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Another Day Spent Recapping The Vacation
Sep. 20th, 2025 11:49 pmWell, sort of -- I shall explain in the write-up:
Tumblr: Was a busy day on both of the old tumbls today, let me tell you –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – I spent most of my day over here, drafting out and then posting the five photo posts covering my vacation times – and while I was able to more or less completely copy the main text for each post from the “travel diary” I wrote up yesterday here on Dreamwidth (with a few little revisions and a new intro and outro on the first and last posts), doing the alt text on each batch of photos and the tags on each post took much longer than I’d hoped. Especially since I had a much later start than I wanted, thanks to sleeping in a bit, having a late breakfast, and needing to change the sheets on my bed this morning. *grumbles* But the posts got done, and you can view them here – I even put them in chronological order for you! :) I hope you enjoy the pictures! I had fun taking them! :)
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I actually had three anon asks to answer from my week off – ended up stuffing them all in the queue, since I got on the blog late tonight thanks to catching up on a bunch of videos (see the “FreeTube” section) and just didn’t feel like doing “active” RP –
A) The first ask proposed a concept of a fantasy series where the court wizard was functionally an IT guy, doing things like asking the Queen if she’d “cleansed and reapplied the runes” on her broken magic mirror, then fixing it and finding out she was basically looking for nymph and witch porn. XD I queued up a response from the Cuddlepile!Valicer trio, with Smiler saying they liked the idea and wondering what a computer virus would look like in that world; Alice proposing that it would be an ACTUAL virus that made people sick, with the person spreading the virus then pretending to be a doctor and taking people’s money to cure them of the disease they themselves inflicted; and Victor offering up a scenario where the royal family gets turned into toads because one of them insisted on keeping a piece of paper with the warding rune for the door next to the door itself (like someone having a sticky note with their passwords on their computer) – Smiler liked that one. :P (Me, I just swear I’ve seen the proposed scenario of “court wizard as IT tech” somewhere on tumblr before…)
B) The second asked my muses in general “I was just wondering if you wanted to HANG OUT with me and smoke WEED and fill our bellies with DIET SODA and play Burnout Revenge for the PS2” – no, I’m not sure why certain words were capitalized. Probably some sort of video game reference I’m not getting...anyway, I had Inevitable High School!Smiler respond, since they would be the one most open to such a request – they said that they’d probably need more than diet coke if weed was involved and offered to bring snacks, before asking what Burnout Revenge was, as they’d never heard of it. (*quickly looks it up* Okay, it’s a racing game – sounds fun! Hopefully the anon is neither a sore winner or sore loser…)
C) And the third featured a scenario of a guy offering free samples of British food to passerby...which unfortunately resulted in him asking someone “Would you like to taste my spotted dick?” and getting punched. XD I had Cuddlepile!Alice facepalm and say that he could have phrased that better, before offering both first aid and some tips with his presentation (I added in the tags she’d probably tell him to call it “spotted dog” instead, as that’s a legit alternate name for the foodstuff – it’s a sort of suet “cake” (I’m not sure how else to describe it to the Americans, as it’s not what WE think of as pudding) with dried fruit in it (usually currants or raisins) to create the spots, if you’re wondering). Because she can be snarky, but she’s also nice sometimes. :p
FreeTube: After spending most of the day on tumblr doing the vacation write-ups, I decided that, since I didn’t have time for video games, I’d instead make sure I was a little more caught up on my videos over here. And so this afternoon and evening, I worked my way through –
A) “Starting My New Life” by Josh Way! A little life update video he did for all of us who follow him on YouTube (or YouTube frontends, like in my particular case these days), letting us know that he’s gotten a new job (frozen foods sales rep, driving between a bunch of grocery stores promoting the Brand and merchandising and things like that) and he’s signed the lease on a new apartment (in a cheaper part of New York in the Hudson Valley), yay! Granted, he doesn’t move into the new apartment until October 1st, meaning he’s got to coordinate moving with working his new job (and wait for whoever’s buying his new home to close on the deal), and his financial situation is still a little dicey, meaning he’s got to really step it up with his various side hustles (“Fun With Shorts” and its related Patreon, “Sylvan Thatch” – his new webcomic – and its related Patreon, and starting proper art commissions too), but at least he has an income and a (future) roof over his head. And the place has space for his cats and his kid (when she visits on the weekend), so that’s all he can really ask for. :) I’m glad it at least seems like he’s landing on his feet here – the past couple of years have clearly been pretty rough for him, what with ending up out of work twice and getting a divorce. And given I rather like his art style, I am intrigued by the thought of him offering commissions… We’ll see what might come of that!
B) “CaFae Latte Season 75 - TikTok Compilation” by C. M. Alongi! Yup, a new season of our favorite Minnesotan fairy shenanigans, featuring –
I. Nicole arriving at the cafe and finding Janine hanging out there (up early thanks to an officers’ meeting) – Janine offered to give up her chair, but Nicole said it was fine, she wasn’t staying as school was back in session. Causing Janine to comment that she’d forgotten Nicole was an art teacher –
And another customer nearby to snort derisively and – when Nicole and Janine gave them questioning looks – tell Nicole to enjoy the job while it lasts, because AI was going to put her and her brethren out of work. Nicole told the customer that generative AI was soulless and talentless and that creativity would ALWAYS need to be taught, no matter the technology situation – the customer countered that AI was plenty creative, since you have to come up with the prompt, and accused Nicole of just being upset she wasn’t “the special kid” anymore. Janine coldly noted that, despite not being a professional herself, she could see that generative AI slop was just mediocre, and that real art could only come from the hard work of humans (and human-adjacent beings, I suppose). The customer was unconvinced and left, insisting they were just going to get left behind by modern technology – Janine and Nicole promptly resumed their previous conversation, with Nicole asking Janine what she was reading and Janine revealing The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee saying she wanted to educate herself on Native American perspectives given her boyfriend (Patrick being half-Lakota). And then letting Nicole know that another Native memoir she wanted to read was Bury My Heart At Chuck-E-Cheese. Nicole snorted and said AI could never. XD
II. JC serving none other than Old Jack, Erik’s prison buddy, who was recently released and wanted to celebrate with two coffees (one for himself, one for his sister) and the “fattest blueberry muffin” they had. He asked if this was the place that had to deal with the homophobic angel, explaining he’d heard about it from a former employee, and blissfully went on about how angry his buddy had been about Gabriel going after a kid, and how happy he was that the guy ended up in their block so he could beat him up, not noticing how stiff and quiet JC had gone. He also revealed that while a few of the other inmates thought Gabriel was okay, most of the others, including most of the paras, didn’t like him – and a lot of them were REALLY pissed off about the whole “stealing money from his own parishioners” thing. Apparently there are a lot of devout people in prison, and they do NOT like a bad priest. *nods* Interesting… Anyway, Cyrus finished up the guy’s order, since JC was in their feelings, and Old Jack left to meet back up with his sister, never noticing JC’s state (which, honestly, is a good thing). JC muttered shortly afterward that Erik was still a backstabbing asshole, which Cyrus agreed with, but said it was good to hear that the guy was on the right-ish path – and when JC protested that Erik was never a homophobe and didn’t deserve a medal for it, said that he just hoped that when Erik inevitably got out, he was the kind of person who had principles strong enough to fight for, rather than selling them – and the people he cared about – out for personal gain. JC was just like “I just hope he’s the kind of person who stays the fuck away from us.” *grimace* Oh boy – given the way they nurse grudges, when they learn about Erik and Lindsey, it’s gonna be bad…
III. Bob dealing with a customer who complained about the service being horribly slow, trying to explain that the cafe was short-staffed, they’d JUST finished the morning rush, and that she’d just gone in the back to restock the flavor the woman wanted – only for the customer to say “no excuse” and demand to speak to the manager. In a playful mood, Bob called in a confused JC, who confirmed they were the kitchen manager –
And then responded to the customer’s demands that they fire Bob with “she’s the owner.” XD Bob promptly followed that up with cursing the customer to never remember her internet passwords and to have to constantly reset them to new ones until she learned to be nicer to customer service people. The customer stormed off, and JC noted that Bob was clearly feeling petty today before asking why she dragged them in (emphasizing they were not complaining) – Bob cheerfully replied, “Variety is the spice of life.” XD
