#it was Not a Good Day

[xiaq]

TW: Animal death (NOT Deacon)

When I left to take Deacon for a walk tonight, I encountered a woman just past our house getting out of her car to crouch in the middle of the road. There was a cat on the ground, not moving.

I put Deacon back inside and went to investigate.

We couldn't determine how long that cat had been there, or who had hit her, but she was in really bad shape and she definitely was not going to live. She had no collar, so I called the non-emergency city line and they sent an animal control officer. And we sat in the street, and we pet the cat together as her breathing got slower and slower and we cried a little and we waited.

After a while, another woman joined us. We named the cat. We made up a life story for her and told her about our cats, past and present. Told her she was good and lovely and loved. Thirty minutes later, when animal control arrived, we handed her off to be euthanized together, and then all just sort of stood there, uncertain how to end our strange, awful interaction.

And it was awful. But I can also promise you I will never forget those two women, complete strangers, who didn't want to let a cat die alone and didn't want me to sit there with her alone while waiting for animal control.

I'm not sure what my point is other than processing, but it is nice to remember that even in a shit world where innocent beings suffer, at least there is still the kindness of three strangers sitting in the street, crying over a cat none of them knew.

#it was not a good day #tw animal death #mylife

[greentrickster]

Me going into this weekend: Well, it's time for the local anime convention, the one that I've been preparing for since December and worked super hard so I'd have lots of mage plushies in the store I sell them at downtown, all ready for excited anime fans to buy them!

This weekend: Protesters gridlock downtown on Saturday (aka, the Busy Day, aka the Profitable Day) because they can't handle the concept of a drag queen doing story time for kids at the library, someone escalates this to a very effective bomb threat that's fortunately fake but still forces local shops to close and the reading to be cancelled for the sake of safety, it pours rain, and is the coldest weekend we've had all month to boot. All the shops and the downtown farmer's market that brought in extra stock and produce in preparation for what is traditionally a very profitable weekend for local businesses due to exploring convention members are left in the lurch.

Me, now: (lying in my bed trying to console myself with humour) ...this did not go according to keikaku.*

*keikaku means plan

#my life #tw bomb #tw bomb mention #this weekend was supposed to hopefully net me the equivalent of a couple months of profit #instead two mages sold on Friday and I don't think anyone from con really went to the store the other two days #frustrated tears; I worked SO HARD to make sure there was plenty of stock for this weekend specifically #and extra sympathy for the farmers' market vendors who brought in extra food for the lunchtime crowd #which didn't come because cold wet weather + conservative protestors #also this wasn't some little phone-in bomb scare #a package was found at the library. a bomb squad with a dog was called in #the dog reacted to it in a 'we need to treat this as a threat' manner #and there was also a letter going 'yeah... this is ONE of the ones I've placed around downtown' #it was fortunately a fake out but it was still highly effective #and my parents got to learn all this after I was already downtown and there wasn't a good way to immediately retrieve me #it was Not a Good Day

[totalsuper-jerkdinkleshplat]

That feeling when the boss says you did a great job.

When the boss says you fucked up...

Today, I was Johnny.

#it was not a good day #😞 #sing ash #sing johnny #sing! #sing 2016

[foldingfittedsheets]

Me, sitting next to a classmate in lab who is trying to help figure out why my animations aren’t exporting properly.

Computer, taking forever to load.

Me, staring into nothing.

Classmate, hesitantly: Hey, are you okay?

Me: Why do you ask?

Classmate: There’s like… purple under your eyes, and they’re pretty bloodshot. Did you not sleep?

Me: Oh. Well. I have a chronic illness whose main symptom is fatigue, and I didn’t sleep. So this is what that looks like.

#my life #chronic fatigue #they were so sympathetic #then the professor showed up in the last two minutes of lab to try to help with the problem but I had to go #it was not a good day #fingers crossed I sleep well and have good energy tomorrow for my birthday

[ilackhumanqualities]

I swear, I use my cane out of the house ONCE and 2 fucking people I know ask me if I'm "into the grandpa aesthetic", I get my cane stolen twice, get called a slur and everyone I meet asks me if I actually need it. I'm going to kill somebody.

#it was not a good day #cane user #actually disabled #crippled punk

[commissionsdarian]

Your most angry moment?

The one time I ran out of coffee

#it was not a good day #darian answers stuff #rp #oc

[placesyoucallhome]

I *hate* french pastries

#it was not a good day #a good 4-5 batches of bad cookies #finally made on good batch #this was my day off #very simple cookies #very very difficult to do correctly #I don't know that I'm gonna be able to make these in a chaotic bakery #i don't even know if their ovens get that low

[park-jimin-isnt-real]

I am unemployed for the first time since I was sixteen.

#it was not a good day

[mandycantdecide]

#seems like a good deal to me #boop #boopometer #april fools day

[antlerlad]

happy tdov my loves. don't let anyone else define your transness for you.

help trans women evacuate gaza

#tdov #trans day of visibility #tdov 2024 #comic #nonbinary #i havent done a little comic in a while. feels good

[carouselcometh]

Devastating! Art museum gift shop doesn’t sell prints of specific and unpopular painting that struck a cord with you!

#Anyways :) I had a good day guess what popular painting I love that I saw and guess what I saw a new painting I really liked today :)

[sergle]

"tiktok is so toxic yall are on that evil app but I'm built different 💅" to you!! TO YOU!! YOUR TIKTOK ALGORITHYM MAY BE EVIL

Mine is FIRE

#sergle.txt #video #tiktok #i use so much self restraint every day go not post 500 TIKTOKS ON HERE #i gET SO MANY GOOD ONES

[cobbbvanth]

#blessed boop day to all who celebrate

#boop #april fools #boop o meter #april fools day #tumblr #*gifs #the good place #tusernath #useaurore #userelio #usersmia #elinordash #tuserpris #useremi #spxcekya #userives #userriel #tuserjen #alielook #boop day #figmentofedit #userzo

[marlynnofmany]

OMG the backstory behind the whole boop thing is amazing.

#boops #april fool's day #which is still more than 2 hours away by my clock #but this is too good to wait #life on Tumblr

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

#i don’t know how to explain this to normal people 😭😭 #for the record my coworkers didn’t directly question me on this #but i think i have vastly overestimated the amount of the population who is aware of like. Films. #NOT claiming that i have seen a lot - but i’ve mentioned three *REALLY* well-known films in the past four days #and got blank stares each time #the one of them was a REALLY good reference too… someday my top-notch association skills will be recognized #my first act as Mansion Acquaintance of the [redacted] Director will be to force everyone to watch a 40s romcom i didn’t even like #i’m getting off the point #the POINT is that It’s About The Catharsis

[drops-of-universe]

I need several hours of Quiet Time each day or i become the worst person alive

#its so good to be home after almost two days going here and there and interacting and talking and listening and and and #text