#There is a reason my local hospital has a TWO star rating out of 5 on Google.

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Went to the ER last night (I mean it was like 10 PM) over my foot still hurting over several days and they told me what I already figured it was (a foot sprain) and they literally just said to prop it up/ice it up and take Tylenol as needed. Like thanks.

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She-who-fights-and-writes Coronacation Book Rec List

I know that a lot of people are stuck at home right now in dire need of entertainment, so I decided I’d put out a book recommendations list of all the books I’m currently reading and all of my must-reads!

(Just a note that a lot of these are Fantasy because I’m a fantasy nerd haha)

Books/Series I am currently reading

1. The Folk of the Air Trilogy by Holly Black (Currently on #2, The Wicked King)

Genre: High Fantasy

Setting: The land of Faerie which is kind of historical, but in the human world it is modern day

Main cast :

Jude Duarte (white, human, cutthroat, if I saw her in a Denny’s Parking Lot at 3am I would RUN)

Cardan Greenbriar (white, faerie, the true embodiment of Bastard)

Vivienne (Jude’s half-sister, lesbian with canon gf, half-human half-faerie, I would totally try to be her friend)

Taryn Duarte (Jude’s twin sister, queen doormat, still, I would take a bullet for her she’s jUST TRYING TO FIT IN)

Rating: 5/5 Stars

These books have been on my “To Read” list for so long now and for some reason I just never got around to reading them! Hands-down, these are some of the best high fantasy books that I’ve read in a long, long while.

I finished the first book, The Cruel Prince, in just two days and rated it 5/5 stars! Even though these books are high fantasy and focus on the traditions and ways of life of faeries, somehow all of the characters seem like I could meet them in real life!

The main character actually has genuine flaws and not just “””“flaws”””” and is a Bad Bitch down with murder, and the plot had me on the edge of my seat from page one!

The summary makes it sound like it’s going to be about their romance, but it’s really mostly about a power struggle and Jude being a badass.

Goodreads summary for The Cruel Prince:

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.

2. The Raven Cycle Series by Maggie Stiefvater (Currently on #1, The Raven Boys)

Genre: Present-Day/Realistic Fantasy (?)

Setting: The fictional town of Henrietta, Virginia

I haven’t gotten around to much of the book, so there’s not much I can tell you about the characters and I can’t properly give it a rating yet.

These books were also on my “To Read” list for a while; I was a huge fan of her book The Scorpio Races and have also been looking for something to quench my thirst for “private school/ghosts/magic” that I’ve been dealing with ever since I read The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.

I’ve only JUST started The Raven Cycle yesterday, but so far I am hooked! I’m super worried because I’m TERRIBLE at juggling two series at a time but both of these are just so interesting! 

Goodreads Summary for The Raven Boys:

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little. For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

MY MUST-READ BOOK LIST

1. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Genre: Historical Fiction

Setting: 1700s Europe (England, Paris, Barcelona, Marseilles, Venice)

Main cast (I’ll try my best not to spoil anything because you find out a LOT of different stuff about these characters throughout the book):

Henry “Monty” Montague (white, bi/pansexual, attitude problem)

Percy Newton (mixed race, gay, very sweet boy, definitely got “most likely to bring home to mom” in the yearbook)

Felicity Montague (white, Monty’s little sister, headcanoned as asexual, I love her to death)

Rating: 5/5 Stars

Daring adventure, gay representation, historical setting, hilarious characters!

This book literally has it all! I would consider it one of my favorite books of all time, yet for some reason I’ve never gotten around to reading any of the sequel books! The ending is very satisfying and ties everything together, which I feel is part of the reason why I haven’t gotten around to them yet. 

Therefore, it can serve as a one-shot read or a full series if you want to dive into something good!

The humor made me laugh out loud at points and all of the characters are very real and very, very relatable, not to mention the vivid settings of 1700s Europe!

Goodreads summary:

Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven’t been able to curb any of his roguish passions—not for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men. But as Monty embarks on his Grand Tour of Europe, his quest for a life filled with pleasure and vice is in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family’s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy. Still it isn’t in Monty’s nature to give up. Even with his younger sister, Felicity, in tow, he vows to make this yearlong escapade one last hedonistic hurrah and flirt with Percy from Paris to Rome. But when one of Monty’s reckless decisions turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt that spans across Europe, it calls into question everything he knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores.

2. The Ninth House By Leigh Bardugo

Genre: Horror, Fantasy 

Setting: Yale University and the town of New Haven, Present Day

Main cast:

Galaxy “Alex” Stern (Hispanic, sees dead people, very scary)

Daniel Arlington “Darlington” (white, rich, an angel who can sometimes be a dick)

Pamela Dawes (tbh I honestly don’t remember what she looks like, only that she’s a tired grad student with big nerd energy)

Detective Alan Turner (Black, takes shit from nobody, husband material)

Rating: 4/5 Stars

(NOTE: THIS IS VERY DARK ADULT FICTION AND CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR SOME PEOPLE, WOULD NOT RECOMMEND FOR PEOPLE UNDER 16)

This book is a great read for someone who’s looking for a disturbing, gritty book with layers upon layers of secrets that you have to peel away as the mystery unfolds. I love the secret societies and the intricate magic systems that the book introduces, and it actually made me hungry for more books like it!

 Alex is a three-dimensional, very real character who also serves as an unreliable narrator who witholds or warps the information that she’s telling you, making the narrative all the more riveting.

The only issues that I have with it are the fact that Leigh Bardugo kind of just dumps you in the middle of it without explaining stuff first, to the point where it kind of feels like you’re reading the second installment of a series rather than the first one, so things can get a bit confusing at first.

The book also can drag and draw things out for a bit too long, but once the plot fully kicks into gear, you will not be able to put it down!

Goodreads summary:

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

3. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Setting: Earth, Space, The Moon

Main cast :

Linh Cinder (Chinese, based on Cinderella, cyborg, certified badass)

Scarlet Benoit (French, based on Little Red Riding Hood, farmer who is not afraid to shoot you)

Cress Darnel (White, based on Rapunzel, nerd, I will protect her with my life if I have to)

Kaito “Kai” (Chinese, based on Prince Charming, kind of has to run a whole country, a very kind soul, deserves a nap)

Carswell Thorne (White, based off of Rapunzel’s Prince, bastard)

Winter Hayle (Black, based off of Snow White, royalty, has super special powers)

Wolf (Race unspecified, based off of the Big Bad Wolf, charming killing machine, furry????) 

Rating: 5/5 Stars

Do you like fairy tales?

Have you ever wanted to know what fairy tales would be like if they took place in the FUTURE instead of the PAST? 

Do you like an amazing, hilarious cast paired with a super interesting plot? 

These are the books for you!

I haven’t read them in so long, but I remember how much joy I felt while devouring these pages. Definitely something you will not able to put down!

Goodreads Summary for Book #1: Cinder: 

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.

4. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Genre: Fantasy

Setting: Ancient Greece

Main cast:

Patroclus (Greek, Gay, quiet pining) 

Achilles (Greek, gay, very strong, student athlete energy)

Brisies (Anatolian, clever, literally the only one in this story who has a brain cell)

Rating: 100000/5 stars

This is basically the Iliad but if historians hadn’t completely erased Patroclus and Achilles’ relationship. “Haha yeah these guys were totally bros” they say, even though I have read the Iliad and their relationship isn’t even subtle.

This book made me cry at least ten times. It’s just so beautifully written and has such a distinct vibe to it that whenever I crack it open for another time, it takes me straight back to the vacation that I read it on. (Needless to say, sobbing your eyes out can be less than helpful when you’re on the beach)

If you can only read one book on this list, it should be this one. I could talk all day about it and write novels on just how much of an incredible writer Madeline Miller is, but I feel like you’d get my drift a bit better if you actually read the book.

Goodreads Summary:

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear. Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.

Hope this list helps you through your coronacation, and please don’t be afraid to reblog or message me to tell me if you’ve read/will read any of these!

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the secrets that we keep pt 3

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A/n: I belted this out as soon as I could tbh. Merry Christmas Eve, y’all! Thank you for all the lovely comments!! <3 

Tagging: @monst​

NAVIGATION: Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three (HERE) | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight

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Genre: Mystery, Angst, Horror, Hurt/Comfort Rated: Everyone Warning: Horror, Angst, Slight Swearing, Blood, Mentions of Blood, Nudity, Slight Sexual Theme

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Author: dabisburntnut

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The GPS had taken you and Tim about fifty-seven miles outside of Tuscaloosa, Rosswood a temporary memory in the rear-view mirror as you two drove to this man you knew. Tim was tired, his body aching and mind wishing for sleep. However, Tim continued to down his Red Bull as he drove. You weren’t in a good condition to drive, and Tim didn’t want to stop on the side of the road just in case the Operator was close behind.

Looking over at you, Tim rubbed his thumb against the skin of your hand. You looked peaceful as you slept, your head resting on a makeshift pillow of his tan jacket he had grabbed from the back of the car. Your hand was in his, your grasp slightly loose within your sleeping state. However, Tim held on tight, afraid of letting you go at any moment.

Bringing your hand up, Tim kissed the back of your hand gently, grounding himself as he felt his anxiety begin to flare up. He was worried about you, and intrusive thoughts were beginning to plague him as the worst-case scenarios began to play in his head. What if the Operator finally got you? What then? What would Tim have to fight for?

Yes, he could fight for himself…but was he truly worth it? Should he be allowed to walk the earth after all of the things that had happened within the last few years? Tim bit his lip. He had come to terms with the deaths of his friends, but in his mind, he knew it was partly his fault. Really. If he hadn’t met Alex or Brian or Jay, they would still be alive and living healthy, happy lives.

Maybe it wasn’t fair to be so hard on himself, but it was a weight that had sat on his shoulders for years. Even if Tim had you by his side for a bit of it, you had been kept in the dark for the whole time. To you, he had been dealing with family issues, as he had fibbed to you constantly whenever you would ask him about his disappearances and seemingly scattered mind.

Tim wasn’t ready to show you the tapes and the channel, and he knew he never would be.

Right now, you still had somewhat of a chance. Tim knew the Operator wanted him…so if Tim let you go, you could live a normal life…happy and content and alive. That was what mattered to Tim the most: that you lived and were okay and happy. Tim didn’t really care about what happened to him. If his death or compliance with the Operator meant your safety, then Tim would take that chance.

But was it his rightful choice to do so?

You were a stubborn woman, and you seemed to be dead-set on going through with this with him…could he really make this choice for you? Tim licked his lips and sighed before kissing the skin of your hand again. Your voice made him jump a bit, his head whipping towards you as you spoke.

“What’s got you so anxious, Tim?”

Tim was quiet for a moment before replying softly.

“I’m scared for you. If any of this goes wrong, you could die…and I can’t let that happen. I love you too much to let that thing take you…and it’s all my fault. It’s my fault that this is happening. If you and I had never met, you would still have a chance to lead a happy and normal life.”

You turned to him and said quietly, tightening your hold on his hand reassuringly.

“Tim, none of this is your fault. That thing…it chose us. We probably won’t ever know why, but it isn’t your fault just like it wasn’t Alex’s, Jay’s, or Brian’s. That thing, whatever it may be, is the reason why we are where we are right now.”

You were quiet before saying softly.

“I would never regret meeting you, even with the situation at hand now. I would go through this a hundred times if it meant I could have what I do with you.”

Tim looked over at you, his heart racing within his chest. Tim swallowed thickly and asked you quietly.

“Do you really mean that? Even if it meant that you could die…you would stay with me? Even if I was the reason this is all happening?”

You smiled lightly, your lips kissing the back of his hand just as he had done to you earlier.

“Well, I wouldn’t say I’m stupid, but I’m certainly in love, so yes. I would.”

Tim’s jaw clenched as he curbed his tears. Fucking hell. How did you do it? How were you able to still smile and love him through this? Tim really didn’t give you enough credit nowadays, did he? Tim didn’t know what to say, but it seemed that you always knew what he needed to hear.

“I’m certainly not going to call you stupid, but maybe a bit crazy for doing so.”

Tim decided to joke lightly, trying to ease the heaviness of the moment. You chuckled before you became quiet, looking out the window in thought. Tim reveled in the comfortable silence before he asked you.

“What are you thinking about?”

You sighed and rubbed your forehead, Tim’s eyes glancing over you as he wondered if your head was bothering you.

“I just feel kind of stupid. I neglected telling you about what I had been seeing because I wasn’t very sure if it was even real. I didn’t want to worry you or make you think I was crazy…but now I kind of wish I had told you sooner. Maybe our chance to get away would be much bigger. How do we know that getting away from Tuscaloosa and Rosswood is going to help?”

“We don’t, but we have to take the chance no matter how slim it is.”

Tim affirmed to you, nodding slightly. A small veterinarian clinic came into view, and Tim pulled in, squinting his eyes at a tall man who was standing outside the front entrance.

The man seemed taller than Tim, slim and definitely fitting the look of a doctor, no matter if it was for animals or humans. His hair was black, slightly curly and slightly long, swept back to kiss at the back of his neck. He was wearing a black polo tucked into black jeans; black cowboy boots peeking out from the cuffs of his jeans.

He wore a watch on his right wrist and a ring adorned his right ring finger, making Tim wonder if the man was engaged. From what Tim could see, the man also had a bit of stubble with hazel eyes to match.

Tim didn’t like him almost immediately.

You seemed to light up a bit, and when Tim pulled in, you got out, waving at the man.

“Hello, John.”

John whistled, looking you up and down and smiling widely.

“Wow, (Y/n)! You’ve changed a lot since college! It’s so nice to see you again.”

He brought you into a hug, and you politely reciprocated. Tim got out, giving the man a look despite John not looking at him. John pulled back to greet Tim, nodding to him and holding his hand out for Tim to shake.

“Ah, you must be the famous Tim Wright. (Y/n) used to gush about you all the time during college and our occasional online chats.”

“John!”

You were red in the face, and Tim had to hold in a snort. Shaking the man’s hand, Tim was still stiff, unease in his bones.

“Yeah, that’s me.”

John nodded at Tim politely before asking you, looking into the car.

“So, what’s this favor you need? Got an animal in need?”

“If I count as an animal, then yes.”

You replied bluntly. John tilted his head before you sighed and turned around, lifting your hair to show your wound. John’s eyes bugged from his head.

“Jesus Christ, (Y/n)! What the fuck happened? Come inside!”

He began to guide you inside, and Tim was left to trail behind, glaring at the man’s hand. Jesus, he shouldn’t be feeling jealous that this man was touching you. He was just trying to help…but Tim couldn’t help but feel this way. Was he jealous because he couldn’t help you the way John could?

The vet clinic was dark, only a few lights from signs in the hallway illuminating the way, and John asked as he guided you into a room.

“Why did you come to me? You need a hospital. What if you have brain damage?”

“Funny, Tim asked me the same thing.”

John gave you a look, almost like a father scolding a child and he wagged a finger at you as he began to grab the utensils needed to administer the stitches.

“You should probably start listening to him more then. I’m just a veterinarian, (Nickname). I can’t heal human wounds like I can with animals.”

Tim gave you a look and added.

“He has a good point there, (Y/n).”

You stuck your tongue out at Tim, and he rolled his eyes at you. John ordered.

“I need you to lay face-first on the table. Try to be still as possible, okay?”

You nodded before doing as told, and John warned as he began to prepare to give you some local anesthetic.

“This is gonna hurt a bit, okay? I’m just gonna numb the area while you tell me what the fuck happened to you.”

You fluttered your hand out for Tim, and Tim took your hand gently as you squeezed your eyes shut. You were shaking, and Tim wondered if it was because of the needle.

“Um, well Tim and I were just dickin around in the woods and I fell. I didn’t want to go to the hospital because I really can’t afford to pay any hospital bills.”

John gave Tim a look.

“’Dickin around in the woods,’ huh?”

“We weren’t fucking, if that’s what you are implying, John.”

John choked a bit as Tim widened his eyes at your boldness.

“That’s not what I…nevermind. Seriously, though, why would you two be wandering the woods at night?”

“It’s easier to see the stars in less populated areas.”

Came your simple reply. Tim was surprised at how easy lying came to you. John was buying your story, and as he began to work on your stitches, he decided to change the subject.

“What’s been going on with you lately? Still working that run-down 9-to-5?”

You replied softly, eyes closing as you tried to relax.

“Not anymore. I quit yesterday.”

“Must have been rough then. Hadn’t you worked there for a year?”

You nodded, and John seemed to perk up, looking over to Tim as if remembering he was there.

“What about you, Tim? How’s life been treating you?”

Tim replied curtly.

“Just fine.”

John nodded, as if understanding that Tim wasn’t really interested in getting to know him at the moment. You gave Tim a look that begged him to be nice, but Tim couldn’t shake the irritation. John was quiet for a moment before assessing your wound.

“Your wound isn’t too deep, thankfully enough. You should be fine after a lot of bed rest, but be careful not to take too much. We don’t want to risk you falling into a coma should you have a concussion. Has she been showing signs of being concussed?”

Tim shook his head.

“Other than sleeping a lot, she’s been fine. I think she’s just exhausted and probably has the worst migraine of her life.”

You nodded.

“See, I’m fine. No need for a hospital.”

John shook his head.

“You always were such a stubborn woman.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing when I’m the reason you two get out of the trouble that y’all get into.”

Tim cracked a small smile at you, amused but knowing full well that you were completely right. John, however, simply rolled his eyes.

“Whatever makes you sleep at night. You should be okay, though. Just try not to put pressure on the wound and make sure to clean it carefully when you wash your hair.”

You nodded and Tim helped you sit up. Taking off his gloves, John began to clean up and asked.

“Is there anything else that I can do for you two?”

Tim shook his head.

“No, we should be fine. Thank you.”

John nodded before pointing at you.

“You better keep in touch more often.”

You waved your hand at him.

“I’ll try my best, but no promises. I’m a busy woman, you know.”

John chuckled before escorting the two of you out.

“As per usual for you. Get well soon. It was good seeing you again…just wish it was under better circumstances.”

You nodded and waved at him as Tim helped you back to the car.

“Yeah, maybe we can catch up sometime soon. See you around, John.”

John waved, and Tim was quick to peel out of the clinic and get back onto the highway. You poked at his side, saying.

“You could have been a bit less intimidating instead of being a jealous lumberjack in the corner.”

Tim replied, rolling his eyes as he grabbed your hand to get you to stop poking into his side.

“I wasn’t jealous.”

“Say that to the stink eye you were giving him the whole time.”

Tim gave you a look, and you simply smiled at him. Tim shook his head and rubbed his thumb against your skin.

“I wasn’t giving him the stink eye…I just…didn’t like how friendly he was with you.”

You snorted and Tim blushed, muttering as he stared at the road.

“Shut up, we’re not doing this right now.”

You giggled and replied.

“Okay, okay, I won’t try to get you to admit you were jealous seeing as it was written all over your face.”

Tim sighed and said to himself.

“Maybe I should’ve left you there.”

“Aw, leave John and I alone? All alone with nothing to do?”

Tim glared at you, and you giggled before kissing his bearded cheek.

“Come on, I’m only playing. You’re the only lumberjack I need.”

Tim asked you, playfully exasperated.

“Would you stop with the lumberjack jokes?”

“No.”

Tim just groaned as you giggled, finding the nearest hotel as quick as he could.

