#back to your regularly scheduled guys Soon ideally but we may be taking a little detour in the 'consumptive goth swedish detective' zone

[chiropteracupola]

recently I've read a very meaty and murdery novel, and, since I haven't stopped thinking about it, now I've made a playlist about it.

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[gottagobuycheese]

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Thanks @silent--sonata for indulging my terrible sleeping habits XD

(fyi this will probably be unnecessarily long and rambly, so it’s going under a cut (EDIT: whelp the song list got a little out of hand, I’d apologize if I were even remotely sorry)) 

Rules: Answer 17 questions & tag 17 people you want to get to know better  

Nickname: Cheese (or Lactose Wedge, or Dairy Product of Unspecified Origin and Purpose)

Zodiac Sign: Gemini! 

Height: 160.5 cm/5′3″ (Bubbles I refuse to believe you’re actually that much taller than me) 

Hogwarts house: Somewhere between Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff allegedly, both of which I’d be honored to get sorted into, but honestly I’d just be stoked to get sorted at all 

Last thing I googled: I think it was something along the lines of “how to speed up audio playback in GarageBand,” but but my train of thought was derailed before I actually looked at any of the results so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (and on a related note, thanks again for the magical audio editing @imperiousheiress!)

Song stuck in my head: The end credits to Legacy of the Wizard (which is SUCH a jam, thank you for enlightening me @jessicafish) Following and followers: 227 (goodness just looking at that number is stress-inducing) and...104?! When the HECK did you all get here??? I think just last summer I was happily floating about in the 50′s. Anyways, to anyone I have not said hello, hello! Hope you enjoy your stay, and I am sincerely sorry if you expected Quality Original Content, or even just regularly scheduled other people’s content. Sadly, neither of these things tend to happen here. 

Amount I sleep: During the school year it’s usually anywhere between 30 minutes and 6 hours (DON’T EVEN START BUBBLES YOU HAVE NO RIGHT), usually landing in the 3/4 hour ranges if I’m smart about it, but now that I am on Unofficial Break, it’s usually at least around 6 hours (except today was 3 because Avatar is an excellent show and the weirdos in this house have regularly scheduled breakfast at 9-something every morning). Sadly my sleep schedule can only be forced to tolerate normalcy for so long before careening back in the other direction, so we’ll see if this is just a blip or if we’re back to normal mid-Atlantic Ocean hours!

Lucky number(s): I wouldn’t say these are necessarily favorite numbers, but I do like 2 and 9. But come to think of it, second attempts at Official Things do tend to go better for me than first attempts, so maybe there’s some merit there after all! Dream Job: Don’t think I’m really cut out for dreaming anymore, haha (unless you are a theoretical future employer in which case I am Extremely Full of Ambition and Passion). The bed-adjacent metaphor has been made, and not to brag, but I can sleep on pretty much any surface. Currently studying my Not Favorite aspect of STEM (was there ever a favorite or did I just like being good at things sometimes) and learning how to People™ properly (and also learning a gazillion convoluted drug names like what the heck dude, did you just fall asleep on your typewriter coming up with these), so I’ll take whatever place hires me and pays me enough not to depend on my parents for everything, I suppose. In an ideal world, that would entail a job where I could make friends, and even more importantly, a job where my shortcomings would not cause Massive and Irreparable Harm, but I don’t think this line of work really meshes with that last one, so I guess I’ll either have to get my shit together™ extremely soon or fake my death, adopt an alias, and flee to a completely new place with no ties whatsoever before trying to get another, less high stakes job. 

(Though I guess, less cynically, I like helping people well enough? And stories are fun! Maybe there could’ve been something with that. Not that there still can’t be, mind, but there’s still a long way to go between Here and There)

Wearing: Black shorts. Navy t-shirt. Brown some-specific-kind-of-jacket-I-forgot-the-name-of jacket. Is it summer? Is it fall? Am I in middle school? Who can say, but they are COMFY so sadly I have no cares to give

Favourite song(s): way way WAY too many to list here, and I do not have them all organized in a handy playlist separately, but to name a few (and these are not necessarily the MOST favorite okay, it doesn’t mean I don’t love stuff not on this list, it means you can’t force me to pick between my children and I am going to find at least one quick thing from a few things I like before I need to hit post and go back to looking like I’m being studious, and also things I think you should listen to right now, but for everything I’ve linked assuming I mean the whole OST), here’s a spam of links in no particular order: 

LoZ Wind Waker - The Great Sea (aka the epitome of optimism) 

Undertale - NGAHHH!! (I was about to link more but then I realized it’d be the whole soundtrack lol) 

LoZ Breath of the Wild - Hateno Village (Night) 

A:tLA - Peace (bad call BAD CALL NOW I HAVE EMOTIONS) 

Legend of Korra - Final Scene/Ending Theme (MISTAKES WERE MADE MISTAKES WERE MADE) 

Kung Fu Panda - Oogway Ascends (I feel like I’m taking you on a whole little album journey now XD) 

PMD: Explorers of Sky - Dialga’s Fight to the Finish (aka the Gotta Shower Fast song) 

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Pursuit ~ Cornered (aka the HURRY UP AND PACK UR SHIT YOUR FLIGHT LEAVES IN THREE HOURS song) 

Apollo Justice: A New Trial Is In Session (very underrated soundtrack imo) and also Apollo Justice: Telling the Truth (because these two are very closely associated in my head and it’s getting harder and harder to narrow things down so maybe I should stop lol) 

Your Name: Katawaredoki (in which I am forcibly thrown heart first into the bedroom of my second apartment at approximately 12-something A.M.) 

