Mady // 24 // She/Her // Cuban-American // Libra // Figuring It Out // Engaged to my Fiancé 💍
“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else
Yes BUT. This specific desk is in a library so a parent that needs to use a library computer can do their work and have a little ease in managing their kiddo. In a library environment this is less productivity culture bullshit and more 'oh this is a fantastic solution to a difficult situation library staff see 8 times a day'. Is it still productivity culture bullshit because this parent may not have affordable childcare or internet available to them? Yes. Am I glad it exists in a library environment to fill a demonstrated need? Hell yeah.
and keeps library staff from having to act as babysitters...
dear GOD we could use a couple of these. we keep crayons and coloring books on hand for the ones old enough for that, but the wee ones squirming and fussing in laps while the parents are fighting with job applications or convincing gmail’s current 2-step verification to let them in so they can print off a return label (both of which i have seen)? this would be SO NICE.
library groups have been loving this & are spreading the word & actively trying to purchase/create similar things in different systems
"You're not the main character" also applies to thinking that you're so uniquely horrible that everyone you meet is deeply invested in judging and hating you. That's just as much of a cognitive distortion as believing that you're the center of everyone's admiration. I promise you that other people got their own lives to live and their own struggles and flaws to cope with.
I know I already have a post about this exact gif but the way he looks back at the viewer has just enamoured me I constantly think back to it when my mind goes quiet; it’s like he was caught unsuspecting while bathing nude in a life giving spring, and rather than flee he decides to play with you, In one quick little glance he instructs you to give chase through the babbling pool through the gentle curtain of falling water into a luminescent cove full of treasures untold.
i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level
life is going to be different!!! and I’m a little scared!!!! but I’m going to do things on my own now!!!! I’m going to make something new!!!! I’m done being sad!!!!
I’m not gonna yell over anyone to be heard anymore!!! I don’t care if they listen or not!!! from now on I’m going to speak and listen to myself!!!!!
I am so good at being my own therapist
life is going to be different!!! and I’m a little scared!!!! but I’m going to do things on my own now!!!! I’m going to make something new!!!! I’m done being sad!!!!
I’m not gonna yell over anyone to be heard anymore!!! I don’t care if they listen or not!!! from now on I’m going to speak and listen to myself!!!!!
life is going to be different!!! and I’m a little scared!!!! but I’m going to do things on my own now!!!! I’m going to make something new!!!! I’m done being sad!!!!
