#id have thrown him overboard the fuck

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

i cant lie guys I'd betray the fuck out of eurylochus too. ody had a fresh fucking stab wound and this bitch has the GALL to go "But we'll die..?" good. bitch.

[palialaina]

Boy.

It has been...

I may have lost my temper with Kenli, finally. He's not a bad person, he's just a damn doormat, and I can't fix his problems for him. I get Eshe's frustration absolutely, though I still think she goes a bit overboard in how rigid she is...

So, the deed I dug up for the Daiya farm a few weeks ago was apparently scrutinized heavily by Kenyara and she decided it wasn't good enough. Kenli asked me to get together a tax for the farm so that they wouldn't have to worry, and you know, I have the veggies to spare, so I did it. (I need to buy more wheat. I forgot to do that and ran out of seeds...)

And then he told me that it didn't matter because she'd decided that she was going to kick them out anyways and move in some new people. And he didn't know what to do, but could I maybe go tell them about it?

I.

Blew.

UP.

I'm a water person too, according to basically everyone I talk to, but the thing about water is that it is just as dangerous as any other element. Earth crushes, fire burns, air suffocates, water drowns.

I told him to stop being a little tiny creek, and be a damn tidal wave of no already.

...I think I scared him a bit, honestly. But for fuck's sake... at least he managed to scrape together the backbone to tell his sister no.

The irony-cherry on top being that the people Kenyara had selected to replace the best farming family in Kilima were scammers. They'd planned on taking Kenyara's advance money (what the fuck, lady??) and bolting.

So, yanno, my rare show of temper actually worked out pretty damn well for all involved.

....Jel gave me tea and macarons and made me go upstairs to rest for a bit when I stomped into the store. He's a darling and I adore him.

Also, apparently Lark also found one of Reth's fail-eggs. That was fun to walk in on. He was so purple~ Poor Reth. Maybe next time he'll actually keep track of where he buries those yikes things.

My next source of stress? I was tag-teamed by Hassian and Sifuu.

So, Sifuu's book is... sort of out. Caleri stuck it in the fiction section because of the intense amount of liberties Sifuu took when writing her own memoirs.

Seriously, when you piss off your own son with your embellishments, that's definitely a sign you went too far.

Sifuu's version was.. dramatic. Love at first sight. According to Hassian, that's all a lie, and Sifuu was childhood friends with Taylin before they got married.

So, already I was feeling kind of cranky on Hassian's behalf, because why lie about that, Sifuu? And then he goes on to tell me that there was kind of a mess about them being thrown out of their original village because...

Okay.

So, Sifuu and Taylin worked as bounty hunters. And Taylin was supposed to kill a creature, but that creature came back and decimated a village. So her village thought she lied to get paid. Taylin swore that the thing must have regenerated, and honestly, I think I'm on Taylin's side. We have magical trees that heal their own axe cuts ffs, regenerating beasties is not exactly out there in terms of things this place could produce.

Well, they got thrown out of their village, and word was spread that Taylin was a liar, so no one else would take them in. Taylin went to try and clear her name, but never came back.

And yeah, I'm definitely on Hassian's side for this one. He was so upset. He doesn't usually let me touch him, let alone hug him, but I was able to give cuddles until he was calm again.

Then he got embarrassed, but yanno, it was cute.

After that, I went to tell Sifuu she was an idiot (because she was), and Sifuu id very clearly where Hassian gets his inability to communicate, if nothing else. She asked me to help fix things, and in this case it literally meant fixing a thing from his childhood, and old bow Taylin had made him. Wasn't hard, I have a stockpile of stuff at this point, so, ran home, ran back, gave her the stuff.

I really wish it ended there.

She did give me this tho. I had Einar over to help me put it up high because I don't know what else to do with it, but it's too nice to just... shove into storage.

Also, I know I will cut myself on that thing if I do that, and Hassian would throw a fit.

Hassian did come around and gave me a lovely heartdrop lily. I'm going to keep it special for when I make him a pin. I just need to figure out what I can use to represent him... And maybe also see if he actually likes me that way, or if I'm reading too much into it.

(I did talk to Jel about it. Again. He repeated that as long as Hassian made me happy, he was more than able to share. He got kisses for that.)

So, okay, it does not end there, and I don't know if I wish it did, or if I'm glad it kept going, but like...

Sifuu asked me to come see her, because she really really suck at talking to Hassian in a way that gets him to... you know. Share. And I'm better at it, so she asked me to figure out why he was still upset.

Turns out, they'd started going through Taylin's things, and he found an old book of star charts. Apparently he's an avid star gazer! I wish I'd know that before, that's half the reason I love being out at night. The stars here are amazing...

So, anyways, I got together the stuff for making him a small telescope, and he seemed to cheer up. Said he was going to put it in his grove, so maybe I'll drop by in a couple nights and see if he'll let me look through it.

For now though, I'm going to take Jel's advice, have a hot bath and then we're going to play a few games of chezzu in the slumber party room so I can finally unwind.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

okay, call me crazy or overly cautious, but if someone reports another passenger missing, the captain should call the coast guard about a potential passenger in the water before a search is complete just in case.

...miss moncrieff, i know youre a crime writer and not a maritime worker, but a rogue wave would not wash just one passenger overboard. rogue waves literally sink ships on impact; its one of the leading theories as to what happened to the fitz for fucks sake.

i really dont think you, as a police officer, should have the authority to tell someone that her husband is dead and that she needs to accept it, when the only evidence is him not being found aboard the ship during a search of common areas.

can someone really be considered a person of interest just because the victim seems to have lost a bucket of casino chips and also this person has a lot of them? feel like that should not be grounds for a search of their room and an interrogation

id rather eat every page of les mis page by page than go on a corporate retreat on a cruise ship.

okay so in one episode, a guy drowned and his body washed up ashore but he had no external injuries despite apparently having fell 60feet at 50mph, so i was like well could he have been drowned like in a bathtub and then thrown overboard? that seemed more likely than accidentally fell overboard and manage to accrue no bruises or broken bones which is what the ultimate conclusion was.

anyway that led to me wondering whether a medical examiner could tell if someone had drowned in fresh water vs salt water. turns out that in some cases, you can.

the fact that several episodes have had talking heads emphasise that sea sickness is a real thing and not people being too weak to handle being on a ship suggests that there are people who think the latter which should not be surprising but damn it is disappointing

im obsessed with this maybe-murderer being like "oh no, i did not have an affair with the victim. youve seen how dysfunctional her family is, you think im gonna get involved with that mess?"

"are you still watching?" am i still watching? of course, im still watching. am i still watching? what else would i be doing on a thursday afternoon?

im back watching the terrible cruise ship murder show i was liveblogging last night and heres some more notes:

i havent mentioned the show's intro yet but its exactly what youd expect it to be, both in style and budget. i have friends who have made much better videos on less of a budget and those videos were ship edits for holby city.

said friend showed me said videos whilst we were sat on a curb at like 9:30pm just before we were approached by police thinking we were lost children. we were in university

im beginning to adore the red colour filter over the ocean, unironically

showing a giant cruise liner docked at any small island really does not make the cruise ship look good. it towers over the island like its about to attack.

...you know, everyone laughed at isambard kingdom brunel for his big fuck off ship, we should bring that back.

oh hey, a case i actually know about prior to this show. im sure this will not highlight any flaws of the show going forward