Even Darkness Must Pass

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

req'd by @mikiri

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Mina doesn't know that she's running towards a vampire, but she does know that something is standing over her vulnerable friend. She doesn't get caught in a trance, she doesn't freeze or try to scare him off from the safety and distance of the church grounds.

She sees someone or something hurting her friend and her instinctual reaction is to run towards the danger to save her. And, for now, it works.

dream tiger,,,,,, she has bewitched me,,,,,,

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"