Garage bulletin board

What distinguishes an acknowledgement that queer is a loaded word and that reclamation and mainstreaming do not always work in step with people's personal experiences in fewer words from a quick jab at "queer" as an academic term.

This is not even a question, I'm just bein' mad.

 

My boss, who is very chill, is cool with me not going to work tomorrow and thank fuck because I'm starting to feel like all my limbs are about to fly off my body. I hope team manager is cool with this, I was pretty rude to her today b/c I did not have the bandwidth to do work, be polite and cope with pain.

I've been sitting on some robot meta about contaminants and self-repair which is making me want to write the next physiology chapter but there is eight days of WBEx left and I have to work on that tomorrow if I wanna get it done. I wish I had my phone back so I could work on it lying in bed but my replacement screen still hasn't arrived and they didn't have an ETA last I asked b/c international mail is kind of a mess right now with literally untold containers full of shit just sitting at airports waiting to clear quarantine and for the workers needed to process them clear quarantine.

I am so tired.

 

Owwww.

Owwwwwwww.

 

So my new night lamp arrived just in time for the nights to start getting lighter and it's... the right model, but with the wrong prints. I contacted the seller, and they said I can either return it for a full refund, or keep the product and get 50% of the price back.

What I'd want is the lamp with the correct prints, but IDK how to bully them into giving me one, or if the even have one, because the listing was flat-out wrong about the product. I mean, I could also just keep this thing and redecorate it, but that's gonna cost me more than the 50% refund.

Other than that, I kinda just spent the day laughing to myself about, like. G1 stakes Wrecker content where they're just a buncha rowdy boys and girls and the worst you can say about them is that none of them know how to say "sorry". Sometimes my mood runs lighter and softer, what can I say.

 

Falinks is the absolute best Pokémon to come out of SwSh and it makes me wish they'd done the same thing with that game that they did with B&W and not have any old Pokémon until the rerelease/expansion. The nostalgia pandering was not worth it, we can have that any other time as well.

 

Update on lamp: they let me keep it and they're getting me a new one for free. Just goes to show what a loss these things get shipped at.

Now I gotta figure out how to paint silicone b/c this'll make a nice housewarming gift for one of my friends when they move.

 

I'm stuck indoors because there's a ton of snow coming down and I can't focus on anything because I got annoyed by someone Tumblr Popular having bad takes and now my eyes automatically pick up their URL when I'm browsing other people's blogs and it makes me go "ugggghhhHHHHHHHHH"

It wasn't even the take itself, they're entitled to their opinion, but appeals to invisible and nonverbalised consensus annoy me so much.

 

Aaaaa I have a headache and I don't wanna go to work and I don't want to do aaaaaanything, I wanna go back to sleep and then play some video games and aaaaaaaaaaaa

 

Aaaand sometimes you forget to take your fucking meds and suddenly it's 2am and you can't fucking sleep, why not

I hope I get some writing done over the weekend -- chapter five of physiology meta starts out well with the chemical properties of Energon creating the nanites that make up the frame's self-repair systems and I think I've mostly mapped out what the abilities and limitations of self-repair are (and why extensive repairs are usually required and the whole toughness tradeoff with the healing factor) but when it comes to actually how it all works, I'm on much thinner ice, and the final parts about software integration and interface are just, like, an extended list of puns about spikes and ports.

The other thing I have on the docket is porn, so I could work on that to draw inspiration. It's not very biologically inventive porn, though, and the fic that is technically pretty inventive is also sad as hell and I'm not in the mood.

Back to resisting the urge to bang my head against the wall until I knock myself out.

 

Poster chapter 3 of Intro to Biomechanics. Now I only have one more chapter of buffer to pester my beta with which means I better get back to writing that chapter 5 while I'm still riding the high of being the cleverest person on this side of the known universe.

Chapter 4 is luckily the longest so far so my beta is gonna have to keep at it for a while.

 

My bike fell over multiple times today because there's something wrong with the damn kickstand and I'm taking my tools with me to work tomorrow to solve it. One of these times, the wind blew half the junk mail literally all over the yard and I had to take shelter in the stairwell of the next building to sort out and straighten up the bundles and that alone made my day at least 20min longer than it should have been.

I'm gonna comfort myself by thinking about a magical girl AU for TFP.

 

I have to change my password on Google and Discord every time my phone logs me out of one or the other and at this point I'm tempted to tempt fate and just make my password on both of them "password" and a random string of significant numbers.

Literally the only password I consistently remember is the one I need to log into my laptop. My memory is garbage.

 

why would you change your password over and over again

 

Well, I wouldn't have to change it if I didn't keep fucking forgetting it щ(ºДºщ)

 

Also I mindlessly logged out of Kintsugi while doing other things and gave up trying to remember my password. I've changed that now, too =__=)

 

Jacob Geller has another video out and yuuup it's another creepy one.

 

*discovers the logo changes colours when I change the theme* :0

 

Ohhh

ohhhhhhh I should probably be looking up MegOP fics that are from Megatron's perspective more often, huh? I should probably be looking up all sorts of cross-faction ships that are written from the Decepticons' perspective a lot more, huh?

Oh, wow, how have I not thought about how this solves basically all my issues with common shippy crossfaction content before, this is such a self-evidently good idea I have no idea how I'm only now realising it.

 

Words cannot describe how much I don't want to go to work.

 

Every time Kermis posts a new tts video I remember "Kermis Plays ARMS" and feel privileged to be alive at a time like this.