#i think i just dont like midwest food

[arborescent-shadows]

ok while we are at it again!!! People here are bad at making bread!!! It's not that hard to make very basic bread!! it's ok to cheat with quick rise yeast or make milk bread. But everyone here is adding sugar to bread!! not pumpkin bread or like a sweet bread. i mean like sandwich bread. sandwich/savory bread should taste good on its own or with butter! you dont need to add sugar if you do it right!!!

also it's OK to stop putting random shit in your pasta salads!!! Some veggies and spices wont hurt you!!! stop adding jello and marshmellows to savory things!!!

#adventures trying food on the great plains like.....you people cant cook #went to a bbq and bonfire with coworkers and everyone loved the food and it was the worst potluck food ive had in my life #step up ur cooking game #i thought my nan made bland food but at least she uses like salt bay leaf pepper paprika etc in everything #i think i just dont like midwest food

[laughing-with-god]

Last question for now (apologies!)

What are the personal like… styles/ vibes of their homes? Or like, how would they decorate the inside of it? Or would they at all?

(me personally, if I just won the Hunger games, the first thing I'm doing is an AD Open Door Victor's Village edition lmao)

(( Author's Note : Don't be sorry, I love questions like these! It helps me attach visuals to characters which is really fun. For this, I pulled some Pinterest pics and did some light research on the districts, but also feel free to interpret/imagine what you feel is right!!))

Jin

I picture that the Victor homes vary depending on their district, which would make sense considering the districts are in different landscapes so not all homes can be built the same

For District One, I picture little mansions with lots of glass walls for natural light. This district is apparently in the center of the U.S. (Wyoming, Idaho, Utah) so I can see some natural materials, sun roof windows, low and wide mid-century modern houses

I think stylistically, Jin would decorate his home with lots of white and browns, a colorful rug or accent furniture here and there, but he doesn't overdo it in fear of being tacky

fireplace is probably boarded up for um, obvious reasons (war flash backs lol)

I think his favorite part of his home is the kitchen. In the games, starvation was especially tough on him, so now I think he seeks comfort in food. I can see him taking cooking classes or hiring a personal chef, maybe even throwing dinner parties.

If you were to move in with him, I think he'd be okay with you changing whatever you wanted, as long as he gets to keep all his fancy kitchen appliances

Namjoon

I dont think he'd care a lot about the style of his home, I also see him rarely being there since he has so much work to do in the capitol

District Three is apparently in the midwest, and there's lots of factories that make high end technology for the capitol

Therefore, I think the victor homes there would be simple, modern/industrial condo-style homes? Lots of grays and blacks with granite accents.

I don't think Namjoon would go out of his way to purchase furniture or decor, just accepting the furnishings it already came with. He's not a sentimental guy and a part of him is always aware that his home is technically the capitol's property, not his.

I think a cool highlight of his home would be the technology. Like his tv is just a hologram or there's just some cool tech that locks all the doors and turns on the lights on at once. other disctrict victors don't even get that, it's just district three since they rule technology

If you were to move in, Namjoon would gladly welcome any change in decor, letting you know that he never saw the point before you

Jimin

So I personally feel like District Four would make more sense in a tropical place like Florida or something, therefore I feel like there would be a "jungle/beachouse" vibe to the victor homes here

Victors row would be in a vegetated area of four, not too far from the water. I don't see the capitol wanting to have victors living right on the coast since that's most likely reserved for shipments, boating, fishing and yeah....the water is probably heavily monitered in case people get ideas...

Jimin more or less kept everything the same, though he did let his desinger team go crazy with the jungle concept

I can see Jimin liking the color green and also taking care of plants, since he's pretty lonely back at Four it gives him a little sense of innocent purpose

Again, he's def more at the Capitol than here tho, often times this feels more like a vacation home

All the guest rooms get used as extra storage for all the gifts he received from capitol women. hopes to one day fill them with kids tho :(

If you were to move in, Jimin would be estatic and gladly join in any renovation plans. He'd want to be included in the choices, pick the wrong wallpaper even and he'd be pissy about it lol

Hoseok

District Eight is full of factories and textiles, so I see victor's homes being industrial condos with brick walls, exposed pipes and wooden beams

Hoseok will try to decorate and make it feel cozy, just for the sake of his siblings though

I feel like he probably gave his siblings the bigger rooms and took one of the smallest in the home

Anything his little brothers or sisters want, it's theirs no question asked

I can see him becoming a little home maker honestly. He wakes his siblings up in the morning, makes them breakfast, sends them to school, then comes back home and cleans their rooms / common spaces, does some grocery shopping, laundry ect. ect.

It's very cute and mother hen of him but he really just can't handle freetime bc then his mind wonders to dark places...

so he throws himself into caring for his siblings

If you were to move in with him, he'd welcome you and any changes you might want to have on the common spaces, but obvi is protective of his siblings' stuff.

