#our standards apparently!!

[icharchivist]

Love that we're all happy to thirst about Belial all day but the second he's mean to Grimnir we're all dogpiling him to beat the shit out of him

It's so good to have standards 🥰

WELL YEAH.

we're thirsty for him and want to domesticate him but he's still a meanie!!!! and if he's going to be a meanie to the sweetest boy of them all, he's going to HEAR FROM US.

Love how just a few days ago we were talking about him beheading Lucifer and how we would want to domesticate him from this point and give him a redemption arc, meanwhile just the idea he'd be rude to Grimnir is having us up arms like

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question

[vv-ispy]

Crack theory that Decarabian is inspired by Qin Shi Huang, founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor (previous rulers refered to themselves as 'king') of China

In the chinese version, Decarabian is occationally refered to as 孤王 (gūwáng, lone(ly) king) which is a title Qin Shi Huang created for himself for being so high and mighty that normal people cannot come close to him

Qin Shi Huang has been viewed as a tyrant, mostly due to assessments by the Han dynasty that came after

However, he also unified China via standardization of weights and measurement, wheel axels, currencies, written language script, and developed extensive networks of roads and canals for trade and communication. Similar to Decarabian's methodical organization (to the point of micromanagement) of his city

Qin Shi Huang is also known for connecting various state walls built during previous centuries into the precursor to the Great Wall of China for defence against attacks from northern tribes, parallelling Decarabian's tall walls that encircle Old Mondstadt for Safety (or even the storm barrier)

Bonus：

The state of Qin also conquered the six other powerful states in China at the time, ending the Warring States period — so I propose that Decarabian not only preemptively declared himself the seat of the Anemo Archon (which would explain why both he and Venti get refered to as 'wind god') but also the overall victor of the Archon War

[swan2swan]

Finally getting back to reading the Plagueis novel--one of the purported Champions of Star Wars literature--and over the course of four pages, Palpatine goes to Dathomir, has a baby named Maul shoved in his arms, and decides to raise him.

[bojanus]

When they admit they're not actually documenting in the system we use for documentation:

[tiredflowercrown]

I wanna scream. How can a restaurant be this fucking filthy and the manager ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE IT

I shouldnt have to come in after days that I don't close and winder what I'm gonna have to clean. I shouldn't have to wipe down dirty tables from the night before. I shouldn't have to spend TWENTY MINUTES sweeping up shit from the day before.

I get it, you switch jobs to somewhere that doesn't have as many cleaning requirements so you lax a little. I do. Hell I've laxed a lil from the standards of one store I've worked at. But there's a difference in not scrubbing the ice bin everyday and not FUCKING SWEEPING OR TAKING OUT THE TRASH.

This is just one shitty thing about this place. I'm not talking about the improper food storage, or the lack of expiration dates, or the lack of food handlers licenses, or food not being kept to correct temperatures or the fact that are cleaning rags aren't being washed. That's a completely different set of issues. I'm talking about the absolute bare minimum in terms of cleaning. Because I know that this place has mopped front of house maybe twice since it opened 2 months ago and both of those were within the first 2 weeks of opening.

[the-busy-ghost]

The utter fury of reading about a character in a Victorian novel who is frankly described as ‘ugly’ and googling them only to find out that absolutely every tv adaptation portrays them as ‘brown haired but otherwise conventionally attractive to the 21st century’

[pierog]

so i applied for a DREAM JOB and out of 6000 applicants!!! I ended up in the final 15 😟

…and I did SOOOOO soooooo well til the very last round 😔 i accidentally became privy to some scathing information from the judging panel. ouuuuuuuchhhh lol my insecurities.

proud of myself for being true to myself and getting far as i did, though.

[proto-language]

finally got my feedback from all last year's exams to go with the marks. absolute fucking gut-punch stuff. don't really know how i am meant to keep going except through sheer inertia.

[thevalleyisjolly]

You know you're a (Canadian) archivist when you have RAD on the bookmarks toolbars of every single one of your browsers.

[neonacidtrip]

I am home from apartment hunting and I would just like to say I am extremely disappointed, as an able-bodied person, to learn only 1 out of the 13 complexes we visited had an elevator.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[manic-sundae]

Why tf are mortgage loan interest rates still so high I hate everything

[fideidefenswhore]

What was Anne Boleyn like as a stepmother? I keep seeing conflicting stuff and I don't want to feel unjustified hatred to wards a historical figure. (It's also important to me because I had a very rough relationship with my step mother and I hate how the evil step mum trope is used for historical figures.)

I don't want to sound blunt or rude; but it's really only your business, whether you admire AB or not? It's not for me to tell you what to do.

If you're asking my opinion, I don't believe she was a "good stepmother" (not to Mary, anyway...although, ironically, Mary herself would not have viewed her as her 'stepmother', it seems AB was a fair to middling one to Fitzroy, maybe even better than that when you consider her involvement in his marriage and his favor by Henry VIII during her queenship, although that could also be co/incidental, since he seemed to be high in his father’s favor before Anne became a significant figure, too); but I also don't think she had the chance or opportunity to be one in her circumstances.

As for the parenthetical, I don't want to invalidate your personal experiences, but, I do want to...gently point out that regardless of your final feelings on AB, there really is no modern equivalent to the Great Matter, (what Henry viewed as) the English succession crisis 1527-37, and all of the subsequent fallout of these events, not to mention mores of the time of fatherhood, kinship, the duties of daughters, the concept of sacrosanct and near-wholly bought into monarchy, dynastic power struggles, the English Reformation...

(That’s not to say the emotions involved in these interpersonal conflicts were not real, it’s just to say that they played out on this highly-charged landscape/background of politics, religion, treason, martyrdom, threats of excommunication, military intervention and interdict of trade, etc...)

And that's not to absolve or excuse Anne's behavior or actions when it comes to her role as stepmother, but it's just to say they're only understandable (understandable as in literally, comprehensible, not necessarily moral) within those contexts.

So, all that being said, there’s an array of academic opinion on this topic. One can find the ultimate weight of the responsibility given to Anne among historians such as Anna Whitelock and David Starkey, or pop historians such as Alison Weir and Melita Thomas (and the complete absolving of Henry from the latter of the latter group, which I find egregious)...controversially, I believe the most moderate assessment of evidence on this subject comes from Eric Ives (”ranting, not thinking”, etc., I might post some relevant quotes later); Loades was also pretty fair-handed on this subject (but not others); and the most apologist from Retha Warnicke (but then, RW discredits Chapuys as source material entirely, which I don’t subscribe to). 

It would be quite the long project, but if you’re truly interested, I might look into compiling a masterlist of sorts of all relevant primary source quotes on this topic (most, but not all, are Chapuys, there are rarely corroborating reports by other sources, but contradictions are also rare, tbf). There is one infamous report that I believe, for several reasons (one being that there are no developments given of the allegation), might have been mistranslation or spelling error (if you’re familiar, this is the one of February 1534). 

[sophieebridgerton]

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[fingertipsmp3]

I am once again sad that a person I bonded with in a dream is not real