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scopescaffolding · 2 years ago
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Tower and Chimney Scaffolding Projects | Commercial & Residential
Tower and Chimney Scaffolding Projects is a company that provides scaffolding services for commercial and residential clients. They specialize in providing customized solutions for tower and chimney scaffolding projects, ensuring safe and efficient access to elevated areas for construction, maintenance, and repair purposes. With a team of skilled and experienced professionals, they ensure that all scaffolding is erected, maintained, and dismantled according to the latest industry standards and regulations. Whether it’s for a small residential project or a large-scale commercial undertaking, Tower and Chimney Scaffolding Projects offers reliable and cost-effective solutions tailored to their clients’ specific needs.
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duskydrawings · 1 year ago
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GIRL HELP I have CREATED A CHARACTER before fleshing out the storyline and now I've become TOO ATTACHED to change certain aspects of them, or god forbid — SCRAP THEM, for the sake of IMPROVED STORYTELLING
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orcelito · 1 month ago
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Worst thing about having taken business classes is that I see people complain about bullshit companies are pulling and a part of my brain goes "Oh, that's an effective tactic for cost reduction" or something around those lines. And then the part of my brain that is Not a wannabe businessman is just like "Bro."
#speculation nation#or anything on data management or anything like that. bfkshfmsbd#been learning about company perspectives and what have you. unfortunately i understand businesses more than i ever planned to.#such is the IT major at my school </3 i did already finish my business classes already#but im in data governance class now which deals a lot with the ways companies handle their data.#learning about policies and harm reduction tactics and data lifecycles and what have you#looking at the scaffolding of a company's data system and recognizing just how fragile it all is.#a side effect of all this is me feeling less angry about websites trying to make money.#advertisements and subscription services are aggravating. but hosting a website is *expensive*.#if they cant at least break even then the website is a resource drain and isnt sustainable in the long run.#not unless it's a damned passion project of a bigger conglomerate. and you'll find those are exceedingly rare.#so im annoyed by advertisements as much as the next person. but if theyre kept relatively unobtrusive then i dont mind them too much.#now ads that pop up to cover the whole screen. or god forbid youtube's unskippable 30+ second ads#THOSE are so obnoxious. the youtube ads especially.#had a few of those some weeks back when prepping my presentation that had me wanting to tear my hair out.#30+ seconds and NO SOUND EITHER. literally ridiculous.#anyways im definitely not a business sympathizer Especially when it comes to predatory practices#but for those more daily functions kinds of things... idk man sometimes these things just gotta happen.
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w-corp-clerk-anon · 6 months ago
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Now that we have Aisle Q back, we now have to prepare for "that time of the year" it comes with upsides and downsides Upsides: -We can purge out those 'phobic bastards from the company -Use our customized uniforms without being judged by the passangers (they told me that the purples in mine really matches my hair) -Some of our seniors will bring us matching stuff depending on our orientation -The food, you should see the food, while is a shame that is only for the month, the food in the other districts cafes is wort it, wont say more but with any luck you can get a good cup with your flag Downsides: -We don't get to vote this year's logo, this is due to a past incident where they sabotaged the votes and choose one that went against the company policies. -Too many posters to change in the station, this is why we are being told beforehand to start preparing everything, the station is too big and sometimes we aren't enought people. -Despise having custom uniforms we still have to use our basic vests due to the materials used on them being hard to dye, annd the part that they're expensive too. -Nest-dwellers aren't fun to deal with, specially if they are on the extremist side of that ancient ideology.
I could list more on the downsides but that can take the entire day, but you know the drill, there is never enougth time.
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s2z · 2 years ago
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Coode Island, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2023-01-29 16:26:49 by stuart murdoch
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explode-this · 3 months ago
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Having a minor existential crisis this morning about being a decent writer but also having severe adhd which means I have all of these little bits of actually good writing and a miraculous ability to critique and assist in editing yet I couldn’t finish the degree that would give me the piece of paper that assures any prospective employer or contractor that I’m smart and good at what I do (primarily: following instructions and putting words together) and also I have no body of work to demonstrate said skills so basically
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erstwhilesparrow · 1 year ago
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[voice of someone considering a deeply inadvisable project] i mean, i could actually be more directed about learning how to write smut, i have works i consider good examples, i've successfully achieved verisimilitude about kink stuff in the past just by doing a lot of googling, i could take notes about it,
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raogbl · 2 years ago
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A scaffold provides masons with a safe platform to work on as the building's height rises. Scaffolding is a temporary structure for supporting several platforms that workers can use as required.
