#service oriented

[cariiibaez]

Look at what I am reading in the Bible. “Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the Lord.”

‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭19‬:‭32‬

I think I have a good job. I am a certified nurse assistant. I take care of the elderly in a nursing home. It is not easy to take care of the elderly sometimes because some patients have dementia, weakness, and psychological illnesses. They get confused and anxious. In my opinion, you have to have a kind and patient heart with them. You also need to have a humbled heart. As a nurse assistant, we have to clean the patient. Clean them like change their diaper and clean their room because infection control is a thing. Shower them. Feed them. Give them companionship. I also have noticed that taking care of the elderly has helped me respect my parents more. Also think of God more. I like to pray with the patients because some patients love it when I pray for them. So, I like this Bible verse how God says we need to respect the elderly. God knows everything we do. Nothing is hidden from Him.

[ishouldgay]

Listen I know everyone thinks Dame Aylin is a top but listen that woman is only a top if Isobel WANTS her to be a top. Dame Aylin is exactly the kind of woman that does what her lover wants. Does Isobel want her to rail her into the ground ? She’d carefully go over what Isobel wants in order to not cross a line. Does Isobel want to rail her into the ground ? She’d tie the strap on to Isobel hips herself!

Dame Aylin is going to do whatever Isobel wants and honestly I love her for it

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I’ll be a doctor one day and all the pharmaceutical reps will be waiting in the lobby for hours begging for a chance to speak with me to push their samples to patients and I’ll have pharmaceutical companies buying free lunch for my employees every day just so they can sit w me at lunch and speak to me and I’ll also have a housewife/husband but instead it’ll be an office wife/husband and they’ll run the managerial aspects of my hospital for me . Among other things

[galaxywrites]

ㅤㅤ ㅤ incorrect quotes from my freed revenants au!

ㅤㅤ ㅤsome may be nsfw! just a warning!! color-coded.

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Kabal: What if the person who named Walkie Talkies named everything?

Kabal: Pregnancy tests are Maybe Babies.

Jade: Socks are Feetie Heaties.

Liu Kang: Defibrillators are Heartie Starties.

Stryker: Nightmares are Dreamy Screamies.

Kitana: Stamps are Lickie Stickies.

Tomàš: I hate you guys so much.

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Jade: You know, there’s something weird going on with your face?

Tomàš: What?

Jade: You’re smiling! I didn’t know you could do that

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Tomàš: Be careful, I thrive on negative attention.

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Tomàš: Well, has Jade been wrong before?

Kitana: How wide are we willing to open this up?

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Stryker: Liu Kang, can I ask you a question?

Liu Kang: You just did.

Stryker: Okay, can I ask you two questions?

Liu Kang: You just did.

Stryker, frustrated: OKAY, CAN I ASK YOU FOUR QUESTIONS?!

Liu Kang: You just did.

Stryker: When?!

Liu Kang: Just now.

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Kabal: I have a bad feeling about this...

Tomàš: What do you mean?

Kabal: Don't you ever get that little voice in your head that tells you if you're going to get into trouble?

Tomàš: No?

Liu Kang: That actually explains so much.

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Kabal: I couldn't do this without you, Tomàš.

Tomàš: Sure you could. Not as stylishly, of course.

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Tomàš: The path to inner peace begins with four words… not my fucking problem.

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Kabal: Get in, loser, we’re committing vehicular manslaughter!

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Liu Kang: Might I make a suggestion you possibly won’t like?

Tomàš: Do you make any other kind?

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Kitana: What are you two arguing about this time?

Stryker: He's always using common phrases incorrectly!

Tomàš: Cry me a table, Kurtis.

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Tomàš: We wouldn’t last two minutes without Nightwolf.

Tomàš:

Tomàš: Don't tell him I said that.

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Tomàš: I love saying 'fuck me' because it can either be sexual or self-loathing and those are two things that describe me perfectly.

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Tomàš: Fight me!

Kitana, standing behind him and holding her fans: *mouths* Do not.

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Kabal: Yesterday, I overheard Nightwolf saying “Are you sure this is a good idea?” and Tomàš replying “Trust me,” and I have never moved from one room to another so quickly in my life.

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Stryker: *falls down the stairs*

Kitana: Are you okay?

Liu Kang: Stop falling down the stairs!

Tomàš: How’d the ground taste?

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Kabal: Why cant trees give off something important like wifi??

Stryker: So fuck oxygen, I guess.

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Tomàš: Are you a masochist or a sadist?

Kung Lao, deadpan: I’m a Taurus.

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Kabal: An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

Tomàš: An apple a day can keep anyone away if you throw it hard enough.

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*During a game of Hangman*

Tomàš: Nope, there’s no Q. You lose.

Stryker: Are you kidding me?! You can still add something!

Tomàš: I already added a belt, four earrings and an extra arm! YOU LOSE!

