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In retrospect, I should have gotten fitted in-person for a pair of rubber boots. Ordering shoes online is always a crapshoot. The ones I had on were too big, they just collected water like a rain barrel and waterlogged my socks.
The texture was horrible. A disgusting sensation.
The foyer’s carpet squelched with every step I took. It didn’t help that I was carrying 120 pounds of dead woman.
“This always happens during the honeymoon phase,” said my friend Dan.
“You won’t want to leave the house. You’ll want to be with her all the time. The modern age enables this. Work from home, order from home, live from home, die from home…” He began to rant about how modernity. He always goes there, and I always tune him out. He married a female cop from the sheriff’s department. She came off gay when I met her. Funny.
I‘ve tried to explain my marital problems to Dan before. I had to leave out a few key details. I told him my wife was depressed, in bed all day, not contributing financially. He said wives “tend to do that” and that I make enough money, anyway. Not quite the issue.
The trouble was harder to explain; I’ve only been married to Liana for six months, and she’s killed and replanted herself seven times.
I trudged up the staircase in the loose boots. The way I carried her, the soil from her body fell before us, laying a trail like rose petals.
Creaking wood drummed up anxiety in my chest. I am not a large man. I usually make but a negligible amount of noise when I move throughout the house. That’s something she commented on when we first moved in. The word she used was unobtrusive. She liked this about me. She said we had that in common. In a lot of ways, we really were alike.
Unlike me, her cells interlocked with tightly-woven cellulose walls. She had organelles not found in over 99% of human beings: chloroplasts. When I first met her, her skin had a milky green hue. The first time I touched her, I balked. She was not hot to the touch like others. Not cold, but not hot. Her breasts, thighs, cheeks… remarkably, they had the tautness of an unripe vegetable.
I laid her down in the bathtub. The plumbing was sensitive, not terrible, but sensitive. An old house. Wood and cobblestone on the outside. Folksy, I’m told through clenched smiles of guests trying to be complimentary. Yeah, right. It looks better suited to house a coven of child-stealing hags. I tried to fix it up, stay on trend. Liana convinced me not to hire contractors. She convinced me to buy, too. “I’ve always wanted a house in the woods…”
Now I know why.
The replanting process is nothing short of a natural miracle. I will be the first to admit, it attracted me to her further. Liana could change herself at will. All it took was a little patience, two days of waiting, a 6 foot deep ditch in the backyard, some sleeping pills and vodka. I didn’t understand the science of it at first. What exactly she needed to do to push out the roots and reform her mass. When I finally found out, I was too embarrassed to admit I didn’t know she had to physically die each time.
She was always shy about the details, embarrassed, like it was some sort of bowel syndrome. I did not press her for details, but as her husband, I should’ve researched the condition. I did eventually. But not before telling her she would look good blonde. Telling her she would look even hotter upping her bra size by a letter or two…
She started to wake up.
First, the rattle. A great exhalation and inhalation. It always took me by surprise. Her facial muscles were always the second thing reanimate. Her nose twitched. Her eyes opened. They looked so dry. Matte.
“Liana. This is getting dangerous.”
A couple seconds’ delay. Then, she smiled mawkishly. During this stage of regrowth, her skin is taut and verdant like the day I met her. (I once called her belle pepper as a pet name. She either didn’t get the pun, maybe.) With every hour, she begins to flush to her desired shade. She switches it up from time to time, never too dark or too white for most to notice, but I do. She carries Pantone swatches in her wallet.
She moved her lips, but couldn’t speak yet. I said nothing further. I picked up the detachable showerhead. The gentlest setting. I rinsed her body, avoiding the tender roots that twitched and protruded from the tips of her fingers and toes. I read somewhere that touching them at this stage feels like a pressing on a pinched nerve.
“I know why thish bophers you shoo much,” she gurgled, throat half-asleep. Her mouth was filled with soil and rainwater. It seeped from her firm, bloated lips.
I turned away. Washing her feet. She continued, most of the earth and excess sap that gagged her having dribbled onto her nightie.
