#like. ​we are still here. we are latine

[solarpunkani]

Y'know someone's probably waxed poetic about this already but it's on my mind so I'm gonna do it again.

When it comes to encouraging people to learn about native plants and habitat and involving themselves and their yards in the wider ecosystem, you gotta meet them where they're at.

And maybe that means they won't go as far into it as you are or would like them to in your wildest dreams. But even small steps count towards the bigger picture and I think we need to appreciate that more.

An example from my own life is my mom and the current gardening project we're working on. We're planning out the garden beds in the front of the yard by the mailbox--my mom's previous plantings for the most part haven't worked out, so I'm taking a crack at it.

I'm a pollinator gardening enthusiast who cares more about attracting as many butterflies bees and hummingbirds as possible than keeping things 'neat' and 'tidy'. However, not only do we live in an HOA neighborhood (though not as intense as some other stories I've heard), but I know my mother--an interior designer who has a deeply vested care for making sure the exterior of the house looks as Nice as possible.

We're still getting a pollinator garden in the front though. How? I'm meeting her where she's at, I'm making some concessions, she's making some concessions, but ultimately we're making something that works for the both of us. She doesn't want the plants too tall and messy? We'll trim them back in fall and winter--the insects can use the backyard garden to nest in. She doesn't want things too wild and bushy and weedy? We'll add a nice mulch to the beds, keep things a bit spaced out until they grow in to their larger sizes. She doesn't know the latin names for the plants I'm asking for, let alone how to pronounce them to ask for them at a garden center? That's fine, I don't know the Latin names for most things anyways, let's just use common names.

Does she care that the garden will attract butterflies and hummingbirds? Not intrinsically--she sees it as more of a bonus, if anything. She just cares about what color everything will be and if it'll be easy to maintain. The fact that they're native plants barely registers as a plus side to her. And honestly? That is fine.

If I approached this problem with a hardheaded attitude on how I wanted it to be just as wild and free as my backyard garden? There wouldn't be any native plants in the front beds. It's not like I didn't teach my mom things, but I didn't lecture her like she was lesser just for not knowing or caring as much about native gardening as I do. And that, ultimately, made her more open to the idea than she would've been if I looked down on her like I've seen too many people do to others.

Not everyone is going to develop a deeply seated care about native plants and Latin names and I don't think it's reasonable to expect that. Meet people where they're at and you just might get a lot more done. Meet people where they're at and you just might find they'll get excited enough to learn more--but if they don't want to learn more, that is fine.

We can't expect everyone on the globe to suddenly become plant experts rattling off Latin names left and right and professionally ID'ing native and invasive plants. In the same way we wouldn't expect everyone to suddenly learn the ins and outs of learning code, or how to synthesize medicines, or how to properly build a house. And that is fine. Because we can lean on those who do know when these things come up.

I lost track of where this was going but. Y'know????

#out of queue #ani rambles #may delete later #like idk between the CPBD channel and some posts ive seen on here #it feels like a lot of people expect EVERYONE to learn ALL the Latin names for everything and thats just not realistic #Latin names make me fuckin dizzy just hearing them out loud 99% of the time #we can't admonish your everyday homie for referring to things by their common name and not knowing the ins and outs of native gardening #you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. don't look down on people for things they don't know and instead lift them up #thats the best way to get people curious about wanting to learn more #and lead by example. show good results and people will be interested. #i put up a bird feeder for the first time like 2 years ago and just this weekend my mom decided to buy a window feeder because she likes #seeing the birds. does she care about providing habitat for wild creatures? no she just likes seeing the pretty birds. #im not gonna lecture her for not putting up a birdhouse and birdfeeder and just wanting to see the birds??? thats stupid #if she wants to get into more then she'll get into more and if she doesn't even a small contribution is still a contribution yknow? #like if someone's doing something actively/with risk to be harmful by all means talk to them about it but like #dont be fuckin rude guys #im going to bed

[laprimera]

the one thing I love about spanish is that you can tell where somebody is from after awhile with how they use certain words. its super diverse....and super hard at the same time because of how diverse it is gdfgf

