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Things:

--I've been watching a playthrough of Clair Obscur and one mechanics thing I'm noticing particularly is how each character has their own catchphrase(s) in battle. Before each move, Gustave will say the same damn thing. I've seen this in turn-based fighting games before but it's somehow especially aggravating in this one. The game is otherwise great but I find myself frequently mouthing 'For the ones who come after' and then saying 'shut up, Gustave!' (I also have said "Shut up, Gustave!" on other occasions as well.)

--Just announced: Silksong coming out on Sept 4!! Massive excite for that. I am too shit at dexterity-based games to play myself so will be waiting for Playframe's playthrough and I'm not sure how long he'll hold off before starting it but I'm already chomping at the bit.

--Have had to spend several days at work on a depressing project. My normal focus area is intellectual property and though that is a genuinely important part of the legal system, on a daily basis seeing which giant semiconductor company wins the slap-fight does not particularly move me emotionally. Whereas spending hours reading the details of [horrible thing] really kind of fucked me over, mentally.

--Recent boardgaming weekend was a delight - I particularly enjoyed Unstable Unicorns which is deeply silly, and also Person Do Thing which is a great party game that you don't need to buy to play, just go to the website.

--I'm trying to figure out if I can propose to my mother a place for us to meet up for Christmas that wouldn't be where she lives (Texas) because tbh I just don't want to go there for a million reasons, only some of which have to do with politics. But her walking ability is pretty limited and I don't know that there's any point to going somewhere with tourist stuff if she can't really do most of it. I'll probably just suck it up and go to TX. Which, if I'm going to, I should buy plane tickets now and stop waffling.

--I have agreed to help one of my coworkers with her September 1 move, because I am a sucker. My wrists are already fucked from everyday life and I can't wait to see how extra fucked they're going to be after carrying boxes from a u-haul next weekend. Whee. Why did I say yes to this?? Oh yeah, human decency. I remember now.

--Still here.

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I'm starting a Rarepair Recs series of posts (for ships with less than 250 complete works on AO3 using the otp:true filter) and I have shared a rec list on my journal with several works for KevJean (Kevin Day/Jean Moreau) to get it started. I encourage more people to make their Rarepair Recs!

Fandom: All for the Game
Relationship: Kevin/Jean
Medium: art, fic

See the rec list at my journal.

omens

2 posts in one day?? This friday five looked fun.

1. Have you ever stayed in a hostel? If so, where? Did you like it? If you haven't stayed in a hostel, would you?

I stayed in a hostel the summer before I turned 18. Going with a few friends to a music festival at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver. My mother was very panicked about the whole adventure :D & we had a great time. It was a nice place (Jericho Beach Hostel). I think that's the only time I've stayed in a hostel, though.

2. What is your favourite airport that you've been to? Why?

Vancouver Airport because it's just super chill and has tons of great art. No other airport has ever measured up.

3. What is the best museum you have visited on vacation?

I always enjoy the natural history museum in Ottawa, and the history museum across the river in Gatineau is pretty great, too. (Also just very cool to look at!)

4. Have you ever made friends while travelling whom you keep in touch with on a regular basis?

I don't think I've ever made friends on vacation. I tend to bring friends/family.

5. Have you ever had a conversation with a seatmate on a plane?

I don't tend to travel alone so I don't think I ever have! Maybe briefly. I think, generally, planes are too loud for conversations and I have movies to sob through.

Cherry tomato break!

In related news, my cucumbers abruptly stopped making cucumbers :( I don't know if that's normal. They made a dozen or so, I'd guess?? they were so good while they lasted though!

and in UNrelated news, I got some nice spam on dw today from

donnapsencer who had a few ideas they wanted to tell me about my story (I don't even have my ao3 linked here anymore... What? Story?), but it made me lol. The same art/ai commission scam that's all over ao3 & ffn & discord, I'd assume. Lulzy.

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Dissatisfaction captured in cold, fluorescent lighting, cubicle framing, empty hallways, and dead machinery; drudgery defeated (delayed) by camaraderie, reignited by betrayal. This is what Office Space should have been [cinemafemme]

https://www.metafilter.com/210047/25-films

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Title: Crushing On You
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Fandom: S.W.A.T.
Relationships: Donovan Rocker/Molly Hicks
Tags: Getting Together, Fluff
Summary: It started as a crush years ago.
Word Count: 1,295

( Crushing On You )

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Silksong is real! It's real and it'll be here in two weeks!! aösldks I'm so excited. I will not take Friday off because I'm too low on vacation days but I will clear my weekend (which means I have to do more chores & studying the weekend before which means I will not try out the Extreme Timed Challenge Exchange this year, ah well.)
(Ngl I was almost hoping it would come out after my exam, so in Mid-October, but I'll just have to focus so I'll study enough, because if I pass the exam I'll have more time to play after. I can do it.)

umadoshi

(I cannot) touch her, make her conscious [Or, the eternal WIP where things go very, very differently near the ending of Feed] (15393 words) by umadoshi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Georgia Mason/Shaun Mason
Characters: Georgia Mason, Shaun Mason, Mahir Gowda
Additional Tags: POV First Person, Adopted Sibling Incest, Canon Divergence, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued, incomplete but not a WIP, as finished as it's getting
Summary:

In which Shaun learns something significant late in Feed that he canonically doesn't find out until Deadline, and everything goes very (very, very) differently.

