#I just... hoo boy. đŸ« ))
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st-riley-the-brave · 1 year ago
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*Riley and Jenn, upon realising that Jenn turns 40 tomorrow*:
HOW THE LEGITIMATE FU
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xnervouscircus · 1 year ago
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sorry about all my rambling posts and tags but ball it we fuck
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htylmg · 1 year ago
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last day of school was today. thinking many thoughts
#i talked to a girl i used to have a crush on earlier this year the whole day and. hoo boy#i can see why i liked her let’s just say that#she’s just so. present yknow#like when someone talks you can tell she’s listening with everything in her#meanwhile my dumb ass is out here interrupting people all the time#but looking at her do it doesn’t make me feel worse it makes me feel BETTER#she’s like human serotonin#fuckkkkk this can’t be happening again#đŸ«ŁđŸ« đŸ˜¶â€đŸŒ«ïž#god. and she’s a redhead but she may be the only one who actually PULLS IT OFF#and she’s muscular. ohhh my god she’s muscular#she was wearing a tank top and a hippie skirt (cause she’s like a hippie) and at one point she jokingly flexed her back muscles and i MELTED#thing is she has a boyfriend which is just. yeah sure great#tbh i would not mind being a homewrecker for her#that basic white boy can’t compete w me i got the power of curry and good grades on my side đŸ˜€đŸ˜€đŸ˜€#and one of our mutual friends all but confirmed she liked me back then too#like she app talked about me CONSTANTLY and was always checking her phone for my snaps#which got me kicking my feet twirling my hair yknow#but she told me she liked someone else back then so ???????#he was the dumbest football bro to ever exist i couldn’t believe he was in an ap class w us#but i digress. she’s gorgeous and has an amazing personality and likes to be around me sooo#this summer is gonna be my august summer probs#ooh i can’t wait#🐋.txt
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sanchoyo · 2 years ago
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literally cannot tell if I’m having a manic episode or actually genuinely just hyper+happy bc it’s finally getting warm and pretty outside and perhaps that’s Doing Away With my bad 3 month long seasonal depression for the time being đŸ€” I mean it’s 
.nice? To have so much sudden energy the past like, week or so, but also vaguely accompanied with feelings of Dread bc 1. Why 2. How long will it last 3. Can I stop any Impulses and avoid doing anything Regrettable while I am Like This. Bc the track record historically has not been GREAT
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muddyorbsblr · 4 months ago
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soccer aid game day drills & stretches :: 09 june 2024 (batch 3)
Hoo boi this batch was
something else 😳😼‍💹 Like this batch had me going "Tom you knew there were cameras on you, right? You really just decided to choose violence and put on a whole ass show for us?"
Because honestly if he didn't know at the moment, he definitely knows now. đŸ« 
First we get some side lunge

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And like that was expected but what wasn't expected was goddamn mango scratch like Sir what the--
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And some more moments of this man doing some of the sluttiest things sir this is a family sports event--
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Some more (slutty) lunges
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Then we have some running gifs
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And then
we have this
Tom how and why did you suddenly turn into the Serbian dancing lady? I have concerns
we should start running now, yeah? 😳👀
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farmhandler · 21 days ago
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I'm not a genuine chronic pain haver as typically when I'm not typing I don't have any pain, but hoo boy sometimes with a flare up you just feel all mad đŸ« 
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whentherewerebicycles · 4 months ago
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I had an easy birth experience and my body felt great at first—I think because I was so excited to suddenly not be hauling around 30+ extra pounds of baby and associated fluids—but hoo boy the last week or two I’ve been feeling more and more aware of just how messed up my core muscles are đŸ«  probably need to do something about that.
