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endless-love-ushigina · 4 years ago

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Tendou’s Games

Character: Tendou

Warnings: 18+, Yandere!Tendou, dub/non-con, angst, small smut scene at the end

a/n: Hey everyone! I wrote this piece for @deathcab4daddy, a literal queen-- so I hope you enjoy it love. My heart is yours! I also want to send some love to @narutos-fat-meat for beta reading (and another love of my life from Discord who also beta’d for me). I hope everyone enjoys this piece! I’ll write something more fluffy for my next piece-- no promises.

You sat at the dusty library computer, fingers twitching idly, thoughts of him finding you plaguing your mind. All you needed to do was figure out how you can log back into your email. You knew you didn’t forget your password, you rotated between the same 3, but none of them were working. You felt a few tears fall down your face when you clicked “Forgot Password” and anxiously waited as the page began to load, but it needed your phone number to recover the password. A phone number that was disconnected a few weeks ago. You felt your chest tighten. You knew you looked far from okay right now; people were staring and muttering, but no one wanted to approach you. You had tried to ask for help, that’s the first thing you tried when you arrived at the library and saw people who weren’t him. You bit your lip as you thought about anyone you may have ignored in the past but quickly shook that from your mind. You needed to worry about yourself right now. You glanced at the clock, it was 3:15pm. You covered your mouth to muffle a choked sob. He always got home at 3pm, and you knew he had to be looking for you. His precious darling. How had he completely snuffed out all forms of communication for you?

He started his games by driving all of your friends away. He greedily watched you ruin every relationship you had in your life, and once you had no more relationships to ruin, he got bored. You wished it were you he was bored with, but no, you’re his favorite toy. He has other games he can play with you.

His next game was moving you in with him. He started out light and subtle, he had asked you if you were interested in moving in with him at first. When you explained you didn’t want to because you didn’t mind your current roommate and didn’t want to screw them over by leaving the lease; Tendou smiled at you and nodded his head in understanding. What you didn’t realize was your unwillingness is what made this game so much more fun for him. The day he wouldn’t let you leave his apartment, and forcefully took your phone away, was the day his true colors came out, and the day your living hell started.

You know he had been the one to change your email password, what you don’t know is how he found your emails. You didn’t have any other ways of contacting any of your family members. You knew they didn’t check their emails often, but once they saw an email stating you weren’t okay, they’d react, and someone would come and save you from the hell you were stuck in. You felt the little flame of hope that you had, once you snuck out of the open window, dwindle down as you desperately tried to think of anything you could do. Why were you so afraid to just ask someone else to help you, had he really shattered any confidence you’ve had with interacting with other people. Why were you so afraid of another person turning you down, like the first person you approached?

It was another one of his games. Degradation at its finest.

“(Y/N), do you really think anyone else wants to be around you? Not even your friends wanted you around anymore. I still have your phone; you haven’t left our apartment for 10 days and not one message. That roommate you seemed to get along with hasn’t even questioned where you’ve been. I don’t remember you even telling them you were moving out either. Funny how you think anyone would care enough to help someone as pathetic as you. You sure are lucky to have found me, otherwise you’d really have nobody, huh?”

You put your head down in the crook of your arm as it is resting on the desktop as you thought of the things he's said to you in the past. This man had really done a number on you in the three months you’ve been stuck with him. You checked the time, 3:25pm. You don’t know how he hasn’t found you yet and claimed you as his again, but you only have a few minutes left to think.

You looked up when you felt a tap on your shoulder, and you fearfully glanced behind you to see a kind woman, who looked quite concerned.

“Miss, are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help you? Do you need to call somebody, I have my cell phone?”

You felt your lip quiver a bit, and a sigh of relief wash over you. Having someone approach you right now is what you needed. “Yea, I would…” your sentence trailed off and all color left your face as you watched the red-haired man walk up to the two of you.

“Babydoll, I’ve been looking all over for you. Always getting yourself lost in public.” He raised his eyebrows at you and turned to the woman helping you. “I’m sorry that she caused you so much hassle, she’s getting her phone fixed so she couldn’t even call me to come find her”

“O, she really didn’t cause any problems, I just wanted…” the woman started but Tendou cut her off.

“No need to be so kind. I’ve watched her cause problems for many people—but she’s getting better at minding her own business”

The glint in Tendou’s eyes made the woman nod solemnly. “I’m glad I could help”

You watched with fear in your eyes as the woman walked off and Tendou wrapped his arm around your shoulders pulling you into him and he leaned down into your ear. “I didn’t have work today, and I never realized how fun people watching at a library would be”

Your eyes widened when you realized this was just another one of his games. A game to see how far he had broken you. Where he watched you try and reach out for help but fail. A game where he got to test how much he had ruined your independence. He was always there and in control, able to stop anything that he thought may have been too risky. You felt him warningly squeeze your waist and place a kiss on your temple while you felt the little flame of hope that was inside you dwindle down to a flame that was barely even lit.

