#awwwww just them leaving on the bus left

[queerfables]

911 season 5 liveblog part 3

5x10

I'm finding it hard to believe these women are busy squabbling with each other when their husband has been blatantly lying to both of them

And they both have kids who are probably feeling very confused and upset right now maybe go take care of that

Lmfao Hen's advice about what Buck should get Taylor for Christmas. "Don't overthink it just make sure it's sweet and something she needs and also shows you know her really well" SO HELPFUL

LOL TAYLOR IS JUST AS BAD AS HIM AT THIS

Thank God for Athena telling these two women exactly what I've been wanting to say

Awwww they're bonding

Noooo lady ask him out you can do it

Awwwww he likes her too even though he hated the present she got him. Cuuute.

Oh NO Chris is freaking out about Christmas because he's worried about Eddie T_T

Oh jeeze Eddie so does not need a child frantically asking if his dad is dead right now

OK Buck's present to Taylor was crazy romantic

Oh no Eddie's leaviiiiing.

I'm sure Evan "Abandonment Issues" Buckley is gonna be super chill and normal about that

5x11

Lol at Hen's revolving door of partners

Oh God horrible??

This show has actually really desensitised me to TV injuries involving the bone showing, that used to be suuuch a major squick for me

Omg Eddie is doing 911 dispatch? Please. How long is that going to last. He's perpetually 0.5 seconds away from climbing out a third storey window to rescue a kitten. Eddie trying to keep himself out of danger by coordinating 911 responses like an alcoholic trying to pay for therapy by working at a bar.

Oh he's doing PR? That's so much worse. He'll be stir crazy in a week.

On one hand, Buck should probably not broadcast his scepticism over Eddie's career change quite so loudly. On the other hand he is meeee so how can I judge him.

It's very romantic of the wife to wanna take over driving in this Speed re-run for her husband but wasn't the whole point of Eddie's call that they can't switch him out?

Yeah so this is the kind of thing I mean though, how is Eddie supposed to watch from the sidelines while the people he cares about put themselves in danger doing the job he loves?

Oh no Eddie, left on the outside

Lol yeah Athena pegged it. Bobby's bullshit about trying to find the ~right person~ as if that has ever mattered so much before. Buck hated Eddie at first and Bobby told him to get over it.

I really love that Athena rides solo. Her being the only cop and the one who works without a partner, compared to all these firefighters who work as a team, and I don't know, I just think it shows up in some really well crafted ways in everyone's characterisation and the ways that Athena is a little different from the others.

Wow this lady is really hitting on Buck

Buck do not???

Buck stop this????

Oh he's so drunk

Hen you are giving Buck terrible advice

Yeah no that's better telling the truth is the only option but oof this is not gonna be good

I am having some thoughts and feelings about how Buck's spiral over Eddie leaving is manifesting as kissing the last person he jumped onto the roof of a car with

I'm gonna get weepy again, Chris is such a good kid and he loves his dad so much

Lol at how Eddie's response to Bobby benching him for his own good is identical to Buck's

BUCK NO

Come on you'd done the hardest part she knew something was wrong and honestly in the grand scheme briefly kissing someone else is not that bad

But now it is VERY bad

You asked her to move in instead of telling her

At this point the only thing you can do is change your name, move to another country and pray she never finds you

Oh shit Lucy is transferring here isn't she

Buckley you are fucked

5x12

Maddie! I've just been thinking about how much I missed her

Oh Maddie honey

And Chimney!! Hi Chimney

Aaaah them finding each other again gave me chills

They're two of my fav characters I've really missed them

Oh no I just full on started bawling when Maddie started singing "the wheels on the bus" to jee-an. That song is one of my son's favourites and there were a few months where singing it was the only thing that would calm him down. I was already way too emotional imagining myself in Maddie's shoes and I guess that was the breaking point lol.

Then Maddie and Chimney started singing it together and I got teary all over again

Oh this is bad I cannot have a hair trigger weeping response to the wheels on the freaking bus that's so dumb

5x13

"We broke up" what the FUCK

Lol at Maddie and Chimney catching up on all the gossip from the 118 while they've been gone

Erg, the bends is my nightmare, it's one of those human body related things I'm squeamish about

Lol Buck you are being SO weird about Lucy it's very funny

Eddie really looks like he's not doing so hot

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body" for fucks sake. you would have internalised that, wouldn't you?

Well at least Buck knows it was dumb

Urg, spiders, another nightmare :/

Yeaaaaaah this is real bad Buck

Holy fuck the woman just dousing the mugger and then herself in gasoline

Omg the fact that Eddie is having a breakdown and Christopher is freaking out and the person he calls is Buck T_T

God this is awful for Chris though

Oh jeeze, Eddie. This is awful.

Man this is devastating but in some ways I'm happy Eddie finally reached a breaking point and let himself feel his feelings

I'm also really happy that Christopher had someone he could call. That kid has been through enough.

5x14

Oh Eddie

Buck drew a heart that's so cute

Buck you REALLY should have told Taylor everything. She is going to find out, you know that right? That's literally her job description

I'm really liking this arc for Eddie. I don't know, his primary coping mechanism seems to be to compartmentalise and shut down the difficult feelings and it's been good to see him externalise a bit more. It's shown a different side of his character I think.

[hansols-yoda-boxers]

Camp North Star - September 3rd

AFAB!Reader x Jeon Wonwoo

Word Count: 3522

Contents: drinking and being tipsy, praise, oral (male receiving), fingering, protected sex, outdoor sex

It was late. The bus wasn’t coming too early tomorrow but still. One last bonfire and a few drinks as the summer came to a close. You spent the night with Wonwoo glued to your side, pressed close against you and getting cuddly when he got tipsy. You didn’t mind in the slightest though. The whole world felt like it was upright now. And you knew that you needed to go your separate ways getting set up for school so this was the last bit of carefree time you could spend with him.

So it wasn’t really a surprise that as the night wore down and people started to head to bed Wonwoo stole you away from the group. You found yourselves giggling and holding onto each other on your way closer to the lake finding a clear spot along the shore before Wonwoo dropped down into the soft grass, pulling you down with him.

You fell rather unceremoniously but were just tipsy enough to feel like it was romantic as you righted yourself and straddled his lap. He giggled as you cupped each of his cheeks and started to leave quick, soft pecks of kisses on his lips. Maybe the alcohol was making you a little sillier, or maybe you were just that high off being in love again.

Regardless, after some silly, light kisses Wonwoo tangled his fingers into your hair and held you close for a proper kiss. A truly deeply loving kiss that made your heart race a little more. A kiss that made the giggles stop as you pressed closer to him and he let a hand slip down to the small of your back, just holding you.

You got lost in the kisses, though you would hardly have been a good judge of time anyway. Your hands found his shoulders as the moments slipped past and your lips moved with his. In the woods crickets chirped their nightly song and owls occasionally swooped overhead but you paid them no mind.

You were lost in the kisses and eventually Wonwoo’s hands started to roam. They slid down your back and squeezed your ass before running along your thighs. You sighed into the kisses, fingertips running along his arms and over his shoulders as you thought about what you wanted to do. There were no bad options in your mind, other than stopping. But you wanted to make him feel good at least.

Gently, you pulled away from his lips, kissing at his neck. He let his head fall back easily, giving you access to press soft kisses over him. Your fingers played with the hem of his shirt until you lifted it up and he let you pull it off of him.

You pressed into him, kissing down his chest slowly. The way his breaths grew a little shaky as you kissed lower made you grin, glad he was already anticipating your touch. His fingers played with your hair as he shifted back to rest on his forearm.

“It feels like it’s been a long time.”

“It does,” you hummed, gazing up at him and pressing a kiss next to his navel. “Are you trying to tell me you’re nervous?”

Wonwoo shook his head with a chuckle. “I’m excited. I’m happy. I don’t think there’s anywhere I’d rather be.”

You couldn’t help the way that made you smile. “Me too.”

Your fingers found the waist of his jeans and you let your hand trail down, tracing the outline of his half hard cock and smirking up at him. You were sure he was blushing, even in the low light. He didn’t quite meet your gaze as he let out another shaky breath while you palmed him through his jeans.

“You are excited.”

“It’s truly just a compliment to you,” he said sweetly.

You felt your heart melting a little. “You’re all soft and mushy now. I won’t even be able to tease you.�� You jested.

Wonwoo snorted, lifting his hips to let you pull off his jeans and boxers. “The honeymoon phase won’t last forever. Enjoy the gushiness while it lasts.”

You shrugged, a grin pulling at your lips as you wrapped a hand around his cock. “That’s true, but I still know how to make you whiny and needy, don’t forget that.”

Wonwoo’s voice was quieter when he spoke again. “Y-You’re not gonna- I think that would be a little-”

“Don’t worry.” you hummed, bringing your lips to kiss along his cock. “I just want to make love tonight.”

You were sure that made Wonwoo even more flustered, as the words left your own lips the drew heat to the surface of your skin along with them. But they were the truth. You wanted to be with him again. You wanted to feel him, and not purely in the horny sense. You wanted to be near him, you wanted to be intimate, to be close with him.

So you took it slow as you kissed along his cock, leaving licks along the most sensitive parts and hearing him exhale in shudders. He pressed his legs apart for you a little more as you fully settled between them and his hand stroked your hair gently and affectionately. You took in all of his little sighs and groans, enjoying the slow pace as you dragged it out until he was early fully hard.

Only then did you take him into your mouth. You gazed up at him, hoping he could tell how much you loved him through your gaze alone. You brought your mouth down around him at a steady pace, taking him in at a comfortable depth. Your hand moved around the base of his cock, pumping him slowly until he was fully hard between your lips.

Wonwoo started to let out moans, not caring tonight if anyone heard him. You weren’t quite so far away that no one could hear loud moaning, but not close enough for anyone to want to investigate, not when they could easily put two and two together about what you were up to out here so late when there were plans tomorrow.

But plans were for the morning, when the sun would rise over the lake, warming the dew that would soon be settling on the grass. When bright rays of sunshine would wake you whether you wanted to be awake or not. When mist rose off the surface of the lake, reaching up to the sky. You could worry about plans when all of that happened.

For now, you let each of Wonwoo’s moans run through your body. You felt each one as a rush of arousal that shot down your spine and through your stomach until it pooled in your heat, in the space between your legs, igniting a low burning fire of need that was keeping you warm on this cool night.

Well along with the beer.

Wonwoo, pressed his hips towards you as you moved a little faster, taking him a little deeper in your mouth. His fingers twisted tightly into your hair and each time you looked at him you found him with his eyes closed and mouth open in moans or puffs of breath.

“I missed this,” he said breathlessly.

You hummed around his cock, making him tremble just a little. 

“I love this f-feeling. I love being close to you, feeling you.” He managed. “I’ve b-been wanting, wanting you.”

You squeezed his cock a little more tightly in your hand, moving your hand a little faster. You couldn’t deny that you loved the way he spoke to you, the way he desired you. You wanted to hear more of it, you were wrapped up in it and you wanted to be drowning in his praise the more turned on you got.

You moaned, letting his head fall back as his hips gently bucked up towards your mouth. You held them down, keeping him as still as you could so he didn’t go too deep. But you moved yourself a little faster, knowing he was wanting more. You didn't mind if he came now. You wanted him to be satisfied, satiated, fulfilled.

Suddenly though, Wonwoo was pushing you back off his cock. You looked up at him, a little surprised but he just gave you a lazy smile.

“Your turn.”

You couldn’t help your grin as you let him pull your body closer. He kissed you again, though it was short lived as he broke away to pull off your shirt. His touch was still loving but a little move feverish as he undid your bra and pulled you close against him. Slowly, he shifted you to sit back in the grass before his fingers grazed over your chest, drawing a small gasp from you before he undid your shorts.

You lifted your hips to let him pull them off, along with your panties. Your hands landed in the grass behind you, bracing yourself as he kissed you again, pushed your knees up before spreading your legs and pressing closer between them.

Wonwoo pulled back, just enough that his lips were brushing yours as he started to trail a finger down your body.

“I’ve missed having you like this,” he murmured. “I keep thinking about you too, about being with you. I have been craving this touch, this attention from you.”

You smiled, feeling almost shy. “Yeah?”

“Of course,” he hummed, lazily running his fingertips over your nipples. “I got so wrapped up in you. And it started with sex but now I just want you. I want to spend time together. I want to go on dates. I want to cook together.” 

All the while as Wonwoo spoke his fingers travelled lower down your body. “I want to go to museums with you where you’re really just humouring me because it’s boring but I wanted to so you do it anyway.”

You giggled a little, feeling even more shy in the face of his sweet confessions, your own heart bursting and you thought about how much you wanted all of those things too.

Wonwoo leaned in, leaving a kiss along your jaw before his lips came next to your ear. His fingers slipped between your legs, dragging through your folds and starting to rub at your clit as he spoke, his voice a little lower.

“And I’ve missed feeling you. I’ve missed feeling you clench around my fingers, or feeling your legs shake. I can’t deny I like the way you’re affected from how I touch you.”

You let out a whimper as your legs trembled. Your clit was already sensitive and his words were only turning you on more. Maybe it was because you loved him, or because you had been thinking about him so much, or because you were so intoxicated with this kind of attention from him. You didn't have an answer, but you knew you were feeling each sensation strongly as he rubbed his fingers in smooth circles on your clit.

“I missed it, too,” you breathed.

“Is it bad that that makes me happy?” He murmured, pressing into your neck a little.

“I hope not,” you breathed. “Otherwise I’m bad too.”

Wonwoo smiled against your neck as his fingers moved lower. “At least that makes two of us.”

You responded with a high moan as he pressed two fingers into your heat, easily guessing that you were ready and able to take that. Your fingers curled into the grass a little as you steadied yourself. His fingers felt heavenly after all this time, after thinking about them so much, after you body reminding you how badly you wanted to feel them inside of you.

None of his knowledge of your body had wavered. He curled his fingers into just the right spot and already had you rocking your hips into his hand as pleasure shot through you from each movement. He pressed open mouthed kisses to your neck as he fell into just the pace you liked with his fingers.

“You’re so beautiful.” You could already feel your body warming at his first bit of praise but some part of you was so needy for it. 

“You’re so beautiful like this,” his voice was a murmur, nearly muffled by your skin. “The way you moan for me, the way I can see the pleasure on your face. I love that I know you’re feeling good and it only wants to make me give you more.”

You felt yourself clenching around his fingers as you soaked in his praise. You bit down on your lip, knowing it would do little to change your volume, and tried to press your legs out a little wider. Your hips were meeting his fingers as they curled and thrust into you. You felt  the pleasure coursing through you as tension started building in the pit of your stomach.

Wonwoo kissed down your chest a little as it rose and fell with quick breaths.

“I’ve missed seeing your body. My memory gets dull with images so quickly, it was so hard to picture you, to think of you clearly. Even,” he hid his face against your skin, seeming shy. “Even in my dreams, even when we were together, it was never the same. My imagination can’t replace you in the slightest.”

You brought one hand up, grabbing Wonwoo’s chin and pulling him up for a sudden kiss as your heart swelled from his sweet words and your body only grew more aroused. You kissed him deeply, tongue passing his lips quickly as you let more and more of your senses be taken over by him.

Wonwoo took the opportunity to press a third finger into your heat and you whimpered against his lips. He started out moving slowly, allowing you to get used to the stretch, before picking up to the pace he knew you would love. Your thighs trembled as you took in the sensation.

Each movement of his fingers sent pleasure careening through your body. The tension in you was building higher and your moans matched it. The kisses between you and Wonwoo grew messy as you started to gasp and moan between them, unable to keep quiet and knowing he didn’t want you to anyway.

“S-So good,” you moaned.

“Are you feeling good, love?” There was no teasing in his tone, only genuine fondness that made you feel warmer in every way.

“Mhm, really g-good.”

Wonwoo smiled against your lips. “Do you want me to make you cum, now?”

You did your best to think through your lust-addled brain but as soon as the words had left his lips you knew you would be whining out a yes at him. You liked feeling comfortable, feeling so taken care of with him. It had been a while since the last time you’d felt that and it was only adding to your pleasure now.

“I’ll make you feel wonderful,” he murmured.

You moved your hand to the back of his neck, holding yourself close to him. Your other hand stayed braced against the ground as he brought his other hand between your legs and started to rub your clit in quick circles.

You let out a series of high moans as he moved a little closer, wedging himself between your legs to keep you from closing them. He kissed against your lips, even if your responses were sloppy and punctuated with moans and whimpers as the coil inside of you wound itself tighter and tighter.

Wonwoo pressed his forehead to yours as you squeezed your eyes shut, legs shaking and hand gripping at him to keep him close. Quiet pleas with him to keep going fell off your lips, followed by reassurances that he wasn’t going to stop. He kept his fingers at the quick pace, urging you to cum until you finally fell over your edge.

You held him tightly as you let out a high pitched moan and your thighs squeezed around his body. Your hips rode through the wave of your orgasm as your hips ground down, trying to get more from his fingers. He kept moving them, bringing you more pleasure until your body relaxed and you started to whimper.

Wonwoo pulled his fingers away from your clit, bringing his lips to meet yours. Your body trembled as you came down from your high. He didn’t pull his fingers from your heat right away, instead moving them slowly and making your body jolt and twitch. It was late and you were feeling a little drowsy but you wanted a little more.

“Grab my shorts,” you hummed.

Wonwoo pulled away, finding your shorts. You took the opportunity to sit up, feeling the heat lick at your skin when you saw him sucking his wet fingers between his own lips, tasting you. It at once flustered you and fired you up again.

When he returned to you you took the shorts and searched your pockets until you found the condom sober you had been smart enough to bring. You kissed Wonwoo to stop him chuckling at you as you tore open the packet and rolled the condom onto him. Before you could do anything else though Wonwoo pushed you gently back into the grass.

He gazed down at you, lust and desire mixed in with love. You gazed up at his face, surrounded by the inky blackness of the sky and a smattering of stars. You wrapped your legs around him, grinning and biting your lip in anticipation. Wonwoo took his cock in his hand and gently guided himself inside of you with a smooth thrust.

You both let out moans at the feeling. Your own gaze felt a little unfocused as Wonwoo took both of your hands, lacing his fingers with yours as he started to roll his hips, thrusting into you slow and deep. His lips met yours in a kiss that held all of your passion for one another. You squeezed his hands and he squeezed back.

His hips found a steady pace, each thrust deep and each one sending a rush of pleasure through your whole body. Your thighs squeezed around him as you thrust into your already sensitive core. Your kisses quickly grew messy as you both moaned from the sensation and Wonwoo pressed down closer to you.

“I missed this s-so much.” he mumbled.

You gave him a quick kiss. “Me too. I’ve wanted you so bad.”

“Let’s never be s-stupid like that again,” he said.

You couldn’t help but laugh. “I agree,” you voice was breathy as you spoek and you tilted up to kiss him again. “This is so much better.”

Tension was building inside you again as he moved a little faster, starting to chase his own high. Wonwoo let his head fall into the crook of your neck as your head fell back, moans cascading off your lips. His own sounds were rushing through you and had you clenching around him.

“God I l-love the way you feel,” he murmured. “You’re a perfect f-fit.”

You let out a gasp as he slightly changed his angle. “You feel so good, god and you move so well.”

You felt him smile against your neck. One of his hands left yours and you took the opportunity to wrap it around him and scratch at his back, urging his hips to move just a little more roughly. Wonwoo had pants falling off his lips as he held onto your hip, sucking lightly at your neck.

“Mmm please,” you moaned, pressing you head back and wanting nothing more than for him to leave marks on you. The feeling of his lips sucking at your neck were only adding to the pleasure already curling through you. His every sound was bringing you closer to your edge, making the tension higher, winding you tighter.

“Wonwoo,” you moaned. He brought his lips up to press a sweet kiss to yours.

“I want to cum,” you breathed.

“So I do,” he replied, his hand moving from your hip in between your two bodies. He quickly found your clit and started rubbing quickly over the sensitive bud in a way that had you arching you back up, pressing your chest against him.

You fell over your edge first, cumming with a cry of his name. Your orgasm crashed over your whole body, releasing every inch of tension until the tips of your fingers were tingling and your legs were shaking. Wonwoo followed you over the edge, hips stuttering to a stop as he moaned out your name.

The world sat still for a moment as you both breathed, staying close and kissing until he pulled back to look down at you with a sweet dopey smile on his face.

“What?” you giggled.

“I love you,” he said before kissing your nose.

You giggled more. “I love you, too.” You leaned up and repeated his action.

“I didn’t officially ask you to be my partner yet.”

You felt your smile growing wider. “Are you going to?”

Wonwoo smiled. “Will you be my partner?”

You beamed back at him, feeling your heart fluttering. “Absolutely.”

[familyfriendlyweed]

makeup sessions (karl jacobs x fem reader)

a/n : hi! this is my first tumblr post. i have written stuff on wattpad in the past, but it’s still quite new to me, so please be nice :]] i accept positive critism and advice, as that most definitely will help me grow as a writer!

 Y/n let out something between a squeal and a scream at the same time when she saw Karl's tweet. her face was beat red and her lips couldn't help but curl into the stupidest grin ever.

the tweet read :

hey @) y/nhasursocks wanna do my makeup at my stream today :]]

 it was the simplest tweet, yet it meant so much to the girl. Karl and Y/n were always really good friends, they often streamed minecraft together, but never in a million years did he yet ask her to be in his stream in real life.

 Y/n picked up the phone with trembling hands, already seeing a bunch of likes, comments and retweets to Karl's tweet. before answering, she got curious to know what the people say. cautiously opening the comments section, the girl scanned it through with her eyes. a bunch of "awwwwws" and hearts could be seen, which worsened her already red cheeks.

With her heart thumping hard against her ribs, she started writing her reply :

sounds great! <3

 for a moment Y/n hesitated to press the "reply" button with the "<3" emoticon in the comment, but then she figured she and Karl sent lovey dovey emojis/emoticons in the past to each other anyways, so, she pressed the "reply" button at last.

 in an instant, her reply started gaining more and more likes, comments and retweets. Y/n was never really popular, having her clout was only because of Karl being her friend, so seeing this much attention was weird to her. but she didn't care about that right now. all that Y/n cared about at the moment was the fact that Karl appreciated her enough to actually invite her over.

 a little bit later in the day, Y/n received a private message from Karl, which said :

hey Y/n! I'm really glad you're up to stream together <3 i planned on starting the stream at 4 pm, but you can change the time if you're busy :] here is my address (don't tell anyone! :D) - (random address lol)

 Y/n answered :

