#tori bean's sharing

[cozysafechaotic]

Squishbean did you say five POUNDS of stuffing??!?!?

Yes. Yes I did.

The hope is that I can finally put together a ton of amigurumi and start actually selling them instead of just hoping that maybe I can.

[pleaseeeimjustagirl]

🎀📝Back To School📝🎀

Heyyy babes<333 I am officially back and the semester is back too lol. I went stationary shopping online and found so many cuteee items to add to my school supplies that I had to share! Plus some extras on my wishlist! All links will be attached!

Stationary

These items are all from SHEIN they are all so cuteeee and affordable!!!

♡ Hello Kitty Rhinestone Calculator - $5.49

♡ Sanrio Kitty Pencil Case - $15.00

♡ Sanrio Multicolored Pens - $5.40

♡ Kuromi Six Piece Pens - $3.10

♡ Miniso Six Piece Highlighters - $1.74

♡ Pink Hello Kitty Stapler - $3.06

♡ Sanrio Notebooks - $3.12

Bags

tip : if you like designer bags like meee and don’t want to break the bank shop preloved bags on Fashionphile, Rebag, and The RealReal

♡ Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM (my bag this semester<333)

♡ Victoria's Secret Iconic Stripe Tote (I guess they don’t sell this bag anymore so I found a dupe)

♡ Coach City Tote Bag Signature Canvas

♡ Tory Burch Tote Bag

♡ MCM Liz Medium Reversible Tote

♡ MANC Miri Tote Pink

Beauty

♡ Neutrogena Face Sunscreen

♡ Topicals Slick Salve Mint Glossy Lip Balm

♡ EOS 100% Natural & Organic Lip Balm Trio- Vanilla Bean, Sweet Mint, & Strawberry

♡ Bridgerton Bath and Body Care - Danbury Shortbread (my favoriteee hand sanitizer it’s so sad it’s a limited edition)

♡ EOS Shea Better Hand Cream - Vanilla Cashmere

Extra’s

♡ Purse Organizer Insert

♡ Hello Kitty Rhinestone Bag Charm

[desolateice]

First Sentence Tag Game

Rules: Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway. (I did a smidge more than the first sentence because some of these first paragraph/sentences were short) Tagged by @wicked-jade

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Daniel took his bike for a short ride after moving into his new apartment complex. He was pissed that he hadn’t gotten a choice in anything. That he was just another piece of luggage that his mother loaded into the car to take with her across the country when he spotted someone on the beach he was biking past. He’d been invited to the beach, just that was tomorrow and he wasn’t really in the mood for meeting people yet. But standing on the beach was a guy his age, the sunlight sparkling off the water and his back was turned towards Daniel.  Blood Orange

Daniel’s teeth ached. They had for as long as he could remember. Sometimes they throbbed and his jaw got sore and his father, he remembered would tell him to always relax his jaw, to relax his mouth and that helped, it’d ease it.  Everything hurt. Or had. But right now, in the moment it didn’t. Everything was the phantom feeling of pain. His knee didn’t hurt. His knuckles. All the scrapes didn’t bother him any more. And that never-ending ache of his teeth…it was gone. Soothed. 

Peachy Keene

Gulls called from above, the waves crashed on the shore and the sun beat down on Robby. He was sitting by the pier, not close enough for trouble or to be caught but close enough to attract tourists. He’d placed his cards on the box in front of him, shuffling them one way then the other, letting the rigged game of chance play out.  He’d made a decent amount so far. Enough for dinner, frozen pizza or a box of cereal he could pick up at the convenience store on the way home. With luck his mom would be home, but he couldn’t count on that.  Sweetheart Tapas (this is a collection so I'll do one from each) Sweetheart Tapas: Yakgwa

Mere weeks ago Tory had been having sleepovers with friends.Mere weeks ago Tory had been having sleepovers with friends. Mere weeks ago she’d been sparring with Robby and taking breaks to kiss him, determining to be the very best in the world.  Sweetheart Tapas: Haystacks

Owning a pawn shop in Reseda meant Lyle saw every type of person at their worst. When they needed money, when they were on their last hope, getting rid of their cherished  items or treating him more or less like a money library. 

Sweetheart Tapas: Café solo

After training under Johnny for so long, after all the different versions of Cobra Kai, after all the stuff with Mr. LaRusso and Robby and all the drama of his entire high school career Miguel had gained a level of un-phasement that was probably akin to a saint. 