#ooc. ･ﾟ ✹ #i remember mentioning how I love conchas to sb but after a little laugh they mentioned it was slang for a woman's🍑 #we both laughed after a sec cause they were from colombia and im a funky lesbian mexican #and apparently some mex peeps also know and use it as slang LMAOO so even within our own dang language theres diff #course thats to say spanish IS my second language so im still learning more then small convos from what my parents/grandparents taught me #and if I can KINDA understand what yur saying then Im like: hm...italian maybe? or -insert latin romantic language here- #so im just even more fucked and I love spanish when the chances come OTL #anyways dumping in tags over-waiting for adderall to kick in as you can tell--

[rubberbandballqueen]

it is becoming Increasingly Clear to me that i can no longer be taken out into public because i will start doing to fonts what jirt would do to the rocks and plants whilst on little walks

#the worm speaks #i'm noticing that a lot of signage these days don't have small caps which is a bit sad but i suppose they are somewhat antiquated #most of them have just straight up all-caps and i'm like 'mmmm. would a small caps version be better here?' #the other day i was like 'what if i left everything behind to get a job at a type foundry in taiwan. what then.' #what would i bring to the table there? why a sense of western aestheticism for the latin glyphs in their fonts #combined with a lesser but probably still noteworthy knowledge of chinese calligraphy to help ensure there is a sense of unity #btwn the latin and chinese glyphs #and also kerning i would bring kerning to the table for the latin glyphs. like if we Must be monospace abt things we can do that #but on god. the number of times i download a cn script font and go 'ah.' bc the english is the Ugliest monospace serif you'll ever see #fortunately while it is a bit of work it's at least easier to match english fonts to cn ones bc there are So Many more free ones lol #the other day i was looking through a chinese font website n i was reading their ~story~ behind this one particular series #that they based off the calligraphy in these five or six Ancient Rare Books in the national palace museum #and they were like 'yes the poetry was beautiful and moving. but to a type designer the writing itself is even more attractive' #and i felt so called out. i have just the most incurable font disease on the planet lmao #the other thing i think that might be neat to bring to cn font design Would be the concept of italics #like i know that's just not a standard thing and that Makes sense bc to oblique the letters is just #like. why would you do that. it's hard to read. but the spirit of italics is to change the font style entirely whilst keeping in harmony #with the rest of the regular typeface which i think would be Neat to bring in esp since italics usually have a bit more flourish to them #the other day i also found out that fangsong is used in government documents n i was like #>:0 no wonder it has every character and variant known to man......

[woozi]

thank u for giving this lil blog lots of love even though i'm not as active as i used to be 🥰

#very much surprised to still see it growing and to still be receiving messages/asks even though i've been away for a bit #sorry i've been unable to answer them i promise to get to them very soon!! i appreciate all of them more than you'd ever know 🥹 #people on main might not have noticed bc that one's running on a queue that goes on for 2 months at a time but dndndjjd #also don't think i explicitly mentioned the reason why i've been pretty ia but it's because uni and my other orgs are meeting- #-face to face now again #it's also my final semester in uni!! think i'm graduating with latin honors <33 #life has been very busy and i really missed coming on here to hang out with everyone and create lil somethings 🥹 #thank you very much for sticking with me all this time!! <3 #just giving you all a bit of a life update in case u were wondering where i was hehe #though idk if ppl will even see/read this 😭 #but if ure still here and u got to this part thank u again and ily <33 hope the days r increasingly kind to u & that today is a v good one!! #if not here r some flowers 🌹🌸💐🌺🌷🌻🌼🪷 #and candies!! 🍭🍬 #or hugs if you'd like them better 🤗🤗🫂🫂 #hope u all know i'm always just here if u need a friend (even if we haven't talked b4)!! i'm just a bit slow with replies hehe #anyway #thank u again everyone <33 it's so nice to see all of u again!! #i'll try to come on here a lot more 🥰 #y.txt

[kqluckity]

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#ill stop talking about the divina commedia now i promise #you guys just need to understand one thing. here it's not just a book or a theological writing or something #like yes it's all of that #but it's also the basis on which the it*lian language is founded #that's why I'm passionate about it #like!! he wrote a whole poem in vulgar language when everyone still used latin okay!! he went and told everyone #hey you know what. yes you can actually use vulgar to speak of important matters! he also invented many words that we still use #you can even use it to talk about god. look at me I'm doing it #and used the comedy form because it would be more captivating or something like that #also fun fact (?) he didn't call it the divine comedy. he just called it ''the comedy'' #divine was added later by another ''italian'' poet (boccaccio)(yes the guy whose work inspired the Canterbury tales) who recognized how #important it was #like. just calling it la commedia was probably the only humble thing dante ever did #k after this lesson (?) in the tags of this post. I'll leave and stop talking about it

[arthur-r]

genuinely how does someone succeed in college when you’re so terrified of being incorrect or looking stupid that you can’t even say anything to begin with???? i was trying to go into this year brave and everything but i’ve already been laughed at multiple times by a class full of people older and scarier than me and i already feel like i’m being judged and underestimated for so many reasons that i don’t want to give anyone another reason to look at me that way. but it’s gotten to the point (in the less than one week that classes have been in session; maybe it’s always been at the point) where i’m failing to submit assignments because i know that my teacher is going to see it and think i’m stupid, and never listen to me again, and i’m going to lose all the credibility that i’m trying so desperately to hold onto. and i know from a logical standpoint that it’s the teacher’s job to meet people where they’re at and lift them up from there, but honestly is that much even true anymore?? isn’t college about figuring out who has what it takes and who is going to get left behind???? why did i enroll in fucking honors classes of course i can’t do this???? i’m really not feeling well and i stayed in tonight and missed dinner and i miss home and i miss being able to talk to my friends and not be actively ruining my future. i feel like i’m always good until i’m not, and i don’t realize i need help until i’m too far in and by the time i get it, i won’t need it anymore but i’ll have ruined everything back when things were worse. i’m isolating from my roommate (who hates me because he thinks i hate him) and losing every friend i’ve started to make at the same time as i’m losing all the real friendships that i already have. and my roommate is across the room right now as i’m quietly fucking crying. and i want to go home and i want to be safe. and why is everything so unfamiliar and simple and wretchedly complicated.

#im really not feeling well. i want to go home and im not used to that at all #i miss my little sister. i miss my teachers and i miss my friends. im not used to this #what prompted all of this: i was trying to do my linguistics homework and i made it about an hour in coming up with faulty hypotheses #and i realized that far of the way through. that the only dialects i’m fucking familiar with are all fucking variations of north central #‘whoa somebody talks similar in anchorage as they do in taylor’s falls?? it must signify a deep linguistic thread traceable over generations #they’re just both right next to fucking canada???? of course they fucking sound similar???? the fact that i don’t know anyone from the east #or the south and even the people i know in the west are still the same fucking thing we all talk the fucking same #i know village english that’s a little fucking interesting but it’s not like i have any INSIGHT i don’t KNOW anything!!!! #told my french teacher i’m learning latin he asked me if it’s fucking ecclesiastical because once you’re in college it’s just normal i guess #i just feel like. yes i’m here because some part of me stood out from my peers. but in this group of special people?? i’m nothing!!!! #so i’m really struggling. and i want a hug and i wish things were different. i want to be here but i don’t feel like i deserve it #and i’m not going to get anything done if i keep feeling like this #i dont know. i hope everyone is doing well. sorry for the extra stress it’s just really difficult and strange #i hope everyone has a good night - i’m heading to bed soon #me. my post. mine. #friends only #vent cw #delete later #and everyone here speaks fcuking MANDARIN or something and all of a sudden my five years of french feels fucking basic. #kids who have been in advanced programs since birth. the imposter syndrome is fucking PALPABLE!!!! i want to go home and i want to forget #okay i’m done. im done!!!! everything is fine. hope everyone is well

[katyspersonal]

I love the dreams in which the chorus of Hail the Nightmare sings for me... It is a different song every time, but they are always so beautiful, so... genuine? Invoking emotions I can't even identify. They are entrancing and elevating. Singing of Choir (that I presume is in Ebrietas lyrics) just feels so cold and hollow in comparison, it doesn't have fire in it.

Really would love to see (or rather, hear, haha) another dream like that.

#personal #dreams #i miss that one mutual who was also excited to discuss such things and believed micolash was- #-a legit dream demon that settled in collective unconsciousness #hope they are okay. they said they were to take a long break from internet. #tonights dream was a torture though #in tonights dream ive met a friend ive lost like 5 years ago again #and was telling her how much i missed her and how much i feared id never hear her- #-talk about a [personal thing between us] again #so we were just talking like that... only for me to wake up and realize shes not here #and will never be #i just want to listen to another one of mensis songs #it is... bizarre really. these songs sound REAL. i swear they use proper latin somehow. #like if my brain just became a radio receiver #but they have 'fire' unlike choir singing. and in my dreams they lack downing sinister vibe of- #-Hail the Nightmare. they instead sound much more uplifting and dignified #like if those madmen still had more to look for than just dying and shedding away their humanity #Hail the Nightmare is madmen chorus (derogatory) but in my dreams its madmen chorus (affectionate)

