#the internship (tm)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

If I encounter one more rubber band from the 1960s that has adhered itself to the archival material, I am going to lose my freaking mind :)

[evelynpr]

They say a charcter is "canonically straight" as if this is what they're pulling up-

Congrats Ojiro for being, maybe, the most textually straight character in this series. Truly commiting to the bit of being "the most normal guy" in the cast.

Again, the BNHA Smash comics aren't Canon, but basically give a cracked 200% version of the characters, in essence. Don't take it seriously alright?

[lonepower]

i am once again asking yall to send good interview vibes 🙏

[blu3berrydraws]

I am beyond exhausted from 3 weeks of socializing and activities and i have to go back to work tomorrow so all I wanna do today is talk about my Bleach! blorbos to engage in my 10-year long special interest but all my buddies are offline (curse thee, timezones!) and now im s ad and understimulated while also overstimulated bc I am too tired(tm).

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Came across this in the archives today (circa late 1920s)

Original “Aaron Burr” Got Milk? commercial (1993) | Got Hamilton? - Parody Commercial (2015)

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

am I taking an archiving course for the sole reason of ✨TMA✨? yes, I am. Is this course at the same time as a tutelage meaning it is actually quite inconvenient? why, also yes. will I regret it? to be seen.

[evilminji]

You know how... world leaders can't just? SAY stuff? Because when they DO it's the Offical Stance(tm) of their Country?

That makes their Fuck Ups(tm) all the more serious. It's WHY they have press teams.

But!!!

WHAT IF?

They said something, PUBLICLY, on LIVE TELEVISION, that? Can not be taken back? Full on "masks off, behold the horrors you have payed for" moment?

Sure, they could SAY "that wasn't me" and "I was brainwashed" etc etc. But? If it's BIG enough? UGLY enough? TRUE??? People WILL find it. Dig and dig and dig like termites in the walls. Hunt like bloodhounds.

Riot in the streets.

Because? All it would TAKE? Is ONE half ghost, a few too many long nights trying to balance college classes and his internship, a bigotry filled call from back home, and staring down that empty fridge with just one box of moldering take out, because he's been too busy and stressed to remember to get GROCERIES AND-

Ah.

So this is what "so stressed you feel calm, I have run out of Fucks too give" feels like. Neat. *picks up phone* Hey, Sam? You still at that protest? Outside the presidential speech? Neat. Don't move.

One Phone Line Express later. SAM is telling him to breathe. Maybe... maybe calm down. Think about this. Others around her can see the same "spark of madness" glint in his almost zen like smile.

It Fiiiiine, Sam.

He's just here to Talk.

He disappears. Sam's freaking out. President stumbles but catches himself on the way to the mike. Up in the watch tower, various Magic users choke on their lunches, because a ghost just possessed the United States President.

ON LIVE TELEVISION.

He taps the Mike, smile, leans in real close like he's gonna Tell You Folks A Secret.... Aaaaand~

"The second you Die, you no longer have human rights. Doesn't matter how brief. Heart stops? You're sub-human scum! Non-sentient by American law. We here in the United Stares PROUDLY desecrate the bodies and graves of the dead. Tear apart the immortal souls of the innocent. And condemn you to oblivion crying, begging, and screaming for mercy! Why, obviously, is an act. Because souls don't have the RIGHT to feel fear or pain!

And YES. We do mean EVERYONE'S. Atlantian, Kryptonian, Martian. Canadian, Mexican, Russian, AND Chinese! I could keep going! Once you die? You belong to the United States to experiment on as we see fit! You're PROPERT now! So turn your nonrights having, nonsentient self in to the nearest GIW! For the good of AMERICA. Ectoplasmic Scum!"

*drops mic*

Jaws are on the floor. This was VETERANS DAY. Dead military Heros and smile for the cameras. A cake walk. Do a patriotism, rah rah. There.... there are DIPLOMATS in the crowd. Sure as SHIT, were more then a few foreign nationals WATCHING. Religious leaders looking on in fury, grief, and horror.

