my mom got me a ghost !!!
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the Big Present for my mom this year is a coffee grinder, which is literally the only option she gave me the several times i asked for ideas
i did research on brands models etc and then just got a kitchenaid because i figure it'll last at least a couple years before she burns it out, and i love her but not enough to get a $500+ grinder which she will use a single setting on once a week
after purchasing it i discovered that i just so happen to have a mini tiny dollhouse scale box for this exact same kitchenaid coffee grinder, from one of those blind-box toy sets
they shipped the real grinder with its retail box inside of a second shipping box marked up on the outside with what is inside (which i'm sooooo annoyed at btw when i bought it i marked off "this is a gift" and "hide the packaging" and they still shipped it bare, so my mom who grabbed the box off the porch certainly saw what it is!!!!! >c )
so i'm gonna take the retail box out, wrap that, and hide it in the closet. then i'll use the shipping box, which is marked up so you know what's in there, and put the teeny tiny toy version inside. and nothing else. wrap it all pretty put it under the tree for her to open >3
actually maybe i will try to find some bricks or something to make it heavy??? idk i've got a couple hours to refine the idea, the important part is having the big empty box with this tiny shrunk version inside
alright i just dug the perfect rock out of the garden, i'll let that warm up & clean it off, and then when it's ready i will build a false bottom in the box so you don't see the rock you just feel the weight of it which adds to the joke imo
the other thought was to put a different gift inside the grinder box, and present the tiny grinder toy box wrapped up as its own present, as a double fake-out
.......but i think that is more convoluted than necessary & loses the thread of the main gag so i probably won't
omg there's actually a tiny grinder inside the box i thought it was empty aahhhh
the ONLY downside is the real one is a different color
v8roadworrier reblogged
the Big Present for my mom this year is a coffee grinder, which is literally the only option she gave me the several times i asked for ideas
i did research on brands models etc and then just got a kitchenaid because i figure it'll last at least a couple years before she burns it out, and i love her but not enough to get a $500+ grinder which she will use a single setting on once a week
after purchasing it i discovered that i just so happen to have a mini tiny dollhouse scale box for this exact same kitchenaid coffee grinder, from one of those blind-box toy sets
they shipped the real grinder with its retail box inside of a second shipping box marked up on the outside with what is inside (which i'm sooooo annoyed at btw when i bought it i marked off "this is a gift" and "hide the packaging" and they still shipped it bare, so my mom who grabbed the box off the porch certainly saw what it is!!!!! >c )
so i'm gonna take the retail box out, wrap that, and hide it in the closet. then i'll use the shipping box, which is marked up so you know what's in there, and put the teeny tiny toy version inside. and nothing else. wrap it all pretty put it under the tree for her to open >3
actually maybe i will try to find some bricks or something to make it heavy??? idk i've got a couple hours to refine the idea, the important part is having the big empty box with this tiny shrunk version inside
alright i just dug the perfect rock out of the garden, i'll let that warm up & clean it off, and then when it's ready i will build a false bottom in the box so you don't see the rock you just feel the weight of it which adds to the joke imo
the other thought was to put a different gift inside the grinder box, and present the tiny grinder toy box wrapped up as its own present, as a double fake-out
.......but i think that is more convoluted than necessary & loses the thread of the main gag so i probably won't
the Big Present for my mom this year is a coffee grinder, which is literally the only option she gave me the several times i asked for ideas
i did research on brands models etc and then just got a kitchenaid because i figure it'll last at least a couple years before she burns it out, and i love her but not enough to get a $500+ grinder which she will use a single setting on once a week
after purchasing it i discovered that i just so happen to have a mini tiny dollhouse scale box for this exact same kitchenaid coffee grinder, from one of those blind-box toy sets
