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This week I had to reassure two different friends about a Rowaelin HEA for this fic, can you believe this? It’s like you guys don’t trust my fluff-loving side at all lmaoo
Warnings: language, drunk idiots
Word count: 4,4k
As a soon-to-be mother, Aelin was so proud of her baby girl for growing so much.
As an orthopedist, she was mourning the perfect posture she used to have.
Fenrys stopped at the kitchen’s doorstep to stare at her. “What the hell are you doing?”
“I’m trying to save my lombardic curve. Stop being weird about it.”
He shrugged and sat on the nearest couch as Aelin tried to adjust that arched back of hers. Holy rutting Mala, why did pregnancy make her go through all that?
“Is Dorian coming tonight?”
“Probably. If he feels like it.” Fenrys shrugged. “It’s not that serious.”
Aelin crossed her arms, clamping her lips together as she tried to look serious. “You’re just casually seeing each other every day?”
“Exactly.” He turned on the TV. “Just like you and Rowan are platonically living together and having a baby.”
She gaped, but still sat by his side. “Take it back!”
“Absolutely not! Do you think Rowan just…” Fenrys flailed his arms around, looking for an example. “He doesn’t goes around massaging everyone’s feet, Aelin. I’m pretty sure you’re the only person he does that for.”
She crossed her arms, chin up. “He does it for me, but not because of me. I just happen to be carrying his baby.”
“The baby is inside the belly, not the feet.”
She sighed, forcing her voice into a lower, calmer tone. “Look, you weren’t there, but he clearly wasn’t interested. He only changed because of the baby. And I’m not complaining about it, I had fun, I’m just saying that if he wanted non-platonic stuff with me, he would tell me.”
Fenrys looked her dead in the eye. “You had a boyfriend.”
“And that never stopped him from fucking me senseless. Wouldn’t stop him from seeing me outside the base if he wanted to.”
It was true, and it was also killing her. Every time Rowan ran to a store to buy something she was craving or massaged her swollen feet, Aelin had the painful reminder that, when it was just her, all she got was cock and a couch inside his office. Rowan just learned very early on that happy mom means happy baby, and she was trying to be okay with it.
They were just having casual sex at first, and now he seemed okay with keeping things platonic for their kid. There was no use in reading between the lines.
After that, Aelin decided to go find Rowan at her house. Fenrys was nice enough to be silent when Dorian was there, but his bed still got squeaky sometimes.
She hired a company to paint her house, since she couldn’t smell paint because of the baby, nor could she let Rowan paint the entire four-bedroom house the Air Force provided her. He protested her decision, but he was already doing too much for her.
Aelin had a feeling that, if she asked him to build a house from scratch for this baby, he’d do it alone without thinking twice.
She had already grown familiar with the path between her house and Rowan’s. The sound of the leaves when the wind got a little stronger never failed to soothe her, and Aelin was excited to co-parent a kid with such close proximity.
Which could be even closer, if her new idea worked out.
When Aelin stepped into her house, the first thing she noticed was the faint sound of Syd Barrett spilling his guts, and she looked for the source until she found Rowan lying on the nursery’s floor.
He didn’t seem surprised when she walked in, though. He probably listened to her footsteps all the way to the baby’s room.
“I didn’t know you were into junkies from the 60’s.”
Rowan got up to get another pillow and help ease her onto the floor. “You listen to them all the time.”
Aelin closed her eyes, feeling the muscles on her back relax now that she was lying too. “My parents were fans.”
Rowan’s hand found her scalp, and Aelin almost purred. God, she was too weak for those.
“You think about them a lot?” He asked.
“More often now that I’m pregnant. And with insomnia.”
Pregnancy just made her think of them more often now, but it wasn’t the crushing type of grief she felt during her late childhood and early teen years. It was bittersweet.
Rowan hummed, never ceasing to caress her hair. “Did you try eating an apple before bed? It helps to induce sleep.”
“No, I haven’t.” Aelin hid her face on his side, trying her best not to laugh.
