#odds are never in my favor

[theemperorsfeather]

Yesterday, just after lunch, the person doing the final review said she had time blocked on her calendar to do that, and the rest of her afternoon was also free so if I didn't have a draft ready right away that was fine. Well, 10 minutes later fucking InDesign stopped freezing and I got the draft out, and I was really looking forward to getting final markup picked up by the end of the day, cause the damn thing is due at noon today.

I bet you'll never guess what (didn't) happened next!! Or what I'm doing now, at less than 1 hour to the deadline!!!!!

#my professional disagreements with a lot of her copyedits are a whole other rant #(including things like 'maybe don't mark some of this shit up when we've less than an hour to go') #angst and woe #i will no longer believe her 'oh i'll do it at X time' statements #odds are never in my favor #work bullshit #and she knows SHE! KNOWS!! the last minutes gives me the horrors! she's lived the horrors herself AND YET #stop giving me false hope at least - if your plans change T E L L M E

[heynhay]

perchance, klance as a crimefighting cowboy-esque gunslinging duo?

well since you asked so nicely

#klance #voltron #vld #i gotta be honest i almost never draw au. #i respect au. i love au. i partake in au. but i do not create for it #like if youre gonna come in my inbox with an AU just know the odds are....not in your favor #but honestly? it was the cursive for me #and the font change #blearily as i awoke i registered the weirdest fucking way to send an ask. and it tickled me so. so here we are. #art #my art #i think in the wild west here everyone would be like 'ooooo its those guys!! keith is so scary!!' #bc keith would have a Reputation for being. well. his usual self #but lest we not forget who the sharpshooter is. #woe be upon criminals who focus too much on keith and then get fucking dinged with millimeter precision from a mile away by lance #anyway i put on one of my cowboy hats to take a reference pic and just ended up drawing like half of this while wearing it #do with that what you will

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Apollo II: I Flirt With The Enemy

Tag List: @hukat7 @solahflare @worlds-oldest-teenager @ferodactyl @please-help-this-little-lesbian

and happy ToApril!

#the odds are never in our favor #hunger games au #my fics #a not-so straight shot #darren knowles #apollo #artemis #toapril 2024

[xsaintseraphx]

a personal comic about gender and wanting to be comfortable in your own skin

#I want to transition but the odds are against my favor #So it will never happen #Which means I will die without being able to be who I truly am #Which sucks #My art #Comic #Comics #Gender #nonbinary #trans comic

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Listening to the score for Princess Mononoke rn. For some reason I don't listen to this score as often as I do, say, the ones for Castle in the Sky, Nausicaä, and Porco Rosso, and friends that is a shame bc this score in isolation is blowing my tits clean off

#“battle drums” is such an insanely good percussion track. what the fuck #joe hisaishi #never lets me down #princess mononoke #someday i should try and rank his scores #the problem is the divide between “good overall score” and “good main theme” #for example: the main theme from the wind rises shot me point-blank and had me crying within the opening credits the first time i saw it #but the rest of that score is just Okay imho. you spend much of it waiting for the main theme to come back #whereas mononoke and laputa are just banger after banger #totoro is the middle ground where a lot of it is great but there are also some odd tracks thrown in that make it an uneven experience #howl is one of my favorite ghibli scores but if i'm being honest one of my less favored ghibli movies #etc. #personal

[kankuroplease]

Trying to remember all my ships from “sure” to “LOVE” to “oh, I’m curious” because I’m going full chaos and randomizing the prompts 🤠

#kpz thoughts 💭 #a good chunk is just my Sakura ships so the odds are in her favor #but you never know

[madhushala]

i don't know what i want atp

#i just need to divert my thoughts #the haha little girl who liked everything and didn't have a particular hobby is suffering #i know i can learn im you young i feel invincible im waisting my time and energy by not putting efforts #i want to go this professor to guide me but im so scared because people judge you #im so scared im waisting my potential #ive never been this mentally sound #i can't enjoy any media anymore because ive tried it all and it doesn't anchor me anymore #i need something bigger #something grant #practical experience #i want to become so fucking good at what my career that i become people's first choice #worst thing knowing is THAT I KNOW I HAVE THE POTENTIAL #i can do it the odds are always in my favor #and even if they aren't in this way ill turn them because ive gained enough confidence #i just don't know where to put it #and its driving me insane #i don't even want to be on this site anymore #i want to get so fucking busy i don't have time even for myself #i don't want time for anything else other than the two people i love and my chores #i need to go insane for academics #not like top scorer but like

