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Lasabrjotr Chapter 80: The Littlest Seidkona

Chapters: 80/?

Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: pg

Relationships: Loki x Reader

Characters: Loki (Marvel),Thor(Marvel)

Additional Tags: Post-Endgame: Best Possible Ending (Canon-Divergent), Party Time

Summary:  It's the final ceremony of Buridag-the Seidkona initiation-and all eyes are on you.

You woke up in Loki's arms, right where you had collapsed, Ulfrun, the junior healer looking over you.

“There.” she said. “It is as I told you, she was simply overwhelmed. There was a great deal of power moving during the ceremony, and she is still but mortal...”

“Yeah, that's me.” you grumbled. “Reaching above my station again.”

Ulfrun jerked back like she'd been burned. Loki chuckled.

“Yes, I think she will be all right. The Princess in Courtesy is in the habit of getting back up after she falls, never fear.”

Princess in Courtesy. That was what you were now. A princess without a kingdom, or people of your own, but you had the title...and for your purposes, that was all you needed.

“Will you have her come by for a checkup this evening? I'm certain Bjarkhilde will want to look her over.”

“I think I can do that.” You said, and she jerked back again. “I know, it's pretty weird, isn't it? But this'll make things easier in the long run, won't it? Except for the people who like talking trash at me, it's gonna suck for them, but I don't really feel bad for them.”

“I think we will be fine Ulfrun, thank you for your help.” Loki said.

“So. The ritual has brought you an inheritance.” Loki said, after the junior healer had hurried away. He kissed your cheeks and forehead, mumbling in affection. “So you will understand me now when I say that when I am drowning, you are my air, that I wish to wash my hair in your perfume, that when you look at me, an arrow pierces my heart, fixes it within my breast, pins it to my soul. Like a hapless bird, your gaze knocks me from the sky, to fall into your gentle, blossoming hands.”

Warmth flowed all the way to the tips of your ears.

“Stop, you're gonna make me faint again.” you murmured.

“Later then,” he said, amused. “When you are already laying down, perhaps.”

Thor poked his head around the back of the dais.

“The smoke is clearing.” he announced. “Is she all right?”

“Yeah, I'm good.” you said, Loki helping you to your feet. You had completed the ritual, now it was time to be presented to the people.

Out of the thinning smoke, and into the courtyard the three of you appeared, Heimdall keeping his vigil from atop the high dais. No one would dare make a move against you while he watched.

“The ceremony is complete!” Thor announced in his booming voice. “The paths of fate have been cleared for the Princess in Courtesy. May she pass down them in peace, for as long as her life has been interwoven with ours!”

The cheering was loud and enthusiastic, and seemed genuine. Your finger didn't hurt at all anymore, likely due to lying in Loki's arms for those few minutes while Ulfrun looked over you.

You stood and let them cheer as much as they wanted, then followed the princes back out of sight behind the dais when the crowds enthusiasm began to wane. You unwound the bandage from your finger to show a very pleased Loki that the tiny cut had nearly disappeared. It was nice to see how happy that made him, to remember how willing-even eager-he had been from the start to share that healing bond with you. You had never found out if that had cost him in pain or energy, just that it was very clear that he was more than ready to give.

“So you have gained something.” Thor mentioned on their way to drop you off with the other Seidkonas. “That will come in very handy. Save you decades of study.”

“So you didn't know it was going to happen either?” you asked. He shook his golden head.

“I've never actually seen one of these ceremonies performed. The last one I know of was for my mother, and that, of course, was before I was even born.”

“They must have had one for me,” Loki mused. “In secret. Hidden away in shame from prying eyes.”

Thor's warm smile withdrew into contemplation, as all three of you tried to envision it: A tiny, possibly blue infant, held over the bowl and crying, like a human baby getting their first check in with a doctor, a blade held against one minuscule hand or squirming foot...

It was an uncomfortable image, but it made sense to get it done as early as possible, if they were to pass Loki off as their son.

“So this is probably normal. Just another way to pass on the magic of Allspeak. We'll just see how well it works out for me.”

                                                 ******

The second part of your day was to be taken up by another, much longer and more complex ritual, that had to be done partially in secret. Thor and Loki escorted you, followed by many people, to one of the popup apartment complexes that now housed to majority of Asgard, until more permanent housing could be built. This one housed the thirteen remaining Seidkonas of Asgard, and had been transformed by them into a ritual house. With some small pomp, the princes transferred you into their care, but beyond their doors, it became a strict 'no boys allowed' club.

This was because, as soon as the door closed, you were led into the next room and stripped down, a bundle of incense being wafted around your body. Once naked, you were plunked down into a metal tub filled with a redolent herbal tea, which the others scooped up in bathing bowls and poured over your head, as if making a kind of Seidkona soup.

The entire dwelling was dimly lit with only candles, and the other Seidkonas were mostly silent in their work, speaking only to give you quiet instructions, or chant ceremonial blessings from the Norns.

Newly cleansed, you entered a different room, this time converted into a kind of sauna. In the pitch dark you sat and sweated, swaddled in thick clouds of suffocating steam from more herbal tea, ladled constantly over the hot stones.

Whether from the heat, the herbs, or the incense, you didn't know, but you began to feel odd. The magic within you felt as though it was swelling, throbbing with a heartbeat different than your own. The passage of time became meaningless, but eventually you began to see a light. Soft, blue, and ephemeral, you couldn't focus on it's source, as it dimmed down into nothing every time you tried to concentrate on it. But it pulsed like the heartbeat of your magic.

The Seidkonas who had joined you in the sauna began singing one word, one tone over and over. Your heart and your magic began to attune to it, thumping along in time, like your little Seidkona drum. The word felt natural, it slotted into your mind, filling a tiny, empty hole. The last syllable of the chant you had been practicing for weeks now. The very last piece of the magical puzzle, that you were not yet meant to utter.

You heard the beating of drums outside, muffled by the door, which cracked open and let in a blast of air. You knew it was warm, but it felt cool on your heated skin, disintegrated the clouds of herbal vapor, and sharpened your heat-fuzzed mind to a razor point. You exited the sauna like an infant; brand new and surrounded by sensation. The air was cool, the candles were bright, and the tub of pure water they dumped over you was like shards of ice.

While some of the women dried and helped you dress yourself, others continued the drum beat that had started while you were in the sauna. Seidkona drums were made of wood now, but their drumstick was shaped like a bone, and the little drums were rounded like skulls, and they may have been these things, long, long ago.

You sat among them, and were given a chunk of bread to eat, and a light, sweet fruit juice to drink. The flavor and texture was more clear than ever before, the sensation of relieving hunger and thirst practically palpable. The drumming continued while your hair dried and and you devoured the snack.

It wasn't just the steam or the heat-whatever herbal concoction you had bathed in and breathed in was effecting you. Your senses felt wider, like you were experiencing sensations on a deeper level. Maybe you always felt things this much, but simply hadn't noticed before.

Somehow you knew when to stand up. You and all the other Seidkonas got to your feet at the same time, some kind of unknown but compelling signal alerting you. As one, you all filed to the door.

Your instructor, the eldest of the Seidkonas stepped up beside you, as the others gathered their cloaks and drums.

“You are different than us.” she said. “The magic runs through you just the same, so you should know in advance: at the initiation, something new is always revealed. Some power, some knowledge previously unknown or lost. I know you've read about it with Saga, and you must understand that there is the probability that it will also happen to you. But you must also know that it's possible that it will not happen. Because you are different than us, and though the magic flows through you just the same, the rest of you might not be able to handle such a revelation. Never have the Norns allowed one of us to be harmed by this initiatory experience. They care about those who act in their stead, and will not force you through something you cannot handle. However, if they decide that you can handle it, human or not, they will push you to your very limit. Be ready for either outcome, for once it is started, there is no going back.”