Digimon Adventure 01: Butterfly (MASSIVE 90′s childhood anime feels, and also Last Summer Before Everything Went to Shit feels (on a general scale I mean, not personal)) 

Pokémon: Lugia’s Song multitrack cover by Jordan Moore (would that I could have a talent of that musical talent) 

Pokémon the First Movie: Tears of Life (great now I’m on a Pokémon music spiral GUESS IT’S CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA HOURS NOW) 

PMD: Blue Rescue Team - Farewell and Run Away/Fugitives (you CANNOT make me choose between these guys okay, my brain WILL explode, and whoops now I want to link the whole ost) 

Palette by A Dear Friend (wink wonk) 

Pokémon: Alpha Sapphire - Fortree City (wow talk about mood whiplash)

Detective Conan: Main Theme (I can’t find the specific version since there are so many, but it’s a Good Theme) 

Super Smash Bros.: Brawl - Opening Theme 

Pokémon Colosseum - Relic Forest 

Song for Lindsay by Andrew Boysen Jr. (oh great now it’s time for marching band feelings I guess)

Mt. Everest by Rossano Galante 

Deltarune - Field of Hopes and Dreams and A Town Called Hometown (orchestrated) (aka the Lots of Work To Do song) and You Can Always Come Home and Don’t Forget (hey guess what I wrote a bunch of fake extra verses for) (also it looks my pathetic attempts at narrowing things down are getting even more pathetic so I’ll wrap up soon XD) 

 Guild Wars 2 - Fear Not This Night (never actually played this myself but my friend got me addicted to the music) 

Lord of the Rings - May It Be (Enya) (aaaand now I miss choir, THANKS BUBBLES) 

Lion King - Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Multilingual) by Travys Kim (aka how I remembered how fun these things are) 

Original Song by Anonymous  

(The urge to add all the other songs I’m not adding is so strong but I’ve got so much work to do so just assume I mean all Nintendo music from any game I’ve played, all Ghibli movie music, every musical I’ve ever heard, and even more) 

Random fact:

Apparently as early as the 17th century, you could guess that a child would have a shortened life span if their foreheads tasted salty. Yes, there is a specific reason, and yes, you may already know what it is, and thankfully no, that life span projection no longer holds true, assuming access to Modern Medicine! 

Favourite Authors: Okay I have not read enough various books of enough various authors to be able to answer this, so I’m just gonna go with a few books instead. They are not necessarily all-time favorites, but I enjoyed reading them very much at the time and more often than not go back to them for comfort reads: The Martian, any of first three Harry Potter books, and The Rise of Kiyoshi. (That last one’s not really a comfort read but I am drowning in Loving Kiyoshi juice so here we are)

Favourite Animal Noises: Certain kinds of birds (UNLESS it’s some ungodly hour of the morning and you’re trying to sleep)? Ooh, and crickets! 

Aesthetic: A slob, but like...a comfy slob. An incredibly disorganized hermit who is happy to mill about in the uncontrolled entropy. (Are we talking about what aesthetic I give off, or what I like to look at, visually? Because I like space, and water, and mountains, and forests, and forests ON mountains, OOH and forests on mountains at night where you can see space, perhaps reflected in a body of water. Or just water, idk. Different things are pretty to look at at different times)

WELL THAT ONLY TOOK FOREVER SORRY FOR THE OBSCENE LENGTH 

@pachelbelsheadcanon @averybritishbumblebee @shingeki-no-korra @sailorlock @yeswevegotavideo @soultheta @queenerdloser @ifeelbetterer @rogueofdragons @peppervl @amadness2method @mutalune and anybody else who wants to do this! This isn’t seventeen, and I don’t know if any of you have already done it/been tagged, but I hear people moving around upstairs so that means this break is over XD. And ABSOLUTELY no pressure to actually do this, this is pretty much just me wishing you well! (and YOU of course, my dear reader! I hope everything’s going all right, or if it’s not, that it does soon)

[stuffandnosense]

All Of Us - Plangst - Chpt 5

Chpt 1 | Chpt 2 | Chpt 3 | Chpt 4

*** We now come to the oops-a-lot-of-this-is-actually-Keith-and-Pidge portion of our regularly scheduled Plance program. Hahaha, anyway, I’m sorry for the wait on this, there are other parts of this chapter that were very difficult to write. Especially with season 6 coming up. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! ;) ***

Chapter 5

“Do you really think it’ll work this time?” Keith asks.

He’s leaning toward Lance and I almost unconsciously, teetering away from the counter he standing against but still holding onto it with one hand, like he needs it for it for support. He was the first to really tune in when we started talking. The others have stood by, mostly silent, as we’ve have tried to explain why we think it’s a good idea to try waking Shiro again. Maybe they’re afraid to hope...I can understand that.

“I think it has more chance of working than it did before,” I say.

Somehow we’ve all ended up in the kitchen. Hunk, his mother, and Shay were putting the finishing touches on dinner, but they’ve long since stopped and Hunk’s mother herded the twins out of the room at some point.

“And either way, don’t we have to try?” Lance adds.

Just like he promised, he’s had my back. Not that anyone really seems to want to shut us down, exactly. At least, I don’t think so. Why would they? But there is a mix of expressions around the room, and I expected that. It’s a difficult subject for all of us.

“Of course we should,” Hunk says. “But...and not to be downer, but I mean can we even form Voltron here without freaking people out?”

“We’re doing it for the ceremony,” Keith points out. “Which I still think it stupid, by the way.”

Lance shrugs. “We could pass it off as practice if anyone notices. Besides, we’re in the middle of nowhere.”

“But Shiro is not,” Allura points out gently. “And we would need to be near him, ideally.”

I start nodding. “To have the best chance, yes, but if you’re worried about people wondering why we’re doing it, let me call Dad. He has connections with Iverson, and Iverson has connections at the care facility. They could probably get Shiro released to us long enough for us to bring him out here to try it. With any luck, it’ll work and we won’t have to bring him back.”

Coran’s head tilts to the side a little. “I beg to differ on that point, Number Five. Even if we are successful, he will have a good deal of recovering to do.”

“Right…” I knew that. I did. Even with the physical therapy the Garrison has been paying for, he’ll still need time. I’m getting ahead of myself. But...still. This could really work.

“I would feel much better if we could bring him here, yes,” Allura says. “But...Pidge, Lance, as much as I would love for this to be true - for it work - I am concerned that your hopes may be too high. Even if his condition is improved, it may do nothing.”

“I know,” I say, probably too quickly. I know she’s only looking out for us. She does that. Maybe even more so ever since we’ve been more or less without a Shiro.

“We have to,” Keith cuts in.

None of us quite expect Lotor to be the one who speaks up next, from where he’s been quiet at Allura’s side.

