#2 hrs it was over 2hrs

[simplyghosting]

Fell for the ol’ “this will just be a quick chat with dad before bed” routine again

[linogram]

the whole lacie leni dog thing on tt rn is wild, like

1) the dog was on deaths door, why the fuck would u want to take it on unneeded a 2 hr drive for a dna test u can get done at a vet near by????

2) lenis been getting threats from ppl who live in lacies town + online, including being doxxed, and yet shes crazy for feeling unsafe abt going to lacies small town where lacie said she knows the chief police officer (smthg that makes no one feel safe if an entire town was attacking u bc now u know that if smthg happens, the police arent gonna be of any help and ur 2 hrs away from anyone u know)

3) all the comments screaming to "just get the dna test done" "this proves ur at fault" when leni was so clear that she cant get the dna test done immediately bc the vet has v few openings for non-emergencys and all of this is happening over the course of a week, but theyre all acting like its been months, if not years

and ppl seem to conveniently forget abt lacies town harassing leni, abt the vets openings, that its been abt a week (if that) for this whole thing, and that the dog was in grave danger to begin w, so she shouldnt be traveling at all if it can be helped

[rosesocietyy]

Mulling on Lestat the musical again and I think the crux of the problem was it got crushed under the weight of its own ambition. The stories Elton John and Linda Woolverton have worked on before appear epic, but are actually quite contained; the lion king, aida, etc. Lestat's tale is too vast and meandering and trying to fit all that lore in 2 hrs, told almost exclusively through quite generic ballads (I'm guessing as an attempt to invoke the time period) was both too much and somehow painfully dull. Too much was happening too fast for you to care about anything. Les Mis was an anomaly, don't attempt to recreate it.

An effective approach would have been something akin to The Great Comet. Take a snippet out of the whole story, focus on that, and be a little experimental with the music. Or don't, the music can still be conventional, but the scope must be smaller. And don't be scared to go crazy, anne certainly wasn't. The main themes might be a little different when separated from the book series as a whole but that's alright, it still works as an individual piece of art.

They could tell a tragic story of the boy who finally made it out and escaped his father's bruising temper, his mother's passivity, and village's accusing eyes, only to have that life he's painstakingly built for himself stolen from him by a monster. It ignores the aspects of lestat that came with his vampirism but that's a fair trade off. This can end with Nicki killing himself, let that be the harrowing end. They can add their own creative spin to it, change the era, make it a folk opera, or something akin to cabaret, the possibilities aren't endless but they're quite a lot.

Or, they could make a 2hr introspection on the rise and fall of a relationship that starts Louis and lestat meeting and ends with lestat dying. Basically season one. Tackle intersectional issues with vampirism as a backdrop, or as a metaphor, take your pic. They can play with the structure a la The last five years; in fact the interview structure itself is already primed and ready for the stage, there's not much to tweak. Let the music rise and fall with their madness. I want to feel as suffocated as Louis does in small box lestat calls love.

They could go even smaller, make it about Claudia, birth to death. How everyone in her life failed her over and over and over again, the lament of a girl who was never truly seen. The framing device is Louis finding all her diaries and reading it for the first time and having a mental breakdown at the end.

There are so many fascinating segments one can zero in on to extract a gem, and as much as I hate to say it, that's kinda the beauty of anne's narrative clusterfuck. I truly hope one day another write and composer would take another look at her world and give it a genuine shot, there's gold waiting to be mined in there.

[tame-a-messenger]

About sword AF:

If we go by the same rules of season 1 they seem to shoot the episodes in batches (so like 1 batch is 2 episodes).

It’s a dnd session that they don’t show in full so the minimum time a session could have would be 2hrs

I assume they were going to start filming the new season when Damien got covid so they had to reschedule it. And then it came the funeral roast, multiple cast members said they spent a lot of time writing and “choreographing” the special so we can assume it took them a long time to get everything ready for the live event.

In this tweet Damien mentions he shot something for 8 hrs (/damienhaas/status/1731306760085139582?s=46&t=rIUvEvIoRXO3-D2Toq1MQA) it could be the batches of sword af episodes it could also be something unrelated. Maybe they aren’t done editing the episodes and they need more time or maybe (and somewhat likely) the shooting schedule got delayed in the worst time possible.

Also they got fucked over by Christmas/new year’s so truly the soonest we could get would be next year

THAT BEING SAID, Smosh should have said something about season 2 earlier! Even if it was just a tweet saying “hey season 2 of SAF is still in production however the release date has changed”

This all could be what happened I suppose, but really I'm only concerned with WHY DID THEY NOT TELL US SOONER. Most of the comments under todays upload (not D&D) are asking where D&D is, and why is it not here.

[THAT BEING SAID, Smosh should have said something about season 2 earlier! Even if it was just a tweet saying “hey season 2 of SAF is still in production however the release date has changed”]

^This is where I'm at. The only thing I can think of as of this moment is some kind of legal or technical problem that made it so down to the wire (not even the wire literally PAST the wire) that they had their hands tied until the last possible moment.

This comes a place of love for the series. I'm upset at how they've treated something I enjoy so much, it really felt like such a disrespectful thing to do to the fans of the series. We just better get some good reasons as to why they had to tell us so late.

[divinekangaroo]

While "patiently" waiting for fic updates :) , was wondering what other stories you're working/will be working on? Will you be writing still when you go back to work?

No pressure btw, this is me trying to manage my expectations XD

lol, yeah -> my 8 hours of blissful 'do nothing but write idly' day has dropped to about 2 hrs in the evening. the increasing arc of life resuming. The writing is still ok in these 2hr bursts but getting it to a readable standard is agony. The one benefit is that these 2 hours are probably going to be the same 2 hours I'll have once back at work.

