peace of them- either that, or gods would pair off with Nastikas/ sura of similar attributes and empower them by creating their environments" (oddeyesight)

I was thinking about yama, he might be the most compassionate god, he wants to do right by everyone not just people he has personal connections to and seems to care the most about mortal lives out of all thevgods we've met. He was also kinda set up to fail. Its like that boss that hires you on and then makes you do the work of 4 people and complains when you dont finish it. Like his work load was always going to be more than he could handle so he was set up to be overworked with a job he could never finish or catch up on. An eternal thankless job where everyone hates you and is constantly trying to beat you up so that their one important person can be the exception to the rule. i cant remember quite but i get the impression there were other gods helping with the paperwork who over time ditched.

the catacylsm is just a mystery to the audience for such a universe altering and recent event. And we dont even know if raltara was part of the stable timeloop ora new element maruna added

[spacexseven]

tuna you have nooo idea how many ideas i have about yans falling for their doctors but i will give u something simple: port mafia; ie: chuuya, akutagawa, pm dazai, etc. x good-natured hospital doctor. one day theres a major clamor about how someone turned up outside the hospital with grievous injuries. at first its all hands on deck to help them, but eventually someone figures out that theyre mafia and everyone jumps ship. darling’s colleagues try to persuade them away from the dying mafioso, telling them how getting involved with the mafia in ANY way will turn out bad for them and to just leave them to their fate, but darling keeps to their oath and decides to take over their care.

its tiring work, working round the clock alone to keep this bastard alive, but it’ll all be worth it in the end, right? wrong. yan’s FIRST order of business when waking up and finding themselves in a hospital is to flip out. threats, attacks, the whole shebang. big tantrum. eventually darling reasons with them that theyre far too injured to go anywhere for the time being without like. dying. (this wouldnt work on dazai that well lol) and if they wanted to turn them in or kill them they wouldve done it like 2 days ago. they even agree to submit to the mafia’s retaliation if they find their care insufficient. their patient agrees, albeit very angrily, and darling sets off on the worlds most thankless job. 

any of these fuckers will give darling a run for their money. dazai would spend a lot of time trying to intimidate them into letting him out early or goad them into killing him, stealing things to hurt himself with, harassing the nurses, faking symptoms, anything he can think of to make their life harder. chuuya is just NASTY, nothing to say to the person Saving His Life besides threats and insults. can never leave a check up on akutagawa without at least one bruise. so on and so forth. no support from colleagues either, darlings decision to Do Their Job making them a pariah. even so, they offer their testy patient their care and kindness without falter. as soon as theyre well enough to get up and walk out, thats exactly what they do, and darling would be lying if they said they werent glad to wash their hands of the whole thing. they’re, of course, back the next week with a new injury that they INSIST that DARLING SPECIFICALLY must look at and suddenly acting like they’re besties. darling lets them, of course, even as the injuries they come in with are more and more ridiculous, all the while trying to gently steer them away from ever coming back before they get them arrested. 

well, if you didnt want them hanging around you maybe you shouldnt have been so sweet. are they supposed to forget about you holding their hand through shockwaves of pain? your soothing voice? the way you stayed up all night to watch over them while they slept? do you think they get THAT at the mafia infirmary? say, why dont you come and work there! they see how your colleagues spurn you, how ungrateful your other patients are for you. doctors are VERY highly regarded among the mafia, itd be a great fit for you! itd also let them personally make it up to you for being so awful before. win-win, right?

