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niqaeli torres, child of disaster
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herein you will find: a plexiglass 4th wall, whining, cats, fannishness, occasional intersectional social commentary. she/they. blocks for bad vibes and fuckshittery. 0.00000015% of a Hugo Award Winner.
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this disaster is terrible
and we may not survive it
our descendants may not survive it

but we are children of disaster
the ones that made us and the ones that nearly unmade us but did not

so we might
huh! weirdly enough, it’s the black work in my tattoos that my dramatique mast cells will freak out over and raise up, not any of the colour work.
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
do y'all not have scorpions up there, bc if so frankly i would like to move in. i do not ever want another scorpion in the bathtub incident, twice was about three times too many

(yes fine scorpions aren't insects; they're still arthropods, and sting-y, and gross when you squish them. they're bugs.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have belatedly realised this might have been a moderately baffling skeet for the OP rah was replying to, so uh: it is basically a very old joke amongst the volunteers and staff of Dreamwidth about the cthonic horrors that exist in the codebase. ia ia.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
ia ia cthulu fthagn
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
oh my god, I think your piss terrorist has won, and also holy god I am so sorry I can halfway smell this post and I am sure the actual thing was five times as bad as what I'm smelling!
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by niqaeli torres, child of disaster
I will not start shit with mega-accounts even when they are Wrong, I will not start shit with mega-accounts even when they are Egregious Wrong, people are allowed to have Wrong fannish opinions, people are allowed to have Wrong fannish opinions...
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
idk, the laptop is probably easier to manage to piss in/on. like, it's definitely a higher value target to ruin! but. the keurig was an incredibly impressive feat of piss terrorism on a logistical level!
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
do the girls, uh, know to keep their clothes in their bags and behind a door Ruth cannot get to and not to leave their electronics around, because I feel like all of their earthly belongings are probably also going to be considered fair targets as well
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
oh, oh nooooooo
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
you know, if there weren’t a camera *right* there in the garage, I would’ve slipped and fell with my keys in my hand against the Babykiller 9000 truck parked in a disabled spot without a hangtag or plates
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I have been seen!!! it took literally less than a minute, most of which was me taking off my pants. she put on gloves, poked the damn lump, said “yep you need antibiotics, and keep it up with the soaks”.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
it's a fucking urgent care. it should be goddamn mandatory to mask. like, I am a realist about masking more generally; I don't love it but I recognise it is an even harder sell than safer sex practices, but I am just so fucking furious about the fact that we caved on masking in *medical settings*.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ding ding ding
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh my god these are adorable
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
amazingly I am in a room with an MA, at 2:06pm
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
guess how many people I have seen wearing masks in this urgent care, go on guess
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I learned this from public speaking as: tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, them what you told them.

It’s, uh, it’s a pretty fundamental presentation thing, tbh?
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I have arrived and am checked in, whee
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
i have done the “save a spot in line” thing for urgent care for that goddamned cyst with an expected arrival of 2pm

now taking bets on how many hours past 2pm it’ll take me to actually be seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
...hopefully 0, but it's fucking Nestlé so I wouldn't be surprised if it was non-zero tbh
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Ah, western comics, never change, wait no the other thing actually. Even the indies have been terrible about a lot of the same shit as the big two.
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
there's are various reasons why it could be impossible, but most of them are really depressing!
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
- it's not fractally fucked on a universal level
- the Authority do not have direct counterparts
- their powersets aren't useless if they want to contribute, while also not breaking the board

but it seems like it'd require 'go back home' to absolutely not be possible and… why would it not be?
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
like I said on Discord, I guess if 'go back home' isn't an option and they don't want to keep travelling, the DCEAUoD really isn't a terrible retirement dimension:
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
He learns from his mistakes! He is traumatised in so many ways, but he *does learn from his mistakes*. Because, god damn it, I have no interest in a Bruce who doesn't. He can be bad at people! But he does find brand-new mistakes to make when he makes them.
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM