We get it, you're grumpy and can write an eloquent sentence or two. Now piss off and get some yuletide cheer so the rest of us can enjoy our long standing and mostly street wide tradition of fun lights outside our houses
To point out, I absolutely respect people's decision to not put up lights for whatever reason, but the lights on our road aren't OTT and it actually looks quite magical!
Rant/list of what awaits me this season:
My in-laws are arriving in less than a week and staying for 5. I am not looking forward to this. I will have comments made about: -Every injection I take -Every calorie that passes my lips -Every mile I do or don't ride on my bike (my main mode of transportation- I usually bike 20 miles/day) -How I eat more than them (I don't, just more often) -How I don't eat enough fruit and should eat more tumeric and cinnamon -How my BIL could cure me with reiki -Each pound I've put on since they met me (I met them in HS and am now 32 and pregnant with my 6th pregnancy) -And of course that I'm diabetic because I'm American.
Send me strength to deck the halls instead of my family and please share what "fun" comments you're looking forward to.
I read the Renegades series and loved it. Haven't really been able to find anything like it for a while though
It was established by Star Trek: Voyager that when a ship finds itself far from the rest of the Federation, they find a garbage man/smuggler with a ship they'll place in the shuttlebay, and this person would appoint themselves "Ambassador" or "Morale Officer" and eat their food.
Precedent has it that it is a Talaxian, in Voyager's case, Neelix.
When The Discovery found itself in the distant future, far from any Federation authority, it did not get any Talaxian hangers-on even after encountering a somewhat belligerent criminal organization pretending to be a government, living on a rocky, dusty mine.
It did, however, find a person with a ship who then attached themselves onto the Discovery and started offering advice regardless of the Captain asking.
But why was it not a Talaxian contrary to Federation precedent?
This is because the role of hairy animal that leaves smells and likely licks themselves and who is proclaimed a higher station than they actually are was given to Grudge, the cat, whose litterbox also takes the role of the leola root and the galley. Similar to an ambassador, a "Queen" also has diplomatic immunity. Similar to Neelix, Grudge's well-being was of much concern and was often in peril.
This shows continuous progress in the Federation regarding equality.
After all, they have managed to not only stop enslavement of animals for food, they have now managed to abolish enslaving animals for companionship (Spot was a pet) and have given them rights including equal opportunity for employment and the right to rule as a sovereign.
They have also stopped discriminating against non-Talaxians when it comes to appointing someone to an unearned position that someone will mention more than necessary.
Discovery truly embodies the egalitarian ideas of Star Trek.
WTF? Bailed again? Like for the 3rd time? FFS
self-named "good guy^(tm)" goes out of his way on halloween (or, as he calls it, "hussyween") to call out a little girls costume for being (in his eyes) inappropriate. after the confrontation, our brave soldier of morality runs home before he gets the shit kicked out of him. you know who else used to attack, then run home? that's right, idiot rodger. watch the video, and listen to the "good guy^(tm)" justify his actions:
Reading Pharos now and there’s lots of talk of the Night Lords doing what they did because the emperor wanted them that way. Same with Curze
And this is something many of the legions say about themselves from time to time, that the Emperor intended them to fulfill a certain role
But…I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen an excerpt of the Emperor deliberately telling a primarch how to wage war
The Legions’ and Primarchs’ strategies are generally presented as products of their upbringing and the circumstances of the world the primarch hails from, not as deliberately shaped by the Emperor
If you believe the Scattering was intentional on His part then yeah there you go, but only a few of the Primarchs believed that and most space marines shouldn’t believe in it so it sort of seems like they all have just given themselves these roles and fooled themselves that it’s what the Emperor intended, while the Emperor might just be using the tools he’s been given so to speak instead of trying to change the Primarchs’ ingrained sensibilities
I've been keeping tabs on this Quibiloy guy. He thinks more of himself than Felix ever did. His claims that Omicron now exists because he's being prosecuted is downright hysterical. How he ever garnered 6M members (more or less) along with congregations in 200 countries-all since 1985-is mind blowing. It makes the history of INC seem rather second rate at this stage. AND Apollo is building a 75,000 seat indoor arena. Won't that blow Ed's ego?
