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vveakfish · 1 year ago

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do you have any thoughts about the core four whose gender(s) are basically just a trans fruit cocktail that you would like to talk about? because I would love to listen

oh boy DO I !!!

I have So Many thoughts about them Anon, so thank you for giving me an excuse to try and put it into words beyond “Damn, these bitches trans! Good for them.”

Honestly, there are so many different ways to explore these characters genders based on how you choose to interpret their life experiences, and their aesthetic changes, and their relationships with each other. I am of the belief that any of them could be trans in any direction

But, that said, I Do have particular gender headcanons for YJ that i am very fond of, so thats what I’ll be talking about today.

(Small disclaimer. I have not finished all of the comics referenced in this. I am using the information i have to inform these, but you know, i might come back to this post at some point in the future and look at it like “wow, i don’t agree with any of this anymore.” And i think thats okay.

I’m just here to have fun, and i thoroughly enjoy these little guys, and think abt them alot, so enjoy

(also if you dont want to read 4.1k words of blorbo gender analysis, or would like to avoid spoilers for Superboy (1993), Young Justice (1998) & (2019), and Red Robin (2009) in varying degrees of detail, or you just want to see what lables i assigned them, scroll down to the bottom <3))

lets get started.

Bart:

Bart's gender is the most complex, but his thought process about it is also the most simple. I think his view of gender would be very much influenced by the fact that he grew up in VR in the future like…

A body is just an avatar, do what ever the fuck you want with it.

That said, the lil guy has always given me transmasc vibes. These vibes, however, are by no means binary.

He understands that in the 21st century a lot of people do not have his sort of “throw things at the wall and see what sticks” approach to gender, so he’s okay with being put in the box of Boy™. But his gender is a lot more * hand waves vaguely *

Clothes don’t have gender in his eyes, they’re fabric you put on your body. Wear what ever you want forever!

Bart in skirts is something i have seen many people draw/talk about before, and its something i agree with wholeheartedly. He likes hair clips, and like, those loud (actually loud and visually loud) beaded bracelet type things that ravers wear. He like nail polish. He doesn’t grow facial hair, but he wouldn’t care if he did. He’s not on hormones, but he definitely considered it for the bit. “Gotta drink my boy juice” Kind of vibes.

For him gender has Nothing to do with performance, its all about comfort. About wearing what feels right, regardless of whether or not he’s adhering to expectations of masculinity.

Yes, he Will wear that god awful outfit out of the house, haters can die mad

Cassie:

Anon, I need you to understand how much i love early yj98 cass. She is everything to me — her process of coming to terms with herself, and being able to watch her start to feel at home in her own skin. It makes me absolutely feral.

lets see if i can explain why… succinctly

When we first meet her in yj98, her identity as “Wonder Girl” is this sort of amalgamation of What it Means To Be A Hero in her eyes. She has her party city blunt bob wig (Because Diana is who she looks up to), the gloves, leather jacket, goggles combo (that so clearly take inspiration from Kon).

At this point in her life Wonder Girl is not really her. Its very clearly a mask she’s putting on. which is what makes it the perfect avenue for her to explore gender expression without it having to actually be about her gender.

I think the part that specifically makes me feral though is her… we’ll call it admiration of Kon.

The girl is a self proclaimed Superboy stan + theres all the weird not-drama between Cassie and Cissie over wanting attention from Kon. (And i say Not Drama bc its like… Kon flirting with cissie (which like… have you met 90’s Kon?? he flirts with everything that moves) and Cassie being upset that he’s Not flirting with her. and cissie is just along for the ride. She’s not quite as much of a flirt as kon is, but she has her moments)

All of this to say i feel like its impossible to have a conversation about Cassie’s gender without also talking about her experiences with comphet and lesbianism.

At the beginning, Cassie sees Kon — this cocksure, conventionally attractive boy with powers that (at first glance) seem very similar to hers, and felt something about it. And, in the way of teen girls who have been told since grade school that they’re supposed to like boys, Cassie comes to the conclusion that what she feels for Kon must be romantic in nature, right?.

All of this, the jealousy over Kon and Cissie flirting, basing her costume off Superboy’s (intentionally or otherwise), the fact that she wont let her team see her without the wig and goggles at all for so much of yj98. To me it all reads as the tangled mix of undiscovered lesbianism and gender dysphoria that the poor girl simply doesn’t have the words to define yet.

So, then what IS cassie’s deal with gender???

i am so very glad you asked.

She, too, is a transmasc of the nonbinary variety.

I think her relationship to femininity is complex, and ever changing. She doesn’t feel comfortable performing femininity the way the world expects her to, but she is also part Amazon. And i think having a relationship with both Diana and Donna would greatly influence how she felt about femininity as a whole.

The Amazons are strong, their femininity isn’t about beauty, or being soft spoken — it isn’t about Men at all. On Themyscira, to be a Woman is about bravery, honor, skill, and in some ways, divinity. Getting closer with her Amazonian sisters would change her relationship to womanhood immensely.

But it still wouldn’t feel Right. She would be able to see that womanhood can be defined differently, but that wouldn’t change the connotations that womanhood had as she was growing up. She’d never be able to lean into it the way Diana or Donna do — they both grew up only having woman defined as strong and brave and confident. Their experiences are not analogous.

The baggage of growing up a girl under the patriarchy wouldn’t just… vanish because she sees that it Doesn’t have to be that way. In some ways, the knowledge that it didn’t have to be that way could make her dysphoria all that stronger (especially if she hasn’t quite deciphered that dysphoria is what she’s feeling).

but i think there would be a point where two things sharpen into focus for her.

fiirstly she has a big fat crush on cissie king-jones.

and second (which would only come AFTER realizing her feelings for cissie) is that what she feels for Kon is Not the same as what she feels for Ciss.

