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Rise of the Blue Dragon - Official Patch Notes

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1. NEW LEGENDARY PET: LOTUS DRAGON SCALE

- Makes a Giant Lotus Flower bloom, restoring the Cookie’s Energy!

2. LOTUS DRAGON COOKIE’S MAGIC CANDY

- Sends a Lotus Sound Wave creating Lotus Petal Jellies!

3. NEW TREASURE

- Seahorse Watergun: Traps Jellies inside drops of water.

4. NEW COSTUMES

- Lotus Dragon Cookie's Warlord of the Eternal Lotus (Legendary)

- Lotus Dragon Cookie's Azure Tides of War (Epic)

5. OTHER

TALES OF THE LOTUS EVENT

- What fate awaits the Cookies in the world transformed by Longan Dragon Cookie?

- Gain special powers in each event map through Dino Egg Skills!

- Unlock the skills by reaching Stage 1 of the total score rewards for each respective map.

- Choose your path in the skill tree to earn the maximum amount of points!

- Gain plentiful rewards, including Legendary Magic Candy ingredients and a Lobby Design!

SPECIAL COSTUME DRAW

- Lotus Dragon Cookie's Warlord of the Eternal Lotus (LEGENDARY)

- Special Draw Duration: April 27, 2023, 10:00 - June 15 08:00 (GMT+9)

SPECIAL JELLY SHAPE DRAW

- Colorful Lotus Jelly Set (LEGENDARY)

- Special Draw Duration: April 27, 10:00 - June 29, 08:00 (GMT+9)

GUILD RUNS RANK REWARD BURNING EVENT

- During the event period, the Top Score rank rewards for all Guild Run arenas change to Rainbow Cubes and Crystals.

- Reach S rank in all of the arenas during the event period to earn 3,000 Crystals and 3,000 Rainbow Cubes.

- Event Duration: April 27 - May 30, 08:00 (GMT+9)

* Only rewards claimed within the event duration are eligible. Any rewards claimed after the end of the event will be regular rewards, regardless if they were obtained via scores reached during the event

COOKIE TRIALS

- Added titles for players who place in the top 100 of Cookie Trials. (*New Cookie Cup Rankings excluded)

- When you log in for the first time after the update, all eligible titles will be sent via the in-game mailbox.

- Certain trials have been rebalanced and improved. More information regarding this can be found in the Balance Adjustments & Bug Fixes section.

COOKIE RUN DIARY

- Cookie Run Diary missions have been simplified. Run anywhere once and get the rewards!

- You can now choose which Cookie and Pet to add as a stamp to the diary.

RAID RUN

- Added new Raid Skill: Pink Choco Cookie's "Heart Ray".

- Adjusted Jelly placements in the Custard Queen Bee stage.

- Adjusted Jelly placements in the Desert Highwaymantis stage.

RAID CHESTS

- Increased the number of Skill Gems obtainable from Raid Chests.

PACKAGES

- Added Skill Reset packages for Raid Run Skills.

- Choose any Raid Skill Lv.2 or above and reset it to Lv.1, returning all materials used for leveling the skill.

- Skill Reset packages can be purchased twice per season.

MAGIC LABORATORY

NEW RECIPES

- Added new recipes that use Skill Gems to create Skill Gems of other colors.

NEW FEATURES

- Added recommendation and filter functions to the "Extract All" function used to turn crafting ingredients into Magic Powder.

- Recommendations: Choose ingredients for Cookies who already have max-level Magic Candies.

- Filter: Filter ingredients by grade/category.

TECHNICAL LICENSE

- 2 new Technical License levels will be added with the May 12 update.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

MAPS

- The Mysterious Yogurt Dunes map has rotated out and is replaced with the Fashion Week Brand Showroom map.

- The Bonus Time patterns of the Ancient Forest Altar map have been adjusted.

- In order to collect accurate data for the new map, Dr. Wasabi's Combi Generator will be temporarily unavailable. (Expected to return April 30)

CHAMPIONS SHOP

- Added Lamp of Endless Dreams to the Champions Shop.

BREAKOUT

- If a Cookie has collected a Perfect Stage Reward Jelly, the Relay Cookie will no longer be able to collect the same Jelly.

- After May 4, 09:00 (GMT+9), the Breakout: Special Episode map Escape from the Oven will rotate out and is replaced by the City of Wizards map. The City of Wizards map will be the new Breakout: Special Episode map for 4 weeks.

BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS & BUG FIXES

1. Lotus Dragon Cookie

- Changed so that Cookie now passes through obstacles while the skill is active

- Increased the range of the obstacle destruction of the water dragon form

- Fixed an issue regarding speed-altering effects while the skill is active

- Changed so the Cookie is now affected by Blast Mode while the skill is active

2. Hydrangea Cookie

- Fixed an issue where the Hydrangea Party Jellies spawn height was affected by the Cookie's altitude

- Fixed an issue where Hydrangea Party Jellies could be collected by Cookie, Pet, and Treasure abilities relating to obtaining Jellies

- Changed so that Hydrangea Flower Jellies are created at consistent intervals

3. Snake Fruit Cookie

- Fixed an issue where Giant Mode, while riding the sedan chair, would increase the Cookie's size to unintended proportions

4. Pink Choco Cookie

- Increased points for Lovely Pink Jellies and Lovely Choco Jellies

5. Mustard Cookie

- Changed so that the remaining amount of times Graffiti Points can be obtained is shown on the left of the gauge during the skill

PETS

1. Lotus Polliwog

- Increased Frog Summoning Points

- Increased Frog destruction points

2. Pink Candy

- Increased points for Colorful Candy Jellies

TREASURES

1. Peaceful Dove Bun

- Greatly reduced distance required for skill activation

- Reduced points for Peaceful Jellies

- Reduced Combi point bonus

2. Apple Candy Balloon

- Fixed an issue where Jellies obtained while rescuing from holes would count toward the skill charges

- Changed so that Jellies are created even when the Cookie collapses or is in Last Blast mode

3. Giant Superbean

- Changed so that Rainbow Bear Jellies can now be enlargened

COMBIS

1. Lotus Dragon Cookie & Lotus Polliwog

- Increased points for Lotus Crystal Jellies

COOKIE TRIALS

1. Knight Cookie's Trial

- Fixed an intermittent issue where Jelly patterns sometimes would be skipped after returning from Bonus Time.

2. Red Pepper Cookie

- Fixed an intermittent issue where Jelly patterns sometimes would be skipped after returning from Bonus Time.

- Added Potions to the map.

- Adjusted rank score requirements according to these changes.

3. Sorbet Shark Cookie, Cyborg Cookie, Rose Cookie's Trials

- Added Potions to the maps.

- Adjusted rank score requirements according to these changes.

4. Birthday Cake Cookie's Trial

- Added Jellies in certain parts of the map.

- Giant Potions no longer appear after the first lap.

- Adjusted rank score requirements according to these changes.

5. Devil Cookie's Trial

- Increased base speed in the map by 4.

- Adjusted rank score requirements according to these changes.

6. Ice Juggler Cookie's Trial

- Added Colorful Star Jelly Parties to the map.

7. Pirate Cookie's Trial

- Adjusted Potion locations.

8. Moonlight Cookie, Butter Pretzel Cookie's Trials

- Added Potions to the maps.

9. Pitaya Dragon Cookie's Trial

- Reduced the number of Jellies required for the "Collect Jellies" Bonus Time mission.

10. Apple Cookie, Lotus Dragon Cookie's Trials

- Adjusted rank score requirements.

11. Cherry Ball Cookie's Trial Hard Mode

- Bear Jellies and Giant Star Jellies no longer change into Coins after 1 lap.

END OF SUPPORT FOR 120hz GAMEPLAY

- In order to better optimize and improve the Cookie Run: OvenBreak experience, we are ending support for 120hz gameplay.

- Previously, to prevent differences in score between devices supporting 120hz and those that don't, we had to force all devices to do 120 calculations per second regardless of actual frame rate.

- With this change, all devices will get an upper limit of 60 calculations per second, which we predict will improve the overall performance of the game.

- We would still like to apologize to players who have enjoyed 120hz gameplay up until now and ask for your understanding regarding this change.

