#maybe ill post them someday :0

[guessimate]

I built a “noble” house worth 89,227$ and gave my first noble family 20,000$. I moved in the other noble family as well, but I’ll talk about them in the next post, as I feel like this one is already long enough.

I decided to roll for the Noble families, because I really need sims to populate the monastery (and nunnery someday, too). I also quite like it that the noble families have slightly more generations in their family trees. That is to signify they care about the family traditions and the lineage is slightly more documented. The family this post is about, the Avesnes, consists of 6 sims: an elderly lady, her 2 adult sons, and their children.

Both of the adults and their teen offspring managed to land jobs this round, and they all started at level 1. I don’t want to divide this family into separate households for now, because the teen son is going off to the monastery anyway… Ignatius and his daughter got jobs in the Law career, while Enrique and his son started their journeys to became Architects (they are supposed to be building the monastery).

~*~

The female elder is a gray-eyed blonde. She’s a Romance sim. Euphrosina is: Unlucky, Adventurous, Star Quality, Vehicle Enthusiast, with Good Sense of Humour. Tinkering is her one true hobby. In terms of personality she’s a Cancer – 4 Sloppy, 0 Shy, 7 Active, 7 Playful, 7 Nice.

Both her sons are red heads, but one of them has green eyes, the other one – dark-blue-eyes. One of them is Pleasure, the other – Fortune.

Ignatius is: a Flirty Loner who Loves the Heat. He’s a Savvy Sculptor, and a Vehicle Enthusiast. His hobby is tinkering [like his mother’s]. In terms of personality he’s a Virgo – 8 Neat, 0 Shy, 9 Active, 0 Serious, 8 Nice.

Enrique is: a Schmoozer, Great Kisser, and a Coward, with Good Sense of Humour, who Can’t stand Art [I guess that’s why he would prefer rather simple forms and not too much art inside, even if he’s to be an architect]. Nature is his one true hobby. In terms of personality he’s an Aquarius – 0 Sloppy, 5 Outgoing, 6 Active, 7 Playful, 7 Nice.

The male teen that is going off to the monastery at the end of the round is a light blue-eyed blonde, with Knowledge aspiration. Jacob is: an Excitable, Handy and Clumsy Vehicle Enthusiast. His one true hobby is Cuisine. He’s a Capricorn – 4 Sloppy, 5 Outgoing, 0 Lazy, 8 Playful, 8 Nice.

The female Popularity teen is a gray-eyed blonde, just like her granny and her sister. Cayetana is: an Irresistible, Ambitious, and Excitable Coward. Arts&Crafts is her one true hobby. She’s a Pisces – 0 Sloppy, 7 Outgoing, 9 Active, 0 Serious, 9 Nice.

Cordula (created as toddler) is: a Rebellious and Brooding Slob. Her one true hobby is Music&Dance. She’s a Leo – 3 Sloppy, 8 Outgoing, 4 Lazy, 5 Playful, 5 Nice.

~*~

Perhaps I didn’t roll perfect traits for them, but I think it makes sense that Euphrosina is unlucky and one of her sons and her granddaughter are Cowards. The granny is also adventurous, so I think it’s natural they would flee, especially during a war, and choose to stay in a faraway land.

Ignatius and Enrique rolled to buy cars, so I might get them a carriage or a horse as a promotion item.

Granny Euphrosina taught Cordula all todd skills and Cayetana taught her sister the Nursery Rhyme. Granny also taught her teen grandchildren to “read” [do homework]. Most of the family members got on well from the beginning.

~*~

Around the weekend – as this is a newly moved-in family – I rolled the ROS. Unfortunately, it was simply a death roll. Ignatius dies, apparently of poison. I’m going to say his organism couldn’t stand the water in the new place. He’s a neat sim, so I think it makes sense he could be very particular about tea and other beverages… or maybe the fish were not fresh enough and he was not used to this diet… and fish are the main source of food here. He also Loved the Heat and it was pretty cold in the ‘hood during winter, so it might have contributed to his illness, too. At least he had 2 daughters from CAS, but I guess this family name will die out, if his brother produces no more male heirs, since the son is starting the monastery.

In the end of the rotation the unhealthy Ignatius went to the monastery for some medical advice, since there was an infirmary. He went there with Jacob who was very eager to see the monastery, as he was a curious boy. Unfortunately, his uncle died, but Jacob decided to stay.

I decided to make a placeholder monk family as well so that it would be easier for me to send funds to it. It’s the Abbot family. Jacob will take over the monastery from this old man when the time comes.

~*~

They ended up with 23,251$, so they earned 3451$ this round, because I got them the chess board for 200$. They also got a treasure [430$] so they’re paying a tax on that.

As it’s a noble family they owe:

5000$ – rent

345$ – tax

86$ – treasure tax

~ 5400$ (rounded down) to the treasury.

So the treasury would have earned 81,050$ total by now, but we are withdrawing and “paying” the ~70,000$ for the monastery and we have to earn the other buildings and stuff I skipped. I was really in a rush to build the monastery. So we’re back at 11,050$, let’s say.

345$ – tithe

100$ burial fee… and I feel like they should probably do some donations to the Church anyway, if one of them is staying at the monastery

~ 400$ to the Church [rounded down].

The Church has 16,500$.

They are left with 17,451$. This family really can’t afford such steep rent fees, but we’ll hope Enrique can get promoted. It’s really all up to him. He also might want to get a male heir, maybe with the other noble family. I imagine he might not even consider Jacob an heir now because he joined the monastery so let’s hope he has another son [born in game this time].

~*~

The monastery lot was worth almost exactly 70,000$. Should anything happen, they have 16,500$ in the Church bank. I will not really be playing this lot, but it will be used when someone is there for a ROS event, like men coming from war with PTSD “insanity”.

I know I rushed the monastery a bit, but I did earn the required money total in the royal treasury, so I think it’s OK. The monastery also has a sort of “charity hospice” attached to it [they would historically have infirmaries]. I think monks would usually be pretty self-sufficient and they would have something like their own mini villages with peasants working for them. I decided to give them just a small garden for now and I’m thinking of letting them do some bee keeping. I know they would for sure have “medicinal” gardens.

I will do my best to earn money for all the other community lots I haven’t built yet, because I didn’t really need them. The next thing I might want to build is a nunnery with a “foundling wheel” (baby window/life cradle), where mothers could put unwanted children.

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[chemicaljupiter]

for the longest time ive felt like i do not exist outside the perception of others, at least not in a way that matters. not in a philosophical way, it felt more like something ive been burdened with. i dont think im the prettiest person in the world and i dont think i have a great personality or anything like that but i have always deep down felt like i have something really important that i need to put out into the world. i dont know what it is but since i was a young teenager ive been working very hard and constantly creating art, videos, writings, music, edits, anything my mind comes up with just trying to figure out what that something is. ive been making youtube videos for most of my life at this point spent hundreds and hundreds of hours writing, filming, editing, coming up with complicated storylines and creative concepts i wanted to show in the videos i make. 99% of those videos have now been made private or unlisted so what was all that work for? i draw hundreds of drawings and i threw most of them away or painted over them. none of my writings ever saw the light of day and i have so many notebooks its hard to to even remember what ive written or where it is. why have i spent my whole life creating things that now cant even be perceived by others, by my definition these hundreds of videos and writings and drawings dont even exist so why did i spend all that time on it. i dont know. the funniest part i think is that i have switched accounts so many times that i have essentially ran away from any audience i possibly couldve built. i get 1-3 views on my yt videos and 0 likes on tumblr posts 12 likes on instagram on a good day and im not complaining that im not getting enough likes on instagram. i dont care, being instagram famous was never on my to do list, i just feel so defeated that i have spent my whole life trying to create something good, something with meaning, something thats could move people or at least entertain them for a few minutes and i have failed so completely at that goal that by my own definition i barely exist. this block of text doesnt mark any big change in what i do or how i do it. i will probably keep creating things as many and as often as i can, and i might even keep deleting them after a few months. i just pray that if i do it for long enough maybe i can eventually be proud of myself for it. maybe i can make myself happy if i cant make others happy. maybe someday ill die and someone will come along and watch my old videos and for a few hours i will exist again. maybe i can make that person happy and maybe i can entertain them for a few minutes. i dont know goodnight

#goodnight

[dokiyeom]

THE TAG IS SO SO CUTE ILL END IT 💥💥 u should send me more asks & ill give u an emoji hihi 🫶🫶 IM EXCITED TOO YAY i have so many fic & smau ideas so im glad i can work on them then! (maybe i should tell u a few of them 🤭 ....)

that sounds so nice!! i think i recently ate sukiyaki (?) && it was so so good! baking and mahjong 💔💔💔 im glad u had so much fun because i also completely get what u mean?? i don't have any family here nor do i have any cousins/family members of my age + the distance is just 👎 so im not in contact with any yk

im still . flabbergasted like i want to go 2 japan too hello 😭 tbh at first i thought u lived in maybe japan or IDK but then u said u would show ur friends ur motherlands? so i was like ??? and also I WANNA KNOW UR TIMEZONE PLSPLS pleaseee yes im dutch & french but was born in the netherlands and lived there for 10ish years before moving to France!!

OK I WILL WATCH AN EPISODE SOON THEN!! pls this is so funny YES ik jay + me = twins hihi i hope so too!! that would be really cool but im just waiting impatiently for the official announcement rn so that i can mark it on my calendar, BOOM! ill also go to a big city just before my bday so maybe MAYBE if I have some pocket money i could buy myself a cute dress for the party and or an album teehee YA I HOPE U FIND IT IN JAPAN OMG im curious do u alr have some albums or like merch

i LOVE sudoku omg ,, it's so cool that ur using photoshop like u made ur carrd thingy with that right? it's so pretty i will never not say that. im sure ur gonna do v well hihi 🫶

i will !!! try to drop by ur ask box more frequently !!! unfortunately i’m,, a tiny bit awful at coming up w ideas on what to say but i will try !!!! and hello yes ??? u should 100% tell me abt ur smau ideas !!! or fic ideas in general && in return,, i’ll share some of my horribly messy notes app full of fic ideas w u <3

aagg i’m so happy u enjoyed sukiyaki !! if u get the chance,, i highly rec kansai style sukiyaki unless eating a bit of semi raw egg feels unnatural or intimidating !! i feel like i should b more loyal to kanto style bc i’m from the kanto area,, but kansai sukiyaki is just. wow. && aagg yea i feel u :(( i think it allows for u to b a lot closer a family friends bc they end up sorta being a proxy,, but it does kinda suck not being close or in contact w extended family <//3

i hope ur able to go someday !!! && my time zone is pacific standard time !! or pacific time atm bc of daylight savings,, but i did live in japan for a while &’& am considering moving back there after uni !! and woa hello u live in france ?? that is so cool omg,, i def want to visit france at some point for the fashion museums and exhibitions wraaaa :0 also fun fact,,, i took a plants/human welfare course last yr && the only thing i really rmbr from that was tulip’s apparently caused an economic recession in the netherlands during the early 1600s :D

EXCITED FOR U TO WATCH !! and omg what if the cb announcement is after woozis done posting all the album pics on his instagram :00 but oo what sort of dress would u get ? lw i’m so insanely picky w dresses that for prom i’ve just decided to get a lower costing plain dress && alter it + sew on an egregious amount of accessories

&& yes i have albums !! for merch i have a candy bong && moa bong that i got for the twice n txt concert i went to,, but unfortunately i stood in like for like an hr and a half at the svt concert mercy line only to reach sort of the front area && hear a staff member at the truck yell that carat bongs were completely sold out <//3 i do have. a pc binder that both brings me sm joy && shame for realizing how much money i’ve spent on. silly little pieces of paper w people taking silly little selfies tho. what abt u :0

RIGHT SUDOKU IS SO <3 but it’s also caused me like. sm headaches omg. and thank uu <3 i did make it on photoshop !! but i’m considering making a new one w more of a powerpuff girls/ diff take on a retro cyber theme :D

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#5

Naturally I associate you with Raven, but a little bit with Karol too!😄

Yeah that sounds about right hahahaha ^^

I hope someday to be able to expand my repitoir of characters I write with someday though, just for funsies ^^

3 notes - Posted May 19, 2022

#4

Welp, looks like the universe is adamant about me not participating in @vesperiaweek in a timely manner considering this last week I have seen an increase in my job schedule AND have fallen ill. Alas...so great was my huberis shown to be folly

That said, I'm still gonna post my fic for Day 2. I just don't quite know when.

3 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

#3

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rupert Chrogrey & Mortar Milverton Characters: Mortar Milverton | Mason Milverton, Cosney Megundal | Magnus McGilded, Rupert Chrogrey | Robert Crogley | Ashley Greydon Additional Tags: Case 5 Spoilers, Near Death Experiences, Hurt/Comfort, rebuilding relationships Summary:

Rupert ached in so many different ways. His throat, from tears unshed, his legs, from his desperate sprint, his heart, from the burning, warped need to touch his father’s neck once more, to confirm that he hadn’t just killed the man who’d raised him with patience and love and everything else he didn’t deserve because he- he did this. He did this. What ache of his could be considered anything but a sin because he did this. He turned his father into a stone cold corpse in his arms. What foolishness, what pity, what an undeserved mourning he held in his blame, and yet, mixed in with the frigid rain on his face, he felt warmth, as he shook, he gasped, he bent over and cried.

This is what his greed had bought him. ----------- Mortar Milverton slogged awake.

Aka, in which Rupert makes it to his father's body in time and successfully rushes him to the hospital, but with so many years and unspoken words between them, Rupert needs to find a way to make up his sins to his father, no matter what the cost.

6 notes - Posted February 26, 2022

#2

Made some heart shaped waffles for my SO and I ^^

6 notes - Posted February 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

BIG NEWS Y'ALL, THE CRESTY MANGA IS HERE!!!!

So far it looks like it's just japanese only but my friend tells me that they're going to be dropping a chapter every week! I'm so excited to return to these characters and see how they're rewriting the story to accommodate for the lack of legacy characters (or so I hear! Maybe they WILL be in here, I donno!)

But regardless, pass it around, folks! Its free to read and hyped as fuck

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#3

I just tried to reblog one post on desktop and it ended up auto rebloging 17 times. For a minute, it seemed like i was insanely obsessed with mooing cows.

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#2

Now... little Alex's gang!

Lol Alex's friends are all 3 but I do have plans for them. I think all of them have the best opportunity to fuck gender norms because they still havent necessarily learned them yet. Alex coming to school in a tutu was just the beginning for them. My kids are Frida and Marley. Frida is Lincoln's little sis and Marley lives with Jerica and her dad. Marleys dad is Jericas dads best friend and they moved in together after Jericas mom died.

Im a little stuck on how to completely talk about how preschool would be besides happy and playful, but maybe I can explain that I think none of this kids would grow up gender conforming. Ive always planned for Alex to be nonbinary. But as a baby he has no idea what that even means. All he knows is to be himself. The thing is having such a loving and supportive family will help Alex realize who he really is and help his friends realize who they are too. They will all also have varying amount of support and their real problem will be society and how it views them. Of course thats the future and who knows how much more understanding the world would be. Frida will be genderfluid and Marley is MtF. And honestly my biggest problem is feeling that im misgendering my own characters even at this age they would have no idea 😰 (Tho when I talk about them older, I usually use their preferred pronoun, again they wouldnt know their preferred pronoun at 3 so it makes more sense to refer to them as they are? Maybe this helps to validate the pretransition phase of life? Idk as an enby myself even im wishy-washy about how to feel about my 'female phase'. Thats person is still me u know? Idk I m rambling at this point. Maybe someday ill be more clear on this issue)

ANYWAY. I feel like we all deserve a update on the Soledads as a whole and I will be drawing more of them I promise! I will post new content soon. This is my New Year resolution XP

6 notes - Posted January 1, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Also...ever thought of a Ben 10/Kingdom Hearts swap?

Hey anon! Its been a while huh? I gotta tell u ive been thinking about answering u for a while but this time was the busiest work has gotten and its been so tough to not just get home and sleep lol. But I also been working on this too.

