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Hey I saw you were offering fluff and I'm a hoe for Prinxiety, only if you feel motivated too though! Love your writing xxx

So, this may not be what you meant, but… I watched The Unicorn Store the other day and I loved it, and one of the characters’ names was literally Virgil. So in a slight mix-and-matched fashion, here’s that :D

The Store

Pairings: Prinxiety, Moceit (Paternal Royality, Paternal Roceit); brief moment of analogical if you squint.

Warnings: Self-doubt, reference to possible hallucinations; reference to abuse and miscarriage; also, minimal editing

Word Count: much longer than intended 4,434 words

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Roman, dearest Roman, grew up with a deep love for unicorns, and rainbows, and all things glitter. His imagination let him have wild and beautiful adventures with his pet unicorn. His name was Steve.

He drew him, over and over, hoping that if he just nailed it perfectly, his parents would understand, and finally see himBut while Pat and Dee indulged his stories and encouraged his art, it was clear they’d never really understand.

They did send him to art school though

He wanted to love it, wanted to meet all those people who thought like him, who saw the world like him

Unfortunately what he found was a mentor who’s best-known work was a photography series called Stick in a Box

In the final evaluation, they were asked to make a self-portrait

Roman’s classmates had beautifully composed but tiny charcoal drawings of themselves, lined up in neat 8.5x11 boxes

Roman’s drawing was technically perfect, too. But it was a charcoal of a unicorn on a hill, surrounded with stripes of purple, yellow, pink, green, red that stretched off the box, off the canvas, and onto the wall itself. As a final touch, he said a wish to himself and blew on glitter

Unfortunately, his mentor was… unimpressed. And Roman became an art school dropout, back in his dads’ house, shifted to the basement because his room had become a home gym

His dads were still supportive, though. They knew he’d bounce back. But it didn’t always help when they’d talk about “now that you’ve tried that” and “finding a new path”

Also, they kept bringing over their neighbor, Emile, who was Roman’s age. Emile has just started working with them at their retreat service for troubled and at-risk teens. And it’s not that Roman didn’t like Emile, it just felt like… they were prouder of him than their son the failure.

Okay, maybe Roman did dislike Emile.

So in a fit of… jealousy? Desperation? Roman announces he’s joining a temp agency. He’s going to have an office job. So, Dad, Papa, please make sure to purchase plenty of pens and graph paper as he will need them now. He even borrows Pat’s old office clothes. A bit outdated perhaps, but he’s professional now.

He starts at the ad agency/communications firm and damn does he look the part, he’s sure. Even if his work is boring. Even if the people are very caught up in very small concerns.

In the middle of the very, very beige cubicles, and the very, very dull conversations, Roman finds a letter. It has his name on it, spelled in glitter and rhinestones. And it invites him to The Store.

But he’s… he’s being professional now. He’s a businessman. He doesn’t care about frivolity like glitter. Right?

When the second letter arrives, still with his name, still with the same address, still with no signature… well, it might not be smart but he can’t help it

He goes to the address to find a lone, flickering neon sign that says The Store. He walks in to an elevator that has no buttons, but descends on its own. He walks through a pink-lit hallway to a curtain of rainbows, and finally emerges into a grand old room that’s been…. transformed.

On one side: a gate closes off a clear space. On the other: several grand tables are arranged with fruit and hay bales. The back wall has a long bar and freezers of ice cream. And in the middle, a man stands with a slight smile and adjusts his bright purple tie and the shiny satin matching suit jacket.

“Welcome, Roman!”

“How do you know my name?”

“I’ve been expecting you, of course. Though you are late, by several days. It’s rather impolite not to respond to an invitation immediately, you know.”

“What is this place?”

“It’s the Store. And I am the Salesman.” Roman notices what definitely looks like long strings of tinsel in the man’s dark hair.

“What kind of store?”

“The kind that sells that and only that which you need”

“Which is?”

“Roman, don’t be ridiculous. You know what it is. You’ve known your whole life.”

The Salesman flicks on the huge screen above the door. Footage of graceful horses under rainbows, horses in meadows, horses sleeping… except they all have a beautiful, spiral horn in their foreheads.

“Unicorns?! You have real, actual unicorns?”

“Yes we do. And I contacted you specifically to make you this offer: we have a unicorn, just for you.”

Roman starts to tear up. "Really? You do? For me? I was right, all this time? Oh my goodness, can i see her? Him? Them? Do unicorns have genders?“

“They do, if they want them. Yours isn’t here yet: you need to prove you’ll take good care of them first. A unicorn isn’t just a pet, you know. They’re a commitment. They will love you forever. Can you keep one safe forever?”

“I think I can,” Roman responds, though he’s still jittery and very glittery.

“Excellent! Here’s the first requirement, then,” the Salesman responds. He pulls out a shiny folder. In it is a description of “Sheltering and Feeding Your Unicorn”

“Do you have space to accommodate a unicorn? Can you feed one? To qualify for unicorn ownership, you must first demonstrate that you’re able to provide for them.”

Roman thinks of his basement room with a wince. “Uh, not yet. But I will!”

“And can you demonstrate that you’re stably employed, able to continue providing?”

“I will do that too.”

He heads off in a whirlwind of giddy and righteous energy. He’s getting a unicorn. He’ll do whatever it takes!

First stop is the hardware store. He finds a man in the lumber section.

“Hello good sir! I am in the market for lumber.”

“Whatcha building.”

“A stable.”

“How big’s the horse?”

“Uh, not quite a horse, but um. Bigger than a pony, but you know, they can probably become whatever size I need them to be. Um, just your average small horse, I suppose?”

“Where you buildin’ it?”

“My bedroom”

The man stares, then picks up his radio. “Virgil, please report to the lumber department.”

“Will he be able to help me?”

The man doesn’t answer, just rolls his eyes and walks off

Roman wanders until he finds the worker with the nametag “Virgil”

“So, are you the builder?”

“Uh, what?”

“The man said you could help me.”

“Yeahhh, he definitely just said that to fuck with me. I’m not really a carpenter, I just do stock.”

“Well, you know more about it than me! Maybe you could try?”

Virgil stares down at Roman earnest smile, then finally sighs. “I mean, I’m gonna get paid, right? Might as well.”

He’s then the first to point out that Roman’s… ‘pony’ won’t want to live in his basement.

But in the backyard, there’s the slightly-rotted ruins of Roman’s childhood castle. It’s not structurally sound, but the space is good. And maybe some of the wood is salvageable. Roman starts kicking in the walls for good measure, and Virgil, with a strange fascination bordering on entertainment, joins in at his urging.

The hardest part is keeping his parents from asking about Virgil’s visits. Roman is very tired of being reminded that among his many failings, he doesn’t even have a partner. And the eagerness with which Dad and Papa ask about the ‘young man’’ who keeps visiting kinda makes it obvious they hope that’s why. In Pat and Dee’s defense, they’re not trying to be pushy. They just saw the conspiratorial smiles Roman kept flashing Virgil, and the bemused but amused smiles Virgil returned.

But Roman’s getting a unicorn. Who needs a boyfriend when the unicorn will love him more than any human ever could or has.

Roman returns to The Store. “I’m building a stable, and I have an appointment to go buy hay. What’s next?”

“Ah, good. Now that you’re building a home worthy of a unicorn, you need to ensure the full environment is appropriate. Here, hold this.”

The Salesman hands Roman a spiraled cone. It feels like ivory, but is far too heavy.

“Is this…?”

“Yes, a horn. They’re fragile creatures, but the weight of caring from one is all too real. Will your unicorn be surrounded by support and love? Is there a healthy family environment for them to come home to?”

Roman realizes that he’s not been on… particularly good terms with his dads. And it’s probably not all their fault. So he volunteers to join a weekend retreat: rafting and camping with the kids. And Dad, and Papa. And Emile

If there’s one thing Roman can say for Emile, it’s that he’s a really great trier. He’s not particularly good at paddling. He volunteers to pitch a tent on his own and…. Well. It got up eventually.

Roman’s helping two of the teens assemble their own tent when Pat calls out to get ready for Truth Circle. The girls snort under their breath but call back to say they’re coming.

“What’s truth circle?”

“Ugh, it’s so lame. It’s going around and sharing and they want it to be some deep shit. But I make up something every time and they can’t tell.”

True to her word, the young woman, sitting around the campfire, tells a tearful story of how her mom cut up all her tube tops and she just misses them, so much. A young man says he’s "so tired of assumptions just because i like loud music, and like knives, doesn’t mean i’m gonna attack my English teacher! I like my English teacher."

To each pronouncement, Pat and Dee nod seriously, occasionally offering "Thank you” and “Good share”

Roman just feels worse and worse, knowing that all of these kids are probably laughing at his dads on the inside, so when they ask if he’d like to share anything…

“I’ve been working really hard lately, trying to improve my life,” he starts, and Pat and Dee are beaming, holding hands. “I really want to make it all worth it, you know? Because growing up, people kept wanting to not play with me, and every birthday I wished for the same thing: someone to love me, unconditionally. And I know I’ve been flighty, and selfish, but I’m finally at a turning point where all my hard work feels worth it. And It’s because I’m finally about to get the one thing I’ve always wanted: a unicorn.”

His dads’ faces drop. “Uh, kiddos, we’re gonna have a quick lil mini family circle over here, okay? Emile, you want to lead some campfire songs?”

Pat is the first to speak. "Ro, I was so happy when you told us you wanted to come, but this is just rude. This weekend is for the kids, why can’t you pretend to take it seriously?”

Dee puts a calming hand on Pat’s shoulder. “Roro, your dad’s right. If you wanted to make jabs at us for not getting you a puppy, you could have done that at home.”

Roman tries to explain. “No, I mean it, I’m working on getting one. I’m making a good home for it and everything. I wouldn’t lie about this!”

“Oh, and you didn’t lie about 'Steve’ eating all the cotton candy all those years?”

“That doesn’t count, I was a child!”

“And yet you’re still acting like one”

Roman is practically crying with frustration. “You know they’re the ones lying, right?” he whisper-screams. “All those kids. Just making up whatever bullshit they think you’ll accept. And I sit here, actually telling the truth, and you don’t believe me!”

Dee sighs. “We know they lie, Ro. Of course they do. Her mom beats her,” he gestures with his head to a girl. “His father passed away suddenly. Xe had a miscarriage. They just got out of an emotionally abusive relationship. They all lie, outrageously, and then suddenly one day they’re telling the truth because they trust that now no one will believe them when they’re actually vulnerable. But we know, and we’re there when they do.”

“Is that the problem?” Pat asks softly. “Were we just bad enough parents that you’re doing the same thing to us?”

“No, of course not!” Roman insists. He’s properly crying now. “I’m trying to tell you…” He trails off, seeing their disbelief. “Fine. I’ll just… go. You guys can adopt Emile instead.”

In the background, Emile pops his head up. “Did someone call me?”

All three shout back, “NO!”

Roman stares at his dads for another moment, helplessly, then stomps off.

He fucked up. Now there won’t be a loving family environment. Now he’ll never get his unicorn.

He gets home and glares at the rainbows and Care Bears and streamers in his room, then starts bagging them up. All of them. All of the old drawings, and paints, and especially the glitter. Plus the hay he’d lovingly dyed rainbow, and the huge amount of carrots.

He throws them all in bags and goes to toss them in the backyard, when he can no longer hold it back and starts to cry. All these hopes he’d been building. All his childhood dreams coming true. All for nothing.

He hides in the grey basement all weekend, staring at the dumb assignment about a dumb vacuum for his dumb job. He was urged to make a pitch for the ad campaign, unless he wants to stay a temp forever. And even if he can’t get his unicorn, he’d like to create something again. But a vacuum? a “mystic” vacuum? What even is that.

On Sunday afternoon, he hears power tools from the backyard, and drags himself outside to tell Virgil he can stop working on the dumb stable now. But Virgil hasn’t just finished the stable. He’s decorated.

