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The HoD that wouldn’t cover 0.2 to give me a full time contract when they were already getting 100% overhead on the other 0.8 seriously expected me to guest lecture for FREE after I leave to work at a different university.
The absolute fucking cheek of it. Girl you couldn’t pay me to do it.
*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet
Fanfiction.net survived the purge of 2012. They survived the creation of Ao3. They even survived whatever the fuck fandom turned into in 2020.
But the thing that might just kill this goddamn website is them failing to fix the story stats for 6 fuckin' months.
Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.
tfw your ship tag has been unknowingly taken over by another fandom …
you are playing with an imaginary toy in an imaginary sandbox. fandom is all about having fun and letting your imagination run wild. canon is only a suggestion, not a rule. how much of canon you will follow, if any, is entirely up to you.
please stop trying to apply rules on hobbies and something that’s supposed to be your comfort place and a form of self-care.
“is it okay if I think this” “is it okay if I imagine that” it’s YOUR little world that you create for yourself and your own enjoyment. you literally do not need strangers’ opinions or permission when it comes to a hobby that doesn’t harm or affect anybody in real life. again, it’s YOUR imagination, YOUR world, YOUR creation. you have all the power and the freedom to:
headcanon whatever you want, however you want
ship whatever you want, however you want
write whatever you want, however you want
draw whatever you want, however you want
create whatever you want, however you want
reject whatever you want, however you want
as long as you’re not harming anybody in real life, how you have fun with fictional characters and your imagination is no one’s business but your own’s.
last but not least: fiction is not, and will never be, a reflection of your real-life moral compass. what you like in fiction does not reflect who you are in real life as a person. kill that cop in your head.
Whenever I come across a paper that’s testing the effects of 72 hours of sleep deprivation I’m like dam how’d you get ethics for that in the year of our lord 2018 and every freakin’ time it’s the US military
This is somehow giving written by AI despite being published in 2015 ...
I don't ship Haydock, but I also kinda want to write a soulmark AU where the marks are kinda generic and you can only really confirm your soulmate when the mark fades after their death. Anyways, Haymitch's mark would be a little bird that he always assumed was Leonore Dove (though there was a moment of doubt when Maysilee died) but the mark doesn't disappear when she dies. Then 20 years later ...
Ever come across a post and just go "this is it - this is the worst take on the internet"
I think it would be funny to write a murder mystery where not only did every single character involved have an obvious motive to kill this mf, they were actually all attempting to murder him first, but the murder attempts all cancelled each other out all except for one. Two people tried to poison him but the poisons just happen to work as antidotes for each other, and instead of killing him only gave him the shits, and due to having the shits he couldn't go hunting that day like he had planned, foiling the plans of the one who had conditioned his favourite hunting horse to panic and bolt at the cue of a whistle, and the other murder attempt of tampering with his gun so that it would have exploded his whole face off.
The whole mystery isn't about who could have done it or how, but who was the one who got lucky and actually succeeded.
“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know
If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"
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In all the criticism I’ve seen of SOTR, I haven’t seen anyone talk about how fucking dumb the addition of Scrip was in District 12.
For starters, it doesn't appear to be used around the 10th Games or the 74th so it's just a thing that seemed to randomly appear for a decade around the 50th Games (Do not tell me that Katniss is such a gatekeeper she wouldn't tell you about Scrip - money and food are two things that Katniss cares about and she would absolutely tell you if there were some people paying for things in a different currency).
But the larger point is that if District Twelve is a "Company Town" then the company in question is the Capitol. The Capitol doesn't need Scrip to control the workers of District Twelve: The Capitol already controls the currency. The Capitol can limit who can hold a business license and therefore what sort of stores exist in Twelve. They can limit the supplies to Twelve and therefore the cost of goods in Twelve. They control the movement of people in and out of Twelve. The Capitol is the government - there are so many levers and regulations that a government can use to control the economy before resorting to Scrip. So what exactly would be the purpose of the Capitol issuing Scrip?
There is, of course, the non-exploitative purpose: Scrip can be useful when there isn't a lot of government issued legal tender available. Except if this was the reason for Scrip then it would make more sense to be something that exist earlier, following the Dark Days when they were still establishing things, not randomly appearing 40-50 years later.
Also the company is the government so Scrip is still government issued legal tender ...
I can kinda get behind Scrip being there to enforce segregation between the Town and Seam, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Some of the stores won’t accept Scrip, but that seemed to be for non-essential goods (like the Donner’s candy store) so wouldn’t be that big a deal. Also if it was being used to segregate Seam and Town there would be other signs of segregation - separate schools, segregation during the Reaping etc.
Scrip serves no purpose except for you to go 'oh my gosh it's scrip like a Company Town'. But Twelve was always a Company Town and we didn't need a literal Company Store to see that.
