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theeyesinthenight · 4 years

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College Tips for Neurodivergence and Chronic Illness

Hey Everyone!I just wanted to talk for a minute about the stuff that I do to make college slightly easier to get through, and ask around for if anyone else has any advice.

Physically going to class:

1. Physical Calmness: Make a small physical maintenance travel bag that you carry with you EVERYWHERE. Include things like moisturizer, chapstick, cough drops/sucking candy, nail clippers, hair ties, eye drops, pain relief meds, sunglasses- anything that you frequently need to maintain you and your body’s ability to be calm. Sensory overload frequently becomes a thing on campus, and frequently overstimming on campus can make it really hard to want to go to class every day. I carry 6 ponytails, 2 chapstick, 4 advil, 4 sucking candies, 2 tampons, emergency ear plugs and earphones, gloves, moisturizer and sunglasses every day and I swear they make the difference between wanting to run crying out of my classroom and being able to hold on some days.

2. Make Checklists: Especially if you deal with executive function issues (like me!) you can build checklists for every day, repetitive tasks as well as normal to-dos to help you manage everything at once without forgetting anything. Don’t feel obliged to make the list pretty or perfect, just keep adding and refining the lists as you notice stuff you’ve forgotten or usually do. Write lists for literally everything. There is no shame to writing everything down. That being said, if you end up scheduling your days, always leave yourself an hour or two a day and like 10-15 minutes before crucial junctures so you aren’t stressed about running late and can actually unwind sometimes.

3. Eat: Some people will have meal plans, some will cook at home and bring stuff to school, but it’s absolutely fucking critical to chemical homeostasis (especially if you do what I do and wind up in class from like 10 am to 7 pm) to plan when and what you’ll eat- either by scheduling adequate meal breaks to go buy it, or packing it ahead of time. This is when lists can help: I remember to pack my lunch and snacks every morning or prep food for consumption when I get home only because I leave it on sticky notes on my phone when I go to sleep. Just drinking coffee nearly made me have an anxiety related melt down my freshman year before I realized that the constant feelings of a racing heart were only partially because of anxiety and were also because of the sheer amount of caffeine in my system. Eating healthy is also important, and will make you feel even better than just eating, but now is not the time to put yourself on a starvation diet just to lose 10 lbs. Eating high protein has helped some of my snacky issues as well as generally gives me more energy, and making my own mealprep at home- even my own muffins and cookies- generally are more healthy for my than what I get in the store. Fruit, cheese, lunch meat (or sliced cooked meat) and pickles or olives in endless combination work great for me as mindless snacky food, as does homemade popcorn (either in a skillet or costco bags) because it’s dirt cheap and you can put anything from seasoning salt to furikake and shredded dried pork on it. If you need help figuring out recipes, feel free to pm me! I’m good at working with nutritional and budgetary restraints. Pancakes are kind of a universal good.

4. Give yourself permission to leave: If you’re triggered, or seconds away from panic, GET UP AND LEAVE. College classes are not the same as high school classes, and most teachers are perfectly fine with you getting up to get water, or go to the bathroom, or cry in the bathroom. Try to make sure you go back to class most of the time, but if you’re really that stressed, also give yourself permission to leave.

5. Find a backup note system: There will be days that you cannot go to class. Accept this. Therefore, it is critical to find a way to make sure you always get the notes. Some colleges offer note taking assistance, some allow you to audio record lectures (check 1 and 2 party consent states first), and some leave you to your own devices, in which case, make a casual buddy to get notes from. You do not need to be besties with this person, Try to make sure you know how many days you actually have to go, and minimize grade damage when you can’t.

6. GET ENOUGH SLEEP. I cannot emphasize this enough; whether or not you’re taking medication, getting enough sleep is critical to pretty much everything that might be going on in your head- hormone issues, depression, autism, whatever. Your brain is going to be stressed out by the new environment and the additional, new problem solving that it has to do; help it make its best decisions. I literally wake up on less than 7 hours of sleep and consider selling my siblings on the black market. Don’t do it.

7. Be careful about Caffeine; Some people are more or less sensitive to caffeine, or forms of caffeine, don’t develop a coffee addiction just because it’s in vogue. Matcha seems to have the most stabilizing caffeine affect on my brain of all the caffeine options, though tea still works universally better than coffee. I also make my own “lattes” and cold brew at the beginning of the week and keep them in my fridge; a 2oz jar of matcha powder may cost like 60$ but it will make me about 90 cups of tea and last me two semesters especially if I mix in other kinds of cheaper teas in my morning; it’s certainly cheaper than starbucks- cups of latte come out to 95c and have about a third of the calories (which means I can drink more of them!) Which ties into;

8. Budgetting. You might be stressed out about money or make tons of tables and charts to try to deal with that stress; there are a lot of ways to cope with it, but my favorite method (and I still use a combination of these) for dealing with food and consumable stuff you need regularly like shampoo and soap or socks are: separate that money from everything else that you need to buy, then at the beginning of a semester

Go to Costco, a particular kind of “exotic” grocery store, or a farmers market. Buy and then freeze meat, vegetables, and fruit (if you use them in baked goods or in yogurt) or get prefrozen meat- make sure you’re checking the price/lb or K for the cheapest, and bags of either rice, flour, boxes of pasta (cheap carbs) and oil- i recommend having canola, it’s utilitarian for frying with a high flash point. If your budget isn’t tiny, this is a great time to also get dried (or canned but I don’t like the texture) beans, and canned meat or sauce if you actually eat it. The key is to get cheap bulk things that will last for a semester or five, and that are always on hand.