Apples before bed did absolutely nothing for people with sleep disorders. Rowan didn’t know that her pregnancy was just making a deeper problem worse, though. Aelin couldn’t take any kind of sleeping pills with a baby on the way, and telling him this problem with no solution was just going to make the Buzzard worry to death.
Aelin had been off her antidepressants for almost two years, so this new development made her ghost her psychiatrist and decide to go back once she stopped breastfeeding. She had plenty of time to tell Rowan about that.
Aelin closed her eyes and grinned. “This song is so silly. I love how he laughs halfway into it.”
It was a good song, but he just repeated the name Maisie over and over most of the time.
“It isn’t silly,” Rowan protested. “He’s stoned out of his mind, and the only thing he feels like doing is repeating that girl’s name over and over. It’s kinda relatable”
“Rowan Whitethorn.” Her voice was low as she looked at him with widened, surprised eyes. “Are you coming out as a stoner?”
Chuckling, he playfully pinched her upper arm and turned sideways to face her while lying. “The name is really cute.”
“Maisie?”
“Yeah.”
She chewed her bottom lip, thinking this over. The name was adorable. “But we’re not naming our daughter after a junkie’s song, right?”
“No.” He shook his head, as if erasing the idea. “Of course not.”
They just stayed there, letting the album play as Aelin took in the baby’s room. It was so cute she felt like her chest could burst any minute.
She made Rowan and Aedion put a baby blue wallpaper, even if the Air Force’s regiment said every wall should be plain white. The furniture was in white wood, except for the little dresser in the corner.
It was wooden as well, but every drawer was a different shade of blue, getting darker at the bottom. The knobs were sea life themed, and it took Aelin a lifetime to decide which animal went with what drawer.
It was the cutest, babiest little thing. She woke Rowan up at 1 am to show this finding when she saw it online. It was her favorite part of the nursery.
Aelin felt her heart bang again when she met Rowan’s deep, inquisitive eyes.
“What’s on your mind?”
She placed her pillow closer to Rowan and hugged him. “Thank you.”
He had been pulling Aelin’s house together day and night, completely ignoring her protests about not letting her do much.
Rowan didn’t say anything, just caressed her head in that way that made her melt.
“I’ve been thinking about something,” she continued.
He hummed.
“Your house doesn’t have much of the baby vibe. With the parade of one-night stands and all.”
Rowan sighed. “I know I need to have this talk with—“
She shushed him. The house was Fenrys’ as well, and she didn’t want a surprise baby to disrupt his lifestyle.
“I thought of something. It’s not a permanent solution, but I won’t put an expiration date on it either.”
Rowan leaned closer, watching her intently.
“When I move into this house, you could come with me—“
He engulfed her in a hug, burying his face in the crook of her neck. “Yes.”
“You can pick any room you’d—“
“Yes.”
“So neither of us will be alone with a newborn—“
“Yes.”
Aelin laughed, feeling her chest tremble against his own. Alright, he didn’t need a lot of explanations. She got that.
They just stared at each other for a moment. Aelin felt her heart knock on her throat and do fuzzy little flips as she watched how Rowan’s smile made his eyes light up.
For the first time, she could put a name on the jolt of electricity he made her feel.
She was falling, and bracing herself for the bone crush.
~~
It was funny how everyone from this soccer moms’ night out was telling her to stop being shy and sing with Lysandra. Aelin wasn’t a shy person at all, she was just someone who knew her strengths. Singing wasn’t one of them.
There was no amount of fancy drinks that could make her go up on that stage, but now that Lys made the crowd ask no nicely…
Dorian was trying to save Aedion’s love life in a bar two blocks away. If this became a huge embarrassment, she could just leave, pretend this never happened and join them there. Aelin got up and took the second mic, not missing the cheery crowd—and especially her table—stirring things up.
“What are you two singing?” The employee with the computer asked.
“Lana?” Aelin suggested, but her friend had a vacant stare on the crowd.
She poked Lys on the ribs. “What are we singing?”
