Maddi only sort of remembers the particulars of who did what with the library. For starters it wasn’t built by Alex’s grandfather. I think he would be her great great grandfather. Secondly the radon vents would have been added later, although the basement was ventilated well enough that it was more a code issue than actually needing them. She does take care of all the little upkeep tasks and has a book she made to make sure she remembers. Maddison is in charge of a lot of day to day maintenance and has learned how to fix even more complex things like simple problems with the heating and AC. While she isn’t quick on the uptake she can be trained over time to do even very complex things. It just requires a lot of patience and Alex’s family are the only people willing to put that time in because she’s essentially part of their family. Outside of the library her life would have been much more difficult and bleak but the Melvil’s take special care of her, so she’s extremely happy even if she gets frustrated from time to time from not being able to do things she wants to.
Other Maddison trivia: She is dyslexic and has ADHD. However she is good at learning things via listening and seeing them done. She likes audiobooks, stuffed animals, cartoons, family movies, romances, games like Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, although she will play basically anything her friends do if it’s a group activity. Generally if they play a game where healer is a role she will be that because her natural caring instinct is extremely strong and she will “lock in” when her friends are in danger. She loves babies and they love her almost without exception. Any child left in her care is extremely safe because of her innate motherly instincts. Generally speaking she is happy to be included in any activity but will begin to space out if some part of it doesn’t hold her interest at which point she will sometimes become unintentionally disruptive. In many circumstances where it would be normal to be scared or creeped out she won’t be unless someone actually tells her that she should be and she reacts to that more than actually being scared of anything. She just matches the energy of other people.

Victoria is generally very composed unless presented with the unexpected. She tends to plan things in advance to avoid being caught off guard. Her outward personality is a front almost completely constructed for her family. Left to her own devices she would dress in bright colors and generally be a free spirit. That said, she does enjoy her status as a spooky girl, which is what makes it easy to maintain. It is extremely amusing to her to have the dual life she leads.

Well, anyway, lots going on this weekend. Hasbro Pulsecon on Friday. Hopefully I can get preorders on the two things I want. Also the splatfest, which I guess started today. I think some other stuff happens this weekend but I’ve forgotten what they are. I had better make sure…
Today I was just up kinda walkin around, doing stuff, sorting things, not getting tired. Like, that might seem pretty bland for you, but for me, after all the horseshit of the last few years, to me it’s very refreshing. I just didn’t feel like the earth was trying to drag me to its core and that was nice. I reduced two tables of random, unsorted, stuff down to one and didn’t want to just lay down for 5 hours. I did other stuff. Like, I hesitate to feel good about things for fear that god will see me and punish me for not being miserable. I’ll be quietly thankful, in the corner, so I won’t be noticed. Making myself small, so as not to be seen…
I need some new source of content to distract myself with. Youtube has turned into a clinical depression simulator now that it has driven away all of the fun creators. I can’t just watch old episodes of YIAY and classic JonTron forever. I can’t find people who appeal to me anymore. All the collecting channels are run by these upbeat schmucks, or audience captured goons. I want some videos about things made by vaguely annoyed creators with wry senses of humor. There’s not enough wryness anymore. Where are all the puckish scamps who have opinions about obscure things? Have we talked about everything finally? It kind of feels that way. People I like are all moving on to new things and are being replaced with people who annoy the shit out of me. I guess that’s just part of getting old. The things you like go away and are replaced by new, crappier versions of the exact same thing, with worst hosts. Podcasters all want to be Jo Rogan, but I don’t like Jo Rogan and I don’t want Dollar General Jo Rogan as an alternative. I want Sandy Toksvig giving humorous takes on the news of the day.
I wonder if I’ll live to see the next cool era of people. How long will it be before they start showing up? Maybe I need to learn how to pirate Bob’s Burgers so I can see what happened after the movie. I’m not watching that shit on Hulu.
I’ve listened to all the calming shows from ten years ago to help me go to sleep that they don’t work very well anymore. I could probably recite the entire run of Dr Katz from memory if I had to.
I watched the new Ghostbusters movie the other night finally. The one that people were pretty tepid about. It’s not one of the top ten best movies of all time, but it was just kind of nice. When it was over I wasn’t unhappy for having seen it. I think that striving to make very good things is ideal, but just making a nice thing to try and entertain people is fine too. The way that movie in particular was written seemed like it should have been part of a TV series, but that’s as may be. It felt like there was an small scale episodic quality to it that might have been server better over the course of several episodes.
I started watching this basketball anime and it’s okay but not as good as the volleyball one I watched. I wish I has seen the second one first and I was watching the much better show now. I’ve decided that I like sports manga even though I don’t like actual sports. Honestly it seems like I enjoy manga about any dumb shit I don’t like IRL. Maybe I should try reading the YUGIOH manga. I never much cared for the localized cartoon but I feel like the fanslated comic might be interesting. I always found the bones of the show enticing but the actual show was hard to watch. Maybe I should finally read to the end of Inu Yasha. I liked the first part. Whatever, regardless of all of that I still need calming stuff to go to sleep to, so the search continues.
I talked about a lot of dumb stuff tonight. maybe that makes up for the nights I didn’t say anything. Maybe it will entice you to support my work via the links above. I will cross my fingers. Some of them anyway. I still need to type. I hope you have a nice weekend. Please return on Monday for more low stakes sequential art. Until then, Kinnikumaaaaaaan, go fight!

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