#APR 07 2024

[sstarbliss]

i feel like my dumbass would probably bring up jujutsu kaisen while in my jujutsu kaisen dr and not even realize until they stare at me like "wtf is sorcery combat?"

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 236 BELOW THE CUT ‼️

"so have y'all read the latest chapters?"

"huh? what chapters?"

"you know, like shinjuku showdown arc and all. i'm so sad gojo died."

"gOJO DIED?"

[therogerclarkfanclub]

Black Hills Redemption

June 21st - 23rd, 2024 In Deadwood, South Dakota

Updates:

02 MAR '24: Rob and Steve are the first guests formally announced on the BHR website.

06 MAR '24: Alex McKenna is on board!

07 MAR '24: Benjamin is ready to party!

10 MAR '24: Red Harlow himself, actor Robert Bogue, will once again join the gang!

11 MAR '24: Peter and Mick are joining the fun once again!

12 MAR '24: Another big update! Jim Santangeli, and for the very first time, Howard Pinhasik will join the rest of the gang at Deadwood.

13 MAR '24: Ms Grimshaw and Ms. Jackson will be meeting up with the rest of the gang!

15 MAR '24: Arthur's favorite father figure and the Spaghetti villain have joined the fun.

16 MAR '24: THE BOAH is coming to Deadwood!

18 MAR '24: The final two camp ladies will be at Deadwood!

23 MAR '24: Everyone's favorite Bandito is coming to Deadwood!

25 MAR '24: For the first time. Ms Molly herself, Penny O'Brien will be at the 2nd annual RDR Event! Also, photos have been rearranged to place the newest announcements on top.

30 MAR '24: The talent behind Agent Milton will be joining the rest of the gang at Deadwood!

21 APR '24: Sophia Marzocchi, the og Abigail Marston, will maker her first appearance at the 2nd annual Red Dead event!

06 JUN '24: Matt Walton, who played everyone's favorite photographer, Albert Mason, will also make his first ever appearance at the event.

14 JUN '24: Gabriel Sloyer cancelled his appearance at the event

[mostlysignssomeportents]

How to screw up a whistleblower law

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THIS WEDNESDAY (Apr 17) in CHICAGO, then Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

Corporate crime is notoriously underpoliced and underprosecuted. Mostly, that's because we just choose not to do anything about it. American corporations commit crimes at 20X the rate of real humans, and their crimes are far worse than any crime committed by a human, but they are almost never prosecuted:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

We can't even bear to utter the words "corporate crime": instead, we deploy a whole raft of euphemisms like "risk and compliance," and that ole fave, the trusty "white-collar crime":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition

The Biden DOJ promised it would be different, and they weren't kidding. The DOJ's antitrust division is kicking ass, doing more than the division has done in generations, really swinging for the fences:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Main Justice – the rest of the DOJ – promised that it would do the same. Deputy AG Lisa Monaco promised an end to those bullshit "deferred prosecution agreements" that let corporate America literally get away with murder. She promised to prosecute companies and individual executives. She promised a lot:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Was she serious? Well, it's not looking good. Monaco's number two gnuy, Benjamin Mizer, has a storied career – working for giant corporations, getting them off the hook when they commit eye-watering crimes:

https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-09-reform-groups-lack-of-corporate-prosecutions-doj/

Biden's DOJ is arguably more tolerant of corporate crime than even Trump's Main Justice. In 2021, the DOJ brought just 90 cases – the worst year in a quarter-century. 2022's number was 99, and 2023 saw 119. Trump's DOJ did better than any of those numbers in two out of four years. And back in 2000, Justice was bringing more than 300 corporate criminal prosecutions.

Deputy AG Monaco just announced a new whistleblower bounty program: cash money for ratting out your crooked asshole co-worker or boss. Whistleblower bounties are among the most effective and cheapest way to bring criminal prosecutions against corporations. If you're a terrified underling who can't afford to lose your job after narcing out your boss, the bounty can outweigh the risk of industry-wide blacklisting. And if you're a crooked co-conspirator thinking about turning rat on your fellow criminal, the bounty can tempt you into solving the Prisoner's Dilemma in a way that sees the crime prosecuted.

So a new whistleblower bounty program is good. We like 'em. What's not to like?

Sorry, folks, I've got some bad news:

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/stephen-kohn-on-the-justice-department-plan-to-offer-whistleblower-awards/

As the whistleblower lawyer Stephen Kohn points out to Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter, Monaco's whistleblower bounty program has a glaring defect: it excludes "individuals who were involved with the crime." That means that the long-suffering secretary who printed the boss's crime memo and put it in the mail is shit out of luck – as is the CFO who's finally had enough of the CEO's dirty poker.