She didn’t want to be with Kon romantically, she just wanted his gender.

I could see her experimenting with wearing a binder, liking that she can get rid of her boobs if she isn’t feeling them that day.

She already has her short hair, and her leather jacket and jeans, and shes big and buff and strong (because she deserves to be butch!!! okay???).

I still think she would use she/her pronouns, but she wouldn’t be picky ab it (if she gets called sir while at the pizza place, she’s not going to correct them.)

But here’s the kicker — I think leaning hard into her masculinity would be EXACTLY what she needs in order to actually ENJOY expressing femininity again.

When putting on the mask that is ‘womanhood’ becomes something that she can Choose to do, rather than something that is being forced on her, it can be pleasant. Like playing dress up.

She has a new appreciation for it, especially since her friends respect her gender, and she knows at the end of the day, when she takes the makeup, the clothes, and the wig off, underneath it all she’s just her.

(Small addendum re: TT’03 Cassie’s fem phase. I have Many thoughts about this as well, and while they end up in roughly the same place, i exploring her experience with comphet and her decision to dress in a more traditionally feminine in that run is something id like to explore in another post (once i’ve actually read the run too.)

Cissie (bonus):

This one should be shorter than Cassies, mainly because my reasoning for it is much simpler.

YJ'98 (#11)

She lists all these names, all of them feminine except for Fucking Ralph. “One weird phase” she calls it.

To me, Cissie is a transgirl through and through. She has this huge list of femme names she tried on while she tried to find the one that fit best. She mentions ralph in this off handed way, as if its not important, and i think thats just her way of dismissing her deadname as something of little consequence.

(that said, i think there’s lots of fun to be had with transmasc cissie, or tried transing-her-gender and realized it wasn’t for her Cissie. But as a transfemme, tgirl cissie is So important to me <3)

Kon:

other people on here have made posts about Kon’s gender that are much more coherent than this will be, but i’m putting the words down anyway. bear with me.

Kon’s experience with identity (especially in his earlier years) is almost entirely about the external rather than the internal.

Kon has his whole life planned out for him from the moment he opens his eyes. It’s simple really — become Superman.

So you have this freshly hatched teenage boy, saving the world as Superman (not the Only one, but definitely the coolest one (Kon would argue)). All eyes on him, all the time. In some ways, performance is inseparable from who he is. From the very beginning, everything he does is on display.

He starts his life with a Name (Superman), a life path (…again, Superman), and all the confidence of a sixteen year old jock with nothing but wins under his belt. then it all gets taken away.

Turns out Clark ISNT dead, and the world doesn’t need its pint sized superman anymore now that its got the real thing.

enter Superboy

Kon’s entire identity, his whole purpose for being alive, was to step into the shoes of a dead man who is no longer dead. So where does that leave our genetically engineered test tube baby?

lost, and extremely confused.

But he’s good at using his charisma as a shield, and even better at keeping himself busy. His problems aren’t there if he doesn’t have the time to think about them, right?

and i think that’s true about his gender as well.

Similar to Cassie, his discovery and exploration of his gender feels incredibly tied to his sexuality (to me). If you’ve read sb93, you know Kon’s deal with women. He is cute & conventionally attractive & he's like superman with a fashion sense, so of course there are people fawning over him.

And he loves the attention. He likes that people want him, or that they are looking at him. The issue is he doesn’t have the life experience to realize that their reasons for paying attention to him are often very shallow, manipulative, or selfish.

He isn’t treated as a person very often. He’s a brand, a product, a tool, a weapon. He’s arm candy, he’s a photo op, he’s a headline, he’s a paycheck. And it takes him a long time to be able to tell the difference between someone Liking Him & someone Using Him.

For the longest Time, Superboy is all he is. He doesn’t have a name outside of that identity (except for the various pet names the women in his life give him (kid & pup, mainly)).

And even when Clark does give him his real name, Kon-El, its still Attatched to his identity as Superboy.

I dont think that he would really even be able to start dissecting how HE feels about his identity until he’s much older.

Part of this would come from the space to be someone else that gaining a civilian identity would give him. As Superboy, the goal has always been to stand out, to be seen, to shine like the sun.

As Conner Kent, he has to blend in. He doesnt want to draw attention to himself, or the Kents, or Clark. He has to fit in, which was never something he had to do as Kon. And i think it would kind of chafe at him — but he wouldn’t really know why.

I think he’d chalk it up to how different of an experience it is. Not being loud, having to be normal™. And so i think he’d just… continue to play the part. For a while anyway.

And like, part of being Normalest Boy Conner Kent would also involve actively un-queer coding himself for the sake of fitting into the ecosystem of Smallville High. and its like…

Young Justice, as a friend group, is SOOO queerplatonic. The lines between romantic and platonic intimacy are so blurred, and Prior to Kon’s YJ days he he was also like… living with these woman who he had complicated relationships with that also blurred the lines between platonic, romantic, and sexual (…looking at you, Knockout).

So learning where the line is when it comes to how he can acceptably interact with his civilian friends (particularly the boys) would Really open his eyes to just how close he is with Bart and Tim, and how similar his feelings for them are to his feelings for… lets say, Simon Valentine.

But i dont think That is what would actually tip the scale. I think realizing that these feelings for his friends aren’t considered ‘normal’ would make him shove them down deeper. As ‘Conner’ anyway.

from here it could go two ways, right?

Either we get Teen Titans ‘03 t-shirt Kon, who sheds his GNC 90s swag in exchange for adhering closer to traditional (read; boring) masculine gender roles.

or we get a Kon who leans Harder into his punk roots, but its a conscious choice now.

