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rookinthecrownest · 3 months ago

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Hi everyone, I know none of you follow me for science-related content but oops, this touches on stuff I'm passionate about (science education, molecular biology) and has activated my Unskippable Dialogue. Get ready to hopefully learn something with Rookie.

Now, I get that the above tweets come from X/Twitter, and character limitations make adding any sort of meaningful nuance next to impossible - but I do want to touch on how disseminating scientific information on these websites can lead to mass proliferation of at worst, misinformation (this tweet/post is not really misinformation, because there is some truth to it) and at best, well-meaning but very reductive and over-simplified attempts to explain natural phenomena. Both are still a problem in the era of widespread medical misinformation.

Here's the thing; COVID-19 is both a fascinating virus, and a terrifying/deadly one - I'm sure I don't need to tell you all that. But the molecular pathways in question, and referenced in the above tweet, are ridiculously complex and intermingle in ways I don't have the time to really get into for now. The point is, molecular biology is an incredibly complicated field, as anyone who's taken a specialized university-level course and above can tell you (*ahem* yours truly). We can speculate on things with a reasonable amount of confidence, but we won't truly know how they work until the pathways and interactions are fully mapped out (which can take a long time!). Is COVID19 an oncogenic virus? Honestly... probably, I wouldn't be surprised at all. COVID"s been doing a lot of weird stuff since it came on the scene. I haven't done enough solid reading around the topic to say for certain. But even if it is truly oncogenic is it actually responsible for the up-tick in CRC cases in young people? The way we arrive at that answer is more complicated than what is initially presented here.

I'm being intentionally careful with my words here. You'll notice I don't use emotionally charged language or absolute statements because scientists and doctors have had to learn the hard way to pick their words carefully, because of how easily they get twisted into something they didn't actually say.

Let's take a look at the complicated relationship between CRC and COVID19.

Numero Uno: The Increasing Rates of CRC in Young Adults Has Been Well Studied Far Before COVID Entered the Picture

Rates of CRC in young adults in America (and across the world - see a worldwide systematic review here) have been rising since 1995. If you go by Cancer Care Ontario, they've noticed it in Canada since around 2005. This large cohort study from Canada done in 2019 looked at data from the National Cancer Incidence Reporting system and showed that not only was the incidence of CRC in men and women < 50 y/o increasing, it suggested the rate may even be accelerating (in 2019! Pre-COVID! BTW, it takes on average 4-12 months to get a paper published, which means this trend was observed long before the paper actually made out for peer review). Whichever number you decide to go with, both of them precede COVID by a rather large margin. There are many hypotheses about why this is and they range from gut bacteria, inflammation, diet, carcinogens, etc. But the current body of evidence points to some joint exposure for people < 50 which is causing this rise in CRC. We just don't know what that exposure is for certain. It's likely multifactorial in nature.

Meanwhile, interestingly, the incidence of CRC in adults > 50 are decreasing (with the largest decline seen in people 80-89 y/o) and this is likely due to highly effective population-based screening programs implemented by both the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) & it's Canadian equivalent, the Canadian Task Force on Preventative Healthcare (CTFPH). Both of these bodies meet and review recommendations for population-level healthcare by examining the current body of evidence and updating said recommendations (things like prostate cancer screening, breast cancer screening, etc.).

But those recommendations are not always updated very frequently. It takes time to gather experts, review large swathes evidence, and then get those recommendations out to clinicians.

For reference, in 2002 the USPSTF recommended all adults age 50 and above receive regular CRC screening. This was not updated until May 2021, to lower the age to 45, as the USPSTF incorporated the alarming data on the rise of CRC cases in younger people into their recommendations.

In Canada, CRC screening for average-risk adults still starts at age 50. Because like I said, changes on population-based screening programs take time and face a lot of bureaucratic red tape, especially in a place like Canada where screening is part of taxpayer funded universal healthcare.

The ultimate point is IT TAKES TIME FOR THESE RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED, so even if USPSTF aged down their screening, they did it based on data we already had.

Numero Dos: Confounding Factors & CRC Diagnosis During COVID Pandemic

The COVID19 pandemic caused a massive disruption to regular CRC screening in many countries. This lead to less colonoscopies being performed. According to the American College of Surgeons, surgical cases of CRC fell by 17.3% during the first year of the pandemic. Those who did present with CRC in 2020, tended to present at a later/more advanced stage than those who were diagnosed in 2019. And this makes sense - COVID starts, world shuts down, no one's doing colonoscopies or people are avoiding healthcare centres to decrease their risk of exposure, etc. etc. Less people are screened, more cases are missed or present at an advanced un-resectable/incurable stage.

But that doesn't answer the question - could COVID19 itself responsible for the upshift in CRC in young adults?

This retrospective study of over 3000 patients newly diagnosed with CRC between 2017 and 2021 attempted to answer that question. Unfortunately, they didn't stratify based on age, so it doesn't really answer our question. Still, this study from South Korea found no statistically significant difference in the proportion of Stage IV CRC patients between pre-COVID (2017-2019) and COVID (2020). They did, however, find (consistent with what was mentioned from the ACS earlier) that those in the COVID group who did present in Stage IV were more likely to be unresectable at presentation and have poorer prognosis compared to those in the pre-COVID arm. I think there was another small retrospective study from Spain that essentially showed something similar-but-not-quite. They did specify that their data for early onset CRC (EOCRC), but it showed that there was no major difference in frequency of diagnosis or stage at presentation for EOCRC. The authors hypothesized this to be due to young people getting more aggressive treatment right off the bat because they are more robust/able to handle it. And again, it was a small study so take it with the biggest grain of salt. Study's here if you wanna read it.

Now, the disruption of care during the pandemic is a fairly large confounding variable in and of itself. Even if we do see a sharp rise in the post-pandemic era of EOCRC, how can we be sure that's truly due to infection with COVID19, and not our healthcare systems catching up on missed cases? That's going to be exceedingly difficult to parse out.

"But Rookie, it's been 5 years since the start of the pandemic, surely we should have noticed something by now" and that is a great question dear reader. Let me tell you a little thing about colon cancer screening intervals that will hopefully make what I'm about to say make more sense.

If you were to get a screening colonoscopy today, and it came back totally normal, you wouldn't need another one for about 10 years. Why 10 years? Well, CRC is a fairly slow growing cancer. The likelihood of you getting full-blown Stage IV metastatic CRC 2 years after a completely normal colonoscopy without so much as a sessile polyp is veeeery low and incredibly unlikely. Colon cancer starts as polyps. But not all polyps (if they are found) are cancerous or pre-cancerous. Secondly, of those precancerous polyps, it still takes time for them to actually undergo malignant transformation. Can there be factors that accelerate that? Yeah, sure. But on average it takes 10-15 years for those polyps to turn into something worrisome.

What my long-winded explanation is trying to say, is that we are gonna need at least 5-10 more years of collecting good quality data, meta-analyses and systematic reviews, before we can truly attribute COVID19 to an upshift of CRC in young adults because, as mentioned previously, the trend was already on its way up before COVID came around.

Numero Tres: The Molecular Pathways involved in Oncogenesis are Ridiculously Fucking Complicated, Like No Seriously

This one goes without saying, but molecular biology is hard. There's about a million different pathways, and their interactions grow increasingly complex as we get more information on them by the day.

Here is a simplified diagram proposing to explain the oncogenic potential of COVID19 from a really good paper you can read here. And I do mean very simplified (I've seen much worse in my textbooks *sobs*).

The authors describe a variety of different molecular signalling pathways through which COVID19 can exert oncogenic potential and I'm not going to go through all of them because this isn't meant to be a biology lesson, but one of those pathways involves the erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular carcinoma (Eph) receptor. It belongs to a family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), which are implicated in various types of cancers due to their roll in controlling cell division, metabolism, cell survival, etc. These receptors are found in different tissues and organs - one of which is the colon! The authors think that virus' Spike Protein can impact downstream signalling cascades by stimulating this receptor. This is BAD, because disturbing these very tightly controlled signalling pathways can lead to oncogenesis, or cancer progression (in many different ways ranging from oxidative stress to inhibition of tumour suppressing proteins).

So, we have a plausible mechanism for which COVID19 infection can potentially drive up CRC rates in young people, great. But having a plausible mechanism isn't enough to definitively say anything about COVID19's role in this particular type of cancer. And that is why the original tweet rubbed me the wrong way!

This shit is so ridiculously complicated and the original tweet is making it seem like this is already a largely accepted idea rather than an ever-evolving field of research. Also, they say we've known this since 2022, but in 2022, the paper they referenced wasn't even peer reviewed yet when it hit the mainstream.

Oh, and finally, this is unrelated, but if you're going to tweet 'Did doctors forget about the oncogenic potential of viruses' (objectively untrue, we are all incredibly familiar because we had it drilled into us) be sure you understand who you're tweeting at.

For those who don't know, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a bit of a legend in the medical community. Not only did he perform the first whole pancreatic transplant at UCLA in the 80's, but he literally invented a cancer drug, Abraxane, for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Yeah I can't imagine tweeting that to a dude who invented a cancer drug. Trust me, Dr Soon-Shiong is not likely to have forgotten about the oncogenic potential of viruses. And he even recently acknowledged the oncogenic potential of COVID19 and said they're working on more research. Lol.

Sorry for the rant. Hopefully you did indeed learn something with me, you fine folks!

#covid #medical stuff #sorry for the long rant #and it's not related to dragon age

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growinstablog · 8 months ago

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Instagram now restricts visibility of weight loss products and cosmetic surgery posts for teens

If your Instagram feed is anything like mine, your feed and Explore page are probably littered with weight loss meal supplements, timelapses of injected lip filler, and skinny-tea promoted by a Kardashian — because obviously, that’s all we want to see when browsing Instagram. But jokes aside, the pressure to be “perfect” is putting immense pressure on young women more than ever.

In an effort to combat toxic beauty standards promoted online, Instagram announced it will tighten its policy on posts related to weight loss products and cosmetic surgery by hiding related posts from users known to be aged under 18.

The policy update, which will also be applied to Facebook, includes the removal of any content that makes a “miraculous” claim about a diet or weight-loss product which was simultaneously linked to a commercial offer such as a discount code or affiliate link.

Finding a discount code for some unhealthy meal supplement isn’t hard work, just head to Khloe Kardashian’s Instagram profile — who advertises to almost 100 million followers.