I started writing this canon-divergence AU a looong time ago, and I've likewise known for a long time now that I was never going to finish it--partly because Newsflesh hasn't been my primary fandom for several years, and partly because of how much plotting it was going to take to do it to my satisfaction. This parts ways with the series canon toward the end of Feed, and thus everything that happens to the main characters in Deadline and Blackout would never have happened, but all the political machinations and truths about the virus were still things that would have to be played out and...yeah.

But the emotional arc of this story, most of which I did get written down, is some of my favorite writing I ever did in this fandom; I kinda think that if I'd ever managed to assemble an intact story, it would be among the things I'd be proudest of.

I've decided to post it anyway, because what else would there be to do with it? So this is the heart of it--a bit fractured and strung like beads along a thread of story, but all there. Please ignore any minor wobbliness in the timeline/internal continuity, 'kay? And towards the end, I've left in a few plottier bits to give some idea of where this would have gone as an intact story.

This should make sense if you've only read Feed, but it does include one of the series' largest spoilers and hint at another one (both revealed in Deadline in canon).

And the standard notes: this is unbetaed, and the title comes from Linda Gregg's poem "There She Is".

Current Mood: restless

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Posted by chavenet

https://www.metafilter.com/210046/Everybody-picks-a-niche-of-the-period-of-cocktails-they-want-to-emulate

They drink all day. They're this ultimate fantasy couple. They're independently wealthy. They're madly in love. They're witty and they solve murders (that don't really seem to impact anybody) for fun. And they would, in particular, drink martinis and Manhattans and highballs. One of my favorite scenes in any movie is in the first Thin Man, in 1934, when Nora meets Nick at a bar and she says, "How many drinks have you had?" He says, "Well, this will make six martinis." Nora goes to the bartender, "All right, will you bring me five more martinis and line them up right here?," which to me is such a signifier of women's liberation. She can give [as good as she gets] and she can drink as good as the guy can. They're true equals. from How Old Hollywood made cocktails look cool [KCRW]

https://www.metafilter.com/210046/Everybody-picks-a-niche-of-the-period-of-cocktails-they-want-to-emulate

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Posted by PussKillian

https://www.metafilter.com/210045/The-children-she-depicted-were-less-sweet

She caught the image of the kids I was writing about perfectly, with no communication. That does huge things for the confidence of the writer. Margery Gill was a British illustrator of children's books. I thought this blog post (Substack link) was a lovely overview of her life and work. As a child who held the Susan Cooper books close to her heart, the sturdy, thoughtful children that appeared in her work and the atmospherics she captured made a big impression on me.

"that is often how children are — taking their own lives seriously". It's no suprise to hear she drew from her daughters and the neighboring children Guardian gallery of images from Gill's work

https://www.metafilter.com/210045/The-children-she-depicted-were-less-sweet

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https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/can-companies-make-new-hires-fill-out-paperwork-on-their-own-time.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=32600

A reader writes:

I’m a public librarian, so a big part of my job is helping people do work on our public computers. This ranges from showing people how to print to more in-depth questions on software that I have to puzzle my way through. I don’t mind any of that!

I have noticed more recently in the last year, though, that people with new jobs will come in and need help filling out what is essentially new hire paperwork: tax forms, demographic info, health insurance stuff, etc., or even have video trainings to work through. Shouldn’t this be something that’s done on their first day of work? Often they have questions about these forms that I obviously can’t answer because I don’t work for that company. I don’t know for sure that people aren’t getting paid for doing these but it definitely seems like that from our patrons’ comments.

Is that legal? If not, any suggestions on what I can say to patrons to make them aware of that fact?

It’s pretty normal for employers to send new hire paperwork to people before they start and not to pay them for the time they spend filling it out … but whether or not that’s legal isn’t as clear-cut as it should be. Broadly speaking, employers do need to pay people for all time they spend on work, which includes on-boarding. But, for example, this HR publication argues that it comes down to whether you’re required to complete the paperwork before going to work (in which case it would have to be paid) or whether it’s only voluntary to do it ahead of time and you have the option of completing it on work time (in which case, they say, an employer could argue it doesn’t need to be paid). On the other hand, this legal site says it all needs to be paid, voluntary or not, since the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires you to be paid for all time you are “suffered or permitted” to work.