My past fandom experience is that I usually mono-play in a fandom for around 5 years -- but I've never had kids+work+other family commitments when writing before.

I do hope I still have the drive to keep writing once am back at work. I can already feel that anxious itch of pressure, though, and my way of coping with pressure is to aggressively prune everything (friends, family, hobbies, chores, self) that causes the slightest bit of peripheral friction so I can concentrate on the thing that I can't prune (work, money, survival). BUT, this time, I go back to a new area-director role rather than my past project-director role, which should have less crazy deadline pressure/inconsistent hours than most construction work, so I'm just not sure what to expect. It'll be the first time in my life when I actually have a desk job with consistent hours.

Of my current Last Second Ending arc, I really want to finish the Holford fic, the Diana fic, and the Charlie fic (the 'Churchill' vehicle, although I'm so many chapters away from Churchill it's nuts!), which are all the live and incomplete multi-parters-- but as multiparts they are more challenging to do. I have several other ideas/snips scattered through the timeline, but they're fairly short as drabbles, flash-fic or circa 10k standalones, so they will be less heavy to complete and easier to do around work hours -- but they do tempt me now because they're more easy and fun to produce. This timeline's list of ideas has stayed stable for a couple of months now, so at least I know what 'finished' looks like for this arc, even if I don't quite get there.

I do have two firm AUs which itch at me wildly (timeline arcs again). I'm desperate to write the first piece of both as an anchor/test, but keep deferring because I know I'll have to sanity-check my motivation after finishing (or hitting a motivational brick wall with) Last Second Ending.

The 'easy' AU is the 1990s AU which is Tommy x Lizzie, set broadly post S3 and to the end of S4 as an AU S4. It's easy because there's only a few scenes in my head but they're all pretty heavy/hardcore and I can't find an 'in' for framing them yet.

But the second is that weird-arse Dragon Age II fusion AU which is less pairing focused and more family focused, albeit a great deal of pairings and sex within - but it could be a fascinating little monster of a thing, so I'm letting that simmer in back of mind until well after I get back to work to see if there's sufficient motivational drive. It's likely to become a 'what if the PB version of the Real World also had five millennia of Blights, mages, the Fade and Circles as part of Real World history/currency?' idea (alternatively: magic is real but it's pretty fucking ugly what humans do with it).

I also have about five loose BUF-Britain AU list of flashfic sketch ideas, which are generally 'things and scenes that might happen if Mosley was voted into power and took over england', which is primarily Tommy and Alfie.

And I have one solitary sort-of crackfic sort-of-not-crackfic -- S5 from the 'My Property' scene onwards but with the addition of a male chastity device -- which despite the crack premise will actually be really difficult to write compelllingly with the amount of scene checking and chronology I'd need, and accordingly is so low on the list I only think about it in idle moments to amuse myself.

There were a range of other ideas (like a 28 Days Later AU, or a Butcher x Baker AU, or why can I not have these endlessly magnificent threesomes I desperately want to read) but mostly they were isolated 'wouldn't that be cool' scenes without any sustained continuity or theme, so with time limits, they've sort of withered away.

[tismcosmology]

making an attempt to organize my school week because i learned in college that its so much fuckin harder to make it up as I go (or maybe thats just the autism)

MONDAY:

I have calculus at 8:30 in the morning, french at 1pm, and another calc class at 5:30. Weirdest spaced classes ive ever had so thank god i could fit french as my elective in the middle of the day or i wouldve gone mad. Lots of time in the middle of the day to work on assignments i forgot about for that week

TUESDAY:

hell on earth part 1. Comp sci, english, and physics back to back from 8:30 - 1:00. And i get 10 mins to sprint back and forth across campus. the post-secondary experience fr.

WEDNESDAY:

Calc at 8:30 again, french at 1 again, and then a 2hr phys lab at 3:30. decent day ngl. i have 3.5 hours inbetween math and french so that will probably become a designated work time, mostly for larger projects where I actually need to sit down and focus for a bit

THURSDAY:

hell on earth part 2. CS -> english -> phys lecture. maybe i should be bringing roller blades

FRIDAY:

another calc in the morning, CS at 10:30, physics workshop at 1, and then a physics seminar at 4 30. Fri is usually my catch up on work day, which is perfect bc i have 1-2 hrs inbetween all my classes. aka get all those lab reports and short/weekly assignments done before i forget about them over the weekend lmfao. although. the CS class is a tutorial and the phys is a workshop. so fridays might end up being a lot less busy than i thought idk

[koushirouizumi]

Digimon Adventure 02 ~ A.M.V. {Anime Music Video} Title: “Kocchi wo Muite” {“Look This Way”} Sung by: Yukana Nogami Music © CLAMP / Kodansha (Originally from: Cardcaptor Sakura) Featuring Duo/Ship/O.T.P: + {Daikari} / {DaiHika} (with equal Hikari<->Daisuke P.O.V's, though leaning a bit more in Hikari->Daisuke focus) [+Bonus Ken, 02 Chosen as Support; Taichi & Hikari as Platonic/Familial/Supporting each Other]; {KenDai(+Miya)Hika can be read in; However, the main focus of this one is Daikari specifically, with KenDaiHika as side Poly!}

Summary:

“Although you show COURAGE, YOU’VE{?} got it Backwards A {maiden}[?]’s Heart is {fragile} and Trying…”

“Throughout all of the {xxxx} WE’RE Invincible”–

Digimon Adventure 02 © Toei Animation A.M.V. by Me No $$$ is being made off this Fanwork

