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//Hello! This blog is still on a semipermanent hiatus. If I followed you recently, it's because my Eighth Doctor sideblog, @withwitandhope, is now active. Please go check him out!
//I've noticed in the past two days that I still have everyone's Pride icons up. They have been that way since last June. It is now April. So I figure it's kinda pointless now to change them... I swear I do this every year. "I'm going to put up Pride icons for June!" *proceeds to leave icons up for the better part of eight months*
//I’m here and active for the moment. Can’t say anything for any time after today. I’ve been emotionally exhausted for the past three months. I don’t really have the energy for any of my New Who Doctors today. However, Eight is awake and active. I’m going to try to post some open starters on his blog, @withwitandhope. And Jack is being obnoxious. Again. I don’t really have the mental energy to write open starters for him, but I’ll probably post a few memes and see if anything comes of that. He’s over on @boeshaneposterboy.
PSA:
Among all the handwashing instructions and fun 20-second song suggestions, I haven’t yet seen anyone note that it is IMPOSSIBLE to wash your hands properly if your fingernails are long. If you can’t put your fingertips straight down against your other palm without your nails adding too much distance to do it, you cannot wash under your fingernails properly unless you use a nail brush every time. Hand sanitizer won’t do the trick either. If you can’t rub the very ends of your fingers against the other palm, your hands aren’t truly clean after you wash them, no matter how long you soap up. Please, during this global emergency, keep your nails short.
A Note: Be Kind
//Just a quick - if a bit long-winded - note as we deal with this crisis:
I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for tomorrow. My state is headed into a state-wide "stay at home" order. Which means tomorrow is going to be utter chaos and I'm going to have to deal with a shitton of bitchy people. I was tired from the moment the announcement was made. Mentally and emotionally exhausted. I felt any and all restoration not working today had brought begin to fade immediately as I was faced with the prospect of what work is going to be like tomorrow.
I work in retail pharmacy. Which puts me right on the border of healthcare and retail. I'm in a grocery store chain, so we do have normal retail in the building as well. For the last few weeks, up until Friday afternoon, we've been so busy I feel guilty for even taking the time to eat during my shift. And after observing the behavior of people dealing with this crisis and the toll it's taken on myself and my coworkers, I would implore you all to remember to be kind.
I am required to report to work during the stay at home period, because pharmacy is healthcare and therefore considered essential. I do not have paid sick leave. I cannot self-quarantine out of fear for my own health (I'm immunocompromised and have breathing issues and am therefore at higher risk of infection and complications) because I cannot afford to miss work and possibly be fired. The only way I can miss work without losing pay or my job is if I'm diagnosed with COVID-19 and instructed by a healthcare provider to self-quarantine. And even then, I have to have documentation and can only be out for 2 weeks. So while I'm grateful that I still have an income, as I'm aware so many people have lost theirs due to everything going on, I wish it wasn't at the possible expense of my health or life.
So as you're dealing with all of this, I would ask you to remember one simple thing: be kind to each other. Be kind to the retail worker at the grocery store who has probably already been cursed at multiple times that day about the store being out of toilet paper. Be kind to the pharmacy technician who has probably already been accused that day of wishing sickness upon people for enforcing rationing limitations. Be kind to the doctor who has to tell you that you can't come to the office for their safety and yours. Be kind to first responders who are putting themselves on the line even more than usual right now. Be kind to other people affected by this crisis.
Remember, you don't know what anybody is dealing with at home. You don't know what they've dealt with that day. You don't know what anybody else's fears or worries might be. I look young and able-bodied because my health problems are of the invisible variety. And there's no way you could know by looking at her that one of my younger coworkers has a father she can't see right now because he has stage four cancer, being treated with chemotherapy, and she can't risk exposing him to this. My point is, even on a normal day, you have no idea what anyone else is juggling.
