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kisskissbanggang · 5 years ago

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What You Don’t Know

[15Min Read/4.5K Words - College AU - Jisung x Female Reader - NSFW/Smut, 1/3 Plot - Femdom, Dom/Sub, Finding Kinks, Hair Pulling, Sub Awakening, Drinking Buddies, Friends to Lovers(?)]

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It's not like you hated Jisung when you met him. It wasn't like you liked him, either. Really, you didn't anything Jisung the first time your friends invited their new roommate out for drinks. All Minho had mentioned was he was a bit of a nerd and a bit of an introvert, but he definitely didn't seem that way when you got to the bar after work. Jisung was slamming a shot with your friends and laughing in only the way you can when it's not your first of the night, and you were already vastly indifferent to him.

The only person who showed any extraneous interest in him was Stephanie, the group’s very own groupie. She'd slept her way through their whole house, starting with Felix back when they still lived in the dorms, and now they could never really shake her. Stephanie was fine, she was pretty and smart, but she didn't bring much else to the table and she certainly never made any efforts of her own to become friends with you as the guys suggested you try yourself at multiple points. Lately, she'd had her eyes set once again on her original goal: Chan, the name on the house’s lease and the first of them to graduate -- but to perpetually no avail. You had to applaud the arrogance in such a venture. Chan would be too busy with work for the foreseeable future to humor a girl like Stephanie, but she tried nonetheless.

Until Jisung moved in. Now she had her sights set on him, and none of the guys interfered as this near rite of passage took place. Presently, she was sitting hip to hip with him in the booth, completely oblivious to his discomfort and trying hard to crack through his inhibitions enough to do anything resembling flirting. You and Minho had simply watched, amused, judging from the other side of the booth and sipping your drinks.

What wasn't nearly as amusing was catching sight of your professor's new TA when you walked into the first class of your last college course. Jisung definitely made eye contact with you, but froze in a way that convinced you that he either didn't remember your name or desperately didn't want to socialize with you, both options suiting you just fine. Jisung didn’t say anything during class, he barely interacted with students, and he mostly kept to himself as Professor Brown droned.

For the first three days.

Finally, once Friday hit, the boys invited you back to the bar and you knew you shouldn't be surprised to see Jisung there. You and Minho watched as Stephanie tried and tried and tried to get Jisung to dance with her, until she finally gave up and cajoled Felix into doing it. And, once Minho left to get you a second round, you found yourself sitting next to the mousiest, quietest boy you’d ever met. That stumped you, seeing as he was just fine with the guys. You didn't feel jealous because, of course, you didn’t anything Jisung since you knew next to nothing about him, but it was interesting to watch him switch gears from friends to strangers.

“I liked your outline.”

“What?” You asked, whipping your head around to find Jisung quickly averting his gaze back into his beer. He coughed up a little more confidence.

“I liked your outline that you turned in.”

You blinked, impressed that he could actually make a move to just be nice to you. “Thanks,” you smiled genuinely, “it’s something I've been thinking of writing for the last year or so.”

“I look forward to reading your draft,” he said with a small grin. You were able to prod him after that, really pick his brain over the better parts of your outline and how to best represent that in your draft. “So,” he began one more beer later, now much more loosened up and relaxing back into the booth seat, “how do you even know these guys?”

“I met Chan in sophomore year,” you thought back, “and we almost got together, but you know Chan. He’s too busy for anything, even then he still was.” Jisung choked on his beer for a second but motioned for you to continue despite his quiet coughing. “So Chan and I are friends, and I sort of just became friends with everyone else, but especially Minho.”

“They’re good guys,” Jisung nodded into his drink.

“What about you? You just moved in but aren’t you graduating soon, too? How does that work?”

Jisung shrugged. “Tired of the campus apartments and finally had enough money to move out. It’s like a nice transition from college to the real world.”

“So you're enjoying it?”

“Yeah,” Jisung smiled his small smile as he looked at you, “I'm loving living off campus. And it’s great opening up my circle of friends.”

Becoming friends with Jisung was incredibly easy. So now you liked Jisung, but not much else. He was friendly now to the point of occasional annoyance, but who didn’t have their moments? He waved hello during class and would sometimes hand you back assignments with little non sequiturs or drawings scribbled on post-its stuck to the back. Every once in a while, he could be convinced to hang out in the cafe on campus if you caught him walking by.

It was really easy to be friends with Jisung, until Stephanie decided she was tired of just being friends and wanted to begin her conquest. Now you had to deal with her tagging along everywhere, constantly cooing over Jisung and dressing him up and parading him around. The first time he showed up to the bar with a scarf, you knew better. It was March. You stood up, grandly asking the boys to give you their attention as you made Jisung face you in all his confusion until you whipped his scarf off, revealing a giant hickey the hue of black cherries. The boys all groaned in unison and proceeded to razz Jisung for joining their de facto club all night until, of course, Stephanie showed up. You and Minho grimaced as the night went on and, sure enough, three beers later Stephanie had climbed into Jisung’s lap in the booth and proceeded to make out for twenty minutes.

You weren’t jealous, of course. You just missed when Stephanie wouldn’t constantly be around. She didn’t even really know how to be with Jisung. Every time he reached his arm under hers to hold her hand, she shuffled him around to put his arm around her shoulder. Every time he went to kiss her cheek, she insisted that he kiss her lips. She was always getting him to hold her by the hips or waist when they were out at the bar or at parties, but he always seemed so compliant, so bored, so underutilized.

One night at your usual booth, you were squished in between Minho and Jisung, fighting with Min over how you were very much a switch, and he was a liar for insisting he wasn't as well.

“I’m a bottom,” Minho shook his head defiantly.

“No, you’re not! What about the cute guy from your art class in sophomore year?”

“A phase,” he shrugged.

“What about the tall girl from the volleyball team last summer?”

“A different phase,” he insisted.

“You’re a liar and a fiend,” you laughed. “You’re a switch through and through.”

“What’s a switch?” Came Jisung from your other shoulder.

“What?”

“What's a switch?” He laughed, practically pushing off Stephanie who was still trying to steal all his attention.

“You know,” you searched for the words in the bottom of your beer, “there’s tops, and bottoms, and switches. Where they can be either.”