Notes: - The 1st minute took about 45 min; 2nd part made took about just over 2hr’s; The 3rd+4th parts from interlude on took 35~ min each, Altogether, it's already taken 3~4+ hr's. - This is my 08/02 Focus work, for August 2nd anniversary of Adventures timeline! (by August 2nd, Vamdemon's invasion of Odaiba had Begun) Daisuke, who was initially captured inside the same center as Odaiba convention center Vamdemon kept Tailmon trapped in; just might have come across a Certain Person (or two) Near this and the following exact Day{s}... (Alluding to Daisuke's official Drama CD audio Track from "Digimon Adventure 02: Spring 2003"!) - This A.M.V. is overall a Standalone work. (It is not directly involved with my other work); However, it can be considered a work For the storyline that’s a precursor to Repeat-verse, which came before that story was conceived!) Therefore, it can be watched as a Standalone! - I reused a part of an older edit for the earliest Tri P.V.; (for timing placements) it had an old subtitle on, but I’ll remove that for the finished version! - (There is a moment of Hurricane Touchdown!Taichi for Timing) {As it works for my fan-‘verse, I left it in, with a bonus by end!} However, the work is overall/near-wholly 02-focused (so far)! - There is a small amount of out-of-context scenes, However, they’re meant to overall parallel the lyric{s} on-screen. - There is a single Tri spoiler from Kyousei; involving the character of "Homeostasis", that (mind)-possesses Hikari briefly in Adventure Ep. 45 previously. {"Gennai" [Tri] can also be seen for some short seconds} - Major handful of "The Beginning" sequel spoilers by ending; However, it's all actually immediately Pre-Final battle. (The Digimon in final battle can be seen Clearly, +Rui)

{I have not yet re-written the Daikari storyline involved with the past ficverse of mine in full; So please take this work as a sort of preview to it!} The ending lines and following sequences especially hint/allude a little more to my ficverse's potential turnouts; but it can be viewed/read as semi or even fully canon compliant too!

(Further lyric{s} under ‘read more’!)

“Turn this way, don't look anywhere else, darling It'd be bad if you weren't completely by MY side… Although you show courage, you've got it backwards A maiden's heart is fragile and trying—”

If we get separated by any distance I’ll come after you

(J.P.N): {Verse #1} Kocchi wo muite yo So mi shinaide Daarin Chanto watashi no soba ni inakucha dame da yo Tsuyogari datte uragaeshi Otome-gokoro kyun to setsunai…

Donna ni tookute hanarete 'te mo  Oikakete 'ku wa— I'm like a jasmine flower, right? You want to turn towards my strong fragrance I love you more than anyone So look at only me, okay?

{Verse #2} If it’s for "love", you’ll get stronger, darling So it’s true, I’ll "always" be your ""cute kid""-- Although there are some bad feelings in life No one will ever give up on a m a i d e n’s heart--(?)

Throughout all of the pain We’re invincible

I’m clumsy around you Protect only ME A magical love ONLY for US We should KEEP THAT our S E {C R E T}— Jasumin no hana no you ni ne Tsuyoku kaotte furimukasetai Dare yori mo anata ga suki Watashi dake mitsumete ite ne?

Koi no tame nara tsuyoku nareru no Daarin Honto wa zutto kawaii ko de itai kedo Yakimochi datte maji da kara Otome-gokoro dare ni mo makenai

Donna ni tsurai koto ga atte mo Futari wa muteki--

Bukiyou na anata no koto Mamoreru no wa watashi dake da yo Koi no mahou futari ni dake Wakariaeru HI{MITSU na n’ da yo}–

I'm like a "jasmine flower", right? You want to turn towards my strong fragrance I love you more than anyone So look at only me, okay?

Jasumin no hana no you ni ne Tsuyoku kaotte furimukasetai Dare yori mo anata ga suki Watashi dake mitsumete ite ne?

NOTE: The speaker may be speaking as if theyre NOT BEING CONSISTENT with their {FEELINGs}.

(Implied/Spoken): {My fic-verse Only}

"...I'm sorry." {"For before"}

"{None of it was} 'Your fault'." -Hikari to Daisuke

{"...It wasn't 'YOURS', EITHER--"}

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[ben-j-erickson]

RWRB: Thoughts on the movie

SO a while back, i let the entire internet(like 2 people) know my thoughts on the RWRB trailer. i watched the movie last night. and i have so many, SO SO many thoughts about it. Buckle in kiddos, this is gonna be one long fucking post.

In honor of Mr. Alex Claremont-Diaz and his endless lists, here are some lists including but not limited to what i liked and what i didn't like.

What i liked:

Uma Thurman. Slayed as per usual. I did think they could've done more with her bc she's so much more mom-president in the books. Still, though, Uma Thurman is always amazing and it's amazing to see her.

The way they did the texts and calls? Phenomenal! Did they technically only do that once? yes but we ignore that for a minute

The way that they addressed being queer and the coming-out experience. Everyone deserves to be able to figure out their sexuality/gender in their own time and to be able to tell the world at their time and pace. And they made sure to put that in the movie. [Quick tangent: two of the biggest queer projects of the year(so far), Heartstopper and RWRB both have themes about coming out and how it should be. ]

The sex scenes were actually not bad. The "let's make love" scene never happened in the book and their first time having sex together was way more low-key in the book but I liked that gay intimacy was shown in a very unflinching sort of way. The book certainly doesn't shy away from-for lack of a better word- smut and I'm glad that the movie took a less fade-to-black approach. (and yes, reader, it did make me want to get dicked down. No, I will not elaborate, take from that what you will)

Phillip. I never thought that I'd say this but Phillip in his little 2hr condensed form is actually really accurate. he pisses me off and he's condescending and a real prick. good job writers

Okay. That's some stuff i liked. Apologies readers, my dislike list might be longer than my like list but its coming from a place of love, I promise

What I didn't like:

June. WHERE WAS JUNE???? i get that its a 2-ish hr amazon movie but still. You're gonna have Nora(more on her in just a sec) but not June?? June was a very big part of the book who is a big support for Alex and is just generally cool. Making Alex an only child did not feel right y'all.