Take the rest of your food budget out in cash. Separate it into bundles for “each week”, put them in your wallet, and return the change to the jar when you’re done. It was always easier for me to visualize how much spending money for food that I had when I physically had the cash; it meant I didn’t overspend and it also meant that I started making better “investment” decisions; I’d buy cinnamon sticks one week, or good olive oil the next, instead of dropping a couple hundred dollars on ingredients I might have never used.

Do a similar bulk buy of products you know you use, and then leave the rest of that money- also in cash!- in a separate jar with a stickynote on top. When you have to use money for stuff from it, just stuff the receipt in the jar with the cash and do your accounting When You Have Brainspace.

I deal with other bigger accounting stuff over cards, but I try to limit one card to rent, insurance, school payments, big regular stuff that I autopay and always pay off, and one card to “emergency” stuff that I’m always working on paying off- think emergency dental work, car broke, etc. That one I do gig labor to cover when I can.

Anyone else, feel free to chime in! It’s super useful to have lists of tips and tricks!

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neni-has-ascended · 5 years

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Persona 4 Fanfic: “You Wouldn’t Expect” [Commissioned by spiralstorm]

Characters: Teddie, Labrys

Type: Romance

Description: Teddie takes Labrys out to the beach.

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Author’s Note:

A commission piece. Since I personally love this pairing to bits, I had a lot of fun writing it, though it took me a lot longer than anticipated... Mostly because I had trouble deciding what to do with the requested setting.

If you want to commission me as well for art, writing or translation, please check click here.

I also have a tip-jar.

Most people considered him an extrovert. Most people thought of him as a person who was incapable of taking anything serious, regardless of the situation. Most people had trouble imagining him with anything resembling a sense of shame. Most people would also assume that such a shameless, unserious extrovert would not experience any sort of anxiety going to a social outing they, themself, had suggested and set up in the first place.

Most people were wrong.

There Teddie stood, drenched in a mixture of sweat and some overprized body spray he’d snuck from the hygienics department (on Yosuke’s tab). His bike stood angled and leaned against the wall right next to him. Ever since the incident with the pine tree and the rubber tape he wasn’t allowed to use the rollerblades anymore, so fixing up Yosuke’s old ride was his only way to get out here on his own. Probably a good idea anyway; he was well aware of the enticing properties these fabled ‘rides’ were supposed to have on cute girls. Though, didn’t the bikes he’d seen in Yosuke’s magazines look quite a bit different from that bicycle next to him? Not to worry unnecessarily, but this distinct aura of lameness he could feel radiating off the beat-up thing now that he wasn’t on it seemed a bit… troubling.

Ah! Focus, focus! Teddie clapped his hands onto his face and took a deep breath. Now was not the time to lose his nerves! Not here, not today! No, not when this was the moment, the one, his irreplaceable and very special, very first… date.

His breath stopped even just thinking the words. M-Maybe the air was just especially thin today? Who would be surprised, geez, with how unbearably hot and humid it was, good thing he hadn’t come in his beautiful fur, all the moisture would just have ruined his shine, but now his poor head-hair had to deal with these conditions, and his skin was all wet and his foundation was dripping, and his clothes were wrinkled, and the flowers were wilting, and he couldn’t stop biting his lip-

“Hey. Sorry, did I make ya wait?”

-He snapped to attention and froze up like a popsicle in a straight jacket.

Without him realizing, he’d been approached by a slender figure dressed in a light, flowing summer dress, a pale-yellow ribbon holding her long, azure hair together in a ponytail. Fuuka had really done amazing work in restoring those cloaking features. If he hadn’t known better, Teddie would have assumed it was a regular human girl that had just greeted him so kindly. However, he was sure that the face and voice he saw and heard could only belong to one person in this big world.

“O-O-Ohhhh~~!! L-Labby-chan!!”

He could force melodic inflections into his words all he wanted; it didn’t keep him from stuttering. He found it so hard to not stumble over his words whenever Labrys was around. This, too, he wanted to blame on the infernal heat today. It dried up his tongue and made it so hard to articulate! Yes, that was what was going on here, clearly, without doubt.

“‘You okay, Ted? You lookin’ kinda frazzled.” Labrys’ head tilted slightly as she spoke. Oh no, now the hot weather had gotten her worried for him, too! Not that he minded being cared for, of course, but… No, no! Today was not a day to be anxious and worried. Not for him, and definitely not for her! With a hearty shake of his head, Teddie tried to throw off the many oppressive feelings weighing down on his poor little head and laughed.

“Oh no, mon ami, what are you talking about? I’m doing just bearfectly fine! Especially now that I am in such stunning company~!”

“…If ya say so.”

She rolled her eyes a little, giving a slight sigh. While Labrys wasn’t necessarily the best people-reader, she did consider herself fairly perceptive, and the fact that Teddie right now didn’t appear to be at the height of tranquility was obvious to everyone but himself. Then again, hyperactivity was barely out of the norm for the little guy, now, was it? Giving Teddie a gentle pat on the head, Labrys began to scan the area around them a little.

“Whoa, it sure is packed. You sure it was a good idea to come today? Maybe we shoulda rescheduled, huh…”

The doubt in Labrys’ voice was like a lightning strike to Teddie’s motors, and at once he was bouncing along eagerly in front of the young gynoid lady, shaking his head in utmost denial.

“Nonsense! Don’t you know that getting lost in the crowd is part of the charm of this kind of event? Walking down the beach together, hand in hand, in a sea of blissful couples, gazing at the night sky above, and then--!”

“I… I was kinda hoping we’d be going for a swim.”

That sentence killed the scenario in Teddie’s head quicker than Yukiko could kill a man’s self-esteem. Labrys continued talking, her hands tugged away behind her back as she considered her surroundings. When had she ever found herself stood in a large gathering like this before?

