[sticky entry] Sticky: Quick introduction

Dec. 7th, 2018 07:23 pm
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Posting this because of all the new traffic thanks to the dumpster fire that is tumblr.
You may know me as brutalitea, bookwho, or piratice. I usually switch between brutalitea and bookwho depending on username availability on websites (I can only think of three exceptions).
 
I only have two hobbies: reading and playing video games. 
 
I currently play Destiny 2 (PC) and Stardew Valley (PC). I also have semi-active accounts for Runescape (3 and OSRS) and Guild Wars 2. Console-wise, I only have a Switch that I honestly haven't touched for a while. I'm waiting for Animal Crossing New Horizons in March. 
 
For books, before I realized I was queer I mainly read mystery, fantasy, or detective books. Codex Alera, Ranger's Apprentice, Star Wars (original EU that they now call Legends). And hetero romance novels I wish I hadn't wasted so much of my mom's money on.  I have a B.A. in history so I have loads of non-fiction books. Now I subsist mainly on femslash fanfiction and MJ Duncan's books. If anyone could point me to a lesbian detective/mystery novel (ideally a series and not YA), I'd be eternally thankful. 
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  • Agent Carter: Cartinelli
  • Arrow: Smoaking Canary, Laurel Lance and Felicity Smoak
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and Toph, Zuko and Mai, Sokka and Suki, Azula and Ty Lee
  • Criminal Minds: Jemily, Emily Prentiss and Ian Doyle
  • DC Animated Universe: Shayera and Wonder Woman, Starfire and Raven
  • DC Comics: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy
  • Doctor Who: Doctor and Rose Tyler, Amy Pond and Rory Williams
  • Elementary: Joaniarty
  • Gargoyles: Goliath and Elisa Maza
  • Guild Wars 2: Caithe and Faolain, Kasjory
  • Harry Potter: Bellamione, Hinny
  • Law & Order: SVU: Cabenson
  • Legend of Korra: Korrasami
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe: Pepperony, Pepper Potts and Natasha Romanov
  • Once Upon a Time: Swan Queen
  • Overwatch: Pharmercy, Tracer and Emily, Brigitte and D.Va
  • Naruto: InoSaku, ItaSaku, NaruSaku, GaaSaku, NejiSaku, MadaSaku
  • Person of Interest: Shoot
  • Rizzoli & Isles: Rizzles
  • Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade, Han Solo and Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Siri Tachi, Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl
  • Supergirl: Kalex, General Danvers, Directorship, Lucy and Vasquez
  • The 100: Clexa, Linctavia, Raven Reyes and Anya
  • The Devil Wears Prada: Mirandy, Emily Charlton and Serena
and many, many more...
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Still alive.

Still employed. There's a chance my job could change from essential to hybrid (cross your fingers).

Still car-less. Almost got a car but dealer sold the car before we could get down there (they refused to hold without a credit app).

Still daydreaming my life was completely different. I wish I'd moved out of the US starting in university.
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Don't have COVID-19 AFAIK.

Still wish I was dead. I hate my life. I hate my family.
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Still alive.

Still employed.

Don't think I have COVID-19.

Haven't written a damn thing.
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I forgot my password. Oops.

Still employed! But I'm paranoid as all hell because my boss still dislikes me.

Due to a sale I have purchased my first tablet, the iPad (7th Gen).

The Yoshi Switch game wasn't on sale so I didn't buy it. Bungie had trash offerings for Black Friday so nothing there.

I bought a pair of boots from Zara.

I'm still waiting for Nancy Birtwhistle's cookbook to be delivered. It was shipping on 11/25 and according to her email it should take "5-6 working days" so I should get it any day now. I wish there had been tracking. I spent $50 on it.

I haven't written anything.
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Survived both earthquakes.

Broke my watch.

Made progress in Destiny 2 by obtaining Malfeasance and Truth and getting past the quest step for The Last Word where death reset progress.

I hate this

Apr. 7th, 2019 07:42 pm
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 I desperately need a car so I can have some privacy and independence. I want some real life friends goddamn it.
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WORK: I survived my performance review! Raise was as poor as I expected.

PERSONAL: Currently wearing a wrist brace on my left hand since I've been having pain for a couple of weeks. I spent 8 hours a day 5 days a week almost constantly typing and then I come home and type and play games so my wrists have been working hard. Guess my right wrist doesn't hurt since it's my mouse hand? IDK. Hopefully it helps.

