#{ gallery; kasey }

[disneybritton]

Big ears

[love-bokumono-fics]

Fresh Crops! July 1 - July 7, 2024

This week's newest fics and chapter updates for Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on AO3!

A Wonderful Life - by Aqueird; WIP, 1/?, 1.4k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandoms: A Wonderful Life, DS Cute Relationships: Cody | Gordy/Chris, Cody | Gordy/ Original Character(s), Pony | Aya | Jill/Rock, Pony | Aya/ | Cody | Gordy, Chris/Wally | Suarii; Characters: Pony | Aya | Jill, Original Characters, Cody | Gordy, Chris, Hugh, Wally | Suarii Additional Tags: Cheating, Implied Sexual Content, Established Relationship Summary: Chris needed a distraction: “Something to cope. Life can hit you unexpectedly, so you either let it lay you down or you hit the ground running. And if you can’t run, you find something to lean on” Gordy eyed her for a long moment without moving from his position on the bed. “So, you’re leaning on me?” He asks more like a statement. Chris fastens her buckle tightly, “I’m walking with you.” Chris and Gordy have a conversation about an upcoming gallery opening.

Her Voice Within - by syavwits; WIP, 11/?, 23k

Rating: Not Rated; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Category: F/M Fandoms: Back To Nature Relationship: Claire the Farmer/Gray; Characters: Claire the Farmer, Pete the Farmer, Gray, Rick, Kai, Cliff, Doctor | Trent, Mary the Librarian | Marie, Karen, Popuri, Ann the Innkeeper | Ran, Elli | Elly, Manna, Duke, Doug | Dudley, Old Ellen, May | Mei, Stu | Yu, Zack, Won | Huang, Anna, Basil the Writer, Saibara, Harris, Gotz | Gotts, Kano, Louis the Entomologist | Chuu, Greg, Barley | Mugi, Aja | Adge Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Romantic Soulmates, Soul-Searching, Mystery, Mute Protagonist, Found Family Summary: It's not that Claire can't talk, she sometimes speaks yes, but only when she really put all her energies to do it. Then there's Gray, the stoic guy with the famous resting b*tch face, he doesn't want anything to do with anyone, everyone, even the new girl although she's… cute. While Pete tries to save his farm, he also confides in Claire and asks her help to search for his unknown childhood friend, his first love, who apparently is one of the girls in Mineral town?!? Will Claire manage to find Pete's long-lost Best friend? Will Claire find what she truly desires in her second chance at life?

Tumblr Posts for A Wonderful Life Characters - by actaeoncross; WIP, 54/?, 62k

Rating: Not Rated; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Fandoms: A Wonderful Life Relationship: Multiple Characters x Reader; Characters: Celia | Seperia | Cecilia, Cody | Gordy, Daryl, Flora, Gustafa, Lumina, Marlin | Mash | Matthew, Muffy | Molly, Nami, Rock, Reader Summary: A collection of Tumblr posts for A Wonderful Life Characters x Reader prompts.

Sugar and Spice - by Chibimiie; WIP, 64/?, 173k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandoms: Animal Parade Relationships: Chase/Molly the Farmer, Angela/Luke; Characters: Molly | Hikari, Angela the Farmer, Chase, Luke, Kasey the Farmer Additional Tags: Slow Burn, oh god how do you tag fics, mentions of eating disorders, alternating povs, Friends to Lovers, Cross-Posted on FanFiction.Net, bumped up the rating because i honestly should have a little bit ago, burn so slow it's honestly a simmer, Mutual Pining Summary: Wanting to get away from past hurts of the city, sisters Molly and Angela decide to respond to a flyer advertising an abandoned farm on the faraway island of Castanet. Leaving behind their closest friends and brother Kasey, the two take a chance and move to the tiny island hoping for a new chance at life.

And two Not Safe For Tumblr stories by Thefallen1986, with NSFT Titles.

[charlesbryan]

Jordan Kasey at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

http://dlvr.it/SxLrM5

[laresearchette]

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES? CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2023) (Shudder) RESTAURANTS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (TLC Canada) 10:00pm

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CRAVE TV STILL I SING

NETFLIX CANADA WE LOST OUR HUMAN

LGT WORLD WOMEN’S CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP (TSN/TSN4) 9:00am: Canada vs. Switzerland (TSN/TSN4) 2:00pm: New Zealand vs. Canada

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 1:00pm: Tigers vs. Yankees

NHL HOCKEY   (SNWest) 7:00pm: Wild vs. Devils (TSN2) 7:00pm: Lightning vs. Habs (TSN5) 7:00pm: Sens vs. Bruins (TSN4) 7:30pm: Leafs vs. Islanders (TSN3) 8:00pm: Coyotes vs. Jets (SNWest) 10:00pm: Flames vs. Ducks (SNPacific) 10:30pm: Knights vs. Canucks

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 7:30pm: Nuggets vs. Raptors (TSN) 7:30pm: Cavaliers vs. Nets (SN360) 10:30pm: Thunder vs. Clippers

CHUCK AND THE FIRST PEOPLES' KITCHEN (APTN) 7:30pm: Ekuanitshit, QC: In Ekuanitshit, Chuck learns all about harvesting and cooking whelk, a sea snail; he meets Rita Mestokosho, a writer, poet, and councilor for culture and education in the Innu Nation; Chuck meets Guy Vigneault, the director of a 10-boat fleet.

