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fenlock · 2 years

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Most of the time the territorial nature of my kelpie friends can be inconvenient. But occasionally it’s a blessing.

I’ve been house and dog-sitting for my aunt since Thursday, and this house is creepy af. The main floor is very open, and from the living room I can see across a small hallway with a bathroom and a staircase that goes upstairs, plus the door that leads downstairs to the basement. All three have Something that hangs out there. The bathroom has a very tall shadowy being, reminiscent of Slenderman. The stairs going up are frequented by some weird nonhuman thing that moves on all fours, looks like a cross between a monkey and a fox, and likes to come barreling down to the landing whenever I pass by, where it just sits and watches me while grinning. Then there’s the basement, which has ghosts and something more malevolent that my friend has dubbed “Basement Demon”. I haven’t ever seen BD, but I have audibly heard it call us “tasty” and the room it’s claimed for itself has absolutely horrible vibes that make me want to run away as soon as I open the door. Not to mention this house is in the country and bordered by two open fields on either side and woods in the back that definitely have fae folk.

Now, the fae I don’t really mind. I’ve seen small bipedal things at nighttime, just moving around outside of the light, but they don’t seem to care much about me being there and are just going about their business. Occasionally odd little trinkets will show up on the back deck, usually small pieces of raw quartz, but when that happens I put out some kind of offering for them and they back off.

What I don’t like are the things in the house. I will give the disclaimer that none of them have ever physically harmed me, or the people who live here to my knowledge. They do give off very spooky vibes however, and there was one time when my friend was staying here that Basement Demon made us both so paranoid that we actually chose to leave the house and spent the night at a truck stop in the back of my SUV. There also tend to be lots of noises, like knocking, banging, occasionally hissing, and I can sometimes hear the thing on the stairs running up and down(as a side note, I do check the location of the dogs when these sounds happen, and 90% of the time they’ll be in the room with me or outside).

Anyway, all this to say, there is something supremely comforting about being able to ping one or two of the waterhorses like “hey, the thing on the stairs has been watching me for the past half hour and I don’t know if it means well,” and know that within a few minutes someone will come to chase it back up to the top floor and keep it from bothering me for a while. Or “hey, I need to use the bathroom but Shadow Guy is in there, can you come clear it out for just a minute?”

#to clarify: i do not want to drive these beings out of the house #they live here and I'm just visiting so banishing them would be rude #but also there are some nights where i keep all the lights on and refuse to leave the 'safe zones' unless absolutely necessary #so it's nice to know i've got some very scary beasties of my own who'll come make sure i'm safe #adventures in haunted housesitting

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corvidcas · 5 months

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pro tip: don't buy a doberman just to not train it at all

#e's rover housesitting adventures!!!#e.txt #THE MAN DOESNT EVEN KNOW FETCH #HE DOESNT KNOW 'SIT' HE DOESNT KNOW 'COME' THE MAN IS 100+ LBS AND PURE MUSCLE #COMPLETELY UNCONTROLLABLE!!!

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themonkeespaw · 7 months

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Oh my god they have raspberry and blackberry bushes I’m so stealing some fruit. Unrelated but if anyone knows what to do with a small volume of cherry tomatoes or varying ripeness I’m all ears

#adventures in dog and housesitting continue

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gonzogirl · 1 year

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60 Shades of Gray

Apparently, I am an unwitting member of the "Great Resignation", the post pandemic phenomena of folks leaving the work place before traditional retirement age. So 2 years in, I'm still trying to figure it out. Reflections on Retirement. Hmmm.

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#Adventure Travel #Aging Gracefully #American Culture #Early Retirement #Housesitting #Middle-Age Adventure #Petsitting #Retirement #Retirement Humor #Slow Travel

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wanderings-of-alan-and-caz · 2 years

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Dog sitting these two beautiful dogs this weekend. We’ve found pet and house sitting to be a really good way of seeing other parts of the world. 🗺🐕🏡🚐🗻 #exploring #explore #nature #travel #adventure #photography #travelphotography #explorepage #wanderlust #hiking #explorer #travelgram #housesitting #traveling #petsittingservices #outdoors #travelcouple #photooftheday #landscape #mountains #instatravel #beautiful #traveller #uk #spring #vanlife (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfikWacIT1q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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sparkles-and-trash · 2 years

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Whenever I feel like someone’s watching me, I’m usually right 🌝

#Adventures in housesitting #sneak #sneaky Zelder #dog #irl tag #zelder tag #minpin #minpin mix #small dog #pet #personal #funny dog #silly dog

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lolotheparagon · 3 months

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Sofia the First Season 3 in a Nutshell

Cool Hand Fluke - 7/10

Finally, an episode about the mermaids that isnt shit... That is a sentence I just said.

