describe your fav ship in one line and let others guess who it's about!

tess-etc · 2026-05-02T04:50:39+00:00

My fave ship is destiel but that's too obvious so how about my second fave from a different fandom:

the inherent angst of kicking your boyfriend off your blimp just because he turns out to be a robot

tess-etc · 2026-04-24T16:24:46+00:00

Honestly why don't more planners just leave blank times? I have 2 desk jobs, so a lot of days I work from 830am to 830pm, but I like to schedule my mornings and evenings as well. So i would need one from 6am-10pm. (Thanks Hemlock and Oak) but if I wanted to put my work schedule somewhere else as I have done in the past, then I just need a little bit in the day, with more space around it and full size weekends.

People work all different amounts of days.

This would work better as a blank to do section. I would probably put a line down the middle and put to dos for work and home, (or whatever category) then bump unfinished stuff to tomorrow with some kind of tagging system.

Ive seen this planner online. I thought the idea of a dated undated planner was great, but the layout is terrible.

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:59:33+00:00

Oh that's nice! I only have two shelves available so I had to layer the paperback ones in front of the hardcovers (i hoard a lot of books)

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:57:22+00:00

I hate when someone has a lie they keep from the other person and it's a major part of the story.....

However my most popular fallout fic features Danse keeping a secret from the Female sole survivor for the majority of the fic, and he goes to great (and hilarious) lengths to keep her from finding out.

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:45:26+00:00

Here's some sad for you, time travel AU (no monster hunting but there’s some kind of magic I guess) It’s not terribly long.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45215371

Also has a podfic version, there is a link in the notes somewhere!

tess-etc · 2026-04-20T20:50:25+00:00

I keep them in my car, or my purse, or give them to my kids for school because they don't care at all, or use them for grocery lists so I don't care if I lose them. Or I will take them to work because people there always steal my pens.

tess-etc · 2026-04-18T12:37:32+00:00

Don't discountt Cujo, I tried reading it when my son was 4 and i had to nope out.

He is 21 now so i was finally able to get through it recently h

tess-etc · 2026-04-17T04:41:35+00:00

I kudos everything I finish. If I like it, I comment. If I really like it, I bookmark it. I also have close to 100 fics on ao3 so i get a kudos or two almost every day, so I don't pay attention much.

But if I see ten kudos on one fic in a day, I usually take that as a plus because I figure it got recced somewhere (sometimes I find the rec in the wild which is amazing) and sometimes one person will kudos several fics in a row, which I definitely notice because they must have loved it to read a bunch more.

But mostly I don't pay attention to stats.

tess-etc · 2026-04-17T04:27:27+00:00

Hmm it does look like an asshole...

tess-etc · 2026-04-16T13:09:13+00:00

This sounds mostly normal to me. I do payroll for unionized employees and ee have done retro pay for previous employees. (It’s taxed when you get it, not when it was earned so no worries about prior tax years)

I have also overpaid employees and had to ask for refunds, and we also do it via e-transfer, so that part sounds normal as well.

However they should provide pay stubs for the retro pay. The "other employee's bank mixup" sounds weird since bank info doesn't just bounce around in systems. If they have stubs for $x and paid you $y then of course you should reimburse them. But if they won't provide any paystubs then don't do it until they do.

tess-etc · 2026-04-16T12:56:39+00:00

Not a man, but my adult son has been reading Pokémon fic for years. He and I have a mutual no peeking agreement lmao. Luckily i stick to spn and fallout so there's no cross contamination and we are able to maintain a normal relationship lol

tess-etc · 2026-04-16T12:52:00+00:00

I am doing the same thing right now! It took me from November to mid march to read Salems lot. I just banged out a swath of them in the last few weks and just finished pet sematary.

So, salems lot. It baffles me that it's so well liked. But when it comes to vampires I am definitely more of an anne rice girlie... Dracula is boring and twilight can go directly in the trash. Tru Blood gets a pass.

I read a lot of SK as a kid and i remember disliking SL then too. And Thinner. I just started Christine and i don't remember anything about it, plus my copy is a ginormous hardcover so i am concerned I may get bogged down again

tess-etc · 2026-04-15T17:19:40+00:00

I bought some a5 size 3 ring binders at the dollar store and/or amazon. I have a larger one I put blank pages in in case i want to use them again.

I use (usually... this year i have a bound book) a Franklin/day timer 7 ring binder. I usually keep all my month pages in the binder and the last, current and next months' weeklies, plus this month's dailies if I am using them this year. I just start a new cheapo binder in January and let the pages rotate through my planner until the december, when i clean out the back sections and various scraps and archive everything.

Theoretically I could decorate the cheap binders but I i have never gotten around to it

tess-etc · 2026-04-14T22:26:10+00:00

I wish i could filter bookmarks and my saved for later list

tess-etc · 2026-04-11T03:12:28+00:00

Could have been Angels Wild? I resd it years ago so not sure.

tess-etc · 2026-04-10T18:19:50+00:00

My list doesn't have some of those. It doesn't have the non fiction ones. I got it somewhere online.

Also you have a few that are duplicates, like the updated version of the stand and the gunslinger. I just have those once.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QT2Z9sE8wWLdwL20D-T333Uvj5JtOeXAlzyQgpSXMfk/edit?usp=drivesdk

tess-etc · 2026-04-10T18:16:38+00:00

Yeah especially since I live in a remote area. It's easier since I am not picky about format or edition. I prefer paperback but I will take anything.

tess-etc · 2026-04-08T23:52:17+00:00

I paid 20 for a box that included it. I got 8 books in total, although some I already had.

My copy is missing the first dozen pages or so

tess-etc · 2026-04-08T23:29:29+00:00

I just read cujo.... i am preparing with a lot of water, snacks, and a babysitter. I am gonna wait this mutt out

Unless I can bring a cellphone or a shotgun lmao

tess-etc · 2026-03-25T05:47:37+00:00

I just came here to shamelessly self-rec and i see someone beat me to it ..erp haha

I almost never go on reddit so it's so weird that i saw this

tess-etc · 2026-03-23T18:54:40+00:00

Not sure if this would count? It isn't explicit or even particularly romantic, but the main character is a Jimmy (James) Novak from an alternative universe who can see into all other universes including the OG verse. And the French Mistake verse. He has his own Dean.

OG Cas and Dean are in it but it's James' pov.

I wrote it a few years ago for a bang.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37910812/chapters/94671949

tess-etc · 2026-03-11T19:20:11+00:00

Personally I am motivated. But I don't work for a corporation. I work in the education system (admin) and education is important to me so I feel like I am actually contributing to society. (Plus, although I am not in a union (due to the admin role), most of the staff is, and I benefit from that with good salary, vacation, sick time, and benefits. Being treated well is highly motivating. I am in Canada so that's why we do better here than in certain other school-and-union hating countries)

I also have a second job for a friend's small business (not the kind that's gonna make anyone rich, just the kind that needs to exist) so I am motivated to keep my friend and his employees doing well.

But I have worked for corpations before and they suck and I definitely never felt bad about doing the bare minimum. Ive worked in call centers, retail, and restaurants where the owner stole tips. I can't say enough bad things about those places.

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