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Sometimes, my spite overcomes my common sense.

In my defense, the lady hit one of my major buttons AND I have someone egging me on.

#tag properly later

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you ever go nonverbal but like... online? too fatigued to reblog anything with tags or interact with people

#gpoy #neurodivergent #nonverbal #selective mutism #reference #want to be able to find this again #this has basically been the past few months #thank goodness for the like button #my drafts are overflowing but the effort to tag and rebagel is just absurdly so much #meh

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‘i have to take medication because my immune system decided kinkshaming the trees is more important than breathing’ is objectively an insane concept. thumbs down to seasonal allergies.

#allergies #too real #accurate #but too real

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Well, this has been a bit overdue...

Reuters is reporting it (via emsc) as 4.8-5 on the Richter scale.

There was a little one on Tuesday. I was wondering whether we might hear something more along these lines, a few days along...

Be safe, everybody!!

ETA: The EMSC data page for this quake is here:

#earthquake #felt that one #the 2011 one down in Pittsburgh was more sustained and noticeable #but they both felt like a big truck unexpectedly idling on the street right outside the window #hope i never run into a worse one #at least this didn't have the boom noise like the small bits...earlier in the week? last week? #time is an illusion #i don't even know anymore

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So. I knew air Dragon years were not kind to us water Dog folks, financially, but I didn't expect it to be this bad this quickly.

In a nutshell, I'm being paid $18.50 an hour, to manage a full shop with production. I was supposed to have an assessment period after 90 days where they consider paying me more, but I've been here seven months now with nary a murmur about it.

On top of that, I opted into a company 401k and health coverage. I'm in my 40s and never had a 401k at all, and the health coverage is at least dropping the price of my meds by 60%; the down-sidenis that it drains $300 a month out of my pay before it ever hits my account. So I'm effectively being paid $16 an hour plus benefits for a job that's worth twice that.

And my bank account went into the red last week. Not that my spending is anyone's business, but I barely buy anything other than food. I haven't bought any clothing other than socks in six months. My cat just got another infection and dis on even more medication.

I love my job. The work is good for my ADHD brain, the customers are great, for the most part. But I'm faced with the fact that if I can't convince management to raise my pay to $21 an hour, at minimum, I will have to look for other work. Work that will be less kind on my brain and likely on my body, but what choice do I have?

This is why we need UBI. This is why we need unions.

I have a kofi linked in my bio if anyone wants to help with vet bills. And I'm considering offering character portraits (half body, simple colours) for $35 each, if anyone would be interested?

I've spent the last couple nights crying, unable to sleep. The one bright spark right now is my amazing friends. Fuckin love you guys, you're keeping me sane right now.

#signal boost #mutual aid

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It's weird, how hard it is to look in the mirror and admit "I'm having a really tough evening because of PTSD."

It's...somewhere between infuriating and crushing to realize it's been an entire rough month because of PTSD.

It's hard to even write that. It feels so stupid to say any of it.

I mean, it's always better to understand these things rather than having them blindside you again and again and again. It's just that some days you have to sit with the fact that now I'm different, and things can't go back to the way they used to be. I will never be whole again the way I used to be.

But let's be honest. No one ever is what they used to be. Life is change. That can be okay. Hell, that can just BE, neutral and a simple fact.

I just miss having normal reactions. I miss being able to just decide it's bedtime, without that being some kind of Statement.

Tomorrow will be better.

#Norcumi’s Continuing Adventures in Learning to be a Functioning Human Being #ptsd #just venting #sometimes i treat tumblr like an actual blog

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Over on Flight Rising, I have my favorite grumpy progen, Mall. Thanks to the April Fool's day shenanigans, this is him today:

MOSTLY normal, but let me repeat:

I know I cannot blame @aces-to-apples for this, yet I deeply want to affectionately fistshake in the general direction of blame Apples.

#'spicy' should be 'fire' for those who don't play #flight rising #spoilers #april fool's day #aces-to-apples #is made of awesome and win #i should nap not write maul/jango #and yet i am contemplating it #dangit Apples #<3

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six sentence sunday (of a sort)

*crawls out of hole of TOO MANY THINGS and TOO DAMN TIRED*

Had this scene - well, technically it's PART of a scene, that goes to no fic I've got, so I'm releasing the plunnie into the wild. It's pretty clearly an Obi-Wan/[favorite clone to ship] thing where they have SOME kind of kinky relationship, but no idea whatall is going on beyond that.

