#i actually had spagetti today

[creaturebeeing]

Happy Spaghetti Day y'all

still believe that one of the greatest bits of all time was on January 6th, 2021 when. well. you know. and twitter was understandably an echo chamber of panic and fear and Justin McElroy just tweeted a selfie with a filter that was like “have a delicious national spaghetti day” followed by 3 tweets that were like “fuck. i’m sorry. i don’t know how to delete scheduled posts” and as i type this two years later i’m laughing

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Alright kids, today I am once more gonna tell you about a real game for true gamers, so buckle in and get ready for a swimmingly wonderful time. This is Aquanaut's Holiday, a 1995 Playstation game developed by Artdink and directed by Kazutoshi Iida (who would go on to direct Tail of the Sun and Doshin the Giant). It is essentially an underwater exploration simulator, where you control a submarine and venture into the wild marine yonder. This game is so good I bought it twice!

Savvy game players might look at this premise and assume elaborate systems and mechanics tied to it. What is the mission? What is the goal? What am I supposed to do? How do I score points and earn extra lives? Well, you don't, the game isn't about any of that. In defiance of medium conventions, particularly for the time, Aquanaut's Holiday presents a scaled back game experience with little more features than what's needed to fulfil its noble goal: To be relaxing.

With no further elaboration, we are let loose into the ocean and encouraged to find our own way, discover our own adventure, create our own fun. And this place is massive, you can swim around in the murky haze and just observe the barren sea bottom pass by for minutes on end without seeing much of anything, your long journey only registering as a feeble spagetti string on the blank map. Impatient players, or those simply testing it out for a quick spurt, will likely be discouraged and disregard the game as primitive nonsense of a bygone era. At surface level, there simply does not seem to be much of anything to this one. I've heard people describe Aquanaut's Holiday as "a game where you only swim around and look at fish", not necessarily derogatory, but not in praise either, just a neutral "huh, I guess that's a thing" – the game equivalent to those tacky aquarium VHS tapes.

I've had a half-distant relationship to this game. I've long understood its philosophical richness purely in relationship to its brethren Tail of the Sun and Doshin the Giant, two of my all-time favorite games, which also appear unassuming and scaled down at face value. Yet, somehow I've never fully sat down with this one to unravel all it has to offer. "Some other time", I told myself. Well, some other time came and went, so now I will tell you what you need to know about Aquanaut's Holiday!

Starting out on my journey of properly playing the game, I actually read the manual for once. Can you believe there's actually little tips and tricks together with crucial information in there? Huh! Turns out reading manuals is a good way of parsing any game made in the last century, highly recommended activity. Always check the manual! Reading this, I learned the peculiarities of the submarine's controls, I learned what all the little cryptic HUD symbols meant, I learned about setting up buoys and building reefs, I learned that the weird effects that appear when pressing the shoulder buttons is for singing to the fish, I even learned that the submarine is called Holiday. In particular, I learned that the game itself acknowledges the individual user experience with the succinct words: "Each player will experience AQUANAUT'S HOLIDAY differently."

So is that all there is to Aquanaut's Holiday? You float around in bliss and marvel at the ocean life? Well, yes, kinda. You certainly need to vibe with that angle if you're gonna get anything out of the experience, in practice Aquanaut's Holiday will indeed just be about drifting for long periods looking at nothing, helplessly fumbling in its massive barren world. Watching sea mile after sea mile pass by as the vast nothingness makes your mind wanders. But every now and again you wake up from your soft daydreams with a start, staring at some unknown structure that has appeared before you.

This is where Aquanaut's Holiday shows its true brilliance. Through sheer simplicity it has made you fascinated by the smallest things. Be it the ghastly inexplicable monuments or the sighting of a rare animal, you will feel rewarded for the very discovery itself. There is no logbook, no special cutscenes, no acknowledgment of what you've seen. That is for you to create yourself. I always dispatched a buoy for my own reference and marked it yellow, which in my book meant "notable discovery". These were by far the highlights of the game for me, and motivated me to slowly but surely criss-cross around the ocean, charting more of the map as I narrowed the world down and made the unknown known. Yet so much of the map remained blank, my path never made any great dents into the untraveled waters, there was so much yet to see.

With this established as my main takeaway from the game, you might feel increasingly compelled to give it a go yourself. Heck, you might even want to reach the elusive and mysterious goal. Because despite its simplistic structure, Aquanaut's Holiday indeed has an ending like so many other games. It is nothing special, mostly a pat on the head and the end credits, but it felt special to reach such a surreal point after years of assuming the game had nothing of the sorts. That's why I will now give my quick guide for how to master Aquanaut's Holiday like a real pro gamer, since there is very little information online and no definitive guide. I can't exactly say this is one either, but I think it will provide you with more help than I ever had.

Starting off, the metric for reaching the goal is the biodiversity of your artificial coral reef. This is a spot of ocean immediately west of your dock where you can place blue, yellow and red blocks to create a habitat for fish and other marine life. The reef builder is accessed by pressing Select twice, which toggles the RETURN prompt, to which you press Start and enter the port menu, where you can pick BUILD REEF. Here you see a simplified grid of your reef garden, a material meter and a fish meter, press X to select a slot and then X, Square or Triangle to pick a color block to place. To fill your fish meter, you need to place more blocks and then literally hang out in the area and watch the fish appear. I've found conflicting takes on how to build reefs for efficient growth, with people stating certain formations like circles and tunnels as better. My takeaway is that it's not about shape, but the sheer amount of blocks. The manual states that different fish are attracted to different colors, so make good use of blue, yellow and red equally. Apart from that, go off and build anything you want!

However, you will need sufficient building material. Starting out you do not have what you need to build a bustling habitat. That's where exploration comes in. Navigating the ocean fills out grids on the map, this in turn earns you more reef blocks. I don't know what the conversion rate is between uncovered map grids and reef blocks, but you'll need quite a bit, so expect this to be majority of what you do. To make your exploration easier, you will want to set out lots of buoys. This is done by pressing Select once to toggle the BUOY prompt, to which you press Start and dispatch a buoy. This puts a marker on the map which you can conveniently fast travel back to. Since the pause menu always returns you to the port, buoys are crucial for finding your way back to where you were. You can have 256 buoys, so don't be afraid to use them for quick access around the ocean.

In other words: Set out, try to see as much as possible and return to the base to build. That's the essential strategy for reaching the goal. Be ready to do this for hours on end, get acquainted with this world, have fun with it. I listened to several episodes of our friend @hotcyder's excellent podcast Bullet Time while just floating around the ocean uncovering remarkable and unremarkable sights. I had some splendidly relaxing evenings over a week or so. All in all it took me 16 hours, if you're being efficient it'll probably be faster, but maybe if you're even more chill than me you'll take even longer. In my opinion, the longer it takes you to beat Aquanaut's Holiday, the cooler you are!

Eventually I hit a point of my exploration where the game showed me a funky little cinematic of the entire world map being filled out, presumably as a reward for having uncovered a certain high percentage of it. At this point I knew I was ready for the ending, so I went to the reef builder and started throwing blocks absolutely everywhere until I had run all out. After that I just sat and gazed at my monstrous creation for a few minutes, hopped back into the reef builder and watched the end credits.

The final reward was a funky experimental fish mode where I can travel around the ocean super fast and rotate models of the sea life in front of the screen. A most excellent prize and a dignified conclusion to this masterpiece.

/Kiki

[00neo]

Haven't posted in a few days, been way to stressed and busy with work. Had a small binge on monday anyway and went up for 75.9 to 77kg. I'm down to 76kg now. Been tracking my calories tuesday, wednesday and started today aswell.

Haven't taken a picture of everything I've eaten but some of it I took pics of.

Like this was breakfast yesterday 252kcal.

This was breakfast today! Absolutely loved the cucumber and ham "spagetti". 163kcal for everything.

Also bought Pepsi Max today. I usually don't drink sodas due to saving money but I've barely bought anything for like 1.5-2 months because I've been saving money.