So you have a choice when dealing with others: you can be kind and help alleviate some of their stress, or you can be cruel and be the straw that broke the camel's back. You may not know just how much a kind word - even if it's just "thank you" - can mean. I've literally gotten through the last few weeks thanks to the people who have taken the 10 seconds to ask how I'm doing or tell me they appreciate that I and my coworkers are keeping essential services running as daily life around them begins to shut down. If you think I'm exaggerating, I promise you I'm not. I've been incredibly stressed out during all this. There have been numerous times that I, like most of my coworkers, have had to step back for a moment and take a second to calm down enough to stop crying because one too many people have been nasty to me about things I can't control. The ones who have asked me how I'm doing or how my day is going or even just said "thank you" have been just enough to keep me from quitting. I've been so concerned about my own health and the possibility that I might expose my mother (who is older and also has breathing problems) to this virus that quitting has been extremely tempting, even though I and my family can't afford it financially.
We're all in this mess together. At this point, pretty much no one is unaffected by this. So when you have a choice to make, please choose to be kind. Help each other where you can. Even if that's just checking in on a neighbor or sewing mask covers. (And yes, that's a thing some hospitals in my state are asking people to do, because shortages of medical supplies are so severe they have to reuse disposable masks.) Even if all you can offer is a set of hands or even just a kind word. We're all stressed out and scared, so when given the opportunity, try to be kind.
To quote Twelve: "Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind."
//I wish I had the muse to write at the moment. I need a distraction from worrying about everything that's going on every waking moment...
If anyone would like to try to do something with Thirteen or Eight - with the understanding that mun works in healthcare and has been emotionally exhausted 1000% of the time for the last week and may therefore be slow - I would be up for trying. See if maybe they'll start to wake back up a little.
Coronavirus and Work
//Hello all! Just a quick note. My muses are basically completely dead right now. I work in healthcare (meaning come hell or high water my job is staying open) and I am part of an at risk population myself. So these last few weeks have been absolutely exhausting. I'm almost hoping to be forced to self-quarantine at this point just so I can slow down and have half a second to breathe. But that's why I've not been here. We'll see what happens, though. I've applied for a different job and I'm hopeful. So I'm just waiting now.
Open Starter - Thirteen
The sound of someone outside her cell pulled her from her restless sleep. Nightmares haunted her. Fragments of memories of the people she'd been before. Shards of what might have been her original home. Nothing she could ever make sense of.
She'd been alone in the darkness for months. Not even at feeding times did she see another living soul. So she half feared that whoever this was would be there to do her further harm. Then again, perhaps a good fight would take her mind off of things. Even if she knew she'd be subdued quickly. Given the security here, she knew any guards that might come into her cell would be highly trained and infinitely more prepared than she was.
When she saw eyes peeking in at her through the slot where food was delivered, though, they looked familiar. Brow furrowing in confusion, she asked the person on the other side of the door, "Is that you? How did you get here?"
Open Starter - Thirteenth Doctor // Open to Masters
"You're lyin'," she growled at him through bared teeth. She looked half feral in her panic. Her desperation to cling to what she thought she knew and understood. The trouble was, she knew he wasn't. She knew. In that incredibly visceral way that precluded any sort of doubt. The accusation felt almost more like a plea for him to take it all back. For him to make it somehow untrue.
Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me? | Great Old Ones
“We immortals need our games, Doctor. Eternity is long, and we are cursed to see it all.”
Doctor Who s12 painting ❤
Such an amazing season so far deserves some art ⚡
A lot of time went into this and I'm proud 😊
Tell me what I should do next ? In this style xx
I think the 13th doctor's biggest cultural impact is challenging people to think about their sexism and bias by facing the fact that they're only offended by something a woman said because it was said by a woman. Bc they aren't tailoring her dialogue for her gender, she isnt the pink doctor. She says everything the previous doctors have said. With boobs.
On my dash, I keep seeing many memes have been reblogged and few to none received. Rpers will post that they are left feeling like they're unseen and unwanted, that people will take, but not give.
How can we fix this?
Send memes when you see people on your dash reblogging them. The worst that will happen is they'll decline to answer it. Getting memes can really brighten an rper's day.
I stopped reblogging memes because I literally never get any.
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Thirteenth Doctor era + John Mulaney quotes