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krispyweiss · 2 years ago
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Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Sam Moore and Steve Earle are Inaugural American Music Honors Recipients
- Ceremony slated for April 15 at the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music
Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Sam Moore and Steve Earle are the recipients of the inaugural American Music Honors.
They will receive their awards during the April 15 ceremony and concert at the New Jersey home of the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music, which established the honors.
The awards “celebrate those artists who have demonstrated artistic excellence, creative integrity and a longstanding commitment to the value of music in our national consciousness,” center Executive Director Robert Santelli said in a statement.
“All of our inaugural honorees are worthy of acknowledgment and appreciation.���
Springsteen, E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, Southside Johnny and Jon Stewart will present. The awards ceremony will be followed by a performance from the Disciples of Soul, the awardees and “special guests,” per a news release.
3/11/23
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cowboycatss · 4 months ago
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presto!!!
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chillydownhere2 · 6 months ago
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Source Me laf@ilyF ❤️
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imissmodernbaseball · 4 months ago
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The Summer Ends by American Football // Wasted Summers by juju <3 // Frances Forever by Mitski // Snow by Ricky Montgomery // Summer Dress by Red House Painters // South Elroy by Maya Hawke // 104 Degrees by Slaughter, Beach Dog // Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens
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just-an-enby-lemon · 2 months ago
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I'm unable to explain my thoughts well-enough but I do think one of the reasons Odysseus is my favorite hero from the whole Ancient Greece is because I'm brazilian. Hear me out: Odysseus wins by being the cleverest, not always the most inteligent (that would likely be Palimedes, who Odysseus murders at cold blood) and definitivaly not the strongest.
He doesn't take the bow to war but that is his favorite weapon, the weapon that is stated as a coward's one, the one Paris is mocked for using. And that adds to: he refused honor, he tried to dodge his word and avoid the war. He wants the recognizement and glory (as Diomedes absolutly knows) and after they go he does everything to win (looks to all the war crimes including Iphigenia and Pilocteles) but he never wanted to be there at all.
His second act of cleverness is his failure at pretending to be mad (bonus points for the fact Penelope helped, they are two peas in a pot or however the expression goes) and his dishonorable act is what made me fall in love with him. Because dying for glory, for my country, was never really in my culture, if Brazil decided to invade Paraguay again right now even the people who deny the first war crimes would just go "heck no". When President Lula criticized Venezuela even the people that agreed with him were all like "sure but please don't go to war over it we really don't wanna". The army does dictatorships and paint roads and I fully preffer the roads.
On the other hand being clever and resorcefull those are our heros. Loyal not to a country but to their people, and very much not the most moral people. É o jeitinho brasileiro. And while it does help to maintain a culture of corruption (tho absolutly not as much as people make it seem, the corruption is waaay more because of the power imbalance, income inequality, imperialism, the belief the 1% always have that they are better and the dehumanization of the working class). Is the belief that while yes it is absolutly wrong to let's say throw an infant from a wall because otherwise he'll grow up to destroy your family, better Hector's son dies than yours.
Is selfish but it's also in a lot of ways the recognizement that glory is meaningless. Surviving and helping other people survive, achiving happiness is way more important. Our kids are not pretending to be older to go to war and if they try they better prepare to deal with their mother's rage. We are suppose to never get into a fight. But if we do anyway we better win and come back or else.
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release-the-mccracken · 8 months ago
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If I had a nickel for every time an alt musician made a music video where they played two different characters and made them have a homoerotic relationship, I would have two nickels. Which doesn't seem like much, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
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bruhmanbeyond · 1 year ago
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Let’s fucking go.
“Run the Dragon”
Run the Jewels x Bryan Danielson
Edited by: me
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songshowdown · 2 years ago
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Favorite FOB Song?
Irresistible vs Honorable Mention
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my-thoughts-and-junk · 25 days ago
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the decemberists, the mountain goats, and the front bottoms hold the same space in my mind. i think they should fight to the death
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princess-ibri · 2 months ago
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Ok you inspired me and I had to redraw your dress design + make an Odile cuz ahhhhhhh this is such a good idea for a fairytale swap! I want to peek into the reality where we got 1920s Louisiana Swan Lake! And you don't even have to change up the characters as they are in PatF cuz Naveen would be such a fun Prince Seigried type and Facilier an incredibly cool Rothbart.
So yeah, here's Swan Lake Tiana
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And Odile (thinking she could be Facilier's sister in this version? Maybe her name is different too? since everyone else's name is changed/to not confuse with Mama Odie--or she's named after her if this brings back Mama Odie being related to Facilier --but sorry I'm world building too much xD)
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Anyway, awesome idea @see-arcane and thanks for the drawing inspiration!!
(Also everyone go check out OPs other art and projects they're so cool! Especially apt for Spooky Season 👌💀🍁🎃)
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Just skimmed the news for the upcoming Tiana series. While I’m glad we’ll get to see more of her and a criminally under-utilized setting/premise, it brought back my old gripe with the fact that Disney chose to hitch her to the snore that is ”The Frog Prince,” (a story so bluntly bland there was no choice but to plaster over it with the film’s massive overhaul narrative) rather than give their 2-D animation department a last hurrah with Swan Lake. 
Between the score, the story’s classic fairy tale flavor, the improved visual of frogs VS Louisiana’s trumpeter and tundra swans, and the fact that the animators could’ve had a whole flock of backup cygnets and an Odile-Tiana to make pretty designs D O L L S designs for, I think it would’ve made for a real love letter to the grandeur of Cinderella, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast rather than what felt like a nearly The Emperor’s New Groove-ish comedic fantasy.*
(*Though I do like the comic image of our graceful swan-heroine switching from Dainty Romantic Waterfowl to Legitimately Terrifying Hellbird menacing the villain trying and failing to get the important magic bauble away from her without losing a hand.)
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mothercain · 3 months ago
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my rendition of “for sure” by american football for their covers album is out now. beyond honored to be included in this compilation, it was a dream come true. american football forever ♡
thank you to matt tomasi, bryan de leon, and angel diaz for their musical contributions to this track. my best friends ♡
music video shot and edited by me!
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barcaatthemoon · 3 months ago
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tiny || barcelona x teen!reader ||
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you take a bad hit during your first game in america.
you couldn't remember a time when you had been so excited to play a soccer game. barcelona was in north america, and your name was selected to start in the game against bay fc. that was your favorite nwsl team, and they just happened to be your opponents for your first start with the senior team. it couldn't have been any closer to perfection for you if you had planned it all yourself.
"chiqui, calm down," alexia said as she reached over and pinched your thigh. you let out a yelp at the feeling, jumping a bit in your seat. quietly, you apologized to alexia and sank back into your cubby a bit. you were quite a bit smaller than most of the team, just barely half an inch taller than ona. the doctors said that you had a bit more growing to do, as it seemed that you had at least one last growth spurt to go through.
"she's just excited. tiny hasn't been to america before," patri said as she slung an arm over your shoulders. she pulled you out of your cubby to dance with some of the other girls. you were more than happy to do so, even if the locker room wasn't filled with the spanish music you were used to. here, they were playing american music through the speakers, but you had been studying up on it, so you recognized a few of the songs.
finally, your coach came in to calm things down and get everyone ready. you had been studying the game plan obsessively in the hotel or whenever you had a spare moment. you probably knew it better than alexia, which was definitely saying something. she had a work ethic that you could only ever truly hope to strive for, even if some of the other players constantly reminded you to have fun and be a kid for a bit longer.
"pina, listen! they're cheering for us!" you exclaimed as you repeatedly tapped on the older girl's shoulders. she rolled her eyes, sending her mascot an unamused look. yours seemed to be just as enthusiastic as you were, the two of you chatting back and forth. your english wasn't great, but it was definitely a bit better than some of your older teammates' attempts. you had grown up with grandparents who had been big fans of america, and once dreamed of living their final days out there. they hadn't ever made it, but you felt a strong sense of belonging as you stepped out onto the pitch.
that feeling helped you keep your head in the game. you considered it an honor to play here, and knew that one day, you'd play wearing one of their jerseys, but today you were a culer. you were going to show them culer futbol the way that you were taught. it was ruthless and brutal, but you felt unstoppable. at least you had until you ran right into a brick wall and absolutely crumpled onto the ground.
"irene!" you cried out in pain. it was awful, absolutely awful. you couldn't suck in enough air to catch your breath, you were pretty sure that you had hit your head on something, and your arm definitely didn't look right. you laid on the ground and cried, repeating irene's name even as other players surrounded you.
"shh, shh. i need you to calm down (y/n)," alexia told you. she was a great mentor, but she wasn't who you needed. she lacked the ability to comfort you how you needed. it wasn't her fault, but you knew that she couldn't help you.
"chiqui, hey, it's okay. hey, you're alright. it's okay, just calm down. you have to calm down so you can let us know what's wrong," irene said as she knelt next to you. everybody had moved out of the way so that she could get to you as if she was one of the medics.
"h-hey, is tiny okay?" pina asked as she tried peeking over alexia's shoulder. off a little ways in the distance, alexia could see the younger girls all staring towards you. they looked scared, so alexia decided that she'd go over and try to comfort them. there was a wall of players keeping the cameras away as the medics came to stretcher you out.
you had never ridden in an ambulance, and you hoped that you never would have to again. it was loud and the roads were to the hospital were bumpy. you could feel every little jolt as it happened, and you were feeling sick by the time that you arrived to the hospital where they ran tests and did all sorts of things to figure out what was wrong with you.
"the doctor says that you have been very brave tonight," irene said as she ran her fingers through your hair. it was definitely something that she normally reserved for her son, but you had been through more than enough to deserve some extra love and care. "all the girls are waiting up to see you."
"they can go to bed, i'm fine," you mumbled. the pain medication they had given you was definitely starting to wear off, but you were still tired. it had been a very eventful day, and you were fighting sleep as you waited for your discharge papers. you wouldn't get to play for most of the season as you waited for your bones to heal, but you were still excited to watch the games.
you were a bit sad about missing out on the season. you tried to keep yourself happy, but it was hard. irene could tell that you were starting to get down, so she made a stop to get you a treat on the way back to the hotel. you were still a bit down, but all of your focus was on the ice cream cone that irene had bought you when the two of you walked into the hotel.
"tiny!" claudia and cata cheered as they raced towards you. irene stopped them, reminding them to be gentle with you. claudia seemed to take that warning more seriously as cata scooped you up into her arms.
"put me down!" you thrashed around a bit, stopping when it started to hurt. "ale, make her put me down please."
"put the tiny down, cata. if you want to help patri look after her tonight, then you can, but she needs to rest," alexia said. claudia and cata both agreed to that, and without much surprise, a good amount of the girls that you had befriended all ended up in patri's room with you. true to their word, they did let you go to sleep, although most of them stayed up to watch you. in the morning, you woke up in a tangled mess with about three other players crammed into your bed.
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weird-will · 4 months ago
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Secret 11th option, ALL OF THEM!
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plotsignificanthaircut555 · 5 months ago
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Paper Thin Walls
Your neighbor, Nanami Kento, comes over four times complaining about noise. And then a fifth time. AO3
Warnings: SMUT, MDNI, 18+ Only. fem! reader, grumpy! nanami, angsty, some light vouyerism, through the wall masturbation overhearing (does that count?), cunnalingus, riding, penetrative sex, reader has female anatomy, dirty talk, kissing, not explicit spit this time but i sneak it in there (and i always will), DIRTY, NASTY, WET,
Word count: 8.2k,we looooove a bad neighbors enemies to lovers, sorry y'all but i eat it up every time, i hope y'all do too. This is probably the grumpiest i have ever written Nanami but i hope the soft at the end gave you guys the sweetie that we all know and love, especially on this blog.
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THUNK THUNK THUNK 
You nearly dropped the bottle of wine you were uncorking when you heard the loud, impassioned knocking on your front door. Your friends quieted their conversation and looked to the door, a mixture of shock and confusion on their faces. 
How embarrassing. 
You rolled your eyes, already fed up with what you knew would be on the other side of the wood. You gesture to your friends to continue enjoying themselves as you would handle it. They tentatively turn back to one another huddled around your small coffee table dressed with snacks and cups. You had worked hard on this party, you didn’t get to see your friends very often so being able to enjoy a night together to relax and catch up was so valuable to you. And no dickhead neighbor with a stick up his ass was going to ruin it. Walking to the door you drew in a strained breath, trying to smooth your irritation, before unlocking, unlatching and just barely opening the door. Even just a crack was enough to see him seething in front of you. 
Kento Nanami, your neighbor. Your very irritable neighbor. The one man HOA of your apartment complex floor. Your neighbor who, since you moved in three months ago, has stopped by your apartment three times to badger you about your noise level. You had lived in apartments your whole adult life, not once has anyone complained about you, you were a MODEL neighbor: kind, social but not overbearing, always said hello in the hallway, happy to watch pets or plants while people were out of town, you are a goddamn delight as a neighbor.
