#we need some service

[service4cops]

Left: "You the copsucker?"

Me: "Yeah."

Right: "Good, because we need some service"

Me: "Well stop by, sit back, and I'll service you to completion."

Left: "Sounds good."

The daddies are always in need of servicing and come loaded looking for release.

#motorcycle cops #two daddies #hot daddies #motorcycle unit #daddies in need #we need some service #full loaded #needed to dump their loads

[tathrin]

Hey, so do you ever stop to think about how the premise of Lord of the Rings being an in-universe book written by some of the characters who lived through that story means that they decided what parts and perspectives to use to tell that story...?

And when our authors weren't there to experience the events themselves, they have to rely on what they're told about them by the characters who were there, right...?

Okay so stop and think about the Glittering Caves.

We never actually go to the caves in the narrative. Tolkien LOVES describing nature and natural beauty, but we don't actually see the caves described "by him" the way we do other places. Obviously Gimli's words are Tolkien's, yes; but we only see the caves filtered through his words about them, after the fact.

When Gimli and Éomer and the other Rohirrim take refuge there, the narrative doesn't follow them. Obviously from a narrative standpoint this is to keep the focus narrow, and not to interrupt the battle-sequence with a long ode to the beauty of the caves, and to create tension in the reader who doesn't know if these characters are okay or not. Which all makes sense!

But think about it in terms of the book that was written in Middle-earth by the folk living there. Why DON'T we get to have a direct experience of those caves? Gimli obviously related several other parts of the story that none of the Hobbits were there to witness to them, and which were written into the books as Direct Events Happening In The Narrative (think of the Paths of the Dead scene, for one of the more visceral moments!). So why not the Glittering Caves?

Was it because they wanted to keep that narrative focus and tension, and so they didn't include his perspective on that part of the battle? Perhaps, that's certainly a possibility to consider.

But also consider: when we do hear about the Glittering Caves, what we hear is Gimli telling Legolas about the Glittering Caves. THAT is the part of that event that is considered of importance to include in the book: not Gimli's actual experience when he was in them, but rather the part where he relates that experience TO Legolas.

And I kind of just THOUGHT about that today.

And went HUH.

#i mean that's pretty neat right? #the story could very easily have included gimli and eomer in the caves #and probably tolkien could have done some really beautiful stuff with language and tension and contrast #balancing the beauty of the caves with the fear and bloodshed of the battle outside #and it would probably be an incredibly lovely sequence tbh #then the gimli/legolas discussion about the caves could be easily glossed-over on the way to isengard #with the narrative just telling us that gimli told legolas about the caves and he was moved by gimli's words yadda yadda #since we would have already experienced the wonders he was talking about for ourselves and thus wouldn't need him to go on at length #and then they make their bargain to go to aglarond and fangorn together tra la lally resume normal service here #that would have also been a perfectly fine and lovely way to write that part of the story #BUT #that is not how the story was written #and i just find it really interesting and lovely that THAT is what was considered the important part about gimli's discovery of aglarond #lotr meta #gimli #legolas #aglarond #glittering caves #lord of the rings #lotr

[uncanny-tranny]

The bourgeois or "exploiting class" doesn't inherently include the person who gets their nails done biweekly, or the disabled person who has a carer, or the guy who got a $70 video game for full-price, or the person who relies on medication (yes even the ones you don't think they "need"), or anything else like this. None of these people will, on average, have the ability to exploit workers by means of ownership or whatever.

While you are busy fighting with fellow workers, you are still being exploited by your boss, by capitalism, by (potentially) not having healthcare, by being overworked and underpaid, and so are they.

