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[nanslice]

This was all written on Wednesday.

Lads, the only good thing about working at Whole Foods was that my coworkers thought I was in my mid-twenties. As a 38 year old woman, that was pretty sweet lmao. But I quickly realized I'm over retail work so W and I agreed that I should just hold off until my actual job starts in mid-July. I pulled from my 401k to just keep myself afloat until then; honestly I'll be fine.

The only problem with this is that I'm terrible at staying home. I'm purely an extrovert and interacting with others is pretty crucial to my mental health. Unfortunately, going outside often costs money (especially in this expensive ass city) so I'm holding off doing anything like that (yes, I do go for walks in parks and stuff, for sure, but that's more a nature thing than a socializing thing). It's tough, guys!

There are a couple of things this weekend I want to do and I'm hoping they both can work out. Folklife is happening this weekend and I'd love to hit it up on Saturday. On Sunday, our favorite local game store is having a little kitten popup event with one of the local shelters. I don't want to adopt a kitten but I sure would love to play with some. ;3;

Today was a pretty funky day for both of us so we took a little dog out for a nice walk and some coffee.

AND NOW IT'S THURSDAY. XD

H/T to misbegotten: Fandom can do a little gatekeeping. As a treat. Man, does this truly sum up all the problems I've had with fandom in the past few years. Tourist is certainly not my favorite term; I'm mostly familiar with jerkass alt-right Warhammer 40k fans using it against anyone who is "White male sexless Space Marines" but other than that, I get all of this. The entitlement (which has always been there but seems to have ramped up), the commodification of fandom, the content farming...it's all so very frustrating. Fandom and the internet has changed so much and it's so frustrating and weh! And also, like, as a fanartist, it's like....art theft x20. It's fandom theft lmao. It just makes me real mad lol.

...anyways, I clearly had a lot of feelings about this! Maybe you will too. Who knows.

Comments

[vriddy]

This essay is really good. Thank you for sharing. I've also been working on my internal feelings regarding gatekeeping for the last few years, and having some barriers to entry to a community, because allowing any randomer to crash into any conversation clearly doesn't work well to build communities.

[nanslice]

You're very welcome.

[yuuago]

Thanks for sharing that post. Yeahhh, fandom sure is exhausting these days. :V

[nanslice]

Yeah. :\ It's a real bummer.

[a_natural_beauty]

Hey, this sounds like a good, positive chapter in your life! Congrats on the compliment! I only worked in retail for a very short while and knew it wasn't for me. :-p

I hope you guys have a fun weekend! I've never heard of the North west folklife, but it sounds really cool! Enjoy it if you can go!!

[nanslice]

Thank you! I'm honestly really good with retail and customer service, I just do not want to deal with the terrible hours. XD; I like being home in the evenings on the weekends, haha.

[a_natural_beauty]

Yes, I agree with you there. I love being home in the evenings, too.
Just make sure you do something that makes you happy, you deserve it!

[hokuton_punch]

Thank you for the link to that post, it was good to read. If depressing. :/ (I started locking all my fic ages ago for another reason, but the kind of thing they laid out is definitely a factor in me keeping it locked...)

I hope you get some good quality extrovert time soon! ♥

[lassarina]

I've said this to like three posts linking the gatekeeping post, but yeah. YEAH. I feel that in my bones.

oMG KITTEN POPUP, that sounds joyous, please send pix.