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Hawke's job is so much more interesting than mine. It pays better too. Come watch me be jealous.

I am back from the gym and ready to fight some demons! https://www.twitch.tv/therobichaud

I am absolutely terrified of modern grind culture. No matter what your occupation is, there is an immense pressure to constantly work.

I work at a grocery store and I am constantly staying over my scheduled time by hours, or going in on my days off.

Content creators have to basically push out new content at all times, and it's expected to be quality content at that.

Even fanfic writers have this expectation that they will constantly be putting out new chapters, one shots, headcanons, etc. And they're not even freaking paid for it.

It's just this constant, ever looming, abjectly terrifying pressure and expectation that you will always be working. Always be producing. And never stop until you have an absolute breakdown, for which you will get very little sympathy and expected to recover from asap so you can get back to work.

I am in an absolute mental panic right now over this

This is the dawn of my Chloe Gong Era

I'm watching the original Fun With Dick and Jane from 1977, and I was entirely unaware that there was a scene where the male lead is told off for being transphobic.

Dick, who is aptly named, is in line at the unemployment office behind a trans woman who got fired for coming out. When Dick talks to the guy at the desk, he immediately insults the woman, calling her crazy and using the f slur.

And the guy absolutely shuts him down. Tells him that she's just a trans woman trying to live her life with the most "fuck off" look on his face.

I was not expecting this from a comedy made in the 70s.

Fucking love it.

whats crazy to me is ppl saying all x reader is badly written when i've read several x reader fics that blow published books out of the water. like idk what ur reading man ... but to generalize like that is fucking wild

before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. that way if you end up having to kill more people, you already have an extra grave prepared for it.

Saw a streamer claiming that it's okay for them to stream Hogwarts Legacy because they're donating money from the stream to a trans charity.

How much? Don't know. They didn't clarify that.

It's pretty clear what they're doing, though. It's not really about wanting to raise money for trans charities. If it was, they could have picked any other popular game for their stream.

They just want to play the game and use the controversy to boost their channel. The only reason they included the charity thing is to use it as a shield against anyone who rightfully calls them out.

You can't claim to support the trans community while actively promoting and supporting transphobia.

Also pretty, uh, interesting how transphobia is the only issue they saw fit to address and ignored the racism altogether

Ides of January Reading Update

The Cloisters got DNF'ed. I don't like to do that, but I had to. It was so fucking boring. The stuff about tarot was interesting, but it would only be focused on for like two paragraphs and then utterly forgotten so the protag could whine some more about not being cool enough. It was also all tell, no show. At one point, it's said that the MC has been having trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality and might be having full-blown hallucinations. And....that's it. We never get to see it at all. If it weren't for that line, there'd be no way to know that was happening. And it's like that with everything. Awful book.

Babel is good, but it's taking me forever to get through it. I like it, it's just slow going.

So This Is Ever After is the only romance I've ever enjoyed reading. It's funny, sweet as hell, and Queer af. I don't even know why I decided to read it because I don't really like the romance genre, but I'm so glad I did.

Maus made me cry and that's all I'm ready to say about that.

Iron Widow is one of the best books I've ever read. Wu Zetian is an absolute gold medal badass and I love everything about her. I don't know if I want to be her friend, her girlfriend, or just be her; I'll even accept being her enemy if I have to. I'm just obsessed and want her in my life somehow. It's fucking brilliant and I cannot wait for Heavenly Tyrant.

The Weight of Blood is very good so far. It's a Carrie retelling set in a 2014 Georgia high school about to host its first integrated prom. I'm only about a third of the way through it right now, but I'm really enjoying it so far.