If you're gonna have Nora in the movie or like combine Nora and June or whatever the writers/directors/producers had in mind, then DO IT RIGHT. Nora in the books is firmly queer and cool and like probably austistic and a hacker(?). She's got her own sideplot with the whole Richards leak(again, more on that later). She helps Alex come to terms with his bisexuality. And you're just gonna make her a little side character that gives Alex advice and is maybe working on the Claremont campaign. like c'mon. Nora and June are Alex's support system, they're the people he relies on, the people who have seen him before being first-son and after becoming first-son.

Speaking of Alex being the first son, i wasn't happy that they sort of just glossed over Alex's insecurities. we get a little of them in the emails but part of what makes Alex so relatable is that he is confident and he is smart and he does want to help people but he also understands and feels the difference between himself and Henry. Henry is white and British and privileged and has a myriad of insecurities too but Henry will never understand being judged solely on your skin. On being compared to someone else but understanding the double-standards that come along with it. i honestly don't know if i put it correctly but that is why i loved alex so much.

FUCKING MIGUEL RAMOS. WHO MADE THAT FUCKING DECISION????? first off, for those who have yet to read the book, Miguel Ramos is not in the book. Rafael Luna is. Liam is. Both men are very important for Alex(and Henry)'s story. Liam is a key component in Alex's journey in bisexuality. Rafael Luna's involvement in the Richards Campaign is also very important plot-wise. Luna is also one of the guys who Alex realises he thought was hot btw.

The Richards Campaign!?!?!?!! felt very non-important. like i just don't really feel the need to root for the Claremont Campaign or root against the Richards Campaign when they sort of take a backseat. in the book the Richards campaign is the one to leak the emails and its a more malicious strike against the Claremont Campaign vs a jealous reporter who the Alex hooked up with once leaking the story.

WHILE we're on the emails, i know that you can only fit so much in here but COME ON MAN. the emails are sort of the foundation of Henry and Alex's romance. they text(AFTER ALEX GIVES HENRY HIS NUMBER BTW) and then they email each other and its so gay/bi and so happy and so romantic and the quotes man the FUCKING quotes and i didn't get that and can you tell that the emails mean a lot to me

the "history,huh?" moment did not feel as impactful to me. fight me on that , i don't care.

Bea. Said it before, not how i pictured. But boy did they really reduce Bea. Mind you, she's got a very big role in Henry's life an they do try but the powder princess stuff is kind of important.

Princess Catherine. Where is she? Who knows? Again, cut for time but my gosh people, she's the reason Queen Mary turns around on Henry and Alex.

Speaking of Queen Mary, they switched her around for a king?!?!?! LISTEN i get not wanting to make real-world comparisons yadayadayada but Stephen Fry?!?!?! im so sorry that man is too nice for you to try to convince me that he's a racist and homophobic ruler.

Alex's parents. They're together, i guess? minor thing so that's why its here idk.

SO that was a lot of complaints and some good stuff.

You may be thinking "THANK GOODNESS, it's over"

WRONG.

I have more thoughts, dear reader.

Look, was it a perfect adaptation? no. adaptations rarely are.

Was it a good movie? yes. it was.

This movie made my little gay POC heart very VERY happy. it made me happy to see something that I treasure be put out into the world in a movie that I will be watching over and over and over. I'm obviously not pleased with the multiple liberties they took but I'm taking what I can. We need more queer everything out in the world. More queer books, more queer movies, more queer photography, more queer tv shows, more queer museum exhibits, you name it. Given the current state of the world and attitudes about queer people, it is essential to make and consume queer media in all its forms. Queer media makes sure that everyone knows that we're here and queer and we're not going anywhere. This is an important story to tell. And it doesn't have to be perfect. It just needs to tell OUR stories.

Henry, Alex (and also Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring) have made me want a love like theirs. A love that is genuine and real and honest and full of hope. A love who understands me and who I understand. To quote Dr. Taylor Alison Swift: "A love that was really something, not just the idea of something."

[silantryoo]

I used to be one of your anons but then you suddenly stoped replaing to my asks and it kinda makes me wonder

omg i thot yall wouldnt notice me being less active

tbh i barely have time for tumblr rn 😭😭 with school starting up, multiple relatives and friends visiting my town this summer, and me working mfing 50 HRS A WEEK?????? (which wtf), i barely have time to even write lal, much less answer asks 😭😭

at one point, i was considering temporary leaving tumblr but i really wanted to write for you guys but lowk im ripping my hair out bc one ch of lal = 1-2 hrs (NOT WRITTEN WHICH IS INSANE?)

im trying to do a better job ab it and not let you guys notice but ngl im dying‼️ im so sorry ab me not replying to your asks bc i really want to, its j that i have such a shit schedule that literally my screen time is 2hrs a day now

im really sorry it really wasnt my intention to ignore you or anyone. im j dying and i want summer to be over so i can go back to interacting w you guys and releasing shit yk 😭😭😭

I WANT SILAN ACTIVE ERA BACK??? FREE ME FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THATS STUPID PLACE. WHAT HAPPENED RO FREEDOM🦅🦅🦅🦅

[horizon-forbidden-sheesh]

Hey, here’s a nifty reference tool that’s been sitting in my drafts for over a year!! 

