#mail not forwarded

[johnschneiderblog]

Don't depend on it

A word of advice for patrons of the U.S. Postal Service, which is pretty much everybody, right? …

If a winter getaway is in your plans and you’re depending on the Postal Service to forward, or hold, your mail, don’t assume it will happen. Get somebody to follow-up.

Twice in the past couple of weeks two snowbird neighbors of ours have found out the hard way that the USPS - at least in our neck of the woods - isn’t as reliable as it once was.

In one case, the door of a mailbox down the road blew open and I noticed that there was mail inside. I knew that the person who lived there was in Florida. She went every winter and always forwarded her mail.

I phoned her and confirmed that she was, indeed, waiting for important documents - a property tax statement, for example - she should have received, but hadn’t. They were among the mail I fished from her box.

Another neighbor who has been in Arizona for the past few weeks and also had his mail forwarded - theoretically, that is - asked me to check. Just in case.

Again, I pulled a fistful of mail out of his box the other day.

The moral of the story: Trust (or don’t), but verify.

[vantablackdraws]

Delicious Things

[evercelle]

missing your xv art ahh 🤧

come to xvxfes!!!

i. won't have anything new in it LOL but i drew the event key art... and there will be sticker prizes that, perhaps, someone named ever celle will be providing,

[gomacave]

Draw req..... seph braiding her hair like aeriths.......

(she has too much hair to put in one braid) what a good request my god anyways. time to feel unwell about sephagain.

THANKS 4 DA ASK!

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hi. I've calmed down a bit, and I think it's better if I just take a break from Tumblr for a while. Right now, I don't feel the fandom to be the same chill and safe space as I felt it to be, so I'd rather take some time until I can feel comfortable again with posting. All my side blogs will be on hiatus too. I'm terribly sorry for any discomfort this may cause.

A deep, wholehearted thank you to anyone who reached out in the last hours in replies, asks and dms to share their support and love. Seriously, you can't imagine how much it meant to me, how meaningful every single message I got was to me. Yesterday I was really believing my blog didn't bring anything but negativity and hatred to the community; thank you for reaching out to tell me I was able to share a little happiness, too. Words cannot express how indebted I am to you; you made me feel again like the posting I made on my blog was worth it, for you alone.

I don't think I'll deactivate for the time being. The temptation is still very strong, but I've poured so much time and dedication and love on this blog, I don't think it'd be fair to delete it. I hope in the future there'll still be people who my posts can make happy.

Lastly, I want to apologize once again to the people for whom my posts evoked so many negative sentiments. I know it's impossible to avoid, but I'm still sorry that happened. I apologize to you.

Please, be kind to each other. Make some ss/kk posts on my behalf while I'm away :)

[itshomobirb]

. . . <- about to keel over.

landlord did not send me the lease until today. i signed it and have done everything except pay the prorated rent. they wont give me access to the apartment until i pay. however, the amount they're asking for is based off the full rental amount and not based on what should be my portion. i dont know what my portion will exactly be, the housing people haven't told me. emailed the housing people, i get an autoresponse "hey we're closed today! we'll respond next business day (monday) (day after ur supposed to move)." this is funny to me, bc landlord had to send the signed lease over to the housing people and housing people sent me a form earlier today, so like. someone *was* working.

[heich0e]

Ooh will you pls walk us through your perfume/body wash/lotion collection?

fun fact i actually use gentle/unscented body products so all of my body wash/soaps/lotions/etc are not (or are negligibly) fragranced! my derm put the fear of god into me abt how it can irritate your skin, and since switching years ago i just haven't gone back! i like that it makes whatever fragrance i'm wearing smell cleaner and less muddied too. (my shampoo/conditioner/other hair product is fragranced so that still has a scent, so does my deodorant, and my laundry detergent. w that many scents happening on a regular basis i feel like there's rly no need for scented body cleansers imho.)

[mwagneto]

im actually so upset about our money, we shop in slovakia at least once a week (pros of living next to the border), and even with the 415 ft=1 euro, its still worth it lmao (hungarian grocery shop prices are insane), but also wtf do you mean 415!!!! 4 1 5

And wtf do you mean 1 dollar is almost 400 ft now. Like what. (But i dont mind that much, because i have some usd from doing art online), crazy times we are living now... forint basically worth nothing soon, we are going forwaaaard

yeah it's actually sick like what do you meannnn😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 a dollar being 400 is so. ohh my fucking god. and yeah we usually go to austria to get groceries in bulk💀💀 it's so fucking dire i cant even think abt it or I'll go insane

[scoobydoodean]

the way bronlies are so obsessed that they’ve just become sam in the way they don’t like/won’t allow dean to have other friends 😭

it’s crazy to me, especially for a question whose different answers are both true to an extent bc your definition of “knowing somebody” is totally subjective!

lol that said, i am curious, soo… who do you think knows dean best, sam or cas? somebody else? do you think it changes over the seasons?

One of my friends was just saying that about bronlies and Sam sjhbfhsdhjf. Truly tho they're more insufferable than Sam's ever been. Bronlies are every spoiled child antagonist in every children's book. The Veruca Salt's of fandom. Miserable little cry baby brats screaming throwing tantrums trying to hit everyone with their baby rattlers... over Supernatural (2005) POLLS.

