I’m “coping” (and possibly permanently alienating @aliassamm.bsky.social) PS I promise didn’t make up @feralpiratecats.bsky.social, they’re very real, @gelatinousstand.bsky.social can confirm (unless they’re in on it too)

Requested an appointment with an allergist but I can’t see how this ends any other way than me quitting this job. When it was the phd there was an end in sight. This job is supposed to be permanent. I can’t stay at a job that is so stressful that I’m breaking out in hives.

I added Mary, Evelyn, Doug, and the kids - Jackie fell in love with Doug immediately - collecting all of the husbands

Ed and Stede are dating and I have them running around in matching skeleton costumes bc it feels like the exact kind of bullshit these two would be into

2/4 This is a project for my University degree on Pacific literature, looking to connect people to 'The Whale Road', a poem by David Eggleton. If u r able to read the poem and then express a little of your reaction to it in your colouring then that will be fantastic. (Poem is enclosed below)

This project sounds EXTREMELY COOL

A short break from my existential angst: spouse brought home tiiiiny Florida peaches bc they thought it was funny and they’re actually like 10000 times better than the big ones from the grocery store that taste like nothing

New shelter: unlocked #FeralPirateCats

I may have manifested hives and if that’s the case, I might just give up permanently Like I wouldn’t be surprised if it started happening again since my dissertation made it happen in the first place and I’m about to start working on it again But I can’t go through that again

Without downloading anything new, where are you at mentally?

Reaching a point where I’m almost hoping I break out in stress-induced hives bc it would be incontrovertible proof that things Are Not OK and I’m so mentally ill that I’m convinced I’m just not trying hard enough against a background of a burning world

TealOranges are married (and Archie/Jim and Olu/Zheng are constant companions), LuPete are in love and living together, and Gentlebeard are mutually ready to risk it all Meanwhile a hilariously tangled web of crushes surrounds Wee John, where only he and Izzy are mutually crushing lmaooo

Just found out the fence is being repaired this week, which is great bc it’s in bad shape and terrible bc we had to disassemble the tarp tent that primarily serves as shelter for the feral pirate cats and secondarily covers my bike 🫠

We saw a gator successfully catch a wild bird at the zoo today TBH “That’s what happens when you choose to hang out in the gator enclosure” feels like an apt metaphor for accepting an academic job in FL and then being traumatized a year in

Coworkers keep asking me how my first year was and every time they ask I realize just how much I’ve had to push down and repress and ignore in order to keep going and I can tell that my resolve is crumbling bc I just saw an old post from DJenks talking about the cancellation and it feels brand new

Much of what I'm working on is not ready for sharing yet (the collabs are totally worth the wait, I promise!) but this drawing was a self-indulgent trip into an au that will probably never live anywhere but inside my brain. The artist will answer questions at this time. #ofmdfanart #ofmd

Pete is creeped out by Lucius’s obsession and Stede’s crush on Ed has faded, I hate this game

Lucius is just following Pete around completely smitten and Pete is like “???” which feels so right to me

The demo got me 😫

I know everyone has moved on to Tomodachi Life but I've started building a pirate ship on Pokopia and I will eventually be crewing it with the most Revenge vibe Pokémon. The only one I'm 1000% certain on is that Graveller is Pete

Shouldn’t download tomodachi life bc I know it will take over my brain and I still have so much of Pokopia to finish but everyone’s little OFMD dolls are making me so jealous

I opened my email, saw what was waiting for me, closed my email

Getting a text from the landlord asking if we’ll be home to meet a roofing contractor(????) 14 hours before said contractor is supposed to be here 👍🏻will they need to get inside? 🤷🏼 we’ll see!!!

"Mmm I dunno, think we're overdoing it? Selling HALF a pyramid was already a bit of a stretch..." "Listen, babe, Crown Prince Azi and his Viceroy can do whatever the fuck they want! Let's go bigger next time, I've got an idea." Leveling up the pyramid scheme on a Frenchie Friday for #OFMDRareShips!

Got a spam call for Richard Chrysler and have decided Dr. Dick Chrysler is my drag name

Can’t imagine I’ll have a huge number of students in class today but those who do show up deserve some of the whimsy I usually give out as a reward for coming to office hours

It has been almost a week and work bestie has not mentioned this so as you can imagine, I’m spiraling lmao

A student stopped by to drop something off and thanked me for being openly queer and I!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Winning lots of points with @gelatinousstand.bsky.social’s kids on take you child to work day by providing tiny frogs/ducks/dinos and coloring pages, and having a good Lego collection 🎉 I don’t want children but I DO want to be that queerdo adult that kids think is cool

No words for the hurt and fury I feel on behalf of spouse for the shit they’re processing re their mother and a lifetime of emotional abuse and neglect We’ve been together nearly 13 years and were friends before that and there are still so many “new” things surfacing that are so utterly heinous

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

Alternatively: Stede is sick of hanging out with Calico Jack (Asshole cat might be Jack, tbh. Stede chased him out of the yard earlier.)

I’m so fucking hilarious #FeralPirateCats

Current view - ridiculous

Heard footsteps in the ceiling of my top-floor office and now the hallway light is flickering I fear I am not long for this world

My students aren’t panicking anywhere near as much as they should be given that it’s the last week of class and many are Not Doing Well, which means my inbox is going to explode Saturday morning despite telling them to NOT do that 😑

Sharing this one for today's #OFMDRareships prompt 'Fluff'. I just think Roach and Wee John have a great time together. #OFMDfanart

When you see a post you want to share but no alt text 😔🙂‍↔️

I put on my Satie playlist knowing full well that Gnossienne 5 would play at some point so please tell me why it still felt like being kicked in the face

A raccoon tried to follow me into the building when I got to work, which feels like an omen for the day I’m about to have

Spouse saw catnip prerolls at the pet store and said “fuck that, we have rolling papers at home” Happy 420 from my family to yours

Imagine coming across this post without knowing that it is about some feral cats

After some postal mishaps, my prints from @owltrousers.bsky.social arrived and I love them so much 🥹🥹🥹 Also the bonus print! I’m dead, I’ve died. The talent in this fandom!!!!!!!!

DJenk’s post about Rhys really reinforces what I told work bestie yesterday re eventually getting season 3: that I think David, Rhys, or Taika will have to be dead before David gives up on our ending

Trying to absorb as much of work bestie’s “watching OFMD for the first time” energy as I can without being physically present

STILL THINKING ABOUT IT

Important to note that work bestie’s spouse was also like “I love this show” in the most earnest way possible while we were hanging out @gelatinousstand.bsky.social T needs to get his shit together