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When Chester said he wanted to be missed. I feel that, dude.
#ignore him#i doubt i will be#i try. i try so goddamn hard to make up for everything about me#but theres always people who do more while not working nearly as hard#theyre just likeable by default too#they share interests with everyone else so everyone wants to talk to them#theyre good at what they do#ive never been invited to things and somehow im here whining about not being invited#my secret hope is that one day ill just be gone and people will be like ''wait we need him nothing works right without him''#but it does work right without me#better even#if they notice im gone itll be because theyre so relieved with not having to deal with me anymore#part of me doesnt wanna give them the satisfaction#but im tired dude#cant keep pretending i belong#everyone knows i dont#fuck im not gonna be missed at all huh
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who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️
ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday
#shes cool as fuck to me bc when I first played jfa I found her really frustrating to deal with#not just as Phoenix but I mean like on a personal level she is challenging because she’s so thorough#and yet I also find it fascinating that she breaks the character she’s built for herself once in a while#i 100% believe that I don’t think she would have caught on to what Phoenix was trying to do while stalling for time with engardes trial#so it’s probably a good thing edgeworth subbed in but she literally busts her ass to bring evidence to court#almost right after having a bullet extracted from her WHICH SHE ALSO PRESENTS AS EVIDENCE. thats metal as fuck ok#especially since she would technically have nothing to do with the case after edgeworth fills in and she still decided to do that anyway#maybe it was blind faith to use that evidence to win since she wasn’t there for most of the trial but still#and even if canon doesn’t give it to me I still firmly believe there’s be at least some chemistry between her and Maya#like especially if you hold it next to wrightworth that works bc there’s already a history there and majority of Phoenix and miles trying#to relearn their relationship is Phoenix coaxing out that side of Miles that he remembers from fourth grade#but with Franmaya it’s something new and they’re basically strangers to each other and one of them almost got the other convicted#and I still think that’s fascinating and it’s a damn shame thay half of the fics I find for them on ao3 is background in wrightworth fic#i did find a good one that touched on Franziska trying to win pearls approval because Pearl does hold a grudge against her#and seeing that trying to live up to perfecting even her personal relationships without getting to know Pearl to even know#why it wasn’t working feels believable when I think abt her as a character yk#myart#my art#doodles#aa#ace attorney#franziska von karma
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the timkon fans who shit on bart are annoying, the konbart fans who shit on tim are annoying, and i don't actually know if there are timbart fans who shit on kon, but i sure hope not, because they'd be annoying. the three of them are a set!!! do NOT separate. red tornado literally assigned them one shared brain cell. what is not clickign
#rimi talks#theyre literally like the star trek triumvirate to me. even if you ship two of them romantically and not the third w them#the third guy still has to be there. like. you cant have spirk without bones. what is spones without kirk. you know?#you cant have timkon without bart. you cant have konbart without tim. you cant have timbart without kon.#in my rich inner world kon and bart are in a qpr while timkon are dating and timbart are besties. and bart loves to just hang out anyway#like tims in the garage working on the redbird and barts just suddenly there like heyyy tim im bored. can i help? (tim: NO!!!!)#(bart: aw cmon are you still mad about the time i scratched your car i SAID sorry!!!) (tim: >:C)#where was i going with this. i think i had a point.#oh well its gone n--OH RIGHT WAIT YEAH#all three of them love each other and everyone who doesnt get this is missing the point forever and ever and ever#and like. i GET being annoyed by the prevalence of bat characters in fan spaces#but man does it get tiring real fast to peek into some corners of this fandom when youre like. actually yeah i do like tim drake. sorry.#like man i do like tim and i'm not actually sorry about it but it sure gets. hm. well. simply tis not a space for me i suppose#and by that i mean the konbart tag i think. at least as of last time i poked in there (which was a while ago). ah well. alas#idiot trio <3#tim#kon#bart
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seivarden "weird coping mechanisms" vendaai is like "i'm having trouble processing my emotions right now so i'm going to engage in service roleplay for the person (ship?) i'm in love with, while the ship (person?) that i'm a lieutenant on board steers me around and speaks through me like a puppet. i find this soothing and reassuring for normal reasons don't worry about it."
