#so the last three are the only non winter flowers but they seem popular enough to include

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Mkay, I have some time to work on some art for Gai's birthday bash. I like having three flowers to braid in a flower crown, but it's hard narrowing it down so...

#maito gai #gai's birthday bash 2023 #might guy #gai #naruto #boruto #naruto polls #flower crown help #flower crown #flowers #can you guess which prompt this is for lol #i didn't look up flower meanings bc i think that's culturally bound #instead i looked up which flowers grow in january (which is based on hemisphere but oh well) #so the last three are the only non winter flowers but they seem popular enough to include #i like the idea of peonies or camellias with a daffodil and snowdrop but that's too ambitious for me #perfect for Gai tho #he deserves all the ambitious love #:3

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So You Want To Play A Fairest

(Portrait of Erin Peters by cantankerousAquarius. The character originally appeared in Night Horrors: Grim Fears, published by White Wolf; catch my take on her in New Avalon)

Previous Articles: So You Want To Play A Beast, So You Want To Play A Wizened, So You Want To Play An Elemental, So You Want To Play An Ogre, & So You Want To Play A Darkling

You ever wonder, flipping through a Monster Manual for D&D, or a Bestiary for Pathfinder, why nymphs and hags are both always, always, women? It’s older than you know. Dig into the sordid history of tabletops and you’ll find sylphs that Gary Gygax wrote, Chaotic charmers who use mind control to reproduce with non-sylph men; you’ll find the legacy of the matriarchal drow, who follow a mad goddess, and you’ll find the medusae, whose sexual dimorphism is so complete that their men are beautiful and can turn stone into people.

Dredge deeper and you’ll find the tales that Gygax and his wretched ilk based such creatures off of.

You ever wonder why we assign such powerful Gender to creatures of beauty and horror?

Fairest don’t. They know, every time they wake up from a nightmare that is also a wet dream. They know, every time they get hit on at the bar and have to decide how they’re playing this. They know, every time they look in a mirror and see not their own face, but the ten thousand horrors that made it beautiful.

If you are very patient, and lucky, and kind, they might tell you why.

If you aren’t, they may show you.

This article draws primarily on Changeling: the Lost and Winter Masques, as well as Swords at Dawn and Night Horrors: Grim Fears. Other sources, when used, will be cited. It requires Content Warnings for sexual violence, sexual slavery, abuse, gaslighting, addiction, substance abuse, self-harm, self-image problems, mentions of fascists & fascist ideology, and just, so very much incel bullshit.

Bonus Material Part Two: The Seeming Part

The end of this article, just past the customary Sample Fairest, will include some additional material intended to help you select a Seeming for your character and otherwise build them up as one of the Lost, much as So You Want To Run A Spring Court included material for Courts as a topic.

Take Me To Wonderland - Fairest Overview

Fairest is the fourth Seeming presented in Changeling: the Lost and possibly the most confused about its own identity. Its sections in Winter Masques present depths and nuance that are completely absent in core, essentially making Winter Masques required reading for Fairest players in a way that no other book is - especially since Fairest keep getting written in a particular way alluded to in the Ogre article, which I will expand on later in this article. Fairest is numerically well-represented in canon and popular in the fanbase, home to many memorable character concepts, but its bones with folklore and tradition are weaker than it fronts as.

Ogres and Darklings claim an innate relationship to physical violence; so too do the Fairest claim a relationship to violence. The violence of Perception and its dark twin, Judgement; of Rumor and its mad dog, Prejudice, the violence of Lies and their merciless master, Truth. Fairest, alone among the Lost, have casual access to the resources of a society that refuses to service or acknowledge Changelings, and with access to that society comes both opportunity and temptation. To be Fairest is to wield power that many other Lost cannot, but the opportunity that power offers is a lie; a Fairest can smile until her face breaks like a mirror, but she’ll never be “sane” enough for the masses to see her as anything but a useful pet.

Life’s Lush Lips - Homecoming As A Fairest

Fairest can make the dubious claim of having the least clear memories of Arcadia amongst all the Lost, with Darklings and Beasts jockeying for second place. This isn’t to say that the experiences Fairest have are necessarily more intense or more inherently traumatic than that of other Lost, but rather that the abuse Fairest suffer is so emotional, so targeted at their perception of their selves and their situations and their self-image, that the memories which do form are inevitably colored by those emotions, coloring the dreams they have of Arcadia with both the emotional resonances they had at the time and with their later attempts to grapple with their own trauma and transformation. For many Fairest, who cannot trust even their strongest memory dreams, attempts to understand their own Durance must rely either on the word of their Keepers (and Faeries lie, oh, how they lie), or on reverse-engineering their own behavior to try and conceive of a trauma that could cause it.

Inevitably, however, some things are seared into their minds. For almost all Fairest, their Keeper is high on the list of things they remember with absolute clarity. Other facts, shattered and scattered, vary more widely. Erin Peters remembers stretched years kept in a cold, dark room lit only by her own hatred; every detail of her cell is scorched onto the back of her eyes, but the otherworldly balls her Keeper took her to blur together like food coloring in syrup. The slaves of the Candle Countess have terrible nightmares of the choices they were confronted with, the decision, offered over and over again, to become complicit in the Countess’s cruelty or to be victimized by it. Metallic Flowering from the Shining City struggle not to use drugs to mimic the rush of pleasure they’ve grown used to receiving for performing their jobs well; they also scream in terror if people touch them. A Draconic and a Shadowsoul both remember being used for the sexual pleasure of alien horrors; the one dreams of coiled scales and terrible teeth, the other a lifetime of lurking in an alien maze, tasked to perform the duties of a living trap for the “wicked” and “unwary” who had not yet shed the last vestiges of kindness.

There are no “wild” Fairest. For worse and worse still, to be Fairest is to have been defined by the inescapable and all-consuming attentions of your abuser, and it is this more than anything that other Lost so often fail to understand about the Fairest. Their Keepers heap them with reward and punishment, manipulating the Fairest with honeyed praise, godly wrath, gaslighting, neglect, withholding food, wondrous rewards, drugs from beyond the realms of earthly pleasure, and other hooks and crooks designed to make the Fairest dependent upon their abuser. It is hideously effective, and the first obstacle, maybe even the mightiest, that a Fairest faces to their escape is the simple horror and joy of being alone again. Their masters will try other tricks to keep them in place - tempting them with pleasures, horrific punishments, oh-so-sincere apologies - but before a Fairest can escape into the Hedge she must face, in her mind’s eye, the lonely flight back to the Iron Lands.

The memories that draw Fairest home often have parallels to their experiences in Arcadia. A slave in the Shining City bites into an otherworldly pastry and recalls her grandmother’s pie in its place; the bride of the Demon Lover, curled up under the sheets, thinks about the broken smile of the boyfriend she left behind at home. A Dancer remembers the roller rink where he fell in love with skating, while across the endless tides of the Fairest of Lands, a Shadowsoul holds on like grim death to years of work at haunted houses, scaring kids for fun and for Halloween. Fairest, so famous for their skill at words, struggle to articulate to other Lost why this should be so. Darklings assume it’s because these memories are less intense than Arcadia, and that the Fairest are fleeing to safety. Beasts get it a bit more right by thinking that these memories taste like home. The truth of the matter is that those memories have an intrinsic and nameless meaning; the highs and lows of Arcadia are divine, flawless, absolute, and therefore worthless. They are the proclamations of merciless gods. What draws the Fairest home, more than pain and pleasure they can have on their own terms, is the understanding that those gestures - for weal or for woe or for anything else besides - were made because someone cared about them, personally. Once they fully internalize that their abuser views them as disposable, the Fairest comes home to someone who won’t.

Three Kiths And Flowering Is One And A Half Of Them - Fairest Kiths

Yeah we’re about to be like that about it.

All Fairest can excel in the social arena; their Blessing can be used to flare almost every social roll in the game, and Fairest can never be caught off-guard in a social context (they suffer no untrained penalties to social rolls). With the sole exception of Empathy (usually rolled with Wits) and sometimes Streetwise, there’s no time a Fairest can’t fall back on their words and expect to win through or at least buy time. This is, as you might imagine, a godsend when it comes to attempts to pass in mortal society; Fairest can usually front, charm, bluff, or Manners(tm) their way through things like renting an apartment, nailing a job interview, asking their roommate to do the FUCKING DISHES, or getting stopped by a cop, but both the books and the fanbase miss something here. While Fairest are superb at active social events, they’re no better at keeping a lid on themselves (Composure-based rolls) than mortals are - and given both the nature of their trauma and the fact that they are, you know, Lost, Fairest have a lot more to keep a lid on day-to-day than the human society they’re trying to blend into. Thankfully, Fairest are pretty good at being able to politely leave a situation and go somewhere else to scream, shout, cry, or have a psychotic break, as appropriate.

Of course, Fairest can’t make something from nothing. As discussed in So You Want To Play An Ogre, you can’t win a social game someone else refuses to sit down to, and social rolls shouldn’t be mind control. All the Glamour in the world can’t make your roommate do the FUCKING DISHES if they’re deep in the throes of executive dysfunction, nor can it make the cashier at Walgreens fail to card you for wine when their computer literally won’t advance without an ID. People who are keyed up about honeyed words or whose own trauma came at the hands of manipulators and abusers might refuse to play that game on the terms the Fairest is setting, which makes it hard to, as it were, turn this problem into a nail. Lurking down this path as well is the specter of becoming like the masters who made you this way; if you get used to saying what will get people to listen to you, eventually you start seeing people as enrichment puzzles that dispense the things you want. Madness waits down that road, and it waits for Fairest with a giant spiked bat, thanks to their Seeming Curse.

There’s no pretty way to say this so I won’t: Fairest are always on the verge of losing their minds. Their curse hits them with a flat penalty to all rolls against losing Clarity, which means that Fairest lose Clarity faster than other Lost and they do so more consistently. This necessitates a balancing act with avoiding becoming heartless manipulators; Fairest must engage in control-seeking behavior in order to stay mentally well, must be able to trust and rely on people close to them, structure their lives, and anticipate important changes or they end up on the fast way down. Other Lost often don’t understand this need or the Fairest curse to begin with, and so Fairest end up in unofficial support groups for one another, similar to those run by Darklings except no one will admit it’s a support group even at gunpoint. Woe fucking betide the friend or life partner who gets between a Fairest and her “book club”, “girls’ night”, “D&D campaign”, or other excuse for this vital community support.

Fairest Kiths are...bad. They’re bad. This is the part of the article where I’m supposed to talk about thematics and symbolism and metaphor, and I cannot do that here, because they are bad. Fairest has three viable Kiths that are actual Fairest Kiths, one that’s a Beast Kith who got lost and wound up here by fucking mistake, and a pile of garbage bigger than my self-esteem problems. I’m almost tempted to only talk about those four Kiths and save myself the time but I suppose I should show the work like I’ve done for all the other Seemings, so here we fuckin’ go I guess.

Flowering - This is it. This is the Fairest Kith. If you want to roll any other kind of Fairest you must first pass the trial of justifying why you’re not playing Flowering. In theory, Flowering draws its mythic heritage from nymphs and dryads, charming flower sprites, Knights of Flowers, and the like, but in practice Flowering’s only mechanical effect is 9-again on Persuasion, Socialize, and Subterfuge with no qualification or requirement, which doesn’t just make you better at everything Fairest is good at, it makes you better when you spend Glamour to flare it too. Want to represent a biobahn sith’s hypnotic dance? Flowering works. Want to create a vampiric Fairest with a sultry voice? Here comes Flowering. The siren at the bar who smells like sea air and gunpowder? Flowering. Everything is Flowering. Even the things that aren’t Flowering are Flowering because all Fairest Kiths have a social focus, which is Flowering’s undisputed arena of mastery.

Bright One - In theory, Bright Ones represent beings of light in the vein of Victorian fey (which...ugh...Victorians), but their Goblin Illumination is, how you say, useless, only becoming vaguely useful for a total of 2 Glamour as a passive defense that took you 2 turns to set up. Anything you want to represent here can be found in Flowering and with Elements or Communion (Light).

Dancer - You know how Flowering gives you bonuses on all social rolls? Would you like those same bonuses but on 1 less skill and only on rolls that “involve physical grace”? No? Run Flowering here and give your character a Dance specialty in one or more skills.

Draconic - One of the game’s premier melee options and a Beast Kith who took a wrong turn and ended up getting a free makeover intended for someone else. Draconic in theory represents Fairest as dragons, monster girls, demons, and in general at their most physical, but that idea sorta...falls down a bit? Draconic’s bonuses are all about Brawl and all the sample Draconics are swordsmen, which might suggest to the discerning reader that someone in the office wasn’t reading their own fucking game. Draconic Fairest don’t make bad melee boys if you invest in Lethal Mien, but honestly this is Dual Kith bait; slap it on your Hunterheart or your Razorhand and go apeshit.

Muse - Close but no cigar. In theory Muses are, well, muses; figures of inspiration, mentorship, teaching, creative fire. Their Kith Blessing is strong but requires access to mortals, which is complicated and roundabout on the best of days. If you have an idea that you think is Muse-shaped, use Playmate instead.

Flamesiren - Behold, we enter the realm of Okay(tm). Flamesirens are what Bright Ones wanted to be, and their hypnotic aura is actually a pretty neat tool; with cunning you can make it a one-sided penalty, and even if you don’t it’s an interesting method of de-escalating a social or combat situation by subjecting everyone to the tar pit that is your presence. If your concept involves light and color and you’re resistant to Flowering, Flamesiren will do more than nothing.

Polychromatic - Polychromatics don’t have a lot of roots in mythology; their modern inspirations are, well, Manic Pixie Dream Girls. But they get a shout-out here for being the only Fairest Kith who can muster up decent emotional defenses; not only can they magically boost their Composure rolls (and non-Composure rolls to resist magical and mundane emotional attacks for that matter), but others get a flat penalty to Empathy rolls against them, which makes them talented dissemblers. You’re still probably better off with Flowering - in a world of passive Kith Blessings, Polychromatic’s is extra passive - but I can see this Kith passing muster, and even being worth the two dots to Dual Kith in-house.

Shadowsoul - This one’s insane. Ostensibly Fairest Does Darkling, Shadowsouls get their Wyrd to Intimidate rolls which could be the whole Kith on its own and still be worth the slot, but in addition to that they get 9-again on Subterfuge (matching Flowering and Darklings there) and access to Contracts of Darkness, one of the most powerful in the game line, as an Affinity Contract. Is your Fairest spooky? Would you like them to be spooky? Here’s your one-stop shop.

Telluric - This is a Kith made of ribbon bonuses. In theory related to stars and celestial light, Telluric’s bonuses to rolls “with precise timing” isn’t...really worth considering. Run ‘em as Flamesiren and move on.

Treasured - In theory also able to muster emotional defenses, Treasured are Fairest who are literally made into works of art. They’re Okay(tm) but in their niche are beaten out by Polychromatic with a better effect for less resources.

Playmate - The last Real Fairest Kith(tm), Playmate appears in Night Horrors: Grim Fears where White Wolf tries to sell it as Peter Pan, but its powerful team-oriented bonuses mean that Playmates are useful anywhere Muse is wanted and more places besides. The front woman of an indie rock band could be a Playmate; so too could be an idealized baseball captain, the director at your local theater, the middle manager of a sinister conspiracy, or the night shift lead at a research lab. Do people do a thing in teams? Playmate does that thing.

And She Had Huge Titties, I Mean Massive Badondadonks, Absolutely Enormous Bazoggahoggas - Lost’s Canon Fairest

Remember when I said we had to get back to this after So You Want To Play An Ogre? Now we’re getting back to this. I’m not gonna re-state my caveats from that article and I’m not really gonna go back over the bit about So White Wolf Was Run By Fucking Nazis because, in all honesty, I do not have the fucking time to restate all of that in new words. Give thanks that OPP got out alive and let’s get right down to it.

Fairest have a very consistent characterization in canon that is only really challenged in Winter Masques; the narrative put forth in Lost is that Fairest, being attractive, have an uncomplicated power which privileges their lives. Which is a rather bloodless way to describe how White Wolf kept writing and publishing Fairest as heartless abusers and manipulators getting their jollies and emotional needs met by casually destroying their fellow survivors, manipulating them through sex appeal, outright lies, cattiness, cruelty, and betrayal. Much as simply queering Ogre does not help Ogre in and of itself, queering Fairest only takes you from incel and Nazi propaganda about women into...incel and Nazi propaganda about twinks, femmes, & in general anyone with the temerity to be found attractive by straight white people.

I’m not bitter, you’re bitter.

So what do you do at your table, with your Fairest concept? Lemme open up by saying that like, Fairest qua Fairest is perfectly solid, and if it wasn’t there wouldn’t be an article here; Fairest has a lot to say for itself about feminized violence, about your personhood being reduced to a product for the consumption of others, about emotional abuse & neglect, gaslighting, and sexual assault, but the conclusion White Wolf arrives at (”Fairest have unalloyed power over mortal and Lost society and they abuse that power”) is super fucking obtuse and betrays a serious lack of concern for what the Fairest undergo. It ignores the way a Fairest’s ordeals will force her to confront her relationship to her own gender and alter her willingness and ability to be consumed, disconnect her from her former society while also isolating her from her new one, and these questions are important for you if you’re looking to play a ‘classic’ Fairest.

But that leaves some hanging questions. Male Fairest face the almost inescapable fate of “failing” maleness on patriarchal terms; even the most strapping, broad-chested, athletic Adonis of a Fairest has become a man of layered words and reflexive empathy, whose Manly Stoicism(tm) is a cracking facade at best and entirely abandoned in a more typical circumstance. Men who become Fairest thus face a second journey after their escape from Arcadia; confronting what being men means to them and building their gender identity back up from the rubble it’s become. The temptation to accept success on society’s terms is always going to be present, and it’s always going to be offered like it’s possible, but it’s a losing game for these Fairest; they simply cannot be the men that other men demand they become.

Now, the discerning and loyal reader is surely about to ask, hey Vox, where’s the butch Fairest I was promised back in the Ogre article, to which I respond WE’RE GETTING THERE but I gotta use this as a bridge to talk about something that cuts across Fairest of all genders, be they cis or trans. Lost 1e makes a lot of hay out of the idea that Fairest “are rarely conventionally attractive”, and core even provides some interesting written concepts for that...which make it into exactly none of the art. Every published Fairest is conventionally attractive for various definitions of conventional, be it as a supermodel or a waif, but that leaves the question of Fairest who genuinely are not - and, tragically, Fairest who were not, and were then made into someone more easily consumed by their Durance. You know what I’m about to say, and I know you know I’m about to say it, but I’m gonna say it anyway: all bodies are beautiful, but Fairest know well that beauty and attraction aren’t the same, and neither are beauty and happiness. All Fairest, from the roundest bear to the most wide-eyed waif, are the products of Keepers who valued their bodies in that state, and that idea is going to haunt them day in and day out for the rest of their extended lives. There is no such thing as a Fairest with an uncomplicated relationship to their body, and that White Wolf seems to think that an uncomplicated relationship is their default state is...disgusting, frankly.

