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Someone tells me that a post of mine that is clearly hyperbolic is too simplistic an analysis (in another post they nitpick the distinction between "compare" and "contrast") and I want to say "hey, are you familiar with the concept of 'hyperbole'?" but instead I say something more polite, but WAY more passive aggressive
Don't be rude to me at night, I bite when I haven't slept
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How Bright He Shines
Fandom: Wicked
Pairing: Elphaba Thropp/Fiyero Tigelaar, background Fiyero Tigelaar/Galinda Upland, former Fiyero Tigelaar/borrowed OC from @toinkeroo
Rating: Teen
Words: 5,489
Summary: After a lovely day for the Charmed Circle, Elphaba and Fiyero spend an unexpected evening together. Fiyero shares a surprising piece of himself with Elphaba.
Or: Fiyero Tigelaar comes out, in exactly the sort of emotionally high-stakes way you might imagine him capable of.
Additional Tags: Canon compliant, movie verse, missing scene, Shiz era (see additional tags on AO3)
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“Can I just say one more thing? You could've walked away back there.”
“So?”
“So, no matter how shallow and self-absorbed you pretend to be – ”
“Uh, excuse me, there is no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.”
“Oh, please. No, you're not. Otherwise you wouldn't be so unhappy.”
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17 Hours Earlier
“Oh, Oz – everyone! It's halfway through the ninth hour!” Galinda announces, her naturally high-pitched timbre escalating into something panicky and shrill.
...continued on AO3
if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…
“This 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad use”
Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.
“Children don’t have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.”
Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.
When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they can’t hold a pencil properly?
People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say it’s the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.
It’s like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.
I've heard that kids are unable to write with pens and pencils because they're use to typing and I wonder if this is an actual problem or a result of technology, like how people don't know how to read maps
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honestly interesting that we as the readers kind of are given this perception that Le-Matoran and Toa of Air are very fun-loving, joke-telling, slightly goofy, excitable guys because we have Lewa and Matau and the Le-Koro Matoran with their constant parties and pranks and fun. but then when we actually look at the Toa of Air that we have, well, Lewa and Matau are pretty fun and excitable and take things lightly, but Kongu is a pretty even mix of fun-loving and responsible. and then other than them we have Orkahm (kind of stuck up), Lesovikk (VERY serious and kind of vicious and dark (but I love him)), Nidhiki (a dick from the beginning and straight up evil), Iruini (jaded, snarky, ferocious, and a little cold). even Tanma (sarcastic, responsible, mocks Lewa mercilessly), who chooses to be the colors of a Le-Matoran, does not match Le-Matoran stereotypes
is it just Le-Metru Matoran that are this way? or maybe… Le-Koro Matoran, who woke up to having Matau as a Turaga?
Lewa: yayyy time to finally meet some other Air Toa!
Lewa, ten minutes later: holy hell all these guys are totally joyless
Matau: do you know what this means?
Lewa: I think I do…. Great Spirits… we need….
Matau: a how-to-have-fun intervention???
Lewa: :D
Matau: >:D
Two hours later and every Air Toa alive is laughing like wild and wreaking total havoc around town. this is the true nature of Air Toa they’ve just been through some hard stuff and need a little peace and laughter for a while. even Lesovikk is smiling.
and then maybe meeting all these Air Toa who have been through some really hard stuff and are feeling really torn down and tired will help Lewa be able to open up about the really horrible stuff he’s been through. and maybe realize that he doesn’t have to be totally fun-loving, energetic, and funny all the time. he’s allowed to be sad and angry and in pain sometimes… and then get back to having fun when he’s ready :)
oh but Tanma still tells them all to shut the fuck up. i love him, he’ll never be less grumpy
Nuju and Kopaka open a complaint office for anyone who is in a team with a Toa of Air who is suddenly joking around and pranking people all the time
found this in my pinterest posts
A few years ago I heard a story of some indigenous group of the USA that used the swastika as a symbol was officially giving it up as a sign of respect for the Jewish community; and at the time I got pissed that the we were letting the Nazis ruin everything, including religious symbols that predate them for centuries
But now that I've seen the zionist movement promote Jewish exceptionalism, and use the myth of eternal Jewish victimhood to justify the occupation of Palestine, I'm starting to think this push to erase the swastika, to the point groups that have used it for centuries cannot recover their symbol, might be a zionist psyop to maintain the illusion of Jewish people as the exceptional victims, different from all over victims (and that's why they deserve their own nation, and not, say, the Romani)
We have no choice but to stan a queen 💪❤️👑
Trying to escape military service like: "Poison Seller, I require your weakest poisons."
it's actually so amazing she helped save the lives of the honorable men who did not wish to fight, while killing the most vile men, that is so fucking based
"It is believed she killed between 50 and 150 men"
< Sighs wistfully imagining how many more she could have got
It's always sad to see an artist who has a real talent and skill for something have their career cut short in their prime
Souvenir shop
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I love when I miss a few updates of a comic and then come back and get flashbanged by an opening panel with no context.
