A constant thing that I tend to run into irl, whenever I meet a new person who also has an interest in the occult and/or magic, is the immediate assumption that they are more educated or experienced than myself.
It's like- guys, maybe, just maybe, in the era of the internet and information, perhaps we can give people the benefit of the doubt? That they might be educated? At least until they've shown otherwise?
Not every new person you meet is a "baby witch" and, even if they are, not every "baby witch" is looking for help from some random practicioner they just met.
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Ask Game AU: Where Nao grow suspicious of her husbands "friend" and his constant need to involve himself in their lives so she does her own investigation of the man.
1- Nao was glad, at first, that Kotaro was befriending people at work. He's always been slow to trust. With this friend, though, he wasn't. Kotaro ended up working later, and when he wasn't, going out to dinner or drinks with his coworker. Nao didn't want to bring anything up, didn't want to discourage him, and it wasn't like she had been abandoned to watch Hana all day by herself- her parents were there, and Kotaro wasn't out every single night. Just a lot of them.
2- Still, she doesn't say anything, until one night, Kotaro is back and in bed next to her, only a bit of wine left on his lips, when he brings up trying for a second child. She stares at him, and he withdraws, but she tells him it wasn't a bad thing- just, she had no idea he was thinking about it. They were both only children, and Kotaro had spent some years in a home with many other kids and didn't speak fondly of the experience. Kotaro tells her his friend brought it up, is all, and Nao nods, but is more worried.
3- Kotaro's office is hardly difficult to find things in. She discovers that he was the one to hire his friend, which she notes is weird, because he never mentions that detail. The address on record for him doesn't seem to be a place someone lives. The numbers on his bank account are... fine. But she doesn't find any trace of him online. She asks a few questions to Kotaro here and there, what his friends qualifications were, where he went to school. He's not even found there, on any list of graduates or alum forums. It's odd. but maybe he is just very private.
4- Hana brings up having a little sibling. Nao asks her if her father said anything, and she says no, they had a substitute teacher that day who'd told some stories and said he used to have a little brother. When Kotaro comes home late from work, he's unaware of what his daughter said when Nao asks if he's been thinking about it still. He says he has, and she says she still doesn't know. Two kids after all is a lot of work. and he's not home very often anymore.
5- Nao looks at the package of pills, the last row of seven, and opens her next box instead. She's done it before, once, for a vacation to the beach. She'd spotted a little then, but this time its more. Her birth control's been tampered with. Kotaro couldn't have done it, she'd just gotten the new box the day before she'd opened it and what'd he know anyway about it? What had that pharmacist looked like? Perhaps it was a defect, something she should notify the manufacturer about. She resolves to do so. Kotaro doesn't eat dinner with them that night, and when she asks how it went, he tells her that his friend told him such a funny story about his little brother, listen, he'll tell her and she'll laugh. She asks about the brother, Kotaro goes quiet and says his friend talked about him in the past tense. He's got enough dead family of his own to not press more than that. But really, the story was funny. Nao thinks about Hana's substitute- but clearly, Kotaro's friend was at work that day, must be another coincidence. In a line of many bad ones. Kotaro asks her if she'd like a second child. Nao thinks she might have, before all this. Now, she isn't sure what she'd like. Instead, she tells him that he barely sees Hana. is he really sure that he wants another kid? Kotaro goes quiet again, realizes she's right. He offers to take the next day off. Nao tells him she just wants him home on time for dinner.
+1- Kotaro agrees, and the next day Nao's parents watch Hana for an hour while she meets with her friend Shirota Akiho at the park. Akiho gives Nao a hug, and an unopened box of birth control. She tells her that her sister Beru's bridal shower is in a few weeks, and she can give her another box then. She agrees everything sounds weird- but Kotaro probably isn't to blame. Nao goes home. Kotaro on time for dinner that day. But he realizes when he reacts to Hana telling him she is playing heroes before bed (and Nao and Hana react to his reaction) that maybe he should spend more time at home before welcoming someone else into it.
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new problem emerges: if gene was born very late into the year like november or december (which is canon being a sagittarius) and louise is born very early into the year like january or febuary that means technically.... they do not have a two year age gap. they'd spend the majority of the year being only one year apart in age (or around 14 months)
I think it'd be more accurate to say they're actually THREE years apart but still spend the majority of the year being two years apart. for the sake of calculations. or they'd be about 26 months apart. tina and gene would be roughly 30 months apart or 2 years six months :)
for calculation purposes I'm saying that gene was born november 28th 2013, tina was born may 16th 2011 and louise was born feburary 4th 2016 (for season 14/15)
gene and tina would be 2 years 6 months and 12 days apart in age
gene and louise would be 2 years, 2 months and 7 days apart
louise and tina would be 4 years, 8 months and 19 days apart
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my aunt told me that her long-time boyfriend of 24 years broke up with her via whatsapp text message (not even audio message!!!) and also told her to tell her kids about it. she was absolutely devastasted not because of the break-up but the method he CHOSE to do it lmao so she sent him three audios messages going like "NAH NAH NAH YOU'RE GOING TO COME TO MY HOUSE AND BREAK UP WITH ME TO MY FACE. OH AND YOU'RE TELLING MY CHILDREN ABOUT IT. I'LL BE WAITING" all while yelling. anyway i love her.
moral of the story don't break up with my 55-year-old aunt via text message
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I don't really have a concept of certain heights like I've often seen people say 5'6 is the threshold for being short/tall and I knoww that's around 170cm (???) but the problem is that I just don't know anyone who is that height IRL. Like my mom's 148cm (4'10 TY google), I'm around the 156 to 158cm range and so is my sister (so like 5'1/5'2), my dad's like 162cm (5'3 ?), yk just barely taller than me. And my friends are all within that range too. And then there's my sister's BF whose height I don't know. Height: a lot. Just like my friend's bf who is tall as fuuuuck ESPECIALLY compared to her cause she's like 150cm ??? 😭😭😭 He's lanky as hell. They've been together for a WHILE and I don't see him often so it was like. Start of high school "well he's just another kid" and then end of high school "WHAT IS THAT!!!!!" I forgor where I was going with this. Basically I have no concept of anything ever. OH I remember when I was into Kagepro yeaaaars ago that Sidu said Konoha was as tall as a vending machine or something so if you stood next to a vending machine it'd be kinda like standing next to him. I'm probably misremembering or just making stuff up cause I was like 11 yrs old or smth. but I'd look at vending machines and go "that's not real people can't do that. but it's anime so I guess it's ok"
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