#((This was suppose to be 5min drawing...how did I get from drawing nothing for a month to this??))

[monkeylucy]

Based on a discord chat about what SF4 could have been but with memes

[bloodysteel]

I’m so sorry I’m so late on this - I’m working part time bc of the quarantine and my work decided to block our computers when we are not supposed to be working (at least they don’t pretend we’re not working haha), so it took me forever to do it (bc I don’t like doing it on my phone)

Sooo I was tagged by the very talented @katersann​ and @natassakar​, thank you so much I love that kind of game :D

1. Which character are you most excited to learn the endgame of: My delinquents, I love them all (Raven looking to you to redeem yourself a bit to my Clarkey). if i’m being completely honest, BELLARKE. 

2. Which character are you most excited to learn the backstory of: Hope and Octavia - but let’s make it a 5min short story and let’s focus on our delinquents, their feelings and mending their wounds, pretty please?

3. One character who deserves a new look: Clarke, definitely Clarke. My girl needs to dress up a bit, like those beautiful dresses she wore !!

4. Two locations you want to revisit: Eden - I’d like Clarke to show Bellamy her world, her drawings and all she did while he was in space. The Dropship - bc I want my delinquents to reflect on everything that happened to them, everything they went through and then find peace (ALIVE. ALL OF THEM)

5. Three brotps you hope get more screentime: I’m a CLURPHY Brotp bitch, so CLURPHY

I’d like more Madi/Jordan too (that scene was just too cute), and I want him to be happy too. 

And maybe some Murphamy or Emori/Raven brotp

6. Who will get the happiest ending: Bellarke, Bellarke, Bellarke (although I fear someone might kill off my baby Bellamy, please don’t. Please, my heart wouldn’t bear it)

7. Which minor or new characters you want to see more of: No new character please (or maybe flashbacks of super smart grandpa Blake being a history nerd like his grandson, something like that). Let’s focus on our main cast, it’s out last season. 

8. Who will eventually snap Jordan out of the funk we see him in, at the end of 6x13: Bellamy. I’d like to hear him talk about mourning the person he loved (aka Clarke) when he was on the Ark, how hard it was, how he thought he would die, etc.. And Jordan just says at the end “But Clarke is alive, right?” and of course Clarke listened to it all - or Murphy and he just goes to his fellow cockroach to provoke Bellarke.

9. Who will be the first to tell Bellamy he can’t immediately run into the Anomaly after Octavia: Hope or Gabriel.

10. To reference Monty’s ‘do better’ mantra: Raven, when she eventually makes things right with Clarke.

11. To say ‘go float yourself’: Bellamy

12. Random object or prop you would bring back for Season 7 if you could:  Clarke’s pink hair

13. Book One storyline/reference you want to see back for Season 7: The Princess nickname (that would be too good to be true actually) or the Drink they were supposed to have or Clarke proving Bellamy she can be fun - alright it’s all S1-2 references

14. Dead character you would like mentioned: Anyone but Lexa, please. I really liked her but she’s dead, she’s already been mentioned and used like a thousand times. Let’s remember my handsome man Roan kom Azgeda.

15. How do you think Hope and Octavia know each other (from season 6): From the anomaly I guess where they lived a life we will discover in s7

16. How do you think it all will end?: Bellarke, baby Bellarke, Bellarke living happy ever after (a girl can dream), maybe a bit of Murven?, I know he proposed to Emori but hey, who knows? She could die instead of Bellamy to create drama.. 

 i will tag (nothing compulsory here, if you don’t feel like it you don’t have to do it :)) @stydialarke​; @iishallbelieve​, @calypezo​ and @dealingdreams​

[curiouskarenscapers2017]

Volume Five – December 2004

  INDEX:

Morning Market, Carrefour, Lukang 11/12 Taipei 12/12 Taichung – party 18/12 Xmas 25/12

And so the weeks flew by!! My initial plan to go to  Green Island with Teri and Kim has been put on hold as funds are low as usual and we started planning a Xmas at home dinner etc. Much better! Besides I can then send all my Xmas cards and presents home! Definitely a better plan.

