#just saw this on fb reels

[uznmaki]

i absolutely hate how normal it is for a lot of people to make “jokes” and “funny skits” about how annoying their partner is or mocking them “for fun” as if that’s just how it is supposed to be after a long-term relationship, like if that ever happened to me i’d rather bury myself alive

[cameronsprincess]

oh.. i saw something on fb reels of all places and it’s eating away at my brain… so i give you dom!frat!rafe making you suck off his frat brother while you sit in his lap, riding his fingers….😮‍💨

CW: dom!rafe, frat!rafe, sub!reader, male receiving oral, fingering, praise, dirty talk/language.

daydreams

rafe loved showing off the amount of control he had over you. he loved letting others see just how much of a needy, obedient slut you were for him. he loves just how far you’d go just to make him happy.

rafe’s love for control is what landed you in your current position, naked from the waist down, his middle and ring fingers knuckle deep inside your sopping pussy while you sucked off his fraternity brother, alex.

“that’s it, baby. show alex what a good little whore you are, show him how good that fuckin’ mouth is at suckin’ dick.”

his words have you shifting in his lap, your hips making slow circular movements as you rode his fingers. alex’s fingers harshly grip at your hair, pushing his cock further down your throat.

“goddamn, cameron. you weren’t lyin’ your girl.. fuck.. your girl knows how to take a dick.”

you softly whimper around alex’s length when rafe curves his fingers, toying with that sweet spot deep inside you. he breathes out a laugh, “yeah, my girls a fuckin’ dirty little whore, she loves to make me happy, does anything i ask, ain’t that right, princess?”

alex begins thrusting his hips upward, the sounds of your slurps and gags filling the small room the three of you are in. rafe’s fingers begin to move inside you, fucking you at a slow pace before they quicken. your inner walls tighten around his fingers, sucking them in as your orgasm threatens to burst from you.

your muffled whines have rafe laughing darkly, “such a needy little slut, your pussy’s fuckin’ soaked. let alex cum down your throat, baby, and i’ll let you cum, can you do that f’me?”

alex releases his grip on your hair, allowing you to take over. you pull your head up, taking in a deep breath of air while gripping his cock in your right hand. he’s big, but he’s no rafe. you slowly stroke him, looking behind you, eyes meeting rafe’s darkened over blue ones. he smirks at you, his eyebrows raising as you hold eye contact with him.

he slowly moves his fingers in and out of you, watching the way you fight to squeeze your eyes shut. “you’re so close, princess. wanna feel you soak my fingers, go on, make him cum f’me and i’ll allow you to cum.”

you break eye contact, turning back to face alex and wrapping your lips around his cock. you slowly push him down your throat, licking and sucking, your free hand playing with his balls. the faster he cums, the sooner you get to.

alex groans, slowly bucking his hips up, matching your movements. you feel his cock swell inside your mouth, a low groan falls from his lips as you take him deeper. his cock twitches in your mouth and you hear a strained grunt before you feel his warm cum filling your mouth.

“does he taste as good as me, baby? hmm?” rafe questions, his fingers brutally fucking into you.

you shake your head as best you can, helping alex ride out his high before pulling your lips from his cock with a pop. rafe picks up the pace of his fingers, brutally fucking them into you. the lewd sounds of his fingers fucking your cunt fill the room, followed by your loud cries of pleasure.

“p-please, rafe! please let me cum…”

“since you were such a good girl, and listened so well, you can cum. make a mess on my fingers, princess.”

welp, idk. this is alright. i’m very self critical, sue me. enjoy this non kinktober fic! kinktober day 2 will be posted friday<3

[woman-respecter]

I don’t mean to bother you but I am going insane rn I just saw this fb reel about a couple talking about double standards and how women complaining about not bonding emotionally enough is the same thing as a husband complaining he doesn’t get enough sex, and how husbands shouldn’t be judged for wanting to have sex more than their wife wants to. Comparing him being emotionally present to her being coerced into intimacy basically.

I hate this belief that women have to have frequent sex even if they don’t want to because it’s “basically abusive” not to. Like why do these men even WANT to have sex with someone who isn’t 100% into it?? I’m scared to get married if I’m just going to be guilted into having sex even when I don’t want to. Am I crazy??? Like is it just me that thinks that’s weird ???

The name is called “themccabelife” and all their reels are like that I am going insane.

i 100% agree with you: nobody should feel like they ever owe anyone sex, at any point. i hate that it’s framed as something men need to survive and maintain a relationship. it’s weird af.

also maybe this is #femalebehavior but i really don’t get the appeal of sex if ur partner isn’t in the mood? like if i asked my gf if she wanted to have sex and she said like “no not tonight i’m tired” i would immediately drop the issue bc part of the point of sex to me is making ur partner feel good/have a good time. i simply do not understand men.

