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campingwiththecharmings · 2 years ago

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aw yiss, my favorite comfort fic is back ❤️❤️❤️

(just me being extra again lmao sorry)

The two of you move around the room and bathroom as if it’s a rehearsed dance, the both of you melding seamlessly with each other.

i love this so much for some reason. it's so domestic, ugh. ❤️

Even as you take in the landscape, you can’t help turning to glance at Poe every so often, as if to make sure he’s as perfect as you remember.

*cries softly*

You’d agree to anything he asks just to see him smile like that.

truer words were never spoken ❤️

Poe greets the waitress by name and ducks his head when she replies, “Well look who’s all grown up!”.

no but this is the cutest mental image omg i can't 😭😭😭😭

Being with Poe feels like being a kid again, when there were no real problems and you could stay out and stay up as late as you wanted to. He reminds you of summertime, of laughing until you think you’re just about to pass out, of that giddiness you felt leading up to your very first kiss with the boy in your science class.

this is just....idek i just love this. what a vibe. 🧡

reader imaging poe running around his yard as a kid asdlskdf;gk i'm just so 😭😭😭

“What I was trying to say earlier-“ Poe starts but is cut off by the sound of the back screen door opening and Kes stepping outside.

OMG KES, ILY BUT WHAT THE HELL

“I know what you meant.” “I don’t think you do.” “No, really Poe,” you prop yourself up on your arm so you’re face to face and you can almost make out his gorgeous nose and long lashes, “I promise.”

;LSD'LFG'DLFDGSLD;'L I'M

Now is the perfect time, you think, as you lean forward in an attempt to kiss him, before you realize it’s much too dark and you can only vaguely make out the outline of Poe’s face and you end up planting a soft kiss to the corner of his mouth that you feel turn upwards immediately after.

as'd;s'dfldgl; omggggggggggggggg they are so sweet help 😭😭😭

so they basically admitted they both love each other and they basically kissed and i'm just over here like

goddddddddddddd, the yearning is so strong, i just want them to ACT ON THEIR FEELINGS 😭

another stellar chapter (in case my feelings weren't already obvious lmao), thank you as always for sharing! 🧡

Memory Lane

Chapter 16 of You Are In Love

Series Masterlist | Main Masterlist

Pairing: modern!Poe Dameron x reader

Warnings: none :)

Word Count: 3k

Author’s Note: things should be coming out quicker now… hopefully. and shoutout to @zoriis for helping me with all my nonsense <3

“You’re my best friend.”

You’re really not sure how to respond to that, and Poe’s sitting so close to you you’re not sure words would even come out. You can tell this is a big moment, can feel the weight of the words hanging in the air, but your brain can’t seem to connect with your mouth and you’re terrified of what Poe’s thinking of your silence.

“You kids ready for breakfast?” Kes pushes open the screen door, and a part of you marvels at how perfect his timing is. Gently, Poe plants his feet to stop the rocking motion of the swing, and the two of you get up and follow his father inside.

Kes is plating up the food, so you try to take in your surroundings as subtly as possible, twisting your head this way and that to try and see everything. The light is streaming through the large windows, throwing beams all around the kitchen. There’s a vase of flowers on the kitchen table and picture frames pushed against the wall of the countertop.

It’s cozy, and reminds you of Poe’s apartment with the splashes of color and pictures of everyone he loves displayed proudly. Even without the sunlight, the room, and really the whole house, feels and seems warm, as if it’s radiating comfort.

Breakfast is simple, fruit and eggs and toast, but it’s somehow the best meal you’ve ever eaten. There must just be something about home cooked food when it’s made by someone else that makes it so fantastic. Poe and Kes always make sure you’re included in their conversations, but you enjoy just sitting back and listening to them just the same.

You’d never been close with your family, even growing up there always seemed to be a layer of tension underneath any time you spent with them. It’s nice, almost reassuring, to see a parent-child dynamic where they both love and enjoy spending time with each other.

Still, they never make you feel like an outsider, and by the end of the meal your cheeks almost hurt from how much you’d been smiling. Despite that, Kes still shoos you away when you try to help clear the table and wash the dishes.

“You’re a guest, you’re on vacation, just relax,” he tells you with a smile, but you can tell he means it. Poe’s just like his father in that way, they’re both chivalrous to the bone.

After being shooed out of the kitchen, you and Poe head upstairs to get ready for the day. The two of you move around the room and bathroom as if it’s a rehearsed dance, the both of you melding seamlessly with each other.

Once, when you’re finishing your skincare at the sink, Poe passes behind you with a hand on the small of your back and you think for a second you might just pass out.

Other than that, though, it’s easy to get ready in the same space as Poe, even though you were a bit worried you’d started drooling when he came out of the bathroom with his t-shirt showing off a bit of his stomach.

When you’re both ready, he leads you downstairs and to the kitchen, where Kes is watching Lucky run around the yard through the windows, to let him know you’re heading out.

“Are you coming back for lunch?” He asks, turning his head away from the dog and his attempts to capture a squirrel. You look to Poe, because you have no idea what he’s planned.

“Probably not, I’ll let you know.”

With your goodbyes said and a brief intermission to give Lucky some head scratches when you walk past, you hop back into the passenger seat of Poe’s car, ready for him to take you wherever he wants to go. He already seems brighter, lighter than he is back home, as if the sunshine is infecting him, building up in his veins.

The windows are rolled down, sunlight and warm morning air flooding the car. You have no idea where Poe’s taking you, but you’ll happily ride along with him, wherever he wants to go. Even as you take in the landscape, you can’t help turning to glance at Poe every so often, as if to make sure he’s as perfect as you remember.

He drives through the mainly empty country roads, but there’s more cars and people wandering by when you get closer to the small town a few miles from Kes’s house. It’s not very crowded though, and Poe finds a parking spot relatively quickly.

“I figured we could just walk around, I could show you my favorite spots growing up?” He asks as he rolls up the windows, as if you would ever turn down a chance to explore Poe’s hometown, to learn more about him.

“That sounds great,” you tell him as you unbuckle your seatbelt, and his face breaks out in a smile that’s so beautiful you almost want to cry. You’d agree to anything he asks just to see him smile like that.

The two of you make your way out of the car, starting your stroll around the little town that Poe grew up in. As he points out different stores, like the grocery store he used to work at and the ice cream shop he promises to take you to after lunch, it’s almost like you can see the little Poes running around; baby Poe led by his parents to get a scoop of ice cream or high school Poe meeting his friends outside of the grocery store after his shift.

It doesn’t take long for the two of you to reach the edge of the little downtown area, but luckily there’s a little park for you and Poe to continue walking around.

“Are there gators in there?” You ask him, staring down the pond in the center of the park out of the corner of your eye.

“Probably,” Poe shrugs, unable to hold back his smile. You snack him lightly on the shoulder before leaving your hand to swing between the two of you, brushing up against his every so often.

Most of the walk is spent in silence, just enjoying being next to each other as birds chirp and the sun shines. Even though you’ve been here for less than a day, you can already tell that this is Poe’s place; it seems like he just comes to life in the warm, sunny weather, seems more relaxed when surrounded by the buildings of his childhood.

“You ready to grab lunch?” He asks when you finish your loop around the little park, and as much as you want to keep walking, you want to listen to more of Poe’s stories even more. It seems like there’s something around every corner that prompts an anecdote from him, and you want to hear every single one.

Poe leads the two of you out of the park and down the street, his hand brushing yours with every step he takes. Soon, he stops in front of an old brick building and ushers you inside as he holds the door open.

Inside, it’s a bustling diner with practically every table full. Poe greets the waitress by name and ducks his head when she replies, “Well look who’s all grown up!”. Your meal passes quickly, especially due to the speedy service and the not-so-secret wink the waitress shot to Poe when she took your orders, but you spend as much time as you can prying Poe from stories.

He tells you about coming here with his parents on Saturday mornings, and with his father on the first and last day of school all the way until he graduated. He told you about the time he knocked out his front teeth when he fell face-first off a tire swing and the time he accidentally ate a fistful of sand at the beach.

“My dad still has the pictures somewhere,” he tells you after he finishes with his story of breaking his arm jumping off a tree the very same summer he lost his teeth.

“Well I know what I’m looking for when we get back.” You revel in the laugh he lets out, your own grin creeping across your face.

You don’t stop smiling, even after you leave the diner and Poe walks you down to the ice cream shop you’d passed earlier. It seems as if your smile will never leave your face as you laugh at Poe attempting to lick the melting ice cream off his hand and wrist, even as you avoid falling drops from your own cone.

That heedy, giddy feeling doesn’t leave you, even as you climb back into Poe’s car and head back to the Dameron family home. There isn’t a single thing that could bring you down right now, not even the slowly brewing anxiety of sharing a bed with Poe for another night or the resurfacing memory of his confession from earlier.

You’re on top of the world.

When you get back to the house, Lucky is there to greet you with happy barks and a tail wagging so quickly you’re almost convinced he’s going to fly away. Instead, he almost trips Poe going up the stairs and then runs off, skidding across the kitchen floor once you’re inside.

As much as you love the warmth and the ability to go outside without wearing a hundred layers, the air conditioning of the house is certainly welcome. Kes, however, is nowhere to be found, but Poe just shrugs it off, reasoning that he probably had to run out to the store or run some errand or another.

“You want something to drink?” Poe asks, opening the refrigerator and peering inside. “We’ve got actual lemonade.”

Poe’s something of a lemonade snob, and looks down on any variety that comes in a can or a packet, claiming that it doesn’t taste right and he’d rather drink battery acid. According to him, his dad is one of the only people who knows how to make real lemonade, with freshly squeezed lemons and everything.

“Sure,” you respond, even though he’s already pulling out the pitcher before he’d even finished asking his question. He hands you your glass, and on your first sip you can already tell nothing will ever taste as good again. Poe doesn’t say anything, but you can see the I told you so dancing in his eyes as he peers at you over the rim of his glass.

The two of you head outside, the glasses in your hands starting to sweat almost immediately after you step foot on the back porch. Poe makes his way to sit on the steps, but you need to pause for a moment and take it all in.

There’s a big backyard, with tons of open space and a small garden close to the house. The orange trees Poe always mentioned in the stories of his childhood are scattered throughout the property, and you could swear you’re able to see little Poe running around and climbing the short branches, jumping up on his little legs to pull down the fruit.

As you’re picturing his past, Poe is turning back to look at you, a question in his eyes. You just shake your head, trying to rid yourself of the image of a little curly head and chubby hands sticky with juice, and sit yourself next to Poe on the wooden steps.

The heat seems to be getting to everyone, even Lucky, who flops himself on the porch next to you, tongue hanging out of his mouth and the wagging of his tail slowing to a rhythmic wave. You and Poe sit in silence, though you don’t mind it much, giving you the opportunity to stare off into space and imagine what Poe was like as he grew up bathed in sunshine and surrounded by heat, the perfect sunny boy growing into the man sitting next to you.

“What I was trying to say earlier-“ Poe starts but is cut off by the sound of the back screen door opening and Kes stepping outside.

“Jesus, it’s hot out here,” the older man says as both you and Poe turn to look at him, “you kids want to head inside? I can get dinner started as soon as y’all want.”

You look to Poe, ready to follow his lead but desperate to know what he was going to say, but you find he’s looking towards you. After a few moments of silence, Poe finally answers his father, “We haven’t seen the sun in a couple’a months, we be gotta enjoy it while we can,” stretching his legs out of the shade offered by the porch and into the Florida sun.

It’s only a few minutes later that you and Poe are warm beyond comfort, so you heave yourself off the porch step and follow Poe back into the house, where you’re greeted by air conditioning once again. You find Kes already starting dinner and he shoos both you and Poe away when you offer to help, so you seat yourself at the counter and keep him company while he cooks.

There’s a pit of yearning in your chest as you watch the banter between Poe and Kes, the smiles and infectious laughter and the pure joy that radiates off of them. But there’s still something about them that makes you feel like you’re finally home.