“Y’know, since that whole Beach Party thing we were talkin’ about in spring didn’t end up happening yet, ‘cause everyone got busy, when you said we were meeting at Shichiri Beach, I just kinda… assumed.”

His face went through at least 5 different emotions upon the realization that whatever miscommunication he had allowed to happen had caused Labrys to come here with wildly different expectation from him. Teddie eventually settled on a boisterous laugh that came out more awkward than intended, trying to right the wrongs of what he had suggested.

“Ah… AHAHAHA! Of course, of course!! Swimming, at the beach, what beautiful maiden wouldn’t want to swim at the beach, it’s bathing suit time after all!! Summer, sun, pin-up poses! Never you fear, I always carry an emergency bikini just for cases like this, right on my-“

“…Going swimmin’ in a crowd like this would kinda blow my cover. My cloaking device can’t project into water, y’know.”

“-Oh.”

Well, that was quite unfortunate. And though she tried to hide it, a certain sense of disappointment on Labrys’ face couldn’t be denied. Teddie, for some reason, felt put on the spot by this. Embearrassed, even. And there he’d been mapping out this whole, unforgettable evening in his head already. What a debacle.

“Em… Should we…” he didn’t mean to, but he ended up having his head sink in between his shoulders on him. “Should we go home?”

Fast, unusually quiet and short was how Teddie’s question came out sounding. Still, Labrys seemed calm.

“Nah, let’s stay. It’s sorta my own fault for not researching the event before sayin’ I’d come. ‘Sides, I’ve never been to a ‘festival’ before. Maybe it’s gonna be fun.”

Teddie’s enthusiasm was restored.

“Of COURSE it will be fun! You’ll love it! We’ll buy snackies and weird thingie-dings, and write wishes on tiny sheets of paper, and catch goldfish and watch the fireworks and the stars…”

A young, gold-blond boy was excitedly jumping around in front of his azure-haired friend, continuing his descriptions in such a manner that it was hard to believe he was ever going to stop. Labrys chuckled. As nervous as it made her to be around these many strangers, as long as she had Teddie just being Teddie, she knew all was still right in the world. She took a deep breath of salty beach air mixed with the scent of fried meat and Takoyaki and looked out to the festival site stretching out before them.

“Shichiri-Tanabata Festival, huh.” she mumbled to herself. “Let’s see…”

★

Teddie hurried to drag Labrys along to every little point of attraction that grabbed his attention, his excitement unbroken even as the hours marched along. Calling his way of selecting the booths they’d spend their time at ‘erratic’ would have been flattery. In a hurry he jetted from one site to another, from a saleswoman selling star-themed charms to an ice cream stand, to a pair of performers, to a fishing game, to a stand selling cold drinks, and so on. It definitely helped that Labrys didn’t mind his guidance, much to the contrary. She was glad to have something resembling a line to navigate along this chaotic gathering of people, whose countless voices constantly threatened to overload her sensors. Her 5th generation hardware simply wasn’t optimized for complex social situations like this one. Following Teddie’s lead and focusing on his voice helped drowning out the noise. Holding his hand to not lose track of him kept her from getting distracted. Eventually, she found herself sitting by a table put up next to a little tree with lots and lots of colorful papers hung on it, sipping from a plastic cup of iced tea (her systems could handle tasting and excreting liquids; it was only solid foods that caused problems.)

“There sure is a lot to do here,” she said with a sigh, gazing at the mass of people she’d been walking through all afternoon and wondering how she’d survived it. She turned to Teddie. “You’ve been to a festival before, haven’cha?”

“Yes, but never to this one,” Teddie admitted, still a bit flushed from the excitement of all the games they’d been playing. “The one in everyone’s town is very different from here. It’s a lot smaller and a lot less romantic. This one here makes me feel like I’m being swept off my feet!”

“Hm…” Sip, sip, sip, Labrys worked her way through her drink, considering Teddie’s statement. For someone who had never been to this festival either, he sure seemed to sure his way around. There was a lot she could learn from him, especially considering that he hadn’t been living in this world for that much longer than her. It probably paid to be as wide-eyed curious as him when it came to this sort of thing. It was then that a small stack of tourist brochures on the table next to them caught Labrys’ attention. She reached out, took one and began to read it. Of course, Teddie looked over her shoulder.

“Ohhh, English! Fancy.”

“It’s frickin’ broken as heck tho,” Labrys frowned at the grammatical mess before her eyes.

“You speak English, Labby-chan?”

“Came pre-installed with ‘nuff to read most of it. Can’t exactly speak it tho. Well, not withoutta soundin’ like an, um, y’know. Robot.”

It took Labrys some mental effort to stop her language processing programs from going bonkers trying to deal with the monstrosity presented to them. Eventually, however, she had processed the text enough to read out some of it.

“Tanabata, also known as the Star Festival, originates from the Chinese Qixi Festival. It celebrates the meeting of the stars Vega and Altair, who’re thought to be embodied by the deities Orihime, the Celestial Weaver, and Hikoboshi, the Celestial Cowherd. According to legend, the two lovers were forbidden from meeting by the Sky King, who thought their relationship prevented them from performing their duties. Only once a year, when their stars meet on the 7th day of the 7th month, the two can meet, and it is said that wishes written down and bound to bamboo or branches on this day will come true.”

“Ohhhhh, that’s so romantic!!” Teddie almost squeaked hearing the story, making wide eyes at the paper in Labrys hands. She laughed.

“Sure, you’d like that. You’re into mushy stuff like that, aren’cha?”