[soldier-poet-king]

I MAY BE STUPID

So I'm reading Hugo's the man who laughs, which has been on my tbr forever and I'm trying to read more classics bc now that I'm not in school my brain is itchy, and it is literally ONLY NOW occuring to me that the central disfigurement in the novel CLEARLY AND DIRECTLY must've inspired the Joker and the facial scars which many iterations of the Joker are depicted with.* No not even the existence of "batman: the man who laughs" was enough to clue me in to the connection. Truly I am Dumb As Rocks

*Like I'm not saying the original Joker is a clear reference but in the last century of comics clearly artists and writers have made the connection and drawn inspiration and it is only now occuring to me

#franposting #IN MY DEFENSE #in my head its lhomme qui rit #im reading it in english bc im lazy and hugos prose is SO LONG #but i tend to think of novels in their original languages when its a language i know (ie. french latin italian lit) #BUT STILL #WE DUMB AS FUCK OUT HERE #im sitting at work like. girl what the fuck. u are the dumbest bitch on gods good earth #how did it take me this long to clue in. a batman stan and french lit wannabe simp

[nostalgia-tblr]

okay mobius/loki ends up as a wholesome bromance where they hug for a suspicious length of time in that void place but surely it started out fucked up? like in that first episode it's essentially "i shall break this person emotionally so that i am left with something malleable that i can use for my own purposes" and also surely the original plan was to killl this tame loki when he'd caught the more dangerous one? because he can't put him back into the timeline, and the TVA don't recruit they create, and so that presumably means that while he was claiming to offer a shot at finding purpose/redemption/etc what he was *really* offering was a stay of execution but he was lying about it because why help someone who's planning to kill you eventually anyway?

and that's fucked up and therefore i like it, so obviously as usual that means nobody else sees it this way and i am sitting alone in a corner wondering why everyone else thinks it's super fluffy and cute.

#also he did lie about sylvie being dead just to see how loki would react #mobius is lovely mostly but he's also just doing his job and sometimes that's horrible #also LBR here lokius is a crap name for a ship it just looks like latin #all the ships on this have shit names :( #do we still call this meta? #there's a 'fridge horror' to this pairing that i'm quite delighted by basically #the fridge horror of mobius in general really #i think everyone both fictional and real falls for his friendly facade? #still afraid to use tags people might find #loki series

[wild-at-mind]

Also now I'm feeling really shit about not getting to anything for trans day of remembrance this year.

#i literally missed it because i suck :( #but also i've been feeling kind of weird sometimes about it #the name reading where you just know all the latin american names are mispronounced #this is the uk where it's harder to find a latinx person (or even a spanish person) to be able to help with that or do the reading #but still i think it needs some preparation beforehand if at all possible #i know these things don't have the greatest support network behind them but still :/ #i just think there's something really sad about messing up the names of trans people specifically! #even if it's not in a misnaming/transphobic context #also i've seen the criticisms i know this can tend to be about white middle class trans people making it about ourselves #or something but i don't know what the solution to that is #and like any vigil maybe it's main purpose is as a symbol and to bring people together #i just remember in like 2018 when i travelled to the next town over (because there's nothing like that here) #and went to the before event and it was packed out #and my people from my bi/pan meetup group were there (i wish that group still existed :( ) #some as allies and many as trans people because surprise tonnes of bi and pan people are trans way more than you'd think from the discourse #i was kind of in the in between space between ally and trans back then #i had no idea what i to do about that but in that moment i felt such love and compassion coming to me from that room #the kind i had trouble giving to myself #i think that has value even though i fully take on board the criticism of the day #we can say trans people murdered around the world are our siblings but we really have no idea what their lives are like #but maybe that's the key thing-that solidarity can still happen if we look outwards as well as inwards? #figuring out you're trans means looking inwards by necessity but we can also look outwards and say 'i can't ever fully understand #but i want to' #i don't know i feel weird tonight sorry to ramble :(

[undyinglantern]

wait okay last comment about this but as a latino american i have literally never seen large groups of stray dogs like that here in the states but i did constantly see stray dogs (usually underweight with visible ribs) in guate