Sitting in Kes’s kitchen with him and Poe, laughing and sipping on lemonade while the warm air blows in through the screen door makes you feel the same way you feel whenever you see Rose and Rey and Finn. If it was up to you, you’d live in this moment for the rest of your life.

The rest of the evening passes in a similar way, the warm breeze and cricket noises drifting in from the screen doors and laughter and pure joy and comfort flooding your veins as you move from the kitchen to the dining room to the living room. Some time after dinner, with reruns of some old sitcom playing on the TV even though none of you are really paying attention, you excuse yourself to take a shower because you still feel sweaty even in the air conditioning.

Even though you try to shower quickly, you end up spending almost a half an hour responding to texts from your friends back home while you do your skincare. When you finally make your way back downstairs, you can hear Kes and Poe in a heated conversation, but they stop abruptly when you step into the living room.

After another hour or so, the heat and excitement of the day finally starts getting to you, so you head up to bed. Even though you said you wouldn’t mind if Poe came in later if he wanted to have some time to catch up with his dad, he comes up to bed with you.

“Mind if I hop in the shower?” Poe asks as you pull the covers back and slip into bed.

“Of course not,” you respond, and your heart almost gives out at how unbelievably sweet he is. You’ve only just settled in with your phone, scrolling through social media, when Poe comes in, curls mused and shirtless and you almost have a heart attack at how unbelievably beautiful he is.

He shuts off the lights before slipping into bed next to you, and you need to resist the urge to curl into him and rest your head on his chest. He smells clean, with an undercurrent of something warm and a little bit like oranges, as if the air from outside is still clinging to him, hours later.

Instead of curling into him, though, you shut off your phone and lay down on your back, staring up at the ceiling when you hear Poe clear his throat and make a choked-off sort of noise, like he was trying to say something but couldn’t.

“Earlier, this morning, on the porch,” he pauses and you turn to lay on your side facing him, “before my dad came out… I was trying to tell you something.”

“Mhm,” you settle for a vague noise of agreement because you’re sure that if you tried to speak, no words would come out.

“Well, I said you’re my best friend, and it’s true, I promise, but what I meant to tell you…” he stops, words caught in his throat and your heart is beating so unbelievably fast you’re almost convinced it’s going to burst through your rib cage.

“I know what you meant.”

“I don’t think you do.”

“No, really Poe,” you prop yourself up on your arm so you’re face to face and you can almost make out his gorgeous nose and long lashes, “I promise.”

The words hang thick in the air, and even though neither of you really said much of anything, you both know what the other is trying to say. Sometimes words just aren’t enough. Poe lets out a stuttering breath, one that fans across your face and sounds like pure relief.

“Really?” His voice is quiet, soft and awed in ways you’ve never heard from him before. You nod before you realize he can’t see you in the darkness of the room, so you respond, “Really.”

You’d normally feel embarrassed, but that crushing pressure of anxiety isn’t present in the pit of your stomach because you feel like you're floating, you’re soaring and nothing could ever bring you down.

Neither of you say another word, instead sliding underneath the covers and maneuvering yourselves around each other until you're comfortable, neither of you worrying if this is the right thing to do. It’s as if the stars have aligned and everything finally makes sense.

Tags: @zoriis @andr0medafallen @dailyreverie @stevenngrant @aellynera @creatively-analytical @tiquinntheghost @luckynachos @fallinallinmendes @sabxism @ghostsongwriter-22 @poopirate @loonymagizoologist @stvnnie @campingwiththecharmings @outmodead @welcometostayingawake

#fic rec #just gonna sit here for a sec and think about how beautiful their first like legit kiss is gonna be #goddddddddddddddddddddd i can't wait

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seedsofagony · 2 years ago

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Dirty Laundry (GK)

Series: Golden Kamuy

Character: Hijikata Toshizou (age not specified)

Summary: Hijikata takes care of you after a stressful week at work, starting with your dirty laundry: SFW (slightly suggestive), x reader, fluff, modern au, domestic bliss, spoiler free

Word Count: 395

Notes: This was originally posted on my main account. I really love domestic bliss scenarios - they are just so calming and comforting to me. To create this drabble, I used a random choice selector to assign the character and chore. The universe must have been listening because I got Hijikata on the first spin! I do have plans to write more of these eventually - the next randomly selected subject is Tsurumi/vacuuming...

Image Credit: engin akyurt

You hate doing the laundry. It’s not the sorting or the washing, and it isn’t even the folding or hanging things up. It’s the endlessness of it. Laundry is the chore that’s never done. Even when the hamper is empty, you’re still wearing clothes that will need to be washed.

It’s just one more thing to do during your busy week, so you put it off. The hamper fills up and you start putting together stranger and stranger outfits as you run out of clean clothes. Maybe you can wear those jeans one more time? You take a whiff. Maybe not. You wonder, does putting them in the freezer really work…?

Without saying a word, Hijikata takes them from you and drops them into a laundry basket. He hates messes, but he rarely says anything when he comes over. With such an expressive brow, does he really have to? But there’s no side-eye today. He knows you’ve been slammed at the office. Friday night, he showed up at your door with wine and somehow turned the contents of your fridge into an incredible dinner. Now it’s Saturday morning, and there’s no more putting it off. The laundry needs to be done.

He moves through your room with causal familiarity, picking up a sock here, another sock there, and dropping them into the basket. It’s a little mortifying, but he does it with such efficiency. He has an easy look on his face, his hair swept into a low queue draped over one shoulder. You only get the infamous quirk of his brow when he picks up that certain pair of unmentionables. You busy yourself with making the bed. It’s not like he’s never seen them before.

Lips pursed in an amused smile, he drops them into the pile. He pads off to the laundry room, the basket full of clothes on his hip. You smooth the sheets and pause, leaning over the bed. The man who hates messes is dutifully cleaning up yours - without a word, without judgement. It’s such a simple gesture, but it means the world.

You hear the washer kick off - there are probably two or three loads of laundry to get through, so you have some waiting around to do. Hijikata reappears in the bedroom doorway and leans on the frame.

Still smiling faintly, he asks, “So. How should we pass the time?”

#golden kamuy #hijikata toshizou #hijikata #golden kamuy x reader #hijikata x reader #golden kamuy reader insert #golden kamuy au #golden kamuy domestic bliss #golden kamuy scenario #golden kamuy fanfiction #golden kamuy fanfic #golden kamuy fic #golden kamuy drabble #golden kamuy fluff #golden kamuy gilfs #SFW #spoiler free #my repost #sweets stories

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hauntingrabbits · 2 years ago

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HELLO... IF YOU FEEL UP FOR IT ID LOVE TO SEE MORE OF FREIGHT... I HAVE SEEN EXACTLY THREE (3) ART OF THEM AND WOULD BE FASCINATED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THEM.... TYT, OFC!! no pressure :) tbh I'd love to see ANY of your ocs, they all seem super fun! (btw please tag me if you answer this, it's easier for me to find in my notifications, cheers!)

@graduallywatermellon

Oh of course!!!!! I’m afraid theres not much more of my old art of Freight that I’m certain I’m going to post yet but I’m actually currently working on an animation with Freight in it right now and there will be plenty of art of them during October too (every year I do some kind of daily artober/OCtober prompt list in October that I mostly focus on my ocs for)! I might also work on a doodle of them tonight too :P

Anyways I’ll post Freight’s reference sheet here in a sec for you but for in the mean time here’s some info I actually had ready to share (Its mostly from their artfight page I wrote back in June):

Name: Freight

Species: Cat (?)

Pronouns: they/he

Background:

Freight started as a regular domestic black cat, but he was used as a lab animal and ended up bizarrely mutated. He now has increased intelligence, the ability to understand/learn language, and a randomly mutating body. More recently, he also seems to have developed the uncontrollable ability to teleport. Nobody is particularly happy about this. His name comes from the project he was used as a lab animal for, project Freight.

…Project Freight has been put on hold until the research personnel can find their test subject again. ;]

Personality:

Freight is rather skittish and anxious, especially in new places or around sharp objects/medical equipment, but they’re still incredibly curious and fairly easily excited. They’re still mostly a cat at heart.

Their favorite colors are red, gold, and anything shiny. They're also fascinated by rodents.

Relationship to other characters:

Gizmo:

Freight is fascinated with Gizmo because he’s shiny, warm, and kind of nice (truly, what more could a cat want?) and they stick to him like glue. Gizmo is initially significantly less excited about Freight's presence but he reluctantly tolerates them. He does grow to genuinely care about Freight pretty quickly though, and they quickly become inseparable.

Good Kitty:

Good Kitty pities Freight and is generally protective over him. Freight was intimidated by GK at first but now pretty much just views them as a large cat (…which they are).

Rhonda:

Overall they're both very silly cats together. Silliness x2. Rhonda is generally protective over Freight in the same way Good Kitty is though.

#ask #graduallywatermellon #my ocs #Freight #if you have any questions about any of my ocs feel free to ask!#that goes for everybody btw #im always open to talking about them #some things and lore bits I may not answer/clarify because I want to save them for future posts though #I like making little oneshot lore comics and theres some events & parts of my ocs Im very excited to do that for #long post

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filippoinzaghi · 6 years ago

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Director's cut for the shower scene on the Gigi/Rino fic, please?👀👀👀

Way to be direct, I see 👀!

So, let’s see. I had just gotten out of the previous chapter which had obviously drained me emotionally with feels™ (might be my fave chapter with number 6 !). I was crying almost once every day because of finals coming up and that new master degree they compltely fucked up and the lack of communication from teachers. A hellish month tbh and that fic really was an escape to just try to calm down and focus on something else for a little while.

I had basically the rest of the chapters mapped out from chapter 3. Since I decided it would be a 7 chapter fic, linear and a Friends to Lover, I had landmarks on chapters. Chapter 1 served as the meeting, 2 as properly meeting, 3 as being friends and also contrast Rino’s and Gigi’s career with Italy NT while they’re actually the same age (can you fucking believe asedrftygh ! And same month as that ! Should exploit that piece of info next time !) : with Gigi having been precocious, debut in 1997 and 3rd gk in 1998 while Rino mainly played with Andrea with the U23 and pretty much had his debut with him (not the same game but the same year. The amount of games I researched on football database to have the exact dates, games and month the three of them were with Italy, I swear aqzserdtfygh).

Chapter 4 was inevitable. When I saw the progression of my fic, I just knew I had to talk about the 2003 and then the depression that followed since I sticked with Gigi’s POV throughout that fic. And so, chapter 4 was the growing closer part, the first sign they might care more than they think. I had a brief moment of hesitation of putting the first kiss in that chapter but I quickly decided against it as the was neither the right time nor the right place to do so. The focus was essentially on the depression, on recognising that that’s what it was and finally realising he needs help, as in therapy (as seen with that piece of dialogue : “And I can’t help as you need to.”).

So yeah, all these paragraphs (see I can’t stop talking when you launch me), to say that in the logical course of action, the kiss needed to happen in chapter 5. Since I already had the ending (chapter 7 and what a fucking blessing for Sandro Nesta to marry in 2007, t’was the best gift to my timeline !) and obviously the 2006 World Cup indulgement. I also must say that seeing you thirsting for that first kiss after chapter 4 was a pure delight and boost zqasedrftyg. Now, I had no fucking idea how to put the kiss into action, looking at the prompt lists. My only clear point was that “Gennaro” was to be used. If you followed closely, I’ve tried to play on names and how Rino he’s referred to by Gigi as the fic goes on. He’s first “one midfielder of Perugia” and “Gennaro Gattuso” full, matter-of-factly, then it’s “Gattuso” when they have lunch with Pirlo. And from chapter 3 on, he becomes “Rino”. That was also another, more subtler, way to show the evolution of their relationship. So, even though I didn’t know yet how I would write the kiss, I just knew that Gigi would use his first name and not his nickname in the crucial moment (aka… seconds to the kiss, lips only centimetres apart). I thought there was something intimate in play here in using his full first name and not just the nickname as everybody else does, like a secret only Gigi knows of and has the right to utter. Rino didn’t use “Gianluigi”, though but mainly because in the first “Gigi, I…” he’s not yet sure of what’s gonna happen, it’s “Gennaro…” that prompts the whole thing and makes Rino abandon any doubts he may had had still; and in the second “Fucking hell, Gigi…” he’s not really thinking straight (pun intended 👀) obviously and utters the first words he can comprehensibly forms, the first thought that can come out of his mouth. That’s to be made up for in chapter 6 with the use of “Gigione”.

