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aikotoNvm yesterday's post, they prolonged the contract to the entire month lol
Idk if I should be happy or sad lmao
At least I can now buy everythign I wanted, yay
I wonder if by the end I will work the 2 months then...
This job is def not suited for me, but I will try to endure.
Idk if I should be happy or sad lmao
At least I can now buy everythign I wanted, yay
I wonder if by the end I will work the 2 months then...
This job is def not suited for me, but I will try to endure.
inline? in-book? spoilers
Sep. 5th, 2025 03:35 pmvriddyA friend warmly recommended a book series to me and I just started it, and It Is Fine! However!! The author is fond of peppering ominous "Little did I know this would be the last time I spoke to X" or "If only I had known what would happen next" or "Maybe if I'd done this instead of that, it wouldn't all have gone so wrong" and while I can enjoy one, maybe two well-placed ones per book, at this level I'm finding it massively irritating. I don't even like "vibes" spoilers in general! Nothing pisses me off more than comments like "oooh you guys are gonna suffer" from people who read leaks or advance previews of whatever's popular, especially when I usually make it clear I don't want to know a thing before I start!
Right now it feels like I'm reading next to someone who goes "ooooh I wouldn't get too attached!!" whenever I think "oh I like this character", or "it's not going to go the way you think!!" when I simply thought to myself "hm interesting." Leave me alone!! 😂
Just took a pause after hitting one of those around page 200, about midway in the book. I know these people's plans keep failing! Something always goes wrong!! People die!! I don't need the warnings anymore!!!!!!! XD
Right now it feels like I'm reading next to someone who goes "ooooh I wouldn't get too attached!!" whenever I think "oh I like this character", or "it's not going to go the way you think!!" when I simply thought to myself "hm interesting." Leave me alone!! 😂
Just took a pause after hitting one of those around page 200, about midway in the book. I know these people's plans keep failing! Something always goes wrong!! People die!! I don't need the warnings anymore!!!!!!! XD
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Sep. 4th, 2025 08:19 pmaikotoThe world is mean, the job contract was just a single week 💢💢
I finish this Saturday. They seem to be calling people and rotating them, so some of us are one week and others a month from what we exchanged.
Which I don't really get, they don't explain anything as we are so busy so wouldn't it be better to keep the people for a bit before kicking them out and getting new people who don't know wtf is going on...?
Either way, I think I just gained around €300, so it's not enough for a PS5...!
I think I will buy it anyways as Xmas present or something though, but I was excited to be able to buy more games and such 💢 I wish they didn't told me "Yeah, the season will last for 2 months" if they will only keep me for 6 days.
Anyway... The first day was terrible (I only made things worse for everyone) but now that they adapted the task to me & I finally know the general dynamic and what to do I'm much better off. It's pretty taxing in all senses, but it made me appreciate my mothers' cooking even more and I sleep like a baby.
I kind of like feeling sore as well... When I'm working I want to die, but I like the feeling after it haha. All the coworkers are angels too.
I wish they could've hired me for a month at least. But well, it was definitely a start on laboral life, hopefully it won't take me another year and half to find another one lol
(Everyone said I picked the worst/hardest job to start :p But there's lots of temporal vacancies on it and my two friends are on the same field, so I was curious)
I might be allergic to mango though... My arms are full of cuts and weals and I have been there for only 4 days lol
I finish this Saturday. They seem to be calling people and rotating them, so some of us are one week and others a month from what we exchanged.
Which I don't really get, they don't explain anything as we are so busy so wouldn't it be better to keep the people for a bit before kicking them out and getting new people who don't know wtf is going on...?
Either way, I think I just gained around €300, so it's not enough for a PS5...!
I think I will buy it anyways as Xmas present or something though, but I was excited to be able to buy more games and such 💢 I wish they didn't told me "Yeah, the season will last for 2 months" if they will only keep me for 6 days.
Anyway... The first day was terrible (I only made things worse for everyone) but now that they adapted the task to me & I finally know the general dynamic and what to do I'm much better off. It's pretty taxing in all senses, but it made me appreciate my mothers' cooking even more and I sleep like a baby.
