happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE
Everybody was Corg Fu fighting!
(sound recommended)
Another entry in my series “Froggie adds appropriate music to doggo videos.”
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has anyone ever had the problem where you literally never want to do anything that you cannot reap benefits from immediately
like maybe I’m hungry but everything I have in the house at the moment would take 10+ minutes to prepare so I just……put off making the food for WAY longer than it would have taken to prepare the food when I first got hungry
Or i want to order some necessary thing online but the website says it will take a week to get here and i’m like “oh well fuck that” so I put off ordering it for like a week
Or if im like “I should clean my room because I like when it’s clean” but I know it’ll take me a couple hours so I don’t do it for like six months
It’s like there are only two times for me: right this instant and The Entire Rest Of The Future.
thats executive dysfunction babey.
The Devilman manga is great because none of the facial expressions match up with what they’re saying
I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”
hey as somebody who works in one of those companies that sends out those surveys, never, NEVER mention how much you hate the company in them. just talk about the representative. then, go to the company’s social media page and blast your bad reviews there
those surveys decide our pay, they decide whether we get bonuses or not, they decide if we get to keep our jobs or not. i’ve read transcripts on surveys where it’s has been praising the representative but mentioned one bad thing about the company. that fell to the representative because they should have been enough to sway the customers opinion.
Hey just to add on, if you liked the representative, and the survey is asking for opinions on a scale of 0-10… please give the rep 10′s across the board. Don’t try to be thoughtful and detailed and put down a 7 or an 8 or a 9. A lot of times anything below a 9 or 10 counts as a zero (no, for real) and guess who it comes back to? That’s right, the customer service rep.
At my job anything below a 10 is zero and our store is graded on our survey % so if anyone even puts 9s across the board it’s a 0 in the end and heavily brings down our stores score- which can lead to firings,
corporations: more horrible than i thought
Saw this at a McDonald’s once and when my dad worked at Kohls they had a similar policy. Always mark highly satisfied if you were happy with your service
corporate is full of insane morons that lack humanity for charts like this to exist
Oh is this not common knowledge yet?? This applies to literally any situation in which you’re asked to give customer feedback on any kind of scale. Anything short of pure 10/10 can get someone written up, cost them some pay or cost them their entire job. I was doing food delivery a year ago and enough people gave me 4/5 instead of 5/5 on the app that my overall score bordered on only a 90% or whatever and if it dropped just a point below that I’d have been booted permanently out of the system. This was also my only source of income at the time other than patreon, which just covered our rent, so this was my only source of money for gas or clothes or anything else. For some people it’s their only source of income INCLUDING rent……..or they literally just live in their car that they use to do these deliveries. Give perfect 10′s to every single employee of every type of business if you don’t want to risk putting somebody out on the street, for real.
gemma chan in her golden globes dress? stunning. gorgeous. knockout. beautiful on a whole other plane both her and the dress
A GOWN WITH SHORTS, POCKETS, AND A TRAIN? THAT SHADE OF BLUE? THE OPEN BACK? ICONIC
a little autobiographical piece about the internet
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Sometimes I feel like a creeper or a fraud b/c Im old (54). And not fandom-old, I only started writing fanfic 4 years ago. I've had success and by some measures I'd be a bnf. But I could be the grandma of some of my ao3/Tumblr followers and I think they'd be, at best shocked, and at worst, creeped out if they knew so, I rarely engage with them. I am curious though, what Millennials (or younger!) think about the possibility that the fic they love was written by someone who could be their granny?
Full disclosure: I recently turned 40. That doesn’t stop me from enjoying the media that I consume and wanting to write stories about it. I started writing fic in my 20s then I stopped for a while. I came back to it 4 or 5 years ago in my mid-30s. Fandom isn’t about age, it’s about interest and passion and wanting more story.
If I start a friendship with someone through fandom, I do tend to mention “btw, I’m old af” to give them a heads up, but from my experience people tend not to care. There are a lot more people my age and your age and older in fandom than you might realize based just on tumblr.
