#only eight more hours

[ruvi-muffin]

Can i just be emo for a second that kingsley's alive?? ;u;

And essek's alive ????

Like

We never expected to Actually have nine of them AND YET 😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭

💜🧡💛💖💚💙🖤❤💗

#istfg if any of them dies #muffin rambles #am hurteth #am thriving #i love them #mighty nein reunited #h y p e #aahhh #only eight more hours

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #31: A poem that begins at the end of something, then moves backwards

Orpheus

He loved And looked And sealed her doom Forever now the widowed groom

He loved And looked Through death's domain And swore he'd bring her home again

He loved And looked As died the wife Too quickly taken from this life

He loved And looked And wed the bride He vowed to keep safe at his side

At his first sight The beauty there Devotion sparked Beyond compare

He lost, yet knew the gift she was And all because He looked And loved

#napowrimo 2024 #poetry #it turns out the idea i had for this prompt came together #the first stanza came together and then i had three within a couple of minutes #most of the ending came together after my commute #but that last stanza! #the first half of it! #appreciate it! #i spent HOURS agonizing over how to phrase it #so my meaning of 'even though he lost her the love they shared was still beautiful and worthwhile' came through #when i had only eight beats to work with #this poem was much more profound in my head #unfortunately the meter made it cute but alas what can you do?

[reasonsforhope]

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

#not news #ask #me #ideally only answer if you actually have specific knowledge of or experience with the industry #technically I'm working with disabled clients but also open to other sectors of residential care work if I do get another job #so if it's something that differs by sector please do let me know! #thanks so much #safety issues are for both me and the clients btw #this is not like “I'm afraid of the clients” in any way #it's about the fact that if something happened and I got hurt #I am the only staff in that whole house until morning #and there is MAYYYYYYYBE one client who is actually physically capable of calling for help #if I can't for whatever reason #also!!! this is an incredibly vulnerable client population with horrifyingly high abuse statistics!! #they should not be leaving someone they literally just hired completely alone with the clients every night for eight hours??? #not gonna give more details for many obvious reasons #but like. just. no. don't do that. no. #in any residential care work facility imho but ESPECIALLY in this type of facility #also like if a client has a medical emergency #you're really gonna want both someone who can render aid AND someone who can call 911 and the on-calls and such #and yes the chaos and “surprises” around this job and scheduling is why I haven't been doing original posts lately #so answering also helps me get back to doing that sooner!

[aeriedwelling]

so there used to be a mountain here,

#ONLY LIKE SIX MORE LAYERS. IT'S GONNA TAKE LIKE EIGHT HOURS. AAAAA #havin fun #aerie chatter

[thatoneluckybee]

bitches love me cause i sleep until 4

I'm stealing you melatonin I need some

#I woke up at EIGHT!!! I COULD NOT SLEEP MORE!!!!!!! #I actually. Fell asleep at a decent time it was weird #This is funny to me if I fall asleep early I WILL be forcibly woken up by my body because it is alarming apparently if I sleep normally #I don't ever sleep enough I can't ever. Like 6-5 hours on school nights #Maybe once or twice a month like last night ig I'll just. Randomly collapse or pass out in my room and sleep for longer than normal and the #I'm good for a few weeks. Like. It's strange. How I sleep idk. #I've fallen asleep at like 6 and woken up at 3am on a SATURDAY #and also I slept for 18 hours one time and then only got like three hours for the next few days #I'm taking your melatonin I need my body to produce it like a normal person #Asks #fruit-gummiees

[centipedelightning]

hngggg lighting is so hard.

#is this the art i was drawing instead of writing? #fhsgdg no……… #…… #anyway this is technically a nqr post #this is a future chapter- not necessarily just some random art #not to mention this is more my MC for nqr rather than ‘me’ #this is exactly how i imagine All the sans personalities to sleep btw #so i really don’t see it in the same bubble as self ship art yk #full starfish like a dick #only eight hours btw #my last (and less involved) piece with 2 ppl took 21 #•centipede draws• #nqr tag #us!papyrus #my art #papyrus x reader #swap papyrus

[tswwwit]

the idea of dipper and bill having to act as a "normal" white fence suburdan home married couple bc of "blending in with community" to investigate some particular magical phenamone or a cult or a monster or whatever and dipper is suffering, and bill is suffering too but he's also having sick fun with horrid fascination as an insane demon does, and they ask mabel for ideas, they have a barbeque housewarming party-

-wont leave my mind, its been *days*

dipper: this sucks, people live like this???

bill: I KNOW! THIS SUCKS! *fascinated like a watching a trainwreck or natural disaster* AMAZING

Pine Tree shuts the door behind him very quietly. A gentle 'click' as the latch sets in place.

