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When I first started wanting to branch out with the games I played, I had no idea where to look. SO!
The following under the cut is a very long masterpost of indie games I recommend, sorted by category and alphabetical order, with short descriptions and links to their store pages.
Titles italicized are free, and I'll be updating this as I play more 👍
EXPLORATION
Babdi - Babdi is a beautiful and quiet brutalist city, with your only concrete goal in this game to get a train ticket to leave. This game takes about 1-2 hours to fully explore, and it has a lovely sense of place and scale.
Hollow Knight - A tiny bug knight explores a ruined kingdom, looking for answers. This game has had its praises sung a lot, but I cannot recommend it enough, with a melancholy atmosphere, very charming character design, and lovely art direction that balances skillfully between being cute and mournful.
Rain World - You are a slugcat, a creature in the middle of the foodchain, exploring a broken biomechanical ecosystem. You must learn about each microbiome in order to survive, and get enough food to hibernate before the deadly rain comes. This game has fantastic creature design and programming, my favorite background art direction of any game I've ever played, and insanely intricate lore. I highly recommend getting the Downpour DLC-- it not only fixes the personal gripes I have with the base game, but adds an immense amount to the story and world with five new campaigns.
Somnium - Your email got lost in transit, and you have to explore a early-2000s webscape to recover it! With art direction that captures the whimsy of the early internet, and very charming character design and writing, it takes about half an hour to play and I was smiling the whole time.
Outer Wilds - An open world game about space exploration, xenoarchaeology, and physics. This is my favorite game of all time, and in order for the game to work, you can't say much about it! It also has a horror dlc with its own story.
FPS
ULTRAKILL - Humanity is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full. Inspired by Dante's Inferno and Greek mythology, you play as a machine tearing its way through hell in PS1-like graphics. Its hard to oversell the strength of Ultrakill's concepts and how well they're executed-- this game is constantly saying "do you know what would be so cool" and is right every single time.
HORROR
Go to Bed - A very simple horror game about going to bed (it should take less than half an hour to play).
Signalis - A robot named Elster fights her way down through a sick facility to fulfill a mysterious promise. I can't say much about it without spoiling, but its prose, gritty combat, and art direction are phenomenal.
SOMA - Simon Jarrett goes to the doctor to get his brain scanned, and wakes up 100 years in the future, in an underwater facility full of robots with human consciousnesses. This game has a "safe mode" where the "monsters" don't kill you, which I recommend as its more accurate to the world, more convenient to play, and in the majority of cases, doesn't reduce the horror. Even playing in "safe mode" it was the most intense horror I've ever experienced by a landslide, and is very dear to me in its environments, writing, and concepts! I would highly recommend checking the content warnings, as well as playing when you're both emotionally and psychologically stable.
Subway Midnight - A young woman takes the subway, where many people have gone missing. What could go wrong? Really lovely combination of 2D and 3D that makes the most of its limitation of "walking through a subway car" to create a game that's charming, beautiful, and very unique.
PUZZLE
Freshly Frosted - A game about making donuts! You arrange donuts with a series of conveyer belts, the factory's work lining up with the music's beat. Its very relaxing, and the narration is very pleasant. A really great game to wind down with at the end of the day.
Manifold Garden - You solve puzzles by changing the gravity of an infinite world without fall damage. This game definitely has a learning curve while getting used to the physics rules, but the puzzles are clever and intuitive once it clicks! Its also very pretty.
Mini Motorways - You connect cars to their destinations through plotting roads, bridges, and motorways. Like Freshly Frosted, its a simple concept, but something nice to wind down with!
Smile for Me - A game where you communicate through nodding and shaking your head! You are the local florist's kid, staying in a "wellness resort", a bizarre cross between a hotel and psychiatric ward. Your mission? Make people happy! Really sweet with an unsettling undercurrent that gets addressed in an interesting way.
Vignettes - You rotate objects to make them transform, and explore different areas and themes as the forms fluctuate. Another simple, but beautiful game, with really fantastic art direction!
ROGUELIKES
Going Under - An unpaid intern battles her way through the dungeons of failed start-ups. A criminally underrated, super fun anti-capitalist satire with a huge variety of builds, that uses the "corporate art style" in a beautiful way!
TEXT-BASED
Citizen Sleeper - You are an escaped Sleeper, a cyborg with partial human memories, who fled to a massive space station. The company that made your body programmed for planned obsolescence: what will you make of the time you have? This is a constant game of juggling food, health, and money as you roleplay and explore, with beautiful character art and prose. It feels like a sad hug, housing a wide variety of very touching stories.
GUTLESS - A short story of an angry man traveling to the bottom of the ocean. Raw, harsh, and visceral. This story is NSFW.
In Other Waters - By the same devs of Citizen Sleeper, but an earlier game! You are the AI in a marine biologist's suit, and guide her as she navigates through the waters of an alien world. The only visuals you see are dots, walls, and elevation maps to mark your surroundings. If you're a fan of the deep sea or speculative biology, you'll love this game!
Please Tell Me You Love Me - Your old favorite online rpg game is shutting down, and you're having one last hurrah with your guild. Short, sweet, and will leave you with a smile.
The Ouroborous Incident - A notorious tech company releases a strange new product. An interesting short story with a fun conclusion, it dips in and out of sci-fi, comedy, and horror, while sharing information through different tabs of updating text threads, transcripts, and news reports.
UNSORTABLE
Inscryption - A grisly roguelike card game that takes place in an escape room, where you're trapped by a mysterious man that you can only see the eyes of. I recommend going in not knowing much, as this game has a lot of surprises. You play the story by default, but it also has an endless mode that is very fun!
What the Golf? - A very silly game about golf, made for people who hate golf. Takes the concept of "golf" and plays with it like silly putty, and has a ridiculous variety of mechanics.
#mine#idk if anyone is interested in this but i spent too long typing it up NOT to share#game masterpost#< for me so i can find this later
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im moving to dfw from seattle this summer. impart your wisdom, if you would
It ROCKS to live in a real city. The factory in deep ellum in Dallas is a lovely little music venue. Denton’s a college town so it has a killer music scene. Bishop arts district was lovely when I was a kid idk how it looks in the last decade tho. Whataburger is Fine but the important thing is it’s open at 2 am when you’re drunk. The Fort Worth zoo is better than the Dallas zoo and it’s one of the best in the country. Carshon’s is an awesome Jewish cash only deli over by the zoo. Dallas has the biggest and first half price books store and across the street is a little family owned German restaurant where they play accordion on Friday/sat nights. I never kicked around in Dallas too much but Fort Worth has a pretty robust museum district. The Amon carter ROCKS it’s a free art museum with a bunch of classical exhibits and you only have to pay if you want to see some specific temporary installation. I saw Judith slaying holofernes there (not there anymore) it fucking rocks. Honestly I don’t find the stockyards that impressive I would just spend the $12 bucks on the cowgirl museum or some other western museum there are plenty. The perot is awesome and in Dallas. The stock show is fine it’s like any other little fair/carnival. Good way to kill a weekend if you need to kill a weekend. The state fair is crazy go see that thing. Oh there’s a beautiful on the water sculpture let me find it hold on. The fair park lagoon.
