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[findhomeaway]

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[despazito]

I agree dogs shouldn't be let in every establishment and it's unfortunate there's people abusing service dog accommodations for their reactive untrained pets but also it feels like some people just really hate seeing folks out in public with their dogs lol?

like you do realize that for most of human civilization's histories there were dogs wandering around, it's a fairly recent phenomenon that you can walk around your town without encountering street dogs, that's how ubiquitous they once were (i'm not saying we need street dogs, i don't want rabies). You have a right to not be jumped on, mobbed, barked, or lunged at but i don't think you're privy to the right of never ever sharing a public space around dogs even if you have phobia of them, that's just human society.

Like it or not there's always been people who consider their dogs to be part of their families and there should be some public infrastructure available to people with dogs, the notion that everybody's dogs should not be seen and not be heard when you're out is just incredibly unrealistic.

[cloudabserk]

i hate my boss i hate my boss i hate my boss

[lackadaisicallizard]

Attention

There’s a man talking to Evan Rosier. 

Well actually talking isn’t the right word for what he’s doing in the dark club with the swirling lights and pulsating beats. There’s one hand on Evan’s back as he leans in, closing the gap between their sweat-soaked bodies and he brushes his ear with his lips, whispering something lost to the thumping bass as it forms a steady, rhythmic heartbeat that courses through the entire space. 

No, this man isn’t just talking. He’s flirting. 

He’s not the first person that’s tried his luck with Evan tonight, or last week, or last month, or every single time he comes into Barty’s club dressed in tight clothes pressed against olive skin, dancing to the music with movements that seem to weave an irresistible spell, drawing gazes and curiosity from everyone around him. He pays them little attention though, focusing on his friends and the beat and making just enough eye contact with Barty from where he stands leaning against the bar that it’s clear he knows exactly who he is and exactly what he’s doing.  

But the difference this time with the man wearing a smug smile and far too many gold chains to even be considered fashionable- is that Evan seems to be responding. He’s leaning into the touch and smiling and placing one of his hands on the man’s hips, and as his fingers curl around the tight leather wrapped around them Barty feels his own grip his glass tighter, his knuckles straining against it as he watches the two men move together on the packed dance floor. On Barty’s dance floor. In Barty’s building, with Barty’s alcohol coursing through their veins. In fact, Barty owns everything in this building. 

Well, almost. He doesn’t own Evan Rosier. 

He wants to. 

Fuck, he wants to. 

The man leans in again and says something into Evan’s ear before moving back just enough to see his expression. Evan nods and the man moves away, letting his hand linger against his back before making his way over to the bar. Barty can hear him now as he speaks to a member of his bar staff, ordering two rum and cokes, and she moves to grab two glasses. 

The rum isn’t even out of the bottle before Barty is standing beside her, his eyes fixed on the frowning man as he speaks. 

“I’m going to have to ask you to leave.” He raises his voice just loud enough to be heard above the noise.

“Wait what, why?”

Barty shrugs. “Let’s call it disrespect.” 

The man furrows his eyebrows. “Mate, I don’t even know you.” 

Barty places his hands on the bar and leans in slightly. “I really don’t give a shit mate. Get out of my club.” 

The man hesitates for a moment, his expression a mixture of indignation and confusion, before he glances back at Evan, who has stopped dancing, watching the scene unfold with dark eyes. With a huff, the man turns and navigates his way through the throngs of dancing bodies towards the exit.

Ignoring the mass of people waiting to be served, Barty moves behind the bar, preparing a mojito with expert skill born from years of practice. By the time he’s finished, Evan is standing in front of him, the expression on his face silently accusing. With a deliberate calm, Barty slides Evan’s favourite drink across the bar. 

"You deserve someone who pays attention," Barty remarks and Evan just stares at him for a moment, his expression unreadable until the corner of his lips curls up into a smirk. 

“I’ll keep that in mind,” he says as he picks up the drink and turns back to the dance floor, deftly avoiding the gaze of a girl who clearly wants him to notice her. He doesn’t, though. In fact, he continues to not notice people for long enough that they all eventually give up staring at him. 

Well, almost everyone. 

(This is written for/ dedicated to @mochafrappiccinolatte and very much inspired by/ taken from @sebbianas' genius brain.)