OTHER

- The special Check-In Bingo congratulating the winning Guild, Crazy Runners, will take place until April 29, 23:59 (GMT+9)

#cookie run #crob #new update #cr ovenbreak #patch notes #rise of the blue dragon #lotus dragon cookie

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donutlover417 · 28 days ago

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y'all know what time it is!! update time!!

-The mantis is coming to life and talking to me

-Guy with dinosaurs for hands

-Salmon shoes vagina kayak broken bones

-Make the ham man a trans allegory

-Vampire Derrick the garlic fucker

-Toxic rat vore yaoi Ratphobe tax man

-Car door that opens inwards

-My names not David Poleman

-Clown x drag queen couple

-guy with fur on his scalp instead of hair

-good morning america I have a dog with hair instead of fur

-Guy with nipples on the back of his calves

-Guy who has a a full stack of 64 hands

-guy who showers in a full suit of armor

-tong the tiger tongue kissing the frog loops toucan on a sailboat

-"hello sneeblers and sneeblettes"

-Psychic brain worms??

-The grinch x santa enemies to lovers

-Flips u like a pancake :] (a slutty, slutty pancake)

-Guy who eats his phone like a poptart. Complete with toaster action

-guy who sits on a park bench in the rain and just like doesn’t leave till the rain stops. he’s always loudly sobbing. if Benjamin Bench is sobbing you know a storm is approaching

-At least one girl always breaks her arm on the mountain

-A third boob between the eyes

-Fix everyone. Like fixings on a sandwich

-Talking shoes with sunglasses

-The French head removers French head remover man. with lipstick smooches all over em. Like a real sigma man. Yeeee

-he's got with ooze with the goop… the goop with the sludge…

-Being player 2 is like the bottoming of video games

-I can’t see where I am cuz my eyes are closed

-Shirt stretch sleeve penis stretch

-Cute as a button with twice as many holes

-I should get more piercings and steal my parents car tbh

-get the spiders out of your vagina and also delete everything

-gorilla glues your balls togethjer

-Pretty sure someone just exploded

-You’ve heard of podcast now get ready for hogblast

-The text won’t load in my dreams and it’s annoying

-Dreamt a Muslim girl died in my arms but I didn’t know if I was supposed to put her body in the seventh or eighth seat

-What if we just like. Fucked up time. a day now lasts a week a week now lasts a month a month now lasts a year

-Just like wearing Way too many pairs of fishnets at once

-Hallucinating fish devtVvvvV???

-I’m like if being oversaturated was a person

-Penisbinversion??? Penis inversion

-Fish with human teeth that gives your dick a little nibble

-Humans have three core emotions: Horror, Humor, and Horny. The lines between these blur often. That’s probably deep or something

-Gives birth to Elvis Presley back in the timeline further

-Elf ear into penis tf. It is not hot.

-Being chased by ostriches the bird out of a church

-do you think Angels know how fragile their wings are?

-gonna get a tramp stamp that says "base game compatiable"

-(Rich person voice) I’m giving our money for free so poor people are less poor and I don’t have to work as hard yioooee

-Pirate hat that doubles as an emergency condom

-gives birth to the next us president

-i want a bone-free shirt

-Being fucked in the ass with the stinger of a scorpion in this essay I will"

-They call me the twins towers the way I eat broccoli

-to do list: kill yourself cuz the minecraft house you built looks terrible

-“Look, I don’t wanna say she’s a liar… so instead I’ll heavily imply it via this statement.”

-My bingles hurt and it’s probably the fault of the liberals

-Golf ball sized door knob with a fidget spinner for a nipple

-Why am I using a fork to turn off my alarm clock

-Petition to call a group of bees a cock of bees

-bottom bun fried onions 3 deviled eggs mustard cinnamon gummy worms raw human meat a couple pages from the bible gummy worms hot sauce lettuce 1 full scoop of cookies & cream ice cream wilted lettuce sausage tomato top bun

-(To the tune of last Friday night) undead at night

-Giant balloon dog with sledshots on its back

-Salt summer seltzer suace

-Pajama man scratches you with his big hands (they have mouths) (the hands I mean ) -Sucking on a sofa dispenser the way a newborn baby sucks on its mommas teet

-Knee staplers (new type of YouTube vid) They’ve got beef with elbow staplers snd also kpop fans for some reason

-Grugson Bugnutt (apparently I’m meant to know who he is)

-the only difference between Spider-Man and Sam man (Spamton) are the letters

-Grugson Bignittv (Bugnutt) pops a grimble on his squeeby so he can smop Jenny Dingles right in the clunf

-To be clear: Jenny Dingles had an onlyfans

okay i routinely write shit down while half asleep so here's a post of some of my favorites -It’s midnight. I approach, t-posing. This slowly morphs into me doing fornite dances, and then dabbing, all as I chant YouTuber intros. You watch in horror as my Body turns to plastic and contorts until I morph into a fidget spinner. the roblox oof sound effect blasts loud enough to make ears bleed. God has returned.

-Why are chairs so terrifying what secrets do they hold -Caterpillars control the government -God is like a bee he doesnt have legs -What if you yelled at a rock and it yelled back

-I had a dream that m&ms introduced a new character called “mister white-y” who was a whiteboard with glasses, a tie, and glasses and the internet by freaked out because he “wasn’t even a candy” and people began writing MASSIVE analysis videos on his design and why he suck’s super badly Going into massive detail on why each and every aspect of his design sucked He wasn’t in the main line up of m&ms he was a side character

-gay culture is discussing if snails have emotions at 1 am

-I love candle wax I could just rub it all over my body -Dream where someone gets turned to stone and yells “guess I’m sus” while doing an amongus pose before getting turned and everyone was really really really sad wholesome that that was the last night he chose to do

-Amab. Assigned mogus at birth

-Imagine if vaginas were like cheese graters so every time a dude had sex his penis would get smaller. And period’s are just the built up penis bit falling out . That assumes all Afab people have sex tho, which they don’t

-Cocaine belt buckle

-Sex is like mowing the lawn i like to do it with a lawnmower

-Bill wurtz airplane ticket Atlanta Georgia 8;00 pm

-Cake face (body horror)

-Piss is undefinable

-Slime@ rancher dead god

-The bite of an amongus can actually cause arthritis

-Flap my ass like flappy birddddd

-“You know, I’ve jerked off to your wanted poster.”

-Man with hotdogs for eyes

-Egg the walrus husband greets you when you come back from work

-Nine legged baby. it crawls with it's face legs

-why do charmin ads always feel less like toilet paper ads more like someone’s fetish

-I’m just like a turtle I can’t rent my cock

-black hole vagina steals your penis

#long ass post #half asleep #idk what to tag this man

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imaginealpha · 2 years ago

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hello ily <3 umm being a cs major (im Prtty sure that’s what youre doing,,,) already is challenging enough. i am very happy youre at least standing up for yourself in Not making it Worse. i hope you get therapy (i say that in the best, most kindest way possible) bc you deserve to feel slay! (also sorry for not replying on discord um. that Will happen Eventually! but i really appreciate the sentiment!) i hope youre doing alright <333 giving you all the hugs and i js wanted to lyk you rlly do make me feel better whenever i see you in my notifications :> so i hope this helps you feel neat! :)

i read metamorphosis by kafka and strongly related to the lil dude so i did a tiny sketch and i like how it came out :D (this is my equivalent of an Update? idrk?? i just thought it should be added?) impromptu long ask slay!

ohhhh my god bee i adore you. you have to know this you are a beacon in the dark

Thank you for the support I rlly appreciate it!! I was kinda pissed about it for the last 24hrs lol I'm so so tired of being compared to everyone else when I'm so burnt out all the time but I am sure things will work themselves out eventually

I stamped a little metal ring in a craft thing with the phrase "have faith in better days" to put on a necklace/bracelet last week so!! It is a thing I now aspire to follow Because I Said So ^-^

I hope you are doing okay bee <33 life is tough and especially school but I know you can do it you will get through it!! Ilysm I am sending hugs 💖

Also that sketch is super cute I love it <33 I do not have beautiful symbolic sketches but here's a little chocolate-filled cookie from a packet in my box of Mystery Asian Snacks

#dont feel guilty sbt not replying on discord btw!!#i am happy to hear from you anywhere anytime but there is no pressure to respond before you are ready #*abt

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halfawitch-willow · 1 year ago

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Willow was mortified. And upset. And furious! And so many other roiling emotions right up until Darius produced the basket (Willow fought the urge to hold her breath because clean or not, abomination magic all smelled like sulfur and rot and terror to her). She would recognize her papa's bottling wax and stamp anywhere, and she could smell her dad's fire-bee jam cookies, and... and...

To Willow's everlasting horror, she felt tears running down her face.

She sniffled quietly, ducking behind her hair and wiping her eyes as quickly as possible. When there weren't tears actively rolling down her cheeks, Willow approached the basket and looked inside. It was filled to the brim with her fathers' love; a scarf to keep her warm since she'd mentioned the dropping temperatures, more healing potions after she'd confessed to using the ones she'd brought up, the sports section of the last few Bonesborough Times that would have the latest flyer derby stats in them, seeds for Willow to try and propagate for class or just for herself.

Willow was smiling as she looked over the basket, the expression wider and more genuine than it had been since she came to Swynlake. She laughed a little at the massive envelope tucked in the center, both of her dads' handwriting on the outside.

Fuck. She missed her dads.

She picked up the scarf and draped it over her shoulders, breathing deep and catching the smell of fire and mortar and her papa's aftershave. She clung to it like a child and felt desperately homesick.

She remembered far too late that she had an audience, and Willow blushed to the tips of her ears when she realized the head witch of the Abomination coven had just seen her beaming at a basket. She looked up at Darius with an embarrassed smile, her tail curling close to her legs.

"T-thank you," she said. "And don't worry, I don't think any spell could get the smell of my dad's baking right like that." After a moment of consideration, Willow dug through the basket and found the box that contained the aforementioned baking, still warm and fresh thanks to the runs along the rim. "Did you get any cookies when my dad gave you the basket?" she asked. When she popped the lid, the sharp-sweet scent of fire-bee honey and vanilla got stronger. "I've been experimenting, but nothing quite has the same bite as treats from the Boiling Isles," she said, holding out the box in offering.

So We Meet Again ❁ Lavender

#c. darius daemonne #t. so we meet again #p. lavender #// i read this reply the first time and literally started crying at the care package so excuse the length #//i had to get out my feelings about the parks #//also willow stop trying to feed everyone challenge

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flufflepuffle296 · 4 years ago

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Heathers au: Beautiful Songfic

This is more centred around Veronica/Marinette so not really any mentions of Heather/Heather/Heather. Sorry if someone’s done this before I apologise I just got into Heathers like two days ago. Also I changed some lyrics and took others out to make it more “realistic”. Sorry I suck at endings, it’s 5:30am rn and this is my first fic so be nice please! (I’m on mobile so I can’t add the keep reading tag so sorry if you don’t like this) xxx

I brushed down my dress: I couldn’t give them anything to criticise me over. Everything had to be perfect. I had to be perfect. Chloé sat next to me, my beautiful fiancée, slipping on her kitten heels. She may be 3 months pregnant but no Bourgeois woman would be seen wearing flats. I was in a red floor length a line dress — I grew out of my childish pink years ago, before it even went out of fashion! My hair was twisted into two plaits that were knotted together into a stylish bun at the back. Chloé meanwhile had stuck to her white and gold aesthetic, currently in a slim fitting white dress, showing off her small baby bump, decorated with gold jewellery. I rummaged through my drawers, trying to find a lipstick, when a thin book toppled out. I picked it up, and laughed fondly when I saw what it was.

My old Collège and Lycée diary.

I flipped through it, landing on the page that stuck most clearly in my mind. It was the day my class reminded me of my current reality at that time, shocking me out of a bubble that had surrounded me during the summer holidays that year.

September 1st, 1989.

Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person. You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! First day of senior year!

And uh... I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?

I bit my lip. What happened? I knew darn well what happened. Lila Rossi. She came in, flaunting her friendships and connections, a new disability every other week to cry about, another rumour about me coming out every 3 days.

Alya ended our friendship, Adrien continued to cry about Lila’s feelings. Lila just kept doing what she did best. The class gave up on changing my mind and instead decided that calling me names would be better. Because logic?!

“Freak!” “Slut!” “Burnout!” “Bug-eyes!” “Poser!” “Lard-ass!” Were the insults they liked to yell daily. Yeah, they weren’t the most creative...

We were so tiny, happy and shiny. Playing tag and getting chased. Singing and clapping, laughing and napping. Baking cookies, eating paste.

Nino and Kim used to come over to the bakery when we were kids, where we’d gorge ourselves on sweets, before celebrating our sugar rushes by chasing each other in the park and then crashing on my sofa, cuddled in blankets and laying on top of each other.

Then we got bigger, that was the trigger. Like the Huns invading Rome. Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school: This is the Thunderdome. Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon. College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June!

But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. I pray, I pray for a better way. If we changed back then, we could change again. We can be beautiful...Just not today.

I scoffed at my optimism back then. Them changing? They never did, I don’t know why I bothered trying at that point. I should’ve moved on but hey! We all make mistakes. It’s just that sometimes you make 11 friendships worth of mistakes.

“Freak!” “Slut!” “Cripple!” “Homo!” “Homo!” “Homo!”

I cringed as I read their old “insults”. They would write homophobic messages across my locker, getting Alix to spray paint a few slurs across my work after I came out as bisexual.

Things will get better soon as my letter comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown. Wake from this coma, take my diploma. Then I can blow this town. Dream of ivy-covered walls, no smoky French cafés. Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!

I had purposefully sent out applications to universities far away from these people, from Paris. All three schools accepted me, something I can’t say about my classmates, most of whom were rejected for essays on false information (sourced by Lila) and a quick scan over the Ladyblog meant not a single newspaper would even consider my ex-best friend. Gabriel Agreste, as I later found out through my internship in America, had to bribe several schools with double tuition to get even one to accept Adrien, after he got exposed as sexual harasser and disgraced hero “Chat Noir”. I turned back to my diary, having to peel off rock hard gum from the page that someone had smeared in “revenge”.

Le Chiên Kim. Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick.

“What did you say to me, skank?” He would yell, his fist raised in the hallway.

“Aah, nothing!” I then cowered. I may be Ladybug, but he was 150lbs of pure rage. No one can compete with that!

But I know, I know... Life can be beautiful. I pray, I pray, For a better way. We can be beautiful...

“Marinette! Wide load! Honnnnnk!”

He was the smartest guy on the football team. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.

“Hey! Pick that up! Right now!”

“I’m sorry, are you actually talking to me?” He used to snarl, his hands covered in sauce from knocking my tray.

I stood my ground, I had been practising for this moment. “Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on me. You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant.”

Kim then smirked, crouching down to eye level and pressing a finger to my forehead. “You have a zit right there...” he pointed out, causing the cafeteria to laugh at my expense.

I used to ask myself “Why... Why do they hate me?”

And hear Adrien whisper “Why don't I fight back?”

Watch as Max Googled “Why do I act like such a creep?”

Listen in on Lila stamping her feet in the bathroom asking “Why won't he date me?” Clearly frustrated.

Kim panicking as he wondered “Why did I hit him?”

And Chloé sob down the phone “Why do I cry myself to sleep?”

I would stay up late, screaming, begging. At my lowest points I would cry out “Somebody hug me! Somebody fix me! Somebody save me! Send me a sign, God! Give me some hope, here! Something to live for!”

I remember when I first met my real friends. The famed trio had gone into the bathroom and I followed after them, clearly my throat.

“Who are you?”

“Uh... Marinette Dupain Cheng. I crave a boon”

“What boon?” Chloé asked, filing her nails.

“Um. Let me sit at your table, at lunch. If our class think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone...”

Chloé threw her nail file out and began circling around me, running her hands through my hair, commenting that “For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure!” Before coming to a conclusion.

“And ya know, ya know, ya know? This could be beautiful. Mascara, maybe some lip gloss, and we're on our way. Get this girl some blush; and Kagami, I need your brush. Let's make her beautiful.” Sabrina and Kagami, chimed in, echoing her words.

“Let's make her beautiful...”

“Let’s make her beautiful...”

“Make her beautiful...Okay?” Chloé ordered, dragging me out with Kagami and Sabrina, driving me to her hotel. They sat me down, taking my hair out of its bunches and brushing it out. Kagami painted my nails a deep navy with surprising precision, manning my cuticles. Sabrina twirled my hair into a high bun, leaving a few pieces at the front to frame my face. Chloé came back from her wardrobe, throwing a blue blazer and grey skirt at me. I changed into my outfit for them, to which they clapped their hands in glee. They dragged me back to school, taking in everyone’s reactions to the new and improved me. This became my new daily outfit for the rest of the year — the class couldn’t find anything bad about it, and even if they did Chloé would threaten them with her father’s power.

I was happy with my squad. Kagami taught us Japanese and Chloé taught us American English that she’d picked up from her mother. I taught them self defence, under the guise of learning it from my mum, unknowingly training them for the day I would rip Chat Noir’s miraculous from him, before slamming it into Kagami’s palm. I needed help that day, so thrust them bee and the fox miraculous at Chloé and Sabrina respectively. They became permanent heroes, Kagami under the name “Noirette”, Chloé under the new guise of “Buttercup” and Sabrina “Renard Rouge”. Akuma attacks have never lasted more than 15 minutes since we got rid of that alley cat, and we’ve been closing in on Hawkmoth recently.

I shook my head, snapping the crude book shut, throwing the diary in the bin. Today was going to be the day I made peace with all that happened, our 10 year school reunion. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna make up with anyone, just that I will finally leave everything behind. I found my lipstick and smeared on the crimson lip, smacking my lips together. I grabbed my clutch and helped Chloé stand up, though she wobbled a little in her heels. I slid her miraculous into her updo, blowing a kiss at her as to not ruin her makeup.

We met up with Kagami and Sabrina in the hallway, Kagami in a wine red suit with gold jewellery, and Sabrina was in emerald green to compliment her red hair. We stepped into the limo awaiting us outside and set off, arriving at the school 10 minutes later. We walked up the steps, hitching up our dresses and arrived in the courtyard. It had been lit up with fairy lights, with stands of food and drinks scattered around the court. Our old classmates were huddled in small groups, whilst Mlle. Mendeleiev’s was in a large group, enjoying each other’s company after 10 years apart.

No one noticed us, until Rose pointed at me and whispered “Who’s that with Chloé?” The group turned to stare at us, trying to place my face. Adrien looked up from talking to Lila, who seemed to be flaunting a rather tacky Gabriel engagement ring, and whispered,

“Marinette?!”

The class began gossiping amongst themselves, “Marinette? Marinette? Marinette?!”

I ignored them, their childish ways were behind me, and walked up to Aurore and Mireille, fawning over their relationship. They turned Kagami, asking her about her life and squealing over her Olympic medal for fencing. I grinned as I watched my old class, happy that they had moved on from each other — well apart from Alya and Adrien, who were still hooked on Lila. I was finally, content! I thought back on my diary, one particular paragraph standing out to me at this time.

And you know, you know, you know, life can be beautiful. You hope, you dream, you pray, and you get your way! Ask me how it feels, lookin' like hell on wheels...My God, it's beautiful! I feel so beautiful... And when you're beautiful...It's a beautiful frickin' day!

Chloé boasted my achievements, my business, my awards, and the entire of Mendeleiev’s class started chanting “Marinette! Marinette! Marinette!”, much to my embarrassment. I boasted her’s in return, Sabrina revealed how far she’d come as a lawyer, Kagami swung her prized sword from side to side as she listened to us all catching up, laughing at the memories.

It really was a beautiful day.

#lila salt #adrien salt #class salt #marinette deserves better #alya salt #mlb #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #chloe sugar #kagami tsurugi #sabrina raincomprix #heathers au #beautiful heathers #songfic

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avengerscompound · 6 years ago

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Recovery

Recovery: A Captain America Fanfic

Masterlist

Buy me a ☕ Character Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Steve Rogers

Word Count: 2375

Warnings: Angst, some foreplay and mentions of sex, grief, ptsd

Synopsis: Five months since the death of Daisy, Bucky has pulled away from Steve unable to come to terms with his feelings of responsibility for her death. Steve and Wanda pull together to bring him around for the holidays.

A/N: Follow up to Finding Home.

Recovery

They’d settled in Canada. Canada didn’t sign the Sokovia accords. They also had places remote enough that they could be alone, but they were still connected to the world enough that if something were to happen … well, they’d be there ready to defend the world like they’d always done in the past.

Wanda had come with them. They’d told her it was fine, they could handle it. She didn’t like the idea of them being alone and not having any way to deal with the kid’s abilities. Also, she hated being on the run alone. She’d spent her life with someone constantly by her side. Now he was gone, she was lost and she needed the consistency of other people she knew and trusted. Steve had always understood her, so she stayed by his side.

Steve was slowly moving on from his grief at the loss of Daisy. He was used to being the strong one. It was what he did. Having the kids helped. They needed him. Having Bucky helped more. He kept telling himself this was what she wanted. Since the day they’d met she just wanted to get Bucky back to him, and now she had. So he was going to appreciate her sacrifice.

Bucky was struggling more. It was strange. He couldn’t shake the feeling that her death was just one more person’s blood on his hands. Yet now she’d freed him from the soldier, he found himself being happy more and more. Happy like he was back when Steve was just a little guy and he hadn’t been sent off to war. Anytime that happened his grief swallowed him even deeper. The thought of his happiness being solely due to the fact the woman he loved died felt impossible to live with.

As the seasons changed and Christmas approached Steve became single-minded about making it a good one. This was his family now. He wanted to start making happy memories for them. He needed it. For himself. For all of them.

He started by taking everyone shopping. He knew it was risky, but they all bundled up and driven the two hours it took to get to any sort of shops. They had limited funds but were able to buy decorations and gifts. Sarah fussed constantly. She wasn’t used to being around so many minds and she hadn’t worked out how to block them out.

They bought supplies to help get them through the winter too. Making sure they had all the things needed for a proper Christmas dinner.

When they got home Steve went and cut down a small pine tree. First checking to make sure nothing had made their home in it. He set it up in the living room and he and Wanda decorated it together.

Jamie and Sarah became obsessed with the tree. Sarah, much like her brother had physically developed very fast. At five months old she was crawling around and pulling herself up on things. She babbled constantly. Steve erected a small fence around it to keep them away from the gifts, but the two toddlers would stand and stare and reach their hands in trying to grab the colorful baubles and brightly wrapped presents.

Wanda gave them a pack of colorful magnets depicting various farm animals to distract them. The two would toddle around the house finding things that would stick on. Yes to the fridge. No to the wall. Yes to a lamp. No to the couch. No to one daddy. Yes to the other.

The discovery that magnets stuck to only one person in the house became the most interesting game of all. Anytime Bucky sat down a little body or two would toddle over and start sticking them to him. He’d sit and let them create their scenes and when they were done he’d flex the plates on his arm and they’d all go flying causing Jamie and Sarah to squeal with delight and go gather them back up again.

“That looks like fun,” Steve said, finding the three playing together on the couch. He sat down and put his arm around Bucky.

Bucky’s face fell. He’d allowed himself time to be happy again.

“Daddy’s sad,” Jamie said, climbing into Bucky’s lap. He touched his hands on his head.

Steve picked Jamie up. “We don’t change people’s feelings, remember?” He said.

Jamie grumbled and wriggled out of Steve’s arms. Climbing back into Bucky’s lap and resting his head against Bucky’s chest. Steve leaned over and ran his hand through the little boy’s hair.

“She would want you to be happy, Buck,” Steve said. “She’d want these moments for you.”

“She’d want to be alive,” Bucky said, looking away from Steve.

“She knew the risk. Everyone told her. She wanted you to be happy. She wanted us to be happy. It’s not your fault she made that choice.” Steve said. Sarah had started tugging at his leg and he lifted her up and held her on his knee.

“Yeah, but if I just …”

“No buts, Buck. It’s what she wanted. She died for it. You could at least allow it to happen when it does. You don’t always have to be happy, but let yourself be happy when you are.”

Sarah was tugging impatiently at Steve’s shirt.

“Sawa wans a boddle.” Jamie said, interrupting the conversation.

Steve looked down at his daughter. “Is that what you want, little miss?”

“Ba ba ba ba.” She babbled.

Steve got up, brushing his hand through Bucky’s hair as he did. “I love you, pal. I know I don’t say it much. At least not in those words. But I do. I want to make this work, but I need you to want it too.”

Bucky let his head fall back over the end of the couch. The door opened and Wanda stepped through accompanied by an icy blast of air. “It’s started snowing.” She said, stamping her feet and shrugging off her coat.

