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kyetalksshit · 17 days
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Dream log 9/6/24
I don't remember a lot of what happened because there was a lot of garbled dream stuff but here's what I remember:
I was at "work" (ofc it never really looked like work lol) but I was upstairs instead of downstairs helping with group or whatever. I was scheduled for a 7am shift and I came in at 7 but went straight upstairs first, not realizing I hadn't even said hi to anyone downstairs so for all they knew I hadn't come in at all.
I was chatting with Courtney Loftin about random stuff, waiting for Brittany to come in. There was somebody else there too but I don't know who, they were also waiting for Brittany tho to have a little meeting w her or something?
Anyway Brittany came in probably an hour and a half later and I still hadn't gone downstairs yet lol oops
I sat in her office with her and we didn't talk about much for some reason? She was playing music (with very work inappropriate videos lol) and occasionally chatting about life. After awhile, she was like okay! I can meet with you both, do you (to the other person) want to go first? They said yeah so I say further away and waited for her to close the door so I couldn't hear their conversation. But she looked at me and said "you can come in here actually" with a little smile and I was like !!!!! And in my head was like (because I'm finally your HR assistant?!?!?!) and went in there.
I don't remember the contents of the meeting w random other person at all, just that after they were done, suddenly Brittany and I were downstairs in pet resort and Linda was looking at me like (?!?!?! where TF have you BEEN) but wouldn't say anything because Brittany was right there. Anyway, Brittany called everyone's attention, and everyone in pet resort was there. She made the announcement (to my surprise because I hadn't had the official news yet) that she and Dr Coe had decided to hire me on as her HR assistant and I would be leaving pet resort.
I was overjoyed of course, and we dispersed to finish out the day and answer any questions. Linda came up to me, PISSED. She was like are you serious?? You're just gonna leave??? What about the promotion I was trying to get for you that I told you about?? You couldn't wait for that?!?!?!
I was like ?? I don't know what promotion you're talking about. But this is what I want to do, I'm so excited about it. This is for my future. And also I've been too exhausted down here anyway, I can't physically keep doing this job anymore.
She was all incredulous like "you're really not gonna mess with the dogs anymore at all????? Not even a little bit??????" And then Brittany appeared and was like "no, they're moving upstairs with me to do HR. I needed help, they offered to step in, so we made it happen." Linda was all pissy about it but walked away.
I was then gonna finish out my shift, when I realized it was already 1pm and I was off lol so I clocked out and went home.
Next day at work, I was HR assistant and didn't even have to worry about pet resort downstairs. There was something about a news broadcast we had to do, and I guess her old assistant had typed something up (before she left? Although I somehow saw her while she typed it and sent it in and she was super weird about not wanting us to change it at all). Brittany was supposed to read it off like a newscaster for some reason lol like a news interview but we had to take it over? Anyway the document her previous assistant typed up was in a weird format and needed some tweaking, and there were two scripts that needed to be put together into one. So I started working on that (to prev assistant's chagrin) and then Brittany had to leave and asked me to do the newscast for her.
When they called, I was unprepared and my hair was a little greasy but I did okay overall. At some point Brittany came back and we were chatting and doing work stuff for the rest of the dream that all blurs together because it was morning and I kept waking up and falling back asleep lol
And when I woke up, on my phone I had a response from Brittany (I messaged her yesterday asking about any updates) and she said there isn't an update yet, but she's pushing for it!
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angeltrapz · 8 months
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I am. exhausted today (uh. emeto warning in the tags but its very briefly mentioned)
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twopoppies · 1 year
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I saw people speculating why he was so ‘low key’ last night but tbh how low key is attending the press opening night in a tiny theater lol he went there, knowing he’d be seen and filmed. He went to the after party, didn’t pose for official pics (but he rarely does and rarely goes to any of these events these days anyways, unless it’s his project), BUT we then of course do get a video of him inside the theater, we get a fan pic and a pic of him leaving 😂 making sure we all know he was there and enough to confirm it. And enough to get people speculate and talk and - in hets case - dream LMAO
And since he didn’t leave with her nor apparently spoke to her, he had a bare minimum night, yet it fulfilled the purpose. Clearly cause this fandom LOVES speculation and being right, and the hets love a new woman they can be excited and over the top about in regards to him. And she clearly gets a lot out of this already - and so far they only ever looked like friends, so congrats to her I guess :)
Same with the never ending newly waking pics of them being ‘casually spotted’ - zero effort for him and yet making sure to keep the conversation going.
Hopefully this isn’t as unbearable and miserable as the previous one. And hopefully for him it means to actually get to rest for most of the time and to be able to live his way on the right when everyone looks to the spotlight on the left. He deserves a proper break, maybe this is a controlled way for him to do just that. He must know better than us.💛
Doesn’t mean it’s not annoying and boring and just frustrating. And also doesn’t mean it’s anything other than PR and or bearding. Same old. It’ll be over hopefully sooner than later. Until something changes hopefully one day. And toll that day let’s all enjoy our summer and not dwell on this copy of a copy all too much. ✌🏼
Well, that pretty much sums it all up. Let's just hope they don't do anything stupid to try and make it "interesting".
On a positive note, I loved his look last night.
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runfast-runfar · 2 months
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Hey friends!! It's been a while!! I want to try and post on here more regularly because I genuinely miss this community of people so much! So here's to little life updates becoming a thing again :)
July 2024
I think I mentioned on here a few months back, but the startup I was working at for 2 years shut down in April and so I have been unemployed since then. Getting my next job has been rough.. but things are finally moving a bit more and I am getting more interviews and hopefully something will work out sooner rather than later.
Life hasn't been too exciting recently, mostly because of the lack of job and me being me, a huge introvert, my days haven't been filled with much. But to be honest, in many ways, that's been quite nice.
Last week I went to go see the movie Twisters and it was SO good!! I'm biased because I am in love with Glen Powell (and also low key in love with Daisy Edgar-Jones in a be BFFs with me please kinda way lol!) So that was a nice afternoon out!
I've been getting back into running after about a year and a half pretty much off from it. When I went to residential treatment last year for my ed I had to cut back on running and a few months prior to going there I had been running less just due to not doing well with food. So the past maybe month or so has been the first time going back to running consistently since close to 2022!? And I am so glad I took the time off I did and didn't force myself to do it otherwise I think it would have ruined the sport for me! But I love it and am so happy to have that escape/coping skill back. I will run and either listen to music or sometimes listen to an audiobook, and it's honestly my favorite way to decompress.
I usually end my run at some sort of shop lol, today was ending at the local farmers market and then walking home :)
I saw this pin there today too and tbh if I had an income I would have bought it lol
Since being unemployed I have been dog walking/and dog sitting pretty often which tbh if this could be my full time job, I would die happy haha! I walk this dog Finn every week (and spend probably 1-2 weekends every month or so staying at his house dogsitting) and it is always SUCH a highlight! He's got a super special place in my heart my Finny boy! For OG's who followed me years ago I used to dog walk/dog sit an Australian cattle mix pup named Finley who was my heart and soul! She passed in 2020, but I watched her for almost 6 years and there is something about dogs named Fin/Finn I think because these two pups have such incredibly special places in my heart!
Life has been good in some ways and incredibly hard in others since I've really last been on here. But that is life I guess, there's often good and bad intertwined.
I hope that you're all doing well!
