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June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day!!
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It's December 10th, open the advent calendar!
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A 90s Kinder Surprise hippo! Enjoy!
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Weakness
Character: Steven Grant / Jake Lockley / Marc Spector
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Pairing: Steven Grant x Reader x Marc Spector x Reader x Jake Lockley (Established Relationship)
Mentions: DID
Inspired by: Mi Princesa - David Bisbal
Warnings ⚠️: Nop. Fluff. So fluff. Moon Boys like Dads. Established Relationship. Parents things. Insecurities. Memories. Flashbacks. Post!MoonKnight.
Tags: @wintergirlsoilder2 @abluelavalamp @mochacake2016 @dreamingaboutyousworld
Author's Note: Hello Hello!
This is the second part por the fic "The Hippo Talk" and just let me say something, I love so so much write about the Moon Boys like Dads.
So... I'll write more 😍
I hope you like this and thanks for all the replies!!! Enjoy the reading
XOXO 😘 Noe!
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I am woken up by laughter coming from the kitchen. 
I look for the cell phone in stores and the time greets me like a little mockery, marking 08:45. I let out a sigh as I think about Steven having to go to work soon, but when I look at the calendar, I remember that it's Saturday.
 I look around the room and the first thing I see is my clothes folded on one of the chairs, Steven's bag on his new desk and Jake's beret hanging from the closet doorknob and I know, Marc's gun is hidden in a compartment under the bed so Isis couldn't find it.
 I let out a laugh at the naturalness of the situation and I remember that 6 years ago, that seemed to me the strangest thing in the world.
When Isis came into our lives, just a few months after Tawered gave us her blessing, it was a revolution.  We didn't have enough time to prepare.
I laugh, remembering the look on Steven's face when I told him as I left the doctor's office.
 " - How did everything go, love? - Steven hugs me while he takes the small bag that I have in my hand and guides me to the exit of the hospital - Are you a little…
 - I have to tell you something, but I need you to promise me that you won't panic.
 - Are you sick? - The alarm in Steven's voice makes me shake my head as I feel tears fighting to come out of my eyes - What's wrong love? I'm sure it's something we can fix, don't worry. I'll put pressure on the damn pigeon if necessary...
 - I'm pregnant.
Silence. Steven falls silent and I feel him change for a moment, and I can see that the tense shoulders and heavy breathing are Marc's.
 - These….  Are you serious, baby?
 I nod as I hand him the scan and Marc looks at it like a jackal about to attack him.  His hand shakes and he takes a deep breath trying to calm down.
 - I know that perhaps it is not the perfect time, but the doctor told me that I should be approximately four months.
We both look at each other and I know we're thinking the same thing: Tawered visited us three months ago.
 - I know... it's not what we expected, or maybe not so soon but...
 My words stop midway when I feel his lips on mine. It is a soft kiss, full of fear and other emotions that I cannot decipher but that I respond with the same effusiveness, running my hands over his shoulders and tangling my hands in his hair.
 - It's perfect, baby.  We all wanted this - He pulls away from him enough to rest his hand on my belly and lets out a sigh - Steven had a feeling that maybe…this would happen in the near future.
 - And you?
 - I'm scared as hell, but it's our baby. It's yours and ours, how the hell am I not going to be happy if you just made me the happiest man in the world? Terrified, but happy.
 I hug him while I cry and thank him that he is taking it so well.
 - It's okay love, calm down. It's the hormones for sure - I move away enough to see that Steven sees me with a big smile and drops his bag on the floor to kneel in the hall of the same medical center to give me a kiss on the belly. He doesn't even care that there are people around, that we are alone or in a public place. He lets out a laugh when he kisses me and he looks at me like I'm the only thing in his world right now.
 - You are the most beautiful and important woman in our life. Thank you for this.
 - Steven… I'll cry again.
 - Do what you want, love. What do you want?  Chocolate?  Sweets?  Those marshmallows that you only eat with Layla? I'll get it.
 - I just want to go home.
 - Your wishes are orders, princess"
 When we realized that Tawered's words were serious, we found a new apartment that is bigger and set it in the same way that Steven's was. Several bookshelves lined the walls of the living room, the kitchen was at the other end of it, and the bedrooms were down the hall.
 It was all perfect.  Like now.
I get up quickly as I listen to Isis muttering about school while her father is completely silent. I walk slowly to my favorite hiding place behind one of the columns in the living room and I am delighted with the most tender scene in the world: Steven has his back to me like Isis on the kitchen island, surely preparing breakfast, since Marc and Jake only burn the food if they get to light a stove, but our little girl is standing on a small chair to keep up with her dad, who mutters things as he listens to her talk like a parrot about what she learned in the school.
 At the beginning, when Isis was just a baby, it was not difficult to deal with the changes between the three of them, it was even very easy for each one to adapt to her, but when she began to be aware of her surroundings, we had to find a way that she understood that her father was, divided into three parts, so to speak, and a term that she used to explain it to her teacher. And that I had to clarify when I showed up to look for her, explaining well that her father has DID.
 We thought that it would be much more difficult for her to assimilate it, but it turned out that our little girl inherited Steven's prodigious intelligence and got used to them, noticing the changes in his attitudes, accents and behaviors.
 I still remember the first time she saw them in his superhero's outfits, her little brown eyes sparkled as if she had a piece of candy in front of her. She even sighed when she saw that Marc looked like one of those mummy that Stevens showed her in the books.
I ended up making fun of it ever since.
 It was easy for everyone, but each one has a particular role with Isis.
 Steven is the one who is in charge of taking her to the school when I have work meetings, he loves it when she shares her moments of the day with him and even more so when she sits on his lap to do the tasks they send her. They read books about Egypt and the stars together, which draw a lot of attention from Isis and they spend hours and hours as if there was no one else in the apartment but them.
 How now, that they take advantage of the fact that I'm supposedly sleeping to catch up on their "father and daughter" things: they have their routine of preparing the food that Steven has that day, if I take care of lunch, they prepare dinner and so every day.
Flashback: Steven
 - You know, I found this method so that Isis can be independent since she was little - Steven's voice reaches me from the living room while I see behind me that Isis is practically passed out on Steven's chest, who is holding a book at the height of the back of the chair and I notice that he's somewhat uncomfortable, but he does not even move in order not to wake up our little girl - It belongs to a teacher...
 - The Montessori method?
 - Yes! I think it could be good to teach her how to cook, to put away her toys, to dress herself... - I hear his words are losing strength and I know that he is looking at her, surely discovering some detail of her that he didn't notice before or he is just admiring her when she sleeps - She is beautiful, she is intelligent and she is my light, like you, love.
 - You'll make me cry. Do you want me to leave a puddle of tears in the kitchen?
 - No, but I like to tell you whenever I can. I don't know what we did to deserve two beautiful women like you, I don't understand.
 I feel my heart pounding against my chest and I set things down on the kitchen counter as I walk over to the couch and lie back facing me upside down as Isis sits back and lets out a sigh that catches their attention. She wraps her arms around Steven's body and he supports her so she doesn't fall to the ground, when half of her body is on top of him and the other half of her is between his legs.
 - Do you want me to load it for a while and you prepare dinner? That way you won't have back pain tomorrow.
 - No, I'm fine.  Leave me with her a while longer before I take her off Marc - I bent down enough to kiss him on the lips and as soon as I separated from him, I heard Isis start to cry.
 Steven sits up quickly as he cradles her in his arms, murmuring soothing words to her that stop our 3-year-old from crying.  She sees him and stretches out her little arms to encircle his neck and rest her little head on his neck while he murmurs a story about ancient Egypt where a human being helped a god move the stars to save the world .
 ...
- I know you don't like going to school, but to find out you have to go - I hear Steven say softly while I hold back my urge to laugh. Both of them were a source of knowledge that would easily override any teacher just by saying a few words.
 - I do not like it.  I'd rather learn with you at the museum.
 - I know, but it's not right.  I didn't like school either, but you learn to love it a little.  Marc wasn't much of a fan of it's either.  Has he told you? - She shakes her head as she turns around and I see that her face is covered in flour, as well as part of her hair and her fuchsia pajamas - He was the most unruly of the three.
 Isis giggles as the flour dust on her hair spreads around the kitchen and Steven hands her what appear to be cups, which she places on a tray.
 - Does your arm still hurt?
 - A little bit, but I didn't fall from that high dad, calm down - Isis leans on Steven's arm and let out a sigh.
 - Jake is an idiot.
 - Oh… you said bad words, dad - Isis takes out the little jar with the label "Bad Words" and I laugh when I see that Steven searches his pockets and moves his hand to Isis's face and takes a coin from behind his ear and leaves it in the jar.
 For every bad word, a coin to the jar.  Jake's idea.
 Jake is the one who is in charge of teaching him Spanish and is the "fun" one, from his perspective, of the three.
 He takes care of his "girl" whenever he can, but he mainly taught her how to ride a bike when Khonshu stopped bothering him.  If there was one thing he hated it was having to leave Isis with a sad look because the bird was coming out with stories of "There's trouble in Cairo" or "Ammit's looking for new followers" or whatever, but Jake had to go.
 Still, he ended up teaching her to ride a bike around 11 p.m. on the roof of our building.
 Flashback: Jake
 - Perfect, you'll do it slowly, mi niña - Isis listens carefully to Jake's words, who is showing her what the brake is and how to move the pedals, at the same time that he verifies that the support wheels of the bicycle are correctly placed - When I tell you, you squeeze this.
 - Jake, remember that she is Steven's daughter too. She learns fast - I scoff as I see that he gives me a murderous look of those that I enjoy provoking and he makes fun of me muttering in a perfectly clear Spanish:
 "Hablaremos de esto en nuestra habitación cuando ella esté bien dormida"
 - Of course, Lockley.
 - Do you see how your mother makes fun of me?  - Isis looks at me over her shoulder and lets out a laugh as soon as Jake tickles her side to get her to focus again - Listen to me, hazlo despacio, cariño. No quiero que te lastimes.
 - Ajam - Isis pushes her pedal down slowly and Jake begins to push her until she lets go and she begins to walk on her own, as if she had done it all her life. I see the look of pride Jake looks at her with and I feel like she's all in the right place for him. Isis stops and we both applaud her, even she laughs when she gets off the bike and runs into my arms, while she gives me a hug and sits next to me, watching as her father looks for the bike between murmurs and humming of a song in Spanish.
 - You are my pride, my little Isis. You were right, she learn fast - I nod behind her and we laugh with our little girl about the secret that only we both know.
- Will he ever know that daddy taught me how to ride a bike?  - My little girl murmurs referring to Steven when he leans against my chest, letting out a yawn, an indicator that it's time for him to sleep.
- Not for us.
 We both laugh knowingly as Jake takes her from my arms and carries her downstairs to make her sleep like every night.
 …
Now Steven walks into the living room and pulls out a bright blue paper-wrapped package that catches my eye and places it among the cups, while Isis claps her hands as she arranges it.
 What the hell are they hiding from me?
- So you were rambunctious, Dad?
I don't notice the change, but I know it's Marc next to her because Isis sits on the island and stares at him, like he's some kind of insect mesmerized by the sun.  It didn't take long to find out that Isis had a preference for one of them, but her love for Marc is palpable in the air.
 Isis has a deep soft spot for Marc.
It's everything for her, just seeing her face lights up in such a way that it is impossible for me not to identify with her.
 - Yes.  Very rambunctious - His american accent fills the room and she gets close enough to kiss her on the head.
When Steven leaves in the morning, Isis knows that at night, Marc appears and waits patiently on the couch until she hears the sound of the key and without a word, throws himself into his arms giving him time to drop the bag and he hugs her as I get close enough not to interrupt their moment and only give him a welcoming kiss on the lips when he pulls her away for a second.
 I lean against the table in the hall and watch as Isis grabs his face and kisses him on the cheek. And they also carry out their routine, she barely separates from Marc, she changes, we have dinner and they sit on the couch while he reads her a story until she falls asleep on his chest or in his arms. she. Still, she always wants her hands to be intertwined, and he enjoys it.
Every time she can, Marc tells her that he loves her and she repeats it as if she knows he needs to hear it, the love they feel for each other is so deep that no one can match it. Marc is protective, sweet and very attentive with Isis as he is with no one, he is free with her, without ties or ghosts that persecute him. She is his princess and he is her prince charming.  They always dance together in the living room without music, as if only they will hear it. They have a special connection that I just adore.
They are the missing piece of each other's puzzle.
 Flashback: Marc
I walk barefoot to the couch and drop into Marc's lap, who wraps his arms around my waist and circles my bare skin on my stomach - I have to tell you something, Marc.
 - Tell me baby. Has something happened with Isis?
 I nod and he tenses under me, but I turn around enough to stroke his chest slowly, trying to reassure him. - The teacher asked her today in the school who is her hero. Guess what he said.
 Marc looks at me for a few seconds and rolls his eyes as he waits for an answer that will make him swear.
 - Don't tell me, if one of those princes from the little cartoons she looks at has said, I'll go right now.
I start to laugh and he gives me a look full of annoyance, of those that say "don't make fun of me, baby".
 - Do not…
 - If she said Captain America or that Spider Man, I swear I ask Khonshu to end my agony.
 - No idiot.
 I hand his her notebook and he reads her doodles, but I see a smile form on his lips as soon as he finishes, accompanied by an unusual blush for Marc.
 - Did she say this?
I nod as I see Isis watching us from behind the library column and looking with unconditional love at her father, who is not even aware of how much she loves him.
- I think you're your little daughter's weakness, Marc.
I hand him the cell phone where the video of Isis in the garden is.
- Who is your hero, Isis? - Asks her teacher while all the other children are silent.
- My dad Marc. I love my dad Steven and my dad Jake, but… - she hesitates for a few seconds and sits up straight in her chair and lets out a sigh, as if she were in love - My dad Marc is my prince charming. He always comes to my rescue when I cry or when I hit myself, he reads to me before sleeping and I hug him a lot so he knows how much I love him. I don't know if he knows, but I always tell him when he sleeps, in case he has bad dreams and that might wake him up.
- Shit. I know not… - His words are cut off and I know he is holding back from crying, recently Marc had become more sentimental about us and it is a part of him that he had learned to love over time - Fucking Khonshu.
- Now what is the bird's fault?
- That I waste time with my princess because I'm working for him - He admits as I see Isis approaching us and I move away enough to let her sit between the two of us - You know I love you, princess?
She nods and leans into me as she takes Marc's hand and smiles as she literally melts like jelly at her display of affection.
I can already imagine how difficult it will be when she grows up and has a boyfriend.
He won't let them live in peace.
- And I love you too, baby. Thanks for giving me this. I don't… I don't know if you're aware of how happy you've made me. How happy it has made us.
- Yes, I am every day.  I love you too. Very much.
...
- Now let's stop talking and go to the important thing - Marc turns around, looks around with his eyes and without looking directly at where I am, lets glimpse that mischievous smile that I love so much and I know that he is aware that I am hiding somewhere - Are we going to wake up mummy?
Isis screeches and I get up quickly as I run into the room, but I barely have time because I scream when I feel Marc take me in his arms and lean me against the nearest wall and give me a passionate kiss of those that he knows that make me lose my mind
- So you were eavesdropping on our conversation, baby?