When walls, columns, or other structural members of a building exceed 1.5 m in height, temporary structures must be built to support a platform when the workmen can sit and continue working.
Scaffolding is a temporary structure, usually made of steel or timber, built very close to the surface of a wall. All components of the scaffold should be checked thoroughly before use to ensure safety and integrity.
The use of aluminum scaffolding in construction, remodeling, and repair projects has increased dramatically in recent years. As a result of its plethora of benefits, you are also seeing its use in related industries and projects, such as railways, ports, fire protection, aviation, and telecommunications.
Aluminum Scaffolding Types
Narrow Scaffolding
Historically, scaffold towers had to be built in tight spaces, such as small, constrained spaces. Construction work at height can be done with these narrow scaffolding single width towers, which have one platform per level, regardless of space constraints. Because they are easy to erect and dismantle, they save time and money, as well as boost productivity.
Bridge Scaffolding
Scaffolds are very useful when you need to perform maintenance or repairs over a large area. The aluminum scaffold platform will enable you to work over a spread area without having to take it down and re-erect it several times.
Z Type Stairway Scaffolding
Using a Z type scaffolding system makes your construction work faster, more efficient and labor saving. You can also work at different elevations with the help of guardrails and a functioning stair system. 280mm and 560mm rung spacing’s are available depending on load and budget requirements.
Extra Reach Scaffolding
Due to the higher height of these scaffold towers, laborers are able to reach higher areas. All sides have handrails to provide safety, and frame rungs provide easy climbing. For convenience and ease of storage in warehouses, scaffold towers also come with wheels.
Without Stairway Scaffolding
Because this type of scaffold does not require stairs, it is easy to set up and move around. These aluminum products are very durable and sturdy due to their non-corrosive and non-ferrous aluminum characteristics.
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wuggen · 27 days ago
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Blech. Things are so much simpler when you don't care about efficiency. But caring about efficiency is so much fun! Until it isn't.
The programmer has engineered herself into a corner once again!
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dontmixpaintinyourcoffee · 1 month ago
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Things I Can't Stop Thinking About Since the Gravity Falls Renaissance; An Overly Long Compilation
• It's mostly a joke-y cartoon thing but holy shit Dipper wakes up screaming kind of a lot??? How long has he been doing that for?? How long will he *be* doing it for??
• Stan had to basically teach himself advanced physics and complex multidimensional theories. He had the advantage of the portal mostly being built and having a bunch of the notes post-Bill, but still!! He had to learn how to operate the damn thing! I highly doubt Ford wrote about the portal in the same accessible manner he wrote about cryptids, especially as he spiraled into paranoia. The machinations of the portal weren't meant to be shared with the layperson, it just wouldn't be practical information for most people to have.
(also notable that he went through the whole process of learning how to operate the portal not only through pages and pages of dense code, but with the background of a 1970s highschool education and literally nothing else that would be relevant. Ford works really hard, but this is also stuff that comes to him very naturally. Designing a functioning portal wasn't the hard part. The hard part was getting the idea for the portal in the first place and knowing what to do with it. This shit is so ridiculously advanced and Stan is not an academic mind by any means. No wonder it took 30 years, he had to keep up a fake life and fund his project while grinding away at advanced quantum physics interdimensional whatever science wizard nonsense. I think about those 30 years a lot.)
• It doesn't really get addressed, but I think about Wendy being "super stressed out, like, all the time!" A lot. God, can you imagine living in the same house as Manly Dan? Let alone being the only girl there? Especially depending on when their mom left/died, she probably felt incredibly alone for a lot of her teen years. And given the Apocalypse Training it doesn't seem like Manly Dan is the most stable parent either.
