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yellow-yarrow · 9 months ago

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are you ready. for my wildest comparison yet.

did you know that the Insulandian Phasmid quotes from the bible? I got curious if looking at the context of the bible quote would add anything to the interpretation of this scene, and maybe there are some parallels. Meeting the phasmid is like a revelation, just like how in that part of the bible god talks to Isaiah. (I can't belive im reading the bible out of all things for a video game lmao. god damn it.) yeah yeah maybe it's not supposed to mean anything other than the phasmid loves this world but it can be fun to look into it. maybe it is that deep

think of this as more of a web weaving post

You - I exist too. Insulindian Phasmid - Tell me what it's like for you. You - It's *wunderbar*. Insulindian Phasmid - Yes, holy is the lord of hosts. And all the Earth is filled with his glory.

Isaiah 6 BSB

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robea filled the temple.

Encyclopedia - (..)An Innocence is a continuous, compressed event, a sacred human being. It is an honour and a glory to live when one is in office. You - Is one in office now? Encyclopedia - No. We are alone.

Insulindian Phasmid - You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident. (...) You - Have I always thought this way? Insulindian Phasmid - No -- you're only thinking it *now*. This is a revelation.

Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

In Hebrew, the word saraph means "burning"

Insulindian Phasmid - Tell me what it's like for you. You - Fire, burning.

Insulindian Phasmid - You were right. Little bubbles form on the mouthparts of the creature -- on its segmented lower lip. It looks to be foaming, slowly. The foam is white, then yellowish... Perception (Smell) - The faintest smell, like you've never felt before. Like burnt roses.

Insulindian Phasmid - The foam slowly turns a darker shade, like burnt caramel -- as the insect moves its mouthparts, masticating. The little bubbles begin to burst, one by one... Perception (Smell) - Letting out that same smell, like summer burning.

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.” (..)

The Deserter - "I've seen the *real world*. In '06. The flags unfolding. Young people marching, being kind to each other. They dreamt of a million years in the stars. This here..." He looks down at the ashes. "Is pale in waiting."

The Deserter - "Straight to Yekokataa for this old revisionist." He gives you a little nod. "At last -- atonement for my sins: revisionism, reactionary ideation, desertion..."

The Deserter - "The material base for an uprising has eroded." He nods and blinks his black eyes. "The working class has betrayed mankind and themselves..."

(? maybe? idk.)

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

maybe this one is a stretch (like the others too lol)

You - Lick your finger. Interfacing - It tastes like... sugar. Very faint. The arthropod towers above you, tufts of reeds pointing from limb and head alike. Perception (Taste) - Odourless, mostly comprised of water.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!” And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken. And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

Insulindian Phasmid - Everything your eyes touch goes back there -- behind the nerve mirror. What if you blink? Are we still here? (Please don't blink). What if you misplace us all one day -- or just forget? You - Have I always thought this way? Insulindian Phasmid - No -- you're only thinking it *now*. This is a revelation. You - This is the Gloaming I've been waiting for. Ever since I woke up in the hotel room.

Man with Sunglasses - "About *what?* You don't look like a cop..." He inspects you. "You know what you look like?" You - "Like a prophet?" Man with Sunglasses - "Not the prophet shit again..." He looks away.

Evrart Claire - "It says..." He looks in the folder. "Oh yes... very interesting. It says you're more like a mad prophet than a cop. Always rambling about the end of the world... I'm sure these stories are exaggerated."

Cop of the apocalypse (early version from the game files):

or perhaps

Rhetoric - You -- against the atom, the charm and the spin. Where the whole world failed -- matter failed to bend to human will; human will failed to get out of bed and tie its laces -- you alone, single-handedly, will rebuild the dreams of the working class. You are The Last Communist.

well regardless, the quote is another instance of christian symbolism in elysium

#i mean. you go to an island where a communist who exiled himself lives. and then a magical stick insect appears like a miracle #it smells like burning stuff #(this happens after you hear tiago call himself a seraph and a flame)#says a quote from the bible that includes seraphs #then tells you about the apocalypse that you are bringing into this earth with the pale #(seraphs also appear in the book of revelations)#and then when kim is showing the picture of said insect to jean you say hosannah #? im not crazy for thinking this right? this is not crazier than saying the new world mural could be nihilist. because of the 'new people'#or that inframateralism is posadism and lysenkoism #there are clear references

