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ms-demeanor · 7 months

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how do you factor brushing your teeth into the "letting yourself fall asleep while doing stuff" strategy?

Well let's preface this with the fact that I'm kind of a disaster:

I brush my teeth in the morning.

Sometimes I'll brush my teeth right after dinner (and I'm usually finishing dinner at like 10pm) and then I'll be up for another few hours and I just. Like. Try not to sweat it? I probably brush my teeth around 10-12 times a week, which is less than the recommended twice a day but honestly for me is a pretty significant improvement over where I was in, like, 2013. Getting to daily tooth brushing was a significant achievement that I had to start using an activity tracking app for. Washing my face daily is still a struggle. I am *not* great at being what a lot of people seem to consider "normal" or "functional" but I'm getting by and I'm getting better.

Ideally in a perfect world where brushing my teeth wasn't going to mean that I'd be awake for another three hours I'd brush my teeth right before tucking myself into bed in my PJs with the lights off.

But it *is* going to mean that so I brush my teeth and floss when it's not going to impact that and fall asleep in a bright room with my glasses and jeans on.

And TBH it's working out. I've got pretty fucky teeth anyway (double row of wisdom teeth, teeth when i was a couple weeks old, had all my adult teeth by the time I was seven, have had something like eight root canals and have a shitload of crowns) so it's hard to say if this has had an impact on my dental health (had a lot of those crowns and root canals when I was brushing and flossing twice daily because my parents made me as a kid) but since my last "i haven't been to the dentist in nine years and my damaged tooth broke in half during the first month of covid" fiasco I've been brushing every morning and flossing mostly every morning and getting in extra brushing and flossing when I can, I haven't had any further cavities or other issues past treating what nine years of neglect did (it's been 3 years of being pretty okay and they don't tell me that i need to floss more at the dentist so i consider that a success).

At one point a dentist told me that plaque buildup starts after about 24 hours of the bacteria in your mouth being undisturbed and that the 2x daily recommendation is to make sure you don't go 24 hours without shaking the little fuckers up. I don't actually know if that's accurate, but it has helped me to be more regular about brushing my teeth (look; depression and adhd is a bad combo and there were some rough years there) and also helped me to be more regular about brushing my dog's teeth.

So anyway please don't follow my example please do what your dentist tells you to do but also yeah if you're having sleep issues it may be more important for you to get sleep than to get up and brush your teeth right away. Brush in the mornings for sure, try to do it every day, use a toothpaste with fluoride and floss or use a waterpik to get below the gumline; then try to get in another brushing when you can, ideally at least one other time a day.

But you don't have to brush exactly twelve hours apart or right before you go to bed, and if you're eating and drinking after you brush your teeth but before you go to bed it isn't ideal but it also isn't a disaster.

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bleachbleachbleach · 4 months

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1/15 - 1/21/2024

I’d actually forgotten about this, but I started the week with "Kira is intimidating so let's write something else" panic and ended up with 1000 words of unrelated Matsumoto fic. It was one of those writing sessions where I had a floating premise I wanted to explore ("my girlfriend who lives in Rukongai") and then thought about what timeline would be most interesting for it (the immediate aftermath of Isshin’s disappearance), only for the part I actually wrote to end up being mostly about Akon. You know, it happens.

I still have not finished Kira’s chapter, but I am VERY CLOSE. I also noodled a bit in Chapters 14-20, because Kira’s chapter most directly connects to Rose’s (14), though regrettably this does not help me with the first half of the next chapter, which continues to be a large ???

Highs

I understand now why this chapter has to be narrated by "Izuru" and not "Kira" because as the writing has gone on, I keep realizing over and over that *oh* yeah, this is not the Kira this man brings to work, these aren’t even thoughts he would share with his friends; we’re deep in Izuru territory here.

I enjoy writing Kira because you can write some truly batshit things in some truly batshit ways and then be like, yeah, keep that in there actually!! I stand by this (among many other substantially more baroque things): Izuru’s aunts twitter behind him and Izuru imagines his ears wandering down their canals and into the back of his throat. It’s quiet there.

Kira's is an interlude chapter, away from the main action, but I feel like he definitely understands himself as the main character in his own story here. Love that for him, but I'm equally happy about feeling like this chapter has actually more to do with the rest of the fic than I’d previously given it credit for. I think it potentially revisits both the plot and structure of the ending of the previous chapter (Rukia 7) in really interesting ways, and could do well in seting up further exploration in the next chapter (Hisagi's).

Lows

I feel deep deep deep deep shame about a scene I wrote in the very middle of this chapter, and writing every scene that followed required me to return to increasing feelings of shame. I do not yet know whether that means I should take it out because it shouldn’t exist, or if my reasoning about why it should; and why, against most logic, it should be in the *middle* of the rest of this, to boot, is correct, actually. But I did manage to just keep writing, regardless of my level of incredible shame, so there’s that. Not that fun, though.

I feel like I’m learning a lot of things about Kira, and I am trying to just let happen whatever happens, but there’s a lot where I’m just like, okay, but I’m not sure I actually believe that about Kira (and later, Hinamori shows up and then I’m not sure I believe all of these things about her, either). So there’s a lot to sort through, and I’m worried because I don't think the end result is going to be a pile of characterization to sort through; it will be a garden, and there is going to be stuff that needs to be excised but is already seeded into the nerves or I guess like, the root system, of the chapter in ways that will be more complicated than "well, just delete that line, then."

I also feel like I’m writing the season premiere of a 5th-year CW show, where there’s a lot going on and it’s all a bit unsettled. It’s introducing a new flavor to set apart what’s coming from what came, but it’s also trying to manage four seasons of previous lore and is perhaps high on its own lore supply. Maybe it’s fine because this is, in fact, the beginning of Part 2, and Part 2 is just Weirder. But it’s also Chapter 8, not Chapter 1, and does not functionally have to be the "beginning" of anything; it’s the middle.