-TIMESKIP-

Tim sighed as he let his head hang under the spray of the shower, the hot water steaming heavily around him. His skin was red from where the scalding hot water ran over him, but Tim couldn’t care. The burn was nice, and it took his mind off of his worries for a bit.

You had decided that you didn’t want a shower, so Tim had decided to take one. You had chosen to take both his and your clothes so that you could wash them, and from the sound of it, you had just gotten back.

Tim shut the water off, drying off with the provided towels before tying one around his waist. Walking out of the bathroom, Tim watched you for a second as you gingerly folded his clothes while in just your underwear and bra. The robe you had snagged from the bathroom sat draped on the office chair, temporarily forgotten as you folded the clothes.

Tim smiled lightly as you hummed lightly to yourself and placed the clothes on the dresser. Catching his gaze, you blinked and asked him, crossing your arms.

“What? Stop staring at me, you weirdo.”

Tim chuckled before coming over to you, leaning down and softly kissing your lips. You were shy, but gently kissed him back, placing your hands on his damp biceps. Pulling away, Tim kept his forehead resting against yours. He said to you quietly.

“Thank you for washing my clothes.”

You smiled lightly and replied, poking his stomach.

“Well, you don’t wanna be parading around smelling like a dumpster, do you?”

Tim chuckled before his hands came down to your hips, his lips gracing against yours again as he gently kneaded the flesh within his palms. You sighed lightly, your body relaxing against his, and Tim’s own tension seemed to melt away. Tim’s body was getting hot as he continued to kiss you, his tongue intertwining with yours, his hands running up your sides and just feeling you. How long was it that you and Tim had been able to be intimate with your hectic schedules?

Though, as much as Tim wanted to continue, he knew he couldn’t risk hurting you or irritating your wound. Knowing him, he would forget about your stitches and get too rough with you. Tim pulled away, his eyes closed and breathing heavy, his forehead against yours. 

You were nuzzling him, fingertips scratching at the back of his neck and tickling at his hair as your lips gently kissed his cheek and moving down his jawline. His hands gripped your hips, keeping you against him as he let out a shaky breath, and you asked quietly.

“Are you okay?”

Tim nodded and replied, his voice shaky.

“Yes, I’m fine. I just…don’t want to risk hurting you. Maybe once your wound is healed more…okay?”

You nodded and kissed his cheek.

“It’s okay, Tim. I understand.”

Tim nodded and he mumbled.

“I’ll…be right back.”

You nodded and Tim was quick to go back into the bathroom. You giggled slightly before climbing into the bed, burying yourself under the covers as you waited for Tim to finish. A couple minutes later, Tim came back out, his face flushed. He was in his boxers now, and Tim climbed into the bed, scooting close to you. Laying his hand on your hip, you turned to face him. Your noses were touching, eyes gazing into each others, and you whispered to him.

“Will you show me tomorrow?”

Tim felt his chest tighten slightly. Was he ready to show you the tapes? Was he ready to reveal the secret he had been keeping from you for so long? Was he ready to show you the truth? In the short run, no, he wasn’t. Tim didn’t think he would ever be ready.

However, Tim knew in the deep dark pit of his heart that this would happen one day. He had no other choice than to give you the truth…to show you what he truly was. Tim bit his lip lightly before nodding softly to you.

“Yeah, I’ll show you tomorrow. For now, let’s just get some sleep, okay?”

You nodded before digging your head into his chest, nuzzling him lightly. Tim wrapped his arms around you and held you close, afraid that you would disappear within the night as he slept.

He did not sleep easy this night.

[TBC]

[bountyofbeads]

What It Took for a Fox News Psychiatrist to Finally Lose His License https://nyti.ms/2MbUGZu

What It Took for a Fox News Psychiatrist to Finally Lose His License

Keith Ablow was a popular fixture on the cable channel until 2017, and a high-profile therapist. He left a trail of vulnerable female patients who claim he abused them.

By Ginia Bellafante | Published Dec. 20, 2019 | New York Times | Posted December 21, 2019 |

Late in 2009, a 28-year-old woman not long out of graduate school found herself in a stressful job at a Bronx hospital and decided it would be useful to talk to someone. Searching online, she came across the name of a psychiatrist, Keith Ablow.

Dr. Ablow was familiar to her from his writing, both his journalism and the best-selling thrillers he turned out — “Denial,’’ “Projection,” “Compulsion,’’ “Murder Suicide.’’ She had read all of those, as well as “Psychopath,’’ a book about a psychiatrist who prods the interior lives of strangers only to kill them, baroquely obscuring the distinction between patient and victim.

The woman — who has asked to be identified only by her confirmation name, Monique — found Dr. Ablow just as his media star was rising. That year, Roger Ailes had hired him as a regular contributor on Fox News, where he would remain until 2017, speculating about the mental states of political figures and presiding over viewer segments like “Normal or Nuts?”

Dr. Ablow offered counseling in the conventional sense, but he also conducted life-coaching via email. Monique engaged with him this way at first, but after she answered various questions about her past, mentioning adolescent bouts of depression, she agreed to see Dr. Ablow in person. His busy schedule meant that she would have to go to his primary office, in Newburyport, Mass. He was impressive to her, and so Monique made the five-hour trip for her first visit.

Over the next year and a half, Monique saw Dr. Ablow two or three times a week, at the reduced rate of $350 an hour. During this time she found herself coming unwound.

Her anxiety about work did not recede. On the contrary, she felt increasingly addled and insecure, and problems that had been latent for a long time resurfaced. She began cutting herself, something she hadn’t done in years.

Monique came to believe that Dr. Ablow had not only failed to help her; he left her more damaged than she already was. For his part, Dr. Ablow would maintain that whatever boundaries she thought he violated — the frequent texts and emails, the intimate revelations about his own life — were in the service of her treatment, well within the standard of sound psychiatric care.

As Monique would discover, it would take years — and several other patients coming forward with their own stories of manipulation — for Dr. Ablow’s transgressions to be taken seriously.

The case represents a core challenge of psychological treatment. At a cultural moment in which all kinds of relationships are policed for abuses of power imbalance, psychotherapy takes place in seclusion: two people, alone in a room, with one holding extraordinary influence over the other, just as it has been since Freud. It remains a world with murky oversight, and if you are harmed, it is not obvious what can be done.

By the time Monique left his care, her new marriage had fallen apart and she had developed a dependency on Valium, Xanax and Adderall. She also said she had drained her savings of $30,000 to pay for the treatment.

Most alarming, she had become obsessively, insidiously reliant on Dr. Ablow’s affirmation, a circumstance she and her lawyer would later suspect he engineered.

On an unusually hot late-summer morning, in a coffee shop just north of the city, Monique recounted how she had come under Dr. Ablow’s thrall. When she finally disentangled, she filed a complaint with the disciplinary board in New York that oversees psychiatrists — a body that works secretly and can take years to respond to charges. In this case, when it finally completed its initial review of Dr. Ablow, it found no reason to sanction him.

As we spoke over several hours, Monique’s caution gave way to a fluid and emotional narrative. It was easy to imagine her on the other side of conversations that played out this way hundreds of times. She was, in fact, a therapist herself.

That she had this training compounded the embarrassment anyone in her situation would surely feel. Monique was reflexively skeptical about human motivation. As a child she had resisted authority. How had she landed here?

From the beginning, Dr. Ablow presented himself as an idealized caretaker more than a guide. “As if he said, ‘Let down your guard, let go of everything and completely fall on me, because I will give you everything you ever needed. And you need nothing but to trust me,’” she reflected.

This was intoxicating to Monique. Her childhood had been marked by her father’s volatility, her mother’s emotional absence, a difficult relationship with her brother. With Dr. Ablow, she found herself in the strange state of feeling both further weakened by her past and protected from it.

If therapy is the project of overcoming, Monique belatedly came to believe that Dr. Ablow urged her neither toward strength nor self-reliance. “He did make me feel beautiful and precious and special,’’ she said. “But very broken.’’

On May 15, Dr. Ablow’s license was suspended in Massachusetts after an investigation determined that his continued practice was a threat to the “health, safety and welfare” of the public. He is appealing the ruling.

This article is based on interviews with Monique and others, including her current therapist as well as legal and medical documents obtained by The Times. Dr. Ablow did not respond to attempts to speak with him directly, but his lawyer, Paul Cirel, issued a statement on his behalf, writing in an email that his client would not “breach the ethical/confidentiality standards of his profession” and comment further.

Earlier this year, Dr. Ablow referred to the claims Monique made in her legal complaint to the health department in New York as “groundless.” He has categorically denied all allegations of sexual misconduct against him that have come up in subsequent cases. And he has said, as he did with Monique, that to whatever extent he revealed personal information with patients, he did so in the effort to help them work through issues of psychological importance.

On Feb. 5 next year, a hearing will take place in Massachusetts that will ultimately determine the future status of Dr. Ablow’s medical license.

From the outset, Monique had inklings of doubt about Dr. Ablow, but she easily suppressed them. Her first meeting with him ended with a prescription for an antidepressant. Although she found it curious that he would administer drugs so quickly, she deferred to his approach.

The boundary between patient and doctor was permeable from the start. Dr. Ablow took Monique to a taping at Fox; he connected her with a literary agent when she wanted to write. On one occasion, she mentioned she was near his office with her dog. This was in Newburyport, where she still went for treatment on occasion, running up bills in local inns, in addition to seeing him in New York. She knew Dr. Ablow had expressed an interest in meeting her dog, and he briefly left a session with another patient to come outside and play with him, she said.

Their sessions had an improvisational, transgressive tone. According to her official complaint, Dr. Ablow twice wondered, for no apparent therapeutic purpose, whether Monique had genital piercings. At one point, when she was describing a conflict with her father, Dr. Ablow responded: “Why don’t you tell your father to come stick a gun in my face and see what happens.”

Money was an ongoing problem for Monique, and she eventually questioned why so much of her costly time in therapy was spent listening to Dr. Ablow talk about issues he confronted in his own life — that his sister was drawn to broken men, that his son did a lot of pacing.

These confidences nonetheless made Monique feel as though she held outsize status with Dr. Ablow. Which made it all the more painful for Monique when she felt dismissed by him — when he would arrive late for their sessions, she said, or text and email during them.

Any of these incidents might have given her pause, but it took what she regarded as an explicit act of cruelty to compel her to leave. Early on, Monique had told Dr. Ablow that she feared, above all, being physically trapped — imprisoned, taken somewhere and locked up.

Many months later, during a disagreement about something relatively minor, she said, Dr. Ablow suggested that he might have to hospitalize her. Hospitalizing a distraught psychiatric patient is not an unreasonable course in certain circumstances, but Monique was certain he was preying on her vulnerabilities.

“I couldn’t trust him after that,” Monique said.

When Keith Ablow was in medical school at Johns Hopkins University in the 1980s, after graduating from Brown, he hoped to become an ophthalmologist. It was a mentor at Hopkins who suggested psychiatry, recognizing someone profoundly curious about other people’s lives.

His ambition was evident early on. He wrote the first of his 16 books, “Medical School: Getting In, Staying In, Staying Human,’’ while he was still a student. A paperback edition featured a blurb from The New England Journal of Medicine.

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Ablow was interviewed for a book, “In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists.’’ The author, Deborah Lott, had met him at a gathering of clinicians and found him to be insightful on the subject of boundaries and transference. Ms. Lott thought of him “as one of the good guys,’’ she said recently, “an advocate for women.”

Before his emergence at Fox, Dr. Ablow was a familiar presence on daytime talk shows, where he delivered advice with a brash compassion. Ms. Lott had lost track of him until his television appearances. As a Fox commentator, she said, his persona was radically different from the one she remembered. (A spokeswoman for Fox confirmed that Dr. Ablow’s contract was not renewed in 2017 and had no further comment.)

On TV, Dr. Ablow’s habit of diagnosing political leaders, particularly President Obama, who he believed suffered from abandonment issues that made him a weak leader, sparked criticism from a profession that maintains a fierce distaste for this sort of conjecture.

In 2014, Jeffrey Lieberman, chair of the psychiatry department at Columbia University, publicly denounced Dr. Ablow, who in turn responded with a clever press statement: “I am apparently joined by my nemesis Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman in rejecting the position that psychiatrists ought not comment on public figures. Lieberman condemned me as a ‘narcissistic self-promoter’ — yet he has never interviewed me.”

In November of that same year, Ms. Lott received a circumspect email from a young woman who had read her book and had questions about Dr. Ablow’s involvement. It was Monique. She was wondering what Dr. Ablow was doing in a book about boundaries. “She had no ax to grind,” Ms. Lott recalled, “other than trying to make sense out of what had happened.’’

Two years earlier, in 2012, Monique had outlined all of her allegations against Dr. Ablow in a lengthy complaint she made with New York State’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct, the agency empowered to suspend and revoke psychiatric licenses.

In these documents, she claimed that Dr. Ablow had crossed multiple boundaries, overwhelming her with details about himself — that he had been attracted to his children’s babysitters, for instance, and that his marriage was unfulfilling.

He asked her to coffee frequently. He encouraged her to move in with a female friend of his in Manhattan when Monique separated from her husband, only to later tell her that the roommate he recommended was “nuts.” He mentioned to Monique that he wanted to send a former all-star running back for the New York Giants to her as a patient. He also suggested that she date him.

At one point, while she was still seeing Dr. Ablow for regular therapy, he offered her a job with his life-coaching business. She took it, counseling people remotely. For a few months, she was both his patient and his employee.

In the course of her efforts to establish her own practice, Dr. Ablow encouraged Monique to move to Newburyport, which would be cheaper than New York.

She almost went through with it.

Monique had recently married a man after a four-year engagement, yet her ambivalence about him persisted. Dr. Ablow knew all about this. In fact, when she emailed him on the eve of her wedding, he gave her confounding advice. In his reply, he implicitly encouraged her to go through with it, at the same time remarking that marriage itself was “absurd.”

On the day she planned to move and leave her husband behind, in January 2011, a tremendous storm hit the Northeast. She decided to stay in New York, where she continued to see Dr. Ablow for another six months.

Once she made the decision to leave Dr. Ablow, Monique met with a Manhattan lawyer, Audrey Bedolis, who has concentrated in psychotherapeutic malpractice since the early 1990s.

Ms. Bedolis knew that cases without accusations of sexual misconduct, clear physical abuse or some other singular, dramatic incident are typically hard to litigate; she and her client eventually abandoned plans for a lawsuit. But Ms. Bedolis believed that the sheer volume of Dr. Ablow’s boundary trespasses would surely result in disciplinary action from state authorities.

In the dynamic between Monique and Dr. Ablow, Ms. Bedolis saw something all too familiar. Though she knew only Monique’s side of the story, it seemed to her a clear case of exploitation that, while it did not involve sex, was just as devastating. “First he medicated her when she never thought she should be medicated,’’ Ms. Bedolis said. “Then he lured her in as the only person who could help her.”

For several years, Monique waited to hear something from the conduct office in New York. In October 2017, the office finally wrote to say that it had found “insufficient evidence’’ to bring any charges of misconduct against Dr. Ablow.

One week after the New York board wrote to Monique saying that it would not sanction him, it sent a separate letter to Dr. Ablow, stating that in her case, he had failed to render proper care and treatment and that he prescribed medications inappropriately. He was told to refrain from boundary violations.

But there was no punishment for this; his license to practice psychiatry in New York remained in good standing.

This spring, however, based on Monique’s claims and the testimonies of four other female patients, as well as several former employees of Dr. Ablow’s, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine ruled that Dr. Ablow practiced “in violation of law, regulations, and/or good and accepted medical practice.” As a result of that suspension, he consented to cease practice in New York, where a renewed investigation by the conduct office is underway.

Three of the women — like Monique, all young — told an investigator for the Massachusetts board that Dr. Ablow had become sexually involved with them during the course of their treatment. One of them said that he introduced her to sadomasochism and hit her with a belt during their encounters, exclaiming, “I own you.”

In a formal written response to the board, Dr. Ablow denied this, as well as the charges that he had been physically intimate with the other patients involved in the case.

In a statement issued in August, Dr. Ablow’s lawyer, Mr. Cirel, addressed the charges in a series of malpractice lawsuits brought against Dr. Ablow, which were settled out of court this year, as well as the allegations in the complaint to the state, writing: “We are pleased that the civil matters have been amicably resolved. Dr. Ablow can now focus his attention and resources on overturning the Board of Medicine’s order of temporary suspension, so that he can restore his medical license and resume helping patients into the future, as he has countless times in the past.”

Last winter, before the suits were settled, Dr. Ablow appeared on a Boston-area news show, where he addressed them and claimed to be a target of cancel culture. “A male, a public person and a Trump supporter,” Dr. Ablow said in the interview. “So am I surprised? Yeah. But shocked? No.”

In his rebuttal to the Massachusetts board, Dr. Ablow said that one of his accusers had a history of falsely accusing men of sexual misbehavior and that she had essentially confused what happened between them with the actions of a recurring character in his novels.

The documents filed in conjunction with Dr. Ablow’s suspension reveal something else as well — that in three separate instances in which his medical license came up for renewal in Massachusetts, between 2013 and 2017, he failed to notify the state that he was under investigation in New York. During the renewal process, an applicant is asked specifically if he or she is under investigation in a different state. Dr. Ablow said that he wasn’t.

After her time with Dr. Ablow, Monique was apprehensive about trusting a new therapist. Eventually she returned to the psychoanalyst she saw during her first year of graduate school, Robert Katz. Recently, she gave permission to Dr. Katz to speak about her experience with Dr. Ablow.

Monique entered treatment with him shaken by what had happened to her under Dr. Ablow’s care, he said. Dr. Katz viewed the boundary violations she described as a means of grooming her for a sexual relationship.

Of everything she brought up, Dr. Katz added, one detail stuck out most in his mind: that Dr. Ablow had suggested to Monique that she become an escort to earn the extra money she needed. (Dr. Ablow has denied ever saying this, and denied it again when another patient made the same claim.)

In recent years Monique has settled into a successful private practice (this is why she insisted on anonymity in exchange for participating in this article).

Still, even now, after all she has come to understand, she finds herself occasionally missing the connection she had with Dr. Ablow, longing again to experience how much she imagined she meant to him.

When a psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker is barred from practicing, it does not necessarily mean that they are prevented from dispensing advice, in an office, for profit. Life-coaching is a career open to almost anyone; requiring no credentials, it is largely unregulated.

After the suspension of his license, Dr. Ablow repositioned himself. The Ablow Center for Mind and Soul in Newburyport identifies Dr. Ablow on its website as someone who “practiced psychiatry for over 25 years before developing his own life-coaching, mentoring and spiritual counseling system.” Over the summer, he took courses in pastoral counseling at Liberty University, the evangelical Christian college in Lynchburg, Va.

The Ablow Center is expanding its services, including free therapy for veterans once a month. It also announced an essay contest for high-school and college students considering a career in counseling.

Beyond that, visitors to the center’s website can find regular blog posts from Dr. Ablow, like a recent entry with the headline, “Why a Depression and Anxiety Consultant Could Be the Key to Recovering.”

For anyone “still’’ feeling anxious or low, Dr. Ablow had some wisdom: “It may have nothing to do with you,” he wrote, “and everything to do with the treatments being offered to you.”