As influencer culture has creeped its way into almost every business model, it has unsurprisingly increased the promotion of dieting products including “appetite-suppressing” meal supplements. Inevitably, this has raised concerns about the impact that diet and detox content can have on young people, especially their mental health and body image.

In 2017, a study titled “#StatusOfMind” by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), found that Instagram is rated as the worst social media platform when it comes to its impact on young people’s mental health.

This policy update has been praised by countless users of the platform, including actor and body positivity activist, Jameela Jamil, who has previously called out influencers on Instagram for posting toxic content.

No. Fuck off. No. You terrible and toxic influence on young girls. I admire their mother’s branding capabilities, she is an exploitative but innovative genius, however this family makes me feel actual despair over what women are reduced to. ☹️ pic.twitter.com/zDPN1T8sBM

— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) May 16, 2018

On Twitter, Jamil described the update as “a major step in the fight with the dirty side of diet/detox industry.”

A HUGE DAY! A MAJOR STEP IN THE FIGHT WITH THE DIRTY SIDE OF THE DIET/DETOX INDUSTRY!!! Influencers best watch yourselves… https://t.co/F4iPTyVGU4

— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) September 18, 2019

It’s only now we’re admitting the detrimental effects toxic posts like weight-loss promotion can have on people’s physical and mental health. It’s reassuring to see Instagram and Facebook take responsibility for what the platform has previously been exploited for. But it’s yet another reminder that platforms need to prepare themselves to be continually responsive to changes in society and media.

https://growinsta.xyz/instagram-now-restricts-visibility-of-weight-loss-products-and-cosmetic-surgery-posts-for-teens/

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carpkoinobori · 10 months ago

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[❣︎] good luck, babe — huh yunjin x reader

[𖤐] 1/3 [next] [please be aware this is all fiction! none of this is real and idols behavior is not accurately represented.]

song(s): good luck babe - chappel roan | runaway runaway - mars argo | casual - chappel roan |

summary: you’re dream was to debut with your best friend. what do you do when she doesn’t want to debut as your “friend” anymore?

pairing: idol!huh yunjin x soloist!fem!reader | slight idol!nakamura kazuha x soloist!fem!reader

tags: angst, eventual happy ending

wc: 2.7k

cw: mentions of dieting, internalized homophobia LITE, period-typical homophobia

ex: not beta read will do it later sorry 😞

jennifer had been your best friend since highschool— or I guess you should say huh yunjin, now. you both met in your freshman year, and bonded over your love of music and dance. she was loud, extroverted, but not in an obnoxious way— she was like the sun, shining brightly, oozing charisma. She lit up a room, and it was all you could do to chase her warmth like a desperate, frost-bitten flower.

you were still extroverted, albeit enjoying time away from people. you weren’t popular, you were a bit more reserved, a bit more closed off, but relatively well liked for your humor and academic prowess. You had one or two close friends, one of them being yunjin.

it was the summer before 2019 when she told you she wanted to be an idol. You were sleeping over at her house, since your parents were fighting, again. you, who had no real plans after highschool, whose parents didn’t really care what became of their daughter— you smiled and held her hand. You’d follow the sun anywhere it went.

you both made it onto produce 48, jumping up and down, screaming and crying for just the pure joy of it. Alone, again, with her, you held her head in your hands, finally kneeling in front of each other on the hardwood floor, your foreheads touching as you both panted, giggling and smiling still. The moment quickly broke away when you heard the door open, breaking apart faster than you could blink. That’s when it all started, you could say. When you realized you might like your best friend.

you were a rising star, praised for your smooth, detailed dance and soft, honey way of singing. You began to rank higher and higher, everyone loved you— everyone but your best friend. Everyone but who you wished would love you.

a part of you thinks if you weren’t going through your angsty teenaged romance, you wouldn’t have tried as hard to debut as you did. All your songs were about her, her hair, her voice, her eyes— everything about her. She was your reason to keep going. Maybe she deserved some credit, after all, you would never had been as popular if everyone wasn’t so curious to know who Korea’s new rising rookie was so in love with.

when yunjin was eliminated, it was the worst day of your life. The cameras caught you, with your hand over your mouth, frozen, tears falling down your face. You struggled to breath, but finally got up and ran to her. You didn’t even care if the cameras caught you, you didn’t care- you just needed her- your best friend- you needed her.

you cried for days. you tried not to bother anyone, muffling it with a pillow. you got so good at crying quietly, but everyday you’d wake up with puffy, red-rimmed eyes, and got told to cover them up. You tried to keep contact, but she “couldn’t handle the reminder,” right now, or so she said. Either way, there was a hundred messages you sent before you got that sharp reminder that you would never be anything more than a friend. maybe less, now. She was never yours. You were on borrowed time. the sun shares its warmth with the whole world, you were just naive enough to believe it was you who allowed it to be shared.

after that, Korea’s rising star fell back to earth. The pretty sunflower wilted, and broke apart. You were eliminated shortly after, and some people put two and two together. There was never enough proof for a scandal, but some people believed that you fell apart because that person you were writing about left, but they still weren’t sure who. God, they’re so dumb.

you continued to be a trainee, lying in wait.

you got called into a meeting. You had the opportunity to debut in a new group. Le Sserafim, they called it, an anagram for im fearless. A part of you laughed. you were never fearless. You were a coward. You couldn’t even tell her how much you loved her. You didn’t try to think about it, though. You hadn’t heard that name in years—

it was three years before you heard the name huh yunjin again. She was coming back, and she was going to debut. In the same group.

and like coming home after years of being lost. obviously, you were ecstatic.

all the starving, all the work, all the tears and pain and suffering— it was all for her. it’d all be worth it to feel her warmth again, to get your sun back, to end this constant winter.

You’d get to be her sunflower, again.

The heat of August in Korea was in full force, and you were wearing nothing too impressive, just a Nirvana shirt you’d had for years and a pair of baggy jeans when you saw her. To be completely transparent, you had heard her before you saw her. You could never forget that laugh. You peeked your head from behind the wall, peering down the corridor. You practically ran to her.

You beamed, barely contained excitement buzzing around you. “JEN! You’re back! Oh my god, how are you? I missed y-” you were cut off. She smiled at you, but it didn’t look.. real. It look practiced. She didn’t smile at you like how she used to.

“I’m good, and yeah, it’s great to be back. Nice to see you again, y/n,” she nodded, before she continued walking with the staff member into a different room, farther down along the corridor.

What just happened? Did she.. not like you, anymore? Did she forget? Did she move on? What were you saying— there was nothing to move on from. Stress relief, she called it. Just a distraction. Casual, easy, quick. What were you thinking? No, really, what were you thinking? She had only dated guys all throughout high school, you were probably just her experiment, just something she tried out.

You decided to find out.

You cornered her in a hallway. Not very classy, you know, but where else could you find her?

“Jen- is there a reason you stopped talking to me? I just- you probably know, we’re gonna debut together now, we need to.. work together. I just- I need to know. Did it mean nothing to you? You were my best friend,”

Yunjin looked vaguely uncomfortable, cringing towards the wall, looking to the side before she spoke. “Listen, y/n, we’re about to debut. I’m about to debut. I’ve been working on this for years, and so have you. Why would we throw it all away? We should focus on our debut, not whatever silly things we did when we were younger,” she shrugged, giving a practiced grin. “Besides, it was never serious, right? You know how I am, we both agreed we were just bored-“

“Bored? Because we were fucking bored? You’ve got to be kidding me, Jen. There’s no way you believe that- I fucking loved you-“

“Yeah, well, it’s over now. We’re debuting. Get it together,” she spat acidly, pushing past you and opening the door to the practice studio before looking over her shoulder. “I mean it, y/n. Just forget about it. It didn’t mean anything to me, and it shouldn’t have meant anything to you either,” she said icily, about to close the door. “Just call me Yunjin, now,” she muttered, door clicking shut behind her, leaving you a bitter, heart broken mess.

you didn’t follow. You figured she needed time alone- she didn’t need you, anymore. you wouldn’t have known how wrong she felt saying it, how it felt like ripping out her heart every time she watched your face break. It was for your own good, she thought. You didn’t need her ruining your chances. You both wanted this, right? To debut? That was the dream— she was doing you a favor.

“I’m sorry, sir, but I don’t think I can debut in a group,” you said seriously, your hands clasped together. “I would rather be a soloist.. I’ve already written a few songs, I’ve planned the concept— you know how popular I was during Produce 48, right? I swear, just give me a shot-“ You pleaded, beginning to ramble before he cut you off.

“Y/n, you’re an excellent singer, and a well-rounded dancer. You’re an asset, to say the least. I never really wanted you in a group to begin with. I think you have a future as a soloist,” he smiled, nodding. “Sure, why not? Tell me your ideas,”

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it all went from there. You were gonna debut. Either way, even if you were in a group- it wouldn’t be with your best friend, Jennifer. It’d be with Huh Yunjin, idol extraordinaire. You didn’t like her, much. You didn’t want to be her flower, or anyones, for that matter. Returning to the ground was a better choice. Sunflowers were always too bright for you anyway. You preferred white carnations, anyway.

You made your debut around the same time as Le Sserafim, and it was a smash hit. You released your debut album, LIMERENCE, with the title track ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ You were widely praised, forums discussing whether or not the song was about the same person you sang about in Produce 48. They were right, of course, but they’d never guess who. You were on a music show, getting your first win. The Le Sserafim members clapped, and you smiled graciously at them, your gaze lingering on Yunjin’s before you turned to the cameras, smiling, waving, holding the trophy before you were handed the mic for an encore. You smiled, readjusting the trophy in your arms before your voice began to ring out on the loud stage.

“I’m fine, it’s cool, you can say that we are nothing but you know the truth,” you began, glancing at Yunjin not-so-subtlely.

“and guess I’m the fool, with her arms out like an angel through the car sun roof,” memories of fooling around, joking, sneaking out your parents house to meet her, to meet Yunjin. “I don’t wanna call it off, but you don’t wanna call it love,” your voice grew in volume, periodically facing and waving at the cameras, before facing Yunjin once again. You really didn’t care if this was posted on forums, saying there was something going on saying you were rude, you didn’t care— you just needed her to know.

“You only wanna be the one that I call baby,” Yunjin tensed under your gaze, averting her eyes. Sakura and Chaewon looked at her knowingly, a bit disappointed. Kazuha and Eunchae looked a bit confused on why, exactly, you were staring at Yunjin like you wanted her to explode.

