#california means home

[front-facing-pokemon]

#mega gallade #didn't forget! i'm sure i'm gonna get asks about this one but last time i got asks about a mega (mega lucario) it happened while i was #in class and i couldn't update it until i got home. i shoved that one in the queue with mere MINUTES to spare‚ i swear #but this one i remembered. because of how many of you reminded me about mega lucario yesterday. which yes that was yesterday #as of me queuing this up. this must always be confusing when i reference dates in the tags 'cause you see this shit like two weeks later bu #i mean. y'know #i like to have a lot in the queue for instances like july. when i went to california and couldn't queue any up for a few days #a nice backlog. a safety net‚ if you will

[asydicsydney]

I'M THINKING SO HARD RIGHT NOW

The intense music, the mostly guest va'd episode even though they aren't in the description, Dylan Marron, a fucking last name?, a middle name?, marine biology major?, HE'S FROM CALIFORNIA?

For real though, I love this episode. I had no expectations and grand whims and they knocked it out of the fucking park. The build up, explaining everything away, becoming this sterilized, normal, shell of a town. It felt like a real dramatic story podcast. And then she's killed with a falling cow. It's perfect, it's return to form, it's Night Vale.

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #wtnv spoilers #wtnv 230 #carlos dave robles #miss the funny joke but someone noted how robles means oak so oak and palm ok they're cute #middle name is eugh though but aren't all middle names? #genuinely upset he's from California though #you didn't go anywhere! you left home and went to your backyard! #the fucking punked us with the (old friend) crap though #BUT OMG HE'S GOING BACK TO THE DOW HOLY SHIT #all hail the glow cloud

[theflowerofthecommonwealth]

Jasmine: (Walks into Acadia on her own after a long day. She still hasn’t uttered at word out loud to anyone other than Nick, Kasumi, or Jules)

DiMA: (Stands from his chair to greet the teen) “Hello there, Jasmine! I hear you and Nick have had quite an adventure here on the Island.”

Jasmine: (Stops and slowly blinks at her new uncle, still very wary of him because of what he’s done to Jules who was her only friend at Acadia)

DiMA: (Smiles warmly and approaches) “Is there anything you want to know about the Island and its inhabitants? I have had my own fair share of adventures, I could recount a few to you if that’s something you’d like.”

Jasmine: (Blinks some more, then rubs her eyes) “Desculpe me.” (Yawns sleepily as she stretches out) “Estoy muy cansada porque anoche yo no dormí.”

DiMA: (Rubs his chin) “Hrm, that’s a foreign language that I am not familiar with. Though, so far there hadn't been much need for any other language other than English.”

Jasmine: (Straightens up then shakes her head) “No entiendo, señor.” (Makes a motion with her hand) “Más despacio, por favor.”

DiMA: “I think I have a better idea.” (Stares off for a few seconds) “………” (Starts sizzling like an old overworked computer as he installs Google Translate)

Jasmine: (Under her breath) “Oh fuck….”

Faraday: (Comes running in) “NOOOOOO! He can’t run a translator anymore! He’s too old and fragile!”

Chase: (Also comes flying in) “Get him to stop!”

Faraday: (Rushes over to a terminal) “I’m trying!”

Jasmine: (Steps back and tilts her head at the two) “No entiendo qué es lo que quieres.”

Chase: (Sternly) “Stop that! Stop talking!”

Jasmine: (Folds her hands and smiles innocently and politely) “Padrón señorita, yo no hablo inglés.”

Faraday: (Swears and grumbles like he’s a crazy person on drugs)

DiMA: (Sizzling and steaming to the point you could cook an egg on him)

Jasmine: (Motions to DiMA) “¿Está bien?”

Faraday: (Desperately mashing buttons) “VALENTINE! PLEASE COME GET BABY VALENTINE BEFORE SHE BLOWS UP THE WHOLE DAMN OBSERVATORY!!” (Screams at the terminal as it crashes and reboots)

Jasmine: (Crosses her arms) “Usted es un hombre muy estresado. ¿Estás bien? ¡Necesitas ayuda para los locos!”

