#I still don’t know if I’m built for this online dating thing

[mikkaeus]

went to gym tried some new exercises for leg day and she bought me matcha

about to go on a gym(??) date with a girl which Reddit informs me isn’t even a thing so. wish me luck

[palajae]

you and me.

PAIRING... skater!niki x skater!reader | GENRE… figure skating! au, romance, angst, fluff, unconditional love.? | WC... 0.4k | “can we please go back to how we were?”

you cut straight to the point. there was no hesitation and second guessing with niki, there never was. you sit on the bench with your skates still on, an awkward distance away from niki.

“i saw online. why did you say that you wish you were skating partners with haerin instead?” 

you had never once felt threatened by haerin. she was a nice, gorgeous, talented skater with her own partner. but to hear your own partner, the one you built years of trust and connection with, supposedly throw it all away was heartbreaking. 

“what? it wasn’t like that. i just said it in a moment of frustration. plus, she just wanted some reassurance. that’s all. you know i could never leave you-“

“could or would?” you cut him off sharply. “because it seems like you’re willing to throw this all away.”

your red hands clench into fists. 

you can feel him getting defensive, the furrow between his eyebrows prominent. 

“y/n, what are you saying? there’s no need to get mad, everyone knows how close we are but i guess she didn’t. i promise i just said it to make my girlfriend feel better.” 

he only ever made that face when he was focusing on catching you safely, making sure you weren’t hurt. 

“so you’re letting her get in between our relation-our partnership? our careers?”

this time you’re looking straight at him, searching for any signs of what he was thinking. 

he pauses, taking a moment to recollect his thoughts before he said something too emotional, too harsh. 

“what happened to keeping our personal and professional lives separate?”

you narrow your eyes at him, ��shouldn’t i be asking you that?”

niki exhales, scooting closer.

“okay. you’re right. i’m sorry. it won’t happen again. you’re the only one for me. can we please get back on track and focus? can we please go back to how we were?”

you sigh, “it’s not that easy, niki. you have a girlfriend now and obviously, it’s clear she isn’t happy with how we were before.” 

whatever “we were before” meant.

he rubs a hand over his face. 

“fine. but at least let me ask you this. why do you care so much? you never did in the past with the other girls i dated. you’ve been acting so strange after i started seeing haerin-i thought we wouldn’t let these kinds of things get in between us…” 

you don’t say anything, so he continues, 

“it’s not like we were dating, we probably won’t ever.”

out of all the times you and niki had both said that—to your fans, to your friends, to your family—

this one hurt the most. 

because he was right. and it felt so wrong. 

so you take your chance to leave before it showed. but it didn’t matter, because he knew. he always did.

a/n ▸ mwuaha is it gonna be a happy or sad ending (or both)?

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[drowsybowser]

Get to Know You Better Challenge

First of all, I’d like to thank @introvertedfangrl for tagging me and taking my tag challenge virginity 😂🖤 this post shall be dedicated to you!

Last song: Moonlight / Kali Uchis (luv her sm)

Favorite color: black and purple

Last book: can I say something embarrassing? I haven’t read an actual novel since I graduated. Oops. But I would eventually like to buy and read some horror novels!

Last movie: Piece by Piece, the Pharrell Williams Lego movie at the theater (bf’s choice, but I still enjoyed it! lol)

Last tv show: I recently finished Bridgerton and have been watching Great British Bake-off since then. I don’t really watch a lot of tv shows honestly, I will more often end up on youtube watching playthroughs, cooking videos, and other random stuff

Sweet/savory/spicy: my sweet tooth is out of control honestly. I have something sweet like every day. And sweet/savory is often my favorite combination. I have like zero tolerance for spicy 😭

Relationship status: happily dating my best friend for 6 years, known each other 10 years now. we’re basically high school sweethearts except that we met through an online game and never dated long distance.

Last video game played: Veilguard, of course. I’ve started my second playthrough and I am severely in love my second Rook. btw @introvertedfangrl his name is actually Kalais I misspelled it when you asked me before 😭

Last thing I googled: literally “why is flanking in Veilguard so hard” LMAO and my explanation for that is: my second rook is a rogue, and while it’s not that different from the dagger/orb mage combo, I’m just generally struggling with it more. The rogue’s “mana” is stacked from successfully attacking without taking damage, but if you take damage, it depletes some of the charge you just built up. What makes this more annoying, for me personally, is I suck at blocking. Dodging is fine, but sometimes I end up out of range to attack. It’s also really annoying that enemies will aggro on Rook much more often than they will aggro on a companion. I’m consistently ending up with 2 or 3 enemies aggro’d on me and I’m trying so hard to dodge and get in a single attack and will go almost whole fights with only getting one ability off. I spent half of a fight just trying to get behind an enemy, for flanking, but it feels impossible lol. They’re spinning just as fast me!! okay rant over lol

Current obsession: dragon age in general, but paying special attention to Cullen and Dorian bc they’re my comfort ship

Looking forward to: I have plans for getting my car fully paid off so my bf and I can get our own place again. just trying to manifest a happy and peaceful future for us haha

I challenge @reiconcorpse @cullenssweatyballsakk and @littleraeofsunshineda and anyone else who might see this and have fun 😇

[luvrrgirl444]

chapter 14: genius

IRL, INSTAGRAM!

“hi, y/n and i’m here today with genius to explain the lyrics of my song ‘kill bill’.” you smiled at the camera.

“so, fun fact about kill bill is that it actually only took about 6 hours to produce. i, uh-” you laughed. “i saw this thing online and it made me feel some type of way, and i was like ‘i need to release what i feel right now.’ so, i took out my songbook and went crazy. i called up my friend jean, my producer, and i was crying,” you laughed again, and made a phone gesture with your hand and brought it up to your ear. “and i was like, ‘bro i just wrote these lyrics, can we make a song right now?’ and we did, in like 6 hours.”

VERSE 1

i’m still a fan even though i was salty

hate to see you with some other broad, know you happy

hate to see you happy if i’m not the one driving

“the person that this song is about is actually also an artist, and he’s actually really talented. so basically, i was saying that even though i hate that nigga,” you stuck up your middle finger. “he’s still a great artist, unfortunately. the next two lines are literal, uh, about a month, maybe a month and a half after we broke up, he was posted up with another girl. which was honestly really shitty because he broke up with me to ‘focus on his music’” you quirked your eyebrow and used quotation marks. “basically this whole song is about me being a jealous heartbroken bitch.” you sarcastically smiled.

PRE-CHROUS

i’m so mature, i’m so mature

i’m so mature, got me a therapist to tell me there’s other men

i don’t want none, i just want you

if i can’t have you, no one should

i might

“i was tryna convince myself that i was strong, and that this wasn’t hurting me as much as i thought it was, but it definitely was. literally wrote a whole muthafucking song about it.” you laughed. “we we’re dating for a long ass time to be honest, so with the ‘i don’t want none, i just want you’ lyric, it’s basically saying that i’ve been with you for so fucking long, it’s always been you, how am i supposed to move on, y’know? it’s lowkey corny but yeah. the last lyric is very um, yandere simulator vibes but it relates to the theme of the song, which is like jealousy and vengeance and possession.” you put your hands up. “don’t worry y’all, i’m not a criminal.”

