#if you take anything from this

[crestedcorvidae]

staying at a hotel from the perspective of a housekeeper

hotel housekeepers tend to clean anywhere from 15 to 50 rooms a day, so here's a sweet little list if you want to make our jobs a smidge easier!

keep in mind, not all hotels are created equal and these things may vary. this is all taken from my own personal experience as a housekeeper over the past several years and may not be universal

towels!

you don't have to use a new towel for every single thing, I promise

if you do get new towels, please give us your old ones so we can get them washed and back on the shelf

keep them in an obvious spot (pile on the ground) so we know which ones you're done with. and on that note-

consolidate!

it's very simple to make sure All your used towels are together and all your trash is in the trash can.

if you have a lot of trash, lots of us keep big trash bags on hand. all you need to do is ask :]

a lot of people like to leave towels in the tub. that works well unless you have a lot, then it's better to put them on the floor

tip!

quite a few people don't realize you can tip housekeepers and we definitely appreciate it.

some hotels (especially by airports or major interstates) have housekeepers work in teams, so leaving a tip easily divisible by two is helpful but not required.

keep it clean!

this may seem obvious, but I wanted to drive it home

if you know something will be messy, please just don't

for example, if someone has to spend an extra 5 minutes cleaning out every microwave because people decide not to use a plate with their hot pockets, that adds up to an extra hour of work at the end of an average day

on top of that, please Do Not eat in bed. the sheets and duvets are white and the stains are very obvious and very painful

check out

pay attention to when checkout time is (usually it's 10am or 11am, ask if you aren't sure)

when you do check out (especially earlier in the morning), pay a visit to front desk and let them know. it lets us know the room is empty which helps in many ways (e.g. some hotels send people ahead of housekeepers to strip the vacant rooms)

Do Not Disturb sign!

please. I am on my knees begging you to please please please remember to take the do not disturb sign off of your door when you check out

when someone forgets, it means we usually can't even knock on the door until checkout time rolls around

to put that into perspective, if I start knocking on doors at 9am, I can't knock on a DND door for another 2 hours. that means the sheets don't get down to laundry until well after the first round of linen collection

please just take the little card off your door

sheets!

this is pretty simple. just take the blanket or duvet off the bed and set it on whatever chair is available, then take off the flat and fitted sheets plus the pillowcases

it only takes a couple minutes even if you don't really know what you're doing

obviously you Do Not Have To, it's not your job. but if you want to, it helps a lot

final notes

obviously I'm just one person and hotels vary from place to place, but hopefully these things are useful to you! just remember, most hotel employees are underpaid and overworked. we are not your parents and we are not paid enough to be your babysitter.

#if you take Anything from this #please at least take your DND down. please #hotelposting #hotel housekeeping

[savage-rhi]

Hi hun, I haven't seen you around much and I know things have been super rough lately but I hope you're doing ok ✨

@vodkafolie Hey, hon 💙 Lot's been happening over here in my neck of the woods (literally, lmao). I'm gonna info dump.

I've been doing odd jobs to keep me afloat.

I got selected for another mental health program. The person running it is a well-known psychologist. I applied for this back in late December. Didn't think I'd get in since there were 1800+ candidates going for it, and I'm 1 out of 32 that made the cut. If the sample group of clients I get for the next 8 weeks goes smooth, I'll have a full-time remote job by Summer. I'm not putting my eggs all in one basket, though. I'm still looking for regular work.

The business proposal with the mental health app picked back up. We are supposed to meet sometime next week to discuss further if we're gonna move forward and what the partnership might look like.

I'm speed running through one of my graduate classes and going at a snails pace in the other. The technical jargon is burning me out, but my grades are good.

My college advisor and profs want me to attend summer term for the program, but alas *opens wallet and watches moth fly out* I've been going back and forth with them on how unless they're gonna cover for me, I can't do it until I have stable employment.

I'm meeting a long covid specialist. My secondary PCP discovered I may have undiagnosed POTS, and this fungal blood infection I had in my body last Summer (late August, early September) might be making a comeback. Some symptoms have returned. I'm not surprised. That's how I got it in the first place last year cause of immunity issues post-covid. I had to go on a strict diet for almost 3 months, take some nasty as shit medication, and I lost over 50 pounds. Hindsight, the weight loss was good for me, but if I have to do that again I'm gonna be bones by the end of it this time around.