(this isn’t even digging into how he would feel once Jon comes into the picture, because while Kon cares for that boy Deeply, his feelings abt the new kiddo in the family could also be very complicated. But that’s a post for another time.)

Personally i prefer the second one.

Kon has always been a curious kid, i love the way he makes pop culture references, and how he bases his behavior off of 90’s teen tropes that he Most Definitely learned from TV. In his early days this wasn’t done in a research way necessarily, but he Did want to learn what it was like to Be a Teen™, and TV was the easiest way to figure that out.

(and, playing in the space of Kon adaptations, his love of media/pop culture, and just over all thirst for knowledge, are present both in the Reign of the Supermen Movie, and in his iteration during the n52 (which is one of the few things i personally have internalized from reading n52 Superboy/Teen Titans)).

But post gay awakening, i feel liked he’d be interested not just in behaviors, but also the context of them. Digging into punk as a subculture rather than as an aesthetic. Learning about its connections to queerness, and community, and self expression. And i think this would be extremely freeing for him. (especially if this were around the time of Jon becoming Superboy v.3, but again, not the point of this post.)

this all culminates in Kon being like yk? gender just… isnt for me. Like, it takes im a long time to get to this point, but realizing that the path that was set out for him is just one of the potential paths he can take, and while he might not know where this new path will take him, its his, that that matters.

And also like, Because his friends are who they are, he’s seen different versions of queerness, and transness, but i think it would take him a bit to see himself as someone who Isn’t Cis bc like… he doesnt have dysphoria in the traditional sense.

He’s still the beefcake he’s always been, but i think he’d start playing with makeup when he realizes it makes him feel good (he shows up the the cave one day with smudgy eye liner and Cissie is immediately like a) you look so good and b) can i Please do your makeup? (and then she does it, and he looks so pretty, and he gets these weird giddy feelings that he doesn’t realize is gender euphoria until his friends start talking abt gender euphoria)

His uniform starts to get more personalized too, like the designs where he has knee patches, and all his little belts, and stuff. maybe he starts experimenting with showing skin. bc he deserves it

(’its for maximum sun exposure!!!’ is the what he tells clark… he’s not sure if clark bought it or not)

And hey, exploring gender presentation more as Superboy might help him do the same as Conner. Cassie will take him thrifting, he’ll try of a flowy skirt or a sun dress or something and then its Over. Gender euphoria part two, electric boogagloo.

In the end, its about realizing that adhering gender roles (and truthfully, any socially imposed ‘rule’ about self expression) is something he can simply Choose not to do. And i think this freedom would be something that benefits him in his civilian life as well.

His gender is: literally what ever, man.

Tim:

Ok, here’s the thing about Tim and gender, right? I think he’s kind of just comfortable as he is. He’s good at playing the roles he needs to in what ever situation hes thrown into. ‘Robin’ and ‘Tim Drake’ (and even ‘Tim Drake-Wayne’ if you want to split hairs) might be masks he wears, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less him. if that makes sense. like…

Lets look at the differences between Bruce (or Brucie) and Batman for a second. They really are different people. Batman is who bruce is at his core, ‘bruce’ is this sort of liminal space between the cowl and his public persona, and then theres Brucie™, and well, you know how he is. These are personas that Bruce puts on.

With Tim its like he just highlights different aspects of himself when a situation requires it. (oh no, the autistic!Tim head canons are being loud today.) But like, he’s Always been masking. And i think this is something he would look at as like… getting a good grade in adapting. or something. He’s comfortable, all the roles he plays are ones he’s familiar with, and he doesn’t really question who he is outside of who he needs to be.

That is, until Caroline Hill makes an appearance.

I feel that the decision to go undercover as a woman was a wholly practical decision in the moment. It’s what the mission required, and therefore tim stepped up. Its just another mask, right? Surely this wont awaken anything in him…right?

But this is an entirely new mask. And i think it might like… shift the way he looks at/thinks about the other masks he puts on. He was able to step into a role that was very foreign to him, and it Worked. (and he felt pretty, which like… woah, thats a new feeling. and he kinda liked it? file that under ‘thoughts he doesn’t have the bandwidth to process right now.’ Bruce needs him back at the cave! its time to debreif! and he has a biology test tmrw! no time for gender scaries!!!).

I think it would take a while for him to be able to admit it to himself though. Because like… hes Not uncomfortable with his body, but he also keeps thinking about how good he felt dressed up femininely, and how he felt powerful, in a way. That putting on that mask felt just as good as putting on his domino.

Personally, i think itd be funny if instead of coming out right away, Tim doing undercover missions essentially in drag becomes a recurring thing. And i imagine some people give him a hard time. (not in a transphobic way or anything, i just mean like, teasing him fondly or what ever.) (Also, i like to imagine that when cissie Did kons makeup, bart and Tim jumped in there too bc like hey why not, and hoooooo boy, if Tims egg hadn’t cracked before then, it sure would have cracked after.)

The thing about him is, i’m not sure if he’d come to the realization himself. You know, that he would like to present femme sometimes, in a situation that has Nothing to do with a mission.

I could see Tim convincing himself that its a pointless or frivolous desire, which is Why he relegates his time presenting femme to when he can prove that it’s useful.

but i have this image in my mind, right? Of him, taking his makeup and wig off, and hes chatting with whoever is in the room with him (literally anyone else mentioned above… or Dick). And Tim’s just talking about how he wishes he could present this way in situations other than missions.

and the other person in the room is just like… i mean, you literally can.

and hes just like…. shit you’re right. i Can :0

I could probably go further into depth abt this, but i think this just frees him to start playing with gender more as Tim. and start to recognize when he’s feeling more masculine, more feminine, or somewhere in between.