IV. Oscar and Drek serving another customer who came in for both coffee and free WiFi to do her paperwork on (Oscar providing the drink, Drek the WiFi password), then chatting about how things were going. Drek told Oscar how he’d added Abby, Logan, Ben, and Ethan to his, Xander, and Melody’s Discord group, and how they were planning to start an online D&D campaign together (getting in a little sneaky promo for Divergent Realms along the way when Oscar asked if that was for his new job GMing games), while Oscar told Drek about how he was volunteering at the local Unitarian church’s food shelf during his time off (noting how weird it was to be on the other side of the counter, so to speak), and how he’d gotten a new coffee table that actually matched some of his furniture! Drek noted that being homeless sounded like it really sucked, and Oscar agreed, but – ever the optimist – noted that it made him appreciate his apartment more. Especially since he could host Andy and Caroline in it. Drek noted that they were still together, and Oscar admitted that the relationship had gone on for longer than he’d thought, and that they were thinking about possibly –
Aaaand cue the sudden appearance of a very confused demon! Summoned by the customer trying to get her paperwork done – by complete accident, because, in her own words, “You were supposed to be a spreadsheet!” XD
V. Continuing from the previous video, Bob coming in to see what was going on and being like “...in 12 centuries, I have never heard of anyone summoning a demon accidentally, especially through Excel.” XD The customer protested that it was a complicated program, okay, with the demon being like “if you have it in DEMONIC” – the customer shot back that calculus was very similar! XD The customer then asked if the demon was after her soul, and the demon said “no, those haven’t been legal tender for centuries.” Causing Drek to be like “wait a minute, you guys used to actually buy and sell souls?!” –
And Oscar to let him know that seraphim used to do it too. Apparently the trade was how Christianity got the idea, according to Bob, who noted that souls could be used for very powerful magic and thus were very tightly regulated – they apparently go for a fortune on the black market. Poor Drek was very O.o about it all. XD Anyway, the demon said that he traded in cash and Pokemon cards – when Drek asked for what, he explained he was a mathematician and helped humans with calculations they didn’t want to do. The customer was like “...so how much to help me with this spreadsheet,” and a deal was struck for $20 an hour and a coffee. Yay! XD
VI. A blind customer walking in after everything in the previous videos was settled and asking why the place smelled like sulfur – Oscar explained about the accidental demon visitor and assured her that he’d gotten home safe and sound, just that Bob had had to reopen the accidental summoning circle to send him back quicker, leaving a smell and exhausting her in the process. He then asked what she wanted, only for the woman to ask if he could read out the menu, as she was 95% blind –
And then the customer behind her was promptly like “Don’t do that, she’s faking.” With his evidence being that the woman didn’t have a seeing-eye dog, and was able to look directly at Oscar and him when they spoke. Oscar was like “how dare you,” while the woman explained that seeing-eye dogs were prohibitively expensive (and she’d have to fight her asshole landlord about it if she tried to get one anyway), and that blindness was a spectrum, and she had a TINY pinhole of vision that allowed her to see like the tip of their noses. The asshole was like “bullshit, you’re either blind or you’re not–”
And then Oscar said that Bob COULD solve the issue by giving the asshole a mirror curse to see how the blind lady saw, but that she’d probably be annoyed and throw something extra on top, and the asshole backed off. Though unfortunately for him, he chose to add in “if you want to let her fake, fine” as he did, prompting Oscar to inform him that he wouldn’t be served and to continue explaining the menu to the blind lady. Cue the asshole storming off while the blind lady explained her allergies (peanut, not life-threatening). Hah. :p