CHORUS

i might kill my ex, not the best idea

his new girlfriend's next, how'd i get here?

i might kill my ex, i still love him though

rather be in jail than alone

“i can explain y’all, i’m not a killer or a criminal but imma be real, i was definitely having some intrusive thoughts. but everyone does. like, anyone who says they’ve never had thoughts about hurting someone that did them dirty, or fucked with them, they’re fucking lying, 100%. and relating to what i said before, we were together for so long. no matter how much i try to deny, the love is still there. it’s been built up for years, as much as i want to, i can’t magically forget it overnight.”

you continued on with singing the lyrics and explaining them until you completely finished the entire song.

“kill bill was an impulsive creation and release. we recorded and finished the song in like 6 hours, and i was like ‘i want to release this today’” you pointed downwards. “but everyone told me no.” you rolled your eyes. “so i asked when was the soonest we could release it, and it was like in 2 days. so the next day i posted on instagram saying that i was releasing a song tomorrow and that was it. there was no promo for it, which is why i’m so fucking shocked that it did so well. but, thank you to my fans, friends and family, i love you all. stream kill bill, album coming soon, bye!” you blew a kiss to the camera, before smiling and making heart with your hands.

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[theflagscene]

I’m hoping it’s just a mistranslation. Seems like some heavy company interference to basically gut what an entire series premise is about. They should not have introduced the omegaverse concept or made a s2 if they were not planning on delving deeper into the lore. You are satisfying nobody by doing this. Lots of companies have learned the hard way to not piss off fandoms in an effort to appeal to wider audiences. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If they think anyone cared about the car racing they have rude awakening coming.

According to the author alittlebixtch (dude why did I not know this was her online handle!?!? So appropriate at this point) she actually tried to get the company to removed the A/B/O aspects before the first season aired but they didn’t, so it’s not company interference, it’s actually the author.

She’s taken to Twitter recently to talk about the uproar this announcement has caused, saying that she didn’t realize how problematic the tropes were when she started writing the first novels a couple years ago. Which just proves to me that this was someone who had absolutely no idea what she was writing about, she did like a 50 Shades of Grey level amount of research into what these terms actually meant and what the Omegaverse was. Seems like she just went for it, not actually knowing anything about it and now that she’s been met with a fandom that has expectations based on decades of lore and world building, she’s panicking.

A/B/O is not a new thing, it’s been around since the 1970’s. The omegaverse became a more flushed out and ‘mainstream’ thing in the 20-ish years of Supernatural’s existence when people started using it as a way to explain the biological differences between humans and angels, then with the rise of werewolf popularity thanks to tv shows like Teen Wolf, adding the wolf lore to the omegaverse, you ended up with an extremely rich fantasy world built on a solid foundation of lore and mythology.

Seems like the author dipped her toes into the pond, and then was surprised when she found out exactly how deep that pond was. I appreciated some of the ideas she brought to her work, like how not every person has heightened senses or special powers, and how there was an even rarer subgender—enigmas—but now that she’s realized that she’s been playing in someone else’s sandbox without a bucket, she’s getting angry that there’s sand on her.

If she didn’t want to write in a genre of romantic fantasy that she deems ‘problematic’ then she should’ve gone the sci-fi route and called them mutants or genetically engineered humans, both things have far more wiggle room to create your own world around them because those terms don’t have a step by step fantasy world prebuilt around them.

But it seems like—from what she says—that the second season is not being written by her, she has no control over what the second season of the series will hold, hell her second set of Pit Babe novels aren’t even written yet. So I doubt CHANGE2561 is going to gut their best selling show to date just because the author of the novels they bought the rights from suddenly has cold feet about knocking up Babe.

Pit Babe was CHANGE2561’s first ever BL, and they changed (excuse the pun) the landscape of the industry by taking on an omegaverse story, even if it wasn’t completely within the world and just dabbled on the edge of the well known lore. It was still new and exciting and it made them millions, made their actors superstars and gave them the opportunity to make QLs freely because they know they have a fan base around their actors now. I highly doubt that they are going to change much—if anything—because they own the rights to the series and can make the second season go wherever they want, regardless of what the author wants since she already signed the contract and has no control over what the screenwriters want to do going forward.

In fact, if you look at the screenwriting team that worked on Pit Babe season 1, you’ll find a team that has also worked on Petrichor, The Heart Killers, Dead Friends Forever, This Love Doesn’t Have Long Beans, The Gifted and Be My Favourite.

So I’m actually less concerned now that it seems like the author is just talking out of her arse, until CHANGE2561 comes out with an official statement—which I have a feeling they will be doing soon—I’m going to assume that the omegaverse aspects are still very much alive and well within the Pit Babe universe 👍

[leillaaaa]

hiii! about that one terukane post discussing the clock keepers’ original time period/location, i did some light searching and it mostly points to the clock keepers coming from around the 1800s! i’ll write down a few reasons why!

clothing:

mirai’s attire may seem a bit more western at first glance , but going off her sandals (sorry i’m not sure about the name) and the outfit under her cloak, it seems that it is either inspired or is the same as 1800’s japanese winter wear, with the same design, albeit with mirai’s design being a bit more puffy/flowy(?) see here:

so mirai’s outfit points to around the 1800’s, but what about kako and akane?

kako and akane don’t have much to go off, except for their sleeve garters/arm bands! sleeve garters started being manufactured around the late 1800’s, and they were used by people who needed to adjust their sleeves without much hassle! kako is shown to tinker with machinery, and we all know that can become seriously messy, so he uses sleeve garters to prevent his sleeves from being too long and messing with his work!

another thing to add are their tassels, which were used in the 1800’s as well(?)

other than their clothing, we can also refer to their boundary and the particular clock they used in chapter 111!

machinery:

the boundary mechanisms look particularly similar to clocks i found online that date back 200 years ago (i think) like this,

although i am not sure if this can be used as evidence as inspiration could be taken from any similar time periods, i believe that it most resembles the machinery of this particular era!

however, we can see that the big clock used to change the present/operated by the yorishiro has a unique style, quite unlike clocks today or the slim grandfather clocks we associate with the clock keepers! however, I found a clock quite similar to it that dates back to early-mid 1800’s (1800-1849)!

even though the time periods don’t nessecarily overlap, it still proves to be quite useful evidence!

it’s quite reminiscent of the big ben, built in 1943, overlapping with the manufactured period of the supernatural clock they used 🕰️, giving me reason to believe that the clock keepers might have made/maintained this when alive in that time period as mechanics!

lastly, the town!

not much to say here, but judging by the common people in the heart of the boundary and the fact that they spoke an unfamiliar language, i have reason to believe that kako might have originated from around europe, prob not in england, because akane learns english in school! (not accounting for older english)

i won’t say that it is in this specific location, because tbhk is obv a work of fiction with little to no actual ties to real locations, but i will say that the town is reminiscent of old luxembourg in ville-haute, to the south, which was known for its industry in the 19th century!

for reference:

sorry for the bad quality ahah

there are some holes here and there such as mirai’s japanese like clothing not matching kako’s more western attire, or why certain thing don’t overlap, but this is what i could find haha

so in conclusion i’d reckon the clock keepers to be from around the 1800’s in europe(my guess is old luxembourg city in villehaute, southern luxembourg), where kako is a mechanic known for his knack for machinery and mirai is either his adopted daughter from far away or a pinocchio-esque figure to keep kako company!

hope this helped!

WAHHH, TYYY !! This was so helpful, tysm !! (≧∇≦)b <3

[scooburst]

So here’s everything you need to know about the current situation.