Also thought I could treat myself...before I can't afford it anymore because I kind of got layed off from work yesterday so I'm gonna work today, tomorrow and Monday and then I'm...gonna be getting a bit of money from my unemployment insurance while I look for a new job...but like...fuck...

I was so close to them actually having to hire me for real, not just as a substitute...

Anyway, might try another career now. Anyone got tips on careers I can have while having a dog with me?

[essmeow]

CHAPTER Ⅲ: HOMEWORK ANSWERS?

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sukuna has friends?

you thought as you walked towards yuji in the crowded high school parking lot, there were way to many kids who shouldnt be allowed to drive here—god damn.

your first day went pretty well, your teachers seemed nice enough and you even had a class with yuji and nobara! well, and megumi—but he didn't really say anything to you. and you thought you could be grumpy—this guy was like talking to a wall!

you were slightly nervous about going to his house the next day so you made a mental note to investigate yuji or nobara about him later.

"there you are! i just got off the phone with uraume—they'll be here in a couple minutes."

"wait, so who's uraume? i had no idea sukuna had friends...weird."

you reply, putting your hands in your pant pockets to warm yourself up from the crisp fall breeze.

"i know right, that's totally what i thought at first too! but they work together—at that old convenience store down the road. uraume's his boss im pretty sure. but their actually super nice, and they drive me home sometimes!"

you nod in response, opening your mouth to say something else—but then a silver car pulls up in front of the two of you. yuji starts walking to it, beckoning you to follow.

yuji opens the passenger seat door, so you walk to the backseat, opening the door and hopping in.

"hello yuji. this must be yn, correct?"

"uhm, yeah—that's me, nice to meet you."

they nod to your reply as you hop into the tidy backseat of the car. you place your backpack down and put in your headphones to tune out yuji talking in the front seat. you open your phone to see you have a couple new messeges—a new groupchat? huh?

you let out a small laugh from nobara's texting as the car slows down in front of your house. you put your phone away in your pocket and say a quick thank you and goodbye to uraume as you and yuji climb out of the car doors and onto the sidewalk.

"man, im starving!"

yuji says, putting his hands behind his head as the two of you approach the front door. you knock twice—before realizing sukuna must not be home yet.

"i got this!"

yuji says enthusiastically, pulling what seemed to be a necklace out from under his shirt. he dangled it in front of you for a moment so you could see what it was.

oh, the key was on his necklace!

he unlocked the front door—you following behind him into the house.

the two of you decide to start dinner, well yuji decided to start dinner. you sat at the kitchen island as he cooked pasta on the stove.

around an hour later, you heard the door open up—you can't miss the loud creak from the old door.

"yo, sukuna! made dinner—pasta!"

yuji, finishes dishing the spagetti into three bowls, setting them down on the countertop to turn around to greet his uncle. you do the same, spinning around in your chair.

"tch, this better be good. had way to many annyoing 'fuckin costumers today.."

"so, how was your first day kid?"

sukuna asks you, he turns to face you—raising any eyebrow and crossing his arms.

"it was...good."

you reply truthfully, it was pretty decent—and you already made a few friends somehow, even if they're yuji's friends.

you grab the bowl and start eating the pasta, one thing was for sure—your brother could definitely cook.

A/N: this took forver to write omfg 😭 i promise there will actaully be romance soon! i just rlly wanna add lots of family/friend dynamics aswell

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[fuckingthefictional]

Hi! I would like a request about Derek from teen wolf, please. The reader is trying to approach him, taking care of him "because Derek is too busy taking care of the others", BUT IT'S BEING SO HARD because of all of his past. Derek and the reader argue one night because of the overprotective nature of the reader about him, and when she tries to leave the loft, completely upset with Derek, he tries to fix things between them. Could you do this with a lot of angst and, then, tons of fluff? Thanks!

Ignored

Pairing: Derek Hale x Reader

Warnings: Angst bbyyyy, and some fluffy goodness at the end, not checked over (so probably a crap ton of spelling errors)

A/N: hello hope you enjoy, sorry it took forever! I’m so busy with work, college and personal issues that writing has been put on the back-burner.

When the name Derek Hale was mentioned- one immediately thought of the broody, salty, sarcastic young man who lived by himself after the tragic Hale house fire.

Nobody would ever associate the name Derek Hale and caring. It just wasn’t in his nature. Because under no circumstances could Derek be remotely kind, caring or soft in any way possible.

That’s what people thought of Derek. But not you- or the majority of the pack for that matter.

Yes, you saw where others came from with their ideas and judgement (Derek’s lack of colour in his wardrobe obviously didn’t help either).

But to you when you heard the name Derek Hale, you immediately thought of the kind hearted man who would give up anything for the safety of his friends and family (as much as he claimed otherwise).

You knew him differently, you knew him like the back of your hand. You knew that his favourite food was Spagetti Carbonara without the mushrooms, that he didn’t like Coca Cola, that he secretly loved watching trashy tv shows like keeping up with the kardashians, and most importantly that he was running himself ragged.

He had bitten off more than he could chew when it came to helping everyone out. He was the one giving lifts and helping with homework and hosting pack nights, and handling Isaac’s nightmares, all of this happening at the same time as some supposed lizard creature being on the loose.

You had been ignored by Derek Hale for approximately 72 hours. Now this wouldn’t be bad if it weren’t for two things.

1. He wasn’t aware that he was actively ignoring you.

2. The idiot wasn’t your husband of 2 years.

Over 68 hours ago you hadn’t minded, you had even brushed the silence and distance off- knowing that Derek liked to have a little time to himself.

But when it hit the 5 hour mark of the 4th day, frustration and disappointment had begun to set in.

There was one more thing that made the whole situation worse. He was blatantly ignoring you- and only you.

It hurt. You could admit that to yourself easily without any qualms at all. It hurt.

Whether that was to do with the whole ‘mate’ side of things you didn’t know- all that you did know was that Derek Hale was drowning and he wasn’t going to swim until everyone else was okay.

-

Thud, thud, thud, creaak

“Der please sit down”

“I can’t. I gotta figure this shit out before the school finishes for the day.” Derek grunted from his spot in the middle of the room. His head firmly stuck in the thick, dusty book that he had been pouring through for the majority of the afternoon.

“Der please, take a break.” You pleaded with him, begging him to just stop for a second and relax.

“I can’t,” Derek murmured again, before he pivoted in his heel and walked away up the staircase.

His heavy footfalls retreated upstairs, the musty book still clutched in his grasp.

Swallowing the lump in your throat, you willed the tears in your eyes to stay put and to not roll down your cheeks in fat drops.

Why couldn’t you be enough for him?

-

The next plea came around 2 hours later, when you brought a bowl of homemade pasta and garlic bread up to Derek. Hoping that just maybe it would strike up a conversation, that maybe he would utter more than two short sentences to you.

“Babe- I made you lunch.” You elbowed your way into the room, balancing the bowl and plate in your hands.

“Just leave it on the desk.” He motioned to an empty slot on the overcrowded surface.

“I just thought that maybe we could have lunch together, have some time with each-other.”

“Y/N/N’s I would- but I have so much to do. Stiles and Scott are already on my ass about the damn lizard freak in town.”

“Der, you need to take a break.” You placed your hands on his shoulders. Instead of feeling them relax you could feel his muscles tense up.

Shrugging your hands off, he pushed the fresh plate of food away, “I can’t.” He spoke simply.

“But-“ you tried to object in protest, trying to plead with the broad shouldered man in front of you- hoping that maybe, just maybe he would come to his senses.

He did not.

“I said no Y/N.” Derek ground out, “I’m busy. Please for the love of God stop bothering me.”

The words stung you, causing you to stumble back in shock. Derek had a hard exterior, everybody knew that. But he had never spoken like that to you.

He had promised on your wedding day that he would always be kind, that he would be your biggest supporter and largest source of love.

But all those words felt like lies now. You felt alone, like an empty shell of yourself. Why couldn’t you just be enough?

-

Hours flew by, the watch on Derek’s wrist occasionally beeping to signify the new hour. If he were being honest- he had lost track of what the time was.