#i did not grow up in la but i am still from southern california and like earthquakes are just a expected thing here #but i do get why people are upset about it #personally i think the show criticism got blown out of proportion and largely due to perspective #the experience of latinos from latin america and latinos from the united states arent the same #with the boom after crazy rich asians and esp after eeaao/turning red the conversation of asian diaspora got bigger and we deserve the same

[futureofthemasses]

This gala we are trying to hold for my refugee group is 1000% cursed

#i got thrown into co running it about a month ago #started off with one entertainment act needing to be changed #and struggling to get donations #so we changed how the raffle would go and it was organized and fine #still struggled getting coupons and gift cards but whatever we managed and got a lot of stuff in the end #then our president randomly asked someone to do entertainment without talking to us #so we had to figure out where they would go #and spent. way too long getting a program figured out #lots of assumptions about who was doing what without being clear about it #including a meeting i was almost left out of #then the bagpiper tentatively cancelled #then the latin dancers cancelled #and now here we are. likely cancelling the whole damn thing #because of these fucking wildfires #i am so done

[jimerlins]

Translated the alphabet used in STRAY

https://imgur.com/a/edxEpIc

NOTE: Mild Spoilers for STRAY. This album contains the chapter headings, so while it's not super-spoilery, it's still going to reveal some details if you haven't played it to that point yet!

My kid and I have been enjoying Stray thoroughly since it came out, and one of the things we both found fascinating is the language of the society in the game- you see it everywhere, in neon signs, in graffiti, and it really adds to the depth and mystery of this universe.

Both my kid and I are language geeks, me being a narrator and them just enjoying languages in general, so after I casually mentioned that I thought the in-game alphabet for the robots was probably an Aurabesh (Star Wars)-like letter-for-letter replacement of a Latin alphabet, we went to town on trying to figure it out. They mentioned they realized it was a replacement cipher when they saw the opening screen for the "Dead City" chapter.

Turns out that we were... mostly right. But not 100%. There IS an alphabet that's consistent. It's in the first image you see in this album. However, while we did find a lot of signs that were simply English, there were some that were Latin, and we think there might be a few in French (which would make sense, given that the developers are French).

But it gets a bit weirder. There's a bunch of symbols we simply don't understand because we don't have a good key for them. We started off with this one by taking screenshots of the chapter headings, which were subtitled in English, using those to get a few characters, then figuring out other characters from context. We've got nearly the entire alphabet solved now, but there's some signs with words using characters that don't have any correspondence at all to the ones we've deciphered.

However, nearly all of these are in the "dead" parts of the city, where there's signs in English, which could mean these are in Chinese or some language we don't understand, or maybe they're intended to be an earlier version of the language the robots in the city now use.

There's also some "cursive"-like versions of many letters which are more difficult to understand, so some of the signs are much harder to translate. There's even some where they mash ideograms together to combine them, which is also interesting.

So here's the alphabet key, along with a few images we've provided some captions for. Our working theory is that many of the posters are written in Latin (including some Lorem Ipsum!), then translated to the robot alphabet, but it's possible they're in other languages also. Because many of the textures have "damage" on them, it's frequently difficult to parse all the words, and it's also often hard to tell where spaces go.

But we figure if we put this out there, others can come along and improve on and add to it!

NB: The alphabet key is not totally complete; the letters X and Z are missing, as we still aren't certain of those ones. (Updated: Z and X are found, and image key updated!) Also, there's some variations on some letters, and it's possible we made some mistakes. But it works for translating many of the signs and posters. For the translations we used Google Translate, which is probably awful, but better than nothing.

NB Also: The chapter headings sometimes differed from the subtitle in yellow. Where it does, the deciphered text is in white. Where it does not, there's no white text.

If anyone can offer more accurate translations of the Latin passages, please do!

