#and then get a taxi home

[finnlongman]

My options for tomorrow: cycle 7 miles on a non-electric bike (2 x 3.5 miles) for the first time since September when recent evidence suggests I do Not have the cardio fitness to do this, or pay £30 for the two taxis required to get to and from work. Or spend a ridiculously long time taking the bus and walking the 20 minutes from the bus stop to work because there isn't actually a bus that goes to my workplace.

My kingdom for a new bike tyre...

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

historical drama/sitcom where two gay best friends (woman and man) get lavender married--and proceed to spend the Fancy European Honeymoon their parents paid for acting as each other's wingman

[misspoetree]

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❄❄ kp + text post advent calendar ❄❄

[camgoloud]

he still has his tonsils. by the way if you even care

[wernerherzogs]

train wasn't delayed more than usual AND i got a pretty girl's luggage off the train for her... 10/10 polish railway experience

[bonefall]

why is fernsong on thin ice with dovewing, did ivypool use him to send her messages or something like that

Yeaaaaahhh. I figured it was obvious enough to figure out lmao.

Dovewing really likes Fernsong (who doesn't?) but Ivypool continues to be a petty badger for years. She's changed a lot after the impostor murdered her daughter publicly for codebreaking and suddenly ShadowClan didn't look so crazy to resist him from the very start...

But she treated Dovewing like garbage for years. Always looking for ways to spite her and her 'Friendship' with Tigerheart, and it didn't even stop after she booked it. Dovewing doesn't WANT to fix this.

Sure, this stems from Lionblaze being a really bad parent, playing obvious favorites with Dovepaw and neglecting Ivypaw. But Ivypool would take it out on her. Well into their adulthood. And NOW she wants to reconcile? When Dovewing's finally away from her, and living happily?

Fernsong and Dovewing have a history, making friends with each other before Fern started dating Ivy when he first joined ThunderClan, but he FLOATED the idea of Dove talking to her sister, "you know... Ivypool talks about you," and she shut it down fast.

(That means she walked away, cutting the whole reunion short. She really did discover the power of Just Leaving and has been using it like a superpower)

He hasn't dared try again, since that moment. He knows very well he won't get a second chance, and Dovewing is his friend. He doesn't want to ruin it. She's forgiven him, but hasn't forgotten.

I think Dovewing has a reputation of being really sensitive, according to ThunderClan cats. And, she kinda is? But it's because she was so patient for years with them. She feels like if she gives an inch, they'll take a mile, and reacts accordingly.

...it's why the deafness isn't ALWAYS a bad thing, in Dovewing's mind. Sometimes she really appreciates it. She doesn't have to listen to her dad bark for her to get back here, or Bumblestripe break out into a sob, or whatever stage of denial Ivypool's circled back around to. If she does, it's quiet.

It's SO much easier to walk away now.

[b-blushes]

thursday quest - no physical therapy today - make and eat lunch sooooo early but i can do it!!!!! - get ready for wedding - attend wedding! yay! (: - decompress well when i get home <3

[simspaghetti]

This burglar doesn't even make it past the front door before Torgo apprehends her!!

☑️ Fight a Burglar and Win +1 Total Points: 39

[chronotopes]

How do you get work assignments done while traveling??? On a train, no less! You don't need to actually answer if you don't want to, this is more an expression of awe. Alternative ask: What is something else that you are proud of yourself for doing recently?

LOL this is an extremely fair question. i'm not very good at doing personal creative work on a train, if i tell myself "i'll do creative writing on the train :)" (or plane, or whatever) i will inevitably find myself listening to music and staring out the window. however i think the fact that i'm kind of slaying work today has to do with the fact that a) i work just about ANYWHERE better than in my own apartment, where i live, b) lately the worst harm to my work has been done by 'getting tired and laying down', a hobby that is so enchanting that it can go on for hours and one which is not available to me on the train, and c) i'm just kind of fucking insane about traveling, especially the kind of traveling where i'm not the one doing the driving. the more steps the travel takes the more insane and kind of problematically energetic i get. i may have "not gotten very much sleep" but what i do have is the knowledge that i am taking the bus then the metro then the train to see a friend, and that fills me with a kind of weird intense motivation that i don't often experience in day to day situations

...it also helps that the stupid amtrak chairtable is more ergonomic than the dining table i have to work on at home or the tables in either of my local walkable coffee shops. which is more of an indictment of the dining table/coffee shops than praise of amtrak chairtables, but is worth noting as a factor nonetheless.

[shamblz]

Getting up at 5.45 tomorrow to go to a work seminar in Manchester at 9 to hopefully get back home for around 6.30 so I have time to make it to Leicester so I can go cinema with my mum and watch the Edward Scissorhands ballet broadcast at 7 so I can get back home for probably around 11pm so I can go to bed and get up for work again the next day at 6.55

[curiosity-killed]

Pls send strength I have 5 hr of rehearsal tonight and just want to collapse face first into bed

[cat-with-a-keyboard]

frozen burritos make effective projectiles. feel safe when you walk outside!

[opalsiren]

i have to leave the house today and i am being sooooo brave about it (girl who is not being brave about it at all)

[lexicals]

I get in the car to go home after the conversation where it's confirmed my mum probably has not just one but probably multiple cancers and my fucking car just. Gives up. Apparently the transmission is broken. It was just sitting there. Are we for real right now man like is this what we're doing !!!

[tariah23]

Just got back home from the hospital