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

✨💖Positivity chain! List 5 to 10 things that make you smile and explain why! Then send this to others to let them know they make you smile✨💖

hello cielo!!🥰💕

5-10???? omg. let’s see:

you!!! 🫂

my beloved friends 🫶

my kiddos (that I babysit) 🥺❤️

when I’m on a roll writing ✍️

BRACELETS !!!!!!!!! (earlier today I went to the storage unit to get some unrelated things and found all the bracelets I thought I had lost in all the moves the past year 😭😭😭 they were in a pokemon cards collection box and I’ve never been more grateful to past vi in my entire life. the serotonin is through the roof right now)

plushies 🥹❤️ especially the ones my beloveds have sent me. I keep them close to me always 🩷

STICKERS !!!!

carol of the bells 🎻 🎹 (JUST saw a fb reel of one of those piano people at the mall having an impromptu concert with strangers after they heard him play 🥹 my brain is ZINGING)

silly puns !

spotify wrapped. can’t wait for it to drop and tell me what’s wrong with me this year

[squeakadeeks]

Just saw one of your Instagram videos breach containment and appear in my fb reels and I was like hey that's squeak my friend squeak been following them on Tumblr since 2013

CONTAINMENT BREACH 😳😳😳😳

i have no idea how my reels show up on fb, i think maybe my IG is still connected but ????? diagnosed facebook.

and yes we all went to tumblr school together we signed each others yearbook and had the same english class

[bunnyseahorse-blog]

the thing I hate about social media most is the comments!

I just watched a video of a mom making dinner for her kids. And the comments are like “this meal isn’t nutritious enough, you didn’t make the gravy from scratch you’re a bad mom.”

I saw another FB reel of a girl getting her hair done and people fighting in the comments because they used too much hairspray.

I could find a video of a baby animal being adorable and somebody would be mad bout it.

I’m just sitting here like if a hot meals with packet gravy and styled incorrectly hair are the worst thing in the world to you, please go watch the news because I had chips for lunch and my hair looks like shit and I am still doing better statistically than a lot of the population of the world who have no hot food and no nothing.

be happy. Find joy in things that aren’t perfect. Be grateful that a Facebook comment argument is the worst part of your day because not everyone is so lucky

[weneverlearn]

From The Distillery to Eternity: A Tale of Lost Recording Tapes, Found on eBay

Red Aunts / Two Tears guitarist/singer Kerry Smith was just putzing around eBay when she saw a tape she made 20+ years ago which was being sold by some rando -- along with lots of tapes by other regional L.A. trash rock acts. A facebook post about it, copious comments, and a surprise good samaritan followed.

KERRY SMITH rockin' with the Red Aunts at a club near The Distillery studio, sometime in 1993.

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As we all regularly ponder what the hell social media is good for, a major piece of proof for the answer of “Nothing” are the comments sections on Facebook. The vitriol and vague “arguments” that can ensue (should you actually still use Facebook) get stupid and depressing very quickly.

But for every 100 like that, there are posts that actually conjure up a stable discussion, interesting connections, and maybe even some useful info.

Case in point, a recent post from Kerry Smith – Red Aunts and Two Tears guitarist/singer and all-around hilarious, life-affirming gal.

Essentially, she came across an eBay listing that was selling off a studio reel tape of an original master recording she made in 2000. After Kerry’s FB post, a number of people clicked on the link and a few realized their own tapes or someone they knew were also listed for sale.

I contacted Kerry about the situation:

“I recorded a bunch of songs there hoping to put them out as the first Two Tears record," said Kerry. "Lesley (Ishino, Red Aunts) and Danny Hole (Necessary Evils) played some drums, and I played everything else. I forgot about this all until this post was brought to my attention, and I feel sad, angry, violated, ripped off. I demo’d them all on my 4-track and worked hard in that studio. I paid for it all myself, no label help. Lots of people offered to buy them for me, and someone thought they were doing a good deed and bought it, though I had the post taken down. I don’t know why it bothers me so much, until Gar wrote from SD saying it’s an intimate and personal experience, and he said do you feel like you’ve been audio art raped? And I do."

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One of the commenters on Kerry’s post was Larry Hardy – head of In The Red Records, the legendary garage rock indie label from L.A. He added a few shocked comments, which led to a comment thread discussion of legality, ownership, old stories, etc.

Given how many bands Hardy has worked with and albums he's released, I thought he’d be one to dig into this strange, ephemeral side of life as a recording musician…

Here's a Two Tears song from that era, though not recorded at The Distillery:

So how did you first hear about this? I assume you saw Kerry's post…

LH: Yes, that’s when I first heard about this. I recognized the writing on the PQ sheets and could tell the tape originated from a recording studio called The Distillery in Costa Mesa, which is where a lot of In The Red records were recorded. I checked the eBay seller’s other auctions and discovered a number of my reels were being sold too. 

When you first saw Kerry's post, what was your first kind of emotional response?

LH: My first response was I knew exactly where the tapes came from. A few years ago another person posted a photo of some master tapes he had saying he was trying to find the bands. One of the bands was the Strange Boys, and they contacted me and said the guy had a bunch of ITR masters. I got a hold of the guy and told him my connection to the tapes, and he said he’d gotten the them from Mike McHugh and had been holding them for him, but Mike had gone AWOL. I never did get the tapes back from this guy.

Can you tell me about Mike McHugh and The Distillery, and how tapes from there might’ve ended up in this eBay seller’s possession?

LH: Yeah, [the studio] was owned and operated by Mike McHugh. He was a brilliant engineer with really good gear – the mixing board came from Muscle Shoals! And he was really down to do weird, unconventional things in the studio. He also actually liked the music. He was my go-to guy for many years. Unfortunately a combination of mental illness and substance abuse got the best of him, and he went downhill really fast and REALLY bad. One of the last sessions I had there was for the band Cheap Time, and he flipped out in the middle of the session and pulled a gun on them!

Anyway, he wound up losing his studio, and we had all the tapes still in there. Lots of other bands kept their tapes there too. I know a number of people tried to help him and tried to save all his gear but, sadly, he was beyond help. I guess a bunch of the stuff from the studio wound up in a storage locker and the bill didn’t get paid – so it all went up for auction. That’s how the guy who is selling them on eBay came into possession of them.

Are the things he's posting for sale original sessions or mastered reels?

LH: The reels being sold are the two-inch master reels. The bands would track on two-inch tape and then mix down to half-inch tape and the record would be mastered from that. Many times we would only take the mixed tape with us as that was what we’d master the record from. The studio had a room where they stored tapes, so we figured we’d leave the two-inch reels there for safe keeping.

In a way, the fact that these are original master tapes, pre-mixed/mastered tapes is even worse. These are unmixed tracks, right? 

LH: Correct. These tapes being sold are the basic tracks on two-inch tape. You could take these to a studio and remix the record with them. We would mix down to half-inch tape so the versions on those are what you hear on the record. Mastering is a separate step done in a mastering lab. This is why once the mixing was done you kind of felt like the two-inch tapes were done too. They already served their purpose.

Yeah, we all sort of leave things in the rearview mirror once the album comes out, as far as where recordings and master tapes end up.

LH: Yeah, some bands are really good about keeping track of their tapes, and some don’t really care. I know the Cramps kept all of their master tapes, but I don’t think most bands do that. I do still have a bunch of master tapes here at my house. I imagine a lot of people took their tapes with them when their session was done. They’re expensive. I did sometimes, but I was at this studio so often I just figured they were fine where they were… until they weren’t. I didn’t have any place to store them at my house anyway. Two-inch tapes take up a lot of room.

Beyond that particular story, when bands record in studios there is a kind of “gentleman's agreement” – especially amongst indie labels and smaller studios – to at least let the bands or labels know they've got their tapes before just selling them off or tossing them, right? My understanding is, if you paid the studio their fee and paid for the actual tapes, they are your's. Though I suppose if they've been sitting in a studio’s closet for 20 years, maybe there's an argument for ownership on the studio's end?

LH: We did have a general understanding when we left the tapes behind that they’d be looked after by Mike. There was also a window of time when I could’ve gone down there and gotten them all; and I didn’t want to deal with him so I just kind of let it go. The only use they would be is if you wanted to remix the record, which I guess is something that could come up.

After leaving them behind that long ago it makes sense they could end up almost anywhere. Now you have a guy selling them on eBay who doesn’t even know who the bands are.

Under Kerry's post, a person commented: "No judgement! But you own the IP [intellectual property] on these tapes as they are independent recordings. You should reach out to the seller!" Is he right?

LH: That’s true. The eBay seller rightfully owns those tapes, but neither he or anyone else who buys them can do anything with the music without the artist’s permission…. Unfortunately this guy did buy them fair and square. I’m sure Kerry paid for that tape and the recording session, but the tapes were left behind all those years ago, and they’ve been passed around a bunch since. These tapes weren’t stolen, they were left behind. It should’ve been on us to get them back if they were important to us. Of course no one could’ve predicted Mike was going to go off the rails as badly as he did. The eBay seller did nothing wrong or illegal.

Lisa Pallow, Haunted George’s wife, contacted him explaining that two of the tapes were her deceased husband’s music, and that she would like to buy them. And the way he responded to her tells me the guy is an asshole. Really the person at fault for all of this is Mike McHugh.

I'm assuming if Rocket from the Crypt tapes are involved here – there were some for sale in that listing – someone's going to take some shit for this, because they were on a major at one point, though I've no idea which RFTC recordings are on those tapes in that eBay post.

LH: Yeah, that was the one tape I saw in there that I thought would probably go for the most money and also could turn into a hassle for the seller if he hears from [RFTC leader] John Reis or an attorney. I don’t think there would be any legal recourse against this guy though.

John Sellers from ‘90s trash-punk band, the Countdowns, commented on Kerry's post, concerning The Distillery: "It was the original board from Muscle Shoals.....Mike told me that [the Rolling Stones’] Sticky Fingers was recorded through it... it had these red and green square buttons to push... totally sixties mod... he LOVED that board!!! Chris... maybe? And I forget his last name but, he had a studio in the same complex as The Distillery and would tour with JSBX selling merch back in the '90's... he told me the whole story about Mike buying that board... how he flew out and it was sent by train upon purchase and how he accompanied it from start to finish... and how Chris would walk in and Mike would be passed out... not by drugs but by obsessive inspiration and no sleep.... with a clove cigarette in his mouth... under that board... working to make it work.

I THINK that The Countdowns were one of the first to record through that board at The Distillery but... well... memories and remembering shit these days... I always referred to Mike as 'The Mad Scientist. He was an absolute thrill of an experience to work with AND... did you ever hear him play drums? FUCK ME!!!”

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LH: We did have some great times in that studio and before it all went bad. We hailed Mike McHugh as a genius. He was! It’s all very sad to me now. I have some great memories of that place. Andre Williams recorded with the Blues Explosion and Steve Mackay of the Stooges there! Good times.

Any other recording sessions at The Distillery that you remember?

LH: The wildest sessions I remember at that studio involved Andre Williams. He would get pretty drunk over the course of the session, so you had to get him on tape before he was too drunk. He had amazing stories and he was hilarious. He was also brilliant when he was lucid. He had produced records for Motown, and now he’s in Orange County with miscreants like us! 

I watched the Hunches vacuum up nails and screws off the floor while Mike recorded it so the obnoxious noise could be included on the band’s cover of the electric eels’ “Accident.” Not many engineers encourage this sort of thing. 

I went down to the Distillery for the final night of mixing the Black Lips’ Let It Bloom. The band had booked a show that night at a club directly across the street from the studio. The band left for their show, but I stayed behind with Mike while he continued mixing. I finally went over to the show and went up front. Cole Alexander had urinated into his own mouth, as he was wont to do back then, and spat the mouthful at the audience. I walked in late and went up just in time to get a face full of urine. I was now in business with the Black Lips.

My fondest memory of that studio is probably when the Necessary Evils recorded their second album. I know we were in there on New Year’s Eve. Those guys were all good friends of mine, as was Mike McHugh. The band didn’t have enough material to fill a full length album and were scrambling to cobble stuff together on the spot. It was a wonder to behold. Every one of those guys was hilarious. R.I.P. Steve Pallow.

I have tons of great memories from this studio. It’s really painful for me to think of Mike ending up like he did. Truly heartbreaking. 

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Like any Facebook thread, the mass of names and rushed, emotionally punched-out comments can make for an intriguing read. Hell, a good pal of mine and Kerry’s posted that he put in a bid and would give the tape to her if he won it. He did get a couple of the tapes in the listing, but as Kerry stated earlier here, her tape was taken down after she reported it; and my friend got a cancellation message from eBay.

For Kerry though all this is definitely not legal chit-chat, but a loss of something dear, intense, and loved. It’s the kind of mini-nightmare anyone who’s recorded in a studio and then left it for “safe keeping” always has lurking in the back of their mind.

“I feel like crying all day today because of this,” said Kerry. “I don’t know why. Mike is so talented and I really want these tapes back. I used to hang out there a lot with Ronnie when I lived in Long Beach still. So many happy memories there – grateful for the scene ! Le sigh.”

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After having wrapped up this piece, I heard from Kerry again with a possible happy ending to this story:

“I reported it as stolen, and it was pulled, and some punker dude in Costa Mesa went to get it for me," she explained, "but I didn’t ask him to. I don’t want the [eBay] guy to get the money. So the Good Samaritan kinda fucked it all up, and is supposed to mail it to me. And he paid $150 for it, so now I feel obligated to pay him back. Lots of people offered to buy it for me. And he bought RFTC and Haunted George."

Kerry asked said Samaritan (who shall remain annonymous) how he was able to get the tapes. He responded:

"Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I purchased the tapes directly from the guy... who bids on storage units. I bought a bunch of friends bands tapes and got them back to them. I knew going in that I'd lose money and I'm ok with that. Please let me gift you your tape back. Years ago I lost all of my... master reels in a storage unit that went unpaid while I was in rehab. I hate seeing strangers getting these tapes. Mike McHugh is the one to blame here. Although it’s hard to blame him with all of his mental health and addiction problems. I got my Distillery reels back from him several years ago after he lost the studio.... Anyway... I can get the tape to you or whoever you’d like me to. Larry Hardy maybe. No charge for the tape. Big Red Aunts fan by the way."

[sunlightandsuffering]

lys, hi. this video randomly popped up on my fb -- yes, it's the most accessible socmed platform where im from - feed (a friend shared it), and i just got so sad again.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/neA4nN4tMTANdAwo/?mibextid=uSdriS

obviously, this is fiction, right? and i usually am so good at releasing it all out once im done internalizing it in my head. it's very stressful lol but i think it makes media content enjoyable, at least for this sort of media. the song isn't really something i've given a second listen - or even a full listen - but oh it works so well for this scene.