Sweetheart Tapas: Leeche de Pantera

Terry heard a knock on his hotel door. He had specifically picked a hotel fancier and further away from the Sekai Taikai to avoid the competitors and their sensei’s, to keep his surprise a surprise and to avoid any break-ins by drunk sensei’s searching blindly for revenge. 

Sweetheart Tapas: Magdelena

“Avoid the pretty boy blonde, he’s not worth the time,” Silver had told him. And he thought he would. His job wasn’t to mess with the sensei’s of Cobra Kai or Miyagi-do, but to keep his fighters focused and to cream the competition. 

Vanilla Bean Crema Catalana

It had been hard to get Chozen out of the cocktail party. He was completely plastered with Long Island ice teas. But between Johnny and Daniel they managed it. Barely. And as soon as he was out of the room he didn’t want to be with them anymore. Wanted them to go away. But they got him to the room and Johnny left to go hunt down some ice for the water and maybe he said some crackers or something to soak up the liquor. 

Tarte Tartin

Demetri was staying late at the dojo, practicing, trying to clear his head. He’d been there for hours and was exhausted so he decided for a cool down he'd wander through Miyagi-do. Awhile ago Mr. LaRusso had moved things around and opened up Mr. Miyagi’s room. There had always been an unspoken agreement that no one was to go in there, but curiosity was something Demetri found insatiable.

Tagging: @gjdraws, @an-sceal, @russolaw, @phoomwhoosh, @blinkasaurus, @holydongbird, @mauvecardigans, @astla-ever, @hunkydorkling, @usaonetwothree

[mariacallous]

Well, if you’re just joining us, the nation has delivered an all-night victim impact statement. Labour has won a landslide and the Conservatives have suffered their worst ever general election result. Keir Starmer – the prime minister – has promised “national renewal … to fight until you believe again”. Liz Truss has failed to save South West Norfolk, let alone “the west”. That is the big picture (if not the whole picture, with turnout and Labour’s vote share notably low). Meanwhile, it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people.

But look, after the 3am to 7am shift, no one will be able to say the right doesn’t do comedy. There were moments worthy of entire Netflix specials as in sports halls and community centres various Dickensian grotesques were ushered into their Christmas future, live on stage. Alas, it was going to take more than buying the Cratchits a turkey to get out of this one. Jacob Rees-Mogg heard his fate standing next to a candidate wearing a baked bean balaclava. He’ll be crying into Nanny’s starched bosom today. Committed sewage apologist Thérèse Coffey was pumped into the sea in Suffolk Coastal. Andrea Jenkyns had the middle finger given to her by the voters of Morley and Outwood. In Welwyn Hatfield, Grant Shapps chanted “supermajority” five times into the mirror, and then it came for him.

Then again, Michael Portillo losing his seat was supposedly 1997’s big moment. So perhaps the question is: in two years’ time, which current hate figure will be presenting a cosy travelogue on Europe’s most picturesque illegal migration routes? Alternatively, do remember that one person’s onstage humiliation is another person’s milk round for directorships in the arms trade.

Speaking of absolute weapons, hat twat George Galloway wimped out of his own count in Rochdale, presumably out of fatigability. He lost to Labour. There was jubilation for the Lib Dems, who finished not a million miles behind “the natural party of government”, and for the Greens, who won all four of their target seats. The SNP can now squeeze its MPs round the flip-down dining table of a motorhome. Referendum arguments may move to Northern Ireland, with Sinn Féin now that nation’s largest Westminster party.

As for Reform … Farage won in Clacton, a constituency for which he will now have to hold surgeries, presumably by Zoom link from his hot desk in the US presidential colon. Or as he put it in his victory speech: “This is the first steps of something that is going to stun all of you” – at least confirming his political abattoir will be bolt-gunning its victims unconscious first. Farage is the horror version of Inside Out, where Mendacity is only just holding off Racism at the control console. His cultural hinterland extends to a single Goodbye, Mr Chips DVD he got free with the Sunday Times in 2008, and the idea that this hollow chancer should still be one of the most significant politicians of the age says everything about the age.

Anyway, back to the Conservatives’ four-hour in-memoriam reel. Penny Mordaunt, Jonathan Gullis, Michael Fabricant, Gillian Keegan, Steve Baker, Alex Chalk, Johnny Mercer, Michelle Donelan, Victoria Prentis, Liam Fox, Mark Harper … all out, along with many more. So many cabinet ministers fell that the ones who live may actually develop survivor guilt. It’s currently unclear how gruesome things will be among the extant Conservatives in this post-apocalyptic world. As a fictional president once wondered of Dr Strangelove, will the living not end up envying the dead? Far from it, Strangelove reassures him, forcing down an involuntary Nazi salute. What will abound is a spirit of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead!