#stories for the sea

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be-ready-when-i-say-go · 2 years

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hi 🤩 absolutely love your eddie fics lately, and in case requests are still open, could i request a fic where the reader is sort of taller and looks intimidating to others, but eddie loves teasing him 'cause he gets so easily flustered every time (could it possibly get more or less steamy too 👉👈) thank you sm!

Hi, thanks for the request! I am going to combine it with this request as well:

Hi! I absolutely love your works, and the highlight of my day is reading them. I just wanted to request Eddie x Male reader who’s a taxidermist? I’d prefer it if it was fluff, but I’m perfectly fine with anything! =^_^=

This one is going to be a bit of a mix--some fluffy steam, some steamy fluff. To the person who asked for the taxidermist reader, thank you for your patience. I kept trying to find the right idea to make this come alive.

Eddie Munson x Male Reader. Please note: Eddie is 19 in this fic. Reader is 20.

Send me request here! Currently writing for Eddie Munson. I write for a variety of reader inserts (male, female, gender neutral, POC too).

The more details you had to your request, the better it is for me. EX: “What about some fluff for Eddie after he’s had a long day?”

Feel free to look through my masterlist here!

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Eddie knows the truth. Under the height and beneath the scowl that seems to have permanently etched your mouth into a pout, Eddie knows the real you. Other folks see it only in glimpses when they come into the shop. Death has a way for others that requires a kind of softness to be discussed. When people come in with pets they're not ready to let go, the glasses are pulled down from the top of your head, you round your shoulders, you take up less space and talk a bit more quietly to help the person through the conversation.

But when folks come in wanting prize kills or to quote, you turn the shoulders back square, you are cordial and polite. And everyone in town has a different story about you because of it. All of them are good, except a couple from your senior year where a fight or three found sucked you into the vortex. Not that you wanted to be in those fights. Not that you would get into other ones with the purpose of starting them. No one can really say anything bad about you in the way you interact with others.

But everyone says the same thing, He looks sort of scary, off putting but really he's nice beneath it all.

Perhaps it doesn't help that you stroll the town in leather jackets. Perhaps your profession doesn't help either. But in the end, it pays the bills and has led you to leading a fairly stable life. Save for the surprise root canal you had a year ago, which stretched things thin for a little bit.

Perhaps it also doesn't help that in the company you keep resides your boyfriend--Eddie.

Another puff of breath hits your neck. "Love, what's going on?" you asks, setting the tweezers to the side before you damage the eye you're working on.

"Nothing," Eddie returns, shaking his head. "Just watching."

"Can you watch from the side? Your breath is tickling me and I can't mess up this part."

"Sorry, sugar," Eddie kisses your cheek and then moves to the left of you, leaning gently onto the work bench.

You would've thought Eddie would be doing literally anything else on a Saturday morning. But just as you were turning the key to open the doors to the shop, you heard the blaring drums and wailing guitar paired with squealing tires that let you know your boyfriend was pulling in. As you turned to confirm the suspicion, Eddie was climbing out of the van. His eyes were a little puffy which let you know he woke much earlier than usual and had come here. You told me over the phone last night post Hellfire that you had a couple things you needed to finish up today when he proposed a day date. You were only mentioning that you'd be at the shop around 8:30 in the morning under the hopes that if you finished early enough you could catch him right as his day started to see if he still wanted to hang out.

But the late night conversation places you both here. Eddie leaning into the work bench, mindful that you need nothing to jostle you. Eddie notices your hands haven't moved back to resume your work and he smiles before looking up. "What's going on in that head of yours, big boy?"

The nickname makes your cheeks heat up as you release a laugh. "Shut up. Don't you have homework to do?"

You're a year older than Eddie, but knew of him in school and occasionally spoke to each other in the halls. It wasn't until you spotted Eddie's band at the Hideout on a Tuesday night that you two really talked and now, a year later, as placed you two in a comfortable relationship of eight months. There were four months where you were sure of your feelings where Eddie wasn't sure if you'd be weirded about by his need to repeat is senior year.

"No, I don't, actually." Eddie is smug as he says it.

You peer at him over the top of your glasses. His face hardens into the resolve. "Eddie."

"I did it. Earlier."

Your eyebrow raises in a silent question to his statement: did he really?

"I didn't want to have to be doing stupid homework while here. I just wanted to spend the day, fully uninterrupted with you." He adds the last part softly, hand coming up to trace your jaw. His gaze makes yours falter. Eddie can't help the laugh, watching the way you fold to the tender touch. "God, you're so easy."

"Oh fuck off," you spit, and you want it to hold so much more vile than it does. But it comes out in a whisper--meek, like you feel right now as Eddie's fingers run until he's cupping your jaw.

"Give me a kiss."

It's a soft demand that you're happy to obey and Eddie grins against your lips just as you pull away before speaking, "You can't tell me fuck off when you're the one that obeys so well."

"I do know how to completely detach and reattach an eye, I wouldn't exactly test me," you huff out. It's a weak threat.

"Hmm, something tells me you wouldn't ever actually do it. Now I'm going to stop distracting you so you can work, yeah?" Eddie pulls his hands away from your face, settling down again atop of the stool you'd brought over for him before you got started.

"Perhaps, that's what we should be doing," you laugh. "One more kiss though?"

"I can't say no to a pout like that," Eddie whines, taking in the sight of your weathered eyes behind the glasses and the pout. This kiss is short and sweet like the others, but the two of you linger. You know you want more. You suspect Eddie does too, but the way he gives in with another peck.

