so many people will be theoretically anti-war and some may even pay lip service to the notion of imperialism being bad, they will perhaps go so far as to say they oppose the idea US occupation. and yet still they will genuinely be shocked when you straight up hate the military in a real way, in the kind of way where you do not make excuses for or lend sympathy to anyone who enlists. they won’t follow you there. they will invoke things like poverty and ptsd and when you remain stone faced and uncompromising they will think YOU’RE the monster. and not, you know, the people who literally knowingly signed up to be a part of the mass murder machine.
like people are always talking about poverty in defense of enlisting and I just wish y’all could recognize the very simple fact that the people in the countries that United States military members are voluntarily signing up to kill are often also living in poverty and then on top of that they are having to worry about being bombed and slaughtered by the imperial poor. Like it’s just not a good excuse to offer yourself up to the murder machine. It isn’t. Of course the United States government doesn’t treat veterans well. It doesn’t treat anyone well. What do you believe veterans to have done that should entitle them to decency not afforded to anyone else? I guess personally I’d rather focus on getting EVERYONE fed and housed, focus on opposing the systems that lead to these conditions, rather than finding sympathy for those who believe they are owed a meal ticket drenched in blood.
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oh I’m realizing now I never posted about this here but! a short film I worked on earlier this year won an award in the easterseals disability film challenge for best writing!! one of the writers is a very dear friend of mine who I’ve gotten to act with a lot over the years, and my creative partner/one of my very best friends features heavily on screen! the two writers and everyone involved in the production put SO much love and care into every part of it, and it was genuinely one of the most positive (and accessible!) sets I have ever had the pleasure of working on!
don’t watch it for me, I’m barely in it and was mostly behind the scenes as a PA (though you can spot me on screen twice if you’re looking lmao, and my friend says I look VERY sexy in my suit). watch it for all the fantastic disabled actors who bring the story to life, and the incredibly charming concept that carried this project to a win! It’s a 5 minute short and definitely worth your time, I’m so proud of my talented and amazing friends!
Logline: A diversity club for disabled people finally finds the one place in town that actually got everything right — and it's a strip club.
i know i encourage people to learn tree ID and bird ID and love the world around them but the one thing i never warn ppl about is how dramatically it narrows your suspension of belief when you’re watching a tv show filmed thousands of miles from where it’s supposed to take place.
was going bananas watching a show set in Oregon but they didn’t edit out a constant chorus of eastern pheobes in the background, but i persevered. bc one i don’t care THAT much and 2 it’s kinda a fun part of the je ne sais quoi especially if the show sort of sucks
but i do have my limits and when i was watching a show set in northern Ohio, filmed in BC I actually quit it permanently when the characters walked into a stand of coastal douglas firs.
frustrated further when i complained about this and someone from the PNW was like “yeah Ohio is so flat and nothing that was too obvious.”
☝️northern Ohio sits on one of the great lakes and was once home to one of the largest wetlands/swamps on the continent. colonial agriculture devastated it but its remnants have persevered. my issue was not that BC was too beautiful to be Ohio. It’s that Ohio’s beauty was not showcased.
STORY I NEED YOU TO READ THIS ARTICLE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INSANE EXAMPLES OF THIS PHENOMENON AND I LOVE HOW THE AUTHOR DESCENDS INTO THE DEPTHS OF MADNESS OVER IT.
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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖
If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you
"lola bunny space jam this, lola bunny feminist icon that" everyone shut up lola bunny space jam will never amount to whatever the hell was going on with her in the looney tunes show
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Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.
Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.
In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.
But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.
Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!
But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.
I've seen this post so many times and I can't TAKE IT anymore. Because there are so many new people in the fandom after that Netflix documentary and I don’t want them getting the wrong impression, I’m going to correct everything that’s wrong in this post.
First off, RUMI IS NOT “IN THE CLOSET”, BECAUSE RUMI’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION HAS NEVER BEEN IN ANY WAY DISCLOSED BY HER OR ANYONE WHO KNOWS HER! Nor has any gender identity other than ciswoman, though that’s less of a debate. You can’t accuse a person of hiding something if you don’t even know if there’s a thing to be hidden!