His gender isn’t consistent, its this thing he’s constantly listening to, and trying to understand. but in the mean time, he can paint his face, and wear pretty clothes, or dress like just Some Guy, or be a hedgehog dressed in traffic light colors, or what ever his heart desires.

As far as like… how He describes his gender, i think he’d say something corny like bi^2 (bi of both the sexual and the gendered varieties). Or shrug, handwave, generally give a non-helpful vague description. Or tell who evers asking to buzz off.

(small addendum wrt Kon and Cassie in TT’03. I haven’t read this run yet, so i didn’t really include it in this post. But i Do have thoughts about what might cause the two of them (my gnc besties from my comics books) to lean sooooo hard into traditional gender roles after being So Queercoded in their other appearences. Before i talk abt that though, i want to read the comic. So, that will have to be a post for another time)

ANYWAY, heres that TL;DR i promised.

Bart: NB Transmasc Cassie: NB Lesbian (of the transmasc variety) Kon: Agender Tim: Fluid (bi-gender) + Cissie: Transgirl

Thank you soooooo much for giving me the opporrtunity to ramble abt the silles and how Not Cis i think they are. Love you forever.

#𓆟 #𓆟 | 📨#anon #disclaimer: this all for fun! i love these kiddos & am working on reading more of their comics #And my thoughts here are based on things that i have extrapolated from what they have gone through in canon & how that might influence #their relationships to their own genders #Core Four #Young Just Us #Bart Allen #Cassie Sandsmark #Cissie King Jones #Kon-El #Tim Drake #LOL will Tumblr let me post this now?#(i spent like... 15 minutes futzing with the formatting just for it to go 'srry cant post this hehe'

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desire-mona · 7 months ago

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randomly assigning house md characters internet moments / videos / memories / whatever i remember based off nothing at all (i did i dps version too) (also links for everything i talk about will be provided) (also also this isnt made to make fun of anyone involved in any of this)

house - mr beast and his OLD OLD youtube videos, like circa 2015? i think? he used to make cringe compilations essentially where he just made fun of kids' youtube intros. face and all like nothing was blurred for privacy, and then he'd call them cringe and make drinking bleach jokes. like a LOT. i binge watched those back in like 4th grade i think? maybe 5th? so thats kinda all i associate him with now. he also made videos where he would say a word like a thousand times, sometimes WAY more (like 100k+). or like. count to that number, he did both. anyway rip house you wouldve loved making fun of kids' youtube videos

wilson - does anyone remember the evian baby commercials? i think the whole shtick was like "this water makes you feel young again" I THINK? the one i linked was the one where the reflection on a building makes ppl babies, but theres one where babies are on roller skates or whatever too. this isnt entirely an internet moment as much as it is just a memory, cuz i remember my mom and my aunt DYING laughing at these commercials. idk what it was they were just in tears. theres something so 2007-2015 about dancing babies. wasnt a dancing baby the first internet meme? just googled it and yes it was.

cuddy - onision's shitty spoken word songs PLEASE tell me someone remembers them. onision really shouldve stopped trying to make music after the banana song bc the rest really suck shit. this is NOT based on vibes i gotta get that out there, i was like hmm cuddy has a kid. you know who else has a kid? YOU KNOW WHO LET THEIR KID FALL OUT OF A WINDOW? cuddy would fucking HATE onision. ALSO OH MY GOD PAUSE EVERYTHING ONISION JUST UPLOADED A SONG. I NEED TO MAKE A SEPERATE POST ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW WHAT THE HELL. anyway dont watch it. i linked strange æon's video on his music just bc i really dont wanna direct u to anything of his directly. did u know i dont like onision?

foreman - the most insane youtube poop ive ever seen in all of my 19 years of living, i sent this to maddie specifically when i made my initial "like for a rando internet moment!" post but i really need to share it with the general public. general warning for youtube poop-ness; flash, loud noises, overwhelming, etc. i am actually begging you to watch this because it tops every other ytp ive ever seen, like actually blows it out of the water. i also has no idea ppl still made ytps after 2014 tbh.... btw this is probably the only ytp that i'll ever recommend LMAO

chase - OH MY GOD KYLERLOVESJESUS. so basically this one eboy influencer type on tiktok back in 2019 Found God and went on rants about how abortion is wrong and gay marriage is bad and blah blah blah. there was this moment on one of his lives where he went "i love gay people, i would be best friends with a gay person. do i support it? no." which was the FUNNIEST shit back in the day. i would quote it on the daily. btw the editing of the video i linked is VERY of the time so beware LMAO

cameron - cutie the kitten (sans' wife and gf) + the killing videos sans fan girls would make. i actually cant link anything bc the channel doesnt exist anymore but! basically back in 2016ish there was this one girl who had such a crush on sans and she had a whole ocxcanon situation with sans and her pink cat oc Cutie. a lot of ppl hated her + the ppl who had ocs shipped with sans but looking back its truly not a big deal. what is a big deal is that she (? maybe?) and other sans fangirls would make animated slideshow videos of their ocs using powers or whatever to kill other sans fangirls. like brutally. it was a wild time i wish cutie's channel was still up so i could prove thats a real thing, but ask an undertale fan from back then and odds are theyll know. heres a sans fangirl cringe compilation so you kinda know what im talking about, but fair warning it is a cringe compilation so. it wont be nice.

thirteen - TW INCEST!! this one hamilton animatic i saw back in forever ago to the song 'helpless'. usually animatics to that song use eliza and hamilton (im not a hamilton fan this is very surface lvl knowledge btw) but the one i saw was eliza and ANGELICA. like as in HER SISTER. big surprise someone in a big fandom ships incest wow I KNOW its tame compared to other shit, but it was i think my first exposure to anything like that circa 2017ish, so it kinda stuck in the brain. also the video i linked isnt the og its a phil collins mashup, the og got taken down. hamilton always makes an appearance in my house posts doesnt it, be lucky i didnt give kutner this one bc ppl were turn up abt hamilton fan kutner.