“Hm. It would be even better if Ori-chan and Bosshy got to meet whenever they want,” Teddie declared after taking a few seconds to process the story. “I mean, it’s so sad! I thought true love was supposed to be forebear! Not giving them a happy ending when all the other fairytales get one just screams of discrimination, if you ask me! They should complain to the management!”

Somewhere halfway through Teddie’s critique had stopped making logical sense, but Labrys didn’t mind that. She’d expected as much. In fact, she kinda found it cute. She ruffled his hair.

“It’s probably a really old story, ya know. I reckon’ by now they’ve long got it worked out,” she suggested. “Like, maybe they quit their jobs and moved in together? That’s what I think woulda made sense, at least.”

“Mhm…” Teddie replied surprisingly half-heartedly as Labrys stroked his hair. Lowering his head, he mumbled. “If it were me, I’d do everything, so-“

“Hm?” Labrys tilted her head. Teddie’s voice had been too low for her to pick up all of what he’d said. However, he wouldn’t repeat the words. Instead, he swung his legs and leapt up from the bench the two of them were sitting on.

“Aaaaaalright! Where shall we go next, milady!?”

A 180° turn to the tree next to their table gave Teddie his answer.

“Oh, I know! Let’s write some wishes!”

★

It wasn’t Teddie’s first time writing wishes on Tanzaku paper. He’d done it the year before with Yosuke’s family, though then he hadn’t known the legend. However, it was Labrys’ first time, and she was struggling a little. To her it felt awkward trying to put any wishes she might have into words, especially knowing how many people there were around that could possibly be looking over her shoulder. The fact that Teddie kept loudly vocalizing every single thing he wrote down, proudly announcing his wishes to the world (he was up to tying his 10th Tanzaku to the tree now) didn’t help. Just how was it so easy for him to come up all these things to say? Maybe she just ought to stop thinking and just write down the first thing that came to her?

Eventually Labrys found a wish and wording she was happy with and put it on the paper in neat, clean handwriting, tying a perfectly symmetrical bow as she hung it to the branch. Yeah, this was okay. It reflected her hopes for the future, and she didn’t feel weird about the fact that someone else might read it. She was satisfied.

“Oookay!!”

Hands on hips, Teddie looked over his army of 27 Tanzaku Papers merrily fluttering on the tree, Labrys’ sole wish mixed right in with them. He seemed proud of the image, miming the hand-gestures of a photographer looking for the perfect shot again and again, though never actually taking a picture of the scene. The one to really take a photo was Labrys. The way Teddie was hopping around in front of that tree was just too cute.

“Careful, ya gonna tear ‘em down with all the wind you’re makin’ wavin’ ya arms ‘round,” she laughed.

“Wind? My lady, I will have you know, this is no orbearnary wind I’m kicking up here! It’s the cosmic shock-wave that will carry our wishes to the heavens! HMMMMMMM!” And he threw his finger up in the air and struck a pose, yelling. “ORI-CHAAAN! DID YOU GET ALL OF THIS!?”

Teddie’s display of unabashed confidence drew the attention of bystanders. A pair of college age girls could be heard chatting.

“Whoa, that kid’s Japanese is pretty good… And he’s kinda cute, too, isn’t he? Hee hee.”

“Careful what you say, I think he came with his big sister. You see that foreign-looking girl next to him?”

“Whoa, she’s pretty good-looking as well, check out that figure! How come foreigners get to have all those curves, huh?”

“Calm down, you’ll bother them. Hey, let’s move on, alright?” The girl took her friend by the hand and walked away, though she could still be heard adding. “It sure is nice, seeing that some siblings don’t feel like they need to ‘grow out of’ being cute together…”

Labrys and Teddie waited until the college girls were out of earshot. Then, they turned to each other, a little stunned.

“…Big sister?” Teddie asked, tilting his head a little. “Whatever did she mean by that?”

Labrys shrugged. “I guess we looked like siblings to them?”

“Oh, sort of like how Yosuke always says that all foreigners look ‘the same’? Geez, how rude!”

He didn’t look offended at all.

“We ain’t really foreigners though,” Labrys pointed out.

“So, we look the same to them because we’re both not human? Hmm, people are weeeird sometimes.”

“Yeah, can’t argue with that…”

“I mean…” Teddie put his fingers on his chin pondering. “It’s not like we should come across like siblings! After all, you are my fair Princess! And I am your Royal Knight, Sir Teddie, coming to your aid in shining armor.”

“Well, I dunno a lotta stuff ‘bout knights. But some of them were princes, right?” Labrys said. “And a prince can be a princess’ brother, I think.”

“Wha—No, no, no! None! That’s not it at all!” Teddie stomped one of his feet in the sand a little, not hard, just enough to kick up a dramatic dust cloud. “I mean… I maaaay be quite princely in just bearly all aspects, but! That’s not the nature of our relationship at all!”

“I mean. Yeah.” Labrys didn’t know what there was to get dramatic about, but on a purely factual level, she had to agree. “I do got some siblings, but last I checked, you weren’t one.”

“Right!?” Teddie seemed vindicated by that statement. He crossed his arms. “And… And anyway! If anything, I’d definitely be the older brother!”

At that, Labrys could only snort. “Really?”

“But, of course! In fact, ever since Sensei has gone back to the big city, I’ve done my beary best to stuff that sad, bro-shaped hole in Nana-chan’s life,” he told her. It’s not like I could ‘replace’ Sensei. Not even moi could ever do that. But! I’ve been visiting her lots and lots! We’ve been going shopping and watching TV and playing in the park and making music…”

Teddie’s mood went from high-strung to almost tranquil as he talked. His face visibly relaxed.

“Actually, you know, I wanted to bring Nana-chan here too! But… She was busy with school today, so she couldn’t come.”