But there's work and you need to do it. So you turn your attention back to the buck head. Eddie's voice only penetrates the silence occasionally to ask questions. You're more than happy to answer them.

When the bell from the front desk rings, you push up from you're seated and slip out of the gloves that you've been wearing. Eddie swats at your ass as you pass and you hardly blink an eye at the action. "Hi, Mrs. Pugh," you greet.

The conversation is short to Eddie's ears and then the bells above the front doors chime again a few minutes later, you return, washing your hands in the sink before you slip into another pair of gloves. They're black and not the ones you usually had in the shipments. But Eddie bought you a box of black gloves just for shits and giggles once and now you continue the tradition.

It's only another hour of work for you before you call it a day. Saturdays were usually short days for you anyway, though more people stopped in during the afternoons, you tried not to work with the animals for too long on Saturdays preferring to give more space to the front--people making payments, dropping off, picking up. It was usually a steady stream and any attempts to do both would become overrun by the demands of customers in the front.

Eddie migrates with you, when you transition from the work in the back to manning the front desk. "So I was thinking for Christmas that maybe it might be a good idea for me to decorate the trailer. Wayne loves the holidays but because he works so much, never gets to the chance to do much."

You nod at the comment. "Let me guess, you don't know where to start do you?"

"Not in the slightest."

You were currently in the process of moving into your own place but it wouldn't most likely happen until early spring. Until then you were still with your parents and they'd become a little famous in town for having one of the best decorated houses.

"I'll help," you return, spinning to face Eddie.

From the outside, this might look like you crouching in on Eddie, given that you had him by about six inches and about twenty pounds. But Eddie and you both know the truth. He reaches for the wide silver buckle--a belt you wore religiously--and tugs you between his legs. "Thank you. We have some lights. Not sure where we can fit a Christmas tree."

"Don't worry about it," you return softly. "Leave it to me."

"Have I told you today that I utterly fucking adore you?"

You laugh a little, mostly an exhale through your nose. "Not yet."

"Well," Eddie stretches up, lips brushing over yours. "I utterly fucking adore you."

The sentiment is sealed with a kiss. His hands slip under the gray t-shirt, tracing the bumps of your abs. You settle deeper into Eddie, one hand slipping to his hip to tug him closer. You can hear the echoes of your own kissing, the smack of lips as they part. A hum travels up Eddie's throat and you swallow it down for him.

The moment is interrupted by the chime of the bells above the door. "You know, I should not walk in on you two making out as much as I do," Steve huffs.

You and Eddie are slow to pull apart. Eddie turns to face Steve first, his arms winding around your waist to keep you close. "You're just jealous."

"Whatever, Munson. Honestly, if my dad didn't ask me come here, I think I'd live a longer life," he teases, leaning into the counter. "How much more does he owe you by the way?"

You tap at Eddie's elbows to check the ledger and he pulls away from your body for you to work. You're sure it's paid off, but you've always learned to check before you speak. The harrington's usually paid on pick up all in full, but with the holidays approaching you know more and more people are paying in segments. You flip to the H's and go until you see Harrington. "You're paid in full as of last week."

Steve nods, pushing off the counter. "Thanks. You can resume now, make out in front of the very large windows. The whole town's watching." He knows the taunt won't stop the two of you in the slightest.

#eddie munson #eddie munson fic #eddie munson fanfic #eddie munson imagine #eddie munson blurb #eddie munson fluff #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson x male reader #h writes #stranger things

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poetictorment · 1 year

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Snufkin's face-up is getting a bit closer to being done. I added some light freckles because they are cute... I plan on trying to make a wig by hand. Unfortunately, the pants wouldn't bleach, so he's stuck with black pants until I either make some or buy a new pair. I also found a pair of boots and a scarf for him that I plan on ordering when I can. (Mainly after I try making a wig so if I can't manage making one, I can buy a cheap one.) The boots are a bit different from what I was wanting, but I can't seem to find a pair that looks like his boots without going over $20. (And I am poor, so $20 is the largest amount I'll spend on shoes for a doll, and it'll have to wait a while...)

I'm taking a bit longer to do my crafts lately since I have a very bad tooth that needs a root canal asap and that'll cost me $1200 out of pocket because I don't have dental insurance... Needless to say, I'm not sleeping much because of the pain. I'll be saving up the next few months doing the few odd jobs I can, so I can get to the dentist and get this fixed. But that also means the crafts will be slower on finishing, since my little bit of craft money will be set aside for my teeth instead. Then I'll get back to crafting more when I can afford craft supplies again.

Also, please note that this is not a BJD, he's just a cheap peg-joint doll with a BJD practice head that I ended up with. I 100% bought the body, just because I had the head already from a mix-up with my craft supplies order from last summer.

Second also, I'm working on more needle felt Moomin characters. (Still working on Joxter...) So what character would y'all like seeing next? I've done- Snufkin (though, he's still missing his face...), Moomin (lots of sleeping moomies...), Little My, Too-Ticky, The Groke, and Salome the Little Creep. I can do different versions of the characters as well, btw.

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blatantescapism · 10 months

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Cw: teeth, dental malpractice, vent post, don’t worry I have a competent team now

I’ve been going in to the dental school almost every week for more than a year now, getting major work done on about two-thirds of my teeth.

Thanks to the fun combo of weird recessive genes and literal malpractice, my teeth are messed up in interesting and expensive ways.

On the outside, they look fairly normal.

My hobby is watching the students quietly freak out when they see the X-rays.

There’s a committee of professors arguing about the situation with my lateral incisors. Still no agreement, because all options are bad. I was given incredibly botched dental implants when I was too young, and now there’s no obvious way to salvage the upper jaw without a risk of breaching through to the nasal cavity.

While they argue that over, we’ve been slowly working across my lower jaw.

Today was a consultation regarding the botched molar root canal. Because I’ve had dental malpractice on four completely separate occasions.

The endodontist started the visit by being like “Best practice is usually to save the tooth rather than extraction. We will take images and make a plan.”

and I was like, okay, so, FYI, Lidocaine doesn’t work normally on me, when the Third Malpractice Dude originally did this root canal he hit the maximum safe dose only halfway through and then tried to get through the next forty minutes of literally shredding my nerve ends with zero painkiller, and then he gave up and had me come back for a second session, and the same thing happened again, so please don’t do that to me a third time?

She was like ooookay, noted.

I was like so the other thing that happened was a tool broke off inside one of the roots, and the guy couldn’t figure out how to remove it, so he left it in there as packing material? I guess he was getting frustrated with my uncontrollable sobbing and just wanted to be done with that root. That must be how the infection got pushed down to where it’s currently eating at the bone, haha. Anyway that bit of metal is still stuck in there, plus he used another metal rod in the packing?

She was like that’s a complication, but I am an esteemed specialist in repairing root canals, and in the standard xray it looks reasonable.

I was like okay and also I’ve been told that my roots are in a really weird shape, and very close to the major nerve?

She was like well, the 3D images have almost finished compiling, we shall assess all of these factors together and decide.

The 3D images loaded.

We looked at the coronal view.

I was like “Wow. Obviously, NO.”

She was like “Let me help you schedule with Extraction. I have GOT to show this to the attending physician. It was lovely meeting you!”

#dentist tw #dentist cw #dentist #teeth tw #teeth cw #dental malpractice #medical malpractice #dentistry #teeth #tw teeth #tw dentist #dental #health rant

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perculiar · 10 months

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Very brave of me to take half a meth med when my tummy has been wrecked for 2 months (i need to do work)

I was thinking about my body and why it’s going thru it internally more than usual and

January: STI checks and course of PEP from being raped in December; mental health fucking dive - general shame, self-blame, isolation

Feb: managed to come out of the haze a little to have my CSA trauma flare the fuck up alongside OCD meaning hypersexuality begins in an incredibly overwhelming confusing way; return to place of SA for large blackwork tattoo (with incredibly sensitive skin)

March: started T on the 1st; more sexual health blood tests (syphilis + HIV checks); flying to Spain to take care of a dear friend, then launched into the worst 2 month acting job I’ve had

April: emergency dentist bc jaw n tooth pain meant I couldn’t eat or breathe and no pain meds + wine combo were touching it, I was almost on the edge of passing out n had to take a week out to have the rest days I was told I could have but was never given; food issues flared up; started vaping also which hurts my tummy; second inter-muscular dose of T administered by a friend after googling; ADHD psychosocial needs assessment; break up with post-assault counsellor bc she makes me feel awful and doesn’t understand dissociation is also an emotional reaction.

May: push to finish this job after unionising with the cast and crew - can barely take care of myself and therapist breaks usual neutrality to tell me they’re really concerned that this job is traumatising me in a way reminiscent of being stuck in domestic abuse childhood situations (it was and the mantra was “the only way out is through” lol); lost about £800 to ongoing dental needs to be decided it was grinding and I needed a specialist splint 👌🏽; finally finish the worst job of my life to immediately get sick for a week

June: finish off first root canal (still hurts to use left side of mouth); can’t eat and experience IBS-like symptoms and bloating in a big way for the first time; start round of antibiotics; mental health in York nosedives and I start feeling trapped and panicked; find and sign for new Manchester flat despite being over budget; more blood tests; podiatry appointment; generally quite ill and having to miss birthdays and events

July: MOVE TO MANCHESTER 🥳; start second root canal with round of stronger antibiotics that fuuuck up my mouth bc turns out I have an infection in the bone; third T injection; domestic violence support worker meeting (Chloe IDAS); second root canal; doctors about IBS = turns out to be extremely swollen stomach lining, possibly bc of ibuprofen use

Now here we are in

August: tummy getting better; mouth less fucked; need to stop vaping; felt like i dislocated my shoulder but after 3 very high pain days the hot osteopath helped ease it; need to call drs + find out where the blood test is + do the anonymous intelligence against the guy (NHS dr) who raped me

So that’s. Health stuff, mostly. Writing it out helped me see that I’m not actually just fucken,, wasting my time constantly. I can take more time for rest and recovery even. Jfc

#personal #rape mention #tw rape

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scooplery · 1 year

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luv you for talking about your scary tooth situation!! i had to get a big broken molar removed at the age of 28 and the shame of it sucked so hard, took me Too Long to get the courage to get it seen to. unpleasant all around but let me tell you: feels SO good to not have a messed up tooth in your mouth once the healing finishes/you get used to the hole!! it's been a few years but im still like :D every time i remember not being in pain any more.

very proud of you! i hope you enjoy the hole in your jaw as much as i enjoy mine!

this is going to sound INSANE like literally truly batshit out of touch with reality crazy, i promise I'm taking my antipsychotics, bear with me here, but!

i had a kind of. uh, vision? YEARS ago, about losing this tooth, even before it started actually causing me issues. and so i put off getting a root canal bc i Knew that there would be no point, that i was going to lose the tooth anyways. i dreamed about trauma to this tooth for years and years, and was both terrified and ashamed about the inevitability of losing it. i put off getting care for it bc it never felt like the right time. i was waiting for Something to tell me when it was ready to finally come out. Sunday night i heard whatever message i needed to hear, the prophecy came true or whatever, so i went and got it pulled. finally ready. and i feel better!!!!! no longer haunted by the promise of an empty socket.

i appreciate you anon, I'm so glad you're not in pain anymore! it takes a certain kind of elusive power to take your health seriously. it's almost like saying "hey you know what, i think I'm gonna keep living!" which is. hard. but i think i'm there.

#tooth saga #now you guys know i'm Real Crazy

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popculturebuffet · 1 year

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Owl House Reviews: For the Future: The Rise of Terrance

Hello all you happy witches! We're in the middle now, we're in the middle of the ride but every thing everything will be just fine but everything everything will be all right. But for now we're into my look at our middle part which like some middle parts isn't as good as the start or the finish but damn if it still wasn't great. Follow me undre the cut for a review ith full spoilers. And if your feeling jaunty I cooked up a playlist for the episode if you want to put that in your earbox while I go on and on about this episode. Let's begin.

Luz and Camilla: To Be Understood

As I figured, Luz's arc wasn't quite done yet, as while the pep talk helped enough to get her through the portal, she's still fully commited to going home in her guilt. Camilla tries her best to convince her but being on top of a giant corpse where people eat rats (you have to remove the inner heads), fly on brooms and behind every lampost is a new friend is a hard adjustment. It's not helping but you can't blame her: even Luz, as much as she wholly embraced the place, had a lot of adjusting to do. She's trying.

We also see lots of nice momming from Camilla as she tries to help everyone and does try to get Luz's attention it's just dealing with puppetgeddon, unruly teens and kiki

Means there isn't much time for it, but it's nicely there the whole episode: Luz pulls away from Amity's attempts at comfort as she likely feels guilty she's leaving but the rest of her guilt is too strong to stop. It's there. IT's hard to once again see Luz so drained of everything she loved. It makes it that much more cathartic when Camilla, after trying all episode finally DOES get a moment to get Luz to stop and listen.. even if Kiki is right on top of them

The following speech is .. beautiful and hilaroius as Camilla bluntly points out Luz can't keep beating herself up because of one mistkae. She's made mistkaes; having a root canal before her wedding, having road rage at luz's principal, and the one that deserves it's own spinoff selling energy drinks for a pyramid scheme for three years. Which luz is aware of. I.. I need to know everything about this. But the bigger one..was not standing up for Luz, was being so afraid of Luz having the hard time being a nerd she did as a teenager, that she didn't accept her for the werido she was. The show once again takes Camilla's less than stellar pilot characterization and spins it beautifully, making it Camilla's greatest mistkae and the thing that's apology finally gets Luz to realize what she wanted, somethign I heartbrekaingly understnad having been a neurdivergent awkawrd teenager myself: to be understood. It's the harest thing in the world to get.. to just have someone… try to understand you, to really get you. It's..frustrating as it can often feel like even the most well meaning person doesn't get you and that feeling of your parent really knowing you.. is one ot treasure.

Thus Luz unlocks her power.. which is both terrifying as it should be for her friends.. and glorious.. and also leads to this lil lady

ALL HAIL. I seriously have to look at that picture at least once a day. Look at her. She's perfect. As is Camilla cuddling with all her babies. Luz is finally herself again.. and just in time for a god's temper tantrum. But first, TERRANCE

Terrance: The Man? The Myth The Legend

Am I really dedicating an entire section to this presumibly one off blob on a light post?

Look I'm a man of many werid taste but I love a creature with a bunch of eyes, I love blobs, so an eye blob just sitting there int he middle of a creeply silent street and only just kind of .. blinking at camilla confused, possibly okay with what she just did, had me spining. We need 30 seasons of terrance. I think that's his work lampost and at the end of the day he puts on a little fedora, pulls out a briefcase and slithers home to another lampost just across from there. Has he been doing this since the titan first formed him? Probably. Does he have a family? Possibly. I stil lneed to work on my pitch to disney. The point is expect the year of terrance baby and feel free to hit me with yoru ideas.

The Collector and the King: Knowing Me Knowing You

So now we're actually back on the isle we found out what was going on, as my field reporter checked in

It's essentially been the COllector playing mario and luigi with king every day using terra as the boss until she finally snapped today and got puppeted. Everyone's a puppet now, including Willow's dads!

As you can probably guess being the plaything of a mad god hasn't been easy for King, whose job has mostly been "hanging out, down the street, same old thing we did last week".. only same old thing is "Keep the collector from doing far worse the best he can and hope they can find a way out of this". On the bright side Odalia has also been stuck in her own personal hell: having to actually be a parent while having on actual power while the collector apparently reguarlly taunts her with the puppets to remind her what happens if she keeps pushing him. Not even Belos wants to bodyjack her, she's fallen that low and I love everything about this.

The Collector himself though is as intresting as I found him last time. I also got a real sense of

Yes he's still a fairly terrifying little chlid making living persons into his playthings and he does need to be stopped.. but like me the show sees not just the terrifying power he wields.. but the child wielding them. He's like Anthony Belmont of It's A Good Life if the kid still had a possible chance to be taught empathy. Said vindcation also comes from @jess-the-vampire's biggest sticking point: The genocide. Even I coudln't really defend that but I figured it was more complicated or if he had then he'd be properly punished.

Turns out he likely didn't participate as the Collectors.. .WERE AN ENTIRE SPECIES. They were also deeply terrifying monsters, amazzing and perserving thigns much like this puppets.. and if a world objected well they got burned to the bone for their troubles. So the collector we saw do in the owl beast was likely not the one we know, not that it helped the creature rage against him less.. and the Titans clearly did not take them doing this as well, leading to their extinction but the collectors mostly going out. It also raises the question did King's dad seal the collector we know because they were that dangerous.. or because of that plus he didn't want to murder a child. Did he seal king as a counterballance? to protect him from the genocide? There's a lot of answers we don't have: the only promising one is King's magic CAN cancel out the collectors, so there is hope.

What we do know now is Eda is KINDA safe. The most danger is , as tended to be the case before all this started, herself as she can't resist triggering the security puppets to see Rahne again.

Also the design for the collectorfied puppets is both mildly unsettling and aweosme, especially Rahne who gets a spiffy haircut and new outfit…. proably for obvious plot reasons but still it's clear they put effort into every puppet not just his and it must've taken a LOT of time to design all these. It was entirley worth it and even as we approach the end I marvel at this series care and craft.

Lily is likewise helping and while her potions taste awful, the fact is she can make them from scratch, so their curses aren't an issue. WHat is an issue is both clearly plan to seal or kill the collector… and King.. dosen't want to do that.

And the reason is simple: King empathizes; Both are the last of their kind, both have tremendous power, and King… wasn't so diffrent. He also used to lack empathy, and what he had was thanks to having a strong loving mother to help raise him. Had king had what the collector has, he might never of gotten Eda to raise him the way she has and instead bullied her into submission the way the collector has. All the collector has had for parents is a race of genocidal entitled assholes, and a singular genocidal entitled racist asshole what manipulated him into working with him for centuries. He has no real sense of what's really right or wrong or even how fragile the beings he's abusing are. It dosen't remotely make what he's doing okay, he needs to stop and fix what he's done, but King can empathize with what he is. He needs to be talked down and talked into fixing what he did. It dosen't mean he shouldn't be punished, but it does mean simply locking a child away again wont' solve anything and may just leave it open for another oportnistic asshole to manipulate him.

It's really a message the show has slowly been building to: That kindness and empathy.. are more important than hate. That undrestanding each other is the most important thing at all. We can be better and are better than we think. Though it also has the hard truth to this: Some people can't change, won't change, and can't be reasoned with, and are just consumed by their hatred, bigotry and general stupidity. You all know wher ei'm going with

Belos: All My Sins Be Remembered

Belos thankfully did not have a great time for the first half of the episode for once, having to crawl with his legs giving out, and being haunted by appirtions, real or imagined, of his brother and all the golden guards he murdered. Chillingly and fittingly they dont' speak: they just stare at him, Caleb in paticualr having a bloody knife above him firmly confirming what we knew… and with belos weakly justifying it as "trying to save your soul". But Caleb says nothing, simply judging him silently, knowing that in his heart Belos knows what he did was wrong but can never admit it and thus never be free… as it should be.

Sadly.. Belos dosen't die, though it fits as he's the real big bad here: the collector is the main THREAT.. but as I said he's a stupid star children. The person who manipulated him, the person who caused all of this, the person who required FREEING him in the first place… is the one who should be the last threat our heroes face and being belos he falls back on the one tool he has: manipulating children. Using the Rahne puppet, he simply gaslights the poor kid again , making him think his powers made the puppet alive and then turning him against Luz and King. We do get the cliche only hearing part of it thing with collector listneing in on king but not hearing king wanting to talk.., but it works here: King is the only friend the Collector's ever had and this betryal would hurt deep.. witht he kid not understnading that of course King would want the rest of his family.. but it dosen't mean he dosen't care about the kid. Once again Belos has his finger on the triger and it's going to take a miracle to stop him… but he's loosing. That said WHY DID HE HAVE TO PICK RAHNE WHY WHY. DONT' LET THEM DIE FOR THE LOVE OF TITAN DON'T LET HIM D…

Huntlow (Featuring Gus): We won? We won WE WON!

We got a nice chunk of Willow Focus this episode, and it's nice she got some again before the series ran out. This one focuses on her tendency to be a pillar for her friends, and while it's an admirable trait.. you have to take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone else. It seems kind of obvious but between this, steven universe, encanto and countless other shows it's a common theme if one that bears repeating, and one even I struggle to take to heart at times against my better judgement. It's well done as we can see the pressure build, and Camilla, TRIES to help.. it's just the focus on you know, canceling the apocalypse means no one really noticies till willow puts everyone in plant jail. She's so focused on fixing Hunter's problems she can't see her own. Hunter isn't even to blame: It's understandable he's in a bad place emotoinally after belos and while his only drive right now is kick his green ass… he's not actulaly proceesing it. It's understandable she want sto help her sorta boyfriend not melt down but it's sad because you can tell things aren't oging to end well

The actual resolution is also sweet: Hunter finally opens up and admits he needs them both he's just not good with this sort of thing, and Gus gets willow to admit that sure she's a pillar to lean on but she needs people too. As a result.. the episode almost ends with hunter and willow holding hands, blushign adn willow basically confessing in short

Granted the Anti's are still a swarming but like.. shit's cannon now. It clearly was before but ther'es now mor ethan enough evidence. And look i'm not bragging becaus e"my ship's better than yours", ships are ships and unless their incest, pedophila or actively abusive, any ship is fine. But don't be a dick, and for the love of god don't be a biophobic asshole. Hunter being with willow dosen't mean he can't be into men if you want just as Luz being with a woman dosent' mean she's not attracted to men.. it's just who their with. It's what being bisexual means and I shoudln't HAVE to bring this up.. but I do because the biphobia in the fandom is obnoxious. YOu guys shoudl know better. Fucking stop.

A very well done arc. Now for

I Think Kiki Should Leave

So let's get this out of the way: Kiki should not be in this episode. She shoudln't. I get needing an action set piece to appease the mighty overlords who canceled the show in the first place, because Disney rarely makes sense. And I get it being a showcase for Luz's wand.. but my reaction to her coming back was the same as Luz's. It worked in season 2 both due to her constant humilations and her very personal rivlary with hunter, and her sad end, finding out her boss never cared about her and getting even was great. The problem is while she COULD be vital to this episode, as she did unleash the collector.. in practice she's just.. trying ot be belos. She has no ambition and thus there's no real threat. That might've been the intent but like.. when the character resolutions are so much more intresting and never really REQUIRED her to be…

Boshca by contrast.. was an unexpected elight, as finding out she's hung up on amity, and ruled the school was neat. And like.. if you wanted an ambointon for the boss just hav eboscha find one. It's not like Alador didn't make a LOT. I know Kiki's is a special model that's super powerful but like… Boscha is more intresting. Of course she'd put her own selfish desires over things, of course she'd have ptsd and whlie her face turn was suprising it was neat. Kiki by contrast does nothing we haven't seen and thus feels like sh'es just kinda there.

Other stuff:

Matt was amazing, from finding out his and Steve's last names are tholomule, to everyone's reactions to "Mantholmule": Camilla find sit adorably hilarious, Luz, Willow and Hunter are mortified and Amity and Gus are just done with this. I also love the super rad bump statue.

We also have Eldric, who looses every bit last shred of cool he had imitating the bandage guy from spongebob, and cheerfully describing how the well he fell down had rocks in it> I mean I love this new dork version of my newly adopted son.

So that about does it. This was an excellent episode and i'm sorry this review is so fucking late getting out. This week.. was a long mental struggle. Thanks for reading and i'll see you for the finale in apparently april!

#for the future #the owl house #owl house spoilers #disney channel #disney #huntlow

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o2studies · 4 months

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༻`` 18 Jan 24 — Thursday

100 days of productivity 18/100

Had my very first work experience today at a dentist's and I did not want to leave even tho my back was practically breaking. I absolutely loved it! Yes I really almost passed out not 30mins of me being there but I didn't think others' blood would have that effect on me, still I'd love to come back. It was really interesting too, got to see how the cleanings done, an extraction, a few x-rays, 1st stage of a root canal! Plus the dentist and nurse I was shadowing were so so lovely and funny and great. They answered all my questions, sometimes talked me through and explained the procedures, encounters with patients, tools, uni application tips. It was truly an amazing experince.

Thing is that I haven't considered dentistry before and didn't think it would have appealed to me as much so I didn't take biology and I'd need it if I didn't want to study abroad and for an extra year (I really don't). I'll see what I can do and email the university if an AS could be accepted.

Anyone else been in this situation before? Realising you should've gone down a different path? (and listened to your parents when they were suggesting it at the start of the school year...) (help ;-;)

༻`` 19 Jan 24 — Friday

100 days of productivity 19/100

Studied a bit, finished my chemistry notes and have to start one's for physics. Will do its and maths' homework tomorrow. I started planning out a study timetable and it's both stressing me out and calming me. I have so much time but not enough. Either way I've really got to put more hours into this and people aren't joking when they say to start revising as soon as you start school, especially at A Levels.

Tomorrow:

Study chemistry 1.1-1.3

Study physics 1.1 + 2.1 table

Do a full past paper

work on art

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roseunspindle · 7 months

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What I Read in October 2023

I've tried reading this a few times and have never been in the mood, then boom, this time I loved it! ^_^' (because I needed another fandom and another super long manga series...)

This was an interesting start, I look forward to the next volume!

I'm fine and don't find these volumes to be stressfull at all.

Listened to this after finding out about needing a root canal. This might be my favorite Jane Austen

And I finished (finally) Deadhouse Gates! That was a journey, I was emotionally exhausted by the end. I must say this was a much stronger book than Garden's of the Moon

the Kaiba brothers and immediately going for "murder" as the answer

Really liking this still

after deadhouse gates I decided to give my poor brain and heart a break and read some (very) small books. ^_^

Attempting to use the word "fag" as many times as possible in a not-gay way. Also Vincent Phantomhive sighting, Ciel getting a random marriage proposal, Lizzy and Edward being jealous for different reasons.

hey, part of the star wars universe actually looking at slavery...

This is such a good series

not sure what story precisely this was attempting to tell tbh

this one gets into some of the mor emotional things, but also keeps lots of fun shenanigans going on.

Took more care reading this volume this time and had a lot more fun.

Another de-stress listening choice

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Personal rant, CW for talks of blood and medical stuff

The past 5 days have really been so much for me and it... seriously doesn't feel like only 5 days at all with how much has gone on

On Wednesday evening I got home from work feeling extremely weak after telling my QPP repeatedly that I don't feel good, and after I was no longer able to hold my head up or open my eyes without extreme effort my roommate took me to the emergency room where we waited 9ish hours for me to even be taken to a bed and then one or two more to be seen

When they did get there, they said they needed to take blood, give me an IV, do chest x-rays, and a few other tests (I think they tested me for a stroke too) because clearly a lot was wrong

The nurse tried to put the IV in my left arm and then my hand, failing both times because she couldn't find a vein. She then called over a second nurse, who said since I had already been poked twice, she wasn't going to poke me unless she was sure she had one

She left without poking me.

She called over a doctor to come with a whole ass ultrasound setup to use that to find a vein, and they only found a suitable one in my upper right arm, meaning I had to hold it up at an uncomfortable angle the entire time and because of where it was, it also hurt the entire time (only a little, but still)

They also interrupted it in the middle to take more blood ("well that can't be good")

Also, while they were putting the IV in, I remember them struggling to reach the vein, and the pain from them wiggling it around trying to reach my difficult ass vein, and then hearing "how attached are you to this sweatshirt?"