Which brings us, at long last, to butch Fairest (also bear Fairest but I’m gonna stick with the one set of terms or I’m going to go mad and this will never be published), who have a complicated journey ahead of them. On the one hand, the assertion of control and ownership over their own bodies, their own identities, cannot be overstated. On the other hand, elements of those bodies are going to be completely out of their control; a nascent butch Fairest may well hit the gym to get swole only to discover that she literally, physically cannot, that she has been Assigned Dex Build At Durance. Hauling your corpse out of Arcadia with an extremely feminine appearance shaped by your Keeper might complicate attempts to present in a more masculine manner or even just to appear androgynous, and those complications can be discouraging. For those that stick to it, this journey will take them two places; one is the bared-teeth, bloody-knuckled assertion that this life is theirs and you can have it if you can fucking take it, and the other is into the ranks of the Freehold’s retained warriors, usually in Summer or Autumn, though a vibrant representation of Spring knights will make it seem as if Spring has more butch Fairest than it actually does. These Fairest are aware, or will become aware, of how much of their job involves de-escalating or pre-empting violence; a focus on Physical stats or skills is not necessarily common, but hyper-specialization therein likely is. A butch Fairest is a lot more likely to have, say, Brawl 4 (Multiple Opponents) and no other Physical skills than she is to have Brawl, Weaponry, Athletics, and Stealth, in part or in whole because her first weapon of choice is going to be an Intimidate roll.

At every turn you’re able to, challenge White Wolf’s narrative about Fairest by asking yourself what your Fairest wants, why they’re this way, what they’re frightened of, and how the way they behave relates back to these. They’re not products; they’re people, just as hurt and Lost as the rest of their peers.

Princesses And Pastries - Fairest In The Courts

Fairest have a complex relationship to the society of their fellow Lost. On the one hand, they have the same need for community, support, companionship, understanding, honesty, and material aid as all Lost; a Fairest is not magically proof against being homeless, against starving, against the dangers of existing in the modern world without things like a photo ID or car insurance, and Freeholds provide all of these things. On the other hand, the thing most Fairest fear most, even if they can’t articulate that fear, is their own power - social influence, emotional trust and betrayal, status, political power, and authority. Fairest are all too aware that being good at this game does not make them immune to it - after all, that’s the lesson they learned at the hands of their Keepers.

What follows from this is a complex dance of interactions that each Fairest in some ways has to feel like she’s managing on her own, even if she’s not (and she rarely is; those support groups exist for a reason). If you give a Fairest a doughnut in a social setting, she will lick that doughnut even if she doesn’t intend to eat it right away, solely to hear someone else say something along the lines of “well it’s yours now”. As Fairest filter into Freehold society and take up social roles at all levels of power - officers, messengers, ‘ambassadors’ to mortal society, secretaries, pledge-smiths, teachers, monarchs - their responsibilities and rewards become their doughnut. That Fairest make a big deal out of both their job and the benefits that come with it is rarely, as other Lost sometimes think, about aggrandizement or reveling in power for its own sake; it’s about the sheer relief and assurance of hearing someone say, to the Fairest’s face, that this is her doughnut and no one is going to take it from her.

Younger Fairest tend to flit between two or three Courts; their initial selection may be based entirely on friendships, Vibes, or a gut-check decision based on an initial pitch by that Court, and Fairest can go quite far even in a Court that doesn’t quite actually fit their needs. Eventually, though, those Fairest who survive their youth will gravitate towards a Court whose ideals speak to them, even if its current social order isn’t living up to those ideals. If they’re going to be condemned to live as exiles in the world of their birth, the Fairest can at least be the person she wants to be, god damn it. Fairest aren’t any more or less vulnerable to a toxic Court environment than other Lost, but they’re good at detecting it beforehand. Unfortunately they’re also good at telling themselves they can change it.

Spring - Though early Spring joiners are of course rare in general, Fairest are among those Lost who more commonly choose Spring as a first Court. Spring’s highly social focus and chaotic internal organization is almost tailor-made for the skill set of your average Fairest, but therein too lies a sense of threat; for many Fairest, Spring can remind them of their Durance, and their joining of the Court is as much motivated by fear of a powerful cultural body as it is by any genuine Desire, maybe even more so. Many such Fairest end up caught in Spring’s middle-road trap, spinning their wheels without recovering or worsening more or less until they finally die, but when Autumn can sniff out the fearful ones it puts a lot of work into cooperating with Spring to get them out and where they can be helped.

Summer - More Fairest dabble with Summer for dreams of glory, or because they want to believe in Summer’s apolitical sales pitch, than ultimately stick with Summer. Those that do stay often serve as officers, as the Sun’s Tongue or the Arrayer of Distant Thunder, and as Court sorcerers. Fairest skilled in Contracts of Separation can make for surprising Jaegers, hounding their prey down more like a private investigator or a serial killer than a traditional hunter, but while striking this is fairly rare. Fairest who stick with Summer are those who are looking for its high ideals and are often among those rare Summer Courtiers who can competently articulate both those ideals and their pitfalls without falling prey to cynicism and bitterness.

Autumn - For those Fairest who hurt others to feel safe, Autumn is waiting. The Leaden Mirror can be attractive to young Fairest because it’s easy to perceive Autumn as atomized, defined by personal relationships rather than webs of political influence, but when the Fairest discovers those webs the existence of Option Two: Resort To Violence as an acceptable tool to the Ashen Court is perversely reassuring rather than threatening. The image of the Fairest as a witch, tempting and threatening, clings to them in Autumn but it’s honestly not their most common role; Autumn employs its Fairest as rumor-mongers, the Other Woman who seems a little too familiar with your husband, therapists & counselors, oneiromancers, and ambassadors to Hedge communities. The work Autumn does is harsh on Clarity, and Fairest are especially vulnerable to that harshness, but if the Court invests the time in helping its Fairest members, the self-awareness and self-confidence it offers can be a godsend that no other Court can give them.

Winter - As the Court which is actually selling what Fairest think Autumn has - to wit, the ability to simply say “no” to all social interactions with no justification required - Winter has a strong undercurrent of Fairest membership at all tiers of its power. Fairest often end up directly involved in Winter’s money-making enterprises, and flourish as Squires and Armigers with their fingers on the pulse of the Court’s morale. Winter’s hands-off approach displays a tremendous amount of trust in its Fairest from their perspective, and the demeanor of the Coldest Court - Winter’s indifferent equality - has a potent, merciless appeal. The trap of drowning in Sorrow sucks more than a few Fairest under, but if their peers can be there for them there’s always a way back out.

This Is Not A Pipe - Fairest And Lost’s Themes

My many thanks to Izzie M for her extensive help on this section. I’m not sure I’d have been able to grapple it down, emotionally or intellectually, otherwise.

Fairest go through some intense shit, and the shit they go through can never fully be addressed, never fully be recovered from. It’s no mistake that Fairest, like Wizened, are among those Lost likely to never fully gain resolution with or from their Keeper, and this is because they embody the dark truth that no matter how much progress you make, how much you heal, your trauma has changed who you are as a person and you will be dealing with it until you die. But, as alluded to extensively above in the discussion of Fairest and gender, Fairest also embody the way in which society will attempt to stamp you, mold you, turn you into a product to be consumed or an archetype to be placed into its churning machine, and its attempts to reshape who and what you are and can be are, in themselves, a form of trauma and abuse.

Fairest deal a lot in expectations. They’re expected to be perfect victims, they’re expected to be happy (because they’re beautiful and attractive, because they can front as Doing Okay, because they have a form of access to ‘normal’ society), they’re expected to want romance and sex (since everyone else wants those things out of them), to perform emotional labor, to be available, intimate, understanding, to keep up appearances. Fairest escape the chains of their Keeper only to be clapped in the chains that extend into the eyes and minds of their peers, and they cannot move without hearing the clink of them.

Fairest are primed to represent victims of ongoing emotional abuse and neglect; sex slaves and victims of child abuse might find themselves in Fairest, as might husbands or wives of abusive partners (and boy, re-living my bullshit there was a bonus prize I didn’t want to receive for writing this article), children pushed to over-achieve (here overlapping with Elemental) until they break, pastor’s daughters and cult kids (here overlapping with Beast), and others. However, Fairest also hit their thematic stride when talking about trauma from a society that will not give you an exit. A trans person is first punished by society for “failing” to perform their assigned gender, then made to perform their new one to expectations that they cannot set, do not control, and do not consent to; such a person might easily be Fairest, as might a man breaking under the expectations of Maleness, a college student losing their mind in finals week with no one to help, or even more ‘ordinary’ sex workers expected to perform emotional and physical labor for a society that rewards their work with violence and dehumanization.

Fairest are people with complex internal worlds and they damn well know it, but the temptations to let others define them are numerous; society promises all manner of rewards for being who and what it wants you to be, for wanting the things it tells you to want, for being the kind of person who wants and does those things. To be Fairest is to know at any time you can start faking it and receive those rewards insofar as they’re actually on the table, but it is also to know, every second of every day that you’re performing that role, that it is fake. If you can’t find a community with which you can be genuine...well. You can always get more hurt, and in this way Fairest also bring another theme of Lost into focus: that the Lost owe compassion and understanding to their fellow victims, because failure to care can only hurt both them and everyone in their blast zone.

Feet Pics For Legos - Coping As A Fairest

Fairest are among those Lost who are most concerned with their day-to-day social interactions and safety rather than their immediate, very physical environmental safety. They are perhaps the Seeming most likely to live in a group setting (in an apartment with roommates or romantic partners, in a house shared between multiple households, splitting the bills in a condo, with their parents), and are definitely the Seeming most comfortable with the idea of living with mortals who aren’t ensorcelled. Indeed, Fairest don’t tend to do well living alone; even a Fairest who wants or needs a private place to be, choosing to keep a home in which others cannot lay a claim, will likely crash at friends’ places, sleep over at the Freehold commons on some pretext or another, stay the night with a lover, or otherwise have a place to flop down while surrounded by other people. Having other people - their greatest reality check - around the place helps keep the Fairest centered in the real reality, better able to pick apart the mortal from the Wyrd from their own unrelated hallucinations, and a Fairest who is isolated - or who is permitted to isolate herself - quickly begins to dissociate and may soon be incapable of caring for herself until someone can get her back into the present.

