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if you were a strawberry shortcake character, what desert would u be inspired by??
Chocolate chip cookies!!! I love them so much!!!
#unless you count waffles as a dessert#if you do then waffles all da way#askie#still bored#gonna answer the last one later#i have a lot to say about it
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Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh today I've been constantly experiencing the urge to un-private today-in-the-devildom & start writing for it again
#i'm gonna ramble in the tags but#i've been talking with starr (if you're reading this--hi starr!! <3) about the blog today and sharing some of the entries#and it just made me miss it so much#+ the conversation actually made me realize some other reasons why i didn't enjoy the blog in general anymore#like i genuinely love the blog and i genuinely loved writing for it & that conversation reminded me of that#but also there were so many reasons that ultimately pushed me to more or less abandon the blog & then later private it too#so i'm kind of at a loss here#tbh i think i'm mostly just scared to pick the blog up again only for it to end exactly like last time i picked it back up#i've actually always wanted for the blog to be a source of inspiration y'know?#like the things mentioned in the entries are kinda just small ideas right#i was hoping that people would read these & feel inspired to write or draw something of their own based on my entries#that was actually what made me start the blog in the first place. the hope that i could inspire others that way#aaahhhhhh.... maybe it's on me since i could have more openly communicated that idea......#i did get to meet one wonderful person who wrote a few fics based on my entries tho!! (hi ali <3)#but yeah..there's that#also the way engagement just dropped significantly after a while#like i know i was gone for a good while & that a lot of people left the fandom and all that#but still getting maybe one reblog if i'm lucky really feels like a punch to the gut#ESPECIALLY considering that i was close to 900 followers on there#do you guys know that feeling when you proudly show someone you care about something you did only to get a disinterested answer?#yeah...#that's essentially how it feels like to me#and well as you might know the feeling of “why should i keep writing if apparently no one cares” eventually won... haha.....#but aaaahhhhh i'm still clinging onto the hope & what ifs here#that conversation with starr really just made me forget about everything that frustrated me about the blog & left me with this#longing feeling to start again lol#hey if you've made it this far into the tags let me just ask--would you care if i picked the blog back up?#would you also *show* that you care?#i'm actually quite curious (you could almost call me george lol)#anyway maybe we'll see each other on today-in-the-devildom again in the future.. who knows
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When Joel’s settled in and he and Maria are on their way to becoming best friends, they dedicate their free time to teasing Tommy whenever they can. Joel tells her all the embarrassing stories from when Tommy was younger that he was too embarrassed to tell his wife, and Maria tells him stories from more recent, like how he embarrassed himself when he started flirting with her.
Also, Joel totally makes joking comments like ‘Tommy, you’re just lucky you met her first’
okay anon. bestie. i literally screamed at this it is 7 am and i at squealing like a pig in my bedroom rn because YES. JOEL FLIRTING WITH MARIA TO BOTHER TOMMY?? FUCK YES. so so so funny to me
i tried to write a little fic to show how similar and funny joel and maria would be together regarding teasing or chewing out tommy, and anon because this gave me joy, i hope i can return the favor with this!
this is what i’d imagine it would be like if both joel and maria had to deal with an injured tommy:
“Tommy goddamn Miller!” Joel bellows, because of fuckin’ course he does. Goddamn drama queen.
“Oh, here we go.”
“Did I not tell you five times, you stupid goddamn idiot, that the Davis’s fuckin’ roof was too unstable for us to fix?”
“Joel, I know. I got a broken fuckin’ leg here already. You really don’t need to—“
“And did I not repeat myself three times when I said I think we should wait on fixing the leak until we can find a way to reinforce the structure?”
“…”
“Well?”
“…”
“Did I not say that three fuckin’ times, Tommy?”
“Apparently you did, Joel.”
“Then why don’t you go on and explain to me, God, and all the nurses in here why in the hell you would decide to just mosey on up there anyways?”
“I wasn’t trying to—! I thought I coul—,”
“You thought you could? You thought you could, right, okay. Do you remember when you thought you could jump off of the Dillon’s roof, drunk off your ass at your graduation party?”
“It was into their pool!”
“It was stupid, is what is was. You had three compound fractures, Tommy. You got a fuckin’ concussion —I’m not arguing about that again, for fuck’s sake.”