#politics #feel like this wording isn't satisfactory for me but fuck it we ball #used bourgeois because i think as a colloquial word it's recognized but like... #...i dunno i think some people use it to mean 'person who can do [x]' even if they quite literally own no means of production #like the idea that you're exploiting a worker by agreeing to a service they provide isn't what bourgeois means #if i paid a carer to care for a disabled person they aren't being exploited by that disabled person... #...HOWEVER that carer absolutely can (and probably will be) exploited by the systems of power (eg their boss or capitalism) #perhaps it's too late at night for me to be posting about this but it's something that bothers me! #*especially* when it comes to disability and other groups already exploited by marginalization 👍 #if your leftism percludes the disabled (including the terminally and profoundly) or the elderly or the queer or so so much i don't WANT ITTT #saw a disabled person i follow lament how afraid they were to have a carer out of fear of Being a Bad Exploitative Person #and they obviously need one and that makes me so fucking angry to know that they are needlessly suffering

[httpiastri]

i aint never been this emotional over one pic before

#im melting :(((( #this is so- #it's them!! the besties !!!!!!! #i missed them way too much #it's just one silly little picture but im a mess 😭😭😭😭😭 #we've been praying for this 🙏🙏 and finallyyyyy #ralf aron i love you SO MUCH #he knows what we needed #so thankful for his services #gtg cry some more now okay thanks #f2 #f3 #f1 #paul aron #dino beganovic

[novantinuum]

gnawing at the bars of my cage

can we please Stop telling SU blind reactors all the fandom drama and SU crit that came out of every episode so we can allow them to just enjoy the show like a normal person at their own leisure and make their Own opinions thank u

#anyways if i see a SINGLE person comment anywhere from SU s3 to s5 that 'warning the end of s5 is rushed' i will rush right in with #'IN YOUR OPINION' #bc like i know i've beaten this dead horse against the wall a million times but It's Not Rushed Honey it's literally just Fine #it's an Ending #it's Entirely Serviceable #rushed would be if steven pulled a deus ex machina out of his ass at Garnet's wedding and magically healed all corrupted gems by himself #with the power of uwu or whatever #but NO he has to work for his healed corrupted gems #the ones that caused the damage Fix the damage as reparations for the harm they perpetuated #steven learns he is Not His Mom and gains a more stable sense of self #that's all p good and thought out shit to me #i think the ONLY thing that i can remotely point to as potentially 'well damn that was a lot all at once' #was the new fusions one after another. but like come on. why you gonna be mad about that. just enjoy it and have fun brenda #they thought they literally had No More Story and wanted to leave the fans this one last gift #and instead what they get is fans whining that it's 'rushed' #rushed has a shit ass connotation these days #why can't we just say what we mean and call it 'lean storytelling' #it's all the story we needed to get a cohesive ending but without any fat #and like i LOVE me some fat sometimes #but like!! even non fatty meat tastes good! #my god #jen rambles #edited tags to clarify my meaning ahahah

[ccarrot]

Why tf is chuuya a vampire anyways BRO HOW DID YOU GET TURNED

#he EITHER #a. got jumped by someone he trusted or. #b. got bit on purpose. #hear me out! in almost ALL of his appearances in the main manga chuuya shows up to carry out mori's orders or to service mori in some way #chuuya is also the port mafia executive we see on the field most frequently #(verlaine's in the basement. kouyou came out like twice just to be weird about kyouka and ace was a bitch) #and like. mori and kouyou... and verlaine too ig.. are conspicuously awol since ch 89 or smth. perhaps. #perhaps they sent chuuya out on some kind of mission. maybe TO bust out dazai. and they need Fyodor to be blindsided somehow. #so chuuya needs to be a vampire. #and they're relying on dazai filling in the other half of the plan and soukoku's unbreakable gay bond to prevent it from going haywire. #now the next question why's chuuya in civvies? #was he like. 'fine boss i'll go with your plan. but if i'm getting turned into a mindless puppet monster thing at least let me look cunty.“

[coquelicoq]

gurathin, thiago, indah...starting to get the sense that if murderbot didn't have any specific person playing the role of "someone i deep down respect who i'm convinced hates me" at any given time, presaux would have to assign someone, for enrichment purposes