It was this fucking guy who had the problem, huffing at your doorstep in his stupid little American girl doll glasses and overly neat button up shirt that he probably pressed every morning before getting dressed. 
And once again, here he stood, vein in his head pulsing against his skin, elevens creased in his forehead between his scowling eyebrows, jaw muscle looking on the verge of snapping.
“Ms—.” He started but you cut him off. 
“Good evening Mr. Nanami, to what do I owe the pleasure,” you smiled jovially, as though his presence wasn’t a nuisance, “this time.” 
“Good evening. Yes, it is the evening, isn’t it?” He made a little show of checking his bulky silver watch.
“I’m sure the very expensive looking watch on your arm could tell you that it’s 8:45 pm. A very normal time for people to be enjoying themselves, especially on a Friday night.” You leaned your head against the doorframe looking at him, “Having a little…movie night in?”
He stared at you a moment, his eyes moving over your face coldly, eyeing your sly smile, 
“so you know I’m here about the noise.” 
“You’ve never come to my apartment for another reason.” You sighed, “call it a hunch, I guess?” 
A laugh came from inside of your apartment, louder than the ambient music you were playing, not exactly helping your case. 
Nanami rolled his eyes at the laughing,“Quiet hours start at—“
“10. And I plan on honoring them, I just have some old friends over tonight. We’ll be sure to keep our joy and fun to an acceptable level.” You were feeding him the lines you knew he wanted to hear, but your performance wasn’t exactly impassioned. 
His jaw tightened again, you imagined the sound of his back teeth grinding together. He looked down at you silently and you stared right back up at him. A silent battle was had between your stares, him trying to intimidate you into the silence he craved, and you not backing down even an inch.
Finally he caved, “I would appreciate that. I am sure the rest of the hallway would as well. Good night.”
“Enjoy the rest of your night, Mr. Nanami.” You called down to him as he turned and stomped down the hallway to his own door. 
Right. Next. Door. 
You rejoined your friends and enjoyed the rest of your night exactly as you had before. Not turning any music down, not stifling any laughter, not dulling any conversation for the sake of thin walls. Every now and again you took a private moment to imagine your neighbor seething in his quiet, perfect little apartment all by himself.
“So….are we going to talk about how hot your neighbor is?” Soph, your best friend, posed. 
“Thank you for saying something. I barely saw him but oh my GOD.” Kat, your oldest friend added. 
You laughed, it was undeniable how handsome he was, when you first saw him as you settled in in your first week you secretly hoped he might stop by to introduce himself, entertaining the fantasy of him coming over to help you “fix something” a few too many times before even finding out his name.
“Sure he’s hot, when he keeps his mouth shut.” You sighed, annoyed, busying yourself refilling glasses, “What a waste, honestly. I’m tired of guys who think they’re too hot to be nice to people. Not even nice, just fucking polite is fine.” 
Your friends laughed. 
“When I moved in, a bunch of the other neighbors stopped by to say hello. Not him, I would only ever see him in the hallway and he wouldn’t wave, wouldn’t say hello, nothing. He’s so…..serious.” You sipped your drink remembering the times you had tried to say hello to him in the hallway only to be met with a half nod and a hurry into his apartment, “First time he ever even spoke to me was to tell me the sound of my moving in was too much.”
Soph pouted, sipping her refilled, “That’s a shame. I was going to say you should try and hit that.”
“Who knows,” Kat posed, “maybe getting laid would help him relax?” 
The three of you laughed, surely sending the noise through the wall and into the subject of debate’s apartment. 
This had been your fourth offense against him. Nanami was fed up, he had been polite the first few times, but this was getting out of hand. You had only moved in a few months ago, there was no excuse for him to have had to go over there this many times already. Sitting on his couch, drafting a complaint email to the main residential office, another roar of laughter rang from the back wall of his apartment. Nanami groaned and slumped against the back of the couch, rubbing his aching forehead. This much irritation can’t be good for him.
He had been spoiled by the place next to him having gone unoccupied for so long. He’s lived in this apartment for two years, going on a third, and nearly all of that time has been spent with no one next door. At first he assumed he was just sensitive and needed to acclimate to having someone nearby, but it was like you were broadcasting every sound directly into his living room.
The worst part was the bedroom walls. He deduced that the layout of your apartment must be a direct mirror of his own, inverted but identical, meaning the back wall of his bedroom must be the back wall of your bedroom as well. He could hear the noise from you sleeping with your television on, a terrible habit that he abhorred. He could hear the music you would play in the mornings when you were presumably getting ready for work. And for you to be so curt with him when he politely tries to let you know how easily he can hear you? It was unreasonable. 
The first time had been within the second week of you moving in. You were setting up some furniture, sounds of hammering, scooting, drilling ringing through the walls and keeping him from sleeping in on a SUNDAY morning. He had gotten up from bed, thrown on some more presentable loungewear and knocked on your door. That was the first time he had really seen you, kind eyes, pretty smile, smooth, even skin. You smiled up at him when you opened the door, all too awake for such early weekend hours. 
“Excuse me. My name is Nanami Kento, I live next door. Would you mind keeping the noise down a bit? It’s still pretty early.” 
Your smile sagged a bit, “sure! I’m sorry, I guess I’m getting used to how thin the walls are here. I’ll keep it down.” 
“Thank you.” He nodded, “and…welcome to the building.” 
“Thank you! It’s nice to meet you.” You had smiled back at him, small dimples appearing by your mouth. 
He could have fallen for you, allowed himself the rare indulgence of crushing on you. If that had been your only offense. 
The second incident was how he discovered that your bedrooms shared a wall. He had come home late from the gym. It was around two o'clock in the morning, he drug himself back home and into the shower, sleeping threatening to take him even under the heavy spray. Work had been about four hours too long, his head was aching, his workout had offered some relief but the only thing that would truly fix it at this point was the hard reset of sleep. Nanami pulled himself into bed, not even bothering to dress, choosing to ignore the remaining water that would sink into his sheets. That would be a problem for another day. Head on the pillow, cool bedding soothing his heated skin he could barely contain how excited he was to finally sleep, when he heard it. 
“o-oh….” 
It was so faint he assumed it was in his head, the product of an oncoming dream seeping over into his waking world. Ears tuning in against his will, he was able to hear the faint buzzing. He shot up, renewed energy brought about by the awareness of what was happening next door. You, his neighbor, were masturbating and he could hear you. He felt his ears get hot, his heart quicken, and --- oh christ his pants tighten. Soft moans sounding through the wall, quickening in pace, buzzing battering his brain to mush as he began to panic. He didn’t want to listen, it was wrong, this was wrong. Fuck, was his mouth watering? 
