#eventually I'll burn out

[carionto]

Just. One. More. Episode.

Alien: Hmm, I haven't seen Human in a while.

Alien 2: That is worrying, you know to never leave your Human out of sight for too long. That's how you get the Ant World they tried to hide.

A: Hmm, but it's also not a good idea to pry into their privacy too much.

A2: True. What were they last doing?

A: Carrying several boxes of flavored nutrient packs into their apartment.

A2: Did they mention anything about a specific subject that had not come up much at all before?

A: Hmm, they did recommend I check out a documentary series about true crime. I did, but couldn't finish. It went into disturbing details.

A2: Oh no. Now, this is important - did they say the word marathon before you last saw them?

A: Hmm, I think so, yes.

A2: How many boxes? And how long ago since they brought them in?

A: Hmm, eight and three days ago.

A2: Your Human will appear in about thirteen days.

A: Ah, I think I understand now, but they're alone, shouldn't a standard nutrient box last about 5 days per Human?

A2: When on a regular schedule, yes, roughly. Your Human is intently watching countless hours of these documentaries and are likely unaware of their rate of consumption due to being emotionally engaged with the subject matter.

A: That is... disturbing. Should we intervene?

A2: No, it's a phase. If we take them away from their current subject of passion, it will become more entrenched, potentially. Best to let them run out of nutrients and force themselves to leave that environment. Then we can persuade them to return to normalcy, given they will be more accepting of the idea due to leaving that situation of their own will.

A: And if they are not persuadable?

A2: Then we get another Human to metaphorically "bonk" them back to their senses. Although on some Humans a literal bonking works too. It's very circumstantial.

A: Hmm...

A2: Although there is also the risk of the other Human becoming convinced to join them instead on further diving into the subject matter. There does appear to be an endless supply of these true crime shows on the Human extranet.

A: That is... not reassuring in any way.

A2: Well, that's Humans for you.

#carionto #humans are weird #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #story #i am literally binging true crime these past few weeks now #hard to write something fun when all I got is murder stories #but they are so engaging #i cant help myself #i need more #eventually I'll burn out #probably

[fried-manto]

Hey Basil, sorry I took so long. Why are you looking at me like that?

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#woo!! new comic in so long #im starting to feel burn out from the fandom #but i guess I'll try to put all my ideas out before i eventually move on from omori #im gonna miss you all when im out #but i love you guys #omori fandom #omori #omori fanart #omori sunny #omori basil #my art #omori comic #comic

[bomberqueen17]

yeet

the kitchen is empty.

the more i look at it the more it's obvious that the original owners of the house, who bought it as new construction in 1950, remodeled the kitchen sometime in the 1970s, probably around 1974.

anyway the only thing i'm actually sorry to lose is the milk delivery door in the wall. it's been covered over from the outside, and we never used it for anything-- there were random items in there that were still from the original owner of the house-- but it was a funny little "wait what is that" feature in an otherwise extremely uninteresting house. (photo and more wittering behind the cut)

[image description: a panel in a beige wall, like a small cupboard, set into the thickness of the wall, next to a built-in kitchen counter. Inside is unfinished brown wallboard, with a shelf near the top.]

i am getting lake effected on at the moment, which is inconvenient, but our neighborhood is only supposed to get 1-3" this morning and maybe another 1-3" tonight when the band swings back through. RIP to the southtowns, as is right and proper. (Hamburg got 16" yesterday. It's what you get, living in the snow belt. Outsiders don't understand, when everyone says "Buffalo gets a lot of snow" they don't mean the city itself they mean the region just to the south of it. The blizzard last Christmas was so devastating for a number of reasons but a large part of it was that the lake effect band swung north and dumped on all of us soft City-And-North neighborhoods that mostly just sort of gently chuckle at the travails of the Southtowns. We do NOT have the driveways or snowblowers for this. Sure we can drive in it because we have to commute through it half the time but we are not used to this happening to OUR houses. Also the City is run by incompetent grifters so there's a compounding factor.)

Anyway. Everything is out of the kitchen. I'm prepared to hole myself up in the office for the day once I make sure the workmen have what they need. I'm trying to simultaneously be available and also unobtrusive. Unfortunately the things I could work on are mostly in the basement, which I can only enter through the kitchen. But I also think I'm not going to try to do anything useful today. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm going to sit in the office and veg the fuck out most of the day. I have some hand-sewing and maybe will do some writing and maybe I will just fucking. Sit there and listen to the banging noises or whatever. I don't care. i've been go-go-go-go for weeks at this point and I'm just going to stare at a wall. Who cares. The house is a disaster but the kitchen is cleaned out entirely and they can do whatever they want.

I only hope they don't need me to move the cabinet sitting against the exterior kitchen wall, which is full of fragile glassware and has a bunch of fragile shit on top of it. Probably they'll want me to move that or something. I'll worry about it once they say so. They're demo-ing the other exterior kitchen wall but they're not touching that section, which is why I did not attempt to pack up that cabinet yet. But they might want me to. I'll deal with that when they say so. Give me fifteen minutes to clear everything off the top and then I bet we could just gently push the cabinet into the middle of the room and not fret any more. Whatever man.

OK maybe they were coming at 8:30? IDK. IDK.

#personal #about the author #maybe i'll have time to write! #maybe i'm so burned out i'll just stare at a wall #better times are coming #eventually #sure

[mattodore]

took me forever but i finally finished this couple thing for mattodore! @wldestluv-rs thank you for sending it to me 🫂

#river dipping #oc extras #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #a burning house to live in #echthroi #i meant to do this earlier but i wound up scrolling thru simblr instead and then was busy with other things #should i have done this for my other oc pairings too...? probably but then i'd have to take new character pics for them #maybe i'll update this in a few days with the rest... that's alessandria/delphi dionte/nicholas and imani/romeo... not that many but still #anyway while i was doing that middle section i blinked and was like man. this is all just matthias #i didn't want to leave any of it blank but i will say the cooking housework and driver sections aren't like. all the time. #bc matthias hires people for that. but at theo's apartment it's mostly matthias taking care of things bc theo is normally busy #and when he's with theo matthias prefers to drive them around himself... #and the transparency in the bar section is to show that it takes a long time for the bar to be filled to that point but it does get there #eventually whereas the solid parts are where they wind up just a few months into their..... situationship #also trying to pick a trope for them was SO hard and like. generalizing. like they're multidimensional!! you can't box them in like this!! #but in the end i just went with broad tropes i know are in their little story... the enemies bit really is totally one-sided tho #theo honestly just didn't like matthias bc again. theo makes snap judgments 🤷 #and ugh... slowburn my beloved. but fr everything abt their relationship is slow and at theo's pace #the day i finally start writing echthroi out like fr. in novel form. i knowwww that baby's gonna be bare minimum 150k kdvjnjdknjh #...also this means the only thing left on the to-do list from the other day is to write the response to that anon asking abt mattodore #and their routines before bed........ lord. why is my brain like mush now........

[mystery-salad]

Zhaitan and Trahearne both sought to preserve Orr and protect its history, to know all of it and keep it safe, but Zhaitan got lost in it all, corrupted, and died for it to another who had the same goal he was driven to. After which Trahearne continued further past his goal getting lost in a purpose he was given until it killed him to save the world too. They are, in many ways, parallels in their lonesome efforts. In this essay I will-

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 fan submission #trahearne #zhaitan #the joke here is i'm too burned out to write this essay rn but I wana get it out there #maybe i'll elaborate eventually #but rn work eats a Lot of my energy as different departments keep playing tug o war with me

[sauntering-down]

nothing funnier than waking up to a new fic comment that's like "Cal needs to sleep!" and i go "yeah lol totally" while looking at my half-finished semi-coherent outline for a series of ficlets about Cal not sleeping...