“Well Jisung is absolutely a top,” Stephanie insisted, stunned as you laughed out loud.

“Jisung?! A top?!”

“Babe,” Minho jokingly warned behind you, trying to calm you down before you got too rowdy. You patted his hand off of you.

“Jisung is not a top,” you shook your head firmly. “Jisung is a switch, too, and a total sub to boot.”

“Oh, come on!” Jisung laughed boisterously, “And a sub?!”

“Jisung is not a sub,” Stephanie whined.

“You’re too busy telling him what to do to notice,” you guffawed, “Jisung is a sub. Watch.”

You curiously watched your own hand move before you even thought, outside yourself as your fingers ran up the back of Jisung’s neck and into his hair to firmly grip him at the root before manhandling him around to look into your eyes as he leaned into you. And you would've been mortified that you made such a rash decision, if Jisung didn’t compound this whole thing by his surprised yelp coming out sounding a lot more like a moan. His bright eyes drank you in as you both sat in the booth, your fingers still tangled in his hair until Minho grabbed your hand.

“Beer,” Minho grumbled behind you.

“Beer?”

“Beer, come get more beer with me.” Minho tugged you out of the booth and right into Chan as he finally entered the bar, his work bag still slung over his shoulder.

“Hey!” He smiled wide as he clapped a hand on Minho’s shoulder. Chan looked at you now, eyebrow raised as he noticed something. “You’re red. What happened?”

“Caligula here just dommed Jisung in the fucking booth, in front of Stephanie.”

Chan blinked and he immediately grabbed your hand. “That’s not great. That means it’s time to get you home.”

You stubbornly shook your head, “No, no no, you just got here.”

“Good. I'll take you home before I start drinking.”

Chan marched you out and expectantly held open the door of his dumpy little commuter car, waiting for you to give up and get in.

“So you did what now?” He asked as he revved the engine.

“I don't know!” You insisted. “I was just playing around but I, you know, pulled Jisung’s hair.”

“Hot,” Chan smirked, “but I'm sure Stephanie hates you now.”

“Oh,” you rolled your eyes, “like she didn’t already.”

“She doesn’t, but you and Jisung are just friends, and you’ve been known to make trouble like this.”

“That was one time!”

“Yes,” Chan nodded exaggeratedly, “and we almost slept together.”

You slouched in the passenger seat, watching streetlights as they passed overhead.

“You’re right, of course.” Chan remarked offhandedly.

“What?”

“Jisung is such a sub.”

It was pretty easy to avoid Jisung outside of class, but you did, admittedly, miss him. You kind of missed talking about movies, or sitting and watching dumb videos online, or sharing music back and forth. You sort of missed how he brought you snacks and complimented your outfits and always tried to mind your feelings even when he was critiquing your work. So it sort of sucked when Minho asked you to run to the house before coming to the bar because he forgot his wallet.

You prayed and prayed and prayed that Jisung was already at the bar, but of course he was the one to open the door.

“Hey,” he greeted awkwardly.

“Hey,” you stiffly returned his nod, “Minho forgot his wallet.”

Jisung stepped aside to let you into the old house, and was a couple steps behind you as you made your way up the creaky stairs. “Following me?” You laughed.

“Oh, excuse me,” Jisung giggled, “I’m just trying to get back to my room to finish cleaning.”

“You? Cleaning? Lies.”

Jisung jokingly scoffed and passed you to head into the door opposite Minho’s. You set about looking for the lost wallet, finally finding it having fallen off his nightstand and almost under the bed. You stood up, dusting yourself off and cracking your back before you turned, gasping to see Jisung in the doorway.

“Is it dumb if I say I missed you?” He admitted, almost shy with his small smile.

You jokingly gasped. “How dare you have emotions?”

“Because I did,” he shrugged. “I've missed you. Just thought you should know.”

“Oh, Jisung,” you grinned affectionately, “I missed you, too. Hurry up with your cleaning and we can go to the bar together.” You squeezed his hand as you passed him in the doorway, taking a quick second to toss your arms around his shoulders and give him a quick hug.

The hug lingered, just a beat longer than usual to not surprise you when you noticed Jisung breathing you in from the crook of your neck. You let yourself pet his hair for a moment before you began to pull away, but Jisung caught you, his hand snaking back to yours on his hair. Even as he stood a little taller than you, Jisung’s eyes were bright as they silently implored you, and you couldn’t keep resisting the curious urge you were feeling.

Your fingers wove into Jisung’s hair, letting him feel everything before you firmly gripped him by the root again and pulled him in, making him have to hold back where he was, leaning in from the door frame and his lips hovering moments away from yours. And then you came back to your senses.

“Wait,” you croaked, quickly relinquishing him and dipping away, “wait wait wait, I’m sorry, this is great, I want to, but Stephanie -- and you know -- I’ll see you at the bar.”

You spun on your heel to get downstairs and get the hell out, wishing more than anything your racing heart would calm down.

“I broke up with Stephanie on Tuesday,” Jisung piped up behind you.

“What?” You stopped in your tracks, your hand still on the railing.

“I said I broke up with Stephanie on Tuesday.”

You slowly turned to look at Jisung at the top of the stairs. “No one ‘breaks up’ with Stephanie.”

Jisung sighed defeatedly. “I know. I told her I don’t want to fool around anymore and then she said whatever and implied I don’t know how to use my dick.”

“So you chased off Stephanie on Tuesday, but you didn’t tell me?”

“No. None of the guys know. I mean, except for Minho. Stephanie is fine, she’s pretty but talking to her is like trying to make a bonfire out of toothpicks.”

You stared at Jisung’s obliviousness. “You chased off Stephanie on Tuesday,” you emphasized, “and you didn’t tell me?”

Jisung shook his head, big eyes still curiously watching for your reaction, and widening as you stormed back up the stairs. You picked up right where you left off, only now hopping up to wrap your legs around his waist as you tangled your fingers back into his hair and finally kissed him.

“Should I have told you?” He meekly chuckled against your lips.

“You should've told me. Bedroom, now.”

“Bedroom? Why the --”

“Bedroom or else I'm going to fuck you right here in the hallway.”