(my god where’s my option to turn that ask into an audio post, it’s beginning to look like a dissertation azsedrftgy)

I chose the showers as setting because I had the first sentence of the fic, looking once again at the prompt lists and I just knew then that would also be my closing sentence after the kiss. The rest pretty much wrote itself, trying to keep up links in between chapters to keep the linearity of it all. The Rino popping in in Turin from time to time and taking the couch, the fact he now has his reserved blanket in Gigi’s home and the “A couple of times, Gigi had woken him up and asked if he could come sleep with him…” was kind of a wink to your (and a lesser extent my small contribution) Chiello/Monto Domestic fluff challenge. Turin and Milan are truly close, after all and I just love the trope of the popping in of one “by accident” (yeah sure) to take care of the other. I also like to imagine Rino on the phone and trying to be all grumpy and threatening to bribe some of the Juve players (mainly Zambrotta (and Alex but he didn’t need that to check on Gigi) who then spread the word to the others) to pop in into Gigi’s flat and have them tell him how he’s doing. It all added to show again how their bond evolved again and the process of them thinking about the other more and more, even when they’re not together.

And so the shower scene (yes, finally zqasedrftgyujik). I just love them, honestly (and I had no idea you did to !!). There’s the symbolic of water washing away not just dirt on your skin but whatever else : here, thoughts, trying to calm down for Gigi and for the kiss, it’s more about stopping to fool around, wash away the masks, the doubts, the uncertainties that comes with the “I might like him a lot but does he like me back ?” and stuff like that. There’s also the nakedness which reinforces the fact that, they’re bare, no place to hide, that’s them in all they have to offer, in their whole honest and truest way. Which is why I tried to make it as much non-sexual as I did (although, re-reading it, I may have insisted on that point too much which kind of spoils it, but I tried and that’ll be helpful to remember in the future). I made the shower booth as small as possible because… Reasons obviously (also, the showers in my taekwondo club are fucking small, I can barely wash my feet without murdering my knees every two seconds, so they were obviously an inspiration). Then I asimply had to use hot shower because a) that’s always more agreeable, b) it fits with the whole “Rino’s energy burns Gigi and he can’t get enough thing, and c) THE STEAM™ ! With the steam, there’s the whole point we already discussed in the comments of blurry lines, ethereal atmosphere that comes into play. It was also a way for me to show it all seemed like suspended in time, as if the steam hid them from the rest of the world.

I must add that I did not exactly meant flip-flops when Rino enters the showers as for me flip-flops are, well… flip-flops with the thing going between your big toe and second toe. But what I actually meant was this kind of sandals which are basically a sole and a strap below the toes (like this) because that was a fucking hilarious image to me and considered a mood-killer/most unsexy thing for some. The fact that Rino joined Gigi was just… Logical. Well, obviously for reasons since otherwise, there wouldn’t have been any kiss. But that’s also the level of comfortable they get with a) the dressing rooms and b) their evolving bond and so yeah, considering the two of them, it’s no biggie for Rino to share the booth, however small with Gigi. I mean… The water’s already hot and running, why use another booth 👀! Also I’m a sucker for wet hair and the glory that was Rino and Gigi’s hair at the time just needed to be wet and highlighted here, that’s all.

Anyway, that got long, sorry (or not) ! Thank you so much for the ask

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ffrandomrpg · 5 years ago

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The Beginning

I’ve been toying with this idea for a long time. Soccer has been a part of my gaming library since my parents bought me International Superstar Soccer 64. I used to put Sol Campbell at forward and thunder goals in on the easiest difficulty because he was inexplicably my favorite player simply because his first name was Sol.

Fast forward a little later and I started back up with my soccer playing obsession when I finally scrounged up the money for Fifa 2002 (with my boy Henry on the cover) and a PS2, learning to love the game more and more with each annual release.

I’ve come to expect certain things from the series, and though I flirted with other competitors like PES briefly and even gave Football Manager a go, it always comes back to Fifa.

Still, I always wished there was more involvement and immersion in the Manager mode the game offers. There’s the expected features every year, but very little in the way of expanding the ideas present within.

Other offerings in EA Sports’ repertoire put tweaks on the Career mode here and there and some are pretty interesting. Briefly, Live the Life in whatever NHL that was even had some more fun text-based RPG elements but the shine really wore off quickly when it became apparent there was little to no depth and it was horrifyingly repetitive.

This is my attempt to inject the monotonous year-in year-out sameness that we’re sure to endure for the foreseeable future since FUT has proven to be a huge cash cow for them. Why would they bother expanding other modes?

So! Let’s get started.

Manager Mode with a Twist

One of the older Fifa’s used to limit your manager offerings at the start of your career mode and I always thought that was interesting. Sure, players may be disappointed they can’t immediately helm their beloved Chelsea or Barcelona, but there’s little challenge in that.

Instead, I wanted this to be the first randomized element to one’s career. Since we can’t simulate a smattering of job offerings from smaller clubs, I instead use Random’s List Feature to get myself a job from one of these areas:

Australian League MLS Liga MX Chile China PR Colombia Denmark League 2 Germany’s 3. liga Japan K league korea Norway Ireland Saudi arabia Turkey

I hit the randomizer and it spits out China PR for my destination. I go into a Kick Off to randomize my team assignment and get Heibei CFFC.

I name myself with a Star Wars name generator and become Jorgunn Pitfar. The name sounds vaguely Scandinavian so I select my country of origin as Denmark for no real reason and then pack my bags to head off to China.

I barely keep up with soccer news, but I have seem some news of older prominent players packing their bags for huge wages in China. It doesn’t necessarily directly fit with my ‘small club’ objective considering I have over 20mil to spend on transfers if I wanted, but it isn’t one of the biggest leagues and the Star Rating given to the teams by Fifa seems rather low so we’ll go with it.

Heibei China Fortune F.C. was founded in 2010, playing their games in Langfang somewhere about halfway between Beijing and Tianjin. Their stadium houses a modest 30,000 despite the city being home to over 4 million residents and those playing on the ground are lucky to experience the air pollution ranked among the 10 worst in all of China.

As Jorgunn Pitfar makes his way to Langfang (not by plane since the city doesn’t have an airport), perhaps he mulls over what his goals for his career as a manager will be. It’s the first of what may be many jobs at the helm of various clubs and it couldn’t have been farther removed from what he’s probably used to in Denmark.

I again turn to the Random List to decide what Pitfar’s objective is, pulling from this list. You could, of course, add more.

Finish career at home country Promotion master Finish w/ prem/seria a/liga/bundes job Finish with starting club Grow game journeyman

There’s little explanation needed for the options. Do I want to return home once my career is in its twilight years? Do I shoot for the moon and hope to get a shot at Champions League football, or specialize in helping lower level clubs climb to great heights?

I hit randomize and Pitfar’s fate is sealed; he will finish his career in his native Denmark. Depending on how long the career mode goes, this may be impossible but we can get creative with a solution.

Now, the last bit of setup we need to do involves our transfer policy. Club expectations be damned, what does Pitfar want to do with the assets at his disposal? What sort of club does he aspire to run?

I make another list and plug it into the randomizer:

High Profile Signings Sign from Club Nation Sign Young Players (<23 yr old) Develop from Youth Team Sign from competitors in same league Focus on Asia focus on North America focus on Central America focus on South America Focus on Euro continent Focus on British Isles

I hit randomize and get Develop from Youth Team. Not bad considering the average OVR rating of the team is low enough that some promotions from the Youth Team might be able to slot right into the matchday squad.

I use some of my transfer money to buy 3 scouts and they are sent out on their journeys immediately. Ito will spend 9 months in Japan finding me Wingers, Fang for a 9 month stint to find anything he can in Brazil, and Brown to England to find me a (hopefully) big Playmaker for 9 months. They better get comfy out there cuz they won’t be coming back for some time.

Pitfar looks ahead to the preseason Invitational Cup held domestically in China this year. The prize money is the best of the lot, at 2.9m, but that really matters very little considering Heibei won’t be seeing any real marquee signings as long as the Danish manager is at the helm.

Still, it offers a good opportunity to see what the squad depth is like. Two team sheets are assembled: the through-and-through first team selections and the rotational, fringe players starting. Since there’s little importance to this competition, the fringe will receive all the playing time.

We advance to the first game against Wellington Phoenix FC and sim it. I’m pleased to find Huaze and Tianyuan both make their way onto the score sheet and the fringe boys manage a 3-0 win.

As if this performance sparks interest in Heibei, teams start to come knocking. I loan out the wonderfully-named YangYang for the year and counter an initial offer for Hongbo and sell him away for over his value at 950k. I don’t need the money, but the thrill of getting more than I should from Necaxa for him is all the satisfaction I need.

I sim the next two games, losing to Dalian Yifang 2-0 which is to be expected considering the low OVR of my squad, and then draw with TEDA 0-0. Somehow, maybe, we’ve used up all our good luck on the first game.

Looking ahead, a loss spells elimination for Heibei in this tournament and we can kiss that 2.9m goodbye. Al Hazem Sports Club waits on matchday, and perhaps because I have little knowledge of this club, I don’t rotate any players despite all the down-arrows denoting poor form trends among almost all the players.

We lose 2-0. No goals save the first game, but also no injuries to any of the players so there is some silver lining. As if to drive home the idea that Chinese clubs have more money than they know what to do with, the club rewards Pitfar’s efforts with 1.45m just for performance which (obviously) was quite poor outside the first win.

Moving forward to deadline day and there’s very little that needs to be done by the club considering our randomly-assigned position on transfers. Still, not all of it is bad. First, I sell off my starting GK for 670k. He’s 32 and though GK’s have a pretty good career length generally, I don’t really care. I can sign someone near to his OVR or grow a prospect from the youth team into the mid-60s quite easily.

I take my prize money to drop on a release clause for an 18 year old GK named Rebollo. For some reason, these younger players are afraid of a Crucial team role so I offer Sporadic and they like that far more even though they’ll immediately go into the starting 11.

They do, however, seem to want a 1.9k wage and when I offer a young winger named Keelan O’Connell only a thousand, he and his agent immediately walk. So, then, Keanan Bennetts is offered 1.9k and Sporadic and he and his agent immediately agree. Little does he know he’ll go right into my starting 11 and play every game so long as his stamina allows.

A couple low rated players in my rotational squad are sent out on loan and there’s very little action for Heibei on the rest of deadline day. Once my scouts come back in for their monthly check-in, I weed out the sub-60 OVR projected prospects and they go back out. A fleeting taste of ‘home’ for them before they have to return to the far reaches of the globe. Though I’m not sure if Langfang is more desirable than ending up in Japan or England.

The first two games of the Asian Continental Cup arrive, and perhaps this is Heibei’s equivalent to the Champions League so I put my first team in play and am greeted with a 2-1 win from the main boys only to have them crumble against Australia’s Newcastle United Jets somehow. Lavezzi and Mascherano have never before seemed so fallible.

As if to cheer myself up, I sign a young scouted player named Onishi to the Youth Team since his projected rating is relatively high even given the early stages of the process. Is it a gamble? Yes. Does Jorgunn Pitfar’s interest in management end at Heibei? Definitely not.

Moving forward, we will play out the month of March as standard Fifa Career mode before implementing the final Random aspect of this journey. More on that later.

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killuaisaprincess · 1 year ago

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“Don’t try and distract me! Are you saying I’m grouchy normally?”

“No, no, of course not. You’re usually sleepy and adorable.”

Killua’s cute little sleepy-eyed look when he would open up his arms and ask through body language for Gon to pick him up, when he would yawn, when he would rub at those big blue eyes...

It's adorable.

