#Mars Cheese Castle

[temp-check]

Thursday's temperature check (procès-verbaux of 5-30)

Have you ever been on the Bourbon Trail in Louisville, Kentucky?  After spending a few days in middle-America (i.e. ‘Merica!), I can be easily convinced to drive a hundred miles to get to the pathway of distilled ambrosia of ‘Merica(!).  A short distance from this detour to intoxication is beautiful Columbus, Indiana, just off the varicose vein of the interstate system, I-65.  Now, Columbus is an honest-to-god city.  Hustling and bustling in the Mid-West.  It sits right in the middle of the ‘Merica!’ Cultural Triangle of Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville – and by the way, if you add Lexington, KY it becomes a Cultural Quadrilateral (who said I wouldn’t need Geometry after highschool?).  Columbus even has a website!  If you’re wondering what led GQ magazine in their July 2005 issue to list Columbus as one of the “62 Reasons to Love Your Country”, it’s not because it is the birthplace of Mike Pence.  Columbus is the home to the World’s Largest Toilet (no, not Mike Pence!).  So, if you’re driving away from Louisville with a little too much bourbon under your belt (please don’t drink and drive), don’t expect me to hold your hair while you kneel in front of the world’s largest toilet, it’s just too big.  Tom, you’re being awfully hard on Columbus, Indiana, aren’t you?  First off, I’m not and Columbus knows why.  Secondly, have you ever heard of this town before this paragraph?  Well, I was reading one of many things in my inbox about quirky road stops in ‘Merica!, and the Mars Cheese Castle was listed.  It’s in Wisconsin and it sells cheese; it’s not made of cheese.  This is a much better road-trip diversion than the world’s largest toilet on many levels.  The least of which is that their website is much better.  You can get every type of Wisconsin cheese produced there.  It’s the Bubba-Gump of the cheese world. It’s also just down the road from the Bong Recreation Area (it’s not what you 420 fans are thinking).  But, if you’re going to spend the time looking for a spectacular tourist trap, the Bloodstained Tomb of Nina Craigmiles in (another city named for a city in Ohio) Cleveland, Tennessee.  Nina Craigmiles was seven years old when a buggy in which she was riding – or possibly driving – was hit by a locomotive in downtown Cleveland, Tennessee. Nina was crushed beneath the engine wheels.  It's unclear when crimson blotches began to appear above the entrance to the Craigmiles mausoleum -- as well as on Nina's sarcophagus blanket and crown -- but local legend says that it began after a child's cry was heard coming from inside.  Creepy mausoleum not enough of a reason to pull over in Cleveland?  Have the kids play in the children's playground just behind Nina's tomb.

Now that your Summer trips are planned, feel free to check out these ‘Merican! places along the way.

Stay safe!

Tom

A triptych for your summer trip-tic.  From left to right: Toilet, Castle, Bong, Mausoleum Repeat those later in order for your dementia exam

[mrsmoose54]

States 46 & 47 (Kenosha WI - Milwaukee WI - Chicago IL) Days 7 & 8

[puppycharmz]

zooble is from wisconsin guys trust me gooseworx told me herself

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

@spotcanlon

Your crown, my liege.

[trivialbob]

Baraboo was fun. I have more to write about it, but that will wait until I am home and using my computer.

Today's drive to Chicago was uneventful. I took my time and didn't speed or try to make good time. Which probably explains why I am not stressed out right now.

I also stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha. Mmmm, Wisconsin cheese and beef sticks.

I hate paying highway tolls to Illinois. Sheila's car (which I drove) has the EZ Pass transponder, to easily pay tolls without stopping. In Minnesota it's for the carpool lanes, but works on the Illinois tollway.

F that. I set my Waze app to Avoid Toll Roads. Instead of driving down I-90 or I-94, I took US 41, a toll-free road. That route only added 12 minutes to my journey.

I saved about six bucks in tolls 😀

[myheartwantstocomehome]

Very Epic Intro Post: :3

Hi!!! I’m Kovu :) There’s not really a lot to know about me to be honest… uhh i really like cheese and i play guitar?

