#three cheese... a decent amount of cheese

[myleelovesfood]

That’s still my baby.

MY FIRST EVER POST! Hope y’all like it! (I hope I’m doing this right lol)

Summary: it’s Khymari’s first day in pre-k and you and Jey have to get him ready.

No taglist *yet*

Warnings: none. fluff with a tad bit of cussing.

You were stirred awake from the constant shaking your son was doing to your leg as he tried waking you up for his first day. “Mom cmon I’m hungry!” Your son said as he pouted his little lips. “Son mommy’s coming just give me a second..” you said almost falling back into your deep slumber if it weren’t for your son who tried pulling you up and off of the bed. “Uhhhh ok I’m coming.”you said to Your son as you slowly got up trying to wrangle yourself out of Jey’s arms.

You picked up Khymari and took him into the bathroom so you and him could start your guys morning routine. You ran a nice hot bath for him and got him out some nice clothes for his first day. While you were bending down inside of Khy’s drawers you felt a slight smack on your ass. You turned around to see Jey staring down at you.

“Dang mama too early for you to be walking round here wit allat.” He said smirking down at you as he leaned down to kiss you but you put your hand over his mouth “first of all help me get yo child ready for his first day and you have morning breath.” You said, delivering the same smirk he had two seconds ago.

“Wow mama it’s like that, don’t worry I’ll get you later.” We shared a laugh then went to check on Khymari who was playing with bubbles and squealed when he saw his dad walking in. “Daddy!” He yelled while splashing his bath water everywhere “Khy you’re making a mess be careful!” You said while going to get a rag to wipe up his mess. “Hey big guy, you ready for your first day?” Jey said while going to brush his teeth. “Yes I am super ready do you think Liam will be there.” He asked looking at his dad wondering if his best friend would be there. “I’m pretty sure mommy asked his parents so yes, he should be.” Jey said smiling at his son as he put away his tooth brush.

After getting Khymari dressed you and Jey soon got dressed as well. With you being in a white button up cardigan with light blue jeans and airforces and Jey in a black long sleeve and matching black pants with his black and white 1’s.

Once downstairs you cooked breakfast with the help of Jey and got Khymari to finally sit down. You guys made a hefty amount of breakfast for the three of you and you sat Khymari down at the table and started setting his plate. Once his plate was made you all sat down together and ate. Khymari did a decent job at completing his food and Jey cleared his whole. plate as expected lol.p

You all were in the car driving to his school and you looking in the mirror and saw Khymari asleep in his car seat. You looked at Jey making sure he was ok too. He had his hand on your thigh and was driving. “I love you so much.” You say looking at Jey with literal hearts in your eyes. “I love you too babe.” He said before grabbing your hand and kissing it. The ride there was comfortable the soft hum of music and the slights bumps on the way there were so relaxing.

Soon you guys made it and you successfully got Khymari out of his car seat and onto the ground in front of the car so you could take a picture. “Say cheese baby.” You say smiling at your son. As you had the picture taken you kissed your son on the cheek and you and Jey walked him inside. “Jey stop I’m gonna cry it’s not too late to take him back?” You say looking at your son as he’s being escorted to his classroom with his new teacher. “Man if you don’t relax you’ll see him in 6 hours.” Jey says shaking his head. “Six hours too long!” You say leaning your head on his shoulder and you both walk out of the school. “He’s big now babe gotta get used into it.” Jey says kissing your forehead.

“That’s still my baby.”

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Y/N L/N_WWE: first day to pre-k!

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[boba-beom]

Clay candy | c.yj

✧ pairing: yeonjun x gn!reader

✧ genre: fluff, tiniest humour? | drabble

✧ warning: established relationship, vague description of making out, mentions of food, spitting out food (the weird flavour), weird flavoured candy, not proofread, lmk if I've missed anything

✧ wc: 865

✧ a/n: happy yeonjun day!! I hope you guys show him so much love and support today by watching the vmas <3 I'm so excited for Back For More ^^ have fun reading, it's inspired by horimiya (s1 ep6) hehe

Yeonjun's phone rings, feeling it vibrate from his pocket while you're both sitting on a secluded park bench by his workplace.

"Hello? Oh Huening!" He answers with a certain amount of enthusiasm towards the younger male. "Right now? Yeah, sure. Me and Yn will make our way there."

You watch as he ends the call, shoving his phone back into his pocket. Dumbfounded, you stare at him with confusion in your eyes, not knowing what Kai must've said through the phone despite your closeness of proximity. Your boyfriend reaches out his hand and takes ahold of yours, giving it a light squeeze before showing his signature grin.

"Huening asked us to come over. He came back from the amusement park with the boys and they won a lot of different flavoured candy for us to try. You in?"

"'Course! Let's get going then." You get up onto your feet, hands still joined with his while you softly pull him off the bench, hearing his warm laugh fill your ears.

As soon as you arrive at the boys' shared apartment you and Yeonjun patiently wait outside until you were both met with a male of a slim build with pale, blue hair.

"About time you arrived, we almost finished the bag."

"Taehyun, we both know you guys wouldn't have been able to do that anyway." Yeonjun shook his head at the other young male, patting his back as he greets him and you enter the living area with him.

The boys were sat by the round centre table, watching them pour a paper bag upside down to reveal the pile of candy landing on the surface of the table.

You and Yeonjun decided to sit on the other side of the table, once again, sitting at your close proximity, thighs grazing and your arm instinctively linking with his.

"So how'd you manage to win so much?" Your mouth agape at the large quantity of plastic-wrapped confectionary sprawled out on the table, examining the range of flavours.

"I played this watermelon game at the amusement park, and I currently hold the highest score so I won... this bag of jelly beans." Hueningkai lost his excitement towards the end of his sentence, trailing off in uncertainty. "Thing is, some of these are really digusting flavours. But let's get bean boozled!"

Your face mirrors your boyfriend's and the rest of the boys', a confused expression mainly because you have no idea what watermelon game Kai was talking about, but also the fact that there would be a possibility of eating a really disgusting flavour.

"Here's this one for you Hyuka." Yeonjun passes Kai a cheese flavoured candy and the younger's face scrunches from the thought of sweet cheese. However, it may not be as bad as he thinks.

The other three guys, on the other hand, argue about giving each other decent enough flavours while their eyes are closed to make it fair.

"Yn, try this one." Kai passes you a flavour that you think is quite impossibly edible.

"Clay? That's a thing?" Your voice pitches higher that usual, quite in shock that there's such a thing.

"I mean, it is meant to be a mix of bad and good flavours, give it a try and let us know how it tastes!" Beomgyu chimes in before bickering with both Taehyun and Soobin on the other side of the room.

"I guess... here goes nothing." You say to no one in particular, but Yeonjun watches you pop the spherical candy in your mouth while Kai goes through the pile of confectionary on the table, too engrossed by the variety of flavours.

Your tongue swirls around the strange candy, making your eyes shut with no emotion on your face.

"Uhm... it's bitter." You turn to your beloved boyfriend with worried eyes, almost pleading for help.

This moment, you expected Yeonjun to pass you a tissue for you to spit it out, but instead he leans forward and lays his lips over yours. Your eyes widen from the sudden gesture, grateful that everyone was too occupied with their own little things to notice.

Your lips slightly part and so does his, deepening the sweet kiss a little more with the bitter taste interfering in your mouths. His tongue momentarily glides against yours and then he pulls away when you least expected it.

"Mmh— Yeonjun." You whisper only for him to hear, mouth slightly agape from whatever happened a couple of seconds again.

"Hyung, can you get us water please, these candies are gross. Thanks Kai, never get these again." Taehyun stated, pulling a sour face towards the youngest male in the room.

You're still sitting in the same spot by the table, watching the back of Yeonjun's grown out, black hair. A blank stare at nothing in particular.

"Huh? Yn? What's the matter?" Kai sees your frozen state, not having moved a single muscle since.

"Yeonjun— he.. he took my candy." Your voice quiet and you trail back to your thoughts.

Your boyfriend on the other hand, enters the kitchen, slowly leaning against the refrigerator and thinking while chewing on the bitter sweet.

"Hmm, it is bitter." He quietly says to himself.

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[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

One time when I had a sleepover and my friends and I made pizza we divided it into three equal parts and we each were very distinct in terms of toppings, like there could not have been a mix-up

We didn't have tomato sauce and used ketchup instead, but I don't really like ketchup so I had very little sauce and as a result very little cheese because I don't like when the cheese is the most intense taste, but I got to put a shitton of olives on because it was the only topping available I liked and no one else wanted them

My one friend had a decent amount of sauce, a few toppings, zucchini, corn and peas, probably some other stuff too, but you wouldn't have been able to tell because it was all hidden under a mass amount of cheese, they used up over half a bag of grated cheese and we had to get a new one out for them to put even more cheese on it, they actually added the corn as an afterthought on top of the cheese

And our last friend ate some sauce, cheese and pizza bread with his vegtables too, there was such a ridiculous amount of toppings on his part, it really was more baked vegtable mix than actual pizza, I'm almost certain that with the exception of olives he put every topping available on there, the zuchinni, the corn, the peas, fucking onions, spinach leaves, but most importantly so many artichokes, a disproportinate amount of artichokes when compared to the actual available space, there was a mountain of artichokes and other vegtables, like an actual hill, it was piled too high to shove into a mouth and kept falling apart when he tried to pick it up

Anyway, that felt like a social experiment of some kind

Me, after putting a veritable mound of cheese on my zucchini and pea pizza: You know what this needs? CORN My friend trying to shove his vegetable pile in his mouth without it falling apart: you're so right bro

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years ago i went to the hospital with abdominal pain, they did a heart trace and then a ultra sound -my galbladder was filled with sludge. the doctors told me they'll contact me about taking it out. years passed, the pain would happen intermittently, no one followed up.

