#pizza taco friendship

[dazzlesizzle]

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[kokorose]

Red Velvet- YT22

YukiTsunoda x foodie!reader

Faceclaim: Yeri(red velvet)

Summary: Tag along on Yuki’s girlfriends’ world tour of food!

Pics: Pinterest

Yn posted

📍: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Liked by YukiTsunoda, franciscacgomes, PierreGasly, DanielRicciardo, MaxVerstappen1, and 356,729 others

Yn: We’re back in the swing of things with some Fries, Stroopwafels, and Belgian Waffles ahead of Zandvoort!! 🇳🇱🧇🌷

Tagged: YukiTsunoda, franciscacgomes

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YukiTsunoda: The fries and Stroopwafels were Yummy!🤤 sad I didn’t get to try the waffles!

Yn: next time baby!

User1: honestly the cutest relationship on the grid!

MaxVerstappen1: Thanks for bringing me some…not

Yn: um, excuse me Mr. World Champion but you didn’t give me any Stroopwafels at the track.

franciscacgomes: Had fun on our date!! Those waffles were soooo good!!

Yn: ❤️❤️

Pierre Gasly: wait, is that where you two went during Free Practice?

User2: I’m glad Yn & Kika’s friendship is still strong despite Pierre moving to Alpine!

YukiTsunoda posted

📍Monza, Italy

Liked by Yn, Pierre Gasly, LiamLawson, DanielRicciardo, MickSchumacher, and 678,729 others

YukiTsunoda: Race didn’t go as planned today but I am lucky to have someone to make “Pick-me-up Pizzas” with!

Tagged: Yn

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Yn: Food makes a bad day better!

User3: awww this is actually so cute!!!

User4: PICK-ME-UP PIZZAS!! THAT’S SO CUTE!!

LiamLawson: I want a pizza!

YukiTsunoda: no.

LiamLawson: whyyy???

YukiTsunoda: bcus you actually got to the start line!

DanielRicciardo: can I have a pick-me-up pizza??

Yn: give Yuki your address, I will come make you one!!!

DanielRicciardo: aww, thanks Yn!

Yn posted

📍Singapore

Liked by YukiTsunoda, Pierre Gasly, Franciscacgomes, LiamLawson, LilyMuniHe, and 672,829 others

Yn: When attending the Singapore Grand Prix you eat Singapore noodles and have cold treats!

Tagged: YukiTsunoda

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User5: omg that dress is adorable!!!

User6: Singapore noodles are the bestttttt!!!!

Pierre Gasly: 🍧🍧

LilyMuniHe: You are adorable!!! You are now my child!

Yn Hi mom!!

AlexAlbon: @LoganSargent meet your sister!

LoganSargent: I’ve always wanted a sister!!

User7: not Lily and Alex adopting Yn and Logan in the same breath!

User8: Logan is Alex’s son confirmed!!

YukiTsunoda posted

📍Tokyo, Japan

Liked by AlphaTauri, LiamLawson, Pierre Gasly, DanielRicciardo, MaxVerstappen1, AlexAlbon, NyckDeVries and 562,739 others

YukiTsunoda: Back in Japan! Quick trip to Disney Land!

Tagged: Yn

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Yn: I love you 5000!!

YukiTsunoda: I love you 5000!

User9: They are so cute!

User10: !!! Stop that’s too cute!

LiamLawson: YOU GUYS WENT WITHOUT ME!!!

YukiTsunoda: you’re not my girlfriend Liam.

LiamLawson: 😮😮 how dare you!

Pierre Gasly: So that’s why you didn’t want to get sushi with me.

Yn posted

📍Austin, Texas

Liked by YukiTsunoda, Franciscacgomes, LilyMuniHe, DanielRicciardo, and 563,638 others

Yn: Everything’s bigger in Texas! Of course we had to get some Texas Barbecue! 🤠🤠

P.s. no we did not wear white to have bbq! We’re not dumb!

Tagged: YukiTsunoda

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DanielRicciardo: That’s Texas baby!!!!

User11: honestly get you a boyfriend like Yuki. Just takes you around the world to find good food!

User12: OMG! They went to L’barbeque!!! That place is sooooo good!

User13: damn that Mac&cheese looks amazing 🤤

Yn: It was!

User14: I need a boyfriend who will take me to fun food joints so bad!!

LilyMuniHe: damn that food looks good!! But the girl looks even better!

Yn: ❤️❤️❤️

Yn posted

📍Mexico City, Mexico

Liked by YukiTsunoda, DanielRicciardo, Franciscacgomes, LilyMuniHe, AlexAlbon, LiamLawson, and 567,378 others

Yn: Taco Date Night! We had to try some amazing tacos while in Mexico!

Tagged: YukiTsunoda

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LiamLawson: those are some strange looking tacos.

YukiTsunoda: they were good though

LiamLawson: you think everything tastes good!

Franciscacgomes: look at how cute you look!!

Yn: 😊😊

User15: Two very different friendships! lol!!

AlexAlbon: Lily says you have to bring her some! Mother’s orders are her exact words!

Yn: sure! 😂😂

YukiTsunoda posted

📍São Paolo, Brazil

Liked by Yn, Pierre Gasly, Franciscacgomes, LiamLawson, DanielRicciardo, MaxVerstappen1, NyckDeVries and 678,739 others

YukiTsunoda: Had some amazing Brazilian food while in Brazil! 🇧🇷

Tagged: Yn

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Yn: It was soooo good!

User16: ughh!! Brazilian food is soooo good!

Pierre Gasly: that bbq we had after the race was good!

YukiTsunoda: yeah except your girlfriend was trying to steal mine!

Franciscacgomes: we’re gonna get married in Vegas!

Yn: totally! Sorry boys!

YukiTsunoda: 😨

Yn: I’m kidding babe! If I’m marrying anyone in Vegas it’s you!

User17: why are they like this????

User18: Kika “Miss. Steal-your-girl” Gomes

User19: IF IM MARRYINH ANYONE UTS YOU!?!

Yn posted

📍Paris, France

Liked by YukiTsunoda, Franciscacgomes, LilyMuniHe, LoganSargent, AlexAlbon, LiamLawson, and 675,697 others

Yn: He flew me to Paris for my birthday! I’m so in love with this man!❤️

Tagged: YukiTsunoda

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YukiTsunoda: My girl deserves the best on her birthday!

Yn: I love you! 😘

YukiTsunoda: I love you too!!

User20: “my girl” 😭 when will it be my turn. Anyway Happy Birthday Yn!!!!

Pierre Gasly: Happy Birthday!

Franciscacgomes: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLINH 🥰🥰🥰

LilyMuniHe: OMG!! Happy birthday to my child!!

AlexAlbon: “our” child! Happy birthday Yn!!

LoganSargent: happy birthday to my “sister”!!

LiamLawson: Happy birthday I guess. Nah I’m kidding! Happy birthday Yn!!

User21: Happy birthday 🎉🎊

[dreamwatch]

Disenchanted Lullaby

Written for @corrodedcoffinfest

Day #16 - Prompt: Struggling | Word Count: 1000 | Rating: T | CW: depression, chronic pain, referenced drug use | POV: Eddie | Pairing: None | Tags: Eddie Munson, slice of life, introspection, the comedown after touring, loneliness, ennui

In all my universes Eddie has Bipolar type 2. Make of that what you will. :)

Technically no pairing... technically...

Eddie opens the apartment door, a rush of stale air meeting him in the hallway. He steps inside and drops his bag, toeing his sneakers off. The curtains are still closed, dust motes decorating the room; there are upturned dishes by the sink that are long since dried. The sofa is a mess of clothes and books, discarded when he was packing. The place is just as he left it four months ago.

He sorts through weeks of unread mail, bills on one pile, junk on another. Starts a third pile when he recognises the handwriting on some letters; Dustin, Mike. Steve. He sticks that one into a pile of it’s own. No overdue notices because he cut off the cable and sent checks from the road for the rent and utilities. Probably confused the hell out of them with all the different post marks.

There’s a lingering smell of himself in the bedroom, an echo of him, and he wishes he’d changed the bedding before he left for the tour. He unpacks his bag, checking for clean clothes, but there’s road-stink on everything so he takes it all down to the laundry, trying to get four months of sweat and cigarettes out of the fabric.

He had the good sense to empty the fridge before he left; he forgot once and came home to find food so rotten it was almost sentient. But that means he has nothing to eat. He’s been living off pizza and Taco Bell for sixteen weeks; there was a venue in Denver that gave them fruit and vegetables among the usual subs and pizzas. He never realised eating a carrot could be a spiritual experience.

The aisles of the local supermarket are filled with women and their offspring, an old lady hits the back of his bad leg with her trolley, doesn’t even say sorry. 

The harsh fluorescent strip light flickers above him as he stares at the deli meats. There’s fifty cents off pastrami. He needs to get bread. 

The strip light hums. 

Maybe some mayo. Should definitely get some oranges. 

“Sir?”

He blinks and looks as the girl behind the checkout.

“Sorry, what…?”

She sighs. “$26.55.”

“Right. Yeah, sure.”

He hands over three tens and walks out as fast as he can. As he loads up the car he notices the twin six packs of PBR at the bottom of the trolley.

The stairs finish off the job the old lady started, he feels flayed and raw, but he ran out of Vicodin about eight shows back. The apartment is quiet enough that he can hear the whistling of his tinnitus. He thinks about calling Wayne but it’s lunchtime in Indiana and the old man will be sleeping. He’ll catch him another time.

He’s in pain and exhausted, so he slides out of his jeans, climbs on top of the dirty bed and sleeps.