Name: Kovu

Pronouns: He/They

From: England

Like: Cheese, Burgundy,

Dislikes: Broccoli

Please Interact if:

lgbtqia+, emo, scene, if you like any of the music i listed below, neurodivergent folk :)

MUSIC:

My spotify wrapped usually has my top artists as: 5SOS, Boys of Fall, SayWeCanFly, All Time Low

but here’s a comprehensive alphabetical list of *most* the bands i like:

a day to remember, alesana, alive like me, the all american rejects, all time low, amber pacific, american hifi, the amity, addiction , anarbor , andy black, arborview, as it is, asking alexandria, avril lavine, beartooth, before their eyes, between you and me, black veil brides, blessthefall, blink 182, bowling for soup, boys like girls, bring me the horizon, broadside, busted, caslow, castle field, charlotte sands, chase atlantic, chiodos, cute is what we aim for, crooked teeth, dance gavin dance, a day to remember, emarosa, escape the fate, every avenue, the faim, falling in reverse ,fall out boy, first and forever, forever the sickest kids, fountains of wayne, franz ferdinand, the friday night boys, future palace, games we play, get scared, the ghost inside, good charlotte, grayscale, green day, hey violet, hot chelle rae, hot milk, i prevail, i the mighty, the teenage janoskians, jayxander, jimmy eat world, jxdn, knox, knuckle punch, like pacific, linkin park, louis tomlinson, loveless, mgk, madrona, the maine, makeout, mason levi , mayday parade, mccoy, midnight skies, milestones, misplaced, modsun, movements, mcr, neck deep, newfound glory, the offspring, of mice and men, oh weatherly, our last night, p!atd, paramore, pierce the veil, the red jumpsuit apparatus, sarah barrios, senses fail, set it off, silverstein, simple creatures, simple plan, a skylit drive, sleeping with sirens, sleep on it , stand, atlantic, state champs, state of survival , a step ahead, stiff dylan’s, story of the year, the story so far, story untold, the summer set, sundressed, taking back sunday, thirty seconds to mars , tonight alive, underoath, ur pretty, the used, wage war, waterparks , we are the in crowd, we the kings, we were sharks, with confidence, the wrecks, wstr , yellow card, yours truly, you vs yesterday, zebra head

DNI:

Pretty simple DNI, don’t be a jerk, don’t be pr0 the usual (anything involving self inflicted injury, or d1s0rd3d shenanigans, no general triggering stuff here plz :3) No creeps xx

I thinks that covers anything, thank you for your time <3

Socials: KovuIsAlive on everything (apart from discord)

[bestjeanistmonster]

Okay this anon ask got deleted but:

Liones sister headcanons?

Okay so:

- Elizabeth: Gaslight, Veronica: Gatekeep, Margaret: Girlboss

- they can’t leave Elizabeth alone for one second, one sec she’s in the gardens and the next she’s on top of the castle with a knights helmet and a blanket fashioned into a parachute.

yes she still does it as a teenager, and she still does it when she’s married to Meliodas, giving the demon a heart attack

- Veronica is lactose intolerant and always glares at Margaret and Elizabeth when they eat cheese in front of her

- Margaret was once dancing in the halls, Gil trailing after her and accidentally knocked over a family heirloom vase, she and Gil quickly collected all of the broken pieces and attempted to glue it back together

They didn’t manage to piece it make together and still haven’t to this day. On very slow days they pull it out and make another attempt at it only to be stumped but they haven’t given up hope

Baltra still has no idea what happened to that case

- Elizabeth used to see everything her sisters said as gospel. Veronica has used this to her advantage many times to get Ellie to believe so many lies, some the poor girl still believes to this day.

Elizabeth’s eyes snapped open one morning and just sits up immediately, startling Meliodas, who had been sleeping on top of her, awake.

“Wah, uh Ellie, you okay?”

“…Trolls don’t actually steal socks, do they?”

“…no?”

“Oh.”

Silence

“VERONICA!!!!”

- Veronica kicked Howser in the balls once while protecting Griamore

He cried

- they tried making Baltra a birthday breakfast of pancakes and gave him food poisoning.

- it’s a common occurrence for Margaret to go back to her room after a long day of duties just to find that Veronica and Elizabeth had taken over her bed

- the only reason that Veronica still goes to royal balls is because of the tiny food and to keep creepy nobles away from her sisters. She will straight up grab a tray of food and hide under the snack table obscured from few cuz of the silk covers on it and only emerge to throw hands

- Veronica taught Elizabeth how to use a knife in an emergency (stab, twist, pull out and run), Elizabeth now always has a dagger on her person at all times

- Elizabeth used to try to sneak animals into the castle all the time cuz she thought they needed a home.