Faraday: (Smacks the terminal multiple times as he yells over his shoulder) “I DO NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD YOU ARE SAYING!!!”

Jasmine: (Mumbling to herself) “El gringo es un loco hombre y estúpido.” (Thinks it obvious she was joking from the start, they are all just too dense to notice)

Chase: “WE TOLD YOU TO SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!”

Jasmine: “Ustedes cállense la boca!!!” (Throws up her hands) “¡No estoy haciendo nada!” (Jabs a finger at DiMA) “¡Es su culpa!” (She didn’t tell the synth to download a translator, just to talk more slowly)

Nick: (Appears from the stairway) “Alright missy, that’s enough outta you for one day.” (Snatches his daughter’s hand and starts dragging her away)

Faraday: (Squawking like a distressed and disturbed parrot as he shakes and bangs the terminal)

Jasmine: (Follows along without any complaints) “Papá, tú familia está MUY loca. ¿Por qué es eso?”

Nick: (Tired Dad sigh) “Let’s just get you to bed before ya blow your uncles fuse too….”

#I apologize for my pocha Spanish. I mean- I speak Spanish better than the others but not rapid fire Spanish. #I talk like a first grader when I do the Spanish. I can roll my R’s perfectly though and only have a slight accent. #Although I think I did pretty good here. Cross you’re fingers and pray I get better lol #Back to what’s important. Jasmine does speak fluent Spanish thanks to her adoptive mother and close friends. #She’s probably do great in New Vegas and California. I want her to meet Raul #And here she’s incredibly pissed about what had happened to Jules as it hit too close to home. #Since Jas is not allowed to maul them she has to get her licks in with other methods. #Nick would’ve found it funny if she didn’t take it too far so now he has to pretend to be disappointed in his daughter. #He probably had little to no clue she knew Spanish. He’s just chalking this on the long list of hidden talents she has. #fallout #fo4 #fallout 4 #fallout original character #fallout oc #nick valentine #faraday fallout 4 #dima #dima fallout 4 #chase fallout 4

[rotationalsymmetry]

Apparently whether planting milkweed helps the butterflies is More Complicated than it seems, based on variables like where exactly you live and what type of milkweed it is.

On the bright side, I am being pointed in the direction of organizations I very much wanted to know about, like the California Native Plant Society and the Xerces Society (which is about insect/invertebrate conservation.)

Learning things is good, right?

#even if what I want right now is a quick answer to 'did I just waste three bucks on a seed packet' #and 'if I didn't is it too early to plant them' second one is almost certainly yes #but california is weird winter is our big growing season because of the rain #so ??? #I mean it's not the big growing season for agriculture or home veggie gardening #but it is the time when the hills are green

[permanentreverie]

I swear the thing that's finally gonna convince me to delete Instagram is all of the Americans whining about the smoke and 'blaming Canada'

#disclaimer I know it's mostly a joke and yes having that kind of air quality SUCKS. #but Americans try not to make everything about you challenge. #'blame the Canadians' 'wtf Canada' 'wow thanks a lot now we're back to masks' first of all fuck you #people are losing their homes and everything to this. imagine living near it. #also. just saying. like two weeks ago my province was exactly like NY with the air quality. and no one was being super dramatic about it. #I mean I saw a little bit of reels for it but not to this extent #idk why but all of the americans I see complaining about it are just really pissing me off. #'blame Canada' wtf are we supposed to do!? #'it's cause of canadas climate change' ok 💀 1) literally forest fires happen every year #MAINLY because of dry grass (not rainy season) and people who throw cigarette butts out the window #2) says america!? since when has California NOT been on fire because of those stupid gender reveal parties #3) says america who is one of the main contributors of the whole climate change business #anyways tldr I'm just really pissed off at every single reel I see of Americans talking about the wildfires