#i love you. girl who is Coping.#like. i totally get why she does this#she's still completely fucking unmoored and doesn't trust her own understanding of how the world is supposed to work#w.r.t. class systems and justice and even like. other people's feelings and interiority.#and also doesn't trust her ability to make the right decision.#nor has she yet developed a particularly coherent framework of ethical decisionmaking to replace what she's lost#(or even how to interact with other people without unintentionally pissing them off by acting thoughtless or entitled)#beyond 'i guess i'll just follow breq and do what breq thinks is right because breq is better than me.'#so it's obviously very comforting for her to have that responsibility and autonomy temporarily taken away from her#can't fuck up your whole life or lose your place in the world and the people who are important to you (again)#can't make the wrong call in a high stakes situation and get the crew under your command killed#can't accidentally offend your girlfriend or incur judgement and criticism from your most important person.#you don't have to be perfectly steady or unfailingly proper and just or even particularly nice if you're just doing what ship tells you.#imperial radch
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while there's a lot of nonsense and chaos in the air right now, I've been using 5calls to call my reps pretty consistently, and here are some things I have learned from doing that: -practice makes perfect, I am so much less nervous now than I was two weeks ago -scripts are great and helpful, but honestly I've had better luck using them as a base and making it personal. Talking about how I am a trans dude who really wants to stay in my state and does not want to have to flee the country and if they could please help with that has gone over VERY well. I'm in a blue state, so ymmv. -picking a single issue to call about each day / every few days helps focus my emotional energy -you can just be like "I'm mad and I want you to do something." that's fine. the call is what matters. -it literally takes like 2 minutes it's so fast actually is this going to singlehandedly fix anything? no. not at all, but it makes me feel better, gives me a useful place to put my fear and anger, and lets me push my very-annoyingly-center-left reps further to the left. they cannot escape me. I will be a thorn in their side until I die
#julian talks#politics#us politics#I'm in NY state#the upstate part specifically#so I've been calling with basically the message of “I trusted you do better”#and it seems to get through#also it goes without saying but be polite to the staffers on the phone!#politeness and empathy go a long way#please don't tell me that this does nothing or that there is more I could do. I am working on it but right now this is available to me#and the right is way way way better about calling than anyone on the left so I'm gonna try to change that at least for me and my community#can't ignore trans folks if we're on your phone every day!
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guys I’m honestly happy that klance didn’t become canon because I love how as a collective group of people we utilize our right to explore what could have been and create the most smoking hot scenarios ever and yes I obviously wanted more of their friendship growing into this bond stronger than anything else in the universe especially since Voltron has teamwork and family as one of their main lessons but that’s more of a development issue all around…ok besides that there’s something about klance where it provides this PERFECT environment for shippers to inhabit and FEAST upon. With klance, there’s a solid, engaging dynamic between the two set up, which is this weird one-sided rivalry that stems from Lance’s insecurity and his need to prove himself of his worth and Keith literally being one of the best pilots for his age but since they’re flung into space and chosen to become child soldiers in this 10,000 year old intergalactic war so they have to work as a team which surprise surprise forces them to put aside their differences and work as a team which is shown a bunch when Keith needs to become a leader and Lance steps up as his right hand and and they have some kinda tender moments that won’t definitely drive shippers into a shipping craze (or worse) SO YEAH you could see why people loved it with all the classic tropes and mutual growth all that schmooze (ALSO THEY KNEW EACHOTHER BEFORE THE MAIN PLOT??? Well maybe not like friends or even acquaintances probably BUT HELLO?????? EVEN