Yoongi

Six is said to be highly populated and overly dense, borderline too many people live here. I picture it as a city too, transportation being their main hub so there's probably even a subway system

Therefore I think the captitol would make a victor buidling or something. District Six doesnt have many victors and the place is already so dense, I think a good solution would be to make one big high rise of apartments where all the living victors have their own units

Yoongi probably threw away everything in the apartment

I can see him having some chairs and a single bed. prob doesn't even have a tv bc keeps breaking them in rage every time the capitol makes an "announcement" lol

Fridge is also always empty. Boy can go days without eating so it doesn't even occur to him to have groceries on hand

Pics below are what the place should look like, before he fucked it up

If you were to move in, good luck on even hanging up a single picture. Give it a week before Yoongi flies into another rage and rips everything to shreds.

Taehyung

I think District Eleven victor homes would be like large, farmhouses on hills away from the rest of the town

I picture feilds upon feilds in this district, since it's all about farming so it's probably very big in terms of land

I also don't think the capitol had many of these houses made, correctly assumming that Eleven wouldn't have many victors

I think Taehyung actually loves his home, quite liking the simplicity and size of it

I can see him starting a little garden in the back yard, or even getting some chickens to keep him busy

He probably would read to his mother too, he most likely set her up in the master bedroom and waits on her hand and foot

If you were to move in, he wouldn't mind little changes here and there. But at his core, he is a minimalist and would rather you not clutter up his space. Don't you two (three including his mom lol) have everything you need already? There's no shame in the simple life.

Jungkook

District Two is up in the mountains! Very cold and harsh winters, thin air but I'd imagine its very beautiful

The homes here are built in luxury cabin style at the base of the mountains. District Two also has the most victors, so I imagine their victors' village is quite the neighborhood

Jungkook is fond of the views he gets from his home. I think he'd like hiking too so he enjoys the proximity to nature

As for the interior, Jungkook doesn't really care. I know, most of the victors on this list don't care but like, kill 23ish kids in a game and ig it puts things into perspective lol

Like Yoongi, all he really needed was a good bed and he'd be okay. I don't think he got rid of the furniture the capitol provided, but he doesn't have an opinion on it either

If you were to move in, Jungkok would just hand you the cash to buy whatever decor you want, just as long as it's not "too girly"

[turtlemagnum]

some facts about me and restaurants:

i always order my drinks without ice because drink almost always comes out cold anyways and now i get more drink per drink and i dont have to worry about my drink getting watered down because of the ice melting

because of this, i couldn't tell you how many times the server brought me with ice anyways and i had to be like "hey, this has ice. dont-wait no, dont take it back, just dont put ice in the refill ok"

i really dont like wasting food, hence why i'm very adamant about them not just dumping the first drink. the rare times i don't finish something and dont bring it home are like when the burger at that chain steakhouse made me puke. pretty much anything less than "literally made me puke" at least gets brought home so at worst, i can remake it to be more edible

back to drinks: i generally dont use straws. a while back i realized that as far as actual restaurant cups go, straws dont really do anything other than add another thing to throw out and just generally slowing down my sippage. from what i understand this is different for physically disabled people, but given how (as far as i'm aware) i'm not physically disabled, i can just lift the cup just fine. this does not apply to things like fast food cups, like you ever break a straw when using one of those? i swear they're designed to be as inconvenient to drink out of without a straw as possible, the mcdonalds one the last time i tried had this little lip on the brim that felt like it was specifically designed to spill shit when drunk like a normal cup

if it's a place i've been to enough times to know what the menu is right off the top of my head, i usually know exactly what i want before i even sit down. the local bar i'm a regular at, the owner lady who takes my orders when shes there; she knows my order by heart at this point. honestly got a little uncomfortable with how much shit she gave me when i got something else that one time, even if it was joking (i'm pretty sure, anyways)

probably my most controversial opinion: i like my meat well done. crispy, even. the other day i got food with my grandparents and the sausage they gave me tasted about as close to uncooked as you could get while still technically being fully cooked, was wretched. when it comes to burgers and steak, i can definitely tolerate medium or rare stuff, dont get me wrong. i feel like what's probably the Objectively Correct stance to have is that some meats are better suited to some styles of preperation, and that's fine. but honestly when it's done poorly, rare/medium beef tastes like a wet goddamn sock. wretched

so, something about me: despite being whiter than a fair amount of white supremacists, i can handle my spice pretty well. to put this into perspective, my mom's last boyfriend was black (and therefore more used to actually seasoned food), and we got chicken from a local place and i heard him from the other room go "hoo! that's hot!" in a fairly exasperated tone, and while i definitely think the place actually knew how to season their goddamn food it wasn't like, loudly exclaim how spicy it was levels of spice, y'know? at least to me. anyways, this sucks for me because i live in the midwest, where an arguable majority of places don't season for shit, probably because a significant amount of their customer base are like my grandma who eats tacos without seasoning. not fuckin making that up. like it was just cooked ground beef with like, maybe a miniscule amount of salt, put into these nasty ass tortilla bowl things with a texture and taste not too dissimilar to plastic. i remember this one time i asked a place what kinda seasoning they used in their fish, and they just straight up said "none". god i hated that restaurant, it was like if you turned all of the worst qualities of suburbanite wasps into a physical space

my default food i get at most places is definitely a burger. it's at least partially because it's generally hard to fuck up to the point of inedibility, but also because most places around here don't make any fried chicken at all other than tenders and That's Like My Main Thing, Bro. sometimes i get pizza, which is somehow more common than fried chicken but also i fucking hate noodles for the most part so it's pretty much the only edible thing for me to get at italian restaurants. the exception to not liking noodles is in wonton soup, but ever since the chinese place we always went to closed down we haven't been able to find a place that's nearly as good.

finally, back to drinks. my specific drink of choice tends to change over the years but stay pretty consistent over any given period of time. i've been a mtn dew typea gamer for the past few years but i've been liking cherry coke more and more, which was my favorite circa 2016 or so. i definitely feel like i'm being a bit more mixed about it, though. recently i've been drinking a fair bit of water simply due to the fact that the only other shit in the house is this diet root beer that my grandpa always gets because it's on sale and he insists on buying diet shit. and like, it's objectively good tasting, it's still fucking root beer which i've never tasted actually bad root beer. it's just that he buys so much of it for extended periods of time that i'm so sick of it that i'm probably not gonna be able to drink root beer in any significanf quantities for at least a few years. but yeah i definitely feel like i can get behind any kind of pop. my fallback is standard coke because that's something literally everywhere has, and while there's definitely a tangible difference in taste between coke and pepsi i wouldn't say one's better or worse than another. my preference lays in RC cola anyways, which i've literally never seen served in any restaurant but god dammit it's so fucking good, dude

[transgenderer]

i just had an extremely sloppy wet pulled pork sandwich at this restaurant berghoff in chicago that was apparently established in 1898, it is described as a german restaurant. what do you think germans would think of such fare? like is there a divergence between modern german food and midwest american german food

sadly because of the vegetarianism i have had very little access to traditionally german food that is not bread. i mean. bread is awesome. big fan of bread. but i dont know about their meat foods. their vegetarian stuff is either fully ethnic (ethnized...?) (like, its a middle eastern place). anyway they DO make good pumpkin and lentil soup. but thats about it as far as traditional german true-meals

[pixeljade]

Seen a lot of people here in Midwest freaking out because of the fire smoke goin on, and just. Look. Im not meaning this to belittle your concerns but this is really nothing.

Im a transplant (Central CA to Central OH) and this smoky sky and bad air quality is like. Very low tier threat from smoke. Back where I'm from, there was once a solid month and a half where the air quality was so bad from the smoke that breathing outside for about 5 minutes without a KN95 mask was equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes, in terms of cancer risk. One of the days i left mine at home I had to be driven back home after about 15 minutes because I felt dizzy and sick. And thats just one time, I know folks who lost their homes in fires, and others who lost beloved pets. Theres neighborhoods that burned up and never got rebuilt.

And again, I know it sounds like im being all 'oh silly midwesterners dont know REAL fire lmao' but thats not what I mean this to be. I mean this to be 'we are entering an era of increased fire risk and this is merely the tip of the iceberg, if you lose your shit over this you will not survive'. Dont freak out, freaking out is how you make dumb moves in an emergency. Get smart.

When summer rolls around, go over fire emergency plans with the people you live with. Stock a bugout bag, and make sure you have plenty of supplies like KN95 masks and clean water (there have been times when water supplies get cut off or contaminated in fire areas). Also food and toilet paper should be stocked up in advance, these arent things youd normally lose access to, but in emergencies people freak out and buy dumb things (as we saw in the pandemic). Plan escape routes. If you end up in a smoke zone and have sensitive lungs, get a box fan and slap an air filter on the back for a cheap indoor air cleaner. Stay hydrated and calm, and keep monitoring fire zones in case you need to evac...fire spreads a lot quicker than you think it does!

Like. I get that its frightening because 'this wasnt supposed to happen here', but it is. It IS happening here, and thanks to climate change its going to happen here more. You gotta accept this and you gotta plan or you will be one of the victims. If you manage to keep your cool, and learn to survive, you WILL survive though! Being smart and calm is really all it takes to get through it. What ive listed here are just basic tips, theres a lot more to it, so if you wanna be full smart, google fire and smoke emergency tips.

[dancing-cockroaches]

I feel so socially inept, that it would be concerning to anyone I try to approach. Groups/clubs are off the table, the app Meetup is kinda scarce/bare bones and people dont organize that sort of shit on Nextdoor here. I realized I dont know my neighbors, most people know their neighbors, but I never run into them because our schedules dont line up. My solution? Sit in a chair all day on my front yard during my day off.

What I'd do in order to initiate friendship, I just thought to myself I dont know. So instead I started thinking, what would I say to try and initiate friends "hi, how are you?" They'd mostly likely say good and walk away. I've never seen a conversation go past "how are you?" Maybe be a bit more specific? "Hi I noticed you live next door, and I have no friends, so I wondered why not just approach the neighbor, what do you want to talk about?". Maybe I should serve food. Put up one of em shitty folding table. Put up a sign that says "free food - take some" and if they ask why I say "I want to make friends since I have none".