• Stan, Ford, and Wendy could probably bond over having shitty holidays (and subsequently being forced into having awesome holidays when Mabel found out.) Filbrick took Stan and Ford to get free cinder block samples for Hanukkah, and the Corduroys did apocalypse training every year instead of Christmas.
• Pacifica still hears the voice of the Lumberjack ghost in her nightmares, but it's implied on the website that the Lumberfolk spirits have actually declared her under their protection since the events of Northwest Mansion Mystery. That means one of two things: that the ghost in her dreams is just her own guilt-ridden brain, or that the ghost has been appearing in her dreams to try and help her. I think about both options frequently.
• Stan struggles a lot of the time with physical activity, but that's mostly to do with age. He's actually really goddamn strong (beating down the zombies, punching a pterodactyl in the face, grabbing Ford and hoisting him up off the ground no problem, scaling scaffolding and holding the twins up by a rope one-handed). This makes the fact that Wendy beat him in an arm wrestling contest three times in a row way funnier.
• The way the Stans were almost definitely completely willing to beat a random guys ass so that Waddles could get on that bus. Stanford "Your math is no match for my gun you idiot!" Pines implicitly threatened to shoot a stranger with a Weird Sci-Fi Firearm for his great-niece. Stanley is even more direct. There is no confusing what brass knuckles will to to you. I also absolutely believe that they were not bluffing. One of them would've stolen the bus if the guy had mysteriously fallen unconscious due to unforseen circumstances.
• According to Soos, Tad Strange is crushing hard on Woodpecker Guy. Is this general town knowledge? Does everybody know that the Woodpecker marriage is on the rocks? How does one divorce a woodpecker? Alternatively, how does one get divorced *by* a woodpecker? Does Tad have a chance? Is this a small town scandal? Mr. Hirsch inquiring minds want to know. Has Toby Determined written a gossip column on this drama yet. Get your head in the game, Toby
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qqueenofhades · 6 months ago
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Hoping you can explain this because you’re smart but why in the world are the same people who scream about a labor shortage worried about the border and immigration? Isn’t more people coming to our country a good thing if we train them properly to fill vacant positions (a lot of which are service jobs anyway)?
Alas, you are forgetting what is quite possibly the chief shibboleth of Western white supremacy/far-right nationalism: that all people from other countries, especially *gasp* the brown ones, are invaders, murderers, job-stealers, polluters of the (white) body politic, etc, and that under no circumstances should they be invited or allowed to stay. This isn't just an American thing; witness the Tories in the UK salivating over the idea of torturing migrants, trying to shut down any legal migration routes even with the employment black hole caused by Brexit, steadfastly denying that their workforce problems have anything to do with Brexit, steadfastly denying that they need to loosen immigration rules, etc. This is also the case with the European right/far right, the Australian far right, and anywhere else in the world that has historically been built on systems of white colonization, white supremacy, and other racial and legal scaffolds of privilege and exclusion. The white people who come to a country and settle it are bringing "civilization" and therefore should be welcomed and encouraged, but the non-white people who already lived there are "savages" and need to be exterminated for the good of the "master race." If they try to come back to the (white) nation state after their homelands were colonized, moreover, they are "invaders" who just want to "soak up the money of hard-working citizens" and etc etc.
The core fascist hatred of immigrants is also why Trump is directly echoing Hitler's anti-immigrant rhetoric with his "poisoning the blood of America" screeds, his promise to round up and deport migrants en masse, and otherwise be as massive of a dick as possible. The fact that there's no economic benefit and indeed a lot of economic pain is entirely beside the point. Trump and his deranged followers like the cruelty and the idea of torturing brown people for daring to come to "their" (white) America, and think that if they can be outrageously monstrous enough, this will finally deter all the other ones from coming. It won't, and no globalized economy will run without immigrants, but again, this isn't the point. Reality or pragmatic calculations have nothing to do with it. It's only about what can cause the maximum amount of cruelty and chaos to everyone who doesn't wholeheartedly worship and fit the (white) fascist model. That's why the Republicans yelled about wanting a border bill before they'd fund Ukraine; the Democrats obligingly gave them one with some of the toughest restrictions in years, and the Republicans yelled and threw it away because Dear Leader Trump told them to trash it. In some sense this is a good thing, because it meant that Ukraine got funded without being beholden to performative partisan cruelty at the border, but it also shows that they don't actually care about any of this. They have bluntly stated in so many words that they want a manufactured crisis at the border so Trump will have it as a campaign issue. Then he can take office and implement all his terrible concentration camps and all the other genocidal fascist bullshit of Project 2025 (bUt bIdEn iZ thE wOrsE oPtiOn!!!!!)