“You brought it up.”
“Tommy.”
“What?”
“Tommy.”
“Okay, okay! M’Sorry, sorry, geez! I thought I could at least get high enough to see what needed repairing from the top without getting too close to the weak spot, okay? How was I supposed to know the whole goddamn roof would come down?”
“I fuckin’ told you I thought the roof might come down yesterday, Tommy.”
“Oh, really? You did? How many times?”
Joel gave him a flat look. “You’re not funny.”
“My niece would beg to differ. Where is she, anyway?”
“Still out cleanin’ the stables with Jesse and Dina. Should be here soon, though. I asked a nurse to find her and tell her to meet us here.”
“Oh, come on, Joel, don’t! That’s just gonna worry her! I’m fine!”
“You’re in an infirmary bed, Tommy, with a broken goddamn leg. You ain’t fuckin’ fine.”
“Yeah, well, the Dillon’s pool was way worse.”
“Wha—No it wasn’t! Either way, you shouldn’t have fuckin’—I am not gonna argue with you about that again—,”
“Tommy Miller!” Maria’s voice, a dangerous mixed of urgently worried and pissed off, interrupts Joel’s ranting.
“Shit,” Tommy mumbles once, just before she comes in. Joel smirks pointedly at him, which he chooses to ignore. He tries his best to give her a charming smile, the one that usually works to at least soften her up a bit. “Uh, hey Hone—“
“Don’t fucking hey Honey me, you fuckin’ Miller! You fell through a goddamn roof?”
“No! Or, er—not really. Kind of.”
“What the fuck do you mean, kind of?”
“Well, first off, I’m completely oka—“
“You have a broken leg, Tommy.”
“Shut up, Joel, I’m mostly fine—,”
“What happened?” Maria interrupts them again.
“Well. Technically, uh—,”
“Technically he fell off the roof, ma’am. Piece he was usin’ to climb up wasn’t stable, so he slipped. Slid straight off it, I heard—,”
“Fuck off, Joel.”
“Which is actually worse for you than falling straight down, I think. Technically.”
“I swear to God, Joel, you better shut your stupid mouth, or I’ll—,”
“Or you’ll what? What’re you gonna do, roundhouse kick me on one leg?”
“I’ll kick you somewhere, that’s for fuckin’ sure—,”
“Boys,” Maria stopped them.
“Sorry,” they both mumbled sheepishly.
Maria just closed her eyes, heaving out a sigh and putting her face in her hands.
Tommy grimaced at her rare show of stress. She often didn’t like letting anyone see her worry, not even him and Joel, despite how close the three have become. “Really, baby. It’s okay. I’m just fine.”
“It’s okay, I’m just fine,” she mocks sarcastically, accent at all. It makes Joel laugh, as always, which at least brings a small smile to her fact. “Tommy. You’re in a hospital bed with a broken leg, and Esther just told me you might have a concussion. You’re not fine.”
Joel gives him a pointed look at the repeat of his own words from earlier, and Tommy has to resist sticking out his tounge. Still, he can’t quite bring himself to complain about their smothering—not in the face of this much love. He shuts up and accepts it.