Bucky turned to looked at her and Jamie stood in his lap and clambered up to his shoulder. “Daddy’s sad.” He said, making a pick me up gesture to Wanda. “Fix him.”

She came over and lifted him. “You know not to fix him with here.” She said tapping Jamie on the forehead. “You should fix him with here.” She tapped his chest above his heart.

“You fix him,” Jamie said.

Wanda laughed and sat down next to Bucky. He lifted Jamie from Wanda’s arms and the little boy snuggled down into his chest again, his hand patting over his heart.

“Sorry,” Bucky said.

“There’s no need to be.” Wanda fiddled with her fingers. “James, you know I knew Daisy too. She and Steve were the first people to trust me on the Avengers.”

“Yeah. But she didn’t…”

Wanda cut him off. “I know her loss is worse for you. I’m not trying to take it away from you.” She said. She started moving her fingers the glowing red light of her powers flickering across them. Jamie shifted in Bucky’s lap to watch. “One reason she trusted me was, she knew we shared a similar journey. I was a child when I chose to go to Hydra. So full of hate. I had my brother. Pietro. We were tortured together to make us special. They harnessed our anger and our fear and made it this.” The light in her hand grew bigger and she snuffed it out. Jamie grabbed her hand and started pulling on it to try and get the light back. She ruffled his hair. “She didn’t go to Hydra willingly, but her life was much the same. Only she didn’t have a brother. She had you. You kept her alive and sane. You made it so she never totally gave herself to Hydra.”

“I know all that,” Bucky grumbled. “Does this story have a point?”

“When Pietro and I saw the path our hate was taking us on, we joined the Avengers to undo it. Pietro sacrificed himself to save Clint and a child. I still don’t understand why that happened. He was shot. Yet he moved faster than bullets. How does that happen?” She shook her head like she was trying to clear it. “That’s not the point. The point is; is that it did happen. I had always had Pietro. Here.” She touched her chest above her heart. “And here.” She touched her forehead. “Much like you and Daisy. When I lost him I felt it. It was like my heart was torn out. I still feel it to this day.”

“How do you live with that?” Bucky asked.

“Because I have to. It’s not always easy, but what choice do I have? I can’t let my misery consume me. And neither can you. You’re a parent, and you have someone alive right here who loves you so much he has been carrying it with him for a century. Are you really going to let your grief take you away from him again? When the loss you mourn is for someone who gave you to him.”

Steve stepped back into the lounge feeding Sarah. She was reclined back in his arms and beginning to drift off to sleep. “Did you have a good walk, Wanda?” He asked.

“I did, thank you. Did you want me to take, Sarah?”

Steve shook his head. “I’ve got her. I was thinking we should make eggnog tonight, maybe teach Jamie how to make s'mores.”

“I have never made s’mores either. I would love to learn.” Wanda said, smiling.

“What do ya think, Buck? Then maybe Jamie can leave cookies and milk out for Santa.” Steve said.

Bucky smiled. “Yeah, that sounds great, pal.” He looked down at Jamie and ruffled his hair. “You should have a nap, little guy.”

“Not tired,” Jamie grumbled rubbing his eyes.

“Yes, you are. Come on.” Bucky stood up and started heading to the bedroom.

“No.” Jamie pushed. Bucky wavered for a moment and Wanda jumped to her feet.

“Hey, no using your abilities on your dad. Undo it.” She said.

“No!” Jamie cried.

“Undo it, right now,” Wanda said, narrowing her eyes.

Bucky suddenly shook his head and turned to Wanda. “Damn. He’s a little scary sometimes.”

Wanda laughed but it was a nervous, uncomfortable laugh. “He’ll be okay. We can do this.”

“Thank you, Wanda. And for before.” Bucky said.

“Anytime, James.”

That night they spent together. This weird mismatched family. They toasted marshmallows on the open fire and turned them into s’mores. Bucky made the eggnog, and Wanda made a dinner that was as close to a traditional Sokovian Christmas meal as she could. Roast duck and spiced, potato dumplings, beef rolls on sauerkraut, bread, herb and ham balls in roast onion white sauce.

After dinner, they stayed up talking and singing songs together. Bucky let himself actually feel true contentment for the first time since he signed up to join the army in 1942. Right at this moment, he was safe and Steve was too. He was himself. He was a parent. All the things he had dreamed of but never thought would ever come to fruition had happened. He’d just been too deep in grief to appreciate it.

Steve and Bucky got the kids to sleep and said their goodnights to Wanda. Steve started removing his clothes, getting ready for bed. Bucky came up behind him, wrapping his arms around Steve. He kissed him under the ear, grazing his teeth over his throat.

Steve hummed and leaned back into Bucky. Their mouths met, Bucky dominated Steve. He’d been keeping himself from Steve for too long and he wanted Steve to know how much he wanted him and needed him. His hands slid down into the waistband of Steve’s pants. He stroked up and down the line of his Adonis’ belt and down to his inner thigh.

Steve pulled away, breaking their kiss. “Buck. Are you sure? We haven’t…”

Bucky let Steve go and they turned to face each other. He cupped Steve’s jaw and stroked his thumb along it. “I’m sorry, Stevie. I’m sorry I’ve left you alone to just care for us. That you haven’t had a chance to grieve because you’ve just had to be the strong one. I’m going to be here now. I want us to be …” He trailed off, not knowing how to end.

“Us?” Steve asked.

Bucky nodded and Steve pulled him into a kiss, pressing his body tightly against Bucky’s. They started to shed each other’s clothes as they moved towards the bed. When they reached the mattress they just fell together, hands stroking, clawing and gripping at each other. Their mouths battled. The feelings that Bucky had been suppressing out of guilt and that Steve had been holding back to give him time all coming out at once. Lust and love and passion. Their complete need for each other.

That night they made love three times. Not concerned with the early start they had, or the fact that Sarah was likely to wake them at 2 AM. They just were unable to keep their hands off each other once they started. Eventually, they fell asleep completely wrapped around each other. They slept soundly until dawn. The first time that had happened for either of them since 1945.

They were awoken at sunrise by Jamie jumping on the bed and tapping them. “Daddies. Santa’s been. You gotta wake up.”

Bucky and Steve opened their eyes and looked around blearily. “Did Sarah actually sleep through the night?” Bucky asked.

“It’s a Christmas miracle.” Steve laughed, rolling out of bed. He grabbed his pajama pants from the ground and pulled them on. “Okay, Jamie. Let’s go get your sister and see what Santa brought you.” He said picking Jamie up off the bed. He grabbed Bucky’s boxers from the floor and tossed them at him.

“Love you, Buck.”

“Love you too, Stevie.” Bucky laughed.

“Me too?” Jamie said pouting.

Bucky sat up and pulled his boxers on. “Of course I do, champ. Love you to bits.”

Steve kissed his son on the head and headed to the kid’s bedroom. “Daddy’s happy now,” Jamie said, looking up at Steve.

“He’s getting there, buddy. He’s getting there.”

#steve rogers #bucky barnes #captain america #the winter soldier #bucky barnes x steve rogers #stucky #captain america fanfic #the winter soldier fanfic #fanfic #fanfiction #angst #smut #ish?#finding home #recovery

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uwucontextualstudiesblog · 5 years ago

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To facilitate this information play and colour, I constructed a the series of activities to complete with the children. In order to analyze the children's response and enumerate the color choices that they prefer and uplift them through a series of creative workshops. To amass my primary research on play and colour.

WORKSHOP 1 - SPAGHETTI PAINTING

Sensory activity and free play. In addition to informing my artwork for the community project.

MATERIALS

non toxic paints (tempura)

paper bowls

empty paint pallette

cookie cutters

Empty string wheels for stamps

paint brushes

spaghetti

metal trays

A3 paper

I had permission from four parents to have time with their children for this experiment.

Pictures below

WORKSHOP 2 - STONE SPLATTING

colour and experimental play.

Participatory to the artwork

EQUIPMENT & MATERIALS

non toxic paints (tempura)

paper bowls

paint brushes

salad spinner

stones

Water

For this project it seemed appropriate to collect some natural materials to add into the garden. I went to a local beach, Aldebrugh and collected ‘some’ stones.