 thanks for inviting me bestie!! 4 pm is cool, I'll be there! <33

 she set the phone down, unable to remove the blissful smile from her face. she has never felt this way before - it was really weird, but the constant butterflies in her tummy reminded her that it's a good feeling. taking a few deep breaths, Y/n reminded to herself that all she has to do is to go to Karl's house and have a good time AS FRIENDS - no romantic stuff is needed.

  ~~~~~time skip~~~~~

  Y/n got off from the bus at 15:50, but she still had about 5 minutes to reach Karl's house. in what felt like forever, the girl felt a sting of what was unmistakably fear and guilt - what if she was late? and what if Karl would be annoyed with her for that?

 slowly she broke into a panicky run. passing careless citizens, who all looked at her fear-stricken face curiously, she finally made it to the front door of Karl's home. Y/n pulled out her phone and found the code that she was supposed to enter next the main door. she quickly dialed it, a beep beep beep was heard and she entered.  

 finally making it to Karl's apartment, Y/n stopped to smooth her hair and straighten her clothes so she doesn't look too shabby. her body seemed to be moving on its own - her finger pressed the doorbell automatically.

 Karl opened the door almost in an instant - he wore a warm smile and before Y/n could stutter a "hello", he pulled the girl into a big welcoming hug.

 "hey Y/n! it's so cool you made it!" Karl exclaimed, still holding her close.

Y/n's head was spinning, she needed more time to process what was happening. but nevertheless, she finally lifted her own arms and hugged the guy. burying her face into his sweater, she inhaled Karl's scent deeply - he smelled something like honey and warm days.

"hello, Karl." she mumbled with a grin on her face.

"come on, do you want to eat something before the stream?" Karl asked, letting go of the girl and taking her hand into his instead, leading Y/n into the house.

"oh no, I'm full. let's get straight to business." she answered, the blissful smile and content blush never leaving her face.

"alrighty! you already know, but we'll have an eventful makeup session, and then I thought maybe play some minecraft so the stream isn't too short?" the guy asked, opening his bedroom door.

"sounds great!"

Karl smiled and went to his computer :

"you ready? I'll start the stream now."

the girl quickly fixed her hair again and gave him thumbs up :

"ready."

Karl started the stream with facecam on and as soon as the chat saw Y/n, it went absolutely wild.

"guys, give her a rest, poor girl just came!" he laughed, drawing her a chair. Y/n thanked quietly and sat, waving to the chat timidly. in the corner of her eye, she saw comments like "she's so adorable" and "look at Karl being a gentleman" in the chat and her cheeks grew more red, but this time from satisfaction.

"well, as you guys know, Y/n agreed to be in my stream today, and since some of you don't really know her, she's a really good friend of mine who also streams and does youtube videos - so go support her!"

from that moment Y/n relaxed more and more with each minute. it was fifteen minutes into the stream when she already felt as if at home.

"Karl, you have a hell lot of lipsticks, where did that come from?"

"uhhhh, I only bought them for the stream today!"

"oh really? why are they all used, then?" Y/n asked giggling and showing them to the stream.

"hey- don't expose me like that!"

"chat, clip it, CLIP IT!"

all was going really well, Y/n was having a really good time with Karl AS FRIENDS. it was really nice. but all hell broke loose when the time to put eyeliner came.

"alright, I have no idea why, but you have four eyeliners."

"they're my sister's."

"haha, yeah, yeah, alright. Which one do you want big man?"

"hmmm, the one in your left hand!"

Y/n set the other eyeliners on the table, quickly glancing at the chat. her cheeks grew very very red…

"Y/N DO THE MEME SIT ON HIS LAP" "SIT ON HIS LAP" "THE MEME, DO THE MEME!!!"

  a/n: if anyone is confused, this is an example of the meme i’m talking about :

the girl tried to act as if she hadn't seen the comments, but Karl was already by her side, reading them with her.

"meme… what meme?" he wondered out loud. Y/n got the impression that he was genuinely confused.

'chat, shut the fuck up, please shut the fuck up.' thought Y/n, but of course chat was just being chat.

"SHE SHOULD SIT ON UR LAP" "THERE'S A MEME WHERE A GIRL DOES A GUY'S EYELINER WHILE SITTING ON HIS LAP" "WE'RE NOT FORCING BUT YOU GUYS WOULD LOOK SO CUTE"

Y/n hid her face in her hands, unable to control her blushing. Karl just chuckled sweetly :

"chat, calm down, she's going to die from blushing."

he put on the "please stand by" screen and scooted over Y/n :

"hey, it's fine. we won't do it if you don't want to," Karl then leaned closer and whispered, "I'd be pretty glad if you agreed, though."

Y/n lowered her hands, showing off the big red hue on her cheeks. for a split second Karl's eyes widened -  she looked really adorable.

"I'd also be glad." the girl said, almost not believing her own words.

Karl's adorable smile came back and he leaned back:

"well then, come here."

Y/n stood up shyly and straddled his legs, grabbing the eyeliner in the process.

"do you want me to turn on the facecam?" Karl asked quietly.

the girl nodded :

"I don't mind."

he turned it on and put his hands onto Y/n's hips. even without looking at it, Y/n knew the chat was blowing up at the moment.

"you guys better subscribe, because we're providing very good fanservice." said Karl jokingly and Y/n laughed. turning to him, she opened the eyeliner and put it next to his eye, only to find him staring at her in an awe. the girl blushed as a strong urge to kiss him kicked in. it looked as if Karl wanted the same thing.

at the precise same time, they both leaned in and pressed their lips together, Y/n putting her hands onto Karl's cheeks to hide the view from the chat. the kiss was very short and with no tongue included - but it was the most sweet kiss Y/n has ever shared with someone. she pulled away, an identical grin to Karl's on her face and hugged him very tight - they almost fell off the chair.

laughing, she continued to do Karl's makeup as if nothing happened and everyone watching the stream wasn't fainting and clipping the kiss. this will be talked about for a long time, but as before, Y/n didn't care about that, and nor did Karl.

a/n : anddddd cut! it’s quite wonky, but i believe it’s pretty swell for my first mcyt fanfic :]] let me know what you think of it and if you have any tips or advice on how to make my future stories more enjoyable! thanks for reading and i hope to see you around <3

[discotreque]

Disco 3.06: Scavengers

And I thought the last one was a nerdfest! What is this, Star Trek?

REPAIR ROBOTS! Oh wait—REFIT ROBOTS!!! I remain continually appalled at the mountains of merch money CBS insists upon leaving on the table.

NCC-1031-A????? OH HELL YES

I feel like the previous version of this show would have had the Disco equipped with super-future-tech by like, the end of episode 2 at the latest. (Remember the ship going undercover for the mirror universe in a 20-second montage?)

Y'all know I'm a slut for props, and the new badges are truly lovely—at least I'll probably be able to buy one of those—and another excellent example of "technology marches on" that should be relatable to anyone old enough to watch this show without parental supervision, probably? When I was in college, I never went anywhere without a digital camera, an iPod, a Palm PDA, half a dozen USB sticks, a paper notebook + pen, and a cell phone that could "surf the internet" for $0.10 per page of plain text—and now I have an iPhone that fills all those roles but better and does a hundred other things too, and I'm just old enough that it still kinda blows my mind sometimes. So: relatable!

But also? Fuck that, I want to see a 32nd-century tricorder!!! Don't give me this blurry holographic bullshit!!!! I WANT PROPS AND THEN I WANT AFFORDABLY PRICED REPLICAS WITH REASONABLE SHIPPING TO CANADA.

Very small, very cute detail: now that everyone has a personal transporter to blip around the ship with, the Discovery-A (!) has done away with the catwalks between the "rings" of the saucer section.

If I were Detmer I might be a little jealous of the way Owo looks at the new swirly interfaces, hahahaha

HI LINUS! BYE LINUS!

Wait—wait—wait. So Book went on this dangerous solo mission to get the black box and programmed his ship's autopilot to literally SAVE THE CAT? Slow clap, Disco writers. Slow clap.

Oh jeez. You can literally see the moment Michael stops trusting Saru. OUCH. And now Evil!Philippa of all people is sticking up for Captain Appetizer? What is going ON here?

(I'm slightly confused about some of the choices these characters are making, but I think I'm supposed to be at this point—I think we're supposed to feel a little bit of Michael's disorientation and alienation among her Disco family to contrast with how much more comfortable this new version of her is around Book.)

OKAY omfg but COUNSELOR GEORGIOU??? Michael has NO patience and is just sassing the SHIT out of her too. I am eating this up with a spoon ahahahaha

TILLY AND GRUDGE :D :D :D :D :D And Michael's little reverse-engineered cat-tracker literally meows instead of pings 😂

Self-sealing stem bolts lmaoooooo

I knew exactly what was going to happen to that poor (and extremely genre-unsavvy) water thief vis-à-vis the exploding-head implant because I've been playing a lot of Fallout 3 and New Vegas lately, which have slave collars that do the same thing. Bummer, dude.

Gray is like "let's go explore the LITERAL AWESOME SPACESHIP we live on" and Adira is like "but my to-do list tho" and tbh I'm both of them <3 (Hard not to picture Ian Alexander crab-crawling out from under the cameras every time Gray has to "disappear," hahaha)

OH HEY IT’S LINUS AGAIN

Ohhhh Tilly. Tilly is so good. (Tilly is so good again! I felt like she kind of... went away in the second half of Season 2. It feels like she's back, and I missed her ❤️) Her point to Saru that Michael's the one who threw them under the bus with Starfleet is unfortunately, entirely apt.

I want Michael Burnham to be absolutely SMOTHERED with love and support so it's really hard to watch her drift apart from her friends like this. I know it's part of a self-discovery (heh) arc that will bring her back into the fold by the end of the season—though at this point I'm not 100% sure it won't be as a civilian contractor to Starfleet or something—and I'm grateful she's got Book so she's not alone for the duration. But ughhhh, also? Let this poor woman REST.

This week in "Sonequa Martin-Green's underappreciated comedic talents": Michael makes a different "give me a fucking break" face every single time Georgiou calls her "Servant," and every single one made me laugh.

Yeah, Ryn's gonna fuckin' die.

BUT THAT'S A RESCUE, HOLY SHIT, BOOK HAS THE COOLEST SHIP EVER, WTFFFF

And Georgiou got Cronenberg'd somehow, so that's great. (Ughhhhhh why is she such a sympathetic psychopath tho)

STAMETS IS GONNA ADOPT A KID! STAMETS IS GONNA ADOPT TWO KIDS AND ONE OF THEM IS GONNA BE POSTHUMOUSLY!

Ryn didn't die! Holy shit!

Okay, if these two don't kiss I swear to—oh heyyyyyy—DAMMIT LINUS!!!!!——AWWWWW YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🍾❤️🎉

Pauuuulllllll 😭😭😭😭😭

Oded Fehr is one of my favourite character actors and I really like what he's putting into Admiral Vance as the face of Starfleet's institutional trauma. Vance has been sprinting from crisis to crisis for his entire career, and now the weight of the literal world is on his shoulders. You can see how tired he is, and how hard he's trying not to see Discovery as a source of hope, and how much he wishes he didn't have to be the bad cop in every single argument—but he's responsible for protecting all of what's left of the Federation, so he kind of does. Even when he's being an asshole, there's a lack of relish to it that feels very melancholy to me.

No one has ever delivered an acting performance on Star Trek as powerful relative to the amount of latex glued to their skull as Mr. Doug Jones.

And that was that. This episode felt like the first move into the season's midgame: Book is back; Michael is more adrift than ever; Phillipa's got Section 31–triggered Mirror Universe PTSD or something—and Stamets is drafting up those adoption papers on his holo-PADD. I have no idea where they're going with all of this—I don't even expect "the source of the Burn" to end up clear enough for the satisfaction of anyone on screen or off.

But unlike last year, where I felt like I didn't know what was going on because it didn't make any fucking sense, this feels like I don't know what's going on because the story isn't over yet. And that's an exciting way to feel, even about a more table-setting episode like this one.

Next week: Vulcans! I've been trying to stay away from spoilers, but wasn't Episode 7 rumoured to be titled "Unification III" at some point? 👀👀👀

[mytardisnowspacetravel]

11/2

Halfway through chapter 11 and Im Not Okay….. Like I am still reeling from everything that just occurred and I am so terrified for the end of this book. But I know that I will be done so here go probably my last reactions not knowing the ending. 

Alright so we left off at the end of chapter 2 with Relius leaving (it hurts - my heart now)

I don’t understand why Gen is so set on not apologizing to the Pents, but stealing from his God seems like a Bad Decision and I do not like iit when characters make bad decisions

“Your majesty, no. I don’t understand, but no, no.” - Hilarion and also every single attendant (and also me) ever single day of their lives.

 Yes the trial was intense, but “I don’t know what I expected, but it was not that the king would sink onto the bench and his father would enfold him in his arms, that the king would lay his head on his father’s shoulder with a sigh and his father would rub his back as if he were a tiny baby.” AHHH SOFT

Kadsjflkajsdkf Gen was paying Therespides. What an idiot. 

“She would have led the riot”

It’s time for 🎶forced bonding time in the garden 🎶

At dinner, “I can show you how” I love you Attolia, I love you so much.

MWT said "I want all of my Main Characters to be Giant Freaking Nerds.... and also Costis"

Gen, Kamet, Pheris, Sophos. I guess Attolia is not quite a nerd, but the nerd percentage is still high. 

Everyone chasing Gen around the castle!!! Fun!!!! Cute!!! Sliding down the banister!!!

That scene was Everything

AHAHAHA the departure outfit had me laughing. “Worse. It was a gesture of the sincerest kind. “ AWWWWW

Attolia’s attendant: Brings an extra pillow. The King @ that: 👀, Eddis @ Gen: 👀, Sounis @ Eddis: 👀👀

“I did not become inappropriate all by myself!” yesss Gen is  A Bad Influence

Ok I think MWT told us that Gen would see an elephant and want one, but I was still unprepared for the beautiful dialogue that was Attolia and Gen discussing where to put an elephant. 

NAHUSERESH IS HERE! 

“hilarion opened his mouth to call them to account, but the king reached out to cover his mouth” why is everything in this book so cinematic (also, every mention of Hilarion in hindsight 😭)

I’m thinking Baby will not be lost a second time, which is exciting bc Baby!!! But I do fear the whole parent sacrifice for baby to live situation in which either gen or Irene dies which I Do Not Want

I was examining that tag phrase on the back cover and it inspired me to make a meme. Is Gen’s reign really gonna be only 500 pages…..

ACK Kamet no!!! 

“You can be sure they had to kill Costis first.” yes, yes, yes

Ok so that was war, and that was Intense but still had lighthearted moments. Chapter 8 is where it started to get Dark and I am still recovering 

As soon as they arrived at a tombstone, I remembered Pheris’s foreshadowing and was like No!!!!

Hilarion 😭😭😭

Terrified for Gen and whatever he would have to endure. Pheris being like “and then there was torture” and not describing it conveys just as much horror as if he had. 

BUt

“Then he smiled, and a chill like the ones I felt in Hephestia’s temple shuddered down my back” CHILLS

Idk how MWT did it, but I felt CHILLS as well, there is something so unsettling about someone smiling after being tortured. 

i keep thinkng about how at the end of chapter 8, pheris notes that Attolia could have taken him in her arms but hesitated and then didn't and they were both very formal and I think it's because of how terrifying Eugenides must appear

Ok so then the King returns, and the world has tilted on it’s axis

“Bu-seneth woke earlier. Nothing will ever wake him again.” ACKKK

Even Attolia is scared. 

In all my predictions I never thought of losing Gen like this. I feel like a theme of this book that was hinted at but has just become abundantly clear is that Gen is Special. He is more powerful and more dangerous that we ever thought him to be and I am reeling at this new revelation

Striking down lightning!

My friend said the idea is that he is being possessed by Eugenides but that doesn’t make it any less terrifying. 

The INTERREGNUM. IS SCARY. AHHHH WHAT DOES THE PROPHECY MEAN

Aw Attolia got him his elephants <3

Sejanus is here and I am just in a constant state of fear about that prophecy now

RELIUS. Something about this is so much more awful than the others

Ok this next part with Pheris is very confusing and I think I am going to have to reread it later. It sounds like Pheris realizes that the only way to save Gen from the prophecy is to let Sejanus escape. It also sounds like at times, he was gonna push Sejanus off the ledge which is….dark. Overall I was pretty confused by the interaction between them and what it all meant…… 

The king being angry about Sejanus… I am scared of the angry king now and so are the barons……

Suddenly in battle Sejanus is there?????

This is where I had to close the book due to intense stress. I knew this book would ruin me emotionally but I was not prepared for it to do it in this way. Last night I could not sleep because my heart hurt so much. I was trying to place why (because still no major character has died but at this point Idk if can handle it), and I think it’s a few things. 

1. The continent betraying them - insanely scary and depressing. The whole time in this series we’ve been able to see one main enemy in the Mede but now it becomes clear that the whole world seems to be against them and that is very Scary and very Sad

2. Relius’s death. I’m not sure why this one hits so hard. I think it’s the idea that Relius will have died off the page, alone in some foreign land. How I can just feel that he is not going to pop out at the end and be like “surprise! I’m alive!” that this is not that kind of book. It is just… sad.

3. Gen turning into this Terrifying Being. Another author could have written the same events and spun it as a happy victory, but this book makes it clear how horrifying it is to imagine Gen going from tent to tent slitting throats and setting up fires. As well as the godly lightning. I mourn for the young boy we used to know who hated killing and is now perhaps gone. And I realized that what this reminds me of too much is the ending of Game of Thrones. Obviously, Gen hasn’t done something so drastic, and I trust MWT way more than the writers of that show. But something is so unsettling about the transition for a ruler from beloved to feared. Like imagine if Gen survives - will he be feared for the rest of his reign? And the fact that the Eddisiian council had voted to kill him back before the events of the thief is also scary because it represents that this whole time, they knew how dangerous he was even if we the readers didn’t. Also they voted to kill a boy 😭

I can’t believe there are a little over 100 pages left and the volcano still hasn’t erupted. I feel like thiis means that we will not get the standard ~50 pages or so of recovery like the other books, but I need that recovery.... 

[forkanna]

[AO3] [WATTPAD]

"Come on, don't be mad," Rise insisted for the hundredth time as they waited for the train to come through. They had been there for a few minutes, bags in hands and feet impatient. At least they a few CDs apiece, and a poster that Rise hoped would do for Chie's gift, even though it was Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon instead of Sonny-Sammy-whoever.

"Why not? My feelings are just as valid as yours."

"And it wasn't my fault! Like, you heard me try to tell him I didn't want any attention!"

"False modesty. I mean, I bet you say shit like that all the time, just so you look like a precious little princess."

