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magniloquent-raven · 10 months

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I am once again plagued with thoughts that aren't 100% coherent so imma just ramble for a bit, pls gather 'round for some stuff about Billy and body image issues cuz I'm in my feels rn.

Billy spends a lot of time staring at Nancy.

Enough that Tommy's noticed and he starts ribbing him about it. "That's one thing of Steve's you might want to stay away from," bitter and pointed. Enough that Jonathan Byers gives him the stink eye whenever he's within glaring distance. Enough that a handful of the more desperate chicks still high off the fumes of his New Kid smell have started dressing like fucking librarians in hopes of catching his eye.

He doesn't give a shit about any of it, if anything the rumour mill is helping him out for once. Less work involved in keeping up appearances if everyone just assumes he isn't sleeping around because he's too busy sniffing Wheeler's granny panties.

As long as no one guesses the real reason, it's fine. It's fucking peachy. It's one silver lining in this shitstorm of a situation.

He's so tired of his eyes inevitably being drawn to her barely-there tits and tiny waist. Every time he's bored at lunch, his gaze wanders. When he's in the library pretending to study, there she fucking is, even smaller when she's hunched over a pile of cue cards.

The longer he looks at her the more sure he is that Steve will never really want him.

Steve's slept with plenty of girls. A variety of girls. He probably couldn't afford to be too picky in this shitty little town. But he's only fallen in love once. One time. The only time it mattered what he was sticking his dick in was when it was in Nancy Wheeler.

And Billy...will never be her. Not even close.

He'll only ever be a warm mouth and a convenient hand, he'll never matter.

She's flat, and thin. Willowy, narrow-shouldered. Petite. Inches shorter than him and nearly half as broad. Thin fingers and delicate wrists. She fit comfortably under Steve's arm, she could nestle safely into his side.

And it was all so fucking easy for her. She never had to try.

She never had to piss off her dad so she'd be forced to skip meals. She never did laps around her neighbourhood until she was lightheaded and doubled over, dry-heaving in someone's hedge. She was never forced to sign up for baseball as a child, poked and prodded and guilted into it because a couple shirts were starting to get tight across the stomach, and being a momma's boy was bad enough, being a fat, lazy piece of shit too was unacceptable.

He used to think he'd done well, maintaining the physique he has. He's worked hard for it. Scraping together his savings for a weight set and keeping careful track of his calorie intake and never skipping a single fucking day of exercise, hangovers and broken bones be damned. And it's fucking useful, truth be told. More than keeping away the echo of old insults bouncing around in his head, it's made flirting that much easier.

But the more he looks at Nancy Wheeler, the more he hates the things he can't change. It gets into his head. Digs in deep, leaving scars on its way down.

He thinks Steve might've noticed.

He knows Steve has heard the stupid rumours about Wheeler, and probably chalked it up to Billy being an asshole, as usual. But it's harder to explain away his sudden tendency to go extremely still whenever Steve puts his hands anywhere on his torso. A palm pressed to his chest, slipped under his shirt, or fingertips digging into his back, or a casual fucking pat on the shoulder—whatever it is, he can't help freezing up, if only for a second, a sick feeling twisting his stomach, cold and shameful and clawing at his lungs.

And then, eventually, they argue.

It's over nothing. And everything. Billy can't explain what his fucking damage is, and Steve can't stop needling in the wrong places. They scream at each other until their throats are raw and Billy leaves when his knuckles start to itch.

He cries all the way home and doesn't eat for four days. Not on purpose. Not consciously. He's just. Fucking. Busy. He's busy. He's always gotta drive Max somewhere or dodge Neil's thinly veiled threats or lock himself in his room when bile starts to bubble up in the back of his throat and his head pounds and he doesn't think about why he's snapping at everyone constantly, he just pounds back a couple beers and goes to sleep. And then it's four days later, and he's flying off the handle at Neil, too sluggish and lightheaded to see the hit coming, and...

Steve comes to see him at the hospital. He hasn't told anyone anything but they've got him hooked up to a banana bag and the nurses keep making sad eyes at him when they come to check his stitches.

He hates it, sitting around doing nothing, being closely monitored every fucking second, it make his skin crawl, and he hates it even more when Steve's standing in the doorway looking at him.

Not for the first time, he's overwhelmed wondering what exactly Steve sees.

He's a fucking mess right now. Greasy hair tangled at the back, bruises peeking out from under the collar of his gross papery hospital gown, one eye swollen shut and a dark tangle of thread holding his eyebrow together. It feels stupid to get stressed about all the shit that usually bothers him when there's so many other things to worry about, but he still finds himself shifting in place, hunching his shoulders, hiding his hands in the crooks of his elbows.

It's sort of a disaster. Worse than last time they saw each other. Billy's not in the mood for Steve's apologies and Steve's at a loss for what else to say.

They don't see each other again for months. Steve graduates. Billy avoids anywhere he thinks Steve might be, and lies awake at night haunted by stolen touches.

He catches a glimpse of Steve through the red haze of storm clouds and cold lightning, tears blurring his vision, the Mind Flayer wearing him like a suit. Their cars collide, and everything whites out for a second.

He's in the hospital again when they finally talk. Billy rolls his eyes at "We've gotta stop meeting like this," and tries not to think about last time he was here. Steve seems more than willing to ignore it. Move forward. Guess demonic possession puts some things into a different perspective.

When Billy's released from the hospital he's seventeen pounds heavier than he was a few months ago. Every time the nurses did their check-ups and put him on the scale they'd pat his elbow, smiling encouragingly, telling him how good he was doing while he watched his stomach get softer, his biceps get less defined, watched himself disappear beneath a layer of fat.

The first thing he does when he gets home is throw up.

He doesn't make it happen. It just happens. And he blames it on the meds they have him on. It's a plausible enough reason, and it means he doesn't have to interrogate the tiny spark of satisfaction he got from losing his lunch.

His second day back home Neil asks him when he's going to start exercising again. His expression is pinched. Cold. His eyes are ice chips freezing Billy's skin wherever they touch, lingering on the softness under his chin, and where the hem of his sleeve pinches his skin.

He pushes his dinner away and grits out an answer from between clenched teeth.

He doesn't need the reminder that he's gotten weak while he was trapped in a hospital bed, but Neil gives it to him anyways. Tells him all about everything he should do to get things back to normal. Push past the pain. Work harder. He tunes it out after a while, and watches grease congeal on his meatloaf.

Eddie Munson is the first person to bring up the things Billy's never known how to talk about.

They started hanging out after Billy's most recent brush with death. Billy's not sure exactly how the got here, from buying the occasional painkiller and letting the guy wax poetic about his dumb band, to spending weekends getting high together at the trailer park. But as weird things in his life go, it's barely worth questioning.

This particular conversation starts with Chrissy Cunningham.

Specifically, Eddie's massive boner for her.

Billy's been noticing it for a while. He hasn't been letting it bother him.

He hasn't.

Maybe he likes the way Eddie smiles at him when they pass a joint back and forth, lazily stretched out and wearing three less layers than usual, and maybe he thinks about closing the distance between them when Eddie offers to shotgun, but it doesn't fucking matter. Just like it doesn't matter that Steve hasn't touched him since before the Mind Flayer and things are fucking weird now that they're on speaking terms again. None of it matters, he's just a fucking idiot.

Because Steve and his new best friend Robin are attached at the hip lately and everyone can see where that's going, and Eddie won't stop talking about tiny, pretty, perfect fucking Chrissy and her stupid ponytail.

And Billy...Billy gets winded walking up the porch steps at his house now. And he pulled a muscle in his back trying to lift half the weight he used to press. And last week he burned three pairs of jeans in the backyard because he kept grabbing them out of his laundry pile, not realizing they don't fit anymore until he was struggling to pull them up past his knees.

He's lost the one thing people used to actually like about him. Never the people he wanted, he was never enough for that, but it was something. Now he's just...

Now he's just listening to a guy he likes talk about some goddamn cheerleader like she personally hung the moon just for him.

And he's drunk. They're both drunk. Eddie in a soppy, embarrassing way, with a sparkle in his eye and a flush on his cheeks, an arm across the back of the couch, outstretched far enough that the tips of his fingers almost brush Billy's shoulder.

He wants to move closer. Thinks about shuffling into Eddie's space, curling into the warmth at his side. But it twists in his guts, sours, sickens—he couldn't, he can't. And he hates himself for wanting to.

"What do you see in her?" spills out of his mouth, bitter on his tongue and sharpened by anger he has no right to feel.

She's pretty. He expects it. She's pretty, she's perfect. She's a fucking angel even though her and Eddie only know each other because she buys drugs off of him. But she can do no wrong because she looks like a little china doll with sad eyes and everyone would be devastated if a single hair on her tiny delicate head was harmed.

Eddie only looks thrown off for a second. A moment. But he shrugs it off, leans his head back against the couch cushions and grins at the ceiling. "She likes my music."

Since fucking when.

"So, what, it's just an ego stroking thing then."

"Nah, man. I mean. Like. She's got this whole good-girl thing going on, but you should see her when I pull out my guitar, it's fuckin'...magic. When she lets herself just. Live." He wiggles his fingers in the air, arms spread, then drops them back down.

Billy's heart clenches, squeezes. It hurts and he doesn't know why. "Bullshit."

"Nah, nah. Seriously. The guy she's dating is a fucking asshole. And her mom..." he trails off, and rubs his eye. "She's just got all this pressure to be perfect, act a certain way, look a certain way, be a certain way, and I hate seeing what it does to her, man. I hate it. No one should have to deal with all that. So. I dunno. I like helping her cut loose. Sorta, find herself, I guess." He cracks a crooked smile, casting a glance in Billy's direction.

And his smile drops.

"Billy?" He sits up, cautious, eyebrows up and his eyes wide.

Billy turns away, shocked into motion, wiping at his face with his sleeve. "I'm fine. Fuck off."

He didn't notice he was crying until Eddie looked at him like he'd seen a ghost.

"Yeah, obviously."

"Fuck you."

Eddie doesn't get much more out of him that night. But he starts watching Billy like a hawk after that. Checking in on him at random. Calling if they haven't seen each other in a few days. It should be irritating as fuck, and he acts like it is, but he still basks in the attention.

Doesn't hurt that it seems to annoy Steve to no end.

Especially doesn't hurt when, in a fit of apparent jealousy, Steve shoves Billy into a wall and kisses him like his life depends on it.

The hurt comes when Steve starts to unbutton Billy's shirt and Billy reflexively shoves him away, when he wants to keep going but wants it to stop and can't tell Steve either of those things because he doesn't have the words.

So he gets angry. At Steve, for pushing it, crossing lines he can't even see. But mostly at himself, because it might be easier than standing there heartbroken but he knows it's the worst thing he could do.

And at Steve, again, when the he doesn't respond the way he should. Doesn't punish Billy for doing the wrong thing, reacting wrong, being wrong. He doesn't withdraw and save himself, he tries to understand, tries to talk it out, like this is something Billy can just say out loud and it'll all be fixed.

He doesn't explain. Not that day. But he lets Steve hold him while he cries, ugly gasping sobs into the front of Steve's shirt, curled up in his lap, collapsed on the floor and tangled together. Because despite everything he's told himself, he does fit comfortably in Steve's arms.

💜tag list ppl💜 @spreckle @growup-thatbeautiful @prettyboy-like-you @suddenlyinlove

#stranger things #billy hargrove #harringrove #mungrove #a raven's writing desk #tw disordered eating #tw body issues #body image issues

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gnar-slabdash · 3 years

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The Zoo Job: Book Report

As promised, now that I’ve finished reading the Leverage novel The Zoo Job, here’s a quick review:

Writing: B+ Look, I try really hard not to be a snob but I still am anyway. So I haven’t read a media tie-in novel since like fifth grade (when I read every kid’s book about The Phantom Menace that I could get my hands on). And so I was not expecting much out of this writing and I was very pleasantly surprised! It was really entertaining, it read smoothly for the most part, and even though the plot was less than compelling (see below) it was still easy to keep wanting to read more. I had two issues with the writing, though: 1) there were a lot of really awkwardly worded sentences that I feel like should have been caught and fixed in editing, and 2) I’m not sure how I feel about the way the fight scenes were written. They were very clearly described, which I liked, but the tone was very dry compared to the rest of the writing and so they felt like they dragged on a lot.

Characters: A- I’m realllllly picky when reading Leverage fic about whether the characters’ voices are written well, and this author got it. Spot on. Including both their regular voices and their alias voices, and being able to distinguish clearly between those (I especially loved the way he wrote Sophie’s Cockney). The MINUS is not even for anything to do with the crew, the minus is for Zoe Kerrigan (the kid from The Beantown Bailout Job, who appears in the beginning of the book). She’s supposed to be fourteen-ish, and from the way she’s written I would have guessed she was ten or younger. If she had been a main character I wouldn’t have been able to stand reading it, but fortunately she’s only in a chapter or two.

Story: D 1. Okay so here’s the case: A family-owned zoo is going under. We’re supposed to be impressed because this family goes all the way back to the Mayflower and because the current manager is supposedly doing such a good job to revitalize the zoo after her dad let it decay to the point that animals were dying and it was almost too broke to operate. We do find out that the dead animal thing was actually due to sabotage by the Mark so that’s not actually their fault, but we don’t know this in the beginning. SO the current manager’s big plan to revitalize the zoo was........... to buy two BLACK MARKET BLACK RHINOS FROM A PRIEST IN AFRICA WHO GOT THEM AS A “NO QUESTIONS ASKED” GIFT. And her PROBLEM is that the rhinos WENT MISSING. And this is our CLIENT. The woman running a shitty, probably non-accredited, zoo who’s trying to save it by buying endangered species illegally. Oh and she can’t file an insurance claim or go to the police BECAUSE THIS WAS SUPER WRONG AND SHE KNOWS IT. This is a BAD ZOO. We should not be trying to SAVE this zoo. 2. So Eliot and Sophie go to a made-up country in Africa to track down the priest and figure out what happened to the rhinos, while the rest of the crew investigates other angles back home. Eliot and Sophie spend nearly the ENTIRE book on their own in this made-up African country. And look, I LOVE Eliot/Sophie interactions but...... they...... didn’t really HAVE very much interaction even though they were traveling and scheming together the whole time. And of course they couldn’t have a whole lot of interaction with the rest of the crew because they were very very far away. Basically the Eliot and Sophie in Africa parts were way too long and got kind of boring. And I’m really disappointed that there wasn’t more time for Eliot to use the great chef character he pulled out at the very end of the story, because that would have been way more interesting and could have made for a better actual CON story, as opposed to what was mostly a surveillance and investigation story.

Overall: B Despite the fact that my complaints about the story are extremely long, never once did I consider not finishing the book.The writing and characters were so much fun that they made up for the fact that I didn’t buy into the plot at all. I DID occasionally look ahead to see how many pages I had to slog through before I could finish an Africa chapter and get back to a U.S. chapter. A lot of the best stuff came right at the end, like Eliot’s chef character and oh yeah the part where PARKER STEALS A MONKEY AND NAMES IT ALEC AND TEACHES IT TO STEAL FOR HER. Great stuff. Wish there had been more of it, but still great.

#the zoo job #leverage

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completeotometrash · 4 years

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Matchup

@Nad-zeta

Hi hi love! Im so excited your doing matchups 😆😆😆❤ so i hope this is not ganna be TMI but here we go😆🔥

❤can i pretty please request an ikesen matchup🥰 i am a aries, infp, Hufflepuff female 🦊 i am shy and difficult to get to know (apparently it took me 2 months to start opening up to my friends, ooops), i tend to bottle up my emotions, my friends would likely describe me as incredibly stubborn, gentle, kind, over dramatic, goofy and fun loving. I am pretty aloof and blunt, i like i will 9/10 times tell you to your face how if feel about you if you ask 🙈once u are part of my inner circle i am playful, teasing, i am an extremely sarcastic person that makes snarky remarks under my breath and my kind of humor is a bit of dark and self deprecating.😂 I love my friends and family and will fight anyone how threatens them, although when it comes to me you can do or say anything to me and i wont do anything (I honestly cant stand up for myself). I swear like a sailor although i am trying to get that under control, however the road rage is real.

i love nature and animals (i love my lil bunnies and dogs), i love working out/going to the gym #gym is life 😂

i enjoy cooking (i am now officially a chef), wine tasting (fancy way of saying getting very tipsy of different wines most nights), spending time with friends (especially if there is tea to be spilt) although i do need lots of alone time to recharge my social battery, i like conspiracies, workingout/gym, reading, writing (Fanfics and im busy with my Masters in nutrition >“<), romcoms, and sleeping. As much as i love spending time outdoor i also enjoy lazing around the house being a lazy potato. I definitely zone out and daydream all the freaken time

I tend to blush easily which i hate 🙈 My face will give away what i am thinking. i enjoy my own alone time and i definitely dont like crowds and loud sounds (ie you will never find me in a club). I am a picky eater despite my degree in cooking (i basically only eat candy, carbs and protein), i love cuddles although i look like someone that wouldn’t. Ive been told i come across as calm and confident, while in truth on the inside i am really scared and insecure. I am incredibly awkward when it comes to boys and have been told my sarcastic comments are x100 when i talk to them (oops).

I am very go with the flow, and i never burn my bridges 🙈 i am very forgive and forget🦊, like no matter how badly you hurt me.

🙈 Thanx so much dear ❤ Sorry if this is TMI🔥Cant wait to see who i get matched with 🌈🎀

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Thanks for the request, Darling! I love how descriptive you were. Thank you so much <3. I couldn’t but chuckle about how much we have in common :). I hope you enjoy!

When I read everything you said about yourself, there were so many options to match you with. But, the one I believe stood out the most to me as the most compatible, is Mitsuhide Akecki.

I strongly believe this is your perfect match. For starters, one of the key things that stood out to me with your personality was how you express your emotions. It’s definitely no secret that Mitsuhide enjoys getting any strong reaction to his constant teasing. He lives for it. (Prepare yourself for randomly getting messed with at any time). it’s just how he shows his affection for you. He finds amusement how incredibly blunt you are, being quite contrary to his own secretive ways. (At times you don’t sick up for yourself, he would become your backbone and step in.)

Much like you, he also has an amazing sense of humor. Sharing sarcastic remarks, or even competing to see who can come up with the best ones would be very common. (Your darker jokes amaze him.) Potty mouth? Hilarious. Drives Hideyoshi crazy so he encourages it. It’s really nothing new to him considering the people he interrogates, and of course, Masamune.

Your kindness makes him feel much lighter. But guilty at the same time, believing he’s tainted you. (He too, secretly gets insecure, so on both side assurance is needed). With you being so selfless, this also makes him feel the need to protect you at all costs, and to be sure your still taking care of yourself, He tries his best to keep you happy, LOVES making you laugh. It’s like music to his ears.

You being creative and intelligent is a huge plus for him! If you would let him, he’d teach you a lot about ancient Japan’s history. He greatly enjoys it, and in this time he would talk to you about and listen to your conspiracy theories. (Has a few of his own he would suggest.) Two incredibly brilliant minds, and not to mention, a genius power couple.

As he doesn’t acquire a sense of taste, he would still support you and your culinary career. Eating any dish you place in front of him. Would most likely ask slyly Masamune for advice in that field.

He thinks of working out very beneficial, so letting you train with him if you desire or even sitting back and watching you brings him satisfaction. Will give tips to improve your skills. A nice run outside is always refreshing.

The only con I can see is maybe he would go too far with his teasing on occasion, and release some built up rage. But he knows to give you some space and to stay calm. (He will always apologize and diel it down for a while after that.)

Other good possible Matches: Masamune, Shingen, Nobunaga, and Mitsunari.

#matchups #ikemen mitsuhide #ikesen mitsuhide #ikemen sengoku #mitsuhide akechi #submission

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lostgirlrewatch · 4 years

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1x07 - ArachnoFaebia

Written by: Emily Andras

Directed by: John Fawcett

Original Air Date: October 31, 2010

In which I claim to have nothing to say about this episode but spend a long time ranting about Lauren and Dyson’s pettiness and other things anyway.

Bo and Kenzi begin to have their first little squabbles as roommates. Then a supernatural giant spider gets unleashed in their house, bites them, and turns them into paranoid homicidal maniacs. The house is quarantined so they can’t get out, and their only choices are kill the spider and free themselves from its spell or die in a fire, if they don’t kill each other first.

“It sounds like whispering kids or giggling elves. Did you bring elves home last night? I’m not judging, I just want to know.”

ArachnoFaebia. Don’t have much to say about this one.

I feel like I should, though. I mean, Emily Andras wrote it, and I usually like her episodes. (Except when I REALLY don’t, but we won’t get to the episode I’m thinking of until Season 3.) Plus, it’s about Bo and Kenzi, which is what I am here for. Eh. It’s a perfectly fine and entertaining episode.

Fuck Pete, Kenzi! Fuck Pete!

Ah, not cool on the cock block, Bo.

“I wish I had man slaves who did whatever I want.” Me too, Kenzi.

Bo and Kenzi have their first “fight,” which is really more of a catty little banter than anything.

Oh, wait. I definitely missed this line the first couple of times I watched this show a million years ago. The setup: Bo compares the two of them to “real life sisters,” which is cute. A few lines later, she says, “Hey, I’m picky, not psychotic.” Kenzi replies under her breath, “Family is always psychotic.” She kind of mumbles it so it’s hard to hear, but I love this. It’s touching, obviously, that she admits to herself out loud that she considers Bo her family. And, of course, it’s another dig at the biological family we have yet to meet or learn about.

This scene at the beginning with Ksenia Solo playing Kenzi playing an exorcist is great.

I really love the Bo, Kenzi, Dyson, and Hale dynamic. They have good chemistry. It’s a fun foursome. Not just as two pairs of best friends plus two pairs of love interests, but as all four of them together. They seem like they’d have a good time hanging out. Bo and Kenzi are like the quintessential lady BFFs, with Dyson and Hale as a dude BFF counterpart.

Bo, oblivious as hell, tries to sit down with Lauren and Dyson and have a genuine friendly heart-to-heart. Being as Lauren and Dyson fucking hate each other, this works out very poorly. Dyson and Lauren spit some nasty words back and forth at each other, all of this stemming from little to no provocation. It’s just the sight of the other sitting next to Bo that raises their hackles, and it takes nothing to have them at each other’s throats. Considering that from where I’m sitting, which is not particularly invested in either pairing, they haven’t known Bo that relatively long, their jealousy seems a bit extreme.

Surprisingly, Lauren doesn’t really take the first shot at Dyson, other than a passive aggressive comment about him not returning her calls, which is no doubt deserved. Dyson, prickled at the reminder and at her presence, resorts to racism. For the cheapest possible digs, of course. How flattering of you, Dyson.

Love when we get to see and hear more Hale. Like this scene where he calls out Kenzi for being jealous of Bo’s ability to seduce anyone. When he’s not fronting as a hyper-horny dudebro, Hale tends to be one of the more coy and observant characters, and I’ve always found him to be both fun to watch and criminally underutilized. But boy, will we get to that later.

In the scene where Bo goes to get a check-up with Lauren at the Light Fae hospital, Bo admits that she was insensitive when she briefly tried to get Lauren and Dyson to hang out at the Dal. I am a bit impressed and proud of her that she is at least aware of it and owning up to it.

Kenzi and Lauren make-out hallucination weird as fuck, no other comment.

Dyson looks nice in this suit. That’s all I wanted to say.

I’m not gonna lie, if Lauren wasn’t a lesbian, I’d be tempted to ship Wolfpants, y’all.

While not as quite as unflattering as Dyson taking cheap shots at her humanity and literal slavery, this bit where Lauren sends him a little nasty, “And we’re close. She knows she can talk to me,” is also kind of unflattering. She looks him dead in the eyes and wants him to know that she and Bo have a deeper bond than Bo has with him (supposedly). Pretty nasty. I guess he deserves it, though, after his douchebaggery at the bar. Dyson fires back with a pretty sick burn by reminding Lauren that he and Bo are, in fact, still fucking. Dyson and Lauren just constantly engage in petty dick-waving in every scene they are in together. Strap in, because this won’t change any time soon.

So why do the “infected” have to be exterminated along with the spider? Is it contagious? I thought people are only infected if they’re bitten? Just get them out of there and burn the place down with the spider in it. Pretty cold of Lauren and Trick to just be like, “Oh well, fuck Bo and Kenzi and Hale, then,” and be prepared to sacrifice them if they can’t figure out how to kill the thing in the next hour or whatever.

What Bo does to Hale when he’s tied up is gross. And, uh, what’s the word. Problematic.

Talking about this in depth is going to open up a whole can of worms, and it probably deserves its own post, but it’s worth briefly acknowledging here what we already consciously or subconsciously know. Which is that a lot of the time, when Bo feeds on or uses her succubus powers on someone, either without them knowing or against their will, it scans as a dubiously consensual sexual encounter at best. In situations like the one with Hale, it reads as straight up non-con, or worse.

But being as that’s the nature of what a succubus is, that’s a given. What matters is how the narrative treats it. Is it treated well in this episode? Not really. Bo was supernaturally brainwashed at the time so it’s not like it was really her doing it, but it kinda bothers me that she defends her feeding on him as, “I did what I had to do,” and at the end of the episode, Hale begs Kenzi not to tell Dyson that “[he] kissed Bo,” as if he had any agency in the matter. I never really thought about this when I first watched the show in high school, so it didn’t bother me. Watching it now, it makes me uncomfortable.

The main character is a succubus, and at the end of the day this show is all good edgy campy sexy supernatural fun, and it's not that deep. Really, it's not. But her being a succubus can sometimes make for a tricky sea to navigate. One of Michelle Lovretta’s main goals was sex positivity, and I think the show succeeds at that in regards to its consensual adult sexual relationships. As to how much or whether dubious consent scenarios muddy up that message, not really sure how I feel yet.

“You’d pick me over Bo, right, Hale? You’re on my side?” Hmmm. I sense shades of a burgeoning intimacy here.

KC Collins playing Hale as a psychopath is pretty scary.

This one-off character is cool and seems interesting. It’s a shame we don’t see more of her.

Bo’s one brain cell not understanding science is really cute.

Dyson tells Lauren that he doesn’t trust her motives. She’s “inconsistent.” And it’s true. She is. He admits to not understanding why Lauren would callously call a strike on Bo but then turn around and kill a man to save her. And to be honest, at this point, I don’t either. Something about Lauren is shifty and Dyson is right to pick up on it. Lauren’s response, “…this time I was Bo’s hero,” is unnecessary and kinda toxic but whatever.

Next up, we have episode 1x08, which was the original pilot. They wrote it, shot it, and showed it to the network in order to pitch the show. Obviously, it sold. Which makes the episode’s distinctively darker tone as compared to the rest of the season quite interesting.

#lost girl #bo dennis #kenzi malikov #lauren lewis #bo and kenzi #lost girl rewatch #doccubus #kale #i'm just gonna start tagging kenzi and hale as kale #dybo #1x07

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comicteaparty · 5 years

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September 21st-September 27th, 2019 Creator Babble Archive

The archive for the Creator Babble chat that occurred from September 21st, 2019 to September 27th, 2019. The chat focused on the following question:

How would you describe the target audience for your comic? Did you intend to aim at that audience, or did it just happen?

Deo101 (Millennium)

My target audience for millennium http://millennium.spiderforest.com/ was and is LGBT youth. Specifically teens. I know when I was a kid reading a story where gay people are just kind of... There? No jokes, no stereotypes, more than one... That would have helped me a lot. So I'm trying to make that for other kids! I think the story has reached a much wider/older audience then I intended, but I know it has helped at least some LGBT youth/young adults and that's all I could ever ask for.(edited)

spacerocketbunny

The target audience for Ghost Junk Sickness is definitely queer youth and young adults! Much like what @Deo101 (Millennium) is saying, basically we wanted something like the cool action scifi comics we read when we were younger with good queer rep that's integrated and normalized in the universe! As it turned out though, the audience we reached has been all over the place ranging from older women to big biker dudes?? Every time we go to cons we can never guess who'll purchase a book because the range is so varied! I'm sure we still reach the original target to an extent but the rest is all over the map it seems! I don't think it's a bad thing, it's just been pretty unexpected

Deo101 (Millennium)

Not bad at all ^^ more like a pleasant surprise!

spacerocketbunny

Exactly!

Deo101 (Millennium)

I think those other, older people are also looking for a story to reach their inner child... And I think that's great

mariah (rainy day dreams)

Lol, I feel the similarly way about my own story. My goal was definitely to make something me as a kiddo would have loved, which essentially would have been shonen stories but with a female majority cast. I think I already figured my target audience would be similar to me, but I've been consistently surprised by how many male identifying folks like it. I guess I do like that they can hang though X) Anyway, these are my floppy, post work out thoughts. Hopefully they make sense.

LadyLazuli (Phantomarine)

The target audience for Phantomarine (http://www.phantomarine.com/) was never super clear from the beginning - I just wanted to make something I'd like as a teen. Luckily (or unluckily! in terms of describing it to people ) the story is a mishmash of a bunch of different genres. It's not quite a ghost story, not quite a pirate adventure, not quite a fantasy epic, but it has elements of them all. And it does seem to have attracted people who like those different genres. It may not be easy if I ever want to publish it properly (it's a little difficult to describe my 'brand' ) but as it is, it's got everything I would have liked when I was between 14 and 18.