Location key & more notes on distances and travel below the break.  

*Locations aren’t always exact, but were chosen to determine approximate distance & travel times.

NORA (Blue)

- Mother’s Watch = Colorado Springs, CO  

- Hunter’s Gathering = Montrose, CO 

BANUK (Teal)

- Stone Yield = Yellowstone, WY

- Song’s Edge = Moran, WY

- Banuk Encampment = Hahns Peak Village, CO

OSERAM (Orange)

- Free Heap = Green River, UT  

- Hidden Ember = Las Vegas, NV

- The Claim = ???, ID

CARJA (Red)

- Dawn’s Sentinel = Grand Junction, CO

- Daytower Gate = Gateway, CO

- Gatelands = Canyonlands, UT

- Meridian = Red Mesa, AZ

- Sunfall = Bryce Canyon

- Chainscrape = Big Water, UT

- Barren Light = Page, AZ

UTARU (Green)

- Plainsong = Dixie Forest, UT

- Riverhymn = Frisco Peak, UT

- Stone’s Echo = Fredonia, AZ

THE BASE (Nora Blue)

- Wheeler Peak, NV

TENAKTH (Clan Colors)

- Arrowhand = Caliente, NV

- Scalding Spear = Duckwater, NV

- Memorial Grove = Silver Peak, NV

- The Bulwark = Yosemite Valley, CA

- Thornmarsh = Bakersfield, CA

QUEN (Coral)

- Legacy’s Landfall = San Francisco, CA

OLD ONES (Grey) 

- Maker’s End = Salt Lake City, UT

- The Greenhouse = Sacramento, CA

- Zenith Lab = Los Angeles, CA

TRAVEL SPEEDS

Jogging (6mph / 10mph sprint)

*half travel day: 4 hrs (25 mi.)

*full travel day: 8 hrs (50-60 mi.)

*through the night: 12 hrs (100 mi.)

Riding (25mph / 45mph sprint / 3x Jogging)

**half travel day: 3 hrs (80 mi.) /= 1.5 days of travel by foot

**full travel day: 6 hrs (150 mi.)  /= 3 days of travel by foot

**through the night: 12 hrs (450 mi.) /= 1-2 weeks of travel by foot

Flying (80mph / 10x Jogging / 3x Riding)

***half travel day: 3 hrs (250 mi.) /=  1 week of travel by foot

***full travel day: 6 hrs (500 mi.) /=  1 week of travel by charger

DISTANCES

Base to Scalding Spear = ~100 mi (on foot: thru night / on charger: 4hrs / on sunning: 1hr)

Base to Memorial Grove = ~300 mi (on foot: 3-5 days / on charger: 1 day / on sunwing: 2hrs)

Base to Bulwark = ~450 mi (on foot: 1 week / on charger: thru night / on sunwing: 4hrs)

Base to Thornmarsh = ~500 mi

Base to Legacy’s Landfall = ~700 mi (on foot: 2-3 weeks / on charger: 2 days / on sunwing: 6hr)

Base to Plainsong = ~80 mi (but assume you can glide most of it and get there in half a day) 

Base to Barren Light = ~250 mi

Base to Chainscrape = ~300 mi 

[shrekshugebadussy]

i’m interested to hear thoughts. i personally don’t think i’m in the wrong, but basically last weekend was easter & for a little backstory, my mom, brother, and i live in the middle of the rest of our family. my aunt, her husband, & kids live about 2hrs west of me, my uncle and my cousin live about 1 hr 30m east of me, and my grandma lives 15min north of me 😭. anyways, we’ve always had our family get togethers at my grandmas, but her place is small, so my uncle and aunt kinda just.. offer our place up. which is fine, that means we don’t have to go anywhere, but to get to the point, my aunts son is 1 & a half years old, and he’s afraid of cats… i have a cat.

now, i’ve had this cat since nov 2021, so she’s not new, and they’ve been over before with her here… she does not go near my baby cousin at all. the closest she’s gotten was literally across the room peeking from behind some chairs. she’s curious, and she’s never been around small human beings before. she’s never once gotten close enough to even touch my baby cousin. my baby cousin is very wary of her tho. when he was here last weekend he would even grab his toys to hold so my cat wouldn’t get to them. it was funny at first ngl, even my aunt was laughing. he also loves dogs, and my aunt has 2 dogs, but no cats. so i can understand that he’s never been around cats before so he’s wary of them, i get it.

but then dinner came.

he apparently “couldn’t eat” his food (i was not paying attention to them fully, as i was helping getting the table set up and stuff, since he was eating other stuff, so maybe he was distracted idk) because she was roaming around. so my aunt asked me if i could put my cat in a room. and i’m ngl i was kinda peeved. i mean this is my house, my cats house. she’s never made a sound nor has she even gotten close to anyone else for that matter let alone my baby cousin.

i did end up locking her in my room just for the time that we all ate. after that i let her back out (her litter is in my bathroom across the house and her food was in the dining room & when i opened my door she was on my bookshelf, which she’s never been on before). my aunt knew at the time that i wasn’t happy, but i moved on. it’s become apparent that she meant for me to lock her up until they left, but she never specified, nor was i going to do that.

after dinner my baby cousin went into the living room and kept playing, i let her out and gave her an early dinner of wet food and she happily stayed out of the living room. she eventually just got on her window perch that’s on the sliding glass doors in my dining room, and my other, older cousin was playing with her anyways.

the rest of the gathering went fine. but yesterday my mom informed me that apparently my aunt texted her and said that they’re not sure that they’re comfortable having gatherings at our house anymore bcuz “there wasn’t much sympathy” for my baby cousin’s fear.

my mom and i are just flabbergasted that she even thought that we didn’t care about his feelings. i only locked her away in the first place because of that & i figured after dinner while he was in the living room she would be elsewhere, ie eating her dinner.

oh and btw she was on her window perch by the dining table when he was eating desert and he was fine 🤷🏻

again i don’t think i’m in the wrong here…

[mandssisters]

We stand Victorious! 27August 2023.

