Ever since I was a kid, my sister always signified safety.

So.


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What does your character think about professional sports?

Bonus: Tell us how they came to love or hate sports?

As far as Jake shares with others about his relationship with sports, it's this: He loves to watch baseball, and basketball, and his favorite teams are the home teams. Except when it comes to football - there's no team he prefers, and ( Read more... )

[some are gifts for certain muses, others are being put up as reference for later]

For Angela angelabrennan:

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[the reference to Charlie's first comment is to this. beware of teh crack. jake blames the pain meds, of course.]

( Lean on me when you're not strong and I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long till I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on )

[set after this]It had been a lie. Jake hadn't had to work the next day, but he had needed a reason to show up the way he had at his ex-wife's workplace. At that moment he had said it because it had been the only believable lie he could think of ( Read more... )

[locked to family and friends]

My mother is a big fan of snapshots. She prefers to suddenly snap a picture rather than to have us pose for it, so finding some of these wasn't the hard part. The hard part was choosing which ones I liked enough to share.

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Set to same night as this. For in-character knowledge only, unless you're Jake, Val or Angela. times_reminder borrowed with permission <33"Dad, can I ask you something ( Read more... )

( 1-10. NOT for in-character knowledge. )

RP thread: Charlie to the rescue after this and this.

For years now Angela, Jake's older sister, had carried on the tradition of hosting dinners in her house once a month. Jake had never really been a fan of them, because socializing had never really been his thing, but since he was usually guilt-tripped into going he'd show up more out of duty than anything else ( Read more... )