  The swimming has been going great and the steam rooms, Jacuzzi’s etc. are doing me wonders!! So our Taipei weekend was nearing and we were getting very excited about it. Xmas in Taiwan is weird. It’s like to explain to the people in Europe that we also have Christmas even though there’s no snow! Taiwan it’s even weirder because here nobody really knows what Christmas is all about and they go through the motions like they do for Halloween. Although the kids sing the Christmas carols and Silent Night without really knowing what they’re singing…I suppose that’s one way of doing it, at least they’re singing it!

  We are busy setting up the Christmas show and practicing our parts for the play. The kindergarten play is about the problem of Santa fitting down the chimney…quite sweet. And I play……guesss…come on…….nope….not Santa……just a ditsy character…isn’t it cool!!! I can be silly and fit right in without even trying!!! I had the girls and Chinese teachers in stitches with my stage acting!!! I’m a natural…I’ve been telling everybody this for years!!!

  They are playing a lot of Xmas songs on the radio…our one station amoung 100’s we listen to. ICRT. You can listen to it on streaming audio as well if you would like to listen to what I am subject to…after 5 FM it was a great disappointment, but after a few days or weeks with the local stations it’s the best station ever!!!!! Very much the Highveld stereo type channel with some worse and older oldies!! But it’s what we were given and it’s how we listen to it that makes the difference!!!! Right?? Anyway, the places are being decorated.

I had my little package prepared to send home, just needed a few more prezzies. I mentioned this and the next minute we were off to the Morning Market on Saturday at about 12:30. Myself on the scooter with Jane and Melissa on the scooter with Celine! We were off!! I drew my first money out of my new E.Sun bank account! Ooooooohhhhh. At least at some of the ATMs you have the English options on others I used my years of experience and guessed the top left hand corner is the withdrawal and the least amount of money!!! You can only draw a NT$1000 and nothing less! The next denomination is NT$ 3 000, what happened to 2 000, that’s the best one…but I think there’s more to it than that! If you draw 1000 you have to do it twice, charges for the bank, but if you draw 3 000 you are stuck with the cash and have to use it!!! Seee, I knew it, it’s a conspiracy!!! A classic lose lose situation!

  Anyway, we arrived at the market, very busy for a morning market! We walked around and I nearly died at a Chinese stall. The baby clothes, and little suits and outfits and for big people too!!! I’ll have to go back, anybody want to order something before I come home in Aug – Nov. Place your orders – I’ll take pictures and tell you how much! The next minute we were whisked off to Carrefour to do our monthly shopping! On two scooters with two people on it with monthly shopping!! Very interesting but not yet the limit! The huge bag on my right knee and me leaning in on the left knee balanced everything out beautifully!!!

  We dropped all our stuff of at home and our two taxi driver’s took us back up to the bus station where we all bought our tickets for NT$27 to Lukang. Here we come…our favorite ancient city!! We landed, got walking and shopping…naaahh, just looking! Got the last few gifts to wrap and send, visited our sexy Chinese antique dealer (some thought so) and were back on the bus on our way home!

  What a day, our Saturday afternoon felt like a full day! Well, we were getting really excited about tomorrow’s excursion and got to bed fairly early. We had to get up at about 6:00 to catch our 7:20 bus to Taipei.

  We made it with no effort whatsoever. Got the bus station after Eddie our usual Taxi driver took us and bought our NT280 one way ticket to Taipei. The trip was good and took around 2 hours. We chatted most of the way and napped 5min in between. Taipei loomed through the morning fog and we arrived at the bus station. What a city!! Reminded me of London or what New York must feel like!

Huge buildings, wide clean streets, electronic billboards to rival Piccadilly circus and department stores on every corner. All adourned in their Christmas decorations and scenes. We asked a police officer which way was the Taipei 101 building and he looked at us weirdly and pointed in a direction. We sheshe’d which is thank you and went on our way. I’m sure he mentioned we take a bus or taxi to get there but we were in the exploring mode and hit the pavements…..did you hear me say pavements??? And you would be right. Something they were very short of when building the rest of Taiwan. We now had the novelty of walking on broad open pavements….woooooww! The roads were very clean, buildings well looked after and huge department stores floors high looked down on the two country mice from Changhua. Coooolll!!!!! We walked past the most beautifully decorated shops and passed a huge SOGO department store with a huge Xmas scene in the front of the building.