Their indignantion at that poll is pretty hilarious, because Sam doesn't start out the series actually knowing who Dean is at all. He thinks he knows who Dean is, but he doesn't, and this is illustrated to us over a dozen times in season 1. I do think Sam grows to understand who Dean is better over time, but he still sucks at understanding Dean for the vast majority of the series, because in many ways, he doesn't actually care to stop and think and study who Dean is and ask himself whether he actually knows him. He prefers an image he's made up in his head of who Dean is instead—an image that comforts him or bolsters his own self-image in some way. Dean is smart when Sam wants him to be smart and stupid when Sam needs to feel smarter (1.10, 1.16, 4.12, 8.14). Dean is strong when Sam wants him to be strong and weak when Sam needs to feel like the strongest person around (4.10, 4.11, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.21). Dean isn't opening up enough (2.02, 2.03, 2.04), then Dean is too emotional and soft and needs to get over it (2.10, 2.11, 2.14, 4.14, 4.16). Dean is a protector and nurturer who is failing to nurture and/or protect Sam adequately (3.09, 4.04, 8.23), then Dean is smothering (5.07, 8.20).

Basically, because Sam spends so much time trying to force Dean to fit into the shape he wants Dean to fit into, instead of actually trying to understand who Dean is, he often (unknowingly in some cases) completely lacks insight into who Dean actually is, and I'd say while he gets better at recognizing this, and better at understanding who Dean really is over time, surrounding certain subjects (especially things like grief), this refusal to see the actual real Dean continues through the entire run of the show (ex: 13.04).

I guess the question is then... is Cas actually better at understanding Dean than Sam is? And for me? Honestly I think it's a wash. I don't actually think either of them is Mr Amazing Perfect Dean Understander to be quite honest with you. I mean—practically Dean and Cas's entire schtick is perpetual misunderstandings bolstered by their own insecurities? They understand the important parts like that they each have good intentions and are good hearted, but I don't think Cas ever really understood how their repeated cycle of conflict made Dean feel. I don't think he ever understood how deeply entwined Dean's well-being became with his own, to the point that Dean was Not Fucking Okay when Cas was dead. I think Cas had a leg up in getting genuine insights into Dean's feelings straight from Dean for a long time because of the childhood dynamics and previous events that have made using Sam as a confidant uncomfortable and/or unsafe for Dean (2.03, 2.11, 4.14, 4.21, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03). I think Cas also understands Dean’s feelings more than he lets on and often acts on his perceptions of Dean's feelings without communicating those perecptions to anyone (and sometimes he's right... but sometimes he's also very VERY wrong).

We get a sort of back and forth with Sam and Cas understanding or not understanding different aspects of Dean's feelings or behavior. Think about "Nihilism" for example, when Sam and Cas walk through the darkness of Dean's mind, and Cas is shocked by the amount of trauma in Dean's mind and Sam just says, "Well. Yeah." But then compare that with 10.03 "Soul Survivor" where Cas was able to explain to Sam why demon Dean didn't want to be cured no matter how much blood they gave him. Sam didn't understand, but Cas understood Dean's perspective immediately (and that entire episode was a scathing commentary on Sam's lack of insight into Dean tbqh).

All of that said, I think I did vote in that poll and I picked Cas, and I would do it again. :) In fact, I will vote against Sam in any moment of uncertainty in any poll I see going forward, because bronlies are pathetic cry baby brats victimizing themselves 24/7 over Tumblr polls and can get fucked.

[keischreiber]

Additionally, the perfumes also have their cadet variants.

Additionally for Reiner, there's also this:

[c-kiddo]

exciting !

[lale-txt]

vague writing plans for dec & jan:

write love, preserved (obviously. it’s kuroocember my guys)

update soft launch (i miss it. i hope someone out there misses it as much as i do)

secret santa fic (can’t say a thing about it but i’m shaking)

pause attachment issues (the fic) till i did all of the above (so i won’t overwhelm myself)

some kind of birthday event in january? maybe?? something for ME. a vision will come over me i’m sure

kissing the mutuals on the mouth

[runawaymun]

Man what a horrible way to wake up.

[thelastspeecher]

Might engage in some retail therapy later today. Suggestions?

Candles, video games, nail polish, lotion, books, etc...

[bigfootsmom]

Have you read the dog metaphor buddie fic?

I have not but it's on my list! I actually read the second fic in the series first (whoops) and I absolutely fucking adored it. I was actually just thinking about it the other day (I think about it almost every day actually). Give me anything with even just a whiff of 'loves like a dog' metaphor and I go absolutely insane.

For anyone who hasn't read either of the fics, they're by fleetinghearts/ @shitouttabuck

here is the first/main fic:

like a dog with a bird at your door

and here is the second fic that can be treated like a standalone:

throw a bone, i'm finally home

[phagodyke]

still can't get my head around the fact this private prescriber earns more in 15 mins than I do in an entire day of work. and I'm expected to be the one paying into her salary