I finally watched The Old Guard and tumblr did not adequately prepare me for how funny the van kiss scene actually is. Like I've seen whole gif sets of Joe's impromptu love poem but that's not the half of it.

He wants some bread… 🥖🥐 Twitter I Instagram

[ID: A digital drawing of the front of a bakery, a small dragon sits outside on the front steps staring up into the window. Outside it’s dark and raining, the light from the bakery is warm orange, the window full of shelves of bread. The bakery is called “Indigo’s”, and on the window reads “bakery cafe”. /End ID]

[Image description: The same dragon now lays on a pile of bread with some chunks torn out of them, fast asleep in the backroom of the bakery, near some sort of fire with the racks of different kinds of bread all around the storage area. They are safe and full. Description on post reads, “He got his bread.” End ID]

Oh thank god

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One of the most valuable resources we, the fans, have is @transformativeworks. It is an amazing organization that does many important things for fandom; not only do they run AO3, but they also run fanlore.org, which is an amazing wiki of fandom history and meta!!

It is a sadly underutilized resource and oftentimes has answers to questions just like the one above!

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

Nope! When Chrome first came to popularity, people switched over to it cause it was “faster” (turns out, it just eats through your device’s CPU) but since then Firefox has upped its game in a major way. Chrome just doesn’t measure up anymore. Plus, nowadays Chrome is just a data harvester designed to show hyper targeted ads - so even if Firefox ain’t for you, it’s still worth ditching Google for a different browser.

Legit though I switched to Firefox and it’s so so so much better

i’m gonna keep reblogging this ad infinitum so yall might as well convert now

Haven’t used anything but Firefox for years.

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I try to answer other people’s call lights if I’m not busy, because if my work is done and I’ve helped out with other people’s work, I can fully commit to slacking off guilt free. And usually what people want is bathroom, snacks, and/or pain meds, all of which are pretty easy to address and if there’s anything too complicated, I can always call the nurse. Anyway, I go answer this call light, and it’s for a patient I don’t know and have never spoken to before. I pop in like “hi can I help you?” as I feel so quietly smug about how Helpful I am being, and the patient goes, “do you know if I’m dying tonight? If I am, I should call my family.”

To be so clear. I was expecting like. a request for a ginger ale. I was not prepared emotionally for a very sick stranger grappling with the angst of potentially imminent death. So I go, “UMMM. I DON’T KNOW. LEMME CHECK WITH YOUR NURSE AND SEE IF SHE KNOWS.” This seemed heinously inadequate in the face of their obvious despair, so I added, “probably not in the next ten minutes if you’re able to sit up and ask, but I can’t make any promises.”

Don’t think that was the ideal follow up sentence. But it didn’t seem to make the patient any sadder than they already were. I used to really live in fear of being the nurse in someone’s anecdote about a wildly inappropriate thing said to them by their nurse. It’s not so much as I’ve gotten over that fear as I’ve accepted that my job thrusts me into a lot of situations where I have to talk about extremely intense topics to the people most intimately affected by those topics, often with no time, no prep, and no information. At this point, I just try my best to ground my inarticulate fumblings in as much genuine care as I can express, and thank God I don’t fuck up worse and more often.

One time I panicked and told a patient I have a dog, which I super don’t, and she started asking follow up questions, and I couldn’t think of a way to say, “I lied to you about having a dog and I don’t know why,” in a way that still conveyed professional competence, so instead I doubled down and invented my little three year old mutt because I was sure that would be the end of the conversation, but it wasn’t, and my dog came up So Much over the course of the night so I spent the entire twelve hour shift digging myself and my fake dog Jasper deeper and deeper into the world’s most stupid lie, and I spent the whole time wondering if I was fundamentally betraying the principle of nursing integrity or if I was just being so fuckin weird. So that’s the conversational skill I’m working with.

Okay actually joking aside, I went to that patient’s nurse, and I was like “hey your patient is grappling with their inevitable and oncoming death to the point they want to contact they’re family to say goodbye,” and the nurse was like, “okay I’ll check in with them when the chaplain gets here in 15 minutes.”

And I wanted to be like, dude you’re CHARTING. Like yeah, that matters for the job, but if I came over to you and said your patient is experiencing new onset chest pain, you wouldn’t be like “cool I’ll get there when I get there.” So I went back to that room and hung out with the patient. And we had an awkward halting conversation that I didn’t enjoy and made me feel very sad, and I didn’t know ANYTHING about this patient, not even their name, and they said things I didn’t know how to respond to, but I was in the fucking room with them anyway because it’s three in the morning and they’ve just realized that their disease is terminal. I don’t know if the patient got anything from me being there, and I frankly did not want to be there in the saddest room on the floor with a patient I’m not supposed to be responsible for, but like cmon. They hit their call light. They asked for company. They’re scared to die.

You don’t have to say the right things—clearly I am SO Aware of how much you don’t have to have the perfect words—you literally just need to be there, ineptly caring and occasionally fabricating an entire animal from scratch.

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Your mutuals

Psst hey @would-you-punt-them , wanna be mutuals? No reason, I don't wanna punt you :)

we already are lol

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HOW?

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my favorite customer service slip ups

here are some extra ones that made me break out in tears enjoy

@hexadecimal00 ... 😂

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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes