#Competitiion

[yourstrulyheavyhope]

I’ve been shortlisted by the good mushers at @hotvoxmusic to compete for a chance to play at this year’s Isle of Wight festival 🦋 I’ve never needed you guys at a gig moreee, please come n see me on Friday the 24th of Feb @ 7:00pm so we can impress the industry judges with how high we can jump n shout 🦋 I also need you to vote for me on the night so I can make it thru this round and live to see the semi finals 🦋 

[gun-roswell]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Clone Trooper Howzer & CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Trooper Howzer/CT-7567 | Rex Characters: Clone Trooper Howzer (Star Wars), CT-7567 | Rex, Clone Trooper Nemec (Star Wars), Clone Trooper Character(s) (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Clone Wars era, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), AU, Fun and Fluff, Friendly competition, Best Hair in the GAR, Developing Relationship, Clone Cadets, Hairdos and whatnots, Nemec/Samson mentioned Series: Part 3 of Howzer/Rex, Part 3 of Clone Cadet AU Summary:

They always compete with each other, the clone cadets do. This time, the competition being for which of them has the best haircut.

Enter Howzer with his priced locks bringing home the best rewards. At least Howzer’s BFF Nemec thinks there is a competition of the hairdos happening and that his friend is the winner!

But, does Howzer really have the best hair of the GAR? Enter Goldie Locks aka Rex!

Crack, Humour, but serious right? Not enough of Howz/Rex so needed to write more for them!

Part of Howzer/Rex // Cadet AU series

[a-world-with0ut-dr34ms]

Kinktober Prompt ~ Outdoor Sex

Ghost x City Girl Reader

During a friendly game of Capture-the-Flag, you and Ghost take things to extreme, after a bet turns into something not so suitable for work...

Future NSFW 18+, Part One, Eventual Smut, Shameless Smut, Porn w/ little Porn, Hatemance, Enemies to Lovers, Mean Girl/Bratty Reader, Sarcastic Ghost, Teasing, Flirting, slight Slow Burn, Outdoor Sex, Banter, Toxic Relationships

Author's Note: This was random. Felt like writing some dirty smut for Ghost and I liked Spice as a character, so here's a spin-off! Split into two parts so I can make the next chapter juicy. Please enjoy the build-up for now ( ๑‾̀◡‾́)σ"

Also! If you want to read it in conjecture to the other parts, this is after Part Two but before Part Three :3

NGMLTS Masterlist

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It was meant to be a team building exercise; a friendly game of competition between you and your comrades. Capture the flag. Only the rules were a bit altered this time around.

The game went as plainly explained by your captain: one team has to collect the flags and bring them back to their designated checkpoint, while the other team has to stop them. Three rounds will be given, with teams swapping positions each time. Winning team takes all, including the bragging rights.

And as if a competitive sport between the Task Force's deadliest members wasn't already enough, Price figured he'd spice things up by having the games happen at the dead of night as well. Many of your missions as of recent have been late night ops, so he felt that the extra training was needed.

This means night vision goggles, zero comms, stealth utilization, and strategy. When the exercise started and you were left out in the woods to begin, it was up to you and yours to be alert enough to get the job done. And if your team does win, you'll get first pick on the next mission.

You couldn't speak for everyone, though your sure the sentiment is shared; you've always loved a little competitiion. You just hid that side of you well, only letting it show when it was needed. But beating your peers at their own game was a rush like no other, and that feeling never left you even as you grew older. In fact it increased tenfold. It was a rush better than sex half the time.

Competition keeps a goal in mind to focus on, and damn did it feel good to win. And right now, there wasn't anyone you wanted to beat more than the stealth master himself, Simon Riley.

If one thing had been known about the man, it's that his expertise in stealth and sabotage weren't in need of questioning; he's practically a living legend after Roba. Some missions he's even been able to pull off alone, given his size and brutish combat tactics.

He's quite literally a ghost. That's just simple fact. A fact that might intimidate some, but only made you want to call him out on his bullshit. You honestly didn't believe all the hype, even after having gone on a few missions with him already. If anything, from what you've seen, the guy's just got funny luck.

If you want something done quietly, you send Simon Riley. If he needed to enter a room without you knowing, then you wouldn't hear him until you've felt the knife in your back. If he had to stay out of sight, then you won't see him in the shadows until he chooses to make himself known.

You aimed to prove that point tonight, knowing it would make the perfect thing to hold over him any time he wants to give you shit. How you've dethroned him of his ghostly status and made a mortal man out of him, now not only in the bedroom but in the field as well. It made you giddy just thinking about it.