After seeing how much fun they had playing with the colors and textures in the spaghetti painting experiment. I found the stone splatter experiment. Again, producing more experimental outcomes as the outcomes of the stones were not to be determined or designed. I did this activity with all of the ‘ early years’ children, however this time the color choices were not subconscious I instead asked them to first pick their favorite color from the selection in front of them; the options are displayed in the above bar chart. Then asking them to pick two more. The children were three stones, They painted the stone base in their favorite colour. Then splatted the stone with paint brushes in their second favorite colour. Then their third favourite. These were then placed in a salad spinner that I accumulated and then the kids spun the spinner. They had the best time and the spinning alone was exciting for them. Then the unveiling of their masterpiece once the lid was removed was so exciting. Definitely

Below are the outcomes of the stone splatting. I am leaving them to dry and will later varnish before I put outside in the garden to include in the garden.

WORKSHOP 3 - STONE DECORATING

Participatory art

ECO CLUB - stone decorating

On Friday 28th February I have arranged to visit the primary school once again to decorate the remainder of the stones for the garden with the ‘eco club’. The group is inclusive of members from each year group which have a particular interests in gardening and the environment. So have arranged a lunch time club where the outcome will be supplemental to the splatter stones for the wellness walk.

By this time we have some abstract, colourful outcomes for the early years; as an alternative this time I want the children to create specific artwork. This workshop is guided art, with intention.

Myself and the children had a discussion about the wellness walk. That the final outcome is still uncharted will be outside, yet the intention is to be outside and that it should encourage loving nature, being outdoors and help aid well being . These will be scattered amongst the other splatter stone outcomes once vanished they’ll be added to create a decorative path in the garden. The most popular designs were flowers, bumble bee’s and ladybirds. Along with a handful of more abstract designs which were very bright and colorful.

This workshop has been mutually beneficial as it has inspired me for focus on environmental issues and focus on the environment in which the artwork will be displayed.

WORKSHOP 4 - INTERVIEWS AND INTERESTS - show my artwork and re question

getting to know you, informative

The below findings are the results from the questionnaire I gave to the children. I wanted to chat to the early years bit further and ask them somethings about them selves, in a more casual format as opposed to a formal questionnaire. I recorded their answers and asked about if they like art and paintings, and what they like to see in their gardens.

These outcomes were critical in promoting engagement of the community, participation of the children in the final outcome and also giving attention focused directly with them encouraging boosted self-esteem.

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ourreferences02 · 7 years ago

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seventy-three questions

I guess this is like if some random person wanted to interview my kids, idk. Ignore how some things capitalized on their own, ik it’s very annoying. not to mention, I didn’t bold or italicize anything. there’s too many words in this post it would take too much time, sorry. have fun reading all of this

q: what’s your favorite movie you’ve seen in the past month?

Richard: Richard peter Johnson. it’s about me. for sure.

bella: to the bone. I forget if they have a trigger warning. I don’t know, I liked it.

calum: john wick. there’s a lot of cool stuff

leia: frozen and moana!!!

q: favorite animal?

Richard: I honestly don’t know. for shits and giggles, maybe cougars

bella: um... when I was little I really liked birds, bunnies, lions, and lambs

calum: dragons are super strong and op

leia: puppiessssssss

q: best friend’s name?

Richard: sam

bella: i’m not very close with anyone. ally, I guess

calum: kirk junior

leia: luke

q: book you plan on reading?

Richard: the catcher in the rye

bella: pride and prejudice

calum: I want to get the guiness book of world records for 2017

leia: the blue fairy book. it’s about fairy tales

q: something that positively shaped you?

Richard: sick as it sounds, my girlfriend set herself on fire and had to go to the hospital. it was because of me, and when she made it out of that experience with no burns it somehow got me to be more appreciative and inspired me to stop being such a dick sometimes

bella: theo.

calum: I heard about LeBron james

leia: life

q: biggest secret?

Richard: don’t have one, really

bella: it wouldn’t be a secret if I told someone, would it?

leia: I found out that my best friend is sleeping beauty! but a boy!

calum: not telling. i’m not retarded.

q: on a scale of one to ten, how excited are you about life right now?

Richard: ten? idk

bella: 6... hehe

calum: five is average. so five.

leia: a bagillion gazillion and one

q: iPhone or android?

Richard: androids have potato cameras

bella: iPhone. I guess if they’re too expensive an android would be okay

calum: aren’t andriods robots

leia: aye aye captain hahahhahhahhahhaha

q: twitter or Instagram?

Richard: twitter

bella: definitely Instagram

calum: I like jetpack joyride

leia: graham crackers?

q: who should everyone be following right now?

Richard: me. just kidding, um... my friends tyrone and Tanisha. they’re living on their own for the most part, with two twin babies, at fifteen. kudos

bella: not kim Kardashian.

calum: stalkers. show them how they make other people feel.... oh sorry, wrong kind of following

q: favorite food?

Richard: I can’t come up with something so i’m just going to say pizza

Bella: i like chicken alfredo pasta. I’m not sure if it’s my favorite though

Calum: hot dogs

Leia: crackers

q: least favorite food?

Richard: cornbread. I’ve seen timmy wolf down a whole loaf. It was huge. There was a lot of blowing chunks after. Scarring, tbh

Bella: never liked green beans

Calum: eggplants, carrots, and bananas

Leia: steak is hard for me to chew sometimes

q: what do you love on your pizza?

Richard: cheese

Bella: cheese. Oh, richard said that too? Ffs

calum: pepperonis

Leia: anchovies! Just kidding, i’m joking!

q: favorite drink?

Richard: i’ve got no clue. water is very underrated

Bella: i used to love lemonade. Haven’t had that in years. Oh, right. I like tea, coffee, root beer, yeah

Calum: i’ve never had vodka, but vodka

Leia: do slushies count?

q: favorite dessert?

Richard: i’m a fabulous dessert -wink- um, no, in all seriousness, chocolate ice cream

Bella: huh. I haven’t had dessert in a while either. Shit.

Calum: chocolate chip cookies

Leia: everything sweet

q: dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

Richard: well I know how tyrone would answer this. I guess milk chocolate

Bella: milk?

Calum: both

Leia: ooooooh, one second, i’ll be back! NO IT’S NOT TO GET CHOCOLATE

q: coffee or tea?

Richard: coffee

Bella: they’re both good for photos, coffee tastes better, but tea is better for you

Calum: alcohol

q: hardest decision?

Richard: what to answer for this question. That counts?!

Bella: life or death. I chose life, obviously

Calum: i’m bored

Leia: my mom asked me if i wanted a dog or a cat! I said dog, but she never got either one

q: favorite fruit?

Richard: peach. -eyebrow wiggle- I actually don’t know

Bella: pineapple, mango, peach, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, watermelon...

Calum: pear

Leia: applllllllles!!!

q: favorite singer or songwriter?

Richard: shawn mendes. I’M JOKING

Bella: isabella vail. Sorry, no self-promo? Okay, theo herondale -grin-

Calum: eminem

Leia: idina menzel

q: favorite song?

Richard: can’t say

Bella: that’s a lot of pressure

Calum: i’m hungry

Leia: I’VE BEEN STARING AT THE EDGE OF THE WAT-

q: if you could sing a duet with anyone, who would it be?

Richard: shawn mendes. I’M STILL JOKING I SWEAR

Bella: theo.

Calum: that’s gay

Leia: MOANA

q: if you had a tattoo, where would it be?

Richard: could i get a tramp stamp

Bella: i can’t choose, whoops

Calum: my arm

Leia: but they’re permanent!!

q: to be or not to be?

Richard: to be

Bella: to be or not to be.. ahh.. Love it

Calum: not to be

Leia: tooooo beeeeeeee... Two bees?

q: bird-watching or whale-watching?

Richard: whale-watching but only if i could ride the whale

Bella: bird-watching, they make such pretty sounds

Calum: a bird shit on my head

Leia: whale-watching because then i could see mermaids too!!!

q: best gift ever received?

Richard: sofia and will, thank you so much for your second creation. Not that the other ones aren’t good i just mean i love wed oh god just shut up richard. Praise you guys, hallelujah. Rest in peace, will. Would’ve been nice to get a “NOW YOU BE CAREFUL WITH MY DAUGHTER!” chat.

Bella: meeting theo was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.. wait is anyone going to see this? Oh god please no UM OKAY best gift other than that, i got a purple flower pin from.. someone.. Although i technically didn’t get it from them..i don’t want to think about this, never mind

Calum: my mom got a basketball hoop for me

Leia: everything!!

q: best gift you’ve ever given?

