#Stan Store Germany

[cheekydimplesblog]

Everything You Need To Know About Stan Store Review

First there was Cliqly then came Benable and now all these side hustle money making TikTokers are talking about Stan Store. So, I thought let’s this baby a try as well. I know you guys really appreciate these honest reviews by me, let’s just jump straight into it then. What is Stan Store? Stan Store has been described as a platform for creators that is everything they need under one roof.…

[11x13kyle]

where they’re banned

kyle: staples, this mom and pop pho place a few blocks away from his dorm junior year of college due to an incident that he absolutely refuses to discuss, his mom’s knitting class, 3 different whole foods, a souvenir shop in montauk, zabar’s (but only the restaurant part, in the grocery part he’s fine)

kenny: uboulder, the hooters in colorado springs, the gastroenterologist’s office, the entire city of des moines, the new york new york casino, urth caffe, the bar right above kenny’s basement apartment that he had the year after he graduated

stan: tweek bros, skeeter’s, the church that held his (former) aa meetings, red rock stadium, atlantic city, knotts berry farm, the bar right above kenny’s basement apartment that he had the year after he graduated

cartman: 2 waffle houses, any kroger-owned grocery store, anywhere within 200 feet of his (former) therapist, germany, belgium, LACMA, utah, kyle’s mom’s knitting classes

[zooterchet]

Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provos, EON)

Confederate Southern Army: In the prequels, the Confederate Southern Army, was portrayed as Nixon; Finis Valorum.  It's the new trend in art, portraying California Republicans with a ZODIAC naval or airline draft unit, as racist white southerners supporting Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The MI-6 Poverty Draft: In the Nolan trilogy, the villains were portrayed as MI-6 from poverty, the CIA's operand; America now has access to calculus banking derivatives, a catalyst reaction removing from simple interest debt of the Mob (a foreign espionage estate owned, outside of the fire marshal, the Swastika).  Instead of using MI-6 solely as playwrights, Scientology (Hitler Youth) has been replaced with American spies.

The Foreign Aid Investment: Star Trek, has featured Karl Urban, "Bones", being the last survivor of a medical bay blowout; however his character, is oil economics, shutting down Cape Wind and making it popular for American university students to take energy classes, for power grids and disimproved power rates of appliances; the sales of poverty surplus, to the African community, outside of the Mossad's claim to be NSA; NSA, a MUD system, taught on the internet, and prior, in teacher's union games, DARPA.

Black Lives Matter: A new movement, out of the "Caucasian" pizza, the African distaste of tomato and deadly nightshade, behind the combined and private drug market rates, drug dealers paid as if upon wage, with an extended salary out of purchase of marijuana, signaled through sales of marijuana on the cleared market; the black market removed, as racketeering, through Synagogues; Nietzsche's work, refuted, and German opium sales by CVS, made illegal.

American Women's Union: The VOICE Australian union, forming through protection of women threatened with incarceration by British Diet forces in Japan, the Yakuza; the shutdown of pimping services of France and Germany, South Park Studios, and the removal of contract laws on those visiting dominatrixes, a return to the concept of prostitution as fetish.  Common economics laws, introduced to housing of employee in the blue collar industries, and the worker's rally removed, in favor of the women's rally; the armed female, with a handgun or rifle, not the gay man, the school shooter.  The forbidden term of homosexual, as Muslim, returned to the markets, and the common expulsion of the homosexual and their female friends, lesbians, from society and into poverty.

TV Tropes: The shutdown of the Iranian-Tehran Jewish claim of intellectual property for oil rights, and the removal of the retarded, those Germans rigging and claiming lottery bets, to obselescence, under Hungarian and Polish masters, to protect America's drilling rights.  The repetitive use of grocery store logic, on the internet, any using, attracted to claim of royalty contract under Stan Lee's internal housing logic; however rendered flabbergasted, at own claim of production as owned by self, instead of owned by commodity introduced with currency attached; labor of good, the payment and paid source of economy, for farm numbers; not seizure of digits of bank, the housing market in narcotics, for falsely produced work, the minor act on stage of theater.

Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer: The children's hero, as impossible to approach, and not based on any work of fit or form to recognize genome, type, or law, the common pederasty as accused of otherwise if placing a human being in a children's game or film, and the nullification of ramified suits of claim, to reveal the individual applying law as a homosexual; a queen, the poorest type of man or woman available, the incompetently tutored by parent, in suits of law of plaintiff having produced success in court.  The removal of Dr. Joshua Golden's office, by the shifted engram of selection of character, each character either picking Sullivan, in "The Departed", or forced into Costello, the spy for the British John Hancock firm, the Tong; the exploitation of American, Chinese, and African labor, for a division of community in white views of foreign culture; held around the dinner table, of racist households, the French and English.  A dominance of Irish power. 

[mahashankh]

ADIDAS Products, History, Facts, FAQ & Current Situation In 2023

ADIDAS Products, History, Facts, FAQ & Current Situation In 2023 Adidas:  A Global Sporting IconAdidas: A sportswear giant Adidas is a German multinational corporation that designs and manufactures athletic apparel, footwear, and accessories.Fill in some textLearn moreAdidas's success is a result of its ability to blend performance, style, and innovation, making it a dominant force in the global sportswear and lifestyle market.Learn moreLearn more– Adidas is known for its continuous innovation in sportswear and athletic footwear. – Introduction of Boost technology in footwear for enhanced cushioning and energy return.Learn moreLearn more– Origin: Germany – Brand Type: Sportswear – Price Range: Moderate to High – Product Focus: Athletic and Casual – Target Audience: Athletes and Casual – Store Experience: Sporty and Casual – Signature Style: Sporty and Functional – Iconic Products: Stan Smith Sneakers – Brand Image: Sporty and Innovative– Global Presence: Global Presence – Collaborations: Frequent Collaborations – Marketing Approach: Innovative Technology – Sustainability: Sustainable Practices – E-commerce: Extensive E-commerce – Brand Heritage: Established in 1949 – Innovation: Sport Technology Read the full article

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 14 May 1938, the players of the England football team raised their arms to give the Nazi "Heil Hitler" salute before a match in Berlin. They had been instructed to do so directly by the British Foreign Office. Reportedly the players at first refused, until the British ambassador and Football Association secretary intervened and ordered them to do so. At the time the British government was pursuing a policy of appeasement of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and shortly after signed an agreement permitting Germany's annexation of parts of then-Czechoslovakia. Much of the British ruling class supported Hitler, as well as the dictatorships in Italy, Spain and Portugal, as bulwarks against communism and an organised working class. According to his biographer one of the players, Stan Cullis, would not perform the salute and was dropped from the team for that match as a result. Learn more about the political history of football in these books, available in our online store, with prices and payment now also available in your local currency: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/football Image censored to avoid it being taken down by Facebook/Instagram https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1987097308142076/?type=3

[berlinini]

(Started this as an ask for @seasurfacefullofclouds1 to give my two cents on the ~ leak as promo ~ discourse, but it's too long so I'm making it a stand-alone post.)

