I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them
People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human
“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”
“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”
“Yeah!!”
“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”
“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“
“How illogical”
“That’s what I’m saying!!!”
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bye netflix is actually #1 byler shipper
editing to thank @starbylers for reminding me to add that eleven was in individual costumes versus will and mike being in couple costumes
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Weird folks: Vent art of any form is good and all but it should ONLY be between you and your therapist. Don’t share that stuff online or publish it!!!
Me, an artist/writer: *goes to therapy, talks about my trauma and mental health and how sometimes it’s hard to talk about it with others*
Therapist: Have you thought about using your art and writing to help you work through these things and share them with others?
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Cw for transphobia from other trans people
She goes on to sincerely argue that there is nothing inherent about manhood, so being a man (including a trans man) is a choice.
Comparing trans men transitioning to someone choosing to be a prison guard is so. interesting. This was the second post down in the transmisogyny tag. First reblog I saw:
Welcome to team baeddel.
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I think paganism would be better off if following gods from your “ancestors” was rather phrased as “gods of my culture”. Because well, for many of us, the Christian God is the god of our ancestors, especially the ones I argue matter most to our personal identities which are recent ancestry. After all, my Slovak family worshipped the Lord, but I choose to worship Morena to be closer to my culture. I also think this helps to include people who were adopted into cultures, whether by families or growing up there.
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im so sorry i don’t want to send the swifties out for my arrest but it genuinely boils my blood and fills me w rage when people say taylor swift is “obviously” a lesbian or even gay because even if she is bisexual or whatever what has she ever done for the community besides releasing a cringe vague ass song w brendon urinal??? also i feel like if she’s so “obviously” a lesbian and has been “hinting” this for years she wouldn’t be simultaneously in public relationships with men lol. also like she’s a millionaire capitalist white woman and even if she was secretly gay she’s not doing anything for the community by never speaking out about it. also she’s so painfully straight looking guys there’s way better actual real sapphic representation in music from people who are out and proudly speaking on queer issues
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New article with more details (from Jason Schreier who first broke the story). If you can't see it, I'll copy the whole text under read more.
About 100 employees were laid off in total (8%) and one of the main reasons listed is "underperformance," "sharp drop in popularity" and "poor reception of Lightfall."
So you know when for the last year and a half content creators have been shitting and pissing on the game as a full-time job and the amount of negativity and ragebait content became the only thing to make content about for them? Well they certainly won't take the blame, but I will let it be known. These people either don't understand the influence they have or they do and they're doing it on purpose, and I don't know which of these two options is worse, but I am 100% confident that their campaign of rage and hate contributed to this.
You don't base your entire community around constantly hating everything about the only game you play (despite clearly not enjoying it anymore) and somehow avoid galvanising thousands and thousands of people into perceiving the game negatively. Imagine being employees who have barely worked there for 2 years and the only community reception they've seen is 24/7 hate train for their work and then they get fired because of "poor reception" and "drop in popularity." How can they not take that personally? I am absolutely devastated for these people who delievered a banger product and who were met with an unrelenting barrage of toxic gamer children which ended up having more sway over their boss than them.
Which brings me to the next bit and that's FUCK THE CEO. He is now my mortal enemy #1. I am projecting psychic blasts directly into his brain. What an absolute spineless coward who is more willing to bow down to fucking gamers than to protect his own employees. This is absolutely rage inducing because this has happened before. From the article from 2021 about the toxic culture at Bungie:
Reading this shit from the new article absolutely fucking sent me into blind rage because I immediately remembered this. Another instance of employees suffering because of comments on reddit. And because of toxic players. And proof that leadership is not protecting employees and is instead siding with players.
Match made in heaven. Asshole gamer content creators and asshole CEOs, all of whom sit at home on piles of money made from someone else's labour. I hope they all explode. None of the people that worked on this game deserve this.
Another article with an infuriating comment from the CEO:
In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.
"Kept the right people." Really. Veteran composers weren't the right people? Die!
Bloomberg article in full:
Bungie’s decision to cut an estimated 100 jobs from its staff of about 1,200 followed dire management warnings earlier this month of a sharp drop in the popularity of its flagship video game Destiny 2.