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sebsxphia · 2 years ago
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Sebbbbb !!! My lovely, how are you??? <3 I’m dying with all the new Lew content and I be having some Bob and Rhett thoughts đŸ˜©
Idk why but I feel like both Rhett and Bob would be totally fascinated watching you put on makeup? Like they’d just sit in the mirror behind you and watch you do it, staring in awe at how smoothly you put on your lipstick, how precise and steady you apply your eyeliner and mascara. they’d just stare with a cute, thoughtful look on their faces and probably ask you “how do you not poke your eye out?” And they’d just be amazed by how much work goes into it and how easy you make it all look. Thinking about how adorable you look when you’re concentrating so hard to make it look nice, and they’d tell you how beautiful you are with and without your makeup on đŸ„č and then ofc by the end of the night, they’re both ready to get you home and fuck you so good that you’re crying for their cocks bc they love to see your perfect, intricate makeup ruined by your desperate tears hehe đŸ«  - kricket / @sugarcoated-lame 💜💜💜💜
also p.s: I sent you a DM during the whole hate anon debacle the other night and I’m not sure if you saw it, so I just wanna say I hope you’re doing okay and send you lots of love and forehead kisses, ily and hope you’re having a good day my love!!! đŸ„°â€ïžđŸ’œâ€ïžđŸ’œ
kricket my love!! i’m doing okay thank you, how are you doing?? <33 dude the lew content got me frothing at the mouth and screaming like a wild dog đŸ„Ž
godddd i couldn’t agree more with this, especially the ending. hoo boy. because they actually are genuinely intrigued how you do your make-up. they want to learn so when you ask them to pick up a brush or toner from the drug store, they know the right one to get. at the back of their mind they’re also thinking about how they can’t wait to see it running down your face later, but they can save that. for now.
thank you so much for this my love and i’m pleased to confirm i got the dm and i responded earlier today!! i love you so much and i’m sending you so many forehead kisses right back at you. i hope you’re having a wonderful day my love!! 💖💗💓
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darkshrimpemotions · 2 years ago
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what is the “wine grump collective?”
Hoo boy memories.
The wine grump thing is a cheeky name given to those of us in fandom who are not old enough to be Fandom Olds but not young enough to be Baby Fans.
It all started with a uquiz I made that got MASSIVELY more attention than I ever anticipated, wherein I had people answer questions to determine what fandom age group they fell into (based more on Vibes than actual age). The largest group of quiz results by far were Fandom Wine Aunts, which someone requested be changed to Aunts and Uncles, which then evolved into Grumps because it's gender neutral and also a very accurate descriptor of the general mood among us fandom not-quite-olds.
It was a fun time! Until the purity police found it, got mad at the result they were generally getting, and started putting death and rape threats in my notifications and ask box. Sooooo that post went to sleep. But the uquiz still technically exists, I just don't look at it anymore. đŸ« 
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grandlovescheme · 1 year ago
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Fighter au was... Hoo boy! đŸ”„đŸ„”đŸ«  I hope no one runs away or something after that. Rhaenyra’s parents causing drama is enough for me no matter how much they pissed me off.
Can I just say fighter!au makes me so fucking happy like daemon is just such a caring creature to this sad rhaenyra who just wants someone to love her as she is :)
Ahh! I'm so happy you liked the chapter đŸ„č♄ Daemon and Rhaenyra are exactly what the other needs right now to heal and learn that love is real and some people are truly here to stay, no matter what ♄
No one is running away... unless it's together, far far away 😉
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lovergirl-3000 · 2 years ago
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how my relationship with each of the sullys (and Mo’at cuz I love her) would be
Lo’ak my Best friend
Me and Lo’ak would be picking on each other so much and getting into trouble but I would definitely be the levelheaded one in the group. If something was too dangerous, then I would talk him out of it. My nicknames for him are: Mischief, Lo and Lolo
Example of our conversations
Lo’ak: “Bruh what are you doing”
Me: “I’m looking at the sea“ Me clearly staring straight at Neteyam who is swimming
Lo’ak: “Neteyam is blue that doesn’t mean he is the sea but I guess it’s an honest mistake”
Me: “Well BRUH It was not an honest mistake because I was not staring at him”
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Me: Looking at the sky
Lo’ak: “What are you doing”
Me: “Baking a pie What do you think I’m doing”
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Me: “Hey Lolo”