“Oh.” She jerked Aelin’s way, blinking, but then her disoriented face turned into a roguish grin. “Peppers.”
Not a question, but Lys and the employee still sought Aelin’s confirmation before starting.
Aelin was just singing at first. She wasn’t stiff, but there was nothing much to her moves. However, when the pre-chorus was reaching its end, Lysandra placed one hand on hand on Aelin’s hips in an attempt to loosen it, and that’s when she understood.
Lys didn’t want to sing a song. She wanted them to give a full show. And now that Aelin understood, she wouldn’t settle for less.
She was rolling her hips, swaying her whole body and toying with her hair as the lyrics suggested. Aelin had no idea if the tables were stirring them in because they were actually good or just two excited drunks, but she was eating it up.
“Put your hands on my knees, baby!” Someone screamed, referencing the song lyric.
Aelin had a snarky remark ready, but kept to herself when she realized it came from a woman, not a creepy dude. Instead, she swayed her hips harder and went down so she could put her hands on her knees in a little provocative manner. The lesbian roared, making her cackle mid-chorus.
And you know what? Tonight was about girls. Aelin came with her soccer mom friends to talk about girl things and sip girly drinks. If she was doing sexy dances tonight, it was for the lesbians. And bisexual girls. Non-binary too—
Lys tapped her shoulder when she stopped singing, too distracted counting all the letters from the acronym to check if she wasn’t forgetting anything. Fuck. She blamed it on the tequila.
Aelin smiled at the crowd when the song ended, taking the applause and fame in. Maybe she should quit orthopedics to perform for a living. Maybe that was her true calling.
All of those thoughts came to a halt when she paused to carefully study the room, though. Her heart stopped just to go back at the highest speed.
Rowan. By the side of a hot redhead.
He was staring at her, and there was no way to decipher that intense look in his eyes. His lips were pursed, but even if Rowan looked pissed, he never took his eyes off her. Not while she was on stage, not when Lys dragged her by the arm to the ladies’ room.
The redhead was looking between them the whole time, probably figuring something out already.
Aelin didn’t do anything when she got to the bathroom, though. Just stood there, staring at a blank spot in the wall. She was so shocked she barely noticed the distinctive reek of a bar’s bathroom. Lys was watching her the whole time, forehead wrinkled and hands on her hips.
This silence was too much, especially since Lys knew most of whatever went down with Rowan.
Well, that didn’t matter now. If the last weeks gave her any doubt about how she should proceed now that they were in a better situation, this just gave her rational side more certainty. He had moved on already, and so should she.
Aelin decided to reapply her lipstick just to do something with her hands.
“I’m assuming you saw Rowan with that woman.”
Yes, and not with any woman. It was the kind of woman who made single moms question their sexuality.
“A redhead?” Aelin’s voice came out slightly high-pitched as she stopped reapplying her lipstick to protest, searching for Lys’ concerned gaze through the bathroom mirror. “I thought he liked blondes. When did blondes stop being the hottest option?”
“You’d still be hotter than her if she were blonde. Or if you were a redhead.”
“This is not about me.” Aelin closed her lipstick, rolling her eyes. “I’m talking about men’s choices in general. It’s an anthropological observation.”
Lies, lies, lies. But Aelin didn’t even tell her therapist about old feelings resurfacing, she wasn’t about to pour her heart out to her newest friend while drunk at a club. Especially not while Rowan was having a hot date.
She raised her eyebrows, looking as if she was tired of explaining something obvious. “Even though he was ogling you like a dog staring at meat through a butcher’s shop window?”
Aelin put away her lipstick and gave Lys a pointed look. “He was not.”
“I was there. I remember it all too well.”
Aelin’s eyes widened. “We could sing that.”
“We can, because you’re not crashing Rowan’s date tonight.”
Aelin was carefully silent. She’d be lying if she said that idea didn’t cross her mind.
“You’re not.” Lysandra’s tone was firm, and she placed both hands on her friend’s shoulders. “You’re going to repeat after me: I’m Aelin Galathynius.”
Aelin giggled. “You’re not Aelin Galathynius.”