It could go one of two ways: I make a friend. Or. Everyone actively avoids that "lady who sits outside waiting for people to pass her to give them food because shes lonely". Or if I lived midwest, would just be said as simply as "that ones a bit of an oddball"

[stag-bi]

i dont. know who told you we have to eat out every day but at least where i am (midwest) dining out is a special treat? if we get food we go and grab it or order in and eat at home, going to resturaunts is like.. special occasion (or we're already out and hey the food place is right there).

also like when im on my own it IS a smaller meals situation, i think 2-3 big meals is more of a 'living with a family unit' thing. and even then we just do whatever with no centralized meals pretty regularly. but you have to eat dinner yknow. have to feed yourself. sometimes i dont want to make the sandwich but i have to and it just keeps going

yea i mean the Going Out thing is a treat ofc but i meant that any food cooked by a chef is also a treat over here, whether thats eaten as takeout or at a restaurant :D i regularly see american memes where its like "that feel when its time to pick where to order dinner from today and ur wife is indecisive" and im like????? who are these billionaires w daily restaurant money????? yet apparently its relatable enough somehow?????

idk abt ur situation specifically bc i dont know u but the things i mentioned were what id been told by all the americans i know who somehow have empty fridges all the time and when u talk abt it they keep acting like the only choices are 1. cooking food from scratch 2. getting takeout. and its super mega confusing to me cause i have stockpiled a bunch of shit in the freezer that i can have for dinner at any time w/o cooking

[mihai-florescu]

please tell us about the polish witch in exchange i can tell you about the people i met in college who were absolutely unhinged 🍵🕊

So imagine youre 17 years old, just moved back from the american midwest with a diploma signed by trump for outstanding accomplishments, anger issues and food scarcity trauma. And you decide to go on a trip organized by your romanian highschool to Scotland for a week to study english. You want to go purely because it's at the same time as THE fringe festival, oh, yknow, one of the biggest theatre festivals in the world. And you are very much in your theatre phase. You insist you dont want to stay with a family with an inside dog so they put you and a classmate in the only apartment without a pet, living with a middle aged polish lady.

What they dont tell you is that she has a son who sometimes lives there as well, and the lady has also taken in 3 italian girls on a trip similar to yours. It seems like no one else lives in that building... One morning you wake up and want to brush your teeth before everyone else in the very tiny bathroom and find that it is currently used as a hotbox. Time was running out and there were 5 people trying to not be late to class. So that was stressful and then you dont really see the guy much, but on the last day you decide to strike up a conversation with the lady who hosted you. And you find out that she has psychic premonitions sometimes and that her parents met in a polish concentration camp where her dad was a british soldier who saved her mom towards the end of ww2. And then you also find out her son was a ballet prodigy who cracked from the pressure and is now mentally unwell as a result. The story of how she met her husband is also quite crazy but i dont remember exactly other than that everyone said "oh wow crazy coincidences" but they were not coincidences cuz she had predicted the future i think?

This was my best exchange experience tho, compared to the house where i woke up to find them chopping up a freshly dead deer in the living room, at least i got to see some cool plays at the theatre festival this time.

#not that crazy of a story but there were just weird vibes #it's also the trip that was the last straw in my friendship with my ex best friend so...quite eventful #ask #anon🍵🕊 #tw concentration camps #idk if anyone needs them but #needs them tagged*

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two of my coworkers are both also sea im going to ask both of them when i see them if they have any asian restaurants recs cause i trust them more than what ppl online say 😭

#food here is so bland you dont understand. omfg #its not even a midwest thing my dad was just in michigan and had great chinese food. its just ohio #im dying scoob #a very good vietnamese place is here. a chinese place w good dim sum but bland normal food is here. a bbq joint is very good except #idc abt bbq not my fave. there was a nashville chicken place that was so good but it randomly shut down a few months ago no warning rip #we havnt tried any indian food yet cause my dads been gone and thats his fave. #a thai place near here is supposed to be good but like. so was this other vietnamese place and it was shit so #but like. two of my coworkers one is filipino and the other is also thai. the ppl who work at sushi which is weirdly shared space w deli #are also sea i think the manager is indonesian ? idk the other guy and the girl quit i thjnk or only works mornings #my little bubble <3 to stop me from going insane also the joy in giving the few not white customers extra food and tare ing off the weight #so its cheaper yess ily

[shhh-no-ones-home]

open skies miw x reader

+++++++++ Waterpark day turned stormy weather

(temp is 110 Fahrenheit,  43.3 Celsius)

Song: no better by lorde

tag list: @musicsexandpizza69 @svintsandghosts @alilpunkrock @theoneandonlykymberlee @cynic-spirit @lifeisabitchandsoareyou +++++++++

As much as I hated to admit it I was kind of glad to be back, deep, in the Midwest for a day or two. It happened to be the hottest day of summer and we also just happened to be going to a water park for the day. I was beyond excited. I hadn't been to a water park since moving to wilkes barre and that was years ago. When the bus pulled into the parking lot I was practically running to get inside the park, swim suit and towel in hand. The guys just didn't understand. As soon as I hit the ground outside the bus I was already sweaty, I could tell they all were too. but it was almost worth it.

"Come on guys, don't look so disappointed."

I joked, Vinny raising his hand to cover his eyes from the sun.

"I get you're excited but Did we have to do this on a 110° day though?"

I shook my head at him, walking backwards through the parking lot.

"Just wait, as soon as we get in and changed we'll be cool in no time."

Ricky smiled at me.

"Let's hope you're right."

I nodded.