I kind of like feeling sore as well... When I'm working I want to die, but I like the feeling after it haha. All the coworkers are angels too.
I wish they could've hired me for a month at least. But well, it was definitely a start on laboral life, hopefully it won't take me another year and half to find another one lol
(Everyone said I picked the worst/hardest job to start :p But there's lots of temporal vacancies on it and my two friends are on the same field, so I was curious)
I might be allergic to mango though... My arms are full of cuts and weals and I have been there for only 4 days lol
Community Thursday
Sep. 4th, 2025 08:41 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
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Signal boosts:
- Via cranky_old_fangirls, Typepad is shutting down on September 30th. Backup/Port anything you may want to save.
- Not sure if there was some kind of event on another platform beyond Typepad, but there seems to be a fair amount of people looking to expand their dreamwidth circles at the moment on addme and other add-me comms, if you're looking to do the same!
Images not loading on the reading page and some themes?
Sep. 3rd, 2025 07:40 amvriddyIs anyone else having issues around images not loading on Dreamwidth, lately? For a few days (couple weeks?) I've noticed that my reading page often only shows the alt-text for pics especially for images hosted on Dreamwidth, though not only that (for example there are AO3 news on my reading page at the moment, but the logos don't load unless I open the original page).
It's particularly visible on myvriddywrites writing comm because none of the icons load, nor the header image. Does it all look fine for most of you? I rebooted my home router in case I had landed on a banned IP or something, but no dice. The background image on my journal here also loads just fine in general... Icons also have no problems. Huh... 🤔
It's particularly visible on my
vriddywrites writing comm because none of the icons load, nor the header image. Does it all look fine for most of you? I rebooted my home router in case I had landed on a banned IP or something, but no dice. The background image on my journal here also loads just fine in general... Icons also have no problems. Huh... 🤔
Little Black Dress Exchange reveals
Aug. 31st, 2025 08:41 amvriddyThe littleblackdressex exchange creator reveals happened this morning :D I wrote a Hawks/Natsuo quiet nature walk fic (and added a notch and 28th ship to my Hawks shipping challenge XD). Funnily enough, I ended up matching to the person I wrote all the pinch hits for earlier in the year. Hopefully they aren't sick of me yet 😂
Unknowable | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | 1.3k words | rated G
Summary: After the war, Hawks and Natsuo start meeting regularly. It all started with Natsuo desperate to understand more about how his lost brother became the broken man in the hospital.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3
Delightfully, my gift was also Hawks/Natsuo! What are the odds?? Little Black Dress is like a personal "bowl" exchange, and Hawks/Natsuo is not a particularly popular ship... I'm not actually sure they even ever share a panel in the manga? XD
My gifter went at the ship from a different angle and I loooove the story premise they wrote to go with it, it is perfect and their art is LOVELY, they picked a perfect scene :D
I wanna date my role model's son! | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | Art | Not rated/SFW
littleblackdressex exchange creator reveals happened this morning :D I wrote a Hawks/Natsuo quiet nature walk fic (and added a notch and 28th ship to my Hawks shipping challenge XD). Funnily enough, I ended up matching to the person I wrote all the pinch hits for earlier in the year. Hopefully they aren't sick of me yet 😂Unknowable | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | 1.3k words | rated G
Summary: After the war, Hawks and Natsuo start meeting regularly. It all started with Natsuo desperate to understand more about how his lost brother became the broken man in the hospital.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3
Delightfully, my gift was also Hawks/Natsuo! What are the odds?? Little Black Dress is like a personal "bowl" exchange, and Hawks/Natsuo is not a particularly popular ship... I'm not actually sure they even ever share a panel in the manga? XD
My gifter went at the ship from a different angle and I loooove the story premise they wrote to go with it, it is perfect and their art is LOVELY, they picked a perfect scene :D
I wanna date my role model's son! | Boku no Hero Academia | Natsuo/Hawks | Art | Not rated/SFW
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Aug. 30th, 2025 01:41 pmtinkatonWell. How time gets away from you!