Lo’ak: “What did you call me”
Me: “Lolo It’s Your newest nickname”
Lo’ak: Rolls his eyes
Me: “Hey that’s Kiris move” I say and point my finger at him
Kiri my Sister from another mister
Me and Kiri would go on little adventures and we would have are own language out of just facial expressions. We would both admire the nature all around us. We appreciate it way more than everyone else. My nicknames for her are: Kiki and Nature
Examples of our conversations
Kiri: “So you crushing on my brother”
Me: “Whaaaat nooo” I say nervously
Kiri: 😑
Me: “Ok fine like him”
Lo’ak: “I knew it” he screams as he falls out of a tree
Me: 😳
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Me: “Kiri, Kiki, Nature, Girlie, Honey bun, Blue beauty”
Kiri: “What!!!” Me: “Do you think I look like a deformed Direhorse”
Kiri: “No who called you that”
Me: 😐 “I did”
Kiri: “You think you look like a Deformed Direhorse”
Me: “No”
Kiri: “Oh thank Eywa” 😆
Me: “I was wondering if I looked like a Deformed Direhorse”
Kiri: 😀 “I give up”
Spider comes in and starts playing “scars to your beautiful”
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Kiri: “Do you think it would be weird if I don’t know say me and a human had a relationship”
Me: “You and spider are perfect for each other just tell him already”
Kiri: 😃 “How did you”
Me: đŸ€š “Nature it is the most obvious thing ever”
Neteyam My true love
I’m always staring at him and I know it but I don’t care. I love every inch of him from head to tail he is my heart and my soul even if he doesn’t know it yet. My nicknames for him are: Yams, golden boy and neyney
Examples of our conversations
Me: looks at him like â˜ș then looks away
Neteyam: looks at me like 😩
Me: looks at him again in sees him looking at me “Ummmm
 Hi”
Neteyam: 😅 “I Um Hey how how was your day”
Me: “I don’t know it’s 5:00 in the morning don’t have much to go off so far”
Neteyam: “Yeah I guess not haha”
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Me: “Hi yams”
Neteyam: “Hi Stella”
We both just stare into each other’s eyes
Lo’ak: đŸ€ą gags
Spider: đŸ« 
Kiri: In her head “oh by Eywa just kiss her”
Tuk: 😐 in her head “what Is happening”
Neytiri: From afar, “Aw Jake look at them”
Jake: walks over “What are they doing”
Neytiri: “There in love”
Jake: 😀 “What”
Mo’at: Smirking
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Me: About to shoot my bow
Neteyam: walks by
Me:
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Me: “Ahhhhhh!” I squeal while running into the room
Lo’ak: đŸ€š
Kiri: đŸ«€
Me: Hyperventilating
Kiri and Lo’ak just look at each other confused
Me: “NETEYAM TOLD ME IM BEAUTIFUL”
Lo’ak: “WHAT?!? YES!” Kiri: “ WOO HOO! YES FINALLY”
Me: low key about to cry from happiness
Kiri and Lo’ak group hug me and we all squeal together
Tuktirey my shadow
I love Tuk she is my baby and Tuk loves me she follows me every were and I can’t say I don’t like it. She is so sweet and sassy I love her so much I would do anything for her.
My nicknames for her are: Tuk, (obviously everyone calls her that) Tuktuk and Little yur (Little warrior)
Examples of our Conversations
Tuk: 😆“Steeeellllaaaa”
Me: 😄“Tuuukkkk” she runs over and hugs me
Lo’ak: “you never seem that excited to see me”
Tuk: 😒“Cuz I’m not”
Lo’ak: 😟
Kiri: laughing her ass off
Spider: pats Lo’ak on the back
Me: hyperventilating with laughter
Neteyam: Low key dying of laughter
Jake: 😀
Neytiri: also dying of laughter
Mo’at: Chuckling
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Me: “Tuk do you know where I put my KjĂĄnÄŻĂ« Knives” I ask while searching everywhere
Tuk: “You put them in your satchel that is hanging on the hook by the entrance to the hut”
Me: 😅 “That was very specific” “And suspicious” I mumble the last part
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Me: just watching Neteyam
Tuk: “What are you doing?” Me:😳 “Ohh
 I’m
 I am
 looking for a plant”
Tuk: “What?”
Me: “Um for Mo’at”
Tuk: “But your sitting down”
Me: “Yes cuz I couldn’t find it”
Tuk: “Oh”
Me: “Welp I’d better go find it”
Tuk: “Can I help”
Me: “Uhhh
”
Tuk: đŸ„șđŸ„č “Please” she sniffles
Me: “ok come on”
We then proceeded to spend hours, searching for some random plant that I decided to chose to be the plant Mo’at needed. We finally found it went back to the village tomorrow at. We finally found it and went back to the village to Mo’at.
Me: “You know I can do this part by myself if you want”
Tuk: “No come on” she says and drags me inside
Tuk: “Gramínie, We have what you wanted” she excitedly hand Mo’at the plant
Mo’at: ??? She looks up at me and I give her a pleading look and somehow she just knows exactly what happened
Mo’at: “ohh why thank you little one. You should be on your way now”
Tuk: “ok see you soon”
Mo’at: “You have to tell him at some point”
Me: “I know I just
”
Mo’at: “Don’t Know how. You will find a way” she smiles at me
Spider my man on the inside
Yes, technically Kiri and Lo’ak are both a brother and a sister of Neteyam but he doesn’t tell them anything but on the other hand, he tells spider all about his feelings for me. And he tries to put in a good word for me, but he doesn’t have too.
My nicknames for him: Spidy and Shorty
Examples of our conversations
Spider: sneakily walking through the shadow and comes up and leans on the opposite side of the tree that I am leaning on
Me: “Omega 5 Do you have the information?”(omega five is the code name I came up for him in case you’re wondering )
Spider: “Boss Bitch 123 I have extracted the information”
Me: “Copy, so what are the basics of the Intel you’ve gathered?”
Spider: “That you should make your move Boss Bitch 123”
Me: “Copy, Thanks for the help shorty” I say as we do are secret hand shake
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Me: ”AHHHHHHH!!!!”
Lo’ak: “What!?!”
Tuk: “AHHH!!”
Kiri: “What is it?!?” Neteyam: “what’s wrong are you ok!?!!”
Me: “THERE’S A SPIDER!!!!”
Spider: 😑
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Me: “Why do you have five fingers?”
Spider: “I don’t know”
Me: “Why did humans need a fifth finger so badly?
Spider: “I don’t know!”
Me: “BUT WHY!”
Spider: “I DONT KNOW!”
Me: “I just want to know why”
Spider: “Me too”
Jake my awkward person
Me and Jake just don’t click he says something I say something but we just don’t know how to hold a conversation.
My nicknames for him: Jj and that’s all
Examples of our conversations
Me: 😐
Jake: 😬
Me: “So
”
Jake: “So
”
Me: “Umm
 how was your day”
Jake: “Uh
 it was good yeah
”
Me: “Yeah
 That’s good”
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Me: “Have you seen your children?”
Jake: “No. why?”
Me: 😗“Uhh
 cuz I need to give Kiri something”
Jake: “Mhm
 and what is that something” Not believing me
Me: “Uhh
 Girl stuff
 Ok bye” I say while I run away
Jake: 😑
Neytiri my matchmaker
Me and Neytiri are very close and she is very supportive of me and Neteyam and She tries to play matchmaker a lot.
my nicknames for her: Tiri, miss mama bear and blue beauty
Examples of our conversations
Neytiri is sitting there, braiding my hair while I sit in front of her
Neytiri: “You know you and Neteyam would have amazing children”
Me: chokes on air
Neytiri: “It’s true your are both very smart and strong and beautiful”
Me: Just blushing like a manic
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Me and Neytiri just silently hunting side by side, not saying a word that’s one of my favorite things about her. She knows when to shut up and just enjoy time spent with your loved ones without having to have a giant conversation.
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Me: “Hey”
Neytiri: “Hey”
Neytiri: “So you have my approval for when you and Neteyam mate”
Me: just looking at the ground, blushing like a maniac
Mo’at my wise one I come to advice for
Me and Mo’at have a very complicated relationship but I love it. She’s a very stern but sweet person and she gives great advice.
Me: “Hey Mo’at”
Mo’at: “Your putting off the what is written in the stars”
Me: “What”
Mo’at: “You know what I speak of” she says then turns and walks away
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Mo’at: “Child come here” she says, grabs me and turns my head to the stars
Mo’at: “Look do you see that”
Me: “Can you read it to me?”
Mo’at: “No there’s nothing about you tonight. The stars only show you what Eywa wants you to see”
Me: “Can you teach me?”
Mo’at: “I would love to”
We spend the rest of the lying there and she teaches me all about how to read the stars
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Me: “Mo’at do you think me and Neteyam would be good together”
Mo’at: “I do not think I know I see the way he looks at you and the way you look at him your fate is written in the stars you are meant to be together”
Me: “Thank you I needed to hear that”
Mo’at: “Go tell him girl”
So yeah that’s how I would be with all of the sully characters. If you guys like this a bunch then I’ll make one with Tonowari in the Metkayina clan
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benswillbond · 2 years ago
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Show #1: The Delightful Sausage: Nowt But Sea
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Hoo boy, my first show at my first EdFringe!
My first show after almost THREE years of zero live comedy! (I went to a few in Zurich, but it’s clear why people fly to Switzerland to die.)
Also: my first time meeting @rantsandravingsofashinykey since the start of the pandemic!
And my first time at a Delightful Sausage gig!
And finally, my first of many visits to a sweltering basement room in Edinburgh! I came here for the full Fringe experience, and I was not disappointed.