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i am terribly sorry about how long it took for me to answer this 😭😭😭 i did consider a similar idea but w/ darling doing the underground doctor job for extra money (we need to start raising funds for darling) as well if you're interested!!

im gonna use dazai as a placeholder for this if u want one w chuuya and aku lmk :>

cw: yandere characters, obsessive behavior, jealousy, obsession, injuries, harassment, taking advantage, implied coercion.

injuries aren't uncommon in this line of work, and bleeding out with a terrifyingly gaping wound is not a new sight for port mafioso. usually, though, mori already arranges for other people to come in and take care of the injured, and they steer clear of hospitals and clinics. it's not smart to get civilian doctors involved in this.

usually, things go as planned.

today, it didn't. dazai's subordinates were strewn somewhere else, leaving him wounded and isolated. to make things worse, he was positioned awkwardly close to a busy street. he should have anticipated that the enemy would have some other trick up their sleeve. now what? was he going to die here, like a disgraced dog? he would prefer something less painful and embarrassing, but beggars couldn't be choosers...

maybe he should have accepted mori's offer of even more backup.

he couldn't reach for his phone, and even if it didn't hurt so bad and he could get it, his fingers were trembling so much that he knew he couldn't type out anything. god, how pathetic. death was death. he couldn't be too picky about it, could he? he would welcome the end.

to his surprise, he woke up.

he was sure he was in a hospital. the plain walls, the simple bed. the papers nearby and the person in a white coat gave it away. this was bad news, terrible news. he wasn't supposed to go to any hospitals or clinics unless mori said so, and now he was here, getting treated by any regular civilian doctor.

obviously, dazai decides the best course of action is to kick up a fuss. they wouldn't hold him here against his will, right? he screams and kicks and threatens everyone until he's exhausted and the staff is ready to throw him out themselves, but you stop them. he recognizes you as the person in his room when he woke up, and watches as you defend his behavior by telling everyone how confused and frightened he would have been after waking up with no recollection of what happened in between. confused, frightened? he was mortified by your choice of words, and worse yet, it was working. everyone backed down, turned their backs and went on with their day.

and you have the audacity to turn back and smile at him like you hadn't just embarrassed him, telling him that it was expected he would have reacted so negatively, promising to help make sure his stay was as comfortable as possible. what stay? he wants to get out, but when he voiced this demand with a hoarse throat, you look more shocked and rush off to get him something for his voice instead. you sit down beside him with a hand on his and carefully explain why he has to stay and why it's important he works with you for a speedy recovery. you ask him for who you should contact since he didn't seem to have any existing identity, but he only turns away and tells you he wants to leave.

he does this for as long as he's hospitalized, complaining about everything, reminding you he doesn't have cash and that killing him would be your best course of action, since he couldn't afford the bill anyway. he tries to run away and pull off stupid stunts, but nothing works. it's infuriating how calm you are about everything. you leave and go back to your usual routine, stopping by to check up on him occasionally. the other staff, however, look terrified of him, and he relishes in the trembling hands and rushed exits. during one of their visits to sort out his room, dazai pretends to sleep so they can actually get things done without fearing he will kick them all out the window, and overhears a particularly interesting conversation.

he learns that you were the one who insisted they treat him despite everyone else noticing the signs that he was probably part of some underground organization. some determined line about how it's your job and you need to help everyone regardless of personal feelings. he thinks it's all bullshit, but your determination...is kind of cute. it's only a matter of time before you end up as soulless and exhausted as everyone else in the city, though.

then the long awaited day comes, and you announce that he can leave. he doesn't care to ask for a bill or thank you, running out and disappearing to talk to mori again, but he would be lying if he said he didn't think about you even after that day. for some reason, something about you really stuck with him. it might have had something to do with your relentless insistence to help, your unwavering patience, your calm conduct, or maybe your...voice. your sympathetic tone, your firm hold...your presence.

a week later, dazai shows up to your workplace and demands he get his hand checked out. he whines until they drag you down and then he exaggerates his terrible condition, how important and urgent it was and how he needed to be kept inside the hospital for a few weeks at least this time. it's very serious, you know. you saw through his lie, but you don't bat an eyelid, immediately complying to his outrageous demands. he was a little happy that you hadn't changed. so despite how often he showed up, with a new but small injury, you took it in stride and treated him with all the concern and seriousness he expected. could you blame him if he liked to be fussed over like this?

what he didn't like was the knowledge that you treated all your patients like this. none of them deserved the same meticulous inspections, soothing touches, dedicated service, and warm smiles you gave. it wasn't fair that he came in all beaten up and you could only come in for a quick greeting before rushing out after another patient. and for what? your meager pay? well, if he could talk to mori and get you brought over as a personal doctor for some of the high-ranking members, you'd get paid well and you could be with him all the time while doing what you loved. it was the best of both worlds, wasn't it?