My whole phone is on lockdown. I’ve been told when it finally comes back, I’ll have to delete tumblr and discord. Hopefully I can use the website and get around it. My parents are looking at blocking it on my computer as well. I don’t think they can, but thier also monitoring it so I’ll have to be very careful. I have five minutes after 7:00 AM EST to be here before it’s over. Throughout the day, I will be on for one minute twice (two one minute sessions) just to check in. From there I might be able to answer one or two asks and quickly peak at my notifications. I’ll say in the mornings a few things; what happened yesterday, updates on the situation, and if I’m okay. That will be all I’ll be able to post. Sometimes if I have it at night, I’ll come on just to say goodnight or answer a few more asks. But again, it’s only a minute. I’m trying my best to stay calm for this but it’s not going great.

What exactly happened is a bit more complicated. I’ll recount it for you all just so it’s understandable. My parents at some point looked over my computer, which was logged into tumblr and discord, and decided I was talking to complete strangers and being dangerous. Yes I was talking to people online but I was being safe, and I don’t think they’d listen to that. But that isn’t exactly stopping me from talking to those “strangers”. I don’t think my parents really even see you people as humans that are good people. But. You know. I can’t fix that. So now my phone is locked down. I can only text them and one of my friends. I can use the bare essentials. All I know is at some point it’ll be unlocked, and I’ll have to delete these sites. I’ll try to plan for that best I can. But that’s essentially what’s going on.

As for the discord if anyone’s on that. The management of it is being handled by people I trust most there. Use it however you like, and to those two: Do whatever you want with it, but keep it free and open to anyone. All I want is for you all to continue making sure the people there are okay. I will pop in every day and say I’m alive, but really not much else. And yes I will read the messages, as much as I can.

Now that that’s over, onto the newly scheduled post.

Date of writing: 11/1/24

Am I okay: not really, but I’m alive and “healthy”

Things that happened: today, I have a hockey game, and we got evacuated early from school because of bomb threats. At home I kinda just walked around. I played a little bit of guitar, I’ve been listening to music and built legos. I’m doing some puzzles as well. I’m trying to take care of myself to hopefully get my parents to let me back here.

Log: today, I was taking the chance I had to look through my notifications. And I cried. At everything you all wrote to me. I’m going to miss you all so much. You all are such amazing people. I can’t say I didn’t think you’d all say that, but it still caught me off guard. Thanks. I’m glad you all are still going, as far as I know. Keep that going. Dying isn’t good for you! I also saw someone made a whole blog of days without me. That’s insane. I don’t know what to say to that. Hopefully, it doesn’t have to count to high. I’m gonna write your urls all down so I can visit you all when I can finally be back officially. I know this is all probably really confusing with me still responding to things, but it’s just a very complicated situation right now. It sucks tp not have things like this to vent and feel better, but I have started to keep a journal so I can place my thoughts somewhere and I’m going to eventually try to open up to one of my close irl friends to hopefully have someone to talk too. I’m probably never going to just move on from this, it’ll always be something I remember and maybe something that still hurts, but it’s still some of the best memories I’ve ever had even if I cry thinking about it. I’m doing my best here to distract myself, get back into reading, maybe slowly try to build my parents trust that I can handle my phone, even though I could already. But it’s fine. Ive found a lot of entertainment in the photos app recently. Maybe when I come back I’ll share it all with you. Sorry these posts are so long. I’m just trying to stay here as much as I can. But jsut know not to worry, becahse I’m still okay, and I’m alive. Apparently I’m going to be talked to about discord and tumblr. There is some hope I can stay, but we’ll see. Either way im a sneaky boi :)

The last thing I want to say is that whoever made that blog counting how long I’m gone, you are so appreciated. I appreciate all of you really. And all of you who’ve made a post tagging me about whatever experiences you’ve had with me or put it in my askbox, you’ve made me feel so much better about this just knowing I didn’t fuck it up with you. If you didn’t make anything like that, don’t feel obligated to. Just knowing you’re alive is the best thing for me right now. Stay safe, if not for yourself, for me, and if not for me, then for someone else. I’m doing the same for all of you.

ALSO! Ima probaly make a tag list for this so you can get this as soon as possible! I know this is almost becoming a newsletter but hey that works. So if you wanna be on it, just say so (preferably in a reply or reblog to this post, with nothing but that you want in, separate from any comments about the post itself. It helps!)

[honeyhotteoks]

Hi, wanted to thankyou for writing across stardust, I really liked it!

It just made me think about something… because it kinda made me feel bad to know that some of the things you wrote (the hate and things like that) could really happen if one of them reveals that they are in a relationship, I guess there are always two side of the coin; one side is being happy for them and supporting them and for me the other side is how to deal with it because I wouldn’t read things like this anymore and probably would not even watch the Edits on TT because I would feel bad, is that normal?!

Thankyou for writing and your inspirations for the story are beautiful! Have a good day/ night or whateverrr

thank you so much!! yeah you bring up an interesting point that i thought about a lot writing the ending.

i guess in a roundabout way i’m kind of critiquing all of us fans on social media and how we engage with content. i love fandom, and i obviously write rpf and get super deep into head canons and stuff….. but i try to be mindful that there’s a real person behind all of this.

but at the end of the day….. i’m writing a character. i don’t know yunho, or any idol, im making things up based on the pieces of himself he’s willing to share. i’ll never know him, but that’s okay.

i think you can only be responsible for your own content and what you engage with. if yunho got a girlfriend today and started posting pics with her, i personally would still continue to read and write fic, i’d still be in love with him, because i think im super aware that it’s not “real”. i honestly would be happier knowing hes happy. i’m kind of a giant sap like that.

when you say you’d feel bad reading fics or watching edits etc. if they had a partner, i don’t think you should. i think if you’re able to compartmentalize that the parts of them that we engage with and speculate about are totally separate from the whole person, the whole person that’s in a relationship with someone else, then in my opinion it’s okay. i think losing fans and losing love because they’re in a relationship is sad, it’s something so unique to k-pop and honestly makes me wish for a different atmosphere for them.

a lot of the comments i wrote in the fic were taken from real comments idols have gotten during dating scandals, including yunho’s dating rumors a few years back. i specifically pulled some real comments (from itiny and ktiny) because i wanted it to feel real….. because it is real. it’s the ugly part of this industry we have to be mindful of. and i never ever want to behave like that online, i will only ever offer idols my love and support if they have relationships… but ill still be a fandom person, that’s just who i am.

(as a side note…. yunhos letter is actually also a combination of several different ex idols’s marriage announcements, seungkwan’s letter addressing the industry, and built off yunhos own writing to atiny. )

anyways i appreciate you asking about this and i hope my rambling makes sense!

[emma23]

Only you :

Nathan bateman x reader

It was another day in the sleek, high-tech labyrinth of Nathan Bateman’s isolated estate. The stark, minimalist design of the building only heightened the eerie sense of being watched — though Y/N knew it wasn’t Nathan who kept an eye on her every move, but rather the many layers of surveillance he had built into the house.

Y/N, a simple assistant in this world of genius-level robotics and AI, couldn’t help but feel out of place. She’d been hired because she was competent at her job, sure, but that didn’t change the fact that her boss was Nathan Bateman — a man as brilliant as he was intimidating. There were whispers, of course. Nathan’s reputation preceded him: intelligent, arrogant, and, to her dismay, rumored to have a habit of sleeping with his androids.

Still, she couldn’t deny the odd attraction she had to him. The way he commanded a room — or even just the kitchen when he’d wander in shirtless, making his “morning” smoothie in the afternoon. She’d learned to put up walls to protect herself from getting too caught up in whatever strange, magnetic pull he had. After all, this was a man who built artificial women to his liking.

