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awheckery · 1 year
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DEATH TW and mentions of murder so if that is triggering for you don’t read, but if it’s not then i’d like to ask if you’ve heard of forensic genealogy? while i am uneasy at the prospect of using it to find suspects, it can also be used to find the identities of unidentified decedents, who die of accidental causes or are murdered, and often it’s the only hope to identify those who have been unidentified for decades. the dna doe project is a nonprofit that’s mostly volunteer run, and i think that your research skills could be useful there or somewhere like there. i know this is kind of a random ask to receive, identification of unidentified remains is my special interest but i don’t have the time or training to get better at researching beyond a few tricks here and there.
I feel like we've read the same articles recently; did you see the tumblr post (and linked articles) about Joseph Augustus Zarelli, the Boy in the Box?
Which is to say, yes, I am aware of forensic genealogy and the DNA Doe Project, because like many white American women, I'm a true crime junkie.* My big Thing is investigative procedure tho, so I'm also deeply interested in plane & train crash investigations, medical mysteries, archaeology, anthropology... basically 'what happened, and by which processes and methods do we figure out what happened?'
So far as getting into the game myself, I dunno. I assume there's probably some sort of required formal training, along with the expectation of reliability and sustained effort, and I'm a chronically ill autodidact with ADHD. I'm the research equivalent of a sprinter; investigative genealogy requires a marathoner, because there's so much exhausting, grinding work involved.
Something I've never seen brought up before in any investigation is how many extant family trees are just wrong. Genealogical sites make it too easy to crib notes from other users, and all it takes is one person deciding 'eh that's probably the right guy' for dozens of other amateur researchers to make the same mistake, and then somebody ties that erroneous information to their DNA profile. I don't know how the forensic genealogists deal with that.
You also have to take into account how many people throughout history have just gone missing, or otherwise fallen off the historical record. Just because someone's date of death is absent doesn't mean something nefarious happened to them. (Just because someone's date of death is present doesn't mean it's correct.) People emigrate. They marry. They change their names. They die alone and unknown in a ditch**, or they die somewhere that doesn't make those records public***. Paper records can burn or flood out, and family stories rarely make it down more than one or two generations. History is messy.
I've only done serious research into my family background for two years, in fits and starts interrupted by illness flare ups. Half the time it feels like I find more questions to ask than I get answers. I've found a pair of illegitimate daughters and a handful of adoptees. I've found some two dozen 'missing persons' who may as well have disappeared into thin air, for how suddenly they dropped out of the historical record. I've found a murder victim and a (maybe) would-be murderess.
And four months ago, I found the answer to another family's 150 year old missing person case, and it changed everything I thought I knew about my mother's family.
This is how.
Five months ago, I thought I knew everything there was that could be known about John Robert McDowell.
I knew he was born July 1st of either 1868 or 1869, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to his naturalization petition, he came to the United States in April of 1883, when the absolute oldest he could have been was fourteen, and at the time of his naturalization in 1896 he claimed his nationality was English, presumably due to anti-Irish sentiments at the time.
I knew John's handwriting was idiosyncratic: he wrote the J in his name with a rightward upper loop that scooped up again before curving back around the center staff, and his uppercase R was a mess of curlicues. I've never seen the like before or since.
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I knew that despite living in America for ten years longer than he'd lived outside it, John still had an accent in 1908 when his second son was born. Spelling is incredibly inconsistent across historical records because up until very recently, it was the practice of the record keepers to write down their best guess at what they heard, and in 1908 a midwife heard and recorded John's surname as McDoul.
John's life was actually remarkably well-documented, in comparison to his contemporaries. I bought myself access to Newspapers.com along with my Ancestry subscription, and he made semi-regular appearances in the Newport News Daily Press for the better part of thirty years as a Navy veteran, successful entrepreneur, and president of a labor union that later became the United Steelworkers Local 8888. (A seemingly throwaway notice in the Daily Press was the only record I've yet been able to find for his divorce, which eventually led me to find out whatever happened to his wife, which is another saga entirely. Pauline, you dirty rotten cheater.)
I knew that John was in and out of the hospital with thyroid cancer, but he was such a tough old bastard it took the better part of fifteen years to kill him, and he died in 1954 at the age of 86.****
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According to John's death certificate (and the U.S. Government records at the VA hospital where he died), his parents' names were Thomas McDowell and Isabell Rabb (or possibly Robb, the Accent strikes again.)
This is the only record linked to either of them on Ancestry.com at all.
I have most of a history degree, so I wasn't surprised. There are next to no records of the 1890 census of the United States, and that was down to a fire in the National Archives. Ireland was dragged backwards through hell by the ankles for centuries by a succession of British monarchs and governments, and Belfast was in the prime of especially conflicted territory for much of it. No census records from John's lifetime were kept, and the likelihood his parents would show up in the surviving fragments from 1841 and 1851 was slim to none.
There were transcribed indexes from birth and marriage records available, at least, and I scoured them through, looking for a John McDowell, and there wasn't a single damn one born to a Thomas or Isabelle McDowell in a decade on either side of 1868. There wasn't any record I could find at all of a Thomas McDowell marrying an Isabelle Rabb until well after John left Ireland.
Five months ago, as far as I knew, John Robert McDowell was probably a bastard, who'd either been left out of whatever records were taken at the time, or he was one of the unfortunate ones whose birth record had been lost.
Four months ago, I realized that the record indexes on Ancestry included film numbers, which meant there were pictures of those records to be found somewhere. If they were organized chronologically, I could try to find his birth registration that way. Googling "ireland civil registration records" brought me to the Civil Records search page of a genealogy site run by, of all things, the Irish government's tourism department.
Once again, there wasn't a John McDowell born to the right parents during the right time period, so I went looking for his parents' marriage. And found it.
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If they married in 1872, John would probably still technically be a bastard, but I had a point to start from. Once I clicked into the actual scan of the record I nearly snapped myself in half sitting upright in attention, because Thomas McDowell's father's name was Duncan, John named his eldest son Duncan, Isabella's father's name was John, I had to have the right two people, this couldn't be a coincidence.
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And then I noticed Isabella was a widow. Isabella was a widow.
Who was your husband, and when did he die, Isabella? I searched again, and found her marriage to a Thomas Logan July 30th, 1866. No men named Thomas Logan died in Belfast between 1866 and 1870, which meant he was probably still alive when John was born. It meant I had been looking in the wrong direction the entire time.
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John Robb Logan came into the world on July 1st, 1868, in the Ballymacarrett district of Belfast, the second child of four born to Thomas Logan and Isabella Robb. Once I knew what I was looking for the rest came easy.
John's early life was riddled with tragedies. His younger brother Joseph was six months old when he died in March of 1870. His father died of smallpox in December of the same year, exactly one month after the birth of his sister Mary. Three months before his fifth birthday, his first half-sibling Bella died, at just five months old. And in 1879, his older brother William died after a long, miserably drawn-out illness from spinal tuberculosis.
(As an aside, god, poor Isabella. She had four children with Thomas Logan, and a further nine with Thomas McDowell, and before her early death from a long respiratory illness she buried a husband, two sons, and two daughters. How do you go on after that, how are you not forever shattered?)
If I hadn't been sure I'd found the right family, I was after William died. Thomas McDowell was the person who reported William's death to the registrar's office after sitting by his deathbed. The registrar recorded William as a "child of [the] baker" that Thomas was by profession; Thomas McDowell claimed his stepson as his own.
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Duncan McDowell, John's step-grandfather, had a family burial plot in Ballygowan, and he named William Adam Logan as his grandson, with no qualifiers, when they buried him.