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golbrocklovely · 8 months
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To me it looks like colby is “soft launching” the relationship, but its just a wonder. What is your opinion? And do you plan to write something?😊
i like you say colby is only soft launching, when sam has been with his girl longer than colby has been with his lol
idk what's going on with them and their girls, tbh. do i think it's long term? eh, i'm not sure. i' be surprised that in less than two months colby would change his entire thought process to dating... so i'm not gonna hold my breath. but if he has, i'm happy for him.
and yes, i'm in the middle of writing something now. idk when it will be out, but hopefully sooner rather than later haha
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hi! will you be updating the price we pay? i love your work x
Hi! This was a lovely message to receive <3 thank you! I definitely will be updating The Price We Pay, but in all honesty, I have not written any of the next chapter yet. I've started thinking about it, which is surely as good as writing it...? Since the new school year started, it's a miracle I've written anything tbh 😅 the only reason I have is that writing with the lovely @mppmaraudergirl has helped motivate me. (although no prizes for guessing that it is me holding up the publication of the final chapter of our fic. <insert Taylor Swift I'm the problem gif>
So, long story short, I will update it...hopefully sooner rather than later, but exhaustion + busy-ness + brain overload does sometimes get in the way lol. I'm so glad you're enjoying it, though! Thanks for reaching out <3
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maylorscardigan · 1 year
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Everyone in the comments has different opinions of what he’s saying in that clip and tbh I can sort of see all of them 😭
To me the first part looks like he says “it’s alright” but I can’t tell after that. There’s definitely an “L”word in there somewhere??? It’s so blurry.
It’s the best we have - so far. Hopefully a better quality ones emerges sooner than later lol
There was a video earlier that had an entire extra part to it but it was so blurry that it was easy enough to figure out the first part but then after that… more tricky
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warmthintouches · 2 years
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*sends me a shiny pokemon on the pokemon game were both playing separately*
*this is a big deal*
*he nicknamed the pokemon Lissi. That way I would know which one it was when we traded*
Me: well thank you for doing that 😳😳
Him: I figured its just a bonus since you got me a Christmas gift.
Me: 😳 thats very nice of you thank you. Its kinda hot/cute you did that tbh ☺ you like me...
Him: you shush. Just wait until you get the rest of your present 😉😉
Me: wym? 😏
Him: im still working on your Christmas gift. I need one more part which hopefully I'll get sooner rather than later.
Me: thats even more confusing. I wanna know.
Him: you'll see 😘
Me: not fair 😭
Him: very fair actually. You didn't even tell me you were getting me a gift and got me one. I'm allowed to not tell you
Me: I was trying to be sneaky! I even waited like a creep so I could give it to you when you were in your car.
Me: you still a turd, but thank you. I kinda assumed you were just saying that when you said you would get me a gift.
Him: of course, I wouldn't lie about that lol silly goose
Me: you...you being very nice. Can I have a clue?
Him: nope. Im not just going to tell you. You gotta wait. Sorry 😛😉
Me: hehehe you know...you're being very.... cute 😳 how do you feel about that?
Him: you're bringing out my cute side with that booty what can I say.
Me: 🥰😘🥰
Him: 😉😘😚😉
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astral-lucy · 3 years
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astro observations
i love these posts, and, having few observations myself, i decided to do my own post! hopefully this won't be the last, but tbh i can never guess what my gemini stellium is gonna do next so 💀
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aries suns love electronic music. not that they don't like anything else, but any kind if electronic music is the best for them, they enjoy that energy a lot!
aquarius is deeply connected to music. i thought this was quite obvious but i've never seen in around here well, maybe that's why i haven't seen it lol . i've been noticing this a lot, there's almost no group i know that has no aquarius, which doesn't mean this limits to making music, because i'm also including dancing here, even just knowing about music.
there's a lot of aqua venus who are athletes. this is a new one, i realized this doing research and, tbh, i have no idea why it happens but there's that.
people with pisces placements are amazing lyricist (specially if in big three, mercury or a stellium). virgo and gemini have a big influence in writing in general, so musicians with said placements may have fun writing them, but not only i feel like water placements like composing a lot but pisces placements create super deep and meaningful lyrics.
capricorns share that golden quality that leos have. not a lot to add here, but i do want to say this is super personal (specially knowingly i have a cap moon); i told this to my mom (a leo rising) and she told me she sees capricorns as grey and blue.
leo placements have a tendency to wavy/curly hair. this is personal to the people i know who have leo placements, they all have curly hair
leos and capricorns exude boss energy. that's it, that's the tweet.
taurus mars/sun/venus makes you really pretty but at different levels. you'll see what i mean in a post soon.
aquarius venus people are beautiful, and, yet again, you'll see what i mean sooner than later, but i do want to add that if you're inexplicably attracted to someone (even though you probably shouldn't be), they most likely are an aqua venus, though they also could be scorpio venus.
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himbeaux-on-ice · 3 years
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Its funny that Vegas saw the criticism that they were weak down the middle and went after the most expensive available center and he is going to be the number one center I believe. But for the cap hit I feel like that is going to be a problem later in the season since Jack is going to be on LTIR for months due to injury (also tbh it is probably why the traded MAF, get rid of one 9 million dollar player and replace him with a 10 million dollar one lol)
See, see this is why this move today drives me insane, bc that’s NOT WHAT THEY TRADED MAF FOR.
The whole idea in the off-season was, need to reallocate some of the money being used to pay two equal starting goalies (instead of just one starter and a backup) into more depth forwards who can score, because we keep running into a scoring problem late in the playoffs when tight-checking defensive teams are able to shut down our top 6 (the “big line” and the Misfits line), and then there isn’t enough offence in the bottom two lines (aside from Nic Roy and *checks notes* OH YEAH, ALEX TUCH) to pick up the slack or draw attention of opposing defenders enough to create opportunities for the top two lines.
And they went okay, well then to solve this therefore we will essentially liquidate Marc-Andre Fleury (because he is the older and more expensive goalie of the two goalies) to turn his $7 million (not 9) in cap space into free space which we will then spend on: 1) guys like Patrick, Dadonov, Howden to reshape the 3rd and 4th line to be more offence-focused, 2) a cheaper backup goalie, and 3) re-signing Alec Martinez because he’s awesome for us. And then they even said no, we don’t think we need to chase a “true 1C”, because we believe Chandler Stephenson is that player, and has shown us he can be — what we need is more depth.
Which was like okay, cool! Great! Controversial, in many quarters, due to the whole goalie liquidation thing, but sure, as far as offseason plans go it at least has a coherent philosophy and goal that is being worked towards! You were essentially taking the cap space that was one (1) goalie and turning it into several less expensive but hopefully offensively productive forwards, gambling that you really only need one starter anyway. That would honestly be a pretty smart strategy as far as the copycat league goes, given that you’ve watched Tampa’s ability to roll four offensively potent and extremely deep lines LITERALLY beat the EXACT teams that eliminated you for Cups TWICE in the last two years.
So WHY in the name of FUCK have you now decided to UNDO some of that by re-concentrating $10 mil of cap into ONE guy, ostensibly to play in your top 6, thus making them even more top-heavy??? WHAT was the point of all that!! I hope to god Buffalo was on Fleury’s MNTC list, because that’s the only reason I can truly accept not just TRADING HIM FOR THAT INSTEAD OF FOR NOTHING. [muffled screaming into hands] I’ve heard some say that if he gets the surgery he wants and it works, Eichel could be skating in as little as 3 weeks and rehabbed up to game conditioning by the new year, possibly even back in the lineup sooner than Tuch would have been. So like, they’re GONNA need to figure it out.
Anyway with regards to the 1C thing, I’m really only half joking when I say they should either play Eichel at 3C, or move the Misfits (who I really think work better with each other than any other linemates, but Pete may fight me on this) down to 3rd line and play him as 2C with *hand wavy motion in the direction of some wingers*. Fuck it! Roll 4 lines with relatively equal minutes and let the opposing coaches struggle to decide how the fuck they’re gonna deploy against THAT (who do you glue your Phillip Danault-esque shutdown player/line to now, as an opponent? Stone Pacioretty and good ol speedy Stevie? Marchessault Karlsson and Smith? Jack fucking Eichel? The surprisingly effective Kolesar-Patrick-Dadonov 4th line? you can’t cover ALL of them and SOMEBODY is gonna score on you). I think it would be very VERY funny and just might even work. But Chandler Stephenson has earned the 1C job on this team and is incredibly effective with his linemates (just look at the one game we had this season before everybody DIED for an example), he deserves to keep it regardless of his cap hit. You don’t build lines based on price tag.
