#or just other departments or whatever

[screwpinecaprice]

Just a silly guy, with silly silly thoughts.

@glowweek Day 2

Casual | Surprise

A casual surprise?😬😬😬

#Hooooo boiii this lad is about to get funky. #He was internally screaming the whole time. #It's in my core memory as a connverse fan. I'm never truly going to let this up I believe. haha #Our boy really one day went out there wanting to get married as a teen like a true classic Disney princess. 😭 #It was honestly endearing but sad and also pretty embarrassing. 😔 #Secondhand embarrassment aside. Steven is pretty much lucky in the romance department. Which. Deserved by the way. With all the other #crap he had to deal with. #connverse #Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #SU #my shiz #comic #SU comic #glowweek #connverse week #I have no idea if whatever Connie is spouting are actuallt true in real life. Good thing this can be chalked off as just a thing in their #fictional world. #Also I'm glad part of that was covered by Connie's body because I had to take a few notes from chat GPT to add in her enumerated rambling. #I had to make the glow bracelet float like that because I couldn't draw his hand holding it quiet right in that angle. #And yea that size difference is no error. That's how small Connie's wrist is compared to his hands. Or at least something like that. #teal

[flickerintwilights]

on the road to hell

#hadestown #art #my art #tag ramble as promised: #firstly #i’ve been thinking about redoing this as digital art #(like - mostly the same but cleaner and with some of the details fixed) and probably will if i have time #because i like this composition a lot #but! for now i am oddly happy with how this turned out despite being traditional art/watercolor (no undo button. sobs.) #and it Is a noteworthy day for hadestown with lola tung and lillias white departing #(this is Not meant to celebrate them specifically - i used the obc as reference not them - i just think it’s a nice day symbolically) #so i thought i’d put this out. whatever. yknow. #oh a second thing i will say is that this was a great excuse to check out the slime tutorials on youtube #i spent like 9 or something hours on this :/ so. plenty of time to have things on in the background while i was working. we love slime #thirdly! two things i feel like are worth mentioning rq for Symbolism: #wait for me reprise (intro) originally having wedding procession imagery (from anaïs mitchell in working on a song) #is what first made me desperately want to put the flower/petals on the edges (it still fucking haunts me) #though it was a solid composition choice in general i think #and i mean. clearly the carnation should be prominent. it’s the carnation. from hadestown. #i don’t think the wedding procession reference comes across the way it turned out but that was the first thought #NEXT ouroboros. the snake devouring its own tail (i legitimately forgot that this was why i first drew the rattlesnake that way but #fundamentally i really did just want its tail and head to point to each other lmao)

[stressedmonster101]

ok gen question abt tma.

why the archives. like girl archival is such a lame job. no fucking wonder you got a wet cat of an Archivist, someone who works in archival is inherently gonna be a wet cat. ask stupid questions (who wants to work in my archives?) get stupid answers (the most pathetic Special Little Boy to ever work at your institute)

#coming from someone whos gonna have an archival/library job #girl you couldve picked any other department to find your human sacrifice to all dread powers #“oh its cause tye archivist reads all the statements and sees the fear of all the statement givers” ok?? #it could just as easily be the person who takes the statements #AND then theres actually ppl there for the eye to Eat or whatever #you couldve picked the research guys bc they get into the most dangerous shit #they get to interact w the statement givers and see how the fear shaped them #and go get the evidences of the supernatural bss #new headcanon that the only reason the eye picked the archivist to be its Special Little Guy is because it has a cool title #like you cant be intimidating when your title is “the Researcher” or “the Interviewer” or “the Receptionist” #the magnus archives #tma #the archivist #the beholding #the eye

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the thing with doctor who i think is that it gets better the more you know. maybe this is true of all writing but i only know doctor who so we'll focus on that. but i think it gets better the more you know this is why my fic is not very good. i dont know many things. i think if you have a background in like, just any field you can use you can make your doctor who stories more interesting. like linguistics maths physics and music are things that come to mind for me that i would like to know to make my doctor who stories more interesting but i think it can work with, like, almost anything. biology stuff also works well adds a lot. sociology stuff history. if you know how to sew really well or youve worked in meat factories. just, if you have deep knowledge about something this will enrich your doctor who stories (again, might be true for literally every writing)

but also things you can know that are just lived and not books. like i said with that post about different countries' doctor whos, every country would bring its own history and values and perspective to the stories. but also like for example the class stuff or the queer stuff you see with rtds stories like anything a writer Knows will make their stories more interesting

and thats why doctor who could literally be so good If They Diversified Their Fucking Staff. in every sense of the word. you need disabled people, trans people, racialised people, people with different religions but you need people who know other things than writing too! which i get is difficult because theyre mostly working in their fields and not writing but like there are writers who are not or have not only ever just been writers. or just get writers with some weird fucking hobbies!