It of course goes without saying that you can’t throw a rock without hitting a restaurant that’ll blow your dick off. Ummmm. If you’re driving in Dallas. Stay safe out there. Anecdotally I’ve seen more drivers weave like assholes in the pnw but Dallas is sometimes a 90 mph minimum in the right lane kind of situation. BUGS ARE REAL ! You will hear cicadas for the first time in your life it’s a beautiful summer experience. Skeeter spray a must if you’re outside after like 5pm. There’ll be like PSAs on billboards or mailing adverts about How To Prevent Mosquitoes. Basically don’t have any standing water in your yard and you’re good. House geckos :-). If you’re in the city you don’t have to worry about ticks or snakes but they do exist and are something to be wary of if you’re ever called to tromp through the woods. You are going to find summers unbearable. Everybody’s gonna have AC you’ll be fine inside but you are going to complain about triple degree summers and how you can’t go outside. Nothing to do about that one except carry around 64 oz ice water to drink and pour on your head. Liquor laws are stricter which means no hard alcohol in gas stations / convenience stores / grocery stores you have to go to a liquor store. Also you can’t buy alcohol before noon on Sunday. Oh my god. The sun. You’re going to see the sun soooooo much. And there’ll be thunderstorms! Also Dallas Fort Worth Are two different cities 45 minutes apart that you have to drive through Other real cities to get to each other through. Seattle on the left DFW on the right. For comparison.
Also like. You know how the i5 corridor is like. Okay I’m driving through the woods for 3 hours and seeing a town every hour I can get gas 10 exits from now. Highways in texas between Dallas and Fort Worth are like ok I’m driving past flat yellow field and there’s a gas station at every exit for the next 30 exits. Different if you leave DFW! You can get empty field stretches coming in and out of houston and on your way to west texas and pretty much any drive longer than an hour that’s not. Straight from Dallas to Fort Worth. I loveeee the local public radio station. KXT I still listen to it in my car daily. Um. That’s my list of #cultural differences. And places to go 👍
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was kind of apprehensive when i saw your fem merc au thingy because i’m a bit of a genderbend hater but! i actually like yours a lot! mostly bc they’re more like ocs (or just canon characters) than like. ‘the canon mercs if they were women’ and i really like these characters!!!!!!!! i think the fact that they mostly have a relation to the canon mercs is very fun. gammagoop approved 👍💥
also does pauling still supervise them or do they have a different person to do that?
Thank u!!! I’ll be honest half my reasoning for making these fem mercs the way i did is bc i dont really… see the appeal of genderbending and keeping them the same character? Like sure the designs can be fun but after you draw them the first time like. Anything you draw with them is just… the Characters but Girl and i never understood why ppl would do that if they might as well just be drawing the og characters (And then of course you get into the weirder nuances of parts of personalities being changed for no real reason and whatever. And it’s just . :P)
I wanted these guys to be their own characters because it’s the only way i could actually find myself being interested in them! Giving them separate personalities so they can have unique dynamics with each other and the canon mercs, but also still getting to have fun with the idea of “I think women deserve the right to be stupid and kill each other endlessly in the middle of the desert as much as men.” Hashtag feminism
I think Pauling still supervises them for whatever reason! I’m not entirely sure how exactly they fit into the ‘canon’ of tf2 (Partly bc the inconclusive lore as a result of the comics getting shucked to the side puts a dent in any ideas i do have) but my current thought process is “whatever’s funniest” and i do think it would be funny if, unknowingly, about a 2 hour drive away from the mercs, Pauling was also supervising an equally incompetent group of mercs who are also fighting in the desert for no real reason.
#fem fortress but they’re separate characters from their canon merc counterparts#thank u for the ask ^_^! TLDR weirdgirl rights#Ottos fem fortress
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Ok but this is ‘Homecoming’ Santi and Frankie getting up to no good while Reader is away on a work trip. They send her daily selfies as a way to distract themselves while she’s gone because they miss her so much. Most of the pics are sweet and flat out silly but some are *cough* nsfw. 😏
Gaaah Ozzie!! I'm so so sorry for how long this has taken! Thank you for sending me this glorious photo and making my day! I love you honey!
HOMECOMING DRABBLE: SEND NUDES
Summary/Author's notes: Santiago and Frankie are left to their own devices when you're out of town and get up to some road shenanigans. This is surprisingly PG-13 guys. Also have not proofread and wrote this within half an hour, please forgive me for the atrocious typo, it is what it is with these drabbles.
Word Count: 1700
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You: There's a man here who's been picking his nose for half an hour straight. Like he's digging for gold in the yukon river.
Santi: Teacher's conference sounds riveting, promise you'll take me next year.
You: 😒har har
"That Boa?" Frankie asks from the driver's seat.
Santiago hums in affirmation as he types out another quip in reply to you, "she's having a ball there apparently."
There's a bright barking laughter in reply from Frankie, "so long as she doesn't kill anyone in murderous rage, I'd call that a win."
Pocketing the phone away, Santiago looks up to the sight of the Florida landscape whizzing by outside the car window. It's green trees and pink-blue skies as the sun is setting over the horizon. It's pretty damn breathtaking. Santiago grew up in Florida and spent the better half of the 18 years it took for him to qualify as a legal adult before he took the first flight out for the military, and despite this he never knew that Florida could look like this. Leave it to Frankie to find something beautiful and joyous in a trashcan state like Florida.
The window on the driver's side is wound down and the slow easy breeze is flowing into the car, rustling through Frankie's hair. It makes the hint of silver in his hair shine against the setting sun and before he knows it Santiago pulls up his phone again, framing the sight and memorializing the image to keep forever.
"What are you doing?" Frankie asks. There's accusation in his tone as he quirks his eyebrow.
Way to ruin the romantic moment. Santiago doesn't know what he's ever done to earn such mistrust from the man for such an innocent, innocuous act like taking a simple photo of his own damn husband to be treated like it's plot of treason against the state.
"Don't get your panties in a twist Frank, I'm just taking a photo to send to the missus."
Santiago barely has time to send off the photo before his phone pings two seconds later to your enthusiastic approval.
You: GASP! 😍😍😍😍 more please!!!!
"She wants another picture," Santiago says, and Frankie frowns, the conflict plain on his face.
The man's always hated having his photos taken. He'll always be drawing down his cap, looking off into the far distance like he's been taken hostage and forced under gunthreat. Or he'll literally try to hide himself behind people as much as possible if it's a group photo. But the catch here is, Frankie can never say no to you. It's a Sophie's choice (Santiago thinks that's the appropriate expression, he never did see the movie. Two hours and a half is way too long).
"That's a no then?"
Santiago: Your husband is being a grump, no photos unfortunately.
You: What if I send a photo back? quid pro quo?
Santiago: I'm interested...
Santiago: P.S. make it nude.
You: HOW?! I'm in a middle of a seminar with 200 other teachers?!
Santiago: 👍 you can do it. I have faith in you.
"Just one," Frankie's voice sound out, and Santiago's head shoots up in surprise.
"One?"
"Yes, one, just let me get some food in me first before you have your paparazzi shot."
Santiago grins, "deal."
There's a diner not ten minutes ahead, hidden and tucked away in the middle of nowhere, it's not even registered on Google as a business and Santiago has no idea where Frankie finds these places. They get the order to go, greasy food wrapped up in brown paper bags, and before the bags even make it to the counter and changes hands, Santiago can see the slick hot grease shine slick against the paper.
Then it's back in the car, into the thicket of a forest, the road is so small and cramped it looks like the branches are reaching out for the car. Santiago is pretty sure he's seen this scene play out in every horror movie introduction and he's just about to open his mouth and snark at Frankie asking, if the aim is to drive them to a famous murder spot of some serial killer, when the trees give. Suddenly it's bright, blue skies, and an even bluer lake ahead of them as Frankie stops the car.
It's a pretty idyllic dating spot... or make out spot.
Frankie shoves one of the takeout bags into Santi's arms, and residual heat and steam rises from it when he unwraps it. It should be a grease fest, instead it is the softest, most buttery, delicious thing that Santiago's ever had. The meat is juicy and with each bite, Santiago can't help but moan around it. "Fuck that's good."