It was a #longday. But we weren’t the only ones having one of those. On paper I’m guessing Martha’s Vineyard USA to Portsmouth UK was just another booking but I take my hat off to all those involved in the logistics team for pulling it off. DDD to Portsmouth was bad enough!

A great line up at the festival, it was only a shame Ben Howard and The Vaccines were on “another stage”. 😝

The weather was a great British summers day, forecast was overcast all day and 17 degrees, I dressed for all seasons and woken up today with sunburn 🥵.

7 performances to enjoy before The Sons joined us. I won’t go through all the details as it will take the 9 hrs we watched for.

Summary of events:

Courting. Punk indie band great lead singer had the crowd going from the start.

Hard fi. Old skool indie rock band haven’t done a festival in 11 years. Hard Core fans came out.

The Go! Team. Sang songs across their 7 albums. 7 very talent musicians and great energy.

Dylan. hardcore set of young fans, think UK’s answer to Taylor Swift. All the moves and great performance. Dylan came down to do an impromptu meet and greet along the barrier post performance.

Sea Girls. Not what I was expecting but a very pleasant surprise. Oozed stage presence and that rock punk persona. Great skill at balancing on the barrier for 2 songs.

Sigrid. Norways Taylor Swift. Again great energy and her last festival this season. I surprised myself with knowing more of her back catalogue than I thought.

Ellie Goulding. Pop veteran. Such strong vocals and again I knew so many of her songs. Two blasts of the canon guns and everyone was happy.

Showtime:

2120hrs. We did it! OMG how can it be 4 years 2 months since my last Mumford gig. Would I still be able to bounce in all of the right places? Strong opening, Babel, LLM, Roll away. Paparazzi pleasers. The family of Rich, Nick and Dave reunited. Chris on drums, Matt on banjo.

All the feels came straight back, guiding light, below my feet. It felt like they had never been away. Not much banter, “pleased to be home doing a UK show”. “Our makers and friends all over the lineup”

A short Ditmas run down the sides of the alley and barriers. So much energy.

The new stage backdrop showing live action screen footage of the lads is excellent, really grabs you in and the laser light show during snake eyes is something else. Believe had pyros but no ticker tape as Ellie Goulding used the budget allocation. 😉.

It looked and felt like the lads were having a great time, the crowd sure were. Overjoyed to see and hear Delta again. There was much love in the audience for them. The UK have missed them. Just leaves you wanting more! The bounce was joyous.

The journey home. Take the shuttle bus they said, ease all your travel woes they said! On the way into the festival easy peasy, on the way out…. Who could have predicted a RTA in Pompey (Portsmouth) blocking all bus routes… plagiarising a fellow queuers song “we will wait, we will wait in queue”. A most pleasant 2hr wait along the seafront enjoying a stunning moonlit sea, various Isle of Wight ferry crossings, The Beach Club music providing all the vibes, the local chippy had never been so busy at 1.30am!!

Loved it. X

[chososcamgirl]

HIHIHIHI IYAAA SOOOO I JUST CAME BACK FROM HANGING OUT W MY FRIENDSSS AND I DIDNT BUY ANYTHINGG (was gonna spend @ Sephora but ended up reasoning with myself and put everything away YAY ME) BUTTTTTT WE DID END UP WATCHING JOKER 2 SOO IM GONNA RANT ABT IT (to make up for the lost check ins) 😈

HOW WAS WORKK??? HOPE IT WAS VERY SKIBIDIIII!!! TELL ME ABTT IT SIGMA ALPHA IYA🐺💪‼️

I FORGOT IF I SENT MY ACTUALLY DAILY CHECK IN TODAY (I write them in my notes) SO TELL ME IF U DONT SEE IT AND ILL PASTE IT OVER TO TUMBLR (im pretty sure I did but I THINK I FORGOT TO TURN ON ANON SO IF I ACCIDENTALLY DID A BLOG REVEAL KEEP MY IDENTITY A MYSTERY 🤫 BUT TELL ME SO I CAN RESEND MY DAILY ASK) 

OMG I RENTED A POWERBANK AND ACCIDENTALLY BROUGHT IT BACK WITH ME… ITS NEARLY 12AM HERE SO I NEED TO GO BACK TMRW (im gonna get charged about like $40 SOMEONE SHOOT ME OMFG) AT LEAST I GET AN EXCUSE TO GO TO THE MALL TMRW THO?? 

ALSOOO I FOUND A STORE HIRING NEAR MY SCHOOLLLL I RLLY WANT TO GET A PART TIME SO I MIGHTTT CONSIDER IT BUT THEN I WOULD NEED TO FIND THE TIME TO ACTUALLY COMMIT IF I DO WANT TO PURSUE ITTTT