Speaking of which, 13th fairy Suella Braverman finally turned up, holding on in Fareham and cooing: “I am sorry that my party didn’t listen to you. The Conservative party has let you down.” Expect to see her humbly attempting to disembowel fellow survivors Jeremy Hunt and James Cleverly in the forthcoming trial-by-combat for what convention demands we style as “the soul of the Conservative party”.

At his count, Rishi Sunak explained he’d already conceded the election in a congratulatory call to Keir Starmer, adding, “I take responsibility for the loss.” In Downing Street, he confirmed he would be standing down as Tory leader in some sort of due course, stressing, “I have heard your anger.” Then, instead of yet another speech straight from the Tortured Prime Minister’s Department, this one offered humility and magnanimity, as well as a pointed reminder of the positive (and fragile?) progress that saw him become the UK’s first British-Asian prime minister. What a contrast to the relentless negativity of his past six weeks. Sunak’s campaign was conducted like a gender-reveal party where the device that’s meant to release the puff of blue smoke accidentally functions as a pipe bomb and burns the house down.

It also closed out several years of mindboggling chaos, dysfunction and national decline. They won’t be playing anything from this album on the Conservative party’s Eras tour. The Tories have cycled through five prime ministers over the past eight years, to the point where they were recently found going through the rubbish, pulling the first guy back out, thinking, “Actually, he doesn’t look half bad now,” and making him foreign secretary. This is the behaviour of addicts.

Not that they have the monopoly on erraticism. Any dispassionate view of these results suggests the fabled post-Brexit “realignment” is more of a dealignment – the huge sweeping gains of this or that political moment able to be reversed in previously unthinkable timespans. Volatility might now be our defining electoral characteristic, and a rise in sectarian politics cannot and should not be ignored. Because hey – what’s the worst that can happen with that one? Meanwhile, many people who derided the simplistic “Get Brexit done” slogan in 2019 have pretended not to notice that the winner here went out under the even more gnomic banner of “Change”.

Yet in the wider global context, what a win. One summer evening in 1914, the foreign secretary, Edward Grey, famously remarked: “The lamps are going out all over Europe.” In our own times, a darkening has recently felt at hand, as hard- or extreme-right parties have gained ground across the continent, to say nothing of the US. But here – in this country, in this moment – a different direction has been taken. That matters today, and anyone not on the wingnut fringes, who hopes to avoid those gathering shadows, should wish Keir Starmer good luck with his task. For plenty who would snuff out the lamps are also rising – increasingly, they walk among us.

[weerentheworld]

A lot of reviews I found prior to going said that after the rest stop maybe half way up the mountain (Yotsutsuji intersection) there wasn’t much to see and the gates spaced out.

This did not seem to be the case. While the gates spaced out a little there still seemed to be a lot to see - but it likely depends how much you like tori gates.

That said, the intersection is the main lookout point from the mountain. 

The actual summit doesn’t have much of a lookout and indeed doesn’t have a ton to it- if you arn’t paying attention it could almost be mistaken for another of the smaller shrines along the path.

As a small note, one of the delights of visiting in fall was that every so often you’d hear a small tap on top of the gates as acorns dropped on them. Maybe due to sprites?

I saw a lot of reviews as to which paths to take to the top/back down, but I ended up just following the marked path and didn’t run into any trouble. I think once i opened al trails just to double check my direction.

On the path down from Yotsutsuji intersection things do open up a bit, with more small shrines making an appearance.

I was also very excited to find cats here!

The cats were obviously cared for - i saw one being fed treats and accidentally held up one’s mealtime when I mistook her affection for affection for me vs for the lady behind me holding the cats dinner. 

Some of the tuxedos were also clearly residents of a nearby shop- the shop sold postcards with the cats on them, and the shopkeeper was very excited to share that the cat that was currently hanging out inside was named Azuki (red bean).

Small shrines on the way down included a frog shine & a zodiac based one - among many others which shall stay a mystery to me.

I also spotted a crow cleansing itself in one of the pools of water for shrine purification. 

back near the base I admire the thousands of cranes folded by students hoping for good grades - although one wonders if maybe that time would be better spent studying.

(cranes can also be folded for other non-academic reasons, but this particular sub-shrine was for academic success so if cranes were hung here that was likely their intended purpose.)

