I Survived Resident Evil 7
Jul. 19th, 2021 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostI REALLY need to get in the habit of posting on here again. I genuinely enjoyed detailing my days, even if it's boring af for everyone. I need to play catch up. The EFFORT. UGH.
I'm almost at the end of my tattoo apprenticeship! Yay! I have like 3 tattoos to do this week (for free), which I'm enthralled about. I wonder if I should post them? HMMM.
Alex's birthday was a few days ago and we had a gay old time. Alex had a party yesterday at a kitschy tiki bar with a bunch of his friends and he had like 7 drinks. I'm the perpetual designated driver so I was okay with it. We have so many mixers at home I figured I could make my own drinks for free lol
Let me think of something recent story worthy...
OH. When I was in bumfuck MAGA country for my birthday!
The weekend of my birthday took place in Fredericksburg, Texas. Alex had been there over 4 years ago (important!) and said it was a little German village. Awesome! Cool! I love German food and I can speak a little Deutsch. We set up an AirBnB, got a reservation for dinner, and went.
It only went downhill from there. Going to Fredericksburg, we realized how many people without masks were there ... (This is in May, when the Texas vaccination rate was awful) And there were quite a few red hats. Okay. Weird. Moving on. We walk around, notice we are getting a LOT of strange looks (we weren't even holding hands!). There's a surprisingly low amount of German ... Anything. It's all replaced with Pampered Chef and hunting stores. Alex keeps saying "I don't remember it being like this ..."
We go to the German restaurant. Notice there's not a lot of German... anything. A lot of American flags. No one has a mask. "Less Government, More Beer" banners. The German food has been replaced with burgers, fries, and chili. There's a miniscule German food section. Something is wrong.
We see a server. MAGA hat. Then, the back of his shirt, as he walks away ... It says: "It's not about who votes, it's who counts the votes - Joseph Stalin"
Okay, that's enough. I'm out of here. We leave the restaurant after a very tense and uncomfortable dinner where we notice we are being stared at by patrons. We decide we will have fun and drink at the Airbnb ... Except when we go to the Valero gas station to get drinks, Proud Boys are watching us at the end of every aisle. This is very wrong. Alex keeps apologizing, saying "It wasn't like this when I was here!"
So we leave at 4 AM because we can not handle being gay men in such a crazy yeehaw town. I looked it up, and it appears that many things in Fredericksburg were owned by German immigrants, which were recently bought out by many rich Conservatives because cheap land, and these douches replaced the unique shops with basic stores. Somewhere along the way, Qanon and Trump supporters ended up in the mix and it became a hostile scenario. I have never been so uncomfortable in a town before! It's hilarious now, imo.
I'm almost at the end of my tattoo apprenticeship! Yay! I have like 3 tattoos to do this week (for free), which I'm enthralled about. I wonder if I should post them? HMMM.
Alex's birthday was a few days ago and we had a gay old time. Alex had a party yesterday at a kitschy tiki bar with a bunch of his friends and he had like 7 drinks. I'm the perpetual designated driver so I was okay with it. We have so many mixers at home I figured I could make my own drinks for free lol
Let me think of something recent story worthy...
OH. When I was in bumfuck MAGA country for my birthday!
The weekend of my birthday took place in Fredericksburg, Texas. Alex had been there over 4 years ago (important!) and said it was a little German village. Awesome! Cool! I love German food and I can speak a little Deutsch. We set up an AirBnB, got a reservation for dinner, and went.
It only went downhill from there. Going to Fredericksburg, we realized how many people without masks were there ... (This is in May, when the Texas vaccination rate was awful) And there were quite a few red hats. Okay. Weird. Moving on. We walk around, notice we are getting a LOT of strange looks (we weren't even holding hands!). There's a surprisingly low amount of German ... Anything. It's all replaced with Pampered Chef and hunting stores. Alex keeps saying "I don't remember it being like this ..."
We go to the German restaurant. Notice there's not a lot of German... anything. A lot of American flags. No one has a mask. "Less Government, More Beer" banners. The German food has been replaced with burgers, fries, and chili. There's a miniscule German food section. Something is wrong.
We see a server. MAGA hat. Then, the back of his shirt, as he walks away ... It says: "It's not about who votes, it's who counts the votes - Joseph Stalin"
Okay, that's enough. I'm out of here. We leave the restaurant after a very tense and uncomfortable dinner where we notice we are being stared at by patrons. We decide we will have fun and drink at the Airbnb ... Except when we go to the Valero gas station to get drinks, Proud Boys are watching us at the end of every aisle. This is very wrong. Alex keeps apologizing, saying "It wasn't like this when I was here!"
So we leave at 4 AM because we can not handle being gay men in such a crazy yeehaw town. I looked it up, and it appears that many things in Fredericksburg were owned by German immigrants, which were recently bought out by many rich Conservatives because cheap land, and these douches replaced the unique shops with basic stores. Somewhere along the way, Qanon and Trump supporters ended up in the mix and it became a hostile scenario. I have never been so uncomfortable in a town before! It's hilarious now, imo.
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Date: 2021-07-20 03:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think it's lots of misinformation and uh ... Unsure. I think since a lot of these towns become dirt poor when coal dries up, they become a hotbed of drugs, alcoholism, and evangelism since they have nothing else to turn to. At least, that's what happens in Appalachia.
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