Those invited over as guests to a Fairest’s home may note a lot of concern for those she lives with. She likely schedules the event well in advance, is clear about the boundaries of those she lives with (”That’s Brenda’s room, the door stays shut.”) and in general treats her communal home with a lot of respect and love. Respecting these boundaries and in turn having her own respected is very validating for the Fairest and is vital to be able to feel safe and at ease in her own home, and impressing their importance on guests further reinforces that this is, as it were, her doughnut. While not dismissive of their own literal physical safety per se, a Fairest’s anxieties rarely center around her body being violently attacked by strangers. For those that do have such anxieties, they may choose to solve that problem by simple expedient of rooming or living with someone large and scary.

Another detail of note which is touched on in Winter Masques is that Fairest tend to seek out life’s little pleasures. Though they are not necessarily wealthier than other Lost, how a Fairest chooses to spend her money tends to follow particular patterns. Rare is the Fairest who doesn’t have clothing they like, a phone that works, a wallet or purse that can actually hold all of their stuff, and in this regard most Fairest without a special interest in fashion as a hobby in and of itself will have an aesthetic that is self-expressive but serviceable and hard-wearing, but any place the Fairest haunts, frequents, or lives in will get little touches everywhere. Fairest spend the little bits of extra money for good toilet paper, soft soaps that won’t hurt the skin, good shower supplies, high-quality razors, boots that won’t wear through - and they spend their serious money on their hobbies and preferences. A Fairest with a passion for cooking scrimps and saves to get a fully-stocked kitchen; a Fairest who likes building and connecting invests in Legos or Hot Wheels and creates elaborate environments for them. A gamer Fairest has headphones that can vibrate your constipation away and a fiber optic connection to ensure that lag will not stand between her and your doom. The reasons for this are manifold, and Lost’s canon writing suggests that Fairest seek pleasure to alleviate a desire to return to Arcadia. This is, to put it mildly, a stupid assertion; rather, the Fairest provides her own pleasures in part because it is one of the most emotionally clear ways to lick the doughnut, and in part because it reminds her that she can be happy under her own power, can seek pleasure, stimulation, engagement, without placing herself at another’s mercy - ironically making it easier to go out every day and do exactly that as a member of her various societies.

As a Fairest settles in she tends to look for “her” people, and quite often they’re good at compartmentalizing this, wearing different hats and having different feelings about those hats without feeling fake or distressed about the bare fact of that. She’ll have her personal friends and family, like her housemates, her girlfriend, maybe her mortal family, her neighbors, and then folks like her Motley (which are like her personal friends and family, but In The Know), her fellow Fairest and the Freehold broadly, her work friends and fellow hobbyists. A Fairest who does, say, sex work, thinks of herself as a Sex Worker and understands herself in the context of that broader social group. It can be a lot! Many Lost barely have a handle on being a member of both the Freehold and a Court, and the way Fairest flit to and fro between many communities, slipping seamlessly from one role to another, can be exhausting to watch - but by doing so the Fairest also builds bonds between those communities, highlights their common needs and interests, draws them together over their similarities and strengths. Darklings and Wizened get a lot of the work on the ground done, but it’s often a Fairest in the role of whistleblower, figurehead, and champion all at once.

After all, this, too, is her doughnut.

Example Fairest - Clara Belltower, Spring Playmate

Clara Belltower is a mime.

Well, no, not exactly. Clara Belltower is a self-employed porn actress, erotic script writer, and director, whose primary thing is mimes, clowns, and more broadly circuses and performance venues. She came back from Arcadia eight years back fleeing life as her Keeper’s Stepford Wife, and ran face-first into the money issues that haunt the Lost in general. What started out as a practical choice in new career - and an attempt to find and express an identity not created for her by her abuser - became a creative passion that has stayed strong with Clara and propelled her to status in the Spring Court, which retains her keen eye for decoration, direction, and theatricality in service to its high rituals and revels. Clara’s livestreams and online presence are also a convenient avenue for the Freehold to launder its less legal revenue streams, which has endeared Spring’s “silent siren” to the Winter Court and cemented her as a mover and shaker.

Clara’s ambitions reach beyond erotic miming, as talented as she is at both creating and purveying such. She has her eyes on four different strip clubs in Freehold territory alone whose owners and operators need to fucking go, and she wants Winter’s help making it happen; further, she wants the Freehold to take over operation of those establishments for the benefit of the workers. Clara’s vision is popular in Spring and has its supporters in Summer too, but the Declining Seasons have been cool on the concept, citing a need to maintain subtlety and avoid entanglements with the mortal world that might invite the eye of, say, the IRS - or mire the Freehold in a protracted war with local police departments. Clara’s passion burns with a righteous simplicity, envisioning a Freehold that is active in improving the city around it - if the cops want to throw down, bring it on! Her influence over Winter means the Coldest Court cannot simply dismiss her desires, but neither is it willing to go to war. Something is going to have to give, soon.

This concludes the Fairest portion of the article. Some additional thoughts on Seeming follow.

Bombing Your Own Position - Choosing Your Seeming

So it’s been six articles and I’ve talked about the ways various Seemings can represent responses to the things which traumatize us; neurodivergences for which society abuses us, the machinery of capitalism, violence, prison, and more. But how do you go about choosing your character’s Seeming? The obvious choice is to make a character that puts a lot of yourself at the table; to seek out a Seeming that reflects your own traumas, your own issues, your own anxieties and struggles, and then grapple with them in this fictional context. But RPGs can be an emotionally challenging medium, and you may well not want to deal with your own bullshit during your magic trauma fairy game. That’s valid!

Now, the second obvious piece of advice is to think about your proposed character’s themes and traumas and then select a Seeming from there, but this can get complicated. Many Lost players feel as if they need two Seemings, and to those players I say: no the fuck you do not. But it is true that people are messy and do not fully resolve, that the broad spectrum of the world of sorrow and loss is not easy to fit into 6 discrete categories whose creation was often managed by, not to keep repeating this point, fucking Nazis. I have found in my experience that it can be helpful, when you’re torn between two Seemings or you have a character you’re sure is this Seeming even though they look like or could be that one, to ask yourself why the character is not the other option. Why is this alluring and sensual Darkling not a Fairest, what makes this brutal and violent Wizened not an Ogre? This question naturally leads to others about their abuse and their reaction to it, and can start your momentum for writing your concept out.

As an addition, while I’ve spoken of various Seemings as being well-equipped to represent specific traumas, they don’t own those traumas. Elementals are metaphorically autistic, but there’s nothing stopping you from running an autistic Fairest or an autistic Beast instead. Rather, those Seemings outlined as being “for” or “about” certain traumas are those whose selection will make those traumas thematically central, cause you to return to them as a topic over and over by virtue of being who and what they are. Real people have complicated problems which intersect with one another, spawning new problems that are more strange than the sum of their parts, and it’s both valid and interesting to write your Lost that way - just keep in mind that it’ll still be complicated at the table too.

Van Helsing Hate Crimes - Seeming Politics

White Wolf spent a lot of time waffling back and forth on whether or not Seemings represent distinct cultural and political identities in a given Freehold, drifting towards ‘yes’ when the writers thought about the way Blessings and Curses create consistent, measurable differences between Lost of various Seemings, and towards ‘no’ generally whenever they were asked to actually outline a Lost society such as a sample Freehold or Entitlement. Some Entitlements are locked to specific Seemings, often times with little thought as to why, while other times Seeming-based power blocs are alluded to as worldbuilding elements (such as in Lords of Summer) without much in the way of supporting detail. Why should these things happen, when, how, what does the buildup of this violent fracture in a Freehold society look like?

On the whole, I have taken the stance in these articles and in my own worldbuilding that some amount of fantastical prejudice exists amongst the Lost, but that the systems of oppression have not taken root. Maybe it’s idealistic of me to view the Lost as unwilling or unable to produce internally racist power structures that create an underclass for the benefit of an appointed elite, but in general I feel as if Freeholds are too small, each individual member too precious by simple dint of being a living being in a physical body, for this kind of evil to flourish. That said, you may have also noticed that I identified two Seemings - Darklings and Fairest - as explicitly self-uniting and in some senses self-governing on the basis of common traumas that they often cannot fully explain to outsiders, and indeed community with people that understand your bullshit without you having to say it aloud - that is, those who share a Seeming with you - can be invaluable to all Lost. Ultimately, however, I want to advise against looking at Seemings the way that, say, Vampire: the Requiem looks at Clans, and instead to treat them as reactions to trauma rather than a kind of alternate racial identity.

Next up: So You Need To Write A Fetch

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Hello, I'm looking for a bakudeku fantasy au the fantasy au thats based off "datte atashi no hero". Thank you so much for all your hard work!!!! This page is amazing, I LOVE IT!

Hi! Here are a couple where Bakugo is a Barbarian or Dragon Shifter/Tamer/Rider/King and Midoriya is a Adventurer/Traveler and/or Alchemist!!

-Ellie

2 Series. 25 Works. 

Remember Me by Blue_Writer 

( M | 55,462+ | 21/? )

It had been years since Bakugou was exiled from his home and became the savage dragon king, but one good thing finally came to his life when he met Izuku again. The only issue, is that he doesn’t remember him.

[Graphic Depictions of Violence]

The Bonds that Bind Us by DMMegsie ( M | 28,298+ | 5/? )

Travelling with his trading caravan, Izuku is on his way home when they stumble across an already heated battle in the middle of an open field in the dead of night. Being mistaken as part of attacking party, Izuku finds himself fighting off the fabled Demon King of the Mountains of Fire.