This is not how other whistleblower reward programs work: the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs do not exclude people involved with the crime, and for good reason. They want to catch kingpins, not footsoldiers – and the best way to do that is to reward the whistleblower who turns on the boss.

This isn't a new idea! It's in the venerable False Claims Act, an act that signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. As Kohn says, making "accomplices" eligible to participate in whistleblower rewards is how you get people like his client, who relayed a bribe on behalf of his boss, to come forward. As Lincoln said in 1863, the purpose of a whistleblower law is to entice conspirators to turn on one another. Like Honest Abe said, "it takes a rogue to catch a rogue."

And – as Kohn says – we've designed these programs so that masterminds can't throw their minor lickspittles under the buss and collect a reward: "I know of no case where the person who planned or initiated the fraud under any of the reward laws ever got a dime."

Kohn points out that under Monaco, the DOJ just ignores the rule that afford anonymity to whistleblowers. That's a big omission – the SEC got 18,000 confidential claims in 2023. Those are claims that the DOJ can't afford to miss, given their abysmal, sub-Trump track record on corporate crime prosecutions.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/#lisa-monaco

[violottie]

Today marks half a year of Palestinian genocide perpetrated by the Israeli and US governments." from Jewish Voice for Peace, 07/Apr/2024:

caption continued under image

We are in this catastrophe today—with over 33,000 Palestinians killed, the healthcare system in Gaza decimated, almost 2 million Palestinians displaced, and over 1 million Palestinians starving—because our government does not value Palestinian lives.

In the past six months, entire Palestinian lineages were destroyed, families were robbed of precious memories and milestones, and the paintings and words of artists and poets were snuffed out. The effects of six months of this genocide will last generations.

We have reached this horrifying milestone not because of circumstances beyond anyone’s control, but as a result of political decisions. Political decisions made by our government who—rather than listening to millions of Palestinians crying for justice or the majority of Americans who want a ceasefire—is choosing to continue this genocide by sending weapons to the Israeli military.

We do not need to continue down this path of destruction and devastation. The cracks in the US war machine are showing, but not fast enough. We need to keep the pressure up, and keep it high.

We will never stop fighting for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea. We will never forget.

[kpopsexstories]

SECOND NSFW Series: Quick Fix Dirty Kpop Imagines

This blog began with my Most Memorable Sexual Experiences of NCT series – longer stories about the members of NCT, with more "fluff" around the sex and focus on being realistic.

But let me introduce you to something different, which cuts the fluff and may include members of any k-pop group: Quick Fix Dirty Kpop Imagines. I've been so excited to share this series! 😄

The "Quick Fix" series has one main goal: shorter, wilder sex stories that aren't limited to just NCT (though to be honest, to start with it will be mostly NCT anyway 😉).

In the "Quick Fix" series, each story will feature one (sometimes more) male k-pop star from any group, depending on what I feel like writing. Unlike the "Most Memorable" series, the stories will be very short and focus exclusively on the sex 😉

Keep reading to learn more about this series, what members and groups you can read about, and when you can expect new stories. Or click here for an overview of all my stories and smut series.

My goals with this series:

➕ Short, sweet & to the point – no fluff or backstory, just sex!

➕ Written with you as the other character; imagine yourself in the scenario (having sex with your bias!)

➕ Slightly wilder sex than most stories in the "Most Memorable" series.

➕ Mixed members & k-pop idols from various groups – though I'll start mostly with NCT, there aren't any limits.

➕ Fake photos allowed (unlike in other series) – it's fiction after all! 😊

➕ No time pressure – I won't be sticking to any serious deadlines with this one, but will schedule stories in advance.

➕ Requests open – visit the blog to request a story!

Identifiers

To make it easier for you to find stories you like, I'll include identifiers at the start of each post/story:

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻 MEMBERS: The kpop idol(s) the story is about. I know the image above only features members from three groups (NCT, BTS, TXT), but I'll definitely expand that in the future! Any requests? 😉

📦 CONTENT: Key words describing the sex, like Missionary (position), Riding (position), Cumshot, Jerking off, Blowjob, Outdoors, etc.

🍆 TYPE: Refers to the sex, and in this particular series each story will be one of the following four:

MEDIUM: Regular sex**

WILD: Usually a little rougher and more explicit

STEAMY: Sensual and passionate involving more touching

UNCONVENTIONAL: Any of the above but with a twist, for example a kink or two people fucking you at once

** The "Most Memorable" series includes "Vanilla" before "Medium", but the Quick Fix series won't be that tame.

The Schedule (Seasons)

Quick Fix stories are always posted on Wednesdays. This series won't have a fixed schedule though, as I plan on running it irregularly and indefinitely. It will run on and off in between as well as alongside my other series, all depending on my inspiration and what I feel like at the time.

