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cheesysoup-arlo · 3 days

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Cady’s Cousin pt.2

A/N: sorry this is mostly like “texting” also the relationship/couples I have in here are (karen and gretchen), (cady and regina), later I’ll add (janis and reader) and maybe (aaron and kevin g) idk maybe lol I won’t be tagging the ships since they’re not the main ship I hope y’all liked this lol

(Sunday 8:30pm)

*Cady created a group chat*

Cads 🦁: hey guys I made this group chat so (Y/N) can get to know you guys, you guys can get to know them, and just for fun 👍

???(1): aw Cady that’s so sweet, this is Aaron by the way lol

(Y/N): can everyone send their name please 🙏

???(2): karen 💕

???(3): Beyoncé

???(4): that’s Damian ^, this is janis 👾

Damian🌟: janis you’re no fun this is homophobia

Janis👾: yeah I hate the gays 🙄

karen💕: ??? u hat me 😞

Janis👾: no not you karen just Damian

karen💕: o okie 😽

???(5): the hottest bitch you’ll meet

(Y/N): hi Regina

Cads🦁: Y/N!!!

(Y/N): cads chill I know she’s off limits

Regina👛: aw baby you’re so cute when you’re jealous

Janis👾: barf 🤮

(Y/N): 😭😭😭

(Y/N): wait where’s Gretchen?

karen💕: sleping 😴

Damian🌟: Important question! Y/n are you one of them queers?

(Y/N): I would be offended if you thought I wasn’t

*damian has named group chat “fruit loops”*

Janis👾: I-

(Y/N): oh that’s-

Damian🌟: OK STOP BEING HOMOPHOBIC TO THE GAY BLACK MAN IM A MINORITY HERE

Regina👛: how’s everyone feeling about school tomorrow? I’m kind of excited mostly because the school cheese fries just hit different yk?

Cads🦁: I’m excited too but for classes I picked an extra math class this year

(Y/N): ha nerd 🤓

(Y/N): I’m nervous lol but at least I have you guys

Janis👾: I’m not excited I hate school it keeps me from doing more important things

(Y/N): like what?

Janis👾: sleeping

Damian🌟: I’m excited I decided that I’m gonna take the new senior only theater class which is a little out of my comfort zone but I’ll manage

Aaron🧍‍♂️: I was supposed to be graduated last year so I’m not excited at all

(Y/N): YOU GOT HELD BACK?!?! WHAT?!?!

Aaron🧍‍♂️: yeah I failed English and history so I couldn’t graduate

Cads🦁: it’s ok Aaron now you get to be with us for another year 😊

(Sunday 11:50pm) fruit loops

(Y/N): guys I can’t sleep

Janis👾: same I’ve been lying very still and it’s not working

Damian🌟: janis did you take the melatonin I gave you?

Janis👾: yeah but it’s not working 😔

Damian🌟: welp that’s a you problem then

(Monday 2:30am) fruit loops

(Y/N): do you think I can fit 40 mini marshmallows in my mouth?

Janis👾: oh absolutely

(Y/N): omg ur still awake too?

Janis👾: yeah lol

(Y/N): I just put 35 mini marshmallows in my mouth idk if I can fit more

Janis👾: if you fit all 40 I’ll give you 5 bucks

(Y/N): challenge accepted

(Monday 2:37am) fruit loops

(Y/N): I fit all 40 and almost choked lmao

Janis👾: lmao nice your $5 will be given at school

(Y/N): yippieeee

(Y/N): dude I literally can’t sleep

Janis👾: wanna call? That’s what me and Damian used to do before he got a good sleep schedule lmao

(Y/N): um sure me and my friend back home used to do that too

*incoming call from Janis👾*

“Hi” you whispered suddenly feeling a little more tired with her company even if it was only over the phone “hey” janis said with a small yawn “nice shirt” you say seeing her Lego movie shirt “oh um thanks” she says with a laugh “so what’s up?” “Let’s take turns asking each other questions until we fall asleep” you say with a little yawn “hmm ok favorite color?” She asks you “ooo definitely (your favorite color), how about you?” “Hmm either green or purple” “ooo good choice, hmm hobbies?” “I sing and write a little but I guess art even though I don’t consider it a hobby it’s more of a lifestyle” “art? Can I see some?” “Yeah sure I’ll show you some stuff tomorrow” you both yawn “shit it’s 3 am” janis sighs “fuck” you chuckle sleepy “um I’m getting tired” janis says with a tired laugh “me too” you say starting to close your eyes “good night (y/n)” “good night Janis” you say with a yawn falling asleep as she hangs up

Monday 5:30am

“Pst…(y/n)? You gotta wake up” your cousin said lightly shaking you “ugh five more minutes” you mumbled “no come on up you gotta get ready” she insisted, you got up against your body begging to go back to sleep “good morning sleepy head” Cady said with an enthusiastic smile “cads what time is it?” “5:33” “doesn’t school start at like 8:30?” “No it starts at 8 and I wanted to make sure you had enough time to get ready and have breakfast, breakfast is very important” “uh huh…mm thanks cads” you say with a yawn deciding to get up and look through your clothes “meet me in my room when you’re done getting dressed, ok?” Cady said “um ok?” You said grabbing your favorite jeans and shirt then going to look for your jacket as your cousin left

