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Iowa Gothic

- You came here for college. But that’s silly. You’ve always lived here. You did not come from anywhere else.

- For reasons unknown and baffling, half of everyone you look in the eye stares maliciously but makes polite small talk. Strangers feel downright hostile. You realize belatedly it is no longer summer and your shirt is black with yellow lettering, a color combination the wise avoid after July and before October but it is September…

- You do not go to the bars at night. Strange, alien creatures cavort and exchange communication you do not understand. They are here for college. You used to be one of them. But you do not go to the bars at night.

- Your neighbors know how to spend their Saturday evenings. You go with them to speak quietly around a backyard fire. Your drinks come in their own seals. Safe. You speak of the chaotic times you used to go to the bars. They remember. They came here for college. Just like you. They do not go to the bars at night either.

- You came here for college. You make plans and try to leave, but you cannot. There is always a reason to stay. You do not have your degree yet. You came here for college. You should go back to college. It would be

Good

For

You

- You stay home at night. The roads are dangerous. Strange creatures drive too fast and laugh in the dark. Faces peer gleefully through the windows of too-brightly-lit buildings open in the evening. It is the college students. It is the rival teams followers. The game is tonight and your team (you do not have a team) lost

- There is no danger here. They are only college students.

- You used to go to college

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The beauty you share with the world is a wonderful thing to wake up to.

So happy to hear my lil blog brightens your day, even just a little. ^.^ 

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Best bittersweet feeling ever: watching Still and Alone and stopping it three seconds after “oh”

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Hey fellow Bethyl fans, I know it’s been a long and very “aaaah” minute but…I FINALLY UPDATED “GALLOWS NIGHT ANGEL”!!!

Yes I have changed my settings: you need to have an Ao3 account to read it.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Tagged by the illustrious @ladytp

Favorite color: red (sangoire and garnet), green (emerald and bright teal) and purple (all the shades of purple).

Currently reading: hmm...omg wait this is what I’m reading: “The Rose” by Tiffany Reisz, I adore roses and this is a mythology-themed book of smut and it’s pretty catchy so far! I’m having fun reading it.

Also re-reading material in the online course “Sorcery of Hekate” by Jason Miller 10/10 recommend. One of the (few) most grounded magickal practitioners I’ve ever met.

Last Song: “Collateral” by The Midnight, it’s part of a synth-cyberpunk-80s-retro-wave playlist for my Star Wars RPG character, Ayy. Her first mission was on Nar Shadda and the cyberpunk feels stuck. GM is awesome been playing her for almost two years I think?

Last series: oh man... I think it was “A Song of Ice and Fire” by don’t-we-all-know-who? If this is “Television Series” then...damn, what was it? *goes to ask the not-husband* snippets of Gravity Falls. 10/10 recommended!!!

Last Movie: THE BATMAN!!! I LOVE IT!!! ROBERT PATTINSON IS THE BATMAN NOBODY KNEW WE NEEDED AND WE SO DO HE MAKES BATMAN SO WHOLESOME YES!!!! I saw it twice in two days. I mentally eyerolled at the engine in the batmobile but also who cares it was fun? Nail biting from the perspective of someone who regularly traveled the freeways of LA in Cali growing up. Should poke my car-geek Dad about it...

Sweet Spicy or Savory: Y E S

Coffee or Tea: Tea. Really. I have So Much Tea. Except sometimes coffee but coffee literally hates me it makes my anxiety terrible, I feel it in my teeth afterwards and it’s very bad for me overall. Thank you Hashimotos.

First Ever Ship: Hitomi and Van from Escaflowne (the series) possibly also Hiro and Relena from Gundam Wing. Yeah they were poster-people for toxic-relationships ugh.

Three Ships: Beth Greene and Daryl Dixon, Hitomi and Van...hmm...Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle a’la The Batman.

Currently Working On: oof...it’s been a hot second. First things I’m going to finish though are Gallows Night Angel and Do You Offer Your Throat to the Wolf with Red Roses

Also helping play-test a gaming system.

Favorite Piece of Clothing: frankly? A new bra I got. I feel so incredibly sexy in it! Displays me so very well...that, and I splurged a little while ago on a fancy silk robe and nightgown. Hindsight: should have gone with a different cut of nightie with less lace, but still oh so nice. I sleep so well in it I’m considering saving for some silk sheets but we have cats so...

Another: my “The Raven” fingerless gloves. I adore them. Now all I need is those rockin pair of boots and a new leather jacket...

Comfort Food: hot tea with honey and cream and gluten-free-baked-goods. Also cheesecake. Basically any warm drink.

Time of year: Spring and Autumn! I adore the ephemeral flowers of spring and the turning leaves and all the mushrooms in between!

Favorite Fanfiction: oh man...so many. I’ll go with favorite authors: LadyTP, Dynamicsymmetry, ShannonPhilips, Sour_Idealist, IDreamtOfManderlyAgain, Abelina, DragonessEclectic (my first fanfic author I adored. Loved her stories so much I printed them out to read while crossing the country. Back in the days before widespread cellular service and internet access everywhere), Maroucia and fulcrumstardust

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Women of TWD in rough order-of-appearance: Lori, Carol, Andrea, Maggie, Beth, Michonne and Rosita

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Enjoy these TWD-inspired pinup characters!

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So, my partner and I were in the kitchen when I’m cuddling my cat, who is adorably licking my nose and this conversation roughly happens.

Me, to my cat: “You know, if someone created a creature in a lab that created emissions that smelled good you’d be out of business because your breath stinks.

To my partner: “Oh no. You know if someone did this, created a pet that was cute and cuddleable and whose everything smelled good, like lavender or something they’d create foods that make them make more; fart more, poop more...

In horror: “...someone would upload YouTube videos about how to use their emissions to make perfume.”

@abuelt-unbound: “Yeah, they would. Oh god, I can see the Federation talking to the planet that’s trying to join:

Federation Officer: “We’ve gone through your internet. I’ll tell you now: not good. It says here, you’ve engineered an animal that...smells good? And here, someone else created food for them to make them...increase in...volume.”

Planetary Delegate: “Yes Sir, we’ve even created foods to turn them different colors! Here, we’ve arranged a surprise...”

A group of attendants walks in with a bevy of the critters. They’re roughly cat sized and share a vague resemblance, with plushy white fur, almond-shaped ears which taper to a rounded point, eyes not-quite-abnormally large, tiny little noses and rumble-tumble cuteness when a few slip away from the attendants and start playing on the floor.

PD: “We’ve selected the best of them as gifts for your crew!”

A Vulcan: “What was the base animals they were derived from?”

PD: “We’re not really sure, but we are 60% certain the first genetic crossing had been with a cat and some type of small primate. Much research into their scientific origin is still ongoing. We take pride in our little friends here, they are our most valuable export.

“I like mine purple.”

Queue the predictable episode of cute critter shenanigans aboard the Enterprise

Me to my partner: “Dear Lord, if they export enough you know someone on some planet is going to try to eat them. Six months later those two planets will be at war...with these creatures further engineered as weapons. Imagine, swarms of them - because there’s too many to simply call them a pack - cute and cuddly and able to tear you apart...though I’m reminded suddenly that some cats had been bred and trained as guardians...