VI. And a customer wandering in to get an iced coffee and blueberry scone, and to stick $5 in the Neighbor’s Account – only to be revealed as the ER Nurse regular when JC noted she looked familiar! She was out of scrubs due to being on vacation (saying that she got paid double if they worked the holidays everyone else took off), and said it was fine that JC forgot to give her the “Protector of the Realm” discount due to not recognizing her – Bob insisted she get a coupon to make up for it, though. She and JC chatted a bit about what she planned to do on her vacation (sleep, read, and get laid – JC recommended the local vampire bar as a prime lesbian hot spot, but the ER nurse said that she was straight as an arrow – she’d keep it in mind for a girls’ night out, though) –
And then the asshole customer next in line interrupted them with a repeated “Sir.” Because as it happened, ER Nurse was wearing a “Trans Lives Matter More Than Ever Before” shirt, and the customer assumed it meant she was trans. The asshole insisted he wasn’t a transphobe, he just didn’t think anyone should be supporting “mental illness and assaulting women” – Bob tried to step in with the old “silence” trick, but ER Nurse told her to hold off and let him speak. The asshole THEN told the ER Nurse that he ought to bring her outside and “beat some sense” into her –
And cue the ER Nurse going, in essence, “One, I’m a cis female – assigned female at birth, have all the female equipment, etc; two, I’m actually well-versed in counseling rape victims and doing rape kits at my job, and I have NEVER had anyone assaulted by a trans woman or a man pretending to be one – in fact, trans women are more likely to be VICTIMS; three, being trans is NOT a mental illness, they’re just more prone to mental illnesses thanks to assholes like you” – and when he protested “they’re sick in the head, and so are you” – “and four, you want to fight me on that? Outside, two minutes – I just have to finish my order and ask these nice people to stow my sunglasses and purse.” XD A delighted JC began taking bets from the other customers, and the ER Nurse prepped for the battle –
And of course the guy bailed. The crowd was very disappointed – especially JC, who’d lost twenty bucks. Though at least the two people who’d correctly guessed he wouldn’t actually show up got to split the pot. :p Good stuff as always – this series and Jon’s Fallout videos are the exact reason I got FreeTube so I wouldn’t have to give up YouTube entirely.
C) And “Fallout New Vegas: You Only Live Once Remastered - Part 9 - Live Fast, Die Young” by Jon of Many A True Nerd! Speaking of which, I had a whole episode’s worth of the adventures of our beloved melee-only courier P. D. Shoot to catch up on, and I figured today was the day to do it! Because doubling up on episodes tomorrow seemed like a bad idea, given how long it takes me to summarize these things –
Except, hilariously, I kept getting distracted by stuff on the net after watching the video and thus never finished tonight's summary. *sigh* I think my brain was just like "we have done ENOUGH" after all the vacation recap stuff. I have all my notes, it's just a matter of organizing them, so I will complete the recap tomorrow and give you a double dose of F:NV YOLO Remastered then!
Other: Had a five-round-long game of beanbags today at 5 PM (with less bug bites because it was cooler today and thus we were wearing long sleeves and long pants), and I’m happy to say that – while Dad was the ultimate winner – we each won a round, with me scoring a 12 at the end of the first game to take it home in four throws. :D Nice when that happens, let me tell you! And while Mom had her struggles, she caught a break in the fourth round, with me and Dad throwing like shit while she just steadily increased her lead two points at a time. :p Final scores were me W-2-2-3-2; Dad 3-W-W-2-W; and Mom 2-3-3-W-3. We’ll see if we each manage to win a game again tomorrow!
Yeaaaah -- I was again hoping to do some other stuff, like play some video games, but once again it took ages to get all that "here's how my vacation went" stuff done, so... *shakehead* And now it's 2 AM and I am REALLY tired and have to go to bed. Tomorrow -- okay, I'm going to finish the recap of the F:NV YOLO Remastered episode I watched tonight; do one thing in my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) drafts (a response to a "talk about your WIP" post I was tagged in by my friend Newt while I was away); get in a workout and start rewatching Ghostbusters: Answer The Call (the 2016 reboot movie with the ladies); and of course watch and recap the newest F:NV YOLO Remastered episode to come out tomorrow. Other than that, everything is up in the air, because I do not know what I will actually have time for. *nods* We'll see what happens -- night all!
Tumblr: Was a busy day on both of the old tumbls today, let me tell you –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – I spent most of my day over here, drafting out and then posting the five photo posts covering my vacation times – and while I was able to more or less completely copy the main text for each post from the “travel diary” I wrote up yesterday here on Dreamwidth (with a few little revisions and a new intro and outro on the first and last posts), doing the alt text on each batch of photos and the tags on each post took much longer than I’d hoped. Especially since I had a much later start than I wanted, thanks to sleeping in a bit, having a late breakfast, and needing to change the sheets on my bed this morning. *grumbles* But the posts got done, and you can view them here – I even put them in chronological order for you! :) I hope you enjoy the pictures! I had fun taking them! :)
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I actually had three anon asks to answer from my week off – ended up stuffing them all in the queue, since I got on the blog late tonight thanks to catching up on a bunch of videos (see the “FreeTube” section) and just didn’t feel like doing “active” RP –
A) The first ask proposed a concept of a fantasy series where the court wizard was functionally an IT guy, doing things like asking the Queen if she’d “cleansed and reapplied the runes” on her broken magic mirror, then fixing it and finding out she was basically looking for nymph and witch porn. XD I queued up a response from the Cuddlepile!Valicer trio, with Smiler saying they liked the idea and wondering what a computer virus would look like in that world; Alice proposing that it would be an ACTUAL virus that made people sick, with the person spreading the virus then pretending to be a doctor and taking people’s money to cure them of the disease they themselves inflicted; and Victor offering up a scenario where the royal family gets turned into toads because one of them insisted on keeping a piece of paper with the warding rune for the door next to the door itself (like someone having a sticky note with their passwords on their computer) – Smiler liked that one. :P (Me, I just swear I’ve seen the proposed scenario of “court wizard as IT tech” somewhere on tumblr before…)
B) The second asked my muses in general “I was just wondering if you wanted to HANG OUT with me and smoke WEED and fill our bellies with DIET SODA and play Burnout Revenge for the PS2” – no, I’m not sure why certain words were capitalized. Probably some sort of video game reference I’m not getting...anyway, I had Inevitable High School!Smiler respond, since they would be the one most open to such a request – they said that they’d probably need more than diet coke if weed was involved and offered to bring snacks, before asking what Burnout Revenge was, as they’d never heard of it. (*quickly looks it up* Okay, it’s a racing game – sounds fun! Hopefully the anon is neither a sore winner or sore loser…)
C) And the third featured a scenario of a guy offering free samples of British food to passerby...which unfortunately resulted in him asking someone “Would you like to taste my spotted dick?” and getting punched. XD I had Cuddlepile!Alice facepalm and say that he could have phrased that better, before offering both first aid and some tips with his presentation (I added in the tags she’d probably tell him to call it “spotted dog” instead, as that’s a legit alternate name for the foodstuff – it’s a sort of suet “cake” (I’m not sure how else to describe it to the Americans, as it’s not what WE think of as pudding) with dried fruit in it (usually currants or raisins) to create the spots, if you’re wondering). Because she can be snarky, but she’s also nice sometimes. :p
FreeTube: After spending most of the day on tumblr doing the vacation write-ups, I decided that, since I didn’t have time for video games, I’d instead make sure I was a little more caught up on my videos over here. And so this afternoon and evening, I worked my way through –
A) “Starting My New Life” by Josh Way! A little life update video he did for all of us who follow him on YouTube (or YouTube frontends, like in my particular case these days), letting us know that he’s gotten a new job (frozen foods sales rep, driving between a bunch of grocery stores promoting the Brand and merchandising and things like that) and he’s signed the lease on a new apartment (in a cheaper part of New York in the Hudson Valley), yay! Granted, he doesn’t move into the new apartment until October 1st, meaning he’s got to coordinate moving with working his new job (and wait for whoever’s buying his new home to close on the deal), and his financial situation is still a little dicey, meaning he’s got to really step it up with his various side hustles (“Fun With Shorts” and its related Patreon, “Sylvan Thatch” – his new webcomic – and its related Patreon, and starting proper art commissions too), but at least he has an income and a (future) roof over his head. And the place has space for his cats and his kid (when she visits on the weekend), so that’s all he can really ask for. :) I’m glad it at least seems like he’s landing on his feet here – the past couple of years have clearly been pretty rough for him, what with ending up out of work twice and getting a divorce. And given I rather like his art style, I am intrigued by the thought of him offering commissions… We’ll see what might come of that!