I will, however, be scheduling and posting Quick Fix stories in "seasons", a handful of stories at a time:

Season 1 (8 stories): Jan 25-Feb 28, 2024

Season 2 (8 stories): Mar 6-Apr 24, 2024

Season 3 (11 stories): Jul 31-Sep 27, 2024

Season 4 (8 stories): Nov 20, 2024-Jan 8, 2025

All "Quick Fix" Stories

Last updated: November 13, 2024

Season 1 (Jan 25 - Feb 28 2024)

Jan 25, 2024 – #1 NCT JISUNG busts his load on your stomach

Jan 31, 2024 – #2 NCT MARK fucks you silly missionary style

Feb 07, 2024 – #3 NCT CHENLE gets you pregnant

Feb 14, 2024 – #4 BTS NAMJOON fucks you hard from behind

Feb 17, 2024 – #5 TXT SOOBIN lets you ride him sensually

Feb 21, 2024 – #6 TXT BEOMGYU fucks you hard in the shower

Feb 24, 2024 – #7 NCT JOHNNY & YUTA double penetrate you

Feb 28, 2024 – #8 NCT Haechan makes you come

Season 2 (Mar 6 - Apr 24, 2024)

Mar 06, 2024 – #9 WayV Lucas fucks you slow

Mar 13, 2024 – #10 NCT Ten gives you a wild missionary ride

Mar 20, 2024 – #11 NCT Jungwoo fucks you like a rabbit

Mar 27, 2024 – #12 RIIZE Sohee makes you gag on his cock

Apr 03, 2024 – #13 RIIZE Shotaro comes in your mouth

Apr 10, 2024 – #14 BTS Taehyung enjoys a vibrating teddy bear

Apr 17, 2024 – #15 BTS Suga fucks you on a bathroom counter

Apr 24, 2024 – #16 TXT Hueningkai shoves his dick inside you

Season 3 (Jul 31 - Sep 27, 2024)

Jul 31, 2024 – #17 NCT Mark asks if Jisung can touch your boob

Aug 07, 2024 – #18 BTS Jin gets you pregnant

Aug 14, 2024 – #19 NCT Haechan does naked push-ups over you

Aug 21, 2024 – #20 TXT Taehyun plays with your nipples

Aug 28, 2024 – #21 NCT Taeyong fucks you while Yuta jerks off

Sep 04, 2024 – #22 NCT Jeno fucks you missionary style

Sep 11, 2024 – #23 NCT Chenle doing the seashell

Sep 18, 2024 – #24 NCT Johnny is pinned against a wall

Sep 25, 2024 – #25 WayV Ten romantic evening steamy ride

Sep 26, 2024 – #26 Wayv Ten gets a birthday blowjob

Sep 27, 2024 – #27 NCT Mark fucks and slaps you from behind

Season 4 (Nov 20, 2024 - Jan 8, 2025)

Nov 20, 2024 – #28 NCT Taeyong in his sailor uniform

Nov 27, 2024 – #29 NCT Jeno threesome with two women

Dec 04, 2024 – #30 NCT Doyoung fucks you missionary style

Dec 11, 2024 – #31 WayV Xiaojun steamy & wild night

Dec 18, 2024 – #32 WayV Ten pinned in a closet

Dec 25, 2024 – #33 WayV Hendery has sex on a playground

Jan 01, 2025 – #34 WayV Yangyang gets a blowjob after work

Jan 08, 2025 – #35 NCT Haechan in the Lotus position

Story Master List

For a list of all my smut short stories, check out the Master List post where stories are listed alphabetically by group and member. Or, check out my external website Story Finder where you can browse all stories by content, idol, word count, popularity, requests, and more!

Request a Story

Want me to write about your bias? Request a story on the blog page and tell me: what member, which group they're in (it can be any) and what you'd like to happen (the sex).

Buy Me a Coffee

Do you like the stories I share? Writing just a single story takes me on average 12 hours of active work, and I do this as a hobby in my spare time. Please consider supporting my coffee consumption by making a small donation so I can keep doing what I do for longer. It would mean more to me than you know!

