#bc if it hadn’t been for that

[voulezloux]

i made myself mad by breaking down the take home pay of my current hourly to that of what mcdonald’s is offering their managers hourly (at the high end of the scale) and i make $11 over half of their take home over 2 weeks 🫶🏻

been doing hair 6 years, been with my current job for over 3, and i have only struggled to keep my head above water with small pockets of stability

#o posts #they make us depend on tips to supplement our income #which only fucks us over when we go to buy a house or car #it nearly fucked me over when i tried getting the car i had before my current one #bc they couldn’t prove my income based on my pay stubs #luckily we had tip cards that i took the money from and deposited it in my bank #bc if it hadn’t been for that #i wouldn’t have been able to get my car at all #it’s so fucking ridiculous that i’m depending on strangers for my income #because some people won’t tip you at all or if they do it’s $1-2 #they don’t fucking care and i want to leave so fucking bad but i’m fucking stuck

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

wwaid (what would aabria iyengar do)

#saw emily had one but hadn’t seen one for aabria and thought that needed to be rectified bc lbr she is one of my reasons for living #mari is irrelevant #dimension 20 #aabria iyengar #quiddie #the ravening war #trw #a court of fey and flowers #acofaf #misfits and magic #mismag #i would tag her many other wonderful things she has been a part of alas i have not watched any dnd content outside of d20 so

[comradekatara]

can i be real with you guys for a second. do i have permission to speak my truth without being flayed alive. just for a moment. the way many of you talk about zuka makes me think you guys don’t actually enjoy their relationship. people will be like “oh i love how it’s grumpy x sunshine because zuko is a little grouchy grouch and sokka is funny and flirty and bubbly” and i’m just like……. in what world?????????? i don’t think you guys ship zuck actually i think you guys just wish you could ship zukang without being perceived as weird for age gap reasons. but in no world is zucchini a ship wherein sokka is emotionally uplifting zuko thru the power of love and friendship. they’re literally both suicidal freaks. and yet people love making them not only as boring as possible, but also giving sokka a personality transplant (aang’s personality, to be specific) because they hate the source material or they just see conventionally attractive teenage boys and black out or who knows what. but it’s okay you guys can just ship zukang if that’s really what you want out of their dynamic. i won’t judge

#hot takes #it’s not a bad ship in theory but ever since 2020 ppl have been so intent on reducing it and editorializing it and like #i don’t know those guys. those boys genuinely are strangers to me #it was only good back when gay people hadn’t been invented yet #and 7 people total on this earth actually understood it #but i kind of miss back when everyone was like ‘what a cute bromance’ #bc even if they weren’t being explicitly gay about it they DID Understand the nature of their dynamic #and now it’s like ‘well of course theyre gay’ but they don’t actually interrogate that further #and it’s awful. #literally ruining a freak4freak relationship it’s truly criminal #if u want grumpy sunshine (ugh) just ship zukang no one is stopping you #but that is NOT what’s going on with sokka at ALL #leave him ALONE!!!!!!

[countessdelannoy]

the royal order of sartorial splendor blog isn’t available anymore :(

#not sure how long bc i just noticed but i get a “you don’t have permission to view this blog” message when i try #i know it hadn’t been updated in years but the archive was really great :( #morgan talks

[alpineshepherdbadboy]

it’s been lovely to be on instagram today to see all of the heartwarming stories about mark margolis shared by brba and bcs actors, but my favorite has got to be from vincent fuentes (arturo), who shared some texts that mark sent him:

bonus:

#mark margolis #vincent fuentes #michael mando #better call saul #bcs #hector salamanca #also i hadn’t even heard about mm being cast in a ridley scott production #how could you blow that dude??? #it’s also hilarious bc apparently he’s been replaced with wagner moura #who #(and no shade to michael mando whom i love) #is a much better actor #mando is great! don’t get me wrong! #but wagner moura in narcos is one of my favorite performances of all time #(they both have shaky spanish tho apparently 🤷‍♀️) #all the articles about this are hilarious bc in true hollywood reporting style they keep dropping his age #so they all basically read: #a 41-year-old grown adult man physically fought his coworker