The Pens have had plenty of success out of being like “here’s our 2C, fuck you it’s Evgeni Malkin, die” for a long time. I legit double-dog-dare the Knights to try the same.
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themonkeycabal · 4 years
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WandaVision Ep 8 Spoilers
(THERE IS A MID-CREDITS SCENE, BTW)
Previously on WandaVision: It was Agatha all along.
This show has really come along well. I was worried after the first couple episodes, which were extremely slow, but it's tightened up and been entertaining as heck, in addition to being kind of a surprising meditation on grief and dealing or not dealing. You go along with wacky sitcom hijinks and then get whacked with the reminder so many things that have happened here are driven by terrible loss.
Anyway …. Acting Director Dick is Up To Something regarding Vision, and I fear we're all going to have to endure lots of his jackassery this episode. He's the not very fun part of this show, tbh. But we're getting down to it, so hopefully he gets his comeuppance sooner rather than later. And then on to deal with Agatha. Who is fabulously rotten. I love her, I have to say.
I guess this all leads into Doctor Strange 2, which I didn't know until Feige said it at the TCAs this week. So, that's something to look out for, too. Maybe everybody already knew that, but that was new to me, I think.
In happy news, nobody is power washing the sidewalks this morning. Hooray.
Creepy woods, a figure holding a flaming torch, Salem, Mass. 1693. Ah, Agatha's origin story. Burning at the stake. Or, maybe not. So far it's just being tied to one in the middle of a dark, creepy night.
"Agatha Harkness, are you a witch?" "Yes. I am a witch." "Yet, you have betrayed your coven." *gasp* Agatha!
She's been captured by her coven, because she stole knowledge, practiced dark magic, and other sundry evilities. But she says she's innocent, innocent, do you hear her! Oh, I guess not, "I did not break your rules, they simply bent to my power."
The lead witch is her mother, apparently. Since Agatha seems unrepentant, all the witches zap her with witchy magic or something. She screams a lot. But then her dark powers start drawing from the witches, sucking them dry. This is all very dramatic. Mom casts the final bolt, but Agatha is too powerful and she breaks free. All the other witches, except mom, have been grotesquely mummified.
Agatha swears she can be good, mom doubts. Mom zaps her again. Oh, whoops, Agatha drains mom next. She takes the broach from mom's desiccated corpse then zooms off into the sky in a burst of swirly purple magicy mist. The coven really didn't think that plan through all the way.
Present day, we're right where we left off, in Agatha's basement cavern of dark witches and nosy neighbors. Agatha is talking to her rabbit, Mr. Scratchy, and smirking at Wanda. "I know. She does look shocked to meet the real us, doesn't she?"
Wanda's eyes go glowy and Agatha laughs. "Oh, that's adorable. My thoughts are not available to you, toots."
Wanda wants to know where her children are, and Agatha mocks her about her reappearing/disappearing accent. Wanda tries to whammy her. "Huh, your magic's no good here." But Agatha's is. Agatha's no dummy, and now she's got Wanda magically trussed up in the center of the room.
"Didn't you notice? Basic protection spell? One on each wall? No? Nothing?" Hmm. Agatha, tbh, Wanda has like no idea what she's doing. So … "How do you not know the fundamentals?"
Wanda asks "Who are you?" and Agatha asks the same "Who are *you*? All those costumes and hairstyles. I was so patient, waiting for you to reveal your true self. I got close with fake Pietro — Fietro, if you will". Lol. I love her. She goes on about the magicy stuff she did to make Fietro "But you're so crippled by your own self doubt that you believed it. Oh Wanda."
"When I sensed this place, the afterglow of so many spells cast all at once, I couldn't make heads or tails of it." She shows off a mind control spell with some sort of big gross bug. Great. And has it fly at Wanda's face. Super awesome, Agatha. Oh, I see, she's going through the spells she thinks Wanda has cast, all the details, all the control of a whole town and all its storylines. Agatha's impressed and envious, "What's your secret, sister?"
Wanda says she didn't do anything and Agatha doesn't like that answer and tosses Wanda around. Now, see, Agatha, much as your coven underestimated you, I think your runic protection is only going to go so far before Wanda decides it doesn't.
"I tried to be gentle, to nudge you awake from this ridiculous fantasy. But, you'd rather fall apart than face your truth." Well, I mean. She's really been through a lot the last few weeks, Agatha. Like A LOT. Oh, and we're going to relive it. She's casting some sort of memory spell on Wanda, taking them back to the vast emptiness, endless nothing Wanda described to Fietro a couple weeks ago. You're not being very nice, Agatha.
"It's time to look at some real reruns." Wanda doesn't want to play along, but Agatha reminds her that she's got her children.
So, through the magic memory door they step, and into a tiny Sokovian apartment, with Wanda's parents. Her father apparently smuggled DVDs of "I Love Lucy" and "Bewitched". Didn't the people of Sokovia suffer enough? Well, he's got "The Addams Family", too. That's okay, I guess.
Little Pietro runs in reminding Mama and Papa that the only rule of TV night is you have to speak English. They call for Wanda and Agatha nudges her to step into the role of little Wanda. Papa says Wanda can pick what they're going to watch, but outside, there's gunfire. Except, I guess it's no big deal, Mama turns away from the window and the street battle below their apartment, while little Wanda says she wants to watch "The Dick Van Dyke Show", season 2, episode 21. Poor kid. Pietro agrees and moans, "Always sitcom, sitcom, sitcom!"
I'm waiting for the Stark Bomb to fall.
Little Wanda is far too enamored of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Oh! There's the bomb. Pietro grabs her and they hide under the bed and they stare at the Stark Bomb. She and Pietro discuss what to do, while in the background, behind the bomb, the tv continues to play.
Little Wanda reaches out with her magic hand and then big Wanda is yanked out of the memory by Agatha, who demands to know if she stopped the bomb going off. "You used a probability hex?" Wanda says she didn't do anything, the bomb just never went off.
"So, what I see here is a baby witch, obsessed with sitcoms, and years of therapy ahead of her." lol, but harsh. "Where'd you get the big guns, Wanda?" A good question, Agatha. We never did get that answer before, really, did we? Just a sort of vague suggestion of "hydra did stuff to her and pietro maybe?".
"I don't want to go back there." "I know you don't. But it's good medicine, angel. The only way forward, is back."
Through another magic door we go.
Ha, I just paused and saw the title of the ep is "Previously On".
And into the Hydra lab. "Don't be scared, you already lived it once."
Oh, it's Loki's scepter. And the … whichever stone that is. I can't remember, totally lost track of them. Mind stone?
Wanda is in the containment unit with the scepter. The Hydra scientist wants her to do something with the scepter, and jr scientist says that no subject has survived this and lead scientist is like shut up and 'go ahead Wanda, it'll be totally fine'. 
Wanda approaches the scepter and it starts to shake and the stone breaks free and flies at her, but then pauses and they stare at each other. She reaches out for it. Then the blue outer bit of the stone explodes off and underneath is the the yellow stone. Ok, yeah it is the Mind stone.
Lots of dramatic power stuff with Wanda and the stone. She sees a flying silhouetted figure in the light of the stone and then passes out. She survives! I mean, obviously. The Hydra scientists have her sent to isolation where they torture her by making her watch "The Brady Bunch". Well, no, I guess she likes it. Keep this under your hat, but if you ever want to break me, making me watch "The Brady Bunch" could probably do it.