First off, it makes total sense and its super interesting to think about. Ben and Sora are just two sides of the same main character idiot lol. The Kevin/Riku swap was a no brainer, but I feel a sassy Lil sis Kairi works too well and Ben struggling between two love interests works best. Imagine all the Sora aliens tho. He probably would name them the same because theyre both lame XD. Also Bens keyblade looks so cool and sleek. And Kevin with a car keyblade is TOO perfect XDDD.

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15 notes - Posted January 1, 2022

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[mouseofwouse]

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[lunavadash-creates]

Have I ever told you that you are the sweetest cupcake ever?❤️ It’s impossible to not smile at your posts! I sincerely thank you for all your sympathy towards me! My heart just melts! It’s so rare to find such a pure and kind soul like you. Please, don’t change. Ever.

You made me worried a bit with your last paragraph - maybe I am oversensitive, but I am really worried. It breaks my heart honestly, I feel like you belittle yourself. Babe, you are wonderful! I am not saying this just for you to feel better, but because you REALLY are. Think for a moment about things you’ve already achieved! Darling, you graduated! It’s really something. It is even more something when you study two different majors at the same time and study in language school at weekends. It’s real hardcore! I am proud of you. SO FREAKING MUCH! You did so well and you did so much! Please, be aware of it. You are incredibly talented and creative. YOU are hard working, not me. And you know what? Please, have a proper rest. Don’t overwork yourself anymore. You have to have some space just for you. You have to rest and regain your balance. Don’t think about writing as your duty. I know you feel responsible for all requests you have. But they really won’t run away or disappear. They all will be waiting to be written when you rest. Don’t pressure yourself, I beg you. You know I love your writing. We all here love it. But we love you even more. Taking a break it’s not bad. It’s necessary. When you rest you will be able to concentrate, you will have a fresh mind and new ideas. Just remember that you are a priority.

Speaking of your visit to Prague. OMG, THIS ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK!! I envy you soooooo much! I wish I could see it by myself someday! Thank you so much for the photo! And geez, you are the very first person admitting that museums are wonderful! No one amongst my friends likes them and it hurts so much, because I couldn’t go to the Uffizi museum and Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. I would love to go to any museum with you then! Museum of sex toys sounds really interesting, mostly because it’s not about modern toys. Like, I would never thought that people could have such rich sex life! I heard that in Amsterdam and Paris there are similar museums. But! I bet you would love icelandic museum of punk. Ohh, I am pretty sure you would enjoy it! It’s really small, because well..Its former public toilet. Buuuut, if you like non-obvious museums this is definitely for you. Whale museum was also pretty good. Or I enjoyed it just because I love whales. I was also in a museum of teddy bears in Seoul and it was the cutest museum I have ever been in! Tell me more about that vegan restaurant! What good did you eat? I am not vege myself, but I avoid eating meat on a daily basis so it’s easy to make me excited with such things!

I am not sure if I am better. I mean, I changed my mind about being able to sleep all day. I am not able to sleep at all at the moment. I am tired and my eyelids are so heavy, but sleep never comes. I guess insomnia hits again, it's a never-ending circle. But I am concerned about your leg! I guess you had spoken with doctor since you got xray and usg. Did they say anything? Any ideas of what it could possibly be? It has to be something serious if you have problems with walking! How did you manage to go sightseeing in Prague? Babe, please, take care of yourself! And what does “health problem AGAIN” mean?! Have you had such a problem before?? It scares me like.. we just started adulthood? My friend sneezed and it made him lay in bed for 6 days not being able to move. Literally.

Yeah, I was in South Korea, but please, do not perceive me as your role model. Gods, it would be a terrible decision, really. But, I would love to share some stories with you if you want! I know it's a popular destination these days because of kpop. I used to listen to it, but I think a few years ago kpop was better? More interesting? Now I’m more into khh, but I think I can’t say that I’m into it anymore.

Talking about music! I discovered two new songs and I bet you know them already, but for me it was huge woah woah woah! First of it - Sabaton. Thay covered Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls and they did it so good! Secondly - The Heart Asks Pleasure First. They basically made their own song based on one of my favourite piano songs. Oh my.. it’s sooo good!

And still talking about music! I just wanted to say that I also love our Wombo edits! That one with Ezio singing Stressed out was perfect! Mr Auditore looked very believably singing it. I liked the one with Edward and Haytham. I don’t know the song but it had such a christmas vibe! It made me think of Edward and Shay singing Last Christmas or some other shitty Christmas song together. Why them? No idea. I love Altair, but your latest headcanons could make me love them even more.

And! I just wanted to tell you that you inspired me to take japanese lessons on Duolingo. I am aware that such app won’t help me with learning such a language, but at least I can tell you that katakana sucks. Gods, I hate it so much. Hiragana is so pleasurable to learn. And I know katakana is visually similar, but it is a no no from me. I have learnt some basic kanji signs. And I just admire you so much more.

I hope you will have wonderful and peaceful week, Babe! Once again, please take care of yourself. Remember to have proper rest, sleep at least 8 hours and drink water! I hope your leg will be better soon!

🔪

Hey Knifey! I finally have the right mind set to respond to this ask!

So first of all thank you. You always make me blush with your kind words and I have no idea how to react! I want to squeaze you in a hug and give you all the sweets in the world!

As for the rest. You see i have always worked to hard on studying, so hard it actually burned out everything inside so now all i want to do i nothing! But i cant, i really want to go back to spending my free time in more creative way!

Omg Knifey! Finally i met a museum lover! And gods i want to visit them all! And you know? That Icelandinc museum sounds like such a goal, i want to go there 🥺 and Seoul museum of teddy bears?! I want to go there!

Honestly I love all museums and generally history. I enjoy visiting ruins of castles and villages, going to museums of everything! Art, machines, objects! There are always so many things and so many different ways to find the inspiration! And I always take so many photos for 'future references'. Some time ago i was in a gardens which showed different time of gardens of the world and there was this amazing exhibition of demons from Slavic mithology. That was so awesome! As well as Japanese garden!

In began restaurant i have this fried soy bites in some sweet-spicy sauce. So tasty! Im trying to recreate this recipe but so far its 1:0 for the soy :/

As for my leg. Its swollen AF bht i just... Put on my shoe and pretended it didnt exist. I can walk in good shoes but still im worried. As for that little again... I generally have some weird health issues. I had 5 surgeries for different stuff (spine, tumor, nose) so like... Generally i am healthy... Or at least i was until thst damned foot decided to show off. Its been 4 weeks and im still looking for a solution, running different tests and all. Hopefully they will figure out whag is going on.

Yes TELL ME ALL THE STORIES ABOUT KOREA.! I love stories, tell me everything!

Tbh i never listen ed to k-pop. I guess its just nkt my type of music but I enjoy some Japanese and Chinese songs (one i like is Arrogant by Xiao Zhang). I know songs you sent me and gods they are amazing! I love sabaton, rock/metal im general but I listen to all kind of music. Like Italian soundtrack from Winx, music from burlesque, Dragonforce, shanties. If there are k-pop songs you like you can always send then to me! Ill gladly listen to them all!

Im glad you like those wombos i guess i should make more! 😂😂

And gods. Katakana. 4 years of learning Japanese and I still need katakana board to remember those signs! And tbh i feel like Japanese duolingo has some mistakes ;/ but for Japanese i used lingodeer app and it was nice!

Knifey Im very sorry you have troubles sleeping. Is there something you can do to make it easier for you? Maybe you can take some melatonin pills? Maybe you are stressed? Can you maybe contact doctor, maybe they can help? I dont want anything bad to happen to you! Please take care of yourself? Pretty please?

Love you so much Knifey, you are such a sunshine and I just want you to be happy and healthy!

#Ask #Knifey #knifey my beloved

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37 for the fic writer questions!

Ask meme here

37. Talk about your current wips

This is great I was thinking of listing out everything im working on these days anyway n now i get an excuse. For quite a few of these I cant talk about them actually cuz they are event stuff but imma list em anyway.

(This got long so im putting it under keep reading)

Lets! Categorize!

A) Ready to post!