OMGROIGOJIOJIR REMEMBER HOW I MENTIONED I WRITE IN MY SLEEP?? TURNS OUT THAT LIKE A WEEK AGO.. I FELL ASLEEP WHILE DOING HOMEWORK AND STARTED WRITING ABOUT MY RACE IN MY SLEEP.. AND I DIDNT BOTHER TO CHECK IT WHEN I WOKE UP ON MY DESK IN THE MORNING SO I TURNED THAT SHIT IN WITHOUT NOTICING I RANTED ABOUT MY FUCKING RACE ON MY ASSIGNMENT…. MY TEACHER WAS SO FUCKING CONFUSED ON WHY I STATED I WASN’T WHITE ON MY PAPER AND TOLD ME THAT THEY THOUGHT I MIGHT OF BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS MENTALLY… THE FACT I HAD TO ADMIT IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS SLEEP WRITING??? IM GONNA END IT PLEASEEE THATS SO EMBARRASSINMGGGG IT WAS HELLA FUNNY THO.. I WOULD POST THE PICTUJRE BUT I CANT </3 CUS OF ANON *sighs* 

ITSSS SJAPP WEEKENDDDDDD IM SO EXCITED ITLL BE 5AM WHERE I LIVE SO THAT MEANS I GET TO WAKE UP TO A NEW CHAPTERRRR

SPOILER WARNING FOR JOKER 2 ‼️‼️

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Okay I was a HUGE fan of the first movie which was why I was excited to see the second one with my friends but honestly… IT WAS SO ASSSSS

First, I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS GONNA BE A MUSICAL like I don’t mind musicals, they can be BANGERS and the first few songs were good BUT as the film progressed the songs just felt so unnecessary and awkward👿😭

UGHHHH OMFGGGG IM SOOOOO PISSED ABGT HOW DIRTY THEY DID MISS QUINN IN THE SEQUEL!!!! I LOVE HARLEY QUINN AND GAGA BUT LIKE HER BACKSTORY IN THIS MOVIE AND HER WHOLE PERSONALITY IS NOT ITTTTTT PLUSSS GAGA I LOVE UR VOICE BUT OMFGG I SWEAR THE SINGING WAS TOOOOO EXCESSIVE ARNTRJNSR THEY DID HER SOO DIRTYY.. GAGA WAS ROBBED.. SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SOOOO MUCH MORE BUT HER CHARACTER WAS JUST.. BLEH..

HONESTLY IF YOU TOOK OUT ALL THE MUSICAL FACTORS THEN THE MOVIE WOULD FEEL LIKE A 2HR LECTURE… AND THE RUN TIME??? TWO HRS IS INSANE FOR SUCH A PLOT 

THERE WERE NO PLANS OF A SEQUEL AND THEY SHOULD OF KEPTTT IT THAT WAYYY OMGGG THIS WAS SUCH AN OBVIOUS CASHGRAB.. THE FIRST ONE CLEARLY HAD PASSION, THIS ONE WAS JUST FOR MONEY THERES A REASON WHY THE RATING IS SO LOWWWWWW

STILL THO, THE MOVIE HAD GOOD SCENES AND ALL THE ACTORS HAD THEIR MOMENTS  .

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. OKKKK HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY SIGMA NIGHT!!! SWEET DREAMS I LOVE YOU DAWG 💪🔥

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HI ALPHA!!🐺

responding to ur most recent ask sent on saturday night hello‼️‼️‼️

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD FUN WITH UR FRIENDS!!! im glad🙂‍↕️ hanging out with ur friends always makes life better even if its for that moment it’s still very much worth it <33 HOORAY FOR REASONABLE SPENDING🎉🎉 u are stronger than me alpha.. sephora and i are in a current battle and i fear she’s winning😰

WORK THIS WEEK HAS BEEN SO GOOD!! i worked 4 days in a row all either opening or closing (or both) but they were all good shifts! i’m just very exhausted from this week though like mentally and physically😭 i slept most of the day away yesterday and im just trying to rest up again today because my throat is actually getting worse which KMS.

NO LMFAO UR FINE!! if u do happen to reveal urself don’t worry i’ll keep it a secret 🤫🤫🤐 WHAT? $40 OH MU GOD what the fuck that is SO EXPENSIVE TO RETURN IT i would just keep it at that point.. but atleast it’s another excuse to go to da mall🤗🙂‍↕️ YIPEE! oooo job searching! that’s exciting. though part time is a big commitment just bc you can’t change ur hours once it’s set in place but if you want to apply for it then i say go for it!! as long as u have the time for it 100%!!

OH MY GOD😭😭 NOT ON THE HOMEWORK TOO PLS that actually made me giggle please. don’t worry abt it though i’ve seen worse!! sleep writing is a talent that u should not be embarrassed abt, you’re good‼️🙂‍↕️

IVE HEARD SO MANY BAD REVIEWS ABOUT THE MOVIE LIKE the fact that they break out into song randomly etc😭 i wanted to watch it but the reviews are making me rethink spending $15 on a movie ticket… ill probably not watch it and watch the substance instead (apparently that’s fucked) BUT ILL LYK!!!

THANK YOU ALPHA!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY SIGMA DAY‼️ ILY🫵🫂

[runnersnz]

“I'm not sure where to start really. I'm in my 60s and can't run like I used to. As a youngster I actually used to hate sport but in my teens I was a keen tramper and covered most of Fiordland. I got sponsored to go to Outward Bound twice which gave me an incentive to look for further adventures. I also went on to get a Diploma in Sport & Recreation. Not that I ever used it.

I started my running at a low key level but over time got to running marathons. My PB was 2hr 56 and for a half 1hr 19. Running was on a high in the 80’s and we had good turnouts for the 10km Thursday runs in Invercargill. At the time I used to run for St Paul's Harriers, of which my grandfather was a club founder. There is a cross country event, the McIndoe Casket, named after him. I took an interest in triathlons too and did a half Ironman. At one stage I went and ran down the 70km Marlborough Sounds. There was also a local run over the Wilmont Pass, being around 13km. I always got 2nd unfortunately.