Bill looks up from where he was flipping through the newspaper. He puffs on his pipe - unlit, but hey! It's for the look of things! - and smiles.

"Hello honey!" Bill takes the pipe out of his mouth, bouncing a slipper on his foot. "How was the homeowner's association meeting?"

Pine Tree stares forward. A muscle in his jaw twitches.

Bill hums to himself, and smiles.

Domesticity! Such as it is. That wonderful white-picket fence, no magic, no monsters, and no chaos-

The paper under his hands tears slightly. Bill clears his throat, shuffling the pages. He gives up on the ruse of news-reading - whether or not those nosy assholes across the street are watching - and flips, nonchalant, right to the comics section. He already solved the crossword in his head ten minutes ago.

Easy. He's got this. It's only been, like a couple days. There are way longer cons he's played, and this one isn't the worst!

Besides.

He'll be damned if he breaks before his mortal does.

"I talked to Linda." Pine Tree's voice is flat. He slowly strides over to the window, and draws the curtains shut.

"And?" Bill prompts, sitting up a little more. Man, sapling's got a full thousand yard-gaze going! He watches with fascination.

"She's so glad to see that the," Pine Tree lifts his hands, making finger quotes. "'Non-traditional' couple is so," He swallows, holding down some simmering fury. "'Decent'" Bill's throat jumps, but. Nope, not perfect. The gagging noise still came through. But he nods, very seriously.

Acting.

"And," Pine Tree says, very slowly. Turning towards Bill, equally slow, and deliberate. "Even though she said I could water the lawn, since it's dying, now I can't water the lawn, because it violates some…" His hand clenches to a fist by his side. "Like, contractor agreement thing?"

"Oh, don't worry about that, honey!" Bill exclaims, with a perfect nineteen fifties voice - he's got that in the bag. "I'm sure it'll all work ou-"

"Except," Pine Tree strides in, planting hands on Bill's armchair, and staring him right in the face. "We're also getting fined for every day that the lawn is dead."

Bill can't help it. He snorts, face scrunching up. A full catch-22! Linda's got another thing coming, eventually. Once they track down this monster.

But hey! Bill can understand sadism, and contractual bullshit! If only Pine Tree wasn't around, he'd have made the trap appropriately lethal.

"Aw, rough day, huh?" Bill sets his pipe down, patting his husband on the shoulder. "Don't worry, honey, we'll-"

And Pine Tree yanks him forward. Gripping Bill's smoking jacket so tight that he hauls him nearly out of his chair. Bill blinks.

"If you call me 'honey' again," He mutters. "I'm going to murder you."

Bill can't stop his laugh this time, and as his cute little mortal rattles him back and forth -

Oh thank chaos, Pine Tree's the one broke first.

"Bill? This sucks." Pine Tree insists, teeth gritted. Shaking Bill harder now. He searches for words, he splutters - one hand waves at the air. "How does anyone live like this?"

Ha! Maybe now he gets how great he has it. No bureaucracy ! No trying to hide what you are from jerks who think magic is 'wrong'! No suburban life, no lawncare, and no rules!

Bill's mortal has too many hangups. You can explode any problem if you want to!

Pity he's not willing to do it with Linda.

"Hell if I know!" Bill exclaims, and surges up. He heaves out a breath, scratching at his neck. "Bullshit magical prejudice. Don't worry, kid!" He pats his husband on the back. "We'll get out of here in no time."

The monster that's preying on these mortals can't hide much longer. Once that's solved, Bill's contingency will kick in. And then -

"No, I found the vampire," Pine Tree says, half distracted. Bill does a double-take. What, he didn't mention that first? "I just, uh."

