Record Breaking Heat Tuesday
Jun. 24th, 2025 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAt least, I think it was -- if I remember what my parents said correctly, the high today was around 107F real temperature (as in, BEFORE you factored in the humidity making it feel hotter), and that feels like a fucking record to me! I was lucky enough to be in the air conditioning most of the day, though having to air out my car before going home was -- less than pleasant. Lucky for me the AC kicked on pretty quick... Just gotta get through tomorrow, then the temperature's supposed to fall off a cliff back down into the 70s. Can't wait. *shakehead* The contradiction of my life -- I prefer cooler temperatures overall, but I hate winter because of how dark and depressing it is. Meeh.
Anyway -- here's the daily write-up:
Work – A fairly quiet yet reasonably productive day at work – I did the usual morning reports; I worked my way through QC file for the latest batch of thank-yous to go out; I put on some Easter gifts and figured out some reversals (including some gifts that needed to be moved around); I confirmed that some of the people who had been waiting for their checks to clear were included in the latest batches processed by the processors (yay); and I looked up a check for my boss to confirm it really was for us (it was, double yay). Nothing particularly exciting, but that’s fine by me. We’ll see how Wednesday goes!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure as I decided to watch “D&D But... Everyone's a Flumph! | Oxventure!” Yes, it was time for another round of “playing a largely-interchangeable series of small creatures with low hit points and a singular defining personality trait having a chaotic adventure” – but instead of Chaotic Evil kobolds, the gang (specifically Luke, Jane, and Mike) were playing Lawful Good flumphs! Flumphs being a kind of telepathic, incredibly intelligent and wise jellyfish-like creature that floats around in the Underdark (propelling themselves with jets of air that make the sound that gives them their name), living in big beautiful societies called “cloisters” where everyone has a purpose and everyone’s needs are met. They are attracted to those with good intentions and repelled by those with evil intentions; they glow faintly in different colors to indicate their current mood; they are incredibly good at religion and history checks –
And Johnny, our GM this session, HATES THE FUCKERS. XD They just consider them to be insufferably twee, and so whenever they encounter one, they are filled with incoherent rage. XD Accordingly, the session began with most of the cloister (97 members, precisely) that our various “hero flumphs” were a part of being flattened by debris as a real estate developer and his investors broke in through the ceiling and rappelled on in to start talking about turning the flumphs’ part of the Underdark into luxury apartments! Complete with a garden atrium and an artisanal bakery. XD The flumphs were naturally not keen on this, and decided to get the aid of the “Kindly Ones” who lived nearby to tell the new people “hey, uh, please don’t destroy our home, I’m sure we can live in harmony together” – only to discover their usual portal to the Kindly Ones was blocked by the fallen rock (and a sign indicating it as the future location of the artisanal bakery). Meaning any flumphs that wanted to try and find them would have to brave – THE SURFACE. *crack-a-thooooom* So far, this has involved:
A) Mike’s very first flumph, Gillyflower The Trusting, dying because they and Luke’s first flumph Bluebelle The Inquisitive, went up to greet the newcomers while they were rappelling down, only to get batted away – and Gillyflower ended up upside-down, causing them to smash into the ground at high speed. XD If it makes Gillyflower feel any better, Bluebelle promptly avenged them by squirting a horrible stink spray all over the investor who did it XD
B) Mike’s second flumph, Parsley The Soggy, taking a crossbow bolt through the middle after dripping on another investor, who declared they had to do something about the leak – hilariously, this didn’t kill the poor flumph, because they have seven HP and Johnny only rolled a six on damage
C) Jane’s first flumph, Hawthorne The Anxious, NEARLY dying from anxiety twice when confronted with terrifying things (like the portal to the Kindly Ones being blocked, and the big blue sky above), flashing staticky “TV snow” in the process, but somehow making the rolls to tamp down on the feelings and remain alive, to Johnny’s bafflement
D) Luke deciding that Bluebelle’s job in the cloister was “fitness influencer” – and then rolling a nat 20 to make the perilous journey up through the hole into the surface lands (carrying poor injured Parsley the whole way), which Luke and Johnny decided meant that Bluebelle essentially telepathically broadcast the D&D equivalent of a fitness Tik-Tok to the Underdark while flumphing upward XD
E) Bluebelle and Hawthorne celebrating getting the injured Parsley up to the surface safely – only for Parsley to be immediately taken by a gust of wind and splatted against a tree XD
F) Bluebelle, Hawthorne, and Mike’s third flumph, Dockleaf The Scary (a permanently-angry flumph who is always giving the middle finger with his sharpened tentacles) being confronted by a very confused goat – and Dockleaf SOMEHOW making the roll to flip on top of it and grab the horns so he could ride the beast like a motorcycle. Johnny was even more baffled XD
G) Bluebelle and Hawthorne wrapping themselves around the goat, essentially attaching themselves to its belly so they could ride it with Dockleaf to find the Kindly Ones – except their tentacles automatically did so much piercing and acid damage as they did this that they immediately killed the goat and were squashed flat by the corpse XD
H) Johnny deciding that the in-universe explanation for the ever-changing flumphs appearing on the surface was that they were being leaf-blown up the hole by the real estate developers trying to clear them out XD
I) And Luke and Jane’s new flumphs, Daisy The Rapid and Grapevine The Nonchalant respectively, being blown up the hole, encountering Dockleaf (who immediately took credit for the dead goat, saying he didn’t mean to kill it but it fit his idiom), and deciding the best thing to do would be to wait around for something to come eat the goat and maybe try to get that to take them where they needed to go –
Only for the next thing to show up to be a fucking badger. Which are notoriously ill-tempered creatures. XD I left off with Daisy preparing to try and charm the damn thing via beaming out good vibes – we’ll see how that goes, and if these flumphs ever find the Kindly Ones, tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – today in her adventures through Grout’s hell mansion, Alice packed up most of the blood bags she found in the cold storage room in a cooler she found there, though she did suck one down for some extra fuel (she’s been biting a lot fewer ghouls in the edited version of the chapter, so she needed it); stopped an argument between Hatter and Rabbit as they left the room (as apparently Rabbit was feeling particularly sour right then about Hatter stomping on him in the Wonderland Woods so long ago); wound her way down some stairs even deeper into the mansion; accidentally perfectly avoided an attack from a ghoul in the hallway she found herself in; then managed to successfully stop some other ghouls from attacking her by saying she just wanted to know where Grout was –
Leading to one of the ghouls saying that the last she saw him, he was in The Maze, pointing Alice to a door, that, when opened, led to another, upside-down door. Alice is already mentally preparing herself for Shenanigans, as well she should. XD Tomorrow, Alice shall start her adventures navigating one of my favorite sections of Grout’s manor! Will we reach the creepy mannequin house that always freaks me out? Probably not, but we’ll get close, at any rate. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – finally got to the next C. M. Alongi CaFae Latte video I had to catch up on, “CaFae Latte Season 66 - TikTok Compile!” This was a long one, and covered:
A) Oscar, Cyrus, and JC having a chat about the current state of things in their lives, including ICE showing up at Nicole’s school, and her making loads of good luck and protection charms to help ward them off from showing up again; Rethu hoarding loads of books to help protect queer texts; and Cyrus doubling down on his BookTok stuff, talking about as many minority-related texts as he can...including this new book released by one of his favorite authors, The Witch Who Trades With Death… Yeah, we got fourth-wall-breaking Bob at the end of that one. XD
B) A surprise visit to the CaFae from Ethan (the kid they saved from Krampus last video), Logan (the teenage vandal who actually put in the work to clean up his mess), and Ben (Nicole’s autistic kid friend with the Mom cursed to mirror his symptoms because she was a bitch in earlier episodes), who as it turns out all know each other – Ethan is now Logan’s foster brother, and that means he goes to the same middle school as Ben, who is staying with them while his mom has an overnight stay at the Mall of America with her friends (with sunglasses and headphones to manage the mirrored autism symptoms). Nice to see them all again and see they’re doing good, yay~ Even if everyone nearly got temporarily blinded by Oscar getting pissed at hearing the Krampus had been around – apparently he and his wife stopped the guy from taking a neighbor’s kid once. Shame you couldn’t end him then, Oscar!