- No, I just heard you muttering and couldn't sleep anymore. You speak very loudly - He gives me a smile and I kiss him again, concentrating for a second on our bodies stuck together and how my heart beats wildly from his caresses - Isis?
- I told her to count to 30 before she came, I needed to touch you.
 I let out a laugh and as soon as I break away, I hear Isis's footsteps down the hall.
- We are the luckiest men on the fucking planet. I still can't believe it.
- Well, you have a family and all the time in the world to believe it, get the idea.
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strawbs-screaming · 4 months
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the boxers during christmas
merry crisis! ❤️ i am mentally losing it!
Glass Joe
- baking gingerbread men themed after the other boxers
- went iceskating and accidentally got a medal
- going ornament shopping for the christmas tree
- baking up a feast for everyone, hes trying to get on the nice list this year hes got enough coal to fuel 30 trains
Von Kaiser
- reading christmas stories for Mac next to the fireplace
- attempted to bake and accidentally set himself on fire, hes banned from the kitchen now
- scolding anyone messing with the advent calendar
Disco Kid
- keeps doing a mariah carey impression and screaming "ITS TIME!!!"
- making a christmas playlist for everyone
- decorating the place on the least safe ladder ever, its shaky, rusty, old and on the verge of breaking down just like the average old person!
King Hippo
- eating all the advent calendar chocolate in one sitting
- bit a christmas tree ornament since he thought it looked nice
- ate the missletoe since he mistaked it for berries (i am not spelling that right send help)
- hes just hibernating until the new year
Piston Hondo
- making hot cocoa for everyone
- caught a cold but faking it to not break the holiday spirit
- slowly going insane because of Disco Kid blasting christmas music
Bear Hugger
-chopped down a entire ass tree just for decorating it, unfortunately some of the boxers have some allergies (*COUGH COUGH* joe - *COUGH COUGH*) so it didnt go great
- buying dumb hats for everyone
- making some cranberry juice for the group
- mrs bear came over to have dinner with them at one point, She even brought some decorations and food!! How kind of her!!
Great Tiger
- broke some bones while climbing a wall to decorate the roof, ouch
- Really feeling the cranberry juice, thats some good shit
- the christmas lights make him a bit dizzy but trying to tough it out
Don Flamenco
- setting up missletoes EVERYWHERE. oh you want to have some cookies? Just move past the missletoe IN THE KITCHEN!! Need to shower? just ignore the missletoe in the shower cabin and you'll be set! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE KISSING!!
- watching christmas movies and getting all joyful before getting another christmas ornament thrown at him by aran
- "Ah, isnt christmas so wonderful?– (BONK)"
Aran Ryan
- chucking christmas ornaments at everyone, he thinks it makes a funny sound
- hes getting coal this year 100%
- eating raw dough as usual (but in a festive way)
Soda Popinski
- hes just planning go sleep during the countdown so he can say "ive slept for a year!!"
- adding gingerbread & cinnamon to EVERYTHİNG. Soda pls stop eating omelettes with cinnamon
- keeps making shitty puns
Bald Bull
- doing the dissapointment mom sigh anytime someone makes a christmas pun
- scolding Disco for the shitty ladder hes using
- freezing his ass off but trying to pretend nothing is going on
Super Macho Man
- Just taking pictures for his posts
- overdecorating everythin:, bright lights, shiny decorations and enough snowmen to make an army
- adding too much sugar to his hot choco
Mr Sandman
- wearing a silly little christmas sweater & santa hat, hes a bit jolly, whimsy even
- had the bright idea of dressing up Mac as a elf
- went on a emergency ingredient run after Joe ran out of frosting & flour
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Today in Christian History
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Today is Monday, August 28th, 2023. It is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 125 days remain until the end of the year.
430: Death of St. Augustine of Hippo (pictured above), who, more than any other man since the apostles, stamped the church with his personality and ideas.
1619: Electors choose Ferdinand II to be Holy Roman Emperor. Jesuit-trained, Ferdinand will reject Charles V’s policy that had finally allowed Protestants to exist. Hungry for power, Ferdinand will put down Protestants and anyone who tries to limit his authority. He spurns many chances to end the horrific Thirty Years' War.
1645: Death of Hugo Grotius, a Christian scholar, often titled “the father of international law.”
King Ladislaus IV of Poland convenes a religious conference at Torun (Thorn) in the hope that 26 Catholic, 28 Lutheran, and 24 Calvinist theologians will reach ecumenical consensus for the sake of the nation. Discussion will continue into November but fail dismally.
1737: Death in London of John Hutchinson, who endeavored to confirm Moses’ account of the flood and other natural events in Moses’s Principia.
1862: Dwight L. Moody and Emma Revell marry. Emma will help soften the evangelist’s rough edges, making him a more effective leader.
1892: Baptism in Queensland of Peter Ambuofa, a Solomon Islander who will return to preach the gospel to his own tribe in 1894, but will suffer years of deprivation, sickness, hostility, and threats before a drought brings many to Christ. By 1904 he will have led 200 souls to Christ.
1963: A large civil-rights demonstration (known as The March on Washington) gathers in the United States capital in behalf of African-American civil rights. The march brings together major civil-rights organizations and many religious groups—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish—and marks the first determined effort by a large number of white clergy to join the cause to end racial discrimination. Rev. Martin Luther King, jr., gives his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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GOLD
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Oct. 29, 2023
That's what the Detroit Pistons want, and now. They have officially arrived, and are announcing it loudly for all to hear: this ain't a game, this is a coup.
Their version of an NBA takeover started last year, but no one except them saw this coming. Just how they contend now is a little beside the point, and they know it. On some nights, it might be the MotorCade, others, it might be hungry-hippo-smash-button Jam King Jalen Duren's ignition properties. Most nights it will be a mix of both and more. A lot more. Winning basketball starts and ends with many things, because that's how winning programs work. Success by onslaught. These Pistons won't stop, because to them, they're already better than you, and they have every intention of acquainting you with their rapidly realizing fever reality.
They're done waiting for the right time to strike. They're in the trenches now. What is happening could have something to do with the full Monty effect, which no one could have predicted. The gob smacked onlookers have yet been able to pin it down with them, just ask around. But the naked truth is this: Detroit Basketball is suddenly good again. Scary good.
They've already proven there's no risk in overstating their future. Any two eyes can see their infectious cohesiveness and shockingly mature crop of otherworldly talent on display. They are poised to make a legitimate winning run this year and are primed for a fury of attack against any opponent, simply as they currently stand. If you sleep on them, you've already lost. Take it from their opponents in the last calendar year. The Pistons will win this season, and they already know who's up next once it ends; it's them.
Cade Cunningham is a superstar incarnate at 22, and he is back in the pulpit to preach. Through the bumps and bruises dished by the best efforts NBA defenses have been able to offer him thus far, he's looking healthier and beefier than his million dollar plant-based diet, and is seeking to lead this subset of grateful peers to their first victorious NBA season ever as players. He's a current top 10 player in the league today, although still too unproven to wear the title, and is a generational talent in the making right before us. There is but one thing on his mind.
In his first effort for us, head coach Monty Williams has them drinking something, and it's working. Still among the youngest players in the NBA, Jalen Duren is a, or is soon to be, the premier center in the entire league for his absurd out-of-the-gym athletics and stat stuffing two-way contributions. OG Stew, the emotional Captain of the ship in Isaiah Stewart, is the team's life-blood and enforcer; their low-key, cold-blooded, secret-weapon stud. The NBA wouldn't dare question him on that. Should he stay within the role and not exceed it, Jaden Ivey is exactly the banshee 6th man we haven't seen here since the days of Lindsey Hunter, Mike James, and Vinny Johnson before them.