My happiest surprise is hearing about the younger kids who have read it, understood it, and really enjoyed it. Knowing that 10-12 year olds can appreciate my work is really awesome. I try to keep the language and scary/questionable content at Harry Potter levels, but I like having some of the depth/maturity of stories like The Golden Compass. If they like Phantomarine now, I really hope they find extra enjoyment with it as they grow up. It's going to be a ride!

mariah (rainy day dreams)

Gosh, I get that feel of being multi-genre and not knowing quite how to describe your Brand X') I feel like I've gotten better at defining it over time but it's still a struggle to briefly describe what my thing even is some days. Also Golden Compass I'm always excited to find other comic folks who were also influenced by that series.

LadyLazuli (Phantomarine)

It's my gold standard for the right blend of fantasy, reality, and maturity. It's just the best

keii4ii

The target audience for Heart of Keol (https://heartofkeol.com/) is extremely tiny, but it does have appeal for people outside of that niche. I make it for myself, and the relevant aspects of "myself" here are: a) Grew up in Korea, is living (or has lived for an extended period of time) in a predominantly English-speaking part of the world b) Bonus points if they spent some time living in rural Korea c) Is into slow burn drama about characters who could be described as being "genuine" and probably "lawful" as well d) Likes the aesthetics of fantasy settings, but is more into the mundane, almost slice of life, side of drama e) Is very much into reading between the lines for more emotional stuff. Reads a lot of heart from sceneries, possibly more than from faces. (I have face blindness and this affects how I experience comics both as a reader and as a creator)

Obviously people who meet both a) and b) are gonna be harder to find! But if one can meet c), d) and e), that's enough to enjoy the comic the way it's meant to be enjoyed, or so I hope.

The reason a) and b) matter is because it affects how the setting/aesthetics come across. To someone like me, the old Korea setting feels homey, warm, nostalgic. It's like a shorthand for "sit down and enjoy this heartfelt slow burn tale." But to others, Magical Asia might feel exciting and exotic, which isn't really what the story is meant to be, so there may be some dissonance.

seetherabbit

I haven't given much thought about the target audience for Vulperra. (https://vulperra.com/) other than then it's probably for people who like adventure, fantasy and cartoony-ish animals

Cronaj

My target audience is kind of all of the place. Initially when I began scripting my comic, Whispers of the Past, I was really into anime and manga, especially ones like Attack on Titan that were a gritty fantasy. However, since then, my style and story have changed tremendously. My target audience now tends to be young women, aged 15-25, who enjoy detailed world building in high fantasy and are definitely into family drama in story telling. Initially, I wrote the story to fit certain perameters that I myself enjoyed. For example, I am particularly obsessed with the idea of the mundane meeting the fantastical and amazing. The quiet lull of ordinary life juxtaposed by the rigor of magical entities. I specifically focus a lot on drawing beautiful artwork for the panels, because I myself am a picky-pants when it comes to selecting comics I want to read. Another one of my obsessions is a fantasy setting so detailed that you feel like if the story ended, the world would still live on. (One of my inspirations was the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, in which the author essentially wrote several languages, similar to Tolkien.) In reality, my readers tend to be women aged 30+ (probably who watch k-dramas like I do), and a lot of D&D players. It's fun really, discovering how much of my own hobbies bleed into my stories.

AntiBunny

Early on with AntiBunny http://antibunny.net/ I was hoping for fans of scifi and film noir. What I got were fans of classic cartoons and furries. Which is fine by me really. Furries are nice people who are passionate about their hobbies (and spend money).

Jonny Aleksey

A superhero audience was always the intention for J-Man (http://jonnyalekseydrawscomics.com/the-undefeatable-j-man/), but specifically, right now, I'm aiming for something all ages. Slightly teen drama, cartoony but grounded. My inspirations were Spectacular Spider-Man and the DCAU so anyone who likes that is the readership I expect. Hopefully I can reach people who are on the fence about superheroes. The all ages aspect is something newish relatively speaking. When I started my webcomic I wanted to stay away from the "deep real edgy" tone I made when I was in high school (shiver). It took me a bit to really get that tone down. I don't use curse words and only mild blood, but occasionally stuff that borders on teen+ go through. (there's one instance in #5 where J-Man's face gets burnt by the villain that might've been a bit much) I don't think the all ages banner is going to restrict me from telling certain storylines/character development. Just means it won't be excessively grim.

Erin/Leif & Thorn on Kickstarter

The target audience for my webcomics is LGBT nerds who want stories that give them strong feelings, and who like SF/F, anime, competent characters that don't have to take turns with the Idiot Ball to keep the plot moving, and cats. Admittedly that last bit might be redundant, since everyone on the internet likes cats.

Ash🦀

I’ll be honest with you, I’m the target audience of my comic. (http://www.fwmgofficial.com/) it’s not out yet (it’ll be out October 31st) but as the writer I’ve had a lot of time to think about it. Mostly, it’s just targeted to young adults and autistic people. I never got to see people like me in comics, so I wrote a comic where an autistic person can be the hero too, even in his own way. For me, I figure whoever likes it likes it and that’s good enough for me. (also furries. Definitely targeted furries)

Kay Rose

@Ash🦀 cant wait to read it!

Ash🦀

QwQ thank you!!

MJ Massey

So far Black Ball is pulling in a mix of people who like the vintage aesthetic (1920s and art deco with some old-school macabre for some reason?) and people who like shonen manga, which is great. Even if Black Ball isn't specifically macabre or strictly shounen (though I myself have made shounen battle manga-esque comics in the past)

DaemonDan (The Demon Archives)

Audience of my comic... Per Google it's 18-35 year old men from the US and Russia XD Which makes sense given it's a pretty hard sci-fi with a lot of military action from dudes in power armor and etc. Though I try not to go too "high octane action!1!" and explore more psychological elements too.

#ctparchive #comics #webcomics #indie comics #comic chat #comic discussion #creator interview #comic creator interview #creator babble #comic tea party #ctp

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my keto experience

Intro/TL:DR

As a preface I can report that I lost 17lbs in 30 days while strictly adhering to a keto diet. I'm a 34 year old canadian woman who works from home as an artist and a huge helping factor for me was the freedom to stay home on the bad days and the ability to purchase fresh meats and vegetables on a weekly basis. This is a really tough diet but if you put the right pieces in place, it might work for you too. Additionally, I am NOT a dietitian/nutritionist in any way, shape, or form. Everything posted here is from my own experience and a modicum of research on the net. Please double-check my facts before you begin this diet for yourself.

Is keto for you?

The first and hardest question to ask yourself about a ketosis diet is, Can I Endure this? And you should not feel any guilt if the answer to that question is no, because this is a very invasive and aggressive diet that will cause you physical pain even if just for a brief amount of time. Similar to vegetarianism, or is extreme cousin, veganism, a keto diet involves cutting out large swaths of the food pyramid to facilitate this diet. This does not mean going hungry, the foods that are removed will be replaced with other foods, only without any (or minimal) artificial or natural sugars. Sugar is just a chemical, which doesn't sound like a huge sacrifice, right? Most adults don't bother adding sugar to anything other than tea or coffee, but sugar is much more deeply rooted in our lives than you may realize.

Carbohydrates can be found in virtually every type of ready-to-serve foods: breads, wraps, pastas, fried snacks, hors d'oeuvre (these are examples of things I ate before this diet). All of these delicious and very satisfying foods have a fiber content and sugar content. You're still allowed to consume these, and I encourage you do so, but make sure to monitor the grams of total carbohydrates you consume that day. During this diet you will only be allowed to consume 20 grams (to 50 grams, depending on your body and personal needs) a day. remember this. Those 20 grams of carbs maybe the difference between you having a normal day and one of the worst days of your life.

Before I chose to begin a keto diet, I had been exercising casually (as before I was sedentary, more details on this later) and consuming about half as many carbohydrates as I had normally done in my life before. During the two years I was living this way, I was able to lose approximately 20lbs (from about 230 to 210). If you're starting your diet or lifestyle change from scratch, maybe try starting here first. Its significantly slower (10lbs in nearly a year), but it will not cause any pain or significant inconvenience.

What’s the big deal?/What to eat?

Sugar is a chemical, and more than that, its a drug that your body has been dependent on since you were a wee baby in your mama’s belly. Sugar makes your brain work and when you mess with your brain’s intake of the all-important-life-sauce it goes into panic mode. In the first 2-3 days (up to 6 if your me!) you will literally, physically go into a state of depression. Many had described it to me as ‘keto flu’ but as a survivor of 2009s Swine flu, I can most assuredly tell you that keto is much, MUCH worse.

First, my appetite became very finicky (and i'm already a very picky eater). I had no desire to eat the genuinely tasty keto meals that my boyfriend had lovingly prepared. I didn't want to draw, and I wasn't even in the mood to play easy video games. All I felt like doing was crying or sleeping (which I did, for 9 hours in the middle of my 3rd day). This is why, whenever I speak to someone who’s even moderately interested in this diet to BOOK TIME OFF YOUR JOB!!! It’s inconceivable to me to be forced to face other human beings in this state of physical distress. You need to pamper yourself while in this state in order to endure it and ensure your success.

There was one more bump in the road around the one-week point but i'm fairly certain it came down to a combination of dehydration and moodiness (period) so perhaps that was an outlier. Either way, water is the key when you start feeling shitty. Get yourself a nice BPA-free water bottle that you're comfortable carrying around and keeping full of fresh water. Once your body is in ketosis (you can check using those little paper sticks you pee on from the drug store, wash your hands!) you will get tired and moody the very instant you become hungry at mealtimes. Sometimes you don't even feel the familiar hunger pangs from your previous diet and mistake it for just a general bad mood. Always have a sip of water, babes; that’s your brain telling you to hydrate.

Alternatively, after eating a keto meal you still may feel hungry or unsatisfied, even sad (longing for your favourite dessert). This is where those 20g of carbs come in pretty clutch. Finding your perfect portion of reward may be impossibly difficult, I can only tell you what made me feel better when I got the cravings. Blueberries are quite sweet, they have a lot of natural sugar, but a handful of them sufficed as an incredibly sweet treat (some keto dieters have proclaimed that ‘regular things taste much sweeter than before’, I didn't experience this). Minigo/iogo yoghurt cups are fatty and sweet and work as a decent replacement to ice cream (count the carbs!). On extra tough mornings (in addition to bacon and eggs! Totally keto!) we would split a cavendish oven-fried hashbrown (about 15g; 7.5g split between my partner and I).

There are a surprising amount of natural foods that are not keto, but in careful proportions, can be incorporated into a daily keto diet. Most every fruit (that I checked) is very sugary but can make for a nice dessert. Certain vegetables like carrots or potato have too many carbs to be anything more than a boost when you feel shitty. Red onions have a very small amount of carbs (sugar and fibre work together to your benefit!) and server to replace pasta as a side to a nice steak dinner.

On that note, you need fibre to make your BMs move. Cutting carbs from your life means your number 2’s go bunny mode…. Take a sugar-free metamucil on any day where you have more meat during a meal than other types of food, or the toilet will be a nightmare.

Meals:

Cutting away pastas, breads, and other sides seems like an insane task but with some discipline and creativity, it's quite manageable. Breakfast didn't change much: eggs any way (sunny side for me, cheddar omelette for my BF) with bacon or sausage. Lunch was some combination of chicken breast and various salads (so many salad dressings are low or no carb! Read the back!). On steak night, we replace noodles with sauteed red onions fried and seasoning. Snacktime was usually pre-sliced cheddar cheese (go NUTS that shit is A-OK!), unsalted peanuts (other nuts have marginally more carbs, almonds and sunflower are moderate, check what works for you), or small amounts of beef jerky. Accompany those snacks with a big drink of water, or if you've had enough of that, certain drinks are acceptable like tea or coffee (with sweetner and high fat milk, skim milk is too sugary), diet sodas, sugarfree drink mix (migo, nestea). Just remember water, water, water.

Is it worth it? Pros/Cons

Cons:

-HURTS LIEK DRUG WITHDRAWL (you're literally coming down from the lifelong chemical addiction of sugar. It hurts like Trainspotting)

-MEAT (you will be consuming a lot of animal product)

-POOP (even when you have your metamucil, the toilet can take some time)

-SWEETS (the cravings for your favourite yumyums will almost never stop, it takes monk-like discipline)

-BORING (you can't go out and enjoy meals/drinks with friends and family without them or the restaurant making odd or even crappy exceptions. Keto menu options are slowly becoming popular though)

-TIRED (the first week or two will be very tedious and you won’t have any energy, even your favourite hobbies may seen unfulfilling for a time)

-ALCOHOL (basically none, unless you like vodka and sugarfree mix, you'll get drunk a lot quicker and end up feeling shittier without carbs in your body to process the liquor)

Pros:

-INSTANT RESULTS (in my first week i lost nearly 10lbs, and then two for every subsequent week. note that, just like any diet, there will be bounce-back)

-APPETITE LOSS (once you get into the swing of this, after the 2 week mark, you’ll find you no longer are pained when your hungry and the bigger cravings subside)

-BUDGET (this is a bit of an odd one and may not necessarily reflect your cost benefits. Before engaging in this diet, my BF and I discovered we were spending too much money on restaurants and leaving the food in the fridge to waste. This was primarily because we were too lazy to cook. Getting off our asses and cooking 6 days of the week made an immediate impact on this for us. If you already do that, this won't apply. Concurrently, we spent more money at the grocery store ensuring we always had fresh meat and vegetables; this did net us positive)

-REWARDING MEALS (having to stop and think about what it takes to make a tasty and satisfying meal has forced us to look at things in a different way. Making yourself and your partner a healthy, supremely tasty meal gets those endorphins peaking)

-EXERCISE (Unnecessary! Your choice! Just note that building muscle increases your weight as muscle weights more than fat)

My fave meals:

-Coffee (reluctantly replacing 1tsp of sugar with a fairy-dust sprinkling of sweetner cos i HATE sweetner, its 20-30x stronger than sugar so you only need 1/20th as much)

-Eggs and bacon!!! (sausage sometimes too)

-Garlic grilled chicken with spinach salad (onions, sliced almonds, feta, dressing)

-Steak and red onions (meat rare and onions grilled with seasoning)

-Spicy ground pork tacos (replace the taco/burrito with large boston lettuce leaves, shredded cheddar, green onions, diced tomato, dab of ranch sauce)

-Baked chicken breast stuffed with ricotta and spinach, topped with parmesan

-Slow-cooked pulled pork slathered with sharp cheddar (just eat with a fork!)