Bill wags a hand. Prompting.

And Pine Tree shrugs. Offering up an awkward smile. He rubs the back of his neck. "I…. kinda rigged her septic tank to blow once we got out of here."

Bill tugs him closer, beaming now. "Now that's a nice move!" He tucks his hands under Pine Tree's arms, but the human squirms away before he can pick him up. "It's what, a vicinity based setup?" A quick nod, and he grins wider. "Clever trick, kid." "I'd... ask if that's too much, but knowing you, it's not." Bill's cute little mortal punches him, adorably, in the stomach.

"Pfft, nah, that's nothing," Bill nudges him, and grins. Pine Tree's not the only guy who's heard some comments. "You should see what I set up for her house."

#Written in about fifteen minutes so sorry for any really dumb shit or typos #Queuing this for later #I'm going to sleep for five years now #Okay it was more like twentyfive if you count some edits #This is only one example but you KNOW they both hated that shit #SO boring #Dipper probably enjoyed the domesticity for like #Eight hours #Until it started weirding him out #And Bill just got FULL into his role #But if Dipper didn't break he was like within six hours of doing so #Less than half a day for full-on stir-crazy demon NEEDING some chaos #Good thing you solved it first Dipper or there wouldn't have been much of a neighborhood after #Arguably a good thing depending on who lived there #Nah they probably had some really nice neighbors nearby who brought them like #A pineapple upsidedown cake and welcomed them warmly #Bill would have spared them/their house because he has a special like for upside down desserts #Also because Dipper would have been mad at him if he hadn't #Neither of these two do well in perfectly suburban environments #Getting bored out of their skulls without some mystery or monsters or drama #The only result would be that one of them would create it #answers #Sorry for the dumb bullshit

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

year six of being salty that around halfway through RoS the writers went 'shit we accidentally wrote five way too sympathetic and reasonable, and he is rapidly going through a redemption arc. quick shove in random serial killer shit out of nowhere without explanation, which completely contradicts his character and its development up til then. wait fuck he's redemption arcing EVEN HARDER in FoT. shit shit shit okay just make him hannibal lecter'

#lorien legacies #LL number five #LL crit tag #the crit files #five hurting people is something he consistently has to work himself up toward by turning them into an Object of Hatred #and/or having someone else encourage him to do so #because hurting people /fucks him up/ even when he hates them #and after that has hit its breaking point of emotional intensity he just. stops wanting to hurt them #wants to help them or at least for them to be alright in fact; even when they've treated him horrifically #and when that breaking point results in doing irreversible harm he regrets it SO MUCH #he has to spend a month dissociating and keeping himself busy every waking hour not to break the fuck down over what he did to ethan #and he DOES break the fuck down over killing eight #like even if he thought well of eight in particular by comparison he's been stoked up to hate the other garde in general #which leads pretty quickly to regret and total lack of malice toward the garde after the showdown in florida #he is completely broken over it #even /nine/ he loses 'i want this person hurt' animosity toward after florida. in fact animosity at all that we see after that initial #monologue over eight's body; where he's having his big moment of realizing he has more hatesinking to regret than just hurting eight #and he doesn't say he wants nine to suffer. he just says it wasn't worth helping him because he thinks he'd just throw it away #the only time we see him kill someone and not seem too fucked up about it is when it's a mog soldier who presumably knew what he was #signing up for; and was literally swinging a sword at five's head #five fucks me up because at heart he just does not have real malice in him. if he is feeling it something has gone terribly wrong #not as in ~lol of course it has he's crazy~ but as in 'if you supposedly feel fine but are under so much stress that you're having constant #shakes and heart palpitations that is not your default state of being; you are being bent in half and you're eating yourself' #so them randomly going uhmmm ACTUALLY he's a BLOODTHIRSTY SADISTIC SERIAL KILLER who carves his number into a rando's chest #for no reason; and lets people regenerate rather than kill them so he can savor hacking them apart over and over; and drools over murdering #as many people as he can including two random mog guards that happened to be in him and ella's way is like. fuck off lmao #even if you try to go with him turning the mogs into a hatesink for what they've done he would go into a breakdown spiral as soon as it #resulted in killing someone and actually seeing them suffer. the other exception to this that we see before the character assassination #started was deltoch but i do feel like there's an explanation there; it doesn't feel Jarring; but will have to think about it #anyway five has some great moments in UaO but it's really frustrating trying to pick through the bullshit for Actual Characterization

[feraecor]

kicked a long time pain in the ass client out this morning. told her she needed a new groomer cause I obviously wasn’t a good fit.