All really good points that I hadn’t thought on before. You got me thinking about a few things now:
Perhaps the Capitol/Panem is recovering from a recession that Snow and friends pushed onto the Districts so the Capitol citizens wouldn’t notice it? Haymitch does see some Anti Immigrant sentiments. We know it’s a fragile facade.
Although this wouldn’t explain Katniss not seeing the scrip—unless all of 12 is scrip by her time.
The Pound Sterling £: The Bank of England currency is good across the UK/crown dependencies. However, excluding Wales (and then England), the others are able to issue their own currency too. Channel Islands Jersey and Guernsey each have their own but freely circulate together with BoE notes. The Isle of Man has their own. Oversea territories like the Falklands mostly have their own.
Which is to say, maybe the Capitol switched to giving the poorer Districts like 12 their own money for whatever reason (at the very least it’s a dividing quality). The only people really impacted would be Peacekeepers who try to send money home from their assigned District, someone who has to order in goods, and maybe train crews.
Katniss and Peeta never buy anything in the Capitol. 13 has their strict rationing. Peeta’s promised sharing of the Victor’s winnings become a bit of a ? but no one ever really talks about getting paid in the year they win.
Effie and the Capitol reaping team probably have everything taken care of and don’t need to deal with currency in the Districts.
Yeah the Scrip inclusion is unnecessary because it would be something Katniss mentions in her economic struggles if the same system was in place for her which means Collins has created questions she doesn’t need. Either for Katniss or Haymitch. Perhaps she could have gotten the same effect by having the miner’s money be dirty and that’s made into a problem? Or done a better job of explaining the economic transition?
The peacekeepers sending money home is such an interesting point - like potentially Scrip or local currency would be really effective for controlling them as a group that has the potential to move around/move their money around. If they had to spend all their money in Twelve/Company Store it would prevent peacekeepers form accruing any kind of wealth or supporting their families during their time as Peacekeepers, which would perpetuate inequality in District Two.
In all the criticism I’ve seen of SOTR, I haven’t seen anyone talk about how fucking dumb the addition of Scrip was in District 12.
For starters, it doesn't appear to be used around the 10th Games or the 74th so it's just a thing that seemed to randomly appear for a decade around the 50th Games (Do not tell me that Katniss is such a gatekeeper she wouldn't tell you about Scrip - money and food are two things that Katniss cares about and she would absolutely tell you if there were some people paying for things in a different currency).
But the larger point is that if District Twelve is a "Company Town" then the company in question is the Capitol. The Capitol doesn't need Scrip to control the workers of District Twelve: The Capitol already controls the currency. The Capitol can limit who can hold a business license and therefore what sort of stores exist in Twelve. They can limit the supplies to Twelve and therefore the cost of goods in Twelve. They control the movement of people in and out of Twelve. The Capitol is the government - there are so many levers and regulations that a government can use to control the economy before resorting to Scrip. So what exactly would be the purpose of the Capitol issuing Scrip?
There is, of course, the non-exploitative purpose: Scrip can be useful when there isn't a lot of government issued legal tender available. Except if this was the reason for Scrip then it would make more sense to be something that exist earlier, following the Dark Days when they were still establishing things, not randomly appearing 40-50 years later.
Also the company is the government so Scrip is still government issued legal tender ...
I can kinda get behind Scrip being there to enforce segregation between the Town and Seam, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Some of the stores won’t accept Scrip, but that seemed to be for non-essential goods (like the Donner’s candy store) so wouldn’t be that big a deal. Also if it was being used to segregate Seam and Town there would be other signs of segregation - separate schools, segregation during the Reaping etc.
Scrip serves no purpose except for you to go 'oh my gosh it's scrip like a Company Town'. But Twelve was always a Company Town and we didn't need a literal Company Store to see that.
I'm not a catholic and have never even seen one up close, but I think the pope should start excommunicating people on the reg again. Just start publicly going "you know what, fuck you, you can't sit with us. You're not allowed in church or heaven on the grounds of being JD Vance. Eat shit and go to hell."
Stir shit up a little. What's the point of being the mouthpiece of god if nothing you say has consequences.
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my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:
he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year
Chaotic good
NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn’t just mean cheeky!
this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work
malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism
Always reblog for malicious compliance
sometimes following the letter of the law works even better than ignoring it.
In Utah the new book banning laws apply to the bible, and there’s already someone petitioning to get it removed from schools and libraries.
I hope no English teacher ever puts up with “banning pronouns” for even a moment
Update: The Utah book ban has, in fact, resulted in the Bible being banned in elementary and middle schools in Davis County, and high schoolers now only have limited access to the King James Version, due to “vulgarity and violence.”
Now the Book of Mormon is under consideration for a ban as well. The parent who complained said that it was very violent.