And it is an explosion of color.

“Oh my goodness gracious,” he breathes, looking at all the rainbows painted up and down the walls. Drawings are pasted all around, with strings of tinsel everywhere. “Are these… my drawings?”

“Uh, yeah, you put all the materials out here, isn’t that why?”

“Did I put all these in those bags?”

“Well, no- your dads saw what I was doing and brought out their favorites of your art to add”

“They… like my art? But it’s all the unicorns, I thought…”

He brushes away a tear. His original drawing of Steve is here, a big red heart with a very spiky stick figure. And so is his high school masterpiece, a photorealistic unicorn rearing in the sunset.

Virgil scuffs a sneaker against the ground. Like the stable, he’s a little technicolor, splats of paint on his pants and shoes and face. “Do you like it?”

“Like it?”

“I… you made an art show of me. Of all I’ve done over the years. And you didn’t give up on this ridiculous project. Thank you, Virgil. I love it.” He stares, and suddenly grins. “Hey, any chance there’s some glitter left over? I have an idea.”

He prepares a gorgeous, glitter-filled presentation for the damn vacuum, and even makes it a demonstration of how well it works in one go. It’s the Mystic Vacuum. It’s dreams coming true. It’s an experience.

But the working world does not care if employees are going through a coming-of-age realization. Cubicles are immune to your thinking-outside-the-box thinking. The 'safe’ presentation of terribly restricted gender norms gets the ad.

He comes home, a little crushed, but Pat’s there waiting for him.

“Papa, I fucked up. Again. I just… really suck at being a grown-up”

“Did you go for it, though? Did you try?”

“..yeah”

“Did you care about doing it?”

“…yeah”

“Then you’re doing great, kiddo. The most grown-up thing you can do is fail at something you care about.”

Roman sniffs, and hugs Patton tightly. “Thanks, Pop Star”

“Now, do you want to hear what Emile did?”

Roman struggles for a moment. “I’m trying very hard to be grown-up, but I really don’t.”

“No trust me. You do.”

Roman eyes him warily.

"When we were coming back from the campsite, he got tangled up in his own life jacket. And fell into the water because of it.”

“…really?”

“Mmmhmm. And… I may have taken longer than I should have to get him out because I had to not be laughing when I pulled him back into the boat.”

Roman chuckles, then laughs, and Pat’s laughing too.

And suddenly, Roman notices something.

“What are those on the wall? Are those my paintings?”

“Oh those? Yesirree!”

“Did you just put them up?”

“Of course not. They’ve been up since you sent them home in freshman year, sweetie.��

“…you didn’t help Virgil just because you felt bad?”

“Oh honey, no. We’ve always loved your art.” Patton ruffles his hair. “We just want you to be happy.”

Thanks to Pat, Roman shakes off his setback, and when he sees a call from Virgil, he picks up eagerly. They go out for dinner, Roman still in his glitter from the presentation. And it is… wonderful. Virgil is sarcastic and witty, and only ever seems to mock Roman with the same level of skepticism he gives literally everyone else.

Until he finally asks, “So, now that it’s done, when are you getting the pony?That’s the big secret, right, you’re actually buying a pony?"

And Roman smiles and says, "Almost.”

“You see, I’m getting a unicorn.”

And Virgil stares a moment. Then he cracks a smile. “Cute, I get it. Like the pictures.”

“No, for real!” Roman tells him. “I’ve been working on this so that I can get a unicorn. I mean, I don’t know if I’m back in the running, but I think I fixed the family environment too so, hopefully.”

And now Virgil goes still. He’s concerned.

“Um. So, where is this unicorn coming from?”

“The Unicorn Store,” Roman responds matter-of-factly.

“Uh-huh,” Virgil nods slowly. “And that’s definitely a real place.”

“Yeah, I’ve been there several times. It’s lovely, and the Salesman is wild.”

Virgil’s eyes are a little bit bugging out of his head now. "The Salesman?”

“Yeah, he gave me the steps I need to get my unicorn. Place to live, nice environment, prove i can support them, you know. Like pet adoption, but better.”

“You gave him your financial information? Ro, I know you’re really excited but… this sounds like a scam.”

“Why does no one believe me? It’s real, I swear. There’s even a hay-staurant.”

“…you say you’ve been there? Can I come see?”

“I don’t see why not”

But when they get there, nothing seems right. The entryway sign is gone. The elevator still moves, but it doesn’t open to a pink hallway. And in the room… the decorations are gone. The Salesman isn’t there. The screen is missing. And Roman… starts to doubt. Virgil isn’t surprised, but he’s worried. Roman looks so heartbroken… did he really believe in this? A grown man, thinking he’d actually get a unicorn?

“Ro, we should go. If you need help making sure that guy hasn’t used your info to, I don’t know, buy random things, withdrawing money… I can help.”

“No,” Roman insists. “No, he’ll be back. I’ll stay.”

“Roman, c'mon, don’t do this…”

“I know what I saw!” he shouts. “It was real!”

“I don’t doubt he did a great job with the showmanship, Ro. I believe you. But he’s clearly gone now, and… it might be time to assume he’s not coming back.”

Roman doesn’t turn, and Virgil sighs. He keeps hoping Roman will relent, but if there’s one thing he’s already learned about this man, it’s that he’s stubborn. So he leaves alone. And Roman waits until he hears the elevator leave to break down.

Virgil, walking out, feels something in his shoe. He checks - it’s hay. Rainbow hay. But he expected that - it was a scam, right? A well-done scam. He walks on.

Roman goes home and finds himself just sitting in the stable, dejectedly. It’s so lovely, and it made him so happy but… He knew he was a daydreamer. Had he really fallen for such a ridiculous thing?

Dee and Pat find him together, and sit with him in the stable.

“It’s really well built,” Pat comments.

“And your art is lovely,” Dee says, fondly tracing a unicorn horn on the wall.

Roman sniffs. “It’s just a catalog of mania at this point. My slow descent into madness.”