MORE SHIT TO EXPAND ON????), and they share multiple scenes that could be interpreted as romantic but there’s no explicit romance. This environment is fucking dripping drenched flash flooded cornered by 1000ft tsunamis in all directions with potential for shipping, so when people saw this relationship between two bros with this sort of homoerotic (IM JOKING. Kinda.) unresolved tension towards each other and the POTENTIAL for a good slow burn rivals to friends to lovers, it was to no one’s surprise that they went APESHIT. Klancers made countless different ways where they get together whether it be pre-Kerberos, post-gettingthefuckoutofearth, the start of the show, the end of the show, after the end of the show, right smack in the middle, anywhere, anytime, for who the fuck knows why just ANY REASON DAMN IT it doesn’t really matter because people were pumping out fanfiction or fan art or any fan media of klance faster than I spit out a raw baby carrot after chewing it for one second and now we’re all wallowing about how it should have been KICK but the thing is that if VLD did KICK all the way to Altea, the production of these beautiful stories that so many people have and still are coming up with about klance kissing in midst of a battle, helping each other with their crippling nightmares, smiling for the stars or some other sad premise, and whatever is nestled in his pulse…just like uhhh the amount of fics like these that go into great detail about Keith and Lance in these random situations that end up with them getting together being produced would go down to some degree because of the fact that if the people’s beloved sharpshooter and samurai had ended up together like we had wanted, and the majority was satisfied with the ending the creators had given, people would have shifted from writing about “How could Lance and Keith get together?” to writing about “What could Lance and Keith do now that they’re together?” And like. There’s nothing wrong with that honestly I would be HYPED if klance was ever canon but there is profound beauty in the way the community is able to create more from less and turn a show that went to shit in the last few seasons shine even brighter than it did at its prime. Like I wouldn’t trade my favorite fics 4 anything.
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Ok another little thing I’m going to put here: With Klance, all I wanted was for them to be great friends 😭😭😭. I tend to prefer klance becoming canon in later seasons or at the end or even an open ending with no confirmed romantic relationships because I am a sucker for character development and the idea of Keith and Lance both harboring these feelings that at first are just admiration and respect but then escalate to yearning for one another or becoming close friends at the end of the show and getting to imagine anything I want post canon is EVERYTHING if you give me S7 Garrison klance I’ll keel over and thank you like I was a second away from dying of thirst and your gift was a truck load of water
#GOD wtf I keep thinking about that post again and I’m starting to contemplate my opinion I had on that post#I wish I could rephrase that whole post right neow but I did it like almost a month ago so It’d be kinda weird 😰#(yes this is the same post I was ranting about in my little silly midnight rant yesterday or no…today)#voltron#voltron legendary defender#vld#lance mcclain#keith kogane#vld lance#vld keith#klance#laith#scenarios#aloe vera does it again guys#she did the word vomit thing again#😭😭😭 why’d this take hours for me to write#ok guys I hoped you liked this pls don’t forget to hit that like button smash the subscribe button and don’t forget to click that bell#for notifications every time I post a new video—I mean rant about fictional characters#I do this thing where I want to add specific points along the way but I don’t and I can’t add it now because there’s no possible way to add#without ruining the flow of my writing do you get it?#maybe I do but then I have to face the fact that the sentence I worked so hard on is completely irrelevant and now I have to delete the#whole thing#🤬🤬🤬🤬#OH MY YAP#I just realized how much this is (this is now in the morning)
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local man acts how he always acts and is accused of homosexuality
