#Also watering can from Isabelle after tutorial? Let’s go

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more late night rambling about random things~~ namely daylight saving time (why?) and my current new leaf play through ~~

tho idk if my layout is good or not~~ hopefully ~~~ cause you’ve got the town hall, retail, and the campsite really close to each other, and I put my house by the waterfall ~~

Posted this picture of my map before I’m sorry

am tanking my town rating (if that’s still a thing in this game) by leaving peaches on the ground so I can tell what tree is a peach tree.

if there are 5 wasps (or bees in this game?) I missed one, or two actually. Can’t find one, and one landed on top of me and unlike new horizons, you cannot snipe a wasp that’s nest spawns on top of you. Thank you random flower for getting me stung~~ but ye turns out you can indeed shake trees w your net out in this game~~~

I guess it was my ‘watching people play gen 1 of animal crossing’ that made me think you’d need to shake the tree and then pull the net out cause I think that’s the way it works in generation 1. But tried shaking trees w net out and it worked for new leaf~~

only peach tree I didn’t leave peaches by was the one w the perfect fruit on it and idk why~~~ rip. Also all the nests, shells, and baskets of fruit sitting in front of retail while I wait for it to open, lol.

this post is gonna be tagged weird I guarantee it~~~ but why do we (United States) do daylight saving time? What’s the purpose? Is the ‘it’s for the farmers to work with more daylight in the winter’ or something a myth? Why do we do it? And what other places do that too? I’m assuming the rest of the world doesn’t, but I could be very wrong~~~

and usually you’d get an extra hour of sleep, but nope~~ not me~~| it rolled over from 01:59 to 01:00~~ so I guess I get an extra hour of waking time ~~ lol

why do I use lol so much??

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sweet tea

for shadowhunters au mondays @shadowhuntersaumondays

characters: jace herondale, meliorn, izzy lightwood, maia roberts, alec lightwood ship: jeliorn prompt: “you’re a tea-lover yet you come to the coffee shop where i work at just to see my foam art and you give me hefty tips regularly so i’ve taken it upon myself to master the art of tea-making just for you” ( x ) summary: meliorn hated coffee, but his local coffee shop was the perfect place to read and the eyecandy was more than decent, so he took a breath, ordered some tea, and dealt. word count: 1309

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meliorn hated coffee, but his local coffee shop was the perfect place to read and the eyecandy was more than decent, so he took a breath, ordered some tea, and dealt. he set himself up in a table by the window for maximum sunlight and the best line of sight to watch the baristas work over the tops of his books. all of them were very nice to look at – from beautiful isabelle with her curves and red lipstick with whom he’d had a short and passionate affair and her brother with whom he’d considered having a brief tryst with ( but was unfortunately very much spoken for ) to raphael santiago, who happened to be the moodiest eye candy in the establishment – and equally talented, but there was one barista that meliorn liked to look at most of all.

jace herondale was a vision amongst men and his foam art was some of the best that new york city had to offer. he also had the cutest service dog, angel, that meliorn had ever seen and often split his time between admiring the man and petting the dog whenever he rested his head in his lap as meliorn read. sometimes, if he was feeling more flirtatious, he would lean against the bar and admire jace’s foam art ( read: jace ) up close.

until one day during his mostly silent observations when jace spoke up.

“you know, you’re in here almost everyday and i’ve yet to do some foam art for you, especially since you seem to admire it so much.” he lifted his mis-matching eyes to catch meliorn’s gaze, a teasing smirk curling the side of his mouth. it wasn’t a bait that meliorn would usually bite, but it would be the first time that he’d actually held a conversation with jace that was something other than art technique so he sidled closer to the bar and lifted his shoulders in a shrug.

“i’m actually not that big of a coffee fan. tea is my thing.” he watched jace finish up a cat before handing it to a server, tapping his fingers idly on the spotless surface beneath them.

the statement confused jace, if the wrinkle between his brows was anything to go by, but he didn’t let it stop him. “why on earth do you come to a coffee shop everyday then?”