“You could kiss a hundred boys in bars, shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling. You could say it’s just the way you are, make a new excuse, another stupid reason,” memories of the seen texts, never responded to, flashed through Yunjin’s mind. That stupid argument a few months ago- was this about her? Who was she kidding, of course it was about her, y/n only loved her. She was secure, in that. She hated it though, she didn’t want to ruin your chances, you should move on from her— she wasn’t good for you, she never would be, you deserved better.

“Good luck, babe! Well, good luck, babe! You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. Good luck, babe! Well good luck, babe! You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling,” you walked across the stage, staring into the cameras as you said this. You winked, giving a winning smile before continuing. “I’m cliche, who cares? It’s a sexually explicit kind of love affair,” another wink. “And I cry, it’s not fair,” you gave a theatric frown, pouting. “I just need a little lovin, I just need a little air,” You kept your gaze off Yunjin for the next few lyrics, acting as if you were now pleading to the crowd, the cameras, for love. Yunjin continued to watch nervously. Why weren’t you looking at her anymore? It started to sound as if you were really, actually over her.

“Think I’m gonna call it off, even if you call it love. I just wanna love someone who calls me baby-” you began again, gaze lingering on Kazuha, winking at her general direction, waving, and turning back to the cameras. You continued to sing, entertaining the crowd before beginning to look a little more bitter, a little more jaded, a little more angry. “When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night, with your head in your hands, you’re nothing more than his wife. And when you think about me, all of those years ago, you’re standing face to face with ‘I told you so’, you know I hate to say it, ‘I told you so,’ you know I hate to say, but- I told you so!” You cried, clutching the mic as you sang passionately, years of resentment, of confusion, of anger, of regret, pain- everything you had felt for Yunjin, everything you would feel. This is what this was for.

“You could kiss a hundred boys in bars, shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling, you can say it’s just the way you are, make a new excuse, another stupid reason,” you spat, making brief eye contact with Yunjin, hatred flashing in your eyes, a mask for the hurt to wear.

“Good luck, babe, well good luck, babe. You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling. Good luck, babe. Well good luck, babe! You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling,” you sang, crescendo falling, the song ending as the crowd cheered your name, and you finally walked off stage. You walked the building until you found an isolated part with little to no people. You leaned on the vending machine next to the water fountain, sighing. You told your manager you had to use the bathroom, but it was just an excuse to slip away.

You looked up when you heard footsteps. It was the pretty Le Sserafim member you saw standing near Sakura. Kazuha, you think her name was? You’d have to double check.

“Oh, hello,” You smiled, bowing slightly.

“Ack- oh, hello! Congratulations on your win- I liked your song,” The Japanese girl bowed, clasping her hands together.

“Thank you, I quite liked your song as well,” You praised. “You’re very pretty,” you said, a slight grin on your face as the other girl blushed, spluttering with her words. “What’s your name?” “Kazuha- Nakamura Kazuha,” she responded quickly, stuttering. You figured she was Japanese from her name, and smiled warmly. “it’s nice to meet you, then. I’m Y/n,” You nodded, outstretching your hand, leaning in close to the flustered girl. She took it and you shook her hand, before hearing another set of footsteps.

you looked up to see Yunjin, who looked a tad angry. “Y/n. Congratulations on your win,” she said in a stilted, stiff tone.

“Thank you, Yunjin,” you replied back coolly, carefully practiced facade slipping back into place.

“I’ve got to get going now, Jen- oh, sorry, Yunjin,” You said mockingly, not using honorifics. There were no cameras to catch you here, anyway. You walked off, leaving a dumbfounded Kazuha and even angrier Yunjin.

“…she’s really pretty-,” Kazuha began dreamily, clasping her hands together.

“No,” Yunjin said gruffly, beginning to walk back to the group with Kazuha. “Don’t even think about it, Kazuha! She’s mine,” Yunjin exclaimed childishly, warning Kazuha a bit loudly, causing Chaewon and Sakura to turn to her. “If that song was about you, Yunjin, then I think she might not be yours as much as you think,” Sakura said plainly, tone giving no room for argument as Yunjin averted her eyes, shame and embarrassment burning her face a light red.

‘This was going to be a long comeback period,’ Yunjin thought bitterly, groaning internally as she saw Kazuha begin to scroll though y/n’s Instagram posts as they waited for their manager’s car.

ermmmm hello! I’ve never written for x reader before so I’ve only ever written in third person, bear with me here while I learn how to write this genre ><! this will be three-ish(?) parts. i don’t know who for sure y/n will end up with yet, but.. I will be posting backstories to this, as it was very yn-centric and we don’t get much of yunjins thoughts. Y/n seems delusional but I SWEAAAR she’s not. I’ll post some more works abt how they acted and stories from pd48 days… she’s not insane guys!

also white carnations symbolize pure love and GOOD LUCK. get it?GOOD LUCK. GOOD LUCK, BABE! I’m so funny.

i wrote this in like 3 hours of pure chappel roan good luck babe brain rot pleas forgive me. I’ll beta read it in a few hours after I sleep. thank you jihyoruri for letting me ramble in ur anons for so long 🙏also I love asks plssss send them. byebye now, have a good day! :3

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ebdanon · 11 months ago

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hope you're alright after work <3 and tw for bugs and another long ask lmao

to be honest, we don't have access to mental health resources, that kind of stuff is expensive here, and we already spent a bunch on trying to figure out what was physically wrong with both of us first, during which time my husband (he got ibs) was not working because it was physically impossible for him, and I (thyroid issues) stopped getting paid from the freelance work I do (I'm still owed about 10k which is enough for a down payment on an apartment in the most expensive part in my country) which put us in a ridiculously tight spot. we had to move out of our apartment and start living with my in-laws, which is where more crazy has just been tacked on. it's been a very shitty couple of years in terms of what other people have been doing that directly affects us, but we're trudging on anyway. we finally started applying for jobs abroad, which we couldn't really do until we moved because it was constantly dealing with doctors and with health issues, and scrambling together money for bills and rent and overall living, and then the building got infected with cockroaches which was the cherry on top when we both finally said "we're outta here" and moved out in like 2 days (we knew the consequences of doing that). the day we decided to do that, we were up until 5am - me shrieking at each new baby cockroach I saw, and my husband killing them (I'm terrified of bugs), because a cockroach laid some eggs in a door frame in the apartment. that same week our vacuum made a loud noise and smoke just started coming out of it and it broke, the stovetop also broke, a repairman came and tried to fix it a bunch of times so we had no stove for 4-5 days (which was awful because my husband has to eat carefully cooked meals, and the only thing we could use to cook was the oven, which is ridiculously limiting on an already limited diet), and two of the ceiling lights went out. and then I got a flare up (different health issue) on top of everything which meant I was in bed for a couple of days. it was the worst week of 2023.

we've been applying for the last 6 months, and it's been nothing but rejections because we require visas to move to the countries we're applying to (it's the literal explanation we've been receiving which is a great thing as it's not our skills or something), but it's fine, one of us will find a job at some point (I hope soon) and we'll get to get out of this shithole of a country filled with shitty people. I'm definitely getting a therapist when we're out of here though, I've wanted to talk to one for years but my plan has always been to do that when I leave this country. Mental health is very much taboo here sadly, which contributes to many of the issues people tend to face. Also fun fact, the last time we applied for jobs abroad was at the end of 2019, and then the pandemic happened which meant all the embassy shut down and the applications got canceled (it was a different application system back then). The plan was to get the marriage certificate and start applying again, but the drama happened and we needed to decompress. Then the plan was to start asap after the decompression and then all the health issues happened. Have you ever seen a train wreck lmao it's just me trying to get the hell out of this country since I was 12 BUT IT WILL HAPPEN ONE DAY I JUST KNOW IT WILL (can you feel the desperation lmao)

i know that may have sounded worrisome but don't worry about me and my lore-filled asks, things will work out, they always do

i really hope you guys are able to get the hell out soon :( the job market here in america (idk where ur applying but might be the same elsewhere anyway because the pandemic fucked everything up for everyone) is absolutely atrocious rn so i wish you the best of luck!! you’re right when you say things work out i know they will for you 🫶 it just takes time unfortunately :( but hopefully soon

also as a fellow renter im crying for you with that apartment stuff jeez. it always feels like everything happens at once tbh

#i had a gas leak in my building late last year which meant no heat for several days in november #and it gets COLD here so that was very unfun #but im hoping praying manifesting etc that you and your husband get good jobs #and can get the hell out #esp with distance the stuff with your families should lessen too hopefully #just naturally at least #asks #lore anon #sending you love <3

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leiajoydesign · 1 year ago

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ISTD - Bibliography

Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Bibliography

Bacon, H. (2019). Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture: Sin, Salvation and Women’s Weight Loss Narratives. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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BBC News (2020). Virgin Media data breach affects 900,000 people. BBC News. 5th March [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51760510 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

BBC News (2022). Partygate: A timeline of the lockdown parties. BBC News. 11th January [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-59952395 [Accessed 10 November 2023].

BBC News (2023a). Fraud warning as student loses £200,000 in fake policemen scam. BBC News. 3rd October [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66992585 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

BBC News (2023b). Groombridge man scammed by fake O2 caller warns of fraud. BBC News. 3rd October [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-66983215 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

BBC News (2023c). Derbyshire MP Robert Largan accused of ‘fake’ newspaper con. BBC News. 8th September [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-66742672 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

BBC News (2023d). False posts about French riots spread online. BBC News. 2nd July [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66081671 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

Benavides, T.B.T., Castro, A.T.A., Marichalar, S.A.G., Cisneros, M.P. and Suárez, E.C.B. (2023). Social Media Addiction in Generation Z Consumers: Implications for Business and Marketing. Springer Nature.

Brewer, J. (2021). The Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data [online]. Available from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/climate-crisis-font-daniel-coull-eino-korkala-helsingin-sanomat-tbwa-helsinki-graphic-design-220221 [Accessed 13 October 2023].

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Gorny, Liz (2022). “What do they have on me?”: explore the scary limits of data collection in design with Data Aeternum [online]. Available from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/shivam-sinha-data-aeternum-graphic-design-030822 [Accessed 12 October 2023].

Gorny, Liv (2022). Superposition reveals the disturbing reach of facial recognition tech in NYC with this interactive data visualisation project [online]. Available from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/superposition-inside-the-nypds-surveillance-machine-digital-230222 [Accessed 13 October 2023].

