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PLEASE MAKE SNZCANONS FOR WRIOTHESLY AND NEUVILLETE PLEASE PLEASEEEEEE
HI ANON HI HI HI HI HI i am so excited about this ask w/rio is my FAVOURITE RIGHT NOW AKSJAJDJS
i will be so biased towards this post honestly.. the way i literally have an extremely long post in my notes app of snzcanons for this loser. i feel like its gonna put my other hc posts to shame… oh well ! w/rio and n/euvi for you lovely anon
also should preface by saying i love these two as a pairing so there might be some shippy stuff or whatever, also i have some Thoughts about potential kink!n/euvillette but theyll be right at the bottom if that isnt anyones cup of tea so you can skip :)
w/riothesley
has 100% been said before but him having spent so much time in the fortress of m/eropide away from the entire outside world he has definitely got some awful hayfever
↳ i see him as the ceo of allergy denial too. he has no problem admitting when he’s sick but as soon as it comes to allergies its like talking to a brick wall “are you sure youre okay” “*very very obviously not okay* yep”
↳ will be denying until every subsequent snz has his head spinning
unless its someone(s) he’s properly comfortable with, he will be stifling in front of people
↳ …even though stifling is kind of a Task. i imagine it starts to hurt after a few
normally he will snz in doubles exclusively unless he does stifle then that will take it up to maybe four at once, nothing too excessive
↳ not hugely loud? but definitely not quiet. theyre pretty heavy too with a decent amount of force behind them, as such: “hhuh’dDJSHhh! …’djiISHHh’uh!”
↳ stifles into a fist, regular snz into his elbow and he grips the elbow w his other hand
↳ i also have this really specific thought that after he stifles a couple of times, the next snz gears up immediately after and he has this gasping, stuttery buildup before the last snz that will be very much harsher and ultimately unstifleable: and i spelled it out too! “hh’nNGt! ‘GKKts! -ahH! h-hhaaHh’GKSHHh’uh!”
(these headcanons are literally getting princess treatment im so sorry to all the other characters. my bias is showing)
aside from above though, (and allergic snzs) his buildups are next to nonexistent. he has a few tells, if you look closely you’ll see his brows draw together, nostrils flare and maybe a fluttery blink before a single hitching breath and then he’s off
colds 💭💭💭 when he’s sick i feel like he gets tired a lot, but he kinda ignores it and wont sleep any more than he usually does (which probably isnt a lot)
↳ although if someone were to insist that he take a break, he would 100% be passed straight out the second he was horizontal
↳ think he has such a gorgeous sick voice… LMFAO - its just slightly deeper and with the tiniest gravelly quality + those kind of rounded out consonants… yeah
definitely isnt particularly kind on his nose, especially when it comes to allergies.. he knuckles at it with way too much force
↳ i think partly because being just itchy would bother him to no end, doesnt let him concentrate on anything
i have a whole thing in my head about him fighting in p/ankration or whatever and getting a bloody nose, whether it be when he’s sick or allergies are just particularly bad but hes just sneezy about it … yeah
↳ broken/injured nose = no touching, so he can’t stifle for a while. because of this he ends up hovering a hand awkwardly in front of his face like a shield (blood everywhere, most likely.) also he cant rub it in this state, so his nose will most certainly be scrunched up (which hurts just as much, but he finds being itchy is more annoying than being in pain)
↳ some other thoughts idk. he’s trying to clean up a wound on his face but the alcohol reaaallly gets to him; eyes are streaming and hes sniffling so bad and he has a three second window to get it done before he’s sneezing lmfao
something to do with the dog/wolf motifs of his character, he definitely scrunches up his nose when its irritated
↳ maybe an involuntary little head shake/twitch after a particularly harsh snz
has a habit of turning fully away to snz, obviously to be polite to anyone whos there but he also does it when hes alone. just turns around lmao
i see him as slightly photic, again just because he spends so much time in the dingy ass fortress so there’s probably a bit of light sensitivity there
↳ however i feel like its never enough to actually make him sneeze, it just tingles a bit and is generally annoying… but it DOES prove useful for coaxing out a stuck snz
probably anti-holdbacks until he has a raging headcold with an awful throat so even breathing hurts, so he’ll try his best to stave sneezes off
n/euvillette
stifles all. the. time. i know this
↳ they’re basically silent, pinched between two fingers, but occasionally the tail end will slip out so there’ll be a bit of a “kssh!” to be heard
↳ singles usually with the occasional double that honestly catches him off guard, he never expects more than one
↳ probably takes a lot of convincing to get him to Not stifle. unstifled snz i think isnt super vocal in sound, and is decently forceful and kinda wet: “ehH’tchSHHhh!” something like that
i think dust and particularly potent fragrances make him sneeze - he isnt allergic per se, just sensitive
↳ for this reason he likes to keep his space very clean and tidy and without perfume or whatever. an outsider’s perspective might see it as plain but he does it for his own benefit
↳ probably had to tell w/riothesley to stop wearing cologne when he visits
doesnt get sick very often, he probably has a good immune system and this paired with being nonhuman probably means hes not susceptible to colds
↳ HOWEVER. on the off chance he does come down with something, you absolutely know about it. it’s very clear in his face - eyes and nose both rimmed red, and he just looks pretty tired in general.