Reporters. Oh sweet Jesus the reporters.

The press secretary faints.

PANDEMONIUM. The president, still dazed and confused from being possessed, gets PUNCHED on live television be his VP, a deeply religious if moderately shady man. Take bribes? VP is cool with that. Bootstraps, peasants, and all that. But how DARE you fuck with the Souls of the dead. How DARE you!

Phones are blowing up, questions are being shouted, the JLA Dark FEEL like they should tell somebody about the ghost kid... but also this feels VERY "Call for help-y" so they might throw their weight around instead and pretend they know nothing. World leader are meaningfully staring at their Dear Beloved Dead Grandmother's photos as they send LIVID assistants to hound the American into answering the DAMN PHONE-!

And Danny?

Danny feels calmer now. He has stolen like....700 bucks from secret security's various wallets. He's going to buy himself BOUGIE groceries. Some...some NICE take out. Maybe a little cake. Yeah~ Cake for Danny~

If anyone needs him? No you don't. He needs to go do some shopping, eat, lie on the floor of his shower and just... vibe for a bit under the spray. In the dark maybe. Sleep for a week. Have his food. Yummy little treats.

Or he's gonna fuckin LOSE IT, man.

(Tucker is actively hacking his college schedule as they speak. He KNEW it. Called it! Too many classes! But does Mr "I can handle it" listen? Noooooooo! Now look what happened! Holy SHIT, Danny!)

@hypewinter @hdgnj @ailithnight @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter

[not-your-enph-student]

Anyone have any tips for applying to grad school? Specifically in physics in Canada ?

[chaotic-archaeologist]

I had a similar experience during my internship this summer. My job was to sort through and archive the papers of this woman from Arkansas in the 1920s-1970s.

And folks, she was a hateful person. Truly. The amount of absolutely vile racist, antisemitic, xenophobic material I had to wade through was soul searing. Pretty much any -phobia or -ism you can name, it was there. She went hard on the white supremacy and Lost Cause bandwagon.

But she was also a loyal friend, a level headed problem solver, a dutiful sister. The family genealogy experience, a cat lover, an active member of her community. I went through her personal letters and her diary and learned about the minutiae of her life. Right now, I'm probably the single person on this planet who knows the most about her.

That experience would have been so much easier if I could hate her. Instead, I was treated to the very hard lesson that every single person who has ever lived was a complex, multifaceted human being. I empathized with this woman, recognized experiences we have in common.

Working with this woman's memory for eight hours a day, treating her material past with the respect I'm sure she wouldn't give me, was extremely difficult. But I learned a lot about myself, my professional ethics, and how I interact with the world. It was a humbling, valuable experience, and I think the world would be a better place if more people had the chance to do something similar.

Broke: Acknowledging that a character who is an objectively terrible person is also a complex and intentionally well thought out individual with different levels of nuance you can empathize with in some ways while not in others is immediately “woobifying” or “poor little meow meowifying” them.

Woke: “This character is a bad person” and “this character is still a person” are two statements that can, should and do coexist and admitting that they exhibit nuance and depth and are more than just their bad actions doesn’t immediately excuse or condone their bad actions or mean that you’re ignoring or trying to soften the canonical version of the character.

Bespoke: That’s the whole point, that’s always been the point, to be made to empathize with horrible people so you can understand that they can be anyone, that bad people can be likeable, can be interesting, can be human, are human, and it’s scary to think about all the ways they’re just like you and all the ways they’re just like everything you hate, forcing the use of critical skills in media analysis, forcing a confrontation of the duality of man.

Whatever Level is Above Bespoke: But sometimes, yeah, sure, maybe they are a poor little meow meow, what are you gonna do, get a lawyer

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Material culture of the modern archivist: various tools and trash that result from the processing of archival papers.