The ancient Seidkona provided you your little rounded drum, and the parade began; a double line of esteemed sorceresses, wrapped in dark blue cloaks. You followed behind, cloakless, beating your drum in time with the others, a call to the masses that the initiate was coming, the ritual was beginning.

You followed your escort into the same courtyard from earlier in the day. In the time you had been squirreled away for cleansing, the whole area had been transformed. The tall dais was gone, another set of seating had taken its place. There were special seats for the most important guests, and new fencing had been erected, leading to clearly defined separation of Asgardian and human spectators. The entire courtyard had been swept clean of all snow and slush, all debris had been removed and sapphire blue decorations depicting your mark in silver had been put up. New torches had been planted and lit, and large braziers had been placed within the circle-one for each Seidkona, and an extra one in the center for you. They were each filled with a bundle to burn, a little tuft of incense herbs poking out of the top.

The drum beat continued as people filled the seats, as Thor and Loki took their special places, mere spectators in your grand show. The Seidkonas fanned out from their lines and each stood in front of a brazier. The drums only stopped once you had reached the brazier in the center. Each sorceress lit their own fire in their own way. Some were able to use magic, others used burning rods, lit from the torches. You had decided some weeks ago not to use a rod, but to use your magic to teleport burning material into your brazier.

And it worked! You were able to teleport fire! Your bundle burned...for all of a few moments, before the flames shrunk and went out.

Damn. You tried it again. Once more, the fire popped into being within your brazier. And once again, dwindled and disappeared. And again, with the same results. Why wasn't it working?

You heard muttering in the crowd, and you could pick out a few conspicuous questions being asked.

“Is that supposed to happen?”

“Is this a bad omen?”

“Does this mean she's not supposed to be doing this?”

“Did she fail?”

Frustrated, you stalked over to a torch, uprooted it, and used it to light your brazier. This time, the damn thing stayed lit. You scoured the gathered people with a glare, as if daring them to say anything more.

To your eternal annoyance, you spotted Todd among the human seating, his eyes narrowed in the expression he always got when you'd done something he hadn't expected or given you permission to do. Thankfully, you were much too far away to hear the veiled insults and negging that always followed that expression, but your memory helpfully provided several old examples, and they echoed around in your head until you forced them to cease. You swore, if he ever brought this up to you, you were going to teleport him into the middle of the river. If he was properly apologetic, you might even pull him out of the mud before he sank in forever.

Maybe.

“Practical.” Loki said in a stage whisper that carried out over the crowd. “Even mages must know how to solve problems without resorting to magic.” The crowd fell silent once again. Positioned right in front of you, the old Seidkona's wrinkled lips twisted into a wry smirk. She then lifted her drumstick into the air, and the dance began. The dance was supposedly simple: three steps and a quarter turn, four times, ending in a full spin, and then starting again, all in a circle around the burning brazier. Simultaneously, the drum beat, and the chant song kept time. You thumped your little drum, chanting along as you'd practiced. It would only get more challenging, you knew, and as soon as the chant had reached its end, it started over, this time faster. Your performance, how long and fast you could go before declaring the secret last word and bringing it all to an end, was supposed to determine how powerful a Seidkona you would be. In reality, your status was already confirmed, and everyone knew that expectations had to be different for a human, but you were still determined to give the best showing that you were physically capable of. And so you sped up. And sped up. And sped up, continuing until the world became a blur, and dizziness  threatened to overtake you. Blue light sparkled at the edges of your vision, having escaped your dreams, now following you into trance states, when you were between awake and asleep. And faster. And faster. Though you were breathless, the chant song filled your ears, the drum beat mimicking your racing heart, until finally, lest you fall over into the fire, you stopped, threw your drumstick hand into the air, and shouted the last word at the top of your voice. Something appeared in your hands, forcing you to drop the drum and stick. You flung it high into the air. Both Loki and Thor cried out in surprise.

You felt the mark on your hand spark into life, runes searing up your arm, neck, and face. The power buzzed through you, like a swarm of bees in your blood, and for the first time, you could make out words in the thrum of magic. You finally knew what it wanted from you.

You were meant to break the lock. Learn us Learn us Learn us.

“Show me.” you commanded. And then the universe opened up before you.

Don’t Underestimate Salad for a Quick, Amazing Meal

It’s summer time, reaching ninety degrees out, and no wants to cook. But some people will have chips for dinner because they are afraid of salad. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll go hungry. Maybe they’re still suspicious of vegetables. Maybe they’re afraid someone will think they’re, gasp, vegan. The horror!

Seriously, did we mention it’s hot out? We’re hot, we’re hungry, and we don’t want to spend afternoon at the lunch table when the beach is calling. We’re throwing together a salad because it’s good, it’s fast, it’s cold, and it’s now. Here’s a few reason why hungry people are missing out if they’re dismissing this humble but powerful meal.

An Easier Sandwich with Less Carbs

A sandwich is often held up as the epitome of a quick, handy, and complete meal. Honestly though, look at a sandwich: it’s just a salad with too much bread. Plus, you’re going to dirty a cutting board, a spreading knife, and a cutting board all before you even put your meal on the plate, probably more if you’re using proper cross-contamination prevention with meats and cheeses. Instead, just throw your ingredients in a big bowl, toss with a fork, and eat. What you say, you like bread? Us too--tear a piece up and throw it in after tossing, fork a piece before each bite. All the parts of a sandwich, with less dishes and a more reasonable serving of carbohydrates. Never forget to wash your hands properly when handling food--it’s harder to overlook when your ingredients are going straight from hand to plate.

No One Said You Can’t Have Carbs

If you’re used to a higher volume of calories, you might be concerned that a salad will soon leave you hangry again. If your experience with veggies is a side salad of iceberg lettuce, that’s understandable. But this is YOUR salad--go ahead and put something filling on it. One upside is you’re not limited to bread, the whole world of crunchy snacks is available. If you were going to eat them instead of a proper meal, you can instantly improve your meal by using them as a salad component. Many common corn or wheat based snacks are much healthier than you might expect, the main concern being less-friendly oils and a possible excess of salt--but check those ingredients, there is a world of difference between Fritos and Doritos, and some snacks are a garbage heap of fillers, sugar, and preservatives.

No One Said You Can’t Have Meat

Meat goes great on salad. Even better, a healthy portion of meat goes great on a salad--meat proportions in America are usually excessive for health or comfort. Keeping the meat modest helps keep you on your feet and on to your favorite activities, instead of sleeping your meal off on the couch.

Your favorite cold cuts will help you keep it easier-than-a-sandwich, or if you are a grill master, you’re in a great position to prepare and slice your favorite cut of beef or pork to properly refrigerate and add to salads over two to three days. The addition of chicken to a caesar is an obvious option, but don’t limit yourself. If you were planning to eat some wings, throw them on some lettuce. Seasoned wings will have all the flavor a few leaves in each bite need and picking up a wing in a bit of lettuce helps keep the seasoning in the bite and off your fingers.

I recall a sandwich customer offended that I would offer him “rabbit food” to go with his beef sandwich; it’s hard to understand how some imagine themselves to be “carnivores” as a diet, including myself as a young man in that category. You don’t want to know how real carnivores such as wolves or tigers get their balanced diet, but suffice to say, meat on the bone is not what they eat first. Trust me, you want your roughage in the form of fresh greens, not the way carnivores get it.

