#alsobarebear

In the US, Medicare maintains a comprehensive database of all hospitals called Hospital Compare. You can search within a radius of a city/town or zip code. https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html

SWEET. I’ve passed it along! 

knottahooker replied to your photo “THEY’RE BACK. [Description: a photograph of a bag of Trader Joe’s...”

What does that even taste like? Sage and onions?

Sage and turkey boullion, honestly. It’s a bit like eating soup mix. :D

elsajeni replied to your post “!!!! I had one of those little cat-shaped cushions with the printed-on...”

You can still get those occasionally! When I worked in a fabric store, we got them regularly as part of our seasonal/holiday collections. Unfortunately they'd be stocked in with the regular by-the-yard fabric for that holiday, so hard to spot unless you checked every bolt. That said, I never saw one as cute as those cats.

Oh nice! I look every time I’m in the fabric section of the craft store but I never see any. I’ll persevere! 

eimearkuopio replied to your photoset “I finally got a chance to frame this gorgeous Umbreon art print by...”

I love the be good shelf

I do too! It’s not something I trained them to do, it just started happening -- the shelf is actually a shoe rack, and I noticed that whenever she heard me take my keys off the hook by the door, Dearborn would come running to jump up on top of the rack. So I started rewarding her with goodbye pets and telling her to be good, and soon Polk joined in to get one last cheek skritch before I left for the day. I love that they like to come say goodbye to me. Now all I have to do is jangle my keys and at least one, usually both, will come barrelling down the hallway to say goodbye. 

noriannbraindripshere replied to your photoset “I finally got a chance to frame this gorgeous Umbreon art print by...”

The black spot on her lips makes her look so dubious about it XD

Dearborn has Resting Skeptical Face. She looks dubious about life in general, most of the time :D It was even funnier when she was a tiny kitten. 

col1999 replied to your post “omg i can't believe i forgot to ask you about this, but i gotta know...”

Speaking of Hallmark, have you seen there's a Hallmark Monopoly now? (Sorry if someone already pointed it out. I only heard today.)

AHAHAHAH I’m not surprised, in the 90s Hallmark stores always were the ones that sold the weird customized monopoly boards. Oh god, I might have to get one for my parents. 

speedgeek replied to your post “omg i can't believe i forgot to ask you about this, but i gotta know...”

I'm a little disappointed a Hallmark convention is being held somewhere other than Kansas City at Crown Center, owned by Hallmark, right by Hallmark's HQ, with several Hallmark attractions near by. Sure, it's a bit more Hallmark general than Hallmark Movie Channel, but it'd still offer more Hallmark-ness than New Jersey.

It does seem like it would be more fitting, but since it’s an independent convention and Hallmark isn’t involved, I imagine it was way less expensive to get a couple of convention rooms at a random hotel in Jersey :D I’m sure if it goes well, they’ll have a look at moving to KC when they have the size to support it. (Also so much good KC bbq! I would go to a Hallmark Christmas Convention in KC.)  

alsobarebear replied to your photo “GUYS Guys WAIT FOR IT IT'S AZIRAPHALE AND PROWLY (Thanks...”

I'm not even going to try to add to the puns. But I AM curious if the mug is difficult to drink out of? It looks awkward to hold. But also AMAZING and I want one!

Oof, it was good to put this together if only to break the block I’ve had lately. More H/C than pure angst, and kinda more of a “fuck you” to the Precursors than H/C, but it was nice to try my hand at “immediately post-Uprising” fic :3 I hope you like it!

Newt/Hermann, 1,200 words

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I’ll Be Here Waiting

There were moments when Newton was lucid, or at least seemed lucid, Hermann had to remind himself. After ten years without detection, it was only safe to assume the Precursors could mimic Newton to such an extent that every word out of his mouth was suspect.

13. "I’m not leaving, so don’t even ask.”

H’okay, so I responded to this one but decided to put this prompt and the others in the series over on Ao3! Chronologically it falls between the other two prompts I did. Part 1 is here and Part 3 in the sequence here. In the meantime, here’s a preview:

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Newt sat hunched over on the bed in his cell, panting. Sweat soaked through his shirt and his face was haggard with exhaustion, dark circles making his eyes cavernous. When he caught sight of Hermann, his lips parted but Hermann was already prepared, and waved dismissively.

“I’m not leaving, so don’t even ask.”

“It’s four in the morning,” Newt croaked. There was a digital clock blinking military time in bright orange on the wall across from his cell. A comfort, perhaps, or a torture of its own as the weeks of Newton’s forced captivity ticked by. Newt rubbed his hands over his face, scraping some of the sweat on his brow back into his hair so it stood wild and on end. He was a picture of exhausted chaos contained in a glass-walled cell. “You should get some sleep.”

“I find I don’t sleep very well these days,” Hermann said without glancing up from his book. He turned the page, more for effect as he was hardly reading closely, had not been since the tension in Newton’s body began to ease and the glassy-far away expression of strained anguish to refocus. He’d read the book a dozen times before and could have practically recited it from memory. It was on a subject he’d once found repulsive, but nowadays he found the author’s voice and narration-style soothing.

“Bullshit,” Newt rasped. When Hermann glanced over, there was a faint quirk to Newt’s lips that took away any sting from the declaration. “I’m telling you, man, I don’t need a babysitter. There’s nothing you can do anyway about the, uh, the…”

“Episodes,” Hermann supplied, as if they were speaking of some mundane, if tragic, ailment like a brain tumor or epilepsy. These days, Newton had episodes, when the Precursors in his brain made their vile, last-ditch efforts to regain control of their host. They could not just let the man rest, now that he was useless to them as a vessel with his capture and grew stronger in resisting them by the day. Petty malice was not a characteristic Hermann had expected when he first learned of the incalculably advanced species that had directed the Kaiju to invade their world.

“How long was this one?”

Hermann grimaced. “Twelve hours.”

“Not too bad, then,” Newt drawled in an exhausted whisper. Impossible to tell if he was sarcastic or sincere.

Is it just me, or is the post showing what the tumblr pornbots flagged gone?

rsfcommonplace replied to your post “thewittiestpartition replied to your post “Your kitties are so tiny...”

It is gone for me too.

They're so long!