#what is she gonna do with those two#joel and maria best friend agenda#asked and answered#THANK YOU SO MUCH ANON ILY ILY ILY#gonna write a whole entire fic abt the ways joel and maria bonding makes tommy feel#he’d be so happy to have his families together into one#the millers#my writing#shall this go on ao3? it’s so short but it works in the tommymaria universe im tryna develop rn#tlou#maria miller#tommy miller#joel miller#jackson shenanigans#tlou hbo#the last of us#sorry if the spacing is weird im in mobile and copied from google docs#will fix later
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#so like late last night i started to get rlly panicky nd upset#bc it's v much looking like im gnna fail my english class. i need to be done next wednesday which means i need to work rlly hard#nd go to school extra to have a presentation nd do tests etc etc#nd im still in pain after surgery nd im rlly depressed bc of my physical health so i just dont think i can be strong nd make it this time#in my almost breakdown i wrote a self referral to the clinic/psych department for personality disorders....#it usually takes them around 2 days to answer you but this time at like 8am they sent me a message AND called me#(i think. im not certain it's them bc i havent checked the voice message or the reply lmaooo. but it should be them)#the thing abt having avpd is now im immediately stressed af nd i regret sending it. i donr wanna check their reply#also it might be bc i wrote a lot abt killing myseld etc etc nd now im worried theyre gnna be like girlie get checked in!!!! lol T-T#i just needed to be very clear nd act frsutrted nd desperate bc i have never gotten treatment in 10yrs nd im TIRED!!!!#my initial reaction is to avoid at all costs nd just pull my covers above my head nd pretend like i dont have to check their reply lol#i dont wannaaaaaa. i take it back i dont want help!!! its fine i dont wanna try or work hard let me rot#why did i do this!!!!! fml. anyway... i'll check later today bc since its early i can still use the excuse of sleepinf thru the days#many ppl working w mentally ill ppl understand that it's normal actually to switch the day around nd sleep during the days sksksk#but also i have no idea how many typos r in here bc im not wearing my glasses whoopsie#yeah.. anyway im gonna try to go back to sleep nd not think abt it#hopefully it wasnt even them calling 🤡 i know i HAVE to check later but not now i can take a few hours#then today i need to figure out if im gnna make one last attempt w my eng class or give up idk what to do
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#river dipping#theodore doe#echthroi#ts4#was it necessary to share these pics too? no#but i've been wanting to get some mileage out of this jerma clip i saved the other day#if tumblr wasn't a site run by cowards i'd have already used this clip under one of the extras i took for that mattodore dirty talk ask#that i answered weeks ago wherein mattodore are fucking full on but alas.......... </3#anyway let me check my activity feed and then i will once again be playing lemon eyes from matthias's playlist#and heading back to the mines (google docs) to toil away..... wish me luck friends and lovers bc i was agonizing last night#i might come back later tho and play catch up w/ the dash despite knowing how that will inevitably spiral into me being on here for like#five hours straight like it ALWAYS does whenever i say i'm gonna catch up..... fjfhkgkjgd#i rlly have to avoid tumblr all together when i'm trying to do things otherwise i get roped in and can't climb back out what can i say
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So in this universe are you Mews/Twos following mammal habits with your kits? Nursing young, being maternal/paternal, ect? And if that's the case, who will be taking over raising Beansprout since One is in such a unique position.
There’s a post as part of my growing queue of Saturday Plot posts that answers this. But since that’ll be a while off.
Yes, Mew follow mammalian rules to a point but they also don’t? They do pregnancy for internal development up until the last trimester, then they have an egg and the baby is supposed to develop there until hatching. There was two instances of baby mews not forming eggs at birth though and that was Grave, and Omega. Technically Sprout can be added now since she never had an egg either.
Alpha wasn’t born they don’t count.
They don’t produce milk either but the later gen mews did enlist Milktanks just cause Moomoo Milk is so nutritious they seek it out for the healthiest kits. Sprout is gonna have moomoo milk that’s fortified into a proper baby formula.
The mewtwo genetics team will be caring for him, with the Mirage Program of course keeping an eye over night with a night time feeder to make sure Sprout develops properly. It’s a volunteer basis but of course the team lead will lead by example and volunteer too. So at least 9, Glim, Tyler, and several of their human coworkers will take turns. Gemini would but Sam is a bit irrationally terrified by how tiny Sprout is and they’re a packaged deal and all that.
#ask#ask blog#mew oc#mew lore#mewtwo oc#sprout is barely two and a half months developed#he’s gonna be small for a while being that preme#which is great cause I get to make fun things later about the tiny baby running around if they make it#even if they don’t I can still make those posts as what-ifs#I know the answer#but you guys don’t#if you know then you know#also to the commenter that keeps asking things in comments#I answer asks#just slow at it#I don’t answer comments usually#bonus very last tag#no one’s pointed out sprouts tag lol
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i was going to have a beautiful bowl of fruit and granola and pineapple cottage cheese but when i opened my fresh new cottage cheese container it was MOLDY 😭😭 and the friends i messaged about market reccs haven't answered me!! and it's gray and cold out!!!!!!!!!!
