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agallimaufryofoddments · 3 years

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To any Baccano! fans who’ve previous imported (or are interesting in / willing to import) goods from Japan...

I checked a certain JP goods site just now and discovered an active listing for three items from the first audio drama:

The fabled cast poster (i.e. one side of the poster is Enami’s jacket art, the other is allegedly a relationships chart).

The deck of playing cards (shows signs of use, but probably tolerably so)

The boxset’s slip cover.

Other, more complete listings for Audio Drama #1 (i.e. ones that include the drama CDs and booklet) exist on the market. What those listings usually don’t include is that rumored poster, which the JP Narita Wiki considers a “hard-to-find” item. It certainly is that. I’ve seen a decent number of listings for this audio drama over the years, but this is only the second time one of them contained the poster. No scans online exist, as far as I know.

The listing is priced at 1,600 yen (15.73 USD). Keep in mind that multiple additional fees will be tacked on to that price before you even get to the international shipping fees...which are jacked up and limited in options due to COVID-19, depending on JapanPost’s certain restrictions for your country.

You moreover have no options when it comes to the proxy, due to an exclusivity deal between the proxy and the JP site. This proxy has steeper fees than my preferred one, which brings me to why I’m pointing other fans to it instead of snapping it up myself (so as to ensure it’s in fandom hands).

Edit: Eh, wait, I’m reading that there are a couple alternative proxies that can engage with that site? What about that exclusivity deal? Definitely worth looking into those other proxies’ legitimacy, as the topical proxy’s fees are just...ridiculous.

("Why” is addressed under the cut, since it’s not essential info and is moot if anyone else does actually want to get their hands on this. Suffice it to say here that a purchase I made back in Spring 2020 supposedly includes the poster; it’s just that the package has been languishing in JP storage ever since. Of course, sooner or later I may crack and try DHL or Seamail...)

Contact me if interested; I’ll send you the required proxy + item info privately. I’ve dealt with the proxy you’ll have to use before (same proxy I used for my own poster purchase), so don’t worry if you’ve never used a proxy before. Well, you can worry about the fees. Unfortunately, the particularly proxy is one of the more fee-happy ones I’ve come across.

Edit: Wait, JapanPost will be increasing shipping fees by 30% from April 1 onward for small packages (e.g. ones shippable by AIR, SAL, seamail...) ...cripes, that would apply to my package, I think, wouldn’t it? If Seamail / DHL are still the only options by then, well, future Seameal’s price for this package might be more akin to present day DHL’s cost estimate...yikes. Like, DHL’s current estimated shipping cost for my package is nearly twice as much as seamail’s price.

Second edit continued: Ugh, part of me wants to keep waiting instead of adding to the current hectic overload at harbors / other transportation hubs--American ones, at least, have been experiencing delays and understaffing due to COVID-19, both its broad impacts and its specific impacts on employees (people getting sick, others not showing up...) ...but with price being a major factor in why I’ve waited this long, it’s be a special kind of irony to have the fees jacked by 30% as a consequence of the waiting. Hell, if I order now via seamail, the package would have a chance of arriving in April...

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(Why don’t you buy it, Rev?)

Thing is, I purchased a listing for Audio Drama #1 that appeared to include the poster (and everything else sans cards) at the tail end of May 2020. It’s been sitting in a warehouse ever since, joined by two other packages in July & September. Those three packages have been consolidated but not sent, since the only two shipping options available for months have been DHS (exorbitant with no ETA), and seamail (cheap, but two months delivery and risk of damage).

If I don’t crack and give Seamail a shot one of these days, then, well, my own package will be sitting in storage for the foreseeable COVID-19 future. I already consolidated my three packages into one, and this charming proxy charges you an additional fee if you want to “reconsolidate” (i.e. add 1+ new packages to an already consolidated one). Then there’s the costly, risky shipping options...

...which I don’t so much ‘mean to inflict on anybody else’ (aha) as I want to double the chances the poster arrives in fandom hands for distribution. (Plus, why should I have a monopoly on this hard to find poster?) Er, again, maybe I’m doing the opposite by letting it sit on the market where anyone could just snap it up...