Here we have my ShinKami bb fic: No Escape (coming out tomorrow) and my DabiHawks bb fic: Red string of death (coming out sunday) - obvs cant say much until they are posted, lets just say that for shinkami we are gettin some horror and dabihawks gets double banger of soulmate au x reincarnation au but like angsty

B) Currently in editing

Pieces for: DabiHawks metamorphos zine, LOV found family zine and villain/vigilante deku zine - since they are zines i feel like its a big no no to talk about them so we goin down

C) Currently writing

A secret santa piece and a piece for todobaku bb - one of these is actually cute couple things and the other is be dumping magic and horror on to a shipping fic again i obviously have a thing for that the more i think about these

D) Currently planing

Shinsou bigbang! (Do NOT judge me for how many events im in) anyway im super looking forward to this i feel like i have such a great idea n mmm we arent even to partnering up yet so i zip

DabiHawks secret admierer au - something i can talk about :0. This was one of my pitches for the metamorphos au n i got attached. The basic premise is: no powers high school au, local bad boy band member Touya is pining hard after straight A good boy Keigo and in atempt to confess his feelings he leaves a love song in his locker. The problem? Dabi is super fucking edgy and so is his song and upon reading it Keigo is 100% Dabi wants him dead. Shennaniganse ensue. LOV is there giving Dabi increasingly bad love advice, Rumi is there mostly to laugh her ass of and then do dramatic reading of the song, im gonna write actual songs for it!!! Anyway just lil slice of life school comedy, im not always about horror and angst belive it or not. Im looking forward to this one it should be fun!

All the beautiful things we are (All the dangerous things we will become) - another chuuya gen fic!! This one featuring Kouyou (n maaaaaybe Kyouka) in some good ol sibling bonding. Set earlier then The suffocating quality of your dying breaths, its basically kouyou taking chuuya under her wing and some good sibling bonding that will probably feature some good ol exploration of gender expression and just kouyou wrestling a brat into a suit. I just want some good chuuya n kouyou n some decent chuuya experimenting with dressing up n darn it ill make it myself

There are a few more that are in my notes as possible ideas but these are the ones im sure ill write so i dont wanna promise anything i wont do

E) On hiatus

TodoBaku murder mystery - my original idea for the todobaku bb, i wanted to challenge myself n write something i never did before but then college slapped me n ye i went back into the comfort zone. I still wanna do this one someday, probably over summer. Basic concept: normal life au, Enji Todoroki is found dead in his bed and detective! Bakugo is on the scene trying to determin did any of the family members, gathered that night to celebrate their mother returning from a hospital, have anything to do with it while trying super hard not to fall for the one Todoroki that keeps sticking his nose where it doesnt belong. Featuring: literally everyone having a motive and Bakugo being done with the family drama, Dabi being in a gang and acting like he owns the place, and ice skater Shouto both too dumb and too smart for his own good. We will see does anything come of it.

Season of rain - omegaverse light fic where i, an asexual, look at a trope purely made for kink and go 'what if for me tho?'. I call it light cuz i wont be writing any sex but u know me its heavy on angst. Featuring: Deku squad as a ship, omega sho n izu, alpha uraraka n beta iida n tsuyu. Dealing with such topics as: postpartum depression, sexisam, fear of alphas, arranged marriges, pack dynamics, betas having an actual role and importance, maneging poly reletionships, me harping on about how ideal number of parents is actually more than two and that if there were three genders standard reletionships would be expected to be a x b x o not just a x o. Aka me putting way too much worldbuilding into a kink trope. Basic premise: seeing as shouto turned out to be an omega, instead of training him to be a hero enji signs him of to enter a quirk marrige when he gets older just like rei. Years later shouto has just gotten out of a divorce and with a whole baby in tow is taken in by dekusquad. Hurt comfort ensues as they slowly work shouto into their dynamic and make him feel safe and loved again. Honestly i just want to give this one more time n attention that i have rn so its waiting for summer

Ashes to ashes - a dabihawks (maybe) post war au fic that was supposed to focus on Dabi facing what he has done and who he has become and the almost imposible process of changing yourself for the better when you spent all your life chasing one thing, on one side and on the other; Hawks recovering fron trauma caused by almost being killed, dealing with his newly growing wings causing him pain and being afraid he'll never fly quite the same again and trying to find connections among other heroes just cuz i say he needs friends. Both of them are dealing with very mixed emotions about each other and they work through them seperatly and together, trying to set everything that happend into a perspective and figure out where to go from there. I havent decided do they actually get back together or not by the end of it all. I was planing this and then hori dumped dabis crazy ass on me n now im mostly waiting to see what he does with him so i know what to do with him in the end, smh hori making my life hard :/

#anon #lucy rants #LUCY RANTS A LOT #gjfggf sorry

[welcometogressenheller]

Emmy Altava?

sure!!! 

Sexuality Headcanon: lesbian...

Gender Headcanon: also nonbinary!

A ship I have with said character: there aren't any popular ships i like with her... i like thinking about Emmy/Janice for the most part. or Emmy/Angela :)

A BROTP I have with said character: I love her sibling-like relationship with Luke! it’s so wholesome when they tease each other because you can tell they care about each other... and she gets protective of him too... i feel like Luke is the younger brother she never had and she feels v comfortable being the big sister! 

A NOTP I have with said character: her with Hershel. I just cant see her with men, i prefer their platonic relationship more :’0 but i don't mind it too much, i just don't ship it haha. 

A random headcanon: i think about these characters a lot i swear but whenever i want to write out a nice hc i cant think of anything shjdsh anyway,, i think she doesn't allow herself to be vulnerable because of her upbringing as a “fighter”... and Hershel and Luke feel like the family she never had to her where she feels comfortable for the first time in forever. but obviously she still cant show them her true self. maybe she will come back to London someday and finally feel free to enjoy her time with them without any ill intend standing in her way? :)

General Opinion over said character: i love her a lot! she’s an interesting character i should put more thought into, haha. also, i hate when the fandom demonized her hhh... she isn’t blameless but it’s implied bronev at least emotionally manipulated her and she regrets her actions. and that’s the hill i’ll die on. i also like the road she took post AL! 

thanks for the question anon!! 

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#5

whos gonna be the first to animate/edit spamton to welcome to the internet

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#4

no stop why didn't I realize that Griff has been improv-ing all the yahoo answers recently I'm such an idiot

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#3

jokes out of the room, trav is doing a great job encapsulating the feelings of someone who has been wronged by the church and is going through deconstruction and im so grateful for that as i too am figuring out where benevolence ends and i begin

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#2

two things we always forget about taz amnesty

a) billy is like absolutely shredded, he is massive, he is not 3 feet tall like everyone draws him

b) thacker had a moment where he was like completely feral and I wonder if, when he joins the pine guard again, duck and aubrey can only think about him crawling across the ceiling toward them

221 notes • Posted 2021-07-25 11:56:40 GMT

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griffin saw how min-maxed magnus was and said i can make him worse

and thus…artificer davenport was born

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#5

Good lord. Did i miss something? Is nsfw allowed again? Did they free the titty??? Between the public porn ads for vibrators and now every reccommened blog is a porn blog with a featured kink or porn post every 20 posts on my dash. Im just getting some really mixed signals here tumblr. Is porn allowed or not?

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Tumblr Im begging you let me reblog ads

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🧸 Teddy Bear: Do you ever want to raise kids someday? 

I certainly am not against the idea, Id like that picturesk little family tv always portrayed but I want to be financially comfortable first and I think itll be a while before that happens, I also want to make sure (or as sure as I can be) that Im not having kids during the end times, a revolutuon, a global pandemic, *others disasters are available upon request. So yknow if things can get sorted to at least remotely together Id be far more open to the idea. TL;DR I want to be able to focus on my family if I have one, I dont want to have to work 60 hr weeks or leave to fight a war or quaruntine away from them frequently. I also dont want to hand them a dying planet. So yknow normal stuff for people my age I think. Want a lovely big family with my wonderful fiance but until everythings secure Ill stick to wonderful animals and creative ventures (as well as virtual famlies with him in places like Stardew Valley)

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Did fast reblog and fast queue just break for anyone else? Its just suddenly stopped working across the board and across my accounts.

