#since my mom will ‘borrow’ money from me for it later

[mummydommythe3rd]

BLACKMAILED PART 1/3

I watched the latest video you sent me and laughed as I typed out my response.

"Good! That's enough practice! Now altogether! Do a curtsey, showing the bulk of your diaper, say 'Oh, I have to make poopies!', crouch down, and then smile into the camera and say 'Making Poopies make me so horny!' Then you can release your enema. God it? Go!"

A few minutes later I got the perfect video back. I had to hold back a laugh as I watched you humiliate yourself.

I hadn't even meant for it to go this far, but you were so gullible and easy to convince. When I first saw your profile on that kink site, and saw that one of your listed kinks was 'blackmail'...the plan had been growing and taking shape in my mind.

I messaged you and you informed me that you wanted to be blackmailed into doing all kinds of sexy things, whatever I wanted. Luckily for me 'sexy' is a very broad term that can describe many things to lots of people...including diapers.

The first thing I did was ask you your address and the numbers of a few people close to you. After all, is it even a blackmail kink if there's no danger?

After that, the tasks started easily enough. 'go suck your dildo and send me the video.' then it was 'wear a pair of panties'. It was somewhat of a challenge since you were still living at home, but soon I had you jerking off in your 'borrowed' panties, and fucking yourself with increasingly larger dildos.

Then I sent you your first package of diapers. You tried to rebel, you said this was too far...but I just responded with: "lol, stop fussing and go put on your diaper... Unless you want your mom to watch a fun video of you licking your jizz from her panties." You, of course, crumbled like a ball of dry sand.

From there it only got worse and worse for you. DIapers, latex dresses, all kinds of gags and restraints. I could just picture you panicking and rushing to beat your family to snatch away a package and sequester it away in your room before anyone else could notice the many packages you were receiving.

Last week though, I got drunk and decided to message you something I would have never sent sober.

"Blackmailing you under social pressure is getting kind of old. Wouldn't legal pressure be so much more fun? Why don't you go do a crime for me. That way I know you'll always be mine."

"WHAT?! I CAN'T DO THAT!" you responded immediately.

"You have 48 hours to get me ten grand from your work or I'll send all your videos to your parents, your friends, and everyone else you've ever met."

the three dots showed you typing something, but I just turned off my computer and went to bed. To be honest I completely forgot about it. I was so drunk that my memories of the night were pretty hazy. The app we used didn't allow screenshots, and the texts were automatically deleted within an hour, so how was I supposed to remember? The only evidence of any of our interactions was the large folder of videos and pictures you'd sent me.

My memory only came back when you texted me again "I have the money. Management is pissed AF but they have no idea who did it. Please don't make me do that again!"

I immediately remembered everything and why I wanted you to get that money. I was just shocked that you'd actually gotten it!

"That's great baby! Now send me a video admitting to the theft. Tell the camera how you stole it because you were thinking of all the pretty diapers and dildos that much money could buy. Be cute! Girly! Bubbly!"

You left the message on read for a while. I could picture you anxiously pacing your room, freaking out at how far this had all gone.

"You have two minutes for a convincing confession...or your family and friends are going to learn a lot about you very quickly."

The video came soon after. As I'd trained you, you burbled and smiled like a ditzy baby-bimbo, describing the sizes and pretty colors of diapers you could get, and how you could now get all the dildos you could ever want. More crucially, you admitted to the theft, and even showed the money you'd taken.

All of that had led up to now. I smiled as I watched your latest video with the volume muted. your face was childishly wrinkled as you filled your diaper with the massive enema.

I almost didn't send the next message. It was almost too mean, but I couldn't resist. I had to see how far this could go.

"Good girl! Now, dressed just as you are, I want you to walk into whatever room your family is in right now."

"BUT I'VE DONE EVERYTHING YOU ASKED!!" you screamed via text.

"I'm not sending them anything!" I stated.

"WHY! PLEASE! I'LL DO ANYTHING!"

"You sure will! 😂 you're going to walk in there and admit to being a pathetic little baby, and you're going to beg on your hands and knees that they convert your bedroom into a nursery."

"I CAN'T DO THAT!"

"Sure you can. Beg, cry, and scream like a toddler if you have to...I have a feeling you'll be crying anyway, so you might as well use it to get your nursery."

You started to type something multiple times, but there was nothing to say, so I sent another message.

"You're going to show them that money. You're going to tell them you saved up all of it just for this nursery. Show them pictures of other adult baby nurseries. Babble excitedly about cribs, changing tables, high chairs, dresses, dollies, stuffies...THE WORKS! You're to insist on 24/7 diapers and chastity because you just can't resist blowing your little loads into your pampers. Maybe later when you're desperate you can beg your sister-in-law to hook you up with a bull and let a real man fuck you."

"PLEASE NO! PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU!"

"You're going to do it all, or everyone gets everything. In addition to being outed as a Huggies-humping little pervert, you'll be a felon. There's really no choice at all for you, is there?"

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"

"I believe everyone should live their honest true lives. You're a pathetic baby-dicked little pervert, and now you get to live like it!"

"I CAN'T!"

"Start a video recording on your phone, then put it in your pocket. Walk into the living room and tell them everything about the life you need. after you send that video tonight, I'll break contact with you for a while.

"You'll be done with me? Really?

"For a bit. Just to give you and your family some time. In a month I'll give you a call. If your phone is disconnected, I'll call your mom and pretend to be an old school friend."

"Why?!"

"To make sure you did your job. If you're not living full-time in a nursery as I've already described, I'll release everything, and you can be a baby in prison instead of a baby with your family."

There was no way out. You knew it. I knew it. There was nothing you could do or say. Even if you only asked for some of the babyish things, I'd eventually be told the truth. Your life was starting over right now, and you had to come to terms with it.

"They'll kick me out of the house! They won't do any of that stuff you want!" You whined.

"You'd be surprised. I bet at least one family member will take great interest in aiding with your transformation."

"My step-sister, maybe, but she hates me! She'll make my life an utter nightmare! Please! What if I do something else even MORE Embarrassing?!?" You begged.

"Good luck. Make sure you ask for hormones too. Time for you to upgrade from those cheap breast forms." I responded curtly, and then turned off my laptop.

I knew what you were doing. You were toddling back and forth in your soiled diaper, cursing me, cursing yourself, wondering how you could have been so stupid, trying to find the nonexistent way out of your literal and figurative mess.

I watched the movie playing on the living room TV and waited.

You walked into the room. Immediately, Mom and my Step-dad looked at you and burst into laughter. I joined them. You didn't notice that my laugh was borne from victory as much as amusement. My mom and your dad both thought this was some prank or joke...some dare that you'd lost. My mom laughed until she was crying while you just stood there, fidgeting and looking at the floor.

You squished forward wincing as the dress squeaked and rustled with your every move.

"Hey step-bro, you've never looked better! It fits you!" I laughed.

You shot me a dirty hate-filled look, then turned to the parents. Your face was bright cherry-red; far redder than I'd ever seen before.

"D-dad....Mom....There's, um, well. Something I need to tell you."

You looked at me with a dagger-laden glance before adding "In private!"

[mixvyu]

Parfum d’étoile - episode twenty-seven

scaramouche x reader smau

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You could see Scaramouche from the window of his car, looking down at his phone.

He didn’t seem to notice you as you waved at him but it didn’t stop you from walking over and knocking on the window.

You wave again and put your hands together as a quiet apology before going to the other side of his black Mercedes to the passager seat.

You threw yourself onto the soft seat and left out a long sigh, finally getting to sit down and relax after minutes of running around your apartment to not be any later than you already were.

"Hey."

"Oh hi ! Sorry I’m late" you said, breathing heavily after each word

"It’s fine, it’s kind of on brand with you anyways."

The car fell into silence after his sentence

. After seconds that felt like hours of him not starting the engine you decided to take matters into your own hands and strike the conversation

"You have a nice car !"

"Yeah it was my mom’s. She gave it to me when i got into college."

"Oh that’s nice… So uh… Where are we going ?"

"I have absolutely no idea."

"What ?"

" I don’t know where to go."

"Oh… Wait, what??"

"We should probably eat first since it’s noon."

"Uh… sure of course" you answered, still stunned by the revelation that he did not have anything planned.

"Kazuha said something about going to the Aquarium but i don’t really want to spend the day looking at fishes."

"Yeah, I don’t think aquariums are for first dates"

‘First dates’ he thought, by that logic there would also be a second, a third or even maybe a fourth.

What you thought about was the thought the he asked his friends for advice and that you weren’t the only one self conscious about all of this.

"Let’s go to McDonalds." His sentence pulled you out of your thoughts.

"What ?"

"Let’s go to McDonalds." He repeated, he didn’t really know what he was saying at that point

"Huh ?"

"I said-"

"No no I-! I heard what you said it’s uh… Why ? I was thinking of a place more first date-ey to be honest."

"The study sessions."

" ? "

"Kazuha got to pick Japanese food, you picked Italian after that but I didn’t get to pick."

