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kind of crying because i just learned that i might be eligible for paratransit which would take such a big level of stress off if i knew i had an affordable way to get to campus and the grocery store during flare ups and/or extreme cold weather. and even if it takes some time to get eligibility or i have to appeal (i still don’t have a clear dx), in my city i would be able to use the service (it is not only a paratransit but a scheduled, accessible ride share van that it is just subsidized for those with ada verification) for an increased charge that still may cost less than an uber depending on the destination. now, dependability is an entirely different factor… but it’s better than nothing especially when my biggest fear is that i will become too fatigued in the winter to even make it to campus for classes
#obviously it might be easier to change my housing arrangement than it would to negotiate this#but this is the cheapest housing option and with other graduate and older students like me so i want to try it#but i was misled about how accessible main campus is by bus#an 8 minute walk to the bus + waiting in the cold + 5-10 minutes to my destination on campus is just not accessible for me#if i’m being honest with myself about my condition#weather permitting it would be easier on my body if i biked#because that means minimizing time in the cold and overall travel time#but that won’t always be doable either if i’m in pain and it’s the days where neither option seems feasible that i’m most scared of
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SandWings
It's finally time, people!!!
SandWings have been on the agenda for a while and I'm so happy to finally have them done. Here's as much info as I can give right now.
General
SandWings are medium-sized bipedal dragons that inhabit the desert, badlands, and other transitional biomes of Pyrrhia. They come in a variety of muted desert-y colors, but the most common include: Yellow, brown, red, dusty orange, and some black.
SandWings, unlike most other tribes, are built for running long distances rather than flying. While their wings are still perfectly good for travel, it's far more efficient to travel on foot, since they are the fastest tribe on the ground.
Their wings are smaller in comparison to their body than most other tribes as well, so they largely rely on desert thermals to keep them aloft. In places with minimal air currents, or with excess cold, SandWings have trouble gaining lift.
SandWings have light armoring along the scales of their back, although these armor-plated scales are not quite as tough as you would expect. These armored scales are thicker than the rest as to protect them from the harsh sun; although they do double as a nice additional protector from other SandWings' venomous tails. Otherwise, they're not great for protection.
Their armored appearance bears heavy resemblance to MudWings, and it is believed that MudWings and SandWings are quite closely related; albeit MudWings are much more on the heavyweight-end.
A SandWing's horns can be of any shape and array, although most commonly, SandWing horns protrude forward like bull horns; especially female SandWings, where they're used to vie for the throne. These horns are utilized at high-speed to ram into targets, and to duel with rival SandWings. Being hit by a SandWing horns-first at top-speed is near equivalent to being impaled by a motorcycle on the freeway.
SandWings are also adorned with frills along their head, neck, & chest. Male SandWings have additional frills along their lower jaw & lower torso.
These frills are continuously-growing, meaning that SandWings typically cut, style, & shave them at their discretion. Some SandWings prefer their frills long, like Princess Blister. Other SandWings cut them quite short to keep them out of the way during battles, like Six-Claws. Short frills became standard for SandWings during the War of SandWing Succession, as they became a distraction or a detriment otherwise. It was rare for a SandWing not to have short frills during the 20-year conflict, if they were battlers and not factory-workers.
SandWings are notorious for their potent venom. This venom is created and stored in sacs inside the barb at the tip of their tails.
While adult SandWings are perfectly capable of killing another dragon with a lethal dose, SandWing dragonets are far more deadly. Not strictly because of the venom, but because they lack the control needed to limit how much venom they inject. A sting from a newly-hatched SandWing is more likely to kill you than a sting from an adult, who can decide how much they want their sting to hurt.
Culture
SandWing culture is nothing mysterious; they have some of the most well-known festivals and armaments in the continent.
SandWings, having so much land to themselves, utilize much of it for factories and plants. They are one of the most technologically advanced tribes, with steampunk-esque mechanisms and structures throughout their kingdom.
Their metals of choice include copper, tin, and bronze; much of it mined within the desert itself. However, with the SkyWings' alliance, SandWings on Burn's side of the war have been able to import metals and other materials from the mountains to create stronger weapons & armors. Similarly, Blister & Blaze's forces have been able to do this as well, albeit with fewer materials overall and less armored dragons total.
Weapons and armory aren't the only things SandWings create with their metallurgy though. SandWings, having deep respect for their veterans and a cultural motto that you will always survive to fight, also create advanced prosthetics.
Prosthetic legs & arms are the most common, but you might also catch a SandWing with a prosthetic wing or tail. Some SandWings get horn replacements if their horns break off in battle and become less effective at fighting with.
Prosthetic wings are by far the rarest to find, since they are the most expensive to make & obtain, and don't actually perform quite as well as a normal wing. Most dragons with prosthetic wings use them to show off their worthiness in battle, how they survived and were heavily rewarded for their supreme skill and efforts.
Each prosthetic, weapon, and piece of armor comes branded with several labels: The name of the factory it was made in, the name & seal of the queen/princess it was made under, and its serial number. These labels would allow each rival sister to check their dragons' true alliance. SandWings with the seal of a rival sister would be killed, as it would then be apparent who they went to for their supplies.
After the end of the War of SandWing succession, the seals for Burn, Blister, and Blaze were retired in favor of Queen Thorn's own seal. As a result, armor with the royal SandWing sisters' seals were considered limited collector's items, and have increased dramatically in their value.
Prior to the death of Queen Oasis, these seals were not a generic serial label, but a gift from the Queen, almost like being knighted. To have armor with the Seal of the Queen was considered a great honor, but times have changed.
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For the story ideas folder "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" have definitely caught my eye!
Also hope you are doing good, Elm!
First of all, Crys, hiiiiiii! I'm doing okay! I hope you're well! ✨ Second, I just want to thank you for asking about "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" and to apologize for the person I'm about to become.
Are you ready for it?
"You Drew Stars Around My Scars" is a The Elder Scrolls V/Baldur's Gate 3 crossover that will likely never see the light of day for several factors, such as the number of WIPs I have, my original novel, school, and, oh, the fact that I've never played BG3 My MacBook Air cannot handle those demands. DESPITE THE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES!, I just think the game is neat and have been sucked into it in part by Astarion. Mostly Astarion . . . okay, entirely.
Background information: Ever since I started writing Keeping Count, I knew Bishop was lifted from Neverwinter Nights and that it was a D&D-based game. And I guess that's why someone mentioned Astarion as a palette cleanser to me a few months ago, shared universe and all. And my initial perception of the character was so cool that I vaguely entertained an alternative Keeping Count where Astarion shows up, seduces Leara from Bishop, and probably sexy stabs Bishop or something. And then I didn't really think about it again. For months.
Then my brain went back to it and Astarion and BG3 and I cried a bit when I realized that my laptop couldn't play the game. I'm fine. And you know what? @cosmermaid is right: Leara deserves a better companion than freaking Bishop. Also please forgive my minimal BG3/D&D knowledge, 95% of which I've absorbed since like last Monday ish.
SO! "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" features Leara getting picked up by the Mind Flayer ship post-Sovngarde and taken via dimensional travel to Faerûn where, following the crash, she joins the usual party on a quest to get rid of the parasites. This Leara is very specifically taken after the planned Chapter 15 of Keeping Count for Reasons. Can Leara use magic in Faerûn since she's not able to draw it from Aetherius? No idea. Can she Dragon Shout? Also no idea. Transdimensional magic mechanics are weird. Regardless, Leara probably mentions something about being Dragonborn and gets weird and confused looks because her definition of Dragonborn is totally different from that in the Forgotten Realms. Linearly, I have no idea what would happen, but overall, Leara and Astarion both suffer trauma from following people who hurt them and they have complicated relationships with sex. They could have what could be a very cathartic relationship. Or I think so, anyway. Also, I kinda want to know if vampires react differently to the Dragonblood.
Symbolism in the story could heavily involve stars and light. Leara means "Light of the Sea" while Astarion means "Little Star". Leara is dependent on the stars for her magic but she's lost them, while Astarion wants to walk in the light even after the parasite is gone. There's no balance and it has to be found. They're both so cold and have lived in the shadows for a long time. There are dark versions of themselves they don't want to be anymore.
There's the possibility that, given her background in the Blades and Dominion, Leara might see through Astarion's mask in Act I. But she'd end up helping Astarion (and probably not giving on that she's on to him until later) because she's a bleeding heart. Two other very important things about this underwhelming but brain-rotting story: First, Astarion wouldn't ascend. We would need a Leara Disapproves sticker because she would not be for Astarion doing that. The second thing is, well, since motherhood is an extremely important part of Leara's character, I did pick out a name for a possible child. If Leara and Astarion had a daughter, her name would be Ilmarien, derived from Quenya, Ilmarë, meaning “starlight”.
Because after all this time, Tolkien elves still make the most sense to me.
#i am not tagging his character in this because I am too embarrassed#it is taking all my willpower to tell myself that sharing this is okay and that I'm not being too much or annoying#it's okay i felt the same way when I was fixated on legolas and loki as a teen I just figured i'd have outgrown it oh well#oc: leara roseblade#azura's ask box
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Project t0m au vore?
Tommy knows it’s safe but when Wilbur falls into the stomach he freaks out, can include Phil freaking out like when Tommy put wil in his mouth but like 10x worse.
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Warnings: Soft vore and being overworked
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Ever since that nightmare he had, he feels different knowing he was once a human, he feels a bit more aware if that makes sense but overall, still confused, he needed more information on this Tubbo, he seemed so important to him.
He wanted to remember who he was but the only memory he had was of that accident and how he came here, not only that but he needed to try and talk to Phil.
For Wilbur’s sake, he had been seeming more stressed lately, he was doing a lot more experiments on Tommy than usual, not that he minded Wilbur doing it, but he’s been doing it more since he almost spoke that one time.
What Wilbur was actually doing trying to do more research on Tommy, ever since that nightmare Tommy had that nightmare. He had been acting a bit differently, he wanted to see if he could help Tommy understand himself, maybe even talk again!
Not only that but a lot more requests of the research of Tommy’s abilities had been requested with short due dates. Leaving Wilbur, no time to sleep.
For the past 5 days he’s been trying to do more research on Tommy, but with minimal results. He couldn’t understand why nothing was working. He was stressing beyond relief, and Tommy had tried to help him, but he ended up accidentally lashing out at Tommy a couple of times, he didn’t mean to.
It broke his heart to see Tommy so upset. He tried to apologise and make time for him, but everything kept piling up and he simply couldn't handle it.
Phil had noticed this behaviour change and offered to help Wilbur, he flat out refused, but now he was really contemplating actually taking up that offer because honestly, he could use as much help as possible right now.
He sighed looking at the recent document, not many words had been written in this latest state of research and he wasn’t sure there was much to be said. Shortly after, Tommy approached him, slumping on his shoulder and made a low whine.
“Toms, not now, please”. Tommy wrapped his arms around Wilbur in hopes of comforting him, Wilbur sighed and rubbed his hands. “I appreciate you trying to help but it’s not as easy as you think bud”.
Tommy found it unacceptable that Wilbur was overworking himself like this but there was nothing he could- actually… He started to make incoherent noises, which confused the fuck out of Wilbur, he looked over his shoulder to look at Tommy and could almost make out Tommy saying his name with one of the saddest looks he’d seen.
Shit, Tommy was really worried about him, and he was being a complete ass, but work was work. It frustrated him so much. He stood up, his feet barely supporting his weight, dizziness clouding his vision, he held onto Tommy, embracing him in a hug.
Tommy whined worriedly as Wilbur practically placed all his weight onto Tommy, not that Tommy minded, he was strong and loved when Wilbur did this, he loved to protect Wilbur, but this was different. They were both stressed and confused.
Soon after Phil entered the room to check up on the two, to see his son practically sleeping on a confused Tommy. “Hey mate? You alright?”. Tommy’s eyes lit up as he saw Phil, in order to handle this more easily, he changed his size to carry a barely awake Wilbur, and walked over to Phil, whining whilst showing him Wilbur.
Phil’s worried look increased as he quickly approached Wilbur, checking for fever only to find that the man was suffering from complete exhaustion, he sighed. “He’s been overworked, he used to do so back in his university days. He’ll be fine if he gets rest, he’ll be fine, I can trust you to take of Wilbur for the time being right? It’ll be a while though until I’m done”.