Next to him, Frankie's grinning at him and Santiago realizes that Frankie's burger is untouched and Frankie's been observing him eat this whole time.
"What?"
"Nothing," Frankie answers, smile still wide as ever as he reaches over to unwrap his meal. "It's just been a good day with you today, that's all."
There's something under Santiago's skin that prickles with something close to restlessness, that familiar feeling of unease that comes with being observed and seen. Because if there's anyone who sees Santiago, for who he is and what he is, it's always been the man sitting right next to him. There would have been a time when that alone would have made Santiago open the passenger door and run to the hills.
It doesn't anymore.
"We should take that photo Boa asked for," Santiago says instead.
Frankie shakes his head, still chewing at his fries, and for once he's the one who is behaving like a sullen child. "Way to ruin a moment here, Pope."
"Oh come on," Santiago goads as he leans over, stretching out his phone far from his arm until Frankie is in view of the shot. There's still fries in his mouth, sticking out, and the man is clearly doing his best impression of a walrus.
But what the heck, you're bound to love that, so he clicks and with a fake shutter it immortalizes the moment.
"Did it turn out good?" Frankie asks.
Santiago hums in reply, sending the photo to you and smiles. It's a good fucking picture, Santiago thinks to himself as he presses the button to set it as the background of his lock screen.
There's a notification from his phone, and when Santiago scrolls down, his screen fills with the view of you. It's a selfie, taken in your hotel room, shirt pulled up just far enough that he can see the lace of your bra. Not quite a nude but fuck, it's not like his dick minds. It's twitching in his pants in appreciation, prepared to do a standing ovation.
Next to him, there's another ping, and Frankie is already pulling up his phone to check it, when his eyes widen to big saucers.
"What is it?" Santiago asks.
Frankie clutches the phone to his chest, hiding the screen from him. The man's whole reaction is odd to say the least, and it immediately has Santiago reaching over across the seat, for the phone "What are you--"
Before Santiago can even finish his question, Frankie's slaps down over Santiago's hand.
What. the. fuck, kind of reaction is that?!
Santiago stares at the man in silent shock. It takes him several moments to re-calibrate his brain, too stunned to even speak before sullen anger and indignation flickers bright in his chest and his brain comes back online.
"Frank, give me the fucking phone."
The demand is met by a grunt, that definitely does not stand for yes.
"Frank, I'm not fucking around, give it to me," Santiago repeats, but again, Frankie doesn't cooperate, instead he pockets the phone into the back pocket of his jeans.
It's the last straw, and Santiago plants a hand on the dashboard for leverage, as he climbs the cramped space of the passenger seat over to the driver's side that has Frankie screaming murder.
"Pope, get a hold of yourself."
But Santiago is already climbing over, head thumping against the low ceiling, as he straddles Frankie's weight and pins the man to his seat as he reaches for Frankie's back pocket. It doesn't matter that the man is putting up his arms and his best resistance.
Wrestling had never been Frankie's strong suit in training.
With a quick jab of his elbow into Frankie's rib, Frankie locks up, wind knocked out of him and he gives up as Santiago finds his goal. He wrenches the phone from Frankie and slides it open and---
Fucking hell.
You're naked. Kneeling and legs spread, while your one arm covers your breast, pushing them up seductively while you have an entirely too coy smile on your face.
He drags his eyes away from the screen to Frankie, who has the courtesy to look abashed. His cheeks are flushed pink, creeping up halfway to full tomato-red, already sporting a semi against Santiago ass, where Santiago's sitting on top of him.
Why do you always send Frankie the good ones.
Fine, two can play that game.
Leaning down, Santiago grabs the back of Frankie's neck, capturing the man's mouth with his. All he hear is an "oomph" as Frankie goes stiff in his arm, and then he melts in Santiago's arm, shoulders winding down and relaxing as he parts his mouth with a moan so that Santiago can lick into his mouth.
Frankie's hands reaches up, until he's fisting Santiago's curls in his large hand, dragging his closer, hips canting up, practically rutting himself against him, it's heat and pleasure sparkling up Santiago's entire spine and from the moans that Frankie's emitting, it must be the same for him.
Santiago pulls away, reaching for his phone again, with a self-satisfied smile. Frankie makes it too easy sometimes.
"Santiago, what are you--" Frankie manages with a breathless moan.
"I promised her a quid pro quo, and I think--" Santiago settles the phone on the dashboard, until it's level eye and presses the record button. Then he turns back towards Frankie, as he settles back into the man's lap, grinding down against the hardening bulge and he can't help but smile at the deep groan of response he gets. "A video is going to a much better gift to keep her company in that hotel room of hers."
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Since I'm following the fnaf sun and moon tags I've been seeing some discussion of Sun's characterization in HW2 and while im a lurker I HAVE been sitting on thoughts on the DCA since SB dropped so I might as well put down my two cents (also spoilers for the secret ending)
It's been my opinion since literally SB came out that one of the primary effects of the "virus", should it exist, is that it exaggerates negative personality traits. It's honestly been rly fun seeing people also come to this conclusion over the past 24 hours LMAO. While I think it's primary focus was to corrupt the animatronics' security protocols so they would attack people on sight, the personality altering was an added side effect. (Added note: this is also my explanation for why Sun isn't aggressive in SB, Sun's security protocol is Moon)
So while Roxy's low self-esteem has turned into her being so obsessed with attention she'll kill you if you don't Stare at her, Monty's rocker attitude has devolved into constant destructive rage, and Chica's obsession with food has gotten so bad she's now attacking people over it, I believe we're finally seeing more of how Sun was affected. I don't think he wasn't affected in SB - the way he grabs you and refuses to let you go anywhere, the fact that he can't even handle a small mess when he literally works at a daycare. It was subtle but there was some corruption there.
I think HW2 elaborates on this. Again we see his fixation on not letting you move, his hatred of messes (to the point of threatening or actually committing violence this time and destroying the art you make when its clear from his living spaces that he usually keeps art made in the daycare). He also gets very angry at you for taking a while to do things or getting things wrong. He actively discourages creativity. While this could be laughed off as Fazbear Ent being shitty per usual, we know that Sun actually was good at his current job at some point, so this is probably further alteration. I also think this minigame takes place some time before SB given how casually he threatens to set Moon on you if you annoy him enough LMAO. Clearly still a little freaked out by him but not enough to be completely terrified of transforming.
I also think worth noting is the probability that we're playing as an adult, specifically a technician (whether it be Vanessa or Cassie's dad). If Vanny has been tinkering with Moon for a while by that point (given the secret ending, it makes it clear that their relationship is one where Moon is Vanny's sentient tool to be used), I think Sun has very good reason to be sassy and passive-aggressive with technicians at this point, considering its heavily implied Moon hasn't always been the way he is now and also less-heavily implied that Sun enjoyed his other half's company at one point.
Long story short I think the virus (should it exist) is exaggerating Sun's traits of perfectionism and being controlling, likely leftovers from when he was a stage animatronic. And with or without that explanation, his behavior also makes sense if you assume he doesn't like technicians or adults in general.
But thats just a theory a personal interpretation theory like comment suscribe 👍
#someone else has probably had these exact thoughts before idk like i said im a lurker#💛#fnaf hw 2 spoilers#fnaf spoilers#fnaf hw 2#sun fnaf#sundrop#theres so many character tags for him help
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hi!! I was wondering if there was any random headcannons you had about either states or Adam and Robin
I have a few off the top of my head :D
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-- Adam and Robin are both Very Asexual, and only attracted to each other. Trying to be a Homewrecker with these two will end horribly.
-- Greg is an undead. As a human child, he met Adam and Robin a few times. When he died in a horrific accident as a young preteen, they brought him back and adopted him.
-- Greg is mute!
