Yesterday was blue, like smoke

Hallo, I'm Jes. I write music and sometimes fangirl about stuff. #just women being persons

[still-intrepid]

about post

Just realised that since my blog is dashboard-only we lost all the links, so, here:

Name: Jes  House: Hufflepuff  MBTI: IFSP

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ME:- composer-musician & teacher.  30s.  Here’s the general tag for things I make.  Here’s the selfie tag xD

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BLOG:-

as of 2020 I’m not especially active here in general or in any fandoms in particular but there’s a bunch back in the tags.  A lot of hetalia.

if you come across a broken link, try replacing nyolietpol.co.vu in the url with still-intrepid.tumblr.com.  

Here's my fic

#just women being persons was inspired by the always entertaining picdescbot.  

re following/mutuals etc: feel free to follow/unfollow as you like!  We can still talk and be friendly even if we’re not mutuals. If I don’t follow you (back) it isn’t a sign of personal dislike by any means, more likely trying to keep my dashboard streamlined.

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My one and only, y'know~ [pixels by namazuo]

[still-intrepid]

I think I've listened to Anti Believer like 20 times since yesterday ...

[fuckyeahleaderonew]

[jesmusicblog]

you make my life COLORFUL

HAPPY 18TH ANNIVERSARY, BELOVED SHINEE 💎💎

I wrote English words for this at Christmas (because I was under the, I feel very legitimate, impression from the music video that it was a Christmas song).

Satellite is coming......

[dogposts]

met this cutie on the subway. he kept staring at me

[still-intrepid]

On such a high from the shinee beyond live!!! Hi to everyone from the chat lol. LOVE the new songs, all the tsol love, the energy start to finish goodness, the outfits (Minho = FFX Auron I’m not the only one who saw that right?), KEY IS BACK and so happy and clingy, all of them—

[herewegobebe]

SHINee | 'Atmos' MV Teaser

[jesmusicblog]

you make my life COLORFUL

HAPPY 18TH ANNIVERSARY, BELOVED SHINEE 💎💎

I wrote English words for this at Christmas (because I was under the, I feel very legitimate, impression from the music video that it was a Christmas song).

Satellite is coming......

[jesmusicblog]

i made some more cosy small tunes ..

[shineemoon]

- The Trilogy I - 2026 SHINee WORLD VIII : [THE INVERT] 🗓️ 2026.05.29(FRI) 7PM 🗓️ 2026.05.30(SAT) 5PM 🗓️ 2026.05.31(SUN) 4PM 📍 KSPO DOME

[json-derulo]

the past three weeks in a row, partner has gone to chipotle and been served by the same employee who, in bold defiance of the testimony of his own eyes and ears, ardently refuses to believe carnitas exist

[json-derulo]

partner: “Hi, could I please have a bowl with white rice, black beans, and carnitas?”

employee (completely blank expression): “No.”

partner (autistic) (socialscript.exe encountered an unhandled exception) : “…Uh. Um. Sorry?”

employee: “We don’t have that.”

partner (wondering if perhaps he put too much of the authentic accent on the word and that’s what’s throwing the guy): “You don’t have…(pronouncing it whiter) carnitas?”

employee (face still unreadable): “No.”

partner (looking at the near-full hotel pan of perfectly normal carnitas in its usual place on the other side of the glass) (noticing this employee looks unfamiliar) (maybe he’s a new guy that just started five minutes ago with no training?) : “The…pork?” (pointing at it)

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (beginning to wonder if he’s the one that’s losing it) (desperately looks to the menu on the wall behind the employee) (the menu lists carnitas as a protein option) (the word “carnitas” is not crossed out or taped over or otherwise adulterated) (carnitas have been on the standard menu since at least 2016) : “Okay. Um. Are you…sure?”

other employee working the toppings part of the line (familiar) (have seen her before) (she has cool earrings): *gives the new guy a strange look, nudges him aside, and scoops the carnitas onto partner’s bowl before continuing with the other toppings*

Repeat conversation again the next week. And the next. Same guy. If it’s a bit, no one is laughing, including the employee.

[json-derulo]

theories I’ve considered:

- the employee keeps very strictly kosher/halal/vegan and refuses to handle pork (understandable, I respect that, but if you’re gonna work at a place that serves pork I do kinda feel like when someone orders it you’ve just gotta tap in a coworker to do it for you)

- someone did something gross to the carnitas and the employee is trying to warn people not to order it (??? throw it out then? also, three weeks in a row???)