“Why didn’t you just call me to reschedule then?” Labrys asked curious. “I wouldn’t of minded comin’ a day later so we can bring her, y’know.”

“No, it’s okay.” Teddie shook his head. “I’ll come with her another time! Besides… I thought it might be nice to come, maybe… just with you.”

Labrys accepted that statement, though she wasn’t quite sure what he meant by it. Generally, she found him rather unreadable at the moment. His expression, the way he didn’t really look at her but more at the ground behind her, that slightly pink tinge on his cheeks… Was he okay? If he was human, she would have guessed that he was showing early signs of a fever, but…

“Hey, hey, Labby-chan, look, over there! I wanna try that!”

And thus ended a brief, quiet moment.

The ‘that’ Teddie was referring to turned out to be a large stretch on the beach without booths, where people were currently gathering to perform some sort of folk-dance. Onlookers were evidently allowed to join in. Labrys was hesitant, after all, who’d ever heard of a dancing combat device? However, it didn’t take much coaxing for Teddie to get her to join. Despite their exotic appearances the two of them didn’t stand out among the dancers nearly as much as they could have. The crowd was diverse, some people having come in Yukata, while others were in casual clothing like Labrys and Teddie. There were even a few westerners, probably tourists, mixed into the bunch. Chaotic as it was, nobody noticed how many steps the two of them missed in their attempts to follow the shrine priestess and middle-aged man leading the dance. It was all in good fun. Some parts of the dance were performed in pairs and these were the parts that made Labrys most nervous. The idea of having to synchronize with the moves of a total stranger in order to not disrupt the event sent her logic circuits into disarray. However, Teddie kept close to her and immediately paired up with her whenever he heard the musical cue to, and though Labrys knew he probably had his own reasons for doing so, she was thankful. ‘He’s always been pretty clingy around girls, huh?’ she thought to herself. ‘Well, I’m glad he’s having fun.’ It was only fairly late into the song that it occurred to Labrys how many other good-looking girls her own age actually were in the crowd of dancers. Yet, throughout the entire song, Teddie hadn’t strayed from her side even once. When she realized that fact, Labrys fell silent.

“…”

“Labby-chan, what’s wrong? The music isn’t over yet.”

“Wha—O-Oh right.”

Labrys had been so lost in her thoughts, she’d stopped dancing on the spot. Now it was just Teddie and her standing still in the mass of dancers, small wrinkles forming on his forehead as he looked at her in worry.

“Are you tired? Should we take a break?”

“…Yeah, maybe. Thanks.”

Holding her hand gently, as if taking extra care to not hurt her, he led her to the edge of the beach’s waters, a little off from all the music and commotion. It was here, where the crowd was thinner and the noise less prevalent that, for the first time, Labrys could take a moment to breathe and process the events of the day so far. Her sensors registered a high content of sodium-chloride in water vapor in the air… Sea salt. A nice scent. In the distance the sun had begun to set, dyeing the sky and ocean in a dazzling red color. Carefully, Labrys stretched out the bottom parts of her legs to let the waves splash them a little. What appeared to be her ‘feet’ wasn’t real, of course, those parts of her body were a pure projection of her cloaking device, but it still was nice to pretend.

Watching Labrys stretch her legs out to the water like that, Teddie began to pout a little. He buried his face between his legs. “I’m sorry I didn’t take you swimming. You’re probably beary disappointed still.”

Labrys laughed at that. “What’cha even talking about? Today’s been great! I’ve been havin’ a blast.”

“O-Oh!” Surprised, Teddie looked up. “I was just thinking… You’ve been looking so nervous ever since we’ve come here, so maybe you weren’t actually having any fun.”

“Mhm… I’ve never really been ‘round this many people before. So, it’s a tad strange still, ya know?” Labrys admitted. “But a gal’s gotta get out sometime, right? I’m thinkin’, I wanna make friends that ain’t Persona Users too, some time. So, I’d better get used to seein’ more people around like this... You’ve already got that part of livin’ down to a tee, don’cha?”

Labrys grinned at Teddie as she said that, which he visibly took as permission to feel pride. Wearing her statement as a badge of honor, he puffed up his chest a little.

“Weeeell, if you ever need anybody to show you how to bring ALL the hot studs in town to the yard, you can come to me! I’ll be your wise and powerful mentor in the art of socialization and bearing it all to the world!”

“I’m sure ya will,” Labrys pet his hair a bit, partly to get him to dismount that high horse of his for a while. “Look. The stars are comin’ up.”

★

As the day drew to a close, the scene was lit by lights, both around and above them, all reflecting colorfully in the ocean before them. Labrys and Teddie spent the time talking, about themselves, the time they’d known each other, their friends. There was so much to say, the minutes seemed to pass much too quickly, and by the time Labrys had googled and pointed out the locations of Vega and Altair in the sky to Teddie, the festivalgoers had gathered around where they were sitting to gaze up at the stars as well. The fireworks began.

They were were even prettier than the last time Teddie had seen them, painting the sky in all possible colors, lights raining down above them in this pleasantly warm summer night. There were so many people around them, and – Labrys recalled – there were endlessly many more watching up to this same sky right now in this world. It was a concept hard to understand for someone who’d spent so much of her existence isolated from people, so why did she feel so at peace right now?

“I woulda never expected looking at some lights in the sky could be this beautiful,” she said quietly, almost a whisper.

“…Me neither,” Teddie said in much the same tone. And, whether he realized it or not, his hand was on top of hers.

In this moment, regardless of all the people and voices all around, it almost felt as if nobody but the two of them existed in this entire world. It was just like how, during the dance, Teddie had stayed only by Labrys’ side, like she would have never expected him to. That thought on her mind, Labrys found it easy to move closer to the boy next to her, her fingers intertwining with his, before she slowly drew him into a kiss.