“You like me like thish.”
I averted my eyes. I continued to bathe her, and stared at the peel-and-stick mauve tile accent above the tub. I had put it there the previous month to cover a stubborn decomposition stain.
“I like you all the time, Liana.” It felt like someone was slowly lacing my throat shut from the inside.
I didn’t have to look at her to know she was smiling.
“Buh you like… thish.”
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the same flame that burns you; birthed you first
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#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#gojo satoru#gojo#fanart#jjk fanart#tw body image//#ok i have done an entire two part icarian gojo series...can i rest now...am i free........#I rendered all those birds. only 2 remember tht theyre FALLING and i wanted them BLURRY#my details..#screaming crying throwing up etc#i suffer. this is my curse.#in other words i may b an idiot fr that but ! big fan of my me for the juxtaposition between this piece and the last#cold/unnatural/survival vs burning/truth/decay#dare i say i cooked#6 birds to be exact i cooked 6 birds sorry
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i'm still stuck on the purgatories so here's a list of purgatory 2 moments simply off the top of my head that deserve to be remembered:
aimsey ducking all of axolotl team alone in a cave with literally half a heart
goose gang fucking descending on the raccoon base and absolutely wrecking shop
ethan crankgameplays clutching up for team panda during the capture the flag game by being the only one hanging out in the center and periodically checking the chests, earning them a shitton of flags and clutching multiple rounds
crow team's egg taking 0 damage
pac doxxing goose gang's egg in the last second
shelby shubble as the last member of her team online writing a letter to aimsey and sharing the world's most devastating ten minutes before her team was eliminated with one of the eye creatures (coco? i forgot lol)
badboyhalo absolutely fucking DEMOLISHING the battleship event on like 2 hours of sleep and a dream
wuant(?) stealing a tv from the battleship event and then playing portuguese ice age on it for the crows lmfao
tubbo djing for his team while waiting for the time for a goose gambit
theguill CRASHING THROUGH THE FUCKING CEILING of the raccoon team's hidey hole like the fucking kool aid man in a last effort to save his team and 4v1 or 5v1 ing team raccoon; he lost but that was such an epic fucking moment
theguill and etoiles pvping and each hyping the other's skills the entire time
seapeekay escaping cellbit and baghera and then stealing their boats and rocketing past to tease them about it; that shit was iconic
kenny going mad with power collecting sand on literally day 1
the english speaking squirrels taking actual physical notes on portuguese phrases (i think)
lgbtiba
i may add more this is an off the top of my head list but like got DAMN i like these events :D i like them a lot
#qsmp#qsmp purgatory 2#qpurgatory 2#there hope those filter for u fuckers#(/affectionate)#shut up vic#block game brainrot#if you can't tell my povs went something like this:#crab -> raccoon -> panda -> capybara -> goose -> crow#so i didn't watch all of them lmfao#i only spent a few hours with raccoon and crab; panda i caught all of#capybara and goose i mostly watched on their elimination day#crow i hopped into on the final day as well tho i'd been keeping some tabs on them previously#just not concentrated watching#i like purgatories :D#to be clear though i hope they don't run purg 3 until like november 2024 at the absolute EARLIEST#the staff is NOT at the point they can handle it yet lol not for a while#the fact that one of the ex devs said they were already talking about purg 3 was crazy#like i'm patient i'm not nuts let's cook this one#this is neglecting to mention the post-server close calls which are my favorite part of the event no contest#oh yeah and i also have issues w how some of the special events work#those need some tweaking it's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination#but i enjoy it :) it has good moments
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realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards
*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then