The Hydra scientists meanwhile are trying to figure out what happened, watching the recordings over and over — they don't see the whole stone flying towards Wanda and the subsequent mind meld. She's just standing there, and then falls down.
Agatha sums this up for us "So, little Orphan Wanda got up close and personal with an Infinity Stone that amplified what otherwise would have died on vine. The broken pieces of you are adding up, buttercup. I have a theory, but I need more."
Door number three reveals her digs at the Avengers compound. She is, of course, watching TV. "Malcolm in the Middle." Well, it's better than "The Brady Bunch." The only thing I hate more than "The Brady Bunch" is "The Partridge Family."
"Where are we now?" "The Avengers compound. It was the first home Vision and I ever shared. Pietro was dead, and I was in a new country. I was all alone."
Vision enters through the wall, back when he didn't remember doors existed, and Wanda invites him to sit next to her and watch TV. "It's funny because of the grievous injury the man just suffered?" Vision doesn't get sitcoms either.
Vision sweetly tells her that if she wants to talk about what she's feeling, he'd like to know. "Should you wish to tell me. Should that be of some comfort to you." "What makes you think talking about it would bring me comfort?" "Well, I read a thing—" that's the Tony Stark part of Vision. "The only thing that would bring me comfort is seeing him again." Poor Wanda.
Vision has a little "I don't know how to respond to that" face journey that is subtle but made me laugh.
She apologizes to him. "It's just like this wave washing over me again and again." She says the wave will drown her, but Vision says it won't. 
"It can't all be sorrow, can it?" IS2G if you two make me tear up this morning, I will … not do anything but be kind of annoyed. I have had the worst allergies the last couple of days, don't make me more snotty!
"I've always been alone, so I don't feel the lack. It's all I've ever known. I've never experienced loss, because I've never had a loved one to lose. What is grief, if not love persevering?" Damn you, Vision. At least I have a new box of tissues.
He sees something funny on the telly and laughs then apologizes. She laughs with him, though. "No, it was funny." They smile at each other, cutely awkward.
Even Agatha wipes at the corner of one eye. Though it could be annoyance. Hard to tell.
"So to recap: parents dead, brother dead, Vision dead." You're still a very mean person, Agatha. "What happened when he wasn't there to pull you back from the darkness, Wanda?"
Wanda doesn't want to play this game anymore. Agatha insists. "Tell me how you did it? Vision was gone, but you wanted him back."
Wanda sort of wakes up, "I wanted him back." Door number four takes us to SWORD's ridiculous and massive lobby. Really, what is with the stupidly enormous monitors hovering over the whole absurd place? So stupid. Nobody wants to watch the news that badly or bigly.
Wanda is walking through the lobby — SWORD's security sucks — but contrary to Acting Director Dick's version of the story, Wanda is politely asking the security guy where Vision is. And not throwing red woo-woos or anything. "Please, please. When I came back, he was gone. His body. And I know he's here. He deserves a funeral, at least. I deserve it."
Speaking of AD Dick. He seems to be watching this on the security feed, he calls the security desk and talks to the guard. Wanda spots the camera. But, security guy waves her through, gives her directions to wherever.
Security guy gets up to buzz Wanda in, but she says she's got it, and she opens the door herself. The footage AD Dick used to make her look like a terrorist. I mean, we knew he was a dick, so this is no surprise, but still. Jimmy! Arrest that asshole for aggravated assholery and general shadiness!
Anyway, Wanda's striding down hallways and as she comes even to the Director's door, the security light goes green and beeps so she goes into his office.
There’s polite introductions and whatever. 
"I understand you're here to see the Vision. To recover his body." "Well, I'm his next of kin." "I understand." You're a lying sleazy snake who's been doing shady things with Vision's body. "I'd like to show you something?" "And then you'll give him to me?" No, because he's a scumbag.
He shows her a lab, she's confused, he says it's what she asked to see. And down in the lab are technicians taking Vision's body apart. Obviously, this is horrifying to her. What did Hayward expect to get from showing Wanda that? Like she'd be all "oh, hmm, how fascinating. Look, he's made of wires and such. By all means, cut my boyfriend's robot head off. For science"?
"What are you doing to him?" "We're dismantling the most sophisticated sentient weapon ever made." I think you're a liar pants, Dick. "It's our legal and ethical obligation."
"I just want to bury him. It's all I want." "Are you sure?" "Excuse me?" "Not everyone has the kind of power that could bring their soulmate back online — forgive me — back to life." You are such a sleaze, Dick. They can't get Vision to work again, so why not emotionally manipulate the grieving woman to do it for you. Gross. DIAF Dick.
"No, I can't do that. That's not why I'm here." "Okay, I can't allow you to take three billion dollars worth of vibranium just to put it in the ground." He's the worst. "The best I can do is let you say goodbye to him here."
"He's all I have." "Well, that's just it, Wanda; he isn't yours." Somebody needs to squash this guy like a bug. I don't care who. Wanda, obviously, deserves the honor most, but let her get on with her life, I say. Monica's probably the next best for sure. SOMEBODY THOUGH! Hand Darcy a wrench, she'll take care of it.
Where were we … Oh, Wanda's doing the head tilt of impending magical ass-kickery. She busts through the glass, drops down to the floor of the lab, and a security team runs out to point their guns at her. AD Dick tells them to fall back. Why, his plan's working just perfectly, no need to interfere with the woman he’s making suffer extra.
Wanda walks around Vision's body to his head. And she puts her hand over the giant hole where Thanos ripped out the mind stone. "I can't feel you." Every bit of this, for me, takes AD Dick from a generic loathsome character, to somebody actually disgusting. Do not like.
Wanda can't feel Vision at all, and she walks away, out of the room, out of the SWORD building, leaving the body behind. THIS IS VERY SAD, MARVEL.
She gets into her car, and in the passenger seat is an open envelope, like for a greeting card or something. And off she goes to Westview, New Jersey. A down-on-its-luck small town, full of sad looking people and dirty streets. 
She pulls into the driveway of a property that's overgrown, with just a foundation, no house.
Damn you show. It wasn't an envelope, it was a real estate deed with a plan of the property with a red heart drawn on it, and the words "to grow old in. v." inside. What did Wanda do to deserve this? I mean, fine, she was in Hydra for like a minute, but she wasn't a true believer or anything, and she redeemed herself. Come on. Stupid Marvel, making all the things hurt.
She's crying, you're crying, I'm crying, everybody's crying, as she walks into the foundation of the home that never was. And then it all just comes pouring out of her in a great burst of red light and grief and power. Creating the sitcom world around her and swallowing Westview. Poor Wanda. 
There. There's your answer, Agatha. Are you happy, you big meanie? Go turn AD Dick into a toad, or something, would you?
Hm, from her power, the yellow light of the mind stone starts to separate out, from back when she and it sort of had their moment in the Hydra lab, and out of that Vision is recreated or reborn or reconstituted or … whatever. Then they're in the black and white world of the first ep, and everything is perfect. Damn you, Marvel.
Real world Wanda looks up from where she's standing behind B&W Wanda and Vision and sees it's all just a TV show set. Agatha is in the audience, clapping. She vanishes and Wanda can hear Billy and Tommy screaming for her. She runs off set and into her front yard.
Out on the street, Agatha has the boys on magic leashes.
Agatha says she knows what Wanda is and that "You have no idea how dangerous you are." Well, keep holding her boys with magic ropes around their necks and we'll all find out. Agatha's gone full witchy here, she looks great.
"You're supposed to be a myth. A being capable of spontaneous creation. Here you are, using it to make breakfast for dinner." lol. Hey! I was actually thinking last night that I hadn't made waffles in a while. Breakfast for dinner is its own kind of magic, Agatha. (note to self: check we have syrup)
Wanda is pretty done with Agatha. She wants the boys released.