But as her feelings grew, so did her doubts. Could she even compare to the perfection of a machine? She wasn’t Ava, programmed to be flawless. She was human — capable of flaws, mistakes, and very bad decisions, like dating other people to distract herself from her confusing emotions toward her reclusive boss.

“Hey, Nathan,” she said one afternoon, her voice casual, but her stomach a mess of nerves.

Nathan glanced up from his desk, eyebrow raised, the edge of his glass whiskey tumbler catching the light. “Yeah?”

“I’ve got plans tonight. Going out,” she continued, pretending to fuss over the tablet in her hand as if the schedule needed rearranging.

He leaned back in his chair, narrowing his eyes. “Plans, huh?”

Y/N swallowed, suddenly feeling like she was under one of his scrutinizing microscopes. “Yeah... Dinner, maybe drinks afterward.”

“With who?”

The question caught her off guard. “Just... some guy I met online.”

Nathan’s jaw tensed, but his expression remained unreadable. “That so?” He stood up, downing the rest of his drink in one go. “And you think that’s a good idea?”

Y/N blinked. “What?”

“Dating. Other people,” Nathan clarified, stepping closer. His voice dropped, more serious now. “When you’re already working for me.”

Her heart rate spiked as his words settled in, something ominous lingering in the air between them. But before she could protest, Nathan cut her off.

“I need to tell you something,” he said, his tone casual but his eyes sharp, pinning her in place.

“What is it?” she asked, wary of where this conversation was going.

Nathan hesitated for a second, as though weighing his next words. Then, with all the grace of a sledgehammer, he said, “You’re the only person I’m fucking.”

Y/N stared at him, mouth agape. “What?”

“I just want you to know that,” he repeated, his expression infuriatingly calm. “In case you were wondering.”

Y/N’s brain short-circuited, unable to process what he just said. Was this his idea of reassurance? She wasn’t sure whether to laugh, cry, or hit him.

“Okay, first of all — that’s not how you tell someone you like them!” she exclaimed, exasperated.

Nathan shrugged, his face unreadable. “You want me to write you a sonnet?”

“No, I—Nathan!” She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit she hadn’t managed to shake. “You... What does this even mean?”

“I thought it was pretty obvious,” he said, taking another step forward, crowding her space. “I don’t do this... dating thing. Haven’t needed to. But you? You’re different.”

She narrowed her eyes. “How exactly?”

“You’re not an android,” he said bluntly, as though that was the clearest explanation possible. “You’re not perfect, you make mistakes, you’re... real.”

Y/N blinked, suddenly aware of just how close he was standing. His presence was overwhelming — a mix of whiskey and his natural scent filling the space between them.

Nathan reached up and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, his thumb grazing her jawline. “And I like real.”

Her breath hitched. Despite all the warning signs, all the internal alarms blaring that this was a terrible idea, Y/N couldn’t deny the pull between them. Maybe it was reckless. Maybe it was another in her long list of bad decisions. But at this moment, she couldn’t bring herself to care.

Later that night, they were tangled in the sheets of his impossibly sleek bed, her body still buzzing from the intensity of the encounter. Nathan lay beside her, his breathing slow and steady, but his mind clearly still racing.

As Y/N rested her head on his chest, listening to the rhythmic thump of his heartbeat, she couldn’t help but feel a surge of confusion. Was this real?

“You should know,” she started, her voice quiet, “I’m still terrible at making decisions.”

Nathan chuckled softly, his hand running lazily up and down her arm. “Yeah, I’ve noticed.”

“But, um, can I give you some advice?” she asked, glancing up at him.

He raised an eyebrow. “Advice from you?”

“Hey, I’ve got wisdom too,” she teased, lightly smacking his chest. “Listen... Don’t be with a woman who wants you to give up everything for her.”

Nathan frowned, looking down at her. “What are you getting at?”

“I mean, don’t be with someone who wants you to stop being who you are — even if who you are is a bit of an asshole.”

Nathan smirked. “Bit?”

“Okay, more than a bit,” she conceded with a laugh. “But still. Be with someone who wants to be a part of your life, not change it.”

Nathan was quiet for a moment, considering her words. Then, with a wry smile, he leaned down and kissed the top of her head. “I think you’re stuck with me now.”

Y/N grinned, snuggling closer. “I’ll survive.”

After a beat, Nathan added, his voice low and teasing, “You do realize you’re the only person I’m fucking, right?”

Y/N groaned, burying her face in his chest. “Nathan! That is not romantic!”

He laughed, the sound deep and rich. “Good thing I’m not trying to be romantic.”

She rolled her eyes, but couldn’t help the smile that tugged at her lips. “You’re impossible.”

“Yeah,” he agreed, pressing a lazy kiss to her forehead. “But now I’m your impossible.”

And with that, they both drifted off, content in the strange, twisted, yet oddly comforting relationship they’d found themselves in.

[ophernelia]

This isn’t really a sim-related question but I wanted to know how you separate social media and real life? I see so much negativity and racism online especially from anonymous accounts but irl most people aren’t bold enough to call someone slurs or be disrespectful to your face! Same goes for the negativity towards our race it’s more open online, I’ve seen some crazy shh!

I think seeing so much disrespect that I possibly didn’t notice before I got older or watching the news does start to affect you in some way! I’ve dealt with racism and so has some of my closest family members! It doesn’t really get better just worst.. but it’s nothing like online and a racist can get slapped irl if they wanna play dumb :)

But you can ignore this if you want, this was longer than I wanted it to be but you talk about race alot on here just want to know your pov! Hopefully this all made sense too!

I don’t separate it. It isn’t just online conjecture. A lot of the things people say, they truly believe. Even if they’re just saying it to be hurtful, then intention is still to cause harm. It’s not just the online landscape making people act like that. They’re really like that. I know a lot of stuff is bots nowadays, but there are people who genuinely feel like that. I don’t put anything past anyone. I’ll still be kind to everyone. I’ll still be respectful. I’m always open to new people and new cultures and everything. So I don’t hold like a grudge or anything, but yk it’s just being aware that they might hold some harmful beliefs. You don’t gotta walk around 24/7, guards up on 10, but it’s really just being mindful that racism and anti-blackness is pervasive so it’s always a possibility.

I don’t have to deal with too much of it though. It isn’t intentional, but all my friends are black. Like two black parents, four black grandparents black. (I have like 3 friends so it isn’t hard lol) It’s all I’ve grown up with aside from an occasional non-black hispanic person sprinkled in the mix here and there. All the people I’m around now 90% of the time are black. I only see or speak to non-black people for work. (Or when I’ve dated non-black men of color, but even that’s been somewhat rare. Even those guys were in black spaces and that how I met them.) Or if I’m taking care of business or out or something. They just aren’t in my day to day life like that. Chicago is hella segregated. It’s easy to not see other people if you aren’t going to certain spaces. Of course we have some black people who also hold racist beliefs about our community, but they’re easy to ignore. And 9 times out of 10 they ain’t just hanging around the Southside anyway.