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Ginia Bellafante has served as a reporter, critic and, since 2011, as the Big City columnist. She began her career at The Times as a fashion critic, and has also been a television critic. She previously worked at Time magazine. @GiniaNYT

[youleftme-clarke]

Who are your favorite bellarke authors?

I am so glad you asked, nonny, because I have been meaning to do a fic rec! The authors listed below are in no particular order; I just went with whoever came up first on my history on AO3, and included some of my favorite fics by each author!

the_most_beautiful_broom ( @the-most-beautiful-broom​ )

Drops of Gold Like Sparks | Rated G | 7,682 words

Coffee Shop AU. Whenever their apartment is too quiet, Clarke and Madi settle into a local coffee shop to catch up on work and homework. Clarke steps outside to answer a call, and Madi asks the most erudite-looking person within shouting distance for help with her history homework.

Room 337 | Rated T | 22,609 words | 5/5 chapters

Hospital AU. Clarke broke Bellamy’s heart; she knows that. She also knows that even though she had her reasons, he never heard them. It takes Octavia being in a motorcycle crash and being rushed into Clarke’s O.R. for the two of them to finally reconcile their differences.

verbaepulchellae ( @verbam​ )

Sugar, Let Me Be Your Passenger | Rated E | 58,829 words | 7/? chapters

“Don’t you think there should be some cosmic rule,” Clarke says, leaning back against the counter as well and contemplating her glass. “That when you suffer through a bad date, the world owes you a blow job?”

Bellamy chokes on his wine, and Clarke helpfully pats him on the back as he splutters. “Jesus, Clarke. Warn a guy.”

“What? I’m trying to commiserate with you,” Clarke laughs. “Wouldn’t that be the ultimate?”

“Well, sure,” Bellamy says, a little flustered. “Cosmically owed orgasms sound like a pretty good deal to me. There’s just the small catch that most bad dates don’t lead to sex.”

Encased In Case I Need It | Rated M | 37,063 words | 5/? chapters

Her friends have finally come back to Earth. It’s been six years. Somethings have changed more than others.

theoneinquisitor ( @octannibal-blake​ )

when there’s nothing left to burn | Rated M | 2,677 words | 1/? chapters

The first time she meets Bellamy Blake, he’s spitting blood into a dirty bathroom sink somewhere on the outskirts of Polis. Or: the angsty bellarke boxing fic literally no one asked for.

now i’m running, and i can’t stop anywhere i go | Rated T | 7,034 words

He’s just the boy who conquers his fears and could conquer the world. She’s the girl who can’t get on the ride. A Modern Bellarke AU.

HawthorneWhisperer ( @hawthornewhisperer​ )

there’s an art to life’s distractions | Rated E | 14,585 words | 4/4 chapters

Bellamy needs a place to live for a few months and Clarke has a spare bedroom.

What could go wrong?

it’s been said many times, many ways | Rated M | 18,311 words | 5/5 chapters

A Hallmark Christmas Movie-esque AU, featuring: Clarke as the big city business woman trapped in a small town for incredibly contrived reasons! Bellamy as the surly-but-good-hearted bookstore owner who takes her in! A bookstore with a name that’s also a Latin pun! Madi being adorable! A gift swap and mistletoe! Bedsharing for even more contrived reasons! And more.

not_a_total_basket_case ( @raven-reyes-of-sunshine )

I Want To Fall In Love (With The Stars In Your Eyes) | Rated T | 42,543

This is going to be a whole bunch of relatively short one-shots/drabbles. Probably, but not definitely, going to be all Bellarke. Also they’ll probably all be modern day.

Friends First | Rated T | 3,936 words

“Fine.” Bellamy all but snaps, turning to face Miller and trying to keep his exasperation at bay. “I’ll tell her.”

“You better.” Miller says, wiping the counter down, while Bellamy counts the tills. They’re closing up the bar and Miller has spent the last three hours trying to convince Bellamy to just tell Clarke how he feels. That he’s basically been in love with her since they met six months ago. Even if all they did was fight initially, he was doing it for an excuse to talk to her. He’s never really been great with his feelings.

“I will.” Bellamy says, holding up his phone so Miller can see the screen. “I just texted her to tell her I need to talk to her.”

selflessbellamy ( @selflessbellamy )

Just Another Graceless Night | Rated E | 8,785 words

Clarke Griffin is the newest member of the Alternative Rock band, The Delinquents , but in the band they have one (1) rule:

“Everyone hates Bellamy Blake.”

Of course, Clarke didn’t know this when she slept with him… That complicates things a bit.

You took a polaroid of us | Rated T | 3,767 words

Roadtrip AU: Two weeks after Clarke loses father to cancer, her boyfriend Bellamy decides that it’s time for her to get out of her room

asroarke ( @asroarke )

Only Once | Mated M | 9,963 words

If Clarke could date, he was exactly who she would be going for. He’s smart, funny, a little too cute for his own good… He always managed to say the sarcastic thing that Clarke was already thinking. And he understood her curse, possibly even more than Wells did since he actually had one. He was sweet to her when he needed to be. He teased the hell out of her and loved to pick fights with her, but he knew when to be supportive. And when he praised her for something, she genuinely believed he meant every word.

Bellamy Blake was exactly who she would want in a world where she wasn’t cursed… which was why she needed to steer clear of him.

A Modern AU where Clarke Griffin has a curse. Anyone that she says the words “I love you” to will die. The only logical thing to do is to just swear off dating… or at least, that was the plan until Bellamy Blake walked into her life.

Diamond Heart | Rated M | 11,801 words

The Country Music fic where Bellamy can totally handle Clarke’s fake relationship with Finn Collins. He is not jealous at all. The songs he writes just coincidentally happen to make it sound like he’s jealous.

marauders_groupie ( @marauders-groupie )

Kept Going, Kept Rolling with Nowhere to Go | Rated M | 7,365 words

Clarke Griffin meets Bellamy Blake on her third night in Spain and she blames sangria and travelling for what happens after.

A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You | Rated T | 1,820 words

Bellarke + “You give me a different fake name every time you come into the coffee shop and I just want to know your real name bc ur cute but here I am scrawling “Batman” onto your stupid cappuccino”

islabbe ( @blueshirtbell )

We’re On Thin Ice (We Might As Well Dance) | Rated G | 16,417 words

Finn is disqualified from competing and Clarke needs a new ice dance partner fast! Luckily, Marcus knows just the man for the job.

That’s a Wrap | Rated T | 4,097 words

Clarke owns a gift wrapping shop. Bellamy is terrible at wrapping and of course he leaves it until the last minute on Christmas Eve to bring it to Clarke’s shop.

Willaphyx ( @rebelprincebell )

Things We Shouldn’t Do | Rated T | 92,654 words | 8/8 chapters

Clarke is at the bottom of a downward spiral and Bellamy is riding an all-time career high when they’re cast as the leads of Marcus Kane’s newest drama. The entertainment world expects a blowup of immense proportions between the two feuding actors but get a hard to explain romance instead. Or: a fake dating celebrities AU.

[rain-drop-sky]

As a prompt could Sid and Geno do a reality show

It’s a brand new reality/celebrity/travel/game show mashup where contestants are assigned into random pairs and are forced to learn and work together as a team over the course of 3 weeks while completing various tasks around the world, all while being filmed 24/7. All the contestants are celebrities of some sort and they’re each competing for a 3 million dollar prize to go to a charity of their choice.

Geno is the beloved captain of the two time Stanley Cup Champions Pittsburgh Penguins. He has smashed hockey records left and right and together with his close friend Alexander Ovechkin, led Russia to gold at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Sid first started out as a self-taught cooking channel on Youtube and endeared himself to the public with his earnest instructions and series on cooking with a tight budget and limited equipment. His dream was to go to culinary school and when his fans found out, they donated money to help with his tuition costs. Combined with his ad revenue and sponsorship deals, he’s able to attend and graduates at the top of his class from the International Culinary Centre. He now owns and runs a Michelin Star farm-to-table restaurant located in NYC

As a teaser, the show releases snippets of each celebrity’s audition tape to join the show. Some are the standard polite “Hi, my name is ___ and I’m signing up to raise money for ____.” staged puff pieces with stylish clothing, bright natural light, and minimalist sets. Some, usually younger indie celebrities, film their audition tapes while doing something extreme. One teenaged singer filmed himself shrieking his audition lines while bungee jumping.

But there are two that go viral. The first is of Evgeni Malkin laughing as he squirms on a barstool wearing a bright Pens jersey. “Why I need do this, you already bought me dinner yesterday and I say yes Ilya,” Geno says to someone off-camera. A muffled voice tells Geno exasperatedly to just do the intro, they need it for the show. Geno sighs dramatically and looks to the camera. “Hi, my name is Geno Malkin. I play a little hockey. My friend run this show and is very sad–” “Hey!” an outraged voice cuts in while sounds of laughter can be heard off-camera. “–very sad, so he beg and promise me fancy dinner if I join the team. This isn’t an audition Ilya if I’m guaranteed a spot! Fake!” Geno shouts, sticking his tongue out cheekily. He’s still laughing as he’s pelted with wadded up paper and the camera cuts off as a short dark haired man walks into the frame, “screw you Zhenya, this is my show and you will stop being a pest–” The second looks like a real tv show trailer - there are elegant shots of of New York City and the interior of a rustic restaurant along sharp crisp shots of cooking and food prep. Interspersed are candid clips of a smiling man. “My name is Sidney Crosby.” “I’m the owner-chef of Alexandre here in New York City.” “Supporting youth outreach programs and homeless youth shelters is very important to me.” The official audition tape ends with a shot of Sidney’s hand sliding a beautiful entree into frame but a clip is attached to end where a much more rumpled looking Sidney Crosby is in the kitchen and frowning at the camera as he wipes his hands with a dish towel. “I’m sorry, but I don’t remember signing up for a reality tv show. Are you sure you have the right person?” A hand holds out an ipad and he watches the tape shown earlier. “Wait, I remember this shot. And this one. Wait, where’s Tanger?” He twists around. “Tanger? TANGER. DID YOU SIGN ME UP FOR REALITY TV YOU *BEEP*” He looks over his shoulder apologetically. “Sorry, kitchens don’t really have clean language. KRISTOPHER.” The camera cuts to a new scene where a pretty man in chef whites and long shiny hair gives a very Gallic shrug. “I have a talent for editing along with cooking I suppose.” He smiles slyly. “You’re dying to get him on though aren’t you?”

Geno and Sid are paired up and awkwardly introduce themselves to each other. Sid hasn’t really followed any sports aside from his sister’s gymnastic meets since he quit hockey as a kid after having his leg broken twice by other vengeful kids in the local leagues. Geno doesn’t care or have much opinion on food aside that Russian food is best and steak is mandatory before games. He’s confused and wonders how on earth Sid runs a farm with a fully functioning restaurant in the middle of Manhattan until Sid explains what farm-to-table means. “I’m no clotheshorse like you but even I know Eurotrash is never in style and Jesus, he was wearing a shirt made up of 3 different shirts poorly stitched together,” Sid hisses into the phone to Tanger. “Does it make him or me look more like an ass when he can’t keep up with me during physical activities?” Geno muses to Sasha. “He’s a chef, I highly doubt he walks more than a couple kilometres a day.”

All the show pairings are a bit lopsided to be fair. Some pairs start off being overly polite and not wanting to step on any toes while some are instantaneously comfortable and ooze charisma. Some fail at everything spectacularly, aiming for comedic relief, and even a few agree to be the (comparatively mild) villains that all reality shows need for ratings. Sid and Geno start off as one of the polite teams until Geno forgets himself and screams “DRIVE FASTER SID, WHAT ARE YOU, BLIND GRANDPA? DON’T LET *BEEP* TONY AND ELEANOR BEAT US *BEEP*” while Sid first drives a Zamboni in the relay race. “WHO’S A SLOW *BEEP* NOW, YOU’RE PAID TO BE FAST. SOME *BEEP BEEP* HOME ADVANTAGE YOU’RE PROVING TO BE” Sid yells back when Geno tries to gun it on his turn. “I’m so happy you competitive too,” Geno says as afterwards when they’re the first and only team to make it onto a flight to Alaska. “I’m a chef, we’re all hypercompetitive control freaks.” Sid replies. The ice is broken from then on. “I’m impress with how much swear,” Geno comments as they’re setting up a tent in Costa Rica. “Have you never seen a cooking show?” Sid snorts. “We’re not PG at all. There’s a reason why studios don’t do live shows in real kitchens.” He looks directly into the camera and grins sunnily. “*Beep beep beep* and *beep beeeep* you *beeeeeeeep*” Geno looks at him with admiration. “Need to use that on team,” he declares.

Sid and Geno quickly become fan favourites. The show has some pacing issues and a few pairs never end up with any appealing chemistry but Sid and Geno make the show rocket to the top of viewership ratings and become meme lords on their own. “No Geno, don’t pet!” “But it’s cute!” becomes one of the show’s taglines. The internet delights in making memes and gifs of Geno cradling any kind of animal declaring “It’s cute so I pet!” while Sid facepalms to the side. Viewers comment online how much chemistry the two have and how adorable they are together. Fans lose their mind when Geno cries on camera when they get to meet real emperor penguins. “I’m sorry Ilya for make fun of you,” he sniffles as he carefully pets a patient penguin. “You best friend. Best.”

They unfortunately don’t win and exit the show as the third to last team. They lost their original 4 hour lead due to a freak storm that grounded all flights from their terminal. Fans are devastated and the producers try to cushion the blow by including an extra clip of Geno and Sid parting ways before returning to their regular lives. “Keep in touch, okay Sid? Have to come watch and cheer on Pens when we come crush Rangers at Madison Square Gardens.” Geno says seriously as he holds onto Sid’s shoulders. “I’ll feed you steak before your games,” Sid promises. They hug tightly and the episode ends there before they step apart.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Ask various prominent news outlets. Accounts are set up to track where Sid and Geno are spotted and whether or not they’re still in touch. Nothing seems to go on between the two of them although Geno puts out a press release after pledging 3 million dollars to support research at Children’s Hospital of UPMC and assisting families of sick children. When asked, he shrugs and answers “joined show to raise money for hospital. Didn’t win but I’m still hockey player. Pittsburgh always support me so I’m want to give back.” Sid is featured in New York Times when he does a feature on a new week-long limited menu that will be featured at Alexandre’s come November. “All profits will be donated and split between Big Brothers Big Sisters and local homeless youth shelters,” Sid states. “Although I didn’t win, I still want to donate and support youth in our city.” Fans are disappointed when it appears the “It’s Cute!” ship has sunk until a picture appears on Geno’s instagram account. Best Friends )))) is the caption under a shadowed picture of Geno and Sid grinning in Moscow. An investigative frenzy launches but it turns out that Geno did a late post and Sid is long gone from Russia. There’s a buzz night of the first Rangers/Pens game in New York and dedicated fans capture Evgeni Malkin stepping into Alexandre’s and getting the pre-game steak he was promised. He leads the Pens to a 5-1 victory while Sid watches by the glass, netting himself a natural hat trick along the way.

Two years later, Sid announces he’ll be opening a new restaurant, Sophia, in Pittsburgh. When asked, he responds that his restaurants are named after his sous-chef and business partner Kris Letang’s children. When further pressed, he smiles and says he has friends in Pittsburgh who made a convincing case for opening his new restaurant here. No official comments are made though Geno and the rest of the Pens are seen often frequenting Sophia and Sid can always be spotted at home games and Pens events. Nine months later, an eagle-eyed fan spots and tweets a picture of a silver band topped with a sizeable diamond glittering on Sid’s left hand as he cheers at Geno’s game winning overtime goal.

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[real-life-pine-tree]

Seed of Darkness: Enter the Void (3/?)

All it takes it one bad seed to spoil the whole bunch. An AU collab with @violetganache42​.

While Yoko was taking Yuto to the eye doctor, Yuya and Zuzu arrived back at the Center Duel Field. Upon arriving, they were greeted by their friends.

"Yuya!" Gong exclaimed. "Gong was worried you weren't gonna make it."

"Nope, I'm here," Yuya said.

"Well at least you finally stopped wearing that wig," Tate remarked. "Black and purple isn't a good look for you."

Yuya laughed nervously a little at the thought of wearing a wig. Although it was nice of Yuto to fill in for him throughout the rest of the second round, the eggplant color of his hair did clash with the Dueltainer's clothes. If only they had enough time to find a wig that was similar to Yuya's own tomato hairstyle; it would have made people less suspicious about what his counterpart was doing.

"So Yuya, are you pumped for your next duel?" Allie asked.

"You bet!" Yuya cheerfully replied. "Can't let a little heart thing bother me!"

"Heart thing?" Tate repeated.

"Ya, what is wrong with your heart?" Fredrick asked.

Yuya was taken back by the realization of what he just blurted out. "Oh, nothing," he lied.

There was no way he wanted to tell his friends what happened during the past two days and about his slower heart rate. The last thing he needed was for them to get concerned right before the finals begin; besides, he could always try to make plans to see a doctor later on today to see if he really does have bradycardia or if he was infected by this virus Aura mentioned. For now, he focused himself for dueling Iggy and trying to find ways to help him vent about him missing his friends and family as a way to make him feel better. Yuto did say winning him over wouldn’t work, but Yuya knew that he could try an alternative to bring smiles in his duel that was directed on calming him down.

"Therapeutic Duels," Yuya said.

"Huh?" Zuzu asked.

"Therapeutic Duels," Yuya repeated. "Like what your dad did with me."

Zuzu did remember what happened that evening after the four duels that went on. First, they had to try and save You Show Duel School from the clutches of LID and then they learn Yuya wasn't the only one who can Pendulum Summon. It dealt a terrible blow on him even after he “won”, so Skip had to step in and get his dueling spirit back. Although Declan can also perform Pendulum Summons, Yuya was the only one who discovered it and that would never change.

It quickly clicked to Zuzu’s head on why Yuya even wanted to mention that duel with Skip: he wants to try those dueling tactics out on Iggy. It may look like he will Dueltain, but he will actually be acting as a therapist. "You really think that would work?" she asked.

"I hope it works," Yuya admitted. "If what happened yesterday is any indication, he's probably channeling all that heartbreak into aggression."

"You really think you can reason with that Arlo guy?"

Yuya, Zuzu, Gong, Frederick, Tate, and Allie all turned around to see a certain tan-skinned girl and a spiky purple-haired boy standing not too far from them. They all recognized them as Julia Krystal and Dipper O’rion, the representatives of LID’s Fusion and XYZ Summon courses respectively. It was clear they were badly shaken up about Kit’s defeat and the severe injuries he suffered yet they were trying to keep themselves calm and knew they had to warn Yuya about the danger he was putting himself into.

"We visited Kit earlier today at the local hospital," Dipper said. "Thanks to Iggy, the poor guy can't even move. Two of his ribs were crushed and his left leg had to be put in a cast."

"But worst of all, both of his hands and wrists were broken," Julia said. She sniffled as she used the back of her hand to wipe away tears forming from her eyes. "The doctor said it could take years for him to recover. He can't even pick up a sword or a Duel Disk anymore."

The You Show and Strong Dojo students were rapidly filled with aghast upon hearing where Kit’s injuries were located. They knew how they were bad enough for him to land in the hospital, but they never expected them to be that life-changing. If anything, Iggy should have been disqualified for brutally crippling Kit’s ability to use his hands because he had made him unable to use his swords and play Duel Monsters.

"You better win this duel," Julia told Yuya. "That Arlo guy must pay for what he did to Kit."

