death goes farmboy
Aug. 17th, 2025 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowerlatest finish: terry pratchett's reaper man. death gets fired by his boss for having a personality, proceeds to fuck off to a farm in the middle of nowhere and make friends, meanwhile things stop dying and a wizard makes friends with other supernatural creatures to investigate... a spontaneously appearing shopping mall?
delightfully absurd, everything happening here. WHY did death's disappearance cause a predator shaped like a modern (at the time of publication) shopping mall to appear in the discworld.
i did like that death got a talking-to from his farm landlady about how you can't just stand by because it's the "natural" thing to do. sometimes you have to intervene to save the life of an annoying child, even if she was annoying and even if it was technically her time to die. good morality. something people in this day and age could learn from. also i liked how when his landlady buddy died, death took her out dancing and then reunited her with her ex-fiancee.
i still haven't done any singingposting. oops. the funny thing about a 9-5 with an hourlong commute (that's about to get even longer because state republicans have decided to kill public transit here) is that it doesn't leave a lot of time for sitting down and typing up my thoughts. on weekends im just like god, i need to recover and not talk to a single human soul, and then i talk to other humans and there goes all my energy. i went on TWO hinge dates yesterday (this is a whole thing, i'm ideologically opposed to dating apps as a thing but i'm also cognizant that i've been thinking about the guy i went on 3.5 dates with in the spring who i'm currently not seeing but also that might not be Done, it's complicated, a little more than is healthy for me (or him!) so i need to think about other people, hence, the mortifying ordeal of hinge). one of them actually went well, and now i'm in this situation of, well, on the very small chance that i keep seeing this person, and then the other person i mentioned wants to pick things back up again, i'm going to have to make a Choice. i don't like to make Choices. i might choose wrong and it will haunt me forever. i'm too sentimental for this shit.
i do however have a month and a half before that's even close to becoming a problem and lots of things can happen in a month and a half. so. whatever. my therapist will be hearing about this and its fine and im fine.
delightfully absurd, everything happening here. WHY did death's disappearance cause a predator shaped like a modern (at the time of publication) shopping mall to appear in the discworld.
i did like that death got a talking-to from his farm landlady about how you can't just stand by because it's the "natural" thing to do. sometimes you have to intervene to save the life of an annoying child, even if she was annoying and even if it was technically her time to die. good morality. something people in this day and age could learn from. also i liked how when his landlady buddy died, death took her out dancing and then reunited her with her ex-fiancee.
i still haven't done any singingposting. oops. the funny thing about a 9-5 with an hourlong commute (that's about to get even longer because state republicans have decided to kill public transit here) is that it doesn't leave a lot of time for sitting down and typing up my thoughts. on weekends im just like god, i need to recover and not talk to a single human soul, and then i talk to other humans and there goes all my energy. i went on TWO hinge dates yesterday (this is a whole thing, i'm ideologically opposed to dating apps as a thing but i'm also cognizant that i've been thinking about the guy i went on 3.5 dates with in the spring who i'm currently not seeing but also that might not be Done, it's complicated, a little more than is healthy for me (or him!) so i need to think about other people, hence, the mortifying ordeal of hinge). one of them actually went well, and now i'm in this situation of, well, on the very small chance that i keep seeing this person, and then the other person i mentioned wants to pick things back up again, i'm going to have to make a Choice. i don't like to make Choices. i might choose wrong and it will haunt me forever. i'm too sentimental for this shit.
i do however have a month and a half before that's even close to becoming a problem and lots of things can happen in a month and a half. so. whatever. my therapist will be hearing about this and its fine and im fine.