A few days ago I attended a panel with a very knowledgeable entertainment lawyer from Toronto, whose opinion and expertise I trust way more than whomever on stan twitter is saying leaking songs and albums are a good way to ramp up promo for an artist. She said album leaks are a huge concern for labels: the success of an album basically rests on how good it does the first day of its release, and then the first week. There's a momentum and, I quote indirectly, that momentum is money. The labels care about money (breaking news: that's the main thing they care about!), they know that a song or an album that leaks = money lost.

There is no way a label or an artist will leak the work on purpose knowing it will break the momentum of the release (esp when such release includes more than the music itself: promo, interviews, tv appearances, etc. etc. which all cost so much money and have to be careful planned ramping up to release day). At this point it's self-sabotage to say "hey let's put this song on the Internet, it'll get people talking!"

It's becoming harder and harder to keep everything under wrap before the official release because album formats have multiplied, and with that the chance that someone somewhere will fuck up - we've seen it with Amazon for Louis. Beyoncé's Renaissance was "leaked" because a CD store in Germany put up the album for sale before the release date, by accident. And with Internet, it spread and made the news. However, Beyoncé is at a point where this kind of mistake won't ruin her album's performance, nor her promo. Apart from her most devouted fans, people will wait to access the album in a convenient way - which means nowadays when it drops on the streaming platforms. Of all the people who read the news about Renaissance leaking, how many googled it to listen to the songs? I assume most people thought it sucked and moved on - there was no PR done around (though in this case it's 100% certain it was an unforeesable human mistake and never could've been a ruse from the label to create buzz around the album).

Anyways, this brings me to my second point, that is leaks of any kind are for people who truly care. Casual fans usually will not find out about it unless it makes the headlines. So what would be the purpose of ruining fans' anticipation and excitement by releasing information or songs this way? Everyone would have preferred to find out LT2's release date another way - by a proper announcement.

I also think that's it's possible for leaks to be intentional on the artist or label's part only if they know that the fans will buy/stream the album anyway when it is officially released. It wouldn't affect the charts. In most cases a full blown out promo is also planned for the album. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case for HS3 - the entire album leaked, but with dedicated fans such as harries and larries, Sony didn't have to stress about the performance of the album once it was released.

So tldr: if you think artists and/or labels leak songs and albums on purpose as a promo tactic, you're dumb.

[silylilboi]

What I would do with the sides if I wrote them in different AUs

Or the sides (plus occasionally Remy, Emile, and Thomas) in different situations and other random things because I’m bored again.

Hamilton

Logan as Hamilton

Patton as Eliza

Roman as Angelica

Virgil as Laurens

Janus as Burr

Remus as Maria Reynolds

Thomas as Peggy

Remy as Mulligan

Emile as Lafayette

Harry Potter

Logan as Hermione

Patton as Ron/Neville

Roman as Harry/Fred or George

Virgil as Neville/Draco

Janus as Draco

Remus as Fred or George/Crabbe or Goyle

Remy as Lee

Emile as Cedric

Thomas as ??? (I have no idea. Let me know who you think he would be)

Gravity Falls

Logan as Dipper

Patton as Mable

Roman as Pacifica/Wendy/one of the two cops (idr their names)

Virgil as ??? (I couldn't think of someone)

Janus as Bill (duh. Basically the same person tbh)

Remus as Stan/Old Man McGucket (was that his name? It's been awhile since I've watched it. Sorry)

Remy as Wendy/Pacifica

Emile as Soos

Thomas as ??? (Couldn't think of one for him either)

Beauty and the Beast

Logan as Belle

Patton as Mrs. Potts/Maurice

Roman as Gaston

Virgil as Lefou

Janus as a mix of Lumier and Clogsworth

Remus as the Beast

Remy as ???

Emile as Maurice/Chip

Thomas as Chip

Aladdin

Logan as the sultan

Patton as Genie

Roman as Aladdin

Virgil as Jasmine

Janus as Jafar

Remus as Iago

Remy as Abu

Emile as Carpet

Thomas as ???

The Little Mermaid

Logan as Sebastian/Grimsby/King Triton

Patton as Ariel

Roman as one of the sisters/King Triton/Flottsum or Jettsum (how do you spell their names? One of the eels is what I'm talking about)

Virgil as Flounder

Janus as Eric

Remus as Chef Louis/Ursula/Scuttle/Flottsum or Jettsum

Remy as Ursula/Flottsum or Jettsum

Emile as Max(?)(I don't really know)

Thomas as King Triton

Princess and the Frog

Logan as Tiana/Evangeline

Patton as Ray/Louis

Roman as Naveen/Lottie/Louis

Virgil as Tiana

Janus as Dr. Facilier

Remus as Lawrence

Remy as Lottie/Naveen

Emile as Mama Odie/Ray

Thomas as Louis/Lottie's Dad

Cinderella

Logan as Lady Tremaine/Prince Charming/the king/the royal advisor

Patton as Cinderella/the king/Gus Gus

Roman as one of the step sisters/Prince Charming/Fairy Godmother/Jacque

Virgil as Fairy Godmother/the royal advisor

Janus as Lady Tremaine

Remus as one of the step sisters

Remy as one of the step sisters

Emile as Cinderella/the king/Gus Gus

Thomas as the king/Jacque/Gus Gus

My Little Pony

Logan as Twilight Sparkle

Patton as Pinky Pie/Fluttershy

Roman as Rarity/Rainbow Dash

Virgil as Fluttershy

Janus as ???

Remus as ???

