#Now here is your weather on the 8s

[extravagantliar]

wakes up at the hotel desk. snow in my coastal area? It’s more likely than you think.

[crazyforkasey-blog]

When we met

Chapter 18

February 1945 somewhere in France

Easy Company Where orders on board the 40-and 8s the French rail boxcars that held forty men or eight horses. The weather was sunny and warm. The 40 and 8s were knee-deep in straw, there was plenty to eat and nobody was shooting at them.

Winters, Nixon who were drunk as a skunk, Katie and Dani were gathered around the rail depot.

Nixon pulled out a small box "Before I forget, Colonel Sink has been unhappy with the appearance of your uniform, says it's not befitting your rank" Nixon threw Winters a small box.

Winters looked at Katie who shrugged, she had no idea what the S3 officer was talking about.

Winters opened his box and revealed what was in it "Oak leaves" Winters said

Nixon jumped to attention and gave Winters a small salute.

The train ride lasted 18 hours and Dani was getting jumpy. She had a surprise for Speirs in her footlocker; it was his Christmas present. She just never got the chance to give it to him, with them being in Bastogne and all.

In Mourmelon, the company was billeted in green twelve-man tents. Once again, Dani was sharing a tent with Katie and Mia. The nurse and the doctor were busy at the hospital, so Dani spent most of her time with the men and Speirs.

The first task was to get clean. There were showers, although the water was lukewarm at best. However, for the men and women who had not had a shower since leaving Mourmelon ten weeks ago it was heaven.

Dani and Mia were standing outside waiting for the men to finish on occasion when they yelled for them to hurry the heck up.

Once the last man, who was a poor private from D Company was done Mia and Dani hurried in. Dani just stepped into the shower with her uniform on and started to strip. The dirt mixed with blood of her killed and wounded friend mixed with the water. A flood of dirty water ran down Dani.

Mia looked over at Dani and noticed the dirty water, she nodded towards Dani's legs and Dani looked down at the water that ran down her legs and down the drain, in a way it was very therapeutic and Dani felt refreshed and cleansed by the time she stepped out of the shower.

With the peace and comfort of Mourmelon came the task of integrating the new replacements into the company. The replacements arrived, duffel bags slung over their shoulders. Full of piss and vinegar ready to jump into Berlin and take on Jerry.

Winters was sitting at his desk at HQ, he was grumbling and Katie who was half-asleep on the couch swore she heard him let out a few choice words.

"Dick what's wrong" Katie asked him

"I need to bolster up my staff, but I can't figure out what way to go," Winters answered. He let out a sigh and put his hands behind his head.

With Welsh serving as battalion S3, his choice of officers for the XO position were limited. He could promote Cox and let him take the position as XO, but that would mean he had to reel in Speirs and that was not something he wanted to do.

Now McMillan from D. Company, now there was an officer, you knew you were talking to a man when you talked to him. McMillan was a great leader and he was there for the men the whole time.

…

Nixon's drinking problems didn't go unnoticed at Regiment. Sink sought out Winters.

"I have a problem Dick" Sink said and sat on the chair in front of Winters desk.

Winters knew what would come next so it was no surprise when Sink told him that Nixon was drunk all the time "I mean, I certainly knock down a few myself at night and when off duty, I can't get any damn work out of him. How did you find him to work with?"

"Well Nixon and I get along very well" Winters told Sink and thought it was funny as hell, that Sink was complaining about Nixon's drinking when Sinks nickname was bourbon Bob.

"Well you can have him back, hell every time I need him he is here anyways, so you might as well keep him" Sink left and Winters now had to tell Nixon about his demotion.

Operation varsity...The 101st thought it would be theirs, but at the last minute it was given to the 17th airborne. Sink decided to send Nixon along as an observer.

Nixon was jumpmaster and in the first seat by the door on his plane. As they took off, they could see the boys from Easy yelling and giving them the V sign.

Nixon opted to remove the door after take-off; he was looking out the door, so he could see when they reached the drop zone.

Nixon motioned for the men to "stand up, hook on, and sound of for equipment check"

Nixon waited for the green light to come on; seconds after they got the green light, the plane took a direct hit over the drop zone.

Nixon grabbed the man next to him and threw himself and the man out of the plane, all he could think about was getting to safety.

Both their chutes opened and they watched how the plane crashed, only one other soldier had made it out.

When they arrived at the assembly, point Nixon informed the CO of the battalion what happened and returned to the CP to drink himself to sleep.

Nixon was sent back over the Rhine and flown back to Mourmelon.

On the way back, just a little outside the camp, he drove past Mia and Lipton, "Was that Captain Nixon?" Mia asked Lipton

"I think so," Lipton said

"What the hell is he doing in his harness?" Mia asked

"I don't know, but let's find out" Lipton said and started to walk back towards camp

Nixon didn't speak a word on the way back to camp; he was thinking about Lane and all the men who died in vain. When he drove into camp, he almost hit Speirs and his most recent loot.

Nixon just got out and walked inside his billet, he went straight for the booze.

"Do you really think that is the answer?" Mia, who had followed asked him

"Yep" was all Nixon said

"I don't and if you don't talk to me, you are going to be a very lonely soldier soon" Mia took off her helmet and started to shrug off her jacket.

"I just don't know what I am doing here anymore, why do we fight, can you tell me that?" Nixon asked her

Mia shrugged. I don't know, but I have a feeling we will find out soon enough.

Dick walked into the room, Mia picked up her jacket, she gave Winters a look that said I tried, but failed. Winters looked at the drink Nixon had just poured and then looked at Mia, who just threw her hand up, to motion she wanted to stay out of whatever was coming and then she left.

"So you are making combat jumps with the 17th, while I am in supply briefings all morning"

Nixon started to take off his boots "Yeah lucky me"

"Well congratulations, you are probably the only officer in the 101st with three stars over your jump wings"

Nixon just looked at winters "Yeah I never fired my weapon in combat ha"

"Really? Never not even with all the action we seen?" Winters asked him

"Not a round" Nixon said and walked over and poured himself another drink

"So, how did it go this morning? The Jump?" Winters asked

"Great, fantastic, we took a direct hit over the drop zone, I got out, and two others got out" Nixon said

"And the rest of the boys?" Winters asked

"They blew up over Germany somewhere, boom" Nixon said

"Yeah, I am sorry" Winters answered him

"About what?" Nixon asked

"About the boys' tough situation" Winters answered

"Oh yeah the boys, yeah terrible, oh well it wasn't me" Nixon said

At this point Nixon took his drink and gulped it down.

"The real tragedy is, they also lost their CO, so guess who gets to write all the letters home?" Nixon threw his empty bottle in a bucket beside the door to the living room and walked through it.

Dick followed him; Nixon scrounged for some more Vat 69 and found some in a near empty bottle.

He then sat down on a chair; Winters turned and looked at him "I got a visit from Colonel Sink this morning"

"Yeah, how is the good colonel" Nixon asked

"Concerned, still drinking nothing but the Vat 69," Winters answered him

"Nothing but the finest for Mrs. Nixon's baby boy" Nixon said and saluted Winters with his drink

"Is that a problem at regiment?" Winters asked him

"What? this? Is that what he said? I just don't like up there" Nixon asked him

"Good, you be glad to hear Sink is transferring you back down to battalion S3" Winters told Nixon

"What do you think I should write to the parents?" Nixon asked his friend

"Did you hear what I said Nix, you been demoted" Winters asked him

"Demoted, yeah got it, because I don't know how to tell them their kids never even made it out of the god damn plane," Nixon retorted

"You tell them what you always tell them, their sons died as heroes," Winters told him

"You really still believe that?" asked Winters

"Yeah, yeah I do, don't you?" Winters asked Nixon

…

As March ended, so did the pleasant stay at the old garrison. The men of the 101st climbed back onto the trucks, this time bound for the west bank of the Rhine, the last obstacle to the heartland of Germany.

A couple of days later and for Nixon a couple of bottles later, Speirs, Dani, Welsh, Lipton, Mia and Nixon were gathered in the living room of Nixon's billet.

The boys were playing poker, well the boys and Mia, and she was cleaning them out. Welsh and Speirs were talking about how they couldn't believe it, how Ike was going to let the Russians get Berlin.

Nixon was running out of Vat 69 and suddenly got up "Deal me out" he said and walked out

Welsh looked around at the others "Are we waiting on him again?"

"Yeah, we're waiting" Lipton said

Nixon walked out of the house, it was pouring rain, he was officially out of Vat69. It was pouring rain. Nixon didn't notice, he was numb and he wallowed in the feeling he was drinking to keep himself from feeling his loss.

His loss of purpose, of the love of his life and the loss of control over his own life. He picked up a garbage can and threw it through the window causing the owner to open the window and scream Wie ist da.

A MP patrol pulled up. Nixon felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned his head and looked into the eyes of Dani, and she motioned for him to follow her. Dani led Nixon into his room and got him out of his wet clothes.

"Do you think she will be back?" Nixon asked

"I know she will," Dani answered, not sure if she was lying or not.

[daddysmusicblog]

Hey handsome, your music is 180 degrees from what I expected from you today. Getting a 90s weather channel vibe. "And now your weather on the 8s"

Oh man, Babygirl and I laughed at this so hard. Here let me add some ambiance to your vibe. Hope you are having a great week Kit.

[dadbodosamu]

what’s my name? [daddy]

Stepdad Osamu x Cis!Fem reader

WARNINGS: cheating, pseudoincest (stepdad/daughter), spanking, age gap (Osamu’s in his thirties and reader is freshly 18), daddy kink, spit kink, breeding kink

2.8k words. unbeta’d and vaguely edited

part one || part two || part three

“I can walk,” you say, slinging your bag over your shoulder. It’s your last year of high school, you’re an adult now, freshly eighteen, you can walk yourself to school, damn it.

“Let me drive ya,” Osamu says, grabbing the keys to his car. “Ya won’t let me make ya lunch anymore, let me at least drive ya to school. We can stop and get breakfast.”

“I can walk, Osamu,” you say, glaring at the older man.

Osamu stops dead in his tracks. “What was that? What did ya just call me?”

You scoff, adjusting your bag on your shoulder. “You’re not my dad and I’m not a kid anymore.”

You grab the door handle but before you can open it, Osamu has you spun around, facing him. His face is dark and the grip he has on your wrist is bruising.

“O-Osamu, you’re hurting me,” you whimper, trying, and failing, to pull your wrist from his iron grip.

“There ya go again,” he says. He tuts and shakes his head. “Go sit on the couch. I have to make a few calls real quick.”

His tone leaves no room for argument, so you walk across the living room with all the shame of a scolded puppy.

Osamu is already speaking by the time you sit on the soft couch.

“Hi, this is Miya Osamu, Hanamiya Y/n’s father. She’s feeling a little under the weather today, so she won’t be able to make it in.” Osamu says. He pauses for a moment. “I’ll be around to pick her work up sometimes this afternoon, thank ya. Ya have a good day.”

Before you can speak, Osamu is calling another number.

“Hey, it’s Osamu. Y/n is sick today, so I need ya to watch over the restaurant. Call if there’s an emergency,” Osamu says. He hangs up quickly, and dials yet another number. “Hey, {mother’s name}, Y/n is feeling a bit bad so I’m going to stay home with her today.” He pauses. “It’s no problem, stay at work. If she gets worse I’ll take her to the doctor.” You can barely hear your mother on the other side of the phone, but you hear her small ‘I love you’. “Yeah, I’ll see ya after work.”

Hearing him so clearly dismiss your mother has you seething. You almost want to throw something at him as he hangs up.

“You’re such a dick,” you say as he walks towards you. “You don’t care about her at all. Fuck you.”

Osamu laughs as he sits in the chair next to the couch you’re on. “Fuck me? Oh, no, little girl. I’m gonna make ya regret those words. Come here.”

“Fuck you,” you repeat, crossing your arms.

“I’ll give ya until the count of three,” Osamu says. “One.” You don’t move. His face darkens. “Two. I’m not kidding, little girl. Come here. Now.”

His voice is more serious than you’ve ever heard it. A shiver runs up your spine as you stand without a second thought. You take a few steps until you’re standing directly in front of him.

“Good girl,” he praises. The words roll off his tongue like honey, and, unwittingly, your pussy throbs. “Now, bend over my lap.”

You nearly laugh. “No way, there’s no way. I’m not a child.”

“One.”

You’re bent over his lap before he gets to two.

“See, ya can listen,” Osamu says. His hand runs over your too short school skirt, flattening it down.

Your cheeks burn with humiliation. You can’t remember the last time anyone had you bent over their lap, much less Osamu, who preferred other punishments.

“Osamu, please, I’m sorry,” you whisper.

He lands a heavy hit across your ass, his large hand catching both cheeks.

You let out a loud cry as you jerk forward.

“That again,” Osamu says, shaking his head. “Ya know that hurts my feelings, little girl? Calling me by my name? Like I didn’t raise ya. Now, tell me why ya decided to hurt daddy’s feelings like that?”

Tears burn at your eyes. “I-I hate you!” You cry, tears spilling down your cheeks.

Osamu tuts and lands another heavy handed slap on your ass. “And why is that, little girl? Tell daddy what’s wrong.” He rubs your burning bum soothingly.

“Y-you’re mean to mom!” You sob. “An-and I hate you for it, Miya Osamu!”

Two consecutive slaps land on either cheek and you hiccup a sob.

“That’s where yer wrong, baby girl,” Osamu says, once again rubbing soothing circles on your bum. “Me an’ yer mom had an agreement. It’s not my fault if she gets her feelin’s hurt. She hasn’t said anything to me about it.”

You open your mouth to speak but cry out instead as Osamu spanks you three more times in quick succession.

“An’ anyway, that’s adult business,” Osamu adds. “No place for a little girl’s nose.”

“Osamu, it hurts,” you whine, squirming around on his lap. You freeze when you feel something hard poking against your stomach.

“There we go again,” Osamu sighs. He spanks you no less than five times, each harder than the last. Your body shakes from your sobs.

“Daddy, please!” You cry, tears and snot covering your face. “Please, I’m sorry!”

“There we go,” Osamu says, smiling widely. “That’s my good girl. What’s my name, again, sweetheart?”

“Daddy,” you whimper, sniffling. You rub your face with your sleeve as Osamu rearranges your body so you’re straddling his thighs.

“Daddy’s sorry for spanking ya, sweetheart. I know how my little girl gets sometimes,” he says, hugging you to his broad chest. “Ya get so bratty, daddy just can’t help himself.”

“‘m sorry, daddy,” you sniffle. You can’t help be be acutely aware of Osamu’s hard erection pressing against your sore ass. “D-Daddy, your...”

“What is it, baby girl?” Osamu asks, gently pulling you down, pressing his cock further into your plush ass.

You hiss in pain. “It-it hurts,” you moan.

Truth be told, it hurt so good. Each slap against your ass had your pussy clenching around nothing and now that you knew Osamu was clearly turned on... well it was making your heart beat faster.

“Want daddy to make ya feel better?” Osamu asks. He thrusts his hips smoothly, grinding his cock against your pussy.

You think about your mom. How heartbroken she would be if she found out about this and how your relationship would never be the same.

Osamu’s lips attach to the base of your neck and thoughts of your mother melt away.

“Daddy,” you moan, rolling your hips to feel more of him. “Daddy, please, I wanna feel better.”

“I know, baby, I know,” Osamu mumbled against your skin. “Daddy’s gonna make ya feel better, okay? Daddy’s gonna make everything better.”

Osamu lifts you easily. You wrap your arms and legs around him as he carries you to your room. You try not to think of the bedroom right across from yours that he shares with your mother.

Osamu tosses you on your bed and you immediately reach out for him.

“Wan’ you,” you whine, your hands grabbing at nothing.

Osamu pulls his shirt off and tosses it across the room before climbing on top of you.

“My little girl is so needy for daddy’s cock, eh?” Osamu asks, rocking his hips against yours. You moan and wrap your arms around his neck, lacing your fingers in his hair.

“Daddy, want your cock so bad,” you moan. He pulls back, drawing a long whine from your lips.

“Stop whining,” he orders. Long fingers come up to your shirt buttons, nimble as they unbutton each pearly white button, exposing the peach-coloured bra you were wearing.

Your cheeks burn, suddenly wishing you’d chosen matching underwear this morning, or at least something more mature.

“So cute,” Osamu coos, throwing your shirt away. “Yer so adorable, baby girl.” Osamu pushes your bra up over your breasts and leans down. He gently takes your left nipple in his mouth, rolling his tongue against it as he teases the other with his fingers.

“Daddy,” you moan, clenching your fingers in his hair. He pinches your nipple and grazes his teeth over the other.

“Cute little nipples,” he mumbles, leaning up and tugging on both nipples one last time. He presses a kiss between your breasts and trailed down, leaving soft kisses down your stomach until he reaches the hem of your skirt. He looks up at you.

You nod. “Please, daddy. I-I want you.” Osamu makes quick work of your skirt and pink panties.