#im not gonna keep up this pace. i cant post Gay Episode clips every day because im gonna run outta clips#clipreel!! lucky ducks!! anyway#bro doing things he always does. sam literally just 'i would like mineral water :]'#'i stand with my hands on my hips all the time. literally all the damn time'#'i cross my legs occasionally'#'i like drinking tea'#'i would give up my career for my friends without romance. who do you think i am!'#'i too am shy and didnt go for women while in college'#and AL. YOU like showtunes. thats YOU thats YOUR ISSUE#also important to me after that argument that you guys know that al admitted he was dumb#“al needs to have a Problem in this episode he'll work thru but... Mr. Civil rights... thats a hard sell for him to be a RAGING homophobe”#“shit... OH how about he only thinks gays shouldn't be in the military” is hilarious to me. it WAS the right move tho#if they decided they NEEDED that storybeat. that was the only way for them to do it#cause I can believe “hard-core navy man doesn't think gays should serve because of hammered-in code of conduct or whatever”#MUCH easier than “al calavicci doesn't like gay people”. you cant be friends with sam beckett and be a homophobe#...as in someone that progressive and open would not be best friends with someone that hates all gay people#you get it. you understand what i meant#anyway love wins and im glad al out loud said 'i was wrong' or else sam woulda found a way to suplex him#quantum leap#.clips#Running for Honor s4e12
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I do not think evangelizing on the double standard of women being expected to wear makeup everyday to grown women is actually productive or respectful (provided they are not judging me for not wearing makeup), we can all make our own decisions on how to walk through this world, however, it is true that whenever a woman in my daily life equates making themselves decent and presentable with having a coat of natural makeup on, I do have to viscerally repress the urge to shake them by the shoulders and scream that they've been had.
#to be clear this is not me being against makeup or even against wearing it everyday!#i know it's an important part of self-expression for lots of people and also an accomplishment to have excellent makeup#this is specifically about my roommate who will constantly say things like#'and I completely forgot that I had to pick up a shift at the bar and I had to SCRAMBLE to get my makeup done'#or my mom who doesn't feel like going to work is even an option without a light coat of mascara#it just makes me internally go feral#i can get behind loving makeup as an addition#though I never will bother#but there's so much evidence around me of women who see makeup as a necessity and it just makes my skin itch like#like the world does not deserve that from us. truly.#if men don't have to we don't have to and it genuinely just eats me up inside when I hear makeup equated to personal hygiene.#like no it's Not Fair that you don't feel right leaving the house without makeup!#I'm sorry that you feel that way#i wouldn't say that to someone's face in real life bc that's condescending#but I do think that in a just world no woman would feel lazy for leaving without makeup
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Pennsylvania, I am super disappointed in you and disgusted by you. If this moldy peach wins that's it. I'm fucking leaving. My life is already a dumpster fire but I'd rather drown myself in a tub than live through another 4 years with that rapist as president
#us politics#us presidential election#election 2024#pennsylvania#swing states#hopefully it's not definitive just yet#but seriously I'm struggling to wrap my head around it#HOW ARE YOU ALL FORGETTING THIS#how tf does a convict who incited the jan 6 attack on the capitol get to run for president again#when convicts can't even VOTE in this country#explain to me right now#and caused the HIGHEST DEATH AND INFECTION CASES IN A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY#HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERTURNING ROE V WADE AND OBSTRUCTING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED IT#HE HASN'T WORKED A DAMN DAY IN HIS LIFE TO GET WHERE HE IS. HE'S NEVER HAD TO LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.#HE NEVER HAD TO GO DAYS WITHOUT MEALS. HE NEVER HAD TO LIVE IN A HOME INFESTED WITH MICE AND HORNETS.#HE'S NEVER HAD TO WORK 3 JOBS JUST TO STAY AFLOAT#HE'S NEVER FOUGHT FOR US ONLY HIMSELF#FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU#TRUMP SUPPORTERS DON'T EVEN FUCKING TOUCH THIS POST I WILL SMITE YOU#he was impeached not once but TWICE
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parentified angel trying (and failing) to take care of wilhelm in the same way that she's been made to help jack. hello. is this thing on.