taub - WHAT DO YALL KNOW ABOUT MIKE AND MELISSA ⁉️⁉️ basically mike and melissa is this animated passion project this guy made to show himself (or his persona? or maybe just some guy) falling in love with his fursona that comes to life. this was the only episode this guy uploaded and i think he kinda disappeared after. the plot is kinda hard to follow and its not TERRIBLY animated but its certainly not professional looking. there's a video about what happened to him uploaded like 5 months ago, but i havent watched it. when i first heard of mike n melissa i fully thought it was a mid 2000s family sitcom but it definitely Is Not That.

kutner - undertale sans au christmas party comic dub. i probably dont need to give an explanation as to what sans aus are but idk how many ex or current undertale fans follow me so i'll do it anyway. making au's for undertale was a pretty common practice back in its early days, and usually the most popular character in any undertale variation is sans. who sans is shipped with was always up in the air, so much like the onceler, ppl ended up shipping sans with other au versions of himself. this christmas party comic is in my mind the undertale fandom equivalent of camp weehawken. i think there was also a sans au comic where all the sans' except for like 2 were toddlers at daycare? i dont remember who the adult sans' were but also i think the creator got into hot water? dont remember why.

#desire mona #posts like these are so fun #i like seeing where my trains of thought take me #i wanted to include sugoi quest for kokoro and jreg in here but i obviously ran out of room #to be discussed later i suppose #house md #gregory house #james wilson #lisa cuddy #eric foreman #robert chase #allison cameron #thirteen #remy hadley #chris taub #lawrence kutner #hate crimes md

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golbrocklovely · 2 years ago

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Hii! I just found ur blog and it’s amazing. I recently just got back into snc for the first time since 2018-19 and I was just wondering what drama went down with all the trap house members? And what’s going on with Stas? When I phased out for a bit they were all still friends and I had never heard of her lol. Thanks sm!! <3

i know i've made a post about this forever ago, but i can't seem to find it, so i'll use this as main post to explain everything that's happened. bc i get questions like this every couple months haha

this is most likely gonna be very long, so strap in.

there's also a couple asks i link in this one that explains further everything so... sorry for the additional reading lol

idk if you want an extended cut of this, aka know everything that's happened with their friends too and not just the trap house members, or just TH ppl only, but i'm gonna give you the extended version just so you know where everyone stands.

to make a long story short: they aren't really friends anymore. friendly? sure. and really that's only between colby-jake-corey. sam doesn't seem to really associate with any of their old friends.

this also expands to their old friends as well: they all seemed to be close up until around kat's or sam's bday of 2020. then things just changed.

a lot of the old friend group just stopped hanging around snc for some reason. or at least slowly disappeared from them and their content. no one knows for certain what happened, or if anything major did happen.

there seemed to be a lot of inner-personal fighting. like mike, kevin, and aryia aren't really friends anymore. kevin and aryia seem close still, but mike is completely removed from the group as a whole. i answered an ask a long time ago that explains what happened here. but in short: no one checked on mike when his mental health was bad, and thus he kinda just removed himself from the group. there also seemed to be a bit of separation happening prior when mike didn't move into the krac house - also known as the kevin, reggie, aryia, and cassie house.

that gets into the extended side of the friend group. to summarize that as to what they're all doing rn - kevin and aryia (i believe) live together now in la after aryia finally moved back from living away for awhile. cassie, reggie, and jillian (jake and reggie's younger sister) all live back in kansas now. xepher lives/lived in texas. her and griffin are together still.

as for the trap girls, none of them are really close with one another anymore. kat and xepher are still friendly (or were at one point). devyn and tara seem to still like one another i guess. i don't really pay attention to any of the girls if i'm honest. but just know that basically none of them talk to kat.

now for the actual trap house members. they all lived in apartments away from one another (minus jake and snc who all lived in the same building) and then in feb/march of 2020 they all moved into a mansion together. aaron has been on his own since they all moved out in 2019. idk what he's up to besides making random content on tiktok and doing random lives with corey sometimes.

so they all lived together in an la house, which snc told fans was in hawaii bc of the theming of the backyard. then by sept/nov of 2020 things changed. after that point, corey and jake ended up moving out by the next year.

let me get into what has happened with jake: jake had made some comments on livestreams about not being allowed to make loud noises. and it became clear as time went on that he felt like he couldn't be his "true self" in that house bc snc (or more likely sam) was telling him to calm it down. there was also a weird random comment he made about how it was unfair kat could do a music video in the backyard but jake couldn't do that (however… idk how true this comment is, both literally bc i never got to hear it myself and also figuratively bc i don't see how snc would have been against him doing one at the house). what i believe to be the case is that once snc went from being roommates to landlords (bc they OWNED the house, not rented it) they probably forced a bit more rules on corey and jake and that made them upset to some degree. bc for some reason them not being allowed to trash the house they were living in was upsetting??? idk.

jake moved out into his own house. he started collabing with the knj crew (a lot of the old snc crew moved on to collab with the knj crew), started a twitch streaming group called the camboys with jc. he's still dating tara. and he just recently moved into a house with johnnie gilbert and someone else and they have a music group together called ghost house. he's also really into serial killers and makes content out of owning shit they used to have so… do with that info as you will.