they shipped the real grinder with its retail box inside of a second shipping box marked up on the outside with what is inside (which i'm sooooo annoyed at btw when i bought it i marked off "this is a gift" and "hide the packaging" and they still shipped it bare, so my mom who grabbed the box off the porch certainly saw what it is!!!!! >c )
so i'm gonna take the retail box out, wrap that, and hide it in the closet. then i'll use the shipping box, which is marked up so you know what's in there, and put the teeny tiny toy version inside. and nothing else. wrap it all pretty put it under the tree for her to open >3
actually maybe i will try to find some bricks or something to make it heavy??? idk i've got a couple hours to refine the idea, the important part is having the big empty box with this tiny shrunk version inside
alright so: one of those bleak, ""realistic"" au's where no one is allowed to be happy. has been bouncing around my skull since hearing the line "trying is mandatory" from "what could be better than this?" which is required to be the title of the fic btw
its been a few years & everyone is on moana's case to marry. she is visibly aging at a normal rate so we can assume whatever else is going on with her did not inclue immortality. she can't follow her heart & marry maui because ~of course~ they're ~just friends~ etc and she doesn't want to unbalance the various islands by seeming to favor one more than the other, so it's gotta be someone from motunui
she proposes to moni as a "safe" option, who is genuinely just a friend. on her end, anyway; for his part he's nursing a big fat hopeless crush on her but is clear-eyed enough to know it'll never happen (i also read him as crushing on maui but it would be too easy to pull the "marriage in name only" card for this, he's gotta Suffer also)
she really does try to make it work, does her best to balance adventuring with spending quality time at home, to make herself take interest in moni beyond friendship levels and so on
maui is pretending very very hard that everything is fine & he's happy for them and on some level he is! moana deserves someone who will put her first no matter what, someone steady & safe to be there for her in ways that as an immortal demigod he can't be. in reality he pulls away almost entirely, which leaves moana feeling abandoned & trapped and miserable
moni knows he's not who she really wants, but he tries to make her happy, does his best to pretend he's also totally fine with this, being married to the woman of his dream who is in love with someone else. and moana realizes his feelings are genuine at some point & feels miserable because she loves him as a friend but not more than that
potentially moana & moni have a kid or two and it just highlights the difference of how moana feels for him vs the love for their kids, to really drive home the bleakness
definitely she & maui have a Moment and kiss- wait ALMOST kiss tbh it's better when it's a near miss- but then one of them pulls away because they can't! she's married! and they can't openly talk about it but they acknowledge what is between them & that they missed their chance & it's depressing as hell
and it's thorny and bleak and does not have a happy ending except in a separate, optional epilogue so you can choose whether to continue suffering or not
it's 14* (-10c) and i have to go out for errands that involve large chunks of walking between various far-apart stores
if i don't, my only other option is trying to do it all on the 24th, because those are my only days off
but it is. so cold.
v8roadworrier reblogged
tagged by @reinetteslonelyangel thx!
Game Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.
anyone who wants in please feel free to consider yourself tagged idk who's even writing actively these days :b
okay so here's what you were voting on
"bow wow" is either (i genuinely forget which one is which i gave them very similar file names) max is a dog shape-shifter struggling to come to terms with wanting to be human, or max is a normal human cursed to be a dog and struggling to decide if he prefers it this way. very different concepts yes.
"beachcomber" is vintage 2016, mundane au where the maui we see is not a demigod he's just some (demi)guy who washed up on motunui after a storm. i wrote exactly zero notes so i have no idea where i was going with basically any of it
"singsongalong" is soulmates where you hear singing in your dreams it's the fic i am actively working on rn & have a semi-decent shot at actually finishing sometime this century if i don't jinx myself
"cold slither" is the name of a song from a g1 episode where the decepticons open a dance club called "dancitron" and it lives rent-free in my head. also skywarp, starscream, thundercracker are hookers in a pre-war au
tagged by @reinetteslonelyangel thx!