Gorny, L. (2023). Huge entertainment ‘city’ in Tokyo transformed with variable typographic identity [online]. Available from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/and-form-tokyo-dome-city-graphic-design-171023 [Accessed 18 October 2023].

Keener, G. (2022). OPINION: Generation Z has the best and worst body image issues of any other generation [online]. Available from: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2022/10/generation-z-has-the-best-and-worst-body-image [Accessed 15 November 2023].

Larson, H. and Good, L. (2022). Gen Z battles negative body image amid unrealistic beauty standards. The Chimes[online]. Available from: https://chimesnewspaper.com/52142/showcase/gen-z-battles-negative-body-image-amid-unrealistic-beauty-standards/ [Accessed 15 November 2023].

Manavis, S. (2023). Body shaming and dangerous diet culture is back - and it’s being fuelled by social media [online]. Available from: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/eating-disorders-are-being-fuelled-by-tiktok-as-weight-loss-content-of-the-past-resurfaces-2097055 [Accessed 14 November 2023].

May, T. (2022). German photo artist Claus Stolz mixes real and fake to pose the question what is real? [online]. Available from: https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/chamber-play/ [Accessed 18 October 2023].

Milla (2021). The Rise of Eating Disorders in Gen Z. OUT OF SORTS [online]. Available from: https://medium.com/out-of-sorts/the-rise-of-eating-disorders-in-gen-z-91fbe1acb74a [Accessed 15 November 2023].

Morris, A.M. and Katzman, D.K. (2003). The impact of the media on eating disorders in children and adolescents. Paediatrics & Child Health. Vol. 8 No. 5. pp. 287–289 [online]. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792687/ [Accessed 15 November 2023].

Move Shapes (dir.) (2022). After Effects Tutorial - Smooth Typo Transition from Bold Text to Thin Text [Film].

Myerscough, M. (n.d.). London artist whose work is characterised by boldness, strong use colour and high levels of positive energy - Morag Myerscough [online]. Available from: https://www.moragmyerscough.com/index.php [Accessed 12 October 2023].

Petter, O. (2021). Young people ‘at greater risk of falling for scams than pensioners’ [online]. Available from: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/scams-pensioners-young-people-risk-b1896839.html [Accessed 17 October 2023].

Pixelz (2019). Photoshop, Models, and the Law: How Far is Too Far? [online]. Available from: https://www.pixelz.com/blog/photoshop-models-laws/ [Accessed 14 November 2023].

Priory (n.d.). Eating Disorder Statistics [online]. Available from: http://www.priorygroup.com/eating-disorders/eating-disorder-statistics [Accessed 19 November 2023].

Richmond, S. (2021). UK adults so suspicious of scams they are now ignoring genuine emails [online]. Available from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-adults-scams-suspicious-emails-b1940997.html [Accessed 17 October 2023].

Rosmiati, R., Supriadi, D. and Jannah, R.R. (2023). Relationship of Social Media to Beauty Insecurity in Generation Z Women. Asy-Syifa : Journal of Science and Technology Nursing. Vol. 1 No. 1. pp. 17–27 [online]. https://doi.org/10.52221/asyjstn.v1i1.192 [Accessed 19 November 2023].

Salam, E. (2023). Social media particularly damaging to mental health of Gen Zers, says study. The Guardian. 28th April [online]. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/social-media-mental-health-gen-z [Accessed 15 November 2023].

Sardarizadeh, S. (2023). Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation. BBC News. 8th July [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66113460 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

Silva, M. and Ahmed, M. (2023). The climate change-denying TikTok post that won’t go away. BBC News. 30th June [online]. Available from: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66023797 [Accessed 17 October 2023].

Sonnet, S. (2022). 2022 UX Design in Museums: How Are “Innovative” Exhibits Driving Attendance? [online]. Available from: https://amt-lab.org/blog/2022/10/2022-ux-designs-in-museums-how-are-innovative-exhibits-driving-attendance [Accessed 24 October 2023].

Wonder Newsroom (2022). How much Information do we Learn Everyday? [online]. Available from: https://www.blog.askwonder.com/blog/information-data-media-consumed-in-day-average [Accessed 26 November 2023].

#specialist practice #istd

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elliementarymydears · 3 years ago

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A Cinderella Story Franchise Review (that no one asked for)

A Cinderella Story

Starring: Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray

Release: 2004

Dress rating: 6/10 (weirdly long torso anyone?)

Cinderella references: 5/10 (bonus points for intro)

Overall rating: 8/10

+10 for being the original

+10 for being a theatrical release

+10 for the presence of sane adults

+10 for being the only movie not to have a pop star dream angle

-10 for diet culture

-10 for no chemistry between leads

Another Cinderella Story

Starring: Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley

Release: 2008

Dress rating: 5/10 (minus points for being boring, bonus points for making her stand out, additional bonus points for being practical to dance in)

Cinderella references: 7/10 (bonus points for “the pumpkin”)

Overall rating: 7/10

+10 points for being the one I’m nostalgic about

+10 points for chemistry between leads

+10 points for better use of the “shoe” that was left behind

-20 points for the Drew Seeley situation

-10 points for unnecessary drama when Mary catches him “cheating”

-10 points for being the first to introduce the pop star angle which is now a staple

A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song

Starring: Lucy Hale and Freddie Storms

Release: 2011

Dress rating: 2/10 (would be 0 but bonus points for at least obscuring her hair color)

Cinderella references: 3/10

Overall rating: 4/10

+20 points for making me actually care about the stepsiblings

+10 points for Cyrano references

+10 points for catchy tunes

+10 points for scooby doo scene

-100 points for racism

-10 points for no chemistry between leads

-10 points for little screen time between leads

-10 points for unnecessary nude scene

-10 points for obvious lip synching

A Cinderella Story: if the Shoe Fits

Starring: Sofia Carson and Thomas Law

Release: 2016

Dress rating: 7/10 (points subtracted for being a “costume”)

Cinderella references: 6/10 (points added for shoe scenes)

Overall rating: 4/10

+10 points for chemistry

+10 points for screen time between leads

+10 points for somewhat convincing disguise

-20 points for convoluted plot

-10 points for trying to do dance, singing, and acting

-10 points for being the worst one

A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish

Starring: Laura Marano and Gregg Sulkin

Release: 2019

Dress rating: 8/10 (side note: how did her friend make two dresses like that in like two days??)

Cinderella references: 5/10 (Bonus points for naming her dog Bruno)

Overall rating: 7/10

+20 points for Gregg Sulkin because nobody said this review wasn’t subjective

+10 points for chemistry between leads

+10 points for screen time between leads

+20 points for being better than the last two

-10 points for tacking Christmas onto the story for no discernible reason

-10 points for one number that made it seem like a musical, despite the fact that the rest of the movie is decidedly not a musical

-20 points for stupid disguises and stupid reason why they can’t take off their disguises

-10 points for Laura Marano speaking out loud while she hid her invitation/dress allowing her stepmother to overhear her

-10 points for the weird tacked on plot line of her stepsister stealing her identity at the gala

A Cinderella Story: Starstruck

Starring: Bailee Madison and Michael Evans Behling

Release: 2021

Dress rating: 3/10

Cinderella references: 4/10

Overall rating: 6/10

+10 points for accidental queer vibes

+10 for Twelfth Night shenanigans

+10 for Kale, secretly the best part

-10 for two scenes with Musical™️ vibes that came out of nowhere

-10 for wearing impractical outfits for working on a farm

Final Thoughts

Ranking:

1. A Cinderella Story

2. Another Cinderella Story

3. A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish

4. A Cinderella Story: Starstruck

5. A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song

6. A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits

The “Cinderella Story” franchise is headed by Leigh Dunlap and the original helped launch Hilary Duff into stardom, which is no doubt the reason why the remaining 5 seem to have fallen into a formulaic routine meant to launch their own respective leads into stardom as well. But the “my dream is to be a star” gimmick runs old very quickly and as we saw with Sofia’s movie, oftentimes runs of the risk of feeling like they’re trying to do too much. At least with Selena, Lucy, and Laura there was a focus on a specific area (dancing and singing/songwriting specifically) but in Sofia and Bailee’s movies it definitely seems like they’re just following whatever direction will make them a star quicker. This franchise also suffers from some serious NLOG syndrome, which is glaringly obvious after watching them all back to back. I think these movies shine the most when they’re simple and put focus on the relationships or the inherent cruelty/trauma of “Cinderella’s” situation. I appreciate the ones who make an effort to explain the specifics of how “Cinderella” escapes her family, like in finding a hidden will. I think the Cinderella references quickly disappear and it doesn’t take long before these movies simple follow a formula instead of trying to find new and unique ways to tell a modern version of this fairytale. In the next iteration (assuming there is one) I’d like to see a step away from the pop star story- back to basics, where the prince is the most popular guy in school, not some superstar- and more of a focus on relationships with unique nods to the original fairy tale.

#a cinderella story #Cinderella story #Cinderella #Hilary duff #Selena Gomez #Lucy Hale #Sofia Carson #Laura Marano #bailee madison #another cinderella story #once upon a song #if the shoe fits #a Christmas wish #Starstruck

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chaerincore · 3 years ago

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2:13 AM JULY 2019

warnings: descriptions of nightmare disorder + somniphobia (fear of sleeping), & mentions of mental illness and loss

earlier in the day, eunwoo approached yunho and explained that he was getting worried about sakura and her well-being because she had been showing up to rehearsals incredibly sleep-deprived for the last few months. yunho promised his girlfriend’s best friend that he would try to be there for her… however she needed him.

he knew that the demons she was fighting in her head was something he wasn’t meant to take care of — she was meant to overcome it, but this kind of battle of hers was becoming too difficult to go through alone.

and ever since they started dating, yunho was determined to hold her through her worst — which, in this very moment, he kept his word.

since she debuted, the nineteen year old had developed a fear of sleeping due to constant nightmares of hers that became reality — and the trigger was when a saesang followed her and AJ home from practice back when they were promoting a year ago, banging on the front door of their dorm all night long.

and the worst part of it all? empty promises of protection were made, which further resulted in sakura having constant nightmares ever since. now, she’s been refusing to sleep, and nearly passed out during dance practice earlier that day which is when the worries of her members only increased.

it was two in the morning, and although hongjoong protested at first, he caved and let yunho stay with sakura after finishing an early schedule, and now she had snuck from the comfort of her bedroom to the kitchen to try to stop her eyelids from getting heavy.

she couldn’t sleep. she absolutely couldn’t and wouldn’t.

the girl had been doing so much to try to help herself fight her fear: buying a white-noise machine to make her apartment less quiet, leaving the lights on outside her room, keeping a solid sleep schedule and healthy diet, getting locks on her doors to ease her anxiety, the list goes on and on.

some days it worked, but tonight she couldn’t get herself to sleep — better yet, close her eyes for more than five seconds.

there were times when yunho needed her love and comfort, but lately sakura needed it more than he knew he could ever understand.

so he held her body close to him from behind as she stared with eyes pried open rather emotionlessly at the hands that have been protecting her from her fears for so many months now. yunho’s head gently rested on the shoulders of his troubled partner, her growing disorder and fears were only making her mental health worse, and the thought of her only feeling lower since they got together made his eyes brim with tears. was he not protecting her properly? holding her tight enough?

sakura was certain that she numb to everything but yunho, who finally felt the fears of losing sakura to herself settle into his soul. he grew more & more afraid that she wouldn’t realize how painful everything was… until it was too late.

so he kept the lights on the in the kitchen, the white-noise machine drowning out his soft sniffles that were failed attempts to keep his tears at bay.

but she heard them, and she didn’t know what to do.

