#not good enough for manager

[in-love-with-caramel-macchiato]

My manager told me today that I should get some copywriting classes because my copywriting skills are not up to his standards. I haven’t written a good text in a year and a half. Everything I have written this past year and a half wasn’t good enough and he removed what I had written and changed it to what he wanted to write. I never got any feedback on my writing except for “that’s not what I wanted to see so I changed it. It has to be corporate enough and we have high standards”. No you mean you have high standards and whatever I do isn’t good enough. I’m so done with that guy and that company. I feel like I can’t do anything right and I’ve lost all confidence in my skills. I know I my copywriting skills are good, especially long copy and socials, so why is it not good enough for him??

I should have taken the copywriter job instead of this one. This was the worst mistake of my life

[lucabyte]

some thoughts on Claude

alt title: diversity win! this Butch Nun is crafting bombs in an unventilated room in her convent while actively courting Mother Superior! Do Not Give Them Access To Unlimited Power No Matter How Nice They Are

+ bonus

[tired-all-the-time22]

Hey, man, we all can't be like you -- I wish we were all rose-colored too

{Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore}

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Smashing this song and my headcanon that Dash's dad is in the GIW together to make a fic Idea where the GIW finds out Danny's identity and tells on him to his parents in their hunt for phantom --

Dash's dad leads the operation, him and his team (along with the Fenton parents) cornering Danny after school while he's hiding/running away from Dash, forcing transform in order to get away; unbeknownst to either party, Dash witnesses everything and runs after Phantom to try and help.

Que the two stumbling into and getting trapped in the ghost zone in a confused scuffle while Danny's trying to escape, now on the run from three (3) parents and one (1) secret government organization.

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I kinda wanna use this premise to explore how Dash would progress through learning Phantom is Danny, and then (separately!) becoming a better person--

-- I think he'd be super annoying about it at first; idolizing Danny, pestering him a bunch about how cool it is to have ghost powers, generally acting way too close with him, and completely pushing aside how he treated Danny before the revelation.

Most of the situations we see Dash become friendly towards/respectful of Danny in-show are usually after Danny has shown himself to be physically strong/confident (see: Pirate Radio), and even then, Dash doesn't proceed to do any introspection at all and continues to bully him.

Conclusion: Learning Phantom = Danny would not be enough to trigger a redemption arc for Dash. This boy needs to learn some empathy.

Dash actively witnessing Danny having issues despite being powerful as Phantom (i.e. fearing and having to run from his parents, the toll fighting ghosts takes on his school/life/mental health, etc.), as well as being confronted with how privileged he is himself (having a loving, attentive family, being much better off financially, etc.) would force him into being more introspective.

Throw in him realizing the parallel between how the GIW treats Phantom with how he treats Danny (i.e. indiscriminate & unreasonable anger & violence), and -boom!- it clicks for him

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[cloudbends]

something I feel like isn't nearly appreciated enough about mob's arc in mp100 is that his background is... Completely normal. I see a lot of people interpreting mob's parents as neglectful or distant based on the few scenes we've seen of them, which greatly baffles me because their few scenes aim to establish his family life as.. completely normative. They have the normal, average quips of a normal family. And I think it's very unique and refreshing because it means mob's troubles and internal hardship isn't a product of his upbringing, it's a byproduct of a traumatic experience and of his own personality and how it coalesces with his psychic powers. And I personally think more media should acknowledge that some people, even with perfectly normative and healthy familial dynamics and circumstances, will still develop very complex internal issues and personal psychology. and on the same note, some people with perfectly normal upbringing won't feel comfortable to confide in their parents and seek an external authority figure to look up to, which doesn't necessarily mean them and their parents are estranged. I dont think mob's (or ritsu's) life have to be unhappy to legitimize or explain the fact he has the personal struggles he does. Embracing normalcy is the main theme of this series.

[cable-salamdr]

Some more possession art from my binge but it’s more Nya centric (that second one is always my very first thought when I watch that sequence because aww Cole and Nya friendship moment BUT ALSO GET OFF THE MATTRESS)

[arealtrashact]

Garfield and Odie

[silverwhittlingknife]

So you're a go to source for all things Dick&Tim bros and you tend to write primarily from Dick's POV. So, odd question, but if you were to summarize their relationship from his POV in FIVE panels which panels would you pick? Keeping in mind that one specific aspect of their relationship that you love needs to be clearly represented by each panel (loyalty, trust etc). I hope this is a fun challenge and not an annoying question so if you don't want to answer that's cool! Have a wonderful day!

