#which is lowkey what i plan to do

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 232

Adjective: Cavernous

Noun: Cavity

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Cavernous: like a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere; giving the impression of vast, dark depths

Cavity: an empty space within a solid object, in particular the human body; a decayed part of a tooth

[mallevsmaleficarum]

alright, since all important faculty members are evil, maybe augefort is the bbeg for senior year

[all-inmoderation]

do people who keep drawing sokka as spirits know that he doesnt have any respect for the spirits in the show

[creativity-deficient]

Soooo what are y’all’s hcs on the Tweak family 🤔🤔🤔

[famewolf]

i will genuinely never understand my dad!!! and i feel guilty for being confused and angered by him!!!! i don't know what he wants and i doubt i ever will

i guess he's known that he's had cancer for over a month now but never told me. and i dont know if it's because he wanted me to reach out/pay attention to him, as he's done in the past or if he just didn't think to, or if it's some other third mysterious reason that i can't think up

we aren't close since he was rarely in my life but i feel like that's something you tell your kid.

and the only reason i found out is because i went to go check and see why he hadn't replied to my message about asking if he wanted to hang out for the thousandth time without getting a response

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/loust4t/status/1838065208046055446

This split second was so beyond devastating, Jacob makes Louis' agony so raw here. It's one of those moments where I wonder what it was like for him filming it and what it was like for Sam lying there experiencing it.

I really want them to revisit this moment and show the full thing, Louis (apparently having left to change clothes) coming back and seeing Lestat's body and it really hitting him. I wonder if they would--if any part of Lestat was conscious for this. Just curious because Lestat's last words in Claudia's diary weren't shown, so it seems like they might revisit it. And I still think too that there's ambiguity around what Lestat was intending to do to Claudia in that last episode (I initially assumed he was trying to kill her, but having Antoinette try to wrestle her into drinking some poisoned blood doesn't seem like a great way to do that?), so it could be something they revisit.

God, I know. Jacob is so, so good in that scene, especially playing Louis at such extreme emotional intensities across the board. He really is a phenomenal actor, and I can't imagine how taxing shooting that episode was for any of them, but especially for him.

I'm curious as to if they'd revisit Lestat's murder as well? Like, it does make sense that Lestat would want to talk about it both with Louis privately and with Daniel in the interview, but I actually wonder - now that ghost!Claudia has been basically confirmed - if it might not make more sense to have Lestat reconciling it with her? It was her plan after all, and the fact that they're both sort of perceived orchestrators of each other's 'deaths' offers so much to explore, especially given they never reconciled it in the way that was always inevitable for Lestat and Louis.

It feels like a real thread to pick up with the two of them too because, as you said, it's not really clear what Lestat was planning with Claudia. I mentioned it here, but it's interesting too that the poison Claudia uses isn't actually just arsenic, it's arsenic and laudanum, and the latter is actually a sedative as opposed to a poison. It really re-emphasises it, I think, as being a tool to make the murder happen, as opposed to the murder weapon itself.

He could've been thinking he and Antoinette would use that just to incapacitate her to kill her in the same way that she was using it on him, but Claudia's strength is in her strategising and bloodlust, not in her brute force. The show's really made a point of that both in her not being able to hold someone down long enough to turn them, but in how easily Bruce had managed to not just incapacitate her, but keep her that way.

Sure, Lestat was pretty ill during that sequence, but Lestat is all brute force, so if he'd wanted to kill her, I feel like he would have? Especially given he knew what the plan was for the night well before he showed it. In that sense, it really does feel like there's more there to explore, and I want to see it both because I think there's so much there, but also because I selfishly want to see what Delainey would do in that sequence too, haha.

[kuiinncedes]

:P

[spotaus]

Finally making a timeliness design-guide for Geno from ec-4o.verse! (Just a wip tho)

[mutalune]

really wish there was a tag that separated “I’m having Big Angry and/or Angsty Opinions about Star Wars” from “I’m goofing off with Star Wars I’m playing in the sandbox none of this is real so yes I will make my blorbo and this random glub shitto go on an adventure that makes no logical sense” posts because there’s too much of the former and not enough of the latter for my current mental state

[jaeyunverse]

only 6 more days for 12th grade to officially finish and my exams to be over. perhaps jaeyunverse comeback with a long fic ????? 😳

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Poems: Day 6 (January 6th)