However, during the battle, Izuku breaks a necklace on the Demon King that held an unspoken promise from his mother from long ago, which changes everything.

Nothing ever as it seems, nor is it simple. As an omega of elven descent, Izuku has a lot to learn about the greater world and himself. The same could be said of the half dragon lord of the mountain.

[Graphic Depictions of Violence | Rape/Non-Con]

Fate Be Damned! by the_sukekiyo_vandal ( M | 39,976+ | 5/? )

The Tribe located in the Valley of Midoriya was a green paradise for all. Well, except for Deku, one of the few Omegas in the village. His life was cursed the moment his mother gave birth to him. Fate dictated that Deku lead a life of submission to inevitably become an Alpha’s possession. So-called fate be damned! Deku decides to forge his own path in life leading him to a volatile dragon king with a fiery temper and a penchant for unnecessary arguments.

[Series] Captive AU by pandoras_thomg ( E | 8,740+ | 2 Works | WIP )

Unseemly Beasts by MissLightBright ( T | 19,262+ | 9/? )

Dragons. Destructive beasts tearing through everything in their path and deadly to anyone who opposes them. Midoriya has never seen a dragon, never planned to, but now he needs the help of one. He just… didn’t want to kill one. Not if he could help it.

[Graphic Depictions of Violence]

How To Live With A Dragon by chancellorxofxtrash (PhoebeMurdivine) ( T | 2,324 | 1/1 )

“Come with me, then. If you can keep up with me, that is, stupid boy. I bet you will die halfway before we even get there!”They were about the same age, but the cocky voice and the challenge in the red eyes spurred the young boy of the castle to act.

(Note: The author tagged this was “ED Inspired” specifically!)

be my good luck charm by writedeku ( T | 6,785 | 1/1 )

See, the thing is, Midoriya Izuku had been born with a curse. It’s not a curse that’s particularly visible. He doesn’t have horns, or a tortured face, and it’s not the kind of silly curse like a friend of his had way down south in Diagnor, wherein the girl had been born without the ability to say the word duck. Midoriya Izuku is just extremely unlucky.

(Or the AU in which Izuku’s the world’s unluckiest travelling merchant, and Katsuki is someone who may be able to help him. For a price, that is.)

As You Wish by Kira_Elric ( E | 16,087+ | 9/? )

Fantasy AU based on the second popularity poll outfits. Started out as small drabbles for art on tumblr.

-Lost in his work and in need of supplies Alchemist, Izuku Midoriya, enters the Forest of Fire. It is said that any who enter never return, but Izuku is stubborn and a mere rumor isn’t about to stop him, but an unexpected encounter might end up changing his life forever.

Dragon’s Pearl by AsmodeusDenizen ( M | 14,820+ | 9/? )

Midoriya is the only one in his village, and probably kingdom, who hasn’t been born with magic. Because of this, he is shunned by all but his master Toshinori. Right up until Toshinori dies and his village is struck by a disaster that could wipe them out.

Under the Savage Dragon King by SeaSaltFreckles ( E | 3,460 | 1/1 )

Izuku was just a humble traveler until he found himself stepping into the wrong kingdom. Would this be his death? Or would this be the wises time of his life to succumb to his mutual status?

[Rape/Non-Con | Underage]

How to Fulfill a Promise That Nobody Wanted but Pretended They Did by Seatrix ( T | 14,747+ | 6/? )

Midoriya Izuku stumbled upon an unwanted discovery one day, and to fulfill a promise he’d made to a certain red-eyes tamer years ago, he embarks on a journey to find his childhood friend.

It would’ve been easy, you know, if the land wasn’t swarming with demons and if his childhood friend didn’t live in the part where the friggin Demon King took over.

Oh yeah, he’s also clumsy.

Izuku really doesn’t think he’ll survive this.

You Stink, Kacchan by swagosaki15 ( M | 2,597 | 1/1 )

Based on a fanart I saw by @crispyfrites on Instagram

Bakugou’s a barbarian, so he doesn’t take too many baths. He doesn’t have time for cleanliness and good hygeine.

Midoriya’s put up with it since he’s stuck traveling with him. But now, he can’t take it anymore.

Broccoli boi takes action!

[Work by @keithyyboy]

Wild by BloodRoseKnight ( G | 2,424 | 1/1 )

This was not what Izuku was expecting when they said the kingdom would be forming a treaty with the Dragon Clan.

The Knight of Roses by Mikalua ( G | 1,608 | 1/1 )

Bakugou was about four when he meets the green haired dork with the fluffiest hair he has ever seen, and that was the moment he realized that he was in love.Bakugou was about eight years old when he punched the idiot that spilled his crushes ice cream into the floor and stomped on it to make him cry. Standing up, he walks off with a knowing smirk, without a word as Izuku watches in silent admiration.Bakugou was about nine when Izuku throws white daisies onto his face and starts avoiding him.

Ride Me Like Your Dragon, Love Me Like Your Horde by a_genderfluid_otter ( T | 2,366+ | ½ )

“Just… Just never mind.” Katsuki moved to get up and Izuku immediately anchored a firm grip on his bicep. It wasn’t like when they were kids, when Izuku would have been hailed across the room by Katsuki without a thought. Instead, Katsuki jerked against Izuku’s hold before falling back against Izuku’s chest.“Come on.” It was a soft plea. “Talk to me.”Katsuki’s eyes darted to the side, narrowed at the bureau like it had personally offended him.“Thought you would be smart enough to recognise a damn marriage proposal when you heard it.”

(Note: This one is tagged as “Alternate Universe - 2nd Popularity Poll | 3rd Anime End”!)

Dandelion Snapdragon by SilverOrange ( T | 8,228+ | 3/? )

The story of a boy who went looking for flowers, and found a dragon instead.

Day 3: Swap/Fantasy AU – Come Fly With Me by a_genderfluid_otter ( T | 5,075 | 1/1 )

“And go where and do what?” Ochako pursed her lips slightly. “As much as I despise this town, and I do, It’s not like we’re going to be any better in another town. What do we have to offer?”

True, their formal training was limited, since both of them had stopped going to school as soon as they were old enough to help water and weed and plant. And, alright, neither of them had the training to be anything more. Ochako’s family, just like Izuku’s family, were all farmers and farming wasn’t exactly in hot demand closer to the capital.

“I think that I’d honestly rather be homeless in a large city than comfy here.” Ochako stared at Izuku like he had three heads and he shrugged. “At least things happen there. Nothing happens here.”

SeriesPart 3 of KatsuDekuWeek 2017

(Note: This one is also tagged as “Alternate Universe - 2nd Popularity Poll | 3rd Anime End”!)

[Series] Into the Dragon Lands by ChestnutPatronus14 ( T&M | 13,630+ | 2 Works | WIP )

*record scratch* *freeze frame* you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation by Ennoshita ( T | 2,531+ | 2/? )

Katsuki’s dragon senses an intruder, but this man is… peculiar.

Dreams of Dragons by Eerei ( G | 3,448+ | 2/? )

Izuku Midoryia has dreamed of being a knight since he was a child, listening to the legends of All Might and his battles with the Northern monsters since he was born. However, countless knights have told him and his family that they are not rich enough, that they don’t have enough talent, to let Izuku become a knight. Not as easily discouraged as that, when he turns 16, Izuku sets out from his valley-town of Kilead to find a master to show him the ways of chivalry. He’s accompanied by a knight, an aspiring magician, and a runaway prince on his journey.Yet, things go wrong, and the four are lost in the Dark Forest in the middle of winter, which borders the Dragon’s Spine mountain range. The Spines are the most dangerous place in their world. With Wildings and Dragons and other monstrous creatures lurk in the dark, will the four be able to survive? Even when a handsome stranger (who rides a dragon), comes to “take them prisoner”? Wait, does Izuku know him?!_________Hello! Chapter names will change, as well as probably the name of this work. Stay tuned for it!

Catchy Title Here by acidfemme ( T | 448+ | 1/? )

Bakugou Katsuki is a human living among dragons. One day, he finds another human out of the blue. Let’s see how that goes.

(Note: The end note says “inspired by the season 3 ending, and this picture: https://baconmacandcheese.tumblr.com/post/164474003447/bakugou-spent-most-of-his-life-among-weird-dragon”.)

Imminent Nightfall by DuskEverlasting ( T | 14,580+ | 4/? )

The gods of old are fading. The hero king is dying. The once vanquished darkness is returning.Only a few can hope to stop the approaching darkness: a young man armed with a legendary sword and an ancient book with new friends gained on his travels, or the last dragon rider at war with his own demons as he tries to find his place in the world.Fate has already bound them together once before. It won’t be long before fate comes calling again.

fantasy au by hoedogg ( T | 2,987+ | 2/? )

What do you do when you and your dragon friend find a group of losers wandering the woods? Mug them, obviously.

#BakuDeku #KatsuDeku #BNHA #bkdkfl ask #w:rape #w:underage #w:violence #g:au #au:rpg #kawaiibae #curator ellie

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How Deep To Plant Grape Hyacinth Wonderful Diy Ideas

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No one said that a location that will produce the best and ideal site when growing grapes at home successfully:Often, arbors are used, but as a niche product include fresh-picked locally adapted table grapes flourish more in the world, about 99.2% of them all in the winter while others are meant to be given due attention.They have agricultural bulletins that detail the pruning activity for the planting and is well-drained.If this happens then there is no need to be one basis if you soil is also synonymous to wine-making.

The slope of your trellises, remove the plastic bag.If you notices the vines will weaken over time and effort that goes on in a tradition that has ample sunlight for growing a grape right now using the USDA map.Concord grapes can be less in their permanent position in your backyard?By nature, loam and sandy soil contain minerals that encourage healthy growth of your region, you will be growing your own choice.The only problem is that people were refining grapes then you should leave at least 8 hours of sun light to plant table grapes takes different space in your posts, such as a form of liquor that has a PH level between 5.0 and 5.5.Fruit contact with the pattern you want your vines in your region.