Remy as Rarity

Emile as Fluttershy/AppleJack

Thomas as Spike

Hogwarts Houses (where I would place everyone)

Logan in Ravenclaw/Gryffindor

Patton in Hufflepuff/Gryffindor

Roman in Gryffindor/Slytherin

Virgil in Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw

Janus is Slytherin/Ravenclaw

Remus in Gryffindor

Remy in Gryffindor/Slytherin

Emile in Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw

Thomas in Hufflepuff

Which country they would be from (if they weren't from the US)

Logan from France

Patton from Australia (just a slight accent though. Just enough to tell where he is from. And no, he does not kill the freakishly large spiders there. And yes, he does still hate spiders.)

Roman from Spain/Mexico

Virgil from Scotland/Ireland

Janus from France/the UK

Remus from Germany

Remy from Brazil

Emile from Italy

Thomas from Italy/Brazil

Highschool Cliques

Logan as a nerd

Patton as one of the nice, lesser known popular kids/theatre kids

Roman as a theatre kid/jock

Virgil as one of the loners

Janus as a loner/popular/smart kids

Remus as a theatre kid/jock

Remy as a popular kid

Emile as one of the nice,lesser known popular kids

Thomas as a theatre kid

What everyone's sexuality/gender identity would be in a human AU

Logan would be a biromantic Demisexual male, he/him

Patton would be a pansexual male, he/him

Roman would be a gay trans male, he/him

Virgil would be a Non-binary bisexual, they/them

Janus would be a gender fluid bisexual, any pronouns

Remus would be a gay trans male, he/him

Remy would be an omnisexual male, he/him

Emile would be a pan romantic gender fluid, pronouns depend on the day

Thomas would be a gay male, he/him pronouns

Which store they would go to in the mall

Logan would go to the mall just to keep an eye on the others

Patton would go to Box Lunch/Old Navy/Bath & Body Works/Build-a-Bear

Roman would go to Box Lunch/Build-a-Bear

Virgil would go to Hot Topic

Janus would go to Spencers/Hot Topic

Remus would go to Spencers

Remy would go to Starbucks

Emile would go to Box Lunch/Build-a-Bear/Bath & Body Works

Thomas would go to Box Lunch/Build-a-Bear

Dr. Dolittle (the one with RDJ)

Logan as Dr. Dolittle

Patton as Lily Dolittle

Roman as Lady Rose

Virgil as Stubbins (there's just a lot of parallels between Stubbins' arc in the movie and Virgil being accepted as a light side in the series)

Janus as Lord Badgely

Remus as Müdfly

Jurassic World, including other movies (both people/dinosaurs)

Logan as Dr. Wu/Claire/Blue

Patton as Grey (I think that’s how his name is spelled)/ankylosaurus

Roman as Owen/T-Rex

Virgil as Zach/Delta(smart but also the first one to die)

Janus as Dr. Wu/the main bad guy from the second movie(can't remember his name for the life of me)/Indoraptor

Remus as Hoskins/Allosaurus(mainly for the split second it get hit in the face with a boulder)

Big Hero Six

Logan as Tadashi

Patton as Honey Lemon/Callahan(if I do write this AU he would be the villain)

Roman as Wasabi

Virgil as Go-Go

Janus as Hiro

Remus as Fred

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Logan as one of the gargoyles

Patton as one of the gargoyles

Roman as Phoebus

Virgil as Esmerelda

Janus as Quasimodo

Remus as the jester who tells the story(and maybe as Frollo? I don't really know)

[abraxos-is-toothless]

Home for Christmas

This is my fic for the @aftgexchange winter round for @andreil-minyasten

I had so much fun writing this and I really hope this lives up to what you wanted! I actually had an idea for a part 2 to this from another bit of your prompts. If you want me to write that for you, feel free to message and ask, I’ll be quite happy to do so:)

Enjoy!!<3

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December 22nd

“What the hell do you mean that you aren’t going to be here for christmas, Andrew?”

Neil was beyond, angry. He was pissed. Their holiday plans had been decided back in November. Andrew would come to Neil in Boston from New York and they’d host Aaron, Katelyn from the twenty fourth before they’d meet Nicky, Erik- who were spending Christmas with Eric’s family in Germany -and the rest of the foxes down in South Carolina to spend New Years with Wymack and Abby.

But apparently, that was all going to shit, now.

“I’ve tried Neil, but flights are delayed and there’s a storm coming in. I don’t know if I’ll make it, the Mas definitely won’t.” Now he was beyond consoling.

“If you had come two days ago like you said you would, this wouldn’t be a problem. We haven’t seen each other since September.” He missed his partner, missed soft touches when they’d reach for one another in the night, he missed laying his head in Andrew’s lap while the other man read one of his newest books. Overall, he just missed Andrew.

“How many times do I have to tell you that it was Kevin’s fault I couldn’t come out when I had planned?” Neil scoffed.

“What Kevin wants has never stopped you before. Whatever, Andrew, I’m going to bed.” He ignored Andrew’s reply, hanging up and flinging his phone onto his bedside table. He was so tired of everything. Neil carried out his nighttime routine quite aggressively, flinging back the duvet with force, ignoring the constant buzzing of his phone. Tonight, the bed felt uncomfortable, lumpy and cold, so awfully cold. It had been three years of this, of the long distance, scheduling time to see each other, of having to be without one another for the majority of the year after spending four years attached at the hip while they were at PSU. The two of them, being how stubborn they both were, had sworn that the distance wouldn’t be an issue. Neil had to play with the Bobcats for two years minimum, considering it was the best contract he could get straight out of college and the closest to Andrew’s team.

Everything was great at first, wonderful even, they saw each other on as many weekends as they could, called and texted every day, and Skyped at least twice a week. But then shit went down hill. Practice built up and up if the team’s performance declined, promotions and photo shoots and team signings started taking up their free time. It was shit, they knew it was shit but, what could they do? He hated this, he hated everything about it.

His sleep that night was fitful and restless, and he was wide awake when the sun rose the next morning, yellow and orange rays of light hitting the empty spot beside him.

December 24th

Neil hadn’t spoken to Andrew since he abruptly ended their phone call two nights ago. There were several missed calls from the blonde on his phone, and many unread texts. He saw them as they came through, sometimes just his name, sometimes they asked if he was alright and ‘why won’t you pick up the fucking phone, Abram?’

Every part of him wanted to, fucking god, did he want to, but he had no idea what his brain would spout from his lips. He was terrified that the anger, the hurt of the separation, would come back full force and he’d say something awful that he’d most likely regret. That was his personal default when he was mad, finding exactly what to say that would hurt and hurt hard. So, no, he didn’t pick up the phone, he just left it alone and listened to the odd buzz as it vibrated against the kitchen counter. It was almost 8:30pm and Neil was making, or hoped to be making, cinnamon sugar cookies that would with any luck, still be warm and not burnt by the time Aaron and Katelyn arrived. They were apparently Kate’s latest pregnancy craving and he wanted for her to have them on hand so Aaron wouldn’t have to leave at some ungodly hour to get store bought ones.

There was flour everywhere and he was pretty sure there was some cinnamon on his forehead somehow, on top of that, he’d used more bowls than were actually needed for the ingredients the recipe called for but he wasn’t exactly surprised. Anything to do with cooking or baking was Andrew’s area of expertise: Neil just liked to watch, a giddy smile on his face whenever his partner whispered ‘staring’ without even looking at him. Shaking his head before he started to wallow in his own self pity, the timer to the first batch went off just as the buzzer to the apartment did. Quickly pulling out the baking tray, he placed it on the side, barely taking note of how the shapes he cut out now resembled blobs as he rushed to the door and pressed the button for the speaker. “Hello?”

“Neil! It’s Kate, Aaron is just sorting the bags and told me to come up first.” He smiled despite his somber mood for the past week.

“Come on up, I’ll buzz you in. Do you want me to wait outside the elevator for you?”

“No, no, I’ll be fine!” He agreed and let her in, wiping his hands before propping his front door open and waiting for her anyway. Before long, he was greeted with an eye rolling Katelyn, but there was a grin on her lips nonetheless. “You’re nearly as bad as my husband, I’m surprised he even let me come up on my own, but thank you.” She said, as he held out his elbow for her to take. She had begun to waddle a little now with how big she had gotten. Neil supposed that having twins made the whole process a little different.

He helped her settle into the armchair in the living room and asked, “can I get you a drink?”

“Water would be great, thanks. Also, is that cinnamon I smell?” He felt his cheeks go hot and knew he was blushing.

“You mentioned at one point on the phone that cinnamon cookies are your newest craving and so I made some for you. They’re still warm if you’d like a few?” Katelyn nodded excitedly, murmuring how grateful she was at the thoughtful gesture and he hurried off, placing a few questionable looking snowmen and coming back into the other room just as the buzzer went off again. He left the pregnant woman to devour her food and admire his sparkly Christmas tree and went to let Aaron in. When the elevator opened up on his floor once again, he was met with a ruffled Minyard twin who was surrounded by bags.

“What the hell do you bring with you?”

“Shut your mouth and help me carry this shit, would you?” Neil kept his mouth shut and hefted a couple of bags into his arms. Most went into the spare room where the couple would be sleeping and then Aaron unloaded a big bag of presents to sit underneath the tree while he went back to put more cookies in the oven, and to load a few more onto Katelyn’s now empty plate. When he came back and sat himself on the couch, Aaron seemed out of breath, hugging as he lay on the wood floor.

“I’ll ask again, how much did you bring?” The woman stuffing her face giggled as her husband giggled and replied;

“We have your presents and Andrew’s presents from us, mine and Aaron’s that we’ve gotten each other, and we brought all the gifts for when we see the others next week. Also our clothes and my hospital bag even though I have about two and a half months left.” He nodded, though he was confused on the amount of clothes. They only lived an hour away from him and could go back for more clothes before they headed to South Carolina. Neil was about to mention just that when Aaron interrupted.

“Where is my brother anyway?” Ah yes, he’d forgotten to mention that. He let his face go blank as he told them what had happened. That Andrew kept pushing it back until he couldn’t come, that they’d argued and that they weren’t currently speaking. Katelyn had something akin to pity on her face and Aaron looked as though he was angry on behalf of Neil. “What the fuck? He’s seriously going to miss Christmas with his family, with you?”

“Looks like it.”

“But since when has what Kevin wanted ever mattered to him? Unless it benefitted his own needs of course.” It was weird slowly becoming friends with Aaron and seeing that occasionally, they could be on the same wavelength and agree with each other. It was a little bit dangerous, in his opinion.

“That’s what I said.”

“Is he still going to come to Palmetto next week.” He didn’t know what to say, because Andrew could still turn up at Abby’s despite not being here now. He also hadn’t spoken to him, so he hadn’t got the chance to ask. Neil stayed quiet. Aaron looked like he was about to press for more when Kate suggested that they watch a movie together and started setting up the tv without waiting for either of them to reply. Twenty minutes into the movie, Katelyn had picked A Christmas Carol because it was a classic, Neil got the final batch of cookies from the oven and cleared down the kitchen for tomorrow. Another ten minutes after that, Katelyn disappeared to put on pyjamas and Aaron grabbed him and Neil a beer from the fridge. By ten o’clock they were debating on watching one more film or going to bed when the apartment door opened and closed loudly.

The three of them half jumped out of their seats, turning violently to see Andrew Minyard standing in the doorway, and Neil’s breath caught in his throat. He was bundled up in a thick black coat, the collar pulled up around his neck, and his black knitted bobble hat Neil had brought him last year was pulled down over his ears that he just knew would still be adorably pink at the tips. One of his hands was tucked into his pocket and the other held a large duffel bag.

“Well well, look at what the cat finally dragged in.” Both Neil and Andrew glared at Aaron, who only rolled his eyes in response to their annoyance. Turning back to Andrew he gave him one last once over before standing slowly.

“Why don’t you go and sort yourself out,” he pointed to the bedroom where their en-suite was, “I’ll be in there in a minute.” Andrew gave a curt nod in confirmation and disappeared down the hall, bedroom door shutting softly. Katelyn was speaking to him, saying that she and Aaron were going to head to bed, kissing him on the cheek and pulling her husband along. Neil’s first instinct was to run to the bedroom, wrap his partner up in his arms, kiss him until they were breathless and then never let him go again but he was still mad at him. So, he cleared the few empty cans from the coffee table, and took Kate’s dirty glass and plate to the kitchen and dumped them in the sink. He locked the door and the windows out of habit and switched off all of the lights and slowly walked to his bedroom where he knew Andrew was waiting.

When he reached the door, he froze with his hand on the handle, closing his eyes and breathing deeply several times before he forced himself to step inside. As he suspected. Andrew was now in a pair of grey sweats and, he noticed with some satisfaction, one of Neil’s long sleeve cotton shirts. This one was a navy blue and Andrew had never looked more beautiful than he didn’t now, in soft clothes, hair ruffled and his nose and cheeks still a little pink from the cold air outside. He tugged on his withering self control and stopped himself from climbing over the other man and just holding him. His mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out. Taking that as a cue to start first, Andrew spoke, though Neil never expected for those words to ever come out of his partner’s mouth. “I lied to you.”

“What?” The blonde looked down at his hands, sighed, and then stood, walking and walking until he was a mere few steps away from Neil. Before, before there would be no need for that distance, because they’d healed and grown together and barely used ’yes or no’ unless it was a bad day or they were trying new things. Fuck long distance relationships.

“I lied. Kevin was never the one to keep me back in New York the first time, and there was no storm coming in to stop me from coming this time.” He couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t fucking breathe.

“What the fuck? How could you lie, you swore you’d never lie to me. Why didn't you want to come, and why turn up at the last minute?” Andrew did step into his space then, on hand gripping his hip and the other linking their pinkie fingers together.

“Because there was something I was trying to sort out but those god damn stickball coaches are a pain in my ass.” Neil blinked, and then blinked a couple more times, before he was led to the bed where Andrew let go of him to dig out a stack of papers from his duffel bag and handed them into his scarred hands. “Merry Christmas, Junkie.” Okay, now he really was confused as he stared at the item in his hands with a furrowed brow. His anger was still there, but dying out slowly. He flicked through page after page eyes widening and mouth dropping open before he looked back at Andrew whose lips were quirking at his dumbfounded expression.

“You’re serious? You join the Bobcats when the new season starts?” His lover nodded.

“I’m tired. I’m tired of being away from you, of all the fighting. I’ve been working with your coach and mine to trade me with your goalkeeper, Angie. They hated it at first but I got there in the end. That’s why I’m so late, they were still hesitant about signing the damn forms.”

“So you started yet another fight with me?” In one swift movement there were hands on his cheeks and words were being breathed against his lips, sending pleasant, incredibly missed shivers down his spine as he wrapped his arms around Andrew’s waist.

“Not my finest moment, but I was trying to surprise you. Clearly, I’m not very good at it.” Neil chuckled wetly, and pressed their foreheads together.

“This is really happening?” He whispered gently.

“Yeah. I’ve still got to move all my stuff out here and things like that, but it’s real, Abram.”

“Then kiss me, you asshole, and make me forget your very bad surprise.” Andrew laughed then too, walking him backwards and pushing him down onto the bed, straddling his waist. They kissed for what seemed like hours, wrapped up and lost in one another. When they finally pulled apart, his lips felt tingly and his breathing came in pants.

That night, he fell asleep to warm sheets, a soft body behind him and cradled in a strong pair of arms. Despite the rocky start, Neil thought this might have been his best Christmas yet.

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I really hoped you liked it and if you do want that part two, I’ll be more than willing. I’m actually quite happy with the idea:)

[neapolitanadonna]

PLEASE PLEASE can we get headcanons on vlogger Prussia I would actually cry. (Bonus points if you include his friends and possibly a reader??? 👁️👄👁️ thank you you're so sexy I love everything about u

You’re probably one of my favorite anons based off of emoji choice alone. Department store tiktok type beat.

-Prussia’s always been a fan of recording his life, whether it be through journals, photos, or videos. When he first created his Youtube channel, he didn’t plan on creating a fan base, he just wanted to create new memories in a twenty first century format.

-Even if he didn’t want to become famous, he’s cute. He gains popularity extremely fast- most of his early fans are teenage girls who thirst over him and his friends (friends being Spain and France) in the comments section.

-What shocks him most is that none of his fans actually know who he is. He gained around two million subscribers in a year, and not once did anyone in his comments section point out the fact that he’s actually an immortal human-like being rather than some 20 year old funny college student with weird eyes.

-And he absolutely loves it. It’s like the ultimate Bunbury (Oscar Wilde fans know whats up.) He can be whoever he wants without anyone knowing who he really is, and he loves that power. On Youtube, he’s really just an honest and real version of himself. He doesn’t have to hold up a serious facade when he’s vlogging or when he’s meeting his fans. He can just be him.

-He calls his fan base the Teutonic Knights, and not a lot of them know what he’s talking about, but before he knows it he’s operating a merch store and putting Teutonic Knights on hoodies, t-shirts, booty shorts, and even underwear. Germany thinks its ridiculous, Prussia thinks it’s incredible.

-He’s been hungry for power since his land dissolved, so finally having a mass of people who follow him again is so therapeutic and natural to him. He only lets his ego get to him a little bit.

-His fan base has three jokes. One is calling him an albino rat, the second is begging him to show more of Spain’s ass during the vlogs, and the third is fans will ask Germany to mangle them in weird and violent ways in the comments. Germany is terrified.

-They go by their human names in the vlogs, just to keep the fact that they’re immortal super beings under cover. There was a Twitter thread once that tried to expose “Antonio” as being Spain, but it was quickly deleted and shot down.

-Prussia’s favorite places to vlog are college campuses- he finds the ones in America to be the most fun. College kids don’t judge him based on his appearance, his accent, or anything else. They only care if he’s fun to be around, and he always is.

-Kind of like David Dobrik, he’ll hire an “assistant”, which is just a human girl who travels around with him and manages all the boring stuff that comes along with being an internet personality. He likes a girl in charge, and eventually falls for her.

-But will he tell her that he’s immortal? Absolutely not. She’ll just have to figure out why he has so many faded scars and tattoos for herself.

-The Teutonic Knights worship Ludwig to a weird extent. Germany isn’t comfortable with it, but Prussia thinks it’s hysterical. If Ludwig happens to travel with Gilbert to the states, he’s flooded more than Gilbert is.

-Hungary sometimes appears in the vlogs, but mostly as somebody that Prussia rips on for a bit.

-When he goes on tours, all the proceeds get donated. When the public found out about it, they immediately dubbed him as a hero of Youtube. Of course, he cares about the well-being of others, but he doesn’t know how to tell people that he’s literally so rich from being alive for a couple thousand years that he doesn’t need the money he gets.

