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the music playing from his radio is just to fill the silence as booker waits, hand impatiently tapping against the wheel. the booker from a few weeks ago would have never parked himself outside of grace carpenter's house at two a.m., impatiently waiting for her to come out. in fact, he'd probably laugh at the very idea. he's not sure he's changed that much, but whatever is between the two of them has. this... friendship, he supposes. they have an understanding of one another that they can't get anywhere else. he's been clinging to it since they both got discharged from the hospital, since they spent hours talking to police again, since they both had to change their numbers to stop being harassed by the media. when he sees her running down the driveway he turns the car back on, unlocking the door so she can slip into the passenger seat. "you're not actually sneaking out, are you? like you texted or left a note or something? 'cause you already know i'm the first person they're gonna call all freaked out." he says, in lieu of a greeting.
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the "all customer service people are trained by management to be illiterate apes you can never get any resolutions by design dont be mean about it" crowd would faint to know there is a guy at my bank RIGHT NOW attempting to resolve an issue that would normally take a week
see. i tried to order food (having nothing of note in the house, and too much pain currently to get down 3 flights of stairs about it) and the payment failed on just eat's end.
but it went through fine on my bank's end, so the funds are tied up in "pending"... for a week. my available balance is now 95p so i can't just do it again
the bank cannot typically do anything about this until the normal time frame for collection passes and they funds just release automatically. just eat have zero contactable customer service
but it is for FOOD and there's no more MONEY and i am a DISABLED CUSTOMER so BY FUCKING GOD not on zeeshan's watch
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meet my ninjago oc!
he's a hypnobrai-fangpyre hybrid who lacks in either species' dominant abilities but makes up for it with his element - animation!
the element of animation combines the fangpyre ability to animate inanimate objects as well as the hypnobrai ability of control; none of the objects he animates have a mind of their own but sometimes he doesn't realise he's controlling them. his yellow tiger plush is a prime example of this: he believes it to be alive when its actions are simply a projection of his subconscious.
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Remember that allyship to any anti racist, decolonial, etc cause is a marathon, not a sprint. Staying up all night watching the live feed of the latest atrocities will not give you the strength you need to keep fighting tomorrow. Others will be bearing witness. We're stronger when we work together, and the ability to work together comes from knowing our own strengths and limits
This is to say: burning yourself out emotionally and physically is not the best way to help the cause if you can avoid it. Pace yourself.
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