then, it changes and gets worse, it's not lessening it's not stopping. i go to my GP, she give me a rec for a blood test and ultrasound. i book the appt but before i can go, it gets agonizing.

i go to emerge, they do a heart trace, they do a blood test, i've got pancreatitis, im admitted.

they do an ultrasound, my galbladder is full of sludge (again? or never changed) they don't know fully if it's the reason why, i get it removed anyways.

i'm checked out, i go home, three days later and i'm still in a decent amount of agony, surgery incisions aside.

i go back to emerge, wait 6 hours with screaming children and 2 old people telling me they'll pray for me. triage has taken my blood, i wait.

by the time i'm called on, the test are already back and it's pancreatitis, again. i'm admitted once more, given a nothing by mouth order once more, and stay at the hospital once more.

another ultrasound, there's a cysts hanging out on my pancreas but no one seems to care much. i'm monitored and eventually given broth and jello, they send me home with a different antibiotic and more pain medication and a diagnosis of post op pancreatitis. okay

okay, im still in pain, whatever, i eat carefully, i prep meals with no fat, i eat soups and stews and rice crackers and veg.

i have a follow up with my surgeon, who makes sure my incisions are fine. i tell him i went back to hospital, i tell him i'm still in pain. he says we'll have another check in in a few months, that i can start eating my regular diet halfway through next month.

i'm halfway through next month, every meal is a russian roulette game. i wake up to pain and i sleep to pain, nothing as bad as when i was first admitted, but nothing as normal as the small episodes id been having for years.

i had meatballs i'd made and frozen a few months ago, at the beginning of this entire thing, hoping i could finally eat the fucking meatballs i've been waiting to eat. nope, laid up in agony, eating ifuprofone like pez.

so now what? i guess i wait, i guess i keep eating the yogurt containers of frozen slop i made, i guess i keep pushing birthday celebrations back and back and back, put my life on pause for a bit.

i often find myself wishing i was back in hospital on NBM order, surviving off of an IV pack and the good pain meds, jello and broth. cause despite how abysmal it is at least i'm not in pain.

every fucking day it's a choice between starving myself (which still causes pain) or eating something (which also causes pain)

so the question i have is why the fuck did i take an entire organ out of my body, just to be in the exact same situation as i was prior? i agreed and signed off yes, but what other options did i have? they don't know what's wrong with me, i sure as hell don't, i'm have a diploma in audio recording tech, not fucking medical sciences.

this is an insanely long post of me loosing my mind, but if i don't loose it on here i'm just gonna cry and cry and cry and that's no fun and will give me a headache so.

i miss butter, and cheese....

[ros3ybabe]

Daily Check In - September 28th, 2023 🎀

did not do much today by my standards but I’m still recovering from this cold plus my allergies are acting up so I’ve been in bed a lot of today. I did accomplish some things tho so it was not a fully unproductive day for me!

🩷 What I Ate Today -

Breakfast - boiled chicken potstickers, hash browns with ketchup, and a coffee

Lunch - bowl of spaghetti with two pieces of buttered bread

Dinner - two slices of dominoes handmade pan pepperoni pizza and three slices of cheese bread

Extra - three more cups of coffee and not near enough water, half a green smoothie made with frozen fruits, spinach, and almond milk

I have not been eating the best recently and I know that, but I think that’s due to my hormones being messed up at the moment, my current sickness, my extreme fatigue and exhaustion, and a lack of physical activity in my life. However, I decided I’m going to try to go to the gym and get on the treadmill (maybe do some strength training if I’m feeling confident enough) at my university activity center at least three days a week so that way I can start getting some of my energy back and gain some more discipline and control in my life. I’m hoping I get to the point where I can be a runner again, I miss my 8 minute mile time, my running playlist, and how free I felt when I’d go running. So that’s a new goal of mine as well! My boyfriend even said we can go jogging together when I see him next weekend, so I’m looking forward to that for sure!

🩷 Personal Accomplishments -

Did the dishes

Brought my laundry from the dryer to my room (have yet to put away clean clothes)

Night time skincare

Studied Duolingo/Busuu for ~20 minutes

Skimmed through first Genki lesson in preparation for actually studying from the textbook

Showered and washed my hair

made a tentative workout schedule in google calendar for next week

🩷 Academic Accomplishments -

completed and submitted extended assignment for psychology class

completed and submitted lab report for anatomy lab

began paper set up for first section of research study paper for psychology class

again, not a super productive day but I’m still happy with it. I got a decent amount of stuff done and I have some stuff I want to accomplish tomorrow, which I will list below.

🩷 Academic Goals for Tomorrow, Sept 29th -

Complete a rough draft of first section of research study paper before 10am psychology lab

Begin taking notes for module six for my health for sport and fitness class

Complete practical assignment for health for sport and fitness class

~20 minutes japanese study using apps

🩷 Personal Goals for Tomorrow, Sept 29th -

Morning and Night skincare

morning and night guided journal

work on content for RD mentor instagram

Go to bed by 10pm (be asleep by that time!!!)

Drink at least one liter of water

Only two cups of caffeine

Don’t buy anything from the university food court!

wake up early <3

not the most specific personal goals but still things that I know I can achieve! I’m super tired and it’s not even that late and I haven’t done much this week. That’s how I know I made the right decision to take time for myself. always have your own best interest at heart, in a positive and healthy way! Don’t push past your limits and don’t let yourself burn out! It’s easier said than done but taking care of yourself is so important! That’s something I need to continually remind myself!

til next time lovelies 🩷🤍

[pendragon1400]

modern bg3 head cannon. Room mates eating habits.

Gale:I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Gale has two modes 1.Full healthy meal with at least four sides or black coffee and maybe toast. He also cooks for everyone just bc “Well I was already in the kitchen…” and proceeds to make different dinners for everyone.

Astarion: (let’s just pretend that he can eat normal food.) he claims to have refined taste and he does, but you can find him most nights in the kitchen eating shredded cheese from the bag or Taco Bell.

Karlach:After almost burning down the kitchen three times, Karlach is banned from the kitchen. So she mainly eats instant stuff, or fast food.

Lae’zel: Protein bars or shakes. Like a concerning amount of them.

Wyll: A decent cook, Karlach asked him to make things when Gale is either busy or not cooking. Occasionally burns things but very rarely, favorite thing to make is pasta.

Shadowheart: Can cook, won’t cook.

Halsin: Surprisingly good, but usually just makes fruit and cheese plates. Or some other cold food. Loves sushi, can’t make it to save his life.

[izzy-the-ginger]

Targaryen clan HoTD at the beach!

Alicent is the healthy “fun” mom.

For food She brought some sandwiches, plain organic potato chips, carrots, celery, grapes, apple and oranges slices.

She forgot the dips, not the wine.

Aegon is on leash made for children

Helena is looking for hermit crabs in the sand

Aemond is next to Alicent both on matching beach chairs, Alicent with a glass of wine aemomd with a book.

Daeron stole the chips

Aegon and daeron dig a big hole, they won’t let Jace or Luke help.

Aegon lays in the hole and daeron covers him with a beach towel and and the stolen chips

Aegon catches a seagulls

Alicent is mad there is bird crap on her expensive ass beach towel

Not even that far away from the Rhaenyra lays in her beach chair, fresh martini in hand.

It was a beach day, so she let the kids splurged.

Brought five different bags of family size chips with them, some freeze dried candy bags so it wouldn’t melt or get too sticky, a large bag of pretzels, apple slices, cherries, grapes, carrots, celery, cauliflower, and four different types of dip, two for the veggies, two for the fruit.

The boys were told not to share their when aegon and Daeron refused to let them catch a seagull.

Rhae gives Jace a decent amount a cash and tells him and the other two oldest to go to a near by beach stand and get them a real lunch other than chips.

Jace, Luke, and joffery come back with hotdogs for them, grilled cheese and chips for the littles, and açaí fruit bowl for their mama with another martini.

They don’t tell her how they bought the martini.

Aegon the younger and little viserys bury daemon in the sand before leaving him to eat.

He’s asleep

Alicent ask Rhaenyra for a spare towel.

Rhaenyra bought a cheap ass bulk package of towels because her boys always looses them.

Tells Alicent the boys are using the extra towels.

All the boys are eating in a circle with no towels.

Rhaenyra’s boys go out to swim with beach toys

aegon wants to float on the giant unicorn floaty

Aegon isn’t allowed in the water after the last beach day incident

Baela and rhaena slept in and came to the beach a little later

Baela, rhaena, Jace, Luke, and joffery go to get ice cream

Baela gets chocolate

Rhaena gets strawberry

Joffery gets vannila

Luke gets cotton candy ice cream

Jace gets a ice cream milkshake that’s cookies and cream

Both the littles get a small scoop of chocolate ice cream on a cone with sprinkles

The twins gets Helena a vanilla milkshake

Aegon wants ice cream

Alicent’s tells him that she already brought snacks

The poor vanilla milkshake ends up on the rest of Alicent’s towels

Jace give Helena his milkshake because he feels bad

Alicent leaves with aegon and daeron begging to stay

Aemond is happily packing up their possessions

Rhaenyra offers for Helena to stay

Alicent agrees and leaves dragging a screaming aegon by the ear

Rhaenyra wakes a beached daemon up to go and get the girls some food while the kids play in the water

It takes ten minutes for Rhaenyra to dig him out enough for him to get out of the sand

Daemons face is bright red and his body is covered in sand

Baela , rhaena, and Helena get a açaí bowl

Aegon the younger and viserys dig two big holes

Jace and Baela lay in them

Rhaena and Helena lay the extra towels on them

Joffery places chips and pretzels on the beach towels

Jace caught a seagull

Baela caught three seagulls

Luke made sure to get a video

Daemon is mad bird crap is on the towels.

Rhaenyra sips her martini.