Fuck. fuck. Fuck!
He squeezed his eyes shut, covering his face with his pillow, clamping the cushion around his head over his ears in desperation. Nanami was relieved when your wimpers were snuffed out. Under the darkness of his pillow he hoped he could finally begin to fall asleep, but through the void an image began to appear behind his eyes. You, his pretty neighbor laying on your back, legs open, finger in your mouth trying to quiet yourself. How ineffective. You had been just the slightest bit sweaty when he first spoke to you. The act of dragging and pushing furniture having given your skin the slightest sheen. He was willing to bet that you had a similar glow about you now; working a toy between your legs, bed covers discarded at your ankles, a wet spot growing underneath your shaking hips---
FUCK.
Nanami sat up in a jerk, shaking his head side to side as though he could physically dislodge the picture out of his mind through one of his ears. With the pillow removed he could hear your moans rising in pitch, his dick pulsed. Fuck, this was so wrong. Were you about to climax? His heart was pounding, he was rock solid between his legs, he gripped the bed sheets tight to restrain himself from caving and pumping himself into oblivion with you. In the sickest part of his mind he wanted to press his ear up to the adjoining wall, listening to your languid moans, indulging himself fully in your passion. 
Finally, as though fate could feel his resolve starting to crumble, he heard a long high pitch whine escape through the drywall. Then silence. Then the sound of laughter from whatever tv show you put on to go to sleep. He was panting, trying to catch his breath, much as he imagined you were. He laid back against his pillow, staring up to the ceiling, mind reeling over the possibility of this happening again. How could he avoid this in the future? Should he politely inform you of the mirrored apartment layout and the thinness of the walls? 
Nanami purchased a white noise machine the following day. Only after stopping by your apartment and asking you to keep the television noise lower at night, saying he was a light sleeper. He hoped you would make the connection that he was struggling towards, voice clipped and cheeks blushing furiously as he nodded and retreated to his own domicile. He leaned up the door as he shut it behind himself, sighing in relief, praying that this would be the end of it and he could forget the saccharine sweet sound of your moans.  
The third incident was far less indecent, but no less annoying. He was home early from work, having taken off an hour or so before he usually would as he completed a big project that had taken over two weeks and was dead tired. All he wanted was to eat dinner, watch a movie, relax and push all the numbers and negotiations out of his head. Apparently you had the same idea. When you arrived home, he knew because your slamming door shook his wall as well. It had been a week or so since he last heard you but still the sound brought a crimson flush to his face. He didn’t hear much after that for about a half hour, that is, until you turned on your music. Loud, bossa nova or jazz or whatever it was sponging into the insulation between your two abodes and resounding around his own apartment. He couldn’t hear the movie he had put on, he couldn’t enjoy his dinner, hell— he could barely think. He had given you a pass when it was intimate noise but this was unruly and excessive. 
He stomped out into the hallway, the music echoing out there as well. And over to your door. He knocked, maybe a bit too hard, and waited for your arrival. When you did open the door, after just enough time for him to consider knocking again, he once again had to look down to meet your eye line. Music flooded out from the doorway, warm amber light, and the smell of sizzling peppers and oil wafting out, carried by the soundwaves. 
“Hello again, neighbor!” You greeted him, smiling warmly with big, full eyes. 
“The music.” He hadn’t meant to sound so stiff, he had intended to greet you politely and remind you of the wall's thinness but he had had it. Here you were enjoying your cooking and music and inhibiting his ability to do the same, it was unfair, unjust. 
You sighed leaning against the door frame huffing out, “We just can't seem to find a comfortable level, huh? You picked a good movie, very suspenseful soundtrack, one of my favorites actually.” 
Nanami straightened up like a shot, how could he have been so stupid? His television was right up against the “back” wall of his apartment, right against your kitchen wall. The sounds of his apartment, although infrequent, had echoed through your walls too. How many sounds, he wondered. 
“You--I’m sorry, I didn’t realize.” He began but then hardened again, “You should have told me to turn it down, I would have been more than happy to oblige.” 
“Hm.” Your lips formed a tight line, “I’m not really into ordering strangers around in their own homes.” 
It was the first and only time you had sassed off to him. He was taken aback, he could feel his neck heating up under the collar of his shirt, his fists balling up at his sides as he furrows his brow at your disrespect. 
Scoffing, he finds the words, “just be courteous to your neighbors.” 
Nanami descends down the hallway, flexing and un-flexing his hands in measured attempts at cooling himself, before he could step into his apartment you called down after him. 
“The therapist was dead the whole time, that’s why his wife won't speak to him! The guy at the beginning shot and killed him!” You shouted and slammed the door behind you.  
It was an incredibly childish move on your part. If someone had done that to you, or if you had even heard of someone desecrating the ending of one of the best mystery thrillers of all time, you would have been furious. But something about this man brought out such pettiness in you. You couldn't help it. You half expected him to knock again and berate you for spoiling his night once again, but instead you heard the sound of his apartment door shutting and the movie resume. 
Credit for sticking it out and watching the movie anyway. You couldn't help but smirk a bit, impressed. 
It has enough legs to stand on its own even without the twist, it really is a good movie, you felt bad for wrecking it. It really was one of your favorites, similar tastes. Maybe this whole time you could have been friends. Although, you couldn't imagine being friends with someone so stuffy and entitled. It didn’t matter that he watched some of the same movies, so did lots of people. It didn’t matter that he was handsome and well dressed. It didn’t matter that when he played music in the mornings it overlapped with your favorite artists. He was an ass and never even bothered to introduce himself once before complaining about you. 
This back and forth had brought you all the way to tonight, him trying to reign in your party, stifling your enjoyment of it and making you hyper aware of every loud burst of laughter or adjustment of the volume. Despite your efforts to ignore it at this point, the desire to be a courteous neighbor occasionally won you over and you found yourself engaging in more subtle, intimate conversations, lowering the music and talking softer. 
When the party finally came to an end and your friends kissed you goodbye and left, giggling down the hall, you waved to them and watched as they slipped down the hallway. Your eyes fell on the neighboring apartment's door, you checked the time. It was just after ten, Nanami was probably asleep, snoozing soundly after having gotten his words in about your party and your carelessness. Feeling the bile of anger rising in your throat, you decided to turn back and retreat to your own apartment. The soft unlocking sound brought you back to the empty hall. 
Nanami stepped out, wearing a pair of expensive looking sweatpants and a dark grey sweatshirt. Even through such baggy clothing you could see his impeccable build, thick, ropey neck, broad shoulders, long, sturdy legs. His hair was down and unstyled, sandy stranded falling onto his forehead, some even extending far enough to brush against the bridge of his nose. A pair of headphones hung around his neck. He looked right back at you.  