Thanks for following my blog and reading my smut! 😊

[stormyoceans]

VICE VERSA (RE)WATCH 2024

with last twilight ending and no show to replace it on friday yet, i thought this might be a good time to do a vice versa community rewatch and maybe give an excuse to all the new jimmysea fans to watch the show for the first time if they didn't get around to it.

the schedule: from february 2 to may 9

as this is quite sudden and im hoping to reach as many people as possible, i thought we could do one episode per week, without having only a single set date but rather a range of days where each one of us can decide when to watch it. so the schedule would look like this:

feb 02 - feb 08: ocean blue (ep 1)

feb 09 - feb 15: forest green (ep 2)

feb 16 - feb 22: soft blush (ep 3)

feb 23 - feb 29: deep magenta (ep 4)

mar 01 - mar 07: winter white (ep 5)

mar 08 - mar 14: fire yellow (ep 6)

mar 15 - mar 21: sunset orange (ep 7)

mar 22 - mar 28: cloudy gray (ep 8)

mar 29 - apr 04: midnight black (ep 9)

apr 05 - apr 11: pink (ep 10)

apr 12 - apr 18: real red (ep 11)

apr 19 - apr 25: crystal clear (ep 12)

apr 26 - may 02: faded pink? (our skyy ep 1)

may 03 - may 09: multicolor (our skyy ep 2)

how to watch: youtube (main series + our skyy)

what to do: watch or rewatch the episodes

that's pretty much the only mandatory thing that is required to do, but if you feel like it you can also:

liveblog your watch

share your favorite scene(s) from the episode

pick your top weekly outfit

reblog old and new posts

create content like memes, fics, gifs, edits, etc.

anything you want!!!!!

if you do any of these tho, please tag your posts with #vvrewatch24 so people can find them!!!!

the main goal i hope to achieve with this is for everyone to just have fun and maybe find some comfort. a big thank you in advance to anyone who will consider participating or even just sharing this post!!!!

[stcreators]

STCREATORS EVENT 07: COMEDY Apr 1 — Apr 30 2024

For our seventh event, we'll be turning towards comedy. It can be a comic moment from the show, a fun gifset, a silly AU. Anything, canon or headcanon, that the prompt inspires! This event will run until April 30th.

To participate:

join the network

reblog this post

create something that fits the prompt

include in your caption: @stcreators event 07: comedy

If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message! We can’t wait to see what you create ❤️

[yoka-pict]

The previously announced illustration collection is now being mail-ordered. Until 23:59, 14 Apr (Sun), Japan time. errr... Sorry for the late heads-up, but it's until tonight. NAYUTA.zip.zip 1500yen / A5 / 78 pages including cover / full colour Illustration compilation book from 2019. newly written illustration 2 stickers included. NOTES ABOUT THE BOOK: Most of the book's illustrations can be found on the web. However, illustrations on the web are quite ephemeral. For those who want to keep it close at hand! Japan has a lot of disasters, so having books abroad - and having NAYUTA there - means a lot to me. BUY → https://yokam.booth.pm/items/5638321 Available on BOOTH. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we ship from Japan, so please use tenso.com! About tenso.com → https://www.tenso.com/en/static/lp_shop_booth

Sample！

2024/04/15 4:00JST add : Closed! Another time!

[wttcsms]

alone together ; rin itoshi

in the middle of trying to embrace the new “real and messy model” facade your publicist keeps pushing upon you in order to get you into the good graces of the masses, you might take it a step too far. in your defense, nothing is more real than still hopelessly pining after a boy who has 1) already broken your heart more than once! and 2) definitely does not love you the way you love him. the messy side of things? he’s currently your friend with benefits. except, you’re pretty sure the two of you aren’t friends, not anymore at least, so he’s technically just the benefits. yeah, how’s that for “real and messy”? alternatively: every time you find yourself wanting to hide away from the world, there's someone you can't seem to escape from: rin itoshi. because for some reason, you two have the same exact hiding spots.

pairing rin itoshi x f!reader word count tbd. . . content contains timeskip/pro!rin x nepo baby/model!reader, strangers with a history, second chance romance, almost high school sweethearts (y'all been doing this situationship shit for years), fwb to lovers, lack of communication, requited unrequited love, mutual pining, eventual smut, jealous and protective!rin, depictions of panic attacks, mentions of parental death via su*cide

▶ TVTROPES.COM

📁 00. INTRODUCTION BY HOOKUP 📁 01. tba. . . 📁 02. tba. . .

▶︎•၊၊||၊|။||||။‌‌‌‌၊|• NOW PLAYING THE SOUNDTRACK. . .

01. don't smile, sabrina carpenter 02. death by a thousand cuts, taylor swift 03. worth it for the feeling, rebecca black 04. things i wish you said, sabrina carpenter 05. fake smile, ariana grande 06. superglue, role model 07. scumbag, role model 08. model, actress, whatever, suki waterhouse 09. soft spot, keshi 10. i love you, i'm sorry, gracie abrams 11. runaway, runaway, mars argo 12. life is a storm, julia wolf 13. afterglow, taylor swift

[apr. 10, 2023] hello!!! starting towards the end of the month/early may, i plan on having the final drafts of both of the first acts completed 🤭 this originally started as a one shot with the basic premise of “5 times rin itoshi breaks your heart + the 1 time he gives you his” but i had so much fun writing the one shot that it grew into a monster entirely of its own accord & i gave in and made some adjustments in order to better suit it :) now it’s a multipart fic! spoiler: rin still breaks your heart. several times. </3 but while writing the original one shot, i realized that rin’s heart had been yours/the reader’s the whole entire time!!! so, this fic explores you & him maturing + realizing how to properly communicate your feelings. i think the whole point is that it doesn’t matter if you love someone if they can’t feel it.  [oct. 5, 2024] so... clearly this didn't go as planned. haha, i have a very clear vision for this fic now, though, and while the above note still applies, i hope you all are prepared for the emotional turmoil i want to put you through <3

[inariyazaki]

Your lips were soft like winter,

In your passion I was lost.