“Next time, I’ll take ya out swimming,” Labrys told Teddie, breaking their lip-lock to bop his nose.

Stunned as he was, even if Teddie had had something to reply, he wouldn’t have known how to say it.

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What 6 Top Trainers REALLY Eat Every Day

After a tough practise class, numerous parties find themselves crawling toward the nearest generator of food and hoovering up anything in sight.

But imagine doing that wearying workout class two, three or four more hours in one day. That’s what your favorite teachers and trainers do to help keep you motivated. Not only do they have to show you proper moves, but they also sweat( and even tolerate) alongside “youve got to” induce you to give it everything you’ve got, just like they do.

Of course, it takes a lot of food to fuel all of that activity. HuffPost Lifestyle expected ruler trainers from five major gyms and shop utilization studios what they feed to make sure they’re bringing their -Agame to work.

There were a lot of similarities among all six of the teaches, including a focus on whole nutrients, protein and healthy paunches from seeds, fish and olive oil. And while they mainly dine a nutrient-dense nutrition, they’re also very comfortable plowing themselves to alcohol, chocolate and( gasp !) broiled goods and sweetened treats.

Adam Friedman

Fitness Institute Expert at Gold’s Gym, Los Angeles

Adam Friedman

Adam Friedman, Gold’s Gym Fitness Institute Expert.

On a usual daylight, Friedman studies six buyers for seminars of 60 to 90 instants at a time. After his workday is over, he launches into his own 90 -minute exercise program that includes kettlebell fluctuating seizes, Bulgarian split squattings and other tough, exotic-sounding workouts that few people “ve heard quite a bit about”, but was likely to Google subsequently.

It’s a jam-packed, highly active workday, which is why Friedman stops to ingest no fewer than seven banquets. All are 100 percent organic and include high-quality proteins like grass-finished meat, wild-caught fish and lots of paunch to improve stabilize his blood sugar.

Breakfast : Friedman wakes up at 5:45 a.m. to ruminate and sip hot water with organic lemon juice and matcha green tea for its antioxidant belongings. Then for breakfast, it’s two whole eggs and six egg whites cooked in grass-fed butter, together with two cups of spinach and one medium yam. His nutritional augments include fish oils, a multivitamin, zinc, CoQ1 0 and a probiotic.

Morning snacks : One apple with one teaspoon of organic sunflower seed butter. A few hours later, Friedman chews a second morning snack of organic coconut yogurt mingled with one scoop of grass-fed whey protein pulverize, some sprouted walnuts and two teaspoons of organic cacao nibs.

Lunch : Homemade turkey meatloaf, a half-cup of roasted veggies and one medium yam.

Afternoon snack : Like the morning, this snack is broken up in two: The first is one cup of homemade chia seed dessert, and the second largest is another dish of his organic coconut yogurt combination from earlier in the day.

Dinner : Wild-caught salmon with romaine lettuce and two teaspoons of sprouted hummus.

Charlee Atkins

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

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This body was brought to you by chocolate microchip muffins. No, severely. While Atkins snack a lot of good-for-you whole meat like oatmeal, fish, quinoa and yogurt, a chocolate chip muffin from Whole Foods is also a vital part of her pre-class procedure. Coffee also facilitates pump up her vitality, and after it’s all over she goes out to eat at a eatery in New York City’s NoLiTa neighborhood, where she might get a little “wastey-face” and then come home requiring snacks( managers, they’re just like us !).

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Breakfast : To start her daylight, Atkins loads up on carbs like old-fashioned oatmeal, into which she throws concepts like cinnamons, raisins, granola, agave and almond milk. She too sees sure to booze two to three glasses of ocean and one cup of yerba matte.

Morning Snacks : One iced coffee about 45 times before her first class. Then this is where the chocolate chip muffin comes in: Atkins will dine half of it about 30 times before class so that the sugar hurry peaks right as the session starts. To recuperate, it’s SmartWater for the electrolytes.

Then she’ll eat a second morning snack before her second class of the working day: another iced coffee for vigour, then either approximately half a Quest protein bar or Greek yogurt( Fage, 2 percent ), two hard simmered eggs or watermelon and cantaloupe. Then it’s time for the second largest half of that chocolate chip muffin from earlier in the day.

Lunch : For lunch, Atkins has two go-to moves: an egg sandwich or avocado toast with a fried egg on top. She buys either from The Elk on Charles Street. The protein part of the lunch is critical to recovery, she says.

Afternoon snack : Either fresh fruit, yogurt and granola or some cashews.

Dinner : Atkins isn’t a fan of cook and affection going out to eat. A usual dinner for her is rice or quinoa, fish or beans and potatoes or yams. She also loves sweetened considers, but merely takes a few gnaws of dessert.

Evening Snack : She can explain it best: “If I choose to go out for beverages with friends and get a little wastey-face( but not too wastey-face) and come home and want snacky-poos, I’ll opt for more fruit or yogurt.”

Akin Akman

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

SoulCycle

Akin Akman, senior teach at SoulCycle.

Not simply had Akman taught five SoulCycle classes( four of those back-to-back !) on the working day we caught up with him, but the superman likewise completed a bootcamp class and a boxing hearing for his own fitness. We don’t know how he does it all, but his diet, which is high in protein and fatty, commits us a clue.

“I believe in devouring everything in moderation with the exception of no deep-fried nutrients, ” said Akman. And as for all the other employs classes he takes in addition to schooling his own, Akman says he does it all for us, the students.