No more talk. The same thoughts run through two minds... (SotB 29) / You're my equal. My closest ally. (RR 1) / I can't stop thinking how much I rely on him. (GoG 3)

25 Feelings Dick Has About Tim

This was such a kind ask & a cool challenge which I totally failed; here are TWENTY-five panels of Dick's POV on Tim sdfdsfds Look, I got carried away! Marcia and Cindy! The boys!!

OKAY SO BEFORE I GET TO THE PANELS A FEW NOTES:

WARNING THAT THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN HERE because I love conflict but but but you gotta remember those are not the final word!! They are complicated people and sometimes they get mad at each other BUT ultimately their relationship is so hugely important in both their lives & they love each other and rely on each other so much -!!! <3

Also I have CONCLUDING THOUGHTS at the end about what Dick's POV leaves out (mostly: a lot of Dick defending & protecting & supporting Tim, which Dick does instinctively but isn't very self-aware about most of the time)

I have loosely organized my list into 5^5 format (5 categories with 5 examples each!), so if you want to skip to a relevant one, here are the categories!!

Below the cut:

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1-5)

On second thought, he's endearing & fun (#6-10)

Grief is complicated & he's all tangled up in mine (#11-15)

I love him & think highly of him (#16-20)

I rely on him & though it's hard for me, I trust him (#21-25)

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1 - 5)

1) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze me and Bruce, but he doesn’t know me at all, he should get lost (New Titans 61)

2) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze Bruce but he doesn’t know Bruce at all, he should get lost (Gotham Knights 26)

3) He is so nosy about stuff that is MY business (Robin 0)

4) He sounds like an insincere suck-up half the time... but okay, fine, if you push him he's got a sense of humor about it (New Titans 65)

5) I'm sure he's a better vigilante than me. It's my fault for being a failure, but I resent him anyway. (Nightwing 9 - Dick's having a nightmare)

On second thought, he's kinda endearing (#6-10)

6) He worries too much and gets anxious so easily, but it makes him fun to tease (Robin 67)

7) I'm not that competitive - okay, so maybe I'm a little competitive, I gotta make sure he doesn't get a swelled head (Prodigal)

8) I'm supposed to be his favorite! It is not cool for him to be fanboying over my not-girlfriend's not-boyfriend!! (Birds of Prey 19)

9) We have fun together. I can kick back and relax when it's just the two of us. Plus I get to boss him around a bit. (Prodigal)

10) He’s always trying to reassure me, and I guess it's a little comforting, but also he doesn’t really get it. Or me. He makes excuses that he shouldn't, because he doesn't understand that I suck. (Nightwing 64)

Grief is complicated and he's all tangled up in mine (#11 - 15)

11) He reminds me of everything I try not to think about. Sometimes the memories are so strong it hurts to look at him. (Batman 441)

12) WHY IS HE BEING IMPOSSIBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN??? THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING (Nightwing 139)

13) We're the same. He says all the things I don't let myself think about. It's like arguing with myself. (Nightwing 139)

14) He thinks he gets to tell me what to do but he doesn’t, fuck him (Battle for the Cowl)

15) Life sucks, so what. I sucked it up so he should too (RR 1)

I love him and think highly of him (#16 - 20)

16) He’s the closest thing to a brother I’ll ever have.  If someone hurts him I will hurt them harder. (Nightwing 6)

17) I can't handle the idea of losing him. (Nightwing 97)

17) He’s so good and I’m not. I'm afraid I’m bad for him. (Nightwing 110)

18) He’s better than me, and it’s kind of a relief because I know no matter what he’ll be okay. (Gates of Gotham 3)

19) In my head he’s the responsible one.  (Gotham Knights 10)

I rely on him, and though it's hard for me, I trust him (#20-25)

20) I know I have to trust him but I'm afraid he'll make the wrong choices and get hurt (Nightwing 139)

21) I'm sure I know what he should do because I see myself in him - not that I can take my own advice, but he should (Blackest Night 3)

22) I trust him.  When I’m losing my grip on things, he pulls me back. (Gotham Knights 10)

23) I want him to trust me (Red Robin 12)

24) He can tell when I'm lying. Sometimes he sees my weaknesses better than I wish he did. (Detective Comics 874)

25) He’s always there when I need him. (Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files)

Final rambling thoughts:

TIM: Uhh, okay, so I'm just skimming this list - do you really trust me? you're not just saying that? - but anyway, I'm confused because you left some stuff out? Like some stuff that's kinda important? DICK: No? I think I got everything? TIM (starts counting on his fingers): The time I was having a bad day but then I called you. The time I got captured by Two-Face but then you saved me. The time I fell off a train but then you saved me. The time I fell off a building but then you saved me. The time I fell off a different building - DICK: I feel like you're trying to make some kind of point but I'm not sure what it could be.

