#what do you mean that two days are 7am-2am and one day is 8am-5pm and another day is

[carlosoliveiras-wife]

i hate the world. like actually. anyways im gonna try to get a little bit of thoughts out

hmm. maybe luis runs me a bath sometimes. sees me looking a lot more exhausted than normal, and so he takes action. he stays there while i soak, probably massaging my shoulders to help relieve me of SOME tension in my body. he probably has a few medicinal bath salts he puts in too so i can hopefully feel better.

mister navarro please. materialize right before my very eyes

[captawesomesauce]

Thoughts at 7am...

I don't think anyone who lives outside of LA quite understands what it means to be "trapped" in various parts of LA.

When it takes 2 hrs to drive 7 miles - When a half mile trip to the grocery store takes 30 mins - When going ANYWHERE to do ANYTHING is an exhausting fight against time and distance...

You basically end up trapped where you are.

If you live in the SFV, you rarely leave the SFV. The thought of having to go through hollywood, downtown LA or the sepulveda pass is UGH! Not only do you have to fight the traffic on the way out, but you have to deal with the return traffic to!

And it's exhausting. It's exhausting to deal with LA's gridlock where you are constantly at either a standstill or damn close to it all day and all night. Other places have rush hour, LA will trap you at 2am just as much as 5pm.

So anywhere you go becomes a THING.... a whole production because you can't just go somewhere. You can't just get in your car and go willy nilly. Nope Nope nope.

You have to plan to avoid the WORST times... leave at 10am or 5am, return at 11pm .. maybe 2am? God help you if you leave at 8am and have to head back at 6pm!

Heading to the beach? Figure it'll take you about an hour or two to get there, even if you're just 12 miles away. So say its a good day - you drive an hour... you get there... find parking somehow... and ... now what? You know that you just spent an hour getting there and it'll take another hour to head back.... so you have to make the most of it... you can't just go and spend an hour at the beach for a 2 hr commute!!!!

Do you know how frustrating it is to spend 2 or 3 hours driving for something that only takes 10 mins to accomplish??? Drop off this, pick up that, grab something else.... it's quick, it's no big deal.. but you spent all that time stuck in traffic!

Thats why it's so nice to out of the valley, away from downtown, and closer to the places we want to go and want to be. It's a mental SHOCK ... don't get me wrong... but so nice.

W is still trying to adjust a bit. When we were looking at places, and I was plotting them out on a map, she couldn't comprehend it spatially/mentally. Things looked so spread out, she was sure it'd be impossible to go from A to B without it taking forever and being difficult. But having grown up near here, I knew that we could be at one end of the area to the other easily in less than 20 mins.

Also things are grouped near each other in ways that make sense. In the Valley, but if you need to shop for furniture or get parts for your computer or see a doctor.... man, it's gonna be an hour drive away and nothing is close to anything else! Here, we went to get a bed and there were 5 mattress and furniture stores all near each other!!! There are 2 markets across the street. The sams club and the walmart are in the same shopping center!

Things aren't all day productions. If you want to go to the beach, you don't have to leave at 5am and stay all day. We can go whenever it strikes us..... like at 3pm and just go walk around a bit.

W is so used to being a passenger princess. We go somewhere, and she curls up and sleeps while I drive. Wherever we go, she has that time to decompress and nap and recover. She needs it. When we get home, she needs that shutdown mode so she has energy to help carry stuff and put it away when we get back.

But that doesn't quite work out anymore.

Yesterday's trip back from the beach/pier meant that just as she got comfy and settled into her seat and started to drift off... we were home. She was like.. wait... what the hell... already?????

Our goal this weekend is to go to the farmers market..... it's just down the street and should be fun :)

[archaeologistic]

When I was in high school, “wait until you’re working” didn’t mean what adults thought it did—I was *excited* to be working. Why?

Because it was *only* 40 hours a week. Only. AND I’d be getting paid. AND when I left work, I’d be able to actually *stop* working and do things that I wanted/needed to do outside work.

In contrast, my high school schedule looked like this:

- Wake up at 6am. Shower and throw on clothes, leave the house by 6:30am. Get to school at 7am so my mom could be to work by 8am

- 7-8am work on homework. 8am classes start. In class until 3:45pm (7am to ~4pm = 9 straight hours of work with a working lunch, because I always worked through my 20min lunch break).