↳ colds for him are probably very sneezy too,, poor guy lmfao
↳ also, with the thing where it rains when he’s sad… being the hydro dragon and all the weather probably turns pretty foul until he’s feeling better (puts a whole new meaning on the phrase “under the weather” hahaha)
↳ obviously continues to work through it who do you think he is! even if he has a court case, he’ll stay through the whole thing even if his head is pounding and he’s stifled enough to burst a blood vessel
↳ in court if anyone notices the obvious congestion in his voice nobody dares make a comment lmfao - this makes him think he’s got away with it even though its blatant he’s unwell
↳ the people close to him finding out he’s sick for the first time definitely involves a lot of “wow, i didn’t know you could even get sick”
handkerchief user ….. he really just seems like the type
dutifully blesses other people but gets lowkey flustered if anyone else says bless you to him
alright. here’s my kink!n/euvillette thoughts with w/riothesley so skip this part if that isn’t your thing :)
- is definitely one to comment on w/riothesley’s snz, and kind of challenge him when he denies being allergic to things… such as “that was five back to back, are you quite sure it’s nothing?”/“that sounded like it hurt”/“i’ve never seen you sneeze that many times in a row”
- would have a vase of rainbow roses or something on his desk completely nonchalantly when “professionally” meeting with w/riothesley. neither of them comment on it whilst n/euvillette watches w/riothesley try his damnedest to keep composure knowing full well he’ll never admit the flowers are bothering him
- n/euvillette definitely becomes a totally different person when its anything to do w the kink,, like he’s the last person you’d expect for it but he will literally be making an absolute wreck of w/riothesley
- something about dragons and “needs” or whatever….. i have no knowledge about monsterfucking or dragons or anything but there’s probably something there right??? someone who knows more might inform me do dragons have heat
thats all i have !!! ahhhhhhh anon ur awesome thank you for requesting my favs 😭❤️ i loved making this post im so so fixated on these two so i hope you liked these hcs :) sorry the post is kinda really long uh. blame the autism for that one
#sorry to my other snzcanon posts this one overshadows them literally by a country mile#ah well it cannot be helped!#hoping this summons all the w/rio fans to my blog and i can collect them all up#snz#snzblr#snz kink#snz blog#snzcanons#g/enshin#g/enshin i/mpact
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I AM A GROWN ADULT
#i shout at myself#while reading mean things teenagers say about my stories on the internet#i mean tbf they could not be teenagers idk#i know better#but when someone tells me people are talking shit i just cannot help myself#and then i read it and im like#ah yes#i am still#*delicate*#just checking#lol it's fine#they are right about the spelling errors#also the fact that i didn't know how to italicize on ao3#i REALLY need to fix that#okay well#that's enough humbling for one day#i do think it is wild tho that these are other creators in this space full out trashing people's work#like don't u know tho? can youu not sympathize?#ANYWAY IT"S FINE#soph rambles#choices
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I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things We can do the tango just for two 🎶
drew more steddie ✨ i think they should dance terribly together
#steddie#steveddie#stranger things#steve harrington#eddie munson#more art of the chuckleboys i simply cannot help myself#also reinstating my good old fashioned lover boy agenda bc I cannot help myself#art tag#giggles kicks my feet etc. i draw my art for ME#was meant to use references on these but kind of winged it in the end i think only one(?) of these uses them. ah well
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i want your sunrose thoughts bc tbh i don't really understand them 😓
just imagine a quiet, dead-eyed evan who only spoke to his close knit group of friends and his family (occasionally professors too). james is intrigued almost instantly and wanted to unravel the mystery which was evan rosier.
