Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.

'Destiny'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Sheryl - Aug 05, 2026 5:08:33 pm PDT #13492 of 13622
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Kind of quiet here on the board.

"Weird" Al concert was great, even if it was raining buckets for most of the evening. Luckily we had pavilion seats.


askye - Aug 06, 2026 8:10:53 am PDT #13493 of 13622
Thrive to spite them

Happy Belated Birthday to Shir


askye - Aug 06, 2026 8:17:51 am PDT #13494 of 13622
Thrive to spite them

Karl i like that.

I feel like I've got no energy and I've been worried...is it something weird and medical ? Is it depression? Is it perimenopause/menopause (if i make it to October that will make 12 months no period).

Or is it that when it hasnt been ungodly hot it's been ungodly humid. At work we haven't had an overnight team lead in almost 3 months and overnight workers aren't even trying. So most days instead of doing most of my job I end up cleaning up their freight. We also have 3 people on medical leave, 2 people in the same department got fired. And there has been no one to work picking grocey orders on most days between 2-5 . And there have been call outs so some days all I do is pick groceries. And try to get my stuff done as fast as possible.

We have one assistant manager who has gone from kind useless to completely useless . And today i was putting out leftover freight but have gotten side tracked because everything is wrong and I'm having to check counts and move things around.

So maybe I'm just getting overheated at work and fed up with dealing with all this and when I'm off I don't want to deal with people and self soothe amd relax..


Steph L. - Aug 06, 2026 8:28:25 am PDT #13495 of 13622
That which does not kill you should RUN

So maybe I'm just getting overheated at work and fed up with dealing with all this and when I'm off I don't want to deal with people and self soothe amd relax..

Occam's Razor suggests this one, askye. Although perimenopause/menopause is no joke. I'm currently listening to the 3-part Ologies podcast about menopause, and it is full of good info: [link]


-t - Aug 06, 2026 8:41:49 am PDT #13496 of 13622
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That all sounds exhausting, askye. But could be piled on top of the perimenopause thing to be even worse.


askye - Aug 06, 2026 9:04:29 am PDT #13497 of 13622
Thrive to spite them

Steph I'll have to chsck that out.

A lot of it is just mentally exhausting and the store manager thst just left was good in a lot of ways but not in holding certain people accountable. I'm hoping that our next manager will be firm but kind and because it's not just me that is feeling overwhelmed with all of this.

I know previous store manager told someone in the meat department they needed to help in produce and the guy just...refused.

In good news M and I finally have some rails set up on the walls so we can display more comics. It looks really good.


askye - Aug 06, 2026 10:18:13 am PDT #13498 of 13622
Thrive to spite them

Here is kind of a shot of our comic books. It was mostly M showing how he posed the stuffed animals

[link]


-t - Aug 06, 2026 10:27:00 am PDT #13499 of 13622
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Nice!


JenP - Aug 06, 2026 10:59:24 am PDT #13500 of 13622

Fabulous!


erikaj - Aug 06, 2026 11:24:30 am PDT #13501 of 13622
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal

My menopause thing(as my thing in general if I feel off) is that I vomit. A lot. We bought some extra fans, so it's been a few weeks now, and, you know, I'm a chucker, but it's a little better. Guessing it's the extra heat--almost wrote "heart"---Dr. Freud would say there are no typos, I'm not sure myself. (Also, weirdly, somewhat hard to recognize, compared to, say, Nausea Classic, in that there is more discomfort and pressure than queasiness, really, up until the pivotal moment.) I hate that I always have to wonder if that is about reflux or a CP thing(doctors want stuff to be a CP thing cause they don't have to know and they could "What are you gonna do?" it, but because this is not puberty there are no bigger girls to take cues from-- I am the older girls, and doing my usual bang-up job of it, too. I got Rick-rolled, sort of, at the DMV getting my ID updated.