"Oh yeah, that’s true"

"You don’t want to ?"

"No it’s- it’s fine with me"

"We can get something through the drive through and drive around and listen to music and speak about everything and everyone, that could be fun"

Now that he said it like that, it did sound fun : simply fooling around with him with no goal in mind seemed like a first date you could remember

"Yeah, that could be fun"

-★-

"Give me one or your nuggets"

"Should’ve ordered some for yourself"

"I paid for this ! Atleast let me have one !"

"Look at the road, god ! Do you want us to die or something ?!"

"It’s fine I’m an excellent driver" he said, snatching a chicken nugget from between your lips right into his mouth before getting his eyes back on the road.

"You’re a dick, Kuni."

"Don’t go dirtying the car now i just washed it"

"Huh ? You washed it for me ?"

"No dumbass i washed it because Childe borrowed it and he apparently can’t clean after himself."

"Well the name checks out"

You could hear a slight chuckle from the man beside you and it made you feel proud.

This date wasn’t actually, going as badly as you thought it would, it felt nice and casual to just spend time with Scaramouche.

Alex G was playing on his car speaker and the grey sky outside made it feel weirdly soothing.

"Where do you want to go after this ?"

"Wherever i don’t really care."

"God you’re so annoying."

"How is it my fault that you invite me on a date but don’t have a plan in head?!"

"Let’s go to the mall I have something to buy."

"Ooh I saw nice pants last time! You’ll buy them for me right ?" You said jokingly expecting a ‘no way in hell’ from him

"Sure, i don’t really care"

"Huh ? I was joking you know…"

"I’m not, I have money to spend might as well spend it."

"Do you wanna be my sugar daddy ?"

"Aren’t I already ?"

He stopped the car in the mall’s parking lot without you even noticing you were even approaching the mall already.

He stepped out of the car and closed his side before going to the other side and opening up the door for you.

"Ma’am."

"Woah, so gentlemanly."

"I know right."

Now that you were both out of the car you could finally examine what he wore.

It was your first time seeing him wear a button down and it didn’t look so bad, the black tie that he wore with it was slightly loosen to give more style probably. The color of his tie matched his pants, black baggy jeans with holes on each knees and he added a dark jacket to protect himself against the chilly air from outside.

It seemed like whatever he was wearing was fitting of him and it pissed you off.

"Quit staring."

"It’s weird seeing you with a button down"

"You saw me with one when i went to eat with my mom dumbass"

"Did I ? I don’t remember that."

You don’t know if he did it subconsciously or on purpose but scaramouche intertwined your fingers like it was nothing, hand and hand and dragging you into the shopping mall.

You didn’t say anything about it, scared that if you did speak up he would pull away. You just wanted to enjoy the warmth of his hand for a few moments longer.

-★-

Your hands came apart when you entered his car for the second time. Scaramouche pulled away so easily you couldn’t help but let out a disappointed sigh and hoped he didn’t notice (he did)

"So… what else should we do ?"

"We could drink that wine of yours"

You pointed to the plastic bag in which a bottle of french red wine he just bought that was sitting next to the bag filled with clothes that he insisted on buying you

"Uh you’re nice and all but this is a 1973 grand cru."

"Ok ? And ?"

"This bottle was 1.5k i’m not opening it for you."

"Come on, it would be fun !"

" I won’t be able to drive home, you know that right ?"

"We can uber home and you’ll get your car tomorrow !"

"You’re so fucking annoying" Scaramouche said as he started the car

"Where are we going"

"A cliff."

"What for ?"

"So i can kill us both." He sighed in annoyance, not satisfied with the decision he just made "To drink the wine dipshit, what else ?"

A satisfied smile crept on your face as you looked ahead of you, the sky was clearer now and it was a beautiful shade of blue.

You checked the time, wondering how long you’ve been on this date already.

You ignored the countless notifications from your friend group, not wanting to text friends while being with Scaramouche.

Your phone read ‘3:49’

Your shopping session was obviously way longer than expected and you kind of felt bad to use his money but also very satisfied with the purchases he made. You knew that whenever you’d tell Mona she won’t let it go ever.

Scaramouche had been weirdly sweet during the day, you wondered if he’d be like that if you ever dated him then started to hate yourself when you realised what you were thinking about.

Still dating Scaramouche doesn’t seem that bad ; he was rich, good looking, fun to be around, rich, dressed well, rich, had really good grades, was sweet (at time) and was filthy rich.

Settling with a guy like him didn’t seem like such a bad idea and you wanted so hard to hate the thought of it but you couldn’t.

"What is it ?" Scaramouche had noticed you staring

"I just thought that we’ve been driving for a while" you lied "where is that fucking cliff of yours ?"

"Out of town."

"What ? How are we gonna go back ?"

"I’ll drive of course"

"Drunk driving really isn’t safe you know ?"

"I’m not going to have more than one drink i’m not an alcoholic" like Kazuha, he wanted to add but he didn’t want to speak of him while on a date with you "I refuse to leave a fucking Mercedes out there in the wild, i’m gonna bring this baby back to the dorm parking lot before i go to bed i swear"

"Ooh so you’re that kind of car lover."

"What is that supposed to mean ?"

"Nothing in particular."

-★-

You checked your phone once again

6:01

Scaramouche drove for more than two hours which was surprising to you.

Time flew by fast with countless conversations and improvised karaoke.

You were still grinning ear to ear getting out of his car and finally being able to stretch properly.

You heard the car trunk close violently and turned around to see Scaramouche holding two wine glasses and a bottle of wine that seemed different than the one you pointed to earlier

"So you basically got me the cheap version ?"

"Yup!" He said not an ounce of shame in his voice "This is still 200 bucks i’m sure you’ll live"

"What if I don’t ?"

He ignored you and simply sat on the hood of his car.

It felt wrong to sit on the hood of a car that was worth more than all of your belongings put together but if he did it you might as well.

You happily took the glass he was offering you from his hands before he pour down some of the liquid from the wine bottle he just opened

"You’re not going to poison me, are you ?"

"I might" he replied pouring himself a glass

"Cheers" you said, both at the same time.

Scaramouche took a small sip while you downed your whole glass in a matter of seconds

"Not even appreciating the taste, jesus"

Silence fell onto the both of you, a comfortable one.

You let your head fall onto his shoulder, closing your eyes, almost drifting off the sleep before adding quietly

"I really wanted you to like me, Kuni"

He didn’t speak but you knew he heard you.

Your eyes opened once again when you felt his head on top of yours, both of your bodies being warmed up by the other’s

You stayed like that for hours that felt like minutes. Staring at the sun hiding from your view for the day, the orange aspect of the sky adding a little something to the already perfect evening.

Your heart was beating fast and you hoped that Scaramouche’s was too.

After countless of small meaningless conversations, it was sadly time to go home

-★-

You yawned

"I’m so tired"

"We’re almost there, don’t worry."

10:36

You could see the familiar lights and building of your town and it felt bittersweet.

You didn’t really want the day to end yet.

Even though you barely did anything, you felt awfully close to him and you liked that feeling.

The car stopped and you knew that it meant you arrived at the front of your apartment but you still checked outside hoping that maybe you were wrong.

You weren’t.

You could see the windows of your living room from there and it felt like they were mocking you.

You stepped out of the car, legs almost giving out because of how long you spent sitting.

Scaramouche was still in the car, hands on the steering wheel and he looked like he was more than read to leave.

The window from the driver seat was opened so you leaned in to be heard better

"Today was fun, we should do that again"

"Yeah."

"Well then, goodnight."

"What ? You aren’t claiming the hundreds of dollars worth of clothes in my backseat ?"

The grin on his face made you want to slap him but you simply sighed.

He got out of the car and gave you your(his) purchases

"You’re being awfully gentlemanly tonight"

"I’m always like that"

You faked a cough

"Well-"

His lips suddenly crashed on yours, unexpectedly and they tasted like cherry.

His sudden kiss made you gasp and he used the opportunity to slip his tongue into your mouth

You closed your eyes letting him explore your mouth all he wanted, letting a few moans and whimpers here and there.

Before you even had the chance to grab him he cruelly pulled away panting slightly before leaving a soft peck on your now swollen lips.

Your face was burning up and it was hard to catch your breath but you still managed to whisper

"What… What was that…?"

"The kiss i owed you. It’s a little late though so I apologise.

He planted another kiss on your lips and barely pulled away before whispering

"Have a good night, Y/N"

And with that, he turned around, got into his car and drove away. Leaving you frozen and speechless on your own doorstep.

Extras!