“You’ve had headphones this whole time?” Was all you could think to say. 
“Everyone has headphones.” He shrugged leaning against his door frame. 
You wanted to think of something snappy to say back, but your tongue felt fat in your mouth. You had never seen him like this before, completely undone, hair mussed, body relaxed in place of his rigid posture, clearly exhausted enough that bothering you would be too much energy. 
“Your friends leave?” He asked, peeking down the hallway past you. 
“Mmhm. Right on time.” You pointed to your wrist where a watch would be.
To your surprise a low chuckle emanated from his chest. It was warm and hearty and genuine. The sound tugged at your stomach. No -- lower than that. Maybe it was the wine, or your friend's insistence on his beauty that made him have this effect on you suddenly. 
“Sounded like a good party.” His voice mimicked his earlier clipped irritation but it felt less authentic this time, as though he were playing a part. 
“It was.” You smile already nostalgic for the company of your friends, their warm energy, “You could come to the next one, you know. We don’t actually have to not like each other.”
Nanami’s head cocked to the side a bit, dark amber eyes crinkling in confusion, “I don’t not like you.” 
You almost laughed out loud, to think that he could pretend that this whole time he has just been being neighborly? 
“Right. Because badgering people every other week for three months over petty shit is something you do to people you like.” 
Nanami made a small clicking sound, “There’s just…Rules. It’s not personal, you’re just loud and other people live here. I don’t not like you!”
“I’m not loud!” You shouted, which did not help your argument, “You’re just uptight.” 
“I’m not uptight! There are rules, both in this apartment and just socially! Who blasts music at eight am on a sunday?” Nanami stepped closer to you, almost at the midway point between your apartment doors. 
“Who goes to the gym and comes back slamming doors at two in the morning? You don’t hear me complaining about that, even though it happens every night.” You matched his advance, standing at the equivalent point to wear your living room wall would meet his inside of your apartment, “Some people are trying to sleep.” 
Nanami couldn’t stop the words before they spilled out, he leaned his head down to you venomously, “Doesn’t sound like a lot of sleeping to me.” 
Your eyes flew open, your chest caved and your throat knotted. You searched desperately for another meaning, scrambling your brain for recent late night annoyances he could be referring to, but you knew. And he knew too. Shames burned your cheeks, you felt so exposed. 
“You’ve been listening to me?” You gasped, “What are you, some kind of pervert?”
“Pervert?” Nanami gaped at you, “Our bedrooms share a wall, I’m not staying up late to listen to your little audio drama. You're whimpering practically loud enough for everyone on the street to hear.”
You flushed deeper, cheeks practically on fire, “y-you should have said something.” 
Nanami sighed, “I’ve been trying!” 
You started to put things together. His flushed, nervous expression whenever you ran into each other in the mail room or the hallway. The increasingly sterile way he spoke to you about the noise. This whole time he had heard you…intimately…and tried to tell you as discreetly as he could. A bit too discreetly. 
You buried your face in your hands, “Fuck. I’m so embarrassed.” 
Nanami’s gut twisted at your distress. This was the exact situation he wanted to avoid, he didn’t want to embarrass you, he didn’t even want to tell you if he didn’t have to. For the first time in this whole mess, he touched you. He reached out and gripped your shoulder lightly. The heat of his palm warmed your clammy, shame soaked skin. 
“Don’t be embarrassed. It’s…personal and I understand that, but it’s not anything to be embarrassed about.” He attempted to soothe you, his thumb experimenting with small strokes. 
You looked up at him, swallowing down the lump in your throat, “I never hear you…do that. You probably think I'm some weird sex freak.” 
A soft rosy blush came over his nose and cheeks. 
He decided to try and level the vulnerability, “I-uh…usually…do that… in the shower.” 
Suddenly his hand on your shoulder felt hot and heavy, he wasn't sure if he should remove it or if that would send the wrong message. What message was he hoping to send? This had suddenly become loaded and confusing. 
You nodded in response, feeling a bit better now that he had exposed part of himself to you. You couldn't keep your mind from picturing him  breathing hard in a steam filled shower, his head falling back in pleasure, hand running down his body to pump his-----
Fuck!
“I don’t think you’re a weird sex freak.” Nanami offered. 
“Thanks.” You let out a small laugh.
You looked up at him, catching his teak wood eyes. Long, dark lashes encircled them, a light dusting of freckles resting atop his chiseled cheekbones. Shapely, rose hued lips were parted slightly as he looked down at you. The air between the two of you became thick and sticky. He was curved over you slightly, maybe even subconsciously. 
“Can I ask you something?” He whispered, just barely loud enough to hear. 
“About…that?” 
He nodded. 
You nodded. 
Nanami swallowed, eyes scanning over your lips, “I haven’t…heard anyone else…with you.”
You waited a moment, “That isn’t a question.” 
“You sound, sometimes, like you might…want some help.” Nanami leaned in closer, his eyes flicking from your lips to your eyes, “Do you?”
Your breath left you, your voice had long abandoned you, you could only try desperately to parse out how you had gotten here. He waited patiently for an answer, suddenly suave and confident. He had always been self assured, you just assumed it was arrogant entitlement. It never occurred to you that he could be so charming, so flirtatious. He knew what he was offering, you knew what this would mean. The instances of rigidity morphed in your memory into a heated chase, reaching its end here and now. You had been caught. 
Finally, you nodded your head, “Yes.” 
He closed the distance between you, pressing his hot lips to yours in an instant. The hand from your shoulder moved to the back of your neck, pulling your chest against his, as the other arms snaked around your waist. After the initial moment of shock, you moved your arms around him to grip his rippling back. The first kiss is long, passionate and deep, his arms feel so strong around you, you can feel the curves and cuts of muscles that you hadn't even considered. He pulls away only for a second to move his head to the side and realign himself to give you a hot, fevered open mouthed kiss, sliding his tongue between your lips and massaging it against yours. You felt dizzy, gripping him tighter, for stability of course, you move your hands up his back and brush your fingers against the cropped undercut at the nape of his neck. He let out a low moan, almost like a purr, into your mouth. You couldn’t help but smile a bit, testing it again and pulling another throaty sound from him. You pulled your lips away momentarily. 
“I see why you need the shower.” You tease.