-- Boe (WV) has a pet rosy maple moth named Rosie
-- Boe is Best Friends with all the WV cryptids.
-- Boe is dating John Deere! Boe is the Jack Hoffmen of States and I will die on this hill.
-- Ivan and Gabriel (Alaska and Texas) are really nice guys, and kinda shy, but they have epic mean faces and can make themselves appear very intimidating.
-- John (Georgia), despite being Gabriel’s height, is too nice and Teddy Bear to intimidate people unless he’s angry. Then people remember that a Teddy Bear is still a bear.
-- Ivan and Gabriel learned to be scary from Adam. Man is Dad To The Max, but he is still the Personification of the United States, and he can be terrifying when he wants to be.
-- Adam and Robin make all their kids stuffed animals, with the animals name sewn on one of the limbs
-- Ian (Florida) and Robin have a running tally of who had football-tackled more police officers. It’s currently a tie.
-- Adam has met Santa Claus.
-- Countries being on good terms does not mean the Personifications are! Several Government and Assistant Personifications are not allowed to be in the same room as Adam or Robin, it’s attack on sight.
-- Adam and Robin can replace people they erase! I implied it in ‘Must Be Mistaken’
-- Robin eats people. It’s not cannibalism, since she’s not human, but she does eat people. Adam too, but only sometimes.
-- The basement of the Jones Residence, where only Adam and Robin are allowed to enter, is full of trophies from people and personifications they’ve killed. The walls look like the French catacombs with all the skulls.
-- Adam and Robin also engage in human experimentation from time to time! Remember the chimeras from Full Metal Alchemist? That type of stuff. They only do it to bad people, and they also just don’t care. The only humans Adam and Robin care about are their family members.
-- If Adam and Robin ever die, they can never be reformed. Getting the exact same fragment from Eternity or Infinity is impossible. Other personifications can reform as the same people, Governments can not.
-- Robin represents in small parts of the Government; the interns, cubicle workers, receptionists, all the little pieces that make everything run. Adam is the big pieces; the President, the Senate, the HoR.
-- Adam’s immune system is trash and it has always been trash 👍 that will never change.
-- The OG’s had to teach Adam and Robin how to act human, blinking, chewing, breathing and all.
-- No one knows that Adam and Robin are fragments. Only other Fragments know. All the Politicians know is that they’re terrifying and Will Eat Them.
-- Adam and Robin are petty as hell and have a ‘Petty Schedule’ to determine who messes with which politician this time. This is reserved for the people who annoy them, but they aren’t annoyed enough to hurt them.
-- Adam has been torn in half by a cannonball before. He has also been shot, stabbed, blown up, burned, and I’m sure there are other things he has yet to talk about. Only Robin knows about most of these.
-- Adam and Robin can regrow limbs! If they break a bone, and manage to get away for a few hours, they’ll just cut it off and let it grow back good as new.
-- Adam and Robin can either have no organs or too many of one specific organ. Or whatever they think is funnier at the time.
-- In Verse, ‘The Thing’ is based on a witness that saw Robin eat someone. She looked freaky as hell and had the time of her life.
-- Adam and Robin have multiple forms, which I have talked about already in a previous post.
-- Adam and Robin are so in love it gives me a toothache
#welcome to the table#wttt#welcome to the table au#family ties au#wttt gov#wttt assistant#wttt oc#wttt georgia#wttt greg#wttt alaska#wttt texas#wttt west virginia#wttt florida#ask and answered
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arctic monkeys concert review time, for anyone who cares
so I was under the impression that the concert would start at 5:30pm, so I thought, great! I get there at 12 and I only have to wait 5 hours! WRONG.
the headliners would start at 9:40 PM. I WAITED 10 FUCKING HOURS.
when I got there, there were already so many people. the venue was huge and impossible to navigate, I had to go back and forth a couple of times to understand where I was supposed to go. the one highlight was a security guard who saw the books I was carrying (sartre, lol) and the pins (one was of dark side of the moon) and commented on them. that was nice
so, I arrive at my entry, and I still have a couple of hours to kill, since the gates open at 3pm. WELL. SOME DOUCHEBAG decided to cram up at the front of the gates and everyone followed, I was stuck in the crowd for the remaining hours with no water or food, just a cap, and the scorching sun above me (thankfully I had put on sunscreen beforehand)
the staff was also in a panic as well, it took them a while to check tickets and bags.
but I get inside! and the position I get it's great! just a dozen of meters from the stage, meanwhile people keep coming... and coming...
my friend also manages to get inside and we're finally reunited, we're both a sweaty mess. it is 3:30pm.
the bar is expensive and the water is scarce, it is really difficult to sit down given the amount of people (at max capacity, I heard there were 70-90k people inside)
the waiting game starts, but at about 5pm the first opening act (gli OMINI) comes on stage. they're neat 👍 they played covers of boys don't cry and my generation
another half an hour hour passes, it is getting so fucking hot, but some saint starts distributing water, you have to be extremely lucky to catch a bottle, tho.
second opening act (willie j healey) at about 6pm, they have strong dire straits and 70s soft rock vibes, one of their amps busted, but the crowd was supportive
some more waiting, the venue sponsors come on stage (a national radio) and they start randomly djing and chanting, they throw t shirts and gadgets. I didn't get one.
finally, at 7:40 pm the final warm up act, the hives. they even get a personalised stage with big letters and everything. they're absolutely insane, we didn't catch one breath while they were playing. special shoutout to the guitarist who was dying on stage, you're a true champ 👍
one hour left. and that hour feels like 10. at least the sun has gone down, but the heat remains, given how cramped up everyone is. I'm starting to feel very sick, nauseous and with a headache. I try to sit down the best way I can.
BUT FINALLY!! ARCTIC MONKEYS TIME!!! they come on stage and everyone loses their fucking minds, there's a huge mirrorball on the ceiling and a big circular projector behind them
here's the setlist
I had to literally block my ears a few time cuz the screaming was so so strong
alex speaks some italian and that also causes people to lose their minds, the audience mainly cares only for him. sad! I was cheering you on nick, matt and jamie! you were amazing! also the guys responsible for the moog synthesiser and additional guitars, awesome indeed
funny how everyone sang the most popular songs while barely anyone knew the songs from the car, well I sang those the loudest! mirrorball was fucking awesome, the highlight for me, cuz at the end the real mirrorball started spinning and shining. so so cool
I also screamed REALLY LOUD when they played sculptures, I lost my mind. I had waited for it FOR SEVEN MONTHS.
so, was it worth it?
arctic monkeys were amazing, but all the waiting made it unbearable, I couldn't wait to go home afterwards- and that too took a while because the subway was really far away.
so, there you have it, great concert, terrible experience. an overall 4/10, while the band was 10/10 (I wish I heard them more clearly, it was impossible to hear alex through the screaming)
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bestie what are your top nine favorite movies atm
oooh good question <3 well like i said i'm discovering i've covered way more ground in tv over the last few years (which i'm gonna rectify soooooonnnnnn i think, got a lot of exciting recs from that recent tag game!!) so this is pitifully basic, but like in terms of what i'm thinking about Right This Moment:
the hitcher – slightly deranged about this ever since i saw it last week, a movie perfectly tuned to my preferences <3 love love LOVE the main performances & the dreamy atmosphere & the cinematography; just! the americana of it all!! plus there is soooo much to dig into, like the folkloric resonances (i mean the vanishing hitchhiker story HELLO), the gay panic (as in the actual original homophobic meaning) every shot of the first half hour is just LACED with, that scene where he puts the coins over his eyes in the diner.... obsessssssssssed.
