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ppl on ao3 should use the "this work was inspired by" option more. so many fics out there that put links to other fics in the a/n but theres a better option.....
☝️ use this!!!!!!
important addition i forgot that not everyone might know. similar to how ao3 bookmarks work, you can also link to non-ao3 fanworks using this format. so, for instance, if theres some fanart on tumblr that inspired you to write the fic? you can link that fanart to your fic!
So I just simultaneously did, and possibly didn't lose my job today :)
Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.
So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.
But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.
It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?
So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:
Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.
And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.
So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".
So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.
I don't know what else to say aside from I've been laughing all day and I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining Schrodinger's Unemployment to the benefits office.
Update that is not an update because I'm basically certain this isn't what actually happened:
My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.
Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.
Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.
Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).
Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues
(also shout out to the person who proposed Carmen Sandiego)
ACTUAL (partial) UPDATE:
According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.
Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.
For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.
So now I'm officially out of a job. Because my workplace was literally stolen in the night.
Actually fuck it let's share some photos cause I wouldn't be inclined to believe this myself. It's not like anyone can stalk me at my job now and I'm not gonna have to see any coworkers that might find my tumblr.
Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life
Aaand a close-up:
The last remains of a once Very Much Solid And Immobile Workplace
HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE
via @kagaminilen
[cut to a kiosk on legs, sipping a boba, while wandering into the nearest forest on chicken legs]
Here you go @a-bit-too-dyscrasic
40k is so funny cause you'll have a character called like High Justiciar Alexandros Maximus who looks like a rugby captain wearing half a cathedral and his arch nemesis is a little green freak called Skav The Mindboi who is psychic because he painted his forehead blue.
Big gun vs child flenser at its finest. It's why I love the Armageddon stuff because it's a bunch of factions at war desperately fighting, and then to the orks it's just a vacation planet they go to to enjoy a good krump'n.
I will say, the funny thing about that post on one of the two types of Warhammer books being "Meditations on the dehumanizing nature of war and the futility of mutual kindness in the face of suffocating oppression and predjudice by Askaurazoth the Child Flenser" is that, it's not even that much of an exaggeration.
For example, there's a trilogy exploring a character who's trying so desperately to transcend the dark gods he's entrenched himself with by working for what he believes to be the greater good of humanity , physically evolving them so they may transcend the idea of or need for gods.
He does all this while being deeply in denial that, in the horriffic actions he does to do that, he is playing into the very hands of those gods, to the point where he denies their divinity to their faces and yet they are pleased and empowered by his denial.
Thus he works to create a better world in which he has no place, doomed to never realize it by the very forces that drive him to try and create that perfection, an ouroboros of hubris.
Said character is also named Fabius Bile, and his miniature has him wearing a coat made of human skin, along with a harness with Dr Octopus arms for "surgery" and also a skull-topped cane called the Rod of Torment.
There are two kinds of 40k books: "Space Man Shoot Bad Guys With Big Gun" and "Meditations on the dehumanizing nature of war and the futility of mutual kindness in the face of suffocating oppression and predjudice by Askaurazoth the Child Flenser"
monks debating whether vows of silence should still allow you to leave emoji reacts on the monastery groupchat
Inciting incident
Had to dig to find this OP it’s been stuck in my head all damn day
Loid and Yor
happy fathers day to the BEST papa ever!! ♡♡♡
I think about this like once a day
The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster
this on the bedspread
This as every wallpaper
Wow guys, we’ve really come together to make this House MD into a Home MD 💙
they used to let kids have real fun
There's an xkcd for that :3
Side note: polonium-210 is a very dangerous isotope, however it "does not pose a radiation hazard when kept outside the body", as the alpha particle it emits have very little penetration power and cannot pierce even the outer layers of dead skin. It has still killed countless people, though, not because of children's rings, but because of tobacco. Polonium latches onto and concentrates in tobacco leaves, leading to heavy smokers being exposed to more radiation than survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.
It's always wild to me seeing comments about different toxins like this on information about random things in the past, but it's never discussed when it comes to cigarettes.
i really liked this chapter!! (人*´∀｀)
hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???
i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)
oh, Sisyphus! i got you
There are, I'd say, three characters in Warhammer (across 40k and fantasy) that I would consider giving the One Ring to take it to Mordor to destroy it. There might be more, but these three are the main ones that come to mind.
