#i’m fine just writing my stress out 🧍

[rosesradio]

i’m posting a thing that’s not fanfic for the first time, i guess it’s an original work. it’s just my commentary on things i guess, it reads like a black mirror episode lol

tw: thought inspection, suicide mention, bigotry mention

word count: 1.3k

All this trouble, you think. All this screen time on the news, covering up every other issue...

You wished their time would come to an end. That it would all come to an end.

Your phone vibrated in your pocket, and you took a look at the screen:

Hey, said the little notification from TIC. That wasn't very nice. You should demonstrate more empathy for others! 🙂

A cold chill ran down your spine as your fingers came up to lightly touch the back of your neck. There was a chip there, small and unassuming, like Doc Ock's in Spider-Man. Like that chip, you knew full well that it would not serve you.

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You remembered going on a forum, one of the last places that was not asking for your government ID, and looking through the discussions. Someone was discussing a hate group gathering in a nearby city; they'd been hurling racial slurs at children.

I don't get it, one of the forum members started, isn't the TIC giving you notifications to cut that shit out? Show more empathy or smth.

Idk, another member replied, his hand proudly raised in his profile picture. Got TIC plus, I'm not dealing with that shit. Freedom of speech.

It probably doesn't matter, a third forum member replied. They pay, they get to stay—that's the TIC way.

The dig was subtle, though you had seen the comment live for a whole two minutes before a large This comment has been deleted by TIC for the safety of minors viewing text took its place.

Strangely enough, you never saw this kind of message for the hate speech on the forum. Perks of TIC plus, you supposed.

Swallowing, you ignored your own notification in favor of rummaging through your fridge for sliced meat and cheese. There was a nostalgia for the days in which you could afford more ingredients for your favorite foods, but—well, the stores didn't sell much of anything anymore. No one can afford anything, but you were lucky you could still make a good sandwich.

As for the TIC, you tried not to think about it when you could help it. Then again, you knew about the white bear experiment—the more you tried to push something out of your mind, the more it popped up.

Repetition helped. It drove you up the wall, but you found the TIC wouldn't harass you with more than one notification if you only thought one prompting thought repeatedly.

The TIC, or the Thought Impediment Center, was still new. It was all anyone could talk about for a year. There was excuse after excuse to explain its existence:

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With this recording of data, we will be able to ensure criminals face charges during the planning period. Crime will go down in droves!

They were right about that. Everything went down in droves. Hollywood had to shut down because of the sheer amount of attention one studio got during their work on a heist movie.

When you thought about it, you were one of the lucky ones, getting one so late in the game. It came in layers—if you don't get one, you can't get food stamps. If you don't get one, you can't get medical care. As if those things weren’t hard enough to access already. College is what got you. You thought about dropping out, but you had to keep going—you couldn't just drop out and give up your dream job.

You didn't dream of work, of course. However, being a librarian seemed like a perfect fit for you.

After that interview last week, though...

You sighed, buttering up your bread and assembling your sandwich on the pan.

You had interviewed for a librarian assistant position last week, though you were rejected for two key reasons.

One was because you had a master's degree, and not your doctorate. Not to mention you only had five years of experience instead of seven. It made sense now that you thought about it—why would you be qualified for that position, with its thirty-two thousand dollar salary? No, you were much better off at the donut shop. It wasn't a bad place at all, though it wasn't where you wanted to remain forever.

The other reason you didn't get hired...

To be fair, the TIC-checking was new. How were you supposed to be prepared for it?

The lady at the interview, a kind, grandmotherly looking woman named Janine, voiced that she was also not a fan of the new TIC checking.

"The TIC in general is a bit of nonsense to me," she said. Her phone vibrated. "Sorry...I had to get one. Otherwise they were going to cut funding for the library, and..." her phone vibrated again, and she huffed. "I wouldn't feel quite so bad if they didn't take my family's chocolate chip cookie recipe. I'm sure you've heard of the Miller's chocolate chip cookie recipe by now?"

You had. You'd used the damn recipe, and the cookies were great. You shook your head for Janine’s sake. That seemed to help her feel better.

Ignoring the barrage of notifications, you had thought about how the TIC had come to the rescue of companies as they had lost money due to online censorship. People logged off social media sites, so they lost money in advertising. They had to have a revenue to make up for that.

It wasn’t just TIC Plus, or it’s advertising. It was the selling of data to third parties. That was nothing new, though this time, it was selling your thoughts. That was how Janine Miller’s family cookie recipe was sold to allrecipes.