#not maintagging this because its SO specific but im thinking about it!!#i think angel does this to some degree with every VH but she relates herself a lot to wilhelm and at that age she just doesnt know how#to handle that without Kind Of freaking out about it. and ofc it doesnt settle right with wilhelm because he “doesnt need” people#tending to him. especially not an ai (teenage girl). it feels strange and invasive.#it doesnt really work for any of the TPS VHs because. well its not supposed to. its a front thats been made specifically to cater to jacks#volatile emotional state. nisha meets it with confusion and derision and its just completely ineffective on aurelia because whatever#emotional support she craves isnt going to be fulfilled by angel its going to come from her family. and well. uhm.#timothy. hm. from what i can tell hes the youngest of the TPS VHs and probably the most likley to get something out of angels fawning but#him looking just like jack and partly having his DNA would Also freak her out. i think out of all of them she struggles to talk with him#the most. and he can pick up on the strained familiarity but he doesnt have the context for it. so now hes freaked out too.#and claptrap and angel are just Friends to me. like. they just know each other already.#also to ME angel was guiding the TPS VHs even if it doesnt make sense. this is all under the assumption that they think shes an ai during#TPS bc obviously theyd all feel differently if they knew who she actually was.
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Despite charisma being a pretty important stat for paladins, Paul has no charisma in the base plot. So I decided it would be really funny to have him have super low charisma in game, too.
So the whole "roll a save" in town is because Karen and Paul want to visit a tavern for info and Chris thinks it would only be fair to bully Pauladin with an NPC version of his hot bartender depending on the save.
#my characters#oops i fell in love#because in the base plot not dnd au he first meets his crush in a bar where he hits him with a bathroom door#and then is too embarrassed at hitting a hot guy in the face with a door that he just leaves without apologizing#and then hot guy works there so he is like i literally committed assault on an employee and ran thats illegal#and then paul makes his friends suffer an eternity of pining over a hot bartender who is CLEARLY out ofhis league#but since they arent actually as close irl and since the dnd au is based on the trio actually playing a silly campaign#chris is like well you can hit this really hot npc bartender in the face cause youre charisma roll was garbage#and paul is just agonizing bc thats mean why are you like this why do you do this to me#while karen is beaming and saying HOT BARDTENDER HOT BARDTENDER and right does feel kinda bad but also well deserved
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reading eset’s haku fic your highness rn and i’m going to SCREAM!!!! may u get any ssr u ever pull for immediately this was so GOOD im chewing ur haku up IMMEDIATELY
#live-blogging this fic RIGHT NOW#GOD FIRST OF ALL SETTING THIS WITH ZENJI???????? SO GOOD#sinking my teeth IMMEDIATELY into the hakuzenji dynamic I LOVE THEM#the fact that u can see the stars in Frostheim? GOD#haku moon gazing in hotarubi stargazing in Frostheim man always has his eyes turned up to the sky and why!!#I CHIKED ZENRJFHIDJSJ#TEASING ZENJI IS JUST SO CUTE AAAAAH zenji just spluttering is so funny#one of his good traits aaaAAAAHHH 🥺 he’s so like . resignedly optimistic I love him so much#one of the reasons why hotarubi works so well tbh there’s the endlessly anxious but optimistic zenji / the endlessly anxious but pessimistic#Subaru & the resignedly optimistic haku like it works SO WELL all the time in all ways#eset when u mentioned the umbrella I had to set my phone down & breathe for a goddamn minute#bc my sister got me a jellyfish umbrella for my birthday like . Haku. HAKU#HAKU’S FOND LOOK MAKES AN APPEARANCE 🗣️🗣️🗣️ WHERE’S RHAT ONE MEL POST#‘I didn’t ask’ is SO FUNNYHDJDJSJSJ THATS HAKUZENJI!!!!!!#haku having absolute shit sleeping habits bc he has so much work to do is 1) canon to me 2) also me . lmao#SEE GETTIGN ZENJI FKUSTERED IS SO CUTE HE’S adorable I love him#OH NO ZENJI WHAT . WHATWERE U DIGGING ????