[dionysus-complex]

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#we're now 3 weeks into our strike and i get the feeling things are just beginning #and it has me thinking very seriously about my future in this field and the academy as a whole #like to be clear i fully intend to finish this program if i can and i still want my phd #but this university system has effectively told tens of thousands of us to go fuck ourselves and that we're not worth a living wage #and that's not something that can ever be taken back. i will always feel a deep sense of bitterness toward this institution after this #i will never feel proud to have a degree from this institution in any sense except as a reflection of my own labor and research #and i'm lucky in that my department has been fairly good about standing in solidarity with us. but if i feel like this now #what does it mean months from now? or years from now? and how can i get a degree and go back into the same exploitative system? #i don't want to leave i've given this place so much of my time and labor and taught so many wonderful students and california is my home now #but fuck man. i didn't expect the disgust i feel with my institution to hit this personally. #thoughts from a grad student on strike

[mooseyspooky]

There it fucking is! Oh my god I have been trying to find a picture of his Angie tattoo for AGES. It's on the back of his right arm, above his elbow! I can't find a clear picture of it to save my life, but I freaking knew it was on his arm somewhere. Ah!!!!

#Okay so let me tag this for myself #Angie tattoo #Angie #Now then let us discuss him getting his Angie tattoo on his arm and his Extremely Suspicious Swallow tattoo on his neck #What does it mean??? #Does he see his relationship with Moz symbolically “higher” than his relationship with Angie? #What about Swallow on my Neck called to him? Were songs like Speedway and Billy Budd sort of... #Like did he want a reference that be more difficult to get? #Was it that if he got tattoos of those more obvious songs people would immediately be suspicious? #But getting a literal swallow on his neck seems like such an obvious thing #Every person he meets will see it #Everytime Moz looks him up on YouTube at 2am he will see it and know #But yet it's take me like a year to get a clear shot of his Angie tattoo #The whole vibe throws me honestly #Like i just find it strange that Johnny clearly had to make a decision in 1987 #He decided okay well I'm going to have a family I'm going to choose Angie we are going to California and we're gonna have 2 children #But then he walks around with a Morrissey reference tattooed right on his neck #And says it's about...i can't remember #I think he said some bullshit about swallows guiding you home #And HONESTLY? honestly??? That isn't just a piss poor cover up it's also just more questionable #Cause is moz home? Is moz safety? Is the love you shared the sense of home you lost? #I have so many questions Johnny

[bleakbluejay]

maybe it's just bc i was raised by a woman who grew up a farm girl during the Great Depression but i just don't understand how people don't use things until they're unusable -- wearing clothes until they fall off and are too threadbare to repair anymore, don't finish their plates (and even more heinous, don't store leftovers and instead opt to throw leftovers away entirely), don't force their old car to run far past the end of its life, don't keep their shoes until they can feel every pebble through the worn-down soles, don't keep their electronics with the glitchy screens until the picture becomes unusable or the damn thing doesn't turn on anymore. we used to fill near-empty bottles of soap and shampoo with water to try to help them last longer. we used to count the exact number of toilet paper squares we used. the living room couch i grew up with was already old and full of holes by the time i was born, and we kept it near 20 years more.it is such a striking cultural difference comparing my family and how we descend and behave from the arms of my great-grandmother and our matriarch, to other people's families that didn't struggle the same, or didn't keep their elders in close enough proximity to be affected by their history. how well did you know your grandparents? did you ever meet your great-grandparents, or hear stories about them?