I get another snack at the viral Kaka Itoken, a confectionary shop that makes these adorable fox shaped sweets among other treats.

[edgessunflower]

Little bump

Pairing: Bradshaw x Fem reader

Description: Your bump begins to show and you can't help but show it off when you can especially to Bradshaw

The first thing Bradshaw sees when you walk out of the bathroom after showering is your small bump on display. You were 13 weeks along and couldn't help but always look in the mirror or down at your bump as you felt excited and scared all at once to be carrying and bringing a new life into this world but with bradshaw and everyone else by your side, you knew that you'd never be alone no matter what and your child will be surrounded with unconditional love and joy from the biggest to the smallest moments which is what you want to do as a parent like your mom had done for you all by herself from the day you were born but the only difference was that you weren't going to do any of it alone but with a man you loved with all your heart who loved you just as much and was over the moon to be a dad whether this child would be boy or girl or the only child you two had at all. None of that mattered except that this child was healthy and had a wonderful life, "There's little mamas" you laugh at the nickname from Eddie as you walk backstage to the vending machine until Edge handed you a candy bar and water which makes you smile as the two of you share a hug before you were in bradshaw's locker room watching his match where Chyna smiles when she sees you walk around before sitting down, "How's little bean?" you smile as you cradle your bump and show it to the girls after all of you met up in Lita'a locker room before walking to the ring for a promo with edge and Christian which is rudely interrupted by DX who didn't waste time to be assholes. "I see what you mean by not being medically cleared little lady, you have an alien in you that you gotta keep alive" the boys had to hold you back from yanking hunter's eyes out when he got close to the ring but you didn't have to be pissed off long while cussing the group out when bradshaw along with eddie, Farooq, and the boys in the ring were all in a pile of limbs. Tori yanked you to the floor by your hair until chyna threw her in the crowd and carried you backstage but other than a strand or two of loose hair and wrinkled clothes you were completely okay but you still got checked by paramedics who determined that you were absolutely fine, you share a hug with the boys while thanking each of them as all of you walked to the hotel down the street leading to now as you lay in bed with your bump exposed from the blankets falling asleep to bradshaw lightly massaging your hips before gently caressing your bump where his hand stayed even after he was asleep.

[jem-writes]

“   sorry   . . .   my mind’s on other things .   ”

( for ricky to vaeh and/or dylan to leo )

"Oh yeah", the woman cooed as she held her spinach dip out for him to take a bite out of. Once he did, Vae popped the rest of the cracker with dip into her mouth and slid into his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck. It didn't matter that it was thanksgiving and everyone was around. Boone was outside, deep frying the turkey. Her mother and Darla were smoking at the kitchen table as they snapped green beans. Ren was putting Tori down for a nap. The two of them could share this rare moment. Though everyone knew the two were dating, had been for several weeks now, it was rare for the two to share such PDA in front of the family. A hug here, peck there. Some hand holding, and sitting with his arm around her, sure. But never her sitting on his lap. There was a bit of bravery it took for her to do it seeing as her parents were not privy to much of anything aside from the hug and peck they shared once they arrived at Darla's. Leaning in, Vaeh brought her hand up to cup his face before placing a tender kiss on his lip. "You know you can tell me anything baby", she told him once she'd pulled back. Leaning further into him, her lips this time found his ear before she whispered, "And I can always stay late, wait for everyone to go home or fall asleep, and then we could take your mind off of it in my car again."

***********************************************************************

With those words, Leo felt his heart sink. Peaking over into the living room, the man checked to see just how enraptured Max was in his new Switch. Thankfully it seemed like he couldn't put it down. He would have smirked, chuckled even, made some joke to the woman about how maybe giving it to him was a bad thing and actually rotting his brain. But in this moment, Dylan was his priority. Just like she deserved to be. Taking a few steps toward where she stood tin the kitchen, Leo began. "Dylan, I want to help", he told her in a hushed tone to make sure her son couldn't hear them. Taking a few more steps closer to her, the man stopped just short of her. Close enough for either of them to reach for the other if they wanted to. Far enough away so he wasn't completely in her bubble. "Look, I know it's not that simple but, let me do something. Let me pay for lawyers, Let me take him to the visitations so you don't have to see him. Move in with me. Or fuck, just take my place. I'll pay for it still even, move back in with my dad, or move in here. Fuck, I don't know." Cerulean eyes looked up to find russet ones, Leo felt helpless. Like no matter what he offered, she wouldn't take it, and he'd have to watch her struggle when she didn't need to. "I just want to help, I swear."