He kneels between your legs, spreading them wide. “Look at ya, such a pretty pussy.”

Osamu arranged your bodies until he was comfortably facing your cunt. “I could just eat ya up, baby girl.”

“Daddy, I want you to touch me, please!” You cry as he teasingly runs his fingers through your wet folds.

“I am, baby,” he says, smirking wickedly.

“More! Want you to really touch me, daddy!” You say, impatiently bucking your hips up against his hand.

“Settle down, baby,” Osamu says, pushing your hips against the bed with his free hand. “Daddy’ll make ya feel real good, darlin’.”

Before you could say anything, Osamu rubs his thumb in a circle over your clit. Your words get lost in a moan. Your head falls back against your pillow as Osamu leans down. He presses a soft kiss against your inner thigh before wrapping his lips around your clit.

“Samu!” You cry, back arching off the bed as he inserted a single, long finger in your cunt, all the while suckling at your clit.

He landed a sharp slap to your thigh without pulling away. He adds another finger roughly.

“What’s my name, little girl?” He asks. He pumps his fingers in and out of you slowly.

“Daddy,” you whimper as he licks deep into your cunt.

“Good girl,” he praises before leaning back down. He scissors his fingers, slowly stretching your walls. He ate you out in earnest, switching between slurping up your juices and suckling on your clit.

“Daddy, ‘m gonna cum,” you moan, gripping the sheets below you.

“Cum on my tongue, sweetheart,” Osamu says, pulling his fingers out. He rubs figure-8s over your clit and fucks his tongue in and out of your throbbing heat.

“Daddy!” You cry as your orgasm hits you. You cum hard, juices squirting on Osamu's face. He continues rubbing your clit until you start squirming from overstimulation. When he looks up at you, his eyes are dark and his chin is covered with your cum.

“Tastes so good, baby girl,” he says, crawling over you. He grabs your chin and kisses you roughly, not even letting you attempt a fight for dominance.

The taste of yourself on his lips has you thrusting your hips up, eager for more.

“So impatient,” Osamu tuts. He grabs your chin again. “So you’ll take anything daddy gives ya, right, baby girl?”

You nod, desperately waiting for something, anything.

“Open yer mouth,” he orders. Your mouth falls open without a second thought.

You can see Osamu gathering spit in his mouth and you let your tongue loll out in excitement.

“My baby is so desperate,” Osamu coos. “Ya want daddy’s spit that bad, baby?”

You let out a pitiful whine and squeeze his forearm.

You moan when his spit finally hits your tongue. Your eyes close as you savour it for just a moment before swallowing.

“That’s my good girl, swallowing before I even tell ya too,” Osamu praises. “Tell me what ya want, sweetie.”

“I wan’ you,” you whine. You tangle your fingers in the back of his hair and pull him into a brutal, sloppy kiss. “Fuck me, daddy, please.”

Osamu pulls away from you, breathing heavily, lips swollen and eyes dark. He quickly kicks his sweat pants down and off the bed.

“Come on, use yer words,” he says. “What do ya really want, baby?” He uses one hand to trace his cock along your slit, teasing your clit and clenching hole.

“Want your cock in me, daddy,” you say, hooking your right leg around his waist, pulling his hips down to meet yours. “Please, I want it so bad.”

You bite your lip as your eyes burn.

“Aw, is baby gonna cry for daddy’s cock?” Osamu teases. He pushes the fat head of his cock past your folds. You moan loudly.

“Please,” you moan. “Want more.”

Osamu pulls your right leg up and over his shoulder and inches his cock in your wet heat. He moans lowly.

“So fuckin’ tight, baby girl,” he says. Your eyes water as his fat cock burns as he slowly stretches your walls out. “Fuck, look how well yer taking me, baby.”

You glance down to where your skin melds together. You let out a low whine once you realise he’s barely halfway in.

“More, more,” you whimper, rolling your hips up. Every movement has him hitting another spot in you that has you clenching around him.

“Gonna take it all? Gonna be my good girl and take my cock?” He grunts as he pushes deeper. By the time he bottoms out, the head of his cock is pressing against your cervix and your thighs are shaking from the stretch.

“Oh, daddy,” you sigh as he stills. He’s stretching you in a way no one has before, and the burn just adds to the pleasure.

“Yer so fuckin’ full of me,” Osamu says, marvelling at the bulge in your lower stomach. He presses down on it lightly. He moans. “Gonna fill ya up real good, baby. Gonna make ya swollen with my seed.”

“Move,” you moan. “Want you to fill me up, daddy.”

Osamu pulls out slowly. He tosses your other leg over his shoulder and grabs your hips tightly.

“Oh, baby, yer not ready for me,” Osamu smirks. Before you can ask what he means, his hips pound against your ass, his cock going even deeper than before. A moan rips from your lips.

“Daddy!” You call, digging your nails into his shoulders.

Osamu doesn’t slow as his fingers meet your clit, rubbing the sensitive nub in small circles. Your walls clench around him as your first orgasm hits you suddenly.

“That’s it, sweetheart, cum on daddy’s cock,” Osamu says. His hips and fingers don’t slow down as you gush around his cock. His pace seems that much more brutal with your overstimulation.

“Hurts,” you choke out. Your thighs tremble as Osamu continues his bruising pace.

“You can take it, sweetheart,” Osamu says. “Yer such a good girl for me, darling.”

Tears roll down your cheeks as another orgasm racks your body.

Osamu’s eyes roll back as your walls milk his cock.

“Good girl,” Osamu rumbled. “Creaming around my cock so well.”

You cry as Osamu speeds up.

“S-so good, daddy,” you sob as he grabs your legs and spreads them wide. You cry harder as he fucks into your cervix. “Fill me up, please, daddy! Want you to breed me!”

“‘m gonna fuck ya so full of my cum,” Osamu grunts, pounding into you slower and deeper. “Gonna knock ya up. Ya want daddy to get you pregnant, huh? Wanna be swollen with daddy’s seed?” You nearly bite your tongue nodding.

“Want your cum, daddy,” you whine as your legs start to ache. A high-pitched whine fills the room as you cum yet again.

“Fuck,” Osamu swears, his pace speeding up again. “Gonna fill you up, sweetheart.”

His cock twitches inside you.

“Please, daddy, please. Want you to fill me up, breed me! Want your baby. Want your cum, need your cum! Please, fill me up, daddy!” You babble uncontrollably as Osamu’s hips stutter.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” Osamu moans as he paints your insides white.

One last orgasm hits you as you milk his cock.

“Daddy,” you breathe as his cum fills you up. “So good.”

“Yer such a good girl, sweetheart,” Osamu says. He pulls out slowly.

“No, no,” you whine, clenching around nothing. “Want you to stay in me. Don’t wanna lose daddy’s cum.”

“It’s okay, baby, daddy’ll fill ya up over and over again,” Osamu says. He moves until his arms are wrapped tightly around you and you’re laid across his chest.

He hums with satisfaction as you trace your fingers across his chest.

“Ya were such a good girl, darling. Took my cock so well,” Osamu praised. “Yer daddy’s best girl.”

“Better than your other girls?” You ask.

“Yer the only girl I care about, sweetheart,” Osamu says. “I love ya, little girl.”

“I love you, too, daddy,” you mumble. You yawn.

“Let’s get you cleaned up before you fall asleep, baby,” Osamu says. He easily carries you to the bathroom, sitting you on the edge of the tub as he starts the water.

You frown as you catch sight of your mother’s robe and reality hits you.

“Oh, god,” you whisper. You look down at Osamu’s cum leaking out all over your thighs. “Oh my god.”

“What is it, sweetie?” Osamu asks.

“I’m gonna be sick,” you mumble, covering your mouth. “Mom’s gonna hate me.”

Oh, she’s really going to hate you in three months, when a small bump forms between your hips and you refuse to admit who the father is. Osamu’s smug face whenever it’s mentioned doesn’t miss you.

[wirtz]

8, 9 and 30 for your tag game 🌼

For some reason the list has two 8s??

8) A period of history you know a lot about?I’d say most of Bangladesh/ India’s history since I had to memorise the textbook, especially the before the period before our independence

8) What is your ideal weather? Very very rainy. It’s usually very hot here, especially in the summer (around 37 to 39 degrees) so when it rains, it’s a little cooler

9) If you could go anywhere in the universe and in time, where would you go? What would you do? Who would you be? This is a weird answer but I would use all my knowledge of football now and go back to some time between 1960 to 1970 and be like Johan Cruyff. I honestly can’t imagine a better use of those powers.

30) Days of the year you hate for no discernable reason? My birthday (August 18th), July 4th, February 29th (if it’s a leap year), July 23, October 16, December 31st and Wednesdays (because they’re just shit)

[pansexualandscared]

Secret Songbird 2019

[sportsnightnut]

double chocolate muffins and cigarettes

My Valentine’s Day Fic Exchange entry for Charnette (ScullyLovesQueequeg on AO3). A little angst, a little unrequited love, and not a lot of fluff, per her request. :)

Nicole ( @gaycrouton),  thank you so much for setting up these fic exchanges. They are delightful and fun and I love this so much. <3

the you I miss does not exist, but I’ve never wanted anybody more than this -john mayer

It’s 5:53 on Thursday morning, and Dana Scully’s first thought is that she really, really, really wants a cigarette.

Her alarm isn’t supposed to go off for another seven minutes. She could’ve had seven more glorious, unconscious minutes where she wasn’t awake and she wasn’t thinking about him or it or anything . But her internal clock decided that wasn’t necessary, so now she’s here, awake, staring at the ceiling and contemplating which expletives best fit her mood this morning.

Scully throws the covers off, sliding off the bed and right into her slippers. She pads out to the living room and turns on the television, which is still on The Weather Channel from yesterday morning. She throws the remote unceremoniously on the couch and makes her way to the kitchen.

While she starts the coffee, she listens for the infamous “Local on the 8s” segment to advise her on what to wear today. For the end of February in Washington, it’s been unseasonably, and somewhat obnoxiously, warm. As she suspected, high of 51 today, which is practically balmy after last week’s snow showers and highs in the low 20s. Her sinuses are furious.

Scully’s shower this morning is quick, partially because she doesn’t care that much today, and partially because there’s been a lack of hot water in the building lately. She’s not about to risk an extra five minutes just in case it turns to ice

Black suit, white shirt, black heels, a swipe of lipstick, and she’s out the door at 7:06.

She doesn’t feel like driving today, so she takes the Metro, Yellow line to the Archives station. There’s a bakery she likes about a block in the opposite direction of work, and since it’s the kind of morning that calls for a muffin the size of her face, Scully stops there first before ducking into the pharmacy next door to grab a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

She smokes two on the walk back. At first, it burns her throat and her lungs, but then she decides she kind of likes the feeling, so she finishes the first and shakes out a second. Scully finds an odd sense of pleasure in grinding a cigarette butt into the concrete sidewalk, something she would normally find repulsive.

When she steps off the elevator and into the office (their office? his office?), she’s surprised to find that Mulder is already there, digging through a file cabinet. He turns around when he hears her open the door.

“Eight o’clock on the dot, Agent Scully,” Mulder remarks with a smile, the kind Scully can’t decide if she loves or hates because she can’t decide if it’s endearing or annoying. This morning, in particular, it feels annoying.

“Mmm,” she replies as she hangs her coat. Since he isn’t currently at the desk, Scully decides it’s hers for the moment and takes a seat, tearing open the paper bag to reveal the double chocolate muffin inside. She takes a bite, wiping the crumbs off her skirt onto the floor, before she reaches for her travel mug of coffee and takes a drink.

“Are you okay?” Mulder asks, and it’s this, this question, this seemingly innocent yet not so innocent question that causes Dana Scully to snap.

And she’s not sure if it’s because he asked it or if it’s how he asked it or why he asked it, but if she were asked to detail everything leading up to this moment that led her to react the way she did, here is what she would tell you:

One: she’s been surrounded by alpha male figures her entire life, the most notable being her father. Captain William Scully. Sometimes she wonders what it might’ve been like to grow up away from the military, away from the structure, the rigidity, the “you’ll do what you’re ordered to do” culture that dictated their family. What would it’ve been like to have a more benevolent father? Would it have made any difference? For her? For her brothers? For Maggie?

When she’d asked Maggie whether or not he was proud of her, all Maggie had said was: “He was your father.”

What was that supposed to mean? Was it just assumed that he was proud of her? As much as Scully doesn’t want to admit it, she was desperate for his approval, and she really needed to hear it from him. But now he’s gone, and she can’t ask that of a dead man.

Two : Sometimes it is really fucking exhausting to be a woman in a male-dominated field in a male-dominated organization in a male-dominated government in a male-dominated society. Could Dana Scully run circles around half the men in the FBI? Absolutely. Is she a better shot than half the men in the FBI? Absolutely. But does she also have to prove herself every day, far more than any of the men she works with ever have?

Absolutely.

Three: Maggie cannot seem to stop pestering her about “settling down,” especially now that she’s gasp turned thirty.

They had dinner for her birthday last Sunday; a nice, quiet, mother and daughter meal. Scully ordered a fancy salad with grilled salmon and an expensive glass of pinot grigio, and almost as soon as her fork pierced those first bites of lettuce, Maggie said “So, Dana…” and Scully tried so desperately not to roll her eyes because she knew exactly where Maggie was headed.

Maggie means well. Scully knows that she means well. It’s just that if Scully hadn’t already been slightly self-conscious about celebrating her thirtieth birthday by having dinner with her mother, she was as soon as those two words left Maggie’s lips.

Scully is a doctor. A board-certified physician who is also a badass, gun-wielding Special Agent for the FB-fucking-I and all she can think about right now is the fact that she isn’t married and she’s having her thirtieth birthday dinner with her mother.

Four: Speaking of that whole doctor thing.

Scully knew early on in life that she wanted to be a doctor. Heavily influenced by her parents, of course, though she felt she’d come to the decision on her own. She loved science and logic, and she also felt called to serve others; practicing medicine was the perfect blend of two things she truly loved.

And sometimes Scully would daydream about becoming a doctor; getting that white coat, making rounds in the hospital. Maybe specializing in surgery, maybe pediatrics, maybe pediatric surgery. And she’d meet a handsome fellow physician, and they’d be an absolutely adorable couple, eating lunch together in the cafeteria and consulting on each other’s cases.

Now she’s found herself in the basement of the Hoover building, daydreaming instead about the man sitting just feet from her. He’s not a doctor, no, but he’s incredibly well-educated in his own right, having attended Oxford and graduated with honors from the academy.

But that’s just it: all she’s done so far is daydream.

Five : Speaking of Mulder.

Sometimes he’s irritating. Really irritating. For a few different reasons, of course, one being the fact that he is obnoxiously tall. All six feet of him towering over her five-foot-three frame. Mulder likes to stand behind her, often when she’s performing autopsies. He’d tell you it’s because he finds it--and her--fascinating. Scully doesn’t know that, so it feels alot like he’s watching her every move, waiting for something that’ll prove he’s right and she’s wrong.

And Mulder can also be a bit of a condescending asshole.

But here’s the thing: he’s also really, really attractive. And really, really smart. And did she mention attractive?

Six: Scully finds herself coming to Mulder’s defense more often than not.

They’re not dating or in any kind of relationship other than “work partners,” yet Scully finds herself defending him and/or having to defend him. Regularly. To their colleagues, to Skinner, to random strangers who don’t know him. And having to do this all the damn time is starting to get irritating.

It’s not only because she’s tired of defending him. She’s also tired of other people not understanding Mulder; not knowing her partner well enough to see how intelligent he is and that really, he doesn’t need her to defend him. Sometimes people will listen to her more than they’ll listen to Mulder because she’s the logical, rational one, without stopping to consider that Mulder might actually have a point. Playing the role of defender is, quite honestly, wearing on her.

Seven: Scully has made some hints, both subtle and not-so-subtle, that she likes Mulder as more than a work partner.

But he’s either an idiot or he’s missed every single one of them.

Does she really need to stand so close to him? No.

Does she need to purposely touch his hand every time he passes over a file or gives her a pen? No.

Does she need to sit on the bed in his hotel room and pass takeout containers back and forth while they compare notes and work on their reports? No.

Does she need to linger even after they’ve finished their work and talk with him late into the night? Definitely not.

Does she need to wear that one suit she knows he really likes because she’s seen him look at her appreciatively in it several times? No.

Although she’d be lying if she said she didn’t do it on purpose and that she didn’t enjoy the butterflies-in-her-stomach feeling that accompanied Mulder’s appreciative (but not creepy) gaze.

Eight: Scully got stood up last night. On her birthday.

She shouldn’t have planned a date on her birthday. She knows better. It’s just that she was supposed to go on a date with this guy named Peter and he said he was available on Wednesday, so she agreed, deciding not to tell him it was her birthday.

He’d chosen an Irish pub for their date, which was a little out of Scully’s first date (and overall) comfort zone, but she decided to give it a go anyway. Why the hell not. Except, of course, for the part where Peter never showed up and never called to explain why.