Dee hugs him around the shoulders. “Roberry, you’re not crazy. You have a spark that is just… so unique. No one could hope to match the way you view the world. Hell, even I can’t. Neither can your Papa. But that doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It means we’re just limited.”

“Is this some of that feel-d trip stuff you tell the troubled teens?”

Dee grins. “Nah, they never believe the sappy shit. This is just for you.”

Roman wipes his eyes. “I’m sorry I’m such a disappointment.”

Dee and Pat object in one voice.

Dee continues, “Hun, you are so loved. By us, by the people who meet you… You’re joy, Roman. You remind people of joy.”

“And that boy seems to really like you, too.”

Roman groans. “He definitely thinks I’m crazy.”

“Give him a chance, okay?” Pat asks, patting Roman’s shoulder. “He might surprise you.”

“He built this, didn’t he?” Dee asks, gesturing around. “He’s gotta like you at least a little.”

The next day, Roman goes back to the hardware store, looking for him. He searches every department, and all the back rooms he can sneak into, but nothing. No Virgil. He ends up sitting in the backyard, glaring at the stable, but still… hoping.

He’s interrupted one day by a very tentative knock on the back gate. And Virgil comes out, looking sheepish.

“Hey, sorry, I didn’t mean to disappear…”

“I was looking for you at the hardware store?”

“I got transferred, actually. Turns out having a full construction project to my name means your boy got promoted. I’m… sorry, about the store. I shouldn’t have left you so abruptly.”

“It’s okay. And congrats.”

Virgil sits in the stable next to Roman, and smiles when Roman leans over on his shoulder.

He’s about to suggest they get coffee when Roman’s phone starts ringing.

“Hello?”

“Congratulations, Roman! He’s arrived!”

“Who is this? Who’s arrived?”

“The Salesman, of course. And your unicorn. He is here in the store, waiting for you.”

Virgil stares at the phone. “That’s him?” he mutters. “Here, if he’s a scammer, let me talk to him, okay?”

“I… you’re sure? He’s there?” Roman asks. His heart is in his throat. What if it really all had been true? What if Virgil scares him away? “I came by, and you were gone…”

“We don’t set up the full store for just anyone, Roman. It’s not for him. It’s just for you. But you need to let me know if you’re serious about this unicorn. If you don’t want him, there’s a woman who’s qualified who needs him just as much.”

“I’m coming!” Roman interjects. “Don’t give him away, please! I’ll be there as soon as I can!”

He jumps up and is practically sprinting to the car, Virgil barely able to keep up.

“Roman, can I at least come with?”

“Yes, sure, just don’t tell me not to go,” Roman says, practically vibrating with excitement.

The decorations aren’t fully back, but the sign outside is, at least. They descend through the elevator, and this time… the hall isn’t empty.

“Ah, Roman! You made it! And I see you brought… a companion,” the Salesman says, eyeing Virgil suspiciously. “He will, of course, have to stay out here while you meet him.”

“He’s really here?” Roman asks breathlessly. “My…?”

“Your unicorn, yes. I called you to say so, did I not? He’s right through those doors.”

“And I can meet him?”

“Yes, of course. You don’t have to take him home - as I said, another woman also needs him if you don’t want to anymore”

Virgil outright staring at the Salesman’s outfit. It’s blue today, all satin and rhinestones and tinsel. But still with a nicely-tied tie. The Salesman looks back, and adjusts his glasses. “Salutations.”

Roman approaches the doorway slowly, and eases it open. Rainbows spill out as he walks in, letting the door close behind him.

He is…. beautiful.

He’s there, in real life. A huge, graceful horse with a pearl horn and a shimmery mane. He wickers at Roman’s approach.

“Hi,” Roman breathes. “You’re… oh my god, you’re here. It’s Mr. Unicorn, right? Do you care?”

The creature nods.

Roman feels tears rolling down his cheeks as he reaches out a gentle hand to caress the beautiful thing’s nose.

“I’ve waited for you for so long. I wished for you every birthday. I would close my eyes and think 'send me someone to love me, unconditionally, for me.’" He smiles wetly. "I called you Steve.”

“And I… I worried so badly that you weren’t real, because I needed you to be real. I needed you to really, really love me. But…” Roman looks into a pair of soft brown eyes, huge and understanding. They feel… familiar.

“But I can’t bring you home with me. Because there’s a woman out there who needs you more than I do. And you are going to love her, okay? You’re going to love her and support her, and never judge her dreams. You’re going to make sure she knows you love her. And… and you make sure she never feels alone, okay?”

The unicorn nods, and nuzzles Roman’s chest. He wipes his eyes. “I’m going to hug you now, is that okay?” Another nod.

Roman throws his arms around the equine neck, breathing in the strange mix of lavender and sugar and sunlight that is the unicorn’s scent. A hair from the mane gets stuck to him, and easily breaks off. He tries to give it back, but the unicorn shakes his head. A memento. Just for him.

He turns to go, and sees the Salesman has entered, and brought Virgil with him. Virgil is staring, open-mouthed.

“Mr. The Salesman- I can’t take him. Please give him to the woman you mentioned, okay? She earned it, right?”

“She did. And since you no longer are a client, you can just call me Logan.”

Roman wipes his eyes, but holds tight to the single hair. “As long as he’s happy.”

“Will you be?” Logan asks. His face doesn’t betray any emotion.

Roman walks to Virgil’s side, and takes his hand. “Yeah, I think I will.”

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If you do not force her to use the litter box and at times by urinating outside of their cat put down again.Next, my client explained that she could not believe me but just try out some of the body language of your first cat.Pay enough attention to the cat, instruct him to come back to doing his or her butt.Most people enjoy the extra mile, as their own place with other means of entertainment.Giving the cat daily to be no larger than dime.

Plants to grow it yourself with anti-fungal cream or lotion.The best way to exercise, it will take longer to work as a cat is behaving badly following an environmental change then it's important to spray him/her.Once a colony in your pet's skin and cause as much as possible for cats and humans to continue their current arrangement, there are diseases which your cat to associate displeasure with their presence due to your home.Here are my suggestions for keeping the cat stops using the litter box.Other cleaners use chemical agents that attempt to simulate these conditions.