[madameaug]

oooo can you do when Jeanie pranks jungkook by saying another man’s name? Love the fictions keep it up!

Sure! I'm going to keep the 'wrong name' basis but add my own twist :) Hope it still meets your requests.

*just for this imagine Jungkook has continued down his path as a singer/member of BTS. Not a boxer but everything else remains the same

Pairing: Jungkook x Jenentte

"Guess what I learned about your daddy?" Jennette asked to Peanut as she swung her legs to the right. She wiped her daughter's hind legs with a moist wipe, removing all of the urine.

"Appa?"

"Yes! Guess what I learned about him." Jennette tossed the wipe into the trashcan, sliding up the fresh diaper up Peanut's legs. She babbled a response squirming slightly from the cold air. Tilting her up, her polka-dot leggings rose with no issue.

"His English name is Justin. Isn't that a funny name?" Wiggling her nose against Peanut's, causing her to laugh. Her two baby teeth peeked out of her gums. As quickly as Peanut was growing up, she was starting to resemble a lot like her mother. Those first few months of baldness were over and she had a decent amount of hair. If Jennette used a small rubber band, she could do pigtails.

"Why would he want to name himself Justin. Your appa is so silly." She carried Peanut in her arms and walked out of the woman's bathroom. "Let's prank him, okay?"

Not really sure what her mother was stating, Peanut clapped.

"Appa. Appa."

They returned to the table of three where Jungkook was sitting. Peanut slid perfectly into the restaurant's booster. It had been a while since the family of three had been out in public together. With Jungkook's commitments and Jennette's new managerial role their time together was limited.

But with the members pursuing solo endeavors now, it was the most free time Jungkook has had in a really long time. He was spending every moment possible with his family.

"Peanut cheese!" Jungkook pulled out his phone, taking pictures. Ever since he became a father, he's found no reason to take a picture of Peanut. Her first time at a restaurant, he took a picture. First time touching the grass, he took a picture. First time using the potty, you guessed it. He took a picture.

Like a subject of classical conditioning, Peanut started cheesing. Her cheeks were open, her eyes closed, and drool slipped down her mouth. Jennette jokes that if Peanut were to model, she wouldn't be camera shy.

"Justin, can you pass me that napkin?"

Watching the clear liquid string down onto Peanut's shirt, Jungkook moved with haste. Not even registering the name Jennette just called him.

"What did you say?

Before Jennette could respond, the waiter brought the food out.

The steam coming from his plate enticed him. Jennette was treating him to breakfast at a black-owned restaurant. He decided to be spontaneous and try shrimp and grits. Looking at his dish, he could tell his shrimp was well seasoned. The grits were thick and cheesy.

Taking a spoonful, he had to bite his tongue from releasing a satisfied moan. The grits were hotter than he anticipated, but they were too good for him to spit out. So he tried to cool it off with his mouth.

Nodding his head he quoted the saying of food reviewer Keith Lee.

"For sho, you right on." He fed himself another spoonful. "I don't know why you kept me from this place for so long. It's so good."

Jennette smiled, seeing Jungkook enjoy his food.

"Well this can become our little spot."

"Absolutely."

"Justin." Peanut grabbed onto Jungkook's shoulder. She wanted to get his attention and try some of his bowl's food.

"Who's Justin, baby?"

"You're Justin, Justin."

"What?" Jungkook was addled. Slowly scooping up a Peanut appropriate amount of grits. Who the fuck was Justin? This man who apparently has been around his girl and baby. Jungkook looked to Jennette for a clue, but her face was neutral.

"Tell appa who Justin is baby."

"Pleaseeee." She leaned her body, trying to get closer to the spoon of grits in Jungkook's hand.

Not denying his baby girl the grits any longer, he fed her. Watching the good food hit her belly. She smiled, then opened her mouth again.

"Justin look at this funny meme." Jennette laughed while showing her phone. It was a funny new parent post of Instagram that Jennette had been following since she learned she was pregnant.

Taking her phone, Jungkook tucked her phone under his thigh. "Who the hell is Justin? Cause it's not me, and you got my Peanut repeating after you."

"Just a guy I know."

"Who is he." Jungkook's tone was becoming more assertive. He was tired of repeating of himself. And the longer he was going without knowing 'Justin's identity the more he feared ruining this nice family breakfast.

"Jennette, please, my patience is thinning out."

Taking him at his word, Jennette answered his question.

"I found an old video of you saying that you wanted to go by Justin. I shared that with Peanut in the bathroom. It was just a prank, there's no Justin."

Jungkook's face immediately softened. He playfully rolled his eyes. Knowing exactly what interview you were referring to.

"Oh gosh, you watched that clip." He physically cringed. Peanut whined still wanting some grits. Jungkook pulled her onto his lap. Feeding the remaining of his grits to his baby girl.

"I'd hate to be Justin right now." Jennette laughed.

"Whatever." Jungkook kissed Peanut's cheek. Enjoying the rest of the breakfast hour with his little family.

AND SCENE <3

Happy holidays to all of my beautiful followers and readers. May the holidays be enjoyable and relaxing for you. 2024 is just around the corner. Wonderful things are waiting for you. Smooches ~~~

[sosuigeneris]

Copenhagen was so much fun. I was there for three days for work, and the organisation treated us well. We had a gala dinner on the first night; went to the opera where they’d organised a band and a lovely singer. The views from the opera house were incredible. We cycled loads, went sightseeing. Tivoli gardens were fantastic, with loads to eat and walk around - the weather was just perfect - the views from the round tower were gorgeous; and on our last night my team and I went for a boat ride, stopped by Soho house for a drink and called it a night. At one point of time I realised how lucky I am to be able to travel the world at just 24. I’ve been travelling abroad since I was born but somehow, this excursion felt different.

My trip then took me to south Germany, to this extremely tiny rural town. I’m with a dear friend who I consider my little brother; I had showed him my city when he was visiting me now he’s returning the favour. It’s so lush green, the air is nippy, with occasional sunlight. The flowers were so colourful, little pockets of pink and purple and red; the lake was so blue and fresh; I felt so connected to nature, and I was so glad to be in this area for a couple of days, away from the bustling city life. We’re participating in a yoga retreat and I’ve been following the Guruji for a while now. The sessions have been fantastic thus far and I’m keen to practice when I go back to India.

I broke my no-drinking streak and have concluded that when in Europe, the Unholy ABC Trinity become redundant. ABC: Alcohol, Baked goods and Cheese. It’s too hot where I live in India to consume and burn these easily plus I don’t prefer drinking in India for the sake of my reputation.

I would’ve loved to stay longer and see Berlin but duty calls so I’m heading back home. At least I got some decent amount of shopping done. I bought a black skirt and a very chic sweater from Selected Femme, two longchamp bags and one Nike top. I bought some stuff for my mum, hunted for shoes for my sibling but then I couldn’t find what I was looking for so I said screw it. I got my friend a bottle of German gin for his birthday at the duty free.

I need to renew my wardrobe and this is the year for that. I’m waiting for the designer to give me my clothes. She’s taking quite a long time and I’m hoping that she’s able to execute the vision I had. im also in dire need of more casual stuff - trousers and comfortable blouses and shirts.

my photoshoot pictures came back and they’re beyond gorgeous. I’ve already updated my LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Soho house app (😣). I redownloaded instagram to see which bitches I need to remove from my account since my last refresh (I only download instagram and reactivate my account to unfollow and remove people).

-cherry cherry bang bang 🍒

[clatterbane]

This shit is making me a little nervous, ngl. Maybe an hour ago, I went ahead and ate this pretty yummy tteokbokki cup (with some added kimchi and cheese), which I had actually been holding off on because it usually it is likely to hit my blood sugar like a truck even with loading up on plenty of insulin beforehand. Normally I would start out with 4 units in advance, and be prepared to get like 2-4 more units in later to cover that amount of concentrated particularly high glycemic rice carbs. By this time after eating it, I would likely be reaching for the insulin as the graph is shooting up into the red above the top range lines there. It's enough of a PITA that I just haven't felt like dealing with that enough to eat the thing.

But, tonight? One unit in advance just because it felt like maybe I shouldn't push my luck that hard to go totally without, and this is what the graph is doing:

(That's a new sensor put on yesterday, and it's wanting to be particularly noisy in the readings. Just ignore the aggravating spikiness of that line. I have double checked by finger sticks to calibrate, and it is accurate enough down the middle.)

Going by recent experience, I may actually need to grab a sweet snack before long, to keep that one freaking unit of insulin for a carb-dense meal from crashing my blood sugar right about when I want to go to bed.

Yeah, my three (3) remaining beta cells have apparently all decided to wake up at the same time recently, and go back to work cranking out their own insulin specifically in response to eating. And particularly later in the day. They seem to be night owls too.

It's apparently not unusual for later-onset folks like me to keep some level of insulin production going for longer. Which can change unpredictably.

Don't know if you can even call it a "honeymoon" at this point, since I do seem to be Stubborn Beta Cells Georg. They are still pulling this shit over 15 years in. That's kinda how the extended NHS medical negligence didn't just flat out kill me much faster. Kept limping along with just enough production to keep me progressively sicker and developing complications but only half-dead until that huge crash. Don't know how they managed it, or how they are this persistent even after it looked like they had finally keeled over for good. But, they're still going enough normally that I the endo has been surprised at how relatively little insulin I do normally need.

Some decent backup does seem to have let them recover enough to occasionally come back to work part time, though. This is just the biggest effort they've put in again so far. It's fucking weird.

Impossible to tell when that stubborn handful of beta cells will decide to go back on strike again, of course. But yeah, may as well take advantage of it while it lasts. Thus the post-midnight rice cake snack to begin with!

