#I know that the cool ranch Doritos thing is My Brand now but also I don’t strictly want my brand to be associated with a literal brand lol

[skelekidd]

Lads I forgot to save the cool ranch Doritos pfp to my phone before I changed it . Now I have to stay like this until I’m able to get on my computer lmao (I have the photo on there)

Or I could change it ? But also I don’t know what I would change it to otherwise lmao

[boredgirl2004]

The Aftermath: Day 1

My experience with the Book of Bill 

Now I’m not much of a writer. I am a 💧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎⧫︎⍓︎  writer. I wasn’t good with writing in school but anyway-  I’m sure you are all just wondering why I am writing this. If I’m being honest, I don’t know why either, everything just has been crazy, things I can’t explain and I guess the only person who will probably understand is the man who had to deal with this thing before I did. You can also think I’m just writing this to reach him and his family, to not only get another person's view on this but to know that I am not alone in this ever-lasting torture with this cool ranch dorito demon who didn’t stop giving me deer teeth when I first opened the book and that's where it all started but before I go on my huge rant or story of meeting this being. I might as well introduce myself. My name is Jazmyne, you can call me Jazzy or whatever nickname you have used with someone with the same name as me but differently spelled in every way. I don’t know if I should say my age but I’ll just leave that blank. I am the only girl in my family out of 3 brothers, I am the second eldest, so the middle child I guess. I like butterflies, anime, the smell of fresh roses, and everything involving the supernatural. Now that we got that out of the way, let's start with what led up to this….

The beginning of a crazy nightmare

My parents were taking me to my job. I had been working at this new job as a lab technician for about two months. I saw that there was a new Barnes and Noble on my way to work, and seeing that I had plenty of time; I decided to stop and see if any of the books I wanted were in stock. So I asked if we could stop by and take a look. My parents reluctantly (if I am using this word right) drove into the marketplace and dropped me off at the store. I walked into Barnes and Noble, and the smell of the new books along with Starbucks coffee immediately hit my face, a pleasant smell that I liked. I walked around the brand-new store and saw various books. I found some poetry books I liked, some mangas, and other books that interested me until I saw this black book, it had carvings and a keyhole. It was under the supernatural category next to Stephen King's “IT” and  “The Wonderland Murders ". I assumed it would have the title on the book cover but when I pulled it off the shelf, there was sadly no title to the book at all. I thought the book might have been returned since the cover was probably torn off or lost. I tried to open the book but it didn’t open. Odd isn't it? I gave up and put it back, I thought it was just some sort of decoration since Halloween decorations were coming out next month which was in a few weeks. I immediately went to the checkout with my books and went on about my day. I got back in my parent's car and went to work. While at work, I had to check our products to make sure they were up to company standards and signed off on them so they could be produced. You know, stuff a lab technician would have to do when involving products that’ll be sold out to the public. 

It was a long 12 hours, it even got so busy that I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t even go on my lunch break or my breaks but when I got home, I set my purse down, along with my bag from Barnes and Noble on the floor of my room and exhaustedly plopped onto my bed. I slept in for such a long time that my alarm didn’t go off. I immediately got up and ran throughout the house getting ready for work until I saw a flash flood warning go off on my phone. My boss called me and told me to not come to work. I sighed in relief and went to my room. I closed the door behind me and as I was about to walk to my bed, I heard this loud wet sound. I froze and slowly looked down, I turned on the light switch and saw that the Barnes and Noble bag was covered in this very very squishy black ooze. I was so grossed out that I took the bag and placed it on my desk to investigate what was the cause of this black substance. I opened the bag to see my new books were now the same color as the tar. I was so confused and upset that I began tearing the tar away from the books until I got so frustrated that I just took the bag and dumped it all onto the desk until I saw the blank book from the Barnes and Noble store I went to yesterday. The tar was coming from the book. Which confused me and got me more upset.

As the thunder from the storm roared, I grabbed some gloves and took this weird goo off my books. I wondered how this book managed to get in my bag when I didn’t buy it nor did the cashier put it in my bag. I also thought about how I’m gonna be able to explain this to the employee when I have to return these books. “Oh yeah, I’d like to return these books because this coverless book y'all had on your shelf emitted this black-like tar onto my books and I have no idea how I got this book.” I giggled a bit at how ridiculous the thought was. I yelled in frustration from how difficult taking this tar off my books was. I slammed my hands onto my desk and yelled out loud “IS THERE A $%%## WAY THAT YOU CAN GET OFF MY BOOKS?!!?!”. As I said that, I heard distant laughing, I thought it was my parents laughing at something on TV or something but, everyone was taking a nap in my house but then again, my mom always forgets to turn the TV off after she’s done using it but when I left my room to go see, there was nothing on, nor was my mother awake. I thought it was weird but then again, I always hear stuff that isn’t there. It was my imagination as always but when I came back to my room. The book’s goo was gone, all that was left was the destroyed books I had bought that only repeated the words ``HAHA” and the black book that had no cover but this time the blank book now had a title and a strange being on the cover that was made out of metallic gold paper, it read…

||iᙠ Ꮈo ʞooᙠ ɘʜT

T̵̲̗̫̞̤̳̽́́̒̃͗̈̓͝͠ͅh̴̼̭̘͉̥̞͎͍̔̚͘e̶̳̼̙̟̯͖̗̜͓͐͋̇͋̅̕ ̷̬̜͎̖̾͗̂̌͘͝B̶̧̺͕͖͓͙̀̈́̀̓͂̎̈́͝͝ỏ̵̧̫̯̣͎̟̱͒̅̑͐̎͊̋̿ȏ̷̢̧̻̯̣̹̀̂͌́̒̄̂ǩ̷̢͉͇̰͎̹̖̉̏̎̇̔̈̍ͅͅ ̷̰͉̬̙̗̼̬̺̞͈̃̀̎̿̋̕͝ȏ̷̬̦̏̀̓̾͌̿̎̚f̴̗̝̬͇̗͈̀̋̑̈́͑̽ ̸̦͖̣̘̯͓̩̦̹̦̑͆͛͆̅̅̕͠B̷̛̤̰̳̞̈́̊̍̃̓̊͐͘͝ͅi̸̗͖͑l̸͉̣̺͙̜͈̺̝̉͌́̿̄͋̌̚l̵̻̭̺͔̭̂̀́͋̔̚̕͜͝

Now I’m not going to lie to you all, the cover interested me, and I do like the color gold but before you all tell me “No don’t open the book, just get rid of it! Return it to the store!” I thought about it but what am I going to do if I told them that I didn’t purchase it and it somehow magically appeared in my bag???  They are gonna look at me like I’m crazy and call the cops on me. I love Barnes and Noble but I am NOT getting banned from my favorite bookstore! So, I had no choice but to keep it but I didn’t open it…..at least not until later that day or well; that night. 

That night

I was getting ready for bed as usual. I turned off my lights and turned my fan on. (I love it when my room gets really cold. I hate this heat but hey, these politicians aren’t gonna do jack diddly $#@@ about the situation happening on our earth, no matter how much they promise they will but continuing with the story wrapped my blanket around my body and snuggled my large cuddle pillow. I stuck my feet out of my blanket because if I get too hot with my feet in the blanket, I’ll end up waking up, So to keep my body heat as normal as possible, I like sticking my feet out. I sighed, feeling relaxed and happy that I didn't have to work a 12-hour shift again. I decided to listen to some music before I drifted off to sleep. As I heard the meditation music begin to play ever so softly, my eyes began to get heavy. I quickly let sleep consume me. Now in dreamland, my dreams are a mixture of stuff, sometimes I do dream about things and not remember them because in a way. It was a normal dream where I was just relaxing in the dream realm, I don’t dream at all which is fine because again I am asleep and relaxed. I do however get nightmares here and there but what's really rare is the weird ones, the ones that I either can’t explain or don’t remember but somehow this dream….It was…different. 

I remember seeing a bright light, I heard voices, like a mixture of people talking. As the light slowly dimmed, I could see nothing but black, shades of gray and white. I immediately see an abandoned swing set in front of a sandy beach. One of them was broken and one was in good shape but I saw a little boy sitting alone on the swing watching the waves. I looked around my surroundings and couldn’t see my scenery. It's as if everything behind and next to me was all blurry but the only clear thing was the swingset, the ocean, and the little boy sitting alone on the swing set. As I approach the swingset, I can hear the sound of the waves slowly dying out and transferring to I think an old record of a song. All I could hear was this” 

I was singing this song, 

We’ll meet again,

Don’t know where

Don’t know when

But I know we'll meet again on some sunny day,

Keep smiling through, 

Just like you always do,

Til’ the blue sky,

Drives the dark clouds far away,

Will you please say hello,

To the folks I know,

Tell them I won’t be long.

Once I stood next to the boy and stared at the ocean, I was creeped out by the song but I assumed that I probably listened to too many songs from the past but as I watched the waves, I could feel…eyes staring at me. I felt this gut feeling to look at the boy and when I did, I was face to face with a huge eye, its sclera a bright yellow, and only its black pupil staring right into me. Into my soul. I felt terrified, my hearing was overflowing with people's voices piling on top of each other. 

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”         

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 ““OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”         

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK”

“𝔬p҉𝔢n҉ t҉𝔥e҉ b҉𝔬o҉𝔨 “ “O̰̫̤͉̿ͥͭ͗͛ͫͣ͊̏͡pͯͦ͜ȩ̢͍͔̜̥̤ͦͣ̾̈ͤ̑̄͐̾̈̂̚͢͜͠ņ̧̧̛̛̟͈̘͔̝̬̲͈̰̣̟̖͍ͮ̓ͯ̾̓̑̍ͪ̅͆̂ͨ͆͋ͧ̋͜͜͞͠ͅ ẗ́_̷̬̠̹̘͓̙̜̮̱̫̱̳̞͔̰̞̰̞͎͈ͨͦ͑̉͒͊́̍̍̀ͪ͗̾̎͂͘̚͡h̟̗̋͌̈ͦͨͮ̊ȩ̸̛̥̬̩̱̝̮͚͛͊̃ͦͨ͐̒̍͛̂̇̓͘̕ b̺̫͎͖͙ͩͯ́̎ͬͤ́_̵̢̢̭̝̜͇̹͎͈͚̠͔ͪͫͫ̀̄͑̔͋̓ͦͦ̆̐̀ͦ̍̚͜o͖͚̩͈̾̽͘ő̶̴̙̥̘̖̗̀̃̚k̷̵̶̨̨̛͍̝̼̥̫͇͙̫͔͈̘̥̟̜̍ͨ͌͑͂̌̈́ͮͥ̂̿͑ͦ̏̊̚͘͜͟͟͝ “

“OᚹEᚺ ᛠHᛊ ƂOᛜK

I couldn’t make sense of what they were saying. All I remember was seeing shadows of a dapper man, a great pharaoh, a wizard, and an elderly man. They had the same eyes as the giant one that stood proudly behind them. I froze, I felt stuck like I couldn’t turn away from their gaze, I felt terrified, and my fight or flight instincts were going crazy, practically begging me to do something! At this point, I could feel my body moving, I was trying to wake up but I couldn’t because of how paralyzed I was. I hated sleep paralysis, it would be the closest feeling to what death would feel like. Being helplessly stuck, screaming but only for no one to listen but your mind and how you couldn’t move your body to be freed from this prison. I did the only thing I thought would be a good idea. I called out to whatever god could hear me.  

“Oh god, or gods or to whoever is good, peaceful, and just, please help me. I am terrified of the dark and I hate it whenever this happens-” As I spoke, there were black arms slowly reaching towards me, these hands grabbing my body and forcefully pulling me down to the black pit of darkness. Pinning me down against the black ground. My tears began to quickly form and fall from my eyes as these hands crawled and held me still.  “PLEASE, I’M SCARED!!!!!” I screamed as I sobbed and the hands stopped moving until they resumed again. My adrenaline began to kick in. I began screaming and biting whatever hand touched my face. My thoughts finally came together, I was not going to let this hold me, I screamed as loud as I could,  and I forcefully got up, a few hands flew off of me as the rest tried to pull me down again. I began to make my way back to the light and felt the arms try to pull me back. 

“WHATEVER YOU ARE, YOU AREN’T GONNA #$$@#*! HOLD ME BACK FROM WAKING UP. YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME-” I was immediately interrupted by more arms holding me up in the dark void. I struggled and struggled, screaming and wailing, desperately trying to set myself free from this sleep paralysis. Until I saw a bright yellow light behind me. I immediately felt a hand begin to choke me. I gasped and struggled against the grasp of the hands. I then heard a voice…a weirdly cheery voice. 

“𐌉𐌅 𐌙𐌀 Ꮤ𐌀𐌍𐌕 𐌌𐌄 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌋𐌄𐌕 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵 ᏵꝊ 𐌃Ꝋ𐌋𐌋 𐌅𐌀𐌂𐌄, Ꝋ𐌓𐌄𐌍 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌁ꝊꝊ𐌊”

I sighed and cried silently, “Give me time to think about it at least….” I blurted out and as soon as I said that. I woke up screaming and as tears slid down my cheek, I was gasping for air, wondering if this nightmare was a warning or just my imagination.

Note: First Chapter doooone!!!!

Note 2: Chapter 2 is coming soon!! I might make a chapter 3 because I want to feed the Gravity Falls community and myself!

[portalhan]

⋆˚ఎ ☆ ໒˚⋆ after the play is over

pairing: bang chan x gn!reader

format: one shot

themes: fluff, angst if u reeeeallllly squint, unrequited love, childhood friends to lovers, implied '80s high school au

warnings: none

word count: 4.8k

fae's notes: this took me longer than i'd like to admit – i'm a bit of a perfectionist so i kept going back to change things about the plot everytime i was almost done. but here we are! also, this was heavily inspired by reply 1988 (the best k-drama to ever exist). go watch it! (also, i'm kind of considering writing a very brief (few hundred words, maybe?) sequel to this about the friend group's reactions to them dating now, or something about dj felix reading chan's postcards on air. let me know if that's something you guys would be interested in!) as always, let me know what you thought of this by reblogging and sharing in the tags or comments... love u guys <3

to listen while you read: 'after the play is over' by sharp

a crinkle, followed by a pop. cool ranch doritos are now strewn across the floor of hyunjin's bedroom.

the seven of you sit silently, bodies frozen. chan subtly looks to his side, where his best friends and neighbours – y/n, jeongin, seungmin, jisung, hyunjin and changbin – were sprawled across the floor in front of the television set, currently playing that brand new vcr copy of e.t. he got from the corner store earlier today.

chan immediately susses out the culprit – jisung, with his fingers still gripping the sides of the doritos bag, has a deadpan expression on his face, but chan knew him well enough to spot the sheepishness in his eyes.