B) “CaFae Latte Season 75 - TikTok Compilation” by C. M. Alongi! Yup, a new season of our favorite Minnesotan fairy shenanigans, featuring –
I. Nicole arriving at the cafe and finding Janine hanging out there (up early thanks to an officers’ meeting) – Janine offered to give up her chair, but Nicole said it was fine, she wasn’t staying as school was back in session. Causing Janine to comment that she’d forgotten Nicole was an art teacher –
And another customer nearby to snort derisively and – when Nicole and Janine gave them questioning looks – tell Nicole to enjoy the job while it lasts, because AI was going to put her and her brethren out of work. Nicole told the customer that generative AI was soulless and talentless and that creativity would ALWAYS need to be taught, no matter the technology situation – the customer countered that AI was plenty creative, since you have to come up with the prompt, and accused Nicole of just being upset she wasn’t “the special kid” anymore. Janine coldly noted that, despite not being a professional herself, she could see that generative AI slop was just mediocre, and that real art could only come from the hard work of humans (and human-adjacent beings, I suppose). The customer was unconvinced and left, insisting they were just going to get left behind by modern technology – Janine and Nicole promptly resumed their previous conversation, with Nicole asking Janine what she was reading and Janine revealing The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee saying she wanted to educate herself on Native American perspectives given her boyfriend (Patrick being half-Lakota). And then letting Nicole know that another Native memoir she wanted to read was Bury My Heart At Chuck-E-Cheese. Nicole snorted and said AI could never. XD
II. JC serving none other than Old Jack, Erik’s prison buddy, who was recently released and wanted to celebrate with two coffees (one for himself, one for his sister) and the “fattest blueberry muffin” they had. He asked if this was the place that had to deal with the homophobic angel, explaining he’d heard about it from a former employee, and blissfully went on about how angry his buddy had been about Gabriel going after a kid, and how happy he was that the guy ended up in their block so he could beat him up, not noticing how stiff and quiet JC had gone. He also revealed that while a few of the other inmates thought Gabriel was okay, most of the others, including most of the paras, didn’t like him – and a lot of them were REALLY pissed off about the whole “stealing money from his own parishioners” thing. Apparently there are a lot of devout people in prison, and they do NOT like a bad priest. *nods* Interesting… Anyway, Cyrus finished up the guy’s order, since JC was in their feelings, and Old Jack left to meet back up with his sister, never noticing JC’s state (which, honestly, is a good thing). JC muttered shortly afterward that Erik was still a backstabbing asshole, which Cyrus agreed with, but said it was good to hear that the guy was on the right-ish path – and when JC protested that Erik was never a homophobe and didn’t deserve a medal for it, said that he just hoped that when Erik inevitably got out, he was the kind of person who had principles strong enough to fight for, rather than selling them – and the people he cared about – out for personal gain. JC was just like “I just hope he’s the kind of person who stays the fuck away from us.” *grimace* Oh boy – given the way they nurse grudges, when they learn about Erik and Lindsey, it’s gonna be bad…
III. Bob dealing with a customer who complained about the service being horribly slow, trying to explain that the cafe was short-staffed, they’d JUST finished the morning rush, and that she’d just gone in the back to restock the flavor the woman wanted – only for the customer to say “no excuse” and demand to speak to the manager. In a playful mood, Bob called in a confused JC, who confirmed they were the kitchen manager –
And then responded to the customer’s demands that they fire Bob with “she’s the owner.” XD Bob promptly followed that up with cursing the customer to never remember her internet passwords and to have to constantly reset them to new ones until she learned to be nicer to customer service people. The customer stormed off, and JC noted that Bob was clearly feeling petty today before asking why she dragged them in (emphasizing they were not complaining) – Bob cheerfully replied, “Variety is the spice of life.” XD