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lexidei · 3 years ago

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Dear young lady,

I am writing to you this now to let you know how things have changed over the past 5 years. You’re not gonna believe it.

Should we start with the good news?

Remember the first boyfriend you were talking about? You’ve just dated him for 6 months. Well, guess what? You’re still with him today, and his love for you has never changed. The consistency, assurance, love and care he has shown you since the day he confessed his feelings for you--it’s all still the same going 5 years today. Thankfully, he remains to be the greatest gift you’ve ever received since you were born. You always said the past few years that your life may be super shitty and uncertain but you’ve got one person you are super thankful for who makes your life so beautiful.

Wanna hear another good news? You’re able to afford a monthly consultation with a doctor now. You found a doctor who understands you. And oh, by the way, you witnessed firsthand a pandemic, which became the reason why you don’t have to struggle with long queues in the hospital now because medical consultations could now be made online.

Your medicines have certainly upgraded too. They cost you about Php 12,000 monthly. You’re taking anti-anxiety and anti-depressants drugs now. The first few months were the worst because you couldn’t figure out how to go about your day without feeling dizzy or nauseous after taking your medicine but you eventually found sleeping time as the best time to take them so you would be asleep when the side effects start showing.

From two medicines, after 5 months maybe, the doctor reduced your medicine to only anti-anxiety drugs. You felt good because there were times you would vomit with blood twice within a week everytime you drink your medicine.

Oh, aside from that, you discovered in 2018 that you have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Just right after a guy found you beautiful, you physically looked less. You gained weight and had terrible acne problems. You were advised to restrict your diet. Upon finding out that you are prone to diabetes and hypertension, you laid in bed for 3 straight days because you couldn’t accept your condition. You’ve just graduated college and was expecting to have fun in life to make up for the lost time in your younger years spent in the four corners of your room studying. You couldn’t accept how why of all the people, you got PCOS and depression. Things even got worse when you continuously gained weight. People body-shamed you; and instead of trying to have a healthy lifestyle, you hated yourself for it so you resorted to stress-eating. I am so sorry for not pushing you to recover. I pushed you to just wanna die instead.

Let’s skip to 2019. You finally went to Disneyland with your family. However, you were not in good terms with your mom. Remember how you always wanted to go to Disneyland when you were a kid? Your mom told you she’d bring you there if you graduate Valedictorian in grade school. However, you still had to graduate Valedictorian again in high school then Cum Laude in college before you were ever even able to go to Disneyland. So yeah, you were in Disneyland, but it didn’t feel like the happiest place on earth at that time. I hope you could go back there again at a time you’re happy.

Before you went to Disneyland, you also came to Palawan with your family. Guess what? Your family hated you for destroying the trip because you accused your dad for cheating on your mom. Everyone told you you were overreacting and paranoid. You felt strong about your instinct but they didn’t believe you.. only to find out 3 years later that your dad was indeed cheating on your mom that time.

Here comes the heartbreaking part now. Remember when you thought that your high school senior crush graduating was gonna be your greatest heartbreak so you chugged a whole 1.5L of Coca-cola on his graduation day? That’s not gonna be your greatest heartbreak. Your greatest heartbreak would be your dad cheating on your mom.

You decided to go to law school in 2021 because you thought you could do it. Come the prelims exam of your first semester in first year law school (days after your 24th birthday and your dad’s 56th birthday), you found out about your greatest heartbreak. You were doing great in your studies prior to that but your subject Persons, Family, and Relations just reminded you of your dad’s immorality. Those days, you couldn’t even sit continuously to study because everything that ran on your mind was your dad’s cheating and your mom’s pain. You’ve always been disappointed in your dad, but you just lost all your respect for him now; and until today, 9 months later, you’re traumatized by the new facts you learn each day.

At first, you wanted to avenge your mom by facing the mistresses. You were full of pain and anger. But today, you learned which battles to choose. You held to the belief that the universe had its karma-- whatever goes around comes around.

I’m so sorry you have to replay in your head everyday the infidelity of your dad. No matter how I’d like it to stop, it just couldn’t.

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The Difference one Woman can make.

Late Friday night in June, we had stopped for a burger on the way to the cinema, we used to do family movie nights at the cinema when a new film came out that the majority of us wanted to watch, this time I was the one who was reluctant to go, sadly we do this significantly less now. So, stubborn 2015 me, rolling her eyes and dragging her feet up the cinema steps to find our seats to watch the new Jurassic World movie. Pathetic! I thought, why pay money to watch a movie about a dinosaur theme park! My parents had completely lost it! Huffing and puffing I took my seat on the aisle and sipped my blue raspberry slushie and looked up at the big screen. Ugh! I wanted it to be over, quickly. I sat down and shut my mouth, despite not wanting to watch it, I wasn’t going to spoil it for the others; but I didn’t get why they would want to watch it, I watched the trailer before going, was not impressed, it looked dumb!

However, as much as my pre-Jurassic self would not like, I found who I was during that movie, I discovered a whole new admiration for actors and movies. I found that I related to the main female protagonist, Claire Dearing. She did not need a man, or children, she was so focused on her career and let no one boss her around. She was top dog, and I completely fell for this fictional character. I evolved through that movie with her character, I felt content with being a strong female who put career over family. I wanted to embody this fictional woman; I wanted to be her.

On the journey home I typed ‘Claire Dearing actress’ into google and saw this stunning redhead- Bryce Dallas Howard. I immediately recognised her from movies I had watched prior, and I was completely astounded at her range of characters she can portray and portray them well. After scrolling through her Wiki page and reading news articles about her, I learned that she is the daughter of Ron Howard, one of my parents’ favourite people in film.

“Dad, that woman in the movie is Ron Howard's daughter”, I needed to inform my family that my now favourite woman in film is the daughter of my parents’ favourite people in film. My parents were shocked that I enjoyed the movie despite my loud vocalisation of not wanting to watch it.

Googling ‘Bryce Dallas Howard’ became my new after school routine, learning that she applied to acting school as Bryce Dallas to avoid people knowing she is the daughter of an already famous actor and director, and she had met her true love at nineteen and is still happily married to him. Yet what most stuck out to the self-conscious, body hating 2015 me, was that Bryce wasn’t a skinny twig of a woman that you see in most movies, she had classy curves and promoted body positivity despite some backlash the media gave her. I made a connection with this woman I had never met because I too received negative comments about my figure, yet Bryce took that on the shoulder and learned to love herself. I wanted to feel that self-love about myself that she acquired.

After watching Jurassic World, I explored many more fandoms, and from there I became obsessed with movie franchises and TV shows, actors and directors. I could not give you a full list of all of the fandoms I am in, there are too many to count, and they have all played a role in helping me evolve to who I am today. All because I latched onto one character from one movie I did not even want to watch, one film got me hooked on this life: it’s like a drug. I cannot stop. I also went back and forth with my hairstyle due to this woman; in the movie Bryce has a stunning ginger graduated bob with a fringe, however I never had the guts to go ginger until now; shame the hairdressers are all shut.

Now, almost six years later Bryce Dallas Howard has had great success in directing two episodes of The Mandalorian. Over the Christmas break I watched the show with my dad, sat on the sofa, fire lit, the chocolate Labrador curled up between us, peach vodka and diet lemonade in my hand, hot cup of tea in my dad’s. We binge watched both seasons in a week (it’s amazing) and he was shocked to see ‘Directed by Bryce Dallas Howard’ at the end of one, let alone two episodes. “Shit, she’s come far in the past few years” he said putting another episode on.

Bryce allowed me to find my best friend, Iz, through Instagram; Bryce has brought so many people together it is so surreal. And when I found out that Iz was going to Southampton University in 2019, a 20-minute drive from my house, I was finally able to meet her, because of one woman we both adore. I was friends with Iz for three years before I was able to meet her, I asked my school friend to come along with me so she could film the moment Iz, and I met! We got pancakes and watched the second Maleficent movie at the cinema, it was one of the best days of my life. I was so thankful that I met a truly hilarious and loving girl through this one actress! Because of Bryce Dallas Howard, I have made so many other friends from all over the globe as they too idolise Bryce and together we have created the ‘BDH online family’. A small group of us do regular zoom calls to catch up and chat about the recent photos and updates that Bryce has posted on Instagram, talk about Covid-19 and the types of restrictions and lockdown rules each of our countries has. During one of our calls, we had the craziest idea- Invite Bryce to one of our zoom calls. Bryce said yes! And after a few months of organisation, we had the date. The date was-

My.

Birthday.

The day came around and I was so nervous, it was 11pm exactly. The Wi-Fi had cut out fifteen minutes before the call. I was in tears. Mascara down my face, puffy eyes, I joined the call with a few minutes to spare before Bryce joined it. My mum hung around off camera for the first 5 minutes to double check the Wi-Fi was stable, luckily it stabilised. The other girls had never been so glad to see me, everyone was panicked for me; I could not miss it for the world (despite telling my parents, in floods of tears, that I cannot join and that it’s the end of that).

“Kat! You’re here!” “Happy birthday!” “Are you okay? The Wi-Fi sorted?”