The Delightful Sausage was hot! It was a sold-out gig but Monkey Barrel always reserve ten tickets for PAYW. We very luckily got the last few but this meant our seats were on the last row towards the far right corner.
So, bearing in mind that I just got off the plane that morning with almost no sleep the previous night, my deliriousness mixed with anticipation giddiness and the unique sensation of being gently cooked alive in an airless room packed with other sweaty punters, while my mind fought off months of Covid-safe training, it felt pretty fucking surreal.
The show, as it turned out, was even more so. Did not know what to expect at all, and frankly, because I’m Hobbit-sized, I did not actually see most of the damn performance. What I managed to glimpse and hear though was great stuff. It reminded me of Daphne’s excellent Radio 4 show. One episode was set on a remote tropical island and they did very funny sketches about their strange encounters. Only in the end you don’t get to see Chris Cantrill wearing nothing but gold boxer shorts covered in lube (it was ultrasound gel, we asked. It’s cheaper, apparently). And there’s a twist at the end. I love that this show is very charming and unmistakably Northern. Amy is so good at playing the much more sassy and clueless version of herself, and Chris is the loyal fool who would never leave his friend behind. (Hot tip: go check out their Twitter exchanges. if they’re not your best friend goals, I don’t know who are).
My favourite bit involved Only Connect and its inimitable host, Victoria Coren Mitchell, obviously. I totally get the crush, Chris. The weakest attempt at doing Victoria’s voice that I’ve ever seen, but it was so goddamn funny. Gutted I didn’t get the connection though :(
Of course I loved it, despite everything. It felt electrifying to be in an audience again. The fact that the Delightful Sausage got another Best Comedy nom is just the ultrasound gel icing on the cake. (Their Twitter handle is @MmmSausage, another reason to follow them.)
On the way out, we paid for our tickets to a still-wet half-naked Chris. Another hot EdFringe tip for anyone (is anyone??) reading is to pay in multiples of ÂŁ5, not anything in between because those damn card machines would not let you. Chris felt bad that I opted to pay ÂŁ8 or some stupid amount he gave me a Delightful Sausage merch FOR FREE. WHICH I THEN LOST đŸ« 
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muddyorbsblr · 6 months ago
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There's really something about bodyguard romances that just have me in a chokehold and I just loved every single bit of this story 😼‍💹 From the way Reader's taken to trying to make him smile and how you can tell that he's fighting so hard to not give in to what he wants during that first scene in the elevator. And the way his eyes drop to her mouth when she smiles đŸ„”đŸ« 
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And then the way he was helping her through her panic attack from being stuck in the elevator and he gripped her hand tighter after getting a full view of her leg, like he was just going "Keep away dirty thoughts keep away not now not nowwwww" đŸ˜‚đŸ« 
The Nat cameo in this was too good omg, I love that she was Reader's friend and was going "Don't even think about public sex, you'll never live it down" but also went "Get him alone and climb him like a tree the way you always wanted". We love supportive friends that try to keep us out of scandals 👏👏
Nat when Reader was thinking about going at it with Bucky in public:
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And then we get to them getting soaked in the rain and it just had me going "Ohh no they're soaked and now he has to dry off at her place
how terrible 😏😈" and she's tracing at his scars and he's at the last shreds of his restraint that he flat out just tries to tell her that they shouldn't be doing this while every part of him's already itching to touch and kiss her đŸ„”đŸ˜źâ€đŸ’š
AND THAT LAST LINE HOO BOI HOWDY
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Protecting What’s His
Pairing: Beefy!Bucky x reader (Bodyguard AU)
Word Count: 2,590
Summary: Bucky has been your bodyguard for some time now and it’s been hard to deny how badly you want him to be more than that. 
Author’s Note: All these new pics of long haired beefy Seb have got me thinking and I thought I’d try a crack at Bodyguard AU. Thank you all so much for reading! Much love always! ❀❀❀Divider by the lovely @firefly-graphics thank you Daisy! đŸ„°
Warnings: flirty tension, some fluff, Bucky is a bit serious and grumpy but he’s soft, mention of s-c-ar-s, a moment of slight p-a-ni-c in the elevator 
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Bucky holds the door of the elevator open and motions for you to step inside. You walk in and plant yourself along the far wall. Once Bucky is inside he presses the button to close the door.
He dwarfs the entire elevator.
A heavy silence falls between you and your entire body zings with hyperawareness. You try to control your breathing so he won’t notice how affected you are but you’re already concerned it’s written all over your face.