So: yeah. There's no point looking for any actual consistency or logic in the modern far right, because that is so far from the actual aim. No matter if migrants are essential, no matter if Americans literally won't take many of the jobs they do, etc. I live in a big city that has had a ton of migrants coming here and have read many, many news articles about how all they want to do is get a work permit, make their own money, learn English, and integrate into American culture; they are often far more positive about the prospects of America than actual Americans. But because the entire project of a (white) fascist ethnostate as advocated by Trump and co. in America, the Tories/Reform in the UK, and the far-right European parties, Russia, and other places (this is all connected worldwide -- again, it's not limited to one country or region), rests on demonizing (brown) immigrants as subhuman scroungers who come to rape, murder, steal jobs, and otherwise threaten (white) law-abiding citizens, that will always win out above every single other consideration.
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team-frightfur · 11 months ago
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Thanks to the colour palette choice it also looks like she's facing down Yuri (and I guess her 'guilt in her 'responsibility' in her own mind). It's nicely symbolic and full of double meanings! Nice A+ work. Also forgot to mention but I love the addition of heartlands insane streets. I can see them lurking in the bg. No safety rails. Death city.
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Birds and Stones.
#I really like how you drew the war torn skyline of heartland#it hits different having seen zexal#the way those isolated buildings with their tall towers and smooth shapes stick out like nails#but theyre all cracked up with the scaffolding (bones) showing#you can really feel the city itself bleed#the cloudy sky is also rly well done#the choice to keep a consistent purple/pink palette for ruri (I dont know why they made her yellow shes so clearly pink/purple) also works#bc the sense of ruriness to the skyline adds to her misconception that its her fault#like her guilt is hanging over it#next page is also great#you cant see her eyes but her mouth and the little frustration squiggles say enough#also I adore adore adore the way you drew her hair#the way it spins up and circles into the bun is just hnnnnngh#ruri has the prettiest hair and you make that so clear its so huhebibrrb#is this an au? is that why Yuri has scales and fangs#or is that just a neat headcanon?#is that why his ears are darker too?#either way I like how her hatred of yuri is subtly projected on herself to show split responsibility#his hood mirrors her hair#his scales mirror her freckles#his pink bangs mirror her pink bangs#they both have lipstick (but different colours)#both have eyes of the same shade#they both even have earrings (with yuris being a starving venom reference)#but its the differences that truly matter (show she's not at fault)#namely that he has the sadist smile#guy is living his best life and she is NOT#and then the already established frustration symbol reappears with Ruri having a defiant back stance#the hint of the duel disk#the wing that wants to be free and take off
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You know what would be a CRAZY wild card?
Picture this. It's session 5 or 6. Most people are on yellow or red. All the reds are teaming up together to take down the last few greens (almost certainly Gem and Joel). Suddenly, the wild card activates, and on every player's screen:
+3 Lives!
Well, isn't that a relief! A little mid-season shot in the arm. Now it's just like the beginning of the season, with the Tuff Guys rebuilding their mathematically perfectly positioned towers, and the Bamboozlers going back to building their theme park. Scar accidentally falls off the scaffolding- classic Scar. Maybe Bdubs gets caught unawares and gets a trident in the back. Normal hijinks.