"That's the spirit!"

When we got to the gate we each got a ticket and walked through the turnstiles. The locker rooms were right inside and I turned to look at them all as they followed me in.

"Wanna get changed and meet here or are we doing this separately today?"

I asked, looking between them all. A few shrugged.

"Whatever works, I'm sure we all probably wanna do different things. As long as we are back here by five to go we'll be good."

I nodded.

"Got it, well then I guess I'll see some of you around. I'm gonna go change. If anyone wants to mat-race meet me here after you've got your suit on."

I said with a wink.

"You're on."

Justin said, Chris nodding in agreement.

"Oh yeah, I'd like to get in on that action. Both of you are going down."

he said a little cocky. A few of the other guys just shook their heads and walked into the locker room. I did the same on the other side of the building, getting changed and rinsed quickly so I could get this day started. When I walked back out, towel in hand I frowned.

"Why the long face?"

Ryan asked, coming up beside me, making me jump.

"Jesus ry, kill a girl why don't'cha."

He laughed at me, leaning against the concrete wall behind us.

"Just making life a little more interesting."

I sent him a look before looking to the sky. A breeze was starting to pick up and I was a little concerned. When Chris came out he noticed something wrong immediately, looking to the sky too. He nudged me

"Hey y/n, how's the weather?"

He asked, looking to me to see if that's what was wrong. I sent him a smirk.

"Aren't we supposed to ask you that? You're the tall one after all."

He sent me a look as Justin came out to join us. I watched as he tossed his beach towel over his shoulders.

"You know what I meant. You always say you know when it's gonna rain."

I looked back to the sky, and inhaled deeply.

"yes, yes I can."

He looked at me expectantly.

"Was it supposed to rain today?"

A few of the others shrugged, so did I.

"I don't think so but I Give it two hours."

I said looking around at the team. They all nodded.

"Let's get to it then."

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Damn I hated being right. I mean, don't get me wrong, it had its perks but still. I wish this one time I would've been wrong. No sooner than we had entered the lazy river the sky just opened up. It had begun pouring down rain with little to no remorse. It would've been fine had there not been lightning. Damn the lightning. All the lifeguards were rushing people out of the water, Chris taking my hand so he wouldn't lose me in the crowd and pulling me to the side walk. When we were under the canopy of the food shack he started to laugh. I looked at him like he was crazy.

"What's so funny?"

I asked and he shook his head.

"How often do we get a day off and it actually go as planned?"

I couldn't help laughing at the revelation too. He was right though.

"I wish it were more often than it is."

I confirmed with him and he nodded.

"You and me both."

I shook my head.

"Do you think we should find the rest of the guys?"

I asked and he shrugged.

"It's not even three yet, do you think they'd be ready to leave already?"

I frowned and thought for a second.

"I'm honestly not sure."

He looked up for a second and I followed his gaze. Across the concrete slab was Ryan and aj standing under a beach umbrella, laughing with each other. Well I guess that sort of answered that question.

"they look like theyre gonna wait it out."

i said, laughing a little to myself, chris' gaze following my own.

"i guess youre right."

i looked up to him and drew my brows as i saw him look around, then he turned and left me.

"chris?"

i asked, following him to the food counter.

"would any of you happen to know how long this is supposed to last?"

he asked and the girl working the counter shrugged, looking to the other girl behind her.

"weatherman says it could get worse, it is tornado season after all. there isnt an official watch yet but that could change."

he nodded slowly.

"thanks."

he said, tapping the counter and turning to me with a wide smile across his face.

"dont give me that look."

i said. i knew exactly what he was thinking.

"oh come on, we could get everyone on the bus and go to the movies or something."

i couldnt help laughing a little at him.

"we were supposed to have a fun waterpark day."

i said as we made our way back over to the canopy.

"and we did, but the weather said its over."

i sighed, looking back over to where ryan and aj were and watching them approach us. i looked back to chris.

"fine, but only because they dont think its gonna get better any time soon."

he fist pumped the air.

"yes!"

"whats so exciting?"

aj asked, shaking his hair out like a dog as they joined us under the canopy. it was still pouring and was getting harder to hear over the rain hitting the roof.

"they said its not gonna stop any time soon, so what do you guys think of heading back to the bus and going to the movies or something?"

chris asked expectantly and they both shrugged, side nodding at the suggestion.

"do you think the other guys would be down with that?"

ryan asked. chris looked very hopeful, he didnt want to be here in the first place so going somewhere dry, dark, and requiring you to be fully clothed was definitely on his agenda.

"a guy can hope."

he said, elated.

"only one way to find out though. lets see if we can find the rest of them or at least head back to the locker rooms. if anything its a storm shelter so we'll be safe there either way."

the three of them nodded and we headed that way, each of us squinting and blinking quickly as the rush of rain came over us. when we hit the front of the park again the rest of the crew were there under the rooftop of the building, talking amongst themselves.

"look, guess we got lucky today after all."

i said as we reached them. vinny frowned at me.

"hey y/n, sorry about the weather but i guess you cant always win a day off huh."

i laughed a little bit.

"hey i got my two hours to shine, but there is a certain someone in our group that was wondering if, since this isnt supposed to let up anytime soon, if you guys wanted to load up and go see a movie or something nearby."

they all looked to chris as he nodded frantically.