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Gave my tumblr a little makeover which i rarely do but hey maybe yall will see it in 3-4 months when mobile decides to show it lmfao

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[akutagawaprize]

You'll talk someday about how the Port Mafia is portrayed? ( not the bightest bulbs in the chandelier huh. Not the most subtle either) im not trying to rush you, it bothers me too and im just curious. I like your analysis. Have a nice day

Haha all kidding aside, I’ve been meaning to talk about them for quite a while now. It’s just that I want the stuff I write to make sense, because usually they’re self-indulgent rambles. And this one won’t be an exception, especially since I have so many feelings about Port Mafia.

Usually it’s the protagonists who are outmatched, outgunned, outnumbered, or just generally outclassed. Through sheer force of will and nakama power perfect teamwork do they come out on top. Even then sacrifices have to be made. At the start, the Armed Detective Agency seemed like it will follow this mold, but soon we are introduced to their abilities.

On paper and in practice, the abilities of the members of ADA greatly complement each other. This means that even with few active operatives who can work on the field, they got all bases covered. If this were an MMO they’d have Atsushi and Kenji as tanks, Atsushi again and then Kunikida for DPS, Tanizaki going for Assistance/Crowd Control, Fukuzawa as Buffer, Dazai as Debuffer and of course, Yosano as their Healer. Not to mention Ranpo, the formidable brains behind their operations (with Dazai as backup, or even vice versa).

Now let’s take a look at the mafia. Not counting Odasaku, in their group who doesn’t have an offensive ability? Ace? Sure, but his ability only applies to his subordinates, and anyway he’s also dead. See the problem? Chuuya probably has the most versatile ability in the mafia right now, but it’s either he takes great pride in his prowess as a martial artist or he just can’t think of creative ways to take advantage of the fact that he can, well, manipulate gravity. There’s also Elise, who seems to be “programmed” to be able to do feats no ordinary human can, but we don’t know much about her. Outside of these two, the one who impresses is Kajii. His ability sounded like a joke sure, but he knows how to make use of it and in the right circumstances, can be that one member to watch out for. There’s also talks about another executive member or two. Whether one exists we don’t know, but I can only hope they’ll possess an ability that is a supportive one, or something gamechanging like mind reading or memory wipe.

Don’t get me wrong! It is rather refreshing to see a team full of competent people, especially in their line of work where they’ll find themselves smack dab in the middle of dirty matters the police and the military would rather not handle. That they are well-rounded means it’s easy to imagine why the government would want their help, why they get the requests they do, and why they are favored to take on cases that will pit them against criminals/evildoers who have their own deadly abilities.

But at the same time, the agency members seem almost… overpowered. They have limits and restrictions, true, but these barely influence how they use their abilities. The times they get into action, the enemies have done absolutely nothing to counter them or anticipate their movements… which is a shame really! Heroes are only as good as the villains who oppose their ideologies and this time, Fyodor has Port Mafia beat in spades.

Imagine Chapter 47 with Tanizaki using Kunikida’s note (while he can materialize objects remotely we didn’t know if anybody else could activate it or if distance was gonna an issue, but this does not break previously established rules so it gets a pass) to materialize a switchblade. Wouldn’t it have been far more interesting if one of them saw the trap, retaliated, and then caught Tanizaki off-guard, causing him to use his illusion to play mind games, make them question each other, heck make them question their own senses. But we don’t see any of it, we just see Tanizaki tricking everyone and it’s frustrating to watch, especially since they are already aware of what Tanizaki can do and have taken no measures to ensure he won’t be able to pull the same trick twice.

You see this with Akutagawa and Chuuya too, both preferring brute strength over anything else. Would it have been too OOC to have a panel of Chuuya looking/glancing around, trying to eliminate any possibilities of a trap? I’m sure Ranpo would have succeeded in luring Chuuya regardless but no matter how hotblooded Chuuya is, he’s a mafia executive still! There should be an ounce of logic in that brain. If the one at the top is this hopeless, what about the others?

I wasn’t particularly affected by that scene in Episode 4/Chapter 5 where the ADA systematically wrecks Black Lizard and mops the floor with them because I knew they were the equivalent to Red Shirts despite being properly introduced and being called commanders of an elite fighting squad… Okay, okay, reading what I just typed and looking back, it does make you wonder whether the mafia’s full of jobbers like these guys or if the ones at the top are just much, much scarier. Akutagawa was beaten by an untrained and inexperienced Atsushi who had been with ADA in just, what, a month or two? Chuuya’s an executive who looks cool and has an ability that is even cooler, but stick him next to Dazai and he becomes a sheepdog who’s all bark and no bite. Let’s not forget how he can only activate the “true” form of his ability if Dazai’s there to cancel it or else his body will give up on him. Kouyou looks like she means business, but she goes soft for Kyouka. Despite saying she’d stay in the mafia to help run their organization, one couldn’t help but wonder based on her recent actions whether she’s having second thoughts. The Black Lizard… No comment. Higuchi… She’s a badass Muggle, but a Muggle nonetheless.

Mori? Now we’re talking. In episode 21/Chapter 30 we learn that the previous leader had gone delirious and started giving out illogical orders, resulting to confusion and punishing losses on the mafia’s side. Mori relieves the leader of his duty, with a young Dazai as the sole witness. Mori has ambitions, but the exchange also implies that if the leader hadn’t let things escalate to such a sorry state then Mori wouldn’t have needed to go that far. Remember, at the conclusion of the 3 Way War Arc, he gave Kouyou the option of staying or running away. He may be coolheaded, but he’s not coldblooded. All of the actions he takes are to ensure the continued survival of the mafia, which is why unless some other canon information comes out, I’ll choose to believe that until now Mori is wrestling with the idea of killing Dazai for good or letting him be. I won’t put it past Mori to think up of a plan to convince Dazai to go back willingly, even putting his life on the line. Just as he won’t kill Dazai, he’s sure Dazai won’t kill him because once that happens there will be no turning back. So as long as the chance of Dazai returning is not at 0%, Mori will keep Dazai alive until he is sure he won’t have any need for him in the future.

Moving on, this is all rather awkward, but one glaring weakness of Port Mafia right now is just how damn good Mori is at his job. His absence leaves such a vacuum that everything is thrown out of order. There is no one to assume command the same way he can; the successor he’d groomed has long jumped ship. All other candidates for his replacement are woefully inadequate and ill-prepared. It’s a fate which calls to mind those great conquerors whose kingdoms fell into ruin not too long after they have passed away. Again, this is probably why Mori had invited Dazai back even if he was the one who chased him out in the first place.The thing is, no one has shown awareness of this. There has been no talk about any fear for the future, about what would happen post-Mori. The way the mafia acts, they think they’re invincible, that the halcyon days would never come to an end. Never mind that the ADA and maybe even the police had cornered them with their backs pressed against the wall a few couple times. To maf members, their strength and number are enough; sense, caution and tactics can come later. Ironic, considering these are things Mori presumably values and holds in high regards.

The Port Mafia has no unifying goal, so to speak. Of course, the ultimate point of the mafia is to make money, with violence as a currency they are willing to spend on those who won’t bow their heads. It’s a choice of lifestyle for those who enjoy crime and the taste of power… for those who find it easier to be dishonest… and maybe those who simply have nowhere else to go back to like that kid who became Ace’s collared subordinate. The mafia is their home, but unlike with the ADA, they didn’t join to make friends or play house. Again, most of them are probably motivated by money. That’s why when Mori was incapacitated, they didn’t have the same desperation as ADA, even with Hirotsu saying they are fighting to prove their worth by protecting their boss.

Finally, while the Port Mafia are heralded as “wardens of the night” and are comfortable in monitoring and participating in underground dealings and criminal activities in Yokohama, outside of their jurisdiction they hold little power. They have no ties to other organizations, no allies to back them up. ADA can count on the government for support for example. Add to that, Lucy and Poe from the Guild are practically unofficial members now. So how about the mafia? Is it possible that other port cities like Kobe and Nagasaki have their own mafia, and are affiliated with Yokohama’s Port Mafia? What about international ties? Knowing Mori, they should have built up a network of clients and freelancers, ones the executives or the mafia’s Intelligence Division could have called upon once it was clear Mori was in grave danger and that the enemy knows mostly everyone in their organization. Outside help, one which the enemy wouldn’t have suspected, would have gone a long, long way and would have at least messed up some of ADA’s plans.

In wanting to give the heroes some spotlight, Asagiri-san has forgotten that the mafia has just as much as stake as the agency, but are not fighting like it. They are old dogs who won’t learn new tricks, while ADA has this “adapt or die” mindset. They have smartly split up into two groups (or 3, if you count Ranpo by himself) to explore all the options that could save Fukuzawa’s life. It’s probably this difference in their way of thinking that for a “rival organization”, the mafia has become bland and underwhelming.

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[ufocafe]

do all the voltron asks!!

holy moly thanks pal i’ll answer them under the cut bc i anticipate it’ll be Longe since idk how to shut the fuck up

keith: how edgy/emo do u consider yourself to be?

tbh i don’t think i’m that bad like trust me i used to be way worse but overall on the inside i am Soft on the outside i still look hella edgy bc all my clothes are black and it’s just ,, how i look

shiro: are you a good leader and can you handle responsibility?

no and no i am So Bad at being in charge cause i don’t like telling people what to do and i’m a stressed out pushover who avoids anything like group projects at all costs

lance: what’s your type of humor and what’s your favorite meme?

whatever the hell this blog consists of is my humor it’s legit just a shitpost collection. nd my fav meme would probs be the whole cryptid meme trend ? idk if it counts as a meme itself but i lob posts that are like ‘i saw mothman in a overly air conditioned chili’s at 5:47 pm and he bought me a soda’

pidge: are you good w/ technology?

i’d say i’m average for someone my age like i’m a teenager in 2017 so i can operate simple stuff like computers and phones, find how to fix small problems but i’m not a #hacker though i did go to wikihow once to try and learn then gave up after a solid 30 seconds bc it was too hard

hunk: how kind and loyal do you consider yourself?

i’d say i’m pretty kind like i can be rude to a handful of ppl but only cause they’re bad ppl so it evens out. idk bout loyal cause ig it means to stick by your friendos and support them which ofc i do but i can’t say that i like stay by someone’s side thru everything bc sometimes things become Too Much or stuff goes down and u just gotta blast

allura: do you feel underestimated sometimes? and should you totally be the black paladin?

i feel like it’s more overestimated? lots of ppl expect great things from me that i don’t think i can achieve so it’s p stressful. also black paladin allura 4 life

coran: what’s your fav show other than voltron?

i have so many so i’m just gonna name a few; over the garden wall, star vs, gravity falls, stranger things, steven universe, etc.

zarkon: would you consider universe domination for your lost cat/pet

i,, don’t think so ? i mean idk what this question is rly implying like did someone steal my pet and now i gotta take over the world ? or did it die and the only way to like avenge it or whatever is world domination bc probably no to both which sounds heartless since i lob my dog but like everythings gotta die someday and i’m not gonna take over the world to reverse/stop smthn thats inevitable

kaltenecker: do you look good in sunglasses?

not sure i never wear then since i have glasses and rarely go to a beach-like setting but i probably do

slav: are you a perfectionist? do you believe in alternate universes?

i’d say i’m in the middle of perfectionist and absolute walking tornado like i’m so fucking messy and i’ll let stuff pile up until i’m basically living in a dump and i’ll hate it sm but i’m so lazy cause Depression then one day i’ll just do a massive clean up and make everything PERFECT. also yes i like to think theres alternate universes/realities it’s a cool concept to think abt cause it doesn’t exactly affect me it’s not an existential thing like pondering if god exists its more like “i wonder if i’m a duck in another reality”

thace: would you go against the authority if it was the right thing to do?

ofc fuck the authority

haggar: who is your fav character in voltron?

i’d have to say lance i lob my sweet son

matt: what are some things you like abt watching voltron?

i have to admit i’m more into filler episodes rather than fight scenes every few minutes so probably just like all the humor and team bonding it warms my emotionless heart

commander holt: do you like peas?

ya

voltron: are you a team player? do you prefer to work alone?

i rather work alone bc then i get to use all my ideas instead of make a compromise with someone else cause i can never find the voice to speak up for what i want so i just end up watching ppl do stuff i don’t like when there’s stuff i think would be better

blue lion: how trusting and loyal do you think you are?

i already mentioned the loyal thing but for trusting i think i trust too easily? ill just spill beans to ppl i’ve barely known for a long time i wish i was more mysterious but whatevs

red lion: how impulsive and/or decisive are you?

i have 0 impulse control for example i have problems with picking at my skin and i’ll just see a piece kinda tore away and before i know it my fingers are all bloody and i’m like owo what’s this. but when i actually put thought into a decision i am very indecisive because i always wanna make youre i’m making the right choice w/ smthn like choosing classes or buying a certain thing

green lion: how curious are you and what subjects are you interested in?

while being impulsive i’m also quite curious so if i wanna go sneak and see smthn there’s not hesitation. i like english/writing and psychology stuff.

yellow lion: do you consider yourself strong and reliable?

i don’t think i’m either i mean i’ll always be there for ppl if they need me but i don’t really think i’m the best person to lift ppl up even if i wanna

black lion: what are some things you want in season 3?

def more lance and hunk character development, some gay shit (cough klance cough) more team bonding in general, and allura piloting black lion ofc

rover: what’s one fact abt a pet you have/had?

once i had a dog and i can’t recall his breed but he looked just like toto from the wizard of oz and we had him for a few months but he pissed everywhere and on everything so we ended up selling him to some ppl. fast forward to a few months later maybe a year the couple had auditioned him to play toto in the school’s wizard of oz play and he got the part so that was cool

shay: do you love hunk? how do you feel abt the enviroment?

i lob hunk with all my heart he is a sweet bean + i care abt the enviorment a lot i think that with trump as president it’s really gonna go to shit more than it already is bc obv it’s been a dilemma for years now but with the goverment denying climate change and all that i rly fear for our planet

lotor: how concerned are you abt your looks?

i think i’m generally good looking but that’s not to say i’m not concerned with my looks bc i kinda am like ill see myself as cute or smthn but then as soon as acne starts popping up or my hair is bad i kinda just spend the next few days doing whatever i can to fix it so i stay nice hnngh it’s a work in progress

alfor: when faced with conflict, would you rather fight or flee?

i suppose it depends on the type of conflict but i’m most likely to fight until it gets too stressful and then leave

ulaz: would you sacrifice yourself for a cause?

we were asked a similar question in history regarding the dude who discovered gravity or smthn like that idk and it went against the churches beliefs so there was a trial and it was either death or admit he was wrong which is a pretty big thing i guess and we can all say we’d die for what we believed but if it actually came down to it the answer is kinda blurry. i had said i’d say i was wrong then continue to spread my info. underground or just flee but unlucky 4 him he was on house arrest for the rest of his life so choose wisely kiddos

i think i’m gonna sleeb now so bye

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Canada’s COVID-19 plans could include closing schools, cancelling events, but we’re ‘not there yet’

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Canada’s COVID-19 plans could include closing schools, cancelling events, but we’re ‘not there yet’

As more countries around the world report cases of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease, Canadian officials are suggesting that we need to be prepared in case a pandemic eventually reaches us.

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So what are Canada’s plans? They’re still being worked on and will obviously depend a lot on what exactly a COVID-19 outbreak actually ends up looking like in Canada. But we have some clues.

In a briefing to the House of Commons health committee Wednesday evening, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo said that Canada’s approach to a viral outbreak comes in three phases: containment, preparation and mitigation.

Right now, he said, we’re still in the containment phase. But we’re starting to move into preparation.

“At the same time that Canada is maintain its containment posture… we’re also starting to prepare for a possible pandemic,” he said.

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Federal and provincial health officers already meet regularly to discuss preparations, he said.

One foundation of their plan is the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness planning guidelines: a set of documents outlining how Canada evaluates risk and the kind of measures that can be taken to address a viral disease.

The goal, outlined in the plan, is: “First, to minimize serious illness and overall deaths, and second to minimize societal disruption among Canadians as a result of an influenza pandemic.”

A second document, the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Public Health Response Plan for Biological Events, is the other part of the pandemic plan, Njoo said. It includes measures like identifying cases, tracking contacts and ensuring rapid access to medical care.

