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#so just a few things piling ontop of eachother
farfromharry · 3 years
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summary: after a long day tom just needs a hug
tom holland x reader
tom had had possibly the worst day ever. after being late to a meeting and getting coffee spilled all over him he then had to get yelled at by sony. but it didn't stop there and things just kept piling on and on and he couldn't take it anymore.
all he wanted was one of your hugs where you'd kiss his head and tell him how proud you were of him and how everything was gonna be okay. so when tom entered his home and heard multiple voices he felt like he could cry.
"hey tom, we know it's a bit short notice but we thought we could have a family dinner." he met your gaze and he could tell just from your eyes that you were ridiculously happy; so he plastered a fake smile on his face and nodded to his dad.
"hi sweetheart." tom accepted the hug from his mum and kissed her head gently as he greeted her. nikki knew her children like the back of her hand and she knew something was bothering him, however she didn't want to bring it up.
tom greeted you next with a soft kiss to your lips. he placed himself behind where you were sitting and resting his cheek ontop of your head while his arms found refuge around your waist.
"you okay?" he nodded but you saw the tiredness in his eyes, choosing not to bring it up.
the dinner had been going better than tom had hoped and he was glad no one had picked up on his bad mood; or atleast thought they hadn't.
the holland siblings had been sharing different stories of when they were kids, teasing eachother relentlessly. however when this came to be aimed towards tom it didnt seem as playful.
"boys, be nice." harry and paddy tried to contain their laughter while sam decided to stop, sensing his older brother was getting angrier than he let on.
after paddy made another innocent comment about you and tom he finally snapped and banged his fist on the table.
"listen i've had a really shit day and all i wanted to do was come home and come to bed and here i am getting absolutely fucking attacked by my own siblings for no reason and i just-" tom took a deep breath and looked around the table. paddy and harry had guilty looks in their faces, nikki sighing knowing this was coming, sam and dom shrinking slightly in their chairs and you staring at your boyfriend stunned.
"i'm going to bed." he picked up his plate and placed it on the kitchen island quite loudly.
"i'll go check on him." you were the first to speak up a few minutes later. you politely excused yourself and made your way up the stairs and into your room where you could already see tom's figure under the covers and facing away from the bed.
you crawled onto the bed behind him, sitting on your knees and placed your hand on his arm gently.
"you okay tommy?" he turned his head and you gasped at the tears welling up his eyes. he shook his head before burying his face in your stomach and letting out a heartbreaking sob.
you cradled his head in your lap, running your fingers through his curls as he continued to let all his emotions go.
the crying took a toll on him, the long day plus this meant he was exhausted and he wanted nothing more than to close his eyes and forget about his day.
"you get comfy and i'll go talk to your family okay?" he nodded simply too tired to argue with you and let his head fall back on the pillow.
you found yourself back downstairs infront of all the hollands with an apologetic smile on your face.
"he's had a really rough day, i'm really sorry for-"
"you don't need to apolgoise y/n, we all have bad days." you smiled at nikki.
"it's not personal paddy i promise." he nodded.
"don't worry about the dishes love, just go and take care of tom."
"thank you." you gave her a quick hug and said bye to the rest of the hollands before making your way back to your boyfriend.
the first thing you noticed upon entering your bedroom was the calm rise and fall of tom's chest. you smiled with the knowledge he'd fallen asleep and you didn't even bother changing as you climbed in bed next to him.
he wrapped his arm around you and pulled you closer to him; needing to be near you even in his sleep.
"i love you tom." you let your eyes flutter closed before you felt a soft kiss on your hair.
"i love you."
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mangorokie · 3 years
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Adrienne's moving castle (Agent 24, Howl's moving castle AU)
(This AU is based off old cross over artworks I made of Adrienne and Livia with howl's moving castle. Sophie is Livia and Howl is Adrienne!)
Chapter #1- Magic
The sun shined throughout the town of Inkopolis. A crowd of people came and go as they pleased, buying any essential needs, kids happily laughing as they chase eachother, planes rushing through the air.
