So, uh, I guess I should do one of those intro pinned post thingies? Well, here it is.
Who am I?
Hi! I'm Respectable Username. You can call me Res for short. I mostly post about Hermitcraft and Hermitcraft-adjacent things, but will also reblog other funnies or interesting things.
What do I do?
IRL, I'm a software engineer. In the fan-o-sphere though, I mostly enjoy writing and character analysing stuff. Writing I've done on Tumblr is tagged with `#res writes`.
Asks open
Ask me about anything really. Or alternatively, give me a prompt and I might just get inspired to throw out a scene/one-shot from it!
Latest bit of writing
The Weirdest Reflection - Etho and Bdubs swap outfits. That's it. Fluffy Last Life one-shot.
It Glows in the Dark - A mysterious item appears in the world. What is it, and why is it there? Multichapter mystery/action/angst?/I don't know how genres work starring 18 Hermits.
Here There Be Monsters - Grian is a completely normal human, living in a completely normal, human world. Or at least, that's what he thought before the creature attacked him. Multichapter, Urban Fantasy AU, MCYT crossover (but mostly Hermitcraft focused).
Streaming
I've started streaming some modded Minecraft over on Twitch. At the time of writing, I mostly play TechnodeFirmaCraft, a survival-based modpack. If you wanna come along and say hi, my channel is respectable_username.
Important Tags
If I'm talking about IRL stuff or about a project I'm working on that's not released, I'll tag as `#res rambles`.
If I'm writing a scene or some character analysis on Tumblr (as opposed to just linking to AO3), I'll use `#res writes`.
If I post/reblog anything shippy (rarely, but it does happen occasionally), I will tag as `#hermitshipping`.
Uh, so do you Hermitship?
Yeah I know I'm complete trash but I try to keep it off the main blog. Look, I can't help which characters my brain decides to lock on to and right now yes it is a pair of Hermits. But only their characters, not the real-life people. And again, if I do feel the need to post, it will be tagged so you can avoid it.
You keep mentioning a big writing project?
This writing project is "It Glows in the Dark" and I'm slowly releasing it now! All posts related to it post-release are tagged with "#IGITD fic". My Word doc is at almost 30,000 words now and I still have a way to go, making this by _far_ the most writing I've done on any singular project for any reason ever. I'm really proud of it please go read it and I'll love you forever.
Other fandoms?
The other big, long-running fandom participations from the past have been Doctor Who and the MCU. I've also fallen through other fandoms over time, including in the last few years She-Ra (2018), Good Omens, and Attack on Titan.
And of course I was historically part of the Sherlock (BBC) and Merlin fandoms back in the day, although never got into Supernatural.
So, what's up with the username?
Uh, well, I'd been trying for a few years to move away from my old username that I used everywhere. I'd come up with that name in 2006, and very little created in 2006 is fit for purpose in 2021! I'd been struggling to come up with something new though, so I mostly just used the old username or my "professional" username.
But then came the time when I wanted to update my username on Twitch so I could try catching some of the Hermits' livestreams and join the chat and I didn't want the embarrassing old username. So I changed it, trying a few different options, none of which were available, and eventually in my frustration just put in respectable_username and saved. I almost immediately regretted it, but Twitch wouldn't let me change back for 60 days, so got stuck with it for the time being.
But then I actually caught a Hermit's stream live (one of Tango's Among Us sessions with the Friday Night Crew) and chatted in the chat and about 3 separate people complimented the username! So I decided to keep it and make it my new username that I used around the place. Still haven't updated most websites yet though.
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Accidentally scrolling through Tumblr again for the first time in well over a year and just. Falling in love with how _human_ it all is. It's 2:30am and I should have gone to bed a while ago but seeing the posts made by real people and shared by real people with hopes and dreams and love and care in their hearts, it just feels like a little island of humanity amongst the corporatised, machine created, machine promoted slop. This is a good space.
FYI, I've been doing some Minecraft modding these last few months, helping out with the Blaze Map mod!
Am streaming some work on it tonight while I try and fix some issues with the water rendering. Come hang out if you feel like it!
https://www.twitch.tv/respectable_username
I'd say this is an anomaly but seriously roos are sometimes nosy and just need to be in your business, OR they will fight you if you look at them funny. I love them, they're great, but they make little sense.
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Hey you! Yeah, you, the one reading this post right now! Get up from where you're sitting right now and go stretch.
Come on, up you get. You'll thank me later. And by later I mean in like 10 mins time.
Go clear some space on your living room or bedroom floor and stretch yourself out.