I've got no excuse for not updating for this long except that I didn't feel like it lmao. Nothing super exciting has really been going on and I've been using most of my free time to do other things. (The renovation at work creeps ever closer to being done, and I did have fun at the anime convention I went to last month, though I was too lazy to do a write up of all the merch I got like I normally would. I did get multiple compliments on the Faye Valentine shirt that I wore haha.) I want to try to update more and get back to checking my reading list though!! I hope everyone's been doing well since I last checked in.
A few things I've been reading/watching/etc. lately...
➤ I started playing Metaphor: ReFantazio a while ago! It's slow going as I am a slow gamer but I'm currently at the 4th (?) dungeon, the one on the mustari island. I'm enjoying it so far! ( + )
➤ I started reading the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Webtoon because I saw the print volumes in the library system so I was like, sure I'll see what all the fuss is about. I only read volumes 1-6 (though I think volume 7 is out in English already?) but I'm enjoying it! ( + )
➤ I forget if I mentioned this before but Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan YA book series got an anime adaptation that aired on Netflix recently, which is the wildest thing that's ever happened. I LOVED the Leviathan books when I read them so of course I had to watch the anime immediately. ( + )
➤ Did I ever talk about the absolute disappointment that was The Old Guard 2? ( + )
➤ Yes, I watched Kpop Demon Hunters. Yes, I loved Kpop Demon Hunters. Yes, I've listened to the album a hundred times. It's a pretty standard plot, but the animation is gorgeousss, Sony Animation knocked it out of the park again, the characters are fun, the music slaps, and it's just an all-around good time. The only unrealistic part about it is a boy group putting out consistent bangers sjdhfkjsdfs but I guess having demonic powers helps.
Has anyone being using Focus Friend by Hank Green lmao? It's a productivity timer app for your phone, you set a time limit to not look at your phone and your little bean avatar knits socks while it's running. Then you use the socks to buy items to decorate your bean guy's room. Everyone at work started using it so I was like okay fine I'll try it lol. Haven't gotten enough socks yet to buy any decorations but it did keep me from playing on my phone while I should've been working a couple times so I guess that's good!
I've got no excuse for not updating for this long except that I didn't feel like it lmao. Nothing super exciting has really been going on and I've been using most of my free time to do other things. (The renovation at work creeps ever closer to being done, and I did have fun at the anime convention I went to last month, though I was too lazy to do a write up of all the merch I got like I normally would. I did get multiple compliments on the Faye Valentine shirt that I wore haha.) I want to try to update more and get back to checking my reading list though!! I hope everyone's been doing well since I last checked in.
A few things I've been reading/watching/etc. lately...
➤ I started playing Metaphor: ReFantazio a while ago! It's slow going as I am a slow gamer but I'm currently at the 4th (?) dungeon, the one on the mustari island. I'm enjoying it so far! ( + )
➤ I started reading the Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint Webtoon because I saw the print volumes in the library system so I was like, sure I'll see what all the fuss is about. I only read volumes 1-6 (though I think volume 7 is out in English already?) but I'm enjoying it! ( + )
➤ I forget if I mentioned this before but Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan YA book series got an anime adaptation that aired on Netflix recently, which is the wildest thing that's ever happened. I LOVED the Leviathan books when I read them so of course I had to watch the anime immediately. ( + )
➤ Did I ever talk about the absolute disappointment that was The Old Guard 2? ( + )
➤ Yes, I watched Kpop Demon Hunters. Yes, I loved Kpop Demon Hunters. Yes, I've listened to the album a hundred times. It's a pretty standard plot, but the animation is gorgeousss, Sony Animation knocked it out of the park again, the characters are fun, the music slaps, and it's just an all-around good time. The only unrealistic part about it is a boy group putting out consistent bangers sjdhfkjsdfs but I guess having demonic powers helps.
Has anyone being using Focus Friend by Hank Green lmao? It's a productivity timer app for your phone, you set a time limit to not look at your phone and your little bean avatar knits socks while it's running. Then you use the socks to buy items to decorate your bean guy's room. Everyone at work started using it so I was like okay fine I'll try it lol. Haven't gotten enough socks yet to buy any decorations but it did keep me from playing on my phone while I should've been working a couple times so I guess that's good!