Stars and dreams

Fandom- a strangely addictive idea

[danielwaldorf]

since becoming a barista i have noticed a few very distinct typologies among my customers. such as:

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

this of course is not an exhaustive list but those are just some of the most consistent Types i get. ok bye xoxo

[mothric]

PSA: quick at home electrolyte drink

if you're anything like me and you don't feel heat like you should, or you live in a normally not-hot area that's currently experiencing a heat wave, and/or you've been sipping plain water for hours and wondering why your throat is still dry and you're inexplicably exhausted, you probably need electrolytes.

in this situation your best line of defense is gatorade or some form of electrolyte tablet or powder. if you like those things, go get those things, this post is over.

BUT maybe you're also like me and you find gatorade unbearably sweet (it also gives me a headache, no idea why), and maybe you can't afford the fancy tablets or powders

if that describes you, I just did the following right here in my kitchen:

grab a big ol thermos/cold cup/giant glass of your choosing (i think mine holds 2 cups of liquid)

throw a pinch of salt in there and dissolve it in a lil bit of warm water

squeeze half a lemon in (or 1-2 tablespoons of store bought lemon juice. or lime, or orange, any citrus works tbh)

add 1-2 tablespoons of real maple syrup OR honey (maple syrup dissolves easier, honey will need a bit more warm water to melt it)

fill the rest with cold water

boom. poor man's gatorade, not too sweet, and within 20 minutes of sipping it my "mysterious" exhaustion is gone. i am very annoyed it was this easy to feel good again after languishing for hours wondering why the hell I was so tired and shaky. it was the electrolytes. it's 90 degrees out and I don't feel hot so I forgot. don't make my mistake. now go forth and hydrate!

[hauntedsuns]

I made it and here's some thoughts from me (days after first reblogging this) so: Its way better than gatorade, but I may have put in too much lemon(i love lemon) taste wise the first 1/3 reminded me of unsweetened, but well watered lemonade– then the honey, which didn't dissolve as well nicely as I wanted to it kicked in (the honey and lemon smell together were very lovely tho,,) was a bit of a chore to drink due to the sweet&sour not mixing well enough in my try but I think that's user failure

Overall, I feel a lot better after drinking this, there's no bad sensory feel to it, it didn't give me the icky sticky feeling that things like gatorade usually give me– solid 10/10( maybe 9.5 but it was my fault I added too much lemon/didnt stir well enough)

[mothric]

I never saw this addition til now, but I'm glad to see someone tried this in the wild and liked it!

while I'm here and it's currently the month of March and still cold weather season in a lot of places, I'd like to add that hot water with lemon and honey is also very hydrating and not just for when you're sick! particularly if you have heat running in your house, it can suck moisture out and quietly dehydrate you as well.

personally, it turns out I'm chronically low on electrolytes for medical reasons so I've continued to drink maple-lemon-salt water year round - more concentrated in summer, more diluted in winter. I get way less headaches/migraines now. if I'm ever stuck with plain water or even bubbly flavoured water, I get a headache again within hours. bodies are weird! stay hydrated however you need to folks!

[thegoblinwitch]

we've been having a bit of a heatwave, here in scotland, so i uncovered this from my 'to keep for later' draft posts and made this.

life saver! super easy to make and actually tastes good. and resolves the pesky electrolytes issues....!

and since i am chronically dehydrated (remembering to drink, esp water, is hard okay) this might become part of my daily routine, as, for once, i actually managed to drink it all in a normal amount of time (instead of taking all day to drink the one glass).

thank you for sharing this op!

[regnumveritatis]

Coconut water is also a good electrolyte provider. It's used a lot to mitigate heatstroke

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

can i just say how much i appreciate and love your nightmare driver shane? every time someone takes the ‘it’s practical in the snow’ at face value and puts shane down as a safe driver i die a little more on the inside. shane THINKS he is a safe driver who makes practical car decisions but he is not. listen. man drives a jeep cherokee, which is a car boat made for people who want to feel like they’re cool enough to go off-roading every time they go to the costco that would be walking distance if it weren’t for the (minimum) four lane highway in the way. unless of course you’re going by tv canon in which case he drives a rover. which is worse. rovers are for people who want to buy a jeep cherokee but are too rich to own something so middle-class. and who also count calling triple-a as a hobby. i know for a fact in my heart of hearts that shane on some level sees a highway as a pvp enabled zone and his car is his tank. which is safe* in sort of a libertarian way but does not factor public safety in at all which is the point! of! safe! driving! if he actually wanted to min/max safe & practical in a car, he would have some kind of 4wd hybrid situation. toyota/honda/subaru. he’s rich so i could forgive a lexus (which is just a luxury toyota). but a fucking ROVER? get the fuck out of here. at least it’s not a beemer jfc

*this is a lie. the presence of an suv in a collision increases the likelihood of death for both the person in the suv and the other driver. i mean the other guy is definitely worse off than the guy in the tank, but massive cars and trucks make the road less safe for everyone

source: i hate cars and work in a rich people drive thru. learning better ways to roast them for their awful vehicular choices is my passion. if it were up to me we’d all be driving tiny hybrids (or have robust public transport) which btw i survived 5 winters driving on the Colorado front range without 4wd it is a Want, not a Need.

thank you for coming to my unnecessarily aggressive ted talk. i hate jeeps so much

I love it when people are passionate in my inbox. These are the strongly held beliefs I want to see. I am kissing you on the forehead

[starfata]

Just reading a Heated rivalry fic and Shane has been referred to as a second round draft pick.