The only signifier was that Stiles, Scott and the others were in his presence- meaning it was at least 4pm

And judging by the sky outside of his office window, it was late evening, as the sky itself had melted from cool blues into a fantastic array of oranges and purples.

But besides the low chatters and bickering coming from Isaac and Stiles, the house felt almost too quiet.

There was no tv hum coming from the living room, no occasional flush or running of water from the restroom, no sizzle from food coming on the oventop, no sound of a page in a book turning. Nothing. Just silence.

“Hey Derek,” He looked up to see Scott staring at him, “Where’s Y/N?”

“Well-“

“Yeah, I haven’t seen her yet today.” Isaac chimed in.

“I’m not actually too sure.”

Derek was met with a sea of blank stares.

“I’m sorry- there’s a kanima out there roaming Beacon Hills, the very same kanima that is killing more people by the day. And you don’t know where your wife is?” Stiles asked incredulously, “Are you kidding me.”

“Well I’ve been so caught up on this research that I haven’t been spending as much time with her.” Derek attempted to defend himself.

“Derek, please tell me that you haven’t been ignoring your wife.”

Everybody had there eyes on him again.

“Well-“

There was an uproar of protests, all of which were yelling at Derek for ignoring and deserting his wife.

“You better find her Derek, before something happens and you regret it for the rest of your life.”

-

You really didn’t know how long you had been out here for. All you knew was that the night was closing in and the chill was setting in your bones.

But you didn’t want to go back to the loft, you honestly didn’t think you could handle seeing Derek after his outburst earlier.

The cold, damp ground soaked into your body- sucking all the warmth out of your body at a creeping pace.

The spot you sat in, hadn’t changed much since your first date with Derek. It was still isolated and it gave off the best views in Beacon Hills. Nobody knew about it but you and Derek.

Sighing deeply, you looked out over the viewing point- watching the tiny specks of light flicker in the distance. Every single light showed a different life that was being lived, each one with their own struggles. Beacon Hills was something else to say the least.

“I knew I could find you here.” A familiar voice broke your train of thought.

You kept silent, staring straight ahead, willing that your bottom lip wouldn’t start trembling and the flood gate wouldn’t open in your eyes.

“Look I’m sorry.”

You sniffed, still unable to look your husband in the eyes, “Are you though?” You briefly shut your eyes to stop any tears from breaking through, “or are you just saying that to get on my good side.”

You could feel Derek’s presence settle down besides your own. His breath creating little puffs of mist under the dark sky.

“I didn’t realise you were trying to help me, until it was too late and you’d left the apartment” He muttered, “It’s my fault, I should’ve taken your advice, I should’ve listened to you.”

You listened intently, knowing his words were sincere and heartfelt, “Why didn’t you listen to me then Der?” You responded bitterly.

“Because accepting help means showing weakness, and showing weakness is something I haven’t done since before the fire.” Derek’s voice was small now, “Before I met you, accepting help was off the table- I was a lone wolf, with no pack or family. And now I’ve found you and I’m desperate to not lose that again, I can’t lose you to this new threat in town- I can’t be alone again.”

Silence hung heavy in the air as your husband’s words set in. It made sense to you; why he was studying non-stop, why he had barely slept or ate.

It was apparent that while he was trying to protect his loved ones, he was also pushing them away in the process. That needed to change.

“You won’t be alone Der,” You lay your head down on his shoulder, “I promise that much- it’s you and me forever.”

“Through every supernatural event that happens in this town?”

You giggled softly, “Yes, and every single thing in between.”

[fipindustries]

three bittersweet feelings for which i dont have words

helping my mom

the other day i was visiting my mom and i had to go buy groceries, she decided to come with me to do much of the same, we both bought our separate stuff but when we get to the cashier she realises she forgot her credit card home, so i saw her there, in front of the cashier, getting incresingly desperate while looking through her wallet and then i stepped in and payed for both of our things.

the crazy thing was that it wasnt even that big of an expense for me and it was a lot of stuff, but as far as my finances go today i was able to perfectly accomodate it without worrying too much.

it was strange because usually i am the one who has to be bailed out of money problems, to be able to be there for someone else was... nice.

i remember like ten years ago being in a similar situation with my dad and he refusing adamantly, to the point of getting angry with me for trying to do the same.

yearning to share

i like the food that i cook. and by all accounts most people i know like my food too and while sometimes i might find cooking tedious or time intensive i do take pride in doing it and doing it well. i treat it much like any other artform or craft i practisce, like a talent i cultivated through the years, with tricks and techniques ive incorporated and something that i can show to others so they can appreciate it and, thus, appreciate me.

now, generally one of the biggest perks of living by myself is that i can cook my favourite foods whenever i want, in the amounts that i want, so that i can eat as much as id like, just the way i like it.

but today i found myself setting the table and looking at the giant pot of spagetti that i had made and... feeling lonely. i felt an acute need to share that food with someone, to feed and take care and cheer people who might feel lonely and hungry with the warm zesty meal that i cooked. it was a feeling very similar to that of going to bed alone for the first time after breaking out with someone, of reaching out across the bed and finding the sheets empty.

so much food and noone to eat it with, noone but me to enjoy it, noone but myself to feed.

happy to be overwhelmed

i have a lot on my plate right now.

i’ve been getting calls from the company i was training at and in a couple of weeks i might start working there which means i will finally have a stable job but also that from that point forward my life is going to change drastically for a really long time. on top of that i’ve been taking care of my uncle’s house but his boyfriend is coming back from abroad in a few days to stay here which means im going back with my mom BUT my uncle is happy to let me live at another of his apartments and i only have to cover the taxes but this might signify the first step in me actually getting my own place and moving out of my mom’s house for good which is really scary (i know, what an amazing problem to have).

on top of that im being comissioned six drawings which will be taking quite a long time to make, time that im not 100% sure i have. ALSO i was hired to direct an animated short, which means im having meetings and coordinating with the producer, the assistant director and the animation team making sure that the boat sails smoothly

ALSO ALSO, im still working on my own personal project, jennyffer, episode 4 and five, for which i have to coordinate with multiple people because i want to have voice acting in these shorts and they are a bit more ambitious than the last ones i’ve been making.

in the past any single one of these things on their own would have been enough to keep me crawling up the walls, hyperventilating, shutting down and refusing to function, and yet today i am tackling all of this which penache, resolution, comfidence and aplomb. im energized, invigorated, motivated. i have direction

to the day it has been literally a year that i was trapped in my ex’s apartment, crawling on the floor, having literally daily panic attacks, convinced every hour that i was about to die and desperate to find a way out. i was a wreck in body, heart and mind

today i have purpose, im tackling problems one at the time and living the life that i always dreamed to have.

[imreallyfkinsorry-blog]

Honestly right now i feel like shit. This was the last thing i ever wanted to happen. Did you really have to block/unfriend me on everything. Do u really not want to be my friend that badly, i was really upset u didnt even message me once over these 4 days like u wudnt even know, but i accepted it because of u and ur situation, i was ok with not talking to u for months if it atleast meant i can still be your friend, i was so happy for you when i saw ur results like u wudnt believe, i almost called you the second i saw, im still sooo proud of you, i was so excited when i heard u reached this morning i wanted to be the first one to hug u and congratulate you but u cudnt even look me in the eye, that really hurt, i mean like really cant i celebrate your achievements with you? Cant i be happy for you? Even after all that i still bought a freakin slice of cheese cake for u just now in massy to surprise you tomorow, but now i saw that im unfriended. Is what im doin really that bad? All the headpats and snacks and stupid jokes, the cup the pens, the kfc, the chinese food, the bestie card the worrying about you, even not messaging you after 4 or on weekends, even when alicia asked about the art supply crap i told her i probably forgot to give u, I really didnt know i was causing u so much pain, those stupid little things made me so happy, like soooo happy at this shit job, i even got super friendly with like everyone in the office so it wudnt be weird when im around you. Like everyone really likes me now like you wudnt believe, everyone just comes up and touches me or makes some joke or pushes me and honestly thats all thanks too you, the fay-cade is serious af, ugh it may sound like im just rambling on but thats because i am just rambling on, this may very well be the last message i send you so im sorry if its long i just have alot to say. I even made a new account since u know im probably blocked. Look tbh i understand y u blocked me and dont want to talk to me outside of work u think this is gonna make ur relationship healthier and perfect and at the end of the day as much as i throw tantrums and bitch about u not messaging me and neglecting me, i still do 100% platonically love you, you are still MY best friend you can block me, unfriend me even pass me straight in the office, nothing is gonna change that,i may not attend your wedding but i want you too know i want you to be happy,i genuinely do, you fucking deserve that, you deserve the best tho i not gonna lie and say ur not an asshole or very immature or that u treat me like shit, but jesus tap dancing christ its those little things that you do that make me soo happy, i just want you to be sooo happy and i want to thank you for being my friend, like really, thank you Lorrie. I can never hate you....

