My City, Your Mountains
Pairing: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 8,702
Summary:
The truth is, Eddie likes it when black and white become a morally gray area he can use to let the rules go for a while and watch them apply to someone else, a space where he’s allowed to beat someone – only figuratively nowadays – and feel good about the consequences.
Buck knows this, knows him, he teases and jokes like he always does because Eddie let him in once, years ago, and hasn’t tried to kick him out ever since.
or, Buck takes care of Eddie in more ways than one, and Eddie copes.
Ao3 link <3
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Probably a random question but how do you handle eye strain? I find myself staring at screens often and eventually it bites me back in the form of migraines
Hello Anon! (o^ ^o)ノ
I stare at my laptop and screen probably more than 10 hours a day, and that means using my eyes to focus on an extended period of time, which causes eye strain.
I don't really have migraines or any headaches really. In my case my eyes would get blurry real fast and I just gotta stop and do something else.
My ophthalmologist told me to do this - 3 hours of eye strain (work), 15-20 minutes of rest (stop the eye-straining activity), and then continue again. Just like working out, our eyes have muscles too. It must rest for a while between reps to stay healthy and not overworked.
This might be a downer, but what I do between the reps is chores LMAO. I stay in a hostel, so I must clean my room, hand wash my clothes and hang them, fold the laundry, wipe the table, mop the floor. Heck. Anything. And then back to work again!
Other than that, this is just me and my routine but I like to walk. If I'm not too tired I'll wake up at 6 and start morning walking around the neighborhood for 30 minutes, and at like 8 PM I'd go for a walk again before pulling an all-nighter.
TL;DR : I move around and do chores or go outside for a walk. Do something else.
Anyway, there you have it! Hope that answers your question ٩(。•́‿•̀。)۶
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@bythebonefire - 💞 💞 💞 💞 💞 for Sansby (post-game, Deltarune, private eye verse), Grillster, and SaffYarn :B
"Is it weird to look forward to future when y’ere facin’ a death sentence? maybe, mm’ body hurts, my soul aches and i know i’m gonna die. Think i knew a long time before grillby realized it may be a possibility, i could have opted for hospice care from the beginning, Probably would have if not for grillby.”
Even now he’s sprawled out in a hospital bed, the uncomfortable itch of a specialized needle in his soul each time it beat, the aching boredom that came with being laid out for once not of his own accord. The familiar antiseptic smell.
“but he makes it worth prolonging this even if i know how it’ll end, i dun’ pretend not to, least not to myself. Part of me welcomes it, it’s not easy but i’m used to that, another day. another battle.”
he snickers a little to himself, alone in his room, he’s sure a nurse would be in to check on him soon. He wonders who’d it be, they were all nice but he was the most fond of this pink fish lady, if solely because she liked puns nearly as much as toriel.
“Wonder if he’d let write some puns into my eulogy? hehe, bet i could get a few chuckles.”
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“I wouldn’t think there’s much to say, he’s a fantastic guy, i’d been in his bar plenty of times before we’d really gotten to talking and he’d always been really nice...”
and kinky, very kinky, both of them were of course. But he had never expected grillby to be just as into it as he was, Hell he’d provided most of the more lewd ideas that they had either enacted on or were saving for a later date, just the thought had him flushed blue.
“I don’t know if i would have had ever had the courage to actually ask him out on a date though, So when he did, it might as well have been a dream come true and this thought hasn’t changed! if anything. it’s gotten even more applicable while we’ve been dating.”
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“It’s an odd experience to think about finally doin’ somethin’ for myself, used to helpin’ other people, To helpin’ paps. S’all good to, Makes me happy but pursuin’ this relationship makes me happy to and i like bein’ able to spoil him, Doesn’ make a dent in my life and frankly there’s nothing quite as nice as seeing how his flames light up when he realizes he’s gonna get spoiled again.”
There’s a pause of consideration before he adds.
“Huh...wonder if that basically makes me a sugar daddy.”
..you know what, he was okay with that to, grillby really was worth it.