Lys squeezed her friend’s shoulders harder than necessary. “Say it.”
She straightened her posture. “I’m Aelin Galathynius.”
“And I’m too mature to crash Rowan’s date.”
“And I’m too mature to crash Rowan’s date,” she lied.
“Great.” Lys took a deep breath and pointed to the door. “Let’s get back to our table.”
Aelin went from the restroom’s door straight to Rowan.
“Good to see you got out of your house for once.”
Rowan slowly assessed her outfit with that judgy gaze of his, making her skin burn. ”Good to see you singing something that isn’t a nursery rhyme.”
Aelin crossed her arms. “I thought you were seeing a guy tonight.”
Rowan mirrored her expression. “So did I.”
Wait, he thought who would be seeing a guy?
His date extended a hand. “Hi. I’m Ansel.”
She begrudgingly shook it. “Aelin.”
God, this was awkward. She should’ve listened to Lysandra and stayed at her table. But when she saw Rowan there on a date with this gorgeous homewrecker with incredibly shiny hair… Aelin felt like she was burning from the inside out, and not in a good way.
Something about her face must’ve showed, because Ansel pointed between her and Rowan and said, “This is totally platonic. Fenrys thought Rowan could have a night out, so he stayed with the kid and set this up.”
“This is…” Rowan tilted his head, frowning at the redhead. “Exactly and not exactly what happened at the same time.”
Ansel elbowed him, making him straighten his posture.
“This is exactly what happened,” Rowan amended.
“Rowan?” Ansel put a hand on his shoulder to grab his attention, and Aelin almost singed it off with her eyes. “Can we talk for a second?”
They excused themselves and got just far enough so they’d be out of earshot. It looked like they we bickering. Ansel pointed at Aelin with her head. Rowan’s body stiffened. She pointed at the door. He pulled at his shirt cuffs and nodded. Aelin would kill to hear whatever that exchange was, especially because when Rowan approached her, Ansel was… smirking? As weird at this sounds, it looked a lot like a smirk.
“Hey.” Rowan didn’t sit again, just got close enough so she’d hear him over the terrible performance of an 80’s song. “I’m going to call an uber. Can you stay here?”
Aelin felt her heart sink. “You’re leaving with her?”
“What? No!” His eyebrows shot up as if the idea was absurd. “I’m calling Ansel’s uber. I was asking if you can wait for me here. Or at the tables outside, anywhere but the club part.”
Aelin nodded, chuckling. The loud, buzzing dance floor by the entrance must’ve been a terrifying sight for Rowan.
She found the soccer moms and quickly explained she’d be with Rowan in the other room. They seemed to understand the situation, which was good. Aelin was friendly with everyone there, but the only person she was close with was Lys. That one would be blasting their DM tomorrow morning, there was no doubt.
Rowan came back just a few minutes after she found them a table at a calmer area outside.
The breeze hitting her shoulders was gentle, but still stronger than her thin, backless shirt. Still, Aelin held her head high, refusing to feel bad for crashing and ruining his date.
“How many beers did you pay her?”
Rowan leaned back on his chair, a playful glint in his eye. “Three, why?”
“You’re paying me four.” He opened his mouth, but she raised a finger and beat him to it. “No questions asked.”
Rowan chugged his beer after their first round came. “I don’t know why you’re being like this. Aren’t you dating other people too?”
“What?” Aelin slightly shook her head, mouth ajar. “Where is this coming from?”
He tilted his head. “You were very clear about wanting more kids.”
“And then you made an assumption about my dating life.”
Rowan didn’t answer, unwavering.
Aelin held a finger up. “First, I told you I haven’t figured that out yet.” Another finger up. “Second, I wasn’t in a relationship the first time, I don’t need one to have kids again.” She shrugged. “For all you know, I could be talking about adoption or fertilization.”
Rowan had his arms crossed, eyes squinted at her. “Why would you pay to have kids if we did that for free the last time?”