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fearofaherobrine · 8 years ago

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Roleplay Server Log #154

"Alex, Alex, Alex and Herabrine”

[Alexis] Is making her way down towards the bay-

[Alexsezia] Is fishing with several cats laying around her. Behind her Smudge is cropping grass while China and Hellion take a nap together in their pen. There's a splash in the distance of Herabrine swimming in the bay.

[Alexis] Knocks on the side of Alexsezia's house- Mind some company?

[Alesexia] Looks up - Not at all. It's just a lazy afternoon. Want some chase and crackers? There's milk in the little trunk too. - Indicates a small trunk beside the horse pen.

[Alexis] - Sure, why not. So, anything new happen lately?

[Alexsezia] Oh not much. I went to town a couple of times since we talked last. It's really become a lively place with all the kids running around. But the Testificates seem happier, it's all the fun of players with none of the griefing.

[Alexis] -I see, and, sorry again for punching you the last time we talked...

[Alexsezia] Juts out her jaw a bit at the memory. - I forgive you. You were distraught, I know how upsetting this is for you.

[Alexis] - Thanks... I really do miss him so much, but it's so odd watching him as a child...

{Alexsezia] There's a tugging on the line and Alexsezia flips up the string and catches a salmon before tossing it out again. The cats swarm on it like hungry piranahs and pick it clean of pixels. - It is strange, but he seems happy at least. I feel like this experience may help mend the rift between him and his brother.

[Alexis] - That will be so strange at first. Stevie did his best to protect me from CP back on the other servers

[Alexsezia] Cp's a dork. It's fun watching Doc annoy him. It's hard to remember how scary he used to be.

[Alexis] - Maybe for you. The last time we encountered him personally, well, that was the first time he really tried to kill me... I didn't realize how much Stevie was protecting me

[Alexsezia] Yeah... Things are so different here. I admit I've been watching most of it at a remove as well. I'm just looking at the result.

-There's a few ripples and bubbles in the water a little ways out-

[Alexis] - Yeah... I wonder how Lie and CP will react once their house ends up being quiet again?

[Alexsezia] But it won't be quiet. There's still Ashe and Willow and Oak.

[Alexis] - Yes, but the dragons seem to grow up pretty fast

[Alexsezia] I think that won't be the case with Ashe. Since he's stunted, I think he'll be under his mothers wing for quite some time. - There's a little tug on the line and Alexsezia draws back a pair of iron boots. - Sheesh. Well at least they're enchanted.

[Alexis] - That's the white one... right?

[Alexsezia] Yes, the one with the googles. Need a pair of boots? It looks like they have a mid-level unbreaking.

[Alexis] - Nah, I've got a higher one at home- She pops some chase into her mouth

-Another little splash-

[Alexsezia] Narrows her eyes as she stares at the water and then reels the line in again. The lobster flops off the end of the hook and scuttles across the blanket snipping it claws- Yikes!

-Chuckle from the water-

[Alexis] Grabs an arrow from her inventory and stabs the lobster-

[Alexsezia] I know you're out there. Stop messing around. If you want to talk come over here and stop putting dumb things on my line!

[Herabrine] Pops up in the shallows- You're no fun.

[Alexsezia] Any new gossip Hera?

[Herabrine] Grins hugely - I saw something I shouldn't have....

[Alexis] - What was it?

[Herabrine] Weeeeellll - she twiddles a bit of her hair between her fingers. -I saw Flicker and Priestess Beanz taking an early morning stroll by the shore.

[Alexsezia] Sneaky brine...

[Alexis] - Who?

[Alexsezia] Priestess Beanz was the high authority in Jebs main church on my old seed, she kinda got dragged in with us in the chaos of our escape from there.

[Herabrine] And Flicker is a weird Testificate gal who dresses like a creeper and keeps a huge amount of them as pets. They have a kind of hate hate thing going outwardly. There are a lot of people taking bets on when they'll snap from the sexual tension and pounce one another.

[Alexis] - I see...

[Alexsezia] But they argue all the damn time.

[Herabrine] So I know next to zip about you Alexsis, tell me everything. - She's grinning and flipping her plastic monofin idly in the shallows.

[Alexis] - Uh, well, like most Alex's I'm an archer, I like cooking and cleaning. I really don't like staying in one place... Oh and rabbits seem to really like me

[Alexsezia] You actually like doing the domestic thing? I've cooked for TLOT and Steve before but mostly because neither of them are that good at it. Well... TLOT has gotten better since we came here. But still, I prefer making potions to food.

[Herabrine] I'm technically an Alex, but honestly, I suck with a bow.

[Alexis] - The taste of potions kinda deters me from making them a bit, but I like things to be organized... And Stevie can't cook worth a shit

[Herabrine] GK can't cook either. So glad I live alone. Just me and Maggie under the sea.

[Alexsezia] Doc mentioned that with Cp's potions. Yours taste bad too? Have you tried making any since you got here? Maybe it's a local ingredient thing affecting the taste?

[Herabrine] Idly uses her fin to flip a luckless fish into the midst of the cats.

[Alexis] - I've never had any of CP's potions, but I know mine are a bit better than Stevies. I haven't made any potions since getting here

[Alexsezia] Maybe that's something we should try, because mine don't taste nasty at all. Though not as good as Doc's, but I suspect xe puts sugar in theirs when no one is looking.

[Alexis] - We could try- She eats a bit more

[Herabrine] Rolls over to look at Alexsezia upside down - Am I welcome in your house Alexsezia? Even with my wet feet?

[Alexsezia] Rolls her eyes- As long as they're nice to the cats, everyone is welcome in my house.

[Herabrine] Awesome- she notices the impaled lobster and lifts it up on the arrow. - Who did this?

[Alexis] - I did

[Herabrine] Then I'll show you a trick - She draws up a tentacle of water and englobes the dead lobster

[Alexis] Watches with interest-

[Herabrine] puts one finger in the globe and it starts to steam and boil as if it were in a hot glass ball. After a minute she shakes the water off and holds the arrow out to Alexsis - Ready for eating. Just break the shell open.

[Alexsezia] Best thing Cp ever gave you huh?

[Herabrine] Yeah, usually he just gives me a headache

[Alexis] Frowns- CP gave you this?

[Herabrine] I went on a little astral excursion into the real world with him and basically made him my butt boy as payment for my assistance. He bought me a ton of shit. But these guys have really adapted well to life here and they're common all up and down the coast now.

[Alexis] - That just seems... So strange for him...

[Herabrine] He bought me this too- waves the monofin like a mermaid tail.

[Alexsezia] Yeah because you badgered him. That was a nice piece of work.

[Alexsezia] Come on anyway Alexis, let's go inside and butter your bug before the meat gets cold.

[Alexis] Frowns- Finding it difficult to wrap her head around CP being even remotely nice

[Herabrine] kicks up her fin and puts it away, as she climbs out of the water it steams off her clothes and hair.

[Alexsezia] gathers up the trunk and fishing pole before leading them inside.

[Herabrine] I've actually never seen the inside of your house before. It's cute.

[Alexis] Pets some of the cats-

[Alexsezia] Gets out some butter and gives it to Alexis - Thank you. It's modest since it's just me and the kitties.

[Herabrine] You say that like there aren't tons of cats in here.

[Alexis] - She does have a point...

[Alexsezia] You have your hobbies, I have mine.

[Alexis] Takes the butter and heads for Alexsezia's kitchen-

-Cats smell the slightly fishy scent and some of them investigate Alexis-

[Alexis] - Oh hush, this isn't for you

[Herabrine] So what do you do all day Alexsezia? I don't see you go out much.

[Alexsezia] well.... I've been painting a lot.

[Alexis] - You've been making pictures?

[Alexsezia] Yeah, I use the little dye blobs. I figured out a way to connect the sheets of paper without making them into maps first too.

[Alexis] - Interesting...

[Alexsezia] I can show you how if you're artistically inclined. And what about you Hera, don't you get lonely hanging out underwater all the time?

[Alexis] - Not really, never really had time

[Herabrine] I kinda.... I miss the temple I guarded before I was.... changed. So I've been doing underwater builds.

[Alexsezia] Like what?

[Herabrine] There's a shrine with a decorative roof and an underwater garden so far. I made some little roads too.

[Alexis] - Neat, you said you had a pet?

[Herabrine] I have a small magma cube named Maggie. I just keep her in a pen in my house mostly.

[Alexis] - I see.- Starts eating the lobster

[Alexis] - The only thing in my house is the kitten Alexsezia gave me

[Alexis] - Hey Hera, how has Lie been lately?

[Alexsezia] You know if you want more pets there's nothing stopping you Alexsis. I bet if you asked Deerheart she could even get you a Pokemon next time Doc takes her out.

[Herabrine] I don't know Alexis, she seems stressed lately. I think her trip to the so-called manor was a real eye-opener. I had my fun there mostly because I was traveling astrally and could just bring myself out of it and wake up here if it all got to be too much, plus it filtered the worst of the smells. Lie is... Well like her flowers, she needs certain things to flourish. And none of those things can exist in Slenders house except for Cp himself. And while she does love Stevie, the constant crush of him needing attention and her not getting intimate time with her husband is wearing on her.

[Alexis] - I see... I keep wanting to go over there and check on Stevie at least... Even though it still hurts a bit to think that he doesn't remember me... But it's the thought of CP that keeps deterring me...

[Alexsezia] You just feel vulnerable since you're a human in a brines house...

[Herabrine] He's got no reason to be pissed at you though... And I could go with you. Or, I'm sure if you asked Doc, or TLOT that they'd say the same.

[Alexis] - Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.- She sighs and eats a bit more

[Alexis] - Although the last time CP and I really interacted was when I was helping Lie escape...

-there is a loud thump outside vin is outside holding gem under his arm she seems frustrated and struggling-

[Alexis] - Uh, what was that?

[Herabrine] I doubt he's forgotten about that, but it's kind of irrelevant now, don't you think?

[Alexis] - Ah, weeeeeeell, I did kinda supply the weapon for Lie to send him back to respawn...

[Alexsezia] glances out the window and stares - wait? Lie managed to kill him?

[Herabrine] Holy shit.

[Alexis] - Yeah, we were in a swamp, and Stevie had already taken a good chunk of his health out. She got a hold of my bow and quiver which had landed in a bush after he ripped me off of my horse. She shot him right between the ribs in the heart.

[Alexsezia] Now that's ironic.

[Herabrine] No shit. Beauty killed the beast.

[Alexis] - She was pretty terrified at the time, she had just escaped the Nether, ended up in a snow biome, and CP was determined to drag her back to the Nether

[Alexsezia] It doesn't matter, it's still an acomplishment. Usually it's the players getting turned to mush by brines.

[Herabrine] Gives a little warning growl.

[Alexsezia] I didn't say it was right! But you guys have a bigger health bar then even the ender dragon!

[Herabrine] Still looks miffed. - We have to live here. Players can log off.

[Alexis] - Like I said, Stevie had taken a good chunk of his health out already, but that was a remarkable shot on her end

[Alexis] - I can't imagine what things are like from your perspective Hera, that is, since you're a brine yourself

[Alexsezia] Agreed, I didn't know Lie was good with a bow. I'm not sure I've ever seen her with a weapon, besides her plants.

[Herabrine] I'm a bit less beset then the others. The NOTCHs probably don't even know I exist. Well apart from the one who cursed me and GK... and he seemed content to just watch us suffer.

[Alexis] - I'd say Lie is almost as good as us Alex's with a bow, and I suppose you're lucky at not really being known Hera. It makes you less of a target from those outside of the seed, and pretty much makes you an ace up our sleeves

[Herabrine] Hmph. You guys don't always include me in your little circles. I'll help Lie because she's my friend. But I'm not sticking my neck out unless the server itself is in danger, I know how important it is to GK to keep Steffan safe at least. Otherwise, nope. Not unless there's something in it for me.

[Alexis] - I see... You know we could see if Lie would want to come out hunting with us

[Herabrine] That's not much of a challenge....

[Alexis] - Why is that?"

[Herabrine] Because if I want to kill an animal I can form a water block around it's head and drown it.

[Alexis] Leans away a little- Please don't... I meant with bows...

[Herabrine] Why? It's efficient and they die really quickly.

