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strawwritesfic · 1 year

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Howard Wolowitz x Female!Reader: Carnival

Summary: Sure, he can’t win a test of strength, but there are more important things in life to be won.

Rating/Tags: T (sexual references; implied sexual content; carnival; non-nerd!Reader; texting; bickering couple; bad date; Raj & Howard; Sheldon & Howard; not canon compliant; not anti-Bernadette; Reader does not get along with Penny; Reader does not get along with Sheldon; anniversary; established Howard/Reader)

Challenge: “160 Collective Drabbles” challenge by BobaPop on Lunaescence Archives.

Tag List: @imaginesfire

Carnival

Howard Wolowitz was a man of simple pleasures: Cheesecake Factory hamburgers, walks to the comic book store, World of Warcraft marathons on the weekends, and beautiful women. Only the first three of these was he able to regularly indulge in. Since he had met you, the latter was available more frequently…but he was starting to realize there was nothing simple about dating you, pleasure or no. In fact, he was beginning to wonder if perhaps he ought to resign himself to a love life consisting of nothing but online avatars depicting beautiful women.

The trouble was, Howard liked you. He liked you a lot. He liked you so much that it scared the brightly-colored skinny jeans right off him. Never before had he met a woman so intimidating and so attractive at the same time. Whether it was the way your lips parted when you were laughing (even when it was at him) or your eyes sparked when you were mad (not so much when it was at him), he was entranced.

Unfortunately, he didn’t think he’d have you around much longer, because he was seeing a lot more of the latter than the former these days. Tonight's date was turning out no different.

“A carnival,” you muttered to yourself as you drove through the flat landscape just outside the city. “Really? A carnival?”

You kept saying that, over and over, in that infuriating way girls had that made all men worry over whether or not to risk some reply. As you were nearing your destination, Howard’s restraint found itself under considerable strain. He squirmed uncomfortably in the passenger seat.

“Is there…a problem? With the carnival?” he asked finally, with some attempt at a smile, nervous as it was.

“Why would there be a problem with the carnival, sweetheart?” you asked brightly.

“Well, you just keep repeating the word to yourself.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” You returned your attention to steering, and added quietly, “You’d think we’d go somewhere a little more adult for our one-year anniversary, that’s all.”

“What was that?”

“Nothing,” you sang.

Whatever was eating you was very clearly not nothing. For the duration of the trip–all twenty minutes of it–you continued to grumble under your breath.

Howard drummed his fingers nervously against his knees in silence. Nothing. You’d said it was nothing. Once you got there, you’d have a good time. You weren’t the sort of girl to break up with your boyfriend on your first anniversary…right? He was being silly.

But if that were the case, then why, when the two of you got out of your car and headed for the blinking display in the distance, did you purposely step away from him when he tried to hold your hand? His palm wasn’t sweaty. He checked. You didn’t so much as grace him with a glance when he bought your entry tickets, let alone a smile. You merely pounded off down the lamp-lit corridor, looking quite pretty in the constantly shifting lights, but also quite angry.

“[Name], seriously,” Howard said when he caught up. “What’s the matter with you?”

“Nothing’s the matter with me,” you answered, but you did so while scowling and crossing your arms over your chest.

He almost laughed. “You’re not a very good actress.”

“And you’re not a very smart engineer!” you burst out suddenly. Before he could recover, you were barreling on, “You really can’t figure it out? Really? How old are we supposed to be? And where did you choose to take us for our date? A carnival!”

He blinked. And blinked. And blinked some more. Then he smirked. “Oh, I get it. You don’t think the carnival is very adult. Well, that’s just silly!” This time, he did laugh, with relief, sidling closer to add in a low voice, “There are plenty of adult things to do at the fair. For instance, there’s the tunnel of love…”

“I am not screwing you in the tunnel of love, Howard!” you shouted, so loudly that several nearby heads swiveled in your direction.

Normally he admired your brash approach to sex–really admired it–but maybe here wasn’t the best place to talk about that. There were kids around, after all.

He smiled sheepishly before pushing you further down the grassy lane. “That’s not what I meant. Well, okay, it is. But come on, [Name]. You told me to pick a place for our anniversary, and you didn’t like my first idea.”

“It was the Cheesecake Factory! You really think I wanted to spend my anniversary watching you ogle that waitress?”

Howard did not protest this blatant mischaracterization–because it wasn’t. There would have been ogling. Two beautiful women to look at on one evening? As if he should have been so lucky. Obviously, he hadn’t been. “Look, I had that plan. You shot it down. Now we’re here instead, with no Penny in sight.”

“You’ve never heard of dancing? Or dinner somewhere else? A movie, maybe?”

“Well, sure, those are the suggestions Penny gave me when I asked her–”

“You talked to Penny? About our anniversary?”

“She knows what girls like you like!”

“I am nothing like Penny.”

“You’re a little like Penny.”

Your hatred for Penny was well known within Howard’s group of friends (even by Penny), but honestly, was now the time? Especially when Howard had gone out of his way to not involve her in the evening.