[ovaruling]

maybe a hot take but please don’t have or stop having children if you have an active eating disorder/body dysmorphia (including binge eating, not just restrictive disorders). seriously

thinking you’ll be the exception (because you’re So self-aware, unlike those Other disordered women) and won’t give your dysmorphia/eating disorder to your child is pride before a very slow and terrible fall

it never ever works. you’re never ever immune. i mean, such a huge reason of why there are so many of us now is bc our moms thought the same thing lmfao. didn’t matter how well-intentioned they were. no matter how much they tried to separate Their Problems from Ours. here we fucking are

i know it’s not women’s fault to begin with, but the reality is that those of us affected do incubate, nurture, and pass on the virus in the Current Way of Things

the buck needs to stop here. this isn’t a game. think of all the things your mother probably thought she was expertly hiding from you that you still picked up on and were profoundly affected by in a terrible and formative way. it will happen to you, too. don’t think it won’t.

if you know that you’re not solidly and confidently recovered, you have a responsibility to stop that buck and not actively attempt to create a child who will observe, mimic, internalize, adopt, and inherit your lifelong life-ruining behavior. the selfishness is breathtaking honestly

#eating disorders are one of the most treatment-resistant behavioral issues out there #once they take firm root #this is not quite the same as ‘don’t have children if you’re even a little bit mentally ill’ btw before anyone thinks it is #this is a very specific problem #and it is LEARNED #you cant always protect your child from the outside world influence but you can do something about what your child starts with at home #i am recovered now but i could’ve saved my whole life if my mom hadn’t been dieting when i was 7 #so i started dieting too #bc she was my mom and i did what she did #cuz i was fucking 7 #she never told me what a diet was. i just observed her. #and when she binged EYE binged #i blame her always for my food addiction

[why-the-heck-not]

got a new laptop, feeling like a kid on christmas eve & I’m learning to use notion bc idk it fits the agenda of today (which is to transfer my life onto this one now)

#(new laptop bc everything broke on me lol and like it was time) #also I’m finally living the dream & started it from fresh so won’r be carrying around all those highschool essays #bunch of downloading etc now tho bc there’s nothing (been at this for 5h already lmao but it’s fun honestly) #i’m so glad tho that most of the things I do are somewhere on the internet/cloud bc didn’t lose too much work now that the old laptop won’t #open anymore (just like one commit that I hadn’t yet pushed to github and a thesis ’’brain dumb’’ thing but I dont think I had anything too #important there (I hope bc like if I did oh well it’s gone & I dont remember)) #february 2024 #2024

[theotterpenguin]

if the southern raiders had been written with a focus on katara and sokka’s relationship with each other and with grief, the conflict would have revolved around whether confronting someone who caused you trauma is necessary to heal or would only end up causing you more pain. both choices would be presented as equally understandable and a personal choice one has to make for themself, rather than manufacturing conflict over the “right” or “wrong” way to deal with grief to uplift one person’s moral philosophy over another’s.

katara, having looked into the eyes of her mother's murderer just before he killed her mother for protecting her, had a uniquely traumatic experience with her mother's death that was different from her brother. especially because katara ended on taking on her mother's role after her death, which is an emotional burden that sokka did not have to bear. sokka's trauma from his mother's death is tied more to the aftermath of losing his mother, and then later his father to the war rather than a personal hatred for the faceless man who killed his mother. this doesn't make his grief lesser, just different.

so it would only make sense that in the southern raiders, sokka would be opposed to katara going after yon rha. not because he doesn't deserve to die - because sokka is not a pacifist, he understands the realities of war. sokka would worry that facing yon rha would hurt katara more than it would ever help her heal. because for him, confronting yon rha would mean putting a face to the war that broke his family apart - a despicable person that he doesn't like to think about, a person that he would never want to see.

but katara is different. she needs this closure, she needs to face the terrible man who took her mother away and not be that scared little girl who ran away all over again. she needs this trip to deal with the survivor's guilt she's been carrying with her for the last six years. and it makes sense that sokka doesn't understand that at first. just as it makes sense that katara doesn't understand why sokka wouldn't want the same.

that's why at the end of the episode, katara is in a better state mentally than she was earlier. even though she is still conflicted over her choice not to kill yon rha, she needed to face the personification of her trauma, the representation of the childhood she lost, and that was what helped her heal - it really wasn't about choosing "peace" or "violence." and the episode should have ended with a conclusion between katara and sokka, in which both come to understand that the pain they experienced over their mother's death was different, and so they each had a different (but equally valid) way of coping with their grief.

