missbuster replied to your post “oh ho ho we in

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missbuster replied to your post “oh ho ho we in it now”

WHAT THAT IS VERY FAST we have three confirmed cases here and they are still travel-related. They moved our testing to a local hockey arena and out of the second hospital too.

Our first three were all travel-related… from vastly different origins. (NYC, which you’d expect, but then Orlando and a third out-of-state I forget?) 

We got as high as nine confirmed cases, and then I think it just became clear that we were not going to be given anything like enough testing kits. I mean, obviously, it arrived here from NUMEROUS other points of origin, and since NYC is in fullblown Hotbed Of Pestilence mode, there’s just no resources left for us, the second-largest city in the state. (Before you get outraged, understand that we have literally half the population of two separate towns on Long Island (the way cities and towns are legally categorized has nothing to do with size), and in fact are the only the eighth most populous county in the state, just after Westchester, which is another Hotbed Of Pestilence. NYC is HUGE.)

We are not really surprised that there are no resources left for us. It’s obvious that most of the new cases are community spread, not from an outside point of infection, meaning that it’s loose now. There’s literally no point trying to track it; it’s too late to halt the spread.

They did update the list of exposures. Now not only our grocery store and our nearest Target is on the list, but also our liquor store. We checked our receipt; we were last there six days before the known-infected person.

But the list of exposures isn’t really much good, because it’s all a week ago or more. Of course it is! But it’s out there, in the wild. There’s nothing to do but treat everyone as potentially infected, and stay the fuck home, which is what I’m doing. 

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So… my whole life, occasionally when I am about to eat, or take a sip of something alcoholic or very tart, or bite something sour, I’ll suddenly get an excruciating shooting pain in my jaw. It was always just, like, a little spasm, never severe enough to do more than make me shiver or pucker. I rather thought it had something to do with salivation. (I clearly remember it from the first time I was ever given an alcoholic drink to sip, and I really thought everybody got shooting pains from booze and was like wow adults are wild, and then amazingly enough, kept going, so like, self-preservation not so much. And I still sometimes get it from that– oh I must try this exquisite Scotch or whatever, I take a sip and I’m like wow that tastes like pain, cool! it usually goes away in a second and might recur a couple of times but once the ice has melted a little it doesn’t happen anymore, so anyway, i don’t drink whiskey neat.)

Within the last year, though, this has intensified– not on many occasions, but once in a while I’ll go to open my mouth to eat and one side of my jaw is in ROCK SOLID SPASMS suddenly, which don’t go away unless I sit there gape-jawed and prodding at it in agony. It will die down after a couple of minutes, but after that the muscles from the outside are tender to touch. 

Anyway yesterday I was aware that the muscles were sore on that side of my face, but it wasn’t until the evening when I had a long-anticipated ice cream sandwich in my hand that suddenly it all locked up and I couldn’t chew. I’m a stubborn bitch, so I managed to use my tongue and a couple of teeth on the other side of my mouth, but it sucked. All day all I’d wanted was ice cream, it’s almost the last we have of it in the house (we did not stock up), and I’m in agony.

Ibuprofen helps but my jaw is really sore and swollen today. I wish I knew what this was. I think it might be stress-related, which is dumb, but there it is. Sigh. 

Anyway I’m mostly writing it down so I remember later, when someone’s like ‘oh has this ever happened before’ i can be like yes. 

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im not thinking about it


> #how im doing is none of my business

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Geralt smiling ♡♡♡

clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “snippet, finally”

oh i’m EXCITED for this chapter!!!!

So it seems i can only write in stolen time when I’m supposed to be doing something else so I’ve assigned myself all kinds of work today and am sneaking back to write. 

I also have cleaned all the litterboxes (our spoiled cat has three, and also uses various corners of the basement that i rarely have the leisure to find but did, this morning. ugh, what a jerk) and done a fair bit of correspondence, and i FOUND MY POSTCARD STAMPS so it’s all over for you hoes I can mail postcards now yay! 

Today’s snippet is brief and ambiguous. Which pairing do you reckon this rather NSFW excerpt is? 

“Just give me your cock, you big goof,” she said. 

“You have the best dirty talk,” he said fondly, and obliged. 

It’s always really good to get unblocked on sex scenes, they just take so much dang choreography.

OH now I know where I’m stuck– 

so a couple chapters ago in Little Fishie (end of the linked chapter there) I had Jaskier ask if Geralt would tell him one true thing about his life. I had something in mind, but then decided the scene was better served by an interruption. 

“I’ll put the question in later,” I thought smugly to myself, as I did not write down what the question was. “That’ll be great.”

Well, it’s later, and I don’t remember what he was going to ask. So, audience participation– 

“Can you tell me the one true thing I wanted to ask about your life, instead?” Jaskier asked. “Since you’re being nice to me?”

“You’re pushing it now, bard,” Geralt said, and got to his feet to see about setting up bedrolls.

“That’s not a no,” Jaskier said. “Ohh, I’ve got to make this count!”

“As I said before,” Geralt said, spreading a blanket over the nicely-trimmed pine boughs he’d assembled before dark, “if it counts too much, there’s no way I’m answering it.”

“There’s a lot in your life that works by you not thinking about it too much,” Jaskier pointed out, this time being wise enough not to make it into a question.

“Well,” Geralt said, “it works, so.” 

“So, something true that isn’t something you’re carefully not thinking about,” Jaskier said. “Hmmm…

if he gets another chance, what should Jaskier ask??? This is the spot where I’m blocked on this chapter and I keep bouncing around and coming back and bouncing off again. Bah!