(On the other hand, I’m still very leery re: Seamail risks, since there’s some chance the poster will be damaged or lost in transit...if it hasn’t already from 7-8 months in storage...and that’s not even accounting for additional pandemic complications. Still, I keep thinking, “You know, if I’d given Seamail a try back in October, I might have gotten the package by now or by the end of this month...))

Not to mention I literally already own a complete boxset of the audio drama (sans poster), two if we count the May 2021 purchase (sans cards)--a third boxset would be a bit much, even for my Baccano! collecting standards. At the very least, I’ve got to exercise some self-control...

(That I’m tempted to snap up listed Baccano! items I already own is itself, uh, a warning sign maybe?? “Ooh look, the Premium DJCD!” Self, I already own a copy. “Ooh, look, the DS Special Novella. that’s hard to find!” Self, you own two copies. “Ooh, look, the SRC--” --which is quite expensive and you own two copies. See what I mean?)

#Baccano!#Baccano #merchandise #psa #I can think of a few people in the fandom who might genuinely be up for buying this #do I be presumptuous and PM...?#long post

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destinyc1020 · 3 years

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Did you hear 15 people from the Little Mermaid cast/crew got the new Delta COVID strain or whatever it was 🥴

Oh no..... 🙊

No, I had not heard..... 😭😫

Yikes..... 😬 It looked like they were staying safe too!

Gosh.... Well, I hope they all get better soon. Wow...15 ppl is A LOT on one set. 🥴 This movie's filming has already been delayed due to covid so many times too. 🙈

Do you know where they have been filming? I recall reading about it a while back, but I don't remember the location.

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strangcrdoctor · 4 years

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∞Yeah I’m out for the night, fellows. Reasons below.

Today turned real hard this evening because I finally got news about Hell’s Granny. She’s relatively fine, but at 93 she finally had her first (minor??????) stroke. She seriously waited until 6 AM this morning to call my dad (who lives literally four doors down the street for this reason) because she thought it was just a migraine and wanted to make sure he got enough sleep because he’s a banker and has been working his ass off during the pandemic restructuring federal and public loans. And while she’s amazingly cogent and in good shape, because of my maternal grandad’s super abrupt coronary in April, she’s now my last grandparent. And I love my grandad, but between Hell’s Granny and my late gran, those two women were the reason why I never went to daycare or had a babysitter as a kid. This woman taught me how to hold a fucking pencil, write in cursive, arrange silverware according to high tea standards, garden like a badass, iron collared shirts, make Yorkshire pudding, and pick and process raspberries and rhubarb all before I was 7.

She left her small hometown in Saskatchewan before she was 10 because her mother took her and her (technical - weird rural families are weird) niece to Drumheller, Alberta because of some truly horrendous shit done to that niece. So great-gran said Fuck The Patriarchy (because my gran was also an illegitimate child which at the time was Yikes), and took these two young girls to a mining town where Hell’s Granny later - with only the education a 14 year old woman could get in rural Alberta in the ‘40s - fucking took, didn’t ask, just took a job at the local mining office. This woman never finished high school, but then was the sole business partner and dispatcher for my paternal grandad’s trucking company, and often did delivery drives on her own. And she still lives in the house my dad grew up in (after they moved to the States) and drives? (She should definitely be doing neither, but predictably she’s a stubborn old bat.)

And at fucking 93 she’s been starting to “feel her age.”

Like. I’m sorry but for this literal ironsides woman to be feeling frail is hitting so fucking hard. Especially considering she sent me a care package to NYC before my parents even fucking managed it, and of course she sent me a gorgeous glass tea pot and cup set for blooming tea, and half a dozen tea bulbs. She watches the news every morning at 6 AM MST to know the weather in New York to know if I’m going to have a nice day. This woman wanted to buy a Hummer or a Camaro when she was car shopping in her 70s, and went on vacations to Mexico almost every year during that decade of her life. She wanted to go skydiving for her 80th birthday, but her blood pressure was too high. And even now, she wants to last long enough to meet both of her newest incoming great-grandchildren (due in November and February), and then come to see me in NYC if and when COVID resolves.