“Yes, ma'am.” Jisung fell back against his bedroom door with you in tow, your fingers gently tugging on his hair as you kissed him hard. Your tongue provoked his own to respond in kind, Jisung hungrily licking into your mouth and his moans sounding more like whines in your ear. He pushed open the bedroom door, sending you both stumbling in as he carried you to bed. You were set down softly and you caught your breath for a moment. You briefly took in the sight of Jisung’s side of the room, smirking at the piles of books and CD’s heavily contrasting with Felix’s much tidier side.

“This is clean?”

“Well,” Jisung floundered despite (or in light of) your devilish grin, “it’s cleaner.”

Jisung leaned down to join you in bed before you pushed him back off of you. He stood up straight and waited, patiently wondering what you were up to.

“Strip.”

“What?”

“Don't pretend like you didn’t hear me,” you laughed, “take off something, and I’ll do the same. Got it?”

Jisung nodded, eyes wide again for a moment before he decided to first kick off his shoes and socks, waiting to see if you followed through. He watched intently as you did the same. Next, he looked you both over before sliding off his jacket and letting it drop to the floor. His Adam's apple bobbed as you did this as well, dropping your jacket off the side of the bed. You watched as Jisung openly switched between the hem of his t-shirt and the waistband of his jeans, unable to decide just what to do here before settling on his shirt. It was nice seeing him like this, not seeing his body like this for the first time in bed, but playing around in the dimly warm light of his bedroom. His chest was smooth, not sculpted but still defined, and the faint lines of his hips leading your eyes down to his jeans before you remembered how the game was supposed to work and to slip your top off as well. Jisung watched, caught up in the way you undressed, in the way you looked as you unclipped your bra for him and dropped that off the side of the bed, too. He gulped, almost comically, before he unbuttoned his jeans and dropped them. You didn’t hide how you stared at the growing bulge tenting his briefs as you unbuttoned and slid off your jeans as well. Jisung’s fingers wavered as he went to tug his underwear down over his erection, standing tall and blushing against his neatly trimmed hair. You crooked a finger to him, beckoning him closer as he stood naked before you in the room.

“You do this part,” you smiled sweetly, laying back on his bed. Jisung nodded and leaned down to slide his warm hands up your thighs and pull your panties down. You gently cupped his face before you couldn't resist tugging on his hair again, loving the soft whines it made him produce, how it made him wince and shiver just a little when you were less intense. Your lips met again as you brazenly reached for Jisung’s rigid cock, massaging his length in your hand as you finally pulled him into bed with you. “So you’re already plenty good at listening,” you teased, “what else are you good at?”

“Whatever you want me to be,” Jisung smiled breathlessly.

“What did I tell you,” you giggled, “you’re such a sub. Now lie down and call me ma’am again.”

“Yes ma'am.” Jisung eagerly lay down beside you, surprised yet again as you climbed on top of him, the heat of your bodies enough to blanket you in his cozy bedroom. You softly kissed his lips and he watched patiently, obediently, as you kissed his forehead next and moved up to ultimately perch yourself on his chest, your exposed pussy on full display in front of his parted lips. A smirk preceded you pushing Jisung’s head back as he instinctively leaned forward to lick you.

“Ask first,” you gently warned him.

Jisung licked his lips, his throat dry from how much he’d already whined for you. “Can I?”

“Can you what?”

“Can I lick your pussy?”

“I don’t know,” you cracked a mean smile, “can you?”

Jisung threw his head back in the pillow with a laugh. “Come on, please, may I lick your pussy?”

“Yes, baby, lick my pussy.”

“Yes ma'am.” You stroked your fingers into Jisung’s hair as he closed his eyes and dove into your glistening folds. He more than deserved some encouragement from just how eager he was, moaning as he tasted you and laved at your clit. In fact, he was good enough that you predicted you would have to be careful to not cum too fast. You lightly pulled Jisung off of you, standing up over him and giving him quite the view as you turned around to reposition yourself to face his feet instead. “May I continue?” Jisung breathed, and you were impressed. He just wanted to please you and play by your rules. You couldn’t see a disobedient bone in his body, and if he had one he didn’t give any hints of it.

“Yes, baby, you can continue.”

Jisung hummed contentedly as he began licking you again, his hands pulling at your thighs as he moaned against your pussy. He jumped as your hand closed around his hard cock again, lightly stroking his length that had the smallest curve upwards. His moans against your clit drove you wild, and it provoked you to stroke him harder until you could hardly stand it. You finally dipped his length into your mouth, stroking his cock as you sucked on him as well. Jisung apparently couldn't control his small thrusts into your mouth until you spanked his thigh to calm him down, and his hushed whimpers were an amazing undercurrent to the room. The faint taste of precum was coating your tongue. All of it -- Jisung’s licking, his whines, his cock in your mouth -- was serving to create an orgasm that you refused to have yet. You dipped Jisung’s hard length deeper into your mouth, almost into your throat, and loving how he had to stop licking you for a moment from the force of his moan before you rolled off of him.

The both of you caught your breath for a second, chests heaving as Jisung absently reached his hand under yours to interlace your fingers together. You smiled softly, leaving over to kiss his brow.

“Are you good to keep going?” You asked quietly, almost proud of Jisung’s eager nod. You climbed back on top of him, the entrance of your pussy set right on the head of Jisung’s cock. You could've sworn Jisung held his breath as you firmly mounted him and took his length inside you. He watched, rapt as you took your time rocking your hips on his. “Why aren't you touching me?” You teasingly purred.

“I'm sorry, ma'am,” Jisung rasped, and quickly set to stroking your clit while intermittently fondling your breasts as you rode him.

“Is it good, baby?”

“So good,” Jisung choked out between moans.

“Be grateful,” you gently reminded him.

“Thank you, ma'am,” Jisung whimpered as your tight depths massaged his length, “thank you for letting me fuck you.”

“Of course,” you smiled warmly. “Now do you think you can make me cum?”

Jisung let out a loud groan at your words, his thumb on your clit becoming a little more earnest.

“Say it,” you lightly chided as you pinched his hand currently on your tit. You lit up at his small yelp from the pain.

“Yes ma'am,” Jisung struggled.

“Louder,” you encouraged.