- Griamore always manages to get Veronica the best gifts

Griamore, 16: um, happy birthday princess Veronica (hands her a very long and very heavy box)

Veronica who just turned 16, rips open the wrapping and opens the box, inside there’s a giant claymore:

Griamore: I noticed you looking at some of these swords while we were at the blacksmith, so I thought it would make a good weapon to use after your training

Veronica:

Griamore, nervously: um do you lik-

Veronica: I would die for you

Griamore: wha-

- You can tell what Margaret’s mood is depending on what type of tea she’s drinking

- Margaret is the only one who knows about the secret passageways inside the castle apart from Baltra, she uses them so she’s never late

- Elizabeth has on many occasions attempted to dnesk into the stables to go out on a nighttime adventure on her horse and she has been caught everytime before she’s even able to step foot in the stables

- Elizabeth learnt how to pick locks as a kid from Ban, Margaret was so very distressed by this

- Margaret is incredibly busy all the time due to being the heir to the throne, the castle strategist and a princess in general

- Veronica adopted a chimera once and it burned Margaret’s curtains

- Veronica’s nickname is ‘Ronnie’ but only close family can call her that

- Margaret’s nickname is ‘Mar’

- Veronica is a total tsundere when it comes to hugs

- Once Elizabeth got her memories back and the whole war thing was resolved it was incredibly awkward between them, cuz they’re baby sister is apparently a goddess that thousands of years old.

They have a talk about it and resolve everything, she’ll still be their baby sister at the end of the day

- Elizabeth sometimes just comes out of nowhere to swoop in on her wings and carry them off, with no warning

- Margaret punched Vivian and Gilthunder found that attractive

Her hand hurt like a bitch afterwards

- Elizabeth picked a fight with a pelican and lost

- Margaret doesn’t like too much excitement in her free time and would much prefer to relax at the spa

- Margaret can run in heels

- Veronica has stabbed with heels

[kamil-a]

fuzzy feelings

Happy valentine’s exchange, @indigosees​ !! 

Here’s some clock tower trio for youuu :3

You asked for platonic or poly or Ace/Julius or Alice/Julius and so I put them all in my bubbly cauldron and got you, uh, pre-poly? Nobodys dating........ yet. There’s some feelings of competition and jealousy but yknow. Alice is nervous. 

In anniversary you can’t actually romance Julius from the castle, which makes it a beautiful fresh blank canvas for me to work on.

Normally, it is Alice who complains about the inane things as Julius works, but this time he seems almost desperate for a conversation partner. 

"Do you know what kind of things I have to put up with here," he greets her. He grabs a teddy bear- yup, she’d know that thing anywhere, the letter still clasped in its paw and the poorly done stitching still marring its leg despite the rip long having healed- by the scruff of its fuzzy neck, and shakes it in her face. 

She was hoping maybe he’d be cheered up, intrigued, or at worst bored.

Instead, he’s... extremely not pleased with it.

Oof.

"It was outside my door when I got back from doing some work outside.”

She knows. She had watched Ace put it there. 

"Oh, wow..." 

"A "secret admirer", he scoffs. "Idiot thinks I'll fall for it." 

He sighs, anger deflating. 

"Supposedly, whoever wrote it is from your place. If they even exist, tell them they should've at least let me eat a chocolate for all the trouble." 

"I’ll let them know," said Alice, who was half the team responsible. She tries to defend it, just once-

"But, I don’t know if you should necessarily be angry? Maybe someone really wanted to..." 

He gives her a look that she can't possibly finish her sentence under. 

"Please. I know when I’m being made fun of. Bet you within the next 10 time periods there'll be another note telling me to meet them somewhere so they can pop out with their friends and laugh." 

He collapses into his chair, starts fixing a clock with the viciousness of someone stopping one. Alice is left to try and not look guilty as he works, bury her face in a book and pretend to read in silence for a little while before- 

"I like that you don’t go places much!" he mutters. “The nerve...”

She doesn’t trust herself to make a sound. Alice is glad he's quoting Ace's contribution to the letter, at least. If it were her own words being spat out like that she probably could never face him again. As it is now, she presses the book against her scrunched up eyes, tries not to say anything.

