#No but it is what it is
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zerolostwalks · 1 year ago
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We Run Together
(Part 2)
Sweat, salty and pungent, and so overwhelmingly present there would be nowhere to hide from it in the whole building. It’s part of why Willie typically avoided large enclosed crowds like this. Outside the wind could carry the scent away. Especially close to the beach where it’d be replaced with a different sort of salt. 
But as overwhelmingly bad as the sweat was, it was nothing compared to the pheromones. The overall excitement. The flashes of lust and arousal. 
Then to combine all of that with the plethora of smells permeating in every nook and cranny of the building, it was nearly dizzying. 
He didn’t know how the rest of the guy’s could stomach it. The strong eucalyptus oil Reggie had recommended he’d swipe under his nose had worn off and he hadn’t brought nearly enough peppermint candies. If it wasn’t for the fact the guy’s still had a couple more songs in their set Willie would have probably already left. 
Honestly, he still might with how the many smells were starting to make his head ache. He’s sure Alex would understand, Bobby and Reggie too. Luke would eventually get it. 
Yeah, he needed to go, he realized as the thrumming in his head began to go out of sync with the beat of the music. Slowly he moved through the crowds towards the exit, regretting his choice of route every step of the way. Theoretically a straight line was the shortest way. In practice throwing himself deeper into the swarm of writhing bodies and their prominent scents was not the smartest thing to have done. 
Then, somehow, a new scent drifted to him through the crowd, making him stop in his tracks.
No. Scent wasn’t quite right. 
But it wasn’t entirely wrong either. 
Whatever it was, it was faint. Far too faint amongst everything else. No where near strong enough to easily identify, let alone capture his attention like it had.  Not nearly enough to track or follow to its source from within this crowd. 
He should let it be. 
Yet, his feet stayed put as he kept glancing around him. Jostled on occasion by someone dancing or passing through. He should really move. But it was, to say the least, how vaguely familiar this scent was in spite of how faint it was. 
It wasn’t another wolf. Though he still felt like he should recognize it. The only other times any scents had made him feel like this were…
“Hey, you ok?” A hand gripped his shoulder and Alex’s face ducked down into view. 
Willie shook his head, blinking a few times for good measure. When did they finish their set? He couldn’t have been standing here that long?
When the club came back into focus  though, sure enough, the music had switched to a different band. Willie glanced around him ready to tell Alex he was fine or maybe the crowd had overwhelmed him more than he thought it would. But then his eyes caught on Bobby and Reggie. 
The two of them glanced around them like they were looking for something. Bobby’s brows were furrowed in frustration, while Reggie was just plain confused. 
“Wait, can you smell that too?” Willie asked, relieved he hadn’t been imagining things like he’d almost convinced himself. 
“‘M not sure.” Bobby muttered as Reggie wandered further into the crowd. Luke was about to do the same until Alex grabbed him by the back of his shirt. 
“No sense in us all getting lost and distracted.” Alex said even with his own head on a swivel, postured like he too was ready to sprint off as soon as he found what he was looking for. 
In the end none of them could identify or find the source of whatever it was they were smelling. They had to admit defeat after both the smell faded even further into obscurity, no doubt whoever it was having left, and the club closed, kicking them out.
Willie tried to convince himself it was a fluke. That the stress and fumes and atmosphere had gotten to him. The smell meant nothing.
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skipppppy · 5 months ago
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So there’s a trend going round where you draw Miku inspired by your own culture and normally I just sit those out bc i’m from England but then the image of her covered in fake tan with the full chav makeup and sloppily bleached blue pigtails popped into my head and i almost threw up laughing. So here’s bri’ish Miku. She smells like impulse body spray and spent the last 30 minutes arguing with the teacher who told her to take her coat off. It’s chewsday innit
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edit: i fucked up with the cigarette i know it’s the wrong way round blease stop making fun of me 😔💔
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never-quite-buried · 21 days ago
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Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.
SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.
SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!
Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?
SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)
Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok
A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)
16 hours later:
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Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.
My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.
So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.
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This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.
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mi1kw33d-2 · 9 days ago
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ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock
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tenisperfection · 27 days ago
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Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window. It is very important to romanticize this tree as much as possible.
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guooey · 19 days ago
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really beautiful things are happening between americans and chinese netizens right now
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koobiie · 9 months ago
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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this
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miiilowo · 28 days ago
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phenomenon
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tawnysoup · 20 days ago
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Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖
Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!
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chrismcshell · 1 year ago
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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me
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karvviie · 12 days ago
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this is what happened right
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kawareo · 3 months ago
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"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about
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pears-palette · 9 days ago
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An important PSA to remember!
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knightofleo · 10 days ago
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princehendir · 8 months ago
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I also think that all the "um okay knives out & glass onion were good. Wrap it up now" posts are so funny. You're tripping if you think there's not going to be at least five Benoit Blanc films lol
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