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Jade: Can you pass the salt?

Tomàš: Can you pass away?

Jade: Too much salt.

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Kung Lao: Am I in trouble?

Liu Kang: Take a guess.

Kung Lao: No?

Liu Kang: Take another guess.

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Kabal, trying to comfort Tomàš: What's the problem? Anxiety? Low self-esteem? Obsessive thoughts of random arson? I've been there.

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Stryker: Why would you think any of this was a good idea?!

Tomàš: Probably because I’m a trained assassin with a long history of violence.

Stryker: Oh...

Jade, from across the room: I don’t understand how you keep forgetting that.

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Tomàš: Can you recommend a book that'll make me cry?

Kabal: General Mathematics 8th Grade Edition.

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Nightwolf: You three, explain right now.

Tomàš: It was Kabal.

Jade: It was Kabal.

Liu Kang: It was Kabal.

Kabal:

Kabal: …fuck.

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Tomàš: Wait a minute, how did this happen? We're smarter than this!

Enenra: Apparently, we're not!

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Kung Lao: Truth or dare?

Tomàš: Truth.

Kung Lao: How many hours have you slept this week?

Tomàš:

Tomàš: Dare.

Kung Lao: Go to sleep.

Tomàš: I don't like this game.

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Nightwolf: I'm going to ask you to be respectful.

Tomàš: I will politely decline.

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Liu Kang: Did you buy eggs like I asked?

Tomàš: Even better!

Liu Kang: What the fuck did you-

Tomàš: *holding up a chicken* Her name is Fluffy.

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Liu Kang: Hey, are you free?

Kung Lao: No, I’m expensive.

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Stryker: Want to hear a hard riddle?

Kung Lao: Sure.

Stryker: A rooster laid an egg on a roof. Which way did it roll?

Kung Lao: ...down?

Stryker: N-

Tomàš: Who cares about which way it rolled, it would be scrambled eggs by then.

Stryker:

Stryker: No, it's that roosters don't lay eggs... Jesus Christ...

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Stryker: Do you take constructive criticism?

Kabal: No, only cash or credit.

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Jade: Just be yourself. Say something nice.

Tomàš: Which one? I can't do both.

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Nightwolf: One time I went to hand Jade a bowl of soup. I wanted to say “Careful, it’s hot!”, and “Here’s your soup!”, so instead I blurted out “Careful it’s soup.”

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Tomàš: You're right.

Jade: That's... That's an unusual phrase for you. Did you just learn it?

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Stryker: Anyone else feel good when their brain releases a bunch of endorphins?

Jade: Can't relate.

Tomàš: Why would my brain release a bunch of dolphins?

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Tomàš: Liu Kang! Kabal got that thing on the control panel working!

Liu Kang: Wow! That looks pretty impressive.

Tomàš: Yeah!

Liu Kang: Any idea what it does?

Tomàš: Not a clue.

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Tomàš: Where is my fucking mask?

Kabal: Tomàš, guests are around, can you say it a little nicer?

Tomàš: May I ascertain the whereabouts of my FUCKING MASK?!

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Liu Kang: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate, or malewife our way out of it this time.

Kitana: *cracks knuckles* Manslaughter it is!

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Tomàš: I wouldn’t wish that upon my worse enemy!

Tomàš: Unless of course. . We’re talking about our enemy, Quan Chi. Fuck you Quan Chi, you know what you did!

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Tomàš: Tired of just deserving better. Gonna start taking it by force.

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Stryker: Wow, Kano really hates us.

Kabal: Yes, perhaps he's homophobic.

Stryker: But we’re not gay, Kabal.

Kabal:

Stryker:

Kabal: We’re not?

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Tomàš: Is having a penis fun?

Kabal: It has its ups and downs.

Stryker: Sometimes it’s a little hard.

Kung Lao: It’s a pain in the ass.

Jade: Oh, Jesus, fuck, guys, come on.

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Kitana: What does 'take out' mean?

Liu Kang: Food.

Stryker: Dating

Tomàš: Murder

Kabal: IT CAN MEAN ALL THREE IF YOU'RE NOT A COWARD.

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Nightwolf: Good responses for being stabbed with a knife?

Stryker: Rude.

Kabal: That’s fair.

Tomàš: Not again.

Jade: Are you going to want this back?

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Nightwolf: What do you think Kabal will do for a distraction?

Stryker: He’ll probably, like, make a noise or throw a rock. That’s what I would do.

*Building explodes and several car alarms go off*

Stryker: ... or he could do that.

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Kitana, carefully running a brush through Tomàš' hair: Did no one teach you how to manage your hair properly?

Tomàš, shrugging: The Lin Kuei elders just said brush it with your fingers, it'll be fine.