[Alexsezia] I think you're missing the point Hera.

[Herabrine] I thought you wanted to go hunt? The point is to kill some food right?

[Alexis] - Not this hunt, it's more of a... skill check

[Herabrine] Cocks her head at an angle.

[Alexsezia] She means like a contest.

[Herabrine] Oh.

[Alexis] - And it's for fun

[Herabrine] Okay, but when it's my turn I'm gonna use my water beam. I'm not good with physical weapons.

[Alexis] - That's fine. Should we just go see if Lie's available now? I mean the three of us are already here... And should we invite Sweet Alex?

[Herabrine] Rolls her eyes but no one notices- Whatever....

[Alexsezia] Is already typing in the chat. - It looks like she's by the fountain, she says she'll meet us by Lie's greenhouse.

[Alexis] - Great, we can probably borrow some of Lie's horses too if we wanted

[Herabrine] Floats a little off the floor - Yeah, not gonna bother with that.

[Alexis] - What is with brine kind and floating?

[Alexsezia] I'll just take Smudge.

[Herabrine] It's fun. And quicker them walking.

[Alexis] - Lucky

[Alexsezia] Goes outside -

[Alexis] Heads outside- Well, we better not keep the others waiting

[Herabrine] Shoots quickly behind Alexis and grabs her around the waist, holding her forward and flying her quickly less then two blocks above the ground.

[Alexsezia] Runs for her horse and is soon hot on their heels

[Alexis] Yelps in surprise-

[Herabrine] Goes up a bit and makes a quick loop before shooting up the side of the fountain and fast down the opposite side.

[Alexsezia] Leaps her horse over the water.

[Alexis] - HERA WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?

[Sweet Alex] Is laughing below -I think it's called hot dogging!

[CP] Growls from inside his and Lie's bedroom-

[Lie] - Calm down CP, they're just having fun

[Sweet Alex] Is chasing underneath merrily as Herabrine zooms along with Alexis in her arms

[Herabrine] Come on! It's fun!

[Alexis] - And a bit terrifying!

[Herabrine] Goes up and makes a wide curve around - Doc is worse!

[Alexis] - I've noticed!

[Herabrine] Hey I know! - She goes super high and pulls a pair of elytra out of creative.

[Sweet Alex] Is just standing there shading her eyes, looking very tiny below

[Alexsezia] She doesn't know how to use those!

[Herabrine] No time like the present! - Slaps them on Alexis and lets her fall.

[Alexis] Shrieks as she falls-

[Herabrine] tps below her and bumps her up so the wings catch and spread

[Alexis] May be gliding now but cannot steer-

[Herabrine] Is flying along beside her. - You have to turn. Unless you want to go to Doc's castle instead of Lies house.

[Alexis] - HOW!?

[Herabrine] Grabs a wing and bends it down so Alexis is turning-

[Alexis] Yells as she turns too far and is heading towards Alexsezia's house-

[Herabrine] Is floating at speed above her and turns her again

[Alexis] Is now heading towards Lie's place- How do we reach the ground1/

[Herabrine] They'll naturally angle down. Just kinda tuck and roll right before you hit.

[Alexis] - LIKE NOW!?

[Herabrine] Now is good

[Alexis] Slams into the ground-

[Herabrine] That's not good.

[Alexsezia] Gallops up. - That wasn't much of a landing

[Sweet Alex] Is already on her - Are you hurt?!

[Alexis] Pushes herself up- Owww, I'm okay, taken worse then that

[Herabrine] Still fun though.

[Alexsezia] Hera...

[Alexis] Maybe after more practice

[Herabrine] What? She said it so bitter, like she was jelous.

[Sweet Alex] Elytra are better with a friend who can fly. I'm pretty good with them thanks to GK.

[Alexsezia] I think I'll stick with my horse.

*Firebird glides down and circles around them a bit

[Alexis] - I think I like the ground better too, but it would be a decent skill to learn

[Herabrine] Either way, keep em, with my blessings.

[Aweet Alex] Oh! What a pretty bird!

[Herabrine] Pfft. He's not a bird. That's a NOTCH. Mix's NOTCH to be precise.

[Alexsezia] Gives Firebird a suspicious look - Did Doc clear this one to be here?

[Firebird] Chirp.

[Herabrine] Yeeeah. He's some kinda pacifist.

[Sweet Alex] I think he's beautiful.

[Firebird] Chirp. *Tries to land on Sweet Alex's head or shoulder. Anything that's available.

[Alexis] - I'm betting CP's already tried to kill him...

[Sweet Alex] Want a cracker pretty birdie? - Offers one-

[Herabrine] Yep. Doc stopped him. Mix vouched for him and since they're also a brine they took responsibility for him.

[Alexis] - I don't think I've met Mix

[Sweet Alex] Wobbles under him, she's only a block and a half tall.

[Alexsezia] Look for a brine with dark skin and glowing freckles. She's very quiet and sweet.

[Alexis] - I see. So, do we enter the demons lair?- Jabs a thumb at Lie's place

*Firebird takes the offered cracker and holds it in his beak happily.

[Herabrine] Cp? A demon? - Laughs- He's a pussycat.

[Alexsezia] Snorts - That's one dangerous kitty. You should have seen the damage he caused in my house, fireball scoring and cat piss everywhere!

[Sweet Alex] Falls flat under Firebird- Oof!

[Alexis] - I've seen him a few times as a cat... Trying to hide under our house...

[Firebird] ... *Awkwardly hops off Sweet Alex

[Alexsezia] Yeaaah, he really shouldn't piss off TLOT, he may seem harmless but it's just because he's trying so hard to be a nice person. He's incredibly formidable if you challenge him.

[Sweet Alex] Dusts herself off. She pats Firebird- It's okay.

[Herabrine] grumbles- I wouldn't fight with him....

[Alexis] - I was luckily on the other side of the house, Stevie barely managed to scramble out of the way

[Firebird] Chirp! *Flaps wings a bit and eats his crackers finally

[Herabrine] I remember.

[Alexsezia] Well Cp trapped Doc. And they are close friends. Nether, everyone in my group owes Doc just for bringing us here. You didn't see what we escaped from.

[Alexis] - What did you escape from? The NOTCH I know has always been kind to Stevie and I so I'm not really able to imagine what you may have gone through...

[Alexsezia] You don't know? Our NOTCH is a monster. He did terrible things to both TLOT and Steve. Trying to part them, kill them, attacking them even in their dreams. At the end I didn't even see our NOTCH. Just the wave of absolute destruction as something invisible and titanic smashed our Testificate village and ripped up the trees and earth as it stomped towards us.

[Sweet Alex] Is staring - really? Notch's can do that?

[Herabrine] That and worse.

[Alexis] - That... Is terrifying

[CP] Is growing more agitated as he tries to focus on Lie-

[Herabrine] Why do you think none of us trust guys like this?- thumbs at Firebird.

[Alexsezia] TLOT is terrified of the Nether because of our NOTCH, he was left to suffer there once, crucifed with swords on a crude throne. Steve saved him.

*Annoyed feather ruffle

[Alexis] - Ours was just always so kind, I know Doc has said there were two, but... I've only ever known one...

[Herabrine] What about Markus? You met him at the baby shower, right?

[Sweet Alex] This one seems harmless though. But I wonder why he's a bird?

[Alexis] - Oh that's right. I didn't really talk to him though...

[Alexsezia] He's nice enough. He seems to really enjoy taking care of Stevie at least.

[Herabrine] He's a dork too. Did you see the hair Doc gave him?

[Alexis] - Is that what that is? I thought it was some sort of animal with how much he was petting it

[Alexsezia] chuckles- It's because he's attracted to Flux. He plays with it whenever he spots her.

[Sweet Alex] Awwwwwww!

[Alexis] - Flux?

[Herabrine] Yeah the magic girl. I haven't met her but I've seen her around. She's nine shades of purple. Apparently she's sorta related to CP and Stevie?

[Sweet Alex] Really, is she their mom?

[Alexis] - I've never heard of her...

[Alexsezia] She just got here, a few days ago? I've seen her name in the chat.

[Alexis] - Lie probably knows more

[Herabrine] We should go bug her- She chucks a dirt block at the side of Lie's room.

[Sweet Alex] HERA!

[CP] Has had enough and slams open the bedroom door, storming out onto the bridge- ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!? STOP FUCKING BUGGING US!

[Firebird] *ducks behind Sweet Alex

[Herabrine] - dissolves into a gale of giggles

[Sweet Alex] Turns an embarrassed pink

[Alexsezia] Points at Herabrine- she did it.

[Herabrine] Choking on her laughter - why are you naked?

[CP] Growls- WHY DO YOU THINK!? STEVIE'S MINING WITH STEVE, THE DRAGONS ARE OUT AND SO IS FUCKING NOTCH!

[Alexsezia] Starts giggling as well.

[Sweet Alex] We should go!

[Herabrine] Pffft!

[CP] - YES! GO! LET ME FUCK MY WIFE FOR FUCKING ONCE!

[Herabrine] Can we go kill things now?

[Alexis] - I really hoped Lie could come with us...

[Alexsezia] Lie is busy. This can be an Alex only outing.

[CP] - Go... Shoo

[Sweet Alex] I brought a bow. Can the bird come with us?

[Herabrine] Whatever, lets go.

[Alexsezia] Turns Smudge. - let's go out on the savannah

[Alexis] - C... CP? Can you let Lie know I'm borrowing a horse?

[CP] - Yeah fine whatever, just leave!

[Sweet Alex] Looks around in the area slightly beyond the house and saddles a wild pig.

[Herabrine] You are such a dweeb.

[Alexsezia] Is trotting along on Smudge. - Come on guys, lets go

[Alexis] Goes into the stable and comes out with a light bay colored horse and easily climbs on-

*Firebird takes to the air above them

[Alexis] Trots to catch up with Alexsezia and draws up beside her, pulling out her own bow-

[Herabrine] Points out a cluster of chickens - there you go, those are small targets.

[Alexis] - So who goes first?

[Sweet Alex] Me! - She pulls out a normal looking bow and aims for the closest chicken. She hits it, but just barely.

[Alexis] - Nice, my turn!- She notches an arrow and takes aim, releasing a steadying breath she releases the arrow, it strikes right in a chickens head

[Alexsezia] Is moving the bow around, trying to decide on a target. Finally she arcs the arrow up gently and and it comes down at a graceful angle, nearly hitting the bird from straight above.

[Herabrine] Makes a sniffing noise and does a little spin on one heel before unleashing an energy blast that not only kills the target, but cooks it as well.

[Alexis] - Oh, we're doing that are we?- Pulls out a bow with flame and fire aspect on it

[Sweet Alex] is lining up for another shot when the pig under her bumps her arm. The shot goes wild and the arrow sticks firmly in Firebirds rear as he flies over. - SORRY!

[Herabrine] Falls over laughing- Perfect shot!

[Alexis] - Oh, ouch...

[Alexsezia] I heard what you did to Steffan, what is it with you and shooting people in the butt?

[Sweet Alex] I'M SORRY!

[Alexis] - It's okay, if he comes over here we can remove it

[Herabrine] Hey birb-brain! Get over here!

[Herabrine] Turns back to Alexis - Lets see what you got Alex.

[Alexsezia] Makes a quick gallop around and picks up the dropped items.

[Alexis] There's a determined flash in Alexis' eye- You're on- She spots some pigs at a greater distance and takes aim and fires, she hits the farthest pig and it alights, showing that she did hit it. It quickly dies and leaves behind a cooked porkchop

[Herabrine] Does a little flip in the air and throws a hand dramatically at a small pool of water. A clear tentacle of it rises up and grabs a cow before pulling it under the surface with barely a ripple.

[Sweet Alex] Holy crap.... that's kinda scary.

[Alexis] - Hmmm- She decides to notch two arrows on her string- Let's see how well we can hit multiple targets at once

*Firebird lands and awkwardly tries to remove the arrow himself, looking very uncomfortable and in pain

[Alexsezia] Well I'm out, I can't do more then one arrow. Come here birdie. I'll get that arrow.

[Herabrine] Is searching for suitable targets.

