#spotcheck

[bluntfullofmid]

[doomednarrative]

Alright I talked about it with my mom, redying my hair black next weekend~

[buildarocketboys]

Send me random asks about your day or questions!!

[artsy-hobbitses]

Are there any facts or headcanons you can share about Megatron?

-Cracks knuckles- By which you mean old man Morgantron, boy do I.

LOVES dogs. Thaddeus/Terminus used to own a mining dog that would help pull carts, a Bernese Mountain named Boudicca which both he and a young Morgan would dote over. While Bouda passed away in his late teens, that childish adoration for dogs hasn't diminished, and has instead been transferred to Old Fella---an old pit bull rescued and initially intended for rehoming by Barricade/Barrin, who eventually couldn't find the heart to give him up. Megs often has Old Fella curled up at his feet while he's catching up on reading in his free time.

Has a surprising sweet tooth. Sugar was a luxury in Morgan's childhood and not something Thaddeus couldn't afford very often on miner pay, and what sweet food was common there were coal miner cakes… which are loved but an acquired taste. His guilty pleasures include Mars Bars which a young!Omar/OP would share with him through the fence that separated them as children, and more poignantly, Brooklyn-style Blackout Cake since it was tradition for Thaddeus to get him a slice of it for his birthday every year until they were shipped off to Messatine.

Within Morgan's personal office in a glass case is an old blood-spattered and battered copy of Umar ibn al-Khattâb: His Life and Times (Volume One). This is the very first book he read outside of what was greenlit/approved for the manual class and was lent to him decades ago by a young Omar, who threw it over the fence they would talk through, for him to catch. It had been confiscated from him during a spotcheck, but he found it years and years later in a HR contraband warehouse and he's kept it guarded ever since. What he doesn't know is that Omar still has the second volume of that book (there are two) kept in the same manner.

Secretly listens in on Omar's increasingly popular book club sessions (Part of an Autobot PR programme after they figured out that Omar had a voice fit for ASMR and people genuinely wanted to hear him read to them) on the radio during nights where he's feeling particularly lonely and melancholy.

Is an excellent fiddler. However, was not allowed to bring his instrument to Messatine and hasn't played since.

Morgan can cook, but is primarily relegated to British pub fare. Makes a mean steak and ale pie, one of his favorite foods. He also serves potential Decepticon recruits slices of coal miner cake he bakes during their first meet/interview (he does not tell them he baked it) to see how they react. If they act like they're too good for the humble bit of joy miners like him partook in, they're out.

Morgan does not have a great sense of direction, because when you're living 80% of your life underground, everything looks the same and you simply follow the neatly delineated cart tracks to your workplace or berth. Tracks above ground ie. roads are. Messy, and very confusing. He gets lost more easily than one might expect.

He has however, a sharper than usual sense of smell, which helped him out a lot as a miner when it came to seeking out fresh air and quickly identifying toxic or flammable gases emitted underground.

He is also in Grimlock/Graeme's team of Sometimes Cannibalism Is Correct. Those guards who beat to death a miner in front of him while he was on Mining Outpost C-12? He found two of them years and years later (he never forgot their voices over the miner's pleas) as a gladiator, killed the one who struck the first blow and ate their heart (they had no hearts to begin with, he surmises, so really, they're not missing anything) while the other watched. This was symbolic of his hatred for them, but also to loosen the remaining guard's lips about Decimus' movements after the incident up to this point, and for sure, it worked.

No longer gets drunk (he assumes his gladiatorial 'upgrades' are part of the reason for this), deeply wishes he still could sometimes.

Morgan forged his own armor pieces as a gladiator, and this is something that has carried on into the present, as he helps forge the armor the inner circle Deceptions wear, which is then programmed by Shockwave (the exception is Starscream/Stefan, who has been using a prototype armored flightsuit made by Senator Shockwave/Sharifuddin from day one). He uses this time as a one on one session to get to know them better.