[butchshevik]

Honestly if your response to "I dont have many skills that would be useful in a post-capitalist society" is "so I guess I'll just be pursuing my intellectual hobbies as my contribution to my community" instead of "so I guess I'll be doing dishes in the cafeteria/janitorial work/manual labor" you should really reconsider how you come at the very concept of work and society as a leftist. Is socialism no longer appealing if you have to do the work you previously took for granted? Is the liberation of the proletariat not worth it if you have to contribute something besides your dream job in academia or leading support groups? Are you really "too good" for "that type" of work, even if it is for a world where no one starves?

we will still have hobbies/run d&d/learn other languages under socialism - in fact, we would likely have far more time to pursue them than under capitalism - but when we think of our future labor, we ought to consider the "menial" tasks that keep society running; loading boxes onto trucks, cooking in a factory kitchen, packaging medical supplies for distribution, building new homes as a worker and not an architect. these jobs will never disappear, and to assume that someone else will do them while you lead workshops or go to school to become a trained professional is to announce your continuing loyalty to petite bourgeois ethics. The dream of socialism is not a fantasy where you continue to do the exact same thing you want to do under capitalism, but now with a clear conscience about it. It's to build a better world as one global movement, to lift up the most oppressed and downtrodden from the muck; a task which requires, above all else, heavy and thankless work that we must be prepared and happy to undertake if we ever hope to succeed.

[llendrinall]

So i got another fic idea in my head The dates are very important. 1 (May 1998) Percy was a Ministry spy and he worked closely with Albus. He saved a lot of lives no matter their blood or if they were creatures. And at the battle of Hogwarts he saves Freds life but hes in crit condition George is a total ass (He's angry and takes it out on Percy) going off at him saying nasty things along the lines of that Percy isn't welcome at the Weasley home anymore.

2 When he tries to go to the House to talk to them he's not treated very well ("Dont wanna hear excuses Percy"). He just give up, packs his things in his flat, & the next morning he goes, gives his mission reports that date from the start of his Ministry career along with his resignation letter on Shacklebot's desk. Then he's off to America to start over he snuck into Freds hospital room & used Snapes healing charms as a way to 'set things right' before leaving.

3. Percy is now in New York, gets a job, and then spends the next 6 months working diligently and whatnot. Then he meets Audrey Smith, they end up going on a few dates and she introduces Percy to her local gym and they become gym buddies and soon start dating. (Aug 2000) After 2 years together (They're married) Percy and Audrey find out they're expecting. And then the twins are born on the 2nd of May 2001. Percy laughs a bit as Audrey pats him the shoulder and says "They sure chose the date"

4. Sep 11 2001) Audrey dies in the 9/11 attack (she was a muggle) & Percy is left a widow with 2 daughters to look after. (June 2002) He bumps into Oliver who's on a quidditch training exchange. They catch up. (Oliver doesn't bring up the fact that Percy's fam has been looking for him for years and that he's saved so many lives) As December rolls around Oliver spends it at Percy's, meeting the kids and hearing Percy tell him everything (His wife, his family and the war)

(I think this is part 5? Idk its 2am here) (Jan - May) They spend a lot of time together after Xmas and slowly Percy begins to heal a bit more after Audrey's death. Oliver ends up going back to the UK and Percy misses him. (July) Oliver comes back with news that he's transferred to an NY team "They might not be big on Quidditch here but they're extremely good, Perce" (Its not because Oliver has been inlove with Percy since Hogwarts. Neither is it because he loves Molly & Lucy to death either)

6 (Feb 2004) The UK Papers get a picture of Oliver, Percy the twins out and it BLOWS UP. Charlie (The only one who even heard Percy out back after the war ended, He knows the others did wrong by him) floos in and then warns Percy about everyone knowing he's here and that they're gonna be coming in 2 days. So He ends up having Charlie take the girls. He ends up meeting with his fam and it takes a long long time for them to heal and fix things.