Tommy nodded, “Good, it’ll probably be overnight so making sure Wilbur stays warm, okay? The facility can get cold at night”. Phil quickly made his way to Wilbur’s computer, gathering the documents needed onto a nearby USB, trying to rush, wanting to get everything done as soon as possible, he wanted to help his son as much as possible and quickly as he came, left.
He held Wilbur tightly, gently. Wilbur had protected him so many times, so he had to protect Wilbur this time. He carefully made his way to his cell, which had recently been upgraded to a basic bedroom and he got proper bedding! So now he had that to look forward to!
A couple of hours passed as Wilbur laid in his arms, moving around occasionally, seeming to shiver, right! Phil said he had to keep Wilbur warm! But how was he going to do that? The only thing around here that was warm was him really. But Wilbur wouldn’t be warm if he was in his arms like this?
What if he put Wilbur in his mouth again? But neither he nor Phil liked that last time. But what other choice did he have? How else was he supposed to keep Wilbur warm?
Except there was he remembered Wilbur reading out some research results, “Tommy doesn’t need to eat but it does help him with storing energy. With this he able to control his digestive system to as he pleases”.
Wait, if he could control his digestive system doesn’t that technically mean he could keep things in there? Like Wilbur? He already knew how to control this ability of his so Wilbur would be completely safe! But what if Wil-
His train of thought was cut off when he felt Wilbur shiver in his arms again, okay he had to do this, he didn’t want Wilbur to be cold.
He lifted Wilbur, for a moment he paused, wondering if it was right to do this. But if it meant Wilbur’s safety, he’d do it. So, he morphed a mouth.
He sighed, pondering. But Wilbur felt the warmth and instinctively went closer, he didn’t go into his mouth luckily, but he took it as Wilbur subconsciously saying yes. Which gave him the confidence to do it.
He carefully placed Wilbur in his mouth, the feeling of Wilbur being in his mouth returned, he forgot how much he enjoyed it last time, especially his cinnamon taste, it made him melt.
Purring happily. He realised his current size would probably be small and quickly changed to be bigger. Now, Wilbur felt considerably smaller, the size he was now was just about 6 meters. The same as last time.
He gently sucked on Wilbur, in his opinion, Wilbur felt like a little treat in his mouth, and he loved it.
He wished he and Wilbur would do this more often, but it seems that it wouldn’t be the case because who’d normally want to get eaten? Definitely not Wilbur, he freaked out last time he put him in his mouth.
As soon as he thought Wilbur was ready for the trip down, he tilted his head but. He thought about for a moment stopping but the thought of Wilbur being constantly with him, safe, like one big hug kept him going so, he swallowed.
It wasn’t long after he put his fingers to his throat as he felt the unconscious Wilbur travel down his throat. He couldn’t help but purr, and shortly Wilbur made it to his stomach, he’d already made sure it was safe for him to be there.
His purring increased as he felt Wilbur safely tucked in, he could feel Wilbur shift into a more comfortable position. His hand instinctively to where Wilbur was. He was content that Wilbur was safe and finally getting rest.
He soon fell asleep after, wanting some sleep himself.
It was roughly about 4 am when Phil had finished all the work, jeez Wilbur had piled up a lot, but the man was he proud of his boy, throughout his sleep deprivation he didn’t notice the amount of helpful research he had done. He should probably check on the two of them.
He quickly made his way there, excited to tell Tommy about the news. When he entered the room though, he saw no Wilbur or Tommy in the main office, so he went over to Tommy’s cell and saw a giant Tommy with a hand over his middle.
He saw no Wilbur and that made him panic, he did his best to remain calm though. And carefully shook Tommy’s other hand that had been laying on the floor, Tommy seemed to wake up slightly as his fingers curled around Phil and picked him up, bringing him towards his face.
“H-hey Toms! Where’s Wilbur?”. Tommy groaned slightly, realising what was happening. He pointed towards his stomach and kept an eye on Phil, not wanting him to freak out when the reality hit him. “Why are you pointing towards your… Oh… Oh my-“. Phil covered his own mouth, muffling himself and took a deep breath. Then sighed.
“Right, I saw that document with what it said about your digestive system… Is he safe?”. Tommy nodded. “Good” He smiled, “You’re not the only one who can do that too, so I’m not too worried.”. Tommy tilted his head in confusion, “Techno can do it too”.
So, it wasn’t so strange, thank God. Phil then took his leave. He then fell asleep again.
He then heard yelling a couple of hours later, right he was going to have to try and explain this to Wilbur this was going to be hell.
#mcyt g/t#mcytg/t#dsmp g/t#sizeshifter!tommy#giant!techno#giant!tommy#tiny!wilbur#tiny!phil#tw vore#shushi's writings#subject t0m au
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Top Surgery: What Really Happens pt 2
Tumblr decided I couldn’t put any chest pictures in sorry
See the first guide for details about getting ready and the pre-op appointment! This guide is about the day of surgery, pt1 is about getting ready for surgery
Getting Ready - Recovery- Drains
My surgeon was Dr. Jerry Chao, who’s based in the George Washington Medical School. If you’re looking for a surgeon on the mid-Atlantic, I would absolutely recommend Dr. Chao. He’s incredibly respectful and does fantastic work. He also does FFS, and breast augmentation, and while I can’t speak for those results, he certainly did an impressive job with my chest. He has a history of working with trans patients, and is really good at avoiding dysphoria-inducing language. It’s clear that he’s genuinely committed to helping you.
Leading Up To The Big Day:
-You’ll get specific details about when you have to stop eating and drinking before surgery, but for me, I wasn’t allowed to eat after midnight the night before, and I had to stop drinking anything three hours before my surgery, which was 10am for me. (Apparently you have to fast because you might aspirate while under anesthesia, which means that your stomach fluids could get sucked up in the breathing tube which is, you know. Bad.)
-My surgery was scheduled for 1:30pm, but they ask you to arrive 2 hours before hand. We got there at 10:30, just to be sure.
- Like I said in the last post, bring something to do while you wait. It’s excruciating to be super nervous and then have to wait for a really long time with nothing to do.
-I’m not kidding about the waiting, once they call you back you change into your hospital gown, and then you wait another 30 minutes. My mom was able to stay with me until they wheeled me off for the surgery itself.
The Medical Stuff:
-The nurse came in to put my clothes and bag in a locker, and then she did my IV. I asked her to move it to my arm, because I’m really scared of anything happening to my hands. She said they do the lowest extremities by default so the tubes don’t get in the way, but you can definitely ask them to move it if it’s uncomfortable. She also put the pulse monitor on my finger, and that just gets taped on.
-This might not be true of other places, but I was specifically in with a bunch of other breast cancer patients who were also getting mastectomies, because it’s essentially the same procedure as top surgery. It made me feel a little dysphoric, but all of the curtains were drawn around people, so it’s not like they could see me or anything. It also meant my hospital gown was purple instead of a drab greenish grey, which I liked.
-About a thousand nurses and doctors come in and out to ask you the same questions over and over. Be ready to read off your legal name (yeah it sucks) like five different times. They have to verify that you’re still coherent and that they aren’t getting their charts mixed up.
-Because the hospital I was at was attached to a med school, some students asked me if I wanted to be in a study for a new device to help place IV’s. It was a good way to kill a couple minutes, but obviously this isn’t standard.
-The original nurse came back in and gave me some pain killers ahead of time, so they’d already be working by the time I was out of surgery, which was a huge help.
-Eventually my anesthesiologist and his crew came in to talk to me about what the medications would be and what they did. One of them put an anti nausea patch behind my ear, which has done wonders. I don’t remember the name of it, but I’m sure you cold ask about it. Then they walked me through the process of what being put under anesthesia is like, but I didn’t actually end up being conscious when they were doing all the stuff they talked about.
-My surgeon came in and marked up my chest. I had a picture here but tumblr decided that an incredibly clinical and objective picture of my chest was too titlating. This is ehere you an ask any more specific questions during the procedure, you can also ask about specific aesthetic things, like nipple size and placement, scar shape etc. Obviously the surgeon knows what’s best, but mine at least was very accomodating.
-After that, the anesthesiologist came back in and put something in my IV to make me really drowsy. By the time we got to the operating room I was already out of it, I vaguely remember them adjusting my arms, but then it was lights out for me.
Recovery:
-Anesthesia really is like time travel, you’re being wheeled out one second and in recovery the next. That was the part I was the most nervous of, just like not being aware of anything happening, but I was too sleepy to be aware of that going in to surgery -At least in my experience, recovery nurses are always more rude than the prep nurses. (My brother has to have MRI’s all the time so I’ve spent a good bit of time in the recovery room, some how they’re always kind of tactless) I doubt this is true of all recovery nurses, of course, mine was rushing me through the process though. They probably just want people out of there as fast as possible because of COVID. -I have on a compression vest, which makes my chest feel like the first time I put on a binder. It’s pretty tight, but it forces you to sit a certain way, and it helps the drains, well, drain. I know that some people just get wrapped in ace bandages, but either way, you’ll have some kind of compression on. This is what mine looks like: It’s going to look bumpy and weird with all the gauze on it, so don’t worry.
-I managed to sit up and drink some water right away, and I was just kind of groggy, which was good. The nurse brought my clothes back and I got my shirt on ok, but I was immediately too dizzy to stand right away. I ended up vomiting into the trash can next to me, but it didn’t last and I was able to get my pants on and they wheeled me out. -The nurse sort of explained the drains to my mom, but we ended up having to look up more information about them when we got home. THIS is the best source I’ve found for it. (Dysphoria warning, it’s a breast cancer site) Like I said, they were rushing. I was officially discharged at 5:30pm. -I don’t actually have a whole lot of memory leaving the recovery room and getting down to the car, I remember thinking that the nurse who was wheeling me out was going too fast. -My mom had wisely brought a bag to throw up in, which I did one more time, but then I fell asleep again. -I was able to get into bed, and the pain killers knocked me out until about 9:30. I had a smoothie, took a sleep aid, and was asleep by 11:30. I woke up really early in the morning to go to the bathroom, and I took another pain killer. I fell back to sleep at about 5:45am, and then I actually woke up at about 9:30am. Overall, my pain level is super low. I feel sore, but I’ve been able to get up and walk around no problem. Honestly the most uncomfortable thing I’ve been dealing with is feeling my heart beat against the gauze, and that’s just weird it doesn’t hurt. It affects people completely differently though, so I don’t want to imply that minimal pain is the standard. I’m really grateful that this is how it’s working out for me.
I’ll make another post when I get my drains out, and when I can see my chest, but I hope this helps!
#trans#transgender#top surgery#post op#trans health#top surgery guide#smh i had to remake this post lile three times
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A Knight’s Honor
Ch 2 - Oh Mother...
Masterlist
Summary: You are a female squire, who is not willing to give up your dreams of Knighthood to become a slave to society to save face.
Pairing: Katsuki Bakugou x Reader
SLOWBURN
A/N: Second Chapter! I rushed this, but because I wanna get to some other parts and I haven’t worked on this in a good minute. So I hope you like it anyways!
After parting ways with Shinsou, you were making your way to the northern gates of the castle to start your patrol. Every morning, unless directed otherwise, you were to patrol the outer rim of the castle walls on foot. While most people hated foot patrols, saying they always took way too much time versus patrolling on horseback, you loved it. It gave you time to clear your head and actually focusing on your surroundings.
If you had a steed, you would have to make sure it was fine, make sure they had enough space down the path, watching for anything that could potentially spook them, and well-it was more hassle for a simple patrol. Horses had their plenty of capability to aid you and others, like carrying more weight and items, allowing for quicker travel, and overall just having a companion to rely on.
A horse would never spill your secrets, that you had the utmost faith in.
Yet for now, you were more than happy to be alone. With thoughts filled with nothing more than the skies and the surrounding lands.
You reached the gates and let out a greeting to the Squire on sentry duty,
“Good day Sero!”
The young man turned to you with a lazy look on his face, before a small smile overtook it.
“Ah (l/n), right on time.”
“As I am every morning.” You snickered, walking across the ramp to stand in front of him. His shrugged with a nod of agreement, eyes hazy as if sleep was hanging on with all of its might-well, more like boredom.
