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Jennifer Lawrence

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From skittering away from us and keeping well out of reach to demanding pets and accepting two people petting her at the same time in a matter of days! This girl is so starved for love and you can tell she wants to trust.

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Welp. I'm having a slight problem.

I hate cooking. Despise it. I CAN cook, I cosplay as a functional adult, I just hate it. I am extremely lucky to have a girlfriend who is not only a phenomenal cook, but who loves to cook and would prefer to be the one to cook rather than letting me or my metamours cook. (We do help with things like cutting vegetables and we do the dishes, but she does the lion's share of the cooking.) However, she's been out of town caring for my metamour who's in the hospital (it's a good thing - she got bottom surgery!) so my other metamour and I have been fending for ourselves. Which has been a lot of pizza and microwaved meals. You can judge a little bit.

But now my other metamour is out of town to go spend time with our girlfriend and the metamour in the hospital (who is her partner as well), so I'm fending for myself. And I'm burned out on pizza and microwaved meals so tonight I decided that fine, I'm an adult, I may hate cooking but I'm gonna cook something.

And that is how I discovered that the stove, which has not been used in some time with the gf gone, is having some issues. Some "I don't think it is safe to use you" issues. The type where I turned the stove on to boil water, and rather than lighting at all, the stove just began leaking gas, which I could tell from the sudden overpowering stench that is still filling the kitchen.

I don't feel like burning down our house and I have no idea how to fix it - and I don't want to call someone out to repair it until my metamour gets back since she is possibly the most handy person I've ever met and may be able to fix it herself - so... I can't use the damn thing.

More frozen pizza for me... metamour isn't getting home until either Sunday night or Monday morning.

And I can't even go get more stuff that can be cooked in the oven, because my car decided to present itself with a defect that's going to take another week to fix; my girlfriend and metamour obviously took their cars with them; and my other metamour drives a motorcycle rather than a car, and I can't ride a motorcycle. I don't live in a walkable area - high speed roads and no sidewalks - so walking to the nearest grocery store is out. I am stuck at home until Monday. I CAN technically ask my step-metamour or step-step metamour for a ride, but I don't want to put them out - they don't live with us so they'd have to come out and pick me up.

Help. I'm so fucking tired of pizza.

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L, only current with the MHA anime: I think AFO is going to bodyjack Shigaraki.

Me, current with the manga, twirling my mustache like a villain: Ohoho! That's quite a prediction you've got there!

L: Yeah you've been talking about wanting to punt AFO out a window too much recently.

...I've actually been wanting to punt AFO out a window over what he did to Spinner, but you know what he never could have pulled that off without bodyjacking Shigaraki, so point taken.

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My girlfriend just referred to my chest as "flat fuck friday" this is amazing.

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My little cousin had a sportsball game today (okay, technically yesterday), and she and my aunt invited me to attend. I have L over on Saturdays, so I asked if I could bring her. Aunt and cousin said sure.

So, since we're all vaccinated (except cousin who I think is too young? The vaccine is like 16 and up, right? I don't know, I don't have kids. Anyways.) and the sportsball game was outside and we could socially distance from everyone else, we went. It was nice to go to An Event! Even a middle school sportsball game can seem like a treat when you've been living that pandemic life.

Anyways, so because of COVID, my aunt and cousin had never actually met L. We didn't have a big Thanksgiving or Christmas like we usually do, to say nothing of the canceled 4th of July party and Easter Egg hunt that had been going for over 50 years strong with no cancelations that took their first break ever due to COVID. I have been dating L for over a year, and all these events where she would normally meet my family just... hadn't happened.

They knew of her existence, of course! My aunt is friends with me on Facebook, and I brought L to the family Zoom chat for Christmas (though she didn't really get to say much of anything), and all. I honestly think, at this point, my parents might be the ones pushing off opportunities for L to meet the extended family. The last time we had a family thing, my parents asked me to not bring her because "we don't want to take away attention from your grandmother on her birthday" (note for flavortext: that grandmother is homophobic and transphobic, gee I wonder why I was told not to bring my girlfriend) and some of my other my aunts got super offended that I hadn't brought her to meet the family. My cousins got to hear about her when we did the whole "cousins hang out and hide from the adulty-adults" thing (oh lord all but 2 of is are legal adults now, that's weird. We're not real adults though, y'all know how it is).

Okay I'm derailing. Point is. After over a year of dating L, my one aunt and cousin on my Dad's side FINALLY met her. And I'll admit, I was a little nervous, because my aunt is Catholic, and while I'm not super knowledgeable of her political beliefs, I know her husband leans conservative and they buy a little bit into gender roles. (Not to a horrifying degree, they're just... *gestures helplessly at cis people* There is no inherent "boys like tools, girls like dolls" gene!)

Ah. Anyways. My worries were for naught. I caught up a little bit with the cousin after the sportsball game, and L and my aunt got on really well. I don't know why I didn't think of it, but my aunt is a teacher, L used to be a teacher, OF COURSE they have that in common! And, to my delighted surprise, my aunt was righteously furious and disgusted that the reason L doesn't teach anymore is that the state where she received her teaching license refused to renew it (or revoked it? Or something? I don't know all the details and I don't want to make L drag out the details of something so awful so I don't ask about it) when she came out. Because my Catholic aunt, to my pleasant relief, thinks it's the stupidest thing in the world to declare teachers unfit because they're queer.

So. Aunt is righteously angry that the state where L was teaching wouldn't let her teach anymore and bonded with her over teacher things. I THINK my cousin was mildly amused by the stories of being mauled by angry goats when L was younger and lived on a farm. (I can't tell if the 13 year old is actually interested in our stories or is just being extremely polite. Quite possibly the latter.) The sportsball game went well, as far as I can tell. All and all, a nice day! L got to meet some more of my family, and she got along well with them, and really that's all I want - for L to be able to fit in with the fabric of my family. Because I somehow lucked out in getting a family that I actually LIKE as an adult, for the most part, and I want them to like my girlfriend and vice-versa.

So far, that seems to be going well.

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I cannot believe how well my parents took me being polyam and how accepting they were of the idea that J is L's fiancee, not just her roommate. I was expecting anger, maybe disgust, and definitely disappointment.

But instead they were... calm? They had some expected questions (What happens to you when L and J get married? Nothing, L's and my relationship isn't going to change over that.) (J knows you and L aren't platonic friends, but are in fact dating? Yes, she's known the whole time.) (What will you do if someone starts feeling neglected or jealous? Communicate about it and work things out between the jealous people as adults.) They didn't equate it to infidelity - they could see how our relationship is fundamentally different than cheating. They think it's strange, and both agree that they could never be in a relationship like ours, but they don't have to be in a relationship like ours and we're all consenting adults who aren't hurting anyone.

And so they're completely fine with it.

I didn't expect that. I'm so relieved. I've been so nervous these past few days, and poor L managed to work herself up a lot about it, and then... it was fine. Holy shit y'all, everything was FINE!!!! I didn't disappoint my parents after all, and I'm so relieved.