C) The visit from the kids inspiring JC to have the “kids” talk with Nicole on the ride home that evening (another thing that C. M. mentioned wanted to cover while reading through the “hot takes”) – JC reaffirmed that they still did not want kids (though more from a “don’t want to perpetuate any cycles of abuse or mental health issues” stance these days than a “can’t afford kids” one, with an added dash of “current political climate is NOT GOOD for queer people having kids”), while Nicole admitted she’d always been more of a “if it happens, it happens” person, but she did NOT want to get pregnant anytime soon (four times more likely to die of complications!). Plus she already spent so much time with kids due to her job, that – yeah. Basically, while she was more open to having kids, JC not wanting them was not a dealbreaker – and, if JC ever changed their mind, adoption to avoid passing on any genetic issues was an option…
D) Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa visiting the Cafe for their usuals (discussing something about “trying new things” and Vet Grampa feeling like an idiot for not realizing something earlier) at the same time Husniya was helping another customer “cheat” by ordering pre-baked goodies instead of making her own; the conversation turned to birthday parties, with Husniya talking about how she and Asif planned to surprise their soon-to-be-five-year-old, Kwala, with a trip to the giant aquarium in the Mall of America –
And the customer was like “you make your husband help with the kids?” Turns out she was one of those “men provide, women childrear” people, and was not impressed by Husniya, Oscar, and Vet Grampa calling her out for her outdated and sexist attitudes. Fortunately she left soon after getting her muffins, leaving Yarn Granny free to invite Oscar to come with them to the pancake brunch after church on Sunday…
E) Husniya serving a fellow Muslim woman in the pre-dawn hours during Ramadan, and the conversation going well...up until the woman pointed out Husniya’s “pansexual” pin and said “you know being Muslim means you can’t be queer, right?” Cue Husniya gently but firmly shutting down that queerphobic attitude and making it clear to the customer that she wasn’t going to be hiding her identity, and that the customer should be making an effort to unlearn her “polite” queerphobia – fortunately the customer looked thoughtful instead of angry at the end of that interaction
F) Vet Grampa appearing at the CaFae (at the tail end of a conversation with his lesbian granddaughter) and asking Husniya (pansexual) and JC (bisexual) how they knew when it came to their sexualities – like, what it something they realized, or was it always there. Husniya said for her it was always there, but she didn’t really realize it until high school, when she got a name for the feelings and thus could claim them, while JC talked about how they smushed all those feelings down into a tight angry ball until it nearly killed them via drug addiction because of their queerphobic family (minus Kelly...and sort of John, who doesn’t “get” it but also never gave JC shit about it). Which led into them discussing how Cyrus never seemed to be in the closet, but that might be a side effect of being a Fae, who don’t seem to have queerphobia and gender norms, at least not on the human realm’s scale, and Oscar talking about how the Seraph Realm is unfortunately homophobic –
Before going on about how stupid that is because “everyone’s at least a little bit gay” and how he had a male best friend before he met and married his wife who he ALSO would have married had the time period been kinder. ...there was a moment of silence before Oscar realized those weren’t very straight thoughts. XD
G) JC dealing with an annoying “I know exactly what I want but I’m going to take my time ordering and screw the people behind me” customer during a morning rush – by just taking the person behind them when they refused to give them their order. XD Ended up with the customer forgetting their order, and getting cursed with silence by Bob when they went on a rant about how JC still shouldn’t be taking the orders of other customers (they didn’t even notice, too intent on the rant); JC wondering where the heck Oscar was, because he handles these rushes better than them –
And a cut to Oscar at Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa’s house. Clearly putting his clothes back on as Vet Grampa commented on how you could teach an old dog new tricks and Yarn Granny offered to make breakfast for the both of them. XD
H) JC, Cyrus, and Drek seeing Oscar get dropped off by Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa – and KISS both of them before coming in glowing; Drek congratulated him on the new girlfriend and boyfriend, and Oscar clarified that no, Caroline and Andy were just friends with benefits. Causing the others to be absolutely STUNNED that Oscar knew their real names, because at this point they’d all sort of assumed the pair were weird Fae or eldritch beings and it would be impolite to ask their “real” names. Oscar was just a bit “…” over that. XD
I) Drek serving a customer who wasn’t keen on the higher prices (since the price of all the ingredients were going up) – and who went “You Jew” when Drek told her the price of her latte. *grimace* Cue Drek informing her he’s agnostic, angry Jewish dragon Rethu appearing on the scene, and C. M. reminding her audience that criticizing the Israeli government was fine, but casual antisemitism was not
J) And, finally, Husniya talking to Bob after work and letting her know that she and Asif were quitting the CIA (using the magic truth-telling interview chair to assure her it was truly the truth). They just – couldn’t keep working there under the orange dictator. So she needed to know if Bob was willing to hire her full-time for the health and dental benefits for her family. Bob immediately produced the paperwork – and when Husniya said “...how long have you been planning this,” commented that Husniya wasn’t the first agent she’d flipped. :P
Whew! Lot to cover in that one – but it was a very fun watch nonetheless. Was delighted to see Oscar, Caroline, and Andy all get together as friends with benefits! And Husniya getting out of the CIA while the getting was good – though I suspect The Orange Dictator would have immediately fired her and Asif anyway for being openly Muslim. Can’t wait to see what’s in the next compilation!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Checkish – there was nothing for me over on Valice Multiverse (well, there was one ask, but it was one I didn’t feel like answer/couldn’t come up with a good answer to), and I got to Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) later than I intended, so I could only put one thing in the queue: my headcanons for what Victor, Alice, and Smiler would order from an ice cream truck! I’ve been sitting on these ever since Squid and I had some of our characters visit an ice cream truck in a private RP and I spent a bunch of time looking up the menus for those trucks, and I felt like posting them at the tail end of the horrible heat dome was appropriate. And in case I didn’t say before – Victor would get either a Chocolate Lover’s Big Dipper cone or a Snicker’s Ice Cream Bar; Alice, a Strawberry Shortcake Good Humor bar or a Lick A Color popsicle; and Smiler, one of those cursed character ice creams with the gumball eyes or a banana fudge Rocket Pop. *nods* I feel these are all on-brand for all of them.
Aaand now I have to rush off to bed again because, you know, up too late. Look, summarizing a nearly-half-hour CaFae Latte episode takes a while! *shakehead* Night all!
Anyway -- here's the daily write-up:
Work – A fairly quiet yet reasonably productive day at work – I did the usual morning reports; I worked my way through QC file for the latest batch of thank-yous to go out; I put on some Easter gifts and figured out some reversals (including some gifts that needed to be moved around); I confirmed that some of the people who had been waiting for their checks to clear were included in the latest batches processed by the processors (yay); and I looked up a check for my boss to confirm it really was for us (it was, double yay). Nothing particularly exciting, but that’s fine by me. We’ll see how Wednesday goes!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure as I decided to watch “D&D But... Everyone's a Flumph! | Oxventure!” Yes, it was time for another round of “playing a largely-interchangeable series of small creatures with low hit points and a singular defining personality trait having a chaotic adventure” – but instead of Chaotic Evil kobolds, the gang (specifically Luke, Jane, and Mike) were playing Lawful Good flumphs! Flumphs being a kind of telepathic, incredibly intelligent and wise jellyfish-like creature that floats around in the Underdark (propelling themselves with jets of air that make the sound that gives them their name), living in big beautiful societies called “cloisters” where everyone has a purpose and everyone’s needs are met. They are attracted to those with good intentions and repelled by those with evil intentions; they glow faintly in different colors to indicate their current mood; they are incredibly good at religion and history checks –
And Johnny, our GM this session, HATES THE FUCKERS. XD They just consider them to be insufferably twee, and so whenever they encounter one, they are filled with incoherent rage. XD Accordingly, the session began with most of the cloister (97 members, precisely) that our various “hero flumphs” were a part of being flattened by debris as a real estate developer and his investors broke in through the ceiling and rappelled on in to start talking about turning the flumphs’ part of the Underdark into luxury apartments! Complete with a garden atrium and an artisanal bakery. XD The flumphs were naturally not keen on this, and decided to get the aid of the “Kindly Ones” who lived nearby to tell the new people “hey, uh, please don’t destroy our home, I’m sure we can live in harmony together” – only to discover their usual portal to the Kindly Ones was blocked by the fallen rock (and a sign indicating it as the future location of the artisanal bakery). Meaning any flumphs that wanted to try and find them would have to brave – THE SURFACE. *crack-a-thooooom* So far, this has involved:
A) Mike’s very first flumph, Gillyflower The Trusting, dying because they and Luke’s first flumph Bluebelle The Inquisitive, went up to greet the newcomers while they were rappelling down, only to get batted away – and Gillyflower ended up upside-down, causing them to smash into the ground at high speed. XD If it makes Gillyflower feel any better, Bluebelle promptly avenged them by squirting a horrible stink spray all over the investor who did it XD
B) Mike’s second flumph, Parsley The Soggy, taking a crossbow bolt through the middle after dripping on another investor, who declared they had to do something about the leak – hilariously, this didn’t kill the poor flumph, because they have seven HP and Johnny only rolled a six on damage
C) Jane’s first flumph, Hawthorne The Anxious, NEARLY dying from anxiety twice when confronted with terrifying things (like the portal to the Kindly Ones being blocked, and the big blue sky above), flashing staticky “TV snow” in the process, but somehow making the rolls to tamp down on the feelings and remain alive, to Johnny’s bafflement
D) Luke deciding that Bluebelle’s job in the cloister was “fitness influencer” – and then rolling a nat 20 to make the perilous journey up through the hole into the surface lands (carrying poor injured Parsley the whole way), which Luke and Johnny decided meant that Bluebelle essentially telepathically broadcast the D&D equivalent of a fitness Tik-Tok to the Underdark while flumphing upward XD
E) Bluebelle and Hawthorne celebrating getting the injured Parsley up to the surface safely – only for Parsley to be immediately taken by a gust of wind and splatted against a tree XD
F) Bluebelle, Hawthorne, and Mike’s third flumph, Dockleaf The Scary (a permanently-angry flumph who is always giving the middle finger with his sharpened tentacles) being confronted by a very confused goat – and Dockleaf SOMEHOW making the roll to flip on top of it and grab the horns so he could ride the beast like a motorcycle. Johnny was even more baffled XD
G) Bluebelle and Hawthorne wrapping themselves around the goat, essentially attaching themselves to its belly so they could ride it with Dockleaf to find the Kindly Ones – except their tentacles automatically did so much piercing and acid damage as they did this that they immediately killed the goat and were squashed flat by the corpse XD
H) Johnny deciding that the in-universe explanation for the ever-changing flumphs appearing on the surface was that they were being leaf-blown up the hole by the real estate developers trying to clear them out XD
I) And Luke and Jane’s new flumphs, Daisy The Rapid and Grapevine The Nonchalant respectively, being blown up the hole, encountering Dockleaf (who immediately took credit for the dead goat, saying he didn’t mean to kill it but it fit his idiom), and deciding the best thing to do would be to wait around for something to come eat the goat and maybe try to get that to take them where they needed to go –
Only for the next thing to show up to be a fucking badger. Which are notoriously ill-tempered creatures. XD I left off with Daisy preparing to try and charm the damn thing via beaming out good vibes – we’ll see how that goes, and if these flumphs ever find the Kindly Ones, tomorrow!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – today in her adventures through Grout’s hell mansion, Alice packed up most of the blood bags she found in the cold storage room in a cooler she found there, though she did suck one down for some extra fuel (she’s been biting a lot fewer ghouls in the edited version of the chapter, so she needed it); stopped an argument between Hatter and Rabbit as they left the room (as apparently Rabbit was feeling particularly sour right then about Hatter stomping on him in the Wonderland Woods so long ago); wound her way down some stairs even deeper into the mansion; accidentally perfectly avoided an attack from a ghoul in the hallway she found herself in; then managed to successfully stop some other ghouls from attacking her by saying she just wanted to know where Grout was –
Leading to one of the ghouls saying that the last she saw him, he was in The Maze, pointing Alice to a door, that, when opened, led to another, upside-down door. Alice is already mentally preparing herself for Shenanigans, as well she should. XD Tomorrow, Alice shall start her adventures navigating one of my favorite sections of Grout’s manor! Will we reach the creepy mannequin house that always freaks me out? Probably not, but we’ll get close, at any rate. :P
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – finally got to the next C. M. Alongi CaFae Latte video I had to catch up on, “CaFae Latte Season 66 - TikTok Compile!” This was a long one, and covered:
A) Oscar, Cyrus, and JC having a chat about the current state of things in their lives, including ICE showing up at Nicole’s school, and her making loads of good luck and protection charms to help ward them off from showing up again; Rethu hoarding loads of books to help protect queer texts; and Cyrus doubling down on his BookTok stuff, talking about as many minority-related texts as he can...including this new book released by one of his favorite authors, The Witch Who Trades With Death… Yeah, we got fourth-wall-breaking Bob at the end of that one. XD
B) A surprise visit to the CaFae from Ethan (the kid they saved from Krampus last video), Logan (the teenage vandal who actually put in the work to clean up his mess), and Ben (Nicole’s autistic kid friend with the Mom cursed to mirror his symptoms because she was a bitch in earlier episodes), who as it turns out all know each other – Ethan is now Logan’s foster brother, and that means he goes to the same middle school as Ben, who is staying with them while his mom has an overnight stay at the Mall of America with her friends (with sunglasses and headphones to manage the mirrored autism symptoms). Nice to see them all again and see they’re doing good, yay~ Even if everyone nearly got temporarily blinded by Oscar getting pissed at hearing the Krampus had been around – apparently he and his wife stopped the guy from taking a neighbor’s kid once. Shame you couldn’t end him then, Oscar!
C) The visit from the kids inspiring JC to have the “kids” talk with Nicole on the ride home that evening (another thing that C. M. mentioned wanted to cover while reading through the “hot takes”) – JC reaffirmed that they still did not want kids (though more from a “don’t want to perpetuate any cycles of abuse or mental health issues” stance these days than a “can’t afford kids” one, with an added dash of “current political climate is NOT GOOD for queer people having kids”), while Nicole admitted she’d always been more of a “if it happens, it happens” person, but she did NOT want to get pregnant anytime soon (four times more likely to die of complications!). Plus she already spent so much time with kids due to her job, that – yeah. Basically, while she was more open to having kids, JC not wanting them was not a dealbreaker – and, if JC ever changed their mind, adoption to avoid passing on any genetic issues was an option…
D) Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa visiting the Cafe for their usuals (discussing something about “trying new things” and Vet Grampa feeling like an idiot for not realizing something earlier) at the same time Husniya was helping another customer “cheat” by ordering pre-baked goodies instead of making her own; the conversation turned to birthday parties, with Husniya talking about how she and Asif planned to surprise their soon-to-be-five-year-old, Kwala, with a trip to the giant aquarium in the Mall of America –
And the customer was like “you make your husband help with the kids?” Turns out she was one of those “men provide, women childrear” people, and was not impressed by Husniya, Oscar, and Vet Grampa calling her out for her outdated and sexist attitudes. Fortunately she left soon after getting her muffins, leaving Yarn Granny free to invite Oscar to come with them to the pancake brunch after church on Sunday…
E) Husniya serving a fellow Muslim woman in the pre-dawn hours during Ramadan, and the conversation going well...up until the woman pointed out Husniya’s “pansexual” pin and said “you know being Muslim means you can’t be queer, right?” Cue Husniya gently but firmly shutting down that queerphobic attitude and making it clear to the customer that she wasn’t going to be hiding her identity, and that the customer should be making an effort to unlearn her “polite” queerphobia – fortunately the customer looked thoughtful instead of angry at the end of that interaction