Minimus is Missing - 10/10

Every pegasus in the kingdom has been Pied Pipered away and he mastermind behind this is revealed to be a spoilt kid wizard who really wanted a pegasus for his birthday and decided to steal every horse in the kingdom cos he can. He also gets a rock ballad villain song. Yknow, this show really surprises you sometimes.

Cedric Be Good - 9/10

After all this time, Cedric finally has the amulet by swapping it for a fake copy and goes through the five stages of grief cos he doesnt realise he stole his surrogate niece's most priced possession.

Princess Adventure Club - 1/10

Oh, a new princess who's an adventurer? Now that sounds cool! I wonder if there'll be regular adventures she'll take Sofia and the gang to- OH MY GOD AMBER CAN YOU STOP BEING A BITCH FOR 5 MINUTES?? This girl's characterisation really is the prime example of "depending on the writer"

Minding the Manor - 4/10

Aunt Tilly instructs Sofia to housesit her mansion for an afternoon whilst dealing with gargoyles. Then its revealed Tilly wants to pass onto Sofia the role of being a errand girl to everyone else's domestic problems, even though she's like 8

The Secret Library - 6/10

Okay, not a bad start to this Secret Library arc and its a good story about Minimus making amends with his free-spirited big brother. Also Cary Elwes is the villain in this, which was a delight to see. Also Merida's in this and she gives the last good advice out of all the Disney Princesses to Sofia.

New Genie on the Block - -3/10

This is the most whack shit Ive ever seen in a kids cartoon. So a genie is loose in Tangu and theres a genie patrol, who is run BY a genie and he's designed to look like an American cop for some reason and Sofia becomes a honorary deputy throughout the episode. Their flying carpets are designed to look like American police cars but we're in fucking Arabia. WHAT IS THIS DESIGN CHOICE? The kid genie that's supposed causing trouble is just doing party tricks for a group of kids but Sofia and the genie cop chasistise him anyway for breaking the rules (oh yeah there's genie rules and unlike Aladdin, there's like a bajillion of them even though this kid genie isnt even doing that much rulebreaking) and thus ends up causing more trouble. Wow, its like the actual American police. I dont know what the fuck the writers were smoking but its fucking hilarious

The Fliegel Has Landed - 1/10

Jessica DiCicco plays an mean alpha bitch fairy who's just moved next to the trolls and its up to Sofia and Cedric to teach this bully a lesson? Nice! I cant wait for them to squash this nasty bug- oh no theyre redeeming her, for fucks sake!!!

The Princess Ballet - 10/10

Kari is a wonderful side character and Sofia and Amber helping her overcome her crippling perfectionism whilst practicing ballet and hiring a special tutor to teach her in ways she can understand before the big show is super sweet. THIS. This is what Sofia the First is all about

All the Sprite Moves - -5/10

Vivian has moved into a new castle and hates it, so she enlists the help of the sprites to make the castle haunted so her family can leave. There was also a subplot where Clover gets drunk on love potion berries and obsesses over Crackle and apparently these berries are a plot device cos Sofia uses them again to drug the sprites to leave the castle. That was really weird, dont ever do that again.

Sofia in Elvenmoor - 10/10

The most kid friendly acid trip episode you'll ever get. A good lesson about being focussed on what you're doing and not getting distracted by whats around you. Also there was an adorable moment when the King tries to communicate with one of Sofia's critter friends (even though he cant understand squirrel) when he's trying to find her. He also didnt want to cut down an ancient tree when his men were constructing a road and wanted them to build around it, even before he noticed Sofia was in the tree. King Roland's environmentally friendly and thats just neat.