All the evidence suggests that the McDowells loved John Robb Logan and his siblings, and he loved them back every bit as much. You don't choose to take on the surname of people you hate, and it seems very much the case that John chose to go by McDowell when he came to America. I'm honestly not sure there was a way for Thomas McDowell to bequeath his name to his stepchildren, given John's brother William died a Logan and his sister Mary married as one.
John Robb Logan disappeared from history after his baptism, and John Robert McDowell made his first confirmed appearance in the historical record in 1883, but I was certain they were one and the same. The problem was proving it to my mother, because McDowell was her family name. She'd grown up with it, as had her sisters and her dozens of cousins and her father and his siblings and her father's father; I only had a paper trail arguing the name she knew didn't belong to any of them by blood.
So I went for blood.
I refuse to give my DNA to Ancestry.com on a principle born from paranoia and ethics concerns. It's absolutely not happening, ever, like hell do I expect a corporation to do the right thing with my genetic material. My mother doesn't share my concerns, either now or four years ago, when she bought an Ancestry DNA kit and then did absolutely nothing with her results besides marvel at the unexpected Swedish heritage in her 'Ethnicity Estimate' because doing anything else looked like too much work.
It took a few days to figure out how to hook my mother's DNA results into the tree I've built, and a few more for all the features to populate, but all told it took less than a week between learning the truth about my great-great-grandfather's parentage and proving it irrefutably with DNA, via several descendants of his full-blooded sister Mary and a grandson of his half-brother Wallace.
Ancestry doesn't tell you when new DNA matches are found, or when someone adds you to their tree (and thank god for that, my mother has somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty thousand matches). To those descendants of Mary Thomasina Logan, the handful of John's descendants who've shelled out for Ancestry DNA kits could be any random person. Frequently the relationships between matches aren't clear, because of all the folks like my mom who never add a tree to their results, or those who don't try to go any further back than their grandparents.
As far as Mary Logan's descendants know, the sons of Thomas Logan dead-ended his line, and when I do find John in their trees there's never more than a birth year and a blank space where there would usually be a year of death. (They all have the wrong Isabella Robb too, but I don't really blame them; apparently Isabella was one of the most popular names for girls for well over a century, and Robbs weren't exactly thin on the ground.)
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Someday soon, I'm going to reach out. People who study genealogy do it because they're looking for something: long lost relatives, answers to questions asked too late, or even a better, more personal understanding of history by learning about the people who were there when it happened. Every family has its mysteries and this one, at least, could be solved.
John's story doesn't end here. Here is where it begins.
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*I'm aware of the problematic nature of White Lady True Crime Brain Poisoning, but I'm gonna have to pull the 'I'm not like other girls' card. I'm incredibly discerning about my crime shows, I hate the fucking cops, and I'm realistic about how unbelievably low my chances are of ever being the victim of a violent crime. I'm white, I'm broke as shit, I'm built like a running back and walk like the Terminator, and most importantly, I'm single and planning to stay that way for the rest of my life. The only way I'm getting murdered is if I happen to get caught in a random mass shooting, which isn't outside the realm of possibility because America.
**In case anyone's gotten this far and is still interested, there's strong evidence that the mystery of the Somerton Man was finally solved last year. At some point I'd like to take a look at the tree the forensic genealogists built tho, because I have some Doubts. There was only one person in that family that fell off the map in the 40's? Just one? I was lightning-strike kinds of lucky enough to find John's real parentage, but I dug up more unanswered questions with it, because two of his half-brothers dropped out of the records after 1901. Completely setting aside the possibility of infidelity in the Webb family and how common inbreeding has been (both historically and in recent memory) in populations of European descent, I have a hard time buying that Carl Webb was the only person who could be the Somerton Man. It's still cool as shit that they have a strong possibility tho.
***Maryland and Kansas specifically can blow me, if somebody died in either of those states I have to find an obituary or a tombstone to get the mcfrickin' date, and I have to either pay money and prove a relationship to see a death certificate, or show up to an archive in person to search on their intranet, MARYLAND WHY DO YOU NOT WANT ME TO KNOW WHEN MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER DIED. (Being fair, I don't know if she died in Maryland, that's just a great-uncle's best guess, because she ran away from her family in 1949 and nobody ever saw her again after the early 60's. Helen, where the hell did you go?)
****One of the big reasons why I got into genealogy in the first place was to see if I could find how far back the predisposition to early deaths and autoimmune disease went in my family. What I hadn't expected to find was a predisposition for extreme longevity on all sides. Longevity as in 'skewing the life expectancy bell curve' kinds of longevity. As long as someone didn't come down with a freak illness or make a looooooooong string of poor life choices, they were apparently immune to death, which honestly explains a few things about Crazy Grandma, god damn.
#genealogy#forensic genealogy#research throwdown#storytime with stella#long post#I'm seriously not kidding it's a long goddamn post#image heavy#all images described in alt text#I don't think I did a particularly great job communicating why I shouldn't get into this professionally#this took a long goddamn time to figure out#I think most people want answers quicker than *checks back of hand* seven-ish months?#fwiw my mother took it remarkably well#our big family mystery has always been What Happened to Helen?#that was probably the central question of my grandfather's life: not knowing what happened to his mother#so that was my mom's big question too#and luckily we had other weird familial circumstances as precedent#me: 'heyyyyyyyy uh so great news yr great-grandfather wasn't a criminal on the lam OR a bastard child. he was kind of adopted?'#mom: 'adopted??? huh. like your grandpa with the mudds?'#me: '....actually. yeah. almost *exactly* like that. but like if grandpa changed his last name and then never told you he'd done it'#tho I still have no idea why john changed 'robb' to 'robert'#my theory for a long time was that he was just REALLY leaning into the scottish heritage; the guy named his sons duncan & bruce#then I learned about irish naming conventions and while that answered some questions it just wound up leaving me with MORE questions#I went through all 8 stages of grief a year ago when I figured out john's presbyterian funeral meant the fam married into catholicism LATER#and thus were probably scots colonizers to the plantation of ulster instead of former gallowglasses#I don't love the idea of my ancestors being unionist kiss-asses#which the naming scheme kinda supports#but john was a LABOR UNION ORGANIZER#he left well before the clearances in the 20's but labor activism was synonymous with catholicism & nationalism for aaaaaaaages#he had to have picked that up from a parent. two of his half brothers (who also emigrated to the states) were union members too
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altraviolet · 7 months
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reader polls for Echo Garden
Every once in a while I make a poll and take the winning answer into consideration for writing Echo Garden :) Important to note that I like all the choices- I don't think setting yourself up for something you don't want to do is a good idea in a poll.
This is a long post so after the first one I'll put a cut :)
1) puns
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This is the only poll I've ever made, I think, where the answer was 100% yes xD I wasn't sure if puns were Rodimus-y or not (he hates hats, for example. his tastes can be esoteric) so I asked. This is why he makes cold puns in Ch 23, Enceladia. Poll date: Mar 28, 2021 Ch 23 upload date: Aug 20, 2021
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2) spark jewels
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I was trying to think of a scientific name for the spark equivalent of kidney stones and liked a few options, so I asked for opinions. The colloquial term used in Ambulon's dimension is "spark jewels," a phrase that Velocity does not know. He switches to the medical term, "lapides stellae," to which she replies "asterliths." I recall not being able to satisfactorily combine Latin and Greek words for "star" with scintill or spitha so I went with both options in the first choice. This scene is found in Ch 26, Fuel Furnace. Poll date: Nov 29, 2021 Ch 26 upload date: Dec 9, 2021
3) other rarepairs
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I had a secret goal (it's not a secret anymore cuz I've told you) to put as many of my rarepairs into the fic as possible. I wanted to include more of either of the above, so let readers decide. I had a feeling Nautica/Blaster would win. I'm legit surprised Bluestreak/Hot Spot got as many votes as it did. Hmm. Looking back on this, maybe I'll try to give them another little nod before the fic ends. Anyhoo, yup, sprinkled throughout the fic are little bits of Nautica/Blaster. I like what they have. It's really loving and supportive :) Poll posted Dec 10, 2021. At that time the fic had 24 chapters.
4) liminal Cybertron
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Ok ok ok, so originally, Mirage's Cybertron was a destroyed, insecticon-infested world. I actually have most of a full chapter written in this original setting- Rodimus, SW, and Mirage going back to retrieve Skywarp. I might put that scene (and other discarded scenes) up after TEG is done, if people are interested. I don't have the exact date for when I wrote the original insecticon chapter, but I was still considering it in March of 2022 because I put foreshadowing for it in Ch 29 Progress, uploaded March 3, 2022. I don't remember now what made me think of doing a sterilized world instead, and then after I thought of it, I couldn't decide which to do. I was surprised by these poll results. The poll predates when I wrote the foreshadowing chapter, so I was still thinking of doing insecticons months later... I don't remember what ultimately changed my mind, but I remember why: insecticons have been done. The chapter I originally wrote was exciting and there were parts I was sorry to put aside, but a desolate, haunting, sterilized Apple store world was appealing because it hasn't been done before (as far as I know). I think people really liked the aesthetic and horror feel of it, so I'm glad I made the change =) Poll posted Jan 6, 2022 We first see 2938 Cybertron close up in Ch 39: Firelove Part 2: The After Burner, posted March 19, 2023.
5) Most Recents Club storytime
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I honestly couldn't decide who to have tell a story at the club, Ambulon or Trailbreaker, so I had readers choose. Ambulon was chosen, so we got some of his background story in Ch 30, Distress Call. I thought his story was hilarious. I laughed a lot while writing it. I suspect readers didn't find it as funny, though, as iirc only one person wrote about it in comments xD Poll posted March 6, 2022 Ch 30 posted April 25, 2022
6) ruining a big moment
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I've posted about this one before, but I'll put it here for posterity. This refers to the use of the ᕕ(⌐■_■)ᕗ ♪♬ in Ch 43 Firelove Part 6 The Shattering. The original scene was supposed to be very heavy and dramatic. The After Burner fleeing a bursting and breaking Cybertron, everyone beat up and kinda shocked after the encounter with Megatron. But ahhhhhhh the idea of including the emoji got the better of me. I wanted to do it! So badly! But I didn't know if it would be good for the chapter! So I had readers choose, lol. People seem to like it a lot so I'm glad it went in xD Poll posted March 29, 2023 Ch 43 posted Sept 10, 2023
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That's it for now! Thanks for reading =)
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voiceofthesilly · 2 months
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3, 4, 5 aaaaand 6! :3
3. I do love me a tortured artist...
Reese definitely takes the cake for. Many reasons. One is that i personally have to short-circuit seeing him. Another is that I love people who talk during movies so so much please explain to me the directors entire thing. Also, it's very true that his shit is reminiscent of Goya's black period (thinking about it even in genesis sorta) and Beksiński's work (🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱💥💥❗‼️💥 Poland mention) and i m a big fan of Beksiński. Im also not immune to 12 foot, monster-dwelling tailed monster (shout-out to needle princess) Also just found out he's a DM? I'm genuinely ready to sell my soul for the guy
But Avery and Stella are so close behind, Avery for being the weirdest person around (so so affectionate. Why did you say you'd like the ditchlings to lay eggs under your skin), Stella because I'm personally also a big fan of cryptids and paranormal in general. Also there's so much wrong with her
4. This one unfortunately has got to go to Oscar because I haven't really gotten around to hanging out with him yet... Not that I dislike him by any means, just don't have a lot of feelings about him either way.
Unless Sybil counts, she's interesting as fuck but I do not trust her a single bit and there's so many things I'm sure are her fault. So as a character — I think she's great . But I'm hissing and scratching at her
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Only now I realised there's two question fives and i did the other one in another ask so!
My absolute favourite side character is the pastor. He's just some guy . I would trust him with my life. Wdym he just went "uhhh yeah god and stuff" to make sure Kaneeka /and Avery think that's what we're talking about. "Firm parenting moment" and it's please be good or we might skip storytime. I cannot wait to see more of him
6.
My favourite traits have got to be street smart and keen eye, though book smart and powerful build arent far behind. I just love lying to people and eavesdropping . But the muscle-weirdo stuff powerful build does and additional information book smart grants are really cool also
As for combos, I think it's the same, keen eye and street smart are amazing together . Though maybe it's just because the MC who has them is my favourite. I'm going for a playthrough that gets both of these and book smart, and so far it's also been very fun so book smart/keen eye seems fun, and so does street smart/powerful build with all the bullshit it allows me to pull
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gctchell · 24 days
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𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐈'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑!
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alias / name:  red!
birthday: march 23rd.
zodiac sign: aries.
height: 5'1''. what's up lucifer i think we see eye-to-eye.
hobbies: love roleplaying, love writing, love diving into character psychology and obsessing over that shit. love drawing when I can, and driving when I get to, along with gaming. re-entering my continuous obsession with vtm:b lol.
favorite color: black and burgundy.
favorite book: it changes as i read more. palette is kind of clean atm, don't got a fav. finished and enjoyed "in the company of witches" by auralee wallace recently tho, and currently getting into "the historian" by elizabeth kostova, "interview with the vampire" by anne rice, and "the exorcist's house" by nick roberts. and "wuthering heights".
last song:  storytime by nightwish.
last film / show: hook (1991) / x-men '97 (SO GOOD)
inspiration: for niffty, it's her pilot self that i'm primarily using which i've just built on for a few years now. looking at those 1950s diners, old cars, and listening to the music from the time helps, too! for stella, it's listening to 10 hour long videos of snowstorms and within temptation, along with the fact awkward moms who mean well, love their kids more than anything, and are trying their best are not really all-too present in media like the dad counterparts are. i wanna write that for her. for lilith, it's reading what her followers have to say about her as well as the books they've recommended for getting to know her more personally, rolled in with morticia addams (carolyn jones & catherine zeta-jones). to boot, there's also my love for the gothic, vampires, nightwish, and experience from my days of playing jessica rabbit. also listening to sea ambience, crashing and washing waves. for carmilla, it's the paranoia of tammy's death scene (blood and death in that link), the pain, perseverance and elegance of ballet, some of the energy from "the hacienda" by isbaela cañas, and just staring at her scenes and analyzing them in my little mind palace.
story behind url: i was sitting here trying to think of a quick url and i was like 'wouldn't it be cool if gotohell was available' .. this variation was. :)
fun fact about me: i've always wanted to be a stormchaser ever since i was a kid. also, i own two daggers, three katanas, two swords, one machete and an iridescent pocket knife, and a crossbow. loading crossbows is harder than you think. need some strength for that.
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ambercast · 5 months
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where: library who: stella hendrix (@endlessreruns)
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Blue enjoyed going to the library. It was quiet in there. It was like stepping into another world. None of the bad stuff outside could get him in here. It was peaceful. He used to love the library at school back home. When he didn’t want to go back to his parents in that awful house, he would linger in the library, despite not knowing how to read well. The stories that were read for the kids, he enjoyed listening to them, with his knees pulled up in the back of the group, watching the puppets or listening to the kid with the freckles read with all the voices.