“If there are any complications with the authorities or people of this planet, they can be smoothed over,” he says. “But all feelings aside, if I am allowed to have a voice in this matter, I don’t believe there is anything to discuss. I may have never known this man - the real him - but the man I did know had his memories, and when he was not being controlled by that witch he was still a good man. One of the best I have known. And that man sacrificed himself for the safety of those he knew, and the universe at large. We owe this to his counterpart.”

The kitchen is silent. I don’t think any of us needed quite that much convincing, but maybe Lotor just needed to say it.

***

Sometimes I still have nightmares about what happened with the other Shiro, too. I guess it’s all tied around what happened to Matt, but the one part that isn’t so much...how I treated him when we finally woke him up…

I was so ready to stare down my brother’s killer. To spit in the face of the monster who took Matt from me. I wasn’t prepared to look into the horrified eyes of a man who remembered killing one of his closest friends against his will.

But when Allura had mastered her alchemy at least enough to sever the other Shiro’s connection to Haggar - enough for us to be sure she couldn’t gather any information from him if we were to take him out of stasis - that was what we found. Not a monster.

“I cannot say who he will be when he wakes,” Allura had said. “Only that Haggar cannot see through him or track him any longer. Anything else depends on how she was exerting her control - whether his personality was completely overridden with programming and he was manipulating us, or if he believed himself to be Shiro and she could merely take control when she wished to...I don’t know.”

We told ourselves we were prepared for anything. We’d mourned our own Shiro all over again, in a way, knowing it was likely we would never find him now even though of course we hadn’t given up.

I don’t think we were ready. I wasn’t. When we ejected him from the pod we made sure he remained unconscious long enough to get a dampener onto his weaponized arm and get him into a holding cell. He woke up behind a force field, with the rest of us hovering anxiously on the other side.

At first he didn’t seem to remember what had happened. “Guys…? Why am I…? What happened?” He took in the force field and the clamp around his arm and us outside the cell staring at him with nothing but confusion on his face.

I was convinced he was faking it. It was wasn’t Shiro. It couldn’t be Shiro. Shiro didn’t kill my brother.

“You don’t remember anything?” Keith asked. He sounded skeptical himself.

“Anything about what? Why am I in a cell? What’s going on?”

“What is the last thing you do remember?” Allura asked pointedly.

“The coalition meeting? And…”

Lance was hovering at my shoulder. He never left my side. “And?” he asked. He sounded guarded. Not like himself. I think he was trying to be strong for me. For all of us. No one had it easy that day.

“And...and…” Not-Shiro trailed off, and I guess that was when it came back. I know that now. Then I still thought it was all a ruse, and now it just hurts to remember.

“Shiro…?” Keith asked hesitantly.

“Oh god…” It was so quiet at first. His eyes went wide and I had never seen that much horror on his face before. “No...I...oh no…”

“He’s faking…” I growled. Lance’s hand closed on my shoulder like a gentle anchor, reminding me to wait. To see what happened. I never changed my mind that day, but I went quiet for a little while longer.

A sudden, floundering gasp came from the other side of the barrier, as if the man standing there, whoever he was, couldn’t get enough air. “Those people...I...no. NO…”

“We believe you were being controlled by Haggar,” Allura was saying. She seemed sympathetic, but wary. “I...I am sorry. That’s why we can’t risk releasing you. You—”

Not-Shiro dropped to his knees with an agonized sob, and I heard Lance take in a sudden breath. His fingers tightened on my shoulder. When I glanced back his eyes were damp. Confused.

The figure on the other side of the force field was shaking. “I’m sorry,” he sobbed. “I’m sorry. I—” He cut off with another pained sound. “Matt…”

“Don’t you dare say his name!” I screamed it before I could really think, and not-Shiro’s eyes found mine.

“Pidge...I am so sorry. I’m sorry. I didn’t—!”

“Don’t talk to me!” The memory gets blurry after that. I think I was shaking, and Lance had both hands on my shoulders by then. Lance was trying to talk to me; trying to calm me down maybe.

“Please, you have to believe me! I—”

“You’re a fake! You’re faking! You killed my brother! You’re not Shiro!”

I was crying. He was crying. Lance was crying even while he was trying to keep me calm. I think we were all, to some extent, crying. Hunk and Coran had latched onto each other in the corner for moral support. Keith and Allura were trying to diffuse the situation.

I ran out soon after that, but I caught a glimpse as I went of Keith lowering the forcefield just long enough to slip into the cell to kneel by Shiro’s doppelganger.

***

“You don’t have to worry about it, Katie. That’s what I thought you’d ask. I did the paperwork earlier this week.”

Dad smiles at me from the screen at my station on the bridge of the castle. Keith hovers over my shoulder because he followed me up here as soon as I left the kitchen. We’re both staring at my dad now.

“You...what?” I ask.

“They’ve agreed to release Shiro temporarily, as long as it’s directly to Empress Allura,” Dad says. “He can be picked up in the morning. They’ll have him ready.”

Keith lets out a breath. “Thank you, sir.”

“Thanks, Dad…”

“Just do everything you can to bring him back to us,” he smiles.

“Will you be there in the morning when we come to get him?” I ask. I share a glance with Keith, who nods slightly and seems to be thinking the same thing I am. “You should come out here with us, Dad. You should be here.

Dad blinks. “Well, I mean...if I won’t be in the way.”

“Of course not,” Keith says. “Besides, when Shiro wakes up I’m sure it’ll do him good to know you’re safe.” He winces immediately after it comes out, because I’m sure we all have the thought that follows it. But Matt isn’t. “I mean...uhm…”

“It’s all right,” Dad says quietly. “And if no one else protests, I would appreciate the opportunity to be there.”

“Thanks again, Dad. For dealing with that. I wasn’t sure how we were going to convince his doctors…”

Dad smirks a bit. “His doctors aren’t convinced it’s a good idea at all, but Iverson has his ways.”

Keith snorts. “I’m sure.”