Haikyuu SMAU

Hoshiumi Korai x Reader ( Slowburn, fluff, angst, Filipino / Taglish )

Synopsis : Wherein Shoyo fucked his own hand writing up and made Koushi his roommate instead of Y/n.

Profiles :

K.K.K | Mga Tryhard

End : ?? / ?? / ??

Status : ON HOLD / ON BREAK

Start : 07-04-24 / Apr. 7, 2024

Start :

#1 - Good Luck!

#2 - Meeting!!! WRITTEN

#3 - College Na !!

#4 - First Day !!! WRITTEN

#5 - New Friends

#6 - Bonding?!

#7 - Third Wheeling Ba

#8 - Lego Flowers ?! WRITTEN

#9 - Confusion | Confusion ( part 2 )

#10 - Festival Time! WRITTEN

#11 - KAGEYAMA CRUSH KA NI

#12 - SURPRISE !! WRITTEN

#13 - CODE REDDD !!

#14 - Hindi Nako Papanggap !!

#15 - Hindi Ako Naseselos ?!

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom People who don't respect your health and safety needs are not your friends. I'm so sorry you have to deal with so many people like that. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 4:07 PM · Apr 19, 2024

[depressedgarbages-stuff]

All tiktoks of the situation of 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 I saw today (Sun, Apr 07.):

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/745610230714466304?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/nathansobsessions/743549184205094912/scheduled-early-due-to-urgency-hello-yall?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/745604486984269824?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746241609230860288/egyptian-and-jordanian-protesters-exchange?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/radicalgraff/747063209418211328/israhell-kills-aid-workers-seen-in-sydney?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/745605907935821824?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746243267597942784/israeli-army-forces-family-to-leave-sick?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746332684960350208/help-drebraheem-reunite-with-his-family?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746417003388076032/help-evacuate-my-family-from-gaza-organized-by?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/soon-palestine/746163504648732672/isrealis-just-bombed-a-coffe-shop-in-the-border?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/workersolidarity/746129903954657280?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/soon-palestine/746164971185045504?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/northgazaupdates/747035026294784000/6-april-2024-islam-bassam-barbari-speaks-with-a?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746963598785576960/donate-to-traveling-for-treatment-organized-by?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746150527857033216/help-aya-evacuate-her-sick-brother-father?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/shashiatnight/744894434722938880/please-help-my-sister-and-her-family-evacuate?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/workersolidarity/745696344985993216?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747050038465871872/the-united-nations-on-saturday-said-israel-had?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747052203218550784/donate-to-help-save-my-family-in-gaza-organized?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/mothergoddessofmadripoor/746807943685652480?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746150908496429056/help-baby-zeina-to-heal-a-journey-of-hope?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746332684960350208/help-drebraheem-reunite-with-his-family?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/744932546276638720/empowering-my-familys-journey-to-safety?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/746417003388076032/help-evacuate-my-family-from-gaza-organized-by?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/sayruq/747052126311677952?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/thenewgothictwice/746912055737630720?source=share

[therogerclarkfanclub]

Roger's* 2024 Comic Con Schedule

Interested in knowing if Roger is coming to your city or town? Check the listings below. Updated as new info becomes available.

If you've been waiting for the opportunity to meet Roger & The Gang, or you would like to meet him/them again, feel free to bookmark ("Like" 😉) this post if you want to keep up with Roger's Comic Con appearances. I will update and reblog this list as soon as new info becomes available.

Alternatively, you can always keep tabs on Roger's social media for the latest dates.

*This is listing is not limited to just Roger, it will also include any other cast members attending a specific Con.