Salads Can Be Crunchy

We’re not just talking about lettuce here either, though greens do provide a nicely crisp bite. Those salty snacks we mentioned earlier bring crunch too. But that’s not all, there are a lot os suitable ingredient when you’re looking to add new textures to your salad. Some people like various cold beans. Corn kernels serve this role too, even outside of a traditional corn salad, though canned corn is not so appealing as freshly cooked. Just adding a cob is also nice, particularly with a unified butter-based dressing

If You’re Bold Enough for Hot Peppers, You'll Love Spicy Greens

If you’ve expressed a love for hot sauce, you should be eating watercress--it’s about the most nutritious thing you can eat, and it’s nicely spicy. This ingredient has somewhat disappeared into the tradition of the cress tea sandwich--don’t be fooled, this is a powerful staple food if you enjoy piquant foods Some paler varieties are less intense; the spiciest stuff announces this right up front if you give it a smell. Arugula-Rocket and mustard greens are also known

Dressings Are Indulgent Wonderland

It’s true some greens can have a bitter initial bite--luckily for us, we can sooth those flavors with dressing. If you’ve ever looked over a shelf of marinates in wonder, you’ve got a whole new world ahead of you. There’s probably a favorite you’ve discovered already, even if you were just trying to get through a salad that was forced on you. But don’t stop there! Where meat condiments tend to lean very heavily on tomato and soy, salad dressing is ahead of curve when it comes to foodie-innovation. Fruits are not as nutritious so much as they are relatively benign; a dressing can bring a little bit of fruit to the meal without replacing a lot of the nutritious content. Increasing variety has blown up the grip oil-vinegar-cream traditionally has had on selection with tahini, poppy seed, flavorful boutique vinegars, or other obvious ingredients back to the bottle. Just look at the ingredients. Sugar is becoming ever more ubiquitous and it can mute strong flavors, for better or worse. The key to a salad is balance--modest indulgence goes a long way to enhance a healthy meal.

Superfoods are Salad Foods

The Center for Disease Control has done an analysis of actual nutritional content per weight to focus attention on “powerhouse” foods, which it scores and publishes as a ranked list. High nutrition content is a crucial thing to consider, as contemporary agriculture has generally reduced nutrient density, making many traditionally nutritious foods less so.

Watercress sets the upper limit at 100 and every food scoring above 60 is a leafy green vegetable. Grapefruit defines the bottom of the CDC’s list with a score of 10. Kale and broccoli might surprise you by falling below 50, but all of the foods included are extremely healthy. Salad staples like spinach, romaine, scallion, cauliflower, carrot, tomato, lemon, strawberry, radish, orange, lime, turnip, and blackberry are all included. With the modest addition of carbohydrates and proteins it is extremely easy to make an extremely healthy salad.

Have the list handy in case your grandmother tells you these ingredients are all just empty calories and water. There are some very outdated notions of what is nutritious floating around.

Leaf Lettuce is Surprisingly Nutritious

One strike against salads is that healthy greens are associated with bitter flavor. Surprise, you throw basic lettuce in to dose your food with nutrients. Red leaf lettuce will be healthier, being more mature, but won’t last as long as green leaf. Romaine and even iceberg lettuce both also make the CDC’s list. So there is no problem finding nutritious greens even if you are looking to keep the flavor mild.

Some Tips for Greater Salad Success

Lettuces don’t keep particularly well--buy lettuce with the intent to eat it within the next three days, tops. If it’s much of a commute to the store you’ll probably want grocery day to start the salad part of your week, then switch to more durable foods in the days leading up to the next shopping. If you do enjoy bitter greens, these tend to keep a little longer. Red leaf lettuce is just riper leaf lettuce, so if you get a mix, eat the red leaf first.

Micro-greens are extremely easy to grow. If you have a window with at least 6 hours of sun it’s easy to place a window planter (inside or outside) and seed it to produce your favorite fresh greens in less than a month. Look online and you’ll find a wide variety of approaches to this, complete with tutorials.

Herbs are greens. Fresh basil, parsley, dill, oregano, cilantro--whatever your tastebuds prefer. Be prepared for more flavor than you’re use to compared to dried spices, especially if your herbs are garden fresh. Note however of the herbs I mentioned, only parsley makes the CDC’s list, but generally the flavor of herbs is so strong you’ll won’t need to replace much volume to get the effect.

With this in mind, there’s never a reason to miss out on a real meal, even when the heat makings cooking a non-option. Next time you reach for the crackers, swivel to the crisper and turn that snack into a nutritious meal.

Flawless Recollection of Heartfelt Descent

Good Christmas evening to @ahiijny ! I am your first @touhousecretsanta  I hope you have enjoyed the process and enjoy the gift to follow! I know some people are quite busy this time of year (I work retail so its certainly busy for me) but I have always found the challenge of working and then writing terrible but fullfilling. Hopefully things have gone smoothly for you! I have chosen Hieda no Akyuu and Kosuzu Motoori from your wishlist, two characters I had to research more on (and I still think I was off a little, but thems the breaks) which you may find in the future to be the funnest part of this whole event. You can find your gift below the read more or at my AO3

I am possibly looking at an accompanying gift, we shall see if that plays out, but for now, please enjoy Flawless Recollection of Heartfelt Descent

The first incident came during an exuberant spring, as compulsive wildflowers spread unabated from a lack of supernatural events during a prosaic winter. Blooming like danmaku patterns of overzealous fairies or the frenzied jailbreak of ethereal spirits when a certain servant of the spectral other side gets lazy, the blossoms had made much headway, liberating mountains and valleys and roadways from the previous grey. Within the human village, a small handful of it's members had been boastfully sharing their attempts at a new type of “ice” wine crafted from naturally frozen fruits procured with impeccable timing, pressed immaculately, and processed without impunity.

Hieda no Akyuu, recognized while walking down the main thoroughfare, was offered a taste. Sweet, strong, and as immediate as a frost at the behest of a sudden cold front, Akyuu would later note that this first attempt at the alcohol in the history of Gensokyo was inspired. The feeling after even a few fingers was unmistakable, a flush to the cheeks like the rising of mist off of a hot spring, a noticeable rush to the chest, and a creeping tingle in the extremities.

“How was it young Lady?” One of the older villagers asked her.

“A real treat.” Even Akyuu's breath seemed immediately grazed with the wine's flavour as she gave thanks and continued on to her destination, the turnip laden book renting store where her dear friend, Kosuzu Motoori, worked.

The inside was dim, but cozy, with the familiar silhouette of her treasured acquaintance sitting at a sturdy lantern lit desk covered in organized piles of books. An aura not all welcoming was emanating from the bibliophile, likely the symptom of a demonic book becoming the latest fixation of her quenchless curiosity.

Regardless, Akyuu approached without reservation.

“The villagers have taken that article about wine you shared with them last year to heart.” Placing her hand on Kosuzu's shoulder, Akyuu was surprised at the reactionary jump from the contact.

“Oh, it's just you Akyuu.” Was the eventual reply after a suitable amount of recovery time. While tired at first glance, Kosuzu quickly perked up at the sight of her welcome but unexpected guest.

“I thought we talked about welcoming me like that.” Akyuu smiled despite the harmless slight.

“Right, I'm sorry.” A second was given to consider. “You mentioned something about wine?”

It was obvious her friend was distracted but Akyuu pressed onward with the subject nevertheless.

“The villagers were showing off the fruits of their labour on the street earlier, it was delicious.”

“They had dropped off a bottle yesterday, I'm not sure where they put it though...”

Akyuu eyed a familiar looking bottle at the end of the otherwise organized desk.

“Right, I'll get some cups.” Sighing from fatigue, Kosuzu finally noticed the wine before leaving the room to retrieve two large glasses. Watching her friend return, the purple haired historian had taken a seat at the desk before observing the wine cascade to freedom, or rather, out of the wine bottle, into the glasses.  

“It's rather strong, you may have poured too much.” Her eyes on her drinking partner, Akyuu waited for Kosuzu to try the wine for the first time. The initial attempt was made rather quickly after the warning, finishing with a large exhale and a moment savouring the after taste. Akyuu's gaze remained on the red haired scholar, witnessing her bask in the experience. Kosuzu's eyes glowing from elation as the identical effects of light intoxication swept away her lethargy, returning the energy Akyuu loved to see in her cherished companion, the lamp light highlighting from a profile a thoughtful and pleasant smile that caused the warmth in her chest to grow.

