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"You guys are shipping me with everyone, chat!" ak!Pac has been flirty with everyone!!!!
On second thought, maybe it's more accurate to say everyone's been flirty with Pac and he Has Not Been Helping
Nevermind he just started talking about MedoTW this is Pac's fault.
Listening to "Out There" from the Hunchback of Notre Dame again and I'm like damn that really is a q!Fit and Madagio song huh
god i love making animatics in my head i wish drawing was real
mood
you ever just minding your business and then you feel The Grief
Trying to kill the Marketing person in my head telling me not to post today's chapter update because I missed peak posting time and should therefore delay it another day or week. My guy it is Not That Deep
Happy Tuesday internet, today I got rejected for a job 24 minutes after applying and now I am going to take a nap.
An update! I sent a very carefully worded email to the recruiter (note this is an internal job posting which def factors into the dynamic) and spouted some corporate-ese about how I was puzzled by this rejection as it's in the same job family as my current job, and asked for feedback so I can take it forward and incorporate it into my "growth plan" (blech)
That afternoon the recruiter got back to me and offered to review my resume with the hiring manager and get back to me with feedback by the end of the week.
Today, she reached out and said the hiring manager would be "scheduling some time to talk" and a half hour later I got a meeting invite for a job interview next week.
Now, I don't know if I was initially rejected by The Algorithm or if my resume was just skimmed and tossed aside because of regular ol human nonsense, but here's the lesson learned: advocate for yourself once in a while. Be the squeaky wheel.
This isn't a one on one social situation where a friend says no and you respect their boundaries. You are being churned through a massive machine that'll crush you without slowing down if you let it. Push back, ask why, and ask for it in writing. You don't have to be mulch. You can also make the wheels turn.
I'm adding to this again! I had my interview today and found out that the manager (who prefers to review resumes himself) was overwhelmed because they got nearly 400 applicants for this role, and the recruiter was helping him review resumes. So I literally just got lost in the shuffle.
Despite that, a polite check in was enough to put my name back on the radar, and I now have a second interview later this week. I've been informed I'm in their top 3 picks.
I have whiplash but also hot DAMN does this reinforce the importance of self advocacy at work.
Forcibly trying to use the block button more instead of defaulting to my "Oh, this is a simple misunderstanding that can be resolved with communication and clarification" habit because... buddy, this person is clearly just angry and is looking for an argument, please don't waste energy trying to have a conversation with them
love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. "hey we shouldn't let venture capitalists get in on this" And Then They Did
this was published in 2001
Oooooooof the crushing weight of people who were right but could not prevent the future they saw coming
how is anyone meant to tell an original story these days
you make a season of television. nobody watches it because they're scared to get attached in case it gets cancelled. so it gets cancelled
you make a season of television. it's the first part of a multi-season story. people complain that it feels unfinished. so it gets cancelled
you make a season of television. it's the first part of a multi-season story. you sacrifice the storytelling so that it at least has an ending in case it doesn't get renewed. people complain that it feels like it was forced towards an endpoint for the sake of it. so it gets cancelled
you make a season of television. it's the 19th reboot this decade of franchise xyz. the execs won't let you do anything new with it. it's soulless and predictable and relies entirely on self-referential humour and nostalgia. half of the people watching are hatewatching it and will slate you for ruining their favourite childhood show, but all publicity is good publicity. so it gets renewed for 6 seasons and a movie.
🙃
This past week and a half has literally just been me @ me like "Maybe if you sit down and watch Pluto for a while you'll calm down."
*Through gritted teeth* Sometimes you just gotta force yourself to go to sleep even though things suck
Being someone who LOVES to bake (and cook) but HATES sweets is nothing but suffering.
worrying about it all is totally fine, stories are meant to make you feel emotions, after all, but i highly doubt Any of the eggs have straight up just. fucking died. for the admins to kill off even just one of these extremely beloved, important characters, who players and fans have massive real life attachments to, Off-Screen, with absolutely No build up and the players not being able to do Anything about it would just... suck SO massively and be Such bad writing i just do not think that'll Ever happen.
shit is definitely Fucked, something really fucking Weird is going on and they certainly may be hurt but there's no way any the eggs are actually dead! or if they are... well... hopefully, again, no one on the team is that bad of a writer LOL. we don't have enough information at the moment to adequately theorize about what the hell has even happened, but the eggs are still alive, and they're going to return! the story cellbit read could very easily be a metaphor, chayanne's floatie still being there could be a misdirect or a red herring, etc etc, and absolutely nothing on this server is ever as it seems upon first glance anyway. they're all going to come back, all logic points to it!
q!fitmc’s favorite flower is a rose.
it didn’t used to be.
autistic people of a particular flavour will master the art of expressing mundane sentiment in amusing ways because their most successful jokes as children were primarily accidental. and when you realise you have that spark of a weirdo it's just a matter of intentionality and comic linguistic optimisation to make yourself a regular sayer of things in funny ways.
Maybe you're just hot?
I mean it helps also
This + "i can turn my weirdness into cute if I find the right things to joke about or the right delivery. if I'm cute, people won't want to hurt me as much. And if I fail, well, at least I'm funny and *I* know I'm doing a bit. Your rejection is meaningless."