22 MINUTES (CBC) 8:00pm:  Wonder drugs and a Juno streaker!

CANADA'S GOT TALENT (City TV) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Host Lindsay Ell and judges Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Trish Stratus and Kardinal Offishall return to Niagara Falls in hopes of finding a Canadian talent worthy of becoming an international star.

MARY MAKES IT EASY (CTV Life) 8:00pm: Picnic and Choose. What does that mean?

KARENA AND KASEY'S FOREIGN FLAVOURS (APTN) 8:00pm: Malaysia

WILD ROSE VET (Cottage Life) 8:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): A turtle named Knuckles needs help with some shell issues and a pig named Missy has a bad case of the flu.

SON OF A CRITCH (CBC) 8:30pm: When Fox’s father gets arrested, Mark lobbies his father not to report on the crime. Meanwhile, Pop and Mary steal cable with a descrambler.

WORKIN' MOMS (CBC) 9:00pm:  A Jenny-organized school fun fair brings everybody together for a day of festivities and life-changing decisions.

HUDSON & REX (City TV) 9:00pm: When Jesse's sister contacts him for help, Jesse, Sarah and Rex head to Northern Ontario and find themselves in the middle of a deadly situation.

MEET, MARRY, MURDER (Lifetime Canada) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  Despite a rocky start, Savannah and Trent Paschal seem like the perfect suburban couple; their romance ends in suspicion, jealousy and a countrywide police hunt after murder is caught on camera.

PAWN STARS (History Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Rick prepares for battle over a pair of vintage posters; Rick and Chum check out a large Battle Cat toy; Corey takes a look at an old fireman's megaphone; Chum heads over to a photo gallery to see a shot of a lifetime.

GOLD RUSH: PAY DIRT (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm (SEASON PREMIERE): With added scenes and bonus features; Parker drops a bombshell on his crew to make up for the debacle in Alaska; Fred faces off with his son over the night shift; Tony's crew cashes out for the season.

HAUNTINGS (T&E) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  When Andrea Perron moved into her new home in Rhode Island with her parents and four sisters, the previous occupants seemed in a hurry to leave; "for the sake of your family, leave the lights on in this house at night," they told her father, Roger.

A DATE WITH DANGER (Super Chanel Fuse) 9:00pm: A single mom is looking for a fresh start in a new town when she befriends a boutique owner. After her new friend goes missing, she begins to suspect her neighbor of the crime.

CASUAL (CBC) 9:30pm: Alex’s secret profile gets its first real match. Laura bonds with Michael after her sex tape goes viral at school. Valerie gets closure with her ex-husband.

[daniellejlinder]

The podcast backlog continues: season 1, episode 4, in which Kasey James flees the tower and its strange inhabitant, and explores a little of the first floor of the Bridge House, including gallery - wherein are a number of curious artworks and a rather disturbing statue. Or is it only a statue?

[bramblepaws]

washed up on your shore

[newyorkarttours]

Jordan Kasey at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Like Fernando Botero’s swelling human figures, Jordan Kasey’s monumental painted bodies transport viewers out of the everyday. Kasey’s figures, however, have the ponderous heaviness of stone enlivened by a sometimes-electric color palette, a dynamic that gives her massive paintings unique energy. (On view at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on the Lower East Side through March 17th). Jordan Kasey, The Play, oil on canvas, 66 x 72 inches, 2018.

[grlatarockshow]

LIVE GALLERY: Wildflower Music Festival

LIVE GALLERY: Wildflower Music Festival

pics: Paul Blackburn

[lumosinlove]

Well, this got longer than I thought it would, so I’ll have to publish in a few parts as I write...

But Happy Birthday, Finn, my favorite :)

Find it here on Ao3

~

Of Silence And Slow Time

part i of iii

~

New York City, 1920

~

Everyone told Finn that the statue looked like him, that he simply must go and see it.

“Really, Finn,” his older brother Alex said. “It’s the eyes, the face, it’s the mouth. It’s uncanny.”

Finn had just looked over Alex and the man and woman he seemed to always have at his side ever since the war ended. Natalie, a nurse whom he’d met in France, and Kasey a Canadian from another unit—they’d ended up in the hospital together.

“It’s in France,” Finn said flatly. “I know you’re forgetting about it all, but I’m not exactly keen on going back there. It took me ages to get home.”