The mix of what he’d just said and his displeased face made her cackle. Hard. Her head was tilted back, her body trembling as she tried to regain composure and feel less breathless.
“Why is this funny?” He protested, trying and failing to hide a silly smile. “I’m just saying that if you don’t have another person you’d like to… share genes with, the reasonable thing to do would be make the other children genetically compatible with Maisie.” He sipped his beer, looking nonchalant. “In case one of them needs a kidney or a bone marrow transplant.”
“Alright.” She chugged the rest of her beer down. “Let’s suppose I decide to do that. Would you donate your sperm and sign off parental rights?”
“Absolutely not!” He blurted, clutching his beer for dear life as if it’d protect his imaginary kids from Aelin’s modern ideas. “I’d make and raise them the old-fashioned way.”
Aelin leaned towards Rowan, her pulse skyrocketing as her breath fanned against the shell of his ear. “I bet you’d love that, wouldn’t you?”
There was no mistaking the way he trembled under her whisper. Rowan found the exposed curve of her waist with his hands like a magnet, the tips of his fingers pressing against her skin.
Rowan’s pupils were dilated, his forest-green irises looked on fire. “Stop teasing me. We’re drunk.”
Aelin leaned back on her seat and sipped her drink, chest filled with satisfaction even after being rejected. It was really hard to feel defeated now, since Rowan was too intoxicated to take his eyes off her golden top.
“You were a lot more fun six years ago.”
Rowan chuckled and finished his bottle. “Next round?”
Aelin confirmed at the same time her phone started ringing.
“Dor? Is everything okay—“
“I can’t stand your cousin anymore, Aelin! I’m dumping him in the sewers!”
She chuckled, not missing Rowan’s curious gaze. “Did Aed drink too much?”
“That too! He went straight to a woman and slurred: ‘you’re the prettiest girl I’ve seen this week.’ I can’t do this, Aelin. He’s unsalvageable.”
Aelin snorted. “Alright, give me five minutes and I’ll text you.”
“Too long!”
She finished the call before Dorian could protest further. Rowan had his head tilted, waiting for an explanation.
“Dorian’s bored, so he decided to be Aedion’s wingman tonight. They’re at a bar close by, so we agreed to uber back together.”
“Uber together where? Dorian lives in the opposite side of town.”
She shrugged. “Who knows? You know how Dorian is.”
That explanation seemed enough for Rowan. It didn’t take long for them to decide it was way past their bedtime already, so they decided to head out as well.
They needed to have their wristbands scanned at the cashier near the exit, and she took a step back when Rowan mentioned for her arm as well.
Aelin shook her head. “I spent a small fortune in frilly cocktails.”
He didn’t say a thing, just gently took her wrist and showed it to the cashier.
The outside of the club looked the same it did hours ago, except the line to enter was longer, making the street too loud for it to be the middle of the night.
“Heeeey.” Aelin made a twist to look him in the eye, but stumbled on her heels. Rowan tried to catch her from falling, but she beat him to it. She was just that kind of independent drunk. “Your mom invited me to your trip with Maisie the last time she was in town.”
Rowan snorted. “Sounds like her.”
Every year, Rowan and Maisie visited the southeastern beach house his parents retired in. Inviting Aelin to her ex’s trip without letting him know was something only Rory Whitethorn could pull off. She was a… peculiar person, to say the least. Aelin loved her to death.
“What did you tell her?” He asked.
Aelin tried to look nonchalant, thankful he couldn’t tell the tingling in her limbs. “What was I supposed to tell her? I already crashed your date, I won’t crash your trip too.”
To be fair, Aelin didn’t say anything because she would not, under any circumstance, invite herself to Rowan’s trip. And by under any circumstance, she meant only if she was drunk.
He shrugged. “Maisie would love it if you went.”
She gave him a pointed look. “Of course Maisie would want me to go. I’m talking about you. Would you feel comfortable with me there?”
Rowan’s shoulders dropped, and something in his eyes melted. “Of course I would. Do you want to come with me next month?”
Aelin flipped her hair, not looking him in the eye. “Well, since you asked so nicely.”