[Alexis] Releases her double arrows on the two remaining pigs, both hit, not as solidly as she would have liked, but they hit-

*Firebird hisses a bit softly

[Herabrine] Well, I can make waves that knock lots of players down at once, or a cluster of tendrils from one pool... But I can only do one energy blast from each hand. It's not much of an effort to aim anyway, I can just point at stuff.

[Alexsezia] Is trying to get close to Firebird.

*He flaps a wing at her, but that's about it

[Alexsezia] Pulls the arrow out with a little 'pook'

[Alexis] - Well Hera? It's your turn

[Herabrone] Throws a pair of short blasts, the one from her left hand almost misses, but both of them nearly explode the chickens into clouds of feathers.

[Alexis] - Hmmm... Seems we're about even...

[Herabrine] Yeah I usually just use my right hand or both clasped together.

[Alexis] - Only reason I can fire two arrows at once is because of CP's mobs...

[Sweet Alex] Necessity will always keep you in practice.

[Alexis] - Exactly

[Alexsezia] I've gotten pretty good at just avoiding the mobs. I kinda feel bad fighting the skeletons at least since I know what they actually are.

[Alexis] - What they actually are?

[Alexszia] On our seed at least, they're the remains of dead Steves. All TLOT's failed experiments before the one he fell in love with.

[Herabrine] Ours are just grunts. They're their own species.

[Alexis] - They... They were like us?

[Sweet Alex] You've never talked to Steve's 'brothers'? Navy is a little serious, but most of them are very polite.

[Alexis] - I haven't really been around there much, plus it never really occurred to me...

[Sweet Alex] Do what I do if you want to visit someone. Make some food and take it over as a present.

[Alexsezia] Just be prepared to pay close attention. They can't really talk, they kinda do sign language.

[Alexis] - I know CP can speak to and understand his mobs, but Stevie and I can't...

[Herabrine] Look for any skeleton wearing a sweater and a hat. Some of the mounted one's patrol outside the town regularly.

[Alexsezia] I can't either. Just wave and smile. You'll get the hang of it quite quickly.

[Alexis] - I'll try. Stevie's also mentioned one named Sam?

[Sweet Alex] Oh I love Sam, he's the best.

[Herabrine] genuine smile - He's the bartender at the brine bar. It's the building with the lava fountain beside the library

[Alexis] - Oh, I actually haven't been there...

[Alexsezia] Well it's not just brines only anymore. But there is still a sign that says humans have to be accompanied by a brine. They keep it up mostly for chuckles now.

[Herabrine] We can go there afterwards if you want.

[Alexis] - I'm not so sure...

[Herabrine] Why? You've got me. - grins hugely-

[Alexis] - You nearly gave me a heart attack earlier...

[Sweet Alex] Oh hush, it's safe

[Herabrine] That was just a bit of fun, and Elytra are rare items.

[Alexsezia] For anyone who can't access creative....

[Alexis] - I suppose we could go there...

[Herabrine] It's the middle of the day. It's unlikely any of the other brines besides me are even out of bed.

[Alexsezia] TLOT is probably just getting his coffee now, he's not a morning person.

[Alexis] - And as much as I hate to think about it, we know where CP and Lie is

[Sweet Alex] Gk might be around, but he's probably napping.

[Alexsezia] And I'd bet you an emerald Doc is way underground in hir lab and has been working on some project since mid-day yesterday.

[Alexis] - Good point

[Herabrine] Gathers up the rest of the meat. - Come on then, it's not that far away, we'll cut around the huge tree and skirt the fenced off forest thing.

[Sweet Alex] I heard there's a spooky clown in there.

[Alexis] - Really?

[Alexsezia] Yeah, another creepypasta, I hear music when I go by sometimes. It's weird. I get the feeling there's a much bigger area inside that small fence.

[Herabrine] Makes spooky noises-

[Alexis] - How is that possible?

[Alexsezia] No idea, but I'm not going in to find out, and neither should any of you.

[Alexis] - Hmmm...

[Sweet Alex] Looks into the trees - I wonder why someone would hide in there all alone?

[Alexis] - You said it was a creepy pasta? Who knows...

[Alexsezia] I know it has something to do with all the new human kids in the village.

[Herabrine] Maybe he eats little kids!

[Alexis] - I noticed that, it's a lot of kids, isn't it?

[Sweet Alex] Hera! That's horrible!

[Alexsezia] More then could have been in there unnoticed. - thumbs at the small fenced in forest.

[Alexis] - That's for sure...

[Alexsezia] Clops past the library - It's just over here. There's a horse pen in the front.

[Alexis] - Good, don't want to lose Lie's horse

[Sweet Alex] Unsaddles the pig and gives it a pat before letting it loose. - Thank you piggy

[Herabrine] Makes a show of holding the door for them.

[Sweet Alex] Thank you Hera

[Alexis] Jumps into the pen before dismounting and climbing out of the pen and follows Sweet Alex in-

[Sam] Stops and stares at them for a moment before shaking hir head.

[Sweet Alex] Hi Sam. I brought friends.

[Alexis] Nervously looks around-

[Herabrine] Slaps the dead chickens on the counter. - Could you cook and sauce these up for us Sam?

[Sam] Shakes hir head egarly and bustles off into the kitchen with the meat.

[Alexsezia] Picks up a handful of darts and lobs them gently one by one into a target on the wall.

[Alexis] Takes a seat at a booth-

[Sweet Alex] Hops up on a barstool and makes it turn back and forth while kicking her feet.

[Sam] brings back the chicken with what's obviously four different glazes and passes it around with cups of lemonade.

[Alexsezia] I see TLOT was here.

[Alexis] Takes a glass-What is this?

[Alexsezia] It's juice from a type of fruit that Lie made. Something from the outside.

[Herabrine] Just try it, it's puckery and sweet. - Takes a huge bite of chicken and eats it noisly

[Sweet Alex] Nibbles delicately.

[Alexis] Takes a sip- Not bad

[Sam] makes a questioning gesture at Alexsis-

[Sweet Alex] Sam this is Alexsis, she's with Cp's group.

[Sam] Gives a Alexis a look that conveys some obvious pity and pulls out a nicely decorated dessert with apples and whipped cream before setting it in front of her. He does some more hand waving, mimes cat ears on his own skull and makes an obvious wanking motion. Herabrine laughs in his direction

[Herabrine] Alexis, if it wasn't blazingly obvious xe basically says Cp's a wanker and here's something nice for you since Xe feels sorry for you for having to deal with his crap before he came here.

[Alexsezia] Yeah Sam's had a front-row seat to Cps stupid behavior several times.

[Sam] Holds up a couple of bony digits and makes a gesture at the floor and indicates the shape of flames.

[Alexsezia] Yeah.... Who builds a bar for Herobrine's out of wood anyway? Don't almost all of you run super high body temperatures even when you're in peak health?

[Herabrine] I dunno, I'm not super hot. And Lie must run cold for a brine since lava actually hardens on her.

[Sweet Alex] Doc isn't that hot are they? I thought their glitch was more an electrical thing then a heat issue?

[Alexsezia] Yeah, but TLOT is crazy hot. Steve told me once that he had to use a ghast-skin condom to top him. I was there the first time he tried without one and he only lasted a few minutes.

[Sweet Alex] Steve is bad in bed?

[Alexsezia] No! He burned his wiener and had to quit!

[Herabrine] is laughing so hard she can barely breathe-

[Sweet Alex] Wait.... Alexsezia.... Why were you watching them have sex? I thought you were ace like me?

[Alexsezia] I am, it's complicated... Suffice to say I didn't want to be there and I was pretty scared that TLOT would somehow trick Steve and hurt him for trying that. But I couldn't leave him alone with someone i was pretty sure at the time was a horrible monster.

[Alexis] - Can't really blame you for thinking that- Finished her food - Pretty good. As for the subject of sex, I can't really talk since I really didn't know about or till Stevie and I came here

[Alexsezia] I was wrong about him though, he just a made a terrible first impression out of desperation. Some brines need human fear just to survive.

[Herabrine] I heard about TLOT's little download to Stevie. The god of lust strikes again!

[Sweet Alex] Most of us are ace though, that makes you unique Alexis.

[Alexsezia] Yeah, guys are a hassle. For a long time Steve was the only other human I'd met and I just wasn't feeling it. He was made for his brine, literally.

[Sweet Alex] They're such a cute couple.

[Herabrine] When I first met GK I had the option to go after him, but it was more fun just to be his friend and wreck shit up with him. I'm not into relationships either.

[gem] -runs in and hides behind the pool table her wings are flapping it making it not hard to see-

[Herabrine] Whoah! What the fuck?

[Alexsezia] Yeah honestly...

[Alexis] - Um, who is this?

[gem] -she peaks out her wings still flapping- i'm gem.

[Herabrine] You're the accidental brine aren't you?

[Sweet Alex] Oh dear.

[gem] yea a notch mistook me for a brine because space angels also have glowing eyes just slightly different and made me a brine.

[Herabrine] See Alexis, this is what it looks like on our end. If your eyes shine, you're a target. Doesn't matter if you're not hurting anyone.

[Alexsezia] You didn't have wings last time I saw you.

[Alexis] - And those like my eventual brother in law don't help any?

[Herabrine] Well from what's Lie's told me; he was peaceful before the pretender NOTCH tried to delete him.

[gem] oh yea doc fixed my wings vin one of my guardians is trying to get me to stop flying around but I just want to keep flying I missed it

[Alexis] - That's the one I know, right?

[Herabrine] Yes, he's not the one who raised Cp and Stevie. That one died, quite recently.

[Sweet Alex] Why doesn't he want you to fly?

[Alexis] - Died? How is that possible?

[gem] because I have been flying for a while he wants me to rest.

[Herabrine] Because the one that made you tried to delete Stevie and Cp's real father too. He was much more successful since Insanity had no interest in saving him.

[Sweet Alex] Well then you should rest a bit! Have some chicken, sit with us. We have lemonade too.

[Alexis] A worried expression crises her face-

[Alexsezia] Alexis.... I know a bit about this secondhand. Cp got to see him very briefly before he glitched out of existence.

[gem] -her wings rest back down and sits down at one of the booths- I would love some lemonade.

[Sam] Brings Gem a glass-

[gem] thank you sam -starts to drink the lemonade-

[Herabrine] Yeah he was a mess. He just moped in his cat form. Hiding in Lie's room for days.

[Alexis] - He did? And I'm guessing they haven't told Stevie

[Sweet Alex] What was wrong with your wings? Did you break one landing wrong?

[gem] oh the notch that attacked me ripped them off

[Herabrine] Why the fuck would they tell Stevie? He's just a little kid right now and he thinks Markus is his real dad. He'd be confused as hell and cry his eyes out.

[Sweet Alex] He what?! That's terrible! Alexis? Did you hear that? What the Nether....

[Alexis] - Exactly, that almost seems like something CP would do...

[Herabrine] You don't get it, do you? Cp loved Stevie when he was little this is like the old times before all the bad shit happened for him.

[Alexsezia] I saw the fear in his eyes when I told him what it would take to fix Stevie. He can't do it.

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[Alexis] - I know I know, you told me

[Herabrine] Then don't expect him to break Stevie's hearts. -turns to Sweet Alex- He fucking what?

[gem] they didn't respawn when I did none of my injury's heal though respawn when that happened when I came back I was bleeding had extrea eyes and the notch was coming for me

[Sweet Alex] So some of these bits, are not... you?

[Alexis] - Sorry, it's just, I've never been able to see past the wrongs someone has done unless it's Stevie, and I'm beginning to wonder if it has to do with NOTCH...

[Alexsis] You think there's a bug in your programming that makes you prone to certain attitudes?

[Herabrine] That's shitty. I'd go talk to Doc about that right quickly.

[gem] I use to have three eyes now I have seven I think it might because my old eyes glowed so I needed new eyes to show I was a brine at that point.

[Alexis] - Well so far every Alex I've met here has been pretty forgiving... And I was made by the NOTCH that tried to remove CP...

[Sweet Alex] But they all glow. Do you want some of them removed?