“the aesthetic and the eyecandy.” with that, meliorn turned on his heel to go back to his table with angel in his wake. he lifted his book up to go back reading, lifting his eyes to catch jace watching him with his head tilted in a way that was very similar to how angel did when meliorn did something to confuse him.

meliorn wondered, absently, who had started the cycle.

–

“have any of you seen jace’s recent search history, because it’s the best thing i’ve seen all week.” the click of her sky high heels announced her arrival before her voice did and maia made a mad dive for where jace’s phone laid prone on the nearby table while he worked out at the bar. she’d bullied him into adding her fingerprint a few months ago and took the opportunity to go to safari and tap his history before clearing her throat to read it out to the assembled crowd.

“wow, he’s been busy, okay. ‘how to brew tea’, ‘how to perfectly brew tea’, ‘what is blooming tea’, ‘can tea burn’.. there’s a few more that follow the same pattern that i really don’t need to read. someone stop this boy, he’s gone off the deep end.” maia locked the phone and dropped it in mock disgust, shaking her head in displeasure. there was a question lingering at the very tip of her tongue, but she didn’t want to ask and seem like she was too involved in jace’s life.

alec, thankfully, had none of the same concerns and facilitated maia’s nosiness by asking the question at the forefront of her mind. “why the hell does jace want to learn about tea? last i heard him talk about it he lovingly referred to it as “nasty leaf water” and said anyone who willingly drank it was a pretentious fuck and he wanted nothing to do with them.”

izzy tilted her head in agreement, folding her legs underneath herself as she sat beside maia and contented herself with playing with her girlfriend’s curls. “well, he’s clearly changed his tune. the real question is why ?”

this left the room in a contemplative silence before raphael tossed down a ten dollar bill on the table. “ten on it’s because he wants to look cultured.” there was another beat of silence before everyone was reaching for their wallets to throw their own bets in. maia made the general bet on jace liking someone, alec bet on him liking a man, izzy on a girl, and the rest of their coworkers who weren’t on break filled in their bets accordingly.

–

by the end of that week jace had, to his knowledge, mastered what pretentious fucks called the art of tea making and wanted to try his hands on impressing meliorn with his new found knowledge. he’d heard meliorn complaining to one of his friends about how the tea was usually burned before it met his hands and had learned the optimum brewing time for some every type of tea that google told him existed and was ready for when meliorn came into the shop and ordered his usual mug of tea.

“mel ordered the apple jasmine tea, with honey. izzy can do it, if your recent studies haven't actually made you a master tea maker.” maia folded the order sheet into a paper airplane and launched it at jace’s head before turning back to their order line.

“i got it, maia.” their particular apple jasmine tea was white, and incredibly easy to burn, so jace made room for izzy and alec to work beside him and got to work on steeping and sweetening meliorn’s tea to perfection. two minutes later the sweet perfume wafted up to his nose and he carried the mug over to his usual table where angel was soaking up the avid reader’s love and attention. “your tea.”

meliorn raise a brow at jace, his hands stopping in their steady scratching of angel’s soft fur as he focused on the steaming mug in his hands. “the expert foam artist can make tea?”

“i might have..picked it up after several hours of youtube tutorials and talking to some of the people who work at the teavana down the street. let me know if it's burned or anything.”

he raised the mug to his lips, blowing on it to cool it slightly before taking a cautious sip. “it's actually perfect. i didn't know coffee addicted knew that tea could burn.”

“i’m not the average coffee addict. and, while i'm here and you're showering my dog with love and affection, would you mind coming on a date with me?"

izzy grabbed maia’s arm, jerking her attention from the customers and garnering the rest of the staff’s attention. “look! he just asked meliorn out!”

“do you hear that? that's the sweet sound of me and alec winning a bet against raphael.” she high fived alec under the counter, and kissed izzy on the cheek when she pouted. “i’ll buy you dinner.”

they shushed themselves as meliorn set his mug down and lifted his head slightly to look jace in the eye. “i wouldn't mind going on a date with you, so long as it's anywhere but a coffee shop.”

“i can certainly do that.” he leaned down and took meliorn’s pen, scribbling his number atop the blank page in his notebook. “call me, and we can figure it out.”

meliorn smiled slightly, pulling the journal closer to himself to inspect the number. "gladly."