He hates it, she should’ve realized that he’d hate it from the start, and when he finds out who it’s from this little friendship they’ve built up will be over, and, and....

I can’t believe I let Ace get me caught up in this.

Alice herself would feel like she could call it “a few days ago”, but really there's no way to check- so it is “a bunch of time periods ago”, then, when a longer break in her work found her walking to the tower, getting hungry while she was out and about, and knowing- certainly - that she would not eat well at Julius' place, that's for sure. She ducked into a grocery a few blocks away from the tower, and figured she may as well buy extra food for him, while she's there. There had been a lot of trial and error involved. She has had to withstand horrors (watching him cook things in the fastest and 'most convenient' way, devoid of any spice or taste or making sense). She's got it down to a science now: Deli meat (sliced). Cheeses (sliced). Bread (sliced). Fresh fruits, and- someone's hand brushed hers over an apple. 

"Ace!"

"Oh! Alice!" 

At that point she did not yet know the knight particularly well- technically, they’re coworkers, but she mostly does housework, deliberately kept away from the grisly bits a knight would be in charge of. She knew him just enough to know he's got a dazzling smile and a cheerful air and a terrible sense of direction. 

In fact- 

"Just checking, but you aren't thinking this is the castle kitchen, right?" 

He threw back his head and laughed. 

"Well, now that you bring it up! I did at first, but then I got told off for eating things from the shelves. So I figured out I must’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere pretty quick!" 

Ah... Of course he did. 

"And what brings you allllll the way out here instead of the kitchen at home?", he asked Alice, which was a question she was a little bit dreading. “Did you get lost too? It’s a pretty confusing trip from the personal rooms to the kitchen, right?”

“Only for you.”

“Don’t be embarrassed! We’re lost... but we’re together.”

“I told you, I’m not lost.”

“So why are you here?”

Good question.

It wasn't that she was.... hiding.... her frequent visits to Julius. It's just that she's been.... not really saying anything about them. 

And worrying that she'll be banned from going if she's caught. 

And worrying that if she's caught taking too much food from her current place of residence to feed an different territory's leader, even being an outsider might not save her... 

Well, if she had to get caught, Ace certainly seemed like the sort to be less bothered than Peter or the Q- or Vivaldi, remember to call her without titles or you're toast. 

"I was, uh, visiting a friend who lives around here-" she hoped she hadn't taken too long to answer.

"No way, so am I!" said Ace. 

 "-And I figured I'd bring some food so we could make sandwiches while we..." 

Her defensive babbling was still running automatically as her mind caught up. 

"Wait, you too?" 

"Well, I do a lot of journeying! Of course I'd end up making friends from lots of places."

"That's..." she couldn’t look straight at that beamish grin of his. He pulled something out of his pocket and laughed again. 

"So anyway, my friend wanted me to pick him up some supplies while he was busy- and, I'm a knight, of course, so I'd always offer help to those in need! But, it’s a little bit difficult, because..." and he held out the note to her.

If she were looking at him, instead of the note, she would have seen something in his eyes- questioning, testing. She missed it. The note just said: you know what i eat. 

"Julius..." she groaned, because it's so obviously him- 

But- but that means- 

"So you know him too!" Ace cheered, and did a delighted little clap. He threaded an arm through hers, (an action which Alice was not the biggest fan of), and peeked in her basket.

"So, you’re the one buying him the deli meat lately. It's good stuff! I should thank you too, huh!"

She couldn’t help but feel a little annoyed- it felt like when she would find squirrels eating out of the bird feeder Lorina sometimes liked to set up. She laughed at the image as soon as she imagined it. She’s being stupid. Julius was allowed to have other friends- in fact, considering the things she’s seen, she should have been glad Julius had more friends than just her, who’s only shown up very recently and may not be in his world much longer. What was she, defensive of her status as Julius' singular friend? 

Well... she had to admit, there was sort of a pride in thinking she had the Clockmaker all to herself. Like when she’d visit a friend back home and they’d say “My cat hates everybody, but here he is on your lap! Wow!”

"I'm surprised you're on such good terms with another territory's Roleholder," she mused. "Is it because he's neutral?"

"I'm on good terms with him because I like him," Ace said. Friendly enough, but she felt his grip on her arm tighten. "I don't really care where he's from. Same as you, I guess!" 