#dpxdc#dp x dc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc crossover#dpdc#clone^2#danny fenton is a clone#like i dont even need to traumatize you worse the pure explorative options from this aLONE is enough to feed me for a week.#like. tucks hair behind ear let me shatter you into glass pieces then glue you back together babe. i can put you back together so good.#i'm missing a few shards because some parts of you broke into such small pieces i couldn't pick them back up again so you'll be missing a#few chunks of yourself that you'll never get back but that's okay. you'll still be a resemblance of your old self :]#don't let anakin (me) listen to late night sad songs he makes angst.#hhh imagine being stuck in a house for two weeks where you can hear your parents torturing ghosts in the basement and not only that but#you're the only person who can undERSTAND the ghosts. how many times did he see his parents drag in a ghost with whatever capturing device#they made recently? iirc the thermos was like. brand new in episode one right? but gOD the trauma this alone would cause#nobody touch me im cooking rn i need to think about how this would impact danny. like obvs it would fuel into a developing obsession to#keep his parents away from ghosts and to help the dead but what *else.* i need to refine my becoming phantom ficlet i wrote back in winter#raaa#and like even after two weeks they were *still capturing ghosts* danny just wasn't in the house 24/7 at the time.#*but those two fucking weeks man*#i need to sleep on this first before i make any major moves bc i know im tired but i am having thOUGHTs
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Anharion and Sarcean sketches 😌
#my art#sketches#dark rise#sarcean#anharion#idk I guess 2024 is the year I start posting all my doodles and sketches on tumblr instead of hoarding and hiding them#anyways welcome to the delusional part of my brain that knows they have matching earrings sarcean told me himself#im really regressing into my brainrot era fr#it comes without warning one day I sit down and read a book or watch something and next thing I know it’s wormed its way into my brain#and is making holes like a prion#like I was working ystd and my brain cooked up an entire minific about these 2 getting matching earrings#is this what’s gonna get me to start writing fic sgain#dark heir
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im with the shippers on this one tbqh. like why are they doing all that if carmen and syd arent meant to be
#LISTEN season 1? yes they are besties#SEASON 2? carmen got a big ol crush on sydney wether we want it or NOT#like cmon now. he loses his virgenity has a panic attack next morning and only thinking abt sydney calms him. the fuck#the way he looks up when sydney comes back at the end of season 1#constantly reassuring her her cooking is fine when testing out dishes#ive seen posts talking about carmy not being able to handle the thought of upsetting sidney and is just. yeah#idc if they r just friends but the editing in this show they are playing w ppls feelings#is like destiel except its actually possible on both parts?????#i feel like if this show ends without even a hint theyll end together this tag will never know peace ever again do you hear me#the bear fx#the bear#the bear hulu
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well that was embarrassing
#no father i will not show you my writing bc the last time I asked smth about it in front of you#you proceeded to give me a panic attack for 2 hours.#and they're telling me to learn cooking after thursday#and that i have to start packing stuff for shifting#i hate this part of shifting#what's worse is we don't even know where we're shifting😭😭#it's either [redacted] or [redacted] one is allllll the way up and the other is so near the equator winter doesn't exist#i just want to read and watch my dramas#bleh if we move to place 1 I can finally be safe from boards and if we go down idt I can change courses :/ but I hate packing#i went ot#moonhalo talks —✧
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dinner date with taibani yammy yammy
#taibani#tiger and bunny#tiger and bunny 2#tiger & bunny#tiger & bunny 2#artists on tumblr#fanart#barnaby brooks jr#kotetsu t. kaburagi#tiger bunny#I will never not love them#what if in part 2 they actually end up having a dinner date at Kotetsu’s place and Barnaby makes him fried rice and then then then he’s lik#I want to cook fried rice for you everyday/for the rest of our lives and Kotetsu is like omg yeah I love food#and Barnaby just screams internally because he’s dense but he’s a lovable idiot#SOBS FOR THEM CRIES FOR THEM ILL TAKE ANY CUTE INTERACTION THEY FEED US IN SEASON 2 ILL EAT IT ALL#Also let Nathan and Keith have more screen time I want to see how their relationship develops
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csm part 2 is my favorite romcom
#ive been stocking up on memes to turn into brainrot material but i kept procrastinating til now#bon apple tea#what is fujimoto cooking? i have no fucking clue but imma eat it up either way#i read the new chapters every week while giggling n kicking my feet like a teenage girl watching her favorite kdrama#im so obsessed with the dennis/asa/yoshi love triangle its so funny#nothing will ever beat the hayakawa fam but!!! i love the new trio too#my favorite hc/theory is that yoshi is in love with denji#not bc i think he is but bc it would be funny. hope that helps#chainsaw man#csm#csm part 2#asa csm#denji csm#yoshida csm#nayuta csm#yoru csm