No, he was the second draft pick overall. I'm not 100% what second round means in this context, but I know he wouldn't have been set up in media etc as Ilya's rival if he was a second round pick.

Took a moment to breathe and type this out. I don't care about innacuracies usually, but this is a sports fandom.

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[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[thememedaddy]

[mercyandmountainwater]

me describing Shane Hollander: Yeah so technically this version of Shane was essentially created through strange ritual means that caused the original Shane to go through a sort of magical mitosis. He doesn’t know what he actually took with him and what the other Shane kept. He definitely got the Hockey but he’s a little unsure if he has a soul. Still he’s the one who inherited the mantle of Shane Hollander and feels like that must be worth something so he never thinks about his trauma and really doesn’t work to form new bonds because everything’s temporary Y’know. No he still talks to his ‘brother’ fairly often. Guy had a bit of a breakdown in his early twenties but right now he’s doing awesome. Some friends, a dating life, decent job, magical adventures in the weekends. They both tell each other about their epic lives and Shane was terrified for years that he’d be jealous of Shane’s fame and doesn’t know what to do with that fact that he isn’t. That all his friends who decided to have their own magical strange lives accomplished a lot less on paper but still have each other and are happy and Shane isn’t sure he is.

[starfata]

Luck

Luck powers- Shane literally lives a charmed life. He's never been hurt by idiots rough housing too close, never gotten food poisoning, never stepped on a children's toy, restaurants he picks at seeming random always have food on his meal plan and ginger ale. If there's a lack of ginger ale, he's in a restaurant someone else picked or a restaurant chosen for convenience.

He has a ritual to ensure his powers are limited in hockey- only enough that he would 'luckily' not be badly hurt if he took a bad hit. It's probably why he has all his original teeth.

It's years before he learns why his powers 'failed' when Marlow hit him, why he got so badly hurt from a check that shouldn't have done any serious damage.

Turns out his powers considered a potential end to his relationship with Ilya worse than a broken collarbone (which healed weirdly slowly until Scott kissed Kip, and started healing quickly/normal for Shane after).

So- still lucky after all.

[teaboot]

Am I the mom friend? Absolutely not. But what I AM is the "prepared for any situation" friend, and THAT bears wisdom I can pass on

Step 1: Cargo pants, or purse, fanny pack, cool jacket, backpack, etc.

Step 2:

Folded-up plastic bag

Tweezers

Chapstick

Small knife

Lighter

Band-aids

Hand sanitizer

Hard candy

Travel-size Tylenol

Needle and thread

Safety pin

Bus fare

Charger

Pen/flashlight combo

Sticky notes

Granola bar

Tampon

Pad

Mini multi-head screwdriver

Zipock of tissue

Bottle opener

Hockey tape

This can be a lot to unload and re-load if you're a cargo pants person, but if you like me are not really a purse person I highly recommend either a cool jacket you can sew secret pockets into or a spare water bottle you can grab 'n' go whenever

I share this because being the guy who always has The Thing You Need is the best feeling in the world and I think more people should experience it

[wild-moss-art]

This is why I read the reddit comments

[awsydawnarts]

[quarterclever]

I love how the notes for this are just chock full of examples of the most batshit specific things people research for their fanfics. Truly a treasure trove.

[quarterclever]

Some of my favorites

[quarterclever]

And my absolute fav

[starfata]

Star Names

I went through Every Constellation in Wikipedia, and wrote down the names of stars that I thought would be good for an Rigel-verse House of Black character (a HP-AU fandom). Then I bought an e-book and went through that, doing the same thing.

Then I took my handwritten notes (most of a notebook) and typed them up. With asterisks, because the book author is noted as not referencing his sources.

And posted months worth of work on tumblr.

I didn't even write a fic, this was strictly for the writing equivalent of doodling. Fanfic Ideas.

Not the craziest thing I researched for fic, but definetely the craziest research I've done.

[importantdogimages]

[starfata]

Smoking Ban

It turns out my brother and I have the same core memory.

Early childhood- our Granny took us into town and went to a pub to visit friends.

You look up at the ceiling and you can physically see the smoke swirling.

Which is probably why we as a family didn't stop in at pubs for lunch until after the smoking ban.

