do you guys ever get a bit of unfortunate news and skip Reacting completely over. unrelated update, our piece of crap good for nothing loser Kia needs her entire engine replaced, the engine itself is going to be $6k. the installation and shit is going to be another ~$1500. I'm going to blow up a building
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WIP Wednesday
One of my several ongoing Nieyao projects - an excerpt from a Nieyao (that will eventually turn into 3zun) extra for Tales From Jianghu Shopping Center :)
As is unfortunately common for Meng Yao’s Wednesday nights, the first thought he has at roughly 8:47pm is hands, hands, hands in a sort of…mildly obsessive loop that only ends when he forces himself to tip his head back enough to instead see (and think) shoulders, shoulders, shoulders. It feels like he has to tip his head back as far as it can go before he finally sees the guy’s face, but unfortunately he’s handsome enough that that’s not much better than drooling over his stupid massive hands, or his even more idiotically broad shoulders.
“Hey,” Gym Guy says, friendly enough around the way he can’t seem to ever talk like he’s isn’t two seconds away from getting pissed off.
“Hey. The usual?” Two loads for the wash. Pre-soak, hot wash, hot rinse, extra rinse on cold, spin dry. One load for the dryer, 80 minutes, extra-dry. No soap needed, he brings his own. Dryer sheets, yes, he never remembers to snag them from his house on his way out.
“Yep.”
Meng Yao has the change - in quarters, of course - for his $10 bill and a couple of dryer sheets ready to slide across the counter before Gym Guy even pulls out his wallet.
“4 and 5 are free if you want, and you can throw it all in dryer 1 when they’re done washing. The others aren’t running as hot as they should, you’ll probably end up with some stuff still damp otherwise.”
As usual, Gym Guy thanks him with a gruff little nod (that Meng Yao tends to ride the high of for the rest of his shift) before he turns and hauls two enormous canvas bags of laundry through the dingy laundromat like they don’t weigh anything at all. Meng Yao watches him and wonders if the guy could bench press him. He definitely looks like he could, anyway.
Meng Yao allows himself roughly four minutes to watch Gym Guy as he bends over and loads armfuls of towels and a few random odds and ends of clothing into the two industrial-sized washing machines conveniently located straight ahead from the counter behind which he’s perched. Any longer than four minutes and he knows the likelihood of him being able to look away (preferably without getting caught) decreases dramatically, so he never allows himself to look longer.
When his four minutes (and forty-seven seconds) are up, Meng Yao regretfully looks away from the shift of Gym Guy’s muscles through his white t-shirt and goes back to the busy work he’d assigned himself for the night, expressly for the purpose of distracting him from Gym Guy. Not that he doesn’t typically end up doing way more than his job description entails, of course, but Gym Guy is distracting enough that Meng Yao has to assign himself something to avoid making a fool out of himself.
He settles in to go back to his project with a little creak of the ancient stool underneath him, the clanking of quarters dropping into the metal boxes and the hum and slosh of first one machine and then the other helping to soothe some of the adrenaline-spiked energy humming under his skin.
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So I’m in my toy collecting era, but now it’s reaching a new level because now I’m getting interested in doll customizing. I’m partially blaming Monster Prom, because I realized how perfectly the characters would fit into the Monster High universe and decided I needed to see them as Monster High dolls (I’m mapping things out in my head and decided that Miranda will probably be the easiest since I can just use a g3 Lagoona, all I’d really have to do is do a little bit of painting and then figure out how to reroot doll hair, which is something I’ll have to do for most of them).
After scrolling through the eBays and the etsys, I have one question: whyyyy are my hobbies so expensiveeee??
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In Japan, pet fish playing Nintendo Switch charges the owner's credit card
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Here’s something you don’t see every day. Pet fish playing a video game Japan managed to log into the Nintendo Switch Store, change their owner’s avatar, set up a Pay Pal account, and collect a credit card bill.
And everything seemed to be streamed live in real time on the internet.
The fish in question belong to a YouTuber named Mutekimaru, whose channel is popular with the gaming…
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