I had... bled all over it (fortunately they stopped the bleeding pretty fast, very different from my last experience with an IV where I nearly bled out on the hospital floor)

Anyway, after wanting to cry from how uncomfortable the whole experience was but eventually managing to sleep through the last half hour of it, they told me about my bloodwork, and a lot is wrong! Some of the things that have always been wrong with me, and some new things, like low thyroid and low potassium, low sodium etc

They scheduled me for a follow-up appointment in a week and I leave, it is now Thursday morning

I picked up the meds they prescribed me and got home around noon, exhausted from not having slept all night, and napped

Only to wake up to a terrible toothache out nowhere, that at its worst was so bad I couldn't lift a finger

I ran to the dentist but they were closing by the time I got there and told me to come back the next morning

I did, and they said I need an emergency root canal, but that it would be hard to find any endodontists who take my insurance, which... yeah, it proved to be impossible

So now, today, I'm scheduled for the root canal, and I have to pay for the whole $1500 out of pocket

Which I haven't reached, but... I'll have to see what I can manage now

Also, through all of this, my workplace is telling me it's "unacceptable" not to show up to work because they're short-staffed. As if I wasn't stuck in the fucking hospital. I worried about getting fired, because I need that money to pay for the fucking root canal and I hadn't even received my first paycheck, so I went in to work yesterday, but wasn't able to finish a full day of work because I felt like Shit

They still told me they need a doctor's note specifically stating that I can't work for x number of days (even though I gave them my emergency room discharge papers to prove I was unwell) before they could believe that I was actually not feeling well enough to work

So I guess I'm going to ask the fucking endodontist for one

And this cuts into my funds for my trip to take the JLPT and some other things in June, which I also really need so I can get a better job. It is absolutely necessary that I take this trip, but I'll no longer have the money for it yet, and travel costs only go up as you get closer to the date of, so lol.

Anyway. It has not even been 5 full days since I first went to the ER. I need a fucking break.

#anposting #/rant

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garden-if · 7 months

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thank you to people who are still supporting me even while I'm quiet! My root canals were a very massive success and I'm all caught up on bills and what not, so I should have plenty of time to work on things~! The actual writing of the prologue is about halfway finished, then will come implementation. You get a little taste of everyone in the prologue, so don't worry about missing out~!

#preaching

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musicandwordsandheart · 10 months

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Carry On

This is in no way going to be a unique post. There have been hundreds, probably thousands, of others just like it. All the same, I'm going to add mine. Because like all those thousands of others, this show means something to me.

It took me just over a decade to finish the entire series. That doesn't seem like long when talking about a TV show that ran for 15 seasons, but I finished the first 8 seasons in a single summer.

That summer. I can't hear Kansas or any of the show's other cues without immediately being transported back there, to that little post-college apartment in Vegas. Being the only one in a 4 person place because all the others had finished their student teaching and left. I stayed behind, deciding to finish out the semester at the school I would be taking over that fall, getting my last bit of training in, stepping into my big-girl shoes.

So I was alone. Just recently had my first root canal, which meant I was still addicted to the "chocolate-covered strawberry" shake I found at the nearest Sonic. I had no plans that night. I made a pot of instant flavored rice and took it, my shake, and my laptop to my room; being in the living room of an empty and un-lived in apartment wasn't appealing anymore. I remember starting with most of the lights off, all except my beat-up little Target bedside lamp. I'd heard about this show for ages, wasn't ever sure it was for me, but decided I'd try it that night. Why not?

Within minutes, I had every light in the entire apartment blazing. Door locks were triple-checked, rice abandoned, and I was hooked.

What happened next was the final and real transition from college to adult-life. I went home for the summer and, in between prepping for my new challenge ahead, I squirreled away in my parents' cool basement, bingeing this show as a way to calm my (then undiagnosed) anxiety. I stayed up too light, sobbing into the night by myself over Sam's (first) death. Then Dean's. Then the perfection that is Season 5. Then everything that followed. At some point that summer I began investing in the DVD sets, some scrounged from eBay, some purchased straight off Walmart shelves or Amazon. I finished season 8 with 2 weeks to go before I made the big move--2 months before the 9th season would premiere.

In my new life, I DVR'd every episode, had Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts full of SPN fandom. I went to a convention. I loved it so, so much.

But life is tricky. I watched religiously until halfway through season 13, when things became unmanageable and I was pulled too far under in my battle with anxiety. I pressed pause for a bit. I got my mental health and my life together, I found other things that I loved so much. And then I moved across the world.

Couldn't access the final 2 seasons while they were airing live, and sometimes the VPN wouldn't even let me tune in to catch up on Netflix, so I was sort of forced to let it go.

Last year, I started again, back home for another summer in that same house. I started from the beginning. This time, I made it through the first 12 seasons before moving back, before relying on a VPN once again.

By now, I knew the ending. I had seen the spoilers, the controversy. I had seen the real-life stuff between actors, been disappointed by certain choices, baffled by others. I had been out of the diehard fandom for years now. I had also, like all of us, lived through a global pandemic. I knew so many were disappointed with how this show had gone out. Still, in the back of my mind, I knew I needed to finish.

And today, finally, thanks to a typhoon-forced day off, I have.

For me, I get the complaints. Well, not so much the complaints, but the sense of... 아깝다. 아쉽다. What a shame. It's a shame that a show like this, that means so much to so many people, had to go out with a Covid-induced whimper, not the bang it deserved.

But I still cried. I still felt that sense of loss. This show....it means so much to me. It got me through some tough times. It walked with me through the transition to adulthood. It was my everything for so long.

Although...it's been freeing in a way. Knowing I have finished, seen it through to the end. Now, whenever I'm feeling that urge (it should be no surprise that it usually hits me every summer, when days start getting hot and I crave chocolate-strawberry shakes) I can start wherever I want. Stop in on all my favorites, or binge it all. It's always gonna be there, just like it always was.

It may have taken me a decade, but I'm so glad this show exists.

#SPN #Supernatural #Winchester Bros #brotherly love #sam winchester #dean winchester #season 1 #season 15 #carry on #carry on my wayward son #Kansas #love

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