At the bottom of the list is Castellan Garran Crowe, of the Grey Knight Purifiers. Though I'd probably say he's the least certain of the three, I think it is possible that he could resist the Ring's temptation through sheer force of will. His job s already similar--he guards the Black Blade of Antwyr, a powerful Chaos Sword that will corrupt you if you ever use it's power. If anyone could resist the One Ring's power through force of will, he probably could. Though, considering my own headcanon that Purifier Castellan is basically a sacrificial rank where your soul will be taken by the blade and the current castellan is just whoever can last the longest, maybe he's not as well suited to the task.
In the middle is Ciaphas Cain. Cain is just generally competent, and he's not particularly ambitious--the man just wants to live. Sure the Ring could grant him immense power, but that would just result in him being forced into more situations where he has to be the Hero of the Imperium, situations where he could very easily die a horrible, painful death, something he really wants to avoid.
My number one choice, though, is not from 40k, nor even 30k. For the number one choice, we go into the depths of Warhammer Fantasy (and AoS), to the one rat who truly is the greatest of them all, for the warhammer character most suited to destroying the One Ring is none other than the one, the only, Grey Seer Thanquol. Thanquol is ambitious, to the point where the rong would probably corrupt him within seconds of him even hearing about it, before he even lays eyes on it. Thanquol is malicious, and would all but certainly use it's power to further his own gains at the expense of all those around him. But, most importantly, Thanquol is an idiot. Whatever plans he makes using the Ring--and there would be plans and plans aplenty, would go wrong catastrophically. Over the course of his misadventures he would undoubtedly make his way to Mount Doom and, through his own pride and paranoia, and probably everyone else's attempts to stop him (though those would have a smaller contribution), the the Ring would find its way into the volcano, and finally be destroyed, for Sauron is not immune to collateral damage. Thanquol would be fine, though.
Midnight Pals: The Pope
Pope Leo: eyyy its me, da chicago pope William Peter Blatty: gasp! your holiness! Blatty: what an honor! i Blatty: i just Blatty: i just Blatty: wow! Blatty: [geneflecting wildly] just wow!
Blatty: c'mon everyone, show some respect! Blatty: it's the pope! Barker: cool, good for him Blatty: oh my god Blatty: he doesn't mean that, your holiness Pope Leo: eyyy its all good Blatty: [geneflecting intensifies] oh my god, he's got the patience of a saint!
Pope Leo: eyyy listen i got somethin' ta say Blatty: listen up people! the pope's got something to say! Poe: oh he's got an encyclical? Pope Leo: dat's right Pope Leo: yeah i got your encyclical right here!!
Pope Leo: ok listen up yous guys Pope Leo: da chicago pope is talkin' Pope Leo: first of all, be it known through alla da whole world of catholicism Pope Leo: dat the only way to eat a dog is wit' tomato wedges an pickled peppers Pope Leo: ketchup is heresy Blatty: very wise, very wise!
Pope Leo: now second of all Pope Leo: i gots some words about all this here AI Pope Leo: in fact it reminds me of a quote by da smartest guy i've ever known Blatty: ah yes yes Blatty: you speak of Jesus Christ of course Pope Leo: nope Pope Leo: i'm talkin' gandalf Blatty:
Blatty: what Pope Leo: dat's right Pope Leo: in da immortal word of gandalf da gray Pope Leo: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set" Pope Leo: think about it
GRR Martin: hey jirt did you hear JRR Tolkien: what? Martin: you got quoted by the pope Tolkien: i got quoted by the pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: THE pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: the pope in rome?? the holy pontiff??? god's ambassador on earth????? THAT pope??????? Martin: yeah
Tolkien: well well well Tolkien: now look who's laughing! Tolkien: hmm hey clive CS Lewis: what Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan? Lewis: Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you Tolkien: what was that again? Lewis: no Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!
Tolkien: oh it's no big deal Tolkien: just the top guy in catholicism talkin' about gandalf Tolkien: nope nope not a big deal at all Tolkien: sorry you can never experience that, clive CS Lewis: Tolkien: but that's what you get for picking anglicanism Tolkien: lmao loser ass religion
CS Lewis: hey! it's a perfectly valid faith! Tolkien: yeah whatever Tolkien: "anglicanism" Tolkien: lol you don't even know what you're getting
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