Nvm u made me cry today,i was setting up this cool joke from a tiktok vid i saw and u just ripped me apart, i had to go outside to play it off, now stacy ann thinks i hav corona or some. I was dissapointed in u in that moment but i will never hate you so u can hate me all you want, act agitated with me all you want, act like im bothering you all you want, im still gonna pat ur head, smile with you, bring you snacks and defend you whenever i hear the slightest inkling of someone insulting u. You know what u were being a dick for today im gonna eat your cake now. Btw my friend came to pick me up today thats why i stayed back late then i saw u, were u running from me? Thats kinda freaking depressing and kinda really hurt but still

I DO NOT HATE YOU,

Still i am sooooo fucking proud of you tho, fucking distinctions hoe fucking hell you bad bitch.

Im probably gonna leave JD soon so please please please please dont hate me until then, i cant deal with passing you straight and not talkin to u, we can talk about suppliers and staplers for hours if u want, im just sooo fkin sorry i made u feel like that so please dont hate me, honestly there really is something wrong with me, im trying to work on it.

I started writing this to fkin get everything off my chest and tell you y i hate u but i cant, i really cant.if today or tomorrow something happens to either of us i dont want today to be the way we remember each other.

You're my friend, you always will be, even if everyone is against you, even if its 40 years in the future, even if you never talk to me again, you can always come to me, i will always be there for you, no matter what.

Btw if u think ghosting me is gonna get u away from me buyin you a birthday present then you dont know me atall.

Can you atleast just add me back on facebook, this actually really bothers me, i really like to see the shit u post once in a while, i promise never to message you and i promise not to post anything so u wont have to see me...please.

If not then ok, im still gonna be down but i dont hate you and i am soo sorry i forced you to have to go this far i really really didnt wanna hurt you. Being your friend has made me so goddamn happy these couple months,like every single day was something to look forward too but if i have to sacrifice my happiness in order for you to be happy,as much as ot fucking hurts, then so be it, I can live with that.

Thank you for being my friend, like truly thank you,that meant so much to me even if it was for a short while. Thank you.

Again im sorry and please dont hate me

Lol now finish the cake.

Im so proud of you, u smart muthafker and im lovin the person your becoming, strong, intelligent and beautiful. You deserve to be happy, you earned that right and i hope you get everything you want. Im praying for it, like to indian jesus and the spagetti monster.

Good bye, i may not come tomorrow.

Pawny stays with me until i leave, no kidnapping or chicken protective services😤

Thank you for everything, thank you for being such an amazing friend and for being there for me I really and truly appreciate it...... and please dont not forget me.

Add me back😢

[kevkesblog]

Translation: Kai Havertz portait in ZEIT newspaper (January 2019)

NOTE: Hey guys! This time I tried something new. I translated an exclusive portrait the german weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT did with Kai in January. They interviewed him as well as Kai’s family. Its very candid and has alot of details. I hope you guys like it, since DIE ZEITs writing is usually very difficult - even for germans. And I apologize for spelling errors as usual. 

The original text in German

Kai Havertz: the peace itself

 (January 23, 2019)

People praise Leverkusens national player Kai Havertz, 19, for his serenity with the ball which put him on the radar of many European top clubs. His parents start to realize that he is likely becoming world famous.

By Jörg Kramer

The most promising german football talent these days picked a table very far behind in an restaurant somewhere in Cologne to order himself some spagetti gnocchi – inconspicuous.

There is no star posturing with Kai Havertz. The 19 year old could even go through as a normal university student; with his bright hoodie and somewhat cheap and not even special occurence.

And with his voice, which has this typical regional dialect, without the typical empty phrases that young football player use to often in order to cover up their meaningless sentences. But people know his face by now. So thats why he doesnt sit right next to the entrance.

He belongs to the celebrities of the football scene. European top clubs are scouting the young men in stadiums, team mates from Bayer Leverkusen praising him and forecasting him to have the potential to become a world star.

He already scored nine goals this season, decided some games by his own and played his first games for the national team. Havertz became the centre of his clubs game by playing at the centre midfield. His role only changed slightly and the importance of his role not at all, since Peter Bosz took over as head coach. He views this very relaxed and talks in an restaurant somewhere in the Belgian Quarter of Cologne about Leverkusen being the „perfect place“ in order to develop as a young player. And thats where he wants to give his all for the last half year ahead. Ooops!

His last half year? That was a slip of the tongue of course, he meant to say the next half year. Because his contract with Bayer is still running until 2022 without an exit clause. But things now are developing in a rapid way which runs parallel to his explosive performance currently. Its just a matter of the perfect timing that someone like him will end up going to Barcelona, Manchester or at least Munich – a choice between summer 2019 or summer 2020 maybe.

Havertz walks over his misspelled sentence like nothing happend. Once in Nuremberg in the middle of a turmoil of an rainy game, it seemed as if he stopped – as if he was reconsidering the situation with him having the ball. Like if somebody pressed a ‚Stop‘-button. And he chiped to ball in an cool and unemoitional and scored.

Coaches and team mates are citizing his body language, he says. So he works on looking more aggresive. He even participates on useless discussions between his teammates and referees after controversial decisions on the pitch, in order to get a penalty for the other team or some revenge. But it doesnt really look good him when he does it, he admits – even after a though tackle or when going after the ball. „I’m a player that shines with his tranquility.“ A nice sentence that gives away his elegante style of play.

Havertz remained an artist on the pitch. Every foul is a sign of weakness. Everytime he gets the ball, which is his job as an offensive player, he never runs into his opponents – he anticipates. „I try to imagine, which options my opponent has, what he would do if I were him.“ He then runs with a planned pass way and he gets the ball.

Havertz learned in the past almost two and a half years all systems and tatics of modern football. Starting with a radical system, almost a raid-strategy under coach Roger Schmidt, by which the goal keeper kicked the ball high and it flew wide over the pitch – almost always directly aimed at Havertz‘ head – because he is 1,88 meters tall.

Then the mixed system under Heiko Herrlich. He always had to look for his team mates before he passed. Now with Bosz, a planfull offensive style with flat passing. He runs through all the chapters. The first began on October 15, 2016.

It was a Saturday. A day where the Havertz family from Mariadorf near Aachen still couldnt realize that their youngest son, will probably end up living off football and perhaps even become famous. They cant really believe it up until today, says Anne Havertz, his mother.

On that day – October 15 – Kai was a youth player, in a big house next to the woods in Mariadorf having breakfast – when suddently coach Schmidt called. Lars Bender, professional Bayer-player who was supposed to play against Werder Bremen that evening, got injured and had to quit. Kai had to come to Bremen, immidiately! His mother drove him to Leverkusen. A special shuttle took him to Bremen. His whole family was sitting in front of the TV that night.

Kai was sitting on the bench as expected. Then, during the 83th minute, the commentator saw already more than the viewes and said: now we are experiencing a debut. Kai Havertz was ready to get subbed. In the real Bundesliga. Anne Havertz said: „Oh my god!“.

(Credit: Instagram: kaihavertz29)

Kai’s mother, who worked as a lawyer until she got pregnant with her eldest son, came to the restaurant in Cologne one day after Kai to talk about life as a family of an future world star. She brought her husband – Kai’s father, and her daughter Lea, Kai’s sister. The sister is studying marketing and digital media in the city.