[cpurvis]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Preppy:Boden, J. Crew, Original Penguin & More Posh Party! Nov 8, 2023 @ 9AM.

[cozysafechaotic]

It may be a snow day but I gots shit to do. 🤣

The time is 9:30 and I'm eating breakfast but the things to accomplish are as follows:

Wash the blankets (in progress)

Wash the laundry

Put away laundry

Clean out the failed lava bottles

Make the new lava

Make the gnomes

Make the mold for the crayons using the gnomes (takes between 30 mins and 24 hrs. Crayons need to be ready on Tuesday so Ive got time as long as I get going)

Portion out and freeze pork so it doesnt go bad in the fridge

Work on blankets 5 and 6

Things I'd like to accomplish today but aren't top priority:

Finish setting up the etsy shop

Inventory and prioritize WIPS so that I can stock the store more

Play the Sims

Let's see what we manage. 😅

[safecozycrocheted]

It's 1 am on a Saturday, I probably should be asleep, but I had one row to go, and a funny video, so this is where life led me.

[cozysafeloved]

𝓘 𝓰𝓸𝓽 𝓪 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓳𝓮𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓻𝔂/𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝓫𝓸𝔁 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓾𝓹𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓽𝓪𝓻 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓪 𝓫𝓲𝓽.

[desolateice]

@baldwinboy5ive's ask got eaten but requested a choice from:

3…….. for Axel…. And MIGUEL 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 30 for Wolf and Johnny 13 for Yoon/Tory And because I can't help myself with a challenge I did all of them.

These requests honestly is what made this sweetheart tapas, pretty much all of the collection minus one are set in Barcelona during the second part of season 6. Which is also why I upped by deadline from it's original Valentine's Day to rushing to finish these before the season 6 part 3 finale drop. (And thus why I named it Sweetheart Tapas) #3 “I just want to figure you out. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” Axel and Miguel were given the title Café solo. I learned that coffee is pretty big in Spain and Barcelona. They do something called torrefacto roasting which lets the beans last longer where they roast the beans with sugar. The sugar creates a protective barrier and rather than making it sweet makes it a little bitter. While it's not done everywhere now it's still a part of their history as a way to preserve coffee during war. But onto café solo. This is what you'll get if you just order a coffee. I feel like in the USA if you do that you just get like an Americano, but in Spain it's more like an espresso. But it's not a true espresso because you'll get a little bit more, but just a little, it's still a tiny coffee and no milk. Café Solo is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63016810/chapters/161388169 I'll do the Johnny Wolf one last. #13 “Yes, it’s a mess but it’s our mess. We’re the only ones who can fix it.” Yes all the fics are set in Barcelona for this set, except this one is also set in Korea and it's named Yakgwa. Yakgwa is a Korean cookie, it's fried honey and so delicious. It's maybe one of my favorite Korean deserts and you can buy them frequently individually packaged so they make good sharing gifts. They're a little dense but very sweet which felt fitting, and I find them a bit comforting which since I set this up to be Tory grieving while in Korea and joining the Cobra Kai team it felt fitting.

Yakgwa is here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63016810/chapters/161388004 30. “I know we just met but I feel like the two of us could get in some serious trouble.” Lol I got this one twice. Each time for Johnny. Which is fitting. Great minds think alike. After Wolf tells Johnny that the pastry he picked out is a Magdelena and Johnny thinks he's calling him that (hilarious mental leap there Johnny since that's akin to think you're being called Mary Magdalene) I had to title it that.

Magdelena are sweet Spanish cakes like small muffins or cupcakes that are light and fluffy and eaten usually with coffee or hot chocolate and for breakfast and they frequently have a little bit of lemon zest to them. This one took a while I waited until the 11th/12th write it because i wanted to give it time because I knew it'd be rated E and then well it came down to the wire, I think I posted it just a few hours before the premier. But I did have a lot of fun with it and hope you enjoyed it :D ( Magdalena can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63016810/chapters/161388406

[cozysafechaotic]

If only I had the space 😍😍😍😍

The current area I've got is just over 4ft wide and *technically* only a foot and a half deep.

But someday.... so many spirals.

Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

[cozysafechaotic]

So you know those hypothetical conversations you have with yourself?

Sometimes I have them between other people in my brain.

And this morning, I had one between my partner and his brother and lemme tell you what... his brother called me out on shit that I wasn't prepared to accept about myself.

And it's been stuck in my head all day.

[safecozycrocheted]

The first completed project of 2023!!!!!