#complaints department

[iamstuckinthevoid]

HELP MY DAD JUST SAID I LOOKED LIKE LISTER WHEN I WAS DRINKING GRAVY THROUGH MY PINK FLAMINGO COCKTAIL STRAWWWWW

#keys speaks #keys speaks of irl #red dwarf #david lister #lister #complaints department

[nostalgia-tblr]

i had a thought (oh no). i've seen people say S2 Sylvie is cranky and confrontational because she's only starting the arc Loki is at the end of, but I feel like S2 Sylvie is written as though she has finished her arc, and that now she's freed the multiverse nothing remains to stop her fulfilling all her dreams by retiring to work in a McDonalds.

She will only return to the action to fulfill contractual obligations help out intermittently and unreliably with this new plot that has nothing to do with her other than being a direct consequence that neither she nor anyone else could have predicted because this plot does not actually follow on from the one she was part of before she didn't have all the necessary information about how this story would be dragged out while also not actually dealing with the situation(s) the end of S1. So she's annoyed to discover that things are still broken, but she's retired now and would prefer to be left alone.

Meanwhile Loki's arc is ongoing in S2 as he has yet to realise and accept that all this stuff about Free Will was bullshit and he is literally doomed by the narrative and can best serve those he cares about by becoming a cable tidy.

#loki series #loki s2 negativity #AND WHERE WAS THE FUCKING ALLIGATOR EH????? #why would an alien want to work in a mcdonalds when she could do literally anything else anywhere at any time? idk just buy the tie-in meal #not saying i couldn't be convinced but there was apparently no need to even try. S2 Sylvie's just an unusually long cameo isn't she? :( #“hey you remember HER? she'll be back for another scene or two in the next episode as well! she's on the merch by the way!" #complaints department

[prairiedawn]

Khonshu needs to learn to use the internet

I'm serious. Episode 3, Khonshu and Steven turn back the sky to find out what the stars looked like on a particular date. You know you can find that on the internet. For free. Without pissing off the entire Egyptian pantheon. Sigh.

#moon knight #complaints department

[mrvelocipede]

shopping for kitchen sink faucets is awful

#complaints department

[politeanarchy]

I want the opening scene, with the Angel-who-is-not-Crowley creating the nebula, to be a red herring somehow. I want it to be something different than what we've seen, and here's why:

It's out of balance.

From the very beginning (meaning, in this case, the original book), Aziraphale and Crowley have been perfect mirror opposites. Angel and demon, light and dark, comfortably slow and flashily fast. The one fretting about following rules, the other crowing about breaking them.

That's what they like about each other. Each of them completes the other; they are fascinated and irritated and have centuries-long running arguments and conversations (and eventually the Arrangement) and it all keeps itself in a lovely sort of equilibrium.

But in the opening sequence, it kind of seems like Angel Crowley is higher-ranking or more important than Aziraphale. He treats Aziraphale as a sort of handy assistant, and doesn't even introduce himself (although I suppose that might be because he's distracted by how excited he is to be finally ready to spin everything up and turn it on and make it go).

Aziraphale, for his part, seems quite ready to accept the role of insignificant underling, and offers praise and encouragement in a way that makes me think he's never gotten any himself, and has been wishing he would.

This kind of power imbalance seems VERY WRONG to me. No matter how much Aziraphale was charmed and impressed by this particular angel, surely he must by now be aware that he would never have sustained a six-thousand-year friendship with someone he had a hero-worshipping crush on. They have to meet as equals, or their relationship eventually turns into something more like the one he has with the Archangels.

There's also the way it would undermine the whole idea of Crowley as a demon with an imagination. In season one, he did seem a little impressively powerful. He can stop time! He can keep his Bentley going, even though it's on fire! He can tell when nobody is looking!

I would have said that it was very fundamental to his character that he learned about imagination from humans. That his flash and fast-talking and innate skill were enhanced and put to good use by all that he had learned from interacting with generations of lovely clever humans.

If, instead, Crowley is powerful because he's really a memory-wiped former Archangel or something, it's just so lame. Maybe not quite midichlorian-level lame, but wow, what a let-down.

And it means he's still and forever out of balance with Aziraphale. If they both started out as mid-level nobodies, and then learned from their time on Earth, it maintains that necessary symmetry. Aziraphale learns compassion, and enjoyment of earthly things, while Crowley learns about all the myriad ways to impress and influence people.

At the very least, I really, really wish that Crowley had spun the handle and said the first instructions, and then Aziraphale had been the one to chime in with "Let there be light!"