Stormy Lani - 1/10

They really pulled the magical native stereotype with Lani and had the gall to have a white girl teach an indigenous girl to calm her temper cos her emotions change the weather. WOW. That is Steven Universe levels of racist.

Lord of the Rink - 7/10

Huh, imagine that. A good Prince Hugo episode . This one's a flip-around from Just One of the Princes where Hugo worries his interest in a feminine sport like ice skating will cause his friends and his father to mock him and Sofia reassures him to just do the sport and not worry what others think. Nice to see theres no gender double standard in this show.

The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle - 0/10

Once I found out Ms Nettle was getting redeemed, I skipped through the entire episode cos im so DONE with this show redeeming every villain in its path. Why cant we teach kids that sometimes people are just dicks?

Gone With the Wand - 9/10

We meet Cedric's niece, Calista, who adores her uncle as much as Sofia does. Now im entirely convinced Cedric cared for Sofia all this time cos she reminds him of Calista and I find that so sweet. They then go to Merlin's castle where Cedric goes into fanboy mode, manage to imprison an evil sorceress and have Calista learn not to steal stuff thats her favourite colour cos its still stealing. Only downside is why that evil sorceress had to be Morgana. Girl gets way too much hate in fantasy stories.

Bad Little Dragon - 7/10

Weird title aside, its a great Crackle episode where her jealousy over Vivian's new baby dragon is completely justified as the new dragon is not only an international jewel thief, but an adult dragon just with a baby body and talks like an old school gangster. This is the funniest shit

Bunny Swap - 6/10

It's a solid Clover episode where he gets his privilege checked by his doopleganger

Her Royal Spyness - -7/10

SEAL PEOPLE EXIST IN THIS WORLD.

Best In Air Show - 5/10

Minimus has an overbearing mother zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Dads and Daughters Day - 8/10

Sofia gets a similar problem like what she had in Mom's the Word, this time its with her dad. Her and Amber's class are going on a field trip with all their dads and after Hildegarde's remark about Roland not being Sofia's real dad, Sofia fears that because she doesnt have memories of previous dad and daughter trips like Amber, she doesnt believe she's truly his daughter. Cue heartfelt speech from Roland about how he'll always love her and in comes my unintelligble bawling.

Elena and the Secret of Avalor - 8/10

A Sofia the First episode tackling the destruction that imperalism causes to a nation, a new princess protagonist named Elena getting the upper hand and finally getting her crown, her family and her kingdom back from an imperalist bitch? Well, damn, I'm impressed. Although Sofia's family couldve done a lot more and the idea of a Latina princess being trapped inside an amulet that was used by white princesses really bothers me. Like, why couldnt Elena just be in forced exile thanks to the villain or have her be trapped in a magic mirror or some shit?

The Tale of the Noble Knight - 4/10

Kevin Michael Richardson plays an amazingly hammy knight. Shame he wasnt in a better episode.

The Bamboo Kite - 7/10

Nice to see the lesson of respecting both old and new technology and resources. Its just neat.

Beauty is the Beast - 9/10

This time, Sofia gets summoned to help a princess. She meets Charlotte, who's been turned into a beast as a punishment because she was racist to a goblin. Sofia tries to get the goblin and princess to get along and they end up being besties cos they both nerd out over royal stuff. Honestly, I wish Charlotte kept her beast form. Its very ugly cute.

Cauldronation Day - 2/10

Lucinda's having some witch graduation ceremony but her two new friends are both fighting over the position to be the witch of honour so Sofia tries to make them become friends, even though they clearly arent good enough friends to Lucy. Its fucking infuriating how Lucinda never puts two and two together and just makes Sofia her witch of honour and tell her friends to fuck off cos Sofia is right there being supportive.

Camp Wilderwood

Yknow that spoilt wizard kid Wendell from Minimus is Missing? That kid who stole a kingdom's pegasi cos he really wanted one instead of a magic lute? That kid who even took over a small kingdom for the evulz? Lets redeem him and have him befriended by James all because htey both hated going to a summer camp. Great, a terrible slap-dash villain redemption and a mediocre James episode. Man, this kid never gets a good episode.