Impressive, nearly Harrods material….I said nearly! We walked on…….stopped for a bite to eat and something to drink at Starbucks, next to a big Christmas tree and saw the tower loom on the horizon. Slowly but surely it was moving towards us, first just a shadow in the smog then the outlines sharpen, then it disappears behind buildings only to reemerge around another. We were looking at our small little map I still got at the airport when I arrived in Taipei and it helped a bit but no details.

Their metro rail or underground is an impressive network. With their snorkels above ground well marked and beckoning to come down and take a ride! Next time! We crossed a street and walked down a tree lined street, like all the others, beautiful. We were walking past a school that definitely doesn’t look like our schools back home and the next minute a huge park opened up before us and the Taipei 101 tower loomed high and mighty. What a stunningly designed building. The sections on it look like trapezoids stacked on top of one another. Giving it an awkward appearance, not the usual broad bottom to thin top, but more a broad top to thinner bottom. The park we crossed over had kids trying to rollerskate and guys teaching them in little groups.  To cute! There was a lady in a corner singing with a guy on his clavinova….at least not the usual karaoke we’re used to. We crossed over and arrived at a very interesting cross over in the road. Diagonally opposite us, was the Taiwan World Trade Centre where the computer show was, to our left was a huge bank and to our right the Hyatt!

The cross over had two parallel lines from each corner of the street as well as diagonally across meeting in the middle. Interesting! Then the lights changed and the masses moved……they crossed over diagonally instead of going from on side of the street to the other and then across again. Very clever! Only problem came when they met in the middle a bit. Definitely not a Lord of the dance routine, that I can promise you!! I want my money back!

Anyway, we did it a few times and finally landed at the TWTC. We walked in after getting a handful of brochures and pamphlets stuffed into our hands….a few feet further was the dumping site of those said brochures. Anyway, we politely hung on to them until we got a gigantic paper bag to put it in! I think I knocked around quite a few people with that bag, definitely ensures about a meter of space either way. This show was to die for doll! I am a bit of a gadgets pig and this was my mud puddle. So many things and people and interesting developments in the computer world. Don’t let me start, I’ll write a computer show review as a novel on it’s own!!! But needless to say, I thought my brother would love everything I saw! From new mobile MP4 players (that’s with video clips/music video’s etc) to online games galore at ridiculous prices…needless to say my palms were itching and it needed a product to scratch it! And I found it! A stunning little Samsung brand new camera release! Small, light weight but with all the added features you don’t expect! And that’s not all, it has many hidden features you can only find by killing the battery pressing buttons, as you don’t get an English manual with it…so it’s a little experience and adventure all rolled into one!!! Myself and Melissa succumbed to the temptation and both got one! Needless to say the little Chinese sales man, who could speak English very well, and they got him to talk to us because of this built in feature, loaded with a Yves Saint Laurent necklace and looking like he does quite well for himself, was very pleased. A cool guy to speak to as well as we waited for Melissa’s Credit Card transaction to go through, with all the noise they poor sales guys couldn’t hear the bank on the phone and they were hiding behind cupboards and in cupboards to be able to hear the phone. Eventually, after them giving us some pens and manicure sets to apologize for the inconvenience, we were off to our next adventure, Taipei 101.

Taiwan Times Vol 5 Volume Five – December 2004   INDEX:

[jungshoox]