#eli talks #i was a military brat (both parents in the navy) and disabled #so i spent most of my time at home with my great-grandmother and her son my grandpa #nana and papa :) #or i guess i just call him pop now #spending time with my nana and pop was SO vital to me as a kid #in my childhood memories and in my upbringing and in my values and habits #i even caught my nana's rural Canadian accent. despite living in southern California #so bizarre is it to me that this isnt everyone else's experiences #what do you MEAN you didn't live with your papa? with your nana? #what do you MEAN you didn't watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with a 89yo woman while she fed u lemon pudding and talked about the 40s #what do you MEAN you weren't fed fucked up Great Depression era food that makes you feel nostalgic for childhood now? #what do you MEAN you didn't grow up hearing how this whole town was just orchards and woodland up until just a few decades ago #and that YOUR great-grandpa didn't build half the old houses in town #and that YOUR grandpa didn't install half the telephones in the county? #i think being so disconnected from your grandparents n great-grandparents like that also like... disconnects you from history #how recently planes became commonplace or electricity found their way in all homes across america #you could have a relative alive RIGHT NOW that used a telegraph. that had to walk several miles home from school. #have you spoken to them? can you still speak to them?

[freebooter4ever]

It smells like SNOW outside guys. In BURBANK. I dont mean its actually snowing - i think that would signify the end of the world - but you know that smell of cold and moisture in the air right before it snows? Yeah that one. I love that smell ^_^

#ITS SO FREEZING COLD WTF california go home you are drunk #Journal shit #And by freezing cold i mean its like 50 #But its gonna get down to 40!!!!

[cinematicbookworm]

So I put my notice in at work on Friday which means I should be moving back the second week of October

#I can hardly wait California I’m coming home ocean I will see you again soon #I know it means I know will have to be back under my aunt’s influence but it also means I get to be close to my friends again

[anonymusbosch]

really truly Feelings about coming back to my hometown and seeing it as an outsider (I only knew it as a child with my motion constrained by school and parents and being under 18) and an outsider (it's changed since I've been away these last 8 years) and an outsider (showing it to my partner and finding it both familiar and unfamiliar, and special and inadequate) and an outsider (my parents and sister have all moved and my childhood home is no longer mine - staying in a building with a door code to learn and furniture still being moved in) and an outsider (my favorite places have changed, moved, closed, repainted) and an outsider (new murals! new buildings! new bike lanes) and an outsider (how the Fuck do the bike lanes on the east bank connect) and an outsider (it's changed [you can never step in the same river twice] and I have too)

#i think I need to make art about this #wanting to show off the things I love about it and realizing so much of that love is for the mundane details and tiny quotidian things #seeing people in the bike lanes and feeling the pang of just Being Around People Enjoying the Outdoors #how much fun you can have for free #at the same time not having lived here at all as an adult #i don't know the public transit here! i biked when it wasn't snowy and when it was snowy i was in school til like 9 pm #i don't know the flashy fun city things i know where me and my cousins would go to have a pretzel and maybe a beer and play board games #i know where u can do martial arts for cheap and fun but that's not a nice day out to show someone it's part of being there for months #years #i know where you can get food at 1 AM but they've moved #i don't know dinkytown or any of the north side #i want to show you how good it was to be a kid here in the summer but we're not kids anymore #i want you to feel the same pang of love when passing my best friend's childhood home #ALSO!!!! saw california friends/acquaintances in the home they bought together with dual software engineer california salaries #living in MN making CA money #a huge huge 3-story-plus-basement million-plus dollar home since that means something here #you're 28 what the fuck are you doing with a nicer house than anyone I knew here ever had #'this is what you get with CA money in mpls' yeah i fucking know actually except I don't make SWE money and I don't live here anymore #i know some local mechanical engineers who have got starter homes at like 300k a few years out of school. #that's like. good for them. #anyway I'm leaving the city today and still just feeling Things about it

[bones-n-bookles]

Photos from Carrizo Plain National Monument and the road out from it :)

#hike #hiking #kinda lol we mainly drove around but did explore a few spots more #LOTS of lizards but didnt photgraph any #also the most WRATHFUL #and i mean WRATHFUL. gopher snake ive ever met omfg #german shepherd #california #central california #carrizo plain #carrizo plain national monument #national monument #home