"Um," Alice said. Most things she could say would probably get her in trouble, one way or another. He smiled that smile at her again. 

"Don't worry, Alice. An outsider like you doesn't need to worry about taking sides. Love who you love!" 

Love? Love?? She wouldn't go that far!

"You’re all red," Ace teased. "You liiiiike him?" 

Look at the time. It was already roughly-shove-Ace-off-of-her o’clock, yes! He giggled and took her hand in his, instead. She thought about Julius and began to wonder how in the world Julius could possibly be friends with this guy.

“You wanna kiss him?!”

"I don’t-" 

He swung their entwined hands, ever-cheerful. She tried to pull away, but he had too firm a grip. 

"Oh, okay. Yeah, a lot of people think he's not the best looking, or his job is too creepy- I mean, no judgement if you were into him, of course! I would be so happy for him! But, what was I saying? Oh, yeah, if you find him ugly that's not really something someone can convince you otherwise about-" 

"I didn't say he's ugly! Stop putting words in my mouth." 

"I just meant to say I wouldn’t judge you for it! Lots of people find him unattractive." 

"I never said anything like that!" 

"Ohhhhh, sorry, sorry, I see, so you are attracted to him, but you don't like him romantically." 

He wasn’t dumb, Alice realized with horror. He has never been dumb. He was messing with her, and every previous time she's given him a pass for being annoying cuz he's dumb he was actually also messing with her - and ugh, he was stronger than her, too, and he still wouldn’t let go of her hand. 

"I'm right, aren't I?" said Ace, wrongly. 

Whatever her feelings for Julius were- and she had an awful creeping suspicion of what they might be- she was not going to figure them out here, in front of a box of apples, in public, with an annoying knight who had only right that moment finally let go of her hand. 

"You're wrong. Shut up." 

"You just need to tell him how you feel," Ace said, and pushed a fuzzy teddy bear into her arms. There was a pile of them next to the registers. They had a bouquet of roses and a little blank card, one in each paw. 

Oh god no, thought Alice. No no never no do you even know how embarrassing that is-

 "Cmon, Alice, you know how Julius is. We both know he’ll never realize you’re in love with him if you don’t tell him directly.”

"There's nothing to tell-" 

"And if you're too embarassed to go face to face, that’s why you’d write-" 

"I'm not writing any-" 

"You could say something like “Dear Julius, your hair is so pretty, I have a huge crush on you, let’s kiss, all my love, Ali-"

THWACK. 

Primal instincts kicked in. She smacked him with the bear, hard as its squishy fuzzitude would allow.

That finally, thankfully, shut him up. 

"That was a strong hit! It’s a good thing I’m used to getting hurt while fighting!” he said, rubbing his upper arm. She placed the bear back in the display, but he called out after her.

"Wait, you can't just put broken merchandise back on the shelf, can you? It doesn’t seem very nice..." 

She hadn’t realized the poor little leg she had held it by to commit violence now dangled by a string. Stuffing was spilled across the floor. 

So they were stuck with this bear, now.

Julius seems content to put the bear in the garbage and the matter from his mind after a little while, and Alice is more than happy to let it go. He works at a calmer pace and she actually begins to stop panicking and absorb a few words of her book. 

Stupid of her to expect any other reaction from him- but she can beat herself up for it later, not now when Julius might ask her what's wrong. He's gotten pretty good at that. It doesn’t come naturally to him, it's something she’s watched him pick up slowly over the course of their growing friendship- You look upset, are you feeling bad? You can tell me about what’s bothering you as I work, and I’ll make sure to listen even if I don’t talk. It's deliberate in a way that makes Alice feel... whatever that emotion she feels about him sometimes is. She glances at the fuzzy ear poking above the lip of the garbage can. She looks away.

“You never mentioned you knew Ace,” she says before she can stop herself. Julius jumps like he’s been caught doing something wrong.

“You know him?”

“I work with him. I didn’t speak much with him until recently, though. We both tried to visit you and bumped into each other, but you weren’t home, so...”

She is about to say “So we gave you what we brought and left”, but the bear was one of those objects. Best not to do that math for him.

“Oh.”

Julius fixes another two clocks before he speaks again.

“I was just... worried.”

“About what?”

He leaves her to her own worries and does not answer.