Faded - Chapter 3

A few days later, Jungkook found himself sitting at the desk at work staring at his timer with an expressionless gaze. The time read, '0m; 0d; 9hr; 5min.' He was feeling so many things at once; on one hand he was excited to meet his soulmate, but on the other he was anxious that they wouldn't be who he thought. He was afraid they would reject him, but mostly he was worried because he didn't know what to do. The timer just kept counting down, but he was stuck at work all day, how was that supposed to work? How would his soulmate just know to go there? He wasn't sure, causing him to feel pretty discouraged. He would have to remember to ask someone if it didn't work. Gathering up every ounce of will power he could, Jungkook got up from his desk with a sigh and left the office to get ready for the first group of students. He spent the whole rehearsal trying not to be distracted so he could do his job correctly, but he couldn't help but to glance at the timer every now and then. Opting to wear his sweater and turn down the temperature, he covered it up so he could focus on the routines. At 5 o'clock, Jungkook released the last class and went to the showers to get cleaned up. As he showered, he tried to avoid looking at the timer, knowing it was so close. His stomach had butterflies, even though he was convinced it wasn't happening anymore. He wasn't going to get his hopes up. Instead, he finished his shower and threw on his clean clothes and headed to the office to get his stuff. When he opened the door, he came face to face with none other than Hoseok. "Kookie!" His face was so bright and his smile so big it looked like he was going to tear his face open. Jungkook's eyes widened in shock. He looked down at his timer, seeing he only had one minute left. "Uh, h-hey Hobi.." he pushed passed the smiling man and headed for the office. When he walked inside, instead of finding his bag in the chair, there was a person, and Jungkook couldn't take his eyes off of them. Immediately Jungkook recognized the curve of the jaw, the pouty lips, the sad eyes. He recognized the beauty and the way it made his stomach sick and his face heat up. What he didn't recognize, however, was the beeping coming from his arm. When he finally pulled his eyes away from the man and to his timer, he noticed the color of the numbers had changed from red to black and were all now at zero. He looked back to the person staring back at him looking just as shocked as he was. His mouth just hung open, he didn't know what to say. He heard a quiet, "Oh shit.." muttered from Hoseok in the doorway and he turned to look. "D-did you know..?" His eyes were still so wide, he was right. The person he had been drawing and painting for months was his soulmate, and he was right here. He didn't know whether to be happy or nervous, because the expression on the other wasn't one he could really read. Hoseok's eyes widened just as wide as Jungkook's and he shook his head, "No! I had no idea..I mean, it was odd that he was in a lot of your art when you had never met him, and I guess that makes sense now but...I didn't know." Hoseok looked from Jungkook to Jimin and made a face that told him he needed to talk to the latter.  "I'll, uh..I'll be right back.." Jimin spoke softly and left the room, not making eye contact with Jungkook. "O-ok.." Jungkook's form shrunk slightly and he felt scared. He couldn't tell what Jimin was thinking or feeling, he couldn't even tell if it was good or bad. He sat in the chair Jimin had previously been sitting in and tried to not notice that there was a slight hint of cologne in the material. He prayed it wasn't Jimin's because it was so nice and he didn't want to be too eager by noticing small things like that. Hoseok put a hand on Jungkook's shoulder and said, "I'm going to talk to him for a second, we'll be back." He left the room after receiving a small nod from the younger boy, leaving him alone with his thoughts and worries. - Jimin had stalked off into the practice room, he couldn't tell if he was angry or embarrassed or what exactly he was feeling, but he knew he wanted to yell. Hoseok followed behind, already thinking about what he would say. "Chim?" Jimin was faced away from Hoseok with his arms crossed in front of him, staring at the floor. "What?" He spat the response, not turning to look at the other. Hoseok walked around to stand in front of Jimin, practically feeling the anger radiating off of him. He softened his own face so to hopefully calm the other down. "Jimin. What are you thinking right now?" Jimin's brows furrowed and he dropped his hands to his side's where they balled up into fists, his voice raising with every word. "What am I thinking? I'm thinking that you brought me here to meet someone, but that person is the one person that I never wanted to meet." His face was getting red thinking about the set of bright, wide eyes in the other room. "I didn't want to meet him, but it happened. And I'm mad about it, Hoseok, I'm fucking mad." Hoseok put his hand on Jimin's shoulder, trying to convey that he was there for him but Jimin pulled away, not wanting to be comforted. Hoseok's brows drew together and his lips formed