-Baked shrimp with garlic butter and parmesan

-Jalapenos stuffed with ricotta, cream cheese and cheddar, then wrapped in a strip of bacon (great late-night snack)

-Even changing the texture of a cheese can change the taste of the meal. Shredded cheddar adds a salty bite to a lettuce wrap, grated parmesan can trick a baked chicken breast into thinking its breaded. creamy cheeses can replace other baking sauces entirely.

-Diet pops (make sure its 0 sugar!), and tea/coffees with sweetner are fine, they do contain a lot of sodium though, make sure to drink 1-for-1 with water (meaning: every diet coke or tea you have, accompany it with the same amount of plain water so your body can process it and pee it out).

Variations/Control:

Vitamins: It should be noted that I take a daily multivitamin (C3+D) as I generally don't get enough sun or fruits. I highly recommend you take these just in general. They help keep skin soft and blemish free (I initially began taking these because of acne on upper arms and it cleared within days).

Activity: As briefly mentioned earlier, I began shifting from sedentary (not moving much, sitting for hours a day) to a more active lifestyle about 2-3 years ago. This entailed a personal regimen of making an attempt at physical activity approximately half the days of the month (period week was generally excluded). Every other day I would attempt one of the following: walking at least 2km, 15-20m of floor exercises (‘lady push-ups’, sit-ups), 15-20m of time on the indoor bike, or an hour of house related chores (lifting, laundry, cleaning, anything that involves getting sweaty). In addition to these, yoga is peppered into my lifestyle as frequently as possibly, particularly in the morning before breakfast. On days where i'm unable to exercise, I at least attempt the basic yoga poses to stave off my (no-longer chronic) back pain.

#personal #diet #keto diet #ketosis #okay to reblog #no one proofread this for me...#ill try to keep edits to a minimum

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sambart93 · 5 years

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Final 31 [2018 Edition] Day 31: 2018 Resolutions Wrap Up

Here we are! We are on the final day and it’s now time to see how well I did over the year! My 2018 Resolutions are here, so without further ado...

1. 20 Doramas/SPs - (PASS) I succeeded this one!! I was very happy to finally get back into the world of doramas and such. While the beginning of the year was strong, I started watching doramas just because my friend wanted me to watch along with her and unfortunately, all her choices were absolute rubbish. So hopefully next year I can watch just as many, but watch much better ones.

2. 20 Movies - (PASS) I marathoned whole series of movies this year which felt so great! I managed to watch about catch up with Jinro Game, and watch almost all the Yamikin Dogs movies too! I also got to watch some long overdue stuff like Tomodachi Game and Survival Family which were so good! I am happy with the movies I saw this year. Next year looks even more promising though!

3. 12 Books - (PASS) I don’t think I could’ve done this if I hadn’t gotten behind and then marathoned about 2 years worth of Shingeki no Kyojin manga. That alone was about 6 or 7 volumes of content xD I had either really good or really shit books this year. Of course my main man Sanderson never failed me once! And this year I started to read all his work from the beginning which has been fun! Also finally read some LONG overdue books: Frankenstein, Dracula, Leviathan Wakes, Ready Player One, Alice in Wonderland, A Torch Against the Night. SO MANY GOOD BOOKS! I already have lists of the top 5 and top 36 books that are my utmost priority for this next coming year. 36 isn’t entirely impossible but it’s definitely a challenge for me, but I am excited!

4. Keep Up with Reviews - (FAIL) I’m going to be honest, reviews take a LOT of time, and I can’t exactly concentrate all that well when I’m at home. One review takes at least 4 hours, and when I have events every week, it really cuts down how much time I have to get these things out. I still have reports/review from JUNE that I still haven’t even started! I am seriously cutting down on outside events next year so hopefully I can catch up and keep up. I do love writing reviews but I just wish I had a better environment and more time to get through them all. Also me marathoning whole Korean Variety shows the last 6 months of this year have NOT helped. One episode is always about 90 minutes and I watch like 2 to 3 episodes every day so.... yeah that really sucked up a lot of the time I could’ve spent writing. I’ll sort it out, I promise!

5. Oshi Stages/Events Only - (PASS) I feel like I ONLY went to Oshi stuff this entire year... I’m trying to think of one play that didn’t have an oshi in it... even Tenimyu technically counts cos FUCKING HIGA, AM I RIGHT?! ... and I really thought it’d be saving me money; turns out NO! Because instead of going to seven DIFFERENT plays, I’ve just been going to the same oshi play 2, 3, 4 times instead! That is not productive Alex! So while I got very picky and more focused on my plays, I didn’t exactly save much money. BUT this year (especially towards the end of the year) I definitely didn’t feel like I had no money - unlike this time last year where I was in serious poverty and was scraping the barrel of all my bank accounts just to get by (yes I am shameless, and yes I really should admit the severity of my money spending), which means my money handling definitely got better which is good, but it’s still not at the level I want it at - we’re a LONG way off that. Luckily, I found more plays and production companies that I didn’t like this year (I’m looking right at you MARV!), and a lot of my favourite series either finished or no longer feature my oshis (TouStage, HakuMyu, K Stage, EnStage (for now) etc.) which means I should have more money staying in my bank account next year as well as more fucking time to sort out my mental health (it’s been very very bad the last 3 - 4 months, and money worries definitely don’t help)! PHEW!

6. Keep Complaints to Self and Be Positive on the Outside - (FAIL) I feel this hasn’t improved at all, especially at work. I know I shouldn’t be this vocal and this negative but my stupid brain works too fast for my common sense to kick in, and I end up complaining before my brain can say ‘hang on a minute bitch’ and then I feel like the worst fucking person afterwards. And, as mentioned above, my mental health has really been struggling since November so that’s not helped my negativity at all (one day I’ll probably open up about how bad it’s been but not right now, because I’m still dealing with it). But at least I am always trying to better myself on this one.

7. Travel Twice - (PASS) I definitely did this! I went to Sendai TWICE, I went to Nagoya, Osaka, Hakone, I finally went to Odawara (and Odawara Castle), I went to new places in Tokyo: Kichijoji, Nakameguro, Yomiura Land, Asakusa, Ikebukuro Aquarium. While it was all internal in Japan, I still managed some new places which makes me happy! But hopefully next year I have at least one external travel!

8. Save Money! - (MORE FAIL THAN PASS) I did manage to save some money: I started saving ALL my coins that weren’t 100 yen and that managed to total about 30,000yen by the end of the year which is great! But I am still very much financially unstable. And yes it is completely and entirely my fault. But at least I’m no where near as unstable and poor as this time last year! I’m not spending whole nights lying awake hungry and worrying about the fact I can’t afford food for the next 2 - 3 days unlike last year which is amazing progress (not really but...). While I did find out that saving coins is a great way for me to save up money, I am still not saving decent amounts every month. Hopefully next year is that year! This year I’ve managed to sort out some priorities and find out ways of cutting down on my spending, and I feel like next year I’ll be able to really hold my control on it, moreso than the last 2 years.

9. JLPT - (FAIL) HA let’s not talk about this one. I had every intention of doing the JLPT in December and I did seriously studying in July, August and beginning-September, but then SuJu came along and decided to do concerts the weekend of the exam so my brain went ‘fuck it! Not like you’re ever gunna pass anyway’, so I never applied and I stopped studying all together xD I haven’t picked up a book since September. I really have zero motivation to study Japanese anymore. And I’m going to be honest, the main reason I’ve lost all my motivation to study is because I have no fucking place TO study. I can’t study at work because people keep coming to my desk and my anxiety finds that extremely humiliating, embarrassing, and distracting to be discovered studying; I don’t have a spare desk in my room so I don’t want to study there; I don’t want to study in the living room because my roommates could come in at any moment which is again embarrassing, distracting and worrying; I can’t study at a restaurant or cafe because the air-con is fucking freezing and it’s just a different way of wasting and spending more money than necessary. I have NO place to study, so how can you (I’m speaking to the universe) expect me to take a fucking JLPT exam when I can’t even find a fucking place to study?! You see the pickle I’m in?

10. No Clearfiles, No Non-Fav Fandom TShirts or Bags - (PASS) I did it! And to be honest, I completely forgot I wasn’t buying these things anymore, I just naturally DIDN’T! Which is great! I am definitely stretching this buying ban far next year (you’ll see in tomorrow’s post), but I am excited and happy at how easy this has been!

11. Keep up with Dancing and Stretches - (PASS) I have whole weeks where I exercise ridiculously every day/night, and then some weeks where I’m doing the bare minimum, but at least I’m always conscious of how much I’m exercising and I’m always trying to keep myself in check when it comes to exercise. So I’d say this one is a success. I’m still enjoying stretching, I’m still enjoying my dancing, I enjoy walking so much. This is going well!

12. Spend Spare Time Studying - (FAIL) We already went through this; I stopped studying; K-Variety has taken over my life. No time or motivation to do such things!

TOTAL: 7/12 PASSED! - A little over 50% which is not that great but I personally feel like I made progress even in some of the failed sections which is great! I hope I can be more successful next year! But I think we can all agree that my mental health is definitely the biggest thing ruining my motivation and goals right now. So let’s get that sorted first!

What were your goals this year? Did you succeed? How did you do? Let me know below!

My 2019 Resolutions are all set and ready to be posted tomorrow morning! Thank you for sticking around the entire 31 days even though my fandoms stretch far and wide, I hope at least some of the posts you could relate to.

#final 31 days of the year #final 31 days of the year 2018 edition #2018 wrap up

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Beta/Britpicker List

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Betas:

1. backtohaz (backtohaz) - Hi! I'm Sarah, and I spend 99% of my free time reading about two special boys falling in love! I don't have any triggers, and will read anything you throw at me! I would love to help you out!

2. mehconomancy (shesnotafraidofshadows) - I won't read major character death, self-harm, suicide, or rape, but everything else i'm completely fine with!! :)

3. i-miss-my-bearents (imiss_mybearents) - I'll read it all, I honestly can't think of anything that would bother me.

4. jada-the-beta (openolivia) - Everything is a go EXCEPT sexual activity for characters under the age of 16 or incest. I love to read anyway, so can usually beta pretty quickly (usually within 24 hours). I use Google docs. I'm easy ;)

5. courtesyofmj (aesthetixniall) - I'm willing to help you with about anything. Whether it is brainstorming, editing, moral support, emotional advice, anything. We will become a team. I'm willing to contact you in any type of social media that is most comfortable with you. I am skilled with most document platforms, but I have a better understanding for Microsoft Word and Google Docs. I've been reading fics for five years now so I have a wide understanding in what I like to work with and feel comfortable. This is anything except contents that include: underage, abuse, emotional abuse, cheating (in some cases), alpha/omega/etc. I am 100% onboard with fics that include smut, but I love my fluff too. I prefer AUs to cannon, but can work with both. I love my drama and complex plot, but simple plots are also welcome. I also can help a little bit with britpicking since all I read are fics involving british ships, but I am in no way related to anything England. I am willing to learn with you through this process though. I am a college student so I have responsibilities that come first to being your beta, but we can work a schedule that works for us both. I can't wait to start this journey with you.

6. funkyqueers (funkyqueers) - No self harm, present abuse or eating disorders. No blood play or ddgl. Apart from that, I'm willing and excited to read everything. I've been reading fanfiction for almost my entire life and I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I'm here to help you avoid the latter two.

7. duchesskitty16 (duchesskitty16) - No a/b/o; no heavy bdsm; no daddykink

8. slaychords (alittlelove) - I am willing to read almost anything and you can count on me to be brutally honest and truthful about your writing and where I think you can improve! I'm pretty good at syntax (sentence structure), grammar, vocab, and generally just giving a reader's opinion and a second brain to make sure your fic is as great as it can be! I'm sure you will do amazing! However, not too comfortable with reading ABO, mpreg or daddy kink. Happy with pretty much everything else though :)

9. dimpled-halo (dimpled_halo) - I'm pretty good with grammar and catching typos, and I'm also willing to point out plot holes and be a sounding board to bounce ideas off of.

10. boyfriend-shirt (loammy_jean) - I'll read pretty much anything except non-con and extreme or unhealthy BDSM. I gravitate toward friends-to-lovers, slow-burn, and high school fics, but I don't confine myself to those types of fics at all, and I have a real passion for unique/weird ideas and topics. I also have a really good eye for spelling and grammar errors and making sure a sentence flows properly.

11. maybe-jamesbond (kbw01) - I'm a very caring person, so I will check in on you and make sure you're doing well. I have 7 younger siblings, so I'm pretty good at gently pushing you in the right direction, but I can also push you harder or be firmer when needed. I'm a good person to bounce ideas off of it you're stuck, or even just to get a second opinion. Punctuation and grammar are my "super strong suits". I will read anything, I'm not picky. I look forward to reading all the amazing fics that will come out of this. Good luck :)

12. dulosis (el_em_en_oh_pee) - My beta work in the past has centered around both SPaG (spelling, punctuation, and grammar -- so the mechanics of writing) and characterization/plot feedback, as well as cheerleading. Given the demands of my real-life job, (1) I cannot beta last-minute, particularly given that fic due dates are around the same time as university finals -- we will need to work out a schedule that works for both of us. I prefer to have between 4-7 days to give documents a close read and so that I can provide iterative feedback should you desire multiple pass-throughs (I'm also happy to check in multiple times during your writing process instead of just at the end, though!); and (2) I tend to provide detailed feedback framed more as constructive criticism than anything else. I can respond to specific questions you have about your work (e.g., "does this make sense for these characters?") or provide more general feedback than that. I will NOT read anything that includes forced closeting, anything that vilifies women associated with 1D, or daddy kink or addiction plotlines, but am open to just about anything else. I cannot provide britpick aid, but I do have knowledge of the operation of educational institutions *IN THE UNITED STATES* ranging from daycare through universities, as well as creating realistic/age-appropriate child characters, if you need feedback on either of those things! I'm happy to work via google docs or emailed word documents, whichever you prefer!

13. haz-and-louis (larryismyloveandlife) - First of all, I feel like it's necessary to say that I'm not a native English speaker. However, I have a very good knowledge of the language, especially grammar. Also, I love to write and I'm willing to help with anything from ideas to proof-reading to cheerleading you at 4AM! I adore Christmas so every fic will be a joy to read!😍😂 I generally don't like reading very detailed scenes of violence and abuse, and also I'm not a big fan of a/b/o, m!preg and hybrid fics! Watersports is also a kink I don't really like, but smut is absolutely fine! Also, if your fic includes any of those it wouldn't be a huge problem and I'm positive I could work with it just as well. Feel free to contact me at any time about anything you need and I'll be more than happy to help! :)

14. nightwideopen (nightwideopen) - I’m willing to read pretty much anything except underage, student/teacher, and non-con. I prefer to read fics supernatural elements & lots of angst. I’ve got a really good eye for correcting grammar/spelling/punctuation. I’m also good with noticing plot holes and/or inconsistencies. You can bounce ideas off me if you’d like, and I’m always available to help/read!

