Cat needs surgery and they gave me the quote.
I started laughing. I guess that wasn’t the right response.
(It’s fine, I will have the money to pay for it soonish, it’s just A LOT)
I just... keep seeing people on social eating at restaurants, traveling, doing whatever and I’m sitting in my apartment like I’ve hallucinated a pandemic.
Sometimes I think about the two women who were the only employees at one of our bank branches and for nearly TEN YEARS had been working half days and clocking each other out and no one noticed. They got fired eventually but honestly? That's on the bank.
You can literally say “starving children is wrong” here and hundreds of people, many with their real names on their profiles, will reply, “FALSE! Lots of children deserve to die and you do, too. Common misconception.” I dunno how to live in that world but I guess we’re doing it.
Poor Lady Featherington begging her sons-in-law to bang her daughters to produce heirs so they don't lose their house. The Kris Jenner of this franchise.
Seeing shots and clips from the movie Titanic is weird because over half of it takes place at night, in the middle of the ocean, and you can still see everything that’s going on. Unlike most movies made today.
When people are like “why are the youths not watching old movies?” I haven’t seen anyone say this:
Screens.
I grew up with one TV that everyone watched. My parents controlled the remote. So I consumed all their stuff, even if I didn’t want to.
Did you hear that sound? It’s dozens of romance writers opening a blank word doc after seeing this guy take off his glasses and do his thing on pommel horse.
If you REALLY think the world would be kinder if only women were in charge, I’m going to need you to go get They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, read it, and then get back to me.
I was helping out while one of them was on leave having surgery and I'd drive back to my regular branch after lunch and see the other's car parked in her driveway when she was supposed to be at the branch. Never said a word.
The lobby was only open until noon or so, and they were supposed to stay until 4. So one would stay to work on projects and the other would leave and clock them both out.
All of my wildest work stories came from that job. Like the (married) loan officer who was taking out fraudulent loans along with his (married) assistant to buy drugs and would show up to work blitzed on coke. They were also having an affair.
These two covers do not communicate the same content! THAT is my main problem with the cartoon covers. Because they are on the widest range of books from cute YA to steamy adult that it is near impossible to tell what you’re getting in a sea of sameness.
Now I can watch whatever I want on several different screens (phone, laptop, tablet) and control what I see. Kids are curating their media in a way that was not an option for me.
@spelumbia
Oh I know they had a SYSTEM. No one from upper management ever paid attention or even went there. Turns out the building needed a bunch of repairs after they left that had been ignored for years.
The marketing for My Lady Jane failed so hard because they assumed their audience would be like "wait, he turns into a HORSE?! No, I don't want to watch that" when the reality is THE OPPOSITE
My mom was the main remote hog and she would go away for ONE weekend a year and my dad would let me watch whatever I wanted and I looked forward to that weekend all year.
Was it a great job? No. Did I get paid enough? Also no. Did I learn a LOT that has been useful in my life going forward? YUP.
Banking is a great intro job if you need one. There are banks literally everywhere.
“Gay hasn’t been used as a slur” OKAY THAT’S ENOUGH OF THAT FOR TODAY.
I’m going to need people who weren’t alive in the 90s to take a seat and listen to those of us who were.
People want to make this into a generational war and it’s just silly. If I was growing up now I wouldn’t be watching my parent’s stuff! Do you know what I would have given to have a massive media library that I could see whenever I wanted?
IDGAF if a microscopic portion of people commit food stamp fraud. I CARE ABOUT PEOPLE NOT GOING HUNGRY. And the cost of that fraud? MINISCULE. It's a fraction of a drop in the bucket. *stares at trillions of dollars of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires*
He came to our branch once and was seconds away from swallowing one of the beta fish we had in bowls on the teller line before we begged him not to. Why? Drugs, I'm guessing.
Anyway, I think it's very annoying to act like you had a superior upbringing to the current youths and it reeks of boomer mentality and you sound like a loser.
Disney: we queer coded these villains so you would think they were yucky.
Me: I love them.
Disney: wait what
Me: I would die for them
Disney: but
Me: leave me and my evil family alone
Disney: *deep sigh*
someone else on twitter every day: "i wish there were still TV shows that aired weekly episodes with 25-episode seasons"
pretty much every show on nbc, abc, cbs and fox still does that
"oh god no, not THOSE shows"
There’s a connection between painting women as soft, delicate flowers and smarter people than me have found it’s allllll wrapped up in white supremacy.
Do you ever just shake with rage because of the fact that we don't HAVE to live this way? It doesn't have to be like this? It's only this way because of a bunch of greedy fuckers who want to burn the world down just so no one else has anything?
@notdanilu
@RdotSpoon
There's one I watch and she's been reading the same book for a year. I don't even know why she doesn't switch it out with a different one.
I’m just a queer romance author, standing in front of people looking for queer romance books, begging them to notice me and other queer authors who are publishing queer romances.
Reading a book that’s in dual POV but there are zero line breaks or chapter breaks or any indication when it’s switching from her POV to his and… (this is a traditionally published book)
What do authors want? REVIEWS!
When do we want them? I mean, it's totally okay, no rush, if you have the chance, I would appreciate it so much, no pressure
“All these book covers look the same?” Yeah that’s how marketing works.
These pearl clutchers wouldn’t have survived the “girl in a dress” trend of 2009-2012 YA.
These are two different stories! They CANNOT be for the same book. So one is a lie and readers are going to be misled, and THAT isn’t fair to the readers or the author!
One of the things that rips me right out of a contemp book is when I can tell how old the author is based on the references. I’m sorry, but most 25-year-olds aren’t using Patrick Swayze as a benchmark for hotness.
I think a lot of people DON’T know that there are large groups of m/m readers that are (usually) white, cis women. A lot of them insulate themselves in their homophobic and transphobic Facebook groups where they talk about queer men like dolls who kiss for their enjoyment.
I think several things are happening. 1. This is rage bait. 2. I would guess she came to being a reader as an adult and is still “new” to reading as a hobby. 3. She encountered something unfamiliar and became uncomfortable and instead of pushing through, she’s decided it sucks.
I am BEGGING readers who are not liking the trad romances they're reading to seek out indie and small-press authors who are writing the books they want to read already
Just finished the first episode of My Lady Jane. This is like a CW show on drugs. They ended the first episode with a Tegan and Sara song. There are shifters. It's complete bananas.
Target is canceling orders from suppliers and slashing prices to clear out a bloated inventory. The moves follow a pronounced shift by American consumers, away from pandemic spending on such things as big TVs and small kitchen appliances.
The next time someone is bitching about how publishers will only take books about Black left-handed lesbians for diversity check boxes, they must list ten books that fit that category. If there are so many of them, you must be able to list them.
@HillaryMonahan
When I worked in banking a woman called about a strange charge and it was plane tickets. She was like “that is fraud!” and was about to get a new card, but it was just her husband trying to surprise her for Christmas and he used the joint account 😂