#there’s NO fucking CARTS HERE

[bibleofficial]

i wish i could find any fucking carts/dispos in charlotte bc then i wouldn’t have to try so fucking hard to hide a 75cl bottle of booze from my family & pretending to be sober when i could PRETEND to be inhaling NICOTINE

[hydrus101]

thinking once again about the insinuation that Oscar might have been taken to an asylum after attacking McKenna, and that he might have stayed there until he aged out of the system, seeing as he never returned to the orphanage

[clowndensation]

getting to the point at work btw where i'm actually being like. combative.

like we're trying to decide on a company vehicle, and they chose my vehicle for it. while ignoring the fact that i've already told them my vehicle isn't ideal for this job (and it like Really Isn't. it sucks for this job. i put up with it because as a personal vehicle, it rules). and then they went out and bought two of them before they even finished creating the new standardized equipment we're supposed to use. and now we're testing it all out and it's not working. shockingly.

so i told them point blank "i chose this car because i'm willing to be frustrated with it at work just so that i can use it for fun on weekends. solely as a work vehicle, it's a bad choice, and all of your workers will be unhappy with it. we can't get the new standardized cart to work in it, and we're coming up with a bunch of convoluted solutions instead of facing the real solution: we need a bigger car for this to work well."

and the stupid ass motherfucker i was talking with was like "welll actually we asked people, and they said this car was workable (i know this. you asked ME. because it's my car model. workable doesn't equal ideal, and i TOLD YOU THIS. i SAID that my car is adequate but NOT actually great for the job) and also they said that if the choice was between a less than ideal (but cheaper than a van) car, but the amount we save goes into their pocket via benefits and pay, vs a more ideal van that costs more, meaning we can't give you guys the benefits we otherwise could, everyone agreed that the cheaper, more frustrating car would be better"

and i went. "interesting. when did you ask this, because i don't remember hearing about it, and nobody i've spoken with agrees with what you just said."

and he had to backtrack and be like "well i didn't mean to imply we asked EVERYONE it was just generally what i've heard from some people"

and i full stop was like "well it sounds like you've made up your mind. if you've assigned a dollar value to the comfort and happiness of your technicians, and the math works out that the money you're saving with these cars is worth more than that dollar value, then there's not much more to say." and left.

but also for the record. techs are not seeing a fucking dime of the money they're allegedly saving with these cars lmao. "you'll see it reflected in your benefits" what a nebulous thing to say. show me the math you're doing that proves that. set me up with some solid number expectations that i'll see reflected on my paycheck. fuckhead.

[whatacartouchebag]

So holy shit, just had a commenter apologise for getting excited and commenting on a bunch of my fics, thinking they were being annoying for doing it on works that were so old.

My dude, the oldest one was posted just over a YEAR ago.

Like christ on a cracker, wrapping my head around this mentality genuinely hurts. I still get the fleeting, odd comment on stuff that I posted to an FF.net account I abandoned in 2008. I'm still posting stuff to the same fandom that this commenter is reading fics from! I literally posted something within the last month!

I get that the consumerism of fanworks has taken over fandom spaces entirely. I get it, but fuck me if I detest it dearly. If something's not sitting on the front page of a tag, it's just considered dead, and I hate it.

Not to be all old man yells at cloud, but the way being a part of any sort of fandom space means playing a number game from hell these days is honestly the worst feeling. We're not in it for the numbers! We never were! The numbers are the smallest pip of serotonin on our radar compared to actual feedback and comments.

When this person first came into my inbox, and I saw a string of four of five email notifs come in to say I'd received a new comment, my dudes, I CRIED. Teared up like a bitch, because that's something that's so rare and beautiful and I've never seen it happen before. I honestly felt so blessed and warm and fuzzy. The fact this person took the time out of their day to read it and tell me the parts they liked, tell me they passed a couple of these fics onto others, just tell me a solemn thank you for writing what I do...

THAT'S WHAT I WRITE FOR.

No, I don't crave praise. No, it doesn't fill my ego.

It's about putting something out there into the void and hearing an echo finally. It's about standing up on stage and waiting for someone in the audience to make any sort of response other than cough and shuffle out the door. It's about knowing we've hit some sort of emotional response in our readers, because that's the ONLY way we know what we're doing is working. It's the ONLY way we know how to improve.

It just... it makes me so sad to know that we're only ever seen as products these days, not people. I love creating. I love being able to write, but it just hurts so much when it feels like no one else out there cares, you know?

Because that's what fandom culture is these days.

It honestly feels like no one cares, and fans are actively apologising for existing.

Like what the fuck went wrong along the way to nurture this mentality and how do we surgically remove it with a chainsaw.

[whotaku-starr]

My kid has started a Nintendo games phase so I told them to dig out all the old consoles and games at my parents house and they brought back an entire box of goodies.

Here's a few gems

But the most sacred of relics they brought me was this !!!!!!

[saberafterdark]

WHY DOES HE SPIN HIM LIKE THAT LMFAO I’M LAUGHING SO HARD

cuz why would he wanna spin him around if he wasn’t checking him out 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[prettytboy-toy]

thinking about feeding you a gummy and the rest of the vodka and making you eat me out on the couch. im so sensitive from the past couple nights that i cant even touch myself, that even just the fabric of my shorts brushing against me is too much, but your mouth is so warm and your tongue so soft that i think that i could take it. the couch is at the perfect height that i could make you sit pretty on your knees on the ground in front of me while i force you to taste me. maybe if you're a good bitch for me we plug in the vibrator for you to hold between your legs so i can feel you moan into my pussy

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[dawnleaf37]

in honor of the tpot short with the failed debuters (assumedly) being announced soon heres my tierlist of all the tpot debuters most favorite to least

tags for longer opinions :3

[thecedarchronicle]

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[j-esbian]

i dont fucking care if that’s how your mama raised you and you’re just trying to be polite and helpful, STOP FUCKING TAKING THINGS FROM ME especially when i say i don’t need help!!!!

[valentinebisexual]

they should invent a me that doesnt hurtttt

[boyfeminism]

at work for less than 10 min and already started to cry which is like really cool and normal

[deathbypufferfish]

The visual storytelling of why there is a literal dent in my shin rn

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Me trying to be normal at work vs the concession speech making me cry like a bitch

[futuremercifulnerd]

Company: "Idk why we cant seem to keep people!"

*not pictured is company deliberately renovating the store and reverting back to older systems (both literally and figuratively) and requiring things like baggers while not hiring people to be baggers and making people who werent hired to bag, bag, and driving good workers away because of it*