With all the parasites, fungus's and other nasty shit I've caught and lived through, I'm either gonna be super human immune to everything and my blood will be the universal cure for all horrible shit, or one day I'm gonna be patient zero for something god awful. I've made peace with either option 😂

I got a vendor spot at a convention that's happening in less than a week. I've been prepping for that and hoping I make some money.

I'm taking a break on some of my long fics and writing requests, bbbuuuuttttttt...I also had a batshit crazy idea for a Luis Serra fic, and I'm balls deep invested. It's the only thing keeping me from a full writers block right now.

It's been...a lot, but oddly enough I'm happier than I was. I'm worn out, tired, and still stressed about money, but I'm not depressed like I was. Things are getting better in some ways. I'm trying to self-care the best I can, and reign in the ambition so my body has a chance to recoup.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk 💙🫂😂 I hope you've been doing well hon! I've been re-reading some of your work as of late too. It's been fun for me!

#disclaimer so no one thinks im being negligent: when I say i'm speed running through a college course its cause im well versed #in the material and i can work weeks ahead of schedule #sending ya love hon lemme know if you want to talk further at any point! #ive obviously been busy as shit but i'll try my best #same goes to others who have reached out wondering where the fuck ive houdini'd off too #parasites viruses and fungus think my body is sexy~ #lmfaoo #if you take anything from this

[sfsolstice]

🎀 list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your moots or followers <3

where i went for undergrad, our quad is just a big rectangular field, but what really makes it are the tall (pine?) trees that are planted around the perimeter; makes for a wonderful spot to just hang out, esp in the summer (spent a lot of contemplative walks there and i miss it sm ;v;)

my (surviving lol) plants but esp the two i have in my room (one's a prayer plant and the other is a micans philodendron) AND ESP that prayer plant because i thought the low natural light in my room was gonna kill it but it's almost been about a month since i got both and they're doin really good, lots of new growth on em :>

there's this song called pedals by leo faulker that's very quickly become my new favorite (and new comfort) song, which you'll only find in a compilation with some of his early, unofficially released (and DELETED ;^;) music from 2011-2012 lol (please listen to it i'm actually so done gatekeeping his old work i love it all too much to not gush about it anymore aghkd)

fresh flowers always make things brighter :( <3 i haven't had the chance to go buy some lately but maybe i'll add that to my to-do list for tomorrow :0

maybe cliche but the sounds of laughter, whether caused by me or not; hearing other people's joy just brings me a lot of joy :'')

(ngl really good timing with this ask, i was digging myself into a misery pit adghjs so thank you my lovely mutual ilysm <333)

#qna #mwah mwah i hope your heart feels light (or lighter) today <3 #if you take ANYTHING from this #please let it be pedals by leo faulker #i love the song and i love the man so 👏

[maintitle]

Tapping the sign again.

#Naughty Dog #Rockstar #Yeah you can guess who I'm calling out here #I discluded one because #Despite him not knowing terms well enough to actually properly present the issue at hand #He's kinda right on Bethesda #Even if he's not the one who should be presenting the issue at hand #One other point #This also applies to another issue that annoys me way more than this #Which is the habit of talking about a game being 'outdated' because of the passage of time #Not only does this.... y'know... ignore how linear time works #It also pre-assumes that a game as a genre can be outdated #Baldur's Gate III should prove that's not the case #It has many of the issues people say are 'outdated' in Dragon Age: Origins and the OG Baldur's Gate games #And they're praised in that game #I'm not an expert on this stuff #I just recognize I also don't have the language to discuss these things #& the repeated habit of gaming's old genre staples that were said to be 'outdated' coming back as a huge thing again #Proves to me that the word is overused and misunderstood #If you take anything from this #Let it be this: #Think when talking about a game's mechanics: Am I struggling to find ways to describe the feeling I'm having with this frustration? #Am I failing to find words for a feeling I'm getting from this Good Thing? #If so! #You don't know the thing! #And that's a freeing concept! #You don't have to be an expert on everything you enjoy! #watch some game designers on youtube instead of the big youtube stars please & thank you #Anyway #Rant over

