The Living Are Scarred

Queer / Rambler or Helm / over a quarter of a century / putting words out into the world / I listen to A LOT of music from very different subcultures and enjoy them equally / many fandoms, this is just the tip of the iceberg folks

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Was on my way to onboarding meeting with new job.

Got stuck behind some city work trucks on my way which made me a couple of minutes late and had me stressing.

But it was ✨fine✨ cause she's still with another new employee 🙃🙃

Now if I could convince my nervous system we're not being hunted for sport.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Since 2nd job is about to make my busy life busier, we're doing some basic meal prep. I made a large pasta salad from scratch and stirred in a can of salmon alongside the cubed cheese and peas. My ancestors are rolling in their graves.

Except my abuela. She's trying to put that in a taco because "Anything is a taco if you want it enough". (Rough translation from what Spanish I understood at the time). Also laughing at me that I cook whiter food than my white boy 🙃🙃

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Guess who got a second job at a jewelry store! This fucker!!

All seriousness though, I applied and went through the interview process for this place like 2 years ago and was told I got the job and to wait for the call for an official onboarding date. Never got the call. Decided to call them to ask. Got some vague run-around and got the gist there was SOMETHING going on with the management for the local locations of this jewelery store chain.

About a week ago got a call to come in for an interview. Went through the interview process. Did the pre-onboarding paperwork today. All completely different managers.

So Idk, what happened but my application from 2 years ago was still on file and now I have a second job 🤷

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Can I block Fox News on my grandgrump's tv?

He's just becoming paranoid and has started saying that if the Democrats 'take it all' that it 'threatens our very way of life' I asked him how and he couldn't give me a good answer. But he's convinced.

[fairy-type-pokemon]

assign prev one

vampire

siren

werewolf

unicorn

wizard

fairy

selkie

demon

jackalope

angel

ghost

elf

Voting ended onAug 10

[hippielittlemetalhead]

I was asked at work today if I have a podcast by a coworker and they were genuinely sad that I don't. Now said coworker and a couple of my regulars are trying to convince me to start one.

I must not fall to temptation. Lol

[hippielittlemetalhead]

I need to shower and wash my hair but that seems like A LOT of work rn.

When you're hit with a random bout of apathy and can't find the energy to do shit you need to do.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Partner: *goes to the farmer's market on Saturday while I'm at work. Gets stuff for fresh bruschetta. Also gets me FIGS. A rare treat for me cause I love them but have a sensitivity so I rarely indulge*

Me: *takes my figs to snack on while dog sitting Monday*

Half the figs are starting to rot already. Half of the good ones are bland and just not that good.

I will never tell him cause he was so proud of himself for finding and getting me figs. And he doesn't have Tumblr so I'm telling you lot instead.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Does anyone have any fics based on that one Heated Rivalry AU where (through some age juggling) Ilya is Luca Haas' bio dad? Like he got a girl pregnant when he was 16-17 at some political event weekend his dad had dragged him to. The girl & her folks either reached out to Ilya's dad who just said Ilya wasn't interested in the kid so she gave him up for adoption, or she didn't tell Ilya and his family at all and just did a closed adoption.

They figure it out cause Ilya was making jokes about Luca (and the other rookies) being his and Shane's kid(s) and Luca drops the fact he was adopted and what little he had been able to find out about his bio mom. Ilya pieces it together and shuts down, Shane has to be the one to sit them both down (I think with Harris?) to figure out next steps.

I don't think there were any actual fics yet. Just people kicking around ideas and riffing. But I can't find shit...

[zany-lil-detective]

I've seen a handful of people saying the everyone forgetting Hen's birthday storyline doesn't make sense and should have been a Buck storyline and I absolutely disagree; it should have gone to Ravi. Forgetting Hen or Buck's birthday? Kinda unbelievable that everyone would forget. Ravi? The guy who's only sometimes there, and kept being called Eddie for the entire first episode Eddie was gone? That's literally the perfect set up for a feeling invisible storyline, and in this essay I will-

[hippielittlemetalhead]

The partner has me watching Star Wars Rebels with him. And it has me thinking of a couple of fics I read ages ago on FFN and I just don't have the energy to go digging for them.

Does anyone know any fics where Ezra is Lasat and Zeb is like a begrudging (super protective) uncle? I know there was a mix of Ezra being a toddler & canon age or just a couple years younger than canon. I don't really want to deal with FFN at this point and haven't had time to dig through AO3.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Being a no sabo kid and 3rd generation on both sides in vastly different ways is such a weird experience?

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Partner's uncle: *goes on super liberal anti-big government, pro personal autonomy, anti-corporate capitalism and monopolies rant* "But if the Dems make [whatever local thing he's upset about this time] then I'm leaving [state he moved to basically live off grid] for good this time. If they hate Trump so bad then they can come out with proof, don't make your hissy fit my problem."