My friend said "we better kiss or i’ll throw hands" and i had to act like i wasn’t sure it was so hard i wanted to say it so bad

We did kiss i hope you guys are finally happy 😞

Uh next chapter not so happy it’s not angst but it’s frustrating

I’m writing those notes on the 17th i haven’t even finished chapter 26

Oh em gee Bojack Horseman reference

Why are kissing scenes so embarrassing to write omg

No proofreading we die like men

Went to sleep at 8am just for you guys ughh i have to be awake in 4hrs why do i do this to myself

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[compassionatereminders]

tw: suicide

i'm currently 24, i have meet my best friend when we were 15 for a while... and when i say a while i mean years at least 3 years she is just taking advantage of me. she has this boyfriend they spend money like crazy (only her bf works she doesn't work atm) and a lot of times she borrows money from me. 80% of the time i don't get my money back but i sometimes don't mind because she has a daughter (this bf is not the father btw so he doesn't spend much money on her daughter) and i feel so bad for her kid.

my friend got pregnant at age 17 and i love her daughter a lot. it feels like i'm her aunt or something (she does call me an aunt as well) she feels like family to me. a lot of times i would also willingly buy her something because i feel bad that she doesn't have things she needs. her ex pays child support but my friend spends that money mostly on herself. this is also where his involvement ends, he pays child support and maybe he sees his daughter once every month or so.

i'm sorry if this is getting boring to read so i will get to the point. my friend only calls me when she needs someone to babysit her kid. and when she needs money. she loves going out with her bf and a lot of times, probably 3 times per week i babysit her daughter. i don't actually spend much time with my friend at all when i come to her to babysit we maybe talk for less than 5 minutes because she's always in a hurry and when she is back she is tired or needs to do something so we don't talk more than a few minutes either.

one day she got even mad when i couldn't babysit even if i'm single it doesn't mean i always have free time just for her.

since i implied or try to imply our friendship doesn't works out anymore (2 days ago) she threatened me she will kill herself because she is very depressed. i know she doesn't have a perfect life and she goes to a psychologist (but she was never dealing with suicidal thoughts, and she never ever said to me since we know each other that she wanted to hurt or kill herself).

now i do feel really bad because i think what if something happened then it would be my fault? she never said to me that she ever threatened any ex boyfriends with suicide (we talk about a lot of things i know she wanted to keep her ex boyfriends but she never used this tactic with them as far as i know) so i think why would she do this to me? makes me think that she a) not lying and she wants to kill herself b) she never used this tactic with her any of her ex boyfriends but she knows am an emotional person and she is trying this with me even if i'm just her friend and not her intimate partner.

i would also feel so bad for her daughter if i break off this friendship. her dad doesn't give a s**t about her, and dad's family (grandma and grandpa) don't really care about her either. my friend's mom & dad are not good people her mom is physically abusive & her dad is an alcoholic so they're not good grandparents to be around with.

i really can't stand this friendship anymore it feels like i'm her personal butler or something "hey i need a babysitter come here" and "i need to borrow some cash, can we meet"... she used to be a good person and honestly i was waiting for her to "turn back" into old her but that never happened.

so sorry for such a long post but should i feel responsible? like if something happens would it be my fault? my common sense says: no, but when i start thinking about it i think maybe it would be my fault because i abandoned her. she called me so many times how she wants to kill herself and sent me like 7 messages already just when i started implying we should not be friends anymore... i didn't really say it but i was hinting at it because i didn't know how to word it... since then i saw her in person today and she was telling me how she wants to kill herself, this time she spoke with me more than a few minutes, we talked like 45 minutes but mostly she talked how she would kill herself if i stopped being her friend.

later she happily went out with her bf... her mood changed completely she went from stressed, almost crying, panicking, threatening she wants to kill herself and even how she would do it... then she would change into this bubbly smiling person when she went out. and ofc she only called me to chat and for babysitting...

This "friend" is using you, and her response to you trying to establish the boundaries you need is not just unfair, but abusive. Her mental health, her economy and her child are NOT your responsibility. And she has no right to threaten you into not establishing the boundaries you need. No matter what happens from here, it won't be your fault or your responsibility. Your responsibility is yourself, and that means walking away from people who use, manipulate and abuse you. Even when they make it hard.

#chat with kat #suicide tw #suicide threats tw #manipulation tw #guilt tripping tw #psychological abuse tw #abuse tw #emotional abuse tw

[50calmadeuce]

Ch. 8: The Break Up and Flight

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It was late, and you and Leslie were tidying up in the living room when Sean entered.

Leslie gathered the plates you'd collected. "I'll catch up with you later," she said, heading towards the kitchen.

Turning to Sean, you said, "We need to talk."

He settled on the edge of the couch. "I agree."

You approached him slowly, removing the engagement ring as you did so. When you reached him, you extended it towards him. "I can't. I'm sorry."

He accepted it, his expression resigned. "I had a feeling." He looked up at you. "Was it something I did?"

You perched on the edge of the coffee table and reached for his hand. "No, Sean. It wasn't you. It's me. It always has been. The same thing happened with Ben." You took a deep breath. "I've been in love with someone since I was sixteen."

Sean looked at you, his expression a mix of surprise and realization. "Someone from the past?"

You nodded. "Jake Seresin. He was my first love, and I never fully moved on. I thought I did, I tried to, but it was always there, lingering. I recently found out something about him and I can't deny how I feel."

He sighed, a heavy acknowledgment of the truth. "I appreciate your honesty, Y/N. It's better to know now than later. I wish you the best, truly."

You squeezed his hand, gratitude in your eyes. "Thank you for understanding, Sean. You deserve someone who can give you their whole heart."

The both of you stood up, a touch of sadness in Sean's eyes. "I always thought it was my imagination, that something was missing in our relationship." He sighed. "I'll move my stuff to the guest room and leave tomorrow."

"You're a good man, Sean."

"Thank you."

The two of you embraced, and when you separated, Sean met your gaze, leaned over and gently kissed your cheek. "Good luck, Y/N."

"Thanks," you said, your eyes following him as he ascended the stairs.

Leslie entered the living room, her expression a mix of concern and curiosity. "Well, that didn't go as bad as I thought."

You turned to face her, a thoughtful look on your face. "I often wondered why he proposed. There was always something missing."

"So, now what?"

"So, my mother left a clause in the Will."

"What was that?"

"I have a trust of 1.5 million dollars waiting for me. James got the ranch, of course, but I was left with some money."

"Y/N. That's great!"

"The trust is for Jake and Y/N Seresin."

"Oh," Leslie remarked, processing this revelation with a thoughtful nod. "So, I guess your mom also figured it out. Everyone except for you."

You exchanged a knowing smile with Leslie. "Yeah, I guess." You settled onto the couch, and Leslie joined you. "Did I ever tell you about Mandolin Rain?"

Perplexed, Leslie looked at you. "No."

"Remember that night we went to the carnival and Jake came home soaking wet?"

"Oh my, yes! The two of you looked like drowned rats."

"I convinced Jake to come out in the rain and just enjoy it."

Leslie raised an eyebrow. "Seriously?"

"Yeah. That's when he first told me he loved me. Right there in the pouring rain."

Leslie's eyes widened in surprise. "Wow, that's... actually kind of romantic."

"Yeah, it was," you admitted, a fond smile tugging at the corners of your lips. "We stood there, drenched, and he just said it. It was one of those moments you never forget. Then when we got in the truck to go home, 'Mandolin Rain' by Bruce Hornsby and the Range came on. We made it our song."

"Never thought Jake had it in him."

You met Leslie's eyes. "There's a lot more to Jake than you think."

"Well, he's my brother, so...what are you going to do?"

"I guess I'm going to go after him. The question is, where do I start?"

"I know he's talked about some bar called The Hard Deck. He hangs out there a lot."

"Of course he would."

Leslie shrugged. "It's a start at least."

You were fortunate enough to secure a flight from Austin to San Diego the very next morning.

You and Leslie shared a heartfelt embrace, promising to stay in touch more often now that you had made the decision to return home or live with Jake, depending on how things unfolded.

As you boarded the plane, your heart raced with anticipation. The thought of reuniting with Jake, of finally facing the feelings you both shared, filled you with a mix of excitement and nervousness. The journey ahead felt like a new beginning, and you couldn't wait to see where it would lead.

After a three hour flight, you landed at San Diego International Airport, rented a vehicle and started the drive to Coronado. You got a hotel room at one of the hotels outside of the base and walked up to the desk to check in.

"Hi! Checking in?" the front desk clerk asked. She was a friendly young blonde with a warm smile.

"Yes, that's right," you replied. "Reservation should be under Y/N Seresin."

The clerk quickly typed on the computer. "Ah, yes, I've got you right here. Here's your key. You're in room 214. Breakfast is served from 7 to 10 in the morning. If you need anything else, feel free to let us know."

"Thank you very much," you expressed with a grateful smile as you accepted the key. Just as you were about to make your way to your room, you had a moment of pause. Turning back, you approached the desk once more. "Actually, I do have a question. Could you tell me how to get to The Hard Deck bar?"

The blonde receptionist responded with a warm smile. "Certainly!"

#jake hangman seresin #jake seresin fanfiction #jake seresin x you #glen powell #hangman top gun #top gun maverick hangman #hangman #hangman fanfic #top gun fanfic #top gun maverick

[thekoopalingsandstuffs]

How did rex and hooktail meet each other, let alone get married?

(I decided to turn this into a scheduled post since I didn't have anything else in the queue for Friday)

>18 or 19 years ago, shortly after Hooktail got her ass kicked by Koopley...<

Hehehe, time for a bit of Broodal family lore...

Venus: "... WHY???"

Vanessa: "Because!!!" *Pulls out a huge wad of cash* "Money!!! That bitch is LOOOADED!!!"

Venus: "Now, 'Nessa... What have I told you about hiring clients with... Bad publicity?"

Vanessa: "I-"

Venus: "It's bad for business. Even if she doesn't hurt you, she could hurt your reputation... People won't want to hire the company who planned the wedding of a MONSTER!!! This is why I told you not to accept any jobs without my permission!!"

Vanessa: "... Well, in case you've forgotten. This is MY company. I am in charge. I can do business for whoever the hell I want!! You don't get to boss me around anymore!!! You may be older, but you work for ME!!!"

Venus: "Oh come on—Think critically here! Do you WANT your business to fail??"

Vanessa: "Talk to the hand."

Venus: "........."

Vanessa: "I-... Wait, you're pregnant???"

Venus: "...... Stay focused!! I know you're proud of yourself for starting your own business, but you can't run the whole thing by yourself! You don't have the experience. You NEED help. And I want to help you!!"

Vanessa: "You don't wanna help me—You wanna be in control again! And that's too bad, 'cuz I'm not going to let you take everything I have away from me!! Why can't you let me have anything??"

Venus: "What are you even talking about?? Is this about when we were kids?? I was SO nice to you!! Mom and Dad gave you EVERYTHING!! Sure, maybe I borrowed some of your things without asking from time to time, but you make me sound like some monster! Some creature worse than your client!! And why?? Do you have any clue how SPOILED you are?? How privileged BOTH of us are?? Not many people have the ability to just START a business like you did. And not everyone can afford to be so FOOLISH with it!!! Oh, and that doesn't even cover all of the-"

Venus: "........."

Vanessa: "........."

Venus: "........."

Vanessa: "........."

Venus: "........."

Vanessa: ".........."

Venus: "..."

-And that was the last word Madame Broode had ever spoken to her sister. Seven and a half months after that incident, Spewart was born. Roughly four years later, Venus and her husband would tragically pass away, having never spoken to her sister in all that time.

Madame Broode had assumed the baby did, in fact, not make it, and would not find out that her sister died and that she had four orphan nieces/nephews in the foster care system until MANY years after that.

>Present day<

[applished]

Princess Kenny McCormick, the fairest maiden in the land.

Honestly I like to headcanon that the main 4 contributed a part to his SOT outfit LMAO,, here's the list:

Stan Marsh:

Stan asked his mom for old dresses that he can get AND THE TALK HE GOT ABOUT IT. Sharon Marsh thought her son was opening up about his gender identity and was talking about all kinds of stuff to Stan until he told her it's just for Kenny. His mom ended up giving him one of Shelly's old dresses that she 1. didn't like and 2. grew too old of.

Stan also borrowed (stole) one of his dad's wigs because C'MON, that man has a shit ton of wigs bruh. His dad never found out about it, but he did end up questioning later where one of his wigs went. HA

Kyle:

Kyle gave kenny the belt that he's wearing to help hold the too big dress (especially since Kenny is skinny, like c'mon bro Kenny eats waffles and pop tarts as dinner he's malnourished.) The belt was too old and small for him anyways and Kyle didn't like it.

Kyle also ended up giving the gloves, but they're jus cleaning gloves from his mom that he found way deep back in a cabinet under the sink.

Cartman (I refuse to say Eric it sounds weird):

He's the only one to spend money on that outfit (he was really serious about the game so it would make sense.) But it was only about 4 dollars. He bought the shoulder pads and fake crown in the store and bought ribbon for Kenny's wig. Cartman expected an actual hair style but since Kenny let his little sister Karen do his wig hair, it's messily just... decorated in.

OH and You CANT forget the fake boobs.. which is just tennis balls, but Kenny found those in the dump. Yea,, everything else in his outfit is from him lolol. ANYWAYS

THANKS for reading my dumb littlw headcanons that make me want to rip my heart out and eat it.

#south park #south park fanart #kenny mccormick #art #kyle broflovski #stan marsh #princess kenny #eric cartman #sp sot #stick of truth #south park stick of truth

[simshousewindsor]

HOUSE OF THE FALLEN

[Hardy Manor, Newsoms 1:01 PM WST]

Delores Bryant [Private Secretary]: What do you think, Your Majesty?

Rowena, Queen Mother: (hesitant) It's.. It's a lovely property.

Delores [P.S.]: Be honest.

Rowena, Queen Mother: It has enough rooms. It's just... the art... it's going to need a lot of updating!

Delores [P.S.]: Well, the manor has been vacant for about 107 years, ma'am. At such a discount, the Hardy noble family seems eager to sell it.

Rowena, Queen Mother: (somber) I don't understand why I can't just stay at Highpark House. I hate the other vacant royal residences. I wasn't expecting to use all the money George left me to now buy and remodel a home.

(cell phone rings)

Rowena, Queen Mother: (to caller) "Hello?"

??: Your Majesty?

Rowena, Queen Mother: "Yes? Who is this?"

Mother LaKisha [Nun]: "This is Mother LaKisha from Saint LeSun Convent. You gave us your private number for emergencies. It's your mother. She's dying."

Rowena, Queen Mother: (gasps) Oh no! I'm on my way!

- - - - - LATER - - - - -

[Buckingsim Palace, Buckingsimshire 1:39 PM WST]

Alfred Culpepper [Estate Manager]: Good afternoon, Your Majesty.

Rowena, Queen Mother: Hello, Alfred. I'm here to see the Queen.

Alfred [E.M.]: Of course, ma'am.

[Aide #2]: and these are the urgent patronages needing new royal leadership, since your ascension.

[Aide #3]: Many of which, we believe, the Earl and Countess of Boykins would be a great fit for.

Queen Katherine: These are the patronages listed here?

[Aide #3]: Yes, Your Majesty.

Martin Lavelle [Private Secretary]: (whispers) Pardon me, ma'am. The Queen Mother is here to see you. She says it's urgent.

Queen Katherine: (stands) Stay seated! I'd like to see a few of those patronages given to the new Duke and Duchess of Hastings. Take some time to rearrange the list. I'll be right back to discuss.

[All]: Your Majesty.

(Queen Katherine exits)

[The Queen's Library, 1:52 PM WST]

Queen Katherine: (confused) Mom? Is everything okay?

Queen Katherine: What's so urgent you pulled me from a meeting?

Rowena, Queen Mother: Oh, darling! It's granny Niema! She's dying! Mother LaKisha called me while I was out looking at Hardy Manor.

Queen Katherine: Granny Niema! Are you okay? Oh, mommy!

Rowena, Queen Mother: I knew this day would come. I'm happy she was able to tell her story while her memory remained. She's the last of her family, the last of the House of Zulu. I'd like to borrow the helicopter to fly to Forgotten Hollow. Your approval is needed for its use.

Queen Katherine: Never be afraid to ask to use the royal fleets. You are still a Queen.

Rowena, Queen Mother: ...with no place to live.

Queen Katherine: Oh! Royal Lodge. I'm sorry, mommy. Let's talk when you return.

Queen Katherine: (stands) How quickly would you like to leave? Usage approved! I can clear my schedule and go with you, if you'd like.

Rowena, Queen Mother: No, Lady Sonja will go with me. Plus, I know how excited you are about attending Royal Ascot tomorrow. Duty first!

Queen Katherine: I will have the flight plans requested with a departure time of 3 o'clock. I love you, mommy! Give grandma Niema my love.

Rowena, Queen Mother: (somber) Thank you. I love you too.