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #mb needs an anti-support human. like instead of a service dog it has a human that frowns at it sometimes #and it interprets these frowns as 'oh i guess this human just HATES ME. i guess we're ENEMIES. but WHATEVER I'M FINE WITH IT' #even though that's just what this human's face does when they're thinking really hard or something #like i'm rereading network effect and every time mb is cranky about thiago not liking it i'm like. babe you are reading way into it #he's skeptical. you love skepticism! he does not hate you he's just being cautious #in some ways quite similar to you really #'thiago doesn't trust me. how DARE HE' babe we have been here before #that's exactly what you said about gurathin! #i mean is he an asshole? yes. but so are you and so is your best mutual administrative assistant. you love assholery #i just think it's funny that 1) mb trusts no one until it knows them really well and 2) mb is SO OFFENDED when people who don't know it #super well don't trust it fully and implicitly right off the bat #my posts #f #well it's christmas and i don't have anywhere to be today because my family stuff is on monday this year. so i am very bored #you know what that means. deep dive into the drafts #also probably trying to find an ask meme to reblog #this draft is from july i think

[ramayantika]

Okay but the life of the legendary Shovana Narayan altered my brain chemistry, a superb academic record hold, a maestro in kathak and then also a civil services officer with a long distance marriage and motherhood

If she could do this in the 50s and 60s, wtf is stopping me from doing so, when I have never wanted just one thing to define me

#samridhi speaks #also to my ex who told me things likw your relationship will never work out with him because of different life goals #lol this woman married a diplomat and they managed a long distance marriage too #her husband paved doors foe collabs with the West with Indian dance back then #this is the kind of love I want sure physical intimacy is needed and what not but God I am never giving up all of this to marry #and I still remember him saying you give those soft mothet vibes who is a part time mother and dancer #bye I will girlboss all my life and be all right in front of guys like some of my cousins who think we girls his sisters will just marry #and settle down amd to my ex too for thinking I will be easy and live out a simplw life #fuck everything the only understanding men in my life have been my father brother and my boyfriend at this point #weird that he never grew up around sisters but still is so aware and understanding of women and our desire for dreams #lol I am ranting but yes I have an exam in 6 hours my sleep got over by 2.30 #and then I was googling gpat niper prep #yeah it's first sem but I keep wanting to updatw on the info #and God knows what struck me to google dancers randomly who were into civil service academia and still being legends in the arts #then shovana narayan came up

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

#I think maybe productivity tips help less if the reason you're unproductive is partially like.. physcial health and other extenral things #out of your control. rather than just like having trouble paying attention or spending too much time on tiktok or whatever #all the strategic to do lists in the world are not going to somehow prevent me from waking up with a debilitating migraine or whatever #or having external stressors or lacking resources and connections or other Productivity Essentials etc. #especially many tips involve stuff like 'cut off from social media' since thats the modern day time waster for so many poeple #and it's like.. lol.. i can hardly even maintain a blog even thuogh i actively WANT TO DO SO. 'shut off your smart phone!' already #done babey i fucking hate smart phones i shall never use an app unless i am forced to. 'delete tiktok' yep. already covered. tiktok and #all of those thinsg are my enemies. 'save money by cancelling some of your services' cool. already ahead of you. #who the fuck is out here paying for like 10 different subscription services. pirated videos uploaded to google drive and youtube to mp3 #my beloved. etc. etc. and so on. 'socialize less' .........LOL.. if only you knew.. mr.writer of the article. i can barely muster #talking to friends more than once a month and even less if I'm actively sick (often occurence) etc. etc. ... hewoo #I think maybe instead of generic productivity tips I need more like.. how to refocus and be productive anyway even if you have a headache #or are nauseous or etc. Not that those are always things to ignore. and of course you should let your body rest and etc. But plenty of peop #e have mild physical symptoms and just work through them. Ithink something about the way my body/mind is SOO hyper attuned to all #sensory information just makes it like... constantly 'GRR well I cant focus on WRITING right now because my lef #t ear feels weird and my socks are too itchy and my back has a strange pressure and I'm vaguely warm and my eye feels some ssort of #way it doesnt normally feel and I'm hyperaware of my breathing and also nauseous for no reason' and like half of those things I #think '''normal''' people wouldnt even notice or at least would be able to just live through. but for me it's like.. nealry impossible to i #gnore and soooo distracting always. like 'wahh.. nooo we can't draw or get anything done.. my legs feel slightly heavy or something!!' #like............. ok......... who cares. thats not even a PAIN sensation it's just something weird. but it's just like.. NO. constant #mental alerts about the 'heaviness' of your legs be upon ye. Though Imean like.. yes.. 70% of the time I am in genuine pain #or having some sort of actual ailment with trackable physical symptoms. but sometimes it's just like... we could totally be working right #now and ignoring this silly thing but my brain is fixated on it for no reason uncontrollably. etc. etc. I guess it's the same way that like #most people can go to a grocery store without the whole experience being so overwhelming and so much stuff going on at once #that they have to rest afterwards but like.. in my own HOME doing NOTHING i feel like I should be able to not get overwhelmed lol. ANYWAY #Rolling my bastard little rock up a dumbass hill and so on and so forth