At least it was just a cookie recipe. You had heard of Kaitlyn Johnson on the news, the twenty-one year old who had taken her own life after her pornographic thoughts had been sold to ChatGPT 7.2. They’d recreated them and sold the videos featuring her without her consent to sites across the internet.

That was why you had tried to suppress your thoughts as much as possible, though you knew that one day, you would slip up.

It didn’t matter, because as Janine Miller searched through the TIC-provided record of your thoughts over the past couple days, she found the exact sort of information she needed.

It was everything she couldn’t have in an employee. You thought about how much you loathed TIC, how much you loathed the job market and the housing market and the government and the advertising. The censorship, the restriction, the hate in the world. There was even a fleeting sexual fantasy or two, as you could no longer access smut without presenting your government ID. God forbid if you wanted to get off for the first time in weeks, right?

Your thoughts, restricted as they may be, held a fraction of the vitriol and imperfection of humanity you held in your heart.

With your thoughts laid out loud and clear, the only thing Janine Miller could do was look at you. Her gentle eyes were pitiful—perhaps a little disgusted, as if you were a writhing bug on the sidewalk.

She said sorry.

Eyes stinging, you nodded.

And you went home.

You’d cried for an hour or more, no longer caring if your four roommates could hear.

You wanted it all to end.

You had a migraine.

Your phone vibrated. Your mind rang as you heard that familiar feminine voice read your notification:

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Swallowing, hands shaking where they rested against the countertop, you nodded.

Added to cart.

[idontplaytrack]

No sleep

Capri Donahue x fem! reader

Warnings: fluff, some coarse language

Something keeps reader up at night, Capri is determined to find out just what it was and help her get back to sleep

“Darling, it’s 3:30 in the morning. Why don’t you want to go back to sleep?” Capri rolled over, a soft sigh escaping from her lips.

“I got woken up.” You answered vaguely.

“y/n.”

“I’ll be fine, just leave me be.” You told her while you rolled over to face her, “This happens more than you realise.”

“What happens?” Capri asks quietly, “You’ve never actually told me why before.”

“Sleep paralysis.” You exhaled harshly, rubbing your eyes. “Sometimes…I get woken up by what feels like someone is sitting on my chest and holding down my entire body. I hear weird things and see even weirder things, even when my eyes are closed.”

“Oh.” She says, looking right into your eyes, “I had that happen a few times— so scary. I’m sorry, baby.”

“I started having this problem when I was I think, a freshman in high school. So seven years now?”

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“I’m not sure.” You replied, fighting the urge to shut your eyes, feeling the sensations of an instance of the sleep paralysis creep up on you. You could feel if it was going to happen. “I don’t even know what triggers this.”

Did that freak you out? Absolutely. Way too much in fact.

Her hand ran up and down your arm, as though trying to coax you to sleep. But you did not give in, not a chance.

“Don’t fight it, I’m just going to be right here, darling. Could be stress from classes or work, you may not realise it but your body knows.”

You shake your head, murmuring a ‘no’, “I can’t fall asleep again, I’m scared.” “I’m just gonna hold you, and if you do fall asleep, just— fall asleep. If it happens, you’ll know that it’s just me here with you. You’re safe, hm?”

You pondered for a quick second but ultimately just gave in to her suggestion, the sheer tiredness became too overwhelming. So much so that if you pushed yourself to stay up until sunrise, you would be so so cranky. You might’ve cried a little, too once she held you securely in her arms. See? She knew you needed to get to sleep otherwise nothing would be right from that point onwards.

You were fortunate that Capri knew what you were dealing with, because you initially thought she wouldn’t have a clue what it was, but right now? You were beyond relieved and tired, so you very quickly succumbed to slumber.

Once you did fall asleep, Capri does so as well. “You’ll be okay. I’ve got you, rest up.”

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💭A/N:

Oh look another one😗 courtesy of my 4am struggle this morning🧍🏻‍♀️just wanted to write a cute little drabble hehe

[sappynapper]

here’s some real shit guys

DT helping with your computer issues hcs

Dream

soooo patient

like he goes into dad mode when he’s helping you with this kind of thing

if you get really frustrated and upset easily when computer stuff goes wrong he is so so good at calming you down and reassuring you

telling you “your work isn’t gone, i can get it back, it’s fine” in a soft voice while he’s clicking through stuff and rubbing your back

he loves doing it too tbh

even if it’s kinda early or he’s busy or w/e, as soon as you tell him “i have a computer question” he’s more than happy to help

makes him feel special and smart when you need him (🙄 /affectionate)

if your relationship is public knowledge he’s tweeting lame jokes about it all the time and flaming you tho

