Eh, I bounce back quicker than I used to.

[pennie_dreadful]

Time was setbacks like these would have sent me spiraling down and I would have fucking well quit even trying.

Anyway somebody else messaged me about moving in, although my quest for The Job continues; I got a special ~Job Alert~ from Snagajob about them, instead of being lumped in with Today's Job Recommendations. I've applied five or six times now. Whatever I did wrong at the interview, give me a chance to get it right, please oh god. A living wage, that's all I ask; a decent, competent human being for a boss would just be a bonus at this point.

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[synkkaenkeli]

I hope this person works out for a roomate/you get a higher paying job soon.

[thene]

you /hugs

it really DOESN'T have to be something you 'did wrong', even; just one person out of the hundred or so that applied having one more line on their resume than you. which in a way, sucks even worse. but still.

[pennie_dreadful]

I know all that, just that I keep being presented with evidence that there are still open positions, and I know I have a limited amount of experience for the position, but it's not like it's hard to learn and I did my best to sell myself as a dependable worker who goddamn well cares about the quality of my work, and being in foodservice for the last seven or eight years, I can tell you how rare that is.

Apparently, according to my current boss, I have the authority to write people up. lol?!

[thene]

start with him

wait

[thene]

(jsyk, I spent like all last night after work & all of today reading your fics. I always feel like I should let you know when that happens, even if i haven't anything specific to say about it, because I am enjoying a thing you did. Mostly I'm just wading in mptp and noting that it does strange things to the flow of time; i'd not reread the whole thing in a while and it always takes me like at leas6 6 hrs to take it all in. augh.)

Awe <3

[pennie_dreadful]

Tylendel looked up at the sound of the front door opening. He was surprised to see Vanyel entering, since he was usually at Court until at least tenth bell.

“Van, are you alright?” There was a worried frown on Tylendel’s face.

Vanyel rubbed his temples and said, “I’ve had a demon of a headache all day.”

Tylendel grimaced. “Well, that’s no good. Come here, let me rub your neck and see if that helps.”

Vanyel made his way over to the sofa and sat on the floor between Tylendel’s spread knees, and sighed as he surrendered to Tylendel’s ministrations. Amazingly, within just a few seconds, the headache vanished.

“Hmmm. You sure you don’t have the Healing gift? It already feels better.”

Tylendel chuckled softly. “Pretty sure I don’t. It’s probably just brought on by stress. You have a lot on your shoulders right now.” But he didn’t stop the massage, content to leave his book for later. This was much better than the poetry of Verdain.

“You’re worth it, though,” Van said, placing one of his hands atop Tylendel’s, and giving it a squeeze.

Tylendel was quiet for a moment before answering. “I’m glad you think so, ashke.”

“What were you doing when I came in? I hope I didn’t interrupt your studying.”

”Nah, I packed it up about a candlemark after supper. I was just reading the new Verdain.”

Vanyel made an interested noise, and Tylendel said, “Get up here where it’s more comfortable. I’ll read it to you.”

So Vanyel got off the floor and stretched out on the sofa with his head pillowed in Tylendel’s lap, where they remained until they were interrupted by Savil’s entrance, who upon seeing them cast her eyes upward and muttered “First one pair, now another. Gods spare me.”

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[thene]

....DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD I FEEL FOR HER RIGHT NOW

I REALLY DO

GODS SPARE US ALL

(thank you <3 <3 <3 )

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[pennie_dreadful]

You are welcome <3 This was something that came out on the fly, but I might find a place for it in mptp. It feels good to write something for LHM again, as Vastra and Jenny have COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER MY LIFE. It finally occurred to me that there are quite a few parallels between Van/Stef and Vastra/Jenny, and they can all be summed up with THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE AND TERRIBLE AND SHOULDN'T WORK ;____;

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[thene]

I SEE, I SEE. SOUNDS HIGHLY FAMILIAR. (this is weird but i still remember the full-body-shiver moment i first started Shipping It; I was thinking 'they are so misfit, how does it even work, i mean how does Van even feel about - oh. Oh. Oh my god.')

I was wondering where it fit as I read it - I was kinda trying to temporally place it in MPTP, as Van's comfort with the situation (esp with Savil walking in on them) felt 'too soon' for MPTP as it stands? Although I'm not sure of the time gap between chs 3 and 4?

Writing is being hard for me rn, but I am trying; I figure I'm going to stay focused on work and reading for the next couple of months (oh, and that pesky thing where we are trying to move house), and just let everything else happen as it may. But I am wishing that words were not so hard. :/

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[pennie_dreadful]

ffff yes. The things that make Van/Stef most impossible all apply to Vastra/Jenny, with the added bonus of Vastra's people kiiinda wanting to eradicate the human race. WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS. This is one of my new favorite ways to spend an afternoon, because it functions entirely on its own, completely separate from the rest of DW canon. That's my main gripe about Vastra/Jenny fics, that so many of them have The Doctor in them instead of standing on their own; I consider them to be sort of a fandom in and of themselves, same way I consider LHM to be a fandom in and of itself.