“You're right, it is quite potent but the flavour is exquisite.” Warm and pleasant in tone was the matching feedback, however no response was received for Kosuzu's agreement.

“Akyuu?” Hearing her name brought her to realize she had been staring and Akyuu's face moved to a smile to hide her embarrassed apprehension. Why had she spent so much time staring? It wasn't necessary to assess her friend's enjoyment of the wine that closely, nor to watch the light cradle her face so intently, nor the sheer elation of helping her friend rise out of her stupor to be so plainly palpable. So why?

“Yeah, it's really great isn't it?”

* * *

The second incident occurred months later, long after Akyuu's mind had settled her sudden fount of unknown feelings for her friend as a once off occurrence, and during the period where heat addled brains either locked themselves away for summer benders or went off the rails and caused incidents. The golden fields and  enduring forests were drier than processed flour so naturally it was the perfect time of year to set off fireworks. Kosuzu had even provided a demon book to Mamizou Futatsuiwa pertaining to 'living' fireworks, as if to declare the process already too safe. Regardless, the festival the evening around the fireworks promised to be a rather poignant event and Akyuu had dressed in a wonderfully fashioned blue kimono patterned with elegant wheat stocks.

Once again greeted by villagers, complete with tasteful compliments, while walking through the centre of town, Akyuu approached the location where she had planned to meet Kosuzu, unaware and unprepared for something far more dangerous than animate fireworks.

Hair down save for a single side braid with a yellow hairband to keep it out of her face, Kosuzu wore a crimson kimono accented by bold vertical stripes of gold and grasped a matching bag. Somewhere between the way the garb interacted with her friend's frame, the fresh hairstyle, and the flawless capturing of the late dusk sunlight in a manner that could only be likened to an ancient ritual sealing the demon it was specifically designed for, the sight was enough to stop Akyuu dead in her tracks.

“There you are! I was waiting!” Cheerfully elated in cadence, Kosuzu's voice brought Akyuu into agonizing awareness of her own turmoil.

“Sorry, it took some time to find this and put it on.” Masterfully internalizing her struggle, Akyuu found the sound of her own voice to be somewhat distant, as if someone in another room spoke for her.

“It looks really good on you!”

“Thank you, yours is also very nice.”

Why was this happening?

“Thanks, but we should hurry, the fireworks are starting soon!” Kosuzu grabbing Akyuu's hand to lead her away contained all the paragon of two bowls made by different pottery masters stacking up perfectly.

However, Akyuu knew history better than anyone. Countless happenings and events of emergent love leading to tragedy, decimating peoples and relations, and while she was familiar with the events of others experiencing its wrath, it was still unbeknownst to her even after so many lives. Thus she concluded this heavenly joyousness must be a foreshadowing falsehood, though she could not abate it.

Led around the festivals food stands and activities, Akyuu was helpless against the frightening realization that she would remember this entire experience with unfettered clarity. The enhanced taste of the food when enjoyed with dear company. The conversation so engrossing but still feeling worlds away. The laughter and smiles of her friend illuminated by paper lantern light clarifying the yearning in Akyuu's heart into an emotion too grand and all encompassing to possibly fathom beyond the addictively soft texture of Kosuzu's hand in hers. The long anticipated fireworks above the crowd where the two friends, with hands still paired, eventually stood would long be regarded as a once in a lifetime event. Grand figures of fire danmaku battled, danced with wild abandon to the beat of each explosion, and eventually, fell in love as tenderly as only flames could.

Hieda no Akyuu, Historian of Gensokyo with the ability to recall events perfectly, would have to take their word for it, having spent the entire event watching the colours reflect off of Kosuzu's face, the purple haired historian was too afraid to look away and too afraid not to. Truly any unfounded concern about possible wildfires caused by the fireworks show was dwarfed by the terror of the fire burning in Akyuu's heart, which she feared would consume the cherished friendship between her and Kosuzu.

* * *

The third incident happened once the land of Gensokyo had surrendered to a permanent canopy of grey above and a slop of a mess on pathways and roads below, preparing it's denizens for eventual winter to cast its lethargic spell once more. The frigid rain that frequently fell during the season was making its presence felt while Hieda no Akyuu made her way through the muted human village to Suzunaan. The past few months had been unkind to her, stricken with fear of her own thoughts, Akyuu had likewise made as few trips as possible to see her friend Kosuzu, unable to cope with the upheaval inside her when in proximity. This had been the theme since the summer festival, but today Akyuu had realized she could not go on avoiding the problem any longer. However, her bravery had only gotten her as far as the door to the book lender.

“Oh it's just you Akyuu.” Kosuzu had heard something outside and gone to investigate, but her attempt to casually rise a response out of Akyuu was unsuccessful. “You should come in out of the rain.”

The pair stepped through the doorway of Suzunaan, the monochromatic daylight pouring in through the open door. Akyuu struggled to speak up, working to remember the talking points she had prepared now that she was in front of Kosuzu.

“What's been bothering you?” The pure concern in her voice made it more difficult to speak up. “You've been weird since the summer festival.”

“If it's something I did-”

“I'm in love with you.”

That was not the order of things Akyuu had decided on.

A shocked silence hung between them as seconds did their best impressions of years.

“But I'm afraid that these feelings will destroy everything between us. I know I only have a bit longer before-” Now it was Akyuu's turn to be cut off.

“I love you too.”

The shocked silence returned like it had never left as both woman began processing the connotations of the matching confessions made.

“I think I started feeling this way around spring, when you came by and stopped me from working so hard at deciphering books.”

Akyuu felt a welling in her throat.

“But I definitely loved you by the time of the summer festival. I tried to say something but...” Kosuzu looked genuinely embarrassed. “I couldn't work up the courage.”

“There are only a few years before my next reincarnation cycle...”

“Then love me again when you reincarnate.”

“That won't be for a hundred years.” Akyuu laughed at the cheerful absurdity of the woman she loved.

“I could live that long.” Tears unknown were gathering in Akyuu's eyes as Kosuzu insisted, but she laughed again. “I could! I would just be very old unless...”

Akyuu didn't feel particularly good at where her love's train of thought went.

“I told you that would cause you a great deal of problems.”

“Only while I wait for you.”

Akyuu still wasn't convinced this wouldn't end poorly for them.

Kosuzu sighed impatiently before declaring:

“Your memory is perfect, so I need you to stand there and witness me proving to you that the feelings between us are worth it.”

Akyuu did as she was told, eyes taking in the sight of her affection before her.

Kosuzu stepped closer, eyes not leaving Akyuu's, with both hands entwining hers with all the determined purpose of a vine climbing a garden wall. Their proximity brought the familiar scent of each to the other with new romantic context. The grey world could not touch the fully coloured form of Kosuzu Motoori in Akyuu's eyes, so close that if she just leaned forward...

Warmth pressed against Akyuu's lips and spread throughout her rain chilled body.

The historical accounts of love were grossly inaccurate as some sudden fall. Akyuu now knew it as more of a series of tumbles, an emotional maneuver she looked forward to repeating with her beloved Kosuzu.

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30 practical ways you can start with self improvement now in 2021

It would not imply that turning into a higher man or woman is simply too difficult for you. The extra self-giving you may domesticate, the higher ready you're to deal with yourself the identical manner. Good for others would possibly provide a sense of importance in your existence.

Here are 30 realistic approaches you may begin with self improvement, please maintain analyzing:

1. Cultivate gratitude

  You’ve in all likelihood heard it one million times, however preserving a gratitude magazine of what you’re grateful for could have a massive impact to your mindset. Research has proven that incorporating gratitude into your each day lifestyles can assist beat back stress, enhance sleep, and domesticate extra high quality social relationships.

