NAME: Mist Tea Boba Shop

LOCATION: Harborside

Mist Tea Boba Shop, owned by Shan Lin, is located on a quiet side street out of the way of most touristy areas in Harborside. From the outside, one often thinks that it's a more of a posh café, an intimidating place to try out for someone new to the neighborhood. In addition to its stylish ambience, Mist Tea's bubble teas are known for their amazing flavors. They make their cane syrup from scratch and the tapioca pearls are fresh every single day. They also import almost all of their ingredients directly from Taiwan.

The hostess tends to be rude to ordinary, less wealthy people, especially on Saturdays, when the shop is “reserved” for a private party. 

The private party is actually a weekly dice game for gamblers, managed by the owner herself, who also plays. However, the owner has become notorious among its patrons for her gambling skills, and new players are warned to avoid playing against her.

The building was previously owned by a charlatan and operated as an unlicensed casino. When they were caught, someone else took over the place and turned it into the boba shop.

One of the owners of the Codfather is rumored to be an investor.

Sometimes, weird people are seen here, people that don’t usually drink boba tea, like businessmen and news reporters. They’re actually here to buy “something else” (information) from the owner.

A lot of students and different people still go here despite the hostess’ rudeness, taking it as a mere quirk or a gimmick like those “Karen” restaurants, even though only the hostess is rude while the rest of the workers are pretty nice.

        “ what you are, I was; what I am, you will be ”

You know, I would actually not be opposed to another college series that takes place at Hartfeld. We got The Freshman+ series obviously, and while they don’t take place at Hartfeld per se, the Endless Summer crew were seniors there and the THoBM MC was a Hartfeld student too.

rbr’s marketing team watching max talk yet again about how it would be sooooo cool and fun if he was retired already in a #sponcon video with one of their main partners:

if you were me where would you have put your backup pair of glasses with an up to date prescription. because apparently it is not 'with the one million out of date pairs of glasses' and half my items are in storage boxes 😑

Why do you like GMILFS?

Hmms. Ehm, de reason? Amns simple.

After a whiles, de goods looking supermodels get boring. I can gets anyone. I wants a thrill onces in a while. De older ladies amns needing to be seduces in a differents way. De ladies amns all beautiful and all has different needs and wants, but GMILFS like to pampers me back.

I's an equal opportunitits lover. Dat amns why.

Also feeling an inexplicably intense impulse to move to the UK. Girl what

In between getting things done up at my grandparents' house, we've been talking with Granddad and occasionally learning some unexpected tidbits about family history. Like, I already knew both Granddad's father and stepmom were extremely involved in union work- the first time they met was in a UAW office!- but I did not quite realize to what extent.

"We had people come and visit a lot, and sometimes they'd stay for quite a while. There was one guy, when I was about seven, who stayed with us for some time- it wasn't until years later that I learned that was Roy Reuther, and Dad and Mom were hiding him because Henry Ford wanted him dead."

NAME: Claude Residence (Shan’s Home)

LOCATION: Harborside 

Located in a very quiet and peaceful area within Harborside, Shan's nondescript home gives its owner plenty of legitimate reasons to not show up to work. The path to the area where the home is appears to be a little rugged and unsafe, even though it’s pretty safe, and rumors of dangerous men around the area discourage even the nosiest of folks from venturing further in. The house itself looks boring and not worth the trouble of breaking in. It is, however, close to the water.

The name on both the land and house title is “Claude.” Just “Claude.” Odd. 

Not a lot of people know the home exists. Even most of the folks from Harborside have no idea where it is and that it’s even there. The ones who do are very old and often say it used to belong to a family of four who just disappeared one day.

The few elderly that know about it also often refer to it as the Harborside Claude Residence. As if there are other Claude Residences in town. Maybe there are. Who knows? Who cares?

This home has had several owners in the past including a kitsune, a slayer, a spellcaster, and a fae. Those last two were supposedly “married” until their story ended in a tragedy. 

Shan renovated the place to her liking, adding in the blues and whites. Before she did that, it was all boring oak.

The whale rug in the bathroom was a gift from an old exorcist friend.

The home has surprisingly good surveillance through hidden security cameras, which are monitored in the basement.

have you seen the thin man because I am Obsessed with myrna loy & william powell’s chemistry in it. granted I don’t watch a ton of movies but I feel like I hardly ever see actors in new movies that play off of each other as well as they did and it’s so much fun to watch

oh yeah!!! it's one of my favorites! i actually watched the last one--song of the thin man--first, ages ago, because I was trapezing through dean stockwell's filmography at the time and he played their son--but this week i watched how to marry a millionaire, in which william powell made an appearance, and i remembered how much i liked him as nick charles... so i've been on a bit of a william powell bender + have gone back and started watching the thin man movies in order. (so far, i think the thin man takes the cake as the best in the thin man series, though i've really enjoyed all the other ones i've seen so far!) anyhow! now i only have two thin man movies left, but have been watching a few others that myrna loy/william powell made together alongside them, and i've just been flat out stunned by how much their chemistry carries into other movies--my favorite of which has been libeled lady, which they're both just... beyond wonderful in.

I scheduled both a doctor and a dentist appointment for myself today, please please clap

Thinking of getting the Temple of Resurrection, it looks so cool !!

It just looks like a really good deal :D

every single ad i have been getting for the past few weeks is like “this game is made specifically for OLD PEOPLE with NO MEMORY” why does tumblr think im a demented elder…

we dont know anything about Benoit Blanc's husband except that hes called Philip but i want him to be a retired jewel thief who Benoit met during a case after he was hired to locate some stolen diamonds and Philip was posing as a gardener and Benoit kept asking him increasingly complicated questions about gardening so Philip thought he was onto him but really Benoit just thought he was hot and asked Philip out but the entire time Philip was like this is some kind of gambit so kept getting weirder and weirder until Benoit was like what is up with you so Philip confessed the whole thing and Benoit was like oh shit. but the guy he robbed was a total asshole so Benoit was like whatever it's fine so they started dating and the diamonds ended up paying for their apartment

as of today, all of my former coworkers in the circulation department have either relocated to different branches or resigned 🤭