Sentry duty was as every bit boring as it was slow.
“As am I every morning.”
“You poor soul, forced to stay wake while the only company you share is that of the weathered cracks on stone.”
“Which I have counted a lifetime over and then some, I assure you.” He sighed bitterly.
“I am inclined to agree, I wish you all the luck. I shall see you at my return.” You began to walk off, out the gates onto the path outside.
“I am to need it, surely! Safe ventures as always!” He called out, settling his back against the wall to keep propped up.
You only looked up at the sight before you and sighed with delight at the scenery before you.
The land was going through a beautiful change as always this time of year, the brilliant greens changing into a more colorful palette. The oranges, browns, and reds now standing out against the blue backdrop, contrasting greatly.
Soon enough however, the skies will begin to darken as will the earth beneath it. The sea of oaks and evergreens will be topped with white, as if they were plucked then dipped into paint before being set upright again. The grounds will be matching the look, with the blades of wild-grass and dirt covered, nowhere to be seen as it is buried underneath.
The courtyard, as well as the world outside of it, was always a magical sight to be seen once winter had come and taken root for the months to come. It would be thickly blanketed in the soft white of snow, the flakes of it dancing down to softly land upon anything it can. The sleet that pelted down on you wasn’t as nice, but still breathtaking nonetheless. To not be able to see more than a few feet in front of you, the howling winds causing shivers to seize your body in an attempt to warm.
Although, you were lucky to have an ability to keep warmer than most during these times. Your quirk, as that was the overall name of the abilities possessed by mere man, was that of the sun itself. Truly bright. Truly warm. Truly deadly.
You could manipulate light in its purest form, and what is light if there is not heat right behind it? Through the years of hard work, you were able to turn that into a weapon for battle.
It was uncommon for a women to be born with an ability, one made for the battlefields no less. Higher blood was often time the most blessed as they were gifted the abilities of the Gods, unlike the majority of the world. Men were the ones who were bestowed the stronger powers, the tougher, the scariest, the better abilities. While women were more often than not gifted with ones such as to help with chores or, womanly things. To produce warm water, just enough for baths. The ability to create different fibers, such as yarn, for creating clothing. A means of being able to dabble in the arts of healing, even if only for minor injuries. Things that were considered minimal, weak, inefficacious.
Things that were considered exactly what a woman's being and worth was;
You wanted to prove everyone wrong.
Patrol was over sooner than you’d like, the walk around the outside of the castle grounds so familiar that you were sure it was shrinking in size by how easily you were able to lap it. Nothing was out of the ordinary, giving you the chance to report to your teacher and receive your daily duty.
You had walked back through the gates to be stopped by Sero before you could pass with a simple greeting.
“Be for warned (l/n), your mother is in need of your audience.”
“Oh maggots, what more can she nag at me so early in the morn?”
“No idea, she had only asked for your location in hopes to speak.”
“Many thanks Sero, I suppose you would not let me take over Sentry in your stead, and you in my place of speaking to my mother?” You partly jested, however you were being truthful.
Talks with your mother were a pain, and Sero was often informed of your lovely conversations.
“Nay, I would rather be posted for a week straight in the blistering cold than to be in your mother’s joyous presence for longer than a second.” He looked away with a shiver jolting down his body.
“What a dear comrade you are Sero.” You pouted.
“I know you would hope the same for yourself, (l/n).” He laughed.
“You are not wrong. I shall say I had not known in hopes to dodge her until much later.”
“Good luck.”
You walked off, trying your best to sneak around the courtyard to get to your mentor in peace. It had worked, you had not caught wind of her booming voice, and instead found yourself outside one of the few common areas for the knight’s. A large room that housed weapons, maps, plans, and books alike. It was a place of study, practice, and good fun. A few of the Knight’s quarters being on the second floor, so it had felt like a home to many.
Unfortunately, your mother had not allowed you to stay in the quarters meant for the squires, and you had a room in the main area of the castle due to your birth status. You knew none of your fellow friends had minded, but you heard whispers of few that you received special attention due to your blood.
As well your gender.
You pushed open the door, scanning the room to see no one in the room except for your teacher. He stood over a circular desk that housed a large map of the kingdom and its surrounding lands. Borders marked expertly and details clear, and it was a wondrous map to study when one needed to know about the surrounding kingdoms and where the lands came together.
“Sir Hizashi, I am here for my report.”
“Ah (l/n), you’ve caught me at a good time. Lend me your thoughts for a moment.”
“Sir?”
You walked closer to the table, looking as he pointed at a path on the warn map.
“Tell me, why would this path to take if you were to head to Hosu.” His finger tapped the neighboring kingdom, before trailing along the path he asked you about.
“Well, are we thinking of time or ease?”
“Humor me.”
You looked at the map, taking a step closer to point yourself as you talked.
“Well, this path is the best for convenience by far. One of the more common roads that lead through villages and such without fear of crossing through property.”
You traced the path just as he did.
“However, the price for this comfort is your time. It would take much time to get to the outskirts of Hosu, this is considering the need for plenty of stops and rest at night.”
You moved to another path, one not as detailed as the previous, but a path nonetheless.
“This path here, will most likely cut your trip in half, allowing for a more straightforward travel, however there would be a need of protection in case of outlaws or bandits, as since it is not as populated a path. With proper protection, it is a much acceptable trail.”
You looked up to see Hizashi grinning, patting your shoulder roughly along with his praise.
“That head of yours surely makes me proud, you take after me quite well!”
“Thank you, Sir, may I be bold as to ask why you have asked about this in specific?”
“Ah, this quicker trail in question is the one Sir Aizawa and Shinsou have taken, Aizawa had shared your thoughts exactly about the path.”
“It was a great idea of course, and of course you were sure the one to give him it.” You humored him, and he barked out a laugh that left your ears ringing.
“You indulge this old man too much, (l/n)!”
“Nonsense Sir, you have not hit old age yet.” He patted your back once more before walking over to the large selection of books, picking up three from the shelves.
“Yet being the keyword young squire, here-” He handed the books into your awaiting arms, “I shall have you brush up on territories since we are on the subject.”
You nodded in agreement with a bow of your head as he took his leave.
He paused by the door momentarily, turning to look back at you.
“Oh yes, how was patrol?”
“Safe and sound as always!”
“Good! After your studies you may do your chores and indulge in sparring before being dismissed, I have an audience with the King and some advisers later on, so I will not be around to report to.”
“Understood Sir.”
“Splendid, enjoy your day (l/n)!”
“As do you Sir!”
You waited a moment longer, scanning through the bookshelf in order to pluck one more before walking outside, all four books in hand. You made your way back to the kitchen areas, knowing that it was too early for any other type of meal, so you could study in peace.
Just as you thought no one was occupying any tables, allowing you to spread your texts out along the tops without getting in anyone's way.
“Oh Petal, I wasn’t expecting to see you till supper!” You looked up from your books with a smile.
“Mina, I didn’t think you’d have time to come out of the hole.”
She laughed, sitting beside you with her laughter fading into a sigh as she handing you an apple.
You happily took it, proceeding to shove it into your mouth. Blissfully groaning as the juicy apple satisfied your small hunger.
“I left as fast as I could, thankfully they do not let me around the deserts as they are being prepped.”
“We are lucky they do, otherwise you would not leave any for the rest of us!”
“Oh hush! I would not eat them all-”
“Only save enough for your King?”
“Precisely!”
You laughed once more at her ridiculous grin before looking back down and opening a book, finding maps and notes collected together over the time of the kingdom.
“What is it they are making you learn today?” Mina asked, peeing over your shoulder to look at the texts.
“The kingdom and its territory. These here,” You pointed to a specific marking of lines, “Indicates trade routes as well.”
“Trade routes? Why, you are no merchant.”
“Trade routes can be useful knowledge. Knowing on-land routes can help as they are more suited for traveling heavier with wagons and horses. Since they are not as agile as one traveling on foot. Of course, it is best to stick to traveling pathways, but if need be you may follow a traders path to get to ports and such, you will be sure to find a population there if in need of people.”
“Could you not find many in markets of towns and such?”
“You could yes, but what if you were say, caught here,” You pointed at an area of trees, “there is no direct path to take. If you knew where the location of a village was, you could head in said direction. Yet, if you were unsure, but you see the trademarks for a trading post, it’d be best to head there. You are able to spot plenty of trade routes easy, more so than towns roads. If not, head in direction of the sea because there will always be something there. You can get supplies, replenish your rations, and receive directions. If lucky, you may convince one to ride on their wagon. Reducing your travel time.” She nodded thoughtfully at your words.
“I suppose it would be of use, thankfully I never have to know them!” She laughed, giving your shoulder a good squeeze before standing.
“You should always know the kingdom, it may save your life one day.” You pointed out, taking another bite of the delicious snack.
“Then I’m glad I have you to help, Petal.” Mina patted at her skirts to remove any dirt she could before giving her goodbyes.
“I must get back now, I am cooking fish tonight! You best work up an appetite!”
“For your food? Of course!” You grinned, waving goodbye as she disappeared through the door.
You began to study for the next while, scanning through all of your books with a thirst to better your memory. It was always fun to read the texts, even when they were boring routes and such alike.
The feeling of knowledge was just too important to dislike, therefore you always took pleasure in such an activity. Hizashi was well aware, and was often boasting that he had a good apprentice who enjoyed the studies for once, unlike most other squires. He made sure to give you a fair amount of studying, as well as actually practice in the arts you have read about. No doubt tomorrow, if Hizashi had planned the time in his schedule, he would make you accompany him on any path. Forcing you to recall the knowledge you learned while on such a walk.
The sun began to rise higher in the sky until it was directly over you, indicating that you should probably end your studies and get going with your afternoon chores. So you lifted all of your books and went to walk away when a jingle of bells caught your attention.
“Ah, is that a fool I hear?” You asked without looking up to see who you knew would be there.
“A fool indeed, Milady!” You stood with a smirk, looking up to see a man with a bell-hat adorning his head.
“How are you this fine day, Jester?”
“Very well Lady Knight, I have prepared the most beautiful ballad for the King this evening.” He walked next to you as you begin to head back to the Knight’s area.
“I am no Knight yet, Kaminari.”
“Ah but to me you will always be, fair lady.” He grinned, winking as he skipped ahead and cleared his throat, “Would you care to hear it?”
“I suppose I have time, but after I must get on with my chores.”
“Chores are bores (l/n)!” He pouted.
“Chores are apart of my daily routine, my duty?” You raise a brow, and laugh as he waves you off.
“Let me sho-oh!” Walking backwards, Kaminari had failed to notice a rock on the ground, causing him to trip and land on his behind.
You let a snort of laughter, only to bite your lip to keep the rest of your giggles hidden as he glares back at you.
“Maggots, that hurt.” He stood up with a sigh, brushing the dirt off of his clothes.
“At least you had a hat to protect that large head of yours.” You kept walking, hearing the boy jog to catch up.
“I say, that’s no way to show concern for a friend!” He huffed next to you, walking facing forwards this time.
“If you believe that is not how I express my concern, then you are no friend.”
“Don’t say such words, you shall break my heart beyond repair.” Kaminari put a hand over his chest, to emphasize his words.
“I’m sure the blacksmith shall have no issues to help.” You rolled your eyes with a snicker bubbling from your lips at his crestfallen expression.
“The blacksmi-Ojiro would not care to fix my heart!”
“Why not? He would surely fix something as precious as that.”
You saw his eyes widen at your words, and you hide a smile at the dopey grin that spread across his face.
“Precious? Oh sweet lady, you speak all the words a fool wishes to ever hear. You know- I feel like that could be a terrific ballad.”
The sounds of grunting caught your attention, and you turn to see people sparing on the training grounds. You see blonde and you let a frown take over your face. Bakugou was training against another one of the squires, and he was no match for him. You hated to admit it, but Bakugou was amazing at hand-to-hand combat.
He was almost too good, even though everyone here had been training all their lives just as he has. However, you tended to gloat when it came to archery, out beating him in that subject by a mile. His raw power tended to overshoot the arrow, and you gracefully made a bulls eye every time. Not to mention how destructive it can be if he uses his quirk with it as well.
