David Vienna's Blog, page 69
April 3, 2022
Day date with Larissa, the best lady that ever ladied. (W...
Day date with Larissa, the best lady that ever ladied. (We also just realized we’re a couple of months away from our 20th anniversary. WTactualF?)
April 1, 2022
March 31, 2022
wilwheaton:
Remember when I wrote:
Well, today I posted:
...
Remember when I wrote:
Well, today I posted:
And you’ll never believe it but:
It is unlikely this dude knows what I’ve survived in my life, and what I endured to get here. It’s unlikely he knows I am a survivor of child abuse and exploitation, who lives with PTSD that was caused and exacerbated by his parents.
He probably doesn’t know that. But even if he did, I suspect he’d say the same thing. He saw someone expressing joy and gratitude, and he just couldn’t help himself.
Mediocre White Men, y’all. They have one move and they always tell on themselves.
tacosaysroar:
I will NOT let this person ruin my day.
Th...
I will NOT let this person ruin my day.
This person who handed me an article to rewrite last week at the very last minute because he once again “dropped the ball.” An article that was more than 600 words over the publication’s limit. This person who’s been sitting on this article (due to the publisher tomorrow) for almost a week. This person who’s now suggesting we get rid of the two sentences in the conclusion that tie up the entire point of the article. This person who just wrote to my content partner that he was going to collect changes and then hand it to the publisher (prompting me to respond with a more polite version of NO you will absolutely NOT fucking do that, friend. You will give it to me to check because that’s not your job. I own content.) This person who just sent an email to four more people telling them they should look the article over by tomorrow, the article’s goddamn due date, to see if more changes are needed before he hands it to me. This article that I have no doubt will now be back over the word count I worked so hard to get to. God knows how much time I’ll have to cut it back down. An hour if I’m lucky?
Yeah. Trying very hard not to let that person ruin my day. Deep breaths, Hunter. Deeeep breaths.
It’s shocking the number of people who think just because they can speak and read they know what the writing process is like and how much time it takes.
Like, dudes, you know that a plane flies. But, you don’t know how to fly a plane.
March 29, 2022
radarsteddybear:
In case anyone else logged in to tumblr....
In case anyone else logged in to tumblr.com today and found the majority of the posts on their dash to be hidden with the option to “expand” them and went “oh no”
go to Settings > Dashboard to turn it off
March 28, 2022
bestnatesmithever:Can’t we just walk amok?
Can’t we just walk amok?
March 25, 2022
I’ve been so stressed the last couple of days, I hadn’t e...
I’ve been so stressed the last couple of days, I hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday morning (and even then, it was only four bites of leftovers). I just wasn’t hungry.
This evening, my appetite finally crept back, so I had a veggie burrito and now my stomach feels like I ate a rhinoceros.
*looks at Earth*“I hate it here.”
*looks at Earth*
“I hate it here.”
March 24, 2022
It’s funny to me that Tumblr is trying to sell branded me...
It’s funny to me that Tumblr is trying to sell branded merch when the admin spent years fostering a community that makes their own knockoff branded merch from discarded fanfic, foraged berries, and broken ukuleles.