So there they sat, on a bench outside the grocery, considering the bear. 

"I’ll need to fix it, of course." 

"It'll fix itself, won't it?" Ace shrugged. 

She could just hit him.

“Then why the fuck did you say-”

It’s her fault, she’s the one still unused to living with things self-repairing. 

"Suit yourself", he shrugged, and handed her a needle and thread from his pocket (A knight needs to be prepared for anything!, though she noted his own coat had been torn so many times the world itself seemed to have assumed he wants it like that on purpose and given up on all repair). 

Whatever.

She’s nearly made it. The time period changes and wouldn’t you know it she has work coming up soon and really must be getting back, and then by next visit the garbage will have been tossed and he’ll never know and things will be normal and fine forever. 

"I can’t believe you didn’t leave earlier,” Julius says as he walks her to the door of his office. "The way I was acting..."

“Don’t worry.” It was her fault. (Partially).

“No, I’m sorry I was in such a bad mood." He adds with a pained smile, "You can see why the only love letters I’m getting are from people like that." 

“Oh, you read our love letter?” Ace’s voice calls out behind them. 

Alice whirls around, face hot. Leave it to him. At the very last second, unexpectedly-

Something changes in Julius’ face.

“Both of yours?”

“Yeah, we wrote it together,” Ace says. Alice could be confused for a new Mouse, the way she squeaks.

“Don’t get Alice involved with your schemes.” Julius steps in front of her more protectively than she deserves.

“You need to lighten up! Telling your friend you love him isn’t a "scheme", Julius....”

If she’d just thought about how Julius would react this wouldn’t have happened. If she hadn’t panicked when Ace confidently said he’d just write his own love letter.

If she hadn’t done things by halves, if she’d either not written at all or put her name to it.

If she wasn’t selfish enough to think that telling Julius how she felt from a safe distance was more important than how it’d make him feel- 

“Julius, I’m so, so sor-”

“It was her idea, though?” Ace says.

She could just kill that knight. 

Julius doesn’t look at her.

“You’ll have to tell Ace what I said about it yourself. I’m not doing that whole performance again.”

“It was not!” She at least has to set the record straight on that. “I just said we should leave it anonymous because-”

“I get it, I get it.” Julius holds up a hand. “It’s only a made up person who’d like me. It’s the kind of joke I’d expect from Ace, but not...”

“What?! No! We didn’t mean it like that at all!” Well, she didn’t. “Did you, Ace?”

“I did kind of expect him to take it that way,” Ace shrugs. “Julius can be a little gloomy like that sometimes!”

Alice runs across the hallway and smacks him mid-aaaahahahhahah!! 

She thinks, if she’s not mistaken, she hears Julius laugh.

“He’s not used to people sincerely saying they like him,” Ace whispers to her. He was unfazed by the hit. “I’ve tried telling him before and he just rolls his eyes, thinks I’m pulling his leg. No self esteem, poor thing...”

So, she’s kind of stuck now, isn’t she?

“It’s real, okay?!” she yells down the hall to Julius. Her face must be as bright red as Ace’s coat. “I meant everything I wrote, I just got too embarassed, and Ace was already writing in it, so we compromised and...”

Julius looks stunned. Doesn’t say anything, just looks back and forth between the two of them. Then he sprints back into his office at high speed and slams the door. 

Ace nudges Alice and winks. Alice frowns at him. Ace nudges her again and gives her a thumbs up, which she returns with a much ruder finger. Julius, after a while, pokes his head out. 

“You’re blushing!”, Ace says.

He ignores that.

“I still think you should’ve sent chocolate instead. That’s my final word on the matter.”

“But I see you put it on your desk,” Ace coos. “Alice, look at his desk, it’s our fuzzy little baby-”

The door slams shut again. 

Dear Julius,

I’m from the Castle of Hearts. I've brought you a few clocks to repair on occasion. Sometimes, I even bring them on behalf of other people, so I can see you more often.  I always feel better when I see you.

Don’t worry about being depressed or gloomy! I like that you don’t go places much! I feel so secure knowing that when I visit, there you’ll be. But, I still want to take you places myself, sometime. I bet I could make you like fresh air. 