but i just get so sad, so incredibly sad whenever i think about canon eremika. as a sucker for well-meaning (lol) angst, their story was so beautifully written, but damn. i think i said this in an ask years ago...that i read your work as some sort of escapism, like 'oh it ends well for both of them' kind of thing. i dont ever do that with other anime/manga/fandom-centric entertainment etc; thinking about them just hurts a bit too much for an irl feeling. i need to think of them happy and flirty and cranky and just alive in that silly little place in my head reserved for media consumption. little nico doesnt hurt too

tbh, we cant really ask for canonical representations right? most writers dont write them that way anyway, but i feel like i could see canon eremika in your works, if they were ever given the chance to live out different lives in different worlds, haha. ig that's what happens when the emotional range has been fleshed out in canon material (tho at what cost??).

until know, i still cant laugh at those memes of mikasa developing an attachment to birds and whatnot because it's just really sad. lol like the dark humor doesn't work for me here.

anyway, that's all! i hope you're doing ok. maybe im just feeling blue because i just had a session of root canal treatment and the cost + post-session pain make me want to sob too. considering a dental implant after all this because if im going to go thru this, might as well do it for something that's guaranteed to last lifetime (with good bones & proper care ofc)

sending you my love, in the most non-weird way, if that's possible haha

AWW ANON SENDING U MY LOVE RIGHT BACK !!! I have never had a root canal but I think both my parents have and they fucking suck from the sounds of it, so wishing you a speedy recovery!!

oh god the fucking song tho 😂😭 i don't think ur alone, that song kind of hits different, I feel like I saw it on insta reels or something recently and I was definitely crying. I ALSO JUST CRY A LOT THO !! I was crying bc I watched the fast and the furious the other day , like who am I?? Media has the ability to bring it out in you!! Especialyl AOT!! ACTUALLY U KNOW WHAT THO IT WAS ANGEL BEATS THAT WAS MAKING ME SOB THE OTHER DAY, I ABSOLUTELTY SOBBED!!

I think I have emotionally removed myself enough from canon eremika that it doesn't phase me anymore, like I have not and likely will not rewatch AOT ever or any time soon at the very least because I just have no desire to put myself thru it bc I am simply too attached!

As far as me writing canon eremika goes, as I always say, never say never! So far, captain Eren is the closest I'm getting LOL! Altho I think i do have a few canon EM drabbles somewhere in the depths of my blog! I would like to write canon EM, but i don't know how i'd do it tbh. Like how I could spin a happy ending for them other than cabin EM which I did attempt but didn't finish as usual!! you never know what type of garbage I'll cook up tho 😂

[aurlworthfightingfor]

High af getting assaulted by facebooks terrible ads

I posted this on fb “Do better zuck the fuck. I’m just scrolling thru reels minding my own damn business and you let these vile ads for some ap? Disgusting. I’ve reported this 3 times. The 4th time I saw it I decided I’m done looking through reels. Fuck you Facebook”

[bas-rouge]

Embarrassing that it took me this long to try but I saw a random FB reel of a puppy on a tether to teach them how to settle inside and so I gave it a go and omg, it worked? I just attached Puppy to the table and they calmly enjoyed a chew and played a bit with some toys and mostly just laid there next to me. My apartment is "open layout" (it was mislabelled as not renovated, it's half renovated, what ever, I only found out when I moved in) and the only room they're not allowed in is the laundry room so it hasn't been a big enough issue that I've resorted to baby gates/etc. Anyway,

[eriniys]

i feel bad asking this but just know that im only a month in this fandom. this is gonna be a bit long. please bear with me. i know many say that jiyong and jennie never dated and i don’t ship them and i also don’t mean to pry on them, i just can’t help but get suspicious over these two. it started when jiyong was in paris. when he wore that dark blue denim outfit with red beanie, i saw jennie posted with quite a similar outfit on the same night. they weren’t even seen tgt or anything (i know this doesn’t make any sense maybe they just coincidentally matched). then jennie posted a reel of her upcoming album ruby written with the same font as jiyong’s album (you can find this on insta just_jenjiyong. i know. a ship account. what do i expect lmao) but honestly?? it got me thinking differently. their whole album concept consist of mirroring/looking at one own-self. the black and red colour of their albums are kinda the same too. i know jiyong always use red as his theme. i also saw jiyong liked a post on insta stating that his first concert in korea is gonna be on 15 march 2025 (it could be a random like or a hint) while jennie is gonna promote her album in korea too on that date. like everything about them just match each other in the most noticeable way. i get a feeling like they’re most probably tgt but i see no one talking about this anymore now. eh idk. do you have any thoughts on this? or have you ever noticed the same thing too?

ngl tho, i have not noticed anything. i am 100% oblivious to this sort of stuff. when i first discovered bigbang/gdragon, he was with kiko. i scarcely remember him posting sad insta stories and shit about her so i assumed they broke up until literally just recently discovering they broke up far later than that. idk if ill get smack for this but i have paid 0 attention to blackpink members in all aspects. the only thing I've seen jennie in is his That XX video. i always felt some like "eh" about them since I thought at the time YG was pushing them so damn hard to the public and putting them on bb members albums. now i know that GD has always supported people when they start in his company. kiko has been the ONLY ex of his that ive paid attention too because i too am in love with her. 😂

i see glimpses of jennie's stuff on my fb or Instagram but it's just ads. i am like maybe 90% sure jiyong said he wouldn't date a korean. kiko is active in japan but ethnically korean but is a citizen of Japan so IDK what his deal is. he has had so many dating rumors. if i gotta be 100% honest with you, i am at the point in my life that if he is happy and this person he ends up with isnt problematic, then I'm cool. i just scroll past dating rumors and whatnot unless he is cool with admitting to something. if they are, cool, if they aren't, cool.

she may just be inspired but his choices and he might just be helping her with her shit. this literally didn't answer your question.. i only ended up giving an opinion, i think. BUT THANK YOU FOR ASKING ANYWAYS.