Britpickers:

1. britpickerhl (twiki77) - Can help with anything/everything British, lived in UK all 40 years of my life. Have local knowledge of Wolverhampton, if Liam is a big part of your fic. I won't read noncon/rape but will read absolutely almost anything else. Happy friendly BP who can work with several writers at once. Just come say hi.

Both:

1. screwstyles (screwstyles) - Would like to avoid reading about blind characters, hurt/comfort and major character death as much as possible.

2. angelfaceharry (angelfaceharry) - I'm pretty open to reading anything, but the only thing I'm not really willing to read is Mpreg. As a beta I'll help you with anything you want me to as well as the usual beta duties. I really like being a beta for fics as I really enjoy it and like to help as much as I can. I am from the North West of England so I'm more than happy to britpick as I have lived in the UK my whole life. Therefore, I am fully qualified to ensure your fic (if its set in the UK) sounds realistic.

3. czernxy (lapoesieestdanslarue) - I’ll read pretty much anything bar PWP or heavy BDSM

4. lilacstyles (lilacstylesss) - I am willing to read anything except alpha/omega fics. I can help with grammar, spelling and punctuation. If the author is Spanish speaking but is writing in English I can help with translation as well. I can also provide the writer with ideas and be encouraging all the way! I lived in London for a year, and most of my friends are British so I can help if you need someone who knows about the UK.

5. ponymom-stuff (ponymom) - The only thing I am not good with is hard drug use and character deaths. Anything else, I am fine with.

6. nouisarelovers (lourrielove) - I'll read anything really. I'm british and part irish. I can help with spelling and grammar and choosing british words instead of americanisms.

7. chloehl10 (lovelarry10) - Anything, I am not bothered! :) Open to everything.

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coppermarigolds · 7 years

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Dear Yuletide Writer 2017

Hello Yuletide writer, and thank you in advance for whatever you write this year! This will be my eighth year in a row doing Yuletide. I can't believe it's been that long, but it really has become one of the highlights of my year. Here’s a bit of general information about my fic preferences that I hope will be helpful.

What I like: I typically prefer gen and/or het. Genre-wise, pretty much anything goes–angst, romance, fluff, humor, etc. More specifically, I love fics that dig into characters’ heads: what they’re thinking and feeling, what drives them, how they interact and react to the world around them, and so on. The same is true of relationships–what makes this pairing tick? Why are they together? And so on. I also love love love awesome female characters being awesome. That doesn’t have to mean being physically kickass, either. It could be anything from a witty line of banter to a thoughtful conversation to a creative problem-solving method, just to scratch the surface. I particularly enjoy female characters being assertive and taking charge in relationships.

What I’m not so into: Rape/non-con is my biggest squick. I would prefer for character death to be avoided if possible (unless the story deals with the ramifications of a canonical character death, of course). While I’m fine with an angsty story, I tend to stay away from extremely dark, punch-to-the-gut angst. I like my endings happy, or at least bittersweet and/or hopeful.

Fandom-specific notes:

Alpha Protocol, Mike Thorton and Mina Tang

I’ve been requesting this fandom for years, and by this point I’m pretty sure I will never actually match on it, but I keep trying out of some combination of tradition and stubbornness. Alpha Protocol is actually something of an outlier when it comes to my fandom/video game preferences: the lack of a female player character option and the allusions to real-world politics are usually pretty high up on my “meh” list, but for some reason, I’m still very fond of this game despite both of those things. I think something about the lone agent cut off from almost all support, but still trying desperately to save the world, strikes a chord with me.

For this fandom, I’d primarily enjoy a post-canon fic about what happens next. The variety of endings means there’s a lot of potential ways that could go down, but no matter what happens, I like to think Mike and Mina face it together. I know there are a hundred different options for everything in this game, but somehow whenever I play, I can’t seem to get my Mike to end up with anyone but Mina. I’m a big fan of friends/coworkers to lovers, and I enjoy the mutual respect and support they have for each other throughout the game (assuming you don’t play Mike as a total jackass, anyway :p).

The Expanse (TV), Fred Johnson and Drummer

For all I know, I might be entirely alone in this, but boy do I ever ship these two. It all started the moment Fred jokingly told Drummer to get him some coffee and she gave him that perfect look + hand gesture that told him exactly what she thought of that idea. From that moment on, I knew I was in love. That said, I would be perfectly happy with a gen fic about them as well, so please don't feel obligated to write anything shippy if you don't feel like it.

I'd love to read anything about these two, so I'm not picky, but here are a couple of potential ideas:

• Post-"Pyre" fic! Drummer basically got shot in the gut because she refused to betray Fred. That's some pretty hardcore loyalty to a man who inspires significant mistrust and even outright anger in a lot of people. Fred and Drummer clearly already know each other pretty well, but I feel like this episode presents even more significant bonding opportunities (especially in a shippy scenario), so I'd love a missing scene or coda fic.

• It bugs me that Drummer's never been given a first name in the show. I'd love some kind of explanation for this in fic. Presumably Fred knows her first name. Is there some reason it's seemingly never spoken aloud? Maybe she doesn't think it suits her, or maybe it's just an overabundance of professionalism, or maybe it's something deeper. Feel free to surprise me on this one!

Horizon Zero Dawn, Aloy and Erend

This game has been one of the highlights of my year. Aloy is such a breath of fresh air and I love her so much. She's wonderfully snarky and take-charge and doesn't let anyone talk down to her, but also struggles with the pain of abandonment and ostracism. She's one of those characters that I both relate to in some ways, and aspire to be more like her in other ways.

I also love Erend, and I ship him and Aloy like you wouldn't believe. Physically tough capable dude who is in utter awe of his warrior-goddess girlfriend is basically my shipping catnip. What I love most about their friendship in the game is that Erend admits he started out with the "hotshot guy talking to a pretty girl" mindset, but by the end of the game, he's recognized that Aloy's mission is bigger than him and he was just lucky to have met her as she went about her business. His lack of male entitlement and machismo is really refreshing.

Since there's no actual romance in the game itself, I'd naturally love a fic that delves into their relationship and takes it from friends to lovers (another of my favorite tropes). But if Aloy/Erend or shipfic isn't your thing and you'd prefer to keep it gen, I'm fine with that as well!

A couple more specific ideas (though please don't feel limited to these):

• One thing I wished the game would have explored more is Aloy's reaction to finding out she's a clone. After spending her whole life in search of her mother, discovering she technically didn't have one must have been a blow. But aside from a moment or two of shock and angst, the game doesn't really give her much time or space to process the revelation. Fortunately, fanfic can help with that! So, once HADES is defeated and the dust has settled, how does Aloy deal with the truth of her past? How does she feel about Elisabet? Does she tell Erend about any of this, and if so, how does he react?

• One of my favorite things in the game is finding the bits and pieces of files left behind by the "Old Ones"--i.e., us! I'd love to see a story with Aloy reacting to some of the ancient ruins and information she finds. Does she find them strange and confusing? Or do they help her feel closer to Elisabet?

• I definitely plan to play the DLC that's coming out next month (as of this writing), so if you come up with a fic idea based on that, feel free to write that as well!

Until Dawn, Jessica

Until Dawn is something of a fandom happy place for me (twisted, I know). It's one of those rare fandoms where I genuinely like and am interested in every single one of the characters. I would be happy to read about any or all of them, so feel free to include any of the other characters as you see fit, whether they were nominated for Yuletide or not.

I requested Jess because even though I love all the kids in this game, I have something of a special soft spot for her. I love that she's a little brash and willing to stand up for herself, but also self-aware enough to admit she struggles with insecurities. (My heart goes out to her in that moment, every time.)

A few potential story ideas (though again, please don't feel limited to these):

• As much as it hurts my soul, part of me is morbidly fascinated by the idea of Jess as the night's sole survivor, particularly because she has the least knowledge about what actually happened. She doesn't know anything about Josh's prank, the stranger on the mountain, or Hannah and Beth's ultimate fates. All she knows is that "there's something in the mines." After surviving a night of horror that mysteriously killed all her friends, how would she move forward? Would she struggle with survivor's guilt and/or PTSD? Would she attempt to figure out what exactly happened, or just try to put it all behind her and move on with her life? Would she ever figure out just who/what it was that attacked her?

• Since Jess spends half the game either dead or unconscious at the bottom of a mine shaft, we don't really see much of her relationships with the other kids aside from Mike and Emily. I'd love a story, either pre or post-canon, that expands on her relationship(s) with any of the other characters.

• Does she experience any guilt, either after the game or in the one-year interim after Hannah and Beth's disappearance, for being the one who came up with the idea for the prank on Hannah? How does she deal with it? Does it strain her relationships with any of her friends (including, and perhaps especially, Josh)?

I hope this letter gives you some ideas on where to start! I also typically have anon asks turned on here on Tumblr, so if you have any questions or need clarification on anything, feel free to drop me a line.

Happy writing and happy Yuletide!

#dear yuletide writer #yuletide 2017

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My father has been a total dick to me for basically my whole life, but recently, realizing how pissed I am at him, he’s backed off a lot. And he’s been actually really helpful with my anxiety--I’m constantly freaking out about my bills, and how I’m being crushed under debt. But he told me, for one thing, that I’m not going to die. Our family would never let me be homeless. His girlfriend only paid off her student debt a year or two back, and she’s in her fifties. If I hurt my credit, I hurt my credit, whatever! It’s going to be okay.

So my fears of financial ruin are largely mitigated. But that’s just half the problem--the other half is the SHAME I feel for not being completely independent and self-sustaining.

I just graduated college six months ago. I’m still figuring out how to function in the adult world. I have ADHD, and that has impacted my ability to work enough to live above basic survival. I’m moving forward, but it’s not instantaneous or easy.

And my family...oh, shit, you know what, actually, it’s my mom. It’s just my mom. Her boyfriend bothers me a bit, but not really much at all--it’s just my mom.

As background, my mom has lived off of men for 95% of her life. She had a rough childhood and was taught, as a baby boomer, that she SHOULD rely on men, and thus never developed any real skills. But that doesn’t change the fact that she’s a shopaholic and criticizes everyone else in the world for not making money, despite her own failed efforts to make anything.

I’m making about $150 dollars a week right now. It’s total shit. I’m scraping by. When I go to my mom’s house for a day or two, I have to eat out--I’m an extremely picky eater, like, I have psychological problems with eating, and I’ll starve if I can’t find something I can stomach, because everything else makes me nauseous. I spend one to three bucks on a meal, one or two times a day, but JUST when I’m staying at my mom’s house. Back at my place, I could go a whole week without eating out; though most weeks, I eat out just once or twice. But again, less than $5.

And she blames this apparent flippancy with my money for my not having health insurance, and now, for having trouble affording first month’s rent at a new place since I’m being kicked out next month. I need to see a doctor for one or two things, but they’re not life-threatening or causing me any daily inconvenience, so I just told her I’m going to go within the next six months, but I just can’t right now. And she flipped out that I need a pap smear because I might have fucking cervical cancer. Which freaked me out, with my anxiety, but I talked to my dad about my symptoms and realized they could all be attributed to other, more likely sources (stress, trauma, yeast infection, etc). So, the fuck, Mom?

As for rent, my friend’s family is planning to give me a pretty nice discount for a bedroom in a townhouse they own, though the price will probably increase within the next few months as I get on my feet. It’s Christmastime, and I don’t think that, between my successful 30-year-old brother (who owns 2 pawn shops), my decently-employed father, my mother’s boyfriend (maybe) and my grandparents (and maybe uncle) that I couldn’t round up 300-400 bucks for rent as a Christmas present. But my mom flips out, accusing me of spending my money willy-nilly, and having to rely on others because of it.

This coming from the woman who blatantly lied, telling me her boyfriend would pay me back, in order to get me to buy a $340 bus ticket for my bum brother to come home--with my graduation money. Her boyfriend, out of pity and not obligation, waived a $140 debt I owed him, but I’m still out $200. Permanently, essentially. Speaking of my 27-year-old homeless brother, he has basically been living off of the family for ten years. He’s utterly aimless and a pathological liar, saying whatever he has to in order to scrape by. He’s “spiritual”--“I don’t understand why everyone is so concerned with money,” he tells me. “They get so worked up, they should learn to let go. *I* don’t worry about money.” Fuck you, dude, you don’t worry about money because you’re using everyone else’s money to live. Both my father and my mother’s boyfriend have squandered thousands of dollars trying to get him on his feet, but he’s a lost cause. I love my brother, and he’s not a mean or angry person; he’s actually really nice and has a warm personality--but he manipulates so he can live as he pleases, and he lies about feeling bad about it. However, I’m pretty damn sure he has some mental illness (but he refuses to see a psychiatrist) so I give him a bit of a pass.

I bring this up, though, because I’m fucking 22 years old. I JUST graduated college. And I’m struggling. Is that a fucking sin? I have mental illness; they KNOW this. And I’ve gotten SO much better and I’m SO much more successful than I was even a year ago, but it’s never enough. I’ve always been recovering, I’ve gotten worse at times but it’s been a general climb; but I’m not superwoman. Yes, my other brother, a year older than me, is sustaining himself out of pure willpower, working 40+ hours a week. But we are not the same, everyone has different abilities and disabilities, and I cannot do what he does, at least not right now.

But how dare I need help? This from the woman who conned me out of money; promised me graduation money that never appeared; convinced her boyfriend to buy her a $5,000 porcelain doll; collected $800 a month in child support for both my brother and I even though he had his own place and I was off at college, and for a whole semester, never sent me the $200 a month she promised; told me, a month out of college when I’d just gotten a decent job, that I shouldn’t go asking for that $340 back because I didn’t “need” it; and on and on and on. No, she’s not a completely horrible person, yes, she’s done a lot for me, but no, that doesn’t erase this character flaw of hers or her fault for treating me this way.

She’s literally the worst person I know with money, she makes barely anything herself and relies on her boyfriend, and sometimes lies and cheats to get what she wants. But she is so quick to point fingers and shame you for getting a fucking burger.

Writing this has been very cathartic. I’m trying to be less ashamed, and it makes me feel better to realize that the person shaming me the most is the one who has the least right to do so. Americans owe over $1.45 trillion in student debt; I should feel no shame for having any, because it’s basically just what you have to do to get an education and a job people like me are fit for (I would die of exhaustion doing any manual labor); just about every college student has some; it’s going to end up hurting the economy and private loan servicers more than us when we inevitably start defaulting and I kind of like watching capitalism--I mean, the world--burn. ADHD is a genuine disability that I accept that I have and will overcome, but it will take time, and I’m not going to rush myself because that’ll just make shit worse. I’m twenty fucking two, and most of my age group is floundering right now; I’m not alone and my lack of success isn’t because of any more or worse character flaws than the next person. I don’t deserve to feel ashamed for my financial woes, considering the state of US business practices and politics, as well as the simple reality that very few people are comfortable by 22. I’m just going to try to...take a fucking chill pill.