james was dying just to know anything about the younger boy. evan was so unsettling but james liked that; so much that he wanted to be engulfed whole by those cold, grey-blue eyes and claim them as his own. his behaviour wasn’t obsessive as he just observed evan from afar, as if he was merely curious about the blonde boy’s habits.
evan was brutally honest and felt no need to harbour that fact. he was shameless and rude, but it’s what made him so great to be around. james could be himself. his true self that he didn’t let anybody else see; the arrogant, pretentious side which so rarely made an appearance. evan didn’t care at all about the out-of-pocket comments and actually followed them up with even worse remarks.
their relationship wasn’t toxic by any means. evan’s unadulterated honesty made james easy to humble when necessary; it brought james down from his high horse before it went too far or got to his head. james knew how to ease evan up, make him less on guard and closed off. they balanced eachother out every time with little to no trouble.
most considered evan to be weird based on his habits, but james found it intriguing. he also learnt a lot about the anatomy of various creatures and random bugs, expanding his knowledge whilst also humouring his boyfriend.
#i LOVE you for this ceri#evan sent me an ask about headcanons and i have no clue how to answer it so if you see this ev im sorry 😣#↤ IM TRYING REALLY BUT MY MIND KEEPS BLANKING 😭#i cannot stress the dead eyes enough like they’re so evan#(so me)#evan would have eyebags like really bad ones (me too brother 😣)#i love wording things so posh help me#also this is MY evan so idc if any of you disagree#i think he would communicate#↤ dont hate the player hate the game#should i write a fic???….#bpd james potter#i probably missed a lot but ah well#also theres a time jump in case you couldn’t tell…#evan rosier#sunrose#evan and james#james and evan#james potter#jfp#e talks!! ��
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there's something very wrong.
more vent art. this one isn't very fun. we're in a downswing.
#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#fe3h#spx art#spx fanart#spx chicken scratch#spx digishit#if it doesn't much make sense that's fine that doesn't matter#if not for my respiratory system being particularly tormented this last week#and the phantom smell of cigarette smoke making it hard to sleep this last week#I'd go smoke a few and see if that helped#we are just not in a very good mood... very bad mood...#I have to grovel very soon and I will be lying through my teeth about getting 'better' bc it is not sustainable I cannot fucking live#with this little and I cannot get better if I cannot live and I cannot live if I cannot get better and you know how it goes...#ah. yeah. well. vent art
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Can I expect any new fic on DrauKarn from you ? PS I absolutely adore your works ❤
First of all! Hello, Anon! Thank you so much for dropping by! This makes me feel SO GOOD! Phew! Nostalgia all over! SO, Thank you for sending this message!
And as for DrauKarna, Ah! Yes! I remember how I'd read 'Palace of Illusions' and loved it to bits, (and the StarB cast was SO GOOD-LOOKING and GIF-worthy that I'd absolutely loved that pairing to bits, and have written quite a few works on it myself, none as good as the ones that already existed :P), and now, if I write about them, (not sure if I shall in the same vein as before, since C. Rajagopalachari's version has really served to un-ship in my mind), it might be in some other form. Maybe an alternate universe in this day and age? Maybe some other version in the same timeline and universe if canon-compliant (certainly not in a romantic sense)? But if inspiration does happen to strike and blow my writers' block to smithereens, and I'm back to my full-fledged amateur writing, then, surely, but in a different form, and possibly with a LOT of warnings?
This is me thinking :D
And this is me with my heart melting in love for stopping by with this ask!
#anonymous#anon ask#PHEW! this does make me feel good!#It makes me feel great#mahabharat#Karna#Draupadi#okay so this one has really really really gone through a sea change in the past few years#because#well Karna was such an a-cat a-hole in the Sabha - THAT IS UNFORGIVABLE and you cannot help but see sense in this#Also pop culture might have been kinder to him? Though of course growing up I realise that there is always a grey area#Rajagopalachari's Mahabharat is kind of a canon handbook so I would refer to him at least until my copies of Bibek Debroy's MB are sent bac#here in my marital home#Ah-Okay! Lots of tags!#so 'me' most of the time
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Movik-Taar: Future proprietor of a very popular natural hot spring spa & inn on Vulcan. Husband of T’Meni-bu, Sek’s daughter. He’s self-conscious about his hair loss.