“Yes ma'am!” Jisung moaned louder now, his hips now also rolling along with yours to drive his length harder against your spot.

“Good, baby. Now remember it’s not your turn yet, alright?”

“Yes ma'am,” Jisung groaned, fully wrecked by now as your moans grew a bit more desperate.

“Fuck me, Jisung,” you mewled, “fuck me and make me cum.”

“Yes ma'am,” Jisung breathed, his other hand now holding onto your thigh as he bounced you hard on his cock in tandem with his stroking thumb. He watched, enraptured, as you threw your head back and came with a cry, your pussy clenching and shuddering around his throbbing cock.

You took a moment to breathe and come back to earth, the thin sheen of sweat on your brow likely matching Jisung’s as you collapsed onto his chest. “Ready to keep going?” You panted.

“Are you?” Jisung chuckled. “You just orgasmed, after all.”

“That’s when it’s best,” you assured him with a grin as you absently stroked his chin. “You’re doing so good. I feel so good. I need you to finish.”

“Yes ma'am,” Jisung nodded gravely. “How do you want me?”

You leaned over to kiss his cheek as you reached for his hand and pulled him over to face you, ultimately pulling him up and between your legs on the bed. “What a quick learner,” you praised, “you’re so well-behaved. Now fuck me. I bet you're cute when you cum.”

Jisung shivered at the condescension as he buried his leaking cock inside you. He already filled you out so well, so satisfyingly, but you wanted to see how far he could be pushed.

“Come on,” you taunted, “don’t be afraid to get a good angle. Actually fuck me.”

“Yes ma'am,” Jisung groaned, invigorated to hoist one of your legs up to drive into you deeper. Actually, after a few thrusts like this, Jisung paused, grabbed a pillow from the head of the bed, and gently manhandled you to slide it under your ass. With this improved angle, Jisung got your leg back up and easily slid back inside you, the proudest grin on his exhausted face as you cried out and gripped the sheets from the way he filled you up now. In fact, he was hitting your spot in a way you hadn’t encountered much, in a way that could maybe make you cum again if you weren’t so worn out. “Please ma'am,” Jisung begged sweetly, “may I cum?”

“Yes, baby,” you pleaded, “please cum.”

“Yes ma'am--!” Jisung grunted out a strangled groan as he clutched onto you, bucking hard into you and screwing his eyes shut as he came.

It was Jisung’s turn to collapse onto you and suck in lungfuls of air, his cock still throbbing deep inside you with your legs finally easing back against the bed as you held him close.

“That was so good,” you softly praised, kissing the top of his head where he lay on top of you. “Have you ever done anything like that before?”

“Never,” Jisung exhaled a chuckle onto your chest, his breath lightly tickling your skin. “Never eaten pussy before, either.”

“What?!” You blurted. “You had me fooled. Was it good?”

“So good,” Jisung laughed softly against you. “You taste amazing.”

“And how was it? Letting someone have control?”

“Everything I didn’t realize I'd been daydreaming about for years. I expected you to be rougher, honestly.”

“You should take it slow,” you shook your head. “Besides, there's always next time.”

“Next time?”

You patted Jisung's shoulder to signal you wanted to sit up and he let you, rolling onto your side. “Yeah, next time. If that’s what you want?”

“Of course I do,” Jisung smiled giddily as he finally rolled out of bed to get dressed again. He threw you your jacket and clothes. “By the way, jog my memory: what did you originally come here for anyway?”

“Minho’s wallet,” you shrugged, pulling it out of your jacket pocket to show him. Jisung blinked hard at it.

“That’s not Minho’s wallet.”

“It isn't?”

“Not his new one, anyway. I saw him put his new one in his pocket on his way out to the bar.”

You thought hard about it before sighing out a laugh. “He's waiting for me to say something, then. Do me a favor and don't mention this at all when we go to the bar.”

Jisung cracked a sly grin for you. “Yes ma'am.”

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f4liveblogarchives · 5 years ago

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #209 & #210

Hello! If you clicked the “John Bryne” tag, well, this is his first stint as penciler. If you want to get to the stuff where he’s taken over the mag entirely, feel free to skip to #232. I’ll drop a link here once I’ve written that issue up.

Sun Sep 8 2019 [01:43 PM] Wack'd: ...huh

[01:44 PM] maxwellelvis: HERBIE! [01:44 PM] Wack'd: I knew HERBIE eventually made his way to the comics but this is a fast turnaround [01:44 PM] maxwellelvis: 😃 [01:44 PM] Wack'd: Also, yes: adorable [01:44 PM] Umbramatic: ben you are indeed cute [01:44 PM] Bocaj: .................... what would A-type be? [01:45 PM] Wack'd: A control freak [01:45 PM] Bocaj: fair [01:45 PM] Bocaj: ALSO: "I was out of town when the contracts needed to be signed" [01:45 PM] maxwellelvis: And much more tolerable when he's not taking Johnny's spot on the team in a cartoon where Reed defeats Magneto with "A WOODEN GUN?!" [01:45 PM] Bocaj: i'm besides myself. What a great stupid handwave [01:46 PM] Wack'd: The real explication is that Marvel had already licensed Johnny to a different company for a live-action film that never materialized [01:46 PM] Bocaj: hahah [01:46 PM] Bocaj: marvel's rights nonsense has always been nonsense [01:46 PM] maxwellelvis: Hard to believe that before She-Hulk and Deadpool, it was the Fantastic Four that were the Marvel heroes who prodded at the fourth wall the most. [01:47 PM] Wack'd:

Ben: Just tell me this, Stretch: he gonna talk back ta me like that cartoon show creep? Reed: HERBIE is a functioning analog computer. I didn't design a robot with a sense of humor.

[01:47 PM] Wack'd: :( [01:47 PM] Umbramatic: pfft [01:47 PM] maxwellelvis: They've always had a touch of that, as writers can't resist using the Four's status as celebrity figures as an opportunity to comment on the comics industry and merchandising and stuff like that. [01:48 PM] maxwellelvis: Like the probably infamous Free Comic Book Day comic [01:48 PM] Wack'd: hahaahahahahaha yaaaaaay

[01:49 PM] Umbramatic: rip ben [01:49 PM] maxwellelvis: Oh no, he's gone rogue! [01:49 PM] Wack'd: And so the Four and HERBIE set out to find Galactus [01:49 PM] Wack'd: The only being powerful enough to stop Sphinx [01:49 PM] maxwellelvis: SPHINX! [01:49 PM] Wack'd: You might remember the High Evolutionary turned him into a giant brain [01:49 PM] Wack'd: So this'll be tricky [01:50 PM] Wack'd: R'Klll's evil plan was just to shoot him in the back? Kind of an anticlimax

[01:51 PM] maxwellelvis: Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. [01:51 PM] Umbramatic: oof [01:52 PM] Wack'd: I love funhouse mirror space travel

[01:52 PM] Umbramatic: WE'VE REACHED LUDICROUS SPEED [01:53 PM] maxwellelvis: MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEET! [01:54 PM] Wack'd: "Oh, Johnny. Just do what I did--take a hiatus until a new writer shows up, half-forgets why you left, and pretend you had a bunch of character development off-panel!"

[01:55 PM] Bocaj: Pfft [01:55 PM] Bocaj: Also Galactus is a giant brain now? [01:55 PM] Wack'd: Also, our first big time-retcon--Johnny was a junior in high school when the team formed [01:56 PM] Wack'd: But now he was "barely out of high school", bumping his timeline up two years [01:56 PM] Wack'd: @Bocaj : Yes. [See issue #175] Though I doubt it's made him any smarter [01:56 PM] Wack'd: This is literally the first time the Sargasso of Space has been mentioned but sure

[01:57 PM] maxwellelvis: Watch out for Space Russians testing new weapons, and for Space Ghost Pirates [01:57 PM] Wack'd: Ben: So this is where the Battlestar Galactica went to die. [01:58 PM] Bocaj: There was something like the sargasso of space in a silver surfer book I read [01:58 PM] Bocaj: But there was a lot of dust and stuff so it was really hard to navigate [01:58 PM] Bocaj: Like a nebula but weirder [01:59 PM] Bocaj: Englehart Surfer [02:00 PM] Wack'd: So it turns out there's a survivor on one of these ships--a guard on a prison transport. He dies almost immediately and begs the Four to stop the escaped prisoners. Ben takes it personal because the guard looks like this

[02:01 PM] Wack'd: "I owe it to him--one monster to another!" [02:01 PM] Wack'd: Never mind that he species probably just looks like that [02:01 PM] Umbramatic: "rude" [02:01 PM] Wack'd: Oh hey the criminals are all also this species [02:02 PM] Wack'd: So there's no thematic point here at all, just dragging out the plot [02:04 PM] Wack'd: One of the criminals makes a break for the Four's ship, but when the Four catch up with him he's already dead. HERBIE denies responsibility, arousing Ben's suspicions. [02:04 PM] Wack'd: Ah, here's the point. It was secretly a Johnny story all along!

[02:06 PM] Wack'd: So hey, incidentally, a thing I should mention: [02:06 PM] Wack'd: This is John Bryne's first Fantastic Four issue! [02:06 PM] maxwellelvis: Huh [02:07 PM] Wack'd: Wolfman's still writing and Bryne won't be taking over that role for another couple of years [02:07 PM] Wack'd: But it's interesting to note [02:08 PM] Bocaj: oh shiz [02:08 PM] Wack'd: There'll be some stopovers at guest artists but he's gonna be our main dude for the next year or so, pencils-wise

Sun Sep 8 2019 [02:09 PM] Wack'd: A day has passed since last issue [02:09 PM] Wack'd: We're taking this ticking clock with the Four aging pretty seriously [02:11 PM] Wack'd: So they're trapped in a meteor storm. Sue and Ben are batting away the meteors. Reed decides they need to jump back to warp but Ben figures they won't make it without him defending the ship and refuses to come back inside [02:11 PM] Wack'd: So Johnny does the only thing he can think of--shoots himself out the airlock without a helmet, forcing Ben to rescue him [02:11 PM] Wack'd: These guys are pretty dumb sometimes [02:12 PM] Bocaj: 😐 [02:12 PM] Umbramatic: oh [02:13 PM] Wack'd: Behold: the only accurate definition of a parsec in sci-fi history. (I googled it)

[02:13 PM] Umbramatic: amazing [02:13 PM] Bocaj: "My calculations must be accurate. Otherwise we're fucked" "Thats... thats not actually a guarantee" [02:14 PM] Wack'd: So, uh [02:14 PM] Wack'd: Apparently eating Poppup caused Galactus to have enough organic matter to rebuild his body? I guess? [02:14 PM] Wack'd: So that's solved [02:15 PM] Wack'd: In the time it took to find Galactus' ship another day passed. We're at 29 hours [02:15 PM] Bocaj: 😐 [02:15 PM] Wack'd: Reed's hair is getting greyer but besides that everyone seems fine [02:16 PM] Wack'd: Women live longer than men. It would make more sense for literally anyone else to get fatigued

[02:18 PM] Wack'd: Galactus refuses to acknowledge them even when they throw stuff at him [02:18 PM] Wack'd: So they go for Plan Curly

[02:19 PM] Wack'd: FREE ALL THE ANIMALS IN THE ZOO [02:19 PM] maxwellelvis: HAHAHAHHAHAHA! [02:19 PM] maxwellelvis: They forgot the tiger stripes [02:20 PM] Wack'd: I dig the hell out of these creature designs

[02:21 PM] Wack'd: Also Sue privately exposits that Storms always die young which is why she'll be the first to go. Fine [02:22 PM] Wack'd: So! They get the attention of Galactus [02:22 PM] Umbramatic: i also dig these creature designs [02:23 PM] Wack'd: And Reed cuts a deal: if Galactus helps them defeat Sphinx, Reed will release him from his vow to never again attack Earth [02:23 PM] Umbramatic: oh [02:23 PM] Wack'd: Galactus agrees, on the condition they retrieve the new Herald Galactus has picked out [02:24 PM] Wack'd: And he teleports them away to complete this task [02:25 PM] Bocaj: FFS REED [02:25 PM] Bocaj: Apparently Dan Slott forgot this story because he has Reed call Galactus out for attacking Earth when he promised not to [02:25 PM] Bocaj: And Galactus is like 'fuck you' [02:25 PM] Wack'd: Maybe that vow gets remade later [02:26 PM] Bocaj: Maybe [02:26 PM] Bocaj: I pity anyone that tries to seriously uphold all continuity [02:26 PM] Bocaj: Its tangled nonsense [02:28 PM] Wack'd: Anyway Galactus is also like "okay this is obvious bullshit and you're gonna stop me from eating Earth again but I have some pride bound up in this so I'm just glad I have the opportunity to try again"

#1979 #Marv Wolfman #John Bryne #The Main Book

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Halt and Catch Fire Wardrobe/Accessory Appreciation: Donna's Watch.