Tomàš: When Cyrax joined, he used to do it. But I haven't seen him here in the Netherrealm, so I just assumed his soul didn't end up here.

Kitana: ... We need to teach you a proper hair routine.

Tomàš: Say what now?

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Tomàš: Did you just call me a shrimp, you asshole?! I'm still growing, dammit!

Enenra: You stopped growing when you were fourteen!

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Enenra: What’s sexting?

Tomàš: I'm not having this conversation with you.

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Stryker: Are you okay?

Kabal, crying: Yeah, it was just the onions.

Stryker: *Picks up an onion* What the fuck did you say to Kabal?

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Kitana: There are no friends when playing board games. I am here to win.

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Kitana: I am going to need you to swear-

Kabal: Fuck.

Kitana:

Kitana: ...swear as in promise.

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Stryker: The Ocean is a soup.

Tomàš:

Tomàš: Do elaborate.

Stryker: What are needed for something to be a soup?

Tomàš: Erm... Water, salt, some form of vegetation, and personally I prefer some meat in mine.

Stryker: *Tilts head*

Tomàš: The Ocean is a Soup.

Stryker: The Ocean is a Soup.

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Nightwolf: I swear to god I'm the only one here with a braincell.

Stryker, Liu Kang, Kabal, and Kitana: ALL HAIL the keeper of the sacred braincell!

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*Everyone is playing a board game together*

Kabal: I will put 'A' down to make 'A'.

Tomàš: I will add onto your 'A' to make 'AT'.

Kung Lao: I will add onto your 'AT' to make 'RAT'.

Kitana: I will add onto your 'RAT' to make 'BIOSTRATAGRAPHIC'.

Kung Lao: *flips the board*

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Kabal: *banging a pen on the table out of frustration*

Stryker: Stop that. How would YOU feel if I banged you on the table?

Kabal: I—

Kabal: I don’t know the correct answer to that question.

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Kitana: Don't break someone's heart, they only have one.

Tomàš: Break one of their bones instead, they have 206 of them.

[mentohol-blog]

Hair

I cut my hair for the first time when I was 21. Before that, I’d only ever trimmed the split ends at home. I was known for my over two feet long hair in my tiny hometown (not even one stoplight) and when I shaved it all off (4 pitiful braids that I wrapped in paper towels and mailed to Wigs for Kids), I felt like I was going incognito. It was liberating.

That was how I Iooked when I met him, before he became He. New growth sticking out of my head like so many hedgehog quills. His hair was in locs, thick and full. We each ordered one beer a piece, and we talked for over an hour. He left to go to a show with friends, and when I drove home I nearly accidentally turned onto the railroad tracks because driving in the Big City was new and terrifying but I was glad I braved it to meet him.

I bought a ticket to an upcoming show (San Holo) because he invited me and I thought if it didn’t work out between now and then, I could lurk in the corners to avoid any awkward contact and still enjoy the show. EDM wasn’t my scene, but I’m willing to give anything a shot. And it did work out.

Three months later, my apartment was nearly empty. All my things were at his house, and I retwisted his locs while I introduced him to anime. He introduced me to hockey, and I experimented with bobs and bangs and teasing my hair as high as it could go.

We got a kitten (his first-ever cat), and he fell in love, and she fell right back in love with him. They were inseparable. But she was also sick. Eye infection, ear infection, and riddled with ringworm due to the situation we saved her from. We took her to an emergency vet, and the next several weeks were full of eye drops, ear drops, topical creams, and oral medication. He cut his hair for the first time since his teens because I grew up on a farm, and I knew how much of a bitch ringworm on the scalp could be, and her safe place was curled on the crook of his neck, nestled beneath the curtain of his hair. For the first time since we started dating, my hair was longer than his.

When we got married, I went to a professional stylist for the first time in my life. I got a pixie cut.

On our honeymoon, I finally drew up the courage to lay myself and my needs and desires bare before him, and he became He.

Insecurities are funny because my Husband has been starting to get more and more gray hairs, and He hates them (which is actually what started me thinking about all this). I adore them, and when I braid His hair, I tuck them inside the strands, hiding them where He won’t see them to pluck them out, but where I can still see them shining in the sunlight like a best friend’s smile.

Do other s types out there braid as a form of service? If not, you might consider it. For me, its intimacy lies in my providing Him a service He can’t do for Himself. The whole ritual of it, from things He can do but allows me to (picking it, washing it) to what He can’t (the actual braiding), makes me feel calm, centered, and needed. Added to that, I’ve seen my skills develop. The patterns I can do now are day and night to the puffy, loose abominations I created when I first started.

But He’s always loved them. He wore my very first attempt to work, even though I did a truly terrible job. He was proud of me. I began to let my hair grow out again. I didn’t feel the need to be incognito anymore.