the black phone – okay so i watched this last night & it might fade from the faves over the next few days but rn i can't stop Picking at it. genuinely Disturbed me a couple times so 🙈👍 ethan hawke ATE, the little girl playing the sister KILLED it, and my friend pj should've had more screentime so the sets of siblings could parallel each other or something but wcyd ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i am a little I Can Fix It about some of its clunkier plot points, but the main conceit of the phone fucked soooooo hard i can forgive it 💖
it 2017 – listen. i have been feeling this rewatch approaching all summer & as soon as i get my grubby hands on a projector (as god intended this movie to be watched <3), august is going to be thee month for it!!! idk it just has a very dear place in my heart 💕 like everyone else i did have a 2019 breakdown despite its many Many flaws, but the first one remains That Bitch w/ the perfect pacing & ending... coming of age film that just happens to have a clown in it babey!! also always going to care about eddie kaspbrak unfortunately 😔
nausicaä of the valley of the wind – my fave ghibli movie!! What Is There To Say. it was the first one i saw before i was aware everyone went insane about like hmc & princess monoke (which i also adore!!), so at first i was just Captivated by the animation genius & the Weirdness & the design of those bugs... it just plucks at something in me, like this is PRECISELY the kind of post-apocalyptic story i can enjoy, like what a coherent & hopeful environmental message that's, well, not subtle but certainly managed with a very deft touch!!!
fight club – sorry for being a film bro :/ anyway go look at this important piece of LGBT history
the death of stalin – love a comedy where everything falls apart around & also due to a bunch flailing back-stabbing incompetent idiots, so of course an armando iannucci joint always hits the spot <3 just SUCH alarming pettiness & cruelty that you have to laugh in the face of it ohhhh my godddddd
southern comfort – okay so kinda cheating with this docu, but it just impacted me sooooooo deeply the first time i saw it & i still go back and rewatch every once in a while. despite how sad it gets at the end, it actually is one of those things that gives me Real hope bc the whole thing is just about love & community & the radical Comfort transness allows you to find in yourself 💕💕💞💖 i would definitely rec it to absolutely everyone, it's only 90 mins & absolutely Life-Changing; i think there was a clip going round here a while ago about how affirming t4t love can be, and imo that just sums up the whole vibe. rest in power robert eads ✊😔
fire walk with me – well this is my favourite movie of all time despite the fact that i can NEVER ever watch it again ✌️ like i am well aware that it is technically kinda all over the place, what with david seeing fit to make the first half hour just "fbi procedural david bowie cameo now THIS character says something ominous & incomprehensible" but also. i Do Not Care bc the next hour + a half made me cry so hard it took me like 5 hrs to watch it; jesus CHRIST she was just a kid who needed someone to reach out and help her!!! laura i would have done so much cocaine with you & kept you alive forever!!!!!! also lynch's weird cryptic storytelling just appeals to me personally bc the way the meaning comes more from the audience's emotional response makes it kinda work on the same level as a folk tale for me, which i loveeeeeeeeeee unpicking; saw a post once about fwwm being structured like the saint's life of a martyr and !!! that is exactly It!
stardust – an all-time favourite, i mean the costumes! the pacing! the fun twists on fantasy tropes! the sheer CAMPINESS of it all!!! the way the plotlines converge in the end WOWED me as a child and to this day every time i watch another fantasy movie i'm like. Well You're Not Stardust Are You :/
& honourable mention to those films always occupying some part of my brain, that i can mouth along with from memory just because they are so comforting to me: tsn, the princess bride, 10 things i hate about you, pride 2014, bend it like beckham, saw (this nearly made the main list but like. too obvious.), the parent trap (1998 version), the karate kid
#hiiii bestie!! sorry i ignored this for a few days!#but i am BACK in good wifi now & Thinking About Movies#asks#americanphysco#also 9 is way too few i'm realising i wanted to put american psycho on here too#but i had to restrain myself bc what i've ACTUALLY been thinking about is the barbie movie version we've made up in our heads 😌#but fuck it the orig is a fave too put it on the board#personal#long post
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one of my favourite things about always an angel (never a god) (seriously i need an acronym for this fic) is that yes, it does focus on jason not knowing what the fuck his gender is, but also everyone around him is just as confused as him. (rambling below the cut)
tw // unintentional misgendering?
jason, at the moment, has no label for his identity. if i, as the author, were to give him one that would most accurately describe him, i’d say he’s genderfluid, but jason doesn’t know that’s a thing and i don’t know if he’ll ever really decide on a label for himself.
so speaking as to other people, bruce obviously has no idea jason is struggling with his gender at all. it’s not out of malice or anything—he just genuinely hasn’t noticed. sure, he’s the worlds greatest detective, but it’s just not the type of thing he looks for! he’s too busy worrying about jason running off and getting himself killed!
in fact, bruce probably doesn’t even know that struggling with gender is a real thing that people go through. he has never thought twice about gender. he’s kinda the epitome of “i’m probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn”. bruce’s gender is justice.
so yeah, bruce isn’t really the person for jason to go to about gender. it’s funny because bruce is the person that jason is most afraid of discovering that he’s not actually a boy, but bruce is probably the one who would care the least. the conversation would go something like:
“bruce, i don’t think i’m a boy.”
“ok 👍”
“are you okay with that?”
“you are not a boy. you are justice. you are the light of gotham. you are beyond anything comprehensible. the dirt quakes with each of your step, knowing it should bend to your every step, but you are kind and it breathes with you. you are not a boy or a girl. you are robin.”
“huh”
(and then bruce would freak out bc what the fuck is a pronoun???)
so yeah, moving on from that, we get barbara and dick who are both trying to figure out what jason’s gender is, but equally have no idea. barbara is pretty certain that jason is a trans woman and that he just doesn’t really know how to put it into words yet. dick, bless his heart, is trying and after catching jason trying on one of kori’s dresses, starts referring to him with every manner of pronoun under the sun. he just starts switching between every pronoun set he can think of, much to the confusion of the people around him who have no idea what’s going on in dick’s head.
dick’s head is basically just a constant “jason said that he—wait no, jason’s not a boy. she wants—but is he a she? is she a she? wait can i use they? that they wants? no, not wants, they want? think, dick, what’s politically accurate nowadays?“
i have this idea floating around in my head of an interlude fic that would go between chapter 5 & 6 as a sort of 5.5. it would be focused around dick, bruce, barbara, and alfred after jason dies and how they are dealing with that. my main intention with this little interlude fic is a confrontation between dick and barbara that goes a little something like this:
“look, dick, i probably spent more time with jason than you did.” barbara’s biting her tongue—dick can tell and he’s probably the only person who can—and he knows that she wants to say something worse.
dick invites her to.
“he was my brother!” dick yells in response as if claiming the title of ‘brother’ somehow makes his argument more valid. he knows that he wasn’t the best brother to jason. he doesn’t even know if he was around long enough for jason to consider him one.
sure, he tried, but how often did he really swing around the manor just to see jason? how many times did he tell jason he was there to spend time with him, only to hang around him for a half hour at most and then run off to argue with bruce? how many times did he claim he was in gotham to see jason when he was actually just there on titans business (and how many of these times did he leave gotham without even stopping by the manor)?
calling himself jason’s ‘brother’ is arbitrary, but it’s not like it even matters because jason isn’t here anymore to correct him.
he’s not here anymore. it stings every time dick remembers it.
“yeah, sure, you were brothers,” barbara seethes on the word ‘brothers’, staring up at dick with her face twisted in anger. “you knew nothing about that kid! she just wanted to help people and where the fuck did that get her?”
“she?” dick’s voice breaks, knowing that he’s focusing on the wrong part of that sentence. “he’s a—i mean, she wanted to—was she—”
barbara sighs, “i don’t know. that’s what i thought. we’ll never really know though. i don’t think she ever knew either.”
