just sleep! don't let your dreams be dreams!

25 - he/they - yes, I am THAT person you thought you saw before. I am everywhere. At all times. @dorianthos on Cara

[doublxpresso]

SPOILERS FOR WHA CHAPTER 88

worried qiflings after they (somehow) dealt with the parasite 🥹🥹

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

We need a sort of "six sigma no-blame" process, except taught to journalists. Report not just the immediate failure, but what sort of systemic causes allowed the failure. "This person fucked up" means the system failed to prevent the error, and that's still on the system - it usually means management is pushing the human component past spec.

Or failing journalists, some meta-organization above them better than "supernatural memes on Tumblr" would still be nice...

[intimate-mirror]

We have a shortage of doctors not because doctors aren't being paid enough but because doctors have successfully lobbied the government to prevent the shortage from being filled, in order to increase their wages.

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

I think that was actually one of the examples I had in mind when I wrote my reply - there are known causes for a lot of this, and it would probably be vastly easier to fix if we could just get journalists to actually dig in a few layers, instead of stopping at the superficial surfaces.

Teachers genuinely seem underpaid and over-administrated (and watching the administration bloat has got to make the underpaid thing hurt more) Air Traffic Controls are under the most absolutely insane obligations and working conditions ever. I cannot fathom why anyone would do it, unless it was funding their coke habit.

Doctors are an artificial shortage by strangling one part of the pipeline, and it would be so incredibly easy to fix that one. People still want to be doctors!

I'd imagine truckers are underpaid and under-appreciated, alongside facing a fairly clear threat of automation at some unspecified point in the future. But they also have a really strong union, and it's doing some solid work fighting against automation. But also it's social isolation for weeks on end, with nothing but music and podcasts to keep you company.

I have no clue what's up with bus drivers, honestly.

And a lot of times corporations are just firing salary-lowering gunshots when they complain: they can get as many workers as they want, they just resent paying a living wage.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Teaching is also a job where being understaffed can very quickly spiral into the job becoming unbearable/impossible.

Like understaffing means bigger classes.

Understaffing means you might end up having to teach a subject you know nothing about (shout out to my nemesis GEOGRAPHY), with minimal support.

Understaffing means that the kid who desperately needs a 1:1 support for their obvious severe SEN needs instead gets shoved into your lesson with no support except “you deal with it”. And you then have to try and explain that to their parents at parents evening in a way that makes your employers look good (or at least isn't going to get you labelled a troublemaker) whilst at the same time fielding their, honestly justified, anger at how their child is being failed by the system.

Understaffing means that you can't easily get support with behaviour issues because there just aren't enough staff to support.

Like if a school is already understaffed, then chances are any new staff they hire are going to be thrown into a nightmare scenario where they're being set up to fail and, worse, where they can see that the kids they work with are being set up to fail.

What are those staff going to do? Leave. Possibly leave teaching in general, because this sort of thing can also very quickly lead to burnout.

[stupiderat]

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[ansierpien]

WHA MANGA SPOILERS!!!!

...

Can we talk about Richeh's rings for a moment?

How she made them for everyone in the atelier? Because she not only deeply cares for everyone here (and Olly) but also because she TRUSTS them?

Like, can you guys imagine Kidfrey willingly sharing his location with Beldaruit?

Exactly.

[totally-cis-offical]

Wait that explains everything so so much

[rainbow-demoness]

And since we don't face direct punishment for missing positive social cues like we do for negative ones, our coping skills and compensatory hypervigilance don't develop the same way. So we go through a world of never recognising positive signals, sometimes spotting negative signals, and knowing for sure there's more negative signals we're still missing, because those keep blowing up in our face.

Kind of fucked tbh.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[gailcarriger]

[mothric]

thinking about the time a former housemate said to me "hey I put these box fans in the living room because it's hot" while gesturing to the fans that I was actively sitting in front of because it was hot. and I said "okay thanks." and she kept standing there like she was waiting for something else so I said "am I blocking the airflow? do you need me to move?" and she said no I'm just letting you know they're here, in the living room, for circulation. and I said well yes, I did put that together. I am enjoying them. thank you. and she looked confused. so I asked "am I meant to do something with this information or are you just informing me?" and she said no I'm letting you know they're here because It's Hot In Here. she seemed a bit aggravated, and her emphasis seemed deliberate.

it took me asking three more times before she finally told me she wanted me to leave the fans where they are instead of moving them to my room or something. and I said oh! I had no intention of doing so but thank you for letting me know what the expectation is.

about a month later she brought up that conversation as the moment it actually clicked for her that I Am Autistic And Will Not Magically Intuit The Unspoken Request You Didn't Ask Me.

[mothric]

I have observed enough allistic communication to know that generally, if somebody points something out to you that you can already see or are already clearly interacting with, they are making an indirect request. but as I don't know what the request is, the only way forward is for me to guess (and likely get it wrong), or prompt the allistic to tell me clearly what they need.

however, allistics don't realize they do this, so asking them to say the unspoken surprises and confuses them. this is not their fault. allistics can be quite emotionally fragile and perceive directness as confrontation, so they habitually rely on indirect speech and coded language to preserve others' feelings. this is why they may find it difficult to be direct, even when asked. I have found that with enough gentle encouragement and reassurance that they are actually helping you, you too can achieve successful communication with your allistic friend or loved one. :)

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[heywriters]

^^^

[cuppydogshane]

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[doctorwho2avenger]

Hello Doctor, Same here 😂

Patrick Troughton in Doctor Who.

[pocketramblr]

agottfection ~

HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD..... ok for sure new favorte spell/contraption. tetia spinnoff just for this please

i love the girlsssssssssssss

[as-asya-talks]

Agott is soooo pretty in manga🥺

[ferwasfound]

agott manga icons !

[memorizedkeysmash]

People have probably thought about this before but I wonder if after the "almost fell to her fucking death" shock wore off Agott was secretly really excited about Qifrey's water dragon spell. Like imagine that you are a huge fan of an old form of magic that has basically been lost to time and has no "practical use" and then you witness your master use said non-practical magic to whoop a dragons ass

[stealingpotatoes]

Do you have a favorite of the qiflings?

yes (coco) but also can you ever truly have one favourite qifling? they're a multipack you have to keep them together

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[theseventhcrow55]

i get so emotional every time i think about fanfic culture. it's just so beautiful that people are writing and anonymously posting these thousand-word stories about characters we all love and not even getting any money or public fame from it. it's literally just for the love of the game.

shout out to everyone who participates in fanfic culture, be it reading or writing fanfics. you are contributing to such a lovely thing <3