1) Label maker, 2) label backing, 3) coated paper clips, 4) rubber bands removed from documents, 5) metal fasteners removed from documents, 6) sticky notes used as temporary box labels, 7) scissors , 8) box label sticker backs, 9) X-Acto knife, 10) archival letter opener, 11) mechanical pencil, 12) staple remover

[allovesthings]

I find it pretty funny that the Dick being Renegade thing has taken such a life in the fanfics as the thing (tm) where Dick went rogue and is used most of the time as the costume Dick would use in an AU where he is an actual mercenary but when you actually read it, it's kinda... half-assed ?

And I don't mean that in a bad way but Renegade!Dick says he is a mercenary but is still acting as a hero, he is just both in extreme denial about it because he doesn't like himself very much at that moment and doesn't think he deserves to be called a hero while training Rose to be a hero at the same time ?

It's his mental breakdown outfit, his "I cut my own bangs" if you will.

Also, it's not an apprentice arc...he is being the mentor there, it's Rose doing an internship with Dick in what both her and Slade think is a mercenary job but is actually a superhero job.

[practicedvmm13fullofpotatoes]

Making an entire learn the alphabet with (x) but it's just Luke lines from different videos that I rotate in my mind regularly

A - A condom, David. You told me you left no evidence (TM)

B - Bubba! (ItMC)

C - Can I give you cream, mummy? (HUGE)

D - Do you hear feminism? (WEBB)

E - Er, not in this internship process sir, no (Weird build-a-bear)

F - Feminism! How we pick eachother up (WEBB)

G - Guys, I can't let you bungee without the bungee rope! (No-rope bungee)

H - Hold the course! Hold the course straight! (TL)

I - I love you! I love everything about you! I love your body, I love your eyes, I love your soul, I love your mind, now please tell me, what the fuck are the Germans doing?! (TLMW)

J - Just shove your finger up my ass (Freeze tag)

K - King's arms or Queen's arms? (LJ-S!)

L - Lord and Lady Lafayette (TMM)

M - Maybe there's something in my dad's diaries (TUA)

N - No, you're not a man, you're a sheep (TL)

O - Our daddy was not our daddy, it was our neighbaah :( (TNUtB)

P - Please, grow this land with me and I will give you the most unrelenting aubergine you've ever seen (TUA)

Q - Quite quickly! (TM)

R - Ramming the pitchfork into the.. unmentionable area (TMM)

S - She is a witch, though (TUA)

T - They want one thing.. [se-e-ex] (TL)

U - Uh! We used to be 54 (LIYE)

V - (A) very chilly winter! I didn't have nothing on my lower half.. (LJ-S!)

W - Why?! (HUGE)

X - Xavier (OMGiTaJ) (yes just that one word i was blanking on x)

Y - You're still dreaming, get back on the floor! (WUtB)

Z - Zey made you do traditional English morris dancing but wearing German traditional dress? (MG,BB,aH)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Llelo is once again thrilled to come across some dog content in the archives. He's planning on quitting the service dog gig to become a silk smuggler.

FINALLY! A bookie about dogs in the archives pretty! I inspect it to approve.

*sniff sniff*

Yes, is to be a good bookie!

[wolfpackmuses]

First things first here: I'm not dead, I promise.

I know I said about a month ago I was planning on being back around mid-June or so to be active and write stuff with y'all again. As y'all have clearly seen, that didn't happen. At all. In any way. Which is entirely my bad, because I won't lie, I entirely forgot to actually be here in any meaningful capacity.

Life has been crazy as always for me, as I went from helping my sister and brother move into their apartment in Orlando, straight back to research once I got home from vacation. I've really been focusing on that, trying to get my research done as best I can, and also have just been dealing with other things in life, a lot of which has been hanging out with my real-life friends and my family.

I can't say for certain when my next estimated return will be, but I am planning on it being Soon(TM), but that seems up in the air as well as I start an internship with the National Weather Service in a few weeks.

I do plan to be back here soon, I'm just not entirely sure when that'll be at the moment. I want it to be soon, but I'll see how things go in the next few weeks as we get toward the start of my next school semester this fall.