@ new fans, especially Western ones: yes, this is a #gaylor swifties situation. To be fair, it’s a little more substantiated: Rumi has sung a several incredible songs over the years alluding to having something to hide, and most recently Huntr/x’s new hit “Golden” has her belting, “I’m done hiding, now I’m shining/Like I’m born to be!” and then revealing what seems to be faint but full-body pearlescent rainbow tattoos? Or maybe body paint?
But even that doesn’t mean anything, because Rumi hasn’t SAID anything, and no one who knows her has SAID anything. Hunter/x is FAMOUS for keeping their private lives actually private, and their studio and staff uniquely go the fuck to BAT for them on that—which is really rare in the idol industry, but actually SHOULD be the standard. It’s up to us as fans to respect that! I’m not saying friendly speculation is wrong, but presenting fan theories as true? No offense op but cut it the hell out.
Also, the Saja Boys were definitely a real new band whose studio ran out of money because that literally happens. Not everything is a conspiracy theory.
Okay, point by point:
First paragraph is mostly all correct, except, again, there’s exactly as much evidence that Rumi is, like, secretly half-demon and that’s a real emotional complication for her demon-hunting side hustle as there is that she’s secretly gay. More evidence, actually, because as OP says the Huntr/x lore HAS always been this demon-hunting bit. It lets the idols show off their mad acrobatic & martial arts skills in videos and concerts, it’s cool as hell.
"That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was."
I don't know what OP & their friend might've DMed about, but literally everyone interpreted the flight attendant demons and the ass-kicking thereof as a reference to their world tour & a celebration of its end - especially in conjunction with the AWESOME sky-diving onto the stage! (Alright it was obviously special effects, but it still looked awesome.) This made 100% sense and still does.
"It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues"
BULLSHIT. Rumi flubbed ONE note at the San Francisco show, the last tour date before they returned to Seoul. Was she tired? Probably! It was the end of a huge tour! Was the whole band scheduled for some time off after their last, Seoul performance, and then "Golden" dropped instead? Yes! (That is weird, but it's so atypical for Sunlight Studios to push their artists beyond what the artists are comfortable with that I can't believe it was anything but a fakeout.) (Then again, the cancelled concert was bizarre even as a hype-building move - there's playing hard-to-get and then there's disappointing your fans, you know? So, fine, maybe the girls really did need a break, and they'd planned to do a fake-out but actually it became real...)
"enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons"
Literally what are you on. They debuted with a flash mob show, smashed the charts because it was a bop, and...I honestly have 0 idea where you're getting the idea that they were pretending to be demons in "Soda Pop"?? Because they had good stage effects?? Literally they looked like a 100% normal kpop boy band. Kinda cliché, honestly, but clearly playing on that - also see: all of them but the lead singer having stage names based on their singer archetype: Romance, Baby, Mystery & Hot As Fuck Abby.
"a bunch of b-tier variety shows"
Play Games With Us is a top-rated variety show, a touchstone of Korean music culture since 2012.
"nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there"
Even in the build-up to the Idol Awards, there are only so many pop music events - and, in the build-up to the Idol Awards, EVERYONE is doing ALL of them. Tons of other bands were also overlapping with both Saja Boys and Huntr/x, but those two were focused on because they were winning the annual unofficial "boost your Idol chances by dropping a new single right before the Awards" contest. Which is why "Golden" and "Soda Pop" came out back to back like that btw; Thrice also released "Sunbeam", YOUVE released "Heart of a Rebel", and STB dropped a whole music video for "TNT".
I will concede that there was clearly some collaboration between their studios - Huntr/x is known for boosting new bands (Mira literally learns other bands' choreography and does tiktoks all the time!). So, with the need to hype "Golden", the Play Games With Us appearance in their iconic "Demonslayer" outfits wasn't beyond normal - but the joint signing was. Like, it was normal energy for Huntr/x helping to promote another, newer band, but it was beyond anything they've done before.
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE IDOL AWARDS & AFTER:
Saja Boys was actually supposed to perform before Huntr/x and then Huntr/x went first instead, and I have seen 0 explanation of that. I want explanation of that.
Huntr/x finally performance-debuted "Golden", and it was INCREDIBLE, albeit struck as always by the Huntr/x Video Curse. Rumi fucking nailed it. She looked so happy that I literally teared up.