They all chimed, happy to see my little face in the bottom right corner of their computer screens. Luckily Iz was there, otherwise it would have been extremely awkward with only one of us since we are known as a duo in the online family, we have to do everything together, we come in a pair and there can’t just be one of us.

“Shit girls, that was stressful”

I hadn’t realised I was holding my breath until I exhaled the large breath when my Wi-Fi settled, and I was on the call, I fixed my makeup and was ready to meet Bryce.

The few minutes we had before Bryce joined were intense, two of the girls left to get a drink and we weren’t sure if they would be back in time, luckily they did return.

“No way!” One of them, Anna who was hosting the call, gasped “Bryce is in the waiting room!”

We all freak for no more than 10 seconds, we compose ourselves then our faces are reshuffled, and we see this stunning glowing face that we all admire smiling at us. Omg, it's her.

“Hi girls!”

I have never smiled for so long in my entire life, my cheeks hurt afterwards. Don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining at all, it just hurt as I thought I would only be smiling for half an hour, since that is how long we were told Bryce had. However, we were speaking to Bryce for nearly an hour and a half, she just kept talking and asked us questions! She was so lovely to talk to, so relaxed; it was if I was talking to a friend that I had known for years!

“Before we go I want to all sing Kat a happy birthday!”

My idol wanted to sing me a happy birthday! The other girls were really ecstatic for me, I still can’t believe to this day that The Bryce Dallas Howard wanted to sing to me!

It was both the best and the worst happy birthday song that has be sung to me. It was the best because, well my idol was singing to me! And proposed the singing! It was the worst in terms of the actual song as they were all out of sync and lagging, it was bloody hilarious!

At 10:27pm the next evening, watching a rerun of Game of Thrones on Sky, I got a notification ‘Brycedhoward just posted’, I clicked the notification then see our smiling faces on her page, she posted a screenshot of our call on her social media! The call was supposed to be a secret so other fans weren’t upset. There’s a few snotty comments on the post, but they’re just jealous and to be frank, I don’t care! My smiley face is on her page forever! All ten of us have printed the screenshot of Bryce’s post off and put it in a frame, one day all ten of us hope to congregate somewhere, most likely in America, and sign the backs of all of our photos. I’m still in utter awe and shock- How many celebrities have you seen that would do a free zoom call with some fans? Not a lot, and that amount is even slimmer when they talk for an extra hour than scheduled. Bryce truly is one of a kind and the best idol anyone could ever hope to have.

Compared to a zoom call with Bryce herself, the few times she has liked my comments on her posts feel like nothing in comparison! I remember being so excited, running downstairs to my parents.

“Mum! Dad! Bryce liked my comment! She knows I exist!”

“Was it actually her? Remember when you got a Facebook request from Robert Downey Jr and it turned out it was a fake account?”

I rolled my eyes at her, it was Bryce, it was her verified account. The comment was a book recommendation I had for her, she posted on her hashtag BDHbookshelf and I thought I’d take a chance and comment a book recommendation I had for her, and the chance paid off.

I cannot wait to see what the future holds with Bryce, she has been such an inspiration to me for the past few years, and she promotes such wonderful causes and body positivity! I hope to one day meet her and thank her in person for changing my life for the better, and I think I’ve come up with the perfect opportunity to meet her- Iz and I have decided to travel up to London for the Jurassic World Dominion premiere in 2022 (if Covid lets us!), we’d get a hotel and actually meet Bryce in person, as well as meeting other members of the online family!

Words cannot fully contain the admiration that I possess for Bryce, her soul is utterly and truly exquisite, she has been such a visionary while I’ve been transitioning from a girl who had no idea who she was with no dreams or aspirations, to a woman who has now found so many new friends and now knows who she wants to be.

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Under the Stars

~ When you invite Tom and Harrison to go to a cabin in the woods with your old college friends, Tom devises a plan to finally confess his feelings for you. Little does he know, the cabin belongs to your ex-boyfriend, and he’s also seeking your attention this week {12k words, 3/19/21}

Risk it All

~ (Royalty!AU) As the princess, you have to hide your relationship with Tom, the stable hand. When your mother sets up a jousting tournament with the prize of your hand, Tom must risk it all to win your heart {4100 words, 11/25/20}

Nightmares

~ After watching The Devil All the Time with Tom and the boys, you have a nightmare and Tom comforts you {1300 words, 9/27/20}

Save a Horse

~ When an intern pranks Tom, Harrison, and Harry by sending them to a line dancing bar in Atlanta, the boys are in for one hell of a night, but maybe it isn’t all that bad when Tom meets you {2500 words, 9/17/20}

Break Up Songs

~ Being best friends for years, you and Tom have helped each other through many breakups, but neither of you had ever thought there could be something more between the two of you until tonight, when you both celebrated your cheating exes with drunk karaoke {2800 words, 9/9/20}

Sweet as Sugar ♥

~ Tom’s on a strict diet to bulk up, meaning he can’t have sweets… but you keep baking too many desserts for just you and your housemate, so you decide to share with him, your neighbor {3100 words, 9/2/20}

Love Bug ♥

~ Tom's caught the love bug- well, actually it’s just food poisoning {1700 words, 7/2/20}

Something Blue ♥

~ Today’s the first day of the rest of your life {1400 words, 6/22/20, requested}

Quarantine Cuts ♥

~ After Tom cuts Harry’s hair, you let him cut yours {1000 words, 6/18/20, requested, quarantine fic}

Risky Quizness ♥

~ When you meet Tom at a pub quiz, sparks fly between the two of you {1800 words, 6/13/20, requested}

Sacred New Beginnings

~ You fall in love with Tom on Cornelia Street {3100 words, 6/2/20, requested}

~ Based On: Cornelia Street by Taylor Swift

The Best Gift ♥

~ With quarantine still going on, you’re concerned you can’t give Tom a special birthday {2800 words, 6/1/20, quarantine fic}

Hubby ♥*

~ Tom makes even the simplest of days amazing {4800 words, 5/30/20, requested}

Defying Gravity

~ Your Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked makes you come to terms with your feelings for your best friend’s brother {2600 words, 5/26/20, requested}

Under the Mask ♥

~ At your first Comic Con, you meet the iconic red and blue superhero from Queens, but little do you know who was under that mask {1500 words, 5/21/20, requested}

Of Secrets and Bets ♥

~ After being friends for years, you and Tom enter a secret relationship, that happens to line up perfectly with quarantine {1700 words, 5/19/20, requested, quarantine fic}

Worst Kept Secret ♥*

~ Sam gave Tom one job, but Harry and Harrison’s gossip leads to the worst kept secret and the biggest miscommunication in history… {3500 words, 5/12/20}

Cockblocks ♥

~ The four times you and Tom got cockblocked in quarantine {2100 words, 5/11/20, requested, quarantine fic}

Welcome to Parenthood ♥

~ Your twin boys arrive earlier than expected {1200 words 5/9/20, requested}

Family Getaways

~ A joint family vacation in California leads to you and Tom seeking your own romantic getaway {1600 words, 5/8/20, requested}

The One with Jennifer Aniston ♥

~ Tom doesn’t understand why you don’t want him to meet your mother {1400 words, 5/1/20, requested}

The Pub Quiz ♥

~ Tom can’t concentrate on the pub quiz when you refuse to take part in it {1600 words, 4/30/20}

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Black Like His Soul

~ Tom knows it’s wrong to be in love with a human, but he can’t help it when he meets you; he also can’t help his beastly transformation every night. After months of building up a friendship with you, will he come clean about his true form or will he continue to let sunset dictate his life? {3500 words, 9/22/20}

~ Demon/Prince of Hell!Tom X Human!Reader

Craving Cuddles

~ Periods suck, but they’re better with Tom- even after you two breakup {1000 words, 8/10/20}

2 A.M. in the Dark

~ It’s been two weeks since your breakup, but at 2 A.M. in the dark, you and Tom manage to find each other again {1100 words, 8/4/20}

~ Based On: I Wish You Would by Taylor Swift

Priceless

~ You’ve never liked people spending money on you or being at large parties, but Tom seems to forget that as he goes a bit overboard when celebrating your birthday {3100 words, 7/17/20}

How Perfect You Are

~ After a rough day, Tom’s there to cheer you up {1600 words, 6/16/20}

Scares

~ You thought it was just a pregnancy scare, but it was so much more {1800 words, 5/25/20, requested}

Come Back

~ When the stress of missing Tom gets too much for you, you move away, but leave your heart with him {3100 words, 5/16/20, requested}

~ Based On: If You Ever Come Back by the Script

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eternallovers65 · 4 years ago

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I was watching ikon tv on YouTube again and that made me look at a bunch of old clips from kpop, and I just want to say FUCK THE BIG 3 SO MUCH OR ANY OTHER COMPANY THAT TREATS IDOLS LIKE SHIT

JYPE

Blatantly favoritism over Twice and Stray Kids, which leads to overworking them, and zero to nonexistent comebacks to got7 and day6 (idk about itzy bc I'm not a fan). For example in 2018, Twice had 6 comebacks (japanese/singles included) and in both 2017/19 they had 5 (japanese/singles included) Stray Kids on the year they debuted, 2018, had 4 and in 2019 they had 5 (japanese/singles included).

This situation got so bad that during a vlive Jeongyeon cried because of how overworked she was. She, Mina and Jisung had to take a break from promotion, I know that those breaks were in different eras but I think that there's a link on why only members of the most overworked groups needed a break.

Also Got7 has like zero promotion, when they had the world tour ahgases were the ones to promote then, because jype didn't bought ads. The boys songs were refused so many times, Mark's schedule were canceled so he couldn't meet his family. They refused to give a solo career to Yugyeom and Mark, when they failed to protect the boys from the sasaengs which lead them moving out so many times and on why Jackson got injured.

Edit: I am more than glad to say that today, 10th of January, all members of Got7 are leaving Jype. #Got7forever💚 I love you boys, thank you for 7 years of happiness, and I'll proudly continue to support all of you

How they forced that visual and hairstyle on Jeongyeon, even tho she didn't wanted it, she said during a vlive that she wanted to grow her hair but the company used to cut shorter everytime. They are extremely strict with the weight and the food, a few artists like Sunmi already said that. Somi has told some stories about how they had to sneak food and hide eating in the bathroom, and when Momo was forced to lose 7kg in seven days only to appear in a showcase.