"sorry," jisung breaks the silence with a soft mumble. your gaze pans over to the rest of your friends – chan sees hyunjin, eyes still glued to the tv despite the remnants of jisung's chip mishap on his hair and pants. seungmin sits at the other end of your group and rolls his eyes upon making eye contact with chan. all he can do is giggle softly, while jeongin starts whining, "hyung!"

an exasperated sigh is heard escaping from hyunjin's lips. he turns to jisung, frown on his face and chip crumbs still on his head, as he grumbles, "dumbass, why the hell are you eating chips now? aren't we going to have dinner soon? getting your shit all over us, too."

"how is it my fault the bag opened like that?!" jisung raises his voice to defend himself, albeit a bit too aggressively. changbin, who sits between both hyunjin and jisung, silently and awkwardly dusts some chips off his lap in silence. the bickering only intensifies. "shut the fuck up already, we can't hear what they're saying," you hiss, lightly punching jisung's arm. he whines and dramatically rubs his arm, although it does eventually work.

chan watches you as you put jisung back in his place, the corners of his lips turned up in an indulgent smile without realising. he decides to scooch a little closer to you, nudge your arm with his as he leaned closer towards you. you smell like apples – he remembers seeing a new bottle of apple-scented body soap in your bathroom while he was over at yours a couple days ago. he could feel the skin on his arm slightly grazing your own. "you're going to break his arm off one day, you know," he whispers in your ear, carefully in order to prevent the others from eavesdropping. you had his eyes glued to your face, as he watches it contort from a deadpan to a smug look. "he deserves it," you scoff. "if not me then who else?"

you have all been best friends for longer than you can even remember – having grown up on the same street with parents who are close-knit neighbours, that meant plenty of sleepovers, hangouts, study sessions and dinners together almost every day of the week. the six of you would spend most of your time together at hyunjin's for reasons chan can't exactly pinpoint. although, he does remember overhearing seungmin tell his parents it was because he was the only one with a television in their room. he supposes that's true.

you saw each other grow up from pre-school. pretty much. but you and chan were especially close – at first it was because your families' homes were just separated by a single fence, but as you grew older, your friendship grew to become more than just of convenience. the two of you were basically conjoined at the hip; you were each other's go to for pretty much everything. although the six of you would spend a lot of your free time together, somehow, you spent more with chan.

both you and chan were really into music growing up. you would often make mixtapes for each other filled with songs you were digging that particular week. you also made each other mixtapes as a means of communicating – if one of you was sad or stressed, the other would curate a mixtape for the other as a means of helping you feel better. so, now chan has a pile of cassette tapes stacked on his shelf with your handwriting scrawled over the plastic covers, and you had the same. chan found himself listening to your mixtapes more than anything – he always had his favourite, albeit worn from use, walkman with him wherever he went, and a specific mixtape from you to fit the mood of that day.

chan isn't exactly sure when he began feeling things for you, feelings he is well aware friends should not feel for each other. he guesses it must have crept up on him without him knowing after so many years as friends, but he does remember when he realised. it was a rainy sunday about a year ago now, he and you were chilling in his room as you waited for the rain to clear. it was late afternoon, he remembers, and his parents were out doing some weekend grocery runs. you were lying on his bed as he was sitting by his floor desk, trying to finish some last minute homework before class the next day. he wasn't sure exactly what you were doing – his back was facing you – but he remembers you beginning to hum a very faint, familiar melody.

"after the play is over / i'm alone in the audience / the stage with the lights off / did you see me?"

it was sharp's 'after the play is over'. he knew it, because he introduced the song to you in a mixtape he gave you for when you were feeling down in the dumps a couple months ago, after you failed your english test. he wasn't sure why, but he felt his heart swell in his chest. kind of like heartache, except it made him feel weirdly fuzzy inside. before he knew it, he started blushing and smiling to himself as he continued to eavesdrop on you gently humming the song. he just sat there, pen in hand, body frozen, eyes glued to his notebook but unable to take in anything aside from your voice. he remembers thinking about how lucky he was to have his back facing you in that moment, because he probably would have exposed himself if he didn't.

he wasn't sure why that particular moment hit him as hard as it did, either. it was a fleeting moment, and yet for some reason it stuck to his mind and heart like superglue. ever since that fateful day, some part of him feels like the luckiest bastard on earth to be able to call himself your best friend, yet another part of him wishes he hadn't been stupid enough to fall for you – it's like he was destined to always be in reach, yet never fully able to have you. he was 100% certain you never felt the same way for you, because why would you? you were pretty, kind, intelligent and funny. you were way too good for him, he often thinks to himself. after a while, he felt comfortable in this liminal space of loving you from a distance. not to mention the fact that the last thing he'd ever want to do is to jeopardise the irreplaceable friendship he shared with you; years of time spent together would immediately get tossed out the window the minute he messed it up by being selfish enough to confess. he cherished you and your friendship way too much to do that.

that doesn't mean he's brooding in his love for you on his own. chan has his ways of releasing his feelings rather than bottling them up, though – he sends postcards to a local radio station that reads out anonymous love letters on air. he knows it's cheesy, but he remembers a classmate of his doing something like that and it working out for him in the end. it might be a delusion on his end, but it really does help – something about writing the lovesick thoughts he cooks up in his head and hearing someone else read them aloud while simultaneously giving him advice is incredibly comforting. hearing other strangers' stories of unrequited love assures him he isn't alone either. so he does it – every friday when the weekly 'cupid's arrow' segment on kbs' cool fm goes live.

but the walls of chan's little fortress of fantasy began to crumble when he stumbled upon you at the nearby bus stop one day before class. it was february 10, he remembered. the two of you have a pretty solid routine of meeting each other there every morning to catch the bus together, so to see you standing underneath the bus stop pole that day, so eagerly smiling and chatting with some guy in your year – he thinks his name was minho? he couldn't be sure – made his blood boil. he approaches the two of you, only to have you greet him and introduce him to this annoyingly good looking guy. "chan! get over here," you beckon him over. he hasn't seen you this excited in a while, he thinks of himself. how annoying. "this is minho. he's in 3-3? he's in the school's dance club." minho flashes him a smile and raises his hand to wave him a brief hello, while leaning against the bus stop pole with his other hand in his pocket. no matter how annoying chan thought minho was based on limited interaction, he couldn't deny the fact that he was even prettier up close.

before chan could stage an intervention between you and minho, the bus arrived just on cue. the three of you boarded, and were subsequently met with the usual crowd of other schoolmates who filled the bus like a pack of sardines. to make things worse, the sheer volume of people on the bus caused chan to get reasonably separated from you and minho — now he was about three sweaty boys away. chan wishes he was quick enough to have done something about your newfound friendship with minho – where did he come from, anyway? he doesn't even think you guys knew each other before today. he grips the pole on the bus a lot harder than he usually does, and grits his teeth as he watches you and minho chat it up in his peripheral vision. he couldn't even hear what you two were talking so happily about, which made him feel worse.

the rest of your day in school carried on as per usual. you and chan didn't share any of your classes with each other this semester, but you ate lunch together with the other boys as usual. all of you – hyunjin, changbin, seungmin, jeongin and jisung included – met at the school gates once the day was done and took the bus home together as per usual. no minho in sight, chan notes. he thanks god. after the bus drops you off, you all go your separate ways; the other boys lived on the other side of where the bus stop was located. it was when you and chan walking together back home that he finally decided to pluck up the courage to ask you about your exact relationship with pretty boy lee.

"oh, minho? i didn't really know him very well either," you shrug, eyes kept straight ahead. "in fact, he hadn't talked to me at all till we bumped into each other in the hallway yesterday. i didn't realise he even lived in the vicinity till we bumped into each other again at the bus stop this morning."

that's odd, chan thinks. "what do you guys even have to talk about if you aren't friends?" you raise an eyebrow.

"what's up with you? is my little channie getting upset that someone might steal best friend status away from him?" you coo, ruffling his hair and laughing. chan couldn't help but laugh too, he liked it when you babied him like that. but the situation at hand was no laughing matter. "maybe," he said. "okay i'm kidding – i was just curious. i just have never seen you guys interact." the atmosphere suddenly got serious pretty quick when you stopped in your tracks.

"actually," you hesitated a little, not without chan noticing. he's very observant. "he kind of asked me out." chan feels a sharp pain in his chest. is this what... heartbreak feels like? "he said it was because valentine's day was coming up, and he wanted to get to know me 'outside of school'." you raise your hands to gesticulate quotation marks. chan tried his best to maintain any semblance of what anyone would consider a normal facial expression – he had worked so hard to keep his unrequited love for you under wraps for this ilong, he sure as hell wasn't going to lose his streak now, and over some guy named minho at that. he was better than that.

"what did you tell him?"

"i told him i'd think about it."

"oh."

the two of you continue walking in silence, your houses now in view. "what do you think of him, then?" chan probes after a while. he needed to scope out the competition. wait, competition? why is he calling minho his competition if he's not even playing the game? "i think he's cute, talented, funny sometimes. but i don't know," you say, tone vaguely contemplative. chan's heart sinks even further. why did he even ask you that if he knows the answer might hurt him? "i'm still getting over someone else. maybe this is my chance."

that was it, the breaking point. chan feels his heart shatter upon hearing the words escape your lips. not only did minho – a guy who was better than him in every way, shape and form – ask you out and somehow fail, but you had another guy you were crushing on too? if minho didn't meet the mark, how could chan ever dream of it?

at this point, the two of you were already by your gates. chan thanks god again – he doesn't think he's able to continue the conversation without doing or saying something he would regret. the both of you bid each other brief farewells, and he immediately storms up to his room, dropping his bag on the floor and crashing into his bed. all he wants to scream. he might even want to cry. what the hell should he do?

light bulb. he immediately reaches for the landline phone by his bed and dials for seungmin. it rings for a couple seconds, until seungmin's monotonous voice can be heard over the line. "kim seungmin speaking," he says catatonically.

"hey, it's me."

"chan? what's up? i literally just saw you, like, 10 minutes ago."

"it's about y/n."

silence. "oh, dear god." chan could hear seungmin slapping his forehead with his palm over the phone. "what is it this time?"

chan fills him in on the events of the first half of the day. seungmin has known about chan's crush on you for a few months now, after he caught him staring at you a little longer than what would be considered a normal amount. chan hates how observant seungmin was, but he had to admit it was nice having someone else to talk to about the sticky situations he found himself in with you. once seungmin was all caught up, all he could do was sigh really deeply over the line.

"has it ever occurred to you that this 'someone else' might be you?"

chan immediately shoots the idea doown – he couldn't let himself build expectations. "no way," he rebuts firmly. "they have never shown me any sign. at all. things have always been the same with us, and that's because we're best friends." seungmin groans slightly.

"you can't keep doing this, chan. the only person you're hurting is yourself by keeping things to yourself like this. there's a 50-50 chance they may or may not like you back – i'd take those chances if i were you," seungmin told him, voice uncharacteristically stern. was seungmin being serious right now?

"if not for anything else, do it for yourself. do it for a peace of mind. you and i both know y/n isn't the type to let something like this get in the way of your friendship, and you guys are the closest of any of us. i think you need to have more faith in your friendship and in y/n."

chan is taken aback, to say the least. who knew seungmin was so... emotionally intelligent? "wow, thanks seungmin. that was surprisingly insightful. i'll think about it," chan says, eyes wandering over to his stash of blank cassette tapes and his record player sitting by the corner of his desk. he just thought of the perfect idea.

"what do you mean 'surprisingly'? i've always been great at this," seungmin questions, feigning offence. chan chuckles, and quickly says his goodbyes before ending the call in haste. he sits by his desk and puts his headphones on. he plugs them into the record player along with a cheap little mic. his finger presses down on the record button and he starts speaking into the mic.

he clears his throat first, feeling his heart beat all the way into his throat. he should've thought of this properly first. he freezes. he has the words swimming around in his brain, but why can't he say them out loud? he just goes on like this for the next half hour – messing up his speech, mispronouncing words, deleting recordings because he thought they didn't encapsulate what he felt the best he could.

after what felt like a hundred tries, chan finally nails it. he plays it back and listens to his own voice – not without cringing, of course:

"y/n, hi. i know this is weird – we've never recorded messages in our mixtapes before. but that's because this isn't an ordinary mixtape... it's..." he can be heard taking a deep breath to calm down in the background. "it's a confession mixtape. i... i'm in love with you. i have been for a while now. and i know it's crazy of me to say this when it has the huge risk of destroying our friendship forever, but i can't keep pretending anymore."

another deep breath. his heart was pounding. "it's you. it's always been you. every moment i'm with you, i feel so alive. and every moment i'm not with you, all i can bring myself to do is think about you. it drives me insane. i'm just sorry you had to find out about it this way. you don't have to say or feel anything in return for me, i know you probably don't. but i still want to be friends, because before everything else, you are my best friend first. i love you. enjoy this mixtape."

his heart was pounding so hard he could hear and feel it in his ears. his face was probably as red as a beetroot right now, but he supposes this will do – he can't keep recording and deleting his messages over and over again, anyway. he then gets to work on recording songs for the music portion of the mixtape – the first song, of course, is sharp's 'after the play is over'.

several hours later, he was finally done crafting the best confession mixtape he could conjure up – 15 songs that reminded him of key moments you shared together, along with aforementioned message. he couldn't really bring himself to hand it to you personally, so he kept looking for avenues through which he could silently sneak it in your backpack or leave it in your room whenever he came over, but as his luck would have it, you were always appearing at the last second to thwart his plans. chan ended up holding onto the cassette for longer than he probably should have, which left plenty of space for him to doubt the act of confessing in the first place.

