#stop rubbing salt in the wound

[rob1ns]

When my friend who isn't into my hyperfixation corrects me on something about the hyperfixation:

[negligentbabysitters]

no

no no no

no

NO

you can't do that to me you take it back right the fuck now

I DONT NEED FLASHBACKS I DONT WANNA KNOW

SHES ALIVE GUYS ITS FINE ITS FINE THIS ISNT SAD CAUSE SHES ALIVE THIS IS JUST A NORMAL CONVERSATION AND IT IS NOT AT ALL CAUSING ANY SORT OF EMOTIONAL HARM TO ME

[blazingblorbos]

It’s.. fascinating in a brand new way (a terribly disappointing way) to see HoYo fumble the bag this fast.

I was contemplating making a post about this a day or 2 ago, mostly about the Natlan explosion, but then Moze’s drip marketing happened… and suffice to say I think there’s a bit more substance for me to comment on 🫠

I’ll start with Natlan and try to articulate the thoughts properly, since both my own thoughts and my intake of others’ views has had a couple days to settle in my mind:

I wanna preface with the fact that I love Hoyoverse. I really, really do (I desperately wanna work for them, actually, lol. It’s a dream of mine). And I think that’s obvious to people who have seen a couple of my posts.

But it’s precisely because I love them so much, hold them in such a high regard, and respect mostly everything about them, that their recent performance has just left me deeply…. Disappointed.

Sheer, RAW disappoinment makes up the bulk of my feelings and attitude towards what they’ve been doing recently: which is not listening to their community where it REALLY matters. I was present when the uproar over Sumeru happened. I was disappointed then too, but at that time I more-so existed as a confused outsider observing what was going on (I am a poc but not SWANA). Everything about it — from the large-scale disrespectful mix of many cultures, to the 💀 TERRIBLE idea to not pronounce Tighnari’s name correctly AT ALL, to the abhorent lack of melanin in characters (that are DIRECTLY inspired by figures hailing from African countries) — was… bad. REALLLYYY bad. But I’ll be honest when I say: the way I rationalized it in my brain was “Well, they did add more dark-skinned characters to the roster! I guess this is just their version of ‘darker skin’ ” (which, by itself is already a terrible thing BECAUSE they take care to try and represent real world cultures faithfully).

So the fact that it’s happened again. And worse (SOMEHOW⁉️⁉️) is something that’s making me realize how lackluster it was before. And I am desperately rooting for a change. Fool me once, shame on me type shit genuinely.

Now.. in regards to Moze (Star Rail)’s EN VA 🫠. Everything I know about that man I learned in the past 24 hours. So all I will say is that EVEN if he’s worked to better himself, having been BLACKLISTED from the industry (BECAUSE THE CRIMES WENT ON FOR A DECADE!! MIND YOU) means it is way too fuckin soon to hire someone like that again 💀. They took action against Tighnari’s original VA, so that they’ve done this now is… weird…??? I’m just really confused, yo.

Edit, as of July 25, 2024: Chris made a post on his twitter claiming he has chosen to step down as the VA. 🫡 Step 1 is a W, congratulations everyone 🎉

[pinkrose05]

So I was checking the score list of the Rating Pistol™ for a fun little endeavor and-

....did they really give my man the fucking number of life??

[hiraunia]

(Im just ranting, ignore me)

My coworker is pissing me off soo badly. I have only been working at this job for two and a half months and within the last two weeks I have had FOUR people come talk to me about how I treat her, TWO of which were managers. Telling me how she feels like I'm bossy and rude and THREE of them were like "Remember, she has senority over you so you need to be nicer to her" but like, I AM NICE TO HER. I have been no ruder to her than any other coworker and yet she is the ONLY one who has had a problem with me.

The fourth person who told me about this, same thing happened to her! Same thing happened to this other guy who quit! This happens with all the time apparently with her and yet no one in management has thought to themselves, "Hey, maybe she's the problem and nit anyone one else?" NOPE! Apparently not since she's the fucking darling of our section and no one ever thinks she's done anything wrong!

Oh, what makes it even better, part of my job is to ask the cook to bring food up front and my job to to wait on customers,l so she knows I'm going to have to ask her to do stuff because ITS LITERALLY IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION! Apparently I'm just so rude and demanding about it though (Even though no one else has had this problem)

And it does not surprise me that this is happening now. I'm damn near certain its happening because a week or two ago we were having a sale of a VERY popular item that she failed to keep stock of and we ran out during the dinner rush which lead to several people complaining about it to management because we are not supposed to out of that during dinner.

And I cannot stress how popular this item is, at least once a day somebody tells me that it the best of its kind that they've ever had(It is pretty good but I wouldn't say its the best) and I'm pretty sure that its the only reason any of us have a job because even on slow days when no one is buying anything we are GUARANTEED to be selling a bunch of this stuff.

So during these sale weeks its pretty damn well known that the cook needs to be making it basically back to back, you need to have extra stock of it if you go on break, and if other items run out but we're only low on said item you neglect the other stuff and make another batch.

So when I, as her partner that day, was asked what happened, I told them exactly what happened. She barley made any thing because she was prepping something else, only started making stuff when we were basically out(Which I am supposed to tell her to do because I'm supposed to tell the cook what we need) and during the dinner rush she left suddenly without telling me and I waited for five minutes for her to get back while trying to explain to customers what was happening and when I go find her she's crying on the phone and I had to put the next batch in(WHICH IS NOT MY JOBS BECAUSE I WASN'T THE COOK THAT DAY)

And now she's telling our managers and anyone else who will listen how rude and mean and bossy I am to her.

And the final cherry on top of this shitshow, she is considered to be one of the two worst people to work with in our area. The fourth person who told me about this, my third week here she saw they were scheduled to work together for closing and freaked out and asked me to switch shifts. The second bad worker doesn't like working with her either!

