#a lot of the time actually

[purposechef]

carm & syd's lock screens ➡️ home screens

#sydcarmy #syd x carmy #carmen x sydney #the bear fanart #illustration #animated art #animated gif #my art #art #artists on tumblr #domestic bliss #syd is okay with objectifying carm sometimes #a lot of the time actually #bouquet of herbs -- don't give her flowers

[infiniteorangethethird]

man the realization that I can do literally whatever the fuck I want within my daydreams/paracosm because I'm the only audience who will ever see it has been one of the most freeing thoughts I've had in a long time. ain't nobody can judge a story they don't even know about

#madd #actually madd #maladaptive daydreaming #daydreaming #madd thoughts #there's no 'character that's too problematic' there's no 'scene that's too dark' #there's no 'this isn't politically correct enough' there's no 'this needs more research' #there's no 'too mary sue-y' there's no 'this isn't realistic' #none of that bullshit. there's only 'do I enjoy this?' #my daydreams and paracosm are dedicated to me and me alone #a palace which i get to decorate however i wish #even if that sometimes involves blood #a lot of the time actually #only truly realized this a couple weeks ago and yet i can already see #my paracosm shifting several levels darker #my brain's just itching to finally indulge in that darkness #(even if i come out on the other side a bit traumatized)

[bookwyrm35]

Anyone else ever get so worked up and anxious about something and then you just hear Flo's voice saying "Chill." in that one scene with George from epsidoe seven and then you just? Are?

Just me? Alright, carry on.

#I think I need a friend like her sometimes #A lot of the time actually #save lockwood and co #bring back lockwood and co #lockwood and co #lockwood and co show #lockwood and co books #renew lockwood and co #together for lockwood and co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #george karim #george cubbins #flo bones #Guess who starts college tomorrow and is NOT READY!!!!

[vinosscum]

A customer emailed us cause some historical fantasy book was misplaced in the YA section and contained "rampant homophobia and sexism" and probably a bunch of other things but my eyes glazed over reading it. And I have many questions.

Number 1, it is historical fantasy fiction, no shit it's probably not gonna show you some happy land of perfect equality, the question is are these subject matters being portrayed as look how awful things were or man wasn't this so much better. (I haven't read the book idk but we all know how adults who read YA are.)

Number 2, THIS BOOK IS A SEQUEL. DID YOU NOT READ THE FIRST ONE AND ALREADY HAVE EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO. OR BETTER YET ON THE BACK, WHICH IM ASSUMING YOU READ TO GO AH YES LET ME BUY THIS IT SOUNDS RIVETING, IT WOULD HAVE DEFINITELY SAID THE SEQUEL TO BOOK.

Finally number 3, why bother emailing us? Assuming it's because the customer believes we purposely put it there as a title appropriate for the YA audience. No, that's not how that works. We cannot possibly know every single book that comes into our store. So guess what! The publishers in their infinite wisdom know this and tell us what genre a book is so we don't have to read it! Wow! And sure enough I double check our system and the book was correctly labeled as historical fiction. So once again, why email us for this? The customer didn't want a refund so clearly none of the apaling content offended them that much. If they just wanted to let us know in case of other misplaced books they could have just called and said hey I think some of your books are in the wrong spots. No need for all the details and "how dare you trick me!" tone.

IDK. Humans are confusing. Plz don't harass retail staff because YOU didn't know what you were buying. Or just ask for a refund or exchange if it really bugs you. "But it's your job to keep the store clean and fix mistakes like that!" Guess what I don't got the hours and manpower for that nor do I get payed enough to give a shit about the god damn YA section of all things (THAT IM NOT IN CHARGE OF). If I see hentai placed in the kids section by shit teens, yeah I'll move that back cause it's obvious. Some random novel gets put in the YA section? how am I supposed to know? I got 10 boxes of manga to unload you think I got time to comb the shelves?

#rant #retail #i hate this job sometimes #a lot of the time actually #no child left behind and its consequences #at least our book signing went okay #the guest author gave us cookies #mine had a skateboard on it

[whysopasta]

i already had a huge amount of respect for comic artists whose work is super detailed (and just comic artists in general) but now that i've actually started making comics it's like. how the fuck are you doing that

(i mean i understand that it comes with practice and typically the more you do something the better/faster you get at it, and a lot of the time published comics are made by a team of people sharing the work. but like. still.)

#whysopasta textpost #in order to make comics i have to lock the detail-oriented part of my brain away in a broom closet #bc here's the nastly little secret about being a perfectionist: it will never be perfect. and then you can't finish anything #and the other secret is that sometimes things that aren't perfect are better #a lot of the time actually #i saw this 1 panel comic once that was like #'i love making comics! the art makes up for the bad jokes and the jokes make up for the bad art!' and it had a very cute and silly art style #so that's kind of become a mantra for me (even though my comics aren't jokes oriented but the same idea still applies) #and then if it happens to be good that's an added bonus #bc if i worry about it being good. i will simply never finish it

[stars-and-birds]

dilemma of the day is i have a rlly cool pride t shirt from my pride club at school but i can’t wear it bc my parents don’t know i go to said pride club 😔

#and i’m not even out to my dad #and i never talk abt it with my mom so #rip #here lies esme #she said weird shit soemtimes #a lot of the time actually #anyway #shut up esme

[leiawritesstories]

working in customer service sucks

#personal #not to rant but god #people just suck sometimes #a lot of the time actually #like have you never been to a restaurant before?!? #never seen a busy restaurant?! #DO YOU HONESTLY NOT REALIZE THAT JUST BC THERE ARE OPEN TABLES DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN SEAT YOU #CUZ WE CANNOT #not unless everyone is swamped with tables #and nobody needs to be swamped #and yes i want to punch you #but i won't do that #bc professionalism and all that #god i just love my job #🙃🙃🙃🙃

[bemtevis]

I got noise cancelling headphones!!

