Unfortunately, nothing remains of the Bastille itself. Today, the “Colonne de Juillet” is standing in the middle of the square. The famous prison was destroyed, but the today busy square is the center of a lively area, during daytime as well as night time, with shops of all sorts, art galeries, bars and restaurants and of course the modern Bastille Opera.
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exhausted personal rambling
SO one of the myriad crazy things happening over the last few months is that our family car was in a very bad wreck in mid-November. All of the people are fine, thank God, but the car needed extensive repairs.
Well, those repairs were supposed to be completed by December 3. The collision shop kept finding more problems and bumping out the return date.
Our car insurance stopped paying for a rental on December 15. I called and confirmed with the collision repair shop multiple times that THEY were taking over the rental car payment, since our insurance wasn't paying anymore and the collision repair shop was responsible for the delays in returning our car. They agreed to pay for the rental, and we've been just sitting here, checking in every few days, and now they're saying they MIGHT have our car repair finished this afternoon.
In the meantime, I got a call from the car rental company today saying, "Uh were you aware your insurance isn't covering the rental anymore and you owe $600 out of pocket for the last 15 days?"
Apparently the collision repair place never took over the payment like they said they were going to. (Like I confirmed with them literally every time I spoke on the phone with the guy.)
Aaaaand now we're trying to figure out how to get this sorted out in the next two hours, because everything's about to close for the holiday weekend and not reopen until Tuesday, and at that point we'll be on the hook for another 3 days' worth of rental payments. But if we return the rental car before the repair shop accepts responsibility for payment, the rental place will just charge us for it because we're the only responsible party listed on the record atm.
It would be nice if something could be simple and cheap lol. This is ... just a terrible series of events to be dealing with in addition to my partner being unemployed rn. More than anything, I'm just very tired.
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apparently it's way easier to plan scenes and plotpoints for a fanfic if i draw them first, so here we are <3 featuring me rambling abt this scene under the cut!!
i was specifically thinking about Haym and Rikki's entire relationship?
especially very early on, right when Rikki is properly assigned as Neon J's apprentice and whatnot. this was meant to be the moment Rikki realizes they're not coping very well with leaving Ban behind in Beachside Archipelago, and how they're actually gravitating towards Haym because of how similar he feels to Ban - yknow. being the same model and all
cause Rikki has some serious issues with needing absolute control over every aspect of their life. and right now, they're stuck with a job they don't exactly care for, trying desperately to suck up to Neon J so he'll actually promote Rikki to a DECENT job designing security bots for Vinyl City, not BABYSITTING 1010
(which isn't even babysitting, moreso than being monitored 24/7 in a localized space where they can't be shady since Neon J doesnt. trust them. at all. for various valid reasons)
so witnessing Haym pull some stupid but well-meaning stunt to force Rikki show off how good they are at fixing and repairing shit makes Rikki go????
A LITTLE FERAL????
BECAUSE THEY UNCONSCIOUSLY PROJECT ALL THEIR UNRESOLVED FEELINGS ABOUT BAN ONTO HAYM
but they only realize this when their body shuts down and cannot act the way they would've wanted, seeing Haym entirely fucking wrecked being very similar to how they found Ban when they first met makes them spiral a little
Haym doesn't even KNOW he's not the original Yellow model, he has his suspicions but is overall kept in the dark. befriending Rikki is something he does entirely out of genuine curiosity, motherfucker has no clue he's in the middle of a 4 year long unresolved break-up between two losers who are constantly pining after each other both romantically and platonically
im thinkingggg Haym might be seeking out Rikki's presence mostly because he's noticed that they treat him slightly different than the others. not necessarily better, just different enough to get him curious. so the need to build an identity away from 1010 as a group/unit and his inherent curiosity just gets him into this mess
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