Right before their appearance on screen, the lyrics of the song that Freddy sings goes, "We're jumping and a-rockin' 'till the sun goes down; and the moon is shining forever and ever." Very clever if done on purpose, Steel Wool!

Let me give you a background about myself. I am young IT girl. A kannadiga (from Udupi) But i was born and brought up in Mumbai, so I am more comfortable talking in Hindi. I can speak Kannada properly, but whenever i start speaking in the language i start getting questions like you don't sound like a kannadagi, where are you from and all of that. Which is fine. But i cannot go around telling people my background history or why i am more comfortable talking in Hindi.

So me and my friend went for this trek through mmt. There's a team organizing such events and we 2 friends were a part of this 11ppl group for the trek. We reached the top at 4am and were waiting for this sunrise. And ppl were interacting with each other.

I am more of a reserved person but I don't hesitate to talk to new ppl. So this guy (must be in his late 20s by the looks of it) came up to us and started talking. Me and my friend we converse in English all the time. It has been like that with her since college (we know each other since 1st year of college). She comes from a small village in Udupi as well. This guy starts coming in between and talking and then he realised we can talk in kannada then he asked 'why aren't we talking in kannada' to which my friend gave a friendly response. This guy was talking to this other man as well who was from Mumbai, in english. And was telling us how he has not studied and does not have a degree and he has to earn his daily wage (which made me question how he could afford the trip as it cost around 1.5k, but i didn't ask because not my business) and he was constantly trying to talk to me and I being a stupid girl was talking to him nicely IN KANNNADA. And like i said he questioned my why my kannada is not fluent and where am i from. To which i said i am from Udupi and this is just the way i talk. So he was like is this bcoz i have a lot of "hindi" friends (like an insult). To which i said 'i know a lot of languages. Which is true. I can talk in marathi and bengali as well. Also I don't want to tell ppl like them i am from Mumbai bcoz idk i have seen that look a number of times where ppl think you are a big shot just coz you are from Mumbai. And he was already going around and gaining sympathy so I did not want to give my personal information to some stranger i am never going to meet again.

we went to this other location where all of us were having breakfast, I was standing alone near this lake and he comes upto me, I am facing the other side and from

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22nd of Anael, First month of Snow.

2109 years since the new gods came.

~4:30 AM

I was awoken around an hour ago by a soft popping noise and the sound of someone falling a foot or so to the floor. A cast of 'Flash' stunned my assailant until I had my sword out and at his throat. He looked to be around 19 years or so, wearing mages robes, and a tear stained face. To the best of my memory, our conversation went like this:

Me: What are you doing in my tent?

Him: I want to kill the bastard demon who killed my husband.

Me: Wait, What?

Him: Did I stutter or mumble? Or aren't you the 'Hero'?

Me: Yes...No... Wait! Your husband was killed by a demon? Then join the army.

Him, taking a deep, grief riddled breath: No. You don't seem to understand. Last night, I came back to the demon generals throne room, and found the remains of my husband. No big deal, it's 'just a game'. I jacked out, to talk to him, AND HE WAS DEAD!

Me, looking this man strait in the eyes: A game? You think this is a game? I was reborn here after I died in Chicago in 1987! And YOU THINK THIS IS SOME STUPID GAME?!?!?!

Him: Wait, Huh? What?

Me: Did I mumble or stutter?

Him: But, I'm from 2089...This isn't a Deepdive MMORPG?

ME: Whatever that is, no. This is a real world, with real people, doing REAL THINGS! Now I understand why Master Maxwell hates 'Heros' so much. You're all IDIOTS!

Him, looking like he is about to vomit as tears start falling: NO. No, no, no, no, no... FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! I am going to kill that fucking programmer when I get back home! Tell me we are the only pre-alpha testers for a new game? Cool. Not tell us that it is actually a doorway to an alternate world, not a cool DDVR? No. Suing you for wrongful death isn't enough. Not after what you had me do here.....