It’s been several months since he’d started being your bodyguard and every one of them has been pure torture. Every inch of him is intimidating with his broad shoulders and thick biceps and legs that go on forever but it’s his eyes that really draw you in. A beautiful blue color like the ocean, framed by long, dark lashes and filled with a softness that contradicts everything about his physical presence.
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whentherewerebicycles · 2 years ago
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ok gotta pack for houston tomorrow đŸ«  it’ll be 100% worth it to see my BFF but hoo boy this has been a punishing month!!! flight is from 2:30-7:30 so I’ll probably leave here around 12:30 and park at the airport. I get back late monday and then have tues-thurs of solitude time to recover before m&a bachelorette weekend activities start friday. IUI tomorrow so that clock starts again as well. just gotta make it to may 1
 just a little farther

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arctic-hands · 5 months ago
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It's been about 2 months so I can finally free myself of the second hand awkwardness of my train ride home from the eclipse
So I get on the train back to the East Coast at around 1 a.m. At roughly 2 p.m an obviously Amish family consisting of two young adults who look way too young to be taking care of this many kids, a teenage girl, three kids who look to be around seven, and two infants.
Hoo boy. This is a sixteen hour train trip that would be stretched to eighteen hours after engine trouble.
Predictably, the two babies did not like being in a rickety train and screamed their heads off periodically for the entire ride. I don't fault the babies for screaming, the ride was quite wobbly and rumbly. I was once a screaming baby too.
Predictably, the three 7ish year olds were running around and climbing everything, even trying to climb into the overhead luggage racks. I can't fault the children for this, as I too was a rambunctious child who liked to climb and jump before my knees turned to shite, and were I not a master of zoning out I too would have been quite bored.
What was not predictable was that the Amish couple did nothing to soothe or calm their kids the entire ride. The teenage girl just ignored everything and read books. The most the parents did was if their babies in their laps got a little too shrieky for THEIR comfort they would put their hands over the baby's mouths to muffle it, which predictably did nothing but make the babies more agitated.
Now I could extend sympathies for these young parents. When I say young, I mean twenty year olds at best. Too young to be taking care of this many kids. But in the seventeen hour time span I spent with these people, about two thirds of it was me wracking my brain for the German words to say "madam, please calm your children", and the other third was me wracking my brains for what I know about the Amish and how to say the words more archaic. At one point the seven year old girl looked behind her seat she was climbing on and just stared at me, but I was too sleep deprived to even say hello in any comprehensive language. And I was wearing a mask so my polite smile didn't show, so she just kept staring at me.
Anyway
At some point some European tourists got in. One was a man who looked to be about ten years older than me. Classic tourist vibe, camera around the neck and everything. Anyway as they were boarding the car the father had left his seat and the mother said something in Pennsylvania Dutch, and the camera tourist's eyes light up.
Ugh. đŸ« 
I wasn't trying to eavesdrop but I had the misfortune of being across the aisle and one row behind the parents and the screaming babies on their laps so it was inevitable that of course my rusty German skills would suddenly work for the first time in like a decade, enough for me to pick up the guy introducing himself auf Deutsch, and I heard him explain he was from Bornholm and could speak German fluently, how were you?
So I don't know off the top of my head when Pennsylvania Dutch linguistically drifted far away from German or vice versa, p sure it's been at least a century and a half. All I know is I had to contend with hearing a few contrite statements in PD and then some confused questions for clarification by the tourist in German before the two of them just stared at each other for like thirty seconds in complete silence before the Dane smiled politely, said "TschĂŒs!" and hurried away.
I thought about approaching him to explain what the Amish were and about Pennsylvania Dutch, but a) I was so fucking exhausted, 2) wasn't sure if he knew English and my German skills have degraded from my previously conversational level and I can understand more than I can actually say, and 3) I think everyone who experienced what just happened wanted to melt underneath the train tracks and solidify into flattened pennies.
Anyway this in no way involved me but it was so awkward I had to talk about it in therapy later that week lol. Eventually the family got off the train an hour before I did, perhaps predictably in Pennsylvania, and just about everyone in my train car audibly groaned in relief. The Dane had sat down somewhere behind me and I wasn't rude enough to turn and try to find him, so I have no idea if he was still there and groaning in relief too.
Anyway that sucked lmao
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sunshowersanddandelionwine · 6 months ago
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no cod meetups scheduled for the con in july đŸ«  i really really hope there are others or even that there is one and the schedule just isn’t finished yet because hoo boy my anxiety just spiked *hard*
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