Tendou arrived at a car that you didn’t recognize as his, but as Tendou was pushing you into the back seat you noticed Ushijima was driving, and Tendou was sliding into the backseat with you.

“How was your date?” Ushijima asked calmly and your eyes widened in surprise.

“It went well” Tendou stated while sliding your pants and underwear down your legs while you were half heartedly fighting him on that. “Ushiwaka, do you think you could drive around for a while? You don’t mind me playing back here with (y/n) do you?” Tendou asked his best friend.

“I have practice in the morning, but I could probably drive around for an hour or so” Ushijima stated while turning up the music in his car and rolling the window down slightly to get a breeze in the car.

Your eyes widened. Tendou had never done anything around anyone else before, and you felt your breathing get heavier. “However long works for you, Ushiwaka” he smiled and started rubbing your clit while pulling his pants down. “I can’t believe you even thought you had the chance of leaving me, you’re nothing but a dumb little cocksleeve” Tendou stated while he hurriedly sheathed himself inside, letting out a groan in your ear while you felt a few tears roll down your eyes and the flame of hope get snuffed out with everyone of Tendou’s thrusts.

#Tendou Satori x Reader #Tendou x Reader #tendou satori #Haikyuu x Reader #Yandere #Yandere Haikyuu x Reader #yandere tendou satori #yander hq #yandere imagines #tw: dubcon

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detectivekingsmen · 3 years ago

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Rules

1. Minor Mun

I'm 17 y old. Birth June 2th. Being direct and honest in case you guys wanna celebrate my 18s with me XD.

2. SFW Blog

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3. Muses

Part of the muses are original characters of mine, Ruhtra is on base of Arthur Kingsmen, MysteryBen's charecter.

4. Posts

The time of posting depends on my internet, free time and mood. Has a battery symbol on the blog's page that will show how are my mood.

This is a RP and ASK blog, so sometimes will have comics, rp icons and drawing of scenes. All the icons and drawings are made by bincaconfusa ( me ).

In case of I didn't answer or reblog a thread for more than 2 days, give me a signal! Sometimes I can forgot. But not everytime, just one sign is enough for me to continue.

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Godmode will not be accepted here. M!A is accepted but in a way that doesn't hurt anyone. But of course, sometimes It's need a drama.

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I don't know if is just me. I love listening to musics while reading or writing, so in case you want a mood to follow while reading in this blog, in the blog's page has the link for the playlist on spotify. Hope ya guys enjoy :3

7. Events and Communication

I'm not good on doing events and starting a conversation on dm. In case of ideas for future events, call me on dm or discord where I'm more free to talk. In case of the discord, I will pass the nick only on dm.

Depending on my mood, I can anytime just give up on a thread. I really love interacting, but if I see that I'm not into it, I will end in a minute.

8. About the Mun

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- 5 years on MSA fandom

- brazillian, artist, pansexual ( On a relationship)

9. Interactions

As the RP goes with other blogs, the status of the muses that I interact with will be on RELATIONSHIPS on the blog's page.

I will always send asks with my main account @/binaconfusa ( Feed difficult to see posts ). But of course will have the name of the blog next to the question for know that I'm in character.

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asketh-rouxls-kaard · 6 years ago

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Hey Rouxls I'm back, I was like... Low key dead for a minute there lmaoo. Anyway,, I got logged out of Discord and Tumblr and forgot my passwords so I'll be off those for a bit,, but like also, I ended up not yeeting myself into the void because my friend said I couldn't bring Flex Tape, but I wanted to know if I could join said friend in riding a sled down an escalator? Thanks my dude.

I am verye confusede- Thoust didst naught calleth me dad?

....Didst I do somethinge wronge? Or perhaupes this anonymouse is naught whomst I thought it twas? Either waye- I woulde naught ride the sled downe an escalatore unless thoust hath a helmet, and protective geare on....

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binaslibrary · 3 years ago

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Rules

1. Minor Mun

I’m 17 y old. Birth June 2th. Being direct and honest in case you guys wanna celebrate my 18s with me XD.

2. SFW Blog

How I’m a minor, NSFW are not accepted in here. In case of breaking this rule with comments or asks, 2 times, I will have to block you. On cases of triggers like blood, I will post with a #tw as warning.

3. Muses

Part of the muses are original characters of mine. Ataru is an alternative version of Arthur made by Mysteryben

4. Posts

The time of posting depends on my internet, free time and mood. Has a battery symbol on the blog’s page that will show how are my mood.