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[tunisian]

just me venting

my mom has been so fucking unbearable since i told her i want to go to tunisia.

she thinks im only going there for my crush (he lives there) despite of me telling her im not even going to see him and me wanting to go on excursions to explore the country.

a list of things that happened ever since then:

she got angry at me because i said 'okay then let's meet up there' instead of 'going there together' (i wanted to go by the end of the month, she wanted to go in october with my dad)

she yelled at me for 'never going there with them again' and how it's been '2-3 years since we flew there together'. like. she completely FORGOT that we were there together a year ago. and we did so many things AND went to a wedding of her cousin. but she just 'forgot'

the day after she thinks shes being very petty and slick by talking to me out of nowhere going 'isnt it better if you spent that vacation money on your drivers license instead?' and i go "i have money for both'. she made another dumb remark after that that i just blocked out

this needs its own list:

yesterday she started our last conversation with 'oh im soooo tired....' and because i didnt reply she continues: 'ive been up since FIVE/FIVE THIRTHY AM!!' and i go 'okay? me too? and i had to go to work.' and then she says that she couldnt sleep because she had a 'prophetic dream', you know those dreams people swear will come true like its an omen.

she dreamt about 'something bad happening to me'. i ask what it was about, she says 'oh i cant tell you bla bla if i tell you it will come true'. so i go 'let me guess. you dreamt about something bad happening to me when im there'. and she says 'YOU KNOW I CANT TELL YOU'.

i tell her 'let me guess. i got it right. you know what? im not going there in september. i'll go in november then.'

she replies with 'THEN IM GOING WITH YOU (AS WELL)

at this point im very, very fucking tired. so i say 'you want to go with me in november after going in october? alright. but first find a way how you're going to give me the 500 euros you borrowed from me. then find a way how you're going to pay for your 'upcoming trip' in october since you want to stay in a hotel and go on excursions with me so bad. then find a way how you're going to pay for all of those things as well for november. then we'll see.'

her: 'wowwww im your MOM. remember what i did for you last time so you could go in may? and you're going this to me?'

me: 'in may you asked me EVERY DAY where your money was and to pay you back. i paid you back at SOON as i got paid. today is the ONLY time i bring up the money you borrowed from me and its been two weeks. YOU made it a problem. so yes. pay me back and then we'll see about november.

i go to my room, not even a couple of minutes later shes in there too and gave me back my money saying 'im never asking or borrowing money from you again'

i didnt talk to her for the rest of the night + she told my dad about it im some fucking way because when i greeted him this morning he went 'STAY AWAY FROM ME IM ANGRY AT YOU.' im 25 dont make me fucking laugh

and today she 'sat me down' and said 'you're not going to tunisia. forget about it.' like i still want to go when you've been doing nothing but work on my fucking nerves about it

shes also convinced herself that 'its very suspicious i want to go see more of tunisia NOW' as if september doesnt have the best fucking weather over there and tickets are much cheaper now (i couldnt go in july because of work, august was too hot and too expensive)

once again she also convinced herself im going there for my crush and she said 'you are bringing yourself DOWN [for others]' like at this point she's just delusional.

besides this shes also been pushing me to find another job and to find 'my own place' but not even in a normal amount. she literally said 'im pushing you to motivate you' and i told her today that the only pushing shes doing is pushing me over the fucking balcony (we live on the highest floor of this apartment building) and then she called me 'weak'

she even brought up one of my close friends for no fucking reason like they owe me to help me? + she truly thinks i dont have any dreams that im working towards or something and im not amounting to anything because im not working myself to the bone at some fucking company to get a minimal wage check by the end of the month. she also went "so? what do you want to achieve?" she even grabbed a PEN AND PAPER to write it down and i go "you know what? i DO want to get a better paying job and i DO want to find my own place so i dont have to come back here ever again :)" and then she threatened me with "if you cut us off YOU wont have any family. you wont have this, you wont have that. dont trust on YOUR friends to be there for you like your family." girl all of you can go fuck yourself.

i truly dont understand what her fucking problem is.

#usertunisian.vents

[yourwitchmama]

I took a hard fall yesterday at 4AM when I was taking my puppy out. I guess I tripped and trying to not crush her (which I did not), I ended up falling down a stair and wiping out on concrete. I had very short shorts on. I mine quartz crystals from bigger rocks there, so I regret to say that the concrete wasn't smooth and had lots of little rocks on it. Needless to say, my hand and knee are beat up pretty badly, and I learned just how adults take much harder falls than children do. I have bits of rock in my hands and knee, but I can't take them out because it is too painful! I was on the ground screaming it out and I was SO happy my puppy was okay. The stars and moon were also comforting, but I silenced any bug or bird near by. (I live in the country) She didn't even use me as a chew toy like she does 99% of the time, she just licked me and looked scared. My cats also checked on me, so I guess the fall did something good and made me feel special... I guess I am a good pet mom. Well, I spend most of my time with them, so I hope so! I was feeling insecure about my puppy raising skills since my first dog ended up being a working dog. She's a HUGE puppy. Anyway, I ended up bursting out crying and my boyfriend had to comfort me while I used scotch tape and a paper towel to dress my wounds. It wasn't from the pain, it was mostly just my body releasing all of the stress that it had pent up. I crushed my phone and couldn't afford a new one, so I had to borrow money from my broke dad and I am going to pay him back later. (getting a tarot reading or mala beads is appreciated at this time) (link) I think that sometimes when bad or shocking things happen like that, it can take you out of a monotonous cycle of depression and stress and help you expel it. I felt like I couldn't cry for the longest time, and I knew I needed to. I still stayed up until 6AM but at least I feel mentally stable today. Good comes out of almost every difficult situation if you look for the silver lining, even if the silver lining is veeery small.

[yourimagines]

Darkness p.2

* English is not my first language I apologise

* Triggers: fluff

Y/N POV

I was laying in my bed when I heard my uncle yell my name. “Y/N!” I jumped out of my bed and hurried to the door. “Yes?!” I yelled back to him. “I have someone here for you!” “Okay, I’m coming!” I quickly changed my clothes and run down the stairs. “No running!” I heard my auntie yell from the living room. “Sorry.” I quickly went to the front door and saw Nina waiting for me. “Hey.” “Hey, I hope I didn’t wake you up.” She said with a laugh. “No I was just chilling in my room.” She nods and smiles. “So I was thinking if you want to hang out, we have my fathers car if we want to lunch somewhere.” I nodded. “Lunch would be nice.” We both laugh and I grabbed my jacket. “I’ll be there in a minute.” “Yeah of course, I’ll wait by the car.” We both nod at each other, I walked back to my uncle and aunt who are watching tv in the living room. “Hi, Nina asked me if I wanted to go eat some lunch with her, can I go?” “Of course you can go, do you need some money?” My uncle grabbed his wallet and gave me some money. “Thank you.” “No problem have fun.” “Thank.” I putted the money away and walked outside. Nina was waiting by her fathers car as Nick walked outside. “Hey can I have the car?” “No, we are just going to get some lunch.” He groaned. “Seriously?” I walked up and smiled at him. “Hi Nick.” He nods at me. “When are you guys back?” “I don’t know, ask mom if you can borrow her car.” “Why don’t you asked her.” She rolls her eyes at him“Because I already asked dad.” She looks at me and smiles. “Come on, let’s get some lunch.” I gave Nick an apologising smile and got in the car. “It’s always the same with him, since he stopped with school he’s always at the gym and always has this car.” She said with a huge sigh. “It will be okay, it’s just different.” She smiles at me. “You right, okay let’s forget about this and let’s get some food.”

We where sitting at a lunch room close by the gym where Nina’s brothers usually train. “So they train here? Everyday?” “Yes, Nick trains here every day, Nate is still in school but I have a feeling he’s going to drop out as well.” I nodded and took a sip from my drink. “I heard you are home schooled, why?” “I’m not really home schooled, I follow every class online because there is no place available for here at the moment.” She nods at me. “So your still following the classes from your old school.” “Yes, I try to keep up but not every class is being recorded so it’s difficult.” She reached her hand over to mine. “You’ll get this, I believe in you.” “Thank you Nina, that’s very kind of you.”

——— few days later———

I was sitting in my room behind my desk, making some home work as I heard the bell rang. I looked out of my window and saw Nina standing in front of the door, while Nick and Nate where standing on their driveway. ‘What do they want?’ “Hello mrs Y/L/N, is Y/N here?” “Yes but she’s busy with school.” “Oh right, can you tell here I stopped by?” “Of course.” “Okay thank you.” “Okay, bye.” “Bye.” Nina walked away and I heard the door closing. She walks up to her brothers and said something to them, then she walks into the house and they got in the car and drove off. ‘Hmm, weird.’ I looked back at my screen and started to work further on my homework.

I sat down at the kitchen table and got a plate with food. “So how was school?” My uncle joked. “Good, lot of homework but its a finished now.” He nods and my aunt smiles at me. “Good to hear you take school seriously.” I smiled and looked down at my plate. “Did Nina stopped by today?” “No.” ‘Liar.’ I nodded and started to eat my dinner. They were talking through the whole dinner as I remained silent. ‘She saw them that’s why.’ “I’m done can I leave to my room?” “Of course.” My uncle said. I got up and cleaned up my plate and glass and went upstairs. I changed my clothes into something more comfy and lay down in bed, grabbing my favourite book and started to read.

——— midnight———

I was still reading in bed, only one tiny light was on. My aunt said 2 hours ago goodnight and went to bed. ‘I can’t sleep.’ I sighed and placed my book down on my nightstand, I carefully got out of my bed and wrapped a blanket around me. I sat down behind my desk and opened my journal I saw some movement at the Diaz house. ‘Who is that?’ I squeezed my eyes a bit shut took look a bit better because of the darkness. ‘Nate?’ I saw him walking around the house and eventually he climbed up to one of the windows. ‘He’s been sneaking out.’ I saw the window open and he crawled in. Then I saw Nick looking directly at me. I quickly ducked down and my heart was racing. ‘He saw me, he saw me looking at Nate.’ I crawled away on the ground from my desk and got back in bed. ‘Maybe I shouldn’t be awake at these times, it’s none of my business.’ I closed my eyes and tried to sleep but I was still thinking about them, especially Nate.