(Monday 5:40 am) fruit loops

Gretchen🌷: good morning everyone soooo so sorry for not texting yesterday I went to bed early

Regina👛: it’s ok Gretch don’t worry about it

Regina👛: also damn I think Janis and (y/n) our new insomniac duo

(Y/N): unfortunately yes I’m so fucking tired also good morning Gretchen

Aaron🧍‍♂️: why are you guys up so early it’s not even six yet? I literally woke up because of all the buzzing

(Y/N): cads woke me up :(

Regina👛: my skincare and makeup routine take like and hour

Gretchen🌷: I like mornings ☀️

You finished getting ready and headed over to Cady’s room like she asked you to. “What’s up cads?” “Eee (y/n) ok so first of all how are you feeling about your first day” “a little nervous and tired I only got like 2 and a half hours of sleep” “oh goodness (y/n) why didn’t you sleep sooner?”cady says concerned “Because I wasn’t tired?” You half joked. Cady hands you a paper. “That’s a map of the school the way Janis sees it she gave it to me on my first day I feel like it could be helpful for you” “oh um wow thanks cads” you say giving her a half hug. Your aunt knocks on Cady’s open door “hey girls good morning” “good morning mom” Cady says enthusiastically, you yawn “morning” you say with a small smile “I’ve got to head to work but I’m assuming you girls have a ride?” “Yeah Aaron’s gonna pick us up I think?” Cady answers “alright I love you two, be on your best behavior and call me or text me if you need me” your aunt says as she leaves “bye” you and Cady say at the same time. You head to the kitchen and pour yourself a bowl of cereal

(Monday 6:40am) fruit loops

Regina👛: my mom is doing a coffee run what does everyone want?

Damian🌟: iced coffee, oat milk, vanilla

Gretchen🌷: just the usual for me and Karen

Janis👾: iced coffee, oat milk, lavender

(Y/N): um (your coffee order) please

Cads🦁: can you just get me a tea?

Regina👛: yeah of course I’ll get your favorite

Aaron🧍‍♂️: regular coffee, cream and sugar please

Regina👛: ok also who’s picking up who today? I can get Karen and Gretchen as usual

Aaron🧍‍♂️: my mom said I don’t have car privileges this week so I can’t give anyone a ride

Damian🌟: I can get janis for sure but if anyone else needs a ride I can get them too

Cads🦁: can you give (Y/N) and I a ride please we’re ready whenever you are 👍

Damian🌟: yeah I’ll be over in 10 then we’ll go get Janis because I know she’s not ready yet

Janis👾: I would be offended but it’s true

Regina👛: alright meet at our usual spot?

Aaron🧍‍♂️: 👍

Damian🌟: sounds good see y’all soon

#janis ‘imi’ike #regina george #cady heron #gretchen wieners #damian hubbard #karen shetty #aaron samuels #mean girls 2024

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harlequinchaos · 11 months

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Tears of the Kingdom tips for surviving the new economy and whatnot, under the cut (in case of spoilers)

Adventuring Tip: STEALTH IS YOUR FRIEND

Once you get to Kakariko Village you can buy the Stealth Suit (Highly recommend doing the connected sidequest to bring the cost of the shop down). This makes it so you can walk up to fish, bugs, and creatures without them running away (if you sprint they'll still run) this is AMAZING for collecting these things as everything seems way more sparse in totk. No more chasing frogs for you my friend.

Food Tip: Critical Meals

Cooking between 11:30pm-12:00pm on the night of a blood moon gives you:

+3 hearts recovered to your dish

+1 level to whatever effect is present in your dish

+5:00 duration to the effect

Rupee Tip: Go Spelunking!

One of the biggest features in totk are the new caves systems that are literally everywhere. Oftentimes you'll find ore deposits and rare ore deposits and find Amber, Opal, Rubies, Sapphires and Topazes. Sell them for cash (I recommend saving sapphires, see below). If you see a wall of breakable rocks, usually it will drop rusty claymores and rocks for you to make more crude hammers. But a bomb flower or zonai time bomb work too (DON'T BLOW YOURSELF UP). Additionally, a cave will be marked with a ✔️ once you kill the bubblfrog inside.

Battle tip: Ice is OP.

Frozen enemies take double damage from your next hit, so try to always have a Magic Rod/Scepter with a sapphire fused to it, fusing a sapphire to a regular weapon works as well, but you're not aiming to hit the enemy with the source of the ice. Freeze > pause and switch to your strongest weapon> hit the enemy > switch back to your ice weapon > repeat to stunlock the enemy, works on everything that isn't a Lynel or Boss. Using Ice Fruit or Blue Chuchu jelly works too, but stuff is more rare in this game.