[milfhandholder]

We need to explore the possibility of butler Grell being crazy hot

#HEAR ME OUT SHE IS A WOMAN IN TUX #AND SHE'S ALSO A LIL FUCKED UP IN THE HEAD #SO MY POINT IS THAT SHE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE A LIL APE SHIT BEFORE THE REVEAL AND GET BLOOD ON HER #the Sebastian Bites His Glove pose would look super sexy on her #kuroshitsuji #black butler #grell sutcliff #kuroshitsuji grell #kuroshitpost #I'm not that big of a fan of fan service but we should totally get some for Grell #and I don't mean it in a mocking way I NEED TO SEE THIS WOMAN BEING SUPER FUCKING SEXY AND PPL ACKNOWLEDGING HER SEX APPEAL

[fleething]

Looking back on it, season 2 was a lot of things. Yes it was sweet and funny and all that, but it was mostly strategically clever.

We know that the plot of the 3rd season was actually meant to be the direct continuation of the story from season 1. Season 2 was mostly the bridge to get us from season 1 to season 3. By having the 2nd season be sweet and romantic and revolving around the ineffables, they practically made sure that the 3rd season would get made, and that its story would be told. Because who wouldn’t want to see to see more, after those sweet moments, that kiss, that ending.

it was a safe bet that we, as fans, would lose our collective minds about it. If you ever wanted to get people talking abt your show, this was definitely the way to do it. Of course we’d demand more, we’d want a (happy) ending for good omens more than anything.

And by orchestrating the 2nd season the way it has been done, the production team ensured that. We know that season 3 will be less sweet and romantic, that it’ll be probably more aligned with the tone of season 1. That’s why i think the fans should prepare bc season 2 has given us high expectations and i’m not too sure it’s all that realistic to assume without doubt that they will be met.

Was season 2 fan service? Maybe so, but it was very wonderful, effective fan service.

#do not get me wrong there is nothing wrong with fan service at all #it’s great #i loved the second season #i just feel like we need to be ready to have a s3 that is more aligned with s1 #which again is not a bad thing #it’s just different #once again this is not a critic towards the second season it’s beautiful just the way it is #just some random thoughts i’ve been having #good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #crowley #aziraphale #good omens s1 #good omens s2 #good omens s3

[alteredsilicone]

Larian on twitter telling someone "no kissing between durge and Gortash" LMFAO

#bg3 tag #durgetash is best played in the mind palace tbh #good ship tease #people need to learn to use their imagination #but like the official account coming out with the rolled up newspaper like #WHACK WHACK STOP ASKING #is funny #then again this fandom has a chronic problem of pulling expectations out of their ass #and then going surprised pikachu meme when they dont come true #some people make demands of larian like theyre ordering a burger at mcdonalds #like please #also the jokes about bg3 being a live service game #i really do hope larian moves on to their new IPs #so people can have one final fandom wank about all the things we didnt get #and the dust can settle #so i can enjoy the game again

[cinna-bunnie]

so like..

is the idea that as a compromise to only having to toggle off tumblr live once a month, you now have this permanent tumblr live icon regardless of ur setting choice stuck to the bottom in the middle of everything in the hopes that i click on it accidentally anyways even though it's clear i don't want it or? where is the NO 100% STOP GIVING ME THIS SHIT I DON'T ACCEPT YOUR POLICIES AND LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT TUMBLR LIVE AND WILL NEVER BE INTERESTED IN THIS TYPE OF FEATURE OR FORMAT.

@zingring @photomatt @humans idk how many feedback requests people have to cut tumblr for "no" to just be a valid response here. ppl aren't dumb and see u inching over the line trying to force this on them despite the snooze choice.

what, are there so many ppl snoozing and such a low adoption rate that you know you need to trick users into using it so you can "make number go up" or? 🙄

#snoozing tumblr live for a month but perpetually having a big centered button that will take you there immediately at all #times while also inherently meaning that you've accepted the privacy policies and TOS for using a third party service #tumblr is so fucking annoying is2g i should just pester my mutuals repeatedly about getting onto cohost and being active instead #of talking to a fucking brick wall because obviously NO ONE at tumblr gives a shit that NO ONE wants to use their shitty third #party live stream feature. for the millionth time leave me alooooone #my patience and grace for this site is almost entirely spent y'all ngl (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠) tumblr is like one or two annoying updates away from #me bugging y'all to get on cohost. was hoping there'd be a few more good updates before we got back to the annoying enraging ones. #like.. seeing if ppl r mutuals or followers on mobile? 👍 snoozing going from 7 to 30 days? 👍 live being there despite snoozing? 👎🔫 #I'm STILL not over this whole twitter UI too in the browser too. tumblr's trying sooo hard to be a blogging platform in a twitter trenchcoat #u ARE a blogging platform and are functionally different than a typical social media site in multiple key ways. why r u downgrading urself #it's bc matt thinks elon's sooooo cute and wants to kiss him so bad he'd do anything to get his attention #even crash the popularity of his site and burn his good grace he had w the platforms community. #y'all rich mf need some hobbies i swear to god (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠) y'all get bored or divorced n start tryna fix shit that ain't broken. pests. #now it's everyone else's problem too 🙄

[raccoonfagdyke]

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#being a system is becoming a lot less scary to us #right now we're at home watching Kiki's Delivery Service and crying cuz a younger part never thought she'd be able to watch this movie #and the reason we decided to watch it was because she was getting anxious #and well we were able to talk to her and get her to feel a bit better she needed some extra comfort #it feels like we're actually making progress like things could actually get better for us #and we could be more..... IDK secure I guess? become more stable? #it really feels like it's going to take time but things might actually get good and we may actually get to be a person we like more #be a person we want to be instead of just always kind of chaotic and having a really difficult time

[naamahdarling]

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#things are getting really bad in my state and we may have to move at some point in the future #i have no idea how we will ever afford that #when we can't even afford to fix our heater or our busted windows or our garage door all of which are safety risks #i can try crowdfunding it all i guess but the service calls to diagnose what's wrong are too expensive #i just don't know what to do #we need help and i don't know how to get it

[presumenothing]

watching the last 10 eps of mlc with the novel still rattling around in your head is truly just an extended experience in alternating between *chinhands* and (overwhelmingly) *head in hands*

#on the one hand i finally have context for various posts #on the other hand it is truly just. *gesturing wildly* why was this necessary. like i get diff formats etc etc but also. Why #legit hats off to cheng yi's portrayal he is the main thing selling it to me here but also.. #surely there has to have been some less 狗血 way to spice it up for screen???? #anyway congrats to sgd's wholeass existence and plotline for singlehandedly winning the Changes I Really Don't Care For At All list #with the fun secondary effect (probably) of pushing lxy's portrayal into legit 傲慢 territory in service of that narrative like #i desperately need a slower reread but novel!lxy never to my recall does the whole 没有李相夷不行 thing but welp #here we are and. once again with feeling. why #(necessary clarification that i don't dislike the drama per se it's probably better treated fairly as its own thing but also #every now and then you see the bones of the novel poking through – albeit rendered slightly hypocritical in the sense that drama!llh is #very much not zen and understandably so given this backstory edition – and thus the copious head in hands-ing) #*strums guitar while yelling into the void.mp3* #ramble tag #mysterious lotus casebook #edit to add: DISSONANT the damn word i wanted was dissonant