Make certain to be aware why this item is grateful to you whilst list matters. Hennings believes that it's miles important to reflect onconsideration on the folks who make your lifestyles wealthy and the way you experience at ultimate nicely.

2. Greet anybody you meet

  Whether you nod or smile to strangers passing through or say “excellent morning” to anybody who enters the office, take the time to renowned the ones round you whilst you see them, says psychologist Madeleine Mason Roantree.

In doing so, you’ll be aware would possibly locate yourself feeling extra gift and related to the ones round you, even in case you don’t have a near dating with them.

3. Try a virtual detox

  Unplugging for even a small quantity of time may be useful in your nicely-being. The subsequent time you locate yourself with not anything to do, step farfar from your telecellsmartphone for some hours.

Instead, strive going for a stroll and connecting together along with your thoughts.

Step farfar from your telecellsmartphone both for some hours or maybe take the complete time without work of devices. Instead, strive getting outdoor and connecting with nature, or assembly up with pals IRL. Remember: Even a brief damage out of your telecellsmartphone assist you to unwind and recognition on what brings you pleasure.

4. Use high quality self-speak

  It’s clean to get stuck up in being overly harsh and important of your perceived failings. This poor, unproductive self-speak can decrease our universal motivation, explains Hennings.

It is difficult to locate choice to take measures towards self betterment in case you constantly say you aren't a pleasant man or woman. Practice high quality self-speak with a few desire and announce a fact. The subsequent time that you're feeling not able or overwhelmed, attempt to say: "I'll have a number of tremendous considering it and feature taken all of the alternatives for me into consideration"

5. Practice random acts of kindness

  Being type to others can assist provide you with a feel of cause and make you experience much less isolated.

Try doing some thing best for a person at random:

Pay a praise to a stranger. Buy lunch in your colleague. Send a card to a friend. Make a donation to a person in want. “You’ll be aware your temper raise a touch whilst you do excellent for the sheer pleasure of it,” says Roantree. StudiesTrusted SourceTrusted SourceTrusted Source display that clearly counting acts of kindness for one week can increase happiness and gratitude.

6. Eat as a minimum one meal mindfully

  When you’re stuck up withinside the center of a busy day, it’s tempting to hurry thru your meal with out taking note of your body.

Mindful consuming offers you a danger to test in with each your bodily emotions and your emotions.

Pick a meal, although it’s only a sandwich, and take it slow consuming it. Notice the exceptional tastes and textures. “It’s a kind of mini meditation which can act as a simple ‘de-stressor,’” says Roantree.

Not certain wherein to begin? Our manual to conscious consuming can assist.

7. Get sufficient sleep

  Not feeling completely rested could make you experience grumpy and unproductive all through the day. Try to get seven to 8 hours of sleep every night.

Find approaches to enhance the fine of your sleep through lowering your caffeine intake past due withinside the day, taking a melatonin supplement, or enjoyable in a heat tubtub or bathe earlier than bedtime.

Check out those different recommendations for purchasing a higher night’s rest.

8. Breathe consciously

  Take a second on the bus stop, in line on the grocery store, or earlier than nodding off to sleep to recognition to your respiratory. Practicing even a couple of minutes an afternoon of deep respiratory has been proven to jumpstart our body’s rest reaction and modify stress.

deep respiratory 101 Roantree shows attempting the subsequent technique:

Inhale as you usually would. Exhale, ensuring you're taking longer than you probably did to inhale. Repeat this technique till you begin to experience relaxed. If you favor to remember, strive inhaling for the remember of 4, preserving for the remember of 7, and exhaling for the remember of 8.

9. Clean for 30 minutes

  The manner you experience approximately your private home can impact whether or not it slow there may be restorative or stressful.

The subsequent time you've got got a spare 30 minutes, set a timer and address a few short family chores that’ll upload a touch brightness in your day, such as:

cleansing your lavatory mirror striking that image you like however haven’t gotten round to displaying clearing off your desk Reward yourself through taking a while to experience your refreshed space — do a face masks to your newly smooth lavatory, for example.

10. Forgive yourself and others

   Holding directly to regret, pain, and resentment hurts others. But it additionally hurts you. When you experience any of those emotions, it influences your temper and the way you deal with anybody, together with yourself.

“Harboring unforgiveness breads poor thoughts,” says Catherine Jackson, a certified scientific psychologist and neurotherapist. “Decide to permit it pass and make a plan to by no means visit mattress angry.”

Check out our recommendations for letting pass of the past.

11. Engage in self-care

   We frequently assume of self-care as manicures and spa treatments (which can be all remarkable approaches to destress). But in keeping with Jackson, each day self-care is going manner past pampering. “It’s additionally approximately consuming nicely and getting sufficient vitamins to assist your mind and body,” she explains.

Similarly, make certain you’re workout or mindfully transferring your body, taking time to hook up with others, and having a few rest or down time in yourself.

These don’t want to be time-eating endeavors. Look for short 10- or 20-minute wallet of time to your day wherein you may head outdoor for a stroll or put together yourself a bowl of sparkling fruit.

12. Be type in yourself

   Many people have the dependancy of lingering on some thing that turned into stated to us, replaying it frequently in our minds. Instead of taking matters for my part and being self-important, Jackson recommends providing empathy and expertise to the alternative man or woman, in addition to ourselves.

Think of all of the approaches you are making a high quality effect to the ones round you and strive writing them down every day. Again, those don’t should be grand gestures.

Being a higher man or woman starts offevolved through the identical compassion you deal with yourself as others are. Try treating yourself like a cherished one in case you had a time without work and dropped some thing withinside the ball. Find what's happiest and nourishing and attempt to lead them to part of your normal lifestyles. Don't make a harsh judgment while your objectives are brief and while endurance and compassion are proven.

13. Focus On A Few Topics — Not Everything At Once

   Instead of seeking to overhaul your complete lifestyles straight away, recognition on only some matters first. In a few cases, it’s even first-rate to recognition on simply one vicinity first.

Doing the whole lot straight away is probably going to cause a loss of recognition, time and energy. When your preliminary enthusiasm wears off, it could all come to be pretty overwhelming quite quickly. Pick everywhere from one to 3 regions of your lifestyles and recognition on enhancing that first. Only then pass directly to enhancing different regions of you lifestyles.

Find some books or guides that assist you enhance in your preferred vicinity(s). Strategically extract the expertise out of it and recognition on taking large movement and implementation of the received expertise.

Many human beings withinside the self-improvement global are expertise-junkies who handiest want to collect extra expertise however then won’t take actual movement upon what they know — which creates a fake feel of private improvement.

It’s a great deal higher to study 10 books in a 12 months whilst taking movement upon what you’ve learned, in comparison to analyzing 30 books with out taking movement.

14. Get A Mentor

   Find as a minimum one man or woman (whether or not in actual lifestyles, online, residing or dead) that has finished what you need to achieve. It may be a colleague, author, influencer or (paid) coach. Study their moves, their fabric and their words — then make it your very own through giving it your precise twist.

The proper mentor has already walked the course which you need to stroll, hence he or she will display you the pitfalls, boundaries and first-rate techniques to succeed. In the beginning, hone in on only some mentors. There are many superb human beings available that you may comply with, however it could come to be overwhelming when you have too many human beings sharing too many exceptional matters. You want to head deep in preference to broad — it's the way you research the maximum.

15. Don’t Go At It Alone

   Going to your self-improvement adventure to your very own can cause many irritating and lonely moments. Instead, collect as a minimum a different man or woman to sign up for you to your adventure.

If you need to discover a mastermind, search for like-minded human beings to your environment. Having simply a different man or woman to proportion your progress, findings and struggles with will cause extra consistency, motivation and fun - which can be all crucial elements for success.