[brother-emperors]

hey! are you interest in Poliziano and the Medici court?

in the sense that you have to know about what the medicis are up to in order to follow along with the rube goldberg machine of interlocking politics during the renaissance (& dynast propaganda building, which is an aspect of political art history I'm always intrigued by, etc), yes. also because the medici are the positive space to the negative space that are the pazzi family, and I'm a 24/7 francesco de' pazzi apologist.

but outside of political spectacle and a general enjoyment of drama, I do not personally care about the medici family or their court of politics. I have said before on this blog and I'll say it again, even if I won't deny them their status as compelling figures in a narrative, I'm a full time medici hater (with varying degrees of seriousness to the statement)

I will say tho, I do spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship drama and everything that went wrong between poliziano, lorenzo, and clarice, like, if that was an HBO show, I'd watch it once a year and make all my friends watch it too. I also enjoy poliziano's writings a lot, obsessed with everything that was going on in his orfeo.

#cannot emphasize enough my first love is machiavelli. the medici family as a whole are going up against that #the odds are very rarely in their favor. almost never. #the exception to this rule is that i find piero the unfortunate extremely weird like i want to put him in a jar and study him #some part of me wants to do a proper pazzi conspiracy comic someday as well but if i do that. i have to do lorenzo #as a secondary protagonist. which is not the most daunting task its like. if i HAD to pick #between two big renaissance projects. the sforzas have my number. also im missing a book on lorenzo which would be key to it all #i might do something about braccio martelli tho. im looking at him. i am thinking thoughts #ask tag

[bithermal]

RIP Team BOLAS??!!?!? y’all never stood a chance

#qsmp #sorry I can’t get over how half their team never logs on and those that do mostly are weak at pvp #rooting for my underdogs but the odds are not in their favor 😔✊

[magnusbae]

#he's starting. why do I feel judgement.... or perhaps he's judging you for being absolutely insane and not sleeping the whole night

#and what made you stop? the fact that the pesky sun was shining so brightly through the window and hurting your tired tired eyes

I thought we were talking about happy dream and look at him #he's also pissed at you for not sleeping

#the day when you draw him happy will have to come

#also yes. you are not a night owl. you. are simply insane @mayhemspreadingguy

This comment was poetic start to finish tbh I just wanted to say that I had enjoyed it greatly 😂😂😂 I feel like I've been called out repeatedly and yet I'm left feeling flattered. 😌😌😌

#I DID NOT CONSIDER IT THAT ALL MY DREAMS ARE SAD #how odd is it? when I write it's almost always gentle and yet.... you are not wrong about the art...... he's not yet to be happy. #Huh. Reflective. #Anyways ALL of your comment was SO fun to read aahhhhhhhhhhh #but I needed to cement those key points ok XD #I appreciate the lovely words and the time you took to write <3 #mayhemspreadingguy #buns.txt #hearing people's thoughts on what i make is so reflective‚ insightful‚ fulfilling and frankly gratifying 💖💞💕💝💖💞 #I love every thought that is outside of my ruined brain #I still did not recover from yesterday HAHA. #Morpheus IS always judging me for my sleeping habits‚ this is why he never favors me with any dreams anymore.

[flashhwing]

refreshing the autograph ticket link for matt mercer at nycc every so often on the off chance it suddenly is no longer sold out

#like if someone returns their tickets and i happen to refresh like ten seconds after they do #the odds are not in my favor but like. you never know! you never know #this has been a post

[vict12r]

@graunblida said “   you  cannot  control  your  parentage ,    but  you  can  choose  your  legacy .   ”

 ‍  ‍ a frown pulls at her lips, tilting her head to look up at the other woman with brows drawn into a puzzled expression. she is still wiping the gore off her arrows with considerable distaste, careful that the twisted ichor doesn't touch her skin -- although she's fairly certain the monster's blood won't burn through her, it never hurts to be cautious. some mild complaint about her blood luring these beasts and here they are, having this conversation.

 ‍  ‍ “ i mean, sure. if that's your deal. ” a quiet grunt as she stands from her crouch, brushing gravel from her knees. unwillingly, she thinks of luke castellan and the many unclaimed half - bloods who followed him; how their names will either be remembered with pity or bitterness. “ i'm not much of a long - term thinker, though. ” katniss isn't necessarily interested in leaving a mark on history, and having children is never something that's stuck out to her, either. quite the opposite.