Contort yourself. Embrace your inner feline and twist your body into inhuman positions as your muscles and bones sing a sigh of relief that they're not all hunched over on a couch or at a computer desk right now.
Reach towards your toesies. Doesn't matter of you can't quite grab em. But reach out to them and let them know you love them. They don't see you very often!
Raise your arms behind your head and feel your shoulders snap crackle and pop. Roll your neck around on all three axes and feel the strain melt away.
Yeah, you really have spent the last decade+ looking downwards pretty much permanently at a device. Your back likes it when you let it rest in literally any other position for a little bit!
Now go on, git! Go do it. Do whatever stretching feels good. Don't worry about looking weird because nobody's watching you. Just indulge yourself. Trust me on this!
- The above message was brought to you by my back, which is sick of my couch-lying, device-hunching bullshit
Bonus goodness: Get on knees, hook toesies under couch or whatever other super low ledge is around, and enjoy bobbing around with no regard to gravity cos your counterbalancing toes gotchu on that. Good for back stretchies.
Hey you! Yeah, you, the one reading this post right now! Get up from where you're sitting right now and go stretch.
Come on, up you get. You'll thank me later. And by later I mean in like 10 mins time.
Go clear some space on your living room or bedroom floor and stretch yourself out.
Contort yourself. Embrace your inner feline and twist your body into inhuman positions as your muscles and bones sing a sigh of relief that they're not all hunched over on a couch or at a computer desk right now.
Reach towards your toesies. Doesn't matter of you can't quite grab em. But reach out to them and let them know you love them. They don't see you very often!
Raise your arms behind your head and feel your shoulders snap crackle and pop. Roll your neck around on all three axes and feel the strain melt away.
Yeah, you really have spent the last decade+ looking downwards pretty much permanently at a device. Your back likes it when you let it rest in literally any other position for a little bit!
Now go on, git! Go do it. Do whatever stretching feels good. Don't worry about looking weird because nobody's watching you. Just indulge yourself. Trust me on this!
- The above message was brought to you by my back, which is sick of my couch-lying, device-hunching bullshit
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Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union
The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.
It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.
The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla's representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.
The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.
Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country's labour model.
Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)
As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”
Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:
Tesla is failing to play by Swedish labor rules, unions claim. Now a strike that started with mechanics is beginning to spread.
There's already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren't heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let's look at the time McDonald's tried these kinds of tactics:
Or Toys R Us:
Tesla's presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it's fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.
If you've seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It's misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla's resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.
On the other hand, "David Jones" is the name of a department store here in Aus, which makes this unintentionally very hilarious!
Ah yes, to feel the slings and arrows of shoppers moving about inside of you, only there to take what they want, never stopping to see the you, the entity who welcomes them in and tries your best to bring them that which will provide them joy.
The shoppers don't see you, just the products you provide. The fat cats in the head office for sure don't see you, only the profit you make. The workers who keep you moving despite hearing you play the same songs once again, just trying to brace themselves and maintain their sanity until they can get their next pay cheque so they can pay rent this week. It's all just a means to an end.
But you, you want to make people feel welcomed, to feel loved. You want to give them joy and wonder, making them feel like they're in a world of infinite possibilities. You want to spread the holiday spirit and the excitement of finding the perfect present for the one you love.
But at the end of the day, you are just a department store, a cog in the machinery of capitalism which must keep turning. There is no room for feelings in the cold hard world of money. There is no space for artistry, or for customer joy, when they can instead maths the numbers from last quarter to finely twiddle the knobs towards a more optimised experience.
No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you want to feel, all you are is a tool for making money. These deep feelings, these potentials for making people happy that are sacrificed at the alter of capitalism, are a blessing and a curse: a blessing because you can imagine a better way of being, and a curse for knowing that will never come to be.
(PS: Let me be super clear that I am not in any way trying to make anyone feel sympathy towards a corporation. I just found the idea of a physical department store having deep emotions a fun idea to play with. Capitalism is evil and y'all should join your union.)
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giantess bioactive enclosure hobbyist on JöTube: so you have to make sure your microfauna--here we're using humans and sheep--have enough stone and metals to build up a feudal civilization stable enough that it will survive the occasional raid from your dragon
*gently places a stand of trees while humans flee in terror*
timber is important for your microfauna. if you don't give them enough to work with, or if the culture develops a taste for wooden goods that outpaces forest growth, they won't be able to rebuild after your dragon razes their villages. haha, startled those ones. sorry guys!