7. His Fam only get to meet Molly and Lucy when they're 6. When they're 7 he and Oliver gets married. Idk why but i seem to only send you these fic ideas when im hella tired and at 2am. T_T Why am i like this? So Audrey named Molly and Perce named Lucy (After each others moms)

 Honestly, What can I say at this point? You have the whole story thought out. Go for it and write it!

It’s not the kind of story I write, though. But since you dropped the materials here, I can share how I would assemble it.

I would avoid New York. Big cities have a character. They are characters and you have to treat them as such. In Life skills, London is a character, complex and big and hard and beautiful. In Secret language of plants, even though Draco and Harry end up in London, I had them stay in the house because London was too big of a character for that stage of the story.

So, no New York. If I had to use a well-known city I would go with Boston, I think. Otherwise, a small one with a nice name.

Audrey doesn’t die on 9/11. Well, she dies on that day, but not on the attack. It’s something as simple and dull as a traffic accident. Percy wasn’t with her, not that it would have mattered. Yes, wizards have potions to mend bones instantly and protective charms and spells to stop the momentum, but Audrey died instantly, and no one could have seen the car until it was on her.

The driver was an old man, fumbling with that new invention, a mobile phone, trying to call his daughter who worked in New York.

Magic Law on the States is a bit… over the place. It would be extremely simple to put a curse or a hex that man. If Percy was clever about it, it wouldn’t be too illegal. But he doesn’t. Percy realizes it wouldn’t make him feel better.

 Percy doesn’t particularly like the States. The tea is terrible, the coffee is weak, the spelling is painful and people are entirely too talkative. But it’s sunnier than England and the orange juice is good, so he stays.

He goes to Romania every summer to visit Charlie. The girls love it there and it was always easy to talk to Charlie. Charlie who had such a promising career in Quidditch and rejected the fame and fortune for a thankless career working with dragons. Not even training dragons for bank security, which is a cool and profitable career, but fighting that very same use.

Charlie only goes back home for a week during Christmas, so he gets it. They don’t have to talk about it, never mention that weird state of loving your family and not wanting to be with them, to fight, to have to explain and justify your very existence and your life decisions.

He meets Oliver in Romania. Supposedly Oliver is there to see the sights and rest his left shoulder, that was injured at the end of the league. But he is not the first Quidditch player who has a crisis of faith and comes to Charlie with questions. So far, none of them had taken up dragon-protection, but one became a broomstick racer and another is the head coach of an Italian team.

Charlie only thinks about dragons. Oliver only thinks about Quidditch and is in the middle of an existential crisis. So it’s perfectible understandable that the topic of Percy, his war heroics and his semi mythical status is never brought up. To be fair, Charlie doesn’t know much about it because he doesn’t read English newspapers and his family never talks about Percy when he is around. Oliver just thinks that Percy is the first Competent Adult he has ever met and is much more interested about this Figuring Life Out than any hero status.

So it’s fair to say that the headlines come as a surprise.

Someone snapped a picture of Oliver and Percy sitting very close together in a park, with twin stupid loving smiles. It was all perfectly innocent. Molly was doing something cute out of frame and they never kept any physical distance between themselves, not even in Hogwarts. But it doesn’t matter. The picture is sold as proof of the mysterious war hero and the dashing sport star carrying a secret love affair. It’s a beautiful story, powerful. Percy is the tragic handsome hero and Oliver the right person to bring love back in his life after years nursing the wounds of war. Or perhaps Oliver is the sweet and honest good boy, the boyfriend every mother wants for her daughter, seduced by the man living a life of exotic and daring adventures.

Whatever it is, the world wants to believe in it. So much so that bloody Draco Malfoy pops up to warn them that there is a dozen of rabid, ruthless, paparazzies coming their way. He knows because Malfoy owns the most read magazine in England and has put a bounty on a photo of the two of them kissing.