Wayne used to say that his mother ‘suffered with her nerves’, and Eddie could never make any sense of that until he started high school. They didn’t see it for what it was at first, teenage boys and their angry moods, but Wayne recognised it eventually. Eddie���s been on and off meds ever since.

Right now he’s off. But they numb him, dial him down when he needs to be dialled up, so he doesn’t take them when he tours. It’s not smart; the last few weeks he’s felt it creep back, insidious tendrils grabbing him, pulling him down. His ‘nerves’. He needs to call his doctor.

It’s amazing how many people think everyone in a band lives together like The Monkees, all trapped in one big house. They did, when they first moved to Indy and found a two bedroom shitbox. Now, though, they can’t wait to get the fuck away from each other the second the tour ends. Weeks trapped on a bus with no privacy and very little hygiene doesn’t do much for long term friendships. By the end any camaraderie has begun to curdle. 

Gareth and Matt live with their girlfriends now, Jeff with his wife and baby. They have solid families, good reasons to not be in the same room as one another until they have to get back into the studio. Eddie has his books, his records and a television set. He considered getting a dog for company but there’s nobody to look after it when he inevitably goes back out on the road.

He doesn’t verbalise it because it’s painful to admit, even to himself, but he’s lonely. He made some friends in LA, just for him, never to be shared. An actual boyfriend once. Or maybe just a lover, Eddie’s never sure where the line started and ended. But he has a habit of pushing people away, doesn’t even know why he does it. Hurts just to hurt.

He glances at the letters on the table. The letter from Steve. 

The red light of the answerphone blinks at him, telling him the tape is full.

He sits down with a beer and a bag of pretzels and switches the television on, flicking through the channels until he finds the Wheel of Fortune; he and Wayne used to watch that together. 

He really should call Wayne.

It’s nearly eight o’clock. He’d have finished his vocal warm up by now, finished his stretches, gone for a piss before drinking more water, drinking more beer, finishing up with a line of something. Roadie hands him his guitar, the black Flying V, he runs some scales. Hears the chanting as the crowd get antsy while their techs do the last mic check and clear the stage. Jeff is always first so the wall of sound has already built before Eddie walks out. A crushing roar that rumbles deep in his chest before he even strikes the first chord.

The crowd applaud as Gary from Sioux Falls solves the phrase: There’s No Place Like Home.

Eddie gets up for another beer. Comes back with two.

[stars-mischief]

introduction time!~

heya~~

the name is star a. nonymous, but you can call me star or "star nonnie"! (though, some people call me starry, hehe~~)

he/they, 22 years old! (birthday winter 20)

trans masculine & unlabeled queer.

autism and audhd.

i'm pelican town's resident silly guy! i love telling jokes and puns.

i don't bite - most of the time anyway~~

i love giving people fun nicknames!

feel free to send me any questions, hehe (=^__^=)

star's ref sheet

starry's space jams (his playlist)

⭐ rules ⭐

this is for fun! star is an oc i created :3

you can flirt with him, if you'd like!

multiship is okay!**

friendships are always welcomed, too!

** if you have a ship in mind, please contact me. HOWEVER i must ask that you be at least 18 years old for direct blog x blog shipping. im all for it, stars has a lot of love to go around, but writing in a romantic or flirting way to anyone younger than this makes me highly uncomfortable!

basic rules: no bigotry of ANY kind! -- it will not be tolerated and that's not gonna get posted ??

no irl religion or politics! in game versions of these are fair game.

you can also ask him his opinions on other villagers!

nsfw JOKES are okay, no actual nsfw please ;;

in character interactions are so fun and welcomed!

you should totally ask questions and try to get lore about stars hehe~~

ALSO: if you don't see your ask answered, tumblr probably ate it.. it does that sometimes. just send it again. however, sometimes i do not know how to answer the asks so i just. don't. i reserve the right to delete any asks that make me or star uncomfortable. i can and will block, if needed.

i love sharing his lore and letting star show sides other than his silly guy side, but don't just randomly send something with the intent of causing angst. (especially without warning ;;)

i don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with an onslaught of angst, so feel free to block the #💫 star angst 💫 tag! or read through it, if you want!

along with this, all new angst posts will not have any of the sdv tags - they will typically just be "ask star", "star angst" and "insecurity unlocked"/"lore unlocked" (depending on if it fits)

anyway, if anyone intends to stir up some angst heavy interactions, maybe.. tone it down just a smidge and at least let me know (either before hand via dm or in the notes of your ask) that it's a prompt and not intended to be malicious.

hi yes this is FINALLY happening! i decided to make him a main account so i can actually send things from him LOL. however, the old one ( @stars-mischief-archive ) will remain up for archival purposes. please send asks to THIS ONE instead.

you can also find me on my willy ask blog ( @fishingwithwilly )

admin is @moonferry (he/they) and is 18! you can call me pip.

this is a sdv oc! sprites are edited by me (though i may have help sometimes)

we're here to be silly and have fun, ya know?

⭐ now for starry's likes and dislikes! ⭐

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ (loves): alex's magic hairgel, pizza, pickles, cheese, prismatic shards (& all other gemstones), ice cream, joja cola, midnight carp, sunflowers, pancakes, strawberries

ヾ(≧へ≦)〃(hates): spaghetti, carrots, fish taco, octopus (and all fish except midnight carp), all mushrooms, pumpkin pie, baked fish, stuffing, all cakes. all food items containing fish.

tags:

#starry's jokes - jokes by yours truly!

#starry's chats - talking to other people~

#long rb / #reblog - reblogging interactions!

#samstar / #deathstar sdv / #starfish ⭐🐟 / #supernova 🧨⭐️ - star being goofy with his people!~

#⭐ lore unlocked ⭐ - any lore or headcanons you've unlocked about the star man!

#⭐ insecurity unlocked ⭐ - things you've discovered that push starry's buttons (not in a good way)

#💛 star arts 💛 - art of star guy..

#💫 star angst 💫 - angst snippets

#star shenanigans - goofy guy being goofy / the "not asks" posts!

divider credit // x

[kata-sans]

Raising Stripe

Chapter 31

Guys Night was meant to be fun. It was a tradition started in kindergarten by Craig and Clyde as playdates. As time passed and new friendships were formed, Jimmy and Tolkein were added to the sleepovers. By the time Tweek joined, Guy's Night was well established. They even agreed to include Stripe in their hangouts.

This time it was Tolkein's turn to host the hangout. He prided himself in being the group's favorite host. His rich lifestyle played a key role in his place being the ideal hangout spot and Tolkein lived for the praises. Even after moving out of his parents home, Tolkein only downgraded to a smaller mansion.

Tolkein anticipated a great night playing poker and stuffing themselves with takeout. He had stocked up the fridge with beer and pulled out his best selection of whiskey and tequila. Tolkien was confident the night was going to be a blast.

Jimmy and Clyde arrived first with Taco Bell and Burger King. Jimmy took control of the speakers and began playing cheesy Christmas music. Clyde set up red cups to play beer pong. Soon the Domino's Pizza delivery guy showed up with Tolkein's order.

The evening was turning out great as far as Tolkein was concerned but he wished Craig and Tweek would hurry so the real fun could start. He was excited when the doorbell finally rang, but felt dread as he heard loud arguing coming from outside. Great! The happy couple was having a spat.

Tolkein looked over his shoulder to see that Clyde and Jimmy had also heard the commotion outside. Disagreements between Craig and Tweek were not uncommon but they happened enough that the gang had to create a plan to diffuse the tension during Guys Night. With a silent nod all three prepared their three part plan to save the night.

Tolkien opened the door with a forced smile, “Guys! So glad you could make it!” Craig and Tweek glared at each other and Tolkein silently signaled Clyde over. Step one: Divide the problem.

“TWEEK! Thank goodness you're here! I need your barista skills to fill in these cups in the kitchen!” Clyde yelled as he pulled Tweek away from the door. Tweek followed without looking back at his husband.

“Hey man, let me get those for you. Why don't you help Jimmy set up the poker table.” Tolkein reached out to take the bags of Chinese food and walked towards the kitchen. Craig gave a curt nod and silently followed Jimmy to the game room. Time for step two: Interrogate the quarreling couple.

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“You don't understand Clyde! Just because he chose to adopt Stripe HE feels like he has more say in making decisions for Stripe! Gah! He says I'm selfish! He doesn't know what Stripe really wants!” Tolkien could hear Tweek ranting in the kitchen. Perfect! Tweek was always more talkative and with the right prodding would reveal any problems.

“I swear next time the gnomes come digging through the laundry…nghh I’ll let them take all his underwear!” Unfortunately not everything Tweek said could be taken seriously. Tolkein would need to be tactful in his approach to get some answers from Tweek.

Tolkein casually walked into the kitchen greeting Clyde and Tweek. “Hey guys, how's the drinks coming along?”

Tweek growled in response but Clyde rushed over to Tolkein. “Great! Everything is good here. Tweek! You don't mind finishing here. Tolkien and I need to…do something! Be right back.” He called out as he pushed Tolkein through the door.

“Dude! I know what the problem is!” Clyde whispered shouted.

“Wait, you do?” Tolkien asked skeptically.

“I bumped into Craig the other day and he was all moody and stuff. He's convinced Stripe is miserable as a human and needs to be changed back as soon as possible. Do you think Tweek might be against the idea?” Clyde asked.

Tolkien’s eyes widened. “Of course! Nichole said Tweek was leaning towards keeping Stripe human. It makes perfect sense.”

“Well I don't know about you but I am going to set Craig straight. He needs to realize how much happier he and Tweek have become.” Clyde stated with determination.

“Wait! We can't confront him like that or he’ll double down. We need to be tactful.” Tolkein said as he plotted how to change his friend's perspective.

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The atmosphere in the room was awkward. Craig and Tweek sat on opposite ends of the poker table bitterly sipping their drinks and coldly glancing at each other. Tolkien was ready to end this dispute and return to their scheduled fun. Time for step three: Meddle in the problem.

“So…um, Craig who's watching Stripe? Is it someone we know?” Tolkein asked, breaking the silence. He needed to ease into the conversation.

“No.” Craig spoke without elaborating further.

“We paid Craig's coworker, Sara, to watch him. Ngh…I made sure to put Stripe to bed early to avoid any meltdowns. I would have preferred to stay home but someone thinks it's unhealthy to be sooo attached to our baby!” Tweek informed them.

“I did not say that! Quit putting words in my mouth! I know you Tweek! If I let this continue you are going to break down from the stress of parenting 24/7.” Craig defended himself.

“Gah! How dare you! I love taking care of Stripe! I didn't realize you viewed our child as a burden!” Tweek accused venomously.

“There you go again misinterpreting everything I say. I should know by now that you are incapable of having a rational discussion.” Craig fired back.

Tolkein stood up immediately. The situation had completely detailed unexpectedly. “Alright that's enough! You two, on the couch! It's time for couples counseling.” Tolkien ordered without hesitation.

The couple complied sitting on opposite sides putting as much distance between them. Tolkien, Clyde and Jimmy stood in front of them acting like parents scolding their children.“Listen guys I know you both care about Stripe and I'm sure if we talked about it like mature adults we could...” Tolkien tried unsuccessfully.

“TALK! YOU WANT ME TO TALK! OK! Why don't you get off your high horse and realize you're not always right about things, Craig!” Tweek shouted.

“I don't claim to always be right.”

“Then why are you so against my choice for Stripe?!”

“Because we're a TEAM! That means we talk before making such a big decision.”

Tweek froze, “Craig…*sigh* You're right. I was being selfish. I’m sorry.”

“NOOOO!” Everyone jumped at Clyde's anguished cry. “Tweek you can't give up that easily. We love Stripe too. Craig please reconsider!”

Craig grimaced as Clyde clung to his jacket. He was on his knees begging and pleading desperately. “WTF, Clyde! This doesn't concern you.”

“You're the one who's selfish if you think we don't care about Stripe!” Clyde shouted.

“Craig's right, Clyde. Stripe's first Christmas outfit is a joint parenting decision. I should have talked to Craig before I ordered the reindeer onesie.” Tweek confessed.

The guys froze in shock. “You two were arguing over a onesie!” Jimmy said without a stutter.

Tweek pulled up an image on his phone. “I couldn't help myself! I was scrolling on Amazon for Christmas outfits and I didn't think Craig would be interested in planning our outfits for our holiday pictures. In the past, Craig wasn't too interested in picking our outfits, but I forgot how special it is to pick our baby's first outfit for the picture”

“Oh Honey. I should have told you sooner. It makes sense why you didn't ask me. I'm sorry I called you selfish. I know you've been working hard to prepare everything. The last thing I want to do is burden you with my hurt feelings.” Craig admitted.

The husbands embraced for the first time that evening. Their eyes met and they leaned forward for a kiss, but were interrupted when a poker chip hit Craig in the face.

“Enough sappy makeup kisses. I came here to make bank. So s-sit down and start bidding.” Jimmy said, pulling up his cards from the table.

The couple returned to the table. This time, Craig moved his chair beside Tweek's. Finally at peace the night was heading in the right direction.

Unbeknownst to the happy couple, their friends came to a silent agreement. They agreed it was best not to interfere in the couple's choice. They trusted Tweek and Craig to choose what is best for their family. All they could do is stand by and support them.

Ch30

Ch32

[stars-mischief-archive]

heya~~

this is just for archival purposes~~

be sure to follow my new account over at @stars-mailbox (it'll soon be changed to this old url once tumblr gives it back <3)

the name is star a. nonymous, but you can call me star or "star nonnie"! (though, some people call me starry, hehe~~)

he/they, 22 years old!

trans masculine & unlabeled queer.

autism and audhd.

i'm pelican town's resident silly guy! i love telling jokes and puns.

i don't bite - most of the time anyway~~

i love giving people fun nicknames!

feel free to send me any questions, hehe (=^__^=)

star's ref sheet

starry's space jams (his playlist)

⭐ rules ⭐

this is for fun! star is an oc i created :3

you can flirt with him, if you'd like!

multiship is okay!**

friendships are always welcomed, too!

** if you have a ship in mind, please contact me. HOWEVER i must ask that you be at least 17-18 years old for direct blog x blog shipping. im all for it, stars has a lot of love to go around, but writing in a romantic or flirting way to anyone younger than this makes me highly uncomfortable!

basic rules: no bigotry of ANY kind! -- it will not be tolerated and that's not gonna get posted ??

no irl religion or politics! in game versions of these are fair game.

you can also ask him his opinions on other villagers!

nsfw JOKES are okay, no actual nsfw please ;;

in character interactions are so fun and welcomed!

you should totally ask questions and try to get lore about stars hehe~~

ALSO: if you don't see your ask answered, tumblr probably ate it.. it does that sometimes. just send it again. however, sometimes i do not know how to answer the asks so i just. don't. i reserve the right to delete any asks that make me or star uncomfortable. i can and will block, if needed.

i love sharing his lore and letting star show sides other than his silly guy side, but don't just randomly send something with the intent of causing angst. (especially without warning ;;)

i don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with an onslaught of angst, so feel free to block the #💫 star angst 💫 tag! or read through it, if you want!

along with this, all new angst posts will not have any of the sdv tags - they will typically just be "ask star", "star angst" and "insecurity unlock"/"lore unlocked" (depending on if it fits)

anyway, if anyone intends to stir up some angst heavy interactions, maybe.. tone it down just a smidge and at least let me know (either before hand via dm or in the notes of your ask) that it's a prompt and not intended to be malicious.

this is a side blog so unfortunately i cannot follow you back :( but - if you are also an ask blog - i can follow you on my willy blog ( @fishingwithwilly )

admin is @moonferry (he/they) and is 18! you can call me pip.

this is a sdv oc! sprites are edited by me (though i may have help sometimes)

we're here to be silly and have fun, ya know?

⭐ now for starry's likes and dislikes! ⭐

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ (loves): alex's magic hairgel, pizza, pickles, cheese, prismatic shards (& all other gemstones), ice cream, joja cola, midnight carp, sunflowers, pancakes, strawberries

ヾ(≧へ≦)〃(hates): spaghetti, carrots, fish taco, octopus (and all fish except midnight carp), all mushrooms, pumpkin pie, baked fish, stuffing, all cakes. all food items containing fish.

tags:

#starry's jokes - jokes by yours truly!

#starry's chats - talking to other people~

#long rb / #reblog - reblogging interactions!

#samstar / #deathstar sdv / #starfish ⭐🐟 - star being goofy with his people!~

#⭐ lore unlocked ⭐ - any lore or headcanons you've unlocked about the star man!

#⭐ insecurity unlocked ⭐ - things you've discovered that push starry's buttons (not in a good way)

#💛 star arts 💛 - art of star guy..

#💫 star angst 💫 - angst snippets

#star shenanigans - goofy guy being goofy / the "not asks" posts!

divider credit // x

[osidius-el-enfatico]

been thinking about this the past few days so here it is despite no one asking:

NICO'S TOP 5 RAP ALBUMS

this isnt the best albums ever, these are my favorites

Childish Gambino - Cul-de-sac

technically a mix tape and not an album but whatever. gambino's bars havent aged particularly well, but this is the album that made me dive into rap instead of relying on mtv, which still played music at the time, it was my first real exposure to instrumentalized rap, dude had a grizzly bear sample in there.

2. Run the Jewels - RTJ3

my favorite songs from run the jewels are actually from rtj2 (lie, cheat, steal and close your eyes and count to fuck) but i feel rtj3 hits harder as a complete album. mike and elp are just fun to listen to, you can feel the friendship coming from their songs. mike is a shitlib tho

3. Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - King Cobra

these two are everything people think killer mike is. pure seething hatred for the system and those in power, distilled through a filter of horror core sometimes and funk beats other times. incredible delivery from ennals in the bars

4. Wale - The Mixtape about nothing

wale was seen as one of the candidates to take the crown of rap before kendrick came along, but he chose to stay low and do weird shit musically and host wrestling viewing events. he's fucking great. this samples seinfeld bits so ofc i was gonna like it, but its just geniunely a good album (techinicalle a mixtape again)

5. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

das racist were everywhere in the early 2010s. the collabed with both mr. mothafucking exxxquire and boots riley which is an insane spectrum. they were the darlings of internet rap. they are mostly known for combination taco bell and pizza hut, but they were great musically, equal parts poignant and funny. they werent meant to last tho. heems went on to have a cool album or two. dont know what kool ad is up to nowadays

shot outs: tha powers that be by death grips and i lie here buried with my rings and dresses by backxwash, i chose to not mix industrial in this top but they have an argument to be here.

[laurenairay]

gotta trust how you feel inside - J. Skinner

Summary: Jeff Skinner had never met anyone like Cameron Marlow before. Turns out, he had a lot to learn.

A story of accepting someone for who they are, as well as accepting yourself.

This is my entry for @wyattjohnston​’s summer fic exchange 2k23, for @nhl-stories​! I decided to do something a little different than I’ve ever done before, based off of your prompts and answers to my questions, so I really hope you like this. I researched so many articles and blog posts and videos on coming out and acceptance and all the different ways people have felt and reacted in their own journeys, so I really hope I did Cam’s story justice. Also heavily inspired by Mae Martin and their wonderful self!