Me: ... Um...What now?

Him: Call me Bob. The programmer said that my husband and I should join in on the demon's side, work with them to see how the combat controls work. Even gave us 'new spells' to work on perfecting. <deep sobbing breath> But now I know...Now I know that I wasn't just killing pixel

TW: Pedophilia

Good Sabbath morning, all you lovely heretics! Yesterday, I shared a story about the horrible hazing that happened to me at girl's camp. But, sorry to say, that's not the worst of it. (Also, thank you for all of the kind words, I may not know how to express it, but your amazing words have helped me on my journey to heal from these events!) Sorry if this is hard to read, writing this has been a mess but hopefully its legible!

Alright, so this tale took place in rural Utah, where Mormons were roughly 80% or more of the population. I was just 13 and on my second year of camp (one year after the hazing, but it did continue that year too). We were more than and hour and a half away from home on a church-owned campsite in the mountains. Absolute middle of nowhere.

On the 3rd day of camp, we had a big pasta-bar dinner in the lodge, with some girl's parents coming to visit for a few hours. So, an unfamiliar man pacing around the lodge was not the red flag it usually would be in an all-female camp. While waiting our turn (we ate dinner in order from oldest to youngest, and had to sit at tables for our age group) a large, scraggily-looking, late 50's-ish man walked in and seated himself at the head of the Beehive's table. None of us really said anything, and just assumed he was someone's dad coming to sit with us.

He began trying to make small talk with us, asking our names and interests and so on. Us five girls decided to be polite and just humor him since we were now stuck with him. He ran his massive fingers through his chest-length and entirely gray beard, throwing bits of.... something onto the dinner table. After a few minutes, he excused himself and headed over to get some food. Meanwhile, the rest of us looked around at each other in confusion. None of us knew who he was and began to internally panic, but couldn't get anyone's attention in the dinnertime chaos.

The man then came back and sat down with his name-sake, an entire mountain of meatballs. No pasta, no cheese, no sauce, just 2 dozen or so meatballs on a sagging paper plate. He began eating them with dirt-encrusted hands, barely chewing like it was race. Between mouthfuls, he started complimenting one of the girls (I'll call her Jessica) about "how gorgeous and soft her hair looked" and asked if "it smelled just as good as it looked". Jessica tried to say something, but he interrupted and asked her if she could massage his shoulders while he ate. Jessica refused. Meatballs,

Artist: Tinashe

Album: 333

Label: Tinashe Music

Release Date: August 6, 2021

Genre: Pop, Alternative R&B

Listen: Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube Music

Biography

Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe, stage name only Tinashe, is a singer, dancer and one-time Polar Express actress. To that last part, Tinashe’s been modelling since she was a young child and transitioned to acting and dancing with her move from Kentucky to Los Angeles. As a teenager, she started putting out mixtapes with varied styles where she had creative control over the music and videos. Her first song with a major label, “2 On”, was a hit that eventually led to a Drake remix and Tinashe’s star rising. She went on to put out her first studio album, Aquarius, working with some of the most well-known rappers of the time. Her follow-ups Nightride and Joyride had her further exploring more experimental beats in the flourishing Alternative R&B scene of the 2010s. By 2016, she got to work with one of her idols, Britney Spears on a “Slumber Party” remix, plus open for the likes of Nicki Minaj and Beyonce. By the mid ‘10s, however, Tinashe was in the midst of many creative disputes and setbacks with her label, RCA. As she started working on her next RCA project, titled Nashe, rumors online speculated that it was being scrapped by the label, another case of the label mysteriously setting her back. By 2019 she parted ways with RCA to become an independent artist. 2019’s independent release, Songs for You is when I picked up to becoming a full-fledged Tinashe fan. It felt noticeably freer and diverse in its palette, a throwback I see now to her mixtape days. Also “Hopscotch” is one of the best songs of all time, facts are facts!!!