——— next morning——-

I woke up a bit later than usually because I was way to long awake last night. I was sitting at the kitchen table eating some breakfast. “Y/N, we are both gone this week, the fridge is full with food, I’ll leave you some cash.” My uncle telling me. “ I know, have fun.” My auntie smiles and told me hundred times about No party’s, No diaz brothers, no school skipping. “I know I know, no boys no weird things, don’t worry it’s going to be fine.” She smiles and nods. “I know but I just needed to tell you. I know you’re not like them.” She gives me a kiss on my head and grabs her purse. “Okay we need to go, we see you next week.” “See you next week, have fun.” “We will and you can always call us.” “I will, bye bye.” My uncle slightly pushed my aunt through the door. “Bye darling.” “Bye bye.” He closed the door and the house became very quiet. ‘One week alone here.’ I felt a bit scared of the thought being alone. ‘It’s going to be fine.’

I was laying on the sofa watching some tv as I heard the bell rang. I got up and answered the door. Nina was standing there with a smile on her face. “Hi.” “Hey.” She looked at me as I looked down at my clothes. “Sorry didn’t expect people.” I was wearing an hoodie with some joggers. She giggles and waved her hands. “No it’s fine, I also have those days.” I nodded and saw the two brothers looking at us, they where standing at their driveway. She quickly looks behind her and looks back at me. “Don’t worry, they only want to know if they can get the car.” Nick was still looking directly at me as Nate looked away. “I’m not in the mood to leave the house, I’m sorry.” “It’s okay, I understand.” She smiles and turns around. “You can have it!” She yells at them. Nick immediately got in the car as Nate carefully looked up at us and gave us a tiny wave before he got in the car. “You want to come in?” “Yeah if it’s okay with your aunt.” I stepped out of the way so she could walk inside. I closed the door behind her. “They are not here, so it’s fine.” “Cool.” We both walked to the kitchen, grabbing a drink for her. “I was wondering if you want to come tomorrow night with me, it’s Nate’s birthday.” ‘Don’t hang out with the Diaz brothers!’ “Yeah sure.” She squeaked out in happiness. “Really? It’s going to be so much fun.” She gave me a quick hug. “Okay someone is happy.” “I am that means I’m not alone with them.” I laughed at her. “Do I need to be worried now?” “No but I don’t like to be the only normal girl, it’s boring you know and you’re my friend so it’s going to be fun.” I nodded and gave her a glass. “If you say so.”

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[witchwhy]

So I don’t know who is going to really care about this, but I could really use some help.

My baby, my floofy boy, my sweet guy, Shadow (he’s the dog in my profile pic, but I’ll also attach some pics below) had an accident in January where he fell off of a 2nd story deck. He was lucky, all things considered, but his front right paw was seriously injured.

Since the accident, we’ve been trying to keep his movement restricted, and I had been giving him his medicine as instructed.

His limp hasn’t gone away, and he avoids doing things like running, jumping, and playing. He sometimes looks like his “wrist” bends too far back, and looks like he walks flat-footed. The anti-inflammatory he had been taking was giving him ulcers (blood in stool and blood clots in his throw up tipped me off) so I had to take him off of it.

The vets/animal hospital we’ve been dealing with has been awful, writing off my concerns, giving me medicine without informing me of the risks, and not being communicative or even reading my boys chart before doing/assuming things, and I’ve already spent a little over $1k paying for x-rays, visits, meds, etc. I’ve finally gotten him into a university animal hospital with the right specialists, and we are going next week when I’m done with finals. It’s a 2 hour drive away, but I will be staying with family. They said they’d be able to run all the diagnostics the day of the appointment, and, if he needs it, they’ll preform the surgery the next day and keep him over the weekend to monitor.

I’m pretty sure he has been suffering from carpal hyperextension. Today I asked what things would cost, and on the low end, if they only have to do a ligament reconstruction, they said $2500-4000. If they have to do a carpal arthrodesis (where they use plates and screws to fuse the joint together) it would cost between $4500-5500. Those prices include the exam, diagnostics, blood work, anesthesia, and procedure.

Regardless of which procedure he needs, they said the after surgery care would be the same. Bandage changes weekly, done at a vets office, which is about $80 each week for about 8 weeks (~$640 total). Then at 6 or 8 weeks, they want to do another round of x-rays to determine if he’s ready to move on to the next stage of recovery. If he isn’t, then they’ll do even more x-rays at 8 or 12 weeks. Each X-ray is $400.

So, best case, it’s going to range between $3600-5400, and worst case it’s going to be between $5600-7000.

Yeah. I have no idea how I’m going to afford this. I graduate next week and I have my first job out of college starting in August, but I have to relocate 10+ hours away from home, which costs lots of money too, and I won’t get paid until I do start working again.

I’m not here to ask for money though. I have no service I’ll be able to give, really. Best I could offer is a crocheted blanket, hat, or hand warmers. I’ll probably see if I can borrow money from a family member and pay them back later.

What I need is for my voice to not be the only voice out there. Pray for my boy, and ask that Hecate speed his healing and ease his pain. Do a money spell for me, so I may find a way to make ends meet. Do a luck spell so that my boy is lucky enough to not need anything too invasive.

Please. Pray to whoever helps you, or whoever you think may help me. Work your magic with me in mind. Even sending good vibes my way helps, cuz I’ve been feeling like such a sucky dog mom lately.

Now, dog tax.

I’ve also included a picture of his paws after his fall. Pretty dramatic difference.

If you’ve made it this far in my post, thank you for your time. Blessed be.

#baby witch #witchcraft #green witch #witchblr #witch #witches of tumblr #witchy vibes #witchy #witchy shit #witches don’t have to be sorted #witches helping witches #hecate #hellenistic #baby pagan #paganblr #pagan witch #greek paganism

[karizard-ao3]

I'm very excited about a book I just ordered

I went to see Asteroid City today so, to my delight and despair, I was treated to some weird/indie film previews (my despair is because a lot of them come out after my kid gets home from his dad's and he probably wouldn't sit through them if we saw them in the theater). One that I was interested but probably won't be able to see in theaters was called Landscape with Invisible Hand, which was based on a book.

"Okay, no problem," I thought. "I'll just read it."

It was not on the Libby app, for either library I'm associated with. Alas.

But! I discovered who the author was - a certain MT Anderson who wrote a book that absolutely shaped my teenage perception of consumerism and technology.

The book was called Feed. I used to have my mom drop me off at Barnes and Noble (possibly while she was doing errands? Or possibly because no one, myself included, wanted me around the house). I would pick a likely looking book from the shelves, then go curl up in a chair and read it.

(Looking back, having become a book store employee in later years, I wonder if the staff recognized me. I never talked to any of them, except to ask to use the phone once or twice at closing time when my mother had not yet arrived for me, but if I had been working there I would certainly have clocked the little weirdo reading our wares without ever buying anything - not even a coffee or tea. I wouldn't have cared, but I would have noticed. I assumed at the time that I was incognito.)

One night, I found a book called Feed, which I found so fascinating and illuminating that I ended up buying the hardcover copy for $16.99 USD (price confirmed because I still own the book). I most likely had to borrow the money.

It's been several years since I last read it, so forgive any inaccuracies. It is set in a not too distant future when everyone is equipped with a microchip that allows them to access social media (called the Feed) from inside their heads. They can send each other messages without ever lifting a finger and, in fact, most people have lost the ability to write. Everything is disposable and the world is slipping into decay. The main character meets a girl who did not grow up as he did, being raised by parents who resisted getting the Feed and did not allow her to have it until she was 16. I don't want to give any spoilers from there, but I was blown away by this book as a kid. It felt like such a dark, truthful piece of social commentary and it very much impacted how I looked at things like smartphones and social media and capitalism.

Thus, I am so thrilled to read another book by this author and am excited to find out what kind of dark, dystopian future he will be giving to me this time. I've also decided it's about time I reread Feed as an adult, so I can get my expectations of Landscape With Invisible Hands better aligned. Who knows? Maybe Feed actually sucks?

(P.S. Please don't confuse Feed by MT Anderson with The Feed by Nick Clark Windo, because the latter started out with a really strong first chapter and then spiraled from there, and the former was, by my recollection, great throughout.)

ANYWAY, I'm just really excited and if anyone has input on any of these books (without giving spoilers), PLEASE GIVE IT.