"Don't worry, I will," Yuya said. "And hopefully I'll try to reason with him."

Momentarily, Yuya walked into LID’s Center Duel Field to initiate his Therapeutic Action Duel against Iggy. Everyone was having mixed reactions about what was going to happen; some were curious to see how the Performapal user will tackle this violent threat while others were more concerned about him ending up in the hospital much like Kit. A small drop of sweat coursed down from his forehead and he gulped from the thought of embarking on this dangerous challenge. He knew this wasn’t going to be easy and he doesn’t have a lot of experience with Therapeutic Duels and lacks the same expertise as Skip, but he had to at least try something to make sure he doesn’t hospitalize any more Duelists when the finals roll around.

"You must be Yuya Sakaki," Iggy said, approaching the Performapal user. "I know all about your father's legacy. You think you can walk in here and try to win me over with smiles. Well guess what? It won't work on me."

"I know," Yuya said, showing no fear in his eyes as he spoke in a calm voice. "That's why I want to make this as comfortable for you as possible."

Iggy was surprised by that sudden statement. "What?!" he asked.

"I got some information on Bandit Warrior Academy," Yuya continued. "I understand the loss you must be going through. But don't worry, I'll try to help you out."

That confused Iggy. "Where's the Action Field?!" he demanded. "This kid's creeping me out!"

Pretty soon, an Action Field was selected and materialized around the Duel Field. The name of it was called Bamboo Battleground, which was the perfect setting for Iggy to unleash his dueling skills against Yuya his own way. He wasn’t going to let his Dueltaining or…whatever the heck he was currently doing get the best of him.

"Isn't this when you give off one of your big Dueltainment speeches?" Iggy asked.

"Not this time," Yuya answered. He simply activated his Duel Disk. "Now take a deep breath so we can begin."

Iggy wasn’t even sure what to make of this. Was this some kind of prank Yuya is trying to pull? He hoped it was because Nico announced that their duel was about to start, and with a snap of his fingers, Action Cards were scattered all over the Action Field. The two then shouted, “Let’s duel!” to signal the beginning of the Arc League Championship’s next match. Unlike his usual Dueltaining style, Yuya had his moves all planned out ahead of time to make sure his first Therapeutic Duel will be a success.

"Alright Performapal Whip Snake, let's see if we can bring in some tranquility to this field," Yuya said, summoning the purple snake on his first turn.

Whip Snake sprung onto the field and raised his tail upward, which was tied to a heart that was swinging back and forth in front of Iggy. Yuya’s first method of his Therapeutic Duel was to hypnotize his opponent by putting him into a trance and trying to search for a possible root cause for his violent behavior and see if anything was linked to the Bandit Warrior Academy’s quota of not having the students see their loved ones until they become professional Duelists. What he was about to test out was an example of analytical hypnosis.

"What are you-" Iggy started to say.

"Shhh..." Yuya interrupted. "Just watch the heart and relax. Think back to the last time you saw your friends and family."

Unfortunately, Iggy was getting impatient. "Are you done?"

"Yes, I end my turn," Yuya said. "Now watch the heart-"

"Finally!" Iggy exclaimed as he drew a card. "I don't know what you're trying to do, but it was a waste of time. I summon the relentless and ruthless warrior Hayate the Earth Star."

Hayate leapt out of the illuminating light and landed onto his monster zone. He may be a Level 5 EARTH Warrior-Type monster with 2100 ATK and 0 DEF, but his first effect allows himself to be normal summoned onto the field if Iggy controls no monsters and his opponent does control a monster. What’s worse is that his second effect enables him to negate any opposing attack that targets him once per Battle Phase.

"Hayate, hunt down that snake!" Iggy commanded.

"Wait!" Yuya exclaimed. "If you could give Whip Snake a few minutes-"

But before Yuya could finish, Hayate obliterated Whip Snake and sent him to the Graveyard, lowering the Duelist’s Life Points to 3600. If Iggy was still continuing with his Main Phase, Yuya would have activated Whip Snake’s effect to switch Hayate’s ATK and DEF just so he could proceed with his therapy regimen. He was also realizing that he might be over his head when he wanted to try and calm his opponent down, and to make matters worse, he felt his heart rate decreasing by only a slight bit. Although it wasn’t too bad, he feared that this was only a small taste of what to expect in this duel. If Iggy increases the brutality of his attacks, the young Performapal user may end up with a fate worse than hospitalization. Regardless, he has to keep pushing forward if he was ever going to succeed with his therapy treatment.

"I hope your next turn isn't as pathetic as your last one," Iggy said.

Taking a deep breath, Yuya drew a card and checked his hand. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't able to get Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon. But after a bit of thinking, he was able to come up with a good strategy.

"Maybe a little music could help you out," Yuya suggested. "Performapals Monkeyboard and Guitartle, care to lighten the mood with your combined melodies?"

He set his Scale 1 Monkeyboard and Scale 6 Guitartle onto the Pendulum Zones. One of Monkeyboard’s Pendulum effects has him become a Scale 6 if there isn’t another Performapal in the second Pendulum Zone, but because there is, he was still a Scale 1.

"And thanks to my two Performapals, I can bring out two more Performapals to accompany them," Yuya continued. "Come on out, Performapals Gold Fang and Silver Claw!"

With Monkeyboard and Guitartle on the Pendulum Zones, Yuya was able to Pendulum Summon any monsters from Level 2 to Level 5. He decided to choose his Level 4 Gold Fang and Silver Claw because of how fluffy the two monsters are. It reminded him of a pair of pillows, so he was hoping these would help ease Iggy’s ruthlessness.

"Don't you wanna give them a cuddle?" Yuya asked.

"No," Iggy bluntly answered. "Now will you stop goofing off and duel seriously?!"

"Well, if you say so," Yuya said. "Alright Gold Fang and Silver Claw, it seems Iggy is still a bit tense. How about we warm things up by building the Overlay Network?"

Everyone in the audience gasped at what they just heard Yuya say. Was he going to perform an XYZ Summon? It sure looked like it because his Gold Fang and Silver Claw were then enveloped in spheres of yellow and light blue light respectively and ricocheted towards the constructed Overlay Network. To make matters more surprising, it quickly clicked to Nico that Yuya was doing not only his first XYZ Summon, but also his first Pendulum-XYZ Summon.

"What's this?!" Nico asked. He quickly checked Yuya's dueling bio. "Since when has Yuya learned to XYZ Summon?!"

"Flames burning bright, reveal her majesty in all her glory!" Yuya chanted. "Bow before the lovely supreme queen of all dragons! I XYZ Summon Queen Dragun Djinn!"

A beam of fire shot out from the Overlay Network and landed on the middle monster zone, causing it to explode. As a result, the fire began to form the body of a dragon with claws taking shape and wings popping open. The flames then whooshed up towards the dragon’s head, revealing the upper body of an armored woman with piercing red eyes, gray and gold armor pieces, and armed with a lyre in the shape of The Flute of Summoning Dragon. Yuya’s intention for bringing her out was to have her act as a heating pad to help Iggy relieve any tension he may have.

"That's your best move?" Iggy asked. "That card is only useful if you have a dragon in your Graveyard!"

"True, but there's another reason why I summoned her," Yuya said. "Queen Dragun Djinn, use your song of flames to attack Hayate and give Iggy a warm, fiery massage."

But Iggy wasn't scared. "How pathetic, Yuya," he said. "When Hayate is the only monster I have on my field, his special ability blocks your attack."

Hayate raised his staff and sharply pointed it at Queen Dragun Djinn, firing a light blue blast that cancelled out her attack.

"What gives?" Yuya asked. "I've been trying to help you!"

"I don't need any help," Iggy said. "You are right about Bandit Warrior Academy not letting students see their family and friends until they graduate. But during this duel, I realized something: I saw you years ago!"

"When?" Yuya asked, since this was the first time he met Iggy.

"Back when we were kids," Iggy said. "You were training with your father. I envied you, Yuya Sakaki. So I vowed to train as hard as I could so I can graduate. I had to learn to adapt Bandit Warrior Academy's training style to make sure I could see my own father."

That was why he hospitalized Kit and kept rejecting Yuya’s help? He missed his own father that much? Well, it kind of takes one to know one because Yuya also missed his father too. Why else has he been dreaming of becoming a Dueltainer like him and treasuring his advice for the past eight years?

"Now if you excuse me, I will begin my turn," Iggy said. He drew a card. "I summon Tenma the Sky Star! Now I'll fuse these two warriors together with the help of Polymerization."

"What?" Yuya asked.

"You're gonna get pounded," Iggy said. "I'll stride hard, and bring you down fast. Never to rise again! I Fusion Summon Idaten the Conqueror Star!"

Idaten stretched out his left arm before clutching his fist, crossing his arms, and finishing off his Fusion Summon entrance with a standing warrior pose. He is a Level 10 LIGHT Warrior-Type Fusion monster with 3000 ATK and 2200 DEF who possesses a powerful yet brutal ability. An ability Yuya doesn’t know about…yet. Right now, the only thing he knew was that he was going to be in a major pickle because Queen Dragun Djinn has less ATK than Idaten.

“Hmph. I need an Action Card,” Yuya said as he started running.

“I have some bad news about this monster’s special ability, Yuya,” Iggy declared. “Since Idaten’s Level is higher than your Queen Dragun Djinn’s, your dragon’s attack points will drop to 0 during battle!”

“Oh, yeah?” Yuya retorted. “Well, good luck with that because XYZ monsters like Queen Dragun Djinn have Ranks instead of Levels, so your monster’s ability won’t work.”

Iggy was taken back by that remark; either he never knew about it or he did and forgot about it because he was more adapted to using monsters with Levels. Regardless of the reason, this did not prevent him from unleashing his usual…“strategy.”

“We’ll see about that!” Iggy yelled as he dashed through Bamboo Battleground.

Yuya ran past and through the bamboo trees to find the right Action Spell needed to turn the duel in his favor. Just when he saw one in between a bamboo tree that was split in half, Iggy sliced off a piece of bamboo and chucked it towards the ground, resulting in his opponent to trip on it. He then zipped past the fallen Yuya and grabbed the first Action Card he saw before declaring his Battle Phase.

“Idaten, attack Queen Dragun Djinn!” Iggy ordered.

Idaten launched himself up into the sky and dive-bombed towards Queen Dragun Djinn. Upon penetration, it caused her to explode and a thick gray cloud of smoke began to form, which was a perfect time for Iggy to activate his Action Card.

“I activate the Action Spell, Big Damage, to increase the battle damage by 1000!” Iggy exclaimed.

The gray smoke quickly grew thicker, giving everyone a sign that the damage had just risen from 900 to 1900. Yuya got up from the ground and rubbed his shoulder since he felt the most physical pain there. With a bit of a glance upward, he spotted the smoky cloud heading in his direction and could feel the intensity that was being stored in there. Of course, Iggy was not done just yet; he sped his way down where he was seen from Yuya’s left as he obtained another Action Card.

“And I think I’ll make the damage even stronger by activating the second Action Spell, Chain Bonus!” Iggy shouted.

Thanks to the double chain from both Action Spells, the damage step was now going to involve Yuya being dealt with a whopping 3800 points of damage. The young Duelist even felt the strength of the smoke get stronger, thicker, and faster than earlier. His friends in the audience were already worried about him because Iggy was going to win this duel and make it to the finals, meaning this Therapeutic Duel ended up being a failure to begin with.

“The path of darkness is the only possible road to victory,” Iggy stated while proceeding to run to where his opponent was.

Not one to give up easily despite his confidence issues, Yuya noticed the Action Card that was still wedged in between the split bamboo tree and lunged forward to where it was.

“That’s crazy!” Yuya shouted before being engulfed by the surging wave of smoke.

Before anyone knew it, a good portion of the Action Field’s ground was covered by a thick layer of the gray smoke that came from the destroyed Queen Dragun Djinn. Tension was also rising because everyone wasn’t sure if Yuya was able to withstand the attack and make it out of it.

“Whoa,” Skip said.

“What happened?” Gong asked.

“Oh, no,” Zuzu worryingly uttered.

“Where’s Yuya?” Tate, Frederick, and Allie simultaneously questioned.

A few seconds later, the smoke started to clear and it revealed Iggy with his foot on top of Yuya’s right arm, which appeared to have been in motion before the area was completely clouded; not to mention his right hand was empty without a single card in its grasp. Moans and groans were escaping from his mouth as his body laid face first on the ground. The only remaining questions left were if he was going to be okay and if he lost the duel or not. Within the brief depths of silence, Nico announced to everyone what had just occurred.

“He did it!” Nico vocalized through his microphone. “Yuya snatched and activated the Action Spell, Energy Biscuits, to increase his Life Points by 500, leaving him with only 300 Life Points left.”

"You see, Yuya?" Iggy asked. "Your Dueltainment style is useless. Darkness is the only true path to victory."

Suddenly, a dark chuckle came from Yuya's throat as he suddenly grabbed Iggy's ankle, surprising the older Duelist. "Did you really think that could stop me?" he asked.

There was something about Yuya that seemed off to Iggy, who knew that wasn’t how he usually behaves as he struggled to free his ankle from his grasp. A dark red aura was emanating from the younger Duelist’s body and his voice sounded more demonic, but what really threw the former off was Yuya’s sinister face as he got up from the ground. The upper half was covered in a bit of a shadow with his green bangs covering his right eye; his left eye, on the other hand, looked completely soulless and had a red marking on the lower eyelid. His sinister grin helped top off this suddenly instant transformation of his.

"What's wrong?" Yuya asked. "Isn't this what you wanted? A dark, serious duel?"

But Iggy didn't respond. "Heh. Thought so," Yuya said. He drew a card. "This is the final turn for you. I summon Performapal Skullcrobat Joker, a card that allows me to retrieve my dragon from my deck to my hand."

Zuzu was confused when that monster was summoned. "Since when did Yuya get that card?" she wondered allowed.

"But wait, I know what you're going to say," Yuya continued. "How could I summon Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with the Pendulum Scale I currently have? Well here's a bit of news: this isn't Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" He held up the card, which was covered in a dark red aura. "My dragon has evolved into a more powerful form. And since I already have a monster with the word 'Joker' in its name on my field, I can tribute it for a special summon. Now rise and strike hard, Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon!"

Skullcrobat Joker disintegrated from the field to the Graveyard as tribute for Yuya’s newest Odd-Eyes monster. A thick, dark, cloud-like substance has already been covering the Action Field from the moment Yuya stood back up, but the confused audience members also noticed the Center Duel Field was also getting dark. Rumbles of thunder echoed from the atmosphere, with strong gusts of wind and black lightning following suit. This thunderstorm that came out of the blue was focused directly on one of Yuya’s monster zones, where a dark red light was lit up and a body of aura of the same color rose up. The lightning bolts struck at the aura, causing it to explode and reveal Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon. Surrounded by black sparks, this new Duel Monster looked similar to Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, but he had a silver, magenta, venom purple, and blood red color scheme with sharper claws, scales, wings, and tail. His eye colors were now a piercing red and golden yellow instead of the usual red and green dual colors. He was manifesting pinkish-magenta flames within his upper half of his body and all four feet were cuffed with black halos emitting dark red light, one on each front foot and two on each back foot.

At Leo Corporation, Declan had spat out the sip of coffee he just took, alarmed by the new Duel Monster. His employees were currently trying to identify the dragon.

"Sir, this monster has the same energy as Pendulum energy," one of the employees reported. "But it appears to be corrupted."

"It's not a monster," Declan realized, a look of utter horror appearing on his face. "It's a demon."

"Now I activate Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon's special ability," Yuya continued. "Your monster is locked."

"Locked?!" Iggy asked. "What are you-"

Joker Dragon raised one of his front claws and thrusted it in Idaten’s direction, ejecting two black rings and capturing the target. Black static encircled Idaten as he began to yell before being engulfed by a bright light that reduced him back into his card form and trapped him in a black electric sphere with the two black rings orbiting around it. Iggy was stunned by what Yuya did to his Fusion monster, but that wasn’t all; he turned his attention to his Duel Disk to see Idaten’s card was flipped into face-down defense position. What was the meaning of this?

Confused, Iggy tried to flip over his card, only to get a small electric shock on his hand. "What did you do?!" he asked.

"I locked your monster," Yuya explained. "When a monster is locked, it loses all of its stats and abilities until the end of your next turn. In other words, it's completely useless."

"How could a Pendulum monster due that?!" Iggy demanded.

"That's where you're wrong," Yuya continued. "Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon is a special kind of monster. A Joker monster: the ultimate combination of Duel Monster and Unit!"

Unit? Iggy has never heard of a Unit before when it comes to Duel Monsters. Furthermore, he knows for certain that there are no rules involving Locking monsters yet his Duel Disk read this move as legal. How was this possible? He wasn’t even sure if he should be baffled, terrified, or both by this situation.

"Now Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon, end this duel once and for all!" Yuya commanded.

Iggy let out a sigh of relief. Since his monster was set, he should be safe from any damage-

"With Odd-Eyes Joker Dragon's skill, when he attacks a Locked monster, the damage you would have received is doubled." Yuya continued.

In other words, thanks to the Lock ability, Idaten cannot use his effect and currently has 0 ATK and DEF, and since Joker Dragon still has 2500 ATK and 2000 DEF, he will deal 5000 damage to Iggy, making this a One Turn Kill. It was basically a much stronger version of the effect an attacking monster deals piercing damage as battle damage after battling against the defense position target who has less DEF than the attacker’s ATK. The given information about Joker Dragon’s effects scared Iggy because there was nothing he can do but watch Idaten get destroyed and accept defeat at the hands of Yuya. Joker Dragon breathed out pinkish-magenta flames that was aimed towards the Locked monster and the impact led to a devastating explosion that sent Iggy flying to another part of the Action Field. His Life Points depleted to 0 in a blink of eye, meaning he was now eliminated from the Arc League Championship.

But as the Action Field and holograms disappeared, Iggy soon found himself surrounded by a dark red aura. "What's going on?!" he demanded. "What is this?!"

"The gift of the Reverse," Yuya answered, now standing next to Iggy.

Reverse? What the heck was he talking about? How does he know about what’s going on? Was something possessing him? Before Iggy could ask these questions, the aura heightened its strength and his vision grew blurry. He could barely make out anything but the dark sky from above and Yuya looking down at him with an evil look on his face. He then screamed in pain from the overwhelming power of the Reverse, with his lying body arching upwards. He had utilized the darkness as a tool to get where he was in order to see his father again, but as it turns out, the darkness always finds a way to make its user into a puppet. It was very subtle, but upon closer inspection, a teardrop or two were forming as his cyan eyes became soulless. A few seconds later, his arched body collapsed back on the ground and the surrounding aura condensed itself around his body.

When it was all over, everyone in the audience was absolutely horrified and confused. Not even Nico could respond as he simply dropped his microphone in shock, causing a loud feedback. The sound of the feedback snapped Yuya back to his senses and was reverted back to normal, completely unaware of what he had done.

"Iggy?" Yuya asked. He held out his hand. "Here, let me help you."

"It's alright," Iggy said, getting back on his feet. He was smiling. "Thank you, Yuya Sakaki. Thanks to you, I finally understand what I must do."

"Huh?" Yuya asked. "What did I do?"

"You and your dragon helped me see the light," Iggy answered. "Now to spread your message to everyone in the world."