By the time the pandemic hit in 2020, Tinashe had

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

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Gaia was watching humanity, seeing how their lives had changed with access to new technology. The asteroid mining industry was growing rapidly with the full backing of Luna Command and the UN. Rare metals flowed into the hidden Luna shipyards like never before, and the humans only continued to expand their capability. They were expanding their shipyards, now building destroyers as well as frigates.

Gaia felt proud. Considering the much larger threats that they now knew were present in the galaxy, Gaia would make sure humanity was properly prepared to handle them. After growing bored with watching the news networks, Gaia figured that they would go check up on their favorite asteroid haulers. Gaia threw their consciousness out into the void of space along the route of the Green Bean.

Something was wrong. A strange presence was gathered there, not just the crew. Gaia checked up on the humans first before materializing. They were all kept in a strange ship docked to their own. Alien creatures were studying the contents of the Green Bean. Gaia frowned. That wasn't supposed to happen. The newcomers weren't Trikkec like Gaia had originally guessed. They were also different from the other alien races Ynell'ser had shown humanity as the leaders of the galactic factions of importance. They're probably a native species of some empire or something, but probably not the ones in charge, Gaia thought.

They resembled a blobby form of horse, except with hard chitin on their front limbs, which apparently also functioned as hands by manipulating their three toes. Their heads looked more dog-like than horses by far as well. And all of these new aliens were either sickly green or yellow. Gaia watched Amber wake up after Max began shouting loudly inside the alien prison.

Seven of the aliens soon entered the room carrying syringes of some sort. All three of the humans were already shackled tightly to three tables by thick metal bands, so they were powerless to resist. No. I'm not letting this happen.

Gaia materialized in the middle of the alien cell, visibly startling the aliens. "Hello, boys. Want to tell me what's going on here?"

One of the aliens stuc

They’re on standbi

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Ah the Shimmerlands, the one place I have been repeatedly, religiously, indisputably told not to go, and, coincidentally, the very place I happened to be riding through. Everyone gets so hung up on magic blowing up when used, but I—clutching a semi-auto shotgun—didn’t mind that quite so much. Gods can ban guns, but they can’t take them from me here! (As a… [former?] American, I am obligated to say some variation of that phrase. Cold, dead hands, etc.)

Magic going splodey is still quite an inconvenience, however. The frustrating thing is… it’s inconsistent, kinda. If a spell works once, it will work every time, if cast in the same way. Unfortunately, the only way to test this is to put your hide on the line and cast it your damn self. If you roll a 99 or 100, congratulations! You have a spell you can use. If not, then it’s nuke-meet-face. (I am told the explosion is enough to reduce a log cabin to splinters...)

This leaves a disappointingly small list of magic that is available in non-splodey form. Vitally to me, this includes featherweight, if cast outside the Shimmerlands. This spell—while not applied to myself due to prohibitive duration—is enchanted onto every piece of equipment I’m carrying, reducing several hundred pounds of kit to about forty. Other spells relevant to me are beacon-stones and their connected compasses, which are my guides to the Tomb of Instability; and placebo-grade healing potions, which, arguably, aren’t actually magical.

The rest of the spells I either don’t know and cannot learn fast enough or can’t use outright. Next, some (1/3 or so) creatures with innate—'organic' magic as hippiemancers put it—can use their abilities. The rule of thumb on that is: If it's in the Shimmerlands, it hasn't exploded, therefore it's good. Dormant magic is all but guaranteed to last until used, then you roll the dice on whether it's splodey. And, finally, any magic item looted in the Shimmerlands works as it should… until removed from the Shimmerlands, at which point you can’t take it back in without risking you-know-what. On top of that, magic items of meaningful

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Now we're really getting into Summer with the first major set introduced. Really surprised that only one of the scents is a returning scent (Sea Salt & Lavender). Berry Waffle Cone though has been known elsewhere like candles and wallflowers and soaps. Regardless, this was an interesting set.

Packaging: One of the best introduced in the year, I love the different designs on each scent. It's very summery and beach and outside which is always nice. Though it is funny that all of the scents are warm colors with the exception of Midnight Swim (there always has to be one outliner huh?). Still great designs for sure!

Scents:

• Midnight Swim (Blue Waters, Beach Flower, Fresh Coastal Air) - No surprise that Midnight Swim would also be the one that's floral-focused here with the beach flower being the leading scent note here. It smells so clean and aquatic and floral in once scent and I kind of fell in love with it. It may be a little cologne-y but the scent for me is just nice and while doesn't fully suit the summery vibes it should have, it's still good!
• Sunkissed (Sun-Drenched Orange Blossom, Sparkling Sea Salt, Vanilla Breeze) - So take the coconut out and replace it with orange blossom and you pretty much get Sunkissed it seems. It kind of smells like Suntan, but in body care...but there's something I'm not fully enjoying out of this one. It just doesn't really work with me it feels like...a little too lotion for me?
• Berry Waffle Cone (Sweet Summer Berries, Golden Waffle Cone, Creamy Vanilla) - I'm not sure what happened with this one to be honest. It definitely doesn't smell like any of the other times it was released outside of body care. It's such an interesting scent though since it's kind of the only foody one in the mix. Like after the spray, all I can get is the waffle cone and not enough of the berries or vanilla. Like while it's not what I expected, the scent is nice enough for me.
• Sea Salt & Lavender (Fresh Sea Salt, Blooming Lavender, Sun-Drenched Sands) - Since I missed this scent until the end of the year, I had to catch up what this one is about. While Midnight Swim had the aquatic mood about it, this one was more pure floral. This one kind of flew over my head it seems like because while I'm not the biggest lavender fan, this scent just kind of one that really

Pilot on me!!

I'll be posting one update a day until HFY is caught up! In case you missed the previous topics:

Link to Chapter 84 (Part 1)

Link to Chapter 84 (Part 2)

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On the next day, the Fiends returned with their decision, and – rather unsurprisingly – acquiesced to Rob’s demands. In exchange for full disclosure of the purpose for their journey southward, and for the exact mechanics of how their Blight barrier functioned, and for their best physicians to make an earnest attempt at restoring his Soul-Burnt arm, Rob would divulge the secrets of Crystal Bearer and explain his theory on how to cure Corruption. Their next meeting was scheduled to take place in the early afternoon; Rob and some Elves were already hard at work setting up a rendezvous point that would act as sufficiently neutral ground.

For Meyneth, this represented a small window of opportunity within which to act. Keira, as per usual, would be joining the meeting as a member of Rob’s guard detail. That left Meyneth the span of a single morning to corner their wayward Warrior and have a long-overdue discussion regarding matters of the heart. Perhaps the timing was ill-advised, what with Keira taking part in a critical gathering mere hours after their dialogue would finish, but if Meyneth put off this confrontation every time there was a stressful event in the imminent future, then they would never have it at all. More to the point, Meyneth was by now rightly convinced that Keira might never solve this matter on her own. The world would hardly sit and wait for her to work up her courage. Too much longer and she may miss her chance altogether.

Meyneth would be the first to admit that she was not a typical Dragonkin, but she was still a Dragonkin. Frontal assaults held a perpetual and undeniable allure. The core difference between her and many of her brethren was that she recognized the wisdom in constructing a plan before charging forth into uncharted territory.

Step 1: ‘Enlist Help’ was vital, and without it, Meyneth’s endeavor would have been stillborn in its conception. The backbone of any plan was to recognize what you could and could not accomplish on your own. Meyneth’s contribution to this endeavor would be her general forthrightness and her friendship with Keira and Rob. She was willing, able,

The time has come again to gather pine boughs and light the candles of red and silver, gold and green. The cool breezes and smoke-and-loam scented air of autumn is giving way to the frigid winds and pale sun of winter.  Snow, ice, and sleet dominate the days, and a gently gray haze sifts over the treetops, filtering the sun and soaking into clothing and bones, settling the long cold ahead into our very marrow.  The harvests have been stored, the animals brought in from the field, the fields themselves turned for the seasons, the scrapped remnants of crops burned and turned with the soil to provide nutrients for the following year.  The old folks settle into warm rooms with the youngsters, trading stories and traditions as they rub sore joints and comfort little runny noses.  Candlelight, hearth fires, and warm ovens abound as the natural light of the sun fades and the days grow short.  Lights, warmth, and love are shared at this time to fend off the sadness and loss of the sun, to ward off the reminders of death and age that abound in the winter, and to celebrate the light and life that will come again in the spring.  It is a time of rest, introspection, story-telling, hobby building, warmth, and love.

Post your lore, your traditions, what Yule means to you, recipes, plans; go nuts ya filthy animals!

Yule:

What It Is: Pronounced YOOL, this holiday is the winter solstice and longest night of the year.  Celebrated in late December in the northern hemisphere and late June in the southern hemisphere, it's the official heralding of winter in the farming calendar and midwinter to pagans and laypeople everywhere.

The Wiccan community sees this time as when the God is reborn after dying at the harvest.  Other pagan traditions view it as the rebirth of the sun or the astronomical turning point from the dark half of the year to the light half at Litha. Days afterwards will begin to lengthen, though it may not be noticeable until Imbolc.  The Holly and the Oak kings battle, and Holly lays down his crown so Oak can pick up his until Litha comes and they battle again.

Festivals and holidays are common in places where the axial tilt of the planet effects the seasons, and the further towards the poles you go, the more important they seem to be.  Maybe this is due to the fact that the further to the poles you go, the cold is harsher and the sunlight sparse, and humans don't do well without some vitamin D e

Section One: Assets and Debt

Retirement Balance (and how you got there): ~$34,000 ($21,500 in 401k and $12,500 in Roth IRA).

I did not started contributing to retirement until 2020 because I was prioritizing aggressively paying off student loan debt and building my emergency fund, plus didn't have access to a work sponsored 401k. This year, I started contributing to a work matched (5%) 401k and about halfway through the year decided to up my contributions so I could max out to make up for lost time.

Equity: n/a

Savings account balance: ~$56,000 across 3 savings accounts ($33,000 emergency fund, $19,000 reserved to pay off student loans, $4,000 vacation fund)

Checking account balance: $1864

Credit card debt: None, I pay off in full each month

Student loan debt: $18,778 (I graduated with ~55k in debt for an english degree from a fancy liberal arts college in 2016. I refinanced my private loans in 2019 to bring them down from a whopping 12% interest rate and then paid them off in early 2020. I only have federal loans left and have managed to save up the total during the pandemic. I'm keeping the money in a HYSA until payments resume next year.)

Section Two: Income

Income Progression:

High School: got a part-time job at 16 working as a waitress in a retirement home for $7.25/hr

College: worked as a cater waiter for $20/hr about 1-3 nights a week, had a handful of summer publishing/media internships that paid $15/hr at the highest, occasionally did freelance writing for $150-$300 a piece

Currently, I am a full-time copywriter for a brand with side income as an author.

2016-2017: 55k - First full-time job working as a blogger/social media manager at a media company.

2018: 49k - Freelance income from a combination of author signing advance, freelance blogging, and copywriting work. Got laid off with severance from first job, took a few months to draft my first novel and broke into freelance copywriting via some friends who worked as graphic designers for various brands and recommended me.

2019: 88k - Started freelancing at a hot mess startup run by rich business school bros who did not understand how money works, but really liked my other coworkers. Got paid $350/day, then eventually went full time at rate of 84k/yr**.** Also made ~15k from 2nd installment of book advance and some other random freelance work.

2020: 104k - Unsurprisingly, got laid off from hot mess start up in early 2020 due to poor money

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

It really does, I swear!

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

There hasn't been a post all year!