#zenji bby that solves NOTHING#YEAH!!!!!!!! god one of my fave character points abt haku is like the way he says he’s so lazy and hates hard work (same) but spends all his#effort & free time working & pouring his soul into things like ?? Where did u learn how to speak abt urself like that .#1) haku’s family i’m crawling in ur walls 2) if not then mood lmao I too am lazy I’m just forced 2 do work all the time in this job so I get#‘she’s not my anything zenji’ IMGNA SCREAM !!!! GEJSJSJAHZHA AAAAAAAAAA give me a touch of that yearning PLEASE#‘but he knows how dangerous it is to hope’ OH THIS STABBED ME IN THE THROAT THE FUCK???????#haku GOD Alexa play that one Hercules song the I won’t say I’m in love one#GOD WHEN HE SAYS#WHEN HE SAYS ILL TAKE Y ANYWHERE U WANT & HE GOES ALL BREATHY & HE DOES THAT LITTLE SHARP JNHALE BEFORE HE CALLS U URBHIGHNESS FUCJCJCKJCJC#I LOVE THAT LINE SOS SOSOOSOSOS SO MUCH !!!!!!! MY FAVE PART OF HIS BRUTHDAY LINE HANDSODWNDBSJSJJS#‘the words catch in his throat’ UGSGGSFHH THE EMOITON U PUT BEGIND HIS WORSS WITHOUT HAVING TO DESCIRB EIT I LOVE THIS PARAGRPHS SO BAD#this was so good eset thank u 😭😭😭😭#can’t believe u wrote this for me the FUCK THANK YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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sorry if idk this but what do you think about Wordgirl now in 2024 do you still like it do you still want to make art or talk about it or are you just done with all of it forever and plus i seen that you haven't made art of it since 2022 so you just done with all of it oh yeah and what about The Magnus Archives + Wordgirl ao3 fic too like is that just going to be and i know that your working on 2 au's now just wanting to know that's all
My interests tend to come in intense bursts and then fade. Unless something like, big happens like it gets a reboot its unlikely I'll be coming back to it anytime soon. As for the fic I don't have any current plans to finish it unfortunately.
#Its so shocking whenever anybody mentions that fic to me#like its just such a specific combo of interests how are there this many people interested in it...#I have some fragments of unfinished chapters for it laying around but I was struggling to get them to work#and I definitely dont have the motivation to finish them now#If youre curious the chapters were going to be Slaughter avatar miss Power and Web avatar Mr Big#and possibly Flesh avatar Butcher but I never got around to starting that one#The Miss Power chapter was basically going to be about her having kind of lost her thread#I wanted to leave a lot of ambiguity as to what happened with her home planet#but she hadnt been in contact with them for agessssss and her radio is damaged and her ship is in bad shape#the chapter was just going to be her being like 'pfff I dont interpersonal connection Im doing great out here. Murdering. All on my own'#Well she has her little squirl thing but she treats him like an animal#mr giggle cheeks or whatever#anyway I wanted it to imply that whatever happened her bloodthirst was destroying her#The Mr Big chapter was from Lesley's perspective#She would have been one in a long long line of assistants that Mr Big went through like candy#Lesley is his favorite though because. while she is terrified of him. shes still willing to push him. to be honest with him#but she also knows exactly when to step off. when to lie to appease him#( its always a tossup as to whether he wants a sweet lie or the harsh truth that day. He can always tell either way#its a gamble he does to be cruel. She always picks right though. or maybe he's more lenient with her than he should be)#He likes that she knows exactly how to push him without ever stepping over the line#He likes that her guilt and revulsion are slowly eating her up inside but shes too selfish to leave#She likes being special. She likes the idea of ruling the world alongside him#She'll always be second in command but shell be so much higher than everyone else#and shes willing to do anything to get that#Mr big doesnt think shell ever make it that far#but he likes her anyway#shes the one assistant he'll be sad about dying#OK damn apparently I did still have things to say about this old fic DAMN#still not gonna finish it tho. they call me the struggler becaus.e writing is a struggle...