"thoughts?"

he asked excited and a few of them laughed.

"i think we could swing that."

logan said, chris looking to me with a wide smile on his face.

"great, lets get changed then and get out of here."

he said, making us all laugh again, watching him walk into the locker room. i shook my head.

"so its settled then. ill go get changed and meet you guys back out here to leave."

they all nodded.

"i guess that means we have to agree on a movie now."

rick said in defeat and i couldnt help laughing to myself.

"doesnt it always?"

i said, sending him a look as i walked backwards to the door. he shook his head, smiling at me.

"of course it does."

#wattpad #x reader #miw #ricky horror #chris motionless #Ryan Sitkowski #justin morrow #vinny mauro #imagines #one shots #273

[souryogurt64]

The power went out due to a storm (tbh not a drastic storm, like a hurricane or anything. just rain, not even any thunder or lighting) and it's been 40 hours and the pg&e guys are just now working on the street and i have 11% left on my phone (that i charged with the last of my laptop battery, which is now dead) and i am going insane lmao

i honestly think power outages are kinda fun, but definitely not for THAT long lmao. here is a power outage story to entertain you, im not trying to show you up its just my “ONE TIME...” story 

over the summer an inland hurricane hit and parts of the state were out of power/water/internet for days-weeks and stores/gas stations/restaurants were closed for days. it was completely bananas. nothing like that had ever happened in the midwest before and so many buildings and trees were destroyed and people were swarming gas stations because there was no gas to get out. 

people were just all over the streets and it was in the middle of the BLM protests too so there were police everywhere and all the buildings were barricaded. it felt like an apocalypse movie. it came out of nowhere so nobody prepared and there was barely any national coverage because no internet and power until it was old news. i was carrying a champagne scented yankee candle around my apartment like a victorian girl.

it was the day before i moved back to college. in the morning i drove down and campus had no food or water and the buildings were wrecked by trees and all these people were arriving from airplanes etc to a total apocalypse zone. campus security set up white tents with bottled water and were like “you CAN go to your room but the elevators are broken and the building is like 100 degrees.” everyone was so hot and hungry and thirsty everyone was screaming at each other

it was absolute madness, especially since the midwest doesnt have the infrastructure (tree removal service, etc) for that stuff. not to diminish the damage hurricanes do on coasts, but inland hurricanes are a global warming thing and brand new. kinda like when it snows 1/4 of an inch in arizona so they shut down school because they dont have snowplows

#this was in the middle of the shittening so i drove to a gas station 30 miles away for internet #and random people thought i was a runaway and were trying to give me money #and i was like sorry im not homeless #Anonymous

[therukurals]

Tagged by the very cool @dingyuxi​ (thanks fam!) 

and tagging some mutuals off the top off my head no pressure! @melonatures​, @deokmis​ @gimme-a-chocolate​ @forursmiles​ @digimoo​ @junghaesin​ @rain-hat​ @mockingjaypin @roarofalannister @seongwu

1. What is the color of your hairbrush? I have a couple, but one is red/black, one is blue, and the other white/gray

2. Name a food you never eat. Okra, my mom promised me I’d grow out of my distaste but im 26 and its still no

3. Are you typically too warm or too cold? too cold I am a tropics baby i thrive in heat (i know i live in the midwest) 

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? trying to unclog our pipes with a bladder and some amateur plumbing 

5. What’s your favorite candy bar? uhhh, anything chocolate but the kinder bueno ones

6. Have you ever been to a professional sports game? A couple, mainly basketball and went to one american football game because bb bro was too young to go by himself and i just sat and read a book

7. What is the last thing you said out loud? My roommate and I are dealing with a plumbing issue and trying to fix it and I have a call soon so I said let’s pause and come back to it later. 

8. What is your favourite ice cream? Green tea followed closely by coffee. 

9. What was the last thing you had to drink? Water

10. Do you like your wallet? Yeah, i like its. its long and solid

11. What is the last thing you ate? a chocolate chip cookie

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend? lol no

13. What’s the last sporting event you watched? uhhhh idk, not an actual match but i think some mbappe highlights? 

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn? ooooo classic butter or kettle. 

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? uh it was a group chat with my colleagues 

16. Ever been camping? Yeah, when I was young. It wasnt straight camping it was at a site and it was with my girl scout troop lmao

17. Do you take vitamins?  not regularly, sometimes some vitamin c if im feeling a little throat something coming up or iron before i donate blood 

18. Do you regularly attend a place of worship? Not in a religious way? and when you do community organizing/work you are in a lot of churches and they always pray at the neighborhood association meetings. 

19. Do you have a tan? lmaooooo. i am blessedly melenated and usually get a nice tan but its winter and lockdown so ive lost some of that :_;

20. Do you prefer chinese or pizza? lmao im with sam on this question, i dont like this question cause its a false equivalency and definitely chinese because the options??? and chinese food is so good???