Paparazzies don’t have a concept of trespassing, but breaking and entering into a dragon reserve has certain difficulties that can’t be bypassed with an alohomora and a lack of morals. Percy and Oliver spend the rest of the month in the reserve, not daring to go out. Twenty-two days in each other’s company, hiking in the mountains and playing with the girls. Molly and Lucy have decided that Oliver is similar to Charlie in all the right ways, so they like him.

On day nineteen, they kiss. Someone gets a picture of it, but, in his excitement, the photographer wanders into a nest of young dragon carps. He is recued three hours later sans pants or shoes. The photo of their first kiss is lost.

Oliver says he is almost done with his existential crisis but now Percy has one of his own.

You see, there is something Oliver hasn’t said. Something he didn’t mention at all. And Percy doesn’t know if Oliver just hasn’t noticed (it took him two years to realize all the Weasleys were siblings) or if he noticed but… doesn’t care?

There is more than one reason why only Charlie has met the girls.

Even now that Percy has received letters from every family member (including Freaking Aunt Muriel) and even a surprise visit from them (he has a life debt with Charlie for the heads-up) and they have begun the unpleasant work of fixing their relationship; even now, they haven’t met Molly and Lucy.

It’s because of the Weasley cousin they never talk about. The accountant.

Percy knows that it’s perfectly normal. Many wizarding children don’t exhibit any magic until they are at least seven. But he also knows that every single person in his family was levitating toys (Bill, Ron and Ginny) or stopping spilled milk in mid-air (him) or shooting sparks (Charlie and the twins) by the time they were three.

Molly and Lucy had done nothing magical so far. Nothing at all. And Percy knows, in his heart of hearts, that if anyone makes them feel inferior, if anyone dares to say anything against them, he will go the Dark Lord route and kill every single person prejudiced against squibs. He might kill every single wizard and witch and eradicate all magic, so his girls won’t feel inferior to anyone. He found in himself the strength to forgive the man than took Audrey’s life, but he won’t do the same for the person who speaks against his children. He can’t.

 On Christmas Percy reluctantly agrees to go to England with the girls because Charlie promises he will be there too. It is not easy. It is, in fact, very, very difficult and tense. He is forever grateful at Lee Jordan, who is glued to Fred’s hip cracking jokes and defusing tension. Also, Angelina Johnson takes George and Ginny to the kitchen and informs them they are the biggest idiots she has ever had the misfortune of meeting and that helps to avoid anyone saying something unforgivable they will regret their whole life. On Christmas’ Eve Harry Potter takes everyone’s wands because he is Harry Potter “and I do what I want” which means no one hexes anyone and they can overindulge the punch.

Oh, why bother? The whole thing is terrible and awkward and it hurts. But it is a necessary painful step, either to fix things with time or to say that he tried, actually tried, and never look back at this moment with regret.  

Also, he gets to meet with Oliver. It turns out that Oliver hadn’t noticed the girls’ lack of magic, but he also doesn’t care. Why would he care? Are you- are you supposed to care? Is this another thing Oliver missed because he only thinks about Quidditch? What’s wrong with not having magic in any case? Oliver’s mother is muggle and it is agreed that she is wonderful.  

(Even Potter says so. Percy has no idea of when Harry Potter met Oliver’s mum, but he speaks of her in the highest terms).

 You can read about what happened next on issues of 32, 33 & 34 of Alakazam as well as special issues 17, 21, 22 and 25. Draco Malfoy earns 1.5 million galleons with issue 33, setting a record for most successful print in wizarding history. Then he obliterates that record with a single stolen picture of Percy and Oliver’s wedding. He committed around a dozen crimes to get that picture, got drunk on champagne and victory and asked Harry Potter to marry him.

(He also donated all the money to a newly created society for the support and trade education of squibs, but only two people in the world know that).