It had taken everything for him to get home.

Alex, to Finn’s relief, nodded at Natalie and Kasey to go get themselves a drink at the bar down the street, told them that he’d meet them there. Finn stared down at the book open and unseeing in his lap. He wasn’t even sure what he was reading, on that he wanted to. His mind didn’t seem to follow him just right these days. Cars became bombs sometimes. Sleep was all dreams.

Alex sat beside him on their parents’ old sofa.

“Fish,” Alex said softly, and moved his hand slow, where Finn could see it, before resting it gently around his shoulders. “You can’t sit here all day. That’s not going to help you, and I know you don’t like it. You’ve never sat still like this.”

“I’m not going back to France.”

“It’s Paris,” Alex said, and gently flipped Finn’s wrist over to reveal the tiny globe his friend Jackson had dotted there with a needle and ink. “You’ve always wanted…don’t let this war stop you any longer.”

Finn stared down at the reminder he’d asked his friend for, ink permanent black. He’d never been farther than New England before the war. Paris, he’d always thought, gazing at his collection of books. Rome. Athens, Barcelona—

Finn swallowed hard. “Looks just like me, huh?”

Alex’s grin was enough to pull one out of Finn, just slightly. “It was bizarre.” Alex squeezed his shoulders. “I’ll even meet you there later if you want, once we’re through with Canada.”

Finn sent a wary glance towards where Natalie and Kasey had left.

Alex raised an eyebrow. “You’d like them. And, who knows who you’ll meet over there. We ran into all sorts of people, people like you’ve never seen. It’s why—” Alex broke off slightly, and looked after the nurse and soldier, too. Finn blinked at the nervous bob of his throat, and then his smile. “There are all sorts of love and art in this world of ours. I know it feels like it’s all war, I felt that too, but it’s not. Please let me help you see that.”

Finn rubbed a thumb over his tattoo, and closed his book.

Everything felt like war. He was so tired of it he thought he’d be crushed.

He looked up at his brother. “I don’t have much money.”

Alex just grinned and slapped him on the back, then pulled him into a tight embrace.

~

Finn arrived in Paris with a lump in his throat. He stumbled through half-French greetings and requests to his taxi, who looked at him sourly and turned out to have dropped him off four streets away from his hotel—maybe on purpose. Maybe because it was barely six in the morning.

Finn was annoyed at first, and then he began to walk.

Paris’ cobblestones were like those in the West Village, only they weren’t. There were glimpses of his home in the uneven tread of his feet, but these stones were darker, as if soaked with more time and more place. It calmed him, while the brief glance towards France’s rolling hills had sent him back to his cabin on the rocky ship, shaking and gasping for air. He’d barely eaten during the entire journey besides forcing down the occasional breakfast sludge, and his legs had wobbled so fiercely upon stepping back onto land, he’d had to sit down.

Finn paused now, closing his eyes and leaning against the nearest building. He’d been so stupid the first time, decked out in his new uniform, eyes on the war like it was some prize to be won. The comfort waned with his scattering mind and Finn tried to draw a steady breath in. The lump in his throat only grew tighter and he squeezed the handle of his small suitcase.

“Monsieur?” came a voice, spilled over with concern.

Finn’s eyes flashed open and he pushed himself straight, blinking through the pale morning light. There was a boy standing there, around his age, with bright blond hair and worried blue eyes. He was tall, with a neat white apron tied around his hips.

“Ça va?” the boy took a hesitant step forward. His eyes glanced towards Finn’s suitcase, and he nodded in realization, then spoke in accented English. “Are you all right?”

Finn looked behind the boy to see the cafe, slowly opening, from which he must have come. There was an abandoned stack of chairs he was putting out for the day, and his apron had an embroidered name at one corner, Finn realized, that matched the sign above.

Le Lion.

“Yes,” Finn breathed, but found himself unable to speak louder. “I’m fine.”

The boy just shook his head, and gestured behind him. “Non. You must sit down. S’il vous plaît. Please.”

Finn didn’t know how to refuse him.

A few minutes later, he found himself stationed at one of the cafe’s tables with a steaming pot of coffee in front of him, a croissant, and a plate of softly scrambled eggs.

“You look like you need more than butter and bread,” the boy had said, wiping strong looking hands on his apron. “You are from America?”

Finn nodded. He had been worried he would be able to stomach the food after the boy went through so much trouble, but upon his first bite of eggs, he felt ravenous.

“Yes,” Finn nodded, brushing his hands off from croissant crumbs. “Sorry, yes,” he held out his hand. “Finn.”

“Leo,” the boy smiled, and took his hand. “It is a pleasure.”

Finn found himself returning that smile with one that, for the first time in a long time, felt like his own. He tried to put coins into Leo’s hand when it was all over, but Leo simply waved him off and said he hoped to see Finn again.