So Scully sat at the bar, alone, with a few pints of beer and something called Irish Nachos to keep her company. She decided that if she was going to be stood up, she may as well make the most of it with a plate of waffle fries covered in cheese.

Along with the fact that she was stood up last night, she’s also thinking about the fact that yet another Valentine’s day has passed without a man. Without a partner, a significant other, someone to buy her a cheesy card and a box of chocolate and maybe some flowers.

She hates that she wants these things.

Eight point one : Cheap beer and cigarettes.

The cheap Irish beer was good last night. It was appropriate for the situation. It wasn’t a glass of “I’m on a date” red wine. It was three or so pints of “I don’t give a fuck” beer.

And something about this cheap beer made her crave cigarettes for the first time in over a decade. She knows they’re terrible for her and she shouldn’t want them, but she’s been frustrated out of her goddamn mind and they just sounded good.

She used to sneak cigarettes as a teenager, simultaneously exhilarated that she was breaking the rules while being terrified that her father was going to find out. It was rebellious, and it was wrong. It’s still wrong, both because smoking is terrible for you and because Dana Katherine Scully is a rule follower.

But she’s tired of following the rules. Tired of worrying about what’s good for her or bad for her. She just wants to do something without considering the consequences.

Which leads her to buy that giant double chocolate muffin, that pack of cigarettes, and that lighter.

Nine: Scully wishes, more than she would ever admit, that Mulder would just ask her out already.

She sees the way he looks at her. She knows the way she looks at him.

She’s mad about this, too, though. It’s adhering to these typical gender roles and procedures of “guy asks girl out.”

It’s 1994, damn it. She could ask him out if she wanted to, you know? Just walk into the office and say “Mulder, would you like to go to dinner with me?” And he’d say yes, and that would be the end of that. The end of that frustration and tension and that “will they won’t they” dance they keep doing around each other.

Ten: Scully doesn’t say that last part.

Instead, she says this: “Fuck off, Mulder.”

Mulder blinks several times, very slowly, as if he can’t process the words that have just come out of his partner’s mouth.

“I…” he starts, but doesn’t know what to say. Because he doesn’t know what he’s done. Because all he’s really guilty of is being hot and brilliant and really fucking distracting . Because he has nothing and everything to do with the nine other reasons she’s exhausted and frustrated and smells faintly of cigarette smoke.

Scully thinks maybe she should apologize, except  she wouldn’t know where to begin. She’d have to go through all ten point one steps of everything leading up to her telling Mulder to fuck off. So she doesn’t. She takes a bite of her muffin and says nothing.

“I’m sorry,” Mulder says. “I didn’t...I didn’t mean…” he trails off. He’s apologizing and doesn’t know what he’s apologizing for.

Scully sighs. “Yeah. Me too. It’s fine. Let’s get to work, okay?”

It’ll be a long, long while--years, in fact--before Mulder finally understands what all of this was about.

[esselley]

Kinktober #4: Knife Play 

Some story notes: this is set in my Zombie AU – in this verse, all humans are infected by the disease that turns people into Plaguewalkers, but are affected at different degrees. This determines a person’s “number”: 1 - 3 are slightly stronger humans. 4 - 6 have superhuman speed, strength, and resistance to damage. 7 - 9 are the most dangerous. 8s and 9s are barely human and addiction to human flesh, to kill or be killed by on sight.

Kageyama is a 3. Hinata is a 4 – or at least, he started off that way.

The weather is starting to get colder, and they still can’t find a place to stay.

Hinata doesn’t feel the chill as readily as Kageyama; at the back of his mind, he knows that he also feels it less than he did when they were younger. He’s not really sure why that’s the case, but he remembers how they used to both need to squash together for warmth, two tiny, big-eyed children depending on the kindness of strangers to allow them to edge near to their trashcan fires in the makeshift walls of a settlement.

No one wants to let them share now. For starters, they’re both too big, no longer children, though “adult” barely qualifies. That’s just a dumb term, though, Hinata thinks. They’re more adults than most adults. They take care of themselves outside any safe walls, without preying on other people, no matter their number.

Of course, that’s mainly because settlements won’t take them in anymore. And that’s most of the reason why, with winter bearing down on them, they’re faced with a problem.

“Oy!” Kageyama shouts, as the guard detail of yet another settlement slams a heavy metal gate shut in their faces. Kageyama slams his fists against it so hard it must hurt.

They jeer at Kageyama through the slats, as though he is the enemy, and not just some low number trying to find shelter. He’s harmless, trustworthy; but because of his travel companion, he’s locked out. Again and again.

Hinata doesn’t know why he keeps trying.

He spies movement, flicks his attention that way to see a crow’s nest overlooking the front of the settlement, then a gun barrel emerging.

Quickly, he grabs Kageyama’s arm, to pull him away. Kageyama is angry, tries to jerk out of his grasp, but Hinata doesn’t let him. He is smaller, but the disease inside him has selected him to be stronger.

“Let’s just go,” he mutters. “We’re not wanted.”

He lets Kageyama shake him off, this time; neither of them like being reminded about the gap.

“We’d let you in, Grumpy,” one of the men behind the gate says, “if you ditch the flesheater.”

Kageyama freezes, and Hinata swears, inwardly. He doesn’t give a crap what they call him, but Kageyama…

“What’d you say?” Kageyama asks. Hinata means to try and stop him, but then he says, “That’s it? All I have to do?”

Hinata doesn’t say a word. He doesn’t look at the gate, where the men laugh and mock him and tell Kageyama that yes, it’s that easy. Kageyama is only a Three, he’d do well among their ranks.

“Yeah, okay,” Kageyama says. “Here’s my answer.”

He unzips his pants and pulls his dick out, so he can piss all over their doorstep.

Hinata is torn between horror and laughter. A little bit of fondness, and more disgust.

“I’ll ditch him if you let me piss up your nose, you coward fuck—” Kageyama is threatening, still waving his dick about like there aren’t seven rifles trained on it, and Hinata decides it’s time to quit while they’re only a little bit behind.

“You are done,” he says, grabbing the back of Kageyama’s jacket and starting to walk, Kageyama dragged along in his wake. A bullet pings the ground near their feet but neither of them flinch, and Kageyama just sticks both middle fingers in the air. “Put your—put your penis away Kageyama, it’s going to get shot or catch frostbite—”

“Good, I’ll break it off and shove it up—”

“Trying to make me jealous?” Hinata asks him. “First you’re going to ditch me, then you’re going to jam your cock—”

“My detached, frozen cock, yeah,” Kageyama confirms, turning around to walk properly and zip up his pants. Hinata lets go of his jacket. “I wasn’t really going to ditch you. I’d’ve left after—”

“The nose peeing,” Hinata says.

“Yeah.”

They walk on in silence for a bit, the settlement receding behind them as they get further down the highway. Hinata knows Kageyama wouldn’t ditch him.

“They’d give you a space,” he murmurs. “Any one of these settlements. If you went without me.”

“Yeah,” Kageyama agrees. “So what’d be the point?”

The point is, Hinata thinks exasperatedly, that you won’t freeze to death, and I’ll survive just fine.

“You’d be useless without me,” Kageyama grunts.

Since it both is and isn’t true, Hinata doesn’t argue.

It didn’t always used to be this hard. When they were younger, they’d been small and round and cute. Good people, the ones who still remain, want to help kids like that. It’s the only way society stays open for business, after the Ivory Plague nearly shut it down.

There’s always a few good people in every settlement; older folks who act hard but can’t help feeling soft; mothers who have lost too many children; young men who still think they are tougher than the world outside the walls and want to be hero worshipped.

Kageyama and Hinata stay inside during winters, but they always leave when the warmer weather comes. They both know staying in one place makes people slower, dulls their instincts. They would rather be prepared to run than hope a makeshift home holds. They never do.

But they get older, and people, even the good ones, get meaner. It’s not unexpected. No one gets by for free anymore, least of all them, but they have to prove their worth first. They’re athletic and, even better, their numbers are good.

Kageyama is a Three, hardy, strong, fast; he’s tall, too, and there’s something about his face that makes you trust it. Maybe the fact he’s naturally handsome, grew into his big round eyes and straight nose as they got older. Hinata has always been a little jealous, even though looks don’t matter that much, anymore. Well, not good looks, anyway; mad looks, hungry looks, red-rimmed eyes and paper-white skin—those are the appearances people are trained to look for, now.

Hinata may be smaller than Kageyama, but he knows Kageyama is jealous of him right back, because he’s a mid number. A Four, by the time they’d grown enough to tell, but as they got older, braver, stronger, even that was called into question. They discovered Hinata isn’t just strong, he’s superhuman strong. He’s taken bullets and been up and about the next day. He’s had limbs shattered and killed the men who broke them for their trouble. Their fault, not his.

They thought he was a Five, until earlier that year, when the settlements stopped wanting to let them in.

They were around each other every day, so they hadn’t noticed. But Hinata has gotten paler, over the years. The ringing around his eyes redder, his arms and legs skinnier, even while his physical capacities seem to increase without limitation.

Most settlements won’t let in anyone over a Five. Especially not an unfamiliar Six, uncollared and unchained, led about by nothing but another boy who claims he’s harmless, he’ll be helpful, he doesn’t get the cravings.

Hinata used to ask Kageyama why people never believed them. It was because people were stupid, Kageyama insisted, stupid and afraid of outsiders.

But as they are turned away again and again, and autumn becomes grey, Hinata stops asking. Because no matter what they thought Hinata was, he is changing.

They both try to think of it as becoming something more, and not less, and that makes things seem better.

It starts a few days after they get turned away by that last settlement—the one Kageyama peed on.

Hinata hasn’t been feeling right. His head has been throbbing nonstop, first a dull headache, now a stabbing pain at his temples that won’t go away no matter what he does. He feels nauseous, and heavy, the first time he can remember feeling unwell in… forever, almost.

The worst part is also the strangest. Hinata is hungry.

One of the perks of being a mid number is that he has more resistance to states a normal human body wouldn’t. He doesn’t need to sleep as often, he heals rapidly, and food is more a luxury than a necessity, which is fortunate, as scarce as it is.

But now Hinata feels it. A gnawing in his gut that won’t go away, even after he scarfs down some of their food from a past hunt, normally more than enough to sustain him. It’s getting worse, with the headaches, the dizziness. And there’s one other thing, about the hunger pangs.

The more painful they get, the more Hinata starts to notice that Kageyama looks… appetizing.

At first, he wonders if it’s something to do with sex. That’s not new, though, Hinata is used to feeling that way about Kageyama, he has for years and years now. This is different. This is actual hunger; the need to devour, to consume. It’s so strong that it eats away at Hinata, instead, makes him weak and sluggish.

But it can’t be what he’s afraid it is, it can’t, because Hinata isn’t a high number. He can’t be, he wasn’t born one, and people’s numbers don’t change… do they?

It’s worst when he’s around Kageyama, his mouth waters, his throat constricts, so he makes excuses to stay away. For the past few weeks, they’ve been holed up in a rundown rusty shell of a bus. The close quarters have not improved Hinata’s situation any.

The area they are staying in now is vaguely familiar—Hinata thinks they may have passed through before some years ago in their travels. It’s hilly and wooded, and the plant and animal life thrives, enough for a food source, though the oncoming winter makes things harder. This isn’t entirely unwelcome, currently, as it gives him an excuse to stay away longer, as he searches for prey.

He moves silently, watchfully. Kageyama is better at the long wait; Hinata is less patient. He usually chases his target down. He is nearly faster than them, and they get tired. He doesn’t.

Movement in the brush catches his eye and he darts toward it, as the deer spots him and tries to flee. He doesn’t give it a chance. Moments later, it lays dead at his feet, its neck broken. He always does it as fast as possible. He doesn’t like to think of how frightened the animals are, or that they might be in pain. He’s experienced both too many times himself.

Now, typically, comes the preparation; sometimes they might lug the whole carcass back to camp if they are secure in their surroundings, or quarter it and transport it that way, if they feel like they may need to be prepared for fight or flight on their journey back. Hinata stares down at the deer, wondering what to do.

He stares, and stares, and suddenly he realizes he’s on his knees, hunched over it, mindless with starvation—and at the back of his mind he knows what he’s doing, what he’s about to do, some part of him realizes that this is not right, this is not human—but no one is all human, anymore, and he angles his head down, to take the first bite—

“Shouyou,” a voice says, not a question nor a condemnation, and Hinata freezes.

Then, jerky and lightning quick, he turns on Kageyama. Kageyama doesn’t stand a chance—he’s knocked down before he can move or defend. He doesn’t even try.

Hinata crawls over him slowly. It’s strange—up close, he can smell Kageyama, but it’s not like when he smells something good to eat. Kageyama smells like Kageyama, and the deer smelled like wild animal; ordinary, commonplace smells. But he’s hungry all the same, mouthwateringly so, mouth wet with saliva, dripping. He leans down, staring fixed and unblinking at Kageyama’s face. Where should he start…?

Kageyama reaches up, and rests his palm against Hinata’s cheek.

“You idiot,” he says.

This is stronger than the twisting in Hinata’s stomach.

“No,” Hinata croaks out. His voice comes out cracked and broken. He sits back, sits away from Kageyama, pushes himself off to the side so that he’s not as near to him anymore. “No, no,” he moans, curling in on himself, out of shame and fear.

“Hinata—”

“Don’t come near me,” Hinata rasps. “Do you—I was about to—”

“I know,” Kageyama says.

“I would have—”

“I know,” Kageyama repeats. “Why didn’t you say something sooner?”

Hinata hugs his knees to his chest. “Because I just want it to stop.”

“I don’t think it will,” Kageyama says, because he’s always been honest. “Not until we feed you.”

“The deer.” Hinata sniffs, and wipes his nose. “I can—I can eat it raw—”

Kageyama shakes his head. “Better idea. Give me your knife.”

He holds out his hand and Hinata looks at him questioningly, but does as he says. He has a pocketknife he always carries on him, just in case. But when Kageyama rolls up his sleeve, forearm held out in front of him and the knife lowering carefully, Hinata is jolted out of his stupor.

“Tobio, no!” he gasps, but Kageyama ignores him.

“Relax,” he says, “I have an idea.”

Kageyama’s spur of the moment ideas vary from practical to terrible, and Hinata doesn’t relax in the slightest. But Kageyama makes a thin, shallow cut on his forearm, and his blood wells up from it, rich red. He stretches his arm toward Hinata, who recoils.

“Come on,” Kageyama coaxes. “It’s not like I’m going to let you drink all of it.”

“What if I drink too much, though?” Hinata asks.

“I’ll punch you if I start feeling lightheaded,” Kageyama tells him, like that solves it entirely. It really doesn’t, but Hinata is starving.

He grips Kageyama’s arm gingerly and raises it to his lips, to press his lips to his bleeding flesh. He’s kissed Kageyama plenty of times before—soft and slow, hard and insistent, scared and trembling. But this, this is something else.

Kageyama’s blood tastes harsh and metallic on his tongue, but the instant Hinata swallows it down, it lessens his headache by half. He’s practically forgotten what it feels like, not having that pounding, pounding, pounding in his skull and he moans in relief and gratitude. He’s still terrified; that this is working, that feeding on another human—on Kageyama—is the solution to the cravings. How will he ever resist now that he knows how it feels, to lap at Kageyama’s blood and feel his pain ease so quickly, like it was never there to begin with? Is resisting even possible?

He shudders, whining, and slides his tongue in a slow line over Kageyama’s skin, intending that to be the end. His stomach has nearly stopped hurting, and the dizziness is gone.

“Shou,” Kageyama murmurs, and Hinata looks at him, all too conscious of the wet trail that drips from his mouth, Kageyama’s blood sticky and hot on his lips and chin.

Kageyama is staring at him with an odd, affected expression. His eyes are dazed and heavy lidded, and Hinata worries that he drank too much already. But Kageyama reaches a hand out to stroke fingers through his hair.

“I’m fine,” he says. “You don’t have to stop yet.”

“Too dangerous,” Hinata says, though he wants more, he could have more.

“I don’t care about that,” Kageyama says. “I don’t like you staying away from me, either.”

Oh, Hinata thinks, staring at him. He doesn’t even have time to wipe his mouth clean, before Kageyama leans in to kiss him. His lips linger, his own blood is smeared across them, when he speaks next.

“Take more from me,” he whispers, and Hinata feels a much more familiar, more welcome surge of need.

He’s been avoiding Kageyama more and more the past few weeks. The thought that whatever was happening to him might have meant he’d need to leave Kageyama completely—it must show in his eyes, because Kageyama grabs his face between both hands and kisses him again, painfully hard.

Hinata twists his hands into Kageyama’s jacket, holding tight. He has only the barest, vaguest memories of family before Kageyama. That’s how young he was when they found each other, both of them alone. They’ve never had anyone else.