He nods against your forehead, catching his breath. You capture him in another kiss, leading him clumsily back to your apartment door, struggling with the knob a bit before he reaches around your hip to turn it for you and push inside, using his foot to swing the door shut behind him. Leaning back against your front door, he pulls you close to him once again, holding your body close to his, feeling the heat and weight of you in his arms. The way your apartment smells, like food and candles, earthy scented; sandalwood, laurel, magnolia. The dim, warm secondary lighting. He absorbs it all. It's so, you. 
Your tongue is moving against his now, and he finds himself being kissed as much as he is kissing. He likes how active it is, no part of you feels not focused on him at this moment and he's so grateful. You lead him back to your bedroom, exactly where his own would be on the other side. He lets his hand travel down your back, feeling down to your waist and over your hips, experimentally gripping the flesh there. Fuck, when you werent annoying the life force out of him, you were so gorgeous. A beautiful, full, woman’s body, confident movements, alluring in every sense of the word. Your bedroom was the same as his, no shock there, still just slightly too small to comfortably house a king bed, which he cursed himself for squeezing in. You had a queen, a perfect size, the window on the side wall had sheer cream colored curtains allowing moonlight to coat the room in a magic, blue glow. You had pulled away from him, doing some light mood setting, lighting a bedside candle, brushing discarded clothes and a book from your bed. He recognized the cover of your book, he had read it too last year. 
“She dumps the creepy coworker guy and goes back to working at another store. It’s incredibly cathartic. A shame you’ll miss out on it.” He runs his spine down the copy of your book on your bed, lifting it and flipping through a few pages, a devious smile itching the corners of his lips. 
You look at him, eyebrows raised in alarm. 
Nanami shrugged, “you ruined my movie. I ruin your book’s ending. Good read though.” 
To his surprise, you laughed through a wide smile, “It is a good read, especially the second time.” 
He laughed and shook his head. It was maybe the first time you had seen him actually smile, warm and easy. The just starting lines on his face extending around his mouth in little arches. He really was radiant, sharp features highlighted by the dream like light of the bedroom, blues and amber licking shadows over his face as the firelight moves. The laughter fades and you both look into one another. He looks over your features, lips swollen from his kiss, your eyes meeting his in a trusting, conspiratorial gaze. He feels his lips twitch again into a smile, and steps towards you. 
“You’re so beautiful.” He cups your face, tenderly, his other hand circling your waist as he brings you to his lips. 
The kiss has morphed into something deeper, kinder, less fevered, more focused and somehow even more passionate. When his tongue enters your mouth its not pushed or pressed, it slides languidly and easily against your own. As a polyglot’s tongue drips words, his drips kisses, sensuality. Your hands find the hem of his sweatshirt, slipping underneath, feeling the hardness of toned muscle and bone underneath. You did hear him return from the gym at god awful hours, it makes sense that he has something to show for it. Nanami hisses as you slide your hands around his hips to his back, moving up further, feeling every valley and peak of his hard work. Spurred by your action, he mirrors you, moving his hand under your shirt. Instead of following your lead, he opts to go for the front, gliding his hand up your abdomen and cupping your breast in his hand over your bra. He gives it a small squeeze, making you squeak. Another throaty hum comes from his chest. 
He guides you with his hips, not breaking the kiss just yet to seat you on the bed, with him stood between your legs. Encouraged by your pawing at his torso, he breaks from your lips to remove his sweatshirt, revealing rows of carefully built abdominal muscles, as you had felt already. What you didn't expect was the melange of scars in various stages of healing across his chest, stomach, and shoulders. Some white and flat against the surface, some pink and recessed still healing themselves. You couldn't help the small gasp you sucked in at the sight. 
What the hell happened to him? Or was it still happening to him?
“It's just skin, grows right back after enough time.” Nanami looked down at himself, following your eyeline across his body. 
You sat up further, carefully moving your hand over his toned stomach, across a particularly large, although healed line on his side. 
“Seriously, it’s--” Nanami started but you cut him off by removing your own shirt, pointing to a scar on the lower right side of your stomach, above your hip bone. 
“Appendectomy.” You smile at him wickedly, “You’re not so tough.”  
Nanami can’t help but chuckle, rolling his eyes and climbing over you onto the bed. 
“I didn’t realize I was in the bed of such a badass.” one of his big hands moves over your barely scarred hip, then up your side. 
You moan and arch up at his touch trying to control your shaking breath, “m-mhm, I’m very b-bad a-a…”
Another moan consumes your sentence as he kisses the side of your neck. Taking his time to suck and lick at the soft skin from your shoulder to behind your ear. You make no effort to hide how good it makes you feel, squeezing his large, tight bicep and rocking against him, head lolling to the side. 
“That’s right, you are very bad.” Nanami bites lightly at your jugular point. 
You whimper against him, his teeth on your neck setting your body ablaze. You nod. 
“You’ve been such a bad girl, whimpering just like that all night while i'm trying to sleep. Pretending you don’t know I can hear you.” The dirty words drip off of him like honey directly into your waiting mouth. 
He has moved to hover completely over you, one hand on your thigh, pulling it around his hip, leaning on the other crooked near your head. You can feel his hips against yours, even through his pants you can feel how hard he has become. He can certainly feel how hot and wet you are becoming, you pray that your panties and pants are helping you maintain some kind of decency. That prayer goes unanswered as Nanami moves his hand from your thigh to between your hot writhing bodies, cupping your sex. 
“Is this what you need, baby? You need someone to help you feel good?” He whispers into your ear, one finger starting to move up and down your clothed slit. 
You nod before you can speak. 
“Ask me. Ask for my help, baby.” He grunts against you, you can no longer feel his erection pressed against you, but you can hear his voice becoming strained and rougher, indicating his own resolve has wavered as much as yours has. 
You wrap your arms around his neck, pulling him back to your lips and plead into a kiss. 
“Please, please Nanami, please help me.” The kiss is sloppy and wet, saliva and sweat spilling between desperate lips. 
“Kento, please. When I’m fucking you, please use my first name.” He snakes an arm between your body and the mattress and removes your bra, moving down your body with hot, wet kisses. 
You arch up again, the eroticism of being undressed by him titillating your sense beyond your imagination. He latches onto one of your hard nipples, swirling his tongue around the sensitive flesh, dark eyes watching closely for your reactions. 
“Kento…oh Kento.” You try the name out, it fits perfectly in your mouth, tastes like honey when you speak it.
It was like he was studying you, gauging reactions and preferences in fractions of a second that other partners had been too hurried to discover. You returned your hands to his hair, threading your fingers and his blonde strands together. He bit and sucked and kissed and lapped at your breasts, giving each one equal, focused attention, squeezing them together and separately like he could never get enough. Finally he detached, a string of saliva connecting him to your skin. His eyes flicked up at you, catching his breath and moving down your body further, his hands moving over the waistband of your pants. Your breath hitched up in anticipation, your bottom lip clamped between your teeth. He met your eyes and searched for any sign of hesitation, if he were to allow his mind to process what was happening he might have stopped himself, citing how messy it could be to be involved in a sexual tet-a-tet with his next door neighbor, perhaps you were doing exactly that. 
