#AND a really bad and taxing job

[tinycatstars]

this is gonna b such a sappy post but i don’t care!!!

life is so so good right now. i love my new job and i love all my friends and my new coworkers. i love hanging out with my old coworkers still too. i’m so excited for school to start and i love all my classes so much. i love seeing my boyfriend more and i just LOVE him so much.

i really love getting to regress for my own pleasure and not involuntarily because i’m stressed! i love enjoying my regression because i feel like i haven’t in so long!

i also love all the support i’m getting on the silly stuff i make!! i love the lil homestuck + vast error agere community on here. i love all you guys so so very much!!!

i just am so full of love and happiness and YA :D <3

[dormont]

today has been not very good for romhacks

[needsmustleap]

Do you create? What? Why?

mmmmm uh haha um. Sort of, sometimes.. I like drawing and stuff but I've been taking this course that has eaten up a lot of my free time so i haven't done any art stuff in a while. Should be all done with it really soon though so hopefully it won't be long before i can get back to it/a good routine. I had this whole art renaissance at the end of 2023/beg. 2024 where I just had this like epiphany re art and was super motivated and enjoying it, so hopefully i can back to that. But yeah I like the process of drawing. I mostly draw from observation, and i love how it gets me to really look at what I'm seeing and appreciate all the details. And i enjoy the puzzle of it, of figuring out how to represent the subject on the page. The epiphany i had was literally just basic art advice you hear everywhere lol but i had spent months in this rut of focusing on the outcome/end product of a drawing and getting really frustrated and upset with what i was doing. Eventually i like clawed myself to the realization that that was the problem and I need to make art solely for the love of the process. It's hard bc it's so easy to want to chase the feeling you get when you make something you're happy with, but I found i would start a drawing and want every line I put down to be immediately gorgeous, and i just a) don't have the skill for that and b) was putting so much energy into wanting it look good that I wasn't focusing on any of the principles or techniques that actually help build a drawing that looks good. Bad all around lol. But also, I can flip through that sketchbook and see evidence that i was learning things, even despite all that. So yeah. Generated a lot of motivation and good feelings.

Thank you for the qs! I wasn't expecting to actually receive any let alone so quickly haha but i love the opportunity to ramble :)

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

I don't want to be at work.

I want to be home, sipping iced tea and drawing my lovelies smooching each other and looking at each other tenderly.

I NEEED.

[tchaikovskym]

decided to celebrate a bit for kind of not-officially yet getting into a phd, getting into new jobs (2 of them actually), and having car problems on top of it all, so, naturally, i deserve to overspend on food delivery

[mycological-mariner]

Pros of trying to get a job in a small town: establishments will literally just print out “HELP WANTED. INQUIRE INSIDE (or leave number at bar)” and tape it to the front window and you just can.

Cons of getting a job in a small town:

If you don’t get the job, literally everyone will know and you can never go to that bar again

[southislandwren]

So the horrors are unending and I’m nearing my breaking point, BUT I discovered you can freeze gogurt and have nice little froyo tubes so maybe I’ll keep going another day

[sludgeguzzler]

gotta love discussing your career with your father

[gilfrespecter]

I wish joe and janet would get me my money faster I have Shit I Need To Do With That

[fluorescentbrains]

not HR shorting a bunch of us $300 by first fucking up and not sending any paycheck at all and then sending a double paycheck two weeks later that they taxed at the same rate as if we were earning double our income 🤪

[biteyourbetters]

i've been. doing lots of new things recently. am i finally getting over the stagnation period of my life.

[leviiackrman]

Just when you thought your life couldn’t get any worse…

[two-calicos-in-a-trenchcoat]

On one hand im glad I dont start work until Tuesday cuz it gives me one more day to mentally prepare

But on the other hand the anticipation anxiety is killing me. I can't stop grinding my teeth. I keep having to resist the urge to bite my hands. I cant focus on anything for more than a few minutes

Ik ill calm down once it starts and I see the environment ill be working in and start training and everything. And I know HOW my routine is gonna change as far as when im gonna have to get up and when ill get to come home. But its still a change.

A very large change cuz im gonna have to get up at 6am which is not a time ive ever purposely woken up except for one time for choir in 8th grade and the next time I was supposed to I purposely lied and said we weren't gonna have a spring concert so I wouldn't have to go to it

I just keep reminding myself that I need money so I can get a dog. Having money to live is not enough motivation for me. A dog is tho. That is the goal. I want a puppy. I am going to get a puppy. But I have to do this so I can get money to get a puppy. Im just gonna repeat that to myself every time I start feeling anxious.

[finding-flight]

you know, considering the general state of the world, it's weird that "stay-at-home roommate" isn't really a thing.

I mean, there are obviously some issues here with legal protections and whatnot, but the same problems exist with stay-at-home girlfriends, and that's definitely a thing. and it's also definitely a thing for a group of adults to all rent a home together. and it's not as though everyone who prefers to work in the home is necessarily super jazzed about the whole marriage-and-children thing.

so why not just have one roomie whose job it is to take care of the house and doesn't have to pay rent? depending on the situation, they could work either a few hours a week at a regular job, or actually be paid by the roomies for a higher degree of stay-at-home work. like a live-in housekeeper, except they're an equal partner.

and heck, why not make it a formal options on leases? landlords get the same total amount of rent either way AND a person whose job is to take care of the property. stay-at-home roomie gets a job they enjoy and a roof over their head without worrying about finances. other roomies get a clean home, nutritious meals, and more down time. literally what is the downside to this?

[kdinjenzen]

Congrats to Velma in the latest movie for being a lesbian.

Also a reminder that the company who owns Scooby-Doo, Warner Bros. Discovery, recently:

Laid off countless staff

Is likely doing more layoffs we don’t even know about

Cancel completed projects to get tax breaks

Removed countless animated series with no warning and without telling the staff

Is being sued for inflating HBO Max user numbers by Tens-Of-Millions

Turned beloved IPs (The Matrix/Harley Quinn/etc) into NFTs

Is STILL making “Bad Wizard Lady” projects

AND SO MUCH MORE!

I wonder, really, if the staff who made the most recent Scooby-Doo movie where Velma is a lesbian were even paid properly or even still have their JOBS…

[kickabytes]

The Adult life was falsely advertised, I want a refund.