Royal Vacation - 5/10

"See, parents? The best way to get your family to spend more time with each other is by forcing them to go on vacation! Even if the vacation turns out to be 90 percent a disaster. As long as you come home feeling happy at the end, that's all that matters!"

Hexley Hall - 8/10

Sofia has unlocked new amulet powers and Cedric takes her to his old wizard school to meet Billy West wizard to get more info about the amulet. I love how halfway throughout the episode, Cedric gets interested in Sofia's amulet and you'd think "oh no, is he gonna go back to stealing it again to take over Enchancia?" but thes its immediately dropped as Cedric's friendship with his pet raven suddenly becomes the focus and he goes into papa wolf mode when Sofia is threatened by Billy West wizard later on and he didnt even care about the amulet. Dont know if that was either a writing flub or an intentional twist, but I like it.

The Princess Prodigy - 10/10

Vivian gets manipulated by an evil musical baron who's preying on her musical talent to fuel his own musical magic, by isolating her from her bandmates and making her lash out at her friends, causing them to help her come to her senses and take down the baron. Cue an epic Scott Pilgrim style music magic battle between Sofia, Vivian and the others and you have an absolute baller episode.

One for the Books - 9/10

A nerdy prince named Desmond, who hasnt had a major appearance since Enchanted Science Fair, struggles with an eccentric assignment giving by the best teacher in the entire school (Seriously, I love Mr P, he's such a cool unorthodox teacher and those are the best. He reminds me of my old geography teacher when I was at school) and he's too embrassed to ask for help since he's usually the top student. A good lesson about never being afraid to ask for help and dont give magical growing food to an already magical plant. This is how you get Piranha Plants

#sofia the first

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aquadestinyswriting · 10 months

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Storyteller Saturday

Hey guys, I hope you all had a good week. I've been on holiday and housesitting so I've not had much time for online social stuff. However, I'll try to keep on top of this event at the very least.

Who is your favourite recurring background character for your story/stories?

No pressure tags: @druidx, @asher-orion-writes, @homesteadchronicles, @warriorbookworm, @mariahwritesstuff, @ashirisu, @thesorcerersapprentice, @blind-the-winds

My answer will be under a readmore since I have a bunch of wip series at the moment

The Wizard's Tale: My favourite recurring background character for this series is probably Adrian Darkmantle. He's not in the story very often and is more often mentioned by others than he actually appears. However, I just love this guy for being the put-upon Necromancy specialist who is maligned by pretty much everyone except from Selene and Dwena. He's a reformed Cabal member, which is why most of the staff are so wary, but he honestly doesn't do anything wrong, even if he's constantly accused of being a spy.

The Trouble with Meredith: This one was a bit tougher, since there are a lot of characters that are only semi-background. I think I'll go with Sister Helesgoht here. She's a dwarf hailing from a very different area, but is a very experienced hospitaler with a speciality in dealing with problems of the mind (an early psychologist basically) and was brought to Fangthane following the Demon War to help those ex-Slayers who survived and were accepted back into the mountain to readjust to a normal life. She also helps out any dwarf that needs some extra help dealing with mental health issues that are above the paygrade of the rest of the clergy.

Fangthane's Folly and the Anvil's Fall: For this one I'll need to go with the duo of Nigg and Nogg, Meredith's twin uncles on her mum's side. They only show up while Meredith is in Stonebridge, and also for a little bit for the evacuation of Fangthane, but they're a lot of fun to write because of the banter between them. They haven't shown up yet, but they should be appearing in the story I intend to re-write fairly soon.

The Ouroboros of Destiny: There is actually going to be a young female white dragon wyrmling character that shows up now and then in this series. She and her brothers were found and "rescued" by the adventuring party and brought to the Vynheim Adventurer's Guild to keep them out of trouble. Sazsha has been convinced to keep them around and is trying to teach them some better manners before releasing them back to the wild when they're a bit bigger and able to defend themselves. Unfortunately for the Aurbold, the female is trying to find reasons to keep hanging around.

#storyteller saturday #sts #titan fighting fantasy #the wizard's tale #the trouble with meredith #fangthane's folly and the anvil's fall #the ouroboros of destiny

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