#and my ex fave coworker (quit) who i thought was my friend has been really cagey about answering my texts for months#& didn't even answer the last one at ALL which i assume means she just doesn't want to talk to me. but i truly thought we were good friends#and i don't know what i did. but i'm not gonna push if somebody makes it clear they don't want to talk to me.#whatever. there's a food fest the next neighborhood over that i'm going to go to later i hope i can eat something good there#i'm tired of going to stuff alone all the time. oh well. pathetic time is over i am facing my sunday#chatpost
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from the weird asks post: #1 who is/are your comfort characters?
As of right now, Keqing from Genshin Impact. And up to certain extend also Ganyu but only when she's with Keqing
She is the picture of perfection in my eyes. I love reading fanfic of her all the time: when I'm sad, when I'm anxious, when I'm happy, when I'm bored.... Literally all the time 🤣
Also this lil cute gremlin: Dom from Animal Crossing
I thought I had a picture myself of his shenanigans, guess not 😅 he's just cute, he's always talking about doing exercise and having big muscles and he is the only villager who gifts me stylish clothes consistently 🤣 an his facial expressions are so adorable!!
#was gonna answer this one later cause I had to think#but then i thought of keqing answering abother one#and who am i kidding im i love with her#i still have to show you the phone!!#i got it last week and im scared of taking it outside#but its sooooo pretty#then theres dom#hes literally the cutest#and he likes singing#and hes a sheep#and hes a jock#there is no reason to not love him#i courl rant about how much i love these 2 honestly foreve#but ill exercise some of my restraint muscles so dom can be proud of me 😌#ask the brain#about me
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the way i balance staying true to my tumblrina nature while also having a job and bills and rent is that at work while cleaning a room ill think of something id like to post and then repeat it over and over in my head and refine it until it sounds right and then i either post it as soon as i get a second to Or i forget it bc i think of anew post to make. and they always get 0 notes but its ok
#not a lot to post abt in a retirement home. its like yep this room is exactly the same as it was last week and the week before as well.#2day we mughtve had a missing resident idk. i also fink i saw her like 2 seconds b4 she went missing so im sure they found her#i was just sitting in the lunch room Seething and Coping ( iwas 40 minutes behind and had just found out i had an extra room on top of that#btw i didnt get out until 4:30. my shift ends at 330 but my ride leaves at 4 and due to The crisis my boss said i can stay clocked in until#4 so that i can do liberty and get overtime et cetera. whats hard is sometimes when i say et cetera i want you to read it as et cetera but#other times i want you to read it as E.T. cetera. but what can you do.#anyways where was i. right i was in the lunchroom oh also my ride didnt leave without me bc marians my bestie. anyways. i was in the break#room idk why i keep calling it the lunchroom im not a highschooler. its a breakroom we just sometimes eat lunch in there when im not outsid#or hiding in Closet <3333333333#aaaanyways what was i talking abt. a good thing abt desktop tumblr is that i can read through all the tags so far#mobile its like a whole debacle basically. idr how but its like. whatever ider what i was talking about hold on#oh right. so i was in the break room and there was a nurse in there and on the walkie (they all have walkies. brenda also has one) i heard#someone go Sooo 245 wasnt in her room and she wasnt in the cafeteria :worried: im gonna look around 2nd but keep an eye out..#and then like a minute later that nurse got up and quickly left idk if she got a different message bc i was listening to starstruck by sorr#and trying to figure out how expensive (indian restaurant) is. the answer is very ughhh i just wanted butter chicken and garlic naan and#rice and that wouldve been THIRTY DOLLARSSS :sobbed: it is very very good food though#i caint get it anyway my check hasnt come in. Tee be honest i might go ahead and order it anyway once my check does come in i rly rly want#butter chicken rn. if in being honest.#also the nurse was playing like a kids cooking channel youtube video rly loudly and the guy in it was obnoxious and i was having such a bad#day i was just sitting there hunched over in a corner forehead against the counter it was diree guys.#the way i made 'yeah i overheard on one of the nurses walkies that they couldnt find a resident for a couple minutes' into a 10 paragraph#debacle. this is what i mean when i say i have to be a tumblrina do you know how dire it would be if i had a social life and went outside#somebody would be like hey how has your day been! and id make it into a 15 hour long historical reenactment. lord
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You chose "mystery with romance"
(Read before answering the poll)
You and Captain Lek rush towards the source of the noise. However, you quickly fall behind the other. It is just one thing after the other, isn't it?
By the time you reach Captain Lek, everyone is gathered around a pile of containers. Some are tossed haphazardly around on the ground, they must have fallen off the pile. Clearly this was the source of the noise.
"Someone must've bumped into them?" You say, more as a question. Because the boxes look big, and you actually know from experience that they're heavy. Your crew delivered a few shipments of these boxes recently, it was one of the rushed important orders you had to complete.
Normally, you know exactly what you're delivering, but these strange light blue boxes with some words plastered on the front in a language you don't recognize are unknown to you. In between all the other orders you had to do and your First Officer passing out suddenly, you just honestly didn't have the time to check. All you know for sure is that moving them was a pain, and accidently knocking them over is an unlikely scenario.
Looking around, however, shows crewmembers investigating the boxes. It doesn't seem like anyone's owning up to being the one responsible for the mess. Maybe whoever did it got startled and ran off? You really hope it wasn't a member of your crew who did so.
You glance over at Captain Lek who is staring intensely at the boxes. "Indeed." Huh, that was quite a bit of a pause before they responded.
You can't get a read on their facial expression, but still, you get a sense that they think something odd happened here as well.
Before you get a chance to ask anything, Captain Lek and a few other crew mates' heads snap towards the wall on your left. You follow their line of sight, but all you see is a closed door. After a moment of silence, two of the Vulcans, whose names you did not catch, go to investigate the door.
Captain Lek, however, instead of joining them, as you would've expected from the captain, gestures for you to follow them. You quietly comply. You want to ask questions, but you just feel so tired. Captain Lek must be able to tell, as they drop you off in medbay.
Medbay?
You're tired, but you don't think it's that serious.
Or is it? Within seconds of sitting on one of the biobeds, you can already feel yourself slipping into unconsciousness. You have just enough of your wits to notice that the rest of your crew is here as well.
That seems odd.
Actually, so many things seem odd. Before you close your eyes, you make a vow to yourself to...
#oh my god so many people voted in that last one#would you guys wanna vote on either the human captain or vulcan captain's characteristics??#I really had no idea how that last poll was gonna go#but I think this option works for me!#already kind of know where the direction is heading#hope y'all enjoyed this update!#careful choosing you can only ask one question (but maybe you'll find the rest of the answers later on :insert that one eyes emoji:#ugh desktop#vulcans#humans#star trek#polls#choose your own adventure#sorry this section wasn't v long but things are kicking off now!
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hello! If you're still open for them- 27, 33 and 34 for the character asks? :)
I am, thank you for the ask!
1. How does your character view themselves? (Expectations, intelligence, confidence, self-belief, etc.)
While she knows that she has an above average skill in white magic, she still doesn't see herself as some great, all powerful mage. Perhaps because of her mindfulness of respecting the land and its aether she rarely ever takes more then what is needed when healing or in combat- the latter something she rarely sees on an actual high stakes level to require her to reach her limits. She knows that she is strong, but knowing how physically weak she is compared to most fighters theirs always the small voice that reminds her she'd be rather helpless in the right circumstances.
Apperance wise she sees herself as fairly average and plain- not in a bad way, but considering she wears little makeup (usually just a lipstick) and has very few pieces of jewelry or lavish clothing it's just a matter of fact to her. When it comes to intelligence however she believe herself to have a rather good knowledge. Nothing incredibly scholarly or worldy but in the fields she's required to know stuff in; she knows it well. Magical and physical healing, survivial skills, local history, hunting and tracking (mostly on those last three, amnesia is a bitch), she's confident she's more then just a novice in those areas.
However she also didn't know what a train was until about a year ago but- we all have our faults
33. What are three positive traits your character has?
Willing to give most people second chances. Nuturing and caring nature. Sticks to her values and easily resists temptations of power or evils. By extension is very loyal to those around her, which to point 1 and 3 can be a detriment (but i'll bring that up in the negative traits)
34. What are three negative traits your character has?
Easily paranoid and prone to depression, the former has caused her to seclude herself after giving birth, fearing that someone would take her son or harm him if she let him out of her sight (her husband had only died 6 or so months prior to his birth).
Sometimes too stuck in her values, she see's most if not all Black magic as a negative. This stems mostly from what she's learned as a white mage and the history of the Twelveswood/Amdapor.
You could see this as a negative or positive trait but becuse of her caring and loyal nature, combined with her willingness to give others second chances can be a detriment to her. Giving a second chance to a friend in need to who is trying to redeem themself but will only lead her into further danger; yet she does not want to just abandon them when they still need help even after she's been hurt. She's not gullible or naive- simply unable to give up on others at times.
#answered asks#i got my wisdom teeth yoinked a few hours ago so now I'm free to relax for the next few days#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#ffxiv oc#audrey valentine#the train thing is so funny to me#i made it up on a whim because one of my friends characters refurbished a garlean train to use as a venue#and because iirc the only 'trains' in eorzea are in thanalan#which is a place she's never really been#she had NO idea what they were#that last negative point is based on a friends RP plot going on rn#they helped her multiple times including the attempt on her life#not to mention the gifts they have given each other#while helping her out audrey was forced into some bad PTSD and among some other details the others still have doubts about this person and#if they're worth helping#but she still wants to continue on helping them#(which i bring this up as a negative because my friend told me whats gonna happen later in the plot and SHEESH)
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jerma compilation video set to psycho killer by talking heads you will go down in history
#river dipping#jerma#that clip of him laughing w/o moving a single muscle in his face kills me every time#anyway hi good morning i once again did not come online yesterday kdfnjhdkfjh#i did log in to queue stewy succession posts to main tho <3#actually atm my anxiety is Through The Roof but nevertheless we persist and we come online anyway#i finished the character page photos for the echthroi crew last night btw!!! will post them later i think#rn i want to go through simblr bc i'm very behind it's a little embarrassinggggggg dfkjhdnk#proof of how single-minded i can be bc if i'm doing one thing with my ocs it's like. i just can't do anything else.#i finished both theo and matthias's like actual character pages too <3 it helped that i'd pretty much already answered asks with their bios#i do think i'm going to go back in there tho and edit theo's to include more of what i left out in the original ask...#i also think i wanna add more abt the reformation boarding school matthias went to... kind of a big part of him that i left out#there's just a lot that happens to my ocs that i just don't mention bc i just know it's A Lot of Trauma and i don't want to talk abt it#hmmmmm what else is there to say...... well i think i'll make the echthroi character page live if you wanna peruse it's just /echthroi#i'm gonna work on imani's page next i think but i have to draft everything out first#umm and i added playlist links <3 everyone's playlists are still wips but theo's playlist is thirty songs already what can i say
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#took myself out for like 3 hrs today 😔#was going to go to this hort club work party to hang at the greenhouses & get scholarship hours but idk i didnt really feel like it after i#got a cramp just as i was about to leave#so i went to a nearby thrift shop & got a shirt hat & pair of socks#then to another thrift shop near campus & like the greek housing & got some earings socks again & a flannel#and most of that will be used for my internship#all of that cost a little over $10 total hehehe#and then i walked to campus to get some cash & scan/print my id & stuff for the internship#only to realize that i can't use my printing funds bc my fafsa isnt in yet & ive been charged a late fee & they blocked some stuff.......#which made me soooo happy :)))#but anyways im home now & im gonna have a snack & make dinner & clean & do whatever else that needs to be done later#dl#also...i texted my mom about the fafsa last night to get it out of the way bc my sis wasnt able to find the taxes in my moms apt....bc my#mom isnt organized at all so i did & then did a bunch of things to not think about it#and she called both my sis & i this morning & both of us didnt answer#but i thought she was calling me to like yell at me about the text or something#only for her to message us both in a gc to say that she just needed to know if we were ok but apparently she got a call#saying that one of us had been kidnapped & that they wanted money lol & we were like were ok 😬#but it left us super confused & she just didnt answer after we reassured her like....ok then moving along#now im just waiting to see if she'll send me what i need......#my sis said i shouldve given her monday as the deadline but i didnt want my text to seem so demanding....#all of this is so complicated#i feel lonely lol....like my best friend is here but shes so busy w grad school#and ive spoken w my girls a bit but its not the same.....#felt so shitty about the internship yesterday & i really dont have the will to live#everything makes me feel like giving up
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Still bored and back still hurts. More Two Truths and a Lie
Feel free to play/vote in Part 1. This is the last easy one. Future ones are gonna be weird.