They transitioned into "Takedown", a new song that there'd been scant rumors of at the time (source 1, 2), and which we can safely assume is part of the "new music" that Huntr/x's official statement (source), released on Wednesday after the Awards, said they have been & are continuing to work on, with "more details coming soon."
During "Takedown", the band definitely had some sort of real fight onstage. I fully agree with the people who say that Rumi did not look like she was just acting that shocked and hurt. But! She also clearly knew the choreography; this song was a planned inclusion. Zoe admitted in an interview last week that they'd been having some conflicts in the group, "Mostly with our own selves, but it spilled out on each other. But we're all good now - I mean, we're all working on being better, and that makes us better!" (Source.) The fight was probably part of that.
(Are these "conflicts" the reason the song, and at least 1 more song discussed in this post, are being released in ?? time rather than the night of the Idol Awards as it seems Huntr/x had planned? Maybe! But this is all speculation! Sunlight Studios is as famously tight against plan leaks as it is against paparazzi bothering their singers.)
Power surge! People heard lights explode! The stadium had to be evacuated.
The Idol Awards chair officially announces that the rest of the show is cancelled, Huntr/x has broken up (he has NO authority or known insider knowledge on that, to be clear), and the Saja Boys have won all the top awards - "Best Song", "Best Group", "Best New Group", "Best Dance Performance", etc. Nobody really pays that much attention, because the Idol Awards are as notoriously rigged as the MAMA Awards - which are so rigged that G-Dragon once performed a rap about how rigged they are at the MAMA Awards.
The Saja Boys, presumably in exchange for all the help Huntr/x gave them, decided to help our girls: they scheduled one of their "classic" flash mob performances (lol, they've only been a band for like 2 weeks; but their studio has 110% gone in on this strategy the whole time and it is so effective at building hype). At that midnight show, Saja Boys debuted their surprise new song, "Your Idol" - which, again re: HuntrBoys theories: yeah, this was totally a planned collab. Huntr/x isn't the only kpop group with a supernatural gimmick, and Saja Boys' riff on the Jeoseung Saja, aka the Korean Grim Reaper, is a different part of Korean mythology than the "demons" that Huntr/x usually hunts. But with the way they've been working together? I smell a shared kpop cinematic universe in the works...
Or, I would, if I thought there was still fire under that epic stage-smoke. Unfortunately, the flash mob public concert strategy finally backfired on Saja Boys. Not because of the marketing & sales flaws (hard to advertise in advance, literally cannot sell tickets), but because the "mob" part came real: the fans RUSHED the stage. People were shoving each other and grabbing at the singers' ankles!
Huntr/x, however, are crowd management pros. They literally disrupted the chaos of "Your Idol", by walking in with a song that fans are collectively naming "What It Sounds Like", even though no information has been officially released, nor leaked, beyond the above-linked official statement + interview. And they. were. incredible.
(Btw to people saying that wasn't planned: Huntr/x was obviously already on set, and they would never butt in on someone else's show without that group's agreement! That's so bonkers levels of rude. It just wouldn't happen. No one would do that. American pop groups wouldn't do that.)
...At least, I've heard Huntr/x was incredible. (I mean, they're always incredible, but.) The Huntr/x Video Curse was in effect like NEVER before: between the the city-wide-ish blackout, the ambitious special effects, the last-minute (attempt at a) livestream, the logistical chaos of the crashed Idol Awards, the emotional chaos of the crashed Idol Awards - both of those for performers, managers, kpop media, and fans - and, lbr, probably just that it was like 1am by the time anything actually happened, so everyone was that special combo of really tired AND really wired - there is NO footage that isn't either completely blurry, too dark or full or flashing lights or both, audio-distorted, or all of the above. Everyone who was present just agrees that it was the Coolest Shit Ever.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Saja Boys: new to the kpop scene + terrifying crowd experience + risky low-sales, high-SFX expenses, high-hype strategy probably making a brand new studio run deeply in the red = disappeared overnight. It sucks, but it makes sense. I expect a goodbye statement any day now, hopefully a video from the band themselves but honestly I'd get it if there's just a press release or something.
