#which is quite annoying

[ihavesomejays]

face yourself

closeup under keep reading

[astridcookie]

I have been having trouble regressing since the caregiver incident....

[slothmonth]

I agree that "in Germany your boss legally has to provide you with work while you're at your job" is a bit funny considering the German stereotype. But I am really annoyed at people who act like this is some horrible hypercapitalist thing on that post about pushing people out of their jobs by just not giving them anything to do. When really it's very basic worker protection (within the context of German emplyment law.) Because under most circumstances you can't just be fired from your job. Your employer has to provide a reason for firing you if they want to get rid of you. You also have a right to specifially the work you were hired to do.

So your boss having to give you appropriate work makes illegal any of the following:

a) Making you clean toilets instead of (or in addition to) the clearly defined office job you agreed to do

b) Not giving you work and then firing you for not doing your work

c) Waiting for you to crack under the intense boredom of having to stay on one place with absolutely nothing to do for eight hours a day while your coworkers are roped into it to shun you (or hate you because for some reason you're the only one who doesn't have to do any work) until you quit "voluntarily"

or d) waiting for you to crack under the aformentioned pressure until you do what the people in the notes said they'd do, like watching movies or doing a second job instead which is something you then can be reprimanded and fired for

[skijumpingf1]

New function in the fis app. When you click on an athlete in the live ticker, it will show like the athletes profile

[sadmages]

I do like veilguard and I like the companions but everyone's too nice and helpful. Where are the haters.

I miss them

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[ammg-old2]

Weekly Recap (23rd – 29th January 2023)

Study

Reread & made notes from Hearing Birds Fly (ch 11-13)

Read 4 articles about Mongolia

Read 6 articles

Reread 3 articles

Reading

Reread Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (prologue, ch 1-2)

Read The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France (finished)

Read Faust's Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine (ch 1-8)

Read Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (ch 4)

Read A People's History of the United States (ch 3)

Read King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (intro & prologue)

Read Riis: Stages of Light and Dark (ch 1-4)

Reread The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland (ch 1)

Read Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (ch 1-8)

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Read The Giraffe's Neck by Judith Schalansky (finished)

Reread The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (finished)

Read Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai (most)

Writing

Wrote DAI (Emmeline) Step 0b – 873 words

Wrote DAI (Herah – K&L) Step 0 – 4602 words

Exercise

Exercycle – 6.9km

Music

Listened to Haydn symphonies No. 41, 42 & 43 (The Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood)

Listened to Cecilia Bartoli “Chant d'amour” – 4 songs

Listened to 2 random pieces

Flat

Dishes (Monday)

Cooking (Monday)

Tidied up desk (Monday)

Lids & food in fridge (Monday & Thursday)

Helped Tracy with cleaning up kitchen & cooking (Thursday)

Shopping list (Friday)

Other

Read 1 short post/article

Puzzles

Special Daily Loop (Tuesday & Sunday)

Special Weekly Loop

[projectilecry]

somehow sick with covid but my dad dropped me off sesame bagel so we chillin

[sunclown]

Quiet

[demaparbat-hp]

Yoi is a babe 🫶

A diva, is what he is.

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[necrotic-nephilim]

not enough TimJay content takes advantage of the fact that the Red Robin mantle and suit were Jason's first, and Tim effectively stole Jason's shit that Jason wanted to throw away. Tim took Jason's name, his suit, to go on a one-man crusade when he's at odds with the Batfamily. You're telling me Jason wouldn't be weirdly offended but also weirdly turned on by that?

robin (1993) #177

robin (1993) #178

And yes, Tim only knows about the Red Robin suit's existence because Ulysses Armstrong stole it for a hot second, but the fact he stole the suit from Ulysses and fucking kept it? Even before he had any reason to? Like before becoming Red Robin, Tim just kept a suit he knew belonged to Jason despite openly disliking Jason for. Reasons. And later on, it's explicitly confirmed Tim's wearing it because it's Jason's legacy? That's the most toxic gay shit I've ever seen.

adventure comics (2009) #3

Tim's punishing himself with Jason's image. Jason, who has been constantly trying to get Tim to see things his way and work with him would lose his mind over that. There's such a potential for a toxic possessiveness to it all, Tim branding himself with Jason's suit and name. The assumptions Jason would make about Tim because of it. The way Jason could hold that over Tim's head, that they really are one and the same, and deep down, Tim must know it to some degree, if he became Red Robin when he felt replaced as Robin. I truly do not think Jason would ever shut up about it. As a fan of 'possessive/weirdly obsessed with Tim' Jason, I think this would take Jason's weird feelings about Tim to the next level. And if Tim will punish himself just by wearing Jason's legacy, imagine how much more he'd punish himself for falling for Jason too. Weird freaky little masochist who tortures himself through Jason seems exactly Jason's type, tbh. I'm feral about it.

[robo-dino-puppies]

dragon age 2 | fenris

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

assortment of many many janes and sammys....they have totally NOT!!!! been consuming my mind whole what are you talking about 💛💙

one thing i really wanted to do with this au is reverse the initial dynamic we had in canon with these two; now sadness is the one who has to... "put up" with joy, be the more experienced and respected one of the two, not quite understand what her whole deal is, get frustrated with her optimism, and put some work in to understand her point of view.

samira's been a journalist for around six years by the time the story starts...and she's purposefully isolated herself and sidestepped having a coworker for all those years. suddenly gaining such a goofy, chaotic "partner" is...a bit much for sammy, initially. while she's as patient as ever, jane seems to have a talent for testing that patience. and what's with her rare moments of seriousness that she brushes off just as quickly? it takes sammy a while to stop viewing jane as an extra responsibility that's been dumped on her, and yet despite her insistence that getting stuck with jane is "just her luck" , a lot of her thoughts and time seem to be consumed by her...a suspicious amount, even... 🤔😳 and that's not even counting her endless notes (and doodles...) of solarflare.

annnd while felix himself has never met jane (even though he HAS very much met sol), he's frequently subject to sammy's complaints about her. not that he minds. maybe this strange mystery coworker can finally convince his best friend to stop wallowing in her misery all the time...

[aquapolis]

it's hard being a special that naturally fleshes out yata's character from ok to absolutely wonderful, gives all 5 of the core cast something to do and each their own fair chance to shine, has 'it's called a strategic retreat' and 'kill him and he still won't die,' AND has the sandwich arc, and yet prison of the past doesn't even stop there, because it also has

[sammygender]

tbh i think i just find it more interesting to appreciate dean how he is and have zero interest in proving his general goodness. like maybe if i Didnt find that specific type of character so compelling id be more invested in mischaracterisation (though id like to think not <3).

but a lot of hellers/extreme deangirls dont approach spn like a horror show with the thesis 'family is hell' (which is what it initally Is) they approach it like a fantasy-comedy-action show with a funny bisexual mc and his gay angel bf. either because they're not interested or because theyre uncomfortable with the actual show thats there. which is their prerogative! like sure i guess. you do you.

but its interesting bc it means we have 2 fanbases which are rabidly different to each other and get completely different things out of the show and yet keep brushing up against each other. we parcel it into 'samgirl' and 'deangirl' but that makes it sound like its literally just Fans Of The Character when tons of samgirls (myself included <3) love dean. the real dean that is. (also even samgirl fandom is ripe w misinterpretation but all fandoms have that at least theyre kind-of misinterpreting the same show as me. deangirl fandom is something entirely different.)