Still visits the little public library in the Dead End that Omar set up in honor of him every now and then when he needs somewhere quiet to collect his thoughts and slog through paperwork.

Is the asshole who dog-ears books, but in his defense, he'd never seen a book in his community as a child that wasn't banged up to hell and back---what mattered were the contents. The SOLE exception here is the book that OP gave him and was confiscated from him. It's more than a book; it's a gift from his oldest friend.

"You didn't ask, I don't see why it's an issue" gay. Though one can't tell from first glance because Impactor will bring up the time that he booked a male and female stripper for Megs as a 20th birthday surprise/joke, and came back to find both of them engrossed listening to Megs reading his notes for Towards Peace and discussing it between the three of them. Basically, he's Enjolras (cause above all) for everything and everyone except Prime.

If you're an enemy he respects, he'll kill you himself and make it quick. If he hates you, he'll prolong it. If you don't register on his radar/aren't worth the effort, you get Tarn.

Suffers from a mild case of black lung carried over from his mining days, which only becomes more apparent in his 50s, as his healing factor slowly decreases.

[kafkaoftherubble]

My sister is an artist too so we've been talking about making a comic together. One of my brothers helps me a bit with dear emperor so he's suggesting my sister and I do dear emperor as a comic

Finally this message has been sitting on my inbox despite I have mentally reacted to it already throughout the weekends:

BRUH THIS IS!!!! AWESOME!!!

I have always been quite distant from the webcomic/self-published comic book circle because I simply don't have art friends. For real, you guys are all the art friends I have had since middle school. (Hana, my friend-who-befriended-me-since-nursery-school, where art thou? How art thou doing? And Xanex, where the hell are you? Please don't tell me you still hide your scissors in your water bottle during spotchecks and then drink it afterward...).

I would love, love, LOVE to watch this process so up close. What an experience this would be!

Also, damn your siblings are really stacked in skills. So you have an artist/comic book-artist sister; philosopher brother; philosopher dad (lecturer dad? Or did I hallucinate that part about your pa); and writer-artist-seamstress-general-art-making you. Damn! My family is sooooo boring and unremarkable in comparison.

[decepti-thots]

Would you ever revisit a media and select scenes of a character you do not like or care about at all to make sure they are written according to the source material and not your personal view of them?

That's not really a 'would you write' idea ig, but. Yeah, of course, haha. I would always do that if I find I need to include a character I don't care about much, because I do that for all characters I write anyway. And I guess I'm a little more likely to canon spotcheck on a character I care less about than one I really love, because if I had to write e.g. Skids into a fic for example, there is nooo way I would trust my brain to have retained like. ANY information about him, haha.

Like, I have a pretty solid confidence in my ability to recall a decently strong Minimus voice from memory on the spot, for example, because I've written so much about him both in a fic sense and doing meta. But I'd struggle to do that for other characters I'm not invested in the same way. Writing (at least in a transformative context like fanfic) is the same as drawing, really, in that you should really use references by default.

[boobachu]

Okay I was spotchecking my video and noticed this...

Was originally the final boss going to have multiple titans? Did originally Tails, Amy and Knuckles take control of (the repaired) Titans and join Sage and Super Sonic in fighting THE END?

Just a thought. Coulda just been a typo tho.

Woulda made sense for how it ended in The Final Horizon tho...

[electricmagicarchives]

Pushead cover for Thrasher in January 1998. Back then you could discover a lot of cool music in skate videos, I don't know why it all gets so monotonous and kinda *boring* nowadays, or perhaps that's only my impression because we grew up so differently in the 90s. I even discovered stoner bands in videos, like Fu Manchu in a 411 video spotcheck at legendary Burnside park.