#stray #stray game #cat #bluetwelve studio #bluetwelve #stray 2022 #stray lore

[medicinemane]

Oh hey, fairylights mod updated to 1.19 back in november... neat

Now I just need to figure out the biome thingy and technically I can work on this project whenever. Maybe next year I'll have a nice village to wander around in

#no spell check; I don't believe in capitalizing months and days unless I feel like it #what do you think I am; German? #the important thing to remember is that every language rule doesn't really matter #the real test is can you break it and feel fine and be understood; if yes it's prescriptive and can be ignored if you feel like it #as opposed to if I say 'I to the store went yesterday get eggs'... clearly that's not allowed #it's so not allowed that it's hard to even do on purpose and you notice I'm still following rules like not breaking up 'to the store' #always fun to poke and prod and see what you're allowed to do in your language; like investigate how it works #cause you're better at it than you realize; you have all kinds of secret rules you know by heart in your head; and that's grammar #stuff like... it's kind of hard to just toss out and 'if I...' statement without following it with a then statement or a question; right? #otherwise I'm just kind of leaving it dangling #but yeah... people are always so worried about what's 'correct' in language #what are you; french? are you an old french man dictating how the language is to be spoken? #if I can toss out words and you get it; i spoke right. like look here; breaking all kinds of punctuation stuff cause it's tags #but you know what I'm saying and frankly this is how it's usually done in tags; less capitalizing and all that; innit? #just do whatever with language; have fun with it; don't worry if it's right or not #was just vibing a thing till it was a thing? would it have been 'bad english' to say till it got tossed in the lexicon? who cares? #linguistics are super interesting; a language's structure is super interesting; ideas on how language effects how we think is interesting #idioms are interesting like how if I 'talk about' or 'talk on' something those have totally different vibes #but it's totally arbitrary; if a bird is on a tree or in a tree varies language to language and neither is right #but yeah... do what you want with it; damn perscriptivism and all these made up rules (cause so many old dudes thought we should be latin) #language is one of the few truly democratic things out there; and you should just have fun with it #mm tag so i can find things later #funny enough purely for these tags rather than the post

[astonmartinii]

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oscar's gf is a lil kooky but she puts solstice to good use and mainfests some luck for her bf

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[rogueddie]

There are a lot of rumors about Eddie Munson. From his sexuality, to his religion, to him being some sort of supernatural creature.

Steve doesn’t put a lot of merit in most of them. They’re usually just bullshit people make up to entertain themselves with whilst beating down on the weird kid. Steve thinks it’s boring… usually.

He’s seen enough weird things happen around Munson to know that something isn’t right. Something about him is unnatural. And Steve is staying clear out of the way of whatever the hell he is, or whatever the hell he’s messing with.

Unfortunately, his friends haven’t gotten the message.

“Do it at your own house!” Steve complains, though he makes no move to stop them. He’s sure it’s nothing, that it’ll only lead to an annoying clean-up job, but there’s a nagging sense of dread writhing in his gut. “This shit is bull anyway.”

“If it’s bull then what’s the problem?” Tommy counters.

“Because none of you dickheads are going to help clean this shit up!”

“I promise to help you clean up,” Carol says. “There. Problem solved. Right?”

"It's still stupid," Steve mutters, glaring at the janky make-shift pentagram they've made. "And a bad idea."

It's drawn on nine pieces of paper- they wanted to draw it big on the floor, but Steve had but his foot down. He lets them use some of his moms candles as a compromise.

With the lights off, sitting with the two of them in a circle, it suddenly feels too real. Even Carol looks suddenly nervous.

Tommy is the only one still smirking, though Steve is sure that it's forced. His voice shakes a little as he begins reading off the paper he'd torn out a library book. His Latin is clunky.

At first, nothing happens.

Long enough that Carol says, "did you even say it right?"

"Yes, it even has-" Tommy starts.

The candles all blow out, suddenly. The light Steve had left on in the kitchen flicks off too, plunging them into complete darkness.

After a horrible moment, where they're still and silent, Carol yelps.

"Don't grab me, Tommy, that's not funny!"

"I didn't grab you."

"Wh- Steve?"

"No," is all Steve can get out.

"I'm turning the lights on," Tommy says. "This is ridiculous."

Steve listens to his footsteps and, when he sounds like he's almost at the light switch, he yelps.

"Fuck this," he says.

"What the fuck, Tommy!" Carol yells when they both hear him running past them. She's up on her feet immediately, chasing after him.

He wants to scream after them, plead with them to come back, that they shouldn't be abandoning the circle.

But, the same gut instinct that insists he stay where he is, keeps his mouth shut. Everything in his being is telling him that if he leaves, if he speaks first, horrible things will happen to him.

Something tuts, like a parent admonishing a child.

The living room light flicks on, so bright that Steve has to blink a few times to clear away the white spots.

Eddie Munson sits in the space they left empty.

"Someone didn't read the terms and conditions," he snickers.

"What..." Steve pauses, clearing his throat. "What are the, uh... terms and conditions?"

