#derivativeworks

Most people don’t use up all their sick days. That means they are allowing themselves to be paid less. You should not feel guilty. America is weird and encourages you to work until your body falls apart.

of course then I got into work today and realized that a) I’d forgotten the phone call I was supposed to be on with the author from hell b) I’d gotten an email about arranging a recording I’d also forgotten was yesterday and c) I had almost 70 unread emails in my inbox so I’m not sure it was worth it

Do you remember if Taskmaster looked “slim”? I saw an article speculating that he has been genderswapped.

i hope he hates it

Why do we have to make villains sympathetic now? We already had a Thanos movie.

On twitter I was complaining about the lack of villains who approach the world like “love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life,” and @katrinastratford pointed out the ideal villain is Doom.

acting like stark morality is actual morality is going to get the fanbros killed.

I was reading this opinion (not for the first time) yesterday about how, like, Lyanna should slap Catelyn in the afterlife for how she treated Jon.

And you know, given how she didn’t want to marry Robert specifically because of his having bastards, like, how can people know that Lyanna would not have behaved similarly? We know it’s not just Cat, Lady Donella Hornwood isn’t happy to see her husband’s bastard succeeding to his position either. So why assume Lyanna would be different? Because “we” (they) have decided that she’s likable in ever possible way? How would Lyanna have reacted if her husband was secretly housing someone that could potentially bring down the king’s wrath upon her own children?

It’s like, certain qualities trigger this interpretation of moral superiority and then that gets expanded out to every possible situation in the most Mary Sue of ways, and people are so down with it because ... why? Like, why come to ASOIAF if you want that kind of fantasy, where your team is more sympathetic for no reason other than Just Because?

this fall we will both be salaried and so can begin to save up for a down paymnet

Woohoo, hurrah! We are still in debt :\ I have undergrad loans and he has consumer debt (and soon enough I’ll have grad school debt too, yayyy). But I had this insurance settlement from a car accident in high school and it’s been invested for like, 20 years. I dipped into it to pay off my car and give my mom some of it, but now it's healthy enough for a place, and I’m SO TIRED of paying rent! Have you started looking around?

deannatroi replied to your post “PS I’m going to buy a house.”

yay! congrats!

redcandle17 replied to your post “PS I’m going to buy a house.”

Congratulations!

derivativeworks replied to your post “PS I’m going to buy a house.”

Whoa!

lord-reaper-of-pyke replied to your post “PS I’m going to buy a house.”

Well done!

Without LJ polls how would I know that I am Old Nan?

Maybe a LF-Cersei-Ned?