Lost in thought, you didn’t have time to dodge the one person who you hoped to not see all day.
“(Y/N)! DEAR STOP THIS ONCE.” You wanted to run, but if you did it’d make it worse.
Bakugou turned to the noise, but you looked away before he caught your eyes.
“Have fun milady, I shall be off hiding away, do find me if you survive.” Denki had given you a quick, playful bow and scampered off.
You clicked your tongue as you watched him leave.
‘Traitor.’
“Hello mother.” You had said dryly, looking at her while trying to hide your grimace.
“(y/n), you rascal, did you not know of my looking for you?” She sighed.
You could tell she was annoyed, and swallowed the comment of her not looking hard enough. Since you sat in the same spot for some time.
“No mother, I did not.”
“Well,” She huffed, “Now that I have caught you-”
“Against my will may I add.”
“Hush your tongue girl! I need you to come with me, we must-”
“Mother,” You cut her off, pulling your hand from her grasp, “I have duties right now, can this please wait?”
Your pleading seemed to cause her even more annoyance, but she only crossed her arms while looking up at you.
“This is a very important matter, (y/n). Can your chores wait, till tomorrow perhaps? Or, honestly you may need to put training on hold, even behind you.”
“What? I cannot put my training on hold. I have a responsibility to my Knight teacher and most important my King-”
“Well, your suitor will not take to watching you scoop, ugh, dung.”
“S-suitor!?” You yelled louder than intended, not realizing the sets of eyes digging into your back.
You clutched your books tighter to your chest, trying your hardest not to blow up on your mother.
“My dear, you have been at your prime, you are Nineteen! it is time you find someone-”
“Mother.” You glare, “I refuse. My duty is to my King first and foremost.”
“Your duty is only tempor-”
You stormed off, not bothering to turn around as your mother yelled after you. She had never believed in your position, believing that as soon as you were ‘bored’, you would come crawling back to your life of luxury.
‘Never.’ You thought bitterly.
You did not want to marry someone who thought less of you because of this, someone who wanted you to settle down and bare heirs. She, nor anyone else, could force you to do anything, and you will make sure to scare off anyone who would even think of pulling you out of the life you love
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To Tie A Knot: Chapter Two: Fate's Folly
Trigger Warnings:
Sympathetic Deceit, Self Hate, Anxiety Disorder, Minor Death, Sickness, Unconsciousness, Mentions of Hospitals, mild language, if I missed any tell me!
Chapter Summary:
Fate made one very welcome mistake when it brought these four together. (Aka- Roman is a stuttering mess, and Logan is a smart cookie)
Word Count: 2,200+
Note: Wow I actually wrote this, good job me! I didn't plan on the next chapter coming out so fast, but hey, I didn't want to forget the good ideas I had for it. Thank you all, so, so much for the support. It really just means the entire world to me, honestly.
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Logan had known he was different for a very long time.
Everything about him was strange. The way he spoke, the way he never slouched, the way he could do incredibly large problems in his head with ease. Even the way he interacted with others was weird.
You would think most people would find him strange for those reasons, but no. Actually, they pointed out something different entirely.
While a fatestring could not be seen by anyone other than the two connected by it, they did infact cast a shadow. It was the oddest thing, no one could explain it, but they did.
So when people would go to shake the young man's hand and saw the three strings that traveled with his hand through shadow, they were taken aback. It was unnatural. Wrong.
They'd rush away without much else to say, or force a smile and slowly back off.
Logan knew he was strange, he knew that the three strings did nothing to help that, but he couldn't find anything in him to care.
He couldn't change anything if he wanted to anyway.
~
Roman was... Extra, to say the least. He was a loud young man with an eye for theater. He was an actor, set on becoming a Broadway or Hollywood star.
He never minded the looks people gave him, the way his three fatestrings brought attention to him. He loved the attention, basked in it. Loved it like a snake loves the sun.
"Why of course I have three! The universe would never stick someone like me with only one person, it'd be overwhelming! Poor thing would faint," he had announced one day, his voice dramatic. The others just snickered, what a weirdo.
Roman would spend his evenings singing Disney songs while he tidied his room, or gently tapping rythms to Baby Blue, one of the strings. You see, he had given them all nicknames based on color. Baby Blue, Navy, and Violet. He loved them all dearly, despite not knowing much about any of them.
He did know this.
Navy tapped rhythmically, slow and steady. They seemed collected. Evidence for that? Eh, not much, but Roman could just feel it. Baby Blue was bubbly, and would tap songs along with the actor. Baby Blue seemed nice and happy, bubbly.
Violet didn't talk much. He'd get a tug from his side every once in awhile, but other than that, nothing. It'd tremor sometimes though, as if V was trembling. Roman was quick to act, running a finger along the string to send vibrations. He hoped the others were doing something similar.
~
Patton was an exciting ball of pure joy. The soft male would wear skirts whenever he damn well pleased, tied his ashy hair in pony tails, spun in circles until he fell down in the park, made flower crowns, and fed ducks grain because he knew bread was bad for them.
He was just an amazing person overall.
His eyes were a soft blue behind thick rimmed glasses, his face covered in freckles. He always seemed to smile, showing off the small gap in his front teeth.
He helped his mother in a small bakery, near the towns college. They got good enough business, and one day Patton was supposed to inherit the place.
The steady income was promising, so the twenty-one year old didn't have to worry about college. They weren't poor, but they also couldn't afford something like that.
Oh well, he'd just have to continue living life to it's fullest, and looking for his three soulmates.
Yep, three! He was so proud of them, despite not knowing much about them. He knew NB was calm, R was anything but, and V was different.
Patton was sure he'd love them unconditionally, he only hoped they'd show him the same.
~
Virgil hated everything about this damn place. From the cold walls to the high windows, this whole place was just genuinely unwelcoming and scary.
Virgil had an anxiety disorder, so everything had him on edge. He had to wait in a lecture hall before leaving so the halls would be clear, and then sneak out.
Anyone who didn't know him would say he was emo. Anyone who did know him could confirm that.
He had a very dark wardrobe, the only colors other than dark blacks were variations of purple. His trademark jacket he's had for years, he made it himself, was black with purple patchwork.
He wore minimal makeup, normally just going out in eyeshadow and eyeliner. He didn't like color, made him stick out too much.
School was Hell. All that occurred was bullying and anxiety. The students of the college didn't take too kindly to someone as different as him, someone with three soulmates.
Virgil used to think he was alone, even if he did have soulmates out there somewhere, who could love him? He honestly thought that they would probably never even attempt to like him, they probably hated the fact they had more than on soulmate.
Actually, now that he thought about it, did they even share soulmates? Was Virgil just doomed to be attached to three people who had no connections to eachother? How would this even begin to work, how would he ever be able to deal with it?
Thoughts like this tormented him everyday, all the way until he met his first soulmate, Red.
~
>Two years prior<
It had been a decently normal day, the sky bright and full of fluffy, white clouds. Virgil leaned against a large oaktree somewhere at the edge of the college campus, nodding his head along to some music discreetly. He messed around on Tumblr for a bit, before sighing and looking up at the students that walked around.
At first he didn't pay much mind to the string that stretched out towards crowd, he was used to his fatestrings moving and stretching out. They never caught on anything, it was impossible.
But then he noticed how it moved. The red string was moving quickly across the field, so either his soulmate was moving extremely fast, or they were... Right there.
A male ran through the crowd, going opposite Virgil, obviously not seeing the string, which was very obviously connected to them both.
Virgil's heart skipped, and he stood up, shoving his phone in his pocket and pulling his headphones to his neck. He took off, running for the soulmate that was connected to him through the red string.
Virgil ran, all anxiety forgotten, the pull of a soulmate too strong to ignore. He ran, his converse loud against the asphalt path.
"Hey! Wait!" He shouted, shoving past people who began to move to the side. The other must be in a rush, for he didn't stop or wait.
He had a red sports jacket on, and white pants. An odd choice of clothing, but he was most likely a prep of some sort. Either way, Virgil just had to catch up.
"Stop!" Virgil shouted, losing Red in the crowd. He continued running, but slowed down a bit. There was just no way-
No, you know what-
Virgil yanked, as hard and as fast as he could on the red string. He felt it tug, the distance now so small there was no slack. He saw Red now, who had stumbled back and dropped his papers.
Red looked down at his string, following it with his eyes until-
They made eye contact. Red's eyes widened and Virgil suddenly felt his anxiety pooling back through him, an illness that refused to be forgotten.
He pushed it back, walking forward to pick of Red's papers. He stacked them nicely together, before standing up and coming face to face with the soulmate, who was still in shock.
He gently placed the papers in Red's hands,
"You'll need these. Don't be late to your rehearsal," Virgil muttered, noting that the papers were scripts.
"I- well uh-" Red stuttered, looking from the papers to Virgil, who just laughed.
"It's Virgil," He said, giving the actor a dumb smile. He got an idea suddenly, picking out a pen from his pocket. Normally he'd be embarrassed that he just whipped out a glitter pen, but honestly, he was an artist and it was a useful tool. Besides, no time to dwell now.
Virgil scribbled down his number on Red's hand, his touch feather-light, ghosting on his tan skin.
×××-×××-××××
~ Virgil
He smiled at Red, before running off, disappearing. Red was left to stand there, staring at the number written in glittery ink. Oh God- wow okay- he- oof.
~
Patton loved his soulmates, he really did, but holy shit was this beginning to annoy the pastel young man.
Navy had been tapping for hours nonstop, constantly. The same pattern, over and over and over. Patton couldn't take it, he had to study, he had to, but how would he ever with this nonstop tap tap tap tap tap-
Wait, Navy never did this, he only tapped when Patton tapped first, or sometimes at night, probably by accident. Maybe there was something wrong, maybe Patton should try to help.
So he sat down at his desk, and tapped three times back. Navy seemed to stop, before starting again, this time harder with more vigor.
Tap tap tap tap... Tap... Tap hold tap tap...
And some more was added to the sequence, before it starting over. Patton furrowed his brow, he'd heard of something like this, maybe-
'Oh my goodness,' Patton thought as realization hit him like a truck, 'It's Morse code.'
He rushed to grab a pencil, knocking over a vase of flowers in the process. He didn't even look for paper, just waited for the next sequence and scribbled down what he heard.
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .. .----. -.. / .-.. .. -.- . / - --- / ..-. .. -. -.. / -.-- --- ..-
He tapped back happily, but he didn't think Navy understood that he knew, as the soulmate just started tapping ferociously, as if frustrated.
Patton ran to grab a laptop, haphazardly throwing it onto the bed and jumping up beside it. He looked up a Morse code translator and typed it in.
"Hello, I'd like to find you."
His heart stopped beating for a moment. Patton didn't know what to think, but he did know what to do.
He typed in a message in English, and tapped back,
.. / .-- .- -. - / - --- / -- . . - / .-- .... . .-. . / .- .-. . / -.-- --- ..-
"I want to meet where are you?"
Simple and not super well thought out, but hey, it worked. Navy stopped tapping, realizing what was happening. They gave a small yank, and Patton repeated himself.
They tapped back and forth for a few more hours, simple messages. They'd meet in the park, it turned out that they both lived close.
Oh, he couldn't wait!
~
Roman felt like screaming, he met his soulmate, got his number, and was going to meet him! They'd be going to the park together for a little first date, to discuss the other two strings.
He was so excited, he just couldn't help it. Oh how fate had blessed him, Violet, or Virgil it turned out, was just stunning! Messy brown hair died purple at the ends, a jacket that seemed to be fluffy and comfortable, oh, how Roman wanted to just hold the smaller male, oh how he'd-
'Woah there Roman, you're making your own gaydar go off,' He thought to himself as he stared up at the ceiling. He had twirled until he couldn't no more, falling backwards onto his nice red blankets fit for a king.
Oh, but what a day it would be!
•••
>Present Day<
Remy didn't know what he'd expected, but it wasn't this.
When Damian didn't return his calls, he expected to find the male asleep, or out somewhere to eat. Perhaps with a lost phone.
But no, instead, he and Emile had stumbled upon something even worse.
Damian's small body was shrunk in on itself, knees tightly to his chest. He was curled in a corner by his TV and wall, a small bit of dried blood on his cheek where he had hit his head, the blood dripping down his face.
The circles under his eyes were dark, his skin sallow. His hair was a mess, and he was sweating slightly, as if he were feverish.
His eyes were open slightly, but he didn't seem to be very conscious. His eyes lazily followed the two soulmates as they rushed over to him.
"Dee, babe, are you alright? What happened?" Remy asked, putting the back of his hand to Damian's forehead. It was practically steaming.
"I'll- I'll go get an ambulance," Emile said as he stood up, running into another room to look for a phone, he'd left his at Remy's place.
Remy looked Damian over, he didn't seem to be very hurt, only sick. What could have caused this? What-
He saw Damian's arm convulse a bit, and the boy whimpered, curling further in on himself. Remy's eyes softened in pity, and he went to help Dee up.
The smaller of the two gladly leaned into Remy's cooler touch, thankful to get out of that corner. He was picked up into a princess' carry, his head falling weakly onto Remy's shoulder.
Emile came back in, stating an ambulance was on it's way and to get him outside where it was easy to collect him and take him to the hospital. Remy nodded,
"Turn on the lamp, I can't see," He said softly, as if loud noises would scare the half-conscious young man in his arms.
Emile didn't hesitate to turn it on, but the moment he did, he gasped in horror. His gaze fell onto the wall behind Remy.
Remy turned slowly, and he had to hold on to Dee a little tighter so not to drop him.
The shadow- his fatestring- was-
It was dangling uselessly from his hand, severed.
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Charlie’s Angels (2019)
You may have heard some kerfuffle about this movie grossly underperforming at the box office, and writer/director/actor Elizabeth Banks blaming this on men not going to see female-led action movies and then men who DO go see female-led action movies firing back by saying this just didn’t look like a very GOOD female-led action movie. Blah blah blah outrage news cycle. I was already on board to see this from the moment I saw Kristen Stewart just like, existing (what? She’s like the patron saint of my people. I’m only a human queer woman, guys, I can’t help it). So was this an unfortunate “get woke, go broke” mess or an unfairly maligned feminist wave that we should all be riding? Well...
Eh, somewhere in the middle. There are certainly glimmers of brilliance that I appreciated and didn’t feel pandering, but felt more like moments that only happen in movies or television when someone new gets a seat at the table and is allowed to share their perspective. But this is no feminist war cry, a la Mad Max: Fury Road, and will go down in history as a fairly forgettable rehash of a story we’ve seen before.
Plot summary (not that you really need one) - Jane (Ella Balinska) and Sabina (Kristen Stewart) are both agents working for the Townsend Agency, a private group of lady spies who have all been brought together by the mysterious Charlie and who have handlers designated Bosley. One of the Bosleys, Patrick Stewart, is retiring, but is pulled back into the fold when a mole in the operation tries to sabotage the latest mission - protecting Elena (Naomi Scott), a whistleblower at a prominent energy company whose latest invention has the potential to be weaponized. Jane and Sabina are tasked with stealing the invention, protecting Elena, and figuring out who the mole is before it’s too late! This is all basically an excuse for them to travel to exotic locales, wear lots of fabulous clothes and less fabulous wigs, and for queer women to lust after KStew being a winking club girl, a jockey, a tennis instructor, and an all-around disaster gay.
Some thoughts:
I never saw the early 2000s movies (part 1 or 2) but they were very formative for me because I did a school presentation in 8th grade that was a song about the rock cycle set to the tune of Destiny’s Child’s “Independent Women Part 1″ so. That’s about as deep as my relationship to Charlie’s Angels goes.
Maybe this is extremely petty of me, but Elena’s shitty boss, Peter Fleming, (Nat Faxon) has some of the worst teeth I’ve ever seen in a Hollywood movie. And I’m not saying that to be mean, just - I took a look at his IMDB, and he’s a character actor who’s done a lot of TV work, lots of comedy, lots of voice stuff. It looks like he’s been working steadily since 2002 at least, and I just...fix your teeth dude! I cannot even IMAGINE a world in which a woman in Hollywood could hope to get consistent, steady work with teeth like that. And that’s how you know the patriarchy is real, y’all.
Elena is so brave to be a whistleblower. The world needs more whistleblowers.
Everything KStew wears is the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. I think watching this movie might be the gayest 2 hours of my life, and I’m including the day I literally got married to a woman.
I can honestly say it made me emotional to see international deals being brokered not for guns or money, but for birth control pills and tampons. Just showing the importance of access to reproductive health care for women (and trans men and nb folks) is a detail I would never expect in a big budget action movie, and it was one of those moments that would never have occurred onscreen if this movie wasn’t written, produced, directed, and all around made by and for women.
Jane having an emotional breakdown is so important. So frequently, women of color, especially black women, are portrayed as hard, unfeeling, and incapable of feeling pain in order to be perceived as Strong Female CharactersTM. But that feeds into a long and racist history of minimizing black people’s pain in order to excuse abusing and oppressing them. It’s not often that you get to see a black female character like Jane who is competent, smart, physically strong and intimidating, who is also allowed to be emotionally vulnerable and show real sadness and fear and intimacy. This moment honestly shocked me in the best way and was one of the biggest highlights of the film (and it’s another one I’m not sure would have existed without being a film created and executed by women).
One of the highlights of the movie is the villains - each of them that get revealed are having a great deal of fun and brining a lot of life to their characters in different, unique ways. I have to say this is the most fun I’ve had watching bad guys be bad guys in recent memory.
In spite of the catastrophic Macguffin at the center of all the action, the final act feels underwhelming and like the stakes are very small. The script does everything it can to make the conflict feel personal, but I dunno, the entire final showdown just left me feeling a bit cold and distracted.
Did I Cry? No, there’s not quite enough heart at the core of this to really tug on my easily activated cry reflex.
Overall, I’ve seen better and I’ve seen worse. The characters are fun and distinct, and the three main Angels are certainly having a rollicking good time, so that’s always fun to watch. But the script is kinda weak, and the jet-setting all feels rather ho-hum. If you prefer your badass lady spies WITHOUT a heaping helping of gross male gaze, this is certainly the right film for you! But when it comes to actually destroying the patriarchy, it all feels a little bubblegum to me.
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Things I Know About Airplanes Part 1:
First things first !
There are just some things you cannot control. So let go of that perfect travel itinerary. Air travel is made possible by so many factors its impossible that on everyday in every way everything goes perfect !
Is air travel safe ? Absolutely. Is airtravel convenient? HELL YAH. Is airtravel fun, cheap or relaxing? Go fish . So remember unless you want to swim , walk , or drive to your destination This airplane business is overall pretty cool.
I would have titled this post “ tips to make you a better traveler” , but that would mean that I deem myself queen supreme of all sky travel ever.
( and there is nothing that grinds my gears like a couple people calling themselves world travelers after their cruise to Cabo on spring break ). So this is just based on what I know as a flight attendant .
the plane will ( and I cannot stress this enough ) NOT , wait for you.
- SORRY !!!!! If you’re late the plane will not wait for you. If you miss your connection the plane will not wait for you. Let go. Stop stressing. I know this is a hard pill to swallow. You got this. Stop yelling at airport or airline staff because no matter what we do ( NO MATTER WHAT WE DO aka WE CANT DO ANYTHING) if we are delayed aka late or if you are late, Your plane is gone. THE PLANE WILL LEAVE AT THE TIME IT SAID IT WOULD. Much like you committed to being there at that time. I don’t make the rules. The rules pay me to be at work on time & here I am.
Why can’t the plane wait for you?
The world doesn’t revolve around you. How many more delays would you have caused if every time you were late for a connection or a flight , if it waited only for you. Just you. Did you ever think about the other 200 people trying to get to their connections. & maybe you haven’t thought of anyone else. BUT TODAY IS THE DAY YOU START. If you really wanna brain storm you can also think about the flight that needs your aircraft after you THOSE PEOPLE TOO . So just think about others. Bad weather ? Can’t go . Broken airplane ? Good thing we have awesome pilots and mechanics that can detect such dangers. No airplane ? Come on! you’re smarter than this. Stop being upset about it. Nothing you can do. Rebook your flight. Sleep in the airport if you have too or buy a hotel if you REALLY have to. Swallow your pride. You can travel across the country in less than 5 hours in a supersonic tin that sometimes has WiFi and movies ( more about that later ). Life is good.
Tip from a flight attendant, my personal fav , I swear by it:
Book the earliest flight you can. Like 5 am early!!!!! You are less likely to be delayed in the morning. There is less air traffic and the airplanes come from the hangers after being serviced overnight. If anything goes wrong you have time for a back up plan. Not being a “morning person “ is a lame excuse for an adult human these days . ok .
I’m honestly not sure if I’m giving airplane advice or just life advice at this point tbh. Moving on !!!!
2. Headphones and other things you forgot to pack.
Ok so. I’m for sure not about to tell you how to pack the perfect carry on because there is no such thing ( don’t let any YouTuber tell you so ) But I can tell you about the common items that people forget to bring with them on airplanes
( based on multiple true stories )
- headphoneS / MULTIPLE PAIRS / meaning the ones for your phone ( Bluetooth or lighting port AND the old regular ones ) if the airplane gods smile upon you the day of your flight , you might have inflight entertainment WOW free movies in your seat back! that’s insane right . ( especially since you’re paying for transportation and not to be entertained ) but if you forget the regular headphones, you can’t watch them ! I always also download other movies to my phone or tablet as well just Incase.
- A blanket or jacket. It’s true ! Breaking news ! not all airplanes supply blankets. Flight attendants get asked all day long multiple times if we have “ any extra blankets , it’s so cold in here “ so. Wear a jacket & closed toed shoes ?. Flight attendants have minimal control over the temperatures. Why did you wear shorts and sandals? YOU KNOW AIRPLANES GET COLD. Just like movie theaters are cold. You never ask someone at the concession stand to warm up your theater. This isn’t a house it’s an airplane. My airplane outfit is always nice jeans, plain tee, socks , vans and a jacket. Always. I will swear by it, I’m always the right temperature.
- Portable charger bank. This ones lame and I hate it. Not all airplanes have charging outlets. And it sucks I know. I work there. Can you imagine walking into work and there being no outlets. Well I feel your pain on this one. All of the airplanes are random. Some airbus models have screens and WiFi and chargers. And some have none. Luck of the draw. If you cannot find the charger in your immediate area. A flight attendant cannot make one for you. Be smart ! bring a portable charger bank. If the airplane is and old Boeing 767 ( super random plane we use for some Europe routes and select domestic ) it has cigarette lighter chargers ( like in old cars ) in some rows **** . Just bring a portable charger and avoid landing in a foreign country without access to information. Save yourself.
- SNACKS why do so many people overlook the importance of the airplane snack. Unless your flight is over 3 hours food will not even be available for purchase. And over 3 hours the food is expensive and mediocre. Complimentary meals are only served on long haul international or routes Jfk - SFO JFK - LAx and JFK - San ( direct ) . So airplane snacks are important. I usually get 2 choices . Something to munch on while watching my movie and one snack that actually is a meal. For example : I bring sunflower seeds and a Pb and j. Or if I’m feeling extra !!! : a quick bacon egg and cheese from the airport Starbucks, large venti ice coffee and Chex mix. You get the idea. It’s an airplane not a kitchen. It’s like a sky bodega. Don’t be unhappy. bring your own stuff. Especially if you’re vegan, or allergic to everything. PLEASE I BEG YOU! DONT BE THE FITNESS GURU WHO NEEDS MORE GRASS FED PROTEIN AT 38000 FEET. ( actually happened to me ) oh also people say that airplane coffee isn’t safe? Because of the water tanks. The Jury is still out on that: I will be your personal lab rat , I drink multiple cups of airplane coffee in one sitting. Make your assumptions and opinions. I will stay warm and caffeinated.