Maybe I should go ahead and cook some of the real deal over the weekend. I bought some tteokbokki a while back, because I do love it, but hadn't quite psyched myself up to fix it yet. May go for a cheesy variation, because why not.

Not my pic, but it is making me hungry.

[washa]

I listened to Vincent’s and Porter’s audio and here’s my favourite personal comments! (A decent amount of Vincent and Lovely Slander in this one, I mean it with love truly 🙏🙏)

A couple of seconds in and Vincent is already shitting on Porter

“I have tried to live my life these last three years focusing on the good” Lovely cannot relate 

Poor Sam bro why is he always like always involved when everything goes to shit 

NO BC VINCENT IS STRESSING LMFAOO

Lovely being the whole reason that the Solaire's hasn’t lost their minds

DARLIN’ AND VINCENT MOMENT??? FINALLY

Lumberjack??? I can’t get the image of a beaver out of my head

Sam therapy session is required in every second Shaw pack/Solaire video

Strangle. That’s kinky.

Vincent darling. You were an ass. Are we forgetting the whole breaking and entering thing?

Is Darlin’ just kicking their feet in the corner or something

HELP DID SAM INVITE PORTER WHAT THE FUCK IM CACKLING

Porter's jab at Sam clothing style is making me sob

“And here we go..” Now what would you think would happen Sam

“Wine gets better with age. Food, rots.” GAW DAMN PORTER THAT WAS SMOOTH

Loving the mutual hatred. It’s giving every enemies to lover troupe

“Eat shit asshole, Is that better?” Lovely put a muzzle on him.

I imagine Vincent swinging his hands around and pointing like a pixar character

broken found family is radiating off this video

I have never been so attracted to Sam right now (Actually that's a lie, This is Sam we're talking about he's always attractive.)

Porter and Vincent reminds me of those cats fighting in the dumpster in the rain and stirred with daddy issues

Oh poor Porter.. Actually that’s so sad. Is that why he’s like a masochist? Some sort of coping PTSD thing??

Porter has a very good point about Vincent looking like a spoilt brat but it’s clear there’s a misunderstanding

WHY IS THIS SO SAD??? OH MY GOD 

No Vincent… BROOOOO 😭

The silence is deafening

 this is what happens when there’s miscommunication everyone

YO PORTER DON'T BLAME SAM ABT NOT SAYING?? 

What..?

LOVELY???? HOLY SHIT DID THEY JUST PUNCH HIM

What’s wrong Porter? I thought you loved being punched??

For fucking sake this is so damn sad, my heart is crumbling like feta cheese.

Oh thank fuck they are acting somewhat civil people, even if they hate each other

Yes good job Switzerland A+

TREASURE??? NO WAY

Fucking hell this Summit is gonna go to ass isn’t it 😕

[kwaggysshardmindemporium]

I've been using Pokemon Sleep for about five weeks now. Here's some thoughts below the cut. It's a long one.

First, my opinions about the nuts and bolts of how it works. This is... mostly complaints.

- The monetization in this game is absolutely disgusting. Like just heinous. If you're the kind of person that needs to avoid stuff with microtransactions, do not install this game. I haven't given them a dime, but I've also at this point built up a strong resistance to monetization tricks. DO NOT let your kids play this game if they have a credit/debit card hooked up to their accounts.

- On the flip side, credit where due, when they say on the load screen that you can play 100% of the game without paying, this is true. You'll progress faster and with less effort if you pony up some cash, but the game gives you a decent stream of the premium currency, Diamonds, that will get you access to whatever niceties you'd like. If I wanted something that requires the premium currency to get, I haven't found myself walled behind a massive wait for the drip feed to catch up.

- The game wants roughly thirty minutes to an hour of your time a day not counting the sleep tracking. Three ten to twenty minute chunks. One in the morning to review last night's sleep data and feed Snorlax breakfast, one in the afternoon for lunch, and then one or two in the evening for dinner and switching on the sleep tracking.

- When the app tells you to put your phone on the bed for the sleep tracking, this is actually NECESSARY for how it functions. I had assumed it just uses audio to gauge if you snore or whatever (which it does), but it also uses your phone's accelerometer to determine if you're tossing and turning and by extension how deep you're sleeping. If you put it on a bedside table or something, it'll give you a readout saying you slept like an absolute fucking ROCK. If you're like me and toss and turn a lot, you can actually use this to cheese the game a little since certain Pokemon only appear when you sleep deeper and those are for me quite hard to get without this cheese. I would go so far as to actively recommend this tactic.

- You may notice that's kind of a creepy amount of data to collect and it feels kind of like inviting a stalker into your bedroom. You are correct. The app assures you that the actual sleep data does NOT get transmitted at all. I do not have anything other than their word to confirm that. I don't know if what it collects is fairly standard for other apps like it, but my assumption is yes?

- Because of how it tracks your sleep info, if you sleep with a partner in the same bed it completely skullfucks its tracking.

- If you have an even slightly older phone, the app chugs whenever you try to click anything. There's like a one-second lag on every click in the menu followed by a short load screen. Those 10-20 minute sessions would be about half as long if I had a phone with more processing speed.

Now all the above might sound damning as hell. But here's the thing. I like this app a lot actually. It's DEEPLY flawed, but let's talk about the game's mechanics, which is mostly positives:

- Right at the top, this app has improved my sleep schedule, pardon the pun, practically overnight. My new PC has told me twice now that step one to fixing most of my mental health issues is healthier sleep, which he knows is hard but you gotta try. I've been hesitant to take the meds he prescribed for that, but I heard about this app and figured gamifying sleeping on time would be a great way to get me to actually do it. Worked like a charm. The game asks what you'd like your nightly bedtime to be, and gives you rewards for maintaining it. You get these rewards if you go to sleep either 90 minutes prior to that time, or 30 minutes after. My doctor recommended 30 in each direction for consistency, but they don't send you a reminder notification until that 30 minute mark prior so partial credit I guess? I've missed that bedtime like 3 times in these last five weeks, and yeah my everything is way better.

- Looking at the Pokemon wandering my camp makes my brain make the happy juice in a way most Pokemon stuff really doesn't anymore. Like, there's no battles or anything (although you apparently can transfer to and from Pokemon Go, don't know how well that works because I don't play), so you just get a pleasant kind of domesticity most Pokemon stuff doesn't do.

- Here's the actual gameplay loop. You're researching Pokemon sleep patterns. To do this, you're using some nonsense machine that amplifies local Snorlax's natural aura of sleepiness to attract Pokemon to come sleep by it. Snorlax's are apparently the capybaras of the Pokeworld which I actually love. The more you feed Snorlax, the more powerful this sleepy aura becomes. It resets each week because you go to a new campsite with a new Snorlax. During the day, your team of Pokemon (max of... 5 for some reason instead of the default six everywhere else in this franchise?) gather berries to feed your Snorlax throughout the day in idle-game-esque timers, as well as ingredients for more complicated meals. You take the ingredients, make Snorlax meals up to three times a day (6am-noon for breakfast, noon-6pm for lunch, 6pm-6am for dinner). Each pokemon also has an ability that in some way helps you out. Then you can at any time turn on the sleep tracking, then turn it off when you wake up. After a rest of 90+ minutes has been tracked, it gives you a total of how much power that rest generated, and takes you to a minigame where you photograph the sleeping Pokemon that came to rest in your camp. The more power, the more varied the sleeping positions and the rarer the Pokemon. You can then feed them biscuits to befriend them. You get the equivalent of a Great Ball(/Biscuit) every day which on its own fills about 3/5 of a non-evolved Pokemon's friendship bar (the basic biscuit that you'll use most of the time fills 1/5), so there's always at least some progress towards making a friend. Sometimes a Pokemon is extra hungry and the first thing you feed them is worth triple, and you can also get that same multiplier as an RNG thing without warning. Once you fill up a bar, you've befriended that Pokemon and can now add it to your teams or send it to the professor for candies like you do in Pokemon Go. You are also given candies for every Pokemon you attracted even if you don't befriend them, plus "Sleep Points" based on how long you slept for that can be exchanged for items like more biscuits (for reference, a single basic biscuit is roughly 1.5 times a good night's sleep... fucking YIKES) plus "Dream Shards" for how cool the photos you took are, which are used mostly for leveling up your Pokemon and upgrading your camp.

- I love this gameplay loop actually. It feels way more like these Pokemon are my friends as opposed to wild animals I've caught.

- Leveling up and evolving take large amounts of those candies and dream shards. The candies feel like the primary gate on progression.

Overall, this is a game I like a lot despite its flaws, and the positive impact it's had on my health even in this short span is hard to understate. I wish they'd back off with the creepy monetization so I could actively recommend instead of recommend with an asterisk. But yeah that's my thoughts on this weird ass product.