a thin line, but he tried to keep the hurt out of his eyes, knowing that's where it was most noticeable. "Look, I know you didn't want to, and I didn't know that he was your soulmate, but honestly I'm glad you met him. It's good that you saw that he was real and wanted to meet you." "I didn't want to meet him, Hoseok! I am not the kind of person someone like him would or should want!" He was yelling now, his eyes angry and stance defensive. "He's just going to get hurt with me, there's no point in knowing him or letting him know me." "Jimin, calm down, ok? Just meet him, talk to him. He's been dreaming about this for years, just sit and talk with him for a little bit." Hoseok's eyes were pleading, he knew how badly it would hurt Jungkook if Jimin left. Avoiding eye contact, Jimin shook his head in disbelief, "He gets one conversation." Hoseok sighed in relief and dragged Jimin back to the office, pushing the still angry man through the doorway and shutting it behind him, leaving the two alone. He put his ear against the door to try and listen to the conversation. - Jimin looked back at the door angrily, he didn't want to be left alone with Jungkook, even if he was his soulmate. He turned slowly, trying to avoid eye contact with the wide eyed, obviously nervous boy. "So..uh, I'm Jimin. But I guess you knew that since you painted me?" Jungkook's face flushed a dark red and he looked down at his lap. "Uh, yeah, Hoseok told me." He pulled his bottom lip between his teeth and bit gently. "And you're Jungkook?" Jimin tried to sound a little bit interested, but he wanted nothing more than to get out of that room in that moment. "Y-yeah..Hoseok told you?" His hands gripped his sweatpants tightly, he was incredibly nervous. After seeing this face in his art for so long, it was so surreal seeing it in person. Jimin nodded, biting the inside of his cheek. He wasn't sure what else to say and was about to reach for the handle to leave when Jungkook spoke up again, "What, uh..what do we do? About..this?" He motioned to the now black timer on his arm. Jimin's face hardened and his eyes clouded over. "Nothing. We do nothing about it, Jungkook. I don't know what Hoseok told you, but I never got a timer. I didn't want to be a part of the whole soulmate thing. And now that I met you, I have limited time to keep doing what I want, I'm going to start aging again." He was losing his cool, angry at Jungkook even though he knew it wasn't his fault. "So you go ahead and do whatever you want, but WE do not do anything about it." The look on Jungkook's face made Jimin's heart lurch; his eyebrows furrowed but his eyes still wide and filled with hurt, his lips slightly parted as if he needed to say something but couldn't get the words out. Jimin looked away quickly to keep his resolve, he wasn't going to let those sad eyes make him feel guilty. Jungkook didn't know how to respond, his chest was clenching and his eyes started to burn. "Uh- I...ok.." He got up from his chair and grabbed his things before leaving the room. He ran into a surprised Hoseok, tears brimming his eyes. "Lock up for me, please." After handing the keys over to the shocked man, Jungkook left the studio and set off for anywhere but there, leaving Jimin and Hoseok alone. Hoseok looked at Jimin with hooded eyes, he was furious. "Are you kidding me? Jimin, all that boy did was want to know you! I know you have your issues with it or whatever, but that poor kid has never done anything wrong. I've never seen him like that before, he looked like he was going to break." Jimin would be lying if he said he didn't feel a pang of guilt in his chest, but he couldn't back down. "Hoseok, I told you, I don't want a soulmate! It's not my fault it happened to be some kid who can't handle rejection." With a sigh, Hoseok stepped back, "Come on. I don't want to be here anymore." Jimin followed and walked ahead, not waiting for Hoseok to lock up. He was walking down the hallway, looking in each room with an open door as if those tear filled eyes would be in one staring back at him. However, the only sad eyes he saw were his own, it was like looking in a mirror, but it was a painting. His feet stopped on their own and he cautiously stepped into the room. 'That must be the painting Jungkook did..' Jimin's mind was reeling at how amazing it was. He couldn't stop looking at the eyes, it made him wonder if he actually looked that sad, if that's how people saw him. "It's good, isn't it?" Jimin turned to see Hoseok standing in the doorway, arms crossed and leaning against the frame, his face still angry. "That's the latest one. He's done others before, he showed them to me." "Really? Are they all this good?" He looked back to the painting, his eyebrows twitching up in curiosity. Hoseok's face softened at the thought, he was proud of Jungkook's art. "Yeah, they are. He's really talented. That's why this whole set up is here, we want him to be able to paint whenever he wants." "That's really cool of you guys." Jimin started walking around the room looking at the other paintings Jungkook had done. "These are all great.." It made him curious about the other pieces of him, but he pushed the thought away quickly...