The first source also points out that the federal Fair Labor Standards Act does say that “infrequent and insignificant periods of time beyond the scheduled working hours, which cannot as a practical matter be precisely recorded for payroll purposes, may be disregarded,” so if the paperwork is quick, it could fall under the exception.

The video trainings, however, are much clearer than the paperwork question: if work-specific trainings are required to be completed before your first day, that’s work time and needs to be paid.

All that said … regardless of the law, it’s extremely common for employers to expect new hires to complete new hire paperwork on their own time. Ideally everyone would push back on that and assert their legal rights. In reality, most people aren’t going to want to start a new job that way and won’t take the risk of objecting to a practice that other new hires haven’t complained about (and which employers are often used to considering “pre-employment” and thus not paid work, although the FLSA doesn’t make that distinction).

In other words, in a culture that sees new hire paperwork as a normal activity to complete on your own time without pay — regardless of whether that should be the case — a lot of people would find it too risky to push back on, particularly for the likely small amount of money involved. So in your shoes, as someone who won’t have enough information to judge what the potential risk for any given patron could be, I’d leave it alone.

The post can companies make you fill out new hire paperwork on your own time? appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/can-companies-make-new-hires-fill-out-paperwork-on-their-own-time.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=32600

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https://www.metafilter.com/210044/James-Dobson-is-Dead

"Few Americans in the late twentieth and early twentieth centuries did more to make the nation a less tolerant, more homophobic, more misogynist, more child abusing nation than James Dobson. His life is a horror show and the America of Trump is very much James Dobson's vision. Good riddance to bad rubbish. At least these people do die eventually."

https://www.metafilter.com/210044/James-Dobson-is-Dead

omens

Not a lot to report on in the last week, since I've been hosting company, but I started the sequel to House in the Cerulean Sea (Klune), abandoned Ministry of Time (Bradley), and have been rereading my wips instead of other peoples' fics (lol). I just want to get back into them so bad!! Also a slow week for language learning, obviously.

Mostly we have been rewatching Lower Decks! Got my uncle through the first two seasons :3 S1 was pretty rough, in retrospect! (Character-wise, not plot wise, if that makes sense. Lots of cool shit going on, but who are these people?? A bit) I loved it at the time, but it sure does get so much better. (Especially Carol & Ransom.)

BC cherries from last week!! So good :D Put my uncle on a train today so I'm going to lay in the silence for a couple days before I try and be functional again. Company!! OOF

beatrice_otter

Stolen from tumblr.

Each of these categories has literally hundreds of fic I could rec, so I am literally just … mentioning the one that comes up first in my head, not trying to decide which one is the best.

( A fic that lives in my brain rent-free )

( A fic that is not posted on AO3. )

( A fic that is less than 5,000 words )

( A fic that is over 50,000 words )

( A gen fic (no pairings) )

( A fic that does something cool with format or structure (epistolary, social media, 5 things, non-linear, etc.) )

( A fic that uses a trope you love. )

( Recommend a fic with an interesting premise/concept. )

( Recommend a fic from a book fandom )

( Recommend a fic that is more than 10 years old )

( Recommend a fic you think is a hidden gem/deserves more reads )

( Recommend a fic that formed or changed your opinion on something (characterization, backstory, relationship, etc.) )

( Recommend a fic you’ve re-read multiple times )

14. Recommend your favorite fic.

Aha. Ahahaha. Ahahahahaha. You expect me to narrow this down? Here are all my bookmarks on Pinboard and here are all my bookmarks on AO3. Have fun. (Everything is the same in those two places, except that Pinboard also has all the fic that isn’t on AO3 and AO3 only has the stuff that is on AO3.)

( Any fic of your choice )

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/work-and-stress-a-round-up-of-advice.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=32464

Here’s a round-up of advice about work and stress.

I’m burned out and overworked and my bosses keep piling more work on me

I asked for a lower-stress job and my workload got worse

is being visibly stressed at work a sign of commitment?

how do I get less emotionally invested in my work?

how do I stop caring about my job?

how can I keep my temper at work?

how do I hold it together at work during a personal crisis?

how do you stay focused on work during anxiety-inducing world events?

what does self-care look like at work?

when your coworker is the one who’s stressed

my coworker won’t stop talking about how stressed she is, and it makes me stressed out too

my coworkers’ constant talk about stress is stressing me out

my coworker’s stress is stressing me out

advice about your boss

my boss’s stress is out of control

explaining to my boss that marital stress is impacting my work

my manager keeps exaggerating about my stress level

when you’re the boss

as a manager, do I need to hide my stress from my employees?

are new managers supposed to be this stressed out?

my employee gets stressed and frustrated and snaps at me

my employee is snippy with people and dramatic about stress

interviewing

how to answer when your interviewer asks, “how do you relieve stress?”