Game Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.
anyone who wants in please feel free to consider yourself tagged idk who's even writing actively these days :b
ugh last night when i was daydreaming, this idea made perfect sense as a very simple set of two scenes; one for set-up one for the actual confrontation/resolution, easy enough that i might actually manage it
now trying to wrestle it onto the page i can't remember any of the transitions i had in mind and it'd be so so easy to just not resolve anything and keep stretching it into another few scenes of pining but!! if i do that it'll never be finished b/c i'll run out of steam
:/
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anyway i'm being tormented by thoughts on how to make an actual moana soulmate au work
i have some thoughts on the general worldbuilding but not on what specific marker i want to use to indicate soulmates (shared dreams? black&white vision? some way to indicate first words in a culture that has no system of writing???) and also, i don't know when to place or how to handle the reveal for maximum deliciousness
wait wait hear me out-
soulmates hear each other's voices singing in their dreams
not clear enough to really remember, there's no words or direct communication, you wouldn't be able to describe it enough for someone else to "keep an ear out" on your behalf, but enough that when you hear their voice in the waking world singing you'd instantly recognize them
moana doesn't start getting such dreams until after returning from te fiti, maui has had his since he was a wee demigod & has long since given up on ever finding whoever the singer is supposed to be
in canon maui never actually hears moana sing, until plausibly the last bit of the "beyond" reprise at motufetu (he could have heard a snatch of her singing to te ka, but it was a pretty far distance and also recognizing a match before her own dreams start would be cheating)
but moana would have heard him (post-dream-starting) during "can i get a chee hoo" as well as
that time he sang to her
and her ancestors
and the gods
praying for her life
which was answered by granting her demigoddess status
:)
wait hang on this means my atonal ass has to describe their voices in detail
shit
v8roadworrier reblogged
anyway i'm being tormented by thoughts on how to make an actual moana soulmate au work
i have some thoughts on the general worldbuilding but not on what specific marker i want to use to indicate soulmates (shared dreams? black&white vision? some way to indicate first words in a culture that has no system of writing???) and also, i don't know when to place or how to handle the reveal for maximum deliciousness
wait wait hear me out-
soulmates hear each other's voices singing in their dreams
not clear enough to really remember, there's no words or direct communication, you wouldn't be able to describe it enough for someone else to "keep an ear out" on your behalf, but enough that when you hear their voice in the waking world singing you'd instantly recognize them
moana doesn't start getting such dreams until after returning from te fiti, maui has had his since he was a wee demigod & has long since given up on ever finding whoever the singer is supposed to be
in canon maui never actually hears moana sing, until plausibly the last bit of the "beyond" reprise at motufetu (he could have heard a snatch of her singing to te ka, but it was a pretty far distance and also recognizing a match before her own dreams start would be cheating)
but moana would have heard him (post-dream-starting) during "can i get a chee hoo" as well as
that time he sang to her
and her ancestors
and the gods
praying for her life
which was answered by granting her demigoddess status
:)
anyway i'm being tormented by thoughts on how to make an actual moana soulmate au work
i have some thoughts on the general worldbuilding but not on what specific marker i want to use to indicate soulmates (shared dreams? black&white vision? some way to indicate first words in a culture that has no system of writing???) and also, i don't know when to place or how to handle the reveal for maximum deliciousness
had to go home sick :(
watching bbc's historical farm series because it's so nice & gentle to have on in the background
and i really love how, i've seen several of their series and it's usually ruth as the one woman taking care of the in-house part while the two men are doing the out-doors part and it could so easily be them devaluing her contributions & knowledge but instead!! they're so genuinely nice & excited for her interests and to have the house nice etc
if you look inside my skull my brain is just rotating around on a microwave platter
guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moana smut :3
i thought the date was the 12th all day (despite seeing several "friday the 13th" memes) but also that the day of the week was saturday and i am sooooo disoriented
new hire is okay so far, mostly just quietly doing the computer-based-training and occasionally chatting. no one will tell me what the schedule/outline for his training looks like so i have literally no idea how much online stuff he has to get through, whether we're training him to be front-of-house or back-of-house primarily, if there's anything i'm supposed to be doing other than providing a desk & computer for him to use?????
but that's par for the course with this company. even if someone knows what the fuck is going on they're not sharing that info.
well, the moana brain rot set in real fast. they're fun kids! and i'm getting waaaay ahead of myself here but- anyone have fic prompts they wanna share????
i miss kink memes so much ;____; no effort, no pressure, just pages of ideas for the taking