Because I, too, am an earth sign lesbian who likes and wants nice (even if not super expensive things and at least one other person on here (*cough* @theresebelivett *cough*) is interested in this detail: watches are generally status symbols. Of course you can now find affordable watches, but 'nice' watches, especially fancy Swiss watches with their very fine inner non-digital workings, are surprisingly expensive. The most well-known high end watch brand is arguably Rolex, and if you put 'rolex average price' into google, an article titled '5 Affordable Rolex Watches for New Collectors' come up. The cheapest watch in this article costs over $5,000 USD.

[Image set: Donna’s first scene in season 4, in which she sits down at the head of a conference table and promptly flips over the face of her watch. Good morning to you, too bby ;> ]

What kind of watch is Donna wearing, though? It's hard to see clearly, and my eyesight is Not Great, Bob! so I couldn't even tell if there's a face on the other side. But I put 'reversible watch' into google, and found a watch buying advice column (…no, really) that said the following:

The reversible face watch was invented in 1931 buy another Swiss company called Jaeger Le Coultre (henceforth JLC)…in response to complaints from British soldiers stationed in India (so, occupying a colony) who were upset about their watch faces getting broken during polo games. (No...really.)

The only reversible face watch worth buying today is a JLC Reverso.

I looked up the Reverso and JLC, and it looked an awful lot like what Donna is wearing in the premiere. When I asked google, 'halt and catch fire' 'reverso watch', a reddit thread came up. Redditors think it looks like a JLC Tourbillon, JLC Grande Reverso 976, or JLC Reverso Classic Small. The last one is the only one currently listed on the company's website. Price tag: $4,150. The highest price on the same page is $48,000. But most of the prices fall between $5,000 and $25,000 USD.

All of which is fascinating-slash-disgusting but we want know what it means for Donna, not the watch itself or how much it costs, right? This is Donna Emerson we're talking about though, so the brand and the price matter. True to form (or, canonical aspirations), Donna isn't wearing any old watch, she's wearing an expensive timepiece with a long history. And she's not wearing just any old expensive timepiece with a long history, she's wearing one that's considered a classic and that seems to be highly recognizable to people who know their luxury watches. So, it is certainly an intentional indicator of wealth and status for Donna.

Watches and time are also about power and ownership. Because Donna reverses the watch face when she meets with developers who are seeking funding, I thought that there might be a stopwatch or timer on her watch, but none of the Reverso models seem to have that feature. (Though, there is definitely something on the back of her watch, it looks like it might be the actual guts of the watch, which the Tourbillon model has, and hoo BOY it costs more than most people in the US make in a year.) Also, I think that the show would have shown us that more clearly if that was the point.

You know the expression time waits for no man? Time comes up a lot in the premiere: how long it's been since they heard from Cameron, how much of a jump they had on Mosaic (a year I think?) and how they blew it, Gordon's birthday. Even the title, “So It Goes” could mean ‘time goes on”. And finally, that scene where Donna gives the developers in her office 24 hours to come up with a new idea. One of them nervously chuckles and says, "Uh, that's a mighty quick turnaround...." Donna smiles and says, "Yes, yes it is." And SCENE. When you're in Donna's office, it's not about time. There's only Donna Emerson, and she decides the fate of your project.

[Image: Another scene from 4x01 in which Donna is HBIC and seated at the head of a conference table, and her watch is clearly visible. ALSO: do you see how huge the watch face looks here? Looks like she might be wearing the ‘men’s’ version, and tbh I’m kinda hot for it]

Finally: Donna changes or flips the face on her watch -- 'face' can also mean 'persona', right? Donna seems pretty generally bossed up, but I think she gets to put on a different face in those meetings. That’s where she gets to be her most ambitious, professional, visionary and invulnerable self; when she flips the face on her Reverso, she gets to put away her human, sensitive, flawed face, and to finally be who she wants to be.

#ugh I can't #also now I kind of want one of these F M L #donna clark #donna emerson #halt and catch fire s4 #4x01 #so it goes #halt and catch fire to the max originals!#original halt and catch fire to the max analysis!

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HOW TO EASILY REPURPOSE VIDEO CONTENT ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

Is video content a part of your marketing plan?

Want some tools to help you get more fuel out of each video you create?

In this post, you’ll discover how to repurpose one video into content that can be distributed on your blog, podcast and many social channels.

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THE SECRET SAUCE: REPURPOSING HELPS YOU DELIVER HIGH QUALITY CONTENT CONSISTENTLY

Have you heard the concept of “content shock”? This asserts that the amount of content being produced at any given time far exceeds the audience’s ability to consume it.

It’s SO important to produce high-quality content. But the reality is that 95% of your content won’t be consumed by a wide audience, no matter how hard you’ve worked on it.

I bet you’re familiar with the Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule). It applies perfectly here.

80% of your results will come from just 20% of your content. So 80% of your blog visitors will come from 20% of your blog posts, and so on.

So given this data, there’s a question lingering in our minds. How do you approach creating content that’s:

Valuable to your audience

Positions you as an expert in your field

And lets you reap the benefits of content and social media marketing?

The answer is content repurposing.

By reusing quality content you’ve created, you can populate several channels at the same time. All without spending time creating new content from scratch.

Before we get into the tips, let’s briefly go over the video content definition:

Video content marketing means creating and distributing valuable & consistent video content to your target audience. It has the aim of attracting, engaging, and converting qualified leads.

Video content marketing is a strategic marketing approach that puts the wants and needs of buyers first. We ultimately want to drive more profitable customer action.