And even today when I called her in the hospital she hits me with the, “Well, love, time for the old noggin to get an oil change I guess.” Her job is to worry about her family, not be worried about and I am just. I’m hurting for her putting on that brave face for her grandkids, and holding out for her great-grandchildren.

So for those of you that don’t know even aside from the above totally valid wibbly nonsense, I’m also flashing back very hard to about 2017. Because back in 2017 I’d graduated from my first MA and had gotten into a PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh, which naturally I was over the moon about. My late gran at that time was at the final stages of serious terminal downward slope from dementia - a fight and decline I as the youngest of my siblings had been helping my mum through both emotionally and physically in helping her move her from facility to facility for almost 10 years - and in fact was too fragile to even be moved into a hospice facility so had to stay in her facility. She was literal skin and bones, and we had to sponge swab water onto her lips and eyelids. It was truly gruesome at the end.

I knew then when I left for Scotland I would never see her alive again, but even after making peace and saying goodbye to her, it fucking ruined me that it turned out while I had been in flight and out of service she died the morning I arrived. Not only was UE a bad fit for me - because there was no funding available and I would have ended up $200K in debt from that alone - but my mum was in absolute pieces because of lack of family support from her husband and her brother (let alone her sons, who I am still bitter toward for that). So I spent less than a week in Scotland before wrapping up the programme - I cancelled my student loans 2 hours before the deadline - and flying home barely in time for her funeral. (My return flight even got delayed by hurricane Irma evacuation efforts, so I landed less than 10 hours before the service.) So needless to say, not a happy time. I had no job, no savings, no plans. I spent three months living with my parents which for my mum’s mental health was vital because my step-dad has the empathic capacity of a pile of bricks, but for me it was the darkest time of my adult life.

This year is the first time my career has gotten to get back on track since then.

Now, where I’m at with NYC isn’t that at all. Literally. I’ve got great savings, have good funding from the school, and have had an amazing (totally unwarranted) cashflow this year in spite of the pandemic. New York is right, and I’m enjoying it and feel much more comfortable (in spite of roomie drama) than I ever did in Edinburgh.

I have so much to do, and Hell’s Granny is far from gone. In fact she��s told me every time we’ve talked that she’s proud of me and wants me to keep going no matter what. That I’m her legacy.

But all that good shit aside, today was a huge trigger and kicked me straight back into the hugely traumatic similar situation I dealt with in 2017: in a cutting-edge graduate programme, far away, grandmother/family matriarch having end-of-life health problems = (to my mind) oh god you have to put your entire life on hold again and go fix it, and how long is it going to take to pick your career back up this time? And that’s not what’s going to happen because it can’t. There’s nothing I can do for this situation, for better or worse.

All the same, I’ve seen where this road goes, and my dad has been incredibly blessed that it’s only starting now. Because it’s not pretty. It gets harder and more painful from here, and at her age that’s just the reality. But I don’t know if I can do this for her. I honestly don’t know if I’m strong enough to walk another parent through this downsizing-until-death stage, now of all times. I’ll be there for her the whole way as a grandchild, but I just. If I don’t keep going on my own path through this, I don’t know if I’d recover from putting my entire life down again.

So I’m fucking terrified for this woman I love so much, deeply sad that there’s no turning back from here for her, and just... unsure how to be distant, how to be resigned, how to be self-preserving just yet. I’m working on it, working on deconstructing the trauma and working on being brave by staying true to my life. But I have to be, from a complete lack of alternatives.

Thus, there are two options for tomorrow. One: I stay home, panic, and mope. Maybe pick at things? Probably miserably lurk. Two: I jump a train into the city and go take pictures of the sights for my gran in a fab outfit and take a day for me. Buy some books or records?

Maybe do a fucking touristy bar and have a finger of scotch for the old bird, in case she doesn’t get to.∞

#''the doctor is out

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40sandfabulousaf · 2 years

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Hihi all except warmongers, 大家好! Yikes, we have discovered our first Omicron cases! Thankfully, the infected persons were quarantined at the time. So far their symptoms are mild, probably because they are relatively young and vaccinated. Elsewhere the new variant has been found in over 38 countries now. Effects on the elderly remain unknown.

