Elijah is happy to finally have friends. When he's not at school or helping around the farm, he's exploring the bay with Titus and Apollo. Their favorite area to play is the watering hole. If none of them have chores to do back home, the group will stay out all day.
But Elijah isn't always able to go out with friends, sometimes his friends have their own chore they need to complete. When that happens and Elijah is left to himself, he has his own adventures. There's a tree that Elijah loves to climb, the community he lives in is small, but looking out from the tree gives Elijah a view of the bigger world.
When the day is over, Elijah loves to entertain Daphne with stories of his day. She's a good audience, not saying much but listening with her full attention
Meanwhile the twins are out and about more, with Cato not having any recent health scares, their parents are happy to let them roam free. Despite being the older sibling, Caspar seems to prefer following Cato, letting him choose where to go.
The parents on the other hand try to keep up with the events around them. Sable finds herself needing more time for rest, keeping up with the household chores and young children is challenge. Ishmael helps as best he can, by fixing anything he can find.
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wrote seven things! gonna run some errands now and i'll try to write more later. gonna leave my queue paused for now xoxo
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hazel what if u <3 wrote more of ur vigilante au <3
good news! i will!!!!! eventually!!!!
i have an ask box prompt from megs for it, and the more i think about it the more a "tortured for information" whump piece is appealing to me..... that being said i am currently fighting tooth and nail to finish a fic for a big bang and it is sapping All of my writing time, so I can't guarantee a timeline, but i'm hoping to knock out more of my ask box prompts by the end of the year so that would include one for the vigilante au!
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astounding how much you can learn about yourself by reading your old work. how was i not aware in 2017 that i have a chronic pain condition. the chapter that i'm rewriting rn has him have exactly my symptoms. i wasn't even aware of my light sensitivity properly until like -- i got my first sunglasses since i was a tiny kid like, three months ago.
then again. i also wasn't aware yesterday that i was feeling terrible because an attack was starting. and now i'm stuck with persistent pain because i missed the window to take the meds.
here's hoping i'll be able to work out tomorrow and it'll help like it sometimes does. but i'm also going to use the experience and awareness i now have to make reigen suffer more.
(side note: highly unlikely i'll get the chapter done for this month but i am working on it as actively as i can)
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A few months ago, some of you might know if you keep up with this blog, I went to Collect-A-Con LA. It was truly on a whim. Literally the day before my girlfriend and I had just come back from our Europe trip. Normally I'd be so tired and jetlagged but for some reason I was feeling really antsy and energized and just needed to go somewhere and get out of the house.
I found out that Collect-A-Con LA was happening the following day and that a lot of the original Pokemon voice cast would be there. So I bought a ticket, drew/printed up a picture that I wanted to get signed and got up early to drive to the convention center (you have to understand that I hate driving in town and also very much never wake up early). I don't know what possessed me to do this but I'm so glad I did.
I ended up having the privilege of meeting Eric Stuart, Veronica Taylor and of course, Rachael Lillis.
She was masked up, looked tired, and a bit sick. And at the time, I assumed she might've caught a cold over the weekend of the con. I went to her table and she still smiled and gave me all of her attention and time. I paid her assistant for an autograph, gave Rachael the drawing I'd done and she got to signing it. Her assistant said the print I had was cute and asked where I got it. I told her that I drew it myself and that I spent a LOT of my time drawing Team Rocket and other various Pokemon fanart. When I said that, Rachel stopped mid-sign and looked up and squinted at me and asked "are you Kiana Mai"? My heart skipped. I had no idea she knew who I was and was surprised that, given how many Pokemon fanartists there are in the world, she was able to pick me out. I left that interaction so happy and felt so seen. Soon after, I went to get my print signed by Veronica Taylor and while in her line, noticed Rachael had left her table; presumably not feeling well and had to leave the con early. I remember thinking how lucky I was to catch her before she left.
A couple months later, I saw the gofundme that her sister posted, detailing what Rachel was going through for the past few years and her battle with cancer. It put that convention day in such a different perspective for me.
All I could think about was how much she cared about her fans and how in touch with her community she was to go to a convention while being in so much pain and suffering in silence. I obviously don't know her personally, but based on how other fans who've met her, as well as her colleagues have spoken about her, I got the impression that she was an amazing, thoughtful person who cared about the people around her. That was only solidified for me based on this singular interaction a few months ago.
Rest in Peace Rachael Lillis. You've touched so many lives with your voice and so much of us grew up listening you. Thank you for everything!
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