“Eat more, stupid,” Kageyama says, knocking his forehead against Hinata’s in admonishment. He lowers his hands from Hinata’s face to roll up his other sleeve, but Hinata shakes his head.

“Not there… m-maybe…” He bites his lip, wondering if Kageyama will think he’s disgusting, if this request will be too weird, too wrong.

“Where, then?”

Hinata looks at him pleadingly. “Can you lie back?”

Somehow, Kageyama doesn’t think it’s wrong. Hinata supposes Kageyama has always been strange anyway, noticeably so, even though everyone they meet is strange in some way or another. But Kageyama has always had an odd set of moral rules, at least as far as Hinata is concerned. Somehow, he always make sure Hinata gets what he wants.

With Kageyama lying on his back on the hard earth, Hinata finds it easier to touch him, lift Kageyama’s layers of clothes from his stomach to run the cold tip of his nose over Kageyama’s abdomen, the line of his hip bones. Now he smells good—the aroused kind of good, that makes Hinata shiver. He nips at Kageyama’s hips, not to break the skin, but to stimulate him, and Kageyama gives him a soft sigh.

He drags Kageyama’s pants down with little resistance, not far—only a little ways down his thighs, so he won’t get too cold. But there may not be any danger of that. Kageyama is already getting heated; skin warm, cock starting to stir with interest. Hinata is worried it might start to flag if he resumes his earlier attempts, but Kageyama senses his hesitance right away.

“Come on,” he says. “I told you it’s fine already, how many times do I—”

Hinata growls in annoyance, leaning his weight on Kageyama’s thigh with one hand as he grabs his knife with the other.

“You’re a jerk,” he says. “As though this is just some normal, everyday—”

“I know it’s fucking not,” Kageyama scoffs. “I don’t give a shit. You should have said something, that's—” He shakes his head. “That’s what we do, Hinata.”

Hinata stares at him. It’s an odd moment, to feel shaken by the weight of clarity. Kageyama is glaring at him fiercely, but his pants are still down, and he’s still got a half-boner going, and he’s scolding Hinata, who certainly almost would have happily gnawed on some of his vital organs just a few moments ago. He’s reminding Hinata of the reason they’ve survived this long.

They always trust each other.

Because it’s still too hard to admit, most of the time, when Kageyama is more right than he is, Hinata says, “Yeah.” Kageyama’s mouth pinches, and Hinata adds, hurriedly, “I get it!”

Kageyama huffs, and gestures with his hands, staring up at the sky. Hinata raises an eyebrow at him. Now that the initial awfulness of the situation is over, and he can push any thoughts of future issues to the back of his mind, it’s easier to focus on other matters.

He flips his pocketknife over in his hand, an easily practiced gesture—blade spinning before the handle lands safely back in his palm. He learned this trick years ago much to Kageyama’s annoyance. Kageyama says he just does it to look “badass”. Well, duh.

“How come you’re enjoying this…” he murmurs, laying the flat of the knife blade against Kageyama’s leg. He slides it over the skin, and Kageyama’s thigh  twitches, that big, strong muscle jumping under the metal.

“Who said I was?” Kageyama fires back.

Hinata runs his thumb up the vein on the underside of Kageyama’s cock, and watches it twitch, too. Kageyama grits his teeth.

“Not enjoying it at all,” Hinata hums.

He’s a little scared, still, when he turns the blade. Scared, when he makes the smallest, shallowest cut on Kageyama’s thigh, halfway up, where the meat is thick. He’s cut flesh plenty of times with this knife, but never Kageyama.

Kageyama hisses, but it can’t have hurt him—barely. He’s felt real injuries before. Hinata still glances up at him, eyes wide, and Kageyama nods at him.

This time when he tastes Kageyama, he gets more than the tang of iron. He gets sweat and Kageyama’s warmth and a hand sliding into his hair, goading him on, not pushing him away.

It might not be in entirely the same context as usual, but Hinata is not oblivious to how much Kageyama likes this, Hinata’s mouth on him here where he’s so sensitive. He is careful with the knife as he fills his mouth with Kageyama, feels the actual strength in his body return as he drinks him down, laves his tongue in slow strokes over the cut and then up Kageyama’s trembling thighs.

He drifts the blade of the knife higher, so light across Kageyama’s skin that it doesn’t so much as nick him, until he’s dangerously close to where he really wants to put his mouth.

“Careful,” he warns. His voice is rough.

“I know what I’m doing!” Hinata says, a little too eagerly.

When he cuts Kageyama’s thigh this time, it’s slower, less hesitant. He glances up to see Kageyama is watching, head raised, attention rapt. His eyes track the line of red as it wells up from the cut, droplets squeezing out, round pinpricks quivering from the tiny vibrations caused by his own shivers.

Hinata keeps his eyes on Kageyama’s face as he leans in, the tip of his tongue darting out to gently burst the surface tension of the drops so they finally roll and trickle over Kageyama’s leg. He gets the precious liquid before it can escape, blocking it with his fingers in some cases, tongue swirling, spit and blood and sweat mixing. Kageyama’s eyes flutter. He reaches out, rubs his thumb over Hinata’s chin to catch a stray drop of blood, and Hinata snags his thumb with his teeth, sucking it into his mouth.

“Fuck,” Kageyama whispers.

He doesn’t hate it. He’s not disgusted; far from it. He’s never said it, but Hinata has known since forever that Kageyama likes being needed. Likes to be what Hinata needs.

Hinata ducks down and fastens his mouth to the cut, sucking hard, and Kageyama rolls his hips up into his face. Hinata is actually starting to feel—amazingly, wonderfully—full.

It smears crimson when he finally drags his lips across Kageyama’s hips, before settling at the base of his cock, which is thick and hard now, red with blood. Hinata isn’t after blood anymore, though (which is probably fortunate for Kageyama).

He kisses Kageyama all the way up to the tip, open-mouthed and wet, and Kageyama exhales heavily. Hinata has set the knife aside, strokes his hip bones reassuringly as he rubs his lips over the head of Kageyama’s cock.

“Stop trying to make it up to me,” Kageyama mumbles. “I told you it was fine.”

“I know,” Hinata says. He wasn’t trying to make anything up to Kageyama, not really. He just wants him to feel good.

Judging by the sounds Kageyama makes when Hinata finally takes him in his mouth, he manages pretty well. He even earns himself a hard-won moan when he sinks as low as he can get, though the cry is soft and stifled by Kageyama’s palm.

“Close,” Kageyama pants, “do you want—”

Hinata shakes his head, hums around him, and Kageyama breaks off into breathless swearing. He wants to reciprocate, Hinata knows, but one of the less exciting things about Hinata’s physiology is how difficult it is for him to get and sustain an erection.

But that doesn’t matter. The entirety of his focus now is on Kageyama, on devouring Kageyama in every way he can, specifically the whole of his cock, and Hinata swallows, throat tightening around him.

He pulls off as Kageyama’s hips roll and he shudders violently, keeps his hungry little mouth open as Kageyama comes so he can watch it splash over Hinata’s lips and tongue. It makes Kageyama groan, which makes Hinata grin, and more of it gets on his face than in his mouth. He doesn’t mind.

When Kageyama finally flops backwards into the ground with a thud, Hinata crawls closer until their heads are at the same level and he can stare at Kageyama’s face.

“What,” Kageyama asks, without opening his eyes.

“You know what,” Hinata says.

“It felt really good,” Kageyama responds.

“Not that—”

Kageyama’s hand shoots out, and Hinata finds himself being yanked down, faceplanting into Kageyama’s chest.

“There’s nothing else to say,” Kageyama grunts.

Hinata is quiet, momentarily. He shifts, scooting to press up against Kageyama’s side. They need to move—they need to pull up Kageyama’s pants. They need to get back to their bus shelter.

“What’s happening to me?” Hinata asks.

Kageyama’s arm slides around his shoulders. It’s a comforting weight.

“I don’t know. But,” he says, “just blood was enough. So your number can’t be all that high. Whatever it is.”

That’s true. But a year ago, Hinata had never had cravings in his life. Something is still changing.

“We’ll just figure it out,” Kageyama says with a shrug. “We always have so far.”

“Yeah,” Hinata mumbles. Kageyama’s arm squeezes, very briefly. Then,

“Okay, come on,” he grunts, “my dick is freezing off.”

Hinata splutters. “Whose fault is that, Hornyama? I can’t believe you got off on that!”

Kageyama grabs his head painfully hard. “I’ll kill you.”

Hinata squawks and struggles, and for the moment, everything seems okay. Some things are changing, yes. But others, it seems, will always stay the same.

More kinktober? You’re really living on the edge…

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The Packers Path to Victory

Check out the latest on the Packernet Podcast as we prepare for the Packers matchup with the 49ers

Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, once again to the back of that podcast. I am your post and Resident panelist has always right and she lifts check it out online packernet.com. Find me on Twitter Pack underscore data. So today we’re going to have to start talking about the 49ers a little bit more because the game is tomorrow also going to be out of town again. So I’ve got the laptop that really just doesn’t even work. So we’ll just have to see how it goes obviously have to put out something but it might just be on my phone. I don’t know so we got to get in as much today as possible because tomorrow just stared there’s no guarantees cuz my laptop is so awesome. It takes like 45 minutes just to turn it on. So I’ve got some other NFL stuff. We’re just going to put off until another day next week, whatever and I do want to try to get into a usually what I do is sort of a deep statistical dive orbital PFF grades or or whatever. I want to do that a little bit, but I’m really I’m really starting to feel I should say starting I’m done. I’m just I’m fully immersed in the emotion of the

1m 8s – 2m 8s

And so I want to try to keep it somewhat cerebral but I’m having a hard time getting into that that had space cuz I am I’m just in full on. I mean it’s a combination between being overwhelmed that we’re even here and in were you know, if in 48 hours we’re going to know whether the Packers are going to the Superbowl less than that, obviously, but it’s more than twenty-four. So I just rounded up cuz it’s easier will call at 36 and say that’s probably closed and so I’m going to try to strike that balance today because we got to get into some kind of substance of thing, but I still feel like I got a lot to get off my chest and any other the other part of it is is that we’re so close but also the amount of trash talk that’s been going on his crazy and end if you been listening, you know, the one thing that’s going to bait me are terrible arguments. If you lay out an argument that says this is why the 49ers going to win. I don’t care at all. I’m going to read it not my head and go yet makes sense and move on cuz I just died. That’s fine. You’re allowed to think.

2m 8s – 3m 8s

Anybody can win and here’s my analysis and all right good good one, but just terrible argument, especially by the I’ll call them the blue checkmark folk just really about that. But supposed authorities people that are supposed to be in the know. They’re supposed to be above us that we’re just fans. They’re professionals. I can’t help myself man. I just can’t help it. So again, that’s my goal. Today is to strike that balance will see how it goes because we got both to talk about. So anyways, just want to say a big thank you to everyone that is now supporting on patreon. We are up to 58 patrons, which is fantastic anywhere. We’re well beyond any amount of support of ever had if you have the ability to support the podcast it would be very greatly appreciate it again as little as a dollar a month really goes a long way for me and I’m assuming for most all of you it did that’s not going to impact you very much the next goal I have set is to get up to a hundred patrons and when we get to that goal, but by the way

3m 8s – 4m 7s

The 18th we can get there by about forty two people that’s like going to 1% of the people listening. Then what I want to do for the giveaway is not only are you going to get whatever t-shirt you want you get to pick whatever design you want has to be Packers related has to be family friendly. Preferably something that can go in the store or not. You know, Jim is awesome. Go pack go like no man, but if you want to like za’darius snub sure, whatever you get to pick the design. I will go pay to have it design. I will put it in the store for sale and you will be getting one of those for free as of right now the giveaway is you go into the store you pick any item because we’re going to have a good day giveaway for everyone who is a patron or donor of any kind some people giving other ways. They are also included my goals and I’m hoping you can jump in and help me with that. Otherwise 5 * iTunes review Stitcher review any kind review would be greatly appreciated and again to make sure you are subscribing to the Packers podcast. Now remember that’s the name of the podcast.

4m 8s – 5m 7s

Ultra confusing thing and I apologize is that the correct podcast the logo says pack daddy the incorrect podcast the logo says packernet again. I apologize. It is what it is. Anyways, why don’t we just hurry up and take a break so we can get into this cuz I have a lot of things I want to say ladies and gents if you’ve got nagging muscle and joint pain, you got to at least check out omax Health. It is a natural breakthrough pain relief solution and it’s called cryofreeze CBD. It’s a role on develop Biomax health does no prescription needed triple-action pain relief and is specifically formulated to block the pain receptors and reduce inflammation. It is 100% natural. It’s CBD powered it works within 10 minutes and it’ll last up to eight hours anyone from professional athletes to Grandma Josie can benefit from the immediate pain relief. If you got pain that won’t go away then you need to know Max cryofreeze.

5m 8s – 6m 8s

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6m 8s – 7m 3s

Baseball players before and after in the great news is once it’s done you’re in Arizona on vacation. If you’re into like quirky art see Ghost Town e stuff. They got it. If you’re looking for a real nice Water Resort in up class high-class haute couture restaurants that got it. Whatever you want to do after you watch some baseball. You can do it. So planner spring training get away at visit arizona.com spring training, you know, you want to call right where to begin? Why don’t we start with a question from the Facebook group? This is from Taylor. Taylor says do you think this is Rogers best chance at another Super Bowl? I know the team is locked up a large part of the defense, but I think the lack of injuries this year is an oddity in with getting home field advantage in a bye last week. I’m not sure if we’ll get a better chance and he has right now also if he doesn’t make it doesn’t really hurt his legacy is being one of the best in the game matter of fact, is he the owner?

7m 4s – 8m 4s

O matter of fact is he’s only been to a single Superbowl got it. So I don’t want to again answer this in some kind of a lazy fashion cuz I know you’re looking for a direct like yes or no answer in terms of you know, like is this going to be the best team or whatever? I don’t know. The point is though the Packers have to act as though this is they’re not just best opportunity. It might be their last opportunity and that’s not a commentary on whether or not I think we’re going to get better. It’s just a fact of the matter of regardless of how we feel about what the potential is. We have to know. There’s a potential that there’s a Russian and there are some good points in terms of is this an oddity in other words. Look I said a lot last year about how the Chicago Bears were likely going to regress because things were performing higher than expectations certain things certain players certain whatever you could make a case of the Packers are in the same boat not obviously you can make it a case of the for example, the biggest lagging thing here is the often which is beginning to click and

8m 4s – 9m 4s

Is about to add a bunch of talent, of course, we can sit here and now they’re going to be much better next year possibly but let’s just for argument’s sake and for the sake of not wanting to be negative at this time of year. Let’s just say they do get better in 2011. The Green Bay Packers were 15 and one they didn’t win the Super Bowl that year. They haven’t won a Super Bowl since they haven’t even been to a Superbowl since 2010. This isn’t even about being better. The Super Bowl really is a different entity. It’s not about earning. It is not about deserving it. It’s not about it in terms of this is the best team there for you get in I would say even the best team has a is unlikely to get in it’s not about that anymore. That’s what everybody’s missing while 49ers better Chiefs or better bone. There you go teams like the Rams and the Chiefs and the 15 one Packers back in 2011 were deserving teams. That did not win a Superbowl at so even if the Packers get better next year that doesn’t mean they’re going to automatically get to the Superbowl, but let me continue to allow.

9m 4s – 10m 4s

This isn’t just an Aaron Rodgers issue because he’s getting up and made this isn’t just a Bryan bulaga tissue Randall Cobb was drafted in 2011 in his rookie year the Packers would 15 + watt Randall. Cobb has never been to a Superbowl Randall Cobb. Got let go by the team that drafted he’s about to become a free agent on his second team. Now, I don’t care if you’re Aaron Rodgers Kevin King or rashan Gary. This might be your last opportunity to have an opportunity to Simply win this game and be to the Super Bowl. I know it feels like a rookie therefore and I know from a Fan’s perspective. This is a young team we can get multiple Super Bowl. I know what it feels like and I know we can look into the future and say well they can just get better. So can everybody else. I’m sure guys like Derek Sherrod and Devon House were also drafted that you’re felt on top of the world. I’m sure there was a feeling of oh, well, we’ll get them next time which by the way if the Packers lose to the 49ers, that’s the mentality we’re all going to take.