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ohitslen · 1 year ago

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I don’t think I’m okay because I went out with my family and one of my uncles had a smoke, and the first thing I thought was “How can anyone ever actually tolerate the smell of this shit around Wolfwood” and completely stopped on my train of thought because. Why was that my first thought and not, idk lung cancer or some shit like that

#when I tell you they have me on a chokehold. THEY REALLY DO…#anything I ever do is connected to them SOMEHOW. more like I always make it about them SOMEHOW #honestly I do think the smell of the smoke would be different specially in Tristamp where they are made out of the worms and stuff #I think. I’m not sure. but that’s my conclusion because I highly doubt there is actually. like enough nicotine for all that #still. it’s burning and the smell isn’t great I’ve never liked the smell of those. but in all honesty there ARE some that DO smell nice #but let’s be honest here do you think that the fucking choo choo train that is WW would buy those expensive ones #I HIGHLY doubt it. no bc it would be funny that WW has so little spare change not bc the EOM doesn’t give him money #but because 90% goes to his cigarettes LMAOOO IT REALLY COULD BE THE CASE—#tagging this properly because I will need this later probably #trigun #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun stampede #wolfwood #nicholas trigun #lenssi rambles #trigun maximun

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frodo-baggins · 1 year ago

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you guys wouldn’t believe me if i told you how badly my move yesterday went 😭

#the van man came and everything fitted which was good #(though i had to do all the heavy lifting and him none 🙄)#we had to divert to collect some stuff from cardiff #and that had to be delivered to sheffield #and after that guy took half an hour to fucking come home to receive his shit we were off again #and at this point van man has revealed himself as a conspiracy theorist #and then a burning smell #and then the power steering went #he coaxed the van to the service station #only to realise the tensioner (?) is completely shorn #so he tries to bodge it back together #at which point i call my mom #and my brother drives to help me (from 1.5 hours distance away)#we get as much of my stuff in his jazz as we can #and then i have to beg dad to drive the same distance in his car to get the rest #all the while this guy is trying to use cord and gaffa tape to make the van go #and his solution was for my stuff to be taken back to his in lincolnshire #mark the job as ‘complete’ and then drive it up in his wife’s car #and just trust him that i’d receive my stuff by friday #like um :/#and then he’s on the phone talking to his partner abt reporting the thing as stolen #god.#all the while the main motorway has been shut so dad is being led on a wild goose chase by google maps #suffice to say when he finally rolled up i’ve never been more glad

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exopelagic · 3 months ago

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okay I severely misjudged spaghetti guy he’s actually just really cool

#okay so I came to this flat and he wasn’t here. greeted by a very dirty flat with shit all over the kitchen counters over cling film #I meet first my other flatmate who told me he stays in his room constantly bc of previous bad flatmates #has literally just a saucepan and some salt in the kitchen. so I’m like okay spaghetti guy potentially not great but could just be #how this guy is yknow #on Tuesday I get an email back saying he’s coming back from Norway tonight looking forward to seeing you feel free to use the kitchen sauces #rlly friendly message that I wasn’t expecting. I also didn’t know he’d been on a trip i just knew he wasn’t there bc his door was open #(to a REALLY nice room. multiple rlly nice plants (which he has little care labels for!!!) and it’s tidy and pretty #and he’s got a sheep teddy on the bed)#meanwhile I am in my own head bc I don’t wanna cook in the kitchen until I can clean it and I can’t clean it without moving his shit and #I haven’t seen him yet to talk abt it and I can’t bring myself to talk to him immediately bc I’m dying #and embarrassed as hell by how I’ve been cooking in my room with a microwave and air fryer (loud) and sneaking my shit out of the kitchen #but then yesterday I DO talk to him!! and he’s super friendly!! actually interested in having a conversation and Good at it.#and then he’s cooking and like. spaghetti burns but I’m not there for long and seems to be a mistake (he made the same thing for lunch today #and did Not burn the spaghetti) and is otherwise clearly competent bc the food smells Good and despite leaving a few things out it’s like #washed up stuff isn’t dirty and the sides are better despite still under cling film. more a case that he’s spread out than he’s messy #and now today we talked and i offered to hold onto some shit over summer bc complicated situation that boils down to he’s flying back home #and he cant take all his stuff and had to choose between chucking stuff/having literally nothing this weekend. like sleeping on the sofa etc #and then cleans the whole flat?? which I’m assuming a good chunk is his mess? but he did not need to do that. could’ve easily left #bc there are two people still living here who would’ve had to deal with it and he doesn’t know either at all #and THEN tonight we talk abt food which is fun bc we both ordered stuff. and he offers me some honeydew melon bc he’s been gorging himself #these past two days to finish it before it goes bad/he leaves which is also really sweet #and JUST NOW. I take my headphones out after finishing dinner and hear the sweetest fucking guitar #he plays the gentlest like dreamy sounding acoustic guitar I’ve heard in my life in his room (door closed by the time I leave)#this is actually just a really cool dude #now that the kitchens clear I’m gonna cook tomorrow and will probably offer him some bc otherwise he’s gonna be eating out all weekend #he has extra takeout for tomorrow night but might want smth Sunday #regardless I am just. huh??? left a bit stunned bc of the u turn my opinion of this guy has taken. bc my opinion of him was a reflection #of my discomfort moving to this weird dirty basement flat with two people I didn’t know #well. idk where to go from here. I think I’ll start by talking to him more this weekend. bc holy fucking shit.#luke.txt