~

The Louvre was more than Finn could have imagined. It was like walking across the ocean floor, new rarities at every corner. And, of course, there was the matter of the statue. Alex had said it would be with all the other works from ancient Greece. He didn’t have trouble following the signs to the correct gallery, walking through the white marble hallways. When he did reach the Greek galleries, his first thought was that the perfectly white statues nearly blended in with everything else, at least until he found a plaque that said it had all been painted once. Finn smiled to himself. Maybe his apparent stony doppelgänger had had red hair, too.

Imagining Alex and his long stride in these halls was easy. And it was quiet here, and distracting, which let Finn close his eyes for a moment, inhaling the scent of old stone, like a church, or a river’s bank.

When he opened them, he had found it. He was staring into his own face. His eyes were blank. He reached up to feel the shape of his own jaw as he looked at the statue’s, on display in the way the head was slightly turned, jaw set, brow low, as if in focus. Finn blinked, pulled out of the daze of seeing it, and his eyes landed on the museum card beside it. There was a word in ancient Greek, said to have been carved more visibly into the bust’s base. Future, it translated to. Thought to be made in the name of a God, though he may be lost now. There is no other surviving work by this artist.

Finn looked back at the eyes, so much like his own he could have seen brown there in the blank irises, and thought about when this strange statue had been carved. He’d always loved the way ancient Greece was sometimes described in poetry. It had gotten him through many long nights in the trenches. Serene, warm, and with nothing to do but lounge in the olive groves. Working the land and coming home at sundown to wine and honey and spiced meat. He’d longed for it. He longed for it still, this simple-seeming past.

The next thing he felt was warm wind. He smelled salt water.

The museum melted around him and his shoes slipped into sand before disappearing entirely.

~

Finn turned around to the sound of someone shouting, worried it was at him, only to find a brunette boy storming towards him—then past him—a foreign language continuing to fly off of his tongue. But more importantly, the boy was dressed in a simple garment of white cloth that left his strong, tanned legs and arms completely bare, and his feet were sandaled. Finn reached down to smooth his suit, only to find it gone, as well, replaced with a similar getup. He stared down at his bare skin, so pale in the bright sunlight.

And then the foreign language morphed, like a scratched record, and became English to his ears.

“—I’m telling you, Leo, I won’t go. Not without you.”

Leo?

And there the blond boy was, sitting in the shade of low trees at the edge of the beach. He was holding some sort of musical instrument, plucking at its strings almost sadly, head bowed.

“You have to,” Leo replied. “The oath says—“

He stopped mid-sentence, having looked up and spotted Finn. It made the brunette turn, and then Finn’s back was in the sand and there was a thin, rough blade at his throat.

Green eyes bore down into his own, a growl ripping from the boy’s throat. “Spartan.”

Finn choked out a breath, his hand going around the boy’s wrist. “No—no.”

“Logan,” came Leo’s voice, and then the knife’s pressure was released, pulled back by Leo, but the boy—Logan—was still sitting firmly on Finn’s hips. Finn felt his entire body flush with the sheer lack of fabric between them, but Logan didn’t seem to either mind or notice.

“I’m not a—Spartan,” Finn managed. “What the hell, I…” He looked to his left, at the sparkling waves lapping there, and then to the two boys looming above him. “Where am I?”

That made both of them freeze, the knife twitching in Logan’s hand.

“Ithaca,” Leo offered timidly, then glanced out at sea, as if that was where Finn had come from. Finn just stared at him.

He was the boy from the cafe. He was sure of it. His blue eyes filled with the same concern as they had on that early morning cobblestone street.

“Are you all right?” Leo asked.

“He is a spy,” Logan said, and went for him again.

Finn was ready this time. He knocked a leg around Logan’s waist, putting him on his back, and then rolled away from him and to his feet, knife in hand. He raised it for the two of them to see and then tossed it a little ways down the beach. “I’m not a spy. I…I’m just lost.”

It was true. In more ways than he’d even thought before.

“Please,” he managed more quietly.

He watched Leo and Logan exchange a look, unsure of what it meant, until Logan turned on his heel and Leo gestured for Finn to follow.

~

“Are you at war?” Finn asked he was led through the city streets. It had been a hot walk up a long road built into a steep hill, all the way up to what Finn assumed was the inner city and acropolis. Water ran along the side of the street—no doubt with sewage—and they crossed via stepping stones, pressing themselves against the walls whenever carts rattled by—carts filled with men with shields and swords or spears.

Logan, who brought up the rear behind him, having retrieved his knife, scoffed. “Aren’t we always?”

“And where are you taking me?”

“Where we take any question we can’t answer,” Leo said from in front of him, golden hair gleaming. “Pascal.”

[myxcriminal]

“You’re mine.”

{ @xuperbia }

[disneybritton]

HOUSE DIARY: OCTOBER 2024

Kasey’s Playroom

Designing our guest room has been a puzzle. Last October, it was a dedicated space for occasional overnight visitors, like Teddy, but it’s usually 80% empty. So, this year, we turned it into Kasey’s Playroom (media room) for year-round use with a sleeper sofa and four gallery walls. We love it!

#1/5 - Two Thieves, by Michael Cook on sofa gallery wall

#2/5 - Towering Books Wall. Nick Wooster installed World globe atop his shelves. We’ve installed artist plates atop our, from our collection.

#3/5 - TV Gallery Wall. The backdrop is the color drenched walls and ceiling, and soon a blue sofa bed (60%), a black/white carpet and pillow cases (30%), and the grey media console tables (10%).

#4/5 - Wall to Ceiling Gallery Wall.

#5/5. Sofa B&W Gallery Wall

[talkfantasytome]

The Sims Masterlist

A masterlist of all my sims creations that I share on tumblr. Most will be related to playing modern AU versions of ships/households from A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City.

This list is mainly for creations, and the listed creations will include a Gallery link or instructions on how to find in the Gallery. Game-play posts and threads may be linked using numbers or symbols next to the name of the household being played.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Nessian (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10)

Gwynriel (1|2|3|4|5)

Emorie

Feysand

Elucien

Throne of Glass

Rowaelin (1)

Crescent City

Light It Up!

Pack of Devils

Valbaran Fae Boys

The Folk of the Air

Duarte Girls + Heather

Cardan Greenbriar

For those not interested in these posts, I will do my best to tag all with "kasey sims" as well as other "sim" tag identifiers (i.e. "sim nessian").

[livesincerely]

for your “lets cut to the chase series” which im in love with btw- i like n e e d more possessive davey im avsvdbdjdkld. thank you for your writing it always makes my day 🥺

Thank you!! I’m glad you’re enjoying these!! 😊💕

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Possessive Kiss

Jack has been trying to shake her off for the better part of an hour now. She’s pretty enough, he supposes, in the sort of detached way you recognize that a flower or painting is pretty enough, but he’d left ‘politely humoring’ and swan dived into ‘seriously irritated’ a while ago, and his patience is wearing extremely thin.

“—and my father thought it was such a wonderful idea that it was implemented immediately, and now we ship our products to fifty-seven different countries worldwide.”

Jack makes a gesture that could maybe be considered a positive acknowledgment if you tilt your head and squint real hard, but is honestly more of a grimace.

The woman—Kara, Kasey, Kaden? Jack’s not sure, but he does know that her last name is Perdue, as in Walter Perdue, as in Perdue House International because she keeps mentioning it—barely seems to pause to breathe, continuing, “I know, right? Expansion has really taken off in the last two quarters. I told him right from the start, I said ‘Daddy, we really need to consider all the ways we can make the tax code work for us, not against us—‘“

Jack grits his teeth.

Just sit here and smile, he tells himself. The gallery needs sponsors, do not piss off the annoying rich lady, just let her paw at you and talk your ears bloody for a little longer...

Then he sees him.

Davey squeezes past the throngs of partygoers, patrons, and elderly arts aficionados, gorgeous as anything in a navy suit and dark tie, and pauses, using his height to scan the crowd, clearly searching.

“—and it took a bit of persuading but of course I managed to get them to see things my way—��

Davey does a 360° turn, and mid-way through his eyes land on Jack at the bar and the unwanted companion seated beside him. His eyes flicker to Karen—taking in her expensive dress, complicated hairdo, fancy jewelry, and the hand she’s all but glued to Jack’s bicep—and makes a face.

‘Really, Jackie?’ Davey’s eyes ask.

Jack gives a little shrug. ‘You’re telling’ me, Dave.’

“—and then I said, “Well, of course we need to open new franchises in China! That’s an entire market we’re letting slip through our fingers and... Um, hello?”

“Good evening,” Davey says mildly. “May I cut in? I need to borrow my husband for a moment.”

Jack feels his eyebrows shoot up, but he quickly schools his expression. Kourtney, however, looks distinctly put out—the first change in demeanor Jack’s seen from her all night.

“Oh... yes of course,” she blusters. “I didn’t realize... I’ll just leave you to it.”

She finally pulls her hand away, though not as quickly as Jack would’ve liked her to, and slinks away to find some other schmuck to latch onto.

“So I’m your husband now?” Jack asks, curling his fingers through the loops on Davey’s dress pants and tugging him to stand between the vee of Jack’s legs. “You shoulda told me sooner, sweetheart, I woulda got ya somethin’ nice.”

“I figured that would be the best way to chase her off without causing a scene, because of course the one night I have to work late is the night some rich socialite decides she wants you to be her latest boy toy.” Davey says, arms coming up to loop loosely around Jack’s neck. “But whenever you decide you have a question to ask me.... well, you know where to find me.”

