#tejoxys griping

[tejoxys]

something that I miss is when computers worked, like, you pressed a button and the thing turned on and then you did things with it, instead of, you press a button and the keyboard lights up but nothing else happens, and while you've turned around to pick up your tea, the sign-in screen appears for thirty seconds and then decides you're gone forever and goes dark again just as you turn back around so you tap madly on the touchpad until it lights back up and lets you sign in and then, oh sorry, last time you were using it, it interrupted what you were doing to "update" itself without your go-ahead to make completely undetectable but no doubt crucial "improvements" and has now forgotten how to have a cursor :) and it will do this every time you're inspired to work on your WIP

[tejoxys]

my tumblr app has been broken for a few weeks now, so, unless I'm at my computer, the only features I have access to are my direct messages & activity page - I can view, but not click through to anything - and the For You tab. and. dear god. having never used the For You feature before, it *sucks* why would anyone ever use algorithms on purpose?? there's no control, you rarely see your friends, you pause for a nanosecond too long to parse what a post is about before realizing it's meta for some show you don't care about but- TOO LATE now half the posts you see are about that show! posts on topics you ARE interested in get increasingly incendiary & upsetting as the algorithm pulls in more and more from blogs you would never follow in your life! if people are out there using this thing regularly, I'm starting to understand where half of the rising kicked-wasp-nest feel of this site is coming from. get out of there!

[tejoxys]

I hate you, new internet! I should be able to simply look up a chart of all the Peak Lords' ages relative to each other that some other, more powerfully autistic fan made after careful study of every character's terms of address toward everyone else, but if it exists, it's hidden in a discord somewhere or buried under algorithms, so I have to either do it myself, or allow my fic to be Inaccurate

[tejoxys]

one of the funniest things that can happen when writing a fic is when the characters go, "damn, I can't stop this thing from happening" and the author also is like "damn, I can't stop this thing from happening!" and all of you have to just deal with it

[tejoxys]

"people can ship what they want, but [character with no canon sexuality] is straight" bitch where. was it the part where they have no romantic or sexual interactions with the opposite sex, the part where the only plausible subtext you could suss out for them if you felt like it involves a character of the same sex, or the part where other characters openly speculate that they are asexual? hint: it's the part where heteronormativity

[tejoxys]

fb continues to get more useless. 9 alleged notifications, & they're all "[pushy work enemy who badgered you to accept her friend request] commented on her post you haven't seen" yeah no duh I haven't seen it, that's why I have her permanently muted

[tejoxys]

totally get why the 1st rule of Skeksis Club is "no killing each other," because if I, as a being comprised solely of my worst qualities, had to LIVE with a group of beings comprised solely of my coworkers' worst qualities,...

[tejoxys]

mofo fucking eating hard candy IN the microbiology lab & making sOUNdS & I am now entering bloodlust in a decidedly unsexy way

[tejoxys]

wow fucking hate the new internet and what it’s done to fandom. all I wanted was to search up in-game quotes from a specific videogame character to refresh my understanding before trying to write fic, something that was easily accomplished not so many years ago, but now? no. wall-to-wall “wikis” with impossible interfaces covered in ads, with none of what I want, and fragments that don’t, in fact, actually match my search keys, you stupid fucking algorithms!! the most I found was a bank of quotes from the character’s appearances in OTHER SPINOFF TITLES. search up a game script, which was also once easy to find? no. more of the same. what the fuck

[tejoxys]

on a different note (he says out of nowhere),

I think I finally got unstuck on my WIP by realizing that I need to do the exact opposite of what I did to get unstuck the last time >:/ which is, rather than break apart and spread things out, I now need to smush a bunch of stuff together. this is like watching a video of surgery where I'm like how tf is that ever supposed to go back to being a leg?? >:(

[tejoxys]

damn, the update got me. this is extraordinarily bad, ugly, cramped & redundant

[tejoxys]

the horrifying realization (again) that a(nother) story I was hoping to write instead of draw, because that seemed easier (it’s not), actually, seriously has to be visual

[tejoxys]

me, once a week or so: oh shit there’s another exam coming up oh boy hustle hustle *psyches self up, prepares to harness the panic & study like never before*

professors: due to the fact that all of you are floundering we continue to receive so many questions and concerns about the material, we have pushed the exam date another 3 days forward. you have extra time to study!

me:

[tejoxys]

sylphidine said:

I'm happy it was such a pleasant surprise for your Etsy finds!

sylphidine said:

For me, shoes are DEFINITELY an online shopping challenge.

<3

right!? like. how am I gonna take ‘em for a walk around the store to find out all the terrible, terrible ways they rub against my feet & stab my achilles tendon D: and then I’m supposed to, what, send them back? nobody has spoons for all that

[tejoxys]

the internet here is so crappy lately that today, I completed an entire online microbiology exam from my phone rather than risk it shutting off partway

fuck you comcast

[tejoxys]

can I call it a silver lining if I’m up til 3am finishing a paper bc I couldn’t force myself to do it until 10pm the night before, but I don’t have to get up at 6:30 to go to school?