Yuya wasn’t sure what to make of this because all he remembered was feeling extremely weak from his rapidly decreasing heartbeat before blacking out. Was he able to get Iggy to relax and tone down on the violence? Has all of the hidden built-up emotions finally been all let out? …Did his Therapeutic Duel work? These questions made him somewhat hopeful about whatever he did that made the eliminated Duelist act like a different person. Maybe Iggy wants to try and cut ties with Bandit Warrior Academy in order to carry out this dueling method as a trend to help others who are going through tough times and get them through it all. Maybe this could be another way of bringing smiles to everyone.

With just a simple raise of the latter’s head, however, Yuya was given an answer that was the complete opposite of what he had in mind. The shock of what he saw made him speechless and his world come crashing down. The shadowed upper half of Iggy's face, the soulless eyes, the red marks below his eyelids, the wickedness in his smile. Whatever happened to him made it clear to Yuya that it wasn’t good at all. The monitor screens displayed the results of this change Iggy underwent, leaving the audience more terrified by it.

”This is only the beginning. The beginning of the end…”

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New Post has been published on https://vacationsoup.com/planning-your-vacation-book-direct-and-save/

Planning your Vacation...Book Direct & Save

Book Direct is simply cutting out the middlemen fees. Simple.

You, the guest, save money when you Book Direct

The Hospitality Owner saves money

You get better, local (not overseas) customer service

The Owner gets better information

You get personalized ideas and help with your vacation, plus support local businesses.

The Owners get to share their pride in their community with visitors

Hotel vs Vacation Rental? Still Book Direct?

Sometimes a hotel is the perfect way to go. Like a quick one night stopover on your way to somewhere else. But when you are coming to the Grand Circle to do the Parks and explore the endless red rock trails and all that Southwestern Utah has to offer, you are gonna need a few days.We are all about the beauty of the Vacation Rental experience.But even Hotels now are educating travelers to Book Direct. From small boutique hotels to large chains like Hilton and Marriot, from Vacation Rental owners to B&B associations, hospitality owners and managers are educating travelers about Book Direct.The Association of Independent Hospitality Professionals has asked travelers to Join The Movement

Hoteliers have joined forces with Vacation Rental owners for #BookDirectDay the first part of every February to help spread awareness through social media. Not just that one day, but every day.We understand when putting considerable $$ down on a vacation we all need assurances. Especially in this day of scammers everywhere we turn. I’m sure you have seen them on social media and the news. We all have cause for concern. So how do you plan your next vacation?

Booking Your Vacation

Most travel accommodation bookings happen in one of two ways.

- You the Traver, look online. The first 2-3 pages of Google will be one of the big OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) and their paid ads, such as VRBO, Airbnb, Homeaway, etc. You find a great place to stay and book through that middleman platform.

OR

- You do a little more research and find a great place to stay and book directly with the owner of that VR (or Vacation Rental) Property. (Go to the bottom of this page to find ideas on how to do that "little more research"!)

Let’s talk about those two differences -

Why Book Direct?

 Pricing and Payments -  Let’s get the biggie$ out the door first!

Pricing

Straight up - the best price will always be when you book direct – no service fees or commission added on for the middle man!

So here is the deal on why the price varies - Airbnb and VRBO/Homeaway charges each guest a variable service fee on each booking.

- As owners, we can not even tell you what that service fee is going to be. They do not show us. All we know is they have “Algorithms” that determine your fee according to “the current dynamics”

From Airbnb Help Page: “This fee is typically under 13% of the booking subtotal. The fee varies based on a variety of booking factors and is displayed to guests during checkout before they book a reservation."

Great. So most folks can plan on somewhere under 13% in extra service fees from Airbnb.....?

As an owner, I also pay Airbnb an additional 3-5%.

In December 2016, VRBO and HomeAway were both purchased by Expedia for 4 BILLION dollars.Now, Expedia needs to earn back that money. Open your wallet, that commission is coming from you.Prior to 2017 Owners paid a flat rate to Vrbo for listing on their site. Now owners pay a flat rate or a Pay-Per-Booking rate AND our guests get to pay a fee. Don't know how much. From the Vrbo help page “How is the fee calculated? The service fee is a percentage of the total amount of the reservation, excluding taxes and refundable fees. The percentage rate may change from time to time. Generally, the higher the reservation amount, the lower the percentage of service fee.”

Great. So most folks can plan on between 6-12% in extra service fees from Vrbo.....?

As an owner, I also pay Vrbo an additional 8-9%.

Booking.com has no traveler fees, Yay! Oh wait, Booking.com charges owners a 15% commission. I promise you are paying that. Owners must add that commission to your price or they are not going to stay in business.

As an owner, I pay Booking.com 15%

Payments

- The large, OTAs will tell you that theirs is the ONLY safe way to rent a Vacation Rental.

Please rest assured, all of our Credit Card processing is safe and secure, done by Stripe or PayPal. You enter the info and submit on our easy, professional reservation software. We never see your number and only use the most secure portals.Would you rather send a check or Venmo and get a 3% discount? We can do that!Want to split your booking in two separate payments? We can do that.We have even been known to take cash at the door (gasp 😀). Whatever makes you the most comfortable. (After your initial deposit to secure your dates)

Owners do not receive your OTA payment until the day after you check in with Airbnb, and VRBO has recently changed to 3-7 days after you check-in instead of “at time of payment”!? (I promise this has owners on edge, yikes! What are they doing with your/my money all that time?)

Extra Fees

Most homeowners will try really hard to keep all those add-ons to a minimum. There are a few we may not have control over. Taxes or HOA resort fees are a couple. We may have some say over cleaning fees and pet fees, but for us remote hosts, we are in the hands of those good housekeepers that we want to keep.

  - The price advertised on the OTAs is SELDOM the price you end up with. And we owners have no control over that! They love to give you an “average” price that often includes high season and low season rates. Plus those ambiguous “Service” fees that mysteriously go up and down….

  - Most Short Term Vacation Rentals will charge a separate cleaning fee. Why do they do that and Hotels do not? Argh, a pain point for all of us!

Cleaning fees

Hoteliers have many rooms to keep up so can keep a full-time staff and often pay housekeeping extremely low wages and roll it into their rates. Vacation Rentals have far fewer turnovers, yet still need to keep good, reliable housekeepers.

Housekeepers in our area get $25 hr. for VRs. How long do you think it takes to REALLY clean a two-bedroom, two-bath house? I have done it many times and I promise it is NOT happening in less than four hours! My housekeeper and I pride ourselves on “Super Clean” and our reviews show it.

Can I negotiate?

If someone were to ask to negotiate the cleaning fee - as I recently saw recommended in a Washington Post article - I would just ask them which toilet they prefer not cleaned or which floor they would rather not have mopped or which sheets they don’t want washed…? It really does take that long. But still, I know how we all HATE added cleaning fees. I tried rolling it into the rate for a while, but it put my rate so much higher than all the other area properties I was not even in the competition. So I met guests halfway! My cleaner charges $100 for a turnover, I charge guests half and I pay half. Because I really do want you to have “all the way” clean! And a reasonable rate.

If you find a VR with no cleaning fee, then the owner is doing it themselves and not getting reimbursed, or have rolled into their nightly cost.

  - Our tax rate includes sales tax and TRT or transient room tax. Taxes for the city, county and state. Ugh. Death and taxes…… What more can I say. The “added fee” that none of us can do anything about.

Communication

OTAs insist on all communication through their site, for your safety. I think it’s to make sure they don’t lose any of their cut of the proceeds. How does talking to me make you less safe??

What it does do, is keep me from calling you to let you know there is a real person here.It keeps you from calling me to see what are the best tours in our area, or what's my favorite hiking trail. Communication is essential for your perfect vacation!

If you send me your phone number or email address the OTA will redact/remove the number or email from the note you wrote.

  - If you contact me on an OTA, I am bound to book you on the OTA. And I am fine with that. That is the bargain I have made with the OTA for advertising on their site. We made a deal. So please do not email me from their platform and ask to Book Direct once you see the fees. I cannot do that. I will get kicked off the platform🙁.

Guarantees

  - Most of the listing sites will have some kind of “Booking guarantee”. You may want to do a little scrolling through business vetting sites such as https://www.consumeraffairs.com or https://www.sitejabber.com Check out the value of those "Guarantees".

Some good, some bad, just educate yourself on possible scenarios. Admittedly, there are some bad owners out there. Just remember there are two sides to every story. (Spoiler: Most of those 5-star reviews, are for great hosts with lovely homes, not the VRBO corporation 😀)

My Guarantees

- If you have a problem or a question with the home or area, It is myself, my husband or our housekeeper that will help you with every question and make sure you have everything you need. It will never be someone in a call center on the other side of the world, it will not even be someone in a nice corporate office (even if they did know the best restaurants in Exuma, and they don’t. )

we have a basic Short term Rental agreement we both sign. You promise to treat my home nice and I promise to have everything nice as promised.

- I will ask for a copy of your photo ID at the time you sign the rental agreement. That way I’m guaranteed you are who you say you are. And you are guaranteed someone didn’t just take your credit card and try and go on vacation with it!

My home is not “an Airbnb” or “a VRBO”. Even if I do advertise on their site. (But sometimes they like to act like they own it, when they dictate who I may or may not rent to and under what conditions…..sheesh. I wish they would pay their share of the mortgage then….. Sorry, I digress.)

So how do you know if WE are Guaranteed owners with your best interests at heart!?

Good question. Here are some ideas - 

Go to  https://www.visitsouthernutah.com/ The Kane county tourism website, you will find The Western Star Bungalow and The Star Garage Studio in their listings. Call and ask to speak to Josie if you would like to ask questions about us. 1-800-SEE-KANE

Call Kanab city offices 435-644-2534 ask them if John and Sherene McClellan have a current business license for My Star Vacation rentals.

Go into Honeys Marketplace (largest grocery store) in Kanab, Ask for Susan Honey the owner, ask her about The Western Star Bungalow or The Star Garage Studio. 260 E 300 S, Kanab

Call me, Sherene McClellan at 435-262-6119 or

My husband John McClellan at 435-262-1000

We would love to answer ANY questions you might have.

Help me find a "Book Direct" property. Or, how to do that "little more research" we talked about!

Look for LOCAL area rental sites. Search for "whatever my destination is", "vacation rentals" or "Book direct". Scroll down past the OTA paid ads.

Search on Fee Free sites such as VacationSoup.com or Houfy.com

Find a place you like on an OTA, then search the name of the property or owner in search engines and social media. Savvy owners can leave you clues, but direct info is banned from the listing sites. (I had a guest recently follow my breadcrumbs to my website and saved $500 on her family’s stay!)

Search Local area Tourist information sites

I have a small list of other trusted great owners from around the world. Might spark your next great adventure! https://mystarvr.com/stays-around-the-world/

So here is a break down of "Booking your Vacation Rental Direct” Pros - 

Cheaper, it really is

More space than a hotel room for your group

Kitchens for meal prep if you want

Real owners, no middle man

Localized knowledge. We can recommend some AWESOME places

Flexible payments

Direct communication

Some of the nicest properties are not on the OTAs (Some of the great experienced hosts are fed up with OTA greed. Some of us little guys just can’t make it alone quite yet…)

You cannot replace an Owners passion with the Corporate process.

Cheers and Good luck when planning your next vacation, wherever you might stay! -Sherene and John

Don: "This report is so thorough and accurate that I left the dedication to Sherene and John who own "The Western Star Bungalow" intact.  The same comments and money saving advise applies equally to our rental Harbour View in Exuma.  So whether you want a vacation in Utah or Exuma or wherever, talk direct to the knowledgable, local owners to get peace of mind and savings....Book Direct and Save"

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I Will...5/10

Ten x Rose Rated T Telepathy (telepathic marriage bond) Angst Fluffy laughter Not exactly a rewrite Dimension Hopping Rose JE fixit Happy ending! Beta’d by the ever fabulous MrsBertucci, without whom this chapter wouldn’t exist AO3 and TSP and on Tumblr Chapter 1 and (the corrected!) 2 and 3 and 4 Part of the The Adventures of Bad Wolf and the TARDIS…and their Doctor series

…remember you

“Yes, yes,” the Doctor groused, “even separated by universes the two of you are ganging up on me!”

Martha laughed as they explored the darkened landscape. “Outnumbered you are, Doctor.”

Which was when everything went to hell and he and Martha raced back to the TARDIS as if the hounds of hell were on their tails. Which, in a way, they were.

“What about Rose?” Martha demanded as the Chameleon Arch descended from the ceiling. “Has that always been up there?”

“I don’t know,” he admitted and hoped it was obvious he was talking about Rose and not the Chameleon Arch. “Not like I ever went through this before,” he snapped.

“Hey, don’t snap at me, I’m worried about your link with your wife.” But Martha’s voice shook and he tempered his own fear.

The Doctor ignored the arch, the TARDIS’s Cloister Bell shrilly reminding them they needed to hurry, the monitor unhelpfully tracking the Family’s progress in following them, and crossed the grating to Martha. He took his friend by the arms and looked down at her.

“Martha, I’m going to put my Time Lord mind into a watch.” He grimaced. “Not really sure how that’s going to work, but The Other swore it did.”

She looked at him askance, but seemed to understand now wasn’t the time to question him about other Time Lords mysteriously called The Other. “And Rose?”

“I’ll warn her,” he promised.

“If your Time Lordy self is in the watch—” she nodded to where the innocuous fob watch sat on the console—“can I communicate with you?”

He opened his mouth and closed it a couple time. “I’ve no idea.”

“You’re no help,” Martha grumbled but once again her voice wavered.

Despite the panic gripping his hearts and the uncertainty about communicating with Rose, the Doctor paused. He rounded the console and took Martha by the shoulders. He forced his voice to sound as calm as he didn’t feel and ordered his lips into a smile, however brief it lasted.

“Go pack,” he told her and squeezed her shoulders. “The TARDIS will set out what you need.”

As if in agreement, the TARDIS brightened the lights. Martha glanced at the Time Rotor and her lips twitched in what might’ve been a smile. If he was being generous. Martha nodded and raced down the hall to her room. The Doctor didn’t watch her leave, but looked at the Time Rotor and closed his eyes.

“What do you think, Old Girl? Think our bond is strong enough to survive?”

He received a mournful wail in reply.

“Take care of her, yeah?” The Doctor opened his eyes. “Rose and Martha.”

**** Martha Jones, late of London, resident doctor at Royal Hope Hospital, companion to the Doctor, and co-conspirator with the TARDIS, looked around the Edwardian all boys’ school and shuddered.

She hated this place.

She hated the air and the dust, she hated the dark wood banisters that screamed wealthy snobs and she hated the stupid floors that refused to stay clean. She hated the food and the gardens and the air and the very reason they were here in the first place.

It’ll be fine, he said. No need to worry, he said. It’s just three months, he said.

Martha slipped her hand into her apron pocket and brushed her fingertips over the watch. At least the Doctor listened to them—she, the TARDIS, and Rose—and hadn’t left his fob watch with his Time Lord consciousness lying about in his rooms, completely unguarded. Daft man, thinking nothing would happen to it.

Like teenage Edwardian boys weren’t a bunch of petty little thieves with sticky fingers and wandering hands, the lot of them.

“I hate this place,” she thought to the Doctor as the pad of her finger traced the intricate Gallifreyan circles over the watch.

The Doctor’s voice—his real voice, not the less compelling, flatter one John Smith used—laughed at her. Well, not at her, Martha conceded. But he sounded a hell of a lot happier than she’d ever heard him. She had to wonder if this was how he sounded around Rose all the time.

“It’s just another adventure, Martha, think of it that way.”

“Stop it,” Rose’s voice snapped.

That had certainly taken time to get used to. Hearing another voice whenever she thought/spoke to the Doctor. However it did it, the watch channeled her own thoughts and speech to the Doctor’s Time Lord consciousness which was still connected via telepathic marriage bond to Rose.

“Martha, you’re doing great. I know it’s hard, not having any support, being in this place, but you really are a star.” Rose’s voice, which had a strange layer to it Martha associated with the TARDIS, soothed her as she walked into the kitchens on a far-too-early weekday morning.

“Rose is right, Martha,” the Doctor’s voice chimed in, soberer now. “I may—” and Martha clearly saw him tugging his ear in embarrassed consternation—“have not thought this all the way through.”

“I have,” Martha mumbled. “And being in the middle of Farringham nowhere is better than modern day London. If the Family does find us, at least the damage will be minimal.” She sighed and accepted Mr. Smith’s tray, forcing her fingers from the watch.

It wouldn’t do for anyone to see her with it, anyway. She’d be accused of stealing and instantly dismissed—if not beaten first. Did they still do that to servants in 1913? It didn’t matter; even if she took refuge in the TARDIS, she’d still be too far from the Doctor (Mr. Smith, whatever) to be of any help.

“Listen to me.” She sighed as she walked up to Mr. Smith’s room. “Talking about damage being minimal. I’m a doctor. I help people. Not calculate minimal damage. Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing…”

Martha pushed open the door to John Smith’s room and watched him stretch in the brilliant sunlight coming through the windows.

“Ah, Martha, thank you.”

His wedding ring glinted off the sun, a testament to how deeply he loved Rose, no matter the man. He took the tray from her and set it on the desk, staring down at it as if he never saw it before. Martha wondered what he did see or think, but then he was moving around the room again.

“It’s Christmas in a few months,” he said, voice low and broken.

Martha stilled. She knew that voice, heard it when he—the Doctor—first spoke of Rose, of his planet. Now, she watched John Smith wander the room, robe over his ridiculous pinstriped jimjams. She’d snickered the first time she’d seen them, mentally laughing at the Doctor’s propensity for pinstripes.

“It is,” she said carefully.

Turning from him, she busied herself with straightening. Until this blasted place and time, Martha had never been one to clean when she was nervous. She couldn’t decide if it was a habit she wanted to translate into her other life or one she hoped might die a well-deserved death in 1913, never to be resurrected again.

“Are you going home to your family?”

She opened her mouth then snapped it closed. Last she spoke to her mum, it’d been Election Day, May, 2007 and Francine had no idea her daughter hadn’t been at her flat.

“I haven’t decided,” she admitted. “You?”

“I—no.” He looked up at her, broken, defeated shattered. “Where would I go?”

Oh. Right. “Away from here,” she tried but even to her own ears the words sounded feeble and useless. Helpless.

Her fingers dipped into her apron pocket again and she brushed them over the watch. Rose’s warm support slid up her arm and curled around her heart, giving her strength. No wonder the Doctor fell in love with her—no wonder John Smith looked so lost, so dead and vulnerable without her.

“This’ll be—well.” He looked back at the tray and picked at his watery eggs. “My first Christmas without Rose.”

At the words, barely a breath of sound, Martha’s hand clenched around the watch. One by one, she forced her fingers to release the thing and slowly withdrew her hand from the pocket and smoothed down her heavy dress.

“Yeah.” She licked her lips and cleared her throat. “I know. I’m sorry.”

He sniffed and it reminded her so strongly of the Doctor, Martha thought someone punched her in the stomach. Maybe they weren’t so different as she first believed. Maybe she let her telepathic conversations with Rose and the Doctor cloud her view of John Smith before her.

“I still dream about her.” Another breath of sound, far more broke than the previous words.

“Oh?” Her brain raced for more than that, but she had nothing.

“I dream we’re running.” He looked down at his empty hand and Martha tangled her fingers together to stop herself from reaching for the watch. Or for him.