⭐ LAST UPDATED: October 01, 2024 ⭐

JAN 07 - Added: Fanboy Expo

JAN 25 - Added: FANEXPO Cleveland

JAN 31 - Added: RetroGameCon

MAR 04 - Added: Fanboy Expo Orlando

MAR 06 - Added: Washington Gaming Expo

APR 10 - Added: Florida Supercon

APR 21 - Added: Stellar Con York

APR 22 - Added: Sci-Fi Valley Con

MAY 04 - Added: Fanboy Expo Orlando (Alex, Roger)

MAY 04 - Added: WonderFest 2024

MAY 07 - Added: Rob to Sci-Fi Valley Con

MAY 15 - Added: New York Comic Con

JUL 02 - Added: Brasil Game Show

JUL 26 - Added: Pittsburgh Gaming Expo (Roger)

JUL 28 - Added: Pittsburgh Gaming Expo (Benjamin)

AUG 06 - Added: FanEXPO San Francisco (Rob)

AUG 11 - Added: Soda City Comic Con (Roger)

AUG 26 - Added: Rhode Island Comic Con (Alex)

AUG 31 - Added: Comic Con North East (Roger, Rob)

OCT 01 - Added: Rhode Island Comic Con (Benjamin, Roger, Rob)

─────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───────────

🌟🌟 Animate! Raleigh 🌟🌟

Dates: January 5-7, 2024 City: Raleigh, North Carolina Venue: Raleigh Convention Center 500 S Salisbury St. Raleigh, NC 27601 Confirmed attendees: Roger, Benjamin, Peter Cancellations: Rob

🌟🌟 Fanboy Anime Toy Gaming Knoxville 🌟🌟

Dates: March 9-10, 2024 City: Knoxville, TN Venue: The Knoxville Convention Center 701 Henley Street Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Confirmed attendees: Roger, Rob

🌟🌟 GameOn Expo 🌟🌟

Dates: March 15-17, 2024 City: Phoenix, Arizona Venue: Phoenix Convention Center - North Building 100 N 3rd St. Phoenix, AZ 85004 Confirmed attendees: Roger & Rob

🌟🌟 Washington State Gaming Expo 🌟🌟

Dates: March 29-31, 2024 City: Puyallup, Washington Venue: Washington State Fair and Events Center 110 9th Ave SW Puyallup, WA 98371-6811 Confirmed attendees: Roger & Rob

🌟🌟 FANEXPO Cleveland 🌟🌟

Dates: April 12-14, 2024 City: Cleveland, Ohio Venue: Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland 300 Lakeside Ave E Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Confirmed attendees: Roger and Rob

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[thesunshinecourts]

countdown to tsc: apr 6., 2024, 07:48 pdt

17. your bed after travelling // jean moreau thinks about belonging

They had an away game against UT Austin, which was more exhausting in flight time than as an actual form of competition.

It’s three hours to Austin from Los Angeles. (“Non-stop flight time is 2 hours, 55 minutes,” Sebastian says, pushing his sunglasses further up the bridge of his nose because he thinks it makes him look cool. It makes Jean want to spit on him. It makes Jean think about Kevin at age thirteen, when he dubiously tested out reading glasses at the recommendation of one of the doctors at Evermore. That kind of makes Jean want to spit on Sebastian more, but he restrains himself. Kevin Day at the beginning of teenagehood is not a crime that anyone should have to answer for, save the man himself and maybe Riko. He can’t, though. He’s dead.

It still thrills Jean, that thought, explicit and direct and true. It had been a fantasy for years, the kind he could never share, and certainly not with Kevin, who had loved Riko as desperately as he had come to fear him. It had been a wish, once or twice, entrusted only into Renee’s steady hands, the kind phrased not as a request, but as an expression of guilt given to the only person to whom he could lay himself bare. It is a fact, a gun pointed by Neil and a trigger squeezed by Ichirou and a new type of shackle on Jean, still heavy, but lacking teeth.

No, Jeremy Knox’s Sunshine Court has no such skin-torn, blood-soaked, jagged edges, except those which Jean brings with him. It’s almost harder to bear.)

Three hours to Austin from Los Angeles, meaning six hours round trip.

Jean is used to playing for that long on the Ravens’ court: a much more punishing endeavour than any training plan Rhemann and his cohort of coaches at USC could come up with. Playing the game against UT is laughably easy for Jean, at least when it comes to stamina and skill. Patience is a different matter, but while the Trojans are no Ravens, they are an exceptional team. When Jean makes his meagre attempts at forbearance, he thinks to himself that he is lucky to not have been a Fox. He would likely have lost his voice, given the arguing necessary to whip them into a vaguely-tolerable shape.

Kevin had always been better at that. Jean is not a natural teacher. He taught Kevin French out of loneliness, and he taught Neil to survive out of necessity. Kevin would always have been more suited to the walking catastrophe that called itself the PSU Foxes Exy team.

Belonging is always easier, Jean thinks, when one has a foothold. Personality aside—and truly, Jean has never met a person more stubborn than Kevin, which is less a compliment and more an expulsion of grief—Kevin would always have been better-suited to the Foxes than Jean, for Kevin had a man who would never turn him away simply because of who his mother was, even without knowing Kevin was his son.