[stil-lindigo]

mumbattan's one and only pavitr prabhakar!!

prints

#pav you ray of joy i hope you never change #spoilers// ngl it is objectively hilarious that miles just. prevented pav from experiencing any hubris #keep on trucking pav im sure the universe wont prove you wrong or anything #also im sorry it took me so long to get to him #ive been busy with hobie brainrot which has alleviated. but it did take buying the artbook and an action figure of him so #anyway im rewatching this movie again on saturday i miss these characters so much #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman #across the spiderverse #spiderverse #miles morales #stillindigo art

[canisalbus]

✦ Cockroach ✦

#own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Vasco #Machete #comics #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #modern au #immoral-majority #are you implying Vasco isn't a big hunky hero #I think he'd go for the pacifist route and just take it outside #you can't kill a bug by dropping it from a balcony I don't think that's possible #my comics are ~riveting~ #I guess it's just nice drawing them doing the most mundane things that serve no story purpose and have no punchline or anything #inconsequential slice of life stuff #dropping bugs from balconies #Machete is more afraid of horses than cockroaches

[5ummit]

AO3 Ship Stats: Year In Bad Data

You may have seen this AO3 Year In Review.

It hasn’t crossed my tumblr dash but it sure is circulating on twitter with 3.5M views, 10K likes, 17K retweets and counting. Normally this would be great! I love data and charts and comparisons!

Except this data is GARBAGE and belongs in the TRASH.

I first noticed something fishy when I realized that Steve/Bucky – the 5th largest ship on AO3 by total fic count – wasn’t on this Top 100 list anywhere. I know Marvel’s popularity has fallen in recent years, but not that much. Especially considering some of the other ships that made it on the list. You mean to tell me a femslash HP ship (Mary MacDonald/Lily Potter) in which one half of the pairing was so minor I had to look up her name because she was only mentioned once in a single flashback scene beat fandom juggernaut Stucky? I call bullshit.

Now obviously jumping to conclusions based on gut instinct alone is horrible practice... but it is a good place to start. So let’s look at the actual numbers and discover why this entire dataset sits on a throne of lies.

Here are the results of filtering the Steve/Bucky tag for all works created between Jan 1, 2023 and Dec 31, 2023:

Not only would that place Steve/Bucky at #23 on this list, if the other counts are correct (hint: they're not), it’s also well above the 1520-new-work cutoff of the #100 spot. So how the fuck is it not on the list? Let’s check out the author’s FAQ to see if there’s some important factor we’re missing.

The first thing you’ll probably notice in the FAQ is that the data is being scraped from publicly available works. That means anything privated and only accessible to logged-in users isn’t counted. This is Sin #1. Already the data is inaccurate because we’re not actually counting all of the published fics, but the bots needed to do data collection on this scale can't easily scrape privated fics so I kinda get it. We’ll roll with this for now and see if it at least makes the numbers make more sense:

Nope. Logging out only reduced the total by a couple hundred. Even if one were to choose the most restrictive possible definition of "new works" and filter out all crossovers and incomplete fics, Steve/Bucky would still have a yearly total of 2,305. Yet the list claims their total is somewhere below 1,500? What the fuck is going on here?

Let’s look at another ship for comparison. This time one that’s very recent and popular enough to make it on the list so we have an actual reference value for comparison: Nick/Charlie (Heartstopper). According to the list, this ship sits at #34 this year with a total of 2630 new works. But what’s AO3 say?

Off by a hundred or so but the values are much closer at least!

If we dig further into the FAQ though we discover Sin #2 (and the most egregious): the counting method. The yearly fic counts are NOT determined by filtering for a certain time period, they’re determined by simply taking a snapshot of the total number of fics in a ship tag at the end of the year and subtracting the previous end-of-year total. For example, if you check a ship tag on Jan 1, 2023 and it has 10,000 fics and check it again on Jan 1, 2024 and it now has 12,000 fics, the difference (2,000) would be the number of "new works" on this chart.