Warnings: angst, slow burn, friends to lovers, fear of coming out as non-binary, change of pronouns part-way through.

Words: 4.8k

Title from Green Eyes by Arlo Parks.

Thank you to @tippedbykreider​ for being a wonderful beta reader!

Some of these folks wanna make you cry, But you gotta trust how you feel inside, And shine, and shi-ine, yeah, yeah, yeah.

~

“Jeff! Pizza or tacos?”

“Tacos please!”

“On it!”

Jeff smiled to himself as his neighbour Cameron disappeared from her balcony, back into the apartment below his. Their Friday night tradition of take-out and movies – whenever he was in town, that was – was something he treasured. Most of his teammates over 30 years old had a wife and kids at home for their Friday nights, but not Jeff. Maybe it was something that bothered him a lot when he was younger, not having someone to come back home to like everyone else seemed to, but since he’d been traded to Buffalo, it was something he was learning to let go of. There were plenty of other things in his life, plenty of other people, to fill what society deemed him missing, and he appreciated all of them. Loved all of them.

Cameron Marlow included.

She had been a breath of fresh air when he’d first moved into their shared apartment building back in summer 2018. Single, like he was, and only a year younger, so at least he didn’t feel completely out of place. And she was an introvert much like he was slowly growing into, meaning he didn’t have to put on a fake extroverted energy all the time, didn’t have to be ‘on’ 100%. The two of them bonded over just wanting someone to hang out with sometimes, someone who wouldn’t judge a depleted social battery. He knew that her work was intense, that she was damn good at her job too, and that the hyper-focus she had to have on all the time during her workdays left her pretty drained by the time she got home, much like hockey sometimes left him socially inept, so he appreciated having her as a friend he could just be himself with.

It didn’t hurt that she was blonde, blue-eyed, and completely & utterly beautiful. But that wasn’t something he wanted to think about right now. Cameron was so out of his league it wasn’t funny. Her intense corporate work aside, she was so interesting as a person that he barely felt like he could keep up. She was part of a book club, reading fiction about all kinds of different topics that he barely understood, leaving him feeling like more of a dumbass every time he attempted to follow along. She always volunteered during Pride month at the parade, making sure teenagers felt safe and secure and hopeful. She introduced him to plays and movies and poetry readings that he never would’ve thought of going to. He tried to keep up with her, loving the time they spent together too much not to, and it always seemed like she appreciated it anyway.

At least her dating life was as much of a disaster as his was. That was always something he could console himself with. Her type seemed to be tall blonde beefcakes, typical douchey gym bros, and every time a series of dates ended with the two of them eating ice-cream on one of their sofas, Jeff felt their friendship bond grow just that little bit more. He knew that his friendship with her was one of the best and closest and most genuine friendships he’d ever had, and over the past five years he’d grown to cherish it over anything else.

Cameron Marlow was in his life to stay, and there was nothing he ever wanted to change about that.

“Alright, tacos should be here in 30 minutes. Do you have beer?”

“Of course, I’m not a heathen,” Jeff scoffed.

Cameron just laughed, blonde waves swinging over her shoulder as she shut his apartment door behind her. She was dressed similar to him, tank top and sweatpants with fluffy socks, and she wasted no time in pulling her hair back in a messy bun after passing him a beer and sitting down next to him on his oversized sofa.

By the time their tacos arrived – Jeff went down to the lobby to pick them up, of course – Cameron had all but sunk into the sofa, all tension disappearing from her body. It was a good look for her, to be honest, peaceful and relaxed and content. And the fact that it was in his apartment that she was able to feel this way? Well, that meant everything to him.

However, by the time they’d finished eating, Cameron had flicked through her phone a few times, and a frown had grown on her face, her body a line of stiff tension again. He didn’t think it was because of him – he knew he hadn’t said anything out of the ordinary to her – but it still concerned him all the same.

“You look like you’ve got a lot on your mind,” Jeff said, “Want to talk about it?”

“I don’t know if you’d want to hear it?”

Jeff found himself frowning as he shook his head. Why would he not want to hear what she had to say?

“I always want to hear what you have to say? Why would I not?”

Cameron seemed to hesitate for a moment, eyes filled with something that he couldn’t read. Despite their five years of friendship, there was still so much he didn’t know about her, he knew that much. But why would she think he wouldn’t want to know what was bothering her?

“It’s just…okay, so you know I’m part of a book club, right?” Cameron blurted.

“Yes.”

He didn’t have a clue where this was going, but he was just going to roll with it. The book club met every other Sunday, he knew that much.

“Well we’re reading I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver, and naturally the conversation turned political,” Cameron started.

“As it would, sure,” Jeff nodded.

He didn’t know if it would be rude to pull out his phone to google what the book was about while she was talking, so he just decided to wait to see if she would explain.

“And like, a few of the group can relate to the main character Ben’s struggle, right? Coming out as non-binary to his parents only to be immediately kicked out of the house, so the topic was pretty personal for some of my friends…”

So that was what the book was about. Huh. He could only imagine how difficult that kind of situation would be. And Cameron said it had also happened to some of her friends? Damn.

“…and with the political climate right now, things just got so heated. As it would.”

“As it would,” Jeff agreed.

Well, not that he actually knew much about the political climate around gender. It was gender she was talking about, right?

“Gender is always an emotionally difficult topic,” he said, hedging his bet.

“Exactly!” she nodded.

Oh good, he’d gotten it right.

“The discussion is still bothering you though?” he prompted, eyes flicking to the phone she’d put down on the coffee table.

“Well, yeah, because New York still has so far to go in terms of making things equal for non-binary people. Like, shit, it took until late 2021 for driving licenses to get non-binary options on, and even now official government departments might not have options for all forms until 2024!”

“That seems unfairly restrictive?” Jeff said, frowning.

“It is! And of course, it’s started so many debates and discussions from hate groups and just generally horrible people about whether any of it should even be allowed. Like, what the fuck? All these absolute fuck-up debates about non-binary recognition, how non-binary people are basically invisible, it makes me so mad! How is it okay that a tiny group of people decide that I don’t exist?”

As she wound herself up angrier and angrier, Jeff froze slightly at Cameron’s words. That I don’t exist.

I.

Not they.

Cameron was talking about herself.

No, if Cameron was talking about herself then that would mean she was non-binary…

Whatever was showing on his face made Cameron stop in confusion, before absolute horror flooded her expression.

“I mean, I, heh-”

Cameron cut herself off with a whimper, eyes desperately darting around like she was looking around for an exit from his apartment, and in that moment, Jeff’s heart broke a little. Cameron was trying to get away from him, because she was scared of his reaction. Scared of him. That was the last thing he ever wanted.

Jeff swallowed heavily, before smiling lightly. “I can’t imagine you ever being invisible. No-one should ever make you feel that way.”

The tears that filled Cameron’s eyes caused Jeff to panic slightly. Had he said the wrong thing? Had he ruined their friendship? Had he ruined…everything else?

“Fuck. Fuck, that wasn’t how I ever wanted it to come out,” Cameron murmured, “You don’t hate me?”

The last few whispered words broke his heart all over again. Jeff quickly shook his head as he put his beer down, taking Cameron’s hands in his.

“I could never hate you. I may not understand much about what you’re going through. Like, as a non-binary person. But I could never hate you, okay? You’re still Cameron to me,” Jeff said firmly.

Because it was true.

He might not know much about what it meant to be non-binary, or understand Cameron’s struggles, but the fact that she was scared he would hate her said all that he needed to know. Cameron was still his friend, still the same person he’d always known – he just knew a little more now, that was all, right?

Cameron bit her bottom lip for a moment, seeming to hesitate about something, so Jeff just squeezed her hands reassuringly.

“Actually, I prefer just Cam,” Cameron said.

“Okay. Okay, Cam it is,” Jeff nodded.

“And they/them pronouns,” Cameron added.

Cam.

They/Them.

Cam. They/Them.

He could absolutely do that.

“Cam. They/Them. Got it,” Jeff said firmly, still smiling.

Cam seemed to hesitate for a moment again, looking confused now.

“Just like that? You have no questions or reluctance or anything?” Cam asked, frowning.

“Well, no? Not really? I mean, you know yourself better than I do, right? So if you tell me that you won’t be using she/her any more then that’s not my choice? It’s you and how you are in yourself. It’s only right that I follow what you need,” Jeff said, frowning in response, “Is that not okay? I know I’ve probably been getting things wrong for years now, but I’ll do better?”

Cam laughed softly in disbelief, shaking their head.

“Of course it’s okay. And it’s only been a couple of years really but that’s because I purposely didn’t tell you. Haven’t really told many people, if I’m being honest. I just…I wasn’t expecting you to just accept it straight away? Like, you’re a hockey player right, and…”

“And hockey players have a reputation of being homophobic assholes? There’s a few prominent names popping out lately, yeah. But that’s not me. My older sisters played hockey on women’s teams while we were growing up and there were a few lesbians out and proud with their friends, so it’s not like I haven’t been around the LGBTQ+ community? And I know that non-binary is your gender, not anything with your sexuality, but what I mean is that I’m not that kind of asshole?” Jeff explained, “I might be a dumbass hockey player most the time but I’m not that full stereotype.”

“No, you’re right. I shouldn’t have painted you with that brush. I’m sorry,” Cam said, wincing.

“It’s okay. No, really it is. I get that you have to expect the worst from people and I hate that you have to, but you don’t have to with me, okay? I’ve got a lot to learn, I know that. So much. But you don’t have to be scared or nervous around me. I promise,” Jeff said, smiling.