Rookie starter Ausar Thompson was another huge jackpot for GM Troy Weaver, a job securing draft selection for him, and likely the piece that puts them full over. From the moment of first tip in 2023, Thompson has quickly revealed himself to be a defensive mastermind and a star. He does everything a winning team needs, and nothing it doesn't. Not caring to score but when the opportunity presents, he has a total double-blind commitment to the cause. For him, it's not just about winning, it's about taking pleasure in the dirty work. He is a Piston, after all. He exudes unselfish discipline that even veteran Champion rafter dwellers won't help but admire. Rip, Isiah and the gang must be losing it. He appears before us now as the second coming of Dennis Rodman and Ben Wallace rolled into one, but with an offensive upside that evokes a young Scottie Pippin's finesse, toughness, and brilliance. He is our missing link, our difference maker, and he's ours.
Monty Williams might not have even had to glue this bunch together himself, as they apparently know their roles, and quite literally fight for each other, behind closed doors and against any opposition under the bright lights. They will not be taking no for an answer. Not these Pistons.
Did I mention the Pistons still don't have their leading scorer back, in Bojan Bogdanović? Time will tell the impact he is able to have with this new establishment pecking order. Bojan will have to answer to Coach and Cade upon his return; something he didn't have to contend with last year. His courtmates may have just exercised their natural right to make a talented but senior player like him completely expendable. The message for him is right now this: get in line, or just get out of the way.
Coach Williams comes to us loaded; with a scorching hot system, a self-assured voice, and most importantly, the bitterness of a too-soon playoff exit and abrupt firing after a Western Conference championship berth with his similarly stacked Phoenix Suns last summer. He's looking to rub some W's on the wound just to make a point. The betrayal trauma of the Ax from a club on the near cusp of championship level basketball seems to have ignited his current focus and vision, regardless of his new historic contractual arrangements with the organization.
They saw the glint in each other's eyes first, but now it's all in plain sight for us to see too.
Pick your angle with this group. They've been trying to tell us for a while. They also have a dynamic 3-point core that would make any GM cower to their knees. Detroit Pistons fans are currently witnessing a hostile shake down of the NBA. It's their world, we're all just living in it. They view themselves as a formidable threat to upset the entire balance of the NBA this season, and why not? On one hand, it's because they want it, but more importantly, it's because they can. We won't have to tell them otherwise, and we shouldn't. Whether they succeed this year is up to them and fate, not us, or the rest of the league. They're too good, and too young. They will run good teams ragged this year, if they can withstand the typical hyper-imposed fan expectations and seasonal adversaries that face any next big thing. The Pistons will be great sooner rather than later. The faces are new, but it's the same old Detroit Basketball we've always known and loved. IYKYK.
There's no reason to question the authenticity of their admission that they are singularly laser-focused on playing basketball the right way right now, and are going to do whatever it takes to take home the victory. They will fight, and they will rise and fall together. Again and again they've bucked the selfish play that sometimes clouds even excellent teams. They did that when they were losing too, remember. Success cannot change that ego is simply not a part of this group's DNA, but god given talent and a winning identity seems to be.
They are obviously here to make the mark of their bright, young lives, we just don't know how big the mark they'll leave is. However, we should consider that they might already know themselves how this should go. For now, they're content to plant their flag, and ready to lay waste on the battlefield with one of the most potent combinations of artillery in the NBA to back it all up. They're too dumb to be jaded, and likewise too inexperienced to slow down and consider the reasons not to be completely and utterly confident with every errant swing of the ball. Just wait until the Lakers and Bucks get a load of this high-efficiency bomb squad.
After nearly embarrassing Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat in their own home opener, everything they've displayed after that night has been a master course in perfect basketball, aside from the high turnover margin. That's to be expected though from teams doing whatever the hell they want out there. They're big, they're fast, they're relentless, and they play defense oriented team basketball with that same Detroit bred, blue collar "D" we know and love in this town. But above all else, they are gifted; and now they are sharing that gift with us.
Skeptics will spout, but the ring of truth is real. What fans at LCA are bearing witness to is quite possibly greatness out of thin air. This is the motherload we've heard about. The world will know it too, if they maintain their onslaught through the next week and the following. Troy Weaver and Tom Gores have made a perfect hire, and drafted a perfect group of kids. This is the vision, and the culture of the franchise is now immutably that of a winning one.
But will that change in the foreseeable future? It's hard to conceive of all this just vanishing, except by freak, career altering injury to one of the main cogs. But we don't need to think like that. Even the notion of something like that isn't deterrent enough to shake this eerie feeling, and it shouldn't. Cade is ready. Take his lead, just like Monty Williams and Jalen Duren have. The rest will follow suit. It's time to buy into his Pistons.
We've tried the free agent game here, and let's finally admit it; that has not and will never work in Detroit. But what has? Drafting smartly, making brilliant trades, and a little bit of luck and grit. On paper, this comeuppance both does and doesn't make sense. But that doesn't matter, because on the court, it does in spectacular fashion.
That's why they're different now. Everything has changed overnight in Detroit again. This happens in the NBA. It has to be the right cocktail for sure, but why not? The 2004, I mean the 2024 Pistons will have some playoff experience to garner before they can think past the Eastern Conference. We're clearly lucky, but come this and next April in the D, we'll know exactly how lucky we just got.
So it's true, they've done the unthinkable. They've actually captured lightning in a bottle, again. The Larry O'Brien Trophy is now locked in their foresight, and ready to be snatched by this rag tag squad of all-kill warrior bandits. They bear an uncanny resemblance to the likes of those Warrior bandits when they were at a similar point in their trajectory to greatness. The main difference though is merely fit, and not fury. It's a different puzzle with these Pistons, but it's the same kind of puzzle. Read it and weep.
There will always be supportive voices within the fan base and organization of any professional basketball team, but this core of assassins is already unequivocally better than anything we've had here in Detroit in over a decade. Better than Blake's, far superior to Reggie's and Andre's without him, these Pistons do what those groups never dreamed to flirt with; they just issued "hits" on every opposing team that dares to cross them, and they want your jewelry too. They don't negotiate, and there will be no survivors. Apocalypse be damned, the Detroit Pistons are now!
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mingi-bubu · 1 year
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25. Kiss Inspired by a Song
for this one, i just hit shuffle-play on my “Life Influences” playlist which has artists like Catfish and the Bottlemen, COIN, HUNNY, Hippo Campus, All Time Low, etc etc. on it.  The song we’re using today is.... “I Love You So” by The Walters doyoung x reader even though he doesn’t actually show up in this, past taeyong x reader, mark and johnny our fave besties, angst with no happy ending, this really ended up being more a (platonic) mark scenario too which is why i tagged it along w/dy, 2.1k 76 Kisses Masterlist~
Walking back to your apartment after a long shift wasn’t unusual.  He always said he’d pick you up, and about half the time he did.  But more often than not, he was pulled away or distracted by something else.  You let out a sigh, tilting your head up slightly to take in the dark gray clouds above you.  You could feel in your bones that a thunderstorm was about to roll in.  Granted, the meteorologist said as much during the weather segment on your local news channel.  But, you’d prefer to think that your bones hold some ancient, divining power and you aren’t just experiencing the effects of atmospheric pressure changes.  It’s something to keep you somewhat distracted from the hollow disappointment that you were feeling.
You kick a rock, watching as it skitters a few paces ahead of you.  People pass by you, as preoccupied with their own lives as you are with yours, and pay no notice.  You catch up to it, and kick it again, just to have something to do.  You were lucky that it hadn’t started raining yet.  That would definitely put a damper on your already subdued mood.  You feel your phone vibrate in your pocket, and you pull it out to see that your friend was calling you.