#good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers #spoilers #balance #symmetry #complaints department #character analysis

[kyungsein]

btw i hate all the heavenly/demonic/light-producing vomit-inducing swords, sky-breaking, day-slicing, heaven-dicing techniques

trying to figure out how to normally translate them takes more time than redacting a whole chapter

why won't you go and slice some veggies, leave the poor sky alone you freak

#complaints department

[sparkle-fiend]

I’m working on a multi-chapter fic, which is a fix-it, slow burn Steddie story with lots of plot, picking up at the end of season 4. But there are already so many of these out there - I’m struggling with my confidence a little bit. Like, does anybody really want to read another one, or am I just wasting my time?

(I’ve already put so much effort in though, it’s hard to let it go 😖)

#stranger things #my fic #steddie #steve/eddie #i veer wildly between excited productivity #and feeling like i should just give up on it #complaints department

[wellpresseddaisy]

The air quality is kicking my ass and my chest hurts.

Ugh.

#complaints department #just imagine that in a heavy Bronx accent #and you have my uncle riffing on someone he worked with in the late 1980s

[brujaporfavor]

Fuck this fucking wind.

#wind #complaints department

[segemarldoodles]

Dumb, long winded web design grumbling below the cut

So I'm trying to add a row to my website for articles I've written, no problem right?

It keeps left justifying, because its normally hidden by javascript, so it doesn't inherit the css properties correctly. The entire hidden row was doing the same thing, so I threw on a margin.

And can I just say, I have no idea why the template I've been using all these years uses a fucking 14 pixel margin, like why not an even 15, why not 12, everything else in the entire layout is divisible by 12, but they just randomly chose to use 14px for the side margin?!

Anyway as you can see the second row with the articles still wasn't inheriting the margin, so I throw the margin on that row specifically.

Now it's twice the distance in as the rest of the images.

The idiotic solution to the problem?

I had to give it a margin of 0px otherwise it was just ignoring that it should have a margin at all.

This is why I hate css and prefer to just hardcode all of my variables, because if I'd just done all the scripting inline like I learned way back when html 2 was the standard, I wouldn't have had this issue in the first place.

#HTML #CSS #Complaints department #stupid solutions for stupid problems #web design #website updates

[iamstuckinthevoid]

MY FUCKIN KNEE

#keys speaks #keys speaks of irl #vagueposting #complaints department

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

strange that "skinny" means thin. it should mean...skinny. characterized by skin. possessing or characterized by an above average amount of skin. more skin rather than less skin. but somehow it means less skin? preposterous

#*calls my local college English department* yes hello who is in charge here I have a complaint to make #yes a complaint of an etymological nature #what do u mean ur not in charge of that u r literally the English Department

[still-nix-d-goffic]

Monkeybone isn't streaming anywhere and that's a crime cause now I have to use effort to watch it.

#streaming #complaints department #txt #self #i need to see the most ridiculous shit put to film RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT #Win-ston! bark! Bark!

[mrvelocipede]

See, I should never have posted anything about my project-in-progress, because as soon as I did, I started having endless technical difficulties and outside distractions, and have made basically no progress on the thing. It's very frustrating.

#art #and other creative endeavors #complaints department

[fakeosirian]

AGHHHHH why did i plan a feddie scene immediately followed by a fabina scene. i'm running out of new ways to describe bisexual anxiety

#i need to just suck it up and do it quick and dirty and kind of bad and post it. #every time i think i bullshit something its legit better anyway #need to start a tag for complaining about writing that isnt my regular text post tag or the foyf tag so those stay. tidier #complaints department #there we go

[stygicniron]

spynorth asked:

❝ complaints are to be sent to the complaints department. no, that’s not the trash can, what are you talking about ? ❞

Ask Meme -- @spynorth

"It's the complaints recycle bin," Nico noted, smile thin for a moment before he studied the other. This mortal felt weird, too sharp and too clever somehow. Nico wouldn't be surprised if he could see through the Mist, but he wasn't about the ask that either.

Shrugging a little, he dumped the soup into the trash can, which on closer inspection did seem to be a trash can. He might be hungry but he wasn't that hungry, and whoever this mortal was, he was not a cook. Nico would be fine. He could go without food for a little bit longer. And if worst came to worst, he could just eat some nectar or ambrosia.

#spynorth #☠ ▌ ｆｉｖｅ ｔｈｏｕｓａｎｄ ａｔｔａｃｋ ｐｏｉｎｔｓ ( ask meme reply. ) #complaints department #i sure know nothing about lucas north but i do love lucas so here we go! #also your headcanon link is broken?? D= #☠ ▌ ｏｆ ａｐｏｌｌｏ ( toa. )