Godly Poison

I sowed and cultivated these plants myself

I brought them to life to bear fruit and flower

with my own bare hands and the loving patience of a proud parent

angel wings

autumn crocus

belladonna

calla lily

daphne

death camas

doll's eyes

foxglove

hemlock

larkspur

laurel

monkshood

moonflower

moonseed

mountain arnica

oleander

pokeweed

privet

ruti

snakeweed

and when the tide told me the time was right

I prepared and presented a feast full of my children

to Him

He who

says what He ought not say

touches what He ought not touch

takes what He ought not take

I admit

I took pleasure in His pain

as He once did with mine

blood pouring from His mouth

His body thrashing and convulsing in his chair

fear and sheer terror invading His wide eyes

I smiled through it all

and when his heart finally stopped

mine soared and I finally felt free

I know

one day

I'll be forgiven for what I had to do

and I know

He is not destined for any kindness

in the next life

- - - - -

Here's the link to the corresponding writing prompt post

[honeydots]

this wouldn't be for a while, but! im trying to decide if it's something i want to plan or not

[swankpalanquin]

some of the thoughts journeys ive gone on to mentally prepare for the doctors have probably not been like super well adjusted

[irlbop]

Not in food service anymore but my job is in a death spiral currently. Corporate is claiming we aren’t hitting sales the way they were hoping and thus aren’t making money. Which is curious, seeing as corporate had enough money to buy out another chain they will inevitably suck the character out of.

Anyway, hours have been cut to where all my shifts are only 4-4.5 hrs with maybe two or three shifts a week give or take for the foreseeable future.

We are very understaffed, working in a large two-story location. It’s gotten to where many stores in the chain, ours included, will not be hiring seasonal help for the holidays. Which is beyond absurd. So we’re meant to make do with little staffing while shelving, dealing with customers, dealing with constantly breaking registers, elevators, escalators, bathrooms, etc. and so on. We also are promoting a membership program we’ve more or less hit a wall with due to finite interested customers, as well as monthly promotions selected by corporate for financial prospects.

After a point, I remembered/realized that I do more than what people in corporate have ever done that pertains to actually making this company money. Hell, I know how to do more tasks than sone members of management ever learned to do in the decades of them working here.

I’m not getting paid more. So I’m going to give corporate the work worth what I’m being paid.

Even in food service, there is the demand for exponential growth. Each store has a profit target you're expected to hit every quarter. Each quarter the target gets bigger and bigger. The only way to make sure you hit or exceed that target is to increase sales or cut costs. Sales can only go so far though, so at a certain point there is the understandable temptation (not justifiable, but understandable) for your manager to start cutting hours. Once they do, your location has entered a Death Spiral.

The thing about the Death Spiral is it is nearly impossible to escape. It starts innocuous enough, with a few hours getting shaved off every week. And true enough at first you probably didn't need those hours. They were the slack, the extra hands that helped distribute the work and made it easier on everyone. You might not even notice they're gone. Maybe the morning rush is a little harder to handle, maybe there isn't as much time to chat as there used to be. But on the whole nothing has changed. You're still hitting your sales quota and, hey, everyone seems to be working a little harder. That's good, right?

Then the next quarter rolls around. You exceeded your quota. Upper management is very excited. But now your new quota is even higher than it would have been if you had simply performed to expectations. You raise prices a bit, push more expensive drinks, and sure, cut a few more hours. Bit by bit the slack gets tighter. The fat gets trimmed. All because continual growth, continual improvement, is not just demanded, but expected.

The endgame of the Death Spiral is the expectation that every worker will operate at 100% efficacy 100% of of the time, and that nothing will go wrong ever. It never reaches this point, as any food service worker will tell you, shit goes wrong. Service gets worse, you lose a few customers, and you miss your quota. This is the point of no return, because the only way to solve the problem is to add more hours. But there's no way upper management will approve spending more money. On a failing store? Don't be ridiculous. Maybe get those numbers up and we'll consider adding hours back. But the only way to get those numbers up is with no hours. It's a Catch-22. You're trapped. Slowly, inevitably, the store fails, and then closes.

The Death Spiral is a doomed strategy, but it is the one corporations push in response to investor pressure. It tricks workers into more work for the promise of relief later, if they do well and succeed, not realizing they'll only be asked to do even more next time. So how do you fight it? Know your worth. Don't let anyone give you more work without some kind of kickback. Don't fool yourself into thinking that being indispensable will lead to a reward later.

But the best defense? Join a union.

[straykats]

/meds talk, mental health as well ig, uhhhhhh