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medlilove-fandom-brainrot · 2 years ago

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The Coffee Shop of my AU dreams:

This post will be long. There’s nothing me or you can do about it. It is it’s own sentient being.

So, I had an idea for a Coffee Shop Steve x Tattooist Eddie Modern AU. Oh its all sugary sweet. Mostly.

The general bullet points are:

Steve and Robin work in a small cafe run in the same way they worked at Scoops. Just kinda left to it.

Eddie takes over the tiny Tattoo shop across the street after Wayne decides he’s tired of it and wants to retire. So Eddie moves from working for someone else in the city back to Hawkin’s and into their lives.

Steve and Robin are childhood friends who stayed in contact but really reconnected when he transferred to her highschool to play Basketball. He fit in effortlessly with her, and her friends Nancy and Jonathan. Argyle moved to town the year they graduated. Billy he knows through Max who he knows through the kids who he knows through Nancy, Jonathan and Hopper etc idk.

Oh yeah! This is a Deaf!Steve Fic because it was rotting my brain out. But this time no injuries, just been pretty deaf since birth. His parents suck but have money, and send him off to a private school for the deaf with hearing aids. With Robin’s gift for language they are pretty good signers. I think I’m going to make Hop good at singing too, because his adopted daughter El, well for one reason or another she’s not much of a talker.

Eddie often spots Steve smoking out the back door by the bins on his break. When it’s dead quiet he and Robin both sit out there, Robin doesn’t smoke but usually has a can of something fizzy and full of sugar instead.

The Young Ones all are Season One little. They go there after school to wait for working parents and older siblings, play board games, annoy Steve and Robin and hang out.

The Coffee Shop also stays open late and works as a sort of bar/art/music space for locals. Regularly renting the space out on the cheap for local community art shows, music, workshop etc. Argyle usually organizes these events, with Jonathan's help.

Corroded Coffin occasionally plays in the bar down the street, can occasionally be found practicing in the cafes open space at night, only if Steve or Robin are staying late.

Robin lives above the shop or she’s staying at her parents. Steve lives in a tiny studio around the corner and does NOT talk to his family. Eddie lives above his shop across the street and has a great relationship with Wayne.

So here’s the THING. I actually created and fully renderd the shop for free over on Homestyler, because that is just how my brain works...

Please do click below for ALOT more images and information.

And if the ‘KEEP READING’ thing doesn’t format correctly I do appologise for how long this may become.

Hope you can read my handwriting......

Homestyler can be a bit fiddly, and VERY contemporary. It also has somewhat limted design options, so you might have to use your imagination a little bit on that DnD table:

I may have edited the wall art in this room a bit heheh:

Don’t underestimate the value of a good washroom!

I don’t have The Sims, so this free shit is what I do for fun.

I know it’s a tiny space, but I love small! Small but has something for everyone. I get that this was a very personal project that not many other people will be interested in, but I had so much fun! Highly recommend trying out Homestyler.

#stranger things #stranger things 4 #steddie #steddie au #coffee shop au #steve harrington #hoh steve harrington #deaf steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #st season 4 #Homestyler

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pbandjesse · 5 years ago

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Sometimes I get so tired I get dizzy. Thats how I am feeling right now. I tried not to take a nap today so I could fall asleep a little easier tonight. And now I dont feel so hot. I am very excited to close my eyes.

But today was actually a really nice day. I slept okay last night. My ear still hurts but it wasnt as bad. I woke up around 8 and felt really good. I dozed until 9. James had gone out when I woke up the first time. He got us some groceries. I was finishing getting dressed when he got back here.

I did some yoga and stretching. Felt good. James was still very sad today. So he spent a lot of the day sadly playing the guitar. Which was nice to hear but made me sad and also he was was playing very loud.

But that wasnt until last. He went for a long bike ride while I worked on a little demo for making plastic yarn. It went okay. I wish I had better lighting but I got it done and Tiffany said it was cute. So that was positive.

James got home though and went to the other room to play music. I was only slightly annoyed I couldnt hear my video anymore. But he's sad so Im not going to complain at him.

I had my work meeting and it went well. I had felt really stressed about some of the stuff they wanted from us. But it turned out that it was like. Way less then it sounded. So Im not as upset. I only have one thing left to do and I think it will be just fine. And it was a good meeting overall. Even if we are still having audio issues. People not understanding they are being loud texting or driving. Its a little frustrating but whatever.

