Translator's note: In this instance "my job" means "the job I was hired to do and that I recently reaffirmed is my top priority at work."

Top to bottom revamp went live yesterday and is broken in so many fun and new ways that it wasn't broken in the test environment. Now I actually CAN'T do my job in addition to being forced to do this! :)

Feels like my boss walked up to me and was like "hey can you help with the project?" then led me to a room with the dev, locked the door with the two of us inside, and continues to knock occasionally to see how we're doing. Buddy this was your idea why are you not participating.

(In racial contexts, passing is active and presenting is passive, whereas in gender contexts passing is passive and presenting is active.)

You totally nailed it, I was imagining those cute little sleepy wobbles looking at your art 🥺

The optics of the first Build-A-Bear Workshop to unionize being the workshop attached to Bearquarters - like Build-A-Bear can't even treat their *public face of headquarters* employees right - are amazing.

YAYAYAYAYAY GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE!! The takeaway here is always follow up on your important emails, kids.

Build-A-Bear, of course, has never answered a single one of my emails.

Did you know preserved snapshots on the Wayback Machine can just fucking disappear? Like completely gone. From **2002**. And no one at Republic of Tea can help me because obviously they don't still have records of corporate collaborations from over 20 years ago.

This is KN A Bit of Paprika CN Spice, Spice has been nominated for two Oscars and is available for stud to approved...

Anyways maybe the book is equally as un-erotic and this is a faithful adaptation, I haven't read it, but I kinda expected more based on it being vampires and the knowledge that it spawned enough fanfiction for Anne Rice to legally threaten fic authors. I just found it so strange.

Otoh Armand is my sweet flower child, he has never done a wrong thing in his life (if you don't count the wrong things he's done in his life).

Also Louis de Pointe du Lac suuuuuuuucks. This dude suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. I do not understand why Lestat and Armand both Twilight imprinted on him he sucks way too much for it to be believable.

Maybe I've just been spoiled by Hannibal?? But all the vampires in IWTV except Santiago feel neutered, and even Santiago feels like he really struggles to be sexual against the neutering force of the show he's in.