One Storytime had just ended, and the kids were standing and milling about, picking up different picture books to look at or leaving with their parents. Blue stayed where he was, arms wrapped around his knees, waiting for the next one.
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jackiequick · 2 years
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Storytime with The Avengers
*she turns on the camera she secretly stole from Steve and smiles, “What’s up party people-oh and Rogers please don’t be mad at me for stealing your camera which I brought you! Also hi lovely viewer, I’m Estella Strange your friendly neighborhood doctor and magic user-oh daily reminder drink some water and eat something for god’s sakes! I know you’ll didn’t drink enough water today.”
“Anyways, so! This week at the household has been a little wack-ish. Take a look!”
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The camera cuts to Avengers Tower showing everyone in the living room when suddenly Cole burst in though the door yelling, “Which one of y’all fuckers been in my room?! Don’t lie cause I will find out!” Everyone looks around as suddenly Michelle dashes out the door and Cole yells, “I KNEW IT! Rochelle’s your girlfriend is so dead!”
Rochelle responses, “She’s not my girlfriend!” Liane looks at her gasping “HUH?! You two broke up?!”
The redhead rolls her eyes, “You didn’t let me finish! She’s my future wife, just waiting for that proposal-” Liane chuckles rolling her eyes as Cole replied, “Whatever! Your girlfriend or future wife is so dead!”
*cuts back to Stella saying, “Told ya. For some reason everyone has been going into each other’s rooms lately or barging in at unexpected times. Take a look.”
We cut to Thiego cutting open a portal stepping into Cassandra’s room trying to steal some magic books then Cassie catching him as a argument shortly breaks out, then we cut to Jasper barging into the kitchen 3rd wheeling Luna and Rick’s Beauty & The Beast style dinner as the lovebirds blushing embarrassedly.
Liane and Ethan along with Mia and Nikolai accidentally barging Vice versa  while hanging out with their boyfriends as it turns into a fun awkward double date night. We also cut to Castiel going into everyone’s room scaring the shit out everyone! And the list goes on with footage of everyone-😬
*cut back to her saying, “Yeahhh it wasn’t pretty but at least everyone had fun..I think. Oh! I went skydiving with Sam, I couldn’t film that footage since I was scared shitless! But it was super fun. Before I leave off, some couple of things happened take a look!”
We cut to Rochelle’s starting to show even more and having a sweet baby shower with a few surprising guests, old faces returning and a couple of new face! Then we cut to Rei and Tyler having another stupid conversation while Mia and Nikolai, Michelle and Rochelle, Ethan and Liane stand off to the side eating popcorn watching as if it’s a movie waiting for the climactic moment. We then cut to Melissa and Victor becoming tech besties while everyone also meeting Clay.
We also cut to footage of Thiego dancing in the mirror and singing in the shower as his sister caught it all on video muttering under her breath and jokes, “Someone got some vocals.”
Last but not least we cut to everyone at the small—more like medium sized music festival as Tyler headlines his new songs, “Memorized”, “Breakeven”, “Paralyze” and much more. He even brings Michelle Danvers herself on stage to sing her own new song. Everyone cheering happily.
*Cut back finally to Stella saying, “And that was story of this week or at least what I can capture on this camera” Suddenly you hear Steve’s voice in the hallway yelling, “Has anyone seen my video camera? I can’t find it.” as Nat response, “I think Strange or one of girls has it.”
She hears this and gulp eyes widen turning back to the camera, “Okay I gotta go! Bye guys gotta study for my exams this Friday.” Then the camera turns off until next time and hidden back in the gym room where it originally was.
I hope you like and add onto to the post with everyone stealing the video camera from Steve to film!
Keep the chain going/Tags: @parisparker269 @mcbident @msrochelleromanofffelton @nyxphie @bucky-barnes-1112 @gaminggirlsstuff @gcthvile @rickb-chaos and the list goes on!
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kangjaehee · 2 years
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bento box storytime.
day 6 genshin impact au letsgoooo
title: bento box storytime
character(s): jaehee, seven
rating: gen
wc: 3219
tags: genshin au, platonic jaehee/seven, minor mcajaehee spy au
Dim, yellow light emanated from the windows of a wooden house in the outskirts of Liyue Harbor, close to the Overpass. Only the sound of the night birds and wind accompanied the workers staying overtime in the Interdiu Stella base. A secluded location, far from any movement, could be confused with the house of a mine worker, but still easy to access once the location was found. That worried Jaehee constantly. If she were an enemy of theirs, trying to track the organization down, she'd think them foolish and herself lucky for having found them so easily.
Still, there was a tunnel deep underground that connected them with Yuehai Pavilion, with an earlier stop at the even more secured Golden House, that they could take, and the place was secured with a bomb. So, all in all, it was an alright enough meeting spot where they could work. Plus, it was cozy, at least for the headquarters of a spy organization: with a warm, bright wood interior and nicely decorated, it resembled a family house, which was an atmosphere that reduced stress. Of course, the documents lying in the tables with extremely sensitive information revealed that looks were just that: looks.
It was getting late, nearing midnight, by the way the wind had started to howl. All the workers had already left, with Xiumei, one of their informants, being the last to go just a few minutes ago. Only she and 707, the team's Head of Intel who was, like her, forever working, remained. She should be heading home soon if she wanted to get any sleep tonight. But there was still work to do, she was still not done with today's tasks. Looking out the window, she sighed. Beyond it was a dirt path, beyond that was grass, and far beyond that she could see the vast and mountainous scenery of Liyue, enshrouded by fog.
So many mountains... Could the answers for the location of this Snezhnayan agent she was tracking be hidden within them? There had to be somewhere she wasn't looking. But she had totally spent her mental resources, going over the same leads for hours now with no satisfactory outcome. So, she decided to take a break.
Perhaps she should eat. The last time she did so, the sun was setting. It's been hours. Her stomach begins growling once she realizes that, her hunger finally revealing itself.
Decision made, she goes to her desk to pull out one of her little pre-made lunch boxes. This one was grilled fish. It worked.
Across from her sat Seven, nose deep into a piece of metal he was tinkering with, a machine he was building to try to decode Snezhnayan radio messages. They had started using Fontainese radio camouflage technology, and he had somehow gotten the blueprints, and was now working on a sort of retaliation machine.
For all that the guy frustrated Jaehee with his jokes and coded speech, he was an undisputable genius, the sharpest tool on their shed, and dedicated and dutiful. Their incompatibility of personality did not matter in light of how useful Seven was for their team. He was the only reason it existed in the first place. Jaehee would never have been able to do this without him. Because, however great she was at managing the organization's affairs, she wasn't a sleuth, although many did say she had the talent for it. But she didn't know the method. Seven did, and he was the one to turn her goals into realizable action plans.
She had seen him like this for a while now. Goodness, his back was going to immensely suffer from it... Has he ever gotten up since the sun set?
"Have you eaten?" she finds herself asking him.
He doesn't answer, only the sound of metal on metal.
"Seven," she said-- she could've called him by his real name, Saeyoung, Choi Saeyoung, but that would be a bit too personal-- putting a bit more authority in her voice. "You should eat dinner."
"I'm working, Jaehee," he said, bitter. If there was one thing about Seven, it's that he absolutely hated being interrupted. Jaehee sighed.
"You'll work even faster when you have something in your system," she argued. "I can give you one of my bento boxes." She didn't hesitate, she grabbed one and put it in his desk. She couldn't have one of her team members starving to the point of illness. Also, she cared about him as a person, wanted him to be healthy, even if she didn't know how to say it. Didn't even understand it within herself.