This is a RP and ASK blog, so sometimes will have comics, rp icons and drawing of scenes. All the icons and drawings are made by bincaconfusa ( me ).

In case of I didn’t answer or reblog a thread for more than 2 days, give me a signal! Sometimes I can forgot. But not everytime, 3 signals is enough for me to continue.

I will not accept reblog of my rp and meme posts from anyone, just if you was mentioned on it or wanna do a continuation of a thread or open starter.

Spam will only be tolarated with mutuals and rp partners. Because will not only disturb the mun, but will also be a problem to the mun to continue a thread. In case of breaking this rule, the person will be blocked for some days. If repeats, will be a permanent block.

5. Mods

Godmode will not be accepted here. M!A is accepted but in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone. But of course, sometimes It’s need a drama.

6. Playlist

I don’t know if is just me. I love listening to musics while reading or writing, so in case you want a mood to follow while reading in this blog, in the blog’s page has the link for the playlist on spotify. Hope ya guys enjoy :3

7. Events and Communication

I’m not good on doing events and starting a conversation on dm. In case of ideas for future events, call me on dm or discord where I’m more free to talk. In case of the discord, I will pass the nick only on dm.

Depending on my mood, I can anytime just give up on a thread. I really love interacting, but if I see that I’m not into it, I will end in a minute.

8. About the Mun

- ADHD (behind help)

- 5 years on MSA fandom

- brazillian, artist, pansexual ( On a relationship)

9. Interactions

As the RP goes with other blogs, the status of the muses that I interact with will be on RELATIONSHIPS on the blog’s page.

I will always send asks with my main account @/binaconfusa ( Feed difficult to see posts ). But of course will have the name of the blog next to the question for know that I’m in character.

10. Now that you Read all the rules

Password to start an interaction & for let me know that you read the rules.

“*Door opening noises*”

Bina will answer it!

#ooc post #important

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evanvanness · 5 years ago

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Annotated edition of May 10 Week in Ethereum News

I’ve started thinking of the annotated version as aimed at Eth holders. There’s a large group of people who hold ETH who want to stay up to date on what is happening, but also have jobs outside of the industry and may not understand all the tech nuances nor have time to spend. So the annotated edition will try to give you more narrative, more context, some opinion, maybe some 🌶️, as well as pointers to what might you want to read

Fun fact: you can find the #MostClicked and #MuchClicked on Twitter by just searching the hashtags. The usual caveats apply: the things most clicked are the things people hadn’t otherwise seen (not necessarily the most important), and my tweets auto-delete after a month or two, so the data only goes back a couple months.

Before clicking send, I knew for sure which would be the most clicked item this week. I was right.

How did I know it would be the most clicked? Because even among Ethereum enthusiasts it’s an undercommunicated thing how low eth issuance will be. It is planned to sustainably be so low that it might at some points go negative (and perhaps be negative over long periods of time, which worries me a little!). Perhaps part of the reason we don’t communicate this that loudly is because we just aren’t there yet. But unlike Bitcoin which has no path to long-term sustainability, Eth has a logical plan to have very low issuance.

As I said, I forgot this last week, but if I were clicking a few things this week:

chart of ETH issuance over time

A review of hardware for eth staking

MyCrypto’s history of Eth hard forks to celebrate 10m blocks

I might also check out the stuff about personal tokens, because personal money is an interesting subject to think about, even if you’re skeptical like I am. The idea of “what is money” can take you down some fun intellectual rabbit holes:

75 interesting uses of social money by Roll

Personal tokens were the topic du jour, check out this overview from Dan Finlay

A little light this week on the high-level stuff. The chart of Eth issuance I already discussed. The hardware for Eth staking is a worthwhile jumping off point if you’re planning on staking. And the hard fork history is worth knowing, or if you know it, then it’s a fun trip down memory lane.

Eth1

Step by step guide to running a Hyperledger Besu node on mainnet

Nethermind v1.18.30 query the chain and trace transactions within minutes with Beam sync

A primer on block witnesses

Installation guide to running eth1 nodes (or eth2 testnet) on RaspberryPi4

So this week we have a guide to running the ConseSys’s Besu client (part of Hyperledger) which is a Java client aimed at enterprise, but which can run mainnet. More Nethermind and Besu nodes are good for client diversity. So is OpenEthereum (formerly known as Parity), which had a release yesterday.

And if you like running nodes on RaspberryPi4, check that out.

This newsletter is made possible by Celer!

Celer has just released a new state channel mainnet upgrade enabling everyone to easily run a layer-2 state channel node and to utilize the low-cost and real-time transactions enabled by Celer. Game developers with no blockchain knowledge today monetize their games through CelerX gaming SDK that leverages the underlying layer-2 scaling technology with ease. Celer has also released the world’s first skill-based real money game apps where players can join multi-player game tournaments and win cryptocurrency prizes, Follow us on twitter, blog, discord and telegram.