Tonight you'd been given the chance to put your money where your mouth is. By a random luck of the draw, you've been placed on the offensive team with Gaz, making you the hunter, and Ghost your prey. A unique position to be in, and one you hadn't planned on squandering.

"I bet you $20 you won't get a single flag," you taunted.

Your comment had been enough to make the man snort. No doubt he'd been a man up for a bit of competition himself. And what better reward was there than having the privilege to say he humbled you as well? Now that's a rare occasion.

Ghost finished retying the laces to his boots before standing back up into his full length, looming over you like a big, playful shadow.

The hallway grows dark and empty around you, a familiar setting as of late. Since that night at the club, situations like this seemed to spring up more and more often. Ones which involved the man standing just close enough for you to smell the scent of him, and for him to catch that lustful glint you hid so well behind your eyes. Had you not had places to be, he'd fuck you right here and now, you're sure.

"Why don't we sweeten the pot some," he adds. "You still throw in that twenty, but the loser owes the winner a favor they can't say no to."

"Ooo, I like the sound of that!" You smile, already picturing all the most humiliating things you were going to make him do. You could make him fuck you in that one position dangling over your bedpost that you liked (and he kept complaining about "having to do"). Or you could even make him do all your work for the day as well. Oh the possibilities were endless; it had you practically jumping for joy.

Ghost chuckles at your preemptive celebratory dance, letting you go on for an unnecessary amount of time with your gloating and teasing. It'll only make his victory all the more sweeter.

"Figured you might like tha'," he says. You can practically feel the man smirking underneath his balaclava. He extends a hand out to you, giving you a chance to shake it. "Is that a deal then, Spice?"

You take his hand and shake on it.

"You're on, Manchester."

As you shake hands, Ghost keeps his grip over you for a moment, holding you in place a little longer so you could hear him when he taunted you. "We'll see how good you are when we get out there, won't we?"

"I'll try and go easy on you," you purr.

"I wouldn't want that. Too boring," Ghost teases. "It's much better when I have to work for it."

"Spoken like a true dog."

You both would have continued going back and forth, had Price not entered the hall to retrieve you both.

"OK, wrap it up lovebirds," he teases, earning a respective groan from you both. "We're heading out to the course now, so no more dilly-dallying."

"Roger that, sir," Ghost says. He watches for Price, waiting for him to leave before he's left you with a final parting phrase himself.

"May the best soldier win."

(ﾉ･_-)☆ Part Two Coming Soon...

Author's Note: I've included the previous taglist just in case you guys also wanted to read this spin-off (I know it's been over a month (^^'). I can remove you from the second part if you're not interested though!

Part Two will be longer and will involve the actually competition before things get spicy. I haven't decided who's gonna win the game yet either so it'll be a surprise for all of us. But I'm planning on the smut to be worth the two part split. Stay Tuned ~

Taglist: @babygirl-riley, @homicidal-slvt, @deadbranch, @argella1300, @poohkie90 , @glitterypirateduck , @sarraa-26 , @quincessimus , @crazymela, @13thprogenitor , @joce2fine, @sapszilla , @dmitriene, @justherebecauseafarisucks, @zevrajalexxandra, @corvusmorte

[moonlightsapphic]

Y'all, I find the reception of XO, Kitty so dissapointing.

TL; DR: The underlying homophobia/biphobia/lesbophobia/misoginy towards Yuri as potential and viable endgame which I don't think would have happened if she were yet another hot guy.

The straight-baiting marketing of this show was absolutely genius and I loved that Jenny Han, who writes the straightest central romances to ever romance (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, The Summer I Turned Pretty), actually initiated a series with such visibly queer storylines and then literally jumped into this sort-of-interracial, sapphic romance centered around a bi+ character. I could see Han trying to be more inclusive in her past on-screen works, but this was incredible.

No you don't understand. There was this point midway through the show where I thought I was in a fever dream and watching wishful fanmade content because I couldn't believe an IRL Netflix show could actually give us this. My mind was blown.

So you'll understand that I was fully bamboozled to see that social media is swamped with Min-ho fangirls pretending like Yuri doesn't even exist. I love Min-ho too, but am I the only one who also saw so many signs that point to a future Yuri x Kitty?

First, for the narrative satisfaction of their moms being best friends in the past!

... and to complete Kitty's coming of age! Kitty, growing up in the cisheteronormative Song-Covey household, made the oversight of initially operating under the assumption that she exclusively likes boys and that she has mastered the art of relationships. That's already been debunked partway by her breakup with her first boyfriend who was supposed to be endgame, and is only going to be sealed further if she ends up with a girl in a long-term relationship. (And no, of course she doesn't have to "end up" with a girl for her queer identity to be valid, but I think it just makes the most narrative sense to have that unfold in the story as her worldview alters.)