“so then what do we call her—him? them? i don’t want an angry jason todd haunting me for misgendering… them?” dick looks pointedly at barbara to see her reaction to the them pronoun.
“i don’t know, dick. maybe we should have paid more attention to jason when we could’ve.”
dudes i need to stop writing this bc i’m just writing the whole interlude at this point and i do want to actually turn it into a little bonus fic. but yeah, you get the gist of it. i just want to have a lot of confused, angry regret over not noticing what they think they should’ve earlier.
another scene i’m really excited for is one where dick and bruce have an angry, heated argument where they’re yelling and screaming, sort of based on the new titans 1988 #55. bruce and dick would be arguing and bruce would yell something about dick not knowing anything about jason and dick would yell back “did you? because i don’t think you knew anything about that kid. it doesn’t matter if he—if they didn’t want to tell you, you should have asked.”
and this is dick in all his hypocritical glory because he’s fucking up on jason’s pronouns in the middle of his speech because he didn’t really know much about jason either. he’s echoing the same words that barbara said to him. he wants so badly to find a way to absolve himself of guilt because it’s fucking eating him, but with each word, he can’t help but feel that guilt dig deeper into the lining of his stomach.
dick doesn’t know whose fault it is, but it needs to be someone’s. how else do you reconcile yourself with the fact that your little brother—little sibling?—is dead and you will never be as close with them as you should have been. you don’t think you were ever really siblings anyway, but it’s a lot easier to think back and pretend you were a lot closer than you really were. dick doesn’t think he could handle another regret.
and bruce is right there. it’s so much easier to lash out and send that guilt elsewhere instead of letting it build up inside him. he knows bruce is doing the same. neither of them actually blame the other. it’s just easier this way.
btw this is not dick grayson slander or even bruce wayne slander. i love them both sm. i just really like writing their conflicts bc they are so interesting to me and i feel that they argued about jason a lot during jason’s robin days and neither of them were right, but neither of them were completely wrong either. their arguments are made of love at the centre. it’s just that neither of them really know how to express it.
#lo and behold the long post i mentioned#now why in the fuck would i write this instead of actually writing the fic#girl has mental illness. more at 7#also this is VERY rough writing. this is: i had a thought in my head and i needed to think of words writing#nobody judge me on this it’s like 2am rn#imeda rambles!!#fic: always an angel (never a god)
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Live Fungi Reaction: Splatoon 3's 5.0 patch notes
It's late and I'm not in a great mood, so let's just get done with this. Been told they're mid... Surely these fuckers aren't about to make my night worse, are they?
Still disappointing it's only 8, by the way! Especially since it's the easiest part of the game to code!
Supported gear... it's going to be a t-shirts exclusive just like with folding clothes for your locker, isn't it? I swear, sometimes it feels like they're not even trying with these half-baked additions.
3 songs... now that's interesting!
On the two new main weapons- I'm not like, thrilled about either of them, but I am looking at the Dread Wringer with interest.
I'm in a rush so I won't go in depth.
Only kits I'm looking forward to are the Sorella Brella (which I probably won't play) and the Blobblober Deco (which I will 100% play- Deco just keeps dropping banger after banger, huh? truly the superior weapon brand!)
I really wish they could've given us splat bomb booyah on dynamo, but allegedly this might work as well.
Everything else is a major disappointment, ESPECIALLY the inkline tri-stringer, as a tri-stringer user myself. That said, I'll try the kit anyways because it's the first thing the weapon class comprised of TWO WEAPONS has gotten in an entire YEAR. Reeeeeaaally below rock bottom in here.
By god they are really pushing it with these.
Brellas need buffs, they heard- So they're getting the most inconsequential changes possible! Literally beyond parody. These weapons struggle killing, not regening their shields! And even then, your non-existent netcode we pay 20$ a year for makes those useless anyways! Come the fuck on, man!
And why the reeflux nerf? That thing's fallen out of use a WHILE ago, this was so uncalled for. Why did they create a missile spammer that struggles to get kills and then just bury it further?! I swear, Nintendo hates these two weapon classes specifically.
These sound interesting!
They're fairly toning back cooler meta (RIP, you were incredibly fun while you were here for a whole month or so) and making some changes to Killer Wail 5.1 I cannot understand. But that thing definitely needs changes anyways, so I'll welcome there. Zipcaster might also be interesting... Not the damage buff it needed, but could still be interesting.
Ohhhh, that's fun!
Tenacity has been irrelevant for a while, especially with the existence of Last Ditch Effort, which has been needing nerfs since the previous game. This looks promising!
Good on them for finally taking care of n-zap. Annaki really didn't deserve that though, that thing is already underused. RIP
No idea what any of this means. Cool! 👍
I've been grinding SR a lot lately due to terrible rotations in other modes, so I'm definitely keeping my eyes on this 👀
New songs... fun 👀
Only thing I care about is the last item. I mean, everything else is cool, but HOLY SHIT. THEY ACTUALLY FIXED THAT. THANK YOU NINTENDO FOR GIVING US THE BARE MINIMUM WE DIDN'T EVEN THINK WE WOULD GET LET'S GOOOOOO
I can already spend hours customizing my locker, so this is gonna be a BLAST.
It's late so I won't be looking at bug fixes.
A mixed bag of a patch, but I will say, I do like some of the changes being made. Hopefully after the pre side order drought we'll get all the things we REALLY need. But until then, I will probably be fine with this. Time to grind the upcoming catalogue whenever I have the time, I guess!
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update on the hell on me assigment. after getting a manic episode from drinking a single monster can and doing 29 pages in one sitting, i send my work to get printed. 6am, i get email just saying "see ya!" and a photo on how to label files. fuck. whatever, im free of my teammate. i get to uni and thankfully the line was super fast. super mega expensive printing bc of amount and paper types. ok. get to class get everything set up. profs tells us that we cannot dissolve the group and it Has to be a group thing, not even for price but bc the stupid setting of the class is like that (im changing settings/prof next year now 😃). hear classmate mutter she wants to kill herself. last of the class to get a "correction" thats just saying did you see, based on other works, what was wrong? get told my reading rythm was really good but bc classmate got a cooler header font we should go with that even if it has many errors that mine doesnt have. 15 doublepages of mine ignored fully 👍. wait for 2 hours classmate to be free bc she simply does not talk to me unless its to say to ask a prof about it. when i finally ask her how are we going to manage she goes to ask prof about it and even the prof is like you two should talk. i think what she muttered earlier and agree. she does not want me to do anything even if she has mistakes. she's doing dogshit takes on the assignment too and all my original writing of more concrete things is going unused too. ask her what i can do, she basically says nothing. rest of the day was also dogshit. next day as im sitting here seeing she does have anything in control and that i'll have to sit there like an sculpture i realize im free. i hate being free bc im doing this career to enrich myself, but now im Free. as i waited for 2 hours like a fucking plant, i realize her method of doing things and why she gets good grades despite everything. i now realize that she didnt talk to me or offer help in anything she didnt like because she already had planned to do everything herself. why did she accept to work with me? i have no idea. so now in the middle of the physical pain and dealing with the dissapointment of being put as a plant, i realize she has freed me. i now have 3 classes to do nothing, i just present my sole idea that will not disturb her work, and i can concentrate in my other classes. fuck, i will have free time AND 8 hours of sleep assured. i will waste far less money that if i did it alone bc i'm sure she'll also bind the book herself and i'm only there to put half of the extremely high amount of printing costs. after all this pain, i now realize im free
literally me ↓
#sucks bc. i want to work designing books. but i am assured i have created a good rythm (which i was bad at) and ''generic'' composition#like believe or not i bothers me an insane amount to not be able to work on what i want to work as. i have never in my life#sat around and watch the other do the assignment. in fact i was the 2nd case always. its so weird#but. im free. im so free its insane
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omg long post incoming just a slay but not slay rambling:
lol but like not lol… my dad tripped and fell over the weekend while like cleaning the kitchen at his house and thought he just bruised his back or something, he went to the medical center (he lives in a super small town without a real hospital) on like monday to get checked out and they said he was fine except for some deep muscle bruising that would heal on it’s own… then last night he was having shortness of breath and his emt friend told him he might have like chipped a rib and punctured a lung…. so he drives an hour to the hospital today and his lung was literally filled with blood and two of his ribs are broken and he had to get an emergency operation to drain the lung and now he is like in the hospital for the next day or two for monitoring because his lung could collapse or get infected bc of how long the blood was in there…. and literally he acted like it wasnt a big deal like i didnt know he was even going to the hospital or anything and called midday just to say hi and he told me like “oh ya boutta go get my lung drained no big deal” like SIR that is a big deal you could have literally died by drowning in your own blood-filled lungs….. ANYWAYS and then the guy who s*xually assaulted (idk the details) had his sentencing today bc he did it to a few girls i guess and he is only going to jail for like a month and a half… he should have gotten way more time for his crimes but he had to be tried as a minor which is bullshit!!! because one of the girls he assaulted had a psychotic break and had to be like institutionalized multiple times because she stopped being able to leave her room at school due to anxiety and would like pee in bottles and not be able to eat… and her parents had to call the police on multiple occasions to restrain her when she would have an episode because she would literally start breaking all of their dishes and throwing shit at the walls and tv and at her parents… and all of this was like triggered by the SA. and my sister like wanted to kill herself too and was just like really mean and sad but like she didn’t have a psychotic break like this other girl… ANYWAYS that was my week! oh and also over the weekend two of my friends got in an actual physical fight and one was like throwing mad punches at the other and it was AT MY APARTMENT and i was like… can we not do this here i dont want my building to think there is domestic violence going on because y’all are screaming and throwing punches at 2am. Last slightly shitty thing is that i lost like $180 on this stupid ticket that someone scammed me out of AND i think my work wont be giving me a raise or a bonus which is annoying bc i have no money. so ya. 👍
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Reasons Why I Need an At Home, Task OrientedJob Part 1:
Had to call out again after having called out just last week after calling out two weeks before that. Why?