[price1972]

And the 2nd awesome thing, my husband revamped our pantry! It is so spacious and beautiful, we both love it. Ryan (my husband) had to teach himself fine carpentry skills and the design is a blend of several pantries that I saw on FB reels or IG.

ALL of our appliances are off our kitchen counters and now living in the “appliance garage” the bottom our pantry became by adding the shelves where all the wasted space was under the original wire shelves. The crab wallpaper on the 2 walls is my favorite, and it was used earlier to create an accent wall in my breakfast room. It’s crabs and beautiful and I love it to pieces. The blue of the shelves looks purple in the photos, but is actually a dark slate blue that matches the darkest color in the crab wallpaper. The counter is a gorgeous piece of ‘wormy maple’ that a local sawmill cut for us in a long, 2” think piece of wood, and Ryan was able to create the counter from it. We used the golden peach stain from Home Depot to give it that golden butcher block color. So pretty, and I’m making plans for what we tackle next. It’s funny how we finally decided that this is our forever home (not moving somewhere else in the near future ), we’re just tackling one project after another to create our perfect home. Or as close to perfect as we can get it. More pics in the next post.

[lemonmeringues]

2024 Fully Booked Reading Challenge

As much as i doubt myself finishing this challenge within a year, heck imma start it anyway hahaha. I know you're supposed to read a book that fits in one of the categories every month until you've crossed everything out but let's say, my timeline's a bit erratic (case in point: it's now more than halfway through the year but I'm still on my third book BUT there's no saying how fast i'll catch up later *wink). So, here goes...

1. Book with a fictional world or place - The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

This book is my most expensive purchase from FB to date AND was unplanned (like most good things, yeah). It took me back years ago when I borrowed a book like this from our neighbor and I was so amazed by how many more stories/chapters there are in Narnia (I only knew The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian then) and I never got to finish it cause I needed to return it so this was definitely and absolutely a smattering "healing-my-inner-child" moment, i bought it immediately off the shelf. It also made me feel like an adult after four years of being a salary-earner, you know, buying-without-looking-at-the-tag kind of thing. Yasssss. Ok. I need to calm down. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

2. Book with a first-person narrator - Happy Place by Emily Henry

Second book and I'm already coming across something over-hyped. Huhu. Tbh, I just forced myself to finish this just so I can move on to the next one. As much as i like spoilers, I hated when I already guessed the plot twist two to three chapters in. The gaslighting in this book was also superb (and not in a good way, no!). There were good self-reflective moments though but it's more of irritating to read hahaha. Good writing, bad story or I guess annoying main characters. ⭐⭐ (coz cute cover).

3. Book with a cover you can't resist - Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

I literally picked up this book just because I liked the cover. That's it. Didn't even take a peek at the price, hahaha. But this was soooo worth it. At first I thought I'll get exhausted reading it because of its highly detailed and descriptive writing (just as i did with the Hunger Games series) but I ended up loving it, all the melodrama...love triangle (almost became a square!)...betrayal...family duties...everything was *chef's kiss*! I also like the fact that the heroine in this story is literally a hero-badass-female-warrior and that female warriors are common in a sort of fantasy-periodic (I'd like to think it's set a long long long time ago) setting. I loved this so much I already secured the sequel book (yes, it's a duology!) thanks to my dear enabler friend hahahahahha. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

4. Book from an author you've never read before - Fairest of All by Sara Valentino (and hopefully the whole series!🤞🏻)

You have to believe me when I say that I did not intend on starting this collection. I've seen reels and "booktok" videos about Valentino's series but I paid no mind since I thought there's no way to get my hands on them except online (and I WAS trying to cut down with online shopping) BUT THEN....I saw this book in Fully Booked CdeO and this is the first book of the series incidentally. So i tried to listen to a message the world wasn't telling me --- buy the book and start hunting for the rest. What's more, this series had to be read in order and I'm currently stuck looking for the second book. But there's no turning back! ⭐⭐⭐

5. Book set before the internet age - El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal (translated by Virgilio Almario)

I'll have to admit that this one's a wild card 'cause it fits to three categories in this reading challenge 🤭 but nothing really beats our very own J Rizz. Re-reading this at my age now and in this society we currently have, I can say there's not much difference with the perennial problems that we Filipinos face as a country. For this copy, I love that it's compact in a paperback though the pages are thin (no complaints since I paid cheap) and it's formatted just like our textbooks in high school. Nostalgic! ⭐⭐⭐