now onto corey: corey tried to have a lot of ppl over in the DEEPEST parts of the pandemic, and i think snc weren't cool with that. especially having random strangers over, not even main friends. it also didn't help that corey was travelling back and forth from la to florida all the time. he mentioned he wanted to move out bc he felt like he was stuck and the main reason he moved to la in the first place was bc he wanted to make music and be a dj and shit like that. he also mentioned briefly that he had a bit of an addiction problem, and he felt that moving out and getting a fresh start would help him. he ended up moving in with elton. and hasn't really made all that much music so…. idk what that's about. he mostly just collabs with devyn (who he broke up with briefly at one point) and elton.

the reason why a lot of us don't like corey is bc of his collaborations with elton on overnight and tfil. to get an understanding on that, read this ask that goes into what elton has done over the last couple years. this ask and this one too also go into more stuff he has done.

but to make it very brief: snc did a series called 25x25 where they were bucket list making/doing, elton felt like they were copying him, and bc of that he became extremely petty towards them. and he's still doing that to this day. like, going so far to block snc's name from the comment section of his videos (even one where he collabed with corey and aaron). and mind you, snc didn't actually copy him. so………… yeah.

as of rn, snc seem to be friendly with jake and corey but aren't as close as they once were. jake and corey are still close. jake supported colby when he announced he had cancer. pretty much everyone came out of the woodwork to wish colby well, except corey. so personally, i don't like him even if colby still does.

as for stas…. oh boy. there's a lot there.

stas is a friend of kat's, that she knows bc they were on the same record label at one point. stas appeared in 2019 a couple times to hang out with kat, but didn't fully become a friend of snc's until 2021. she went on one or two 25x25 trips with them, and then also was in a couple videos with them for their haunted stuff when they went back to that. she became her most prominent in 2022, when they all started collabing/hanging out with one another often and going on multiple trips. they all dubbed the group 'the core four'.

the reason some of us don't like her is bc she has done some questionable things over the years. apprently, even way back in 2019, she was talking about snc/colby like she was besties with them even tho that wasn't the case. she used to answer fans' questions about him, like what he smelled like and shit like that. but things really didn't start picking up with her until 2021/2ish

i have a whole post here that explains all of that. it also talks about shea too, but you can skip over that if you don't care.

so…. that's everything, i think. there's probably a bit more i can explain if you need me to, but otherwise this is everything i can think of off the top of my head.

welcome back to the circus, i guess lol

#ask #personal #idk what to even tag this as lol

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Taylor Swift Leads Nominations at 2023 Kids' Choice Awards - Complete List of Recognitions Unveiled

Taylor Swift Dominates Music Nominations at 2023 Kids' Choice Awards with Five Nods - Including Two for Favorite Song and One for Her Feline, Olivia Benson Swift Mandatory Credit: Photo by Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock (10481442fs) Taylor Swift 47th Annual American Music Awards, Show, Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, USA - 24 Nov 2019 Music Favorite Song - “About Damn Time”- Lizzo - “Anti-Hero”- Taylor Swift - “As It Was”- Harry Styles - “Bejeweled”- Taylor Swift - “Break My Soul” – Beyoncé - “First Class”- Jack Harlow - “I Ain’t Worried”- OneRepublic - “Lift Me Up”- Rihanna Favorite Album - Dawn FM– The Weeknd - GOD DID – DJ Khaled - Harry’s House– Harry Styles - Midnights (3 am Edition)- Taylor Swift - Renaissance– Beyoncé - Special – Lizzo Favorite Female Artist - Adele - Beyoncé - Billie Eilish - Cardi B - Lady Gaga - Lizzo - Rihanna - Taylor Swift Favorite Male Artist - Bad Bunny - Drake - Ed Sheeran - Harry Styles - Justin Bieber - Kendrick Lamar - Post Malone - The Weeknd Favorite Music Group - 5 Seconds of Summer - Black Eyed Peas - BLACKPINK - BTS - Imagine Dragons - OneRepublic - Panic! At the Disco - Paramore Favorite Music Collaboration - “Bam Bam”- Camila Cabello featuring Ed Sheeran - “Don’t You Worry” – Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Shakira - “I Like You (A Happier Song)”- Post Malone, featuring Doja Cat - “Numb”- Marshmello, featuring Khalid - “Stay With Me”- Calvin Harris, featuring Justin Timberlake, Halsey, Pharrell - “Sweetest Pie”- Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa Favorite Breakout Artist - Devon Cole - Dove Cameron - GAYLE - Joji - Lauren Spencer-Smith - Nicky Youre Favorite Global Music Star - Bad Bunny (Latin America) - BLACKPINK (Asia) - Harry Styles (UK) - Rosalía (Europe) - Taylor Swift (North America) - Tones and I (Australia) - Wizkid (Africa) Favorite Social Music Star - Bella Poarch - Dixie D’Amelio - JoJo Siwa - Oliver Tree - Stephen Sanchez - That Girl Lay Lay Film Favorite Movie - Avatar: The Way of Water - Black Adam - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Hocus Pocus 2 - Jurassic World Dominion - Monster High The Movie - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Top Gun: Maverick Favorite Movie Actor - Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Thor: Love and Thunder) - Chris Pratt (Owen Grady, Jurassic World: Dominion) - Dwayne Johnson (Black Adam/Teth-Adam, Black Adam) - Jim Carrey (Dr. Robotnik, Sonic the Hedgehog 2) - Ryan Reynolds (Big Adam, The Adam Project) - Tom Cruise (Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, Top Gun: Maverick) Favorite Movie Actress - Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/The Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) - Letitia Wright (Shuri, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) - Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) - Millie Bobby Brown (Enola Holmes, Enola Holmes 2) - Natalie Portman (Jane Foster/The Mighty Thor, Thor: Love and Thunder) - Sarah Jessica Parker (Sarah Sanderson, Hocus Pocus 2) Favorite Animated Movie - DC League of Super-Pets - Hotel Transylvania: Transformania - Lightyear - Minions: The Rise of Gru - The Bad Guys - Turning Red Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie (Male) - Andy Samberg (Dale, Chip N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers) - Andy Samberg (Jonathan, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania) - Chris Evans (Buzz Lightyear, Lightyear) - Dwayne Johnson (Krypto, DC League of Super-Pets) - Kevin Hart (Ace, DC League of Super-Pets) - Steve Carell (Gru, Minions: The Rise of Gru) Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie (Female) - Awkwafina (Tarantula, The Bad Guys) - Keke Palmer (Izzy Hawthorne, Lightyear) - Salma Hayek (Kitty Softpaws, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) - Sandra Oh (Ming, Turning Red) - Selena Gomez (Mavis, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania) - Taraji P. 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#IFTTT #Hollywood News - FNNEWZ

