Leo

TFW you realize in the middle of a random conversation on a random Thursday that the trauma started a year earlier than you thought it did and you just have to deal with it bc you can’t crash out at work for a third time in a month

The last couple months have been one thing after another and I’m kinda crashing out about it

Unfortunately this is happening at work

Fortunately my bestie is my shift lead

Awww!

duolingo announced an anime but i hope yall don’t forget how the CEO shoved his head up AIs butthole and fired a bunch of human translators and language experts. don’t let that stupid streak hold you hostage

My dad showed up at my work (I mean, it’s a library, aka the biome he’s most comfy in) and “jokingly” tried to poach my work grandma to come work for him

I did call him a traitorous snake in front of my coworkers, lmfao

(It’s almost always about her. She’s just the worst)

Patron: I want to file a complaint
Me: 😭😬
Them: it’s about (upstairs boss who harassed me to the point of tears multiple times)
Me: okay, let me get the form for you 😊

I can’t tell if it’s SAD hitting me slightly earlier than usual or if it’s PMDD or some toxic combination of both

But I am not enjoying whatever it is

(My partner has read my most recent finished draft and it was great! This isn’t about him. It’s about the half-dozen or more IRLs who have been like “omg, you wrote a book? I wanna read it!” and then never touched it after I took them at their word and sent it to them 😭)

This. I know I’m not entitled to having my loved ones read my work, but I don’t think most non-writers get what it means for someone you know to invite you to read their work. It’s vulnerable and it’s anxiety-inducing and it’s an honor, tbh. It’d be nice if they would actually do it sometime

(Also ik that genderfluid shapeshifters are a bit of a stereotype but. 1. I wanna shapeshift, it’d be so validating to me. and 2. she was genderfluid long before she was a shapeshifter, lol)

Also, his LI is a demon hunter in this ‘verse, and clueless to Vesper’s true nature (at first). So that’s ‘’’’’’fun’’’’’’

Human-turned-succubus (gender neutral) is such a great analogy for, like, all the issues that Vesper’s story was *always* about, and it’s rotting my brain so much (positive)

*It's a lovely evening in the city, and you are a horrible succubus*

(I spent so fucking long on this that it was just a dumb AU idea when I started, and now it's probably Vesper's canon 'verse XD)

so this fucking sucks but I am begging you all to stop telling people not to use Etsy. so many crafters (myself included) do NOT have a better platform to go to and we will be the only ones who get hurt by you boycotting the platform

please do send them complaints, though

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

*you, not your

At least it is for me. I know next to nothing about meta, I just pull the people I like and then I let them hit stuff

Currently running an HSR team that’s just called “pastel-haired girls who can kill your”

It’s super effective tbh

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

I got my mouth sutures out today and it sucked

Bright side: I am officially allowed to kiss again!!!

I…… mayyyy have canceled my prev weekend plans in favor of boyfriend time. Like a simp. But also, I haven’t had much time with him in fucking ages so I don’t feel too bad

12 HOURS LEFT! 50 books for $50 bucks! ✨

Can we make it to 15 bundle sales?

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.

This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

It's wild. If I post (for example) 10 similar videos of different kittens chewing on my camera at the shelter, people will comment "typical orange behavior" on the orange one, even though all the kittens are doing the exact same thing.

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

I emailed my two senators and my rep about this (no spoons for calls today), but I highly recommend you call your reps if you think they might support trans people.
Cis people, we need you to do the same. Make noise for trans people, so people in power push back.

(Sorry, maybe I need to kill the part of myself that’s a huge hater lol)

Still going! Go fill up your bookshelf and support some Bi authors this week 🫶

I understand most of us need to “kill the part of yourself that thinks you’re cringe” but. I think some self awareness is good actually

I definitely called myself a prodigy over stuff I started when I was 12… except at least I can look back and recognize, no, I was just 12 and had a lot to learn, and the stuff I wrote then (or even in college) was unpublishable bc I needed to. Y’know. Learn to improve and self-edit