But throughout a little window of a manor, peeked a pink octoling. She was sewing her own handmade hats to show off in her little hat shop. This was basically her whole life, needle comes in, thread comes out, and the whole thing repeats. "Oh look! It's Adrienne's moving castle!" She heard Callie giggle, Adrienne's moving castle? Livia never thought such a thing exists...She looked through her window, seeing a big machine moving through the gray clouds. She has heard some tales of this so called 'Adrienne'. Most of them was about her stealing any beautiful maiden's heart. She won't need to worry about that though, Livia doesn't really think her own self is beautiful.
"Livia!" a knock on the door startled her. "Yes?" She turned her head facing the door, a turquiose octoling opening the door smiling, "Livia dear, do you want to come along with Pearlie, Callie, Marie,and I? You haven't shopped with us in a whole while." Livia smiled back, "I'm fine, Marina. thank you for the offer." "Oh okay- Suit yourself then! Let's go girls!" Marina walks out leaving the door open, she could faintly hear the laughter of Callie and Pearl. The then laughter cutting off by the sound of the front door shutting. Happiness and Enjoyment is something Livia craved....
Making hats was the only thing that kept Livia stable, it's what her father always did. And she knows her father would be proud of her, even though it's the only thing she did her whole life ever since he died...that thought made her frown. She looked at the window infront of her, the train passed, gray smoke covering her view. Marina was right though, she hasn't been outside for a while. Turning her head, Behind her was a dark pink dress,along with her favorite hat on the stand. Yeah, maybe just this day could be a time to get some fresh air. She should pay a visit to her friend,Diana, who has been working at the very popular bakery near the royal city. Livia grabbed the dress and went into her bathroom, she set the hung the dress on a rack and washed her face with water.
Drying up her face with a towel, she looked up at the mirror. Her face... one of the last things she'll ever want to look at. Everything about the way she looked made her feel really uneasy. Livia shook her head, No. Stop. Stop looking at the mirror. Stop looking..... She turned her head to the dress, putting it on layer by layer. Then putting on her hat, walking out the bathroom, purposefully avoiding to look at the mirror.
Livia walked out the room, heading to the main door. Taking one small glimpse at the house before closing the door. She walked down the front courtyard, her little hat shop right next the main gate. She waved her hand, ordering the guard to open the gate. The guard nodded and pulled a lever, the gate slowly opened. Livia quickly exited her home residence, hearing the chimes of the cart that come by every few hours so. The brakes got hit, screeching on the rails. She saw that the cart was full inside so she clinged onto the bar entrance of the train. The conductor rang his bell, starting the cart to move.
The wind swiftly gusted through, her hair and hat slowly moving. She gazed at the horizon, boats moving around, seagulls flying, and the endless area of water. It was a radiant sight,one of Livia's favorite things in the town..
She dozed out while looking at the view, until she got startled by the agressive bell the conductor was ringing. "Royal City! Royal City! Now aboarding and deboarding all riders! Next stop will be the Village!" That was her que, she let go of the bar and joined into the large crowd. Parades were happening, apparently they were wishing the soldiers luck for the upcoming war. The soldiers were marching in sync, their black metal boots making noises as they stomp, golden medals on their straps, and their ocean blue monkey suit uniforms as they hold their guns. Livia's eyes widened in satisfication, they looked rather fashionable. Though she didn't like being stuck in a crowd with multiple people, so she quickly rushed her way to an alley.
She sighed and calmed herself down, then continued to walk down the alley. Small shops were there as well, 'Fortune telling' 'Potions and brews' 'Spells and Scrolls'. All of them had to do with...magic. Magic is one of the things Livia doesn't understand in this world. Is it a curse? A gift? What could it be? What is the purpose of magic? Nevermind that, she shook her head and slightly walked faster in frustration, but she was stopped by 2 tall soldiers. One with blue tentacles, and the other, orange tentacles with a big mustache.
