When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.
You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do
Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"
Note: I'm going to be more precise with Sakura part for this AU because he starts to form his team after he arrives to Makochi and joins Bofurin.
Haruka’s childhood wasn’t honey on toast… nor toast at all, really, it was actually more like charcoal. Repudiated by everyone around him, he grew up without protection from the harsh, cold world. Other children constantly used him as target for their pokémon to practice their attacks, the adults around pretending not to see or encouraging this awful behavior, at least until he deducted that he could also attack – either the pokémon before they launched their attack or attack the trainer at hand so they could not give the order at all –. That was Sakura’s life until arriving to Makochi and Bofurin.
As you may have deducted by now, Sakura had never received a pokémon for himself nor ever tried to capture one because he had never been able to have his own pokéballs, and you need pokéballs to capture pokémon right? Right?!
After just a day into his new life in Makochi, Sakura is attacked by surprise by a very aggressive Eevee, that Sakura quickly recognizes as the very same Eevee that has been terrorizing – ahem, stalking – him since a couple years ago.
“But what did you do to that Eevee for her to be so angry at you?” Nirei questions with confusion in his face and notebook at hand. “Why don’t you tell me how you first met her? Maybe you did something that Eevee found insulting?” Nirei suggests.
Turns out that Sakura found that Eevee while taking shelter from rain, the poor thing was badly injured and the boy took care of her cuts while some slave he had with him and by ripping a bit of his shirt off to bandage her, then Sakura left once the rain had stopped.
“And that’s it! So, tell me why the damn thing tries to pummel me whenever she sees me?! She even followed me all the way here!”
Nirei looks at Sakura as if looking at a fool.
“Sakura-san, I think that Eevee is angry at you because you didn’t take her with you when you came here.” Nirei explains first.
“B-b-but how was I supposed to know that?! A-and I don’t have pokéballs! How was I supposed to capture her?!”
“Sakura-san, you know you don’t necessarily have to use a pokéball to ‘capture’ a pokémon, right?”
“W-what?”
“A pokéball is mostly used as a practical way to transport a group of pokémon or just a pokémon. There are also law restrictions on some cities and communities that forbid certain type of pokémon to be out on the streets, be it because of their size or type, so the human guardian of the pokémon must transport them in a pokéball, but if it’s something like, I don’t know, a Skitty, it’s alright to keep them out.” Nirei explains.
Sakura’s mouth is hanging open at the revelation.
Long story short, by the end of the day Sakura Haruka is now the proud trainer of a very willful female Eevee (that at some point will evolve into an Espeon). Sakura ‘captures’ Eevee right before the beginning of the Shishitoren arc.
As the story advances, Sakura’s group of pokémon does too.
After Eevee came Absol, who couldn’t stop sensing the dangers that always seem to surround Sakura and simply decided to stay with the boy to protect him (at first, Nirei almost had a heart attack when Sakura told the group about the Absol that kept stalking him back then).
Absol joins after the Keel arc, right after Sakura talked to Kaji and grew closer to his classmates, but she had been checking on Sakura since he arrived to Makochi.
Then Togepi joins the fray; Sakura found his egg one good morning as he woke up, right between his legs (it’s Suo favorite story).
Togepi’s egg appears in Sakura’s apartment after he, Nirei and Sou helped Tsubaki with Ito-san depression (Togepi won’t evolve into Togetic until the end of the current arc, where all this thing with Suo settles down).
Around the time Sakura met Momijikawa a lonesome Shinx was found by Absol, who took it to Sakura, he took the sick baby pokémon home and took care of him until it became healthy again, the little Shinx never left.
The next pokémon who entered Haruka’s life was a troublemaking Bagon who loves to bang his very hard head against Sakura’s, who teaches Bagon how to kick rocks just as hard as he does when he smashes them with his head.
More fanarts for "Dance in the Dusk" by @sareyen!!!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64877248/chapters/166749796
I just read the new chapter and it gave me brain bugs about this master and disciple pair again.
It's a fic of Shen Yuan as Shen Jiu's demonic cultivator shizun Wu Yanzi btw.
PLEASE GO READ IT. IT IS SO GOOD.
ah any disciple thrown at SY is going to end up with some kind of weird shizun complex aren't they. LBH dodged the bullet just for SJ to take it like a train in this fic.
this is really, really old (and never fully finished), but the fic just updated this morning for the first time in a while and I realized that if I wrote 65k of anything, I'd probably want to see fanart for it even if that fanart was not great
anyways, if you like jiuyuan, i absolutely recommend this fic! it's one of my favorites of all time and i'm totally obsessed with it (you have no idea how excited i was today when i saw it updated!!). that being said, it does cover some darker subjects, so make sure to heed the warnings that the author gives.
Markiplier does on the surface seem like an odd choice for directing and starring in a serious scifi horror movie, but in terms of getting scared at a computer screen and dying badly in space, his resume is remarkably stacked.
i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed
My Time at Sandrock is such a fuckin phenomenal RPG that NO ONE has played because it looks like an awful stardew valley “cozy game” clone. But I think about the intense 100+ hour plot, the twists and turns in the story that GENUINELY shocked me, the depth of the characters, the expansive romances with multiple questlines, the post-apocalyptic environmental storytelling… oh Sandrock you are SO underappreciated
100% My Time at Evershine is going to blow up when it releases, watch for it
[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]
keep thinking about the fact that suo formally withdrew from furin before fucking off. motherfucker was going to disappear off the face of the earth and went “okay well if i disappear with no notice everyone is going to come after me. so i have to telegraph that i am leaving On Purpose Of My Own Volition.” and so he filed formal paperwork about it. as if, by the way, that would not have the easily foreseeable consequence of umemiya showing up at class 1-1 like “heyyy guys. where the fuck is your vice captain?”
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