The train going the opposite way whipped past, and she watched Ai's pink dress flutter for a moment until the din died down. Then she said in a quiet voice, "You want to be left alone? I will leave you alone. I just don't think that's what you really want."

"You were going to ditch me anyway. What does Risette want with some small-town teen queen when she's Japan's teen queen? It would happen sooner or later."

"Do you want me to apologise for your friend getting star-struck?"

"He was my friend first. And I mean, not that we're close, just that he's someone I-"

"Because I won't."

Ai blinked a couple of times before turning to look at her properly. "What did you just say?"

"I'm not going to apologise," Rise repeated firmly, her own features severe and intense now. "Remember me telling you I didn't even submit my first idol contest application myself? I never asked for all this. I have enjoyed it, sure — who wouldn't? But it's not 'my fault' people go crazy for celebs. Besides, I even tried to tell that guy not to make a big deal, to just let me hang out with my friend, and he kept fangirling anyway. My input clearly doesn't matter, so I am taking zero responsibility for him being an otaku. Do you understand?"

The other girl looked completely thunderstruck. In fact, she had no words. The train arrived shortly afterward, and they both got on without speaking, grasping for overhead straps as the doors slid shut.

It wasn't until they got off at the Yasoinaba station and Rise had started striding for the steps, feeling like a failure, that she felt her hand grasped from behind. She turned to slap whatever creep had grabbed her, but the creep was Ai, so she decided not to hit her. Yet.

"What?" No answer. Ai was too busy staring down at the space between their shoes. "Come on, it's getting late… I can still work a shift at Marukyu if you let me g-"

"I'm sorry!" she burst out, then cleared her throat to try again. "I apologise, Rise."

"What?"

"Shut up, don't make me say it again. I overreacted and I already feel stupid."

Cranking up the bubbliness to eleven, she gushed, "Oh noooo, I don't think I heard you at aaaaalllllll. What was that, Ebi-chaaaan?"

"Sh-shut UP!"

"Do you wuv meeeeee?" This time, Ai did yank her hand away and begin to stomp off down the steps, leaving a giggling Rise to chase after her.

"Like you said, have fun at Marukyu."

"You were a meanie," she told her, still laughing just a little. "I think I get to tease you a little."

"I don't like it. And I have explained why."

"Yeah. Your grade school classmates weren't teasing you, though. They were mocking you."

"Same fucking difference."

Jogging to walk side-by-side with her, despite Ai occasionally picking up speed to try and outstrip the idol, she went on, "Not really. Friends tease. Bullies mock… or sometimes hurt you physically. Did you ever get hurt like that?"

"Well… yeah, I did. But it's been a while. I mean, certainly not since elementary."

"Well that's good. I'll try not to tease you too much, but like, it's not going to work if I can't tease you. Because friends do that, and leaving that out would make this kinda fake. Right?"

Ai raised an eyebrow and glanced over at her. "I… do not follow that logic at all. You're weird."

"I'm not," she giggled, leaning down to smile up at her. "C'mon, it's fun. And I promise-promise I'll try to keep an eye on it so I don't make you feel really bad, and you might even get used to it. And that might help you with that 'everybody's tone is mocking' thing you feel."

"So let me get this straight. You think by teasing me, you're doing me a favour by desensitising me to people being jerks?"

"Right!"

"And that's 'friendship'? Putting me through that gauntlet?"

"Yup! I'm pretty great, right? My generosity is limitless!"

Finally, the grumpy girl laughed as they got to the bus stop, plopping down on the bench with their bags next to their feet. "Whatever. You're insane."

"Maybe. Or maybe I'm amazing and it just looks insane."

"Two sides of the same coin."

"So… I didn't wanna ask in front of 'the expert', but what was all that in the CD store? You two were off in your own little world there."

Ai's face was already flushed from being annoyed earlier, and all that power-walking. But it definitely didn't get any less rosy as she fidgeted, playing with the hem of her dress. "That's… it's stupid."

"Might be. But we're friends, we have to share stupid interests and stuff."

"You're really starting to be a pain with this 'friend' thing all the time." But Rise was patient. And eventually… "It's… something left over from my mother."

"Your mother?"

"Yes. She, um, she used to really love those old city pop singers; had so many records. Her fave was Mariya Takeuchi; just had really fond memories from her childhood, and she used to play them for me all the time."

A sinking feeling settled into the pit of her stomach. "Your mom… is she, u-um…?"

"Hm? No, she's alive. Probably." Ai looked extremely conflicted for a moment before heaving a deep sigh. "She moved out at the beginning of last year."

"Moved out? Like… a divorce?"

"Not officially. Yet. But it seems like it's going to be a matter of time." When Rise opened her mouth to reply, she was quick to cut her off. "Look. After my dad got rich overnight, I wasn't the only one who changed. We all did. But my mother seemed to resent it, even though we were all different afterward — including her hypocritical ass. Said she couldn't stay in the house with her b- with us, because we were like strangers now. And I…"

Rise gave her a few seconds to finish the thought. When she didn't, she reached over with her free hand to take up Ai's in a gentle grip. That seemed to encourage her to continue.

"It's my fault. For changing too much, for no longer being the child she raised. And I got so angry with her, said a lot of things I can never take back… I drove her away. Like I tried to do to you. So you see? Might as well ditch me now before I treat you like shit one day."

As if she hadn't already. But saying that was not productive, so she focused on the subject at hand. "Hey… I don't think that's right." When the other girl began to sigh, she pushed on, "No, listen. She's your mom, right? She's the adult — her and your dad, I mean. Of course if she's telling you she doesn't like how you have changed because you're growing up, like, you're gonna get mad. She's supposed to be the one who can figure out you're just mad and you'll get over it, or whatever."

"That sounds great, but I don't think it works that way in the real world."

"Maybe not this time, but it's how it's supposed to work. So don't go around hating on yourself for something she needed to do better."

Finally seeming to realize her hand was being held, she turned to blink at her new friend, brow furrowed. "I don't… know… I guess I wasn't expecting you to be this… genuinely…"

"Awesome?" she attempted with a small smile as the bus arrived. "Pretty? Hot as hell?"

"Nice. Even to a huge bitch like me."

Once they had both paid their fare and chosen a seat in the back, Rise whispered, "Listen. We're going to have to get used to each other. But we should probably get to know each other if we really want a shot at that." She chewed on her thoughts for a moment as they rode into Inaba. "Mmmm, did you know I actually really like helping out at Marukyu?"

"Hadn't really thought about it." After a second, she relented, "Okay, I guess I thought it was just some kind of PR stunt. But don't read too much into that."

"You're fine," she giggled as she snaked her arm around Ebihara's elbow, ignoring the fresh twitch it earned her. "But yeah, it's probably weird, but I actually really enjoy frying up the ganmodoki myself. Getting my hands dirty, helping clean up, straighten up, checking on my grandma…"

Though Ai had been ramrod straight like a tin soldier ever since they linked arms, she slowly began to relax the more she listened to Rise. "Well yeah, I guess I get that. She's family and you probably missed her while you were off dazzling the world."

"The world? Please. I mean, I do have a handful of fans in Korea and China, but none any further than that. I'm not that special."

"You are. They just can't see it past the language barrier."

"Awwwww…"

"I regret everything," she grumbled. But of course, Rise was still giggling as they slipped off the bus and onto the sidewalk, a lot closer to their sleepy little city.

"Hey, can I come over and listen to my CD at your place? I don't have a CD player anymore."

"Then… why did you buy- never mind. You probably have even more disposable income than I do."

Rolling her eyes, she bumped Ai just enough so that they both stumbled the tiniest bit. "Dork! I only accepted because he was so happy to be doing us a favor. And I figured hey, I might as well pick something I wanted instead of just a couple of random CDs I didn't care about. These are souvenirs now."

"Ah yes. Souvenirs of the time you had to put up with a raging harpy."

"Wow! Like, you really only have two modes, don't you? 'Meanie' and 'Depression Fest 2012'."

But apparently, that had been the wrong thing to say. Rise was just trying to tease like she always did; it was part of her job. The more she teased, the more she played, the more fun people had. The more fun they had, the better mood they were in. The better their mood, the more likely they were to capitulate to whatever the terms were — those of her manager, or herself. And it had all worked out, because she wanted friends so badly and everyone around seemed to become her friend when she treated them that way. Even if the friendships didn't last.

But this time, it silenced Ai so completely that she found herself checking on her every few seconds as they walked along. What did she say? Had it really been that much worse than anything else so far? Eventually, she wound up stopping to pull her into a gentle hug.

"God… it's not- you don't have to do that."

"I'm sorry. You know I'm playing with you, right? Just playing! But if I'm really hurting you…"

Ai shook her head and dropped her bags so she could cling to her, burying her face in those mauve locks. "Shhh, you're fine. I… you don't have to do this. Any of it. But you're not screwing up as bad as you think you are, I'm just a bitch. Sorry for all these constant reminders."

"It's okay." Especially because Ai was so warm. This hug nearly undid all of the pain and strife they had put each other through over the course of a scant few total hours they had spent in each other's company.

And Rise didn't seem to be the only one who thought as much. Those arms tightened on her back, practically clinging to her as they soaked up each other's warmth. Why did this feel so right? They were all wrong for each other as friends, if all their bickering was any indication, yet a simple hug was like a dream come true. Ai smelled so good, expensive perfume mingling with soft skin just on the other side of that dress.

Even though the lace on Ai's choker was tickling her nose. Eventually, that made it twitch, and then she giggled as she shivered in an attempt to suppress a reaction.

"What?" Ai asked, confused.

"The lace tickled. You wear that thing all the time and I don't know why." It prompted a quiet sigh from the taller girl, so Rise skipped backward, hands in the small of her back. Maintaining a high energy level for their day might distract her from whatever demons she was battling internally. "C'mon! I'll race you to Junes!"

"Wha- hey, wait a minute, what about our bags? You don't expect me to carry all this!"

Maybe part of her motivation for taking off running and leaving Ai to carry all of their purchases was to instill a little more humility in the prissy girl. Or maybe she just wanted to do something carefree. Either way, her friend did scoop up the bags before taking off running after her.

                                                    ~ o ~

"NOOOOO, give it back!"

"We've had enough of this weird thing!" Chie cackled as she ran away with Teddie's bear mascot head, holding it aloft while the blond boy himself chased after her. Rise leaned back in the food court chair and laughed her head off. Yes, she knew the head meant a lot more to him than just part of some costume; they all knew that, except for Ebihara. But he had been up to his usual mischief, saying he was going to "score" with Yukiko simply because she let him have some of her french fries. He obviously spent a little too much time listening to Yosuke.

"You guys are too much," Kanji sighed, face-palming as he leaned heavily against the table. But he didn't do anything to stop Chie and Yosuke throwing it back and forth, either.

"I have to say, this is a bizarre group of people to have come together," Ai commented as she sipped at her smoothie. Maybe she still wasn't ordering a ton of junk food, but she had insisted that a smoothie was really "cheating on her diet" considering that before she had met Narukami, she probably would have ordered a diet soda and no more. Their bags were stashed under their chairs until they headed home later — except for the poster. That was safely tucked beneath Yukiko's chair, once all the excessive bowing and thanking was over with, and Rise had refused to accept any money from her. She was just happy to help out her friends.

"I suppose so," Naoto conceded with a sage nod, hand at her chin as always. "From the outside looking in, it would seem strange to anyone."

"So how did you all meet, then? Bizarre multi-grade class project?"

There was definitely a pause. None of them were quite sure what excuse to come up with; only that they had to think of something to tell her that didn't involve supernatural hijinks. That would only send the average person running for the hills.

"Remember the Midnight Channel?" Yukiko began.

"Yukiko!" Kanji blustered. But she forged ahead, undeterred, and Rise felt her thighs clench beneath the tabletop. Moment of truth…

"Well, that murderer who killed Miss Yamano and the others? We knew he was somehow using the TVs to announce his next victims. Not only that, but my own kidnapping made it impossible to ignore for all of us; myself, obviously, but Chie and the others couldn't just wait for someone else to put a stop to it once our friends were becoming targets. We started investigating on our own since the police didn't seem to have any leads. And when Naoto-kun came to town and began to work with the police directly, we all sort of… found each other, thanks to that common goal."

Wow. Ai wasn't the only one dumbfounded; the others at the table found themselves impressed that she had come up with such a believable almost-truth on the spur of the moment like that.

"Th-that's amazing," Ai finally said, still blinking rapidly to try and dispel her shock. "I didn't know the rest of you were also detectives."

"Not very good ones," Rise provided with a little awkward laugh. "But all of us putting our heads together, we were finally able to figure out it was that creep Adachi. The power of teamwork!"

"Hey, you don't have to keep calling her 'Naoto-kun'," Kanji suddenly said with a slight frown at Yukiko. "We know she's a chick now, don't be disrespectful."

While Yukiko was looking regretful and beginning to bow to offer an apology, Naoto smiled and patted the tall boy on the bicep. "It's fine. In fact, I'm much more comfortable with that than I ever could be with something feminine like 'Nao-chan'. Just doesn't suit me."

Even as Rise was calling out "NAO-CHAAAAAAAAAAN" in a loud, carrying voice and throwing her arms around the stoic girl, prompting some flustered shovings, Ai was smiling across at the junior detective prince. "Naoto-kun it is. Obviously we want you to be comfortable."

Both the sentiment and the smile were so unexpected from Ai Ebihara that everyone stopped to look at her. After a second or two, she cleared her throat and went back to sipping at the dregs of her smoothie.

"Thank you, Ebihara-san," Naoto finally managed as Rise dropped back into her seat.

"Of course. See? I'm not a cunt all the time."

"Never said you were," Rise cooed as she pinched her cheek.

"HEY! Didn't I tell you to stop getting so physical with me? My face is the real money maker and so help me…"

Things only devolved from there. Kanji was apologizing profusely for presuming too much, Naoto was trying to assure him she didn't mind either, Yukiko had lapsed into another uncontrollable giggle-fit when she noticed Chie and Yosuke had started throwing Teddie himself back and forth. And Ai… was laughing and smiling. Not much; she still looked a little out of place there, not quite sure how she fit into the group of friends.

But she was starting to. Sometimes, a modicum of progress was the best you got.

                                                    To Be Continued…

[1dliveshere]

The Last Summer Ch.2

The morning they were leaving had finally arrived. Alyssa was upstairs finishing packing her bags.

“Mom! Have you send my phone charger? I can’t find it anywhere!!”

“I don’t know why you are wasting you time packing. Your dad and I already said you can’t go.”

“That’s completely unfair and ridiculous. It’s not like I’ll be gone the whole summer.”

“This trip is nothing but a distraction from preparing for college. You aren’t going. End of discussion.”

Alyssa headed up stairs as she rolled her eyes.

‘How can my parents be so unfair’ Alyssa thought to herself as she started unpacking.

*ding*

Alyssa was sitting on her bed listening to sad music when Kayla busted through the door.

“What the freak?! What do you mean your parents are being unfair?? Why are your suitcases empty??”

“My parents won’t let me go. They say this trip is a distraction from college.”

“Well that’s crap. It’s not like we won’t be back before school starts.”

“That’s what I told them but they wouldn’t listen.”

After sitting in silence for a few seconds, Kayla jumps off the bed and grabs Alyssa’s suitcase.

“What the heckling are you doing?”

“What does it look like I’m doing?” Kayla threw a bunch of clothes in the suitcase.

“I already told you they won’t let me go.”

“I already told you we’d go no matter what our parents say” Kayla smirked. “This is our last summer together until we will literally be across the country from each other. We’ve spent every second of every summer together for the last 7 years are you really going to let your parents ruin this?”

“Freaking screw it. I’m going end of story” Alyssa quickly packed everything she would need and headed down the stairs.

As the girls headed out the front door Alyssa’s parents quickly followed.

“Where do you think your going?? We already told you you weren’t going. Get your butt back inside.”

“Sorry I can’t do that”

As the 4 of them looked up here came Harry’s RV down the driveway.

The girls started walking to their friends as Harry and Niall got out of the front of the RV.

“KAYLA” “ALYSSA” “DON’T WALK AWAY FROM US”

“What’s up with your parents babe?” Niall looked at Alyssa.

“They don’t think this is a good idea.” Alyssa handed Niall her stuff.

Right as the we’re getting ready to step onto the RV Alyssa’s parents called out.

“Alyssa Forrest, if you step foot on the RV you aren’t welcome home.”

Everyone’s mouths in the vehicle fell open.

“Hey babe you should probably go back”

“ You know what if they’re going to treat me like that screw them. I’m going. I don’t freaking care anymore.”

Alyssa turned to look back at her parents and jumped in the RV.

Everyone in the RV cheered as Harry started on the road.

After it got silent, everyone started to hear sniffling.

“Woah woah woah who’s crying? We should make it a rule that there’s no crying on our trip.” Louis looked at everyone.

“Alyssa, I’m sorry. That was really crappy of us to put that much pressure on you. Harry, turn around we need to take her home.”

“No, Kayla it’s fine. It’s not you guys. I really want to go.”

“As long as your comfortable with it, babe” Niall turned around in his seat.

“Okay let’s get this road trip started. Which direction are we going? I kinda need to know which way to turn.” Harry laughed

“Hit the freaking freeway bro.” Liam yelled across the entire RV.

“Turn the tunes on. A road trip isn’t good until there’s music.”

“Oohhh I got it!!!! I have a road trip playlist.” Louis handed his phone to Niall.

“Of course you do.” Zayn rolled his eyes.

Alyssa sat next to the window processing what had just happened.

“Hey, you okay boo? You’ve been quite since we left.” Kayla sat next to Alyssa.

“Yeah I’m fine. It just kinda hit me what just happened.”

“Well even if your parents get rid of you, you always have me. I’m not going anywhere. Ever.” Kayla hugged Alyssa.

“Awwwww” The entire bus erupted.

“Shut the freak up” Alyssa laughed.

“Seriously though. No one is being left behind ever. We will always be best friends and that’s all that matters.” Liam smiled.

“Great speech Li. Really inspirational.” Louis clapped.

“Thanks for ruining the moment...”

*3 hours later*

“Hey guys is anyone else getting hungry. I’m starving” Harry said from the drivers seat.

“I could eat.”

“Niall you can always eat.” Laughs Alyssa.

“Hey don’t judge me.”

“Okay I’m going to stop at McDonald’s since it’s at the nest exit.” Harry switched lanes.

While Harry ordered all the food Zayn and Louis popped up the table while everyone else found a seat. After they got the food everyone dug in.

“Mmmmm this is so good”

“I didn’t realize how hungry I was.”

“Harry how far are we from Utah?” Louis asked with his mouth full of food.

“I don’t know maybe 2 hours” Harry said will turning the turning signal on. As Harry took the turn he turned the wheel too much which caused Louis drink to go flying everywhere. All the pop landed on Kayla and Alyssa who happened to be sitting in the booth across from him.

Kayla let out a super high pitched, “AHHHHHHH!!!! Louis look what you did. You ruined my pants. I have no sweatpants now”

“Look what I did?! It was freaking Harold who turned like a psycho!”

“Guys I’m sorry it’s so difficult to turn while holding a hamburger!!”

“Harry we have to find a laundromat. I can’t survive without sweatpants.”

“I brought a ton of sweatpants. You can just where those, love.”

“See problem solved” Louis shrugged is shoulders.

“You’re lucky Tomlinson.” Kayla eyed Louis.

After everyone finished eating it was a pretty chill afternoon. Harry and Kayla took the front seats and chatted quitely amongst themselves. Liam, Maya, Zayn, and Gigi played uno for literally hours. Niall and Louis were playing FIFA and being extremely loud. Alyssa and Eleanor were scrolling on their phones and occasionally showing each other something.

2 pm came around and they hadn’t stopped since McDonald’s. Kayla had to pee since 1, but didn’t want to make a pit stop. She has always hated to be a burden. She couldn’t hold it any longer though.

“Harry I have to pee like really really bad”

“Why didn’t you pee at McDonald’s?”

“I didn’t have to then.”

“Okay well it might be a little bit before I can stop. We are literally in the middle of nowhere.”

“Harry I don’t think you understand, I have to pee like now. It’s not my fault the stupid toilet doesn’t work in the RV. So find me a bathroom ASAP.”

“Harry it has been 10 minutes and we still haven’t stopped. I’m going to actually pee my pants.” Kayla said panicked.

“The exit is right here. You can pee in like 5 minutes.” Harry took the exit to Salt Lake City, Utah.

By this time everyone knew Kayla had to pee. I mean she had only said it twelve times.

Harry pulled in a Kwik stop while Kayla unbuckled her seatbelt.

“Kayla chill we haven’t even rolled to a stop yet.”

“Harry I can’t good it any longer. I NEED TO GO PEEEEE!!!”

“Kayla you can’t just jump out of the moving RV”

Everyone when from laughing at their bickering to dead serious as Kayla flung the door open and jumped out.

“KAYLA WHAT THE FREAK” Harry slammed into the brakes makes Gigi fly off of Zayn’s lap onto the ground.

“Alyssa run after her!! I don’t want her to go by herself and die!” Harry stately sounding freaked out.

“I got her! Kayla wait I’m coming with!!!”

“I HAVE TO PEE!” Kayla yelled across the parking lot gaining weird looks from everyone there.

Once Kayla got to the bathroom she sat down on the toilet only to find she started her period.

“Oh crap!!”

“What’s wrong?” Alyssa asked from the stall next to her.

“I started my period and I didn’t bring anything. I wasn’t supposed to start right now.”

“Oh. I would totally share some with you, but I didn’t bring any tampons. I’m sorry.” Alyssa yelled over the toilet flushing.

“It’s okay. I’ll just buy s—crap I didn’t bring my wallet with me. I new I forgot something.”

“Oh that ain’t good.” Alyssa said looking at Kayla through the mirror.

“It’s okay. I’ll just wrap toilet paper up and home it works.” Kayla looked concerned “I’m sure it will be okay.”

As the girls walked back to the RV Kayla hopped in the front seat looking at Harry. He looked ticked.

“Sorry I just couldn’t hold it.” Kayla smiled sheepishly.

Harry didn’t even respond. He just started the engine and drove off.

Everyone went back to what they were doing. Except for Harry and Kayla. He wouldn’t even speak a word to her. She knew he was mad.

“Hey Liam you haven’t had a turn to ride shotgun. You can come sit up here with Harry.”

Liam hopped up from his spot on the couch and ran up to take it.

Awhile passed and it was super awkward in the bus. Usually Harry and Kayla were talking and being all lovey dovey, but not now.

Kayla walked up to the front of the RV, “ Harry how much longer until we get to Wyoming?”

Harry didn’t answer.

“Harry, what time are we going to be in Wyoming?” Kayla asked again.

Still no answer.

Liam looked uncomfortably between Harry and Kayla, “probably an hour or so.”

“Thanks Li.” Kayla softly smiled.

As she walked back to her seat she couldn’t help but cry. Here she was, started her period with no pads and now her boyfriend wouldn’t talk to her. This trip was going so well.

As Harry drove down the highway all he could think about was the fact that the love of his life jumped out of a moving vehicle. She could have been hurt or worse. Liam was going on about some song he had recently found, but Harry couldn’t focus on anything but Kayla. He happened to look in the rierveiw mirror and saw Kayla. It broke his heart.

There she was sitting on the couch by herself, staring out the window with tears falling down her cheeks. How could he have been so mean to her? He slammed on the breaks almost sending Liam into the dash.

“Whoa what the heck Harry? What’d you do that for?” Niall said as he picked is phone up off the ground from where it flew off the table.

Harry said nothing. Just through it into park and jumped out of the drivers seat.

“He does realize he’s in the middle of the road right?!”

“We’re going to die!!”

Harry ran around the front of the RV and jumped in the back. Everyone was so confused what was happening.

“Babe I’m so sorry I was a jerk. I shouldn’t have treated you like that. It just scared me when you did that. I can’t lose you.” Harry said staring into Kayla’s year filled eyes.

Kayla didn’t say a word, just grabbed onto Harry for dear life and hugged him. Harry through the keys at Liam and told him to drive. Liam panicked a little as he had never driven anything so big before.

“Louis go sit up there with Liam and keep him company” Niall looked at Louis.

Louis ran up to the front like a giddy kid in a candy shop.

“I’m sorry I’m crying. It’s not just y-you.” Kayla sniffled. “ I started my period and didn’t bring anything and now I’m going to ruin all my pants.”

“Babe why didn’t you say anything. I have tampons in the bathroom for when you stay over.”

“I didn’t say anything because you wouldn’t talk to me.”

Harry rubbed his neck, “ I’m sorry. Do you want to go clean up and then take a nap.”

“That sounds lovely.” Kayla wiped under her eyes.

“Hey guys were going to go take a nap. Kaylas tired”

“Okay! I’ll keep driving straight” Liam stated from the drivers seat.

“You know a nap really sounds good right now. I think that’s what I’m going to do to.”

Everyone agreed with Zayn. So they all ended up taking naps.

While everyone was sound asleep Liam and Louis were actually getting along for once.

“Liam, I know I annoy you a lot and don’t say it much, but I really do love ya man.” Louis looked at Liam.

“Thanks mate I love you too” Liams eyes crinkled as he smiled.

Louis and Liam had always argued. Liam was so mature and Louis was... well like a big kid, so they always butted heads.

As they continue to drive it started raining. And by raining I mean pouring. Liam could barely see 2 feet in front of the RV. You could say he was panicking a little.

Harry awoke to the sound of rain hitting the window in his room. He quickly jumped up. You see Harry never liked people driving his RV; especially when it rained. As he passed through the kitchen he noticed it was already 5 pm. Had they really slept that long?

“Liam pull over and let me drive. It makes me nervous letting someone else drive my baby.”

“Gladly” Liam pulled over to the side of the road and let Harry jump in the front seat.

All the commotion woke everyone else up. As they continued going down the road, Harry murged onto the interstate.

“ I hate driving on the interstate”

“You could always let me drive.”

“Louis I would rather let a baby drive my RV.”

At this point everyone was back in the living area.

“Well I have to shower and I want to first. So I’m gonna go do that.” Alyssa walked towards the bathroom after grabbing her things.

All the girls ran to get their stuff so they wouldn’t be last. With that many people to shower it wasn’t until 9 that they were all showered and ready for bed. Niall and Harry were not riding in the front while Gigi and Maya were fighting over what movie to watch. They finally agreed on some random romance movie.

“We will have to figure out the sleeping arrangements. I’m obviously taking the master since it’s my RV. That leaves 2 bunks, the couch, and the floor.

“I’m not sleeping on the floor just saying” Louis said sounding like a royal pain.

“Maya and I can take the floor as long as we switch out everyday” Liam stated.

“Zayn and I can take the couch. It’s really no biggie.” Gigi offered.

“Okay that means Alyssa, Niall, Louis, and Eleanor get the beds”

As the night winded down everyone had gone to their sleeping areas except for Niall and Harry; they were still seated in the front of the RV.

“I think I’m just going to drive through the night. That way we can hit more places.”

“I’ll stay up with ya mate.”

As the night rolled on everyone was excited to see what tomorrow holds. Today may have been boring but tomorrow they were going to be stopping at quite a few places.

There is it! Ch 2 of “The Last Summer” we hope you guys liked it!! Chapter 3 will be up next Sunday night :)

[theoi-crow]

How was your trip to Delphi ? The place is really full of Apollo energy as most people say ? (P.S: I am glad both of you are back safe and sound ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

Awwwww thank you for the blessing!

Delphi was amazing!

We took a tour bus there (I generally don't like tour groups for these kinds of things because I like to take my time) but it's REALLY hard to get to Delphi without a tour bus or renting a car, so we had no choice.

On our way to Mt. Parnassus my head crown started tingling which means spirit activity for me. The closer we got the more it felt like someone was opening my head (not in a painful way, more like a flower blooming if that makes sense) and I began to hear these whispers the closer we got to the Pythia.

I could feel Apollo's energy EVERYWHERE! In my mind's eye, I could see a massive version of him standing over it, waiting and smiling.

It's funny because a couple of days before it, we met this guy that just had massive Apollo energy and the first thing he said was "it's going to rain. I predict that you two (me and Sky) are going to Delphi in a couple of days. Bring an umbrella." Which was weird because the weather forecast never said anything about rain and this was the first time we were meeting this guy. He smiled and said "I grew up in Delphi with my mom and my sister."

And you know what? The weather said nothing about rain and it rained. It only rained when we were in the bus or museum, it stopped when we got to Delphi but it rained a lot.

And the best part? When we were leaving the temple of Delphi this cat escorted us out. He walked with us from the Pythia's shrine all the way to the gate. And walked back up to the Pythia shrine when we left the gate.

As an offering to Apollo I cleaned up the garbage that tourists left lying around and there is a lot of crap tourists leave in holy sites so cleaning them up is a great offering.

As soon as we got back to the hotel we thanked Hermes for escorting and housing us (we stayed at Hotel Hermes) and I passed out from all the energy and was soooooo energetically hung over and tired for the next two days.

Delphi was one hell of a trip.

The most important thing I almost forgot to add!!!...

So after recovering from Delphi I was talking to this nice lady working for the museum in Athen's Agora and when I told her about Delphi she said "even though we Greeks are Christian we know Delphi is a powerful place of reflection. It's not uncommon for a Greek who is having a midlife crisis to go to Delphi, sit, reflect, stare at the Pythia's ruins and come back with a life changing idea."

[lucialovewriting]

BLOOD WITCH_THE SCRIPT

BLOOD WITCH is a sort of vampire with a talk show. She sustains herself through an unholy practice of skinning celebrity faces off and installing them seamlessly over the congealed dark matter that is her true form.

{(Blood Witch currently looks like Ellen DeGeneres, but with glittering black eyes.)}

These are transcripts from an episode of the BLOOD WITCH (BW) talk show with special guest FORREST GUMP (FG) {(They both sit politely, facing each other in softly lit cream colored leather recliners between potted peace lilies decorated with plastic flamingo inserts.)} TAPED IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE

BW So Forrest, I hear you have some famous things to say about life.

FG {(Hands folded politely in lap)} That's true Blood Witch. As I always say, Life is like a box of-

BW Yeah Yeah, we know. A bag of meow meow.

FG No, a box of-

BW Hey, whatever. TELL US! What's your deal? You smell so alive.

FG Well gosh, I was trying to say that life presents you with precious moments full of spontaneity and joy.

{(Blood Which makes the jerk off hand motion while the crowd goes AWWWWW)}

Or all sortsa pain, and unforeseeable confusion. The only thing you can do is savor it all by accepting each experience for what it is.

BW MMMM, such a sweet pair of eyes. Great. Some people still think you're a hero for that way you ran a really long time? They're very old and forgetful now. Tell them about that again.

FG I just felt like running.

{(AUDIENCE CLAPS FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES. CONFETTI BLASTS FROM THE CEILING. A PARADE OF CHILDREN IN MONSTER ENERGY DRINK SWAG RIDE SMALL DONKEYS FROM BACK STAGE, TRUMPETING THROUGH THE APPLAUDING AUDIENCE, HANDING EVERYONE GREEN ICE CREAM CONES WITH THE MONSTER ‘M’ STAMPED INTO EACH CONE.)}

BW {(Looking slyly off stage to where she knows a “greenroom" is located.)} So what you're saying is that you're super into Phish, you’re taking meow meow all the time with your beardo Marxist friends, and you have no love for the New Beyonce. You probably think she's not even a feminist -

FG {(Clearly Upset)} Now wait a minute. I did not SAY that! She is WONDERFUL gyrating on that black and white beach.

And - - - And you're eyes are really creeping me out. I can't tell where you're looking, please, stop.

BW {(Smiling and setting up the camera on her phone)} OOOO, Don't sweat, it'll ruin your stage makeup. Talk about your love life now -- Wait! Let me take a picture of you mad, then another of you happy, and post them side by side.

{(Gets up very close to Forrest for an up-nostril shot)}

Ha! So versatile, wow. Cuuuuuuute!

FG You done?

BW Two sec-onds…. Yup

FG.  {(Pushing camera and Witch away, and settling once more)} Well ok, my love life... I think I ran to put the past behind me. It wasn't working out between us... There was so much love. Gosh I've never felt so much for another person. But she didn’t want me to love her. Maybe fear got in the way? I don’t know but I still imagine what married life would be like for us.

BW {(Looking at photos just taken)} YaYaYa, heard That. Do you like to party? I've got some meow meow in the green room.

FG Meow meow… What's this, some Hollywood game? I feel like you aren't taking my art seriously.

BW It's fun you'll really like it.

FG Now you WAIT A MINUTE, I have an innocent character!

BW {(Deep sigh, and a soulful understanding face.)} Dear. I've lived for ALL OF TIME, and your platitudinous vomit pool of a character has aged about 20 years by now - it just gets tiring, listening to you. Taking it seriously? I interviewed Massoud about Bin Laden’s porn stash, Werner Herzog about Kinski’s philanthropic career, David Herzog about how no one knows who he is... I've interviewed Vlad the Impailer, Rihanna, Louis CK, all about their strange addictions to eating hair. Every Spice Girl in the back of a Greyhound Bus while speeding through a burning field, Maurice Ravel on a garden swing, Hunter S. Thompson in a ballgown. Everyone and anyone noteworthy. Are you bored now too? There's more! More simple tricks. More special feelings. And how dooo they use the power... All the same realizations. Over and over.

{(CROWD HISSES LIKE A PACK OF ANGRY CATS. THEY THROW THEIR LEFT OVER ICE CREAM AT THE STAGE. FORREST STARTS TO CRY QUIETLY. THEY BOTH FLINCH OCCASIONALLY WHEN HIT WITH SPRINKLES.)}

You've got to party now. It'll help us both forget how old we are. Come on, it'll be nice to let loose, just you and me.

{(BLOOD WITCH CARESSES FORREST'S THIGH, THEN SLOWLY RAISES HER HAND TO WIPE HIS TEARS AWAY.)}

FG I guess I'll try anything once - forgetting is nice sometimes.

BW That's great! Let me run and get my knife set, and I'll meet you in the back.

FG{(Gets up and walks off stage looking defeated. Loud metal clanging is heard coming from his new location out of view.)} Hey, this is a real funny green room. looks like a... bird cage. Can someone come get me outta here? It's cold away from the set lights. I don't like it... Hello?

BW{(Still on stage, standing with arms held out to the audience)} Ladies and gentlemen, that was Forrest Gump! Big round of applause. Stay tuned for next week, where I'll be hosting the show as Forrest Gump.

{(CHEERING, WHISTLING, STAMPING AUDIENCE)}

FG{(Feeling around the floor and walls of what he realizes is a dark cage with a love seat pushed against the bars he unwittingly walked into)} There's plastic on everything…

{(ONE WOMAN FROM THE AUDIENCE GETS UP, AND HUGGING THE WALL, SNEAKS AWAY TO THE GREEN ROOM AREA WHILE EVERYONE IS CHEERING)}

Woman{(Appearing at the bars of Forrest’s cage)} Forrest, I'm going to get you out of here, please don’t panic. I'm so sorry, this is horrible.

FG You're a real kind lady... But it's too late. I'm toast.

Woman No, not now! Not like this!! - Here, take these glasses. They'll give you the power to wrestle like a champion. When Blood Witch comes back, she'll step in the cage and try to eat your face, but you’ll be ready to fight her with these.

{(WOMAN HANDS FORREST THE GLASSES FROM THEY LIVE THROUGH THE BARS OF THE CAGE, AND SMILES WARMLY AS HE CLUTCHES THEM TO HIS HEART. REALLY THEY’RE RAY BANS. IT’S DARK BACK THERE AND BLOOD WITCH DIDN’T HAVE A FACE TO BEGIN WITH)}  

FG Now that is TOO much!

Woman It's true, that's why she looks like Ellen Degeneres now.

FG How do you know all this?

Woman {(Pulls back blonde hair to reveal a scar running around the circumference of her face)}

FG Ellen?

Woman Yes Forrest. It's too late for me, my face is unrecognizable. But you can save the rest of the celebrities by defeating that monster tonight.

{(Woman slips away vanishing into the surrounding shadows)}

FG Ok Ellen, I won't let you down.

{(BLOOD WITCH ENTERS, COVERED IN A SUIT OF JANGLING KNIVES, HUMMING GIDDILY)}

BW Ha. You're mine. I will wear your face. Haha. Watch me do a little dance. As I enter the ring I will blind you with magic. Put your faceless head in a bag of hungry rats. Ha. Damn. I’m bored all the time.

FG Not so fast Blood Witch!

{(FORREST PUTS THE GLASSES ON. HE CAN’T SEE ANYTHING BUT KNIFE GLINTS)}

BW Ha. Ha again. I'm covered in knives. Obey lol

FG No way - I fought in 'Nam!

{(THE TWO SQUARE OFF IN THE CAGE. TIME STANDS STILL. BLOOD WITCH MAKES THE FIRST MOVE, THROWS A PUNCH, IT SOUNDS LIKE CLASSIC CELERY FOLEY. FORREST DEFLECTS, BENDS HER ARM BACK. SHE KICKS FREE. THEY LOCK, SCRAP FURRIOUSLY. FINALLY, BLOOD SMEARED EVERYWHERE, THE TWO LAY WAISTED AND PANTING. BOTH ARE EXHAUSTED IN A STALEMATE.)}

BW You know, that was kinda hot Forrest. Who makes those glasses?

FG They were a gift.

BW I’m going to let you go but... It'd be great to see you again sometime?

FG Oh. Um. Certainly, Blood. Can I call you -

BW Sure honey.

{(BLOOD WITCH turns her back on FORREST to open the cage. In that moment he rushes for a knife loosened from the suit, and slices into her exposed neck)}

BW Bitch! {(She disappears in a puff of bats, and Ellen's face falls on the ground with a soft thud)}

FG I have a feeling this isn’t the end.

{(FORREST WALKS BACK ON STAGE SO AS TO EXIT THROUGH THE ABANDONED THEATRE BACK BY WAY OF THE AUDIENCE ENTRANCE. HE PASSES BY A DOZING SECURITY GUARD, AND EXITS TO THE STREET. ON THE STREET HE WALKS TO THE END OF THE BLOCK WHERE HE ASKES A KITCHEN WORKER ON BREAK FOR A LOOSE CIGARETTE. HE SMOKES IT AND WALKS BENEATH A SERIES OF STREET LIGHTS. A MOTHER SHIELDS HER CHILDREN FROM HIM, AS HE NOW LOOKS HORRIFIC AND KINDA COOL, BUT DEFINITELY WET WITH BLOOD. EVENTUALLY HE FINDS A PARK BENCH TO SIT DOWN ON. HE STARES INTO THE MIDDLE DISTANCE.)}

Writer’s note: I created this script to be realized through animation in 2014 - hence the dated Beyoncé reference and the mention of meow meow which was something people were afraid of for about six months of that year. I exhumed this iconic portrait of struggle from my phone’s notes this Halloween for its paranoiac charm, and because I didn’t feel like leaving the house, or working on anything logical. In hindsight I realize casting Ellen Degeneris as a face stealing vampire who is also simultaneously trying to perform kindness upon celebrities that dabbled in shameful wars was quite prescient, as the Ellen who is with us now has befriended George Bush (who is a bit like Forrest Gump) and pretended to be Cardi B on the toxic positivity show. Which of my scathingly accurate predictions will short circuit the deep state next?

[jlf23tumble]

1D Day, Hour Three

Almost halfway through this hour, which is almost halfway through this day, is the point where Louis Tomlinson stops having fucks left to give and starts getting real. He’s still a professional throughout hour three (not like Harry in hour two, oof), but god, how??? Everything here is a disaster, and it’s infuriating when you consider that a) this must have been somewhat planned out (the band is HUGE, allegedly 32 million people are watching), and b) it’s being produced in LA, presumably with easy access to professionals who have had some experience with live shows (since, what, the 1930s???). Anyway, I would have loved to hear the choice words Louis no doubt had for Ben Winston when he ran away during one of the Google+ Hangouts, lmao.

When I first watched this two years back, Niall’s nervous laughter nearly drove me insane, but this time around, I’m loving the subtle nuances w/r/t wtf is happening on this here day as Louis’s rage starts to climb and Niall’s Slytherin core starts to emerge. Deets under the cut.

Niall and Louis literally burst through a paper wall to launch hour three and reveal Niall’s lilac hair (also revealed: the fact that Niall’s “a diva,” according to Louis). The color’s hardly even noticeable, but Niall’s all worked up about it, and I’m betting he had to do this because he has no tattoos, so everyone wanted to freak his Virgo ass out with something “permanent.”

The first bit is so tiresome (Louis’s childhood friend, Stan, forcing the Milkshake City staff to perform the world’s sleepiest version of “Rock Me”), but I’m a huge fan of Stan’s for the Larry purple dildo video alone (ICONIC; ping me if you need a link), plus I love the tidbit about the time Harry came in for a milkshake for himself and “a friend back at home.”

After we survive this long-ass bit of fill, Louis and Stan take the piss out of each other and banter a bit with Niall, which is all pretty hilarious and also makes me sad in the key of “oh how I wish that was me.”

Because it wasn’t at all tedious in hour one, it’s time for another Guinness Book of World Records challenge (Louis: “Of course it is”), this time balancing coins on faces. Hey, speaking of faces, did you know that men are at peak hotness between the ages of 32 and 36? This guy is 22 years old, doing the stupidest task ever, help me, Jeebus:

Next up is the randomizer, which randomly pulls celebrity videos, and this is when the in-ears start acting up for Louis, who’s midway through Robbie Williams asking them for the best live performer they’ve ever seen, prompting Louis to give Ben the evil eye off camera and go off script to say Michael Buble, ha.

Some random sports man (update: Doncaster Rovers manager) demands that they do pressups up and burpees, and Louis gives us a surprisingly strong and steady nine pressups before proving why he’s most relatable:

After fits of unnecessary laughter from Niall, and a lot of exasperation about the technical problems so far from Louis (friend, you’ve seen nowt yet), we get the best VT from this entire day, the iconic bts video for “Talk Dirty to Me,” and if you watch nothing from any of this, please tell me you’ve seen it in full for Zayn the goofball! Liam’s hanky code shoutouts! Harry’s hip chub! Louis and his glorious torso! Niall in full Farmer Ted mode!

Next up, we get astronauts congratulating the D from space, and whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I mean, honestly, WHY? Are these astronauts fans? Is anyone besides Niall into space? I know there’s an intense interest in making space interesting for teens (how many times have people on the international space station beamed their way into MTV award shows at this point), but whyyyyy.

Scott tells us we’ll soon see Doctor Who (mild interest from Nouis) and Simon Cowell (Louis: “SIMON COWELL, WOO HOO, I LOVE THAT GUY!” Niall: “Simon GROWL”), but first up is Doctor Who, and this is where the wheels fall off the bus, technically speaking. First, there’s a 15-minute delay (!!), so Nouis are standing around while the Doctor handles some other interview for the BBC. Eventually, they connect, and Louis makes the understatement of the year (“This is gonna be tough”) as both the video and audio go full Inception and echo in and around each other to make us all woozy:

Louis again understates the chaos happening on screen by saying, “I think actually that this is not working,” and then begging for any VT, they don’t care, help (the VT is Niall being all humblecholy about their success and Ireland and something something, I’m not actually interested, sorry).

We come back to Louis still losing it, curious as to how they can have a link to space but can’t have a studio in LA link to the BBC, and yeah. YEAH. But enough about that, it’s Google+ Hangout (lololololol) time, and we don’t get too many answers to these vital fan questions because Ben is in Louis’s ear so much that Louis starts arguing with him about it and eventually runs off stage to yell at him in person, and god, it’s glorious. READY 2 FIGHT:

Because this is an utter trainwreck, the team decides to do another live link again, this time to the X Factor while it’s airing in the UK, and it’s…yeah, not good. Just awful, cameras out of synch, no sound, etc. Save us, random VT of Denmark!!

Hearing Louis say “tits up” is my new religion, but honestly, this chitchat with McFly is such a revelation. Apparently, they worked with Niall on something, so they gossip with Louis about what a diva Niall is (!) and how he brought a friend of his named Shawn around (!!), and there’s a lot of inside jokes I know nothing about, but I’m LIVING for Niall looking at all these boys on the screen and saying, “I feel like I’m alone in my bedroom,” and Louis’s response, “Okay, Niall!”

“Don’t Forget Where You Belong” is announced, but we don’t get to hear it (although we DO get to see some sweet Nouis dancing), and two more girls go into the call box of doom. Because this show’s producers can’t go ten minutes without a disaster, there’s increasingly urgent screaming from Louis to Ben to just roll the Zayn graffiti VT, which takes at least a full, tense minute to post. 

Zayn is incredibly hot, but my heart breaks for him saying it’s their 127th show, and he’s feeling inspired and creative to make art, and I just wonder how??? How are you not banging your head against a wall instead of painting it? Anyway, it’s a lot of spraypainting/artist au Zayn come to life, with Liam working out shirtless nearby and heaping praise on just about every single thing Zayn puts on the wall (awwwww). Also some nice Flicker reference points (Niall: “Zayn, will you draw a picture of me?” Zayn: “No. I don’t like you”). Ouch.

We come back to Rebecca, an opera singer who’s here to sing some tweets, and this is a horrible idea that Ben Winston stole from Jimmy Kimmel, right? When he used to have Josh Groban sing tweets a million years ago? Anyway, this ripoff doesn’t work because nobody can really understand the words, but credit to Louis for trying to cheat and speed this whole thing up:

When Rebecca finishes, Louis says he got emotional (Niall just laughs), and this poor girl says not to worry, she’ll do more later, and lmao at Louis: “Oh, OH, there’s more in store, Niall” (Niall: “Can’t wait”), sighhhhh, it’s torture for us all, tbh. Anyway, time for some Belgian VT and reinforcement that Louis’s part Belgian, which is why it’s super relevant, I guess.

The last bit is back to Dynamo, to redo the magic bit that failed with Harry in hour two. I’m still curious about this trick because there’s a piece of paper locked in this box (Harry’s dick holds the key to it), and tl/dr, Harry says April for the month an hour ago, but Louis says November, and sure enough, November plus all the other details are in this locked box. HMMMMM. Me as Harry’s finger delivering the key immediately in this segment, meaning he’s literally right there watching all of it. Pick someone supportive, etc.

Anyway, back to the trick, there’s a bit where Louis says he told Dynamo all this information earlier (Niall starts chewing his nails a bit ferociously at that), but then he backpedals brilliantly later about what an amazing, stunning trick, etc., and this group of sneaky liars, god, I love ‘em!

We get more terrible highlights, which sucks, because I kind of liked the way Louis was asking Niall what HIS highlights were, but never mind, let’s get Ben’s. I’ll leave you with this picture that makes me think of Louis hosting Family Feud, you know, the final round, when you have to see how your answers stacked up with a family member’s and if, together, you cleared 200 (“Name someone a person may confess a crime to”):

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Henry Cavill: Uh-oh (WOC or just any woman tbh)

Warnings:Fluff and Cute af

You walk and spin around in the garden that your mother had grown for 2 years with headphones on when you stop to look at the sun. You don’t realize but you are facing away from young Henry gardening and he notices you. You turn around to see Henry and say “Hi.”

He says “Hi you must the daughter of Ms. Y/L/N.”

You nod and say “I am yes and you are?”

He stops digging and says “I’m Henry.”

You smile and say “Nice to meet you Henry.”

You put a hand out and he says “My hands are dirty I don’t want to shake and make your hand dirty.”

You shrug and say “I don’t mind my mom’s the stuck up one not I.”

You laugh and he shakes your hand smiling. Henry says “You’re cute by the way.”

You smile and say “Thanks Henry you’re cute too.”

You say “I know you have been working hard out here for my wicked snob of a mother so I will like to make you some lemonade if it’s okay.”

Henry smiles and says “I would like that.”

You nod and walk into the house then start to make lemomade.While stirring the cups of lemonade you look out the window and stare at Henry gardening when he pauses to turn to see you staring at him. You quickly look away and slowly lookup to him smiling at you making you smile slightly. You finish up and walk back out to see Henry finishing up then he says “Hey I guess you enjoyed the view.”

You laugh and say “Shut up.”

He laughs back and says “Don’t worry I enjoyed my view too and plus I finished for the day.”

You say “Come sit down with me on the swing bench.”

Henry nods and you both sit on the bench then start to drink the lemonade. You say “So Henry tell me some things about yourself.”

Henry says “Well I am a gardener for your mother,I have 4 siblings, I also do part time acting hoping to make it big one day, I was born in St Helier Jersey in the UK, I am very organized and I am a Taurus in case you wanted to know.”

You squint looking at him and say “You knew I like horoscopes you smartass I see.”

You both laugh then Henry asks “What about you?”

You say “I am a semi-organized person, I would like to work in the film industry too just not sure what to be honest, I am a only child, I like to be as different and not stuck up like my mother as possible.”

Henry nods and say “Interesting.”

You say “I really hope acting pushes through because although I like the company I don’t working for my mother of all people for too long. You’re young like me and deserve much more better I life.”

Henry says “Thanks and wait I never got your name.”

You say “Oh I’m Y/N.”

Henry says “I like the name.”

You say “Thanks Henry, want to pick some flowers with me?”

Henry says “ I’m not sure if that’s okay.”

You say “It’s okay I swear it’ll be fun my mom shouldn’t complain too much.”

You both finish up the lemonade and run through the flowers then pick flowers.You both start to jump together while dancing when you both trip and you both laugh. You look at Henry and say “I love seeing you from this view.”

Henry says “What?”

He looks and realizes he’s laying on top of you then quickly gets up.He helps you up and says “I’m so sorry.”

You say “It’s okay Henry I liked it.”

Henry says “Really?”

You nod and kiss him softly leading him to kiss back. You smile and hold him close to you. You laugh when Henry bites your nose softly. Henry slips his number in your pocket and you continue to smile.You don’t realize it but your mother looks on through the window as you and Henry laugh together.Later on in the day Henry leaves to go and he seems upset when he leaves.

You look and your mom says “Henry has been fired because you seem to be too friendly.”

You run upstairs and pack your stuff up then walk down the stairs. Your mom asks “Where do you think you’re going young lady?”

You say “I’m doing something I planned to do a long time ago.”

You run out the house and walk off into the night then call Henry. He answers and tells you where he lives then you take the bus to where he is. You knock on his door and he opens the door then instantly smiles when he sees you. You kiss him softly and he invites you in then you say “I’m so sorry you got fired.”

Henry says “It’s okay seriously I mean it, it’s my fault I should’ve been more professional.”

You say “Henry I am so sorry it’s my fault my mom saw us and said that you were being too friendly.”

Henry looks confused and says “That’s horrible I shouldn’t have done this.”

You say “Henry it’s okay I left the home.”

Henry says “You didn’t have to Y/N. I don’t want you to be out here when you have a house and stuff. I just live in an apartment.”

You say “I had to I need freedom from her.”

Henry says “Maybe we need to stop this.”

You say “No Henry...”

Henry nods and says “I know it sounds horrible but I don’t want you to get hurt.”

You start to cry and he holds you close to him then says “I want you to be so much better without me at least for now Y/N. I don’t want you to carry me as heavy weight in your life we need to just break apart and now..”

You say “Fine!”

You push Henry away and leave then slam the door. You sit at the bus stop and cry at the bus stop then go to a diner then have tea as your dad scoots in the booth.He asks “What’s wrong ?”

You tell your dad what happened and he says “I’m sorry baby girl.”

He hugs you and kisses your forehead then says “I’ll be back, I’ll finish this last customer.”

Your dad leaves and when finished cleans up then lets you in his apartment. You walk into the spare room he had for you and flop on the bed to sleep when your phone keeps buzzing. You start to focus in college and work with your dad at the diner as the years go by.

Years later you find yourself on the set of Justice League when you see a hot guy looking at you. You look at Superman and he starts checking you out while you stare.

You smile and wave when he walks over to you then says “Well,Well,Well, if it isn’t Y/N.”

You look at his face and realize it’s Henry then you walk away. You hear Henry say “Hey Wait Y/N I need to talk to you.”

You turn around and when you turn around you look up to see Henry towering over you. You say “We don’t need to speak.”

Henry says “I haven’t seen you since the incident and I wanted to tell you I want to give us another shot without interference of parents.”

You ask “Why should I give you another shot?”

Henry says “I believe we should give another shot in this because I haven’t fallen in love with another woman like I did with you when we were younger. I need you in my life and without you it couldn’t be complete not even all this money I get can replace the love you gave me.”

You stare and say “I’ll think about it.”

Henry says “Well here’s my number and I will like to take you out on a proper date.”

You nod and walk away to finish directing the movie with someone.After all the press and the movie runs its course Henry takes you on a boat date then hold your hand while you both sit at a table.Henry says “I missed you so much and I did call but you didn’t answer so I didn’t want to push it.”

You say “Yeah you broke my heart that tends to happen a lot when you break someone’s heart.”

Henry asks “I’m so sorry how could I repay you for being a dick?”

You laugh and say “I’m not sure you really gave me trust issues Henry.How will I know you won’t break my heart again?”

Henry looks you in the eyes and say “I was young,broke, and dumb just like that song I hear all those young kids singing. I have liked other women but never loved them or felt as attached to them as I am to you. We were young and you were there for me giving me a freedom I didn’t know exist. Seeing you smile made my heart skip a beat every time I saw it and you gave me a rebellious side I never knew was there. You are so perfect Y/N I am madly in love with you and only you. I can’t say it anymore I love you and all of you because you’re you....I love you.”

You look and kiss Henry passionately then he kisses back. You smile and say “I love you too Henry.”

You rests your foreheads against each other then laugh and start to eat together while clinking your glasses together. You and Henry sit and just catch up on everything on the boat as the day goes on. You feel as time goes by slow motion but fast at the same time and don’t want it to end.

Years later Henry sits in his seat when an interview says “I know this is a pretty private question but we all want to know if it is true if you are engaged to Y/N and if so how’s the fiancée life?”

Henry says “That is very private but I am engaged to Y/N and it’s honestly one of the best titles to have with her as my other half. I can’t wait to marry her one day, she such an amazing woman and I would fight someone for her at this point. That woman is who I want in my future she makes me humble of people who want to be in my life.”

The crowd says “Awwwww.”

Henry starts to smile big and rub his face. You look from backstage and smile while putting your hands over your heart. You stare in awe and he looks at you then winks at you. You blow him a kiss and watch the interview continue on.

This is the end but, should I make a part 2??? Let me know if you want a part 2 just in case.

[skarletterambles]

The Mummy Returns Re(-re-re-re-re-) watch blog

I might be short a few “re-”s there, as I know I saw this four times in the theater, and plenty of times on DVD, but close enough.

Below are my thoughts, typed as I watched (while eating the pizza leftover from last night’s viewing of the first movie)...

[Disclaimers:  Spoilers for both The Mummy (1999) and, obviously, The Mummy Returns (2001)  Expect lots of squeeing and/or crying over Imhotep/Anck-su-namun.]

And here comes The Rock in his first film appearance.  All those big movies he’s been in since owe a debt to this one.  *insert sound clip of “You’re Welcome” from Moana*

Anubis needs to feed his warriors better.  They’re way too skinny.

Got to love the detail where there’s a carving of Anck-su-namun and Nefertiri in ritual combat on the wall Evy and Rick are excavating.  One of those things you don’t notice on first viewing.

“No harm ever came from opening a chest.”  Evy, I know you’re doing a cute callback, but you were there when the Americans suffered the consequences of opening the canopic jar chest in the last movie.

Since Evelyn is actually the reincarnation of the Bracelet’s official guardian, why did her taking it trigger the booby traps?  I guess that kind of role doesn’t carry over.

Oh joy, more scarab beetles.

I know we have to be able to recognize him, but it’s silly that Ardeth was spying on the Hamunaptra digsite with only a hood on.  Someone--especially Meela--would have recognized his face tattoos.  ... Wait, did I just suggest covering up that gorgeous face?  Never mind!

Rick/Ivy = relationship goals

