#posted 03.05.20

[hermitcraftheadcanons]

Apartment AU Masterpost:

-Everyone lives in an apartment complex.

-Xisuma as landlord? Or just a really well looked up to person in the complex. Whichever works for you!

-Pranks all the time. Everyone's constantly pranking each other.

-Everyone has 'normal people jobs.' Perhaps Joe is an English teacher? (Cleo's also a teacher. (Irl.) Omg, what if they teach at the same school?) Maybe Bdubs is a professional interior designer? Maybe Cub builds computers? Go nuts, get creative.

-Actually, screw it. Bdubs works at IKEA.

-Everyone meets up every Friday night to go to the pub or go bowling or just do something together.

-They have a discord server because of course they do.

-European Hermits are early-birds, American hermits are night-owls. (This is the only way I can think to portray timezones and waking hours when everyone's living in the same building.)

-They all still love minecraft, don't worry.

-Keralis has so many books his flat is basically a library. He lets people come in and borrow books for a small fee.

-Tinfoilchef is a bit of a shut in but everyone makes an effort to include him.

-Etho would also be a cryptid like Xisuma. Like, we've seen Xisuma's whole body other than his face but the best we know about Etho is that: 1. He exists and 2. From the, like, one single real life photo he's shared, he broke a headset. Also, 3. Allegedly, he's buff. Otherwise; Beef and Etho invite Pause (who lives elsewhere,) over at random intervals to [play ctm maps] and do god knows what. Bdoubs works at IKEA but is the person to make the room displays, y'know.

-Scar sells dice and other tabletop rpg supplies that he designs. His shop is magiccrystals. com

-Cub and Scar made business with the guy who runs the fight club. They get half of the profits and everyone’s always wondering how those two can always afford the most expensive Christmas gifts for everyone.

-Mumbo could be an engineer or work on a STEM field, and he works on some really important and impressive projects and that would explain his polish person, Exept, when it comes to helping another hermit to change a lightbulb or fix a microwave he is an absolute disaster.

-Grian owns a parrot that knows everyones' names and faces and greets them when they come in.

-Scar's apartment has a balcony filled with plants and he has to bring them inside for the winter. (I'm assuming that all 4 seasons happen) Even without the balcony plants, his place is still full of indoor plants including his favorite venus flytrap. There is always a plant knocked over from Jellie's shenanigans. Jellie is supposed to stay in his apartment, however she keeps on getting out somehow, even getting to Xisuma's apartment occasionally.

-There's a grassy patch out back that acts as a backyard, but Stress has effectively taken it over. Perfect for flowers of all colors in the spring and summer, and during the winter you KNOW she’s building an ice castle from which to throw snowball at all her friends.

-Beef and, when he’s visiting, Pause get a lot of questions about Etho (since unlike X who gets one tightlipped visitor in shape of his brother Etho gets two that are willing to be vague) however they charge a fee for people to guess. They’d never actually sell him out but the guesses are always something technical related so there’s not much of a risk, he actually works as a botanist/gardener.

-Iskall is extremely good at ice hockey and, as resident Canadians, Etho and Beef have played with him. However Iskall only knows that he’s played with Beef because both beef and etho refuse to tell him who in the rink was Etho when they played.

-The only person who’s seen Xisuma's face is Keralis.

-Nobody knows what Grian does for a job. Like, when they think they've figured it out what he does, they're thrown through a loop again because he does a lot of odd jobs. Need help with a pet? Grian can help! Rip on your clothes? Don't worry, Grian knows how to fix it! Ect.

-Grian's an assassin. Iskall will make assassin jokes and Grian, without looking up from his coffee will go: "that's not how that works!" And then go back to being quiet. Everyone's like ????

-I love the idea of Grian knowing all these cool facts and when anyone acts he says 'it's because of his job,' and they still can't figure out what he does. He keeps correcting Iskall on assassin facts but they're all just like 'oh Grian sure must love those types of movies, huh.'

-Cleo teaches Joe's kid. (That means she teaches either year 2 or year 3? // 1st grade or 2nd grade?)