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pretty heavy vent in tags
#im going to delete this later but it's like. am i out of my fucking mind. am i out of my lane. have i veered so far off course#like i feel like my job right now is so fucking ridiculous and yes working 44-46 hours every week where you get yelled at with people who.#have more money than you in one week than you have the entire month?#and there are no internships or fucking jobs i can get that pay me more than what i'm making here.#and the internships i can't plan around my schedule.#and i dont feel like i can actually Get my degree without getting a loan and i have tried. so so hard not to do that.#i'm a junior and i haven't gotten loans ever . and i REALLY. really wanted to avoid that.#but this shit with that medical bill worth fucking 6 thousand its like#i dont know how much longer i can do this!!! i really dont!!!#and with this administration of course there aren't fucking jobs in wildlife conservation!!!#people who have been in it for fucking decades are losing their jobs so what does some no fucking body like me stand a chance!!!!!#i'm srs i do not know how much longer i can do this .
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#I know he's just making conversation but my work enemy does not have the right to ask me every day what I did last night#and what I'm doing tonight#like does a girl have any right to privacy around here?#I'm not accountable to you. also my answers are boring and the same. ate dinner and talked on the phone what do you want from me?????#also started teasing me for how often my answer has been ''go to the grocery store''#because apparently it's weird that I buy groceries and cook food????#and like we're kinda friends but also not through much choice of my own. in the fact that he stops by my desk most days to chat#but by that nature I am trapped here and have no power in when the conversation starts and ends#and am forced to answer whatever small talk–esque questions he dishes out because I have no social script for not doing that#occasionally I have drawn a line and been like ''I don't have to tell you that''#when he's asked me about things which might seem innocent but require context which I prefer not to get into as part of my worksona#I guess what's annoying is that he pushes past my attempts to deflect or dodge questions and just keeps pushing#like it's some kind of game even when I'm pointedly like ''I'm not going to tell you that''#and none of it is outside the realm of normal conversation on the surface but like. dude.#I don't have to tell you what dating apps I have used or the exact circumstance of how I met my boyfriend#or even what I did over the weekend if I don't want to!!!! And it's not a crime to ask those things#but it is a crime to keep asking when I deflect and also while standing at my desk and trapping me in the conversation#within earshot of the rest of the office!!#and the fact that he asks me follow up questions and follow up questions narrows the topics that I'm willing to get into with him#and it's like. I know he's just trying to be friends and for the most part is fun and nice to me#so it feels like there's no normal way I can be like 'dude. leave me alone.' without escalating inappropriately
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not beating the grout fiend allegations
#okay wait there’s backstory#so part of my job is helping people pick out grout to go with their tile. which is super important for the overall look#you don’t want to let your contractor dig up whatever moldy white grout is lying around in their basement#it’s my favourite part of the process actually i just love the palettes with the little grout sticks#whatever. anyway i said that to a woman who then ended up working with my mother’s company and they figured out they had me in common#and she said to my mom oh yeah she’s obsessed with grout it’s weird#and i was like what the fuck is that how i come off???#was kind of rankled by that but i told my coworker and she LAUGHED and started calling me the grout fiend#looked through our log sheets and 90% of my daily recap notes/jokes involved grout#so i leaned into it. made a ‘what grout are you’ uquiz that was supposed to be literally just for three of my team members#but thirty plus people ended up taking it#anyway for many reasons this month has Sucked So Bad. i spent most of the day borderline catatonic#staring into space if i wasn’t helping someone and dragging myself around like a semi animated corpse#about halfway through the afternoon people started needing a LOT of grout help. like not even my appointments#i would just be at the desk while someone else was rifling the palette and i’d be like hi. you should use this one#and without fail the customer was like wait yes that’s the one#which should not have improved my mood as much as it did#but like i’m GOOD at it. i should just have a stand where you bring me tile and i tell you what grout you should use#and then you use it because i’m always right#i am the grout fiend#max's brain does the fork in the garbage disposal
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