"Hey there, seems like a little mouse has lost its way~" The blue inkling winked at Livia, "Oh no- I'm fine really," she slowly started to back off to keep her distance but they kept getting closer, "I'm just taking a short cut to the royal bakery." The orange inkling bent down, "Well then, how old are you and where do you live? you sure you don't need some company?~" Livia pushed him off, "Leave me alone!". The blue inkling nudged the other soldier's arm, "See? Your mustache scares all the girls." He nudged him back, "Hey, she's even cuter when she's scared."
A hand gently got placed behind Livia on her shoulder, causing her to flinch a little bit. "There you are, sweetheart." A soft, tendered voice immediately came in, "I'm sorry for the wait, I was looking everywhere for you~". Livia looked up, seeing a tall, green inkling by her side, she blushed at the sight. The blue haired soldier raised an eyebrow, "hey,hey, we're busy here!", "oh really? I thought soldiers were supposed to be guarding in their position right? So you both be good little soldiers, and go back to your post." The girl behind Livia raised her finger, then pointing it in the opposite direction, commanding the 2 soldiers to stand up straight and march unwillingly down the alley,"Woah-Hey!"
The taller girl looked down at Livia, talking in a concerned tone, "My dear, you can't go through these allies by yourself. You know how much I don't want you to get hurt. Now let's get going to the royal bakery, shall we?" She turned her hand infront of Livia, waiting for her to place her own hand there. Livia was confused, who was this tall...gorgeous inkling that was standing right next to her? She's quite charming, it won't hurt to ask right? "I mean...I'm flattered but..who are you?" The inkling girl was about to answer, but she glanced over Livia's shoulder, noticing the sanitized goop moving slowly. She had to do something quick, "I'll explain that later. Just hold onto my hand. I'm being followed." The pink octoling was left confused, but she did it anyway. As soon as they interwined fingers, they started walking rapidly. Livia looked around, noticing mint green goop starting to form into one whole pile, then chasing both her and her other companion. "Sorry, seems like you're involved. Just act natural okay?" The inkling somehow kept a straight smile on her face, but Livia was shocked. She whispered to the taller girl, trying to keep a calm tone, "What are those things and why are they coming for us?".
"Shhh, just follow my lead," She comforted the octoling, "On 1," Livia grunted in annoyance, but looked forward and noticed they were walking towards a dead end. Oh god what was this inkling thinking? "2," She noticed the green tentacles slowly starting to float, wait...what's going on?! "3!" The inkling exclaimed and jumped high up, bringing the shorter girl along with her. Livia looked down, seeing the mint goop smush together. Ew, though her attention quickly went back to the inkling right next to her. Next thing she knew was that she and her were floating ontop of all those people!
"Wh-" Livia gasped, but Adrienne positoned her to keep her steady. Her fingers interwined with the octoling's, their arms spread out and their clothes and hair slightly floating, "Just spread your legs, and start walking!" The two of them waltzed through the air, Livia's eyes widened. All those people jammed up, dressed up all fancy, soldiers chatting with eachother, people sitting at tables and laughing. It was scary to walk so high above, but it was an enjoyable experience at least. The green inkling smiled, "See? Not so hard is it?"
The two started to slowly descend, landing on a wooden balcony of the royal bakery. "Hey, Livia." The octoling raised her head, how'd she know her name? "Make sure you wait for a bit until I draw those nasty monsters off, okay?" Livia nodded her head, "That's my girl~" Adrienne smiled and jumped off, disappearing into the crowd. "What..." she was still slightly confused.
Diana smiles at all the soldiers and customers, giving out sweets and pastries. "Alright!," her sweet voice giggled, "one at a time will you?". "Hey Miss Diana! Care to bring over the blueberry sweets? You look fabulous by the way!" A soldier called out to her, "Alrighty! Just let me find that and-" she got pulled over by a friend of hers, whispering a few words into her ear. "She what?!" Diana rushed out the counter and went up the stairs, "Hey! Hey! what about my treats?" A random customer called out.
