IDEK What This Blog is Anymore

Well my name is Annie and this is my lame-ass blog. I don't really keep track of what I put on here but I'm p sure it's mostly video games, animals, rocks and puns.

[vrabia]

ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.

[vrabia]

set construction: $800

cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats

fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts

editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks

[vrabia]

update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like

anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.

[dandyliondreamer]

The Three Legendary Beasts as Beanie Babies💙❤️💛

[scretladyspider]

demisexuality can be so hard to explain because it’s misconstrued as you just wanting to trust the other person before you have sex with them. and I get why the misconception happens. But demisexuality differs in that there isn’t sexual attraction at all before that bond forms.

I think what people have difficulty with is the idea that there are people out there who aren’t experiencing sexual attraction at all until a certain point, if ever, because we’re taught that sex, libido, and sexual attraction are all the same, both in and out of queer spaces.

And when you’re learning about asexuality and demisexuality, you may learn that people have romantic and aesthetic attraction separately from sexual attraction, and that sexual and romantic attraction aren’t necessarily intertwined, and that may challenge your worldview on sex.

But “I trust you enough to have sex with you” isn’t the same as “I’m not sexually attracted to anyone but you, and the reason I’m sexually attracted to you now after we’ve established this close bond is literally because of the bond of trust we’ve been able to form”.

It’s easy to see how those can get conflated. On the surface, if you’re unfamiliar with asexuality, they may sound the same. But it’s important to acknowledge the difference between “no sex until I trust you” and “no sexual attraction unless I trust you and maybe not even then”.

Demisexuality is housed under the asexuality spectrum. It’s part of the gray area between being allosexual and asexual. It’s part of why the definition for asexuality includes “little to no sexual attraction”. It’s a mostly asexual experience with an asterisk.

While being demisexual may have impacts on a persons sexual activity, even demisexuals have a varied relationship to the act of participating in sex. Libido and sexual attraction are not always intertwined either, which can make telling the difference tricky.

I think of sexual attraction as libido that has a compass. Since I rarely ever experience sexual attraction, but do have libido, it’s noticeable for me when that libido actually has a direction to go, rather than being a floating, nebulous, independent thing.

Remember, not everyone is demisexual. There’s a difference between waiting to have sex and not having sexual attraction at all until a certain point. This also inherently ties demisexuality to romantic attraction and relationships, and not all demisexuals are alloromantic.

But if you read what demisexuality is and think “everyone is like that” or “that’s just being a woman”, you either 1) are demisexual 2) don’t understand what it is or 3) both. And it’s okay to not know. Just as long as you’re willing to try to learn.

[knightoflodis]

I wish I was as eloquent as you OP many years ago when people were constantly clowning on demisexuality. I was always nervous about reblogging demisexual positive posts because of how angry people got at them. It was absolutely ridiculous

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[enchantedbook]

Dragon by Marion Bulot

[ms-demeanor]

I'm working on a client report and my CEO looked over it and asked how made it. I asked him if he meant, like, the graphs and he said "No this whole thing is really nice with the text and the images put together so well. Did you use an AI tool or something to arrange it like a book?" And I just have him kind of blank look and said "No, I've been doing print layout and design for twenty five years. I'm building this as a template we can use with other clients that will just need images dropped in. And the graphs are all screenshots from tools we already use."

And then he gave me kind of a blank look and said "Okay, that is. Very good to know."

I suspect I've unexpectedly solved a problem that I was unaware of.

[ms-demeanor]

For the record: the CEO *hates* AI and nobody else at the company has any experience with InDesign.

The deal is that we just fired a member of the executive team who had been asking our practice leads to put together scorecards each month so that he could put together 20-slide powerpoints to go over data that he didn't understand particularly well. The scorecards were taking up at least 10% of each practice lead's time with work that we couldn't bill to the client, the clients thought the presentations were confusing, and the CEO tasked me with putting together three slides for each client and leading those parts of the meetings.

I built a dashboard in our PSA that collected most of that data, have collected links to the info that the practice leads gathered so I can screenshot it for each presentation, and totally on my own because i like data and design i decided it would be a good idea to create a client report "book" with the data we were presenting before and insights from the trends over time in case the clients asked about the info that was no longer in the presentations that i can share with the clients after the meetings along with answers to any questions they asked me in the meeting that i needed to dig into.

So I basically freed up about 100 billable hours a month (six practice leads at four hours a week) for our T3 techs and apparently also alerted the CEO to the fact that I was not fucking around about professional design skills so he is no longer looking for a contractor to do our client education materials all while costing decidedly less than $120k a year.

So I'm not really worried that he's going to take credit or that I'm making myself replaceable with the templates, I'm mostly worried that I'm setting myself up to make more work for myself, but realistically doing it this way saves me time over the way the former exec had me doing it so really I'm just annoyed that this means they're going to make me go to more meetings.

[ms-demeanor]

Everyone thinks I'm very funny in meetings because I am but also because my "I have an infodump prepared on that topic if you'd like to drink from the firehose" face is very obvious to our team and it is apparently amusing to watch both me and the clients when I'm given the opportunity to, like, talk about password managers or server licensing models or access control protocols.

Also apparently I'm better at live data lookup than anyone was aware of until they started watching me do it in meetings? I don't know if that's because I'm better at using our RMM than the people who lead the meetings or if it's because I can recognize the part number, serial number, and processor model patterns of desktops and servers from major manufacturers for the last fourteen years on sight so i don't *have* to go digging in the records to figure out when something was purchased i can just tell you what year the processor was released and if the serial number was late or early into that model year because I know it off the top of my head.

Which I did not realize that other people at the company didn't know also until they started including me on lease replacement meetings.

