#keep me AFLOAT TBH

[3416]

his facial expressions tonight 😭🤏 i love him sm

[keuwibloom]

*Getting back into an old fandom and getting inspired to draw fanart fills you with determination

Happy 8th anniversary to this amazing game!!

[alciavikkander]

If i see one more person taking their anger out on boyd im gonna lose my shit

[deathfeigning]

i swore off bettas after opal passed, but this koi stole my heart..... i took her home. my fiancée and i named her stevie :-)

so far she's got a lot of personality. she's not at all afraid of my hands in the tank when i rearrange things. she hates my phone. she likes hanging out in corners a lot. weird beastie..

[the-kipsabian]

i hate it that watching aew doesnt make me happy

and yes i know theres alternatives. yes i have rather easy access to most of it. no i dont have the spoons to try to get invested into anything new i havent been keeping up with in forever. yes i would like to try but im in a spot where its just really difficult for me to do that personally

i just. i just want something to get excited about about a product that im already familiar with and that im watching. thats it

[hexados-on-a-string]

i had a thought abt how if spectra let their hair down itd probably make them look completely unrecognisable and i churned this out in like an hour maximum

bonus:

the seconds in command have opinions

[mindsmade]

the data science stuff i'm working on doesn't even rlly have anything to do with what v gets up to but it's making me ride the v brainwave even harder rn so icon change to feature half of his face at least 🩶

[huccimermaidshirts]

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[reinmeka]

wren and lancaster. have u heard of them

[themthistles]

not even joking i would kill for some kind of beyond evil sequel focusing on jihwa. it doesn't even have to be a full time drama. a mini-series, a movie, anything is fine i just need it

[lavenderjewels]

more jjk 217 leaks discussed in tags below

[naivety]

hm. maybe trying to spend $100 each on my family members for christmas was a bad idea

[butnotbubblegum]

keep accidentally writing poems about things i should actually have conversations with people about.

[quillyfied]

An adage that my parents told us growing up was when we started to get jobs, to go above and beyond our job descriptions, and a slightly older friend spelled it out more bluntly and said to become indispensable to the company, to the point where they can’t fire you without having to work twice as hard to replace you.

There’s some merit to that, but I think more about how both my dad and my friend, for a long time, were pretty much on call all the time. My dad made his peace with it until they switched him from hourly to salary, therefore undercutting the overtime pay that kept his paychecks comfortable enough to pay off debts and splurge a little on stuff like a lawnmower and a new car that wasn’t built the year I was born and my parents’ first-ever house (in their twenty-fifth year of marriage). Swap to salary and he’s still working the same overtime hours, but none of the extra pay. He considered quitting but after talking it over with supervisors, moved one department over doing something a little more stable and when he’s done, he’s done, no forced overtime. His manager is better to communicate with and does his best to force my dad to take time off, and overall my dad likes him better and so performs better. Things don’t fall apart without my dad there but he’s secure as houses in what he brings to the table anyway.

As for my friend, she poured everything into her job, moved several times for it, and gave up many of her hobbies and sacrificed her mental and physical health for this place. She was fired after one low-performance month in two years because—you guessed it—Covid was starting up. She picked herself up, made herself some promises about work-life balance, and worked her way up in another job—still on call but with a firmer boundary in place that her superiors mostly respect—and she’s about to lose her job due to forces outside of anyone’s control or due to any fault of her own. She’s outstanding at her job, has been told by many supervisors and people under her that she’s good at it. The specific job she does is just about to not exist because the relationship between the companies she liaises between is dissolving. Nothing she did wrong and nothing she can do about it.

The moral: if your conscience compels you to be outstanding at your job, then be outstanding. But always remember it’s just a job and no job is ever completely secure. And so no job ever deserves your entire life and soul.

[ssmokyquartz]

still feeling guilty like i'm being selfish because i cut ties with a friend

[universalvibes]

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