That all said, thanks to all of you who've stuck with me (yet again) as I battle real-life responsibilities and forget to be here. Also, did I mention it was my birthday today? (Hides).

[thehollowwriter]

Morrigan: A Rough summary

I sent this to a moot and decided I'd share a break down of the the Morrigan Lore TM

Right so, firstly, like Silas and Finn, Morrigan is a cookie cutter shark. Though Silas is an abyssal cookie cutter shark, and he's just a coastal one. He and his family are like Azul and the tweels, they're more animalistic, they're not the pretty, humanlike Ariel-like mermaid that many come to think of when they hear the term "mermaid" or "merfolk"

Now, my interpretation of twst (mostly through Azul's story) is that human culture and beauty standards heavily influenced merfolk and their culture, eventually resulting in features like webbed hands, sharp teeth and claws, and other animalistic features being deemed as barbaric and undesirable.

The general idea of mers like Finn, Azul, etc, is that they are stupid, wild, dangerous/murderous, and more creatures than people. This stereotype especially extends to abyssal mers like Silas (it's part of why some merfolk flat out refuse to by from him)

Now, in twst it's pretty clear that magic dictates your standing in society, and often those with powerful magic are "higher" up the social ladder. This too applies to merfolk, and when you're monstrous creatures like Morrigan and his family, the best you can hope for is major success and glory.

Morrigan has several siblings, and out of all of them he was the oldest and the one with the most powerful magic. His parents realised they basically had a child prodigy on their hands, and this led to him basically being in a Riddle-type situation.

He was their trophy, their showpony, far outshining his siblings and essentially "overcoming" the monstrous-ness that everyone hates with his skill in magic. Don't think he liked the attention, though, his parents' praise was very conditional and he didn't exactly get himself in their favour when trying to protect his siblings from them. Despite his efforts, his siblings are still incredibly jealous of him and kinda don't like him :(

Now with this upbringing, naturally he has an intense strive to be the absolute best of the best. Master every spell, win every duel, ace every test. Like Riddle, he has a LOT of anger due to his treatment and situation, but unlike Riddle this anger caused him to frequently get into violent fights with his schoolmates and come home bruised and bloodied.

At NRC, this got worse. At first he was well behaved like Azul or Riddle would be, but eventually he realised he no longer had his parents breathing down his neck.... and just kinda went batshit.

Now, he's wasn't a complete asshole constantly all the time. In fact many found him charming, handsome, too. However he was a bit of a bully and easily angered, and when he got angry enough he got extremely violent. He beat the ever loving shit out of his own dorm leader, and part of the reason he was almost expelled was because when fighting with some guy, he tried to bite their throat (reminder his teeth are like the tweels...)

In his third/fourth year tho, he was kinda like "Well shit I don't think this is good for me" and started working on being better.

When he began looking for internships, he wasn't sure what to do. His parents just wanted him to do "something important", they didn't care all that much as long as it brought in a lot of money and recognition and didn't make them look bad.

Everyone told him he should be a magishift player, police, etc, etc, but he wasn't interested in any of that.

However, through some self assessment he realised he did work well with kids and they always liked him, and he was food at teaching/helping his friends study, so he thought "Hey, why not teaching?"

He ended up teaching at a magic school for gifted merfolk, and the reason is because all of them are "gifted kids," and he didn't want them to suffer and struggle like he did. That is a very important job. His parents were not impressed, but it could be worse and he was stubborn, so they "allowed it" (even though he's an adult wtufjasgj)

As he got older, he developed better control over his temper, but he would still get violent if REALLY mad.

And then he met Silas, and they do try to kill each other upon first meeting :P. They fall in love, get married, and have kids, but Morrigan is murdered before they- (well, just Finn) are born.

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[not-another-robin]

Okay this is kind of a weird thing to ask... but if any of you work in The Art Industry tm (animation, illustration) I'd love some advice on how to get into it. I'm a sophomore in college rn and I'm looking for internships.