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He fiddled with his hands, singular eye light shifting to the side, hoping for any kind of distraction though it was hard to ignore the rushing of his soul in his chest, quick and so clearly full of love that made it impossible to ignore the bright purple flush that had coated his cheekbones and after a moment, he sighed and he allowed himself to speak, comforted only in knowing that not a single person could understand wingdings and that to anyone else. it’d be gibberish
✋︎ ✌︎💣︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎☹︎✡︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ☼︎⚐︎💣︎✌︎☠︎❄︎✋︎👍︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎📪︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ☞︎✌︎☼︎ 👌︎☜︎❄︎❄︎☜︎☼︎ 🕈︎✋︎❄︎☟︎ 🏱︎☜︎⚐︎🏱︎☹︎☜︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎☠︎ ✋︎🕯︎☹︎☹︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎ 👌︎☜︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✌︎☹︎☹︎ ✋︎ 👍︎✌︎☠︎ 👎︎⚐︎ ✋︎💧︎ ❄︎☼︎✡︎📪︎ ☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎ ☟︎☜︎🕯︎💧︎ ☝︎⚐︎☠︎☜︎📬︎ ✋︎ ☟︎✌︎✞︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎📪︎ ☞︎⚐︎☼︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎🕯︎💧︎ 💧︎✌︎😐︎☜︎
(I AM CERTAINLY NOT THE ROMANTIC THAT SANS WAS, HE WAS FAR BETTER WITH PEOPLE THEN I'LL EVER BE BUT ALL I CAN DO IS TRY, NOW THAT HE'S GONE. I HAVE TO, FOR GRILLBY'S SAKE)
his eye light wandered to a picture on his desk of all three of them, sans the ever jubilant of the three grinning wide holding an absolutely massive bottle of ketchup in both hands, grillby stoic but clearly amused and himself. Fond if slightly rolling his eye light at his best friends love of such a condiment.
✋︎ 🕈︎⚐︎☠︎👎︎☜︎☼︎ ✋︎☞︎ ☟︎☜︎ 😐︎☠︎☜︎🕈︎ ☟︎⚐︎🕈︎ 💣︎🕆︎👍︎☟︎ ✋︎ ☹︎⚐︎✞︎☜︎👎︎ ☟︎✋︎💣︎📪︎ ✋︎ ☠︎☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎ ❄︎⚐︎☹︎👎︎ ☟︎✋︎💣︎📬︎📬︎📬︎✌︎❄︎ ☹︎☜︎✌︎💧︎❄︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ✋︎☠︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎💧︎ ☹︎✋︎☞︎☜︎ ✋︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎📪︎ 💣︎✌︎✡︎👌︎☜︎ ✋︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎ ✋︎☠︎ ✌︎ 🏱︎✌︎💧︎❄︎ ☼︎☜︎💧︎☜︎❄︎📪︎ 👌︎✡︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ❄︎✋︎💣︎☜︎ ✋︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☠︎ ❄︎☟︎⚐︎🕆︎☝︎☟︎❄︎ ⚐︎☞︎ 🕈︎⚐︎☼︎😐︎✋︎☠︎☝︎ 🕆︎🏱︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👍︎⚐︎🕆︎☼︎✌︎☝︎☜︎📬︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ✌︎☹︎☼︎☜︎✌︎👎︎✡︎ 👎︎✌︎❄︎✋︎☠︎☝︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎📪︎ ✋︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎☠︎😐︎ ☟︎☜︎ 😐︎☠︎☜︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎⚐︎🕆︎☝︎☟︎📪︎ ☟︎☜︎ 💣︎✌︎👎︎☜︎ 💧︎🕆︎☼︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎ ☞︎✋︎☠︎👎︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ ❄︎⚐︎ ✋︎☠︎👍︎☹︎🕆︎👎︎☜︎ 💣︎☜︎📬︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☠︎ ✋︎☠︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ ✋︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎☹︎✡︎ 👎︎✋︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ☜︎✠︎🏱︎☜︎👍︎❄︎📬︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ✋︎☠︎ ✌︎ 💣︎✋︎☹︎☹︎✋︎⚐︎☠︎ ✡︎☜︎✌︎☼︎💧︎ ✌︎☠︎👎︎ 