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I'm giving up podcasts to save my brain and soul from overload

In an era when there's so much information — so much content — that we can never, ever be bored, I've come to a breaking point: I'm giving up podcasts.

My brain is melted from an onslaught of news and takes. I've come to realize that I'm overwhelmed and the only way to catch my breath is to cut something out. So I've cracked open my podcast app for the last time for the foreseeable future.

SEE ALSO: Spotify bets big on podcasts with acquisition of Gimlet and Anchor

That's not to say I'm giving up on listening to things on my commutes or my many, many walks with an overactive dog. There's more music available at my fingertips than I could ever hope to listen to, and I'm also taking up audiobooks as a way to help pass these cold, windy strolls through the Ohio winter.

My farewell to podcasts didn't come easily. After all, they are extremely interesting and entertaining, like a personalized talk radio station that shuffles through topics that speaks directly to my soul. But the time has come to give my soul (and my mind) a break. I need to reclaim those hours and spend it doing something other than trying to stuff even more information into an already overpacked brain.

Information Overload

Here's the real problem: I could listen to podcasts, on double speed, for every waking minute of my week and still not come close to chipping away at the stack of all of the episodes piling up in my queue. It's the result of something good: my enthusiasm for so many things. But somewhere along the line it's taken a bad turn.

A huge part of the problem is that I've been trying to stay up on all the political news I can in a particularly volatile environment. I recently wrote for this very site about the political podcasts I listened, so there's always something in the queue. Everything from the analytical banter of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast to the Associated Press's deeply reported "Ground Game."

These feel like must-listens that kept me up-to-date on everything happening in the political world. And that's not including the new spate of daily news podcasts that break down everything that just happened, like the New York Times' popular "The Daily" podcast and the Washington Post's "Post Reports.

There's only so much I can really take in, though. And I'm definitely not alone. It's an extension of a wider problem that many of us have been dealing wit. Burnout over bad news has been an issue for years, but it's even more prevalent now given the volatility of the news cycle we're living through — climate change, North Korea, Trump, you name it. It's also fed by how we consume the news in a never-ending stream of TV, radio, digital video, social media, and, yes, podcasts.

There's so much input that if you don't adjust, you just might drown in the tidal wave of information. As someone who lives and writes on the internet all day, it's something I'm hyper aware of and — at least for me — one of the easiest ways to alleviate some of the flow is to, well, cut out the podcasts.

Podcast overload has been an issue people have explored, especially as podcasts have become more popular. In August 2017, The Ringer looked at why listening to your podcasts on hyper-speed (like, ahem, I do) doesn't really help. And in October 2017, Sirena Bergman of The Cut explored the pros and cons of cramming all these podcasts into your head in any given week.

None of the suggestions I've found for finding balance have worked for me. I've tried to listen to many podcasts on double-speed and fewer podcasts on regular speed and neither has offered the solution I'm searching for. Even cutting back a significant amount hasn't done the trick: I just keep going back for more. So I decided that the best thing for me is to simply quit cold turkey.

Not Necessarily the News

News and politics aren't the only thingsI've been piping through my earbuds. I've been a huge fan of music podcasts for years now, specifically for my favorite jam bands: the Grateful Dead-focused "Brokedown Podcast" and three Phish-related podcasts. Throw in "Pod Dylan," which analyzes a different Bob Dylan song every episode, and I've got hours of great material every week.

You can also add to the pile the countless sports podcasts I'm subscribed to. There are the three different Chicago Cubs podcasts and then there a half-dozen other baseball podcasts. On top of that there's the odd football podcast like the "(New Orleans) Saints Happy Hour Podcast," and then the ESPN "30 for 30" podcast series. Put it all together and you've got a stack of podcasts that piles up like back issues of the New Yorker.

That's another problem: These podcasts are supposed to be informative, but they're also supposed to be fun. Hearing hosts blow off steam about, say, a terrible Super Bowl-altering no call or a deep analysis of a terrific run of Phish shows is meant to help reduce the stress that builds up in my brain from everything else.

Instead, seeing the episodes pile up and knowing I'm never going to get to them only ups the pressure in my head. And how many more sponsored messages can I really listen to before I break down and get my own meal kit subscription?

I'm surprised no one thanked Boll & Branch, Me Undies or Casper Mattresses this #Oscars Then, again, perhaps I listen to one too many podcasts.

— GettingCookedWithCraig (@GettingCooked) February 25, 2019

I want to stay informed. I want to hear the latest analysis of up-and-coming baseball prospects or what, exactly, an obscure Bob Dylan B-side means, because it genuinely interests me. But even when I made myself stop listening to every episode and got more picky, listening only to the episodes I really wanted to check out, the stress didn't really subside.

At a certain point, the anxiety of missing out on something, anything, became greater than the excitement of listening to a new episode of any podcast. Every episode I skipped could be a golden nugget I'd never hear. Was there a terrific anecdote about Phish's latest Madison Square Garden run or a life-changing revelation about a 1972 Dead show in one of the episodes I missed?

This overpowering fear of missing out (FOMO) became my biggest hurdle to both listening to and ultimately giving up podcasts.

Fighting FOMO

I want to keep up. In an age where information moves impossibly fast, I want to be on that leading edge. Plus there's also the not-insignificant fear of being left out of the cultural conversation.

A few years ago, I was able to keep up with the "Serial" zeitgeist, devouring every episode as soon as it dropped. In 2019, there are so many of these podcasts that I can't possibly keep track. "S-Town"? I fell off after several episodes and never caught back up. Same with "Dirty John" and "Slow Burn."

But I agonized over it, still downloading the episodes and telling myself that, yes, tomorrow was TOTALLY the day I'd dive in and catch up to what everyone was talking about on Twitter.

What peer-induced FOMO podcast should I be listening to?

— Derek Hiebert (@derekhiebert) February 19, 2019

The more these episodes piled up, the more stressed I became. But there just aren't enough hours in the day. And the truth is that I've got a pretty bad memory. I've probably forgotten more of the fascinating anecdotes and revelations I've been seeking than I've remembered. So what am I really missing in the end?

I'm find leaving one Stone unturned

There comes a breaking point for everyone, and I finally reached mine not long after the new year, when the lighter load of the holidays fell away and the news cycle cranked up again. When Roger Stone was finally indicted as part of the Mueller investigation, the exhaustion hit me just as the news cycle exploded, including a barrage of "emergency podcasts" on the topic.

In the days that followed, I watched the deluge of reactionary podcasts roll in, but I found the urge to click "play" was fading. Between the news I was already gleaning from social media and stories I read, that fear of missing something wasn't nearly as strong as it had been before.

Maybe it was Trump overload, maybe it was something about Stone himself — a truly repulsive charlatan — that turned me off. Either way, as the days ticked by, I didn't feel that same pull to learn more. The hold was broken, and it was easier to let other podcasts keep slipping by until I realized I wasn't really missing anything at all.

So long, happy trails

When I mentioned my podcast sabbatical to a friend, they asked why I was going cold turkey instead of, say, just cutting back? I get that it seems extreme but it's a mix of two things: the need to give my brain full break each day and the hope of a fresh start.

And I plan to stick to it. I've already mowed through a few audiobooks and have downloaded another half-dozen from my local library and have no desire to give up the calmer, more cohesive experience of listening to these books for a return to chaotic world of podcasts.

Will something ever happen to draw me back? Maybe. If and when the Mueller Report finally drops, I can see dipping a toe back into the pool for an episode or two of analysis. Same goes for some sort of major move by one of my sports teams. (Say, the Cubs suddenly signing free agent star Bryce Harper.)

SEE ALSO: Podcasts were my friends when I had none

But, for now, I'm done. Maybe getting my brain smoothed back out over the coming months will put me in a better place to come back to a slimmed down input of podcasts in time for, say, the 2020 presidential election.

Even then, I'll need to wade slowly into the shallow end. If I do come back, I know I'll feel a lot better about managing the overload and being picky, making sure that what I choose to take in will be truly beneficial for me and something I can truly value. FOMO, be damned.

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Every Book I Read in 2016

Here’s a list of the books I finished in 2016! By the way, keeping a list like this WILL make you disinclined to start books and not finish them...when I was going through my notes to write these up, I found one or two that I didn’t manage to finish, but otherwise I finished ‘em all! Asterisks mark re-reads (though there’s only one this year!). Here’s last year’s list.

01 * Anne’s House of Dreams; Lucy Maud Montgomery - There are plenty of unlikely plot points in LMM’s books, but this one really takes the cake (SPOILER ALERT): woman marries a man out of blackmail, he disappears at sea, returns brain damaged, gets trepanned in Montreal, and turns out to be his own cousin. WHAT IS THAT EVEN, LUCY

02 Kindred; Octavia E. Butler - Oh just your typical sci-fi time travel slavery story! A thoughtful gloss on the idea that time travel is a white-man’s game (since any other type of person is likely to be disregarded, or killed, or put in jail in an earlier time period in the West) & complicating any modern person’s idea that if they were put in a difficult situation in the past, they’d certainly be able to get out of it easily, with their superior knowledge. I just came across a graphic novel version in a bookshop today, so check that out too if you’re more inclined towards a graphic interpretation.

03 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society; Annie Barrows & Mary Anne Shaffer - I read this without much prior knowledge, so I was surprised to find that this book with a cutesy title was in fact an epistolary novel about the German occupation of the Channel Islands, and as such is fairly intense (though still imbued with cheery, stiff-upper-lippishness).

04 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Clash of Two Cultures; Anne Fadiman - This is perhaps the first work of medical anthropology I’ve ever read, and it was eye-opening. It’s not that I didn’t know that western medicine doesn’t easily leap cultures, doesn’t cross cultural barriers in spite of our own belief in its efficacy. But knowing this abstractly is a different experience than seeing it laid out bare, in the body of a Hmong child in California, born with epilepsy.

05 Rain: A Natural and Cultural History; Cynthia Barrett - Two great tidbits from this book: 1) witch-hunts in Europe coincided with the worst years of the Little Ice Age, since witches were presumed to be affecting the weather. 2) Settlement of the Great Plains in the 1870s was brought on by mistaking weather (some wet years) for climate (arid with occasional wet periods).

06 In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex; Nathaniel Philbrick - This is the “real story” that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. Or, a 2000 nonfiction history of that story, anyhow. Interesting narrative but I found it somewhat weakly-written - Philbrick weirdly (for a book about ships) consistently confuses the meaning of ship tonnage, which is a measure of volume, not mass. What a nit to pick, but here we are. The film version has some seriously bad CGI and added lots of stuff to juice the drama.

07 The State We’re In; Ann Beattie - A book of linked short stories, all set in Maine. I don’t know that I would have noticed that they were all in Maine if I hadn’t read it on the dust jacket, as it’s not really a set of stories where, like the setting is a character, or what have you. Not that I need everyone to be wearing a lobster as a hat, but the connection felt a bit weak.

08 Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure; Alastair Gordon - a book about the design of airports, from their earliest incarnations until the milennium. There’s some great material in here about airports and american imperialism in central and south america, under the auspices of Pan Am. Unfortunately I read the un-updated version, so it didn’t cover much in terms of the way airports have physically been changed since 9/11. I want THAT book.

09 The Argonauts; Maggie Nelson - This is probably the best piece of “confessional writing” I’ve ever read. It’s shot through with theory in a way that’s really invigorating, but is at the same time extremely personal and revealing, with thoughtful perspective on radically and motherhood, producing and reproducing.

10 A Bell for Adano; John Keene - More WWII occupation, but this time from the occupiers’ POV. An American major is assigned to administer a city in Italy, and decides to return their church bell to them. Hijinks, stereotypes, bureaucracy and some good ol’ American stick-to-itiveness ensue.

11 The Fly Trap; Fredrik Sjoberg - ostensibly a book about an entomologist who lives on an island in Sweden, it’s really a collection of digressions on summer, a fellow entomologist, travel, and collecting as avocation and vocation.

12 Spill Simmer Falter Wither; Sara Baume - the story of a man, and a dog, and the four seasons that they spend together; a year of increasing dread and discomfort. Exceedingly well-described, just thinking about this again months later has put me right back in a slightly damp Irish seaside town, full of prying watching eyes.

13 How to Watch a Movie; David Thomson - Often more of a biography of a film critic than a book teaching the reader “how to watch a movie”. He might well have called it “How to Watch a Movie Like Me, and Also Be Me, I’m Great”. I did appreciate the comparison of cuts in a film to periods after a sentence - a way of adding rhythm to a scene just as one adds it to a paragraph.

14 Mislaid; Nell Zink - A lesbian woman in 1966 in becomes enamoured of a gay professor at her college, marries him, has some babies, and leaves him a decade later. She and her daughter take to the south and live as African Americans, leading to some identity-politics hullabaloo and a pretty nonsensical over the top ending. Zink is poking at her readers, hoping they’ll feel uncomfortable.

15 Station Eleven; Emily St John Mandel - A lifetime of having Can-con thrust on me leaves me with the sense of vague embarrassment when a book is set in Canada. It feels specific where Americanness feels general, universal. Silly, I know. My desire to see an author’s description of how civilization collapses is ultimately well-satisfied in this book, though it takes a long time for the book to get there.

16 First Bite: How we Learn to Eat; Bee Wilson - A look at how we (and our families, friends, and cultures at large) shape our food preferences. Wilson takes us through her own past of disordered eating, and learning to feed picky children, all the while consulting with neuroscientists and nutritionists for backup. The overall message is about the possibility of change; even bad habits can be altered, even those learned as a wee babby.

17 The Slave Ship: A Human History; Marcus Rediker - This was an amazing, absorbing read, using the slave ship as a site to examine the slave trade in general, its innovations and consequences. Reducer points out that it’s only on the ship that Africans forged a collective sense of africanness, since they would have come from different linguistic and familial groups. It’s the shipboard life that allows the categories of “black” for the diverse enslaved people, and “white” for the multiethnic and multilingual crews to be created.

18 The Devil’s Picnic: Travels Through the Underworld of Food and Drink; Taras Grescoe - This guy is like a low-rent Canadian ersatz Bourdain. Blecch.

19 On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation; Alexandra Horowitz - Horowitz takes the same walk with 11 different experts, in the hopes of learning or noticing something different every time. Perhaps because of being harnessed to this conceit, she often takes on the pose of a naif, which can strike the reader as a bit rich given that she’s got a PhD in psychology and works on animal behaviour. Is this the editorial hand, making sure the science doesn’t get to be too much?