In the 80’s mountain biking was a new sport too, although there were only 2 types of bikes available at the time. A mountain bike club was formed in Invercargill with an annual event in Borland down at Mt Burns. I competed in the Gutbuster twice over the Nevis. We once biked from Deep Cove to Borland too. At the time I was a hut warden on the Humpridge and out at Milford. Rosco, a local chap, used to have a mountain bike race from the Homer Tunnel down to Milford, about 16km with 16min being the best. I could only manage 30min. Tramping was still my main interest and over time I climbed Mt Egmont 6 times, did Nelson Lake, Marlborough Sounds, Abel Tasman, Arthur's Pass, Cobb Dam at Takaka, Dusky Sounds, and the southern end of Stewart Island - the mud there can be up to your knees! In between tramping seasons I used to do DOC volunteer projects at Skippers, as well as Stewart Island, Pig and Pigeon Island at Glenorchy, Ranfurly and at the Catlins. There was the Fox Glacier clean up, and I used to help Forest and Bird out, often planting trees and taking pinus radiata out at mid dome. I used to compete in the odd winter duathlon too. I hadn't been overseas, so then I went to Queensland to work on a cattle ranch, as well as Fiji, Niue and Samoa. All of this kept me pretty fit.

Then in 1988 the Kepler came on. They thought it was 67km, and it only cost $65 to enter. Entries had to be posted in and it was first in, first to get accepted. At the time running 67km was unheard of so you felt like an early pioneer. The first race had 150 entries. The alpine section was cold with 20 knot winds. There was a time limit of 13 hrs for the race, but at the back of Luxmore there was no track. Beyond there you just had to run on tussock. They gave us Moro bars and jelly beans and Russell Prince won it that year. During the race I heard a runner got picked up by boat near the Iris Burn river and got taken down to rejoin just before Moturau Hut.

At one stage, on the 10th Kepler (1998) several runners didn't gain entry and felt left out, so they ran it unofficially. There were some very fit people back then and one Murray Thomas did the 5 day Southern Traverse and then ran the Kepler 24hrs later.

For the 20th Anniversary event some 30 to 40 of us first timers ran from the bridge to the dam. At the time I was employed at NZAS (New Zealand's Aluminium Smelter) at Tiwai Point in Bluff, and the race organisers asked me who to approach to sponsor the Kepler Challenge. From there, NZAS got involved and for several years all those from Tiwai, we got articles in the Tiwai Pointer (newsletter).

I remember too in 2002 the weather was particularly bad with blizzard conditions. We went down to the Kepler start at 6am but were told to come back later. For the first time the race was changed and you had to run up to Luxmore, then to the Iris Burn, and back to the dam.

The spirit of the Kepler still prevails, but those first timers, they’re like our war veterans, and some are no longer around. My two mates who ran with me have both passed away. Murray Thomas who has run 21 times is still here. I saw his 84 year old mum on the 5km parkrun. I used to run home from work with him. 

We’re all getting older and I tell you, the body doesn’t work like it used to. I still do swimming, go to the gym and pilates and do the 5km walks. There are so many memories to look back on though, and good people I knew. It was all an adventure at the time, one I’ll treasure.”Neil Coaley (Invercargill/Fiordland) – Portraits of Runners + their stories @RunnersNZ

[myastrouniverse]

June/2024🌝♒️What comes around goes around…

🌝 ☌ 🌽 Popeye. Yes, I saw the pictures that look like the right side of your face, blurs into what looks like me. I can’t tell if your theatrics are sincere. I am going to assume, sincere, and side with safety. I’d rather be wrong for the right reasons, than right over a potential ‘spiritual’ disaster.

🌝 ☸︎ ♄︎ I mentioned YEARS ago to Thom that we shared a unique Saturn aspect. There is actually a very long list of interesting aspects between us astrologically. I’m sorry Thom, but you must ALWAYS choose right conduct. Any false programming is going to confuse you until you let it go. If you want to remain on a certain ‘level’ you MUST put in THE WORK. I guess people don’t understand that for TWO YEARS straight, I listened to extremely powerful spiritual mantras 24/7. AGAIN, FOR TWO YEARS. Then I cut back to between 8-12 hrs a day, only because I AM able to sleep now. I couldn’t sleep for more than 1/2hr to maybe 2 hrs at a time FOR TWO YEARS. Whatever. I digress. Thom, please listen to Thom Kenyon’s Egyptian stuff you can buy from his webpage. The Egyptian healings strengthen your connection to your TRUE WILL/HIGH SELF. Okay?

🌝 ☸︎ 🎸 It’s not ME trying to take you over Thom. It’s Elliott being me, trying to take you over. He does that. Don’t ask me why. He is a total enigmatic paradox to me. I don’t understand his pseudo existence at this point. I have my theories. I’ll share this one: It’s my guess I let Elliott be a channel for creative expression. He may be gone, but that energy still exists because it has no where else to go. It doesn’t belong to me anymore when it became apart of him. It’s apart of both of us and since we are both whole, it became almost a separate being of energy.

🌝 < ♃︎ If you understand, than you understand you must work on strengthening your KA energy or connection to YOUR INDIVIDUAL HIGH SELF.

🌝◾️🚑 There are at least DECADES of scientific papers which substantiate my esoteric/naturopathic healing work because they are based on the same SCIENTIFIC principles.

🌝🔺 ♅︎ May ALL suffering be resolved. May goodness prevail. May ALL beings be happy. May ALL beings be free.

🌝 ☸︎ ♆︎ I AM able to discern fact from fiction. I understand the fiction you are trying to create Mascis, but not the motivation for ALL this fuckery. Why is direct communication so fucking difficult? WTF.

Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun

🎨 Laurent Grasso - Studies into the Past (Études sur le passé)