IV. Oscar and Drek serving another customer who came in for both coffee and free WiFi to do her paperwork on (Oscar providing the drink, Drek the WiFi password), then chatting about how things were going. Drek told Oscar how he’d added Abby, Logan, Ben, and Ethan to his, Xander, and Melody’s Discord group, and how they were planning to start an online D&D campaign together (getting in a little sneaky promo for Divergent Realms along the way when Oscar asked if that was for his new job GMing games), while Oscar told Drek about how he was volunteering at the local Unitarian church’s food shelf during his time off (noting how weird it was to be on the other side of the counter, so to speak), and how he’d gotten a new coffee table that actually matched some of his furniture! Drek noted that being homeless sounded like it really sucked, and Oscar agreed, but – ever the optimist – noted that it made him appreciate his apartment more. Especially since he could host Andy and Caroline in it. Drek noted that they were still together, and Oscar admitted that the relationship had gone on for longer than he’d thought, and that they were thinking about possibly –
Aaaand cue the sudden appearance of a very confused demon! Summoned by the customer trying to get her paperwork done – by complete accident, because, in her own words, “You were supposed to be a spreadsheet!” XD
V. Continuing from the previous video, Bob coming in to see what was going on and being like “...in 12 centuries, I have never heard of anyone summoning a demon accidentally, especially through Excel.” XD The customer protested that it was a complicated program, okay, with the demon being like “if you have it in DEMONIC” – the customer shot back that calculus was very similar! XD The customer then asked if the demon was after her soul, and the demon said “no, those haven’t been legal tender for centuries.” Causing Drek to be like “wait a minute, you guys used to actually buy and sell souls?!” –
And Oscar to let him know that seraphim used to do it too. Apparently the trade was how Christianity got the idea, according to Bob, who noted that souls could be used for very powerful magic and thus were very tightly regulated – they apparently go for a fortune on the black market. Poor Drek was very O.o about it all. XD Anyway, the demon said that he traded in cash and Pokemon cards – when Drek asked for what, he explained he was a mathematician and helped humans with calculations they didn’t want to do. The customer was like “...so how much to help me with this spreadsheet,” and a deal was struck for $20 an hour and a coffee. Yay! XD
VI. A blind customer walking in after everything in the previous videos was settled and asking why the place smelled like sulfur – Oscar explained about the accidental demon visitor and assured her that he’d gotten home safe and sound, just that Bob had had to reopen the accidental summoning circle to send him back quicker, leaving a smell and exhausting her in the process. He then asked what she wanted, only for the woman to ask if he could read out the menu, as she was 95% blind –
And then the customer behind her was promptly like “Don’t do that, she’s faking.” With his evidence being that the woman didn’t have a seeing-eye dog, and was able to look directly at Oscar and him when they spoke. Oscar was like “how dare you,” while the woman explained that seeing-eye dogs were prohibitively expensive (and she’d have to fight her asshole landlord about it if she tried to get one anyway), and that blindness was a spectrum, and she had a TINY pinhole of vision that allowed her to see like the tip of their noses. The asshole was like “bullshit, you’re either blind or you’re not–”
And then Oscar said that Bob COULD solve the issue by giving the asshole a mirror curse to see how the blind lady saw, but that she’d probably be annoyed and throw something extra on top, and the asshole backed off. Though unfortunately for him, he chose to add in “if you want to let her fake, fine” as he did, prompting Oscar to inform him that he wouldn’t be served and to continue explaining the menu to the blind lady. Cue the asshole storming off while the blind lady explained her allergies (peanut, not life-threatening). Hah. :p
VI. And a customer wandering in to get an iced coffee and blueberry scone, and to stick $5 in the Neighbor’s Account – only to be revealed as the ER Nurse regular when JC noted she looked familiar! She was out of scrubs due to being on vacation (saying that she got paid double if they worked the holidays everyone else took off), and said it was fine that JC forgot to give her the “Protector of the Realm” discount due to not recognizing her – Bob insisted she get a coupon to make up for it, though. She and JC chatted a bit about what she planned to do on her vacation (sleep, read, and get laid – JC recommended the local vampire bar as a prime lesbian hot spot, but the ER nurse said that she was straight as an arrow – she’d keep it in mind for a girls’ night out, though) –
And then the asshole customer next in line interrupted them with a repeated “Sir.” Because as it happened, ER Nurse was wearing a “Trans Lives Matter More Than Ever Before” shirt, and the customer assumed it meant she was trans. The asshole insisted he wasn’t a transphobe, he just didn’t think anyone should be supporting “mental illness and assaulting women” – Bob tried to step in with the old “silence” trick, but ER Nurse told her to hold off and let him speak. The asshole THEN told the ER Nurse that he ought to bring her outside and “beat some sense” into her –
And cue the ER Nurse going, in essence, “One, I’m a cis female – assigned female at birth, have all the female equipment, etc; two, I’m actually well-versed in counseling rape victims and doing rape kits at my job, and I have NEVER had anyone assaulted by a trans woman or a man pretending to be one – in fact, trans women are more likely to be VICTIMS; three, being trans is NOT a mental illness, they’re just more prone to mental illnesses thanks to assholes like you” – and when he protested “they’re sick in the head, and so are you” – “and four, you want to fight me on that? Outside, two minutes – I just have to finish my order and ask these nice people to stow my sunglasses and purse.” XD A delighted JC began taking bets from the other customers, and the ER Nurse prepped for the battle –
And of course the guy bailed. The crowd was very disappointed – especially JC, who’d lost twenty bucks. Though at least the two people who’d correctly guessed he wouldn’t actually show up got to split the pot. :p Good stuff as always – this series and Jon’s Fallout videos are the exact reason I got FreeTube so I wouldn’t have to give up YouTube entirely.
C) And “Fallout New Vegas: You Only Live Once Remastered - Part 9 - Live Fast, Die Young” by Jon of Many A True Nerd! Speaking of which, I had a whole episode’s worth of the adventures of our beloved melee-only courier P. D. Shoot to catch up on, and I figured today was the day to do it! Because doubling up on episodes tomorrow seemed like a bad idea, given how long it takes me to summarize these things –
Except, hilariously, I kept getting distracted by stuff on the net after watching the video and thus never finished tonight's summary. *sigh* I think my brain was just like "we have done ENOUGH" after all the vacation recap stuff. I have all my notes, it's just a matter of organizing them, so I will complete the recap tomorrow and give you a double dose of F:NV YOLO Remastered then!
Other: Had a five-round-long game of beanbags today at 5 PM (with less bug bites because it was cooler today and thus we were wearing long sleeves and long pants), and I’m happy to say that – while Dad was the ultimate winner – we each won a round, with me scoring a 12 at the end of the first game to take it home in four throws. :D Nice when that happens, let me tell you! And while Mom had her struggles, she caught a break in the fourth round, with me and Dad throwing like shit while she just steadily increased her lead two points at a time. :p Final scores were me W-2-2-3-2; Dad 3-W-W-2-W; and Mom 2-3-3-W-3. We’ll see if we each manage to win a game again tomorrow!
Yeaaaah -- I was again hoping to do some other stuff, like play some video games, but once again it took ages to get all that "here's how my vacation went" stuff done, so... *shakehead* And now it's 2 AM and I am REALLY tired and have to go to bed. Tomorrow -- okay, I'm going to finish the recap of the F:NV YOLO Remastered episode I watched tonight; do one thing in my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) drafts (a response to a "talk about your WIP" post I was tagged in by my friend Newt while I was away); get in a workout and start rewatching Ghostbusters: Answer The Call (the 2016 reboot movie with the ladies); and of course watch and recap the newest F:NV YOLO Remastered episode to come out tomorrow. Other than that, everything is up in the air, because I do not know what I will actually have time for. *nods* We'll see what happens -- night all!
