I work in gaming and do this all the time. I learnt long ago that no matter what games I name, when a guy demands I name what I’m playing, that they will shit on them.
So now I just make shit up when they try to “catch me out” and listen as they list how wrong I am and all the things wrong with something that doesn’t even exist. It’s a wonderful hobby and I heartily recommend it.
the new American Gothic. // artist unknown, feel free to tag and tell me who painted this.
This is by Mexican American artist Crieselda Vasquez. Her words on this painting is as follows.
“The two most important people in my life, my parents, are also the two who motivated me to develop such a strong concept. When my parents pose for these paintings, their faces are reduced to extremely raw and somehow vulnerable expressions. Sadly, they strive to be invisible every day. They don’t have to pretend to illustrate the invisible. They have dealt with constant rejection, suspicion and fear so long, that it seems now that it comes naturally to them. I strive to capture how their expressions deliver that sense of tiredness, resignation, and quiet acceptance. It seems relevant to show that underneath all the politicization and undeserved labeling this community receives, these are regular people just like all of us. In the long tradition of immigrants that come to the United States, they have made homes here and they are just trying to live a simple life with a bit of security and hopefulness for their children.“
[ID: a mexican american man and woman, both middle aged, posed and painted in a way that evokes the painting american gothic. they are in simple but well-cared-for, unstained working clothes, standing in front of a red chevrolet astro van with the word ‘hi’ and an ’=(’ face finger-written in the dirt on the rear window. the man is holding a farming hoe straight and tall wearing a complicated, stoic expression. the woman, standing half a step behind him and angled toward him, wears an equally complicated expression, hers a half-smile. she holds a red bucket with cleaning supplies. both figures have work-worn hands in compositional emphasis; the man’s hand is clenched around the hoe, and the woman’s arm veins are protruding up from where she’s holding the handle of the bucket. a strong sunlight casts emphasis on their faces and shadows. End ID.]
you know what? it’s been long enough i think we can admit that abc’s once upon a time was dumb as all shit and that’s why it fucks
the evil queen’s mom was the queen of hearts, and also the miller’s daughter from rumpelstiltskin. rumpelstiltskin is also the beast from beauty and the beast and peter pan’s son. his wife eloped with captain hook and his mom kidnapped his secondborn son with belle to use as a weapon against his daughter-in-law
there were four rapunzels- one who only appeared in one episode and then was never mentioned again, and then three from the final season- one of whom was mother gothel in disguise (who is also a nymph and had a scene identical to the prom scene in carrie), one of whom was lady tremaine, and the final of whom was alice in wonderland, captain hook’s daughter
hades fell in love with the wicked witch of the west and also was that guy from ally mcbeal and we were supposed to take that 100% seriously
maleficent got impregnated by a mystery man and laid an egg, out of which hatched a human baby. they went to find her dad and never showed up in the show again. we find out in the last episode that her dad was zorro and nothing else is mentioned of this
the frozen characters were all there, completely based on canon with no alterations like everyone else got, and nobody questioned this. cruella de vil was also there and now is probably fighting with king arthur over custody of hell
mérida was there for like a season and a half and not once did she ever get a costume change. they were at a funeral and you can see her bright bluegreen dress just. there
henry jumped on a lion in new york and gave a speech about how magic is real
at the end they crowned the evil queen empress of everything just bc
there was a musical episode
nothing in this show made sense and that’s why it’s fucking hilarious
HENRY HAD A LOVE INTEREST FROM CAMELOT AND IN HER FINAL APPEARANCE SHE RETCONS HER BACKSTORY AND SAYS HER DAD WAS FROM EARTH AND WE FIND OUT HER DAD WAS THE CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT
WHICH IS NOT ONLY THE FUNNIEST RETCON IN HISTORY (funnier by the fact he does have the right name, meaning that this was planned and they just forgot to drop any foreshadowing) BUT IF YOU FOLLOW BOOKCANON IT MEANS THAT HER BIRTH NAME IS HELLO-CENTRAL
no i don’t want to use your ai assistant. no i don’t want your ai search results. no i don’t want your ai summary of reviews. no i don’t want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don’t want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don’t want ai to write my paper. no i don’t want ai to make my art. no i don’t want ai to edit my pictures. no i don’t want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don’t want ai to analyze my data. i don’t want it i don’t want it i don’t want it i don’t fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt
my first attempt at woodburning
I would like to thank dril for the inspiration
I can’t wait to live in a future where this quote is as ubiquitous and misattributed and misunderstood as many classic Shakespearean lines and other historical quotes. I’m genuinely looking forward to that.
“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”
As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,
“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’
To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.
I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.
Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.
In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates HIPAA if they do. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.
I was an HR manager for 7 years (and yes it was as awful as you think it would be.) I know that these folks speak the truth, because the other managers were constantly asking me personal questions about the employees (as in, are they married, single, who is listed as dependents on insurance/IRS forms etc.) to which I always answered that’s confidential information and if you ask them yourself you are breaking the law.
Side note - my most reliable employees by a mile were the women in the cleaning department, who ALL rode the bus and were all mothers. You know what’s dependable? A bus route. You know who’s dependable? A mom who has a family depending on her.
The only thing interview questions tell you as a hiring manager is how well someone fucking interviews - not who they are as a person and how dependable of an employee they will be.
In 7 years of hiring my two most dependable employees were a recovering addict felon in her 20’s and a 60 year old Jehovah’s Witness who spoke very little English. Neither of them interviewed particularly well.
Best interviewee? An incredibly charismatic and well-dressed Stanford graduate. Turned out to be a sociopath cokehead creep who lasted four months (and was fired after screaming at a woman who rejected his inappropriate advances and then, no lie, shoved a random warehouse worker into a wall so hard that the outline of his body imprinted the wall like a RR/Coyote cartoon.) I do not miss that place.
Anyway yeah, don’t offer info you don’t need to at an interview, and fucking lie if pressed.
States often differ in the legality of particular pre-employment questions, so also contact your state Civil Rights Dept for more info. Here is California’s:
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