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The twinkiest form of Joseph Joestar and the man-whore form of Joe Tazuna
#its literally just their hair#They don't even look that similar#bro is onto nothing‼️🗣️🔥#jjba#jojo bizarre adventure#jojo no kimyou na bouken#jjba battle tendency#jjba joseph#jjba part 2#yttd#your turn to die#yttd joe#joe tazuna#half cooked french frie up my ass#Thomas Jefferson said that while putting on his Miku binder
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]
#em draws stuff#flintlock fortress#team fortress 2#have you seen him? now you have!#by gosh this man is tricky to draw. still figuring out exactly how he works in flintlock since so much of him is Very 20thcentury specific#probably I will give him his helmet back later (or just slap a cooking pot on his head)#and also trade out that caped greatcoat for some other type of outerwear since it ended up looking better on heavy than it did on him#I Did draw and shade his whole face for this and then carefully erase it out. all part of the journey :/#slowly slowly I am coming around to seeing the fun in this fellow. he is in fact so silly.
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Hate listening to BTS songs right now 'cause they put me in such a good mood but then reality is like we're not gonna get new shit for another year and that sucks so much.
#Sab talks#listening to Silver Spoon right now and I'm like ''this song slaps'' like it's the first time listening to it LMFAO#can't wait to hear what rl cooked up or are cooking up for cb#I want bangers like please don't cb with more slow songs...#we got enough of those before they left#and by enough yeah I'm aware it was only like 2 but that was 1 more than necessary just imo#I want them to come back and hit HARD#like Mic Drop era kind of hard#a part of me thinks we won't get that kind of music though and I dunno why...
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so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.
#she said this RIGHT after talking about how bad yt misinfo is... which she followed up w SO I WAS WATCHING A YT DOC ABOUT WW2 & LEARNED THIS#youtube 'historians' are literally the most fascist breed of youtuber. avoid the vast majority like the plague lmao#i asked if the video was sourcing the hollow dahmer & the black book of communism & she didnt seem to know what those are lol#to her credit i told her straight up that she was incorrect & she at least faked being curious about doing more research but i am doubting#she also 'learned' that lenin killed trotsky lol get your propaganda right lenin was dead by then STALIN icepicked him <3#anyway im making jokes bc the worst part was a different conversation where she spoke positively of israel#THAT'S gonna be the one to ruin our friendship. fuck you & your war tourist friend who fought in the 1960s landgrabs that youre now#telling me as if this is a cute story. nahhhh lmao i looked her straight in the eye & said i will NOT debate this#so she dropped it like the true enlightened centrist most socdem cowards are and i kept cleaning her house quietly#turns out You & Me We're the Only Ones Around Here Who Aren't Complete Fools was premature *kicks the poorly rendered gravel sadly*#shes otherwise a nice lady & i know i need to be more flexible in order to hopefully change ppls minds...#but also when people say awful & untrue things it makes me not want to talk to you 🤷♂️ srry 2 b a freak like that#also i know shes not transphobic but i havent sniffed her out well enough to know if shes safe to come out to#so its hours of misgendering (which isnt her fault she doesnt know) bc shes obsessed with neoliberal feminism and inappropriately brings#gender into conversations that it does not belong in#'did you know all the countries that handled covid best were ran by women?' 1) untrue 2) dont care finland still sucks#she also tried to tell me that european rich people learned to be nicer after the french rev & thats why europe is better than america...#girl shut up we learned how to be so good at racism and capitalism BECAUSE of europe. there is no such thing as a good rich person!!!#i pick my battles (genocide & anticommunist genocide revisionism) so i let her cook w that one & was not left convinced as you can imagine#ANYWAY rant about today's weird day done. gonna smoke weed & rim some skies 🥵 while listening to the Khrushchev Lied audiobook i found 😘
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wow very cool. as a european i am learning a lot about the us navy and defense and everything from your blog haha! idk if you've answered this before but what made you wanna work in defense?