“She’s a romantic. She knows what women in general like, but,” he added swiftly, “I know how much you hate her, so I used Sheldon’s idea instead.”

“Sheldon’s idea?”

He could not believe he was having this argument here, with the delicious smells of frying corn dogs and funnel cakes wafting through the air. Whatever happened to giggling and clinging to each other going through the haunted house? Why did there always have to be an argument?

“Yes. Sheldon’s idea,” he said. “Admittedly, he did say it was so we could be among our own kind–the clowns–but I thought it sounded fun, and it wasn’t anything she-who-must-not-be-named mentioned. So could we please just try to have a good time?”

You didn’t say anything, but you did follow him, so Howard figured that you had at least agreed to try. That turned out to be exactly what you had agreed to: trying, and nothing more. You did eat a corn dog…grudgingly. You did kiss him inside the tunnel…while scowling. And you did go with him into the House of Mirrors…you just didn’t come out with him.

Seeing you upset wasn’t exactly the way he had planned this night to go. No, his plan had involved a lot more smiling, a bit of inappropriate touching, and maybe some hanky-panky when you two got back to your apartment. None of that appeared to be on horizon now, and Howard was starting to panic.

“Let’s go try out the games now, all right?” he said, desperation coloring his words as surely as his vice-grip on your hand did.

You didn’t try to slip away this time, just sighed. “Howard, I’m tired. Can’t we go home?”

“And do what?” he asked, letting go of himself.

You stuck your lower lip out and shrugged, a sure sign that if he let you drive the two of you home, you would fake a headache and send him on his way as soon as you arrived.

“You haven’t even attempted to have a good time tonight. At least let me try. Here, I bet I could win you one of those bunnies."

He said this as you passed by one of the game stalls. This one was a little bit emptier, perhaps due to the scary-looking muscular carnie running it. The attraction was a strength tester, hammer, bell, and all, and almost all the prizes–the aforementioned pink stuffed bunnies–remained hanging from their posts at the sides of the tower.

“Howie, I don’t know…”

Your following bitten lip was the last straw. He crammed a roll of ones into the carnie’s outstretched palm, rolled up his sleeves, and picked up the waiting mallet.

“I think I know what I’m doing,” Howard told you over his shoulder. “Everyone knows these really don’t test your strength. It’s all in where you hit the pedal. As an engineer, I know the exact place. It’s simple physics. I’m guaranteed to win you a prize.”

He swung down with all his scrawny might, then waited, watching, listening. No sound followed. No ding. The weight went up two notches, hovered there, then…fell right back down to the pedal.

“Let me guess,” growled the carnie, “y’ didn’t mean to hit it there.”

Normally, Howard would have agreed. Normally, he would have tried again and again and again until he finally managed to impress the woman he had been seeing romantically (and sexually) for a year. But this time he couldn’t. Not anymore. If this date had proven anything, it was that Howard Wolowitz could never impress a woman like [F Name] [L Name].

He set the hammer down, carefully. Then he walked over to you, carefully.

“Meet you back at the car,” he muttered as he stared past you.

To the car, however, was not where he went. A long, oppressively quiet drive back to the city wasn’t going to help matters. Nothing would. At least a plate of funnel cake would make him feel less like throwing up that corn dog from earlier, though. Or maybe more. Still couldn’t make him feel worse than Raj texting him at that exact moment to check in:

Hey, man. How’s it going with [Name]?

Terrible, Howard replied.

Doesn’t like the carnival, huh? I knew you should have listened to Penny. [Name] likes that sort of thing, too.

[Name] is nothing like Penny.

She’s exactly like Penny, and she hates the date, doesn’t she?

Fine. Yes. [Name] hates the date. Does that make you feel better about yourself?

A little bit. I always said she was too good for you.

Raj had a point. Clearly Howard had no idea what he was doing. Of course he didn’t! He’d never had a one-year anniversary in his entire life. Not that Raj had either.

Heart sinking, Howard crammed a piece of funnel cake into his mouth. His stomach churned. If he tried to force anything else into his down his throat, it would all come out, and wasn’t that just the way he wanted you to see him before you dumped him? Better to start bracing for the inevitable breakup waiting for him in the car. He hopped off the bench to throw his plate into the overflowing trashcan nearby, only to run straight into one of those stuffed bunnies from before.

“Hey,” said a familiar voice.

Howard cast his eyes above the pink ears settled against two shapely breasts to see your face. This was of very little comfort to him, given the circumstances.

“Hey,” he answered sulkily, then brushed by to finish what he had been doing before you’d so rudely interrupted.

You followed, still clutching the rabbit.

Howard snorted. “New boyfriend win that for you? Let me guess. He’s the carnie.”

“No.”

Your voice was soft. Apparently you weren’t offended at the idea of sleeping with some muscle-bound weirdo, then, so long as he was muscle-bound. Howard rolled his eyes as he stalked off toward the parking lot.