[Alexsezia] That makes me suspicious. Has Doc ever given you a checkup?

[Alexis] - No

[gem] nah I see just fine if I have them or not I also have gown attached to the extra eyes

[Herabrine] Do it. I know they look ten shades of crazy but they know their shit.

[Sweet Alex] Smiles- as long as your comfortable. My friend GK taught me about dysphoria, I know it can be traumatic.

[Alexis] - Whatever it is can't be to strong can it? I mean, Endrea got past her coding, and she was designed to destroy CP

[Herabrine] Yeah but Cp also made a bargin with her to protect her at her most vulnerable state. He likes to wheel and deal with people. I take it he's never offered you anything you wanted?

[Alexsezia] Wait.... don't do that. If you have some kind of coding to make you respond certain ways to him, you might be a sleeper and not realize it.

[gem] I am just happy to have made so many friends on this server.

[Alexis] - No, he never tried to make a deal with me

[Herabrine] Fuuuuck. Alexsezia might be right. For all you know you're programmed to go berzerk if you make a deal with him, since it would be betraying your creator.

[Sweet Alex] You should come fly with me and Gk one day.

[Alexis] - Perhaps I should go see Doc then...

[gem] I would love to join you.

[Alexsezia] Do it. Better safe then sorry.

[Sweet Alex] Come visit me anytime. Well, not too early. It's hard to get him moving in the morning.

[Alexis] - Yeah, I just don't want to interrupt them if they are doing something...

[gem] I bet he seems like he likes to sleep.

[Alexsezia] That's impossible! They're always doing something. Even Cp can't handle the sheer amount of energy what they are naturally generates.

[Herabrine] Yeah, that's why he went crazy a while back and was chasing Doc all over the seed. He can't handle what they did to him without that goofy looking sword Honedge draining his energy.

[Alexis] - It drains his energy?

[Sweet Alex] Yeah he's silly like that, I guess being a giant dragon is tiring. Plus he's an older brine.

[Herabrine] Constantly, it's a ghost sword.

[gem] I would say the younger the dragon the more active they are

[Alexis] - Weird... Well would one of you at least be willing to come with me? Since I really don't know Doc that well...

[Sweet Alex] He's lived many many lifetimes.

[Herabrine] I'll go with you.

[Alexsezia] That works, I'll take Lie's horse and put it away.

[gem] see older and I have a tiny baby dragon that chills in my pond who is super hyperactive

[Sweet Alex] REALLY? That's so cute! I've never seen a water dragon except for the thing with the shell that Silver owns.

[Alexis] - Thanks

[Herabrine] Just take one of the skeleton horses outside. Doc is constantly moving them back and forth as need between here and the castle anyway

[gem] yea aqua like to spray people with water so I added glass in front of the path so they couldn't spray ben and aven.

[Sweet Alex] Oh no! That's so naughty! Oh Aven and BEN? Hows the baby doing?

[Alexis] - Got it, but first, let's finish eating

[Herabrine] pushes away the plate of bones in front of her. - Been done.

[gem] hyrule is super cute and happy.

[Sweet Alex] Awww. And the parents?

[gem] trying to get use to being parents still but are getting better.

[Sweet Alex] Well I'd love to babysit if they need help. I'm all about cute things.

[gem] it's pretty hard to see them even let have someone babysit ben is territorial and they are both still scared of water.

[Alexis] - Err, well...- Is finished herself but nervous about going to see Doc

[Herabrine] What's that face for? Doc is weird as fuck, but they're also ironclad on consent. They ain't gonna knock you down and sew a pair of wings to you, Gem asked for those.

[Sweet Alex] Well this is thier first kid.

[Alexis] - I know, I'm just... Nervous...

[Herabrine] Wiggles her stubby fingers- gonna go to the big spooky castle and visit the crazy doctor - oooooooo

[gem] I bet they are going to teach hyrule all about video games

[Alexis] - YOU ARE NOT HELPING!

[Sweet Alex] Being able to gamehop is a pretty special skill. Especially since one of them is a creepypasta that's had contact with Slender. They might need to hide.

[Herabrine] laughs- Don't be a weenie. And Deerheart asked Doc for what they got as well.

[Alexis] Sighs- Alright, let's get this over with

[gem] I will help protect hyrule ben and aven from slender

*Firebird pops into the bar in his other form

[Sweet Alex] I'm glad. I think we all need all the defenders we can get here.

[Herabrine] Shrieks-

[Sweet Alex] Who is that?

*Firebird freezes and steps back

[Firebird] Sorry

[gem] -sees firebird an scrambles down the ladder of the bar-

[Herabrine] Why did you shift back?

[Alexsezia] Hows your butt?

[Firebird] Comfort? And it hurts. *frowns a bit

[Herabrine] Snaps her fingers and spawns a healing potion before giving it a little slide down the bar. It comes to a stop near where Firebird is. - hmph.

[Alexsezia] Well, it's okay. You just startled us.

[gem] -is in the corner of the downstairs of the bar-

[Sweet Alex] Yells down the ladder - Gem? It's okay. He's not here to start anything.

[gem] but notch

*Firebird drinks the potion and sighs happily

[Sweet Alex] I know, but he was playing with us earlier and got hurt.

[gem] -doesn't leave her spot-

[Alexis] - Hera, should we make or escape?

[Sam] Looks at Firebird and then at the leftover chicken and thinks better of offering him any.

[Herabrine] Yeah come on, the skeles already have saddles, just grab one.

[Alexis] -Got it. See you guys later, we should hunt together more often- She heads for the door and the horse pen

[Firebird] Just a water, Sam. I'm not hungry.

[Sam] Gives him a glass of water with a little smile-

[Alexis] Climbs on one of the Skeleton horses and waits for Hera-

[Hera] Zips along about two blocks off the ground - Let's go!

[Alexis] Spurs the horse onwards and follows closely-

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I, N, S

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Guilty pleasure? I suppose any time I read rpf it fits in that category. All fic is my guilty pleasure lbr

My guilty pleasure pairing – well, I don’t even feel guilty about it, but it’s total crack – is Doc Bryan x Bryan Patterson in GK, the kinkier and domestic-ier the better.

Also things involving Bucky’s metal arm.

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

Ooooh dang. I have a few requests that either I should just do or someone else could nicely do for me :)))) Such as: Sterek scentmarking; Ian Bohen x JR Bourne doing dirty things to each other; non-bdsm Stucky. Future!fic for so many pairings (Sterek, Brad x Nate, Dean x Seamus). And I am having a huge craving for all things Harvey x Mike… good thing the holiday fic exchange just posted for them!

I have a few chapters of a MAMMOTH Generation Kill fic started and moldering in my wip folder. It goes Marine by Marine (and Reporter too) and examines their post-OIF life. Very PTSD-ish. I would love to finish it some day.

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Over the holiday break I sorted all of AO3 by kudos and the #soulmark tag. I read fandoms I don’t even really follow just to get my #soulmark fix. See also soulmates, fake married, wedding proposals, first kiss/hookup.

#sunshinepuppy #hbo war #fic prompt #someone hook me up #or prompt me #generation kill #stucky #ian x jr #sterek

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Daily Office Readings January 20, 2020 at 11:00PM

Psalm 26

Plea for Justice and Declaration of Righteousness

Of David.

1 Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. 2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and mind. 3 For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to you.[a]

4 I do not sit with the worthless, nor do I consort with hypocrites; 5 I hate the company of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

6 I wash my hands in innocence, and go around your altar, O Lord, 7 singing aloud a song of thanksgiving, and telling all your wondrous deeds.

8 O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell, and the place where your glory abides. 9 Do not sweep me away with sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty, 10 those in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

11 But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. 12 My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the Lord.

Footnotes:

Psalm 26:3 Or in your faithfulness

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New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Psalm 28

Prayer for Help and Thanksgiving for It

Of David.

1 To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, do not refuse to hear me, for if you are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the Pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.[a]

3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts. 4 Repay them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds; repay them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward. 5 Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, or the work of his hands, he will break them down and build them up no more.

6 Blessed be the Lord, for he has heard the sound of my pleadings. 7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

8 The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed. 9 O save your people, and bless your heritage; be their shepherd, and carry them forever.

Footnotes:

Psalm 28:2 Heb your innermost sanctuary

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Psalm 36

Human Wickedness and Divine Goodness

To the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord.

1 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; there is no fear of God before their eyes. 2 For they flatter themselves in their own eyes that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated. 3 The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good. 4 They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

5 Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. 6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

7 How precious is your steadfast love, O God! All people may take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 8 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

10 O continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your salvation to the upright of heart! 11 Do not let the foot of the arrogant tread on me, or the hand of the wicked drive me away. 12 There the evildoers lie prostrate; they are thrust down, unable to rise.

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Psalm 39

Prayer for Wisdom and Forgiveness

To the leader: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

1 I said, “I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth as long as the wicked are in my presence.” 2 I was silent and still; I held my peace to no avail; my distress grew worse, 3 my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

4 “Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath.Selah 6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

7 “And now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool. 9 I am silent; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. 10 Remove your stroke from me; I am worn down by the blows[a] of your hand.

11 “You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath.Selah

12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears. 13 Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Footnotes:

Psalm 39:10 Heb hostility

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Genesis 9:1-17

The Covenant with Noah

9 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

6 Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.

7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it.”

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.[a] 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Footnotes:

Genesis 9:10 Gk: Heb adds every animal of the earth

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Hebrews 5:7-14

7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, 10 having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Warning against Falling Away

11 About this[b] we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food; 13 for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

Footnotes:

Hebrews 5:7 Gk he

Hebrews 5:11 Or him

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John 3:16-21

16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”[a]

Footnotes:

John 3:21 Some interpreters hold that the quotation concludes with verse 15

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[DISCUSSION] Thoughts regarding the criticism of Daniel Levy, and the lack of signings

Sorry for the rant, it's going to be a bit long. I’ll save you the mandatory bit on how much Levy has done for us, where we’ve been before he arrived (hint: around 11-12 in the table), the Sugar years, and where we are now. I trust people here to have this common knowledge. I just want to address a few points against Daniel Levy, and mostly about the lack of transfers.

A: Comparison to Liverpool, Manchester United and others

Our lack of spending looks bad, especially when compared to Liverpool buying great players and addressing their weaknesses. I’m as frustrated as any of you about that. But logically, there’s a few points that I feel maybe aren’t being brought up here enough:

-Liverpool and United are much bigger brands than us, which directly transfer to money. Just easy check on Facebook likes: 73m for United, 30m for Liverpool, 10m for us. I’m sure you’ve noticed it too, we’re just not as a big name. That’s why Ed Woodward can go around closing tractor and noodles sponsorship deals we can only dream of.

-Liverpool have sold a player for 140m just last January. In truth, they pulled off a bit of a miracle, as the sale didn’t really affect them. Usually it’s a huge setback: us after Bale, United after Ronaldo, etc. This narrative is unfair: when Levy spent 100m, it “didn’t count” because he was “just spending the Bale money”. Now Liverpool are doing the same, and we envy their spending.

Ask yourself: if we sold Eriksen for 150m and than went to buy players, would you be happy? Because that’s exactly what Liverpool did.

-We’re building a fucking stadium. That’s a huge 800m project the other teams don’t have, and they’re all richer than us in the first place. Actually, the fact that we’re so competitive during this period is quite amazing. Remember Arsenal?

B: Levy’s Motive - what does he actually want?

Now, as for Levy himself, I always read the same mantras: Our rivals are signing players, we need to strengthen, this is the best team we’ve had for ages, we need to win titles before they’re gone. All true. But seriously, do you think Levy doesn’t already know that?

But there’s one major, huge thing Levy knows and we don’t: the actual financial situation of our club. Our revenue, sponsorship, wage bill, stadium costs, transfer budget, the whole thing. We have no idea.

So let’s try to think about Levy’s motive. Do you think Levy doesn’t want to see us succeed? Levy is a boy from Essex, North London. He’s been a Tottenham fan for more than 50 years, and he dedicated the last 17 years of his life working for the club. Furthermore, any success of Tottenham is a personal success to Levy’s name and a big financial gain for him too. You can bet your ass off Levy wants to see Tottenham succeed and lift titles, badly, probably more than anybody in this sub. He’s one of us.