6. Book that has been adapted into screen - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The bestfriend and I were really kidding ourselves when we decided to read this book BEFORE watching the movie, hahaha. Months later, we would find ourselves with an unopened book and and unwatched movie 😅. Thankfully tackled this before the year ends! Well, in true Suzanne Collins fashion, this got me hooked when I started and frustrated at the end. I did not expect so much in one a-little-thicker-than-the-others hardbound book but lots of things happened, a mix of dragging and fast-paced plots which I'm not sure I like but I was able to finish the book anyway. I wanted this to be a light read but it definitely had some points that can pique you about human nature if you allow yourself to think deeper about it. ⭐⭐⭐

7. Book published in the Philippines - The Battle of Marawi by Criselda Yabes

This was a STRESSFUL read. I don't even know how I stumbled upon it in a section in the bookstore that I don't usually gravitate to but there it was and I picked it off the shelf instantly (not to mention to the judgmental glare of my shopping buddy/bff). This one hit so hard 'cause it literally is close to home and to my present profession. This is the only book that had me background checking the author for legitimacy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (can't give it five stars because of the stress i got while reading 😅)

8. Book set in or about the future - The Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

Tbh, this is another one that I forced myself to finish just for the sake of the challenge. Oftentimes I find myself lost in the jumble of food descriptions which the author has successfully related to humanity on a deeper level. Kudos also to the author for being gifted with such extensive vocabulary but it was just too overwhelming for me. In Happy Place (book #2 on this list), it irked me that the plot twist was so predictable, but in this book I got annoyed that I couldn't figure out where we are in the story anymore. So, fickle me. Also, this book is supposed to be futuristic but it was really primal (can't think of anything else to describe it) for me, but I guess it's one of those themes wherein you'll always have to look back to be able to step forward (something like that, haha) . ⭐⭐

9. Book translated from a foreign language - Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

For the past year as I've been hunting down the shelves of Fully Booked, this book has always been on display in the bestsellers section and I never really paid attention to it. Heck, it took a few bookstore visits before I even checked the plot at the back cover. Interesting, I thought. But never interested enough to actually add it to my cart. Now, came the time that I had to tackle this category for the reading challenge and unsurprisingly this title was among the recommendations. So finally I gave in and it really surpassed my expectations. For something so simply written (with only three chapters!), it showed me a lot of complexities in a human's way of giving love. Truly heartwarming and I love how subtle the characters are but their minds are a different universe from each other. For some reason too, this book makes me crave my favorite coffee everytime I read it 😅. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

*Apparently there's a 10-image limit per post here on tumblr so I need to have a part 2 for this post*

[othersideofgrace]

So this is love? (A song from Cinderella)

Nov. 5, 2024

I don't know where it actually started, all I can say is thatwe talked constantly from 1st week of October till now. I felt that he was very comfortable sharing things to me, I don't really think of it as something because there are also a lot of people na comfortable magshare sa akoa bahala dili nako close. Then, I begin to see a distinct pattern taht led me to believe that he "might" have some feelings for me. Reacting to my last reply then responding to it minutes or hours after, who would do that? Anad ko na once akong reply iseen or ireact lang that's the end of the conversation, but with him, nah ah, he would responde no matter how late it would seem. Until sa mga times na supposedly end na ang conversation, naaccept na nako na dili nami magtalk kay no necessary message to respond to, but he would send a picture or a reel to strike a conversation. Yes, ginakilig ko plus gapamahog sad ang fb sa akong kadelulu, but I keep saying to myself na basin convenience store lang ko niya, na no meaning lang jud ang tanan, na he just saw me as a friend na comfortable sya magshare sa mga details sa iyang adlaw.

November 3, 2024, I will try to remember this date from today onwards. This is the date that he man up and confirms my delulus HAHAHAHAHA. I saw his note "I will risk it." As delulu as I am, feel jud nako na the note was a cryptic post for me. Then, nilakit lang syag share na nakadawat syag confession, ako na 50/50 ang state sa pagkadelulu, nasad ko of course kay basin he was referring to another person na mutake risk sya with that person. Taas pa kaayo ang convo before sya nag ingon na iyang response sa confession was thank you and sorry. Nabuhayan akong kalag HAHAHAHAHA there's still a chance na ako iyang gipasabot sa iyang note HAHAHAHA. He then started asking about my preference sa ideal partner nako, age gap, belief system, basta kana. Until nahisgotan namo ang iyang reply to one of my greetings na nabasahan sa among usa pa ka classmate. I never thought of it as something jud, I just thought na binuang rato niya. And sa kalit lang nagshare sya sa reason behind ato nga spam line. According to him, he confessed to me way back grade 4 daw and my response was "nityabaw ug hilak" HAHAHAHA I had no recollection of such event jud. He then told me na pag-uli daw niya ato na time nakaask sya sa iyang papa if bati ba syag nawong kay nihilak daw ko HAHAHAHAHAA sorry naman. I did not know this jud, I had no memory of it. All I know is crush nako sya sa elementary and maulaw ko sa iyaha, like mahipos akong kakiat when his around. All this time, crush namo ang each other way back elementary HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now, among convo kay naa nay unod. Like visible ang care, makaingon jud ka nga there's something going on jud. To be honest, I did pray to God na if di ni mao, tangtangon nalang. I even did set a timeframe when to end the chatting if no progress. There are countless of times na ginacontemplate nako na magconfess pero mahadlok ko kay basin maend pinakalit. Worth it rajud na nagwait ko a little longer. Now, he's one of the reason why I'm excited to go home. Hoping na tuloy-tuloy na to.