I’ll let the younger people who follow this blog comment with their feelings on the matter, but I personally think you’re awesome. You found a new hobby and you’re having fun with it. Your age shouldn’t play into that. Fandom is something that you can engage in at any age and at any skill level and I really appreciate that. :)
i absolutely adore older fans in fandom!!!!! i wish there were more of you!!!! to me, you are nothing but an extremely welcome presence!!!! here’s why:
- you all bring a really great perspective to your content creation. i’m 22. i’ve never owned a home or gotten married or raised children or had an actual career. lots of older fans have. when you write fic or hcs or draw art or do anything else based on those experiences, you’re often writing as someone who has actually done it. kidfic written by an actual parent? fluffy established relationship old married couple by someone who’s actually been married 10+ years? i wanna read that!!!!! it’s gonna be way better than what i as a 22 year old am gonna write on those topics. obvs i’m not saying you only have to write about grown up topics. even if you’re writing a college au, you’re bringing 30 more years of life experience to that than i am. that’s incredible!!!!! i want to consume any of the art you create simply bc you are far wiser/more experienced.
- i love having older friends! i worked at a used bookstore in high school w a bunch of 50/60 year old women & we had a ball!!! they gave me really good advice, told amazing stories, and made our four hour shifts fly by. much like the previous point, older friends are amazing bc they have such a different perspective than i do. i’m not asking older fandom ppl to be my mom, but i’m about to graduate college & what i wouldn’t give to have an older friend (not parent or professor) give me some advice about post-graduation life!!! your age is an asset imo!!!
- selfishly, i love seeing older people in fandom bc they give me hope for my own future. i’ve been in fandom for 11 years. literally half my life. it’s something i’ve remained passionate about for over a decade. i don’t see my love of fandom going anywhere any time soon. so i love to see actual adults (as opposed to baby adults like me) who are still in fandom bc it tells me i can do that too!!! 50 year olds on ao3 or w funko pops on their desks or gushing over cute fanart make me think that i don’t have to give up my passion as i get older, and that means a great deal.
- older fans get shit done. who do you think funds the ao3 donation drives? hell, who actually runs ao3? it ain’t the 14 year old kids, i’ll tell you that much. (kids, you are still extremely valuable & i treasure you all) adults w professional skills & actual incomes are frankly what keep the backbone institutions of fandoms running. we need you.
- and finally, you have every right to be here! even if i hadn’t just listed a bunch of reasons why your presence is incredibly important, you’d still belong here, bc you don’t have to earn fandom. ageism is bullshit. it’s discriminatory. you deserve to be here as much as anyone else. ppl in our society, esp women, are given such shit for aging & i’m not here for it. i don’t want to see wonderful people driven away from fandom bc of sexism & ageism. you belong here.
i feel really strongly about this, if you couldn’t tell. older fans are always welcome in fandom. we need you & we value you. i’m so sorry your age is a source of shame, but i think it’s actually incredibly cool!!! keep writing your amazing fic & know many of us (myself included) would be thrilled to learn our favorite fanfic writer was in her 50s.
Representation Matters
I’m a preschool teacher and theres a black boy in my class named Miles and when I showed him the trailer he got SO excited, everytime I see him I say what’s up spiderman and he practically yells “IM SPIDERMAN!!!!” With the biggest smile on his face. Representation DOES matter and I’m happy that my kids are able to see more people who look like us in positive media :’)
Same thing happened with my daughter when was 7 and Annie came out. All of a sudden she wanted to go to Broadway to try out for the lead role. We had seen the original one several times but it never occurred to her that she could be any too. One more time for the cheap seats
I work at a bookstore and a few weeks ago a little black boy came in wearing a spider-man shirt. I asked him who his favorite spider man was. He replied Peter Parker. I told him mine was Miles.He didn’t know who Miles was so I took him to see the cover of a book with Miles on it. I watched a look of confusion come over his face. He looked up at me and said. “But he is black.” I said “Yeah. Spider-man is black is those comics.” His eyes got big and he grabbed the comics from my hand before running off yelling. “Mom! Mom! Spider-man looks like me! Spider-man looks like me!”
MY HEART IS MELTING
We all thought Loki was the odd one out but it turns out Thor is actually the friendly jock middle child in a family of bitchy drama club goths
there’s this church sign i pass every day that says “hurt people hurt people” and i know it’s supposed to mean like “people who are hurt, hurt people” but it sounds like a command
HURT PEOPLE
HURT PEOPLE