“Yo,” Mark says when you pick up, “how was work?”
“Work was fine,” you say, your tone falling flat.  You step off to the side, next to a lamppost, to take your call.  “Pretty much the same as it always is.”
“Ah, dude, that sucks,” Mark says sympathetically.  You like Mark.  He was very good at making you feel less shitty because of his very golden retriever constitution.  “You okay?”
You hesitate, the standard “I’m fine” not being able to pass your lips.  “He didn’t pick me up.  Again.”  Your words come out choppy.
“Do you need me to come get you,” he asks immediately.  You can hear the sound of his old, wood-framed couch creaking as he sits up.
A small smile breaks across your face, touched at how Mark didn’t even have to think about it.  But the smile, as soon as it’s there, it’s gone.  “Nah… I’m walking back.  It’s not raining yet, so it’s fine.”
Mark hums an affirmative.  “If you’re sure.”
“I am,” you say.  You take another look at the sky and step into the stream of people.     It’s better to keep moving to be as close to your apartment as you can before the rain starts.  You want to talk to Mark, tell him what’s been bugging you this whole day, but you can’t find the words.  He seems to get it, and stays quiet on the other side of the line, waiting for you to get your thoughts worded out right.
“It’s just,” you start, taking a sharp inhale.  “It’s just that he always does this, you know?  He goes on and on about how he’s sorry for forgetting and that he’ll definitely get me next time, and then I’m left walking back.  Or catching a ride with you, which is unfair to both of us.”  You pause, waiting to see if Mark is going to comment.  When he doesn’t, you continue.
“Like, in everything else about our relationship, he’s perfect!  Or, well, most everything else, I suppose.  Doyoung is good at planning and organizing a calendar.  Which is something I needed after my breakup with Taeyong.  Doyoung’s structured lifestyle gave me an anchor to hold onto when I felt like I was just floating aimlessly through it, you know?”
“I remember,” Mark says.  He sounds sad, and you know he’s thinking about all the times he would crash at your previous apartment just so that he knew you were eating more than Ben and Jerry’s.
You come to a stop with a small group of people at a crosswalk, the light having just turned to a ‘DON’T CROSS’ right as you got there.  You shift your phone to your other ear.  “He was good for me, I think.  At least, he was in the beginning?  You helped me, so much, but he did, too.”  ‘CROSS’ appears, and you hear the steady chirping sound for the visually impaired start up.  “He got me out of that selfish-”
“Not selfish,” Mark interrupts.  You two have had this talk many times.  He maintains that you weren’t being selfish by taking care of yourself after your breakup.  You think that the way you were able to call off work for a week was selfish; in a lot of industries, you wouldn’t be able to.  It helps that your boss was also one of your best friends.  And that the two of you sort of worked for yourselves.  Johnny had come up with the bespoke fashion, but you were in charge of sourcing material.  Luckily, the week that Taeyong broke up with you, you and Johnny were up to your eyeballs in tulle and crinoline for a wedding dress.  The dress had been the only project that you were working on for that month, so a week off wasn’t going to do too much damage to Johnny.  He was probably the better person for the bride to speak to anyway.
“He got me out of that slump I was in,” you correct yourself, leaving the crosswalk behind you.  “And for a while, it was good between us.  Doyoung was what I wanted, what I needed, in a partner at the time.  And I was surprised at how well we clicked!”
“Not as surprised as me and Johnny when you told us you were moving in with him just two months into your relationship,” Mark says.
“That’s fair,” you say, “I did kind of just… spring it on you guys.”  You sidestep a pair of moms with one of those strollers for twins.  “But I’m thinking I’m going to start packing up my shit when I get back to my apartment.”
“Oh?”  Mark sounds shocked.  “Seriously?”
“Yeah,” you say, suddenly tired.  “It’s just that, like, recently he’s never not just present with me?  I guess?  He always seems like he’s on the phone with someone else, and I don’t think a Valerie or Jolene work in his office.  I’m almost ninety percent certain that those are two of his exes.”
“What makes you say that?”
You think about it for a few seconds, recalling the look on his face, in his eyes, when you asked who he was talking to.  You were never accusatory when you asked, but the way he reacted told you everything you needed to know.  “He always looked like a startled rabbit when I asked.”
“Fair play,” Mark agrees.
“But also,” you say, going back to the previous topic, “I know what it feels like when it’s time to go.  Someone always leaves first, you know?  I guess this time it’s me.”
“Do you,” Mark starts, then cuts himself off.  “Are you going to be able to pack your things and leave him behind before he gets back from work tonight?”
You wave away his worried question, forgetting for a minute he can’t actually see you.  “It’s chill.  He’s leaving for the weekend on some business trip.”
“Business trip or business trip?”  You know him well enough to know he was waggling his eyebrows at the question.  It cheered you up slightly, knowing that he could tell you were alright enough for him to make that joke.  As soon as you decided you were going to pack your things up, you were already one foot out of the door in your relationship.
“Honestly?  I’m not totally positive,” you reply.  You let out a small, frustrated groan at being stalled by a crosswalk sign again.  “But like I said, it’s chill.  He’s supposed to be coming back tonight and leave in the morning.  And with the way he is, everything he’s bringing with him except his toothbrush and stuff are already packed.  He’s not going to be looking through the drawers and closet for any clothes.  I’m probably not even going to start with clothes anyways.  Those will be the easiest, so I can leave them to be last.”
“You want help,” Mark offers.  “John and I can swing by tomorrow.  We could probably get you all packed up and out of there before Saturday night even begins if Doyoung’s leaving early.”
“His flight is at seven, I think,” you say.  “Thank you.”  You ignore the lump in your throat forming from the care your friends have for you.  Especially with this being the second most messy breakup you’ve had that they’ve helped you through.
A comfortable silence falls between the two of you as you continue your walk home.  It isn’t an incredibly long walk, but twenty minutes is twenty minutes, you know?  It’s nice that it’s rather cool out because of the waiting storm.
You break the silence again.  “Sometimes, you know, I feel so… so dumb for getting into this kind of mess.  Like, it feels like I have a flashing, neon sign pointing at me that says “Hi!  Look at me!  World’s Best 21st Century Fool for Your Entertainment Right Here!”  I shouldn’t be getting into these messes constantly.”
Mark scoffs.  “First of all, you do have that sign pointing at you, but not because of your relationship history.  It’s because you almost twisted your ankle, even though you were literally just standing still.  Secondly, it’s not your fault that Doyoung has been cruel to you.”
You interrupt Mark quickly.  “He hasn’t been cruel!”  You defend Doyoung.
“What do you call blatantly talking with one’s exes in front of their current partner with no remorse, then?”  Mark fires back just as fast.
“… shut up.”
“Listen, YN,” Mark says, tone suddenly serious again.  You break off from the crowd again, leaning up on the brick wall of some hotel or restaurant or office building.  With a measured voice, he says, “You are not beholden to the decisions he makes for himself.  You have so many possibilities ahead of you, with or without him.  And you have friends that care about you and want to help.  What he chooses to do in this relationship, the ways he disrespects you, are not a reflection on who you are as a person.  They’re a reflection of him.  You don’t have to put up with this just because you love him.  If someone truly, actually loves you, they wouldn’t put you through this shit.”
You sniff, holding back the tears that started sometime during his speech.  “Mark Lee, when did you get so worldly,” you joke.  Both of you ignore how watery your voice sounds.
As if sensing you needed one last push for a proper emotional breakthrough, he says haughtily, “I feel like the possibility of all those possibilities of being possible is just another possibility that can possibly happen.”