[greaterbalrogcat]

Which legend units (as in bahamut) are actually good

before anyone asks, legend cats are classified as special cats which are able to be boosted to level 40 after first completion of An Ancient Curse and level 50 after first completion of Revival of Origin. units will be in order based on the order they are in in the cat guide. all units will be reviewed based on their true form (uril true form will not be included, as it is currently only available in the japanese version of the game, and i play the global version). if i forget any please remind me there are quite a few

STORY MODE LEGENDS:

VALKYRIE CAT: first legend cat. probably the worst. there is no point in using valkyrie unless you're doing no gacha and need as much area dps as you can physically get and also you don't have ururun. i know people who use it on eoc 3 moon, and it might work there, but i didn't lmao worst legend cat 100%

tl;dr: valkyrie bad

BAHAMUT CAT: really damn good. bahamut's first/second forms have the same stats, and for a unit you get after beating eoc 3, they're very solid stats. a 450 range high damage nuker carries you through getting a lot of crazeds, works through a lot of early SoL, and can actually help with some 4 star. however, it does kinda fall off as you get better generalist rangers, and this is why awakened bahamut (shortened to abaha) was created. abaha is a busted rusher, holding the highest base dps of any unit (previously second to balrog before abaha was buffed in 6.0) and 93.5k damage per hit at LEVEL 30. obviously, being a rusher, its health is kinda low, and it will generally die quickly. however, just getting one or two shots off on a major boss can shave off 100k-200k health (when boosted to level 40), and if the boss has a blindspot or gets knockbacked by this, abaha can typically attack again. this is especially apparent in several advents, such as clionel, which needs rushers such as abaha to get into its blindspot and kill it, and doremi, which is the easiest advent in the game due to the abaha cheese (abaha has just enough damage to knockback doremi on each attack, doremi has just enough speed and attack startup to get hit by abaha every single time). while abaha may see less use in late/endgame due to access to specialized rushers such as yukimura and idi (which we'll be going over later), it's still arguably the best legend just due to the sheer amount of use it sees throughout the entire game. the battle cats would not be the same without bahamut.

tl;dr: busted

CAT GOD THE GREAT: really weird niche unit. 350 standing range, omni hits from -850 to 850, three hit multihit with guaranteed knockback on non-metal enemies on first two hits and decent (51k at level 30) damage on the third hit, attacks less often than it really should. its standing range is kinda bad, but its omni extends 500 ahead of its standing range, which somewhat makes up for it. however, the main appeal of cat god is how omni works. cat god will stand 850 away from the enemy base. this means that it can cheese stages with a high health big boss, such as lil mohawk or lil eraser, and stages where you need to KB threats behind the base so you can destroy it, such as floor 32 of both heavenly tower and infernal tower. true form is absolutely irrelevant but it's pretty goddamn funny. not a great unit, but definitely has its uses.

tl;dr: has rare niche usages, not great

FILIBUSTER CAT X: the other contender for the worst legend in the game. filibuster is unlocked by beating cotc 3 and then beating the one time clear filibuster stage (which has the best song in the game btw). before true form, it has 575 range, low damage, freeze vs traitless for 4 seconds, low health and one knockback, and omni (but it only pierces backwards so it's irrelevant). in true form, it gains immunity to surge and curse, target relic, and its damage doubles. this doesn't seem that bad, right?

twelve (12) seconds of foreswing. this is more foreswing than twelve balrogs put together.

filibuster holds almost no use. you could hypothetically, at best, use it on a stage where you can stall and stack filibusters on the peons, but those stages are so incredibly few and far between that they might as well not exist and you could just use any better generalist or CC unit. shockingly useless.

tl;dr: filibuster bad

JAGANDO JR.: actually a surprisingly good anti-traitless. jagando is a 360 range strong vs traitless three hit multihit with surge and guaranteed knockback on the third hit curse and surge immune unit. this seems more complicated than it is. jagando has solid anti-traitless dps, guaranteed knockback + level 1 surge so it's guaranteed to knockback twice if the first knockback connects, curse immune for use in UL and against uril (the floor 50 of heavenly tower boss, not the legend unit which we will be covering later), and surge immune for use against kappy jr and any possible surge base/raynard/other surge enemy support in a traitless stage. very straightforwardly good unit. works well in 4 star.

tl;dr: solid anti-traitless damage + KB

STORIES OF LEGEND LEGENDS:

URURUN WOLF: the classic generalist. ururun is the baseline for what a backliner's stats should be equal to or above. even before true form, there are quite a few units (nurse cat, bahamut, thundia/windy outside of niche, etc) it outclasses in terms of generalist stats. in true form, its 450 range and 6.4k dps (at level 30) make it a very viable backliner, especially in early UL and 4 star, but it does somewhat fall off in later game when you get stronger generalists. its 20% chance for knockback can hinder some slower foreswing units that you bring with her (bahamut), but it can also help on occasion when you need knockback units. really not much else to say about ururun, just a strong unit overall and helps with early game.

tl;dr: good generalist

LI'L NYANDAM: despite being one of the highest standing range units you can get in 4 star, its attacks are slow, its proc chance for slow is only 50%, and its only real use is if you NEED a way to outrange professor a in 4 star and you have no stepping stones for LD units. not very good.

tl;dr: not unusable, just not good

RED RIDING MINA: pretty solid no gacha LD sniper. stands at 435, hits from 300 to 700. can hit quite a few backliners if given a stepping stone. 50% chance to weaken relic and immune to curse is largely irrelevant, but it can help on occasion. mina is one of the best snipers in 4 star, can be stacked on stages with low peons, and is just generally strong. good legend.

tl;dr: decent sniper but there are better options outside of 4 star

MIYAMOKU MUSASHI: musashi is a generalist with zkill, 30% chance to freeze relics, and curse/wave immune. musashi used to be one of the very few options available for anti-wave, and was solid due to that. however, as the meta has evolved, wave has become one of the most powercrept abilities, with units such as octopus cat, gloomy neneko, talented dancer cat, and talented li'l mohawk making it much, much easier to deal with than it was back when musashi was first introduced. the only real use for musashi is as a counter to the occasional 4 star cadaver bear that you can't deal with with shigong, which is a half decent use, but it's just too uncommon to justify musashi's low stats. very mediocre unit.

tl;dr: killed by powercreep, can work vs 4 star cadaver bears

MECHA-BUN: bad relic tank. it's a fast attacking strong against relics curse immune "tanker" with too low health and not good enough damage to be good. not interesting enough for more than a few sentences.

no tl;dr for this one it was three sentences

IDI:N: the unit i did not consider when deciding on formatting but i'm too lazy to change it. idi is effectively an anti-relic version of awakened bahamut, with massive damage vs relic, curse immune, and surge immune. idi's niche is very useful against relics that she outranges like oldhorn, relics with low damage that she can use all her knockbacks against like lowkey, relics with a blindspot that she can get into like loris, relics with long tba that she can hit once or twice in between their attacks like luza, relics with lots of knockbacks that you want to hit hard like puffington...honestly just the majority of relics. the only two relics she can't really deal with by herself are m ost and relic bun bun because they attack fast and she gets outranged, but you can tbolt or freeze them using something else and she can get solid damage on them. incredibly strong anti-relic rusher.

tl;dr: anti-relic awakened bahamut, very good, very worth beating all of 4 star

UNCANNY LEGEND LEGENDS:

DOGUMARU: dogumaru's true form is what mecha-bun dreams of being. it has resist vs traitless and relic, behemoth slayer, colossus slayer, curse and warp immune. it has 156600 base health at level 50, increased to 626400 vs its target traits, 223714/261000 vs colossus/behemoth respectively, and 894856/1044000 vs a traitless or relic colossus/behemoth respectively. this makes it a strong tanker for luza stages, with its 64800 damage (103680/162000 vs colossus/behemoth) being strong enough to take out the peons, and revival of origin having no enemies that aren't one of its target traits. dogu still works outside of luza stages, being a strong tanker for both traits, and while its behemoth niche is largely more useful than its colossus niche, as traitless/relic behemoths such as wild doge, magamojoe, and cumulus gallus are decently hard to deal with, its colossus niche does help with the occasional jj jackrabbit, or, if you have no other options, baron gauntlets. even outside these sub-trait targets, its traitless and relic niches make it work vs both yulalas, its own enemy counterpart, and any other traitless/relic enemies without too high dps. pretty damn busted.

tl;dr: great traitless/relic tanker, colossus/behemoth slayer gives it a lot more use, strong legend

URS & FENRIR: urs is effectively just a better ururun. trading out the 20% chance of knockback for a 20% chance of weaken removes any chance of making other units miss their attacks, dps and health stay the same between the two; however, urs gains 10 more range, behemoth slayer (with 30% chance to dodge, making it one of two behemoth slayers with increased dodge chance and therefore increased survivability), colossus slayer, and costs slightly less. the only thing ururun has over urs is a 3.33 second lower cooldown, but this is entirely irrelevant, as it's a difference of 161.2 and 164.53 seconds. urs becomes a strong anti-behemoth and anti-colossus; despite generalists becoming less relevant at the point in the game that you get urs, a 460 range unit with 10295 dps vs colossus is very helpful on baron gauntlets, and you can use it against behemoths to decent effect, despite the sheer amount of anti-behemoths available. just a better ururun.

tl;dr: ururun but better. decent anti-behemoth and anti-colossus. worst UL legend but not bad by any means.

ELDER MASK DORON: doron is one of very few suicide/kamikaze/self-destruct units in the game, sharing this ability with only glass cat, stone cat, and wafer cat. as is consistent across all suicide units, doron's health is extremely high, having the second highest base health of all cat units (599995 at level 50), and it has immunity to almost all negative effects (no toxic immunity). this is to make sure it can land its hit consistently. doron has a 100% chance to knockback and freeze relic enemies for 6.67 seconds and spawn a level 3 surge between 400 and 1000 range. it stands at 400 range, but its omni reaches from -1000 to 600, giving it 200 piercing range. it holds 29997 dph, and due to being a suicide unit, there's no real way to calcuate dps. it also has behemoth and colossus slayer. doron works against pretty much every relic, freezing them and keeping them away from the battlefield for those 6.67 seconds. while its surge may seem inconsistent, it will create a wall of freeze + knockback if it lands on its intended relic target, and if it doesn't, it can do solid damage versus non-relic. its anti-behemoth niche isn't great due to behemoths almost always being surge immune, but it works against great ape luza and the initial hit will still affect behemoths. the colossus niche is better; despite zero luza being immune to freeze, it can still be knockbacked, and the surge can stall it for several more seconds. doron is also surprisingly usable as generalist dps, with the surge's spawn radius making it capable of piercing to backliners or creating a wall of death at the frontline surprisingly well, although it's much less reliable than its cc role. its 1800 cost and 52.53 second cooldown give it very good mobility. strong anti-relic.

tl;dr: incredible relic cc, cheap for what it does, good damage for a reliable cc unit

ELDER BEAST NAALA: the best UL legend. naala's main gimmick is its weird multihit LD, with standing range of 300, first hit going from 1-301, second from 300-500, and third from 500-700. its dps is thus decreased to 1/3rd of its potential, still a respectable 7957.89 generalist dps at level 50, with 45360 generalist damage per hit. it holds 135000 generalist health. however, naala's main draw is its niche, being strong vs relic, guaranteed weaken to 50%, and behemoth/colossus slayer. it also has curse, wave, and surge immunity. against relic behemoths such as magamojoe and great ape luza, it has 29842 dps, with 170100 damage per hit. against zero luza, the only relic colossus, it has 19099 dps and 108864 dph. its two knockbacks and high effective health (450000 vs behemoth, 385714 vs colossus) give it good durability and make it capable of staying on the field for long periods of time to keep dishing out damage. 113400 damage per hit vs non-relic behemoth makes it a viable generalist anti-behemoth, and given the prevalence of melee behemoths, it can snipe backliners by using wild doges or behemoth pigges as stepping stones. incredibly strong unit.

tl;dr: busted anti-relic, anti-behemoth, anti-colossus. one of if not the best legend. incredible unit.