He snorted and placed a hand on the back of her shoulder, gently stroking that patch of skin with his thumb until their uber arrived.
Rowan opened the backseat door for her, but a very drunk Aedion called his name from the inside.
She leaned closer to Rowan and whispered, “I think he wants you to go in the middle.”
He sighed, but complied.
The moment they got inside and closed the door, Aedion laid down on the backseat, resting his head on Rowan’s lap and hugging his middle. “I love you, man.”
Rowan petted his head the same way he’d do to a dog. “You’re okay.”
“Aw,” Dorian cooed from the passenger seat. “He got so happy when he saw you outside.”
“Are you staying with Aedion?” Rowan asked, since the driver was getting them farther from Dorian’s apartment each minute.
“No, I’m staying with you. You stole my boyfriend, remember?”
Rowan’s face was flat when he replied, “Thanks for letting me know.”
Grinning at the bickering, Aelin rested her head on Rowan’s shoulders and nearly purred when his hand met her scalp. He chuckled. She lightly elbowed his ribs.
“You know damn well I’m weak for those,” she mumbled, eyes blissfully closed.
“I do.”
Aelin almost fell asleep right there, all because of Rowan’s skilled hands. She would’ve, if it wasn’t for the seat bumping as the driver sped, and the annoying air freshener in the car.
When they arrived, Rowan decided to drop Aelin off while Dorian did the same to a nearly dead drunk Aedion, and they’d meet later. Or Dorian could just break into the house through Fenrys’ window like he used to, that part wasn’t clear.
“There’s this thing nagging me,” Rowan said as they walked through her front garden.
“Spill.”
“Dorian seemed to know you were with the soccer moms all the time, but Fenrys seemed so clueless about this earlier today.”
“Oh.” Aelin leaned against a pillar, scrambling for a nice way to explain this. “Dorian doesn’t tell much about me to Fenrys, since it’d be the same as telling you. I never asked him to do this, but he’s just that loyal.”
Rowan’s expression seemed downcast for a beat, then he concealed it with a grin. “Keeping secrets, Lieutenant?”
Aelin crouched to get the keys from under the front mat, trying to downplay how much that harmless question made her heart twist. Something about her demeanor must’ve given it away, since he changed the subject.
“You know it’s not safe to leave your keys there, right? Why didn’t you take them with you?”
Aelin got up again and sighed, already knowing it was too much for his male brain to understand. “My purse is small, and the keys would scratch my lipstick tube.”
Rowan shook his head, but a small smile betrayed his disapproving face. “So between your lipstick and your house keys, you’d rather keep the lipstick?”
“Absolutely. I need to keep my priorities straight.”
He chuckled, eyes soft as their corners crinkled. “Good night, Aelin.”
Rowan held her upper arm for a beat, caressing it with his thumb, and then let her go.
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Throne of glass as an album receipt, inspired by RJ Kaur on YouTube. Made by me.
harleen quinzel aka harley quinn & pamela isley aka poison ivy – harlivy –
happy national girlfriend day to my soulmate ( @jasonntodds )
For the tsc characters x Met Gala serie: Clary Fairchild wearing Hailee Steinfield’s Prabal Gurung white gown from the 2018 Met Gala.
Cordelia
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The stunning pic of Hailee I used as reference:
alright guys its that time of year again
“She loves to PLAY with (not eat) cherries 🍒”
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“Those poor boys”
“She deserves to be punished too.”
“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”
“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”
“She put herself in harm’s way”
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“She ruined their lives.”
This is important hello (x)
there are so many good episodes of The Magic Schoolbus but the one I remember most vividly is the one where the class competes in a Smell Contest, which is a contest to create smells, which is a thing I desperately wanted to be real
anyway their smell gets sabotaged so they have to shrink really tiny and fly into the judge’s nose to shoot down the stink molecules
good fucking shit
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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
LOVE WINS 🌈💖
I’m so excited to finally share this piece with you all after working on it all month 😆
I wanted to do something really special for pride month! So here are some of my favorite TSC pride couples! 🥰
I had so much fun with this piece and all the lil details 💕 I thought about posting one each week, but I got too excited to wait. Instead, you get them all at once!