-Grian's family is in the mafia but he mostly just vibes. Sure, he works with the mafia, but he keeps his regular life away from work and none of the hermits (besides False because she saved the Mafia boss) know. Imagine boss looking at False and going, 'oh hey, you're already protected.' False is confused and says 'what?' But the Mafia Boss has already left.

-Etho is always in full kakashi cosplay.

-Honorary hermits apartment au: zloy and pixl have a radio show but also act as private investigators. Falsie hires them to investigate how she got the protection of the mafia. On their investigation they start asking Elybeat (that lives on a building right next to the hermits) about weird behaviors that he might have seen. Ely just goes ‘all of what they do is weird. I’ve recorded weird stuff they say and remixed it. They though it was funny and put the remixes as their elevator music.'

-Everyone thinks Etho is an assassin, but really, he's a horticulturist/botanist. He doesn't bother to correct them cause it means he doesn't get pranked, (or, as often.) Maybe someone finds out eventually? I don't know who. Maybe Doc and they keep it hush hush cause they think it's funny or something. || Maybe Bdubs finds out, (because I think he's seen Naruto?? Swear I saw a Twitter post where he recognized a Naruto joke) and he's the only one that recognizes that Etho's dressed like Kakashi and NOT an assassin. (That's lowkey a joke though.)

-Someone warns Grian against parking euro because they think Etho's an assassin and Grian just kinda goes: "alright then." Knowing that there's no way Etho is an assassin, but also realising how the hermits view that profession, he most likely starts feeling kinda bad.

-Beef used to be a car photographer and Mumbo takes photographs as a sideline when he was in college. They would occasionally chat about their past experience in the photography field and sometimes gush about cars.

-Hermit Challenges was actually a truth or dare game among the hermits. Mumbo was basically delirious from lack of sleep to explain his absolute gremlin energy. Mumbo dares Grian to steal front doors before passing out and everyone decided that was the end of that game. No one thought Grian would do the dare. A week later, everyone but Etho and Xisuma were missing their front doors (including Grian.) He stuck them in his bathroom so no one immediately saw the doors.

-As already established, Joe constantly hangs at Keralis's library. Let's say he also has a hobby for writing, and one time he was asking to himself how *insert really specific murder scene* would work in real life. Grian or Doc then overheard him and answers him in a also very specific way, he thanks them with 0 concerns and continues with his writing.

-Etho has been an assassin but it was many years ago, and retired to care for plants. (As you do.) He got hired by The Goatfather but intentionally botched the killings because, 'hey now those two are friends >:(' He and Bdubs still have the endrod game but it involves the whole apartment building and several discord messages going "located" or "flashlight on the move.'

-Stress paints all the hermit's door and puts their names on them. (-🌿)

-The organisization Grian works for is called "The Watchers!" They text him in riddles of what his missions are. This is so that if anyone peaks at his phone, they don't understand immediately!

-What if in YHS happen because of grian family and Sam is from an other family who does not support the grain family. So grian will not bring up high school and school and when joe and Cleo talk about there student grian sometimes cringes remember what happened in high school. (-🌿)

-Grian and Mumbo's hobbits holes were two cupboards they found on their respective apartments and decided to make a room out of them and named them their hobbit holes after they found out they both had them (-🐿️)

-What if it's a really old apartment and the 'hobbit holes' actually connect to each others apartment. (-🐺)

-Mumbo has these periods when he overworks like crazy and when they're over - he sleeps for like 24-36 hours straight. Everybody knows about this and help him if he falls asleep in random plaxes around the apartment. Mumbo once fell asleep right before his door and Grian tried to help him get inside while mumbling. Guess which remix were aded to the elevator music next week.

-Whenever anyone is annoyed or upset, grian sometimes pops his head up from his book and goes "who do I need to kill?" No one takes him seriously though he *would* kill for any of his friends.

-People who have left the server work nearby but have moved to new apartments. (For example, Welsknight works at a nearby food truck) (-☘️)

-With the Grian being a spy you get several oints where he thinks he's been found out but no one puts the and two together. They're all like: "Grian just likes action movies I guess."

-Scar's "wizard robe" is a bathrobe he owns. One day he forgets to change and just walks out in a bathrobe and no pants.