Cam smiled shakily, nodding their head, finally losing a bit of tension in their shoulders.

“Thank you. I just…thank you,”

“I accept you for who you are, Cam Marlow. Exactly how you are,” Jeff said firmly.

Cam choked out a sob, hand flying up to cover their mouth, and it was all Jeff could do to let go of their hands and open his arms wide. Cam wasted no time in flinging themselves forward into his body, letting Jeff hug them as they cried into the crook of his neck. Jeff felt tears sting at his own eyes, but he just held them tight, rubbing their back to reassure them.

Everything would change from here, he knew that. But he wasn’t going anywhere.

*

Skinner Siblings

Jeff: A friend of mine recently came out to me as non-binary. Obviously I support them and I'm so proud of them but I haven't got a clue where to start to understand it all better? I just want to be a good friend.

Andrea: Firstly, congrats to your friend. I won't ask who because that's none of my business. Secondly, do you want some resources?

Jeff: Yeah I won't say their name because they haven't said I could. But yes please to resources!

Erica: Good start on using their correct pronouns Jeffy.

Jeff: I'm trying. It's literally the least I can do.

Erica: More than a lot of people would! Just as a tip, more than anything else, follow whatever your friend says is right for them. And if you mess up, correct yourself and move on. You are a good friend, even just by wanting to learn.

Jillian: Love you Jeffy. Proud of you!

Andrea: I’m proud of you too. I found a bunch of resources for definitions and reading material and even blog posts. Let me email you.

*

“Sex is what you’re assigned at birth, based on bodily characteristics. Gender can be completely separate from the sex you’ve been assigned at birth. That’s the best thing about gender: it’s free, flexible and completely yours to decide.”

“A recent Stonewall study found that 31% of nonbinary people have experienced hate crime as a result of their gender identity.”

“60% of Americans have at least heard about gender-neutral pronouns, many people may still be kind of unsure of what to say or do. According to the survey results, 52% of Americans report that they would be somewhat or very comfortable using gender-neutral pronouns with someone they know. But 47% said that they would be somewhat or very uncomfortable doing so.”

“A common misconception is that all non-binary identities sit somewhere in the middle of male and female, and that if you’re non-binary you’ll fit neatly into a box labelled ‘androgynous’. But this really isn’t the case – and one of the most liberating things about being non-binary is that there are no set rules around how you express or experience your gender.”

Jeff’s head spun as he read through all the resources that his sister Andrea sent over to him. There was so much new information to digest, and yet still not enough somehow. Sure, GLAAD was a great place to start for definitions, but he knew there was still so much further for him to go.

Baby steps though, right?

If Cam could take things step by step, so could he.

One of the first things that Jeff did was to add his pronouns to his twitter and Instagram bios. A simple he/him. It wasn’t much, but it was a start – and at least hopefully, if anyone asked him (not that he expected they would), then he could start a positive conversation about pronouns and representation. It was, quite literally, the least he could do. It was also likely that Cam would never notice either, but if they did then he wanted them to know that this was another way he could support them – it was important that everyone and anyone could use the pronouns they knew were correct for themselves, he knew that now. So if he could show people that with his level of publicity then he absolutely would.

He had to use his privilege for something good, right?

In the weeks following Cam’s accidental non-binary announcement, aside from his own research journey, it seemed like a new side of Cam’s life opened that he’d never been privy to before. Sure, he’d liked and treasured the time that the two of them spent alone over the past five years, but now it seemed like they were comfortable enough to let him into a whole new level. He wasn’t entitled to it in the slightest, he knew that, so he made that they knew exactly how much he appreciated these new steps they were taking.

Cam also opened up more to him about their discovery journey. About how they had felt just ever-so-slightly wrong in their body for so long, not understanding why until they stumbled across an LGBTQ+ poetry slam one night not long after he had moved into their apartment building, not knowing what to do about how they felt until a few years ago. Cam had insisted that they hadn’t kept things separate from him maliciously – it was more of a case that they had still been figuring it out for themselves while they were getting to know him too, and part of their process had been compartmentalising. He wasn’t mad. He literally had no right to be, but he genuinely wasn’t mad. The fact that they finally felt comfortable enough with him and within themselves to take down those barriers? That was all that he cared about.

They had even introduced him openly to a few of their friends. Jeff hadn’t understood the side-eyes and the smirks or even the money exchanged between a couple of the group, but he finally in on the jokes about Cam being a social disaster, finally able to have them smiling at him like he was in on the secret. He was part of a whole new world – one that confused him heavily sometimes, but one that he appreciated being able to be within – and he loved that his friendship with Cam had only grown from strength to strength with each new thing he learned about them.

None of that changed how their smile still gave him butterflies.

*

“You cut your hair.”

That was the first thing that came out of his mouth when Cam opened the front door of their apartment. It had been only a little over a month since their unintentional coming out, but it seemed like each day Cam was a little more settled in their skin, and it made Jeff feel so happy that he got to be part of that. Their hair though – that was a big change.

“I…did. Is it bad?” Cam asked, a little nervous.

Cam’s hair had previously been down to their waist, naturally tousled and dirty blonde. But now…now it was short. Super short. A pixie cut, maybe? At least that’s what he remembered from one of his sister’s magazines. A white-blonde pixie cut. Huh.

“Not bad. Like, at all. It really suits you,” Jeff said firmly, as he walked past them into their apartment.

“You’re not just saying that?” Cam asked hopefully.

“I’m a really bad liar, you know that,” Jeff shrugged, smiling a little sheepishly as Cam laughed, “And I wouldn’t lie to you about this. It’s different, sure. But it feels like you.”

Cam exhaled shakily, shoulders losing a little tension as they nodded. “That’s what I thought. That it feels like me, more than anything else ever has.”

Jeff hesitated slightly as some of the reading he’d done came back to him, before he took a deep breath to steel himself.

“Was this a gender dysphoria thing? Is there still anything else you want to do to feel more comfortable in your body?” he asked.

Cam’s eyes widened slightly before they smiled fondly at him. “You really have done your reading, haven’t you?”

“I just…wanted to be a good friend,” Jeff said, feeling a little awkward.

Was he not meant to have tried to learn more? Did Cam not want that?

“Oh Jeff, you are one of the best friends a person could ever ask for,” Cam said, shaking their head as they smiled, letting Jeff breathe a little sigh of relief.

“You deserve it,” Jeff shrugged.

Interestingly, Cam blushed a little, before they laughed softly, moving to pull some coffee mugs out of the kitchen cupboard.

“Right, to answer your questions. The hair was kind of a gender dysphoria thing? My long hair just felt so feminine, and that obviously isn’t me anymore. Or maybe was never me? I don’t know, I’m still figuring out how I feel about it. In terms of anything else…I’m not trans. I don’t want to transition from female to male, because I genuinely don’t feel like either of them. That isn’t my journey. I’ve been dressing pretty androgynously for a few years so that covers most of what I feel like I need? And it’s not like my boobs are particularly big anyway so I can just wear a tighter tank top if I have days where they are a trigger,” Cam explained.

Jeff’s eyes dropped to their chest before he could even stop himself, and he felt his cheeks flare in horror at his reaction as he quickly looked back up to their face. What was wrong with him? Why would he…bleurgh.

Cam politely ignored his reaction, their mouth quirking in a slight smile.

“Periods might be an issue I’ll have to face at some point, but that’s something I’ll deal with as I get to it,” they shrugged.

He’d heard all the horrors of periods over the years from his sisters, so while he wasn’t quite desensitised, he didn’t grimace.

“There’s birth control you can go on to stop them for a few years though, right? Like, the implant or the coil?” Jeff said, tilting his head, “That’s always an option.”

Cam’s eyes widened slightly again, before they shook their head. “You are a gem, Jeff Skinner. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.”

Jeff found his cheeks heating up again, but he just smiled, shrugging. It’s not like he was looking for a gold star for being a half-decent human being after all.

Cam finally finished making their coffees, sliding Jeff’s over the counter to him while they sat down on the stool opposite.

“Oh, here, I got you something,” Jeff said, reaching into his bag, “It’s a little lame now that I think about it, but I already bought it so here we go.”

“This is…a cupcake?”

“A coming out cupcake. In your colours,” Jeff nodded, smiling.

White, yellow, purple and black swirled icing on a vanilla cupcake, the colours of the non-binary flag, from a tiny LGBTQ+ friendly bakery that he’d found in the city. The day he’d ordered it, he remembered the tiny smile that cracked on the terrifying butch woman’s face behind the counter, probably because he’d been rambling about wanting to celebrate and support Cam. He’d tried to find a date in the last month that felt right, but with Cam still settling into themselves publicly combined with his travelling schedule, it had taken longer than he wanted. But when he’d picked it up this morning he felt good about it. It might only be a silly little thing, but Cam loved cupcakes, right? So it felt good just to show Cam a little appreciation.

“This might be the sweetest thing ever. My god, Jeff. Why?”

“You deserve something nice? To mark this new chapter? The world is full of terrifying things that happen to people when they come out as non-binary. I’ve read some really awful blog posts about people whose lives were turned upside down just for being brave enough to be themselves. And I know you’re going to have to keep coming out over and over and over again even in just the tiniest of ways, so this is just me saying that I see you and I appreciate you.”

“Damn it Jeff, you’re going to make me cry again,” Cam

“Sorry?” he offered.

Cam just laughed, shaking their head as tears sprung to their eyes.

“I just hope that coming out to my parents will be as smooth as coming out to you was,” Cam said softly.

“You aren’t out to your parents?”

“No,” Cam murmured, shaking their head, “I’m so nervous.”

“Hey, no, don’t be, okay? Your parents love you,” Jeff said, frowning.

“You know just as well as I do how badly parents can react. It’s such an unknown reaction. And it’s not like they would’ve had any kind of idea that this is how I felt about myself over the past few years, right? No build up or lead in that they would have to prepare themselves,” Cam sighed.

They were right. Jeff had read the blog posts, the articles, the statistics. He hated that Cam had to go through this, but it wasn’t his place to pretend that everything was going to be a-okay.

“All you can do is be honest with them. That’s literally it,” Jeff said softly.

“I’m 30 years old, I shouldn’t be this scared to tell my parents who I really am,” they said, laughing a little dryly.

“It’s a natural reaction, Cam. From what I understand anyway. You love them – they’re your parents. You don’t want to lose them, it makes sense. But you also wouldn’t be doing yourself justice in not living your truth,” Jeff said, smiling sadly, “I’m here for you, no matter what happens, okay?”

They nodded, sniffing slightly. “I don’t deserve you.”

“You deserve everything and more. Never let anyone tell you differently,” Jeff said fiercely.

Cam choked out a laugh, blinking away their tears as they nodded again.

“Alright, if Jeff Skinner says it, then it must be true,” they said, wry smile on their face.

Jeff just grinned, making them laugh properly this time. He couldn’t bear the thought of them feeling like they didn’t deserve the whole world. Even if it wasn’t him that was able to give it to them, he still wanted them to be happy. That was all that mattered, right?

Then Cam’s smile slid into something a little more serious. A little more earnest. Jeff finished his coffee, sliding the cup to the side as he waited for them to collect their thoughts, knowing they would speak when they were ready.

“You make me want to be brave,” Cam said softly.

Well that was the last thing he expected. Those sweet simple words made his whole chest warm with happiness. He made them want to be brave? They were already so brave all on their own.

“Me?” Jeff asked, surprised.

But Cam just nodded, glancing over at him with their big blue eyes as they bit their bottom lip, and the look in their eyes made his heart start beating a little faster. Oh. Oh. Him?

“Me? Really?” he asked, a little breathless.

“Yeah, Jeff. Who else?” Cam said, cheeks flushing lightly.

Jeff inhaled sharply, reaching his hand across the kitchen counter to rest on theirs, his heart pounding so hard in his chest that he felt like it would fly out. Was this what his sisters meant when they’d described how it felt when they fell in love? Was he finally getting his chance to love someone too? When Cam clutched his hand back, smiling back at him so sweetly and shyly, he knew he had his answer. This was Cam – his heart had fallen for them a long time ago.

“You make me want to be brave too.”

He knew that this wasn’t going to be easy. He knew that the two of them would face so many questions, so much scrutiny, and most likely so much hatred. But what Jeff knew most of all was that he wanted to try. Cam was worth that. Cam was worth everything.

*

“Hey Cap, do you mind if I bring my partner Cam to the end of season barbecue?”

“Cameron? Your neighbour? Of course bud, glad the two of you finally got your shit together. How is she?”

“They.”

“What?”

“They. Not she. And it’s Cam, not Cameron.”

“Huh. Okay, good to know. Do you want me to say anything to the guys?”

“No, I’m just going to introduce them as they are. If anyone is shitty, I’ll deal with it.”

“Alright bud, but let me know if you want any help. You’re not alone, okay? Either of you. I look forward to meeting Cam. And Jeff? I’m proud of you.”

“Thanks. And, uh, thanks.”

“Any time.”

Baby steps.

[grishamanimationstudios102]

Ronald Raccoon and Pals

Set in a colorful, 1970s-inspired world, Ronald Raccoon and Pals follows the adventures of Ronald Raccoon and his close-knit group of friends as they navigate teenage life, explore their individuality, and celebrate their differences. Packed with humor, groovy aesthetics, and heartfelt moments, the series is a nostalgic tribute to the era’s cultural vibrancy.

The Cast

Ronald Raccoon:

A free-spirited teen with a love for adventure and self-expression. Ronald is the son of Rack Raccoon, a retired slapstick cartoon star. While he respects his dad’s legacy, Ronald prefers spending his time exploring music, skateboarding, and hanging out with his eclectic group of friends. His charisma and natural leadership often inspire his pals, even if his impulsiveness sometimes leads them astray.

Rack Raccoon:

Ronald’s dad, Rack, was a legendary slapstick cartoon star from animation’s golden age. Now retired, Rack enjoys telling stories about his old Hollywood days, occasionally demonstrating his over-the-top cartoon antics to help Ronald and his friends solve problems. Despite their generational differences, Rack and Ronald share a strong bond.

Bernie Bear:

A mellow, soulful bear with an African-American accent. Bernie is the group’s voice of wisdom and an aspiring funk musician, often jamming on his bass guitar. He brings a cool, laid-back vibe to the crew, always ready to share life advice or a funky tune.

David Dog:

A lovable, easygoing American Greyhound of Latino descent, David is known for his relaxed personality and sharp mind. Despite his lazy demeanor, he’s an excellent problem-solver with a knack for turning chaos into opportunity. David loves sharing food from his culture with his friends, often introducing them to dishes like tacos, tamales, and churros. His kitchen skills and culinary knowledge make him a cherished member of the group.

Ricardo Rat:

The grumpy but lovable Italian-American rat with a heart of gold. Ricardo is the realist of the group, quick to point out flaws in their plans but always willing to lend a hand. He’s passionate about cooking, especially pizza, and dreams of owning his own pizzeria. Despite his sourpuss attitude, Ricardo’s loyalty to his friends runs deep.

Philip Fox:

The sophisticated British fox with a love for poetry and drama. Philip often adds a theatrical flair to the group’s adventures, narrating events in rhyme or offering dramatic commentary. While his refined demeanor sometimes clashes with the others’ casual attitudes, his poetic insights and wit make him an invaluable friend.

Rita Raccoon:

Ronald’s girlfriend and an independent, outspoken feminist. Rita is a passionate advocate for equality and environmental causes, often organizing community events and protests. She’s not afraid to stand up for what she believes in or call out the boys when they’re being immature. Rita’s fierce determination and clever humor make her an inspiring role model.

The Show’s Style and Themes

With its psychedelic 70s aesthetic, funky music, and warm humor, Ronald Raccoon and Pals blends slapstick comedy with heartfelt storytelling. The show celebrates cultural diversity, individuality, and friendship while addressing timely themes like activism, self-discovery, and community. Episodes often feature a mix of goofy hijinks, meaningful moments, and a touch of nostalgia, making it a perfect blend of humor and heart.

The animation style mirrors the charm of Hanna-Barbera classics with a touch of Schoolhouse Rock!’s vibrant design, while the dialogue reflects the slang and cultural vibes of the 1970s. The series’ mix of timeless themes and retro fun ensures its appeal to audiences of all ages.

[muchi13kitty]

Gift for @eskariolis-con-salsa she is Fake Meadow, her real name is "Eddie" she was a test experiment called "D-234" she suffered a lot Fake Meadow mistreated beaten tortured even se*****y abused her pink eye can not move because if she moves it her eye will explode with blood she has to wait 5 weeks for her eye to return to normal but Fake Meadow loves everyone no matter if you are a human or not if you are good or a villain a clone like Fake Peppino or Fake Noise it doesn't matter Fake Meadow loves you but Fake Meadow hates people like pizzahead to death

Fake Meadow She loves flowers very much fake Meadow smells like flowers her braids smell like honey Fake Meadow she has can run between 300 and 1,000 m/s like a bullet in the air. You can tame her with heart lollipops, heart gummies, or heart cookies. fake Meadow eats apples, carrots, cucumbers, bones, whether human, animal, or creature, frogs, candies, Taro, waffles, cookies, meat, pizza, tortillas, tacos, chips, nopales, chops, beef head, hearts, pears, chicken, pozole, bread, etc. Fake Meadow's blood is pink with glitter and tastes very delicious and sweet like a filling in a gum Another thing about Fake Meadow She is very intelligent, her brain is very gigantic and her skull is very impossible to break, something like the pachycephalosaurus fake Meadow plays 4 musical instruments: the saxophone, the trumpet, the violin and the piano Fake Meadow doesn't speak backwards like Fake Peppino Fake Meadow speaks normally she has the voice of Unikitty Alison Brie. Well Fake Meadow speaks 2 languages ​​English and Mexican Spanish Fake Meadow's voice in Mexican Spanish is done by "Cristina Hernandez" the voice of "Osito Bimbo"

Fake Meadow belongs to the "Flower Clan" [represents kindness, harmony, friendship, intelligence and being faithful fun and teamwork] Fake Meadow has elements that is a flower-shaped kunzite Fake Meadow doesn't know what love is? but well fake Meadow loves Meadow canssidy Fake Meadow takes care of her friends and Meadow canssidy (Fake Meadow is a faithful friend with a puppy)

fake Meadow has many wounds from experiments, blows, electricity, burns and se*** abuse all over her body, which is why she never takes off her long white gloves (they are to hide her arms and hands that look like they belong to a zombie but she is not a zombie) Fake Meadow's eyes at night can be used with a candle lamp [it can even kill vampires, ghosts or evil spirits] there are times that Fake Meadow can electrocute fake Meadow is sweet and tastes very sweet but don't eat it because it can give you diabetes from eating too much sugar [Fake Meadow is made of a lot of powdered sugar a lot of gum a little of Meadow's hair glitter human blood human eyes a drop of seal blood baby Weddell axolotl veins and a Jack Russell terrier puppy and an Abyssinian kitten]

Fake Meadow is very huggable by the way I didn't draw this, "Cute or scary?" did it, it's a YouTube channel

Fake Meadow be like:

[dksw0rld]

Last night I hosted my first Galantine's Day (technically night) at my house and it was amazing. I don’t know why I haven’t been doing this all along! We had wine, I made a whiskey punch, there was a Galantine's Day themed charcuterie board that spanned my whole dining room table, we made heart shaped pizzas, did face masks, made chocolate covered strawberries, talked and played games. It was genuinely so much fun and felt so good to celebrate our friendship and womanhood. I will be hosting a Galantine's Day party from now on. Next on my list to host is Taco Tuesday! 