[bigolechompers]

totally not bragging at all

[ms-demeanor]

Why would I not brag? I went from feeling like an exhausted failure banging my head against broken processes in a job i hated in February to having half my coworkers and my whole management team look at me like I'm doing arcane magic when I do something that's easy for me in April.

It has been very weird to see what "normal" is for the rest of the team since I'm no longer isolated in procurement but it has also been very gratifying for coworkers who thought I was stupid or flaky to understand that I'm not, i was just ill-suited to my former role and burned out after doing it for over a decade.

[ms-demeanor]

Also i did my time in the product mines - i was genuinely surprised that people didn't know about the processor lines and serial numbers (literally some of the serial numbers encode the manufacturing date, this is tremendously handy to know, I figured everyone already knew that) and such so after gaining that knowledge while kicking and screaming its nice that the team knows that the project leads don't have to do a bunch of tedious research (it is *annoyingly common* for computer manufacturers to make it hard to find the manufacture date or look up warranty start date by serial) and they can just give me a spreadsheet and i can get them estimates accurate to the year by looking at a couple data points we already have.

Ideally the database I'm working on will use APIs to collect this info in the future but for now API stands for "Alli Probably knows It."

[ms-demeanor]

[zazzlefrass]

Jfc just saw a post on Facebook that makes me want to slap this gen of parents clear across the face and I need to get this out somewhere I'm so pissed

A mother posted in a sewing group asking for help going about making a cosplay for her daughter. They used an image of a Temu-made Amo (Gachiakuta) cosplay. When asked how old this daughter is (for iykyk obvi reasons), the poster said SHE WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. HOW. AND WHAT. THE ACTUAL FUCK.

And of course the mom doesn't know who this character is, what she looks like, her backstory, etc. *That* episode was so difficult to watch, no sane person who's seen it would let their 12 year old put themselves anywhere near that and release them into a con.

These parents are just. Letting their young children consume whatever content they find and not even checking it before letting them engage strangers about it. Like they expect them to only ever see age-appropriate content and to never be engaged by creeps on the web.

Like, letting kids engage in certain kinds of scary content that isn't considered univerally appropriate for their age is a grey area. Shit like FNAF, Demon Slayer, The Walking Dead for kids under ten? If you think they're ready for it, I guess. Unrestricted and unsupervised Roblox? I certainly Would Not.

But all those useless parents couldn't care less about their 10 y.o. playing GTA/Saints Row I came across working retail? Young children recognizing characters like fucking Angel Dust and Fizzaroli? A TWELVE YEAR OLD COSPLAYING AMO, A GIRL WHO WAS SOLD TO A PEDOPHILE AS A CHILD AND WEARS AN EXTREMELY REVEALING OUTFIT????

YALL ARE MOSTLY FUCKING MILLENNEALS. THE INTERNET AS BEEN AROUND FOR 20+ YEARS NOW, AT LEAST. YOU KNOW THE DANGERS OF THE INTERNET AND UNFETTERED ACCESS TO IT. YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF CONTENT IS OUT THERE. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE. THERE IS NO FUCKING EXCUSE GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT YOUR CHILDS SAFETY AND DEVELOPMENT AT LEAST. DO 2 MINS OF GOOGLING BEFORE OKAYING SHIT YOUR KID DOES. FOR FUCKS SAKE.

[majodump]

The first piece in my Couples Portrait Series (which I probably should’ve started before Valentine’s… but oh well ) is none other than the hopeless romantic Okarun aka Ken Takakura.

I’ve always loved the way he cares so deeply for Momo. His love feels genuine, awkward, passionate… and brave. But what really gets me is his growth.

He learns to stand up for himself.

He learns to love himself.

He learns how to love her.

And he slowly opens up, makes friends, and becomes more confident in who he is.

What couple do you want to see next?

[tuckedinbugw]

Nothing like holding my love

[tobiasdrake]

One thing I will always appreciate Fullmetal Alchemist for is the fact that they let Roy Mustang be complicit in genocide.

Mustang is an Atoner figure. Something that plagues Atoner figures is when writers are too precious about the characters we're meant to like to actually let them be guilty of something serious.

The Atoner might be trying to make amends for their involvement in the Great '87 Hotel Massacre, and then three seasons in you find out what happened. And it's like, "I drove a taxi to the hotel, and the KILLER was in it! I ferried the killer to the hotel! That makes me responsible, and now I must atone for being nearby while the killings took place! And also vanquish the real killer who is the villain for this season."

Or maybe the Atoner did do the killings but they were under mind control the whole time and would never, ever have done it in their right mind.

But FMA said no. Mustang, Hawkeye, Hughes, even Armstrong to an extent though he suffered a breakdown and fled during it. They did that shit. They followed their orders and they did that shit. And it haunts them.

Roy did that shit. And his atonement, his grand ambition, is to see everyone responsible for that shit brought to justice for their crimes. Including himself.

That is how you write an atonement plot.

[vanemiin]

THE parents ever!

[gen0b]

First drawing on the new drawing tablet! been very busy with an upcoming webcomic I'm making, so I haven't been drawing much fanart. I'm just trying to figure out how to use csp lol.

[thegenderdruid]

When you hear the name Mike, who is the first person who comes to mind?

Mike Adenuga

Mike Bloomburg

Mike D

Mike Ditka

Mike McRoberts

Mike Oldfield

Mike Portnoy

Mike Shinoda

Mike Tan

Mike Zunino

Someone else??? are there other people named Mike???

Voting ended onFeb 2

[mayuko-watson]

Every once in a while I get the random urge to render

[sunburntjackalope]

This is actually from a few months ago, but I have a theme now.

[drdaanvondutch]

[crustacean-menace]

Homework lady: "My dog is barking! 🙂"

The dog:

[prokopetz]

Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

[bookshelfdreams]

the computer doesn’t respect you. next time, try firm eye contact to establish dominance.