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karenlivesherlifeyo · 10 months ago

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Pip. Pippa. Pippa Dippa Dew. Mrs. Pippy. Pippi Longstocking. Pippa Lou Who. Pippadopolous. Little Feet. Sweet Baby Girl. My Little Black Bean. Drippy Lippy Pippy. Squeaks, Pippalicious, Princess Peezy. Janet Yellin’.

So many names for one sweet cat. She was a month shy of 16 years old. We were together a month shy of 13 years.

In early 2011, an Air Force friend of mine was reassigned from our base in Illinois to a base in England. She didn’t want to put Pip through the trauma of flying overseas so she asked if someone would take her in. I was deployed at the time but missed having a cat in the house since my boy, Figaro, passed away a year and a half prior. I told her I could take Pip if someone else could foster her until I got home from deployment. A coworker of mine said she could do that. The plan for Pip was in place.

I returned from deployment on April 5, 2011, but, due to a burst pipe in the house that required a bit of repair and new carpet, I didn’t pick her up until April 29th. She hid in the closet that first night, but sometime in the middle of the next day, I heard a tiny meow and saw her rubbing her cheek on the hallway wall, trying to decide if she wanted to come over to me or not. Once she decided I was safe, she never left my side.

One day, Pip’s former mom told me if I was leaving on vacation (which I was in June), Pip would freak out if she was left alone. The next day I headed to PetSmart and adopted Andy, a peach floof with no voice. He tried to meow but no sound came out. He was the yin to loudmouth Pip’s yang. They weren’t best buds, but they appreciated each other’s company.

We moved to Minneapolis that July (I knew when I adopted her that we were going to relocate due to my pending reassignment). They adjusted well to our new home, but Andy’s health took a sudden turn, and, by Thanksgiving of that year, he was gone. Pip and I were both sad by his loss. He was a floofy ninja, but his quiet presence was missed. A couple of weeks later, our vet posted a picture of a cat that was looking for a home. He had been sleeping in the window well of a house in the country. The homeowners had taken him to the vet to vaccinate him, get him fixed, and find him a new home. He had big round eyes and little round ears, and within a few days he was a member of our little family. He and Pip got along well. It wasn’t all sunshine and roses in the beginning, but before long they were cuddling together while they slept.

I retired in 2014 and we moved to Rapid City, South Dakota. Again, she and Scotty adjusted well to the move. We went from a 2-bedroom apartment to a 3-bedroom house with a finished basement and a big backyard. She loved sleeping on the windowsills, or on the back of the couch, in front of the big picture window. In the early morning, when I got back from my run, I would let them out the front door so they could roll on the sidewalk and smell the morning smells. She loved rolling on her back!

Four years later, another move took us to the southeast corner of the state. First, we lived in an apartment. They adjusted well, but we were on the second floor so there was no way they could roll on the sidewalk. There was a balcony, but I wouldn’t let them out there very often because I was afraid they’d jump! Also, she was tiny, so I worried about her accidentally rolling under the railing and falling off.

In early 2019, we moved to the house I’m in now. She loved having windows to sleep in front of again. She loved it when I opened the front door, and she could stretch out in the sun for the afternoon. She was happy. At night, she would sleep on my chest while I lounged on the couch watching tv. She slept next to my head at night, making biscuits on my neck while she licked my chin. She even tolerated the third addition to the family, Jimmy. I volunteered at the local humane society and Jimmy had been there for seven months. He started out as a baby, but was growing into a tall, loud boy with a big personality. I brought him home in February 2020 “to foster” him for a weekend, and he hasn’t left yet!

In the past year, Pip started showing her age. She developed a thyroid issue that caused her to lose weight. She was small when I got her; she became tiny. My neighbor referred to her as “Itty Bitty.” She was eating and playing and behaving like usual, but she also started sleeping more. While I watched tv, she would start out on my chest but eventually she would move to my lap, under a blanket, where she could be warm. When I would move upstairs to bed, she would sleep under the covers while I read, and then I would lift the covers, say “okay Pippy” and she would crawl out and make herself comfortable by my head.

On the 4th of this month, she wouldn’t eat. She wouldn’t take her morning Churro with her medicine mixed in. She wouldn’t eat soft food or treats. She just wanted to sleep. I mentally prepared myself for the end. Early in the afternoon, I was in the kitchen when she suddenly came running in, meowing in her loud voice. She was awake and she was hungry! For the next few days, everything was good again. On Sunday the 10th, she wouldn’t eat again. She just wanted to sleep all day. I told myself I would monitor her and, if she continued to turn her nose at food, I would call the vet. Later that night, she ate again. She seemed fine on Monday and Tuesday, although she was sleeping a lot.

