#queueby doo

[caranfindel]

We need to talk about how soft and pretty Sam is in Bedtime Stories.

Thank you for coming to my presentation.

[caranfindel]

A doctor - a specialist - determined my husband needed a particular surgery. A nurse who works as the gatekeeper at his insurance company said no. Why is a nurse second-guessing a doctor? I have all the respect for nurses and everything they do, but legally, a nurse literally cannot even diagnose my husband’s condition. Why are they in charge of the treatment plan? Why are they able to declare he doesn’t need surgery for it?

[caranfindel]

I kinda feel like Sam didn’t really believe Dean was dying until he said “I love you so much, my baby brother” and then he was like oh fuck, he’d never say that if he thought he’d still be alive five minutes from now.

[caranfindel]

My dash did a thing

[caranfindel]

Thinking about The Song Remains the Same, when Sam and Dean are trying to convince Past!Mary to leave John so they won’t be born, and she says it’s too late because she’s already pregnant with Dean, and Dean’s just, okay, she’s right, nothing we can do, like it doesn’t even occur to him that she could still prevent Sam from being born, it’s just, if I’m here, Sam has to be here, there’s no other option. Yep, I’m thinking about that.

[caranfindel]

[caranfindel]

Since these two were a couple at the time, I assume she was thinking “I’m gonna bang you as soon as we get home” the whole time they were filming this scene. Because that’s definitely what I would have thought.

[caranfindel]

Fic: In which Sam and Dean spend the night at a Hampton Inn

We know the boys always find some skeevy motel downtown, but what would happen if they stopped at the Hampton right off the interstate instead?

…

“Are you happy, Sam?" Dean asks, as they wait for the elevator (an elevator, for fuck's sake, Dean does not like hotels with elevators, he likes a room on the first floor with multiple escape routes, and Sam knows this). "Did you sleep better in a $129 room than you would have in a $50 room in town?"

Sam rolls his eyes. "The $50 hotel - if there even is one in this town - was ten miles down the road, at least. The Hampton was right on the freaking exit. I was tired, I was still bleeding a little bit, and I wanted to get off the damn highway and go to bed. And why do you care about the money? It's not like you're paying for it. Your imaginary friend Fritz Johansson is paying for it."

"Fritz Johansson does have a credit limit, you know," Dean mutters, as the elevator doors open. No one is inside. He stabs at the button for the lobby. "It's not like this card's gonna last forever."

Sam smiles like he finds that amusing, but he's just reading the corny sign on the elevator door.

(Okay. It's a little bit cute.)

When they get off in the lobby, Dean heads to the left, toward the exit, but Sam turns to the right. "Dude," Sam says. "Breakfast."

"Oh, come on. Can't we just go hit up a diner somewhere?"

"It's included, and you're the one who was complaining about finances, Fritz." Sam doesn't wait for a response, but just assumes Dean is following him, as if he'd won that argument, and Dean's gonna have to punish him for that later. But Sam is heading toward the smell of coffee, so. There's that.

It's not just coffee. The breakfast buffet is actually a pretty decent spread, with pastries and scrambled eggs and sausage and a big round contraption that looks like... yes, it is... a waffle iron.

"Waffles, Sam!"

Sam grins. "Have at it."

Oh yes, he will definitely have at it. By the time he joins Sam at a table, his plate is piled with steaming waffles drenched in chocolate syrup and a mound of whipped cream. Sam managed to find the Sammy-est breakfast possible: oatmeal and yogurt and whole wheat toast and a couple of pieces of fresh fruit. Sam raises his eyebrows at Dean's plate and wordlessly hands him a banana.

"Mmm. Banana split waffle. Good idea." Dean slices the banana over his waffle and peers over at Sam's sad little cup of oatmeal. "Oooh, you added some raisins! You're a goddamn madman, Sammy."

Sam laughs and finishes his pathetic breakfast, and when Dean comes back with a second plate of waffles (with caramel syrup this time, because caramel and bananas are really an awesome combination), he steals half of it, and Dean has to grudgingly admit that Sam may have won that argument after all.

[caranfindel]

“but i need to know about maternity leave” NOT AT THE INTERVIEW STAGE YOU DON’T. Bring it up after they offer you the job. If they pull your job offer after you tell them you’re pregnant, that’s explicit discrimination. It’s actionable. Same goes for any other accommodations you need. Don’t ask if there’s an elevator, or if the health insurance covers your particular meds, until after you’ve received an offer.

A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

[caranfindel]

This is a Tumblr ad. Someone literally decided to advertise a garbage truck on Tumblr. Someone said “I hear the Tumblr girlies are into garbage; maybe they’ll buy my garbage truck.”

[caranfindel]

My dash did a thing…

[phoebe-the-autism-fairy]

Adult fiction: We're all sad adults living in sad houses and we get into affairs with each other and there's a court case next week and my husband cheats on me with his secretary

Children's fiction: I'm an elf living inside a toadstool in the forest and I eat dandelions for breakfast lol

[bearsbeetsbeskar]

thank you everyone for your kind messages, reassurance, and suggestions for favorite comfort shows! I so appreciate it, and I appreciate you all so freaking much

I'm going to put a queue together for the next week just to have some consistency in content on my blog

and then after april 5th????

I AM BACK FULLY MUTHAFUCKAZZZZZ

[caranfindel]

My dash did a thing…

[urban-unease]

Hilde - taking care of business

[caranfindel]

The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.

One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall