#routine disruption!!!

[antimattercontainment]

This is the third weekend in a row that I won't have the chance to recharge I wanna cry T_T

[sadclowncentral]

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

[quarkfancam]

year of hell is everything i wish voyager was. resources being scarce. people dying. dire moments that force people to grow closer. intimate human connections based on shared traumatic experience. people literally going through hell thousands of lightyears away from home but finding comfort in the little things they still have. oh captain janeway we're really in it now

[starry-bi-sky]

pouring one out for luo binghe in my disciple SQQ fic, poor guy has taken a backseat here. we're nearly 30k words deep and he hasn't even shown his face once. it'll be much longer before he even actually talks to Shen Qingqiu.

(i say im pouring one out but in reality im sitting in my director's chair chewing on a cigar and wearing a beret as he tearily and unsuccessfully pleads with me for more scenes with Shen Qingqiu)

[ferronickel]

Y'all wanna hear about some inter-office drama?

So when we're not on set, the company I work for is based out of an office building that is also home to a number of other businesses. For the most part these other companies seem pretty nice, and our hallway is just us and a non-profit so it's quiet.

Cut to about six months ago when a marketing company moved in across the hall from us. They have been the biggest source of disruption/entertainment these past few months.

They play music so loud the entire building can hear it, at all hours of the day

From the glimpses I've seen of the interior of their office, the only decorations are a framed photo of the word "hustle" and a single large canvas print of a lion.

For a long time their website was just various stock photos and generic information, except for a long blog post they'd made advocating for using AI to data mine customers in order to better target ads.

They are constantly hiring. Like, I see people going in to interview at least once a week. And they only hire young people, just out of college, who dress like they're auditioning to play a part in Wolf of Wall Street or something. I suspect they are somehow an mlm (of the pyramid scheme variety, not the gay kind), or maybe they're sacrificing these hires to some sort of business demon.

I'm supported on this second theory by the fact that at least once a day they gather and shout these semi-unintelligable chants (again, so loud the whole building can hear). There are multiple, but I caught one of these chants once and they were saying "Last one in the field is the last to make money". As I'm typing this they've been chanting/shouting for the last five minutes straight.

Only a few of them have keys to unlock their doors, so frequently there will be small gaggles of wall-street-wannabes in the hallway waiting to be let in. Unfortunately their attempts to knock of the door go unanswered due to the aforementioned loud music.

As far as I can tell, their actual job is selling 5g internet door-to-door. This involves some sort of mass migration around noon, where they all have to change out of their slim fit suits into polo shirts and slacks, before piling into cars and driving off. They commandeer the only bathrooms on the floor so they can change, making them inaccessible to the rest of the building.

Okay, so, all that to give you a sense of who these guys are. Now, our poor neighbors, the non-profit across the hall, has had to share a wall with them this whole time and has filed a lot of complaints with the building managers. A month ago, the building told the business bros that they had to stop shouting and turn down their music, or they'd revoke the marketing company's lease. The business bros have apparently failed to do that, as I just saw a notice of lease termination on their door and now they have 5 days to move out. However, so far, there has distinct lack of motion towards moving out, and they're making even more noise than usual. So I'm just sitting here with popcorn waiting to see how all this shakes out.

[ticklefighthockey]

I know as a pens fan this probably is a tired narrative, but I was listening to the 32 thoughts podcast and suddenly Friedman is spinning some sort of fic about how the avs' loss has the worst consequences for sid because nate will presumably be staring at sid throughout worlds and the summer, trying to induce him to jump ship and come over to the avs? (19:36 into the latest episode)

just the way he says it very ???? lmao. verbatim quote "nate to sid: why don't you come with me and we can rule the league from the western conference."

nate sure is going to be staring at sid throughout worlds and all summer trying to induce something. but i have a feeling it'll be a heat and not a trade to the avs

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

MAD that my boots smell like the LESBIAN BAR

[alackofghosts]

veel uneski hoiad mu käest ♪

[snobgoblin]

thinking about the ring thing and the hat thing and the grief and the things people we love leave behind as reminders of the absence of their presence etc etc. sigh

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

There's nothing quite as annoying as when you're Going Through It and you want to complain about Going Through It to your friends and loved ones, but the source of 80% of your problems is like, not going to bed on time for too many days in a row.

Because then you're Going Through It and also your friends and loved ones are sitting in front of you looking like they just found their dumbest cat panicking because it's stuck under a blanket and trying to find a tactful way of saying, "What if you tried... eating a vegetable. Perhaps today, even. Maybe we could eat a vegetable together? Would that help?"

[here-comes-the-moose]

Okay so I feel like I’ve seen stuff about Tech having a set routine and needing that routine since he has his way of doing things and a lot of us agree on him being neurodivergent or on the spectrum, but you know who I also feel needs a routine and would most likely get upset and irritable if it was disrupted? Crosshair. Like I can see him also having a very particular and set way of doing things and going about his day and getting irritable and snappy if it’s disrupted.

[wildbasil]

I'm getting married next week and I'm feeling STRESSED

[bekkathyst]

So I may have accidentally taken a double dose of my blood pressure meds so if I pass out in the middle of the show I guess we’ll know why 🥲

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

We have Big Travel tomorrow and on the one hand yayyyyy (partners at the end + love partners + love travel + ONE MONTH VACATION FROM ADULTING AT HOME FOR REAL) on the other hand aaaaouuuughhhhhh (waiting mode + anticipation anxiety + we've been teetering on the edge of burnout for weeks and right now have very little compensatory ability for if anything goes off plan) on the third hand we've literally done this many times before and have Coping Skills and will be fine even if there's problems but. Yeowch I want to get started on the trip NOW!!!!! but nooo there's sleep in the way and everything

[arealcrow]

okay now time to sit in the sun and do the daily crossword 💖

[coquelicoq]

i have this unfortunate thing where i love cats and know several people with cats who ask me to catsit for them on the other side of town but if i am away from home for more than a few days i get so homesick that i start crying and can't stop. and then i feel incredibly stupid about the fact that i'm a grown adult - and still in my own city even! - but here i am not being able to handle being away from home for less than a week. i think it is indicative of some larger problem that i am not engaging with but man i just wanna go home. i want to be in my own space with my own bed and all my books and where i know how to work the tv and can change my clothes if i want to without being stressed that i'm going to run out. i want to be at home which i have tailored to my own sensory preferences and where i can walk around without stepping on cat litter and sit down without having to check every other minute to make sure i'm not covered in ants. i probably would not feel like such a baby about it because those all sound like really nice normal things to want and value but i feel like everyone i know loves travel and i just don't get it, i just want to go home. i like it there. i like stability. i would like to stop crying about it though.