Here I present to you: my pet peeves in the XO, Kitty fandom

hyping up parallels between Peter x LJ and Minho x Kitty scenes claiming that this means Minho x Kitty may be endgame. They literally have to reach and dig for those because the most parallels are between Peter x LJ and Yuri x Kitty, right from the scene that they bumped into each other! Kitty has also shown zero romantic interest in Minho so far, as opposed to her very keen interest in Yuri.

People finally addressing the elephant in the room like "Ugh, Yuri is probably going to be endgame. 🙄 I want Minho instead!!" like it's such a disappointing or borderline gross outcome. Yuri is a much more intense enemies-to-lovers character than Minho. She is beautiful, kind, and fun with a little bit of bite, everything that Minho is plus Kitty is falling for her hard.

Being real here—If you think Yuri is a boring love interest or kind of a b*tch while Minho is simply a fun old enemies-to-lovers character, I am begging you to check your biases. You, a straight woman, may only see hostile fictional women as competitiion and hostile fictional men as ... well, kinda hot. However, Kitty is bi+ and she could see them both as viable romantic interests, equally. Yes, Yuri has done more malicious things than Minho, but then again she has had a harder time this academic year than Minho. You are obviously still allowed to like Minho better, as long as you're not dismissing the struggles of and flattening a strong female character. Misoginy and homophobia make an ugly combo, y'all. Trust me, you don't want any part in that.

(Additional unpopular opinion: I'm going to get crucified for this but I genuinely think Kitty is too boring for Minho in the same way that Dae was too boring for Kitty. He seems to be into her only from the Halo Effect. Minho is my child and I squeal whenever he's on screen and I hope to see him finding someone actually fun!)

Saying that Kitty’s crush on Yuri was just a token plot point with no real basis or depth. While there is some unrealistic family drama in the show, it's all still credible. Fiction is supposed to bring in imaginative elements and try to keep things grounded. Regardless, I'm never going to be the person who says that a wild and shocking bi- or gay-awakening is unrealistic. As a queer person, let me tell you that it is just as wild and confusinh for us IRL.

Besides, many cishet people actually do not care if (or is hateful when) the MC is bi, that I doubt how much it “helps” with marketing. (That's why queerbaiting exists, folks.) Also, have you seen Kitty in TATBILB? That's a bi preteen right there if I've ever seen one.

"Stop trying to invalidate other people's ships!" I will say this once: I don't care if you ship Kitty with Min-ho, or Dae, or anyone else that's not Yuri. I DON'T CARE! Frankly, good for you because straight ships have better luck out there anyway, ya know? I am simply begging you to not reduce a queer person's nuanced concerns about dismissal of sapphic fictional characters to petty fandom arguments. Read the room, guys. Please.

This is such a crucial show to many of us. I just want y'all to understand that this is just a little bigger than your celebrity crush on a hot guy whose character you're rooting for. We never, ever get contemporary slice-of-life romcom sapphic rep (and Netflix is notorious for cancelling sapphic shows, too). Please don't be dismissive of a perfectly good possible ending! We want to give Netflix every reason to renew this show, and give Han every reason to allow Kitty to flourish just the way she plans to! (This is me begging y'all to not influence the writers into swerving last-minute towards a sloppy Minho endgame, though I do trust her better than that.)

I hope that Netflix renews the show, even if it's through the excitement of straight people in denial LMAO. And then I hope it treats us with a glorious sapphic ending.*

*(Aaaand I can already imagine the cishet women in the audience complaining online about what a terrible person Kitty is for leading Min-ho on and then dumping him, and how she and Yuri are both awful and totally deserve each other. Music to my ears.)

[miyoriia]

kissing girls is a competitiion baby and im in last place

[jfls]

Javier Fernández, Man of La Mancha | 2019 European Championships (Photo by Olga Dynina, Hieloespanol). 

[bilboxthorinus-blog]

That’s right ladies!!

Competitions are for horses!!!

[phuijl]

this is one of my favorite tags on my neverland fanart

[zehnhaseeb]

hii 😳

omg competitiion 😳💘

[pdproblems]

I loved this Grand-prizing short film for the 2017 AT&T SHAPE Create-A-Thon Videos.  Ran into this from an article by CSD Neighborhood on a whim.  

[the-lying-merc]

“Tis a fantastic day for a hunting competitiion!”said dusk looking out on the lands of the steppe, he then took a deep breath “yeap... the sky is clear and the sun is great.... cant want to see what the others think of this game!”

“heh, oh and the prize... after all its not about the prize its about the fun... i think.... okay for others its about the fun but for me its about the prize!”

((hosting a hunting comp within the FC Hunters Accosiation and yeah wanna see how it goes before upping it to more public ^^))

[sample-2097]

jesus freakin christ people i dont mean to be a burden but i wish i at least had any kind of response to my art bc no one other than friends interacts with it and id even take hate mail at this point i just feel so useless and everyhting im doing is pointless and i want to die so bad because of it im always gonna be stuck and cursed because of that stupid bitch who doesnt know what its like to be really mentally ill and inmpulsive and think evil things and lie. i dont care anymore i dont care if you only have anxiety that shouldnt count as mental illness bc youre going to think you have it worse and youre gonna make a competitiion out of it and ignore people with multiple personalities and shit and youre just gonna call me crazy and laugh at me and ruin me and step on me like like like i shit u not i fucking shit you not i said i was mentally ill and they were like so am i like bitch u dont know what i have and you obviously dont know that youre a sociopath as well and youre not a person youre a mistake and you people ruined me my art is finally ok im finally comfortable with how i draw and its quieter than ever i got a message earlier from an empty blog that just sent me like beasiality irl beasty and i dont know what to do i know who it is i know exactly who it is but i cant find them i dont even want to i dont care i just want someone to apologize to me i wont forgive them but i want someone to feel bad they deserve to feel bad theyre probably gonna read this with a stupid grin i dont care you lied you lied you lied and you ignored me and you made fun of me you never helped me you never loved me you never cared about me i wasnt even used you just ignored me i acted stupid im mentally ill i have aspergers and bpd and im psychoedtic and no one ever taught me anythign and my mom neglected me anf i have bipolar and you made fun of me and you ignored me and you called me a pedophile and you called me other things and you didnt even earn the right to have that much impact on me you didnt do anything to deserve the satisfaction you have now we dated for lik a few months and i was homeless and i had no food and i was starving and you neer helped me you never never helped me and then i lied anf then you cut me off and told everyone i raped you and i swear i dont think we ever even said anything sexual and im just aaaa aaa aaaa im so sick of this im so sick my head is a blender with glass in it and the glass makes cracks in the blender and throws off the cap and glass is everwhere  adn aaa aa aaaa aa aaa aaa aaa ok im better

[rawdatabyp3]

Actuaries Put the "X" in DAX, w/Philip Trick

Have you ever wondered what an actuary is? If so, you are not alone. Over the past several years, the actuary programs at universities nationwide have seen exponential growth, thanks in part to an outreach program called Be An Actuary supported by P3 Adaptive’s Principal Consultant and today’s special guest, Philip Trick. Philip is a rarity in the data world. He found his data gene all the way back in high school and has continued to add additional skills as software has evolved to reduce or remove monotonous tasks such as data cleansing and repetitive calculations. While he came to Power BI and Power Query late in the game, he has become an ardent supporter of the Power Platform’s ability to handle complex data and calculations. He is also one of the few people to publicly admit to possessing an inherent love of the DAX iterators.

Today’s conversation gets technical and covers multiple advanced iterators as well as some interesting statistical problems that get even more complex when you change the variables. While we don’t often talk shop on the show, that isn’t the case today. In an interesting twist, we also learn why some keyboards are missing the F1 key. Here’s a hint, when speed is of the essence, nobody wants Office to open the help pane.

All this and more on today’s episode! Be sure to leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform and subscribe today to have new episodes sent straight to your inbox.

Also on this episode:

Blade Runner

Star Wars- Episode IV

Do androids dream of electric sheep

Laurence Kotlikoff

Minecraft

Modeloff Financial Modeling Competitiion

A mechanical clutch isn't a steampunk purse w/ Bill Sundwall

Mary Poppins -Song compilation

Shared birthday probability

P3 Adaptive Blog: Product X

Casualty Actuarial Society

Wolf of Wall Street

Along Came Polly

Fight Club Insurance Claim Scene

Epistemic Path Dependency, w/ Adam Harstad

Tom Brady un-retirement

Rookie Pay Lacks Negotiation

Edgeworth Box Diagram

Prisoner’s Dilemma

Nash Equilibrium

The Great Football Project Rides Again (In Power BI)

Power BI Brain Candy: Value Above Replacement

Check out this episode!