"Oh yes, your children. Vision. This whole little life you've made; this is chaos magic, Wanda. And that makes you … The Scarlet Witch!" DUN DUN DUN! CREDITS! !!!!
Well that was all very dramatic and sad. A really good episode, really good. Damn you, Marvel. Kathryn Hahn is great, absolutely love her.
Yes, there's a mid-credits scene, btw. F'in AD Dick, for what it's worth, finally putting his Genius Master Plan into action. What a dick. The biggest sack of tiny dicks you ever saw. No really, I hate this guy. I hope Wanda tears him a hundred new ones. Then sets what's left on fire. With her mind. 
Also, he’s dumb. He can’t possibly think he can contain Wanda when she gets a look at his Genius Master Plan, can he? Is he that dumb? Probably, but couldn’t one of his little minions go “um, sir, she did almost defeat Thanos. I suspect this may end catastrophically for us.” 
Do you suppose Darcy’s still stuck in traffic? 
OH NO! There’s only one more episode left. I’m sad about that. This has turned out really quite good. Well done, show. Well done. 
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Hiya! So some of your new sets have me curious - would you recommend this 'She was Pretty' show? What's it about?
Hello there friend!!! First of all... Thank you for saying my sets made you curious ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!! Let me start and say... yes, I would recommend this japanese adaptation. Now for your 2nd question.... i'm sorry this is gonna be long i'm terrible at describing things. I can say think the MDL synopsis is good but i feel like talking lololol...
You don't need to watch the other versions but this is how they all kinda flow..... basically it starts off that our FL as a kid was a smart, nice and "pretty" little girl and was friends with a bullied, and a little traumatized boy. They were very very close, got separated, life stuff happened, and now yearsssss later all grown up he tries to find her. However, in the present, low and behold the boy... our ML is now a "hottie" and a success while she, our FL is welllll.... a "mess". Our FL is down on her luck and lost all her confidence through life struggles... At their meetup after he walks past her thinking another girl is her ngl it hurts my soullll everytime, she tells herself, "ohh noo I'm not like before, i can't let him see me like this." So she instead hides, and sends her bestfriend to meet him once and act as her to say "hi.. bye...i gotta go to a foriegn land, see you again never". She resides to letting him keep a nice image of her in his mind but end all their relations with the past. (Mind you there is/was nothing ugly or wrong about either of them and all girl needs is a comb and a job but wtvr just go with it).
True dramaland romcom magic comes in and dundundunnnnnn.... the FL and ML end up working in the same place and he's her new boss. She of course shares the name as his childhood friend but he of course doesn't know it's her. They start to work more closely and he starts to question who she really is...... this is a romcom so can you tell where this story is going lololol. Also there is always a handsome "funny" 2nd lead who also works there and starts to like FL. And remember her friend, yeahh she didnt stop seeing ML and starts to fall in love with him but im not gonna go there lololol.
Now you may say this sounds ehhhhhh stereotypey, tropy, and cheesy... and you may be correct (it does do the dredded makeover scene), but LET ME JUST SAY it's really not that bad, and that this new adaptation is a different flavor than the others.
1. It's wayyy shorter so it cuts out all the nonsense stuff. only 10 Eps thank the jdramagods.
2. While the other versions of this story sadly play up the sterotypes sometimes, this adaptation doesn't really do that as much. I feel it's not as... harsh to the FL i mean its still a tinyyy hurtful tho cant lie. But overall it's actully funny and cute. Also, their take on the scenes that are in basically all of them are nice.
And finally 3. The cast in this is realllyyyy good. The ML is of course a little rude but not terrible, the actor is nice to look at, and a great choice. He shows feelings to our FL early on without knowing who she really is which is in all the versions lol. Our FL...i love lovvee her. She is sunshine and i love her more in this version. (The story is really supposed to kinda being about her gaining her confidence while also falling in love.) Our 2nd lead Akaso Eiji, my boiiii is to me the best 2nd lead ever in all the series. He is sillly but not tooo silly and is really just great. I don't get 2nd lead syndrome but you might with this one lololol. And tbh even her bestfriend is good... like it's hard to not like her. And I'm not particularly mad at her actions in this version. I should yet cause its still ongoing
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Okay so that was a whole mouthful, but friend there is your answer lolol.... and i say again i would definitely recommend giving this romcom a try. It's only on ep. 4, but so far it's nice and light. And the truth of who she is may hopefully be revealed in the next ep. Sooner rather than laterrr.
if you read all this thank you 😘😘😘
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okay so about the fake commune family thing back in the day vs separate narrative: itk info a long time ago claimed this happened due to D and G not getting along, more specifically G not liking D's lifestyle and the way she raised the kids and just overall personalities didn't click, so she requested to not be a part of that. Not sure how true but tbh it makes sense considering how they stopped liking each other's post (until recently) or hanging out publicly etc. +
+ofc they have lives outside of sm (although hardly doubt G does anything without posting a staged pic lol). We can also see clearly how D and G raise kids differently, D is more of a hippie wannabe, doesn't seem to really care a lot abt certain things (JJ still sucks on her thumb, twins still wearing dippers, etc) yet G is much more into raising perfect children (meditation, reading, crafts, farming, camping, eating healthy). I'm not criticizing either just pointing differences. so idk+
+they are indeed very different, specially with the whole D shading G many times. If that was friendly G would've liked and commented on those posts, plus the nanny shade was horrible lol not at all smt you'd do to an actual friend, so this info does make sense. Specially seeing that J seems to just do whatever G wants. anyways, hopefully sooner than later they get to end this goddamn circus
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hi anon :) i can't speak for how true this is obviously but it's not far from the realm of possibility because yes the SM shade??? :)))) no bEsT fRieND would do that ever. They do raise their kids differently and have different lifestyles, Danneel is more laidback, while Genevieve is more into like you said raising top notch kids. And they do have a life outside of SM but like i maybe off the top of my head remember like a few genuine g/d interactions, one of them was that drunkish live stream they did kjskjdfk but yeah if it was itk i'm almost inclined to believe it. But then yeah they did start to push the whole commune narrative out of all of a sudden(although j2 have always made sure to say ''our wives are friends'' at like 3/4 of the panels they've done) and then it was separate narrative all over again uptil where SPN ended and we so lots of j2 content, and dont even get me started on the G PR. I'm more like ??? with the lack of Danneel, because she used to be on SM a lot too and now it's like ??? do you even exist ??? there was a lot of hype around J/D when they announced chaos machine but like now ??? idek. Right now, the focus is mostly on J/G what with Walker and the fucking INSANE amount of hype G's getting. I mean they bearded on J/D's anniversary while the both of them stayed radio silent(well not jensen he just posted himself hanging out with Jack sjdkjkfk). IMO i think they're pushing for some J/D separation like sort of them becoming distant-ish atleast until Walker can get over with??? and then figure out where to go from there. who knows? :)
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Chapter 3 - Earth and the Lost Soul
The Butterfly Who Lost Her Wings
Word Count: 3981 | AO3 Mirror | Previous | Next
Summary: Marco returns to Earth and sets out to right a wrong.
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A rift in space opened up in the Diaz family’s living room. Marco emerged from it a second later, dimensional scissors in hand. He was exactly where he had intended to land, in the middle of his living room. But only when the portal had disappeared did he realize that he hadn’t fully thought that decision through.
His mother, Angie, immediately noticed his arrival from her standing place in the kitchen. “Marco, you’re home!”
A cold wave of dread washed over him as he caught sight of his mother’s unknowing smile. She threw her arms around him in a hug, but he was completely lost in his thoughts, dismayed by his realization. I’m going to have to be the one to break the news to everyone in Echo Creek…
“Welcome home.”
