#shadownite

[butternuggets-blog]

Persuasion, By Multiple Means

~Stargirl Fluff/Crack, Shadenite~

Richard stared down his nose across the table, crossing his arms for emphasis.

‘No. Absolutely not’

Charles sighed.

‘I know it’s not ideal but...’ he let his voice trail off, picking at the slice of pie in front of him.

First swipe of the dagger. Clumsy. Familiar.

Richard was beginning to suspect Charles had chosen this exact booth in Ritchie’s Diner at this exact time of day so that the shadows around them would be at their lowest peak and he’d be the most hemmed in.

He was about to put that thought out into the world when footsteps pattered up behind him and Beth slid into the seat next to McNider.

‘Have you asked him yet?’ she asked brightly. Then she noticed Richard glowering fiercely, and her face fell.

‘You asked him and he said no’ she said softly, shoulders slumping.

Second swipe finds purchase. Damn her.

‘I have no doubt that you would make an admirable lab assistant my dear’ Richard tried his best to balance bitterness and gentleness in his tone, ‘But I have no desire to spend the rest of my days in this...charming little town’

‘But it’s conveniant for my work! And for Beth’ his husband protested.

‘I can transport you both wherever you need to go’ Richard pointed out, as Courtney slid into the booth beside him, milkshake in hand.

‘If you can travel anywhere in the world, then why would having a house in Blue Valley be a problem?’ asked Courtney. Richard glared at her.

‘Because there is a significant difference between living elsewhere and-’ Richard failed to suppress a shudder of disgust, ‘-admitting that your home base is in...Blue Valley’

‘Mum said you could help her run the antique section of The American Dream’ Courtney interjected, ‘Or she can pull some strings with the city council to fast-pass an antique dealer license if you want to open a store here’

A gun. The girl brought a damn gun.

Richard sighed heavily, and gently smacked the table with one fist.

‘Damn you all’ he spat through gritted teeth. Beth, Courtney and Charles cheered, high-fiving and hugging each other while Richard rolled his eyes and tried his best not to smile.

‘But!’ he pointed a finger at the grinning trio, ‘I’m opening a tea shop. I will drag some sophistication kicking and screaming into this cesspool’

‘Deal!’

[popkas]

The last skeleton!  Good, I’m tired of them.  The Dark Skeleton actually is my favorite color scheme for them, I think.  The other recolors are a little bit clashy, but this muted palette works out good.  Nice and spooky.

[crystalizedart]

As life becomes harder I retreated deeper into my fantasy home, Eorzea.  Photography field trip with our FC Gposer, Raven today! 

Redownloaded ReShade after abandoning it for a while due to it crashing the game. 

Would like to thank https://twitter.com/Espressolala for the beauuuutiful Reshade preset ‘darklight’ and ‘shadownite’! 

[cecivuvu]

          Just had to go to a lot of events today - two of which I facilitated - for different organizations and was just a hot mess.   The first workshop I facilitated was on community building and I felt terrible because I couldn’t organize it the way I intended to.   I’m just lucky that Ben, being as calm and reliable as he was, was able to take over some parts of the workshop.    Then had to volunteer for Shadow Day, which is part of YWCA, different from the Shadownite hosted by REACH.    

          It was kinda amazing to flier to people though.   I understand that some people may say no, but I saw some people actually run away - which I thought to be the funniest thing ever.    It was pretty demoralizing, and I feel like I have a lot to learn from Margo, who, despite getting rejected, disregards all that negative energy and convert them into positive ones. 

          And then after that, I had Let’s Rise things to facilitate.    This one seemed better ran than the one I did this morning.    Partly because Edward took command of the workshop most of the time, but I felt like I did get to know the mentees a lil’ bit more.    Plus, I thought it was kinda fun too.    There was only one family that didn’t think that it was fun though - but I’m sure that Sarah and Celine can manage. 

          And then, even though I wanted to sleep, I really wanted to attend the orchestra concert with Yvonne and Claire and her boyfriend.    So I took a quick shower and then headed out with Yvonne to eat at Toss.    I’d say it’s pretty good for the amount they give at the price they serve.   Plus, the food came out pretty fast too.    We didn’t get any drinks though - although we should.    We plan to next week Wednesday?    I’ll double check on that afterwards.    

          But yeah, headed to the concert and was fairly pleased with the performance, but 30 minutes after the concert was over, I found out that I had lost my Cal 1 Card and credit card.    So had to call my dad to deactivate the credit card and had to deactivate my Cal 1 Card online.    I can’t tell if today was a bad or good day - I guess I’d had to say that it was alright.    Had to stay up even longer in order to make sure that my mentees got back home safely (they went to SF while I was at the concert). 

[phailingviet]

Ghirardelli splurge. Vanilla malt. #shadownite #reach #milkshake #randomsplurging #goodfoodgoodcompany (at Ghirardelli Ice Cream & Original Chocolate Shop)

[hijasonn]

Reach! Shadownite @ UC Berkeley 

The best high school experience, ever! Ah, I wish I could relive this moment. I've met great people on this event. If only I had another opportunity to do this again, I would. Sucks you have to go once. But this was a fun ass three days. Watching this video brings back memories.