I truly hope you like it!! 🙈
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I laughed way too hard at this
Just ADHD things
Huh?
Foot wiggle foot wiggle foot wiggle
Where did I put the- oh got it.
Clenching your jaw
There's 23 songs, 12 vines/tiktoks, a television line, and a dial-up noise all in my head at the same time
D I S S O C I A T E
Are you going somewhere?
What was I doing?
Ooop bad noise don't like that noise
Simultaneously recite Shakespeare and stare blankly at the wall
Stare blankly at the wall
COLLECT THE THINGS
I've repeated the same movement twelve times because it somehow brings me comfort
Blankets blankets blankets BlAnKeTs
I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you-
Nod and smile
Cry at the sight of a stack of papers
I don't see it, it no longer exists
I'm looking right at it, it somehow STILL doesn't exist
- your alarm rings but you are too tired. you set an alarm for five minutes later and go back to sleep. when you wake again, it is light outside and the alarm never went off. it was set for five hours later. you could have sworn you set it to five minutes later.
- your clothes are organized in piles on the bedroom floor. occasionally a shirt moves from one pile to another. you do not remember moving it.
- your desk at work is organized but not. “i have a system” you tell yourself. you are worried someone will discover the truth. you must not let others know you are struggling. your desk at work is organized but not.
- you did not take your meds. your brain is static. you did take your meds. your brain is accelerated static. last week your meds worked well. are they working well today? did you remember to take them? did you even refill your prescription last month?
- your assignment is due in november. it is september. your assignment is not due soon. it is end of october, but your assignment is not due until november. it is november 15th. where is your assignment? you go to bed, it is now november 27th. why do you turn in work late?
- you go to work to make money. you know you make money because you are told you do. your bank account doesn’t change much. you spend more because you are told you make money. you haven’t looked at your bank account for a few weeks now. it makes you anxious.
- there was something you were supposed to do. you didn’t do it, and you disappointed someone. you do not know who. it will come to you eventually, perhaps.
- you trip over a half-knit scarf. one of the needles is missing. you tried to learn knitting a year ago and forgot about the scarf. how long has this been on the floor? where is the other needle? you do not remember how to knit.
- you find yourself growing bored and unconsciousness slips into your periphery. you throw yourself into your work. if you are busy you will not sleep. if you are bored you will sleep. fight the sleep as long as you can. you cannot sleep at night.
- you do not eat and you eat too much.
- your friends ask why you do not reply to their messages. it is overwhelming and you are so tired. you send too many messages at once and are filled with guilt. your friends keep texting you and you do not know why.
- your eyes blur when you read. you skim the words and do not retain. you skimmed this post and did not retain. you do not remember what the first bullet on this post was. you might not have read this last bullet, either. you will still tag the post as though you read it. you understand its essence, and that is okay.
oh god what did i do
IT SUMMONS MAIL EVERYONE TRY IT
so... i woke up at 1:30 am bc my brain is full and the first thing that came to mind is... Latinamerica is collapsing and i wonder if the rest of the world knows.
if it doesn't, then maybe it should, so, i wanna explain:
we are actually about to run out of water: 85% of the mexican territory is in a draught, the worst in 30 years, they say. and there's lakes that are disappearing.
government is spreading "tips" and "infographics" about how to save some water when they're allowing companies like coca-cola and pepsi; cemex, bonafont and bimbo to have leverage in aquifers and they let them own basically 70% of the water in the country thanks to the National Waters Law (Ley de Aguas Nacionales)
oh and just last night (may 3rd) the 12th metro line collapsed in México City and 23 people died. everyone is blaming it on the 2 previous governments' corruption for using cheap materials and rushing to finish it and inaugurate it before it was actually ready
same as México, they're running out of water, so far three states are totally out of it, which is around 1.4 million people.
