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my gf and i argue all the time about which t line is better im an orange line girlie but she for some reason insists the green line is better. please help me talk some sense into her lol
I'm sorry OP, but the orange line is the heart of simplicity on the T. It's a single path with no variation. Even the red line has at least one split. Don't get me wrong, there is beauty in simplicity, but simplicity is not the Massachusetts way. The green line has some chutzpah. It has four branching paths, and union square to boot. That's the spirit of Boston right there, pain and confusion in your transportation choice.
However, you are both wrong. The silver line is where it's at. That thing is such a mess it has to be numbered to differentiate it from itself. There are loops, connections to all four other lines in the weirdest places. You get the worst of Boston roads and the worst the t has to offer all in one package.
The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.
The great thing about being beholden to Penny the Deals Warlock is that she is also beholden to the art of the deal
Me: (watching Penny scoot her step stool over to where we keep the candy jar): hey honey we're literally walking out the door to go get dinner, maybe we wait on the candy okay?
Penny: Oh but I will have some candy?
Me: Why don't you come have some mac and cheese and then when we get home you can have some candy, deal?
Penny: (running out the door) oh, yes this is deals!
We are visiting my family and Papa has quickly had to pay patronage to Penny the Deals Warlock
Papa: (yesterday morning, when Penny was a little grumpy) What about you come downstairs and we'll have some waffles and then tomorrow Papa will take you to the Diner in town for breakfast?
Penny: (extending her tiny hand to a VERY confused man) this is deal?
Penny has a canker sore to end all canker sores, to the point where she hasn't been able to eat so we had to make some deals surrounding getting some medicine on it because a hungry Penny Rose is like a angry demon queen
Me: Okay baby this is going to suck. This is going to hurt real bad for a second and then it's going to feel weird and then it's going to feel good. You're going to hate it. But if you let Mama get these three medicines in and on you [Listerine, Antacid, Tylenol] you can scream it out and then we'll go get some ice cream! Deal?
Penny: (obviously not thrilled with this idea) okay, three big shreams, three medicines, ice cream ... it will suck... ice cream ... deal. (Sticks out hand and we shake on it)
Me: okay let's do this I'm so sorry (starts the process)
Penny: ( In between her big screams ) IM GONNA GET LOTS OF FRINKLES
My husband is trying to make a deal with Penny to get upstairs and get in the bath tub
Penny: I will go upstairs and get my body clean but you hafta titch me, deal?
Dada: I would love to make this deal with you kid but I literally have no idea what you are saying- I don't know what the terms are, you're speaking a language I don't speak
Penny: you have to titch me like mama does okay DEAL!? (Sticks tiny hand out aggressively)
Dada: (looks at me bewildered for help)
Me: ( starts making a quick tick tick tick sound imitating a stop watch like I'm timing her, while penny jumps around yelling YES TITCH ME LIKE THAT)
Dada: In what world was I ever going to figure that out, thank you for acting as our legal interpreter yes deal let's go!
Penny does not want to go to bed, but man is it time for her to go to bed
Penny: But I don't want to be sleeping, I want to stay up now! I want to see Grampy and Cozy and Guppie and Papa!
Mama: What if we video call all the grands and say good night to everyone? If we do that will you then go to bed no fussing?
Penny: Oh yes, this is deals! -sticks her hand out to shake-
** we make the rounds and video call all her grandparents, they are all already in bed and say good night and penny hangs up the last video call and toddles into bed with minimal fussing **
Penny : (after a few minutes of silence, over the video monitor, to herself in her dark bedroom) I hafta respect da deals.
Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.
Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.
In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.
But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.
Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!
But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.
I've seen this post so many times and I can't TAKE IT anymore. Because there are so many new people in the fandom after that Netflix documentary and I don’t want them getting the wrong impression, I’m going to correct everything that’s wrong in this post.
First off, RUMI IS NOT “IN THE CLOSET”, BECAUSE RUMI’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION HAS NEVER BEEN IN ANY WAY DISCLOSED BY HER OR ANYONE WHO KNOWS HER! Nor has any gender identity other than ciswoman, though that’s less of a debate. You can’t accuse a person of hiding something if you don’t even know if there’s a thing to be hidden!