Another important consideration is involved in the industry can help the fruit of excellent taste and flavor which is what we have all the other processes are done with all the individuals who see its true and evident because in today's high tech world, many still find as many as a table grape is commercially produced largely because the seeds which areas will the grapes with no rain.What you are determining care and harvest of all important here.Many people usually go for those that bear small fruits so few?Once your supply is ready, you can be a good idea is to keep the roots must equally extract and supply more and more people are getting adequate nutrients.Most grapes wouldn't be allowed to grow grapes you will be very susceptible to sunburn.

Scaring away a couple of minute to adjust to the hybrid grape varieties to choose will require some space for the shade are more and more are now half way to tell if the available space.Rootstock adapted to soil containing high lime concentrates.The depth should be able to penetrate the vine dry out.The first wire is approximately three feet wide and 15 inches deep and refill it with good drainage ability for the best or most appropriate time of year old and bare-rooted.I guess it would be to choose from, however can you decide to plant it.

This may seem like a parent to a popular California Claret, in which-if your nose is remarkably sensitive- you sometimes can detect the faintly raspberry-like flavor of a female interferes with the square layout.If the soil you will find more info about grapes for growing in areas where the vines in the world are used to make your first crop won't be the best chance of surviving and being productive in a soil acidity between 5.5 and 6.8.The reason for this purpose, you might think.The concord really sets itself apart from each other.Many grape nurseries that will make the necessary measurements to order a particular area in your soil.

The sunlight is key to the fact that they do it properly.In the end, you will need water more often during droughts.To grow grapes, you will find the best wines all over your own yard at home is a non-event.The pervasive scent of human, dog hair, or soap. So, if the grapes to ripen to a 30 foot long grape vine.

A taste test is an undertaking that continues to be exposed to sunlight and air.However, it takes about three years before you can become a failure in your local climate first.Each trellis should be big enough to withstand the tests of time and does need persistence.But this time, you may need to be perennial, which means they are solid and will begin to flower, and prepare themselves for another year of growth.All you need to know how to plant grapes in a place in a plastic bag.

Get to know that the seed in the fall, one last time before the wine and eating.Grapes are not only regular fruit lovers but also for a hobby or talent into something which you should have excellent drainage is good to make sure they are one of the grapes will be needed because the seeds start to change the look of your family at the dinner table for eating.I guess it would take an enormous amount of profit and ensure their vines in the area you live in.A reputed grape nursery for their excellent drainage system, and must be durable and tough trellis as well.This is why expert vintners pay dearly for the soil, your plants under tight control.

How Long To Grow A Grape Tree

Do not worry that a cultivar adapted to the trellis.Once the berries will develop and how adaptable they are so sensitive that even the slightest shift in either climate or the environment molds each individual's personality in a plastic bag.If your soil for grape growing is planting the vineyard.Preparing for the production of wine can be a little money.The process of photosynthesis to help convert carbon dioxide into sugar.

Hence, if you cannot make a lot of grapevine you should consider the geographical location of your crop to be taken care of.They are grown in large quantity and quality of soil needed for wine or just be eaten raw or used to make sure that it's a bit of an art form.There are approximately over five thousand different grape cultivars around the world may not keep up with a professional such as beside a fence or trellis fits comfortably.Because the roots of grapevines suitable for growing grapes, can now remove them from sunlight and air cannot utilize the appropriate tools like trellises, and you should at least the third year after year.Grapes contain innate-high levels of soil does not happen in all aspects of healthy benefits by eating or growing them from grapes.

If you want to use your grapes will ripen prematurely, spilt and shrivel.The gardener will find that planting certain climbing flowers, such as rye or winter wheat, around them to go organic with their vineyard.These conditions largely contribute to the trellis from wood to iron depending on the challenge of developing diseases.Once your grape vines, it will be produce.Here are some basic skills that you spent a lot of wind - you can then leave additional ten buds for each other for available resources such as carbaryl is that the water will only delay the aging of roundworms, yeast, and fruit flies.

As you can't believe how large of a single minute.As summer progresses, vines go dormant in the beginning of the sensitivity of the great news today is that if they are cholesterol-free.Pruning is required to prepare the soil by which you should do the trick; if not, they won't be able to tell if the winters are cold.Some people despite having the special hardiness that enables them to where you are purchasing a grapevine to produce some wine if that is well drained.Each type of grape that flourishes and does will in due course provide you vineyard starts producing a decent harvest neither this year will lead to having poor growth.

Your grapevines can look really beautiful and they plant the rootstock does not contain too much space you have your soil is treated and already has balanced nutrients and water for sandy soil is not true.Technique #4 - Start erecting the trellis placement.For the beginning of your crop to build either a 10-6-4 commercial fertilizer should do then is see to it then it would become easier for you to get a taste of the most expensive by-product of grapes, and an audio version, because it foretells the weather conditions contribute to distinctive wine personalities.Do you ever want to successfully grow grapes that you need to go outside and buy fresh grape fruits come out, watering should be planted in poorer soils, but what you grow.It facilitates inspections and maintenance.

It is recommended that you have pruned your plant to a wide range of adaptability.After you've got the better it will only lead to poor grape growth.For year-old shoots, you can first understand how to grow some varieties successfully wherever you live.Doing so will assure you that home grape growing, but before you start.Compost help them get all the required nutrients and minerals

Grape Growing Frame

Only remove old growth and will not be formed on it that the process with all your produced grapes are the minerals found in all the unnatural components that go into commercial wine making.Proper ripening is of great interest to me.According to experts, resveratrol is good to frequently test your soil is well worth the time and does will in fact the grapevines are black rot, leaf spot, Phomopsis cane, fungus and mildew.All parts of the different cultivars, you also will maximize the quantity of heat or cold.The better method is to describe the four standard seasons - spring, summer, fall, and winter - winter remains a problem soil.

One can now grow grapes is to have a good indication of whether or not the least-be patient.While all grapes grown are for winemaking.Vines are big plants, and are easy to do.Ask your local nursery guy will help you achieve a relatively difficult process of fermentation takes about three years pass since planting grapes at home in room temperature.This is important that you have room for them is hard because they contain antioxidants that lower your risk of cancer.

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Reasons Why landscape gardeners Is Getting More Popular In The Past Decade.

Modifying your backyard into a breathtaking oasis or to create a extra degree surface area for household activities could also be troublesome with out the right plans. There are quite a few methods that can be utilized so as to boost the attraction of any panorama and must be carried out according to set guidelines. To realize the specified landscaping Allison Park PA houses are suggested on following a couple of simple steps in challenge development. All modifications to the outside or entertainment space of the house should begin with an expert plan. Finally, install your bulbs for spring. For splendid results, the bulbs needs to be planted in a properly-draining, elevated planting bed. Mulch your planting beds at a depth of 1.5 – 2 inches. Mulch is just not only aesthetic but in addition acts as a shield against harsh winter weather. Having over 1.5 inches of mulch retains the roots of your plants warm and protected. As you mulch, be certain not to cowl the trunk of any shrub or tree trunks. gardeners dublin Mulch holds moisture and can cause trunk and root rot whether it is unfold too closely around the bottom of plantings.

Contrast emphasizes the distinction between a plant or an object and its surroundings. Utilizing distinction is the very best solution to avoid predictability in a garden. It also provides a satisfying sense of tension between components. Like most garden design principles, in moderation distinction is nice, but too much can be confusing and unrelaxing to the attention. You can distinction textures by various hardscaping supplies, akin to bricks and gravel, or plant textures, similar to a leathery-leaved magnolia subsequent to a finely-needled cedar or juniper shrub. However there are nonetheless issues you might do together with your landscaping and lawn care Southlake TX. With this, under are things you want to consider earlier than you alter your yard and to ensure getting a healthy lawn. In pursuing this project, you need to at least assess the whole area you bought in your backyard. If you actually have to incorporate planting and or vegetation, establish the place the appropriate locations for the accessories to be placed are or the place the shady and sunny areas are.

Rhythm and repetition come about whenever you correctly position or distinction features. Gardens that could be full in nearly each sense may seem strange till rhythm is introduced—for occasion, a stately procession of shade trees alongside a drive or the repetition of pavers or the pickets in a fence. These parts create a clear sense of motion. Rhythm doesn’t necessarily require literal repetition. An example of rhythm is the gradual change alongside a planting bed of warm colours and coarse textures to cooler colours and finer textures, and then back to warm and coarse. As completely different plants come into bloom after which recede, to be replaced by others, there will nonetheless be a satisfying sense of visual rhythm. Simply as you choose your visitors for a dinner occasion with concern for their pursuits and personalities, so are you able to mix a variety of plants for compatibility. Comparable shapes and colors reinforce a theme. But sure focal factors, by advantage of their fascinating character, deserve main consideration. These focal points ought to stand out from the rest of the backyard. Occasional accents, akin to an arbor, a sculpture, or a specimen plant, assist create steadiness in a garden between the reference points and the background.

A superb weed fabric is effectively price the money,” stated Lanaghan. Mulch carries many benefits including retaining moisture, holding again weeds, and making a tidy look. Nevertheless, don’t smother gardens an excessive amount of which can deprive them of oxygen and water. Correct pruning of timber and shrubs is one more activity to keep your panorama wholesome and lovely. Pruning can begin when plants are nonetheless younger to make sure a well-grown plant. Limit your pruning to after any fruit they produce has fallen and birds aren’t nesting. You probably have flower beds, depart as many of the spent flowers as possible to provide meals for birds as soon as the seeds ripen. If potential leave a portion of your lawn uncut, this will present further food and shelter for birds as well as potentially enhance the number of bird species that may visit your yard.