Meela:  “And your point is?” Jonathan:  “My point is I told you so you wouldn’t kill me!” Meela:  “When did we make that arrangement?”

I wonder if she collected her snake before they left.  Otherwise the O’Connells (or their housekeeping staff) will have a nasty surprise later.

I could listen to Rick, Ardeth and Jonathan bicker and banter all day.

Notice how Alex gets annoyed when Rick ruffles his hair.  So it’s not just Imhotep’s head-ruffles he hates.  Heh.

In my drooling over Rick, Ardeth, and Imhotep I had almost forgotten that Lock-Nah is built like a brick shithouse.  Nice.

There’s a camera shot that appears to show the POV of Imhotep inside the hardened goo.  So I guess he could tell what was going on...sort of.

Both Alex and Evy recognize Curator Hafez from their time in the British Museum.  There’s room for some wacky prequel stories there.

I love that little “Eew, whatever,” reaction from Hafez when Imhotep is done declaring his love for Anck-su-Namun.  LOL

I still want to know how Meela managed to snap her fingers with her gloves on.

Imhotep recognizes Rick and roars “YOU!” and Rick clips him in the shoulder with a hail of bullets, knowing full well it won’t hurt him, just as a big “eff you, too.”  Love it.

LOL @ “Honey, whatcha doin’?  These guys don’t use doors” and “Oh, I hate mummies...”  So many funny lines in this part.

That’s twice--no, thrice--the bad guys have drawn blood on Ardeth tonight.  Leave him and his glorious body alone, you big meanies!  :P

Alex has a good point:  props to Jonathan for driving that bus safely through all that mummy battling.  (Well, mostly safely.  Better than I would have done, anyway.)

Ardeth geeking out over his first bus ride is too freaking adorable for words.

I just noticed the parallel between Rick hanging on the edge of the drawbridge, near tears in desperation as he watches the kidnappers driving away with his son, and, well...you know which scene.  Sigh.

I could watch that flashback kiss between Imhotep and Anck-su-namun a dozen times on repeat...if I could manage to time it perfectly so I could rewind before he morphs back into a mummy.  Because eew.  LOL, but eew.

Imhotep tried to be nice to Alex, talking to him as gently as he could (which is still raspy and scary, but he was trying) and explaining how the bracelet works, and in return Alex told him how his dad would kick his ass.  I don’t blame Imhotep for taking off his mask and scaring the kid then.  :p

Then Imhotep takes off his robes before attacking the mercenaries.  Freedom of movement?  The cloth wouldn’t survive the magic regeneration?  He wanted to be naked because he knew his girl was peeking through the door?  All of the above?  Who knows? 

LOL @ Meela squeamishly tip-toeing around the desiccated corpses of the mercenaries.  It’s worth it to get to the now-normal-looking Imhotep, though.  ;)

I want to slap the editors for inter-cutting the big, romantic reunion with Alex tampering with a filthy toilet.

I know Imhotep wanted to stop his minions from shooting Alex, but yeeting those guys into the pillars was totally unnecessary.  I bet he was showing off for Meela.

...  And I was too busy holding my breath and freaking out during the big duel/regicide flashback to type anything.  Oh well.

I did notice one moment where Imhotep is watching the women fight and something goes wrong for Anck-su-namun and he gives this little involuntary gasp.  Subtle, but neat.

What I like to refer to as The Look(tm) is such a great moment, though.  They actually slow down the film as Imhotep and Anck-su-namun make eye contact, drawing out that stolen, subtle moment of intimacy just like it must have felt for them.  *swoon*

Back to modern times... Once again Imhotep watches out for Alex by making Lock-Nah put him down and stop threatening him.  I mean, yeah, he’s also about to try killing the boy’s parents, so he’s not perfect, but still...  I thank that attempted head-ruffle was his way of apology...  *polishes villain-fangirl goggles*

It’s been awhile since I mentioned how breathtakingly good-looking Ardeth is.  But he is.  Just sayin’.

Imhotep looks conflicted and even a little sad when Hafez says they don’t need the boy anymore.  He doesn’t give the order to kill him, either.  Just makes a vague statement about needing the bracelet.  It may be a coincidence, but he even smirks right after someone says “The boy!”  (i.e. Alex is making a run for it).  It could just be my fangirly brain playing tricks, but I really think a case can be made for Imhotep having a soft spot for the kid.

I see Jonathan has learned the “scream at things” technique from Rick.  Alas, it didn’t save the red-robed guy from the pygmy mummies.  (I swear I know that actor from somewhere...  The red-robed guy, not the pygmy mummy.)

I can’t believe I still get a tiny bit misty-eyed at Evy’s death.  I’ve seen this movie at least ten times, and even the FIRST TIME I knew she wasn’t going to stay dead.  But man, the actors sell it.

I just noticed that after he loses his powers, but before he takes off his black robe, Imhotep and Anck-su-namun were holding hands while walking through the pyramid.  Awwwww!

Mighty brave of Rick to attack Imhotep without knowing he had lost his powers.   Luckily Imhotep’s split lip bleeds, tipping Rick off right away...and then the blood disappears in the next shot.  Yay, continuity!

Everyone remembers the Scorpion King himself as being the CGI lowlight of the film, but those Anubis warriors don’t hold up very well, either.

God bless Arnold Vosloo for doing this fight scene in a loincloth.  I’ve read how punishing it was to film without the padding that Brendan Fraser had under his costume, but the eye candy was worth the sacrifice.  Heh.

I was too busy watching to type much during the climax, but that’s just as well, as it’s hard to articulate “YAY NO OMG WOOHOO NO LOL WHAT AAAH YEAH NOOOOOOOOOOO DAMN IT.”

After the Anubis army went poof I was like, “Okay, great, we won, let’s all call a truce and get out of here before anyone else gets killed.”  But did the stupid movie listen to me?  Noooooo.  Instead, there are Rick and Imhotep, hanging onto the cliff for dear life.

Time for the worst experiment in reverse psychology ever: Rick:  “Go!  Save yourself!” Evy:  *does the opposite* Imhotep:  “Help me!” Anck-su-namun:  “does the opposite*

Sigh.

Fight or flight is a deeply ingrained response, and I just can’t bring myself to hate Anck-su-namun for going with the wrong reaction in that moment of panic.  It’s simply another facet of the tragedy that is their love story.  That doesn’t make it hurt any less to watch, though.  There are tears in Imhotep’s eyes right before he lets go.  Actual tears!   Even Rick and Evy look like they feel sorry for him!  Aaah!  I can’t take it!

As he was letting himself fall I maaaay have screamed at the TV, “Don’t make me write fanfic to fix this--oh wait, I already did.”  Heh.

Better luck next reincarnation, you two.

Then the good guys escape and live happily ever after, yada yada yada.  The end.

(And no, we don’t speak of the third movie.  It doesn’t exist.  I saw it once, was amused by Jonathan opening a nightclub called “Imhotep’s,” and found the rest totally frustrating and forgettable.  So nope, there are only two movies in this series.)

[minyo129]

{Fanacc}170902 SHINee World 2017 ~FIVE~ Special Edition in Tokyo Dome

Minho is soooooo much more hype than usual rn and it's really no mystery as to why. Bless him we don't deserve him. [ cr:keys_knees ]

*Taemin's hair was too messy and the fans started laughing! Minho went over and tidied it for him

They are doing Lucifer with 4 very young dancers!!!!! Super nice

Yes, they are doing the stages with 4 members but Onew's part remains (music). Only for certain songs, a dancer will stand-in for Onew

SHINee's selective predebut/debut pics/after debut pics are showing over the VCR

SHINee are on a SHINee bus and going around the dome (shooting their signed coloured balls

Minho is looking so cute like a little boy in the cap and denim top (that looks like a raincoat!)

During Your Number, Minho was the one who ended and dialed a number. He went "SHINee World , (we/i) really like you!"

SHINee says this is the first time they are gonna perform "Tell me Your name" (and minho pretended to be very nervous)

There's this "bunch/strands" of taemin's hair that keeps "standing" up so the members teased him : "is this your keypoint today?"

Key pointed to the fans and then went "muacks"

The four of them are holding hands a while ago and walked together to thank the fans *awwwww*

Them : we hope that we will come back to the stage very soon as 5 members Key seems to be holding back his tears. Can't bear to see his face like this          [ cr:minhoclove] 

the main stage just picked itself up and rolled all the way to the back of the stadium wtf wtf

taemin's hair was sticking straight up and minho fixed it

the little kids from the JAT vcr are on stage dancing to lucifer with SHINee

when SHINee came out the screen split in half horizontally and SHINee were on a platform that came out from behind and lowered down it was really high up

it's really hot in the dome SHINee are drenched lol seriously key flipped his hair and sweat went flying OTL

minho tossed the prop cup to taemin and he totally failed at catching it and it went flying during your number 

key almost fell during his chair move during your number again... he didn't, but almost did  he was laughing after

the tell me your name choreo is sexy omfg omfg rip there are cameras in the stage pointed up at SHINee and they are thrusting towards the stage (and the cameras)

SHINee really worked so hard to pull this concert together and they gave it their 110% despite the circumstance, i'm so thankful and proud

The concert was such a roller coaster ride of emotions... Tell Me Your Name will haunt me forever.. and i'll see it again tomorrow [ cr: keyoemi ]

Everyone screaming for Onew so loud when he's on the screen

Minho being extra lol Love it

They're showing OLD photo shoot footage while they talk about each member

During Juilete Minho was playing around with the band too. So cute &   Key and Taemin were playing with each other XD

Minho is making fun of the way Jjong talks AGAIN LOL

Minho covered some of Onew's lines!  

MINHO WAS AMAZING. WHAT EVEN. GET IT FLAMING CHARISMA.  Minho is giving hearts like crazy

They showed Minho's face when Taemin was talking. He looked totally confused LOL

Key and Minho started singing and dancing to All Night as they left the stage Lol

Taemin and Jonghyun took off their jackets! Sleeveless shirts  

NEW VERSION OF KEEPING LOVE AGAIN. Minho had an extra rap?

Jinki is in the ending practice video  [ cr: @justrolyn ]

Jjong mentioned Onews name but rly just stated he wasn't there. They don't cover his parts and ther a lots of vcr with him too

There's a backup dancer for Onews part during Sherlock

The most important fact for today's dome: Key cried in the end because of sadness. Not happiness. They were SAD. Genuinely sad. [ cr: @Myuux2 ]

At the end of Diamond Sky the camera showed a fanboard saying "SHINee FOREVER

Minho did his best today to make us laugh, he was showering everyone with love, throwing even more hearts and smiles than ever! ♡

Tell Me Your Name was definitely the highlight of this concert. They started on the floor, then took off their jsckets showing low V cuts.

During one ment Taemin tried to say something but was struggling with words and he looked so cute that Minho hugged him XD

Key and Minho danced a bit of SNSD's All Night during MTTM dance break and at the end XD [ cr: @anneaviel ] 

I cant stop crying when i hear Jinki's voice n the members were so emo during Melody

They are always leaving a space on the stage for Jinki

For ABOAB, we were facing Jinki's placeand it was empty

Makes me  emo cz they left a gap where Jinki stands and no one covered for his voice.. it was there loud n clear but only he wasn't there

During Melody idk i think all the members got emo u could see it in their face n Key really emphasized the line "keep waiting for u

But the 4babies really gave in 200% to make up for Jinki .. i am sure Jinki will be so proud [ cr: RealUnkle1932 ]

Minho was so cute and did a lot of aegyo. Key was sexy as hell. Jjong was so passionate about signing.

Tell Me Your Name is extremely epic. And sexy. And Taemin was too much to survive.

Today's queueing was extreme. My first time and I understood how hard is to get goods. [ cr: RealKasik91 ]

the bond between shinee and shinee world just makes me cry so hard

MINHO TOOK THE PHONE AND SAID SHINEE WORLD I RLY LIKE U

MJNHO SAID I LOVE U AND DID A HEART HUHU

MINHO IS SOAKED IN SWEAT OMFG

STAGE HOVERING OVER ARENA SECTION

SHAWOLS LAUGHED WHEN THE BACKUP DID THR SHOULDER SHAKING PART OF JINKI LMFAO

Taem: 1st floor people are u having fun Taem: 2nd floor people are u having fun Taem: 3rd floor people are u having fun Everyone: YEEEEE

THE SCREEN FOCUSED ON A FANBOARD SAYING 5HINEE FOREVER

[ pic cr: @pressitmvs]

MINHO JUMPED TO SAY HI TO OUR AREA HUHU

They were saying "lets go lets go" while running to our side looool

minho looks like hes holding back so hard huhu

theyre bowing to every side too :(((

[ cr: @blancbutter] 

[esteliensmainblog]

I just need to complain.  Today was mostly a really crappy day and I haven’t stopped to complain about it yet and it’s stressing me out because all the things keep running through my head.  It wasn’t even that awful, just annoying.

While typing this, it’s red-squiggly-underlining EVERY word I type until I get to the end of the word.  Definition.  Of.  Irritating.

Over the summer, I was used to sleeping about 12 hours per night, and now that school (work) has started again, I’m down to more like 8 hours.  That absolutely should be enough, but I’m so tired that I can hardly get up in the mornings.  Part of that is just having insanely vivid dreams (multiple per night, every night) and waking up sort of disoriented.  So I’m probably going to have to start going to bed super early so that I can get to work on time.   I was supposed to get up at 5:30 this morning and leave around 7:05, but I woke up at 7.

I hurried and was nearly ready to leave at 7:15, but as I did my makeup, I looked in the mirror and saw (and felt) a big, black spider (wolf? parson? idk) run (FAST) up the side of my NECK.  I freaked out and was dancing around trying to get rid of it, shaking out my hair (the biggest downside of long, curly hair is that things can hide in it), but couldn’t find it.  I assumed it was probably gone, but was still terrified.  A couple minutes later, it ran DOWN my leg from under my skirt.  I managed to kill it once it was on the floor.  Absolutely horrifying.  I don’t know if it bit me, but I was freaked out enough that I gave up on trying to be on time for work.  Did my eyeliner while driving and it went about as well as expected.  Badly.  It went badly.

When I leave a few minutes late for work, the traffic is awwwwwful.  And there was construction too, so I had to sit and wait for a long time.  So I didn’t get to work til 7:58 (supposed to be there for devotions at 7:45, so I missed that entirely), and I had to be at the other end of the building for bus duty at 7:59.  Threw my stuff in my room and ran to bus duty.  That mostly went smoothly, until this one parent got there.  It’s pretty straightforward how dropping off your kids at the school works.  Buses go to one parking lot, parents just dropping kids off at the door go to the other parking lot and line up, parents who want to walk their kids in park somewhere and walk to the office.  Easy peasy.  But for the second time, this mom drove into the bus line and tried to get her kids in that door.  So for the second time, I had to explain to her to go in the office door.  She was not happy.  It’s very not my problem (I don’t even get paid to do bus duty) and I don’t enjoy the attitude.

As always, I had to run from that end of the building back to my building (my room is about as far away from the buses as possible - it’s very very far) for my first period class.  Why they assigned this duty to someone with a first period class is beyond me.  Why not have the librarian (who is 20 feet from the door) do it?  So my first class always starts late.  I can just barely get there in time for it to start, but then have to turn on the computer, take attendance, and just generally get organized and catch my breath.  Classes are so short - I hate wasting time like that.

School was fine overall.  Classes all went smoothly.  French 3 wanted to learn about Mount St Michel (which is one of my favorite places in France), so we checked it out on Google Maps Street View and talked about it and one of the kids played the ukulele.  The seventh graders thought that listening to a grammar song would stink, but ten seconds into it, they were giggling SO hard.  One kid, who’s usually pretty serious, said he weirdly liked the grammar songs we were listening to and didn’t want class to end.  It’s always a little victory when the kids enjoy class, even if it’s something silly like Grammaropolis songs.

But then there was last period.  I was so excited to get to teach a French Exploratory elective for 7th-8th graders this year (for the first time) and I so wanted it to be good.  Today was the first day of it and... I absolutely BOMBED it.  I was exhausted and couldn’t think straight or say anything that made sense.  Like, I was listing reasons to study French and just couldn’t think of more than three, even though there are TONS and I’ve talked about them so many times before.  There were only three students and they’re all quiet and polite, so as I was just a mental mess (I don’t know how to describe it.. it’s kind of like the brain fog of a migraine? just unable to think or communicate, and wanting nothing more than to take a nap immediately), they all sat silently and stared at me.  Ack.  I needed the first day to go well so they’d tell their friends to join the class. I don’t think that’s gonna happen.  Tomorrow is the second day, too, so somehow, while being this tired, I have to put together a stellar second lesson that’s coherent and organized and fun.

And then after school, I was getting ready for tomorrow.  During the Friday spelling test, I always let the kids listen to music (like not individually but on my computer), and they create the playlist by suggesting songs they like.  Last year, it was a mix of really great music (contemporary Christian songs, Imagine Dragons, upbeat pop stuff) and silly songs (memes and Jacob Sartorius).  This year, I’ve only been able to add 3 of the songs they suggested so far: two Christian songs and... Baby by Justin Bieber.  That one I added very reluctantly, and it’s probably a joke.  The rest they suggested are VERY inappropriate.  I’ve never had that issue before????  So on the suggestion sheet, I marked those songs as not on the playlist and wrote “Y’all need Jesus.”  It was frustrating.  I’m going to just play some Christian music instead.

When I got home, one of my new flip flops broke, so I had to walk through the yard with one shoe on.

The one big positive today was that Chick Fil A left each teacher a card today for a free meal, so I went straight there after work and got a chicken sandwich.  Free food is one of few things that really help after a crappy day.

Another little positive is that not one but two students apologized today for separate things from yesterday.  One had been too noisy in my class and had to sit in the hall, so he promised he’d be good today (and he was! just very giggly!), and another had been upset about the dress code (though I didn’t think what she said was problematic in any way) and apologized for being rude.  They’re such sweet kids.  I guess at the end of the day, that’s the other thing that makes it less crappy.  They’re just all such good kids.

Adding another positive: Watching some Dan and Phil because they are just the best.

[fanficbiebs]

Opening act / chapter 1.

“So they wouldn’t let me in because i’m not famous?” I asked now drinking from the arizona i ordered. 

“Yeah something like that,” Chance answered “This cafe is always full of artist.” 

“Oh,” I said trying to not look obvious looking around. “I see.” 

He laughed “I would like to introduce you to some of them,” he sipped from his drink “But i think it’s better if we let it all be a surprise.” 

“So we are really doing this?” I smiled excitedly.

“I can’t let someone as talented as you go to waste.” He winked at me making me smile. 

I smiled, but deep inside i was dying. MY FIRST OFFICIAL SONG! I was so deep in thoughts i didn’t even see chance was talking to someone behind me. Would he mind if i turned around? would he be irritated if I did? But i’m so curious who it is, his voice sounds sexy, i’m turning around. 

