For nearly two months, Viktor had avoided Yakov. As much as a student
could avoid their coach, anyway. It was surprising how Vitya had held
out this long, considering other instances the teen had been upset at
him. But then again, Yakov’s previous offenses hadn’t been so severe.
FINALLY! After months of waiting ;;; My commission piece for a scene in chapter 7 of @gabapple and @mamodewberry‘s A M A Z I N G epic of a fic, “Never Look Away”! Please go have a read, it’s sooo worth every minute reading it!
Also, I’d like to express my extreme gratitude to Gab for being so patient with me on this one. It’s been months since she commissioned me for it but since zine projects came one after the other, I wasn’t able to put out. It would have been reasonable to call off the commission but she didn’t. For that trust and that understanding, I could never thank her enough. I promise the next one won’t take too long!! <3
THE KAPPA HUNT, beautifully illustrated!!! <3 <3 <3 GOSH IT’S SO GOOD! Thank you so much and, for the record, it was totally TOTALLY worth the wait. Don’t even sweat it. :)))
Jesus was fond of telling his followers not to worry about how they’d afford food tomorrow because God would provide. But Jesus told them this while handing out free bread and encouraging them to help people who were in need, making them the outlet through which God would provide for others
My mother was a waitress, we live in an area that has a lot of Christians and people would often stiff her on tips. Instead they’d leave a pamphlet with quotes from Jesus saying not to worry because God would provide
Jesus’ message was never that God would magically put food on people’s tables. God would provide opportunities to help each other, like the boat captains offering to help the dying man. That only works if people actually help each other
When I first heard this joke as a teenager I laughed at the guy who didn’t take the help that was offered to him. As an adult, I think of all the Christian politicians who vote against food stamps and I want to tell them “You were the boat captain but you steered away from the man in need instead of offering him help. Is that really what God wanted you to do?”
This is also why I try, whenever possible, to compose at least the first couple sentences of the next bit of writing while I’m standing in the shower with my perfect realization fresh in my mind. I have been known to hastily dry off and dress while repeating to myself, over and over, “Susan sat dejected over the remains of her breakfast. “More poutine?” asked the goat.” And then I hope nobody distracts me before I manage to get to the computer.
Of course, I’ve got about a fifty-fifty chance of having mis-remembered the last bit of writing and those fresh new sentences not being at all suitable for following it, and then I get to do the whole “wut r werds” dance.
Why yes, you are correct im-the-asshole-that. I really really hate boomers constantly shitting on my generation.
At my job, I once had to take a training course called “Dealing with Difficult People.” And during that course, for no apparent reason, the instructor started off on a rant about millenials which quickly devolved into the entire room of boomers bitching about my generation. At one point, one lady called us “animals.”
When I raised my hand to point out that this was disrespectful, I was told “it’s okay, you’re not like them.” At which point I snapped and asked HOW. My experiences are their experiences. You know what we saw when we grew up? We saw a housing market collapse. We saw the beginning of a war on terror so vaguely defined as to have no visible end. We saw an entire generation stick their fingers in their ears and shout “GLOBAL WARMING ISN’T REAL AND IF IT IS IT’S A PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.”
We’ve been told that “you better go to college if you want a good job” only to graduate to find that there are no jobs available because the work force ISN’T RETIRING. We’ve seen the cost of higher education increase OVER 1,000% in the last four decades. A college credit that cost an day’s minimum wage in the 70’s costs us 60 days of work. Those of us who graduate with student loans are told that if we couldn’t afford it we shouldn’t have gone. Those who don’t go are told that we can’t expect a job without a college degree.
We’ve grown up in a world where the acceptance rate at Harvard is higher than the acceptance rate at a new Walmart. We’ve been told that you were grateful for you job flipping burgers, but you were paid the equivalent of $14-$15 an hour to do so. We’ve had employers cut our work week to 39 hours to get out of paying for our healthcare.
I’ve worked in fast food and you want to know a secret? I have never had a problem with teenagers. If they get rowdy or messy they mean no harm. In fact, most of them will stop if you tell them. All they want is a fucking milkshake and a corner to themselves The customers that cause the most problems? They’re middle aged. I had a customer berate me, cuss at me, and call me stupid and ask if I failed math when I told him he hadn’t given me enough money to pay his check. When he finally accepted he was in the wrong, he told me I shouldn’t have made such a big deal out of it because it was “bad customer service” even though any shortage comes out of my paycheck. That sense of entitlement is something I rarely see in millenials.
We’re told in legitimate publications, in TIME MAGAZINE, just how little you think of our generation, how little you RESPECT us and yet you ask for our unquestioning devotion. Well guess what, IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT. You’ve ruined our economy, our housing market, our job market, our environment, and our climate. You continually mock us, demonize us, and leave us to clean up your messes.
RESPECT IS EARNED, and you have done nothing to earn it. And it’s ironic that I have to have this discussion here because at this moment you are the difficult people I am having to deal with.
I was then told I was overly confrontational and would apparently benefit from being sweeter when being called an animal (I may have continued loudly talking over the “instructor” when she tried to cut me off). But the other sole millenial and I shared a loving glance across the room and absolutely lambasted this instructor in the evals and she’s never been invited back to teach that course, so it’s all okay.
Fandom’s favorite Bubblegum/Cotton Candy Bitch/Prince / Mr. Steal Your Girl / Kiss Me / Too Anime For This Anime. Kisumi is such a wild card due to him only showing up in one episode of the anime and is only ickle in High Speed!.
This is for gabapple! Her birthday was on Friday and I wanted to draw her SOMETHING. We’ve talked about RPing the entire cast and she has expressed the most interest in Kisumi and, well, my hand slipped.
:3c
WELL THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE I ALREADY OWN HARU LIKE WOAH
But yes Kisumi <3 <3 <3 He is amazing and this drawing is amazing and you are getting HELLA good at watercolor what the heck, Krista!
