The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

[st_aurafina]

Thank you so much for the massive hand holding/back patting comments last night - I am feeling much less melodramatic and whiny, and had a good writing session last night. The end approacheth! I can see it!

Ooh, speaking of which, it's the apocalypse this weekend. Don't forget to put on clean underwear. (If the apocalypse means I don't get to see the next episode of Doctor Who, I'm NOT putting on clean underwear in protest.)

Hey, if it's the Rapture, I wonder if that service that cares for your pets after the Rapture is having a hiring bender? Hee! I just checked out their website, Eternal Earthbound Pets, and there's a statement:

Notice of Rate Increase: Due to the increased activity associated with the May 21, 2011 Rapture prophesy we have increased our service rates for all new contracts submitted as of 1/13/11.

Atheists, please continue to be droll.


There's an End of the World commentficathon, here. Also petra has a Rapture in Mid-Air commentficathon, for sexy times up in the air: here. Gotta love the way fandom embraces the apocalypse.


So, anyway. Today at work, a woman told me she liked my cardigan and that she wanted to touch it. I didn't really know what to say to her - my first instinct was "FUCK NO, DON'T TOUCH ME!" - which I've an inkling wasn't the most socially adept response. So I let her. Later, discussing it with lilacsigil (which is what I do when social phobia gets in the way of doing my job properly) and we practiced a few possible responses. Best one: "No, thank you." Which is polite, tells her that she's doing something I'm uncomfortable, and puts her in a position where asking for more is rude. *files it away*

After moments like this - and there have been many over the last couple of days - I like to read the unfilled prompts at the Criminal Minds Kink Meme. (Not because I'm mocking them - I love them deeply. I love that fandom wants to see these things, and that there's a place to ask for it.) Today I found this:

Morgan/Reid. Reid as a male mermaid please. Of course, Morgan has to find out

Discussion:

lilacsigil: It would work better if Morgan were the mermaid.
Me: merMAN! merMAN!
lilacsigil: Reid could be the woobie marine biologist who befriends him.
Me: Morgan wouldn't just be a mermaid, though. He'd be half man, half orca.
lilacsigil: He could call himself Morca.
Me: His powers of echolocation!
lilacsigil: He'll Morganate a boat.
Me (at almost the same time): We're going to need a bigger boat.

Now, I will have pleasant dreams, thinking of Doctor Spencer Reid riding the waves on the back of a beautiful man-orca. Yeah, I have no idea what brought down the apocalypse. No idea at all.

Comments

[newredshoes]

I'm not even in the fandom and that fills me with sparklyeyes.

[st_aurafina]

It is a very sparklyeyes thing!

[entwashian]

Lol, my job with kids who have behavioral disabilities has definitely helped me get used to requesting more personal space (in a way that won't make them feel rejected and BURST INTO TEARS). Polite but firm & non-negotiable is definitely the way to go.

Morca! ::facepalm::

[st_aurafina]

(in a way that won't make them feel rejected and BURST INTO TEARS)

This? This is key. I wish I had this skill.

Morca! The show should be about him.

[lurkingcat]

Oh fandom. I only lurk but I do so love its Rapture comment memes and Mer-character requests and all :)

[clare_dragonfly]

I am disappointed to discover that as a non-atheist I cannot sign up to be a post-Rapture pet-sitter.

I kind of love the idea of Reid as a woobie marine biologist and Morgan as an orca-merman.

[st_aurafina]

I think it would be an awesome job. I'd love to look after somone's pets post-rapture.

I kind of love the idea of Reid as a woobie marine biologist and Morgan as an orca-merman.

I would totally watch a show based on this premise. TV has it all wrong.

[vass]

For you and lilacsigil, from Good Show, Sir:

[asenathwaite]

OMG that is EPIC.

[lilacsigil]

Wow. I have now seen the most AMAZING THING EVER! The orca's face! The handbag! His name is Knobil! Thank you so much!

[st_aurafina]

Confess! The first thing you said was "Knobil has no pants!"

[st_aurafina]

This is so awesome I am riding on a cloud of pure awesome because of it. Or maybe it's an orca of pure awesome.

I think I just had an orcasm.