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uncanny-tranny · 2 years ago

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happy trans Thursday, i’m going cologne shopping soon :)

Sounds yummy! I loved exploring scents and finding out what I mesh well with, hoping you find something you like 🥰

#ask #anon #transsexual thursday #i used scentbird to find some stuff i like #like i'm an olfactory stimmer so scents are really fun. i have a sugar lemon candle burning right now #like for a $4 candle it's so good. sniffsniffsniffsniffsniff #obviously i say yummy as in yummy smells not that you should drink cologne

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cosmicrhetoric · 5 months ago

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last night i was so sick of my skin i was like thats IT im DONE im going to the drugstore and buying what my famously clear skinned mother used in the 90s. woke up this morning to find out it made me break out 🤡

#my mother has had perfect skin her entire life and me/my brother/my dad's side have been suffering for years #she was such a ponds girl though like i think a lot of south asian women were ponds girls cause of like. the powder.#the purple magic scented powder smell is burned in my brain what a universal product for my family in india. i still have some at home #i literally remember being like why are you guys using the same stuff on your face as you do for the carrom board #but my mom used exclusively ponds products and ALL in the wrong way. she was moisturizing with cold cream. still had perfect skin #but i went and bought the dry skin cream in the blue tub yesterday and either im just recovering from four straight days of wearing makeup #or they changed the formula and it made me break out 😭#im hoping its the former cause that shit is expensive nowadays. like fifteen bucks.#yesterday my mother (55 yrs old looks 40) was like should i get botox and i was like. do you know. do you fucking know how lucky you are.#she pointed to a single wrinkle on her forehead like you're in your 50S.................

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iiboronii · 6 months ago

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organic chemistry will have you acting like you're invincible to various hazardous chemicals

#this post was inspired by the kiss acrylic nail kit that i deicded to open up and use #i don't know what possessed me to do that #but the liquid thing smelled very potent #shoutout to the polymer lab i did in orgo though bc i started using the kit and was like #“damn this reminds me of the polymer coating i made in orgo a few weeks ago”#but anyways #yeah i don't know how i'm supposed to explain that one to my parents if they smell the fumes radiating from out of my bedroom #like that shit was POTENT #and again i have no clue why i decided to try my hand at acrylics again after years?? i tried it once when i was in my nail polish heyday #and then never again #and it's been like... at least six or seven years #i think i was afraid of the chemicals in that thing and the fumes getting to me #and tbh i still am a little bc this room doesn't have orgo lab ventilation #but at the same time. the boys and i would directly put our noses above chemicals and take a little sniff because. y'know.#we're all like 20 or whatever we're not exactly the brightest of the bunch #so really i'm like “well. it can't be worse than the stuff i've worked with in organic chemistry lab.”#i'm just trying to get rid of the smell tbh #so i've got a fan on and the window open and a candle burning #shoutout to ventilation