┈┈・୨ ✦ ୧・┈┈

it's the following saturday. hyunjin was off to jeonju to see some extended family for the weekend, and he demanded that the rest of you "don't do anything until i'm back or else", so your group of friends had to spend some time without each other's company today. you were pretty low in spirits about not seeing the guys though, so you rung up chan to see if he was down to spend some time with you today.

"y/n? what's up?"

"chan, i know hyunjin said he didn't want us to hang out without him today, but i'm so bored. mum and dad aren't home," you rambled. chan chuckled on the other end. you could almost see how he looked like laughing like that right now. "can i come over and chill for bit? order some tteokbokki from the shop nearby and listen to some new music maybe?"

you could hear the faint melodies of sharp's 'after the party is over' in the background on his end. you gasp dramatically. "you're already listening to my favourite song without me? now i have to come over!" you teased. "you would've come over even if i said no anyway," chan snarkily points out. you couldn't help but chortle – he knew you way too well.

"be there soon."

"okay," chan pauses. "actually, could you help us get the mail before you come in? i was supposed to get it earlier but i was too lazy. this is your payment for bothering me today."

you huff and roll your eyes. "fine." you hang up.

you quickly grab your keys and a couple of mixtapes you've been listening to lately – all curated and given to you by chan –  and rush out the door. you stop by his mailbox on the way into his abode – a rusty, flimsy excuse of a mailbox – and grab whatever was inside. most of them were thick white or brown envelopes addressed to his parents, but there was one particular item in there that stood out among the rest.

it was a tattered postcard, obviously mishandled by some postmen, a tourist knick knack depicting the namsan tower in the city centre. it had a limited edition seoul olympics '88 stamp glued onto the top right corner, and a bunch of words scrawled on the back in what you can only recognise as chan's chicken scratches. you were confused. since when did chan write letters, let alone postcards? he couldn't even write proper essays to begin with – you've always had to help him with those.

you notice this was sent about two weeks ago. red ink is impressed over the postage stamp to read the words 'returned to sender'. underneath that was a checklist of reasons why the postal service would return letters, with the one for 'wrong/invalid address' being ticked off.

you and chan never really had anything to hide, so you assumed he wouldn't mind you reading this peculiar postcard.

dear dj felix, it's me again, my name is bang chan. please refer to me as chris when you read this on 'cupid's arrow' – i want to remain anonymous of course. i just wanted to tell you about my first love. let's call them apple. we've been best friends and next door neighbours ever since we were born, and we're so close that we tell each other everything. but i can't tell them about this, because they don't like me back. it's been about a year now since i've been aware of my feelings for them, and it hasn't gotten easier. every time i'm near apple, i feel so lucky, like i must've saved the king in my past life or something. but it also hurts to know that nothing will ever happen. what should i do? how do i move on? anyway, first love is so much more painful than anyone else says it is. i know they probably won't listen to this show, they're not huge on radio, but on the off chance they are: apple, i'm sorry. i complicated things. it's okay if you don't like me back – i'll be here for you always. i love you. i wanna dedicate a song to them: 'after the play is over', by sharp.

what the hell did you just read? a whole myriad of thoughts are just racing through your mind right now; all you could do at the moment was just stand there, in front of chan's house, staring at the postcard. chan... liked you? no, he was in love with you, he said. you felt your heart twist and turn so hard in your chest you thought you could have a cardiac arrest anytime now. your ears were ringing; you could even feel blood rushing up to your neck and cheeks. you were sure your face was flushed to hell right now.

you keep reading the postcard over and over again until you felt a single tear roll down your cheek. you hastily wiped it off with your sleeve, mail in hand, and slowly approached the front door to ring the bell. your hands were shaking, you noted. shortly after, the front door to the bang residence swings open and you were greeted by the familiar sight of your best friend.

"dude, you took so long! i thought you changed your mind or something," he exclaims, leaning against the front door. the moment he takes in the troubled expression on your face, his face falls. "y/n? are you okay? did something happen?"

you hold up the postcard. chan's eyes widen; he begins to panic.

"w-where did you get that?"

"found it in your mailbox."

oh, shit.

"y/n, i'm so sorry. i was literally going to tell you i swe-"

it happened quicker than chan could register. one blink, and suddenly you threw yourself into his arms, hugging him so tight he felt the breath getting squeeze out of his lungs. you buried your face in the familiar grooves of his shoulder blade, tears spilling out of your eyes and soaking his sweater. "i thought you didn't like me back," you tell him shakily, voice muffled by the fabric of his shirt.

chan is in so much shock he couldn't even give you a proper hug back. a trembling "what?" was all he could manage. you detach your body from his and take chan in, faces mere inches away, eyes bloodshot as you stared into his. "i was always in love with you, you idiot. i didn't think you'd ever feel the same for me," you tell him quietly, almost like a whisper. "i didn't want us to not be friends anymore if i said anything. so i just never did."

and to think he was literally going to confess to you today. "b-but... minho...?" he muttered. his brain was malfunctioning, hard. this was kind of embarrassing – he was usually better at words than this. "you said you'd consider him?"

"yeah, because i didn't anything would ever happen between us." you tell him, finger poking his chest before your hands reached up to cup his face. you feel him lean into your touch. this was the stuff of dreams, chan thinks to himself. you step on your tippy toes, slowly leaning in to kiss him, but chan quickly closes the gap to press a chaste kiss onto your lips. they're soft – just as he'd always imagined it to be – maybe a little salty from all the tears. he feels you wrap your arms around his neck as you pull him closer, secretly peeking through an eye to watch as your cheeks began colouring to a bright red. he begins grinning and giggling softly into the kiss.

as soon as you let go, you press your foreheads against each other. "there is no way this is real," chan breathes. "pinch me." you oblige, not without him whining about how much that hurt. "what? you asked me to pinch you."

"touche," chan pauses for a second to steal a longer glance at you, eyes softening as he scans your face. you get a little shy, and quickly look away. "first of all, let's get inside and go up to my room. we are doing this by my door and i'm pretty sure there were several poor passerbys who had to witness that."

your heart sinks. oh my god. that is so embarrassing. "secondly, i was going to confess to you with a mixtape and i worked so hard on it. it's kind of lame that you found out through this embarrassing little postcard."

"i think it's sweet."

"y/n, i love you, but no." chan grabs your hand and leads you inside. "that never happened."

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[moesartblog]

if anyone else is interested bc im dumb

the lockers and notes

in order from right to left:

Varys rly likes basketball. Thats about all i can make out. Maybe theres specific sports teams referenced but i wouldnt know sorry. 

Aina and her hat. the sticky note i think says “you are STRONG”. She has heart eyes and sunglasses emoji stickers, an offbrand barbie sticker, and a sticker that says inter net in netflix font.

Lucia, of the stickers, she has a bunch of candy ones, one that references Nerds, one that references jelly belly, and one that references Atari, Im not familiar with the rest. (if you know pls share!)

Remi. Nerd.

I like to think lucia got all of them their stickers.

now inside

more basketball stuff. but also is that a dress shirt?

thermos and i assume a makeup pouch on the shelf. i assume a page torn from a magazine, a ticket to a show called SWEAT, a photo of aina with heris, fuzzy pink mirror. a picture of aina and i assume a few other friends of hers. i cant make out what the writing says on it. under it looks like an album cover of some kind, and then the division poster (not sure if its a reference or not). and then the thanks! sticker and i could just barely make out the little white sticker that i think says “After this, we’re getting cake”.

ok! lets see how many of these i can make out in order lol: Ranch Daritas (Cool Ranch Doritos), Cheetas (cheetos), Daritas red hot (Flaming hot doritos or whatever the really hot ones are called), Daritas sour cream (obvious at this point), premium potato chips (Tims potato chips. Had to look this one up a bit), Slice (?) (the closest i could come up with is deep river sweet maui onion chips), pop cookie (idk if theres a specific one), idk about the next two :( , W&W ( i think this is obvious), MilkyWay (this one is more obvious), skettles, Hyper!, Trigger (uh huh), Harmony (my fav candy bar the hersheys cookies n cream bar), idk, Crackers (those austin cheddar cheese crackers), this one just has a skull on it but its evil 5 hour energy, some mints, i think this one just says upper lol (brand looks familiar but i cant place it, and then rainbow nerds. and at the very bottom u can just kinda see raisins. hoo

remi with his horndog schtick of course with a sports illustrated cover, and then a pic of him and i assume his (now) alligator girlfriend tucked behind.

and then galos covered in matoi stickers and other things i THINK are Edo period things. I think that thing at the front is a bell? i could be entirely wrong sorry if i am. 

if you know any of the stuff i didnt know pls say! this was just a silly scavenger hunt for myself

[infantisimo]

the earthly shadow of the cloud • anne boyer

It has been thirty years since I saw my first artifact of internet: some BBS porn printed out dot matrix by my friend Steve.  Before that was the first Atari Christmas playing Space Invaders in my pajamas, Oregon Trail, MS DOS, learning primitive programming thinking I would need it, just as later I learned and thought I would need HTML. Born in the United States in 1973, what my life maps onto is not just post-Fordism and an adulthood aligned with neoliberalism: I became an adult in the season of Clinton, had my child in the season of Bush. What my life also maps onto is the enclosure of consciousness -- the private holding of what once was not even property and always commonly held.  Perhaps like every innocent who believed without doubt that land and water and animals would always belong only to the gods, now I look back and think I should have known all along that entities would try to own our feelings and relationships, but I didn’t. Now it is clear to me. Non-property can be made property. Whatever can be abstracted can be owned.

I spent at least twenty years agnostic about the internet, marveling at the marvels of connecting with people far away or reading pdfs, worrying about the worries, like the way interfaces seemed to manipulate people into disinhibition and cruelty. I hated being stalked, trolled, and sexually harassed, but I loved a lot of what happened online, like piracy and flirting. I remember when the internet was about linking, not liking, when it had a sublime lateral spread rather than scrolling into a hole. As a poet I loved deletion, in particular, which you couldn't do in a book, and would create whole projects in order to erase them, wanting to create empty places of longing, which is what I had in me then, too. Memory was still half-human then, and electronic information -- as lost files, deleted things, closed accounts -- was fragile rather than durable. Forgetting, accident, obsolescence, mystery: all of these seemed the quality of the internet -- the beautiful, crystalline, fragile, vulgar, funny, dubious, pasted-together internet.  I even enjoyed the encounters with internet pedants when they encountered my work then: what I made was unintelligible to all the right people. I loved the ease of mixing up of things then, too --  cut and paste and the collaging of sounds and images and texts, the hazey carnival of every pirate, of anti-attribution, anti-property. We were supposed to destroy copyright and this was supposed to be good. Then I remember the day Blogger offered it: MONETIZE YOUR FEED.

Like every innocent who ever didn't remember non-property could become property, I thought, of course, that there would be an organized resistance to that internet, the craven one, that no one would choose to love their own surveillance or live as a personal brand. I didn't think people would willingly hashtag themselves and their feelings into profitable metadata. How funny that we thought the internet was the reverse of what it became: we thought it was turning property into nonproperty, of liberating the common. Perhaps this was  because the early internet had at the beginning felt subcultural, was still dominated by Gen X and our ironic self-protections. Didn't everyone know to distrust the Doritos as we ate the Doritos? To be human was to hate while we loved our cool ranch.

I remember when others warned that we were beginning to fall into a system of self-surveillance, that people would begin to watch each other, to keep records, to aggress and suspect. I didn't want to believe it. Part of the appeal of the internet in the early days was that it was a semi-criminal conspiracy of people downloading pirated Weezer albums and Zizek books while cyber-cheating on their spouses and keeping anonymous blogs about their terrifying secrets. Who among these criminals would associate themselves with authority? Who would use the internet to turn others into the police or bosses or corporate moderators?  No one I knew, even the most wretched trolls. We were better off practicing anti-facial recognition face paint, I thought, still of the old mind that everyone knew what we had to worry most about was the state and the corporations, not each other. I thought individuals and communities would always know the most simple truth, the one heard in every song on the radio: authority = bad.

I was wrong. Most of the awful things everyone predicted came true, and a lot of the bad no one predicted came true, also. I watched the corporations take on the characteristics of self-aware moral bodies and individuals taking on the moral character of the corporations who mined them for profit. The state became, more than ever, the patient servant of the owners, providing the multinationals with borders and prisons and advantageous legislation and not much else. I watched millions work for the billionaires without pay.

As a poet I feel like it is my task to protect consciousness from the tech lords and the moon from Elon Musk, but I am not so delusional as to think I could lead an organized resistance to this process of enclosure. Nor do I think I can, alone, defend those poet things: the moon and love. But I also can't forget that there are people who want to own, as data, the bacteria in our intestines and the salt in our tears. I have watched people being conditioned into screen addiction and once-unimaginable interpersonal viciousness. I have lost loved ones to paranoid screen holes and conspiracies and seen even self-identified leftists align themselves fully to corporate entities. Even as I stepped away, almost entirely, from most everything online — even, for a time, giving up email — I have felt such survivor guilt about those left behind, the ones still compulsively refreshing their twitter or facebook feeds. I also know it didn't have to be like this: that the technologies developed in my life could and sometimes were used for what was beautiful and good.

We don't yet have a name for this era, that intensified enclosure of relationship and feeling and the radical upward redistribution of wealth, that owning of the means of circulation as dominating those who once owned the means of production, this new hierarchy of power and wealth.  The "Amazon data center offensive" continues as does the screenification of all that exists — one corporation is in a quest to for total ownership of the earthly shadow of the cloud, another for space, a third for all of information.  I don’t know what we call this time, except the one that is not yet ours.

[gay-prentiss]

Hey Natalya! For your "asks" post: all of them ending in 3?

hey cami thanks so much for the ask! and i’m so sorry it took me like a century to get around to it i’ve been so busy/distracted these past couple of days.

3: bubblegum or cotton candy?

bubblegum for sure. my all time favourite flavour of anything.