@ new fans, especially Western ones: yes, this is a #gaylor swifties situation. To be fair, it’s a little more substantiated: Rumi has sung a several incredible songs over the years alluding to having something to hide, and most recently Huntr/x’s new hit “Golden” has her belting, “I’m done hiding, now I’m shining/Like I’m born to be!” and then revealing what seems to be faint but full-body pearlescent rainbow tattoos? Or maybe body paint?
But even that doesn’t mean anything, because Rumi hasn’t SAID anything, and no one who knows her has SAID anything. Hunter/x is FAMOUS for keeping their private lives actually private, and their studio and staff uniquely go the fuck to BAT for them on that—which is really rare in the idol industry, but actually SHOULD be the standard. It’s up to us as fans to respect that! I’m not saying friendly speculation is wrong, but presenting fan theories as true? No offense op but cut it the hell out.
Also, the Saja Boys were definitely a real new band whose studio ran out of money because that literally happens. Not everything is a conspiracy theory.
Okay, point by point:
First paragraph is mostly all correct, except, again, there’s exactly as much evidence that Rumi is, like, secretly half-demon and that’s a real emotional complication for her demon-hunting side hustle as there is that she’s secretly gay. More evidence, actually, because as OP says the Huntr/x lore HAS always been this demon-hunting bit. It lets the idols show off their mad acrobatic & martial arts skills in videos and concerts, it’s cool as hell.
"That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was."
I don't know what OP & their friend might've DMed about, but literally everyone interpreted the flight attendant demons and the ass-kicking thereof as a reference to their world tour & a celebration of its end - especially in conjunction with the AWESOME sky-diving onto the stage! (Alright it was obviously special effects, but it still looked awesome.) This made 100% sense and still does.
"It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues"
BULLSHIT. Rumi flubbed ONE note at the San Francisco show, the last tour date before they returned to Seoul. Was she tired? Probably! It was the end of a huge tour! Was the whole band scheduled for some time off after their last, Seoul performance, and then "Golden" dropped instead? Yes! (That is weird, but it's so atypical for Sunlight Studios to push their artists beyond what the artists are comfortable with that I can't believe it was anything but a fakeout.) (Then again, the cancelled concert was bizarre even as a hype-building move - there's playing hard-to-get and then there's disappointing your fans, you know? So, fine, maybe the girls really did need a break, and they'd planned to do a fake-out but actually it became real...)
"enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons"
Literally what are you on. They debuted with a flash mob show, smashed the charts because it was a bop, and...I honestly have 0 idea where you're getting the idea that they were pretending to be demons in "Soda Pop"?? Because they had good stage effects?? Literally they looked like a 100% normal kpop boy band. Kinda cliché, honestly, but clearly playing on that - also see: all of them but the lead singer having stage names based on their singer archetype: Romance, Baby, Mystery & Hot As Fuck Abby.
"a bunch of b-tier variety shows"
Play Games With Us is a top-rated variety show, a touchstone of Korean music culture since 2012.
"nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there"
Even in the build-up to the Idol Awards, there are only so many pop music events - and, in the build-up to the Idol Awards, EVERYONE is doing ALL of them. Tons of other bands were also overlapping with both Saja Boys and Huntr/x, but those two were focused on because they were winning the annual unofficial "boost your Idol chances by dropping a new single right before the Awards" contest. Which is why "Golden" and "Soda Pop" came out back to back like that btw; Thrice also released "Sunbeam", YOUVE released "Heart of a Rebel", and STB dropped a whole music video for "TNT".
I will concede that there was clearly some collaboration between their studios - Huntr/x is known for boosting new bands (Mira literally learns other bands' choreography and does tiktoks all the time!). So, with the need to hype "Golden", the Play Games With Us appearance in their iconic "Demonslayer" outfits wasn't beyond normal - but the joint signing was. Like, it was normal energy for Huntr/x helping to promote another, newer band, but it was beyond anything they've done before.
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE IDOL AWARDS & AFTER:
Saja Boys was actually supposed to perform before Huntr/x and then Huntr/x went first instead, and I have seen 0 explanation of that. I want explanation of that.
Huntr/x finally performance-debuted "Golden", and it was INCREDIBLE, albeit struck as always by the Huntr/x Video Curse. Rumi fucking nailed it. She looked so happy that I literally teared up.