Read below for a rant.
Caution: Mentions of IBS, though beyond a gross metaphor nothing graphic.
Caught a bad cold (always happens with every new environment I work in), then this past weekend caught the flu (3 people at my roomy’s job and two at mine had it—stop coming to work when you’re sick!!), and then my body tried to kill me through non-contagious, chronic, gross means known as IBS all before work yesterday (I zoomed to work to not be late, made it just a minute late), throughout work (so much I almost left early but because shift was only 6 hours I forced myself to continue despite nearly shitting myself multiple times and intense pains), through the night, and still a little today.
My torso is aching and my left side is on fire.
Because of issues I didn’t recognize as my insides about to shove a metaphorical fist through my intestines (because thankfully really bad IBS “attacks” don’t happen too too often for me) I also had little to no sleep for four days and my sleep and mood regulating meds I can’t access until maybe Monday.
Good chance I’m losing my job 👍
I personally think that even with an at home you should rest properly through the flu, mind. I’m too delirious personally from fever to even do basic tasks, but IBS is a different matter.
I’m also less likely to get sick at home even with my room mate exposing me. This has been proven.
People are so conditioned/forced to go to work that they will come to the job while contagious with something and people like me who have a crappy immune system (usually due to other complications) get exposed over and over.
“Then get an at home job”. Yeah. I’m trying.
I even joined an IT program in the hopes of expanding my skill set enough to find an at home job that is task oriented.
I’m sick of being sick all the time, can’t afford insurance, and I’m burned out on customer service to the point that being on a register half the time threatens to send me into a panic attack, and having managers who disappear when one is always to be at the front in case of issues all the time doesn’t help.
For instance, I was already dealing with a Karen and both managers leave. I accidentally scanned something twice… have to wait nearly half an hour with a growing line because both managers decided to go while one dealt with the cash drawer. Only one needs to deal with that, and she chose to do it during the rush. We only have three working registers. One only took cash.
Same managers have the gaul to get pissed at people when the lines build up because they “have a headache” and think aggression is a fine answer to that.
My current job is not as bad as past jobs, mind. Just lots of random drama. I can handle co-workers much easier than customers, though, because I can’t defend myself against customers.
My worst customers and managers is another post for another day.
I just wanna work. Even if it’s a lot all at once I can handle lots of both tedious and hard tasks. I don’t mind having a constant stream of things to do. I’m so freaking sick of people.
#Ibs#customer service#work#frustrated so complaining just to get it off my chest#hopefully things improve soon
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Thursday-
Good Morning!!
As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post...today is the day that we say goodbye to Italy!
The morning began super early! My alarm went off at 2 am! 😴 With the excitement of whats ahead, sleepiness was not an issue. We were loading the car with bags at 3:45 (thank you Staunton for the ride to the airport!!). Our flight was out of Venice at 6:30 am. Wes gave me the window seat so I was able to watch the sun rise over Italy as we said goodbye. ❤️🇮🇹
It was about a 2-hour flight to our connection in Amsterdam. Our flight to Atlanta was delayed by a few hours due to weather, so we had time to kill in the airport. By now I was running solely on caffeine ☕️ so food was on our agenda.
We stopped in at the DUTCH Kitchen and grabbed a sandwich. As I have mentioned repeatedly, I know that the month ahead will be primarily eating on the go, so I am trying to keep it as clean as possible as one can while dining out. (Also, I was keeping in mind that as soon as we landed in the states we were going to allow for one over the top indulgence😁). I had a caprese toaster sandwich, which is basically a Mediterranean Lacto-Vegetarian sandwich (and no, I am not vegetarian, but you will see as time continues that while eating out, I will often choose vegetarian due to it is often the healthier of choices in many restaurants). It contained Italian hard cheese, tomatoes and spinach. I had a side salad of mixed dark greens, potato wedges and zucchini, topped with oil and vinegar🌱. It was delicious.
Sitting and waiting, I managed to get this stud to jump in on a selfie❤️.
Finally, we were off to the U.S.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I managed to get snips of everything I had to eat to showcase how I eat when traveling. When flying internationally in the past, it was usually around competition time so I always had prepped food with me. This trip however, I am simply trying to choose the best options available at hand.
Overall, the flight was around 10 hours, so the first snack was offered about an hour in: pretzels and almonds, and I also had a side of tomato juice 🍅 (micronutrients). For lunch, there were three meal options: Crusted chicken, some other form of chicken and Vegetarian lasagna. I opted for the lasagna. In-flight meals already contain an abundance of sodium an preservatives, so the lasagna seemed like the best of the three (due to the fact it is made with vegetables, which means less preservatives). It was made up mostly of bell peppers and zucchini. I ate half of the lasagna, half of the stick of bread, my side salad (and Wesley's), and 2 crackers. I passed the cheese stick and cup of chocolate mousse over to Wes.
In the first half of the flight I watched back to back movies: Kidnap with Halle Berry and Home Again with Reese Witherspoon - Both I give two thumbs up 👍 hands down incredible movies!
The second snack was offered about six hours into the flight and the final meal just about an hour before landing. The snack was a package of crackers, a round of soft cheese, a chocolate coated marshmallow and almonds. I passed everything to Wesley except for the almonds, and I did have a single nibble of this marshmallow to see what it had to offer ☺️. For the final meal I chose the vegetarian pot pie. It was quite delicious! It was filled with broccoli florets, zucchini and a light cream sauce and encrusted with some sort of breading and topped with pumpkin seeds. On the side it offered a chocolate and caramel ice-cream, which I passed off to Wes as well...If I thicken him up over the trip, it just means I will look smaller even if I gain a pound or three 😜.