[jukeboxhound]

In the last eight years or so -- which means it's not just COVID-related issues -- I've lost my favorite local coffee house, my favorite local bookstore, my favorite local quirky restaurant, AND my favorite local Irish pub with the 1916 Easter Rising mural, and now I'm about to lose my favorite local secondhand clothing shop. 😭

[bogkeep]

i was gonna go for a swim but maybe not right now

[simptasia]

[mlattegirl]

Sin

Rosekiller - Evan POV

Part 2 of Attention by the incredibly talented @lackadaisicallizard

“Surely you could get free drinks and fucked if you went to some other club?” Regulus mocked, sarcasm dripping from every word.

“Yeah, why do you keep going back if every time a guy shows interest in you he gets kicked out?” James asks from his spot by Regulus. Regulus, who had been to the club before looks to Evan, smirking.

“Clearly our little Reggie boy hasn’t filled you in on the sin incarnate that is the owner of the Snake Pit.”

Oh and what sin he was.

It was obscene, really, to look like that. The definition of tall, dark and handsome. The first thing Evan noticed were the tattoos. It was hard not too when every visible piece of tan skin was covered in black ink.  Most of them seemed well done, others were clearly the result of a drunken night out.  

Evan wanted to map all of them out, preferably with his mouth.

God, there was one in particular. A snake that wrapped around the base of his throat with its tail going down his sternum and its mouth by his left ear. Evan wanted nothing more than to trace the path of that tattoo with his tongue.  His dark hair was the kind of effortlessly messy that you could tell took a lot of time and product to get just right. Evan probably thought too much about running his hands through that hair, of seeing how truly messy he could make it.

He was taller than Evan, just barely, but enough that if they stood too close Evan would have to look up to look in his eyes. And his eyes. They were kind of dark brown that they looked black unless the light hit them right.  They were the eyes of someone who took what they wanted and didn’t give a damn about the consequences. Fuck if Evan didn’t want to be taken.

“Are we still calling him that? Sin?” Regulus said, pulling Evan from his reverie.

“Ev, you’ve been going there for months at this point, and you still haven’t gotten laid and you still don’t know his name, it’s time to move on,” Pandora said gently.

But he went back. Just like every other weekend he went back. And just like every other weekend it was the Same.

Fucking.

Thing.

Just like last weekend, Evan wore what Dorcas called a fuck me outfit.  And he danced, letting the music take over, losing himself to bass so loud it throbbed in his bones.  And, like clockwork some guy came over to him, standing a little too close.  Hands a little too low on his waist.  Evan indulged him, inclined his head just so. Leaned into him enough to make him think Evan was interested, lightly touch his chest, all the while making eye contact with him. Sin. And just like every other fucking weekend, Evan’s potential hookup was escorted from the club. Replaced, instead, with a smirk and a mojito.

By the fourth time this happened, Evan was fed up.  Normally, Evan doesn’t approach men. Because normally, Evan doesn’t need to approach men. Normally, all Evan had to do was acknowledge a man and that was enough to get him to come over.

But not this one.

Not Sin.

Maybe it was the three mojitos in the span of an hour. Maybe it was because Evan was so horny it was painful. Or maybe Evan just wanted to wipe that goddamned smirk off of his goddamn perfectly chiseled face.

“What the fuck is your problem.” Evan demanded; anger clear in his tone.

“I don’t know what you mean,” Sin drawled out, he sounded nonchalant, bored even.

“You don’t…you don’t know what I mean?!” Evan all but shrieked. “You can’t be fucking serious! You have kicked out every guy who shows even the most remote amount of interest in me but you don’t know what I mean?”  

“I kick people out of my club for many reasons,” Sin stated evenly, “it just so happens that you attract the ones who deserve to be kicked out.”

“I attract – I attract the ones who deserve to be kicked out?!” Now, Evan was shrieking. “That’s fucking hilarious. A comedian and a club owner, your mother must be so impressed.” Evan said bitterly.

“You know what I think it is?” Evan asked when he did not get a response.

“Do tell,” Sin responded, dragging his gaze lazily up and down Evan before stepping closer.

“I think you’re jealous, you’re jealous and you’re too much of a coward to do anything about it.” Evan said, smirking.

