A Cluttered Workspace

what happens when a shonen hero makes it to 30-something? chronic pain and a brain like a bag of cats

[enki2]

[hylianengineer]

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

[copperbadge]

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

[221beemine]

Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

This is a sentence worthy of Terry Pratchett. (My highest compliment.)

The Small God of Taxes, Fiducio--who is not an Auditor, though that is admittedly very confusing--is even less popular than Death, but they get together once a year because even Death needs something to be certain of. His shrine in the Temple of Small Gods is small but meticulously well-kept, and his altar always has a fresh offering of beans. [1]

[1] Enumerated by size, color, quantity, type, price, donor, date of donation, and deductible status on the Sacred Spreadsheet posted next to it.

[copperbadge]

I was in fact thinking of Pterry when I said it! That is extremely pleasing, as is the mini-fic :)

[natequarter]

[ID: a photo of a tweet and a quote tweet. The tweet has a cuneiform spreadsheet attached and reads, "Apparently there were cuneiform spreadsheets. Nothing new under the sun." The quote tweet reads, "Before man was, Excel waited for him. The ultimate art awaits its ultimate practitioner." /end ID]

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

One thing I really like about Beverly Engel's book It Wasn't Your Fault, which is about PTSD-induced toxic shame, is that quite a bit of it deals with people who haven't broken The Cycle of Abuse (TM) and have gone on to hurt others. That's a really underserved and vulnerable patient population, and statistically, it's also MASSIVE. I don't think I've read a single other self-help type book on PTSD and self-loathing that confronts the possibility that you're exactly as bad as you think you are.

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

I felt better that it so much as mentioned that children can react to abuse with ungovernable rage. Everybody likes the image of PTSD patients as internalizing everything and becoming doormats, which does happen, and often, but it's not the only narrative. Personally I've always hated my abusers and have always wanted everyone who so much as breathed wrong in my direction from ages 0 to 18 to burn eternally in hell. I *never* thought any of it was my fault and ever since I was a toddler I was willing to make it everybody else's problem, and it's really relieving to read a clinical perspective that acknowledges that abuse victims can act that way too.

[reasonablywittyatbest]

It's wild to me that its such a neglected subset of abuse victims. Its really common. When I still lived with my parents and was still subjected to my father every fucking day I would lash out terribly at my mother, to the point when i went to visit them for years afterwards she was afraid I would lash out again. We've worked it out, I'm a much better person when I'm not regularly subjected to mental and emotional abuse, but like, its just so common.

I think it must be, at least partially, because, people hate the imperfect victim. Its easy for so many people to sympathize with someone who never lashed out. Less so for people to sympathize with people who are angry and lash out. Even though its a perfectly sensible reaction to being hurt over and over. I'm sure most people would like to think they would simply never.

I don't think this is the whole reason, but, I think it plays into it.

[sunspotpony]

Similarly, there’s a narrative of, you cannot experience grief over having fucked up. That if you are hurting because you caused harm, because you were the cause of harm, that you’re not allowed to grieve, because you “earned your sorrow. You deserve to bottle it up and to hurt for the bad things you have done,”

Which is punitive logic. It’s copthink. Which is bad.

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

important

In fact, you can actually give yourself trauma over fucking up too badly and doing, witnessing, or failing to prevent something evil that goes against your morals; for instance, if you steal your mother's life savings due to drug addiction, kill a civilian during a military operation (please do not join the military), or became abusive because you didn't have the tools and skills yet to handle BPD. In the field of psychology this is called "moral injury" or "perpetrator trauma."

[eglerieth]

The Scouring of the Shire be like:

Merry: let’s kill the ruffians! Remember, Frodo, we might have to kill ruffians. I WANT to kill ruffians. Can we kill ruffians? Also, you, ruffian, kneel at my feet while I laugh in your face. I’ve got a cool horn. 😎

Frodo: *sad sigh* no one hurt anyone. People hurting each other makes me sad and I’m already sad so don’t make me more sad. I’m not mad at the ruffians, I’m just disappointed. Also don’t talk to me and don’t ask me to come up with any plans. Also I’m gonna paraphrase Gandalf because he’s cool and always right. Also Kinslaying is bad.