At first glance this subtraction method might seem like a perfectly valid way to count fics, and it’s certainly the easiest way, but it can and did have major consequences to the point of making the entire dataset functionally meaningless. Why? If any older works are deleted or privated, every single one of those will be subtracted from the current year fic count. And to make the problem even worse, beginning at the end of last year there was a big scare about AI scraping fics from AO3, which caused hundreds, if not thousands, of users to lock down their fics or delete them.

The magnitude of this fuck up may not be immediately obvious so let’s look at an example to see how this works in practice.

Say we have two ships. Ship A is more than a decade old with a large fanbase. Ship B is only a couple years old but gaining traction. On Jan 1, 2023, Ship A had a catalog of 50,000 fics and ship B had 5,000. Both ships have 3,000 new works published in 2023. However, 4% of the older works in each fandom were either privated or deleted during that same time (this percentage is was just chosen to make the math easy but it’s close to reality).

Ship A: 50,000 x 4% = 2,000 removed works Ship B: 5,000 x 4% = 200 removed works

Ship A: 3,000 - 2,000 = 1,000 "new" works Ship B: 3,000 - 200 = 2,800 "new" works

This gives Ship A a net gain of 1,000 and Ship B a net gain of 2,800 despite both fandoms producing the exact same number of new works that year. And neither one of these reported counts are the actual new works count (3,000). THIS explains the drastic difference in ranking between a ship like Steve/Bucky and Nick/Charlie.

How is this a useful measure of anything? You can't draw any conclusions about the current size and popularity of a fandom based on this data.

With this system, not only is the reported "new works" count incorrect, the older, larger fandom will always be punished and it’s count disproportionately reduced simply for the sin of being an older, larger fandom. This example doesn’t even take into account that people are going to be way more likely to delete an old fic they're no longer proud of in a fandom they no longer care about than a fic that was just written, so the deletion percentage for the older fandom should theoretically be even larger in comparison.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the author of this "study" KNEW the data was tainted and chose to present it as meaningful anyway. You will only find this if you click through to the FAQ and read about the author’s methodology, something 99.99% of people will NOT do (and even those who do may not understand the true significance of this problem):

The author may try to argue their post states that the tags "which had the greatest gain in total public fanworks” are shown on the chart, which makes it not a lie, but a error on the viewer’s part in not interpreting their data correctly. This is bullshit. Their chart CLEARLY titles the fic count column “New Works” which it explicitly is NOT, by their own admission! It should be titled “Net Gain in Works” or something similar.

Even if it were correctly titled though, the general public would not understand the difference, would interpret the numbers as new works anyway (because net gain is functionally meaningless as we've just discovered), and would base conclusions on their incorrect assumptions. There’s no getting around that… other than doing the counts correctly in the first place. This would be a much larger task but I strongly believe you shouldn’t take on a project like this if you can’t do it right.

To sum up, just because someone put a lot of work into gathering data and making a nice color-coded chart, doesn’t mean the data is GOOD or VALUABLE.

#ao3 #ao3 stats #psa #my words #fandom #I doubt anyone is even going to read this but I needed to get it out of my system and at least try to stop this from spreading #if you know me #you know I get Big Mad about misinformation #don't take anything at face value #do your own research

[ruporas]

the blank ticket in your hand is just waiting to be filled in.

happy birthday vash! (ID in alt text)

#vash the stampede #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun maximum spoilers #trimax spoilers #vashwood #i actually made it... im crying... was devastated for a bit bc i thought i wouldnt had anything for vash's bday!! #but happy birthday to the twins.. vash and knives... #no matter what i was going to make a vash centric post im sorry knives... i have a comic in progress also but it was taking too long T_T #that one would celebrate both of them slightly more fairly! but anyway. #birthdays to someone like vash must not mean a whole lot. even the first one - him and knives were like oh what... cool.. i don't think the #had the chance to celebrate much after that :pensive: and vash probably spent most of his birthdays like any other day so i kind of just #wanted to celebrate him living and being alive - living for as long as he did and the people that eventually made living worth it #keep counting the years vash!!! even if you dont have birthday parties - it's still very very special #quote is directly from rem’s speech in ch 41 also #ruporas art