“Although I learn so many categorizes a era, I like to train outside of my class by taking Barry’s Bootcamp categories, working out with my friend and tutor Andy Speer at Soho Strength Lab, and mingling it up with other types of exercisings, ” he said. “I like to stay at the top of my tournament so that I can push my students to become stronger, faster jocks themselves.”

Breakfast : After his 6:30 a.m. bootcamp class, Akman travels for a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Morning Snack : After his first located of SoulCycle classes, he boozes coconut liquid for its potassium and low-grade natural carbohydrate content.

Lunch : After his third SoulCycle class, Akman gobbles a grilled chicken sandwich and a line-up salad.

Afternoon snack : Then it’s epoch for boxing with his friend and coach Eric Rakofsky. Afterward, he eats an acai container with almond butter and bananas. Akman calls this his “favorite snack” and dines it almost daily.

Dinner : After his final create of SoulCycle classes at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m ., he goes all out with Japanese nutrient: salmon teriyaki, rice, miso soup and sushi.

Caroline Ficksman

DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager, Los Angeles

DavidBartonGym

Caroline Ficksman, DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager.

Ficksman was on her day off when she caught up with us, which entails the L-Abased trainer hadn’t taught any years or done any one-on-one education. Instead, she focused on her own fitness: working on her shoulders with high-pitched rep, low-weight resistance utilization. Here’s what she chewed:

Breakfast : Three hard-boiled steamed egg whites, one yolk and a quarter of an avocado.

Morning snack : A banana almond butter macro prohibit. She affection them because they’re vegan, have no soy and use brown rice syrup and coconut sugar for sweeteners. She likewise dined three times right before her shoulder workout to give her a little more vigor to “kill” her hoist. To recover, she boozes a protein shake.

Lunch : Ficksman chews a salad with either a Sweet Earth veggie burger or chicken on top.

Snack : Raw almonds.

Dinner : Baked salmon with salsa, grilled asparagus and some broiled sweet potato.

Joey Gonzalez

CEO of Barry’s Bootcamp, West Hollywood

Barry’s Bootcamp

Joey Gonzalez, chief operating officer of Barry’s Bootcamp.

Like Ficksman, Gonzalez was also having an “off-day, ” explaining that he plainly took a Barry’s Bootcamp class as a student but modified it by hop-skip the treadmill parcel and spending the entire hour-long class on the flooring doing fighting utilizations with weights. Uhh … sounds like an on-day to merely someones, sir, but you do you.

Gonzalez started his period at 5:30 a.m. with Francesca, his four-month age-old daughter. His profession in the wee hours of the morning is exclusively to play with her. Then he left for a full epoch of rallies, the bootcamp class and on-site visits to see a new studio stretch in West Hollywood and his own under-construction residence. Gonzalez amply admits that if it weren’t for his spouse Jonathan Rollo, founder and cook of a healthy salad series, he wouldn’t gobble as well as he ordinarily does.

“Today was an ill-planned era and I ingest exclusively out of convenience, ” says Gonzalez. “Having a husband who returns residence healthy meals from his restaurant, Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop, is my saving grace.”

Breakfast : Coffee, liquid and an egg white and turkey bacon sandwich on an English muffin from Greenleaf.

Lunch : Salad with quinoa, almonds, chicken, arugula and kale.

Afternoon Snack : A Simply PB Protein shake from Barry’s Fuel Bar

Dinner : Salad with chicken, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and onions.

Holly Rilinger

Master Flywheel Instructor, New York City

Abbey Drucker

Holly Rilinger, Master Flywheel Instructor

The day Rilinger catered HuffPost Lifestyle with her meat journal, she educated two Flywheel spin classifies back to back and a high-intensity interval train class( that’s HIIT to you) and then took another HIIT class as a student.

The full date of activity leaves her seem “invigorated but exhausted” by the end. To facilitate fuel her barrage, Rilinger focuses principally on unprocessed, natural foods that help keep her strong and strong.

Breakfast : Coffee with almond milk and blackberries — emphasis on the coffee.

“I don’t like dining too much before my gyration categories and NEED my coffee, ” she wrote.

Morning snack : A light-green smoothie with hemp protein, almond butter and almond milk mixed in. Then a small chicken salad from The Juice Shop in New York City for “quick and easy” fuel after learning those first two classes.

Lunch : A big-hearted bit of grilled chicken with broccoli, chickpeas, lettuce and sweetened potato. At this part, she’s too schooled her HIIT class and she’s famished.

Afternoon snack : Grilled vegetables and the other protein shake.

Dinner : Grilled hem steak, spinach, brussels sprouts and two tequilas with soda. “Tequila is just about all I drink, ” Rilinger says.

Evening snack : For something sweet to terminate her era, Rilinger indulges in dark chocolate and chamomile tea or coconut ice cream.

The lesson from these upper-class exercising coaches? Food plays an important role in both fueling you and helping you regain after a exercising. Don’t skip banquets on daytimes you work out, and make sure you have a healthy snack to nosh on, like eggs or seeds, after you’re done sweating it out.

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What 6 Top Trainers REALLY Eat Every Day

After a tough practise class, numerous parties find themselves crawling toward the nearest generator of food and hoovering up anything in sight.

Adam Friedman

Fitness Institute Expert at Gold’s Gym, Los Angeles

Adam Friedman

Adam Friedman, Gold’s Gym Fitness Institute Expert.

Lunch : Homemade turkey meatloaf, a half-cup of roasted veggies and one medium yam.

Dinner : Wild-caught salmon with romaine lettuce and two teaspoons of sprouted hummus.

Charlee Atkins

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

SoulBody | @soulcycle #soulcycle

A photo posted by charlee (@ charleeatkins) on Apr 5, 2015 at 9:24 am PDT

Can we hang with you after class, satisfy?

