#also Maybe a Mercury post? Her nickname is Freddie hahaha

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Ahdianodensn I haven’t posted in almost a week!

First off happy Valentine’s Day, my contribution to the day is,

My silly Oc gets to be in my guilty pleasure ship (please they are thematic and in my heart where Mercury is a real character and Octavian doesn’t die they help each other through processing their trauma and are so silly-) also Ares because after watching the episode more everytime I see him I spontaneously combust.

Anyway the next post will be about ToA hidden Oracle, I’m finishing the book and I’ve been bookmarking things that looking interesting and that I wanna talk about, which I’ll compile into a post and hahahaha.

Anyway uh Happy Valentine’s Day and Lupercalia to all. Possibly a New Rome/Camp Jupiter festivals post if I don’t get to finishing Hidden Oracle in a timely manner.

(Also another map post. It’ll finally be there soon I pinky promise.)

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And Then…there was Ice Cream

So @marisolinspades messaged me at 6:20 AM this morning saying: “Ok, I cannot wait any longer tell me about the ice cream outing” lmao so without further ado…

So Blondie, her two roommates, and I finally went out for ice cream last night

(for those who don’t know – this all started when Blondie and one of her roommates (let’s call her Seraphim) literally saved my life a little less than a month ago – here’s the original post and the rest are tagged under “Ballerina, you must’ve seen her”) –

So all day yesterday I purposely loaded up my day with work so I wouldn’t literally lose my mind overthinking the outing hahaha – I just kept myself focused – doing paying work, finishing a book, blasting Queen on vinyl cuz it was Freddie Mercury’s birthday and I wanted to channel Freddie Mercury’s coolness but of course that’s impossible because nobody will ever be nearly as cool as Freddie Mercury, let’s be honest…

And then my neighbors who are one door down from me (Blondie is two doors down from me) – let’s call my closer neighbors Tarzan & Jane (lmao – they read these posts too so I hope you’re not offended by your nicknames guys!) helped me put a nice shirt over my T-shirt (I didn’t want to go overboard cuz it wasn’t a date but I also wanted to show Blondie I think she’s worth dressing up for?  I dunno maybe it was too much but I did look good, so whatevs.)

Anyway, I’d been pretty calm up until that point until about an hour before we were gonna go – so @wonkwizard very kindly messaged back and forth with me to keep me from

which was very kind of her.  Thank you!

Anyway, so Blondie, Seraphim, and let’s call her other roommate Brownie (you’ll see why in a bit) are finally walking to the ice cream store across the street from our apartment complex (well, I’m rolling) and we start talking about what ice cream flavors are our favorites (Seraphim asks me, “[Bundles], what’s your fave flavor of ice cream?”  and of course I immediately blurt out “mint choc chip!” (because it is objectively the best – FIGHT ME!) and they’re all like “that’s [Blondie’s] favorite too!” And then Blondie goes “yeah – and my second favorite is cookie dough” And I’m like !!! cuz that’s my second favorite too (which I told her))

I mean, ok, it’s not that big a deal cuz it’s just compatible ice cream flavor tastes – but let’s just say our tongues like the same things, know what I mean? :D :D :D :D

Also – I hadn’t really noticed this before but Blondie is a lot taller than I thought she was (or maybe her friends are just short?) – anyway – with me sitting down in my wheelchair the top of my head is at chin level with her friends but with her it’s at shoulder level or even a bit lower – which means I’m at eye level with her backside so I had to keep looking away when she stepped in front of me to order ice cream so I wouldn’t objectify her with my male gaze, cuz, well, to quote Tina Belcher:

Also also – for a ballerina she’s super klutzy hahaha (and it’s kind of super adorable) like when we were walking along the sidewalk (she mostly walked beside me – which, aww!) she kept falling off the sidewalk into like the bushes or whatever and I was worried it was cuz I accidently drove her off the sidewalk (cuz my wheelchair is basically tank-sized) but she was like “no, you’re fine – this happens all the time!”)

And then when we got our ice cream (she sat across from me at the table!!!!  And she had a choice too – I sat down first – so she would have a choice if she didn’t feel comfortable sitting across from me) she got a mint choc chip cone and dripped it all over herself (I really don’t think it’s cuz I was making her nervous or anything, I think she’s just a klutz lmao)

so I had to tell them all about how in high school I was even less coordinated than her (to make her feel better but also cuz it’s true) and I was super self-conscious (about my disability – and also, ironically, there was this other blonde girl – but that’s a whooooooooooole other long story…) so at school I just never ate anything cuz I was terrified I’d get it all over me and people would be like “ew” but over the years, I’ve found people don’t actually go “ew” when people drop stuff on themselves – like when Blondie did it I just went ‘awww’ hahaha

In any case, this is why I went with the safe, mint choc chip shake option – no spillage there! I was very smooth.  

This is getting hella long – so let me go through the highlights of our ice cream conversations –

It’s very hard to get to know 3 people at once.  I did my best, but I didn’t find out too too much – we were only there for like 40 mins, after all – but they are all interesting, sweet people and they seem to like me.