“Howie, wait,” you called after him.

Against his better judgement, he did.

You ran up, paused, then thrust the rabbit into his chest. “I won him for you.”

A sardonic smile graced his lips before he noticed that there wasn't hint of sarcasm in your eyes. In fact, they were big and wide and beautiful and how could he be mad at you when you looked at him like that?

“You…did?” he asked as he hesitantly took the stuffed animal.

You averted your eyes. “Yeah. I mean, you wanted one really badly.”

“For you! Because I wanted you to get something out of this date!”

“I know.” You took a deep breath and forced your gaze back up to him. “I did. I’m sorry. I guess I just had so many expectations about this date that I…I sort of ruined it, didn’t I?”

“A little. This is cute, though. You really won it for–for me?”

“Who else am I gonna win it for?”

“Your new boyfriend?”

You responded by punching him in the shoulder–but softly. “The only boyfriend I want is you, okay? So long as you don’t want to break up with me over me being such a brat tonight.”

His first thought was to say of course not! When was he ever going to find another girl like you to agree to spend time with him? Or have sex with him for that matter? Howard had never had any luck in that department before. But he stopped that thought dead in its tracks, because he had got a wonderful idea.

“Well,” he said, fidgeting with the rabbit’s cheap plastic eye, “I am pretty sad. I went to all this work. If you wanted to make it up to me when we got back to your apartment, I wouldn’t say no.”

“Why did I just know you were going to try to guilt me into sex?” You shook your head, but at the same time, took his hand in your of your own volition for the first time that evening. “Come on, geek. We’ve got business to take care of.”

“Yes ma’am! And Mr. Bun can watch.”

You shot him a smile. Maybe the dumping wasn't inevitable after all. You did know Howard, and he knew you. A year was a long time. There was the slimmest chance that this was how the date had been destined to go from the very beginning. He’d got one of his one year anniversary wishes in the end, and if the hanky-panky was all he got, Howard certainly wasn’t complaining.

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disneythingsilike · 6 months

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Twisted Wonderland Cafe 2023

OH MY CAFE is presenting a new Twisted Wonderland cafe. https://twst2023.ohmycafe.jp/

There will be three open and running around roughly the same time frame. It's recommended that you make a reservation online.

The Goods and Menu are inspired by the Platinum Jacket art done of the character for the Disney 100 Celebration.

Tokyo will be from October 26th to December 12th 2023 Osaka will be from November 10th to December 17th 2023 Nagoya will be from November 16th to December 17th 2023

The cafe will feature food, drinks, and merch.

Cafe Menu https://twst2023.ohmycafe.jp/cafe_menu/

FOOD

Grilled Chicken Brest Plate (¥2,190 with tax) Inspired by a main dish that might be served at a party. Enjoy with either a side of salad or bread.

Grilled Salmon Plate (¥2,290 with tax) A dish with salmon as the main feature. Squeeze the lemon on it and enjoy♪

Tomato Sauce Hamburger Plate (¥2,290 with tax) A hamburger with tomato sauce. Decorated with ribbons matching the dormitories.

DRINKS

Yogurt Smoothie (¥1,390 with tax) A tri-layered smoothie inspired by Grim. Served with a dressed up Grim decoration.

There are 7 cider drinks on the menu, each one inspired by one of the dorms. Each one comes with a colored syrup in a bottle decorated with the dorm's embalm, and each containing a different flavor. All are priced at ¥890 with tax. None of them contain actual fruit juice. The picture above is an example of this drink, using the Heartslabyul one.

Heartslabyul is strawberry flavored with bright red syrup. Savanaclaw is mango flavored with yellow syrup. Octavinelle is blueberry flavored with light purple syrup. Scarabia is cherry flavored with a dark red syrup. Pomefiore is apple flavored with a dark purple syrup. Ignihyde is lemon flavored with light blue syrup. Diasomnia is melon flavored with dark green syrup.

You can get souvenir acrylic stands with these drinks, with the characters on the stands available corresponding with the dorm drink you ordered. For example, if you get the Pomfiore drink, you are able to get either Vil, Rook, or Epel. You are able to get any of them, however, if you get the Grim drink or the hot tea or coffee.

The last two drink options are Hot Coffee and Hot Tea (both ¥790 with tax)

By getting these you are able to buy a mug like the one they are served in (picture above).

GOODS

Goods are available both in store and online

Check out the links for the items. For the online store, they have both primary and secondary sales dates posted (times frames for when you can order). They warn some items may sell out before the event.

#Twisted Wonderland #Twisted Wonderland Cafe #Twisted Wonderland Cafe 2023 #Disney Cafe #TWST

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insectoidvoid · 2 years

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Attempting to put words to my otherheartedness

I've been thinking about the post regarding how difficult it is to explain what being otherhearted is like. And well, I guess I like a bit of a challenge. I'd also like to attempt to convey my experiences for the sake of anyone trying to figure out if they're otherhearted or not. While otherheartedness is broad and not everyone will experience it like me, I always think it's helpful to have people to compare notes with when questioning.