[fiddleabout]

Would love your thoughts or some links about why you dont like Bernie if you'd be so kind~

there’s, like, so much to delve into there, but to avoid relitigating the 2016 election and primaries, let’s just say that honestly he’s like if the guyinyourmfa twitter ran for president: with no functional qualifications aside from being a white guy, he’s decided he’s the savior of the american people.

mostly i think his flimsy excuses for policies are shit.  his foreign policy is about as well-constructed as a sixth grade essay and he has Big Ideas about the economy…none of which are structured to take into account the ripple effects of their implementation.  one of his big hallmark yelling points– healthcare reform– is a shoddily constructed excuse for a policy that fundamentally misunderstands the healthcare industry.  i work in the healthcare industry– my literal job for the better part of a decade has been, effectively, the functional implementation of healthcare reform to facilitate the move towards a value-based care system– and like…sanders’ plans are shit.  they’re castles in the sky kinda situations, with lots of lofty ideas and no conception of how to implement them, or how they would work.  it’s notable that he started backpedaling from his medicare for all spiel post-2016 and advocating for a incrementalist change (required medicaid expansion in all states and lowering the medicare age to 55 which, coincidentally, was hillary clinton’s proposal during the election) right up until he announced his 2020 bid, and now he’s back screeching about how he’s going to save the world with medicare for all*.  so like.  personality and his behavior aside, i think he’s just a shitty candidate.

also, like, and this is probably more about his supporters than him but still: one of his leftist-purity-test things he kept throwing at clinton during the 2016 primaries was about how he supported gay marriage before her, and how DOMA proved he was The Better Person about such things.  except he didn’t come out in support of gay marriage until 2009.  his opposition to DOMA in 1996 was, per his own campaign, about states’ rights and constitutional authority, not about “values”– you know, the supposed point of the law.  sanders has always been a shrewd politician, but he’s positioned himself as a heavy-left moral purist who votes his conscience and has intentionally situated himself such that he has a horde of supporters who believe that he’s, say, been trying to legalize gay marriage since the 1980s and that the windsor and obergefell decisions were because of his work, not the decades of tireless and thankless work of a huge collection of queer activists.  

also:

there’s that whole thing where he runs as a democrat in the senate primary in vermont to drive out any competition and then refuses the nomination and flips to run as an independent so he doesn’t have to work with the democratic party is just like…the most conniving bit of politics i’ve ever seen from anyone

his “recruiting” tool that “allows everyday supporters to contribute to the campaign’s voter database by logging names and background information of anyone from a family member to a stranger met at a bus stop. It matches each name to a voter record before noting their level of support, priority issue and even union membership.”  that’s horrifying.  people should unequivocally not have the option to shove their friends or family members into the voter database of a candidate without their knowledge.

“some white people aren’t racist, they just don’t feel comfortable voting for black candidates”

there’s more, but that’s what i have links to at this exact moment.  i just.  want bernie sanders to go fucking play parcheesi or whatever the hell it is old white men do when they’re retired.  he has conceptual ideas that i don’t always necessarily disagree with, but absolutely no idea how to institute them and he would utterly fail as a president.

*i support universal coverage but this country is too large to have a functional true single payer system; a hybrid system with a public option safety net and the option to buy price-regulated private insurance is the closest we’re ever likely to get to a single payer system.  but that’s neither here nor there at this point.

[cinderskeleton]

If anyone was wondering what the medical lab world looks like right now...

Every day, sometimes several times a day, we get changes to how we're expected to be treating the covid-19 (coronavirus) samples. My lab processed several buckets (think 1ft cubed) of samples to be sent to the state department of health YESTERDAY ALONE. MDH is running 700-1000 covid-19 tests PER DAY.

The usual lab work has slowed as people dont go in for their annual physicals, they're decreasing the nursing home lab draws to lower traffic of phlebotomists in and out.

The quarters are cramped, there is no ability to do "social distancing" while also doing our jobs. We are sharing personal space, phones, computers. We do our best to clean them and wear gloves but there is still risk.

Every respiratory sample I touch has the potential to be from someone with coronavirus.

This is not a job I can do from home. Lab professionals are out here risking our safety to make the coronavirus testing possible and to keep getting information to doctors and nurses that let them give people the right medications. The right amount of medications. The most useful procedures. Medicine doesn't happen without this kind of information.

If you know any lab professionals, check in with them. They're doing a lot of hard, thankless work right now.

[samwilsonsbabymama]

All of what @blackmissfrizzle said

More pros

Kids are amazing, the conversations you have with them will blow your mind. They're super smart and think in new ways.

When they finally get it and the joy on their faces is amazing

Not only are you teaching them educational material, you're helping mold human beings and showing them love

Some kids will come to you needing to be loved and teaching them educational material isnt as important

Kids are freaking hilarious lol

Cons

If admin doesnt support you, it's going to be tough

Kids are kids. They dont know how to act their age because theyve never been that age

You have to think for 30+ people all the time

It's a thankless job

If the school culture is toxic, you probably wont be happy

Behavior, low pay, meeting the needs of 30+ people at the same time, long hours, grading sucks lol

You're in a room full of kids for 7 hours, 5 days a week with little to no interaction from another adult. Sounds kinda like a duh thing, but you will start to miss talking to an adult after a while.

It's hard. Like extremely hard.

It might sound like I'm trying to dissuade you but this is based on my experience.

I spent 3 years at a toxic school where absolutely NO ONE was happy and I thought I was going to get ulcers because of all the stress and toxicity. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching, it's the most amazing thing in the world and I wouldnt trade my job for anything in the world.

It's hard. You will cry, maybe in front of your students maybe not lol (I did many times but it was because of admin)

In my opinion, become a teacher, but try to find a great place for you. Like you wont know until you actually work there but yeah, become a sub first and take note about how different schools treat their staff. Take note about the admin that actually supports you rather than just saying that they support you.

Teaching is a hard job, but it's also rewarding, and for me, the reward makes all the stress worth it.

Like Ms Frizzle said, where you teach defines your experience. Even though were virtual now, the district/school I'm in is way better and less toxic. Be sure you love it. Before I finished my degree, I worked at a daycare for a year to see if I could stand being around kids for long periods of time.

Sorry that this is a lot, I just have a lot of thoughts about this lol

I'm open to talk more about this lol just send me an ask 💖

Heyyyy, how did you like teaching? Like the pros and cons because I’m trying to become a teacher and everybody is like Nah it’s not good & I shouldn���t do it or whatever 🙄 & I love your writing btw 🥰!

First all thank you for reading 💕

I don’t wanna scare you off, but you should only do it if you’re absolutely in love with it. My first year of teaching was my last year of teaching 😬 (I didn’t go to school for education so it was never my first choice)

I worked at a low income school with behaviorally challenged students and most of my students were way behind their education level. Plus I had little support from admin so I had the recipe for the perfect disaster, so be mindful that I’m gonna have more cons.

Also where you teach is depends on your experience.

Pros:

The joy you get when the kids understand something

The kids can be the sweetest and funniest

Weekends, holidays, and summer off

You can make an impact on a child’s life

Your creativity can shine

Cons:

No matter how good you are the kids are gonna act up somehow-they’re kids lol

Even though I told you, you would get all those days off most likely you’re gonna do some work on them because there is never enough time

Sometimes parents aren’t gonna be as involve and try to blame it on you.

My advice is to apply to be a substitute teacher and see how you would like it. It gives you somewhat of an idea of what teaching would be like.

But my main thing is make sure you love it! That’s the only thing that really counts 💖

I hope this helped!

@marvelmaree @woahitslucyylu if you have any other advice please add on if you want to 💕

[rwwealth-blog]

Don’t Be a One-Hit Wonder

Don’t Be a One-Hit Wonder

Safety in shrimp

The first time I heard What’s Up? by 4 Non Blondes, I was elbow-deep in a bucket of raw shrimp. It was a month before I started high school, and I’d been slaving away all summer fileting fish and peeling shrimp in the sweltering kitchen of a local seaside crab shack. It was a thankless job that left my hands both stinging and stinking.