You're welcome
Background: I work on aircraft, therefore I deal with some really expensive stuff. Because of this - and because we have to be able to trace absolutely everything we install on an aircraft (be it a split pin or screw costing a few cents, or a jet engine costing seven figures) back to the point of manufacture - the Company I work for has specific procedures to follow, in order to get spare parts from the delivery truck to the aircraft.
One of my colleagues is the antagonist of this story. “Kevin” has been working on aircraft for decades and has worked for our employer for about four years now. Kevin is somewhat difficult to deal with and he has a reputation for making Strange Decisions.
Anyhoo, one morning a couple of months back, I was tasked with installing a part on an aircraft (not expensive by aviation standards, but still worth a few Kilomonies). I could see in The System that the part had been requisitioned and issued out of the stores to the aircraft, so I went to the ‘Parts Awaiting Fitment’ storage shelves to get it. It wasn’t there. I asked the stores guys what had happened, one of them said, “oh, I had it sitting on the bench [a shelf just in front of a window that we slide open when we want to talk to the stores guys] ready to put on the ‘Parts Awaiting Fitment’ shelves and someone grabbed it while I finished booking it out to the aircraft in The System”. So it never actually made it onto the ‘Parts Awaiting Fitment’ shelves. Cue me running around for half an hour fruitlessly looking for the damn part. Then I had a hunch and approached Kevin.
Me: “Hey Kevin, do you know where the [part] for [AircraftRegistration] is?”
Kevin: “I have it, it’s on my toolbox” [we all have big-arse toolboxes on wheels, fitted with wooden tops that can be used as work benches].
Me: “WHY??! I’ve just wasted half an hour looking for it! Why do you have it?!”
Kevin: “I saw it on the bench [at the front of the store] yesterday afternoon while I was at the store and I thought, ‘that shouldn’t be there, it’s not safe, somebody could take it’, so I took it.”
Me: “Why? It’s got nothing to do with you!”
Kevin: “I took it for safekeeping.”
Me: “So, you saw a part sitting in the front of the stores window; you thought, ‘that isn’t safe, someone might take that’, so you took it?”
Kevin: “Yes”
In the end, I couldn’t get “Kevin” to see that he’d done something wrong; and he actually got upset that I was pissed off with him. Other colleagues I talked to about t
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If I have one more visitation associate or church greeter undermine my directing I'm going to rip my name tag off and give it to them. You fucking do the arrangements then.
☝️Your actions reveal the opposite of what you proclaim you are doing.
Ex: Hilaria says she is all about protecting and loving children. On a daily basis she exposes and violates her children’s privacy by 15 to 40 IG posts of them a day. Some posts show her kids in “melt downs” and obvious distress. Hilaria Baldwin on false pretenses of support for Breast Cancer, posted a complete IG “FAIL” Video. This video ONLY SUPPORTED HER OWN VANITY by flaunting her exposed implants and flaunting her newly styled hair. (Cancer victums loose their hair and breasts and often can’t afford wigs or reconstruction surgery—your asinine, insensitivity is salt in their wounds.)
☝️Your statements of truth are not based on facts.
Obvious EX: Hilary was not born in Spain and spent no significant” time there. No passport that proves she spent more than 3 weeks there at best in total. Her birth certificate stated she was born in Boston. She Attended years 1 to 17 at least in Boston schools. No records of attending school in Spain.
☝️Against warranted criticism, you will obstinately, defiantly, do it anyway. 😝
Rule #1 a person who is around horses knows you do not stand behind a 2,000lbs horse that kicks on instinctual reflex. You repeatedly has taken pictures of your innocent children standing behind horses! You continue to mock ESL learners by falsely speaking in broken, mispronounced English.