As a video content creator, you have to consider how video can be integrated into every stage and channel of your marketing strategy. Including putting it alongside other forms of content like blog posts and podcasts. Your focus is creating video content that is:

Useful

Entertaining

Interesting

This will encourage them to engage with you further.

Let’s move onto how you can start repurposing your video content for multiple platforms.

#1 | Start With A Video

Video content creation is the most complex form of content to produce. But it’s also the type that can have the biggest impact on your business. It helps you create rapport with your audience and generate a solid reputation (provided the content is valuable to viewers).

The importance of video in marketing is tenfold. People engage with video more than any other form of content (written, audio, images, etc.). In fact, YouTube has an average session duration of 9 minutes and 28 seconds. That’s more than many other social networks.

Plus, video is easy to repurpose into content for your other channels. For instance, video content can work well for both YouTube and Facebook advertising. So you might reuse your organic videos and turn them into valuable Facebooks ads later on.

The best part is that you don’t have to be a professional filmmaker to create a video marketing strategy. All you need to get started is a smartphone.

If you’re camera-shy, don’t worry. You can share your screen and create videos around a specific topic with slides and other forms of media. It doesn’t matter what type of videos you create, as long as you’re creating them.

Here’s the bottom line. Video content and production work can help you:

Get more sales

Position your brand as an authority

Give value to your target audience

You’ve got a solid video in hand. Now here’s how to repurpose pieces of it to create written and audio content for your other platforms.

#2 | Use Rev To Transcribe Your Video

Rev is a service that will transcribe the audio in your video. The fee is $1 per minute to make a transcription. The turnaround time is 24 hours or less for videos that are 30 minutes and shorter.

To get started, sign up for a Rev account and then click the Services tab. From there, either upload your video files or enter the URL where you’ve posted or scheduled it.

Then you’ll see checkboxes for two additional services you can add to your order:

Timestamping will synch the audio with timestamps in the transcription.

Verbatim will include filler words (like um or uh) and nonverbal communication in your transcript.

After your make your selections, place your order.

#3 | Use Audacity To Rip Audio From Your Video

The next step is to rip audio from your video content.

To do this, download Audacity, which is free open-source software that’s simple to use. It’s available for both Mac and Windows.

To get started, you need your video file. If your video is already on YouTube, you can download it as an MP4. In YouTube Studio, navigate down to your video in Video Manager, click the Edit button and select “Download MP4”.

Once you have the video file, the next step is to extract the audio from it.

After you install Audacity, you also need to install the optional LAME MP3 encoder and FFmpeg library. To do this, navigate to Preferences, select Libraries on the left, and click the Download buttons next to both LAME MP3 Library and FFmpeg Library. Then follow the prompts to instal both libraries.

Once the libraries are installed, you need to import your video into Audacity. Choose File > Open and navigate to your video file.

Then choose File > Export > Export as MP3 to download the audio file to your computer.

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#4 | Populate Your Social Channels With Content Repurposed From Your Video

You have all the elements that make up your pillar content (video, audio, and written content). Now you can use it to populate your blog and other networks. This is the foundation of your video content marketing strategy.

Your YouTube Channel

Upload your video to YouTube and use the transcription as the captions for the video.

In Creator Studio, navigate to your video and choose Subtitles/CC from the Edit drop-down menu.

Next, click the Add New Subtitles or CC button on the right and select your language (if necessary). Then click Transcribe and Auto-Sync, as shown below.

Now paste your transcript into the Video Transcript box. YouTube will replace the automatically generated subtitles with your transcript. This also impacts your YouTube rankings.

Your Blog

You can also use video content marketing and turn the transcript of a video into a fully-fledged blog post. Populating your post with the video content you’ve already created will also give you SEO benefits. Use internal linking within your posts for additional impact.

As an alternative, you can embed the video on your website to get some SEO value from having rich media embedded in your blog post, as shown in my example below. Summarise the main points of the video and paste the transcript below the embedded video.

Your Podcast Show

To repurpose the video’s audio, upload your MP3 files to a platform like Libsyn or Soundcloud to be used as a podcast.

Just upload the audio file, add a title, description and either publish it or schedule it ready to go.

Your Facebook page or Group

Upload your videos natively to your Facebook page and include the summary as part of the post.

Instagram

Take still shots from your videos and turn them into posts for Instagram. Use the summary in your captions to get more reach and send people back to your video.

Twitter

Tweet your still shots, video and blog post, so you can populate your Twitter timeline with the same content. Twitter will also embed your video and audio platform posts in the tweets.

SlideShare

Turn your video content transcript into a PDF and upload it to SlideShare. This means you can get backlinks to your YouTube video and blog post.

Creating video content is an easy and highly effective way to start repurposing your content. It will allow you to walk away with lots of solid video content ideas and developed social media channels. It also doesn’t require any huge investments and can be managed in-house.

What do you think of this video marketing guide? Will you use some of these tactics to repurpose your video content? What tips can you offer? Please share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Omg with TokyoPop 😂 Please share the early 2000's anime days this is new to me and sounds hilarious.

they were dark-ass times, my friend

TERRIBLE AMERICAN PUBLISHING (idk how it was in other countries; I went to Paris many years later and was impressed with their...everything when it came to different kinds of comics but) Tokyopop which was basically run by people who only half knew what they were doing, Viz which mirrored manga for a long time bc they assumed Americans were too stupid to learn how to read the other way (which was particularly annoying in comics where like a right arm or something was important), ADV which probably couldn’t actually release an entire series if their goddamn lives depended on it (yes, I’m still mad about MaLoki), and various other publishers that would publish like one title ever

No legal streaming!! Which meant you either had to buy super expensive DVDs or pirate them online. (BACK IN THESE DAYS, CRUNCHYROLL WAS A PIRATING WEBSITE. NEVER FORGET.) This was right at the end of VHS days, though, so it could be worse!! If you got a VHS, it would be subbed or dubbed. When I watched Evangelion it was on bargain bin VHS tapes so it was like 70% subbed and 30% dubbed and it was a painful time.