-Since Cleo teaches Joe's kid, maybe that extends to all the hermits' kids? Like the ones that have them, like not at the same time but at some point you know?

-I don't think I saw any regarding headgames, but I could've missed it. Anyways, what if Cleo wanted to make a big Scrapbook in her free time of all her friends, so she asks everybody to try and get pictures. So the PVP heads are candid photos, and the tradeable one are like selfies or group pictures. The other heads could just be a requirement for the picture like have a sheep in the picture. And maybe she gives the winners dinner payed by her or something.

-On the head cannon that hermits that aren’t on the server work nearby, Biffa is the actual mayor.

-Are mobs (and half mobs by extension) still a thing in apartment au? Cause if not I propose that Jevin just has cloob blue dyed hair and a bunch of blue tattoos.

-XB bakes a lot and always shares the food he makes with the others. They adore his cookies. Scar really wants to make some cookies in the shapes of disney characters with him, but he's too shy to ask. (-nameless anon)

-Perhaps Mumbo and Iskall are also protected by the mafia because of grian (perhaps scar is too) They and False have a 'we are protected and have no idea why' group (-Frost Anon)

-Imagine the hermits want to throw a nice party but X and Etho were kinda like “yeah no i’ll pass” so they make it a masquerade so that they can come- and then the whole night no one knows who anyone really is, but still has a really good time.

-Grian wanted a pet parrot, but felt like he would be terrible at taking care of one so he has toy parrots instead, those that have pre made phrases and such, and he is proud of his toy parrot pets. (-🐿️)

-Xisuma hosts a podcast! That's where all of his Xisuma speaks content ends up coming from. (-🇵🇭)

-Etho has a secret food blog called "Cooking With Etho" (based on the actual cooking with Etho segment in usually his modded stuff.) He also knows that there's hermits that either: have no idea how to cook properly or can't cook real meals due to their work. To help with this, sometimes he leaves finished meals or recipes with them (outside their doors or somehow in their fridge) and no one knows who does it prompting the theory of a self care ghost haunting the building.

(All of those in red were from Anons!)

-Joe works as a LAMP Developer.

-False has an assortment of swords, knives, etc. She even had a bow! She also has a dummy to practice fighting on.

(-@unpredictable-pancake.)

-Stress is a wedding designer. (-@the-angry-numel.)

-Iskall also works at IKEA with Bdubs. (-@mandatedempathy.)

-There's a local club that's basically fight club a few people are in. False, Iskall and a couple others are in.

-Hypno is kind of a bit of a loner. Everyone on the floor considers him a friend but he doesn't really have a best friend. He just does his own thing and people usually let him do that. He's fine with it.

-XB and Joe spend a lot of time at Keralis' library house just reading the books. Keralis usually charges every except those two because 1. They're there so often and 2. They're basically his room mates at this point. (-@tomcatacaphe.)

-Ren works at a bar as a bartender or musician. (-@friendlyneighbourhoodpieceoftrash.)

-Building on the last thing with Ren as a musician or working at a bar, he works at a bar as a server but does live music on weekends. It's the bar/pub/restaurant that the hermits sometimes hang out at together.

-I can see Grian working at a pet shop but also on the side of the mafia because of YHS. Or at least he used to be involved with the mafia.

-Beef once had to cart Etho off to the hospital for a chemical burn and explain to the other tenants that the explosion heard suspiciously close by wasn’t mafia activity. Etho is just an idiot with a hobby of making homemade fireworks.

-(-@limelocked.)

-False is the chief of police for the town they live in. Iskall is a hired assassin who normally gets employed by the mysterious figure GOATfather. Doc is the GOATfather, head of the mafia. Falsie is trying to hunt down these two as well as any others associated with them. The nHo is part of the mafia. Falsie has no idea any of them are in the mafia and they refuse to kill her because she has become such a close friend to them.

-Maybe Grian is a spy instead of an assassin? The group the Watchers is a government policing organization bent on trying to crack down on mob activity in the area.

(-@creator0fchaos.)

-The elevator music is hermitgang and remixes. -(@lookitsspacekween.)

-Zedaph is a game show host. Tango makes cartoons. (-@aphion-and-on.)

-Come on, let Iskall play ice hockey! Maybe not professionally if it doesn't work for the AU but he's v good at least. (-@automnalsaffron.)

-Grian maybe works at an animal shelter or an animal rehabilitation center. So everyone who has a pet usually comes to him for help if their pet is sick or injured. (-@vahco.)

-Grian has a safe full of guns, all the Hermits know about it but think they're fake. (-@xxpzmistxx)

-X never comes out of his room so no one’s seen his face. The only way he communicates is via text, Discord, and an intercom right by his door. He almost always gets groceries whenever the hermits are busy and therefore have no time to go out- but the hermits know he’s a real person because sometimes they hear guitar solos coming from his room.

-Hypno is a voice actor!

-Joe and Cleo often go home at the same time, and all the way it's almost always Cleo complaining about her students being bratty and the likes (Bonus points if Joe carpools with Cleo, who owns a car.)

-False unknowingly helps the boss of the mafia after seeing him wounded on a street one day, earning her their protection.

-As a callback to Season 6, Stress became a cat lady for a bit while False became a dog lady. As an added bonus: Cleo became nuts when Cub decided to gift her with spiders for her birthday or some other event.

-Mumbo still sidelines as a cameraman/film director for short documentaries and comedy sketches where he often invites Zed and his buddy Jack to act maybe?

-The first time X was proven to be an actual person was when the girls temporarily kicked the boys out to have the apartment all to themselves for a girls’ night which prompted the boys to have their own boys’ night. X was wearing his grey helmet that night so his face was still obscured tho, and from that day forward they always had a weekly girls’ night and boys’ night alternating on which group gets to have the apartment to themselves.

-False may seem like she can take a shot or two, but in reality she’s very lightweight and easily drunk, and is always the first one wasted. She becomes a flirty drunk who flirts with everyone and everything when she’s tipsy, an angry drunk the more she drinks and eventually a sad drunk before passing out. Cleo and Stress, her drinking buddies, always find amusement in this.

-As a callback to Xb living a thousand blocks away from society in s7, maybe he lives at the highest floor where not many (if not no one) occupies?

(-@heyitsroby.)

-Civil War started because they used to get groceries delivered to their doors and Grian started stealing them when they were left in the doorstep. Everyone stole each others groceries until one day they went into teamss of one side vs the other side of the corridor to the other until Grian stole so many groceries Dic was like 'Dammit!' He started going to the store to get groceries instead of getting them delivered to his door after that. (-@sayeshaa1108.)

-Regarding apartment au: Zedaph is similar to miu iruma from danganronpa: making the weirdest inventions and coaxing the other hermits into doing weird things for science. (-@oh-hecc-im-stupid.)

-Idk if Doc has a profession yet in the apartment au, but it just struck me- what if he owned a private casino?? Cause of s7? Just a thought! (-@853dragons.)

-Cleo really enjoys doing miniature diorama scenes. Like the tiny dudes from "Night at The Museum". She's like crazy good at it, and Joe will sometimes base his poems and stories off of her dioramas. Also maybe Joe has published a book of poems and short stories? (-@lynxes15.)

-Doc works as a social engineer and part time mafia boss. He rarely shows up for game nights. However, when he does, nobody else stands a chance.

-Tango, Impulse and Zedaph go over to each other's rooms so often they practically live together in an apartment room 3X bigger than everyone else.

(-@trashedeggnog.)

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-Everyone finds out Grian is an assassin/mafia boss because someone from a different gang (*cough cough* sam gladiator *cough cough*) found out where he lives and tried to murder him. Queue epic gun fight scene. If you want some angst, Grian gets shot a couple of times in the fight but didn’t realize it because of the adrenaline and passes out. (-Anon.)

-Imagine someone like, finding Grian's guns and weapons and just being :0 and Grian is a little nervous. But then the other hermit just think the guns are cool (it's probably either etho or doc) and they're just gushing over how cool the guns are. Grian is relieved. (-Anon.)

-iJevin owns at least one gun. He's not in the mafia or a cop or anything, it's just cool and legal so he as one. He's the constant counter for the other gun owning hermits who have them for more mafia related purposes (context: jevin owns at least one gun irl) (-Anon.)

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[03.05.20] I saw that people posted images of their own ipad notes and I figured I would share mine too. I am very grateful to have this convenient piece of tech in my life.

[shuubelly]

What an Introvert does at home🥞, 03.05.20🌻

  So after procrastinating for a long time I’m finally back at writing my blog😅! So ever since circuit breaker was announced, me and my family have been staying home and doing our work, my parents are working from home, I’m studying from home, and my brother who’s currently in the army is working out from home. So I’ve also been exercising because I’m motivated to get more fit and toned, and its been going along quite well. I’ve been doing an hour of stretching and yoga everyday and i feel more relaxed and flexible each day, i can even touch the floor when i bend down now! CB gave me a lot of time to mentally de-stress, and i think its so important to mentally unwind yourself for some time and for me, going to school mentally stresses me because I’m kinda a loner and don’t hang around people, so school really takes a toll on me😣. But I’ve been coping really well at home, i mean being able to stay home, do my stuff alone, study alone at peace with no disruptions and being in isolation is exactly my cup of tea, so here’s what I’ve been up to:

  So I’ve been painting a lot. Like on one day i painted for 7 hours straight that’s insane. I’m not an art student, but 7 hours painting just sounds like so long to me that by the end of it i was so tired😴. I painted 2 Ghibli scenes because i am obsessed with Ghibli films💚💚. I painted a scene from The Wind Rises and Spirited Away, the two really iconic scenes i always see on pinterest. I also painted random aesthetic pictures like a random aesthetic pink-blue sky i googled and a failed sunflower field which my mom says, looks like a zombie apocalypse😂. And then i had a sudden thought, haha wouldn’t it be cool if i painted a scene from one of the IkeSeries games... oH👀. Ye so that’s what happened. I even kept random wooden boxes my dad had from his alcohol collection and re painted it to look aesthetic and display in my room. Why did i paint all these you might ask, well i always see aesthetic room pictures on pinterest and youtube and it’s somewhat a trend right now to stick aesthetic pictures on your wall. So i thought that was cute and i also wanted to stick aesthetic pictures on my wall, but i thought it would be cuter and more meaningful to my room if i painted them myself.

  So i went on this whole crazy fiasco where i wanted to re decorate my room and i ordered a pink sailor moon tapestry, a insane amount of fake flowers, kept beer bottles that my dad was gonna throw away, i ordered a load of stuff because i wanted to re decorate my room, and also fiLm it because i thought it would be cool. Idk what i was thinking but hey its circuit breaker and i have time why not. I’m not even sure if i’m gonna film and post it because I’m too shy to put my face on youtube and I’m purely doing it as like a video diary for me because it seems fun. But i don’t wanna keep it private like i wanna actually post it because it seems cool, but what if people recognize me?? What if i embarrass myself because I’m awkward?? This seems like a terrible idea but let’s see what happens:>

  Also i had this random thought one morning at 3am. I was thinking how excited i am to grow up and move out and be independent and responsible for myself. Like i cant wait to have my own job, manage my own house and my lifestyle. All that seems so cool to me and i was thinking of journalling it down in my book. Okay so here’s ideally how i would like my future to be. I will be working as a vet at a Veterinary Hospital in any country i don’t mind i just really wanna be a vet. I will like in a 2 room apartment, decorated to my aesthetic of course. I will meal prep a week in advanced so that i don’t have to be to busy everyday to cook. I’ll spend my time thrifting and exploring the area I’m in and living a simple life. Also, i will adopt a pet. I currently cant have a pet because my father’s allergic to animals so that’s a shame for me, but i will have a pet, he or she will be my best friend and i will go everywhere with him or her. i will also continue maintaining my healthy lifestyle, working out eating healthy and stuff, and that will be the life i aspire to live. Its not a very lavish life, but i wanna be somewhere i can mentally heal and relax and not be so bothered and affected by city life.

  I’ve thought about the countries i wanna live in so here are the candidates. 1. Japan. So japan holds my interest, like i love Japanese culture, i find the way of life when i visited then really relaxing and and i find their teachings and way of life really suited for me. But the society there isn’t that good as I’ve heard, so I’m quite skeptical about moving there, since Japanese language and customs are quite hard to pick up too. 2. Australia. Australia has many universities and programmes for vet studies and it seems like a really nice urban place to stay in. But, the weather is really really hot there, like I’m used to hot weather, but i heard Australia is even hotter. Also, I’m not very sure what an Australian way of life is or their customs. it’s all so foreign to me and I’m kinda apprehensive about it. 3. America. So i didn’t think much about this, I’m just basing it off the idea that i want somewhere where i can explore, have thrift stores and be alone. But there are many MANY complications i foresee. So firstly, there are many people not really asian-friendly, like there are a lot, but there’s just that bunch and I’m not sure how i can see myself overcoming or ignoring it. secondly, their way of life and traditions is really different. like they're more outgoing and bold, whereas I’m really introverted and conservative, so that might cause some problems. And like life there seems really bold and like kinda risky for me, like i don’t think I’m mentally prepared to live there, at least not now. but i see many amazing and cool things happening in america which i really wanna experience so that’s a factor that’s really pulling me in.

  i hope everyone is doing fine in this period of time. its really hard for everyone and i think its important to take the time you have at home to unwind and relax and take this as an opportunity to distance yourself from your work or studies stress and burdens, i hope my entry today take your mind off something and it provides some form of entertainment to you. Hope you all stay well and thank you for reading!

Cheers~🌸🌸

[write-as-raine]

From Dreams We Must Wake

     I could write, for hours upon hours; I could spin consonants and vowels into beaches covered in a thousand tiny pearls of sand, I could write moonlight onto cherry blossoms, I could even write you here into my arms. Eventually, all that is written must come to be. Maybe not today, maybe not in this world, on this plane of existence, but in some form or another, it will happen. It’s a dizzying knowledge to have, that with blank space and one long sleepless night I can push this world over the edge of existence and recreate it. But all I have in the time being, is a page, and a pen that is low on ink, and a sky that is turning gray and light and now. I cannot write myself. I can only write that which exists beyond me. So you see the limits of my power, my vast and hollow kingdom, where everything is paper and echoes and you. 

-excerpt from my mind

     Who knew that snappy blog posts and ramblings about my goings-on would come to a rather severe close? I certainly did. It’s pretty normal for me to live my life on a cycle of ups and downs, and this whole blog thing has been much the same, as I expected. But while the blog pauses, my brain does not, and if I am thinking I am writing. Sort of. Part of what makes a writer is not only what they have written, but what they will write. At least, that’s what I tell myself.

     This post will be a time machine of sorts, and we will go back to January, when the year was not yet even a week old, then maybe to February, and perhaps even into the future. Buckle up, as always, and thank you for travelling with me today ;)

-jess, 03.05.20

12.31.19

     I keep seeing the phrase “New Year, New Me” everywhere, but the problem is, I don’t want a new me. I want to fully embrace the me that’s here,  even though she doesn’t know what’s next, or what will be happening on new year’s net year, and those things stress her out a lot. I don’t ever want to lose this beautiful radiant soul that never stops singing or humming, who befriends small creatures and puts so much love into the world.

     In the new year, I want to excavate some of the ruins I have let her fall into. I want to dig past the cynicism and find the softness I used to have before the blunt edge of life’s gentle toils buried it beneath layers of pessimism. I don’t want to be jaded, I want to be wise, kind, a positive light. I want to radiate joy, not negativity. But I also want to accept that not every day will be a happy day, some days will simply be days, and the joy will occasionally have to be manufactured, or worked for, and that is okay too. I want to practice the self-love that I preach.

01.05.20

      As the days following the hubbub of Christmas roll toward the impending year, my brain becomes a flurry of planning and thinking, and most of all, stress. My worry for the uncertainties of another year clouding all of my excitement for what could happen. I know this is a flaw, to always fear the unknown, while putting aside the imminent joy that I could harness should everything go right. This year, instead of wrangling together a list of 'resolutions' I didn't really want to make, like losing weight or sticking to some arbitrary life track plan, I made my goals for the new year a bit softer, hazy around the edges. My list of resolutions resembles a very soft manifesto.

       The problem I began to see with my past resolutions, and why I always ditched them is because they were usually something that wasn't going to make me happier (i.e. getting super swol) and they weren't going to make everything magically fall into place (i.e. planning out my every move). Neither of them addressed the real problems I had faced in the previous year, like being too tired for physical activity because I was running myself into the ground with work and school, or that I wasn't able to keep with my personal timeline because I was fighting an uphill battle against depression that I was stubbornly ignoring. Instead, I pinned these shortcomings on myself, thinking I was too lazy and lacked motivation, which actually made those problems much worse. This led to a lot of sleepless nights, which led to a lot of snooze buttons hit, a lot of classes daydreamed through, and a lot of naps, which kept this wheel of misery rolling straight downhill. I set myself up for failure. This year, after learning so much about myself and the deeper workings of my mind, a lot of things became much clearer to me.

     I always put so much expectation on myself, that failure could only ever have been the final outcome. I never had compassion with myself, I was too busy giving it all away to friends and family until I was bankrupt of all emotion. Secretly, I think my subconscious did this on purpose. My brain knew that my fear of failure was not as great as my fear of trying my best and it still not working out properly. I almost never wrote anymore at that point in my life, unless it was for a class. Just my struggle to make it through most days kept me so busy that I didn't want to write. I never read things that I enjoyed, too busy slogging through reading that I didn't allow myself to enjoy for class.

     We live in this strange world that is changing faster than we can really keep up with, and it's hard to deal with the emotional repercussions of that. I'm only writing this to say, that this year, I took emotional stock of myself and kept tabs on how things impacted me, and I did a lot of digging around in my own mental toolbox and figured out how to use more than just duct tape and a sledgehammer to do general emotional maintenance.

     My very soft manifesto, which is by no means perfect, and is, of course, completely tailored to my brain and heart and soul so may not work for you, is about observing the world around me, but also observing myself in response to it. Instead of physical self-scrutiny, it is finding good things about my body each and every day, while acknowledging that I am not perfect (who is??) but I have legs that let me dance, and arms that give good hugs, I have hands that are just right for rubbing the soft nose of a horse and plucking discordant chords on my guitar. I have eyes that allow me to see the raindrops slip down the window, mostly unaccompanied, and I have a mouth that lets me convey my emotions through speaking and smiling and singing and weird sound effects. I have a body that is soft and warm and loves to be piled on a couch with my friends in a cuddle puddle.

     I also included in my manifesto, that I would accept the days as they come, knowing full well that they will not all come with happiness in tow, and that is okay. It will not always be fun, it will not ever be perfect, but it will be my reality, and it will allow me to grow. I will not stop trying to be the best version of myself that I can possibly be, to extend kindness without fail to others, even especially those who do not extend it to me, because that is the only way I know how to keep from becoming cold and hard and cynical.

Oh, and also to maybe drink less caffeine.

   These 'resolutions' are really more of a change in mindset, and I think these will help me immensely, not only in the coming year but throughout the rest of my life.

February

     Small white-capped mushrooms popping through waterlogged soil, a chip in the rim of my fifth favorite mug. A new leaf breaking through on my ivy. The certain and never-failing goodness of strawberry jam on toast. Hot tea on cold nights. No less than fifteen pillows, blankets, stuffed animals on my bed at any given time. Bullfrog eyes resting watchfully on the rims of puddles. Wispy ringlets against the nape of my neck in the steamed bathroom mirror after a midnight shower. The ragged edges of my anxiety fingernails. The mosaic jar in my window that throws a shower of pastel light into my bedroom right before sunset. The sweet fragrance of nostalgia dabbed against the thin skin of my wrist in the form of Floral Street’s London Poppy perfume. The stop-and-stare brightness of the moon. Lavender scented everything. The poetry of ordinary days.