Hilaria Baldwin, YOU ONLY HURT YOURSELF, ALEC and THE CHILDREN! Please seek psychiatric, professional help and restrain from all PUBLIC social media. Learn how to truly be authentic and stop the compulsive lying. 🤥
Until then, I and the public general, whose adoration you so thirst for, will restrain from supporting you
>The sounds of shutters being drawn and deadbolts locking pierce the air as the Critic saunters down the dusty main street. A handful of brave fools still gawk at the newcomer - their nerves break and they scurry like rats when her icy-cold glare passes over them. The Law is nowhere to be seen, and even if the site had an admin, they know better than to pick a fight with this posse.
>Nobody resists. She is now Master of this trembling fanfic site.
#What is FanFiction.net? If you run in fanfiction circles, feel free to skip this history lesson. If you aren’t, or are just too young to remember this, read on!
Established in 1998, FanFiction.net is positively ancient by internet standards. While it’s still around today, up until about 10 years ago FFN was THE fanfiction website. Before it came around, fanfiction was scattered among email mailing lists, private forums or independent websites. Almost all of them were fandom-specific, some were even ship-specific, and many were kind of gatekeepy with what fics they allowed uploaded. Here’s an example - now imagine you had to keep track of a dozen of these if you wanted to read multiple ships, or if you were into more than one show/movie/anime.
FFnet changed all of that by providing a single, multi-fandom site that anybody could access and upload stories to. Naturally, it quickly became the dominant site for fanfiction authors and readers alike. It also helped that FFN pushed some real innovations that we now take for granted, such as:
- A review system
- User profiles
- Favourites lists
- Content ratings
- Dedicated forums
- Fandom, character, and genre tags
Of course, there’s a good reason that Ao3 has taken the crown from FFN as the premiere fanfiction site.
I don't really know how else to say this, so I'll just steal recycle this comment from u/ladycordeliastuart: "Fanfiction.net is a godless wasteland where the only rule is that of the streets".
All in all, it's just a badly-run website that's managed by 3 unpaid interns and hosted on servers that are powered by a guinea pig in a hamster wheel. Site rules are poorly enforced, if at all. Moderation is non-existent. Spam is everywhere. Harassment and abuse are rife. The mobile app is non-functional. The community guidelines haven't been updated since Obama was sworn in. Ads cover every single pixel of available space. It periodically goes down. There's no way to find good fics wi
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Who you like is your opinion, and everyone's, and I mean EVERYONE’s opinions are valid! If you ship robstar, amazing! You ship Beast boy and Raven, awesome! Beast Boy and Terra, rock on! You ship Robin and Raven, super! Cyborg and Bumblebee, GREAT! Cyborg and Starfire, ALSO GREAT! BB and Star, do it! How about Beast Boy and Cyborg, dope as hell! What if we ship all 5 of the Titans into one polyamorous relationship, sure why not! Maybe you’re a RobinBB shipper, valid! Starfire and Raven, you go Glenn Coco! How about Raven and Herald? They only interacted once, but fuck it let’s do it! I’m sorry did I miss your ship, well it’s valid too! These are fictional characters, and who they do or do not end up with, is not that serious in our lives that we need to belittle people, bully them, destroy people's works, or think people are less than because they think differently than us. All of which I have seen on this subreddit, on Twitter, on the dumpster fire that is Tumblr, and on Instagram. I'm sure it's on Tick Tok, but I'm an elderly 27 years old, I don't know how to use that. And if you are a shipper that does any of those things above, I would ask you to rethink your priorities in life cuz it’s not that deep. Teen Titans is such a great show, and I feel like it's fans are old enough to not freak the freak out (haha obligatory Victorious reference), if we don't get our way or someone doesn't agree with us. We need a little more empathy in this fandom. It would be great if we could think, 'Is what I am about to say going to hurt their feelings.' And if it is, then don't do it! Simple, I know, but some don't seem to grasp this concept. Let's have fun again!
-Jess