Please, Lord, hehe. Gusto sad ko makatry ug uyab-uyab, pwede ra sad lahos taman minyo na ehe. Charlang, whatever your plan, Lord, I submit.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

hair tiktok turned fb reels is wild, i just saw someone weave a dolls hair like a basket. what are you people doing

[mitigatingacademics]

{10.07.2024 + 10.08.2024}

Fav coworker is at Disneyland.

She literally left on a plane after our last shift together.

To add insult to the left behind, the last night of my work week was spent with the coworker that allows for no personal productivity. 

...and he was on a roll, having just come off his rest days. 

Democrats control the weather and Helene was engineered to provide access to resources inside the mountains. 

Lasers from China are the reason for California wildfires. 

'Illegals' in California are 'voting' conservative because they've escaped the communism of Cuba. 

[He saw a FB reel from the Republican National Convention where someone made a big deal about 169 delegates being pledged to Trump from California. He took this to mean the most liberal state in the union is going conservative. A quick Google shows Kamala got 482 delegates from California, so...]

...and then, somehow, re: J6 -- it's entirely possible that the "mob" was 'peaceful,' it's a matter of interpretation', and Trump waiting hours to address the issue wasn't problematic, he shouldn't have addressed it at all, just let it play out. 

Me: So, just let them assassinate an entire joint session of Congress? 

Him: ... Where were the Capitol Police? 

The irony of wanting to wrap my hands around his neck...

Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics. 

Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics. 

Liz says there's no place for violence in our politics. 

Lord help me. 

He started in about how there was an 'election' in North Carolina that resulted in the people voting against mining in the mountains and how it's 'really convenient' that those people lost their homes a few months later. 

This, of everything, I found somewhat worth fact checking.

[I had not, at any point, indicated that there *would not* be fact checking. 😂]

I Googled 'North Carolina vote against mining.'

Coworker was *not* impressed by the first result: 

CBS: Hurricane Helene Conspiracy Theories About Lithium Mining, Weather Control Spread Widely 

Searching among those results for something 'unbiased:' 

PBS: Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories Cloud Helene Recovery Efforts in Hard-Hit Areas 

He came back with: "But who is donating to PBS?" ... VIEWERS LIKE YOU, SIR. 

Ultimately, maybe the 'election' he heard about was a 'poll.'

Alternatively, maybe all the evidence of that 'election' and its results have been scrubbed from the internet. They can do that, you know. 

He also said the $750 in immediate emergency funds to displaced individuals was insulting. When I explained that wasn't the extent of the aid being offered and asked what he would consider 'not insulting,' he said he didn't think the government should be giving any money at all. 

Churches should be helping the people, he said. Then he went off on a tangent about how FEMA has no right to attempt to gather, organize, and direct resources.  

Basically, whatever you do, it's going to be wrong. 

I tried to interject that the Republican Governor of North Carolina has said publicly, many times, when asked about Trump's claims that aid isn't forthcoming due to impacted areas being 'red,' that Biden was in touch from the beginning and said whatever was needed would be provided, they just needed to ask. 

Coworker: Why isn't he there?! 

Me: He's an 80 year old man. You want him to contribute physically? 

Coworker: He's the President! He should be there! 

Me: Are you familiar with the resources necessary to support a Presidential motorcade? 

Coworker: No. 

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Not that he would have pulled a Trump and tossed paper towels at hurricane victims, but Biden has actually been praised for having the insight to stay away from the impacted area for the time being. 

You can't reason with folks like this, though.   

Thankfully, I finished Issue 4 the previous night. (I miss you, fav! 😢) 

I found the second half much more entertaining - my mind engages more effectively when I disagree with what I'm reading. 

I also decided, given that I chose to pay $250 for the subscription [and 250 points towards purchasing Bar Prep materials that I won't need for like, 7 years, if ever, and am not likely to purchase from Quimbee, anyway], to see what Quimbee had to say about the relevant cases. 

[Much] later, I got my Covid and Flu vaccines...and the now traditional iced coffee reward. This time a Caramel Apple Iced Latte.

About an hour ago I received an e-mail informing me that my manager has submitted her Letter of Recommendation. ��🙌

I'm so relieved that, if I wasn't completely mentally spent, I might actually cry. 🤣

For now, I'm gonna crash soon - for probably about 12 hours (that's what happened last time and why we get our vaccines on our rest days) and hopefully wake up refreshed, inoculated and prepared to submit law school applications before vacation so that I can actually enjoy the trip! 🙌