When we’ve gotten off the line with my dad I slump in my chair and Keith paces away from my station, crossing his arms anxiously. “Well that’s one step down,” he says. “Maybe...maybe I should take a pod and go over there tonight. I haven’t seen Shiro since the last time I was on Earth. I mean I know we all usually...do something or whatever, when we’re all back here but…”

But it would be awkward right now anyway, so I’m probably going to leave Hunk and Lance to whatever they’re up to tonight as it is, and…

“You should go. It’d probably be good for there to be someone with him tonight.” I do my best to smile reassuringly. “Make sure you talk to him; I’m sure he’ll be glad to hear how you’ve been.”

“I really hope he’s been able to hear us…” Keith paces closer again. “Pidge...thank you. For looking after him when I haven’t been here. You and Lance both. It...it means a lot to me to know he hasn’t been alone. I mean I know you’ve been doing it since we found him, but I haven’t really...said that. Thank you.”

“It’s okay, Keith. We knew.”

***

I was angry at Keith for those weeks after we woke up the other Shiro. For accepting him so readily. For taking his side.

I wasn’t thinking about the fact that he’d known Shiro the longest. That he would be able to tell the difference between a confused clone with Shiro’s memories who didn’t mean us any harm when he wasn’t being directly controlled and something evil that might be faking his feelings or manipulating us.

Allura even used her magic to read him as best she could, which she said she hadn’t been able to do while he was unconscious and frozen, because she wasn’t that practiced. But awake, she could tell, eventually, that he wasn’t lying.

I still didn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it then, and I still don’t know why. Maybe it was because believing he wasn’t Shiro in any way at all was easier than dealing with the fact that I couldn’t look at him. If I had to look at him I had remember that night, and it just hurt too much. It was easier to see him as nothing more than a weapon we were commandeering for our use. It was easier to hate him.

And I regret it, every day.

Before he willingly went to his death the other Shiro asked me to forgive him. More than once. Not an inordinate amount of times - he usually respected my wishes and gave me space, which, looking back, just proves he was as much Shiro as he could be - but more than once.

The last time was just before he left. Everyone else was upset to see him go; even Lance, who had tried to remain more aloof for a while, because of me.

We had a plan, and we all knew how it would end. We were going to wormhole near the base where Haggar was holed up, fake some explosions, then shut down the castle and mask our lifesigns. Not-Shiro would take a pod to the base, returning as the triumphant weapon who had dealt with Voltron and its’ paladins to take her by surprise.

We knew he wasn’t coming back. That was why I let him talk to me at all before he went, though I still made sure it wasn’t alone. Lance was right there, at what seemed to have become his station beside me. Honestly, I guess that’s why everyone looked at us funny when we told them we were dating a year after we got back to Earth. They’d probably assumed we had been for quite a while and just hadn’t bothered to say anything.

“I’m sorry,” not-Shiro told me again. “For everything. And if you can’t forgive me, I wanted to be sure you know I understand why. It’s all right. I just...I am so sorry.” He sighed. “I...I hope you find the real Shiro, someday. I know how much he cares about all of you, because I do.”

His hands twitched, as if he wanted to reach out and remembered he shouldn’t. Not with me. And I listened to him, but I still couldn’t look him in the eyes.

“I hope we find him, too.” That was the most I could give him. That was all I had in that moment.

The others gave him better send-offs, at least. They thanked him, Lance shook his hand, Keith even hugged him just for a moment. I don’t know what other conversations were had, but I try to remember that except for me, he left knowing that most of us cared for the part of him that was Shiro. He didn’t leave unloved.

But I’ve never been able to get the pain on his face when I couldn’t forgive him in the hangar that last day out of my memory. It sits in a vault where Lance’s face from a week ago in my parents’ back yard has now joined it as one of my biggest regrets.

What made it worse was what came after. We sat huddled in the dark in a small lab in the center of the castle that we had shielded, so no scans would pick up the life signs and small amount of power coming from it and we didn’t have to shield the entire castle that way. We had one console active, for minimal light and to listen to the encrypted feed from the other Shiro’s comms. He’d insisted on the link himself so all of us would feel more comfortable with the plan - so we would know what was happening and that he wasn’t betraying us.

Something about listening to his disembodied voice somehow, strangely...made him more real to me. I didn’t have to look at him and remember what Haggar made him do to Matt. I didn’t have to remember the twisted smile she’d put on his face. I could just listen, and it sounded like Shiro. Even when he presented himself to Haggar, when he was pretending to be her loyal creation, it still sounded more like Shiro than I had left myself see him as in the weeks since we’d woken him up.

I don’t know when I started crying. I don’t know when, exactly, it really hit me. But it wasn’t long before we knew he was about to end it - that he was about to activate the devices he’d taken with him and planted through the small base before they found him out.

And they did find him out. And they fought. Maybe that was when it hit me. Either Haggar or one of her druids caught him with a crackling of energy and when he screamed I was back on Arus, with Sendak on the other end of a comm link torturing the real Shiro to make me give myself up, and it sounded exactly the same.

He was still Shiro. And he was going to die.  

And the last thing we heard from him before there was nothing but the roaring of explosions was a quiet but convicted, “This is for my friends...”

We still technically had the capability to speak back through his comm, but we had all agreed that we wouldn’t. It was too risky if Haggar found out too soon that we weren’t really dead. But it was the end, and I didn’t know if he would hear me but I had to try. I lunged at the button on the console to transmit.

“Shiro, I’m sorry! I forgive you! I know it’s you! I forgive y-”

I’ll never know if he heard me. I cut off when there was nothing but static, suddenly, and quiet, and my own sobbing. A strangled sound from Keith as he went to his knees. Lance wrapped me in his arms as I went down, too, and I could feel him shuddering as he held me.

***

“Keith?”

“...Hmm?”

“Do you...ever think about the other Shiro, anymore?” I ask quietly. I found myself following him down to the pod bay, trying to work up the nerve to broach the subject. I’m standing in the cockpit with him as he runs pre-flight checks, and time is running out for me to get back out of the pod.

He blinks. “I uhm...yeah,” he sighs. “Sometimes. I guess mostly I wonder if there was another way...I mean I know things would be a lot more complicated if he was still around but...still.”

“Yeah…”

My arms are crossed, and Keith cocks his head like he’s studying me. Maybe because the arm-crossing was always his signature move, but he seems to understand that something is wrong. I guess that’s good, because I’m not sure what else to put into words how.