Then, at the one hour mark of the session:
The grace period is now over. -1 Life
Mass panic ensues. Anyone who was red before who has since died knows instantly what this means. All projects are abandoned. Skizz and Tango are on the warpath. One hour later:
All debts must be repaid. -1 Life
Any reds die instantly, struck out of existence in one fell swoop. A new horde of panicking reds takes their place. In a panic, Mumbo turns on Grian and is struck down in self defense. Scott is too late in giving his life to Cleo; now they're dead and Ren swoops in to kill him while he's weak. Finally:
The status quo must be restored. -1 Life
And what was supposed to be a brief morale booster turns into a bloodbath
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godsfavoritescientist · 8 months ago
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An as-of-yet unnamed AU where instead of being Ford's muse, Bill appears to Fiddleford and convinces him to build the portal.
The conversation in the last 2 images continues under the cut:
Fiddleford relaxed all at once, giving Ford a too-wide smile. Then, he opened his eyes one eyelid at a time. “You’ve been a real good friend! And I have a lot of friends, so that’s saying something!” He let out a short laugh. “You wanna know what I’m working on? It’s something that’s gonna usher in an era of world peace! You might not believe it, but no one else would believe you if you told them you’ve just uncovered an ancient alien crash site, would they now? So be a pal and suspend your disbelief!”
Ford felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. There was something… something he couldn’t put his finger on… something that flashed in the corner of his eye…
Ford swallowed. “Okay. It’s religious project. But what is it?”
Fiddleford threw a casual arm around Ford. “I think it’ll be easier if I show you!”
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They walked down a corridor lined wall to wall, floor to ceiling with computers running endless calculations. They bathed the whole room in flickering green light, as words scrolled rapidly across screen after screen after screen, their glowing surfaces reflecting in Fiddleford’s glasses as he walked ahead of Ford, with a confidently uncoordinated stride that made Ford wonder if he was drunk. Ford glanced at the screens, catching bits and pieces of words as Fiddleford rushed by in the black-and-green light. “Probability of Event 4.23A, Probability of Event 23.652C, Probability of Event 1.9C…” dozens of numbers that looked like coordinates… thousands of statistical probability equations being run over and over again…
Fiddleford punched in a seven-digit code on the front of a huge metal door at the end of the corridor. When he swung it open, it revealed a room that looked like something out of a movie, or a nightmare. He stood before a sea of gigantic red raising platforms that Fiddleford effortlessly jumped around on, inputting some kind of code based on the symbols on the squares, until the moving platforms went still.
They moved on into a simple, warmly-lit room with coat racks full of red robes lining the walls, and foam mats stacked in the corner with eyes embroidered on them.
And then, at last, they entered what appeared to be their destination. This room was gigantic, and frigidly cold. The walls and floors were all made of metal. And at the center of the room, a machine towered over them. It was part metal and part unfinished scaffolding. A huge upside-down triangle with a hole in the middle of it, like a great big maw.
Fiddleford gestured at it with a grin. “My magnum opus! A portal directly to god.”
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theenbyroiderer · 1 year ago
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In the lull between fiber projects I'll just post another tutorial. Though this one is less a tutorial and more vague guidelines. There are parts that I can't really tell you how to do and I'm sure there are details that I don't have photos of... but I'll try to describe the process as best I can, and just hope that my words can fill in the gaps. Just ask if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them.
Materials: Cotton fabric, durable, not too thin. Pipe cleaners. Off white cotton thead. Off white wool yarn, a couple different thicknesses is preferable. One shorter and one longer needle, both sharp. (I used sashiko needles, one ~4cm and one ~6 cm.) Felting needles, for the top of the skull. Various green shades of wool yarn, perle, and other threads, for the foliage.
Step by step instructions:
1. Make a skull out of pipe cleaner. Just do it, I can't tell you how.
2. Find something to fill your skull with. I filled mine with a bundle of orts (thread scaps), so in my mind this skull will forever be known as Ort-For-Brains. I stitched around and through the bundle of orts a bit so that it was less a random tangle and more of a solid round shape. Then I tucked the orts into the skull and stitched the skull to the fabric with just a few stitches (using a durable cotton thread) around the edge. Make sure you fill the space inside the skull completely. Underneath the face of the skull the brains poked out a bit, so I did some stitches with the cotton thread there to hold the orts down. Another filler may be easier to work with, but I just couldn't resist the though of using colorful orts as brains...