#graunblida #❛ the odds were never in our favor. ➴ANSWERED. #❛ a fighter forced to perform. ➴WRITING. #❛ i feel divinity in my veins like aching， like fire. ➴PJO. #teehee hi dear!!

[wingsandpetals]

the weirdest thing about having had a garbage childhood is wondering if my siblings feel it too

#our post comrade. #its odd because my siblings are quite a bit older than me #so we arent close #it honestly never occured to me that my siblings went through the same things i did #until i got my job. i dont remember what it was exactly but one of our coworkers asked my brother something about us growing up #i don't know. my whole life i had this image of him as the golden child. the one our parents favored #but his answer was bitter in a way only i could have possibly picked up on. #i almost feel like i imagined it.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Tag List: @hukat7 @solahflare @worlds-oldest-teenager @ferodactyl @please-help-this-little-lesbian

Enjoy! :D

#toapril 2024 #toapril #the trials of apollo #my fics #the odds are never in our favor #apollo #artemis #zeus #commodus

[carcinized]

i think if you have one life threatening allergy you shouldnt also be allowed to have like 30 less serious but very annoying ones

#in the past 2 weeks i discovered first that the weird itchiness i get from cantelope has escalated to my throat nearly closing off #AND that i have a pretty strong reaction to poison oak which ive never had before but still got blisters from secondhand exposure #im scared for when i finally get stung by a bee/yellow jacket/etc. not only am i allergic to everything ever but my cousin has that allergy #the odds are not in my favor there #i think i should be able to snap my fingers and make my allergies go away cus this shit sucks i want out #epipens r expensive man #tobin talks

[commander-malla]

I’ve had some brain thoughts about Malla for a while now and finally am writing them down (under the Cut)

Mostly to do with Bound by Blood/Shadow in the Ice

So, background, we’ve already established that the “Commander” has been removed from their race for a while, and for charr this feeling is especially amped up during the Rally.

Malla’s no different.

Oh sure, she’s kept in contact and done the occasional job with her warband, plus others as well (she did rank up to Centurion after all)..but she left. She left and her warband splintered, Elexus took a chunk of it with with her. Malla outwardly brushed it off when she initially heard about it, before the rally. “We’re Charr, ‘bands split all the time.” Inwardly…it hurt. She hadn’t realized things had gotten that bad. But she wasn’t going to beg Elexus to come back if she wasn’t happy, and then the world needed saving again and she was whisked further and further away.

So here she is, at this Rally, with hundreds of charr watching her every move, judging if she’s “Charr enough” still. (And she did not appreciate the attention Bangar threw her way during his speech but she keeps her mouth shut because he’s still her Imperator.) She keeps her head up, and smoothes ruffled fur where it’s needed, like she’s asked to do, and shows them she still belongs. (But she’s really starting to doubt that she actually does.)

And speaking of Bangar… he hates her. Oh sure, she’s Blood. And she’s a capable Centurion. She’s the daughter of a famous and well-respected charr and still made a name for herself. (reasons Ryland hates her). But…she’s not at all interested in being the Legion Poster Charr and outright refuses to be used in propaganda. And she joined the Vigil founded by his ex-mate Almorra and killed their son with her permission. She’s a Dragon Champion and has the power to wipe everyone out at her command with her new pet.

She argues (the one time she does talk back) that “it’s not a pet” and she “doesn’t control it.” But she can tell it’s not getting through. Almorra storming away doesn’t get through. Rytlock’s “outburst” doesn’t get through. At the very least, she thinks Crecia understands.

And then all hell breaks loose (again).

And through hunting down Bangar and dealing with the Jormag-sized storm brewing, she starts to have an elder dragon whispering in her ears making her question even more her place in the Legions.

And she’s still questioning whether or not she should just give her resignation to Crecia and accepting her life as a gladium, when Bangar shoots her. (She should’ve seen it coming honestly)

It’s honestly a miracle that she doesn’t.

#malla ghostfang #gw2 charr #I do like to think after her work in the Pact and subsequently as Champion #the Legions give her a pretty wide berth #if it wasn’t for the contact with her warband and those odd jobs #she probably would’ve left and become a gladium a long time ago #she saw charr outside the legions okay with it #but she never made the leap #Malla has the cards stacked against her in terms of favor for Bangar and Ryland #thoughts have been in my head for a while but getting them out is a struggle #apologies for spelling mistakes english may be my first language but i am no means good at it