But you moved your hand over the side of his face, brushing a few strands of hair off his forehead, smiling sweetly. 
“Please Kento…I need your help,” your voice was so sweet and so soft as you pleaded with him, “....please.” 
He kisses underneath your navel and slides your pants off of your legs, discarding them onto your bedroom floor. He took the moment of readjustment to remove his own pants, leaving both of you in only your underwear. He moved back in between your legs, he could practically see through your flimsy white panties, wetness having made the fabric dark and molded to your skin. He could see the curve of your labia, where they separated, the inner folds hidden but begging for him. Wetness has spread to your thighs, making your skin glisten and sparkle. He looped his thumbs into the band of your panties and slipped them off, joining the mess of clothes already on the floor. Now bare before him, he could feel himself drooling at the sight of you spread out on your bed. Just as he had imagined you, no. No, much better than he could have imagined. Soft, full body, marks blooming on your skin from his kiss, chest heaving and jiggling in turn as you pant for him. Between your legs a perfect oasis of petals waiting for him to part and indulge himself. 
“...stop staring..” Your cheeks burned as he sat back taking you in. 
Nanami leaned down, lips nearly brushing your mound, “I’m admiring.”
You open your mouth to say something sassy but he licks up your slit, silencing you. He smiles a cocky smile at you and does it again, this time taking even more time to reach the top. 
He’s fucked. He knows it from the first taste. He has always had a proclivity and a preference for eating pussy, enjoyed and indulged in the tastes of many women, but none like this. None that have brought him into a haze with a single taste. He dives further, separating your outer lips with two v-ed fingers, showing him the pearl of your clit and your drooling hole. He experiments with pushing his tongue into you, hearing and gauging your moans. It feels good, so good, but he knows he can do more. Feeding his tongue into you once more before he flattens it against you and laps up to your clit again and again. Your hips buck up at that, one of his big hands presses down on your stomach, keeping you in place. He swirls his devil’s tongue around your clit again and again in an agonizing whirlpool before sucking hard at the swollen bud. You can't contain the cries and whimpers spilling from you, you try to move against his hand, you try to pull at his hair to detach him from you, offering you a moment to catch your breath but he doesn't move an inch. He’s a messy eater, chin and nose dripping just as much as his mouth. He’s a loud eater too, moaning at your taste, at the sound of you writhing for him, grunting as his hips rut against your mattress unwittingly. 
“K-kento, I--I think I…” You struggle to string together cohesive words but the fevered lapping between your legs keeps you stammering. 
“Go ahead, baby. Cum on my tongue.” Nanami’s voice was low and gravely, full of need and desperation of his own. 
But this was different, there was a tightness in your abdomen that was unfamiliar, you were confused and panting, worried that something else may happen. 
“W-wait, I--” You tried to move yourself onto your elbows just as Nanami pressed further down on your stomach. 
Before you knew it you were cumming, squirting into his mouth, onto your sheets. You cried out in one long pleasure filled scream, partially his name, partially just exaltation. Nanami drinks from you like a holy well, reverent and indulgent all at once. As though he may never taste you again. FInally he lets you push him off of your twitching sex. His face is soaked, he licks his lips, fingers too, anything that may carry some of your release. You watch him with hazy, drunken eyes. Sat back on his heels, coming out of his own cloud of pleasure, he watches you come back to your body. You look beautiful, panting on your back for him. He leans over you again and kisses your lips softly, then deeper, and deeper still. His tongue tastes like you, your hands are quick to pull his hips to yours. 
“Think you can go again?” Kento huffs out as your grind against his clothed crotch, he can feel the wetness of your climax seeping into his boxers, commingling with his own leaking anticipation. 
“I need it. Please fuck me, Kento.” You have no room for coyness or pride anymore, you have only room for him. 
He nods, burying his head in your neck and removing his boxers with your frantic help. You feel his hard length freed against your thigh. He’s bigger than you imagined, thick and leaking already. You wanted to taste the beading precum, feel the heat and weight of him in your mouth, but you would have to find another time because Nanami was just as desperate to be inside of you as you were to be filled by him. He lined himself up with your begging hole, not yet pushing inside. He looks into your eyes before kissing you, hard and deep, no barriers, no holding back, as he pushes into you. He’s thicker than you even thought, the stretch burning as you arch up into him, whimpering. 
“Take it all baby. I know, I know, just a bit more. You can take it.” He soothes against your lips, thrusting further.
You let out a small, cracked cry as he continues, pressing kisses to your neck. You rake your nails across his hip, desperate for something to cling to. You’re grateful for your surprisingly wet climax earlier, the lubrication helping to ease the insertion. When he finally bottoms out, and you feel his hips flush against yours, he stills. His tip is kissing your cervix, he's trembling above you as he too struggles to adjust to the tight fit. 
“You feel so fucking good, you’re so tight, so fucking wet for me.” He mutters against your neck, your jaw, anywhere he can find to kiss. 
“Fuuuuuuck, Kento.” Your pain finally gives way to pleasure. 
Just in time for him to pull his hips back slightly and thrust into you further. Both of you moan into the silence of the bedroom, as he repeats this over and over. Setting a medium pace of intense thrusts deep inside of you. You're squeezing him tighter and tighter. 
“Please baby, relax a bit. I can’t move much more.” Nanami begs, moving one hand to your clit and circling it gently, attempting to extend your pleasure. 
You try to obey, taking a deep breath and allowing him to make you feel good, as he promised. You release some tension and find his pace more languid and fluid, assisted by his careful thumbing of your clit. Your hands move up and grip the pillow behind you as he increases his pace, pumping into you faster and faster by just a deep. A dance begins with your two bodies, moving in sync, maximizing the joint pleasure. 
“Fuck! Ah, baby. Yes!”
“Oh! Kento, Kento! Yes!! Right there, fuck!”
“There? You like that? Of course you do, bad girl”
“Uh huh, Fuck me like a bad girl, Kento! Fuck” 
Cries of pleasure fill the room, Kento luxuriates in the fact that his own bedroom, sitting empty, is just on the other side of the wall, where the headboard is smacking rhythmically. He brings you to another mind melting orgasm with his thumb and cock working in tandem. You whimper out praises of his skill, his size, his words, Him. Once you have caught yourself again from the freefall of climax, you sit up, pushing on his shoulders. He's too big of a man for you to really push, but he sees your desire and rolls the pair of you so that he is now on his back. Your thighs ache already from being spread so long, but not to be out fucked you hitch your hips up and down his length as fast and accurately as you can. His hands settle on your hips, squeezing bruises into the supple flesh. 