SO THE THING IS, I put 25 panels in here and not a single one has Dick catching Tim when he’s falling!!! But I think that's a central motif of their relationship from Tim’s POV, not Dick’s. I love Dick, but in some ways I think he is spectacularly un-self-aware.

And I think he especially has a lot of blind spots about Tim. He kinda intermittently gets that Tim admires him, and he enjoys it in a playful I-get-to-boss-you-around way. But Dick tends to consistently underestimate all of his own good qualities & skills, and he meets Tim at a point in his life when he's especially down on himself & his abilities. And so he's unable to see his own influence on Tim, & therefore unable to fully understand a lot of Tim's priorities and loyalties and motivations, because you can't actually understand Tim without understanding Dick's impact on him. There's a fascinating moment in Bruce Wayne: Murderer when Dick's completely blindsided & upset to discover that Tim doesn't entirely trust Bruce, even though this has been a definitive fact of Tim's whole thing ever since he showed up with his Batman needs Robin theory, and Barbara has to actively remind Dick of the obvious-to-everyone-except-Dick fact that a lot of Tim's loyalty is to Dick, and Tim loves Bruce but feels free to be more wary of him. (And to give Bruce credit: this is not something he ever begrudges.) But anyway Babs points this out, and Dick manages to sorta process it for about five seconds, but he cannot actually accept it into his worldview so instead he discards it at the speed of light and goes off and has an argument with Tim instead sdfsfdsf

All of Dick's virtues - Dick's kindness at the circus and Dick's determination to fight through grief and Dick's rigid sense of morals and Dick's vigilante skills and every time Dick has ever backed Tim up or listened to him or protected him or saved him from something or just been casually kind to a stranger in Tim's presence etc etc etc - all these things loom really large in Tim's mental story of Who Dick Is, and What Dick And Tim's Relationship Is. Tim meets Dick before he meets Bruce, trusts Dick more than Bruce, aspires to be Robin instead of Batman. And so in Tim's default version of the story, Dick is the super-special and admirable hero and Tim is... nobody in particular, a tagalong outsider who's barely managing to be a hero, not part of Dick and Bruce's family and not part of their story, who, if he's VERY LUCKY and tries REALLY HARD, might be able to fight his way to proving himself and offering something to Dick that Dick will value, if Dick doesn't get fed up with him first.

But that's not Dick's version of the story!!!

Dick's version of the story is almost the exact opposite, a story where Dick's an outcast failure black sheep who's screwing up everything he tries, and meanwhile Tim is The Sudden New Perfect Robin Who's Better Than Me And Probably Bruce Loves Him More And Probably They Gossip About What A Loser I Am, mixed with a complicated edge of Tim Thinks He's So Smart But He Doesn't Know Me/Us At All. Dick gets much more attached to Tim over time, and Tim gets unnervingly better at the know-it-all psychoanalysis so then Dick gets to have complicated feelings about him being right instead of just annoyance at him for being wrong, plus Dick's relationship with Bruce improves a lot, so Tim stops feeling so threatening. But Dick never fundamentally changes his basic theory of their relationship in which Tim is highly impressive and capable, and Dick is not so much.

And so asking Dick about Tim is kinda like if you asked George Bailey to tell you about Harry Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life; like, you'll be there for five hours while he tells you how great Harry is, and how accomplished Harry is, and how he doesn't really get how or why Harry does the things he does, and maybe George does feel a little resentful or jealous sometimes, but that pales in comparison to all his admiration and trust for Harry who he loves so much, who's better than him in so many ways, and he's not gonna openly gripe but secretly he can't help but feel sometimes like he's such a failure in comparison to Harry, a perfect person who emerged fully formed from Zeus's head with all the virtues and also all the accomplishments, etc. etc. etc. --

-- and he will not actually remember the part where he changed and saved Harry's whole entire life unless you literally send him to an alternate timeline in order to force him to remember it. <3

[moon-ayyye]

Not that I have any experience or idea, but crime lord work seems to take up a fuck tonne of time. So Jason, fresh off the boat and setting up his gang, wouldn't have time to do shit. Doesn't reveal himself to the bats purely because any time he even steps away, his operations fall apart in some looney tunes ass way. It's a curse (and a blessing. You know what the fuck I'm about with the bats and Jason)

Setting up supply lines and cutting off drugs from competitors? Shit takes so long that Chemo drops before Jason makes a move against the bats. He doesn't really feel sad that Dick is dead, and so he decides to focus up on his operation instead and he'll handle the joker once he gets there. That's future Jason's bullshit to sort out

Titans Tower? Please. Kate was on maternity leave and nobody in this bitch knows how to handle computers like she did. His hair grew even whiter trying to wrangle that whole clown fest. The little bastard will be fucked up by someone else eventually, why deal with that child when there are plenty of other children (middle aged men and women) he needs to deal with?

