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I bought my baby niece socks with fruit rattles on the toes. I am currently waiting for her to finish her nap, then my sister is going to put the socks on miss ma’am and send me a video.

I am going to play guild wars 2 tonight. I have been spending a lot of time getting all the materials to craft a legendary sword (Bolt, if you’re familiar with the game) and I need two more ingredients to make a core ingredient and then it’s mine. This is gonna take weeks because one of the items requires World v World which I don’t really play, but anything for a sword that makes my footsteps into lightning puddles.

My birthday is coming up. So far my plans include kbbq with my friends, steak with my mom at a place that books out months in advance (but I lucked out and got a great reservation) and homemade ribs with my dad and step mom. Dad owns a meat smoker, and secret recipes plural for his ribs. Also on my birthday day, a game I’ve been incredibly hyped for releases. I’ve planned all my birthday celebrations to be before my birthday, because I will not be heard from for a while while I play this game lol.

I gave a stranger (the wife I’ve never met of a person I know) a recommendation for a tiny shop that carries yarn (through a post it note given to her husband) and she thanked me by giving me a bottle of peppermint oil and instructions on how to use it to keep bugs away (her husband must have told her about my insect phobia lol).

Every Saturday for the past eight years, my friends and I have hung out on a discord call. It is genuinely my favorite part of the week. I love my friends very much, and I will never not be grateful that we have this standing appointment with each other just to talk (for 10+hours lol).

My sister, brother in law, and niece are coming to visit. I can’t wait to see them. I can’t hog my niece, my dad and stepmom will also be there, but I am so excited.

My dad is into ballroom dancing. He wants me to try it. He is going to show me some basics since a major barrier to me trying new things in public is that i don’t like being perceived when I’m not good at something. So he and my step mom are willing to teach me some basics so I can feel more at ease in my skin. Also now I’m crying because holy shit it’s wild sitting and realizing that you’re loved to the point of being truly seen.

Have a good evening!!!

This is better than anything I could've hoped for. Seriously, I was smiling the whole way through! Happy early birthday, anon.

I love how much of your birthday is punctuated by meals with family members! And then video games. We have a very similar life vibe, I think. We were just at my sister-in-law's birthday dinner. She and her boyfriend have the exact same birthday, so we get to celebrate them together. They bought a little boat! Can't wait to join them on the water sometime.

I don't do discord calls (more chats than anything), but my husband does discord chats to keep up with friends hardcore. He's done it for well over a decade and we used to get together for a little friend vacation every couple of years. It can be such a great way to keep in touch. He makes chat dates that are non negotiable so I always have to check with his plans!

Last week I saw my nieces. One is old enough to have a 2 year old son, but he was visiting with her mom so she wanted us to come see her so she could cook for us and hang out. We had bolognese and a lot of great conversation (and then I blew all day Sunday at the beach).

I think Palmer would have tried to take Rufus out to celebrate birthdays when the President wasn't around, but it tended to be bars & casinos because Palmer isn't exactly a responsible adult. Who's going to tell a Director no, go home, that teen's clearly underage? Except Palmer often got distracted by escorts and wandered off. Whatever, being left alone at a booth near one of the card tables was still better than having to deal with his father, so Rufus didn't care TOO much.

One year when Dio was trying to get investment/do market research before opening the Saucer, he saw this kid sitting alone. He got Palmer to introduce them, then when Palmer wandered away again Dio squished himself into the booth opposite Rufus and spent the evening teaching him coin tricks.

They stayed in casual contact afterward, which is also why Rufus had Dio's number and could arrange that exhibition match so quickly.

This is so good...it's crazy you dropped this when I was just contemplating Dio's history yesterday (I read the Corel Region intels while playing Rebirth, which I'd sort of forgotten about in my mission to complete other tasks).

It makes sense because Dio is kinda warm and soft, especially to younger people (albeit obviously quite eccentric), but he'd have to know in the back of his mind that being kind to the President's heir would be good for future business. It also works for my undying love of Rufus being grandiose and theatrical in his own right. Of course, Shinra as a corporation is full of nutjobs and weirdos, but Dio is one of a kind, right? Bit of a 'the difference between a villain and a SUPER villain is PRESENTATION!' situation.

And then anytime Palmer ends up taking him to said casino, little adolescent Rufus is (secretly) craning his neck looking for that big weird guy again. He's entertaining, at the very least.

OK I did see these scenes when my husband played through and I remember being confused because we hadn’t played EC 😂 it makes much more sense to me now. In a way, the giant break between when I started and when I picked it back up has made it more enjoyable because the theory crafting and the sort of companion pieces (like bits of EC) have settled down and I’ve been absorbing it all over time.

But yes, Rufus’ response felt expectedly flippant and shameless, I think those words describe him pretty well. Of course, there’s also the sense that something raw is beating beneath, and that’s why he defends it so fiercely (adult brat man with way too much raw power at his fingertips).

Hello there! Thank you for the kind words about my arts, firstly ;w;

I haven't taken commissions in a while, but I would be open to it if you're interested. After a while, I got into the habit of only opening 1-2 spots at a time to keep from getting overwhelmed. I haven't updated some of the art pieces on my commissions sheet, but here is a link to the most recent version to get an idea of pricing. It's very negotiable, so please feel free to DM me your thoughts, I'm quite flexible and I alwayyyssss love to return to eruri!

Kan, it’s taken me soooo long to answer this ask, but do you know…you sent this to me on my husband’s birthday? I just thought that was so funny for some reason! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

So, five things that make me happy in no particular order:

my husband! seems mandatory given the aforementioned anecdote.

Fields of Mistria (omg please talk to me about it ;-;)

my dogs, Gonzo (Jack Russell) & Einstein (corgi)

Red Bull (I’m going through a phase)

Do you have a username you always use in games?

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Is there a food from a game you would love to have in real life?

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