FANDOM: I've back fallen into Law & Order: SVU-verse via Cabenson. I've already started writing a fic for them. Adding to the list of fanfic I've got in progress (but not put up on FF.Net or AO3 yet) for Arrow, Criminal Minds, Naruto, The Devil Wears Prada, Supergirl, Wynonna Earp, OUAT, The 100, Harry Potter, and Justice League (DCAU version). I really need to force myself to finish at least one of my stories. 

VIDEO GAMES: I've started playing Breath of the Wild again. I stopped because I had all four Divine Beasts unlocked so technically all I had to do was go beat Ganon to finish the game. But I didn't feel ready since I didn't even have a second row of hearts. So when I started playing again I started grinding shrines and doing some korok seeds. I have 91 shrines done now. Full stamina, reached the second row of hearts. I still have around 11 spirit orbs I haven't turned in yet. I have a handful of shrines I've unlocked but haven't beaten because they're modest or major tests of strength and I SUCK at combat. I'm still playing Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2 as well. GW2-wise I'm on the last step of crafting Chuka and Champawat. Just missing the materials needed to crafting the gift of wood and mystic tribute (it's those gifts of condensed magic and might that are stalling me). D2-wise I'm still trying to increase my Light Level to start doing The Reckoning. I want to get those Gambit Prime role jerseys that were announced in the latest TWAB. I want the white (Collector) and yellow (Sentry) ones the most. 
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Almost the new year. I hope this one is less stressful than the last. I need a mental break.

I also fiddled with the stickied posts on my page so my intro post is stickied and ahead of the ships post. I wish I could spoilers tag the ships post so its shorter. The cut function does not serve the purpose I want.
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 Another shot at temp work! Starts next Tuesday. I hope this goes better than last time.
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 I really want to start writing again but I keep waffling. I've written down notes for what I want to write but actually writing it out... I haven't been able to. Also haven't gotten started on the three books I want to read this month, even though the month is almost over already. Been using my laptop and phone way too much I think. Close to that "addiction" stage. About the only time I'm not staring at a screen is when I'm asleep. 
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 I want to move out, to get the fuck away from my family but my salary isn't big enough for me to find a not-shitty place to live. Being biologically related to someone doesn't mean anything, you don't owe them shit and I am learning the truth of that every day.

Update

Nov. 29th, 2015 10:01 pm
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Graduated university.

Finally got a job on my 22nd birthday. $12/hour, part-time, 26 hours/week.

Really uncomfortable being at home. Wish I lived away from my family. Really wish I had a car.

Still do not have any IRL friends, still have not written anything, made some reading progress.

Finals Week

Dec. 1st, 2014 06:09 pm
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Two essays and two group projects and one regular assignment and one final exam left.

This is exhausting and I am not smart enough to get good grades on everything.

Journal 3

Nov. 11th, 2014 10:07 pm
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 Time: 10:07pm

In the middle of a 6 day weekend. Barely made a ding in my essay. Maybe read 20 pages of one book (out of 3) that I'm supposed to read and have written zero words. My mom's harasses me every day. Thankfully it's been limited to texts and email and not phone calls. 

Also told one of my suitemates that I'm bisexual. Time will tell how she reacts. 

My 3DS is being a piece of crap and not accepting that I'm online. It keeps saying I'm offline when I open my friends list. Urgh. But that's a minor issue.

I turn 21 in 9 days. 

Time: 10:13pm

Journal #2

Nov. 6th, 2014 11:03 pm
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 I know I said I wanted to be more obedient toward my mother but then she started texting me again (she broke her iPad earlier this week) and now I'm just like fuck that. She's being really fucking irritating just because she's not working anymore and has hated her life since I was born. (fun fact: if abortion had been legal when she was pregnant with me, I wouldn't be alive). I'd ignore her completely if I didn't need her money and house to support me.  

Anyway. Because of my class schedule and Veteran's Day I have a six day weekend. No class until next Thursday. But I do have homework due online on Monday morning. 

Had to do a small talking about one of the homework readings. I did badly compared to my classmates. No surprise there, the readings for this class are all theory type stuff like what history means and how people in the past have studied history, all the way back to Herodotus. It 100% goes completely over my head. I don't understand a single thing we've talked about in class. But the point of this class is to write a very long paper about a historian and situate their view of history and their approach to history among the history of history. Which wouldn't be a problem except the person I chose wrote books that are 300 pages long each. I have them on loan from a public library (and will end up having to return them late because they're stupid and only allow for one renewal) but I haven't read them yet.