Grass-rimmed eyes regarded the cute-looking box at the corner of his desk, the metal sound stopping. Then, they turned to the woman towering above him with her shoulders shrunk and hands in her pockets. It almost shocked him a bit. Jaehee as Head of Operations was always poised, always stern. Now, she was almost... shy behind all that.
Seven grabbed the box and got up in a swift motion, brashly pushing back his chair, and heading to one of the couches with heavy steps, with the air of an unwilling rebellious teenager. He sometimes acted like that. It always confused Jaehee. Sometimes, she didn't know what to be with him. Now she was both the caring friend and insecure superior, not knowing how to care for him.
She sat across from him and they ate in silence for a while. With an empty look he absolutely devoured the contents of his box, while Jaehee methodically and quickly chewed on hers.
"You were hungry, it seems," she says, watching as he absorbs yet another bite of Matsutake, not bothering to clean his crumbed up face.
After a beat, he nods. "Thanks," he said, " for the meal."
"That will be two thousand mora."
His eyes widen, and then he frowns in utter shock. Jaehee lets out a small laugh.
"I was kidding. It's courtesy."
"Oh, would you look at what we have here..." he said, brows raised. "A rare Jaehee joke, I see."
She couldn't help the snort that came out of her nose, although her pride didn't like the idea of him knowing she found him funny sometimes. "I can be quite humorous too, you know?" She took another bite and held his gaze.
"Android Jaehee commands and controls. Activating: humor mode," he said in a robot voice. She did not hold back her huff.
"Not like you, who's perpetually unfunny."
He gasps. "Oh no, I think I've turned sass mode on... How can I turn it off? Sass mode's the worst!"
She hates him. "It's a mode only you can activate, if you'd know. And to deactivate, I don't know, maybe... stop being annoying."
"And be what, a boring robot like you? Absolutely no way on Earth."
"Well, have it your way, then..." She focuses all her attention on her plate.
There's silence for a second. Then, "On Celestia perhaps, but not down here."
Insufferable man. "Ah, yes.... because you, of all people, will ascend." She gasps ironically. "Of course! How have I not considered that approach?"
"I have a vision, you know?" He says, then pushes his hip out. The vision hangs from his belt. "Geo. Bedrock. The element of the great late Rex Lapis. The element of our great nation of Liyue."
Jaehee shakes her head. "Yeah, with that attitude you're not even ascending to the Jade Chamber..."
"Lady Ningguang's my bestie," he says. "We have tea in her parlor every afternoon."
She has the urge to say something wildly improper, even opens her mouth, but thinks better of it. Instead, she says: "You know what, I will not waste my energy responding to such a ridiculous statement."
"Man, I can't believe it, I was gonna invite you for tomorrow's daily tea party..."
"And I would've declined," she says. "I would never sit on a table with the likes of you."
Their conversations, when not work related, are always like this: quick banter, a back-and-forth of backhanded insults. Some meant, some not. Seven is irreverent, eccentric, and Jaehee can't, in principle, stand a character like his, but she finds their conversations oddly fun. He's an entertaining one to fight, and he knows she means no hurt. On the other hand, he seems to push her on.
He laughs now.
"What is it?" she says, starting to get a little bit angrier.
"You're doing that right now," he says, mouth in a line and brows raised. "We're literally sharing a meal together, Lady Kang..."
Gotcha. Alright, he's won this one. She bites her lip, completely out of words, as she desperately fumbles for a way to save her pride. "First of all, don't call me Lady Kang," she says. "And second... you know what I mean." She'd out of resources. She yields.
"I do. And it sucks, because I totally would," he said. "You're fun to be around, Jaehee, even if you're a robot."
"Thank you," she says, too tired to argue. She knows he means nothing bad by his robot claims, it's just his preteen boy humor way of saying she's inexpressive. She's his boss. She doesn't know what he's expecting. She acts in a perfectly proper manner with him, considering the relationship they have.
“Also, where did you get these little box things?” he says, turning his now empty box around.
“Oh, Chaeyoung got them for me.”
Seven frowns, confused at the idea of their mutual portrait artist acquaintance being also a cook.
“She doesn’t make them,” Jaehee clarifies. “Wanmin does. She just talks to Xiangling to make them and then brings them to me.”
“Ah, I see…” he says. One of his brows is slightly raised. Jaehee isn’t sure if she likes this. “So, you’re that close… Interesting, very interesting.”
“That close how?”
He’s smiling. “As in… she waits for you when you leave work… she comes in during hours… she does meal prep for you…”
Jaehee huffs. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” She’s blushing furiously and wants to die.
He gasps. “Oh by the name of every adeptus… is Kang Jaehee perhaps… in love?”
She blinks, dumbfounded, but beneath it her heart races. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“What do you mean? You just said she takes care of your meals , like a Mondstadter housewife…” Then he begins chanting like a child in a playground. “ Jaehee has a girlfriend, Jaehee has a girlfriend…”
She groans, frankly and unceremoniously. “I don’t have a– Archons, you're absolutely insufferable.” Her face feels hot. She hates this. Hates that it’s happening in front of Seven , of all people, who will tease her to no end. “Listen, the meal boxes are just a favor for a friend. Nothing more.”
To his unfortunate benefit, there were other much more compromising things she and Chaeyoung did… but he ought not to know about them. The bento boxes, put in light of the nights they spent on each other’s arms, their long, long conversations in the port, and things they said to each other that sounded like masked confessions, were truly nothing of relevance.
He laughs, incredulous. “Yeah, sure, sure… ”
She rolls her eyes, taking the last bite of her grilled fish. She wasn’t gonna argue this, not now, not with him. Her complicated feelings and things-to-say list were to be discussed when she wasn’t in the middle of dealing with international threats.
There was silence for a minute. Seven simply sat there in indle contemplation, licking the last remaining contents of his box. She closed hers and put it to the side.
“I can give you another one, if you’re still hungry,” she said, if only to fill the silence.
Something somber came over his face. He shook his head. He was covering something up. “Nah, I’m good.”
… Okay. She wasn’t gonna ask him what his throat clearing was for, or why his fingers gripped at his pants. Seven was randomly struck with preoccupations often, and those were never any of her business, nor did she want them to be, as long as they had nothing to do with Interdiu Stella or the Qixing.
She wouldn’t have to ask this time.
“I��m just gonna tell you, Jaehee,” he said suddenly, still not meeting her eyes, a tinge of urgency in his voice. “It’s cool that you’re getting closer with her and all, and… you do look happy. And I’m happy for you, but—“
“What are you meaning to say?” She blurts out, words like the ice shields she so often makes. She doesn’t like where this is going. There’s a lump in her throat and her heart is beating in warning.
Seven pauses for a second, and it looks like there’s an internal reset within him: he looks forward, orange eyes blank or incomprehensible, licks his lips, blinks, and then turns to her. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he says. “This is the story of an adeptus they called the Defender of Justice. He was very wise, very powerful, one of Rex Lapis’s greatest warriors.”
Oh no. She huffs, pressing her palm to her forehead. Not now. He’s about to do it again. “Saeyoung… just talk normally, please.”
He didn’t listen whatsoever. “And this adeptus, he was known for being kind, and fair, and the most awesome creature in the world… but also for being cold to every human he met. He avoided him like the plague, he sometimes even roared at them… Oh, that too. He was a wildcat. A pretty big kitty with little dots all over his furry body.”