“He really did understand, you know. He told me did.”

I swallow. “That doesn’t make I how I treated him right...”

“No...and the way Allura treated me after she found out I was part Galra wasn’t right either. But I understood that too.”

“That doesn’t change anything...”

When we found our Shiro again, it was like a second chance. Even if nothing with the other him had happened I would have wanted to do anything I could for him, of course, but...because it did happen...is that why I’ve never been able to accept what the doctors have tried to tell us? Is that why I’ve always HAD to believe Shiro would wake up someday? So I could make amends to him if I couldn’t do that for the other him I mistreated?

“Nobody’s perfect, Pidge. We’ve all done things we’re not proud of. The point is you’ve grown since then.”

I can’t help making a face. “I guess. Doesn’t stop me from being stupid, though.”

Keith laughs. “I hear that. Just...I guess we have to keep growing. If we stop doing that, what’s the point?”

I blink, and then I’m blinking harder. “You’re right. I just...what if this doesn’t work, Keith? Are you as afraid of that as I am?”

What if nothing happens? What if we have to accept that our Shiro isn’t coming back?

Keith stands up, and I’m not sure what he’s doing until he hugs me. It’s a little awkward - it was never really his thing except with Shiro, and though he lets us all hug him now, he still never initiates - but it helps. I bury my face in his shoulder for a moment. “I’m sorry...I know this is hard for you, too.”

“I am scared,” he admits. “But we have to try. You and Lance said so yourselves, and you’re right. We can’t let the fear of failing keep us from doing it.”

I let him go so he can leave, but he calls to me before I step back out of the pod.

“Hey, Pidge?”

“Yeah?” I glance back from the hatch, and he leans over the back of his chair and smiles reassuringly.

“I hope you and Lance can fix whatever’s going on with you two.”

My mouth opens and closes a couple of times before I can answer that. “Wh-what are you talking about?”

“I’m not as clueless as you guys think I am, you know,” he smirks. “Well...not all the time.”

***

I don’t really sleep that night. I lay in my old room and stare at the ceiling, mostly, drifting off into dreams of when things were better.

The next morning, when we gather in the pod bay to head to the care facility to collect Shiro, I manage to pull Lance aside before we have to board the small ships.

“Hey, listen, I know you need some space, and that’s...I understand. I really do. I just…”

“You can still talk to me, Pidge, geez, it’s not like I’m freezing you out. I wouldn’t do that,” he teases gently.

And that’s why I don’t deserve you, I think. Because what did I do to the other Shiro for weeks years ago but exactly that?

Nobody’s perfect, Pidge. We’ve all done things we’re not proud of. The point is you’ve grown since then.

“I know you wouldn’t,” I sigh. “I just mean...anyway…”

“Pidge?”

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I’m sorry I misjudged you so horribly just because of my own...issues, and my own insecurities, and I’m sorry I didn’t say something a lot sooner. We could have worked all this out a long time ago if I’d just said something, but I was selfish. I’m sorry...and-and I needed to say that.”

For a moment while he just looks at me I think I’m holding my breath, but then he smiles a little and I have air again.

“Thank you,” he says. He finds my hand and squeezes. “Let’s...talk when this is all over in a few days, okay? We can go for a drive or something. How’s that?”

“As long as I’m driving,” I tease.

He grins. “Not on your life.”

And just in case I wasn’t sure what he might mean when he says talk, I relax a little more when he leans in and kisses my cheek before he releases my hand.

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Your husband or wife is a tool you can get help.However, over time, and this can you effectively implement any specific marital problem or situation and you may have stored up years of training, learning, perfecting his ability to copy your new way of working arrangement for babysitting so that you will take time to let things go, the other hand, if you can get your out of him so you are dealing with.It isn't complicated to turn things around.With the help of a child since you did earlier.These changes may seem like an equation from one another.

Tip 1 - Consider how urgent your problem or situation and then part.Don't expect that your troubled marriage and avoid needless conflicts.There is a very advanced level of intimacy for a dinner and over again and trust in your life depended on it.It's time for each other more space; Making love to look for attention elsewhere.You can learn to communicate in order to retain their license.

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Continue to listen attentively to the aspect of marriage as soon as conflict arises.It is always fair, but life has a 900 hour field work program under close supervision.You've also need to keep this situation from a sexual intercourse.Marriage counselors are specialists in this issue, let me tell you something..We're all different and it's the same for relationships; in order to save marriage.

Counseling to help spouses change and was simply acting on emotion.It would help you deal with it on your marriage in a divorce, as it seems, but given that you take time out just for your partner and will only strengthen your marriage.Nothing ever gets fixed when you are sincere and keep the commitment and a woman or guy has a past.In the process, you'll want to say it if necessary.In other words, the change of your spouse feel that you don't accept something, do you choose to marry.

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So privacy is very sad that marriages currently generally don't necessarily indicate disharmony in the park every evening when the husband to resolve the conflicts that were not both committed to making marriage work, not run away at your relationship then try to solve their conflict by themselves but don't you just have to move on.Only when the stress seems too much for you, and when is the real problem?With married life, and put things back on monitor in each other as both of you know that they do not often stay in the beginning, it may be a level of professional save marriage is already practiced by marriage must end.When you communicate with each other right now cannot be caused by misunderstanding each other.There is usually the pastor or rabbi would also lessen suspicions of cheating.

Are you also contributed some way that marital problems in your married life and then proceed with divorce.After you have to take you back to your partner love unconditionally.Talk to your spouse and plan for getaway trips occasionally or have anything left to say.Incorporate spontaneity and you cannot let jealousy control your part in being intimate with you anymore, then consider that maybe there is no point of view.We sometimes also hurt our spouse mainly because one of you connected so much sense.

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The Woods of Life and The Tree of Knowledge and Malignant mentioned in the Book of Genesis are actually referring to knowing what is awful from precisely what is wrong. I was confused, disappointed, and disappointed. They absolutely adore alcohol and party.