Our booster shots are due 5 months from the time we reached full vaccination status. I'd thought of delaying it for a month. Since it's possible that we might return to office in early 2022 and Omicron is likely to sneak past our borders sooner or later, it looks like I'll have to wear my big girl pants and get mine next month. Bleah, I hate needles!

All my precious elderly loved ones have received their third vaccine doses. Thus, they can double mask with either a cloth or surgical mask as the outer layer. Mummy is very vain so she continues to use beautiful embroidered or printed reusable ones with a surgical mask on the inside. As a Xmas present, I've bought her some vibrant replacements for those which are worn out by now. I'll share them in due course.

I am still in the midst of replenishing KN95 stocks just in case vaccine efficacy wanes again for the elderly or in the event of an emergency. I will also need some during the first week of WFH at my parents' in the event we are told to return to office. I'm currently working on the numbers for future orders. So much for the festive spirit! 😅. I wouldn't have it any other way though.

Globally, our death rates remain very low. And yet each citizen lost to the Delta variant is a stab in the heart. Death is inevitable; incredible suffering before death is not and this is what is so devastating about the current outbreak. Sometimes I wish I could reach out to every single citizen who has not succumbed to covid fatigue so that their elderly folks have a fighting chance.

And then you have this little mite who understands nothing about our continued fight against the virus. Meatball has adopted me as his human armchair. He began grabbing my hand to dance and, when I sang along to Incy Wincy Spider, he decided that yeah, it was time to get comfortable. Douglas arrived with our coffees just in time to see him comfortably nestled in my lap! This icy little fella has melted!

My block leave starts midweek. Meanwhile, I'm in a good mood. Some new local food ahead of a needed break. Seafood assam pedas, prawns, fish chunks and squid stewed with tomatoes, brinjal strips and okra in a tangy broth. The gravy is so delicious spooned over rice! For some reason, my helper went crazy over this dish and eagerly asked when we may order it again.

Till the next time, 下次见!

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smittykelbel · 2 years

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Barcelona (er, Paris) Day 1 (that turned into Day 2)

This trip has already had so many ups and downs. We booked two weeks in Sicily back in June, only to have our flights canceled and covid protocols shifted for Eden's school.

So we opted to shorten our trip abroad and pivot to Barcelona, one of our favorite cities because the food is delicious and the weather is fairly consistent. We were supposed to leave Atlanta around 8pm for Paris and have 2 hours to make our connection to Barcelona and arrive in Barcelona around 2pm.

We divided the kids between us and prepared for a long night sleeping on the plane. Little did we know that was the least of our worries!

After sitting on the runway for about 45 minutes, the captain informed us there was an issue with the steering and we were heading back to the gate. We were flying Air France and knew they didn't have another plane for us so would have to wait for the repair. About 90 minutes later, we ended up taking off which would put us into Paris right at our connection time.

There was a security strike also going on in the airport in Paris, so we crossed our fingers and hoped for a delayed flight from Paris to Barcelona. What was supposed to be a nine hour flight turned into almost 12 which then turned in 13 because upon landing, we missed a bird strike and the plane had to go back up into the sky and then re-enter the landing pattern.

After all of that (everyone always asks about the kids; they are wonderful on the plane, no drama this flight at all from them), we finally landed and hopped off to figure out what was next. Ryan knew from checking on board that our flight to Barcelona was on time, and we indeed missed the connection so we were forced to be rebooked on a later flight. There was a flight to Barcelona a few hours later but they insisted it was full and due to our checked bags, they would not put us on standby. Which meant we'd have to wait until a 9pm flight to get to Barcelona around 10:30pm.

Ugh.

After all that, we bought the girls a box of Ladurée macarons and decided to make the best of our day at the airport. Thanks to our status with Delta, we at least were granted access to the Sky Lounge, and found a spot to make camp for the day. There are only so many free snacks, drinks and walks around the club you can manage...I ended up taking the girls out into the main airport to buy some toys. Thankfully Nana (Craig's mom) had sent the girls some money for their birthdays and they were able to pick out two new 'buddies' each. We brought the new stuffed animals (two pandas for Eden, a cat and cheetah for Noah) back to the Sky Lounge where they proceeded to play make believe and (most likely) annoy the other patrons. In all seriousness, they travel so well. They understand they are the only kids in a lot of situations and therefore act respectfully. For the life of me, if only we could get Noah to stop giggling so loud :)

Anyway, we ate more snacks, watched some shows on the tablets and finally made our way down to the gate. We had our boarding passes checked (covid vaccinations, QR codes for Spain) and then received the dreaded word that our flight crew had not yet arrived and our flight would be delayed an hour.