Diana rushed on the top of the wooden balcony, catching her breath, then seeing Livia leaning on the fence,looking out the crowds. "Livia! Someone just told me they saw you waltzing in the air!" "I really don't know what happened...a random inkling girl just picked me up and it all happened in a flash-" Diana grabbed Livia's hands, "It's Adrienne! That no good sanitized playgirl! Livia you have to be more careful!" Livia let go of Diana's grasp. It was Adrienne? The one who...has the moving castle? That made a whole lot of sense now.
The two of them walked down the stairs. Diana escorting Livia to the exit, "Still Livia, you need to be more cautious...or else she'll steal your heart!" "That's nonsense,she only goes for beautiful girls." Her voice faded, "Don't give me that, you know what I mean. " A door opens from beside, a baker with a bright smile "Hey Diana! The customers are in need for your service!" "Alright, I'll be there in a bit!"
She dusted her dress, Livia twirled her hair, "Whatever, she won't find me anyway. I'll be hiding in my hat workshop. It's suitable for me also so-" "No- Liv- That's another thing. You can't spend your whole life working in that hat shop!" "But it's what my father would've wanted,he always wanted the shop to keep living for generations." Diana frowned, "I'm not talking about what your father wants, i'm talking about what you want!" A random guy walked by holding 3 boxes, "Hey Diana!" "Hello there!" Diana smiled back at him. Livia walked back, feeling unwanted, "I should get going..." Livia walked away, The orange girl shouted back at her, "Do something for yourself just once, Livia! Please!" She waved her hand at the inkling, "Bye, Diana."
Livia walked down the street, boarding back onto the train cart. Riding back to her little manor.
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kkpaaw · 4 years
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Here is my second boi Asui! I told ya I would make another oc n I did lmao. Nah I made him a bit ago too(not as long ago as Vio tho like i made hi this year lmao) anyway let me tell ya about this boi
Asui
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○ Full name: Asui (A-su-e)
○ Alias: Sammie(by Vio)
○ Age: 20
○ Date of Birth: 01/20/XXXX
○ Sex: Male
○ Gender: Male
○ Species: Pop Troll
○ Voice: Sam Tsui
○ He's a Bisexual boi
PERSONALITY: 
|| + Playful | + Bright | + Energetic || = Flirty | = Silly | = Bold ||- Forgetful |- Snappy |- Oblivious
Asui is what your would call, energetic. He has a lot of energy and spends it all being the life of the party. Hes bold, silly and is alwasy looking for a reason to break out in a dance. Hes extremely playful and loves playing jokes and joking around with his friends. He has a very weak memory however and tends to forget alot pf things really quickly. Piling that ontop of the fact that hes oblivious as fuck and you got a recipe for disaster. He doesn't liek the fact that other trolls point it out and tends to sbal slot if he loses his patience(which happens if u push hin too far), but overall he is just a bubbly boy with a big heart
○ Likes: 
+ Sweets
+ Night time
+ Swimming
+ Eating(big eater)
+ Having fun
○ Dislikes: 
x Being yelled at
x Heights
x His weak memory
x Spicy Food
x Screeching
RELATIONSHIPS:  
○ Sweetheart: None
○ Friends:
Vio | R&B Troll | Alive
"My best friend! We have been traveling together for years and I couldn't ask for a better companion!"
Cher | Country/R&BTroll | Alive
"Shes funny! She has a good heart but snaps at me alot whenever I get hurt, but I'm not mad cuz I know it means she worried about me!"
○ Allies:
○ Enemies:
HISTORY
Asui is a Pop troll born to parents Gumdrop and Bass, who at the time(and still are) travelers. For Asui's family, being on the road is all they know. A long time ago, long before Asui was born, his family actually ended up somehow getting separated from the Pop troll tribe and was never able to find them again so they just accepted that and started traveling, somehow never coming across the tribe ever again.