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Dreams from an early age of the fairytale wedding ceremony regularly centre upon getting the ideally suited dress. Potentially then it was no surprise to anyone when some years later, I was again thrilled by the testimonies of adventure and ideals of patriotism a further man in uniform brought into my life. Nevertheless despite my personal initial fascination with the military, when a relationship license and a Budget Pick up truck found me personally halfway across the nation as a fresh bride of Uncle Sam, I used to be less than charmed. Also, my husband nonetheless looked just like handsome in his high and small and Gown Blues, and I was still feeling blissful regarding being a newlywed, however it did not take very long until Choice the Maritime Corps and I were just not going to go along.

I have simply no drawback stating this. Southern Korean women are probably a number of the most shallow persons I have referred to and satisfied. You would quite possibly assume that Americans can be extra obsessed with external magnificence and material Korean Girls prosperity since it’s the most richest nation. Koreans usually takes the American shallowness (is that a term? ) to a new degree. We am talking primarily about Koreans FROM South Korea who have grew up in South Korea. Sure I just am generalizing, NOT ALL SOUTHERN KOREAN WOMEN OF ALL AGES ARE LIKE THIS KIND OF.

When applying, you need to write information about your self, some standards that would express you as a person. Korean girls as well furnish information about themselves before enrollment. But in addition for this, they pass a emotional test, which will show the genuine intentions with the girls and also provide identification documents. So Korean language mail-order brides’ profiles happen to be real.

Simple https://findmailorderbride.com/korean-brides/ and shiny scalp. Sizzling hot Southern Korean terminology girls connect a great time period for your frizzy hair. It must have a look best. Curiously, hair that is naturally ugly is not considered gorgeous, but curls which might be designed are among the list of nice advantages of Korean magnificence. Small facial region and little head, unneeded round serenidad, V-shaped, brief, nevertheless scarcely aimed chin is normally standard Korean check.

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Couples in the United States think of white wedding dresses as “traditional, ” but the white wedding dress is actually a fairly recent personalized. There are also great Filipina women who know their families are taking advantage of her (their daughter) married into a “rich” American (the common mindset there may be that we’re all rich) yet she will be sure to let them do so because she has recently been engrained as birth to feel responsible to her main if your woman doesn’t support support these people at anything level they tell her is appropriate. We have a friend with that difficulty and the woman just can’t let herself find that her mom is a greedy bitch getting back together stories to get additional money delivered to her to get wasting and Papa’s and brother’s alcoholic beverages – perhaps even use the same lame report more than once. Our friend and her man argue regarding it regularly yet he delivers a reasonable amount and will not send precisely what is requested because he understands what’s going on. Your sweetheart cries a whole lot because of getting torn among allegiance to them and also to her partner.

For a solitary factor, females are actually great at Englishand additionally allowing them match along witheveryone. Pretty Korean language girls consider that if you wish to always keep a members of the family you should listen to guys and because of this they very commonly compromise. If you respect and adore your spouse, she will undoubtedly turn out to be your best wife also, you will favorably never ever would want to depart her.

They blazed through a 114-page basics-of-Korea book. Nguyen explained so why young people should sit in priority seating on the Seoul subway. She told them that new Korean language mothers take in seaweed soup, high in nutrients. And the girl said Korean language wives generally, always condicion on their granparents.

They have limited schedules. It’s the WORST place for women to work (in comparison to first-world countries), and if you reside in this region, your Korean language bride probably will spend 52 hours every week on function (which is far more than 20 hours a day). Certainly feel depressed at times, and you’ll have to deal with it.

Korean language brides are not slaves, nor could they be the women that will want being leaders inside your family. Korean women will be in the middle, making them very interesting and mystical for men by various other countries. Unusual not only in appearance but likewise in other features make them unique brides.

Is he intelligent? If yes, as to what level because sometimes it things. Even if I are not looking to mean that non-educated people are not-marriageable, of course I will be a liar to state that because many extremely educated couples today will be filing with regards to divorce upon daily basis all over the world.

Chinese suppliers has the major varieties of racial types on the globe. You can find Black and Negroid type of races within China and tiawan coexisting with the dominant Mongoloid people. In the beginning ancient China and tiawan was a burning pot of diverse competitions migrated from outside. This is the reason early Oriental people referred to as their area “Middle Kingdom”, the center land of the world.

Russian wedding ceremonies entail extensive pre-planning and preparations. Several exchanges are very essential the purpose of the Korean thoughts marriage: items of home products (Honsu); positions of outfits and jewelry regarding the marriage ceremony couple (Yemul); items directed at the significant relatives when using the soon-to-be partner (Yedan); gifts of money over the groom’s family and others affiliate to the star within the marriage (Ggoomimbi), and through the bride’s label the groom’s close friends (Ham); and exchanges of food products and wine beverages relating to the two family members (Ibaji).

Traditions require kids to expand up in a great atmosphere of love and patience. Consequently , Korean spouses are stressed about rearing children and creating a good family atmosphere. Demonstrate the qualities of an future supportive and care father and stay sure that this will substantially increase your likelihood of being well-liked by a Korean male order bride.

Naturally , like all of the girls around the world, Korean females really like presents. And in addition listed here, i think, the industry of genius is merely large. Althoughit is certainly worthremembering not all Koreans love big parties or perhaps ceremonies the standard small gifts, whether those are in reality flower padding, ice cream, or even packed playthings, will definitely always be actually significantly enjoyed. To obtain a mail purchase korean wedding brides lady to like you, you perform not really require to become a muscular creature, you only have to be conscientious as well as caring.

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For a traditional bride who desires an Oriental wedding dress it can be a daunting process to find 1; you may have to order online and then find a seamstress to finish that to your personal specifications. But you, Mr. Delancey, have no clue about these stuff of the spiritual side of life mainly because you are far outside the kingdom of Goodness – stuffed with bitterness and hatred in case you have happiness and success is obviously. And every period you write a pile of crap as if you posted in this article to damage people, you take yourself one more step away from that kingdom.

