I mean, I keep thinking of all the things we can *put* up there. A recording studio would be lovely--I've got a home set-up, but sometimes a boy dreams of professional equipment, you know? And housing that's not the work dorms, where people could have their own little studios even when they're just starting out with the company. Offices for Thace to do his pokemon activism out of. And just-- rooms and rooms for pokemon to live in. I got a little spoilt having Jack's entire big house for mine, even if he *would* insist the ghosts stay in the basement.
The defunct hotel had a pool on the top floor, with a glass ceiling, and I'd love to get that fixed up so that it's usable--and fix up the exercise room on that floor too. Part of me is *terribly tempted* to use Jack's money *to* buy it out, now that it's gone, but it's rightfully Angel's, not mine.
It's tempting, though. Very tempting. Maybe when I do Victory Road... I've looked up how much you get for each match it's a *nice* chunk of change. 150k for the Elite Four and then 60k just for Lance... though that won't be until spring, because camping is uncomfortable enough without doing it in the dead of winter. I've got five more gyms to do in the meantime anyway. (But I definitely *am* going to go up Victory Road. The only thing stopping me before was that I didn't want to leave Jack for the better part of a month given how dependent I was on him at the time--I can say that about my younger self because it's true--and in this case, I've already got a traveling companion.)
Anyway, the supernatural *will* get its sticky fingers into everything... I say as someone who is now supernatural himself (and who is a member of an organization who studies the other supernatural beings outside just us Changelings.) Honestly, I'm mostly just surprised that the Vampocalypse happened so *quietly* and not with, for instance, one of those 'Antediluvians' Charley's told me about showing up in downtown New York.
Well, I used my E4 winnings for the house so...should work out for you! And like you said you've kinda got time now...
...Euuugh, you got that right...someone from home after my time was here for a hot minute and he even said most people just FORGOT what was going on from around mine!!! The worst part about this stuff is the amnesia afterwards I swear!
It's one of the things I *know* I'm going to miss from Jack's house--but even if he never comes back, I don't think I can live there anymore. It just has too many memories wound up in it.
Looking back on everything, with six years away to give me perspective, it's not that Jack was cruel or abusive or anything and he actually did a fair amount of good for me at first--he helped me leave the closet, for one thing, and he was the first person I'd met who understood about my abnormal wiring--but he was also very much a narcissist and I don't know if you've ever been with one of those before, Carly, but it can be *draining*. And even though there were lots of good times, especially early on, looking back at it now it's hard to see past that last, wretched month of me growing more and more quietly miserable.
So yes. A new start in a new place sounds just right for me.
I might have something vaguely resembling a date come Friday, but any other night you're in town after I get back Wednesday, text me and we'll do those toasts.
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that is, in fact, how one of the gehenna scenarios begins! fun times!
Date: 2020-12-09 06:51 pm (UTC)The defunct hotel had a pool on the top floor, with a glass ceiling, and I'd love to get that fixed up so that it's usable--and fix up the exercise room on that floor too. Part of me is *terribly tempted* to use Jack's money *to* buy it out, now that it's gone, but it's rightfully Angel's, not mine.
It's tempting, though. Very tempting. Maybe when I do Victory Road... I've looked up how much you get for each match it's a *nice* chunk of change. 150k for the Elite Four and then 60k just for Lance... though that won't be until spring, because camping is uncomfortable enough without doing it in the dead of winter. I've got five more gyms to do in the meantime anyway. (But I definitely *am* going to go up Victory Road. The only thing stopping me before was that I didn't want to leave Jack for the better part of a month given how dependent I was on him at the time--I can say that about my younger self because it's true--and in this case, I've already got a traveling companion.)
Anyway, the supernatural *will* get its sticky fingers into everything... I say as someone who is now supernatural himself (and who is a member of an organization who studies the other supernatural beings outside just us Changelings.) Honestly, I'm mostly just surprised that the Vampocalypse happened so *quietly* and not with, for instance, one of those 'Antediluvians' Charley's told me about showing up in downtown New York.
EYYYYY
Date: 2020-12-10 03:49 pm (UTC)Well, I used my E4 winnings for the house so...should work out for you! And like you said you've kinda got time now...
...Euuugh, you got that right...someone from home after my time was here for a hot minute and he even said most people just FORGOT what was going on from around mine!!! The worst part about this stuff is the amnesia afterwards I swear!
Re: EYYYYY
Date: 2020-12-11 12:55 am (UTC)Looking back on everything, with six years away to give me perspective, it's not that Jack was cruel or abusive or anything and he actually did a fair amount of good for me at first--he helped me leave the closet, for one thing, and he was the first person I'd met who understood about my abnormal wiring--but he was also very much a narcissist and I don't know if you've ever been with one of those before, Carly, but it can be *draining*. And even though there were lots of good times, especially early on, looking back at it now it's hard to see past that last, wretched month of me growing more and more quietly miserable.
So yes. A new start in a new place sounds just right for me.
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Date: 2020-12-12 04:18 pm (UTC)Here's to new places though~! We'll have to do a toast later.
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Date: 2020-12-12 04:47 pm (UTC)laughs I think this one's at an end too
Date: 2020-12-13 02:37 pm (UTC)Almost yeah!
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