"Oh, they're simple, really. Look," he holds up the page Tommy had read the incantations from, pointing to the little paragraph at the end. "They even translated it to English! But all you need to know, big boy, is that you are A-OK."

"And... Tommy and Carol?"

"Eh, they're fine. Lucky, really. I'm trying to relax up here. I'm only gonna pay them back with a minor curse or two. Nothing lethal."

"Fuck."

"We haven't even got to you yet!" He spins around so hes laying on his belly, resting his chin on his palm. "You didn't technically summon me so you can just tell me to leave... or."

"Or?"

"Deal with no consequence, baby. One wish, whatever you want, free of charge. Well... I'd want your silence about the whole... summoning thing. Let's consider that payment."

He doesn't need his gut or book to warn him that it's a bad idea. Munson could be lying, easily. There could be fine print. It's a bad, very bad idea.

"There's... definitely no consequences? I won't, like, go to hell for this?" Steve finally asks.

"Do some charity work for a week, you'll be fine," he says, waving his hand around. "What do you want, King Steve?"

"Could- could you make someone love me?"

"Oh, ho ho ho! Who's the unlucky lady who said no to you?"

"No, it... it's not like that. I mean, um... my mom."

Munsons smile drops. The temperature drops with it, making a chill run up Steves spine.

"Your mom," he repeats.

"They're busy like, all the time," Steve automatically defends. "And they're barely here so, uh... of course they wouldn't- I mean, it's normal, right? You can't love a stranger or... whatever. It's fine. It's just... I don't know."

"Steve..." Munson pauses.

He groans, throwing his head into his hands, dramatically. He almost immediately flings his head back up, hair flying everywhere, giving Steve wide and pleading eyes.

"I can't make people fall in love or any shit like that. I can make illusions, that's it. Love is, like... way out of my jurisdiction."

"I- I'm ok with an illusion. Like, just one day or something."

"Steve, baby, you're breaking my heart."

"Please?"

"Jesus- ok!" Grumbling, Munson shifts so he's kneeling. "And in return, you won't say shit about any of this. Deal?"

"Deal."

"Great. Ugh. This next part is... weird."

"What do you mean, weird?"

"It's weird, I don't know. Deals about, like, love are sealed with a kiss."

"You're joking."

"Nope, and that's not even the weird part. Now, come on and pucker up, let's get this over with." He gestures for Steve to shuffle closer, waiting until they're sat close enough that their knees almost bump together. "You can still change your mind. Anything at all, Steve. Anything."

"I thought you wanted to get this over with?"

"On your head..."

Munson leans forward, kissing him. It's just a peck, simple and easy. No big deal, right?

Steve feels possessed. It's like someone lit a match in his stomach, leaving him lightheaded and confused. He's not sure how he ends up in Eddie's lap, clutching onto his shoulders, desperately trying to lick into his mouth. He feels so-

He wakes up in his bed, the morning light blinding him.

"What the fuck..." he mutters to himself, grabbing at his throbbing head.

At first, he thinks he's hungover. That he'd just had a weird dream... but he's wearing the same clothes. And, sat on his stomach, is a guitar pic. It's got 'corroded coffin' written on it too- Eddie's band.

"Steve!" He hears his mom call. "Time to get up!"

He scrambles out of bed, dashing down the stairs.

She smiles when she spots him, so bright and warm. She even raises an arm, laughing when he practically throws himself into her side and hugging her tight.

"Morning, sweetheart. Good dreams?"

"Yeah. Yeah, great. But, uh... I feel sick."

"Oh no," she frowns. She puts her hand to his forehead, cooing when she brushes his hair out his face. "Is it your stomach?"

"Yeah. Just... might be better to stay home today. If that's ok?"

"Of course it is. I'm sure we can find something fun to do together, yeah? How about we get a vhs movie, hm?"

"I'd love that."

"Great. Well, if you're feeling up to it, I've made breakfast." She steps away, plating the food she's cooked up. "Oh, did I ever tell you about Paris? It was beautiful, you would have loved it. We should bring you, next time we go."

Steve can't stop smiling. He's sure that his cheeks will be aching by the end of the day.

He'll have to thank Eddie- as soon as he can even think about him without blushing. He'll need to ask if it's normal to still feel... affected, even after the deal is done.

Part of him knows it isn't the deal. Part of him is too curious about how Eddie will react.

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