#and i'll start working on the girls tomorrow!

[inkstars1138]

I am ALWAYS kind to cashiers. I always have been, and I'm extra kind if it's near a holiday, busy, or even if I end up in a situation necessitating a purchase ON a holiday. I started cashiering when I was 18. I did cashiering work mainly (except for a few non-cashing jobs which I did, in fact, like more), and then I worked for Disney. And yeah, I LOVED the people side of it. That was my favorite part of my day. I did not cashier but I did food service. We had a greeting section at the door, and you could usually find me there, as that was my favorite job. I also regularly volunteered for parades (watching the crossings to make sure you kept people safe, and let them cross when it was safe to do so), and had a blast. I love working with people. But cashiering, even though I was luckier than most, IS DISTRESSING AS HELL. And the nastiest people are the ones who have never touched a cash register in their life. I always thank my cashier, apologize if I'm in on a holiday (I try my best to make it brief or avoid shopping that day if possible), and try to get in and out as fast as possible if it's near closing. When I was about to go to a shop recently that was closing, I didn't realize it was near that time, and the girl says "hi we're closing in a few minutes" and I was like "oh I'll come back tomorrow!" I'm pretty sure I've never seen someone so relieved.

People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.

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(Author's Notes)

Panel 1: Evening in the cottage. Imogen is frowning over a library book while Laudna is working her way through a basket of assorted clothing, casting Mending on each one. Holding a needle, she's weaving her hands in a sewing motion over the torn article of clothing. Spectral red threads converge over the tear.

Laudna: Can you see well enough, darling? I wouldn't want you to hurt your eyes.

Imogen: Yeah, it's fine. I'm not gettin' much out of this book, anyway.

Panel 2: Imogen stretches, rubbing her eyes.

Laudna: Nothing about red storms? Prophetic dreams? The sudden, unannounced arrival of psychic powers?

Imogen: Not a thing.

Laudna: Hmm. Well, we can always go back to the library tomorrow.

Panel 3: Imogen pulls her feet up and rests her chin on her knees, watching Laudna. She sets the now-whole, folded clothing aside and picks up a new one.

Laudna: We can do something else if you'd like. I'll be finished with this much sooner than they're expecting at the tailor's.

Imogen: No, it's fun to watch you do that.

Laudna: Thank you! I've always enjoyed it. I used to do this as a girl, to help bring a little extra money into the house.

Panel 4: Close on the child's dress in her lap as the red threads reattach a little heart-shaped pocket.

Laudna: My mother would “take on mending” for the neighbors but it was really me patching it up. They all said what fine work she did. Of course, we couldn't let anyone see how I was doing it, so I've never had an appreciative audience before.

Panel 5: Imogen's smile fades. She looks keenly at Laudna, who has become very intent on folding the dress in her hands and is avoiding her gaze.

Imogen: How old were you?

Laudna: Oh . . . I started when I was about twelve, or so.

Imogen: Your parents put you to work that young?

Laudna: I didn't mind, really. I enjoyed being useful. And it gave me something productive to do, since I wasn't in school anymore, and . . .

Imogen: They pulled you out of school?!

Panel 6: Ducking her head, Laudna looks at Imogen through her hair, with a strange kind of reserved hopefulness.

Laudna: Not . . . because of that. And I was nearly of an age where I would have been allowed to leave, anyway. It was after the . . . the incident, with the boys at school. You don't . . . remember?

Imogen: No, I don't think you've told me about this part.

Laudna: Oh.

[y-akkun]

P3 Boys (WIPs)

[umemiyan]

sometimes i'm like "damn why the dash dead" and then i remember it's the weekend and most people have lives (not me tho)

[brrdhouse]

once again not dead, just working on wipss, the magical girl ford au has entranced me

[queer-crusader]

...I may be stupid

[senseof-underlyingsadness]

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[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

i'm completely knackered so i'll finish out prompts tomorrow! but you are all amazing and i 🫶🏼 each of you. sweet dreams darling humans!