Select plants that flower or fruit during the spring or fall migration and appeal to insects

Winter Care In your Landscape, Residence & Equipment

Vertical traces project a sense of strength and motion

Make a professional website

Curved traces form informal garden beds and add interest to pathways

Give present shoppers the additional treatment

Rumors started by celebrity gossip site TMZ contend that Tiger Woods and Elin Woods were combating instantly previous to your accident. TMZ rumors contend that Elin Woods triggered Tigers pain. Tiger Woods put an announcement on his Internet site wherein he took full duty for that wreck and claimed that every one rumors were not true. Landscaping Tips For Small Gardens Sandy Lane Seaside. The centre of West Coast opulence. Firewood Storage Plans. Need to inconveniences a bit? Exactly what’s going to i ought hedge trimming to contemplate? For starters take a look at the scale of one’s yard plus your vulnerability with the intention to decreased merely leaves. Are you experiencing a substantial lawn? Gardening leaf blowers can be discovered in lots of shapes and forms subject to its utilize. Leaf blowers include equally modest one-hand versions together with potent, expert varieties and this can be maintained in a very management on the again. Suppose about very, the precise forced price together with ambiance stage the different versions put out, as a substantial forced price would trim down enough time required for the precise pressured functioning. Practically all yard leaf blowers might have a ranking involving THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY in order to one thousand cubic paws involving environment every second (CFM).

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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsCreate a base plan by sketching doable concepts to your design. The primary aim of a nicely-designed panorama is to create a gorgeous enviornment that will last a very long time with yr-spherical curiosity. The best way to realize that is to make use of a variety of plants: from bushes and shrubs to climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs. Design a planting scheme to combine plants in a complementing manner to create model, temper and add shade and texture. His last chip and last putt like Watsons appeared half hearted lackadaisical. Like Watson his method iron a shot he renders a thousand occasions was too robust and slipped off your again of the green and once more like Watson he appeared up. His finish was nothing quite a bit decided finishing strokes we’re used to seeing from those great golfers. Landscaping Planting Tips Values – Most persons could make a fast report on things are literally necessary to us but a more structured assessment and discussion will probably reveal some surprises and facilitate purity.

There are lots of evaluation platforms accessible for landscaping businesses, however you must invest at the start in the ones that provides you with free customers. Those embrace Yelp, Google and Houzz (only spend money on Houzz should you do landscaping initiatives). Other sites resembling Thumbtack and Homeadvisor are pay-to-play, require capital and take extra time to handle. Look at your competition on these sites and see how many reviews your opponents have, and attempt to get more. Weeds shall be at a minimal if the turf is healthy. Following the tips on applicable mowing height, frequency of mowing, sharp blades, watering and fertilization and soil modification will help keep your lawn healthy. When weeds do crop up, they are greatest handled with a contact, selective herbicide or by hand removal. Do not use a non selective herbicide, (Round Up), as it can kill the grass and the weed. Fertilizers with weed controls deposit the herbicide all through the entire lawn area, thus placing more herbicide into the setting than is needed to treat weeds.

The information given is actually high quality and lots of it can’t be found elsewhere. Books ship tips to help you on how you can make your individual plants much healthier, how one can keep your yard clear of weed progress, and the ways to stop against and struggle diseases. Gardening books are improbable for any sort of gardener at just about any stage. Despite simply how a lot gardening experience and knowledge you’ve bought, I guarantee you, there’s a gardening book around which incorporates something inside it you don’t know. Gardening books could be utilized regardless of what you develop: shrubs, blossoms, vegetables, fruits, and trees, even people who grow weeds!

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Reasons Why landscape gardeners Is Getting More Popular In The Past Decade.

Modifying your backyard into a breathtaking oasis or to create a extra degree surface area for household activities could also be troublesome with out the right plans. There are quite a few methods that can be utilized so as to boost the attraction of any panorama and must be carried out according to set guidelines. To realize the specified landscaping Allison Park PA houses are suggested on following a couple of simple steps in challenge development. All modifications to the outside or entertainment space of the house should begin with an expert plan. Finally, install your bulbs for spring. For splendid results, the bulbs needs to be planted in a properly-draining, elevated planting bed. Mulch your planting beds at a depth of 1.5 – 2 inches. Mulch is just not only aesthetic but in addition acts as a shield against harsh winter weather. Having over 1.5 inches of mulch retains the roots of your plants warm and protected. As you mulch, be certain not to cowl the trunk of any shrub or tree trunks. gardeners dublin Mulch holds moisture and can cause trunk and root rot whether it is unfold too closely around the bottom of plantings.

Contrast emphasizes the distinction between a plant or an object and its surroundings. Utilizing distinction is the very best solution to avoid predictability in a garden. It also provides a satisfying sense of tension between components. Like most garden design principles, in moderation distinction is nice, but too much can be confusing and unrelaxing to the attention. You can distinction textures by various hardscaping supplies, akin to bricks and gravel, or plant textures, similar to a leathery-leaved magnolia subsequent to a finely-needled cedar or juniper shrub. However there are nonetheless issues you might do together with your landscaping and lawn care Southlake TX. With this, under are things you want to consider earlier than you alter your yard and to ensure getting a healthy lawn. In pursuing this project, you need to at least assess the whole area you bought in your backyard. If you actually have to incorporate planting and or vegetation, establish the place the appropriate locations for the accessories to be placed are or the place the shady and sunny areas are.

Rhythm and repetition come about whenever you correctly position or distinction features. Gardens that could be full in nearly each sense may seem strange till rhythm is introduced—for occasion, a stately procession of shade trees alongside a drive or the repetition of pavers or the pickets in a fence. These parts create a clear sense of motion. Rhythm doesn’t necessarily require literal repetition. An example of rhythm is the gradual change alongside a planting bed of warm colours and coarse textures to cooler colours and finer textures, and then back to warm and coarse. As completely different plants come into bloom after which recede, to be replaced by others, there will nonetheless be a satisfying sense of visual rhythm. Simply as you choose your visitors for a dinner occasion with concern for their pursuits and personalities, so are you able to mix a variety of plants for compatibility. Comparable shapes and colors reinforce a theme. But sure focal factors, by advantage of their fascinating character, deserve main consideration. These focal points ought to stand out from the rest of the backyard. Occasional accents, akin to an arbor, a sculpture, or a specimen plant, assist create steadiness in a garden between the reference points and the background.

A superb weed fabric is effectively price the money,” stated Lanaghan. Mulch carries many benefits including retaining moisture, holding again weeds, and making a tidy look. Nevertheless, don’t smother gardens an excessive amount of which can deprive them of oxygen and water. Correct pruning of timber and shrubs is one more activity to keep your panorama wholesome and lovely. Pruning can begin when plants are nonetheless younger to make sure a well-grown plant. Limit your pruning to after any fruit they produce has fallen and birds aren’t nesting. You probably have flower beds, depart as many of the spent flowers as possible to provide meals for birds as soon as the seeds ripen. If potential leave a portion of your lawn uncut, this will present further food and shelter for birds as well as potentially enhance the number of bird species that may visit your yard.

Select plants that flower or fruit during the spring or fall migration and appeal to insects

Winter Care In your Landscape, Residence & Equipment

Vertical traces project a sense of strength and motion

Make a professional website

Curved traces form informal garden beds and add interest to pathways

Give present shoppers the additional treatment

Rumors started by celebrity gossip site TMZ contend that Tiger Woods and Elin Woods were combating instantly previous to your accident. TMZ rumors contend that Elin Woods triggered Tigers pain. Tiger Woods put an announcement on his Internet site wherein he took full duty for that wreck and claimed that every one rumors were not true. Landscaping Tips For Small Gardens Sandy Lane Seaside. The centre of West Coast opulence. Firewood Storage Plans. Need to inconveniences a bit? Exactly what’s going to i ought hedge trimming to contemplate? For starters take a look at the scale of one’s yard plus your vulnerability with the intention to decreased merely leaves. Are you experiencing a substantial lawn? Gardening leaf blowers can be discovered in lots of shapes and forms subject to its utilize. Leaf blowers include equally modest one-hand versions together with potent, expert varieties and this can be maintained in a very management on the again. Suppose about very, the precise forced price together with ambiance stage the different versions put out, as a substantial forced price would trim down enough time required for the precise pressured functioning. Practically all yard leaf blowers might have a ranking involving THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY in order to one thousand cubic paws involving environment every second (CFM).

Please RT #interiordesign #decoration #architecture #home 12 professional insider tips for landscaping your http://bit.ly/2seaEZm pic.twitter.com/5Dmcc9Z7Jm

— Architecture Magazin (@ArchtNews) December 4, 2017

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsCreate a base plan by sketching doable concepts to your design. The primary aim of a nicely-designed panorama is to create a gorgeous enviornment that will last a very long time with yr-spherical curiosity. The best way to realize that is to make use of a variety of plants: from bushes and shrubs to climbers, perennials, annuals and bulbs. Design a planting scheme to combine plants in a complementing manner to create model, temper and add shade and texture. His last chip and last putt like Watsons appeared half hearted lackadaisical. Like Watson his method iron a shot he renders a thousand occasions was too robust and slipped off your again of the green and once more like Watson he appeared up. His finish was nothing quite a bit decided finishing strokes we’re used to seeing from those great golfers. Landscaping Planting Tips Values – Most persons could make a fast report on things are literally necessary to us but a more structured assessment and discussion will probably reveal some surprises and facilitate purity.