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13eyond13 · 1 year ago

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#one of the most surprising things I've found about actually checking out famous classic novels and movies and whatnot for myself #instead of just believing what I hear #is how often they actually are not what I expected at all #I just read Fahrenheit 451 for example and all I knew was it is one of those books that people always mention #as like a good one to assign in school and that it includes book burning #so naturally I assumed it was some serious book about the dangers of rampant censorship of art and literature #nope instead I got some very weird little book where Ray Bradbury is essentially bemoaning television as being a horrible evil #brain-rotting device and people are just burning books because they don't want to read or think about things anymore #and of course it's mostly idiotic housewives who love the TVs and don't understand the superior stuff like poems and the Bible anymore #And then randomly there's this robot dog with 8 legs that runs around euthanizing anybody who it's programmed to smell?#Anyways I just read the whole nonsense with eyebrows raised like wtf this is so dumb hahaha #Also it had some afterword from Ray Bradbury where he's blaming women and racial minorities and queer people for being the enemies of art #And good aesthetics for daring to mention that perhaps they might want to also be represented in stories a tad more too #ANYWAYS all this to say it seems to me that a lot of the stuff that gets held up as important #Is dumb as hell whenever I actually check it out #And same with movies too but we won't get into all that #p

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yardsards · 2 years ago

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*vigorously shaking a stick at my brain* stop! feeling! nostalgic! about! our! abusers!

#eliot posts #abuse mention #was baking some cookies and remembered how often we used to bake with our dad #how he had the recipe for chocolate chip cookies memorized and he'd try to quiz me on it but i could never remember like him #making all the cookies like twice as big as the recipe called for #both of us almost always forgetting to set a timer #but learning how to tell when they were done by the smell that would waft through the house #telling the same old story about how his mother would always get distracted like that too #but be able to pull stuff out of the oven in the nick of time because ''it smelled done'' even when she was a couple rooms away #and then nearly burning our mouths because we were too impatient to let the cookies cool #similar memories with peanut butter cookies #or with blackberry or peach cobbler made from fruits him and me and my sister picked together out in the woods/field #but y'know. same dude who nearly stabbed me that one time. so that puts a bit of a damper on it‚ eh?

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davepetea · 9 months ago

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#ooc post.#.vat file #I'm. really sick.#I dunno if I got salmonella poisoning. bc there was some raw chicken in the back of my fridge that I completely forgot about.#and a couple like. exposed things in my fridge tasted like the smell of raw chicken??#so I had to throw a bunch of stuff out and clean out my fridge.#but I've been feeling really awful. and I'm like really sensitive to food poisoning anyway. I dunno if bc my mum used to (and still does)#overcook literally everything to the point that she burns it. which is fine but then if anything is even undercooked by a second. I'm ill #but this doesn't feel like food poisoning? I feel sick etc but I've had migraines and a fever and it's almost like the flu a little bit?#it's probably not covid I did a test but it doesn't feel like covid...#sigh sigh I just wanna sleep a whole lot but I gotta catch up on all the homestucks lmao #unsanitary;;#mayb.#/rant off

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teaandinanity · 1 year ago

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This is SO interesting, my Dark Urge character in BG3 sometimes just.... does not have the moderate and sane options that my blank slate one did. I definitely feel like this ought to be a second playthrough NG+ kind of thing but also I’m having so much fun with him that I do not WANT to finish my other playthrough first. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#I'm sure I've even missed some of them #and I definitely notice the unhinged flavor of some of the options #the ones that are specific to DUrge I mean #like going 'I've always wondered what my own burning flesh would smell like' when faced with possible branding #my dude that is fucked up #love it #but also talking to the baby owlbear you do not have ANY of the soft options #your only option is to tell it to start attacking goblins #whereas a more hinged character can persuade it to do the chicken chase course #and I think had other options also?#Very Interesting Stuff #also I'm LOVING the inspirations he's getting #just moments when it's like 'oh man that's what's sticking in your head. that is so messed up. I love it.'#anyway yes he is absolutely getting fanfic I want to study him like a bug #babble tea (blacklist this for less chatter)

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macherkissed · 1 year ago

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2:41 ADHD Moment; I'm doing crafts and burning shit. I almost set my bed on fire