I’ll be here after we make some food

#{kei babble} occ #~my first appt and she had two dogs #~so I lost that client but good riddance #~she pretty much told me I needed to spend more time on her dogs cause I don’t know how to care for them properly #~and I don’t know how to do my job right #~lady I only see your dogs for two to three hours every eight weeks #~I can only do so much!

[shinyeternatus]

i think i need to bite the bullet and start fundraising for a new car

#mihai.txt #she is... not so good... and i think itd be cheaper in the long run to just get a new ine #plus when this eight weeks is over i have to start driving the mount pleasant for classes #and mount pleasant is an hour away and my sister said when she worked in mount pleasant she spent so much money on gas #and tbh i dont think my car will survive consistently making that drive for however long it takes for me to move out #like i am trying to find a place and a job more out towards mount pleasant #but my job simply isnt giving me enough hours to afford to move out or make rent anywhere #i cant even make my rent rn and its only $550 and most places out that way are $600+ #i just... idk what else to do? #and getting my car repaired rn will cost $1000+ bc i need a whole new front bumper #its just. agh. it sucks!!!!!!

[ghosty-schnibibit]

in honor of the halloween season, enjoy this rendering of me looking for one for one of the dogs in the main bedroom of the house i'm currently petsitting for and finding the masked dummy their eight y/o put on the nightstand that absolutely scared the shit out of me

#'this will only take two minutes to color' i said. 'i'll just clean up the lines and shade it a bit' i said. THREE HOURS LATER- #once again proving to myself that drawing creepy shit is where my art style works the best lmao #not my most polished work but for a quick doodle that took more time to color than i thought it would i'm happy with it #for context i have also babysat for them before and said eight y/o is a super sweet kid and absolutely put this up to prank me #and after i got over the abject horror i did think 'man he's going to be excited when i tell him he got me with that' #also this happened at like 10 at night and it was storming and the rest of the house also tons of halloween decorations up #my nerves they were a jangled #my art #i did take a picture of it but putting photos the interiors of other people's houses online w/o their consent a no go for me

[glfry]

I love the m2 references in m3 a whole lot but the lack of almost any specific m1 rep slays me

#theres Berry tofu and TECHINICALLY eight Melodies. that’s it. and the melodies aren’t even specific to m1 so who gaf #tbf I Love earthbound gameplay and story wise more. and it’ll always hold a special place in my heart bc it was the first mther I played #BUT. I did like the last couple hours of m1 a lot #also The George Maria & gigyas stuff went so hard it was good ok #ALSO TEDDY. #Idk why but I couldn’t attach myself to most of the mother 2 cast #only like ness and that’s it #teddy however. teddy is my goat #mother #mother 2 #earthbound #mother 3 #im the only mother 1 fan and I don’t even like 70% of it #nor is it even my favorite mother game. or my second favorite #I DID LIKW IT THOUGH #beggining is Rough. middle is fine. end is peak ((except for the area not tested who the fuck came up with that)) #the best way to play m1 is with rewind features I’m being so fr #also anyone who played without the run button. you are stronger than the troops #in General I dont think ppl like m1 like at all. #Theres like 5 pieces of merch for it on the hobonichi store and 3 of them are buttons. #Theres also the towels but that barely counts #it sucks that I like the m1 team more but like. i want to see the m2 team do more !!!!! #i thought poo (metaphorically? spiritually?) giving up his arms went hard #I loved Paula’s hopefulness. i Love Jeff having a lot of self confiecene issues and his bf and the fact his dad kinda sucked #NAD I LOVE NESSSSSSS I LOVE NESS SO MUCH #but the m1 cast is given so much more flavor text it makes me kinda mad #ninten liking penguins and loving baseball. Ana refusing to dissect a frog. Lloyd being autistic af and THE EVERYTHING AROUND TEDDY??? #Peak. absolutely Peak #genuinely if the gameplay was on par with m2 I think i would’ve enjoyed it more than m2 im being so foreal #also i Love magiciant in m2 but the calm version from m1 goes SO much harder and that’s also why it’s the one represented in smash dont@me