[skinsort]

Well I have no chill and spent like 6 hours on this today in lieu of anything useful. Basically I wanted to play around with transparency, gradients, and blurs, and much more abstractly a feeling of being kind of shoved through the skin a little bit with the italics and the off center layout. Most of that time was messing with extremely minute styling details. On the one hand I should probably fkin quit it with that, but on the other hand with something as abstract as the idea I had for this, spotchecking the feel as accurately as I can feels important. That feeling of driving through the skin is proving harder to make consistent, but I'm enjoying it all the same. I feel good about the hero and the navigation (aside from restyling John's dropdowns), they're responsive all the way through, but I have a ways to go yet on the categories and the forums obviously. I'm not sure I like them, but I think I have to finish the forum row first to see if the vision is good or just silly. If I don't like it, I know what the fallback is going to be at least (blur gradients, so many overlapping gradients).

If you code, I only really did one thing that might be new, and included the code for that below the cut.

The only real problem I solved so far was how to make the blur gradient spread across the entirety of the page, not just the view. I wanted the hero to be very clear, and everything behind the forums and stats to be blurry af so I can overlay text on them reasonably. Here's a little code snippet if you want to do a gradient similar that traverses the whole page (and not just the view height!). Put this in some script tags on your board wrappers. This basically listens to the page loading, or if someone resizes the screen, and then sets the height of the element that has the gradient on it- in this case blur-gradient. window.addEventListener('resize', setBlurHeight); $(document).ready(setBlurHeight)

function setBlurHeight() { const siteHeight = $(document).height(); $(".blur-gradient").css("height", siteHeight); } And here's the blur-gradient css:

.blur-gradient { backdrop-filter: blur(20px); -webkit-mask: linear-gradient(180deg, transparent, black 50%); position: absolute; z-index: -2; width: 100%; top: 0; bottom: 0; } blur-gradient itself is just an empty div with that class. It obviously doesn't have to be a blur gradient- you should be able to use this for any effect which you want to extend the whole vertical range of the page.

[connectabroad]

The public transport system in🚗🚍🚆🚉🚊🚇🚠Vienna....Austria

Every city has its good points and its bad points. The public transport system is definitely one of Vienna’s good points. Cheap, frequent, fast, clean, efficient, and rarely overcrowded.

Wiener Linien is the municipal transport authority.

Their tickets and passes cover all city train and subway services and nearly all tram and bus services.

Buy network passes for cheap, peace-of-mind travel

Book a Vienna Welcome Card* travel pass

See also:

The Vienna Pass (sightseeing pass with travel card option)

The Transport Museum

Hop on Hop off buses

How the system works

(The latest generation of Viennese trams)

The four main forms of transport are U-Bahn (subway), Schnellbahn or S-Bahn (local train), Straßenbahn (tram) and Autobus (bus).

Vienna works on an honesty system with no ticket barriers at stations and no formal, permanent ticket checks on the subway, local trains, trams and buses. You just jump on and off.

This doesn’t mean public transport is free, though. You do need to buy a ticket.

Now I daresay you may be wondering why you’d bother buying a ticket. And you wouldn’t be the first to think that.

Leaving the ethics and legality aside for the moment, a lack of formal ticket checks does not mean there are no ticket checks.

You may encounter a conductor wandering down the city train. Or run into spotchecks at the end of a subway platform. Or find the unassuming gentleman next to you on the tram pulling out his transport authority ID and asking to see everyone’s “Fahrschein.”

These undercover agents are impossible to spot and they’ve heard all the excuses before. Travelling without a ticket incurs a fine, not to mention a whole heap of embarrassment.

👮‍♂️👮‍♀️

How do tickets work?

Nearly all forms of public transport fall more or less under the same municipal organization (the fabulous Wiener Linien), so the tickets or network passes you buy are independent of your mode of travel.

Which tickets should you buy when visiting Austria.

Take the tram, city train, subway, or catch the bus. Or use all four

(The U stands for U-Bahn indicates a subway station entrance)

Which tickets should you buy for getting around Vienna.

