#2023-11-22

[innocent-diamond-2090110]

I'm on Tumblr! + TSFR06

By popular request, I finally made a Tumblr account to post sporadic udpates because FanFiction's email alert system can't get itself together (cue ITZY's "Sorry Not Sorry"). My goal is to post something at least once a week to prove that I'm just busy & not dead @_@ In the meantime, I posted TSFR06:

Next chapter will feature questionable bank statements, a home invasion, & an embarrassing press conference...

[lovepurplequeen]

Klay speaking to the youth🥹

[vhscorp]

J'aime les gens qui portent en eux des blessures, des failles et des cicatrices, les gens trop lisses m’ennuient…

V. H. SCORP

[z-moves]

Illustrations from Ayano Takeda's After the Rain With You

Art by (in order):

mele (Twitter/X: mele_ck)

shu (Twitter/X: shuu_illust)

satoma (Twitter/X: satomatoma | Tumblr: satomatoma)

Gemi (Twitter/X: gemi333)

buchi (Twitter/X: Qooo003)

Naoki Saito

[aewmoves]

[remembertheplunge]

A Thanksgiving story

11/22/2023

A Thanksgiving story.

I drove out to the San Joaquin County jail this afternoon to see two clients who are incarcerated there.

As I was walking through the parking lot headed for the jail entrance, I passed a group of young women and children holding signs that said “Welcome back Kevin.”

I visited with my clients for 2 hours.

When I got back to the jail lobby to sign out and to give back the visiting room key and get my ID, I saw 3 men waiting by the jail administration window. I asked the check out clerk if they had just been released and she said yes. Upon exiting , the people holding the signs were still happily there waiting. I told them that 3 men had just been released hoping one of them was Kevin.

I have never seen anything like  that welcoming committee  before in the 100s of times I have visited jails to meet with clients through the years. True Thanksgiving joy.

I got in the car and drove to a nearby gym that I am a member of. As I approached the entrance ,I noticed a man with a shopping cart standing about 40 feet away from the gym entrance at the end of the building. 

I approached him and asked him if he would like a hat and a scarf. A friend of mine and her daughter, for the second year in a row, knitted hats for me to pass out to the homeless. This year they included a knitted scarf with the hat. 

Just then, the gym owner, a friend of mine,  appeared and told the homeless man the he had to leave. The homeless man said that he was waiting for a police officer to arrive. The gym owner became more insistent and the homeless man became more obstinate. 

I had initially tried to explain to the gym owner that I was trying to give the man a hat and scarf. But, the gym owner made it clear he wanted no homeless people near his gym. My giving the homeless man the hat and scarf might encourage him to stay. So, I remained silent .

The homeless man then took off his black baseball cap and offered it to me. With the gym owner standing right there, I accepted the hat.

The homeless man and I had had an encounter. We were under fire, but we had an encounter. We healed each other. I had offered him a hat and a scarf. In thanks he, who had nothing else really but the baseball cap, gave it to me. 

We could “see” each other.

End of entry

Note:

I have been working with the homeless off and on since 2017. They have stayed with me in my house for days or weeks. I have passed out bags with food, socks and toiletries in10 or 12 cities. I do it for the encounter. If they accept the bag, we have an encounter. They thank me, sometimes wordlessly, and in so doing heal me. They have shown ma a compassionate side of humanity I had not experienced before.

[onesmainbitch]

♥️

[georgenotfound-archive]

George in Pmbata insta post 2023/11/22

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[proceduralbob]

For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all.

11/22/63, Stephen King

[tuntetesinfo]

PLÜSSMOB!!! 🧸

[astaldis]

@whumpers-monthly     @smubbles-etc

Whumpee: Jaskier

Chapters: 1/1      Words: 1,594 Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier | Dandelion   Additional Tags: Locked In, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, bard angst, Geralt saves Jaskier's naked bacon, Friendship, Nudity Summary: Jaskier spends a night with a gorgeous girl. Unfortunately, her husband comes home early and Geralt has to save his bard.

Damn, this cannot be happening, can it? For the umpteenth time, he presses his full weight against the smooth wood, however, there is no effect. At all. Fuck, fuck, fuck!

Cursing inwardly, Jaskier slumps against the soft fabric behind him with a heavy sigh. In the course of his many escapades, he has had to hide naked inside a wardrobe before - from slightly suspicious to mad murderous husbands, or wives for that matter - and sometimes he had to climb out of windows and escape across the roofs with his pants barely on, but never has he found himself in a pickle like this. Or rather in a tight spot like this, for it definitely feels uncomfortably crowded inside the wardrobe although it is a pretty big one. This is due to the one of the two dire problems he is facing, Jaskier suspects. It is completely dark and he cannot see a thing, but he is almost certain that he is not alone in the wardrobe. Carefully and as soundlessly as possible, he gropes around a bit more. And shudders. Yes, there is definitely another man hiding between what must be frilly dresses, a man as naked as he himself. The stranger's bare skin feels a lot colder than his own, though, and the man does not move nor make a sound. Is he unconscious? Or, gods forbid, dead? Hell, having to share this cramped place with another person is bad enough, but a dead or possibly dying one? Bile rises to Jaskier's mouth. He swallows hard, his thoughts spinning. It all would not be quite as bad if there was not dire problem number two. And it is not, as many might believe, the issue of getting out of the girl's bedroom unnoticed, no. He would not give a rats arse about the fact that it is a sunny late morning but flee through the window in a rush, no matter how many neighbours or random people in the streets might spot him while making a run for it. Unfortunately, though, he cannot do it. For the wardrobe is locked and does not open. He has tried everything already that can be tried without making much noise, but nothing has worked. The damn door stubbornly refuses to budge.

Continue reading on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51787087

[innocent-diamond-2090110]

♪ "OOTD, this my fashion // SHUT UP, no more questions" ♪

Dreamcatcher is back with "OOTD" & their 9th mini album "VillainS"! I'd say that "OOTD" is most similar to their Dystopia trilogy from previous releases (especially "BOCA"). My favorite things from the MV:

Handong + blonde hair + pink dress = BARBIE GIRL!

"I'M VENUS, NEPTHYS, CALL ME A GODDESS" - Leader JiU (She's also the thumbnail!)

I love that the lyrics spoiler was for the bridge.

Gahyun & Sua looking at their phones in the elevator has this "cool kids only" vibe.

My favorite B-side is "Rising"!

Full CD is here on YouTube Music!

[callmebrycelee]

HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY, KRISTIAN BRUUN!!!

[pasiphile]

I have a day off tomorrow which I sorta intend to spend on writing, possibly some short things just to get back in the saddle rather than risk getting overwhelmed by my Big Boys, so...

Anyone have a ficlet prompt?

Fandoms I'm willing to write for include but are not limited to: Discworld, The Untamed, Attack on Titan, Ace Attorney, The Locked Tomb, Doctor Who, Merlin, Black Sails, Sherlock, buffy the vampire slayer, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Good Omens (strictly the book, not the TV series)

No promises, given that my writing skills have been in hibernation for almost a full year, but yknow. Send me a fandom, pairing or character and prompt and things may happen.

[lacathhtf2023]

22 years ago today… never forget.

9/11/01-9/11/23.

[aewmoves]