- the employee is a space alien who views humans as so similar to pigs that for us to eat them is tantamount to cannibalism

[json-derulo]

- the employee is the lead in a kdrama romance about a pampered, clueless chaebol heir who is sent by his father to work in the company’s restaurants for a year in order to prove he’s ready to take over as CEO. he’s dumb as rocks but they can’t fire him or even correct him that harshly due to the power gradient. partner is just a minor reoccurring character, and the interaction is kept the same from week to week to highlight the development of the relationship between the employee and his love interest with the cool earrings (even if the restaurant is literally a fully-branded Chipotle, that’s somehow still not enough product placement for me to believe this is a real kdrama)

[json-derulo]

After reviewing again with partner, evidently I forgot a detail that set this week’s carnitas denial dance apart from the others.

partner (well aware of what he’s getting into with this guy now): “Hi. Could I please have a bowl with white rice, black beans, and pork?”

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (demonstrating a level of patience only a public school teacher could have): *points at the pan of carnitas* “Could I please just have some of that?”

employee (after several slow, confused blinks): *points at the same pan* “That’s steak.”

partner (looking at the hotel pan they’re both pointing at) (it is filled with shredded meat of a pale beige color) (at the other end of the row of pans is another pan containing dark brown, lightly charred meat chopped into small pieces): “Okay.” *deciding he’s willing to play in this fantasy space if it gets the job done, he points at the first pan again* Then could I please have the steak?”

employee: *starts to reach for the pan at the other end containing the actual steak*

partner: "Oh—no, sorry, this one please?" *points at the first pan containing the carnitas*

employee: *blinks, then just walks away and starts helping the next customer in line, leaving partner's bowl unfinished*

other employee with cool earrings: *rolls her eyes at new employee, takes partner’s bowl, and fills it with carnitas herself*

new theories:

- the employee is a bridge troll who will only dole out his delectable carnitas to those who prove themselves worthy by correctly answering his riddles three

- the employee is stoned out of his mind at all times on a specific strain of weed that totally erases the concept of pork from his memory and awareness

[json-derulo]

A few additional updates/clarifications:

Mr. Eternal Bluntshine of the Porkless Mind isn't the first idiosyncratic cryptid Partner has encountered at this particular Chipotle. He joins the illustrious ranks of The Lobster Mobster and 300 RPM Matthew McConaughey

Partner says he does not actually mind dealing with this unskippable cutscene every time because A) he finds it amusing and B) on one occasion, after Cool Earrings's intervention, the new employee checked him out at the register, and he rang up the bowl clearly labeled "CA-Q" (carnitas with queso) as chicken, which made it slightly cheaper

Some of my favorite possible explanations from the tags:

[danshu-yw]

Merry Christmas 🎄love drawing gingerbread house and cute lietpol bites ; )

[jesmusicblog]

happy new year ♡

[tallymali]

what am i being advertised here exactly

[special-agent-dale-gooper]

[jesmusicblog]

This year's PIANOWRIMO album is complete! 30 short(ish) piano pieces in a mix of styles and moods as usual, but a lot with emotional or storytelling notes for sure. Writing a piece every day in November is always interesting like... there's so little time especially on some days that I can't really overthink and to some extent have to go with the first ideas I have. At the same time I'll think about things I want to write as I go about the day and sometimes have it really planned before I sit down at the piano, and over the whole month it's kind of like a slow flow state or something. So it's very personal, heh, if that's a recommendation.

also because it's so many pieces in a month, I kind of forget what happened at the start of it by the end, so then I get to rediscover the pieces I wrote. I did that and I think they're pretty neat, and that my recommendation :)

WORDS BY HEART is available for download on bandcamp and will be FREE / pay what you decide til next year. You can also get the finished sheet music album here.

Look back through my blog on the #pianowrimo 2025 and #pianowrimo tags, or watch the playlist on youtube.

Shares are greatly appreciated too!

[jesmusicblog]

This year's PIANOWRIMO album is complete! 30 short(ish) piano pieces in a mix of styles and moods as usual, but a lot with emotional or storytelling notes for sure. Writing a piece every day in November is always interesting like... there's so little time especially on some days that I can't really overthink and to some extent have to go with the first ideas I have. At the same time I'll think about things I want to write as I go about the day and sometimes have it really planned before I sit down at the piano, and over the whole month it's kind of like a slow flow state or something. So it's very personal, heh, if that's a recommendation.

also because it's so many pieces in a month, I kind of forget what happened at the start of it by the end, so then I get to rediscover the pieces I wrote. I did that and I think they're pretty neat, and that my recommendation :)

WORDS BY HEART is available for download on bandcamp and will be FREE / pay what you decide til next year. You can also get the finished sheet music album here.

Look back through my blog on the #pianowrimo 2025 and #pianowrimo tags, or watch the playlist on youtube.

Shares are greatly appreciated too!

[vanessagillings]

Feeling wintery

(close the door, you're letting the heat out!)