“Oh?” Jack asks, hands sliding around to sit low on Davey’s hips, just shy of indecent. “You got somethin’ you’ve been waitin’ to tell me, Jacobs?”

“It’s nothing that you don’t already know,” Davey murmurs, stepping that tiniest bit closer, his eyes achingly blue beneath the flutter of his lashes.

“Yeah? Remind me anyway,” Jack rumbles, gaze flitting helplessly between Davey’s eyes and his mouth. “I wanna hear about all the ways you want me to be yours.”

“Oh, Jackie, darling,” Davey breathes against Jack’s lips. “You’re already mine.”

Davey kisses him long and slow and deep—like he has all the time in the world to savor the feel and taste and heat of it. He finishes devouring Jack’s mouth, cradling Jack’s face in his hands as he pulls away, but he leans back in to press one more kiss to Jack’s lips before he goes—feather light and somehow even more devastating for it’s gentleness.

“Wanna get out of here?” Davey asks, all darkened eyes and low, throaty voice.

“You... just got here,” Jack says, tongue darting out to wet his lips, more than a little dazed.

Davey arches an eyebrow. “Do you want to stay?”

“Hell-fucking-no,” Jack says, jumping to his feet. “Let’s go home.”

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@king-of-the-tables

Tag List: @yahfancyclamwiththepurlinside, @corbinthecowboy

[moremusic]

This week I found out more about the talented country music sister duo, Ella and Sienna.

Can you tell us a little history of yourselves?

We started out busking around the Adelaide Hills in 2018 and soon started gigs at our local pubs and wineries later that year. We have been performing now for three years professionally.

How did Covid change your approach to releasing music and your approach in general?

It has been really difficult for many industries and musicians/performers especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately many gigs and festivals that we were to play have been cancelled or postponed over the last two years. We have also recently been planning a trip interstate to record new music but these plans have had to be changed multiple times due to border restrictions. However, around the start of the pandemic in 2020 we started a Facebook Livestream series which went really well. We have been able to reach over 30,000 views on our live videos and support others going through tough lockdowns by sharing our music.

I am a big fan of your song “Save your Breath” can you tell me the meaning of this song?

Our debut single 'Save Your Breath' was written at the beginning of 2020 after the devastating bushfires that affected most of Australia. It's about the tragic losses suffered from the bushfires, in particular the wildlife and our local community in the Adelaide Hills. We felt it was really important to deliver the message of physically taking action to achieve change rather than just reacting with empty words.

What is your career highlight?

It's tough to narrow it down to one highlight! Our career highlights would have to be either winning the Ekka (Qld Royal Show) Country Music Festival in 2019, performing our original song 'Save Your Breath' on Main Stage at the Tamworth Country Music Festival and placing 2nd in battle of the buskers. Another moment we will never forget is when Kasey Chambers joined us onstage and sang her song 'Ain't No Little Girl' with us during the Tamworth Festival!

Where is your favourite venue in Adelaide to play?

Our favourite live music venues in Adelaide would have to be The Gov and the Murray Delta Juke Joint. We have played many times on the Gallery Stage at The Gov with our band and the atmosphere at these venues is a great vibe. We also have our first ever gig with our band at The Wheatsheaf Hotel on September 26th which is not one to miss!

Have you got an opinion on the Adelaide Music scene?

It is very interesting being an acoustic pop/country act in Adelaide as we are quite different to the rest of the music scene, however we are looking forward to playing at new city venues and hopefully joining some lineups with well-known Adelaide bands.

Who are the other Adelaide bands worth checking out?

Our bassist, Sebastian Brook also plays in a large pop/funk band called Malibu Drive. These boys are definitely worth checking out!

What are your long term and short term goals?

In the future we are really looking forward to playing more band gigs, festivals and would love to put together a small tour. We are also very keen to release new music soon!!

Finally, where can people find out more about you?

https://ellaandsiennamusic.com

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The Difference Between Boys & Girls | o3

summary: Sam & Erin are university students who share a cheap one bedroom apartment above a shitty takeaway restaurant. Due to the limited space, they’ve grown accustomed to sharing just about everything, including the occasional kiss.

pairing: Jung Hoseok (Samuel Park)  x Named OC characters: meet the cast.

genre: angst, smut, fluff

chapters: o1| o2| o3| o4| o5| o6| o7| o8| o9| 10| 11| 12| 13| 14

warning: boyfriend!hoseok, jealous!hoseok, friends to lovers trope, college au, angst, sexual themes, slow burn

a/n: still a fool. still reuploading.

"So did he take you home and bang you?"

Erin groaned, knowing that this would be the only thing Kasey would be concerned about when she decided to tell her about what happened between her and Sammy two nights ago. Kasey had always been a straightforward kind of girl and that trait was one of the many things Erin admired about her friend.