“Hi, mom.” Marco tried to politely excuse himself to his room, but Angie wasn’t about to let him go so easily.
“Did you get everything figured out with Star?” she asked, letting up on her grasp. “I know she didn’t leave on the best terms.”
He turned around slowly, opting to stare at the wall behind her instead of making eye contact. “Actually… can we talk about it later? I’m really tired.”
Unfortunately, Angie was smarter than that. “Is everything alright?”
“I’m tired,” he repeated. “I’m really, really tired.”
“Marco?” She could only repeat her son’s name as he turned his back and ascended the stairs without responding further. “Marco!”
He shut his bedroom door behind him, trying to listen through the door. When he was certain that his mother hadn’t followed him in an effort to demand answers, he slid down the wall to a seated position on the floor and sighed heavily, his exhaustion finally starting to catch up with him.
His phone in is pocket was being bombarded by incoming messages, now that he’d returned to a place with cell service. He remained there on the floor for several moments before he was able to convince himself to look through his notifications. There were a lot of unread messages from his friends, mostly Jackie. As he was attempting to read through them, he was bombarded by several new texts from Janna.
Janna: yo diaz
are u home yet?
u better answer me
Because of course Janna somehow knew that he was back on Earth. He supposed it really wasn’t all that surprising, once he thought about it. I’m not sure if I’m in the right headspace to put up with this right now…
Marco: Yeah I am, how did you know that?
Janna: not important
ur gf has been harassing me bc u werent responding
next time maybe give some notice before u disappear?
Guilt flooded over him. She had every right to be upset with him, as far as he was concerned. Everyone did. He was the one who left without notice, and aside from a parting message to Jackie—apparently she had still tried to contact him anyways—no one else in his immediate friend group had known where he was.
Marco: I’m really sorry
I didn’t mean to be gone as long as I was
Janna: save your sorries for your gf dude
u cant just disappear for a week w/o warning and pretend nothings changed. shes got every right to be mad if she is
i kinda do too, lucky for u im not the grudge holding type
did star come back with u or is she like staying on mewni or whatever
Marco collapsed backwards onto his bed, defeated. His phone fell out of his hand, currently of little concern to him, now that he was so lost in his thoughts. There’s just no escaping this, is there? Everything had always been about Star, and everything still was about Star. Just as suddenly as she had crashed into his life, she was gone, and there wasn’t a thing he could do about it. He couldn’t stop thinking about her, about how the last thing she’d thought to do before disappearing in that explosion was to apologize.
A piece of his world had went with her, and he couldn’t help but feel that he was somehow responsible. There had to have been warning signs, right? Should he have done something differently, or done something sooner? “I hate this,” he murmured aloud, burying his face in his hands. “I hate this…”
Star probably hates this, too, he admitted inwardly. She always did everything in her power to be a positive force in people’s lives. The last thing she’d want is for everyone who cared about her to be moping around. I really hope she knew what she was getting herself into…
He finally spared another glance at his phone.
Janna: ???
Marco: Sorry
I don’t know if I want to talk about it right now, if that’s ok
Janna: yeah sure
if things are awkward between u two now thats ur business, not mine
jackie isnt mad at you fr that btw
Marco: For what?
Janna: uh
at the party?
Oh, right, Marco grimaced. Just before she left for Mewni—and subsequently vanished—Star had confessed her feelings for him in front of everyone at their end-of-the-school-year celebration. Even now, he still couldn’t help but hold some resentment towards her for how hasty that decision of hers had been, especially when she knew he was dating Jackie.
It was almost like she knew that was the last time she’d ever see him, and that her true feelings had been a weight on her chest that she could no longer bear to keep bottled up.
And yet, at the same time, his resentment felt unfair. He had no way of knowing when these feelings of hers had actually emerged, but Star never stopped trying to help him get Jackie’s attention. Even once they were finally dating, Star still went out of her way to include both of them in her lives however she could. As much heartache as it likely caused her, she must have valued their friendship over everything else, if she was able to force herself to put up with it for such a long time.
Conflicted feelings about Star aside, he still had overwhelmingly negative memories associated with that party. He preferred to forget about it where possible.
Marco: Gee, thanks for that, Janna
I’d almost forced that party out of my recent memory, but now it’s back.
Janna: sorry lol
Marco: Why would Jackie be mad at me about that? Star having feelings for me doesn’t change anything
Just wondering why you think that
Janna: i dont, im just repeating what she told me
and she told me she wasnt mad at u, sooo
i dont think shes mad at all tbh? that was a week ago anyways
go talk to her urself dude, im no therapist
Marco: Alright
Thanks, Janna
Janna: no prob
Though he did feel a bit guilty for withholding the truth of the situation from Janna, he swore to himself that he’d be honest about what really happened as soon as he felt able to. Janna was a mixed bag, and even though they were friends—at least, I think we’re friends?—he had no idea how she was going to take the information. He wanted to give himself time to come to terms with it all before trying to explain it to his and Star’s friends.
He had some things he needed to take care of, first. There was someone that he needed to apologize to, more than anything. Hopefully she was home.
His door creaked open, and he slowly made his way back down the staircase. His mother looked up from the book she was reading on the couch, her eyes lighting up with concern. “Marco?”
“I’m gonna go see Jackie,” he said quietly.
“Okay…that’s okay.” Angie stood up and crossed the room to stand in front of him cautiously. “Just… if you need to talk, I’m here for you, sweetie.” She extended her arms in an offering for a hug.
“I know.” He accepted her gesture and rested his head on her shoulder. “I just need to talk to her first.”
He headed out to the garage. It didn’t take long for him to wheel his bike out of the garage and suit up. He never really felt like taking his bike out was all that notable. Nothing would compare to when he tried to teach Star a couple months back, but she—
No, stop it, he told himself, shaking his head as if it would help unscramble his thoughts in any way. Stop thinking about her.
He was sure that the last thing Jackie needed was for him to suddenly show up on her doorstep in tears, especially when he had already done such a terrible job of communicating with her during his impromptu trip to Mewni. His only message to her about the entire situation had been incredibly brief.
Marco: I’m going to Mewni to make sure Star is okay. It sounds like something bad is about to go down there. I’ll be back soon, I promise. Love you
If he could go back in time a week, he would have done a better job of explaining himself. But it’s too late to worry about it now. I just need to focus on the present.
Once he’d shut the garage behind him, he headed off in the direction of Jackie’s house. His gaze rarely lifted from the street, and he couldn’t bring himself to make eye contact with any neighbors that he passed, out of fear of encountering someone who’d ask questions or demand answers.
It almost felt like some of the color in his life had been leeched away. The only thing that didn’t look any more faded to him was the moon, which was painted a vibrant and shadowy red, slowly climbing its way out of the magenta-colored morning sky—wait, what?
Marco rubbed his eyes fervently in an effort to snap himself out of it, but it didn’t work. No, his fears were completely correct, and he found himself staring up at the Blood Moon, hovering behind the clouds. It wouldn’t be visible for much longer before it sank behind the trees, but the fact of the matter was that it was here. It was still here, lingering in the background like a silent menace. A shudder ran up his spine as he watched it, unable to look away.
The front wheel of his bike suddenly collided forcefully with the curb, threatening to launch him over the handlebars. Miraculously, he managed to plant a foot on the ground to prevent himself from landing in a heap. He let out a trembling exhale as he stared up at it with an intense gaze.
Okay. Why it’s here isn’t important. You’re here to see Jackie, he repeated in his mind, over and over in the hopes that it would stick. She’s worried about you. You haven’t spoken to her in a week. You need to apologize.
With one last fleeting glance at the moon, he backed his bike away from the curb and continued down the road towards Jackie’s house.
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“King River has returned.”
