Bit of an odd one I know. But I'm looking for somewhat light-hearted/slice of life scifi that tend to nail the every man in a weird situation/satirical bureaucracy of The Atrocity Archives.
If anyone has any ideas that'd be top.
I'm on book 4 atm, The Apocalypse Codex, so I'm clearly enjoying them. But, each book, around half way through I think this is an ok book, but it's pretty expensive for an average and quite short audiobook. Then the end is all clever and exciting and I end up buying the next one on impulse.
So please r/fantasy help me make my mind up about this series. Are we heading towards any sort of conclusion? Does Case Nightmare Green happen, or is it just sort of the same thing over and over?
Hi All, not sure if you guys have seen this, but there is a Laundry Files Fanfic section on an archive of our own .
Some are crossovers ( examples Rivers of London, Bones ?! ), and some rather good ones set much earlier (pre WWII, WWII and after)
find them here https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Laundry%20Files%20-%20Charles%20Stross/works
"Yes, i watched it all unfold
It feels like it just goes on forever with no end in sight.
Oh, you only have 10 shirts and 10 pairs of pants to put away? Congratulations—8 shirts later and you only have 12 more to go 🤔 It never ends!!
Let’s not even get into the pure hell of matching up all of the socks..
May tag. You are it.
Am a dad but never had an original thought before this so here's my first submission.
Every time I heard some one sold trivial art pieces very expensively as a duct taped banana or a kinder garden level paint by a famous person, one folklore explanation is that it is covering money laundry. Is that possible?
I would imagine it a scam related to saving taxes but how can this be related to money laundry?
"Well," she said. "It did say on the clothing labels to wash in, like, colors."
I don't know why, but it just seems agitated.
"What did the laundry do to you?"
Those seem like the most basic, mundane tasks, but as I’ve come to find out over the past few months, it’s extremely easy to slip into an overwhelming sense of, just— blah. I don’t know how or when that feeling took over me, but today something changed. I decided I was tired of my personal life reflecting what my brain felt like. There was no clarity, there was no joy it seemed, and waking up every day felt like a chore. I have no idea what clicked in my brain or why it did, but today I woke up and decided I was tired of the clutter. I was tired of everything in my life looking and feeling so messy. I bought healthy food after pretty much exclusively eating fast food, and I’m planning on going back to the gym this week. Getting emotional and excited about these tiny accomplishments seems so weird, but I am and I wanted to let everyone know!
edit: I’m going to respond to every one of your wonderful comments as soon as I can, but as a blanket appreciation— THANK YOU. Reddit is fucking awesome.
Also— to anyone who is inspired by music and feeling down like this, listen to “Turn It Around” by The Head and the Heart. They have helped me through some rough shit, and this song has been my savior during this. Sending everyone in this situation all of my love.
For me I’ve spent waaaay to much money on my house plant addiction and I’ve been crapping on and on about the diet I’m suppose to be on while stuffing my face with 7 point quesadillas and chocolate 😂 And I was super lazy and didn’t walk my dogs last week even though I 100% should have.
Curious for judgement on my end because I now have to encounter this woman in my building regularly and want to know if I'm justified in glowering at her or if I should apologize.
My building has shared laundry - 3 washing machines and 3 dryers for 25 units, so sometimes you get screwed and they're all full. No biggie.
Last night I go down and they're all full but one is finished, and two have <3 minutes in them, so I hang out and wait for all of then to finish. No one comes down so I wait a bit more - I've now been down there 10 minutes so it's been at least that long since the first machine was done and a little less for the other two. I'm desperate to finish chores and go to bed so I take out the laundry and put in top of the machines and go about my business.
When I come back down (with 2-4 minutes to spare on my machines, because I try not to make others wait for me or make that awkward decision to move it) the other laundry is gone, not in the dryers - score for me! But as I'm loading into the dryer a woman comes down and asks if I'm the one who moved the laundry. I say yes and ask if there was a problem (thinking maybe I'd left a sock in or something) and she berated me for not being neighbourly by waiting, and says I shouldn't "rifle through people's things". Also said she waits hours for people to get their stuff and that's part of living in a shared space.
My view is the exact opposite - to me part of living in a shared space is understanding that these resources are shared, and trying to ensure Im out of there as quickly as possible for the next person.
So reddit, I'm pretty sure she is also the asshole here, but am I? Is it good etiquette to leave the laundry longer than I did?
EDIT: for more info on why Im questioning this is because she asked for an apology and I said I will not apologize because I literally believe the opposite of her. My Canadian soul is in pain for denying someone an apology lol