Jean does not envy Kevin his father. Jean prefers not to think of fathers at all.

So no, the game is not especially taxing. The Trojans have a strong roster, and are less inclined to allow personal pique to have a say in which players get substituted, and when. (This isn’t to say that there is no personal pique to be found amongst the Trojans; whilst Jean’s experiences with them thus far have proven—if exasperatingly—that the Day Spirit Award has been rightfully awarded all these years, he’s also discovered that Alvarez has stroppy tendencies when she’s tired, and Jeremy’s occasional remarks about the Ravens are cavalier not out of ignorance, but a quiet disdain for their conduct.

So it’s not that the Trojans are all foolish Golden Retrievers rolling over to show their bellies to the world; it’s mostly that none of them are Riko, and nor are they Foxes. They can afford to offer grace as they move through the world. Jean is not sure he can.)

The flights are infinitely worse, because without an Exy racquet in his hand and the court beneath his feet, there is no escape from Jean’s own head.

The flight to Austin is better, of the two. It’s still not ideal, but Jeremy and Laila sit Jean firmly between them and essentially force him into conversation. It’s mostly grudging, and almost entirely about the upcoming match—there is not a single player at UT who Jean finds compelling, but one of their assistant coaches is a former player who once suggested something rude about Thea, who responded by checking him so hard when he next had the ball that he sprawled to the ground and slid three metres across the court.

Jean enjoys this story. He thinks Laila and Jeremy did too, from the way Laila’s eyes gleamed and how Jeremy’s voice had a laugh in it when he said, not exactly a strategy in our playbook, but I daresay it would have been satisfying to watch.

The flight back to Los Angeles is worse.

The ache from the game is settling into his body now, muscle and flesh and bone. It’s not enough to draw him out of his own head.

One of UT’s dealers had pitched herself right at him, driving herself into his hip. That level of force wouldn’t usually have knocked him over, but there’s an old ache there from Riko’s fingers and favourite toys. Mostly Jean stays standing, but sometimes he gives in.

When Jean had lived in Abby’s spare bedroom, there had been a revolving cast of visitors, though there was more frequency than variety. Renee had visited most, then Wymack. If Jean counts the times he shut his door and refused to let Kevin into his room and Kevin stayed in the kitchen asking Abby questions in a quiet voice that was never quite quiet enough, then Kevin probably takes third place. Otherwise, Jean thinks it would be Aaron.

This was less about Jean, and more about the lesson he could provide in Abby’s hands. Jean didn’t care. His whole life had been made of debt and pain and prodding. Cool fingers re-dressing his wounds—all steady hands and clinical efficiency and blunt responses—was almost a balm in the face of it.

Besides, there was something comforting in his lack of expectation. Jean has no idea what most people want from a doctor. He’s heard grumblings about bedside manner and seen some memes through the Twitter timeline Xavier and Alvarez inflicted upon him, but he found his greatest relief in the way Aaron inspected all his wounds without flinching.

Sometimes Kevin would come quietly into the room, and Aaron would roll his eyes at him, and then look to Jean, as if waiting. Jean did not mind so much if Kevin came in with someone else, like Renee or Aaron or Thea. (Well, he had minded very much the time he came in with Thea, but that was due more to the lack of warning. Thea herself had been someone Jean found himself missing.) He liked it more when Kevin came in with Aaron, which was less to do with their behaviour—Aaron was more likely to tell Kevin to shut up or fuck off, but Renee’s quiet presence was equally effective at keeping him in check—and more to do with the fact that Jean preferred to speak to Renee alone, because she was the person he could trust most in the world.

Once upon a time, that had been Kevin, but then Kevin left Evermore, and left Jean, and the first time Jean heard from him in months was when a terrified Kevin called him to beg Jean to tell him that the rumours were false, that Edgar Allan was not coming south.

The rumours had been true, and Jean Moreau has never been a liar, not even for Kevin.

Jean thinks about this as he thinks about the thudding ache at his hip, where Aaron’s fingers once re-dressed a wound, where Kevin had placed a cool compress years before, where Jean’s younger sister had once drawn a rose when they were five and seven, because a rose had been the only thing she had known how to draw.

He supposes it still might be. He wouldn’t know.

Jeremy shifts in the seat beside him, and Jean cracks open an eyelid to glare at him. He hadn’t even realised he’d shut his eyes, but no matter. He cracks open an eyelid, glaring, and finds Jeremy making a half-apologetic, half-beleaguered expression back at him. It’s an astounding combination, one he would have considered impossible prior to the Trojans, but sometimes Jean wonders if it’s less that Jeremy is particularly talented at facial expressiveness and more that no Raven ever had cause to teach Jean what apology looked like in the lines of a furrowed brow and downturned lips.