“Is that what you think?” Sin asked, stepping closer to Evan danger glinting in his eyes.

“Why else has it been months of you chasing off every man who comes near me without claiming me for yourself? I mean hell, I don’t even know your name. You’re scared, admit it.”

It was instantaneous, how Sin stepped even closer one hand with a bruising grip on his hip the other on his chin, holding his head in place.

“Claim you? I think you’re mistaken angioletto, I don’t need to claim you because you’re already mine.”

This is written for and dedicated to @lackadaisicallizard. Club owner Barty was originally inspired by @sebbianas. Special thanks to @kat-m-toast (and Liz) for encouraging me to write this.

[idsb]

I just need to take my mind off Everything like I've gotta board this entire week and every interaction I've had in it up in a corner of my mind and fumigate and condemn it. send me asks to distract me or make me feel better for the love of god PLEASE

[findhomeaway]

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[brainpukeblog]

[aldercaps]

currently so so stressed about finishing this presentation for tomorrow (gotta write seven minutes worth of notes to present a hypothetical exhibition proposal), also gotta finish the written proposal AND a ten minute presentation for a different paper by friday, and now i learn that my dad got a 90 day notice to leave his house or get evicted. ha ha cool

[tootramuaticfortherapy]

Rent a Monster Series

This idea is not my own. The original owner of the idea of rent a monster is from the wonderful @ozzgin Go check out their blog they are a amazing writer of monsters!

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XX Mention of no so nice household XX

Nephthys had always loved the winter, it wasn't like summer, loud and bright, where everything felt too big and too fast. Winter was quiet, like her. The cold didn't bother her, and when the snow fell, it was like the world became softer, hushed. The white blanket over the ground made everything still and Nepthys liked that. The snow understood her, winter understood her. The way it muffled sounds, the way it covered things up, hiding them beneath its eerie calm. Hiding it away from the harshness that winter could become. It was like winter knew what it wad like to feel small and forgotten, just like she did.

But even though Nepthys loved the winter, her house was a different story. Inside, the cold wasn't comforting. It was sharp, seeping into the walls and floors. Froze everything in it's path and not the pretty ice covering you saw in the morning, no the one with sharp spikes that could draw blood. It clung to her even under the blankets, and no matter how much she wished it away, it stayed. It was permanent in her house, a frost that would never leave. So did the shouting, and the smashing of bottles, and plates. The slamming of doors and cars leaving. Her parents' voices were always so loud, cutting through the silence of the snow outside, turning the quiet she loved into something scary and destructive.

That is why she needed a monster.

She had found the flyer on one of those silent, snowy nights. A very rare thing to come by. It was crumpled and hidden beneath her bed where she shoved her most precious treasures so her parents wouldn't find them and ruin them like they always did. Rent-A-Monster, it read in big words. For protection, warmth, and company. She stared at the words for a long time, her breathing fogging up the window as she looked out the frozen window. She wiped the glass with her sleeve peering out seeing the snow falling softly against the dark sky. The one street lamp that shined on her street. The eerie quiet of winter wrapped around her, and for the first time, she wondered if maybe something could help her feel as safe as the snow made her feel outside.

The next day she walked carefully, her boots crunching through the snow as she followed the address on the flyer. The building she found was small, almost hidden between two larger stores, as if it didn’t want to be noticed. The windows were frosted over, but a soft, warm light glowed inside, beckoning her. Above the door, in letters that looked like they’d been carved out of ice, were the words Rent-A-Monster. It was faded and the words where barely there but Nepthys could see the word monster so she was in the right place.

Nepthys stepped inside, a soft bell jingling above her. The shop was small and cozy, with the warmth of a fireplace and the scent of something sweet—like winter spices. Behind the counter sat an old woman with eyes that seemed to twinkle like they held secrets. She looked up as Nephtys entered, her smile kind but curious.

“Hello, little one,” the woman said, leaning forward. “What brings you here on a snowy day like today?”

Nepthys pulled her piggy bank out of her backpack and placed it gently on the counter. “I want to rent a monster,” she said softly, her breath still misting the air from the cold outside. “I brought all my money.”

The woman’s smile softened. “Well, we have all kinds of monsters here. What kind are you looking for?”