[littlebigplanet]

work is beating my ass today

#dear god please stop giving me shifts where every patient is incontinent #its not actually that bad im being dramatic but it's 8:30 and i still have so much charting to do #anyway the superbowl is tomorrow and i guarantee that every resident is going to be talking abt it nonstop #so i have to pretend to know about football for eight hours tomorrow #boss makes a dollar i make a dime i look at safeway deals on company time etc #for real though why is my base pay 17.50 an hour. i only make more because i work evening shifts #dude my 17 yo brother who works at taco bell makes more than me #🫀

[smallest-turtle]

I'm kinda disappointed how they rushed Mrs dodds because the way she was so Humanly shitty as a teacher is like such an Experience like EVERY 504/IEP student has had a Mrs dodds and she like wasn't even around.

#pjo #like i see how with only eight half hour episodes things are gonna have to be paced different. i guess i just wish the episodes #got to be longer so they could do more #pjo show #text #my post

[misspoetree]

The fact that I have to go on and be in the office and pretend to be a normal person on a regular old Wednesday.

The fact that I have to pretend that I didn't just get hit by a truck called chapter 7 of Five-Star Southpaw.

#and then I saw that there's only going to be one more chapter and it felt like a second truck rolled straight over me #emotionally I'm already on the floor but I also need to lie down physically #AND IT'S NOT EVEN HALF PAST EIGHT AND I HAVE SO MANY HOURS OF WORK BEFORE ME #I - #kinnporsche the series #kinnporsche fanfic #five star southpaw

[flippedorbit]

guy who feels annoying All Of The Time for rambling gets told it’s fine to do so unapologetically…… sobs :’] <3 /pos

i shall dm you i guess????? i think that’s most comfy for Me lol??? <- is so bad at social interaction omg save me

(responding to tags again: you fucking GET IT!!!!! shakes you so much omfg dude RAHHHH!!!!!! /affectionate

your cat is so cute…… she is goals (i’m catkin lmao) she looks so cozy and warm and soft and yeah she’s just great. giving her a little kiss because what cat doesn’t deserve lil kissies?)

-gregarious anon

:D yeah i ramble constantly about whatever’s on my mind and am constantly worried about being annoying so when someone else feels that way about rambling to me i just go with it, no being annoying here, just fun and chatting about whatever comes to mind :3

and o7 looking forward to it, gregarious anon

#asks #Apollo answers #gregarious anon #do not be fooled by how cozy she looks. she can be a huge asshole when she wants to be #mostly she’s rather sweet but she has her moments. to be fair she was an outside cat for most of her life before we got her (she was my #aunt’s cat (mother’s full blood younger sister) before she moved and decided to give her to us instead of taking her on a long drive across #numerous state lines (about a 24 hour drive from here where she used to live to the state she lives in now) and Pickles already hated the #drive from my aunts old house to here. but she’s really adjusted well to now being an inside cat. we’ve had her since may i think? maybe #april at the earliest. i know we got her on my senior prom day (literally just an hour before. i was super worried about being late) so its #been about seven or eight months. she was at least relatively socialized with people before we got her thankfully so that wasn’t much of a #problem or thing to worry about. however the only like slight problem we have is that she wasn’t really raised around kittens and we #recently got two (Scamper and Eclipse) so we’re trying to train the kittens to not tear up stuff in the house and train Pickles to be nice #and be gentle with them and share toys and stuff. currently the kittens go up at night into an enclosed mesh playpen and Pickles sleeps in #my room with me like before the kittens came along. we supervise them playing most of the time. i think she’s getting a bit better at being #gentle and playing nice with them. its a slow process but we’re getting somewhere at the very least) #wow that was a lot more than i meant to type. anyway. free Pickles’ lore