From here, the handwriting changed:

I know not everyone thinks the way I do. It makes me really sad when I see how most people treat you, and when I hear what people say about you. I wish I could make everyone understand what a kind person you really are deep inside. I can’t yet fully describe how you make me feel, but I do know I love spending time with you. 

This line was crossed out and barely legible:

When I know for sure, I want to tell you. Is it stupid to think you might

And then signed,

-Your secret admirer.

In the first handwriting, again:

PS sometimes when I hand over clocks our hands touch and

(The sentence cuts off, as if someone suddenly grabbed the pen from the writer’s hand.)

[unexceptional]

OUT. || greetings from the Mars Cheese Castle 🪐🧀🏰 ft @xkingpin

[castielsupernatural]

god i love getting tagged in things!! thanks @blue-eyed-cutiepatootie for the tag 💞💞💞💞💞😭😭😭😭😭😭

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to get to know better.

name: sophie castielsupernatural

star sign: gemini

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birthday: june 13 babyyyyy

favorite bands/artists: the oh hellos <3 no one else exists

last movie: lightyear or whatever. idk i wasn’t paying attention

last show: well

when did i create this blog: so this is the timeline. in 2013 i create my superwholockengers blog. in 2015 i start college and am embarrassed by my superwholockengers blog so i create a burner blog (this account) so i could pretend i was an aesthetic blogger, because for some reason my freshman year dorm all wanted to exchange tumblr urls. in 2016 i delete my superwholockengers blog. in 2017 i begin using this account again and create this sideblog. in 2020 this sideblog becomes supernatural, inexplicably

what i post: supernatural, inexplicably

last thing i googled: the address for a company i’m applying to so i could put it on the cover letter i’m writing

other blogs: main is @wondrouswandering, my lit blog is @laceronan, my twilight blog is @additionaltwilight, and my resources/recipes dumpsite is @calicodress

do i get asks?: yeah <3 love you guys 

following: 802

average hours of sleep: like 7 or 8

instruments: the cello, poorly

what im wearing: blue pajama shorts and a t-shirt that says MARS CHEESE CASTLE

dream job: research in a non-academic setting. or like academia without the academia. or maybe i would like working in a museum :)

dream trip: would LOVE to visit central asia. the mountains and lakes of kyrgyzstan specifically call to me

nationality: usa

favorite songs: right now probably 2082 by lowland hum, my dear, a wildfire by fields&, boots of spanish leather by tow’rs, and everybody breaks by ivan & alyosha

last book ive read: i considered lying on this one but. whatever i accept being embarrassing. i read why church: a basic introduction by scott sunquist. sorry for having a weird relationship with religion

top 3 fictional universes i’d like to live in: shades of magic’s red london, the fictional universe i created in high school creative writing class where two mitochondria fell in love and overthrew their cell’s capitalistic nucleus, and dollywood

tagging ppl hi guys idk if you've done this already or been tagged in it 100 times already i don't care though i wanted to say hi <3 <3

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[papashittycams]

Public (Market) Servants VS The Mars Cheese Castle

Nikon FM2T Voightlander 40mm
Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400
Cinestill C41

[sweetsmalldog]

EMPIRES ACOC AU HELLO?? Please im so curious

Ok yeah! So you have the the Young King of Candia Sausage, his younger twin siblings the Prince FWhip and the Princess Gem, the head of the Kingsguard Sir Pixlriffs, the lady of North Gumbia and a royal ward Lady Shrub and her peppermint wolf Mars, the royal hostage ward the Count of Freezyburg Lord Scott, the Chaplain of Castle Candy Primogen Kathrine, and The Marquis of Muffinfield Joey all traveling south to Comida for the declaration of the next Concordant Emperor.

Later along the far more dangerous journey they meet the exiled Princess of the Dairy Islands Lizzie, her younger brother Prince Jimmy, a cousin Sausage remembers quiet fondly Pearl, and Scott’s older brother the rebelling Duke Xornoth

Sausage is Pock Rocks, FWhip and Gem are Rock Candy (red and purple respectively), Pix is Chocolate, Shrub is a gummy mushroom, Scott is Blue Mint Chip Ice Cream, Kathrine is a Jawbreaker, Joey is Cotton Candy, Lizzie’s Feta Cheese, Jimmy’s a milk bottle, Pearl’s Candy Corn, and Xornoth is a hot fudge sundae.