20 Counternarratives; John Keene - Engrossing short stories (some longer than others, perhaps novella-length?) placed in various north and south american colonial contexts. Each is expanded from a short historical documents (e.g. newspaper announcements) and provides enough background to understand the subjects as complex people in their own rights.

21 An Age of License; Lucy Knisley - All of her books are pretty open, emotionally-speaking, but this one feels especially nakedly exposed. Her feelings will seem familiar to anyone who has gone through a big breakup, then made some assorted attempts to get their shit together. Not everyone gets to do that while on an expenses-paid European book tour, but there you are.

22 Something New; Lucy Knisley - Knisley made her name in graphic travelogues like the one above, but her more recent books concentrate on more conventional life milestones: marriage, pregnancy, motherhood. I read this book about wedding planning while planning my own, in summer 2016. While the problems I encountered were different than hers, I did actually find it useful (and yeah, I made sure that I read it in time for it to come in handy!).

23 Midnight’s Children; Salman Rushdie - This book made me wish for a great documentary (or something?) about India just after independence - I think there was loads of nuance that I didn’t capture at all due to my own ignorance. I found myself distracted frequently while reading this, which is especially bad since the book’s narrator is careening around constantly, breaking narrative rules all over the place. So beware losing focus, or you may be lost for some pages. I appreciated Rushdie’s description of the family’s privilege - our hero doesn’t describe his family as wealthy, and it’s easy to lose that fact until the moment of child-swapping. Or rather, returning?

24 Love & Other Ways of Dying; Michael Paterniti - A collection of harrowing essays, which – before you read the copyright page, which obviously everyone does, right? – you’d be right to assume that they were written for men’s magazines.

25 One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding; Rebecca Mead - Besides the graphic novel above, this is the only book about weddings I read whilst planning one. And it’s a polemic against the wedding-industrial complex that 1) felt considerably out-of-date 9 years after publication and 2) espoused ideas that I was already in the bag for. So, ok but not ground-shaking.

26 Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster; Steven Biel - Though I read the un-updated version of this book, there were a couple of takes that I found interesting here that I hadn’t come across before. Firstly, post-disaster narratives tended to cast Titanic as a moment of per-WWI loss of innocence, but this is overblown, since there was lots of unrest already in 1912 (e.g. extensive strikes during King George V’s coronation summer in 1911 which threatened starvation, suffragist demonstrations. And secondly, the idea of muscular Anglo-Saxon protestant manhood was reaffirmed culturally after the sinking, contrasting their nobility to emotion (perish the thought!) and violence from “latins” and other foreigners.

27 American Youth; Phil LaMarche - A slight little book about gun violence in New England, in which a fatherless (part-time, anyway) boy falls in with a group of conservative teen wingnuts, the sort who would now be recruiting on Reddit instead of at the high school cafeteria. Angsty and pretty much resolutionless, so a fine representation of the experience of adolescence.

28 A Severed Head; Iris Murdoch - Expect the sort of soap-opera plotting typical of Murdoch. Set in London during the choking post-war fog, which reasserts itself over and over. I’ve been hit over the head with her brilliance in the past (The Black Prince, sigh), and this one didn’t pull that particular trick, but I did enjoy it.

29 Their Eyes Were Watching God; Zora Neale Hurston - Janie talks her way through the American south, attaching herself to various places and people until she finds herself, finally, reasonably content. I thought it was interesting that her ability or inability (willingness or unwillingness) to bear children isn’t an issue in any of her relationships. I realize that this is a low bar to clear, but yeah, I’m happy when women aren’t reduced to their decisions about children.

30 A Burglar’s Guide to the City; Geoff Manaugh - Manaugh sees cities (and architecture) in a way that most people don’t, and in this case he’s taking on the mantle of the law-breaker, the intruder. The book combines tales of epic burglaries involving tunnelling & hiding, LAPD helicopter ride-alongs, lock picking seminars, and tidbits about the securitization of the city. E.g. did you know that Paris’ nickname The City of Light came originally from its streetlights, which were installed on police orders?

31 Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure; Ingrid Burrington - Look, I know you need an excuse to look at your city through different eyes. And here it is! Obviously some of this is NY-specific, but having the ability to see the physical traces of the internet’s infrastructure is a great superpower to have.

32 Pond; Claire-Louise Bennett - lacking a thread of narrative through the entire book, it’s uncertain whether the best way to read this is as a novel, or as a series of short stories with the same protagonist. A woman lives in an Irish cottage, and equally divides her time musing about her surroundings and her own mental state. A quote I liked: “Then it occurred to me that perhaps I’d been terrified for longer than all day, and had rather mixed feelings upon realizing that - I wasn’t much keen on the idea that I’d been terrified for years, but it seemed possible”

33 Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature; Hab Wylie - This book looks a literature that acknowledges the Atlantic provinces as a contemporary space, rather than as a place frozen in time, and set outside the forces of globalization and finance. That latter notion is shorthanded as “the folk”, eg “The Folk paradigm is complicit in the colonial tactic of constructing the land as unoccupied, because it cultivates the impression that the Folk have always belonged here”

34 February; Lisa Moore - Inspired by the above, I picked up this one from the library. It covers the story of the Ocean Ranger, an oil rig that sank with all aboard off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982, and its long-term consequences for a particular family. I found the interlocking timelines to be pretty effective, and the emotional fallout from the disaster is handled with the appropriate weight and solemnity.

35 Combat Ready Kitchen: How the US Military Shapes the Way You Eat; Anastacia Marx de Salcedo - Once you find out how much military logistics affects the way the civilian world fabricates, ships and even eats, it’s hard not to want to dig in a bit further. This is the story of how military rations became industrial foods. Interestingly, where the “clean-eating” food world might expect the author to reject the convenience foods whose history she’s tracing here, she takes a far more pragmatic approach. I was a bit less fascinated by the specific scientific advancements, and wish more time had been spent on the history.

36 Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture; Jon Savage - A long monograph on adolescence prior to the creation (and cultural ascension) of the teenager in the post-WWII era. Naturally, no matter what the surrounding historical events, there’s always a generational divide between the young and their parents, and Savage plots that rift over and over again, from the 1890s to the 1940s. Sadly his research is restricted to Western Europe and North America only, I’d like to see something similar that has a broader scope (though I’m sure one of the prerequisites of a teen culture is some amount of surplus time, resources, etc which are certainly not available prior to the achievement of some serious development).

37 Our Young Man; Edmund White - A slim little thing (I’m sure all it ever snacks on is plain air-popped popcorn) with allusions to Oscar Wilde, and barely a place towards the AIDS crisis. A change of perspective in the final third was much appreciated, though the new protagonist is scarcely less self-obsessed than the first.

38 When God was a Rabbit; Sarah Winman - I felt a bit like this book’s reach exceeded its grasp. It felt more like a homey, British ensemble dramedy than the lofty Literature it presents itself to be. I was, however, with it until world events (I’ll keep it spoiler-free for y’all) crash into the narrative in a clumsy and un-earned fashion.

39 The Sport of Kings; CE Morgan - A huge, and wide-ranging tale about lineage, blood, wealth and slavery in Kentucky, with a thin veneer of horses to help the whole thing go down a bit easier. Both massively compelling and by times stomach-turning, this is book can be a rough read. I could see a tilt into High Melodrama appearing in the final quarter or so, and I wished mightily that it wouldn’t go where I thought it was going…..but it did.

40 The End of Average; Todd Rose - I was hoping for an interesting history of the science of averages, and/or the idea of designing for “the average human” and that’s what I got in the first third or so. Then the book devolves (or evolves, I guess, depending on your perspective) into a gung-ho self-help book about bootstrapping your way to the top, even if you’ve been disregarded your whole life. Meh.

2016 by the Numbers

Read on a screen 1

Read on paper ALL THE REST :):)

Book Club Reads 4 (our club met 7 times this year, but 3 of those book I’d finished in 2015)

Graphic Novels 2

Fiction 19

Nonfiction 21

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10 Best Gas Pressure Washer Reviews Of 2020 ( Updated List)

Best gas pressure washer is a trend nowadays that almost everyone tries to buy one for themselves. Previously, cleaning was an obsession for everyone because of the preparation of too many tools, time and energy, now it is not a problem if you have an gas pressure washer on hand.

Through many surveys and based on experience used across many types, we will offer the 9 best types of air pressure washer in 2020 so that you can choose the perfect one that suits your needs.

1. SIMPSON Cleaning MSH3125 MegaShot Gas Pressure Washer

This is considered the king of the gas pressure washer series because of its powerful, high-pressure engine that thoroughly eliminates all stains from easy to difficult. I am sure you will not believe your eyes because of its super-fast and super-clean feature, it even helps you remove old paint so you can replace a new one. So be careful when using it and remember to use boots when using this machine.

Simpson Cleaning MSH3125 MegaShot

However, the designer also considered its strength, so it created a safety lock system for spray guns, and the chassis was made of steel. Too perfect is not it!

Pros:

The outstanding advantage is that its cleaning feature along with the 5 nozzle design makes cleaning more flexible. The frame is made of steel so it is much more durable

Cons:

However, the machine is not entirely made of steel, there are still some parts made of plastic that can be damaged.

2. Simpson Cleaning MSH3125-S 3200 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

This is also a product that is competing fiercely with other products in the top because of its powerful engine. Equipped with wheels that can be easily moved on any terrain. With 3200 PSI output, it can easily remove the most difficult stains.

Simpson Cleaning MSH3125-S 3200 PSI

Only when you own it, do you feel that everything is really perfect. Not only the engine part and the material are also extremely solid. Comes with 5 nozzles, you can clean wherever you want like the yard, car or patio.

Pros:

Unlike other machines, it does not have components made from low quality plastic, so the durability is very high. In addition, you do not need to buy additional equipment as it has all what you want. And you can start cleaning right after buying it because it is extremely easy to use.

Cons:

Customer service is not very good, so many users hesitate to buy it

3. Generac 6922 with 2800 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

If you are looking for a device that is not too picky about features, just can clean up dirt and do the mid-range cleaning tasks, you should refer to this machine. It is not so strong that it can remove old paint, but it can still clean common stains like dirt, grease, etc. in cars or driveways.

Generac 6922 2,800 PSI, 2.4 GPM

The elegant, ergonomic design comes with a 25-foot high-pressure hose, four bundled nozzles and weighs just 57 pounds, making cleaning easier and also less effort-consuming.

Pros:

The designer always pays attention to the important parts of the machine including the pump so designed its position so that it is less damaged. There is also a special system to help fuel and turn off the coil to extend the life of the machine. Soap dispenser is also a bright point of this machine

Cons:

It is not yet equipped with pressure regulators. This is a pity, as many devices at the same price as this one have.

4. Generac SpeedWash 7122 Gas Pressure Washer

This machine is rated most versatile because of its features. It is equipped with a variety of devices to meet the needs of users: 3200 PSI and 2.7 GPM outputs, turbo hose for dirt and fairly large soap containers, electric brooms. … Because of this, the manufacturer confidently says that it can clean 50% faster than other models in the same segment.

Generac SpeedWash 7122 3200 PSI 2.7 GPM 196cc

With super-fast, super-clean and easy-to-use features, the user-friendly design makes it the desire of many users.

Pros:

Durable materials are always an important factor that consumers pay attention to, and this device does just that. Also the warranty lasts for 2-3 years is also a remarkable point.

Cons:

Although the warranty period is long, but you must follow the warranty principles of the company such as: change the oil after every 20 hours of use. If you often forget it, you need to pay attention to this. In addition, to own a good machine like this, you need to spend 1 small amount.

5. Karcher G2700 Gas Pressure Washer

To choose a satisfactory product, negotiation is also a deciding factor. And Kärcher has earned the trust of most customers. This machine has a pressure capacity of 2700 PSI and 2.5 GPM. You can do the cleaning with kids without having to worry as it comes with a safety lock designed specifically for children. Weighing 38.5 pounds, you can easily move and clean wherever you want. And of course its cleaning features are also excellent.

Karcher G2700R Gas Pressure Washer, 2700 PSI, 2.4 GPM

Pros:

Please rest assured if you choose it because it is always rated as a good product, the 3-year warranty will make you more secure, isn’t it. The price is also very reasonable.

Cons:

However, customer service has not yet been appreciated. Also some parts are made of materials that can easily cause damage during use so you need to pay more attention

6. Simpson Cleaning CM60912, 2400 PSI Gas Pressure Wash

This machine is rated as extremely convenient to use because its vertical design makes it easier to move. In addition to weighing just 38 pounds, you won’t get tired after every house cleaning.

SIMPSON Cleaning CM60912 Clean Machine

Equipped with 149PS SIMPSON OHV engine, 2400 PSI output at 2GMP, you can be assured how well this machine will work. It can clean your yard, car or wherever you need it. It will always make you satisfied and interested in the next clean.

Pros:

Customer service is quite good. In addition, it is made of good, durable material, so you do not have to worry about excessive cleaning

Cons:

Many people think that vertical design is not convenient, but that is only the first time. When you get used to it, you might like it

7. A-iPower APW2700C 7HP High Pressure Washer

If you only need a machine with good cleaning features and affordable price, you can refer to this machine.

A-iPower APW2700C 7HP High Pressure Washer 2700 PSI 2.3 GPM CARB Complied

With a cleaning capacity of 6210, detonates 2.3 gallons of water per minute and outputs 2700 PSI. Equipped with 3 nozzles with 3 different features to help you easily do what you want. With this design, you do not have to worry if your driveway is dirty, or clean the garden after every party because you only need a few minutes to clean it with this machine.

Pros:

Fully equipped with what an air pressure machine needs, can meet all your cleaning needs. The price is extremely reasonable.

Cons:

You will take more time with surfaces like concrete

8. PowerBoss Gas Pressure Washer

As the name implies, you can rest assured this device. Cleaning is no longer an obsession, but a joy in your life if you own it. Stains? Does not matter. Your job is just to operate and control the machine where you want to clean the PowerBoss. With HONDA GC190 engine, pressure 3100 PSI with 2.7 GPM will help you remove common stains, even stains that are difficult to clean. There is one more container of detergent, so please be assured that you will not be entangled with other attached devices.

PowerBoss 3100 MAX PSI at 2.4 GPM

Pros:

Although not the most powerful machine, its performance is no less than other machines, including rust.

Cons:

Do not use it with extremely serious stains because it will not help you much, in addition to the large front wheel design makes moving in tight places become more difficult.

9. Generac 6602 OneWash 3100 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

This is a machine that many users say it is an indispensable member of the house. Why is it possible to say that, for the following reasons?

The first thing is the design: compact with comfortable handle handy that makes everyone feel satisfied right from the first use. You do not need to spend a lot of time getting used to how to handle what is most convenient or how to walk. All you need is to operate and work because it is designed to be convenient.