No matter how much she hated this place, how she disagreed with the Doctor’s choice of locales and time periods, or this ridiculous plan that clearly had not been fully thought out, she cared for the Doctor. She hated seeing him—or John Smith—in such pain. Maybe keeping the watch and being able to, peripherally at least, tap into Rose and the Doctor’s telepathic party line hadn’t been the brightest idea she and the TARDIS ever came up with.

If John kept the watch, would it bring him comfort? Solace? Would being part of the telepathic commune the Doctor shared with Rose ease his grief or add to it?

“Hand in hand,” John Smith continued. “She’s wearing the most scandalous clothing, but she’s so beautiful. Laughing.” He cleared his throat and looked like he wanted to stop, but Martha crossed the room and rested her hand on his arm. “She’s laughing. And alive.”

Tears clogged her throat and Martha tried to tell him not to grieve, that everything would be all right. The words stuck in her throat. “She loved you so much, Mr. Smith.” Though she had no idea how John thought Rose died, she had to say something. “Her last thoughts were about you.”

“I know you and she were close, Martha.” He squeezed her hand then stepped away, walking to the window.

Martha knew this reaction, too. The Doctor did it often, whenever he missed Rose’s hand in his or said something Martha knew was meant for Rose. She didn’t know how, but she knew he timed their adventures to coincide with Rose’s sleep in the other universe. However he did it, he wanted Martha’s sleeping hours to spend with Rose’s waking hours.

She didn’t blame him and didn’t hold it against him. She cared more deeply for him than she should for a man desperately in love with his wife, but Martha had grown to care for Rose, too. Through the Doctor’s stories and the TARDIS’s photos, Martha felt as if she traveled with the Doctor and Rose. Not just her memory.

“I dream we’re traveling the world,” he said to the window but Martha knew better. He really spoke to Rose. “Such strange places, completely unrealistic. I dreamt we met Charles Dickens!”

Martha forced a half laugh. “And did you see ghosts?”

He looked over his shoulder, and even with the sunlight at his back, she saw his look. As if she read his mind “Yes, strange blue creatures, not at all like The Signal-man’s specters.”

Martha had no idea what the signal-man was or how it related to a ghost, but merely nodded. Given her experience with Shakespeare and witches, she believed Rose and the Doctor saw Charles Dickens and met ghosts. Of course they had.

Maybe the school library had a collection of Dickens. Maybe they’d even let her borrow it.

“Right.” She cleared her throat. “I need to—duties and all. I have to get—” Martha stepped back, fingers once more brushing the watch. “I am sorry about Rose, Mr. Smith.” Oops, was she supposed to call Rose Mrs. Smith? Too late now. “She loves you very much.”

Cursing her grammatical slip, Martha hurried out of the room. She gripped the watch and, uncaring what time it was in Rose’s universe, muttered, “This is the worst plan ever.”

“It’s not one of my best,” the Doctor’s quiet, apologetic voice echoed in her head. “But I won’t be responsible for another genocide.” He took in a deep breath and Martha recognized his words—and wondered again what he meant by them. “If this plan keeps the Family from taking my life and using my regeneration energy to conquer the multiverse, then it’s worth it.”

She deflated. “Yes. All right. Fine. You’re right in that. But next time, I’m making the plan.” She stormed downstairs to the kitchens. “With the TARDIS.”

**** “He’s a strange one,” Redfern said, eyes following the Doctor (John Smith—whatever) in a way Martha most certainly did not like.

Purposely clasping her hands in front of her and resisting (barely) the urge to touch the watch, Martha looked at the Matron stoically. She closed the door firmly behind them and stared the other woman down. “Oh?”

“Hmm, yes. Head in the clouds, that one,” Redfern added. “Tell me, Martha, who is he?”

“I’m sorry?” At least he hadn’t given Redfern his journal. That was something—right?

The Matron looked over her shoulder to the closed door of John Smith, a more than slightly longing look in her gaze that Martha did not like one damn bit. “It’s like he’s left the kettle on. Like he knows he has something to get back to, but he can’t remember what.”

Was that forced, pathetic laugh from her? Martha grimaced. “That’s just him.”

She wanted to literally wave Redfern’s words away but was afraid to untangle her fingers. She didn’t want to touch the watch—not only because she didn’t want the other woman to know she possessed it but also because she didn’t want to accidently transfer any of this to Rose.

“You arrived with him, didn’t you?” Redfern’s gaze sharpened on her but Martha grew up under the stern watchfulness of Francine Jones. Joan Redfern’s condescending glare paled compared to her own mother. “He found you employment here at the school, isn’t that right?”

“I used to work for the family.” Martha repeated the same line she’d used on Jenny, the Headmaster, half the other teachers who bothered to realize she was even there, and even John Smith once when he was in one of his Doctor-fogs, prattling on about void and holes in the universe. “He just sort of inherited me.”

Redfern sniffed. “Well, I’d be careful. If you don’t mind my saying, you sometimes seem a little familiar with him. Best remember your position.”

“He mourns his wife,” Martha said, probably a tad more acerbic than necessary.

But she’d grown protective over Rose. Once the Doctor told her Rose wasn’t dead but trapped in another universe, he shared many stories of their adventures together. So many, Martha felt as if she knew Rose. Even if half their conversations were probably in Martha’s mind.

She liked the Doctor’s wife, even more so now that she, herself, ‘talked’ to Rose through the watch. And now that that (horribly embarrassing) misunderstanding about availability and interest had been cleared up, Martha found a wonderful friend in the Doctor.

She’d protect them both with her life.

“There’s something to be said for companionship,” Redfern murmured in what was no doubt not meant to be heard.

Martha stiffened. “Give it up, Matron. John Smith will mourn Rose for a hundred, a thousand years. I promise you, he’ll never remarry.”

Redfern looked at her, surprised, but Martha met her gaze defiantly. She was so very tired of being beaten down by this time and their entrenched prejudices of race and class. She hated it here and once the Doctor was fully restored, they’d be having words.

“You sound very sure of that, Martha.” She sniffed and stepped away. “Especially considering your position.”

Martha laughed and walked away from the woman. “I’m positive,” she said over her shoulder in a brilliant display of insubordination. “Especially given my position.”

Which sounded dirtier than she’d meant it to, but Martha knew the other woman wouldn’t realize that. Well…hoped Redfern wouldn’t, at least!

Luckily, Nurse Redfern, for all she was an arrogant, prejudiced woman with no understanding of equality or acceptance, understood John’s mourning and they’d attended the local dance as friends. Martha hadn’t told Rose that and hoped the other woman never discovered it. It served no purpose, though Martha supposed John probably did deserve companionship—just not romance.

Martha was unbelievably grateful she kept the watch on her and it hadn’t got lost somewhere in John Smith’s room or who the hell knew where else. Because the Family found them.

In the end, Martha convinced a disbelieving, highly agitated, and frankly frightened John Smith to open the watch.

“Rose.”

“What?”  He demanded in a voice far more reminiscent of the Doctor than John. For that matter, of the stuttering emotionally breaking John currently sitting beside her in the abandoned cottage, Redfern looking on in surprise. “What did you say?”

He towered over her, furiously angry. Redfern gasped and stepped back, and Martha wanted to crow, but she forced herself to meet John’s eyes instead. (The Doctor’s terrible fury blazed in those eyes.)

“Open the watch,” she repeated. “Then you’ll be able to talk to Rose again.”

Fingers tangled tight on her lap, Martha swallowed and hoped John didn’t misunderstand her words. She’d chosen them carefully, despite their race from the hall to this cottage.

“What are you playing at, Martha Jones?” he demanded. But his fingers clenched on the watch. “Using my dead wife to—t-to—”

“No!” Martha rose, horrified. “No, I’d never!” She swallowed and tried to moderate her voice. “Look, the Doctor married Rose, but they’re…separated. Physically separated at the moment through no fault or wish of their own.”

John’s eyes narrowed at her and Martha wondered if this had been the right track to try. Too late now, no going back. “They still talk to each other, they’re connected. And they still love each other.”

Martha nodded to the watch. “When I hold that, I could hear them—they spoke to me as clearly as you and I are talking right now.” She stepped forward, not entirely certain if she planned to snatch the watch from John Smith and open it herself or protect it, and her friends, from the scared Human in front of her.

“They love each other very much, Mr. Smith. As much as you love Rose. Open that watch, and you’ll have your Rose back. I promise you.”

John’s gaze tore from hers and stared at the watch, that awed hope she sometimes saw on the Doctor’s face now shining on his. She thought she should say more, maybe convince him some other way, but his thumb caressed the latch.

“My Rose. My hearts.”

John opened the watch.

John Smith opened the watch, Doctor destroyed the Family—she didn’t ask and didn’t want to know—and Martha kept the watch.

[golfwi52]

Round 33 – Pain Check Please

Whispering Springs Golf Club, Fond du Lac, WI 54937 Par 72, Blue Tees, 6,523 yards, 71.8 rating / 129 slope, 18 holes riding, $53 Saturday, August 19th, 2017, 8:06am, 65 degrees, 5 mph winds, cloudy

I heard from a number of golfers this year that I must try out Whispering Springs as one of my 52 courses this year.   I saw on the net that this course was rated 4 and ½ stars, in the top 5 of Wisconsin Courses, and noted as the “best quality golf value in the state”.  Looking at the satellite view of the course I could see that it was nicely woven between farmlands, forests, meadowlands, and a new subdivision.  And with a variety of very interesting fairway layouts.   This is also one of the few public courses that offers bentgrass tees, greens and fairways.  All quite a value at $53 for riding 18.  Heaven.

Welcoming first tee 

I had signed up online for an early 8am tee time blind date with a potluck twosome.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that my partners were another father-son combination.  Father Andy and son Matthew were from the Sheboygan area and they were clearly country club types.  Andy is CEO for a local hospital and Matthew had played on his high school golf team and was headed to college near LA in a few weeks.  A little sad that this might be their last round together this summer before Matthew headed off to college.  I did drag it out of Matthew that he was sort of a Cardinals baseball fan and then I had to show him and his dad my Cardinals tattoo on my shoulder.  But I think they were in the “that’s really stupid to do that to your body” group rather than the “wow, that’s so cool that you’re such a big fan” group.   Baseball fans dig the tat, golf fans not so much.   Matthew’s grandfather was a Cardinals fan from Rock Island, Illinois, but I don’t think he has the ink to show it.  

Matthew and father Andy - Sheboygan clubbers

It’s always a little bittersweet playing with a father-son combo as I wish I could play more golf with my son Ray who is busy running a startup company in San Fran.  Ray just flew to China yesterday for a huge business trip so he was on my mind for a number of reasons.   I do remember having to offer (aka bribe) Ray $10 to break 70 for nine to get him interested in golfing with me when he was a teenager.   Ray is a natural athlete and can really smack his drives, but he doesn’t get to play any golf in SF.  But there’s a time to chase the startup dreams and a time later in life to kick back and play more golf and smoke cigars with the old man.  All in due time.

On the first hole it was apparent that Andy and Matthew knew what they were doing on a golf course.   I found out that they enjoyed playing the premium Sheboygan area courses like Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run so they were going to be tough to beat.   I always like to think I can challenge guys like this but I quickly fall behind them after a few holes and then just revert to chasing my own scoring goals.   I do also forget that I’m usually 20-40 years older than these guys I think I can compete with.     Son Matthew played better than his dad today with Matthew probably scoring in the low forties for the front nine.  Andy was much more inconsistent, probably rusty from limited play this summer, and shot in the mid forties, close to my 46.

Andy places wedge in my putting line.  Sheboygan etiquette?

I probably could have stuck closer with Matthew today if I didn’t have strong pains in my right rib cage, likely from too much swinging at the driving range the night before with Lauren.   It felt like I had pulled a muscle in my chest and it really impacted my iron shots.   I was almost buckling over in pain after each iron shot.  I thought I might have to quit after the first couple of holes, but I gutted it out to finish the front.  While my drives were fairly consistent and long, I was unable to hit a single green in regulation due to the awful pain when hitting my irons.  And it didn’t help that my approach shots have been awful lately anyways.  The pain was so bad that I had to quit after just 9 holes, which was really disappointing as I really enjoyed playing with these two guys and was looking forward to getting some good dad golfing stories out of Matthew on the back nine.   But I had a big charity scramble coming up in 2 days on Monday that I didn’t want to really screw myself up for.  And I didn’t have a firm rule that I HAD to play all 18 holes in a summer round, so I wasn’t breaking any of my own rules.  But it didn’t feel right – to either swing or quit early.  Ouch!

Matthew with the 7th green and countryside behind him

So the round ended way too early, but the Whispering Springs course was awesome.  I really loved the varied fairway layouts with the bordering forests and countryside.  A very well kept and classy course at a very reasonable price.    I will make a strong effort to use my 9 hole pain/rain check this year to play the back nine and formally complete this round.  

Final Score:  46.    0 birdies, 0 pars, 0 lost balls.  Playing time 2 hours, 5 minutes.     I was surprised that the pain when swinging my irons was so much worse than when I hit my driver.  I keep instructing Lauren that she has to swing differently between her driver and iron shots and this painful experience proved that again to me.  And even with a little pain on my drives, I was still able to out drive young and big hitting Matthew on two holes – albeit by only a few inches each time.  Hey, I’ll take that little achievement on an otherwise painful, bogey infested outing.  With golf it only takes a few good shots to keep you coming back.  Or just a great golf course value like this one…

[beanjuice-duh]

Fly me to the Moon

[Next Part] A/N: Shamelessly saw some really inspiring art. Decided to write it. Probably only a three-four part fluff.

Summary: Rainbow drags Johan to New York for a thing. Johan finds out New York is pretty neat after all. 

WordCount: 3855 Warnings: None that I know of 

“This is so great, I am so happy you decided to come with me!” Rainbow beamed the moment they got out of JFK. “New York City, ugh, this place is absolutely amazing. Can you believe just a few weeks ago that huge protest happened right here, a united stand towards equality on the same ground we are walking on.” “Which one?” The man who accompanied her and all her chatter; rolled his luggage along as they approached the rental car station. “I’m pretty sure New York has a protest every other night. Why else would the streets be so dirty?” Bow shot Johan a dirty look as he pulled his hair into a bun. Rainbow had been invited to a Medical Convention down at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The convention from what Johan remembered from her babbling was just a bunch of doctors getting together to advocate their liberal ideals of health care and free, unbiased treatment. Or something… Rainbow picked out a sweet 2016 Chevy Impala. “Alright, let's go!” She spun the keys around her finger, even after flying across the country she seemed perfectly fine and fresh...in comparison to her younger brother who seemed to have grown crustier the longer he went without caffeine and wifi. “Seriously? You pick the newest car they have? Rainbow do you know where we are?” Johan shook his head, Rainbow’s naivety was showing brighter than the colors in an actual rainbow. “This car screams ‘rob me I’m not from here’” “Johan, please we are in New York City not some third world country. Now get your behind in the car or I will leave you behind.” She motioned Johan into the passenger seat. With a defeated sigh he marched himself into the car dumping their luggage in the trunk. “Honestly, this is NYC, a mecca of liberal, free thinkers, don’t you feel innovation and empowerment just oozing from the atmosphere? Some say it's a lot like California.” “And just like California and every other city there is a large rate of marginalization and angry prejudices.” He countered, his eyes on his phone as he scanned yelp for the nearest 4-5 star place to eat. After a long flight and listening to Rainbow chime and chirp for hours, Johan was ready for a big breakfast and a tall glass of Cabernet. “Don’t be fooled by your idealism of cities who voted Hilary, New York is basically the Thunder-dome, shall I remind you about some of the racially charged assaults and murders that’s happened the last few years in New York alone?” “Johan if I listened to every single report about a ‘brother’ or a ‘sister’ going down because of the color of our skin I would be in over hundreds of years of negativity. Things are what they are but we still have to live on, for example I had a patient once came in with a nasty tumor, it looked life threatening and lo and behold…” And there she went. Johan tuned her out. He wished he had his sister’s ability to look at a clearly black and white world and see nothing. She lived in a world where she could fix things and the color of skin didn’t matter. Johan was living in the now, with President Trump and countless senseless acts of injustice. It was times like these he wished he was back in Europe, backpacking his way to seclusion away from the worries and troubles of their present world. Alas, Dre basically begged him to go with Bow, with reason. If this was how she was coming to New york, with some cinematic mentality of a hopeful city then there was a good chance Dre would be looking for wife number 2. Not to mention Bow was expecting.

After a good hour moving through streets that mirrored LAX, bumper to bumper traffic and an endless symphony of horns blasting from all directions, Johan finally looked up from his phone. (Because it died). He noticed Bow was leaning into the steering wheel, squinting at the nearby street sign. “...you’re lost.”

“Nooooo” she held out the word for some time, puckering her lips as her eyes look more and more like a deer caught in headlights. “I’m just...making sure what number we’re on.” Rainbow made a left down from Ft. Washington and West 176th street into a little Avenue called Haven. The brick buildings were jammed together side by side it looked like they were built as one continuous unit. She parked the car in front of a corner store and sighed. “Ok...we have to be close…” she ran her hand along the side of the steering wheel. “This looks like a little local place.”

“This looks like the where that murder case happened.” Johan answered her.

“What case?” Rainbow blinked, curious if this was truly the scene of a crime.

Johan’s lips turned up into a cold smirk, “the one where two Californians were lost in the ghetto’s of New York city and found dead and dumped into the Hudson. One a wonderful, handsome, well loved adventurous spirit and his idiotic sister who happened to be a decent doctor.” He wasn’t surprised Rainbow slapped his shoulder. He was a little surprised it actually hurt. “Bow just use the GPS on your phone.”

“Or instead of wasting batteries I can ask for directions. My phone is dying and Dre promised he’d call me when the kids got home from school.” She was not going to lose the rest of her battery for something as silly as directions. “Why don’t you use your GPS?”

“My phone died, where is your charger?” Johan arched his eyebrow.

Bow did the same, copying his expression. “In my luggage, where is yours?”

“Same.” There was a silence between them, absorbing their shared moment of absentmindedness. Neither willing to dig through their luggage for a couple of chords. Siblings through and through.

“Look, locals have the best directions. I’ll go ask one and we’ll be on our way. I have to check into the Hospital before we get to our Hotel.” Bow exited the car leaving the keys and the car unlocked. Not waiting for protests the pregnant doctor scampered across the street to a nearby appliance store. Johan watched his hard headed, pregnant sister did whatever it was she wanted, and hoped he didn’t have to be the one telling Dre he lost her. It took him a split second to realize she left the car unlocked and keys still in the ignition.

“She is seriously asking for someone to …AH?!” He jumped at the sight of a young man walking past the car. His hands in his jacket as he tilted his head, eyeing up the vehicle. Johan scrambled to take the keys from the ignition and locked the car. The loud click of all four door locks going off made the young man stop in mid-step. He gave Johan an undisturbable look before continuing his stride into the corner store.

“Sonny you’re late...Again.”

“Aw~ chill out primo, I was at class.” Sonny smirked walking through the chip aisle, snagging a bag of fifty cent doritos. His cousin shook his head, the class did nothing for his slang apparently.

“Nice try, your last class was over an hour ago.” Usnavi glared from behind his polished counter. “Let me guess, you were with your boyfriend, again.” He grunted not waiting for Sonny’s confirmation, his silence was enough. “I hope Pete is worth the pay cut.”

