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[bynkii]

Monk Life

play a lot of FFXIV. It’s a great game, great writing, etc.

This is me as a monk:

Also as a samurai, and every crafting class. Don’t ask about the name, I’ve been using that for D&D and MMOs and shit since 1989.

My minion is indeed a wind-up Sadu. Why? Because of this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXZhoXvkLgo

I mean, holy shit, why wouldn’t you want to hang with Sadu after that?

And Y’shtola, and Alisaie. Like those are basically his favorite three people in the game. Y’shtola’s response to the shoes was to just shake her head because at this point, in my headcanon, she’s so used to him doing shit like that, she doesn’t even blink. Although the Murderous Moogle Mogfists glamour did get a raised eyebrow.

Alisaie actually says things like “Really? The sarong and the glamour that leaves burning leaves behind you wasn’t enough, you needed PINK SNEAKERS?” The Mogfists made her consider that maybe Thancred’s drinking problem wasn’t such a bad idea after all. I mean, a 9′ tall Roe with a multicolored mohawk and now his gloves look like he’s strapped a Moogle to each hand as some weird kind of boxing glove...

Sadu has decided he’s her big brother, who never tells her no, never judges her, is always down to fight spar, and will happily go on whatever adventure she wants, even though he is very annoying at “accidentally” playing living wall between her and the entire towns full of people she challenges to fight...before she gets drunk.

There’s no real amorous tension between him and any of them, because they’re all his besties, in the same way 12 year olds are besties.They go on adventures, get in trouble, and he inevitably leaves the bar with one over each shoulder and Alisaie under one arm, because he doesn’t drink and they all think of “Drink Eorzea Dry” as a challenge, not a weird Lala thing to get you to consume overpriced shitty alcohol.

They are his peeps, right? Someone once insisted he was trying to get horizontal with one of them, and all four of them almost laughed themselves into a coma. It’s not that he doesn’t think they all aren’t attractive, because he does. They do think he’s cute, in a very large, very goofy way. But it ain’t like that. Also, except for Sadu, they’ve all set him up on dates, and he’s done the same for them. Well, he’s tried to. He’s a bit clumsy though which lead to one Lala thinking he was...procuring for them. That was funny once ‘Shtola stopped whacking him in the head with her stick.

Their attempts to set him up fail for other reasons. They’re very protective of their big goofy buddy, and there are not a lot of women out there who pass the test. Sadu is especially overprotective of him. What has them all very worried is Fordola. Because every time they’re in the same room, her right eye keeps glowing at him. Fortunately, unless she literally bonks him over the head and tell him exactly what she wants, he will never figure it out. Also, there’s a small chance that Fordola wants in on the group for the friendship more than anything else. 

No one has asked Fordola. For her part, she thinks he’s very cute and has more than a mild interest in the underside of the sarong, but he’s also one of the few people who will visit her in prison, bring good food, hang out and tell her stories. He doesn’t pity her, he doesn’t fear her (I mean, he doesn’t fear anything, not really), he thinks she got caught up in some fucked-up Garlean bullshit, and really who hasn’t? He also knows how fucked up life with the Echo is, so being around someone who gets it is helpful for him. He’s the only person she can feel calm around. 

Lyse would be one of the crew, but she’s busy running Ala Mhigo. He still makes sure to come by regularly so they can spar. Her advisors really love him for that. Some of them cheer when he comes by. 

He’s their big doofy buddy who is always down and never makes them think he is playing some long game to get in the secret garden. He’s put them all to bed and sat next to those beds making sure the puke went in the proper direction so many times they’ve lost count. Y’shtola regularly changes in front of him, other than the first time, he’s never had a problem keeping his eyes from wandering inappropriately. The first time she did it, he did actually turn away so she’d have some privacy, but she laughed at him and told him not to. 

“You do indeed have a shapely backside (Roe have ass for DAYS), but it’s a bit awkward to talk to. I’ve no concerns about you being inappropriate, so please, let us not pretend you’ve not undressed me when I’m passed out covered in whatever it was Sadu was drinking.” (Sadu goes from sober to puking faster than anyone would expect. The worst part is, it doesn’t stop her. She views it as convenient, since now she has room for more. Sadu is very extra.)