#technically I stole them from my cousin but it's fine #a friend of mine asked why and I said “bc I dont like noise” and he was like ah ok #then another friend asked it out loud and friend 1 said “bc she's autistic and has hypersensibility” #and I'm like EXCUSE YOU #I mean I'm sure ppl suspect it. I even do sometimes #a lot of the time actually #looked up the dsm criteria and that sounds so much like me I'm not ready to process it #BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS SUCH AN OBVIOUS FACT TO THEM #nathan rambles #I'm changing that tag

[notasomp]

the other day i stayed up until 8 (am) and then i asked myself why i was feeling like shit the day later

HUH I WONDER WHY

#i can be an idiot sometimes #a lot of the time actually #i knew i was gonna feel shitty but i did it anyways #i’m stupid #rambles #stuff #ramdom #relatable

[livixbobbiex]

You know what's fun?

They seem to have made Percy more on the inattentive end of ADHD than hyperactive. Aside from the capture the flag scene, we mostly just see him zoning out, 'daydreaming', the line "I don't think it's the marshmallow's fault I never pay attention".

ADHD barely gets good representation as it is, but I don't think I've ever seen the inattentive type in media like this before. This is going to be huge for a lot of people who don't fall under the hyperactive stereotype umbrella.

I'm just really excited that more people will get the chance to see themselves.

#percy jackson #I'm actually combined type so this doesn't fully apply to me #But y'all inattentives arguably get the short end of the stick a lot of the time #So I'm genuinely thrilled for you #and that they went this direction #especially since hyperactive is probably easier to portray as adhd and have the audience get it #percy jackon and the olympians #adhd

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone #yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post. #writeblr #ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person #and on this blog we support workers. #at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going. #when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens #have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists #and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like. #it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases - #at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory. #it was what i had seen. #and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference #we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol' #so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender #and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID. #he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different #i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Do you guys notice how when Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, started planning a general strike, he did it by a) targeting his messaging towards unions with the ability to safely and effectively strike in large numbers, b) laid out a clear, actionable plan for those unions to follow (setting contracts to all expire at the same time, since many unions cannot strike while under contract), c) is using union contracts to set clear, actionable demands that can be met in order to gauge success and provide an end goal, and d) started organizing FOUR YEARS before the proposed strike date to give people the chance to plan accordingly, because it takes a really freaking long time to get tens of millions of people organized?

You notice how he didn't do it by slapping a message on Twitter saying 'hey nobody go to work on Monday, that'll really show 'em'?

#those 'monday is a general strike stay home if you can!!!' posts are SO performative and they really annoy me #like. you MUST know you can't organize a general strike of tens of millions of people by sharing an infographic on twitter. Right? #don't even get me started on the most recent one that was like 'we understand the last strike only gave one day of notice' #'so this time we're giving you two! strike is on tuesday everyone don't forget!' #like GENUINELY was that supposed to be a joke #the linked article also touches on how difficult actual organizing a workplace is which is nice #because they mention previous failed attempts in which organizers basically just handed out leaflets #and assumed the benefits would be obvious. which i think is basically the equivalent of posting an infographic on twitter #which is to say - not effective at all. Organizing is a LOT of work! Running an effective union even more so! #labor rights

[roseworth]

ok now im kinda curious

#sometimes you get halfway through making a poll when you realize that you dont actually know a lot of social media sites #im sorry for not knowing things but in my defense i spend all my time on here so i dont know anything about the outside world #im like those guys in the cave and tumblr posts are the shadows

[officialbabayaga]

the way this is phrased to avoid confronting the reality that people can’t afford food anymore

#this is ghoulish #one of the company spokespeople says they’re doing shallower discounts for longer time periods to try to entice buyers #they’re not actually making things a whole lot cheaper - just pretending they’re deals i’m fucking sick to my stomach #current events

[tadfools]

Thinking about before his teeth grew fangs and eye's turned red...

(I gave him Marie Antoinette Syndrome and I think he was a sun elf)

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #I think he looks like his mama #I like to think Astarion used to spend a lot of time in the sun and so he had freckles #I’m also missing when I lived in California instead of Scotland and had actually tan skin #but that’s beside the point

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

#ecto has a weird effect on them actually. a lot like how danielle drinks ecto to keep her stable #ecto has positive health benefits for gothamites! it boosts their immune system gives them a little more energy makes them less irritable #silly hc but i think its fun #also danny just. thought it was a normal ass interview. the person who hired him was heavily hinting at the criminal element of his job the #whole time. danny just kept thinking man i cant believe all interviews are like this in gotham. every one of the #m asks if im okay lying to cops. i am but its weird i never got asked this in amity #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp #dp x dc #dead on main #ghost kitchen au #danny fenton #jason todd #kipwrite