It’s a shame to see, but a lot of the online chatter doesn’t bother me. It’s not shocking or jarring to see. It doesn’t hurt my feelings either. I know that’s how some people think. History has shown us exactly how people like that feel and what they would do if they could act on it, so seeing them talk about it now just ain’t surprising. Regardless of all the talk, I fucking love being black. Specially a black American. Heavy on the American part too. Not in the traditional patriotic sort of sense, but that being a descendant of the black people who were brought over during the transatlantic slave trade kind of way. I fucking love my people. I’m proud of my people. I’m proud of everything we’ve built here, I’m proud of our culture. I have so much love and honor and respect for my ancestors. Despite how fucked things are now, I’m here because of them. Because of their strength and their resilience. Because they were able to find joy no matter what their circumstances were. There’s nothing that can make me feel differently. My entire existence is a culmination of centuries of labors of love. Every part of me is made of it and nothing can change that. That doesn’t change under persecution or ridicule. Whether I’m dead or alive. Whether that history gets erased or not.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

How'd you end up discovering your art style?

Well, it wasn’t much of a discovery- it’s just how I draw, I guess! It evolves over time and changes based on what artists I’m looking up to and what styles I’m into

But I can give ya a (recent-ish) evolution of my style/a break-down on all its influences over the past two years if ya wanna see how it all happened!

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Some stuff from July-October of 2022

Two-three-ish years ago, for instance, it was more classical painting inspired. I was real into Over the Garden Wall and also just…general American history back then don’t judge I was coming off of my first American history class since elementary school and I thought it was so cool So my art had more of like…that going on yk? It wasn’t as good as my stuff now at all, because I’ve since improved my anatomy skills, learned how to draw fabric folds (sorta), and learned a bit of color theory lol. But they’re ok for what they are, I guess.

I think my main problem back then was the fact that I did not fully know how to use references- and a lotta my references were like. Cartoons. And stuff that was very much not meant to be painted in the amount of detail I aimed for at the time.

(Even here, you can tell I was dissatisfied, because they all look pretty different from each other yk?) (and you can see how hardly any of the fabric has folds and how little I understood lighting 😭)

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January-March ‘23

Anyhow, after this, in uhh early 2023, I had a 80s-90s comic book/pop art phase, which was a pretty drastic swing in the opposite direction. I still rendered things sometimes, but things were less soft/warm. BUT I was starting to use real photos as references which was vital

I was also watching a lotta tmnt with my kid brother, which is what I blame for why the proportions got so stylized- folks in the 2012 version of that show were just kinda built funny, which I think subconsciously impacted my art. My posing did get a bit stronger in this time as I practiced more, and I think things got less stiff

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June-August ‘23

Next, as the summer months came, I had a lotta changes in inspo and also just in life lol. I had temporarily moved to my neighbor’s place, and I didn’t have a car yet/any friends who I liked enough to hang around with, so all summer long I rewatched a lotta 80s movies, fell in love with the first season of Stranger Things (not the others as much tho 😭), skateboarded, and watched a lotta art tutorials online. (I specifically remember Jackie Droujko’s yt shorts saving my assss- I loved her stuff so much. Definitely check ‘em out she explains things real well)

I improved slowly, but I DID IMPROVE a HELLUVA LOT. I focused a lot on trying to draw people who looked recognizably like themselves, but also stylized because realism (usually) bores me. I also got better at coloring- the first two here ain’t great in terms of colors, but I was learning. Plus, back then I was very into oddly saturated color schemes. (I mean it is a solid vibe. I may not do this a ton anymore but I can dig it still)

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October-November ‘23

As autumn came, I was pretty enamored with all the like…✨fall vibes✨ that time around. My life was goin’ well, so I had a lotta optimism and a re-ignited love for nature, forests, and fantasy. Plus I was dating this girl who was really into vintage-y Wes Anderson stuff so I think some of that uhhh twee-ness rubbed off on me lol

My influences here were mainly old storybooks, a hint of Lord of the Rings (as you can probably tell by the hobbit), and a decent amount of Fantastic Mr. Fox. And for faces I was mainly using the Laurenillusrated Brushpack at the time I think? I don’t use the “Sketchy” brush in it as often anymore as I did then, but I should. It’s a great brush, and I actually am really liking all the little sketchy lines. It adds a nice touch.

also don’t look at my goddamn long hair in that self portrait on the left. I hated it on me then and I hate it now too. I cannot believe I ever let it get that long it was really bad

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December ‘23-April ‘24

I honestly did like a total of like. Seven drawings in these four months. As opposed to my usual…uhhh I wanna say 25 every four months. Idk what was up- art just wasn’t fun at the time. I mean, it was also just a lousy few months in general, so I’m sure that’s a part of it lol, but yk. This style is pretty close to my current one- my inspiration just came from x-files-ish sci-fi and American gothic stories/images as opposed to nowadays’ Beat generation and greaser inspo.

May-Now (October) ‘24

The Outsiders kinda dragged me back into enjoying drawing again honestly. I’d read and loved it back in 2023, but upon rereading it/watching the movie in February of 2024, it just sorta…entered my headspace and stayed this time. (Still, I didn’t really draw any Outsiders/greaser-y things till May)

Lately, I take artistic inspiration in 2d animated films, like the ones by Disney with the real nicely drawn fabric folds. And also just a lotta inspo from real life. I also do a lot of black and white comics, because I find that I generally have a “Go big or go home” mentality about most things- which can be a LOT of pressure! By allowing myself to draw simpler doodle-y things, I’ve regained that love for drawing. I think for a while it just felt like work, but in letting myself take it easy, art’s become a good time again :))

[eviligo-archive]

I need to hear about your complicated feelings on z I am so curious i know next to nothing about this woman

ok.

so like, first off: i am disgustingly, parasocially, insanely jealous of her. let me just get that out of the way. it is an irrational jealousy because i have zero chance of having any relationship with matt and i have no delusions otherwise. i’m 29 years old with a full time job and extensive therapy under my belt and i am FULLY aware that my infatuation with matt is at its worst borderline unhealthy. so let me just say all that up front, i am extremely self aware and if anyone reads this and wants to send me hate just know you’re not going to be telling me anything i don’t know

i do not HATE zeph, but i do not like her. my first exposure to her was the noob dude video like many other people but i know she had a career before matt. but i’m not kidding when i say that the SECOND i saw her in that video i knew they’d end up dating. call it a gut feeling. then the twitter interactions followed and i was convinced if not in denial. to be fair their interactions, and their platonic friendship, was cute. they’re both a little annoying and mentally ill and terminally online

plus, their interactions gifted me with this, which i will cherish forever

and she gave me this

which, again, i hold so near and dear to my heart. but i won’t get into why, i’m sure you can interpret it

but before they ever got together i would get recommended zeph’s tweets CONSTANTLY. all the time. and each one made me roll my eyes. i muted her long before we found out they were dating. she just annoyed the absolute shit out of me. she tried too hard to appeal to a certain crowd, you know what i mean, the twitter-brained depressed queer 20-something women/enbies. the type that make their entire personality a mitski song. but that’s ok, it’s just not for me but there’s an audience for it, whatever, she wasn’t hurting anybody. i phased her out of my timeline and got to pretend she didn’t exist for a while. it was fine.

that was really where it started. i found her really fucking annoying, and she was quickly becoming close with matt, and i was jealous.

when we found out they were dating, officially, through a stream matt did with jim and luke where he let it slip that he had a girlfriend (and we were pretty sure he and annabel had broken up at that point) of course it bothered me. i already didn’t like her. and i just kind of sat in that for a while. they weren’t exactly public with their relationship but she alluded to him constantly on her social media, both positively (talked about his big dick) and negatively

and then she posted an…instagram story? on her priv? i think. that or her one of her twitters. about how he wasn’t paying her enough attention while he was on tour, talking about how she texted him she missed him and he didn’t respond immediately but when he did he was short with her. and on another occasion she compared her bpd to owning a dog.