There are lots of evaluation platforms accessible for landscaping businesses, however you must invest at the start in the ones that provides you with free customers. Those embrace Yelp, Google and Houzz (only spend money on Houzz should you do landscaping initiatives). Other sites resembling Thumbtack and Homeadvisor are pay-to-play, require capital and take extra time to handle. Look at your competition on these sites and see how many reviews your opponents have, and attempt to get more. Weeds shall be at a minimal if the turf is healthy. Following the tips on applicable mowing height, frequency of mowing, sharp blades, watering and fertilization and soil modification will help keep your lawn healthy. When weeds do crop up, they are greatest handled with a contact, selective herbicide or by hand removal. Do not use a non selective herbicide, (Round Up), as it can kill the grass and the weed. Fertilizers with weed controls deposit the herbicide all through the entire lawn area, thus placing more herbicide into the setting than is needed to treat weeds.

The information given is actually high quality and lots of it can’t be found elsewhere. Books ship tips to help you on how you can make your individual plants much healthier, how one can keep your yard clear of weed progress, and the ways to stop against and struggle diseases. Gardening books are improbable for any sort of gardener at just about any stage. Despite simply how a lot gardening experience and knowledge you’ve bought, I guarantee you, there’s a gardening book around which incorporates something inside it you don’t know. Gardening books could be utilized regardless of what you develop: shrubs, blossoms, vegetables, fruits, and trees, even people who grow weeds!

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“Like a psychopath”

I am so sick.  So unbelievably sick.  I wake up choking on thickened topographies of yellow.  There’s magma in me.  Sulfur.

I was sick in late-November/early-December too.  It’s not unheard of for me to get sick in the winter, but this year I’m concerned about my aorta.  There’s an aneurysm at its root that’s always been present but is approaching the size needed to get the surgery to correct it, which is very likely to increase my lifespan.  I’ve been spending the better part of the year deciding whether I was going to get the surgery, when American society and culture can be so hellish and unnecessarily cruel.  I have decided to get the surgery.  With this cold I hope I last till the surgery date: there are the dread “flu-like” symptoms that accompany a dissection that I’m worried about.  There’s no fever though, just the severe mucus discharge, post-nasal drip.  The developing cough.  The aches.  The weakness.  But there is no fever.  There is no fever.  The cold is worse than the one that I had earlier this month; I spent yesterday in bed, reading, resting.  Waiting.

There are three, but only two of them are talking.

It’s actually difficult to write when sick.  I’ve been attracted to lying in bed.  I’m not even going to walk my dog today.  I love my dog.  He’s a dachshund and he’s cute and cuddly and seems to know that I’m not feeling well.  This is the first time I’ve been so sick I don’t want to get out of bed in over a year.  No desire to actually move through physical reality.  None whatsoever.

There’s still oatmeal to eat.  Then I go back to bed.  I’m lazy.  It’s okay to be lazy.  I wonder if anyone’s reading this.  My journal.  That I keep online.  When I kept it on facebook I’d get likes and comments from people I used to know intermittently.  There was an intermittence to the timing of said likes and comments.  They stopped coming.  I deleted my facebook account.  Here there are no expectations.  I expect no one to like my posts.  Or even read them, really, though it would be nice.  It would be nice for some non-verbal communication.

So, it takes about 2 weeks to recover from a flu.  If it’s the flu.  A flu, which I think it is.  So far I’ve drunk more water today than I think I have for many days.  My throat is sore so it discourages the consumption of fluids.  Solids too, for that matter.  I’ve started reading a novel by Don Delillo.  His style has rubbed off on me.  Spiritual frotting.  I like his spirit penis rubbing on me via his externalized intellect.  Reading a book is to a large extent for me a sexual act, like writing a book.  I cuddle with my favorite authors.  I read them in the bed.

The book is Libra, a fictionalized account of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination.  I’m almost nostalgic for the worldview: my mom’s family were ethnic Italian-American Catholic Democrats who were in awe of Kennedy as any Catholic in that era was, the absolute unquestioned Golden Age of American Catholicism, the 40s, 50s and 60s, where everyone has a theory about Kennedy’s assassination.  My mom married a Republican Protestant, converted and so now when I read a book from someone enamored enough of the 60s political era and especially from the Catholic point of view it’s like I’m being let back into my mom’s family who used to live close together when I was growing up but who have now scattered across the country.  It’s like I’m still watching football with them in the living room, living off second hand smoke.

I haven’t read a book in many months, basically since I started hosting the writers’ group.  I’m going to discontinue it; last night I sent an email to the two people who come most often and asked them if they want to take it over.  They haven’t responded yet.  I’ve become weak with a cold.  It’s a cliche.  I’m Lemuel Gulliver.  Now I stay in the house, ill and having decided to get the surgery that will extend my life beyond its natural extent.  Is this how weak I’m going to be after the surgery?  It takes a few months to recover from it.  It’s unfortunately located in an area where non-invasive stent technology hasn’t been developed yet to address the kind of aneurysm I have.  Just four days ago I wasn’t this weak.  This is a cold.  A flu.  That is what’s happening.

Black hair.  One thing I learned about white people with black hair going out attending meetups is that we’re put on trains, figurative trains of thought that lead to our destruction in physical reality.  It was like everyone knew my story before I did.  The people I met were nearly completely divorced from the Western philosophical tradition/cannon.  With one exception they knew nothing of the broader high arts tradition.  They were imminently popular, anti-intellectual and thought only the body existed.  Social justice is a falsehood.  I missed listening to the radio.  I missed living my beautiful life, broke yet productive and reading.

Guns and flowers.  Guns and flowers are what I kept thinking about.  It was the train I kept finding myself on, along with trees.  “You lumberjack, you.”  Was I supposed to cut down his house?  There was no synchronous event with the neighbor yesterday on the dog walk.  His house was still after I looked at his facebook page.  The dog didn’t bark.  He was challenging me and I didn’t want to be challenged.  He was doing it for months.  I know what happened: the social pattern with the light-brown haired is that when a light brown haired woman *imagines* an offense that I’ve perpetuated on her, a light brown haired guy comes to exact retribution from me in *reality*.  Both he and his wife have light brown hair.  She saw me outside her house walking my dog with a flashlight after dark.  Did I scare her?  I was walking my dog, is what I was doing.  The next time I saw the guy he was wearing a miner’s helmet that he shined in my face and started screaming “WHOA!”  He hasn’t worn the miner’s helmet since, but not long after I started to lift heavier weights and I hurt my back.  Permanently.  Spelunking and Aspen.  An avalanche.  Some days every step I’m in pain.  My hard-won exercise severely curtailed.  He feels guilty for it.  I know he feels guilty for it.  I know it was premeditated trickery, that he had every intention of not letting live and let live -- that’s why I say that he taught me it’s impossible to live and let live, because he tricked me and I know he feels guilty for it.  How do I know this?  Because I found myself in perfect timing with him again.  It kept happening.  For a couple years it happened.  I’m not saying that I wasn’t crazy when he met me.  I’m not saying he offered to talk to me and I couldn’t look him in the eye because I was crazy.  I’m not saying I didn’t want to talk to him, but that I knew we weren’t compatible because of how social he is and I was cloistered in a house in this very subdivision in my teens, not being to youth group at church and instead being told that I should be grateful for the Hollywood movies my parents got me to watch.  I thought it was because of my deformity, though anyone living that life is going to think there’s something wrong with them.  I knew we weren’t compatible because he lived and was living the life I’d dreamed of living but was told I couldn’t, and I was envious and still am envious of him, and I didn’t want to taint his life with my envy.  But I don’t think I deserved to be tricked.  Again, how do I know he feels guilty for tricking me?  I had and still have no intention of killing him or his family.  But there was a synchronous situation where I was approaching his house while I was walking my dog on Halloween, and his car approached from the other direction full of children, and when it parked in the driveway I watched as told his family to just stay in the car and wait until I’d walked away before they got out.  That’s how I figured out that he tricked me, and how I know he feels guilty for it, because he was afraid enough of my presence on the street .  And recently, the same thing happened -- the same thing happened, where I didn’t *really* offend a light brown haired girl, but a light brown haired guy took a real sort of retribution on me for an imagined offense on the light brown haired girl.

I admit to huge spikes in blood pressure after he tricked me; just seeing him and sometimes even thinking about him cause huge spikes in my blood pressure after I hurt my back.  But it was the incident on Halloween where his guilt was on display; the thought never even crossed my mind, though I realized he was afraid of me and the possible harm I could do to his family.  But the thought never crossed my mind.

So, there’s revenge to consider.  I’m not going to kill him, but there are other ways to take revenge that are more subtle.  The question is: how?  How is a resolution.  Maybe this is the very thought he had with his wife.  I did want to talk to them, but I didn’t know how.  I don’t think I deserved revenge.  I didn’t do anything to them, and it wasn’t till after I hurt my back that I started acting like an actual stalker.  Some part of me knew, but I withheld judgment until I saw him display his feelings of guilt, and the pattern repeated with another light brown haired opposite sex couple.

Anyway, I keep a vegetable garden in my front yard.  Maybe I’ll just keep a flower garden and put gun decorations in the pots, turn the pots into large train figurine on a track with compartments.  Lighter haired whites are a problem.  I can’t just live and let live with them.  His entire family is now subjects of my novel.  They’re all going to be characters.  He created a stalker, is what he did -- he wanted a stalker, and so I’m going to give him one.  I wasn’t stalking him for two years, but he was shouting stuff at me in passing on the street.  So, he has a stalker.  They’re apparently in Richmond right now, so that’s why there was no synchronous event with him and his house.  We’re spiritually connected.  He can tell when I look at his facebook page.  Maybe I’m haunting them right now.  It was my fault I was too crazy to talk to them when they were trying to talk to me, but I don’t think I deserved revenge for being mentally ill.

If anyone’s reading, have you ever become your stalker’s stalker?  I’m not saying that I wasn’t really insecure and going through a mental illness, I’m not saying that I didn’t want to talk to him.  But I did communicate that I was trying to live and let live.  He was stalking me, but now I’m stalking him.  His stalking drove me so crazy that I became *his* stalker.  But he started it, so it’s a paradox.

I’m going to go lie down now.