@Dream: ‘@y/u/n collects computer viruses (gatherer) then about once a month i get rid of them all (hunter)’

and don’t think he’ll let you or anyone else forget how smart and great he is etc etc

brings it up forever in pursuit of more praise

bonus: he noticed that there was quite a repetitive, mechanical element to your work that took up loads of time (i’m thinking adding citations to essays but w/e) so he holes up in his office and writes a code that does it for you so you can “spend less time working and more time with him”

he’s so ?? 🥺🥺🥺

Sapnap

if it’s an easyish fix he’s your guy

sorts it out then feels all smug the rest of the day

(side note, his furrowed eyebrow concentration face is hot af. u can’t even think about being stressed w your laptop bc you’re drooling over him fs)

when it’s fixed he insists he deserves a reward 👀

(just like a kiss guys relax 😅)

however

if it’s really complicated chances are he’s gonna be even more frustrated than you were

“nah screw this it’s completely fucked, i’ll just buy you a new one baby”

if it really really needs fixing or you give him doe eyes about it (he’s fr fucking helpless to your doe eyes, like instant kill shot) he’ll secretly get dream to fix it then pretend he did it to get all the loving afterwards lmao

your lathering on the praise for “saving” your ass, sap’s basking in it, and dream’s just stood there in the kitchen trying so damn hard not to say anything like 🧍🏻

it’s killing him but he knows how down bad sap is for you so he lets him have it (best friend shit fr)

Sap will joke around loads afterwards about how you’d be lost without him but if you get all genuine like “it’s true, you look after me so good” he’s straight up gonna cry

George

definitely the best at computer stuff of the three

100% can fix even the most terrifying blue screen of death problem

but when you ask for his help fixing something he’s all “what’s in it for me?” bc he’s a dick lol

you have to promise him all sorts of things just for him to fix it in like 3 clicks

you’re just like “oh 🧍🏻 … i’ve been scammed”

“mmm not my problem, you agreed, you have to make dinner and give me kisses 😘 ”

(like you weren’t gonna do that anyway 🙄)

that’s unless you’re actually upset bc it’s messing with a deadline or something important

hit him with the waterworks and he just comes straight over and fixes it real fast

he’s all nonchalant about it too like “yeah no big deal ez clap uh huh” when you’re thanking him, read: absolutely smothering him in kisses

secretly loves it sm though and if you stop he’s all like “hmm, no. you’re not done. more please”

[babyyweebbitch]

Heyaa! I really like the way you write , please keep it up , you're great 😃👍 I have a little request : So how would they react if their S.O got hit by a car (she survives but she's still bedridden ) for Hanzo Hasashi, Kuai Liang, Bi Han, Kabal and whom you desire from the Mortal Kombat cast! You can ignore it if it makes you uncomfortable , I understand. I just really wanna take my mond off of everything XDD not the way I imagined it celebrate my birthday but ut could have been way worse. Thank you regardless! ❤️

hello! thank u for your request and i’m glad ur doing okay! these are gonna be separate little drabble so 🧍🏾‍♀️ get some popcorn (or tissue???) kabals is longer 🧍🏾‍♀️ this took a bit because i’m ✨stressed out✨

trigger warning : injury, slight angst (???), blood,

𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚣𝚘 𝙷.

“example” — Hanzo speaking

you were waiting at the side walk on your way to the grocery store from your doctors appointment, and as the light turned green you started to walk across, then that’s when your day went bad…. a car hit you from the side — it looked as if it was speeding which it was. the car stopped for a few seconds then sped off a hit and run. almost everyone who was around you at that time ran over to check if you were okay and when you didn’t respond 911 was called immediately.

after a few hours you woke up in a hospital bed and when you tried to move your arm you cried out in pain which alerted the man sitting next to you

“hey! hey hey, no! do not move — you are in the hospital my dear” hanzo spoke as he rushed to place your arm back down but very gently. you whined in pain as you looked over at him

“what …. happened….?” you asked as he sat down and gently petted your head. he was normally always gentle with you but now he was so gentle he never thought it was possible

“the doctors and a few others told me a car had hit you while you were walking…. the doctor told me you were passed out when they got there so they took you to the hospital immediately. they also said you have a broken arm, three broken ribs and a concussion. but you should be able to go home when you’re able to move around a bit” he spoke, his voice was so soft. you took in all this information

“and the person who hit me…? where are they?”

“a kind gentleman told me that the person drove off almost immediately….” his soft voice turned into anger now, he was making a fist with his free hand “when i find them…. they will pay for hurting my wife”

“hanzo….”