Some roles where split or combined to better fit the characters

[liv-skyler]

PKEHLIUAU MY HOUWE IS BUTNJING

YOU LOSER. GO BUY A SCORPION POP AT MARS CHEESE CASTLE

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2022 - July

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "1 Paralipomenon" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

More begetting children and all their names before coming back around to more of David's reign. So many chapters are just appendices to previous events.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "2 Paralipomenon" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Two Paralipomenon, say that five times fast. So now it's on to Solomon and his riches (again), Roboam talking about how his little finger is bigger than his dad's dick, and Jeroboam getting whipped with scorpions all the way to the fall of Jerusalem. It's basically another look at what we saw in Kings.

Dracula Daily - "July" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)

Dracula’s finally outta that musty old castle, though leaving Jonathan in the lurch is quite the cliffhanger. And that poor, poor captain.

Bad Hare Day by R.L. Stine (1996)

A mish-mash of various ideas from earlier books. It has the vibe of Haunted Mask and stealing secrets from weird adults, the experimenting with illicit stuff from Monster Blood, animal transformations from various books, bratty younger sister who bullies the protagonist, a Slappy-like snarky villainous character. It’s too much of a remix and more slapstick than horror.

Egg Monsters from Mars by R.L. Stine (1996)

A decent creature story, but the latter half kind of sags with the protagonist spending a lot of time just trapped in a freezer and struggling to stay warm. The villain is genuinely frightening but also one-dimensional and doesn't really explain his motivation well. And there's not enough of the egg monsters. It's close to a top tier book but just sputters too much along the way.

"Bathtub Mermaid" by Edith Zimmerman (2022)

Someone has to hear about the doll thief.

"its time for… the dark cabinet" by itstimeforcomics-blog (2015)

When you least suspect it.

Lost Highway dir. David Lynch (1997)

One can see the continuation of a theme in Lynch’s work since Blue Velvet. Does he want us see the darkness or the light?

Mad God dir. Phil Tippett (2022)

If the journey ends for you, it doesn’t mean it’s the end.

Mr. Malcolm's List dir. Emma Holly Jones (2022)

British accents always class up the cruelty.

Thor: Love and Thunder dir. Taika Waititi (2022)

Whoof, what a drop from Ragnarok.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers dir. Akiva Schaffer (2022)

A reflection of a reflection that is unaware of what it sees.

Where the Crawdads Sing dir. Olivia Newman (2022)

Pump up the volume on the mystery, tone down the romance.

Nope dir. Jordan Peele (2022)

The most fun take on Jaws since the original. A real hoot and also really fucked up at times. An understanding of horror by someone who continues to bring cool ideas to movies.

Vengeance dir. B. J. Novak (2022)

You get awful close but you shouldn’t have been the face of it. Now we ask, what did we learn?

Fear Street Part One: 1994 dir. Leigh Janiak (2021)

Really going for it right out of the gate. I’m in. Now I need to know if I should go back and read Fear Street after reading this bunch of Goosebumps books.

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 dir. Leigh Janiak (2021)

Even the devil craves a kind word.

Fear Street Part Three: 1666 dir. Leigh Janiak (2021)

Legacy is mankind’s ruin.

Goosebumps - "Bad Hare Day" (1996)

Erf, the book was rough, and the episode doesn’t do itself any favors by leaning into the snarky villain.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1988-1990)

A nostalgia bomb like every one of these 90s cartoons tends to be, though the tropes eventually wear thin when watching it all in one go. Monterey Jack may be what crystallized my appreciation of cheese.

Better Call Saul - Season 5 (2020)

This show... it doesn’t build the way Breaking Bad builds. It’s more of a roller coaster with the sense of hitting the same drop a few too many times. This season is a bookmark in place while you wait for the extra season that should have been season five.

The Book of Boba Fett (2021-2022)

I feel bad for the actors and crew of this ostensibly standalone TV show. Your makers should have had the fortitude to stick the vision.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)

Better, but only because it is exactly what I remember. It’s comfortable, like an old pair of socks.

[isoprurient]

sorry have to go pray at mars cheese castle

[dumbshitforfree]

in wisconsin if you dont eat twice your body weight in dairy by the end of the year the milk marketing board comes to your house breaks both your kneecaps and throws you over the illinois border. repeat offenders are drawn and quartered at the mars cheese castle by that years newest master cheesemakers