16. Set Goals (But Not Too Many)

   We act maximum correctly while we've a intention to paintings towards. Not handiest is the technique of chasing your desires extraordinarily motivating, however it additionally offers you steering and shape on which you may base your moves. When you’ve set some desires, you may act upon it with clarity, recognition and determination. Your moves are now no longer random and unstructured, however targeted and intentional.

When you put your desires, usually lead them to extraordinarily specific, measurable and upload a cut-off date to it. For example, 'I need to lose 20 kilos through October 2019' is a miles higher intention. Knowing your 'why' motivates you to a good larger volume to take large movement. Be conscious to now no longer set too many desires (a mistake that many make) to your enthusiasm. Instead, recognition your efforts on only a most of three desires.

17. Realize It’s Not Going To Be Smooth

   You will stumble upon boundaries, demanding situations and internal struggles whilst you’re seeking to create some thing worthwhile. It’s a important a part of reaching remarkable matters.

When you are converting and enhancing, you may stumble upon resistance from the interior and the outdoor. Your 'old self' or restricting ideals that maintain you again may be your pals and own circle of relatives who experience threatened through your growth. In the ones cases, refer again in your mentors, duty partners, desires and your 'why'

## Now Do It

As I noted earlier than, understanding isn't sufficient to alternate your lifestyles — you want to take large movement upon what you know. Therefore, as an movement point, comply with as a minimum 3 of those 5 recommendations and put in force them to your very own lifestyles.

How to Make a Thanksgiving Grazing Board

I’ve to come clear about one thing. I’ve spent extra years than not actively avoiding cooking a Thanksgiving dinner. Pandemic or not, my boyfriend and I usually eat some model of this Thanksgiving Grazing Board under as a substitute of a full Thanksgiving dinner. This grazing board is festive, it’s simple, it’s all of my most favourite meals on one tray, and it pairs completely with wine and a day of enjoyable. And OMG, a lot simpler than a full meal. 😅

So whether or not you are feeling such as you simply need to skip the large meal all collectively, otherwise you want one thing to hold the hungry mouths busy whilst you’re making ready the large meal, a Thanksgiving grazing board is a nice choice.

P.S. For those who’re like me and could be simply as proud of a grazing board of goodies as a substitute of a conventional Thanksgiving meal, give me a shout within the feedback so I don’t really feel like I’m a weirdo. 😅

What Goes on a Grazing Board?

When constructing a grazing board, I like to have gadgets from the next classes: meat, cheese, fruit, bread, dips or spreads, nuts, and pickled greens. That means you might have a wonderful mixture of candy, salty, crunchy, creamy, acidic, and perhaps even spicy, that may all be blended and matched into an limitless mixture of scrumptious bites. I believe I simply described my heaven.

Oh, and garnishes are all the time a good contact, if you need it to look fairly. And meals that appears fairly is all the time extra enjoyable.

Thanksgiving Grazing Board Choices

For every of the classes I listed above, I’ll listing what I used in addition to some alternate concepts that keep in that Thanksgiving/fall theme, so you possibly can simply construct your personal customized board.

Meat: I used salami medallions and slices of roasted turkey. Different concepts embrace: peppered salami, prosciutto, honey ham, genoa salami, or soppressata.

Cheese: I included brie, smoked cheddar, and aged gouda in my Thanksgiving Grazing Board. You need to attempt to have a number of textures and flavors. Listed below are another cheese choices (attempt not to select two from any class):

Creamy: Chevre, Camembert, Burrata

Arduous: Parmesan, Manchego, Pecorino, aged cheddar or gouda

Slicing cheeses: Cheddar, Provolone, Havarti, Swiss

Blue: Roquefort, Stilton, Blue

Fruit: I included grapes and pears on my grazing board, in addition to a few dried apricots and dried cranberries to fill within the nooks and crannies. Different fall-inspired fruits might embrace: apples, pomegranates, figs, or satsumas.

Bread: I used a number of crackers (from a selection pack) to present a number of shapes and textures on the board. I additionally sliced up a baguette and provided that on the aspect, since there wasn’t way more room on the board for cumbersome items of bread. You should use nearly any sort of cracker or sliced bread on your grazing board.

Dips and Spreads: I included whole-berry cranberry sauce, honey, and Dijon mustard. Different fall-inspired spreads embrace: fig jam, pumpkin or apple butter, complete grain mustard or spicy honey.

Nuts: I used a few pecan halves that I had in my pantry to fill within the gaps on the board, however candied walnuts, almonds, or pecans would even be a good festive contact.

Pickled Greens: I ran out of room to embrace any pickled greens on my tray, however they actually do provide a good taste distinction to the remainder of the gadgets and I often attempt to embrace at the least one. Candy mini gherkins could be my choice for the flavour profile of this Thanksgiving Grazing Board, however a basic olive is all the time good, too.

Garnishes: I went with a couple of mini pumpkins and rosemary sprigs for my garnish, since I already had each available. One other enjoyable choice could be to get some pretend or recent sunflowers, pretend leaves, or pretend pinecones.

How to Save Cash on Your Grazing Board

It’s really easy to go overboard when shopping for meats, cheeses, and different specialty elements, so listed below are my ideas for holding your prices in test:

Stick to one or two gadgets from every class. You’ll run out of room in your board quicker than you suppose!

Test your fridge and pantry for shelf-stable gadgets it’s possible you’ll have already got available: nuts, dried fruit, mustard, jam, honey, and many others.

Purchase a selection pack of crackers somewhat than a number of packing containers of single crackers. Crackers are all the time surprisingly costly, IMHO.

Test for a low cost bin at your grocer’s deli part. Plenty of deli division will place pre-sliced meats and cheese, and even specialty cheeses on low cost once they get shut to their sell-by date! For those who don’t see a low cost part, ask! It can save you large utilizing this methodology, simply ensure that to purchase the discounted gadgets not more than 1-2 days earlier than you intend on serving your grazing board.

Use a baking sheet as your “board” (this white enameled baking sheet is linked in my store). Nobody goes to see it by way of all of these lovely cheeses anyway! Haha! In case your baking sheets are trying a little worse for put on, lay down a piece of parchment paper first.

How A lot Does a Thanksgiving Grazing Board Value?

This board price me about $27.54, with leftovers of many of the elements that I might refill because the board will get eaten down (virtually two boards-worth of elements). I actually “grazed” on this board and the leftovers all week lengthy. Right here is a breakdown of what I bought and what I already had available:

Bought:

Salami $3.99

Turkey slices $2.99

Brie $2.99

Smoked cheddar $3.49

Aged gouda $3.69

Grapes $3.53

Pears $1.59

Cranberry sauce $0.89

Crackers $2.89

Baguette $1.49

Available (I didn’t measure these elements so I can’t calculate estimate prices):

Honey

Mustard

Pecans

Dried Cranberries

Dried Apricots

Mini-pumpkins

Recent rosemary

How to Make A Thanksgiving Grazing Board – Step by Step Photographs and Styling Ideas

I like to begin my board with any bigger gadgets and dips and spreads. I discover that the little bowls or dishes of spreads make nice central items to “wrap” different meals round. So right here I’ve a bowl of cranberry sauce, two small cups with mustard and honey, and two mini-pumpkins. I additionally like to keep away from having the board look too symmetrical, so I simply form of scattered these items across the board.

Subsequent I added the grapes and pears as a result of once more, these are bigger gadgets that shall be tough to place as soon as extra elements are added. I left half of the pear complete for visible attraction. Extra pear may be sliced because the the board will get eaten (I really bought two pears, so I had an additional ready to be sliced).

Subsequent I went in with the cheeses. As well as to having a selection and flavors of cheeses, you need to current them in a number of methods. Arduous aged cheeses look lovely when crumbled. Slicing cheeses, like cheddar, are nice as slices or cubes, and softer cheeses are good to current complete or in bigger items that folks can slice off or scoop up as wanted.