#books and literature #reading #books and reading #to read

[jhtechgeek2011]

Blown up phones, users and more

Tuesday night at work I had someone call me 4 or 5 times in a row, just one ring hang up, a couple rings hang up, 1 ring hang up, 3 rings hang up like they were just gonna MAKE me answer my phone. It's like dude you're NOT forcing me to answer no matter what you do, I am gonna keep hanging up and declining the call and putting you on silent and do not disturb till you stop it.  I then had 2 friends call and text me following those telemarketer/spammer/bill collector ones with the pattern. Friend 1 would NOT stop calling no matter how many times I kept telling her I CANNOT have phone calls at this job I am at today I can text you but even that is hard. Finally got her to get the point and stop calling, only for her to text a barrage of messages as if I can answer her immediately while a guest is at the desk. I text to tell her this and she doesn't even stop texting so I can get my message through. I then get a call from Friend 2, I tell her one time that I cannot have phone calls at the job I am at right now and we can message but even that is difficult. She immediately stops calling and texts. Friend 1 literally is mad at me for not being able to take her call during the job when I can't take ANYBODY'S calls.  She literally was snapping off at me about she really needed me she had a big emergency her mom did XYZ and her sister did ABC and her dad is mad at HER for it all. I am literally standing at my computer at work looking at this like this is an emergency for YOU, not ME girl. It's that entitlement people have of my needs taking precedence all my things are the biggest emergencies and you gotta help me with them asap!

This entitlement I saw with Friend 1 leads right to what I wanted to say about users. They are entitled, spoiled, selfish, drama queens that feel like everything they are going through is the most important, biggest emergency ever. It is that thing of thinking people owe them something and that they need to get what they think they're owed RIGHT NOW! It's that whole "Karen" mentality that drives me crazy. It can also be that they think they can get away with, get over on, and control everyone and everything. I even have people like this in my family and it sucks. I get calls from certain relatives in the middle of the night all urgent and like its an emergency and all they want is to ask to borrow money that I don't have. I will get called by certain other relatives and friends to ask if I can come to hang out with them only to end up at their house doing something for them, some favor they could have just asked for. They do not, however, ask outright because they know my answer is likely to be no. Like friend 3 that I have who asked me to come to hang out at her house and help her with her resume, cover letter, and website only to turn around and leave me working on it by myself and take off with her boyfriend and not come back for several hours, thereby getting what she really wanted, which was for me to babysit her kids and do her resume and crap for her. She then came back 3 hours later with her boyfriend dropping her off and leaving me stuck without a way home since her boyfriend left with her car. I ended up taking a taxi home because of that. I did NOT write her resume or cover letter and after the first half hour she was gone and I called her for her to tell me she would be back in another half hour, I quit working on her website because I knew what she was pulling and I was NOT going. I will never go to her house again, she blew that option from now on with me. 

I have had too many people trying to use and take advantage of me and I am so over it. Nobody will be allowed to trample my boundaries or use me again. I am not being taken advantage of again. I will help only within my boundaries and limits and I will not stratch or push them for anyone else ever again. If you cannot abide by or accept that, then there's the door go ahead and walk right out of my life. I am not obligated to let  you walk all over my boundaries because you think you are entitled to get your way and have whatever you want from whoever you want it from and to never be told no. I am done with users and "Karens" that think they can do this to people, period.

On another note, I have dealt with a different kind of Karen lately as well. I was at the grocery store the other day and there was a long line at the self check outs, this one particular Karen was taking up the entire aisle leaving no room for people to walk past the self checkouts and get to the chip aisle and frozen section. Everyone's having to go down like the cereal aisle or something and then up the other side by the meat just to get to those 3 aisles on the other side of the aisle hogging Karen at the self checkout. What makes you think you can just do that? There is enough room for you to wait in the self checkout line AND leave enough room for through traffic to other aisles, all you have to do is move over to the side half a foot. This is the same type of person that will pull their car WAY into the traffic lane to parallel park on the curb. If you are parallel parking the entire point is to pull up PARALLEL with the front car and the back into the space between it and the car behind. You REALLY suck at parallel parking if you have to pull your car on an ANGLE out INTO traffic to get into the parking space, that's literally NOT parallel parking. 

The other type of person that I have dealt with is the ones that think they own the entire road and nobody else is driving except them. The ones that will fly down a residential street going highway speed because they're in a hurry. It doesn't even get you where you are going sooner in the long run because the purpose of highway speed is for highways where there are NO stop signs, traffic lights or pedestrians to stop for. I almost got hit twice on either the way to or the way home from work by the same car (I think) doing 55 to 60 mph in a 25mph residential zone. I also live by a school and during the school day the speed drops 5 to 10mph slower to 15 to 20mph. What sense does it even make to go that fast just to stop a block later? NONE! It is dangerous and you're putting everybody's life including your own because you're in a hurry and it doesn't even help you to use all that speed and you just end up arriving either on time or late anyways because you use up all your gas speeding up and stopping over and over so you have to stop at the gas station which deletes any time you made going so fast, either that or you get pulled over and ticketed for speeding like that and end up later than you would have had you just gone a normal speed in the first place. Bottom lime your appointment, date, job, etc. is not more important that people's lives and driving highway speed on city streets wont even save you time anyways because of all the stopping and the potential speeding ticket slowing you down. Just stop the stupid speeding and learn how to share the road with the other people that are using it, you're NOT the only one out here on the road!

One last thing that I have been dealing with lately is people that think they're going to drag you back into bad habits or situations that you have already gotten out of. The worst offenders with this are like what happened with my uncle, he had a bad addiction that he went to NA and got clean from but he had friends that hadn't kicked that were pulling him back into using again. He had to stay away from them in order not to be drawn into a relapse. For me it is with mental health things that i have gotten treatment for and gotten out of that I have certain friends and relatives that want to drag me back into it. Certain things that my bipolar disorder, for example, caused I got help for and stopped doing but certain people in my life try to draw me back into them because they're still stuck in them and haven't gotten the help with it. Another thing is with diets, I no longer deal with diets, I had a problem around diets and eating and I got the help I needed to deal with this problem and am out of those behaviors and don't do diet stuff anymore. Some people that I know are still immersed in that kind of thing and try to draw me in, I have repeatedly said I will not discuss it and am not returning to it. 

One relative I have has this program she is in for therapy about some of these issues and she really expects me to sit with her through all her therapy sessions (online) on the phone with her and I refuse. I have one friend that she checks in with me before and after her similar kind of therapy and on her break in the middle of it but she doesn't expect what my relative does. My relative expects me to sit through the entire thing with her from start to finish because she's afraid or uncomfortable or whatever. I have told her no. I no longer answer her calls when I know it is time for her therapy because she pretty much refuses to take no I can't do this with you for an answer. You're the one in the dang therapy, go take your therapy. I completed mine already Im not going through it all over again.  This same thing happened with a friend of mine when we were in college, she wanted me to go through her classes with her when I already completed them the year before her or the semester before her. I am not getting ready to sit on the phone or chat with you for your whole class when Im already done with that class and got my grade for my work already. People that do that are annoying and selfish. You go deal with your own therapy, own class, own job, whatever, I don't need to do it too, I don't have that job or I finished that course already or I am done with that therapy and on to another type or whatever the case may be, I have been there done that got the t-shirt, your turn. These tend to be the same folks that expect someone to do their assignments in school for them, let them copy your exams, want you to do their work for you at a shared job or work for their job when you have a totally different job and it's not on you that they brought the work home with them or whatever. It's lazy, entitled selfish, and immature of them to do it and I wish that they'd stop. But just because they don't stop doesn't mean I gotta still deal with it, I won't. You do your stuff, I'll be over here doing mine talk to you later bye.

#so rude #fed up with this shit #irritated #annoying calls #scammers #users #rude people #karens

[tittyinfinity]

(Not a donation post)

So I definitely did need the $120 I received from my donation post or I wouldn't have been able to get my car legal. Thank yall so much💜

Since I wasn't able to get the full amount to cover everything, I made a game plan that will still definitely run me broke, but it won't be impossible to move.

I took out that $450 loan. I'll have to pay back much more than that. But it helped for now. I get paid on the 2nd next month, and since I'm moving in to my place right before then, I should be able to borrow a little bit of money from a few family members & friends and then pay them back a couple of days later. I've always been good about paying people back.

I also did a couple of stripping gigs that landed me about $450. Well. More like me standing and being pretty bc lord knows I can't dance 🤣

My total expenses for rent, getting my car legal, my cats' medicine, & paying back my mom came out to $835. This doesn't include gas & food, around $100. So I've spent around $950 this month, almost 200 more than I make in a month🙃

I will be completely broke next month. The moving costs, the loan payment, and my other bills will definitely exceed what I make. I hate having to rely on the help of other people, but I tried going thru a work program for disabled people and failed & in past times where I didn't ask for help, I ended up in really, really bad situations (like being forced to move in with by abusive babydaddy). I can't let my son go through those things, so I gotta do anything I can. I will most likely have to make a new donation post in a few weeks, I'm so sorry.

Thank y'all for the help💜💕

#dani

[hapuriainen]

Hapuriainen's animation, comics & games of 2022

It feels every year these get shorter and later... but better late than never!