“my apologies, Watashi no hikari… but he will not get away with hurting you. please forgive me”

you had no energy to argue with him right now, so you just nodded and fell back to sleep. hanzo never left your side and when it was time for you to go home he was there by your side all hours of the day. he was so paranoid that the medication that was given to you didn’t work somehow and that you’d feel all the pain of your broken bones, even tho you say that you’re fine. whenever he had to leave he always makes sure someone is at the house with you and taking care of you until you are 100% again

𝙺𝚞𝚊𝚒 𝙻.

“example” — Kuai speaking

you and Kuai were having a nice day, this was one of his days off so he decided to go into the city with you. he never likes going into the city mainly because it was crowded and he isn’t that big of a fan of crowded spaces. throughout the day was you and him trying different sweet treats at the mall and then you had lunch at a small restaurant a very nice old man and his daughter owned. the food was amazing and now it was time to do another activity.

kuai had told you to start walking ahead as he paid and that he would catch up to you. as you started to walk across the side walk to the other side of the road a drunk driver had hit you, pretty hard too. you went unconscious almost immediately and was sent flying to the other side of the street. the driver tried to drive away but a crowd of people stopped him and started hitting his car.

kuai heard the noise of people yelling and stuff and he looked out the window to see what was happening. he saw a crowd of people at a car and another crowd in the middle of the intersection, someone had moved out the way a bit and he was able to see you laying on the floor and bleeding. he panicked and quickly ran out the restaurant to run towards you

he pushed a few people out the way to see what was going on and when he saw you laying there in the middle, bleeding and unconscious he panicked thinking you were dead. after a few hours you woke up in the hospital bed and you looked around to see what was around you, then you saw Kuai pacing back and forth, he seemed to have not noticed you woke up yet so you announced it

“kuai….?” you spoke, your voice seemingly brought him back to earth and he quickly rushed towards you

“huā! oh thank god you’re okay! i was worried” he sat down in the chair next to you and he gently placed his hand on your head and gently rubbed your forehead

“i have… no idea what happened….”

“some drunk idiot hit you — some people said you went unconscious immediately because of how hard he hit you. you have a broken leg, arm, a few broken ribs and a concussion”

he watched as you nodded and took in this information. after a few seconds he watched you fall back to sleep and he stood up to gently place a kiss on your forehead. he’ll wait until you’re able to go back home to take care of the drunk man.

about a week later you were able to go home with Kuai. he was around you almost all the time until you were fully healed or unless he was gone taking care of his work. he treated you like glass that was easily breakable with the slightest touch. once your leg has healed up he knew you were able to walk around more so he excused himself to take care of the drunk man who hit you — let’s not talk about that tho 😁

𝙱𝚒 𝙷.

“example” — bi han speaking

“example” — shadow speaking

you were out buying stuff for the house while Bi Han was sitting at home waiting for you to get home. he was worried about you leaving into the city all by yourself, but you said you would be okay by yourself. he started pacing back and forth thinking you were supposed to be back by now

“maybe we can go stalk her? follow her around to make sure she is okay?” bi hans shadow suggested from the couch

“shut up — she would kill us again.. she said she can handle herself so i trust her” he wanted to go follow you more than anything to be honest…. he wanted to make sure you were safe

“she is our wife though…. we have to protect her” after shadow said that Bi han immediately ran out the door to go find you. you were walking down the sidewalk so calmly like you were trying to figure out what store to go to.

bi han was peeping from around a corner. as you were crossing the street a car hit you from the side and the car immediately stopped causing the tires to screech. it’s almost like the world was in slow motion when you got hit, he rushed over to you and saw that you were still awake just had a broken arm and few scrapes from rolling on the floor a bit. he checked on you and then went to go give the person who hit you a ear full. the only thing that stopped him from getting violent was you begging him not to

“honey please! i wasnt looking when i was crossing the sidewalk — it’s more my fault than theirs!” you said as you stood up and dusted yourself off with your good arm. you had a pretty good pain tolerance, you’ve broken a lot of bones as a kid from being stupid or something so you barely even reacted to your arm being broken this time. you grabbed Bi han and had a chat with the person. you actually weren’t mad and said that they didn’t have to worry about anything. after your conversation you and Bi han walked to the nearby hospital

“we should have killed them!” shadow said as he walked beside you, staring at your injuries

“and if you did i would have killed you both. like i said, it was more my fault than theirs”

“but still! they hurt you!”

