#hopefully non-sucky for once

[cto10121]

Damn Tumblr for not accepting large files! Yeah, I did all the parts - chorus and all. Yep, I'm that insane. Just woke up with an insatiable urge to sing my lyrics...just in time for the eclipse to become irrelevant. 🫠 So obviously I departed from the original English (they wouldn’t have worked in context anyway, they’re so generic) and tried to stick as much to the German as possible. Hopefully this is still an improvement over the Dance the Vampire clusterfuck even with me singing to myself.

Total Eclipse (Totale Finsternis)

Vampires Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she bright? Young and enticing An ingenue of night See her

Finer than velvet Glistening fair She may be mortal But in our secret lair She’s damned!

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel a void grow Inside me, but I don’t know what I miss

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night the most fantastical dreams come, As haunting as a blow or a kiss

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I wait and hear someone call me But it’s never clear to where I must go

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel a shadow fall near me Then I wish to leave the life I have known

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call:

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel enchantments around me Coaxing me to just give in

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel temptations surround me They’re a mirror of my longing within

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I wonder what I would dare do To become a woman, fearless and free

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I ponder what I would dare to If I could fin’lly choose whom I’ll be

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah An exquisite longing to be free!

Krolock Then we’ll leave this world behind In this bond entwined together Far beyond this void of time We shall die and live forever

Come with me to the depths of the night In my arms you will find A shadow world of love, a paradise of the night The sun of midnight dawning, dreams of vice taking flight

You are the blood of life Realized in mortal form

Sarah Your words are like a flint Making sparks in my heart

Both I feel my essence alight! Eternity shall start tonight Eternity shall start

Krolock Tonight

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of losing my fear Now I fear of losing my mind There’s nothing I can do I’m lost and I’m found for all time

Once upon a time I dreamed of giving my love Now I rise and falling apart There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I long to run and begin To break this tie of fate

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night the voice of truth speaks within me And already I know it’s too late

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I would admit that I’ll never Meet a miracle as wondrous as you

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I get a glimpse of forever And I see this ancient world fresh and new

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah Every now and then it calls to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah And I know I’m where I’m meant to be

Both And we’ll leave this world behind In this bond we’ll never sever Far beyond the void of time We shall die and live forever

Sink with me in the depths of the night In my arms you will find A shadow world of love, a paradise of the night The sun of midnight dawning, dreams of vice taking flight

Krolock You are the blood of life Realized in mortal form

Sarah Your words are like a flint Making sparks in my heart

Both I feel my essence alight! Eternity shall start tonight Eternity shall start

Krolock Tonight

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of losing my fear Now I fear I’m losing my mind

Both There’s nothing I can do I’m lost and I’m found for all time

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of giving my love

Krolock Now I think I’m falling apart

Both There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart There’s nothing I can say I’m rising and falling apart

Sarah There’s nothing I can do I rise and I’m falling apart

Krolock almost bites her.

Krolock No, let’s not forget The blood will run cold Deferring the sweet Will allow it to hold Be patient

And soon the meaning of these Hours shall be told Sorrow is past us And forever will call In our sweet rapture Dancing at our grand ball…

#tanz der vampire #totale finsternis #total eclipse of the heart #cristina sings #my lyrics #tanz der vampire english #dance of the vampires #hopefully non-sucky for once #...or appropriately sucky #badoom tss

[parisian-nicole]

GarVez Fic: Someone To Watch Over Me

Author: Parisian Nicole

Warning: Adult subject matter such as non-consensual acts

Summary: Garcia has a scary visitor and turns to Luke for protection and help. It's sucky but I am literally typing this off the top of my head. I have a general idea of what I want to do here, but it may change. Hopefully, my muse will keep the ideas coming and I can finish this one up quickly But don't know yet. This idea just came to me while I am at my desk working my 9-5 job (thankfully I work from home and have my personal PC desk right next to my work desk).

*****

GarVez Fic: Some One To Watch Over Me

Chapter One:

At first, he wasn’t sure he had heard anything, and he lay in bed on his back scowling up at the ceiling as he listened. Even Roxy, who slept at the foot of the bed, sat up and stared at the open bedroom door as if waiting for something. Then it came again, a low almost tentative knock at his front door. Roxy, growled as she jumped from the bed and waited for her master to command her next move. Luke Alvez’s senses were on high alert. As he threw back the covers and moved his legs over the edge of the bed, he glanced at the alarm clock on his bedside table, and it read 2:27am. He moved to the bedroom door to make his way out to the living room with Roxy right at his side ready to follow any command he gave. Once he reached his door and looked through the peephole, his early weariness about who was knocking on his door at that time of morning, instantly morphed into fear and great concern when he saw who stood on the other side of the door holding a cat and with a blanket wrapped around them. Luke hurriedly yanked the door open to Penelope Garcia, who looked up at him with wide wet, and red eyes.

“Penelope?” He spoke out in a tone that suggested that he wasn’t believing his own eyes, and that she was actually standing there.

“Hi, Luke,” She responded with a small smile. “Sorry, I know it’s late…” He cut off her words by reaching out and gently grasping her arm and pulling her into his apartment.

“Get in here Chica,” He spoke softly to her. “And you are always welcome here no matter what the time is,” He tacked on as he closed and locked his front door and then turned to find her squatting and giving Roxy love as Sergio rubbed up against Roxy’s legs in a show of affection. He smiled warmly at them, it always made him happy to see the tight bond between Penelope, Roxy and even Sergio, which they all had right from their first meeting. It was something he had never seen with anyone else. Roxy hadn’t even taken to Lisa in the same way he did with Penelope. Roxy usually stayed out of Lisa’s way for the most part and only allowed a pat to her head from Lisa, before she’d move away from her. With Penelope Roxy stuck close and would try to elicit pats, rubs, and scratches from Penelope. “What’s wrong, did something happen?” Luke probed and Penelope stood back upright and turned to face him though she kept her eyes locked down to the dog who still stood right at her side.

“I’m … Uhm … I’m not sure,” She began. “Something spooked me at my apartment, and you live so close by, so I came here,” She stated, and Luke moved to her and placed a comforting hand on her arm and steered her to his couch.

“Hey, I’m glad you came to me. Come on, sit down,” He coaxed, and she nodded, smiled, and took a seat on the couch. Then Luke sat right down beside her, so close their knees touched. “Now, tell me what spooked you,” She dropped her eyes down to his right hand which sat atop her blanketed knee.

“I was asleep, and I felt something … touching me,” She began her story and these words filled Luke with worry and also anger, but he remained silent to let her finish. “I opened my eyes and as you know I am visually challenged so everything is blurry without my glasses. But I thought I saw the outline of a man standing beside my bed,” She looked up at Luke as she said this, her lips trembled slightly, and her eyes filled with tears. Luke’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he gulped down his rage, and his jaw clenched. “I was so scared, but I scrambled for my glasses on my bedside table and to turn on the lamp. God, it was like I was made of molasses, and I was moving so slow and then I knocked over the lamp,” She closed her eyes, shook her head a bit as if to remove an unpleasant thought. Then she took a deep breath and opened her eyes again and continued her story. “I finally got my glasses on, I picked up the lamp, and I turned it on, but there was no one there. My bedroom door was still shut, and I always lock it. Derek always told me to make sure I locked my bedroom door in case of any intruders, that it would give me some time to get a weapon or to climb out the window if I could.”

“I agree that is a great idea,” Luke concurred with a nod.

“Yeah, well, the door was still locked so no one came through or back out the door, I know I would have seen it, I would have known. But there was no one there when I turned on the light. It was just me and Sergio.”

“That’s good, but it still spooked you and that’s totally understandable,” Luke spoke in a consoling tone.

“That wasn’t really what spooked me,” She went on. “I mean I would have just chalked it up as a nightmare but then I noticed something.”

“What?” His brows furrowed as he looked at her and she couldn’t meet his eyes.

“This is not how I envisioned this happening,” She mumbled low, but he still caught it but could tell she hadn’t intended for him to hear, so he pretended he hadn’t. Penelope pushed the blanket she had around her shoulders down. And Luke couldn’t stop his eyes from appreciatively raking over the short night shirt she wore which had a cartoony unicorn with a rainbow on it. It brought an endearing smile to his lips which instantly faded when she pulled up the hem of the night shirt to expose her porcelain legs. Luke swallowed the lump that was suddenly lodged in his throat and willed away the arousal that he could feel stirring within him. He silently cursed himself for this reaction for he knew there was nothing remotely sexual about the situation but also knew it was a completely normal reaction as well. When Penelope parted her thighs and showed him what scared her it was like he was doused with a bucket of ice water in the middle of a blizzard. “Are those handprints?” Penelope asked through trembling lips and Luke’s own eyes enlarged in shock and then quickly became red and wet from his growing rage. He could see that her inner thighs had clear bruising and those bruises were definitely handprints. He tried to remain calm even though he wanted to race to her apartment and tear it apart to find the person who had done this. But she had come to him, not JJ, not Emily, not Tara. And yes, his apartment was the closest to hers only minutes away, but he knew without a doubt that that had not been the reason she had come to him. She came because she was scared, and she knew both Luke and Roxy would protect her, always. “I don’t know how those bruises got there, but … Luke, are they handprints?” She asked him again and he looked up into her eyes and could see that she was holding on to hope that they weren’t, and that she was just imagining everything, and it was in fact just a nightmare.

“We should get you to the hospital,” Luke replied as he reached out and grasped her left hand into his right hand and gave her hand a squeeze. Penelope nodded her head as she snapped her eyes shut and freed the tears just at their brims, while the realization of what had happened, what was happening finally washed over her. Someone had really been in her bedroom and that someone had touched her. She wanted to scream at the thought of it and to the knowledge that she had been touched in such an intimate way. Then she became filled with a near overwhelming desire to bathe but knew she couldn’t until she was checked by a doctor, and they did a rape kit. “I will take you, unless you’d prefer JJ or…” She opened her eyes and tightened her grip on his hand at his words as she vehemently shook her head to this idea.

“No, I want you to go with me, and I don’t want the others to know. Please, Luke, please don’t tell anyone else,” She begged him, and it broke his heart to see the desperation, fear, and shame in her eyes.

“I won’t say a word to anyone, and I’ll be right here with you every step of the way,” He spoke these words as he lifted his free hand up and cupped her cheek. “Hey, you’re safe now,” She nodded to his words because she knew it was the truth. “And Penelope, I promise you I will find who did this and I will make them pay. Do you hear me? I swear they are going to pay for touching you,” Luke declared, and he didn’t even realize that his own angry tears had slipped out and had rolled down his cheek until she had reached up and wiped them away. Then he sniffed, righted himself, and stood up from the couch. “Let’s go grab you a pair of my sweatpants to put on before we head out,” He offered and then waited for her to stand and follow him. Penelope slowly stood from the couch and then she lurched herself at Luke, where she wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed her cheek against his chest while she squeezed her eyes shut. Luke instinctively enveloped her in his welcomed embrace. He held her snuggly against him and buried his nose in her thick tresses and breathed her in, as his eyes drifted closed in his contentment.

“Thank you, Luke,” She whispered to him and in reply he simply kissed the top of her head and tightened his hold.

More to come….

#garvez #garvez fanfiction #garvez fic #garvezfan #penelope x luke #garcia x alvez #penelope garcia #luke alvez #criminal minds #criminal minds fanfiction #criminal minds fic

[remix-of-your-guts]

insisting that you're 'literally trans' over and over sounds kind of like the terf line about how everyone's non binary, so given that and your post history it looks really suspicious

okay i legit can't tell if this is bait or something because?? what???? i said i was "literally trans" one time because someone asked if radfems reblogging my post meant i agreed with their beliefs and i chose to interpret their question in good faith so i gave a legit answer. i haven't bothered to respond to a single comment from obvious terfs because im not into giving them the time of day.

i'm not sure how me simply existing as a trans individual is agreeing with the argument that terfs make to try and erase the existence of us that "everyone is basically nonbinary because gender isn't psychological at all it's just what's in your pants" (im assuming that's the line you're talking abt and if not then idk what that is) and that's frankly a bizarre leap to make. especially because i don't even call myself nonbinary, im just a genderqueer (as in my gender is inseparable from my queerness) transsexual man.

and just what the hell is suspicious about my post history? i've been posting about trans rights and trans-inclusive feminism since i started this blog, though i can't guarantee every hot take i've had on incredibly niche intra-community discourse aligns with my current beliefs (which mostly boils down to "internet discourse is stupid" and idc)

i don't understand the phrasing here as though i'm fighting widespread accusations of transphobia or transmisogyny when this is literally the first comment i've ever gotten insinuating something like that??? of course that's not including the terfs saying "so close bestie" right before calling me a "retarded tra" but since when do we base our claims of who is and is not a terf on what the terfs themself say, instead of what the person in question has actually said/done? plus making fun of how im "close but missing the point" because i said that a trans woman may have a bit of internalized misogyny is hardly saying i clearly agree with everything they stand for (in fact it's fundamentally about the fact that i dont). if thats what you consider being claimed by terfs, and if being claimed by terfs is what you consider the deciding factor in whether or not someone is one, then basically every blogger who's ever mentioned general feminism, periods, or being a woman on this website would be a terf (even trans femmes cuz ive seen posts from them accidentally get passed around terf circles without them knowing who op is). especially every transmasc on this website would be a terf then considering that they're so bizarrely determined to get us to join them while being violently bigoted against us and dehumanizing us (obv not to the extent of trans women but still it's hardly an effective recruitment tactic) and allying with the people that explicitly want our extermination.

i'd once again like to remind everyone that all i did was point out a woman who happens to be trans accidentally veering into perpetuating misogynistic stereotypes (something that i will call out even quicker when cis women do it, which they do all the fucking time) in a way that made it clear it wasn't a big deal and expecting no one except my followers (which i'm pretty confident in saying none of whom are at least obvious terfs) to see. hopefully we can all agree that trans women are not immune to accidentally perpetuating misogynistic stereotypes- not because of their gender but in spite of it because all women can be misogynistic because MISOGYNY 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 STORED 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 GENDER

and for the record even in the tags of the og post i was saying that it's really sucky that people totally are going to overreact to this and give dylan disproportionate hate because there 100% is a double standard in how society at large responds to these things, and that terfs are going to use it as "proof." but i don't think that just because accusations of misogyny are often weaponized against trans women we can never engage in good faith criticism of them??? in fact i think that makes it very important to help each other make sure there isn't any grain of truth terfs can latch onto (by which i mean being conscious of misogynistic patterns for everyone in our community, including anyone who considers themself an ally to trans people, not unfairly policing just trans women).

however obviously i regret making the post now since it clearly just encouraged the transmisogyny hate-train. and has caused my asks and notes to be flooded with transphobic bullshit directed at dylan, obviously, but also at myself. seriously, i've been deleting all the anons that are from terfs (like ive always done cuz they've targeted me before) but it's been some nasty shit. and it's really fucking annoying having to block every one that crawls over here to tell me why i'm apparently retarded for being trans and supporting my trans sisters. (sorry about the r slur- their words not mine)

okay done talking abt this forever now

[j4ya]

Hey Jaya!

Since you're 28, I guess you have job?

So, how did you get a job

And is it the job you were trying to get, like, is it what you wanted when you were in your college years?

Sincerely,

A worried college student

Hi!!

When I got my first job, it took a lot of applications. But the first thing I told my parents after graduation was that I was taking a month off. I’d been through so much stress and everything and I told them to give me a month break and then I’d throw myself into job searching. And that really helped reset my head!

Neither my job then nor my job now align with my major but honestly most people don’t find jobs within the exact field they studied in nowadays. I did a lot of college recruiting at the companies I worked for and many are just looking to see that you completed a degree (shows you have a set of skills and ability to learn and work with others, meet a deadline, etc) and did it well, which is why I push so hard for majoring in something you’re passionate about that you’ll do well with. A higher GPA can look more impressive for the job you’re applying for than the major itself.

Also if you’re willing to relocate, your chances of finding a job you like go up 1000%. If you’re young and you can afford it (many companies give a relocation bonus too) then do it. Most people I know my age are working in a different state than they grew up in/went to school in and I don’t know anyone who fully regrets it. You learn a lot, including independence and financial management, it helps you grow up a ton.

So don’t worry about trying to find something exactly in your field. Find something you wouldn’t mind doing, especially for your first job. Something that uses your strengths and hopefully a company that’s willing to invest in you through training and such. Once you have one professional (post-college) job on your resume then that becomes the main focal point from then on, so any future jobs will focus more on your work than what you did at school. For that reason you want to find a first job that’ll really help you grow, learn to work in a professional environment, and give you diverse experiences.

Once you start looking for jobs, commit to it. Looking for work is a job in itself. You might have to submit 100s of applications — don’t let that get you down. My biggest tips would be to take advantage of any resumé help being offered, to do practice interviews so you become comfortable with it, and to stay organized.

1) Make multiple versions of your resume depending on the fields you applied for. I was applying for recruiting, analyst, and marketing roles, primarily, and I had different resumes for each of those fields. I fine tuned them to show off specific skills for each field, highlighting certain functions or leadership roles that aligned with the job. Look at examples online and play around with your formatting. Your resume for your first job shouldn’t be more than one page — most recruiters won’t even look past the first page, so only keep what’s important. But don’t forget that you can adjust margins and reduce font size to make everything fit.

1a) I can’t stand cover letters but you’ll probably need them. Look at examples to make sure it looks like you want it to and make a template that you can easily fill out for each application so you don’t have to spend too much time on it. But again, you can make specific versions depending on what kinds of jobs you’re applying for. And always proofread before you send to make sure you have the right company and job mentioned on there!!

2) Do practice interviews with anyone you can. You need to become familiar with the pressure and situation. Get your family, friends, professors, counselors, anyone that’s willing to help to do it. Before you sit down for an interview, write out all the questions you think they might ask and practice your responses!! This really helps! It’ll make you sound more confident and prepared as well. Also always have at least one question to ask the recruiter. Ask them about what they like about the company, or what challenges they’ve faced and overcome in their role, something like that.

2a) I know this seems obvious but dress up for the interviews, even if it’s remote. It shows that you’re putting in effort. If you’re remote then make sure you have good lighting & a plain/non-distracting background. Keep your phone on silent and stay engaged when they’re speaking.

3) Make a spreadsheet to keep track of where you applied, when you did it, who you talked to, etc. Track which resume/cover letter you used as well and what kind of job it is. ALWAYS SEND A THANK YOU EMAIL RIGHT AFTER THE INTERVIEW. This makes an impression and keeps you on their mind. When it comes to following up, I think a week is a decent time to send an email out. If you don’t get a reply then, send another follow up in a couple weeks. Past that if they don’t reply (sucky of them tbh) then I’d assume you didn’t get the job. But that’s fine! Keep going at it!

3a) Don’t be afraid to fight for your pay. It can be really anxiety inducing and stressful but especially if you see a similar job pay more than the job you’re applying for, you have every right to request more pay. DON’T say yes to the first salary offered — that was a mistake I made. It never hurts to give a higher salary request, you’ll almost always get an offer higher than what they initially started with.

Lastly, don’t be disheartened. Just because you didn’t get a job doesn’t mean you won’t get a similar one or another one within the same company. Honestly I used to just sit and apply for every open relevant position in a company if the company was good because that makes a big difference. Keep your morale up. It never hurts to apply, even if you’re underqualified. You never know. Be confident in your skills!

And I’ll also say, this may not be something everyone can find or be picky about, but if you can find a job that has good benefits, if the company is great, go for it. Put as much as you can into your retirement — if you can, commit to the max percentage, especially if your company matches your contribution. If they give you insurance, take advantage of it. Go for dental and vision checkups, visit your doctor. Don’t put this off until you lose it. Take advantage of EVERYTHING your company offers. Trainings, expos, employee groups, etc. These all help develop your professional experience.

I hope this helps!!

Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any other questions! Good luck & I believe in you!!

#college #college help #advice

[giraffe-lesbian]

Do You Want To Go? - Darksparks Fic

Summary:

“Okay, then I won’t go either,” Renee announced with a sigh of relief. She leaned back into her chair like a momentous weight had just been taken off her shoulders. The skirmisher then glanced over to the blonde and mumbled, “Not because you’re not going, I’m just staying because I don’t want to go.”

Or

What Wraith and Wattson were actually doing instead of going to see Fuse introduce himself in Kings Canyon

AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29233782

“Do you want to go?” Renee asked as they sat beside each other. Her gaze had shifted over to Natalie, curiosity sparking in her eyes. She was munching on a bowl of cereal, but it looked like she was now just playing with it. The skirmisher rarely ate breakfast with the other legends, but if she was, she was always by Natalie’s side.

“Mmm...” Natalie responded, resting her spoon inside of the bowl. She tapped the side of her chin as she thought, trying her best to think through all of the options.

Of course, the excitement that came with a new person joining the Apex Games was always fun. Everyone became so involved and so excited, trying to piece together exactly who it would be. They were just as clueless as the public sometimes. Besides that, it was nice to see a new face and see what they would bring to the table. Of course, sometimes they turned out to be kind of sucky like a murderous robot, but sometimes they turned out to be nice like the sweet, motherly scientist who had joined recently.

However, the opening ceremonies, in Natalie’s opinion, were a bit different. There were crowds, maybe too many adoring fans, and lots and lots of noise. It was fun, she supposed, for a little bit, but they often got too overwhelming.

And if anything, it looked like this new guy was going to make a grand entrance.

“We don’t have to,” Renee started, picking up a spoonful of cereal before letting it fall back into the bowl. “Or, well, um. You don’t have to go, but if you don’t go, I probably won’t go,” she added rather cautiously. “Well, no, fuck, I mean... You don’t have to go for my sake, I honestly don’t care if I go-“

“Mmm... Well, I don’t know,” Natalie said, stopping her girlfriend before she became a rambling mess. Her girlfriend. The thought made her smile. They hadn’t been dating for very long; it was still such a new thing, but it had been wonderful so far. Sneaking to each other’s rooms, watching movies, holding hands underneath the table, sometimes cuddling... Absolute perfection if you asked the blonde. It was, however, still a secret to every other legend and, well, the entire universe. Natalie didn’t really mind though; the privacy was nice, and nobody could stand the media after all.

Renee looked up at her almost expectantly, now falling quiet. Was there a little bit of hope in her eyes?

“I feel like we should go, but...” Natalie spoke up again before taking another bite of her cereal. She chewed it, once again weighing her options. To go or not to go... To tell you the truth, she did and she didn’t. Eventually, she shook her head and continued, “I still need to do some work on my pylons, check up on the ring’s status, make sure it’s still working properly for next season... Dieu, c'est tellement de travail...”

“... English, Nat?”

Natalie blinked at her before softly smiling. “We’ve still got to teach you some French, but... I suppose I will not go. I have some things I need to do,” she finally answered. “Besides, it’s too noisy.”

Oh, the look of relief on Renee’s face was priceless. It made Natalie’s smile just grow. Sometimes, if you paid just enough attention, you could read the skirmisher like a book. That was Natalie’s little secret though.

“Okay, then I won’t go either,” Renee announced with a sigh of relief. She leaned back into her chair like a momentous weight had just been taken off her shoulders. The skirmisher then glanced over to the blonde and mumbled, “Not because you’re not going, I’m just staying because I don’t want to go.”

Natalie giggled, looking at her girlfriend with amusement in her eyes. “Oh, chérie, you are so silly sometimes,” she said, reaching underneath the table and holding the other woman’s hand. “If you didn’t want to go, you could of just told me. I would rather stay with you than go.”

“Well, I didn’t want you to feel like you had to stay behind for me if you did wanna go,” Renee reasoned. Her face was turning a light pink now at the sudden contact, but she didn’t pull away.

“No, I wouldn’t feel like that at all,” Natalie replied, shaking her head. “I’m sure... Fuse, was it? Monsieur Fuse is nice and all, but I would rather spend the time with you.”

“Can I come stay with you then instead?” Renee then asked quietly. Her eyes then widened and she, once again, began to ramble. “Not... not if you’re busy, I was just thinking I could sit in the same room as you worked or just play with Nikola. I won’t bother you; you’re just nice company to have.” As she said that, her face only grew brighter. Instinctively, the woman tugged on her scarf, trying to hide her face. It always reminded Natalie of a turtle trying to hide away in its shell.

It seemed Renee was wonderful at beating around the bush.

Once more, another smile graced Natalie’s face. “Of course you can,” she replied, trying to put her girlfriend’s worry away. Ah, there was that word again! “Just know I have to do some work, but you’re free to come over,” she continued. “We can’t just cuddle the entire time, just so you know,” Natalie said, giving the skirmisher a wink and playfully wagging a finger at her.

Renee nodded, and there it was. One of her rare smiles was on her face. “You’ve got it,” she replied in an official way, trying her best to play along. “No cuddling. No girlfriend stuff. I will remain quiet and out of your way. In fact, you won’t even know I’m there.”

This caused both of the women to quietly laugh.

However, was it likely they’d uphold this promise?

Well... they thought it was.

***

Natalie tried not to make a big deal about hanging out with her girlfriend this time around, but she did prepare some breakfast for her. Which, for your information, did not take up that much time and didn’t mean all that much. She was still thinking about doing her work and simply just enjoying Renee’s far away company, sort of like how Nikola hung out with her everyday. Silent but always there, just quiet company. The blonde did wake up just a little earlier to have a nice stack of fluffy pancakes waiting on the skirmisher when she opened the door to the blonde’s room, but it wasn’t that big of a deal. No, she was still thinking about work and not about her girlfriend.

And yes, she did sit down with Renee as she ate them just to make sure she ate them. And yes, she maybe did talk to her after that, but only for a little bit!

But now, especially now, she was going to work.

The blonde settled at her desk, definitely ready to work. She was going to work. Work on her pylons, yes. Get to work on those pylons. The pylons... The pylons that needed to be worked on. She needed to work on them, yes, and she was going to work.

But...

She looked over a few wires of some pylons for a few moments before scrunching her nose, shaking her head, and swiveling around in her desk chair. Renee was laying on the couch, Nikola laying on her chest and a book in her hands. Natalie stared over at her for a moment before sighing, jumping up from her chair, and going to stand in front of the couch.

Renee looked up from her book, giving her a questionable look.

“Bouge, Nikola, bouge,” she shooed the cat off the other woman’s chest. Once he didn’t budge, she simply picked the cat off of Renee’s chest and placed him on the floor.

“Nat? What are you doing?” Renee interjected, looking even more confused. She had closed her book now, holding it to the side. “I thought...? Aren’t you going to work?”

Natalie shrugged at her and then clambered on top of her girlfriend, now practically laying on top of her. She snuggled into the older woman’s chest before letting out a satisfied sigh.

Renee was still... rather confused. However, as she opened her mouth, Natalie quickly shushed her and snuggled closer. So they settled down like this for a while, Natalie curled up on her chest and Renee holding her book in one hand and the other running through Natalie’s short hair.

“Turn on the TV?” she finally piped up after a few minutes passed, looking up at Renee. “Find a movie or something, or we can watch the opening ceremony for Fuse?” she suggested. Curiosity had gotten the better of her now, but she’d still rather be here in her room, snuggled up with her girlfriend, than actually there. That was for sure.

“Alright,” the skirmisher replied rather simply, reaching over to the remote that sat on the coffee table. After turning the television on and flipping through the channels until it got to the Apex Channel, Renee sat it back down along with her book. She let her now free arm fall over Natalie’s back while the other continued to play with her hair.

The video panned over all of King’s Canyon at first before finally stopping on the rather large crowd that had gathered to meet Fuse’s arrival. It showed a few of the legends that had gathered to see this new legend’s grand entrance, and it even caught a few of them to give short interviews. What did they know about the new legend? How did they feel about him? How will he change the game? It showed Ajay first, then Makoa following not too soon after, and then...

Renee chuckled when she saw Elliot on the screen, shaking her head. “Hopefully he doesn’t make a fool of himself,” she said, causing Natalie to quietly giggle against her chest. The skirmisher had an expectant look on her face as she looked at the screen.

“Surely he won’t,” Natalie replied, playfully tapping Renee’s side. “Maybe a little stuttering, but I’m sure he’ll be fine. Besides, I think the crowd eats it up anyway. Part of his charm, non?”

Renee frowned at that and huffed, “What charm? As far as I know, he doesn’t have any.”

The legend on the screen stumbled through his words for a few moments, but made it through the interview without much more difficultly. He commented a little on his initial thoughts of Fuse and how he looked forward to working alongside him, a rather plain answer really, and mentioned that he was a little shocked by how big the ship he was coming in on.

The video then switched to show the massive ship that had come to King’s Canyon today. It looked like almost everything was ready to go, and it seemed like Fuse was finally about to introduce himself.

“Jesus,” Renee commented. “Elliot wasn’t kidding... you suppose they could find a bigger ship?”

Natalie gave an amused hum in response. It was a ridiculously massive ship; the blonde would hate to see who’s wallet had to take that hit.

“Has anyone gotten this big of an entrance? I mean seriously, does anyone else’s even remotely come close?” Renee retorted.

“Am I hearing a little bit of jealousy, Renee?” Natalie teased.

“No,” Renee promptly replied. “Absolutely not. I’d rather be killed than ever get something like that thrown for me. It’s just... Excessive.”

“It’s for the fans, I suppose,” Natalie suggested. “The games have been doing really good this year with the viewings, sponsorships, and all! Maybe they just wanted to- Oh! Look, there he is!” She started, now scrambling to sit up. Unfortunately, she sat up on her elbows, right on top of the skirmisher’s stomach, pressing all her weight against the shorter woman.

Renee let out a hiss. “Nat. Nat. Please, you’ve got to get off of me,” she began to plead.

Natalie blinked and quickly mumbled a quick sorry. She quickly sat up the rest of the way, moving a little and finding extra space on the couch to properly sit. Renee followed soon after, pausing only to stretch her arms and back for a few seconds.

“G’Day Kings Canyon!” Fuse greeted on the screen. He was responded with a momentous amount of cheers and screams from offscreen. Natalie frowned at the thought of actually being there and having to hear those right in her ear. “You lot ready for the biggest party in the Outerlands?” he then exclaimed, now gearing up to set off his signature canon.

“Looks like a fun guy,” Natalie said. Unsurprisingly, she had already moved back over to Renee, now curling into her side. The skirmisher, unsurprisingly, had been expecting it and draped an arm over the other’s shoulders, pulling her just a little closer. “People will like his attitude; I’m sure they’ll eat him up,” she continued, looking over to see her girlfriend’s face. She tried her best to read the other’s face before the skirmisher gave her own thoughts.

“Hm... I want to see him on the battlefield,” Renee replied, narrowing her eyes at the screen. “Then I’ll decide.”

“Oh come on, Renee, you’re being too hard,” Natalie replied, playfully batting her on the side. “He seems nice enough, and his accent is funny- oh,” she abruptly stopped herself. The blonde’s eyes widened, and her mouth was agape. “Uh, Renee, do you think... that’s suppose to happen?”

“Uh...” Renee began, raising an eyebrow at the event playing out on the screen. “No. I don’t think that was suppose to happen.”

And that’s when the shit the fan in Kings Canyon.

They both watched in shock as the scene unfolded on the screen. Civilians being shot at from the huge guns holstered on the ship, secret bombs going off hidden within the orange rock of the canyon, the ship eventually slamming into the ground and ultimately exploding. How they were still able to catch this on film was a mystery.

However, it soon switched to an awfully conveniently commercial. The two still, however, gawked at the television. Natalie drew her legs up onto the couch and essentially hugged them, still trying to decipher what exactly happened. Renee just stared at back at the screen blankly.

It was the skirmisher who finally broke the silence. “Oh my god,” Renee muttered before letting out a groan. “Well, the Syndicate is about to get sued out the ass.” She hopped up off the couch, raising her hands above her head as she stretched out her back. “I’m... gonna get a drink. You want anything, babe?”

“A water... would be great,” she quietly mumbled out. Her eyes were still fixated on the screen.

Renee nodded, gave the other girl’s shoulder a few pats, and went off to the kitchen.

They sure were glad they didn’t go.

“Are you not... are you not phased by this?” Natalie spoke up a little louder just so the skirmisher could hear her while in the kitchen.

“Not really,” Renee called back. Natalie could hear the refrigerator being opened and the contents inside being messed with. “I mean, we see it every day, don’t we?” She then paused, and she peaked over to Natalie. “Nat... do you still have some ice cream left over?”

At that, Natalie shot off the couch. “Absolutely not, you are not eating eating ice cream for lunch!” She huffed, dashing over to the kitchen. “Vous êtes absurde! Rappelle-moi encore pourquoi je t'aime?! And don’t you dare phase!”

Attention already lost, it looked like the events in King Canyon would be touched on at a later date. That is, until Elliot comes limping back or something.

#apex legends #apex wraith #apex wattson #wattson #wraith #darksparks #my fic #again I don’t beta so be forewarned #kind of silly but I had fun #also the ending is a little wonk but I kind of got tired of tinkering with it #still hope y’all enjoy though

[shinglescat]

Low-key disappointed in the game.  Gameplay wise it’s good, story wise - okay. It’s vast but ultimately empty. 

The first game made by CDPR that I finished (and sorta-kinda enjoyed).  Deffo better than their previous game *cough* tw3 *cough* Wasn’t waiting it, wasn’t hyped for it either, just needed a brand new game to play. I’d say it’s 6/10. Will definitely be 8/10 once they fix bugs and do something about that shitty optimization. I mean, it’s playable in its current state, but every bug breaks the immersion.

A mess of thoughts:

Despite my initial neutral to negative opinion of this game, it grew on me after the prologue; it started to pick up and all that stuff. I loved the side quests, I loved the main quests, and my main issue with the game is the writing for V. It’s not bad, it’s just... it’s more for a game like Skyrim with a generic avatara-protagonist, but not for a game where personality and persona matters the most, story wise. It had a lot of potential to turn into a mindblowing mindfuck, but instead it’s just... disappointing. V’s character and personality never gets defined either by the game or by the player, and the background does very little to help the matter. Feels like I bought another BG3, but without the EARLY ACCESS badge. Actually hoping Larian would handle this whole head parasite problem better. This whole “you’re turning into Johnny”  thingy is just there to, I dunno, just to add some more shits and giggles to the story, I guess. I’ve been expecting V to start turning into the guy, or the guy starting to turn into V, buuuuuuuuuut with exception to the smoking - there’s nothing. Thought at first that Johnny had a better writing compared to V, but in the end - they’re at the same level of shitty. Both need a lot more definition than that. The endings are all the same, it was obvious that there’s nothing that could help V to stay in the land of the living - so went with Arasaka to close the circle for the corpo kid. It was all alright up until the point where mr. Reeves started scolding me for my choice, like lmao, what the heck game, you don’t know my V and why we went this route. Sorta-kinda redemption, stfu Silverhand. I dunno, man. I was hopeful before the “point of no return” for the DLC to come out, but now I’m just depressed a bit, ‘cause well - the protag grows on you either way.

The game tries hard to be several games at the same time. It’s trying to be GTA-like, it’s trying to be an immersive sim like Deus Ex, it’s trying to be an rpg, but it fails miserably at almost everything. The game would be better, imo, as a linear experience, not as in corridor one, but rather in character development - haven’t seen those games in ages. Yeah, keep your rpg mechanics for leveling up, skills and yada-yada, but leave the character linear without any player input to better tell the story of Silverhand’s and V’s. Also, the city is E M P T Y. It’s pretty and all, but that’s just a shell. 

Did I mention the AI? It’s the fucking worst. Imagine Karens from NFS: Heat and multiply that by 100 - that’s the traffic in CP2077. Also, if you ever thought NFSH’s police was brutal - try Night City’s, it literally forces you to obey the law, and god forbid if you ever get a lot of wanted stars - it’s insta death.

Optimization is sucky too, dunno how people play it on non-Turing cards. I played on ultra with RT turned on at psycho ’cause I wanted to see if the lighting is still a piss with it to the max (spoiler - lighting is indeed a piss), DLSS set to auto, and maaaaaaaaaaaan, from 20 fps up to 60 down to 20 again in a heart bit just because I was playing the game for too long. Possible memory leak?  Disabled DLSS for funsies - fps cut in half. Oy vey.   Also, this game turns the PC into a really nice space heater. -15C outside, windows open, +50C radiates from the case and warms the footsies. Nice.

Sex scenes are hilarious, by the way. My V banged Meredith, and oh boy did I laugh hard at that. 

Aight, now to some positive parts that I still remember:

I loved River’s quest line (and prerequisites for it), tho a bit short, and yes, I’m gonna complain about the dude being not available for the dudes because I did not know that and did not started as a dudette. The Hunt quest was... it was thrilling, disgusting but amazing at the same time. Not a masterpiece, but it you get the idea. Would’ve loved more jobs with him, like a buddy cop stuff, idk. Then there’s Panam, her quests are great too, not gonna go into the details.  Judy’s quests, a thriller too. The main quest isn’t so bad too except for the protag duo who would benefit from a better writing.

To be honest tho, overall it was... a really plain experience. The only time I had goosebumps and some semblance of water in my eyes is with Alt’s part, Johnny’s memories and that stuff. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s that. 

Gameplay is fine, I had a lot of fun dicing enemies with katanas.

Looking forward to see what DLCs would bring. Hopefully a happy-happy ending, because fuck this world is depressing as is already.

Edit: wanted to add, there are not enough of proper side quests. A lot of generic gigs, but a handful of normal side quests. 

#cyberpunk 2077 #annie does rant #SC_ShinsukeVincent

[mystic-kitten-writer]

It’s wonderful how you love reading people’s words about almost anything and attend to their words, being able to sense their feelings behind it. And I agree, it’s so lovely when you can sense a person’s joy through their words, as you said! Here I am once again, feeling special, thanks to you 💛 You’re a darling! And I’ll try my best to send long asks whenever possible!! (1/11)

Ahh, it’s going to be a while before I actually feel comfortable doing chart readings! But you know what? I would be happy to read your astrology chart for free, if you want! It would be great practice for me and it would give me a chance to grow my confidence. Though only if you want, let me know! ☺️ I’m so happy to know you’re learning and grasping everything perfectly! The way you believe in me astrology-wise makes my heart all warm 💓 (2/11)

I’m sorry your summer courses got cancelled btw, especially since you were on track to graduate. Hopefully, this gives you time for yourself though. I wish I can say I enjoy being active too, but it’s not something I do often tbh. Though I do love walking, as well as dancing (but it’s been a while). I need to find more activities that can get me moving 😔 Ah I see, what solo activities do you like doing to stay active? (I fall on the introverted side, I tend to favor being alone too) (3/11)

I’m on the same boat as you + your family. I haven’t been outside since mid-March and being at home until now has made me a bit antsy. It probably added to the weird headspace I was in too. Though that’s gone now, I’m feeling much better + less stressed thankfully. The semester is still in session for me, I’ve got about until mid-May until it’s over. Though I’m glad that school will be over before my birthday, so that’s a blessing I’m super thankful for! I can enjoy my day in peace, aha. (4/11)

Manipulation can be associated with a few other signs too actually, but Scorpio is definitely up there in the top three! And it is definitely true that that as you get older, you can either grow more into your sign’s archetype or some traits lessen over time. Rather than it being some traits disappearing, it’s more likely due to other planetary energies in certain signs coming into play and becoming more prominent. (5/11)

There’s also this point in everyone’s chart, the midheaven. It’s been said that whatever sign a person’s midheaven is in, that person shows more of that energy as they get older. Which brings me to how you got the impression that I’m a Libra! My midheaven is in Libra, which is probably why you felt that more than Taurus. It’s fascinating, especially since we’re just interacting through messages. Didn’t know my Libra energy was showing that strongly but it’s nice being aware of that now! (‪6/11‬)

I will definitely let you know if any of my guesses change when I do a rewatch of the whole series! (P.S. did you hear the announcement that A:TLA will be on Netflix ‪on May 15th‬?!) And to make it more fun, I’ll assess the other characters as well and share what signs I believe they could possibly be! I’ll consider it my mini summer project 😋 But oh my gosh, soft Zuko in the comics? 🤧 Maybe I should read the comics too then, since it might give me more material to work with. (‪7/11‬)

Your questions made sense, it’s all good! I think the best thing to refer to and see how Yue’s Venus energy influences Zuko’s Cancer side is that conversation in chapter 22 of Limerence, where Zuko told Yue that if having a family meant having a family with her, then that’s all he could ever want. Of course, he loves her, so there’s no doubt about them having a family together eventually. (‪8/11‬)

Though this is highlighted more with Yue’s Venus + Zuko’s Cancer energy because those energies meshing creates a soft/tender vibe, which makes coming together and creating a family highly ideal. Because Venus carries this loving energy which reinforces Cancer’s love for being domestic. As for the dynamic of Yue’s Libra and Zuko’s Aries, I feel that it’s one of the things that sets the overall tone for their relationship. (‪9/11‬)  

With Aries/Libra, it’s kind of a classic case of Venus & Mars, so Yue being the affectionate/gentle one while Zuko being the intense/bold one, that paints the picture of their Aries/Libra dynamic. All that Libra/Scorpio energy in your sister’s family though, wow!! There are some common patterns in astrology that can occur with family, and one of those patterns can manifest as a certain sign or two being strong in the family. I guess that’s completely true for your sister! (‪10/11‬)

I’ll wrap all of this up by saying that chapter 33 of Limerence is completely enthralling! With every single chapter, I’m just in love with your storytelling. You’re such a fantastic writer! And also, it’s very enjoyable talking to you every time! Thank you for showing such warm energy always, it’s refreshing 💜 -  🌻 (‪11/11‬)

AHHHH – my lovely 🌻-anon~! 🥰🥰🥰

How long have you been studying astrology, and how long does it usually take for one to gain the confidence and skills to provide a service? I’m just so curious – but I never had anyone to ask these questions and learn. I’m sorry if these queries sound silly 😅

BUT BABE.

I would love a reading – but I’ll have to give you something. I refuse to not pay or give something back (even if small!). Plus, I need to say thank you for indulging me and letting me bother you non-stop with my questions 😂 But, seriously – you should be confident. You have literally not only captured my interest but a lot of others too!

Honestly, as sucky as it is to not graduate, I’m doing exactly that – taking the time for myself. I’ve been going for walks as of late while listening to some tunes! I live near conservation, so I’m lucky that I have a huge forest with lakes and a beach to unwind. But before I got hurt, I used to do cross-country, high-jump, and shotput (I miss those days 😭).

But, if you enjoy dancing – I encourage Zumba💃

I know it seems random, but it’s something super fun to do by yourself (or with someone else, I usually do it with my mom) and it just gets you moving. I’ve been doing Zumba almost every day because sitting on the couch is starting to get to me. It’s totally random – but it’s a fun way to get active in the comforts of your home, and you got some fun music to listen to. I’m glad to hear you’ve gotten out of that weird headspace though – I relate a lot to you in that aspect. It can take a while to get out of it, but the important part is that you did it! And I wish you the best with school, you’re almost done.

Also, happy Taurus season, babe~! 😘😘

Ouu, so what other signs associate with manipulation? I always hear Scorpio, so you’ve piqued my interest. And, I’m going to be honest, I’m still in shock that you’re a Taurus LOOL. I don’t know why, but the way you write reminds me of some of my friends/family who are Libras. You just have this diplomacy when you write? Do I sound crazy – probably 😂😂. I’ve never heard about the midheaven, but now that you told me that, it does make a lot of sense. Like you know how Zuko screams Mars? You scream Libra for me😋

YES I DID HEAR. Okay, so I’m from Canada, so ATLA is already here for us to watch – but my best friend (he lives in the States) literally called me screaming in excitement. We’re planning binge-watching dates for us to video chat and watch together. So I think I can safely assume you shall be binge-watching ATLA starting May 15 😉😉

Soft Zuko.

I swear, I fangirled soooooooo damn hard.

My heart – gone.

Soul – snatched.

Zuko is just such a cutie, like a teddy bear – with that smile of his and I just ajsdksadjksjdkasdksd My body can’t handle this level of cuteness. Like he has his kick-ass moments, but getting to see that other side of him was beautiful. My favourite moment was he gives Kiyi a piggy-back ride and tucks her into bed. If you end up reading the comics – you gotta let me know. I’m dying to know what you think of it!

It was also neat seeing Katara’s and Aang’s relationship develop in the comics (and Toph). Like the comics captured the essence of an awkward teenage romance (Katara and Aang) blooming into a long-lasting relationship. Like my friends said they cringed so hard during some ‘romantic’ moments between them, and they’re like it made us cringe not because it was bad, but because that was us when we were teenagers with our partners.

Oh wow – thank you for the examples! Honestly, it makes sense now about the domestic aspects with Zuko’s Cancer and Yue’s Venus. I just needed to make sure I was understanding it, I need to know these facts👏👏 But I swear – I feel like their whole relationship is the definition of chaotic neutral 😂😂

Is there a reason why certain signs have a strong presence in certain families (like you mentioned how you have a lot of ‘me’s’ in yours lol). Or is just random?

But I’m glad you enjoyed chapter 33, love! It feels so nice to get back into a writing routine – I was going nuts, not able to write consistently. I need to channel my chaotic energy into my stories LOOL

But I hope you’re taking care of yourself (family and friends included) in these times! It’s nice engaging in these long chats, it makes so happy (can you tell 😂).

I can’t wait till I hear from you again🌻~! 💜💜💜

#ask me anything #anon answered #atla #Avatar The Last Airbender #🌻 #🌻 anon #sunflower anon

[gb-patch]

Hello! Thank you for creating such amazing games. I'm really looking forward to xobd! Also, i was wondering, what kind of parent would each jerk + JB be? P.S. I hope all members of gb-patch are having a wonderful summer! :)

Aw, thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you’re looking forward to it. We’ve each been really busy, but we’re still having some good times, haha.

As for the question, part of how they’d act would depend on what the kids were like, but here’s a sort of general answer of how they’d be when married to JB with a non-specific type of child/children!

Everett: He’d be a pretty clueless dad. He’d try his best to step up but, like with most things, he’d need a lot of direction. Everett would at least be helpful in giving kids advice on projecting confidence and building self-esteem. He’d deny this, but he’d be very happy if his kids thought he was cool or he’d be very sad if they didn’t. At first he’d be super unsure of everything and he’d think he was totally unequipped/ill-prepared. But after some amount of years Everett would start to feel pretty proud to be a father and would do an alright job with rules/enforcement of rules, at least when it came to the kids. He’d be the kind of parent who loves the phrase ‘do what I say, not what I do’ because he’d have trouble following all the same rules. When he didn’t have an answer, he’d always tell the kids to do whatever their mom said. JB would still have to be the more responsible parent, since Everett is still sort of a problem child himself.

Nate: Nate would be the kind of parent who always needs to know what’s happening with his kid(s) and tries to be involved with their activities. However he wouldn’t be that controlling with what exactly they were doing. As long as they did well in school, Nate would be okay with letting them chose how to spend the rest of their time. He’d be pretty concerned if the kids just wanted to laze around, but he’d only suggest doing other things rather than insisting upon it. There would be a fair amount of other rules to follow. During the first several years Nate would struggle with his emotions running high all the time. It’s a new responsibility and the baby can’t properly expression themselves so he wouldn’t know for sure what to do. When the baby cried, he’d often end up in tears as well. JB would give him and the kid a lot of special support.

Shiloh: ???. Maybe he’d be a really nice dad, or maybe he’d be the kind of sucky parent who tried to force their kids to go into show business or pageants, maybe he’d be a deadbeat dad, maybe something else.

Bae: He would be a super enthusiastic and embarrassing parent. He’d like to take lots of pictures, constantly give praise, want go out into town or on trips with everyone together all the time, make dumb dad jokes, etc. He’d also spoil them rotten and would overall struggle to ever tell them no. He wouldn’t care in the slightest if they started developing not very pleasant personalities because of it. His kids can essentially do no wrong in his eyes. JB would again be the stricter parent, since her husband couldn’t handle that job. Bae may not be able to refuse them on his own, but if JB says no he will stand by his wife and not let the children go around her authority by appealing to him. The dynamic tends to lead to situations where Bae rallies with his children when they plead to their mom for something, and hopefully they’ll convince her. But if she seems against the idea he’ll abandon the cause and defect to her side. 

Jeremy: Taking care of young, messy children would be miserable for Jeremy, aha. But as an adult he’s not as much of a germaphobe, so he wouldn’t be entirely useless with that. Once they were old enough to do most icky things on their own he’d have an easier time. Being honest about your thoughts is something he would stress a lot. He isn’t able to guess if they’re fully happy or if he’s spending not enough/too much time with them or whatever so he’d often ask them to say their feelings on stuff. The last thing he would want is to raise him the way his parents raised him- by just doing whatever they happened to think would make him happy and being wrong, instead of allowing them to decide what makes them happy on their own. He’d want the kids to follow a fair amount of rules. JB would definitely be the “fun parent” in that dynamic. Jeremy is less of a push-over once he’s older, so there would be more of a give and take situation between them rather than JB being in charge of everything like in high school.

Pran: He wouldn’t have much confidence in himself as a parent and would have no idea what a parent is even supposed to do. But he’d try not to let that be obvious to the kid. Pran would do stuff that he thought might’ve been nice to have parents do when he was young (his own parents left him alone most of the time). Making meals, listening to the kid, and explaining things about the world are some of the major things he’d want to do. Overall, he’d be quite doting. Other parents would likely end up being impressed by how attentive he was. JB would sometimes have others say to her that Pran is a really caring dad and it’d make JB laugh every time since she’d be thinking back to what he was like before. Pran would leave rule making up to JB, he’d know he’s not cut out for setting limits. Pran is so used to doing whatever he wants he can’t properly judge what an appropriate amount of freedom for a child is.

Thank you for the question :D

#xoxo droplets #ask #asked #gb patch #gb patch games #xoxo blood droplets

[furbyfubar]

How's Sweden? 🇪🇺🇸🇪❤️

In what context? Do you mean for the country as a whole or what? Big question...

Never mind, I get few enough asks here that I can give you a more comprehensive answer. I'll use it as an excuse to take stock of my personal trends against those of my country? Sorry not sorry for the incoming wall of text. Note, this is why you shouldn't say "How do you do?" to anyone from Sweden; we're tragically likely to give you an honest answer!

Weather for Sweden: You're UK based, so lets go by stereotypes and start with talking about the weather I suppose? It's winter, so the weather here is *usually* quickly summed up as "dark". Right now Sweden has between ~7 hours 15 minutes of time between sun up and sun down in the far south of Sweden, and "fuck you" minutes of sun on the far north, where it's currently polar night until about two weeks into January. On top the normal lack of sun, Sweden got an early Autumn this year and had less actually sunny days than usual in October and November due to clouds. So yeah, vitamin D deficiency for about 25% of the population according to my doctor. And many of the ones avoiding a deficiency are doing it by eating supplements. On a longer time scale, ”climate” not “weather”... Yeah, we’ve been having heat records broken and all that shit here the past few years as as well while having some winters be worse due to the Gulf stream being messed up..

Rating: 3.5/10  – It sucks, but it's not much worse than the expected level of suckiness?Weather for me personally: I'm based in Stockholm and we're currently at 6½h of sun up time per day, but like I said, it’s been cloudy. Not so cold so far though. The problem for me personally is that when the sun goes down at 14:52 I often miss out on the sun completely due to my fucked up sleeping patterns. Or the sun is up but covered while I’m going to work and that's it for sunlight that day. I'd likely suffer from winter depression if only I could separate it from my normal depression. We’ve had some snow that stays on the ground, but we’re somewhat surprisingly not in the hell that is streets filled with snow-water slosh yet.

Rating: 3.5/10 – I don’t think the weather sucks more or less for me than it does for the country on average. (Places north of the polar circle excluded; I would really no be able to stand months of polar night.)

Health for Sweden: Sweden made #6 on the Bloomberg 2019 Healthiest Country Index, up two positions from 2017. Up from a score of 88.92 to 90.24 out of 100, so apparently it's not just other countries having worse health, things have gotten a bit better here.Rating: 9.24/10 – Well, Bloomberg hopefully put a lot more effort into their score than I’ll ever do, so I’ll just re-scale and steal it. 

Health for me personally: I had to basically skip a year due depression and exhaustion. Not being able to work due to a non-functioning brain obviously sucks, but to bring this back to how Sweden is: Being able to be on sick leave for almost a year and thus being able to focus on getting medication that works for me and not being worried about getting evicted for not making rent is a blessing. I'm back to working part time since October while still on sick leave for 50%, trying to ease me back in to the productive work force. So far going well. If I’d been forced to somehow work or starve, or live off my parents or something instead, I’m pretty sure I’d either be much deeper in depression right now, or be dead. I’ve still not really found meds that work great for me, but I'm feeling much better than I was a year ago.

Rating: 3/10 – I'm as optimistic as a clinically depressed person gets to be.

Status politically for Sweden (as I see it personally): It's getting more fucked by the day. The Moderate party just broke their campaign promise to not cooperate with the Sweden Democrats, a party born from neo-Nazi and white power movements. For UK context, think of the British National Party. Now imagine them going from a fringe group in the '90s to getting 20% of the votes in recent polls. They've been doing this all while having a whole bunch of scandals that would've hurt or killed the credibility of any non-fascist party. They're racist, homo- and transphobic, and operate their own alternative media that have ties to Russian disinformation efforts. So yeah, as a gay guy who's seen the inside of a few history books: Outlook not great.

Rating: 2/10 – If only because it can still get worse. Think first act of Cabaret.

Love life for Sweden: Hmm, check in on satwcomic.com I suppose?

Love life for me personally: Yes please? I've been single for longer than I'm willing to admit. I've barely dated anyone for ages due to my aforementioned depression making me not feel like someone worth dating. Also, there's some types of vitamin D deficiencies that eating supplements won't cure...

Rating: I really don't want to put a number on this so I won’t. Honestly, graphing out my love life numerically doesn't sound all that productive. But somewhere at the edge of the Bell curve is the guy for me?

Economically for Sweden: Sweden's been in a upward business cycle since 2016, but it's ebbing out and is expected to be balanced sometime next real. Ie, things have been good, but things aren't quite yet bad. Rating: 5.5/10 – I suppose? Not really my area of expertise.

Economically for me personally: Not complaining at all on this front. I got an IT job four years ago after having worked part time in retail for a bunch of years and having been a student before that. I've managed to not raise my monthly expenses even nearly as much as my pay went up. So while I’m not wealthy, I'm still surprised by being able to have a savings account that grows steadily and still having more spending money over each month.

My rating: 8/10 – This quote by Charles Dickens comes to mind: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” 

Social life in Sweden: According to this article I just Googled up from half remembering reading in 2015, “The expat quality of life survey" published by HSBC, Sweden was the worst country for the category "Making friends". Looking at the data on HSBC's website we're apparently no longer dead last as a place to be making friends, we're now 31st out of the 33 countries listed, with Japan at 32nd place and Saudi Arabia last at 33rd. The United Kingdom is at 29th.

It is close to impossible to make friends here by talking to random strangers in most situations, as only weird people talk to strangers. Of course that mentality is self-fulfilling since if you assume any stranger talking to you is weird, drunk, or high, you will not want to make friends with strangers that talk to you, and you won't want to talk to strangers more than you have to or risk being branded weird. Even striking up random conversations at a pub will be more difficult here. 

But don’t despair, there’s a trick! Find the few social situations where Swedes want to talk to people they don't know: This is done by joining some organization or club of some sort. It doesn't really matter if it's a board gaming group, a student group, doing volunteer work for the local Pride or some other NPO or if it's a club for people who really like a certain breed of dogs. Once we've decided that we're among our own kind of people (and I don't mean "other Swedes") we'll happily talk to strangers, and not only about subjects related to that specific organization. Step two is converting them to be your friends and not just some randos you can talk to at some club meeting. I’m sad to say that traditionally this is done with alcohol, either by dragging people along to a pub/bar, or by inviting them or being invited by them to some sort of party. Without alcohol the fallback is fika. If the organization you’ve joined is something that you will naturally be spending time doing outside of the organization or club meetings that’s also ideal. Once you’ve invited or been invited to a few things outside of the organization it’s not strange to invite them to other social things than what the organization cares about.

For fairness to anyone reading this that didn’t read the article: I should probably also mention that the same HSBC study had Sweden as the top country in Europe for “overall quality of life” for expats here. And third best in the world, just behind Singapore and New Zealand in the same category. "Swedes make great friends but terrible strangers”.

My rating for making friends in Sweden is : 3/10 - Join a club, any club.

Social life for me personally: I have a few great close friends and a bunch more not quite as close friends who are also great. Come to think of it, many of them I've met through one of the three different organizations I've been most active in, and most of the rest I met through those friends. I'm really thankful for having friends who are still around even after I've spent way too much time feeling too bad to be very social or friendly at all.

My rating of my friends: 10/10 - No, I'm not biased.OK, so let’s average those numbers up and pretend the averages mean something!

Sweden: 5.81Me:  6.63Wait what? I’m winning?

#personal #depression #Sweden #Stockholm

[viperbranium]

HIIII I am currently following my hero academia but I like pain so was considering starting one piece. Is it good? I'm scared that it's already so long and not sure if the ani is as good as manga or vice versa, although I won't be able to follow manga. Should I? XDDD

Hey nonnie! Sorry for the wait, I couldn’t catch a damn break til now. Okay, so, for the record, I haven’t watched/read my hero academia, so I can’t really draw any comparisons between One Piece and that, and if by “I like pain” you meant you want all the angst, then OP might not really be the greatest option (like, there’s some VERY angsty moments, but overall the show is pretty fun?). If, on the other hand, you meant that as in I KNOW THIS SHOW IS SUPER FUCKING LONG BUT I DON’T CARE BRING IT ON, then, yes, perfect choice! :D

Now, buckle up, cause your questions don’t have an easy answer (except the “is it good?” one, because yes. YES. Yes, it is PRETTY FUCKING GOOD. It is everything), and this is my favorite thing to talk about, so this is going to be rambly and long but also hopefully useful for anyone wondering whether to watch this show or not.

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH/READ ONE PIECE:

I know, I know. A rubber pirate. A talking reindeer. Merpeople. Ridiculousness. Overall, it wouldn’t seem like this show is really anything but funny and silly, but oH BOY IS IT.

Look, yes. It’s fun. It’s LOTS OF FUN. The show never quite stops having a certain lightheartedness to it, but don’t let that fool you. There’s angst. There’s drama. There’s adventure. There’s friendship.

And there’s also a pretty important message of inclusivity and tolerance throughout the show.

This, initially, seems like just a running theme, but as it turned out, it’s actually the main fucking plot point of the entire show. One Piece is an ode to friendship and freedom and adventure, but it’s also a huge critique against racism and bigotry.

It starts, seemingly, as a kids’ show, and then suddenly it’s all about the one-percenters abusing those beneath them, about a corrupt World Government, about segregation and colonialism and slavery, about blatant erasure of actual history by those in power.

And every single episode it takes to get you there is worth it.

The issue with its length:

First of all, yes. Yes, it’s LONG. It’s pretty fucking long. No two ways about it. But it is absolutely worth it, and I don’t mean this as in “by episode 700 they’ll be tugging at your heartstrings and you’ll be thankful you stuck with it for this long” (although that’s also true), but more like: once you get past the introduction, you’ll be HOOKED, and then you’ll pretty much not give a single fuck that you barely just started it and have fucktons of episodes left to watch.

Getting past the intro is the key thing. It’s not that you have to “get past it” because it’s bad or anything, more like, just like with any other show, you have to give them a chance to set the basis for the plot and introduce you to the cast and all. If you started watching and decided to give it, idk, 5 episodes, you’d probably just quit it thinking it’s too childish and “funny” and not very interesting.

And it is, at first, but it’s like when you go back and read Harry Potter. Compared to the rest of the books, book 1, and possibly book 2 as well, have a much lighter tone and simpler plot. This is partially because those books are working on the foundations for what will later on be the actual PLOT, and after those are over, the rest of the books are less auto-conclusive and a lot more intricate and with more plotlines connecting all the books together and creating a bigger and richer whole story (the other part is the story growing a bit alongside its fanbase, which is honestly a wonderful thing).

So essentially, the beginning of One Piece is like books 1 and 2 in the Harry Potter saga. And because it’s such a long show (as I type this, we’re on episode 839), that means a few tenths of episodes. If you’ve watched some of those as a younger kid on TV, then chances are you’ll get past them a lot more easily, because they are fun and nostalgia plays an important part, but if you haven’t, I do get why it can be a bit discouraging (but again, IT’S SO WORTH IT. PINKY PROMISE).

A quick non-spoilery rundown of that first intro part would be:

Episodes 1 to 62: the first crew members meeting each other. These are a few short arcs, all following the same pattern: Captain Luffy gets to an island, finds someone he wants in his crew, they defeat some minor bad guy, person ends up joining Luffy, and they move onto the next island. Even then, they are quite funny, and you inadvertently start hearing stuff mentioned that’s actually SUPER RELEVANT in the context of the grand scheme of things. Also, a bunch of those are filler episodes that you can outright skip, so it’s not THAT MANY EPISODES, and I’d argue that around episode ~30 or so, the whole thing gets a bit more intense too. [MORE ON FILLER EPISODES IN A MINUTE]

On episode 62 they officially get started on their trip for good, and the whole show starts being a bit less childish (not to say the tone changes entirely, it pretty much remains a funny yet exciting story throughout the whole thing, mostly due to the main character’s personality, but still, you can SEE that there’s STUFF GOING ON IN THIS WORLD). From here to episode 92 we’re setting the basis for a pretty big arc:

—> Turning the intensity up a few notches!

Episode 92 to 130: The Alabasta Arc – politics! Intrigue! A big fucking and fascinating villain! This arc is AMAZING.(then we have a bunch of filler episodes, again, totally skippable, and then…)

Episode 144 to 195: The Skypiea Arc – another great one, even touching on some pretty fucking important themes like colonialism and land-theft.

—> Turning the intensity up some more notches!!!

And from post-Skypiea onwards, the show is pretty much AAAAAAAAAASLGHSFLKHHLFGKJLK! nonstop.

(btw, if you ARE interested in watching, just let me know and I’ll compile a quick list like this one for you, letting you know which episodes you can skip and what the best way to watch it would be ^^)

Reading the manga vs Watching the anime:

The One Piece anime pretty much 100% follows the manga, so you can go with whatever option works best for you.

Fights and all are generally a lot more fun to watch than to read, plus one episode covers more than one manga chapter, so my advice usually is: watch the anime til you’re all caught up, and then switch to the manga so you can read everything that hasn’t happened in the anime yet and you won’t get spoiled, and then you can read the manga weekly when it comes out (and continue watching the anime as well, or not).

Because the anime follows the manga to a T, there needs to be filler arcs, since there’s some weeks when the manga takes a break, and also like I said, one episode covers a bit more than one chapter. Without filler arcs, the anime would catch up to the manga pretty quick and then they’d have to start making up stuff, or dividing the show into seasons, and either of those options would be sucky.

So, while it’s a necessity, it’s NOWHERE near as bad as the amount of filler there was in shows like Bleach or Naruto, and some of those arcs are even quite good? (The post-Skypiea filler arc f.e., G-8, is hilarious and super entertaining!). Personally I’d watch everything at least once, for the jokes and the interactions between crew members if nothing else, but you won’t be missing a single thing if you outright skip all of those.

(there’s also an odd episode every now and then that’s not exactly part of any filler arc, but quite literally an AU where the characters all live in a village instead of being pirates. You get one episode like this every once in a while – I think there’s been like, 5 in total? Maybe? –, as well as a few other weird things like a crossover with Dragon Ball or idek. Those I’d just skip entirely – they’re not remotely as fun as “one piece au” makes it sound lmao –, but luckily they aren’t a lot. Just one here and there).

Sooooo I hope all this answers your questions, nonnie, and that it helps you decide whether to give the show a shot or not. 

TL;DR: yes, it’s long, but it’s fucking worth it, and you can either read it or watch it because the anime follows the manga 100% accurately.

#one piece #I'M SO SORRY ANON I JUST COULDN'T MAKE THIS ANY SHORTER #i was actually going to keep talking about stuff #and include that episode list and explain sth else about why there's no filler lately #and when and why you should switch to the manga #and and #but this was already embarrassingly long as it was lmao #so yeah if you DO decide to watch it #just feel free to ask me anything you wanna know #^^ #oh god i love this show so much is2g #there are no words to explain just how perfect it is #and the entire latest arc in the manga is just #oH WOW #I really fucking can't even with my life rn #anywayyyyyy #hahahhaa #oh god this is so long i'm so sorry #long post #this is not a marvel post #is this what they call OBSESSION #mmhmm #anons #Unidentified grey potato #Viper Replies #ask

[lillieemilie]

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool). ❣️

I’m so late in responding to this - I read it in the middle of my essay writing and had to drag myself off tumblr to get back on with it ahahBut here we are…1) My accent. I love all accents and my own is no exception. Obviously I don’t hear it in the same way other people do, but some uni people have told me I sound very very Yorkshire and YES YES I AM GLADD2) My new jaw positioning. Surgery made me vain lololol. Jk, but it has given me extra confidence. I wasn’t TOO self-conscious about it before, but the improvement has been massive and I’m now 5 months post op yeeeeeee3) My huge optimism for 2018. 2017 was such a sucky year on the whole for me but for some reason I went into 2018 really excited for the future. Despite my doubtfulness in my abilities and no idea what I’m gonna do after uni finishes in May, I’m cheery and positive. Better than feeling low about stuff so thank you brain.4) My obsessive fangirl nature. An odd choice, but it’s led me to meet some wonderful people online and also helps out irl when i’m socially awkward and someone asks me about what tv stuff I like and I’m able to talk and talk and talk. Despite the DB fandom being more or less dead (it’s not, but it’s so so so so quiet up to when I joined tumblr), I am super proud of my continuation with derrensothershoe. I mean, I mainly just reblog stuff and recently I’ve been forgetting to stock up the queue, but my heart is completely in that blog and it’s my beaut lil baby and I intend to continue screaming about Dezza for years to come.5) My drive to get myself in a better mental place??? This is hella deep but I’m proud there’s something in me that despite sometimes feeling as low as owt, pushes me to get to a better place. It was me that rang up the doctors to see someone about how i was feeling, it was me that went back to uni despite wanting to drop out, it was me that applied for counselling and attended every session, despite it being a bumpy road, and it’s me that just got confirmation that I’m getting specialist equipment and mentoring for the rest of my time at uni to hopefully ease things for me and reassure me things are okay. I’m still in this ongoing battle, but the positive part of me has fought its way to the forefront when I needed it most.Now wanting to hide over how deep this got, but it has to be public so hey ho. I love how chill and fun it started and then y’all were chucked in at the deep end.Thank you for the ask, Rachel and soz I took forever to actually answer it.

#my-my-herecomethefuzz #ask #deep as shit #but here's to 2018 #personal

[child-of-light-and-shadow]

Hey i love your blog honestly its amazing!!!! Can u just help a fellow wiz out please? I recently hit level 100 which means DARKMOOR but the thing is i dont know the cheats and stuff and what to do and everytime i try to do it my team leaves me or gets mad at me and act shitty... so the thing is like can u tell me what are the cheats and stuff im sorry for bothering you sorry

thank you anon!! it means a lot. it’s not a bother, i’m glad to help :-)

just a fair warning, this post is gonna be long, and darkmoor is hell. if you’re farming for gear, i’d suggest buying crowns to throw in malistaire’s chest so you only have to do this once. i’d also strongly advise you have full potions and that you fill them before each instance. you’re more than likely gonna die a couple times.

each name here is a clickable link that will take you to the wiki with all the cheats laid out, but the wiki can be confusing sometimes. therefore, i’ll also write a short paragraph basically laying out the “rules” for each fight. 

First Instance (Castle Darkmoor):

Howling Chaney

Howling Chaney is easy AF. There’s only one rule for his fight: No heals.

Sir Blackwater

Charms, or blades, trigger Blackwater to remove blades from the caster, but there’s a way around this cheat: he won’t remove blades cast on other people. Sir Blackwater is particularly annoying because of his interrupt cycles. Basically, the gist of them is that he heals himself literally every round. There is no way to stop the cycles, and they go on until the end of the battle. You should probably talk to your team about a strategy for one-shotting him. Therefore, the rules: Only cast blades on other people, and make sure you have a strategy going into this fight or you’re gonna be in for a world of hurt my dude.

Puzzle!!

There’s a puzzle after defeating Sir Blackwater. To solve it, first interact with the box labeled “Crimson Lens,” then interact with the lever labeled “Neutral Density Filter.”

Second Instance (Upper Halls):

Akhtang Wormcrawl

Akhtang is also easy AF. the only rule for this battle: No blades.

Spirit of Darkmoor

Welcome to hell. Blades trigger a Scald, traps (except multi-target traps) trigger a Natural Attack, damage spells trigger a Rebirth, and defeating her minions triggers an Eternal (Life) Leviathan, which does damage and revives her minions. Additionally, she has pretty sucky interrupt cycles. Rules: Make sure to ask your team before using blades or traps. Come up with a strategy for hitting with lots of damage at once.

Shane Von Shane

Universal (non-school) traps trigger a blade, negative charms (Weakness, Bad Juju, etc.) trigger a Sacrifice, and heals trigger a Vampire that does 1050 base damage. Shane has an interrupt cycle that is triggered/reset by him being attacked, but it’s not nearly as bad as Blackwater or the Spirit’s cycles. Rules: Ask before casting traps, no negative charms, and no heals. 

Third Instance (Graveyard):

Yevgeny NightCreeper

Blades and global spells trigger a stun, shields will be removed, and negative charms trigger a Bad Juju on the caster. Yevgeny has interrupt cycles, but once again, not much can be done to get rid of them. Rules: Blades are OK but will stun you, no shields, and no negative charms.

Shane Von Shane (Star)

Blades trigger a 0-pip Supercharge, negative charms trigger Sacrifice, universal traps trigger Dark Pact, heals trigger a Vampire with 1050 base damage, and hitting Shane triggers Healing Current. Shane has two interrupt cycles: Storm and Death. The Storm cycle repeats throughout the entire battle, but the Death cycle only repeats if Shane is attacked. Rules: No negative charms and no heals. Ask before casting blades, universal traps, and before hitting. As usual, make sure your team has a strategy to hit with lots of damage before going in.

Malistaire the Undying (Shadow)

Welcome to Hell (Advanced Version). First off, this boss respawns. When you defeat Malistaire the Undying, he respawns as Haunted Malistaire with 60,000 health. To combat this, casting Doom and Gloom before killing him will lower his health down to 35,069 (regular Doom) or to 25,049 (TC Doom). 

Now, onto the cheats. They are the same for Mali the Undying and Haunted Mali, except for the primary interrupt cycle. Universal blades and shields will be stolen. Universal traps and negative charms (except for ones that go to all enemies, such as windstorm) will be removed. Single-target attacks trigger a Black Mantle. At the beginning of the fifth round, and every four rounds after (rounds 9, 13, 17, etc.), Mali’s bone dragon will remove all charms (blades) and wards (shields and traps) from each wizard. Now, onto the rules: No universal blades or shields, and no universal traps or negative charms. Make sure you attack before Mali’s bone dragon steals all your stuff. Cast that Doom and Gloom, or you’re gonna have an even worse time.

Congrats!!!! You finished Darkmoor. Hopefully you never have to go back again.

but seriously, good luck anon. lemme know if you need anything else! :-)

#ask #answered #anon #w101 #darkmoor

[stuclyblrs]

hi everyone !!!! i’m a rising freshman at college/uni and thinking back on the college apps process i realized that i learned a lot that i would like to share !! i was successful with my college apps so im hoping i can give good advice✨

want to see more of this series? click here for the rest of the posts !!

the first step is knowing what you want in a school hopefully you arent as clueless as i was but you need to consider various factors that will impact your life as a student. for me, all i knew was i wanted to go to school in new york city and that was about it....i figured that i would want a larger school as my high school was very small, which i hated and if possible, i wanted somewhere the stats of the accepted students were similar to mine so i would have a more competitive and stimulating environment (basically, i was hoping that i’d get into some match and reach schools lol) if u know what you want this step is pretty easy if not...

college search sites r ur friend. personally i only used college board as a search tool as they give a lot of different search criteria provide different stats on schools (price, standardize test scores, acceptance rate) and let u save schools. if college board isnt ur cup of tea here are some others u can use !! (x) (x)

once you know how you want to search for schools, your next step is to figure out what’s important to u in a school. like i mentioned, for me it was a city, a medium to larger size school, and somewhere the admitted students stats were a bit higher so thats what i searched on college board ! i saved several larger schools located in both nyc and boston and then narrowed down my choices from there

determining which schools to further pursue  while at this point ur still in ur primary decision making about schools to apply to, you still can rule out some options early on! some important factors to consider:

major - do they have your intended major? is the schools program for that major good? if youre undecided do they have a large selection of programs? do they have any programs intended for undecided students (several schools that i applied to had 2-year undecided programs that u could do before entering a college/program within the university)? 

size and location - do you want a typical college campus or one integrated within a city? small, tight-knit college or large, diverse community? far from home or closer to home? super hot summers or cold snowy winters?

atmosphere - what kind of people do you want to be around? traditional experience with football games n greek life or non-traditional experience with people who dont care abt what sports team is winning? a school for a specific demographic (such as a women’s college, specific religious affiliation or a hbc)?

other activities - what kind of outside activities do you want to participate in? do they have club sports u want to play? extensive study abroad program or would you rather stay in one place? do the current activities of the students reflect your interests?

costs and stats (aka the sucky stuff) - are the gpa/test scores similar to yours? if not is it too much of a reach? can you realistically afford it? what kind of financial aid do they offer (sometimes a private school might end up costing as much as a public one)?

@theaplyfe has a college profile doc that u can use to edit and organize what factors youve identified as important and see if potential colleges have what youre looking for ! (original post) 

okay but i still dont know what i want? dont freak out ! i know this can be very frustrating especially when it seems like all ur friends have had their dream schools picked out for years. once you start researching and visiting schools you will learn what you like and dont like !! trust me everything will fall into place just for now start off with some schools that have the basic qualities that u want

researching donts

dont let anyone decide for u what schools to apply to or what you should look for in a college (for example i was initially scared to tell my mom that i wanted to go to nyc since im a very quiet person and its expected that i would hate living in a city but i rly rly love new york)

dont apply to an ivy or another super selective school just to ~see if youll get in~ only apply to these schools if you’re genuinely interested - selective schools like these want u to fall into their trap so theyll get more applicants, allowing them to reject more ppl overall therefore lowering their acceptance rate and making them seem prestigious

w/ this being said, no you dont need to apply to all 8 ivys and theyre all very different schools in very different locations ur not gonna like them all

dont apply somewhere b/c ur best friend or s/o wants to go there. if you could actually see urself at that school even in the event that you and friend stop talking or u and ur s/o break up - then sure ! go for it ! but otherwise dont do it

dont look @ rankings guess what it doesnt matter if ur school is ‘nationally’ ranked in the top 10 or #100 as long as a school has options that you want and has a good program for what you wanna study then apply !!!

dont rule out community college !!!! while there is still (for some god awful reason) negative stigma around community college you will still get just a good of an education there that you would at a four year university. if u feel that you arent quite ready to leave home or want to save some money then community could be the right option for you

dont rule out a school based on one factor - you never know how much that one thing would impact ur daily life a student there (for example i almost ruled out a school due to it being a catholic jesuit school since im not catholic but upon further research i learned that welcome/encourage all religions and non-religious people ! therefore, this factor would not have impacted me very much - i wouldve just had to take some religion based core classes if i went there)

that about covers everything about basic research ! if you still have questions please send me an ask !!!! in my next post im planning on covering how to organize ur schools based on safety/match/reach and your own personal factors + some other important steps before you begin to apply so check back soon

#appblr #college admissions #appblr18 #studyblr #college #appse #mine #ahh pls ignore the header im not creative #also if any mutuals wanna reblog to help spread this even tho it might not apply to u that would be super helpful💖

[canaryatlaw]

Alright, so today was pretty good. I'm tired (lol) but I can sleep in a bit tomorrow so that's good. And tomorrow is my first day of my last year of law school, which is just nuts really. Sigh. But anyway. Woke up at 9, debated getting up for a few minutes before just forcing myself to do it because I didn't want to miss service again. Did the whole commute thing, it was fine, got to church and went to the volunteer lounge to hang out but they only had bagels and I don't trust non-new York bagels because 99% of them that I've tried are nasty AF, so I just sat there and ate my cocoa krispies (I don't have any milk at the moment so I just had them in a sandwich bag). Service was good, we had a guest speaker as is the case for August, and she was really good. She gave one quote I really loved, which was "The mission field is in between your own two feet at any given time." Just...yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. I support that so much lol. After service I had the babies room, which went off pretty well. We had a good number of babies but we're also pretty well staffed so it wasn't an issue, and just about everybody was happy for most of the service. We had one new little guy who fussed for a while, but eventually calmed down and seemed to enjoy himself. And there's the little girl with that adorable little smile that just makes me melt lol so it was good. Headed home, made the bus after getting off the train this time by mere seconds (it's always close) so I got home a little earlier than normal, made some food and hit the books for some reading. Again, I worked for about 3 hours, then watched some tv while also working on an online lesson thing for another class. We were obviously supposed to do the reading for this class before doing the assignment, but it was easy enough that I could skate by on what I know and educated guesses, and we only had to get 50% right to get credit so that was easy. I watched Wynonna Earp, and I have to say this episode was a little dry and hard to follow for me. Hopefully next week (season finale, right?) will be better (I'm confident it will be). After that I started the defenders since I've been dying to do that. While doing all this I just did general internet things for a while, then set to work doing PAD schedule stuff, which I volunteered myself for, but was still a pain in the ass. I just needed to get a spreadsheet with everyone's schedule to be able to tell when we can schedule meetings. After that I did the company tumblr, which thankfully didn't take long, then I checked my normal tumblrs and such before turning the tv off. The defenders though. Interesting so far, I got through the first 4 episodes. It's definitely not as structured as I expected, though that's not necessarily a bad thing. The first few episodes where they were all doing their own thing kind of dragged, but once they got together and actually formed their sort of rag tag team it was pretty great. Jessica and Matt's dynamic is absolutely hilarious, as predicted. When I saw a lot of the reviews of the show coming out I felt like people were being overly critical of Danny, but then I started the show and was reminded how fucking annoying he is and accepted that their criticism was totally valid. And yeah, more thoughts to come. I'll still make a Dear Evan Hansen review post when I get a chance. With the semester looming I already feel overstressed and like I barely have time to do everything, but hopefully I'll be able to deal with that. Tomorrow I have PT at 1:30, then I'll probably go grocery shopping as I'm desperately in need of several items, and then head to school for class at 5:50, and just like that the semester begins. Tired now though, so I'm gonna hit the hay. Goodnight dearies. I hope you have a non-sucky Monday.

#daily journal #August 2017

[bahannah01writes]

Bring Me a Dream (Pt. 4)

Summary: It’s night and it’s time for you to work your magic- literally.

Heyo! I’m a little late, sorry! Wifis been uber sucky at my house for some reason?? I’m not sure, it’s frustrating though, but hopefully you’ll all still love the chapter even if it’s two hours overdue!

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     Papers scatter the floor with runes and cryptic messages hiding their meaning from any outsiders as the gentle chirps of a cricket from outside your window brings you a sense of serenity. The moonlight shines in through the curtain and while alone it’s not enough to illuminate your room, when paired with the bedside lamp, it proves to be just right. The orange and blues hues melt together to create interesting shadows amongst your artifacts and along your walls- yet they fail to catch your attention as you have something of much greater importance at hand currently. The safety of your Dreamer, which is above any sort of distraction that’s thrown your way.

     All while wearing the PJs Mark had lent you the first time you arrived, which was delightfully and magically reclaimed, you study the words in your books with utter concentration. They rhyme and create darling spells one uses for such instances like your own, or offer information from the history of your kind and the others who have developed alongside it.  Both are fairly helpful, though you’re focusing more so on the spells before you get into studying the creature inhibiting Mark’s mind. Your finger skims across the pages and once you repeat the mantra enough to memorize it, you get ready to begin the spell properly. Hopping onto the bed, you reach over and turn off the light and air seems to go quiet- your cricket buddy apparently missing, you inhale and exhale deeply. Eyes shut, you sit with legs crossed and your elbows rest on your thighs; the position resembles the one seen in the book and in a soft, hushed voice the charm rolls off your tongue.

     “Yosia kellum o mitisia,” Keep them safe in the night,

     “Ui pulitzia r’obellae,” When we cannot,

     “Ryndo kellum o mitisia, ui denri sezas lot harenae.” Protect them in the night, when their enemies are in sight.

     As the words linger in the air, your eyes open again with a lavender glow shining from them against the darkness of the room. You begin to feel a wave of peace wash over which spreads a victorious smile onto your lips- though the war is far from done, this is a great step in the right direction. That beast is still here nonetheless, but for tonight, he’ll have no effect on your Dreamer. From this point on though, you’ll have to up the security each time with that thing being able to learn and adapt to such things. Turning the light back on you calm down prepare to stay up the rest of the night- which will consist of reading up on your history on how past Dream Makers dealt with threats. Though, the history of Dream Makers is something that’s always interesting amongst many present Dream Makers.

     After all, the tales of the Dream Makers beginnings have been oddly plentiful; each one differing from the last to the point where we don't even know ourselves which version is true and what's not. Though, if one thing is certain, it would be that Dream Makers were not always around. The Avant Period, a time in which there is no record of Dream Makers, was dark in terms of dreams, no matter how scarce they were back then. Creatures of the night would infect the mind and torment the Dreamers, occasionally driving them to pure insanity. They would make reality and fiction cross in the worst way possible, teasing their victims with deadly and sorrowful imagery. Perhaps, that is why the Dream Makers came about- or, at least according to one theory that is. The only resource Dream Makers have of their first presence amongst Dreamers is, peculiar as it may be, from the Dreamers.

     They started to write about us during Ancient Egyptian and Greek times, with characters like The Oneiroi and the god Tutu- both of which granted dreams. Tutu was said to protect against bad dreams and one of The Oneiroi, specifically the one made of horns, was said to be the source of prophetic dreams; as the other, made of ivory, was the source of meaningless dreams.  Although, both were still rather different than yourself and other Dream Makers.

     There was little doubt on the idea that Dream Makers had changed as the Dreamers had, slowly becoming closer to strengthen the link between a Dreamer and their Dream Maker. Somewhere during that time, it was decided that each Dream Maker will have only one Dreamer. This was good and bad; when Dream Makers fell they were easy able to adapt and due to our curious nature, explore alongside their Dreamers. Yet, this also resulted in the phenomena of young Dream Makers being inexperienced and more mistakes being made. This is still prevalent to this day.

     Dream Makers have come along way, but they weren’t the only ones who continued to advance. But strategies of how to defeat these creatures in the night, rose up and for each type of creature, certain methods worked better than others did. Some would be short and sure while others are long-term and can always change, you're currently looking for one that's long-term and sure. Of course, you're not opposed to returning after this trip, but you hope it wouldn't be for this reason.

     The piece of glass you found early sits on the table and you pick it up swiftly before plopping down on the floor. You study it curiously, the beast it belongs to probably already upset with the current spell; but, that's what happens when you're an evil jerk who messes with Mark's dreams.

     Its orange hue reflects the light across the tiny room, sighing, you clasp your hand around it and cease its rays, the shard slices into your palm ever so slightly causing a small droplet of blood to rise. The pain is hardly noticeable as you open your hand, with your non-bloody hand you pick up the slight stained red glass and set it aside as you reach into your bag, grabbing a piece of cloth and wrapping it around the little room if only to assure that there’s no blood stains anywhere else. That would be an odd thing to answer to, after all.

     Your now bandaged hand reaches for a certain book with a dark green cover with a golden pattern on the front, it resembles the pattern of celtic knots with a large branching tree in the middle- it’s honestly quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye. Flipping through the pages, you finally find the one you need and begin to read through them; the information it holds prove to be necessary and helps to build your mental library on the subject. You decide to continue building upon the information for the rest of the night and go from one book to another out of your eleven books to find out the most that you can. In the end, you stay up until the sun’s rays shine through your curtains and make you realize just how long you’ve been up. Eyes scan over the floor, which is a mess by now, and you decide to to clean up before you have a quick charging session. You hide your supplies away in your bag and get under the blissfully comfy blanket, shutting your eyes, your thoughts fade as your mind rests from all the work. You’re happy to say that the first night back has been a success for both you and you Dreamer, you hope it will continue that way.

     “You already packed everything?” You question bewildered by his readiness, it’s not even ten in the morning and yet he has everything needed for the trip already packed up and ready to go.

     “Of course, not everyone sleeps in like you do,” He teases, his smirk threatening to show itself.