The famous situation flag situation with Tzuyu. She was 16 when that happened, she introduced herself as Taiwanese and held the Taiwan flag as well. Which lead to many to many chinese users saying she was a pro-independence activist, she was barred from the Chinese television and suspended of all her activities in China. 2 months later, on the day of the election in Taiwan, Jype posted a video of her reading an apology saying that there's only one China and she is extremely proud to be Chinese. She was 16 at the time, and you can see during the video that she is so scared, sad and clearly hesitating on saying what she's reading, the whole video just has this weird, forced vibes. The 3 presidential candidates said that video was too cruel for a 16 year old girl and that she didn't need to apologize.

I will never forgive yg for disbanding 2ne1, for not helping G-Dragon when he was accused of plagiarism and started suffering from depression but had to continue with the promotion. Same thing with Top that was diagnosed with social anxiety and depression, and suffered a overdose because of the marijuana scandal but yg had also nothing to say.

For releasing Hanbin in a DAY because of false accusations, while it took them WEEKS to release s***gri and only after he released a statement saying that he was leaving bigbang. And for not telling the public or for not defending Jennie during that time everyone were saying she was lazy when in fact she had an ankle injury, but still continued the promotions.

Whether we like to admit or not, SM is probably the best company in the kpop history if we're talking about success, they have a formula that works over and over again, it's a pattern, we can especially see it in Suju, Shinee, Exo and Nct. But omg they have zero compassion for their idols.

Starting from the training, we all know the training for the debut is really difficult, but a lot of people say that between all the companies SM is the worst one, they are extremely strictly and controlling , especially the managers who abuse the power. They have this curated-ness that is quite toxic, and leads to an incredibly perfectionistic and controlling management system. Kai used to practice 8 hours a day so that everything was perfect, like surely work it out bc Kai is one of the best dancers in the industry, but still that's a lot of hours you're basically overworking yourself (I think)

As a result, many idols have even more outstandingly brutal beauty standards than there already are in the kpop industry generally. especially intense weight-loss standards, Taeyeon already said this, during the first 5 years of GG she was constantly battling with eating disorders. Baekhyun has this diet where, instead of eating the food he only chews and then spits out, Sehun in 2017 (I think) had this stage on the Exo tour and he said that he spend an entire month on diet, so he could do that stage. Taemin said on a few episodes of Mtopia that he was on a diet, but you can clearly see that he was extremely thin. Also they have a part in their contracts about plastic surgery, you can see that almost every SM artist has done it a double eyelid surgery.

The blatantly favoritism over Korean idols and the mistreats that happens with idols that aren't Korean (especially with they're chinese), as we saw many times already with examples like Tao, Kris, Luhan, Lay, Winwin, Ten and Lucas before they joined WayV. Or favoritism with certain members of groups, like Taeyong in Nct, of course that favoritism is a part of their formula but still pretty fucked up.

They have such a questionable promotion, like I already read once about. They said that SM promotes the new groups so they can form a better fan base and that way no longer will need the promotion, but still this is extremely bad. Like with BoA, Tvxq or Suju who are still relevant but we barely hear news about them because SM doesn't promote then, and I can already see this with Exo especially in their latest comeback.

They manage mental health horrifically. Like with Taeyeon in 2014/15 when a member (bc SM treated Jessica as garbage) of her group had to leave, which lead to the midia saying it was her fault alongside with the hate she received at that time because of her relationship with Baekhyun, that lead to her depression and eating disorders. Same thing happened with Baek, although he didn't receive the same amount of hate, he still had to suffer with his relationship being in the spotlight while 3 members of his group left, because AGAIN SM treated them as fucking garbage.

For stop carrying about f(x), as a result lead to a witch hunt on Victoria saying that it was her fault for that happening, for Sulli who was suffering from a mental illness but never received a break nor the protection from the media that used to say that she was a bad example. For Jonghyun who was also suffering from depression but never got any help or a break.

And our latest examples Irene and Chanyeol. I don't approve Irene's actions, but the fact that the media is so ruthless with her it's ridiculous and even more ridiculous of SM to not defend their idol, especially when there's so many other celebrities that are WAY worse than her. And for Chanyeol, who was accused of cheating on his girlfriend 10 times, but SM had nothing to say or to defend his image. It took the fans for that to happen, the fans were the ones to find out that was a fake and cover up scandal so the news about the government crisis were not to be seen.

They are so bad at dealing with idol apologies, like why did Taeyong in 2016 had to apologize for something he didn’t do, but they never had anyone apologize for their racist or the cultural appropriation that the idols have done many times already in a lot of mvs????

That's why I hate the kpop industry and the media so fucking much, bc they're ruthless and assholes who are putting so much pressure on the idols, who in the end of the day are humans and are deserving of things like love, privacy and a break to take care of themselves. I truly adore kpop and the dramas, but I'd stop watching and listening with all of my heart if it means that they would stop treating humans beings as fucking trash! They deserve so much more!

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wealthiesthub · 3 years ago

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What do billionaires eat in a day?

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Most of the billionaires of today are successful entrepreneurs, and we all are quite aware that they earn what they do today because of their strategic business decision-making, but does this apply to their personal health choices? How much do they spend on private nutrition when they can afford pricey personal chefs and high-quality foods? Well, it seems that most billionaires have quite strange eating habits. Some of them eat way too much McDonalds, while others are quite careful. In this video, we picked out nine popular billionaires we always hear about and share what exactly they consume regularly.

Elon Musk

Number One. Elon Musk. CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk, mentioned several times that at times, he doesn't even have the time to eat breakfast, so he leaves it. However, even when he does manage to have some time, he just drinks coffee. At lunch, and sometimes at dinner, he eats chocolate chip-flavored Kido protein bars, simply because he loves them. He even knows when they go up for a discount! He devours whatever is offered to him during lunch, and puts more emphasis on his dinner plans, that too if he's not working. The worst part? He doesn’t exercise!

Donald Trump

Number Two. Donald Trump. Ex-president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has put his love for fast food on all his social media accounts. His followers know all about his eating habits and his likes and dislikes. It comes as no surprise to them to hear that he is addicted to fast food. He is known to frequently eat at McDonald’s, and he regularly enjoys their Filet O Fish sandwich. The former President and business mogul earn an expected $2 billion, yet he doesn't appear to have the range or inclinations for any kind of smart dieting choices. In fact, Style magazine reports that he frequently; "praises McDonald’s for its cleanliness."

Mukesh Ambani

Number Three. Mukesh Ambani. One of India’s richest businessmen, Mukesh Ambani, is not fussy about food. He prefers exploring different avenues regarding a wide range of food varieties from the elegant cafés to the side of the road bistros. His number one food places are Mysore Café in Matunga and Swati Snacks. Ambani is so in love with Swati Snacks that in case somebody is going to the spot, he generally requests a bundle for himself. Ambani likewise appreciates chaat at Chandni Chowk. His children love Thai food so, with them, he himself has also started to enjoy them! Likewise, he adores thali cooking, particularly when they are going outside India. As per Ambani, he wouldn't fret about having anything as long as it is vegan. That’s right, he is a vegetarian! Ambani is also fond of Idli sambar which is prepared at home every Sunday for breakfast. He loves it so much that he doesn’t even mind having it from the small canteens at the airports. He also likes dosa and knows a special person at Gwalia Tank who makes it best. A real foodie at heart!

Mark Cuban

Number Four. Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is continually terminating on all chambers and keeps on rounding up the benefits from his responsibility for the professional basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks. This financial backer and billionaire business entrepreneur is worth a cool $4.5 billion and picks to spend part of it by putting resources into the organization that makes his favorite biscuits. He starts each morning off with two sweet biscuits from Alyssa's Cookies and a cup of coffee. The biscuits are said to be high in protein and fiber and Cuban swears by them. In fact, he loved them so much that he's now a part-owner of the company that makes them.

Mark Zuckerberg

Number Five. Mark Zuckerberg. The $104 billion men, and founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is probably the most extravagant man on the planet. While numerous others in this situation of outrageous abundance would draw in the best cooks to make the most amazing cooking available anywhere, Mark has picked a vastly different way with regards to the food he eats, and it's not for the weak on a fundamental level. He went through a stage in 2011 during which time he would just eat the meat of creatures he had killed for himself. He would take care of that meat for his companions and visitors, too. It was uncovered that he had eaten with the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who later announced the goat he was offered was served cold, so he chose to say “no thanks” to that and stuck with salad!

Jack Ma

Number Six. Jack Ma. Co-founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, was seen to be having Maggi Mee instant noodles for lunch on the third anniversary of Alibaba’s IPO in 2017. One of his staff claimed that he had been having lunches like this for the past 18 years! After all, however, Ma is known for his humble management philosophy. A man worth so much (around 44.5 billion US dollars) could easily acquire a few instant noodle manufacturers with just his monthly pay and still be left with some change.

Jeff Bezos

Number Seven. Jeff Bezos. Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is an interesting case. He claims he avoids early-morning meetings so that he has time to eat a healthy breakfast “leisurely”, keeping away from “fatty convenience foods”. It seems his eccentricity isn’t limited to just his personality; his eating choices can be somewhat bizarre too. During a meeting with another company, Bezos was reportedly seen ordering a breakfast of Mediterranean octopus with potatoes, bacon, green garlic yogurt, and a poached egg. He later used his breakfast as a metaphor for Amazon’s business strategy, saying, “You’re the octopus that I’m having for breakfast. When I look at the menu, you’re the thing I don’t understand, the thing I’ve never had. I must have the breakfast octopus”. Amazon ended up acquiring the company. Bezos’ bizarre taste does not end at octopus either! At the 2018 Explorers Club annual meeting, Bezos ate exotic animals and even insects, which include crickets, python, tarantulas, cockroaches, grubs, and yes, an iguana.

Bill Gates

Number Eight. Bill Gates. The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates, seems to be addicted to Diet Coke. He drinks about three to four cans a day and mentioned how “all those cans also add up to something like 35 pounds of aluminum a year”. His eating habits aren’t that great either. His wife, Melinda, claims he skips breakfast, and his managing director, Joe Cerrell, says that “no matter who you are”, you should expect to have cheeseburgers when having lunch with Gates. He also mentioned to the Telegraph in 2016, “someone will always be sent to get bags of McDonald’s. I don’t think Melinda lets him have them at home”.