10m 4s – 11m 4s

The fact of the matter is that 15 in one season was followed by five playoff losses and Then followed after that like two years of just missing the playoff. Do I think this is our best chance in terms of is this going to be the best team to win the Super bowl over the next 5-6 years? I don’t know. I would guess not I’m assuming they’re going to get better. But my point is it doesn’t matter if they get better. It’s entirely possible that get better and don’t get to the Superbowl you have to take what’s right in front of you right now and assume it’s never going to happen again. And again, it doesn’t matter if you’re 22 or 42 because even if the Packers get better guess what the Saints are still a team. The Seahawks are still a team the Vikings the 49ers the Rams and the Cowboys. They’re all teams that are good teams that have the ability to get better and win the Packers can get better next year and lose some of these clothes game 13 and 3 is is a near impossibility. Even for good team and forget about teams that are good. Now that might also get better. What about teams that are not very good that could have murdered her about the Cardinal the Young

11m 4s – 12m 4s

We’re back in and you know getting that whole system together. They have a good draft. Why can’t they the Eagles? You think they can’t get back on top the Giants? I don’t know about their leadership, but they’ve got a quarterback that got a running back. They started building that offensive line. They’re going to have some really high draft pick who’s to say they can’t get better. What about the Redskins with Haskin and the fact that they’re about to get Chase young similar to how the 49ers just got Nick Bosa and also have a newer better more talented Co there’s 32 teams is my point and being even the best out of 32 doesn’t guarantee you of of a darn thing. So, I don’t know if it’s their best chance, but this has to be everybody’s everybody’s mentality has to be this is it because it might be this is a very big deal and all they’ll be the obvious mentality is look this is just this is this is your what this thing is. Just getting started this only better from here at we have no idea what’s coming. What happened to this team is a Darius and press start the best pass-rush duo in football what happens if siderius just gets like 9

12m 4s – 13m 4s

Next next year or 10 or 11 and in Preston gets 8 that’s still better than we have had but it’s not this freakish Lehigh number even if we had a good wide receiver. I don’t know that that fully balances that out and I’m not trying to be negative. I believe the Packers are going to get better. I trust and Brian gutekunst. I trust and Matt LaFleur, I trust and Aaron Rodgers. I trust in his defense and Mike Pettine. I think they’re going to continue to get better. But again, it doesn’t matter if they get better. You are not guaranteed and NFC Championship game. Just cuz you got better does that mean you’re as good as the Vikings or the Saints or the 49ers do you think maybe they could get better? You think the Cowboys could make it better? Of course, they can’t so yes, everybody needs to act as though we will never get another opportunity again because the fact of the matter is there’s a very good chance if you don’t get there now, there’s a lot of guys on this team who will never ever see you Super Bowl and you can go back through the list of all the players that have come and gone through Greenbay since the last time they were at a Superbowl.

13m 5s – 14m 4s

The list is pretty long. It is not a foregone conclusion that we’re going to be here every year. This is a very very very important moment. This is a very very very important game and I I believe the Packers know what I hope they know it and especially the rookies Jimmy Graham doesn’t need to be reminded that this is probably his last chance marcedes Lewis probably doesn’t need to be reminded at the end the fact that Aaron Rodgers talks in every other interview about how the finality of his career is becoming very clear. He knows this could be his last opportunity. These guys don’t need reminding but guys, like jaire guys, like Darnell Savage and Elton Jenkin they need to recognize that they may never ever get another chance to get into a Super Bowl and win a Super Bowl championship and although it seems weird cuz it’s your rookie year. You got to recognize that. It’s true. So very good question and it took me awhile to think that through but at that that’s the best answer I’ve got I don’t know if this is their best. Yes, it’s their best chance because they’re there he’s all

14m 4s – 15m 4s

What words would you would you trade away this opportunity for the next five years like it if you had to guess or put money down on win the Packers win a Super Bowl. Would you bet on this year when they’re in the NFC Championship or would you look at the next 5 years in bed on that? You can put your money in the next 5 years. It’s not a terrible bet but I’m I’m I’m taking a bird in the hand approach. We’re here now. It seems weird. We shouldn’t be rookie head coach, right? We’re in a rebuilt. We just did a tear down a year ago. You shouldn’t be here this fast, but we are and we might not be here again. And so we’ve got to strike now. So I want to know move on to finish this so much overlap with all this, you know that the weird thing about this is that making a case for how and why the 49ers win is not a hard thing to do. It’s not hard. So what would possess somebody to make ridiculous cases? Why would you need to over exaggerate the case for the 49ers? They don’t need help. There’s no reason.

15m 4s – 16m 4s

July in the favor of the 49ers there a good football team. And so when you see on I believe it was ESPN the graphics going around all over the place talking about which matchups are the best in other words with the best quarterback who is the best wide receiver or receivers. It’s it’s 49ers all the way down the line with the exception of special teams, which is just weird. It’s all so strange that the only group left out. They included defense every unit on offense special teams and coaches, but they left out offensive line and area that’s pretty clearly in the favor of the Packers. What’s the 49ers are bad, but I find it a little strange. But why would you need to lie about the quarterback you actually believe Jimmy Garoppolo is a better quarterback than Aaron Rodgers even in a supposed down here for Aaron Rodgers. Is that your belief how why and based on what first of all you’re saying that the 49ers have better coaches, correct? So he has a better person.

16m 4s – 17m 4s

Getting stuff from his coaches according to you has better receivers. And so you would expect a guy that plays for a better team with better running backs better coaches better play calling better receivers and is a better quarterback would have better stats isn’t is that a reasonable expectation that a better quarterback with better weapons and better coaching wouldn’t would perform better than a not as good quarterback was not as good weapons. Not as good running back not as good coaches not as good play-calling but yet we’ve got Jimmy Garoppolo with 40 100 yards Aaron Rodgers with 4200 yards pretty similar. Aaron Rodgers is a head. But again, why would that be the case for the more they both have 28 touchdown, which is weird. You would expect you to have more cuz he’s better and is better weapons and running back and coaches. But then when you go to interceptions, Aaron Rodgers has for Jimmy G has 14 be on that if we look at Pro Football Focus, which is grading every single snap every single play. Aaron Rodgers has a

17m 4s – 17m 60s

85.3 overall great which is to say very good. Jimmy Garoppolo is a 77.7, which is good. If we look at the quarterbacks when there’s no pressure from a clean pocket who’s better. Jimmy garoppolo’s in 89.5. Basically Elite. Aaron Rodgers is a 91.3 unquestionably Elite. What about Under Pressure though? Aaron Rodgers draft all the way down to a 61.7 joist thrown for a thousand yards six touchdowns in a pig. Jimmy garoppolo’s grade is a 47.65 touchdowns, which is one last and 5 interception and he’s only thrown for 864 yards while Under Pressure. Why why would you say that? Why would you again even if you’re biased even if you’re a 49ers fan, maybe ESPN’s headquarters is out and in San Francisco tomorrow biased in Al Packer hating 49er fans. I don’t know you can still make the case. The 49ers are a better team.

18m 1s – 19m 1s

And keep your integrity by admitting Aaron Rodgers a better quarterback. That’s that’s the baffling thing about this you’re destroying your own credibility on live television for the sake of overstating a case. That doesn’t need to be overstated. You can just say Aaron Rodgers is better than Jimmy although Jimmy still good and you can make a case about the running backs, which is a fairly reasonable case. If you wanted to push that issue you can say they have a better running back group and a pack of fans want to dig in their heels on that. I’m probably not going to argue. Aaron Jones is the best running back of the group. If you want it. He’s the only one with over a thousand yard and he has 10 more touchdowns than anybody in San Francisco. However, he’s got a lot more attempts than anybody else. Also. He’s running for 4.5 yards-per-attempt Raheem mostert is running for five point six, Matt breida 4.9 yard. So unless you just want to say Aaron Jones has more touchdowns than Tevin Coleman and and mostert combined and Matt breida for that man, Matt breida.

19m 1s – 20m 1s

Kevin Coleman Foster combine have 17 touchdowns. Aaron Jones has 18 again. You can make the case if you want to but you don’t have to it’s pretty close. You could even make the argument that they have a better running back then Aaron Jones if you want to look at yards-per-attempt as your main metric, I just don’t understand the need to over exaggerate stuff again. It’s very simple based on lots of different metrics that you would come out with the fact that the 49ers are a better team. Why do you need to lie? There’s also been a lot of talk about the pass rushers. Yeah. The Packers have a couple of guys but the 49ers have just got this Elite front for it’s not even close. The Packers aren’t as good and they come up with these random statistic. And again, there’s no reason to lie. Your team doesn’t have to be the best in every single category in order for you to be right about something. This was a comment made on Twitter to game changers versus for game records. I’ll take the 49ers and that’s that’s that’s just a guy on Twitter, but that’s been

20m 1s – 21m 1s

Heated by a lot of people, so I just laid out the staff and I was even making a case that they’re entirely wrong, but the idea that there’s two guys against for guys is kind of just incorrect. Here are the team pressure percentages, and some people came out with her ear AIDS and all this nonsense to try to twist the numbers. The fact of the matter is pressure percentage is when you’re trying to get to the quarterback, how often do you do with number one on this list is the Darius Smith at 17.87% That is a ridiculous number that is almost never been reached in in PFF era history. Very very rare BOCES number to a 16.7 Ford is number 3 at 14th, then Preston at 13th and Armstead at 12 Kenny at 12 fackrell attend Buckner attend Gary a tent. So, it’s really just you got to elite elite guys into Darius and boat to very good guys in Ford and press then you got the good players in Armstead and Kenny were pretty even across the bull and then you’ve got the not terrible.

21m 1s – 22m 1s

Pass rushers in fackrell Buckner and Gary and I took all the guys with a certain amount of of snaps that are above the 10% Mark. It’s pretty even if it is as I guess the point that depending on the metric the Packers are better depending on you know, this or that the 49ers are better to look at Saks. It’s definitely the Packers best pass-rushers seems to be za’darius most pass rushers above 10 would be the Packers, but I’m sure there’s a lot of other metrics to look at that would say the 49er the birth of the bottom line is though they’re both Elite pass-rusher groups and the media narrative is that the 49ers are just on a different level. The Packers have za’darius was very good. But he’s not as good as Bosa. He’s nowhere near as good as bosun Ford combined with Preston and all that is just the Packers have a couple of improvement but the 49ers are on a different level and that’s just not true any idea that well, do you know they’re they’re much better against the run the Packers which if we want to go to the more well-rounded route, it is true the package of struggled against the run their 23rd in yards allowed 24.

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Open yards-per-attempt. Here’s the thing. The 49ers are 23rd in yards per attempt there one spot higher than a 17th in yards on the ground. They’re not that good men are not bad, but it’s not like this is an elite Defender by the way, all the talk about Elite defense in this and that this is an offensive football team. This is a team that wins with offense not as much defense. The defense has a mass of supporting factor for this is the this this team is number 2 on offense number 8 on defense in terms of points. Allow me to elaborate further. I’ve done a lot as far as correlations looking at statistics. I want to try that once but looking at Pro Football Focus cuz we can do a week-to-week look at position-by-position whether they performed really well or really poorly what the correlations are between winning and losing so if we start with defense obviously a better defensive performance is more largely going to correlate with win. The problem is it’s not as solid or direct of a correlation.

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Point in case case and point the 49ers best defensive performance in this is backed up by d v o l d v o a as well as PFF for all the anti PFF is dvoa and PFF varioline out of my most thing slight variation, but they’re very life best defensive performance by the 49ers all year with week 10 against the Seattle Seahawks. They lost that game worst performance. They had on defense by Favre week 9 against the Arizona Cardinals. They won that game offensively best performance was against Seattle Seahawks in week 17. They won that game worst performance Seattle Seahawks week 10 week 10 was simultaneously their defense is best game their offenses. Worst game guess what happened? Guess what one out there is a much stronger correlation between their offense of success and winning football game. Let me elaborate further looking at offensive grades over all week to week when the offense does not get to a 70 which is quote-unquote good when the offense is not good or was it when they are good?

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The team is 12 and elf when they don’t get to that 70 mark their two and three so this brings up another point and it’s one of the more frustrating things. I’ve seen it again. It goes to the to the point of just being embarrassed for people that call themselves professional. There’s another quote going around and essentially it’s I don’t see any way the Packers win. This is so logically incoherent. It’s unbelievable granted. This was said by a state’s I don’t even want to see the title cuz it’s so embarrassing to use her relatively high up people at NBC Sports. I believe the one of them is a Seattle guy. Maybe he’s just anti Packers. I don’t know maybe it’s just because it’s the 49ers and you got a good look at how good they are, right? You know, I don’t know but then you got the guy that said Mitch trubisky is better than Aaron Rodgers that dolt back this up, but here’s the logical inconsistency with it. It’s not a matter of can they win any team can win On Any Sunday? We know that so to say there’s no way is

25m 2s – 26m 2s

Eyerly self-defeating because you know, there’s a way the question is in every game what are the conditions in which the underdog wins that is a question you can ask and answer every single week for you to come out and admit that I can’t think of any possible way is your attempt to be spiteful. But again, you’re doing it at your own expense. Could you make yourself look dumb? We’re talkin about Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Jones Davante Adams David bakhtiari Bryan. Bulaga za’darius Smith Preston Smith, Kenny Clark King jaire Savage a most this is a talented football team with some of the better talent in the entire NFL in you’re coming out publicly saying I can’t think of a single way that that roster can beat the team that lost to the Falcons a couple weeks ago. I just don’t have that kind of imagination that that’s that’s that is entirely you saying I stink at my job and you’re doing it to be

26m 2s – 27m 1s

I don’t know you’re exaggerating a point. I just I just don’t understand the people that that want to make a a strong point by deliberately saying I’m a dummy. I can’t even fathom that you can’t think of a way you can get this is it this is the San Francisco 49ers team that is lost 3 game. This is a Packers team that is 114 game. You can’t think of the conditions in which a 14 wind team can beat a team that has been beaten this year. So, you know how the 49ers lose you have a very large sample size of how the Packers win and you can’t think of what those conditions might be and then you said it publicly that is shockingly embarrassing and if I was your employer, I would be appalled in the fact that this is like the fifth time that this has happened but we have people that are self-proclaimed intelligent people who walk around with their chest puffed out because of their title and then go on Twitter and demonstrate why they should not have any position of the kind is baffling to me by the way children.

27m 2s – 28m 2s

If you’re listening one of the biggest misconceptions is that adults know what they’re doing. We don’t if you have aspirations to go out and be something and do something the biggest and best piece of advice I can give you is that nobody knows what they’re doing. Everybody’s just Faking It with very rare exception. So if you’re good at something go do it a hundred percent because a lot of people in that industry are not very good at what they’re doing and I don’t mean to be disparaging but that is the exact reason. I started the Packers podcast. It suits my strengths and I’ve also listen to several Packers podcast. There’s some good ones. There’s some really really garbage podcast that’s life in a nutshell go. Look at the managing editor of NBC sports or whatever. Look at how that man’s brain works or doesn’t look at the guy at Terra Kiger from PFF this analytical website who who doubles down on the defense that defense doesn’t matter and that a game in which the Packers

28m 2s – 29m 2s

Defense beat the Seahawks offense was an example of that. If you have aspirations just push real hard and also make a lot of connections because that’s the only way I can think that people like this end up with jobs like those it’s not competence. Sometimes it might be but it doesn’t have to be that you got dreams push real hard you’ll get there if you’re good at something go for it. Cuz everybody else probably isn’t it remarkable to me anytime. You want to bait me into something just say ignorant nonsense like that and I spent 30 seconds this morning trying to find a condition in which the Packers we I come out here and find out that it’s it’s number one. It’s an offensive driven team because I turned off what the media says, which is that this is an elite defense with George Kittle. So it’s George kill and an elite defense. They do have a good defense. They’re their top 10 barely but their top 10 in point anyways, which is the only thing that really matters in football there a switch by the way, the Packers are 9th to the fact that that’s the big like the big thing is that the Packers have a pretty good defense for the 40.

29m 2s – 29m 59s

I was just on a different level but they’re not though beyond that. Let me illuminate something out. The only thing the Packers need to win. This game is an offensive performance. Yes that I mean the defense has to show up but we’re talking about a defense that is not allowed more than 23 points since the last time they play the 49ers which was an anomaly anybody saying this is going to be a repeat which is something that blue check mark people have been saying this is going to be a repeat of week 12 which again wildly ignorant but but the Packers have not allowed a lot of Point by the way, Seattle’s offense is pretty good and although they looked pretty gas by the end of that game. That’s because they had Russell Wilson running around this is not Russell Wilson. This is a static quarterback. And by the way that guy a lot of those pressures and socks came from Russell Wilson holding the ball a lot cuz nobody was open this defense with a very good pass-rush that was getting to Russell Wilson a lot and don’t the only reason they didn’t have 10 sacks is because of his ability to escape

29m 60s – 30m 60s

Table out 23 2010 13 15 and 13 the last few games they play one of those teams, by the way, the lowest of which was the Minnesota Vikings in Minnesota if the Packers defense keeps doing what it’s been doing, which I’ve been saying for a long time the magic numbers 24 and they have not allowed a team above $0.24 San Francisco and it’s only been a handful of teams that have gotten above 24 three to be exact Eagles and charges of the only other teams that have gotten a book 24. By the way those the only three teams that have ever beaten the Green Bay Packers if it is true that this offense is in a rhythm if it is true that they’re starting to get there grew. How can you not come up with a scenario in which the Packers win? Because ultimately I think that’s what this game comes down to on both sides of the ball. The defense is ability to stop the offense and look the 49ers offense has been better than the Packers. So that’s sort of the storyline if you want to make a case for the 49ers. It’s very simple on top of being home. It’s the fact that two very similar defenses are trying to stop two offenses and between the two offenses you have the

30m 60s – 31m 59s

15th ranked Packers offense trying to be stopped by the 49ers defense compared to the second-ranked 49ers offense against the Packers defense. The Packers defense has a more difficult job. That’s the simple case you make but the problem with that narrative is that it’s not that big of a a blowout scenario. It’s it’s more of the 49ers have a slight Edge and nobody wants to say that that you because again, the Packers are frauds Packers are useless 49ers of this Elite Juggernaut, which is a pretty wild exaggeration. The Baltimore Ravens statistically were a much better team than the 49ers. They’re gone. By the way, the Patriots defense was one of the better defense as we’ve seen a very long time the offense did struggle but they’re gone much better defense than the 49ers defense. So I’m not I’m not even going to sit here and try to Des Peres the 49ers cuz that’s silly because I care about my ability to think it’s not so much about reputation. I just don’t want to be dumb for my own sake and it would be dumb to to Discount the 49ers in San Francisco. That’s a tough.

