god i really went THREE FUCKING YRS without getting sick i was being so goddamn careful but then my parents got smth and foolish me, didnt step up the level of precaution i was taking around them, and lo and behold, im almost definitely sick

the unspoken broflovski family curse

so im listening to the potd audio commentary and jodie's talking about covid restrictions and filming flux and how the restrictions were more intense at the start of filming (was that end of 2020/start of 2021?) and she says "by the time we finished, we could hug" and damn they took that opportunity didnt they

man

Literally everyone but me in the office is some sort of sick. They say oh I need the money or I don't want to use up my sick days or its not that bad *cough hack sniff*. And then they refuse to at the very least wear a mask. Like no wonder everyone is getting sick!!! I can feel my body starting to feel icky and I feel like the last man standing in a zombie apocalypse

the ride home

GUH. BEANNARY. ARE YOU A TMA FAN???????????? 📼📼📼📼📼📼📼

YEAH I AM!!!!! I know I havent like talked about it at all recently but man its wild to me that people dont know how obsessed I am with tma lol the last fandom I was in (Tales of Arcadia) I wrote what was supposed to be a massive tma au fic and that I had planned extensively till the turtles consumed me and before that I was super into the tma fandom and drew a bunch of fanart

I dont have much of my tma fanart anymore since my last laptop like completely imploded and i couldnt salvage my art from before 2020 from it but heres some of the tma fanart that I still have!

(plus a bonus ghoulia from monster high)

I also had some tma ocs!

I cant remember their names but i had one oc who was an avatar of the web who I think had been partially paralyzed by some accident that led her to being an avatar of the web? I remember drawing her in a wheelchair and posting a picture of her in a tma discord server sometime in 2020 or 2019 but I dont have that picture on my laptop so she has been lost to time unless someone from that tma discord server happens to have that pic saved but i highly doubt that i would be that lucky

But I also had another who I still have a drawing of! Her name is valentina and shes an avatar of the buried who is a snowboarder and works as a search and rescue volunteer to help recover people after avalanches! (She doesnt you know actually help any of the people that she finds but you know she avatar of the buried them)

i havent listened to the magnus protocol yet so NO SPOILERS I'm waiting till spring break when i have more mental energy for it but i do plan to listen to it and i am very excited for it

genuinely astounding to me how few people wear masks these days ngl!! everyone on campus is sick. nobody is wearing a mask. people tell me they dont like being able to smell their own breath I tell them I like having the ability to smell at all and they still dont wear a mask. someone tells me im weakening my immune system by wearing a mask because its not fighting off illness. one of my friends is sick for the second time in a month with a lingering cough. people in my classes are out with covid and come back days later. another person on the floor is sick but they'll just take ibuprofen. my friends casually mention having almost no sense of smell. almost nobody can get the covid booster because we live on a secluded college campus. people cough without covering their mouths in class. they dont have a mask on. nobody has a mask on. what is anyone even doing

i got covid for the first time early last month and it was minor, I thought. the second I tested positive I contacted my doctor and got paxlovid prescribed to me. I picked it up the same day and started taking the twice daily medication that night.

yes, paxlovid can help reduce/minimize long covid symptoms so I thought I would be fine. but to this day I still am only in the begining steps of recovering from the brainfog, forgetfulness, trouble concentrating, and trouble paying attention for longer periods of time.

it's horrible. it sucks shit. I am constantly missing my exits and turns when I drive, even WITH a navigator on my phone. I stop talking in the middle of sentences bc I forget what I was even talking about in the first place.

the way covid affected my brain makes me feel like I got another concussion, but without the pain or the dizziness or the nausea or any of the typical physical concussion symptoms that come with one.

I constantly see people in all groups all ages not masking over here. or coughing into the open air and sneezing without covering their nose and mouth with their elbow. didn't we learn this in preschool. what's your problem??? if you can do anything to stop or prevent someone else's suffering then why wouldn't you???

(for the request thing) trans bito...

i'm plagued by visions (click 4 quality)

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day 124

aint that just the way though huh

one thing about me is i have no idea what i know because i have no idea what is like a normal amount of knowledge about anything

Seriously debating quitting my job with no backup plan besides my old job, which I also dislike

???? Don't know much about the au but what's wrong with all that? Covid pllotlines are kind of normal in au's, separating one character into two characters is a tale as old as time in fandom- I'm just confused?

the hetch criken thing was personal preference honestly. however i think having the actual fucking pandemic that fucked people up in it and making a character die from it is maybe a little weird

This pic. This pic is everything to me.