She had no problem making her many opinions known and heard by whoever was in earshot, not that she was rude; the girl just appreciated being heard. Erin always wondered how she managed to find a home in a country so strict on ways to manner yourself with everyone you met when the Kasey she knew was not a fan of censoring herself for someone else's benefit. Then again, she had been here for over four years now so clearly something was working for her.

"No, he did not take me home and bang me" Erin answered in a hushed voice, glancing around at the groups of people sat near them in the tiny cafe. They didn't seem like they were eavesdropping, but the second Kasey alluded to sex Erin saw a few nosey Ajumma's slowly turn in their direction. 

"We just went home. I took a shower, called Brian then went to bed. I think Sammy fell asleep watching TV."

"So that's just it? You didn't even bring up the fact that he tried to kiss you?" Kasey asked, sounding dumbfounded.

"Not that night. I mean, he was acting weird the entire walk back to our apartment and when we finally did get home, he just kicked off his shoes and laid out on the couch," Erin sighed and leaned forward to take a small sip of her Green Tea Latte "I brought it up the next day though."

"And?" Kasey was as impatient as she opinionated, the two seconds Erin took to clear her throat was just too much for her.

"You need to cool it on the expresso, and he just apologised. His exact words were 'Ah, noona! I'm so sorry I was a little drunk and I shouldn't have tried to take advantage of you, it won't happen again'. Then he did some annoying aegyo, kissed me on the forehead, I went to class and now I'm here with you and honestly I'm just over the entire thing."

Erin sounded confident, but her best friend knew that couldn't be further from the truth.

"Is that so?" Kasey asked with a catlike smirk as she attempted to catch Erin's eyes.

"Yup! totally over it" Erin replied while staring out the window.

"Erin."

"Alright, fine I'm not over it!" She groaned as she crumbled like a house of cards and rested her head against the table. "I can still feel his breath on my skin and every time I look at him I just wanna push against the wall and make him finish what he started." The ajumma's seated a table across from them pursed their lips and got up.

"Then why don't you do that?" Kasey stated like it was the simplest thing in the world.

Erin picked her head up and looked over at her best friend who was currently mutilating the foam cat floating on top of her hot cocoa. "Because.... it's not that easy. We've been friends for so long and we live together and that would just complicate things. There's also the fact that I don't know if he feels the same way."

"Oh c'mon Erin you can't believe that"

"I'm serious, Kas. I don't."

"So you think he was just trying to keep you from getting a cold with his lips the other night?" 

"No, but that means nothing. I know that I'm pretty, I know that I was wearing a sexy dress that night and I know that we were both a little tipsy and our inhibitions were lowered. He's my friend, but he's still a guy so I get that he's gonna be attracted to me sometimes. What I don't know is if he wants to be with me the way I want to be with him."

Kasey raised an eyebrow and pushed her mug forward so that she could rest her palms against the table. "I thought you just wanted to screw him."

Erin shrugged and adjusted the beanie on her head, gnawing at her bottom lip between her teeth "I do...I mean. I did, but it's different now. I want to hold his hand and snuggle up on the couch and watch pride prejudice together, go for walks on the beach..." 

"So basically, all the shit ya'll do now but with sex?" Kasey pointed out.

"Well. Yeah."

It was Kasey turn to sigh now, and she did. Loudly and dramatically, she loved Erin to bits but there was no way she could be this clueless. "Then why don't you tell him that? What's the worse that could happen, he says nah and you two go back to being weird like you are now"

"I don't wanna risk it" Erin reiterated "Plus now Brian's in the mix and that's throwing me off because one part of me wants to wait for some kind of sign from Sammy but the other part of me really wants to see what could happen with Brian."

"I've been meaning to ask about that, are you really going to go out with him? He doesn't sound like your usual type; unemployed, flirty, short."

"We met for coffee yesterday, actually. He is not unemployed; he's an artist, his flirtations aren't creepy, and he's not short! He's like a full inch taller than me," Erin pouted in Brian's defense.

"Whatever, did you tell him how deep in love you are with your roommate?"

Erin glowered at Kasey and flipped her off "We didn't stay too long because he had an emergency at his studio. He's taking me out tomorrow night though I don't know exactly where but he made it sound nice." She mused with a small smile.

Kasey shrugged gently, choosing to give up the chance to berate her friend again she wasn't going to make any headway until Erin was ready to truly confront what she was feeling for Sammy. 

"All jokes aside you really should talk to him about it, E." Erin's mouth opened to refute her, but Kasey held up a hand and continued speaking "You don't have to tell him you're in love with him, even though I know you are. At least tell him that you're attracted to Sam. It wouldn't be fair for you to let him jump headfirst into this without being given the option to back out if he doesn't want to deal with that."