Alisaie barely gets undressed in front of herself. They’ve agreed to just pretend she magically pajama’d herself after a night on the towns. 

Sadu doesn’t care who sees her in any state. Then again, the last time someone said something inappropriate because she had gotten nekkid drunk, it took a water sprite to put out the fire she lit on his ass. Did I meantion Sadu is VERY extra? Because she is. 

It’s probably a good thing monks don’t actually need a lot of money as a rule, and that he’s quite good with the investing, he spends a lot of gil on “let’s just take this large pile of shiny coins and forget about those pesky authorities” discussions. 

There’s no reason a Lominsan Roe, a couple of Sharlyan scholars and a steppe berserker should be the bestest frens ever, but they are, and none of them would trade any of it for the world.

(He and Krile get along famously as well, but she’s older enough than he is, that she’s more of his big sister, even though she barely comes up to his knees. The other three have agreed that watching him kneel in front of her so she only has to stand on a chair when she needs to lecture him is terribly cute.)

My headcanon.

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[scribeherself]

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

[dduane]

”‘Just’ friendship? A poor modifier for so high and honorable a state.”

[bynkii]

When I finally finished my 39-year quest for my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t expect much. I’d changed cities at 53, and making friends at that age is astoundingly hard for a variety of reasons. Also, other than my son and two other people, no one lived within a hundred miles of me. But sent out notices with the “no, you’re not expected to be here” thing, expecting emails, what have you.

Then I get a call from a friend who I’d met in 1982, and she said “what food do you want at your dinner?” I was like “girl, wtf are you talking about?”

She’d texted my son and gotten the number of my other local-ish friends and commenced to planning my graduation party. And people showed up. They flew in from Cali to KC. They drove from Michigan. From South Carolina. They. Showed. Up.

None of them are “just” friends. Or “only” friends.

Never ever diminish that relationship.

[bynkii]

Using XAML in PowerShell and .NET apps in PowerShell Modules

Recently, in my “real” job, I wanted to improve on the process of adding applications into SCCM/Software Center. While the SCCM wizard’s not bad, it’s kind of tedious, and you can’t save any of the settings for an app easily. That was something I wanted to do, because SCCM has a solid, well-documented (APPLE PAY ATTENTION) PowerShell automation implementation. So I realized that if I could save…

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[delphinidin4]

[bynkii]

It’s Friday night and I just taught myself how to integrate xaml & WPF into PowerShell to make dialogs with multiple custom buttons.

Sigh

[bynkii]

PowerShell 7.6.0 Preview 6 macOS install bug

(This may also exist on Linux and Windows, but I can’t verify that) There’s currently (as of the date of this post) a bug with the .pkg installer for PowerShell 7.6.0 Preview 6: it doesn’t update the installed preview version, instead it overwrites the installed non-preview/stable version. Obviously, this is less than desireable, but it’s been reported to the team, so hopefully it will be fixed…

[bynkii]

PowerShell function return foolishness

While working on an update to Set-PowerShellSig, I noticed something weird. Well, not just weird, but bad. Say you explicitly create an arraylist or generic list in a function, we’ll call it myDumbReturn and you add things to it. Now, you want to return this arraylist or generic list so you say: return $myArrayList You’d expect that if you had a statement like $myReturn = myDumbReturn, that…

[bynkii]

Set-PowerShellScriptSig 1.1 Published

A fairly significant update, 1.1’s Mac component leverages AppleScript’s Choose File so you can select multiple PowerShell files to sign at once. It took a bit longer than I thought it would because while you can create generic list objects in PowerShell functions, what gets returned is a generic array. Sigh. Anyway, it’s up at…

[bynkii]

Script To Download the Current Version of PowerShell

One of the annoying things about well, any software is checking to see if you have the currrent version. This is a thing with PowerShell, and because the PowerShell team in its finite wisdom has decided to not just have a “latest stable/lts/preview” url, we have to figure this out manually. It’s not too bad though, fortunately, the PowerShell team gives us a good way to check and a bit of simple…

[theconcealedweapon]

[lynati]

I'm reminded of that one post where a guy said put a sparkly pink unicorn sticker on the best forklift in the warehouse, and confirmed that it is indeed always available for him to use now.

[desasterdan]

Oh. My. Fucking. God. This is 100% true.

