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sporky_ratVacuuming for the flea issue does lead to some glee when you see all the dead fleas in the water tank of the vacuum.
sporky_ratcleaning the house in preparation for moving
Apr. 20th, 2025 11:04 pmraisedbymooglesfun fact: Hollow Knight takes places in our house. what with all the pillbug corpses in every goddamn corner. -_-
Wheel of Time OC: Tig
Apr. 19th, 2025 08:00 pmharpers_childTigraine Trakand Mandragoran
Commander of the Band of the Red Hand
( call her Tig )
Please feel free to ask questions. Point out typos, I'm finishing up typing this past my bedtime. Hopefully I'll have Kam and The Fox up later this week.
Commander of the Band of the Red Hand
( call her Tig )
Please feel free to ask questions. Point out typos, I'm finishing up typing this past my bedtime. Hopefully I'll have Kam and The Fox up later this week.
The one downside to warm weather and open windows
Apr. 17th, 2025 12:15 pmsporky_ratAUGH THE FLEAS THE WRETCHED FLEAS STARTED EARLY
(Also wow this year has been bad already, we haven't had a year this bad in A WHILE)
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Apr. 17th, 2025 07:56 amraisedbymooglesnot exactly a fandom dream but it felt like it SHOULD have been based on something.
( dream theory? )
I know dreams aren't that deep but my brain rarely bothers with narrative so this certainly FEELS significant somehow.
( dream theory? )
I know dreams aren't that deep but my brain rarely bothers with narrative so this certainly FEELS significant somehow.
FIC: Prime Time, chapter 15
Apr. 15th, 2025 06:49 pmraisedbymooglesguys I'm almost done writing this thing o_o
//What now?// Arcee whispered over short-range comms. (on AO3, account needed)
//What now?// Arcee whispered over short-range comms. (on AO3, account needed)
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Apr. 13th, 2025 05:41 pmharpers_child1. I went on the Tar Valon Library wiki to check some spellings and lost several days. Whoops.
1b. Want to see some Wheel of Time OCs without context? ( pics under the cut )
2. Something is eating my chives. Not really sure what to do about it. Alliums are usually safe from neighborhood critters. Nothing has tried to eat my green onions and I've had those for years.
3. Spouse's birthday is coming up and I am struggling to find gifts. Found a few things, but my plan to pick out some Lego got thwarted by things being sold out, too expensive, or already grabbed by other people.
1b. Want to see some Wheel of Time OCs without context? ( pics under the cut )
2. Something is eating my chives. Not really sure what to do about it. Alliums are usually safe from neighborhood critters. Nothing has tried to eat my green onions and I've had those for years.
3. Spouse's birthday is coming up and I am struggling to find gifts. Found a few things, but my plan to pick out some Lego got thwarted by things being sold out, too expensive, or already grabbed by other people.
perfume day 7
Apr. 13th, 2025 02:01 pmsporky_ratImaginary Author's Slow Explosions
Notes: Saffron, Rose Absolute, Leather, Apple, Benzoin, Cashmeran, Arpora Night Market
WELP NOPE
This is a NOPE right out of the bottle onto the skin, wow. I have never been so grossed out by leather and the smell of cheap gin EVER in my life.
Edit: it has been described by Brent as "elder horse girl". Leather and gin and some sort of weird animal smell.
perfume day 6
Apr. 11th, 2025 09:43 amsporky_ratIt's another Penhaligon today, Changing Constance.
Notes: Constance is what one might call A Very Modern Woman. She has no regard for custom, and does exactly as she likes. Cool cardamom, hot pimento, salted caramel - her contrary perfume breaks every rule. Key notes cardamom salted butter caramel tobacco
And at first sniff and on the skin, it's pretty nice. I like it. There's a faint whiff of alcohol on me, though, we'll see if that sticks.
edit: it's faded QUICKLY. that is the issue with sweet pastry smells on me, alas. it's still there in my nose but not anything else? but I'll get Brent to smell later.
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Apr. 10th, 2025 01:20 amharpers_childDoes anyone want to hear about the Wheel of Time OCs that have been riding around in my hind brain since oh half-way through the book series being published who have come back with a vengeance now that I'm watching the show?
Perfume testing day day 5
Apr. 9th, 2025 04:31 pmsporky_ratPenhaligon's Terrible Teddy, scent notes of "incense, leather, and vetiver".
First whiff: that is some leather and incense. I can't identify the incense, but it's definitely there. Sort of reminds me of the leather gloves we had with the thurible at church, they had a sort of similar leather and incense smell.
I had to go look up what exactly vetiver was supposed to smell like and I got this: "deep, sweet, woody, smoky, earthy, amber and balsam" and that is exactly all the things I'm smelling under the leather.
I think I like this one. Shame it's so expensive. (I find it very funny that all the perfumes that are tentatively classified as "men's perfume" are the ones I like the best and smell best on me. Except the musks, those are tough.)
edit: oh now there's some weird musk smell, where did that come from???? this one might not stay. alas!
Tumblr is probably dying
Apr. 9th, 2025 11:38 ammsilverstarAnonymous asked:
Is it perhaps naive of me to think that just cause they laid off dedicated tumblr staff doesn’t mean they don’t have some wordpress, etc. staff just pulling double duty? Or possibly going to be reassigned? Do we know for sure this is a death knell and not just some kind of restructuring (ill-advised or not) while cutting staff event? They updated the app 2 days ago, why bother to do that if the end is nigh? I might be just in denial or I don’t know enough, but I can see a lot of ways things might be fine, at least for a while longer
Is it perhaps naive of me to think that just cause they laid off dedicated tumblr staff doesn’t mean they don’t have some wordpress, etc. staff just pulling double duty? Or possibly going to be reassigned? Do we know for sure this is a death knell and not just some kind of restructuring (ill-advised or not) while cutting staff event? They updated the app 2 days ago, why bother to do that if the end is nigh? I might be just in denial or I don’t know enough, but I can see a lot of ways things might be fine, at least for a while longer
The thing is that the number of people doesn't make sense as a long term investment. It makes sense as "someone needs to keep the lights on until
Imagine tumblr as a Zoo. Let's say there's this zoo, with a few million visitors per week, that employs 200 people. From those, about half are those in charge of taking care of the animals, and then there's a handful of maintenance folks taking care of the installations and infrastructure, an "editorial" team writing the texts on the plates next to each exhibition and handling social media, a marketing team, etc. It's a big zoo, so people from other zoo companies always mention how understaffed they are, but they manage to make things run. Sure, they can't organize fancy temporary exhibitions like other zoos do, and sometimes one of the bathrooms breaks and it takes a week to be fixed, but generally speaking, things work fine.
Then, a year ago, the owners of the zoo announce it's losing too much money and they need to do an internal reorg where about half of the employees were sent to a different, profitable, zoo owned by the same company. Small parts of the zoo are closed to address the reduced staff capacity. Now you have about 50 people in care of the animals, a couple of maintenance staff, and reduced editorial and marketing teams. Things keep going, though the there's only a couple of veterinaries for the entire zoo, and the distribution of food schedule needs to be adjusted, so our furry friends may get their plates refilled later than usual.
Then, last week, the parent company of the zoo announces layoffs. The zoo team will be reduced to ten animal handlers, no maintenance staff, no vets, one person handling the social media, only two people to work on the ticket booths, and three to handle the hot dog stand, the icecream shop and the gift shop. There are no longer night watchmen.
The zoo is the same. It still has a few million visitors per year. It still has 1300 animals that need to be feed and taken care of by only ten people. There's literally not enough people to keep the ticket booths or the shops open without breaking the labor laws, and no one know how they are going to handle that. There are no longer veterinarians or people to fix the (always breaking) bathrooms. Everyone knows this can't be a permanent arrangement, because they can't make the zoo work with just this number of people.
Now, change "zoo" for "tumblr", and "animal caretakers" for "software engineers and designers", visitors for "tumblr users" and "animals" for "features" (I really wanted to make us tumblr users to be the animals on this metaphor, but I didn't manage to make it work, damn it).
(btw, if the app was updated two days ago, it was 100% submitted before the lay-offs: it take some time for apps updates to get reviewed before they pop-up in the app stores)
There's lots more from jv but this is a good non-technical explanation
I'm so glad so many of you are here
If you have a tumblr, export/download/backup your blog !