[ao3feed-tf2ships]

RWBY: Team Neighborville

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/60923203

by Roborex1630

Team RWBY and the Red and Blu mercenaries as well as Miss Pauling are in a adventure they couldn't believe. They are in the town of neighborville. but they arrived seconds before the zombies started attacking. Follow the Huntresses in training, crazy mercs, and neighborhood heroes Nate timely, Patrice blazing, and crazed inventor Crazy Dave as they fight off Dr. Zomboss's hordes of clueless zombies and go on adventures that can make you laugh the schadenfreude.

Words: 17, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: RWBY, Plants vs Zombies, Team Fortress 2

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Nate Timely, Crazy Dave (Plants vs Zombies), Patrice Blazing, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, RED Scout (Team Fortress 2), BLU Scout (Team Fortress 2), RED Soldier (Team Fortress 2), BLU Soldier (Team Fortress 2), RED Pyro (Team Fortress 2), BLU Pyro (Team Fortress 2), RED Demoman (Team Fortress 2), BLU Demoman (Team Fortress 2), RED Heavy (Team Fortress 2), BLU Heavy (Team Fortress 2), RED Engineer (Team Fortress 2), BLU Engineer (Team Fortress 2), RED Medic (Team Fortress 2), BLU Medic (Team Fortress 2), RED Sniper (Team Fortress 2), BLU Sniper (Team Fortress 2), BLU Spy (Team Fortress 2), RED Spy (Team Fortress 2), Miss Pauling (Team Fortress 2), Dr. Zomboss (Plants vs Zombies), Nigel Blimpbottom, Frogpants (Plants vs Zombies), Tugboat (Plants vs Zombies), Captain Chestbeard, Saxton Hale

Relationships: Blake Belladonna & Ruby Rose & Weiss Schnee & Yang Xiao Long, Patrice Blazing & Nate Timely, Patrice Blazing & Crazy Dave, Miss Pauling/RED Scout (Team Fortress 2), BLU Team & RED Team (Team Fortress 2)

Additional Tags: Shipping, Plants vs. Zombies comic, Team Bonding, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Humor, Tacos, Pizza, Randomness, Funny, Silly, Sandvich (Team Fortress 2), Cookies, Friendship, Fanart

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/60923203

[getittogetherk]

October 6, 2024

Again, haven't written in a while. It's been just over a month, and also somewhat confusingly, i'm switching between this account and the other so the lapses in between entries look larger than they really are.

things feel better.

september i think was pretty good. i started making more relationships with people and work and have even started new "rounds", hitting up kiana, ahn, sook when she's there, michael c, fatima, and if she's there, brianne. i played pickleball about once a week, and for a couple consecutive fridays played at the la canada court.

for my birthday on the day itself (saturday), i met up with danielle and snicks at the hike behind jpl and we went for about a 2 hour walk, there and back, and snicks got to splash happily in the water, and it warmed my heart. afterward we had tacos and a strong margarita at home state like we'd done before, and my heart felt full. then i went home, cleaned some, and met up with some friends at ERB. matt k picked up me and jeanine, and we met tracy, ash, amy l, and later caroline, ahn, and much later, amir. we had nice chats and once people started going home, ahn, amy l, matt k, jb and i walked over to pizzanista and indulged in some delicious pizza before heading back. i had made sure the have like an aspirin before and hydrate so i didn't wake up with a hangover, fortunately.

portland was good. a lot of heavy food, walking around the neighborhoods which were weirdly empty, and a nice hike in a very green forest. oh also we went to mt rainier for a day and it was gorgeous. white-topped mountains (hard to tell if it was snow), trees, and little beautiful, clear lakes everywhere. the air smelled wonderful.

i was pretty upset and disappointed though, when i didn't get a call/text from nida and lorena. these are some of my favorite people and with whom i've had some of the most intense friendships with, and i felt abandoned and forgotten, and i had to keep reminding myself of the people who did remember, and who did come out, and not dwell on those who didn't. nida ended up calling me later, and left an apologetic voicemail, which eventually led to some passive-aggressive, long-repressed anger and hurt-filled texts, and finally an hour long crying conversation (obviously only me crying) in which we kind of resolved to try and keep in better touch and we have been since, and i felt this wonderful sense of peace and calm, like all of the resentment was gone and suddenly i had some peace and was able to not take it very personally that people had busy lives in which i could get displaced/forgotten for stretches.

i went to church this morning (where i cried, per uj), and will be going to conan's first birthday later this afternoon, at 5, at m grill, an ayce brazilian bbq, in koreatown. i'll be seeing some old faces: grace y, sue h, and vicky. i have some mixed feelings about vicky especially, but we'll see. caroline has been pretty persistent in me making up with her, saying she genuinely cares about me, and that was not a common thing to find in this world, and that she seems to have changed, matured, and gotten wiser, so i should hear her out and try to work things out. we'll see.

i'm resolving to journal more (yet again). i don't know why i'm so resistant to things that i know are good for me: journaling, reading, walking while listening to The Read. it's strange. i keep doing the things that suck my soul and rot my brain and body. must keep this momentum going.

[brookston]

Holidays 8.20

Holidays

Bad Hair Day

Bamboo Celebration Day

Dial the Phone Day

Dogfight Day

Father’s Day (Nepal)

Feast of Asmá’ (Bahá'í)

First Onam (Parts of India)

Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)

International Amy Adams Day

International Andrew Garfield Day

International Day of Medical Transporters

International FinOps Day

John Deere 820 Day

Meitei Language Day (Manipur, India)

Missy Elliot Appreciation Day

Moon’s Birthday (Aztec)

National Accessible Air Travel Day

National 820 Day

National Exotic Dancer Day

National Fintech Day

National Latina Day

National Radio Day

National Scientific Temper Day (India)

Nepali Bhasa Manyata Diwas (Sikkim, India)

Neymarzetes Day (Brazil)

Nuremberg Code Anniversary Day

Puffball Day (French Republic)

Renewable Energy Day (India)

Rest Day (Hungary)

Saint Stephen’s Day (Hungary)

1619 Day

Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Stop and Smell Your Dog Day

Virtual Worlds Day

World Issue Day (Lagos)

World Mosquito Day

World Union Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

International Hawaiian Pizza Day

Lemonade Freedom Day

National Bacon Lover’s Day

National Honey Day (Sweden)

National Lemonade Day

World Day of French Fries (Spanish-speaking Countries)

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of the FALINTIL (East Timor)

Candalia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Estonia (from USSR, 1991)

Iska Akaliazen (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Lucena City Charter Day (Philippines)

Revolution Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)

3rd Tuesday in August

International Chalk the Walks Day [3rd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tapas Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trusting Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 20 (3rd Full Week of August)

Friendship Week (thru 8.26)

Festivals Beginning August 20, 2024

DakotaFest (Mitchell, South Dakota) [thru 8.22]

Dutchess County Fair (Rhinebeck, New York) [thru 8.25]

MUTEK Montreal (Montreal, Canada) [thru 8.25]

Nice Jazz Festival (Nice, France) [thru 8.23]

Peterborough Beer Festival (Peterborough, Great Britain) [thru 8.24]

Feast Days

Alan Lee (Artology)

Amadour (Christian; Saint)

Benvenuto Cellini (Positivist; Saint)

Bernard of Clairvaux (Christian; Saint)

Birth of the White Buffalo (Lakota)

Boil-Over Thursday (Shamanism)

Cuitlahac Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

The Day of Total Victory (Unification Church)

Expensive Rum Day (Pastafarian)

First Light Altar Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Georg Häfner, Blessed (Christian; Saint)

Glam Dicind (Celtic Book of Days)

Greg Bear (Writerism)

Harpo Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Helena (Muppetism)

Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai (Christian; Saint)

H. P. Lovecraft (Writerism)

H. R. Van Dongen (Artology)

Maria De Mattias (Christian; Saint)

Media Aestas II (Pagan)

Oswine of Deira (Christian; Martyr)

Philibert of Jumièges (Christian; Saint)

Samuel (Christian; Prophet)

William and Catherine Booth (Church of England)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [28 of 37]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [43 of 57]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [21 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [37 of 60]

Premieres

Angie, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1973)

The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley (Novel; 1941)

Coonskin (Animated Film; 1975)

1812 Overture, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Concert Overture; 1882)

Elias: The Little Rescue Boat (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Feather Finger (WB MM Cartoon; 1966)

Garden State (Film; 2004)

Graffiti Bridge, by Prince (Album; 1990)

Hot Dogs (Ub Iwerks Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 1928)

I Never Changes My Altitude (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1937)

Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright (Novel; 1942)

A Kiddie’s Kitty (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Lego DC Batman: Family Matters (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Mice Follies (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

Mickey Blue Eyes (Film; 1999)

Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh, by Orrin Tucker (Song; 1939)

Perfect Blue (Anime Film; 1999)

Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay (Novel; 1967)

Pocket Full of Kryptonite, by The Spin Doctors (Album; 1991)

Scary Crows (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Scooby Doo! Stage Fright (WB Animated Film; 2013)

Slow Train Coming, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1979)

The Talk of the Town (Film; 1942)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Film; 1999)

Trailer Life, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann (Novel; 1966)