Moon’s gaze snapped up from the book on dimensional travel she had been scouring through. Even if she had publicly said that returning Star wasn’t first on her list of priorities, that didn’t mean that she was about to drop all of her efforts. As she viewed it, her status as as queen was an entirely different person from herself. Queen Butterfly was the one who would look after the kingdom, and Moon was going to find a way to contact her daughter. But hearing the news of her husband’s return reminded her that this situation was far too great in scale to look at it in such a black and white way.
“Is he alright?” she demanded, standing up.
The guard nodded. “He appears to be, yes.”
Moon let out a breath that she hadn’t realized she’d been holding in. “Thank goodness…”
She left her notes behind and quickly followed after the guard. It was a slightly unusual scene that she walked into, as there were several large eagles perched around the foyer. But her husband was there, too, and that was all that mattered to her in that moment.
“Moon-pie!” he exclaimed, his eyes lighting up at the sight of her. Their common formalities were forgotten as both of them rushed towards each other and met with a tight hug in the center of the room. “I’m so glad that you’ve returned safely.”
“And I you,” Moon murmured, pressing a kiss to his cheek. “I didn’t know how much more of this I could take...”
He pulled back from the hug to hold her hands instead. “You know, you really had me worried, leaving so suddenly!”
“I’m so sorry,” she apologized.
“It’s not that I don’t trust you, because I do! But if you and Star had to leave so quickly, it must have been serious...”
She’d sworn to herself that she wouldn’t cry, but her composure was betraying her. “I’m so sorry,” she repeated, her voice choking up on the last syllable.
River frowned in concern. “Did something happen?”
“I-I tried— but I didn’t— Star, s-she— I couldn’t...” River brought a hand up to cup her cheek, and she met his gaze with sad, watery eyes.
“Moon-pie?”
She lurched forwards and buried her face in his shoulder, holding him close as tears began to flow freely.
The few knights that were left in the room lowered their heads and excused themselves from the room, granting them both some privacy.
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After a very brief internal pep talk, Marco was finally able to convince himself to knock on Jackie’s door. As anxious as he was to see her, he tried to focus on the floor as he waited, in the hopes of not overthinking anything.
When the door finally opened and he was face to face with her for the first time in an incredibly long week, he felt a grin take shape on his face. “Hey, Jackie—“
“Marco!” She darted forwards and caught him in a tight hug. “God, I was so worried about you, doofus!”
“Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m the worst.”
“No you’re not,“ she argued, holding him tighter. “I saw your message… but I sort of hoped you brought your phone anyways, just in case.”
“I can’t exactly get cell service on Mewni. Earth phones don’t work there,” he reminded her, chuckling halfheartedly. She laughed too, and it managed to brighten his smile a little. There was something comforting and familiar about hearing her laugh.
“I know! I know, it’s just… you left without much of a warning at all. First Star, and then you… you guys really scared all of us.”
“I’m really sorry. I should’ve talked to you first. I didn’t mean to make you worry so much.”
“It’s okay, Marco. I know you didn’t mean to.”
A beat of silence passed as he tried to think of what to say and she patiently waited. Where do I even start?
“Do you think we can go sit down and talk about everything? It’s… a long story.”
“Yeah, of course!” She nodded and beckoned him through the door. “Come on in.”
He followed her upstairs—after a brief hello to her parents—and took a seat in her desk chair. She sat down criss-crossed on the foot of her bed and looked at him expectantly.
Jackie was the first one that dared to break the temporary pause. Her voice was cautious. “I take it that something bad happened?”
Marco was surprised by her forwardness. “W-what?”
“I can tell you have bad news, Marco. Well, either that, or something exhausting happened. I can see it in your face.”
“Oh, uh... yeah, your first guess was pretty on point.”
Jackie frowned sympathetically. “I may not know much about this Mewni stuff, but hey, I’m probably easier to vent at than a brick wall, right?” She leaned forwards and put her hands in her lap. “So lay it on me.”
“...How much do you want to hear?”
“Tell me as little or as much as you want to. If it’ll help you feel better, I want to hear it.”
But there’s so much that’s happened! “Gosh, where do I start?”
“The beginning, maybe?”
Marco nodded, and, taking a deep breath to try and calm himself, he began his story.
“Well... there’s always been a bunch of monsters from Mewni that kept coming after Star. Their leader was named Ludo. He wanted her wand, but him and his lackeys are pretty incompetent, so they never managed to take it. Not until this guy named Toffee came along.”
“Toffee? That’s a weird name…”
“Yeah, I don’t really understand Mewni’s naming conventions, either,” he laughed. “Maybe it’s a normal name there. I mean, to be fair, most of Star’s family is named after celestial bodies, so it’s probably not that weird.”
“Yeah, I guess that’s fair.”
“Anyways, Toffee kind of showed up out of nowhere, and we could tell that this was a lot more serious than what we were used to with Ludo.”
“You didn’t ask anyone for help?”
“Star’s not exactly the type to ask her parents for help, so no, we just kind of dealt with it ourselves.”
Jackie pursed her lip. “That sounds like a really bad idea.”
“In hindsight, yeah, definitely. We had no idea who this guy was.” Queen Butterfly made it sound like he’s pretty infamous, he remembered, silently wishing he had asked for more information on Toffee when he had the chance. “He’s the only one who ever managed to take the wand. He kidnapped me, and then he tricked Star into—“
“Excuse me?!” She interrupted, somewhat outraged. “You got— you can’t just gloss over that!”
“But this isn’t about me!” Marco protested. “I’m perfectly fine now, so it’s no big deal.”
“If you’re that calm about literally getting kidnapped, I’m not sure how comfortable I am with you going to Mewni all the time...”
“It’s not a regular thing, I promise!”
“Okay, okay,” she sighed in defeat. “Fine. What happened there? Besides the whole hostage-taking thing.”
“He used me as blackmail to make Star destroy the wand.”
“I thought you said he wanted to take it?”
“That’s what we thought, initially,” Marco admitted. “He had Star use this really weird spell that set it off like a bomb. The whole castle blew up, Toffee included. We thought it killed him, but… well, it obviously didn’t. He came back.”
Jackie furrowed her brow, thinking for several moments. “Not to insult your storytelling or anything, but I’m really lost.”
“Yeah, I’m, uh... kind of skipping over a lot. Sorry.”
“It’s okay... I know there’s a lot to go over, probably.” She glances around her room once before an idea came to her. “Wait! What was up with the night of the school dance? In the graveyard, when that weird little bird dude showed up.”
“That’s Ludo,” Marco explained briefly. “Long story short... when Star tried to destroy the wand, it actually split it in two. Star kept the first half, and Ludo had the other one. That night in particular was when he stole the spellbook from Star.”
“What does that Toffee guy have to do with this?”
Marco tried to recall as much as he could about the days prior to Star’s disappearance, but the fact of the matter was that he hardly knew anything about Toffee’s involvement with the whole situation. There was obviously a lot more to it, far beyond his own knowledge.
“That spell Star used must have put him inside of the wand. For some reason, she used it again, and she got caught in the blast that time...” He took a pause, having a hard time thinking about those that few moments before she disappeared. “Toffee got out. Wherever the spell put him, it put her in his place. I think that might have been his plan all along.”
He was leaving out a lot of the details—he could tell from the slideshow of emotions on Jackie’s face that she knew his explanation wasn’t quite lining up—but frankly, he could hardly make sense of it, either. Even if he had visited Mewni several times now, everything about it and its magic was otherworldly.  He couldn’t imagine how crazy it sounded to someone who had never even been there.
It wasn’t that unlike the Neverzone, in that way, though Mewni was certainly a lot less intense. A few things had stuck with him once he left—mostly learned skills, like how to drive a dragoncycle or wield a katana—but all the rest of his memories of that place had faded in a matter of weeks. He supposed it was time shenanigans of some sort, but it was still weird to him that he had acquired these skills when he didn’t remember practicing them at all.