“Aw, come on, Navi! Don’t be like that.” That got Sonny’s attention. He came out from the aisle and leaned over his counter. “Pete is going off to art school in California, I gotta take these moments as they come.”

“Art School in California? Is that what they call moving-into-your-abuela’s beach-house-so-you-can-get-high-all-the-time these days?” Usnavi didn’t hide the fact he wasn’t too keen on Sonny’s choice of lovers. Not because he was gay, god no, Usnavi was not like that. It was because Pete had...so little professional ambition. Sonny was studying hard, got himself through community college now was looking at a fancy scholarship. Sonny wasn’t like Nina, it took him two years of ass busting in a community school to get his GPA to a place he could even be offered a dime. Usnavi was his biggest supporter though the idea of him losing it all rang a little too close to home. Luckily Sonny knew what he wanted, he wanted to get into law. Make the world a safer place, it wasn’t too long ago someone in their neck of the woods was faced with injustice. Sonny was living in the prime of social justice. The world needed more Sonnys in Usnavi’s eyes. That all said that didn’t mean he was going to take it easy on him. “Real jobs would fire you for how many times you’re late. No more lovey sob stories, get here on time.”

“Si señor” Sonny rolled his eyes, he leaned back eyeing up the fancy Impala that was illegally sitting in front of the store. “Yo I think he’s lost.” Sonny motioned to the skittish, big haired man sitting in the car staring out of every window.

“He’s probably waiting for someone.” Usnavi was guilty of standing around waiting for someone to run back to the car. Parking in New York was terrible. “He’ll leave soon.”

“Nah, man locked his car when he saw me pass by. He’s totally not from New York, he’s lost. I know that face.” He pointed with a cheesy covered fingertip. “That's the same face those tourists get when they realize they don’t know how to get out of Time Square. Man is lost.”

Usnavi looked out the window and wondered if it was true. He did look nervous. Not to take offense, most people who didn’t grow up in the Heights or anywhere else would have been frightened of New York City. It was a pretty intimidating city at first glance. Gritty and hard to make a living, but the real locals were just regular people trying to get by. None of those thugs and criminals sneaking around every corner with a glock in their waistband. Sure, they had some, every place had some but overall...people here were just like family. All living life and wanting the same thing...a fucking break. “He’s fine.”

“We should help him out, like, get him to buy something for directions.” Sonny nodded, partly because he wanted to mess with him a little more. “I got it.”

“Sonny? Sonny! Get your ass back here--aye mi madre ese niño me va da un solo ataque del corazón! (this kid is gonna give me a heartattack!)” Usnavi felt the stress rising as he watched Sonny walk out of the store and right up to the car. All Usnavi could do was wait, and have 911 on speed dial in case Sonny got himself into trouble.

Sonny approached the car once more. He peered into the window and gently tapped the glass. Johan jumped in surprise, he placed a hand to his chest like he was some B rank movie actress caught in a bad scene. He merely watched as Sonny motioned him to lower his window. Everything in him said get the hell out of here but he couldn’t drive off without Bow...she knew where their hotel was. Slowly, Johan pressed the window button and lowered it only just an inch. “Yes? C-Can I help you?” He was well prepared to give all of Rainbow’s belongings to save his neck. “You lost, friend?” Sonny smiled, a dimple forming at one side of his face. He looked...a lot more approachable when he smiled, just a young man with a very...openly friendly face. “Just askin’ cause like...you’re kinda parked in a no standing zone...Don’t want you to get a ticket...so if you need directions or something?” Johan looked up and noticed there was, in fact, a white and red sign that said no standing in front of the car. “Uh.” He blinked for a second. There was a catch, what was the catch, if he stepped out of this car right now was he going to get shanked? Johan was momentarily possessed by his sister’s spirit and got out of the car. Unlike her though, he took the keys and locked it once he stepped out. “A bit, yeah.” He admitted, looking down at Sonny. Before Sonny could implement his plan on of swapping knowledge with profit, Johan’s stomach growled like something fierce. It was nearly noon and they still hadn’t stopped to eat anywhere. These were trying times, “Do you know where I can grab a bite to eat?” “Actually I do~” Sonny’s cheeky grin somehow got even cheekier. “I know the single most amazing little place that serves breakfast sandwiches like you wouldn’t believe!” He turned and motioned to the store behind him. “Really? Because I already believe this will give me food poisoning…” He blinked a few times but after another rumble from his stomach Johan released his good senses in favor for anything edible. Sonny waltzed ahead of him, opening the door for Johan. Surely a customer would repay his tardiness to Usnavi. As soon as they walked in they were greeted with a “Good Morning.” Usnavi smiled brightly from the counter. Johan paused, the greeting wasn’t the regular top of the morning, how are you, please get what you want and leave sort of greeting. It was a homey almost welcoming sort of greeting. It had a ring to it like he was walking into someone’s kitchen. Too bad this place smelled like someone’s dank cooler. “What can I get for you?” Johan moved his eyes from the warm voiced fellow by the counter and scanned the menu for sometime. He was silent until Sonny tapped the counter with his knuckle and ordered for him, “Give him the best you got, primo.” Sonny winked at his cousin. Usnavi nodded and started cooking up his famed breakfast sandwich paired with a coffee all under five dollars. A deal New Yorkers dreamed of. “So, tell me, where you headed? Maybe I can help you out.” Right, directions, the other thing Johan needed. “My sister and I are looking for…” He snapped his fingers a bit, she had been talking about all flight...all week...what was .. “Colombian Hospital?” There was a small laugh that came from the griddle. Johan’s ears grew warm and pink at the sound. “You mean the ER? Uh...thats like...if you go down Broadway...or take River Drive.” Usnavi looked up from his griddle “Sonny shut up, you don’t even know how to get to your house without your maps app.” He continued to smile finding the lost newcomer funny, but he couldn’t sit there and get the poor man even more lost. “It's not maps app, its google, lord.” He rolled his eyes at his old fashion cousin. “Yeah, yeah why don’t you make yourself useful, man the griddle.” Sonny begrudgingly obeyed, he walked around the counter and took over Usnavi’s spot. While Usnavi went back to the counter top, facing Johan now. “Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, you’re real close. River Drive is terrible, you’re going to be stuck there for hours. What you’re gonna do is follow Haven down to 168th and Ft. Washington again and boom, it's gonna be right there, you can’t miss it.” “Huh, we were on Ft. Washington I wonder how we missed it to begin with.” Johan was a little ...surprised that Usnavi helped him so quickly and easily. A part of him felt a tad guilty for being so judgmental a few moments ago. “Don’t sweat it most newcomers aren’t taking in the sights of the city, they’re too busy watching their backs and keeping their eyes on the street.” He was no stranger to people being wry. “Once you pull back the stink of the city you get use to the people, and nothing about it is scary.” “Yeah only scary thing around here is your hat~” Sonny chuckled, earning himself a glare from Usnavi who purposely adjusted his cap a little more. “The hat is fine.” Johan blurted out, unsure why he felt like coming to the defense of Usnavi. He was so warm and welcoming, though watching him glare was probably equally as strangely warm and satisfying he felt the urge to insist otherwise. “I mean...its dated yes, but newspaper boy hats are cute, its like a ...Newsies style.” He spoke and both Usnavi and Sonny gave him a blank stare. Johan felt the heat rise to his face, “a Melton look?” They blinked in unison. Johan felt his cheeks heat up with color. “Its vintage, very cute.” “Ah…” Usnavi’s face did the same, he didn’t get most of the references but what he did get was the word ‘cute’. Usnavi was facing an academic so it seemed. “I mean they’re not all the rage with the kids now but wait a few more years.” “Actually kids now are loving the throwback vintage looks, France use to be big on berets, then they stopped once the Americans began sticking them onto every French representation from character to cartoon like it was meant to signifies this was French. Now it's back in style, more so even.” Johan rambled ostentatiously about his beloved-temporary home of France. How he missed teaching there...though it was nice to be home. He felt himself caught between wanting out of this place and wanting to be part of a family. Either way Johan was in a standstill in his life, suddenly talking about France was not doing him any good. Usnavi must have noticed the change in Johan’s face once he stopped rambling, the excited glow had subsided. 

He did what he did best, a poor, awkward joke in hopes for a smile. “Is it as the French say, c'est magnifique?” Usnavi literally only knew that word from a movie he saw once. Johan’s eyes softened a bit. His pronunciation was pretty poor. Usually he didn’t take the jokes without undoing them and making them no longer funny. But something about Usnavi’s shy delivery combined with probably how mind-numbingly hungry Johan was made him chuckle a bit. “I would say your accent is equally magnifique.” Johan placed his hand on the counter, leaning in a bit as Usnavi placed a fist to his mouth, covering his shaky laughter. His other hand tipped down the brim of his hat. There was a strange warmth that washed over him, and it wasn’t just the summer heat of the city beating down on the corner store. Usnavi wasn’t use to having a charismatic customer like Johan...it was nice talking to someone who wasn’t a regular. A clean slate. Usnavi found the courage to meet Johan’s gaze and didn’t question why he found himself smiling wider at the sight of him. “How do you like your coffee?” Sonny’s voice broke both their gazes,forcing Johan to look over at Sonny and Usnavi to look down at his counter. “Hm... “ He looked over the store again, “I’m going to guess you don’t serve freshly ground beans?” Usnavi smirked shaking his head a bit, “Sadly we don’t grind our own beans but we have the best coffee in New York.” The shorter man turned around and picked up a yellow tin can and placed it in front of Johan. “May I entice your senses to the single most amazing brand, the very lifeblood of our people. Bustelo Coffee.” He motioned to the can, Johan rolled his eyes but his smile was wider than ever. “I recommend drinking it light and sweet unless you want to put some hair on your chest then black.”

“Whats a couple more hairs on my body.” Johan answered, and Usnavi’s Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed. “I’ll take it the way you do.” He swallowed again. “I flip between light and sweet or straight black… I usually go for a happy medium.” Usnavi answered honestly unable to come up with something else that was clever. Sonny was much better at this banter, the playful kind, after a while Usnavi’s natural shyness and word fumbling came out. “I’ll take the happy medium then.” Johan was actually relaxing now, Sonny had placed a breakfast sandwich on a paper plate for him, spiced sausage with a runny egg and a couple of avocado slices. All between some buttered, toasted buns. Johan was in mid bite, enjoying the smooth, spicy, creamy sensation of a perfectly balanced sandwich when Rainbow walked into the store. “There you are! Do you know why the car is locked I swore I left it unlock..” She walked over to Johan, his mouth full of food. She looked over at Usnavi and smiled brightly. “Good Morning” He beamed politely. “...also I recommend not leaving your car unlocked. I don’t think anyone around here would rob it but I know plenty of knucklehead kids who would gladly take a nap in a car with an a/c” “Jesus, I do that one time and I never hear the end of it.” Sonny groaned, “the guy didn’t even press charges.” Usnavi chuckled, giving Johan some time to chew before addressing his this woman, was this the sister he mentioned?  “Where have you been?” Johan glanced over at her, running his thumb against the corner of his lips to save a morsel of food. He was damn hungry and this was a damn good sandwich even for his palette.  “I was looking for someone to give me directions, I ran into several people but...we had a bit of a language barrier.” She blushed a bit, “I didn’t think my Spanish was too bad.” From the look she was giving him, and the fact she was empty handed oh it must have been bad. Johan didn’t say that out loud though. “I got directions, no thanks to you. It just proves my resourcefulness in the city surpasses your weird romanticized ideals of this city.” “You’re Welcome!” Sonny called out from the back again. Rainbow shook her head, “Ok, fine, maybe you’re a little more savvy than I am. But this city is a lot nicer than you say it is.” She jabbed her finger into Johan’s arm. She turned to Usnavi and Sonny smiling, “Thank you for the directions, Johan pick me up a coffee, I’m going to get in the car before we get hit with a ticket!” Bow scampered out of the store. Johan felt eyes on him, Usnavi’s eyes who were staring up at him with a thousand questions. “So you think the city is pretty bad huh?” Usnavi accused in a way that sounded playful but Johan still felt guilty. “Blame the media falsely glorifying the common chicanery about New York.” He blushed a bit, Usnavi’s face softened. “...but she’s right, New York is a lot nicer than I imagined…” Perhaps, that or the people were nicer than he expected. “My sister and I will be here for a while so who knows, I might pop by for the ‘best coffee in New York’” Johan grabbed the remainder of his sandwiches and the coffee, playing for everything with a ten. “Keep the change.” Usnavi cranked his neck a bit watching Johan leave. His eyes glued to the man’s retreating back as he slid back into the 2016 Impala. He was left with only more questions, who was that strange human being. The entire time he realized he got no name from him. Nothing, just knowledge he was here and he might come back. A tender smile started to inch its way across his face. “Sweet, if he turns into a regular that HAS to make up for me being late~ Right?” Sonny smirked, Usnavi would have barked something back at him. Instead he was silent. “Usnavi?” He blinked a few times, watching his cousin. From the side all he could see was his brother’s face as the car drove off and left their store. Sonny glanced at the empty space where the car had been then back at his cousin wondering what was going on. When the answer came from Usnavi’s mouth. “You think he’ll actually come back?” (Ohyeshewill)

[shirlleycoyle]

‘You Couldn’t Swipe Fast Enough’: How the Pandemic Devastated Instacart Workers

This article appears in VICE Magazine's Algorithms issue, which investigates the rules that govern our society, and what happens when they're broken.

In 2019, Lisa, a single mother, lost her job as the media relations director at a firm in Nashville, Tennessee, moved south to her hometown Jacksonville, Florida, and signed up to deliver groceries for Instacart.

With the $1,000 she earned each week shuttling groceries from supermarkets to her clients, she could make payments on her $2,300 a month mortgage, and car and utility bills, with enough left over to order novels from Amazon and household gadgets from QVC.

The arrival of COVID-19 pandemic in Florida changed all of that. In May, Lisa’s weekly earnings hurtled downward from $1000 to $500 to $90 (recovering partially in June and July). She spent her days glued to her phone, refreshing the Instacart app for hours. Each time a new batch, or set of delivery orders, would flash on her phone screen, someone else in her area would snatch them up in a matter of seconds, often before she had time to react.

The pandemic had prompted more households than ever before to sign up for Instacart’s grocery delivery service, making it profitable for the first time since its founding in 2012, but Lisa—a pseudonym, so she could speak candidly about her working conditions—was barely scraping by, and had picked up a second part time job at a local Publix grocery store to make ends meet.

“I had to be refreshing my phone all the time, sometimes waiting for three hours that I wasn’t getting paid [for], before I got a good order,” she told Motherboard. “You have to be attached to your phone. I couldn’t do anything else.”

In late April, the San Francisco-based start-up announced it had hired 300,000 new gig workers to meet rising demand for grocery delivery during the first two months of the pandemic, and had plans to bring on an additional 200,000 workers. The hiring boom in on-demand grocery delivery across the country wasn't limited to Instacart. The Target-owned delivery platform, Shipt, hired tens of thousands of shoppers during the pandemic. As of early August, the delivery service Amazon Flex was actively recruiting in 17 cities. Almost overnight, hundreds of thousands of laid off or underemployed Americans had transformed into grocery delivery gig workers.

But the demand for groceries didn’t keep pace with the number of Americans flocking to grocery and food delivery apps for available work, and workers found themselves competing against each other while refreshing their phones into oblivion. If heartwarming stories of mutual aid, where communities have banded together to care for, shelter, and feed one another during the pandemic have shown the power of solidarity in the absence of a strong social safety net, then the hundreds of thousands of desperate Americans gravitating towards gig work, and competing under and against a regularly shifting algorithm for an elusive supply of grocery delivery orders, paint a less inspiring picture.

A spokesperson for Instacart told Motherboard that shopper earnings have actually increased from their pre-pandemic levels, based on customer and shopper marketplace data. "In the wake of COVID-19, shopper earnings have increased by as much as 60% and shopper NPS – a measure of shopper happiness and overall sentiment – is at the highest level in company history," the spokesperson said.

"To further support this community, our team has introduced new recognition programs, product features, shopper perks, and resources to enhance the shopper experience," they continued. "We’ll continue to invest in this important community as we focus on delivering the best possible experience for all shoppers across North America.”

In early 2020, Lisa ranked near the top of 390 Instacart shoppers in the Jacksonville Beaches metro area, a sprawling island community to the north of Florida’s largest city. But during the pandemic, she says the app had hired an additional 900 shoppers in her area.

Adding to her difficulties, in March, Instacart had suspended its algorithmic ranking system, which rewards gig workers with the highest customer ratings by offering them the most lucrative orders first. The company explained in an announcement that, due to the “national state of emergency, all ratings below 5 stars” would be “forgiven.” (As of July, Instacart had reinstated the ranking system.) For veteran Instacart workers like Lisa, who had worked hard to achieve near-perfect ratings over hundreds of orders, this meant drastically lower earnings. As another Instacart shopper explained to me, the difference between a perfect 5 star average rating and a 4.97 star average rating can mean everything for access to the most lucrative orders under normal circumstances.

At the same time, in Instacart forums on Facebook, rumors circulated widely that the decline of work was primarily linked to the rise of third-party bots which snatched up orders quicker than a human could, and sold them to shoppers willing to pay a high price to game the system.

“When coronavirus got bad here in May, third-party bots popped up. We ran into them at stores. You could tell who they were because they didn’t know the layout of the stores. One guy bragged about it to me in an Aldi grocery store. He was a bot,” Lisa said. (Shoppers often refer to other shoppers who pay for automated tools as “bots.”)

Some of the rumors were blatantly racist, accusing undocumented shoppers of using the bots to game the system. Motherboard viewed posts on Instacart Facebook groups that linked the bots to rings of non-English-speaking, Latinx immigrants who shopped in large groups.

Multiple opportunists had developed bots that gave gig workers who paid, in some cases, thousands of dollars, the advantage of being able to scoop up orders faster than those who didn’t. But skeptical Instacart shoppers say the bots were mostly scams, the rumors were racist, and bots were not responsible for a significant portion of competition for orders—Instacart’s massive hiring spree was.

“Bot services have existed for Instacart for nearly two years, but bots have never been nearly as popular or common as many shoppers believe they are,” Heidi Carrico, an Instacart shopper and organizer with Gig Workers Collective, said. “The true problem is that Instacart hired 500,000 new Shoppers, while demand and order volume has declined from its peak at the beginning of the pandemic, creating a dynamic of fierce competition for orders.”

Instacart has claimed that the bots violate the companies’ trademarks and terms of service, and sent cease-and-desist letters to third-parties. In late July, Instacart sent out an email informing shoppers that it has partnered with a security platform “to develop a bot bounty program, specifically built to combat bots on the Instacart platform,” and promised to deactivate any shoppers who used third-party apps.

Veteran Instacart shoppers have noted that the pandemic is not the first time they’ve dealt with saturated markets and times when it’s difficult to get orders. Most years, usually in the fall, for reasons not entirely clear, orders slow down, competition rises, and Instacart slashes pay, prompting some contingent of shoppers to quit working on the app.

“Things have started to get better,” Lisa told Motherboard in July. “It’s a combo effect. The bots are being handled and slowly but surely the oversaturation is starting to come down. All of these people who signed up to delivery groceries thought it was easy. Now we’re back to our rating system and that’s how we get batches.”