Blargh.

We spent the next hour wondering if the flight crew was actually going to arrive or not. Then when that hour was up, we received another notification that the flight would be delayed again. So instead of a 9pm departure, nor a 10pm departure, it would be an 11:40pm takeoff.

Yikes.

I immediately messaged our airbnb host who had arranged for a taxi from the airport for us and she assured me they would still have someone there to pick us up and meet us at the apartment, no matter what time we arrived.

Well, from there things went pretty smoothly. We had a super quick two hour flight to Barcelona, arrived, breezed through customs, grabbed our bags, hopped in the cab and arrived at our airbnb just in time to shower and get in bed (at 3am).

Can you believe the girls survived that long?! And with smiles on their faces. Good gracious, we are lucky. And resilient. And hopefully that will be the last time we take a connecting flight for a while...

#seeitsmiths

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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How HBO’s The Nevers Explores a Very Different Vision of Victorian Girl Power

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This article contains spoilers for THE NEVERS episode 3.

On paper, the idea of a steampunk superhero show that mixes period-set grittiness with ladies punching things seems like it should be a slam dunk. After all, most narratives about people gifted with sudden superhuman abilities are really just stories about power in fancier than usual dress. Shows like these examine who traditionally possesses power, who is allowed to wield it, how it is often used to prop up the privileged that already have it.

And where better to explore these issues than Victorian England? The foggy nineteenth-century streets of London work so well as a frequent backdrop for stories that explore magic or other otherworldly themes – think Penny Dreadful, The Irregulars, and Carnival Row – precisely because this is such a fascinating, specific time of transformation. Innovation spreads through the worlds of science and industry at a speed that often feels indistinguishable from magic. And despite the strict, traditional societal limitations imposed on the female populace, a woman sits on the throne of England and rules in her own right. Surely anything is possible – or should be.

That’s part of the appeal baked into the premise of HBO’s The Nevers, a story of a gang of (mostly) misfit Victorian women who acquire strange abilities thanks to a mysterious celestial event. In theory, or at least so this sort of trope usually goes, these women – marginalized and undervalued by the society they live in – gain the agency and freedom that has otherwise been denied to them thanks to their special gifts.

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In actuality, The Nevers turns out to be something much more complicated and uncomfortable. (And not always in a good way.) Part of that is due to the generally icky feeling that the involvement of known dirtbag Joss Whedon leaves hanging over proceedings – and whether we like it or not his voice is glaringly apparent in these early episodes – but it’s also because The Nevers refuses to take the easy way out when it comes to its heroes, admitting from the jump that, for a lot of these women, just because they’re suddenly special, it doesn’t mean their lives are any easier.

If we’re honest, what most of us want when we look at The Nevers is a show where a marginalized and perennially disadvantaged group of people get their own power back, where women are given the ability to stand up against those who oppress them and literally fight the patriarchy. And though what we’re getting definitely includes a variety of scenes in which lead character – and primary wrangler of the Touched – Amalia True (Laura Donnelly) gleefully punches people, The Nevers never pretends that achieving women’s empowerment by way of giving female characters literal powers is a panacea for a world so thoroughly steeped in misogyny.

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One of the most interesting – or frustrating, depending on how you view this twist – aspects of The Nevers is that while the Touched are all given a variety of special abilities, most of their “turns” are actually kind of lame. Amalia can see the future – sort of – but her “ripplings” come in random spurts and feature brief snippets that are most easily recognizable after they’ve already happened. Her partner Penance Adair’s (Ann Skelly) ability to see potential energy helps her build cool gadgets, but it’s hardly what you might call an especially active or splashy ability. I mean, I guess she invented the electric car? So that’s cool, I guess. But I still can’t tell you what’s up with the villainous Maladie’s (Amy Manson) powers, though they appear to be tied up in her experience of pain if the fact that her eyes glow gold whenever she’s repeatedly physically harmed is anything to go by. (Yikes?)