Jackie had remained silent, mulling over his words. In the temporary break in conversation, Marco went on, saying, “Apparently this guy has been involved with Star’s family in the past, but I don’t really know how.”
Finally, she spoke up, offering an idea of her own. “Can’t someone use the same spell, or something? Anything at all?”
Marco shook his head. “I don’t think it’s that simple. The wand seems to be broken for good now, and I think that’s the only way to get to where she is.” He stared at the floor as he was reminded of just how dire this situation was. “She’s trapped in a dimension that no one can get to, and… I can’t tell if that’s worse.”
Jackie immediately dipped her head in understanding, and her sadness was apparent on her face. “Gosh, this really sucks.”
“That’s a heck of an understatement.”
“You were there when this happened? I can’t imagine how hard that was.”
He nodded once, averting his gaze from her when he felt his eyes begin to tear up again. “It should be so easy, but it’s not… everything that could have possibly gone wrong did go wrong.”
Despite his efforts to hide it, Jackie was quick to notice his defensiveness. “Hey... come here.”
He hesitated for several second before finding the energy to move. When he got up, she stood as well and met him halfway in a hug.
“I-if I had known that was the last conversation I was going to get to have with her,” Marco mumbled, his voice never rising above a whisper, “I, I wouldn’t have just let her leave without—“
Wordlessly, Jackie pulled him in tighter, resting her head against his shoulder. “I know,” she murmured. “I’m so sorry.” Marco could tell from her tone of voice that she was upset, even if she wasn’t really showing it in the same way he was.
In that moment, he felt awful for subjecting her to all of it. She and Star knew each other, of course—it was hard for anyone not to be charmed by Star’s infectious personality—but he wasn’t sure if him dumping all of the information on her without warning was a fair way to relay it. I hope she doesn’t feel guilty about what happened.
Nobody should have felt responsible. Not Jackie, not Janna, not Marco. It felt awful to admit it, but Star had been a victim of bad circumstance, and that was all. It wasn’t his fault. He wasn’t supposed to be a mind reader.
A shudder went up his spine. But why do I feel so guilty?
“I’m so glad you’re here, Jackie,” he said, attempting to redirect his thoughts.
“And I’m glad you’re back,” she replied. “I’m so happy that you’re safe.”
At least he didn’t have to wake up for school tomorrow. That was something he didn’t think he could manage.
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my problem with my lack of routine is I honestly have nothing to do, and currently nowhere to go. I took a break from uni and my country is in lockdown still. I'm doing my best to keep mentally and physically active but it is entirely forced. I don't function well without a proper routine which is really bothersome but I also don't have enough going on to even fill a day. I can only walk or read or do so much yoga before I get bored!
I'm hopeful that things will be more settled here for the next academic year so I can spend some time on campus. I miss getting up early, studying all day and seeing my friends :(
I disagree Jesus wouldn't encourage us. didn't he say "love thy neighbour"? what if your neighbour is a gorgeous athlete? am I to shun him?! I currently would tbh, bc no matter how horny I am my fear of dying from covid-19 overrides it without much fight.
lol I am so starved of affection and touch I accept your digital kiss and send one back 😘
- 💮 anon
Advice: I take it you’re into reading? Try to do a Goodreads challenge or any other random challenge, or force yourself to write reviews about the books you’re reading, etc. You can also try to learn a new idiom (I can help you if it’s one I speak/am learning too) and idk binge watch some tv shows (?). It doesn’t sound like the best ideas, but they can fill your day a lil bit. I’m sorry you have to go through it :( 
Hopefully, rona is going away sooner than later. 
OMG NONNY HAHAHAHAH 
the fear is real tho! #SocialDistancingHighness 
(I didn’t ask about your pronoun and I don’t remember if you gave any hint. anyway what’s your pronoun nonny?) 
good thing bc I’m a very affectionate person! <3 
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Day 603: Yup. The Pandemic’s Finally Ending (5/4/21)
Obviously I don’t want to jinx anything right as we’re crossing the finish line, but it appears the pandemic (at least for us in the United States) is finally coming to a close. We have at least three effective vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson. Over 100 million people have already been vaccinated and we’re still rapidly vaccinating. In all likelihood, most people (who are willing) will be vaccinated by the end of spring. You yourself plan on getting the vaccine sometime this month (April) as it will available by April 7th in your area. That being said...globally, about 132 million cases have been recorded (numbers here are most definitely an underestimate) with over 2.8 million dead. Over 31 million have been infected in the United States with over 560,000 deaths. Masks are a normal part of life at this point, however there are still people against their use...mainly from the Republican Party....
Trump isn’t going away despite being banned from virtually all social media. His supporters are still there, albeit less active after the capital riots. Anti-Asian sentiment (owed in large part to the rhetoric of the previous administration) has been on the rise and these days, it’s better for you to stay inside. At this point, you’re used to being called a chink or sand n-word (online only, haven’t received this kind of harassment in real life). This to shall pass, just hopefully sooner rather than later.
On a personal note, classes have been stressful but ok. You’re doing amazing in all of them grade-wise, especially your math courses. You currently have a 100 average in your matlab class and near a 100 average in your differential equations class. Your BME courses are also high As. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it yet, but you’ve made a few new friends: Justin and Daniel. They’re in your major and, as a result, they’re in at least half of your classes. Daniel is a Korean dude (I believe he is Korean, I’m just pointing this out because for the longest time this is all you knew about him and the fact he’s met Amanda before) who is generally competent in his academic work. He doesn’t procrastinate which makes him a very helpful partner in many of your assignments. He does this weird thing where he literally says “lol” or “I’m dead”, but everyone has their weird quirks. He’s generally entertaining and y’all basically got to know each other when you helped him design his endotracheal tube (BME Sophomore design, CAD with Onshape). You’ve taken physics with Justin last semester and, as a result, have gotten to know him to quite an extent this past year. He’s f**king smart man...super f**king smart. He doesn’t procrastinate either which makes him another very helpful academic partner. He actually knew Daniel from his Calc 3 class (pre to early pandemic). Now Justin here, he’s an enigma. He’s nice, intelligent, but unpredictable. I can’t figure this dude out for the life of me. Daniel seems to be a social dude (likely an extrovert) who cares about his studies. Justin...I can see he cares about his studies....but I can’t gauge him socially. I genuinely can’t tell whether he’s an introvert or extrovert. It doesn’t matter, but it’s still disturbing that in the past several months I’ve seen this dude, I can’t pinpoint who he is in context with other people. That’s besides the point though, as the reason I’m mentioning them is to just lay it out that these two are the first new people I want to meet when this pandemic ends. I want to see them in person, and not just because I can’t judge their heights over zoom (joke), but because I can only figure out so much about them when I’m just talking to them over Zoom. They’re really cool guys.
Final, but small note. Amanda’s having some social issues. More precisely, she’s having a bit of a complex social dynamic with Lucas (Lang, I’m just gonna refer to him as Lang because there’s also Lucas Kane and Lukas Freund and tbh I’m already confused enough when I’m talking to her and we talk about too many different Lucases). The big question: are they going to date or not? I think...maybe, or at least Lang likes her. She has at least some feelings for him too. They send block texts daily and they call every week, that ain’t normal for friends to do in my experience. At the moment, they’ve planned a camping trip together (with other mutual friends) so we’ll see how that goes. He lives in Kentucky though and he’s working in Tennessee, so if they do date, it’ll admittedly be complicated. Future me, let me know how this ends, I’ve been hearing about this for months!
Quick note: no dating until you’ve resettled into college life. You’ve been away from campus for over a year now, let’s try to find stable ground before anything else bud.
END day 603
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