So I think in the end they found out more about me then I learned about them (which I’m totally cool with – the more she knows about me the more informed opinions she can make about me) – cuz I tend to talk a lot because awkward silences terrify me so I just keep talking if I feel one coming – even so, though, I was able to keep asking questions about them and their interests though – so I think it was balanced? I dunno I know a lot of men think conversations are balanced when in reality they did most of the talking so I hope I’m not like that…

Brownie didn’t have any ice cream cuz she’s not the “biggest fan” (????) so I asked her what snack is her favorite and she said brownies (see!  I told you I’d explain her nickname lol) – so maybe I should bring them brownies later in the week seeing as how she missed out on the treat?  I can’t decide if that would be a baller move or weird?  When you like a girl it’s good to ingratiate yourself with her friends, right?  What do you kids think?

Anyway - I tried to explain the place in New York where I grew up and I said, you know in the X-men – their mansion is supposed to be in the county I grew up in (which I always found amusing because the county I grew up in would definitely not allow mutants within 50 miles of their jurisdiction lmao – they wouldn’t even let McDonald’s set up in my town cuz it was considered too low class hahaha) and when I said that they were all like

And I’m like “…you’ve seen the X-Men movies, right?”  And they all shook their heads and I was like ?????????? – I thought the X-Men were a staple of American culture but I guess not?  I am incredibly nerdy lmao – and then I started to worry that maybe she’s not nerdy enough for me

but then I realized that while being nerdy together works for many couples it’s not necessarily mandatory – what matters is the heart and soul and plus people who like other people become more interested in the things their significant others are passionate about – like for example, when my brother met his eventual wife he was a dyed in the wool conservative and now he’s far left hahaha – and his wife said she hated scifi but he gradually got her into Firefly and Star Wars and Star Trek and now she likes it quite a lot – I mean their eldest Shiba is named Kohaku Falkor for the gods’ sakes!  Like why am I limiting things just cuz she doesn’t like all the random eccentric crap I like?

In any case – Blondie has told me she likes reading fantasy books – and I’m like 90% sure she wasn’t talking about erotica although she was slightly cagey about exactly what fantasy books she likes so who knows? lmao

I also told them about how old I am (I was talking about my siblings’ ages and was able to slip it in) – so it’s up to her if she’s comfortable with the age gap (I’m pretty sure it’s about seven or so years – I’m not totally sure though cuz obviously I’m too polite to ask a lady how old she is hahaha) (sexist manners are hard to break kids) –

I also found out Blondie only has one sibling so I’m thinking even more that she’s not Mormon cuz those peoples’ White Jesus mandates them to breed like jackrabbits basically so Mormon families usually have like eleventy billion children…

OK – so let’s get to the most important moment - Seraphim was talking about how she’s a snowboarder and so I asked Blondie “do you snowboard as well?” and she said “no, I ski.” And I said “That makes sense, you don’t seem like the snowboarding type.” And Seraphim laughs and goes “what’s that supposed to mean?” and kids….

it must’ve been all the Queen music I’d been listening to all day cuz it was as if the spirit of Freddie Mercury himself descended from the very fires of heaven and possessed me and I communed with my avatar state which gave me this mystical yet all too brief supernatural surge of effortless coolness

 because before I even really thought about saying these words, they fired confidently forth from my soul: “I mean that [Blondie] is just too elegant for snowboarding, is all.” And Blondie started laughing her ass off and she might’ve blushed I’m not sure though (I hope she didn’t think I was making fun of her for being a klutz – I did say it from a place of pure genuineness though so I hope that came across) – and then I immediately felt bad I’d insulted Seraphim – so I quickly said, “not that snowboarding is bad – it’s just more cool than elegant – and you’re cool” and by that point they were all laughing so I don’t think any of them took it badly...

So following that Moment of Zen we decided to head back and I let them walk out the door first (cuz I’m a gentleman) but then I told them that if they ever get tired of that kind of sexist b.s. from me they can just tell me to go first (and I told them the story of when @lmnp and I stood outside a door in the snow for an hour and a half that one time cuz we were both too stubborn to go in first but that @lmnp eventually won cuz I was being a sexist dick hahahaha)

Then at the end of the night, I said to Blondie – “this was fun, we should do this (or something else) again – if you want.”  And she said something like – “yeah sure” and smiled

Then when I got back to my apartment, about twenty minutes later I sent her a text saying how “I keep forgetting – but here’s my full name – and you can add me on Facebook if you want.”  (I want to friend her on Facebook cuz A) I still don’t know her full name and B) to see if she has a significant other) (not that Facebook is like the official way of finding that out – I mean she could have a secret lover, who knows, but it’s more info, you know?)  And she (after like 2 hrs) texted me back saying she had fun and that she’s not on Facebook too much but she’ll definitely add me.  

Anyway, I’m incredibly long winded – but, to quote Bilbo Baggins – it was undoubtedly “a night to remember…”