31m 60s – 32m 50s

Matchup, but guess what? It’s the playoff but the point is every team right now. It’s got a tough matchup. The Titans have a tough matchup. The Packers have a tough matchup, but guess what the Chiefs also have a really tough game ahead of them. And so do the 49ers and anybody giving any message beyond that is dumb either they’re dumb on purpose or they don’t know it and I don’t know if this is like trying to grab as much attention as you can while everybody’s looking at the Super Bowl everybody’s looking at the NFL right now because we’re really close to the end. There’s only four teams left. So I got to just say the most ridiculous stuff to get as many retweets as possible doesn’t matter if I get ratioed. It’s just, you know, I just need as much attention as possible right now make myself look important. I don’t know. I really don’t understand why this would ever happen because look going back to the initial thing Packers versus 49ers Pass Run.

32m 51s – 33m 51s

Shrug is Awash. If you want to see the 49ers pass rushers better fine. I don’t care maybe I mean listen, they’re both good enough that if you told me the 49ers had a better day rushing the passer than the Packers did I wouldn’t be shocked in the least neither should anyone be shocked if the Packers have more success rushing the passer than the 49ers because guess what both teams have incredible pass-rush units. It’s not even really debatable and saying the Packers have no path to Victory is lazy. It’s just laziness. Anyways, let’s take a break and I want to zoom in a little bit more on the sort of analytical side of it look a little bit more specifically and what it takes and and what the conditions are for winning and losing because I actually care about learning these things. I actually want to grow as a person who watches football. I want to have actual opinions that matter and I want to give you information that’s actually nourishing as opposed to just walk into a room and just start swinging wildly just a hammer in search of an

33m 51s – 34m 51s

Knowing full well that I’m just going to shatter windows in and you know knockout Grandma, but I don’t care cuz I just want to be wild I don’t I don’t know I can tell you though if I ever get big enough to where I have like a website or anything and there are people making those kinds of arguments on Twitter. We’re going to have a conversation about that because I care much less about cloud and I’ll care much more about reputation and the fact that I hired someone that’s such a dummy that is admitting online that I have no ability. No and no amount of intelligence to come up with a scenario in which the Packers can beat the 49ers and then get out of here with hyperbole make statements that make sense sound intelligent for once in awhile, you know occasionally try your best. Can you do it? Maybe you shouldn’t be here if you can’t put a coherent logical statements and string them together and I’m a little bit more agitated than usual. I’m sorry and I made up a note to myself yesterday trying to be a little less angry. Let’s have fun.

34m 51s – 35m 30s

But I just I’m I’m I’m so I want the Packers to beat the 49ers so badly and it’s not even about the 49ers anymore. I used to really dislike the 49ers. I want all of these people who are saying all of this nonsense to go hide under a rock until August. Will they pop back out make more declarative statements and hope that we forgot cuz this is all nonsense and it’s just it just infuriates me. Everybody’s got their their things that they just can’t tolerate this. Is it for me people walking around with their chest out calling themselves Authority because Twitter says, yes, that’s who he says he is and then saying mindless nonsense and then sticking your nose up at people who give reasonable.

35m 31s – 36m 31s

Arguments about why you’re wrong, but then goes to a fall like you would know just it just makes me crazy but we’re going to take a break. I’m going to get up and walk around splash some cold water on my face when we to try to look at Stats facts and information for a little bit to close this thing out as let’s continue on looking at this offensive thing for the 49er. So for example, looking at points score when the team has scored 26 or more points their undefeated when they get to 24 points or less there three and three remember 24 points is the magic number again. This is all right. I’m not upset point is though if you want an answer to the question, how did the Packers win this game? It’s relatively simple. The defense needs to do what it’s done all year keep the San Francisco 49ers to 24 or less points again. Only three times this entire year has a Teamster past 24 points on this defendant if they can do that again, they put the seat of the 49ers of Sorry For Keeps.

36m 31s – 37m 31s

Seahawks are why I’m confused right now. They put the 49ers in a situation where they’re at about 50% That’s that’s a tough spot to be in because you look at him you said well, this is a team that won a lot of a lot of game 9/14 win team that went on this other games. Okay, but if you divide told you right now or if you told me that this team is only going to get 24 points. This is a 50 fit. This is a coin flip. So this this this is largely been in the the floor is set by the defense, right? So that’s that’s the defense. They look just get above 24 or in this case get 26 or higher Devon four25. So the line is is a couple points thick and typically the way that you gauge it got to kind of think this through for a second. The lower. The line is on your side the better the other portion of the team is so for example that the line that the defense sets for the offense is about 20, 25 points right above it. You win below at your 50/50. So that’s the line that the defense sets for the often does not bad, right? The Packers are a

37m 31s – 38m 30s

The better their line is about 24 or technically, I guess 23 because if you can score at least 24 points were in good good position here on the flip side of this looking at the defendant again, it’s slightly less predict. If I were to send a line it would still be at about 26th. The team would win offensive score more than 26 Point Thayer again 50% there too and to however there is one outlier the defense held the Baltimore Ravens to 20 points and they didn’t win why cuz the offense didn’t hold their end of the bargain again. The point is the offense has been the main driver of this team. And so what you see when that’s the case is that when the main driver doesn’t do its job the team doesn’t the team’s odds of losing go up really high similar to what we’ve seen with Aaron Rodgers in the past. Aaron Rodgers is the main move the offense more broadly is the main move with the offense isn’t doing its job what happened? It didn’t matter if the defense was having a good day. You know this go back two thousand nine 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 18 with the exception of a couple years.

38m 31s – 39m 30s

Defense being okay, you know full well, even if the defense is having a fairly good day at the office just can’t get moving we’re done and so that is largely the case with the 49ers. I’m just drilling at home because that has not really been the narrative. And so I think the biggest goal going into this. Although it’s a mean they’re good on both sides of the ball is that if you want to win you have to find a way to shut down the offense the good news for the Packers is if if if you were to tell me that the Packers are either going to dominate their defense or the defense is going to dominate their offense. Which do you think the Packers would have an easier time do it and I don’t mean to say it easy against second highest scoring offense in football, but could you see a path for example in which the Packers defense is disruptive enough that the 49ers aren’t exactly have in their best and I can remember we’re just saying keep them to 2424 point isn’t a terrible day. So are we saying the Packers at their best can’t keep the 49ers 24-point. It’s happened 6 times already this year the Falcons come from 222 the Rams come from 222.

39m 31s – 40m 30s

Redskins Captain 9 going to be in the 49ers even won that game is cuz they didn’t allow a single point to be scored by the Redskin so that would definitely be an example of the defense carrying that game but it’s it’s an outlier. Let’s look at something else. I talked a little bit about comparing Aaron Rodgers to Jimmy Garoppolo, but let’s take that information and say how do we disrupt this off in again? 24 points doesn’t guarantee a victory but it it drops a 14 went down to AAA 500 team a 50/50 15 similarly if we compare Jimmy Garoppolo with no pressure compared to pressure. It’s night and day in this is true with most teams. But again, we’re trying to figure out how to make this team. Not an elite football team. Let’s let’s look at it again when Jimmy Garoppolo is not under pressure 276 completions an 81.1 completion adjusted completion for 7 that is removing throwaways drops and batted passes. If you don’t want to do that, it’s still 73.2 which is insanely High. He’s thrown for 3245 yards 23

40m 31s – 41m 30s

Touchdowns nine interception 8.6 yards per attempt. He’s very very good contrast that with any time. Jimmy Garoppolo is under pressure 54% completions 864 yards 7.3 yards for a temperature still pretty high five touchdowns 5 interception sacked 38 times. So again a big part of the equation is the quarterback in the question is are we going to face a really good quarterback when I really bad quarterback and I’m telling you there’s a direct line between whether he’s pressured or not Which Wich just logically means the more times we pressure him the more times we get the 47 overall the another words. The bad is Jimmy Garoppolo and the times in which we can’t fresh when we get Elite Jimmy Garoppolo and then the blending of the two ends up being an average as far as how good of a game Jimmy Garoppolo has had meaning fresh air compressor compressor him in this is self-evident the Packers win if we can pressure Jimmy Garoppolo, they suddenly have a bad quarterback.

41m 30s – 42m 30s

All they have to do it if we just look at the grades Jimmy Garoppolo his hat the best game. He played all year and kind of by a lot with week 17 against Seattle the worst game. He played all year was week 10 against Seattle again. This is a big piece. I know he’s not the George Kittle of the often but George Kittle isn’t getting the ball if Jimmy Garoppolo in playing right the best game he played all year in a loss. He got graded out at a 63, which is barely out. The other games was a 44 + a 49 against Baltimore any game in which Jimmy Garoppolo head even a 65 overall gray. They won the game. I’m not saying this is the only key but there’s a massive component because I can’t remember the offense is more the keys in the defense and Jimmy Garoppolo is the main component of the office. He’s not the best player on offense, but he’s the easiest disruption. The Packers can have because taking away George Kittle. It’s probably going to be a lot more complicated than just disrupt.

42m 30s – 43m 30s

Jimmy Garoppolo before he can even get the ball to George Kittle. So I think at the end of the day this comes down to an endless in a lot of the success from the past comes from being able to run the ball successful again. I mentioned Raheem mostert in his ability to run for a lot of yards. And if you remember when we looked at the Detroit Lions, it was a high yards-per-attempt, but really that just came in a couple of game and a relatively small sample size. That’s not the case here last week Raheem had 4.8 yards per carry the week before that 5.7 4.8 3.96 Point 97.7 7.5 since Green Bay, that’s what he’s done prior to that the yard percent wasn’t that good since then pretty solid every single week. There was a 3.9 in there, but there’s also a 75077 us-69 this guy in particular in the 49ers and general have run the ball very, well. You run the ball. Well, it it hurts our ability to rush the passer because we’re not shooting is hard in the backfield. We’re not disrupting the quarterback and then he’s able to destroy

43m 30s – 44m 30s

The ball my thought on that is that the running the ball in order to try to get you to back off so that they can throw because that’s how they win football game. We have to stay committed to rushing the passer if you got a tweet something or just something change something to try to stop the run that doesn’t involve backing off the pass rusher if you want to keep them in Titanfall. It’s a corner. I don’t care how you do it because stopping the run is very important. But if they want to run for a lot of yards and rack up yards and still lose the game, I’m fine with that. It’s like a magic trick Matt don’t watch you know, the flashing object is moving their hand around trying to distract you while all the while. The other hand is the one sneaking into the pocket. They’re trying to distract you with the run or trying to scare you with the Run. They ran for 174 yards fifth-highest. They ran all year against the Baltimore Ravens. They still lost that game hundred 74 yards is a lot of rushing yards. Let him Dazzle you with their ability to run the ball because the fact of the matter is in that same game. He only threw for 157 yards, which is the fourth-lowest all C’s

44m 31s – 45m 30s

Fifth highest rushing yards 4th lowest passing yards. They lost that game. Don’t be scared of them running the ball find a way to stop it. If you can it’s going to help you but keep coming for Jimmy keep going after them the same way you did Russell because the fact of the matter is getting Russell five times as unbelievable because they had them in their sights at least 10 times. The only reason again, they didn’t have 10 sacks is cuz of his ability to scram Jimmy Garoppolo Ain’t That way not going to happen. So Darius Kenny Preston Rashawn fackrell Lake anybody that wants to get in on the corners the safeties the more heat we get on that guy the better our chance of winning this game again, he’s got just as good of a chance when he’s under pressure of throwing a touchdown as he does a Pick 5 touchdowns 5 interception that game against Seattle in week 10 very very close game Seattle. It listened Seattle’s not as good of a football team is the 49ers right that sort of overall broad statistical more statistics are going to line up for the 49ers and the Seahawks.

45m 31s – 46m 30s

Nothing, but the Seahawks found a way to scrap and battle and win again. That was his worst game and it’s not a coincidence. That was the second most amount of sacks. He had all your he was sacked five times in that game. Of course, there’s a million different keys and in things that are going on in any given game but this is the biggest one in that game against San Francisco. Za’darius did not play that terribly but he had five pressures. That’s one of the lowest he’s had all year Preston only had two pressure Kenny Clark had one pressure. There were 10 total pressures in the entire game 10 freshers. There were 30 last week against Seattle 30 Kenny Clark had seven by himself including a sack. He only had one pressure against San Francisco last time Preston Smith had seven pressures za’darius Smith had 11 pressure talking about this past week and interesting enough. The pressure is already. It’s it’s a giant vac the Lions, you know, obviously not that good of a team right almost beat the pack. Is it a coincidence?

46m 31s – 47m 30s

Since the Packers only had 11 pressures in the game to Darius had six Preston and Kenny Clark had zero pressures in the game, even though the Ben Baldwin to the world and what not all the way perfectly agree with the statement that he made he’s pointed out if you look at DV away, it’s the defense that is massively improved over the last year not the often and I disagree that it’s while then they should have got rid of Mike McCarthy on his phone. Do you watch the games and saw the play calls in the end? It was pretty well known that this is a very vanilla Often by the way, just terrible play calling. I mean the plays are not that creative and Innovative. I think there’s something else going on there. First of all, the talent level is still what it was last year add in the fact that despite it’s a newer better scheme. It’s a more unfamiliar skis, but that’s that’s beside the point. The point is this is a team that right now is being driven by defense and that’s okay, but we need the defense to do its job and primarily the main mover. The main driver is pressure Seattle game. We won that because

47m 30s – 48m 30s

30 pressures and 5 sacks in that game. How do we beat the Minnesota Viking 20 pressures six sacks at least PFF calculate. They don’t do half sack even if you don’t like that number for the official box number was five. That’s how the team does a man when they rise up and B teams are not supposed to be in environment. They’re not supposed to be comfortable in its the defense that brings that pressure that gets the other team uncomfortable cuz that’s the main factor when you’re at home in an environment in which you don’t lose the 49ers are comfortable right now. They know they’re very good football team and they are they know they don’t lose at home with the exception of the Ravens but you know, the Raven was closed, but they know they know they’re a really good team and this is their house and they’ve got a great game plan and they trust that Shanahan those LaFleur inside out and they trust that they got this all figured out but that first time za’darius shoots through the line and berries Jimmy garoppolo’s head into the ground is the moment that all that confidence goes right out the window. Suddenly the Roar of the crowd isn’t there backing you up anymore? Suddenly you realize this is

48m 30s – 49m 30s

Something that’s just going to be pushed around it as much as you might think we’re better siderius doesn’t care as not going to make it hurt less when you see Kenny Clark is just a wild animal. That won’t stop rashan. Gary is is literally just a wild animal he’s unrefined. But he’s while and you look at the size of him and you wonder how can a man move that fast? I don’t know if you had a chance to go see if you can find he had one pressure on the game last week. It was his first play only had like 9 Russia’s so it was at 7, I think actually seven times you rush the passer the first time you did it again. That was the most za’darius Smith. Ask rush I’ve ever seen it was just I’m going to squeeze right between two guys about the other guy wasn’t really blocking but it wasn’t really so much technique. It was just I’m better. I’m bigger. I’m stronger. I’m faster and I’m going to squeeze past you I’m going to go around you and I’m going to hunt from the back side. And if you didn’t get cut his legs cut off from underneath them. He might have gotten Richard Russell Wilson from behind. I don’t care what you think. I don’t care what the stats say. None of that matter.

49m 30s – 50m 30s

You have to find a way to operate in that environment in this will be a hostile environment. I don’t care whose house it is. That is the key. That is the goal disrupt if his offense is able to get in Rhythm. They will hang up 30 points again 37 to be exact and that was really it that that that’s what it came down to right. What did I say that the key essentially for both teams is the defense needs to find a way to disrupt the offense. The Packers could not disrupt the offense. They got into a rhythm and essentially just scored on every driving right up 37 points the 49ers defense against a struggling bakhtiari and Alex light were able to disrupt Aaron Rodgers on almost every single drop back causing them to not be able to get into a rhythm and get a point. That was the key then it’s the key. Now. The question is will the Packers defense rise to the occasion this time or not. Will the Packers offensive line rise to the occasion or not? Those are the only two questions that matter if the answer is yes, the Packers have a very good chance of winning this game. It’s up to the offensive.