Now it’s time for the meat. Once more, you need to current the meat in a number of methods to actually maximize the visible texture of the board. There isn’t a lot you are able to do with these little salami medallions, so I simply piled them on to make the board look “ample.” For the turkey slices, I rolled them into cigars. When you have skinny slices of salami or cured meat, it’s enjoyable to fold them in half, then in half once more to create a form of ruffled look.

Subsequent got here the crackers. I like to fan the crackers out and snake them round different gadgets.

Now the board must be very full, save a few very small clean spots. I used small gadgets like nuts and dried fruit to fill within the blanks.

And eventually, I added a few rosemary sprigs as a garnish. The board seems to be ample, stuffed with shade, texture, and taste, whereas nonetheless having a distinct fall theme.

What Else Would possibly I Want?

For those who do determine to make a Thanksgiving Grazing Board this yr, don’t neglect some plates, napkins, and toothpicks! Oh, and produce your urge for food, too.

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

I got back into bed after having my morning cigarette at three in the afternoon.  Still half a cup of coffee.  Just the right amount of Kahlua.  Enough to catch the notes of rum through the vanilla hazelnut cream.  But not overpowering to the point where you feel like shit for spiking your first drink of the day.  It’s not even five o’clock here yet.  A cigarette always tastes better when you smoke it in bed.  But you gotta get your fresh air somehow.  Probably won’t leave the house today.  Lots of editing to do on the documentary.

Crawl back under the fleece pineapple blanket.  Spoon a lump of sludge into my mouth.  Oatmeal.  Spent a lotta time avoiding the junk.  A coworker turned me onto it during a morning shift when I drank too much coffee on two hours of sleep and couldn’t see cause I hadn’t eaten at all.  I was always under the impression it would fill me up more.  But it’s fuckin’ oatmeal.  Just sits there.  Clumps up in your stomach.  Doesn’t do shit for ya.

Flip open the laptop.  White rocks stuck in the holes over the speaker.  Kief covered keyboard.  I really should finance for a better grinder than that shitty plastic thing I’ve used since high school.  Old reliable.  Works wonders on grinding.  But everytime you shove the top piece back in, clouds of kief mushroom around it.  Settling in puddles of sweat.  Every now and then the fingertips come back stained after a long editing session.

Camera lays next to the bed.  Sitting directly in front of the trash can.  A wall of VHS tapes stacked up next to the black cylinder.  Can only distinguish the different objects by the masking tape.  Chicken scratch Sharpied onto the cream backdrop.  I really should’ve dated all of them.  Not just the subject.  Can better timeline the filmmaker’s journey by knowing when each segment of the film was shot.  And now I won’t be able to track the dates.  Who the fuck saves emails and texts anyways?  Might be able to find a few from Instagram DMs.  But that’s all up to how the artist wants to portray the story.  Should the viewer discover chronologically?  Or should they piece it together and learn with the filmmaker?

Check the Hamtown Rats Facebook group.  It sounds like some gentrifier bullshit.  Young white people moving into a two square mile city.  Starting a Facebook group with all their friends that live there.  Very elitist.  Especially for a town where the majority of the population is below the poverty line and speak English as a second language.  But after all this shit.  More and more people come begging to live in the city that once had a dumpster running for mayor.

That’s literal too.

At least it’s a good way for neighbors to share shit they can’t afford to get on their own.  Posting which alleys have the best furniture to trash pick.  Or what bars have a pop-up kitchen each day.  Or other general bullshit.  Closest thing you can get to commune living here.  Never know what you’re gonna see walking through this town.  Which makes it so much more interesting what the citizens find to be newsworthy.  That’s what you gotta love about this city.  It’s a community of people that didn’t know where else to go.  From the Polish immigrants that founded it.  To the now growing middle Eastern population.  To all the artists and drunks that can’t afford anywhere else.  Everybody is a part of this community.

Last week people were tracking the journey of a wild turkey roaming the streets.

Today.  The first image that pops up through drops of Stroh’s dried up on the screen, the image of a local legend.  Sporting a fur coat.  Mardi gras beads slouching his back.  Bugler and beer in hand.  Only eye contact with the camera was the eyeball earring a friend had made.  Weird how it always looked to the side like that.  Sparkles shimmering in the purple skin around his eyes smeared by a finger with blue eyeshadow.  You never really were sure if he had gotten into a fight or just hadn’t slept in weeks.  Come to think of it.  Nobody ever had heard stories of him getting into fights.  He had a collection of handguns.  But no bullets.  Anything was possible with Bart though.

Barf.  That’s what his friends called him.  The nickname dated back to high school.  The burnouts he was friends with mocking him for puking when they introduced him to grass his freshman year.  Boys will be boys.  A good vomit joke always gets the laughs.  And of course when you tell any guy to stop, they never do.  So the name stuck.  I can still hear him in the interview.  “Fuck the name your family gave you.  Blood don’t mean shit.  I can get a transfusion whenever I want.  A nickname reflects the person others see you as.  And isn’t someone else’s perception of you better than your own?”

He had moved to the city after getting busted with a script full of Vicodin his first year at Wayne State.  Grandma bailed him out.  Mom said he could keep living with her after the bust.  He was an adult now.  Had to make his own decisions.  But he couldn’t bring any junk into her house.  So he got his own place in Hamtown.  Moved in with a girl he was seeing.  The split would happen not much longer after that.  But she didn’t wanna keep the shitty apartment split front and back.  So he took it over.

Sad to see the image.  It was taken at one of his house parties.  Nobody could pinpoint which one.  Not surprising though.  Anything was possible with Barf.

Skim over the stack of tapes.  Find the one labeled “Barf.”  Pop it in the VHS player.  Something about capturing all that stuff on tape.  Seems more real.  Seeing the actual tape move from reel to reel broke down the illusion to me more than watching the Instagram story highlights or YouTube videos that circulated the internet.  With all the fake news out there, you can never be sure where reality and illusion separate.  But wasn’t that kinda the point of art?  Or at least Barf’s body of work.  Pushing the boundaries of reality and illusion.

He was a magician.  Hard way to crack through the art world.  But somehow Bart managed to slip through the cracks.  To the bewilderment of some of the old heads that still were active in the DIY scene.  The urban legends that inspire locals to pick up the axe and start shredding away the stump that still remains.  Bart was slingshot to their status by his peers.  Many of them leaving a much bigger dent on the stump of culture than Bart.  Still, they cited him as a major help to their careers.  As he kept standing in front of the stump.  Curtain held over it.  Hoping one day he’d pull away and it would all be gone.  Some of us, kids my age that were sneaking into his shithole bar underage, believe the stump was never really there in the first place.  These notions were all just in our head.

The snow gives way to the glimmer of a bottom lip grill.  No top.  Mouth hanging open.  Gasping to the tune of “Zig Zag Wanderer” by Captain Beefheart.  Black octagon sunglasses still on in the room dimly lit by rock god prayer candles and ritual candles melted straight to the glass table top.  Greasy hair falling over his face.  Hiding the chain stretching from the industrial piercing in his left ear to the diamond at the lobe.  A knot of baby hair tangled in his right eyebrow piercing.

His head sinks into the penguin pillow.  A gift his grandma gave him when he was a kid.  The white face now gray.  Almost as black as the outer color.  Color chipping off his cracked fingernails.  Purple kimono barely covers his sunken stomach.  Skin detailing the texture of bone.  One floating rib on his right side.  Never was sure how that happened.  “Can’t hold onto everything that hurts you.”  It’s eerie thinking in other people’s voices.

“You ever do quads brooooooo…”  His now baritone voice trails off as the nitrous canister falls outta the cradle of his arms onto the dirty carpet.  The fiend in me wants to Hoover his carpets with my nose.  Someone like him probably doesn’t give a shit how much he spills.  Less getting in his bloodstream.  But part of me says he does regular cleaning on his own.