Every since he was young Asui always had a passion for dancing and would always spend hours trying to come up with new dance moves much to his parents amusement. He even preferred dancing over singing and dreamed of becoming somewhat of a famous dancer one day. This dream is actually what inspired him into go off traveling when he turned 18. His parents wanted tiem to remain with them till he was at least 20 but he managed to convince them that he was ready. So soon after he turned 18 he gathered his stuff and went off on his own.
It was difficult at first, hes never been on his own before so he got lost and injured. A lot. Eventually after a couple weeks of traveling he managed to get the hang of it and managed to get insured and lost a lot less(though it still happened because he's clumsy as all hell). He eventually ended up meeting Vio and after a few says of getting to know eachother decided to travel together, going off to who knows where. They have been traveling buddies ever since.
Link To My Other Oc:
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Prats feelings on building 7?
First of all, have fun, its over 700 pages. fuk u for making me read half of it and then skim the rest (all tho it was totally within my power to not get so invested in this ask)The Full NIST report only JUST came out, rly, literally last year and it primarily settles on multiple fires going on for almost 8 hours with a failed extinguishing system leading to a support column failing after multiple floors around it collapsed, bringing the whole thing into the shell of the building.
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so, this is footage of the street level just 15 minutes after the collapse of WTC2
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Take note of the two causeways, familiarize yourself with the scale at the ground. the dark band conceal a mechanical floor, thats the 5th and 6th floor. after the collapse of wtc1 basically floors 13 and below become so obscured with debris and smoke that the full extent of the damage can’t be seen.
However, while most of the debris completely flattened parts of WTC6 into craters, a substantial amount landed in the street while large portions of the facade from WTC1 flew across the street, at least hitting the base of building 7 or notable portions of the facade above that, as seen here:
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you can see the WTC1 debris as it lay on Vesey Street here as well as the condition of the promenade walkway (large tree covered walkway on the western side of WTC7), starting at 4:42
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To the right of the promenade above, a several storey pile of debris begins.
Included below is the aftermath of WTC1′s collapse and Building 7, take care to note WTC 6′s direct hole damage from the peeling off north face of WTC1, the same peeling facade that ultimately strikes Building 7
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based off of the damage shown in video evidence as well as available footage until the collapse at 5:21, i have drawn a visual model of building 7′s south (WTC1 facing) side:
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ignore the cratered WTC6 on the lower left lol, i primarily wanted to show the elevated promenade and covered walkway connecting to the building on the 3rd floor. it is also on the 3rd floor where the main lobby is, which houses the security desk that the FDNY fire command station was established.
So first, i drew the observable damage including the massive gash that was observed from the roof to the bottom
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After the collapse, it is clear the same peeled section of WTC1 that cratered WTC6 also collapsed onto the promenade, carving an H-shaped hole into the southwest corner of wtc7 from floors 5 to 17. This hole likely cut several metres into the building at it’s deepest, visible from the elevators inside the building. The debris piled ontop of the promenade was judged to be “40 feet tall” from an on-site firefighter.
Now, following this, fires began. after a while, the fires spread to the north and east face of the building, where it was observed either flickering behind the windows or outright bursting out the window and shooting flames out.
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If fire were seen burning through to these sides of the building, that meant the fire likely engulfed the entire floor. So the floors 7, 8, 9, 12, and 13 were at least totally engulfed. The following is my illustration showing the south, east and also north side (The west side isn’t really shown aside from where fire was seen in the hole. Floors 7-8 on the west generally understood to show fire or have smoke rising out of broken out windows).
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Red is where fire was observed to burst through the window before building 7′s collapse. Orange is where fire was at least observed within the building. Yellow is where fire or smoke was present based on the above. This is the summation of all visible fire and not it at it’s most intense.
Unfortunately, because of the smoke rising from WTC1′s ruin and Building 7 itself, along with very limited amount of documentation of these portions of the building before it’s collapse, the south side’s state of fire is unknown. So i overlayed green to show where no one could see on account of terrible visibility or other buildings obscuring it.