In my other history class, I got 8/10 on an assignment so I no longer have 100% in that class. :(

In my other history class (taking 3), I probably have a low B, high C. 

In my poli sci class, I probably have a high B. 

Journal #1

Nov. 4th, 2014 05:03 pm
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 Let's give this journaling this a try, shall we? 

It is currently 5:04pm on Nov 4, 2014 and I'm sitting in PLS 481: California Gov't.

My winter allergies started today so my nose is all stuffed up and I can't breathe.

Mom's iPad got fixed so now I'm once again subjected to her annoying texts. Though after reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, I feel like being a little more obedient (lol guilt). I'm debating whether or not I should get the sequel but I absolutely should not be buying any more books because I already have no room and we're supposed to be moving into a smaller townhouse (herp derp our income is a big fat fucking zero so we have to sell our house).

See's books are kinda like the kind of books I want to write. But I also want to write a fantasy series on the level of LOTR but wherein most of the characters are female and they're ALL queer. Because I could only think of one fantasy series wherein the main character was a female (and in that series each book has a different narrator but in the same fantasy world so really only the first book has a female main character).

Ho hum what else happened today... 3 maintenance guys came back to check the TV. It took them 30 minutes to determine that the problem was not my TV or my outlets so they left, telling me that it was a campus problem and they'd give IT a call. A few hours later they came back and said they replaced a part (in the dish?) and the TV started working again but the picture is still laggy. So bleh. (This is my 2nd work order of the year and both times they caught me in my PJs)

Feeling extra shitty about my appearance. I really should've switched my regular frames and my sunglasses frames in the summer but I didn't because I didn't want to spend money. But if by Christmas break, we've moved (CROSS YOUR FINGERS), I will ask my mom to take me to an optometrist and switch my frames.  

Stressing out over what is going to happen after I graduate from uni. Plan is to work for at least 2-3 years before even considering grad school. Also stressing out over what my senior thesis is going to be about. Urgh. I'm no good at history.

It is now 5:19pm.
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Just changed my theme to something not default.

Thank you pastries!

11:48pm

Oct. 22nd, 2014 11:47 pm
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I am just so fucking tired of everything all the time these days. I don't care about school, I don't care about my future. I've actually lost my interest in reading. All I read these days is femslash fanfiction because it's easy and mindless and something that I'm used to. I'm seriously addicted to it. I stay up reading it every night, I read it instead of paying attention in class. I buy my textbooks for class but I don't read them. I barely even class at the cover. I just take them out in class to pretend that I'm a functioning student.
I'm just tired all the time. I was sick for like a month and I still feel like throwing up or passing out half the time these days. My health is basically nonexistent? I barely eat, just drink a lot of juice and water to pretend I'm putting a vague effort into getting nutrition. My mom texts me asking me what I ate and I just lie.

I don't even like twitter or skype or tumblr anymore. I just use tumblr because it's what I'm used to and a time waster because I feel guilty if I sleep all day (seriously I was in bed until 3pm today). My tv is almost always on. I haven't written anything worthwhile in years.

I give no fucks about my future. My professors all talk about grad school or jobs and I just don't care. Next quarter I have to start doing my senior thesis which is the 40+ page paper I have to write in order to graduate and I don't even know what I want to write about? Hell I don't even care about my assignments this quarter. I just don't care. The only thing I like about college is that I'm not living at home because my family is just fucking irritating. They nag me all the time and I'm just so DONE.

Like I have no social life or job or any other obligations so I should technically be a straight A student because I have all the time in the world to study and do homework but I don't because I don't care. I don't feel anything. I have my textbook open to the pages I'm supposed to read for class tomorrow and I don't care. Nothing interests me anymore and I don't even fucking know why. I just stopped caring about everything.

I sleep, watch tv, use my laptop, or daydream about what I could be if I wasn't such a lazy, useless piece of shit (I have some weird obsession with being verified on twitter? Idk it's fucking weird but it's there).

I'm just exhausted which doesn't make sense because I haven't fucking done anything remotely productive. I haven't put effort into anything but I'm tired all the fucking time.

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