#rae irl#two truths and a lie#again for this one both truths are things i've mentioned here before#i honestly thought the last one was a gimme but i'm surprised by the results#i haven't voted in it because i don't want to skew the results but i have an awesome friend telling me what the results currently are#also this is entertaining me a whole lot while i rest in bed so thank you everyone who is playing along#look out for the next one later because that's when it's gonna start getting hard because it's going to be weird things that have happened#this one should be a gimme though#maybe potentially#we'll see#for context on this one i do play a sport have a main instrument and speak another language other than english#you just gotta know which one i listed the wrong thing for#should be easy#i'll also reblog with the answers once the poll ends#i'm having a great time
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do you know where I can find the Mighty Warriors side movie?
if you want to watch it with subs i think you're gonna have to wait until mugenclub finishes their move to dreamwidth. you can keep an eye on their carrd for updates.
#replies#if anyone else sent me an ask in the last 3 years and i didn't answer it's because 1) i'm lazy 2) i don't have the answer lol#i'm gonna try to answer the more recent ones later tho#soon™️
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line cook here. ACCURATE
if you don't get the hate, here's what you don't understand.
it takes up to 2 hours to close down the kitchen.
The last 60-90 minutes before closing time you do almost no cooking because the restaurant doesn't have many people in it and you've already cooked most of their diners.
So if someone walks in during, like, the last hour, the cook is in the middle of an industrial deep clean of the kitchen.
(these numbers can vary quite a bit from place to place but i have worked several restaurants with these actual times and the concept remains the same)
Say the place closes at 10. If you wait til the restaurant is already closed to start all your cleaning duties, you'll be there until at least midnight.
More than that your boss knows that on an average night you can start your clean up as soon as the last rush ends and get out of there around 10:45, even 10:15 on a slow night if you get lucky. That means there are plenty of restaurants where if you do take until midnight the manager is going to come up to you at some point that week and ask you what went wrong that night, and you'd better have an answer.
So this example restaurant closes at 10 pm. The dinner rush ends around 8:30, and shortly after that the cook is going to start getting every single dish possible over to the dishwasher because the dishwasher always gets hit hard and late, and the machine runs for 2 full minutes and only holds so many dishes, so the way that works out is if you wait an extra 30 minutes to give the dishwasher all your stuff it can mean adding like 60 minutes to the end of his shift. And you're gonna KEEP finding shit to send to the dishpit right up until you leave probably.
all these little square and rectangle containers in this cold table have to be pulled out and changed over into new containers, replaced by new full ones, or in some cases filled from larger containers in the back, which can result in even more empty containers to send to the dishwasher.
while it's all pulled apart to do this, you have to clean up all the spilled food and sauce and juices and stuff from the joints and ledges and shelves and drip trays
Once you get your line changed over in this way, and fully stocked, anytime someone orders something that makes use of a bunch of that stuff, you have to restock and re-clean it some. It might already be covered in plastic. Some of it might already be stuck in the back to make room to take apart your cutting board counter to clean. To cook a dish isn't TOO much of a problem at this point, but you're really hoping for zero orders because you still have so much other cleaning to do.
Meanwhile the salad bar and appetizer section and server station and everybody are all doing the same thing. Even the bartenders are stocking olives and lemons and sending back whisks and stir spoons and shakers and empty 4quart storage containers that used to hold the back-up lemons and olives and things. Every section is dumping their must-be-cleaneds to the dishpit as fast as possible because early and fast is the only thing they can do to to help that dishpit not absolutely drown into overtime.
The poor dishwasher is always the last to clock out, soaking wet and exhausted.
Around this time you probably scrub the flat top, which has turned black from cooked on grease and is still about 500 degrees. Line cooks are divided in opinion on water-based or oil based cleaning methods for this, but they all involve scrubbing with (usually) a brick of pumice stone using every ounce of your strength while you try not to burn yourself
you scrub it from fully blackened to gleaming silver and now if somebody orders something that needs the flat top to cook, you can either fuck up your cleaning job or fake it in a couple frying pans and pass that tiny fuck you down to your dishwasher (who usually understands, especially if you help them take the garbage out or clean your own floor drain later)
If there's deep fried stuff on the menu then the fryers have to be cleaned out, which includes straining the oil out into enormous and super-heavy pots full of oil so hot that if you spill on yourself then it's probably a hospital visit and if you slip and fall face first into it it'll be the last thing you ever do.
Then you gotta scrub out the fryer. Like you gotta take the (hot) screen out and reach your arm down into the weird rounded pipes and curved areas (so hot, burn you if you brush against them hot) and scrub off whatever is down there
Depending on your kitchen you might have to do up to four of these. Then you'll have to pour the (dangerously hot) oil back in
oh, and if you didn't dry the pipes and get ALL the water out of the trap and tank?
water reacts with hot oil in a sort of mentos and coke way that can send a tidal wave of oil past the open flame of the pilot light ...HUGE dangerous mess and/or burn down the kitchen if the oil lights up.
Unless! If the oil has been used too hard and needs to be changed, it's time to carry those open topped super heavy pots full of will-kill-you-hot oil and dump them in the barrel outside by the dumpsters so you can put room temp fresh oil in the fryers. whew!
The clean up is not just some light wiping down that can be easily interrupted, is what i'm saying.
You might have to do some kind of walk-in duty (moving around 50lb cases of lettuce and 50lb bags of onions to get to the stacks of five gallon buckets full of salad dressings and sauces to move so you can reach the giant metal pots and bus tubs full of prep and get it all organized and make sure it's all labeled and i have to stop now i'm having flashbacks)
THE POINT IS
by 15 or however many minutes to close, the line cook is doing an intense deep clean and probably has the whole stove taken apart to detail.
For some industrial stoves this means lifting off large cast iron plates that weigh like 20 lbs each and are still quite hot. Whatever metal burners are on there, you gotta take off and clean, you can see here the lines that indicate the large thick cast iron rectangles that sit on top of the burners to allow heavy pots to rest on. Those five (each has one front burner hole and one back burner hole, see?) have to be lifted off and cleaned with soap and a wire brush usually, and then the underneath area also has to be cleaned because a lot of shit falls through the burner holes on a busy night.
if you didn't do it when you did the flat top you have to do the grease trap (which can be like a full five minutes and is always disgusting).. You gotta clean out all the little gas jets in each burner with a wire or something so the burners all flame evenly, and sometimes you have to remove some of the natural gas piping that connects the burners to access where you have to clean.
you gotta clean out the bottom of the oven and the wire racks, and, oh gods, you gotta take down the filter vents from the hood fans above the stove.
See all the lined parts along the top of the wall?
those are hood vents, and as they pull air up they also pull a lot of grease and they have to be taken down and cleaned, then you gotta climb up there and scrub where they go before you put them back...
And then there's the mopping and floor drains and...
Anyway, that's what the line cook is doing when you walk in fifteen minutes before closing and order something that needs to be cooked on that stove. They are doing an entire industrial cleaning of a professional kitchen.
In some restaurants maybe one or two of these jobs will be every other night or even only twice a week, but in many, possibly most kitchens, ALL of these things happen EVERY night. You don't want to leave any food mess that might attract insects or rodents for one thing, so a really good kitchen is as close to brand new as you can get it every night.
IF YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO ORDER SOMETHING ANYWAY, HERE IS WHAT TO DO
open with an apology and ask the server to go ask what the cook would prefer you to order.
Any good server will already know what the cook is hoping for and what will make their line cook go into the walk in and scream. If it's significantly less than an hour to close and they say some variant of "oh anything is fine" they are either telling the lie their boss wants them to say, or they actually do not know what their line cook wants, and you can either use human connection and a conspiratorial just-between-us tone to get them to drop the customer-is-always-right act, or get them to actually go ask the cook.
It might be as specific as "the lasagna is easiest on the kitchen" or it might be a simple guideline like "nothing that requires the flat top" or "any of the sautés are easy" but a good line cook will probably have a system for if they have to make a couple of the most popular items after they start their close, so the answer is likely to include something most people like and you should be good to order that.
but for the love of all that's holy, please only do so at great need. Leave that last 30-60 minutes to the truly desperate and the crew's duties.
#long post#sorry#i just have a lot of DO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND feelings left over from all my years in restaurants#restaurants#line cook#service industry
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