Yay, thanks Celer!

Eth2

Danny Ryan’s latest quick eth2 update – bug bounties doubled, latest IETF BLS standard

PegaSys’s Teku client is now syncing the Schlesi testnet – which has been much more stable than expected

Latest Prysmatic client update – reducing RAM usage, slashing protection

SigmaPrime’s Beacon fuzzer update, struct-aware, bugs found in Teku and Nimbus

Latest Eth2 networking call, gossipsub v1.1. Ben’s notes

Python notebook to simulate a network partition

Apostille, an Eth1x64 variant

Scoping what is necessary to port eth1 to an eth2 shard and turn off proof of work

Lots of talk of go-live this week. Is it July, q3, or q4? We need to get audit reports and have multi-client testnets running long-term, though last I checked the Schlesi testnet has been quite stable. And since publishing the newsletter, now PegaSys’s Teku client is fully validating on Schlesi.

Layer2

Demo of Synthetix on the OVM includes paper trading competition with 50k SNX prizepool. The details of how the Optimistic Virtual Machine enables EVM-in-EVM

Gods Unchained building an NFT exchange with StarkWare

Exit games in state channels

Celer Network’s Orion upgrade makes it easy to run a state channel node

I’m going to set up a Celer node later this week if I have a chance.

Also check out the Synthetix trading competition and help stress test the OVM.

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.6.7, EIP165 (standard interface detection) support. Also survey results on what devs love and hate about Solidity

Solhint v3 – Solidity linter removes styling rules and recommends prettier Solidity instead

Open Zeppelin ethers.js based console

Etherplex: batch multiple JSON RPC calls into single call

Time-based Solidity tests with Brownie

MythX now has 46 detectors

Quiknode has an online tool to test endpoints

Reading Eth price from Maker’s medianizer v1

Build an app with Sablier’s constant streaming tutorial

Building a bot using MelonJS to automate your Melon fund

StarkWare found a vulnerability in Loopring’s frontend where passwords were being hashed to only 32 bit integers

Even the frontend bugs can get you!

Ecosystem

A chart of ETH issuance over time. The best I’ve seen

Ethereum Foundation’s q1 grants list

A guide to bulk renewing your ENS names

ethereum.org looking for Vietnamese, Thai, Danish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Finnish, or Ukranian translators

A review of hardware for eth staking

A reminder that many ENS names have now expired and need to be renewed! There’s a 90 day grace period, but do it before you forget.

Enterprise

PegaSys’s Hyperledger Besu suite available on Azure Marketplace and Microsoft’s blockchain devkit now supports Besu

Quorum v2.6 – breaking database schema changes, update to geth v1.9.x

Microsoft continues to make the Ethereum dev experience better, with their VScode extension.

Governance, DAOs, and standards

How to start a MolochDAO

Options for delegated voting in KyberDAO

EIP2633: Formalized upgradable governance

EIP2628: Header in StatusMessage

I oppose any sort of “formalized upgradeable governance” and I think most do.

Application layer

Use POAP for sybil-resistant voting or to determine Discord channel access

Yield: a revised implementation of Dan Robinson’s yTokens for fixed rate, fixed term loans that give a yield curve

Comparing total value locked in DeFi to unique active addresses

75 interesting uses of social money by Roll

Personal tokens were the topic du jour, check out this overview from Dan Finlay

Strike: perpetual swaps with 20x leverage

POAP as a quasi-KYC layer is pretty interesting to me. Seems like there are some good uses in Ethereum land.

i’m excited to hear that DeFi will get a yield curve!

Tokens/Business/Regulation

Nic Carter: are stablecoins parasitic or beneficial?

OpenRaise: a continuous offering fundraiser for DAOs

dxDAO’s kickstarter using OpenRaise sold out before public announcement – though the curve is still live, plus a secondary Uniswap market

dxDao’s token is an interesting bit. Most of the token supply goes to the DXDAO, but it’s an interesting experiment in building completely decentralized apps as a Dao with a community that lately has been burgeoning. It’s also a bit of a check on rent-seeking because it is a credible threat to excessive fees.

One fun note is that the Uniswap market occurred almost immediately and (almost by definition) trades at a substantial discount to the main market.

General

Aggregatable Subvector Commitments, the future may not involve Merkle trees

This week, Ethereum mined its 10 millionth block.

Here’s MyCrypto’s history of Eth hard forks to celebrate 10m blocks

IPFS releases Testground suite for p2p networking tests

PayPal blocked tokenized real estate startup RealT despite a lack of chargebacks, so they’re switching to Wyre

10,000,000 blocks of Ethereum mainnet!