Afternoon snack : Either fresh fruit, yogurt and granola or some cashews.

Akin Akman

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

SoulCycle

Akin Akman, senior teach at SoulCycle.

Breakfast : After his 6:30 a.m. bootcamp class, Akman travels for a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Morning Snack : After his first located of SoulCycle classes, he boozes coconut liquid for its potassium and low-grade natural carbohydrate content.

Lunch : After his third SoulCycle class, Akman gobbles a grilled chicken sandwich and a line-up salad.

Dinner : After his final create of SoulCycle classes at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m ., he goes all out with Japanese nutrient: salmon teriyaki, rice, miso soup and sushi.

Caroline Ficksman

DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager, Los Angeles

DavidBartonGym

Caroline Ficksman, DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager.

Breakfast : Three hard-boiled steamed egg whites, one yolk and a quarter of an avocado.

Lunch : Ficksman chews a salad with either a Sweet Earth veggie burger or chicken on top.

Snack : Raw almonds.

Dinner : Baked salmon with salsa, grilled asparagus and some broiled sweet potato.

Joey Gonzalez

CEO of Barry’s Bootcamp, West Hollywood

Barry’s Bootcamp

Joey Gonzalez, chief operating officer of Barry’s Bootcamp.

Breakfast : Coffee, liquid and an egg white and turkey bacon sandwich on an English muffin from Greenleaf.

Lunch : Salad with quinoa, almonds, chicken, arugula and kale.

Afternoon Snack : A Simply PB Protein shake from Barry’s Fuel Bar

Dinner : Salad with chicken, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and onions.

Holly Rilinger

Master Flywheel Instructor, New York City

Abbey Drucker

Holly Rilinger, Master Flywheel Instructor

Breakfast : Coffee with almond milk and blackberries — emphasis on the coffee.

“I don’t like dining too much before my gyration categories and NEED my coffee, ” she wrote.

Lunch : A big-hearted bit of grilled chicken with broccoli, chickpeas, lettuce and sweetened potato. At this part, she’s too schooled her HIIT class and she’s famished.

Afternoon snack : Grilled vegetables and the other protein shake.

Dinner : Grilled hem steak, spinach, brussels sprouts and two tequilas with soda. “Tequila is just about all I drink, ” Rilinger says.

Evening snack : For something sweet to terminate her era, Rilinger indulges in dark chocolate and chamomile tea or coconut ice cream.

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What 6 Top Trainers REALLY Eat Every Day

After a tough practise class, numerous parties find themselves crawling toward the nearest generator of food and hoovering up anything in sight.

Adam Friedman

Fitness Institute Expert at Gold’s Gym, Los Angeles

Adam Friedman

Adam Friedman, Gold’s Gym Fitness Institute Expert.

Lunch : Homemade turkey meatloaf, a half-cup of roasted veggies and one medium yam.

Dinner : Wild-caught salmon with romaine lettuce and two teaspoons of sprouted hummus.

Charlee Atkins

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

SoulBody | @soulcycle #soulcycle

A photo posted by charlee (@ charleeatkins) on Apr 5, 2015 at 9:24 am PDT

Can we hang with you after class, satisfy?

Afternoon snack : Either fresh fruit, yogurt and granola or some cashews.

Akin Akman

Senior Instructor at SoulCycle, New York City

SoulCycle

Akin Akman, senior teach at SoulCycle.

Breakfast : After his 6:30 a.m. bootcamp class, Akman travels for a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Morning Snack : After his first located of SoulCycle classes, he boozes coconut liquid for its potassium and low-grade natural carbohydrate content.

Lunch : After his third SoulCycle class, Akman gobbles a grilled chicken sandwich and a line-up salad.

Dinner : After his final create of SoulCycle classes at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m ., he goes all out with Japanese nutrient: salmon teriyaki, rice, miso soup and sushi.

Caroline Ficksman

DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager, Los Angeles

DavidBartonGym

Caroline Ficksman, DavidBartonGym Century City Training Manager.

Breakfast : Three hard-boiled steamed egg whites, one yolk and a quarter of an avocado.

Lunch : Ficksman chews a salad with either a Sweet Earth veggie burger or chicken on top.

Snack : Raw almonds.

Dinner : Baked salmon with salsa, grilled asparagus and some broiled sweet potato.

Joey Gonzalez

CEO of Barry’s Bootcamp, West Hollywood

Barry’s Bootcamp

Joey Gonzalez, chief operating officer of Barry’s Bootcamp.

Breakfast : Coffee, liquid and an egg white and turkey bacon sandwich on an English muffin from Greenleaf.

Lunch : Salad with quinoa, almonds, chicken, arugula and kale.

Afternoon Snack : A Simply PB Protein shake from Barry’s Fuel Bar

Dinner : Salad with chicken, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and onions.

Holly Rilinger

Master Flywheel Instructor, New York City

Abbey Drucker

Holly Rilinger, Master Flywheel Instructor

Breakfast : Coffee with almond milk and blackberries — emphasis on the coffee.

“I don’t like dining too much before my gyration categories and NEED my coffee, ” she wrote.

Lunch : A big-hearted bit of grilled chicken with broccoli, chickpeas, lettuce and sweetened potato. At this part, she’s too schooled her HIIT class and she’s famished.

Afternoon snack : Grilled vegetables and the other protein shake.

Dinner : Grilled hem steak, spinach, brussels sprouts and two tequilas with soda. “Tequila is just about all I drink, ” Rilinger says.

Evening snack : For something sweet to terminate her era, Rilinger indulges in dark chocolate and chamomile tea or coconut ice cream.

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