#i have to make a pro con list

[bad1dimagines]

a job opened up at the school I used to teach at and I loved that school soooooo much and wanted to stay so bad but couldn't

but school starts on tuesday and I'm obviously already set up at my current school (which I do not like nearly as much, but it is way closer to home)

my old coworkers keep texting me and telling me to apply UGH turmoillll

[ettawritesnstudies]

Assume you are interested in the book in question, and you could get which ever format you wanted in either situation. (Ebook, paperback, hardcover).

For the preorder: Everyone gets the same rewards regardless of what you order. There might be a larger giveaway that would be won by lottery.

For the kickstarter: You can pick your tier + rewards going up in value for larger items.

In general, the merch itself would be the same for both campaigns, for example, everyone in the preorder gets stickers, and everyone in the lowest tier on kickstarter gets stickers. The rewards would be exclusive to either the preorder or the kickstarter, so you wouldn't be able to get them afterwards, except at special events like book signings or something.

please boost!

[torchickentacos]

The world may change at rapid paces that induce constant emotional whiplash, but at least there's one constant (pokemon xy anime discourse on twitter)

[saturnisfallingdown]

a big part of the queer online kid to queer online young adult progression for me was losing all interest in labels. not in a distasteful way!! just. losing interest .....

[dreamofbecoming]

y'all i put in an offer on an apartment and it was accepted 😳

[kelpiemomma]

Ingo held Khan's scaled wrist gently as he examined the claws his friend now sported. Five fingers had been turned into four deadly talons, new to Ingo but already put to gruesome work by the hybrid.

"I'm sorry about your hands..." he said softly. Khan shrugged as he examined his other claws.

"Eh, don't sweat it. It's hardly the worst thing they've done to me." He responded mildly. As though his body being changed against his will to a weapon was the norm. Ingo glanced at his eyes, his fangs, the remnants of his horns- and remembered this wasn't the first time his friend had been altered against his will. His grip on Khan's hand tightened.

"Still," he insisted, "if we'd found you guys sooner..."

If they'd found Khan and Nana sooner, Khan would still have his hands and Nana would still have both eyes. If they'd been just a little faster to realize the hybrids were missing, to remember where they had come from, if they had pushed their pokemon a little harder to fly and fight-

"I'm glad you found us at all, honestly." Khan said it off the cuff, without thinking, but must have felt how Ingo's grip tightened again. He turned his head to look at his friend and Ingo felt mild dread at the look in his eyes. As Khan leaned forward he cringed back just slightly.

"Hey, look on the bright side!" Khan accentuated his words with a point from his claws. He must have seen Ingo's confused upset because he smiled wider.

"The bright side?" Ingo repeated. There was a bright side to this?

Khan shut his eyes as if he was a teacher explaining something incredibly simple.

"Oh, my sweet summer train man, of course there is!"

He stuck out his claws like Elesa and Skylar did when they were showing off freshly done nails. The scales gleamed in the light, dimly iridescent.

"I match your color scheme now!"

Ingo's gaze remained on the claws for a moment. Was this really a good thing? Khan had lost another important part of himself because he and Emmet had been too slow. Was the simple black nature of his scales that important? Could it make up for everything else?

He looked up with tired eyes, meeting Khan's gaze again, and realized that Khan was not as unaffected as he thought. He was giving Ingo the softest smile he'd ever witnessed on the other man's scarred face, his eyes half shut and gentle. Khan had been there when it happened, had suffered the consequences, just as he had the last time he'd been abducted. He would figure out how to deal with his new appendages just as he always had before. It was not quite old hat, but it was also nothing new, and something would have been changed no matter how quickly he and Emmet had arrived.

For the first time in the years he'd known Khan, the hybrid was being sympathetic and offering Ingo a comfort over something he had no control of. Yes, he now had claws and scales, but they were the color that Ingo most frequently found himself in. The color of one of his closest family members. Ingo wondered if Khan had used that as a way to comfort himself after it happened, but didn't dare ask. Instead he tried smiling. Surely it was weak, but the worried look in Khan's eyes lessened.

"Yes, you're quite right." Ingo grasped Khan's claws as if they were still his hands, holding them tightly. He would get used to them, just as Khan had. It would be alright. "Another color would have been quite unfortunate."

[scribe-of-monsters]

Ok so I started watching The Last Voyage of the Demeter (about halfway through rn) and all I'm saying is if you had to choose a Dracula-inspired horror movie revolving around characters besides the crew of light that came out in 2023. Pick this one

[ly-pleiades]

"sorry to be annoying again" *proceeds to send me a 180 word paragraph*

my brother in christ did i not tell you to leave me alone literally yesterday

[billdenbrough]

ficlet to post but it requires mina's art for context and tumblr nuked it on here bc of the nsfw element.................. so it's comprehensible for people who can look at art on twt but nowhere else. rip gang ur all missing one of the funniest arts ever built out of one of my favourite memories ever

[bonyfish]

things I enjoy about delivery work:

It's like doing a series of little quests

I like driving

Get to listen to my music

People generally like it when you give them food they've been waiting for so they are often happy to see me.

Relatedly, get to have some interesting but necessarily time-limited interactions (shout out to the goth cashier who liked my FLESH HUSK shirt and went on a brief monologue about finding comfort in the concept of Being Meat, they genuinely made my evening)

Now that I have my schedule sorted out it pays decently, though I'm still finding my sea legs with regards to when I can make purchases without running out of gas money.

I made a spreadsheet to track my earnings, meaning that when I am done with my little quests I get to go play with my spreadsheet and watch the little numbers go up. It even has conditional formatting!

I can literally just decide not to if I don't feel like it that day.

things I do not enjoy about delivery work:

I have no sense of direction and Google Maps occasionally attempts to kill me about it

I also cannot reliably parse or remember numbers larger than 1 digit, so I sometimes wander for several minutes looking for an address I read wrong even though I triple-checked

Sometimes I get delivery orders that need to be signed for which means I have to let strangers touch my phone

Customer support for the particular gig company I work through is... bad. After one phone call where I spent several minutes navigating voice menus to eventually reach a representative who sounded like they were speaking to me through a tin can on a string, I started calculating, for fun, how many phone calls to support were roughly equal to one tooth extraction without anesthesia (I eventually settled on 5). Fortunately they also have text support which is only like 15% as agonizing.

I need to get gas like, twice a week now, and that adds up fast.

Sometimes I have to drive to Ellettsville, and then I get trapped in Ellettsville for a while, and then when my shift is done I have to drive all the way back from Ellettsville.

Parking downtown was invented by the same demon who designed the gig company's phone tree, I am sure of it.

It's hot out.

Sometimes people don't tip.

[kijosakka]

wheel of names save me save me wheel of names (picking out what direction my plot should go in)

[caffeinatedopossum]

I'm never going to run out of things to say but I am running out of reasons to say them

[bitterpngs]

tablets are so expensive

[horse-shit]

yknow every now and again I think about what it would be like to have a cane

like I'd love if I had something that lessened my leg pains but I'd be scared I wouldn't actually need it even though I have eds lol

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

IM ALIVE *coughs up blood*

[greppelheks]

I've got a busy week ahead with four days of work, a job interview, an appointment with my therapist, two days of celebrating my birthday, lots of packages to pick up (I'm getting my shit together) and lots of grocery shopping, baking and cooking for my birthday.