I'm going to focus on my spider hearttype for this post, for simplicity's sake. I might make another post about my fictional hearttype at a later date. I might not. Idk.

This is kinda long, so I'm putting it under a cut.

There are two main sentiments that I hold that led me to the label spiderhearted:

I feel a familial attachment to spiders

I feel I am a spider-themed person

On point 1:

I feel a maternal instinct towards spiders - something I notably thought I lacked entirely before I realized that the term could apply to other things besides human children. My brain registers basically every spider as my wonderful little child. I'm proud of them for being their spidery selves. I love them so much. Just looking at them brings me joy and comfort.

There is some nuance to this attachment because I feel it while also still seeing and appreciating them as a part of nature. So, it's not upsetting to me to see a tarantula hawk doing its thing or a bird hunting a spider or whatever. That's part of the spider's role in the ecosystem. It's important.

However, it is extremely upsetting to me when spiders are killed for no good reason by people. I don't even want to ever hear about it. It's also upsetting to hear people insulting them in general. I've blocked people just for calling them gross (and I'm not sorry about it).

On point 2:

This is definitely related to one of my kintypes (Widowmaker from Overwatch), but it plays into my otherheartedness in a big way as well.

You know how a lot of fictional characters have an animal as a motif, while still being human/humanoid themselves? I see myself as someone with a spider motif.

And I certainly enjoy presenting myself in this way. I like wearing spider-themed accessories and clothes. (Contrast this to the gear I have for my kintypes, where my aim is to literally look like that species or character instead. I don't have a shirt with a satyr on it, I have well-made costume horns and goat legs.)

And this applies online, too. My main handle is SpiderQueenPC. On sites I don't use as much, it's usually spidergoth.

I just really want people to associate me with spiders, basically. I'm spider-adjacent. That's part of my self-perception right alongside literally being certain species and characters.

On the surprise point 3 that I didn't list above because I don't consider it as crucial as the first 2:

I have some spidery traits. And by this, I mean a couple of things. The first one is pretty direct: I want to eat bugs. Not in the "I hate this animal so I want to eat it" internet comment way. (As I'm sure you can guess, I love bugs in general.) I just... don't see them as necessarily not-food the way most people do. Eating fried mealworms or whatever seems just as normal to me as eating a hamburger.

(Please don't derail this post by starting discourse about meat consumption in the notes. Please.)

The second one is metaphorical. I'm an illustrator. A professional one, now, but I've always drawn as a hobby. Throughout my entire life I have pursued this form of creativity out of what I can only describe as sheer instinct. I can point to inspirations for why I draw the way I do, but drawing in general? That's just innate to me, like eating and breathing. And I see spiders as a good metaphor for this. They, too, create out of instinct.

Conclusion:

Otherheartedness is multi-faceted and a little odd and that's what's lovely about it. I'm not sure how much this admittedly somewhat rambly post really conveys the experience, but at least I can say I tried. I encourage other folks in the otherhearted community to give it a go too, if you want to. Thanks for reading.

#otherhearted #otherkith #alterhuman #animalhearted #spiderhearted #♥#🕸

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thetalentedmrkashyap · 11 months

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B-8 : Sixty Years of The Beatles - The Memories of A Fan

As I write this article, I've started watching the Disney+ Series called The Beatles: Get Back. It was about the recording of Let It Be, their final album. It talked about the tension and differences among the Fab Four (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) and the end of an era of music.

What you're going to read is not a theoretical research paper about the history of the four Liverpool lads. It's not about their early stint as The Quarrymen, their original lineup with bassist Stuart Sutcliffe & drummer Pete Best, or their early gigs in Hamburg (Germany). It's not even about how manager Brian Epstein discovered the young talent, or for that matter - how Ringo replaced Pete Best as the drummer. It's about how a fan feels about it and its place in the fan's heart - as the band celebrated sixty years of its first album, Please Please Me (1963) - in March this year.

Talking a bit about myself, I first heard about the Beatles in a childhood story of John Lennon (1940-1980) that got published in Scharda Dubey's book The Best Days of Our Lives. I read it in September 2012. More than three years later (December 9, 2015), I came across a news story about the Beatles Ashram reopening at Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. I know the exact date because the previous day was the 35th death anniversary of Lennon. After reading it, I searched for them on YouTube - and that's when I heard the first ever song of The Beatles - We Can Work It Out. I kept to it for days before exploring the other musical gems. I was fourteen - and in ninth grade back then.

Every teenager faces adolescence-related problems (physical & emotional changes, insecurities, mental health, peer pressure, etcetera). For rescue comes a solution that proves to be life-changing. In my case, it was the music of the four lads from the unknown coastal city of Liverpool (not to mention that it became famous because of the band). Many of their contemporaries came along the way.