Once the meeting was done I wanted to go outside. James wasnt sure he wanted to. So I was like. Okay I listen to podcast and go outside. But my headphones werent charged. Frustraiting. I waited a little to try to charge them but it was taking to long. So I just asked James again and he decided to come out with me.

We worked on moving the bricks more. Got another row down and James made a nice little corner. I am excited about the progress. I wish we had a rake. But I will work something out tomorrow. As long as the sun stays out I want to do a little out there every day. Its good for me to get out there and do some lifting.

We came in side though and James went back to music. It felt even louder so I went in the studio and closed the doors. I worked on some frogs. I got some packages. My new soft tissue box came. Its a cat. He's great. I think his name is Nex. Im not sure yet.

I worked on art. Talked to my dad on the phone. Texted with my brother. Chilled.

Me and James laid in bed for a while together. It got cold in here all of a sudden and so we just cuddled. It was nice. I love him.

James made us nostalgic Taney dinner. Pizza and green beans. It was good. And he got on his Dnd call. I am in bed hanging out. Ready to close my eyes.

I think I will go wash my face and put on a scary video. I hope you all have a good sleep. No stress dreams. I love you all. Goodnight.

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sobdasha · 4 years ago

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library book haul

these are all many months out of date

Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee This sci-fi and fantasy short story collection is Good Shit. Plus it includes my favorite short-story-collection thing, aka Author's Notes on the stories, which enhances the experience even more. So: I tried to read this in the previous batch with Lee's other work, but Lee's work requires your full attention and is not suitable for reading in the breakroom at work, where people come up, see you with a book, turn on the TV, and then proceed to ignore the TV the entire fucking time while they talk excessively loudly with the other people in the breakroom. I've been enjoying the fact that they put a real chair in the department so if I don't work the morning shift I can take my break in the department where the din from the customers is, in fact, quieter. And I don't have to walk to the literal opposite corner of the store, wasting time and chronic pain! Anyway. So I waited until I was on vacation, and had large stretches of quite time, to read this, and it was amazing. I did not do the write-up then because I am lazy. However, I am in the middle of rereading now, and I can tell you that these stories only get better the second time around. I was a little worried it'd be like Shakespeare--you have to read several Shakespeares before you finally get into the Shakespeare zone and can actually, like, read the Shakespeare. These stories, on the other hand, remained accessible and are enhanced by having half a clue where the story will go. I like them all, but some of my top favorites: Ghostweight--Lee says this was the second-hardest story to write because it took months to nail the intro/outro of the story. Well, it pays off. The Bones of Giants--Lee says the fantasy equivalent of mecha is to dig up some giant skeletons and apply necromancy. I'm bad at recognizing "zombie" when you don't use the word "zombie", so like the Abhorsen series I don't really consider this "zombie lit which I would hate." Mostly it's just a little soft and when I'm reading I picture big sweeping landscapes, like a Studio Ghibli film or Breath of the Wild. The Unstrung Zither--Lee just talks about the music stuff, but this one feels to me like Gundam Wing if I'd actually finished watching Gundam Wing because Gundam Wing had turned out to actually be anywhere near as interesting as the quantum versions of it I'd imagined. (Thanks to Lee's other stories, I'm now using "quantum" instead of "noodle incident".) Well, now I no longer feel any need to actually go back and watch Gundam Wing. Cool! It's occurring to me that Lee's works mostly fall into the category of: soft; this is the literal cost of genocide and occupation; and both at once. It's a hell of a lot better than ~the glory of war~. Anyway as I said it's all good.

Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin I actually quit reading this one pretty early on. Not exactly a quit, though. I wasn't in the right mindset; I just couldn't get through it and realized what I was in fact craving was Adventure. So I went on to reread The Prydain Chronicles instead and I'll pick this up again sometime later when I am in the mood for something quiet, reflective, domestic, and not big on plot.

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interviews, ed. David Streitfeld This was interesting! Although I always have mixed feelings when I'm reading about authors talking about the craft. IDK I think it's a me-thing. Like, I pick up this essay expecting the author to tell me what works for them, and then I get annoyed because I decided the author was telling me "this is the only way" when that's bs and now I want to rebel??? Or maybe because Le Guin talked about how even a novel ought to be poetry and as someone who understands the theory of meter but has been flunking everything related to meter or stress since grade school in the practical sense, I find that idea Highly Overrated. I honestly don't remember what else was in here, because I waited for many months to do this write-up. I didn't actually hate reading this though so.