13: lanyard or keyring?

lanyard definitely. makes my keys way easier to find.

23: strange habits?

whenever i lose things i ask the empty space to give it back. i’m very sure this stemmed from my mum telling me as a child that fairies love to be mischievous and steal your stuff so i would always ask for my stuff back when i lost it, i guess i never grew out of it. unrelated but i also didn’t have the tooth fairy growing up. to quote my mum “we don’t summon creatures we don’t know into our homes.”

33: most used phrase in your phone?

definitely “so true” or “so true bestie” i use that for anything now

43: hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket?

oversized hoodie for sure but i do have an extensive collection of all of these.

53: what is the current state of your hands?

well i chew my nails and the skin around my nails a LOT (anxiety tingz lmfao) but people have told me that my hands are really soft????? i don’t get it but i get told that a lot.

63: five songs that i would play in my club?

okay boys get ready:

• josh - peach prc

• what’s up danger - blackway & black caviar

• girls in bikinis - poppy

• crybaby - megan thee stalion & dababy

• REDMERCEDES - aminé

73: favourite weird flavour combo?

idk if it’s weird but they just brought back cool ranch doritos to our supermarkets (i am obsessed by the way) and i love dipping them in cream cheese? specifically the laughing cow brand idk if you’s have that but it is amazing.

83: writing or drawing?

definitely writing. i have no talent with drawing. if i really want something done i’ll commission a friend (support ur artist friends babes!) plus i had an idea that popped into my head that i’m trying to write out but idk if i’ll ever post it because yikes but lmk if y’all wanna hear the idea

93: nicknames?

just nat. nothing really exciting lmao.

whew this was a long one but it was super fun to do! thank u so much🥰 i also don’t know how to put shit under a cut esp because i use mobile a lot because my laptop is almost cactus so i’m so sorry to whoever comes across this.

[purplesurveys]

641

Benddd...and snap! So have you had any bread today? Yeah, I had two slices of bread to go with my pancit canton. If so, was it good bread? If you haven't had bread, are you gonna eat some? It was okay. It’s the brand we usually buy so I don’t really have any complaints. Who sits in front of you in Math class? I haven’t had a math class since 2016, but I’m pretty sure I sat behind Audrey, back when my blockmates and I were classmates in all of our classes. Tell me about the last time you spit (spat?). Why did you do it? I forgot what food it was, but I spat it back out because it was still hot. Who do you think makes the best surveys? I don’t really rank the people I get my surveys from but I do have an entire bookmark folder filled with links to surveys I eventually plan on taking, haha. It’s really useful especially when it seems like some surveys are getting recycled.

How many cars can fit in your garage? Technically there’s only one slot for the actual garage, but we’ve made use of our driveway and some of our yard so we’ve been able to fit all three of our cars in the area, and yet still have room for one more should we ever get another car. Do you know anyone who plays the harmonica? Hmm I don’t think so. How high do you have to be to 'touch' the sky? I’m not really in the mood to come up with a witty resonse to this right now lol. Are you currently facing a wall or a window? I’m facing a mirror, which was put up against a wall. What was the last flavor of Doritos you ate? Cool ranch, which I quickly realized I did not like. Have you ever been hypnotized? No, and I’d like to see someone try. How long do you tend to hold grudges? For life. Do you say 'panties' or 'underwear'? I say underwear. Do you know who Groucho Marx was? Yes. What is the least Japanese animal you can think of? (ex: roadrunner) ...I didn’t know animals could have nationalities... Do you always sit at the same table at lunch or do you switch it up? We never actually went down to the cafeteria to eat because the groups that were in there were either the super popular but annoyingly loud cool kids, or the basic local kids lolol. Since our school allows us to stay in our classroom to eat, that’s where we spent recess and lunch. My favorite question: Do you like Aerosmith? I respect them as a band but I wouldn’t call myself a fan. Have you ever gotten to the center of a Tootsie Pop without biting? I’ve never even had a Tootsie Roll. What do you think of slang? I think some of it is useful. Some I don’t get and are signs that I’m getting old. Which accents can you imitate pretty well? I’ve watched almost all the Beyoncé interviews that exist so I can imitate her well lol. But accents are generally not my thing. Have you ever hit an animal with your car? (I hope not) Unintentionally. I was driving in Tagaytay when a crazed dog was running around the highway. Unfortunately it was my car driving up ahead when the dog decided to run straight into the middle of the road. Thankfully my reflexes are A++ so I was able to hit the brakes and not run him over, but he was going a little crazy so he still ended up running into the side of my car. I heard a little whine, which killed me, but I couldn’t stop because we were in a hurry to get somewhere. I’m just glad I didn’t seriously hurt them, or that they didn’t break any bones. Do you remember what you wore yesterday? I had on a green floral sleeveless top, a denim jacket to cover up, and culottes. Do you believe there is such thing as unrequited love or is it just longing? Both exist. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Pro wrestling. Would you consider your voice high, low, or in the middle? It’s a little on the high side. Have you ever been on a gondola lift? No. Do you know anyone who's been on TV? If so, which show? Haha that rhymes Most recently it’s been my girlfriend’s dad, who was interviewed about his new restaurant on a local lifestyle show. My college batchmate Yani was also regularly on TV last semester because she was courtside reporter for all UAAP events. Nacho’s dad is a government official, so I’d occasionally see him on the news. Do you make a lot of typos or are you pretty good with the keyboard? I’m decent at the keyboard. What is your favorite color gumball? They all taste the same but whenever I use a gumball machine I’m always hoping I get a pink one haha. When you see a pinecone, do you kick it, step on it, or leave it alone? I don’t think I’ve ever even seen one of those. Are you ever tempted to step on the crunchy leaves? Yes. I did this a lot in my old school. Did you ever have any unreasonable teachers? Still do. Any songs that make you laugh out loud when you hear them? I answered the same question on a past survey and I’m giving the same answer – Gives You Hell by the All-American Rejects. Have you ever had pie smashed in your face? No, but that’s a prank that I hate so I would absolutely go after anyone who tries this with me. Do you have any lockets with pictures inside? Nope. That’s a gift I’ve given my girlfriend though. Have you ever been used as a 'rebound'? How did it go? Again, opposite situation – I haven’t been the rebound but I *almost* used someone as mine. I’m glad I didn’t go through with it because I would have hated myself after. What is your favorite joint to crack? Knuckles. When it comes to rappers, do you have any favorites? Not really. I’m biased towards Jay-Z as a person in general, not just as a rapper, because duh Beyoncé. Do you have any favorite rockstars? If everyone in Paramore counts as rockstars, then I’d go with them. Is music a big part of your life in any way? I wouldn’t say it’s a big part. I’ve definitely had other more important influences, but I love music nonetheless. Have you ever fallen for someone purely based on looks? Nope. Which sport are you better at: basketball or tennis? I’d say tennis, but only because I’ve reflected on how I played basketball in high school aka terribly, and because I’m pretty good at tennis in Wii Sports hahaha. Would you rather babysit someone weekly or tutor them weekly? Babysit! I like taking care of kids.

[lovemesomesurveys]

why are you where you are right now? Because it’s almost 2AM, but let’s be real I spend most of my time in bed anyway. did you used to watch blues clues? Yeah. whats your opinion on people wearing high heels to school? I don’t care. what game system(s) do you own? Nintendo Switch. I do use my brother’s PS4 sometimes, though.  are you a twilight fan? I was back when the books and movies were coming out. I outgrew it, though.

what are you hungry for right now? Nothing. when’s the last time you threw up? Last year sometime. why did you throw up?: I caught some stomach bug or something. play any musical instruments? No. what difficulty do you play on guitar hero? Easy, but man I sure rocked out. Haha. I want to play now, it’s been yearsss since the last time. do you have any piercings other than on your ears? Nope. what school did your father attend? I’m not sharing that. are your nails painted at the moment? Nope. It’s been a few years since I’ve painted them. what will you be doing tomorrow? Same stuff I always do. do you still buy cds or do you just download everything? I just use Spotify. do you listen to any music that doesn’t have lyrics? Sometimes, but it’s rare. do you stutter when you get nervous? Yes.  describe what you were wearing yesterday. Leggings and a black Toy Story 4 shirt. that last person you talked to on the phone said. It was my dad asking me about something.  you’re at the grocery store, what 3 fruits do you get? I personally wouldn’t be getting any, but my mom buys various fruits cause she and my brother are really into smoothies. I honestly couldn’t tell you the last time I had and fruit... :X your lunch consisted of..? I haven’t had lunch, yet (it’s 2AM), but I can tell you what I will have cause it’s the same everyday: a bologna sandwich with sharp cheddar cheese, mayo, mustard, and spinach with olive oil mixed with basil and oregano on the side for dipping. do you attend church regularly?: Not at this time, but I do listen to the sermons from a local church that are uploaded every Sunday on their website. any superstitions? I do the “knock on wood” thing, but it’s really just out of habit at this point.  what is your favorite superhero movie? All things Marvel. do you listen to cobra starship? I used to back in the day. I forgot about them to be honest :X  do you watch gossip girl? No, I never got into that. I don’t know why. I actually read some of the books and thought I would get into the show, but I just never watched it for some reason. what do you get whenever you go school shopping? I’m done with school, but back when I was still in school and did back to school shopping I of course got all the necessary school supplies, but also clothes and a new pair of shoes. what is your number 4’s dog’s name? do you have a temper? It takes a lot to make me angry, but I get very irritable, moody, and frustrated quite easily.  do you consider yourself responsible? Not really nowadays. And by nowadays I mean the past 4 years. :/ what is the time? 2:11AM. anything special going on today? No. are you tired? Yes. what is your favorite kind of chips? Doritos cool ranch or nacho cheese. last time you ate chocolate? It’s been awhile. would you live in another country if you had the chance? I don’t think so. do you think that aliens exist? No. I think other life forms exists on other planets, but not aliens.  what kind of mascara do you use? I haven’t worn makeup in so long, but I think the last brand I wore was L’Oreal.  what do you doodle most often? Hearts, star, and random words in cursive for some reason. if you went to jail, what would you go for? I have no idea. are there any bruises on your body right now? No. what about scratches?: Yes. what are they from? I don’t even know how I got the ones on my right middle finger. if you died next week, what would be the cause of death? Health related. what do you think about dating websites? Not my thing. what is your favorite thing to get at starbucks? White chocolate mocha with soy or a caramel macchiato. I also like some of the seasonal drinks. what about at McDonalds? 2 breakfast burritos and a hash brown. do you wear contacts or glasses? I wear glasses. your ex, do you still love them? No. are you two still friends? No. what is one memory you have from elementary school? I have a lot, but what first came to mind are some of the field trips we took. do you own a pair of converses? Yeah. do you own a box or markers or crayons? No. I have several packs of colored pencils, though. how many clocks are in your room? One wall clock, but my laptop, phone, and TV all have the time as well. how many fridges are in your house?: One. what about freezers? 2. Our fridge has a freezer, but we also have a mini freezer in the garage. do you like seafood? No. what time will you go to bed tonight? It’s almost 230AM, I’ll probably attempt sleep pretty soon.

[cutiecrates]

Cutie Reviews: Tokyo Treat July 19

Hello all, welcome to July’s Tokyo Treat review!

Besides the fact I’m in a different place taking these pics, I don’t have anything else to say so we’ll just get straight into it.

Also, because I accidentally cut it off, July’s theme is Life’s A Beach.

“With warmer weather on the horizon we were feeling super inspired to bring you a summery box filled with snacks ready for a beach day! This month you’ll be receiving a lot of fun treats and a taste of summer in Japan. We hope this yummy selection of sweet and savory snacks inspires you to go outside and enjoy your treats in the summer weather!“

So in my rush to get these pictures ready, I ended up not getting the Prize or Lucky Treat pictures. So to summarize, Lucky Treat heavily focuses on Kindom Hearts with a dash of Pokemon. While I was lucky enough to win the September one, I can’t deny that this would probably have been the other one I really wanted. Meanwhile, July’s prize features figurines of Sanji and Trafalgar Law (my favorite characters, along with Luffy, Ace, and Perona) in One Piece, and some smaller Pokemon figures for the runner-ups.

As usual I won’t be reviewing the DIY candy kit (see top pic) because we’ve had it several times before and I think I already covered it on the blog anyway.

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Melon Cream Soda

(Sorry the stand is a mess, this pic was last-second and I was in a hurry, and no the drink in the background is not the same one as on top, it’s cola).

Perfect for summer, we have a refreshing melon cream soda. It’s a really pretty pastel green color, and it’s very foamy on the top which helps emulate the cream soda vibe. It smells like fizzy melon candy (and tastes like one too), and it’s very light and refreshing with a small hint of vanilla in the background.

If you don’t like melon then you probably wouldn’t like this- but if you do then I think you would love it.

Crushed Poteco 4-Pack

If you read the blog before then you will recognize these; we get them fairly often and I won’t be reviewing these because I’ve done it a handful of times.

They’re cute, tasty little potato rings with a slight saltiness, but as good as they are I’m pretty sick of them <_< I actually gave all of mine away because I really didn’t want them.

Soda Soft Candy & Sherbet Perot Cider

I love soda candy and I can’t think of anything more lovely for warm summer weather than cooling, refreshing blue sweets~

First we’ll start with the Sherbet Perot Cider, the equivalent of the cola-flavored lollipop with fizzy candy that we got either back in May. It consists of a neutral-lightly sweetened lollipop with powdered candy you can tip it in, giving it a vaguely fizzy and sweeter, almost sour taste. This specific one is 44.5 calories.

Much like the cola one, I think it’s really yummy. I love the taste of the powder with it especially because in my opinion the lollipop on its own isn’t sweet enough- but like the cola one, I find myself completely forgetting about the powder and just sucking on the candy.

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The other soda candy we got are these cute spherical soft candies. But what makes them special is that they have a hint of lemon for an additional pinch of sweetness~

The entire bag is 63 calories, which seems about right since you get a handful of them. The pamphlet describes these as sweet and sour, but unless you let them sit in your mouth for a few minutes, you taste no sourness- and honestly, they didn’t taste as good as they do if you just chew them up from the beginning.