They transitioned into "Takedown", a new song that there'd been scant rumors of at the time (source 1, 2), and which we can safely assume is part of the "new music" that Huntr/x's official statement (source), released on Wednesday after the Awards, said they have been & are continuing to work on, with "more details coming soon."
During "Takedown", the band definitely had some sort of real fight onstage. I fully agree with the people who say that Rumi did not look like she was just acting that shocked and hurt. But! She also clearly knew the choreography; this song was a planned inclusion. Zoe admitted in an interview last week that they'd been having some conflicts in the group, "Mostly with our own selves, but it spilled out on each other. But we're all good now - I mean, we're all working on being better, and that makes us better!" (Source.) The fight was probably part of that.
(Are these "conflicts" the reason the song, and at least 1 more song discussed in this post, are being released in ?? time rather than the night of the Idol Awards as it seems Huntr/x had planned? Maybe! But this is all speculation! Sunlight Studios is as famously tight against plan leaks as it is against paparazzi bothering their singers.)
Power surge! People heard lights explode! The stadium had to be evacuated.
The Idol Awards chair officially announces that the rest of the show is cancelled, Huntr/x has broken up (he has NO authority or known insider knowledge on that, to be clear), and the Saja Boys have won all the top awards - "Best Song", "Best Group", "Best New Group", "Best Dance Performance", etc. Nobody really pays that much attention, because the Idol Awards are as notoriously rigged as the MAMA Awards - which are so rigged that G-Dragon once performed a rap about how rigged they are at the MAMA Awards.
The Saja Boys, presumably in exchange for all the help Huntr/x gave them, decided to help our girls: they scheduled one of their "classic" flash mob performances (lol, they've only been a band for like 2 weeks; but their studio has 110% gone in on this strategy the whole time and it is so effective at building hype). At that midnight show, Saja Boys debuted their surprise new song, "Your Idol" - which, again re: HuntrBoys theories: yeah, this was totally a planned collab. Huntr/x isn't the only kpop group with a supernatural gimmick, and Saja Boys' riff on the Jeoseung Saja, aka the Korean Grim Reaper, is a different part of Korean mythology than the "demons" that Huntr/x usually hunts. But with the way they've been working together? I smell a shared kpop cinematic universe in the works...
Or, I would, if I thought there was still fire under that epic stage-smoke. Unfortunately, the flash mob public concert strategy finally backfired on Saja Boys. Not because of the marketing & sales flaws (hard to advertise in advance, literally cannot sell tickets), but because the "mob" part came real: the fans RUSHED the stage. People were shoving each other and grabbing at the singers' ankles!
Huntr/x, however, are crowd management pros. They literally disrupted the chaos of "Your Idol", by walking in with a song that fans are collectively naming "What It Sounds Like", even though no information has been officially released, nor leaked, beyond the above-linked official statement + interview. And they. were. incredible.
(Btw to people saying that wasn't planned: Huntr/x was obviously already on set, and they would never butt in on someone else's show without that group's agreement! That's so bonkers levels of rude. It just wouldn't happen. No one would do that. American pop groups wouldn't do that.)
...At least, I've heard Huntr/x was incredible. (I mean, they're always incredible, but.) The Huntr/x Video Curse was in effect like NEVER before: between the the city-wide-ish blackout, the ambitious special effects, the last-minute (attempt at a) livestream, the logistical chaos of the crashed Idol Awards, the emotional chaos of the crashed Idol Awards - both of those for performers, managers, kpop media, and fans - and, lbr, probably just that it was like 1am by the time anything actually happened, so everyone was that special combo of really tired AND really wired - there is NO footage that isn't either completely blurry, too dark or full or flashing lights or both, audio-distorted, or all of the above. Everyone who was present just agrees that it was the Coolest Shit Ever.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Saja Boys: new to the kpop scene + terrifying crowd experience + risky low-sales, high-SFX expenses, high-hype strategy probably making a brand new studio run deeply in the red = disappeared overnight. It sucks, but it makes sense. I expect a goodbye statement any day now, hopefully a video from the band themselves but honestly I'd get it if there's just a press release or something.
Huntr/x: had some "conflicts" but they're now "tighter than ever" and working on new music that "explores the challenges we face and fight to overcome. We look forward to connecting with our fans more than ever!" (Source: same statement as above.)
So I reblogged this before, but I think it's worth doing again because Todd in the Shadows did a video on the Saja Boys. He focuses more on their side of things, which I think is a worthwhile perspective in the HUNTR/X fandom (we can all get a bit of tunnel-vision on the girls).
He doesn't do much more than briefly touch on the whole "demon" thing. I assume that was intentional, because he's mostly concerned with the actual music and the legal/financial situation, rather than the meta story. Still, it's definitely an interesting watch; it's not a long video.
It’s impossible to give directions in Boston. Nothing makes sense. There are inexplicable one way streets, there are streets that change their names as you move from one area to another. There’s a road in my area where the gps literally tells you to take TWO full right turns to “stay on” the same road which is at a right angle to the original. There’s like four different Massachusetts Avenues. Sometimes you have to be in the left lane to turn right. The gps can’t even get directions to my workplace correct; it tells me to take a left on a road where lefts are not allowed, and the only way to not have to go across the river and take 15 minutes to turn around is to remember this shit one block early and make the left THERE. Recently, they’ve restricted 1 of 2 lanes on each side of major thoroughfares to only allow bikes and buses, and the government officials seemed to genuinely believe that would somehow EASE traffic. Oh and don't try to drive on Memorial Drive on Sundays; they close it for pedestrians. Just because. And when you DO drive on Memorial, there's one exit that will make your gps lose its mind and start chanting random sequences of numbers for four minutes straight. You can't take a Uhaul on Storrow Drive because the bridges that go over it are too short, and every year some doofus college student ignores this rule and proceeds to "get Storrowed" when they shave off the top of the truck on the overpass and get stuck. I-93 turns into I-95 and makes a big circle around the city, so a lot of the time you'll be on I-95 north but driving east or west.
It’s not limited to driving either. The Arlington train station is not in Arlington, it’s in the middle of downtown. Harvard Square is not a square, it’s more like a pentagon. There are four different green line train routes, and they’re labeled B for Boston College, C for Cleveland Circle, D for… Riverside, and E for… Heath Street. The Silver line is listed on the train map but is entirely run on buses which have to be connected and disconnected from power lines every time you go through the route. The Blue line goes to (and I’m not joking) Wonderland. The two red lines are labeled for their southern points: Braintree line goes to Braintree, and the Ashmont line goes to… Mattapan. To be fair, the train itself stops in Ashmont and you continue to Mattapan on a trolley, but that doesn't make it better. South Station and North Station are 1 mile apart and the easiest way to get from one to the other is just to walk it because otherwise you have to travel through 4 or 5 train stops on two different lines. But make sure you memorize the route because there's a good chance your gps will lose signal in the Financial district because it can't get through the buildings. In Boston Commons there are two train stops within line of sight of each other, on the same street, and one of them screams. To get to the trains at Porter Square, you have to ride down escalators 105 feet below street level, or you could just take the 3 flights of stairs totaling 199 steps (presumably because the engineers had something against nice even numbers). The North End is south of East Boston. Castle Island is part of the mainland.
No matter where you're going or how you're getting there, it takes 45 minutes (no wrong turns) or an hour and a half (one wrong turn). It doesn't matter if you're going one stop on a train; it will take 45 minutes. If it's summer, there's a better than 50% chance you'll be in the train car that lost it's AC; if it's winter, you're guaranteed to be in the car where the heat has it up to 80 degrees and the inside of your winter coat will be a sauna. Check the Red Sox schedule before you go south of the river, or you'll be trapped in the waves of baseball fans flooding the streets and days will go by before you're found again. And just... don't go outside on September 1.
If you're thinking that this sounds eldritch as shit, you're right. The entire city is an arcane lock keeping the ghoulies and ghosties from haunting the rest of the nation. We charge it with every "fuck" we utter while we travel our labyrinthine paths and drink our Dunks. You're welcome.
cat laziness is so contagious. you'll see your cat flopped on its back in your bed a completely comfy cozy baby and you'll be like. you're right. you make a compelling argument.
When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
What do you mean you hatched an egg you bought at the SUPER MARKET
Ohohoho
So there's this company in the UK, right. They brand themselves on producing fancy free range eggs and as part of that they have breed information written on the carton.