The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander These are Peak comfort food to me. All I want to say this time around is, I should write some fics as Alexander's penance for making Eilonwy Very Cool but mistakenly doing so by making her Not Like Other Girls. (Crying and having feelings is gender-neutral in these books; what's portrayed negatively about Eilonwy through Taran's view, despite the fact that she's objectively better than him lol, is her ~chattering~. Which is annoying because not only does Eilonwy internalize that into putting down non-sword-women for "clucking like hens", Fflewddur chatters at least as much as Eilonwy, if not more, and because he's a guy it's never phrased that way even though we're all aware he's super flighty. I really wish this had been done with more nuance, because Eilonwy also has internalized misogyny about things like dresses and washing your hair and sleeping in a comfortable bed, and Fflewddur again is always the first person to be like "um but I would like to be comfy tonight though.") Anyway I just think that after Taran is king, if he wants to go someplace and keep his hands busy to think, presumably the gardens and fields are enough out of the way that this would make your king difficult to find. So instead, I propose that he goes to the spinning and weaving rooms, because that's literally in the castle, easy to find, he knows how to do that shit, Dwyvach schooled his ass good about how work doesn't have a gender in book 4, and he did enjoy weaving, and as a bonus he can realize that "chattering" is not bad and gossip is a good way to learn things you, as a king, probably need to know about the working of your castle, and Eilonwy can join him for bonding and realize this is not so terrible after all, and we will all value these women who spend a lot of fucking time and effort making sure you can have some goddamn clothes to wear. THE END.

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle Everybody really loves The Last Unicorn, by which I think they mean the movie? And I thought that I did as well, even though I remembered exactly nothing from it save for the title when we watched it once in either kindergarten or first grade in place of recess for a week because it was, idk, cold?? raining nonstop??? Anyway I always thought that I loved it and then I finally rewatched it as an adult and it was. Not. Great. And then I forgot and watched it again a few years later and was like Nope, still Not For Me. And now, finally, I decided to get off my bum because for me books are almost always better than the movie, and lo and behold, it is. From what I can recall, the movie is the general plot structure of the book portrayed as an Adventure, stripped of the thoughtful, reflective narration and the deeper narrative themes. Which is 100% why that movie appears to me to be some kind of acid trip. I wish I had read this as an early teen, so that I could have absorbed some of Beagle's writing style, his turns of phrase in simile and metaphor. "His scimitar smile laid its cold edge along their throats," etc. He never really makes it seem like Too Much. (Side note, that's something I notice about Yoon Ha Lee too. Very lush and descriptive similes and metaphors, very much get the job done and are not things you have ever heard before. Although Lee's tend to make me stop and go "wait what???", and catch me off guard. I suspect it's a mix of innovation and cultural difference, whereas for Beagle everything sounds so exactly right and smooth and perfect probably because everyone else has been copying off him for years and I'm familiar with diluted versions. Anyway what I'm trying to say is, I got a bit away from that in my writing, but dang I am gonna have to up my game and purple my prose a little bit more because I really love what these guys are doing!)

Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse Okay so Ann Leckie recommended this book to me, both in a general sense and also in person. And I looked at the description and thought, "Well, it's not my genre but it probs can't hurt me to pick it up and try." And so I finally did. Reading this was an interesting progression (probably most especially for my roommate who gets my live-reading reactions while she's trying to DnD) of watching me go from: "It's not my genre but it's not like the writing sucks so it's not bad" to "Well it is engaging and I do like garbage loner protagonist is a woman instead; I'm not compelled to buy this but I will read the rest of the series as it comes out from the library" to "Oh snap I love it when the critical reviews of a book were actually recommendations for me to read it" to "*weeping* Kai is a soft good boy and I support Maggie and her Emotional Support Shotgun, I will buy ALL THE BOOKS" At one point there was a perfect place, in the midst of a discussion about how you can like flamethrowers and makeup at the same time, Maggie, just because you don't like makeup, etc, to insert a joke about "it's called flaming gay for a reason". BUT in Rebecca's defense the entire scene was great anyway. The whole book was great. It's great. Read it. Oh speaking of the critical reviews, one of them was like "the protagonist claims to be unable to cook and then a few paragraphs later makes a 5 star meal, so this book is garbage." Lol was the reviewer confused because the word "bread" was used, and believes that bread is an art form unable to be accomplished by mere mortals (which, I mean, is how I feel about the idea of babying a loaf of bread all day)? Because bread only has to be "I made a paste of flour and water" which this. Basically was. Fried in a pan. And then the side dish was a can of beans with a can of chiles thrown in for fancy. This is literally the definition of can't cook, because you can't exactly order takeout on the reservation after the apocalypse when you prefer to live in a trailer in the middle of nowhere. I'm just saying, this scene was perfect. Also this was the point in time where I started summarizing all apocalyptic books as "After the events of the year 2020" to my roommate. It. It continues to hold true. Every year for like the past five years we've been saying maybe next year will be better, but I'm gonna be honest, I'm terrified of what 2021 will bring. One final visual: me, unable to pronounce Navajo words to my roommate when reading select passages, and also not being able to spell them on account of not knowing the names of accents in English: "so it's c-h-apostrophe-i accent aigu cedilla-i cedilla-polish l with a line through it…" (not an actual word, I don't remember the actual words, I returned the book to the library long ago, this is for illustrative purposes of my ignorance only)

To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf I tried to read this because Le Guin praised it a lot in The Last Interviews, and it was on the Wizard's Library shelves and I thought maybe I should broaden my horizons. But I quit early on because I, a disaster of run-on sentences, could not parse half of these and I was not invested and if I don't have to read ~classics~ for literature class it probably won't ever happen. Honestly a lot of the contemporary literature I'm reading is better for me anyway.

Sunlight and Shadow, Cameron Dokey This was also on the Wizard's Library shelves and I like fairytale things in theory and despite reading the wiki summary on various occasions I really don't know anything about the plot of The Magic Flute, which is this a retelling of. This book queerbaited me. It's unfair of romances to always put more chemistry between the people who aren't getting together than who are. In this case, both girls and both boys, who were to pair off into het couples. There's literally an entire chapter of Gayna going from "You've ruined everything!" to "I wish I could hate you!" to "Oh no you're hot!" to "And that doesn't actually make me jealous oh shit!" to "Okay I'll help you" to "Oh no she smiled and my heart skipped a beat huhhh!" about Mina. The word gay is even in her name!!! What is the author doing with her choices??? Seriously what is the author doing with her choices, in the author's note at the end of the book I learned Statos (Monostatos) was originally "evil character just because he's a Moor" so Dokey Fixed It by making him just a guy who wanted Things like the rest of the characters want Things and he just happens to come off as bad because he's not aligned with them and also he's very, very white. Noooooo that's not how you do it, that's not how you fix racism, you redeem him while keeping him black. I also, as a rule, dislike first-person-narration-that-changes-each-chapter, especially when you're not skilled enough/don't care to write in such a way that the narrator can easily be identified, so basically for a long chapter and a half I assumed Lapin was a girl and when the Queen of the Night was like "fuck you, boy!" I assumed it was a sick burn and Lapin just ~wasn't pretty~ but it turns out he was, in fact, a boy. Also for a book that points out that you can be perfectly happy settling with a decent person and marrying your not-soul-mate (Lapin's parents and grandparents), it's awfully insistent that the main characters all be properly paired with soul mates. HM. Basically this is marketed as feminist but I think it fell pretty damn short on that mark.

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donotdestroy · 1 year ago

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BLACK SABBATH - "Never Say Die" 1978

#BLACK SABBATH #dND Studio Music Corner #Heavy metal #rock #rock n roll #music #Never Say Die #Youtube

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donotdestroy · 1 year ago

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pbandjesse · 6 years ago

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I'm pretty exhausted again. I'm very much looking forward to going to sleep but today is my very nice day.

I voted! But I didn't do it until the end of the day. I slept okay last night. Dad was out in the living room and I was in my room. I woke up at 8:30 and got dressed. He had gone around the corner and have coffee. But he came back around 9. We spent the morning fixing stuff up in here. He fixed my window and the fence. And we talked about stuff. It was a nice morning.