People can reach his father in an emergency by dailing 1-1-0. He is a police officer working at the police station 3 in Cologne-West. He says he is really impressed, about how cool and routinely his football playing son manages post-game interviews and how we stays cool when people recognize him in public and everybody is watching,

The Havertz family is still perplexed about a football world where colleagues of their son, order their own cooks to cook for them at home. And whenever he puts his legs into an special bag in order to regenerate. Almost the whole family – except his oldest brother and the dog – are having apple pie and salate and looking back at the stages of his career, which started at Alemannia Mariadorf. Kai skiped two age-groups. He then played with older players than actually intended. Then he transfered to Bayer Leverkusen. All because the scout was tough but not intrusive like the other scouts. By the age of ten, Bayer drove Kai to training sessions three times a week.

4 year old Kai Havertz (Credit: kicker tv)

He was still among the smallest players in the team by the age of 14. Then suddently - a growth spurt which resultet in issues with his knees and his back. They were responsible for Kai loosing his fixed spot on the team. This was also the hard time because he left home and moved to Leverkusen. The club doesnt have an academy so he stayed at a guest family – the family of the stadium announcer from Bayer, together with two other players. A year later he moved into an apartement with his older brother, until Jan had to move to Nuremberg – he has a marketing job at adidas now.

A lasting memory: endless discussions within the Havertz family about the overarching question: does the boy need a german high school diploma (Abitur)? Will he pass the tests when he is travelling around with his professional teammates?

Kai Havertz attended the Landrat-Lucas-Gymnasium. An elite school of sports where he could skip classes in the morning for training. But he always had to catch up school stuff from the day. Once he played with Leverkusen at the DFB-Cup at Sportfreunde Lotte. He was subbed late, it went into penalities and after the team was eliminated from the cup he arrived home late – at 3am. At 8am he had an English exam.

The family became a team. His mother and sister helped him with biology exams. One day the young football player said to his family, he has no power left anymore. „But he never said: I want to quit!“ his mother insists. This was a breaking point by which his parents thought about quitting and stop pursuing the Abitur. But suddently coach Roger Schmidt intervened and said Kai should pull through. The whole Bayer team will support him.

The Abitur became a factor of will power, a test of life. The school supervisor of Bayer, a former athlete herself, said something memorable: it will shape his whole life if Kai quits school now. Whenever something becomes difficult, if something goes beyond your pain barrier, he will always have this option to quit in his head, that you can just give up.

Kai Havertz choose the pain, the Abitur. Now he will always choose the hard way if the theory of his supervisor holds.

On this January afternoon in Cologne, he is being asked what other job he would have picked if it wasnt for football. He likes the job as a barber, for men’s hairstyle. He smiles. Some curls are hanging on his forehead from left to right. A Barber. He wouldnt have needed an Abitur for that.

He is a genius at football. He won the German junior championship with Bayer and scored 19 goals in 29 games. He got awarded as a Under-19-player as the best of his age with the Fritz-Walter-medal from the DFB. Kai made it onto second place on his position after Marco Reus from Dortmund in a list of the football magazine „kicker“ which they publish every half year – but seven spaces in front of Munich’s Thomas Müller.

Coach Heiko Herrlich says Havertz reminds him of Toni Kroos. Football critic Reiner Calmund compared him to Franz Beckenbauer. His head goals remind him of Michael Ballack. Mesut Özil was always Kai Havertz idol, because of his tranquility with the ball and his ability to read a game. Sometimes Kai misses the final conciseness in front of the goal, which was visible after the recent 0-1 loss against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Having the ability to remain calm, even when you get tackled is the result of a deep confidence in your own strenghts: screen your surrondings – in short time if necessary – and then make the right decision. Joachim Löw praises Havertz „good orientation“, something he said about Özil years ago. What he means is a certain sense of space on the pitch – an inner compass. Something that has to do with attention and memory. Havertz, who is a master of navigation, doesn’t even need practice. Some creatures have special senses and are able to find orientation on earth through a magnetic field – like migratory birds for example.

Kai Havertz likes watching Champions League games. And while watching them, there is always a wish inside him to participate as well whenever the big games of the quarter- and semifinals are on. „I think you can only reach that level by going to a top club at some point“ he says.

Mother, father and sister Havertz say, they don’t expect things from him. Something they never did in his career. But if someone asks them, who will follow Kai in a foreign country to get used to everything – they start to think about it. They would alternate. One week his mother would visit, next week his sister and then his grandmother maybe.

Kai Havertz still has a room back home in Mariadorf. Back in the day he used to have posters from FC Barcelona. So it could happen maybe one day, that youngsters in Barcelona will have posters with Kai Havertz on them.

++END++

[saintnovak]

Tagged: Some stuff

I got tagged by @skelephantitis

Rules: Answer these questions and tag twenty some blogs you’d like to get to know better. (I won’t, ‘cause... nah)

Nickname: Novak, Findus, Becca 

Greek zodiac sign: Taurus. So much Taurus it’s riddiculous.

Height: 165 centimeters (now you transfer that to YOUR measurements for once!)

Time: 22:07

Favorite Band/Artist: Green Day

Song stuck in my head: Vi ses igen nästa vinter (See you next winter) - Kraja

Last movie I saw: Yeez... I hardly only watch series or YT clips. “Coco”, I guess.

Last thing I googled: “Chili sin carne with rice” - today’s dinner 

Other blogs: @erisandbellatrix and @novakriver 

Do I get asks: when I ask for them lmao

Why did I choose this username: I actually changed it today... from novakriver to varefrua

Why? 

Novak River is a Beyblade OC of mine, and I wanted to do a separate blog for her to post art. Instead, I took my “witch name” - Varefrua - as my nick for my main blog (this one). 

Varefrua is hard to translate from Swedish, but in a Southern Swedish accent, it means “The Mistress at Vare”. A house in my family lies at a small road in the forest named Östra Varevägen (“Eastern Vare Way”) in Southern Sweden. I have had a conversation with my grandmother about moving there, should I return to my hometown, then becoming Varefrua. 

Following: Soooooo many

Average amount of sleep: Depends, but usually 7-8 hours

Lucky number: Usually 14, but my jersey number playing Quidditch is 20

What am I wearing: Black tank top with a white feminist symbol, jeans shorts

Dream job: Librarian or shark protection activist. I have a widespread interest spectrum.

Dream trip: A yearlong, divided trip around my dear Sweden and the other Nordic countries, discovering food and crafts. And a similar trip all over Eastern Europe and Japan.

Favorite food: Pasta, in all forms, but especially with tuna sauce

Play any instrument: Nyckelharpa! A Swedish folk music instrument, which sounds SO beautiful, but is SO hard to play

Eye color: Hazel/green/yellow

Hair color: Dark brown/black

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Black cat with yellow eyes, sunflower field, dark hair floating in the ocean, Harry Potter novels on a shelf, oaken leaves and a crowded bookshelf

Languages you speak: Swedish, English, Russian and a little bit of Spanish. I can speak a few words in Polish and Norweigan as well.

Most iconic song: Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day

Random fact: I am to this day undefeated when it comes to eat toffee ropes as fast as possible, without using my hands. My theory is that all the spagetti I eat has a role in this...

[drev-the-ambassador]

Can you tell us a little about food in Finland, like... What do you eat day to day? What are sweets like? Which fast food chains are the most popular? or something else you think is interesting. Thank you! :D

Thank you for the ask! I can tell you a lot about food in Finland, fortunately, because both of my parents happen to be cooks, so I can ask about stuff from them. A lot the information I’ll tell you probably came from them.

Well, first off, I want to say that today Finnish people often eat food that isn’t necessarily traditionally Finnish or anything, for example my town has at least 5 pizza-kebab restaurants, and spaghetti is very popular. This thing called “raketti-spagetti” is sold in stores, it’s just normal spaghetti but cut into shorter pieces, and the name literally means rocket-spaghetti. I’m not sure how that name came to be, but it rhymes, so maybe it just sounded funny…? I don’t know. Stuff like rice is pretty common too, even though it’s in no way traditionally Finnish. Anyway, I’m sure that a similar phenomenon (the international foods thing, not raketti-spagetti) exists in almost every country.

Also, the Finnish cuisine has gotten a lot of influence from our dear neighbours, Sweden and Russia. Especially Sweden. So anyway, if you’re from either one of those countries and I say that something is Finnish when your country has the exact same thing, please blame my ancestors for not being more original. Although I’d like to hear about foods or customs similar to these I’m about to mention from other countries, so if you’d like to, please share them in the tags!

Okay, so I think I’ll start with the fast food- part of the question.

Finland doesn’t have that many fast food chains, really. We have McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and soon a few Taco Bells. Like, three. BUT! We do have a chain of our own, Hesburger, which is my personal favorite out of these. It is the most popular fast food chain in Finland, with 268 restaurants. For comparison, McDonald’s has 65, Burger King 32, and Subway 155 restaurants here.

If you want to have a taste of Hesburger’s food, but don’t want to come all the way to Finland, that’s totally fine! There are Hesbugers in eight other countries, too: Estonia (42 restaurants), Latvia (44), Lithuania (47), Russia (34), Germany (3), Ukraine (3), Bulgaria (3) and Belarus (1). Pretty impressive for a chain from such a small country, huh?

I hope this doesn’t sound too much like an ad, this post is not sponsored by Hesburger. I just think it’s pretty neat. I don’t know where the restaurants are more specifically, but I’ve been to Tallinn and there were a few Hesburgers there. They have really good paprika-mayonnaise! Just saying.

Scratch that, I now know where is the Hesburger farthest from Finland: 

Now, for sweets, I think I’ll have to make their own post, but we do have a lot of different kinds of candy in Finland, since we have two bigger and several smaller candy manufacturers, the two big ones being Fazer and Panda. Fazer also makes bread and cookies.

Popular candies are suklaa (chocolate) in different forms - bars, slabs (?? I hear that is also called a bar sometimes? Like smaller bars like Snickers and then slabs like the one I’ll show a picture of), chocolates, like the ones sold in a box, with filling or without, you get the idea, a lot of chocolate - and, of course, salmiakki, salty liquorice. Salmiakki candies get their amazing/awful taste from ammonium chloride. Mmmm. Potentially life-threatening chemicals combined. Delicious. (pic source)

Here is perhaps the most iconic Finnish sweet: Fazerin sininen, Fazer’s Blue. It’s just simple old milk chocolate and yet is the most popular candy in the country. Is it really that good?

Yes. Yes it is. The shade of blue used in the wrapping is trademarked*, by the way.

Okay, moving on to the day-to-day stuff…

In Finland we drink the most maito (milk) in the world per capita, a bit over 360 liters. The 2nd is Sweden by the way, with around 356 liters. We also consume the most kahvi (coffee) per capita, the national average being around 2.6 cups. Seriously, people here drink coffee all the time. In the morning, after lunch, when you come to visit you can be sure you’ll be offered a cup of coffee, at weddings, at funerals, with dessert, I mean, all the goddamn time. Sometimes they don’t even have a reason I’m sure. You know when at work there are those shorter breaks? In Finland a break like that is called kahvitauko. It means coffee break, which I’m sure is a familiar concept in other countries too.

But yeah, people do drink milk at every meal - not everyone, of course, but most people - and for people who are lactose intolerant there are special kinds of milks where the lactose has been processed already, so lactose intolerant people can drink it safely.

This is our fridge. That milk probably lasts like half a week. The light blue one is fat-free.

‘There is also this thing called piimä, which is a drinkable product made from milk with Lactic acid fermentation. It’s not my favorite, but it’s okay.

Maito versus piimä. (source) 

Apparently there is a strict divide in Finland between west and east, where west likes piimä better, but east prefers something called kokkelipiimä, which, to me, sounds very suspicious, and I did not know it even existed. It’s piimä with something more solid also made from milk mixed into it. Looks like this.

I seriously had never heard of it. I do live in the western half, so I suppose the divide is real. Huh. (source)

A traditional Finnish drink, kotikalja, is often drunk at fancier occasions, for example at the Christmas meal or at some other celebration, like weddings or such. It has a bit of alcohol, but so little that it doesn’t really count as an alcoholic beverage. Wikipedia tells me that it’s similar to Estonian kali, Swedish svagdricka, Dutch oud bruin and Russian kvass. It’s not the same, but it’s similar. People drink it with food.

(source also includes a recipe for kotikalja)

 There is a Finnish word ruokajuoma, which means any drink that is often drunk at meals, like water or kotikalja or milk and sometimes also juice.

This post is getting really long, sorry about that. Anyway, we eat a lot of different keittoja (soups) here too. Most of the time they contain potatoes (perunaa), carrots (porkkanaa), possibly other vegetables, and some meat (lihaa). Kalakeitto (fish soup) can be creamy (I love it) or clear (not so good). Lihakeitto (meat soup) and jauhelihakeitto (minced meat soup)are usually clear as well. There is also hernekeitto, which is made from peas, minced meat or ham or something and some carrot. People can add mustard and onion to it. It’s often eaten on Thursdays, a habit that has spread from the army. There every Thursday is hernekeittopäivä, hernekeitto-day. With hernekeitto the dessert is usually pancake with jam. (pic source)

The pancake, pannukakku, doesn’t look like what you might expect, though. It’s like this.

(source)What is the closest relative to the other kind of pancake is called lettu here, or räiskäle, and it’s closer to a crêpe or a blin. (An actual blin, in Finland there is some misconception about blinis being small and thick… things, but maybe people would otherwise mistake them for a räiskäle?) (source)

 They are usually eaten with jam or sugar or whipped cream, or ice cream, or berries, or all of them. There are also muurinpohjaletut, which are cooked differently. (source)

A very basic dish we eat a lot here is potatoes and some kind of kastike (sauce). The sauce usually has pieces of meat, or sausage, or minced meat. We use a lot of minced meat. The picture example is made with makkara (sausage). (source)

When it comes to leipä (bread) I might be a little biased, because my parents bake a lot of bread themselves. Most households usually have at least two types of bread available, some lighter bread like piimälimppu for example, and ruisleipä. It is very Finnish, even though rye bread is eaten elsewhere too. In grocery stores you can find many shelves full of it. There are even rye chips here! Not French fries, or potato chips, really, more like nachos. But made from rye. Weird. (source of pic below)

One of the many forms of rye bread. (source)

Usually the shelves would be full but it was late and almost juhannus. That’s all for rye bread there. (Don’t mind my sister’s hand btw)

You can get rye bread in dried from too, all crunchy and pretty tough. Examples of this, dry, crunchy, though perhaps not that tough bread are näkkileipä and hapankorppu. Näkkileipä is often served in schools, since it doesn’t go bad easily. Both näkkileipä and hapankorppu are the best when they have some butter (voi) on top, at least I think so.

Hapankorppu in the front, näkkileipä in the back. 

“Which side do you put the butter on?” is a common topic of debate between Finnish people. (It’s the side without the holes, fight me)

And yet another traditional Finnish food that’s eaten like bread and has rye in it, is karjalanpiirakka, Karelian pie. It’s basically rice porridge in a crust made from rye flour. It is also called riisipiirakka. There are other versions of it as well, for example they can have mashed potato instead of rice in them. It’s traditionally eaten with munavoi, boiled egg and butter mixed together. It is heavenly. It’s the stuff in the picture way up there, actually, but I’ll refresh your memory.

(source)

Another pretty basic, and quite traditional Finnish food that is still pretty popular as I understand, is makaronilaatikko, macaroni casserole, made of macaroni, minced meat, and a mixture of milk and egg. All the ingredients are put together and mixed, and cheese is put on top, though not in traditional versions. Then the whole thing is put into the oven and cooked for some time, and then eaten usually with ketchup. It’s one of my favorite foods.

