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Life has a way of humbling you and running you over with a truck at the same time.

Work is going through a remodel and losing people hand over fist, so my schedule keeps changing. No kind of consistency (not that I really did before), so I'm just kind of hanging in. We had a big corporate to-do day before yesterday that prompted me to ask "on a scale of 1-10, how fired am I?" (To which I was told that I am not and I'm excelling at my job. WTF.) I'm stressed and just trying to hang in till my vacation at the end of March, beginning of April, when I can escape and go do ALL THE THINGS.

#work is stupid #always working #i have nothing witty to say #i have no time for fandom or fun

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My parents took me to see Ghostbusters in the theatre when I was 3 and the library ghost jump scare was so traumatic at that age that I still can't watch it at 43 and I get up and leave the room before it comes on. I'm totally fine with the entire rest of the movie.

My father, of course, thinks this is hysterically hilarious and makes fun of me for it.

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

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**blows down cobwebs**

My little corner looks a touch disused over here.

Maybe I should do something about that. Or not.

I've been rewatching Spooks and I love Ruth and Harry so much. But I'm discovering that the older I get, the more like Ros I get: completely stone-faced and ball-busting till the job is done. Bitches love me (not).

#spooks #MI-5 #adventures in fandom #in my own little corner in my own little chair

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I GOT A NEGATIVE AFTER WORK. FUCK YES. I DON'T THINK I'VE BEEN THIS EXCITED FOR MONTHS.

If anyone tries to tell you that Covid is no longer a thing, you can bite them like the feral beast you have inside your soul, ok? My family came up to visit from Texas and work had a small cluster on overnights and I'll never know which I caught it from, but this new dominant variant isn't nice. While my symptoms were mild (1 day of fever, touch of tension headache, sinus drainage consistent with a prolonged sinus infection), the exhaustion that is plaguing me doing normal tasks is ridiculous. Like I would go to the bathroom and require a nap. I'm getting ready to go to work now and wondering if I'll get through a full shift and then be able to turn around and be back in the morning for a full shift tomorrow. I'm tired and I haven't even left home.

I was told when I went in to urgent care that my symptoms were too mild and I'd already passed the effective window for the medications. Which was true. But, dude, at least give me a stronger decongestant than OTC Zyrtec and Mucinex. (FYI, Mucinex spray? Best thing ever if you catch Covid and have heavy nasal symptoms starting day 2.)

So try not to catch this shit. And if you do catch it, treat it seriously, not like it's just another cold/flu. It's not nice.

I want a nap. **sobbing into the void**

#covid #stupid shit is stupid #what even is my life

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If anyone tries to tell you that Covid is no longer a thing, you can bite them like the feral beast you have inside your soul, ok? My family came up to visit from Texas and work had a small cluster on overnights and I'll never know which I caught it from, but this new dominant variant isn't nice. While my symptoms were mild (1 day of fever, touch of tension headache, sinus drainage consistent with a prolonged sinus infection), the exhaustion that is plaguing me doing normal tasks is ridiculous. Like I would go to the bathroom and require a nap. I'm getting ready to go to work now and wondering if I'll get through a full shift and then be able to turn around and be back in the morning for a full shift tomorrow. I'm tired and I haven't even left home.

I was told when I went in to urgent care that my symptoms were too mild and I'd already passed the effective window for the medications. Which was true. But, dude, at least give me a stronger decongestant than OTC Zyrtec and Mucinex. (FYI, Mucinex spray? Best thing ever if you catch Covid and have heavy nasal symptoms starting day 2.)

So try not to catch this shit. And if you do catch it, treat it seriously, not like it's just another cold/flu. It's not nice.

I want a nap. **sobbing into the void**

#covid #stupid shit is stupid #fuck my family and fuck this shit #over it

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A mark on your forehead identifies the god you must worship to stay alive, usually by joining its local church or temple. Your mark is unknown, meaning an old, forgotten god sponsored you. To survive, you must either find an old temple to worship at, or do the arduous task of building a new one

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Manifesting a quiet day off tomorrow where I just go in and have my mammogram and ultrasound with no problems because I've been putting in 12+ hour shifts and I'm tired as I don't even know what.

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Well, another year, another crisis. My random fainting spells are apparently related to my heart issues and so we're going to treat it like it's POTS even though it might not be just to see if that helps.

I'm pretty sure I'm just over my body trying to kill me at this point.

Work continues to be heinous. BTS season is here and I'm already over it.

#real life sucks #my heart #svt #work is stupid

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Just because you don't like a book doesn't mean it doesn't have the right to exist. Even if it's horrific. Even if it's terrible. Yes, by all means, ban it to a back shelf somewhere, but don't destroy it: it documents the sickness of society which is a necessary evil.

#censorship #book banning #destruction #this is why we can't have nice things

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One of the coaches at work looked at me yesterday and went, "it's you. You're the one that smells different and wonderful every day. How."

**laughs in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab** I only have like 300-400 bottles of perfume I've collected over 20 years, man. I have no idea. No idea at all.

#black phoenix alchemy lab #perfume #work is stupid #other people are why we can't have nice things #people boy i dunno

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When you come back from a work trip basically a work celebrity, then get to check your personal social media tags and stop taking all the overwhelming overstimulation stuff from work and go back to being your normal self for a few hours. Yes, I got to take pictures in the CEO's office, no he wasn't there (he was prepping for the big meeting), yes, I took a picture with our senior VP/business unit leader that ended up being front and center on her post for the big meeting, no I have no idea why she chose to use me and another person from our market as the headliners for that internal post, but I fielded a LOT of texts and screaming about it, and boy, it was a treat getting to see Shania Twain, Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Salt-n-Pepa, Billy Idol, Wang Chung, and so on in brief concert. Because that's a thing.

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I'm about to go on a work trip and that's going to be absolutely the worst so pray for my soul.

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Hey, so this is making the rounds again and oh yes. Yes.

Being an adult is struggling to find enough executive function to do enough things to look like you have your shit together to everyone else while internally you're off the fucking rails.

#adulting is shit #FUUUUUUUCK this noise

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AO3 LINK

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If he still believed in romance, he might have thought it a good day for it. As it was, Rafael Barba was left to conclude that the universe was very good at playing games with him.

#fanfiction #fanfic #law and order svu #l&o: svu #barson #Olivia Benson #rafael barba

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I saw Oliver last night. It was great.

The staging and choreography was good, the performances were stellar. Raúl Esparza is great.

What do you want from me?

#oliver #nycc encores #raúl esparza

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Why do the last few days before a trip drag like no one's business? 3 days and a few hours and counting.

Or, in my case, why am I being tortured with 10+ hour overnight shifts every night till I leave? Jesus, take the fucking wheel, I am done. Three more insane shifts to go.

A bitch cannot live on coffee and bad ass attitude alone. But watch me try.

#work suuuuucks