#and now I don't know what to do

[ski-ip]

girlfailure marcille lives in my mind rent free

[lucientelrunya]

So... my toothbrush was possessed last night.

Yesterday evening, I brush my teeth and go to bed. It's stormy and the wind is howling on my balcony, but that's not what's giving me trouble falling asleep. I stayed up too late over the weekend and it's just unnatural to go to bed early (by 11) and get up early (by 7:30). So I toss and I turn and finally I fall asleep.

At midnight a banging sound rips me out of my sleep and I almost jump out of bed. There is still a strange sound I can't identify, like some kind of alarm, rhythmic. It's not the smoke detector, it sounds a little like the elevator alarm sound. But it’s coming from my bathroom. I turn on the light, but there is nothing. Is some crazy neighbor drilling holes at midnight? Sound travels really well through the bathrooms. Then it stops. My heart is still pounding so hard that I'm scared it’s going to jump out of my chest.

I stand there for another moment, then go back to bed. I spend a little time breathing deeply and calming my poor heart and then I toss and turn again until I fall back asleep.

The sound wakes me again. I look at my watch. It's 2:59 and I just stare at the ceiling for a moment, wondering what the fuck it could be. Then I get up again to look a second time. Even before I open my bedroom door, the sound stops. I still open it, padding into the hallway. There is something glowing in my bathtub, behind the shower curtain. My heart is not as panicky as the first time, so I go over and slowly brush the shower curtain aside. It's my fucking toothbruth.

I grab it, wondering why it turned on on its own and what I am supposed to do now. It's one of those sonic ones, so it's loud. I think 'maybe the lime in the tap water blocked the button and that’s why it turned on'.

So I end up in my kitchen at 3 in the morning, scraping at the button with a needle and dousing the handle with vinegar. The toothbrush turns on a few times during this process and I just hope my neighbors won't hear it. The chocolate I ate in the evening sits heavily in my stomach.

Finally it feels like I scraped away some lime and the button doesn't look as pushed in anymore, so I carefully wrap it into a used bedsheet and put it beside me when I climb back into bed. I lie there again, staring at the ceiling and wondering what I'm supposed to do now. The battery is not removable, how long until the toothbrush turns on again? At some point, I manage to fall back asleep.

My alarm rips me out of my sleep and I don’t want to get up. I'm way too tired to go to work and my stomach still feels heavy, so I call in sick (I'm still learning that I can do that, that I don't have to force myself to go to work when I'm feeling sick or having cramps and all that). I'm glad the toothbrush didn’t turn on again, but I definitely need more sleep to function. I turn away from the daylight streaming in through the window, curl up and try to fall back asleep.

The toothbrush turns on again.

[zoennes]

♪ 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘔𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘔𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 ♪

[show-your-fangs]

🚀 OH MY GOD! YOU GOT HIT WITH THE SAFE-SPACE-STATION! QUICK, YOU HAVE TO PASS IT ONTO ANOTHER BLOGGER WHOSE BLOG MAKES YOU FEEL WARM & WELCOME! IT’LL MAKE A MAP OF ITS TRAVELS FOR NEW ARRIVALS TO FIND SAFE PLACES TO LAND! 🪐☄️👽🛰️

I have to pass it on to a new friend who has never failed to make me feel safe & welcome :D

ROME STOP IT YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME CRY

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Stay back

[inkskinned]

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

[pbaintthetb]

hissing spitting and stressing, my diss supervisor is on annual leave for the whole month of august, my diss is due at teh end of august...

she didn’t tell me this. Like legit we saw each other on the 28th for a presentation/conference thing and talked about my diss but she didn’t mention she was going to be on leave for the whole month and like not replying to email and aldlfajsd;lfjasld;fkjasl;dfk

actually so stressed I left some stylisitc questions becuase I was like eh, I’ll ask them in august, three weeks before hand in is not to the wire because I was still writing up last week and hadn’t encountered these confusions yet 

sorry this is a bitch but im just like stressed and what am i meant to do, why didn’t she tell meeee

(im also extra salty because my academic advisor left the uni and nobody told me until i mentioned to my diss supervisor that i could ask my academic advisor something cos she speicalised in that and she was like, oh, [advisor] left the uni, didn’t you know?”

NOa dkjflasjfdl;askdjf;alskdfjla;

[justsmth2]

re-reading pjo rn and this scene is always be funny

[cattnipt]

Fucked up looking dog you got there

[begrudginglytumbling]

So these exist apparently, and I kinda really want them but they work out at over a quid per charm (it’s a pack of 6, and I’d have to get a pack of WYB and a pack of XZ, obviously) and I genuinely can’t decide if it’s worth the price considering all the other expenses I’ve had to cough up this month and there’s still two weeks to go until payday. But there are Xiao Zhan charms where he’s in the bunny hat with carrots. How am I meant to resist that? How?

[aeide-thea]

on principle opposed to describing art i dislike as 'masturbatory' because even though it's an alluringly contemptuous word to sneer it's impossible to reconcile with my pro-masturbation stance

[bookwyrminspiration]

being an older sibling is like. you've never known a life without me. mom yelled at me and it taught her she never wanted to yell at you. I painted my room purple and grey and then you did too. we live in the same house but I haven't spoken to you in months. I don't know your favorite color. I saw it was going to rain so I picked you up from school on my way home so your books wouldn't get wet. i was so worried when you woke up sick when you were three. you don't remember being sick. mom and dad made their worst mistakes with me and I'm glad they didn't make them with you. I'm doing everything for the first time so you won't be in the dark. I don't know any of your friend's names anymore. I used to know them all. if something happens to mom and dad you won't have to worry because everything will fall to me. you don't like to be home alone but even if you don't see me just knowing I'm there makes you feel better. at least that's what mom told me. you still give me jars to open for you because you can't quite get them. I only see you during dinner. i'd never even think about missing one of your concerts. I stand at the counter when I eat and now you do, too. when offered a selection of books you picked the same one I did when i was your age. I'm terrified you compare yourself to me. I love you. I don't know if you like me. I want you to. mom says dinner's ready

[tapakah0]

I AM SO SORRY

[tagerrkix]

WHERE IS HE D:

(sorry for deleting and posting this again 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️ one tiny insignificant thing was bothering me and when I edited it it wouldn't show on reblogs and that kinda made me go 😠😠😠)