- 4-5pm extra curriculars at school, get home 5:30-6pm depending on when my dad felt like picking me up. That hour and a half was my biggest break in the entire day, and I still wasn’t resting and didn’t have choice of activity (no reading, video games, etc).

- 6pm-bed was homework, with a 30min-1hour mandated dinner break with my parents. Bedtime was whenever I finished the homework due the next day. It was never earlier than midnight, and averaged around 2am. There were semi-frequent nights when I got less than an hour of sleep. After taking out the time for dinner, that’s an additional 5 hours of work at minimum, with no free time or rest outside of sleep, followed by at most 6 hours of sleep.

In the five “working” days (Mon-Fri, 24hx5) there are 120 hours. Out of those 120 hours, I spent a minimum of 70 hours working. Minimum. Average was closer to 100 hours, not including meals and travel.

On the weekends I would sleep 12-14 hours a night for two nights in a row just so I could get up on Monday and do it all over again, while yet again spending all day Saturday and Sunday doing homework. This kind of schedule started at age 14 (10th grade).

Why do kids hate school? Because you’d hate having to exist too if you had to work 100 hours in 5 days—and all without being paid for your labor.

My schedule was on the extreme end, yes. But even my friends in “normal” high school classes had 8-9 hours of school a day plus 3-5 hours of homework a night. That’s still 11 hours of unpaid work per day, 55 hours in five days, at a minimum. And most of them had part time jobs on top of it.

So why? Why work so much? Why not just half-ass it? Because the whole time you do it your parents, teachers, every adult in your life whose opinion you care about—all of them are telling you that you have to. That it’s your responsibility to do your best, to work hard, and to know that, above all, your future depends on how well you perform under these circumstances.

If those same adults were all told they had to work 11 hours a day, 5 or more days a week, with maximum of one 30 minute break for the first 8 hours and additional required work to perform at home with no limit on hours—I’m pretty sure they’d strike. Because that kind of schedule is nearly unlivable. No one should go through that. And yet we’ve normalized it for literal children, who don’t even have the right to vote yet. Who can’t do formal, paid labor until 16.

So…why do kids hate school? Why do make them hate it?

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

[tikara]

DJ Headcanon Dump

I saw my DJ buddies put together their miscellaneous headcanons for the DJs in a big list, and they’ve inspired me to do the same! Shoutout to @tapswitcher-theoneandonly and @farey8336 for inspiring me to do this! 💕

A lot of my headcanons are inspired by other folk’s interpretations mixed with my own ideas and experiences. Some of the things here I may have already elaborated on in previous drawings and comics. Prepare for a lot of text because I have a lot to say about these two DJs that mean a lot to me ahah//

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- When it comes to their ages, I like to keep them to more of a range without a pinpoint number. DJ Yellow is in his mid-to-late 20s, Student is in his early-to-mid 20s, and there’s a 2-4 year age gap between them. So for example, if Student is say, 23, then that means DJ Yellow could 25-27. The reverse works as well; if DJ Yellow is 28, then Student could be 24-26. Again, no concrete numbers but a very defined range.

- DJ Yellow is 6’0” / 182cm, and Student is 6’1½” /186cm. DJ Yellow’s frame and body shape is twink slimmer than Student’s. I have no idea how much they would weight.

- While I don’t have a defined date for their birthdays, I do have ideas for the seasons their birthdays take place in; Student’s birthday is in the winter, and DJ Yellow’s birthday is in the late spring/early summer.

- Much like how online creators often use pseudonyms and screennames in lieu of their real names, “DJ Yellow” and “Student/DJ Blue” are their stage names. They have real first and last names, but prefer to be called by their stagenames even with friends. Think of it like how if you meet with online people in person you still refer to them by their online names haha. This goes for all of the folks in the rapper groups (Rap Men/Women, Adore and the Love Posse).

As for what their real names are? I’ve decided on their names for a while now and have vaguely hinted at DJ Yellow’s surname in an older piece, but despite being proud of the names I’ve come up with I’m not confident enough to share them publicly haha… Maybe as a riddle for folks to figure out?

- The reason Student has his fishmonger job (as seen in Catch-of-the-Day’s Try again screen) is because his family works in the fishing business! When he decided to move out on his own into the city, his family was able to help secure him a job with the local fish market so he didn’t have to worry about finding work as he settled in. Student is very knowledgeable about fish and the fishing industry because of his upbringing!