even in the most basic way even if you keep your entire show white christian able-bodied man, if you have more of those you will have better stories. it will still suck! but like, less than if you only have 1 guy writing right? thats not a novel concept artists know this writers know this thats why they work together. and i get that making tv is very complex and theres a lot of interests and a lot of choices being made that arent even to do with the stories but i find it so frustrating to think about how good doctor who could be if they let other people in to put their knowledge and their perspective in the stories

#and not just in the writing but in Every Department Obviously #i just dotn know how television is made so i dont know. like. what those are #the secret good disabled trans decolonialist doctor who that lives in my head man #like you know that feeling when an artist like...........Gets a certain theme or smth #like Knows what to do with it bc they have a certain own experience or knowledge #like when an artist truly fucking knows what theyre doing #you know that feeling? when youre like this SAYS something abt the theme/trope/idea/whatevs #you know? #doctor who is so full of unused potential #i feel like we're spinning our wheels a little bit #and maybe others feel that too bc showrunners keep being like WE NEED NEW SHOCK BIG NEW #but like. youre not gonna get that with the same old perspectives! #for truly new good refreshing you need some new good refreshing people on the mic #anyway. just. frustrates me #10 to the master but it's me to doctor who the show: you could be so much more! #like 13 and 15 are fun right? with the idk new outfit and the rwandan proverb on the sonic. fucks. but #to use rtds own words. ridiculous craven feeble gesture also a little bit. i want like. substantially good stories #i want to feel like the writer knows what theyre talking about you know? #you know that feeling #anyway #you get what im saying #the secret good doctor who that lives in my head man #except. it doesnt live in my head. bc it lives in many otherp eoples head. by definition #but sometimes i read like fic by friends who fucking Know things and im like damn #damn!!!!! doctor who could be so much better!!!!!! #i also think when youre a writer whos only a writer theres the risk of chasing your own tail a bit #in that th elonger youre a writer the more you only start writing about writing bc thats what you Know #i think thats a risk #also not a novel concept pretty sure professional writers are aware of that one gfhkjghgjg theyre not stupid

[thelivingautomaton]

the predoctoral fellowship i resubmitted in the fall not only didn't get funded, but in fact got even worse reviews than the first submission, except literally all of the reviewers' critiques were unrelated to the actual scientific merit or value of the work i was proposing. anyway i am feeling very poorly and very stupid today and hate everybody and everything, &c

#grad school tag #anyway STEM research in academia is a clownshow. and brother i'm one of the freaks in white facepaint #it might aggravate me less if i didn't know as much now about how much funding is just dependent on insider baseball bullshit #or if i didn't know that other labs in the department are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for projects that are absolute nonsense #or if i felt like more than 1.4% of the millions of dollars my institution is sitting on went towards developing trainees as scientists #(DEEP BREATH) okay it's cool it's fine i'm over it. whatever

[localguy2]

Pixane is like such a well written relationship, like damn writers yall went off

You have on 1 hand Zane, a nindroid that thought he was human up until not too long ago, despite being a literal robot this man is full of emotion, literally indistinguishable from a normal human unless he told you he was a robot

And you have PIXAL on the the other hand, an assistant droid who works for Cyrus, she doesn't know shit about feeling human, like for a good portion of early Season 3 she's just "what the fuck is an 'emotion'"?, and who could blame her? To her working as an assistant and following orders has been her whole life, until she meets Zane at least

And ever so slowly Zane starts opening her eyes to the outside world, and helping her understand and feel stuff like happiness, love, sadness, etc., and generally being there for her when she's in such a forgin and unfamiliar environment

And in turn she helps him come to terms with himself and element in Season 4, she's there not only as a helping hand for Zane, notifying him of stuff around him, but she's also an emotional support to him, heck she was the one to help him calm down when he's having a literal hallucination and panic attack in the cave

Thier entire relationship throughout the show is built upon supporting each other, they both have done so much for each other, take either of them away from the other and the cookie immediately crumbles

and hell the show has shown this a lot of times, in Season 6 when Nadakhan wipes PIXAL form Zane's system, Zane almost immediately wishes it all away, and in Season 11, when Zane is sent to The Never Realm, PIXAL literally has a nightmare about losing him

I could go on and on about these 2 driods and how they complent each other so well but this post would end up way too long lmao

#ninjago #zane julien #pixal borg #lego ninjago #pixane #random ranting #dont even get me started on PIXAL's speech in Crystalized #that scene is golden and ain't nothing changing my opinion abt it #Crystalized has its flows ye #like PIXAL talking to Comatose Zane about how she doesn't know what's in store for beings like her and him #But like #You just completely ignored Day of the Departed #Like your were literally there to see the ghosts of the other nindroids leave after being defeated #Whatever lol #Don't wanna turn this into crystalized rant #We already got enough of that

[httpiastri]

how about if... i just... don't do my work.....

