fraconceagain.bsky.social
The Fractured Empiricist. Queer, Disabled multimedia nerd. Cat widow. Housewench. Prophet of Doom.
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It's not an official anniversary. I couldn't tell you the date it started. But my parents first started noticing I just wasn't sleeping when I was 2. Some brains don't switch modes so easily. We walled off a bit of our lounge for an extra bedroom so I wouldn't keep my 12 y-o sister up.
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You see because it was in emergency measures to cool me. Sweating doesn't happen cos my body thinks I'm cold. And of course the hotter it makes me, the colder it reads me, so it continues to stoke those fires. This is the first time it's triggered my lungs' emergency thermostat.
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I'd never make it to being a billionaire cos I'd keep using the money my money would somehow continue to make to try & actually help people. Cos what's the fucking point of any of it otherwise. All the things I actually need/want for myself cost at best a few grand altogether.
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*over And at a fresh, active accident scene too.
I just couldn't. The going to the bottom of the deep ocean in a glass bathysphere in season 1 was bad enough. It's fair enough that protagonists don't have to be directly likable but they shouldn't be actual irredeemable monsters.
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And tbf to Departure "it's not as good once Christopher Plummer leaves" is practically a tautology but that's also not what went wrong with that show.
I don't know if they recaptured earlier heights of intrigue cos they lost me at their investigation taking precedence of life-saving efforts.
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Like what even of value is there to contribute to these two strangers beyond they seem to make each other happy & I hope it works out for them?
She's a catch he landed? What's he gonna do? Lay her in ice til he gets back to port?
Some idioms really aren't worth keeping.
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I kinda wish it were a trick question & the answer was both cos at least then she'd be paying you a wage. [Big hugs!]
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This business survived The Depression, a World War & everything that came after but Troy & Alasdair wanted it for their portfolios or some shit & thousands of people lose their livelihoods, not to mention the best Afternoon Tea on most highstreets.
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Maybe this is a coastal baby thing but how unbalanced that boat would be hurts my hindbrain. If Halsin isn't at oar he should be in the front. The heel this boat would have is unreal.
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Sending you the biggest of hugs.
Their inability to understand is not our fault, any more than what they did/do to us is.
You are wonderful & if she can't get that then it's her loss.
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Google will not help me either but I'm guessing it's dehydrated but crammed with emulsifiers so it still feels moist. Like Rustler's microwave burgers.
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The one major upside of the Olympics when they were here was a bunch of places getting access to World Host training. You will still get better service, & from more contented people, in towns/cities that got even a bit of it.
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Parents everywhere shouting in loving frustration, "You wanna end up like RFK Jr!?!?"
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I was always aware that my gran was an extraordinary person but I'd never really put together how amazing she was til the minister was listing her achievements at her funeral. I ended up crying from pure joy at having got to know her even a bit. That generation was wild.
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He reminds me of the rich kids I knew in my 20s, playing at living in squalor for shits & giggles. Cos it's always just a game. Mum/Dad/the money will always be there if anything actually bad threatens to happen, so they never learn the lessons everyone else has to. Actual blank slates.
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It's a good mix of jobs too. Some to keep up positive patterns I've set, some completing a reset to zero allowing the beginning of a positive pattern, & some of those little jobs that keep having to be deprioritised when I'm too far behind. Properly satisfying.