[catboyolli]

I hate hate hate when something I've been looking for gets changed last minute

[feyarchived]

hi my darlings, i'm fairly slow activity as is when it comes to getting replies out, but i think i'm officially going to put this blog on a little semi hiatus for a week or so! i had every intention on writing today, but all i want to do is rest and read instead. tomorrow i'm going to test for the rona, just to make sure it's not that making me feel so run down, but it's more likely that it's just my work schedule and how we're headed into spring! i'm sure losing an hour of sleep hasn't really helped, either.

that said though, i am going to slowly work on things from my phone and see if just being off the computer and dash motivates me at all more, but otherwise i hope you're having a lovely start to the week! and hopefully this time change hasn't affected you as much as it seems to have hit me <3

[drysauce]

i feel like withing next few months i might completely fall out with my best friend help

[veraverorum]

Thanks to bad news at work I was too sad to even flirt with the cute girl of the other office

[themuseoftheviolets]

literally. shaking w anxiety rn everybody pray that this thing works out its so last minute but i need it so bad

[venusinsilk]

So it's 5 am i just finished eating dinner and I need to get ready for bed.

I have an 11 am meeting with current exec chef and hr girl at the job I hate to discuss how unhappy my team is. I was supposed to make a spreadsheet of a new schedule for my team and a spreadsheet illustrating the blocks of time we use to accomplish tasks at work so the hr girl can understand our work better but I didn't do it because I don't want to work without being paid! I dont want to make spreadsheets at home that these ppl will hardly acknowledge I'm over it! I have a feeling I'm just going to get scolded and called a shit stirrer again lol. One of the girls on my overnight team cried on my night off because one of the head bakers chided her for "not thinking" when all she had done was exactly what he had told her to do. So frustrating and I'm addressing it, exec chef is very chill but he probably sees this as me blowing up a story into something bigger than it should be. If someone I work with is fucking crying at work we are addressing it! It is a fucking issue.

Then I have to haul ass to Playa Vista for a 2nd interview at 3 pm at a tech company with sexy hours! Mon-fri!!! No weekends! No holidays!! I want this job. I would be taking a pay cut, but my quality of life would improve. Easy work, just making a couple of pastries each day for the 400-600 ppl who work there. High volume but this is also a recipe development position which I really enjoy and have fun doing :)

After that I might take an hour nap in my car? And stay on the west side because my friends in Venice invited me to make a vision board with her and a few other girl friends. She does this every year and I'm so touched to be invited. I don't want to miss it! I fucking need to sort my life out with a vision board right now!

After that guess what? I'm working 7 pm - 3:30 am please why did I do this to myself why did I schedule my Friday like this

This is my fault

[orcelito]

Oh yeah so for my UX design class. Our final project is creating some sort of app that links to a wearable fitness device. Like a fitbit. And my group's doing a lil tamagotchi thing, whatever. It's kind of dumb but this class is kind of dumb anyways. I suck it up and do it regardless so that I can graduate.

Anyways so we actually only came up with this idea on Monday lol. Barely done any work on it. But the guy in our group got a fuck ton of interviews yesterday for it, and thank GOD he did bc GUESS WHAT!!! The "check-in" that we had today that was Supposed to be the TA walking around to talk to groups ended up beinggggg INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS!!!!!!!! And no one was fucking ready for it bc on Monday she'd asked for us to choose between presentations or individual discussions and we chose individual discussions. But I guess she decided to do presentations after all.

And well ok so I have a habit of being a little late to this class every day. It's a 3 hour studio and so long as u get there within 15 mins they're chill about it. And today was extra sucky cause I got RAINED ON like pretty hard. Cold ass rain. My jeans were soaked. And well that sucked pretty hard.

But I walked in to find that they were doing PRESENTATIONS and I was like Aw Fuck. And see the thing is, 2 of my groupmates in that class are always *very* late. Like half an hour to an hour late, if they even show up at all. So I couldn't count on them. And my remaining groupmate is the quiet type, so I couldn't count on her either.

So I was like. Aw, fuck. It's up to me.

Sat there in the 5 or 10 mins I had while other groups were presenting to review the interview results from yesterday (I hadn't even looked at them yet 😭😭😭) and then I fuckin gave an informal presentation on the fly about our project that we Totally didn't start working on only 2 days ago (lol). And the thing is. Somehow???? We had the most work done out of the class?????? Most of them hadn't even done interviews yet 😭😭😭😭 like this is due on the 2nd and next week is Thanksgiving break 😭😭😭😭 there is NOT much time left!!!!!!!

But yeah I was riding that high of carrying that presentation for us. I'm so Fucking good at bullshitting.

[varjopeura]

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