- Student’s schedule Monday-Saturday is: wake up at 7am, have breakfast and get ready for work, leave by 7:30am, take the public transport train to the fishmarket, work the mid-morning to closing shift from 8am to 4pm with lunch in between, do a bit of shopping to pick up dinner supplies before he catches the 4:30pm train, arrive back home at around 5pm, take a shower to get rid of the fish smell, then spend the rest of the night doing whatever until he goes to bed around 11pm-midnight. On Saturday nights he stays up a bit later, but he tries to never stay up past 2am. Sunday is his day off.

- Student is actually pretty physically strong! Since a lot of his work involves carrying around tubs and crates of ice and fish, he has pretty good upper body strength. He can easily pick up and carry DJ Yellow around without breaking a sweat, something that DJ Yellow has a lot of difficulty doing himself haha.

- Student actually knows a good bit of sign language! It’s only really shown when he has to help mute or hard-of-hearing/deaf customers at the fish market.

- DJ Yellow loves birds, especially from the parrot family! Budgies, cockatiels, amazons, cockatoos, lovebirds, macaws, etc. He wants to be a bird dad once he’s in a better home environment for birdkeeping. Until then, he often hangs out with his bird buddy, Eglantine, to get his bird fix. He’s also a big fan of the comedy routines of Crow and Vulture!

- DJ Yellow lives in a small studio apartment close to the downtown livehouse he works and does lessons at, and it’s thanks to MC Adore that he was able to get a place so close to the venue. Student eventually becomes his roommate, and in the future once DJ Yellow’s album is successful they upgrade to a small house.

- Other than seeing the people close to him get hurt or letting Student finally go out by himself to perform his own DJing sets, the one thing that DJ Yellow is absolutely terrified of? Ghosts.

- DJ Yellow is a hardcore audiophile, and spends way too much money on purchasing new audio equipment for him to use either in his gigs or with his home setup. He does like to repair and refurbish secondhand turntables, however; the turntables he uses for his classes were all refurbished by him! He also enjoys checking out electronic music stores and browsing through their vinyl record sections for hidden gems.

- The reason DJ Yellow never removes his headphones around anyone not only has to do with image branding, but he uses his headphones as a personal confidence boost since he’s never felt 'right' without wearing something on his head, and anyone seeing him without his headphones or otherwise 'bald' would be panic attack territory for him. If DJ Yellow allows someone see him without his headphones, that’s the official sign that he has complete and total trust in them.

- On the topic of head headphones, I’ve always interpreted the antenna to be able to move around according to his emotions! Upright when excited/alert/surprised, flattened back when upset/nervous/concentrating, etc. How they work is a mystery.

- Even more headphones stuff, Student has had three pairs over time; his original low-quality pair he had when he first moved to the city, the higher quality ones that DJ Yellow gifted him in the early days of when they were doing lessons together, and a mid-quality pair that he wears at work.

- When it comes to cooking, Student is better at hands-on cooking (chopping vegetables, working on a stovetop, etc) while DJ Yellow prefers hand-off cooking (ie. stick it in the oven/microwave until it’s done). DJ Yellow is terrible in the kitchen, which is something Student is trying to help him improve with.

- Regarding food preferences, they both enjoy sweets like cakes and puddings, DJ Yellow enjoys spicy and sour flavors, and Student enjoys savory, salty, and bitter flavors.

DJ Yellow’s favorite foods: japanese curry, piccata dishes, spicy noodle dishes, sour drinks/candies.

Student’s favorite foods: vegetable stir-fries, teriyaki dishes, egg dishes such as tamagoyaki and egg sandwiches, unsweetened iced teas, salted candies.

Their usual drink orders from Barista’s café are a double-shot machiatto for DJ Yellow and chai latté for Student.

- Neither of the DJs have driver’s licenses. If they need to be driven somewhere they call up Yellow Rapper since he’s the only one of the two rappers that does know how to drive. They often carpool with the Rap Men when going to events or going out for food.

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I also have a whooole bunch of headcanons that have to do with their romantic relationship, but I’m refraining from sharing them since I’d like to keep my blog as accessible as possible for those that aren’t into shipping these two. I can at least confirm that they are both very affectionate, supportive, and loving with each other 💛💙

Enjoy the headcanons! If you have anything you’d like me to elaborate on or other interpretations to give my thoughts on, I’d be happy to answer cause I love talking about these DJs a lot//