Like dude... You are one of the most liberal people I know... All the shit you enjoy and want comes from Democrats... Almost everything you complain about is from the Republicans you back.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Getting my nails done and tbh y'all I'm mostly here for the environment. Drills and fans are going, despite the ventilation you can smell some of the chemicals, people are gossiping and chatting, half the nail techs don't really speak English and are ecstatically learning new words from sweet regulars and teaching them their own language in turn, and of course there are kids (of both techs and clients) about the place and I am surrounded by the sound of some of my fondest childhood memories.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

Do businesses not understand what 'Entry Level' is anymore? Because on most job sites I've been looking at companies have their 'Entry Level' positions requiring at least 3 years of experience and like a Bachelor's degree. What the actual fuck is going on???

I have a job currently but I'm trying to make some actual steps forward in life goals and it's so fucking disheartening and stupid seeing this shit.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

I should be working on my Punk!Steve thingy and I will but first I am running on enough caffeine to stop an elephant's heart and 3 hours of sleep and I had a ✨thought✨.

Son of Hades Steve but more Bianca di Angelo than Nico. He's charming and charismatic but even if people like him there's still that sense of Other and people fear what he's capable of (King Steve) and the stereotype that he's bad luck and not like other demigods and almost less human than them (relationship with Nancy and the bullshit scene). His parents know and his stepdad refuses to acknowledge him more than he needs to and his mom resents him for ruining her marriage even though she's the one who revenge cheated in retaliation for her husband sleeping with another secretary. So they send him to Camp Half Blood as soon as possible and he is there the majority of the year.

And

Son of Artemis Eddie. BECAUSE in many ancient civilizations the words/phrases we translate to virgin would be closer to unwed young woman rather than never slept with someone. Because Artemis has a lover, Orion but upon his death vows to never wed and declares herself a maiden/virgin goddess. So either like copying Athena in PJO or via the occasional ONS she has a handful of kids. We'll say for easiness sake she 99.9999% of the time has girls that she keeps as part of her hunters. The occasional .0001% that's a boy she sends to the father or the camp. Eddie was left on his father's doorstep in a soft grey woven bassinet and swaddled in silver cloth that seemed to glow with the light of the full moon. His dad isn't the best but once he was delivered Artemis didn't really check in with him and only finds out he'd been sent to his Uncle Wayne (who can see through the Mist) when one of her hunters who was working with CHB sees and recognizes him as a child of her Lady and reports back to Artemis. She claims him at the campfire the next full moon and he immediately starts calling only the Apollo kids cousins and they sort of adopt him as one of their own right back when he proves to be terrible at anything related to either his mother or uncle except taking care of kids (he is great at helping with little ones who are new to the camp or have to visit the infirmary) and/or animals, being the type to take little lost campers under his wing and a talent for music that would rival the most gifted of Apollo's cabin.

A la PJO style we meet our heroes around the ages 11-12, Steve had been in and out of the camp routinely since he was literally a toddler. He was found at daycare by a kind nymph who went by Claudia and her satyr toddler (Dustin 😏) and told the Harringtons about the camp. She did not expect them to basically send their 3 year old to boarding school most of the summer.

Dustin later found Eddie on his own since he was now technically 9 to Eddie's 12 but still physically pretty toddler looking it took some effort and Claudia had to intervene when she finally found her son and explain to the nice mortal man and his demigod nephew about Eddie being of Greek god descent and that with the rise of monsters trying to get at him already he should go to the camp for a bit to train. Dustin would stay at the camp with Eddie partially as punishment for running off and partially to help him acclimate and make sure Eddie was on time for when Claudia helped Wayne Iris message Eddie. Eddie is maybe 13 and been at camp for about a year when he gets claimed.

That's all I've got really besides Steve and Eddie try being friends cause they're both odd kids out w/who their parents are but it's a little out of nowhere after a year knowing of each other rather than knowing each other but also Steve has powers and charisma and that makes him worth hanging out with to majority of campers where Eddie can get kids to stop crying and is a Disney princess with how much animals like him. There's some animosity cause Steve is jealous Dustin is spending so much time with Eddie, especially when they and some of the other campers and younger satyrs discover DND and Eddie feels rejected cause they didn't click at all and his emotionally traumatized little ass made that Steve's fault. Till they're 16 and 17 and assigned a quest with Dustin as their satyr and third and they have to learn to get along and realize how much they have in common like the fear of what comes next when they age out of being campers and yeah Steddie happens and Dustin is smug.

Also Eddie learns completely by accident he can basically use music as a weapon DND bard style and he is way too happy about it and so pissed he didn't think of that sooner.

[hippielittlemetalhead]

I have too many wips to do this justice.

Someone write this and tag me so I can read it!

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic