Yeah I Met Someone Who Had An Invisible Disability Like Me And They Had Just Gotten Steroid Injections

There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

Brooding Poet who is Prone to Conniptions. Nice.

For anyone who’s ever wondered who they’d be in a 19th century novel

The wait is over: 19th Century Character Trope Generator

I'm "Meddlesome Bachelor with 2,000 pounds a year" yes please sign me up

Critter Counter-Measures (or CCM for short)

Not pictured are 4 more carts of chips and bread, and the 2 floor managers, one of the senior cashiers, and another diary/grocery employee brought in to LITERALLY TAKE AISLE 1 APART to try to find The Critters because my boss is too cheap to buy an exterminator.

GO FORTH MY FRIENDS. DO IT.

I wish I could blaze a post telling people to test their smoke alarms but I have literally no money so if y’all could help me spread this the old fashioned way

Test your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors

Yeah, I had to unlock the prop room but they wouldn't give me the key so one of the actors going with me literally tried to pick the lock with a toothpick lol

So today in rehearsal, I was working with the lighting crew to re-adjust some lights. (I held the ladder, so helpful) We weren't sure where the ladder was so we had to ask the director for their keys to open various rooms, but here's the catch: They wanted their keys back IMMEDIATELY. So we had to ask them multiple times for their keys, but they were chatting with some actors and whenever we went into the other room to get the keys, they were always mad at us for some reason because we interrupted them? Like what else are we supposed to do, lockpick the doors?

Hey, I'm sorry, but your boyfriend? Yeah, he got trapped in a Buzzfeed poll. Sorry for your loss.

The Watermelon Incident

At work yesterday, 5 minutes into the start of my shift, my produce manager had me and another produce employee clean up some sticky stuff on the floor from a watermelon, and we also had to dig through the big watermelon bin to find the crushed one. It wasn't pretty.

One of the cashiers working Deli told me that the sticky puddle had been there since the morning, and no one cleaned it up since then. Me and the other employee needed to use a whole stack of paper towels and like 4 regular towels to clean up all the watermelon goop.

And it was supposed to be my grocery shift...

And they told me 'oh that table's in the wrong spot' even though I only just knew there was a table there like 2 minutes before...

Production Update:

My director assumes that I can organize a whole cable layout for our theatre in less then a day.

They also assume that I can record audio in less then an hour. I'm gonna need at least ten minutes to set up everything :(

They also think that the tech team (me and one other person) can see in pitch black dark and somehow get the cues right on time. And no, we can't have flashlights because that would be "too distracting". (I just turned up the brightness on my phone homescreen and used it kind of like a glow stick)

One of our lights is broken but they don't understand why the lighting designer can't get a good wash. "It's not that hard", they say, not understanding technology. (We literally only have like 13 channels on our lighting console, so one out of commission effects everything)

Work Stories From A Specialty Grocery Store (background context)

I work at a smallish, specialty grocery store. We pack our own bulk stuff, like rice, beans, flour, sugar, and also a bunch of other really specific stuff, like organic coconut sugar, or pine nuts. We have a produce department, and we sell a lot of organic stuff. We also do our own prep-work, and all organic produce has to be taped with yellow tape saying 'Organically Grown' We have a deli and a meat department, and the meat department sometimes sells uncommon meat, like rabbit. We only have 3 tills, and so it gets really clogged up if a lot of people are shopping. At the end of the day, everyone working the closing shift has to stay after closing and help clean up, as we don't have a cleaning team. Since it's a specialty store, sometimes the only place you can find a certain item in the entire city, we get a lot of weird customers.

I might make more context posts if i want to, but most of my posts under the #work stories tag will be posts about interesting customers, funny things coworkers said, or random out-of-context quotes or pictures.

I'm bopping out to this, this is so cool!

(Super Mario 3D World - World Bowser [Remix] by Qumu)

[Edit: I cannot believe I spelled Bowser wrong. I'm very sorry. it has been fixed]