[wasyago]

the brainrot won

#GUY S i know i haven't posted anything in a while and thats because im working on a big cool project that i really want to finish without- #distractions. but uh. as you can see. ive been distracted 😔. still working on it tho!!!! and im very happy with it turns out its just- #super time and energy consuming so ive tried to limit my intake of other media to not make myself want to draw other stuff #i also haven't read the last two (two already?????) chapters of RnS and im very sad about it and i want to read it but you know that if i- #read it ill want to make fanart and then ill never finish my project :( #SO. sorrey for the lack of art itll be coming when im free to draw!!!!!!! #but also. yes ive watched new life because i dont want to go insane with nothing but this project on my mind and umm. had to take a little- #break to do a couple designs for fun... and to switch it up a bit because for real im going insane i think #ALSO. friend got me into zelda botw and i haven't played a whole lot yet (because project) but ive tried to take some inspiration for- #designs from there. at least for joel and scott. everyone else not so much... #WELL ANYWAYS this is getting long. i should really stop rambling in the tags and just make separate posts for all this but i dont want to #umm. tags. #new life smp #smallishbeans #mythical sausage #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #smajor1995 #inthelittlewood #my art #sketch

[grapejuicegay]

I haven't got a job. Why not? I think they only want clean people. They haven't taken that thing off yet? It's gone. But I guess some people still see it.

#if you take anything away from this let it be that it's not just with day #mhok is just very tender in general #i've spent far too long on this #had to remove some moments even #because i hit the upload limit #he's a far far more caring and tender person than he gives himself credit for #it bursts through every interaction he has #even the very first fight that landed him in jail #not in the best way mind you #was him defending a friend #but still #last twilight #last twilight series #kk.gifs #pdribs #uservid

[laurents-secret-diary]

the quirked up white boy Of Vere

#laurent of vere #captive prince #kings rising #prince's gambit #MY PASTY GUY #i know he's supposed to be enchanting or whatever but i need him a bit fucked up you know what i mean #if he is anything like how damen describes him then my dude resembles a victorian child huffing asbestos #“his skin almost indistinguishable from the pristine white shirt he wore” #ok? ok?? MY MAN TAKES BATHS IN THE STYX?? #I just find it soooo funny that this is Damen's ideal man. #this frog ass looking aint shit white boy with the brain processing power of an intel i9 card #i bet his hands are always clammy but noone would know because this dude wont let anyone touch him lol #caprisun

[braisedhoney]

well wishes from the void

#utdr #utdr fanart #deltarune #deltarune fanart #wd gaster #gaster fanart #utdr soul #utdr player #this is… actually not from my backlog #this is something i was able to finish over a couple days (terrible burnout hhh ;;) and wanted to get up before december ended #i know I’ve been less interactive/active—sorry about that. i haven’t been spending a lot of time online. #but while i can’t promise anything atm i do hope you have a lovely winter. #well wishes from the void o7 #might be my last post for the year unless i queue the caine and pomni comic #so please take care of yourselves <3

[dmitryanya]

happy may the fourth to my favorite scene in the whole franchise

#star wars #han x leia #scoundress #han solo #leia organa #may the 4th #may the force be with you #my art #taking a break from n.ewsies art to make this #i love these two more than anything #this is early i know shhhhhhhh #hanleia

[fumifooms]

Homegrown

Thistle and Delgal - Dungeon Meshi, Ryoko Kui

^ Fernando Pessoa / Killing Flies, Michael Dickman / A Brother Named Gethsemane, Natalie Diaz / Antigonick, Anne Carson v Oats We Sow, Gregory and the Hawk