My personal Beatles souvenir Collection (Which I have maintained since 2016)

Coming back to The Beatles, my favorite Beatle was Lennon. Seeing them in live performances and music videos, I began practicing their songs on my keyboard - and eventually bought a guitar to match them. Like an ordinary obsessed fan, I bought souvenirs - guitar pics, music CDs, T-shirts, books, phone covers, etcetera online. I don't think any Indian fan could get such stuff in here that easily - even during the band's popularity years. They would get in the USA and UK - where such things would sell like hotcakes. I even made a poster at 15 about the band - which I pasted in my room.

Thanks to the band, I had quite a reputation as a music performer in school, college, and my locality. I would perform their covers at parties and musical events. Although, I couldn't play their songs in school. But thanks to them, I could look beneath myself to find the skills I possess. Hence, I decided to pursue entertainment journalism/writing. I often write similar songs - and try looking for a music producer to record them. When people suggest music software for completing the songs, I politely respond, "They won't have the same fun as the Beatles - and I want to keep that element in my songs."

As their first single, Love Me Do (1962), celebrated its diamond jubilee on October 5 last year - and their debut album on March 22, I can only say that the boys with the mop-tops are immortal and irreplaceable. Even today, I listen to the entire album the way I did seven years ago. I'm sure there are similar fans like me in different parts of the world - who admire the boys and express their admiration and obsession through various methods. With this, I put my pen down.

#the beatles #beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #brian epstein #george martin #pete best #stuart sutcliffe #billy preston #love me do #please please me #sixty years #diamond jubilee

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adultswim2021 · 5 months

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The New Big Ball With Neil Hamburger | Unaired 2008 pilot debuted online: November 7, 2013

The curse of Tasty Tuesday has been lifted!!! For some reason.

An Abso-Lutely production in 16:9?? As I live and breathe! The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger was an absurd game-show produced by Tim & Eric's Abso-Lutely productions. It’s produced a little more like a sketch about a game show than it is like a traditional game show. It doesn’t feel like a “real” game show, really, but nothing in it suggests that it’s completely scripted.

The main appeal of the show is Neil acting as a host and using very Hamburgian turns-of-phrase. In a trivia question he casually refers to Michael Caine as an alcoholic, and Billy Crystal as a “disgraced comedian”. He also bitterly berates his contestants, including one who doesn’t share any personal information about himself, opting to refer to himself as just a plain person. We also have Corbin Bernsen in an isolation booth for literally no reason.

This is pretty funny! I wouldn’t have minded if they did a season of this, honestly, because Neil cracks me up and the idea of him just hosting any show is already funny, almost no matter what it is. I do think the start of the show is funnier than the end, which isn’t so bad. Like the Richard Dunn talk show, I would have happily sacrificed a weaker episode of Awesome Show season three to air this instead.

Notable Tim & Eric connections include the muscle woman who appears in an Awesome Show season 5 sketch. When Neil eliminates one of the contestants, he tosses a drink his face and has the muscle woman escort him out in a headlock. Also, the audience shots would be used later, I think in the season 5 opener as well as the Chrimbus Special, but I’m not positive if it’s one, the other, or both.

I’m reviewing this here at the end of 2008, because it was reportedly shot in 2008. I’m not positive if the particular version of the pilot floating around actually IS from 2008 in any sense. I mention this because I found a few things that casually dated it being from 2010, meaning maybe it was reshot or it wasn’t properly edited/finished until 2010. There's no copyright year at the end, at least that I saw.

It was made available in 2013 on Adult Swim’s website. The copy floating around now looks pretty cruddy; too bad for what could be the first HD-produced Tim & Eric production (not counting Nite Live, of course).

My personal theory was that this was shot between seasons 4 & 5 of Awesome Show. I also think it’s very possible that season four was produced fairly far ahead of when it aired, which makes this being shot in 2008 still possible. I sorta get the impression that seasons 2-4 were shot rather quickly. But I don’t know this for sure. I hope I didn’t fuck up big time by not reviewing this in 2010. That would suck so much dick!!

EPHEMERA CORNER:

Moral Orel: “Nature” (combined cut) | January 1, 2009 - 12:00AM

For some reason I can't get that link to display like it usually does. Hopefully it's fixed by the time this posts. If you're reading this, I didn't fix it. Sorry.

On New Years Eve, Adult Swim ran a Moral Orel marathon that kicked off with a 30-minute combined cut of Nature, parts one and two. They aired the entire third season followed by the first five episodes of season one (in production order).