03.05.20

     Here on the farm, our compost bin has just been completed and has excellent approval ratings from the hens. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out despite my brother’s grumblings and my own battles with the drill. Toulouse has become quite the guard goose, and though I think that if it came down to a fight with an actual attacker she wouldn’t do much harm, she certainly sounds the alarm and waddles into the driveway when a car pulls up. She also successfully laid 8 incredibly large eggs. As for our three silkie bantams, aptly dubbed Coco Puff, Cheeto Puff, and Powder Puff, well the poor dears have yet to figure out this going back into the coop business. At sunset, they huddle up against the side of the hen house and wait dutifully for someone to come along and place them in their special pen. Such silly and delicate creatures. Our newest addition to the family, Cleo, a rescue cat, has acclimated well, and even sneaks into my bed at night now. Moo moo, our calf, has gone on to greener pastures. Quite literally. After his time with us, he was thrilled to join a herd of other cows, where he now has a friend his own age and species. The goat kids are growing in leaps and bounds, pun intended. You would think they have electric currents shooting through them the way they hop and skip so. I can’t imagine what magnitudes of joy they experience. 

I think that’s all I have in me for now, until we meet again, 

jess

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Healthcare Success lands two new senior executives to manage continued growth

National Healthcare Marketing Agency Welcomes Managing Director Robert Miller and Accounts Director Melissa Martinez

Robert Miller, Healthcare Success: Managing Director

IRVINE, Calif., March 4, 2020 – Full-service healthcare marketing and advertising agency Healthcare Success, LLC, takes a significant step in its ongoing growth with the addition of two top executives to its leadership team.

Robert Miller joins Healthcare Success as Managing Director and will lead all day-to-day activities and help shape the strategic direction of the agency. Formerly President of BPD Advertising, Miller brings with him invaluable experience in both setting an agency vision and successfully scaling and growing healthcare companies. Miller has also served in marketing directorships and senior management roles at Abbott Laboratories, Baxter Healthcare and the American Medical Association (AMA). He holds an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from Northwestern University‘s Kellogg School of Management.

Melissa Martinez, Healthcare Success: Client Accounts Director

Melissa Martinez, the company’s new client accounts director, will lead all client interaction and strategic and tactical marketing execution. Former Director of Accounts for marketing agency Anderson, Martinez also brings experience in agency scaling and growth dynamics, as well as strong leadership in client services.

“After our years of strong, double-digit growth,” says Healthcare Success CEO, Stewart Gandolf, “we reached a point where we needed to recruit additional leadership talent, with proven capabilities in properly scaling sustained growth for both clients and within marketing agencies—specifically across the healthcare industry. We’re just so excited to welcome these two outstanding individuals to the leadership at Healthcare Success,” he adds.

Miller accepts the challenge. “With Healthcare Success, I see a great opportunity to help an organization—one built from the ground up—to boost its horsepower and further unleash its potential to become an indispensable partner for results-based marketing,” Miller says.

Stewart Gandolf, MBA, Healthcare Success: CEO and Creative Director

Martinez, who has spent most of her 15-year marketing career in healthcare, joins the company with a sense of passion for change, growth and making a difference. “This is an ever-changing industry,” she says, “And I’m excited to contribute my experience to further enhance an agency so that we can provide the highest level of service and help our clients achieve the success they deserve.”

Mr. Miller and Ms. Martinez also bring additional client services capabilities and invaluable enterprise-level capacities to Healthcare Success, for the agency’s hospital, health networks, medical devices and pharmaceutical marketing divisions.

[Press Release, 03.05.20]

About Healthcare Success

Healthcare Success is a full-service healthcare marketing and healthcare advertising agency dedicated to helping healthcare organizations attract new patients, enhance their brands and maximize their business success. The agency’s clients include hospitals, multi-location medical practices, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, skilled nursing organizations, addiction treatment centers and other healthcare organizations. Healthcare Success takes a scientific, ethical approach to branding, Healthcare Marketing, and to authentically achieving specific growth goals with distinctly measurable results.

Media Contact:

Kyle Hojem, Marketing Manager

949-491-1757

Kyle@healthcaresuccess.com

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Professor Beak!

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Ren is considered the flirtiest of the hermits, but they all tend to look past Cleo‘s much flirtier tendencies.

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For the apartment au: what if X never comes out of his room and so no one’s seen his face? Maybe the only way he communicates is via text, Discord, and an intercom right by his door? And he almost always gets groceries whenever the hermits are busy and therefore has no time to go out maybe? But the hermits know he’s a real person because sometimes they hear guitar solos coming from his room.

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