#adhd #not writing #If anyone wonders why it takes so long for me to finish requests #this is why #I go on random bursts of inspiration to Do Stuff but it's never the right stuff #Also I am only burning shit because I don't have long matches or a long lighter and my candle is almost totally burnt out #so I needed to reach the wick so I set fire to a bit of cardboard to reach it because I can't find the toothpicks I usually use #Stupid idea but it worked and now my room smells like mangos #I am also writing however; I'm flitting between making pop tab chainmail and writing about getting dicked down by Leatherface #And getting dicked down by Pagan Min but that's a personal project

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running-in-the-dark · 1 year ago

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ugh. when I was eating dinner my throat started itching. and then I put a shopping bag that had scented soap in it next to the couch and forgot about it. so now my nose and eyes are itchy. this day is going great

#and yeah I guess I probably need to ask about this stuff at some point 😭#I guess I do have some mild food allergies? though it's not really consistent so that's confusing #and I don't know if you can be allergic to like. strongly scented things in general? because all of those make my nose burn and stuff #(and that includes things like flowers that smell strongly. or like. oranges)#I've had allergy tests before but not for anything like that #personal

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damnprecious · 1 year ago

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do you ever just want to acquire scented candles for that sweet sweet aesthetic but then realize you'd just end up having a massive headache bc you can't do scents and then just look at the candle section longingly bc you just want to experience a campfire or a mysterious forest or a morning dew or a winter magic or an ocean spray in your house

#noopa rambles #stupid scent sensitivy stopping me from acquiring the fun stuff #I don't even burn normal candles at this point #I don't like the smell they leave behind when you kill the flame #which is why I just have a million LED candles around my flat #but the aesthetic man!!!#idk I assume this desire has to do with the strong autumn vibes that have taken me over recently #I just want the leaves to be yellow and the weather to be crispy and the sun to set at a decent hour #I'm so ready for autumn #tho I do hope my tomatoes have enough time to get ripe before autumn properly begins

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femmeboyhooters · 2 years ago

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Why does life ALWAYS have to be shit

#summer was fine except for everything that started breaking in here #this winter has been fucking dark #and i wanna fucking die #crying tonight because my skin fucking burns and rashes every time i wash my face at night bc everything in the bathroom is moldy #like everything is black and or gray #i barely even shower because it smells so bad in there #it wasn't supposed to do this and we have the theory this place was moldy when we bought it #especially the bathroom bc the shower wasn't finished and we've been too broke to fix it at all #the mattress has black mold everywhere even on the outside of a sealed mattress protector with an antimicrobial coating #my hormones and health have been fucked up since November #weather wise this is one of the coldest and wettest winter in this area in like 40+ years #the last three days i have had to stay up all night to make sure the water doesnt shut off freeze in the pipes or flood managing that 24/7 #bc on valentines day it dumped more snow than an average winter should have here in 24 hours and then dropped below freezing #i got my psoriasis and eczema back #i have thrush now #i can't breathe most the time bc my throat has been reacting like anaphylaxis and my airways start to close #oh and on top of that my husband just hasn't been working for a month bc there's no work at his job so we have all of 0.54 cents in account #we gotta pay rent in a week hopefully we don't get kicked out og where we're parking #and bc of the work stuff we can't move for a few months till we can get enough saved to do that and so im stuck here #i live in abject squalor #oh also did i mention everything i own has to fit into two cupboards now due to the mold ruining all our shit #and all the cupboards but two are rotted out #and the floor in our room is peeling up and breaking off bc of the mold #we both are having an incredibly hard time mentally #my txt

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vancilart · 2 years ago

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4. dancing in the kitchen in your jammies & 16. cuddling comfortably

sunrise

sunset

#orange n blue #with some messier colouring #god bailey has had like the biggest glowup of all my ocs ever dont even look at his first versions #oc stuff #stuff in space #other ppls ocs #kasia snatched bailey's shirt #big. comfy. warm. smells nice #you know that man moisturizes regularly and takes great care of his hair also #he doesnt mind losing the shirt he has plenty more #making pancakes in the kitchen before the kid wakes up and taking ur spouse for a spin in the meanwhile #dont burn anything #ivana is carmina's weighted blanket #comfort girlfriend to lay on her #she's so thin she's also the gf who's Always Cold and always under a blanket when at home #preferably surrounded by cats also #soothingly heavy and warm? man the kisses and more is just a bonus #sometimes carmina takes her stim toy to play with bc else she'd flap her arms bc she's so happy and she doesnt wanna wake ivana #gotta ensure shes rested so she can go and be evil at the workplace

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