Richard: i once decorated bella in glitter and shit and then tried to give her to my mom. Yeah, i still don’t know why i did that. Awww, my little sissie, i’m gonna give her a hug after this

Bella: i wouldn’t know

Calum: i gave kirk junior a whole pack of gum once

Leia: i gave luke’s grandma a pretty flower. She’s really nice.

q: last gift you gave a friend?

Richard: the cornbread timmy threw up

Bella: i’ve never had a real friend, um, i gave annabelle a horse necklace and dora a set of nail polish. But they’re just people i talk to sometimes. Plus annabelle.. ugh

Calum: i gave savannah a pencil. Hope she liked it

Leia: i gave my mom a hug today!!

q: favorite video game?

Richard: OH MINECRAFT FOR SUUUUUUUURE!!! sorry i’m not in a serious mood

Bella: i don’t really play video games, the sims, i guess

Calum: call of duty games

Leia: roblox!! I like the pizza delivery game

q: favorite meme?

Richard: oh boy

Bella: are you serious? Right in front of my salad?

Calum: the spongebob music one

Leia: what’s a meem

q: last country visited?

Richard: greece

Bella: greece

Calum: how much longer

Leia: greece

q: favorite body part on a human?

Richard: well this could get some perverted answers

Bella: eyes. But “eyeballs” sounds atrocious.

Calum: pussy

Leia: their hearts!!!!!!

q: favorite color?

Richard: i like reds, blues, greens, idk

Bella: i loved yellow when i was younger. Blues are good too. As for the stuff that’s not on the rainbow, i guess i like black, gray, silver, gold, and white. Oh red is good sometimes

Calum: red, green, orange

Leia: light blue

q: least favorite color?

Richard: that murky brown and green mixture -shudder-

Bella: the colors that we can’t see or imagine. So frustrating.

Calum: yellow

Leia: i like all of the colors, i wouldn’t want any to feel bad about themselves

q: diamonds or pearls?

Richard: i mean there are no pearls in minecraft... OKAY I’LL STOP

Bella: diamonds

Calum: you could sell the diamonds and be rich

Leia: great grandma grace had pearls

q: heels or flats?

Richard: i lost a bet to a guy in a chiffon skirt, but i make these high heels work

Bella: it depends

Calum: heels are sexy.

Leia: no girl can walk in heels, can they? OMG BELLA YOU’RE WALKING IN HEELS

q: pilates or yoga?

Richard: how about just working out

Bella: yoga

Calum: there’s yoga instructor porn

Leia: you mean pirates or yoda? Yoda is in star wars with princess leia, so yoda

q: jogging or swimming?

Richard: swimming for sure

Bella: i mean, i love swimming. But it’s hard to go near a pool when you’ve drowned yourself. I’m sorry i keep being gloomy

Calum: sorry, i fell asleep

Leia: swimming!

q: best way to de-stress?

Richard: hahahhahhahah

Bella: talking to someone, hugging someone, etc.

Calum: sleeping helps

Leia: just breathe! ahhhh...

q: if you had one superpower, what would it be?

Richard:i heard about a superpower that is all the superpowers

Bella: richard told me abo- he said that too?!

q: weirdest person you ever met?

Richard: the howler or the tricycle guy

Bella: theo. -devilish grin- nO I’M KIDDING DON’T TELL HIM I SAID THAT! Awe, i feel bad

Calum: my whole family

Leia: i don’t know, everyone’s weird in their own way

q: favorite flower?

Richard: i don’t know about many besides roses

Bella: i could list my top 50 if you want

Calum: ew

Leia: dandelions grant wishes!

q: last time you cried?

Richard: when my girlfriend was in the hospital

Bella: ...

Calum: crying is for chumps

Leia: i’m too happy to cry

q: do you like your handwriting?

Richard: no?

Bella: im not sure

Calum: oh bitch i fell asleep again

Leia: i forget to dot my i’s sometimes

q: do you bake?

Richard: i live in a house with girls, of course. OH SHOOT WAS THAT SEXIST, I’M SO SORRY I DIDN’T MEAN IT LIKE TH- oh right. Forgot about calum. LOVE YA CAL

Bella: baking and cooking are both fun

Calum: no. i eat the baked goods though

Leia: i eat the cookie dough heheh

q: least favorite thing about yourself?

Richard: my anger issues

Bella: my luck

Calum: i’m amazing

Leia: i-i love myself!!! haha..

q: favorite thing about yourself?

Richard: idk

Bella: haha

Calum: everything

Leia: i think i’m nice

q: who do you miss most?

Richard: ggg. Great grandma grace

Bella: not ben. I liked you when you were alive, but you are unbearable as a ghost

Calum: i just want to play basketball

Leia: everyone who is in heaven!!!

q: what are you listening to right now?

Richard: the wind, i guess

Bella: arctic monkeys

Calum: leia trying to sing. She sucks

Leia: my favorite tarzan song

q: favorite smell?

Richard: um

Bella: rain, books, fire, theo, dryer sheets, flowers, oh no did i say theo? -blush- please don’t put that in

Calum: no idea

Leia: freshly baked sugar cookies, bella’s are better than my mom’s!

q: last person you talked to on the phone?

Richard: sam. He’s giving me updates on gilly and her baby. I hope she’s doing okay..

Bella: i got some type of hate call from someone. Idk who.

Calum: kirk junior and i were talking about basketball

Leia: luke. He said i’m giving him mixed signals. I have no clue what that means

q: last person you sent a text to?

Richard: tyrone

Bella: charlie

Calum: i don’t have a phone.. one day

Leia: look! The lollipop made my tongue blue!!!

q: sport you wish you could play?

Richard: is archery a sport? Because that’s cool

Bella: i don’t play any sports -sigh-

Calum: i do play basketball, but i really like basketball, so basketball.

Leia: i wish i could ice skate more

q: hair color?

Richard: a medium/dark brown

Bella: i’m a brunetteeeee

Calum: light brown

Leia: blonde!

q: eye color?

Richard: green. Idk about greater detail

Bella: crystal blue? It’s like a blue but if you turned the saturation down a bit and put some shine in there

Calum: i don’t check

Leia: blue, like blue whale

q: scary films or happy endings?

Richard: both

Bella: happy endings

Calum: no real man likes happy endings

Leia: scary movies scare me

q: favorite season?

Richard: tough

Bella: it really depends. Spring is very rainy but i like the rain. Summer is super hot but school’s out and it’s beautiful out. Fall comes with the colorful tree leaves and the clothing, and winter is cold but you have hot chocolate and oversized sweaters

Calum: i bet bella gave a long answer. Loser.

Leia: summer!

q: sexual fantasy?

Richard: where did that come from

Bella: -beet red- w-what?

Calum: huh

Leia: what’s that?

q: hugs or kisses?

Richard: both

Bella: bot- HE SAID THAT TOO? WTH

Calum: neither

Leia: hug time!

q: rolling stones or the beatles?

Richard: the beatles

Bella: the beatles, for sure

Calum: how many left?

Leia: why are we talking about things in the garden

q: favorite sex position?

Richard: i swear this came out of nowhere

Bella: -blink-

Calum: missions. Missionary? Yeah, that’s what i meant

Leia: i’m so confused

q: farthest you’ve been from home?

Richard: i died twice. Dk where i ended up

Bella: see i killed myself, and then i was in some sort of darkness for a week until i decided to come back

Calum: are we close to finished

Leia: look at this nail polish! Isn’t it so pretty?!

q: left or right?

Richard: the price is right

Bella: right

Calum: left

Leia: right

q: lipstick or lip gloss?

Richard: um

Bella: lipstick

Calum: almost?

Leia: lip gloss

q: scariest dream?

Richard: you’d know if i pissed myself

Bella: ..don’t want to talk about it, sorry

Calum: im not scared of anything

Leia: cookeh im mah mout, un segont

q: favorite type of hair?

Richard: i guess i like head hair over pubic hair

Bella: depends

Calum: hairless cats

Leia: those naked rodents

q: title of your autobiography?

Richard: one second, let me think of something

Bella: i wouldn’t write an autobiography

Calum: Perfection

Leia: my life

q: favorite sound?

Richard: did i really just fall asleep

Bella: sorry, what? I was doodling.

Calum: basketballs bouncing

Leia: water

q: favorite animal?