3. Hacks and tricks . Ok so we’re getting to the good stuff. I’m about to tell you the easiest way to be offered a free drink , snack , or in general special treatment on the airplane. Are you ready !? BE SUPER NICE AND PERSONABLE. Ok not exactly rocket science but seriously the SECOND you mumble under your breath, say something rude, get an attitude, look unsettled, or be annoying in the galley. You might as well kiss your chances of getting any special treatment goodbye. ( one person does something , the entire crew knows about it. rude passengers will not be rewarded . Being rude to airline staff never works . I’ve never seen it work) airline staff will most of the time reward good behavior. Wow are we back in pre-k? Or what. Ok now something more tangible . -BRING THE FLIGHT STAFF SMALL GIFTS. Most airplanes have 4 flight attendants on board. International has 12. If you walk on board and say “ hi I’m ______ seated in 23a ( whatever your seat may be ) I brought these for the flight attendants” almost 10/10 times we love it and tell the whole crew to take care of that person specifically. This is important : *You will probably have a flight attendant ask you “ thank you for the gift. do you need anything ? “* and that is your go to time !!!! That’s your time to shine !!!!!! If you want a free drink or snack !!!! Ask now!!!!!!!!!!! This is a real thing and it really works. Small gifts include : individually rapped candies, hand sanitizer, a pack of pens, any kind of snacks at all , a 4 pack of Red Bull/espresso 4 little bags of mnms,donuts or munchkins from Dunkin’ Donuts. Honestly it doesn’t have to be big or expensive! If you show up to your flight on time AND you’re nice to the flight attendants. Just wow . Doing better than 99% of anyone else on airplanes. Go you . If you are a high maintenance flyer this is your go to move to get on the good side of everyone on the crew. Or buy a first class seat ok ? A smile and some donuts go a long way. DO YOU WANT FREE WIFI ? Me too but unfortunately most of the time the WiFi is expensive and not at all free . BUT after take off if you connect to WiFi and the WiFi connection is sourced by the company “gogoinflight” ( you’ll know cause that’s what it’s called in your settings when you connect to WiFi ) I do have a trick. Gogoinflight is a company that sources WiFi for major airlines, if you have T-Mobile ( or if you know someone with a T-Mobile phone number *****) you can enter your phone number and boom free WiFi for an hour. FREE BEER AND WINE - actually free - on international routes ( not Caribbean) don’t be a jerk ! It’s an airplane not a bar. You’re an adult you know you can’t act drunk on airplanes. It’s actually VERY frowned upon and personal CAN call security on you. If you can’t drink 2 glasses of wine on the ground without dancing on the table , you can’t on the airplane. Oh and TRUST me I’ve seen the light while yaking in the airplane bathroom and THAT MY FRIEND!!!! will not be my final destination!!!
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Happy Holidays from your Secret Santa! I hope you enjoy reading!
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Wes didn’t really have an interest in relationships. They were a lot of work to maintain, and it took a lot of time to grow and develop trust between partners. It seemed like a lot of effort for results that didn’t really appeal to him. He was a man with his whole life ahead of him! He had every door to open, and thought a relationship would lock them and throw away the key. And because he was a grown man with boundless opportunities, he decided he was going to take some time off and visit a neighboring theme park.
The park had just installed a new roller coaster, so all of his friends had advised him against going. They complained about lines, prices, and overall quality, but Wes really didn’t care. You don’t go to a theme park to admire cleanliness and expense. You go to indulge in all of your childhood memories of the fire in your soul at doing something new. However the long lines do tend to dull the spark of the spirit, so Wes took the plunge alone. Single rider lines were always shorter, plus he wasn’t opposed to the thought that he might meet someone new. So he took a day off from work to minimize the teenagers involved, and went online to buy his tickets.
Once he got to the park, he found a direct path towards the fabled coaster, but the line seemed longer than his lifespan, so he decided to take a look around and see what else he could do. He quickly began to regret visiting alone, as he seemed to be the only single adult in the park. Rides and games were no fun unless you had someone to play and laugh with. He contemplated going home. It was his money after all, he could do what he wanted with it. But the child shallowly hidden under the surface pressed him into staying. He rationalized his decision because after all, he bought the tickets to ride the coaster, so he would ride it no matter how long the line was!
He was a single man, so he decided to take the shorter option of the single rider line. He stood solo for about 30 seconds before he was caboosed by a man with a royal blue chunk in his hair. Wes had never been superficial, so he tried not to make an opinion about the stranger based on his appearance, but that, like many things, was easier said than done. The man was absolutely gorgeous, and if Wes had a type, he would be the perfect example. Tall, glasses that were slightly askew, and hair that was so soft a chinchilla would envy it. If social pressure didn’t exist, he could have admired the man forever. Sadly, it did, so before he could be caught staring, Wes quickly turned away from the stranger, but he decided the view behind him was significantly more beautiful than the one before him. Line stretched for what seemed like miles, and Wes agonized for the poor people traveling in groups. Quickly going numb to the ambient noise of shrieking and laughter brought about by the theme park, Wes made the decision to take a dive of the edge of his comfortable thoughts into the possible wonderland that could await him within the mind of the man behind him. Everyone says that life is better with a buddy anyway, right?
Before he could overthink it like he tended to do with everything else, Wes spun on his heel and smiled at the stranger. The opposing man responded with a lopsided grin that could put the sun to shame.
Bolded by the mans kindness, Wes attempted to start a conversation. “Do you think the park architects know how to drive? They seem to not be very good at managing traffic.” He said, sounding much smoother than he expected.
“It’s kind of strange really” The other man said with a gentle chuckle at the pun “I tried to come on a day no one would be here, but I guess everyone else had the same plan.” He said with a soft chuckle.
Wes decided that no matter how intense the ride was, nothing would have the ability to throw him through loops, and turn his stomach into knots the way this guy could. “Oh, most definitely! That’s why I decided to come today. I’m Wes, by the way.” The words tumbled off his tongue as if they had been pushed before they expected it. Wes was already cringing at the sound of the sentence.
The man grinned, and seemed to be endeared by the awkwardness. “Well nice to meet you Wes by the way. My name’s Damien”
Wes was relieved by the teasing. If Damien felt comfortable enough to tease him, then the conversation wasn’t going as bad as he worried it might.
They continued to converse throughout the line, and Wes felt increasingly grateful for the amount of people. As they talked, he kept falling harder and harder. Not only was Damien attractive, but Wes delightedly discovered he was also intelligent, kind, and really passionate about things and people he cared for. The two men also had very similar tastes in pop culture. If he had to estimate, he would say at least half the line was spent discussing recent anime releases.
Since they began talking, Wes crossed his fingers that the two would be seated next to each other. People said that you shouldn’t do those kinds of things because they jinxed it, but Wes thought they were just unlucky. His suspicions were correct because when Wes slid through the turntable onto his seat, he heard a clicking behind him, and fluffy brown hair invaded the neighboring seat. Damien opened his mouth to remark on their unlikely connection, but their bright green cart projected them outward before the words could escape.
The first part of the track led them into an unlit elevator with rails on the sides. Even in the blackness, Wes could swear he saw a shine in Damien’s eyes at getting to see the inner workings of the ride. He barely had a second to fawn over the sight before they stopped over a 90 degree drop. The ride fell down the edge of the elevator as the riders let out a shriek at the force they were feeling.
The ride continued jerking them every which way, and Wes was thankful his head didn’t collide with Damien’s. Once they neared the end, a smile sign appeared on the decorative waterfall next to them. Wes posed as if he were a model, hoping to draw more attention to him from his new companion. He heard a mumbled “You need more training” next to him, but the ride jerked to a stop before he could process it.
Their shoulders rubbed together as they moved to release their restraints. They both awkwardly shimmied out of the cart, feeling the blood returning to where it was supposed to dwell. As they walked back towards the central area of the park, they saw a flashy booth advertising photos of the ride. Wes wanted to preserve the memory, so he walked over to the booth. He was quickly followed by Damien as he was unwilling to lose sight of his new companion.
“It’s only a few bucks, I can pay for yours if you want,” Wes heard from behind his shoulder. The idea made him laugh. He had already spent this much, what was a little more?
“Don’t worry about it. Honestly, I’d be happy to pay for yours” He said, rubbing his hand along the back of his neck.
“Nope,” Damien said, adding an extra pop to the P for sass. “I want to pay for you. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.”
Wes wasn’t hesitant to admit that he found the sentiment sweet. He believed everyone wanted to be spoiled deep down after all. However, he also wasn’t going to let a white knight come along and wipe away his every trouble. “Fine by me, but I guess that means I need to treat you to lunch,” He said with a teasing smirk. He saw Damien’s hesitation, so before he could counter the statement, Wes continued “No if’s, and’s, or but’s about it.”
Damien tried to hold back laughter at his own words sounding silly coming out of the other man. Wes saw his shoulders shake with the effort, and he was sure he’d be able to hear it had the squeals of the park not drowned it out. “As you wish my good sir,” Damien said, skirting into laughter at the words.
Wes didn’t know if it was the adrenaline from the coaster, or his own lovestruck heart, but he and Damien couldn’t stop laughing and goofing off together for the rest of the day. Even after they took a breather to eat, the madness filled their blood once again as they ran around with each other as if they had never grown up.
Their energy hit its peak once they started wasting their money playing overpriced carnival games. Wes was a romantic at heart, so he kind of wanted to win a toy to give to Damien, so when he saw a game with massive stuffed animals, he held Damien’s hand and pulled him to the bright red booth.
It was a pretty simple game in premise. All players got a small squirt gun attached to a metal prong on the counter. The goal was to fill the mouth of a cardboard cutout as much as possible. Wes fished the money out of his wallet, and handed in to the bored teenage handler. The game started with the shrill sound of a bell. He was trying to test the limits of the gun holster, so he rotated it around, spraying a small amount of water. He hadn’t accounted for the force of the movement though, so a small stream of water his Damien in the neck, and dampened a section of his shirt collar.
Wes quickly turned away, and went back to his mission of winning the massive stuffed Squirtle hung up on the overhang. Once his attention was back on the game, he was surprised by cold running down the side of his face. He turned in the direction of the source to see Damien acting just a bit too innocent.
Oh it’s on. In a moment of determination, Wes decided memories were more important than giant pokemon. With a quick pull to the side, Damien had a drenched spot in the center of his chest and it was leaking down the rest of his torso.
In less than an instant, Wes was also spotted with water covering his clothes. Despite how different their patches of water looked, they both wore grins equal in magnitude, and red faces from laughter. If you had to ask, Wes would cite that as the moment he really developed feelings for the now known stranger. The sight of him with shiny, watery eyes, and face red from exhilaration. The only reason he looked away was to return his focus towards his weapon to continue the war waged between them.
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Wes may have not had an interest in relationships a year ago, but a lot had changed since then. He never thought he would spend the holidays with two cats curled up together on the arm of his couch, and he certainly never thought he’d have a cat-man curled up on the same couch nestled against his side. However the beautiful stranger he’d met that day had changed a lot of things, and in all honesty, Wes wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Okay, I need to know, how do you afford to go to so many concerts man???? Like tickets where I’m from are between $350-500 man and the get announced way to late and if I want to go, I have to travel like a full day to get to the closest city and I have to pay for accomodation and good and then I end up broke and I fucking hate it. So give me some advice to on how to save for concerts man!!!!!!!!!! - mochie
yikes! if tickets were $350-500 i probably wouldn’t be going to so many lol never mind that i just spent $500 for some p2 stray kids tickets whoops typically i won’t spend more than $150 for a ticket. i’ve never had anything higher than p3 for concerts, and i have been known to just get the cheap seats (usually like $60 for kpop concerts in america).
i’m also pretty lucky - i’m a two hour drive from chicago, so i can easily make it to that location for concerts. or if i choose to go to new jersey/new york shows (like with nct and stray kids), i’m easily able to visit my parents for the week of the concert. my job lets me work from home if i need to, which makes traveling really easy for me. i do have to pay for hotels in newark, though, and i understand how pricey that can be.
unfortunately i also don’t have any good tips for saving up - i’m lucky to have a pretty high paying job, so i don’t have to worry too much about the costs. i’m sorry that tickets are so expensive where you are! that really sucks 😕
How was the bts concert btdubbbs???? I kinda want to go to one if they come here but I knwo that the tickets will sell out super fast and I kinda doubt they’ll come here cause I live in a fucking forgotten continent - mochie
the bts concert was super fun! this is the third tour of theirs that i’ve been to, and they did an amazing job as always. but this was especially surreal because of the sheer magnitude of the show. like the first time i saw them was at the red bullet tour, back in 2015 i think? and they were at a somewhat small theater in chicago with minimal props and stuff. but now they’re doing these huge arenas with full-on light shows, fireworks, fancy props… i mean jungkook fucking flew over the audience and if that’s not magical i don’t know what is.
i was a little worried as the concert progressed because they were primarily doing songs from the love yourself albums, and i’m not a huge fan of those albums - i decided last minute to go to their concert because i love map of the soul: persona so much. but then they came out for the encore and did my two favorite songs off of persona, and i cried and it was beautiful.
also they were all so sweet! and their english is so good! it was fucking freezing at the concert since it was outdoors, and they were all like “please take care of yourselves, don’t catch a cold! be safe~” and it was the sweetest. jin had little sweater paws and it was precious.
so overall, i highly recommend seeing them live if you get the chance. i don’t know where you live, but i hope that they visit you soon 💕
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Fresh Listen - Ray Barbee, Tiara for Computer (Um Yeah Arts, 2018)
(Some pieces of recorded music operate more like organisms than records. They live, they breathe, they reproduce. Fresh Listen is a periodic review of recently and not so recently released albums that crawl among us like radioactive spiders, gifting us with superpowers from their stingers.)