Generac 6602 OneWash 3,100 PSI, 2.8 GPM, 4-in-1 PowerDial

The second is about its features: with a pressure of 3100 PSI, it is easy to clean stains on a variety of surfaces such as concrete floors, cars, terraces or any surface. more than ever. So now you no longer have to worry about seeing mold on surfaces or dirt or anything else because this machine will clean it for you.

Pros:

With just a simple push of a button, you can change the pressure level of this machine easily, in addition to the easy-to-use spray gun design, it is also a highly appreciated point in this device. .

Cons:

Some parts are made of low quality plastic so they can be damaged during use or storage. You should be aware of this.

What is Gas Pressure Washer

However, to better understand the pressure washer, we will briefly introduce this machine.

Air pressure washers are washers that use gasoline or diesel fuel to run the engine, and it’s usually more powerful than an electric pressure washer if you need a specialized tool to clean heavy dirt. If you have a large garden, large roads, and are always dirty with dirt, dirt or moss, it is indispensable for an air pressure washer.

The PSI (Pound per Square Inch) indicators show the cleaning level of this machine and it is usually higher in the air pressure washer series. So, depending on your usage, you can choose the machines based on this index.

Why Should You Think About Gas Pressure Washer

It can be seen that air pressure washer is a perfect tool for cleaning, especially for difficult stains. So every family should have a machine to serve our lives.

The first is to save energy because this machine has a large capacity, high efficiency in removing stains from easy to difficult, so you will not spend too much effort to try to clean but sometimes we must also surrender because it’s too hard to clean up.

The second is saving time and costs. You may find it strange because one device only costs a few hundred dollars, why save money. Try to calculate that each time you clean you will have to prepare a bunch of accompanying tools and of course it can not be used for a few years without being replaced, not only because it is time-consuming so sometimes bjan will have to hire more cleaner. So you’ve lost twice the cost already. But with this machine, you can use it for a long time with a warranty of up to 2-3 years so it is no longer your concern. If before, you had to spend all day cleaning but still not finished, then with this machine, it only takes a few hours, everything will be clean without any trace of dirt. Cleaning work is easier than ever.

Merits of Gas Pressure Washer

As can be seen, with the outlet pressure of these air pressure washer is quite large, so the removal of stains is easy. It not only removes grease, mud, dirt or moss that can help you remove old paint so you can paint a new layer of paint on wooden floors or a few other surfaces.

Most air pressure washers are made of extremely strong and durable materials, so its service life is much higher than that of other models.

Demerits of Gas Pressure Washer

Because it is made of sturdy materials, it is quite heavy, so it takes a bit of extra effort to control it, but because it is powered by gasoline, it will usually make quite a loud noise, this can affect. to your neighbors or other family members.

Another point is that due to its strong force, you should be careful when using it. If you are careless, it will cause serious damage to the bjan’s gear as well as yourself

So, based on your needs, choose the right one

The Gas Pressure Washers Buying Guide

If you have time to go to the store and take a closer look at each type of device, you will choose one like that and fully understand it thanks to the sales people. However, if you are too busy, please refer to some suggestions from us to choose the most appropriate.

Power Source

This is important to operate the machine. And of course you don’t want to be limited to cleaning space just because of the Power Source

Terrain

Based on the actual situation, please choose the machine whose design matches the terrain you desire. It is a hidden corner or a rugged place that you must pay attention to

Water pressure strength

Of course, these machines have very good cleaning. However, there will be stains on some surfaces that cannot be cleaned by this machine. So based on your needs, choose a machine with strong or moderate water pressure.

Price

If it’s just a simple cleaning job, then you shouldn’t look for expensive machines. Make choices based on your needs and financial capacity

The PSI And GPM Output

PSI is an important indicator that you need to consider first because it shows the level of water pressure. Based on the needs you choose whether high or low water pressure is required. A higher reading means stronger water pressure and vice versa.

GPM is a measure of the amount of water supplied by a pump. It is also very important because if the water supply is good, the cleaning will go more smoothly

Important Notice

Only use air pressure washer for difficult problems such as too many stains and too hard for a long time.

And do not forget to design with safety systems is always necessary if you have young children

How To Set Up A Gas Powered Pressure Washer

Check the oil

In order for the machine to work properly, check the oil regularly, to avoid emptying the oil tank will easily damage the surrounding parts as well as your objects.

Fill up the gas tank

Cleaning work will not be interrupted if the tank is full of gas because this machine uses gasoline power.

Spray gun

Adjust the spray gun to suit your purpose. Manufacturers always design a variety of spray guns to bring the most convenience to the user. So use them flexibly

High-Pressure Hose

Tighten the connections of the high-pressure hose to other parts to avoid leakage when in use, which will reduce the functionality of the device.

Plug into the water source

Test the flow of your water – turn it on and see if the water is clear. This way you will make sure that the stale water is removed from the hose, and that the hose is clean. Plug it into the coupler and then into the pressure washer. Tighten everything to prevent leaking. Now, simply turn on the water source.

Cleaners, start your engine!

Let the cleaning commence

Frequently Asked Questions About Gas Pressure Washers

What Are The Benefits Of A Gas-Powered Pressure Washer?

The first is the power to run the machine. Because it uses energy from gasoline, you don’t need to worry about electricity, especially in faraway or rural areas. In addition, the power is much stronger than the other models so you can be assured of its cleaning performance.

What Can You Clean With A Gas Pressure Washer?

Of course, all hard surfaces are covered with dirt. I will give a few examples

Driveways

Usually, the driveways are always full of dirt, grease, dirt or dirt, and especially it is made of concrete so it will not be smooth. But this machine will help you clean to the smallest dust particles

Patios

Mosses are always annoying and the porch looks old. No worries because this machine will clean them up and return the clean space like new to you

Furniture

This machine is also used for some outdoor furniture. however, attention should be paid to outlet pressures to avoid damaging them

Siding

With its features, it can clean dust and dirt from them or long-term stains. However, please rely on the quality to adjust the machine accordingly

Cars

Dubbed the best gas pressure washer for cars because they can take care of your beloved car into a glossy, even car mat.

Windows

Since they are made of ordinary glass, adjust the outlet pressure of the device, you may not need to change a series of new glass.

Paint removal

Removing old paints is so easy that it doesn’t take much effort or time if you use this machine

Electric vs. Gas Pressure Washer?

There are many differences between these two models

The first is the energy used. If Electric Washer uses electricity to operate will make the output pressure power is weaker, then Gas Pressure Washer powered by gas will be more efficient.

The second is the material. Gas Washer will usually be made mostly of durable materials that are difficult to break down, Electric Washer will have some parts made of plastic. Although the Gas Pressure Washer will be heavier, it will be equipped with more wheels, so users will be easier to use.

Best Power Washer Comparison Chart

PRODUCT WEIGHT (POUNDS) DIMENSIONS (INCHES) PSI GPM CLEANING POWER Simpson MS60763-S 63 33 x 18 x 23 3100 2.4 7440 Simpson MSH3125-S 65 34.7 x 21 x 23.2 3200 2.5 8000 Generac 6922 57 24.4 x 18.8 x 35.4 2800 2.4 6720 Generac SpeedWash 7122 62 24.2 x 18.9 x 35.5 3200 2.7 8640 Karcher G2700 48.5 23.6 x 39.4 x 21.6 2700 2.5 6750 SIMPSON Cleaning CM60912 38 19.5 x 14.25 x 23.5 2400 2.0 4800 A-iPower APW2700C 7HP High Pressure Washer 62.9 21 x 18 x 22 2700 2.3 6210 PowerBoss Gas Pressure Washer 62 24 x 22.5 x 20.5 3100 2.7 8370 Generac 6602 OneWash 68.5 20.6 x 21 x 39.5 3100 2.8 8680

The Conclusion

Above is the share that we gathered from the experience of use as well as the feedback of many users so you can understand the important role of Gas Pressure Washer in today’s life. It will help you save time, cost, effort and you can still own a nice clean space, shiny new equipment thanks to Gas Pressure Washer

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Through many surveys and based on experience used across many types, we will offer the 9 best types of air pressure washer in 2020 so that you can choose the perfect one that suits your needs.

1. SIMPSON Cleaning MSH3125 MegaShot Gas Pressure Washer

Simpson Cleaning MSH3125 MegaShot

However, the designer also considered its strength, so it created a safety lock system for spray guns, and the chassis was made of steel. Too perfect is not it!

Pros:

The outstanding advantage is that its cleaning feature along with the 5 nozzle design makes cleaning more flexible. The frame is made of steel so it is much more durable

Cons:

However, the machine is not entirely made of steel, there are still some parts made of plastic that can be damaged.

2. Simpson Cleaning MSH3125-S 3200 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

Simpson Cleaning MSH3125-S 3200 PSI

Pros:

Cons:

Customer service is not very good, so many users hesitate to buy it

3. Generac 6922 with 2800 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

Generac 6922 2,800 PSI, 2.4 GPM

The elegant, ergonomic design comes with a 25-foot high-pressure hose, four bundled nozzles and weighs just 57 pounds, making cleaning easier and also less effort-consuming.

Pros:

Cons:

It is not yet equipped with pressure regulators. This is a pity, as many devices at the same price as this one have.

4. Generac SpeedWash 7122 Gas Pressure Washer

Generac SpeedWash 7122 3200 PSI 2.7 GPM 196cc

With super-fast, super-clean and easy-to-use features, the user-friendly design makes it the desire of many users.

Pros:

Durable materials are always an important factor that consumers pay attention to, and this device does just that. Also the warranty lasts for 2-3 years is also a remarkable point.

Cons:

5. Karcher G2700 Gas Pressure Washer

Karcher G2700R Gas Pressure Washer, 2700 PSI, 2.4 GPM

Pros:

Please rest assured if you choose it because it is always rated as a good product, the 3-year warranty will make you more secure, isn’t it. The price is also very reasonable.

Cons:

However, customer service has not yet been appreciated. Also some parts are made of materials that can easily cause damage during use so you need to pay more attention

6. Simpson Cleaning CM60912, 2400 PSI Gas Pressure Wash

This machine is rated as extremely convenient to use because its vertical design makes it easier to move. In addition to weighing just 38 pounds, you won’t get tired after every house cleaning.

SIMPSON Cleaning CM60912 Clean Machine

Pros:

Customer service is quite good. In addition, it is made of good, durable material, so you do not have to worry about excessive cleaning

Cons:

Many people think that vertical design is not convenient, but that is only the first time. When you get used to it, you might like it

7. A-iPower APW2700C 7HP High Pressure Washer

If you only need a machine with good cleaning features and affordable price, you can refer to this machine.

A-iPower APW2700C 7HP High Pressure Washer 2700 PSI 2.3 GPM CARB Complied

Pros:

Fully equipped with what an air pressure machine needs, can meet all your cleaning needs. The price is extremely reasonable.

Cons:

You will take more time with surfaces like concrete

8. PowerBoss Gas Pressure Washer

PowerBoss 3100 MAX PSI at 2.4 GPM

Pros:

Although not the most powerful machine, its performance is no less than other machines, including rust.

Cons:

Do not use it with extremely serious stains because it will not help you much, in addition to the large front wheel design makes moving in tight places become more difficult.

9. Generac 6602 OneWash 3100 PSI Gas Pressure Washer

This is a machine that many users say it is an indispensable member of the house. Why is it possible to say that, for the following reasons?

Generac 6602 OneWash 3,100 PSI, 2.8 GPM, 4-in-1 PowerDial

Pros:

With just a simple push of a button, you can change the pressure level of this machine easily, in addition to the easy-to-use spray gun design, it is also a highly appreciated point in this device. .

Cons:

Some parts are made of low quality plastic so they can be damaged during use or storage. You should be aware of this.

What is Gas Pressure Washer

However, to better understand the pressure washer, we will briefly introduce this machine.

Why Should You Think About Gas Pressure Washer

It can be seen that air pressure washer is a perfect tool for cleaning, especially for difficult stains. So every family should have a machine to serve our lives.

Merits of Gas Pressure Washer

Most air pressure washers are made of extremely strong and durable materials, so its service life is much higher than that of other models.

Demerits of Gas Pressure Washer

Another point is that due to its strong force, you should be careful when using it. If you are careless, it will cause serious damage to the bjan’s gear as well as yourself

So, based on your needs, choose the right one

The Gas Pressure Washers Buying Guide

Power Source

This is important to operate the machine. And of course you don’t want to be limited to cleaning space just because of the Power Source

Terrain

Based on the actual situation, please choose the machine whose design matches the terrain you desire. It is a hidden corner or a rugged place that you must pay attention to

Water pressure strength

Price

If it’s just a simple cleaning job, then you shouldn’t look for expensive machines. Make choices based on your needs and financial capacity

The PSI And GPM Output

GPM is a measure of the amount of water supplied by a pump. It is also very important because if the water supply is good, the cleaning will go more smoothly

Important Notice

Only use air pressure washer for difficult problems such as too many stains and too hard for a long time.

And do not forget to design with safety systems is always necessary if you have young children

How To Set Up A Gas Powered Pressure Washer

Check the oil

In order for the machine to work properly, check the oil regularly, to avoid emptying the oil tank will easily damage the surrounding parts as well as your objects.

Fill up the gas tank

Cleaning work will not be interrupted if the tank is full of gas because this machine uses gasoline power.

Spray gun

Adjust the spray gun to suit your purpose. Manufacturers always design a variety of spray guns to bring the most convenience to the user. So use them flexibly

High-Pressure Hose

Tighten the connections of the high-pressure hose to other parts to avoid leakage when in use, which will reduce the functionality of the device.

Plug into the water source

Cleaners, start your engine!

Let the cleaning commence

Frequently Asked Questions About Gas Pressure Washers

What Are The Benefits Of A Gas-Powered Pressure Washer?

What Can You Clean With A Gas Pressure Washer?

Of course, all hard surfaces are covered with dirt. I will give a few examples

Driveways

Patios

Mosses are always annoying and the porch looks old. No worries because this machine will clean them up and return the clean space like new to you

Furniture

This machine is also used for some outdoor furniture. however, attention should be paid to outlet pressures to avoid damaging them

Siding

With its features, it can clean dust and dirt from them or long-term stains. However, please rely on the quality to adjust the machine accordingly

Cars

Dubbed the best gas pressure washer for cars because they can take care of your beloved car into a glossy, even car mat.

Windows

Since they are made of ordinary glass, adjust the outlet pressure of the device, you may not need to change a series of new glass.

Paint removal

Removing old paints is so easy that it doesn’t take much effort or time if you use this machine

Electric vs. Gas Pressure Washer?

There are many differences between these two models

The first is the energy used. If Electric Washer uses electricity to operate will make the output pressure power is weaker, then Gas Pressure Washer powered by gas will be more efficient.

Best Power Washer Comparison Chart

The Conclusion

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