Movik is a braggart, a bit of a lia- exaggerator and a gigantic coward and T’Meni-bu knows that yet earnestly thinks he’s the best thing since sliced bread. I’d say she’s that ‘If I had a lame boyfriend-’ post but she genuinely doesn’t think he’s lame and would be defensive if you said he was. Sek thinks Movik is odious but tries to take solace in the fact that T’Meni finds him extremely pleasant. T’Meni and Movik were married before either of their pon farrs because T’Meni wanted to and both families saw no reason to delay if that was her wish. Movik wore a toupee to the wedding and was hesitant to take it off in front of her but when he did she just seemed weirdly charmed. Movik has a Vulcan parental unit (mother, father) who sired him and another father who is Bolian. He has a Bolian younger sister who’s around elementary school aged. He has a tendency to exaggerate his accomplishments but often quickly backpedals into the truth. He isn’t a malicious person and is actually a bit of a push over. Said he was going into Starfleet most of his life but when he was the age to apply he suddenly said he was going to take over his family’s inn instead. T’Meni is very bad at doing actual work in the inn but very good at guest relations and trends which makes the inn even more popular. Movik showers her with attention and gifts so she’s perfectly content. Movik thinks she’s an extremely capable, intelligent person (an excellent match!!) and the two are absolutely insufferable together the way close couples are <3
#T'Meni-bu is Sek's daughter and the 'bu' is a childish form of like 'junior'#It's like 'little T'Meni'#The conversation that was in my head when I came up with Movik-Taar was thus:#(all the furniture in a guest's room is gone for some reason)#Movik: Ah. I will ask my wife her opinion on the matter - she is quite sharp. (he goes to get her)#(T'Meni looks around the room very seriously) T'Meni:...Movik. This room has no furniture.#Movik: (nodding earnestly) That was my assessment as well. What do you think could have caused it?#T'Meni: (thinks) ....Perhaps someone has taken it.#Movik: (nodding - so proud) My thoughts exactly. But why?#T'Meni:...Perhaps someone had taken all the furniture in THEIR room.#Movik: (faintly alarmed) This cannot continue. If the trend continues along that vein there may be only one furnished room in the inn.#Guest: C a nyou two like...c all someone??? To help??#T'Meni & Movik are both above all spoiled and very slightly stupid HEHEH don't have much common sense between them but they're harmless#literally every time they come across a ferengi they get scammed HEHHE#beas ocs#[REDACTED] family shenanigans#<- though this is a BIT of a time skip since T'Meni is a child in the 'canon' I draw most often#T'Meni: ANYONE can meet Ambassador Spock but to have met a relative of his coworker?? My husband is so perceptive....<3#bea art tag#star trek#star trek ocs#Vulcan oc#star trek art
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pale solrezi.......
#libra.txt#was gonna make a post abt how hs + quadrants are great for multishippers like me#and also that hs is probably a big influence on me being a multishipper#but pale solrezi overwhelmed me#man that equius fic was really good........... meowrails my beloved#also equius pov that's well written and thoughtful??? flowers for one thousand years#pale kankat....... pale solrezi....... pale erijade......... many thoughts and feelings#also imagine a healthy pitch erivris. they were lowkey good for each other once upon a time!!!#i understand why so many characters died. it is a nightmare juggling so many characters#but also man all that potential..........#so big kudos to mc escher for letting them all live and also using them all effectively#they all had screentime! they all were important in some way or another to the plot!#beta kids! alpha kids! beta trolls! dancestors! ancestors! parents! calliope!#ah... it was just really nice......#i mean yes having 600k+ words helps give room to fit them all (plus the 20+ sidefics)#which i also cannot help but admire and respect#one day....... one day i will have story ideas that will span many many words and resonate with people...... maybe........