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defensive line of the Green Bay Packers bottom line

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just like I said before Aaron Rodgers just needs an opportunity to be the hero. The defense needs to keep the ball in his hand. Keep the score low the offensive line needs to give him a chance to stand on his feet and deliver a ball. Just give him the chance to be the hero and bring this team to a Super Bowl and I believe he will do it. Anyways, that’s all I got you folks. Enjoy your Saturday. As always. I will talk to you tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll get something out one way or another, but otherwise you folks have yourself a fantastic day. Talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye.

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(CNN) — Whop, whop, whop. The thump of the rotors fades as the helicopter lifts away. Silence, just for a moment — a chance to drink in the pristine peaks. Then the rush of excited chatter as skis or snowboard are clicked on and the group turns to listen to the guide.

Hearts beat faster, like the noise of the aircraft that brought you here. Now it’s time to plunge into paradise …

Heli-skiing is the ultimate challenge for the powder-hungry skier or boarder in the never-ending quest to carve tracks in soft snow. Leaving the lifts and crowds far behind, it takes winter sports to a higher plane.

Like all travel luxuries, it doesn’t come cheap — and bad-weather days are an occupational hazard. But if powder is the priority, there’s a heli adventure out there for everyone from decent intermediates to movie-making hotshots.

Veteran ski-film maker Warren Miller says: “If you don’t go this year, you will be one year older when you do.”

In no particular order, these are 12 of the world’s best heli-ski spots:

1. Alaska — Chugach Range

Why: The authentic Alaska experience, and the setting for so many extreme ski movies. Big mountains, big lines, steep and deep.

The Chugach Mountains surrounding Valdez receive an annual average of nearly 700 inches (17.7 meters) of snow. Being near the coast means the snow is moist and therefore provides more stability for skiers on steep slopes.

Valdez Heli-Ski Guides specialize in big mountains and small groups, with four guests per ship accessing Alaska’s famed spines and iconic terrain. Its benchmark Eurocopter A-Star B2 helicopter delivers passengers atop leg-jellying runs averaging 3,000 to 5,000 vertical feet (914 to 1,524 meters).

Afterward, the Tsaina Lodge offers gourmet dining with views over Washington Glacier. Three-day packages start at $4,744; seven days at $11,076.

Who: Big-name extreme skier Dean Cummings’ H20 Guides are also based in Valdez, while Chugach Powder Guides operate out of Girdwood in the western Chugach.

2. Alaska — Tordrillo

Skiers cheer a flyover from the hot tub at the Tordrillo Mountain Lodge Après-ski.

Courtesy of Tordrillo Mountain Lodge

Why: Epic terrain, Denali views, stable weather, wilderness lodge

From Anchorage, a short float-plane hop to Judd Lake reaches Tordrillo Mountain Lodge, a luxury retreat featuring two separate wilderness lodges, co-owned by 1994 Olympic downhill skiing champion Tommy Moe.

Tommy’s taxis fly people into 1.2 million acres of heli heaven in the shadow of North America’s highest peak, Denali (Mount McKinley), at 20,310 feet.

The heavily glaciated Alaska Range is on a grand scale and offers endless terrain options to keep skiers challenged, with runs that top out at 7,500 feet and more stable weather than other Alaskan spots.

3. British Columbia — Bella Coola

Adventurous skiers experiencing some of the 73,333 acres per person of powder on offer via Bella Coola Heli Sports.

Courtesy of Eric Berger

Why: Fluffy snow, spiritual setting, heli holy land

This place is home to the First Nation community of Nuxalk people in the Coast Range of British Columbia, and is a gateway to nirvana for skiers and boarders.

Bella Coola Heli Sports, two time winner of the “Worlds Best Heli-Ski Operation” at the World Ski Awards, has access to a blade-busting 2.64 million acres of prime Pacific powder — light and dry in the mellower east, more stable for steep skiing in the west. That’s 325 times the size of Whistler-Blackcomb, 90 times the size of France’s vast 3 Vallees and, heck, bigger than the Swiss Alps.

There’s so much terrain — 73,333 acres per person — powder 11s, not powder 8s, are the order of the day. (In the summer there’s heli-fishing.)

Who: Bella Coola Heli Sports‘ Classic Vertical package offers seven nights and eight possible ski days — guests can heli-ski straight from the airport on arrival and departure days — with 100,000 vertical feet of skiing — from $11,280, including return flights from Vancouver to Bella Coola.

A few resorts in the U.S. and Canada are now offering extreme ski trips where a helicopter ride takes you away from the crowds and straight to fresh snow.

4. British Columbia — Revelstoke

Bighorn Lodge is not only gorgeous, but it also comes with its own helipad.

Courtesy of Bighorn

Why: The epicenter of BC backcountry.

What happens when moist Pacific air meets cold, dry air from the Rockies? “Revy” cops the mother lode, that’s what — 40 to 60 feet a year of powder so light and fluffy it could be used to stuff a comforter.

If that isn’t enough, there’s Bighorn Lodge. This ultra-luxe alpine-style chalet for 16 overlooking the Columbia River at the foot of Revelstoke Mountain Resort has its own helipad out front.

They’ll need pockets as deep as the snow, but floating down open bowls gulping in white champagne, or whooping and hollering through old growth forests with just three pals and a guide is priceless.

Almost.

Who: Bighorn costs about $7,5360 for the lodge in a high-season week, excluding heli-skiing. Six days private use of B2 A-Star helicopter is about $6,7824 (skiing in 1-3 groups of up to 4 guests per group).

5. British Columbia — Mica

Why: Powder of the finest kind + a tree-skier’s paradise far from the crowds = Mica magic.

Two hours north of Revelstoke, Mica Heli Sports mines a 500-square-mile claim at the convergence of the Rocky, Selkirk and Monashee mountain ranges. Accessible only by chopper, Mica Lodge is an elegant stay located high above the Columbia River, with access to 11 valleys with a variety of terrain, from steep alpine lines in Tsar Creek to the forests of Molson and Kinbasket Valleys.

Memories of runs with names such as Pillow Talk, Mr. Wiggles, Melt Down, High Sweetness and Saddle Soar will sustain skiers for at least a couple of months back at their desks.

Canadian Mountain Holidays, which pioneered BC heli-skiing when Austrian expat Hans Gmoser set up the outfit in 1965, operate their Monashees base a short hop away.

6. British Columbia — Bell 2 Lodge

Heli-skiing on the Skeena Mountains in British Columbia, bordering Alaska, will satisfy most thrill seekers.

Courtesy of Dave Silver

Why: World’s largest heli-ski area, huge dumps, wild terrain

Among the steep peaks and deep stashes of remote northern British Columbia lies a remote heli-ski lodge which accesses the most extensive heli-ski terrain on the planet. Bell 2 Lodge sits in the Skeena Mountains 220 miles northwest of Smithers and is the base for Last Frontier Heliskiing, which was established in 1996.

The vast area offers everything from high alpine faces to wide open bowls to epic tree skiing in small groups of up to four. For those looking for even more adventure, Last Frontier Heli also operates a second base, Ripley Creek. It’s based in Stewart, a mining town on the border with Alaska at the southwestern edge of its tenure.

Here are four underrated ski resorts where fewer crowds means more space to ski, snowboard and speed your way through stellar powder.

7. Switzerland — Zermatt

Experiencing first tracks near the summit of western Europe’s second highest mountain, the Monte Rosa (15,200 feet) is a sublime feeling.

Courtesy of Michael Portmann

Why: Big descents amid alpine giants, majestic Matterhorn views, rich mountain culture. Heli-skiing in Europe is a slightly different game, more limited by where you can drop than by snow conditions.

Air Zermatt lifts passengers above the roofs of the picturesque old town for a quick buzz of the Matterhorn before settling the skids near the summit of western Europe’s second highest mountain, the Monte Rosa (15,200 feet).

Surrounded by other 13,000-foot giants such as the Lyskamm and Breithorn, the vast Gorner Glacier stretches out below 8,200 feet of slopes — via a pit stop at the glimmering aluminum Monte Rosa hut at 9,458 feet.

Other favorite drops are on the Alphubel, the Aeschhorn in the shadow of the mighty Weisshorn or the Testa Grigia on the border with Italy.

Or the chopper can be used as an aerial elevator up the big slogs of the famous Haute Route from Zermatt-Chamonix, saving legs for the many stunning descents.

Who: Air Zermatt charges $415 per person for a drop on Monte Rosa, including the guide’s fee. A drop at Alphubel is $395 and at Aeschhorn for $385. James Orr Heliski offers trips out of the unspoiled Italian village of Alagna, accessing nearly 30 drop sites on the Italian and Swiss sides of Monte Rosa.

8. Japan — Hokkaido

Hokkaido receives up to 60 feet of snow annually — the perfect recipe for skiing through birch trees.

Courtesy of Alister Buckingham Photography

Why: So Instagrammable. Let’s say it with hashtags: #deep #snowfactory #bringyoursnorkel #sushi #sake

Like floating through cold smoke, skiing in Japan is a revelation on and off the hill. It might be called the Land of the Rising Sun, but in winter Siberian storms dump industrial quantities of snow — the northern island of Hokkaido receives up to 60 feet of snow annually.

A helicopter just increases the options — skiing on dormant volcanoes and through perfectly spaced birch trees in powder so deep that a snorkel would come in handy. Niseko resort is big into night skiing. Or visitors can relax in an onsen (hot springs) and contemplate life, powder and sushi.

9. New Zealand — Southern Alps

Southern Lakes Heli-Ski in New Zealand offers access to 3,200 square miles of skiing across 17 different mountain ranges, including the Clark Glacier.

Courtesy of Southern Lakes Heliski

Why: For northern hemisphere dwellers seeking an endless winter, and southerners with a sense of adventure.

Southern Lakes Heli-Ski operates out of Queenstown and Wanaka from July to September, with access to 3,200 square miles across 11 different mountain ranges, including the Clark Glacier. Most terrain lies between 3,937 and 8,480 feet, with a typical run from 1,968 to 3,280 feet vertical.

Single-day trips are more the norm in New Zealand but there is something for everyone — from three-run intro trips to the full luxury lodge experience, staying at the Minaret Station Alpine Lodge wilderness retreat.

Who: Southern Lakes Heli-Ski’s four-run classic trip costs $760, with extra runs at $80. A three-day unlimited private package starts at $10,500.

10. India — Himachal Pradesh

Hitting the Himalayan slopes just an hour north of Delhi should be a part of any skier’s trip to India.

Courtesy of Elemental Adventure

Why: Heli fun on a Himalayan scale, with a vibrant valley for downtime. An hour’s flight north of Delhi lies the hill station of Manali, known as the Valley of the Gods. Then it’s up to 16,400 feet for lung-bursting descents among Himalayan giants.

The Himachal Pradesh region has everything on the heli hit list, from skiing steep summits to racing down ridges, and plunging into birch, oak and cedar forests. The action will, literally, take any skier’s breath away, if the vast views of nearby 21,325 foot peaks haven’t already. Off the hill, the exotic Kullu Valley and its stimulating culture excite the senses as much as the skiing.

Who: Elemental Adventure‘s Himalayan Odyssey package offers six days’ heli-skiing including transfers from Delhi and 100,000 vertical feet from $7,607.

11. Russia — Kamchatka

Ski UNESCO World Heritage back-country with Elemental Adventures heli packages in Russia.

Courtesy of Ludmila Figura

Why: Untamed, raw, wild and like nowhere you’ve skied before.

Burning thigh muscles might not be the only thing on fire in this remote wilderness. The vast Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea is home to 200 volcanoes — 29 of which are active. But geomorphology isn’t why people come here.

It’s to ride big Russian choppers up smoking summits and hurtle down volcanic faces, couloirs, open bowls and tree runs until they end up on the beach. The capital, Petropavlovsk, is the base, but the UNESCO World Heritage back-country is the playground. With a highest landing zone at 11,388 feet, some descents can nudge 9,840 feet.

Who: EA Heli-skiing offers a seven-night Fire and Ice package with eight hours of flying time for $7,625.

12. Luxury yacht — anywhere

Why: Why not?

If an off-the-peg heli-skiing trip is too mundane, luxury yacht owners can simply sail within touching distance of mountains and jump on a helicopter from their deck each morning. The beauty is they can keep moving, sniffing out new spots.

Skippers can deliver the yacht to the inland waterways of Alaska, British Columbia, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, wherever. Then it’s just a matter of flying into the ultimate ski run.

Don’t have a yacht but like the idea? That can be arranged. But anyone who has to ask how much it costs probably can’t afford it.

Yachting into the mountains for the ultimate ski run is a truly priceless experience.

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Rob Hodgetts has worked for CNN Sport, BBC Sport, BBC News and Reuters and reported from numerous Winter and Summer Olympics, as well as the U.S. Masters and Ryder Cup.

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(PREFACE: If you’re tagged, you don’t have to do it! It’s perfectly fine!!)

Tagged by @allsparked, thanks :3

Rules: Tag 10 followers you’d like to know better.

Name: Lauren

Nickname: Hmm… one friend calls me nerd and grahmcracker but not on a regular basis. Other than that I don’t really have any

Gender: Female

Sign: Capricorn

Height: 5'4" ish

Age: How about we go with older teens

Sexual Orientation: Um… probably straight but I’m still questioning if that’s alright

Hogwarts House: Friends tell me I am Hufflepuff (I’m not a huge Harry Potter fan)

Favorite Color: Light blue or just blue in general I guess. I’m partially colorblind so blue and purple look the same anyway

Time right now: 7:23

Average hours of sleep: 8 to 10

Lucky number: 8

Last Google search: Gaston Lefou cosplay because I’m thinking of going as a duo with my cousin (may not happen but we’ll see)

Favorite fictional characters: Oh yikes, here we go. From transformers: Bumblebee, Shockwave/Longarm, Knockout, the jet twins in animated, Prowl, and Blurr. From Disney: Lefou (2017 BATB movie version), Baymax, Stitch, and K2SO (star wars is now Disney so I’m allowed to say that). Also, Bilbo Baggins and 9 from the Shane Acker movie.

Blankets I sleep with: Anywhere from 7 to none, it depends on the weather

Favorite bands/artists: Oh man, where to start… Imagine Dragons, Pat Benatar, Lady Gaga, Imogen Heap, Heart, Fall Out Boy, Queen, Bon Jovi, The Eagles, Hozier, Daughtry, Journey, Maroon 5, Celtic Woman, Christina Perri… The list goes on and on.

Dream trips: Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Galapagos

When did you make this blog: about 2 years ago in September

Follower count: 109 (wow)

When did your blog reach its peak: Huh… Probably not yet since the followers have been slowly trickling in and I’m still wicked active on here

Why did you choose your url: My friend @fezespancakes said to me: “what a nerd” when I told her I wanted to follow in her footsteps and make a Tumblr account after her. Since whatanerd was already taken I just went to add an 8 since it was my lucky number but added two 8s on accident. Needless to say, I didn’t feel like going back and changing it so the url just stuck, and alas, here I am.

I’ll tag: @yume-hime016, @bpd-jetfire, @lyndaxly, @bubbybot, @the-eventual-psychologist, @nanger-doodle, @caseymoore05, @cutiefrankie, @hanvii82arts, and @lumicuous. Again, you don’t have to do it, it’s fine :)

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OH GOSH KATIE. HERE I GO.