Capricious censorship in web2 and payments! I’ve been in PayPal’s shoes managing a card not present merchant account, and so I’m somewhat understanding to them. You’re trying to keep your fraud rate down in a system that sometimes seems rigged against you. In RealT’s case, they likely also had large amounts coming through which combined with crypto seems scary to Paypal, even with a low chargeback rate.

It’s not really anyone’s fault. The system sucks, and this is why Ethereum matters.

Final note that you can see below in the calendar: RAC’s $TAPE dropped yesterday. It’s a tradable ERC20 token sold on Uniswap (ie, a pre-set price curve). Of course the price went from $20 to $1000, as the token is redeemable for a limited edition cassette tape of RAC’s new album Boy.

Housekeeping

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Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):

May 11 – RAC’s $TAPE

May 12 – MakerDAO Sai shutdown deadline

May 22-31 – Ethereum Madrid public health virtual hackathon

May 29-June 16 – SOSHackathon

June 17 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop

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hotokeiki · 7 years ago

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Update 20 (North Shore Family Vacation 2017)

Well, I STILL haven’t finished my update from Spring Break, but I decided to actually journal my experience each day this time. And that’s both good and bad.

It’s good because I don’t miss anything, but it’s bad because I describe everything in much more excruciating detail.

.. and no, you can’t have my kick-ass sunglasses. XD

Day 1: (8/13/17)

We got some packing done the night before, and were able to finish packing and hit the road around 11:00am. I was also able to finish re-labeling and organizing my textbooks and folders in the morning. On the way up to Duluth, we stopped at the Hardee’s in Hinckley (which was a big deal when we first found it, because there were no Hardee’s open around us then, like 9 years ago I think). And then we made it up to Duluth. It started raining on the way up and was raining most of the day. (And Dad had checked the weather that morning, and it said there would be no rain.)

We got to the hotel, which is right near the suspension bridge. (It was raining when we got to the hotel, so dad annoyingly said “I’m going to check the weather, and see if it tells me that it’s still not raining.” XD) Mom found the first Avengers movie on the television, so we watched it. And then we watched Thor: The Dark World, which has some great one-liners (I’d never seen it before). We order Domino’s for delivery, and they actually came to our room. After that, Dad, Josh, and I took a little night walk. We walked from the suspension bridge down to the end where one of the lighthouses is. I got a little seasick, I guess just from looking at the waves on Lake Superior. It was pretty. We walked back to the hotel. They have a s’mores time, but we didn’t have any. We got back to the room, and Mom was watching X-Men: Apocalypse. So, we watched most of that. So, three-ish movies in one day. XD

I also updated most of the banners for my socials with the really nice hi-def picture that Minazuki-san gave me. Thank you, Minazuki-san. ^^

Day 2: (8/14/17)

Well, Josh’s alarm went off at 6:30am, which was lovely. He forgot to turn that one off. My alarm went off at 8am, but my eyes were tired. So, I stayed in bed until 8:30am. Dad grabbed hotel breakfast and came back to the room. I took a shower before I got breakfast. The shower was weird, because the curtain rod curved out from the tub, and the curtain had only two magnets. Also, the tub was not magnetic, but the door frame was (ok.. XD)

My mom came up with a great plan. She wanted something to create a good counterweight, so she grabbed the unused silverware that Dad brought to the room from his breakfast. And it worked like a charm. XD So, moral of the story, if your shower curtain is weird, use silverware. XD

That morning, it had rained and was overcast. We checked out of the hotel at 11:00am and left Duluth. We didn’t get a chance to ride one of those 4-person cycles, but we’ve done that before. (plus, the weather wasn’t nice enough). Our check-in to the cabin wasn’t until 3:00pm, so we had some time to burn heading up to Lamb’s Resort in Schroeder.

As we were driving up the coast from Duluth, we passed the University of Minnesota, Duluth campus. And then a big discussion about the difference between University of Minnesota and Minnesota State University started. And it ended when I looked up the history of the names of Minnesota State University, Mankato. That was quite an interesting read.

We stopped by Split Rock Lighthouse to see if we could get another stone coaster for Dad. (We got one last time we were there, but he wanted to have another one. Josh broke the one that we got before in the store, and we bought it and glued it back together, a literal “split rock” coaster. XD) It was really crowded, so Dad opted not to check.

So, Dad’s still driving, and he’s having us keep an eye out for a speed limit sign, because he hasn’t seen one in a while. And as I’m looking, I see a sign for Finland. And I was surprised, and then excited, cuz I wanted to go to Finland and tell my friend who lives in Finland. XD (Just to be clear, we’re talking about the township Finland, MN. But my friend is from the country Finland.)