“Fuck baby.” His jaw hangs open as he watches you bounce and grind on him. 
Emboldened by the blush settling on his face, you take one of his large, calloused hands from your hip and slide it up your body and to your mouth, where you suck two of his fingers into your mouth. He shudders and a dangerously loud moan spills from his lips. You swirl your tongue around his thick fingers, tasting remnants of your climaxes, tasting his heated skin. Your hips never stop, riding him and sucking his fingers. You see him sweating beneath you, eyes rolling back, mouth agape, tongue threatening to flop out. The hand on your hip squeezes and pushes you down further on him. 
“Baby I-- Fuck!” Nananmi hoped he would catch it in time but you surprised him and he couldn’t contain himself in time. 
He holds you down on his pelvis as his cock twitches inside of you releasing a heavy load of white into you. You both let out long, whining moans as he fucks up into you desperately. After his long release has completed, Nanami pulls his fingers from your lips and pulls you down to kiss him, whimpering as your shifting squeezes his overstimulated cock. The kiss is sticky with cum and sweat and spit, and delicious all the same. The combined flavors of your endeavor sweeter than any wine, better than any meal you could have shared over a candle lit dinner. Nanami licks into your mouth, holding you flush against his chest as his cock begins to soften inside of you. You pull away enough to look at him, foreheads still pressed together. You smile, and he smiles back, so warm and relaxed. He takes in a breath to speak 
THUNK THUNK THUNK……….THUNK THUNK THUNK 
You two look at one another. The confusion apparent on both of your faces as the knocking continues. You pull off of him, already mourning the feeling of his cock no longer inside of you. Nanami is ready to kill whoever is on the other side of the door for pulling him away from your tight, wet heat. You wrap yourself in your bathrobe, and Kento pulls on his sweatpants. You both exit your bedroom, although you want to assure Nanami he doesn't have to come with you, it feels comforting to have him there when answering the door at night. If he weren't in the room with you, you would have assumed it was him at the door, but since it can’t be you are lost for who could be knocking so late. 
THUNK THUNK THUNK
You open the door to find Mrs. Sonomura, your neighbor across the hall. You often watched her collection of houseplants when she went out of town to visit her daughter. Her cheeks were dark pink and she was wearing her housecoat. You pulled the top of your robe tighter over your chest, praying your hair which you had not thought to fix wasn't too obvious.  
“Good Evening, Mrs. Sonomura. W-what can I do for you?”
She took you in and flushed even deeper, “I-I heard shouting and I…well..”
You were mortified, knowing that any respect this woman had for you must have completely dissolved. Before she, or you, could speak, you felt a heavy hand clap over your shoulder and Nanami’s body came behind yours. He had donned his sweatshirt quickly at the sight of Mrs. Sonomura. 
“My apologies, Mrs. Sonomure. I came over to complain about how loud her party had been tonight and I suppose things got a bit heated. I apologize for the yelling, we’re trying to find a way to be more….neighborly.” He looked straight at Mrs. Sonomura, smiling a charming smile, all while squeezing your shoulder. 
Mrs. Sonomura nodded hurriedly, seemingly happy to take such an obvious lie in place of the uncomfortable truth. 
“Well, I trust the two of you can work it out with the front office. Please keep it down after quiet hours.”
You nodded, “So sorry, Mrs. Sonomura. It won't happen again, Goodnight.”
You waved and watched her enter her apartment before shutting the door to your own. Nanami cocked his head down at you. 
“Won't happen again, huh?” He teased. 
“Oh shut up. We should be careful letting our ‘arguments’ get too loud again.” you sighed out, just relieved to have avoided the complete mortification of your kind, older neighbor thinking you're a slut, “Those walls really are thin.” 
Nanami wrapped his arms around you, pulling you in to kiss the top of your head. You hugged him, pressing your face into his chest. 
“You should probably spend the night.” You turned your face to the side, pressing your cheek against him as you spoke, “I’d hate for something to happen to you taking the train this late.”
Nanami laughed, you could hear it resonate from his chest, “That’s a good point. I’d hate to walk home in this weather.” 
The pair of you smiled before you led him back into your bedroom to sleep. 
OKAY YALL: I really hope you guys enjoyed this one, its been bouncing around in my head for a while and im so pleased with how it came out. Bonus Points if you know what movie//book got spoiled. Anyway, love you guys, and always i would love to know what you thought or if you have any ideas of your own! XX- Doodle.
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doyoulikethissong-poll · 1 year ago
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Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode 1958
"Johnny B. Goode" is a song by American musician Chuck Berry, written and sung by Berry in 1958. It peaked at number two on the Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre-Hot 100 chart. The song remains a staple of early and later rock music. "Johnny B. Goode" is considered one of the most recognizable songs in the history of popular music. Credited as "the first rock & roll hit about rock & roll stardom", it has been covered by various other artists and has received several honors and accolades. This includes being one of the 27 songs on the Voyager Golden Record, a collection of music, images, and sounds designed to serve as a record of humanity, that is travelling into deep space outside the solar system.
Berry acknowledged that the song is partly autobiographical and that the original lyrics referred to Johnny as a "colored boy", but he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play. As well as suggesting that the guitar player is good, the title hints at autobiographic elements, because Berry was born at 2520 Goode Avenue, in St. Louis. The song was initially inspired by Johnnie Johnson, the regular piano player in Berry's band, but developed into a song mainly about Berry himself. The opening guitar riff of "Johnny B. Goode" borrows from the opening single-note solo on Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (1946), played by guitarist Carl Hogan. "Johnny B. Goode" received 86% total yes votes! The other 14% are just not ready for it yet…but their kids are gonna love it.
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Your tattoos are sick as hell and absolutely inspired, but I also love the small irony of getting a tattoo to honor your Japanese heritage, the culture where getting a tattoo is most commonly associated with organized crime
Hahaha that's part of what drew me to the artist. They do a lot of heritage tattoos and they're very passionate about exploring Japanese diaspora, being Japanese American, and being mixed.
I went into the session thinking I was just gonna put on music for myself and let them do their thing but we ended up talking the entire 7 hours just about art, our lives and connection to our cultures. So, so nice. We definitely did talk about the irony of it because they have tattoos dedicated to her Japanese grandparents (my brother and I do as well haha)
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