(I asked her if she liked working with him and she said "Yah I don't care as long as he doesn't talk shit behind my back." Which- Omg that made me SO fucking mad! We all gossip about eachother, obviously, like that just happens when you work with people and there's nothing to do sometimes but like! The fucking audacity to complain about someone talking shit behind you back, and then talk complain to management about me when your Apparently SO FUCKING SENSITIVE ABOUT IT! I wanted to say something so bad and I regret not doing because at the time, I thought it was over, three of the people had already told me about what she was say so that day and the day before that I was being extra nice to her. NOPE, im only so angry about this because the fourth person told me about this TODAY which means she hasn't stopped talking about it!)

[sketchingstars03]

Hey guys I’m really upset about the latest Splatfest if you couldn’t tell! /sarcasm

[baeshijima]

WAIT

SO BLADE WAS HUAIYANS STUDENT AND LEARNED HIS CRAFTMANSHIP FROM HIM??? IS THAT WAS THIS IS IMPLYING

[ki-flor]

FUCK YOUUUUUUU

[fruitsyrups]

Random yes but thank u for making that frusan art awhile ago it's adorable and i love seeing more art of this underappreciated ship :D!!!

ahhh thank you!!! frusan is so underrated FOR REAL, i guess it's probably because after Islands they all but disappeared (like i think they were only shown twice after that and that's including in Fionna & Cake (which i actually missed when i watched it bc its such a brief glimpse)) but like. still. I actually have a little idea for another frusan drawing (frieda and susan talking on a roof grown-up edition) but I have to break up the dialogue into parts & think of more Susan Reactions so it's not just Frieda monologuing at her lol

[hailsatanacab]

Will send Batman Pregnancy Kink Prompts for Shiny Bagon

[pepsimaxolotl]

If Spotify gives me another university application advertisement I am going to fucking loose it

[arcxnumvitae]

“My father still has some ridiculous notion that our engagement can be salvaged.” Ruaidhri lounged in a chaise at the end of the office, a tad too casually for the king’s liking, the flowers in his hair a cheery yellow. He was in a good mood then, surprising considering the current topic revolved around his father. Ruaidhri had always kept it a secret that the colors of the flowers in his silver hair corresponded with his mood at the time, and it was one he seemed to believe no one else had caught on to. Aside from himself, of course, Ruaidhri was likely correct in that regard. His poker face, when he deigned to put it on, was immaculate, and it wasn’t until recently that Camhlaidh had ever even seen the man in a poor mood. To most others, it probably just looked as if the flowers shifted color randomly or by Ruaidhri’s will. 

Turning his mind back to Ruaidhri’s comment, eyes drifting to the sheaf of papers before him, Camhlaidh hummed. 

“He does? Likely he thinks all that he will have to do is wait until Mikael passes before presenting the idea to the both of us again.” From his place at his desk, he felt, rather than saw, Ruaidhri stiffen. No words came in response, and Camhlaidh dual-toned gaze lifted to find Ruaidhri had indeed stilled, a small frown on the fae’s lips. The flowers’ shade had begun to dull, and a brow rose. “What, am I wrong? He’s a mortal.”

The other man turned his face away towards the window set against the wall and the word ‘petulant’ came to mind at the sight of it. “I do not want to speak on that topic.” At that, he resisted the urge to sigh at the bud of confusion he felt unfurling in his chest. 

“What do you mean? This should not come as a surprise to you, you knew he was a human from the moment you met. If you were going to be this upset by that reality then you should not have gotten involved with him in the first place.”

Hearing that, Ruaidhri’s head suddenly snapped towards him, an angry silver flush spread across his cheeks. “I know that! It was not--,” a rare stumble in words for the usually eloquent man, “it was not that simple though!”

“Why not? When you agreed to become his lover, you knew that he was human. Even now, you have the opportunity to leave him and spare yourself the pain later. You act as if your hands are tied, Ruaidhri, but they aren’t.”

“Heartless!” With that, Ruaidhri shot to his feet in a rush of movement, his golden eyes blazing with anger. “I love him, it isn’t as simple as pretending that fact is not true or leaving him and breaking both our hearts! Maybe you have yet to realize this, Your Majesty,” the tone dripped with contempt, “but matters of the heart cannot be as easily organized and stowed away for others as they may be for you.” Derision coated his words. “For all the romantics the late king and queen were, you would think their son would at least have a heart beating in his chest.” 

The air stilled and even Ruaidhri seemed to sense that his words had gone too far. Quietly, Camhlaidh set down the pen he had been using to write, and after a few dreadful seconds when he finally spoke, his voice was as icy as a glacier.

“You have three seconds to cease speaking of my parents. And after that, you have five seconds to get out of my office.” 

It was an order as clear as any, and soon the sound of the door shutting solidly behind Ruaidhri rang out, leaving the king alone in the silence of his office. 

[spiderlegeyelashes]

my friend told me to visit her at work today, tomorrow or the day after, around 19:00 so we could hang out, and i've been having a lousy fucking day and i'm starving and it's 32° and i just started playing baldur's gate and had to leave before i figured things out so i could vvisit her, and i wait for my bus and find out my headphones don't connect to anything if their battery isn't high so i wouldn't be able to listen to music on the bus, then on the bus some girl sat next to me while chewing gum very loudly and then at 18:46 when i finally get to the expensive vegan restaurant my friend works at i find out she left early. i'm going to kick an old man into oncoming traffic

[lonely-night]

DISCORD HAIKU BOT IM YELLING

[incorrecttowerofgodquotes]

I don't find this funny game, I really don't

[gu6chan]

just reached my favourite point of translation where the subtext is so deep i have no idea how the FUCK to even start with getting the intended joke across/s