I asked my dad if we could go there, and he was getting hungry, so he had me look up places to eat in Finland. And before we got to Little Marais, we took a left and headed to Finland. On the way, we passed a Heritage Center that had a bunch of flags out front. We ate at our place (the name of the restaurant) in Finland (township) for lunch. It was really good, everyone liked it. I had a bacon cheeseburger and an A&W root beer, Dad also had a bacon cheeseburger. Josh had a country-fried steak sandwich, and Mom had a Rueben. I found out that Finland is a very Finnish community, and they had a Finnish festival the week before.

We found a Finland sign that I took a picture of (I put it in one of the Discord servers with the caption “I think I’m lost” XD. We also stopped by the Heritage Center, and I took a picture of the sign with the flags. I saw an old picture of it, which only had Finnish flags, but it now has Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Canadian. We didn’t check out the center, but there was a sign that we saw as we drove through that said “tervetuloa”. I couldn’t remember what that meant, but my friend had told me before. It basically means “welcome”.

So, been to Finland now. XD

We got to the cabin and unpacked our stuff. (Dad opened one of the drawers and remarked that they put the silverware in the wrong place. It should all be in the bathtub. XD) Our cabin doesn’t have wi-fi, so I went to find the wi-fi password, and the wi-fi locations. There is only wi-fi at the office, arcade, and rest area. So, I camped at the table in the arcade, and caught up on stuff on Discord and other things that require wi-fi. I left when my phone was at 3% charge. XD

I got back to the cabin, and Dad was watching a show on the Science channel that investigates legends using stat-of-the-art equipment. It was cool. Apparently, most of Lake Michigan wasn’t under water for a while. While I was watching, everyone went for a walk. And when the show was over, I also went for a walk.

I checked the historic site at Lamb’s Resort, and then I went down to the shore line. I found a beach with some patches of sand, and I took off my shoes and played in the sand. I was poking my feet under the sand and found a rock. I started to unbury it, and then I realized that this was not a small rock. So, I spent 40~ish minutes digging around this rock to see how big it was. And it was big. I could barely lift it, but that’s not a good gauge. XD

After finding that rock, Dad and I went to get some charcoal, but the store was closed. So, we bought a bundle of fire wood from the main office, and roasted brats and hotdogs over a fire. Josh and I cooked them, and kind of sword fought, because he kept bumping into mine! XD It was fun, but I got really smokey. So, I took a shower, and made up one of the futons in the main room as a bed.

Day 3: (8/15/17)

I slept pretty well on the futon, and made it up as a sitting place again. Mom apparently doesn’t want anyone’s stuff in the communal living room, so she had me put my stuff in the room with the two twin beds. She told me that I can’t treat the communal living area as my bedroom. And I understand that, but it makes me feel like I don’t have a place in the cabin. Which I really don’t, so it’s a tough transition.

I headed over to the arcade for wi-fi (I don’t actually play games there). The book I ordered for Linear Algebra apparently has to be signed for, so they’ve already tried delivering the book twice. But I set a vacation period when they shouldn’t deliver, so the last attempt they make should be on Friday when we’re back.

I also changed my Youtube banner, cuz I forgot to do that before. But honestly, why require a banner that size when you can’t see half of it? I probably just don’t know what I’m doing. XD

After a lengthy chat on Discord (Francois and Lolichan), I headed to find my family. Josh was going to meet me at the arcade after made and ate oatmeal, but I got a text from Dad that they hijacked him and went to the place I was going to go with him. And I forgot to grab a key, because I figured Mom and Dad would still be there, but they weren’t. I called Josh, and we met up as they were walking back to the cabin.

We made lunch and played a bunch of games of Euchre. (And we played a couple of games with 4 cards down, and one up. Well, it turns out that I missed one of the 3’s when I was making the Euchre deck. And no one noticed until Dad had it in his hand, and he figured he must have the worst hand if he had a 3. XD) It was really fun, and tensions seemed to go down quite a bit. After Euchre, I showed them my rock. They walked along the shoreline earlier, and didn’t see it before. With Dad and Josh’s help, I filled in the hole where the rock was and moved the rock on a sturdy surface so it won’t get buried again!

All four of us spent a while skipping rocks on the lake, and I managed to get like 7 skips! It was fun. After a bit, Mom and Dad headed back to the cabin and then went to the store to get charcoal. Josh and I skipped rocks until our feet were sore (both barefoot). After getting our socks and shoes back on Josh lead me a ways down the shoreline to the big beach on the Southwest corner of the grounds. And on the way, I noticed that I was getting signal from the shore! So, I saw that some stuff was happening on Discord. Also, as we were walking I was playing some good beach songs like Mirai Koukai. It was nice.

I was getting tired, and wanted to see what was happening on Discord, so I stopped at the rest area and hopped on. Josh headed back to the cabin, and I did a voice chat with Minazuki-san and Rae. The call got cut off, so I went (guess where!) back to the arcade. I was able to get back on the call, and we talked for a bit. I was pretty exhausted. XD

Dad called during the call saying that we were gonna do foil meals, and I needed to make mine. So, I left the Discord call, and headed back to the cabin. Josh diced up potatoes, and I distributed them. Then we had to pull apart the ground beef and mix it together (we did it with our hands), season it, and fold up the aluminum foil. And then we cooked it on the embers in the fireplace. It was good. We roasted marshmallows afterwards, which is easier to do without fire. And then we watched some tv (Big Bang Theory, Lethal Weapon, Bull, NCIS: New Orleans) before going to bed. It turned out to be a pretty good day.

Day 4: (8/16/17)

I had another pretty good night on the futon. I had set my alarm for 8, but it was for Thursday, so that didn’t work. Mom got upset at me again for monopolizing the two tv trays, and took my phone and water off the one and put it on the other. I was going to put everything back the way it was before, but she got up before me. But it seems like she’ll let me have one tv tray. I put it at the head of the bed so I can reach behind me and grab my phone.

I toasted some of my frozen pancakes in the toaster (forgot there was one, but found it. XD). And I could never quite get the setting right. None of them were quite warmed enough. I did 6 pancakes and it took at least 5 uses of the toaster. XD

I took a shower and shaved before heading over to the arcade. I found out that FedEx didn’t attempt to deliver my book today, so the holiday I set seems to work. I have no idea how to sign for it electronically, but this seems to be working, so good. XD

I talked on Discord for a while, and then Dad texted me that we were going to do hotdogs and brats for lunch. I texted that I want two brats on buns, and he asked if I wanted a potato, because he was really pushing potatoes. XD

After lunch, I took a quick detour down from Rugged Trail down the steep path to the base of the Cross River waterfall on the grounds. I got a good video of it, and then we took the car up the road a little way to Temperance River National Park.

That was so much fun. We hiked a lot, and climbed up and down basalt next to the river. We just walked and climbed to a spot, took pictures, and continued. And Mom was able to do pretty much everything we did. We climbed something, she climbed it too. And man, that river really moves, and the falls are so loud. XD

One of the places I climbed down to had some kick-ass sunglasses that I have now acquired. They are red-tinted with leopard print, and little fake diamonds in the sides of the frames. They also have less tinting on the bottoms of the lenses. If nothing else, they are a souvenir from this trip, but they actually work even after falling down the cliff.

We followed a path to get further up the river, and then kept making our way up the river. We got to a part where we think the falls had stopped, and the river was much wider and calmer. It was also much flatter around there, and we found a dead felled tree that Josh and I pretend-fenced on. XD

I noticed that people had carve initials and stuff into this tree, so I asked Josh if I could borrow his knife to carve something too. I wanted to something distinct from the other carvings, so I carved my stage name in Katakana on the tree. Josh carved the word “Thanks” for the park, since they’ve kept that river unpolluted. And Dad carved a heart with his and Mom’s initials in it. It even had the arrow through, because he’s fancy.

It started raining before we headed back, but at first I thought it was mist from the waterfall next to us. It was only spittling as we got back to the main road. We took a quick trek down the river from the bridge (since we had to cross the river anyway), and it started to rain a bit more but still not bad.

We took a quick detour down to Father Baraga’s Cross, which is on the other side of the Cross River, at the end of Baraga’s Cross Road. This is also part of the grounds of Lamb’s Resort.

As we were heading back the grounds we tried to find root beer, because looking at the waterfalls made Josh want root beer. So, we checked the vending machines at the office and the rest area, and then we turned around and went to the bakery. They had a vending machine with a bottle of Mug Root Beer. (I asked Josh for a sip, and he said to wait until after we left the bakery.) And we had already been talking about getting pizza from this bakery, but Dad wanted to go in and get a malt. So, we all went in.

There were a bunch of people in there, and two maps on the left wall, a map of the United States, and a world map. There were markings all over them of places that people came there from. It was really cool. Dad added all four of us on there, although he did it by place of birth, which does make sense. Dad got an espresso malt with chocolate, and I just got an espresso shake. And IT IS SO GOOD!! It’s the perfect combination of coffee and ice cream. Mom got a bunch of postcards.

While I was at the bakery, I had access to wifi. (it was spotty, so I did use a little mobile data) I talked to Xill, and found out that she was having trouble getting to sleep, so I offered to stream music again for her. So after we got back to the cabin, I grabbed my backpack (put my laptop back in it), jacket, umbrella and walked to the arcade in the rain. (it still wasn’t raining very hard).