(as a side note - this is also why zuko is the perfect person to accompany katara on her journey. they both have very similar experiences with grieving the loss of their mothers who sacrificed themselves for them, and both choose to confront the man who took their mother away from them, which helped them both to heal. zuko understands katara's need to face the person that has caused her trauma, even if sokka and aang do not understand at first because their experiences were different)

#katara #sokka #atla critical #atla #the southern raiders #and a little #aang critical #katara analysis #sokka analysis #my meta #my post #i still believe tsr is one of the most well written episodes bc of the way that it explores katara's trauma which has been built up since b #but it would have been better if the creators hadn’t been so intent on prioritizing aang’s feelings over sokka’s

[loosingmoreletters]

the temptation of writing an Outsider POV fic on mid twenties private detective Shinichi and his funky teenage interns that are all horribly morbid

#dcmk #aus and ideas #shinichi kudo #detective conan #being Conan has taught shinichi that sometimes you gotta break some laws to solve crimes #which is why he isn’t a cop. he’s fully aware he’s breaking the law and has some integrity about it #also I think it would be funny if shinichi was being consulted about a case #while sitting in a cell bc he broke into the murderer’s home #I think adult shinichi has the potential to be fucking weird #in ways he wouldn’t have been if he hadn’t spent ages as a primary school kid

[transannabeth]

the thing about ice adolescence being cancelled is even if you don’t like yuri on ice we can all agree that spending this many years on a movie and then suddenly scrapping it is a bad precedent to set, especially from mappa with what we know about their poor treatment of animators, and especially in a world where more and more movies are being scrapped for tax cuts when they’re nearly finished or even done

#not pjo #chitter chatter #UGH I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT… 7? 8 years??? #so many people so much time and money like. oh man. #I guess we don’t know what those circumstances that cancelled it were but it’s concerning #I’m sure this post has been made before I just also had to say it bc I hadn’t seen it and I keep thinking about this situation

[third-king-of-salmonids]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MANAGEMENT HAS DECDED MY NAME IS FUCKING JOE THATS IT IM CALLING THE UNION

#ajaw (assigned Joe at work) #also bc of the massive jaw/biting thing ig #Ooc: it’s acctually rlly funny cuz a couple days ago me and bf were playing sr and he had Spotify on shuffle #and then just as a round of cursed *glowflies* is announced #it’s all silent and then #out from the speakers comes the voice of god and god said #’IT HADN’T BEEN FOR COTTON EYE JOE ID BEEN MARRIED LONG TIME GO-‘ #and let me tell you it was the most chaotic round of glowflies everyone fighting for thier lives against the crazed masses to fucking #*cotton eye Joe* #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon 3 salmon run #king salmonid #splatoon salmonid

[werewolfenthusiast]

please if i see one more person say that the reaping was rigged and that’s why prim was chosen i don’t know what i’ll do

#quinn talks hunger games #like please what purpose would that serve?? katniss was a nobody prior to the games #also the whole point is that the system is against all of them regardless of circumstance that could not be spelled out more clearly #it literally says ‘the odds had been entirely in her favour but it hadn’t mattered’ #bc that’s the point. the odds CANT be in your favour. #primrose everdeen #the hunger games

[akkivee]

I feel like HypMic is at this weird point where they are lingering on how they want to proceed forward. I feel like the music for the 2nd DRB was very experimental, and I did appreciate that even if I didn't like all the music (except for that DragonAsh song tho that was ass LOL). It feels like KR is struggling with how to move forward with telling a story while using the voting system, as such they've kinda written themselves into a corner. Like it was obvious they wanted FP to win the 2nd DRB because it was needed for plot. But at the same time it really feels like the plot has slowed to a crawl at the same time, and between that and the music creeping away from rap you're kinda left with a feeling of disappointment overall. It esp hits harder when you're a fan of BAT and DH given how under utilized they still are in the grand scheme of things. But given how they placed them geographically it feels like yet another instance of KR accidentally writing them into a corner and struggling to rectify that so they can be more relevant but also make it make sense, idk. I still love Kuko no matter what even if the series is currently languishing. (it also doesn't help that there isn't really any unified fandom because of politics, too much content too fast, and people being so oshi-pilled they have no interest in touching content that doesn't interest them. Which again, sucks as BAT fan cuz we don't really have a translator solider for us.)

what’s really really annoying about that, is that it has been put out there that we’ve entered the third act in hypmic’s story and tho it’s not always necessarily the case, usually that means we are heading towards an end. and we are starting to see an end with a lot of og division plot threads so to be closer to the end than not and still having like a third of your cast floundering around is not good!!!!! at all lol!!!! unless there’s a max effort push to bring nagosaka into the fold, it really does feel like nagosaka, no matter what, will feel under utilised

hypmic’s slow to come plot bombs have been a staple since the beginning so i’m not mad at it, esp since i suspect those long waits have something to do with production values and making the next shiny, economically stimulating thing lol, but you’re right about it not being great rn when everything else is not great lol

but i will say hypmic has its formulas. like the way first solos were surface level character introduction raps and the second solos went into depth, for the og divisions, their first drb and preceding dramas were introductory and the 2nd drb dramas really dug deep into them. so hopefully the same will happen for nagosaka when the 3rd drb drama hits them lol 🤞

