when you realize there are people that genuinely care about you and you ARE somebody's first choice and people genuinely want you to be okay and they like being around you and the last thing they'd ever want to do is hurt you and they're really rooting for you and they love you just as much as you love them
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It's fucking weird how rude people are about immigration sometimes. And I don't just mean bigots being biased and stuff. I mean that, on a REGULAR basis, people ask me if I'm thinking about "going back to the US". And I'm just like... no? What do you mean "back to the US"? I live in Germany. I LIVE IN GERMANY.
I literally fucking started learning German and obsessing on German culture in high school, then I went to college in the US and majored in German Studies, including two study-abroad programs in Germany, then I moved to Germany for grad school and lived there for three years and worked in various German-speaking jobs while studying, then I had to temporarily return to the US but found a German-translation-based job at the US branch of a German company, and made a bunch of German or at least German-speaking friends in my new US city, and then a few years later I was able to move back to Germany, where I got a work visa sponsored by my employer and a full-time salaried job, and after a few more years I acquired my permanent residency, and soon I'll be applying for citizenship.
And people still sometimes ask me whether I'm considering "going back to the US". Like... dude? Would you ask a Mexican living in the US about their plans for "going back to Mexico"? That is rude as fuck.
Immigration is fucking hard. Why on earth would I have gone through all this shit just to throw it up in the air like "Oh well, never mind!"
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I’m staring at you a bit. sorry.
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pounding on the bars of my enclosure and begging you to talk about maybe mummies bc i'm obsessed with it already -391780
WIP Game
@391780 oh ho ho i have a treat for you now that i've calmed down enough to see properly again.
maybe mummies, or that mummy au as i've taken to calling it on my blog, is a fucking behemoth of a document right now and it's just a weird blend of an outline/first draft. i love it so much and honestly i suspect it may be my finest work. probably. i hope. i feel like i've hyped it up too much now.
it's a loooooong fic (for me) and a slow burn. there is sniping and banter, the reader purposefully referring to captain john price as "mister price" just to be a little shit, johnny is dealing with things about as well as expected, kyle garrick is a clever cookie, farah is DONE with these white people™️, and somehow the cast list just keeps getting longer and longer.
fresh from the document outline i give you:
[Title]
Or, The Thrilling Tale of how Captain John Price found True Love in 1920s Egypt (and found time to save the World).
Or, The Mummy (1999) AU I cooked up exactly one week before my top-surgery date.
and a snippet under the cut:
John grunts as he’s shoved roughly to his knees into the compacted sand, two differing hands pressing heavily on his shoulders to encourage him to stay still. As if the sounds of guns being cocked at his back wasn’t encouragement enough, he thinks bitterly.
“Well, well. What do we have here boys?” A molasses thick drawl croons.
John glares up at the snake standing above him, squinting into the sun and resisting the urge to flinch as tiny grains of sand whip needle sharp points into his exposed skin on his face and forehead.
"Graves."
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Wow I sure do love accidentally setting off my dad into a big yelling blowout over how my mom has an ungrateful, shitty attitude and how she doesn't respect or appreciate the work he's doing or how good we have it because he happened to overhear her make an offhand comment about being displeased with her job while he was walking by :))) i just wanted advice on formatting my cover letter for fuck's sake
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