—-chocolate: when was your first kiss? - I haven’t had one lmao

french vanilla: how old are you? -I am currently 19.

cotton candy: three places you want to travel to? -Japan, New Zealand, and Greece.

strawberry: a language you wish you could speak? -Japanese

coffee: favorite cosmetic brands? -I don’t usually wear makeup so I honestly don’t know.

mint chocolate chip: indoors or outdoors? -Indoors, but outdoors can be nice sometimes.

cookie dough: do you play any instruments? -I play clarinet.

rocky road: favorite songs at the moment? -Monster and Telepathic by Starset.

butter pecan: favorite songs for life? -I honestly can’t pick just one.

cheesecake: what’s your zodiac sign? -Gemini

toasted coconut: the beach or the pool? -BEACHchocolate chip: what’s your most popular post? -I think it was that Atlas picture I posted of APH America. Either that or the nations on a playground.

bubblegum: books or movies? Books.

pistachio: manga or anime? Both.

salted caramel: favorite movies? Rise of the Guardians, Hunchback of Notre Dame, How to Train Your Dragon, The Giver, Captain America.

birthday cake: favorite books? Incarceron, any book in the Percy Jackson or Magnus Chase series, Harry Potter, Journal #3.

moose tracks: favorites for manga? 07 Ghost, A Silent Voice, Hetalia, Fullmetal Alchemist.

orange sherbet: favorites for anime? Hetalia, Yuri on Ice, Haikyuu, Wolfs Rain, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sweetness and Lightning.

peanut butter: favorite academic subject? English.

black raspberry: do you have any pets? I have five dogs and I love them all.

mango: when and why did you start your blog? I started my blog in… I don’t know, like 8th or 9th grade I think? I started it because of all the fandom stuff on here.

mocha: ideal weather conditions? Wet and rainy or cold and sunny.

black cherry: four words that describe you? Awkward, shy, creative, empathetic.

neapolitan: things that stress you out? Everything. Mostly socializing, grades, and the future.

raspberry truffle: favorite kind of music? Rock.

chocolate marshmallow: favorite brands of candy? M&Ms, Three Musketeers, anything milk chocolate.

toffee: a card game that you’re good at? The basic ones usually, like war and crazy 8s.

lemon custard: do you eat breakfast? Sometimes.

dark chocolate: turn ons? Generally moppy hair, and… I don’t know. If I can have a creative, intellectual or personal conversation with you that usually works.

fudge: turn offs? Being an asshole.

peach: how do you relax? I usually listen to music, draw, or write.

praline: a popular book you haven’t read yet? I think Red Queen was popular and I still haven’t read it.

superman: do you like sweaters? YES.

cherry: do you drink tea or coffee? I drink herbal tea sometimes. Rarely ever drink coffee.

dulce de leche: an instrument you wish you could play? Piano.

blackberry: have you ever laughed so hard you cried? Yes.

ginger: a new feature you wish tumblr could have? Let you find favorited posts easier, I guess?

blueberry lemon: favorite blogs? Ask blogs, @cookies-hetaoni @spades-kin @legolastheunicorn @echoes-of-reason @joseph-nostar @twerpledino @xonference @narnian @constanthazeof There are a lot more that I’ll probably add after I post this.

almond: favorite mean girls quote? “She doesn’t even go here.”

butterscotch: what color are your nails right now? Natural color.

cinnamon: have you ever been confessed to? Yes.

blue moon: have you ever had a crush on someone? Yup.

cappuccino crunch: do you take naps? Sometimes. Depends on if my brain will let me fall asleep.

mint: the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done? Aha I got a list for you, buddy.

brownie batter: do you like sushi? Yes.

key lime: where do you want to be right now? At home, on a hiking trail, or sleeping.

red velvet: do you wear prescription glasses? No.

green tea: favorite flavors of ice cream? Anything chocolate, and chocolate/vanilla swirl frozen yogurt.

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How to Build a Pergola Step by Step

How to Build a Pergola Step by Step Outdoor Living

, How to Build a Pergola Step by Step,

A pergola in your backyard can help you enjoy your garden from the shade. This enables you to spend time in the outdoors on sunny afternoons without getting sun burnt or having to stay cooped up indoors.

A pergola is a beautiful way of ensuring that you obtain adequate shade in the garden without marring the beauty of your garden. It can be built over a garden path, to provide seating, or provide shade for a dining table. You can have one built for you or you can purchase any number of pergola kits for sale online.

How to Build a Pergola Step by Step

The information provided here will help you build a pergola step by step. Your pergola will be large enough to hold a dining table, but the same plan with narrower dimensions can be used to create a smaller pergola.

As for materials, you can use 2×8 and 6×6 lumber for building these pergolas. Alternatively, you can use lumber that is slightly thicker or thinner or used peeled poles for constructing your pergola.

Fixing the Posts The first step is to dig six post holes in the ground, make three of the holes on each longer side to support the pergola. Each post hole should be 24 to 48 inches deep. Now place the 6 x 6 posts that should be between 12 and 14 feet long in each of the post holes and prop them up temporarily using 2 by 4 braces. Now fill all the post holes and tamp down the soil firmly. This pergola does not require concrete; instead use a long piece of wood to compact the soil around the posts.

Aligning the Posts Now align the height of the posts and cut away the excess wood. This is easier than digging holes of the same depths. This can be done by measuring one post at eight feet, cutting it and cutting the other posts to the same height. After that make pyramid cuts at the top of the posts since this makes the pergola look even sharper.

Fasten the Cross Beams Now fasten the three 6 by 6 cross beams across to the posts. Next, you need to measure the distances between the outer faces of the posts and cut the three main cross beams to span them. When cutting these cross beams leave an additional 12 and a half inches for overhang and trim the ends in a pyramid shape. Place the crossbeams over the posts and mark the places where the post and crossbeam overlaps.

Make Lap Joints Now, you need to shape the lap joints on the crossbeams. For this cut the wood at the place where it overlaps the post to the same dimensions as the post to ensure that the two pieces of lumber fit together tightly ad securely. The interlocking notches that form the lap joints can be made by first making small cuts using a circular saw and then knock out the remaining wood pieces using a chisel and mallet. Now, you need to place the crossbeams in position and bore half inch diameter holes through the crossbeam and post. The two pieces of lumber are secured using galvanized carriage bolts inserted through the holes.

Place the Roof Boards The roof boards can now be placed. These are the 2 by 8s which should be placed over the crossbeams. You can make the pergola more attractive by cutting a decorative edge to the boards. The boards should also have holes cut into them to take 10 inch screws.

Optional Lattice Panels Once the roof is in place you can install lattice panels as walls of the pergola. These are not necessary in all pergolas, but add a nice touch and provide privacy. You can use a dado blade in your table saw to cut the 1 and half inch by one and half inch groves or a handheld circular saw to make the grooves. The lattice can be held temporarily in place using deck screws. Now, you can pre-drill and fix quarter inch galvanized carriage bolts and remove the deck screws as you do this.

Apply a Finish The next step is to apply a finish by staining the wood or painting it. Depending on your preferences you can also allow the wood weather naturally for a unique look.

Final Steps To ensure that the pergola provides adequate shade you can either drape it with a shade cloth or plant vines and other plants around it. These vines can be trained onto the pergola to add color and beauty to it and the garden. If you paint or stain the pergola the wood needs to be treated each year, while the weathered option requires less maintenance. By planting flowering vines and small shrubs around the pergola you can add color and shape to the garden as well as an interesting feature that will be both attractive and functional.

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Do you have a crush right now? no. i’m married. What are your crush’s/partner’s initials? MCA Do you shop at Wal-Mart or Meijer’s more often? Walmart, i guess. What’s your favorite store? (other than Hot Topic) Half Price Books What do you think about tattoos on women? love Do you drink? Smoke? i don’t drink like ever; i smoke cigs Any nonprescription drugs? Prescription drugs? i have to take meds for mental health reasons. Are you allergic to anything? What? like everything Have the cops ever gotten on to you for anything before? No. What other countries have you visited? States? none; FL, NY, NJ, KY, IN, PA, Maryland

Do you have a Myspace? And if so what is your screen name? not anymore Do you have a Youtube? Yes. Facebook? Yeah. Gaia? ? Bzoink? ? What email thingie do you use? (yahoo, gamil, rock) Yahoo and gmail Do you own a cellphone? If so what kind is it? yes; iphone 8S plus Do you text? Yeah. Do you have a digital camera? What kind is it? No. What is your most common typo? (I keep typing have, ahve, grrr) not sure? What kind of computer do you have? MacBook Pro. Do you have an ipod/mp3 player? No. What game system(s) do you own? old ones...somewhere What is your favorite video game of all time? The Last of Us Are you any good at Guitar Hero? No. Have you ever played Call of Duty? no Do you play games on the computer? no What is your favorite/most visited website? Tumblr Can you type fast? Yes. What color are the walls in your room? beige What kind of floors do you have? beige/brown carpet. How many doors are in your house? Windows? doors = 3; windows = 1 Do you have any posters on your walls? Of what? yes; band posters What kind of bed do you have? (fouton, twin, bunk) queen Is your bed comfertable? yes Would you rather sleep on the floor? No. Where is your computer located? where ever i am Do you have a tv in your room? Yes. Other than a closet do you use a dresser/wardrobe to keep your clothes in? kinda How many mirrors do you have in your house? (other than hand helds people) 2 How many rooms are in your house all together? 5 How many floors? 3 floors in my building Do you have a garage? No. Should you be doing anything right now? What? probably making some food. Do doctors or dentists make you more nervous? yes Did you ever think you were about to die before? yes Have you ever really had a near death experience? Was it cool? not sure; no? How often do you brush your teeth? often How often do you shower? (Come on, tell the truth) i try to every day Is it warmer or colder where you live? coldddd What is your favorite kind of weather? comfortable Favorite season? there are no seasons here so i can’t say Favorite month? none What is your relationship status? married Sexual orientation? Straight. Do you pick your nose? sometimes lol Have you ever cheated on anybody? no Ever done something illegal? yes Are you a virgin? No. Have you ever done pot? Yes. Ever tasted beer? Yup. Do you have to shave your toes? if i have to

Do you have chronic foot odor? no Do you use deodorant? Yes. Most embarrassing singer/band/group you listen to? i’m not embarrassed by the music i listen to Most embarrassing tv show you watch? i like the tv shows i watch so...not embarrassed. Have you ever crapped your pants? when i was sick, yes Have you ever…. Been skiing? No. Eaten sushi? no Seen a dead body? yes Killed a bug with a magnifying glass? No. Poured salt on a slug? don’t think so? Cried in front of someone? Yes. Drowned? no Been shot? No. Inflicted pain upon yourself on purpose? Yes. Laughed so hard you thought you were gonna puke? No. Wanted to do mushrooms? no Kissed someone of the same gender? yes Been so nervous you thought you were gonna pass out? yes Passed out? no Fallen asleep in class? Yes. Shot a gun? yes Driven a car? Yup. Stolen anything? yes Can you…. Use chopsticks? not well Tie a good knot? sure Snap yo fingers? yes Do a cartwheel? not well Do the splits? no Sing well? yes Dance well? No. Make yourself fart? no? Rotate your fingers in two different directions? no? Start a fire with two sticks? no Do any magic tricks? If so what? No. Hold your breath for longer than one minute? idk Cross your eyes with using your finger? yes? Draw well? nwa Make a baby laugh? sometimes? Stick your finger down your throat without gagging? yes Touch your tongue to your nose? no Curl/roll your tongue? no Make your tongue do that clover looking thing? no? Do the worm? i used to, dunno if i can anymore Touch your toes for longer than five seconds? doubt it Do a pushup? lol no

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The Resolution Revolution

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The Resolution Revolution

By Gary Scheiner MS, CDE

Every year, it’s the same thing. During the month of January, the YMCA where I work out year-round is stuffed to the hilt with new bodies. The basketball courts are packed, the classes fill up early, and there’s often a wait to use the cardio equipment and weight machines.

By the end of the month, the crowd starts to thin a bit (literally and figuratively). And by February, I can pretty much pick & choose my workout without the slightest inconvenience. The reason for this cyclical bump in the fitness business is simple: New Year’s Resolutions don’t work.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t try to improve our lives. Even though the holiday season can be a busy and stressful time, it is also an ideal time to think about aspects of our diabetes that we want to work on in the upcoming year. Maybe you truly want to exercise more regularly. Perhaps you want to get your A1c down, lose weight, or change some aspect of the way you manage your blood sugar on a day-to-day basis.

The difference between pie-in-the-sky New Year’s resolutions and SMART goal-setting is about ten minutes of actual planning. In the SMART system, goals are designed to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-limited. Below is a description of how to use the SMART goal setting system for diabetes self-management

Specific:

Your goals should be clearly defined. Stating that you want better blood sugars is not specific enough. Instead, focus on one or two elements of your diabetes management – such as your post-meal peaks or your fasting (wake-up) glucose readings. If you aren’t sure what to focus on, it may be helpful to talk it over with your diabetes care team. Here are a few other examples:

“General” Goals SPECIFIC Goals I want to eat better. I will limit my nighttime snacks. I need to get in shape. I will improve my cardiovascular fitness. I should pay more attention to my diabetes. I will start to check my blood sugar more.

Measurable:

It is absolutely necessary that you set goals that are quantifiable. You have to be able to look back at some point and be able to say, definitively, whether or not the goal has been met. For instance, rather than vowing to have better blood sugar control, you might set your sights on having at least 75% of your readings within your target range. Of course, it will be necessary to track your data somehow. If you’re not into keeping detailed written logs, there are many software programs, web-based tools and smartphone apps that can help you to organize and quantify your data. Here are a few examples of how to take your specific goals turn them into measureable ones:

Specific Goals Specific, MEASURABLE Goals I will limit my nighttime snacks. I will only have one snack each night. I will improve my cardiovascular fitness. I will walk for 30 minutes after dinner every night. I will start to check my blood sugar more. I will check my blood sugar at least four times every day.

Achievable:

Your goal should be something that you can realistically achieve. Perfect blood sugars all the time would be nice, but when you have diabetes, it’s generally not realistic. If, say, 40% of your readings are currently in-range, achieving at least 60% in-range is within reason. If your A1c is currently above 10%, a goal in the 8s is more realistic than setting your sights on 6. Continuing from our previous examples:

Specific, Measurable Goals Specific, Measurable, ACHIEVABLE Goals I will only have one snack each night. I will only have one snack each night on weeknights. I will walk for 30 minutes after dinner every night. I will walk for 30 minutes before breakfast or after dinner at least 3 times a week. I will check my blood sugar at least four times every day. I will check my blood sugar morning and night every day, and before lunch, dinner and exercise on days off.

Relevant:

Your diabetes management goals should be relevant to your life as a whole.

For example, improved blood sugar control is not just about numbers and lab results. It positively impacts work productivity (which could lead to a raise or promotion), athletic/physical performance (which could enhance your self-esteem and sense of accomplishment), moods (which can boost your social stature) and sleep (enough said!). Adding relevance to the goals in our previous examples:

Specific, Measurable, Achievable Goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, RELEVANT Goals I will only have one snack each night on weeknights. I will only have one snack each night on weeknights, which will help me control my nighttime blood sugar and sleep better. I will walk for 30 minutes before breakfast or after dinner at least 3 times a week. I will walk for 30 minutes before breakfast or after dinner at least 3 times a week so that I can start to lose weight and lower my risk for heart disease. I will check my blood sugar morning and night every day, and before lunch, dinner and exercise on days off. In order to ward off serious hypoglycemia, I will check my blood sugar morning and night every day, and before lunch, dinner and exercise on days off.

Time-Limited:

Goals should be tangible and concrete, and the action that you take to achieve these goals should also be tangible and concrete. Do not set a goal without including a time element for achieving that goal. Efforts to achieve more in-range blood sugars can start right away, but there needs to be a stated time for evaluation, adjustment, and reaching the stated goal.

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant Goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, TIME-LIMITED Goals I will only have one snack each night on weeknights, which will help me control my nighttime blood sugar and sleep better. For the entire month of January, I will only have one snack each night on weeknights, which will help me control my nighttime blood sugar and sleep better. I will walk for 30 minutes before breakfast or after dinner at least 3 times a week so that I can start to lose weight and reduce my risk for heart disease. Starting the first of the year, I will walk for 30 minutes before breakfast or after dinner at least 3 times a week so that I can start to lose weight and reduce my risk for heart disease. By March 31, I will have walked at least 40 times. In order to ward off serious hypoglycemia, I will check my blood sugar morning and night every day, and before lunch, dinner and exercise on days off. Starting immediately, in order to ward off serious hypoglycemia, I will check my blood sugar morning and night every day, and before lunch, dinner and exercise on days off. I check my meter memory every Sunday night to measure my progress.

Now What?

Someone much smarter than me once said, “Nobody plans to fail. They just fail to plan.”

To increase your chances for success, creative strategies are needed. Consider what will motivate you and ease the path toward goal attainment, and consider obstacles that might get in the way. A decision to increase the number of times you check your blood sugar might be easier if you have more than one meter at your disposal, and if your insurance will cover the test strips.

If your goal involves walking more often, your chance of success might increase if you have a partner to walk with, and an indoor option in case the weather turns nasty. Cutting out the night snacks is much easier if you have a filling dinner, stay busy at night and don’t bring junk food into the house. Your diabetes clinician/educator should be able to help you develop some effective strategies for meeting your specific goals.

So, there you have it – the SMART goal setting system for diabetes self-management. Hopefully, the wheels are already turning and some ideas are popping into your head. By all means, jot them down! Then set out to make them specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and tangible.

Editor’s note: Gary Scheiner is owner and clinical director of Integrated Diabetes Services (www.integrateddiabetes.com; 610-642-6055), a private practice specializing in advanced training and management of children and adults on intensive insulin therapy. His team of CDEs (all of whom have Type-1 diabetes) provides consultations worldwide via phone and the internet. Gary is author of several books including “Think Like A Pancreas” and was named 2014 Diabetes Educator of the Year by the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Feel free to submit questions and comments to gary@integrateddiabetes.com

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