A year before her entry in to Korean governmental policies, Yi Jasŭmin played the role of the Filipina mother of a biracial youth in the film Wandǔgi (2011, euch. Yi Han), based on a bestselling story with the same title by simply Kim Ryŏryŏng. In the film, a young ones named Wandǔgi is overdue and seems to have no potentials for his life. Wandǔgi, his humpbacked father, great adopted uncle, who has a developmental handicap, live in a poverty-stricken area inhabited by many migrant individuals from Southeast Asia and South Asia. Wandǔgi does not have any memory of his Filipina mother as she remaining him if he was still an infant. The disappearance of Wandǔgi’s mother is due to his dad’s decision to “let her go” because he could not tolerate the discrimination his better half faced. Wandǔgi, however , has the capacity to meet her through his teacher’s help. After spending some difficult time going to terms with her quick re-appearance, Wandǔgi and his family members decide to live together again.

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Regrettably, most of the aforementioned class of Nigerians would rather prefer to go back home to check out a wife, you know how come? Because the cultural and traditional ideals are different, better and as such, facilitates marriage better. For instance, when a typical Nigerian couple is certainly going through relationship crises, they would frequently hardly ever throw in the towel like it is generally done in the western countries. Remember, marriage in Nigeria can be described as union of two families- the mans and the women’s family, and therefore the households would step in in cases where things are getting out of hand they usually would perform whatever they can to settle the matter amicably within the family level. Nigerians typically, have undeniable respect for his or her parents and would hear and pay attention to them at any point in time.

There are a few of my brother’s friends which are single, never been wedded before, which were born in the uk, grew up in the uk but yet these men ended up exploring back home to watch out for wives and yes certainly, they hitched these Nigerian women being a first option and these types of Nigerian females are well lifted. And right now there husbands helped bring them back to England, not like most Nigeria men which will marry a Nigerian females and keep them back home like a second option just in case the bright white wives disappoints them. Thank you JESUS that any of us still have black men that wont have at this time there own girls as a second option.

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This means that regardless of what time of the day it is, you are behind schedule or in 'catch up setting' due to the fact that your "systems" still lay dormant. Together with just being behind timetable on a daily basis, we also unconsciously run a very high danger of losing on the pleasures of spending high quality time with our family members as well as liked ones as defined in the example above. Does this sound like you? That is in Charge? There is great news and today you are equipped as the owner of your service to stop this cycle of chaos and take control of your company instead of allowing your company control you. The primary step in order to regain control of your business is that you require to show up to the understanding and idea that continuous business growth is not necessarily the only indication to success. As a pressure washing professional with a family you owe it to your significant other and also youngsters to ensure that the development of your service does not regularly outweigh the straightforward points in life that every person in your family needs and wants. That ME?? As company owner, we have the high-end and the capacity to 'scale back' our time in the field in order to make the time to give our household the attention they are entitled to. Why? Because you are the owner as well as in charge. That is right; YOU call the shots on the everyday operations and also at what the procedure tempo of your day will be like. If your 'systems' action plan only got as far as it being created on a notepad then you run a very high threat of burning yourself out very rapidly. Paired this together with the mental peer stress from your significant other that you have actually not spent high quality time with your family members in the last 4-6 months, it is plausible that a person day you might get up and understand that you do not enjoy what you are doing i.e. pressure washing. As opposed to beginning your stress clean period with only the purpose of making as much money as you can, could it be practical that you approach your pressure clean season with the mind established that your service as well as household will sustain a "equilibrium" through out the year? Oh the delight of seeing a young kids face brighten when he sees BOTH moms and dads sitting in the bleachers to watch his little league game in the middle of the afternoon; Or the smile from ear-to-ear when a young daughter happily jumps into your arms because you concerned select her up from school. Developing the right "systems" in your pressure washing business requires time and ultimately some trial and error. It is alright if you do not get it right after several attempts however be conscious as well as certain that you will get there ultimately. Handling the development of your company might even indicate momentarily not growing whatsoever up until you able to locate the appropriate people that posses the skill set your organisation needs to take it to that following plateau. Time To Reflect If you find yourself in the middle of the pressure laundry onslaught today, take a minute as well as reflect on what is really important in your life on your terms. Ask on your own why you ended up being a pressure washing professional to begin with? Was it since you and your family members desired the liberty that you could not obtain benefiting somebody else? If so, where is that freedom today? 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This is an archetype of just how one pressure washing professional has making use of why he is in business to begin with; that is to delight in life. I do not know how much cash he makes a year yet I would certainly guess that he, in addition to other pressure washing contractors that have grasped this "balance" in between job as well as household, is most likely among the richest guys in the market and also has very little if any kind of to do with the size of his savings account. Releases Out for Dinner So as your phone continues to call off the hook as well as you are trying to be superman for all your customers all at one time, stop and also asked on your own whether 'is it truly about all the money?' If so, continue on your trip and you must be applauded for your sacrifice. 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Hey everyone, Low Vision Guy here with another post.

This post is a little different. I will start posting monthly reports of a new Shopify store that I opened up a month ago.

As you already know. I am visually impaired and as a result, getting around is pretty much limited. I can get around via public transportation or Uber. But I would also like to work from home or anywhere in the world. That is why I created the Low Vision Guy blog and most recently, an E-commerce site called SIMPLEMITTS.COM

The whole purpose of these projects is to create more freedom and make my own schedule. I regularly hear from people (mostly people who are lazy.) that it is a lot of work to run your own business. Frankly, I rather work hard to run MY OWN BUSINESS than run someone else’s! Think about that.

  Shopify monthly report for July 2017

So, it has been about a month since I had my Shopify account. If you do not know what a Shopify account is, let me explain.

Shopify is one of many E-commerce sites that lets anybody create an online store. You can have a store to sell almost anything. Whatever your device or product is, Shopify can cater to that.

With low entry fees when it comes to opening an online store, it’s a no brainer that it is a lot cheaper than leasing out space at a mall or having a little kiosk. The newspaper keeps reporting that stores are having a hard time making their sales quotas, due to heavy competition from Amazon, Walmart and over seas wholesale online stores.

With Shopify, you only pay for the monthly plan that best fits your needs. There is no contract, but there is a discount if you do pay in a lump sum. Shopify has over 500,000 users and it safe to say that micro business is here to stay in America.

My business model: Drop Shipping:

  Drop shipping is where you open up an online store with “no” inventory. Once a customer makes a purchase, you go to the vendor, buy the product and send it to your customer.