“Bro i’ll be there,” Chance said as i turned around to see who he was talking to. Was that Justin Bieber? His voice is heaven but am I interested? I don’t know him so it’s better if i don’t jump into conclusions that fast. I watched him looking at me confused, of course he’d look at you confused, you’re smiling kehlani, he’s probably thinking ‘who’s this crazy woman that’s looking at me with a big smile’  here goes nothing. I turned around again feeling ashamed as fuck, trying to hide my face. I came eye to eye with chance and i could feel that i was red by the warmth of my face. “Justin this is kehlani.” 

I was scolding to myself for being the curious woman i am. In my mind though. We don’t want them to think i’m crazy or something right. I turned to face him again making it all awkward again because he walked closer to the table. “That’s me.” 

“I’m Justin,” I put my hand in the air to shake his, what made the situation extra extra awkward since he kept his hands in his pockets.  He turned to chancelor mouthing something and it annoyed me so damn much, but i couldn’t do anything. 

“i’ll explain it later aight?” Chance said standing up to give him a bro hug. 

He didn’t even look my way, should i feel sad? Am I that unattractive? I’m not like the girls he hangs out with, that’s true. But not even a bye? Or a ‘nice to meet you?’ I knew he was a dick but i didn’t want to believe the media, now I do believe everything they’ve ever wrote about him. 

“Let’s think about the song we’re going to do,” He started as Justin left the cafe, “I thought maybe-” 

“I wrote a song a few weeks ago,” I smiled taking something out of my bag “can you take a look at it?” 

“Wow,” He said amazed, he took the papers out of my hands and started reading. “This is amazing!” 

I smiled way too big, is he for real? “It’s called the way.” 

--------- 1 MONTH LATER 

We shot the last scene of the music video and we were finally done with the whole thing. Every one of chano’s crew run up to us, giving us both a big hug before Chano picked me up throwing me on his shoulder yelling “THANK GOD FOR KEHLANI” I just laughed my ass of as he ran around set. In such a short time i became such good friends with all of them, all the dancers, all his friends, his manager, his brother and his dad. They were all really nice people, his dad was such a sweet man, making me miss a father figure in my life. Since mine died when i was a baby, i don’t know how my life would be with him. 

“Time for the after party!” Chance yelled for everyone to hear, they all cheered before they walked out. 

“After party?” I asked confused, i didn’t know that’d be happening, i still had school the next day.

“Duh girl what u thought?” He said throwing his arm around my shoulders. “We gotta celebrate that you’re now becoming an artist. All these producers will die to give you a contract.” 

I hugged him from his side as we walked behind everyone. “Is it okay if I go home first? Gotta change you know.” 

“Sure kehkeh,” It was so cute how he acted around me, although we just know each other, he acts like we’re friends forever. “I’ll pick you up at eight.” 

“No no, you can go,” I said grabbing my jacket and bag. “I’m coming with my friends.” 

“I can pick ya’ll up,” He said putting on his coat. “I’m picking ya’ll up.” 

noodz is gonna be so happy when she hears this. “Okay,” I said smiling “See you at eight then.” 

I gave him a hug before I rushed to catch the bus that was coming in 10. My car was getting fixed, i got it from my uncle, a little one that can bring me wherever i want to go and it did but yeah it stopped out of nowhere so i had to bring it to a garage. I called yanelis to get dressed and come over with the rest of the girls. They were a good support to me for this past month and they went to every single feeling i went through, happy, sad, stressed they were with me through everything so i wanted to surprise them by bringing them with me to this party. They didn’t know today was the last day of the shooting so it’s all gonna be a surprise, i can’t wait to see noodz face when chano comes to pick us up. What do you wear to a afterparty? this is gonna be a first and i really don’t know what i should wear. Do i wear something sexy, or fancy with sneakers? I think i’m going with a black t-shirt-ish dress just below my ass, with a denim short under it so you can’t see my underwear and my yeezy’s. I tied my hair up in a messy ponytail leaving a few hairs in the front. I just refreshed my makeup because i already had makeup on still from set. I think i look fine, i am not one to show-off  pricey clothes or cars etc. Not that i have money to buy Ferrari’s and lamborghini’s but if i had i’d still be who i am today. I heard banging on the door so i opened it revealing my best friends all dressed up nicely. 

“U guys popinnnnnn,” I said hugging them all as they entered my apartment. “Am i too boring looking?” 

“Depends on where we are going.” 

“If we’re going out to eat then yes,” Kachi said and they agreed. “But if we’re going to a cafe or club then no.” 

“I know what you’re trying to do,” I winked “But i’m not telling you guys anything till we get there.” 

“Pleaseeeeee,” Yanelis begged and I shook my head no. I looked at my watch and it said 19:50 pm, time to head downstairs! 

“Let’s go before we miss our ride.” 

We took the elevator down stairs and they all looked at me when we stepped outside. I was just smirking to myself, they don’t know what’s coming. Chano texted me that he was there and I saw him on the other side of the street. Get ready music industry, kehlani is coming! I walked to the car without telling them and heard their footsteps following me. Chano’s windows were darkish so you couldn’t look inside, but when you’re inside you can obviously. “Get in babes.” I said as I got in the passengers seat, i winked at chano before I turned to the back seat. 

“Where are we going?” Noodz asked, yes! Let’s do this thing. 

“Let’s ask chancelor.” I said smirking, i turned to chano and he chuckled. 

“Are you girls ready to party?!” He asked and noodz eyes widened. 

“Holy shit chance the rapper?!” 

After a while noodz calmed down as we were almost at the party. After she saw chancelor she couldn’t sit still. She wanted to give him a hug so she made him get out of the car and as she was giving him a hug she was saying how much she loves his songs and how he is her idol for like since she was born and the girls and I just laughed at her. 

“We’re here,” He said and the girls got out of the car rushing to the front door of the club leaving chano and me behind. “You have cute friends.” 

“You sure about that?” I asked letting out a chuckle. 

“Why should i be scared?” 

I laughed “No i’m just kidding.” We walked over to where the girls were standing. “Why aren’t you guys inside yet?” 

“He won’t let us,” Noodz said pointing at the bodyguard standing there. “He said we’re not on the guest list.” 

“Because you guys are not guests,” I said nodding as the bodyguard moved. “you guys are family.” 

“Awwwww,” they all awed pulling me in a group hug. “We love you.” 

“CONGRAAAAAATS.” I heard hundredths of people yell as we entered. Lights were shining in my eyes, mostly white lights that were making me stand out along with chano. I could see a few artist although it was dark in the room, drake?! As all the hugging and kissing was over chano left to go to his friends table leaving me and my girls do our thing. What the hell are you supposed to do at a party like this? Sit and look around? 

“Want to drink something?” I asked the girls as they all nod. “Be right baack!” 

I walked down the stairs from the vip to the bar. I asked for four light drinks and sat down to wait, he was a cute bartender, his smile was so white that he could be playing in a colgate commercial. But he’d rather spend his life here i guess. 

“Congratulations beautiful,” I heard from behind me, was it for me or someone else? “I’m talking to you Kehlani.” 

I turned around only to see the one and only justin bieber standing right in front of me. I could ignore him like he did but i could also enjoy myself a little bit. “Thanks... um your name?” 

“Are you kidding? You don’t know who I am?” He said leaning on the bar with his arms. 

“Maybe i don’t want to know who you are,” I said not even looking at him but at the drinks that were standing behind the bar. 

“I’m justin,” He said holding his hand out. Oh hell no i’m going to shake that hand, i quickly grabbed the drinks and fake smiled. 

“Sorry, hands are full.” 

[2013-life-calendar-blog]

Camp 2018

Day 3: had a very fun camp fire, I feel so happy. I love hanging out with all of the people from Europe they are super funny! Met some of the cooks who are also nice. Sang campfire songs and chatted all night. The sky had so many stars. Got to witness multiple people having their first roasted marshmallow ever (Lizzy and Sophie).

Day 4 a person from Costa Rica was supposed to get antihypertensives before he came but he never went. Came in with chest pain. We couldn't find the bp cuff so searched for it. Took his blood pressure and it was super high so he told him to sit down. Measured it again and it went down + his chest pain went away. We were worried that we would have to call 911. Asked other nurses for antihypertensives but we don't have that here. They told their supervisors and said we had to wake up Sadie (which was annoying, and we just thought it was angina so we didn't wake her up).

Day 5: enjoyed the sunshine, worked out, played basket ball which was super fun!!!!! Got closer w everyone.

Day 8:

Very fun chatted with auggie and em all night about his girls and life

me and 2 of my friends were in the kitchen at like 11 just eating strawberries with chocolate cause my friends (auggie) is the baker for the camp. Basically tom Thomson (from the group of 7) got murdered on this lake and his body was found ON MY ISLAND. Anyways so we were talking about him and the lights in the kitchen started flickering. We then made a joke saying ouuu it's probs tom Thompson and I was like Emily pass my my phone incase tom shuts off the lights. Then I was saying how once when I was younger we asked for a sign from playing ouiji and the phone went off the hook. Then all of a sudden right after I said that the power went out in the kitchen so we were in the pitch black and it went out on the whole island. But it wasn't raining or anything so there was no reason for it to go out.

8. today in the morning I was like my brain was playing tricks on me after that last night I kept hearing someone walking behind our cabin (which is rocks and water so no one would be back there) and she was like WHAT THE FUCK I heard that too and just thought I was imagining it so I didn't say anything last night

Also went on a canoe trip I portaged the canoe on my shoulders alone for the first time it was so fun v proud of myself. Also learned how to stern the canoe. Learned about different things: cedar tread high in vitamin C, the British were dying of scurvy and asked the aboriginal ppl for help and they showed them to make Cedar tea. Ate wild blueberry leaves (tasted like ripe blueberries and have all of the antioxidants in them that blueberries do), wintergreen leaves (good in tea very minty), can use the sap from a cedar tree to help make a fire, its very sticky!!

July 17- so far it's been very busy. Dealt with an asthma exacerbation. Had Frankie a cute little girl who was obsessed with me always coming in for hugs (I miss her). Did 2 lice parties, one with 4 older girls (took 6 hours) one with 3 younger girls. Mikayla got a boyfriend at home wooo, but the guy here that likes her is sad. There's a nest and 3 little eggs hatched eggwardo Shelton and birdidette. 3 girls in inferm are so nice, chloe is very chill. Georgia and Sasha are hilarious!!!! Went sailing with Georgie and Mikayla and had the best time ever!!!!!!!!! I was so so happy. Javier said he misses me and started sending me hearts AHHHH he's so cute!!!!!!!!! Got to run a sexual health talk about STIs, contraception etc. I'm so happy and love it here

June 28 sat and played cards with Nikki Sophie, lizzy, and Emily on the diving tower. had the staff auction today which was so funny people spent $80 to make their friend chug a coke in front of the crowd, they did a big talk about raccoons at ahmek and had a big thing hiding behind the tarp. Then they took the tarp down and it was a door to the guys cabin. One dude bet $800 to get his door back. Another bet $1400 to get his walkie talkie LOl so funny

July 29- today was wild a 19 year old girl thought she may be pregnant I gave her a pregnancy test and it came back positive. She was super excited but anxious about telling her mom. I got to experience this for the first time which was cool and something I've never done before. Also a camper said she fainted for 30 mins in the past, she said she faints 1-2 times a day when doing lots of activity. She isint on any bp meds but takes 6-8 grams of salt a day. None of this was on camper files. She leaves on trip tomorrow. Said she had to stop swimming cause she thought she may faint. Had to interview her and got an extensive history took her standing and sitting bp, checked heart rate and stats. Relayed the info to doctor sarah and she said I did a great job, wooohoooo

July 30- camper FAKES having heart palpitations and fainting for 30 mins. We hold her back from trip and her dad fucking says she's lying about everything and her symptoms are nonsense.

August 2nd - best day at camp ever. We got to put sparkles all over us for campchella. Jermey had them all over his beard(the resident). We are snow cones, went on bouncy castles, hit eachother off these stands with big poles,  did karaoke to don't stop believing (with the med staff) and went on the slip in slide which was so friggen fun!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy :)

August 8th- this 7 year old girl had been found on the ground after fainting multiple (around 4) times, her vitals and blood sugar were normal. We had called her parents cause we were very concerned I asked a counsellor to watch her faint, and turns out she was just falling on the ground and pretending to faint loooool. She braced herself and would squint her eyes. We told her that if it continued she would have to stay in the infirm. I participated in the bouleé which is a canoe race. Our time was 15 mins 13 seconds. We then dunked our canoe and played on the water tramp with the sun setting a magnificent pink, it was so beautiful and fun. I'm so happy

August 9 The bar was so great, they had a computer plugged into a speaker so we got to YouTube the songs we wanted and be our own DJs. The bus ride was also so fun!!!!! We had to paddle from the island to the bus. On the way back it was so dark, there are lights all over the lake and one of the lights is our camp so it was a big challenge trying to figure out how to get home. Also in the middle of the lake Mikayla and I were paddling and then all of a sudden tipped over by accident. It was so weird cause we didn't even feel wobbly but then we were in the water with all of our stuff, our rain jackets on and shoes. It was very funny, we both were dying laughing. We had to do a T rescue so that we could get back in our canoe cause it was filled with water. I was very smart though cause I made sure my purse was strapped on before we left just incase we tipped and I also put mine and mikayla's phones in a ziplock bag (go drunk shea!!!!). Then we got home and ate Cheetos and chocolate. It was a great night!!!!! Still getting chirped by everyone for tipping

August 11- went to boots and hearts!!!! Had so much friggen fun! A nice cute man named Jordan saved our lives cause our dick head cab driver wouldn't drive us to line 7. Chilled w the pals, saw Vince connor and Liam which was nice. The gals were super pumped to see me. We played frizzy bat, lots of drinking games and chatted. Saw Parker Jackson and he told me he is still in love w me, we dated 4 years ago how peculiar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 13- today was my last intake day, very bittersweet feeling!!!!!! It went by so quickly, only 1 person had lice (much better than our 10 person staff lice party). We got to swim and I paddle boarded with the tocos they are so cute!! I also played this or that while the kids jumped in the water. Today was a great chill day. One toco broke her tooth in half on a rock, she didn't even cry or anything (very proud). For treating a poison ivy rash all over this girl's body we are using prednisone, you have to be careful and slowly taper this medication. She started with 30 mg once a day and then went down to 20 mg once a week. Rash is causing burning and pain, it went away but 3 days later it came back so we had to give her more prednisone.  

Aug 14

Good day got to relax in the sun and swim. Started making my paddle, it is hard work!!! The girl with the poison Ivy's rash continued spreading. they think she may have a hypersensitivity to the meds and this is a delayed reaction of it. She took 20 mg of reactine and 50 mg benadryl. We will see if this helps

Aug 15

The camper from before with the "heart palpitations" is back. She said that she had heart palpitations twice on trips and then listed the 2nd 4th and 5th day??¿ she said the last time she fainted was 2 weeks ago doing a science experiment when the last time we spoke to her it was kayaking and then playing tennis with her brother. Before she said she fainted for 30 mins 2 years ago, now she's saying it happened 1 month ago??? This girl is FUCKED. I'm so angry that she keeps doing this. a girl in her cabin fell off of a horse, so they think she is doing it so that she gets some attention back. I'm going to scream.

August 19th

Council ring

Where are you mike? I'm right here pat,*bonk with sock*

August 20th

Got to watch all of the 50 days paddle in, was so wholesome, very proud of them. Georgia came and gave me a big hug awwwww!!! Wait nvm lmao the doctor found a louse on my fucking ear, must've been from Georgia hahahaha, that's okay still such a good day. Then watched the final play which was AMAZING momma Mia was so good!!! Then went to a dance which was so LIT, everyone was in a small circle inside tables. A girl got hit in the head with a jug and was bleeding everywhere, cleaned her head and tonja applied glue. Contacted parents

August 22nd

Was trying to say boo or bubs accidentally called emily boobs lmao, did inventory got to pop some staff infection wounds like pimples which was AWESOME!!! Mikayla and I are brain dead and hyper and laughing about the stupidest s things hahaha. Did inventory and lots of intakes of kids from trip. Game night final banquet was SO FUN!!!!! Had mozzarella sticks, guac, enchiladas, spinach dip and lots more. Monopoly would go around putting people in jail and everyone would stand up and diss eachother. One of ours to chess was there ain't now yawns on us their ain't no yawns on us there may be yawns on you pawns but their ain't no yawns on us CHECKMATE! Giant mosquito attacked me wahhhh.

Aug23

Finished inventory. Rose fainted in the canoe was hyperventilating had to calm her down. Mikayla threw tape at me and I threw my phone across the room on the floor to catch the tape

Cute things campers have said

-Willa: comes to infirm and says arm hurts counsellor says what, you said your leg hurts! Then Willa goes it moves, oh look now it's in my tummy.... ouch now it's in my neck.

-evy: says she can't see and won't focus on me and says: where are we?? Counsellors scared that she has heat stroke. I take her with me to the inferm and she is limping walking really slow and saying she's going to faint. Keeps asking where she is. Then I say don't be homesick you only have 7 days left. She stands up normally and says 9 then starts limping and saying she can't see again lmaooo.

-Christina: health checks we ask her if she's been sick at all in the last month, she thinks for a few seconds and says I'm positive I had diarrhea once then pauses and says ya I'm positive. Then she leaves and we hear her counsellors say: don't lie to the nurses. Then we see her running back to the door and she frantically knocks on the door and says: I didn't have diarrhea

-Christina- gets belly button cleaned because she has an infection. She always comes in and lifts her shirt up so she can get it cleaned and today she walked and and pulled down her pants and then goes oops I forgot

-Greer: see at first I would have said that you saying my nose will get bigger if I like wasn't true but like... you're a nurse so you know

it's like chill

Chelsea

me:" so what happens when you eat red food colouring, how are you allergic to it?" Her: " I get aggressive" me: "what do you mean by that" her: "I get violent"