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i can think about and look at anton yelchin without being in pain now
#only took about 6 and half years#yeah anton's death really hit me hard#there was a time i just. could not look at him. or think about him. like i'd tear up and it'd hurt too much#i think it woulda helped if i rewatched stuff with him in it sooner. but instead i avoided him. oh well#i'm alright now. recently i've watching video essays about reboot trek#and also i watched some ''watching for the first time'' vids about 'em too#and all that has reminded me that oh right. i like reboot trek#in 2009 and 2010 i was in the livejournal reboot trek fandom. and it really was so much fun#and that carried over to my early days on tumblr#ah good times#and chekov was always my favourite <3 baby. baby boy#anyways star trek 2009 and star trek beyond are good movies y'all#star trek into darkness........... exists. badly#also i cannot stress enough how great zachary quinto is in these movies. thats a good fucking spock right there
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I also need to point out that these things are skills, and some people will in fact be bad at them even if they have been taught. I was also taught touch typing but that doesn't mean i can even remotely type as fast as, or even while i think, thats an uncommon and valuable skill actually.
Plus i need everyone in the notes claiming that various things are totally easy and anyone can just do it by googling, half the time with sentences incomprehensible even to me, someone halfway educated on the subject, to shut up forever. You are being at best ignorant and arrogant and at worst just a dick.
We do need more education, and is both concerning and a problem how little some people know when computers are so vital nowadays! The fact that we need more education is precisely because it is a difficult subject that a majority of people won't and can't just figure out on their own! Acting like its easy and its natural to pick up this knowledge without trying will do the opposite of helping anyone understand computers better.
Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves
#I don't mean the people who added to this post btw i mean mostly several people in the notes#Last addition i think you just suffer from a case of expert brain and are vastly underestimating your skill#I know many people educated in how to use computers and who work with them who cannot type that fast#Heck most people cant write that fast either#I genuinely think you mean well but underestimating the difficulty and amount of skill needed for this isn't helpful#You know who i am fully intending to call out however#That one person in the notrs arguing about how linux is totally easy with a whole paragraph that is entirely incomprehensible to even me#And while i dont consider myself an expert i have at this point passed several classes on programming#Which means i know the basics of someone educated at university level which puts me way above average knowledge#And if you say ah yes anyone can understand this and i can't then you're just so far off any accurate understanding of other people#That you are in fact just an idiot
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Oh my god i want to kill myslef so baaaaad
#my mother needs to GO AWAY finally i cant take it anymore#i want to go NC i cant take it anymore!!#only one more year left but goddmnit#she has been staying home for months now and i cannot tkae her anymore. i hate this family so fuckign bad#everything aboit her triggers me so bad i want to pull my hair out and scratch my skin off#ive genuinely gotten so depressed again im thinking about suicide again#my best friend shouldnt have saved me back then. i shoudl have died at 18#i could have had PEACE but insted i keep on suffering in this shit ass life. itd not wortg it#good god other than my boyfriend and my few clostest friends nothing has been woth it. i want to die always have always will#my ocd isnt getting better bc i cant fucking get the peace or space to recover and my mom keeps making it worse#i want to get better i want to feel normal good not crazy anynore but ahe keeps being an abusive piece of shit#amd the worst part is on the outside im doing sooo well i have great grades and good internship a perfekt relationship but living with my#parents makes me so miserable i want to end it al#i cant take this anymore#i need more help than im getting and i need to get away but i CANT until im donw with schooling and can get a job
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friends are making plans to go stay with each other but it's the weekend I'm going to see my favourite band. the universe fucking hates me
#I CANNOT have a third rsd episode in the space of a month i will kill myself. or at least do near irreperable damage#wish i was joking. i feel like im going to throw up even just thinking about it#well. well i can skip the concert i guess. i saw them last year anyway theyre just doing a second europe tour of the same album#and theyll probably release another album in a few years and i can see them again then#ahhh. ah okay okay i cant think about this right now ill decide at the weekend its not for a few weeks anyway#ahhhhhh but maybe theyre doing this bc they dont want me there idr if they know abt it already and if they wanted me there they would#plan it with me from the start instead of telling me once theyve already made the plan oh i cant do this right now i will Spiral#im going to take a cold shower 👍#to clear my head i was just starting to feel better @ my brain like that dont fucking ruin this for us andy