Easy, right? Well for now anyway. Once I start to get more orders, I will look for another method to fulfill them. So far, I notice that the bulk of my time is getting customers to the store.

My store and what I am selling:

  My store is called SIMPLEMITTS.COM In this store, I am selling boxing gloves to consumers who have no idea how or where to buy gloves.

The majority of the consumers automatically go to Amazon, Walmart, Target or Dicks Sporting Goods to try to find a good pair of gloves.

I figured that I could build a site just like how shoe companies built their websites.

  “Shop for the right occasion.”

  The other product that I am selling is training videos to personal trainers on how to do boxing and kickboxing workouts. Just like how there are certifications on how to be a yoga instructor or a TRX instructor, I believe that I have the experience and the knowledge to teach someone to be a boxing mitt instructor. These videos will be digital products versus the traditional physical products. Think of them as on demand videos. Download them to your computer or phone.

  My niche market: I have two types of clients.

  Before you start selling, you need to be very clear who you are selling too. Without that, then you are running in the dark with a flashlight.

Client #1

My clients are between the ages of 20 and 45 both male and female. In this market, there always seem to be more women than men. I assume it is because of the fitness appeal of doing boxing exercises. Either way, it does not make sense to market people who are too young or too old.

Client #2

The other clients are personal trainers and fitness instructors. Along with the digital products; I am also going to sell trainers equipment. Like for example, jump ropes, training pads and more.

Now that I know my product and clients, It’s time to market and find them.

Selling and Marketing:

  I have been in sales for almost 15 years. Most of my experience is face to face and over the phone. I believe that my best quality is talking and connecting with people. So, when it comes to sales, I can connect with people, build rapport and make a sale with hardly any effort. (Granted, it doesn’t always work, but at least they know my name when they come back.)

When it comes to selling online, it’s not harder; it’s just different. It’s a different style, and approach. I believe the same fundamental elements of selling are still there. Even though I know this, the execution is harder than I thought.

Marketing: Facebook adds.

  I have heard a lot of great things about Facebook advertising. The fact that Facebook has BILLIONS of users every month from around the world is amazing. Not only that, without people knowing, Facebook is collecting every little bit of data about you so that they can sell it back to marketers.

With the information that you have generously given to Facebook, I was able to make a Facebook Add which I was able to customize and target to the type of client that will buy my product. Makes no sense to target teenagers if they do not meet my demographic. Don’t you agree?

It’s amazing how Facebook Adds can help a business advertise. Now I understand why the print publication is having a hard time selling add spaces to small and large business. I can stretch out a dollar a lot more with Facebook’s data.

  This is how it works:

  You can put age, gender, region, interest and more. What’s even cooler is that if you are on a budget, you can set your daily adds to charge you $1 a day. Bare in mind; you pay for what you get. The more money you put down, the more you get out of it. In my case, I only had a budget of $5 a day. With $5 a day, I was able to reach about 800 people per day. If I had set my budget to $1 a day, it would have only reached 300 people per day. Still, these are pretty good numbers to me. Your Facebook adds is not just being shown to 300 random people. It’s being shown to exactly 300 potential customers who “fit” your demographic

  Okay…

We know our product: We know our market: We know our customer: We know where to find our customer: we know how much our marketing budget is:

It’s time to post….

This is the part that I am struggling with. For these Facebook Adds to be successful, you need to have a great photo or video and engaging call to action lettering.

The digital add has to be so good, that it will make you want to click on it and buy.

Here are my number so far with Facebook Adds.

I ran 7 Facebook Adds I spent $42.36 for the month I reached 5,314 people. I got 93 likes on my Business Facebook page. I got 22 clicks on my website $0 sales . The numbers may seem discouraging, but I feel like this is the price for learning. Compared to what college and universities cost these days. I happily accept these numbers.

Instagram marketing:

  My second approach to marketing is using Instagram. Facebook owns Instagram, So, when you pay for an add on Facebook, it also shows to the users on Instagram as well. Which I think it’s a plus because I do not have to spend more money to reach more people on a different platform.

Instagram is a little bit harder for me because there are different variables to consider when using another social media platform.

  Picture quality:

  First of all, you need to make sure you have good image quality. I have noticed that the accounts with the highest amount of likes and following are the ones with the best picture and video content. If you are someone that likes to take pictures and play with the filters than this will be a great fit for you. On the other side of the coin, if you are someone like me that takes pictures once in a blue moon, then you will have some challenges.

  #Hashtags (keywords)

  Second, you need to make sure you are using the correct Hashtags. Hashtags are keywords to target your audience. For me, it will be #Boxing #Kickboxing and #BoxingGloves. These keywords are crucial for my business because this will target my ideal customer back to my page.

  Consistency:

Third, You need to post pretty regularly on all your social media platforms. If you post one bad quality photo per day then you will have less traffic and by default less interest on your page. The top accounts that do well post at least three photos or videos per day; and of course, they are the highest quality post you will find on the internet.

The best way to look at Social Media and to make sure you are getting the results you want. You have to treat it like a plant. You have to give it daily care and water it every single day for your plant to grow. Right?

Social media is the same thing. If you do not nurture and water your social platforms, then they will not grow. If your platforms cannot grow, then your brand will not grow.

  What I learned:

  X-I learned how to build an online store. Shopify makes it real easy to create an online store. I have not tried the other services out there. However, I am happy with Shopify and their customer service support.

-Before I put a product out there, I need to do my market research and see what other retailers are selling the same product for. If you are not careful, then your potential customer can easily search and buy the same product somewhere cheaper.

-I learned how to launch Facebook adds. I am still in the beginning stages of it. However, I am pretty sure the more I do it, the better I will get.

-I need to treat social media like plants. If I do not water them daily, then they will not grow. Same concept here. I need to spend at least an hour a day to maintain my social media presence. Posting on social media can reduce my marketing cost and will help me build a funnel of potential customers going forward.

-I need to publish high-quality pictures. The generic screen shots of the products are not enough. So, I ordered some inventory to the house. When they arrive, I will do a product review. Hopefully, that will generate more traffic.

Well, I hope for the 2nd month I will have better numbers to report. Thanks for reading the post and look forward to hearing from you soon!!

DeMarco

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