It was pouring outside though. And so we decided we would go out to the county to have breakfast since I didn't really want to walk anywhere. We went to an IHOP. It was actually IHOP where I had a date earlier this year. Which was funny. And we had to wait for the longest time. We got there a little after 10:30 and we didn't get seed until 11. And the restaurant was empty. The waiting room was full. They were only seating people in like seven of the booths and nowhere else. And people are starting to get pretty angry. I texted James and he agreed with me that people are more likely to not be upset if they're sitting in seats rather than waiting with an empty dining room. So I don't understand the thought process there. But it seem like the wait staff and management were having some issues. But I wasn't that concerned we had plenty of time.

It was nice just sitting and talking to Dad though. We eventually got seated and I showed him some of my music but I've been listening to. And we got our food. Our waitress was very nice. And I'm just really glad he got to come visit me.

We drove out to Wildwood next so that he could see the school that I'm teaching at. And then we drove to where I had to get dropped off to go to work for training. We sat in the car for a few minutes and talk to. But I felt anxious about going inside so I just said that I was going to go. And he headed home. I am annoyed that he has not texted me that he got home safe. But I'm sure everything is fine.

It was a long day of training. First they asked us to be there at 1. But there was a whole bunch of drama and so we didn't start until after 2. But I do get to sit next to Marcus and talk about the cat. Who's drag name is apparently Mufasa. And apparently the cat is very scratchy but they're having good luck so far. They're just hoping that the roommates allergies settle out a little bit more before they can really make a decision but he says that he really likes the cat a lot. So I'm glad that's working. It was also Marcus birthday today so we had donuts for everyone so that was nice.

The first part of the training was cultural competency which was really enjoyable. We got to learn about how to best understand students and how we shouldn't make assumptions and how to be better about understand where they're coming from. The second half of the PD was weird. It was supposed to be a meeting for just the white teachers to talk about something. But then everyone felt uncomfortable with that idea so the girl who was supposed to read it kind of explained why we are doing it. And all of us kind of went around the room and talk about why the wording of how it was put in front of us made us uncomfortable. And we all kind of discussed how we can move forward. I've kind of felt bad for the girl because she had obviously put a lot of effort into program and we try to shut her down. And I would like to hear what she had to say but I don't think the way it was presented was the best way to go about it. There was good intentions but people were still hurt.

It was really nice meeting co-workers I haven't met before though. Teachers from the other sites. And it was nice being able to voice some of the things that I've been worried about. I was a little frustrated with the girl who is going to be leading the program because she kept saying that white teachers cause damage to students of color. And how she doesn't believe white teacher she even really be in the classroom with black children. And it just went around from Good Intentions to another form of segregation. Which I feel I see often in sjw communities online. Where the intentions are to be respectful and learn more. But it gets to a point where you treat people of color as other so much that you segregate us again. And make it so that we have to be afraid of each other in the long run. It just makes me crazy that we can't have a conversation where we can be honest but not have this white guilt thing that she was talking out both sides of her mouth about. Regardless. I'm glad the conversation happened and I do look forward to working with my co-workers and my students and learning more and being a better person. And a better teacher.

I was pretty exhausted after that honestly though. I wanted to just call the car and go home. But voting was very important to me and I decided that I would take the bus since it was just about to be coming anyway. The sun was going down and there was a rainbow and it's beautiful and the sunset was just so nice over the hill. And then my bus came and I went and voted. And my polling place was really nice. I got a snack bar at a sticker and a button. I gave the button to James.

I'm glad I was able to vote. I headed home after that and cleaned up and fed sweet pea. And then I went to James's house.

It's his DND night so I just gave him his next birthday present and hug him for a while. I got to meet two of his friends that I haven't met before. One of them didn't actually know, he's a friend of a friend in the group and it was his first night there. So I'm glad James is making friends and having a good time. I was only there for about an hour and then I decide to come back home so I could get cleaned up and rest.

I biked back here and took a bath. I wash my hair and I basically just been sitting on the couch watching videos with sweetpea since then. I was going to work on my studio but I just feel really beat up. I think I might go down for a few minutes and do some stuff after I get this posted but I really just want to go get in bed.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to go over to the thrift store in Fells Point and bother James wherever he's at. And then I'm going to work. Teaching Wildwood. It's another drawing day and I'm looking forward to it. I hope that the kids had a good weekend. Nice long a little break. I hope you all stay dry tonight and sleep well. Kiss all of your cats on their sweet little heads for me.

#ootd #work #tired #good day #tuesday #sky #city #class #weird dog #cat

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