#office off the kitchen

[fybethditto]

Transitional Home Office in Kansas City Example of a mid-sized transitional built-in desk medium tone wood floor home office design with gray walls

[essektheylyss]

I love when spiders descend from on high like a heist movie infiltrator. It's so melodramatic, and for what. Do you need a soundtrack to go with that, bro?

[spotaus]

Thinking I might redesign and/or finally design a smarter base for ec-4o!Dust. Because a farm-house is funny, but doesn't make much sense anymore.

So, I think it's smarter to have an old government base as his location. It'd have good space for storage when Blue eventually comes along, a bunch of old firearms for Dust's obsession, and would be a safe and defensible location as long as Dust's Paps keeps an eye out for intruders. It makes sense for a lot of plot points too, and adds an extra symbolic layer?

Like, Dust being there, he wasn't familiar with the government so he just clears out and burns whatever is left in the "office space" so he can make it into a house. He patrols the other two or three buildings every once in a while, but for some reason he doesn't know, folks avoid the place like the plague. He lives the solitary life he wanted.

Then Blue shows up, and he lets him and Rust share the space with him, for supplies and money in turn. Society is rebuilding, and Dust is gonna need to catch up. Blue has no clue why it's intimidating for his shop to be set up in an old government lab. He's unaware of the implications, but he's such a friendly guy that customers eventually warm up to him. The scariness of the government is lessened, because the old government that destroyed the country is gone, and now there's a kind soul helping others in its place. Rebuilding trust and comradery unknowingly.

And later on when other characters interact with the space, it gets Life in a way it never had. When Ink gets his hands on it and paints murals on the walls of the workshop in vibrant colors. Saejun is my favorite, because when he moves in, the other extra workshop is transformed into a garden, a green-house. He does hydroponics and breathes life slowly but surely back into the dead dirt, flowers cracking through the concrete style. It's a bright green spot that branches out in all directions like veins. Plants grow up the sides of the office, and harmless nature-creatures reside there.

When Cross, and Error, and Night and Dream find this place, when they're repaired, it has very little life. They're afraid of the war just as the organics are. Will it happen again? Are these people tampering with our codes? But no. They get to see this place turn into a home. Shelter others. Recreate lost things from scratch. It's a paradise they never got to see in their lifetimes. It was never in their calculations.

And then when Geno and Reaper show up. Geno, a guy who'd been stripped of his whole life, forced to start and finish a war that took millions of lives. The answers he seeks are all in an old government building, a place that ruined his life. He swore he'd see things to the end, though, so he approaches it expecting the worst. And instead of government officials that somehow escaped his vengeful wrath, he finds a ragtag group of monsters and robots, who are living peacefully in the location. Some of them resent him for what he did, but others accept him with open arms. He's not sure how to react for a long time. The belief that something good prospered through the war us unthinkable.

Then Reaper. He's under the belief that tech is his enemy. He was raised to resent the robots, even before the war. The war only proved his family right. And so seeing this place, with robots living freely? It made him furious. He'd been stripped of his weapons after attempting an attack, though, so he had to bide his time. And yet, the longer he stayed, the more he heard of each robot's story. How they were manipulated, and had their very essence altered. Their bodies and functions forced to do something they never wanted to. That struck a bit closer to home. But it was Saejun and Axe that really hit hard for him. Axe was raised in a Cult. That was what he'd called it. One that made him believe things that harmed him. One that forced him to do things against his will. For everyone else this was a place of relaxation, but for Axe it was a place of healing. And Reaper realized, begrudgingly, that Axe's story felt a lot like his own. And maybe, just maybe, he might've been in the wrong.

And idk this place that once brought so much fear, a place where robots were customized for a horrible war? One that Dust barely survived, one that Blue was too young to remember, one that everyone either participated in or was forced to live through? The place that started it all heals the damage done by it. Smth smth story symbolism?

Oh, one last thing: Lust's recovery was initially meant to be in a hidden room of the farm-house, but now I'm thinking there was a scrap room in the warehouses that no one ever got to, and Lust was put in there because his model was just too impractical for the remodeling for war-machines. There's a lot in that room like him, but he's the only one with his files still in his ecto. So, his experience with this place is jarring too. Last he remembered, he was being ushered into a building with other ectos, and they were being scrapped. Now he wakes up in the same location, but none of that horror is to be seen, instead replaced with a bright workshop and even brighter eyes looking him over worriedly. He was freed from his programming constraints while Blue worked on him, so he has to learn to be an actual person, and this place he was sent to to become a pile of scraps became his first real home.

[dayurno]

i want to see. kevin day operating adobe illustrator. kevin day trying to figure out adobe creative suite without previous instruction. kevin day installing windows. kevin day trying to use linux

[mydream-synopsis]

rediscovered the joy that ikea brings today

[lilgynt]

why my mom can’t flush or wash her hands is beyond me

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Actually obsessed with my new coworker at the farm ajdkalsl

[worstloki]

*guy who is really passionate about advocating for a 3-day weekend at any cost voice* can we really call the nation secular if Shabbat and Lord's Day are recognised days off but Jumu'ah isn't?

[natjennie]

havers' silly little "I dont think they'll be here just yet sir" when cap panics about france surrendering.. god it just reeks of fondness. the waves of adoration I can feel from that line. the late nights doing paperwork and sharing brandy, the stolen smiles across lawn as they set up the cricket field, the longing stares through windows. I can see them, I can hear them. because of that fucking line. "I don't think they'll be here just yet sir" and his cheeky little smirk. that is the face of a man thinking "he's so stupid. i can't believe I'm gonna fuck him"

[bambino1294]

and when I get out of this FUCKING HOUSE

[angel-derangement]

when I was in high school I never got a single detention or suspension or any kind of write up but I used to skip playing sport to climb through the roof space in the abandoned medieval themed restaurant that housed our music and drama department and when I was done I’d walk out past the drama teacher’s office and ask her if she had any biscuits.

[absentmoon]

i like benny

[sheyshen]

planning out a bunch of errands to do this coming week whether or not my friend is able to help me, so already preparing myself for the inevitable back pain spike after getting, putting together and moving a few shelving units by myself haha.

[paralien]

How much pokemon can I play at work instead of working local fool thinks

[wookieejamcrew]

the through line between the grand inquisitor's death and brendol having "gone to pasture" afterwards (we still don't know if he ever learned that he died since lt. chiron says his death was top-secret intel. he might've noticed that it was after their argument he just. stopped coming to arkanis. boo hoo sad.) is a steel wire galvanized by his reaction to rae exercising her dominance over him in empire's end. in this essay i will

[shiningstages]

Me lookin' at my lil content: d'aaaaaaaw it's so cute~

I wanted to do stuff before work, but I like blanked out since I'm sleepy (went to bed around 1? 2?? then woke up at 7:11; not terrible but not like Great) then did my required stretchies / looked up stuff for things~ Tomorrow I have my last PT session and follow-up, and then I plan on cleaning my room / generally just chilling out since it has been Forever, but now...I will try and schedule in time for OC thoughts today and tomorrow (still have to decide if Atlas would be primal or astral...and maybe compare some story stuff to make sure it's not stepping on any Canon toes...but maybe we also don't care about that second bit ghffjghfgvcccgkhf).