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So this is just a thing that’s been bouncing around in my brain recently, but who else thinks it’s weird sometimes that “fast coffee”/coffee stands and specialty cafes are treated like the exact same thing by the general public, and then people complain when one isn’t like the other.

Like, I know we all know I just want to rant but I might be opening my own coffee cart soon and I’m trying to figure out a balance between what the average customer wants and what I want for my coffee cart’s identity which is gonna be specialty coffee just small and portable. But I know that people are going to come up and be annoyed that I don’t have 32oz drinks, 10+ syrups, and cold foam. I also see the general public complain about never being able to find a place with good espresso or a decent latte and I have to ask them like… are you going to the right coffee shop for what you’re looking for?

Because if I want a really simple delicious steak, like, the tasty high quality meat is the thing I’m after, I’m gonna go to a sit down restaurant. If I want a cheeseburger with 8 toppings and the meat isn’t the focus at all, I’m gonna go to a fast food burger place. The nice restaurant probably has a solid cheeseburger for the people who want it, but I’m not gonna go to the fast food place, order a patty, and then be mad that it’s kind of shitty.

But of course most people do want the fast food cheeseburger and they’ll walk into a sit down restaurant and straight faced order a Big Mac, then get pissy when they’re told it’s a sit down nice restaurant, they don’t even have the ingredients or equipment to make a Big Mac even if they wanted to.

I feel like it’s definitely easier to try and cater to the 32oz blended caramel macchiato drinkers when you have a physical cafe, like you can offer plenty of fun flavors, you can have big cups even if you don’t go through them very fast, but like I said, coffee cart. Very limited space, and I would want to put my limited budget towards quality beans and equipment. But then the general public, like, 90% of coffee drinkers even the traditional macchiato drinkers, fully expect every coffee shop and cart to be both.

Sorry, kind of just a jumble of a rant, I’m sleep deprived, but who’s been thinking about this too?

Hello! I wanted to put together a list of BJDs that you could buy from black artists directly and specifically. I know Rap1993 and Angel Dollz, but I was wondering if there were more! I know MaddybearDolls would definitely be added to that list, but as far as I can tell you can only get her dolls secondhand as of now.

Okay the Thing being the memories of his past being restored to Tevat.

HAS ANYONE ELSE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT THIS COULD MEAN FOR SHIPS OR IS IT JUST ME?? Obviously it wouldn’t have any impact on Scara x Traveler, but for anyone else there’s so many levels of angst potential!

For SethoScara, there’s the fact that he was not only Fatui, but that he was the one who was becoming a god and trying to kill Nahida. That would hit hard for any Sumeru character, but Sethos is so sweet and kind and he’d be so conflicted!

With Scarabedo, I feel like there would be way more feelings of “oh that makes a lot of sense actually” rather than betrayal of trust or anything, but it could still be interesting.

KazuScara could also be really interesting but he’s also so forgiving and sweet (like, his whole story quest was essentially an analog for his feelings on Kabukimono’s actions) and I can see the memory restoration being a launching pad for THAT conversation.

And quite frankly, my personal favorite Scaramouche ship gets the pleasure of I feel like being THE MOST ANGST POSSIBLE. Because with Chiscara, that entire relationship is almost entirely written pre 3.3. It’s possible to write them as having had a relationship for YEARS before Scara got deleted! And yes absolutely you could write them getting back together because fate and the power of love etc (that’s the route I took with my fanfic writing) but imagine if they didn’t end up back together?

Like, Scara excepted that he’d probably never see Childe again and was able to move on with his life (maybe eventually ended up with Sethos or Albedo, after all it’s been 3 and a half years). But for Childe, he’d end up just getting hit with years of memories of the love of his life, and years of him just being GONE and not even trying to find him again? LIKE??? and the fact that there would be bonus emotional consequences on either side if Scara ended up with anyone else in the meantime??

Like, at the end of the day Scara has two hands, that’s always an option, but THE DRAMA.