#keeping ya boi awake for fun and profit! #i'm tentatively hopeful this might be something eventually? #however first i need the outline finished! #i only have three (out of ten) potential ficlets MOSTLY outlined so #that's okay!! i pretty much gave myself September off lol #doing some other stuff this month so i don't burn out on writing again... maybe i'll try to plot a bit more while i play Terraria :)

[starswordartblog]

so uh, this was one of the first SF2 edits I’ve ever made (around the same time I did Sarah I think?), but since it’s the simple “drew a head over the original sprite” kind, I figured I’d post along the promotion sprites to be more interesting.

Anyway it’s been an year and I haven’t finished those, and am nowhere close to going back to this project, so just have this for now.

#shining force #shining force 2 #shining series #sf2 kazin #shining force 2 sprite edits #pixel art #spritesheet #2023 #note that when i say 'promotions aren't done yet' #i mean 'the wizards have been mostly done since forever and then i left before doing chaz's overworlds sprites' #i love the wizard sprites. i'm so close to finishing them. and then i burned out at the most stupid part #the sorcerers were a bigger issue. i really didn't enjoy how the palette swaps were going #i wanna learn the decomp to just give everyone their own sprites #but at the same time that just makes the work even more daunting #meh #i'll get back to it eventually

[labetalol]

Thank you for your perfectly reasonable tags about that pharmacy post. I hate pharmacy posts on this site because it's always like "the pharmacy didn't preemptively order my meds that I waited until the last minute to ask for", "the pharmacy won't break federal regulations to give me my medication", "the insurance/my doctor fucked up but the pharmacy is denying me my medication because they hate me" and it is exhausting.

no thank YOU for the reply! i honestly saw someone in my inbox and was like. great here comes the hate for a very normal sentiment. i see you've been a tech for a while, which is awesome! i just graduated pharmacy school but have been working as an intern for a few years and literally i love retail pharmacy, i love helping people, i love having that rapport with patients and solving their problems, but majority of the time it really could've been avoided with a call to the pharmacy ahead of time.

i've been licensed now as an rph for a month and while i love it, it is a thankless job WHICH is to be expected being in healthcare but the way my team and i move heaven and earth to get a patient their medication and they're like. took you long enough. like OK !!!! LOL

but no seriously it is exhausting and i usually bite my tongue with posts like those that are ALL over tumblr but like c'mon. does OP seriously expect us to remember they take some weird manufacturer's generic qty 120 for a 30 ds and to order ahead of time??? like girl. give us a BREAK and call.

anyway thx for the message! that one part about "the pharmacy is denying my medication because they hate me" - throwback to the girl who reported us to the DEA, board, and corporate that we were sexist ageist AND ableist for not giving her her dilaudid... because we were out of stock and CII rx are nontransferable. like c'mon LMAO

#I'M JUST BLOWING OFF STEAM TRUST ME I'M A GOOD PHARMACIST (SO FAR). i've already given like 2 emergency fills and took so many verbals so #a patient can go home with their med that night. i bypass insurance issues for vacation fills and stay on hold with #wags for transfers. like i am trying my BEST. and i want to because i genuinely want to help. i know i'll get burned out eventually but rn #i want to help... but if pts can help me out too that'd be great :) #i could just be a shit rph and not do my due diligence and just tell patients too bad. but i try my best until i literally cannot do any #more. and so many people have told me they appreciate it and that they've never had someone go that far for them but at the same #time i really shouldn't have to go that far. i need to focus on my job which is just data and product verification. but ok enough ranting i #the tags. i'm good LOL #personal

[skylarkstarflower]

Day twenty seven. Viper may look a beast, but he's really a giant sweetheart.

Day twenty nine. Two massive guys getting along.