samberg corgi gif#its fine i dont need to panic. im just frazzled from work i lost the ability to focus after like 3pm but they kept sending me emails with#stuff they want me to do before the end of the week and i was having stupid levels of task paralysis trying to think about it#bc i dont have time to fit everything into my schedule and its multiple projects so much thought. and my meds dont help anymore by then#AND ppl kept coming and finding me and giving me samples and verbal instructions for things and i couldnt write down bc i was busy#so ive probably forgotten smth important its fine its fine its just work#and tomorrow morning my meds will smooth everything out i can organise it then. but just made me feel so mentally congested#and ive had no signal again so couldnt even open tumblr to complain abt it#cold shower and then im gonna make stir fry so i have leftovers for lunch tmr to fuel me for the gym. and ill get my gym stuff ready#and i need to get my shit together bc im calling a friend tonight and i am NOT going to fall apart in front of them 👍#its all good its okay ill make everything work out#okay. showertime#.diaries
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Ok...so. that lil bit showing off the fifteen / new companion dynamic makes me happy. I love it
#what can i say.... what can i say?#all i can say is that jodie should have been a classic doctor like gawa now is#i say classic but i mean my childhood classic#rtd classic thrn#that formula resurrected the dead#and its good the black doctor gets it now#very very good#still i cannot help but agree that....its sad that fifteen didnt get his own damn TARDIS? what he gets one jukebox???#and he doesnt get regen sickness which is always so fun.... ah well.. i can live with that but#well anyway#dw#i think the dynamic looks absolutely amazing#*gatea#*GATWA#god
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As someone who just spent the afternoon calling around trying to track down the dates of venesections from the last 10+ years, across 3 different medical facilities, because someone didn't track it super well at the time: yup.
Due to some stuff brought up in recent posts I believe it is time to once again extol the virtues of Ms-Demeanor's Patented Where Did I Put That Fucking Paper Organizational Binder.
Hello! I am a disorganized adult! This is the system by which I manage my important shit like pink slips for my car and medical records and tax information.
You're going to need:
A 3-Ring Binder
Transparent Sheet Protectors
Notebook dividers (optional but VERY useful)
A backpack (optional)
So the way this system works is you put the sheet protectors into the binder. You can either use the dividers to divide the binder into sections or you can label some of the sheet protectors to make different sections but what you are generally going to do is make sections of the binder labeled things like "taxes" or "vet" or "doctor" and put a few sheet protectors in each section.
Then all of your papers with important information get crammed in that folder. You don't organize them, you don't sort them by date, you don't alphabetize. You put things vaguely relating to taxes into the sheet protectors in the taxes section. You put things relating to cars in the cars section. You don't even attempt to make this readable - you're not using sheet protectors so that you can read each page and keep it legible, you're using sheet protectors because it's a cheap plastic bag that will sit nicely in a binder.
You CAN put stuff into the individual sheet protectors when you get it, but let's be realistic you probably WON'T do that, so just tuck individual papers into the front of the binder until you get to a critical mass of paperwork then take an hour to sit down and sort into categories and put it in the binder once every six months to three years (depending on how frequently you get paperwork). Sometimes these sections will outgrow their original allotted space - since my spouse had a transplant surgery the medical section has had to become its own folder - and that's okay. If you end up with multiple folders just keep them together (this is why the backpack is an option, and one I strongly recommend).
Because yeah, if my organization system relies on opening up a drawer and putting something where it belongs as soon as I get the paper, I will simply not be organized. It's not going to happen. But I can handle a messy stack of paper that sits in one place and grows until it is time to shove it into a binder. I can't organize things for thirty seconds a day every day but I can organize things for an hour once every year or so (maybe two hours every five years when I sort out stuff I don't need like copies of warranties for parts on a car I don't own anymore).
When my mom died she had about fifty pounds of paper files in her office that were neatly organized in a system that didn't make any sense to my dad, my sister, and I. I ended up sorting through those files for twenty hours, tossing out copies of paid invoices from ten years ago and student handbooks from my junior high school. I reduced one filing cabinet, two desk file drawers, and a foot-high stack to a six inch binder that I gave to my dad. My mom died five years ago; two months ago my dad asked me about a medical document and I was able to tell him to go look for it in the medical section of the binder. It was there, because ALL IMPORTANT SHIT GOES IN THE BINDER.
Where is my birth certificate? In the binder. Where is my tax return from 2017? In the binder. Where is the record of my dog's last rabies shot? In the binder. Where are the records for my life insurance? In the binder.