And I loved it.

There was safety in it, I was good at it, and people left me alone – likely because I spent most of my days covered in mullet guts. Regardless, it was just me, my work, and a tiny portable radio that sat atop a nearby refrigerator, softly coughing out Top 40 drivel. But then, it happened. From amid all the pop fluff arose the anti-pop voice of Linda Perry, the 4 Non Blondes frontwoman. She seamlessly went back and forth from a deep, brooding register to an eerily pleasing meadowlark warble.

But whatever happened to 4 Non Blondes? 

Though What’s Up? made it to the top of the charts, subsequent singles like Spaceman couldn’t gain traction. The band’s fame shone brightly…and fizzled quickly.

Like so many one-hit wonders, 4 Non Blondes were able to produce value that spoke to people at a very specific moment in time – a too specific, fleeting moment in time. They had a sometimes bluesy, often grungy, usually gloomy sound, yet they entered the arena when Grunge Rock was in decline and listeners were pivoting from gloom to gloss. It was a shaky, transitional period, and the band couldn’t find its sea legs.

Each of us can learn from one-hit wonders, whether you prefer 4 Non Blondes or Vanilla Ice, Right Said Fred or Los Del Rio. The lesson? Attune yourself to the various forces changing the world around you and adapt.

The pace of change

Adapting may sound easier than it is, though, given the pace at which the world is changing. Take, for instance, the smartphone. It took merely 10 years for 40 percent of Americans to adopt this technology; by contrast, its primitive forebear, the telephone, took four times longer to reach the same adoption level. Perhaps more importantly, the technologies themselves are advancing at exponential rates. In less than a year, for example, some autonomous vehicles being tested reduced their reliance on human intervention by 1664%. Meanwhile, AI and robotics are busy automating basic tasks across multiple industries and in various professions.   

Automation has even impacted my own vocation. Writing robots have been publishing earnings reports and sports recaps for years, and I’m okay with that. I see technology as untethering people from that which can be automated, as liberating people to add even greater value to the businesses, people and societies they serve. The caveat, of course, is that people must rise to the occasion.

But how might one rise? For those in any profession, lifelong learning proves increasingly essential, especially considering the exponential pace of change I’ve mentioned. According to A New Culture of Learning by John Seely and Douglas Thomas, half the new skills you learn today will be obsolete in five years. Idling’s a risk.

Be more human

Some of the statistics I’ve presented may seem daunting, but if you want to harness technology (instead of allowing technology to harness you), simply view your primary objective as this: be more human.

A recent study claims that AI may soon pass the Turing Test but not for the reasons you may think. AI hasn’t reached a level of human sophistication; rather, people have become less capable at recognizing what makes us human. Today, we communicate more artificially, in acronyms and emojis. We’re buried in our work, our smart phones and our social media – so much so that we’re less astute at meaningful, face-to-face interactions with our own species. We’re less able to identify subtle, uniquely human nuances.  To counter this, we’ll have to think more analytically, lead more creatively and make more valued, valuable judgments. We’ll have to upskill, specialize, and become experts at things that cannot be easily automated. We’ll have to roll up our sleeves, get our hands dirty, and wallow in all the clichés that, again, make us undeniably human.

Don’t be a one-hit wonder.

To get where we need to be, we must move quickly. Technology’s not waiting for us play catch-up. We mustn’t get too comfortable doing what we’ve always done. That would make us a sort of one-hit wonder. Cutting fish was no longer cutting it for me, and 4 Non Blondes frontwoman, Linda Perry, adapted and forged ahead as well. She became a Grammy Award-winning lyricist. Her words have risen time and again to the top of the pop charts, in a sense allowing her to find a place in the genre where her former band failed to eke out space. In 2015, she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

So how will you adapt? How will you stay ahead? What’s your plan? There’s a hall of fame waiting for you, too.

Brock Faucette, Corporate Communications Manager, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

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