Dr. Theresa Tam, the chief public health officer of Canada, said Thursday that the plan had been activated and was at level 3 – “escalated,” which triggers response planning.

Individual measures

Other measures that might be considered include public health messaging about things that individuals can do, like washing their hands and staying home when they’re sick.

In a scrum with reporters Wednesday, Health Minister Patty Hajdu told reporters that it might not be a bad idea for people to have around a week’s worth of supplies on hand, similar as they might for other emergencies.

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“There’s no magic to this,” she said. “It’s really about first of all, making sure that you do have enough supplies if someone in your family becomes ill, if you yourself become ill, that you have what you need to survive for a week or so without going outside, to be prepared in terms of your own personal health.

“Maybe people have certain medications on a prescription basis, to have enough on hand.”

Tam echoed this advice Thursday, saying that people should make sure they have prescription medications on hand.

She also recommended that people make plans for taking care of children and others who might become ill, and seek out supports from the community should they need them someday.

0:59 COVID-19: Health Minister says international travelers are to monitor their own health, contact CBSA regarding health issues

COVID-19: Health Minister says international travelers are to monitor their own health, contact CBSA regarding health issues

The government has long advocated that people keep an emergency kit with about 72 hours of basic supplies at home, in case of all types of emergencies, even prolonged power outages.

Social distancing

Community-based measures are where things get more serious, and can include cancelling public events.

3:57 COVID-19’s impact on life for Canadians

COVID-19’s impact on life for Canadians

In a case of widespread transmission, Njoo said, “We would be looking at measures such as what we call ‘social distancing.’

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“Do we need to start looking at cancelling mass gatherings or public events? Would there be things such as looking at what we need to do with schools and students attending schools and people sick in the hospitals and so on?

“So that’s all in the future. We’re certainly not there yet. But we are actually taking a close look and making sure we’re prepared for that.”

Tam also said that people and their employers should be having conversations about working remotely. “Communities, schools and workplaces will also have a role to play in preparing for COVID-19,” she said. “Plans should be put in place to manage possible absences and to ensure business continuity, including flexible work arrangements such as teleworking.”

Organizers of community events should make plans based on advice from local health authorities, she said. Ultimately, she said, decisions to cancel events are made at the local level.

Travel restrictions

Border and travel measures are also listed in the flu pandemic plan, though they’re not recommended highly.

“While aggressive measures (e.g., widespread antiviral use and restriction of movement) to attempt to contain or slow an emerging pandemic in its earliest stages were previously considered possible on the basis of modeling, experience from the 2009 pandemic has resulted in general agreement that such attempts are impractical, if not impossible,” the document reads.

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READ MORE: Going on vacation amid the coronavirus outbreak? Here’s what to know

Right now, international travellers are asked to tell border officers if they’re experiencing flu-like symptoms and are asked a question at the customs kiosk about their travel history. Airlines are also required to report if they have someone sick on their flight, so airport staff can prepare, Njoo said.

People coming from Hubei are asked to limit their contact with others by staying home for 14 days. Other travellers are given an information sheet on what to do if they develop symptoms.

People coming from Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Italy, Iran and South Korea, as well as the rest of mainland China, will be asked to monitor their health for 14 days and report to public health authorities if they develop any suspicious symptoms, Njoo said.

Tam said that border efforts were still focused on travellers from Hubei, China, as this is still the epicentre of the outbreak and where the majority of cases are.

2:14 Travelling during a viral outbreak

Travelling during a viral outbreak

“I have asked Canadians to apply a lot of caution as they’re looking at the March Break obviously, because the March Break is coming,” said foreign affairs minister Francois-Philippe Champagne on Thursday.

Travellers should register their travel plans with the Canadian government and contact the government if something happens, he said.

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They should also check the latest government travel advice before they leave. Travel advisories for China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Italy, Iran and South Korea were recently updated in response to outbreaks in those countries.

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A Quiz After Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos

Or, Why we as Americans are Obsessed with Presidential Elections and Though we Hate Ourselves for it Cannot Get Enough of 2020 Coverage Despite it Still Being 2019 and Our Day-to-Day Troubles Being Plenty Preoccupying:

We as Americans have been told that certain truths are self-evident, namely, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Moreover, the Declaration of Independence goes on to say, governments are instituted to secure these undefined rights. While, in the spirit of English common law, the Declaration then enumerates the injuries and usurpations perpetrated by King George III, Jefferson’s prologue is a masterwork of modern Enlightenment rhetoric.

In Lost in the Cosmos, the novelist Walker Percy wrote:

The Self since the time of Descartes has been stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes to understand bodies and galaxies but is by the very act of understanding marooned in the Cosmos, with which it has no connection. It therefore needs to exercise every option in order to reassure itself that it is not a ghost but is rather a self among other selves.

Percy lays out what is perhaps the fundamental problem animating his work, and, indeed, perhaps life in general:

The fateful flaw of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend through the conjoining of signifier and signified (word uttered and thing beheld), there is one which forever escapes his comprehension—and that is the sign-user himself.

We are unknown, we knowers, to ourselves, and so we have made democracies, to know ourselves writ large.

In a post-religious technological society, Percy finds there are in general but two options for being a self: the immanent, consumer self, who lives in mass society; or the transcendent self, in membership with a community that transcends the world by means of universality, usually art or science. In practice, most people oscillate between these selves.

Participatory governance, partisan national elections—really modern politics—offers immanence and transcendence both, and in a time and place where traditional resources of the self are no longer available, electoral contests have become increasingly integral to identity.

Research by Gallup found that in 1958 only a third of Democrats wanted their daughters to marry a Democrat, with just a quarter of Republicans wished their daughters would marry someone of the Grand Old Party. In 2016, however, Gallup found 60 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of Republicans wanted their child to marry someone of their party.

The American voter, a citizen of the United States and putatively part of one of those same states, a member of a party and a consumer of media, derives an immanent sense of self from participating in elections, actively or passively. She finds a transcendent self in national politics in particular, making, as it does, a claim about American identity and the American idea, which, with its proposals of self-evidence, lays claim to universals.

So, presidential politics especially have become an act of immanence, of consumption and entertainment, the integration of the self into a system by way of participation and fanship, but also of transcendence, with choosing the national executive, a head of state, being totemic—a descriptive, prescriptive, and aspirational representation of We the People, the United States of America.

Question: What kind of people, and what kind of country, and what kind of life, liberty, and happiness is represented by the 2020 candidates for president?

(a) Are we, as President Trump suggests, a once great nation in need of restoration? Have craven elites chosen immigrants and foreign, frontier members of a foolish American empire over their fellow citizens, an existing American people?

(b) Is America an idea, first and foremost, above material conditions? Should Americans join Biden in affirming a restored belief in equality, faith in liberty, and hope in the pursuit that will summon a bright future, where all people pull themselves up by their bootstraps, perhaps with a little help from Uncle Sam?

(c) Or do we, like Sanders, believe that the structures and institutions American workers built have been captured by a global elite, that the system as it currently exists is unjust, and that it is time for payback and for those enriched by the system to pay up?

(d) Does that seem too radical? Do you agree with Warren, that machine politics and too-brazen-to-be-noticed corruption has let Wall Street financialize the economy and capture Washington? That reform can forestall revolution?

(e) Would electing Harris, an African-American woman, bend the arc of history back toward justice—justice being something she presumably knows about as a former prosecutor?

(f) Does the country need a consultant-in-chief to provide vision and innovative, disruptive solutions? Would Buttigieg as America’s first openly homosexual president restore an increasingly female, increasingly minority electorate’s confidence in white men?

(g) Or is it time for white men to take a seat, and the problem with front-runner Joe is that he’s one of them, and it is actually Booker who can deliver the needed message, that if the United States chooses to believe in itself there’s nothing it can’t do?

(h) Are you tired of politicians? Might Yang’s universal basic income of a check for $1,000 a month—along with all his other anti-anti-anti-ideological, technocratic patches on a post-work future—give you space to breath?

(i) Maybe Biden’s too old, and Buttigieg is, somehow, too gay, and O’Rourke is the white man for the job? Does America miss an orator, a first mourner? Do you want a tall skinny guy to keep reminding you this—you know, all this, America—is f*cked up?