Richard: wasn’t this already a question

Bella: On the other side of a street I knew, stood a girl that looked like you, i guess thats deja vu

Calum: there has to be only a couple left

Leia: what

q: girl crush?

Richard: there’s this girl named wednesday herondale, she’s honestly my dream girl -grin-

Bella: how’d you know i’m bi? nO NOT BIPOLAR

Calum: i-i don’t h-have one..

Leia: i love my sister!

q: last photograph you took?

Richard: you’d expect it to be a nude because i’m a teenage boy, yeah, yeah, i see you.. well, i’ll have you know, it’s a picture of... my girlfriend. isn’t she beautiful, look at her!

Bella: okay so this one is o- fine. Don’t let me go into detail.

Calum: i took this selfie on my ipad by accident. I have a double chin in it haha WAIT WE’RE DONE?! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Leia: oh this one’s of my finger! whoops!

#mafia rp #richard #bella #calum #leia #question #questions

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New world news from Time: Vanilla Is Nearly as Expensive as Silver. That Spells Trouble for Madagascar

On a recent Saturday afternoon in Sahabevava village, on the east coast of Madagascar, 46-year-old vanilla farmer Lydia Soa brandished the latest in anti-theft tracking devices: a hand-carved wooden stamp studded with a series of small steel pins. She had recently gone through the vines of her small plantation, stamping thousands of green vanilla pods with her unique producer code MK021. In theory, thieves could still steal her crop, but her branded pods would reveal their perfidy at the local market. “Now I can sleep at night, and when I wake up, my vanilla will still be there,” she says, with a relieved grin.

These days, vanilla theft is a big business in Madagascar. That may seem like a distant problem, but its repercussions are likely to be felt at your favorite dessert parlor this summer. Climate change, crime and speculation mean the price of the fragrant spice has skyrocketed from $20 a kilo five years ago to $515 in June. Ice-cream makers are faced with the agonizing choice of raising prices, pulling vanilla ice cream from the shelves, or even—to the horror of many—replacing real vanilla with a synthetic version sourced from petroleum products.

An innovative new program, spearheaded by some of the world’s biggest vanilla buyers, is tackling the problem head on by reducing theft, educating farmers, and making crops more resilient to the ravages of climate change. The aim is to stabilize the price of vanilla so that farmers will keep growing, and companies will keep buying.

Evolutionarily speaking, vanilla should have died out long ago. Now farmed far from its native Mexico and the bees that evolved to fertilize it, vanilla orchids have to be pollinated by hand in a time-consuming process—the small white flowers bloom once a year, for one day only. Then it takes another nine months for the fruits to mature into pods, which then have to be cured for several more weeks in alternating baths of steam, sun and shade before they can be incorporated into your favorite vanilla ice cream.

A byword for boring, vanilla tends to be taken for granted. Yet without it cookies lose their zing, milk chocolate its fragrance, crème brûlée its flare and Calvin Klein’s Obsession its sweet, earthy base. And without vanilla, some 80,000 farmers in Madagascar, which supplies 80% of the world’s crop, would lose their livelihood.

In a stark warning of climate change to come, a pair of tropical cyclones wiped out much of 2017’s Madagascan crop, sending prices higher than $600 a kilo. But higher costs don’t necessarily benefit the small family farmers whose futures depend on the fickle fruit. At a dollar per bean in one of the poorest countries of the world, farmers have had to contend with vanilla thieves who snatch the just-before-ripe pods straight from the vines knowing that they will fetch a decent price even if green. To counter the theft, farmers harvest their own crops early, flooding the market with low quality beans that lack the intense flavor that only emerges just before the mid-July harvest. As a result, the quality plummets and so does the price. Farmers tear out their vines in frustration, then scarcity pushes the price up again, creating a vicious cycle of vanilla boom and bust.

Read more: Vanilla shortage could lead to ice-cream price spike

In terms of cost, vanilla is easily the most volatile spice on the planet, says Gilbert Ghostine, CEO of Firmenich, a Swiss fragrance and flavor house that buys around 300 tons of vanilla a year—more than a tenth of the global supply. That volatility is putting vanilla’s very future at risk. “When the price is at $20, you have lots of farmers who say, ‘I’m not making money out of this. I’m walking away.’ And when it’s at $600, you have lots of companies saying, ‘I don’t want to use natural vanilla anymore because I can’t make money.’” The last time the price of vanilla spiked, to $400 a kilo in 2003, nearly 30% of buyers turned to vanilla substitutes and synthetic flavoring, says Dominique Roques, Firmenich’s vice president for natural flavors. The market for real vanilla eventually recovered, but continued fluctuations are making food companies wary. It’s not easy to reformulate recipes, and changing labels is expensive.

Masy Andriantsoa/Livelihoods FundsThe price of vanilla was $515 per kilogram on June 1 2018. Silver was priced at $527 per kilogram.

All but the most die-hard vanilla ice cream aficionados would have a hard time telling the difference between real vanilla and artificial flavoring, at least until they turn the container around and start reading the ingredients. That just may be the lifeline for Madagascar’s farmers. Consumers are increasingly demanding natural products in their food, says Roques, and ‘vanillic aldehyde’ doesn’t necessarily sit well with someone about to pay eight dollars for a pint of vanilla caramel swirl.

Which is why French food purveyor Danone, French utilities company Veolia, Firmenich and Mars Inc. are investing $10 million into the Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming, an mpact investment fund that will, among other things, stabilize a crop that most people don’t even think about. It’s part of an emerging trend among food companies to streamline their supply chain, knowing the importance of being able to tell consumers that the ingredients in their products are not only natural and pronounceable, but also that no humans were harmed in the process of procuring them.

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“It is absolutely critical that our supply chains are sustainable,” says Victoria B. Mars, a member of the Board of Directors for Mars, Inc., and a fourth generation member of the Mars family. “If we don’t have the raw materials, we can’t make our products. If our farmers are not able to make a decent living, we won’t have the raw materials we need.”

In Madagascar, the Livelihoods Fund has partnered with local NGO Fanamby on a $2 million project to provide farmers with vanilla seedlings and teach them sustainable practices that avoid the carbon-producing, erosion-inducing slash and burn methods of traditional agriculture. At the same time they are dealing with the theft problem by helping farmers organize neighborhood vanilla watch programs and supplying them with the coded stamps. When there is a theft, Fanamby now goes to the authorities to press a complaint so that farmers in remote areas don’t have to leave their crops in the middle of harvest season.

Meanwhile, the three food and flavor companies have signed a contract agreeing to buy the vanilla directly from the 1,000 or so farmers in the cooperative, rather than through the middlemen who can take up to a 60% cut for themselves. In return, the farmers have committed to sell only to the investors for the next 10 years, at a 2-4% premium over market price.

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It isn’t just about corporate social responsibility, says Ghostine, though that does play a part. It’s self-preservation. As the world’s second largest flavors and fragrance company, Firmenich supplies vanilla extracts to leading brands, such as Guerlain (Madagascan vanilla is the cornerstone of its Shalimar perfume), Häagen-Dazs and Mars, which uses vanilla not just in milk chocolate, but in the caramel strip on a Twix bar. Though Firmenich also supplies synthetic and natural vanillin flavors derived from clove, cinnamon and wood, real vanilla is a luxury that needs to be preserved at the source, says Ghostine. “We are making sure that the crops are harvested properly. We are increasing the yield. We are ensuring that communities still have a passion for investing in these crops and that their children are not going to the cities just to find jobs.”

Vanilla isn’t the only product that is getting the Livelihoods treatment. The fund is looking at other crops too, from cocoa to coconut, rice, palm oil and shea butter. Each of those commodities has a complex and, at times, sinister supply chain that could benefit from greater transparency and streamlining, revolutionizing the industry in the process, says Livelihoods Ventures president and co-founder Bernard Giraud. Vanilla, he says, is the Mount Everest of commodities. “If we can do it with vanilla, we can do it with anything.”

New vanilla vines take three years to mature, so it will be a while yet before the Livelihoods program, now in its second year, bears fruit. In the meantime, Soa is plotting ever more dire punishments for anyone who does attempt to steal her current crop. At the moment vanilla thieves face 3-4 years in prison. As far as she is concerned, that’s not enough. She wants a life sentence. “You invest all your life in growing the vanilla. Stealing it is the same thing as killing someone.”

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