“Imagine you were about to get a dog, but then the dog was like "STOP: I have a million health problems and I will cost a lot at the vet. And I'll tear up all your furniture. And I'll still love you and be cute but I'll be really hard to take care of.” And then the person ignores all that and is like, "I got it," because the dog's just cute. So what I'm saying is that if I warn you from the beginning and you STILL hurt my feelings, I don't think that's a me problem anymore.”

this was within the first couple months of her relationship. and it is so, so manipulative. i can’t help but draw parallels to leighton with his bpd and lex with her mental health, and refusing to take accountability. plus, knowing what we know now, with the cheating, it really recontextualizes things. sheds some light.

like i said before, i don’t think a relationship built on a wobbly foundation of cheating and emotional manipulation will last. but on the other hand she stuck with him through the last three months, while she caught some strays too. you can’t undervalue the sort of bond that can forge. plus she gets 24/7 unrestricted access to him now, which satisfies her insecurities.

there’s other, more personal gripes. i have a problem when men trade in their girlfriends for a younger, slimmer model. i think matt falls too hard, too fast, and mistakes strong affection for love. he is not without his faults here. they both have their own shit and i think they could be a powder keg. i hate how she does her makeup and think she looks so much better without it, but i have an issue with makeup culture in general. again—this is more personal stuff.

i want to stress that i DO NOT advocate sending zeph hate, or prying into her personal life that she does not share online. she’s just a mentally ill 20-something living in california. whatever happens will happen

[bunbunpawz]

Hating Me Again

There is a person here, that started to hate me. Here is my vent. It all goes back a year ago, I noticed this person acting strangly and well I found out they had plans to harm themselves. They had a planned date and everything, I’ve seen what they have done so far so I knew it was serious.  I wanted to help, I kept tab on their social media, they found my social media by stalking me online but I didn’t take it as creepy even though that might have been my first mistake. Because they stalked me, I could easily find them aswell.  so I kept checking up on them, found out the date they had in mind and did my best as a human to help and comfort this struggling human.  I introduced them to my friends and hobbies and spend time with them, I thought we has an okay if not good relationship.  They still had struggles, and I reached out to authorities when I thought I could not manage it by myself, but I had never given up on this person.  Probably another mistake on my part. But wouldn’t any human reach out when they know its this bad? No one reached out to me, I didn’t want to be like them. I wanted to make some sort of difference, any kind of help.  When you see a person drown, you don’t look around and say “someone else will help” you jump in to help because every second counts. My worst mistake was assuming this person is like me, that they want help, that they want to change, that they want to be happy despite all the signs that would prove otherwise. Being a victim is all this person cares about, they want to be in their bubble of sadness.  One day they dissapeared for a long time, stalking their social media did not help and messages uppon messages didn’t reach as they never replied. So I got worried, I had assumed the worst. “Has it actually happened?” I thought to myself. Out of desperation I went and ask a few authority figures to check up on them. I didn’t tell them all the details but they might already be aware of it themselves. In anyway, the next they this person had reappeared.  I was relieved, but also angry over being ignored! and generally mentally exhausted. I decided to take my time to think what just happened over, reconsider my position and decide best course of action to keep myself safe as well. During this time this person has decided that I am a bad guy.  I just needed my time, time to think. However, this person decded to wait for me where I cannot escape without confronting him. He had trapped me and questioned me, but I had no answers, and I was clearly not willing to talk. So I awkwardly moved away, but they chased me.They wanted answers NOW. frustrated I had no other options but to yell at them that “I DO NOT WANT TO TALK!”, not my best moment, I felt really bad for this, I felt awful over it and guilty. They made me feel this guilty and I did not realize it until I talked it over with a friend that told me that I am allowed to not want to talk to someone, and when I clearly seem like I do not want to talk it is within my right to be left alone. However, since that moment onward, that person had built a grudge against me. Bullying me online saying I am a monster, evil, a liar. I brushed it off at first but before I knew it the tears flooded my face in public. How embarassing. Bad memories of the past were triggered and before I could even realize it my body had reacted to the situation. The same day they have decided to chase me, which scared me a lot so I ran into the female bathrooms and hid in there. What did he want? why did he chase me? I do not know but it’s scary. I don’t want things to repeat from the past.  They keep talking to the people around me, and he is saying very creepy things online about me that are far from the truth, and I do not understand why he is doing this. I did my best for this person and he repays me with hate, and bullying. I understand that he wants to be a victim but bullying someone makes you the bully not the victim. PLEASE! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! I’m sorry I ever tried to be friends with you. I’m sorry I ever got involved with you. I’m not sorry If I saved your life. Now please forget about ever knowing me and leave me alone.

[termlifeguy]

How Life Insurance Work For A 40 Years Old Male | Chris Antrim CLTC

Sample Term Life Insurance Rates - 40 YR Old Male - Boise 

40s are the perfect time to adjust your life insurance needs before your premiums increase. As age is important to every insurance companies.

 Americans at the age of 40 are still in a excellent physical health, therefore life insurance coverage can be still affordable. As premiums depends on the overall health and age of the enrollees it is best to ask an broker or agent to help you determine the possible quotes for your age.

Life Insurance At 40

40s are the perfect time to adjust your life insurance needs before your premiums increase. As age is important to every insurance companies. Americans at the age of 40 are still in a excellent physical health, therefore life insurance coverage can be still affordable. As premiums depends on the overall health and age of the enrollees it is best to ask an broker or agent to help you determine the possible quotes for your age.

Hey Boise quick video today with sample life insurance rates for a 40 yr old male. Call the office or send us a note for any help you may need. Video above! 

Hello, Chris with Boise Health and Life Insurance Agency here in Boise, Idaho.

Hey, today we're gonna do a sample quote or a 40-year-old male here in Idaho for some term life insurance rates, and I'll show you how to do that.

You come to our site, go Idaho insurance dot com, and you can do it right from the home page.

There's a big get a quote, but in there, or you just come down here life insurance and you can send us a message.

You send us a message here.

If you don't want to do an online quote right here, get your quote online, and that will take you there.

There's a video here.

Just press the play here, walk you through how to do this.

But I'm gonna do it Here is well, and then you can get a quote right here.

Embedded in the website is our quarter.

Anyway, let's go ahead and here, and this will take you to a separate, uh, page in a link.

And we just walked through the process here.

Males, so your health is a big one here.

If your overall good health.

Just to be safe, you might want to go right in the middle.

That's a standard.

Plus, uh, this top one here.

Yeah.

Says here only about 10% of people who apply for that get that rating.

If you're an excellent help, no medications, no tobacco.

You could do that when there remember during underwriting.

Depending on the plan, these rates can change.

Nothing is final until the offer comes back from the underwriters.

 In this essence, I'm just gonna go right here.

Uh, if you use tobacco or cannabis, cannabis, and marijuana, they are to tobacco rates.

Just let that be known.

Um, you know, previously it will ask you how long, Because depending on the company, if you've been tobacco-free for up to 12 24 36 months, there are different ratings.

They're the best thing you can do is just quit.

If you're concerned about that, if you are a tobacco user right now, get the coverage when you quit.

And for the underwriting guidelines of how long you've been tobacco-free, we can apply for a rate reduction and get you taking care of their So, uh, for this purpose is I'm just going to put in there never.

I am 63 about 2 15 putting your date of birth.

So I think that should take me about 40. I am not age 40 right now, So this is where you just put it.

