i should be writing

| rae | 20+ | nonbinary lesbian | they/them | most of my time is spent reading fanfiction (when I should be writing). i'm shy, but you're more than welcome to come talk to me!

[slowspinningredemption]

unnecessary quotation mark appreciation board

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous ¨sign(s)¨

[milowing]

sometimes u headcanon a character as a sexuality but then also ship things that contradict that. sometimes you ship things you would NEVER EVER want in canon. this is because these things are fun and silly and not legally binding.

[grumpy-gh0st]

would you rather

never have to brush your teeth again (mouth is always clean)

never have to lotion your body again

never have to wash your hair again

Remaining time: 16 hours 28 minutes

Pls reblog

[thesuperyapper]

Mutual I wanna talk to you but I don't know what to say. I really like you and I enjoy our interactions I think you'd be an awesome person to be friends with in real life. Please do not attack me with a sledgehammer.

[notaplaceofhonour]

will never not be mad about gig economy apps making a 4 star rating mean “unacceptable quality”

[notaplaceofhonour]

Doordash will suspend you below 4.2 stars.

Uber drivers can be suspended at 4.6 stars.

Lyft drivers risk suspension under 4.8 stars.

Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.

4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.

If you give a person a 4 star rating, to these companies, you are not saying “I was mostly satisfied with the service, but there’s always room for improvement”—which is what 4 stars should mean—you are voting for them to be fired.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Genuinely, do not ever give people 4 star ratings on gig service apps for any reason that is not a safety issue where their continuation on the app could seriously hurt people.

If someone gives you “just OK” service where you don’t want to give them 5 stars, but you don’t actively hate their existence and hope they die, just don’t rate them.

[thebdelliumlady]

I'd like to add (and I hope OP doesn't mind me piggybacking on their post) this applies to a lot of other things too.

I'm a teacher, and every year, the State sends out a "climate" survey to all students, parents, and teachers. It has a 1-5 scale and a 'not applicable' option. If you select 4 or 'not applicable' it's marked against the school.

For example, I'm a virtual teacher. The climate survey has questions about the safety and cleanliness of the halls and bathrooms in the school. A normal person would assume that, if they attend a virtual school, they should use the 'not applicable' option, since their school has no halls or bathrooms. Nope, if they select anything but 5 out of 5, our school gets marked down.

Its not just delivery apps that are rigged like this. Keep this in mind. Assume any survey is rigged like this.

[jedda-martele]

The part of this that truly infuriates me is how it intersects with performance reviews. Like, yeah it’s totally unsustainable and horrific that these client/customer/public facing surveys need to be kept near perfect. But meanwhile, on your performance reviews, you better not rate yourself much above a 3. I had a manager once tell me that there should basically be only one person in the district who got a 5 on a metric. That someone getting all 5s was impossible, they’d practically be the second coming of Christ. So, ever since, I’ve been furious at how you’re never supposed to highly value your own work, you know on the bit that’s supposed to deal with you getting a raise (if anyone gets a raise) but the public is supposed to think you, and by extension the company, are Mary Poppins (practically perfect in every way).

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old

[silima]

it's always funny to me when ppl act like it's somehow incestuous for characters who consider each other found family/chosen family/whatever u wanna call the trope to date each other, and it's funny for many reasons, but most specifically it's funny because irl when you meet a person and get really attached and decide that you want to be family with them, there's a very popular legally recognized way of doing that & it's called marriage

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Marriage promotes incest because then you end up having sex with a family member

[phantomrose96]

Yet another scam

This one is targeting posts with ao3 links, and it’s creating AI-generated comments to pose as someone whos read your fic and totally wants to draw something for it

I went to this blog, and their actual blog is empty but their likes are public, and they’re leaving near-identical comments at break-neck speeds on any other posts with ao3 links where

~2 minutes between each of the comments above, and an endless slew of them, all extremely ChatGPT-intoned.

If you see this or any other puppet account show up doing this, block and report.

[teashoesandhair]

I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs

[memorycycle]

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

[mia-down-under]

[april]

ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

[iwantadamusername]

⚠︎ Tip

Nap lengths are always randomised.

[thememedaddy]

[pangur-and-grim]

when you’re mean to me, this is who you’re being mean to

[pangur-and-grim]

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[starlightomatic]

i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology

[starlightomatic]

this is about google’s ai overview

[finnglas]

gonna be real i thought this was just about normal microwaves

[datasoong47]