Just two weeks ago, executives at the Sony-owned game developer told employees that revenue was running 45% below projections for the year, according to people who attended the meeting.
Chief Executive Officer Pete Parsons pinned the big miss on weak player retention for Destiny 2, which has faced a poor reception since the release of its latest expansion, Lightfall.
The next expansion, The Final Shape, was getting good — not great feedback — and management told those present that they planned to push back the release to June 2024 from February, according the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The additional time would give developers a chance to improve the product.
In the meantime, Parsons told staff Bungie would be cutting costs, such as for travel, as well as implementing salary and hiring freezes, the people said. Everyone would have to work together to weather the storm, he said, leaving employees feeling determined to do whatever was needed to get revenue back up.
But on Monday morning the news got worse: Dozens of staffers woke up to mysterious 15-minute meetings that had been placed on their calendars, which they soon learned were part of a mass layoff. Bungie laid off around 8% of its employees, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. Bungie didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Employees who were let go will receive at least three months of severance and three months of Bungie-paid COBRA health insurance, although other benefits, such as expense reimbursements, ended Monday, sending some staff racing to submit their receipts.
Laid-off staffers will also receive prorated bonuses, although those who were on a vesting schedule following Sony Group Corp.’s acquisition of Bungie in January 2022 will lose any shares that weren’t vested as of next month.
The layoffs are part of a larger money-saving initiative at Sony’s PlayStation unit, which has also cut employees at studios such as Naughty Dog, Media Molecule and its San Mateo office.
TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a report Monday that “events over the last few days lead us to believe that PlayStation is undergoing a restructuring.”
PlayStation president Jim Ryan announced last month that he plans to resign.
Many of the layoffs at Bungie affected the company’s support departments, such as community management and publishing. Remaining Bungie staff were informed that some of those areas will be outsourced moving forward.
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if sokka had had slightly more faith in jet during their mission to beat up and rob an old man he would’ve derailed their entire plan after jet made it clear that he has no idea what sokka was talking about when he said “it amplifies vibrations.” he would’ve descended into a longass tedious lecture about wave mechanics and jet would’ve returned to the treehouse with a migraine. but thankfully, because sokka already hated jet and thus simply assumed that jet was incapable of learning basic physics, when jet is like “good trick” sokka just rolls his eyes and goes “whatever.”
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I have seen a lot of people discuss Hannibal x Will in s1. I’ve seen claims that Hannibal did what he did to Will just to see what would happen. I’m finally speaking my truth and I disagree. Hannibal is an incredibly deliberate and intentional person. We see this with the words he chooses, how he goes about murdering/cooking/setting up his tableaux, etc. Will is the most important thing to Hannibal. From the second he laid eyes on him, he saw something in him and that was before he even got to know him. There’s a reason we call it love at first sight.
You think he really induced so much pointless suffering in him for… nothing? Just to see what would happen? No. He knows what kind of man Will is early on. He realizes he has this righteous anger. So how can he get Will to embrace his darker nature that he suppresses? By tapping into that righteous anger. So what does Hannibal do? He frames Will for murder. It’s the easiest way to achieve this. Hannibal is a good manipulator. He could’ve disguised this better if that’s what he really wanted. But he wants Will to know. That way his righteous anger can be activated. We also joke about how Hannibal likes Will’s murder fantasies and yes part of it is because Hannibal is Just Like That. But also it means Will is coming into his himself. With each murder fantasy about Hannibal, he gets closer to embracing himself which is what Hannibal ultimately wants.
It’s important to remember that the show is through Will’s perspective which is why I think a lot of people have this takeaway. When Hannibal and Will are having the confrontation in the finale of s1 where Will has a gun pointed at Hannibal, Hannibal says “You said it felt good to kill Garrett Jacob Hobbs. Would it feel good to kill me now?” This is insight to the fact that what he’s done is not pointless. That he’s trying to call on the same righteous anger that Will felt over killing Garrett Jacob Hobbs now.
Will says further into the encounter “You were just curious what I would do. Someone like me. Someone who thinks how I think. Wind him up and watch him go.” From his perspective, that is what is going on. He doesn’t realize what Hannibal is actually trying to do. Of course he has a surface level read on the situation. It seems like fans have internalized this since like I said, the show is from Will’s pov.
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