Around Christmas-time 2018, my good friend Nathan invited us to a shindig at the Hawai'i Bowl, a post-season exhibition game at the Aloha Stadium, UH vs. LA Tech. Pregame was an all-you-can-eat/drink “tailgate.” Over-salted and overheated meatballs and short ribs, prepared frozen food from institutional distributors, served alongside twelve-ounce Coors Light or Heineken. The kind of party more fun in the abstract--in real time, you inevitably get sucked under a sluggish and dehydrated day drunk, and no quantity of soggy tater tots can pull you out.
As soon as we took our seats under a canopy set up just beyond the parking lot and in front of the entrance to the stadium, we realized conversation would be impossible. The band, a nameless cover group that interspersed Christmas tunes with their catalog of oldies, was too loud, and we had no choice but to drink silently and listen resentfully. The lead guitarist, hamming it up in an a Santa hat, was for the most part terrible and tried to compensate with a series of funny faces to the audience. (Granted, there were a few lines and riffs he had somehow motivated himself to practice to an almost polish). My girlfriend Rachel, who hears music with a far more sophisticated ear than I ever will, thought the drummer was “dragging” in most of the songs, but I just attributed his playing as part of the overall mess. Eventually the band gave over to the bass player, a thin white dude in an Aloha shirt, and he shocked all of us by manifesting not only the note-perfect bottom end but also the soulful vocal stylings of Motown’s greatest hits. But the true revelation of this performance was the keyboard player.
Nathan described her voice as Dionne Warwick at the Apollo, the sound of a class act singing her way back to the roughest definitions of her soul. While the keyboardist did have the coffee and cream smoothness of Dionne, she also carried in that voice a swallow of grit on the back end. It was a voice with some miles on it, a voice that had sung the story of heartbreak so often it could open up that valve to the universal pain in the speaking of a vowel, a syllable. This wasn't just the voice of God--it was undeniably human, the voice of desire and desperation and exultation.
But not just her voice that surprised and moved us--it was her mastery of her keyboard, a general issue piece of equipment, a preset memory bank of synthesized sounds. She could power her way through piano chords on covers of Adele, she could color the bass player’s R’n’B aspirations with bursts of faux horns. And when she needed to emotional immediacy of a note bend, a twang, that offset cry that simulates the human voice coming to grips with great feeling, the fingers of her left hand caressed the synth’s pitch shifter, modulating the artificial tones toward something that came close to natural. As fake and insufferable as they are in other cover groups, this specific keyboard transformed the liabilities of this imperfect band into strengths.
Because of the perceived dangers of displacing otherwise capable musicians, electronic synthesizers were surprisingly slow to be incorporated into popular music. The earliest recordings of synth music were put to tape by avant grade composers and theorists. For the most part failing to re-conceptualize the parameters as a whole new different conglomeration of sounds, these musicians took it upon themselves to recreate classic pieces of music through programming and note translation. (Their radioactive experiments, which pulsate and glow with the impossibility of ever striking a listener to the emotional core, are nonetheless compelling, unlistenable gems, evolving later into the computer program that stiltedly regurgitated an idealized, dehumanized melody, the theory of which was data-entried into its memory banks).
Kraftwerk pushed toward pop music as a synthesizer ensemble, but a true human face was not added to the cold, detached robotic visage until artists like David Bowie or Donna Summer coopted the German aesthetic for their Berlin and disco records. Stevie Wonder, perhaps because of his universal acclaim as a songwriter, vocalist, and instrumentalist, doesn’t receive enough credit as an electronic music pioneer, though he was utilizing synthesizer technology as early as 1972′s Music of My Mind. Over layers of weirdly chorded synths (all of them played himself), Wonder inserted a soul into the music, with his pure, flawed voice. With his inimitable, low-key drum style, he imparted a living heartbeat.
Ray Barbee’s Tiara for Computer references the trading away of old wealth for new knowledge. Specifically, an ornate but inherent useless crown-petite for the technological advantage of digital processing. As we as peoples evolve, we are learning how important it is to be plugged into the resources available via great swathes of digitized information, and progress itself is now dependent on effectively utilizing this digitized information. To evolve nowadays, to simply grow, is to synthesize the mind with the databases we move between daily. At least, that’s what we’ve convinced ourselves of.
With the help of Tortoise percussionist John Herndon, Barbee carries forward Stevie Wonder’s aesthetic, though without vocals: synth layers with a live backbeat. If there is one drawback to this approach, it’s that Tiara for Computer comes close to sounding like a Tortoise record, minus the off-kilter timing and overly cerebral melodies. Like his skater-musician colleague Tommy Guerrero, who appears on Tiara for Computer through his handclaps, Barbee’s musical drive is based on setting minimal and insanely catching melodies--through riffs and repeated lines--in stone. There are, for the most part, beginnings, middles, and ends to his songs, and on this record, aside from a few exceptions, Barbee doesn’t waste his time with free-floating beeps and tones, those textures that rise to the surface on the periphery of Radiohead records.
A fluctuating drone kicks off “Pink Noise,” an electro-alarm that announces the sonic equivalent of of a video game race over translucent tracks refracting pixels of light into rainbow prisms under the air wheels of futuristic machines. A bass synth figure keeps the track moving briskly along, subtly propelled by a tightly strummed electric guitar creating the impression of velocity. First buried low in the track, the guitar bursts into a shower of sparks as the song makes its last sprint around the length of space circling our heads.
There will come a time when the guitars and pianos and violins and saxophones of our present will exist as mere artifacts, like reproductions of lutes from Ancient Greece. The expression of the infinite well of human feeling will be predicated on the communication through a digitized language, absorbed through synapses that have evolved adequately for these missives to hit their mark. “Future Blues” is is Barbee’s rough sketch at what this music will sound like, discovering in the programmed notes of electronic keyboards a means to delicately portray he desolation of the human condition. The song could almost be a sketch from the outtakes of Kid A, grappling with it does the undead cry of technology in a struggle to capture a living sentiment.
“What’s His Neck” continues the exuberance of “Pink Noise,” a more melodically sophisticated piece accented by Barbee’s guitar and a chorus of handclaps. The fullest “band” song on he record, the song accelerates to a rave-like intensity. In contrast, “Ocra vs. Jaba” comes across as almost sanctimonious. Despite the complicated drum figure and Barbee’s groove-based riff, the overwhelming synths drag the song into a kind of slow motion, a ponderous moment that creates in the imagination a starship docking on the interior of a space station.
Herndon has several shining moments on Tiara for Computer, but his impact is never so apparent as on “Tina Cut.” As a drummer, his role in the song is minimal, tasked to ground Barbee’s sequenced movements with a steady beat that could never be replicated by a computer. The slight accents that vary between the snare, hi-hat, bass drum, and cymbals--plus the breathless manner in which Herndon pushes the sonic monolith of synths through a kind of weightless space--comes as close to a credible synthesis between electronic and live instruments. The sequel to “Tina Cut,” Ornithology,” replaces that living rhythm with a more mechanized beat, capturing Barbee’s thinking out loud through his synths.
“Holding Company,” with its processed acoustic guitar arpeggios and slacker groove, calls back to Tommy Guerrero’s laid back aesthetic, with a little of Oliver Nelson’s “Skull Session” thrown in. Barbee forsakes his firmly established melodies on the album’s title track, a tightly orchestrated freakout that, if stripped of its electricity and played by horns, could be the outro of a jazz record, notes arising and from the noise and latching onto one another briefly before traveling astray.
With its hybridization of live and electronic instruments, Tiara for Computer might have been produced ten, fifteen years ago. It is not a groundbreaking record in the sense of reshaping the potentialities of this music. What is important about Tiara for Computer is Barbee’s excitement in engaging new modes of expression beyond his already formidable guitar work, while composing music that is, in its complex simplicity, quintessentially his own. Barbee is growing into the 21st Century, hypothesizing new ways of playing and hearing as he develops his aesthetic palette.
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Dress Style For Chubby Lady
A. Latest Dresses for Chubby Lady – 25 Styles To Get Inspired
According to statistics, an average of 68% of women fall into the plus size category and face challenges when buying clothes! In countries like India, it is common for women to consider their appearance due to the lack of confidence and the lack of suitable clothing options. Fortunately, this is a thing of the past! Today, the dress segment for fat women is growing well in the fashion market. If you have a body taller than the average figure of an Indian and are struggling to find the right clothes, we guarantee that this is the right place! The article has an incredible collection of different types of dresses tailored for plump and curvy bodies that include underwear and warm clothing. Ready for a makeover? Then scroll down to get inspired!
Here are some options suitable for fat women to keep them looking and being worn.
1. Designer dresses for large sizes
When it comes to wearing dresses, there are a variety of silhouettes that you can try on, such as: B. this draped shoulder dress. The outfit is made of a light nude pink fabric with ornate details on the front. Choosing this style will allow you to cover your waist and heavy chest while placing your arms and shoulders in the spotlight.
Occasion: prom nights, social gatherings
Style tip: pin your hair up in a beautiful French bun to look graceful.
2. Wedding dress
Looking for a dream wedding dress for your body? If you’re still following traditional A-lines, it’s time to try this fish dress. The structured silhouette is perfectly adjusted for an appearance that embraces the figure. It is ideal for women with hourglass figurines and the clever construction of this piece hides your body and makes you look toned.
Occasion: Christian Weddings
Style tip: opt for curly locks with diamond jewelry.
3. Beach dresses
If you are worried about wearing a bikini on the beach, you can try this glamor dress. With the airy fabric, you can play and have fun in the water without looking too heavy. With ties you can easily remove the dress at any time. You can try funky prints in bright colors to bring out the coastal climate.
Occasion: Beachwear
Style tip: wear a straw hat with a pair of slippers to look stylish.
4. One-piece dress
If you can’t love your own body, who else? So, don’t leave the opportunity to reveal your best side by choosing a one-piece suit. The asymmetrical hem with split neckline is exactly what you need to show your confidence. You can try it on the beach, at pool parties or even while hugging your partner.
Occasion: pools, intimate moments
Style tip: make beach curls to show your sensuality.
5. Party dress
When you’re ready for the party like never before, don’t let the dress get in the way! Instead of these boring and crowded dresses, choose something comfortable and sassy at the same time. Here is a knee-length prom dress designed with delicate black lace. The off-the-shoulder neckline with short sleeves highlights its upper part, while the masonry belt gives it a beautiful shape.
Occasion: cocktails
Style tip: wear chandelier earrings and high heels to complete your look.
6. Cigarette pants
Now you can try the retro look with a pair of cigarette pants. Well-made pants can display and accentuate the big curves. Medium-waisted pants give your waist a slimmer look and improve shape. If you choose dark tones and bold prints, you can experiment with how they look. Pair it with a cute top and you’re ready to rock the world.
Occasion: casual outings, office clothes on Friday
Style tip: wear this outfit with a pair of high heels for a ramp-ready look.
7. Wide leg pants
Just because you’re fat doesn’t mean you can’t wear baggy pants. They are very comfortable and designed to hide those big thighs. You can combine it with different tops that are preferably tight to show an airy look. The wide leg creates a balanced look and even makes you look structured.