#adult swim #adultswim2021 #the new big ball with neil hamburger

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markets · 2 years

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to compensate for the Ls i have taken recently this summer is going to go CRAAAZYYYYYYYYY i will go clubbing with my fake id i definitely have. And i will have a beach vacation and city escapades and get a tan and wear a new outfit every day and get cancelled online for not promoting slow fashion and meet so many beautiful girls and boys it will be fucking insane. when i get back to school in the fall it will be the biggest event of that boy i keep blogigng about's life i will be like "Oh yes on my trip to the beach i met two boys my american boyfriend hamburger who lives all across the continent and my italian boyfriend whose name i didnt even bother to learn i think there were actually two of them who switched sometimes. And i was seeing them both att once and whenever i went on a date with one i had to wear a disguise the other wouldnt recognize hamburger still thinks im a redhead one time while reading fine literature on the beach with him the italian boy (who now that im thinking about it was named cazzo) passed by us and i had to hide in a potted plant. But its ok bc neither of them noticed anything was off hamburger was too focuseed on thinking about mud wrestling and a few hours later cazzo fed me grapes straight off the vine. Im still together with both of them they are very far away but they kiss me sweetly through the cell phone every night. How was your summer" and he will be like "Well i solved this theorem that🤓-" and ill be like "Did i tell you about the time hamburger took me to the derby"

#angiemarkets.txt

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learningselflove · 1 year

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Lessons in dress shopping

Every little girl fantasizes about the day she gets to put on a wedding dress for the first time.

Even at age 10, I had strong opinions about the dresses showcased on Say Yes to the Dress. I couldn’t wait to get married at age 20 just like my parents did. Well, things didn't quite work out that way (which I couldn’t be happier about now!). I’m 28 and I became engaged in October 2022. One of the first thoughts in my head after the initial shock wore off was, “Oh no, I don’t want to go dress shopping.”

I lost my mom to cancer when I was 11. It’s hard for anyone to go through a loss but especially on a child. My dad was the one with the career. He worked long days commuting to his job in New York City. After my mother passed, my dad tried his best to make sure I was fed. He didn’t know how to cook. He would make easy meals like spaghetti, frozen TV dinners, hamburgers, or chicken nuggets. I also decided to become a vegetarian when I was 14. I ate plenty of slices of pizza and plenty of bowls of pasta. It was easy and what worked for the both of us. This was before all the different types of mock meat they have at the grocery stores.

On a diet of pizza, pasta, and hormonal grief, you could assume I wasn’t in the best shape. I was shaped differently than all of the other girls in my grade. I wore a size 14. Other girls my age were wearing 0s and 2s. I didn’t have body image issues. I knew that I was also further along in puberty than they were.

I have spent most of my 20s trying to lose weight. I tried Keto, the meditteranean diet, low sugar, you name it. I have tried any work out plan I could get my hands on. It wasn’t until 2020 that I was able to have a doctor take my weight struggles seriously and my doctor finally ordered bloodwork for me. I was able to lose 30 pounds with very, very strict calorie counting. However, It was clearly insufficient for me. Eventually, the weight came back. When I received my bloodwork results, I had high testosterone. It’s almost impossible to lose weight when your hormones aren’t balanced.

I have been working on it losing weightfor two years now. I have finally taken medications that help me feel the way a functioning adult should. I have lost weight, but I was still uncomfortable regarding the idea of dress shopping. I spent countless hours admiring Pinterest boards and looking at the beautiful, curvy models wearing gorgeous ivory gowns. I couldn’t picture myself in gorgeous ivory gowns that showed off my figure.’m not shaped the same way as these models. I carry more weight in my stomach and my face. How am I supposed to feel beautiful?

I booked everything for my wedding early. It wasn’t until I spoke to my potential florist that I felt that I needed to go look at wedding dresses. To be honest, I was going to save that for the last possible moment. My florist wasn’t going to meet with me until I had my dress picked because she needed to arrange a bouquet to coordinate my gown. I guess I had to make an appointment as soon as I could.

I was anxious.

I was sick to my stomach thinking about putting on a dress; especially in front of other people. I prepared myself to look my absolute worst. I expected these dresses to hug every curve - in a bad way. My brain had already accepted the fact that I’d be forced to wear a dated ball gown because of my body type.

I wasn’t going to let my poor self-esteem ruin one of the most memorable days of my life. I put on makeup in a traditionally bridal style. I wore a smokey eye with the tiniest bit of glitter on the inner corner of my eye. I curled my hair to look like it had just come out of French braids. I wore my most expensive perfume.

I made it to my appointment and met with the sweetest bridal stylist. The stylist pulled the dresses I picked from the online selection. I tried on the first one - I fell in love. It was a gorgeous mermaid style dress. The bodice was lace with plenty of tule emerging from the thighs. The neckline was plunging and there were whimsical detached sleeves.

I felt empowered.

I felt confident.

I felt like this dress was for me.

I couldn’t pick the first dress I try on, right? Of course not! I needed to try more.

I tried three more dresses on. Each was a different style, shape and texture. These were all dresses I liked on the models. It wasn’t until my stylist asked how I was feeling about the choices I made. One felt too matronly, another hugged my stomach way too tightly, and the third just wasn’t right for a Halloween wedding. My stylist had an idea of what I would like at this point. I let her pick one more for me.

She carried the dress in, and at first, I had no idea what I was looking at.