From the TV you can hear Scooby-Doo scratching his ears.  Doesn’t mute the PS2 game.  Just turns the record player up over it.  Gotta have that full sensory overload to really get in the head space.  “You wanna know the real story of how I lost this tooth?”

“Sure.”  It’s always a shock hearing your own voice on recording.

“So I woke up one day with the worst tooth pain I have ever experienced.”  He rips a line of blow without even lowering his shades.  Looks up and smiles.  “Like ‘em?  My buddy left them after a house show at my place.  His going away party on Devil’s Night when he joined the navy.  Used to run this really cool cassette label.  Always did my part by providing him a venue for releases.”

His palms thunderstrike together.  Shakes his hair violently.  “Anyways.  I shoved my whole phone in my mouth.  Capture a nice pic of the inside of my tooth.  Solid black.  So I get it yanked out.  Smoked three packs of Camel Blues through my nose while I waited out the dry socket.  That was when they did that Camel through the decades promo.  Still got some of the packs on my display of empties in the kitchen.

“Anyways.  Fuckin’ sidetracked.  What most people don’t know is I chipped the tooth at Jenkem.  Managed to get this insane Aussie garage band to play while they were touring the US.  Sold out show.  And this one fuckin’ asshole I knew.  Ian.  He fronted some shitty indie band.  Mac DeMarcore type sound.  Until I opened the bar he only knew me as the bowling bartender.  Even though I met him several times before working there.  And the asshole had been to my house for parties!

“All these shitty indie bands lived in the burbs.  But they loved coming to Hamtown and seeing the garage bands.  Made them feel like they were doing something they shouldn’t be.  And they’d smoke cigs at the bar.  Play pinball and pool.  Stand at the front of the pit.  But stand completely still.  Just kinda romanticizing our filth and flaws without having to see it at home.  Ya know.  Where daddy could pay to get them on Spotify playlists for publicity.

“So he begs me to let his band open.  And they didn’t fit the bill.  But they wanted a fuckin’ shit show.  So we gave ‘em a fucking shit show!  Sparked a joint during their set.  Tried passing it to him while he played.  But he refused.  All the homies booed.  Just dumb shit to make them uncomfortable.

“So the headliners go on.  I’m tanked by this point.  I mean.  I was tanked when I unlocked the bar that day.  But now I was just obliterated.  And somebody hit me from behind in the pit.  I fell forward.  Bust my tooth on this asshole Ian’s leather jacket.  That is standing completely fucking still front and center.

“Lost a third of the tooth.  But left a pretty nice scratch on the leather jacket daddy got him that afternoon for his ‘big gig.’”  I’m gonna miss that beautiful smile.  The kind of innocent smile of a child unsure what’s going on.  But knows he’s enjoying it.

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And now, Theron has changed things again with another short style. Charlize Theron pixie cut If I had told you that he had removed his natural hair to transplant the Astroturf into its place, you wouldn't have needed to see the pictures in your heart to know that you could pull it off like the eternal stunner. We all age and beauty Theron Oscar Abergel and two will go in the direction of wait to. Charlize Theron atomic blonde hair See what 2020 is bold, as Abergel styles and lengths and Theron took last year, maybe we are looking forward to 2020 - 2021 Golden Globe, the last in the month of January, 2020 Bafta in London for the last 14 months, last week, Charlize Oscar buzz as we have shared all the details behind Style Adult result, there is a lot of the art style. This look is her hair after about three months of growth. Hairstylist Enzo Angileri says the cut is very short all over the head, but slightly longer on the top to give additional volume. Charlize Theron short curly hair The hair and dress choices of Hollywood stars are almost as under scrutiny as movies when it comes to awards season, but one actress who isn't afraid to try has swapped red carpet hairstyles over the years, from chic up dos and Ebony plants to romantic chignons and tumbling blonde curls. See hair history. Charlize Theron long hair The shorter side is cut around the ear, but leaves enough hair to create a neat spot that highlights the eyes beautifully. The longer side is scanned along the head, creating extra volume and showing dark roots for this base-stretched surface. A perfect short haircut for this summer. If you're going to cut your hair short this summer, why not try this sexy fairy cut? This short blonde fairy cut is great not only for young ladies. Charlize Theron hair 2020 - 2021 But also for mature ladies. Start (or continuing the plot line is still an analogy with the exhibition), The Golden Globes was the period 2020-2021, who have worked together since 2008 and two award Abergel Theron Theron different hair style and hair color, such as a season bomb, multiple representations, and movies and by a long shot for this event. Charlize Theron curly hair Including a long series collected in more than a dozen. "I think it was nice to have an immediate confidence in our relationship and it was this incredible collaborator and inspiration that she told me because she herself is an amazing artist," I'm ready to take those risks to see where you want to go. Charlize Theron black hair The paint job seems risky to be a haircut or hyperbolic when invoking the grand scheme of things, a Hollywood actor, for whom image reveals the right aesthetic with everything, especially awards season, all eyes incredibly important. Often, these aesthetic errors remain on the safe side and constant, so you don't see many nominees go wild with their beauty and fashion choices during awards season. Charlize Theron pixie haircut For Theron, however, in 2020-2021, it seemed she had decided to throw attention to the wind and have some fun 2020 - 2021 has been the year of the hair experiment for Charlize Theron. Actress, 91. She wowed everyone when she dominated the Academy Awards with her a-line brunette bob. Before that, Theron hadn't been a brunette for seven years. Charlize Theron haircu 2020 - 2021 In other words, this brunette bob was a big deal. Adir Abergel, celebrity stylist and Creative Director of Haircare line Virtue Labs, said the big chops and largely dark paint job was an impulsive decision just before the big moment. Charlize Theron's famously short haircut for the summer: here's an update on the popular. Charlize Theron hair color Pixie-cut that always appeared on the red carpet, as it's a flattering look for many different face shapes. This sexy short pixie haircut has fashion twists to keep it contemporary. Talented, good-looking and adored by the camera, Charlize Theron is a celebrity who can wear almost any hairstyle and always instantly looks beautiful. Charlize Theron dark hair With her perfectly oval face, petite features and subtle strands, Charlize's hairstyles range from a short fairy cut to a straight mid-length bob and always classic wave hairstyle. View yourself with Charlize Theron hairstyles. We also provide" easy on how to style by reporting tips on which hair can match face shape, hair texture and hair density. Charlize Theron aeon flux haircut When Charlize Theron cut her hair into a cut Bowl earlier this year, the internet went wild. Minutes after her hairdresser, Adir Abergel, shared the photo on Instagram. People began double-tapping and re-sharing it, and US beauty. Journalists began writing angrily about her brand new style. Then, over the next four months. Charlize Theron 2020 - 2021 hair Theron and Abergel hung on to every added highlight and cutting cut, following the difficult process of growing the cut in question. But here's one thing: Theron's bold hair changes began long before that bowl cut. Charlize Theron red hair The Academy Award-winning star has undergone stunning beauty changes for both. Film roles, such as her upcoming portrayal of Megyn Kelly in. Bombshell, and red carpet appearances, such as her micro baby boom. Now, Theron has launched a new super-short hairstyle, a throwback to supermodel Linda Evangelista. Charlize Theron brown hair Theron shared an image of her hair on instagram. O Baaaaack wrote #Fast9, a reference to the character cipher in the fast and Furious films. Because it's so easy to wear, Charlize and I call it 'freedom,' Angiler told Harper's Bazaar magazine. Another star of the cut is Charlize's newly painted locks. Charlize Theron blonde hair While you don't need to be blonde for the cut to work, a vibrant colour accentuates the face. Charlize Theron, whose super-short haircut was introduced at the. 2021 Academy Awards, is one of the most iconic fairies of our time. With her blonde locks cropped close to her head, the actress flashed her natural beauty brightly.