Occasion: trips, excursions and Sunday brunch
Style tip: wear a tight sleeveless top in a contrasting color.
8. Sweatshirt dress
Sweater dresses are a must in the winter. They hug your body, beautify your curves and keep you warm in season. Instead of choosing a thick woolen fabric, keep it light and elegant. Choose a combination of light and dark colors to hide your bulky waist. Wear the right lingerie under this dress to look beautiful.
Occasion: night trips, shopping trips
Style tip: wear with thin leggings to highlight those beautiful legs.
9. Lace overalls
You will be warm, but still subtle with this lace jumpsuit that will give you a beautiful hide and seek effect. This is great for a date night and will make you feel like an elf in disguise. Black and white are the most popular jumpsuit options and can be worn day or night just by changing your style. Combine it with pants and girls, you’re sure to attract attention.
Occasion: appointments, weekend parties
Style tip: wear a gorgeous sequined blazer to rock at the disco party!
10. Cold shoulders
If you have those shoulders, you will show off! Cold shoulders are the latest trend in large sizes. They’re cool, chic and look great on broad shoulders. It offers the right coverage for your heavy neckline, but makes you want to show off some skin. There are several options to choose from, including tops and dresses that reveal different areas of your arms. Try to woo the crowd!
Occasion: evening parties, social gatherings
Style tip: choose a long layered necklace in this dress for a fantastic look.
11. Tight pants and jeans
If you can’t find tight fitting pants, tailor them, but try to use only darker colors. Straight leg jeans look great on all body types. Avoid talented pants like the bell bottom, which can add unnecessary volume to your body. Use a belly shaper on the inside and a printed T-shirt on the outside for that cool girl look.
Occasion: casual trips, colleges and shopping trips
Style tip: use brightly colored pumps to highlight your lower body.
12. Shapely T-shirts
For body types with pears and apples, it is always advisable to pay attention to the shoulders, arms and chest. So instead of tight T-shirts, wear one with a few cuts so that the shape of your upper body looks attractive and your focus is shifted from your lower body. Here is such a chic top in zebra stripes with shoulder freedom on one side.
Occasion: weekend brunch, occasional excursions
Style tip: use with dark jeans to define these curves.
13. Complete cardigans
Adding a wool coat to your wardrobe serves many purposes. You can use it to layer your clothes or to keep warm in the coldest weather. These clothes hide the width of your body and make you look smaller. Also, choose to shrug your shoulders that are open at the front and have no buttons to prevent this clogging sensation. Asymmetrical shrugging looks comfortable on large women compared to coats of uniform length.
Occasion: work clothes, leisure travel
Style tip: add a statement necklace under an open wool coat for the feminine glam look.
14. Try to lower your neck
No, dear ones, we want you to be openly exposed, but a little glimpse of the perfect neckline of a flat or buttoned shirt never hurts. The collar bones also look great with a drooping neck and are a great distraction to distract attention from other parts of the body. Avoid using boat necks as they emphasize width and choose the right neckline for your body type instead.
Occasion: casual, daily use
Style tip: equip a simple top with modern jewelry.
15. Medium length skirts / dresses
If you have bigger thighs, choose knee length skirts instead of miniskirts. This is the area where your leg width is minimal. This really helps to disguise the thighs and draws attention to the relatively thinner areas of the legs. When choosing your dress, choose a medium or high waist to cover your belly. Invest in a good pair of shoes to stay sophisticated.
Occasion: office attire, formal meetings
Style tip: wear a striped shirt vertically and tuck inside.
16. Simple tops for heavy bust
If you have a heavier chest and want to divert your attention from it, wear loose clothing, no frills and embellishments. The rule of thumb is to keep your chest line free of weight and stay as organized as possible. Wear funky pants, patterned leggings, and boots to draw attention to your relatively thinner waist, hips, and legs.
Occasion: evening parties, evening events
Style tip: shoes play an important role in these clothes. So make sure you’re doing everything right.
17. Twisted front dress
As the name suggests, this dress has a pre-sewn twisted knot on the front for a more tight-fitting dress. It also makes your belly look flattered, as layers of fabric in the front act like good camouflage. This is a good strategy, especially when looking for suitable clothing for women on the positive side.
Occasion: appointments, evening parties
Style tip: opt for an elegant hairstyle that matches the theme of the outfit.
18. Empire waist dress
This type of waist hides the bulge in your belly and makes you look smaller than you really are. Just follow the knee length rule. These dresses emphasize the chest region. A great choice for apple and pear shaped body types. The maximum fit / tailoring of such dresses is below the chest and not at the actual waist. Choose an outfit with darker colors for a more elegant illusory feel.
Occasion: Cocktails
Style tip: drop the necklace and wear stylish earrings.
19. Maxi dresses
These dresses are just above the ankle and below the knee. In general, they have a fit that is neither fair nor too wide. You can add a little definition at the waist by adding a belt. Alternatively, a deep neckline would draw attention to your neck and divert attention from your waist, hips and thighs. Make sure to choose a fabric like georgette or chiffon.
Occasion: meetings, romantic dinners
Style tip: wear a pair of high heels to look tall and be safe.
20. Dark tones of the pants
If you have thick hips and a tight waist, it is better to choose darker pants with a regular cut, rather than a narrow fit. Also, choose a normal waist instead of low-waist pants. Dark colors tend to hide the heavy buttocks and thigh areas. Also use a darker belt to keep your focus on your upper body while keeping your bottom half looking smooth. You can wear a lighter shirt / top, in pastel or neon colors.
Occasion: office and formal meetings
Style tip: invest in a blazer to match those pants.
21. Choose your standards wisely
Floral print dresses are great for spring and tall women. Choosing the right background color and print size is very important to get the look you want. If you particularly like big flowers, keep the dress short. For maxis, choose small prints for a beautiful look.
Occasion: day trips, casual clothes
Style tip: get the vintage vibe by choosing hair combed to the side with a flower.
22. Vertical stripes
If you are a fan of striped dresses / formal shirts, opt for vertical or diagonal stripes instead of horizontal stripes. Vertical stripes create the illusion of a thinner and taller body. Using horizontal stripes would expand your appearance and make you look robust. This trick can be used when buying shirts, tops, pants, as well as one-piece dresses. Combine it with a solid top or a T-shirt for an elegant look.
Occasion: casual outings, college outfits
Style tip: if you have chosen tight-fitting leggings, wear them with a plain ruffled blouse.
23. Fabric gathered at the waist
If you are a fan of striped dresses / formal shirts, opt for vertical or diagonal stripes instead of horizontal stripes. Vertical stripes create the illusion of a thinner and taller body. Using horizontal stripes would expand your appearance and make you look robust. This trick can be used when buying shirts, tops, pants, as well as one-piece dresses. Combine it with a solid top or a T-shirt for an elegant look.
Occasion: casual outings, college outfits
Style tip: if you have chosen tight-fitting leggings, wear them with a plain ruffled blouse.
24. Baggy shirts
It looks cool with dark pants, jeans and skater skirts. Tight clothes can accentuate your sagging, which is unattractive. You definitely don’t want to show off your love handles, do you? A wide shirt, on the other hand, looks more comfortable for large women. However, make sure you choose the right size for the desired amount of fabric that will flow through your body.
Occasion: occasional travel
Style tip: Avoid wearing flashy accessories around the neckline, as this can add weight.
25. What kind of dresses are suitable for plus size women?
The first step in choosing a suitable dress is to identify your body type and the areas where fat deposits are high. By following these simple tricks, you can hide unwanted parts of your body and get a flattering figure:
Choose dark colors like black, navy blue and dark brown that will make the body thinner.
Dark, pre-washed jeans look amazing on your characters. Opt for adjustments that involve the figure and choose a medium increase for comfort and style.
Maxi dresses are another great option to try. Try to choose a flowing fabric that gives you a more elegant look and play with the patterns to trick the eyes.
A-line skirts and dresses are your new best friends and will never fail you. They balance your body proportions and define your curves.
Dressed dresses and tunics are particularly recommended for large women, as they create an hourglass-like figure by lowering the waist.
Comfortable and stylish dresses for trendy fat women
26. Style tips for big women
Continuing the section above, we will also discuss some style tips that will take your clothing game to the next level:
Always try on the dress before taking it home. Make sure that the fit is correct and that there are no spills. Invest in a good lingerie that creates an abdominoplasty effect. These clothes also give your breasts good support and glorify your body. For a look that matches, use a belt that is not too wide. You can opt for adjustable models that adapt to all sizes. When printing, choose vertical lines that will make you look taller and slimmer than your real figure. Pay attention to the proportions of your body and do not hesitate to highlight the line of the chest, legs and arms.
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Officials in Britain this past weekend sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England.
Citing the rapid spread of the virus through London and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed the country’s most stringent lockdown since March.
“When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defense,” he said.
On Sunday, European countries began closing their borders to travelers from the United Kingdom, hoping to shut out the new iteration of the pathogen.
In South Africa, a similar version of the virus has emerged, shares one of the mutations seen in the British variant, according to scientists who detected it. That virus has been found in up to 90% of the samples whose genetic sequences have been analyzed in South Africa since mid-November.
Scientists are worried about these variants but not surprised by them. Researchers have recorded thousands of tiny modifications in the genetic material of the coronavirus as it has hopscotched across the world.
Some variants become more common in a population simply by luck, not because the changes somehow supercharge the virus. But as it becomes more difficult for the pathogen to survive — because of vaccinations and growing immunity in human populations — researchers also expect the virus to gain useful mutations enabling it to spread more easily or to escape detection by the immune system.
“It’s a real warning that we need to pay closer attention,” said Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. “Certainly, these mutations are going to spread, and definitely, the scientific community, we need to monitor these mutations, and we need to characterize which ones have effects.”
The British variant has about 20 mutations, including several that affect how the virus locks onto human cells and infects them. These mutations may allow the variant to replicate and transmit more efficiently, said Muge Cevik, an infectious disease expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a scientific adviser to the British government.
But the estimate of greater transmissibility — British officials said the variant was as much as 70% more transmissible — is based on modeling and has not been confirmed in lab experiments, Cevik added.
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In South Africa, too, scientists were quick to note that human behavior was driving the epidemic, not necessarily new mutations whose effect on transmissibility had yet to be quantified.
The British announcement also prompted concern that the virus might evolve to become resistant to the vaccines just now rolling out. The worries are focused on a pair of alterations in the viral genetic code that may make it less vulnerable to certain antibodies.
But several experts urged caution, saying it would take years — not months — for the virus to evolve enough to render the current vaccines impotent.
“No one should worry that there is going to be a single catastrophic mutation that suddenly renders all immunity and antibodies useless,” Bloom said. “It is going to be a process that occurs over the time scale of multiple years and requires the accumulation of multiple viral mutations. It’s not going to be like an on-off switch.”
He also said that the restrictions Johnson imposed could be in place for months.
Like all viruses, the coronavirus is a shape-shifter. Some genetic changes are inconsequential, but some may give it an edge.
Fortunately, the body’s entire immune system is a much more formidable adversary.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines induce an immune response only to the spike protein carried by the coronavirus on its surface. But each infected person produces a large, unique and complex repertoire of antibodies to this protein.
“The fact is that you have a thousand big guns pointed at the virus,” said Kartik Chandran, a virus expert at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. “No matter how the virus twists and weaves, it’s not that easy to find a genetic solution that can really combat all these different antibody specificities, not to mention the other arms of the immune response.”
In short: It will be very hard for the coronavirus to escape the body’s defenses, despite the many variations it may adopt.
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Even the influenza virus needs five to seven years to collect enough mutations to escape immune recognition entirely, Bloom noted. His lab Friday published a new report showing that common cold coronaviruses also evolve to escape immune detection — but over many years.
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Scientists routinely monitor mutations in flu viruses in order to update vaccines and should do the same for the coronavirus, said Trevor Bedford, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
“You can imagine a process like [that] exists for the flu vaccine, where you’re swapping in these variants, and everyone’s getting their yearly COVID shot,” he said. “I think that’s what generally will be necessary.”
The good news is that the technology used in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines is much easier to adjust and update than conventional vaccines. The new vaccines also generate a massive immune response, so the coronavirus may need many mutations over years before the vaccines must be tweaked, Bedford said.
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