Brothers in Blood? Mark's reports say he has a mole he needs to get rid of, and some of the kids down the block are trying to spy on Black Mask, so he needs to shut that shit down real quick. He's not expanding to New York. Who cares what they think of Dick? He's got better things to do than reach out

Date night? Rose doesn't have time for that. Some asshole kept comparing her to Deathstroke, and Jason kneecapped him. She's skipping straight to dessert.

Rose joining would increase efficiency because nobody wants to deal with a pent up and frustrated Ravager or Red Hood. They were too busy to have sex for a week and ended up destroying 3 city blocks trying to take down Black mask. They stole his desk, obviously.

He stops wearing his helmet because if he has to deal with this shit, he needs his henchmen to see the disappointment on his face. It actually reduces issues by 20%. Being in your 40's and having a 19 year old look at you like you're a particularly stupid child was a surprisingly good deterrant to fucking up. Who could've guessed?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Introvert adoption

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[teyrnacousland]

We do not give Illario enough credit for being able to look Zara Renata in the eyes as she climbs out of her gross blood pool, covered in blood, and act like the thought of touching her doesn't make him physically ill.

[lucabyte]

my favourite big-hatted not-men with giant holes in their brains where their memories should be (and their kinda-dead doubles called loop/lup)

+bonus doodles because thinking about the taz balance cast for 0.2 seconds reminded me how much i like themmmm

[heatherwitch]

Bedridden Witch: Solar and Lunar edition

Since creating my bedridden space witch post I’ve had many requests for one specifically on solar and lunar witchcraft, so I figured I’d make an expanded version on those topics!

Solar ☀️

Set up:

Decorate with sun-themed items

Wear sun jewelry

Collect crystals you associate with the sun

Hang red, orange or yellow curtains

Get a sun projector lamp

Make an altar for the sun

Hang a sunrise/sunset calendar

To do:

Make sun water, sun tea or sun oil

Spritz sun water on your pillow/bedding

Use sun water to cleanse; including your face/body by dabbing it on or using a washcloth

Make sun salts

Cleanse and charge items in the sun (if safe to do so)

Open the curtains and bask in the sun

Feel the warmth and strength of the sun

Drink teas with warm spices

Observe the different energies of the sun based on its position in the sky and utilize it in your practice [X]

Use The Sun tarot card as a base for a spell, enchantment or energy connection

Solar tarot spreads: [X] [X]

Sun sigils: [X] [X] [X]

Charge a solar light so you still have the energy of the sun on overcast days/long nights

Use a therapy light in the darker months

Other posts:

Sunrise / Noon / Sunset magic

Sun meditations

Sun spells: [X] [X] [X]

Helios/Sol

Ideas for using sun water

Lunar 🌙

Set up:

Decorate with moon-themed items

Wear moon jewelry

Collect crystals you associate with the moon/that are moon-shaped

Hang silver, white or pale blue curtains

Get a moon lamp

Make an altar for the moon

Hang a lunar calendar

To do:

Make moon water

Spritz moon water on your pillow/bedding

Use moon water to cleanse; including your face/body by dabbing it on or using a washcloth

Make moon salts

Cleanse and charge items under the moon

Open your window under the various phases of the moon

Feel the energy and strength of the moon

Drink sweet herbal teas, like jasmine or chamomile

Track the moon phases through an app

Observe the lunar cycle and the different energies it brings

Use The Moon tarot card as a base for a spell, enchantment or energy connection

Lunar tarot spreads: [X] [X]

Moon sigils: [X] [X] [X]

Create a lunar month journal and note how each day feels

Other posts:

Selene/Luna SDVA

Full Moon + New Moon 2025 calendar

Farmer’s Almanac moon + sun

Uses for moon water

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Bedridden witch series

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Bedridden witch: Weather edition

Bedridden witch: Nature edition

[puppppppppy]

id fumble him so bad

[turbo-tsundere]

Chibi Gonta for the soul <3

[blueberry-ry]

By the way guys, you do know it's possible to write warriors without falling for fascist propaganda, right? You do know that all it takes is a history book to learn about it, right? You do know even a single pdf about it can help, right? You guys do know how fascism works, right? You guys can recognize it, right? You guys are not going to fall for it, right?

You guys know what fascism is, right?