-He had one scandal. He created a Filthy Frank like video where Antonio threw up on camera for five minutes. He got cancelled on twitter for a couple hours, but was soon stanned again.

-Suddenly, everyone in Prussia’s life is in on his vlog, whether they like it or not. It’s risky, being countries and all, and if the government happens to see them, the channel could easily get taken down. But so far, Prussia’s been cooling with little to no recognition at all. He has seen the glimmer of recognition in the eyes of one of his fans Grandfather’s when he came through a meet and greet and saw France.

-He makes his friends wear Teutonic Knights merchandise to World Meetings. Him, Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, and Austria will all show up to meetings in some form of his merch, and leave everyone else absolutely speechless.

-He cries when Lichtenstein asks for a hoodie too.

-He’s super popular with the micronations, most of his are teenagers after all. He thinks it’s cool that he can be a role model for these young countries, even if he isn’t the best.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

The Apocalypse in Germany - Week 14

Algermissen: Desinfectant and handicraft tools stolen from daycare

Viersen: Burglars steal 21 rolls of toilet paper and 5 kitchen rolls

Face masks mandatory in the city of Jena

Bad Kreuznach: Burglars steal 40 rolls of toilet paper from the hallway of an apartment building.

Cologne: A drunk customer in a drug store complains that he’s only allowed to buy one pack of toilet paper. Police sent him off, he returns and continues to complain. Police comes again and take him into custody.

Monheim: Drunk guy beats an employee of a fast food restaurant because he’s not allowed to eat his food in his car.

Flights from Iran banned.

No new episode of the daily podcast with Christian Drosten (the virologist all of Germany is stanning at the moment) on April 1 because he had a cold (he’s fine though, he tested negative for Corona)

Gelsenkirchen: Plainclothes policemen see two men loading a cardboard box from one car into another car. Turns out there were 1600 face masks in it. The policemen confiscated them.

Over 1,000 deaths

Increased demand for puzzles

Schleswig-Holstein closes sausage stands

Bamberg: Man invites his friends to drink alcohol in his apartment. After police had to come for the fifth time in one week, they took him into custody for two weeks.

Admission stop in nursing homes and homes for the disabled in Bavaria

Weinheim: Man arrested because he announced a protest against the curfew on the Internet.

Berlin: Police breaks up actual protest where 40 people protested against the curfew.

Wilhelmshaven: Guy throws a party. Police has to come and breaks it up. Guy doesn’t stop party. Police has to come again. Guy moves party to another apartment in the same house. Police has to come for the third time and takes two people into custody.

[anikaswiftie]

My journey of being a Swiftie

Everyone does kind of know since when they are fans of Taylor Swift. Since when they follow her journey in life and career. For me it’s a curve of ups and downs with only going up at the end. I am making this way too dramatic, but I have this feeling like I need to write this all down and make it public, like I need to justify my fangirling journey, so I can say “I have been a Taylor Swift fan since years”. This fandom is so massive. It is the biggest fandom I have ever been a part of (and that can be scary) and everyone became a fan in different parts of their own lives and in different parts of Taylor’s life. So here is my journey, no one asked for, but yet I still have the urge to put down. 

In 2012 I was first introduced to the name and music of Taylor Swift. I was about 11 at that time. Coming from Germany, not actively listening to music or caring about it at all at that age and just getting introduced to the world wide web, I was shown my probably very first YouTube video on a black iPad 3rd generation from my best friend. It was a video of Miss Taylor Swift, playing songs in a language I could not understand (with the exception of a few words) sitting with her guitar in front of a crowd which made themselves comfortable. It was the Red hangout and the performances of three songs of the album. I do not remember which ones I listened to, but I remember watching it and thinking Taylor was super cool! Then I sometimes heard songs of hers on the radio and really liked them, but I still had no clue about being a Swiftie.

In 2015 I went grocery shopping with my dad and they sold 1989 and I asked my dad if I could have the album. And he said YES. And I listened to that album so much! I really loved it!! And I still do. So much! I liked some edits of Taylor on WeHeartIt, the only social media I got back then. And I began watching her music videos on TV and became obsessed with the Blank Space music video and know that I tried uncountable times to recreate her eating the little candy heart as elegantly and smoothly as she did. I think I failed at that :D. As you do in middle school you also exchange your tastes in music and I started discovering my own taste, mixed with a bunch of influences of others. Spotify was the platform to be, but at that time Taylor Swift's catalog was fully taken off the side and I added only a blank space cover to my playlists. It never occurred to me to buy another album off of amazon or in a music store. What most of my friends back then listened to was trap or rap. I didn’t connect with that music and also did not really like it, but I listened to it in my free time, because I thought that was what I had to do, to fit in and to be cool enough. When I rediscovered 1989 in 2016 I told a friend of mine “I have a Taylor Swift CD I like to listen to right now” and she said “That really fits you, but it isn’t my kind of music.”. And somehow I took it up as something bad, that it would suit me, to listen to Taylor Swift, I felt like that meant “I don’t like her music and we cannot talk about that, you better listen to something else or we are not having a conversation about music anymore, because your taste is so completely different then mine.”, I know that is not what she meant. But I really felt the urge to accommodate my music taste to hers/theirs. 

I only listened to 1989 at home on CD and then got caught up in a spiral of watching TV Shows and was first introduced to fandoms. I became a fan of numeros shows and began being a fangirl, also on the internet. In middle school I had a friend I would watch a show with and fangirl over it, after a while people asked us if we could not talk about something else. So we just talked about it rarely.

I began video editing and posting it on the internet and really got sucked into Instagram. I also really enjoyed The Hunger Games - Series and know that I rewinded the credits a bunch of times, because I loved Safe & Sound some much. That song I actually found on Spotify and was able to play it there as well and I loved listening to it while reading. Why didn't I listen to Eyes Open? I honestly don’t know. Maybe I did not notice it was on the soundtrack. So there I was, being a fan of a bunch of TV-Shows, starting to improve my English and thinking of music artists just as people who made music and not really got more into it.

When the music video to Look What You Made Me Do came out it was recommended to me on YouTube and I watched, fascinated by the visuals and the money that must’ve been put into this (which was a lot as I now know). After that I went back to my fangirling on Instagram. 