There were so many different textures and patterns that I thought it would be a hideous dress. BUT I was wrong. It was perfect. The dress was similar to the first dress; but better. There were bits of glitter down the middle of the bodice. The tulle that extended from the thighs was patterned with the smallest bit of intricate lace. The dress hugged my curves; the right way this time.

I felt like the most beautiful bride.

I couldn’t stop looking at myself.

It was also in that moment that I realized I was being too hard on myself. I should be proud of the small accomplishments I have made with regard to my health. My future husband clearly thinks I am beautiful enough to be his wife. My family cried when I put on a dress in front of them. My own worst critic is myself. I was able to find a dress that looked fantastic on my atypical body type.

There was a lesson for me to learn: women are too hard on themselves. We don’t need crash diets to fit a dress. We are not born to fit in clothes, clothes are made to fit us.

#self love #self worth #curvy #body positivity #plus size bride

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mydisenchantedeulogy · 1 year

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Character Description: Ria McGill (Fragile Lines)

A/n: Ria is a character from an upcoming project in the ‘Better Call Saul' fandom.

General Information

First name: Ariana

Middle name(s): Coralie

Surname: McGill

Preferred name: Ria

Nickname(s): Ana (Jimmy), Sunshine (Nacho).

Age: 34

Date of birth: May 15th, 1968

Zodiac sign: Taurus

Gender: Female (she/her)

Relationship status: Single

Physical Appearance

Height: 176 cm (5'9")

Weight: 67 kg (126 lbs.)

Eye color: blue

Shape of face: heart and square

Distinguishing features: angular jaw.

Build of body: thin

Hair color: brown

Hairstyle: long, coarse, and wavy.

Complexion: fair

Jewelry/accessories: depends on the ensemble, though she regularly wears lipstick in 'Prickly Pear'.

Personality

Likes: music and walks.

Dislikes: liars.

Education: M.D. degree

Fears: making decisions that may hurt or kill someone, both in her career and in her personal life.

Personal goals: to save lives and buy her own house.

General attitude: polite, trustworthy, and meticulous. She is quite determined in her opinions, though to a fault she can be stubborn and slow to adapt.

Religious values: Wicca

General intelligence: she is remarkably intelligent but also very imbalanced about certain things.

General sociability: extremely introverted. She has a tendency to trust easily which often leads to her getting cheated.

History

Birth Country: United States of America

Hometown: Cicero, Illinois

Briefly explain life story:

Ariana was born to Charles McGill Sr. and Ruth McGill, former convenience store owners in Cicero, Illinois. She has two older brothers, Chuck and Jimmy. Her father died when she was a child and she lived with her mother until she was 17, starting college at CSU. She officially became a licensed doctor at the age of 31 and started working in the ER back in Cicero until her brother Chuck got sick. Upon request, she transferred to The Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico in order to help Jimmy look after Chuck.

Relationships

Parents: Charles McGill Sr. (deceased) and Ruth McGill (deceased).

Sibling(s): Charles and Jimmy McGill

Important friends/relatives (explain): Everly Johnson (friend/co-worker)

Love interest (if there is one): Ignacio "Nacho" Varga (in due time)

Others

Occupation: emergency medical physician

Current home: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Favorite types of food: pasta, steak, hamburgers, and chocolate.

Favorite types of drink: water, Moscato punch (sprite, Moscato wine, and strawberry lemonade), and Dr. Pepper.

Hobbies/past times: playing the piano and reading her future via Tarot cards.

Guilty pleasures: sleeping in late on her days off, online shopping, and listening to songs on repeat.

Talents and skills: she’s good at multitasking, problem solving, decision making, suturing, and has a knowledge of medicine and the human body.

Favorite colors: silver and blue.

Favorite type of music: all genres though her go-to genre is rock and 90s country.

#Nacho x oc #Better call saul fanfiction

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befehlvonganzunten · 2 years

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german learning anon again 🙈 thanks for the recs! dark is my fav thing on netflix ♥️🥺 i was wondering if you could also recommend some german music?

hello anon! ich hoffe, es geht dir gut!

sure i can recommend some german bands and artists but just a little forewarning: my taste in german music is probably pretty basic and not exactly up-to-date 🥴 anyways, let’s start with the most obvious recommendation i can offer.

alligatoah (hip hop)

a german rapper from my second hometown who is known for his satirical streak and his intelligent wordplay. he can also sing and i haven’t heard a single song from him without a chorus that didn’t turn out to be catchy as hell.

he’s one of the few german rappers that i genuinely like bc he can be hilarious and serious without coming across as fake or pretentious.

personal song recs: feinstaub, vor gericht, du bist schön

tomte (indie rock)

they’re just neat imo. they’re part of the hamburger schule like tocotronic (a band that you should check out as well) and even though they split in 2012 they still hold a very special place in my heart because their lyrics are simply beautiful.