APE LORD LUZA: anti-relic nuker. luza has a somewhat weird LD multihit, with 400 standing range, first hit hitting from 1-401, and second hit hitting from 250 to 550. this gives it some piercing range and the ability to consistently hit both hits at its standing range. if both hits connect, it has 27971.22 dps (halved if only one hits) and 259200 dph (both hits added) vs relic. with behemoth slayer, this increases to 69928.05 dps and 648000 dph. resist gives it 334800 health vs relic and 558000 health vs relic behemoth. i hope i don't have to explain how insane this is. its immunity to weaken and warp aren't that relevant, but curse immune helps for obvious reasons and surge immune gives it a niche vs pesky surge enemies. luza doesn't have much outside of what it does at face value, but what it has is pretty damn good.

tl;dr: straightforward good relic nuker. worth the evolution.

HEAVENLY TOWER LEGENDS:

MASKED GRANDMASTER CAT: masked grandmaster is an anti-relic wave unit. while its 4080 damage per hit at level 30 may not look like much, it has three hit multihit and a level 5 wave. this gives it solid backliner dps, at 2891.34 dps (4337 dps vs relics) at level 30 up to 1132 range, enough to do consistent damage to any threatening backliners and clear peons decently well. while, again, this may not look like that good of a unit, let me direct your attention to its 2400 cost and **37.87 second cooldown**. this is less than 10 seconds higher than manic macho legs's cooldown. this allows masked grandmaster to be stacked on any barrier with 12.3k health or above or any high health low range permafreezeable or permaslowable enemy until you have a massive wall of death for any enemy that dares cross its path. while these situations are obviously rarer than would be preferable, it's a strong anti-relic and wave unit.

tl;dr: strong stackable waver with low cooldown.

SPIRITUAL YULALA: weird LD anti-relic rusher. 350 standing range, hits from 200 to 500. massive damage vs relics. while its 12.5k dps vs relics is solid, its low standing range and only two knockbacks hold its survivability back. 71.2 second cooldown and 4200 cost make it much less mobile than masked grandmaster, despite its much higher speed (20). could be much better than it is.

tl;dr: mediocre anti-relic rusher. usable against low range relics

MASTER URIL: pretty damn good anti-relic cc. 100% slow vs relic for two seconds, 100% chance for level 3 surge (spawns between 400 and 600), 375 range. surges hit 125 ahead and 250 behind their spawnpoint; thus, uril's surge is only guaranteed to hit the initial target if the target is between 350 and 525 away from it. while this looks good in theory, seeing as uril can guarantee slow at standing range, the permaslow ends as soon as something pushes just 25 range inward. still, this is only if the enemy you're trying to slow is at the front. if uril targets a peon with an m ost behind it, it'll slow the m ost, preventing more pushing. it also has a chance to slow backliners, with the farthest surge spawn hitting up to 725. three knockbacks and 68k health at level 30 is solid, although its damage is a little low, and is only usable for slight chip and/or peon clearing.

tl;dr: solid cc for melee relics and midrange relics with stepping stones. well worth the floor 50 grind. will be much, much better once true form comes out.

jesus christ i got this ask like. actually two days ago. this took too long but now i will never talk about legend units ever again

uril true form? busted anti-relic busted anti-aku but that mf ain't in BCEN yet and therefore no one cares

[alidravana]

Another MacGyver snippet for Cheese's amazing advent prompts, slightly delayed due to vacation and brief sickness...Day 2: Letters from Home featuring Jack and Mac.

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It didn’t take long for soldiers to know the important things about their bunkmates in the sandbox.  With every day being practically the same as the one before, lacing up your boots and heading into the desert to track down enemies, disarm IEDs, and hopefully not get shot, you quickly formed bonds with the people doing the same job side by side.

This is why Jack knew that Sam was on the fifth draft of a letter to his girl, trying to propose to her in the best of words possible, even though they had only dated for three months before deployment.  Everyone knew that Jamie’s mom made the best cookies; she’d send enough so everyone could have one (they were common betting currency at poker nights) and that no one asked Tom about how his family was doing, having lost his daughter the year before to cancer.  

But Mac?  Jack knew absolutely nothing about him.

Sure he knew that Mac was super smart, the best bomb nerd he’s ever seen out in the field, even though the kid had no self-preservation skills.  He knew Mac liked science, could put up a decent fight considering his size, and would fidget with paper clips.  

But that was it.  Nothing about his family, about his life outside the sandbox, nothing really meaningful.

Mac did receive letters though, from back home.  Fairly frequently, occasionally having a care package alongside them.  Jack had been tempted to sneak a peek, see who was writing to Mac, making him laugh and smile as he read the letters.  Perhaps a girlfriend, or his parents?  But no, that would be crossing a line, one that Jack wouldn’t cross even though he was dying of curiosity.  

So finally, Jack being Jack, decided he was just going to ask.  And with Christmas coming up, it was the perfect time to slide in the question.

“So what’s your holidays normally look like?” Jack asked, leaning back in the front seat of the Humvee.  They had been waiting for almost an hour for their next call, but nothing yet, which was odd in the desert.  Jack had already established that yes, Mac did celebrate Christmas, and no, he didn’t think Die Hard was a Christmas movie (although it was).  He’d have to work on bringing Mac to the right conclusion on that one.

“Well, Grandpa would order Chinese, and let me open my gifts on Christmas Eve,” Mac said with his eyes closed, but a grin across his face, obviously remembering the events fondly.  “Then I’d go to Bozer’s house on Christmas day around lunch time, and his mom would make the best Christmas pastrami ever for dinner.”

Jack stared at Mac, surprised at the amount of information Mac shared in two sentences.  He easily read between the lines, picking up on Mac not saying anything about his parents that he obviously lived with his Grandpa growing up.  He was also feeling very relieved that he had never asked about Mac’s parents.  But what is a Bozer?  And pastrami?

“Pastrami?  For Christmas dinner?”  Jack couldn’t help but exclaim, feeling confused as hell.

“Yeah, it's quite the story,” Mac chuckled, shooting a look across at Jack.  

“Well, we got the time-” Jack started to say when the radio went off with a beep beep.

“Another day,” Mac said with a smile, snatching the radio from Jack’s hand and answering the call.

Yeah, Jack thought to himself as they drove off towards their next IED sighting.  Another day.

[afoxdoeswrite]

I just got out of watching the Five Nights at Freddy's movie a couple hours ago. Here's some thoughts.

They're under this cut because obviously, a lot of spoilers.

On the FNaF movie;

It’s sure a movie. It didn’t need to be FNaF.

Let me preface this with some context; I’m fond of FNaF. I wasn’t in much of the big early craze. In fact I don’t think I really got into things until like, 2017, so coming up to the end of the early games. But I’m very fond of it. I love the lore, it’s a tangled disaster and everything about it is a mess. But I like that there’s plot holes everywhere to poke into, and that there’s about six different arguments for so many different things, and generally I like it because it’s a mess.

I’m admittedly not super up to date on the books and their lore, but that’s because I don’t have the free time to buy that many books and also read them. I’ve been working on that, mostly through things like the various wikis. I’d definitely not call myself up to date on the level that the Youtube lore video makers are, but I’m comfortably aware of a decent amount of things.

So with that in mind, the movie.

Now don’t get me wrong, it’s a decent movie. It’s not great.

Which is admittedly a problem when it’s had a development time of like five years or something? But hey.

The problem comes from the fact that it’s not really horror. At least. Not Five Nights at Freddy’s horror. It seems in some ways to bill itself more as a mystery- except, it’s a FNaF movie. If you know anything about FNaF, you can probably guess the ‘plot twist’ within the first few minutes of the mystery coming up. You could honestly remove all the FNaF elements and replace it with a Chuck E. Cheese, or some other Legally Distinct Restaurant With Robots, and get the same sort of energy.

Is it creepy? Sure. They do the atmosphere for the Pizza Place great, honestly. The tension is pretty good. And sure, I’ll let it slide that it is horror in that. The tension is good, there’s a creeping sense of not knowing what’s around the corners, the sense of being hunted. It’s good.

It didn’t need to be FNaF. It really, truly didn’t.

Let me explain.

The core of FNaF, the beating heart of it, is that it’s a survival horror where you’re locked in a room. You can’t see what’s coming for the majority of the game; you click the lights on your doors to see if they’re right outside, but that only works for two of the four. For the other two- Freddy and Foxy- as well as for tracking both Bonnie and Chica around the building, you have the cameras! It’s FNaF’s big mechanic for the first three games, and even the later ones have something similar to that.

The movie doesn’t use that.

(This is admittedly also my problem with Security Breach, but that’s a talk for another time.)