The basic information.

You're going to start getting some sample term life insurance rates Here. Here is our coverage.

Slider.

You just slide it This to the coverage amount that you want when you're thinking about how much coverage you need, we have a built-in life insurance calculator right here.

I'll walk you through.

But to be a good rule of thumb is 10 times your annual income.

And there are a couple of reasons for that.

One is just from a lot of underwriting standpoint.

The Underwriters will look at your annual income and 10 times is a good baseline there.

If you start moving past that with larger amounts, they're gonna ask you why.

And that could be for business reasons or some large debt or loans that you have.

Uh, but the rule is in the thought processes.

10 years will give your family or your loved ones in the business that you may own 10 years of that income to cover those bills and make sure everything's taken care of.

So and this could be changed.

So I'm just gonna put this at 500,000 for right now.

This gives a sample rate right here because he can kind of see 10-year term 15 2025 40. And right here it's clipped next, and it's going to come to when we click next, and it will come to this page here.

So you do have to put in your email and phone to move forward.

But don't worry, we do not bother you here.

We're just here to help part of what we do if you can get quotes and no one's gonna pester you, So, uh, just put that information in there and what's gonna happen is you're gonna have your quotes with the companies.

So this shows you the best at the actual rate.

Right now, this is important here.

This is a fully underwritten policy, so keep that in mind.

If you are shy of needles or not wanting to interview with the nurse when I want, there are other options for you but just to kind of show you, you can click right here on the policy details.

It will tell you a little bit about the product.

There's an actual product guy right here in a pdf that you can download and read at your leisure.

You can pay annually and save $12 a year.

Okay, And you can switch it to an annual premium there.

And it tells you, hear about what you're looking at as far as your build and your tobacco usage, so I could go up to 259 lbs at my height and get this standard plus health, uh, category assuming good.

Everything else is getting underway.

Okay, so now you come down here and you see these other companies right now there's this is what this one, this one was.

Most companies are gonna come in there.

They all compete for the same business.

So but there's a couple of companies in here principle being one of them, and Pacific life principle is there is not an exam required.

Now, what that means is you will do a phone interview based upon how you answer those.

They will be determined if you need a full exam.

Okay, So just says not required.

Does not mean it is a guaranteed non med product.

All right.

Not for these rates.

Alright.

What it means is, uh, if you come back with good answers on and it's a fairly healthy, uh, it's a fairly intense questionnaire that they ask you.

You may be possible that you do not have to go through a full exam.

Just just remember that, uh, and then Pacific life.

Okay, this one, the exam is but I like principle because if you can not have to go through that, that would be fantastic.

Uh, and principle is a good company.

I do a lot of business with them.

You say $12 tells you a little bit about the conversion, which is important because with term life that keeps your rates below at the beginning in level throughout the whole period.

So this would be a 10 years level, but you have conversion options And why would you want her?

Maybe convert with the biggest reasons why clients convert is there's a major health event and you know you can't get new insurance.

So if you've got this policy and force, you can convert it within those 10 years and walk in a permanent policy at the underwriting class that you got when you played for this term policy.

So it's a huge deal.

It is.

Every year you want to do a policy review anyway, that's that.

So we're looking at a 10 year for about 33 45 a month.

You come down here and you can switch this.

Let's say you needed it for those your 40. So let's say you want him.

You want this for 25 years to take you to age 65.  How it does change. So there's not principle. A see Your principal will have a 20 year, but they don't have a 25-year product.

So here's principal 48 again that's exams not required.

Pacific life yet so and so for me.

I probably go with the principal for that monthly premium and the option Maybe not having to go through a full-blown medical exam and then and all that means is ah, lengthy health questionnaire from the nurse on an online phone interview.

And then you would have to do blood and urine for laps for the underwriters.

Okay.

Uh, and then if this looks good, all you would do is apply right here.

You would simply fill out this information and click next, and I would walk you through filling out the whole application right online.

Very slick.

It comes to me, then an email comes to you where you can do an e signature and get the policy and the underwriting.

At any point in here, you can invite me or in contact me here so I can help you out.

We can get on the phone together and do a zoom meeting or Google meeting, and I can help walk you through completing this application.

So yeah, and then here's the link.

So you take that and you would email me that link and I get an email anyway, and then my contact information is here anyways, So that is what we're looking at for sample rates for a 40-year-old male for 10 and 20 years.

Give our office call with any questions and hope you're having a good day. Call 208-409-3382

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Life Insurance At The Age Of 40 In Idaho

When it comes to life insurance, there is no one-size-fits-all policy. The amount of coverage you need and the premium you can afford will vary depending on your age, health, lifestyle, and dependents.

While term life insurance is typically more affordable than whole life insurance, your needs may change as you get older. If you have young children, for example, you may want a policy with a longer term so that your spouse can stay home to care for them if something happens to you.

Once you reach the age of 40, you may also want to consider investing in a whole life insurance policy. This type of policy not only provides death benefits but also builds cash value that can be used later in life for things like retirement income or long-term care expenses.

Factors Affecting Life Insurance Rates

The monthly cost of life insurance is an important consideration for anyone who wants to be sure their family is taken care of financially in the event of their death. Life insurance is not something that people like to think about, but it is a very important decision. There are many factors that go into determining the monthly cost of life insurance, including age, health, and lifestyle. The average monthly cost for life insurance varies depending on these factors, but it is generally between $50 and $100 per month. Life Insurance Rates

The monthly cost of life insurance is an important consideration for anyone who wants to be sure their family is taken care of financially in the event of their death. Life insurance is not something that people like to think about, but it is a very important decision. There are many factors that go into determining the monthly cost of life insurance, including age, health, and lifestyle. The average monthly cost for life insurance varies depending on these factors, but it is generally between $50 and $100 per month.

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Originally published here: https://www.goidahoinsurance.com/how-life-insurance-work-for-40-years-old-male

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Who Remembers The JUN Akira Supra mk4?

I could name a few, but one that stands out is a 21-second clip of a bright yellow MkIV Toyota Supra mk4  built by JUN, power-sliding at Tsukuba Circuit. I’m not sure where I first saw it online, but in 2001 – four years before YouTube was a thing – you can bet I risked the prospect of 25 to life by downloading the bootlegged clip. Thankfully, you don’t have to.

So imagine my joy, when a few years later, I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be that very same car parked in a gravel lot across the road from JUN’s Iruma shop. What I didn’t know at the time was that this was the same Supra that had graced the covers of Max Power and Super Street magazines in late 2001, with a somewhat different outward appearance. A Supra that had reached the mind-numbing top speed of 401.20km/h (249.292mph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.

How did I end up here? Back in 1999, I met JUN Auto Mechanic head Susumu ‘God Hand’ Koyama in New Zealand when he travelled here to compete in the Option Speed Trial with the JUN Super Impreza GC8 – a 580ps (572hp) beast that hit 309.1 km/h on a long and straight but bumpy and wet backroad. I knew I had to visit JUN, and in 2004, I came to Japan and was able to make it happen.

More than 20 years later, I’m still humbled to have received personal tours of JUN’s Nerima shop in Tokyo and JUN Auto Works/Auto Mechanic in Saitama from the company’s founder, Junichi Tanaka.

I didn’t get to spend much time with the Supra – it was the end of the day, and I had a train to catch back to Tokyo. But I was lucky enough to get the car moved into a little open space in the parking lot for a few photos.