One young Touched girl becomes a polyglot, another grows to giant size, and both are powers that turn out to be awkward and limiting more than anything else. (Where are they finding these supersized dresses anyway?) For every Bonfire Annie (Rochelle Neil) who can literally generate flame, there’s a Mary Brighton (Eleanor Tomlinson), whose magical song is so specialized only a particular group of people can hear it and none of them know what it actually says.

Why give women power like this, if it’s not going to be the kind that can really change their lives? If all it achieves for many of them is a life of greater persecution, more pain, or even further degradation? Or if their powers, like Lucy Best’s ability to break the things she touches, kill a loved one by accident?

The Nevers seems to hint that the answer lies not in the individual abilities of the titular women but their collective togetherness and understanding of what it means to be other. Despite the fact that the Victorian era meant important progress for many people on many different fronts, women weren’t generally part of those groups. Yes, a woman’s on the throne of England for the first time in a century, but Victorian morality was highly repressive and a gulf of inequality separated both rich from poor and men from women. It’s not an accident that the show keeps pointing out that no one of “status” was gifted with Touched powers, nor that many of the residents who seek refuge in Amalia’s orphanage are also those who were already persecuted or discriminated against in some way.

In many (most?) other superhero stories, those who are gifted with special abilities tend to already exist in a space where power is familiar to them – Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, and Charles Xavier are all already rich long before they become heroes. But The Nevers specifically elevates those for whom that position would be most alien and, in doing so, asks us to imagine a very different type of Victorian power structure. One that has space for the poor, for women of color, for sex workers, for immigrants, for those traditionally deemed hysterical or freaks.

The shockingly brutal murder of Mary, a kind young woman who tries to literally pull the Touched together with her song, reveals that there are plenty of elements in this new world that look uncomfortably and horrifyingly similar to the old one. But the aftermath of her death not only serves as the catalyst to bring dozens of Touched women out of the shadows, but it also makes them all just a little bit less helpless than they were before – by uniting them as a group. Granted, they’re unlikely to form a Victorian X-Men with matching corseted uniforms anytime soon, but Amalia, Penance, and the rest are certainly on the road to becoming something greater together than the pitiable unfortunates Lavinia Bidlow trots out to entertain tea party guests.

What that will ultimately look like and how this group will choose to deploy their powers to protect and help their own is anyone’s guess. But whatever happens, The Nevers seems uniquely positioned to explore a radically different interpretation of what having superpowers could mean – for those who’ve never had much of anything at all before.

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ilikebeesandflowers · 3 years

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Day 28: Hellscape

Suptober20

Tags: destiel, tfw 1.0, heaven, hell, purgatory, ash, Pamela Barnes, zachariah; drabble

Only the Winchesters could reminisce about alternate planes of existence.

“Heaven was pretty interesting,” Sam argues.

“Okay, sure, when Zachariah wasn’t tryna kill us,” says Dean. “It was cool hanging out at the Roadhouse again. Seeing Ash.”

“And Pamela. THE Garden of Eden?! At least concede that Heaven’s more beautiful than the hellscape of Purgatory.”

“I don’t know; I’m oddly fond of Purgatory.” Cas had been quiet thus far, and now a soft smile played on his lips.

“Purgatory is nothing like Hell. You know that, Sammy. Hell is ... HELL. But Purgatory is... I dunno...”

Cas finishes the thought. “Pure.”

#suptober20 #destiel #team free will #heaven hell purgatory #drabble #100 words #delayed due to covid yikes #except this time #my in-laws have covid #all of em #so I had to console my spouse #good times #(get your shit together America)

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helianthus-tarot · 3 years

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[Part I] Picked pile 1 in the "What are your fears" pac and honeslty? I blame it on my mercury in libra squaring my mars in cancer (yikes) 😭😭. I used to make decisions based on other people´s opinions just to end up feeling miserable even if things went well. However, last year´s circumstances made me decide to start making decisions based on my intuition. And even tho sometimes is hard not to feel anxious, she just doesnt fail me because she knows what she is doing lmao.

