wait random question did anyone else have a really specific random irrational fear as a kid they grew out of and is just part of their backstory or is that just me?
for example: until I was like nine/ten I was terrified of flushing the toilet. there was not enough money in the world to make me flush that toilet any sooner than the last possible second because I was so afraid of it
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I think the game mechanic of the thing inspiring me might’ve triggered me a lil. (Genuinely the concept of forgetting leaves me. Nauseous).
It’s such a good metaphor for how I feel and how scared I get about it.
Imagine you have to build a deck for a game that you don’t know what challenges you’ll have to face. The cards are ALSO YOUR MEMORIES. you need to have the RIGHT MEMORIES to WIN CHALLENGES. but since you don’t know what’s COMING and you can only have A LIMITED NUMBER OF CARDS, you can be quick to start NOT KNOWING WHAT YOURE WILLING TO GIVE UP.
but you’re also. Not allowed to stop the game. Not allowed to say ‘oh I’m comfortable with my deck now’. It keeps. Going. And demanding you forget things to replace other things.
SO WHEN I FEEL INSPIRED BY A NEW THING ITS LIKE WOW: I want to buy a card pack! It might help me with a challenge I want to face! But if I buy the pack, I’ll have to get rid of a bunch of memories cards I already HAVE. Many of which overtime become INCREASINGLY RARE, SENTIMENTAL AND IMPORTANT TO ME. I might have to forget my best friends birthday! My old hobbies! My address! I could forget something so important it could lead me into DANGER! It could lead to me losing a MILLION challenges just so I could do ONE thing! I hate!!! That this is so!!!
Perfectly metaphorical it hurts.
I can’t even get excited by new experiences because. I will lose my old ones. And that’s fucked up. When u get offered a really nice card and then u look at your deck like ‘it might not be optimized but I just can’t risk losing what I have right now’ (familiar, safe, functional enough to get me this far). But then I sit here sobbing cause I’m NOT GETTING ANYWHERE. THE CHALLENGE RATING IS TOO HIGH FOR WHAT I HAVE NOW. BUT IF I LEAVE I WILL LOSE SO MUCH THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME.
I cannot handle Losses man. I cannotttt.
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How does working in the healthcare system feel like?
well i willingly walk up and down 8 flights of stairs, so
i had this WHOLE rant abt pay and safe ratios n shit but instead heres THIS. the last one got a little too jargony but ive had nights like this and last night BLEW so i went off a bit
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Okay, I'm probably not doing NaNoWriMo this year but
For Shameless, I kind of managed to do my own rendition of NaNo, because from October 2nd to November 2nd, according to my Scrivener, I wrote 57,881 words (I'm unsure how much is published, think that might be only 49,000 or so).
Which is just kind of wild considering I hadn't been writing much recently. So, thank you Shameless, for lighting that fire in the month of October for me because it was a fun ride <3
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Rewatching Gorzilla and noticed a small detail Adrien adds in his recounting of Marinette giving him the lucky charm...
For reference, this is the original scene:
Is there a particular reason that Adrien’s recollection includes Marinette blushing?!?!
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i forgot to do one small daily task at work on friday (that other, more senior people in the company have also often forgotten to do). and like it’s not a big deal. it’s such a small deal. it barely even matters. yet
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