21. Do you drink your soda through a straw? uhhh....not really? usually in a glass or in a bottle. 

22. What color socks do you usually wear? girl whatever socks i get, they range from black to white to pink to gray they dont match 90% of the time

23. Do you ever drive above the speed limit? wouldnt you like to know

24. What terrifies you? on a philosophical level seeing my loved ones hurt and failure. more physically? frogs freak me out, people in easter bunny costumes, clowns, and medieval plague doctors, actually the concept of existing in medieval Europe terrifies me 

25. Look to your left, what do you see? im on our large conference table and it has a bunch of stuff but immediately to my life is my phone, some pens, my bullet journal and my copy of “collective courage” 

26. What chore do you hate most? Washing dishes!!!! And compost 

27. What do you think of when you hear an Australian accent? idk??? steve irwin? 

28. What’s your favorite soda? Root beer and vanilla coke

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Drive thrus, because im probably already out and around doing errands. 

30. What’s your favorite number? 13

31. Who’s the last person you talked to? My roommate, again about this plumbing issue. 

32. Favorite meat? I really dont have a preference tbh, depends how they are prepared

33. Last song you listened to? Do it on the tip by Megan thee Stallion ft the City Girls

34. Last book you read? In the middle of a reread for “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.” by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and just starting “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents “ by Isabel Wilkerson. 

35. Favorite day of the week? Saturday 

36. Can you say the alphabet backwards? maybe if i tried really hard but im not going to try 

37. How do you like your coffee? With a little bit of creamer and sugar, like a decent brown color. I like the flavor of coffee so i dont want it too diluted. 

38. Favorite pair of shoes? uh, dont really have one but something i can slip in and out of lmao

39. Time you normally get up? around 8/8:30am but in my heart id like to wake up at 10 or 11 ;_;

40. What do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets? Sunsets!!! also sunrises involve me getting up early and im not doing that hell no

41. How many blankets on your bed? Two since its winter, a comforter and a thick wool one. 

42. Describe your kitchen plates super basic white round plates. 

43. Describe your kitchen at the moment messy, we havent been able to wash our dishes because of the plumbing issue so hopefully that can be fixed today

44. Do you have a favorite alcoholic drink? mmmmm, idk? i have grown to like a good whiskey, usually a bulleit bourbon or this one bourbon w get from a local distillery. really any dark liquors, i will not do beer that shits dissssssgusting

45. Do you play cards? not regularly and i have tried to learn how to play eucher and spades and each time ppl explain it to me i forget it the next day and i just dont have that kind of brain capacity. 

46. What color is your car? uh.....so i live in a commune basically lmao and we share vehicles so i personally dont own one but the couple i share with some other folks is Black and gold

47. Can you change a tire? Yeah, one unique thing about my parents were they were very fair around gendered roles(especially for south asians), so my mom was strict with my brother around learning how to cook/clean and my dad taught me how to work on cars/maintenance work around the house. so i can change tires/oil/do other car work  

48. Your favorite state or province? i really like the pacific northwest and miss it.

49. Favorite job you’ve had? being an instructor for a course on globalization in college! also idk if i can classify what i do now as a “job” because its....unique but that too

#tagged in #long post #and anyone if we talk or are mutuals

[iskierka]

I think the death thing in America is real interesting. I had my own experience with a death in my family at a young age and I also studied abroad and lived with a family whose son had passed away the year before they hosted me. It was really interesting the different practices around death and mourning. In the country I was living in food was common, and grieving went on much longer than is typically socially acceptable in the US. I just found it interesting because my experience with death, even as a child, made me feel like I had or move on sooner than I’d wanted to and I had to go through therapy to really process it. ALSO YEAH AMERICANS DONT DO FOOD????

It’s really interesting how different cultures deal with death! One of my host families in Belgium had had their father/grandfather die just before I got there, and burial practices (because there just physically wasn’t enough room for everyone in the country to be interred continuously) were really interesting. Practices surrounding death are not something you necessarily think of off the top of your head as being so different (imo because mourning is often closed, and something you’re not often going to be part of as an outsider) but of course it’s different.

But yea I do actually live in the US—in the South—so that’s why I was so uh. bowled over? to find out that bringing food after a death is just regional? (from the last ask, it seems like maybe the Midwest does the same thing). If I had moved somewhere else in the country, had someone die, and didn’t have people bringing me food I would be honestly pretty hurt and offended. So, good to know?

You’re so right though, Americans* absolutely do not allow enough time for grief and mourning. I’ve felt like I’ve had a couple weeks, maybe, to deal with deaths? I also think we push away the reality of death too much. One of grandmothers’ funerals was open-casket, which my grandfather insisted on, and I actually really liked that. No-one else in the family liked it (or, well, the idea of it—that’s what they said beforehand), but I think it helps you process and say goodbye.

A segment of a podcast I listened to recently talked about the way Americans deal with mourning and grief & I’d really recommend it to anyone who’s interested:

“Last Wish” from On the Media — the segment titled How We Mourn (the section before that, Is the Pandemic Making Us Numb to One Another’s Pain?, is also very good, in case y’all’re interested)

*well, white protestants, that’s all I can speak to

#also having a host family who’s just had a child pass away . that sounds like it could be very intense #katie speaks #death cw

[captawesomesauce]

pandoranora2019

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“Should Ramen be under SOUP or under RICE & NOODLES in a shopping...”

