Griselda Gimpel
Author of The Tyrant, the Fairy, and the Au Pair.
Married to calextheneko.
White, bi, pronouns are she/her.
- "Vadaliya says job listings rarely explain what the work actually involves. “People are hired under ambiguous labels, but only after contracts are signed and training begins do they realise what the actual work is.”" That is SO shady! 🚩🚩🚩
- In case you were unaware that GenAI software developers are also exploiting and abusing workers in the global South to support their plausible word-mulch vending machines. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Reposted by Griselda Gimpelbad people can and often do make good art. attacking the art as retroactively subpar to free yourself of moral dilemma and give yourself permission to not care means you're innately equating quality of art as representative of moral virtue (it's not) which is how you get purity culture
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- Reposted by Griselda GimpelIf you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- I have 20,000 words left to write for "Tender Care". *to self* 20,000 words is nothing. You've written big bangs longer than that. You've got this. Just two more weeks.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelA thing that is funny about the moral grandstanding by Repubs re: Christopher Columbus is that nobody knew or cared about him 100 years ago. His "holiday" is barely 50 years old and was pushed through by Italian-American lobby groups in response to...anti-immigrant prejudice.
- Thinking about medium and storytelling and budget: The Harbingers feels like prestige television, but if it were television (instead of an audio drama) the budget would be ridonculous.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelThis is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelWell now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelI live in Iowa so if you wanna see a cow up close, you have plenty of opportunities to do so. And when you do you understand exactly why pasteurization is an essential, life-saving process.
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- I'm not allowed to take any pinch hits until I finish "Tender Care", my Case Fic Exchange, and my Femslash Big Bang.
- Finished Chapter 12 of "Tender Care". The outline for the next two chapters is a bit thin, so I'll have to flesh them out. But I'm past the halfway point and heading towards the conclusion.
- So...was like EVERY shitty aspect of modern American society started/funded/promoted by Jeffery Epstein? And if so, wow! Imagine if there'd been a proper reckoning the FIRST time he was arrested for sexually abusing underage girls!
- Video game cut scenes should be pausible. Video game cut scenes should be rewindable and replayable. Also, missions that you can't save during should have a projected time to complete listed.
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- Reposted by Griselda Gimpelpeople who want people to get into their fandoms and blorbos USE ALT TEXT
- The Epstein Files are like: - Man accused of child sex abuse - Man who had an affair with a much younger woman - Man convicted of a bunch of scummy crimes - Man found liable for sexual assault - Man known for being a gross misogynist And I mean, like, OUTSIDE of their association with Epstein.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelTrump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!
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- Irish Ballad (Threat)
- Priscilla says she needs to be petted right MEOW!
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelWhen you cave, they push harder. When you fight back, *they* cave. Do not obey in advance. Repeat after me: "Fuck you--make me."
- I need to get up Because Work. But my bed is warm and cozy. 😩 <- suffering
- Reposted by Griselda Gimpelone thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelIt’s frankly insulting that the worlds worst people weren’t meeting in a command center in a volcano wearing ceremonial robes but were all emailing on Hotmail accounts like “want 2 atrosity? With wemen?”
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelDOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelThe thing about all these men is they could date anybody. They're rich, they're famous. They could bag socialites or models or actresses or whoever. Instead they single out the most vulnerable women and girls they can find. They cannot form relationships with women who are their peers.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelA comment on this: It's worth letting your MoC whether you think they're useless, whether they are Dems (in which case you may alert them to a resource they were unaware of), or MAGAts (in which case this makes clear they're supporting crime). This is authoritative and timely.
- As the House prepares to fight over how much of DHS to shut down, I encourage you to pick your favorite factoid from this @vermontgmg.bsky.social report on CBP/ICE criminality and send it to your MoC. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelThe Beatitudes hit different coming from a guy with a black eye, gotta be honest.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelThe priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.
- Unfortunately for Carmen, the kittens love him.
- Caught in the act!
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- So for my Sinners fic (which I'm only plotting at the moment), I need to find a public domain blues song to fit each of the dead's unfinished business. I'm sure there's a website somewhere that'll help me.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelChotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
- I've got an inkling of an idea for a Sinners fan fic - Preacherboy lays the souls of the dead vampires to rest through the Power of Music - but I cannot even begin to work on this until after I finish "Tender Care", my Casefic exchange fic, and my femslash big bang.
- Does anyone have #Sinners fan fic recs about the Smokestack Twins adventures in Chicago?
- Okay, finished Sinners.
- #Sinners watch Okay, so I know it's because Mary was turned into a vampire, but honestly, drooling while climbing all over Michael B. Jordan is only to be expected, really.
- Finished Chapter 11 of "Tender Care"! Next up, Sinners!
- I haven't finished Sinners yet - I'm hoping to after I finish this chapter of "Tender Care" - but I got to the scene where Remmick and the Klanpires try to gain entry to the jute joint.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelThinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
- Another fun (not fun) thing about the unpaid tumblr community modding? Minors can make communities, which means that minors can be mods. The number 1 thing that being a tumblr mod have to mod for? Yep, you guessed it. Weirdly pixelated porn bots.
- Luna keeps on stealing my Mardi Gras beads.
- Reposted by Griselda GimpelEp 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.
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- Reposted by Griselda GimpelFlorida is very, very chilly again this weekend, leading to the possibility of iguanas falling from trees. Here's why that's interesting to scientists