Relatively Easy Rupees:

You'll need:

-Bow & arrows (the stronger the bow the better)

-Sheild (for sheild surfing)

-Cold Resistance Armor (to survive)

-Speedy Elixir (optional, but it'll REALLY help)

-Access to Snowfield Stable (Hebra Region)

What you're gonna be doing is big game hunting in the snowy field north of the stable. All winter animals are capable of dropping Raw Gourmet Meat which is the best quality, including moose, the bears and the wolves. Sheild surf to get around quicker and then go for headshots with a bow and just hunt the animals for their meat. You'll want the speedy Elixir because you have to be pretty quick between the meat dropping and freezing. Once it's frozen it counts as a meal, but you literally get hundreds of rupees by selling 5 Raw Gourmet Meats cooked together.

Item Management: Brightbloom Mushrooms are the new Apples:

Going off of the previous tip of exploring the cave systems, you'll find Brightbloom Mushrooms almost more than anything else. Eventually you'll want to stop collecting them, but they're the perfect source of quick food fodder. Just cook a bunch together for quick hearts (and the glow effect which is nice in caves).

Advanced Combat Tip: Muddlebuds

If you've been to The Depths, one of the native plants are the Muddlebuds. These make it so enemies will attack each other when thrown (or attached to an arrow). I recommend wearing the stealth gear, sneaking up to a pack or finding a vantage point, and hitting the strongest enemy in the group with a muddlebud arrow. It'll start to attack it's allies, allowing you to sit back and enjoy the show. Note: enemies will still target you if they see you (hence the stealth/vantage point)

These are just a few tips, feel free to add more, and try not to be too spoilery for people who haven't played or haven't gotten far yet!

#totk #tears of the kingdom #zelda totk #zelda tears of the kingdom #zelda #totk tips

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thaliasandy · 1 year

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SMUTTY (NC-17? rated) HellCheer headcanon

It's october 31st 1986, Chrissy took her little brother trick or treating earlier and is still dressed in her angel costume, a delicate white dress with tiny buttons in the front and little white wings on her back, she's wearing her hair down but wears a thin golden hairband that looks like a halo.

Eddie picks her up at 11:30pm in front of her house.

Corroded Coffin played a gig at a bar one town over from Hawkins, not much bigger than the Hideout but with a bigger, more enthusiastic crowd.

He gets out of the car to greet her, she squeaks when he wraps her in his arms and kisses her.

They stopped giving a shit what her nosy neighbors or her parents think about their relationship a while ago.

He's dressed in all black, his pants are shiny black leather, he's wearing a black shirt and his leather jacket, his usually chocolate brown eyes completely black, he's wearing black make up around his eyes and has two demonic looking horns glued to his forehead that are peeking through his bangs.

He looks downright terrifying.

"Oh my god, you look so scary! How did you do that with your eyes!?" She breathes, gently cupping his face in her hands and staring at him.

"Contact lenses, I can take them out if it's scaring you."

"No, I like it. You look dangerous..."she giggles.

"Mhhh freaky" He chuckles against her neck, where he's planting open-mouthed kisses and gentle love bites, not hard enough to leave a mark.

"And you ...look absolutely gorgeous, my innocent little Angel" He takes her hand and makes her spin around so he can get a good look at her costume.

They decide to go to lovers lake, their go-to place to get high and make out.

She looks perfect, laying underneath him, on his black blanket with a white pentagram in the middle, like a virgin sacrifice to Satan, he thinks to himself and it makes him chuckle that that must literally be what people like Jason and Chrissy's mother think he's doing with Chrissy. They're bathed in a soft orange glow from the battery powered string of lights he put on the car ceiling for some 'romantic atmosphere'.

She's flushed and breathing heavy, the buttons of her dress undone almost all the way down, the skirt pushed up to her hips while Eddie gently strokes her through the thin lace fabric of her panties.

When he slips his hand under the waistband her fingers dig into the skin of his naked back, his shirt and jacket were gone pretty much the moment they climbed in the back of his car.

"Too much, princess?" He murmurs against her lips.

"No! ...Maybe it's not enough?..."

She stares up at him expectantly biting her lip.

"You mean...?!Are you sure?"

"Only if you want to..."

He grimaces like she just said the most ridiculous thing.

"...if I want to!? Jesus Christ, I dream about this every night!! ... you're okay with me looking like this?" He motions to his eyes and the horns on his forehead.

"Yes...Take me, my big bad demon boyfriend...Make me yours."

She's giggling, teasing him, her voice sounding even sweeter than usual and he feels like his brain is short-circuiting.

"Or do you want me to call you Dungeon Master?" she laughs, wriggling out of her dress until she's left only in her matching white lace panties and bralette.

He startles her when he grabs her wrists and pins them down above her head, using the full lenght of his body to press her flat on her back.

He captures her mouth in a kiss, ever so slowly grinding his hips against her and is rewarded with the sexiest sound he's ever heard when Chrissy moans into his mouth, loud and uninhibited.