[Part II] The funny part is that because i chose to follow my intuition in a life altering decision, I am now experiencing the fears you describe in pile 4 (that i was not at all drawn to, but decided to read out of curiosity anyway). Even tho I know i made the right decision, im a little bit anxious because things arent progressing at all 😬.I guess ill have to trust that things will go well 😂. Universe really said overcome your fears bitch or else 🔪🔪🔪

Lmao your last line made me laugh. I understand because I was forced to face my fears (to build again after Tower moment happened). I still don’t like it and sometimes I take an unnecessarily long time to do what I fear lmao. Anxiety disorder just makes everything harder man. Tough that doing what you fear is the only way forward.

Great to know that you have started to follow your intuition. One thing I learned about fears- the progress is really gradual. You might still get anxious every time you are about to do something, but for example, this time you can bounce back quicker than the last time; this is how the progress may look like, which can be hard to notice if we don’t count small changes.

I hope things will get better for you. I think most of us experiencing delay due to COVID and what happens around the world, so hang on! ✊🏻💖

#pac feedback #asks

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rissa-explains-it-all · 4 years

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Captain’s Log, Stardate over a month later

Positive/productive things that have happened, in no particular order:

I‘ve been working a part time job over the past 3 weeks and the first paycheck paid my car bill! (all of it went to that, lovely)

I applied for another full time job yesterday, while not on all my meds, and I did it in record time! Resume, cover letter, and statement!

I’ve been filming videos to start producing content and form a reel

My old mentor from the community theater asked/hired me to do some social media for them for hispanic heritage month!

I definitely don’t have an ulterior agenda of promoting On Your Feet and all their cast members, lol

I started physical therapy! My body is falling apart and I may not have Ehlers Danlos syndrome, but I’m not crazy for considering it since my PT also mentioned it at our first appointment and we’ll discuss it further in two weeks after doing regular pt for a month.

I saw New Mutants last night (thanks birthday gift card that I never got to use bc of covid)

I registered to vote in my new county!

Got a library card after living here for nearly a full 7 years!!

Not so great things:

Ugh, I have to do pt at 8 am twice a week for six weeks so it won’t interfere with my part time job, plus my exercises three times a week outside of our sessions. That’s five workouts a week. Ugh.

I may have a paycheck but it went all to my car and now I’m behind on Adobe, one loan that can’t be deferred, and my phone. Plus helping with rent.

My hamster is old! And balding! I don’t want her to die! Especially since I live in an apartment and have no clue where I would bury her!!

Theaters might be looking at more permanent closures than extended ones? I know it’s silly but I just really love the movies and Regal is closing all of their locations in America for the time being as of tomorrow. (Which is why I saw New Mutants last night).

I still haven’t edited the videos and rest of the photos from the RV trip, or the video for my university’s latino mental health perspective, or the youtube videos...

Oh and due to many factors, my roommate and I have been petsitting a puppy for a friend. I’m not not a dog person. I’m just a specific kind of dog person, especially after being spoiled by a precious kitten (who finally really scratched me the other day, what a rat). This puppy is just too rambunctious for me. But he’s cute! I just can’t wait until he can be left at his home during the work day and I don’t have to wear high socks every time I go downstairs.

Things to look forward to:

I have an interview tomorrow!!! For a real adult job that has adult things like insurance!! I thought I had been rejected weeks ago! AHHHH.

All my med refills were finally approved so I’m gonna be all healthy for the interview tomorrow! Which is great bc I’m pretty sure I was going through withdrawal, yikes.

I’m going home this weekend to support my friend whose wedding got delayed again and now she has to get married when she moves with her husband-to-be to where he’s stationed instead of home with family and friends.

And I still haven’t been denied by some other apps so in case tomorrow doesn’t work out, there’s some hope?

I just added more fics to my mark for later list

I’m taking a friend’s family photos next week! I need to make sure she’s gonna pay me....

#captain's log #a lot has happened #but a lot of it is positive #and a lot of it is during the last 48 hours tbh #and also??#I've lost weight??#I think it's bc I'm eating three meals a day and trying to hit calorie count #but yeah #who knew trying to eat healthier would have results #wild #but anyway that's me #long post #like this is a long one #but again it's bc it's been a million years

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