Mini Chocolate Bat

Next up is an item I’ve had before, but it’s been a really long time so that’s not too bad.These have been around for a long time now if I recall, but I’m not sure if they’re popular. For the entire box (or one stick, not sure) its 51 calories, and each crunchy stick is coated in a thin layer of chocolate, they remind me a lot of those yellow cake donuts... if they were stale and hard.

These aren’t bad or anything but they aren’t sweet either. I love dark chocolate and I can appreciate not having a sugar buzz as much as the next person, but sometimes you just want sugar too, you know? I feel like this would be good with coffee though, and it was nice of them to give us a box, making them a nice little item to bring to a get-together with a friend or two.

Chocolate Mint Candy & Peach Mint Kit Kats

To go with all of our refreshing green and blue sweet snacks, we got two more, but these are of the mint variety!

Our first item is inspired by delicious Hokkaido mint chocolate ice cream (my favorite~!) and takes the form of a spherical hard candy. I know the picture makes it extremely hard, but the candy actually has brown dots covering them to emulate the ice cream. The inside is filled with a cooling white powdery substance, but you don’t have to wait until you get to the center, because there is a tiny hole in the candy allowing the flavor to seep out.

Per-candy or bag (I certainly hope bag), the calories are 290.

These are very yummy but I’m not sure they would be enjoyed by those who aren’t big on choco-mint. They mostly taste like chocolate with a hint of mint, and I really like the cooling effect. The hardness of the coating seems to vary between candies though, because I noticed the first one I could bite through the middle no problem, but the second one was a lot more difficult. 

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Next up is another kit kat like usual. As much as I like these I tend to get tired of them too, but I believe last month we didn’t have one so it isn’t that bad. Anyway, this is a PREMIUM kit kat blend, which means its slightly more special or pricey or something. Each pack is 63 calories, and i love the pretty mix of pink and mint on the packaging~

Before getting these, it never occurred to me to think of a combination like mint x peach. I thought it sounded strange. The outside chocolate oddly resembles cookies and cream while the inside is pure mint, and they are deliciously amazing!

As I said, it sounds unusual, but it’s really good. As soon as you bite into them you get hit by the refreshing peach, followed by a combination of mint until you’re left with a cooling sensation. I recommend these if you can find them!

Anpanman Grape Gummies & Sour Peah Gum

Our refreshing fruity theme continues with these two fun, colorful candies. I’ve had these both before so I don’t think I have too much to say, I’ll start with the Anpanman. These are fun grape-flavored gummies that come in 24 various poses and characters, and each pack is 62 calories.

I was really confused with these, because of summer and them being gummies I assumed they would be inedible because they were stuck to the plastic/wax paper. But it turns out the paper can dissolved! It’s very weird, but my mom pointed it out while I explained my issues with it, and while having them in my mouth it would just slide right off. I wasted half of the pack until finding this out <3< but I am very glad I did because I wasn’t very impressed when I opened them.

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Next is a really fun gum roulette candy that came out a couple of years ago :3 Basically, you have 3 gums (I’ve tried a few flavors so far, but Peach is the only one I’ve had twice now) and each one is different: one is sour, one is sweet, and one is normal. There’s no physical way to tell them apart, nor do they have a scent (except for what the flavor is, in this case peach). The only way to find out which is which is to chew them.

I like sour candy, and I also love sweetness, so this is really fun and the gum quality is pretty good, but the flavors only last a few minutes. This was how I felt about each piece:

Sour - It gets worse the more you chew. I love sourness but Japanese sour candy seems to involve salt; my mouth was starting to feel an extremely faint numbing burn. I never really considered myself a wimp when it came to sour candy but this stuff is on another level; but because it died down fairly quickly, it wasn’t unbearable.

Normal - Sweet and a little cooling. It actually didn’t taste too much like peach but the sour might have ruined my taste buds at the moment :P

Sweet - A lot like the Normal piece, but slightly more peach-ish.

Umai Sugar Rusk & Sour Cream and Onion Doritos

Recognize the guy on the Sugar Rusk package? He’s our adorable Umaibo friend (by the way, am I the only person who thinks he resembles Doraemon a little?), but now he’s featuring a sweet rusk snack. Each pack is 209 calories.

I don’t usually like rusk snacks, but these are tasty. They’re light, crispy, and sweet with a hint of butteryness. The calories for this are high but they’re delicious, would recommend.

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Now, where I live Doritos are not uncommon. We have tons of flavors (my favorite being the original, and the sweet and spicy), at one point we even have mix-flavor bags. I really miss those, but I never met a Dorito I didn’t like so I was excited to get to try something new. Each bag is 277 calories.

These are based on sour cream and onion, which is not something new to me. I used to really like it and the dip with the same flavor, but besides these foreign things I get lately I don’t actually eat too many chips- except for when I’m in the mood for some Doritos since it’s actually my favorite American brand.

These taste really good. Pretty different from the sour cream and onion I’m used to though; they have a garlic-onion-ish taste and while I hate onions (mainly the texture of them), that didn’t really bother me. They actually kind of remind me of the cool ranch Doritos. 

Tonkatsu Sauce Umaibo & Texas Corn Okonomiyaki

(This pic is different because my original was corrupted, which I discovered when I went to save it to my computer.)

Our final 2 items of this months box is a delicious Umaibo I’ve had a few times. It’s Tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet) sauce flavored and it’s AMAZING. It’s my second favorite Umaibo flavor behind corn potage, I really recommend this one if you ever get a chance to try it out.

The flavor itself I can’t really describe, but it has a hint of spice. I want to say it’s a bit like a smoky barbecue-soy sauce? It’s not salty though.

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Lastly is a bag of Texas Corn snack in Okonomiyaki flavor. Okonomiyaki is an Asian Dish best known as a savory pancake. It’s a combination of dough and vegetables, sometimes with meat (bacon is pretty popular), noodles, or seafood, then its fried and covered in things like sauce or pickled vegetables. 

These smell kind of similar to the Umaibo, but with a tangy addition and it’s very strong- but the flavor itself is extremely light, it gives me a plain dough (and this next part will sound crazy) and apple cinnamon...

Yeah. I don’t know what I’m on these days o_o

♥ Cutie Ranking ♥

Content - 3.5 out of 5. I nearly-loved everything, but I am scoring it down because there was a handful of repetition and two items I refuse to forgive for seeing again for the millionth time. Call me petty but when I look at the content featured in Japan Crate’s box, I feel like its kind of a rip-off because they always have a bunch of unique new types of items in the boxes.

Quality - 4.5 out of 5. Everything was fine, items were good and tasty and nothing was damaged (including my umaibo, which lately has been suffering), while everything but one item held up being open a bit late, a couple of them went stale fairly quick after opening. BUT they still tasted decent so I didn’t entirely mind. I’m only mentioning this because I’m not a person who inhales everything at one or shares them with others. My snacks tend to last a while.

Theme - 2 out of 5. I thought they kind of failed this time around. The theme was perfect for summer, but when I think of the beach I think of flavors like pineapple, mango, coconut (I hate coconut so I am thankful none of that was included), other fruits, and maybe grilled flavors. The mint, soda, and melon flavors were great for the theme to provide a refreshing and light taste, but I wish they had played that up some more.

Total Rank: 6 or 7 out of 10. Lately the boxes are improving I think, I keep liking them more and more and I really loved this one (with the exception of the poteco rings and the DIY, they’re good but I’m just tired of seeing them!). The flavors are all very yummy, but the items correspondence with the theme needs some work. Let’s see if they do better next month with our last of the 3 summer boxes this year :3

♥ Cutie’s Scale of Yummy ♥

1. Tonkatsu Umaibo - It’s a unique flavor but it’s so good! I can only imagine what the real sauce tastes like~

2. Soda Soft Candy - Soft candy is much better than hard in my opinion, I love candy like this. They tasted so good x3

3. Sour Cream and Onion Doritos - I love Doritos and these were no exception- I do wish the flavor didn’t linger in the mouth so long, but it’s not horrible.

4. Sugar Rusk - These are like the sugar rusk Umaibo, and they’re very tasty. 

5. Peach Mint Kit Kat - I love the pink and mint pastel color scheme and for such a unique sweet combination, I thought they were perfect together.

6. Sour Peach Gum - Delicious, but the flavor dies down very quickly. I like the texture of the gum.  

7. Sherbet Perot Cider - Very yummy, but I wish the lollipop was a little sweeter. 

8. Chocolate Mint Candy - I’m not big on hard candies like I used to be, but these are unique and I love the cooling effect.

9. Anpanman Grape Gummies - I love grape and I thought they were too cute not to eat~

10. Melon Cream Soda - It was really good but when I have melon things I feel like I have a point where I lose interest. I’m glad I split this with someone else because I’m not sure I would have drank the entire thing on my own.

11. Texas Corn Okonomiyaki - I like the texture but the weird apple cinnamon cereal vibes I was getting weirded me out. 

12. Chocolate Bat - I hated these initially but the ore I ate the more bearable I found them. 

13. Poteco - I’m extremely over these... thankfully I know people who like them or aren’t as picky.

[leluh]

do all the unusual asks!!

o h mhy god…. thank you but i had to bust out my laptop bc no way in hell am i gonna type that all out formatted nicely on my phone….

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora?

Spotify

is your room messy or clean?

Oh god it’s a fucking disaster

what color are your eyes?

i ask myself the same question often

do you like your name? why?

yeah! bc it has a lot of nickname options

what is your relationship status?

single

describe your personality in 3 words or less

emotional

gay

loud

what color hair do you have?

blue, red-purple, and an inbetween purple color in the middle.

what kind of car do you drive? color?

bold of you to assume i have a license or can afford a car

where do you shop?

bold of you to assume i have money to shop with

how would you describe your style?

Bad

favorite social media account

I use this one the most but i like the stickers on snapchat

what size bed do you have?

twin i think

any siblings?

Oh boy. oh howdy. im the oldest of five. i sure fucking do have siblings.

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?

on top of a really big tree bc it’d be cool babey!

favorite snapchat filter?

none of them

favorite makeup brand(s)

i dont pay enough attention to give a shit. i do have & occasionally wear makeup, tho

how many times a week do you shower?

every other day

favorite tv show?

um! FMA:B

shoe size?

women’s 9, men’s 6 i think

how tall are you?

5′8″

sandals or sneakers?

sneakers

do you go to the gym?

haha no

describe your dream date

anything, as long as im spending quality time with the person/people

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?

i have $5 in my jacket pocket I should put in my wallet, thanks for reminding me

what color socks are you wearing?

blue… orange….. white….

how many pillows do you sleep with?

3 rn. two for my head and one big one for my arms

do you have a job? what do you do?

ive never had a job

how many friends do you have?

a lot!!!! and i love them all and i hope they know this

whats the worst thing you have ever done?

don’t worry about it

whats your favorite candle scent?

vanilla….. also anything citrus

3 favorite boy names

3 favorite girl names

names dont have a gender also i dont have an opinion

favorite actor?

favorite actress?

no opinion

who is your celebrity crush?

they arent celebrities but i have a tiny “celeb crush” on everyone at Polygon

favorite movie?

anything studio ghibli does. Tales from Earthsea was good as fuck and underrated!

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book?

I dont read a lot but my favorite book is The Red Tent

money or brains?

paypal.me/leluh

do you have a nickname? what is it?

my baby siblings used to pronounce my family nickname “Lexi” as “Leluh” (hence the url) but i go by Lex

how many times have you been to the hospital?

i had to get rushed to the ER in an ambulance once bc I had a seizure in church. the stretchers are really comfortable, the glucose packet the paramedic gave me didn’t taste nearly as bad as he made it out to be, and IVs are the fucking worst

top 10 favorite songs

here’s my spotify playlist for this month

do you take any medications daily?

i’m supposed to take like, six vitamin pills for my POTs headaches but i uh. dont.

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)

annoying

what is your biggest fear?

being replaced, easily forgettable, not meaning anything to anyone

how many kids do you want?

none right now but i like kids and i know how to handle a lot at once so it really depends on how my life goes in the future.

whats your go to hair style?

sideways

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc)

big enough for a family of eight

who is your role model?

who i want to be in the future

what was the last compliment you received?

some guy at the grocery store last night said he liked my hair

what was the last text you sent?

sent a photo to my mom

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?

I don’t remember ever actually believing in santa

what is your dream car?

one that works

opinion on smoking?

mmmmmmmmmgross

do you go to college?

on the 27th

what is your dream job?

anything i enjoy that allows me a happy life. i’d love to work with plants, microbiology, astrobiology, or like…. bees

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs?

I don’t know! im pretty neutral

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?

oh hell yeah

do you have freckles?

i have a permanent patch of freckles on the side of my left shoulder and occasionally i get a few freckles on my face in the summer

do you smile for pictures?

depends on the context

how many pictures do you have on your phone?

a lot

have you ever peed in the woods?

yeah, my family used to go camping a lot when i was little 

do you still watch cartoons?

yeah

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?

Wendy’s

Favorite dipping sauce?

honey mustard and ranch is a close second

what do you wear to bed?

T-shirt

have you ever won a spelling bee?

never been in one

what are your hobbies?

i can throw a flag pretty cool

can you draw?

eh

do you play an instrument?

absolutely not, but it’s very cool and i have major respect for musicians

what was the last concert you saw?

I saw Maggie Rogers in concert a while back

tea or coffee?

tea! coffee is nasty

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?

neither

do you want to get married?

Depends, but im not against it at all

what is your crush’s first and last initial?

ahahahahahahaha um. i plead the fifth. also there’s two of them anyway

are you going to change your last name when you get married?

depends! also not against it

what color looks best on you?

dunno, but i wear a lot of denim and bright red

do you miss anyone right now?

hell yeah babey dont we all

do you sleep with your door open or closed?

closed dear god i have two cats and four siblings under the age of 10

do you believe in ghosts?

eh. not really. would looove to be proved wrong though

what is your biggest pet peeve?

problems that could have very easily been avoided with communication

last person you called?

my voicemail lmao

favorite ice cream flavor?