But he’s cheap, isn’t he? He only cares about profit. That’s a ridiculous claim as well. You do realize that’s not his own money, right? That’s the club money. Levy makes no personal profit from being cheap – the unused transfer budget does not benefit him in any way. However, any success/titles we win will probably translate into bonuses or a wage rise.

So if Levy loves Tottenham, and doesn’t benefit from not spending – why is he so damn cheap?

C: Levy’s Plan

Here’s the thing: Levy has a plan, to make us one of the top clubs in Europe, and it’s been working fine. Upgrade our training facilities, our academy, build the best stadium in London – put everything in place to make us a world class team. However, here’s what Levy didn’t factor in his calculations:

The best striker in the world randomly spawning up as a local boy from our academy. The manager he got from Southampton (only after LVG rejected us) turned out to be one of the best in the world. A string of low-money signings like Eriksen, Vertonghen, Toby and Dele all turned out to be insane bargains for top players.

Levy’s plan was to have the infrastructure and financial possibility to allow us to build a world class team. However, the plan worked too soon – the world class team arrived sooner than expected, when we’re not yet in a complete financial position to support it.

This, of course, is a wonderful thing and I’m sure Levy is happy too. However, an unfortunate side effect is that it created fan pressure on Levy to spend now, to take advantage of this ‘once in a generation’ Tottenham team. Instead of having the patience to see him fulfill his plan, the over-success made fans less patient, and against all logic, made them turn against Levy.

Levy’s trying to adapt. I doubt his original plan involved paying anyone a 200k contract at this point. He’s been trying to get our transfer targets too, but those aren’t easy targets: Martial and Zaha teams aren’t interested in selling for any price, De Ligt has chosen the biggest cunt in football as his agent, Sessengon is wanted by literally every English team. We’ve agreed to pay big money for those, but it wasn’t enough – notice how none of the four moved, despite them being in high demand. Yeah, Levy fucked up in the Grealish thing, but does anybody really think Jack Grealish is the difference between us and a title?

D: Why are we not winning titles, and will new signing fix that?

So, here’s what we can actually blame Levy for: Refusing to break the bank. Everyone has a price, don’t they? We should have just spent it all to win the title, like Liverpool did?

But let’s look at Liverpool: they’ve been spending big to fix huge, critical holes in their squad. Their old GK and CBs just weren’t good enough to win titles. The signings of Alisson and VDV, as expensive as they were, were crucial in order to fix gaping holes that actively lost them titles.

Now look at us. Look at our targets, as named by Poch: Martial and Zaha aren’t much better than Son, if they’re better at all. Sessengon and De Ligt are ones for the future, and currently would be our 4th best winger and CB. I doubt any of our other targets would make a dramatic improvement to our XI.

Why are we not winning titles? IMO, we lost the leagues because we started slowly. We usually hit champions form by December, but by that time we’re already chasing others who started strongly. We’ve lost to a Chelsea side who had players like Moses, Cahill and Pedro, who will never make our first XI, not to mention fucking Leicester. It’s not like we lost to much superior squads because Levy won’t spend to match them.

As for cups competition – none of the teams we lost to are much better than us, but in the big games, it pains me to say it, Poch and the team are always out-tacticed by more experienced ones – Mourinho twice (Chelsea and United), Conte, Allegri.

Personally I think the blame here is with the sporting department. The squad Levy built was good enough to win those ties. All our domestic cup losses came immediately after convincingly beating the same team in the league (5-3, 2-0, 2-0), and we mostly outplayed Juventus too, but in the moment of truth we always came short. I don’t know if it’s tactical or mental, but either way it’s not a professional weakness more signing will fix.

So basically: we’re asking Levy to overspend, risking his entire financial plan, for a bunch of players that wouldn’t really improve our XI, and wouldn’t make us much closer to titles. I can totally see why Levy isn’t excited to do that.

E: It’s not all bad, really

Now, reading the gloom mood here sometimes, you think we’re in a disastrous situation and Levy’s leading us to relegation. Just a quick reminder: we’re about to enter our new huge stadium, lead by the WC winning captain, WC golden boot winner and best striker in the world whose also one of our own, Real Madrid’s first choice manager (who kindly told them to fuck off to stay with us), and a bunch of other world class players. We’re third season straight in the CL, retained all our key players, almost all of them on long contracts. We’re playing exciting football and have the greatest squad we’ve had in my lifetime. Those are all fruits of Levy’s work.

I’m disappointed about signings too, but in the big picture, our situation is amazing and Levy is the first reason for that. He’s not perfect but he’s a pretty damn great chairman. And thanks to his work, our future is brighter than ever.

TL;DR - Levy loves Tottenham and his plan has brought us to where we are. Unlike us, he knows the finances of our clubs. It makes sense to prioritize the long-term plan over hugely expensive signings that wouldn't even significantly upgrade our XI. We didn't win titles because of sporting reasons, not because of Levy. It's a fucking great time to be a Spurs fan.

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Wiebe: Presenting the All-Underrated Best XI, aka the Dom Badji All-Stars

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If you score your first professional hat trick and it isn’t plastered all over the front page of MLSsoccer.com, I think it’s fair to say you’re living your soccer life under the radar.

Consider this column a mea culpa to striker Dominique Badji, who deserved better after his three goals fueled the Colorado Rapids first win of the season, a 3-0 romp against the Philadelphia Union. By now, you know some guy named Zlatan stole the show in Week 5. In any other week, Badji would be the shoo-in MLS Player of the Week – you can guess how that turned out – and we’d all collectively be singing his praises.

Yet, as so many of you have pointed out to me on Twitter, relative crickets.

No more. I present to you my All-Underrated (and Overlooked) Best XI, also known as the Dom Badji All-Stars. You’ll undoubtedly be rankled by my picks and have suggestions of your own. Feel free to hash that out in the comments section or @ me.

GK: Matt Turner (New England Revolution)

It’s tough to find a starting ‘keeper who hasn’t had their turn in the spotlight, so we go to a relative unknown in the 23-year-old Turner, who signed with the Revs ahead of the 2016 season after going undrafted. Most figured it’d be either Cody Cropper (last year’s starter and US national team hopeful) or Brad Knighton (10-year veteran with 57 MLS starts) who won Brad Friedel’s trust. Instead, Turner’s got four starts, two wins, a massive penalty save and a hold on the job (for now).

LB: Ben Sweat (New York City FC)

I assumed Ronald Matarrita, a Costa Rican international finally healthy after a year out recovering from a broken foot, would be the starting left back on opening day for NYCFC. In assuming, I overlooked how good Sweat was in 2017 (25 starts, six assists), and how much Patrick Vieira valued a player who earned his place via trial and hasn’t let go of his starting spot. Sweat’s a two-way player, he’s comfortable in possession and he absolutely deserves more love.

CB: Francisco Calvo (Minnesota United)

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Not a troll job, I swear! In no way is this about the Loons captain calling for more respect for his squad. It’s about the fact that Calvo doesn’t get enough love for being one of the most versatile, physically gifted defenders in MLS. The Costa Rican was Top 10 among defenders in headed clearances and interceptions last year, one to forget for the Minnesota defense, and he’ll be the rock Adrian Heath continues to build around in 2018, most likely with a trip to Russia sandwiched in the middle of the year.

CB: Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls)

This was a toss-up between the Red Bulls man and NYCFC’s Alex Callens, who has near zero name recognition despite being arguably MLS’s best defender a year ago. Long’s career is basically defined by being overlooked and underrated. He was drafted in the second-round by the Timbers in 2014 and never played a minute for the first team. He moved to Seattle, same story. Long did play for Sounders 2, however, and the Red Bulls saw promised. After a year with RBII (USL Defender of the Year), he earned a move to the first-team contract and immediately became first-choice for Jesse Marsch.

RB: Nick Lima (San Jose Earthquakes)

Shout out to Real Salt Lake’sTony Beltran, who has been on this team for the better part of a decade. Nick Lima may be the next in the line of domestic outside backs that hold it down for years and never truly get the respect they deserve. Last season was a good start for the Quakes Homegrown (22 games played, 20 starts, two goals and an assist), and now it’s about consistency, longevity and helping San Jose become a regular playoff team again.

CM: Ilie (Sporting KC)

Callum is right.

So many holding midfielder across the world get no where near the amount of credit they deserve. If someone’s underrated, its usually a defensive midfielder.

— Callum Williams (@CalWilliamsComm) April 3, 2018

Ilie gets the nod here because I watch and talk about this league so much that the likes of Wil Trapp, Alex Ring, Diego Chara, Jeff Larentowicz and others I don’t have time to name generally feel properly appreciated in my book. They are very good and important to their team’s success, for various collective and individual reasons.

That leaves me with Ilie, who must be both the metronome and conscience in Sporting’s midfield. That’s not easy with Roger Espinoza and Felipe Gutierrez marauding ahead of you and the fullbacks pushing high. When you try to explain why Kansas City had the league’s best defense a year ago, you’d be wise to widen your scope beyond the backline and goalkeeper Tim Melia.

CM: Ibson (Minnesota United)

**Violins in the background** You can hate me now, but I won’t stop now…

I bet you didn’t know Ibson finished last season with the following stat line among his fellow MLS midfielders. All courtesy of Opta.

So Ibson and … a who’s who of MLS’s best midfielders. Since I am guessing you don’t know much of anything about the Minnesota midfielder unless you live in Minnesota, that makes him overlooked, for sure, and underrated, in my opinion.

AM: Federico Higuain (Columbus Crew SC)

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Here are profiles for two Argentine No. 10s in MLS. Both played their first full MLS season in 2013. One is Higuain, and the other shall remain unnamed for now.

Player A: 12,574 minutes played (152 GP, 146 GS), 59 goals, 53 assists

Player B: 13,101 minutes played (154 GP, 149 GS), 50 goals, 51 assists

Player A has three MLS Best XIs, three All-Star appearances and an MVP award to his name. Player B has received none of those individual plaudits. Player A lost to Player B in MLS Cup 2015, a game that cemented Player B’s legacy.

Player A is Pipa, Columbus’ quiet genius. Player B is Portland’s Diego Valeri, near universally and rightfully revered. My point? With a few different bounces in 2015 and a little more national publicity, Higuain’s profile would be a lot different. He’s underrated, don’t @ me on this one.

WING: Ignacio Piatti (Montreal Impact)

This pick is more of a “Bradley Wright-Phillips Lack-of-Appreciation Team” selection than underrated or overlooked. Piatti is the name every single defender who visits the MLSsoccer.com studios mentions as the toughest 1v1 matchup in the league. He’s got back-to-back years of 17 goals and six assists. That’s best in show stuff, but I never hear his name mentioned among the league’s best players. He’s earned that recognition, and if Montreal make a run this year, it’ll largely be because their talisman willed them there.

WING: Alphonso Davies (Vancouver Whitecaps)

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Yeah, Davies has a hype train chugging along behind him already, and yet he’s still underrated and overlooked. If Davies was American, the whole country would be salivating at the combination of potential and production the 17-year-old wunderkind has already shown in his young career. He’d be the Next Great Hope, a player to help us forget about the disappointment of Russia 2018. But he’s not ours, and he’ll likely help our northern neighbors eventually reach the promised land along with a raft of other young players. Congrats to Canada and Vancouver. I am jealous. Davies is that good, and he’s just scratching the surface.

CF: Dominique Badji (Colorado Rapids)

Finally, our namesake finishes out the squad. Every single offseason, this one included, we talk about the Rapids needing a game-changing forward. Meanwhile, Badji’s just out here quietly producing. He bagged nine goals and six assists last year without a ton of help, six and four the year before and already has four goals in three games this season. Maybe Colorado doesn’t need more strikers. Maybe they need to feed the beast they already have. Congrats on the hatty, Dom!

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Wiebe: Presenting the All-Underrated Best XI, aka the Dom Badji All-Stars was originally published on 365 Football

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