Warren Buffett

Number Nine. Warren Buffet. CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet, has a similar, but far unhealthier diet than Gates. He enjoys McDonald’s chicken nuggets three times a week. He drinks five Coca-Cola cans a day, and especially loves Dairy Queen ice cream and See’s Candies. He also reportedly uses an excessive amount of salt. Former CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf, said, “it’s a snowstorm” every time Buffett uses a saltshaker. Astonishingly, he does all this at 90 years old and has no plans of quitting work! Buffett told Financial Times in 2019, “I’m not bothered by the thought of my death”.

So, what do you guys think? Which billionaire is living his life to the fullest? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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imagining-supernatural · 5 years ago

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The First Week

Part 8 of Seventy Percent

Series Summary: When you left on your trip to Vegas, you’d planned on letting loose for one last weekend before heading back to reality and getting your affairs in order so your best friend wouldn’t be left cleaning up your mess when your cancer finally ended your life. What you hadn’t counted on was waking up married to a celebrity who has a knight-in-shining-armor complex, connections with an oncologist, and amazing insurance…

Chapter Summary: You’re wearing down physically and mentally from the cancer treatment and Sebastian is the only person around to take the brunt of your exhaustion

Word Count: 2019

The city passed by from the back of the hired car, but you couldn’t revel at the awesome sight that was New York City.

And you hated that.

You were in New York Fucking City.

The Big Fucking Apple

You hadn’t even been here a week yet. You should be enjoying this. You should be marveling at the landscape. The skyline. The history and art and people. You should be smiling damn it!

But all you could think about was the guest bed waiting for you on the other side of the ride.

Not even your own bed. A fucking guest bed.

“I thought we could order some food in when we get home,” Sebastian said. “Something with fresh vegetables. Maybe some chicken.”

“Sounds good,” you muttered, still staring blankly out the window.

“I was also thinking I could invite some strippers over. Since it’s Friday night, you know. Try to cheer you up a bit. Get you—”

“I’m listening, Seb. Chicken sounds good. Strippers sound exhausting and unnecessary. My pillow sounds even better.”

He grunted and went back to whatever the fuck he was doing on his side of the car.

“You can go do your own shit, you know. Go out with friends. Whatever. I can handle myself.” Now you looked over at him, hoping to convince him. “Ever since Monday, it seems like every single minute of your day has revolved around me.”

“And when I leave to film, I can—”

“When you leave to film, you’ll be Bucky fucking Barnes. Go. Be yourself. Tonight. I’m probably going to fall asleep in, like, ten minutes anyway.” As if to prove your point, you yawned. “This treatment is no joke.”

He made a noncommittal noise before turning his attention back to his phone. With a humph, you turned back to your window.

You’d warned him. While you hadn’t expected your bitchiness to show up in the third day of treatment, you weren’t entirely surprised.

And you’d warned him.

If he wanted to cut you off, you wouldn’t blame him. You’d sign the annulment papers. Or divorce papers. Whatever was placed in front of you, you’d sign it.

Or, if he dropped you off at his apartment and flew down to Georgia early to get a feel for the studio or whatever actors did, you wouldn’t blame him either.

The hired car pulled into the underground garage and stopped right by the elevators. Sebastian got right out, but you released a deep sigh before trying to build your energy. Dr. Sharpe and Dr. Chowdhury hadn’t been kidding when they said this treatment was intense. It was so intense that you were starting to think they overestimated how well you could handle this. Maybe they missed something on your labs and films. Your cancer was too far progressed. This was all an exercise in futility.

Your door opened to Sebastian holding his hand out to you.

Blowing out a breath, you took his hand, swung your legs out of the car, and started to stand up, only to have your knees give out and send you falling back into the car.

Eyes screwed closed, it took a moment to threaten the tears back. By the time you felt in control again, Sebastian was swooping you up into his arms.

“I can wa—”

“You cannot walk and so help me God, if you try to tell me that you can, I will call your friend and have her yell at you.”

He was right. It was annoying how often he was right in the five days that you’d known him. You didn’t have the energy to argue, so you just tucked your head into his shoulder and gave in.

“How do you feel about Chinese? Some steamed vegetables, orange chicken, and brown rice?”

“Orange chicken might be too much spice right now. I learned from chemo that, uh, spices do not go well with the fuckin’ atomic toxins they inject into my body. I’m on a bland food diet for time being.”

“Alright,” he nodded, shifting his hold on you to push the elevator button. “I’ll channel my inner, middle-aged, white-mom Karen who thinks that salt is a spice.”

That sparked a weak laugh from you. “Sounds perfect. Not too much salt, though.”

There were a few weeks until Sebastian had to leave to start filming his show. You had assumed he would check in on you, make sure you were doing okay, maybe spend some of his free time with you, but that he would go about his life as normal.

You were wrong.

He switched his schedule around to match yours. He worked out while you were getting your infusions, spoke with his agent during your shorter hospital visits for a shot or two, ran errands while you were napping… He was so fucking thoughtful.

And annoying.

Not only had Sebastian channeled his inner-Karen for your bland-food diet, but he also channeled his inner grandmother in the way he was constantly shoving food in your face, insisting that you have to eat to keep up your strength. He even went so far as to schedule a meeting with the hospital dietician and Dr. Chowdhury to make sure his diet plans gave you everything you needed, and nothing you didn’t. You’d never eaten this well in your life.

Despite your fully balanced diet, you were still exhausted most of the time. You’d thought that you were prepared for the intensity of this treatment, but there was no way to fully prepare for this. You were two weeks in and it still felt like it was getting worse. By this point in your chemo, you felt like you were starting on the upswing.

But you were still falling asleep before the movies that you and Sebastian watched together even began. You could barely finish your food before needing to lay back and rest. You would try to read a book, but you were barely ten pages in because every time you sat down to read, you ended up passing out. Any spare energy you had was spent trying not to be a bitch to the people around you.

Which is how you found yourself waking up from where you’d fallen asleep with your head in Seb’s lap. The TV was black, movie having ended.

“What are you—Is that my phone?” When you twisted around to look up at Seb, you were confused by your phone case in his hand. You’d given him your passcode, as a safety precaution, so you weren’t confused by how he got onto your phone, just why he was.

“Jasmin called twice, so I texted her to let her know why you weren’t answering.”

“Oh. Thanks.”

“And then we kept talking. She’s really curious about who I am.”

“And really bad at keeping secrets.”

“I know. Just think about what she’s told me about you in the last half hour I’ve been texting with her.”

“Everything she told you about our senior year in high school is fake. She got a bad concussion the summer before and her memory of that entire year is shit. So, don’t believe any stories she tells you.”

His fingers scratched along your hairline. “Mmm, I’ll have to remember to ask her about those stories. This time she mostly divulged secrets for keeping you happy during this treatment.”

“Secrets like make sure Y/N always has access to chocolate and she’s going to want to stop treatment and run away to Paris. Help her plan, then when she thinks this is actually going to work, tell her there is no way in hell you’re letting her do this and crush her dreams. I’m sure she’ll forgive you eventually, but she hasn’t forgiven me for that yet so I can’t really tell you when.”

“Paris?”

“Yeah. I’ve always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower. Go to the Seine River and be surprised by how bad it smells. For some reason, places you think will smell normal always smell bad. You ever been to Yellowstone?”

That earned you a laugh. “I’ll keep that in mind. She did touch on the chocolate thing, though.”

“What else?”

“When you start to feel better, apparently I’m supposed to convince you to dye your hair, or get a hair cut or something. I didn’t understand that one.”

“It’s just what I do. When I need a pick-me-up, I do something to my hair. Switch things up.”

“Noted. She also said, and I think this is her way of playing matchmaker from all the way across the country, but she said that you won’t ask or initiate physical touch, but you always seemed better when you cuddled with her. So apparently I’m supposed to cuddle with you whenever humanly possible.”

Of course, you thought. That was so Jasmin. After a quick, light laugh, you pulled yourself up to a sitting position, leaning on the other side of the couch. “God, Jasmin. She’s something else.”

“So she was wrong about that?”

“I—” You wanted to say yes. You didn’t want him to feel obligated to move your friendship to any kind of physical level, beyond him carrying you up a set of stairs, or falling asleep with your head in his lap. But you couldn’t lie.

So you just had to find a way to change the subject.

“She wasn’t wrong about me not initiating contact. I had a pretty tough life growing up, so touch is hard for me. Especially with people I’m around a lot.”

He nodded thoughtfully, shifting so he was facing you more with his knee on the cushion and arm along the back of the couch. “So, in Vegas…”

“One night stands are great because you don’t have to worry about forming any sort of connection. No feelings. Just… It’s just fun and done. It doesn’t hurt.” The subject change seemed to have worked, but now you were in depressing territory. Time for another shift. “So you went and fucked that all up by insisting we stay married.”

He scoffed and playfully said, “Well, sorry for saving your life.”

“Yeah, you’re just the worst,” you responded with an exaggerated eye roll. Eyes locked on his, you couldn’t help but offer him a soft smile. “Thank you, though. I don’t think I’ve said it outright how much this means to me.”

“Y/N, you don’t—”

“Shut up and let me be serious for once. I’m complimenting you. Just let me.”

A grin toyed with his lips as he held his hands up in surrender.

“Good. I know I’ve been a bit of a bitch lately, but I’ve tried extra hard not to be because… you’ve done so much for me. I have never met anyone who would help out a complete stranger like you’re helping me and I have a really hard time telling people thanks, or how much I appreciate them, but I need you to hear it. I…” You had to pause and take a deep breath because you were starting to get choked up. “Just, thank you, Seb.”

The air was charged as your eyes stayed locked. Sharing emotions was never your strong suit, and now you had no idea what to do, what to say…

“Come over here,” he softly said, opening his arms.

“Seb, you don’t have to—”

“Get over here, Y/N.” When it was clear he wasn’t going to relent, you gave in and let him fit you in his arms. Once the footrest was popped out and a blanket was pulled over the two of you, he grabbed the remote and opened Hulu. “You’re going to let me hold you and we’re going to watch Brooklyn 99, because Jasmin also said that’s your favorite show.”

Your silence was your agreement, but it wasn’t until Jake Peralta was assigned to the records room in the pilot episode that you finally accepted the broken boundary of physical touch and relaxed into Sebastian’s arms. You wrapped your arms around his waist and let your head lay on his shoulder. “Thank you, Seb.”

“You’re welcome, Y/N/N.”

Things seem to be going well now! They’re getting along, treatment is getting easier to manage... everything is going to stay this nice, right? Right??

Part 9: The First Check-In

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