The Vienna Pass is a 1, 2, 3 or 6-day sightseeing pass that offers one-time free entry to numerous attractions. You can add on a 24, 48 or 72-hour network travel card if ordering a physical pass (rather than a smartphone one.🚌

🚊The public transport system is definitely one of Vienna’s good points. Cheap, frequent, fast, clean, efficient, and rarely overcrowded.

Once in Austria, you wont need other than  the Verkher website anything else between this and Google Maps, so easy! Get the Verkher transport program directly on your phone with the app in the Apple Store or Google Play.

Remember🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

Before speeding off on any adventure abroad, be sure you have your International Driving Permit. This will avoid any issues with the local police, ensure insurance protection in the event of a crash, and give you one less thing to worry about! 

Learn everything you need to know about the IDP in this guide. 

#Austria #ConnectAbroad #Travel #TransportInAustria #CanIBuyTravelCardsInAustria #InternationalDriving #DrivingPermit #PublicTransport #Vienna

[sexcsaint]

Worry about your sources for everything no w

Spotcheck

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT 📜 And so I enter into evidence my tarnished coat of arms. My muses, acquired like bruises. My talismans and charms. The tick, tick, tick of love bombs. My veins of pitch black ink. All’s fair in love and poetry.

[sexcsaint]

I'm going duxton to spotcheck today

[teachernisha]

Week 14 (30 October - 3 November 2023)

MONDAY 30/10/2023

On Monday, we had our assembly at the hall since we have a Solidarity Program. It is to show our support and shared our sadness and empathy to people in Palestine. All the teachers are asked to wear in black colour and wear Palestine mafla to show our support. The students also are allowed to bring their mafla, flag to school yesterday. Then, I just proceed to my 1 PL Aspirasi class and continue my lesson. For yesterday, I taught them grammar which is relative clauses. Later on, in the evening, I went into my 1Arif and taught them writing. We learn about geographical descriptions which the students are asked to write a short paragraph about Malaysia. It was a fun lesson with them.

TUESDAY 31/10/2023

Today like usual, I just attend some relief classes since I do not have English classes for today. Most of my free time, I just stay in the office and preparing my lesson plans and my journal. Lately, it was cloudy and rainy in the evening so it is so cold especially to be in the office with aircond. Beside, today there is so many things happened which our Disicpline Teacher's phone went missing and it was stole by someone. It was hectic since everyone try to control the situation while on the same time school's prefect are asked to do spotcheck on every class. Unfortunately, it cannot be found as we know something that get stolen won't easily be return back. The lesson that I can take which I should be very careful and take care of my stuffs.

WEDNESDAY 1/11/2023

Since we do not have KOKO anymore, so today we just done coloring activity in period 1 and 2. Unfortunately, it was my English class with 1PL Aspirasi, so I am not be able to see them for today, however I still can attend 1 Arif to continue our lesson. For today, I collected their book to mark and check whether they complete their homework or not. Thank goodness, everyone completed their homework and it was a good job for them. There is nothing much happening today as I finished up my time doing my work until the school' bell ring.

THURSDAY 2/11/2023

On Thursday, like usual I do not have my English class for today, I just got 3 relief classes for today and most of the time that I free, I just sit in the library and finished up my work. It was kind of good day today since most of the teachers coming to school.

FRIDAY 3/11/2023

On Friday, I was asked to be an MC for Program Kasih 2023. So I have already found a student to be the emcee and prepared the script for the program. The program is about to show support and empathy to Palestine so that our students know on how to be grateful and thankful with our country Malaysia. Overall, the program ended at 3:30pm and all the students are asked to go back into their class and start the lesson like usual until the bell rings.

[lunatells]

Proud of you, Self! ♡

Maraming nagtatanong sakin ng tanong na, "WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?" tbh, yan ang pinakamahirap na tanong for me. Kasi oo nga no, ang tanda ko na pero pag naitanong sakin yan napapaisip ako talaga kasi wala. Wala parin akong plano. I mean ofcourse may mga goals tayo pero syempre di kasi lahat ng plans natin sa buhay masusunod natin. Well, swerte mo if nasunod mo exactly what you planned, pero sakin kasi hindi. Lahat ng plans ko, ekis. Pero kasi mas better ang dumating. Kaya pinapaubaya ko talaga kay Lord lahat. Ginagawa ko nalang lahat ng best ko and Siya na bahala sa iba.

Ang dami kong napagdaanan na work. Lahat yun sobraaaaaang nakakastress, nakakawalang gana, nakakairita, nakakaewan. Kasi never akong nagtagal sa work, kung hindi kasi dahil sa company kaya di natagal, dahil naman sa fam or sa sarili ko mismo. Kaya ang goal ko talaga e yung TUMAGAL muna sa company and everything will follow.

Sabi ko, last push ko na sa BPO and if hindi na talaga nag workout baka magibang bansa nalang ako even if I don't want to. Kasi baka nga don ang life ko and hindi dito.

So ayun, nakapasok nga ako. Pero ofc may training pa yan. So ang goal ko lang talaga for now is to pass the training. Pero hindi lang yun ang binigay ni Lord sakin.

I passed the training tapos TOP 1 pa. (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

> Top 1 QA SPOTCHECK (BUSINESS) 100%

> Top 1 QA SPOTCHECK (COMPOSITE) 89.50%

> Top 1 OVER ALL 100%

> SR QUEEN (Most Number of SR Tickets, 19) hahahahah

Who would have thought na after all the breakdowns I had all throughout the training, all the sleepless nights na kahit RD walang enough sleep, lahat ng anxiety na dumaan even sa training room e magttrigger siya e eto yung bunga. (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠)

Pero these wouldn't be possible without my inspirations, without my support systems....

My family, friends and God. ♡

Pero syempre special mention dito yung mga taong araw araw kong kasama, araw araw akong minomotivate at tinutulungan, araw araw nakikinig at araw araw akong pinapatahan....

My Ate Daisy,

Thank you sa lahat. Sa lahat lahat. Thank you for always checking up on me kahit di naman kailangan na palagi. Never na talaga ako nahiwalay sa'yo kahit nareshuffle ang team, sayo parin ako. Sobrang naaappreciate ko lahat ng effort mo di lang para sakin, di lang para sa team natin pero sa buong wave, ate. Kaya deserve mo yung award na yan e. Sobrang mahal ka namin, Ate. Thank you palagi lagi.

My Lucky 7,

Hindi niyo alam gaano niyo nacoconvert yung moods ko. Napaiyak niyo ko, napatawa, napainis...lahat na ng emotions naipagawa/naiparamdam niyo sakin. You never left my side since DAY1. Thank you for that and for all the good/sad memories syempre. Mahal na mahal ko kayo sobra kahit nakakabwisit kayo, I will always be your baby girl. ʕ⁠っ⁠•⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ⁠っ

And of course,

My Nanay J,

Ilang beses ko bang sasabihin sa'yo na sobrang swerte namin na ikaw ang naging LS namin? Na siguro kung hindi ikaw, hindi ako tatagal. Na siguro kung wala ka, di ko kakayanin. Thank you for always pushing us to be better, for pushing us to get out of our boxes. Dahil talaga sayo lahat ng 'to, Nanay. Thank you for being a Sister, a friend and a mother in one. Sobrang naaappreciate kita/namin. I love you so much.

Congratulations

WAVE 543 ⊂⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠つ

Thank you sa masasayang memories during training and Nesting.

Thank you OM, OMA, SME's and Supports sa sobra sobrang suporta and assistance. Sobrang spoiled namin sainyo. Huhu

See you all sa production floor.

[bluntfullofmid]

#spotcheck

[catchsurf]

Spot Check with Jamie O’Brien