[cjnationmedia]

“Kamara won” – Reactions as Actress Chacha Eke engages her 8-year old daughter in a dance competition [VIDEO]

“Kamara won” – Reactions as Actress Chacha Eke engages her 8-year old daughter in a dance competition [VIDEO]

Popular Actress Chacha Eke Faani has got many talking online after engaging her eight-year-old daughter, Kamara Faani, in a dance competition. Chacha Eke shared a video of herself and her daughter in a dance competitiion from her husband’s birthday party on Instagram and ceelebrities like Destiny Etiko, Moyo Lawal, Mercy Eke, Warri Pikin, Monalisa Chinda reacted to the dance video with…

[bowldeepfannish]

@omgkatsudonplease DYING 😂💘👌👌 —- Also any way you weave it in spite of William&Kate's oh-so-Victuuri one jumper for two (couple jumper? what’s the name in English :°) ) concept… #TeamCorgi rule @xyloophones gotta tag you for the Corgi goodness :,)

For context http://www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2016/12/08/royal-family-winning-ugly-christmas-jumper-competitiion/

[studytherin]

92 questions tag

tagged by: @sumastudies thank you so much for the tag!!

LAST: 1. drink: water 2. phone call: probably my dad 3. text message: dudes on dm 4. song you listened to: i know a place - conan gray 5. time you cried: can’t remember

HAVE YOU: 6. dated someone twice: probably no 7. kissed someone and regretted it: never kissed s/o before 8. been cheated on: probably 9. lost someone special: yes, indeed 10. been depressed: nope 11. gotten drunk and thrown up: never gotten drunk in the 1st place

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS: 12-14: brown, green, navy blue

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. made new friends: yes 16. fallen out of love: no 17. laughed until you cried: yes 18. found out someone was talking about you: idk 19. met someone who changed you: yes 20. found out who your friends are: yes 21. kissed someone on your Facebook list: what? no

GENERAL: 22. how many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: most of them 23. do you have any pets: cats and puppiessss 24. do you want to change your name: no? i think it’s unique enough lol 25. what did you do for your last birthday: study for exams, and this year would still be the same lmao #finalscrisis 26. what time did you wake up: 8.10 am 27. what were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping bc i need to wake up and had my essay plan done 28. name something you can’t wait for: books i’ve ordered from bookdepository 29. when was the last time you saw your mom: she’s sitting beside me 30. what is one thing you wish you could change in your life: i wish i could born in a peaceful world where there are no wars, literally and figuratively

31. what are you listening to right now: something on telly 32. have you ever talked to a person named Tom: yes 33. something that is getting on your nerves: exam and its competitiion 34. most visited websites: quora

LOST QUESTIONS. I JUST PUT IN RANDOM INFO ABOUT ME 35. mole/s: no? 36. mark/s: no? 37. childhood dream: become a marine biologist and archaeologist 38. hair color: brown-black 39. long or short hair: medium 40. do you have a crush on someone: yeah probably 41. what do you like about yourself: my weirdness 42. piercings: used to have them on both of my ears 43. blood type: b 44. nickname: xiuting, bothy 45. relationship status: single and happy with it 46. zodiac: sagittarius 47. pronouns: she/her

48. favorite TV Show: SHADOWHUNTERS 49. tattoos: none 50. right or left hand: both 51. surgery: none 52. hair dyed in different color: never done this before 53. sport: swimming 55. vacation: if nothing of our plans change, i’ll be visiting my aunt in the us next year in march 56. pair of trainers: whatever i want to wear tbh

MORE GENERAL: 57. eating: thai-chinese food 58. drinking: macchiato 59. i’m about to: finish my two freaking essays 61. waiting for: finishing high school 62. want: a bigger bookshelf bc my current one is filled up already 63. get married: 30s 64. career: diplomat

WHICH IS BETTER 65. hugs or kisses: HUGS BC IT’S HUG TIME! 66. lips or eyes: eyes 67. shorter or taller: taller 68. older or younger: older 70. nice arms or nice stomach: nice hair pls 71. sensitive or loud: sensitive 72. hook up or relationship: relationship 73. troublemaker or hesitant: hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. kissed a stranger: what? no 75. drank hard liquor: definitely no 76. lost glasses/contact lenses: no 77. turned someone down: yes 78. sex on the first date: no 79. broken someone’s heart: probably yes 80. had your heart broken: yes 81. been arrested: no 82. cried when someone died: yes :( 83. fallen for a friend: A BIG YES FROM ME GURL

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. yourself: yes 85. miracles: yes 86. love at first sight: probably? idk 87. santa claus: i used to ;;-;; 88. kiss on the first date: no?

OTHER: 90. current best friend name: garfield, my cute lil mix persian cat 91. eye color: black 92. favorite movie: HARRY POTTER

tagging: everyone who wants to do this!