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We can assume that the fires on the south at least mirrored the intensity of the north’s By 10:30 am (around half an hour after WTC 1′s collapse) the building was deemed completely evacuated. The Fire Command Station on floor 3 was vacated completed also, as they moved it following WTC 2′s collapse.
Once chaos following the demise of the twin towers was brought under control over an hour later, attention was again brought to WTC7 as FDNY dudes on scene reported that
a large amount of debris from WTC 1 had crashed through the front center (south side) of WTC 7 from approximately the 10th floor down to ground level, and debris ripped off part of the southwest corner from approximately the 8th floor up to the 18th floor.  The collapse of WTC 1 also was ascribed as responsible for starting fires inside of WTC 7.
The fires on the south side was observed around the 7th floor, around the “10th to 14th floor” and an additional one as high as the “20s or 30s”
During this time, firefighters ponder the relation of diesel fuel tanks in these lower floors to the fire.
At 1pm, a group of police and firefighters entered the building from the east, reporting:
At the 5th floor, they moved to the A stairway and proceeded up.  On the 8th or 9th floor, one of the group said he saw two elevator cars ejected from their shafts and in the hallway.  Looking past the elevators, they could see a gaping hole in the south face from around the 6th to the 9th floors.  They could see one floor below and two to three floors above that location.  A lot of the core walls were destroyed, and one individual reported that he saw columns hanging from the floor above.
By 2pm, a Chief Officer reported fires on floors “6, 7, 8, 17, 21, and 30″By 2:30, the decision was made to pull all operations out of Building 7.
Based from these reports, i can assume the observable fires on the south side appeared to burn until collapse as such:
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Anyway, the whole report goes to contrast other building fires, why they didnt collapse and went on to point out a crucial structural weakness in the building, namely the way floor beams are welded laterally to a few specific ones, which would be susceptible to the localized fires on the first floors (remember how it was the top floor penthouse on the east side of the building that buckled inward first?)
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And how the fire would have travelled across the floor as it burned through office cubicles and accompanying furniture over the next several hours, intensifying as it moves
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In the east of the building, several floors would be hot (up to 700°C) enough for the lateral girders to bow and eventually fall away, with predictive models pointing to the collapse beginning on the 13th floor, leading to the eastern portion of the floors to collapse down ontop of eachother all the way down several more floors.
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One column in particular (column 79), is now left hot and noodling around, allowing it to buckle and collapse into the internal heat chasm too, resulting in the vertical progression of failure of the floor systems up to the roof level across the entire east side of WTC 7, taking down the rest of the building in short order soon after. This is why you see the rooftop penthouse fold in half before being the first thing to disappear ahead of the total collapse.
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Why? columns 79, 80, and 81 (the later soon giving after 79 from displacement) were the primary load bearers in the eastern portion of Building 7. The descent of column 79 literally pulls the building down into the footprint of it’s own shell.
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and the funny thing? the gaping hole in the west face of the building, the massive gash from top to bottom as well as the fuel tanks played little or no part in determining the collapse, only in starting the fires that ripped around the building.
So from the south, it probably looked like this in those first seconds of collapse shortly after the disappearance of the eastern half of the penthouse into the shell
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aaand from the north again:
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anyway, i fucking wasted several hours of my precious time i could’ve spent making MSprats to do this effortpost instead, so fuck my life
TL;DR it didn’t come down from explosives or any other sort of deliberate, orchestrated manner, althought it mightve been preventable, had firefighters remained to put out the fires. But this was impossible given the chaos and fear around the first two collapses and the report about a 3rd plane coming to new york.
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September 1st, 2018
I am so angry right now. Instead of letting my anger fly out of my mouth I'm going to use all of that energy in the form of blogging instead.
We have been having an issue at work of about 20% of the workers being very hard working while the other 80% are hiding in the break room and not working all day. This makes things very stressful for the small percentage to carry all of the tasks alone.