Though gig workers that Motherboard spoke to said their earnings recovered partially in June and July, suggesting that some of the new hires quit working on Instacart once restaurants and retail stores reopened, longtime workers say the number of shoppers are still above pre-pandemic levels and wages remain down.

Bill, an Instacart shopper in Houston, originally started working on the app nearly two years ago to supplement his income (he previously owned a food truck), and was finding it hard to quit gig work, until the pandemic hit and helped him with the decision.

“I was making $700 to $800 a week, then things just went bonkers. The orders were coming in so fast, you couldn’t swipe fast enough. I don’t know how a human can react that fast. Suddenly I was making $60 a week,” Bill said. “I was a mess. It used to be like anything else: ‘Doing this sucks but I know I can get batches, and I know I can make at least $500.’ All of the sudden it just disappears. Your income just goes. It’s very stressful.”

While many gig workers who provide services that involve close human interaction (such as Uber and Lyft drivers, TaskRabbit workers who enter client’s homes, and Wag and Rover dog walkers) have seen their income plunge, as the New York Times recently reported, on-demand grocery delivery and food-delivery apps have boomed, making record profits. Experts say that though the influx of grocery delivery workers will likely fall as businesses reopen, many workers who sign up for gig economy apps as a temporary job end up staying much longer than they had planned, either because they can’t find more lucrative job opportunities or because making income on the app consumes so much time and leaves few hours of the day for job hunting.

“You notice people of all walks of life are out of work doing Instacart,” said Bill. “People who work in hospitality, restaurants, bars, and I don’t begrudge them. Everybody’s just trying to do the best for themselves. What sucks most is that it’s taken any hope of making money.”

During past economic crises laid off and unemployed workers have always gravitated to less secure forms of work—hustling to string jobs together. In fact, the emergence of platform gig economy companies grew out of the 2008 recession, a period of high unemployment and slow job growth. Gig economy start-ups Uber, Instacart, TaskRabbit, Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash, and Caviar were all founded in the span of four years, between 2008 and 2012.

“Gig work is often marketed as a solution to unemployment, or economic downturn. A lot of these gig economy jobs have low barriers to entry,” said Alexandrea Ravanelle, a professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who is leading a National Sciences Foundation-funded study on the impact of COVID-19 on gig workers. “During COVID-19, we’ve seen an influx of people turning to gig work as a social safety occupation of last resort.”

The companies marketed themselves as technological innovations that created millions of new jobs and allowed workers the opportunity and flexibility to pick their own hours and schedules free from the scrutiny of a boss. But the catch was that gig workers, as independent contractors, did not receive any of the typical benefits such as minimum wage guarantees, health insurance, overtime pay, and paid sick leave offered to employees.

Thus, critics of Uber and Instacart charge that their main contribution has been the creation of precarious, low-wage, dead-end jobs that offer no guarantee of job security or income—an unfortunate reality Instacart workers who’ve seen their earnings diminish overnight learned during the pandemic.

Marvin, a shopper who lives outside Huntsville, Alabama, took up Instacart in April 2019, for supplemental income. When he lost his job as a flight attendant last fall, it became a full time gig.

Marvin also saw his wages steadily decline during the pandemic. He was forced to dip into his savings, often spending 10 hours-day waiting in parking lots “listening to every song in the world” and refreshing his phone until orders came in. “No, I don’t enjoy sitting in my car for that long,” he told Motherboard. “I survived on a lot of Spam.”

At the same time, the number of Instacart shoppers in his metro area tripled from 40 to 120. (We know this because Instacart posts the number of active shoppers in each metro area on its app by rank.)  “A lot of waitresses, waiters, teachers, housewives, and exotic dancers came out of the woodwork,” said Marvin, who has befriended many shoppers in the area.

Marvin, who is 28, says he cuts out the unpaid time he spends waiting by juggling Instacart work with less lucrative orders on DoorDash in his area, usually at fast food restaurants, which often pay less than $10. The goal is never to earn less than he spends on gas and the costs of maintaining his car.

On a day in late July, Marvin logged his order for Motherboard; he visited Kroger three times with trips interspersed to McDonald’s, Arby’s, and Chick-Fil-A, earning $99.33 in six hours, and sometimes traveling up to 17 miles to make a delivery.

“I try to fit in one or two DoorDash orders for every Instacart order. It doesn’t always work out that way but that’s what I try to do not to have any idle time,” Marvin said. “I’ll often pick up $5 orders from Taco Bell or McDonalds.”

For Instacart and other gig workers, learning to identify lucrative orders takes time and practice. Workers told Motherboard they tend to gravitate to the stores with layouts they know best, customers who’ve tipped and rated well in the past.

“Our ranking [and ability to get good orders] depends on what the customer rates. It’s solely up to them,” Lisa, the Instacart shopper in Florida, said. “We’re at their mercy. If they don’t like how something was bagged, they could give us a four. I had one lady say, 'I never give out a five star rating.' I don’t want to be dinged for that.”

Workers prefer orders with shorter distances, tending to avoid apartment buildings with long flights of stairs. Similarly, accepting orders with multiple repeat items from different customers like frozen pizzas, cat food, or bananas is easier than traversing back and forth in search of obscure products.

“At first it was taking me four minutes per item at my local Sprouts supermarket. Now it takes 30 seconds,” said Bill, the Instacart shopper in Houston. “You learn quickly that you make more money the faster you can complete an order.”

Now that Instacart has reinstated its ranking system, veteran shoppers say they hope to see their earnings increase, as they’re awarded more lucrative orders, while shoppers hired during the pandemic have to undergo the learning curve that they once did. Experts say that it’s difficult to know at this point how the surge of workers competing for gigs on food and grocery delivery apps will last; due to poor reporting systems, there aren’t reliable statistics on gig workers.

“The Great Recession brought about an economic contraction and lots of people took up gig work. It was hard for people to get back into jobs they once were in,” Ravanelle, the sociologist at UNC Chapel Hill said. “We’ll probably see something similar in terms of COVID. We’ll feel this for a very long time.”

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Where Should I Stay in Ben Tre?

Located in the Mekong River delta, 87 km to the west of Ho Chi Minh City. It takes only 2 hours to travel by bus from Saigon. As a result, Ben Tre has been attracting lots of tourists with its natural landscapes and culinary diversity. Tourism is new for Ben Tre, hospitality businesses are not fully developed to handle the demands and expectations of customers. That's why tourists are often struggling when searching for the most suitable places to stay in this large “land of the coconut”.

“Where should I stay in Ben Tre?” can be regarded as one of the most asked questions of many tourists planning their trip to Ben Tre. To ensure the most comfortable experience, reserving the most suitable accommodation will help you save a lot of time and money. Ben Tre has three areas to choose from for your stay which are the city center, outer districts, or in a resort. What I hope to do in this blog is to give you an overview of the most favourable areas in Ben Tre regarding price, convenience, and activities. You can pick the most favourable place that best matches your itinerary.

Are there many places to stay in Ben Tre province?

Compared to other cities in Vietnam, Ben Tre province has limited selection when it comes to accommodation. Tourist attractions are located far away from each other making it difficult for tourists to know where to stay. The best area to stay in Ben Tre is gonna depend on your personal interests and budget. I’m gonna break down all the options to help you choose the best location for your stay in Ben Tre.

What area to stay in Ben Tre if you travel for only 1 day?

The best area when staying one day in Ben Tre is to stay in the center of the city. There are plenty of options for accommodation, ranging from low-price guest houses, friendly homestays, luxurious hotels, and small resorts. This area is a very popular in Ben Tre, with lots of restaurants, coffee shops, and shopping. Walking is extremely convenient so you won’t need to hire extra transportation compared to staying outside of the city center.

In the center of the city, there are two streets where most of the actions take place. Dong Khoi Street is where many restaurants, karaokes, and bars are located for late night fun. Hung Vuong Street is home to the famous Ben Tre Night Market along with almost all of the 4 star and above hotels. This street is also running along the beautiful riverside making it scenic for a night out taking photos.

Located in one of the main hubs in Ben Tre - Dong Khoi Street, Mekong Hotel & Restaurant is a sound option. This hotel has a great combination of location and simplicity for such a reasonable price. At only $10-$35 per night, this might be a steal for travelers on a budget.

Address: 232-239/A1 - Dong Khoi Street, Phu Tan Ward, Ben Tre City

Website: http://bentremekonghotels.com/

Contact: 02753837179

Price: $7-$30

Another alternative is Viet Uc Hotel located right next to Ben Tre Night Market and 5-min walk from the shopping mall. Being one of the first 3-star hotels in Ben Tre, Viet Uc Hotel is still in tourists’ favorite list thanks to its consistent quality and friendly service. The rooms in Viet Uc will be simple, clean, and neat but don’t expect too much in the way of luxury. Growing up in Ben Tre, this was known by everyone as the best hotel in our city for years! There have been nicer accommodations that have come in recent years but this is still a favorite.

Address: 114 Hung Vuong Street, Ward 3, Ben Tre City

Website: http://hotelvietuc.com/

Contact: 02753511888

Price: $23-$87

If you are searching for a resort right in the middle of the action, check out Ben Tre Riverside Resort. A little further out from the city center, this is one of the newest and highest ranked resorts in Ben Tre. The astonishing riverside view where you sit to have breakfast surprises both locals and tourists with its warm feel. The price fluctuates between $65-$300 depending on the room. It offers a stunning outdoor pool with views of the river. Other amenities include complimentary shuttle bus from the property to Ben Tre Night Market, Bike and Car Rental, a cosy shared bar/lounge and an indoor Fitness Center.

Address: 708 Nguyen Van Tu Street , Ward 7, Ben Tre City

Website: https://www.bentreriverside.com/

Contact: 02753545 454

Price: $57-$305

Where to stay if you are a nature and culture lover?

A real nature and culture lover will prefer farms and gardens surrounded by fresh air. There are great places in nearby districts away from the city center. This is where you can enjoy living with nature and making friends with local people. As it is very quiet in the districts at night, a lot of homestays and hotels here have their own restaurants and entertainment services. Don’t miss art performances, culture tours, or ecotours while you are staying in this area. It will be a true local village life at night as there are no other activities nearby in the districts. It’s suitable for those wanna make friends with the locals and enjoy the real specialities, but you don’t expect too much on the quality of facility and other conveniences.

Outside of the city center in Chau Thanh District, Coco Land Homestay is one of the best-rated homestays in Ben Tre. It is equipped with a wonderful outdoor pool surrounded by a fresh garden. It is also located near famous tourist attractions like Phoenix Island or Thanh Trieu Local Market. The host family is said to be always helpful and kind. They will make you feel at home and part of their family. They can help you with activities like wandering and exploring the local Chau Thanh District on bicycles, learn how to pick fresh fruits in the garden, and cook Vietnamese dishes with the lovely host couple. If you wish to have a unique experience like this, you definitely have to stay here. The money you'll spend on your stay will be worth every penny.

Address: Phuoc Hoa Hamlet, Thanh Trieu Ward, Chau Thanh District

Website: http://cocolandhomestay.com/

Contact: 0948866995

Price: $32-$42

Another pick to get rid of the buzz of the city is Coconut Homestay, located in Mo Cay District. This district is home to most of the coconut candy traditional villages in the Mekong. What makes this place special is that the wall of every room is made completely of coconut wood. The host family is friendly and charming. They are willing to show you local sights that you must visit around the Mo Cay district. They will also offer you Vietnamese style breakfast with traditional iced coffee.

Address: 66 Tan Phuoc, Mo Cay Town, Southern Mo Cay District

Website: https://www.facebook.com/cocohutvn/

Contact: 0902566516

Price: $26-$52

The sprawling Ben Tre Farm Stay is one of the largest homestays in the Mekong. You can enjoy the relaxed and pure Vietnamese village landscapes with surrounding tropical fruit gardens. Ben Tre Farm Stay can also arrange a package of activities, including amazing boat trips, bike tours, and food tours.

Address: Hamlet 3, Cai Suc Bridge, Phu Nhuan Ward, Ben Tre City

Website: https://bentrefarmstay.com

Contact: 0903857607

Price: $21-$30

Where are the resorts in Ben Tre?

Last but not least, resorts are ideal for family or people who prefer to relax in an all-in-one property. You will be offered a wide range of services, restaurants, and spas. Such resorts are decorated to reflect the countryside of Ben Tre province. The resorts have orchards, thatched houses, rivers and lots of coconut trees. Yet, these areas are isolated and you can only enjoy the limited facilities and entertainment on the resort. Every resort usually offer you their own transportation but it is not as flexible as when you stay at a hotel outside.

One of the most recommended resorts, is the newly built Forever Green Resort. This resort has become the most checked-in location on Instagram in Ben Tre. The meaning and purpose of this resort are explicitly revealed in the name - “bringing visitors back to nature”. It is a worthwhile area to stay in during your vacation. Besides a full range of four-star functions and services, it also makes a difference in its unique and diverse recreational activities including fishing, boating, orchards, folk games, campfires, countryside discoveries, or firefly watching by boat at night. This is also probably the best option for any team building options in Ben Tre.

Address: Phu Khuong Hamlet, Phu Tuc Ward, Chau Thanh District, Ben Tre

Website: http://www.forevergreenresort.com/

Contact: 02753618618

Price: $78-$900

Where to stay in Ben Tre, it’s up to you with all these options!

With the fast-growing tourism, especially ecotourism, Ben Tre province is becoming a favourite place for tourists. I believe that anyone who is planning a trip to Ben Tre definitely want to seek out the combination of natural beauty and authentic Vietnamese experience. I know that vacation time is precious so what I hope to do is to bring you the best of my knowledge about my hometown to plan for a perfect trip. Wish you a memorable journey and great experience in Ben Tre province.

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Best Vegan Restaurants in St. Louis

How do you describe your ‘diet’? I don’t mean how you are trying to lose weight or monitor your eating, but rather your choice of being intentional about the foods you put in your body. It could be that you simply avoid one food group, or are fully committed to a particular lifestyle like gluten-fee, keto, paleo or vegan.

It is estimated that there has been a 600% increase in people identifying as vegans – or following a plant based diet – in the last three years. There was a time that being vegan made it more than a small challenge to eat out.

But not anymore.

Since finding great vegan food can be a challenge in any city, I thought it would be fun to explore the options in my own backyard.

In St. Louis, a city known for toasted raviolis and gooey butter cake, you might think that vegan choices would be few and far between. However, there are a surprising number of vegan restaurants in St. Louis! I’ve put together a selection of some of the best for you.

Best Vegan Restaurants in St. Louis

Lulu’s Local Eatery – With an incredible 1600+ recommendations and 4.9 out of 5 stars on Facebook, Lulu’s definitely ranks highly on this list of the best vegan options in St. Louis. Their menu offers a variety of starters, salads, and entrées, and includes gluten-free and nut-free choices (although they are not a gluten-free or nut-free site). They even have a kid’s menu, something that can be hard to find in vegan restaurants. They also offer a selection of local beers, kombucha, and vegan baked goods. The Ping-Pong Bar upstairs offers a bit of fun for your day, and cocktails after 5 pm. It’s one of the least expensive restaurants on the list.

Pura Vegan – Pura Vegan has a simple and straight-forward menu, but some of their favorites are great for those who miss some non-vegan food choices, including pizza bagels and cornbread. In addition to traditional café food such as waffles, macaroni and cheese (Mackincheese for this restaurant), and tacos, Pura Vegan has a juice and smoothie bar for quick refueling. Stop in for a yoga class and leave with a Popeye’s Choice juice to get you ready for the rest of your day. Pura Vegan also has events starting in fall of 2019.

Fred and Ricky’s – A must for breakfast lovers, Fred and Ricky’s has a versatile menu with offerings such as pancakes, banana bread, and muffins. Entrees include pasta, enchiladas, and a mushroom stroganoff that will leave you wanting more. Don’t forget dessert; Fred and Ricky’s serves up cookies, pudding, and brownies. They have two locations, and their foods are available in several other establishments around St. Louis including some Schnuck’s locations and the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. It’s a bit of a different model; everything is pre-made, so you take and heat. That makes it great for when you need to bring lunch to the office or want to include vegan options at a celebration.

Tree House Vegetarian Restaurant – With both vegetarian and vegan offerings, Tree House has plenty of food to please everyone in your party. All dinner items are prepared vegan; they also have brunch on Saturday and Sunday starting at 10 am. The donuts are not to be missed. The dinner menu includes mushroom-stuffed ravioli, jambalaya, and chicken fried seitan. They have an extensive bar, with happy hour from 5:30 until 6 pm. You can dine on their outdoor patio during the warmer months. You can easily make reservations from their website.

Pizza Head – Pizza Head is also vegetarian and vegan, offering vegan meats and a vegan pie/slices. Pizza Head offers delivery through Postmates. Their Facebook page is filled with recommendations, with 4.9 out of 5 stars. The restaurant is often busy, but clearly worth it.  Everyone raves about the vegan pepperoni pizza and they offer a small selection of domestic beers. It’s a casual place, with punk posters on the walls, perfect for Friday night get-togethers. Outdoor seating is available.

Bombay Food Junkies – Bombay Food Junkies has got it all. This is an a la carte restaurant open Thursday through Sunday, with a food truck making appearances throughout town every day except Monday, and they cater. Be sure to sign up for their weekly newsletter to keep on top of their schedule, which can vary. They use no animal products and have dairy free cheesecake. Their restaurant menu items include Butter Chicken, wraps, and Samosas. Stop by the food truck for lunch of garlic naan and hummus or Vada Pav. The food is spicy (they offer mild to hot), but flavorful, and inspired by Indian street food. The owners are extremely knowledgeable and happy to answer questions, so it’s great for new vegans or for vegetarians who are considering making vegan their lifestyle choice.

Seedz Café – Seedz Café has 4.5 stars on Yelp. They have a large menu featuring sandwiches, burgers, Mexican food, and BBQ. Their Sunday brunch is popular, with menu items including avocado toast and a breakfast sandwich that are only available during the brunch. They also serve juices, smoothies, and local craft beers. They have a variety of menu options that are suitable for kids as well as adults. Get there early on the weekends to grab some of their vegan donuts; they sell out fast.  Be sure to stop by their Facebook page for some incredible pictures of their delicious food!. They are sure to get your mouth watering.

Sweet Art – Yelp has Sweet Art labeled as a bakery, but their menu includes everything that makes a vegan restaurant great. Their breakfast menu includes vegan Belgian Waffles and cinnamon rolls. For lunch try a house-made sweet burger or Bell Hook’s Nachos. Sweet Art’s official bakery includes brownies, bars, cookies, and cakes. Some of their menu items are vegetarian, but the menu is clear about which options are vegan. They offer vegan boxed lunch options, making them perfect for take out or as an option for providing vegan lunches for office meetings. Their Yelp rating is 4.5 and there are more than 450 photos for you to check out. They aren’t open late, and only serve lunch until 3 pm, so make them a day option.

If you’re looking for great vegan meals, starting with this list will give you lots of options. Most of them are sustainable and a few can even be considered fine dining. All of them are reasonably priced.

There are many other restaurants that aren’t strictly vegan/vegetarian, but that offer vegan choices, or can make vegan substitutions. For many vegans, this isn’t an appropriate or sustainable choice, so I didn’t include those restaurants in my list. However, if it doesn’t bother you to go to a restaurant that serves animal products, a bit of research on Facebook should give you most of the available choices.

Happy dining.

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