Fansubs online were a huge thing. Legit companies had pretty slow turn around (you were lucky if something like the Anime...Network? I can’t remember. or Toonami or Funimation picked it up, bc they had tv channels -- though you’d usually have to put up with a shitty-ass dub) and you’d usually have to wait for a large-chunk release. If you wanted to watch something as it aired, you had to watch it raw or depend on fansubs. These were uh. Of varying quality. They’d usually have a 2-24 hour turnaround depending on the size of the group, with Shounen Jump titles having the fastest turnaround. Those were anime that were already published in manga form in the US via Viz, so they were already mostly familiar with how they’d go, plus...lbr, a lot of those shows were....easier to translate. If you catch my drift. (They tended to be dumb and repetitive. That is what I’m saying.) Also a larger fandom, so greater pool to get workers from and a greater reward re: downloaders. (And people usually torrented new fansub releases bc there were fewer online streaming sites, so popular shows downloaded faster.)

So like, picture if you will, a group of tween-teen nerds sitting around a computer watching fansubs of suspicious quality and shrieking the theme songs in unison because a fansub wasn’t a fansub without bouncing karaoke at the top. We got a DVD player that could play avis at one point and that was kind of mind blowing. Otherwise, you could use an AV cable or buy a DVD.

You bought things legit if you wanted to really support the industry or you really loved a show, not because they were always better quality. I’ll leave it at that.

There were also a lot of scanlation communities, which were basically fansubs but for manga. These were also of extremely variant quality, and there were a lot of rules for a very weird online translation subculture. I always kind of got the impression that most of them hated each other. A lot of these groups required IRC use, which was confusing af, and I honestly believe that’s the biggest reason why most of these ended up getting put on online manga reader sites. There were fewer of those back then.

Most anime fandom was very strongly demarcated. Most of the fandom I engaged with was on livejournal, which meant it was like...maybe 95% female. You’d get more men on forums, which is why we all fled the forums and went to LJ. lol. Trash spaces. Trash.

The whole yaoi/shounen-ai/BL situation was very different. LGBT stuff was considered more niche and still something you needed to “warn” for in most environments. For a long time, the only legit published stuff was like. FAKE and Gravitation and CLAMP and maybe Eerie Queerie or Loveless or something. So basically, it was shit. lol. (As a young teen, I was particularly attached to CLAMP/Kaori Yuki stuff. Thank god my parents never caught on.) Anyway, to get to scanlated BL works, you usually had to go to special communities/sharing circles online or figure out the prominent scanlators and follow them. Very, very little doujinshi was scanlated. Very few (English-speaking) people ventured onto pixiv. There were a lot of arguments about the differences between yaoi, shounen-ai, and BL. Don’t let anyone nowadays fool you. When I was a teen, 90% of all “yaoi fangirls” were queer, and half of that annoying sex-focused excitement was because it was the first gay sex we’d seen in any publication anywhere. It was a different time in the media landscape. BL has a lot of shitty-ass tropes, but we were basically starving in a desert. We took our Gravitation and we liked it. F/F manga was very rarely translated, and I guess that’s still the case today. There’s less of it, and I think we’ve all been trained to prioritize male sexuality. (Plus most of the shoujo-ai that got posted online was like uber-innocent schoolgirl stuff.) People make fun of “yaoi fangirls” and “fujoshi” and all that now, but I can honestly say I would have never understood my own sexuality without that subculture. Like the anime clubs were full of obnoxious little weebs, but let’s be straight about something, no pun intended. They were full of obnoxious little gay weebs. People are all about gay (western) cartoons nowadays, but when I was a teen, they were all about that anime.

Because almost all published anime/manga was in hard copy, you’d get mini congregations of fans in stores. See: hordes of manga fans sitting in the manga aisle of the book store, fans chatting with each other in...suncoast, or wherever they could find DVDs/VHS. The level of social skills in these areas was...not high. Also, a lot of fuckin creepy predatory dudes going after girls. Hooooly shit. I was so glad when they started releasing anime/manga online. Y’all livestreamers on Crunchyroll don’t know how good you have it. You used to have to deal with the fedora bros who were a good 10-20 years older than you but still following you around in stores, conventions, etc. any time you wanted to get new stuff. Like it was a legit problem.

LIKE I’M TRYING TO CONVEY HERE THAT JUST GETTING ANIME/MANGA WAS A PAIN IN THE REAR END. not as bad as the dark days when people had to physically mail each other shit, but it was still definitely a subculture and you’d definitely be thrown in with a lot of people you wouldn’t want to be around. (Similar to how things are in modern western comics fandom...)

Fandom itself was basically a tire fire. In every possible way. Like I’m nostalgic for it in some ways, because in some ways I really miss how text-based it was. There was a lot more meta and conversation, and fanfic was much better supported. Comment culture was a lot stronger and you’d become friends with people who read your work and/or people who wrote stuff you liked. But on the other side of that, there was a lot of weird fanfic gatekeeping. Sporking communities and flaming and fic rating communities were much more of a problem back then. You release stuff to crickets nowadays, which is demoralizing, but back then there was a solid chance you’d wake up to an inbox full of hate mail, especially if you wrote slash. It definitely happened to me a few times as a kid. I think they really targeted teens, too. So writing fic could be shitty. There was less fanart in American spaces, too.

I do agree that to some degree things have gone too far with the whole virtue-signaling/issuefic thing, with a lot of people yelling very loudly about things they may not always understand very well, but you gotta understand. Fandom was a hateful place in many ways back then. Sexist, racist, homophobic, you name it. Female characters are still ignored now, but they’re typically treated less horribly than they were back then. People try to be more educated about other ethnicities and sexualities and such now. You’re less likely to get bullied because you were gay. I think the big problem is that sometimes people hijack important movements to be giant dicks, and a lot of people, especially younger people, get swept up in that.

There was a very specific kind of anime badfic back then. I could write literally an entire post on that. Like god. Where do I even begin??? The bluenettes? The super kawaii fangirl nihongo? Script fic? “Tell me what to write next!” fic? lolololcrack fic? I mean, there were a lot of varieties of suck back then.

Weird subcultures. Like...really weird ones. Things got kind of cult-y relatively often. Just say no to cults.

if you want more details on anything, I’m having particularly painful flashbacks right now. ugh, the free hugs signs.

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