Erin was silent for a few seconds. She knew that Kasey was right in some sense, but that didn't make the idea any easier to swallow. She didn't want to end up hurting Brian in the future, but there was such a slim chance of anything happening between her and Sammy. Would it really be worth it to put her budding relationship to the test over a something that had such a small possibility of being an actual problem?

"I know.."

"I was this close, dude! So close to kissing her, I could taste the tequila on her breath," Sammy exclaimed as she tossed a soft felt basketball into the air.

"So why didn't you?" Du-jin asked, though he wasn't particularly interested since he was currently enthralled with an RPG on his phone.

Samuel sighed heavily and pulled the plush toy close to his chest once it fell back into his hands "That guy she met at the gallery called; ruined the whole mood" He grumbled then turned to look down at his classmate who was seated on the floor in front of the couch Sammy was lying on. "Are you even listening to me?"

"Huh? Yeah, a gallery shooting ruined the mood" Du-jin replied, his eyes never leaving the screen.

Sammy frowned and reached down to pluck the cellphone from Du-jin's hands before quickly hopping off the couch and running around the to the back before Du-jin had the chance to stand up and catch him. His friend was taller that he was, with much longer arms and legs, but he was nowhere near as coordinated as Sam was. Sammy had seen him stumble and trip over his own two feet too many times to count. 

"Just listen to me for two minutes and you can have your phone back." Sam bargained once Du-jin started complaining and demanding his possession back. 

"You are so damn needy," Du-jin grumbled but returned to sit on the floor anyway "What is this about? You're making out with your roommate now?"

"Almost," Sam corrected as he hopped over the back of the couch and relaxed again "You know Erin, she came with me when we went out for noraebang a few months ago."

"Oh, the black girl? I thought she was your girlfriend," Du-jin said, as his eye squinted together in confusion "You two barely talked to anyone else the whole night and that duet you sang...."

"We're close" Sammy responded before he had a chance to bring up any more evidence.

"I have close female friends too.... I don't touch any of them," Du-jin rebutted.

"Maybe you're not as close as you think."

"This isn't about me. If you're such close friends why do you want to kiss her?"

This question gave Samuel pause, and he sat up slightly before answering "I don't know... she's cute" He said after a beat "And it wouldn't have been the first time we've kissed."

"So she was your girlfriend."

"No, not like that. Just teenage shit when we were kids, nothing serious. Well, there was that time on the beach..."

"You've got sixty seconds left, so I'd make this quick."

Sam puffed his cheeks out and pouted before explaining himself “When we were kids were snuck out after my graduation and ended up making out. If we hadn't been caught we probably would have done a lot more than that.” The young man sighed wistfully as pleasant memories flooded his mind “I remember being so excited when we got back to my house I thought I would finally get the chance to confess, and she'd be my girlfriend, but she just told me she had to go home then she went back to university and she was so busy we didn't even get to talk for the rest of that week. I don't think we've ever talked about that since it happened.” 

"What's stopping you from bringing it up now?" Du-jin asked while peering at his watch.

"I-Well it’s different now," Sammy stammered "She seems happy and I can't just bring up the past and ruin something that could be good for her with these uncertain feelings"

"Wow, sounds like you've got a problem" Du-jin's voice was flat and monotone as he reached for his cellphone and quickly opened the game again.

"Ah, hyung. I'm really frustrated here, give me some useful advice." Sam whined.

"What do you want me to tell you? You waited too long to make up your mind and now you're in an awkward position. You can either ruin her new relationship before it starts and piss her off or stand by and hope that they break up soon." Du-jin advised from the floor.

Sam frowned and began to speak before the sound of the door unlocking made him shut up. Once his roommate was inside and in his eye view Sam rushed from his seat to embrace her.

Erin's knees nearly buckled from the sudden contact but she regained her composure after a few seconds "Hi Sammy" She laughed and wrapped her arms around him to return his hug before quickly stepping away, "Uh-have you eaten? I stopped to get some food before I came home" Erin asked while she sidestepped Sammy and moved toward the kitchen. The boy seated near their couch caught her attention and Erin bowed instinctively "Hello, you're... Doo-jun right? You're in one of Sammy engineering classes."

"Du-jin but you were close enough" Du-jin smiled, the deep dimples in his cheeks becoming more noticeable.

"Ah, I apologise. I'm not very good with names, are you hungry? There's enough food here for all of us," She asked while placing the bag full of containers on the counter.

Du-jin nodded and offered to help, but Erin only waved him off, stating that she could handle a few plates of food as she began preparing everything from the containers.

Samuel had moved from the door and was currently hovering near the entrance of the kitchen, watching Erin from behind with an affectionate smile. The longer he stood in silence and watched her interact with his classmate, the smile that spread across her face when she laughed making his heart swell. Sam realised that his 'uncertain feelings' where Erin was concerned were not as uncertain as he once thought.

In fact, he was certain that he was now in very big trouble.