JUN was founded in 1980, but its parent company’s history dates back to 1946. After World War II, Tanaka-san’s father founded Tanaka Industrial Co., repurposing machinery used for Japanese warplanes for automotive applications. For his entry into Japan’s performance car tuning industry, Tanaka-san hired Koyama-san, a talented young mechanic, to head up operations, and JUN as we know it was born.

The latest turbocharger technology was the heart of JUN’s operations, and the company quickly built a name for itself by building some of Japan’s fastest and most powerful cars. Tuning car top-speed trials held at the now defunct Yatabe Test Track by Option magazine in the ’80s became an early focus for Koyama-san. Then, in 1990, he took JUN to the global stage with multiple appearances at Bonneville in different cars. In 2001, JUN returned to the salt flats with its ‘Akira Supra’ – a demo car build started three years earlier from a stock 1993 Toyota Supra RZ.

Unlike most cars in Bonneville’s 200mph Club, JUN’s Supra wasn’t a purpose-built, tube-framed race car. It was a modified street car with some extra go-fast bits added (and removed) to allow it to reach 400km/h – a number Koyama-san had seen on the salt with previous builds. Around the same time JUN was in the USA with the Akira Supra, the bootlegged clip of the car power-sliding at Tsukuba made its way online, now known to have been ripped from Video Option Vol. 76, which came out in 2000. Thinking back, this might have been the very first ‘viral’ video to emerge from Japan’s tuning scene, which was still largely a mystery at the time. Thankfully, Option officially uploaded the full three-minute segment to YouTube a few years ago, so you can watch that by pressing the play button above. As it turns out, the Akira Supra had been brought to Tsukuba to see how fast it could lap the circuit, and on a warm-down lap, Option test driver Eiji ‘Tarzan’ Yamada decided to have some fun… Not long after I first saw the power-slide clip, a friend loaned me a Video Option VHS tape from, I’m guessing, around 2000 too. In the grainy footage, the Akira Supra was filmed ripping through the gears along the Tokyo Aqualine at over 300km/h – the Wangan benchmark of the golden era. It just got better.

Even before I knew of its Bonneville exploits, the Akira Supra embodied everything amazing about the Japanese tuning scene at the time. It was a street car that could hit 300 km/h with ease and drift. It had a 2JZ-GTE engine built up to 3.2L with JUN prototype parts – forged crankshaft, forged rods and pistons, performance cams – and a T88 turbo. Gear shifts were made through a sequential gearbox, practically unheard of in street cars, and it was unmistakably a JUN creation with functional exterior mods and that signature yellow paint.

For the Bonneville attempt, the 2JZ engine was completely overhauled. In addition to strengthening and modifying the engine base for more power, Koyama-san added twin Trust/GReddy SPL T78-29D-14cm turbos, a prototype JUN intake manifold, and a fuel system up to the task. That system included a 120L tank, five Bosch Motorsport fuel pumps, and a dozen JUN 890cc injectors. Tuned through an HKS F-CON V Pro engine management system, the setup made nearly 1,400ps (1,380hp).

The driveline retained the same 6-speed Holinger sequential gearbox it had previously been fitted with, but a 2.238:1 final drive ratio was used in the rear end to ensure the Supra could mechanically hit 400 km/h. Combined with its aerodynamic modifications and a full flat steel underbody tray, the Supra averaged 240.192mph (386.55 km/h) over two runs in the E/BGCC class. Hitting 401.20km/h on one of the runs is what it’s remembered for though.

When it returned from Bonneville, the Akira Supra was converted back to its street car setup, with a single Trust/GReddy T88-34D-22cm turbo, a milder cylinder head specification, a pared-back fuel system, and a more road-friendly diff ratio. In this form, the power output was up to 950ps (937hp), running around 1.7bar (25psi) of boost. That’s the spec you see here.

The street version of the Akira Supra – JUN’s original look for the car – perfectly reflected the late-’90s/early-’00s Japanese tuner style. The front bumper, vented and bulged hood, aero mirrors, and GT wing were all JUN parts, while the rear diffuser was a RE Amemiya piece. Read the full article

[ophernelia]

I’m not trying to be rude or anything, and I know a lot of you all are new to tumblr, but why does everyone want to all of a sudden give credit to people? I mean the people that everyone look up to don’t do it. It’s great that you all are doing it, don’t get me wrong, I just think it can be a lot when people think you’ve been influenced by someone and you haven’t. So what happens when people start to accuse you of copying someone that you’ve never copied? Do you get evidence and then begin to defend yourself among people who really don’t care but just want to be messy? I’m just trying to take a deep dive at things, don’t take this personal.

This is going to be long.

I'm not new. I've had a tumblr account since 2012. Had a TS3 simblr. Credit isn't a new concept in the slightest in the sims community. It is merely a form of acknowledgment. Which has long been a thing in this community. Take a peek at storytelling simblrs, particularly black ones, and many of them with tell you about Mochasims. I have seen so many of them credit Mocha with being their inspiration for getting into storytelling using the sims on this platform. Though Mocha receives no benefit from this as they have passed (May she rest.), it is still a good thing to do. It is how we pay our respects to others, their work, and their impact. CC creators regularly give credit to each other whenever they use certain assets or whatever. Be it a mesh, hair base, or color palette. Giving credit is built into the Sims 4 gallery. The original creator is always acknowledged. You can see comments on some posts stating "Hey! You stole this from this creator!" dating back to the launch of the gallery in the game.

This isn't a new practice at all. It's simply good online etiquette. Particularly in the creator space. We've seen what impact things like this have had. Hence, the entire dance credit debacle on Tik Tok when the renegade was popular. In this current age of social media, you know the importance of reach. For those who are here simply for fun, this isn't important. Those of you with other socials, be it YouTube, Tik Tok, etc. and are looking to grow your audience: this is how you grow. It is also the etiquette you should maintain as a creator which would help mitigate some of those copying comments. Additionally, it is how you foster better relationships with other creators and the community as a whole. Apart of community is celebrating and recognizes the wins and the movements of others. Though we all have access to the same content, we don't all use it in the same way. Certain creators are known for how they use certain things. No one's saying you can't use it at all, but be mindful in the way that you do. You gotta know how to navigate the space you're in.

What do you do when someone accuses you of copying someone else? Firstly, if it's in a harassing manner, block them. You don't have to prove yourself to anyone and you shouldn't be subjected to that behavior even if you were copying someone to a T. You don't need to pull out receipts. You don't have to explain yourself to anyone. Whether they were asking nicely or not. Certainly not if you suspect they're trying to be messy. Why expend the energy on them anyway? You get to tailor your online experience. (I said it before but it's a dictatorship over here. If I don't like, block, delete, remove. You'll be talking to yourself.) Hoes talk, let them. Understand though, that this isn't something that's avoidable as a content creator. It may pop up here and there. Especially within a certain niche of the community. (I.e. neutral simmers. They get accused of copying each other all the time. Though there's only so many neutral colors in a palette. It happens.) Handle your shit. Gracefully though. I get it's annoying and grating, but flying off the handle won't help. Keep it kind, make a statement to your audience and keep it pushing.

And to directly address that one comment: I don't care what other people do. I'll govern myself and my platform accordingly. Regardless of what another large creator may do, it is my responsibility to myself and to the community that I am fostering to handle myself (and my platform) with integrity. Larger creators do grimy stuff all the time. That's not my issue. I don't need them to lead. You've gotta conduct yourself to your standards, baby. What kind of community do YOU wanna create?

That's just my two cents though. You have free reign to do whatever you feel is best and brings you the most peace, boo.