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While fighting someone, [clone of choice] sneaks around or whatever to capture [Enemy of choice] with a knife to their throat.

Enemy: *calmly* Call off your dog, Kenobi.

[clone of choice], amused (darkly, or blasé?): Was that meant to be an insult?

Kenobi: That was absolutely meant to be an insult.

[clone of choice]: Nothing demeaning about being loyal, or a soldier. D’you think we should give them another try for a real insult?

Kenobi, dryly concerned: Do we have that kind of time?

Enemy: Whenever you two clowns are done –

[clone of choice], serious and scary, tightens hold, knife now having the thinnest line of blood along the blade: Clown or dog, which is it? Because I know that plenty of natborns are genuinely terrified of either.

Kenobi: And the fact that you think I hold his leash is genuinely hilarious. Are there any other mistakes you’d like to make, or shall we get down to business?

~end

#six sentence sunday #my writing #no idea how to tag this #obi wan #fic ideas #plunnie for adoption #clown mention

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#muppets #AN 👏 I 👏 MAL 👏 SWEEP #poll

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"a kiss may be grand"🔒

Written for hollyand (@hollyand-writes) for Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024 (@dasmutquisition)!

When the cat's away and whatnot.

Rating: Explicit Category: F/M Relationships: Carver Hawke/Merrill (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Dragon Age II - Act 1, Developing Relationship, Miscommunication, Sex Pollen, Aphrodisiacs, Vaginal Sex Words: 4,078 Collections: Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024

#dragon age #good author is good #not safe for whales

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"memento (mori)" 🔒

Written for SidheLives (@sidhelives) for Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024 (@dasmutquisition)!

King Cailan has a very special request for Duncan's new warden recruit.

Rating: Explicit Category: F/M Relationships: Cailan Theirin/Female Warden, Female Surana/Cailan Theirin Additional Tags: Ostagar (Dragon Age), Fereldan Politics (Dragon Age), political maneuvering, mostly based on my sketchy knowledge of early-modern england tbh, First Kiss, Oral Sex, Vaginal Fingering, attempts at historical dress Words: 7,060 Chapters: 2/2 Collections: Nobody Expects the Dragon Age Smutquisition 2024

#dragon age #good author is good #not safe for whales

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Balance: A Last Hope: Closure, 2/5

Loose Ends

Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s), Padmé Amidala & Anakin Skywalker Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala, Siri Tachi, Sabé (Star Wars), Jango Fett, Qui-Gon Jinn, Cad Bane Additional Tags: canon typical discussions of slavery and politics, Alternate Universe, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, GFY, Don’t copy to another site Series: Part 9 of Balance

Summary:

Qui-Gon tries to track down a missing figure from his past - the results are not quite as expected.

Sample:

[SECURE TRANSMISSION, TATOOINE TO THEED ROYAL PALACE] [ROUTE TO PADMÉ NABERRIE] Hey Padmé, just wanted to say we got back safely about an hour ago, and I’m already THIS CLOSE to heading right back. Apparently when we were gone Qui-Gon had some kind of breakthrough and now he’s got his dick in a twist about finding some old friend of his (and bitching about he doesn’t REALLY and she’s not his friend anyways but everyone knows he actually does and if the entire room does the collective eyeroll again I’m just walking out into the desert and screaming for a bit). If Artoo wants any upgrades RIGHT NOW, please please please let me know. ~ Ani

#star wars #our writing #other time of day reblog

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You guys are so mean

#ides of march #ENDLESS CACKLING #APPLAUSE

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this is targeted tumblr content

#ides of march #julius caesar #shakespeare #language #daaaaaamn

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https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

#ides of march #julius caesar #video #language #HNNNGN #shakespeare

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i really wonder what Julius Caesar would think of a bunch of neurodivergent rats huddled in a circle chanting ides of march ides of march ides of march and then cheering loudly on the 2067th anniversary of his assassination?

like would he cry?

#ides of march

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“average internet user posts about the Ides of March 3 times a year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average internet user posts about the Ides of March 0 times per year. Tumblr Georg, who has made of the day a national holiday & makes over 10,000 posts about it each March, is an outlier and should not have been counted

#ides of march #tumbls #tumblr culture