3. Stitch over the pipe cleaner scaffold using wool yarn. I can't tell you exactly how to do this either, and depending on the shape of your scaffold you might encounter different challenges. Just be methodic, and don't overthink it. Use a thicker yarn, or more strands, on the top of the skull, and thinner/fewer strands when you are doing the face. When doing the face I'd say start with the eye sockets because they dominate the face. Stitch outwards from them, as if the sockets are suns and the thread sunbeams, if you get what I mean.
4. When you have stitched to your heart's content you may want to felt parts of the skull to make it smoother. I did anyway. I took bits of wool yarn and carded them a bit to make them less yarn-shaped and more like little sheets of wool, then I used felting needles to poke them into place on the top of the skull. If you have actual rowing wool, use that, it's probably better.
5.When you are satisfied with the skull you can do whatever you want with it of course. I added foliage. Techniques I used for that include: turkey stitch, drizzle stitch, woven picot stitch, bullion stitch and french knots.
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dronebiscuitbat · 30 days ago
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Oil is Thicker Then Blood (Part 95)
The addition of a second, third and forth pod meant that the frame of the escape shuttle was finally beginning to take place, aluminum and titanium wrapped around in a welded cylinder and thrusters mounted at the back to push it out of Copper-9s atmosphere.
It was mounted on steel scaffolding, facing the sky in all it's patchworked glory as worker drones dotted around it welding peices together and double- triple checking that everything was done to the best of their ability.
There could be no test flights or second chances- this had to work first time.
Along with the framework of the shuttle came month 5 of Uzi's pregnancy, along with N's birthday.
Which was today.
N was now officially twenty years old- an adult by everyone's standards and solidly out of the ‘almost adult’ limbo he'd been stuck in a couple years.
N fought vehemently against any sort of party for his big day, preferring that focus remained on the construction effort, he could celebrate when they were in space… safe.
That… may have had something to do with how possessive he'd been over Uzi lately… he couldn't bare to patrol too far from her, his sweeps getting into tighter and tighter circles.
He'd felt territorial around her since… well, since she'd gotten pregnant. But now it felt like all his sensors were dialed up to eleven at all times, alert to every little sound, movement, change in the air.
Like his entire body was in constant anticipation, waiting for… something.
Knowing J was still out there wasn't helping, every nerve in his body alight as he paced on all fours on the roof of the building that inhabited their nest- which they had both been spending much, much more time in since the baby started moving.
He wasn't the only one exhibiting this pacing, expecting behavior either, Uzi was doing much of the same, though slightly differently- in the form of collecting everything even remotely warm and soft and piling it in the nest and then obsessively rearranging the inside over and over again.
She was still working on the ship, sure. Her blueprints were the ones being used for it's construction, she was in the workshop every single day to either plan the next expedition for another pod, or to work on welding the frame together herself. But the second the work was done it's like they were both taken over by the urge to just… pace.
V was also struggling to contain her baser instincts, though in a different way- she was bringing food up into the nest, most of the time a scavenged limb or head (that did always end up eaten or drunk in it's entirety after everyone else was asleep) and fighting back the desire to pull Uzi into a session of grooming and preening that they would both find embarrassing.
Thad and Lizzy were less affected- Though both took up the habit of escorting Uzi everywhere she went like a pair of especially loyal gaurd dogs. Though now they were sleeping in the nest less and less, N was starting to urge them to sleep at home instead, keeping the nest occupied by three the majority of the time.
Which, finally, brought us to this very moment- V out on patrol/hunting for spare parts while Uzi took a break from adjusting every aspect of the nest to try and get her kit to play.
The incident at the playdate had Tera quiet, silently playing with her bat plushie, only chirping softly every so often instead of the rapid fire happy trilling Uzi was used to.
Considering it had been over a week since- Uzi was starting to get worried.
So she picked Tera up by the scruff of her onesie with her teeth and sat her in her lap, where the toddler just continued quietly playing, head angled to where her mother couldn't see her face.
“Tera.” Uzi called softly, and the solver kitten stopped, shoulders scrunched and bat held close to her chest as she still refused to look directly at her.
Uzi sighed.