the press has been calling it the worst draught in the history of the country SINCE LAST YEAR
besides the government has stopped buying vaccines and they're leaving around 70% of the population without a vaccination...
there's no space left in the hospitals, the government stole the 1.6k million usd loan that the country got for health care related buys during the pandemic and left the hospitals alone to their luck. people have to sell their things; from their TV's and fridges to their cars, houses, bodies... there's actual people recurring to prostitution so they can buy medicine the government is supposed to be providing
they've been having a hard economic crisis; again, surprise surprise, the government has stolen 14 million quetzales (1.8million usd) that was destined to the healthcare department: since the pandemic started people has been fired by hordes, there's no jobs, there's no money, there's no more safe hospitals or doctors to work in them, or equipment. and the president approved the 2021 budget in the middle of the night and took away money from the health and the education departments, leading to massive protests that, as you have guessed, were repressed with police violence.
government actually created an espionage agency, the UPAD, they're fining people for being outside hiding behind the excuse of the pandemic; which is making hospitals collapse, they passed a recessive tax reform, the Electoral Supreme Court was scammed in the latest elections and they're actually seeking to create a higher rank power, a "superminister", higher than a president, who can hold the three powers of the nation (dictatorship, everyone?)
they're enduring a huge political crisis, they have to chose a president and their only two options are: a leftist man that wants to take all the agricultural land and divide it in equal parts, doesn't support lgbtttiq rights, privatize almost all services and more reforms that would lead to massive firings AND a woman that it's being investigated for fraud and money laundering and that descends from one of the biggest peruvian dictators and wants to get him out of prison.
this uncertainty of course has made the usd price to sky rocket (because what else is new) and now the prices of everything are rising as well, and the wages? they're staying still
reports on the presidential debate
another political crisis: the president along with the congress (which is mostly sitting his party) dismissed and basically fired the judges of the supreme court and the attorney general. and recommended/nominated new ones from his party, opening the way to the totalitarianism and welp, the end of democracy in the country: dictatorship.
the people is outraged and the international community along with the America States Organization are rejecting this horrid violation to the Constitution of El Salvador but the panorama is still uncertain.
the government of Ivan Duque just has been in the process of passing a tax reform to collect around 25 billion Colombian pesos (around 6.5k billion usd) through taxes without raising the minimum wages; this would throw the country in an economic crisis that would impact the lower and middle classes and it would take products off the basic market basket.
the people of Colombia have been marching and protesting about this and the government has replied with police violence, they have their own anti-raid police, the ESMAD, and they have orders to shoot to kill, the process now has paused because of the protest.
there isn't yet an exact number on the death count but what the people is sure of is that they're gonna try to hide it along with the number of rapings and tortures the police has been conducting.
in 2019 chilean government rose the price of the metro/subway and there were protests and marches and manifestations, which led, of course, to policial repression, this was a whole ordeal that was condemned by the UN, now, the people is tired that the same government hasn't dealt properly with the sanitary contingency so they starter planing a huge strike; dozens of worker unions planning to march on april 30th to show that they're millions and they want the president out.
then the president was acused of crimes against humanity before the International Court of Human Rights for the repression of the 2019 protests...
well, if you haven't heard about the venezuelan crisis, you've been living under a rock: it's been going on for more than 20 years, venezuelan people live under a dictatorship (fucking incredible we still have those in the world), the police kills people that march and manifest, citizens don't have dignified access to: public transport, gas and gasoline, electricity, food, water, medicine and medical equipment let alone the covid vaccine.
and when the venezuelan people wanna leave the mediocre and deplorable conditions in which their government had made them live? conditions in which if you don't die of sickness, you get killed by a cop or killed in a robbery or killed on a raid? if you don't die of hunger you die of thirst? they raised the passport prices! and so the venezuelan people as a lot of people in Latinoamérica have to illegally migrate; and we all know how that's seen.
an immense femicide rise and Gender Violence alert.
donations and ways to help México and Colombia
americans better be rebloging the donation and help links for mexico and colombia after all the help they recieved from latin americans w their own issues
Me irl
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