Anime: 

Ranking of Kings, Magia Record s3, Machikado Mazoku s2, Futari wa Precure Max Heart, Delicious Party Precure, Spy x Family (part 1), Tiger & Bunny s2 (part 1), Yashahime s2, Magic User's Club, Tokyo Mew Mew New

Overall Yashahime was a disappointment but at least the Moroha stuff was good. As for Tiger & Bunny it was a delight to have Kotetsu back since this was my number one series back when the first season came out, but the netflix release model really killed all momentum it could have had and I still haven't managed to watch the second half.

Webcomics: 

Magical Mom, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Strawberry Seafoam, Miss Guillotine

This year I read a lot of webcomics, which has been documented on my magical girl tumblr. On the manga front there wasn't anything new but I still continue with many series from past years. A shoutout to One Piece for having its worst year to date but at least the Wano arc is now finally over.

Movies: 

Encanto, Turning Red, Lightyear, some Precure movies, Children of the Sea

Games: 

Zelda Skyward Sword, Link's Awakening, New Pokemon Snap, Hyrule Warriors DE, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, Pokemon Scarlet

Overall this has been a Game year (rather than anime or manga). I learned that nowadays games save on the console and not the cartridge so I could borrow games from the library and only buy them myself if I liked them enough (and then continue on the same save file). Unfortunately this was after I spent money on Skyward Sword which was not worth the 60€, meanwhile New Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Let's Go were enjoyable for the price tag of 0€ and Hyrule Warriors I had to get for myself and now I have over 100 hours on it. And Pokemon Scarlet was surprisingly fun too.

The awards:

Best work: I guess I have to give this to Hyrule Warriors since I've played it unexpectedly much, the story was dumb but I'm having a lot of fun in Adventure Mode.

Best music: Tal Tal Heights from Link's Awakening, Hyrule Warriors in general having a lot of good music, Area Zero music from Pokemon. Also the Bruno song.

Best visuals: Strawberry Seafoam for reminding me of retro girl shows

Best character design: Cloudy Wondrous, a very cute and creative magical girl look

Best OP: Spy x Family, the song is mellow and fun and the visuals are great

Best ED: Spy x Family for the visuals, no real standout songs this year

Biggest WTF: Children of the Sea overall, what even happened in that movie??

Best Girl: Kuroe from MagiReco

Best Boy: Ehh let's go with Bruno

Best Side Girl: the queen from Ranking of Kings being a surprising highlight of the whole show

Best Side Boy: Arven from Pokemon seemed super cringe at first sight but his bread storyline turned out to be the best part of the whole game. Also Groose from Zelda

Worst Girl: No total duds this year, let's go with Yui from Precure. Or Yuuko from Machikado Mazoku

Worst Boy: n/a

Worst Side Girl: Cia from Hyrule Warriors with her dumb outfit. Or (I'm sorry I know she's popular) Iono from Pokemon kind of annoys me... Oh right also Fi

Worst Side Boy: Trace from Pokemon Let's Go was a major disappointment for a final boss and it didn't really feel anything beating him. Also Porun from Precure

Best romance: For the first time in years I have a ship (botw Link and Zelda) but since I didn't play it this year, let's say that Loid and Yor are always a delight to see in how positive and respectful their relationship is

Best non-romantic relationship: the Spy x Family family stuff

Worst romance: Hyrule Warriors making it a plot point that the game's Link and Zelda will end up as a couple but giving them zero chemistry or development

Worst non-romantic relationship: Yashahime for keeping the new heroines separate from their parents 99% of the time

Plans for 2023:

Botw 2 can’t come out soon enough

Until then I’ll probably keep playing Hyrule Warriors

Pokemon Arceus

Hirogaru Precure

Overall expecting a very Precure year, since they revealed new sequel seasons and I have to watch the originals by then

Evangelion has been on my watch list since 2014, maybe I’ll eventually get to it if I keep including it.

Tiger & Bunny & Spy x Family part 2

TMM New s2

#annual wrap up

[chaoslordcrull]

Working with troubled youth made me appreciate Joystick

Two things about me: I am a superhero geek, and I work for an organization that provides mentors for juvenile delinquents.

To the latter point, a part of my training involved listening to lectures about how the traumas at-risk youth often face (called Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs) shape the chemistry of their developing brains. For example, my boss worked with a girl who had been removed from an abusive home. When she was placed in a genuinly nurturing second home, she acted out in a self-destructive way long after the shock of the tranfer had left. The girl had spent so much time in a disfunctional home that her mind now considered that chaos as normal. When put in a fuctional home, the girl had anxiety because safety was unfamilar to her mind. Her response was to lash out in an unconscious attempt to recreate that familiar chaos.

So what does this have to do with a C-list supervillain who hasn't done anything since 2006?

In Thunderbolts 102, Joystick gets a backstory. Her past had gotten cryptic hints a few times during the 2004-2006 New Thunderbolts run, but this was the issue that gave most of the details. Her dad was a gambler who blew so much money chasing the big score that he ended up borrowing from loan sharks to recuperate his losses. When he couldn't pay them back. . .

So Joystick was exposed to violence against a parent as a child. That's sad, but not unique for comic book backstories. What stuck out to me was how this trauma impacted her.

Over time, Joystick lost the ability to feel empathy for her father because she witnessed him get beaten over and over. I interpret this as her psyche's way of protecting itself. It would have been emotionally painful seeing a loved one get hurt constantly, so her subconscious protected itself from that trauma by numbing its capacity for empathy. What interested me is how Joystick rationalizes what happened to her family as just being the way things are. A lot of comic characters mull over how their tragic backstories hurt them, making them more pitiable and sad. While that is a perfectly valid response to trauma, I found it surprising to see an individual normalization of an ACE. It's like she doesn't even view what she went through as a bad thing. That half acceptance/half denial will be important later.

So what else? Joystick once confronted her dad about his gambling habit, and he had this to say:

He introduces her to the idea that self-destructive risks are rewarding. I've known kids who were gang-affiliated because their parents taught them the toxic values that led them to that lifestyle. While this isn't exactly the same, it is similar enough to the point where reading it really hit close to home. I also hated how shameless he was while explaining why he does things he knows leads to traumatizing his wife and daughter. Now, it could be argued that Walter likely has a gambling addiction, so giving it up for his family wouldn't be so easy. That's probably true, but. . .

He had a stash of emergency funds the whole time. If he really wanted to, he could have used that money to help pay his debts and get clean for his family's sake. Instead, he puts his thrill-seeking over the safety of the family he is supposed to care for. He may not be physically abusive like many other supervillain's parents, but his neglect and selfishness really hit something deep in me and made him one of my most hated comic book characters.

Flash forward to Joystick's college years. She becomes a basketball player. She starts taking stupid risks like her dad. She takes money from gangsters to win a game, but then bets a ton of money on her team losing. When she throws the game for a big payout, the gangsters confront her. . .

She betrays her dad. The gangsters take the stash and beat the shit out of Walter, leaving Joystick's mom to let her know what happened. Having been in so much danger yet getting away with it is implied to be the event that convinced Joystick to take bigger risks, putting her on the path to becoming a supervillain.

Most people I've met dismiss Joystick as a one-note addrenaline junkie, and I understand why. But I believe her backstory and the subtext in the comic give her depth that is not immediately obvious on a first reading. There are hints that Joystick feels more regret over betraying her family and her lot in life than she is willing to acknowledge. For example, this little snippit from a behind the scenes panel:

Plus, her inner monologue in her backstory comic has a large section about the importance of hiding the truth to beat other players in a game. It's spread out, so I'll summarize. She does not like being called by her first name, Janice, because it is too painful for her. Now why would that be? There isn't anything traumatic associated with her name in particular. But her T-Bolt teammates (at least the ones she gets along with), call her by her middle name, Olivia. Her parents are the only notable characters to call her Janice. Her monologue then turns from hiding the truth from opponents to hiding it from yourself. She says burying the truth from yourself, crushing your own spirit, is when you've really won. That is because one's toughest challenger is oneself. Now, what challenge is Joystick trying to beat herself at? What challenge could require hiding the truth from herself, and what is that truth? I believe there is a part of her deep down that feels guilt over betraying her parents, a part that knows there's something wrong with her self-destructive lifestyle.

Most Thunderbolts know they are carrying baggage. They either try to overcome it or acknowledge it without caring enough to change. But Joystick stands out in that she seems to be in denial that her entire gimmick is a trauma response. Why does Joystick feel a need to constantly seek danger? Because she is subconsciously trying to recreate the danger that was normalized by her upbringing. Why is she so uncaring towards her teammates? Because during childhood she was forced to stop caring for loved ones to cope.

Joystick's backstory accurately reflecting the impact of childhood exposure to violence may be coincidental. I have no idea how much Fabian Nicieza researched the different effects of ACEs before writing this issue. And my analysis is biased in that I saw bits of people I know in this story. Maybe she was just meant to be a one-dimensional bad guy. But just as Joystick hides the truth from herself, I think the depths of her character are similarly obscured from the reader if they don't look beyond the first glance.

#marvel #marvel comics #joystick #janice yanizeski #character study #character analysis #thunderbolts #new thunderbolts #fuck walter yanizeski