In my department there are two to three hard workers who help out when they can, take appointments, and clean. The other three people don't help what so ever. We have created a "chore chart", fucking stickers, had talks with them--i mean we are all adults. This shouldn't be rocket science.
I spent my morning basically doing the morning shift things plus the mid shift things because they weren't done. Then I VERY FUCKING POLITELY asked one of my coworkers if she could sweep the displays because Saturday is our busy day. She gave me the biggest attitude and asked me if I was the supervisor. Bitch no I am not but you clearly weren't raised to know how to use a fucking broom.
I know this isn't that big of a deal but I think this was just the straw on the camels back. I am very tired. I was up until 2am last night working after working all day and then woke up this morning to come here just to get fucking attitude.
I'm sick of carrying all of this weight on my shoulders. It's exhausting. I'm being told I am getting a promotion to be in charge within the next few months but you'd better bet your ass these people who are dragging their feet will be out the door in no time. I cannot stand laziness like this.
I wish I had more hours in my day to just breathe. I keep over working myself and not listening to my body but I cannot help it. I have so much piling ontop of eachother.
It feels like I never get help in every aspect. Well..that isn't entirely true. Sometimes I do get help. But I need like...another Landen to help with some of this stuff.
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Rogare-01Sin_City
    The Nevada desert sun was hot enough to boil an egg, it was high noon in Las-Vegas     They had been briefed that morning about a battalion approaching from the east of the Colorado river. they where under cloaking and impossible to see from space, but up close the shaking and rumbling they cause when they move is a dead giveaway. When you find them, you either need to be ready to fight them, run, or get your ass kicked by them. one would be best accompanied by brute force in there presence.     the team that Joshua was a part of was a team known as Echo, which consisted of a total of 25 androids, 10 where standard class, 10 medium class and 5 alpha class chassis, the last of which Josh is one of, being of the original group of androids of this style --humanoid-- Alpha class androids are big, weighing in at 12000# on average, each at a height of 9'9", they are bulky and slow, but tough as hell, the original prototypes where capable of taking on vehicular weapons such as tanks, proving the design to the Marine Corps and the Navy, after adopting the design they immediately put it to work. however, production cost has resulted in a limited number of androids as well as parts for them. in response to that, the standard and medium class chassis androids where born.     They where sitting in a Super class APC known as "The Viper" which basically is a fast and heavy tank, mainly designed for roaming the desert and open roads, this one was roaring along at 90mph towards the east line of the Vegas border. the plan is for the Viper to keep going as if it is on its way towards the dead zone, while our team bails out at the edge of Vegas Defense lines. if not for a boy who happened to be playing at the edge of the grand canyon and looked down to see an army of tanks and behemoths marching through it, we might not even be on this mission to begin with.     "FIVE MINUTES MARINES!!" yelled Col Matt Riff from the front end of the cargo hold of the loud APC, "DOUBLE CHECK YOUR GEAR ONE LAST TIME!!"     Josh popped the snap to the holster on his revolver, pulling the massive .65cal revolver out to check and make sure it was ready to do damage. as he put the revolver back he accessed the Bluetooth uplink to his Chaingun, telling it to spool up a few times, cycling ammo back and foreth making sure all the actions where working propperly.     as ready as it gets     "FOUR MINUTES!!" Matt barked again, keeping them on there toes. Josh looked towards the back of the cargo hold and found Sam, her big blue eyes where staring right back at him.     although most of the androids on his team wear masks, some androids had the option of skin instead, for the purpose of human-android interaction, but even then a lot of them will still wear a mask to protect the fragile parts in there face. Sam on the other hand did not have a mask, she never wanted one, she was happy with the skin on her face as is, she said her blond hair was enough protection. pluss the fact that she had a face also meant she could express herself, which was useful to Josh, cause otherwise he might not even know how to talk to her.     "TWO MINUTES!!!"     Josh nodded at Sam, they hadn't seen eachother in a few days, he had been training on the gun range for the past week while she was off handling press and dealing with random stray behemoths with a bullet to its face.     