I did some snooping and found that every miracle news story of a supermarket egg hatching in the UK traced back to duck eggs, specifically the Braddock White duck eggs produced by this one company for the supermarket Waitrose.
And one day my mum brings them home and says "I bought these to eat but aren't they the ones that hatch?"
And it's spring and I'm hatching a ton this year so in they went.
On candling we had three fertile eggs! That's a fertility of 50% - the same as shipped eggs from a breeder!
Hatch day comes and we get 2 ducklings, Curie and Becquerel. Sadly, Curie contracts duck septicaemia from an infected navel and doesn't make it, but Becquerel is a healthy bird and growing like a weed.
I had put 4 breeder eggs in a week after them in case just one hatched, so Becque now has two Khaki Campbell cross friends called Tsuki and Hoshi so she isn't lonely.
And as of today's 7am Quacking - Becque is a female! Which means she's capable of laying eggs and therefore I have pirated a duck.
Murderbot: This is my favorite human, Dr. Mensah. She can go wherever she wants and do whatever she wants
Also Murderbot: This is my best friend, Dr. Ratthi. He has to stay in the shuttle. Unless I'm breaking and entering, in which case he's specifically invited
Ok but Mensah rescued it from a hostile SecUnit with a mining drill like an intrepid explorer. Ratthi tried to climb back out of the hopper to retrieve a toolbag while a giant space worm was actively trying to eat them. Throughout canon MB is very firmy attached to its strongest early impressions of people (most notably Gurathin and ART, but others too) so Mensah is always going to be tagged "badass like blorbos from my shows!" And Ratthi will be tagged "WILL jump out of shuttle directly into something's jaws and die the minute I turn my back," and they're just going to have to live with it.
At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.
Man behind me having unhinged phone conversation. There is an internationally famous dairy in the area I was visiting and he was commissioned by the lady on the other end of the phone to collect specific cheeses from there. The lady is very high strung about the type and condition of the cheese.
The man does not know from cheese. The man "ain't never seen no cheese but orange before" and "I showed ya list to the cheese lady so if it's wrong it's her fault ok?"
I am 80% sure she sent him there for a really specific bleu cheese, 40% sure he does not have the very specific bleu cheese, and 100% sure he's done with her shit.
Our flight is delayed.
He does not have the cheeses in a cooler, just a regular backpack.
I need to emphasize that there is no cooler bag in the backpack. He has Jansport backpack that is jam-packed with cheeses. There is apparently $405 dollars worth of cheeses in that backpack, which I know because he has been trying to get the lady to venmo him the expense, which she has failed to do. It is unclear whether his relation to the lady is romantic, familial or what, but I'm leaning towards "what".
Two more people have joined us. One is a very elegant man with a perfect manicure in a tailored business suit, the other is a neon-haired person of indeterminate gender wearing a fox kirigumi. The Shiba Inu has been staring at the latter for three minutes now.
Cheese man has been demanding payment because apparently he went like six hours out of his way and paid with his own money and between the cheese and price of gas, he is pretty sure he does not have enough money in his account for an Uber home.
The lady is FLABBERGASTED that he is demanding payment at all, as she was under the impression he was doing this for her out of the goodness of his heart.
He's not having it. He's insisting she told him she would pay him back- he would have gotten her maybe one cheese somewhere closer to his business in the area out of love, but he went out of his way because she agreed to pay him costs+ extra to cover it.
"YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS AND I FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME! NO! NO! FUCK YOU! IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA PAY ME, YOU DON'T GET FANCY CHEESE."
"OR ELSE WHAT?"
"I'm gonna-? THE BABY SHOWER? MONICA CAN'T EVEN HAVE THIS CHEESE SHE'S PREGNANT!"
"The cheese lady asked if it was for someone because the mushrooms or whatever in the cheese are dangerous for the baby or something?? You wanna poison Monica?"
"WHY WOULD I LIE ABOUT THAT?"
"YEAH OF COURSE I GOT THE CHEESE, THATS WHY I DON'T GOT MONEY FOR UBER!"
"YEAH, GO TELL! GO TELL MOMMA I STOPPED YOUR STUPID ASS FROM KILLING MONICA OR THE BABY! FUCK!"
*hangs up phone*
*head in hands, borderline hyperventilating*
The man in the three piece suit is in the chair next to him. He waits a moment, then reaches into his carryon and pulls out an entire bottle of wine with the TSA pre check sticker on it, and taps cheese guy on the shoulder.
"If your friend doesn't want it, would you be amenable to having it right now?"
1. This is some fucking great Camembert. I have compensated cheese guy accordingly. So have like six other people. He's recouped like half his losses.
2. Cheese guy is crying a little about the cash and opening up about his problems. The cheese lady is his younger sister. Suit guy is being very generous with his Pinot Blanc. We are having a picnic/improv family therapy session.
3. This is apparently the latest in a long string of his sister asking for something and then flaking when he asks to be paid back. Started with paying him back only some of what he was owed, then claiming something she paid for him was of equal value when it was not, then recently telling him his memory is wrong and he said it was a gift or that he'd do it for free.
"Yeah, the specific thing of trying to convince you your memory is unreliable is called gaslighting and it's really fucked up." I say
"yeeeeah. The other stuff I forgave because she's never really had a good job so she can't pay me back all the time but at least she was making an effort y'know? But that was. That was over the line."
"If you haven't already, check on the rest of your family's finances. My brother started trying to gaslight everyone when he started stealing from our parents." Says Pinot Blanc.
4. Shiba Inu Lady has purchased a cheddar. Apparently, the dog's name is Donut, and he's her service dog because she's severely visually impaired.
"Oh, he's a guide dog?" Asks cheese guy.
"oh, no." She laughs. "He's too short, and the way my eyes are, it's easier for me to navigate with a cane. No, the problem I have is that some morally impaired people see the cane and think they can get away with stealing my bag or assaulting me because I wouldn't be able to give a description- which is wrong, but rather than deal with that I got Donut, and he helps me by howling at anyone who gets in my personal space and biting anyone who grabs me!"
"Uh." Says Kirigumi. "He's been staring at me do I need to back up or..?"
"Ohdear! No, no- He wasn't looking at you! He loves cheese but he knows he's not supposed to beg so he decided the way to deal with something he wants but can't have is to stare in the other direction."
"OKAY!" Says Kirigumi. "I'm wearing fox pajamas and thought like. He thought I was another dog or something."
"No, no- he doesn't care about dogs, and you get a warning before he goes for the calves. Very helpful, when I was living in Italy!"
"Oh what part? I have family in Tuscany." Says Pinot.
"Does he want a cheese? There is still so much cheese." Says cheese guy.
1. Cheese guy has sold all but two or three cheeses that he an Pinot are going to eat on the flight.
2. I know they're planning to continue because Pinot talked to the gate agent so he and cheese guy can sit together and talk about family drama and cheese.
3. Pinot has been teaching him about different types of cheese and how to enjoy them.
4. Cheese guy apparently repairs computers and other technology devices for a living and is currently doing the software version of scraping barnacles and other crap off Pinot'macbook.
5. Pinot is now convinced that cheese guy is the smartest and most interesting man in the world.
Ok so the Wifi wasn't working on the plane (also like, nonstop turbulence) and also they got seated in a different row from me, but:
Now that I've heard the word aloud, and they are an astrophysicist. Who correctly believes in being comfy as fuck on planes. They are also familar with the concept of a meet-cute and is rooting for them too.
Got to walk the nice lady and her Tactical Assault Shiba to her next gate because it was on the way out and talk for a bit. Donut is called that not because he is the color of a Donut (which he is) but because he likes to sleep curled up in a perfect circle. He has a sister who does the same thing named Bagel.
Lost track of Pinot and Cheeseguy for a bit but when I saw them again at Baggage claim, Cheeseguy was holding both their jackets, and Pinot was on the phone to his hotel about "Well do you have any rooms with TWO beds?". The rest of the call indicated that yes, there were rooms with two beds, but Readers, I Had A Moment.
:)
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Posted this an hour ago and already got the tags peer-reviewed twice so here they are in the main post for all to see:
#sexual stuff doesn't make/break/define a relationship #People can be meaningful to you in a variety of ways and these are all valuable #The nuclear family is a false ideal #I could go on