(j) Is Gabbard right that the problem under all the other problems is we failed to heed Eisenhower’s warning, and the military industrial complex holds sway in Washington, spending blood and treasure abroad for its own enrichment?

(k) Do demographic changes in the United States mean that someone like Castro is needed to better integrate Hispanic and Latinx citizens and non-citizens into We the People? Do we need a Chicano Obama?

(l) Do we need a Midwestern Hillary? Can Klobuchar bring no-nonsense Midwestern practicality to the White House along with a feminine touch?

(m) Are billionaires fine if they spend money on the environment and other nice social efforts? Is Steyer the right billionaire to take on billionaire Trump? Is the United States a country that makes billionaires? Are we just missing old WASP noblesse oblige?

(n) Is America a real, progressive—yes we don’t like the word, but—empire? Couldn’t that require Empire City and Empire State experience? After all, Trump was elected. Are we the Biggest Apple in the world? Could de Blasio actually be the good emperor we want?

(o) Are we deeply, deeply ill? Depressed and bigoted and violent and scared and in so, so much pain we don’t understand? Can Williamson help us raise our national consciousness, to pray to God to save us from the dark psychic—that means of the soul, originally—forces oppressing us? Can she help us love?

[Pick one]

Thought Experiment: Imagine that a man emerged in the public eye who was truly of the people, who knew the brokenness of the world but also saw it someday whole. He spoke truth to power and messages of hope and love to the desperate and the hurting. For the rich he had nothing but warnings and admonitions; to the poor he reached a healing hand—in fact his health care plan was perfect. He promised a rod of iron to break the armies of injustice, but for the humble a tender caress and joyful laugh of peace on earth and good will to all men. He saw us as we really are: God-imaged creatures who might become splendors, but also twisted. He saw into the deepest darkness of our fear and our shame and our evil. To be seen like that, shown like that—would you be comforted? Would you be terrified? Is hope in a world to come enough for you? Do you need your kingdom of heaven now?

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The short version of this is: recognizing your weaknesses, and tackling them, is arguably more important than recognizing your strengths.

As a side note: before you decide to downsize from two computers to one (from one for work/travel and one for home, down to one for work/travel that you actually mostly leave at work) be REALLY sure that you’re not gonna decide randomly at 9pm to type a blog post and realize you only have your iPad, which does not (currently) have a real keyboard. Guess I know what I want for Christmas (but mom, or grandma, or Joe (lol he never reads my blog posts), if you’re reading this, make sure it’s a nice quality one, and it compatible with the apple iPad pro 2017 model, 10.7in. I’ll try and put a few on my amazon wishlist.)

But, luckily, I don’t live alone! My love, who is currently doing an online class using his desktop, let me use his Surface, which does have a really nice keyboard. So alas, here we are, at 9pm on a Tuesday, writing a blog post.

So, really, the words I wrote (in my “journal” aka my notability document for this week) that really inspired me to write this hopefully eventually motivational post were; “You’re not actually stupid.” And just to summarize where that came from real quick: I’m a scientist, a physical chemist, who has to deal with LOTS of quantum chemistry and quantum mechanics, and I’m not…..a math person. I’m CAPABLE of it, don’t get me wrong, but it takes me a long time, and a lot of effort and working through it six ways before I understand it. English (if you believe it) and history? Had those in the bag. Chemistry? Literal blow off class in high school, loved it in college. Biology? Ehh okay that one was just….not my friend. Math? Well, lets just say that what Florida State passes off as a math minor does NOT cut it for my line of work. And that’s okay. I gotta learn it, but I also gotta go through some self doubt to get there. And that’s okay.

[if you’re like...real real sensitive to death, this paragraph may feel realllllllllly harsh and cold, but it’s just how i’ve been coping and also, how I feel like my grandpa would want me to be coping tbh, carry on] Okay now, I’m gonna blame my Grandpa Thane for like a solid half of why Quantum is probably so hard for me. And that’s okay, I can do that, he won’t mind. He’d laugh and tell me “okay yeah sure Carli”. God I miss that laugh. Anyway. He went ahead and died right in the middle of my last semester of undergrad, which also happened to be the semester I was traveling a ton and taking Quantum. So on top of being busy af, I had to deal with a very strong emotion I’d never dealt on this scale before: grief. So it’s probably safe to say that my memories of undergraduate quantum could definitely be better.

But I passed the class, okay? I got through it, and I got through Statistical Mechanics last semester which was also a very heavy maths-based physical chemistry class, and I’m going to get through this Quantum chemistry class because I know that it’s going to be hard. I know how to ask for help, how to identify what people are going to be the most helpful for me, and I know how to study my ass off. And I’ve learned all these skills through a laborious process of becoming a professional scientist despite being mentally ill, and also, because I knew I had weaknesses, acknowledged them, and got help.

I tutored first generation students while I was at FSU (I was one too, consequently) and I can say that hands down, the reason that students ended up struggling as much as they did is that they waited too long to ask for help. Now, whether that was lack of knowledge, or shame, or fear, I can’t be sure. But I can promise you, students who asked for help as soon as they realized they were struggling were the ones who were ultimately successful. Additionally, students who were even more successful were those who knew what kind of help they needed. If they knew it was math or algebra they were struggling with, they told me. If they knew it was question comprehension, we worked on looking for keywords and finding example problems they’d already done. The most effective learners are not people who just seem to magically know everything, they’re people who understand what it is going to take for the information to get effectively encoded, and go through whatever process that may take.

Now, maybe someday I’ll actually have time to read psychology literature again, and I’ll be able to give sources and all kinds of goodies to my information, but for now, take it as firsthand knowledge; asking for help is 99% proven to help you understand something better. I’m going to reserve the 1% for really awful instructors and tutors who just...cant communicate their knowledge effectively, but that’s on them, not you.

So here’s CJ’s sleepy guide to how to be a better student

TAKE NOTES. Even if you think it’s not necessary, take notes. Pay attention, write things down, because sometimes you hear things and it makes sense, and when you try to write it on paper or rephrase it you’re like….wait hold on.

BE KIND TO YOURSELF. Not everyone understands everything immediately. And that’s okay. Brains are incredibly complex and literally no two human brains are identical. Epigentetics, nature vs nurture, it all makes sure that your brain is unique, and will have its own unique strengths and weaknesses.

IDENTIFY WHAT KIND OF LEARNER YOU ARE. I’m an auditory learner. If someone walks me through something, step by step, talking out loud while I write, I learn it immediately. I’m not visual at all. I only got through biochem because some friends helped me make a (0,1) binary-esque verbal code for how sugars were oriented. But if you learn by working through something, or drawing a picture, great! Know that about yourself and take that with you when you ask for help.

TIME MANAGE. Keep a planner, or a journal, or a calendar, or even just use your phone calendar. Plan your time effectively, but not strictly. Use pomodoro timers if you want (25 minutes work, 5 minutes break). I also sometimes play “0’s and 5’s” with myself, wherein, if I get distracted, I can stay distracted until the clock hits a 0 or a 5, and then I have to get back to work. If you’re someone who has to cut yourself off from everything, that’s okay. Learn what is going to help you be the most effective, and don’t EVER wait til the last minute to do something unless you absolutely have to. My goal is to always be a minimum 2-days ahead on school work, but I feel much more comfortable if it’s a week.

ASK FOR HELP. Find your weaknesses. Learn the stuff you can on your own, and then figure out what has you confused. Go to a tutor, or your professor, or a TA. And if the first one you ask doesn’t seem to be able to help you, ask another one. Ask friends who understand what you don’t. Don’t be afraid. You aren’t stupid. There are things you can do that no one else can do as easily, and someone will probably need your help there at some point in time too. Just….it’s okay to feel down about having a hard time, but remember rule #2 and remind yourself you aren’t actually stupid, you just haven’t asked the right question of the right person yet.

That’s all I have for now. I have so much in my head that might eventually be useful to someone, and that’s part of why I write this. Whether it’s useful because it helps people understand themselves, or if it’s because it helps them pass a test, I don’t care. I just needed a place to put these sorts of things, so alas, here we are. Blog post 3. Maybe eventually this class will end and I can go to bed, because boy has this been a long week already. And it’s only Tuesday.

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