You snort, and the dam breaks.  “Shut up, oh my god,” you say through the mix of laughter and tears.  “I’m banning you and Johnny from hanging out together.”
“You can’t do that!”  Mark protests, and you can hear the relief and smile in his voice.
“I can and I will!”  You drag the end of your jacket against your jeans to create a little sweater paw, so you can wipe your face.  “You’ve been banned!  No more Johnny for you!”
You and Mark joke around like that for those remaining last minutes of your walk to your apartment.  You step out of the elevator and walk up to your apartment.  The bright lemons on the welcome mat feel like such a juxtaposition to what will come to pass in the morning.  “Hey,” you say, fishing your keys out of your pocket and unlocking the door, “thanks for this.”
Mark’s voice softens.  “You know I always have your back, YN.  Me and Johnny both do.”  There’s the sound of a door opening and plastic bags rustling faintly from the other side of the line.  “I gotta go.  Renjun just got back with today’s dinner.  I gotta get my share before the others swarm like locusts.  John and I will see you in the morning!  Bye, YN, love you!”  Mark says.  He waits just long enough for you to reply, “Love you, too, Markily.  See you soon!” before he hangs up.
You kick off your sneakers, and walk into the kitchen.  You pull out your favorite mug from the cabinet next to the fridge and start making hot chocolate.  After adding cinnamon, marshmallows, and some whipped cream, you go to the living room and affix yourself to the corner of the couch.  As soon as you get comfortable, pillows in the right spots and blanket laying nicely over you, the storm starts.  You watch the rain patter against the window as you sip your drink, feeling more settled than you had that morning.
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1. I saw an ad for burial plots, but that’s the last thing I need.
2. Did you hear about the silk worm race? It ended in a tie.
3. I got fired from the calendar factory, just for taking a day off.
4. Q: What’s the best thing about Switzerland? A: Well, the flag is a big plus.
5. Clones are people two.
6. I wanted to learn how to drive a stick shift, but I couldn’t find a manual.
7. Napoleon may not have designed his coat, but he did have a hand in it.
8. I put up a high-voltage electric fence around my house. My neighbor is dead against it.
9. What are windmills’ favorite genre of music? They’re big metal fans.
10. The past, present, and future walk into a bar. It was tense.
11. Shopping centers, you’ve seen one, you’ve seen the mall.
12. My ceiling isn’t the best, but it’s up there.
13. I love whiteboards. They’re re-markable.
14. Which country’s capital has the fastest-growing population? AIreland. Every day it’s Dublin.
15. The machine at the coin factory just suddenly stopped working. It doesn’t make any cents.
16. I tried to make a belt out of watches. It was a waist of time.
17. I went to a new mechanic. They came highly wreck-a-mended.
18. What’s the difference between a hippo and a Zippo? A hippo is really heavy, and a Zippo is a little lighter.
19. Yesterday a clown held the door open for me. It was such a nice jester.
20. Why can’t you run through a campground? You can only ran, because it’s past tents.
21. Becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak.
22. Why can’t Harry Potter tell the difference between his potion pot and his best friend? They’re both cauld ron.
23. An atom lost an electron. It really should keep an ion them.
24. What’s the best time on a clock? 6:30, hands down.
25. Please don’t make my funeral too early. I’m not really a mourning person.
26. I got fired from the bank. A man asked me to check his balance, so I pushed him over.
27. Why did the lizard say he named his baby “Tiny?” Because he’s my newt.
28. Someone stole the police station’s toilets. They have nothing to go on.
29. Having sex in an elevator is wrong on so many levels.
30. What’s the difference between a poorly dressed man on a bicycle and a nicely dressed man on a tricycle? Attire.
31. What does C.S. Lewis keep in his wardrobe? Narnia business.
32. I put all my cash into an origami business. It folded.
33. I was worried about being in a long-distance relationship. But so far so good.
34. I suffer from kleptomania. But I take something for it.
35. I’m afraid of negative numbers. I’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
36. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
37. Two antennas got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.
38. I quit my job at the donut factory. I was fed up with the hole business.
39. I once ate a watch. It was time consuming.
40. RIP boiling water. You will be mist.
41. Why did the monk refuse novocaine when he had his tooth pulled? He wanted to transcend dental medication.
42. Just found out sticks float. They would.
43. My boat was cold, I tried to make a fire but it sank. I guess you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
44. I went to that new restaurant, Karma. There’s no menu, you just get what you deserve.
45. Why do cows have bells? Because their horns don’t work.
46. You can’t trust atoms, they make up everything.
47. I met a criminal with a bounty on his head. That was a weird place to keep paper towels.
48. A psychic tried to sell me information on my past lives. I hate used karma dealers.
49. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.
50. I met my wife on a dating site. We just clicked.
51. I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
52. Thanks for explaining the word “many” to me. It means a lot.
53. My roommates suspect I’m stealing their kitchen utensils. But that’s a whisk i’m willing to take.
54. I’m going to try velcro instead of shoe laces. Why knot?
55. I decided to get rid of my spine. It was holding me back.
56. Long fairy tales have a tendency to dragon.
57. Knowing how to pick locks has opened a lot of doors for me.
58. No matter how kind you are, German children are kinder.
59. Architects are good at coming up with concrete plans.
60. I should have been sad when my flashlight batteries died, but I was delighted.
61. Who designed King Arthur’s round table? Sir Cumference.
62. What happened when the semi-colon broke grammar laws? He was given two consecutive sentences.
63. I recently took a pole and found out 100% of campers were angry when their tent collapsed.
64. I couldn’t remember how to throw a boomerang. Eventually it came back to me.
65. A friend said he didn’t understand cloning. I told him that makes two of us.
66. I had a pun about amnesia, but I forget how it goes.
67. Santa Claus’s elves are subordinate clauses.
68. I’m designing a reversible jacket. I’m excited to see how it turns out.
69. A man went to the hospital with eight plastic horses in his stomach. His condition is stable.
70. To the guy who invented Zero, thanks for nothing!
71. There’s a new type of broom out. It’s sweeping the nation.
72. I tried to draw a circle, but it was pointless.
73. Getting paid to sleep would be my dream job.
74. There’s a fine line between numerator and denominator.
75. Velcro… what a rip-off.
76. I gave away my dead batteries, no charge.
77. One-fifth of people are just too tense.
78. After the birth of your child, your role in life will become apparent.
79. A backwards poet writes inverse.
80. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
81. My kid swallowed some coins, the doctor told me to just wait. No change yet.
82. My friend’s bakery burned down. Now his business is toast.
83. You should wear glasses while doing math. It improves division.
84. I’m glad I learned sign language. It’s really handy.
85. Bad gardeners are rough around the hedges.
86. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
87. This girl thought she recognized me from vegetarian club, but I’ve never met herbivore.
88. Why can’t you explain puns to kleptomaniacs? They always take things literally.
89. Did you hear about the man who lost his left side? He’s all right now.
90. I make apocalypse puns like there’s no tomorrow.
91. A cartoonist was found dead. Details are sketchy.
92. I removed the shell from my racing snail to make it faster. It just got more sluggish.
93. Life as a professional yo-yoer has its ups and downs.
94. I don’t trust stairs. They’re always up to something.
95. My wife told me to stop speaking in numbers. But I didn’t 1 2.
96. I failed my Braille class. It’s a touchy subject.
97. I used to hate facial hair, but it grew on me.
98. The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.
99. My leaf blower doesn’t work, it just sucks.
100. Need an ark? I Noah guy.
101. A plateau is the highest form of flattery.
Suffer
i wish to shit on your computer.
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brookston · 7 months
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Holidays 8.28
Holidays
Bow Tie Day
Crackers Over the Keyboard Day
Criminal Appreciation Day
Crumbs Between the Keys Day
Dream Day Quest and Jubilee
828 Day
Emerati Women’s Day (UAE)
Emmett Till Day
End of the Fairy Tale Day
Giving Black Day (a.k.a. Give 828)
Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
Green Shirt Guy Day
I Have a Dream Day
International Read Comics in Public Day
Manifest 828 Day
Mariamoba (Republic of Georgia)
National Bow Tie Day
National Grandparents Day (Mexico)
National Over It Day
National Power Rangers Day
National Thoughtful Day
Nativity of Nephthys (Egyptian Goddess of Love)
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercial Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Russian Germans Day (Germany)
Scientific American Day
Significant Historical Events Day
Tan Suit Day
Watermelon Day (French Republic)
World Day of Turners Syndrome
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Cheese Sacrifice Day
National Cherry Turnover Day
National Red Wine Day
Stuffed Green Bell Peppers Day
Subway Sandwich Day
4th & Last Monday in August
Araw ng mga Bayani (National Heroes’ Day; Philippines) [Last Monday]
August/Summer Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday]
International Day of Cyber Attack Ceasefire [Last Monday]
Liberation Day (Hong Kong) [Last Monday]
Motorist Consideration Monday [Monday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]
Notting Hill Carnival (UK) [Last Monday & day before]
Social Justice Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]
Independence Days
Holy Empire of Reunion (Declared; 1997) [unrecognized]
Luana (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Moldova (from USSR; 1991)
Ohio Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Alexander of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Abkhazia)
Augustine of Hippo (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *
Ayyankali Jayanti (Kerala, India)
Constant Troyon (Artology)
Edmund Arrowsmith (Christian; Saint)
Edward Burne-Jones (Artology)
Feast of the Mother of God (Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia)
Festival for Luna (Ancient Rome)
Festival for Sol (Ancient Rome)
Festival of the Neon Revolution
First Onam (Rice Harvest Festival; Kerala, India)
Frank Gorshin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Hermes of Rome (Christian; Saint)
Julian (Christian; Saint)
Junipero Serra (Christian; Saint)
Marimba (Virgin’s Assumption; Georgia)
Mariotte (Positivist; Saint)
Media Aestas III (Pagan)
More Rum Day (Pastafarian)
Moses the Black (Christian; Saint)
Uncle Norton the Elephant (Muppetism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 40 of 60)
Premieres
Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)
Cain's Jawbone, by E. Powys Mathers (Novel/Puzzle; 1934)
Come Clean, by Puddle of Mudd (Album; 2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Novel; 1844)
Do the Evolution, by Pearl Jam (Animated Music Video; 1998)
54 (Film; 1998)
Flying Leathernecks (Film; 1951)
Gallipoli (Film; 1981)
Get Rich Quick Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)
Honeymoon in Vegas (Film; 1992)
I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Speech; 1963)
Let’s Get It On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1973)
Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1850)
Mary of Scotland (Film; 1936)
Mickey’s Follies (Disney Cartoon; 1929)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV Series; 1993)
Narcos (TV Series; 2015)
The New Mutants (Film; 2020)
Perri (Disney Film; 1957)
Personal, 19th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2014)
Phineas and Verb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Animated Film; 2020)
Private Lessons (Film; 1981)
Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, by Devo (Album; 1978)
Rope (Film; 1948)
Smile, by Katy Perry (Album; 2020)
Song of the Thin Man (Film; 1947)
Studio 54 (Film; 1998)
Tease for Two (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)
Travelling Without Moving, by Jamiroquai (Album; 1996)
The Truth About Mother Goose (Disney Cartoon; 1957)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Film; 1992)
Victoria (TV Series; 2016)
Walk This Way by Aerosmith (Song; 1975)
Yankee Doodle Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Today’s Name Days
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin (Austria)
Augustin, Tin (Croatia)
Augustýn (Czech Republic)
Augustinus (Denmark)
August, Gustav, Kustas, Kustav, Kusti, Kusto (Estonia)
Tauno (Finland)
Augustin, Elouan (France)
Adelinde, Aline, Augustin, Vivian (Germany)
Damon (Greece)
Ágoston (Hungary)
Agostino, Ermete (Italy)
Auguste, Guste, Ranna (Latvia)
Augustinas, Patricija, Steigvilė, Tarvilas (Lithuania)
Artur, August (Norway)
Adelina, Aleksander, Aleksy, Augustyn, Patrycja, Sobiesław, Stronisław (Poland)
Augustín (Slovakia)
Agustín (Spain)
Fatima, Leila (Sweden)
Agustin, August, Augusta, Augustina, Austen, Austin, Austina, Austyn, Gus, Gustava, Gustavo (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 240 of 2024; 125 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 35 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 13 (Wu-Wu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 11 Elul 5783
Islamic: 11 Safar 1445
J Cal: 30 Hasa; Nineday [30 of 30]
Julian: 15 August 2023
Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 16 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Mariotte]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 68 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 7 of 32)
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brainrotcharacters · 2 years
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a bitch struggles to wait for the next episode of moon knight
after layla's phone call, the sound designers were ✨nice✨ for the split audio of Marc's voice when he addressed Steven. I am taking it as a way to know how Steven perceives him
I never registered how Marc (silhouetted as he was in that mirror) shook his head independently, and didn't move when Steven turned his head??? effects team seriously
nothing like seeing your reflection in the mirror NOT follow you to make you doubt your sanity 😀 kudos to marc for maintaining his composure and speaking in a level-headed way (3 episodes later a hippo made him scream). I think it was more because marc worried about how steven's responses could harm their body thus delay his progress with pigeon affectionate. Oscar Isaac was especially attractive in that scene imo because he was both the trembling #1 and the square-shouldered #2.
the fucks marc used to give steven revolve around making him believe it was all a dream. but as of ep 4, we've been fed
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is this a long winded way for me to say I love how Marc and Steven's back and forth is progressing? for me to say I feel for khonshu and I'm sending him a virtual hug when he comes back? for me to process Marc's first interaction with Steven *checks calendar* FOUR DAYS before jake possibly shows up and I have to take the whole week to process his first punches with Steven?
once upon a time I hesitated to watch moon knight, and then I saw marc's messy hair during that roof fight. now I'm upset waiting for ep 5 lmao
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Anubis is there! And he actually does things! Some of those things aren’t even related to Osiris’s corpse! It’s unclear what those things are, though. But he’s there!
There’s a version of that myth from The Contendings of Horus and Set where Horus and Set turn into hippos and Isis almost kills both of them but doesn’t. It’s sort of hard to tell what’s going on in this version, which might be because of the state of this translation (there was a translation of part of this passage in the footnotes of the translation of The Contendings of Horus and Set that was much more coherent). But one line I really liked was:
“As soon as Horus and Set were delivered from the danger of their weapons*, they stood up in the forms of two men, and each wished to fight the other, forgetting their cries for mercy to Isis.”
*The translation in the footnotes or the Contendings of Horus and Set suggests this should be Isis’s hippo hunting barb instead of Horus and Set’s weapons.
I just really like the idea of Horus and Set fighting, and they both get really hurt and almost get killed by Isis because of it, and then the moment she stops they start trying to go right back at it again.
There’s a lot of parts in here where it seems like Set is being ascribed roles that are usually given to Apophis? There are parts where he’s called the enemy of Ra and the son of Nun, even though as far as I’m aware Set only started replacing Apophis mythologically in the late period, and this papyrus is supposed to be from the New Kingdom? I’m not sure if that’s just how it was or something that the translators did.
The point above this was a build up for me saying that one of the days mentions a time when “Set” and his minions tried to obstruct a boat Shu was sailing in. And to me that kinda feels more like something Apophis (or Set have subsumed the role of Apophis) would do, but it if was regular Set then I want to hear more about that. I want to hear about the time Set and Shu got into a boat fight.