Pippin: Eh, been in worse situations. Wait! DID YOU JUST INSULT FRODO?! Imma stop you right there by showing off my cool outfit. And also being a very good loyal soldier to my new king, who for most of the time I knew him was literally just a scruffy forest guy. Also go Tooks! My family is awesome 👏

Sam: let me insult everyone and everything who offends me. Also let’s take a million stops to check up on everyone we ever knew. I want to throw hands but I don’t know who at. Hullo, crush. *sees dead tree*. *bursts into tears*

[cuntlijah]

Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo

[mslovelyrita-deactivated2026070]

Currently rereading The Hobbit, and I swear it's like Tolkien took every antisemitic stereotype and caricature that was being used to dehumanize Jews during this time and put them onto the dwarves but turned them on its head to make them traits to be admired. I already knew he was a badass for telling the Nazis to go fuck themselves, but this just makes me love his work more.

[rebecca-liz]

The scene just after dinner is deeply revealing. They've had their weird, boisterous dinner customs and then they sing. And it's intimate and beautiful, and it awakens things in Bilbo he'd never thought were there, and he's a better person to the end of his days for having heard it.

And you can tell it's autobiographical - very, very Catholic JRRT went to dinner with his Jewish friends and it was strange and deeply beautiful, and he was a better man forever afterwards.

[eglerieth]

Just watched “The Grand Complication Job”, and Parker and Astrid are kinda like Nate and Sterling if they actually talked about their feelings. I love it

[thieves-never-say-die]

To confirm, Eliot has met at least some of his last relationships

In the ER getting stitched up after a fight

In the ER getting stitched up after a fight

During a fight

In a war zone

[breannacasey]

"How do you meet these women you're dating?"

"In the ER getting stitched after a fight"

See... Eliot has grown. He goes to the ER now.

[independent-fics]

Sophie: And how did you happen to meet your partners, Eliot? The woman you're dating now?

Eliot: In the ER getting stitched up after a fight.

Sophie: And the one before that?

Eliot: In the ER getting stitched up after a fight.

Sophie: And before that?

Eliot: *now furtively looking around to come up with some variation of an answer* uh… in a fight.

[teknoctarkamacska]

Honestly it's so funny to me how they all rush to advice harry in the swipe right job

Breanna (gets nervous and awkward around crushes and can't date longterm because it interferes with her work): harry you have so much to learn. from me

Sophie (cannot stop grifting for a moment): first of all choose what 'self' you want to use

Eliot (meets and parts with people in the most extreme situations possible): i meet my partners in the normal way

Parker (with the great expertise of the grand total of 1 relationship): pfft it's easy

[thegroundhogdidit]

i might be too woke or whatever but i really do think it's a symptom of amatonormativity that we can get on-screen, textual confirmation that the leverage ot3 are in fact canonically in a relationship but since it's not explicitly romantic on eliot's end it gets treated as though it's still subtext

[overlord-of-chaos]

Okay anyone else still on Parker casually dropping "Me, you, Hardison, that's fine, that's working" in the context of discussing dating with Eliot or just me

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

The best dynamic for a group of characters: every single one of them is the weirdest person you will ever meet, but in wildly different ways.  Every time you think you’ve identified “the normal one” they casually reveal that they don’t think birds exist, or they fistfight grizzly bears on the weekends, or they collect human skulls, and you realize again that none of these people are remotely normal.

Also they’re found family.

[clawedandcute]

The Prequels Trio

[actualshonenprotagonist]

Rehearsal tonight got canceled on account of everyone was too damn tired, and I had managed to remove a small chunk of my finger with a piece of downspout and then fell through the deck I was demolishing like a moron because I stepped on the boards I had literally just cut.

[joshsundquist]

“The Perfect Heist Hack”

Fun Fact: I modified a pair of pants for this sketch so I could hold 30 feet of rope and a full-sized grappling hook in the pant leg. Useful!

featuring Jordan Hare

[mikkeneko]

#this is what we’re losing by not putting disabled characters in action/fantasy/sf stories#hitherto unavailable shenanigans!

[wifegideonnav]

reblog this and tell me your favorite album written and performed by a woman?