People in the USA freaking out about the literacy crisis and media literacy crisis
And I feel sorry for them, but I also know this was the plan all along, and the plan was stupid. Did the pedophiles in power really thought they could have a functional society with the popular classes being illiterate? No, you cannot outsource everything to Indian workers, you need your people to know the bare minimum
The Kids just aren't being taught how to write a cv or cover letter huh
I've seen ones today including photos, dates of birth, place of birth even!
And also several formatted like they were writing a message to a friend! Full of exclamation marks! This is a formal document!
this one is formatted like a powerpoint presentation. to be clear I'm not in charge of any descision making I'm just going through redacting identifying/potentially biasing info but like...some of these formatting decisions are also potentially biasing
Yeah, I remember getting some wild ones when I was hiring manager
So many women feel the need to mention their young children in their cover letters and CVs. Some young people slip in that they can't drive, a sort of pre-emptive "but it's okay I have a bus pass". So many people go and shove their mental health issues with anxiety and depression in there.
I remember one girl had clearly been told that she needed to explain any gaps in employment in the cover letter (terrible blanket advice), and so had described how she had developed depression after a traumatic miscarriage and spent a year in a terrible spiral getting worse and worse before getting on a new medication that, and I quote, "seemed to be finally starting to work." There are ways she could have written that information if she was desperately wanting to include it (I cannot stress enough that she should not have included a word of it), but the way it was written was almost literally a description of how she would be a horrendously unreliable employee who could dip out at a moment's notice and would never be seen again, while also demonstrating that she cannot determine appropriate professional communication.
(And for the record, the latter is the actual issue. I have no problems at all hiring employees with mental health issues, and did several times hire people in recovery to help them get back on their feet. Only once did that not work out; all others were amazing, and two became some of our best employees - one is now a manager there, in fact. But if an employee can't be trusted not to over share personal information with customers or colleagues, particularly triggering topics... That's a different issue. She did herself no favours at all there, and nor did whoever told her employers will always need employment gaps explaining in a cover letter).
Another guy once wrote in his cover letter "I want this job because after years of messing about I now have a little girl, so I need to sort my life out for her, and if I can't do it even for her then more fool me." Which, like, I admire the drive and passion. But again. Why are you telling an employer that you're a flight risk. Why are you telling us this.
One 18 year old volunteered, unforced, that he was gay. Just right in the cover letter. That he sent to a future employer.
And then, of course, the thousands that send in CVs and cover letters that are horrendously mis-spelled. Again, as an employer, I care dick-all if you're dyslexic or what have you; but I do care that you didn't think it was important to get someone to proofread a professional document for you before submission. That tells me quite a big thing about the level of professionalism I can expect from you in the role. It wasn't massively relevant for the job I was hiring for (escape room game master), but if we'd had slightly different job duties (e.g. writing official soc med posts), that would be the difference between getting an interview or not.
Honestly, half of my role as a hiring manager was just... having to explain to the other hiring manager that she was being biased based on information neither of us should have had in the first place. And she wasn't a bad person, but bias gets you even if you don't want it to. Give yourself the best chance. Don't fuck it by sending in a dumbass cover letter.
Linking @bitchesgetriches great advice on cover letter writing here...
Welcome back to another episode of The Bitches Teach You How to Get Your Ass Hired! Last time we reviewed some cardinal rules of resume writ
#how long have we been holding on to this one?
i’ve had this queued for 365 days
The Spectacular Spider-Men #8 - "Triage" (2024)
written by Greg Weisman art by Emilio Laiso, Andres Genolet, & Edgar Delgado
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The US liberal reaction to president trump calling in a favor has been "its bad but it was the right result" they will never understand why the World hates them like you are being given a loophole by this president that persecuted all the African and Asian teams upon arrival and think its funny? This shit is not funny at all. US exceptionalism and cheating is not funny go kill yourselves