There’s at least one reference to Maga (Set’s son, crocodile god, but connected to the mean people-attacking crocodiles specifically) in there, which makes me happy cause I like hearing about Set’s kids.
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betweentimeand42 · 2 years
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I think I mentioned it a few times but I didn’t really make a post about it yet: I moved out from my parental units’ place!
It’s nice to be more independent, but one of the major appeals for me was always getting to decorate my own space and set up all my stuff, so to that end, here’s some pictures of my bedroom:
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My bed looking nicer than it ever will again. Left to right on the walls- calendar by Leirin, David Byrne poster, Zoo TV-era Bono/MacPhisto poster (I want to get this one framed), Punch Brothers poster (also want to get this one framed), poster from a local band, robot art by a local artist, signed Thanks For Listening print (album by Chris Thile, art by Oliver Jeffers- I would love to get HIM to sign it too tbh), and art by Sister C. Left to right on the bed- Teddy the bear, Arctor the bear, mini Kurt Vonnegut, Frankie the hippo, Celine the cephalopod, Baymax, Patrick the hippo, Svlad the extraterrestrial, a flying saucer who I didn’t name… yet, and Winnie the Pooh. Also my blanket has robots on it, please appreciate that.
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My bookcase, which features more Things than books, to be fair… among which are more robots, some owls, some more stuffed toys (including my favorite Ugly Doll who I married to Hello Kitty a long time ago, thus I always take them places together), a Zoo TV Tour program from U2’s show in Tokyo (I should scan some of those pages sometime), my most beloved tea mugs (one has a kitten on it!!! And the other is Stitch from Lilo and Stitch), and the speakers for my turntable, plus my turntable, which at the time of the photo had In Outer Space by Sparks on it… oh yeah, there’s also a Good Omens coaster made by Twisted Flax Creations and an elephant made by howling - - fantods, gotta shout those out.
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Windowsill… featuring mini Dana Scully, a jar of pixie dust, a plant that I can’t kill, a Kurt Vonnegut candle, and a plant that I probably am killing… also we have a trampoline nbd
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My desk, which is where I write most of these posts so now you can vividly imagine me sitting here and writing this if you’re as obsessed with me as I am with myself (tongue ALL THE WAY in my cheek)… some of these things (like the candles and the bag of scraps on the left) I’m going to use in craft projects so they won’t be cluttering my desk for long. My recording equipment and notebooks can stay though. On the wall, I put up a print of a galaxy (my home!) and my Steady Drip, Drip, Drip painting, as well as…
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THE PRIDE AND JOY OF MY ROOM, my corkboard!! Look!! I love it!! (Featuring: my art commissions by Leirin and Churippu! (Gotta print the last two out in bigger sizes, though- they can surely fit!) Chris Thile postcard! David Byrne postcard! Sparks postcards! I’m With Her postcards! Kingsman fanart by Kadeart, Krakenmagic, and I’m sorry I don’t know who did the prints at the bottom but look, it’s Merlahad, I love them! Plus all my postcards that I have received from Rafaelafranzen- I hope more friends can send me postcards someday so I can start putting those up too! (on a different corkboard, presumably))
Well! That was very very self-indulgent, probably a bit materialistic and almost certainly more than I should have shared on here (though I’m not going to share any photos from the rest of the house or the surrounding area, I do have limits), but… I love living here so far and I hope I continue to enjoy myself as the weather gets warmer and I can go on daily walks in the nearest park. (Tbh that’s what I’m hyped for the most about being here…)
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whiteclericmaris · 8 days
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I have a problem: perception of money.
When I was young my Mother would make sure I was provided with money at school when I was closing in on my teens. I sometimes saved it to spend on Pokemon Cards some others had. Now I do appreciate how generous my Mother was as she would always make sure that I was taken care of. One of the main concerns would always be food throughout the years and as even to this day she asks me if I am hungry (which I wish to argue about sometimes as I would like to fast but can't because I take medicines and I need food in my body for medicines to not make as much of an impact in my stomach).
When I had become "awakened" a few years back I would focus and pray to this thing called the violet flame. It was from a spiritual book and it mentioned how there were 7 sacred flames, one for each day of the week with the violet flame being on Saturday/Shabbat. I can't recall all the details of that book as I would mostly incorporate the 7 sacred flames and pray to them on their "assigned" day of the week. It mentioned being in a state called "awakened" as a goal to achieve. By this time I was going to college to work on getting a degree to have a job.
My main beef with money would be the fear of "not having enough to live." In this society money would be expected for almost everything. Have to go to a therapist? It costs money. Have to go to a doctor? It costs money. Want to study to get a job? Money. I would feel guilty and sad whenever my mother would pay for this as I thought "How am I going to repay you when you get old? I thought I'd have to earn a lot of money to repay my Mother for this. To get a job to support both of us.
Now in some of the spiritual businesses I went to money was one of the things it was mentioned to manifest with a candle. I have seen some in some stores even have a liquid to manifest money. Me: I'd pick the purification, cleansing, protection.
Here's the thing I have loved spirits and even the theme of spirits in works. In Arc-V it even mentioned how Duel Monsters have souls before solid vision was a thing and I loved this tidbit with how when Yuya dueled in the prison against Chojiro and Sawatari his Discover Hippo cried when Yuya just ended his turn and had imagined how he would look like joining a ship. If someone mentioned that somewhere was haunted I would be frightened. My Mother used to watch a show where a man would visit haunted areas and even a female 'psychic' visiting areas.
Connecting with spirit was always something I wanted to do. This isn't just coming from Catholic religious background with the "holy spirit" doctrine that is taught. I wanted to connect with spirits and have spiritual experiences which I did have sometimes.
Money however made me feel guilty and sad as I felt I wouldn't have enough. That's when this other book talked about money and mentioned "it's just an exchange" which is true. As the movie "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory" mentioned Money is made and created every day but this golden ticket is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I still have mixed feelings when it comes to money because of how our society in the United States has turned into making everything about money. When I had become "awakened" I asked for a million dollars as my Mom often gambles her money in lottery hoping for the grand prize. I don't like using the phrase "When I'm rich I'll do the things I have wanted to do but couldn't because of money". Instead I use the question "If I had a million dollars what would I do?" The answer was go to art school and take art classes in college. Lately it's to commission artists (that I can find) to draw my OC's.
Recently I have been thinking of how Jesus well put when someone asked him if it was okay to pay tribute to Julius Ceasar. This isn't just to say capitalism has existed for a long period of time but it is irksome to me lately how everything is about money. I'm saddened by thoughts of "nature" and how even in a Calendar we have holidays and that markets get ready for Holidays because I can only think "For how long will this continue?" I don't just mean that in the religious sense behind some holidays like Easter and St. Patricks Day? I do appreciate but don't like the U.S. consumerism with only thoughts of making money.
It is horrible to think that we can keep living like this. I'm not just saying this because things like smartphones, electricity, clean water exist but that these things are considered a requirement. What about the poor people that can't afford a smartphone? What's even worse is our dependency to these devices in a societal perspective. Since when was it decided that we needed both electricity and technology to "live" in this society? I know some people will say "So what?" But really think about it. In the US we have to pay for both electricity and water. Someone works those jobs of electricity and water but when was it expected or became a norm to pay for these things? I worry about where capitalism is leading us and not just because of these things but also because when did everything become a currency exchange? No, I refuse to believe that everything on Earth is done for and will be sold for money. I refuse to believe that there is a price given to a life that has just come out of the womb.
I refuse to believe that money will be the main concern these days. Rather I want to believe that there is something we can do about both Government and the Rich monetary people.
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