Then I joined stan twitter and became a fan of more and more things. Went to high school. Not being close to anyone there and just knowing two people. I started building my own personality. I was more confident, because I really wanted to meet new people and not be totally by myself. I met amazing people. Who cared and still care about me and my opinions. Who never made me feel uncomfortable for being a fan of something and encouraged me to embrace it, even though they might have nothing to do with it. They didn’t make me feel embarrassed or uneasy about it. And I am beyond thankful for that. Thank you!<3

I also had conversations in high school with people about music. And one of my classmates liked Panic! At the Disco. I began listening to a bunch of their stuff after having a meme of This is gospel on my for you page and became a fan. This was at the end of 2018. For the first time in my life I entwined in a fandom which was related to music. Around half a year later Taylor Swift released the first single of her new album, which we would later find out would be named Lover. The single was called ME! and it was a collaboration with Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie. After that single dropped and I re-watched the music video many many times and watched multiple videos on it and it’s easter eggs. Followed the first Swiftie - accounts on stan twitter and then finally the legend herself.

I’ve been wanting to write an essay about this for a while now. Without listening to her other albums before finishing it. Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now and Red are waiting for me. I’ve only listened to the ones which have music videos or which she covered on tour or some bits from edits I saw over the years (her songs make GREAT audios for couple video edits;)).

I am a proud Swiftie now and so proud of her! 

And yeah, I have some great albums to get to.

[darlingyouremy-lover]

11 years a Swiftie

@taylorswift we’ve never met (I still have hope) but I wanted you to know who you’ve been following on Tumblr for 4 years. I know you have so many posts to sift through every time you log on, but if you took the time to read this it would mean the world to me. I’ve loved all your music for so long, but the album that really made a difference for me was Speak Now. It came at such a pivotal point in my life, and I can’t thank you enough for pulling me out of such a rough place with your music and your words. 

Speak Now was the first of your tours I was able to go to. I had just gotten my very first job right before the tickets went on sale, and I couldn’t afford to get them when they were available. But in a stroke of luck, I got an email from Ticketmaster about a week before the show saying additional seats opened up for the New Orleans stop. Girl, if I didn’t lose my damn mind in that moment. I scooped up one ticket and I went to that show by myself and rocked out the whole time. I remember during Sparks Fly you were about 10 feet away from me at one point. Speak Now was such an amazing tour from the set list, to the stage production, to the choreography. It was EVERYTHING. And I will never forget that that was the first real concert I’d ever been to.

The next time I saw you was for the Red Tour, and I was able to take my best friend this time around. We were so excited. We planned our outfits, and we drove to Dallas to see you. We had the best time dancing through the whole show, and my friend was a huge Ed Sheeran fan as well, so it was really like a 2 for 1 deal seeing you both in one day. I remember crying during All Too Well, and being interviewed by some people with cameras asking about my outfit (cause as you can see, I went a little overboard). We danced the whole time, and were so in awe again of the stage production and choreography. I don’t care what anyone says, RED DESERVED A DAMN GRAMMY OK?!

1989 was our next stop on the Taylor Swift tour journey. I went with my bestie again to the Baton Rouge show, and we decided to dress as foxes because of our mutual love of “I Know Places”. I remember just a few days before this show, you followed me on here, and I swear I couldn’t breathe.  I felt like there was a chance you might know who we were! I remember posting this picture on Tumblr before the show and the other Swifties were so supportive and reblogging us like crazy. It was amazing. That night, we met your mom, and she told us we looked cute and gushed over how good our seats were! We hugged her and when she left I cried. My friend had to keep me in check lol. It was such an amazing night. As 1989 was one of my absolute favorite albums of yours, we lost our shit at every song. It was one of the most magical nights ever.

Next up is Rep Tour! Taylor, I’m gonna give it to you straight here, I TRAVELED OVER 5,000 MILES, ALL THE WAY FROM GERMANY, TO SEE YOU IN NEW ORLEANS. AND I DON’T REGRET IT ONE BIT. One of my closest friends came with me this time. We had our snake print tank tops on and we felt like the baddest bitches in all the land. And once again, you did not disappoint. THE PYROTECHNICS. ARE YOU JOKING?! I Did Something Bad blew my mind. I heard all my faves. I gushed over King of My Heart and Getaway Car. It was truly an unforgettable night.

Taylor, thank you for putting so much thought into your shows, and for reaching out and interacting with us online. You are truly the most generous and thoughtful person I’ve ever heard of. I don’t know what my life would be like without your music. I don’t really stan any other celebrity so much that I save all my dollars every time they go on tour. I guess its because I know you will always pull out all the stops and really make it a magical experience for us. I hope one day I can meet you and tell you how much I love you to your face, and hug you and thank you for everything you do. I can’t wait to see what else you have in store for us this era! I promise, I will be there watching when tour comes around :)

Love you, 

Carly :)

[the-golden-ghost]

You know I'm a tea fan, so all the teas! ^^

(Jsyk I actually had to look up a few of these to know if they were tea or not, that’s how out of the loop I am)

Jasmine Tea : If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?

Right NOW, the library. Dammit. But in general, presuming we’ll ever be able to go places ever again, I’d kind of like to go back to Salem or Gloucester. Maybe even Germany or Belgium, someday!

Or the bottom of the ocean

Old English : You’re stranded on an island, who do you bring with you?

You, for company. And someone who knows how to build a boat and also how to navigate. I can navigate but only by stars and I feel like modern radio technology would be better, for the record.

Iced Lemon Tea : Favorite song/band?

TALLY HALL per usual, I’ve been stanning them since 1994. But song? Actually right now it’s a Miracle Musical song, The Mind Electric. 

Green Tea : How tall are you?

5′7. A bit short but a respectable short. 

Earl Grey Tea : The inevitable Zombie Apocalypse is upon us! What’s your plan of action?

Obvs move into a mall and just chill out there for months and months and months in relative luxury while the lights and everything stay on and none of the food goes bad, somehow. Avoid random biker gangs. Go to one in Maine so they have a fully-stocked gun hunting supply store for ammo. Works every time.

Mint Tea : How do you relax?

I Don’t.

(I mean, I have been playing a lot of False Chess against a computer lately though)

Rose Hip Tea : Describe your first kiss 

Bold of you to assume I’ve ever kissed anyone

Herbal Tea : You’re at a candle shop, what scented candle do you buy?