Vanilla………….

regular oreos or golden oreos?

regular!

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?

rainbow cause im gay but otherwise i dont rlly like sprinkles

what shirt are you wearing?

pajama t-shirt. it’s from ACYC

what is your phone background?

my lockscreen is coke zero and my homescreen is a mother mother quote

are you outgoing or shy?

I try to be sorta outgoing but dear god do i get anxious easily

do you like it when people play with your hair?

not really…. leave it be :/

do you like your neighbors?

I don’t know them at all

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?

whenever i feel like it

have you ever been high?

nope

have you ever been drunk?

nah

last thing you ate?

some knockoff Doritos 

favorite lyrics right now

all of Infinitesimal by Mother Mother

summer or winter?

I hate being too hot but i do love alaska summers

day or night?

night…. love that second wind and sudden impulsive urges 

dark, milk, or white chocolate?

white chocolate. i have a strong sweet tooth

favorite month?

no opinion

what is your zodiac sign

leluh.tumblr.com/zodiac

who was the last person you cried in front of?

Everyone in Drama during senior night lmao. last time i cried alone however??? yesterday afternoon sjkdfhaksjfh

[boredgirl2004]

The Preview to my story "Aftermath"

My experience with the Book of Bill 

Now I’m not much of a writer. In fact, I am a 💧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎⧫︎⍓︎  writer. I wasn’t good with writing in school but anyways-  I’m sure you are all just wondering why I am writing this. If I’m being honest, I don’t know why either, everything just has been crazy, things I can’t explain and I guess the only person who will probably understand is the man who had to deal with this thing before I did. You can also think I’m just writing this to reach him and his family, to not only get another person's view on this but to know that I am not alone in this ever lasting torture with this cool ranch dorito demon who didn’t stop giving me deer teeth when I first opened the book and thats where it all started but before I go on my huge rant or story of meeting this being. I might as well introduce myself. My name is Jazmyne, you can call me Jazzy or whatever nickname you have used with someone with the same name as me but differently spelled in everyway I don’t know if i should say my age but I’ll just leave that blank. I am the only girl in my family out of 3 brothers, I am the second eldest, so the middle child I guess. I like butterflies, anime, the smell of fresh roses and everything involving the supernatural. Now that we got that out of the way, lets start with what lead up to this….

The beginning to a crazy nightmare

My parents were taking me to my job, I had been working at this new job as a lab technician for about two months-ish. I saw that there was a new Barnes and Noble on my way to work, and seeing that I had plenty of time; I decided to stop and see if any of the books I wanted were in stock. So I asked if we could stop by and take a look. My parents reluctantly (if i am using this word right) drove into the marketplace and dropped my off at the store. I walked into Barnes and noble, the new book smell along with starbucks coffee immediately hit my face, a pleasent smell that I liked, I walked around the brand new store and saw various books. I found some poetry books I liked, some mangas, and other books that interested me until I was this black book, it had carvings and a keyhold. It was under the supernatural category next to Stephen King's “IT” and  “The Wonderland Murders”. I assumed it would have the title on the book cover but when I pulled it off the shelf, there was sadly no title to the book at all. I thought the book might have been returned since the cover was probably torn off or lost. I tried to open the book but it didn’t open, Odd isn’t? I gave up and put it back, I thought it was just some sort of decoration since halloween decorations were coming out next month which was in a few weeks. I immediately went to the check out with my books and went on about my day. I got back in my parents car and went to work. While at work, I had to check our products to make sure they were up to company standards and signed off on them so they could be produced. You know, stuff a lab technician would have to do when involving products that’ll be sold out into the public. 

It was a long 12 hours, it even got so busy that I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t even go on my lunch break or my breaks but when I got home, I set my purse down, along with my bag from Barnes and Noble on the floor of my room and exhaustedly plopped onto my bed. I slept in for such a long time that my alarm didn’t go off. I immediately got up and ran throughout the house getting ready for work until I saw a flash flood warning go off on my phone. My boss called me and told me to not come to work. I sighed in relief and went to my room. I closed the door behind me and as I was about to walk to my bed, I heard this loud wet sound. I froze and slowly looked down, I turned on the light switch and saw that the Barnes and Noble bag was covered in this very very squishy black ooze. I was so grossed out that I took the bag and placed it on my desk to investigate what was the cause of this black substance. I opened the bag to see my new books were now the same color as the tar. I was so confused and upset that I began tearing the tar away from the books until I got so frustrated that I just took the bag and dumped it all onto the desk until I saw the blank book from the Barnes and Noble store I went to yesterday. The tar was coming from the book. Which confused me and got me more upset.

As the thunder from the storm roared, I grabbed some gloves and took this weird goo off my books. I wondered how this book managed to get in my bag when I didn’t buy it nor did the cashier put it in my bag, I also thought about how I’m gonna be able to explain this to the employee when I have to return these books. “Oh yeah, I’d like to return these books because this coverless book y'all had on your shelf emitted this black-like tar onto my books and I have no idea how I got this book.” I giggled a bit at how ridiculous the thought was. I yelled in frustration from how difficult taking this tar off my books were. I slammed my hands onto my desk and yelled out loud “IS THERE A $%%## WAY THAT YOU CAN GET OFF MY BOOKS?!!?!”. As I said that, I heard distant laughing, I thought it was my parents laughing at something on tv or something but, everyone was taking a nap in my house but then again, my mom always forgets to turn the TV off after shes done using it but when I left my room to go see, there was nothing on, nor was my mother awake. I thought it was weird but then again, I always hear stuff that isn’t there. It was my imagination as always but when I came back to my room. The book’s goo was gone, all that was left was the destroyed books I had bought that only repeated the words “HAHA” and the black book that had no cover but this time the blank book now had a title and a strange being on the cover that was made out of metallic gold paper and black leather, it read…

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Notes: What do you guys think of it so far? Also if there is bad grammar and other errors just know that the first paragraph is not a lie. I really suck at writing. I'm still gonna try anyways!!!

[easyfoodnetwork]

Fifth Graders Know Their Snacks. Here’s What They’re Eating Right Now.

From Takis to Cheetos to some seriously sour candy

If there were an age at which the act of snacking reached its artful pinnacle, I’d argue anyone that it’s 10. Ten is a magical age, when the ravenous appetite of a growing human body collides with newfound independence and (some) control over one’s own diet. With a decade’s worth of experience, the 10-year-old has become a master manipulator of their parents’ shopping habits, willing them to acquire whatever brand of individually packaged, nutritionless crunch they desire. (Better yet, they might have an allowance.) The 10-year-old palate no longer fears powerful flavors; stunt-eating spicy and sour in extreme doses is now a reliable way to earn coveted school cafeteria cred. Ten is also the age you begin to suspect that your parents are not, in fact, the coolest, ushering in the era of closed bedroom doors, and hours spent with a Nintendo Switch in one hand and a Cool Ranch Dorito in the other.

In early September, Eater asked a Zoom classroom full of pros (aka 10-year-old fifth graders) from a suburb outside of Dallas to tell us about their snack habits. The resulting conversation revealed that, while the year 2020 has challenged most all aspects of humanity and modern civilization as we know it, the noshing prowess of America’s young snack virtuosos is nothing short of untouchable.

Also, Takis are awesome.

Eater: So, tell me about what you like to snack on.

Jaiden: My favorite snack is Takis, because they’re super sweet. I mean, no, they’re spicy… but they’re also a little sweet. I like spicy stuff.

Ranveer: I like Fritos, the original or barbecue flavors, because the taste is a little bit spicy and they have a fun, twisted kind of shape.

Aisha: I like gummies because they’re sweet and jelly-ish.

Tamara: My favorite snack is chocolate ice cream because it’s cold and it can melt in your mouth.

“Yesterday we ran out of good snacks so I had to eat Nature Valley granola bars.”

Eater: Wait, is ice cream a snack? Or is it dessert? Like, is this a thing your parents would give you after school?

Tamara: I definitely have it after school.

Jaiden: Me too!

Eater: Wow, okay. Your parents are cooler than mine were.

Layal: Yesterday we ran out of good snacks so I had to eat Nature Valley granola bars. They taste okay but they’re not the best. I like the Kellogg’s ones better, the ones with the frosting.

Ranveer: I usually bring the peanut butter granola bars to school. I like them!

Jaiden: I like to take these crackers and then I put peanut butter and this type of cheese on it. It tastes really good.

Layal: Oh, I also love Goldfish! They’re a little salty and they have this cheese flavor to them. It’s one of my favorites at home, but I end up bringing them to school with me, too.

Eater: Do you guys mostly like sweet or salty snacks?

Jaiden: I like sour. Like those super sour Toxic thingies. Toxic candies... what are they called?

Junior: Toxic Waste.

Jaiden: Yes! Toxic Waste. People say they are the sourest candies in the world.

Manuel: What about sour Skittles?

Eater: Does anyone ever have like, vegetables for a snack?

In unison: No!!

Jaiden: I do, but my mom makes me. I was a green bean fan as a little kid.

Eater: So then, what’s the “cool kid” snack these days?

In unison: Takis.

Eater: Why?

Jaiden: ’Cause like, I feel like they’re so spicy that some people can’t handle it — but I’m one of the people who can handle it.

Ranveer: There are many different flavors of Takis though, Jaiden, so if you get one of the other flavors you can eat it like it’s nothing. You’re not the only one!

Jaiden: No way! I always grab the hottest ones! I also like super spicy peanuts.

Servando: I like Cheetos, the normal flavor or the Flamin’ Hot, spicy Cheetos.

Jaiden: I love Hot Cheetos!

Eater: Why do you all think that spicy snacks are so popular?

Servando: In my case, I think it’s because I’m from Mexico.

Layal: Yeah, I’m from a small African country, Eritrea, and a lot of the national foods there are spicy so I grew up with spicy food in my household. My parents like spicy stuff, too.

Eater: What did you all actually have for a snack today?

Jaiden: I had Takis!

Eater: Of course.

Layal: I have a gummy bear bracelet on right now, actually.

Ranveer: Funyuns.

Jaiden: I thought you said onions — ha!

Ranveer: No way! You can’t have those raw, it tastes weird.

Jaiden: They make me sneeze.

Tamara: I had barbecue potato chips.

Layal: I like when chips come in little individual bags because I like popping them open. Boom!

Ranveer: Oh no! I think I ran out of snacks.

Jaiden: Ugh, and my sister ate all my Takis.

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From Takis to Cheetos to some seriously sour candy

If there were an age at which the act of snacking reached its artful pinnacle, I’d argue anyone that it’s 10. Ten is a magical age, when the ravenous appetite of a growing human body collides with newfound independence and (some) control over one’s own diet. With a decade’s worth of experience, the 10-year-old has become a master manipulator of their parents’ shopping habits, willing them to acquire whatever brand of individually packaged, nutritionless crunch they desire. (Better yet, they might have an allowance.) The 10-year-old palate no longer fears powerful flavors; stunt-eating spicy and sour in extreme doses is now a reliable way to earn coveted school cafeteria cred. Ten is also the age you begin to suspect that your parents are not, in fact, the coolest, ushering in the era of closed bedroom doors, and hours spent with a Nintendo Switch in one hand and a Cool Ranch Dorito in the other.

In early September, Eater asked a Zoom classroom full of pros (aka 10-year-old fifth graders) from a suburb outside of Dallas to tell us about their snack habits. The resulting conversation revealed that, while the year 2020 has challenged most all aspects of humanity and modern civilization as we know it, the noshing prowess of America’s young snack virtuosos is nothing short of untouchable.

Also, Takis are awesome.

Eater: So, tell me about what you like to snack on.

Jaiden: My favorite snack is Takis, because they’re super sweet. I mean, no, they’re spicy… but they’re also a little sweet. I like spicy stuff.

Ranveer: I like Fritos, the original or barbecue flavors, because the taste is a little bit spicy and they have a fun, twisted kind of shape.

Aisha: I like gummies because they’re sweet and jelly-ish.

Tamara: My favorite snack is chocolate ice cream because it’s cold and it can melt in your mouth.

“Yesterday we ran out of good snacks so I had to eat Nature Valley granola bars.”

Eater: Wait, is ice cream a snack? Or is it dessert? Like, is this a thing your parents would give you after school?

Tamara: I definitely have it after school.

Jaiden: Me too!

Eater: Wow, okay. Your parents are cooler than mine were.

Layal: Yesterday we ran out of good snacks so I had to eat Nature Valley granola bars. They taste okay but they’re not the best. I like the Kellogg’s ones better, the ones with the frosting.

Ranveer: I usually bring the peanut butter granola bars to school. I like them!

Jaiden: I like to take these crackers and then I put peanut butter and this type of cheese on it. It tastes really good.

Layal: Oh, I also love Goldfish! They’re a little salty and they have this cheese flavor to them. It’s one of my favorites at home, but I end up bringing them to school with me, too.

Eater: Do you guys mostly like sweet or salty snacks?

Jaiden: I like sour. Like those super sour Toxic thingies. Toxic candies... what are they called?

Junior: Toxic Waste.

Jaiden: Yes! Toxic Waste. People say they are the sourest candies in the world.

Manuel: What about sour Skittles?

Eater: Does anyone ever have like, vegetables for a snack?

In unison: No!!

Jaiden: I do, but my mom makes me. I was a green bean fan as a little kid.

Eater: So then, what’s the “cool kid” snack these days?

In unison: Takis.

Eater: Why?

Jaiden: ’Cause like, I feel like they’re so spicy that some people can’t handle it — but I’m one of the people who can handle it.

Ranveer: There are many different flavors of Takis though, Jaiden, so if you get one of the other flavors you can eat it like it’s nothing. You’re not the only one!

Jaiden: No way! I always grab the hottest ones! I also like super spicy peanuts.

Servando: I like Cheetos, the normal flavor or the Flamin’ Hot, spicy Cheetos.

Jaiden: I love Hot Cheetos!

Eater: Why do you all think that spicy snacks are so popular?

Servando: In my case, I think it’s because I’m from Mexico.

Layal: Yeah, I’m from a small African country, Eritrea, and a lot of the national foods there are spicy so I grew up with spicy food in my household. My parents like spicy stuff, too.

