Have females changed?
Was chatting with one of the neighborhood kids this weekend while I was out puttering around in the yard. I don't know how this worked into the conversation but he blurted out how his dad says women complain more now than they used to. Then he added how his father said girls were friendlier when he was a kid. Is that right, he asked me? My first thought is "How did we get onto this topic?" I then, am thinking I don't want to tell some kid his father doesn't know what he's talking about. I looked around to make sure I didn't have my wife or daughter in range to hear anything I might say. I've watched enough Law & Order episodes to know how things work. One wrong comment to the wrong person and I'm living on Rikers Island. I said that I think women are still as friendly as they've ever been. I will agree that females do seem to complain more than when I was a teenager. He then asked me if I had ever had a group of women scare me before? I told him twice that I can remember. Both these times were when I was in High School. Once while writing an editorial for our school newspaper I mentioned how I thought the girls in our school could put a bit more effort into how they dressed for school. I can still remember as I walked the halls at the end of the day many of the female students yelling at me. The neighbor kid laughed and said you were a crazy man. I told him I know, I don't know what possessed me to write that editorial, but my advisor gave it the O.K. I was then asked what was the second time you were scared by girls? I told him how my Senior year the girls' basketball team got all worked up over gym privileges. The boys practiced ball in the New Gym and the Girls in the Old Gym right next door. (It had always been that way and everyone had been happy.) It was a cute little old gym that was perfect for the ladies. If you were really still I believe you could hear the echo's of the past school teams that had used that gymnasium. I don't know what brought this all on but the girls got all militant and scary toward us boys basketball team members. They loudly demanded the other gym. I remember once while in a class a few of those girls, which I guess some would call assertive or warring girls today started yelling at my buddy Mike, Jimmy and me while we're just sitting in class talking about puppies or helping out the elderly in our community. They were scary and I had nightmares about them for quite a while. Men can be obnoxious and jerkish, I'll admit that, but women that can be downright mean and scary. In the movies, the female bad person is always scarier than a male bad person. So the kid asked who got what gym? I told him it ended up being divided up, sort of like a North and South Korea thing. Us guys just wanted to get along and decided to be tolerant. The girls team got enough to be happy and moved on to some other issue to get worked up about. My neighbor kid thanked me for my insight and sharing. Before he left he said his family is thinking of getting a pet. Do I have any advice about that? I told him you can always go traditional with a cat or a dog. But I have read where Gorillas make get house pets, if you can keep them off the furniture. I'd be careful smacking one with a rolled up newspaper.
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landoscar florist and tattoo shop AU. lando has made a name for himself choosing bold, architectural arrangements that match people's auras and horoscopes.
oscar’s one of the most sought after young tattoo artists who specialises in highly detailed, lifelike anatomical drawings.
their paths cross at a fashion collab event - lando is in his element, oscar pointedly is not.
lando notices oscar is anxious and sits down with him to sketch out a really detailed, sculptural tattoo idea. it causes a buzz - people are eager to check out their designs and like the merging of styles.
lando scrawls his phone number onto oscar’s arm. they continue running into each other (deliberately, or not, who's to say) across town. at coffee shops, bars, even the city library in the art stacks. (oscar was looking for a book on escher, lando at rei kawakubo designs.)
in the library, lando pins oscar with his stare and with a low whisper, finally asks.
"so can i be the guinea pig for our sketch idea?"
oscar blinks. "you'd do that?"
"yeah. i really would."
"why?"
"we only live once, y'know? might as well get something to remember it by.”
oscar relents. the final design is a bouquet of flowers, each bloom with a meaning. it takes about six hours to finish the tatt. they smoke clove cigarettes, talk shit, and ramble together about the intersection of commerce, art, and humans.
towards the end of the session, lando winces as oscar goes over a particularly sensitive spot.
"you've been very brave." oscar says.
"have i?" lando replies, looking up at him with dinner plate eyes.
(they make out on the bench. oscar is of course very careful not to ruin the inkwork or poke lando where he's aching.)
so it goes. they breathe more life into each other’s creativity. lando ends up decorating the tattoo studio with new and interesting plants. osc does a mural for the flower shop that takes up half the wall, and it ends up being a huge hit. it features a lot of orange.
eventually they share a space. sometimes it’s light, sometimes it’s dark, but it is good.
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on the topic of kevin smoking weed…what do you think his first time was like. do you think he got scared or do you think it completely mellowed him out for once?
HE GOT SCARED 🏃🏽🏃🏽🏃🏽🏃🏽🏃🏽 i think kevins first time smoking weed was in the nest because they were college aged after all and breaking the master’s rules is survival at one point or another. i don’t think riko was involved (imagine that) and that made kevin’s paranoia skyrocket, so when he does smoke he gets really afraid and anxious and it’s a total vibe killer. i can see kevin and jean smoking in the nest and immediately fucking like rabbits about it though
his Second time he does mellow out. the second time is with the monsters and andrew’s close supervision so when kevin does smoke he is well fed and hydrated and lying comfortably which makes the experience much better even if their weed is considerably cheaper. i dont think he does much then!!! nothing besides giggling at the ceiling and lying his head on andrew’s or nicky’s laps. for some reason i can see him trying to teach the monsters japanese nursery rhymes and accidentally making them all have children’s songs stuck in their heads for weeks
the REAL deal is when neil joins them though. neil’s overall anti drug behavior is very quickly put to test by a high as balls kevin day performing every increasingly ridiculous exy trick neil can come up with on court. an eye opener experience for neil
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