Yo Gabba Gabba! (Children’s TV Series; 2007)

Today’s Name Days

Bernd, Bernhard, Ronald (Austria)

Samuil (Bulgaria)

Bernard, Samuel (Croatia)

Bernard (Czech Republic)

Bernhard (Denmark)

Benno, Bernhard, Päärn, Pääro, Pärn, Pärno, Pearn, Pearu (Estonia)

Sami, Samu, Samuel, Samuli (Finland)

Bernard, Samuel (France)

Bernhard, Bernd, Ronald, Samuel (Germany)

Samouel (Greece)

István (Hungary)

Bernardo (Italy)

Bernhards, Bierants, Biernis, Boriss (Latvia)

Bernardas, Neringa, Tolvinas (Lithuania)

Bernhard, Bernt (Norway)

Bernard, Jan, Sabin, Samuel, Samuela, Sieciech, Sobiesław, Świeciech, Szwieciech (Poland)

Anabela (Slovakia)

Bernardo, Samuel (Spain)

Bernhard, Bernt (Sweden)

Eustace, Ostap, Samuel (Ukraine)

Barnard, Bernard, Bernardo, Filbert, Philbert, Rey, Reyna, Reynalda, Reynaldo, Reynold (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 233 of 2024; 133 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 17 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 16 Av 5784

Islamic: 14 Safar 1446

J Cal: 23 Purple; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 7 August 2024

Moon: 99%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Benvenuto Cellini]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 62 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 30 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.20

Holidays

Bad Hair Day

Bamboo Celebration Day

Dial the Phone Day

Dogfight Day

Father’s Day (Nepal)

Feast of Asmá’ (Bahá'í)

First Onam (Parts of India)

Indian Akshay Urja Day (India)

International Amy Adams Day

International Andrew Garfield Day

International Day of Medical Transporters

International FinOps Day

John Deere 820 Day

Meitei Language Day (Manipur, India)

Missy Elliot Appreciation Day

Moon’s Birthday (Aztec)

National Accessible Air Travel Day

National 820 Day

National Exotic Dancer Day

National Fintech Day

National Latina Day

National Radio Day

National Scientific Temper Day (India)

Nepali Bhasa Manyata Diwas (Sikkim, India)

Neymarzetes Day (Brazil)

Nuremberg Code Anniversary Day

Puffball Day (French Republic)

Renewable Energy Day (India)

Rest Day (Hungary)

Saint Stephen’s Day (Hungary)

1619 Day

Southern HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Stop and Smell Your Dog Day

Virtual Worlds Day

World Issue Day (Lagos)

World Mosquito Day

World Union Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

International Hawaiian Pizza Day

Lemonade Freedom Day

National Bacon Lover’s Day

National Honey Day (Sweden)

National Lemonade Day

World Day of French Fries (Spanish-speaking Countries)

Independence & Related Days

Anniversary of the FALINTIL (East Timor)

Candalia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Estonia (from USSR, 1991)

Iska Akaliazen (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Lucena City Charter Day (Philippines)

Revolution Day (Morocco, Western Sahara)

3rd Tuesday in August

International Chalk the Walks Day [3rd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tapas Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Trusting Tuesday [3rd Tuesday of Each Month]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 20 (3rd Full Week of August)

Friendship Week (thru 8.26)

Festivals Beginning August 20, 2024

DakotaFest (Mitchell, South Dakota) [thru 8.22]

Dutchess County Fair (Rhinebeck, New York) [thru 8.25]

MUTEK Montreal (Montreal, Canada) [thru 8.25]

Nice Jazz Festival (Nice, France) [thru 8.23]

Peterborough Beer Festival (Peterborough, Great Britain) [thru 8.24]

Feast Days

Alan Lee (Artology)

Amadour (Christian; Saint)

Benvenuto Cellini (Positivist; Saint)

Bernard of Clairvaux (Christian; Saint)

Birth of the White Buffalo (Lakota)

Boil-Over Thursday (Shamanism)

Cuitlahac Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

The Day of Total Victory (Unification Church)

Expensive Rum Day (Pastafarian)

First Light Altar Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Georg Häfner, Blessed (Christian; Saint)

Glam Dicind (Celtic Book of Days)

Greg Bear (Writerism)

Harpo Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Helena (Muppetism)

Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai (Christian; Saint)

H. P. Lovecraft (Writerism)

H. R. Van Dongen (Artology)

Maria De Mattias (Christian; Saint)

Media Aestas II (Pagan)

Oswine of Deira (Christian; Martyr)

Philibert of Jumièges (Christian; Saint)

Samuel (Christian; Prophet)

William and Catherine Booth (Church of England)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [28 of 37]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [43 of 57]

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [21 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [37 of 60]

Premieres

Angie, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1973)

The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley (Novel; 1941)

Coonskin (Animated Film; 1975)

1812 Overture, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Concert Overture; 1882)

Elias: The Little Rescue Boat (Animated TV Series; 2005)

Feather Finger (WB MM Cartoon; 1966)

Garden State (Film; 2004)

Graffiti Bridge, by Prince (Album; 1990)

Hot Dogs (Ub Iwerks Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney Cartoon; 1928)

I Never Changes My Altitude (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1937)

Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright (Novel; 1942)

A Kiddie’s Kitty (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Lego DC Batman: Family Matters (WB Animated Film; 2019)

Mice Follies (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

Mickey Blue Eyes (Film; 1999)

Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh, by Orrin Tucker (Song; 1939)

Perfect Blue (Anime Film; 1999)

Picnic at Hanging Rock, by Joan Lindsay (Novel; 1967)

Pocket Full of Kryptonite, by The Spin Doctors (Album; 1991)

Scary Crows (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1937)

Scooby Doo! Stage Fright (WB Animated Film; 2013)

Slow Train Coming, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1979)

The Talk of the Town (Film; 1942)

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Film; 1999)

Trailer Life, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann (Novel; 1966)

Yo Gabba Gabba! (Children’s TV Series; 2007)

Today’s Name Days

Bernd, Bernhard, Ronald (Austria)

Samuil (Bulgaria)

Bernard, Samuel (Croatia)

Bernard (Czech Republic)

Bernhard (Denmark)

Benno, Bernhard, Päärn, Pääro, Pärn, Pärno, Pearn, Pearu (Estonia)

Sami, Samu, Samuel, Samuli (Finland)

Bernard, Samuel (France)

Bernhard, Bernd, Ronald, Samuel (Germany)

Samouel (Greece)

István (Hungary)

Bernardo (Italy)

Bernhards, Bierants, Biernis, Boriss (Latvia)

Bernardas, Neringa, Tolvinas (Lithuania)

Bernhard, Bernt (Norway)

Bernard, Jan, Sabin, Samuel, Samuela, Sieciech, Sobiesław, Świeciech, Szwieciech (Poland)

Anabela (Slovakia)

Bernardo, Samuel (Spain)

Bernhard, Bernt (Sweden)

Eustace, Ostap, Samuel (Ukraine)

Barnard, Bernard, Bernardo, Filbert, Philbert, Rey, Reyna, Reynalda, Reynaldo, Reynold (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 233 of 2024; 133 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 34 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 17 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 16 Av 5784

Islamic: 14 Safar 1446

J Cal: 23 Purple; Twosday [23 of 30]

Julian: 7 August 2024

Moon: 99%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Benvenuto Cellini]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 62 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 30 of 31)

[groundzeroevent]

Get ready to embark on a globe-trotting adventure with this exciting birthday bash!

Decorations: Transform your space into a mini world. Hang colorful travel bunting across the ceiling, and create a backdrop featuring iconic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower or Taj Mahal. Scatter inflatable globes and miniature airplanes around the room. Use world map tablecloths and decorate chairs with flags from different countries.

Food: Let the food be your passport to deliciousness! Set up a variety of stations offering international fare. Have a taco bar with all the fixings for a taste of Mexico. Offer mini pizzas and build-your-own pasta for an Italian adventure. Don't forget a sushi station with chopsticks for a trip to Japan. Keep it simple with bowls of popcorn and mini hotdogs for a classic American touch.

Activities:

Boarding Pass Invitations: Design invitations that look like boarding passes, with the party details as the flight information and the birthday guest of honor as the pilot!

Passport to Fun: Craft paper passports for guests upon arrival. Throughout the party, they can collect stamps at different activity stations. The completed passport can be their entry for a grand prize draw.

Globe Scavenger Hunt: Hide small travel trinkets or candies around the room. Create a list of clues referencing different countries, leading guests on a scavenger hunt to find them.

DIY Crafts Corner: Set up a station with supplies for guests to create their own travel souvenirs. They can decorate miniature suitcases, design postcards to their future selves, or color world maps.

Photo Booth Fun: Create a photo booth area with a fun backdrop like a world map or a hot air balloon. Provide silly hats, boas, and props representing different cultures for guests to take wacky pictures.

Entertainment:

World Music Playlist: Create a lively playlist with upbeat music from different countries. Salsa, Bollywood tunes, Irish jigs – let the music take you on a journey around the globe!

Limbo Contest: String up a limbo bar and play energetic world music. Guests can compete to see who can limbo the lowest while representing different dance styles from various cultures.

Pin the Landmark on the Map: Blindfold guests and have them try to pin a paper landmark cutout onto a giant world map on the wall.

Favors: Send your guests home with a taste of the world! Fill small suitcases (favor boxes) with candies or trinkets from different countries. You can also give mini globes, inflatable world maps, or colorful friendship bracelets.

This "Around the World" theme is perfect for any age group and can be customized based on the birthday person's interests. So, pack your bags, grab your boarding pass, and get ready to celebrate in style!pen_sparktunesharemore_vert