Russia invading ukraine on my birthday lol. though i was always interested in military history/military fiction even as a kid. that was just the watershed moment for me personally
i don’t want to work IN defense though. I want to write ABOUT defense. still not sure what that looks like exactly for me. move to DC definitely. maybe get a position at one of the twenty trillion trade publications there are around here. Or comms job, govt job, journalism job… not sure. hopefully i will figure it out ! would love to write fiction for a living but im realistic enough to know that’s an oxymoron
(Also, side note, i am very flattered, & i know i say this somewhat often but i feel the need to repeat it every once in a while… please don’t take anything i say on this blog / ESPECIALLY in my writing as fact. i misrepresent stuff and get stuff wrong all the time, sometimes on purpose for story reasons. I try my best but i simply lack experience & worldview and have spent functionally zero time being an Adult or having to deal with Adult topics [still do not know what a 401k is!]. for instance if you even mention the words “security clearance” or “congressional confirmation hearing” in the general vicinity of my fics, the plot, nay, the entire CONCEPT, goes up in flames, as i discuss in this post. i really appreciate this comment don’t get me wrong But there are definitely better/more accurate places to learn about these topics than a 20y.o. A&D intern who is only just beginning their career & is still confused about many of the basics of real life. I have a lot of growing up still left to do & you really don’t have to listen to me)
#saying this only bc I myself am trying to learn from those better sources#the whole concept of ‘Guy who is closeted even from himself’ doesn’t work when a core part of his job is specifically being asked#‘if an enemy government discovered your secret gay lover & threatened to expose it would you betray the US to keep it secret’#no idea what ice as i have written him would respond tbh#and just that alone is enough to deny his clearance LOL he’s cooked#anyway—ugh don’t get me started on how conflicted i am about my career#as of posting this i have finished my first aerospace & defense internship/job#would do it again#freaking out about what that means for my own personal politics#w/e i have 2 years left of college. not gonna worry about this now.#I have a lot of growing up still left to do.#thanks for the ask anon i think i know who you are. <3 love you.#i could talk about my experience with the nyc ukrainian community for a week straight tbh#getting involved with them was genuinely life-altering stuff#compacflt has finally figured out how to internally link to previous posts on mobile: hallelujah
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i didn’t know jonathan sims related content has so much fucking crack in it
#just stayed up to properly listen through 2 1/2 mechs albums#probably gonna wake up and finish tales to be told#then listen to MAG 63#every day i listen to jonathan sims voice 😭 major part of my routine rn#no but seriously#he was cooking with jonny dville#still a big tim stoker fan too#istg if this man gets me to start reading again just so i can read his published works#i need to listen to more TMA i wanna cook up some angst stories#OH MY GOD#also a big gunpowder tim fan#oh my god and ashes in underground blues#i’m gonna have to relisten to the albums another time to properly grasp their stories but#god ulysses dies at dawn was a fucking banger#need to keep listened to TMA though i wanna finish season two before the end of the month#also dying to meet nikola in season 3#and i want the distortions to come back#andy rants#FUCK MY ASS IS SO TIRED I MEANT UNDERWORLD BLUES NOT UNDERGROUND
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How in the fuck Denji, a 17 years old teen living with 7 dogs, a cat and a little girl, will be able to pay his bills? all this having enough time to go to high school AND being the local hero chainsaw man?!
#hope kishibe does smth or looks over him. i got that vibe from him even if he disappeared last minute lol#for ex. mf has to cook every morning for all his pets and a kid bro. at least he learned from aki ig#i suppose kishibe left nayuta with him bc 1. he doesn't like kids prob lol 2. he wants denji to grow-up? mentally i mean#i've heard the octopus bodyguard is with him in part 2??? that would solve a lot of things for denji. yeah#currently reading#denji#chainsaw man#chainsaw man spoilers#reading
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