#me at work: cant come in im sick

[garbagequeer]

i cant come into work today boss i have to Realize

[bunnyboy-juice]

awawawawawawa

[fizzytoo]

"do you like it?" "darling, i love it."

[thedeafprophet]

anyway I've come to realize social media has an affect on how I approach my art and I'm currently mentally working through how I feel about that 🤔

[ragnars-tooth]

so very quick and sketchy but i was getting vague designs for all the tldc ladies down in one place

not so sure on gwendolen and gwilanna and i havent looked back at the books for details yet but these were just a quick cool down for the night 🫶

[bonefall]

Did you man beam Drizzle? If so, why not just pair up Rustle with Cranberry instead? I get for the amazing ship name but I'm curious about the choice /gen

I totally forgot Drizzle's original gender, but also, I really don't want to overthink it. I'm so tired of overthinking it. I wanted CranberryDrizzle funny ship name and it was getting exhausting to plan out where every pairing in several hundred cats would be getting their kits from

Rustle is going to die at some point after having two QR kittens, and Cranberrydrizzle is going to have 2 important litters (Sunstrike and Emberfoot in the first, Fernstripe in the second). I have done an exhausting amount of work (weeks of planning and hours of work at a time, scouring the wiki and facebook screenshots, redrawing tangles, reading through suggestions, writing out full posts of changes and creating new groups with their own histories) untangling broken fragments of family trees and like... I'm tired. No more shuffling. I deserve Funny Ship Name. is this too much to ask

Boy Drizzle is just the easiest answer. I'd like for Drizzle to just be transfem but I was also told to avoid cats being trans just to have kits, which is ALSO frustrating me at this point, I don't like this weight of "perfect representation" that's being put on me when I'M not even perfect representation as a living human queer.

Do I let Drizzle be transfem and "break a rule," or change them to a boy and "lose" a lesbian pairing? It feels gross to me to have fallen into a mindset where I'm treating queer relationships like quotas or rigid rulesets

I feel like if I 'get something wrong' (like forget the gender of a Missing Kit or a side character, or handwave 'where did these kits come from' with 'trans/queen's rights' without considering a real secret surrogate) I'm going to get smacked upside the head and be forced to hyperfocus on one small part of a massive project when I already have a million other things to work on.

So unfortunately the most honest answer I can probably give is that im tired. I'm really tired. Overthinking minor details before making every single tumblr post is draining me. I forgot the missing kit's original author-assigned gender and didn't scroll to the bottom of Onestar's wiki page to check it before posting. I like the ship name. Cranberrysplash somehow gets pregnant twice, but I was told to avoid trans bioparents, yet doing that is making things even harder after I had to do weeks of work to make a good tree in the first place

I'll figure out Drizzlefall's gender when they become relevant in some context

[immortalsins]

never goibg to the club again for real this time

[lepetitfruit]

Co-worker: yeah I'm sick today :/ I feel so sick

Me, externally: awww nooo I hope you get better soon!!

Me, internally: what the fuck!!!! Why are you here! At work! At a RESTAURANT!!! while you are sick!!!!

[joleneghoul]

If you knowingly go in public sick/contagious you just really dont give a fuck if immunocompromised people live or die or at the very least dont care if we suffer. Fuck!!

[angelstrawbabie420]

grief will have you saying shit like goddamn and fuck maybe the abuse was worth it

[sparklehoard]

😶

[softshuji]

eldest daughter syndrome really do be kicking my ass tbh

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

im still dealing with the consequences of my accident - where i fell down five meters and was almost paralysed meaning i had to get emergency surgery on my spine but i also broke my foot which has enforced my already existing back and posture issues - leading to pain and sometimes debilitating pain. yet my doctor says there is no chance this is recognised as a disability which would mean i get special worker protection which i feel i need because im being guilt-tripped and not believed and probably soon to be fired at both my jobs because i have to call in sick every now and then due to sitting at a desk on the computer literally causing me pain. this is making me suicidal again, despite being on antidepressants. i already had health issues before the accident especially mental health so now im just super hopeless and anxious for the future

edit: i have a decent support net in my life and soon to start therapy so please dont worry about me, i just need to vent my frustration and feelings sometimes! i appreciate everyone reaching it out a lot though!

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

sickening that i so badly want to call off work & have even set it up so that i will have the easiest time doing it. and i dont care about this job. and yet. the horrors persist

[guinevereslancelot]

not to be ungrateful but i don't get paid enough at my job lol

[hotnfreshtakes]

it will forever annoy me to no end how many people i encounter on a daily basis who have a cough- not just happen to cough once or twice while im around them, like it's clearly a persistent thing- and just. it doesn't even seem to occur to them to wear a mask. like i get that the General Public(tm) has become pretty lazy about masking, and i think it's a hard sell convincing anyone like that to start masking daily again. but when you're sick?? obviously sick? how does it not come to your mind to wear a mask i genuinely dont get it. how is this not common sense. did we not all live through covid together. whats going on. i feel like im going crazy