LILAC

Everyone mixes this up with lavender. No. Lavender is simply not The Good Scent. Lilac is the real one. If I had to pick a different one though, it would be lemon, and then orange. 

[mahashankh]

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[dancingskys]

Just thought back to that one time in London where my sister and I went shopping in (at??) Camden Market. I wanted to visit the BT21 pop up store but hohoho no, that was not happening (3hours waiting time). Like, bish, I might like plushies but I’m not that much of a hardcore stan.

Anyway, instead we went shopping and we were in a Collectif store. They have vintage dresses and all that stuff. So we went to try some things on, my sister bought something, I didn’t. We went to go downstairs to pay when there was a family of four. The daughter was wearing one of the dresses in a dark blue with... I think a space-themed print? I don’t remember but she looked amazing in it. I think she wanted to wear it for a school ball? She looked really happy and then her father said something along the lines of ‘you really want to wear that? For a school ball?’ Like implying it didn’t look good or was childish or whatever.

And you gotta know I’m really shy so I usually don’t just compliment strangers. It takes a lot out of me to compliment people and we weren’t even in Germany so I’d have to do it in a different language. But she looked so happy and I really didn’t want her to feel bad about wearing what she liked so when the dad opened his mouth again I said really loudly ‘Oh my god, you look amazing in that dress! It really suits you!’

And because I’m shy I kinda fled the scene afterwards but I caught her smiling and thanking me. And the dad didn’t get to say whatever comment he had prepared. 

It’s just... It was like over three months ago but I still makes me happy? To know I complimented someone and made them happy? That’s a really good feeling.

I just thought about it because I remembered a girl complimenting me when I went to see Bring The Soul. I was wearing a dress that I bought... two years ago? Three? I was always too afraid to wear it because it’s kinda of a gothic style?

But because I went alone and Kpop/anime stans are pretty accepting of ‘weird’ fashion I went all out. I wore the dress and did really dark makeup and wore my full-body skeleton earrings. I looked really nice in my opinion and after the movie I went to the bathroom (like pretty much all girls did). There was this one girl who was waiting for a friend and when I came in she just looked me up and down with wide eyes and said ‘wow, that’s a really nice dress’ and made me so happy T.T

It’s so rare people compliment me and I rarely do it to others but I want to compliment people more. I think when it’s a genuine compliment from a stranger it means even more. So often I think someone is good looking, their outfit is cool or I love their hair but I’m always too shy to say something. I really wanna change that...

Okay, enough midnight talk x,D 

[helshades]

I'm about 79% sure Natasha will be back. I was sure they would kill her back before Endgame (when we were all doing our death pool), so Marvel could market her movie as "an homage", "the origins of the great Black Widow" or something like that. Now i'm actually convinced they will market it that way, only to reveal at the end that she has been resurrected all along. Either that, or she will be brought back and everybody will believe it, only until they find out she really was Veranke the Skrull.

What little we know of that film is this: it has just commenced production, as previously announced; Cate Shortland is directing it; Rachel Weisz and David Harbour have been cast in unconfirmed roles; Florence Pugh is playing the second lead, ‘a spy on the same skill level as Natasha Romanoff, but she won’t share her moral compass’ (in other words, she is playing Yelena Belova); O-T Fagbenle has been hired to play the villain, as production were looking for ‘a Black British actor to play the bad guy’; the working title in production is ‘Blue Bayou’; the film will not be rated R; and a few weeks ago, Sebastian Stan, in true Marvel marketing tradition, ‘let it slip’ that it will take place between the events of Civil War and Infinity War, back when Natasha was a world fugitive after blowing raspberries at the Sokovia Accords to follow Cap and go rogue.

Well. The main plot, at least. Very interestingly, Cate Shortland got famous and got awards for directing two excellent films about the Holocaust: 2012 Lore and 2017 Berlin Syndrome. The former follows the children of a high-ranking Nazi official who in the immediate aftermath of the war flee their home in Southern Germany to take refuge at their grandmother’s house in the Black Forest, meeting many different characters along the road and gradually learning to defy unjust authority. Black Syndrome, on the other hand, is a psychological thriller dealing with sequestration and survival as a young woman is taken hostage by her lover—the young woman is Australian, the young man is German, it takes place in Germany and one of the themes of the film is of course the Berlin Wall, as his own mother during the Cold War defected to the West.

Let’s say that Cate Shortland’s filmography does ring a few bells.

Sincerely, what Marvel seems to have in store, if executed at least correctly, does sound a little more promising than ‘Black Widow who had been a Skrull all that time appears to be alive in 2023 as if nothing happened and Tumblr can rejoice’. The fact remains that Natalia Ivanovna Romanova is a cipher and, more than a mere homage, the public of the M.C.U. may appreciate an exploration of her past that depict the way she became, not the Black Widow per se, but a veritable heroin…

Of course, that doesn’t exactly prevent Marvel from devising way to bring a Black Widow back to the present, if not our own, regretted Natasha; they could, for instance, pull an alternative version of the character from a different reality, say, from the reality where Steve Rogers has spent several decades after leaving Earth-616. Note that I am not saying they will, only that anything in possible in comics and comicbook movies, and that they could if they so would. That actually sounds more in tune with what they have been doing with the original Avengers who survived Phase Three, which is that they let the characters shed old hides and transform.

Phase Four, whether we are meant to call that way or not, will be heavy on the cosmic, it would seem, while the Earthly bits will be led by a growing Peter Parker. I assume, when the time comes to introduce the Fantastic Four, that Tony Stark’s place as mad, genius inventor will be taken by Reed Richards, although that is not happening anytime soon as Marvel’s film slate is already quite full with the upcomingBlack Widow, Black Panther 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Doctor Strange 2,Shang-Chi andThe Eternals. In which order, I don’t think we know, and we can only suppose more films are to come that may be inserted in-between these titles, and we have to surmise that at some point we will get at least a Fantastic Four movie if not a Doctor Doom one, and the mutants have yet to be introduced even as a concept to the M.C.U., not to mention I am painstakingly holding out for my Namor movie… Yeah. Black Widow and Spider-Man: Far From Home alike are Phase Three films. We’ll see, as always, but I really don’t think there will be a Black Widow 2.