“Sorry,” Jeremy whispers, as if the facial expression wasn’t enough. “Were you napping?”

Jeremy has known Jean for several months now, so Jean feels as if this is a foolish question. He makes a derisive noise. Something flickers in his chest when Jeremy shakes his head, looking rueful and amused and sleepy-soft all at once.

Jean ignores it, obviously.

“Right, right, Mr No Naps,” Jeremy says. Jean has suffered many indignities since his arrival in Los Angeles, but being dubbed something that a six year old child would name an especially belligerent cat is a new low.

“We’re not that far now,” Jeremy says, glancing up at the flight map in interest. Jean looks over. He’s right. Twenty minutes or so. “Which means there’s no point in sleeping…” Jeremy continues, almost cajolingly. That gleam from Laila’s eyes earlier seems to have jumped to Jeremy’s as he looks at Jean.

Jean sighs, surrenders. He seems to be doing this a lot lately. Riko never managed to break down that last final inch, that holdout within Jean that refused to lose his accent or stop speaking French to Kevin or any of the tiny rebellions that Neil dismissed but Jean needed in order to have any pieces of himself left for Renee to save that day.

Riko tore every concession from Jean’s bare throat, but the Trojans seem just as adept as getting what they want out of Jean with teeth bared in smiles instead of snarls.

“You should have knocked over that backliner,” Jean says. “He’s a lunk. He would have taken seconds to get up. You could have scored in that time.”

Jeremy, because he is terrible, laughs. “You have such a way with words, Jean,” he says, but he sounds amused. Almost infectiously so. “I ought to be able to score without knocking anyone down,” Jeremy points out.

“Yes,” Jean agrees immediately, “but until that’s the case, you should drop them.”

There is probably something seriously wrong with Jeremy Knox, Jean thinks, watching him laugh. He seems as delighted as ever by Jean’s honesty. He won’t abide unfair barbed statements to his team, but he always seems game to field Jean’s criticisms himself.

It’s only right, Jean thinks. They’re Kevin’s favourite team, and they took Jean in when the backlash would be far greater than whatever meagre thanks they managed to get out of Kevin. Of course there’s something wrong with them.

They pass the rest of the flight in much the same manner, until the descent swoops a little steeper than expected and Jeremy squeezes his eyes shut and grips one hand over his arm rest and the other over Jean’s forearm. Laila wakes up during this, blinking sleepily at Jeremy, before saying, “Oh, babe, your cuticles look awful,” which makes Jean look incredulously at her and Jeremy laugh.

Sleepy chatter gets them through disembarking the plane, and baggage claim, and onto the bus, winding all the way back to campus, traffic egregious even at this hour. Alvarez tows an exhausted Laila by the elbows with an excruciatingly fond expression, Sebastian almost snaps his sunglasses underfoot when they slip off his nose before Derek says, “Dude,” while Emma throws up an arm to stop him in his tracks, and Jeremy half-stumbles into the door before he gets his key in the lock and opens up their room.

Tomorrow, at some point after breakfast and coffee prepared with entirely too much creamer by an overzealous Cox, Jean will marvel at that thought. At the ease with which it sprung to his mind: their room, meaning Jeremy’s and Jean’s, meaning Jean’s, meaning that which belongs.

In the morning, he will think about what it has meant to be Jean Moreau: his first home lost to him through a transaction, where he was an object and not a person, a thing to barter and not a boy with a bed and a family and his own mind; Evermore, his second place to exist, where his bed was so often a landscape of his own destruction; and that bed that he slept in when staying with Abby, crisp and clean and safe and entirely, undeniably unknown to him.

Kevin asked Jean once, when they were younger, to tell him about his home. Jean had looked at him and asked in the blankest possible tone, what home? A home is a space you’re meant to belong, Jean had meant, and there was no place like that for him. There was Riko and his chains, and everyone told Jean that was his place, but he would never call that home.

In the morning, Jean will think about this, and what it means to have a space that belongs to you – to be a boy who owns something for once, instead of just being owned –

In the morning, Jean will think about this, but for now, he kicks off his shoes, peels off his socks, and falls onto his bed, a place he trusts enough to sink into a dreamless sleep, long enough to start to soothe his tired bones.

[lightningblade1994-blog]

"Sonic meets Dr. Eggman"

Artwork by (C) Immortal40

Sonic meets Eggman, who is at a major disadvantage. He's lying on the ground all by himself, with his Egg Goggles on his face and no robots around him. But even this pretty unusual presence of Eggman doesn't bother the blue hedgehog at all.

Original Publishing Date: Apr 23, 2024

Uploaded on: 09/07/24

Sonic & Dr. Eggman belong to (C) SEGA/Sonic Team

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