#ohhh right i was supposed to connect my phone! i totally forgot about that!! and i didn't read that par #of the email you sent me... just all other parts... and even though you told me to do it this tuesday and also last week i just forgot... #pls i'm so unmotivated #i speedran a lot of my work stuff but now it's like #my job computer has freaked out and i should go to the like it services help but i just can't be bothered #idk the guys working there are kinda sketchy (and they're probs on lunch break rn) plusssss i don't have a like access card (????) so like #if i leave the office i cant really get back in so i'll have to knock on the door and hope someone lets me in lol i just don't wanna #the only assignment i have left for the day is something i need the work computer to do but i just don't wanna talk to people to get help.. #also none of my bosses or coworkers in my department are here... its just me and this one lady from the economy department so no one knows #she either listening to really loud music in her headphones or she doesn't even have headphones?? either way i can hear her music clearly 😶 #also!! the n1 thing i should do but just cant is #im supposed to go to the front desk and like connect my phone to my boss's number so i get her calls because shes on holiday or whatever #but like... i still really really *really* can't talk on the phone #there's just no way im doing that #i just don't know how to fake like #sounds believable? #much more fun to rant in tags than to work 👍 #and to think of how obsessed i am with lando norris #OMG PAUL F2 ANNOUNCEMENT RN AS IM TYPING AAAAAA #HELP

[other-peoples-coats]

staring down the next three weeks to a month at work has me desperate for a little coma, so uh. either I will be around So Much or No Much, maybe after this crisis life will slow down, please.

please.

#coats chats #coats vs capitalism #three people are going away. they all do (different) specific tasks only one person who will be around is trained on #this person is me. #also there are two new hires (one of whom I'm also training) #and the slightly less new hire (im training on some tasks) #all of these are daily tasks #succession planning is great. succession planning that all ends up with a single person is Not Great #also the maths on this was clearly worked out ... Friday arvo🙃 #anyway pray 4 me or whatever I'll see you all on the other side #(hopefully it gets less after Wednesday because theoretically i train two people to do some of the task parts #so it's not Literally Just Me #but. y'know. hopefully.) #(yes i am going to kill my fucking manager and department head who have clearly shrug emoji'd this)

[pathologising]

so much tea at my workplace rn waiting to see what happens

#two people who arent supposed to be dating (bc of seniority) are dating rn #and i know and some other people know but management doesnt know #and theyre literally not suppksed to date bc one is a position hifher than the other #and they ask u during training are u seeing anyone in this department in a position higher ir lower than u #bc weve hD problems like tht before #plus shes 20 and hes 28 a full grown man idgaf abt seniority my problem is that hes a fully baked adult #plus he pounced on her quick too theyve only known eachother for maybe a month #like why cant he get someone his own age??????? #i was like girl if ur gonna date older men date someone who is making MONEY MONEY #but whatever im just waiting to see how it all goes down

[iguessitsjustme]

Got “trained” on a project today and my director was talking like I knew I was on this project for a long time and not like he surprised me by scheduling training for today

#rae irl #rae at work #id like to say that the training was basically just ten minutes of talking about it like you got it? yeah i got it #and me telling him the instructions on how to do something #because i did this project last year #and i am the only person in the department thats done it before #well. the vp has done it but technically shes not in the department anymore #she trained me last year #so ill just add this project to my 2 others im doing #one of which should really have two people on it to help with the workload but whatever #ill drink my coffee and eat my snacks and be fine

[thebirdandhersong]

Hm

#i wonder sometimes. we have so many profs who specialise in studies in sexuality or whatever #and have done papers publications classes whatever on sexuality or eroticism in X body of literary work #SO many of them in the eng lit department #i was telling my friend about something my prof said in class once and she just stared at me with big eyes and i was like... i'm not kiddin #though i WISH i were. it wouldn't be a good joke at all though #sometimes i wonder. should english profs and majors go and touch grass every once in a while? #because it strikes me sometimes that if someone normal (i.e. not an english major) (i call upon my own state as an english major #as grounds for having rights to make Comments about english majors) comes into a classroom and listens to the stuff #prof and other english lit peeps continually pontificate on. and just walk away feeling deeply disturbed #do they not realise. that some of this stuff is downright perverted #i don't know i wonder what the inklings would think about english departments and their obsession with sex these days #i doubt cs lewis would have good things to say about it. much less tolkien #anyhow i feel like i'm being uncharitable once again but it IS perverted #and by golly we should NOT be bringing up sexuality so much in class. there are better things to think about #and better ways to analyse a text. my word