Eater: What did you all actually have for a snack today?

Jaiden: I had Takis!

Eater: Of course.

Layal: I have a gummy bear bracelet on right now, actually.

Ranveer: Funyuns.

Jaiden: I thought you said onions — ha!

Ranveer: No way! You can’t have those raw, it tastes weird.

Jaiden: They make me sneeze.

Tamara: I had barbecue potato chips.

Layal: I like when chips come in little individual bags because I like popping them open. Boom!

Ranveer: Oh no! I think I ran out of snacks.

Jaiden: Ugh, and my sister ate all my Takis.

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5.Step By Step

What is the wallpaper on your computer screen? Why did you choose it? One of my favorite pictures of Taron.  Hence the reason why I chose it LOL Is there a pattern on the pants you’re currently wearing? Which one? Nope. Do you like going to baby showers? Do you go only for the cake? I’ve only gone to one for my cousin.  I won a set of martini glasses at it LOL Who is the person you text the most in your life? What relation are you? Stacy.  My best friend.  My Bernie and I’m her Elton Mexican food, Chinese food, Italian food, French food or American food? All of the above!!!

Has there ever been a time in your life, you felt sexually undecided? No. Does your mother annoy you when the holidays come along in the year? No. What is the color scheme of your absolute favorite fast-food restaurant? You know, I never did take notice.  But it’s Dairy Queen Do you think tattoos and piercings are sexy on the opposite sex? Not so much tattoos but I love piercings. Do people ever ask you to do things they’re too short to accomplish? No Do your siblings bring people around that your parents don’t approve of? N/A Is there carpet or hardwood floor in your bedroom? hardwood Do you check the texture of things first or the smell of them? Neither. Have you ever broken the arm or head off of a trophy? How did you do this? No. Do you believe in superstitious things such as breaking a mirror? Nope. Do you get sick of people who call themselves bi polar all the time? No. Ever have an ultra-sound performed on you? What was it for? No. Do you like those ‘end of the world,’ ‘Armageddon’ movies? Yes What color are the headphones you have at this moment in time? white. Ever been choked severely on something during lunch at your school? I don’t remember. Do you remember who you sat next to in Kindergarten? Who was it? Yes, it was my friends Katie and Orlando.  Wow...That was 31 years ago and I remember! Has anyone ever compared you to an animal? Which one(s)? no Has anyone, including yourself, forgot it was your own birthday? No Chocolate or strawberry birthday cake? Choose one. Neither Do you eat more vegetables or fruits? What’s your favorite fruit/veggie? veggies.  Potatoes, kale Do you abbreviate things way too often? Do you get called out on it? Yes.  and no. Ever been in one of those church Christmas plays before? Why/why not? No. What is the funniest conjunction you use throughout your day? I don’t know. Have you ever thrown a roll of toilet paper at someone before? No. Does the dentist calm you or does it tend to stress you out? stress If you had to choose, which is the worst movie you’ve ever seen? Ibiza.  As much as I love Richard Madden, that movie just wasn’t worth it. Have you ever found yourself talking to an inanimate object? All the time LOL. Do you like movies that are originally based on children’s books? Yeah. Is your hair more thick or thin? Is it more curly or straight? Think and curly. Something on the human body that grosses you out the most: I don’t really know. Do you like meeting new people? What’s your most common greeting? Yes.  and Hi. Ever think of what it would be like to be a mermaid or merman? no If you had to choose, which celebrity would you date out of all of them? Taron or Richard. I have a feeling I’d probably go with Richard first though LOL Do people feel sorry for you for no reason? Have they ever? No What is something that bothers you about most surveys in general? The ones that assume everyone has had sex.  Not everyone has!!  I’m still waiting for the right person. Who would you take with you on a stranded/deserted island? I don’t know. Do you have your own personal boom box in your bedroom? I did in junior high and high school Would you survive if zombies were to take over the world? Why or why not? Nope. What would you say is the worst part of high school period? I was tormented in high school What is your favorite color of apple? Red, green or yellow? red and green Ever want to be a doctor? Is it because of all the hospital shows? no What do you think of all these reality shows that try to alter personality? I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Where are your favorite pair of shoes in the whole world right now? My silver Elton John boots. Do you live anywhere near a mall? Not really Do you like drawing smiley faces or do you think they’re overrated? I love drawing them. If you were dying who would you say goodbye to first out of everyone? I don’t want to think about it Are you someone who actually likes to babysit children? No. I did it as my first job and I ended up with a sprained ankle chasing around the kid who wouldn’t listen to anything. Do you ever have those ‘ah ha!’ moments? Do those annoy you? Yes and no Do you hardly ever remember where you put things at? No What’s your favorite lunch meat, if you even like any in the first place? depends on my mood. When is the next time you’ll eat a cupcake, if you know when? I’m not a fan of cupcakes. Where did you last buy socks from? What do those socks look like? CVS.  Plain trouser socks, the only ones I like to wear cause I hate socks. Do you ever lay in the grass and look up at the sky, just because? Hell no When do you normally go to sleep on the weekends? same as any day, after midnight. Have you ever met someone with the same ‘biggest fear’ as you? Yeah Do you ever have movie nights with your significant other? I’m single.  But I have movie nights with my best friends over online Would you rather write with a pen or a pencil? Why is this? Pen.  Easier and neater Do you like candy bars? Are you trying to slack off of them? Not really What is your favorite number? Is it significant with your life? 5 and no Are you afraid of being kidnapped if you go outside at nighttime? No Has your mother ever called your school because of your grades? No In the next twenty minutes, what will you be doing and where will you be? Another surveys here Do you like showers or baths better? Why did you choose your choice? Showers.  Never liked baths. Are you a controversial person? Do your views oppose others? N Have you ever thrown a surprise party for someone? Who for? Yes.  Birthday party for my friend Neil.  But it was also my 8th grade graduation party.  We didn’t tell him it was a surprise party for him as well What would you say your average word per minute time is on the keyboard? I have no idea What is your least favorite class in school? Why is this? I always hated science. Do you bite your fingernails or tap them on desks? always tap them Have you ever wanted to be in a band? What position exactly? No. Who is your role model or hero in life if you have one? My mom.  And non family wise: Elton John Do you ever call your cousins just to talk to them randomly? No. Do you find any of your friends’ parents creepy or really mean? No Do you ever have to wash your clothes at someone else’s house? No. When is the next time you’ll go to the library? Why is this? Tomorrow. I go every day. Do you like fiction or non-fiction books more? What’s your favorite? fiction.\. Do you constantly have to be told to shut up? By who? No Do you know how to play pool? Are you any good at it? Not really Do you treat others as you’d like to be treated? Have you always? Yes and yes

Were you a really mean kid or a sweet and quiet kid? sweet and quiet. Are you someone who likes to get in arguments or fights a lot? Hell no!!! How do you make sure people know you don’t like them at all? just don’t talk to them. Would you say you’re someone who likes to cuss a lot? Yes  Do you keep secrets from your parents that you don’t keep from your friends? no What is your father’s best friend’s name? Do you know them personally? No idea who it is. If you had to, where would you get a tattoo at? Why? I hate tattoos and wouldn’t get one. How much was the cell phone you have at this moment in time? No idea Would you say you hang out with people the majority of your life? Nope What would you do if you woke up randomly with purple hair? Sounds like something I would do LOL Do you ever look in the mirror and name all of your flaws for no reason? No Are you getting sick of the reality show Survivor? Why? Never watched it. Do you usually explain to people why you do the things you do? no Ever submit a video to America’s Funniest Home Videos? no What color is the closest desk to your body? What all is on it? beige.  Just my laptop I’m on. The most painful medical procedure you’ve ever had? Wisdom teeth surgery Are you someone who likes to eat Poptarts? What’s your favorite flavor? brown sugar ones. Ever have a dream you’re being abducted by aliens? Was it scary? No. What would you say is the color of your favorite bra? Leopard print Do you like people who are loud or people who are quiet? Dosn’t matter to me. Does personality weigh out the sense of ‘good looks?’ Both are important  When is the next time you’ll see someone who is pregnant? I have no idea. Do you hate it when people copy the things you do? OMG YES!!!! Where is your favorite piece of electronic equipment? next to me. Where is the person who ‘owns your heart’ at this moment in time? No one has it. Has anyone ever told you that you’re good at cooking? Nope. Would you say you’re a fast texter, or are you pretty slow? very fast What is your favorite flavor of Doritos? What do you drink with them? Cool Ranch.  Water. Do you have any enemies who you think are dangerous? Yes. Do you ever try to squeeze information out of people? No Does it freak you out when the police drive by your house? No. Are you someone who tends to take a whole lot of naps? Yes What is your favorite nickname you like to be called? Why do you like it? Dickie.  Cause it’s in reference to Richard’s nickname given by Taron.  It’s used in the group text with my besties. Do you already have your outfit for tomorrow planned out? No What is the color of your favorite pair of pants? What brand are they? Red leggings.  I don’t know the brand. Has your favorite song ever been featured on a commercial? Tiny Dancer is now being used for an American Idol commercial which I hate cause the show is fake!  And Rocketman is being used in WalMart commercials which I love. Do you ever promise pc4pc on Myspace then never return the favor? Wow...this is old. What is one song right now that really gets on your nerves? I don’t know. What would you say was the best year of your life? Why? The last part of 2019 was amazing.  But 2020 I have a feeling is gonna be even better. Do those annoying infomercials ever draw you in to buy things? hell no! Have you ever been pulled over by the cops for speeding? I don’t drive.  Is anyone in your family a firefighter? Who is it anyway? Nope.

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Illuminati or Doritos?

Hello zillas!

I’m sure most of you that enjoy snacking on chips have snacked on Doritos before. They can get addicting and yes, you will end up finishing the whole bag without even knowing. What are inside of these deliciously flavored chips that get us devouring the whole bag?! Is their secret ingredient sold to the devil that makes it so addicting? If so, give me more! Finishing the whole bag ourselves means that we won’t be sharing with each other. I am guilty of this, when I see a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos at a party, I walk away with the whole bag. In Doritos’ commercials, they show that sharing is not caring, but you should probably get your own Doritos, even if it means sneezing into the bag.

Doritos’ Super Bowl of Chips

You don’t see them on commercials everyday, but they are viewed millions of times during the SuperBowl. We can confirm that during SuperBowl season, millions of people across the US and other countries are buying food before watching the big game. In most of the shopping lists, there will be chips, soda, dippings, and things like that to be game ready.  Once that is all done, it’s time to sit down with your group of friends and munch away with the bags of Doritos and watch the game.

Doritos has a goal to “Crash the Super Bowl”  every year, and they are Super Bowl champions for 8 years in a row. For them, it’s the most successful displays of user-generated content. Doritos use crowd sourcing to create their 30 second ad, and the only guideline is “just make it awesome”

The creator of the ad will win $1 million AND the opportunity to work with Universal Studios. Competition is high when it comes to making the best content for Doritos. All the creator has to do is say “Doritos are tasty” and make it humorous so it’s memorable. A perfect example is Doritos’ Ultrasound, it meets their requirement of making it awesome, and showing that Doritos are tasty that even a fetus wants it.

I don’t know about you, but when I first saw this, I snort-laughed by the end of the commercial! Now I can see why their content wins during the Super Bowl break. One thing is clear when watching these commercials, Doritos is not only “bold”, tasty, and humorous, but they also make us do unbelievable things for a bag of Doritos.

Doritos Social Media

Doritos social media game is fairly decent. It’s not the worse, but it could do better. In last week’s blog post, I talked about Wendy’s and their brand personality, and I definitely think Doritos is capable of creating a brand personality. Yes, their marketing contents are amusing, but when it comes to standing out and engaging with their followers, there’s nothing in the bag.

On Instagram, they have 499k followers, Twitter with 616k followers, and Facebook with 16.7 million followers. Although Facebook is doing well for them, Instagram and Twitter are lacking due to the repetitive posts. They also lack being active on social media. One thing for sure is that you don’t see them anywhere except for in stores and during Super Bowl season. There is only so much you can do with a bag of chips, but maybe they’re not thinking outside the triangle like Coca Cola.

Improvements Can Be Done

I know that Doritos and Coca Cola are completely different (i.e. chips and soda), but they go hand in hand since they are the two snack champions. I think that Doritos can learn a thing or two from Coke. Coke’s slogan is to create happiness, whereas Doritos is For The Bold. In my earlier post about Coca Cola, I have mentioned that they create happiness with their consumers by sharing with others and engaging with their audience. In my suggestion, I believe Doritos can create content for “The Bold” by showing that there is more to being bold than just humor. They can have a guy skydive 25,000 feet from the air while eating a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos or building a chip tower with all Doritos’ triangular chips. When I think of “bold” I think of crazy acts of adrenaline. I love that their Super Bowl ads are entertaining, but I do feel something is missing.

I could be wrong here, maybe Doritos doesn’t need to go to the 10th level of boldness and can continue their ways of creating content, but I do think there is an ingredient missing. I hope you enjoyed this week’s blog, I was inspired while I was eating a bag of Doritos. I did notice that I’ve been blogging about food related brands in the last few weeks, I’ll try to change it up by next week. But for now, thanks for reading!

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[created by: -ily-ylm]

We meet again, what's one of the best things you did today? Well, well, well. We meet again. ha. Anyway, it’s only 4:17 and so far I’ve just  ate ramen, watched YouTube videos, and now I’m doing some surveys, which  are all things I like to do.

Does your pet ever harass you when your eating food? She’ll sit by you and just stare. 

Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, "Oh God, Ew." I avoid looking in the mirror as much as possible for that reason. I keep it short and only when I have to. Otherwise, I avoid looking at myself. And I sometimes use reflective surfaces that don’t make the best mirror because it doesn’t give a clear reflection or I keep my light off when I can see just enough. I’ve become very self-conscious these past few years. More so than ever. 

Name a song that gets stuck in your head now and then:: Random songs get stuck in my head all the time.

Do you have a pair of those big sunglasses? Do you wear them at all? I don’t wear sunglasses.