#Dungeon meshi #spoilers #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #thistle #sissel #thistle dungeon meshi #web weaving #web weave #Just in case for sake of transparency: in the ‘what a relief everyone’s safe’ panel I erased a bit of dialogue he originally said #‘What a relief everyone’s BODY IS safe’ #But yk. Delusions angst. Dinner table Thistle imagery you are famous to me #delicious in dungeon #Umm go check out my Thistle & Falin fic on ao3 called Slivers maybe idk #Sometimes it does feel like Thistle has an age regression through the manga it’s interesting. Kui what were you cooking #I am a firm believer that Thistle’s an adult and that that doesn’t take anything away from his narrative tho. #He’s the older brother here & that’s the whole point. God dunmeshi family narratives I love youuu #Thistles are a weed… Idk the garden theme for him works great imo. Make that dungeoneum manage that kingdom like an ecosystem

[shower-phantom-ideas]

Danny is just a kid ya know? Like he is just a little guy. A baby really. 14? Tiny child! Look at him, he needs to be protected. Someone has to help this poor little dude. I mean he forgets to use his own powers to avoid attacks all the time.

Anyway cut to Batfam not knowing all of Dannys power set cause the lil dingus keeps forgetting he can do that stuff in the heat of battle.

Danny uses his invisibility all the time… to avoid being followed. But in a fight? Oopsies hes too busy thinking of funny one liners to realise he could do that.

Intangibility? Give the guy a break. I mean who calls themselves condiment king. Even he was stunned.

He so rarely actually uses his biggest advantage powers that the League doubt he actually has them. He, like any naive child, trusts them and reported fully on his power set. Instead of just asking him to demonstrate his powers they instead start watching him and try to find evidence of his powers.

At least they know duplication was true since they watched him make a copy of himself to go to the bathroom and not miss any of his fav tv show.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #dpxdc #im 100% here for danny using his powers for stupid shit and not the important battle stuff #this post wasn’t meant to be like this so I guess heres for you guys who read my stupid tags #I was gonna have the batfam adopt danny after a reveal and just not know all the crazy stuff he can do #they think they got him figured out then at the manner he does something like seep into the floor to get his forgotten school bag #or he turns invisible cause he got caught parnking and bruce is talking to him and steph but he just dips #no wait I can do better. he gets yelled at by bruce (aka new father figure) for eating a corn chip off the floor and just vanishes from… #… from getting surprised. meanwhile bruce is like!?!?!?!!? #just imagine them going crazy because they have no idea his powerset and they thought they did #his new siblings make a game of it #they get on missions and keep asking danny to do more and more impossible stuff just to see if he will reveal a new power #hey danny go scope out the area but make sure you arent seen ok #and hes like sure thing fam and goes invisible and intangible #doesn’t think to just take out the baddies and returns to them with a full floor plan and locatikn of all the baddies and drugs #like wtf #hey danny think you can do anything about that generator? and hes like sure thing fam and then freezes it #danny bro this guy is out of control! little help? and danny just walks up to the guy and overshadows him and handcuffs himself #brother daniel I dint think we can get in but theres a small hole here in the wall #would you be able to do anything about that? and instead of just walking thru the wall danny shifts his body and goes thru the hole #as if he had no bones and became liquid #the game gets intense and breaks bruce so he gives in first (yes he was playkng too) and just asks danny to show them his powers #he will say some shit like ‘ah hey chum think you can show us all your abilities? that was we can coordinate better in the field.’ #dannys just like ‘yea daddio sure thing’ then proceeded to show off his entire move set minus wail until bruce showed him a chamber… #… that could ‘with stand’ his power (spoiler he destroyed that fucking toom lmao) #ok my spaghetti rings and meatballs have been done for a while and juliet is trying to eat them out the microwave so hopefully these tags #fed yall goobers #man I should have just made a second post lmao #stood in the kitchen too long typing and they got cold

[aroaceleovaldez]

musical!Sally, book!Percy, movie!Grover, show!Annabeth my beloveds

#pjo #riordanverse #percy jackson #sally jackson #grover underwood #annabeth chase #pjo tv #my art #you can take grover's crutches from my dying hands #let him keep them! why did we take away his crutches #anyways im lov them all #also once again me constantly drawing percy's shoes as how he describes them in demigods & magicians #also yes i slapped color n texture on the bg i was phoning it in im not afraid to admit it #i just wanted to doodle these four specific iterations together its not a dynamic composition or anything