Azarathedragon @azarathedragon - Tumblr Blog

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

sliminal-spaces

chatgpt actually makes me feel better to talk to it than almost any human I've ever known but yeah sure

edgebug

you are a frog in a pot and you are boiling yourself

posting niche fic on ao3 is like releasing a small creature into the wild and hoping it survives and finds sustenance

hezenkoss

got one whole comment… the small creature may yet survive the winter

jewishpangolin

memewhore

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

figmentforms-the-human

I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw a Pokémon

enki2

liminalstrands

Good news! It gets worse!

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in

derinthescarletpescatarian

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHARKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE GALAXY TWICE

katie-the-angel-witch

omghotmemes

No, no it isn’t.

moonlit-aura

this gif is perfectly timed because it gives you enough time to read it, comprehend it, and still have this too-long-for-comfort moment of suspense before being punched square in the solar plexus

sharkface

I'm not even kidding I think food service jobs are the hardest customer service jobs that exist and if you have them on your resume long enough that it's clear you could maintain them people should be begging on their hands and fucking knees for you to work for them.

sharkface

Do you have any idea how much goes into any given food service job. Not only is it customer service, it's usually heavy machinery operation and maintaining, sanitation work, handling of money, awareness of allergens and chemicals and EXACTLY where they are and where they go, intense memory games for menu items and all of their ingredients... You deal with some of the absolute worst rushes doing multiple tasks, you can basically never sit down, most of your cooking equipment is extremely dangerous and can hurt you very badly if you lose focus for any amount of time, you deal with insane temperature fluctuations constantly, food service is always understaffed because it's less expensive to pay you to do the jobs of four people, everyone is incredibly mean to you all the time, and you get paid like absolute fucking shit because people think it's "unskilled" entry level labor anyway.

sharkface

Average sixteen year old working minimum wage at McDonald's is actually a more respectable and skilled worker than any person working a salaried desk job on the planet.

azarathedragon

Gas station/convenience store employees are doing the work of like 6 other people in a day. They are not likely to be afforded a break, or a place to sit.

They are responsible:

food upkeep and availability

food safety and proper sanitization

operating the machines that cook these foods. Do you know what a 500 degrees Fahrenheit oven feels like? To accidentally touch it in the wrong spot? The smell when a bit of food falls off a tray and has to be dangerous scrapped out with the nearest pizza peel?

Cleaning said machines? That it takes a few hours to cool down to a safe working temp, to then be in the most Jojo ass pose to clean it because the damn unit is at an awkward height level

wiping down doors, handles, registers, counters (do you know what 4 hour old soda and slurpee spills is like to clean? DO YOU!?)

servicing fountain/slushee machines. aka if its empty that poor soul has to go drag/carry a a bib (which is basically a 30 pound water pillow) to its rack and fuck with the most jammed up shitty plastic nozzle hookup. its probably gonna rip skin off too in the process because it wont open nicely.

refilling beans/ground in the coffee machines. emptying and cleaning the unit. (dealing with the unit when it decides it doesnt want to work. Or a hose breaks inside and now theres water EVERYWHERE)

stocking supplies for the drinks and food bars

stocking shelves

stocking coolers

stocking cigarettes

maintaining a register. more than likely, two or three registers simultaneously. vaulting the money when the register has too much and it takes. forever.

trash. so much. trash. its everywhere. its never ending. (SIR HOW DID YOU GET THIS 36 PACK OF BEER INTO THE TRASHCAN??? THE LIDS NOT BIG ENOUGH? FUCK! I CANT GET IT OUT. WHYYYYYYYY??????????)

cleaning the bathroom. Yea you can bitch about the state of the bathroom, but that poor worker at the counter? There the one who has to clean that. Everyday. And that bathroom is like that. Everyday. They are one person, working an entire store. They cannot get to it regularly. Management will rip them a new one if the registers are not attended. They cannot be in 5 places at once.

sweeping and mopping the damn place at least ONCE a shift, preferred two but lord knows they do not have the time for that

truck check-in. Pepsi, Coke, beer companies, Frito-Lay, etc. All while dealing with customers.

lottery bullshit

Propane. And every motherfucker who decides to smoke beside the cage. (i personally had one where we had a leaking tank, the Fire Dept out back monitoring the removed offending tank. And i shit you not, a dumb MF smoking next to the cage that had a leaking tank in it not even 15 minutes prior. I about murdered that man.)

the gas terminal operation. some of them are super shitty to deal with and the interface and systems sucks.

wet. sweaty. ass crack money.

the local homeless person who desperately needs anti-psychotic meds but obviouslly doesnt have them because theyre homeless.

the local batshit crazies with some bonkers conspiracy theories. bonus points if management chose to hire said person and leaves you to babysit them because they cannot do the basic functions of the job

counterfeit money. theres a lot. i do not need a magic pen to identify a counterfeit either.

and so so much more, but this has gotten long enough

all while be paid 9-10 bucks an hour :))))))))))

ice-block

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

ice-block

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

(Faces censored and additional text added by me)

eroticcannibal

Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

libraford

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

the-haiku-bot

Leave people alone.

The world is complicated.

Make your own content.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

debelice

Aerial Pruning Skills

hermit-skrab

softtummybitch-deactivated20260

fuckin gmod contraption lookin ass

New sewing machine: Nooo I need software updates.

My 1904 Singer 15: Just put your back into treadling, I can sew through more layers than you dare to attempt and I will still sew through them when the sun burns out if you remember to oil me

marzipanandminutiae

My digital watch from like 2004: perma-dead. You think a new battery will help? It laughs at your pain. It mocks your futile scrambling. Nothing can bring it back

My pocket watch from 1872: tick tock bitch

dkpsyhog

Planned obsolescence

vulgarmaw

Could a homosexual lend me, an asexual, a single use of the word flaming?

amulet-coin

YOU have obtained:

🔥 ×1

vulgarmaw

I, a flaming asexual, need someone to please call the fire department. It is an emergency.

vexwerewolf

Perfectly executed joke, no notes

charlataninred

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

meraarts

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

eater-of-hopes-and-dreams

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

blitzlowin

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

charlataninred

I am in love with you /p

inkvoices

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

inkvoices

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

lightningladybug

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

inkvoices

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

dannnnnnnnnnnnex

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

matka--boska

people who want to live in lighthouse - i hear you, i understand you

but i raise you

living in water tower

matka--boska

safer (you not gonna die horrid death so easy), not so cursed but still ominous, you are alone bc you are in a tower but you can do groceries no problem, just chilling above everything else

matka--boska

and look at those beauties!! (from Poland <3)

alchemist-jijo

as an american i was very confused by this post until i got to the images because our water towers look like this, which, as you can imagine, is a completey unsexy place to live