#vee got an ask #thedragonofbadasstemple #oh a fellow showdown hater!!!!!!!!!! it feels so good to not be alone in that LOL #if bp hadn’t been followed by rhyme anima’s hit or miss songs maybe the conversation around hypmic’s music would be different ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #like i’m still banking on 3rd drb being pairs battles in order to bring nagosaka further into the fold #bbbat has ichiro and his goals mtcdh has rei and what doesn’t fpmtr have lol but yeah #with true hypnosis mic as end goal that also sets the people who have been affected by the true hypnosis mic on individual pairs as well #kuukou sasara and yotsutsuji via jakurai plot beats i mean #so bc i can see potentials of where things can go i’m not yet at a point where i’m ready to concede defeat lol #i’m frustrated lol!!!!!!! but unless those potentials are gone i do still believe lmao #i don’t want to put it out there that nagosaka are cash grab divisions but sometimes they got me wondering if i fr fell for the scheme lol

[comradekatara]

ppl who don’t like azula bc “she’s mean >:(“ baffle me so much. my love for mean women developed at a very early age. as a child, azula would come onscreen, say something cunty, and i’d just black out. that imperious shakespeare villain of an eighth grade bully made me go “AWOOOGA” hearts in my eyes, steam coming outta my ears, drooling a lil, like some kind of misogynist wolf in an MGM cartoon. and don’t even get me started on whenever she fought katara, the OTHER bitch of my dreams!!! it was only a few years later that i was like “oh she’s actually quite tragic…. oh she’s just a scared kid who only wants love….” but there is truly no understating how crucial azula spewing her divine right of kings imperialist bullshit was to my developing sexuality as a child. oh, you don’t appreciate mean women? okay, that’s fine, it just means more for us, the connoisseurs of the world.

#azula #actually come to think of it. if KATARA hadn’t been as mean as she was would I have been obsessed w her as a child? probably not #like being mean + angry + extremely powerful was all it took for me #hence why katara & azula final agni kai genuinely awakened something in me the first time I watched it #also in general I will never understand disliking a character bc they’re ‘mean’ like u do know they’re not real right? they can’t hurt u? #disliking a character for being ANNOYING will always be valid tho. prince wu haters get behind me

[octoooo]

Got some Bnuyus in Minecraft, one black & one brown, guess what I named them

AND THEN GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

They actually have 8 kids but I didn’t take a more recent photo

,,then guess what I did

Also a lil difference between my two Rabitos

#I kept slapping carrots at them way before I named them actually #I have to keep them fenced in or they’ll run away & I need to keep my bun army #kny #demon slayer #octo’s art #tomioka giyuu #sabito #Sabigiyuu #Rabbitcraft au #I actually have no idea if this will be a whole au but I hadn’t planned for Sabibun to become a whole au & look where we are now with that #might as well name it now in case any other ideas come to me #Yall I was going THROUGH it with Minecraft last night #like almost too busy dying & getting my bed blown up & getting CREEPERS out of my house to focus on new years midnight long enough #playing on normal difficultly lmaoo #only been playing Craft for less than a year & I never get far bc I run out of things I wanna do #never been to the Nether or anything #but I DO have a nice Cherry house now :D

[doctorsiren]

After listening to @chadfallout76podcast ‘s “Death Shroud: A Nick Valentine Mystery” on Sunday, I wrote a song about it! So fun to have new inspiration for another Nick Valentine song, since he’s my favourite character from any piece of media I’ve ever consumed haha

I incorporated a few of my other Fallout 4 songs into it, as well as the songs from both Portal games :))

#doctorsiren #fallout 4 #fallout #death shroud #chad: a fallout 76 story #nick valentine #fan song #music #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #youtube #lyric video #youtube video #I hadn’t used my uke in a bit since I had been mainly doing MIDI stuff for those FNAF songs #so now I have a blister on my finger :’) #you see I also make up for a lack of instruments with a billion tracks of my voice #and also bc it helps cover up *most* mistakes so I don’t have to rerecord a billion times #sharing is greatly appreciated! #and if you haven’t listened to Death Shroud yet #you should go do that because it altered my brain chemistry grrr it was so good #you know you should trust your doctor #and Nick said to trust a siren #and I’m DoctorSiren #so you should doubly trust me 👍👍👍