the "C" is silent

which C? yes. She/Her, They/Them I just really love being in fandom. I guess I just like liking things. I'm not gay as in happy, I'm queer as in fuck you.

[rodent-detector]

Today I share with you bronze rats from the Meiji period.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[torizzzu]

Man over 40 👉🏻👈🏻😳

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

sengi

wiggling my sengi

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

wiggling sengi wednesday

[baronne-buhdussy]

Cute melody

I don't know man, guess i'm into Bird Ladies recently...

Almost forget, here's the Not-Tumblr-Safe-version-on-Ao3

[cassili]

[sexybritishllama]

just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews

[bedupolker]

Rim to river

Bonus chuckwalla:

I think these might be the meatiest lizards in the canyon, never seen one in person and this trip i got to see TWO in the same little subcanyon. They're in the iguana family and hide in cracks while puffing up their bodies so they can't be yanked out (which is how I was able to get a nice photo of this guy)

[gaslit-dipshits]

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

[segamascott]

[tasty-tiktoks]

[shoelace4-48]

sometimes theres nothing you can do

[otpcruiseliner]

[teaboot]

My boss has a new boss who's been dropping in to check on how different sites are doing and I keep introducing her to the clients by going "This is Hank. Hank, this is my boss's boss, she's very important, please tell her nice things about me" and that's my big Autistic secret to professional networking. Letting them think you're funny

[teaboot]

Other fun Professional Hacks:

"Networking" doesn't have to feel like one big huge façade of manipulation and lies. You just find people you like. The things you talk about don't even have to be related, you just gotta find people who you like working with who you might reach out to for questions or projects later.

You don't need to look professional and respectable or like a "real" adult. I like to just show up and make it clear I'm receptive to jokes and quirks and weird ideas, and the people who vibe with that usually come to me.

Introduce people you like to other people you like. Talk them up. You can tell your boss "This is Mike he kicks ass, he knows everything about this place, if you want to know something talk to him, if he ever quits we're stealing him"

I found can't think of a polite or socially normal way to say something, sometimes you can just say it like "I don't know if this is dumb or not but I don't know anything about this. Can you explain what you mean?", or "I was taught something different. Should I change how I've been doing it?". I've never had a negative reaction to this.

When in doubt, ask a weird question. "What's your favorite dessert food" is a p good one. Sometimes folks think I'm childish but at least they know what they're getting into and they know I'm not judging them.

Sometimes when higher-ups approach me with a stiff upper lip I'll test the waters with a "is your job as insane as it sounds" or something similar to remind them that I, a worker performing a role, and speaking to them, a worker performing a role. If they give a stiff and measured answer I stay distant and professional. If their performance cracks and their tone changes or they smile or laugh or give a funny reply I know I can relax and joke a bit too.

I still don't enjoy business stuff outside of the most basic day to day duties of my job and conventions n shit are still pretty draining but learning that other people are also following a script and the performance has room for "yes-and" type improv has helped a lot

[prokopetz]

There are few deeper betrayals than checking out a video game on the strength of its story trailer and discovering that the cool alt girl is an NPC and the actual player character is some dude who's such a nonentity that he does not appear in the promotional material for the game of which he is the ostensible protagonist.

[fuzzbby]

Noriko Takeda.

[arkangelo-7]

Lex Luthor hates Superman, Lex Luthor hates the Justice League, bla bla bla… You know who Lex must really hate? Bruce Wayne.

Because he knows that bitch is Batman. He’d worked it through that big brain of his and he’s without a doubt certain that the same idiot who spilled champagne on him last New Year’s Eve moonlights as the Batman.

But he can’t fucking prove it. So he’s resigned to a lifetime of having to make stilted conversation filled with double meaning while Brucie just flutters his eyelashes and pretends to be a ditz. And Lex just has to sit there and take it, because Bruce knows that Lex knows and absolutely uses that knowledge to fuck with Alex at every opportunity—he says the absolute shittest, godawful pickup lines and flirts to his heart’s content, knowing full well that he helped Superman kick Lex’s ass last week and that Lex knows it was him.

[arkangelo-7]

The replies are killing me 😂

[escuerzoresucitado]

[tehnakki]

Hummingbirbs is shrimp?????!!!!!!!!

[copperbadge]

Shrimps is boids.