“let it go, they were obviously apologetic so shut it” you opened the door to the hospital and went to go tell the doctors what happened and that your arm is broken. the saw you immediately and took you back to clean out your injuries and take care of your arm. after about an hour or two you were able to go with Bi han

“we are not letting you leave the house again” he said making it sound like a joke but he really meant it…

𝙺𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚕

“example” — kabal speaking

you and kabal were walking home together and he saw a weapons shop with a window display that was showing knives. he has a knife collection at home and he saw a knife he’s been looking at for so long

“hey baby — i’m gonna go try and get this knife you go find a restaurant for us to eat at” he said, he recently did a job where he got a lot of money so he was treating the both of you that day, you nodded and he went into the shop to talk to the owner about the knife. you went to walk to the restaurant you’ve wanted to go to for so long. you started to walk across the side walk with a happy face

after a few seconds of walking a car hit you from the side, you rolled a bit and the car hit a tree across the street, then followed two cop cars, one stopped beside you and the other went to the person who hit you. the guy was arrested and two of the cops came to take care of you, you were hit so hard that you went unconscious almost immediately,

kabal came out and saw the scene, when he saw you on the floor unresponsive he panicked and ran towards you, asking the cop what happened. one of the cops tried to calm him down as the paramedics came, put you on the stretcher and tried to give you medical attention

“sir, we can’t have any civilians in the truck, we will try everything we can to save her” a cop told him

“s…. ‘save her’ is she dead?! the fuck do you mean save her?!”

“she is unresponsive, from what i could tell her heart beat was very slow. there are chances she might not survive, there are chances she will. we have to leave that to the doctors. you can follow us in your car or we can give you a ride there”

kabal just ran to the car and started it, he was so scared he was going to lose you, he felt his heart beating so fast and hard it felt like it was going 500 miles per hour. he followed the ambulance truck and was panicking the entire way there

about a few hours passed and kabal was waiting in the waiting room, pacing back and forth waiting for a doctor to come and tell him that you were okay. a nurse finally did come out

“okay… so, she’s okay. she’s responsive, she’s breathing and we were able to save her. she’s is going in and out a little bit because of the medication we had to give her but she’s okay. her heart did stop for about two or three minutes in the truck but we were able to bring her back” the nurse said, kabal let out a sigh of relief and sat down “you can go and see her in room 90, just beware she will fall asleep and wake up in the middle of a conversation for about a few hours”

he made his way to your room and he saw you tiredly wave to him with one hand before it plopped back down to the bed

“h-helloooooo…..~” you were so out of it kabal had to hold back his chuckle as he went to go sit beside your bed and gently rubbed your un-injured hand “i…. am soooooo….. fuckin high….” you said before giggling a bit before your head went back on your pillow

“yeah? i’m gonna have to ask the doctors to give me what you’re having” he joked just to make the situation a little better

“he…hehehe….haaahaaa *inhale* ooo…. ah….” and with that you fell asleep. he chuckled and he stayed with you until you woke back up again. every conversation you had each time you woke up was about something completely different each time. one conversation was about rainbows, the other was about a random bird you saw out the window, another one was about taxes.

kabal REALLY wants what the doctors gave you now

[kazewhara]

first order of business. i was scrolling my way to this ask and. you said ur birthday is in 13 days. im gonna need confirmation that u mean the 14th and also what do u want ,, if u have a writing request or u want some music or smth i will bring it to u <3

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS I . i. let me just crawl under my bed rq. i used ur albedo valentines fic as inspiration for writing some of the scenes bc i wanted a similar ish vibe some of the time. u don’t need to grow up to be like me bc u have ur own writing style that is brilliant and amazing, and yes i’m dodging ur compliment bc idk how to respond . but i rlly do mean it. ur writing is already a marvel on its own

YELLING NOT THE QUIZZES?? PLS DID IT GO OKAY??

that would scare the shit out of me oh my god? im so glad it’s not covid, are you gonna be okay?

yesterday was. stressful bc of hw and today is. the same,, bc i got behind schedule and . now i am wrestling w all my tasks and trying to get everything back on track and not drown 👍 i think i can do it,,,

HOW IS TODAY GOING ( ˘ ³˘)♥︎

oh no no, it's in 12 days now! jean is the 14th, i'm the 13th! also ,,,, you could write anything about kazu, albedo, or xiao and i'd just like . i'd die . literally anything, i would actually start sobbing

ALSO OI

NO DODGING COMPLIMENTS ON MY WATCH, YOU BETTER TAKE THIS AFFECTION /lh

also i'm fine! i just have a cold due to fluctuating temperatures -- i got Extra Tested today so i'm fine, save for like . the annoying chest pain and congestion 🧍🏾

you can do it, yes u can :D but try not to get swept under all the tasks, take it a little at a time so as to not get overwhelmed!

and today is... meh 🚶🏾s'kinda complicated these days