#biker mice #biker mice from mars #bmfm #Viper #Inktober #Inktober2023 #Yeah viper is another of my OCs #He looks scary but he's really a sweetie #He's also mute he can make snake noises but that's it #And yeah Vinnie there is a little weird for the height comparison #I know these are late and I'm missing a day #Dunno why I didn't post these sooner #Burned out a little there at the end but I'll get the last three done eventually

[bluejaybytes]

^ My best friend forever tri-nouveau ^

#Splatoon #I'll 5 star her eventually. eventually. #at least with Tri-Nouveau I don't burn out nearly as quickly as I did with Dapples #Dapples I loved dearly (and even got the 5 star on Dapples Nouveau) but man. When I'd burn out I'd burn out HARD #Tri-Nouveau I don't get that. Tri-Nouveau when I burn out I just. burn out of Splatoon entirely. #Tri-Nouveau I'm basically always willing to play - Dapples I have to be in the proper mood for #(And now that I've gotten the 5 star on Dapples Nouveau- I honestly don't ever see myself picking the weapon up again) #I like Dapples- I really do! But I like the Nouveau kit more than vanilla and with the 5 star on Nouveau I genuinely never want to touch it

[soaricarus]

brain world rain rot

you sure do have it, i am looking at you and you know why

#words on the wind #[asks] #hypabeasts-reps-n-asks #i'll get around to asks Eventually. #when im not busy doodling eclipse and trying not to burn myself out

[winterswhite]

Well. Time to make a "no ships" banner to put under every translation I post.

#sorry i came back from my hiatus just to say this #but i am sick and tired of people disrespecting my boundaries #and talking about ships in translators' notes is bad anyway #unless you already know they like a specific ship and/or they talked about it first #i used to ship things. bad things happened to me. shipping is now a trigger for me. #i have been trying to slowly get back into it on my own terms but these people set me back two steps for every one step i take forward #and i am sick of it #i just want to be comfortable and heal #is that so much to ask #anyway. back to my minimally-active sns state #i'm burning out so bad lol #i'll be back eventually #hope everyone is doing well #/rant #anposting

[redwinterroses]

someday I will leave my soul-sucking job and have creative spoons again.

alas. it is not this day.

#i literally haven't written almost anything since i went full time in March #it's not the time it's the job #i am way stressed 24/7 and yay we're back to full-fledged panic attacks on the reg #i have applications out other places but this isn't an overnight thing #i just want out before the start of next semester #I'm the definition of burned out right now so sorry that my blog is nothing but queued posts lately #I'll be back. eventually.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

i haven’t giffed anything else yet, i’m still somewhere between deciding what the next one will be and being in one of my 0 attention span things, it might take a little while

#me #i also don't know what i'm in the mood for #well i do but i'm not giffing them #not right now anyway #i'm sure i will eventually #a little bit #but they're special to me and i'm trying to be careful with them and my brain #i don't know how else to explain it #that's the best i can do #i absolutely do not want to get burned out on them ever #anyway other than them i don't know what i'm in the mood for #i'll probably come across something soon and be like 'yes this one right now'

[dirt-mccracken]

So how do you start writing again.

#ive tried just doing it and also reading more and also justvwriting badly and it's slowly working but also there's years #YEARS of congested bad writing and ideas #the worst poems you'll ever read. random finishes to fics I abandoned 3 years ago. ideas for OCs I've not touched in years #like the ideas and will coming back is great #but how do I give it structure. how do I get it out. how do I focus in enough that I write anything I like #currently filling the notebook Geoff signed with things I eventually will want to burn and man when that day comes I'll have to just. #just sit with it and accept some of the worst writing ever will always live in that notebook and that I will noy be burning it #personal

[proceedingtophantom]

I was at a writer's conference today, at a panel on using social media platforms to grow your author brand and sell books, and they named a bunch of websites that are good to use, and one of the authors was like "don't start with Reddit, they make Twitter seem nice" and someone (me) was like, "any tips for Tumblr?" And he says "DON'T EVEN TRY, THEY ARE WORSE THAN REDDIT, STAY AWAY FROM TUMBLR"

Um. Too late, and apparently a third of my marketing strategy is too scary for the average author?

#Writing #Been working on original stuff #Going to try out Kindle Vella #Eventually I'll barcode scrape ITD and put it there #But starting easy with high school romance #With some favorite tropes: #Fake dating #Slow burn #Slice of life #Secret magical creatures #It's a contemporary fantasy #Once I have a name #I'll be creating a blog for it #Take that sir