warnings: swearing, alcohol mentions, mild suggestive for some lmao
notes: if anyone has any brainrots or hcs pls send them :)
characters: almost everyone, male & female
y/n: xiao, I beg of you. Please, PLEASE go to the doctor.
xiao: Hey, I’m sorry. Is this OUR stab wound?
y/n: My future partner must be brave, strong, intelligent, successful and organized. thoma: *steps on a caterpillar and proceeds to drop to their knees and sob while apologizing profusely* y/n: That one. I want that one.
Hu tao: I’m going to hell. y/n: Probably. Hu tao: I’ll pick you up? y/n: *nodding* Carpool.
ok. icebreaker-type question. imagine time travel exists, but all of the serious super big things that likely come to mind when time travel is a factor is stuff youre not “qualified” for, as a civilian. what stupid, petty, thing do you use time travel for?
personally, i’d buy this one limited-time pin from a con i had no chance of going to, and also buy some transformers animated toys while they were still being sold.
probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn’t have AC and couldn’t afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of “fuck it, might as well.”
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of “vanilla mint smoothie”. how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, ½ cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be “violent” or perhaps, like. “triangular.” my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said “this is how it feels to chew five gum” were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what’s worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn’t “wasting” it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here’s the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it’s been like 15 years. he’s now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it’s delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that’s what family does.
from abell 2218 by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems
[Text ID: I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end. /End ID]
- when shuffling, pay attention to the cards that fall out of the deck. sometimes they have a special message for you.
- questions aren’t always necessary when reading. letting the cards tell you what they need to helps to develop your intuition, and the relationship between you and your deck (or the spirit you are working with, depending on how you divine information).
- when reading with multiple cards (i.e. as a spread), try and string the cards together rather than interpreting them by their individual meanings:
recurring suits, themes, symbols, and numbers
proportions of suits and uprights vs. reversals
position of the cards (e.g. if people are present in the cards, where are they looking?)
colours of the cards (e.g. do any of the cards stand out more than the rest?)
- although each card has a core meaning, different decks with different art could emanate different “flavours” of the core meaning.
- draw a clarifying card if something confuses you, but try not to draw any more than two cards per reading.