I streamed like 4~ish songs before she started getting tired. We talked a bit in the meantime. It was fun. I noticed that Rae and Minazuki-san were having another voice chat, so after the 7 songs I queued were done, I popped in there for a bit until Dad and Josh picked me up after picking up pizza from the bakery that Josh had ordered over the phone.

The pizza was really good. They were both flat crust and Meat Lover’s (choose 3 meats). One was Pepperoni, Sausage, and Bacon; and the other was Ham, Sausage, and Bacon. The pepperoni one was so good, because the pepperoni was stacked between the sauce and the cheese (so much pepperoni!).

We watched some Big Bang Theory and Arrow while eating pizza before finishing off the night with more Euchre! You guys should play Euchre, it’s fun! (apparently, it’s a very midwestern thing.. and Pennsylvania thing. It’s a German card game).

Mom and Dad went to bed, and Josh reminded how to play Quad, the card game that he and I invented in England and are still refining. Also, as I was typing this from the cabin, I somehow got wi-fi!! XD

It’s really low signal, but I’m actually picking up wi-fi in the cabin. I don’t know why. XD

Day 5: (8/17/17)

Well, since I got to bed the night before around 11pm, I opted to stay in bed until 8:30am. Mom had already gotten up, and had started packing food and stuff up. I got up, and pulled all of the “bedding” (a fitted sheet and blankets) off the futon and folded it up. I had pancakes for breakfast (again), and Josh had some too. I finally found the right setting on the toaster, huzzah! XD

We got everything packed up, did a final sweep, and drove to the main office to return the key. We left some charcoal in the cabin that we had bought, because we don’t have a charcoal grill at home.

While we were still in range of the wi-fi, I sent my friends on Discord a quick goodbye and said we were hitting the road.

As we were heading back, we decided to check Split Rock Lighthouse again. It wasn’t as busy, so Dad and I went in to find a coaster. We couldn’t find the same one as before, but there was one stone coaster, so Dad got it. And I saw a Split Rock Lighthouse Christmas ornament that looked really cool. And Dad said we could get it, so now we have our family ornament for this year. The ornament is a little replica of the lighthouse with the words “Split Rock” on the front.

We got gas at the Kwik Trip in Two Harbors, and we all got something for the road. I got a small French Vanilla Cappuccino (still not as good as that Espresso Shake from Schroeder Bakery XD) and some mac and cheese. Both were good, although I probably shouldn’t’ve had the caffeine.

Josh and I played a lot of cards in the car, and we played some more Quad as well. We worked out some more of the rules.. I think. XD

I got a bit carsick, which usually happens when I try to read in the car, and then we made it to the Village Inn in Wyoming.. in Minnesota. There is a Finland, MN and a Wyoming, MN. Ok XD

(I like these duplicates of names. No one makes an association with the other place if they haven’t been there. Also just so you know, there is a Sydney, Texas and a Sparta, Wisconsin. XD)

At the Village Inn, I ordered the.. I think it was called the .. Country Music Star Omelet, which immediately doesn’t sound good (I don’t really like Country music XD). But it’s got ham and sausage and bacon, and country gravy (I ordered without onions). It was pretty good, but it had paprika on it, which usually gives me a headache. (why paprika, though?) We all had a good lunch, and I was able to catch up on Discord and chat a little before we left.

And then I got a headache (maybe a mixture of caffeine and paprika) which, mixed with the carsickness, was painful. XP

I forgot to take Ibuprofen before we left Wyoming (, Minnesota!), so I had to wait until we were through the twin cities at the nearest rest stop. In the meantime, Josh worked on my neck and face to help alleviate some of the pain. And I took an allergy relief capsule, because it was kind of like an allergy, but that pretty much knocked me on my keister. XD

It was rough for a while there. I was really uncomfortable. We made it to the rest stop, and I took two Ibuprofen and a probiotic acidophilus (I realized my stomach was feeling kind of weird, as well). It took a while and I started getting really drowsy from the allergy relief, but I made it home.

We started unloading, I pulled apart my bed, and then I started feeling better (and the drowsiness wore off, too XD). We watched some tv instead of finishing all of the unpacking. I found out that the holiday delivery hold I tried to do for my book delivery didn’t work, so I’m gonna hafta get it from North Mankato at some point.

I got all of my stuff, unpacked, remade my bed with clean sheets, and got four gallons of milk from the store. And the vacation doesn’t end yet, but our North Shore adventure does.

So, thanks for sharing this with me. And I’ll see you in my next post.

Ja ne

… and no, you still can’t have my kick-ass sunglasses. XD

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