“It was an accident baby bat, Daddy and I know you didn't mean to.” at this, Tera finally looked up, wriggling to get into her mother's arm.
“Sad.” Tera mumbled adding distressed warbles along with it, eyeslights knitted in an expression of contemplation that a toddler of her age simply shouldn't be capable of.
“He wa’scared-” She kept going, working the more complex words out of her mouth tentatively, struggling, but not as much as before. “-Of me.”
Uzi felt her core squeeze uncomfortably, threatening to unleash misdirected anger on a toddler she'd only met once.
“Why?” Tera asked, making Uzi blink, for starters, Tera was less then a year old and already asking introspective questions- something that she absolutely should not have the processing power for yet. But;
She really didn't like the direction the conversations was going.
“Oh… Jellybean.” Uzi lent down to hug her daughter, squeezing her tight before pulling away and putting a hand on the toddlers tiny head.
“We're… different from the other workers. We all are, Mommy, Daddy, Auntie V. We have different needs, and sometimes-” She took a deep breath, steadying herself. “-sometimes people won't understand that.”
Tera took a moment to think about it, a loading circle appearing on her visor before she looked back up.
“That's mean.” She said, a very familiar glare written all over her face.
“Yeah. Some people will be, that's how people are. But there will be ones who will put in the effort to understand you. If you let them.” Uzi smiled reassuringly, her tail coming free to rest beside Tera as extra comfort.
Tera's attention went over to it, the tail cocking it's head as Tera cocked her own, she put both hands on it, thinking hard.
She nodded slowly. “Otay.”
“You wanna play with my tail…?” Uzi asked gently, snapping her tail playfully at her daughter; making her squeal in delight.
“Yah!”
Uzi grinned as her kit seemed to slowly regain her usual energy, biting and nipping and pouncing on the semi-indepentant head of her tail, trilling happily; her core whirred in delight.
Thump.
And here came the birthday boy.
N pulled back the sheet covering the entrance and crawled inside, stretching like a cat before flopping near Uzi lazily, grumbling.
“Find anything?” She asked, reaching down to tangle her fingers in his tousled hair, his tail wagged happily and his core began to rumble with the sounds of his contentment.
“No. Just more flesh.” He mumbled, lifting his head up slightly.
“How close?”
He paused for a moment.
“Too close, it's uh- it's moving faster then we predicted. I think the more there is, the faster it spreads.”
Uzi sighed.
“We have less time then we thought then… we still need a couple more thrusters, fuel… we're not even close to done.”
“I know.” N replied.
A tense silence filled the nest.
“I'll tell dad tomorrow… the sun's almost up.”
“What's the plan then…?” N almost smiled, admiring the way she did always seem to have a plan.
“We're just going to have to work on crunch time. I'll start working on the guts of the ship this week, we still need a way to recharge while in space.”
“We also need a place to go…we can't just wander aimlessly.”
“I know. I've been looking at old files from the bunker, there's an old satellite hub that might give us a idea of where to go.”
The air got more tense, heavy as lead and just as toxic for their health.
“Let's… try not to think about it.” Uzi said after a moment of feeling the dread creep up her back.
“I think that's what we're all doing…” N replied softly, tail hanging low.
“Happy Birthday.” Uzi near whispered, placing a kiss in his head that made his tail wiggle all over the place.
“Mm. Kinda not the best time to celebrate huh?” He admits, sitting up curl into her shoulder.
“Well…”
“We could always celebrate privately.” N's visor flushed, his tail kinked up straight before coming to curl around his mate, a playful chuckle leaving his mouth.
“Oh?” He hummed. Watching his kit wear herself out playing with Uzi's tail.
“Once she gets tired we can…” She whispered something in his audial that made him blush harder, but then he laughed before whispering something else into hers, which made her blush a shade of impressive violet, in response, he nibbled up her neck and a giggle bubbled out of her throat.
When he pulled back, they nuzzled each other's faces, sparks fluttering between them as he whispered the the words “I love you.”
“I love you too.” She replied, connecting them in a slow, passionate kiss that N ended up sighing into, stress evaporating off him like it was never there.
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