(source)

Fish is eaten fairly often, but pork, chicken and beef are probably more common. In summer we eat a lot of sausages and nakki (frankfurters) (?? I have never heard this word). Most common spices are salt, suola and pepper, pippuri. There are also a ton of prepared foods in markets, and I mean a lot. Whole aisles, many meters, of foods like makaronilaatikko or jauhelihakeitto that you just need to warm up. Convenient. One of my favorites are pinaattiletut, small lettus with spinach in them. I like them a lot. There are also the same kinds of small lettus made with carrot. Oh, and also blood. They’re called veriletut in Finnish.

(source)

Well, I’d love to tell you more, but this post is already way too long, so. I’ll end it here. If you want to know more of something specific I mentioned, ask, and I’ll try to get a post made. I’m planning on covering a few topics here more in depth in the future, but we’ll see.

Oh, also, a lot of the sources for the pictures in this post also feature a recipe, though they’re in Finnish. If you’d like me to translate one of them so you can try it out, just ask!

Thank you for the ask again!

(*edited because I, the smart person I am, mixed up copyright and trade marks. Sorry about that.)

[buffalexo]

Tag game!

I was tagged by @soo-now-what as always thank you cutie KP 💕

Only rule if you do it, tag a few people/blogs you adore

What’s your favourite song(s) to sing/hum?

I mean I have a whole lot of them but for now i'll say the two i had stuck in my head all day: Power and Call me baby (EXO)

What are your favourite flower/tee/plant (all 3 or whatever you have an answer to)

I think basilic because it's cute and smells great and you can even eat it so

Favourite colour(s)?

Dark forest green, burgundy, baby pink

What do you always doodle (if you ever do)?

I doodle suns wich is lame i know and flowers and eyes, i used to doodle full faces but that was when i actually knew how to draw

How do you take your coffee/tea? If you don’t like those what’s your fav warm drink?

My fav warm drink is hot choco hands down all year round with whip-whip-whipping cream

Favourite candle scent?

I like fruity scent like mango, or full blown christmas scents like cranberries

Sunrise or sunset?

Man that's hard but i think sunset

What perfume do you wear if any?

Repetto's eau or eau florale depending on my mood, and Elizabeth Arden's 5th Avenue when i want to feel fancy

What’s your go to dance move when you’re alone?

Something similar to a dying octopus with spagetti legs

Favourite quote?

"If tomorrow isn't the due date today isn't the do date"

Favourite self care thing(s) or routine(s)?

I do try to clean my face everynight with miscellar water but really it's just a wonder how it didn't fall yet

Fuzzy socks or house slippers?

Fuzzy socks - fun fact, i have a socks obsession and have a drawer dedicated to my collection

What colour are your eyes?

Brownish greenish

What’s your favourite eye colour on others?

I mean maybe green? Blue is dope too?? grey??? baekhyun's??1?

Favourite season? Why?

Spring, because it gets warmer but not overwhelming so and also flowers blooming everywhere

Cheek, neck or nose kisses?

Neck kisses 😏

What does your happy place look like?

My happy place is laid on the sand of Cabourg's beach (in normandy) at midnight looking up at the stars with the sound of the sea

Favourite breed of dog?

dogs

Do you ever want to be married? If so what colours would you pick for your wedding theme?

I do want to be married one day? I guess? But no idea about the wedding theme tbh

Silk or lace?

Lace 😏😏

Favourite weather?

When it's sunny and warm enough that you just need a light sweater, or very cold but with a clear blue sky

I’m tagging @yeoleow , @shimmie-shimmie-kokobop , @baozibunns , @ratbyun ,  @itssehunbitch , @chogiwamy , @dynamictroll , @ineedyixing and also @duckflyfly , @byuntifuls @byunparks , @sechens and @dazzlingkai (you don’t have to but if you want to be my guests!) and anyone who wants to really

[godvilletimes-blog]

Issue #2470

Weekend Godville 

Day 2714 g.e.

• Occasionally correct • Consistently on the wrong side • It’s hard to be a god •

Daily Forecast

• A strong magnetic cloud above the arena pulls in free trophies and greatly improves teleportation efficiency - today sending a hero to the arena takes only 25% godpower.

• Unexpected noise levels in the upper layers of atmosphere could decrease godvoice hearing conditions on the surface.

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A few levels after a hero tames a pet, it gains a personality. That description appears near the pet's name. The personality of a pet changes every few levels as the pet becomes more useful to its owner.

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1. Vertibraker (71) 2. Wahoowa (59) 3. Ooshiro (58) 4. Mursson (43)5. Elizabethena (41) 6. The Almighty Wiz (40) 7. Hakiobo (39) 8. Scotchy (39)9. Spaced (39) 10. God Nischal (38) 11. Sigefrith (38) 12. Gerrypsu80 (38)13. Neoldian- (37) 14. Lord Melkor (37) 15. Fairy Wogdog (37)16. Fiveprime (37) 17. Arblade the Confused (36) 18. Mlle Poussey (36)19. Mortis Thanatos (36) 20. Gsxrboy (36) 21. Almother (35)22. Greenheart (32) 23. Ferdinand II (32) 24. ForgottenBeast (31) 25. Lord Boom (31) 26. Abene (30) 27. Mihaela (30) 28. Infinitecircle (30) 29. Cret (30)30. Psyrock (29) 31. My Preciousss (29) 32. Vikram Dinesh (29) 33. Ttam the Mighty (29) 34. Emmuno (29) 35. Mabinogion (27) 36. S624 (27)37. Juggels (27) 38. Lady Inari (27) 39. FungalMonk (27) 40. Hairplug4men (27)41. Carmentis (26) 42. Boltyhead (26) 43. Zed001 (26) 44. Empyreia (26)45. Tsarczar (26) 46. Kevin-G93 (26) 47. Morgante (26)48. Parthenogenesis (26) 49. Blind Marie (26) 50. Jayo23696 (26)51. Anyaanka (26) 52. Drfento (25) 53. Andrele (25) 54. Klonopins (25)55. Slug-Ra (25) 56. Kalingrace (25) 57. Gargantwa (25) 58. Marcus the Merciful (25) 59. Crisismana (25) 60. Eville111 (25) 61. Spadon (24)62. Tovarovich (24) 63. Kami4fun (24) 64. The Great Jimsky (24) 65. Kalyt (24)66. Desiderio (24) 67. Shadowgun8 (24) 68. Crystal Mercy (24) 69. Relkia (24)70. Queen Me (24) 71. Jefemomo (24) 72. Vejadeux (24) 73. Wolphie (24)74. Almighty Aztaroth (23) 75. Almighty of here (23) 76. CCCC4 (23) 77. The Snarkmeister (23) 78. Sivesh (23) 79. Dakkila (23) 80. Augnoramous (23)81. The Spagetti Monster (23) 82. The-Joe (23) 83. Sparkoflife (23)84. Megabot (22) 85. Exekutor (22) 86. Dapandam (22) 87. Found Alt-self (22)88. Glorious Ragnhild (22) 89. Eviridia (22) 90. Bastienne (22)91. Tarepanda (22) 92. Ypchua (22) 93. Medemia (22) 94. Kriemhilt (22)95. LisaDreams (22) 96. Fruit the Juice (22) 97. Alee67 (22) 98. UnNamable One (21) 99. General Li (21) 100. Brihtnoth (21)

Ideabox News

• It's rumored that 109 ideas were submitted to the Ideabox and 74 ideas got into the ER. So how many ideas will get into the game?

• Enzuna brings out the best in her own ideas and those of others.

• The humble godReigninblood13 has submitted several new ideas and voted on the others. Hooray!

Famous Heroes of Godville

Juliettt - 16th-level adventurer, member of the “Harvest Moon” guild, with the motto “Look for the best way ✅”, stands at the 61st position in the pantheon of duelers under the vigilant supervision of the goddess Empress Lady. She is deeply gratified by her place in the pantheon and is not planning to give it up any time soon.

Fuyuko - 83rd-level adventurer, member of the “Blue Feather” guild, with the motto “God is now here!”, stands at the 170th position in the pantheon of taming under the vigilant supervision of the god Tarepanda. We've had many reports that an Autoparrot has been afraid to make eye contact with her since their last encounter.

Wanted

Anyone who hunts down a Firefoxtoday will receive one newly poured golden brick as a reward.

Caught today: 393 pcs.

The Panzer Dragon is on the verge of extinction! Merchants will offer a free outfit upgrade coupon for its rare hide.

Caught today: 331 pcs.

Breaking News

• Followers of “Remote Controlled Champions” are partying in Deville, all members are welcome.

• Druids are concerned about the increasing number of indecent runes carved into local trees.

• The mark of a true hero is their ability to punish a good deed on their first attempt.

Buy and Sell

Buying a book of dungeon etiquetteat five times the normal cost! Godville's one and only “Glittery Booty” shop. Just ask for Keleios.

Found today: 54 pcs.

Exotic artifact collectors offer handsome monetary rewards to heroes who bring them a final countdown clock.

Market Quotes

1 golden brick

3181 gold coins -0.7%

1 Godville invite

918 gold coins -6.7%

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Crossword

Across: 1. Equipment. 6. Skill. 7. Skill. 8. Artifact. 9. Bold Artifact. Down: 1. Skill. 2. Artifact. 3. Skill. 4. Strong Monster. 5. Monster.

1. Varalica 2. Kevin-g93 3. Tsarczar 4. Alee67 5. Kazehime 6. Mihaela 7. Makaze8. Darth Threepio 9. Pearlcaster 10. Aeterni 11. The Almighty Wiz12. Goddygoddy 13. Rosu 14. Kaerran 15. Marcusanka 16. I Am Henry17. Cowabungallow 18. Xelos27 19. Hakiobo 20. The Omnipotent Fred21. Braulio005 22. Alice A 23. Doct0r 24. Talissa 25. Infinitecircle 26. RazorNate27. Spadon 28. Melandre 29. WhatANegan 30. Red Shirt Crew 31. Noobishly32. Summer Queen 33. Boltyhead 34. Delta493 35. Jynxxius 36. Tukang Cendol37. Kalyt 38. Riyria 39. Punk-in-d 40. MrWiggles 41. Buggaroon 42. Ratphour43. Carmentis 44. KamiNappa 45. Loreleir 46. Ikkarin 47. Devourer Of Doughnuts48. God Nischal 49. Troyboi Heartnet 50. Consus 51. Snorlax321 52. Nakor the Blue Rider

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omg yana, when did you send this?? was it right now?! holy shit ily

idek if these are the questions you sent this ask for, but they’re all under the cut:

1. Who was the last person you held hands with?

romantically? my ex

2. Are you outgoing or shy?

shy at first and then outgoing

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing?

my best friend!!

4. Are you easy to get along with?

i think so

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you?

ahh i don’t like anyone, but i do have friends who take care of me, i love them so much

6. What kind of people are you attracted to?

kind, funny people

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now?

probs not

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind?

bc of question 5, two of my best friends

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable?

not at all.

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with?

i feel like it was my sister

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say?

literally just says “yes pls”

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now?

“retro” - childish gambino

“go solo” - tom rosenthal

“drunk text romance” - cyberbully mom club

“up all night” - oliver tank

“spagetti” - frankie cosmos

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair?

yessss, love that shit

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles?

a lil bit. i think it takes a certain amount of luck to be successful. as for miracles, basically when anyone is incredibly close to death, but survives, that’s a miracle

15. What good thing happened this summer?

i got to hang out a lot with my “cousins”

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?

on the cheek, sure

17. Do you think there is life on other planets?

absolutely i do

18. Do you still talk to your first crush?

no!! & i want to because literally no one knows where he is. he doesn’t have social media, but everyone wants to know how he’s doing

19. Do you like bubble baths?

not really, but i havent taken one in a LONG time

20. Do you like your neighbors?

yeah, i mean, i dont interact with them apart from get togethers

21. What are your bad habits?

buying too many books & then not reading them. also, talking a lot about writing, but not actually writing

22. Where would you like to travel?

more areas in mexico i haven’t been to/haven’t been to since i was little, vancouver, spain, greece

23. Do you have trust issues?

no, i think im too trusting sometimes

24. Favorite part of your daily routine?

listening to my favorite music on the way to work/school

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with?

my stomach

26. What do you do when you wake up?

check my phone

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker?

nah

28. Who are you most comfortable around?

apart from my family, probably my best friend

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up?

no

30. Do you ever want to get married?

i think i do

hehe

31. Is your hair long enough for a pony tail?

barely, but yes

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with?

omg idek if i’d have a threesome to begin with

33. Spell your name with your chin.

iksdasbreoioas…yikes

34. Do you play sports? What sports?

what are sports?

35. Would you rather live without TV or music?

neither….but if i had to choose, then music

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them?

oh def. the majority of my crushes

37. What do you say during awkward silences?

usually nothing, if not, i ask them about their day or how they’ve been doing

38. Describe your dream girl/guy?

someone kind & funny, someone who cares about me & what i have to say. someone who asks me questions & listens to me. i know so many ppl who just think about what they’re going to say next & don’t gaf about anyone else. oh, & probably someone who likes the same movies, music & books as me! & if they don’t, then they’re willing to give them a shot.

39. What are your favorite stores to shop in?

anthropologie, zara, forever 21

40. What do you want to do after high school?

i’m already in college

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?

not everyone

42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean?

i’m anxious/stressed out & am thinking about everything i have to do

43. Do you smile at strangers?

yes!!

44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean?

bottom of the ocean, but i wouldn’t go in a submarine bc they scare me. i’d have to be a mermaid or something to go to the bottom

45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning?

work at 3:30 am

46. What are you paranoid about?

being murdered

47. Have you ever been high?

yes

48. Have you ever been drunk?

def

49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about?

nah, nothing i can remember??

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore?

red

51. Ever wished you were someone else?

i think so, but not anymore

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself?

yes, i want abs

53. Favourite makeup brand?

nyx

54. Favourite store?

zara

55. Favourite blog?

yours, yana :)

56. Favourite colour?

yellow

57. Favourite food?

bean burritos

58. Last thing you ate?

a tall caramel macchiato & madelines

59. First thing you ate this morning?

eggs, potatoes, beans, a mini tortilla, this like yellow cauliflower thing

60. Ever won a competition? For what?

i won a writing competition in high school & i won my 5th grade spelling bee & some cheer competitions in junior high

61. Been suspended/expelled? For what?

nope

62. Been arrested? For what?

nope

63. Ever been in love?

i think so, this is probs the trickiest question bc i’m not entirely sure.

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss?

we were both drunk. really not a big deal

65. Are you hungry right now?

not really, although i’m known to always be hungry

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends?

equal amount

67. Facebook or Twitter?

twitter

68. Twitter or Tumblr?

twitter

69. Are you watching tv right now?

yes, im watching potc: the curse of the black pearl. my fave

70. Names of your bestfriends?

i feel like i have a lot…

71. Craving something? What?

ooh maybe ice cream

72. What colour are your towels?

a bunch of different colors, but my main one’s blue

72. How many pillows do you sleep with?

1

73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?

no, i was never too into them

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have?

maybe like 2

75. Favourite animal?

orcas

76. What colour is your underwear?

white calvin klein

77. Chocolate or Vanilla?

chocolate

78. Favourite ice cream flavour?

rocky road

79. What colour shirt are you wearing?

white

80. What colour pants?

grayish

81. Favourite tv show?

currently: broad city

82. Favourite movie?

little miss sunshine

83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2?

mean girls

84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street?

mean girls

85. Favourite character from Mean Girls?

gretchen bc i’m her

86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo?

the dentist’s niece or daughter or whatever bc she has my braces

87. First person you talked to today?

my sister

88. Last person you talked to today?

via text, one of my high school best friends, but the night is young so i’ll probs talk to my sister again

89. Name a person you hate?

donald trump

90. Name a person you love?

my sister!!

91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now?

pls see #89

92. In a fight with someone?

nope, which is good bc i dont like fighting with ppl