My last movie after a 30 minute catnap was, Wind River. This was by far one of the best movies I have seen in a long time! I highly recommend watching it to anyone!
Finally, after 10 hours we landed in Atlanta around 5:00 pm. If you have ever been to Atlanta airport you know that it is huge! From the plane to baggage claim is about a 15 minute hike. The walking was nothing in comparison to the wait in customs (holy cow!) I am all for security and I will never complain when it comes to safety measures, but a more organized system would have made things a lot quicker! We were finally grabbing a cab at 6:30 and had an appointment at the car dealership to pick up Wes’s truck he purchased at 7 pm. I give it to the cabby, he was quite the speedy Gonzalez. He managed to get us there at 7:08 and it was logged to be a 45 minute drive with heavy traffic. We made it just in time to the dealership, piled our luggage in the parking lot and had the paperwork completed by 8 pm. After a good stretch on route 75, we stop at Wendy’s (I really wanted chick-fil-a for our first American indulgence, but they were already closed), so a chicken, bacon, ranch sandwich it was- and it was AMAZING! 🍔
We headed to our friends Korey and Tiffany’s in south Georgia. These two have basically been our other half over the years. We were all in Florida together, Korea and then Italy. They left Italy a year ago and are now stationed in Ga. I managed to take a good long nap on the ride (I am usually a great passenger that won't go to sleep, but I couldn't do it after that chicken sandwich). Wes really is superman and takes care of everything❤️. We don't have phone service yet or access to navigation so he was flying old school with a hand-drawn map and directions (I guess its still possible 😜). He woke me up within 5 minutes of pulling into their driveway. I managed to stay up and catch up for about and hour and then it was off to bed. Jet-Lag has always been far less of a problem when entering the time zone from this way (seeing that it is behind nearly 8 hours), so getting to sleep before the sun comes up should be good for getting on track rather easy.
Its great to be back in America 🙏
Happy Thursday!!!
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Absolutely all of them do asks 1-100
*cracks knuckles* alright motherfuckers its oversharing time
1. Spotify, Soundcloud, or Pandora?-Spotify
2. is your room messy or clean?-where I’m living now it’s very clean but my room at home was a mess when I left
3. what color are your eyes?-brown
4. do you like your name? why?-I don't really like my full name cuz its kinda an odd name but I do like my nickname
5. what is your relationship status?-fuck if I know, bud
6. describe your personality in 3 words or less-goblin
7. what color hair do you have?-brown
8. what kind of car do you drive?-here I don't have a car but at home ive got a 1997 honda odyssey
9. where do you shop?-wherever shit is sold the cheapest
10. how would you describe your style?-see question 6
11. favorite social media account?-fuck social media....imma still use it tho....imma still use it
12. what size bed do you have?-full I think
13. any siblings?-a brother and a stepsister
14. if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?-Italy. pasta and bread mate
15. favorite snapchat filter?-the one that zooms in really close on your face
16. favorite makeup brand(s)-NYX Too Faced and Mac
17. how many times a week do you shower?-usually 5-7 times. if i go out its more, and if im in a depressive spiral its less
18. favorite tv show?-black mirror
19. shoe size?-womens 8US
20. how tall are you?-idk like. 5′8?
21. sandals or sneakers?-sandals
22. do you go to the gym?-not really. I swim
23. describe your dream date-having one
24. how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?-approximately 37 euro
25. what color socks are you wearing?-black white and gray
26. how many pillows do you sleep with?-3
27. do you have a job? what do you do?-I’m a nanny
28. how many friends do you have?-idk like. 5 or 6 on a good day
29. whats the worst thing you have ever done?-worst is a very umbrella term but one time I stole pocky from a Japanese market and I felt so bad I cried and returned it and the woman at the counter laughed at me and let me keep it so. stealing is good kids
30. whats your favorite candle scent?-citrus
31. 3 favorite boy names-taniel kyler briley
32. 3 favorite girl names-krystyl rahbekkah mayrei (pronounced mary)
33. favorite actor?-Tom Hardy
34. favorite actress?-K Stew
35. who is your celebrity crush?-see above
36. favorite movie?-Treasure Planet
37. do you read a lot? whats your favorite book?-yup; M is for Magic
38. money or brains?-money
39. do you have a nickname? what is it?-Cas
40. how many times have you been to the hospital?-only twice
41. top 10 favorite songs-they change so I’ll do the ones I've been listening to a lot lately: Psycho Killer-Talking Heads, Love My Way-Psychedelic Furs, Nobody-Mitski, Stupid for You-Waterparks, Jetpack Blues-FOB, That's All I Need-Dirty Heads, Hey-Pixies, Visions of Gideon-Sufjan Stevens, Boys Dont Cry-The Cure, Elephant Gun-Beirut
42. do you take any medications daily?-nope
43. what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)-pretty average tbh
44. what is your biggest fear?-yeah
45. how many kids do you want?-0
46. whats your go to hair style?-brushed
47. what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc)-wooden hut on the beach. my bed will be a hammock
48. who is your role model?-Freddy Mercury
49. what was the last compliment you received?-idk yo
50. what was the last text you sent?-”lmao stress about what?”
51. how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?-WHO isnt WHAT NOW
52. what is your dream car?-1969 Volkswagen beetle bug convertible, cherry red, white leather interior
53. opinion on smoking?-i dont do it but i dont really care if others do
54. do you go to college?-did briefly
55. what is your dream job?-to not have to work
56. would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs?-beach
57. do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?-yes bitch im poor
58. do you have freckles?-yes if ive been out in the sun a lot
59. do you smile for pictures?-yeah
60. how many pictures do you have on your phone?-about 1700
61. have you ever peed in the woods?-yeh
62. do you still watch cartoons?-heck yeck
63. do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?-Wendys
64. favorite dipping sauce?-ranch
65. what do you wear to bed?-old tshirt and workout shorts
66. have you ever won a spelling bee?-no im dumb
67. what are your hobbies?-fucking everything up
68. can you draw?-not well
69. do you play an instrument?-see above
70. what was the last concert you saw?-Dirty Heads
71. tea or coffee?-yes
72. Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?-neither
73. do you want to get married?-nope
74. what is your crush’s first and last initial?-AD
75. are you going to change your last name when you get married?-no
76. what color looks best on you?-implying I wear colors
77. do you miss anyone right now?-yup
78. do you sleep with your door open or closed?-closed
79. do you believe in ghosts?-yup
80. what is your biggest pet peeve?-people not using their blinker
81. last person you called-Suze
82. favorite ice cream flavor?-mint chip
83. regular oreos or golden oreos?-regular
84. chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?-rainbow
85. what shirt are you wearing?-old Grateful Dead concert tshirt
86. what is your phone background?-a bunch of quotes from The Room
87. are you outgoing or shy?-more reserved than anything else
88. do you like it when people play with your hair?-yes
89. do you like your neighbors?-my neighbor right under me plays piano and that's the highlight of my day
90. do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?-try to do both
91. have you ever been high?-yes
92. have you ever been drunk?-yes
93. last thing you ate?-chocolate
94. favorite lyrics right now-”you're an irreplaceable human soul with your own understanding of what it means to suffer and that’s a huge bummer”
95. summer or winter?-summer
96. day or night?-night
97. dark, milk, or white chocolate?-dark
98. favorite month?-june
99. what is your zodiac sign-gemini baybee
100. who was the last person you cried in front of?-suze and my family
#long post#my stuff#rlly tho thanks for being curious abt my life#also this killed like an hour and a half of my time👍👍
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