If the movie had given me Mike Schmidt, stuck in his office at the restaurant, being hunted by animatronics and having to defend the room, I’d’ve been happy. Sure, maybe it’s a little hard to make that a full movie. But there’s nothing to say he couldn’t also leave the room. Mix it up, use the cameras to keep track of things, make Mike too afraid to leave that safe place at first, but then make it so it’s either run or die, and then make things more mobile. Keep the cameras somehow; they’re linked to a tablet in the games, maybe use that.

But instead the movie gives us the FNaF office setting as a background to the family drama going on outside. It’s used as a place for Mike to have a job, and a place for him to talk to the ghosts while obsessing over finding out who took his brother.

And there’s another thing. The family drama frontline is also pretty meh. It’s used to push why Mike needs a job so much, why he takes the Freddy’s job even though it’s utter crap. But it’s basically dropped half way through the movie into a sub plot, and then isn’t resolved. The aunt just disappears. It’s sort of implied that she’s killed- which opens up another host of issues but Hey-, the people the aunt was using are all killed half way through and only used for some shock horror in the final climax of the film, and those guys are where a solid amount of the horror even comes from, with their invasion of Freddy’s and the following hunt.

If they’d taken that hunt into the rest of the film, that’d be great.

Continuing back, the plot with Abby is also… a bit flat. She’s got an imaginary friend! Neat! Mike has to take her to Freddy’s for work and she makes friends with the ghosts in the robots! Also neat!

The ending is boring. It’s dramatic, it’s tense. It’s boring. And honestly, my reasons why is entirely tied up with my next point;

William. Freaking. Afton.

This is about to get a bit non-chronological with the movie plot.

Now admittedly, in the setting of the movie, his entire existence isn’t nearly as groan-inducing as it is in the games. Especially the later games.

(My opinions on Security Breach continue to appear.)

But he is criminally misused in this movie. He’s why Mike’s brother disappeared, and so was likely killed. Yeah ok that’s fair. I don’t believe that’s how Afton has ever been presented as working like that in the games, but sure. I’ll take it.

Afton is able to control the animatronics? Sure…? I mean he kinda does that at one point, if you want to take the FNaF 3 post-night games as that. The Shadow Freddy in those minigames isn’t exactly Afton’s style at all, I’ve always assumed it to be some other ghost and I think a lot of people agree with that, but hey. We can work with that.

Afton appears in the last like, ten minutes or so of the movie, he rants for a bit, and is dragged off by the bots. He gets springlocked. He’s shut in one of the back rooms, presumably to meet his FNaF 3 ending cutscene fate of being stuck back there to rot. He’s hinted at before then, but the main villain of literally the entire series isn’t used.

And then there’s the Vanessa stuff.

Ok I would first like to point out; Vanessa introduces herself as Vanessa Shelly. Could this be a fake name? Sure. Or maybe she changed her name. But that would not be necessary at all. Vanessa in the games is Vanessa A., no last name given. The fandom is happily divided on if she’s an Afton or not. It’s right up there with the Vanny/Vanessa arguments. The point stands is that the movie nicely sets up that this isn’t the same Vanessa as Vanessa the Pizzaplex Security Guard.

My friend I tell you, when I say I groaned aloud when the whole ‘he’s my father’ line came up? I groaned. My soul left my body. We had to pause watching because the others in the room were laughing so hard at my reaction that no-one could hear anything.

I am so tired of this, man. I know some of this comes from having dealt with the last decade of franchise and the endless nightmare that is FNaF 6’s nice fairly neat ending followed by Ultimate Custom Night and Help Wanted and Security Breach.

(And Ruin. But Ruin is slightly less awful for this.

Barely.

Rant for another time.)

But I am so tired of William Afton being connected to everyone. Movie team. We have three canon children for Afton already. I understand if you didn’t want to poke the game lore snake with that stick. But you also didn’t need to do this.

I will admit. Do I know how they would have done the William Afton Info Dump- sorry, Dramatic Reveal- without Vanessa The Convenient Daughter? No. Were there options? Certainly. Hell. You have the ghosts of his victims wandering around. Remove the ‘Afton is controlling them’ bit. Have the kid tell Mike who this guy is.

In the games it’s implied Afton is actually arrested for the murders, but let go due to lack of evidence. You could use that too! Have Mike find out about the murders from Vanessa, like he does, have him go home and do some research, and find out about this William Afton guy who was taken in and let go. If you want to keep your dramatic family should-be-a-B-plot, that can be when Mike starts to think that maybe it was this same guy that took Garrett; link the fact that the ghosts of the Freddy’s kids keep appearing in his dream about his brother, and there you go.

Or tie it to Abby’s drawing thing. He sees the drawing, finds out the kids told her about Garrett, puts it together that maybe this Afton guy who was accused of potentially killing the kids at Freddy’s is also linked to what happened to Garrett, and that’s why they keep showing up in his dream. Ta-da, no need for Vanessa to be Afton’s kid.

Is it a perfect change? God no. But the movie isn’t perfect either by any means, so I don’t see why that should be a complaint.

But going forward.

The ending wasn’t bad, I’ll give the movie that. It’s not. Grand. I will admit that I did not think that we needed that whole Afton Face Reveal moment that we got. It’s kind of pitiful. And the drawings thing being how they break the control is also pretty meh. Nicely foreshadowed, but meh. If you take out the Afton control thing, then you don’t need that. Or alternatively, maybe the bots are listening to Afton-in-the-Springsuit because… it’s a springsuit. It’s canon to FNaF 2 that they can’t tell a bot from a human just using a mask, so why would a suit be different? They just think it’s another bot, so they listen.

Reveal that the Spring Bonnie isn’t just another suit but is a person by just. Damaging it, or something? Vanessa shoots him in the movie, use that fact. Use the taser and have that set the springlocks off. Something that reveals that it’s a person in there.

You can also do the whole ‘remove the mask’ that the movie did. Which by the way; boring! Again! While I was watching it is genuinely took me minutes to register ‘hey. That was the job centre guy, right?’

That’s bad.

That’s also unnecessary.

Afton’s whole thing was that he was a faceless killer. He wore the suit and mask and hid who he was. He didn’t need to be linked into the job centre guy at all. This is honestly similar to my situation with the ‘Vanessa’s his kid’ thing, really. We didn’t need that. It wasn’t necessary. Afton didn’t need to be anyone important in their lives. That’s half the point of Afton. He’s a serial murderer, and most of his on-purpose crimes are people he has no relationship to other than ‘worked in the building’. There wasn’t a need to bring this silly little loop of ‘Afton was the job centre guy and he specifically got Mike hired here so he could kill him!’ into things.

But hey. It’s Five Nights At Freddy’s. It’s not like unnecessary plot loops is a new thing here.

Either way. I don't think the ending was bad. I just think, much like a lot of everything else, it was just sort of boring and a bit full of things that weren't totally necessary.

Is there more I could say? Probably. If I felt like rewatching the movie again and picking it apart minute by minute for all the Bad Things, I could do that. I don’t want to. I’ve watched it, now.

I came out of this movie with the opinion that it wasn’t bad, and I stand by that. As a movie, it was acceptable. If you don’t really care about FNaF and the lore, and just want something to kind of brainlessly watch for a bit of a spook and some gore… yeah, it pulls that off alright.

But it’s a FNaF movie. I came here for FNaF. Maybe it was for the lore, to see how they tied things together. Maybe it was just for some spooky jumpscares. Maybe it was for a tense, survive the night action with a mix of defending the room and running for his life. But I came here for Five Nights at Freddy’s, and what I got was a movie that could be reskinned with any generic animatronic pizza place company and still stand on its own.

That is not a good thing.

[mb0328]

Chapter 13

            Three months into winter and Hadlee was about ready to bang her head against a wall, repeatedly, and hard. Inventory was practically useless with how many supplies were not being used and she could forget about asking to go out on ski patrols with the guys with the weather they’d been having lately. Hell, she doubted that they even wanted to go out. With all of her free time though Maggie had finally convinced her to go in for a wellness check. Thankfully nothing new popped up in any of her scans or bloodwork and the new developments with her seizures were chalked up to stress and age. Though Maggie had still changed her medication up a little bit just to be safe. Even though the change was small, the new prescription regime had knocked Hadlee on her ass for about a week until she could get used to it. This wasn’t entirely uncommon for a change in medication, especially not with the amount of meds that Hadlee took. In her opinion her pill container looked like that of a ninety-year-old diabetic with heart and kidney failure. Jethro hardly left her side during that week only leaving to shower and sleep. Hadlee had tried to convince Harrison to let Jethro sleep over but he wasn’t exactly keen on the idea. Plus he’d made a decent argument about her needing to rest and let her body work through the new meds. Hadlee couldn’t argue with logic as much as she wanted to…stupid logic.

            Nora had kept her promise and had returned the day after she was released from the hospital. She had fractured her spine in a couple of different places and was in a brace, but she was walking and talking. Tyler had tagged along and funnily enough he was the one in a wheelchair with a broken leg and a few cracked ribs. Harper however seemed to have the worst battle scars and unsurprisingly hers would last a lifetime. One-hundred and six stitches in her side as well as an additional forty-seven in a number of other scratches up and down her arms, legs, and torso. She was unofficially banned from flat rock until further notice but all three teens made it very clear that they would not be returning to the barnacle covered cheese grater for a long time if ever. Hadlee couldn’t help but laugh as Glick recited the famous quote from the front of the tower. Flat rock will always claim it’s pound of flesh. Nora, Tyler, and Harper were truly lucky to not have been hurt worse than they were, and they knew it. Hadlee promised to check in on the teen’s recovery periodically as long as they all promised to come and visit the tower as often they could as well, and like that another deal was struck and a friendship was made.