Im with @brainsludgemissives Asian specialty

*****LOL W is asian speciality and that’s not an option or else half of our shopping list would just be “asian speciality. 

all-the-w-ness reblogged your post and added:

NOOOOODLES!

******YOU DONT GET A VOTE!!! and it’s SOUUUUPPPPPPP!!!!!

brainsludgemissives

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“Should Ramen be under SOUP or under RICE & NOODLES in a shopping...”

If it's instant ramen, with the soup. Though in most of my local grocery stores, ramen is not with either soup or rice/noodles...it's in the ethnic food aisles. But, that's the Midwest.

It’s the kind with the bowl that you add the water too. The question isn’t so much about the aisle but whether it’s soup or noodles lol.  Like spaghetti is dry noodles... because you cook it in water then throw the water out, you dont drink the water. It’s noodles! Fine egg noodles for soup are under soup... because you cook in water but you put in the water that you don’t throw out. Ramen seems to be this weird mid thing - She throws the water out, but after... whereas I drink it because it’s soup.... she doesnt drink the soup part... so she doesn’t think it’s soup... but it’s SOUP!!! 

To her it’s just cup of noodles lol

freckles-and-books

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“Should Ramen be under SOUP or under RICE & NOODLES in a shopping...”

Noodles because they don’t come with any liquid.

But neither do manishewitz fine egg noodles you use for soup... and those would be for soup, vs say spaghetti which you eat dry. 

That’s the crux of the issue... do you eat the liquid or is ramen just the noodle part and you toss the broth? She tosses it lol ... but it’s soupppppppp

tmarrr

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“Should Ramen be under SOUP or under RICE & NOODLES in a shopping...”

I mean when it’s in final form, soup.

EXACTLY IT’S SOUP.... WITH STUFF IN IT!!!

#pandoranora2019 #all-the-w-ness #brainsludgemissives #freckles-and-books #tmarrr

[acti-veg]

what is something we can do for homeless people In this freezing weather? it's all i can think about. I cant take anyone in and my grandma wont let someone sleep in our van at least at night. And I dont have much money but I hear in midwest it's going to hit killing temps- does anyone have ideas of what ppl can do? (I live in washington)

If you can’t give money, could you maybe give your time? Even if it’s only a couple of hours a week, you can always volunteer with local homeless organisations, shelters, feeding charities and the like. If you can’t do that then there is a lot you can do with even a little bit of money. Buying a hot coffee, warm socks and gloves, a warm blanket, a hat- it will all be really appreciated and you can pick up a lot of this stuff second hand very cheaply, or from discount retailers. Even just a little bit of money can go a long way.

On a bigger scale, you can write to local public officials, ask them what help is being offered this winter, and advocate more programs if you my feel that it isn’t enough. Email local organisations, places of worship, ask them if their building will be open for the homeless this year, if not, why not? Talk to local food banks and find out what they need most, can you do a drive for donations for those things among your friends, family, workplace, school, local groups or church?

Apply pressure and help where you think you can. Are local supermarkets giving away waste produce? Are they willing to? Could you and a couple of friends take it off their hands and distribute it? I used to be involved with a feeding the homeless vegan group and that’s exactly how it started- nothing official, we just found one store willing to give away waste products or things going out of date and we gave it away- you’ll never know what can come of it unless you ask. Even if you can’t do much, do what you can; small acts of kindness can have a big impact.

#ask #human rights

[carbootsoul]

it's 2020 but yes!! gardens!! tell me more

oh!! ur right!! god linear progression of time? dont know her. also side note these plans are v heavily tempered by my experiences as a middle class person in a semi-urban city in midwest america.

but like what im thinking is in the future (after we either succumb to climate apocalypse and have to rebuild, or after we avoid it by dismantling current society) we will have less cars. u can talk all u want abt how oil companies r the real problem (true) or how electric cars are better (true!) but at the end of the day cars are an expense future us likely wont be able to afford. my solution to this is decentralized cities- almost everything u need regularly is within walking distance- and comprehensive, free, public transit (to get to the places not walkable).

but, im sure youre wondering, what happens to all these parking lots? theyre not needed anymore! well obviously a lot of things will be torn up in Leo's Plan For The Fucking Future She Won't Ever Get Because Some Fucking Old Men In Power Aren't Ever Going To Face The Goddamn Facts but im thinking...... what do we always need? food. what do we need CLOSE to us? food. what is generally close to us? parking lots! the parking lots become a place to get food. tear up the asphalt, get a compost pile. people help grow the food and then they eat the food. it works out. standards (things like wheat, or a grain that grows in your climate, a starch, a few veggies, a fruit tree or two, etc) will be in every farm. animals and less immeditaly needed foods will be on only a few throughout the city. when our food is close to us it eliminates more transportation costs and creates a sense of community.

my only worry is that small gardens might lead to chronically decreased efficiency- if people have to work unnecessarily hard, this is out. auto-drip-irrigation is ideal, as well as other day-to-day tasks being carried out my computers, but im not sure how much splitting these farms up will interfere with those. of course im also a city girl so i dont know much abt farming at all! i just come up with these plans to keep myself hopeful.

#imagining a sustainable happy future keeps me going sometimes.. #leo.ask