[snazzyscarf]

head in my fucking hands I wanna write a stranger things infinity train au so badly

#scarf.txt #personal #to anyone curious: it would be Steve and Max centric #and would take place sometime mid-season one #they both get on the train from Hawkins and California and meet that way #and yes: the upside down would still exist (reasoning is that it’s funny) #Steve Harrington disappears from Hawkins and is presumed dead by the main cast #only for him to magically return home months later with a new little sister in tow #then I suppose the rest of canon would play out as usual except that when Lucas clues Max in on the UD she’s the one who suggests #they include Steve with them bc ‘he can help us fight the monsters.’ ‘how do you know that’ ‘just trust me’ #it wouldn’t be until after the events of s2 that they’d fill in the kids on what happened on the train #bc fighting monsters together in real life makes them think it wouldn’t be that hard to believe anyway. plus the kids started to get #suspicious of the two of them talking about it and comparing it to the upside down #max: we’re just doing the same thing you guys do with d&d! #dustin: uh no you’re not because if it Was like d&d then that’d mean Steve was good at playing along with hypotheticals and he’s Not #anyway hgrjfjdjcjsbf. got carried away in the tags. weeps. #society if I could make this real and something that exists

[grimmgrinningghouls]

There r some days where I just. Wanna go home man. I don’t even know how to describe it but on days like this I miss my snow, I miss my trees and my mountains. I miss my lakes and rivers and waterfalls. I miss my dirt trails and my mud pits. I miss the smell of gunpowder so thick you could taste it and it burned. I miss those rainy nights where I’d sit in the back of my car with my friends after my dad kicked me out. I miss being reckless and dangerous and riding at night without a helmet, no light but our headlights and the moon. I miss being able to scream and laugh and shout into the trees. I miss the night air. I miss seeing the stars and the moon. I miss my home.

#sorry feeling homesick as fuck rn #this place is nice but it isn’t home #you haven’t lived till you’ve screamed into the trees at night #till you’ve driven down a mountain road with the radio blasting and your friends screaming the lyrics #it makes me so angry to see what’s being done to my home and not even being able to stop it #stay the fuck out of my state #stay away from my mountains and my trees #stay away from my meadows and my lakes #stay away from my stars #just because you ruined California doesn’t mean you get to come and ruin utah

[coffeeflavored-tears]

i just fucking miss good thrift stores. like god damn fuck indiana all we got is fucking goodwills

#this is an attack on indiana mostly #like goddamn bitch gimme some good thrift stores #back in california there were like 5 within a twenty minute drive from my home #and now all we got is a shitty chain thrift store that i work at #and they don’t even have any like cool clothes and there’s assholes of customers and i have to work on the weekends cuz i can’t work during #school cuz i have tech theatre which is fine and all but jesus i hate my fucking work #and everyone argues all the time !!! like holy shit !!! stop fucking arguing #and complaining about your other coworkers to me #like bitch shut up i am trying to get paid and make friends with as many people as possible #trying to befriend the nice old lady who made fun of jehovah’s witnesses with me is hard when she moved to the back and i’m only a cashier #trying to befriend a 14 year old volleyball player is hard when she can only work sundays and doesn’t go to my school #trying to befriend the older non-binary kid is hard when they’re so oblivious and just bad at the job and everyone complains about them al- #-l the time #and then both people that i actually liked working with have stopped working there!!! #i mean one does tech theatre so that’s nice #but the other moved to a different location and i miss her #she was a like 40 year old lady who smoked and was just fun to be around #she only worked there for like 2 weeks but we started on the same day and we bonded #for personal reasons i will not share the name of the store but i’m sure you could guess if you’re from america #work hate account #that’s gonna be my tag for hating on my work #indiana hate acclunt #that’s gonna be my indiana hate posts #i wrote this post like 20 minutes ago and have been ranting in the tags ever since