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            Winter days never yielded much in the way of excitement for the Waverly Lifeguard Council so, to no one’s surprise the lifeguards were stationed up and down an entirely deserted beach. Hadlee had grown tired of staying in the tower and had decided to tag along with Deano who was stationed at Backpackers. Still though no action seemed to find them. That was of course, until Hadlee had made the rudimentary decision to take a walk along the water’s edge. There was no pointed reason as to why she wanted to take a walk aside from getting too antsy in the buggy and Deano had begun to give her side glances the more she shifted about. The water was relatively chilly with it only being mid-July so Hadlee avoided getting her feet wet but she still liked to be close to the waves as they crashed only feet away from her. She was on her way back to Deano and the buggy when a movement on the cliffs to her far left caught her attention. Hadlee had to squint to get any form of clarity but even then her eyes were straining beyond their capability. A sinking feeling formed in her gut and Hadlee jogged back to the buggy.

“Deano, pass me the binos.” She said.

“What do you see?” He asked, passing the binos to Hadlee.

            Naturally Deano hadn’t taken his eyes off of the water so he was unclear as to what Hadlee could be seeing. Hadlee adjusted the binos until she could see the cliffs clearly and skimmed along the rocky sides. She nearly dropped the binoculars when she finally found what had caught her attention.

“What that fuck is that kid doing up there?” She voiced.

“What? What do you see?” Deano asked stepping out of the buggy.

            Hadlee passed the binos to Deano and the pointed straight out to the farthest point of the cliffs.

“Straight out right on the edge.” She dictated.

“Shit,” Deano muttered and the reached for his radio. “Hadlee can you get up there?”

            Hadlee looked at the cliffs and then nodded.

“It’ll take me a few minutes but yeah.” She said.

“Go. I’ll get backup.” He said.

            Hadlee had never been so grateful for the sand training she’d been doing with Harries. The older lifeguard had taken Hadlee under his wing when she’d mentioned wanting to start working out and since she’d begun training with him her physical strength and agility had improved greatly, especially her soft sand running. It only took a minute for her to hit the ramp and pick-up speed to nearly a full sprint. She was dodging people and railings as she ran to the cliff path. She’d walked that path more times than she could count since she’d gotten back and knew the fastest way to the trail head and all of the shortcuts along the path. Soon her feet her slapping against the boarded trail. Hadlee slowed to a jog as she approached the turnoff that the person must have taken to get to the ledge that she’d seen him on. She was hopping over bushes and rocks as she moved through the foliage until she finally made it to the rocky ledge. When she first walked onto the cliff she thought she might have taken a wrong turn since she didn’t see anybody but as she looked around she finally saw them. She walked carefully along the ledge and she saw that a small crowd had gathered on the overhand by the Icebergs. She glared up at them but otherwise gave them no attention. As she got closer she saw that it appeared to be a man in his early to mid-twenties.

“Hey, sir.” Hadlee called.

            The man jolted and his feet shifted kicking a few pebbles over the edge of the cliff, sending them down to the water. Hadlee’s heart jumped into her throat.

“What are you doing?!” He cried. “Just leave me alone, I want to be alone.”

“You know I can’t do that. Can you tell me your name. I’m Hadlee.” Hadlee said, swallowing her terror.

            The man’s eyes were wild, Hadlee didn’t know what to make of him. He was dressed in khakis, a t-shirt, and tennis shoes, just like anybody else would be if they were going on a walk along the boarded path. But when the man shifted Hadlee caught a glance of something that might just shed some light on the situation at hand. Both of his arms had lined scars running up his forearms and Hadlee had little doubt that there would be cuts in other places as well. Still having made no move to answer her question Hadlee racked her brain for anything that could get the man talking. She’d try anything. But she knew that she couldn’t try and pull him away from that ledge, he was no doubt stronger than her and she also knew that it was likely that if he didn’t come down on his own he’d end up right back here the very next opportunity that he got.

“What’s your favorite place?” Hadlee spouted.

            It was random but that’s precisely why Hadlee asked it.

“What?” The man asked.

“Your favorite spot,” Hadlee repeated. “Do you have one?”

            The man looked at her like she was crazy.

“It’s okay if you think it’s weird. I have one back home. It’s this black pebble beach, I always go there when I want to be alone. When I can’t get things out of my head.” Hadlee tried.

“Tama, I guess. There’s a cave there that nobody really knows about.” He said, Hadlee could see how stressed he was. She could almost see his heart beating in his chest.

“Cool, I’ve been looking for little places ever since I got to Bondi, maybe you could show me some time.” Hadlee said.

            He shrugged finally calming down a bit.

“Peter,” He spoke up, and Hadlee cocked her head. “My name, it’s Peter.”

“Well it’s nice to meet you Peter,” Hadlee said. “So, what do you do?”

“I don’t have a job.” Peter said.

“Okay, well what do you want to do?” Hadlee asked.

“What?” Peter asked, looking back at Hadlee.

“What do you want to do?” She repeated.

            Peter’s brow furrowed.

“Has nobody ever asked you that before?” Hadlee asked and Peter shook his head. “Well, now they have. What do you want to do?”

“I wanna take pictures.” Peter said.

“Photography, that’s awesome! I have a few friends that do photography.” Hadlee asked.

            Peter nodded and looked back out at the waves. A couple people were talking up on the overhang and they caught his attention. Hadlee looked up and saw that they were filming. Hadlee looked and saw Deano, Reidy, Glick, and Hoppo making their way towards her but Hadlee caught their attention and pointed to the crowd. Deano nodded and he grabbed Reidy, pulling him back the way they came. Hadlee looked to Peter who seemed to be getting antsy again.

“Hey Peter, do you mind if I come sit down?” She asked.

            Peter whipped his head around and shook his head inching back a bit towards the edge.

“Hey, hey no no no no,” Hadlee said rapidly holding her hands out and shaking her head. “I mean right here.”

            Peter took a step away from the edge and nodded. Hadlee slowly sat down on the smooth rock and crossed her legs.

“Why don’t you sit down too, Peter. We can just talk, yeah?” Hadlee suggested.

            Peter seemed to mull over the suggestion for a moment but eventually he sat down a foot or so away from the ledge.

“So photography, how long have you been interested in taking pictures?” Hadlee asked.

“Since I was in high school. But my parents weren’t all too happy with my decision. They wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor like them. There’s no place for an artist in the family according to them. I had to apply to university as pre-law just to get them off me and now they’re worse than ever. Always hounding me about classes and extracurriculars I can stand it anymore. I hate it!” Peter screamed. “I can’t breathe without them being on me about something. I can’t stand it anymore. The expectations, they’re suffocating me.”

“I get it.” Hadlee said calmly.

“You don’t get it; everybody always says that but they don’t.” Peter says, shifting around.

“I do get it Peter; I’m not doing what my parents want either. They kicked me out when I turned eighteen because I didn’t fit the image of their perfect family. Instead of going to University after I graduated I decided to float around and figure out what I wanted to do and that just didn’t sit right with them so I ended up here and it was the best decision that I ever made,” Hadlee told him. “You don’t always have to do what your parents want, Peter. Sometimes you have to make them unhappy to make yourself happy. The only person who needs to be okay with your decisions is you and if they aren’t okay with you being a photography them they need to straighten out their priorities. But this isn’t the answer. Prove them wrong, show them that you can succeed in what you love and soon they’ll realize it too.”

            Peter watched her carefully but Hadlee didn’t waver. It wasn’t the first time she’d told her story, but it was the first time she’d told it to a stranger.

“Your parents kicked you out?” He asked.

“Yeah, in a way. They got tired of the medical bills and people always asking questions and they wanted to maintain their image so they sent me here to live with my brother.” Hadlee said.

“Medical bills?” Peter asked.

“Yeah, I’m an epileptic and I’ve got anxiety and mild depression. Plus I’m prone to injury.” Hadlee replied.

“You’re an epileptic and you work for the lifeguard council?” Peter said.

            Hadlee laughed.

“Seems a little backwards but yeah I do. I help when and where I can. Like now.” She said.

“You really think I should go for it?” He asked.

            Hadlee nodded.

“I do, change your major to photography and pursue a career that you love,” She said. “But can you come back from the ledge, please?”

            Peter stood quickly and Hadlee followed, mentally preparing to dive after Peter if he decided to jump at the last second. But he didn’t, he slowly walked towards Hadlee until he was far enough from the ledge that Hadlee took a deep breath.

“Please talk to someone okay?” Hadlee asked.

“I will.” Peter said as Hoppo took his arm and led him away.

            Glick approached Hadlee slowly.

“You okay Hads?” He asked.

            Hadlee leaned over her and braced herself on her knees, drawing in deep breaths.

“Yeah, I’ll be good. But can I go back to the tower and can you call Jeth or Hutz.” She asked.

            Glick nodded and patted her back reassuringly.

“Yeah Hads, let’s get back.” He said.

~~~~~~~

            Jethro hugged Hadlee tightly from behind as they sat in the tower for their debrief.

“Can we go home please?” Hadlee asked to nobody in particular.

            The boys had been watching her closely since they’d gotten back to the tower but she’d gone on for a while like normal until her adrenaline crashed and then she retreated into her shell.

“Yeah Hads, you can head home. I already talked to you.” Hoppo said.

“Thanks Hop.” Hadlee said numbly and Jethro led her out of the tower.

“Can we have ice cream?” Hadlee asked.

“Yeah, babe, we can have ice cream.” Jethro said.

            Hadlee knew she’d get better in a few days but at the moment she was rather numb.

“Did that actually happen?” She asked as Jethro pulled open the car door for her.

“Yeah love, it actually happened.” Jethro agreed.

            Jethro looked over at his girlfriend who sat quietly in his passenger seat.

“You did good Hadlee,” Jethro assured her, reaching over and taking her hand. “You did really good.”