Matt got up and walked to the back of the cargo hold, he walked to the control pannel waved his hand across its screen, and hit the button that said 'open door 1' "ONE MINUTE MARINES!" he barked "GET IN POSITIONS!"     everybody in the cargo bay hit a button on there pannel, releasing there pack locks, they all stood up and began to shuffle towards the back door.     josh lost sight of sam in the hustle, he tried to look for her but in the proccess accidentally bumped the eject button to the seat next to him, sending it flying empty through the roof. he looked up at the hole, then looked around, nobody noticed except the two guys standing next to him. he awkwardly stood at attention, prettending that nothing happened.     "GO GO GO GO GO!!" Matt flagged them past.     the whole of them ran out the door and dove onto the ground, practically dogpiling ontop of eachother in the process.     even with the dust billowing around them from the APC, Joshua's senses went nuts, he could see and feel every single little detail, heat signatures, heartbeats, electronic impulses, all of these things, even with the dust, when he has a clear field of view his targetting sysytem can assist him in finding things that might have moved away, or changes that have been made since the last time anybody had seen that particular spot.     "Lets move Marines!" growled Matt as he pulled out his chaingun and jumped to his feet.     They all turned about face and began to move east, towards the edge of the city.     as the dust settled, Josh noticed a huge black cloud to the south, a fire, flames burning wild, and nothing to control them..     they got to the edge of the city and matt held up his fist, signaling them all to stop. he then jabbed his index finger to the right, telling the scout team to break off and get in position.     sam and three other androids broke off and went to one of the abbandoned houses, when sam and them where in position she waved at josh, who tapped Matt on the left shoulder, indicating to him that they where set.     Matt pointed two fingers to his left, then jabbed one foreward, telling the assist team to break off while the main team moves foreward to the next position -- which is basically a pile of rocks in the middle of the desert --     Josh had a bad feeling about this mission, his "gut" was telling him that something was gonna go wrong. he kept checking there six, looking for any sign of a threat behind them, he kept expecting a Behemoth to pop up and blast them.     however, he was not expecting what would happen next... the five of them continued foreward, keeping a sharp eye on the edge of the hills, the whole place was quiet, the only thing that was really making any kind of noise was the wind, which occasionally kicked up some dust, but no birds, no barking dogs, nothing, just unnerving silence and wind..     in the distance Josh saw something move, it was so well camoflauged that if he had not been looking right at it he wouldn't have seen it, however when he zoomed in all he saw was a pile of rocks.     he stopped and turned to Matt, "sir, something doesn't feel right here."     the instant he said that a deep boom went off to there north, and a split second later the ground bellow them exploded into flames, knocking them all off there feet.     "OPEN FIRE!" roared Matt as he jumped back up to his feet, swinging his chaingun to aim at the approaching battalian.     Joshua got up to one knee and looked around, there wasn't just one tank, but atleast three-dozen of them, all spread accross the horizon from north to east to south, all of them accompanied by at least a hundred Behemoth. his gut was right, something bad was going to happen, and it was happening right then and there.     he activated his targeting system and took aim at as many of the behemoth as he could, launching three umbrella rounds into the air. the rounds locked on and launched there subrounds, raining explosive fire down on the behemoths, when they strike, the force is equal to that of a stinger missile.     the other two teams had joined into the fight, Joshua could hear the Ma Deuce throwing hot .50s at whatever its opperator could find as a target, meanwhile the scout team was pegging off behemoths, one after another.     Josh lifted up his own chaingun and began lugging out hot 50s and 30mms at the tanks and behemoths, which hit with satisfying force, taking down the enemy forces one after another..
    but it wasn't enough.
    Suddenly a round from a tank slammed into Josh's left temple, dissorienting him and causing him to lose control of his targetting system, RIPPER missiles went flying everywhere as his system struggled to lock onto anything. the world started spinning and turnning red.     then it all went black...
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