there’s something very melancholic about their music but that doesn’t take away from the fact that some of their songs are very danceable. idk. they’re a bit hipster-ish but i like them a lot and i think they’re criminally underrated 😅

personal song recs: schreit den namen meiner mutter, heureka, der letzte große wal

seeed (reggae/dancehall/hip hop)

the most berlin band i know. like, one of their first successful songs is called “dickes b” and it’s basically a love letter to the city and its culture. they often collaborate with other german artists like miss platnum or nura, and one of their core members, peter fox, is also a great solo artist.

i haven’t had the chance to see them live yet thanks to the pandemic but from what i’ve heard a seeed concert is an experience.

personal song recs: molotov, augenbling, love & courvoisier

deichkind (hip hop/electro pop)

i think i’ve said this before in another ask but for me deichkind sound like kraftwerk on crack. they’re nuts but that doesn’t mean their music isn’t good. they often criticize consumerism and online culture in their lyrics.

if you want to dance their songs are perfect for you and their music videos are also very entertaining.

personal song recs: dinge, befehl von ganz unten (hehe), like mich am arsch

i have no idea if my recs will help you learn german bc most of the lyrics of these bands and artists are satirical and require you to read between the lines a lot. however, i think my recs show that there’s more to german music than schlager (which is a genre i personally wouldn’t recommend if my life was at stake).

whatever. if there’s one thing i love to talk about besides movies, tv shows and literature it’s definitely music, so thank you for your ask ♥️

#ask #german music #alligatoah #tomte #seeed #deichkind

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toomanysurveys9 · 2 years

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Anything you’re looking forward to this month? I get to see my brother next week!!!! I cannot wait. What’s the current temperature? 52 degrees. Have you or would you ever forage for mushrooms? I haven’t and I probably never will. What’s something you dislike about spring time? Grass. I’m allergic to grass. What’s your favorite lollipop flavor? Probably strawberry or watermelon.

Are you into gardening and what do you enjoy planting? I’m not. What’s some flowers you find to be pretty? Lilacs. Sunflowers. Roses. So many beautiful flowers out there. Would you say you’re easy to get along with? I think so, yes. Who did you last hold hands with? Probably Nora while she was nursing this monring. What sounds help you sleep? The fan. Do you have a loud or more soft laugh? Somewhere in the middle. Tell me your best pick up line. I have none. What’s a song that reminds you of warm weather? Redneck Yacht Club by Craig Morgan. LOL. Do you have any interest in fairies? They’re cool I guess. What’s the last refreshing drink you had? Water. Do you name your plants? No. Do you like to dip your fries in a frosty or ice cream? I don’t. Do you prefer staying in cuddled up or going out for a date? Cuddled up these days. Cookies or brownies? Depends on the day, but in general... brownies. What is something you are proud of? Graduating college. My kiddos. Are you a fan of musicals? I enjoy them sometimes. Do you like lemonade? Do you add anything to it? I like lemonade. Especially strawberry or raspberry lemonade. Are you more of a fast talker or do you talk more slow? Slow I guess. Is there anyone who makes you smile no matter what mood you’re in? My three kids. What are some inanimate objects or things in general that have the same energy or vibe? What? What is something that is quick to cheer you up? My kids. Always. Have you ever stargazed with someone? Possibly. If you were royalty, what would you like to be addressed as? I have no idea. I suppose it’d depend what kind of royal I was? Are there any foods you could eat daily and never get sick of? I’m honestly not sure. Are there any things coming up that you have to travel for? Jon’s graduation from basic! What was a time when you have laughed so hard you cried? Oh man. Wyatt has been on something lately. He’s cracked me up until I cried so much lately just from some of the off the wall stuff he has been saying. Plan a good day. A day at home with my babies. What would you do with $10,000 right now? Catch up bills and put a large chunk in savings... and fix my windshield. I don’t have $500 to fix my windshield even though it’s really cracked. If you had to create an alter ego for yourself, what would they be like and what’s their name? Hm. Happy. Outgoing. With a lot of close friends. I don’t know their name. What’s one of your biggest accomplishments today? I showed up for work even though I just really want to be done since my last day is Thursday or Friday. Do you believe in reincarnation? why or why not? I don’t. What relative are you closest with? My kids. Ha. Do you have any recurring dreams? Yeah. They’re always nightmares. What last had you startled? I don’t remember. What emotion have you experienced most lately? Depressed. Let’s say there are no obstacles preventing this.. What would you do for the rest of your life? Travel. Learn to cook amazing meals. What last made you feel proud? Watching Wyatt open up when we took him to check out his school he’ll be starting in August. What’s an odd phobia someone you know has? I don’t think it’s odd. But spiders and rats. What did you last search online? An address for a work related thing. Do you have any ghost stories you’ve experienced? Eh. If you were to be a food, what would you be and why? Hamburger beef because I’m not worth a lot. Lol. When did you last dust your home? It’s been a couple weeks. If you could pick an age to stop aging at, what would you choose? I’d be fine staying 28. Recommend me something you’ve been into recently. (: I don’t really know.

#survey #surveys #personal #question #questions #random

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