Huntr/x: had some "conflicts" but they're now "tighter than ever" and working on new music that "explores the challenges we face and fight to overcome. We look forward to connecting with our fans more than ever!" (Source: same statement as above.)
So I reblogged this before, but I think it's worth doing again because Todd in the Shadows did a video on the Saja Boys. He focuses more on their side of things, which I think is a worthwhile perspective in the HUNTR/X fandom (we can all get a bit of tunnel-vision on the girls).
He doesn't do much more than briefly touch on the whole "demon" thing. I assume that was intentional, because he's mostly concerned with the actual music and the legal/financial situation, rather than the meta story. Still, it's definitely an interesting watch; it's not a long video.
Ugh I hate that Huntr/x video/livestream curse so much it makes it Super hard to be an international fan. I was excited you know, because a friend of mine happened to be in Seoul during the week where the HuntSaja Drama was at its peak and she Promised to film everything for me that she could, and I'm telling you she couldn't even get two clean seconds of the Saja Billboard announcement for the secret concert (no idea how they pulled off that special effect where they apparently all escaped the bounds of the screens but it must have been projections on smoke or something? Wild!) Let alone any of the free concert. I can't even be mad because No One got more than that it's so unfair.
@Huntr/xofficialfanclub for real what incense should I be burning to pray for footage to come out, huh? I'll buy the official DVD I swear just make it available pleeeaaase.
Anyway here's me saving up for plane tickets because Huntr/x skipped Australia in their "world" tour (they pretty much always do 😞). One day. One day I'm going up up up and getting that golden ticket!
I am whatever the opposite of a speed runner is. I am a game meanderer. I have to look at literally everything. I am overly cautious in every way. I forget to pause and wander away from the game. I take a minimum 7 hours to get through any given level. If you give me a timer I will cry.
i don't think anything will ever be as validating as the woman who's supposed to be training me on our new financial software learning how i've been doing payroll for the last five years. the shellshocked silence. the extended stare into the middle distance as she processed the implications. the horrified hands over her mouth. the heady experience of finally sharing space with someone who gets it. i am not the crazy one here.
i admitted that explaining our existing processes makes me feel like wimp lo and she didn't know what i meant until i showed her this gif at which point she agreed
not that anyone asked but when i got this job everyone turned in. paper timesheets. written on printed out empty spreadsheets. and the person with my job would print out her own empty spreadsheet and fill it out with a pencil based on all the other printed spreadsheets. and then use her spreadsheet to enter the time into our shitass software which created 'default hours' for every active employee including part-timers who don't actually work every pay period so she had to manually delete every employee who didn't work. and every time you made an edit in the payroll software there was a random chance that it would delete the first employee listed on payroll so sometimes after making enough edits you'd have to add the first like ten employees back to payroll.
my solution to this nightmare was to make spreadsheets that looked identical to the printouts but used named tables to create a hidden summary table, and i talked the department heads into using them by pointing out they would no longer have to manually calculate hours worked based on time. which is what they were doing before that. usually incorrectly. then i imported all those timesheet summaries into a central spreadsheet using powerquery before using vba to generate something closer to a format that our shitass software was willing to import. but i still had to use a short powershell script to finalize the format because it was a fixed width txt file with a fake filetype where multiple columns had the same name for some godforsaken reason.
this also let me automate my leave accrual spreadsheet that i had to keep because the payroll software fucked up leave accrual constantly. and which my boss originally wanted me to do manually every payroll. with a pencil and a canon mp11dx calculator. he still insisted it had to be on paper in a binder so i wrote a script to go through every table in the excel file and turn everything white except for the most recently added row so that i could just keep printing over the same pages instead of writing it in by hand. every two weeks i would put hundreds of pages of printed out spreadsheets into the printer to add a single row to the end of each page.
did you know that when you change the drum on a printer it can slightly alter the print alignment, and cheap toner cartridges sometimes subtly shed toner in ways that only become obvious after you've run the same sheet of paper through the printer thirty times?
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this is so interesting, because I have OCD and an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, and those things are 100% related. when my immunosuppressant meds are working, my OCD stops. and when I’m unmedicated it’s like my brain is on fire. the one time I actually saw a doctor for my OCD and went through multiple sessions for it, it was allllll about breaking habits and learning self control, and would you believe it, it didn’t help one bit.