     Rolling your eyes playfully, you sigh and poke his arm, “I had a rough night,” an excuse that is an extreme simplification of the truth.

     “Sure,” Mark chuckles and pokes your arm back after tossing a bag into the trunk of his car, “Excuses aside-”

     “Oh hush, I’m telling you-”

      “Excuses aside, you have anywhere you want to go first?” He shuts the trunk and leans against it to patiently await your answer.

      Shaking your head, you simply drop it and ponder as to what you wanted to do, it isn’t long until you come up with an answer. “Can we get some slush before we go? That’s all I want, everything else can be up to you!” You chime with a bright smile spreading across your cheeks.

      He laughs but nods nonetheless, “I should’ve known that’s what you were gonna say.” Mark throws an arm around your shoulder and rubs your arm, his own smile mirroring your own, “How do you love slushees so much?”

      You raise a brow as you start to ask the real question, “How do you not love them that much? They’re such simple treats yet they’re so delicious and chilly! You could even say, I think they’re the coolest!” You offer a playful wink after that little pun- to which he responds with a groan and begrudging laughter.

     “And you still make really bad puns,” Mark runs a hand through his hair and despite his complaint, he continues to laugh. 

     “Then why are you laughing? Huh?” Your lips don a cheeky smirk as you poke his stomach, proceeding to mess with the sweetheart.

     “Because they’re so bad and stupid!” He explains and you begin to laugh with him, his reasoning is obviously flawed as you know very well that you’re puns are just punderful!

     “Sure,” You playfully repeat, hugging his waist, “Now, can we go get some slush already?”

     “If that’s what you want, chickadee,” His voice rings out cheerfully- a light laugh still lingering, he presses a kiss to your head, “Go ahead and hop in the car.”

     Your smirk settles back into a smile and you do just as you’re told, hopping into the passenger seat and excitedly await your kingdom of slushee to come.

     The chilled but divine taste of blue raspberry greets your tastebuds in the most splendid meeting. Mark ends up deciding that the park would be a relaxed but enjoyable day out and so, the two of you are now catching up on a blanket beneath a shady willow tree. Your cooled treat keeps you cool as well and Mark sips on his own, in between sips, the two of you go back and forth with simple questions.

     “Are there any new games you’re really into?”

     “Yeah! One called ‘Prey’. It’s just amazing- everything from the game play to the graphics. Plus, it’s in space! I love space!” His voice wistfully explains his adoration for the game, “I’ll have to show you, I think you’ll really like it.” Mark turns his head over to yours, his eyes holding a soft gaze with your own.

      You giggle and nod in agreement, “I’m sure I will, Mark. Space is pretty cool,” you agree with a beaming smile. Although, the Dream Maker realm isn’t exactly space, it’s also not not space- rather just in space but on a separate plane possibly. A plane that’s abundant with clouds yet still has the stars watching from above.

      “Where have you gone while you were away?”

     You hum in thought and shrug, “Maine, obviously,” you remember that’s where your ‘family’ is, and begin to list off a few more places you hope he wouldn’t be able to poke holes through, “I’ve been through quite a few states of course but I stayed the longest in Maryland, Wisconsin, and Oregon.”

      He nods and before you can slip in a question, he adds another one, “Did you meet anyone there?” While he attempts to ask it nonchalantly, you can sense a nervousness in his voice- which you can’t quite understand. There’s millions of people, how couldn’t you meet at least one person in one state-nevertheless three?

     Yet, Mark’s only asking in a hope to be subtle about a topic that’s been in the back of his mind since you arrived, did you meet someone that charmed their way into your heart like he has? Is there still an opportunity for a relationship to bloom or have you gotten in one since you’ve left? To say the least, Mark’s a bit jealous and paranoid around this subject.

     “What exactly do you mean by that, Mark?”

     He exhales deeply and his eyes shift to yours, holding curious but calm emotions within them, “Were there any others that you had a relationship with?” It’s a simple but troublesome question, because if there’s a chance that your feelings have minimized while his has stayed just as strong as they were before- the joy in his heart would dampen and tear apart like a piece of paper being dropped into water.

     And as much as you want to keep this a somewhat serious moment, you couldn’t help but laugh at that preposterous idea. Setting down your blue beverage, you turn to face him with a crooked smile on your lips, “Correct me if I’m wrong, but is someone jealous for no reason?”

     Of course, Mark scoffs and chuckles, “What? No, no, not at all!” He tries to convince though fails to, his arm reaches back to scratch the back of his neck and ease his nerves. He’s been caught, hasn’t he? Though, it won’t stop him from trying to blow it off, “I’m not jealous, just curious.”  

     Raising a brow, you shoot him a questioning look and begin to think of a mischievous plan. “Oh really?”

     “Really.”

     “If you say so…” You trail off and then proceed to lean into him, a coy smile crossing your lips as you look up him, “Then what about you, Markimoo? Did you meet anyone while I was away?”

     Mark laughs and shakes his head, “No, between projects and work I don’t have much time.” Which is quite reasonable, Mark can be a bit of a workaholic and you can see how that may interfere with meeting new people outside of his career web.

     You nod and bite your lip, “So...Just wondering, how would you react if I did meet someone?” Are you pushing it a bit? Maybe, but only slightly. Besides, you’ve never seen the jealous side of Mark and out of pure curiosity, you now want to see that side of him.

     His brows furrow as his cool brown orbs move to yours, “Why do you wanna know?” A becoming smirk on his expression gives away his own growing interest in the conversation.

     Deciding to be honest, you shrug simply and answer truthfully, “‘Cause I’m curious to see you jealous-”

      “-I don’t get jealous,” Mark interjects though it only convinces you more of his possible jealousy in situations.

     “I’m not really getting that vibe, Mark. If anything, you’re probably a pretty jealous person, huh?” You tease, fighting back a giggle as you watch him shake his head with a sigh.

     “I am not.”

     “You totally are.”

     “No.”

     “Yes!”

     Mark chuckles and runs a hand through his hair, “What about you?”

     His questions catches you off guard, you tilt your hand and repeat his question, “What about me?”

     It’s now his time to be overconfident, which isn’t exactly a rare occurrence to begin with. “How jealous do you get?”

     You think for a moment and begin to realize that, in fact, you would be rather jealous if Mark had found someone. Though, you aren’t quite sure if that’s due to the celestial bond, a Dream Maker’s natural possessiveness over Dreamers, or just your own personality- or possibly a combination of the three. You laugh and nod, “I think I would be fairly jealous, not gonna lie.”

     Mark chuckles and smiles happily, “Then, maybe, just maybe, I think I may have been a bit jealous if you had met someone.” To know that you’d be jealous if he had found someone, well, it actually makes him delighted and hopeful that you do still return your feelings for him.

     “Good! I think I’d love to see you being jealous,” You admit, as you find yourself being pulled closer to him, his arm settling around your waist.

     “I think I’d like to see you jealous too,” Mark agrees, another chuckle flowing sweetly from his lips, “It’d be funny!”

     You roll your eyes playfully and poke his chest, “You’d be the funny one, if anything!”

     “No,” He ‘corrects’ as he then uses an oddly high pitched voice to say the rest, “Oh Markimoo! Stop talking to her! My heart, I can’t stand it! Markimoo, no!”

     Your eyes narrow as you watch this peculiar mockery of his, you groan and run a hand through your locks. If he’s going to play this way, then so are you. In the best baritone voice you can do, you start, “My chickadee stop talking to him! I’m way more handsome and funny than he is, guaranteed! Baby, no!”

     This eventually progresses into a playful banter and somehow ends up with the two of you running from each other in the park; namely, you are running away from Mark. Yet, the two of you never seem to stop laughing even if it causes you to lose your breath quicker, it can’t be helped.

     A pair of strong arms lift you up and throw you onto their owner’s shoulder, “Mark! Put me down!” You try to be demanding but your bout of giggles make it hard to do so.

     “Never!” He screams, and while you can’t see his face, you can hear that boastful smile in his voice and a similar one begins to spread onto your own lips.

     “You’re such an idiot!”

     “I'm your idiot, baby!”

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[musingsinamericanslang]

My Journey Home Pt 1: Let Yourself Die

Hey everyone. I’m starting to do a new writing series which describes my journey of self discovery throughout this year. This is in no way meant to be an exhaustive guide on how to become perfect, because I don’t believe that’s possible. But instead, I’m writing to share little nuggets of wisdom I receive from books, nature, things I read, hear, or maybe even things I come to realize. So for those of you who read along, I hope that the stories of our journeys can enlighten and enrich our lives, collectively. 

As you are all aware, being in your 20′s is an odd time of ups and downs. In the beginning, it feels like you’re finally an adult and can go to the bar, and you have all of this freedom. But then, after graduation and subsequent periods of “un” and underemployment, life feels like this long road to nowhere. Friends start getting married, having babies, buying houses, posting seemingly endless streams of their joyous lives on social media, and we’re stuck going nowhere. For me, as it has for many, it led me to return to college not once, but twice, because I truncated my first woeful post-undergrad journey prior to feeling like I was also not “following my dreams,” or “making a difference.” And while for many this is an isolating feeling, is certainly not isolated. I read posts and hear from friends all the time about having this sentiment about relationships, personal development, careers, or a combination of all of them. And it is a sucky feeling. 

What I don’t hear about so much, but something that I often feel is a feeling of the inverse of this phenomenon. What if I had known in undergrad what direction I wanted to go? I’d have a PhD already! What if things had worked out with that girl from high school, or undergrad, or just after undergrad? I could be (hopefully) happily married with some Austin Jr’s running around by now, with a PhD! What if I had stayed devoutly religious, would I be further along the path of spiritual enlightenment now? This, too, can be burdensome, and I feel confident I’m not the only one who feels this way. 

All of this being said leads me to my nugget of wisdom taken from many religious traditions: we have to let ourselves die (per my title). Okay, I don’t mean to say that life is a meaningless void and we should all take and enact a large suicide pact. I do not mean this at all. What I mean is that in our minds, we create two versions of ourselves: one who made all the right decisions when we were younger to create some perfect life for us today, and the current, but seemingly inescapably imperfect one who has had a series of tough breaks, screw-ups, and is generally a bad decision maker. And what I am saying is that we need to let both of these fictional versions of ourselves die. 

Speaking to the death of the former, the truth is that there is no alternate version of reality where we have made all the “right” decisions which have led to some perfect, maximumly happy version of ourselves. For starters, this goes against the nature of what it means to be human. And secondly, even if such a reality existed, our consciousness does not, and it therefore becomes irrelevant and counterproductive to mourn for impossible hypotheticals. There is only now. For me, I think what we are really afraid of is the uncertainty accompanying our futures and uncertainty in general. We feel like we’ve missed our chances, and now we’re destined to some mundane existence. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Regardless of your religious or spiritual inclination, I’d posit that life isn’t coincidental. We exist and have experiences to continue to mold us into the intricate cogs in this infinite machine we call the Universe. And while ours may not look exactly the same as someone else’s, it doesn’t make us less integral to beauty of this cosmic expanse.

Speaking to the death of the latter, there is no harsher critic of us than us. In life, we won’t always say the right thing, and sometimes we can act impulsively, and sometimes we do hurt people in ways we didn’t intend. But that does not make the miracle of gravity, stardust, and the ethereal concepts of soul and mind that we are innately bad or evil. If we want to change, then let today be a little step toward that change. Don’t continue to beat yourself up over what is done. Let it be a boulder in the path of your river. The river doesn’t stop flowing because the boulder is in its way, but it flows around it, and incorporates it into a beautiful and unique feature of the river. And so too can obstacles be catalysts for positive change for us. 

Succinctly, we do not live in the past nor do we live in the future. All that exists is now. Jesus said we cannot add even 15 minutes to our lives by worrying about things since passed or things to come. The first and second lines of this sentence are essentially paraphrasing something the Buddha once said. And they were right. If we do not live in this present moment, we do not live. So instead of giving life to caricatures of non-existent versions of ourselves, let us give life to the authentic being here in this moment. 

This very evening, I was listening to the podcast, “On Being with Krista Tippett,” where she was interviewing a man named Gordon Hempton, who is a “sound ecologist.” He said, so eloquently, that silence is not absence, but presence. And in the silent places in our minds, bodies, and souls, I encourage you to be present. 

Namaste

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