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Aloha Spaceman

@alohaspaceman / alohaspaceman.tumblr.com

Living like an adult, fangirl-ing like a teenager
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i love the term "unwell"... theres something very very wrong with you. not saying what tho

"I’m afraid my brother won’t be joining us, he’s... unwell.”

Could be anything. In bed with flu? Having a migraine? Hungover as hell? Turned into a werewolf and locked in the basement for the evening? Who knows.

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curoopeez

Instagram: if you like anything other than my latest 3 posts I'm gonna assume you're a stalker or a spammer and block you >:(

Twitter: someone private quote retweeted my post, I guess I have a hater now

Tumblr: I have 24 hours to mass spam the notifications of anyone who crosses my sight, and with god as my witness, I will do just that and they will like it

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there's a member of my team who really wants to do their best all the time and is super stressed because of the demands on them.

'i'll do whatever it takes to have it ready on time!' they said.

'what? no!' i say. 'we're already short staffed and they borrowed another person of our team this week, AND we're dealing with a new program without having the time to get used to it. if they don't give the ressources to do this on time, they don't get it on time. don't burn yourself out.'

'but i can do it, i like working on this!'

'yeah and if you pull a miracle they'll get used to it and never give you the ressources you need. they need to learn.'

'but the deadline is close!'

'we're not doing emergency medicine. nothing we do is urgent.'

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they seemed surprised. i'm, after all, a project manager. but i know that pulling miracles out of your ass only adds more work on your desk.

the company needs to know when they haven't allocated enough time, money or people to a task. and if you burn yourself out without telling anyone, not only will you damage your health for a company who doesn't care about you, you'll have skewed the next plans and the people working on future projects.

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cruelflesh

forget who’s the top or bottom, which one of you is nursing a fresh bite-sized wound and which one of you is licking the blood off your teeth

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I kind of love that one of Jane Austen's biggest fans was the Prince Regent (later George IV). She didn't think very well of the nobility in general, but she motherfucking hated him, a wastrel who very flagrantly cheated on his wife.

But he loved her writing, was the first recorded purchaser of Sense and Sensibility, and kept copies of her books in all his residences. She never made enough from her writing to live on during her lifetime, so this wasn't support she could casually toss aside. His librarian kept suggesting ideas for new books to her, which she turned down with exquisite politeness. Much to her aggravation, she found herself obliged to dedicate Emma to the man.

Local Novelist Is So Talented She Can't Beat Royal Patron Off With A Stick

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snoozingcat

You can read more about this here

I've thought about it and this is so funny because a moral novelist having to civilly endure being patronized by a dissolute nobleman who loves but also totally doesn't get her books is exactly the kind of thing that would happen in a Jane Austen novel.

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