🕈︎⚐︎🕆︎☹︎👎︎☠︎🕯︎❄︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 😐︎☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ✋︎❄︎✍︎ ✋︎ ☞︎☜︎☹︎☹︎ ☞︎⚐︎☼︎ ☝︎☼︎✋︎☹︎☹︎👌︎✡︎ ❄︎⚐︎📪︎ ✋︎🕯︎💣︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ 👍︎☜︎☼︎❄︎✌︎✋︎☠︎ 🕈︎☟︎☜︎❄︎☟︎☜︎☼︎ ☟︎☜︎ 🏱︎☹︎✌︎☠︎☠︎☜︎👎︎ ✋︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎✋︎💧︎ 🕈︎✌︎✡︎ ⚐︎☼︎ ✋︎❄︎ 🕈︎✌︎💧︎ ☺︎🕆︎💧︎❄︎ ✌︎ ☟︎✌︎🏱︎🏱︎✡︎ ✌︎👍︎👍︎✋︎👎︎☜︎☠︎❄︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ ✋︎❄︎🕯︎💧︎ 👌︎☜︎☜︎☠︎ ☠︎✋︎👍︎☜︎📪︎ 🕈︎☜︎ ✌︎☼︎☜︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ☼︎✌︎❄︎☟︎☜︎☼︎ ✌︎🕈︎😐︎🕈︎✌︎☼︎👎︎ ✌︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👌︎☜︎💧︎❄︎ ⚐︎☞︎ ❄︎✋︎💣︎☜︎💧︎📬︎ ✋︎❄︎ ☟︎✌︎👎︎ ✌︎☹︎🕈︎✌︎✡︎💧︎ 👌︎☜︎☜︎☠︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎ ❄︎⚐︎ 👌︎☼︎☜︎✌︎😐︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ ✋︎👍︎☜︎ ✌︎☠︎👎︎ ✋︎ ☞︎✋︎☠︎👎︎ ☟︎☜︎ 💧︎❄︎✋︎☹︎☹︎ ✋︎💧︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ ☟︎⚐︎☹︎✋︎👎︎✌︎✡︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ ☹︎☜︎❄︎❄︎☜︎☼︎📪︎ ☜︎✞︎☜︎☼︎✡︎ 💣︎☜︎💣︎⚐︎☼︎✡︎ ❄︎⚐︎☹︎👎︎📬︎ ☟︎✌︎🏱︎🏱︎✡︎ ⚐︎☼︎ 💧︎✌︎👎︎
(I WONDER IF HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVED HIM, I NEVER TOLD HIM...AT LEAST NOT IN THIS LIFE I DIDN'T, MAYBE I DID IN A PAST RESET, BY THE TIME I EVEN THOUGHT OF WORKING UP THE COURAGE. HE WAS ALREADY DATING GRILLBY, I THINK HE KNEW THOUGH, HE MADE SURE TO FIND WAYS TO INCLUDE ME. EVEN IN WAYS I CERTAINLY DIDN'T EXPECT. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT? I FELL FOR GRILLBY TO, I'M STILL NOT CERTAIN WHETHER HE PLANNED IT THIS WAY OR IT WAS JUST A HAPPY ACCIDENT BUT IT'S BEEN NICE, WE ARE STILL RATHER AWKWARD AT THE BEST OF TIMES. IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN SANS TO BREAK THE ICE AND I FIND HE STILL IS, EVERY HOLIDAY, EVERY LETTER, EVERY MEMORY TOLD. HAPPY OR SAD)
he rests his head on his desk now, arms folded under him and manages a quiet laugh.
✋︎ ✌︎💣︎ ☠︎⚐︎❄︎ ⚐︎☠︎☜︎ ❄︎⚐︎ 👎︎✋︎💧︎☼︎☜︎💧︎🏱︎☜︎👍︎❄︎ ❄︎☟︎☜︎ 👎︎☜︎✌︎👎︎📪︎ 👌︎🕆︎❄︎ 💧︎✌︎☠︎💧︎📪︎ 💣︎✡︎ 👎︎☜︎✌︎☼︎☜︎💧︎❄︎ ☞︎☼︎✋︎☜︎☠︎👎︎📬︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎☼︎ ✌︎ 👌︎✌︎💧︎❄︎✌︎☼︎👎︎📪︎ ✋︎ ☟︎⚐︎🏱︎☜︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ 😐︎☠︎⚐︎🕈︎ ❄︎☟︎✌︎❄︎
(I AM NOT ONE TO DISRESPECT THE DEAD, BUT SANS, MY DEAREST FRIEND. YOUR A BASTARD, I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT)
it was even rarer he cursed, but he’s certain he could hear sanses laugh if he’d heard him say that.
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"maybe it’s just me trying to be short and sweet but...he’s the only one i’ve felt safe enough to have sex with, he was my first and i don’t know if i’ve ever told him that.”
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we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.
The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.
It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.
And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.
Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.
A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.
Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.
At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.
And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.
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