how to explain why I want a lower-level, lower-responsibility job

miscellaneous

is a higher-paying job worth extra stress?

and a related round-up

what to do if your workload is too high

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https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/work-and-stress-a-round-up-of-advice.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=32464

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Posted by ichimunki

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"Golden", a song from the Netflix movie "Kpop Demon Hunters" is number one on the Billboard 100 and in the top lists on Spotify. What's the big deal? The unexpected rise of several songs from Kpop Demon Hunters through the charts and word of mouth is making the music industry take notice. Kpop Demon Hunters is an animated movie released by Netflix in collab with Sony Entertainment on June 20, 2025. The songs are sung by a fictional Kpop girl group, Huntrix and a competing Kpop Boy Band, Saja. "Golden" is being submitted by Netflix for the Best Original Song Oscar .

The music industry shift could be big especially with AI in the picture and featuring talent without burnout. Fans also seem to be comfortable supporting a totally virtual Kpop bands. Because the band is in a virtual format, songs like "Golden" can include a big vocal range pop singers normally would not sing because of the difficulty level. Youtube vocal coaches have been posting reactions because their students are bringing in this song to sing. Getting hints of William Gibson's Idoru.

https://www.metafilter.com/210043/Kpop-Demon-Hunters-takes-over-the-music-charts

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/lets-discuss-good-things-that-came-from-work-social-events.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=31751

Not everyone is a fan of workplace social events, particularly mandatory ones and or ones outside of normal work hours (as we talked about earlier this week). But as frustrating as they can sometimes be, good things can come of work events, even ones you’re not enthused about attending — you can make a connection that results in you being picked for a project you really want to work on, or learn about something that helps you do your job better that you wouldn’t have known about otherwise, or just bond with coworkers in ways that make work more enjoyable after that.

For today’s “ask the readers” question, I’m interested in hearing about good things that happened to you at work social events, or even just situations where taking the time to cultivate good will with colleagues paid off for you.

The post let’s discuss good things that came from work social events appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/08/lets-discuss-good-things-that-came-from-work-social-events.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=31751

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/podfics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Posted by AlSweigart

https://www.metafilter.com/210042/The-Polyphonic-Spree-Quest-for-the-Rest

The Polyphonic Spree is an American choral rock band from Dallas, Texas, that was formed in 2000 by singer/songwriter Tim DeLaughter. In 2004, indie video game and design studio Amanita Design created the Flash game Quest for the Rest featuring band members traversing a surreal world while solving simple puzzles. It's playable in modern browsers with a Flash emulator on the Internet Archive and takes less than ten minutes to complete.

You can also watch a play through of the game.

https://www.metafilter.com/210042/The-Polyphonic-Spree-Quest-for-the-Rest

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Title: Revenge At Last
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: OCs, Dee.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Murder most foul has been committed, but Dee and Ryo have caught the murderer.
Word Count: 300
Content Notes: None needed.
Written For: Challenge 489: Amnesty 81, using Challenge 486: Revenge.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

( Revenge At Last... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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Posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries

https://www.metafilter.com/210041/The-study-giving-robots-to-kids-to-encourage-STEM-careers

The study giving robots to kids to encourage STEM careers. Researchers believe more students will chase a career in tech if they get hands-on experience at school. They are giving students coding classes, electronic tablets and remote cars to spark an interest in STEM.

https://www.metafilter.com/210041/The-study-giving-robots-to-kids-to-encourage-STEM-careers

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Title: Like a Punch to the Face
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Ray has thrown a lot of punches. Set during the first part of Mountie on the Bounty
Pairing: Fraser & RayK
Word count: 100

( Like a Punch to the Face )

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Posted by Brandon Blatcher

https://www.metafilter.com/210040/Aubrey-Plaza-is-here-and-functioning-in-and-over-the-gorge

Amy Poehler hangs with Aubrey Plaza, her 'Parks & Rec' costar, and Plaza talks about grief, stealing from then Vice-President Joe Biden, getting run out of her NYU dorm by mice, weirding out Mike Schur, loving the WNBA, and other subjects in a wide ranging interview that lasts a little over an hour on YouTube.

https://www.metafilter.com/210040/Aubrey-Plaza-is-here-and-functioning-in-and-over-the-gorge

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Silksong!

FIC (link):Newsflesh ([incomplete] canon-divergence AU) - "(I cannot) touch her, make her conscious"

Everybody picks a niche of the period of cocktails they want to emulate

The children she depicted were less sweet

can companies make you fill out new hire paperwork on your own time?

James Dobson is Dead

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Fic Rec Ask Game

work and stress: a round-up of advice

Thursday, August 21 - Challenge Week 5, Day 4

Kpop Demon Hunters takes over the music charts

let’s discuss good things that came from work social events

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The Polyphonic Spree - Quest for the Rest

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