A lot of what people consider "being organized" breaks down to whether or not you can find the specific things that you're looking for. Does my binder look nice? Is it aesthetic? Does it have color-coded tabs and papers all laid out neatly? Absolutely fucking not. But if you ask me where to find a paper I know that I can do so within about five minutes of shuffling through the pile of letter-folded sheets that I pulled out of the appropriate section of the binder.
I've discussed the Where Did I Put that Fucking Paper Binder before, but now it is time to expand that concept to the Backpack of Important Shit.
You likely have Important Shit that does not fit in a binder. Some of my Important Shit that does not fit in a binder is stuff like jewelry and the spare key for my car. Other stuff - the reason I decided to bring this up at all - includes my backup hard drive and packaging (including product key codes) for pretty much all of the software that I own. This is also where I store printed out copies of the recovery codes for most of the online accounts that I have.
There's a lot of weird fiddly shit that we have to have that we might not access all that often. This is the kind of stuff that might end up in junk drawers or under sinks or in disused laptop bags or kicking around under a bunch of papers in a desk drawer.
It doesn't matter so much when that weird fiddly shit is a set of hex keys or a utility knife or a protractor or a copy of a student handbook but it DOES matter when it's something that you might need to put your hands on in a hurry. If your computer crashes, you're not going to want to track down the software in the back of a filing cabinet and the backup drive from somewhere in the bowels of your desk. If you lock your keys in your car you are not going to want to figure out if your spare is in a junk drawer or the old purse where you keep semi-important stuff or the tin on your desk that has buttons and pins and headphone covers. Just put it in the Backpack of Important Shit and when you need it you know where to look.
So anyway, if you are a person who is a minor disaster who has trouble finding important things when you need them please don't think that you have to get your life together and have a nice organized filing cabinet or clear plastic bins full of documents or a neatly divided storage closet where everything from board games to backup drives has its own neatly labeled place. Just assign ONE LOCATION for important shit and start putting the important shit there. It doesn't matter if you have a filing cabinet where you keep old copies of homework and printouts of online orders and family history records - you do not need to keep everything that is file-able in one place and depending on what level of catastrophe you are it might be detrimental to you if you try to do that. It doesn't matter if you have a jewelry box where you keep your collection of gauges and wrist cuffs; if you are going to stress out about where grandma's ring is when you're digging through your collection of cheap earrings and silver pendants then *do not keep grandma's ring or any other Important, Vital, Cannot Be Lost jewelry in with your day-to-day wear*.
I live someplace that has fires. My binder got upgraded to my Backpack of Important Shit when the fires were getting uncomfortably close to the house I was living in and I wanted to have one bag to grab if we had to get out fast. Once I did that, I never took the binder out of the backpack and the backpack has now made three moves with me and has meant that I've had my birth certificate handy when I needed it in the middle of a move between two states, I was able to provide a history of my cholesterol panel going back six years to a visiting nurse, and I was able to give the exact names and contact info of my spouse's previous surgeon to the hospital when I had unexpectedly moved to a new state with three bags and my work computer at the beginning of the pandemic.
Get yourself a backpack of important shit and a folder of where the fuck did i put that paper. It is so much easier to search a backpack for important shit than to go through an entire house and it is so much easier to flip through a binder than it is to dig through a filing cabinet.
Anyway good luck and happy adulting.
#good lord pulling that data was like pulling teeth#all I needed were dates!#some of the dates are over 10 years old guys!#what's someone gonna do with that info anyway ???#All it tells you is 'ah Etlu had blood removed'#(okay it probably also is like 'holy shit Etlu why did you have so many in 12 months' but at this point it should not be a surprise)#(if you haven't heard me yell about haemochromatosis yet well oops I haven't been doing my job as an angy little iron bean)#but oh my god chronic illness medical file organization#never underestimate the power of a good folder#(or a spreadsheet for that matter)#(I still cannot believe in the second millennia AD that we have powerful pocket computers and yet GPs are still flipping through pdfs)#(like how does that help find any patterns over a long term observation?)#(half the path labs will just chop and change as to whether they give you 1-4 previous test results too)#(idk I have Many Thoughts™)#organization
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Picture this: Dragons using their caves to age cheese. Dragon Cheesemakers!!