I was employed at a workshop and somehow, every time I needed it, the 5.0 allen wrench was missing from its dedicated places. That was why I ordered a set of allen wrenches just for myself. And since I'm a horrible queer and also a huge fan of color coding I ordered the rainbow allen wrench set. Nobody ever touched it, not a single one went missing. Ever. You couldn't find my colleagues dead with them in their hands. One time someone even refused to use them after looking for his set and finding it missing.

Seriously, there's nobody as insecure as a middle-aged man working in maintenance.

[bynkii]

Holy crap, that’s a sweet set of ball Allens and it’s not really expensive. ORDERING

[bynkii]

WAIT, IT GETS BETTER, THEY HAVE BASICALLY A WHOLE LINE OF THIS!!!

RainBow!! No, FR, LOOK: https://pbswisstools.us/search?q=Rainbow&type=product&options%5Bunavailable_products%5D=hide&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

Search: 9 results found for "Rainbow"

PB Swiss Tools USA brings you precision Swiss-made hand tools built to last. Choose from reliable screwdrivers, hex keys, and toolkits made

[theconcealedweapon]

[lynati]

I'm reminded of that one post where a guy said put a sparkly pink unicorn sticker on the best forklift in the warehouse, and confirmed that it is indeed always available for him to use now.

[desasterdan]

Oh. My. Fucking. God. This is 100% true.

I was employed at a workshop and somehow, every time I needed it, the 5.0 allen wrench was missing from its dedicated places. That was why I ordered a set of allen wrenches just for myself. And since I'm a horrible queer and also a huge fan of color coding I ordered the rainbow allen wrench set. Nobody ever touched it, not a single one went missing. Ever. You couldn't find my colleagues dead with them in their hands. One time someone even refused to use them after looking for his set and finding it missing.

Seriously, there's nobody as insecure as a middle-aged man working in maintenance.

[bynkii]

Holy crap, that’s a sweet set of ball Allens and it’s not really expensive. ORDERING

[thebibliosphere]

Current writing advice I'm seeing on TikTok and Insta is telling authors to stop using em dashes in their work because, "AI uses em dashes so people will think you've used AI."

Y'know, the AI that was trained on the stolen work of real authors?

Anyway, I will not be doing that. What I will be doing, however, is adding a note at the start of all my books that no AI was used in the creation of my work because I, the author, did not go to university for four fucking years to study English literature and linguistics only to be told I can't use proper grammar because someone might think a robot wrote it.

Fucking, insane.

[the-haiku-bot]

Y'know, the AI

that was trained on the stolen

work of real authors?

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

[dduane]

Honestly.

They took enough of my books (meaning nearly all of them) to train their damn brainless answering machines that—if you’ve seen my normal everyday prose—all those em-dashes might originally have come from ME. 😏

[bynkii]

Some days I think to just how bland “professional” writing has become that it feels like it’s AI-generated because everyone kills all the personality out of their work missives

[yandere-angela]

i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

[goth-princess-gwennie]

How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that.

[yandere-angela]

1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout

2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method

3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini

4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying

and the transaction is complete

[bynkii]

Like most things, I feel Japan has taken the steps to make cash as easy to use on both sides of the transaction as cards.

Using cash in the U.S. is dangerous for everyone involved, it’s expensive and it’s tedious.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[transgothzoey]

From a state hearing in Texas

[liberalsarecool]

"We got duped."

No, you idiot, you gleefully ignored warnings about Project 2025 and made excuses because you're a cruel asshole who saw all of Trump's flaws and lifetime of chronic fraud as strength.

[mariacallous]

[fluorescentbrains]

terfs posting their Ls

[pezpenser205]

its nice to see stuff like this because it reminds you that theyre actually the weird ones. their rhetoric just relies on them portraying themselves as "voices of the people" fighting for what no one else will stand up for, despite most people probably thinking their behavior is embarrassing and not worth it. open terfs, racists, nazis, homophobes, misogynists, general transphobes- are all just extremely pissed off and angry minorities that make it everyone else's problem as much as they possibly can so that they seem bigger than they are. that doesnt mean they arent dangerous, it just means we can win. we've got a fighting chance against these losers.

[anti-terf-posts]

official anti terf post