[coto524]

going back to that post about that poor soul being repeatedly mistaken for a recording on the phone at work...

i said in the tags that i get a lot of compliments for my telephone etiquette but minimal accusations of being an IVR, and at the time i put that down to the fact i answer the phone very bluntly with just "[department name], [site]" and maybe a "can i help?"

today was my first weekday back at work in 2024 (weekends don't count. we get about 5% of the phone calls) and i realised that actually probably the more important factor is that. although i have got a little better over the last two years i still have a habit of speaking at the speed of a chipmunk on amphetamines. and usually recordings are a little more laidback than that

#personol #work #considering phone work is such a big part of our role it's kinda wild how we get no telephony training. you're just allowed to wing it #like there are some points you have to stick to but there's no fixed script except for whatever you come up with for yourself #so. i answer calls like that bc 1) i work across A Lot of departments and it helps me remember which one i need to say today #2) when the desk is busy you want to deal with calls as quickly as possible bc F2F patients take priority #3) i'm of the firm belief that on a lot of phone calls 'being polite' means not wasting the other person's time #4) redundancy can be helpful for communication in some cases. but not all #anyway. i have opinions #and nobody's said i need to be more polite answering the phone soooooooooo i'm staying at it

[britneyshakespeare]

i love it when i find out that a french-speaking artist i'm a fan of is belgian

#my great-grandmother was belgian #it'd be a lie to say i'm in touch with that ancestry but other than irish that's really all i am #i have three irish catholic grandparents and then on my mom's side one random finnish-belgian grandmother #whose last name was english because her father just took the name of the guy in front of him at ellis island #bc whatever finnish name he had. the guy doing the paperwork didn't wanna spell it and he wasn't literate. #like most white americans i don't know my own family history very well #but i make a good irish-american stereotype bc im a redheaded lapsed catholic from a giant family based in massachusetts #can't get much more irish-american than that #tales from diana #my great-grandmother didn't even speak french tho. she was flemish #she was also illiterate and according to my mother not the brightest bulb in the lamp in the common sense department #basically everyone on both sides of my mom's family had a very rough background #is what it is

[pcktknife]

sorry not to add to the genshin antisemitism thing but it's even worse that he's like definitely a caricature and also a fucking banker like. that's barely even subtle

yeah that's pretty blatant i didn't even know about that part

#asks #anon #i dont really watch the videos often i just saw when the designs were posted and it was very much like an eyebrow raiser #i wonder what goes on in the design department of stuff like this cause just...do smth different lol get whatever the art version .. #of a sensitivity reader is or smth they can definitely affoooord to #i know they dont care genshins just their little money maker for their other games anyways so why would they lol #antisemitism #mhy

[pallases]

i lov. not studying <3

#personal #the engineering chronicles #me sitting here scrambling to work on my schedule next semester bc all my physics waitlist spots opened for me yesterday and they only give #you 36 hours to accept them 😭 #it won’t let me accept the section i actually want bc to do that i need to move a different class that is now full for all sections and tha #class is linked to multiple other class so i can’t drop it even when im on the waitlist for other sections of it or it drops like half my #schedule. ugh #but whatever. the other section doesn’t seem too bad and honestly less hassle for me but. theprofessor for the section i want has really #really good reviews and he’s like the only one in the whole department :( #the physics chronicles #anyway. not nearly as worried abt this exam as today’s since this professor told us he’s tossing away the 70% average rule they put on all #the engineering syllabi so i can get a 17% and still pass lmao. but i would like to do more than just pass obviously so really need to get #to work on reviewing 😭 it’s 11 pm already

[nudibutch]

asking the public: do any of you guys who play/played wii or gamecube know of any games with particularly good disability accommodation settings? someone i know is recovering from a paralytic situation and the movement in his hands is good but one of his shoulders can act up and cause issues in his hand. ive been looking to expand my retro library anyway and wanted opinions so the next time i visit him i can bring some good titles that we can play while we hang out.

#or just fun games u remember playing #currently i have: super monkey ball 2; mario kart double dash; harvest moon a wonderful life; animal crossing; super smash bros melee #and in the wii department i have: mario kart wii; metroid other m; wii sports; sims animals; mysims kingdom; super smash bros brawl; #animal crossing city folk; and i think thats it? #it might cost me a fortune to buy physical disks with good titles but. whatever