[starfata]

Minor Gripe

New formatting on ao3, the tooltips? Or a new trend? Great for drop down authors notes! But the fact I'm trying to read a Heated Rivalry Fic and I have to click on Every Single sentence meant to be in Russian? This isn't television. You don't get points for having every word in the two Russian speakers dialogue be in russian- it's not helping the immersion for me.

It's one thing to have a sentence, or a few words. But entire blocks of text?

I can't get into the story if I have to keep clicking on the dialogue to translate! I'm getting a headache and quite frankly I'm irritated you don't know what the Italic button is for.

Now when I see that, do you know what I'm going to do?

Hit the back button. If you're too busy showing off your skill at google translate/Russian to tell a story, I can go read a story where just reading the words will only require me to scroll. Rule of thumb- if you're using another language, I should be able to understand the story without translations, by context.

[starfata]

Runaways Au

My thought- if Shane is planning to leave, why stay in North America at all?

He can cut off everyone he knew, and leave. Name changes in Ontario are public record unless a privacy exemption is applied for, but Quebec's are protected. If he times it right, he can get his new passport issued and new name shortly after his final game. Ilya should have Canadian citizenship by the time, so he can travel on Canadian passport.

My first thoughts were the UK or Australia- buy a house somewhere LGBT+ friendly- first thoughts were Brighton or Margate in UK- nothing specific for Australia.

If he leaves of his own free will, how much can even a PI do to track him down?

A guy who looks kind of like Shane Hollander packs his most precious belongings, gets on a flight to somewhere they don't care about hockey.

A day later, he gets on another flight to his intended destination, and applies for a visa. Ilya meets him there, Anya going through quarantine.

They have access to their own funds. They're not in the country illegally. They're a world away from most anyone who will recognise them. They're no more limited than any other queer couple, can go anywhere.

They're rich and in love. What are the odds a hockey fan will see them, recognize them?

Then again- slightly more boring story. Just two guys, living in a place. Less of a community than a small town/village in the middle of nowhere.

[starfata]

Actually found conflicting information. First- both Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada can apply for a name change.

Second- Ontario requires publication except when transgender, First Nations, Inuit or Métis individuals request non-publication or the Attorney General certifies that the name change is intended to prevent significant harm.

Quebec also requires publication- so my first look around was wrong. But also- I think they could get an exemption more easily in Qyebec.

The law requires the publication of a notice of application for a change of name when an application for a change of name is submitted to the Directeur de l'état civil, unless an exemption from publication has been granted. All applications for a change of name must be published on the website of the Directeur de l'état civil for 15 days.

The notice must contain the name of the applicant, the address of the applicant's domicile and the change being requested.

Shane Hollander's address published online?

Any person may submit comments on an application for a change of name within 20 days following the end of the publication of the notice. They must then notify the person who submitted the application for a change of name and the Directeur de l'état civil of the comments.

Oh wow. So much paperwork. So much. So many Comments (not sure what this means in a legal sense but my first instinct is. to cringe).

An exemption from the publication of a notice of application for a change of name may be granted by the Directeur de l'état civil when reasons of public interest are alleged and shown, that is, when it is beneficial for everyone not to have a notice published.

[starfata]

Time

In @mercyandmountainwater's supernatural drama high school AU, I proposed that the Shane Hollander who met Ilya Rozanov was not the original Shane, but his magical clone, and the original Shane took up the name Hiro Yamada.

I thought of a way to make things slightly worse.

-

The clone escapes MacArthur, and is taken in by Ivy and Shane as they try help him adjust. Spells for the people in the group to remember that it was Shane, not New!Shane there on such a time. To identify who they were seeing immediately. Teaching him things outside of hockey, like how to use his powers. Try out new names. Fight the good fight.

Then there's a battle.

A portal goes out of control.

Shane is pushed through when he attempts to take control of it. Jonah follows when his opponent takes advantage of his distraction.

Marcus shuts down the portal. The enemies are driven off.

And then they're left with the consequences.

-

New!Shane becomes Shane, easily. They're only a few months separated, they're confident he's not controlled by MacArthur. He and Ivy become friends. He and Jessica fake date. Marcus makes a special effort to bond with him because they all know this is a new relationship, even if no one else does.

At some point, two people show up.

Hiro Yamada and his husband, Jonah Girard. They're adults- Hiro couldn't take them to the right year. They could travel to the far past and back- but they couldn't get closer than several years ago.

Luckily, Hiro could still manage short range time travel. Which he used to set the two of them up legally and financially- he sent money to support Ivy after her parents vanished.

So, as adults (22 years old), they move in with Shane and Ivy.

Shane is quietly having a meltdown over the husband thing, but after the spells to remove strong connections to the group he hadn't actually made, he didn't have a serious crush. So it's more the man thing than that Hiro married Jonah. So it doesn't mean Shane doesn't like girls! Just that he likes men. Which is not great for an NHL draft prospect, but just fine outside of that!