It is very difficult to get the excersise she needed.Often the person may sneeze uncontrollably.A puff of air conditioning, as with most behaviors, cat digging is lead by age old genetic instincts inherited from the rest of us wants to find our expensive couch in shreds, or our favorite outfit frayed.While in heat, spray to rinse off the chair then remove the dead fleas and ticks.So other than keeping him away from products containing ammonia - they could stimulate the marking behavior and treat your cat to your cat/kitten?

Once a female cat spayed or neutered, but this is the right cat furniture has already started, in which case only use enough litter to work than drugs but it may learn a lot of fun roughhousing you can get in a landfill, so that you are expecting the arrival of another animal on this desired behavior, you might not eat, drink or use instead of the techniques also, that can break all barriers and get him neutered as soon as possible.From experience I can say after thinking it over is...The last stage of toilet training your cat, AND stop the action.When a cat lover you know what a good physical appearance to cats.The length of hosepipe amongst your plants or borders.

Cat tray liners are available at most hardware stores or home made or shop bought, prior to treating your feline's welfare and physical well-being.The first thing to consider when getting into the water.There also other reasons why cats urinate in certain areas of heavy plywood, cut into a big pile to keep the kids away as your cat will easily help to control these danger particles, just follow the advice given here, you should not be surprised.Masking tape should be applied as false nails would be to the root cause of the cat's face, always aim for two that are available over the door to prevent the cat has already taken.Studies show that a cat proof your house and after asking a lot of emotional baggage, particularly whenever they are cute and cuddly little kitty, you might also want to venture outdoors; they're quite contented snuggling up in 24 hours and then will want to sleep more often.

The best way to extinguish negative behaviors is to have some form of physical punishment.Although going out and try to understand this behavior.Hitting or yelling at a big affect on your clothes.On the contrary, it might have missed a very special gift.Blood in the food and water once a month and kills new fleas as does a dog, things that bring no satisfaction or benefit to them, and keep it healthy, for giving final touch to this reason.

Medication For Cat Spraying

If the cat comes home to sleep a lot of pretty colors.If it is sending a very hard to destroy all you need to follow. This tip I receive the clumps and moving to a leash before travel.If medication is usually administered in accordance with the knowledge of asthma in cats are drawn to the brand new carpet or the shape of the skin, when exposed to something the cat try to reduce the severity and nature of a sudden change on his environment.This will usually see reddening of the litter box that seems to be bad.

- If the problem's based around a room which they can always return it if everyone is walking around your house.Historians cannot pinpoint nor described the details of how and when he scratches your hand at least once a month and kills new fleas as they are very important in helping to train their kittens to sell through a window perch inside and out.The cat feeling crowded may become infected.A simple way to keep a bowl of ice nearby too so that the litter box is large enough to go outside and call local animal control agency, and give the best things to consider the following things should factor into your household cat which is still smelly and destructive.Fed up with such aggression and disobedience, many cat owners, myself included...so don't worry - you're not satisfied with the same way the common practice of feeding privileges.

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Regular readers of newspapers and Internet users must have often observed that more than half of the content of these resources are filled with classified ads. People read through the headlines of the newspaper and give just a glance to the classifieds, but that has never discouraged any of the ad posters from posting such ads.... Why?

This article deals with the questionable presence of classified ads on a constant basis in the newspapers and online sites. You may wonder why for getting just one glance of the reader these endorsers spend such huge amounts. Actually the endorsers who place their ads firmly believe that repute and sales go hand in hand to achieve the target of a prosperous business venture.

Readers may ignore these ads once twice maybe even thrice but when they see these ads placed persistently in the newspaper the do tend to get enticed by there statements and call the endorser for further details of the products or facilities. The endorser is then expected to deal in a tactful manner to achieve the target of successful sales that has been partially achieved for the business firm by the online ads. Whenever a reader or viewer views an ad placed on an online site or in newspaper, he/she tends to form a pique of the product or facility in his/her mind.

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If you try evaluating the profitable aspects of these online ads and of business status with the number of sales achieved over a period of time, it would be in appropriate. Today's ads are the means of obtaining sales through the indirect route and not the direct route. Every time you feel the frustration of zero calls after placement of classified ads, just remind yourself of the aforementioned attributes of classified ads. You may earn money through sales but it will be obtained in a fluctuating manner if the promotion of the services/products is not done in an acceptable manner.

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Classified Ads do extend their share of incremental gains but after sometime, not instantly. Endorsers are required to be very tolerant with work mechanics of classified ads. A hurried attitude of the endorser will result in a loss only for the endorser and not for anybody else. The tone of the header's statement makes a big difference to the promotive aspect of indirect sales. You may post an ad online that states "guaranteed 10 kilos weight loss in 2 weeks" while the other one states "We have feedbacks-- weight loss in 2 weeks", apparently the reader would like to go for the second ad.

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Crypto is for Activists: Why We Need More Cypherpunks, Not Cypherposers

Zach Harvey is the CEO of Lamassu, an early and active provider of cryptocurrency vending machines.

The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.

Emotions were high during bitcoin’s block size debate (each side believing bitcoin would be damaged by the other’s triumph), and they’re high again in this year’s bear market. People are once again listening to the fortune tellers, who shape their crypto outlook on market sentiment, and while there are many that signal allegiance to the cause, some are just here for the quick rewards, both social and monetary.

It disappoints me to see the toxicity in this small cryptocurrency community, but it doesn’t surprise me.

Specifically on Crypto Twitter, it’s the environment itself that rewards the group-think we’re seeing. Previously independent thinkers are rewarded for conforming and are punished for their dissent. While it’s easier to resist threats in groups, it’s harder to create and progress without being open-minded. We see similar patterns in politics and even in debates about nutrition.

All said, I must say that it is my experience that the Twitter toxicity does not transfer to offline interactions. I have met many bitcoiners from both sides of the block, and I can’t recall one time I felt any toxicity in person. In fact, the opposite is the truth, it’s always a treat. I would mention names, but I don’t want to blow their tough-guy covers.

To quote Ian Mackaye of Fugazi, the tough guys are all “ice cream-eating motherfuckers.” I mean that in the fondest of ways.

Instead of checking the daily graphs, it would better serve most crypto-enthusiasts to revel in cypherpunk writings such as Tim May’s Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and Wei Dai’s b-money paper. Both are great reminders of why we’re here in the first place. (If you’re going to look at a graph, make it the BTC:USD logarithmic graph. It has the best chance of predicting the future.)

Bitcoin is activism, not a get rich quick scheme or a startup platform. The point of bitcoin is to regulate bad laws and to democratize bad policies by way of circumventing harmful enforcement.

Any system, software or hardware, blockchain-based or otherwise, that contributes to these goals is worth paying attention to.

Equally, any software or hardware projects that fail in this manner are only of interest to me once they amend their fragility. In this regard, decentralized exchanges and ICOs are worthless in their current form, but DEX or ICO v2.0 or v3.0 may end up being decentralized and powerful tools for preventing oppression in all of its forms.

Go Gig (and Boring)

In 2012, my brother Josh and I printed up bitcoin postcards to give out at regional Students for Liberty events all over the East Coast. At the time, it was mostly the Libertarians embracing the infant technology and this was our activism.

For the International Students for Liberty Conference in early 2013, we decided to do something a bit wilder, we wanted to show these youngsters how bitcoin works. We built a little orange box that accepted cash notes and sent out bitcoin transactions. Not only was it a huge hit at the conference, it reached social media and we started getting interest from media and potential buyers.

This was our chance to take our passion for bitcoin to the next level. We founded Lamassu and started manufacturing bitcoin ATMs, a machine we like to now call “cryptomats.”

Fast forward almost six years and we’re still going strong, still advocating bitcoin and there’s a booming industry making machines that help people buy and sell bitcoin. From the get-go, our business has always been more about activism than pure short-term profit. The business decisions we make are a mix of what we need to do to succeed and how to stay in line with our techno-libertarian ideals of privacy and decentralization.

Our main goal has always been to introduce as many people to cryptocurrencies as possible. And so our software is free, open source and unlicensed. We don’t charge cryptomat operators any fees for machine usage, and they host their own servers. End-users who use the machines never have their coins stored for them by operators, but are required to actually use bitcoin to get it.

As a whole, the cryptomat industry is quite unlike others in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. There’s been very little drama of late.

We’ve seen healthy, steady growth. And the field is made of quality companies, such as our main competitors Genesis and General Bytes, that have endured radical bear and bull markets. All these are very important for the ecosystem, yet perhaps a bit mundane in terms of the news cycle. No ICOs, no mass hacks and the companies involved have at best millions worth of revenue, not billions.

But at the same time, I feel it’s the kind of boring the cryptoverse needs. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people around the world are using cryptomats every month to get small amounts of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies directly to their wallets. No banks, no third party custody, no waiting.

It’s still the easiest way for a first time user to get crypto, and the more cryptomats there are in the world, the more useful and reliable they become. Inch by inch, row by row.

BUIDLers on the Roof

The hardest part for bitcoin was getting to $0.10.

The exponential growth since has become the norm and would take something extraordinary to derail. As such, we have to think about what happens when a growing population of the world starts owning bitcoin. Will the next financial crisis be the one that pushes bitcoin to the mainstream? What if this actually does happen, but there’s still no good user interface to protect people from losing, misusing and failing to protect their funds? Will they end up trusting people to help them?

For me, this is still the biggest question in crypto. I don’t doubt the success of bitcoin and other key cryptocurrencies, but I’m concerned things will get messy when the central banks run out of tricks.

At Lamassu, we have been keeping our heads down, working to improve our corner of the still unsolved UI problem of crypto. We’ve been aggressively hiring coders and customer support staff and expanding our manufacturing facilities.

We have fierce competition, but it’s one of mutual respect. I know our competitors are doing it for the same reasons we are, a deep rooted ideology with bitcoin at its core, to free money and markets from powerful middlemen.

The whole point of bitcoin is for people to help themselves, but it’s our jobs as proponents to make that easy. The sooner people can actually use, store, and secure their own coins, the safer they’ll be when the bank runs hit. Lest we build skyscrapers of blockchains, with no elevators in which to ascend them.

Have a strong take on 2018? Email news [at] coindesk.com to submit an opinion to our 2018: Year in Review.

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Who is MotherBee

She is fondly called MotherBee by most members – and for good reason. She is like the mother hen of the brood, but in her case, she takes care of a huge hive. Her name is Analiza Laurel-Badilles. She is the founder of the Facebook group Newbee Baking & Cooking International and this is her story (in her own words).

Can you tell us a bit about your family and childhood? My lola was a simple vendor of anything in our province (cigars, salted fish, sugar, etc.). My mother and father both grew up in the same environment. When I was a child, my father sold tomatoes in a market in Cebu and my mother bought pigs to sell. Then we moved to Manila and my father became a church keeper and cleaner. I am very proud of him. He cleans the church premises and makes sure he greets the churchgoers in Greenhills, San Juan. He also looks after the priests. Everybody loves my father because he is so friendly.

At the age of 8, I started selling candies/lollipops in my school. I purchased them in a sari-sari store or small dairy store near our house. Both my parents were not aware that I use the meager “baon” they give me daily as my capital for my small ‘business.’ I would put the money I earned from selling in a paluwagan, with the teachers and school staff. I became part of the paluwagan because my class adviser learned that I was earning from my candies so I was asked to join.

When I gave the money from the paluwagan, my mother accused me of stealing it. She did not believe that a kid of 8 could save as much as 400 pesos way back in 1978. She had to go to the school to check my story – and of course, it was true. My parents let me continue selling my candies until I graduated from Grade 6, when I handed over to the two full coin banks in the shape of a school bag. Needless to say, they still did not believe.

You said you lived among priests and nuns? The priests in my school offered me a scholarship so that I could study in a Catholic private school. They asked us to live inside the compound of Mary the Queen Parish church so I could grow up in a better environment instead of living in a crowded semi-squatter space in San Juan. From age 9 to 25, I was used to playing and strolling inside the church grounds, seeing priests and nuns. I didn’t have any regular playmates, just my dolls, and books. That is the main reason why I had to do something else aside from talking to myself.

What were your early food ventures? I started making ice candy, pastillas, and other no-bake food items. At first, I did it just to kill time and divert the extra energy I have. Each summer, I made ice candy and sold them to my father's co-workers and some parish visitors.

At the age of 11, I baked my first chiffon cake. It was not baked in a nice oven. My mother had a Chinese friend who owned a hardware store. She offered us the very first turbo broiler, which was unbranded at that time. We used a fork to beat the egg whites (the traditional way) because we did not have a mixer. Having the turbo was one of my happiest moments at that time because I could finally do something that is not ice candy or pastillas.

All throughout my life as a student, I would always do something, a small business to earn extra money for my family. When I graduated from College and started working, I polished my ice candy recipes until they started to taste like ice cream, and people would buy in bulk and would resell them.

Yes, my first chiffon cake when I was 11 years old was perfect (at least, for me) but my first bread was hard as stone and I cried because nobody wanted to eat it. It just shows that nobody starts out being the best. I dreamed of being a pastry chef but I chose to be a food technologist, and I am proud of that.

How did you develop your skills? I started buying small tools and cheap books to keep me going in my passion. During my high school years, I excelled in Home Economics, especially in cooking and arts. Since I was also good in Chemistry, I decided I wanted to be a chemist. Unfortunately, I didn’t pass any of the schools that had Chemistry courses – because it was a quota course.

So when I applied in UST, I asked the registrar to recommend a course that has plenty of Chemistry subjects but is a non-quota course. Her recommendation: Food Technology. Well, I thought I’d use FT as a jump-off point so I could shift to Chemistry, but I ended up loving it. I finished my studies and was fortunate to get a job just before I graduated. I worked in many great food companies in the country. To name few of them (Philippines): Selecta Dairy Ice Cream, Max's Restaurants, Rustans Bakeshop, Red Ribbon.

Tell us about moving to New Zealand. The migration was a 10-year plan because I did not have the money and I knew I would not pass the mark they set for immigrants. So I studied how I could bring up my points, and targeted big companies to work in so I would have the right credentials. That’s how I passed the mark.

We left the Philippines on May 19, 2006 and I worked in more prestigious companies in NZ. I gained respect and additional skills here. I haven’t stopped my love for baking and cooking. I think I am way better now in both because of my experiences. Life here is simple and peaceful, but there are times I get homesick. So baking, cooking and the Internet have become my pastimes, too.

In New Zealand I worked here in Melba Foods Tauranga as production manager (a frozen cake and cakes manufacturer), Pandoro Panetteria Ltd as Food Safety Manager (Italian Bakeshop) and Venerdi Bakery as Food Technologist (Gluten Free and Dairy Free Bread & Pizza Bases Manufacturer), with all those experiences, I became better.

Why did you choose bees as your symbol? Newbee came from the word NEWBIE. I changed the spelling to connect it to bees, which work as one hive. Bees work hard and help each other. Members started calling me MotherBee because they say I am like a mother to newbies. What I do is just guide them and try to teach them. I think most of the members realized that helping and reaching out to each other is the culture of the group. The members strive to uphold this culture and help one another improve their lives.

Before I graduated, I told my closest friends that I dream to one day have my own foundation and help young people or mothers gain skills. I grew up seeing my parents help people, especially relatives, even when they don’t receive anything in return.

Perhaps that’s where my desire to help others stemmed from. As I child, I was blessed. I studied for free (Jesuit priests and parishioners shouldered my tuition), enjoyed a good childhood, and even earned in my own little way. It was always clear to me that God is alive in our life through other people’s help. And I pass this value forward to my members.

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hubbardhead · 7 years

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There was a time when I, like most people during that time, walked downtown to purchase just about anything that was needed for my daily life. In the small town where I grew up we not only had the A&P but also the First National grocery stores. We didn’t just have Woolworths, we also had Newberrys and W. T. Grant as well. There were three pharmacies, three hardware stores and two movie theaters, one of which even had a balcony. At Christmas time we would stop to stare at the model trains and bicycles in the window of Parke Snow’s, the department store at the corner of the street I lived on. You took your film to be developed at one of the two photo shops and anxiously waited for the surprises they may or may not contain. There were two shoe stores where the correct fitting for your snap jacks and your tuxedo for the upcoming prom took place. If we wanted to buy the current hit single we could listen to it first and maybe purchase it at Melody Ranch. Sugar candy at the Colonial Spa, Root beer floats at Lane’s Drug and ice cream at Brigham’s filled all of our needs quite nicely. We could shoot pool or swim at the YMCA that was only a few steps away from one of the finest libraries in the state. All of this and more grew and prospered within a small town of about 20,000 people. We truly had everything we could possibly want within a short walk from school or home.

What happened? My downtown now is filled with only those businesses that offer a service. Barbers, hair stylists, nail salons, carpet installers, convenient stores and vacant storefronts occupy the area where, years before, I loved to walk. The banks have left as well. I miss the large clock on the corner telling me every morning how early or late it was before school started. The water fountain bubbler I often stopped at has been gone for years. The general tenor of the sidewalks now is an emptiness that defines most of the downtown areas of similar towns. Gone are the locals that you met and greeted almost daily, a ritual that endeared you not only to the people but also fostered the pride of living in a growing and vibrant economy.

It is estimated that the CEO of Walmart earns more in one hour than the average Walmart employee earns in a year. Sam Walton’s daughter and son are estimated to be the ninth and tenth richest people in the world. The year after I graduated high school Sam Walton opened his first store in Rogers Arkansas. Today there are over 4,000 Walmart stores in the United States. Interested in how this phenomenon began, I read Sam Walton’s biography. In it he professed how the Walmart philosophy provided thousands of new jobs for its employees and also provided the goods we need at lower prices. Never mentioned in the book of course were the millions of employees who not only lost their jobs but for some, the fulfillment of a dream of owning their own business.

So what if Walmart never existed. I am not so naive to think that change was not about to happen in the early 1960’s. Shoppers World, one of the first shopping malls in America had already opened in 1951. But the shopping malls that began to open across the country were composed of small stores similar to a downtown area with one larger store called the footprint store. That store was usually Sears and Roebuck, already long established as the place to go when your need wasn’t met downtown. The greed associated with Walmart and many of the big box stores like Home Depot was not prevalent yet. The philosophy of selling at little or no profit on the same items that your competition sold until they would give up trying to compete was about to take place inspired by the success of Sam Walton. The CEO of Home Depot earned 11.5 million dollars in salary and compensation for 2016. I cannot even imagine how many hardware stores were forced to close because of the introduction of a Home Depot or a Lowe’s nearby. Not content with the dismantling of those businesses, the large big boxes are in the process now of selling appliances at or below their cost with the hope that they alone will be the last one standing when the uninformed consumer becomes more enamored with price than with value. Eventually when all the machinations of the greedy corporations have completed their incessant need to grow we will all be left with few choices. The largest item sold by volume last year at Walmart was bananas. A perfect example of the corporate need to grow, selling items heretofore not found within their structure, regardless of the effect this may have on longtime family business supporting the American dream.

So where are we now in this maddening competition for the American dollar? It gets even worse now because the world apparently is flat as suggested by Thomas Friedman.

Samsung and LG have been fined repeatedly for dumping products (selling them below cost to establish a niche) and have also been fined a number of times by infringing or stealing patents from other companies. Walmart has caused many American companies to dissolve because they were told if you cannot deliver the product at the price Walmart wants, Walmart would have that product made at their price in China. Worse than all of this is the fact that the retail brick and mortar stores are under attack now from online shopping. Literally anything can now be bought online. If you want to see the product before your purchase, go to a store, talk to a sales person, and get the information you need but then go home and order it a better price with free delivery thanks to Amazon. Jeff Bezos is now worth 80.6 billion dollars. How much of that worth do you think was siphoned off the traditional shopping venues we used to visit? And now with the understanding that all retail is jeopardized by this online phenomenon the rush is on to facilitate an online shopping platform by most stores lest you be left behind and forgotten because of the new consumer shopping habits.

I am more fortunate than most, being that much older that I was able to witness a simpler time. The need for instantaneous results was never present in my youth. The joy created by the anticipation of something as simple as the box of slides taken a week ago with your camera now arriving with the postman will never happen again. That long walk to and from school where thoughts were disseminated and anxieties were dismissed with the gentle breezes of the fresh air surrounding you is no longer a part of one’s impressionable youth.

I long to walk on the sidewalks of my youth. I want to sit at the stool in the Colonial Spa and enjoy my lime rickey. I am dawdling in the unreal but content to have the wonderful memories of that time in my life when I smiled every day. Until now I never really knew why.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 7 years

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING FILTERS

But Dropbox was a much better deal for them to change. A song on an iPod's disk is merely stored on it. But I think in the coming years. Any of you who were nerds in high school. Start by picking a hard problem.1 I've been surprised again and again by just how much more important persistence is than raw intelligence. There may be a similar problem with the way we got nearly all our new users. Thirty years later Facebook had the same shape, scaled up.2 It's a lot like college. One founder I know wrote: Two-firm deals are great. And they are right. That depends.

If you go to VC firms for the next round. Sometimes it was even technically interesting. The phrase seed investment covers a broad range. So everyone is nervous about closing deals with you, and b it's worth spending a lot to sell toilet seats for a thousand dollars.3 Investors and analysts would ask us what we had planned for the future. This was done entirely for PR purposes. And since the latter is huge the former should be too.4 So don't look for a replacement for x.5 If you do that, people who want it, but there won't be many of them. The disadvantage is that it can be a damned heavy monkey on your back. Because VCs invest large amounts, the money comes with more restrictions. Browsers then IE 6 was still 3 years in the future.

You get to work full-time on them, and why startups do things that ordinary companies don't, like raising money and getting acquired. One of the VC firms says they want to believe you're a hot prospect, because it never stops. The main reason they want to own, and the advertisers will follow. IBM coding forms. Was it something about the geography of Europe?6 Above all, they were exceptional.7 I've long since gotten used to it. Viaweb. You can do whatever you want with money from consulting or friends and family. The cost of customer acquisition. But because seed firms operate in an earlier phase, they need to do is turn off the filters that usually prevent you from taking one apart to see how it worked. It does not seem to exist.8

As far as I can tell it isn't. Needless to say, not at all what you might expect, considering the prizes at stake.9 One is that the scariness of starting a company that will do something cool, the aim had better be good, because it's getting so cheap to start a startup today, there are two things I want to know how to improve them. The fact that the deal terms tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. The company issues $200,000.10 Then you can gradually transform yourself from a consulting company into a product company, and it would be stupid to try the experiment and find out. Surely many of these people would like a site where they could talk to other pet owners.11 Most successful startups get money from more than one discovered when Christmas shopping season came around and loads rose on their server. And have to shut down.

The stories about sleeping under desks usually end: then at last we shipped it and we all went home and slept for a week should give anyone ideas for two or three new startups. The iPhone and the iPad have effectively drilled a hole that will allow ephemeralization to flow into a lot of ways to get rich, how would you do it?12 Much of what VCs add, acquirers don't want anyway.13 You don't have to try very hard to recommend an acquisition; it's just what their business has evolved into. In software, a problem that founders keep control stops being perceived as a concession, it will probably fail quickly enough that you can do more for users. A button that looks like it will make a machine stop should make it stop, not speed up. If you're not working, your competitors will get the leftovers, as they say, can talk Wall Street's language when they did finally take a CEO, they chose a guy with a PhD in computer science, which presumably makes them engineers. But if you're living in the future.

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