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Me: …

Me: Isn’t it terrible all the horrible things that happened to them in canon! my poor baby. ;____;

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A Tide™ pen.

I’m a generic kinda lady. I hate promoting brands 99% of the time. BUT if you catch absolutely any kind of stain before it gets ground in, you can get most of it out with one of these babies. I’ve tested it on blood, chocolate, coffee, guacamole, pizza sauce, red wine on, on that one time i accidentally slopped some oil I was supposed to be using on antiques onto a fancy rug (also an antique but not the one I was gunning for). If you’re washing something delicate, pump it onto your finger a couple of times and gently rub it in. I’m not sure what they put in these things but I’m pretty sure it’s an arcane secret.

Dish soap

Granted, this is a little trickier for upholstery/carpet, but it can still be done using a rag, some water, and some patience. But for clothing, just pour some soap on the stain and rub it in under cold running water.

Absolutely any clear alcohol is your new best friend

You know the old “white wine to clean red” trick? Well, this is its updated sister I like to call “you, too, can use coconut rum to get red jello shot out of your nice white dress”. It’s a nice party trick. Straight vodka works even better. For every day situations involving any kind of alcohol-related spills (including markers)–and especially work situations–rubbing alcohol is ideal. To quote another adage, this one from every chemistry teacher you will ever meet, “like dissolves like.”

Hydrogen Peroxide

It can get blood out of absolutely anything, including your mattress. It reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, which breaks down the molecule, causing it to lose its red color. So make sure you’re not using a cast iron skillet to wash your period underwear in.

Vinegar

This will dissolve lime buildup overnight. Fill a bag, tie it around your showerhead, and presto. You can also use it to scrub the area around your sink and to break up any buildup in pipes. (Limeaway™ is for rich people.) 

Baking soda

This is great if you have a pet or child who peed on the carpet. Just cover the area, wait until it dries, and vacuum it up. The longer you leave it, the better it will do at removing the smell. It’s also good removing mild odors from a small space, like a fridge or a laundry hamper. 

Charcoal

THIS HAD BEEN DRIVING ME NUTS FOR FOREVER. 

So there.  Now I have figured it out. 

People who I suspect have thought about this less than me:

Tolkien

Peter Jackson

real geneticists

God

reading emotional fanfic

Winter’s Herald: a Steve/Bucky Heralds of Valdemar AU

Words: 112,551 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James “Bucky” Barnes & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Original Companion Character, James “Bucky” Barnes & Original Companion Character Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Original Companion Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Captain America Valdemar AU, Alternate Universe - Valdemar Series Fusion, Marvel Cameos, Fluff, Captain America canon typical violence, minor Valdemar canon non-compliance, Soulmates, Lifebonds, Additional Warnings In Author’s Note, absolutely no Valdemar knowledge required, Heavy Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending

“Steve, if there’s a time when you don’t have to worry about anything, it’s now. I’m a Herald-Trainee, Winter’s a Companion. You’re exhausted. Just…trust us. We’ll get you home safely.”

 For a long moment, a moment in which Bucky felt gifted with sudden insight into who Steve was, he thought it could go either way. Then Steve smiled, this one warm and bright and just for Bucky, and it raced through him, lodging inside him like a miniature sun. “Guess I’d be a bit ungrateful to say no.”

Some Heralds change the world. Some Heralds save it. Some Herald’s names are woven through the very fabric of Valdemar. But most don’t, and most aren’t. Most Heralds simply do their duty, their Companions by their side, their stories recorded in dusty Crown records, not Bardic ballads.

Steve and Bucky figured they were most Heralds—no ballads required, thanks—and they were mostly right. What they didn’t account for was that no Herald was ordinary—and with two of them bound so tight together, extraordinary was sure to happen.

1. there’s a serious dearth of moments in Leverage where Eliot and Hardison had to run a con as a fake couple.  The show seriously missed out on that entire variation of the trope.

2. there are a few fic that semi go there, but not in the kind of hilarious sexual tension pining I could do.

3. Parker is adorbs. And frightening. And I love my ot3 but I don’t know if I would be good at juggling 3 characters - however, this is what I’ve observed: Eliot gives Parker her space, especially in the beginning, because Parker as a person finds physical affection off-putting. Eliot only really ever willingly - and sometimes seemingly unwillingly - touches Hardison.  The hugs are the ones that stand out because the show makes sure they stand out, but there are a lot of fleeting touches. Eliot will direct Hardison through a doorway with his hand on his back, or curl his fingers around his arm or shoulder, or nudge up against him. Again - only with Hardison. HE DOESN’T DO IT WITH ANY OF THE OTHERS. This is because he understands Hardison responds well to physical affection and needs it to ground him.

But I don’t think it’s necessarily as deliberate as that. I think we’re seeing pieces of Eliot from before he became a hitter.  We also see it in the way he jokes around and snarks and is playful sometimes with Hardison and Parker.

4. Season 4 is the first time we see Eliot with a date. He says things like ‘I dated a bartender once’ all the time, and flirts for cons, but season 4 is the first time we see him take someone home.

Season 4 is also when Parker and Hardison tentatively start dating.

5. ALSO, and I didn’t notice this one until season 5 but I’m getting @dizzy-redhead to check for me, but Eliot is sometimes gender neutral about who he has dated in the past.  Before season 4 we don’t really see who he dates.

“I dated a model.” or “I dated a flight attendant.” AND LIKE we all assume female because of his profession and his high school girlfriend.  Sometimes he indicates female.  

Sometimes he doesn’t say either way, and I was thinking WHAT IF HE DOES THIS ON PURPOSE? What if at some point there’s this gorgeous tall man in the bar laughing at something Eliot says gruffly with his arms crossed, and he says to the team “I’m Noah,” and Eliot offers “the model I dated” and dares them to comment with his death glare

But OFC Hardison does, all offended like.  “I thought we were friends, man. Why you gotta hide shit like this from me? I ain’t gonna be a homophobe bigot about you liking dudes, but you hurt me all up in here, ya feel?” but, like. his palms are sweaty and his heart is racing a bit about it, and when the con is done and Eliot puts his hand on Noah’s shoulder, Hardison has to bury the urge to go up to the bar and wedge himself between them.

And prob isn’t that successful at it tbh. 

They spend a few minutes just looking at the honeymoon suite in appalled silence. All of the furniture is designed to wedge people together. Tiny loveseat in front of the TV. Tiny bench in the window nook. Tiny heart-shaped bed, and how the hell two adults could even lie down on that bed without cuddling up a little, Alec doesn’t know. He suspects that’s the point.

“I’m sleeping in the van,” Eliot says.

“You cannot sleep in the van. We’re supposed to be on our freaking honeymoon, you think honeymooners decide to go sleep in vans because the resort decor isn’t to their tastes?”

“I’m sleeping in the van,” Eliot repeats, and grabs his bag.

“Now, I know you’re not a homophobe–”

“I’m not a–”

“I just said, I know you’re not a homophobe, which is why this is so hurtful, man, because I know this isn’t just a general objection on your part to snuggling with another dude to catch a few ZZZs, so this is about me, personally, and I take offense, Eliot, I really do.”

Eliot growls and drops his bag again. “I’m sleeping on the floor.”

I thought it would be cool to see where the Fandom is around the world.

I wish I could start a sorta Stargate fan club where we all can meet up in person to talk/watch all things Stargate a couple times a month. That would be so fun!

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, they’re basically adults, right?

Marnie in Halloweentown: I’m thirteen, okay? I’m practically grown up! I’m certainly old enough to make my own choices – right?

Me at 7: Right!

Me at 13: Right! …Well, okay, maybe not practically grown up, but still, right!

Me at 28:

｢ “If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there’s a mysterious way in which that truth will find you”｣

- Marianne Williamson