F) Vet Grampa appearing at the CaFae (at the tail end of a conversation with his lesbian granddaughter) and asking Husniya (pansexual) and JC (bisexual) how they knew when it came to their sexualities – like, what it something they realized, or was it always there. Husniya said for her it was always there, but she didn’t really realize it until high school, when she got a name for the feelings and thus could claim them, while JC talked about how they smushed all those feelings down into a tight angry ball until it nearly killed them via drug addiction because of their queerphobic family (minus Kelly...and sort of John, who doesn’t “get” it but also never gave JC shit about it). Which led into them discussing how Cyrus never seemed to be in the closet, but that might be a side effect of being a Fae, who don’t seem to have queerphobia and gender norms, at least not on the human realm’s scale, and Oscar talking about how the Seraph Realm is unfortunately homophobic –
Before going on about how stupid that is because “everyone’s at least a little bit gay” and how he had a male best friend before he met and married his wife who he ALSO would have married had the time period been kinder. ...there was a moment of silence before Oscar realized those weren’t very straight thoughts. XD
G) JC dealing with an annoying “I know exactly what I want but I’m going to take my time ordering and screw the people behind me” customer during a morning rush – by just taking the person behind them when they refused to give them their order. XD Ended up with the customer forgetting their order, and getting cursed with silence by Bob when they went on a rant about how JC still shouldn’t be taking the orders of other customers (they didn’t even notice, too intent on the rant); JC wondering where the heck Oscar was, because he handles these rushes better than them –
And a cut to Oscar at Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa’s house. Clearly putting his clothes back on as Vet Grampa commented on how you could teach an old dog new tricks and Yarn Granny offered to make breakfast for the both of them. XD
H) JC, Cyrus, and Drek seeing Oscar get dropped off by Yarn Granny and Vet Grampa – and KISS both of them before coming in glowing; Drek congratulated him on the new girlfriend and boyfriend, and Oscar clarified that no, Caroline and Andy were just friends with benefits. Causing the others to be absolutely STUNNED that Oscar knew their real names, because at this point they’d all sort of assumed the pair were weird Fae or eldritch beings and it would be impolite to ask their “real” names. Oscar was just a bit “…” over that. XD
I) Drek serving a customer who wasn’t keen on the higher prices (since the price of all the ingredients were going up) – and who went “You Jew” when Drek told her the price of her latte. *grimace* Cue Drek informing her he’s agnostic, angry Jewish dragon Rethu appearing on the scene, and C. M. reminding her audience that criticizing the Israeli government was fine, but casual antisemitism was not
J) And, finally, Husniya talking to Bob after work and letting her know that she and Asif were quitting the CIA (using the magic truth-telling interview chair to assure her it was truly the truth). They just – couldn’t keep working there under the orange dictator. So she needed to know if Bob was willing to hire her full-time for the health and dental benefits for her family. Bob immediately produced the paperwork – and when Husniya said “...how long have you been planning this,” commented that Husniya wasn’t the first agent she’d flipped. :P
Whew! Lot to cover in that one – but it was a very fun watch nonetheless. Was delighted to see Oscar, Caroline, and Andy all get together as friends with benefits! And Husniya getting out of the CIA while the getting was good – though I suspect The Orange Dictator would have immediately fired her and Asif anyway for being openly Muslim. Can’t wait to see what’s in the next compilation!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Checkish – there was nothing for me over on Valice Multiverse (well, there was one ask, but it was one I didn’t feel like answer/couldn’t come up with a good answer to), and I got to Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) later than I intended, so I could only put one thing in the queue: my headcanons for what Victor, Alice, and Smiler would order from an ice cream truck! I’ve been sitting on these ever since Squid and I had some of our characters visit an ice cream truck in a private RP and I spent a bunch of time looking up the menus for those trucks, and I felt like posting them at the tail end of the horrible heat dome was appropriate. And in case I didn’t say before – Victor would get either a Chocolate Lover’s Big Dipper cone or a Snicker’s Ice Cream Bar; Alice, a Strawberry Shortcake Good Humor bar or a Lick A Color popsicle; and Smiler, one of those cursed character ice creams with the gumball eyes or a banana fudge Rocket Pop. *nods* I feel these are all on-brand for all of them.
Aaand now I have to rush off to bed again because, you know, up too late. Look, summarizing a nearly-half-hour CaFae Latte episode takes a while! *shakehead* Night all!