What’s your favorite flavor or kind of cough drop? The minty ones.

Peanut butter goes best with what one: Honey, jam or chocolate? It goes really well with all 3. Do you like sour candies? What's the most sourest candy you've ever tried? No, not at all. I don’t enjoy the sour taste for one, but also it irritates my mouth.

Is there something you really want, that a friend has?

FREEZE FRAME! Your five years old again...!! - You wake up, and your hungry. What do you want for some num-num's? Probably a chicken mcnugget happy meal.

You're done eating, what toy do you go play with? Barbies.

Your mom is taking you out to go to your favorite place, where is that? Chuck-E-Cheese.

You start crying, what's the reason? What/who made you cry? Probably just from being tired.

It's your 6th birthday! What was the present that made you crazy happy? All things Barbie.

Back To Random Reality... - When two family members are fighting, what do you usually do? Nothing.

Are you good at doing your own makeup? How about others' makeup? I was never great it. I didn’t mess with it too much, I just kept it simple. I definitely wasn’t good at doing someone else’s. 

Do you usually have to or want to drink when attending a party? I felt that way when I was younger and used to drink. My friends were doing it and I wanted to keep up with them. And I was like, I’m in my early 20s this is what you do. Bad way of thinking, but it’s true. Are you a fire-bug? What's something you've lit on fire before? No, I don’t mess around with fire. I’m a scardy cat.

What do you think would happen if you drank coke and then ate Mentos? Wasn’t that myth debunked?

What’s better, mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes? I loveeee mashed potatoes and gravy. I like sweet potato fries, but I don’t eat just sweet potatoes. 

Do you like the smell of men's perfume, such as Axe or Tag? I love the smell of a lot of colognes, but definitely not Axe or Tag. Ew. 

What's your all time FAVORITE freezer food? Do you eat that a lot? I used to love stuff like Pizza Rolls, Hot Pockets, chicken nuggets, pizza, Eggos, and those microwave meals like Healthy Choice and Smart Ones. I ate that kind of stuff all the time, but not so much anymore.

Name one reason why you wouldn’t be friends with someone: If they were arrogant and cocky.

What's your all time very least favorite cereal? I don’t like Special K or “healthy” cereals like that. 

Do you like documentaries? Have you ever watched one and found it boring? Yes to both. 

Did you ever used to make cookies, cakes or pie with your grandma? Sometimes.

Have you ever went into depression just because of one REALLY HORRIBLE day? Depression doesn’t work that way.

Are you easy to get along with? Are you a people person/social butterfly? I think so. No, I’m definitely not a people person or social butterfly. 

What is the one all time most scariest movie you've ever seen in your life? Hm. I don’t know because I’m not scared of horror movies anymore like I used to be. I used to be such a scardy cat. There’s been some I rewatched and I’m like wow, I was scared of that? There are some that are creepy for sure, but I really enjoy horror movies now. And I’m not effected by any of them, like they don’t stick with me or give me nightmares.

We're you ever a fan of macaroni & cheese? Do you like kraft dinner? Yeah. More so when I was a kid, but it’s still good.

Do you and your mom have that motherly daughterly loving relationship? We do. My mom is my best friend.

Do you always like to have a drink with your food? I don’t need to have one, but I usually happen to have something.

Are you scared of online predators, molesters and rapists? Thankfully, I haven’t encountered any of those (that I know of), but I certainly wouldn’t want to. I definitely would be scared.

You have the option to visit Canada!: What place would you like to visit? Lane, where do you recommend? 

Isn't it unfortunate when you get SO sick of a song that used to LOVE? That doesn’t happen much. And if it does, then I just don’t listen to it for a bit but then I go back to it.

What's better, Vodka or Kahlua? Why? Blech.

Do you like Chinese food? What's one of your fave Chinese dishes? I like chow mien, egg rolls, pot stickers, and crab rangoon. I used to love orange chicken, but I can’t eat spicy stuff anymore. :/

Does your tummy make stupid and weird sounds sometimes? Yes, even right after I eat, which completely defeats the purpose. <<< Ugh, same. Or it’ll growl when I’m almost finished and I’m like wtf?? Or it’ll make noises at random times when I’m not eating or feel hungry. I have stomach issues. :/

Do you and your siblings have different colored eyes? My younger brother’s are a lighter brown than mine.

Did the jingle of the ice cream truck annoy you or excite you? I always got excited about it.

Do you think some things are just unbelievably expensive nowadays? Like...? Apple products for sure. I’m such a sucker, though. 

Do you drink to get drunk, or just for the flavor? When I used to drink I drank to get drunk. 

Can you pull off short hair? Do you know someone who can't? I don’t know, but I had really short hair (a “bob” cut) for a few years. 

What's one thing you DON'T have in your purse that you wish you did? I have the things I need.

What do you think of people that talk like a trucker? (Swears profusely): Ehh. It can get to be too much.

Have you ever met a fat man that smelled like a dirty cigar? Uh...

What's your favorite kind of pepper: Green, Yellow, or Red? I can’t spicy stuff anymore. 

When driving, what does the yellow light mean to YOU personally? It means to slow down.

What's the coolest thing you made in sewing class? I’ve never taken a sewing class.

Fave chip brand & flavor: Doritos, Lays, Old Dutch, Ms.Vickies or Cheetos? Doritos Cool Ranch or Nacho Cheese. I used to like the Doritos Fiery Nacho and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, but again I can’t eat that stuff anymore.

Does your cat have a really nice coat, or really nice eyes? Why do you assume I have a cat?

Do you like to have ice in your drinks? Doesn't it dilute the drink though? No, I don’t. 

Is the smell of cigars absolutely DISGUSTING? Yes. Cigarettes and cigars make me feel really sick when around them. The smell and smoke give me a headache, make my heart race, and give me nausea. 

Do you get more bad luck, good luck, or a nice portion of both? I don’t believe in luck, but I’ve had my share of hardships and struggles.

Do you like the bands Paramore, Yellowcard and The Acadamy Is...? I DO! =] Yeah. I was really into them back in the day.

Do you like whip cream and chocolate sauce on top of your coffee sometimes? Whipped cream with like mochas and lattes. 

Do herbs, salts and spices seriously make a difference in your meal? Absolutely. Especially garlic. We add garlic to a lot of our foods in my house. It’s just so good.

[louisewahlander]

about me

From - Wed Feb 24 20:07:50 1999

*Name: Louise Izan Elin, Wahlander Lind (eh, kinda long, i know!!) *Sex: Female *Age: 23 on april 19 *Hometown: Norberg Sweden *Location: Varies, but at the moment Norberg Sweden *Height:  5'8 (173cm...i dunno if that's 5'8, but someone told me it is) *Eye Colour: Turqoise blue *Hair Colour & Style: At the moment blue-black...it varies, ALOT! *Favorite Relative:hmmmm...definately not my dad! But my grandma really...(mom's mom)...she's the best, and my cousins on my mom's side... I hate the relatives on dad's side, don't have contact w/anyone of them, not even dad... *Favorite Friend: My best friend Courtney, i wouldn't be able to live without her... And Hannes, the asshole, he hasn't been in touch in, i dunno how long!   *What do you remember most about this year: About 99? Eh...nothing really, i forget easily...   *Favorite TV Show: Oh...just one???? Dharma & Greg...or maybe OLD X-files! Also documentaries and art/fashion/design shows...   *What's on your mouse pad: Cepus Data www.cepus.se (it's not mine) I don't have a mousepad for my own puter...it's a laptop so it's built in... *In the car... A/C or Open Windows?: Both   *Favorite Game: board or computer? Board: Operation (it's not as pervy as it sounds!!!) Puter:...soo many, i really like Zelda!   *Favorite Magazine: Sleazenation, The Face (altho i HATE the photography innit, too hyped!), art/fashion/design mags... and various zines! *Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Guinness or Cider & Blackcurrant *Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Coke!!! and water, i drink 3 litres of water everyday!! (that's why i pee alot, he he) *Favorite Sound: Rain! the ocean too! *Favorite Smell: My perfume oil Oceanus, i don't wear it alot now, but when i do i get flashbacks of Belfast :) And my Vanilla perfume oil, when i smell that i get flashbacks from  my highschool time (ofcourse out of school activities, i've boxed up all school memories in the back of my head!!) And i like the smell of my dog when she's freshly bathed, and Hannes' smell... *Worst Feeling in the world: Beeing depressed, i mean really depressed, so they have to put you in councelling and on medication! And anxiety attacks, panic attacks...ugh! *Best Feeling in the world: Beeing in love. Managing things on my own, showing my dad and his parents that i am worth something, that i do really well on my own, not needing their help, showing them that they are all assholes!!!!! *Favorite thing to do on weekends: Stay on the computer, write letters & poetry, read... *Favorite Soundtrack: I really like the Empire Records soundt. And Carmina Burana (eh, i guess it's actually opera)...Le Grand Bleu... *How do you see yourself in 10 yrs.: Living somewhere else than Sweden!!! Working as a photographer...   *Do you get motion sickness: I never used to, but it's starting now, i even have to eat pills when i'm going on longer car trips, i can manage short trips, but i still feel really sick tho... :( *What's the first thing you thought when you woke up this morning: I don't think i even had a thought, i was dead as a zombie!! But probably...Oh, noooo, not morning!! Not yeeeet....   *Pen or Pencil? Rotring Rapidograph pen...it costs bloody £20 but they are oh so worth it!! The best pen ever (i'm not a designer pen freak, but i need them for my art!) *Future Son's Name: Noah or Callum or maybe Callum-Noah *Future Daughter's Name: Kayla or Towe...wow you know, i have a thing for names, and i collect wierd ones, write them down in a book...i have sooo many... I also like Ruska which means fall-glow in finish. I also like Saoirse (irish) *Chocolate or Vanilla Cake: Chocolate *Do you drive: No, i bike! Ha ha ha... *Do you sleep w/a stuffed animal?: They're in my bed, this dog i've had since i was little, and a Care Bear...i don't cuddle with them, but they can stay in my bed... *If you could meet one person, living or dead.. who would it be? Living, it would have to be Courtney, i miss her... Dead it would have to be...i dunno, Jayne Mansfield maybe, or Nancy Spungen (i would bring Courtney with me to see her, for we both love her)...or ANDY WARHOL!!! The whole Factory gang!! or...or...or... *What's your Zodiac Sign?: Aries *What do you wear to bed?: T-shirt or a slip *Do you eat stems of broccoli?: I'm a vegetarian, so i eat all of the broccoli...   *If you could have any occupation, when you get older what would it be?: Well...i'm working on becoming a photographer! *If you could dye your hair one colour what would it be?: If i didn't dye my hair it would be naturally red-brown... I haven't had my natural haircolor since i was like 12... People say too much hair dyeing will make your hair fall out...They're all lying, believe me, i would be bald by now if they were right!!   *If you could have one tattoo, what & where would it be?: I have three black tribal ones...left upperarm, right underarm and right side of the collarbone... *Favorite Brand of Gum?: Any brand as long as it tastes fresh and the taste lasts long! *Favorite Quote?: "Who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear!" Lucas is Empire Records *Have you ever been in love?: Yes *What's on the walls in your bedroom?: Lotsa stuff... A photo-art-thing i made, a indonesian balsawood mask, bookshelves, photos of friends (and i mean like a million of pix, in and out of frames), faerie pictures by Amy Brown, some prints that my friend Vicki made in art school... *Is the glass half full or empty: Empty *Pick a song that describes you: The Perfect Girl by Cure (and i'm not saying i'm perfect...just read the lyrix and you'll know: "You're such a strange girl, i think u come from another world. You're such a strange girl, i really don't understand a word. You're such a strange girl, i want to shake you around and around. You're such a strange girl, i want to turn you all upside down. You're such a strange girl, the way you look like u do. You're such a strange girl, i want to be with you..." Someone once said the song reminded her of me...) *Which do you prefer, Nacho Cheese or Cool Ranch Doritos?: I dunno, don't even have them here... *Favorite Snapple: I never remember the names, but it's purple/plum coloured...oh, wait, that's Fruitopia, not Snapple... *Favorite Movies: Empire Records (i know every word in it!) Rocky Horror Picture Show (know every word in it!), The Craft, B.S. Dracula...oh, Labyrinth is probably my abs. fave!!!! loads more!   *Coke or Pepsi?: I'm a coke-aholic, so Coke!!! But not british coke, it's got a lame taste... *If you were to kill someone, which method would you choose: Pills (do u know if u giva a cat aspirin it'll die, half a pill is enough... No i'm not a wierdo, i just heard it on the tv once...)   *Are you a righty, lefty or ambidextrous?: I am what? Is this about polictics???? I'm left...social democratic... *Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? Both, but i type faster when i don't have to give a damn about the right fingers on right keys...   *When you meet a person of the same sex, what do you first notice? Well, i can't help it, but i look at the attitude before bodyparts! I guess when people meet me, they all think i'm a bitch at first, cuz i can get really cold and evil, and if they can handle me or if they are like me, i like them... So i try to find out if they're like me the first thing i do... If i don't like the person, i can just sit and stare evil-y (is that even a word) at them... I'm not a bitch, really, i just have strange ways, he he... But i can be really sweet too...oh, sorry, this question wasn't about me...   *If you could do anything to the person you hated most, what would you do? I'm not a violent person, so i would probably just stare at the person with my most evil look and hope she/he would drop dead by it... *Which do prefer: Mud or Jell-O wrestling?: Jell-O would be fun!   *What's under your bed?: Dust, dust and some...dust... *What's your dream car?: Don't have one, but if i ever get a license to drive (i haven't even tried) i'd like some old strange model or a London Cab...he hee, i could never drive a new car, not even a semi-new...   *Favorite Holiday: Holiday as in vacation or season? Vacation: to some big city... Season: Halloween... *Say something nice about the person who sent this to you: Hmmm...he he, okay... You're a nice person, funny, i like to talk to you on the chat... ... what can i say, haven't known you for so long...

Hey! I've gotten these things before and passed along to all my friends, so this time i'm just sending it back to you... Hope i haven't wrecked your image about me, by answering these questions, he he...?

-izan xo