Sometimes He wonders if He’ll ever go bald. I tell Him no; He would have already started by this age. I tell Him I might go bald. It runs in my family. He says He’d like to start locs again now that the kitten has grown into a healthy, ringworm-free cat. My hair is now to the middle of my back.

[hetheymerrill]

Submissive in the way a knight is submissive

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I haven't seen Goblin yet (I know), so the only Kdrama I've watched with this ending is Hotel del Luna, but I liked Moon in the Day so much better.

Because we don't know if the only one left behind (Goo Chan-sung) in Hotel del Luna had a happy life, but we know that Kang Young-hwa did. She was set up with goals from the very start, to go to Antarctica, and she gets to achieve those goals. And it doesn't even matter if she fell in love again or not, because that was never set up as important to her. Also, she didn't just help a ghost move on like Chan-sang, she was as much the victim of the curse as Do-ha so solving it was worth some pain and longing since she no longer will get murdered every time she reincarnates.

It was also a lot like Doom at Your Service, where one character accepts death for another. I think both work, because Doom explicitly wants to be human and live a human life, so his rebirth fits well with the show. Both Do-ha and Han Ri-ta/Young-hwa in Moon in the Day want to fall in love in normal circumstances, which cannot happen in Silla or the present. So both of them reincarnating was the only possible way for them to have a normal life.

Anyway, I loved it. I feel perfectly satisfied. And Jun-oh coming back was not really set up in the plot, but since it seems pretty clear that neither ghost knew exactly how ghost rules work, I'll allow it.

[voidclawing]

☸ — ok replies IN A LIL BIT.... ive been spending these last 3 days off mostly bedrotting as my body has needed a complete and total reset from the shit I'd dealt with from. my last position at my job sbbfjsg

[deathbind]

Haven't written up the details of Serot's DA questlines, but I do have the overviews and I made myself sad

[age-of-moonknight]

Night Moves. Marvel Superheroes: Official Game Adventure (Vol. 1/1990), pg. 19.

Designer: Anthony Herring; Editor: Karen S. Boomgarden; Illustrator: John Statema

[yearning-gay]

starting to feel like if you want me domming in any capacity it's gonna have to be a mommy thing idk it is an alarmingly efficient method to get me to slip into a dommier headspace

[imminent-danger-came]

Freenoodles? (they are so important to me)

FREENOODLES IS ICONIC. Such an old married couple, who doesn't love them. "I've devoted my life to this man" you sure have dude

[harperhydra]

🦋 a loving text.  

((Also for Catalina!))

[txt: 🐱] I can feel you eyeballing me from over there. I'm working right now.

[txt: 🐱] Appreciate you watching my back, though. Get gone before we both get in trouble.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

oh, Ander, my child, my wee lamb, little baby who has never done a single wrong thing ever, that's not how you get your boss to send you home!

Youre supposed to be all bargaining and asking "what else do you need from me?" and "how much longer are you going to have me stay?" and "what will it take to get the job done?" demanding decency and insisting you're a person will only make them make you stay longer out of spite! Hope this helps, little spy :)

(-totally not based on personal experience and distorted to 11-)

😭😭 he's just doing his best and hoping Vic comes looking for him

[haml3t]

I didn’t get a cookie in my lunch box at law school today 😾

[bijoumikhawal]

RE: Sisko and Garak’s relationship overwhelmingly seen as being "something else", given IPTM I think one of my Kardasi headcanons may describe the something else.

Maxotaşe (translation: hidden finger. Refers to the private nature of the relationship and how one party serves the other, as though they were a finger on their hand. Maxot- also refers to merging within something larger.)- relationships between adults of any age based partially around one serving or taking care of the other. Your typical butler and lord type dynamic, or first and second in command. Can be sexual, but not always, typically of a very private nature. Can proceed to sicus’te (enjoinment), but if that happens, it usually occurs during middle age.

I didn't even write this headcanon with any of them in mind it was just a nod towards Damar/Dukat. But in general- Garak and Sisko's relationship generally relies on Garak performing a service for Sisko and occasionally acting as an intermediary for him or Cardassia -which is still a service.

It's a relationship that potentially brings the class stuff going on with Garak's character into SHARP focus because of Sisko's status as the ultimate commander of the station and his comfort and frequency with which that must be obvious, as opposed to Julian who is also a command figure but reserves his exercise of it for medicine and life or death situations. And, is frankly uncomfortable with that status outside those two situations- its why he insists on not being called sir and why he tries to develop friendly relationships where the command structure is set aside. We see this most obviously with O'Brien, because of O'Brien's status as a non-com officer (and how that's also kind of a class commentary?), but Julian's like that with other characters too.

Whereas Sisko isn't primarily a medical officer but a command officer (with an engineer background) and has had awhile to get used to command structures. As opposed to Julian who is fresh out of school where command structures may be more relaxed. I would know as I did not go to military college.