Nepthys hesitated. She glanced outside at the falling snow, watching it cover the world in that quiet, eerie way she loved so much. “I want a monster that can keep me warm,” she whispered. “And safe. My house is cold, and my parents…” She paused, her voice trailing off. “They’re not very nice. I just want someone who will stay with me… like the snow. Want the shouting and yelling to stop. To make the bottles stop shattering and the doors to stop slamming. Or at least make those sounds softer.”

The woman’s face grew sad for a moment, but her smile never left. “You don’t need to pay for that kind of monster, dear,” she said, gently pushing the piggy bank back toward Nepthys. “Some things are too important for money. Wait right here.”

Nepthys watched as the woman disappeared into a back room, leaving her alone with the warmth of the shop and the faint whistle of the wind outside. It was the kind of stillness Nephys liked—the kind that felt like the world was holding its breath, just for a moment.

Then, the curtain rustled, and Nethpys’ eyes widened as the most extraordinary creature stepped through. It had the head of an owl, with two sets of glowing, golden eyes that blinked slowly as they fixed on her. Its body was massive, covered in thick, soft gray fur, like a giant bear. It looked at her quietly, as though it already understood why she needed it, just like the snow did.

“This is Slynvertyne,” the woman said, smiling. “He’s a protector. Silent and watchful, with fur that will keep you warmer than any blanket. He’ll make sure nothing can hurt you, not the cold, not anyone. He is a owl bear a very rare breed hard to come by.”

Nepthys reached out, her hand trembling as she touched Slynvertyne's fur. It was soft, like the warmest coat in the world, and as she buried her fingers into it, she felt the chill from outside melt away. The monster lowered its head to her height, its glowing eyes never blinking, and she knew, in that moment, that this was the monster for her.

“Can I take him home?” Nepthys whispered, looking up at the woman.

The woman nodded, her eyes twinkling. “Slynvertyne is yours now. He’ll follow you wherever you go, and he’ll protect you as long as you need him.”

Nepthys smiled for the first time in what felt like forever. She turned to Slynvertyne, who blinked slowly at her, his glowing eyes soft but strong. Together, they walked out into the snow, the wind swirling gently around them. Nepthys held onto Slynvertyne's fur as they made their way home, the quiet of winter wrapping around them like a blanket.

When they reached her house, the windows were dark, and the sounds of her parents’ raised voices leaked through the walls. But the cold didn’t feel so sharp now. Slynvertyne padded softly beside her as she crept into her room, his fur brushing against the walls as he squeezed in after her. He lay down beside her bed, his glowing eyes watching the door, and his presence filled the room with warmth that pushed the cold out into the hall.

Nepthys crawled under her blankets, but she didn’t need them as much anymore. Slynvertyne's soft fur kept her warm, and his silent gaze made her feel safer than she ever had. The world outside was still cold, still full of snow and frost and eerie winter silence, but now, Nepthys had something more.

As she closed her eyes, listening to the wind against the windows, she felt the strange calm of the snow settle inside her. The world outside, with its quiet, eerie winter stillness, understood her. And now, so did her monster.

Hope you guys liked this I really enjoyed writing this and probably will make it a series! More to come from Nephthys and Slynvertyne soon!

[wingdingsandbrokenstrings]

Gonna be away for a bit 🥲 Our main water line sprung not one, but two leaks. One of which is under our foundation. And this is happening just as we’re having company coming in for the a long weekend.

Hoping to be back sometime next week, but we’ll see. Once they tear out the floor to fix the leak, we’ll have to have someone replace the floor…

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

self-indulgent headcanon time:

I headcanon that Furina has 2 dogs. their names are Philippe and Jeanne Marie, they're poodles and they're treated like doggy royalty.

Neuvillette gave her her first puppy hundreds of years ago and ever since then it's been absolutely vital to make sure she always has at least 1 dog in her care at all times. They're basically her emotional support animals and she probably couldn't go a single day without them unless you want to deal with the ensuing meltdown.

she'll take this secret to her grave, but the reason she loves dogs so much is because she never feels judged by them, or like they secretly think she's incompetent and a failure. they simply just love her for what she is.

[nakedmonkey]

Have you guys ever had to leave an apt you just moved into? If so, how did you deal with it mentally cause I might have to do that and I'm about to have a fucking meltdown 🤮