A glimpse outside the fog AKA capitalism is getting to me AKA fanfiction is so cool
I am in th middle of a two and a half day break from work (I got two days off in a row for the first time in a month and a half!) I find that I’m finally getting out of that burnout that comes from only working with nothing else fun happening in your life. It’s like a fog that surrounds you during every moment you’re off the clock, stirring your anxiety constantly, making you worry about your next shift while you shower or eat dinner.
“I shouldn’t start this new show, I have work tomorrow morninng.”
“Did I set up the alarm?”
“I wonder who’s working tomorrow. Hopefully someone that’s at least nice to look at.”
“I need to do laundry, I’m running out of work shirts.”
Those kinds of thoughts overtake any others, leaving no room to watch an interesting movie or cooking a slow meal or starting that new hobby you’ve been meaning to try. The fog clings to you and feels heavy. That kind of emotional turmoil is not something human beings can withstand, and so your physical energy drains along with any ideas about working on 30-day healthy habit challenge again (it never sticks. 5 days TOPS every time). All you can do is doomscroll (that string of sentences is so genz. it felt great to write that out, wow. is this what being a millennial on twitter felt like in 2014?). You scroll and maladaptive daydream for a few hours after work and then go to bed. You can’t read more than ten pages of a book before your attention drifts. Creativity is nowhere to be found. The only way to wave away the fog is by resting. Resting well. Being able to stop thinking about the eminent next shift. I dunno if you feel like that, maybe it’s just me?
Anyways, I’m midway through the mini vacation (no work today and no work tomorrow either!) and I feel like I’m starting to hit that point where the fog really is calming down and I feel like I have the energy to craft and watch youtube videos about crocheting or archeology or something. Brazilian manicure videos, I don’t know. So I watched all three Madagascar movies since they’re leaving Netflix at the end of this month. Honestly, the first two are so funny. I definitely enjoyed the first one more as an adult than I ever did as a kid. I had seen the second maybe once when it came out so I didn’t know anything about it beforehand. So, so, so funny. I got surprised by this line in the beginning of the third movie. 
I sent it to my friends. Heehee haha, hey did you hear about the new omegaverse chinese bl?, that kind of thing, and then! I got an idea in my head (this hasnt happened in forever). “Is there Madagascar yaoi?”
The pretty girl I have a crush on asked me if I’m going to investigate that topic. I’ll admit, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. A day or so later (a few hours ago as I was taking a shower) I was listening to a video about literature and it was really sparking back my love for reading. Funnily enough the video is about cannibalism and its many symbolisms in literature. I was really feeling the I-need-to-read-something-immediately vibes when one thought disrupted the flow I was riding. Madagascar yaoi. I realized I could look on ao3. And so I did, I searched for the Madagascar tag. I found some really insane pairings that I never expected. I honestly wanted to be met with Melman/Gloria but instead I got this. 
(No offense at all, Author. More power to you, in fact. It just wasn’t what I was expecting is all)
I started to lose hope and gave it up after a look through the second page didn’t give me the Melman/Gloria I wanted I was about to call it quits when I saw this. 
Those updates are insane. VR?! ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN CHAPTERS?! And to add the cherry on top, this is part two of whatever the hell is going on. I got so excited. I usually recoil when I see that many words on a work (be understanding with me, my attention span is garbage. I wish I could be the type of person that reads 500k works in one day, but that is just not who I am), but instead of backing away, I went and downloaded the entire first part to my kindle. I need you to look at this list of fandoms. 
And then the Author’s note on chapter one?? 
God, writers are so fucking cool. This is incredible, truly. I am so excited to read at least one chapter of this. Being excited for something like this again after so long feels so amazing (it also helps to have enough free time to enjoy a little green magic. I don’t have to worry about bedtimes or alarms or laundry, I can just sit and enjoy being high). My Madagascar investigations are going to have to wait.
Total Drama by StaticShock01
A little P.S. about Madagascar
I realized as I kept not finding the Melman/Glorida I wanted that given the fact these are animals, there might be, uh, other sites geared towards, uh, specific folk that have more of the M/G vibe I am after. However those are sites and folk I don’t want to get too close to. I’m not shaming the more normal people, but I’m also not willing to put myself at a higher risk of stumbling onto the weird shit that’s out there. So, for those reasons (which are reasonable, I am not arguing this point with anybody), I am sticking to ao3 and ao3 alone. It’s easy enough to find weirdos on ao3 as is. I will also say, though, that I saw some really cool fanart of the penguins on pinterest. That was sick as hell.