“Seven, I have things to do–”
“But what they didn’t know,” he once again ignored her, this time even getting closer so as to keep her attention, “is that he wasn’t always like this. I’m gonna tell you a little secret, something most will find hard to believe: there was a time where the Defender of Justice, our warrior kitty, was nice to humans. In fact, they adored him. His favorite thing was to interact with humans, play with them, claw at their silly hats and clothes and catch the balls they threw at him.”
“Ball throwing is something done with dogs, not cats…” She doesn’t know why she said that.
“He wasn’t limited by things cats do or dogs do. He did everything,” he quickly deflected Jaehee’s callout of his lapse in logic. “And he enjoyed being around humans so much, he wanted to be with them, talk to them, so he used his super cool adeptus powers and gave himself a human form. And it was the best decision he ever made: he traveled to all countries, tasted all foods, pet all his fellow kitties, and just had the best time of his life.”
“And why did this adeptus start hating humans, if he was so fond of them?” she asked dryly. If he wasn’t going to stop and force her to listen to his useless story, at least he should make it quick.
“Because you see… he met this woman. Her name was Meiqi,” he said, and Jaehee instantly knew what he was doing. “She was beautiful. Daughter of a fisher, giggly, and most importantly, got all of his weird adeptus language.”
“That’s important indeed.”
“It is,” he nodded. “And they started to y’know… really like each other. And soon they were doing all the things the Defender of Justice had always wanted to do: kissing, snuggling, making out…”
“ Don’t give me the details.
“Yes ma’am.” A pause. “Anyway, they were happy. They lived in a little Chihu rock apartment, went to every festival together, ate mountain noodles on Sundays, and told jokes to the children on the streets. All in all, the Defender of Justice was the happiest he’s ever been.
“But duty still called. Being one of Rex Lapis’s strongest warriors, it was always right at his heels… he could never really escape from the errors of his past, and the ghosts that kept following him. And the day came where he had to battle, but that meant that he had to leave his sweetheart Meiqi behind…” His voice dropped to a cautious whisper, “But she loved him too much to let him go. So she went after him, without his knowledge… And he had to watch her be slain by a geovishap.
“And it hurt him so, so much, that he could never set foot in the city, again, never don his human form, which she had loved so well, again. He understood one thing that day as she saw Meiqi’s body be split to pieces: that his status as a Warrior of Rex Lapis would only get him into trouble, and those who he loved would get into trouble with him, and he would be unable to protect them. So, he gave up. He closed his heart, became a pretty cat again, and stayed far away from humans. Both would be better off that way.”
Even though she found this all inexplicably stupid, and berated herself for sitting here listening to his bluff even though she had stuff to do, she still couldn’t stop paying attention. There was a vulnerability about all this, as if he were indirectly clenching her heart. She was perceptive enough to know this much: there was no adeptus, and no beautiful woman, and this is no fantasy story. The Adeptus is him, and the woman, well… she might have actually existed.
“Saeyoung…” She regrets the name as soon as it comes out, and regrets the pity that escapes her voice.
Seven just shakes his head. “You are a warrior too, Jaehee. A spider treading a dangerous, dangerous web. And you’ll wrap whoever clings to you in it.”
She swallowed past the lump in her throat, wanting nothing more than to remove herself from this situation. “Listen, Seven…” she said. “I don’t know what happened in your past, but it surely is very sad. But Chaeyoung would never do something like that.”
“You never know,” he said, voice cracking. “I’m saying it again: whoever clings to you will be stuck in your web…”
She sighed, not knowing how else to approach this. Part of her feared she was right. “I understand what you mean. And, I appreciate your concern.” She leaned a bit closer. “But these are my affairs.” She pressed a hand to her chest. “I choose whether to have them, or not. And I bear whatever problems come from them.”
Seven nodded. “Well, we do carry the weight of our choices.”
She nodded, knowing well what he meant. Few choices have truly been hers, but the ones that have were always heavy. She’d bear the weight of this one as well. Sh’d love Chaeyoung, and let her love her, and hope, to every God there was above them, that she could finally be happy for once.
They said nothing more after that, both continuing their night as planned. Jaehee decided to pack it up to go home, feeling too tired and heavy to continue, although the unfinished task would not let her sleep well tonight. Seven went back to his work station, burying his nose in his project once again. He would be the one to close tonight, if he actually managed to leave. Jaehee advised him to do so.
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Daycare Attendant Masterpost
List of all featured daycare attendants in chronological order
⭐Starlight⭐ + 🌟Nightlight🌟
Very first daycare attendants
Fully space themed daycare
Field trips to connected observatory
Twin siblings
Took too much damage after running into the daycare to try and save a missing child from a fire and were decommissioned
Nightlight was beyond repair
🌠Nebula🌠 + 🌌Esme🌌
Storytime and Time out attendants
Observatory converted to small library
Parents complained about them being too spooky/strict
Nebula was found at the bottom of the ball pit with damage to their faceplate one day, Esme was decommissioned soon after
🌻Sun🌻 + 🌙Moon🌙
Playtime and Naptime attendants
Just sky themed daycare
Library now a theatre
Locked down due to Afton Virus
Decommissioned after the in-game events, parents didn't trust Sun and Moon anymore
☄️Comet☄️
Daycare assistant
Introduced during Sun and Moon's time
Was not warned before Sun and Moon got decommissioned
Talks like a cartoon from the 20s ("golly gee!)
Keeps everyone on schedule
🌈Stella🌈 + 🌑Nova🌑
Current daycare attendants
Arts n Crafts and Snacktime
Theatre is now a big music room
Nervous wrecks, both of em
Nova in hiding from day staff after overhearing a decommission threat
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On this episode of Snackpoint Charlie we are joined in the studio by the esteemed multimedia artist Mr. Brian Dewan. Will he play some long-lost tracks from his record collection, read an obscure text, or dazzle us with his acapella Captain Beefheart impression? ANSWER: all of the above! “There There” host Alanna Medlock rounds out the evening with spontaneous interjections as only she knows how. Live on air Wednesday, April 19 from 10pm to midnight on WGXC, 90.7 FM in the Hudson Valley and Podcast NOW on WGXC.org, the Wave Farm smartphone app, the podcast aggregator of your choice, or direct download below
Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 113 - 2023.04.19 - Brian Dewan PLAYLIST https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/cw3xsr [ ^ click for download ^ ]
1) Mamady Kouyate - “Sobaro Maloya” from PROCLAMATION https://www.discogs.com/release/26726327-Various-Yonatan-Gat-Stone-Tapes
2) Sonic Boom & Delia Derbyshire - “Only the Loveliest” from ESOPUS 3: PRODUCT DISPLACEMENT https://www.esopus.org/issues/view/3
3) Eva Novoa - “Rectangles” from NOVOA KAMAGUCHI CLEAVER TRIO - VOL. 1 http://evanovoa.com/
4) Nada Kentjana - “Nelengnengkung” from PADANG MOONRISE: THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN INDONESIAN RECORDING INDUSTRY (1955-69) https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/padang-moonrise-the-birth-of-the-modern-indonesian-recording-industry-1955-69
5) Rita Zaharah - “Djiko Untuang” from MUSICAL TREASURES OF INDONESIA https://www.discogs.com/release/8773386-Various-Musical-Treasures-of-Indonesia
6) Maxine Funke - “Oblivion” from RIVER SAID https://maxinefunke1.bandcamp.com/album/river-said (feat. Brian Dewan)
7) Sublime Frequencies - “Kazib City” from I REMEMBER SYRIA https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/i-remember-syria
8) Witness K - “Fantasy in Facsimile” from S/T https://evernever-records.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-5 (feat. Alanna Medlock)
9) Arovane - “yua:e” from ICOL DISTON https://arovane.bandcamp.com/album/icol-diston
10) Golden Book Films: Storytime Series - “Dragon in a Wagon”
11) Rully Djohan - “Bubuj Bulan” from BUBUJ BULAN / NAGHM EL UNS https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bubuj-bulan-naghm-el-uns
12) Ed McCurdy with Dana McCurdy - “Through All the World Below” from “ON JORDAN’S STORMY BANKS I STAND…” - SACRED SONGS OF AMERICA https://folkways.si.edu/ed-and-dana-mccurdy/on-jordans-stormy-banks-i-stand-sacred-songs-of-america/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian
13) Brian Dewan - “The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back”
14) Stella Kola - “Set Out Too Soon” from STELLA KOLA https://stellakola.bandcamp.com/album/stella-kola
15) Meiko Kaji - “Onna Kawaki Uta / おんな渇き唄” from HAJIKI UTA https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/meiko-kaji-hajiki-uta-deluxe-gatefold-lp-edition-with-2p-insert-and-obi-black-vinyl
16) Ak'chamel, The Ecstatic Brotherhood of Anima Mundi - “Why Did the Taliban Burn 10,000 Copies of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in a Public Square?” from ESOPUS 25: JOKES https://www.esopus.org/issues/view/25
17) The Residents - “Inner Space” from LOSS OF THE LIZARD LADY (THE MOLLY HARVEY COLLECTION) https://secretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-residents-loss-of-the-lizard-lady-the-molly-harvey-collection-sr13
18) Randy Weston - “Night in Medina” from BLUE MOSES https://www.discogs.com/release/736174-Randy-Weston-Blue-Moses (feat. Alanna Medlock)
19) Brian Dewan - “Orange Claw Hammer”
20) The Cambodian Space Project - “Whiskey Cambodia” from WHISKEY CAMBODIA https://www.discogs.com/master/1181500-The-Cambodian-Space-Project-Whisky-Cambodia (feat. Brian Dewan)
21) Mohamed Taha, Khadra, and Fatma Toubi - “Toubi Ya Nafs توبي يا نفس” from YA NAFS توبي يا نفس https://arabicsinglesgoingsteady.blogspot.com/2023/01/mohamed-taha-khadra-fatima-toubi-ya.html https://www.discogs.com/release/22561856-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B7%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B3-
22) Peter Rabbit Records - “Who's Afraid of the Rain, Rain, Rain” from HOW TO BE HAPPY ON A RAINY DAY https://www.discogs.com/release/10511487-Unknown-Artist-How-To-Be-Happy-On-A-Rainy-Day
23) Brian Dewan - “Well”
23) Omar Khorshid - “Pop Corn” from BELLY DANCE WITH OMAR KHORSHID VOLUME 3 https://www.discogs.com/release/4641947-Omar-Khorshid-Belly-Dance-With-Omar-Khorshid-Volume-3
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irisesindigo · 2 years
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i might start a storytime tag. yk what i will, heres the first one grin emoji
one time when i was like 9 two of my friends and i locked some boys in the girls bathroom, we leaned against the stall doors and didn't let them out
why? idk we thought it was funny smile emoji
anyway one of them asked us to give him tissue so we threw him tissue over the stall door
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awheckery · 3 years
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I got my second covid vaccine 48 hours ago and it messed me all the way up, it's nice to know that my immune system is primed to attack things that aren't just uh me, but the worst part
the
worst
part
was the fucked up fever dreams
no I'm not talking about the one with the weird kidnapping plot and a car chase on rural roads on a moonless night, nor the one where my mom made friends with this horrible rich woman and her horrible rich family, and I was charged with shopping for unbelievably nice gifts for them and they were all incomprehensibly rude to me about it, and my mom wouldn't believe me then sold my car(?????) so I couldn't drive away and thus had to spend a long holiday weekend with them being bullied, NOR the one where I was stuck on a bus with fifteen or so white male Libertarian twenty-somethings oozing smugness at each other and comparing their cryptocurrency accounts on a site that a simple google search revealed was an outrageous scam riddled with computer viruses
no
it was the one where I had to complete a word search puzzle, both because it was an assigned task on the e-learning dashboard at my job (which has nothing whatsoever to do with computers 99.96% of the time) and because if I and my coworkers didn't find at least 80% of the words in said word search, Clint Barton (as in the comic book character) would be beaten to death in a shallow pond by an evil, alternate universe Clint Barton
that's weird enough, right, but it was noted in the e-learning assignment that there were 41 words in the puzzle, and my coworkers were gossiping about how they were only finding 32-34 of them, and apparently I'm an overachiever even when I'm unconscious, so I combed through the word search for three hours in this fuckening dream and only came up with 38 words
so I went to my manager and requested the answer key because a man's life was on the line and I needed to know what words I was missing, and she gave me the list, and one of the three missing words was "dandelionier"
as in
'more possessing of the qualities and characteristics of a dandelion'
I was so incensed, so completely wroth by this non-word that I decided FUCK THIS I'M OUT and forcibly wrenched myself back into sweaty aching post-vaccine consciousness
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that's how MY day is going so far, how bout y'all?
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akuutaguava · 2 years
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OH SHIT I HAVENT DONE STELLA STORYTIMES
OKAY STELLA STORYTIMES
soooooooo me and my family were sitting down and were like yo we should watch somethings so we ended up watching the dressmaker (very good but theres like a lot of death and murder) YET MY MUM FORGOT TO MENTION THAT- anywho i was fine with it but my grandparents were not sooo we changed to a comedy performance and Right it twas like ten minutes to go till new years and we were still watching the comedian so i just kinda left the room to post that lovely end of year post i made and i CAME BACK AFTER LITERALLY LIKE FIVE SECONDS and they were watching farming and then my dad looked at his phone and was like oh its the new year AND WE WERE WATCHING SHEEPIES GIVING BIRTH ISTFG-
*cris* END OF STELLA STORYTIMES
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transromansanders · 5 years
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So I just had a very vivid flashback to this time in fifth grade when I was in orchestra. We were waiting for permission to go into the auditorium for our Christmas concert in an open-air area outside the door to go backstage. In this area, there happened to be some bushes. Two of the guys, we'll call them H and A, were messing around as fifth-graders do, and began to play "baseball" using berries from a bush as balls and A's violin as a bat. Now, as you most likely know, violins have these little holes on their fronts, through which the noise-causing vibrations escape. These, being shaped sort of like fancy letter Fs, are called "F-holes." I know, haha, very funny. Anyway, H is "pitching" berries at A, and A is trying to hit them with his violin, when one goes into the F-hole. Now, we, being dumb kids, immediately start panicking. Me and the other cellists (other than H, of course) Decide that we're not part of this and go into the music classroom, and the violas follow suit. We didn't have any bassists, or they probably would have come with us. But we watch through the little window in the door as H and the violin section try desperately to shake the berry out of A's violin's F-hole. I think they got it out before the Christmas concert, but the moral of the story is that if you want to play baseball using a violin as a bat, and your ball is small enough to go into the F-holes, swing so that the back of the violin is what's hitting the "ball". Or, just. Don't use a violin as sporting equipment. That works too.
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ameliathefatcat · 3 years
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ANTI CEDFIA WEEK Day 1: Hugfia Storytime
On a stormy night Hugo and Sofia tell their son Max bedtime stories
The wind bashed against the windows as Sofia cradled her three-and-half-year old son Max.
“Mommy, Daddy, I’m scared,” Max cried.
“Don’t be champ, you have your Mommy protecting you. And she is the bravest person in the whole Everrealm,” Hugo whispered draping his arms around both his wife and son. Sofia blushed at her husband’s words.
“But I’m not brave like you mommy,” Max cried at thunder shook the palace.
“Maxie, It’s ok to be scared. Big storms scare me too. When was little and scared know what your Gram-Gram did?”
“What?” Max asked.
“Tell me stories. What stories do you want Daddy and I to tell you?”
“The story about you saving Tía Elena?”
“Maxie, Tía Elena and I told you that story a million times before.”
“How about your Mommy got me into ice dancing?”
“No.”
“How about when your Daddy and I win the flying derby?”
“No.”
“Hmm, champ, what story should we tell?” Hugo asked as thunder and lightning hit. Both Sofia and Max jumped.
“How about I make up a story for both of you,” Hugo whispered. Max nodded and Sofia smiled.
“Once upon a time there was a prince by the name of uummm Hu-Henry, yeah Prince Henry and he was a very stubborn prince. He pushed everyone away from him. He was mean to all of the princesses. There was also a Princess uuuhhh So-Stella, Princess Stella. Princess Stella was the most beautiful princess who was able to see the goodness in everyone. One day Prince Henry was being mean and Princess Stella came up to him and told him he was a jerk. Prince Henry didn’t believe her and was mean to her. Later that day Prince Henry was running with the other princes and hurt his ankle. No one came to his help. No one, but Princess Stella. She helped him and after seeing all of her kindness Prince Henry changed. Years later Prince Henry and Princess Stella got married and had a son named Ma-Michael. And they lived happily ever after,” Hugo said finishing his story.
“That was a good story Daddy,” Max whispered.
“I’m glad you liked it Champ,” Hugo whispered kissing Max’s head. Sofia smiled at her husband. Knowing that the story was about him and her. Max yawned and snuggled into his parents and fell asleep. Sofia turned to Hugo and smiled kissing him on the lips.
“Is Princess Stella and Prince Henry based off of us?” Sofia asked.
“It is. Sofia because of you I have changed for the better. I don’t know who I’ll be without you.”
Sofia smiled and kissed Hugo.
“I love too, my love.”
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the-l-spacer · 4 years
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I made a Lloydven playlist!!
There’s sooo many musical theatre songs in here but like Yeah. Thank you to everyone in NADS who helped to suggest songs!! If you hit ‘read more’, I talk about what moment in canon I associate each song with. Hope you enjoy listening :3
A Guy That I’d Kinda Be Into (Be More Chill) - So it all starts with David becoming Raven, and Lloyd is just watching like :3c
Blank Space (Postmodern Jukebox) - And Raven reciprocates his feelings! This is how his confession to Lloyd goes in his head,
Best Worst Mistake (If/Then) - and this is how it goes in reality.
Summer Nights (Grease) - Aaaand we’re in musical love song zone. Obligatory Storytime Theatre reference! (CW: references to possible non-con scenarios)
All I’ve Ever Known (Hadestown) - The two letting their guards down, letting themselves love each other
Suddenly Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors) - SUUDENLY RAAAVEN
The Candy Man (Sammy David Jr.) - You know what’s up ;D
The Cult of Dionysus (The Orion Experience) - Lloyd and Raven setting up the Second Playhouse and vibing wooooo
Dinner and Diatribes (Hozier) - We’re still in love song zone, but spicy.
Mad About You (Hooverphonic) - Getting darker. This takes place before the Second Posthuman War when Sarah manipulates Lloyd and Raven may be mad about him but he’s also Mad At Him.
NFWMB (Hozier) - The Second Posthuman War. Shit’s real, the two have had their disagreements about Sarah but when she hurts Raven, Lloyd sees red. 
In Our Bedroom After the War (Stars) - The War is over. They’re tired and hurting and they find comfort in each other but let’s face it they’re Not in a good place rn
Take Me or Leave Me (RENT) - The Fight.
ilomilo (Billie Eilish) - Raven is scared that Lloyd will leave him
Devil Throw Roses (Shayfer James) - Lloyd leaves.
The Silent (The Tragic Tantrum) - Obligatory Vampair series song, takes places as Lloyd and Raven find themselves truly separated. It ain’t pretty.
Don’t Make Me (MALINDA) - Songs 17, 18 and 19 follow Lloyd alone. In here, he’s tired of people failing him over and over, and well, becomes the bad guy
Villain (Stella Jung) - Lloyd in NARH
We’ll Meet Again (Vera Lynn) - After the events of NARH, Lloyd, having lost, just doesn’t have spite left in him. He just wants to see Raven again
Blasphemous Rumours (Dépêche Mode) - Songs 20-22 follow Raven on his own in the Carnival. Here he deals with his bitterness toward his situation (CW: the song explicitly mentions someone attempting suicide)
xanny (Billie Eilish) - Time passes, Raven becomes increasingly miserable and, well, the substance abuse doesn’t help, but it does make him feel better
Silence, A Stranger (The Arcadian Wild) - A lil softer to balance out the previous 2 songs. Raven’s isolation and loneliness.
Hey #3/Perfect For You - Reprise (Next To Normal) - The reunion.
Promises (Hadestown) - They made promises to each other and broke them, but now they’re together again and make new promises! I love Hadestown ;w;
Only Us (Dear Evan Hansen) - The sappy musical theatre love song. Lloyd and Raven decide to try and let go of past hurts to move on together
Absolute Lithops Effect (The Mountain Goats) - healing. Recovery. A little bit of tender mercy.
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nikatyler · 4 years
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Vatore-Nova Household
Storytime: Once upon a time, I had a sim called Caleb, who was abducted by aliens. You can imagine how that went. Fast forward to when I started my NSB and Caleb Vatore wouldn’t stop showing up every night. I told him, hey this is annoying and if you don’t stop, you’ll follow the first Caleb’s fate, I’m not kidding. Guess what, he didn’t stop, I kept my promise and thus, Stella was born. Yeah and then it also kinda happened that Caleb actually married my gen 2 heir and then I felt bad for abducting him, but that’s off topic. Oh and then he was abducted once more, but I had nothing to do with that.
Anyway, as Stella was growing up, it was clear that she inherited nothing vampire-like from her father. She decided to follow the calling of the universe and became an astronaut...and she travelled to the stars...and had an accident...and she would’ve died if it wasn’t for Elara. You can probably see where this is going: The two fell in love, decided to return to Earth and a few years later, they got married and had a daughter named Clarissa.
Nowadays, I don’t show them as much in my NSB, so I thought I could share them with the world and let them get some more love.
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she/her, lesbian
athletic | hot-headed | bro
probably shares one braincell with her best friend Valentine
lowkey shipped her father with her best friend’s older brother for years (yes it’s weird and yes she knows but they couldn’t help it)
writes fanfiction in her free time
almost always wears her human form
CC: Hair | Eyes
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she/her, lesbian
outgoing | cheerful | good
born on a planet far away, but has always been interested in Earth
a little too straightforward sometimes
prefers to not wear a human disguise
CC: Vitiligo
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she/her or they/them, demigirl, “screw labels but I’m not straight by any means”
lazy | evil
mischievous little shit who just wants to have fun
keep scissors away from her
CC: Eyes | Nose Ring
Terms of Use:
Feel free to change their outfits, hair, makeup or give them some skin details. All I’m asking for is that you don’t change their features or use them as base sims.
Please, respect their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Let me know if you use them! I would love to see it. Feel free to use them in your stories, legacies, challenges, anything.
Just please be nice to them and don’t just kill them off for funsies or something, thanks.
Don’t claim as your own and don’t reupload.
If that quick recap of how this household came to be didn’t convince you to follow, I don’t know what will. I’m funny sometimes, give me a chance.
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