"Look at you, angel, getting ravished by the satanic freak and loving every second of it..."

He trails kisses down the side of her neck, down her chest, inbetween her breasts, letting go of her wrists so he can slide his fingers down the soft skin of her arms and under her bra.

"Can I take this off?"

She nods breathlessly and lifts her upper body up a bit letting him peel the bra from her.

He'd caressed her breasts underneath her clothes before and she enjoyed that a lot but with him looking at her so intensely she feels extremely exposed and insecure and wants to cover herself up with her arms.

He backs up a little, her bra still nervously clutched in his hand, his brow furrowed,

"Did you change your mind, Princess?...We don't have to do this tonight, we can just keep making out...um...If thats okay with you..."

She's amazed and can't help but smile at how fast he went from the bad boy pinning her down and grinding his impressively big erection against her and telling her he's going to ravish her, to the blushing, shy boy, nervously rambling, with shaking hands, all while looking absolutely demonic.

"No! I want this! I meant what I said, I...I want you to make me yours...I'm just nervous..."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"You tell me if you want to stop, alright... Or if I do something that doesn't feel good..."

She nods again and pulls him back down on top of her.

"Mhhh you're so fucking beautiful"

He growls, cupping her breasts with both his hands, his thumbs drawing gentle circles around her nipples.

He looks at her through his bangs, letting his lips barely touch the incredibly soft skin on the underside of her breast.

"Can I kiss you here?"

Another nod.

He flashes her a devious grin before sticking his tongue out and gliding it almost painfully slow over her skin until he can flick it over her taut nipple.

Her gasp only spurs him on so he moves over to her other breast but instead of just flicking it he closes his mouth around her rosy nipple and sucks.

"Eddie!!!"

She squeals and tightens her thighs around his hips.

His mouth makes an almost obscenely wet popping sound when he lets go of her.

"You don't like that?"

"...No! Its not that...it felt really good...actually...I think I felt that in my...um..."

She's bright red now, having trouble keeping up eye contact.

"Hmmm?" He chuckles and lowers his mouth back onto her breast, suckling hard again, making her desperately roll her hips up against his, craving some friction.

"Tell me, princess, where do you feel it?"

He doesn't expect her to grab his right hand and guide it right into her panties.

He gently runs his middle finger along her slit, not dipping inside yet, just stroking her, teasing her, eliciting the cutest little mewling sounds from her.

"Please..."

She's so warm and wet, his thumb glides easily through her folds, seeking out that little nub that he knows will make her feel good. He's made her come with his fingers before, through her panties, but she's so much more responsive like this, her hips buck against his hand, one of her hands holding on to his wrist, the other gripping the blanket she's lying on.

Her eyes fly open when his middle finger carefully pushes against her opening.

"Alright?"

"Yes."

Her answer turns into a gasp when Eddie sinks his finger into her, he can feel her clenching tightly around his digit and he stills all movement, she'd told him how weird and uncomfortable it was when Jason tried to get her off.

"Don't stop, please. It feels good, I'm just not used to...having someone elses fingers there."

He starts moving his finger in a slow rhythm, his thumb circling her clit again.

"Do you think you can take another one, sweetheart?"

Chrissy nods again, chewing on her bottom lip, trying not to moan when he slides two fingers into her. She's pleasantly surprised when it doesn't hurt.

"Relax, you're so tense I can hardly move my fingers."

He murmurs against her neck where he started kissing her again.

He hears her inhale and exhale slowly and feels the muscles inside of her unclench.

"Mhmh, just like that. You're doing so good..."

The needy little whimpers and the way her hips move faster against his hand make him wonder if he's just great at what he's doing or if he discovered a kink of hers.

"You're going to come all over my hand, princess? Gotta make sure you're ready for my dick."

He sucks her nipple into his hot, wet mouth again and suddenly she arches her back, crying out his name.

He smirks at her when she opens her eyes again, not quite expecting her to cover her face with her hands.

"Sorry...I didn't mean to be so loud..."

He slowly pulls his fingers from her wondering for a moment if it would freak her out too much if he licked them clean.

"Hey, it's alright, no one's out here, it's just you and me...and besides...it sounded like I did something right..."

"Oh, I think you did EVERYTHING right!"

She giggles, still a bit out of breath.

"Always at your service, princess"

"Aren't you supposed to be a mean and scary monster?"

He groans when she caresses him through his pants and starts undoing his belt.

"Aren't you supposed to be an angel? Rubbing my dick isn't very angelic of you" He laughs, followed by a deep, breathless: "Mhhh Fuck, Chrissy..."

when she opens his pants and wraps her slender fingers around his painfully hard length. He can't help but buck his hips into her hand.

"Hold on..."

He moves away from her touch and grabs his leather jacket from the front seat, rummaging through the pockets until he finds one of little foil packets he made sure to take with him when he was in his room earlier...just in case.

"You're still sure about this?"

"Eddie, please don't make me wait."

He moves back between her splayed thighs.

"Alright, alright...lift your cute little ass up for me, princess."

He slides her panties off before pulling his own pants down his legs, delighted at the gasp that leaves her lips when she sees him in all his glory for the first time.

"Like what you see?"

She quickly looks back up into his eyes, slightly embarrassed that he caught her staring.

"I...I do! It's just a little bit intimidating."

"Don't worry, I know how to operate this thing."

He flashes her a grin, wrapping his fingers around his cock, pumping up and down just once, before ripping open the condom package and rolling it on.

He places his hands on her knees, encouraging her to spread them for him.

"Come here."

She whispers and motions for him to come closer.

Chrissy feels awkward showing herself to him like that but the feeling disappears once he crawls over her and covers her body with his, holding himself up on his forearms, trying not to put too much of his weight on her.

He's lean but a lot taller than her and towering over her, yet she's never felt safer than right now with Eddie Munson about to take her virginity.

(I was going to post that yesterday on Halloween but I was too busy 🙈

Idk if sclera contact lenses were something you could just buy in the 80s or if they were just used in movie and stuff...but I couldnt get that mental image of Eddie looking like a demon (but not actually being one) making love to angel Chrissy, out of my head...in fact I love that so much I might draw it at some point...)

Also, I had actually already written some of the actual love making but it wasn't good at all...sorry for just stopping there 😉)

#hellcheer #eddissy #eddssy #chrissy x eddie #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson #headcanon #smut

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wolfytae-exe · 6 months

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times like this i think ab the food pics u showed us.

sorry for my insanity its almost 11 30pm rn nd im absolutely starving nd ur food looks so good..

That’s literally so sweet like🥲 I love sharing things i’ve spent love and time making for people to enjoy. also there nothing insane about craving a good meal at 11:30 PM

In honor of this ask here is food i’ve made or have eaten during my culinary experience🫶🏽🩷

Kimchi fried rice

Korean corn dogs

Sushi Burrito

Salmon

Birria Tacos

Shrimp Alfredo

Shredded beef, Rice and Beans, tostones and Avocado

Shin ramen with an egg

#cici is cooking #evelyn🌿#i love you guys sm 🥹#i love sharing my dishes sm like 🥲

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adultswim2021 · 2 months

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Titan Maximum #1: "Pilot" | September 27, 2009 - 11:30PM | S01E01

Ah, thank goodness I’m done with Robot Chicken. Now I can finally move onto greener pastures to… oh, eat shit.

TItan Maximum was created by one or some of the Robot Chicken people and animated by Shadow Machine, who animated Robot Chicken and Moral Orel and oh! So much more. It’s fairly Robot Chicken-eseque in it’s look and humor. It’s a fairly straight-forward sitcom, parodying Voltron and shows like it. It’s more grounded than Robot Chicken; there’s no fourth-wall breaking gags and the violence isn’t as gratuitous. There’s an attempt at making the action have legitimate stakes, like you’re supposed to care about the stuff happening and root for the good guys.

The main problem is the characters and the writing. Most of the show’s dialogue involves characters just being mean to each other. Everyone is snippy at each other, and the show mainly consists of characters being petty and combative. You almost get the sense that this is actually a show about a dystopian future where being friends is illegal.

I get that there’s a time-honored tradition of comedies that star unlikable protagonists. Make no mistake, I’m not saying all of these characters are complete dickheads. Some are bigger dicks than others, obviously. I just mean I can’t come up with a single example of two characters who seem like they have a nice, life-affirming relationship with one another. Everyone is dismissive and contentious of one another. It just feels so meaningless.

This pilot episode was a half hour and for some reason wouldn’t play properly on the Roku adult swim app, which is a terrible, terrible app. Like, literally, for some weird reason you can’t stream a lot of shit through it, and if you go to the browser version you get way more stuff. I don’t know why. The Roku app also puts an autoplay overlay over the closing credits and obscures what’s on screen, even when it’s technically still part of the episode.

That’s maybe the only thing the show has going for it, by the way: the closing credits song, which is (I assume) in Japanese and is very typical of your average poppy anime closing theme.

EPHEMERA CORNER:

Adult Swim Shows Transition to High Definition (September 27, 2009)

In case you’re wondering, yes, I do feel bad that sometimes these little spotlights into Adult Swim’s non-episodic Miscellanea are dashed off by me, just joylessly marking the date something happened. I just sat down to type this paragraph and thought “this would’ve actually been a good thing to do research for.” I do recall this happening, though. The network had already begun future-proofing certain shows by producing them in HD. Metalocalypse, Squidbillies, Aqua Teen, and The Venture Bros. to name a few.

Also, I remember being very curious as to how 4:3 material would be handled on the network. Disappointingly, it was stretched to fill the screen. I remember people reporting that it was stretched in a manner so that the center of the screen was less warped than the edges, but I’m not sure if that was true. At the very least, I couldn’t discern such a thing. In fact, I would record certain shows on Adult Swim that were stretched on my DVD recorder, which hadn’t been calibrated to to record native 16:9 content. This meant that 16:9 stuff would wind up squished, which was an easier fix on my TV than the other way around. So it would effectively unstretch the 4:3 stuff and it looked very normal to me.

I’m not sure if they started producing the “bumps” in 16:9 before the switch. There’s definitely a noticeable difference in text size of the bumps in the early days compared to later, and I don’t know if that’s specifically attributed to the aspect ratio change or what. Also, I’m not sure why I’m wondering stuff like this out loud. Sorta makes me sound like a huge fucking loser???? (!)

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #titan maximum

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bookishjules · 6 months

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nanowrimo 2023: day 1

i spent the majority of the day today at a complete loss for where to start my story. i knew what the inciting incident was, but just not the scene or the line that should be the Beginning. i literally didn't start writing until almost 11:30pm, when i did a couple writing sprints on my local nano discord and officially submitted 564 words for day one. it really felt like i'd had the breakthrough i'd been needing all day, but i took a break after midnight, not sure if i wanted to do more sprints by myself since everyone else had gone to bed, but then someone posted in the chat aroung 1:30am asking if anyone wanted to sprint. so then it was just me and them sprinting for 5-10 minutes at a time, and then spending much more than that in between talking about our stories and whatever conversations flowed naturally from that. conversations about trauma and therapy and poetry and magic. it was nearly 5am when we finally logged off, and in that time, i not only breached the writing goal for day, but also made a new friend :)

words written today: 1671

total word count: 1671

#keeping this as a little journal this year hehe #hopefully it's more encouraging and less annoying lol #i hope anyone also doing nano had a good first day!! <3 #nano 2023

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fostercare-expat · 2 years

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My younger daughter was adopted when she was almost 2. Spent her entire life prior in foster care. Generally she has escaped most of the trauma responses but they do come up every once in awhile.

At dinner, she brought up Queen Elizabeth’s death last night and it occurred to her that she is going to die eventually. She suddenly started crying and had a lot of questions about death that had never occurred before. (Is it painful? What will happen to me after I die?) She finds this all very terrifying and she has been having an extremely hard time last night. We walked to the gas station (to do something else) and she nearly jumped out of her skin a few times. She’s in that high alert state like when a dog is around. (She used to be completely terrified of dogs but has chilled out a lot in the last year.). On the walk she was having a literal panic attack about how she doesn’t want to die, she wishes she wasn’t made in the first place or she wishes she was a building instead. She didn’t go to sleep until 11:30pm and also woke up several times shivering with fear even though she was sleeping in my bed. She says she can’t stop thinking about it. I considered not sending her to school today but I hoped it would distract her. She called after 3 hours sobbing and asking to be picked up, which thankfully my nanny was able to do. This might just be a normal kid thing, but I think this heighten level of alert and anxiety is probably related to early childhood trauma as well. I’m just grateful it doesn’t happen too often, but my guess is that it’s going to happen more in her teen years. (She’s just turning 9 now.) She keeps saying “I can’t stop thinking about it.” I’ve pointed out that she’s not in danger right now but she insists the feelings are so scary and feel so real. Her body was trembling and sweaty last night when she woke up. It’s really a physical reaction. Honestly it’s not too far from a real panic attack. Poor kiddo.

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spaceshipkat · 1 year

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Good job on getting your revisions done! 👍

ahhh thank you, anon! 💖💖 i actually just hit "the end" on it, too. tomorrow will be the final reread before i send the manuscript off to my agent! and then i get to celebrate by reading my ARC of Lucky Red (SO fucking excited for that book)

it's been almost a solid month of working on them, but i arranged my job so the past two weeks could be an intense crackdown (i literally started working the moment i woke up and stopped working around 11:30pm, hence why i've barely been online and have abandoned nearly all communication with my friends) so i could meet the april deadline 💀 but honestly i'm so fucking happy with every single change i've made. it's allowed me to really marry the themes, the symbolism, the underlying stories, the references, etc etc etc to the present narrative and the developing romance between the two leads--none of which was very refined in the first draft my agent saw, but she had a vision and helped me find the heart of the manuscript, so yeah. i'm real fucking pleased, even if i am so braindead as a result it's a miracle i remember how to type anything correctly.

it's the exact kinda romcom i'd wanna read, so hopefully publishing will agree when we go on sub! 🥳

#ask #anonymous #my writing #sorta #indy ta romcom wip

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punkwixes · 1 year

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also. lmao. sometimes these people just act like you CAN’T make ~meaningful memories~ with an ebook. like, you’re only reading ebooks at your desk in your bedroom at 11:30pm or whatever

and it’s like. sorry! i have really nice memories with my ebooks actually!

i LOVE being able to take my books with me on my phone. when i started working at my last job, five years ago, we had JUST enough downtime we were allowed to read if all the cleaning was done, so people would bring books to work, and it was like. when we had a free minute they would have to trudge over to their tiny mailboxes where they’d have wedged a book into the slot, if they were lucky, because there was no other storage space. and then find somewhere to sit and read it for 5-10 minutes.

but meanwhile i wasn’t allowed to read the books i had on my phone, but also at the time i literally didn’t have like, a backpack/bag to carry a physical book in as i rode the bus lmao. it was fine, i didn’t super mind, i just wound up doing extra tasks because the managers would get snotty about me Being On That Damn Phone as if i did not have an ebook on there.

anyways when i worked in the assisted living building i was the only person from my department down there, so i could use my phone as much as i wanted! my most Vivid memory of anything from fall 2021 is that i read harrow the ninth in bits and pieces while i was working, which was perhaps not the ideal way to read it. or maybe it was, i don’t know! i know that i enjoyed the experience as like, bits and pieces of chapters parsed between making coffee or whatever.

it took me over a month, which is a LONG time for me to read a book, it was just like — it was my Work Book. i associated going to work so strongly with getting to read more of ht9 lmao.

anyways i finished the book (minus the epilogue) on this like… really Nice fall day. the sky was cloudy & a storm was coming in but it was still like mildly warm/breezy out so they’d opened the back doors to the dining room. and i had all my work done so i just sat on the back porch and read as the clouds got darker & the wind got stronger until it started raining & i realized that i almost fucked up and missed dinner prep.

like! that’s the kind of memory i couldn’t have made without ebooks lmao… even if i had lugged a book to work & had somewhere to store it, i was only able to sit out there and read because at Any second i could get up, pocket my phone, and get to work if smth came up!

#oh ALSO i have a memory of a few days Before this experience #where i was sitting in the dining room and live texting my reaction to laura just like On The Verge Of Tears or w/e #oh ALSO: reading the southern reach trilogy at the portland airport after crying for an hour and a half because i missed my fiancé #felt like i extremely Understood it in that moment

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aamethyst000 · 1 year

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working today - Mar 6,23 7:59am

I was in bed by 130am last night, then I (for some reason) woke up at 3:30am. then again at 630am and 730am. no wonder I am yawning a lot. it was very difficult for me to wake up and get out of bed earlier. I so badly wanted to sleep in this morning. breaking this particular bad habit is DIFFICULT, especially when I love to sleep. time is going by fast, but I bet you it won't go by as fast once work hours start. it is only 2 days of work but my body and brain is thinking like it is going to be a week. oh well, I am just having I got 2 days of work!

12:15pm - I just got home for lunch 15 minutes ago, having a toke with my family before I go eat. this morning wasn't too bad, not many calls coming in, which I was happy about. many medications came in, so I had to make some calls before lunch hour. we are even fully booked with appointments! it is a little overwhelming but I think I am doing okay so far. I am still wearing my Trans tape (day 3) it has gotten pretty itchy the last 2 days except while I am sleeping. my long hair (literally just shoulder length) is starting to bug tf out of me. I am almost willing to keep all of my hair in a ponytail all day today. I am tempted to cut my hair but at the same time I don't. anyway, I am going to go have my lunch now and mentally prepare myself for this afternoon. anxiety is starting up again. I hope I can eat.

11:30pm - I got home at around 5pm, really cold and some what tired. I have one more day to go tomorrow and then I have to wait until the next call to work at the clinic again. temperature fckn dropped to -8 tonight. it is fckn COLD man. now I am just having a toke with my family before I get ready to head to bed.

I have been thinking about my bestfriend lately, she is currently pregnant and after tomorrow she is going to figure out how far along she is. she is the first of my closest friends to get pregnant or start a family! if I am feeling nervous and excited, I can only imagine how they feel. it is such an odd feeling, even for me.

#happy #lgbt #2spirit #journal #journal entry #journalist #lgbtq #journalist amethyst000 #they/them #nature #photographer amethyst000 #photographer nature #photographer #photography

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goldentangerines · 1 year

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guess who heard weird sounds from downstairs at my parents' at 11:30pm and thought the shop is being robbed and who thought it was a good idea to go down there with their sister's baseball bat and confront whoever broke in and guess whose uncle who got out of the hospital with two tromboses and a pulmonary embolism last week thought it was a good idea to move his heavy ass mattress from his bedroom to his living room without switching on the light and guess who almost cracked their uncle's head before realizing it was him and fainting after all that adrenaline because they probably have another pneumonia which is kind of a lot bad because the last one literally killed them 9 years ago what even is happening in this house

#gremlin speaks #god what EVEN is thisssss

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learningnewways · 2 years

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Israel - Day 5

It was another absolutely jam-packed day here in Israel, with our tour guide John keeping us busy from 7:30am until 9:30pm and that’s not including the optional 5am sunrise hike that some of the group did this morning... They should re-name the trip from the Adventure Tour to the No Rest No Sleep Tour! As I write this blog in bed at 11:30pm, knowing I have a 7am start again tomorrow... My tired body knows that future Kimberly will be glad I wrote down everything that happened today, as it’s so easy to forget it all. A lot happens in one day!

We started our day in Masada where we had stayed the night before. Some opted for the 5am sunrise hike up the snake path, which I did not do, unsurprisingly. Instead, we took the cable car up the cable car up the 300m cliff-face to see the old city on the hill. The old city was very large and had a palace for King Herod, surprise surprise. This guy seems to have built a lot of fancy things here in Israel around the time of Jesus! There is an incredible story about this place when Romans came to invade it and the 1,000 Jewish people inside killed themselves because it would’ve be been better than to suffer at their enemies hands. It’s a long story! But because of that history, Masada is super important to the Jews. So much so that as part of their army training, Israeli’s come up the snake path in full gear! Now that would be a workout!

Masada was amazing. Cliffs on literally every side, only one very steep and narrow path to get up the hill, yet that's what people did back in the day. There’s also incredible storage for food and water up there, which is crazy because it’s literally at the top of a mountain in the desert with cliffs on each side... Wow... The scenery around Masada was stunning, reminded me a lot of the Grand Canyon and the Nevada/Utah area in the USA. Similar to yesterday’s scenery in Qumran, as it’s all the same area.

After our time melting in the insanely hot desert heat (who decided it would be a good idea to come to the Middle East in the middle of their Summer?!) we went to En Geti. En Geti was so incredible. I feel like every day there’s a new place I visit that I say is stunning and beautiful and breath-taking and blah blah blah... Well, sorry but En Geti gets all the words too! En Geti is a natural spring with waterfalls and creeks, but it’s in the middle of the desert! Whaaaaaat?!

The Israel desert is a tough place to be. It is hot and dry and barren. I would definitely complain with the Israelites if I had to walk around the desert for 40 years! But then, almost out of nowhere, appears a line of trees and greenery. Follow the greenery and you end up at the waterfalls of En Geti. Wow! Since it’s a natural spring, the water is cold, like, actual, real, cold water! Now that’s a first for our Israel trip!

The first waterfall we stopped at was so cool because you could stand under it and get absolutely soaked, which was much needed! Then we walked to another waterfall and by golly, it was STUNNING! Look I even used capital letters to describe it! Although unless you’ve spent a few days walking in the desert and seeing all the scenery nearby, I don’t think you could quite understand the significance of En Geti. The second waterfall area we saw literally looked like what I imagine parts of Heaven to be like. Or maybe the Earth in it’s original form as God intended it.

Picture a desert with big orange cliffs and caves, then picture an oasis of green covering one of the outcrops, with a large waterfall coming down from way up high. The water pools at the bottom and there’s rocks to sit on and more greenery in the canopy. Birds fly overhead and if you turn around you can see amazing views of the desert out to the Dead Sea... If I was Herod, this is where I would’ve built my palace and then never left! We read about En Geti in 1 Samuel 24 as it is where David and his men are hiding from King Saul in a cave, and David has the opportunity to kill Saul but doesn’t. Pretty cool!

After cooling off in the waterfall, we hoped back on the bus for a 1hr drive to Jerusalem, and for the first time since arriving in the Middle East, I had time to listen to some music! Yay! Happy Kimberly! Particularly as yesterday I had realised I was really missing my music. So that was nice. But I did reeeeeally need to pee on our way and so as soon as we arrived at our next spot I leapt off the bus and ran to the toilet, which everyone thought was hilarious for some reason. I was busting!

Just before arriving in Jerusalem, we heard Psalm 122 read in Hebrew and English which was nice to hear as we entered the city. Our first stop was the Mount of Olives, where we visited a little chapel and heard Psalm 125 as well as sung Amazing Grace. We then walked down the hill slightly to the Garden of Gethsemane. John read Scripture, showed us a map and we had a time of prayer and reflection. All the while we have a stunning view of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. Wow. It was a real “pinch me” moment to be sitting there, looking out at Jerusalem, thinking about everything that happened here... Hard to process...

After we checked into our accomodation, John took us on a 3hr outing to the old city for dinner and then to the Western Wall, or as I know it, the Wailing Wall. The Western Wall is the most important and holy site for Jews, as it is the closest remnant of the Temple they have. Jews come here to pray for peace in Jerusalem, based on Psalm 122:6-7. It was amazing to see so many people there, even at 8:30pm!

I didn’t know we were going there tonight and I didn’t have any paper on me, so sadly I couldn’t put my written prayer in the wall like I would’ve liked to... But it was still amazing to see the wall and think about all the millions and millions of people who have come here over the years and prayed. Most people were praying really passionately too and weeping. It made me feel like I had a weak faith or wasn’t taking it seriously enough maybe.

It’s also interesting to me that most of Israel is Jewish, not Christian. Only a tiny percentage is Christian, yet we’re in the land where Jesus lived! How can that be? So all the passionate Jewish people praying at the Western Wall... They don’t believe Jesus is the Messiah... That blows my mind...

There was lots of information we learnt about Jerusalem and the Temple Mount today, but I am waaaaaaay too tired to try and explain it all now. I’m sure I’ll learn more and can explain in another post... Right now, it’s bedtime!

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