The dragon coiled his enormous body, completely blocking the entrance of the tunnel that lead to the caves.
“No,” he snarled, smoke pluming from his nose.
The cheesemonger pinched the bridge of her own nose. “Look, I explained this to you at the start,” she tried once more. “I make cheese.”
“Yes,” the agreed, nodding his scaly head.
“Then I bring the cheese here.”
“Yes.”
“Then you store all the cheese in your cave, keeping it at the perfect temperature and humidity.”
“Yes.” He sounded particularly proud of this part.
“And then when the cheese has ripened,” she concluded. “I come to pick the cheese up again.”
A thunderous scowl clouded his maw. “No.”
“But that’s how it works!” she cried in exasperation. “I make the cheese, you store the cheese, I sell the cheese, I make more cheese!” She peered up at him. “You do realise I cannot bring you new cheese until I have sold this cheese.”
The dragon considered this for a moment. “Ah, but what if—” he began. “What if you go and make more cheese. And bring me the cheese. And I put it in my cave, with the rest of the hoard. And then I keep it there forever.”
“No,” she said flatly.
It was remarkable how much a dragon could look like it had just swallowed a lemon.
“You can’t keep cheese forever,” she insisted. “It will spoil and go bad!”
“You said it would get better and better!” the dragon roared indignantly. “And I take good care of them! With the air flow and the humidity and the temperature!”
“And that is great,” she said, trying to smile through her frustration. “But when a cheese is ripe, it’s ripe! Then you should not be kept anymore, it should be eaten.”
The dragon scraped it’s formidable claws against the stony ground and sulked.
“Look…” The cheese mongering business did not tend to require a lot of sweet-talking, but she was making an effort. “I’m sure the cheeses that aged in your cave are the best cheeses people have ever tasted. When they find out how delicious they are they will want us to make loads more. Maybe several caves’ worth!”
The reptilian eyes stared at her with disgruntled, reluctant interest. “Several caves?”
“If we’re lucky! And I could make so much cheese that I could bring you new cheese as soon as I pick up the aged cheese. Your cave would never even be empty!”
This seemed to strike a chord. The dragon lifted his head a little.
“And that would really be much better for the rest of your hoard,” she continued with fresh inspiration. “Because if you leave cheese too long, it might go bad and spoil the cheeses next to it too!”
A nervous ripple went through the beast’s scaly body, but he clearly was not convinced just yet. “But what sort of a hoard is it if I have to give it away,” he complained.
“Well! Cheese is not just any old hoard! It’s a developing creation! And you will have a hoard that is constantly developing too. Constantly changing, but, if we do this right, never shrinking.”
The dragon looked at her solemnly, wavering with uncertainty. Perhaps she shouldn’t hold it against the poor thing, it must be a difficult concept to wrap his head around.
“And I will tell you what,” she said encouragingly. “If business is good, I can start investing in some really good crumbly cheeses. You can keep those in your cave for five whole years!”
“That is quite a long time for humans, is it not?” he said, sounding a little more cheerful.
“Very long. Especially when it comes to cheese. Cheeses that have been aged that long are very expensive.”
In retrospect, she should perhaps have led with that. Gourmand or not, a dragon was still a dragon after all. A glittering, toothy grin appeared on her recalcitrant business partner’s shout and he moved just enough for her to move past him into the mountain.
“Tell me more about this expensive cheese that crumbles.”
She hid a smirk. “If you help me carry some of the current ones out, it would be my pleasure.”
#anon I am blowing you kisses#what a fantastic idea#don't get me wrong I also support dragons making their own cheese#100%#but this was the funniest to me#urban fantasy professionals#dragon#dragons#urban fantasy#laura drabbles
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intense trauma has u journalling for days straight about something normal happening
#i hate when i must address that perhaps i cannot operate as a person trauma free#as i am not. trauma free#perhaps the 7 years of being groomed is not somethign u can just Get Over#shocking to me 😔#it does make me feel a little silly though and a little frightened#this is a little more hashtag deep than i usually go but it’s um. Difficukt#to navigate#there’s a lot of moving parts here#and it’s not exactly something easy to talk to people about#ah well.#vent#tw grooming#<- just in case !!!#it doesn’t help that i’m On My Own so like#i’ve got 0 normalcy supporting me rn#it’s okay !!!! journalling actually is helping
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