Wednesday morning started off normally. My alarm went off at 6:00 a.m. She jumped off the bed, ran into the bathroom, and meowed until I came in, turned on the water in the tub, and lifted her into it so she could lick the water from the drain. She always loved the tub! In the Rapid City house, she would sit on the edge, licking water off the tile wall while I showered. The tub in this house is clawfoot so she couldn’t do that, but if I picked her up and put her in, she would jump out whenever she was done. Wednesday was no different. I went downstairs to feed the boys, and then I went back to the stairs to bring hers to her. She usually met me at the top of the stairs, but this morning she met me at the bottom. She had jumped out of the tub and made it down the stairs with no problem. She licked up her gravy/medication combo, and then followed me upstairs to hang with me while I got ready for work.

I was in the bathroom, getting ready to do my hair, when I looked over and saw Scotty was drinking from the water bowl. Pip was sitting next to him, and she was trying to drink, too, but she couldn’t stand up to get closer. I watched her try to walk away, but her legs collapsed under her. She cried out. I scooped her up and brought her into my room. She stretched out on the bed, next to my leg, while I grabbed my phone and emailed my students to let them know their 8:00 a.m. class was cancelled. I called the vet and left a message. Eventually, we moved downstairs to wait for the vet to call me back. She and I were on the couch; I held her like a baby against my chest. I told her how much I loved her and that it was okay if she just didn’t want to do this anymore. I reminded her of how great our life together was.

The vet called and asked if I could drop her off. I did just that 10 minutes later. I kissed Pip’s head, told her I loved her and went back home to wait. The vet tech called less than an hour later to get more information: Was the inability to walk gradual or sudden? Had she been eating? I answered, hung up, and waited again. Eventually, the doctor called to give me an update. They were going to put her on an IV with some anti-inflammatory medicine to help with the joints and keep her overnight for observation. They had her propped up on a heated pad with soft blankets. I was told I could come visit her any time. I told the doctor I would come around 3:00 p.m. so she’d know I hadn’t abandoned her.

Shortly after noon, the clinic called again. I knew as soon as I saw the caller ID that it was bad news. It was the doctor, letting me know Pip had suffered a seizure and it was time to make the decision. I told her I didn’t want my baby girl to suffer, so I agreed to let her go. She said she would be available at 2:00 p.m., but I could come earlier to spend time with Pip before they administered the medications.

I went at 1:40. I signed the paperwork, opted for cremation with return of the remains, paid the bill, and then they brought her to me. She was wrapped in a puppy pad and a blanket. We sat on that couch for 15 minutes. I cried and told her over and over again how much I loved her. She was so still, I thought perhaps she had passed in my arms. Suddenly, she cried, flipped over, and slapped her paw onto my forehead. I laughed through the tears because she had always been intrusive of my personal space. The fact she was doing so in her final moments was fitting.

The doctor and tech came in. When Figaro and Andy passed, they were on the table, and I petted them while looking at them in their eyes and telling them I loved them. I wanted them to see me while they left this life. Pip stayed on my chest. It was her favorite place to sleep. I kissed her little head over and over again, hoping she heard my words as she slipped away. I also wondered, with her head against my heart, could she hear it breaking, too?

#cats #losing a pet #grief #rainbow bridge

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two4000yroldtortoises · 1 year ago

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time machine meet-up : a lurkers pov (lolzies)

here's a long one lads:

i got into dan and phil in june of 2019. in fact i watched dans coming out video just a few days after moving 5000 miles away from where i grew up. phil's video came out literally 9 days after we arrived at the new house. i rushed into the living room to happily cry to my poor mother about how stoked i was. at the time, we were still sleeping on air mattresses, eating in an empty kitchen using plastic plates and camping chairs. i was 13. queer, adhd riddled, anxious and desperately lonely. dan and phil were the first friends i made in my new home.

while they were on hiatus i caught up. i followed their tags on instagram and spent that first summer scrolling endlessly, filling the hole where friends used to be with old videos and compilations and fanart and fan fiction.

i went to my first pride in my new home with cat whiskers delicately drawn on my face. i hoped it would give me community. id be able to find my people at that march. i didn't. i found them later, but that's a whole other story.

in the last 4-ish years i've become a totally different person. i'm more confident, more open with others and myself, im queerer and weirder and more happy than i have been since i gained consciousness. ive come into myself in so many ways. and now that dan and phil are back, i see the changes in myself reflected in them and it's so, so healing. they're so much funnier, so much kinder, so much gayer and weirder and hornier and louder and so deeply and beautifully and unapologetically themselves.

i love you dan and phil, even though I've never said it. just quietly parasocial, too scared to comment or start a blog or twitter. i'm one of those silent watchers dan talked about in "why i quit youtube", being saved and healed and helped and supported without making a sound. so thanks for that, lads.

and i love you phannies (despite your stupid, stupid fandom name), i love the acceptance and weirdness and queerness and loudness and confident cringyness of this community. i love the home you've built for freaks and geeks on this circle of hell we call the internet. so thank you for that.

i probably won't ever post anyth on this blog again, i just wanted to put it out there how dnp have helped us too, the ones too scared to make friends in the phandom. thank you all for creating a place we can go to anyway, even if we never really interact. thank you for being so unapologetic and so weird. thank you for being so gay and so loud.

here's to many more years of being old, gay, and giving no fucks.

me: 2019 -> 2024

#dnpg #dan and phil games #dan howell #dnpgames #time machine meet up #danandphil #dan and phil #amazingphil #danisnotonfire #dan and phil time machine meet up

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It received to me on late Tuesday night last month on November 28th, the same day when I went to go watch the new Disney animated film, Wish in theatres.

It's been a while since last year in 2022, she acknowledged me, and realized that it was me booking her via DM there on Cameo.

I've been good friends with her since 2019, when she began voicing Ronnie Anne Santiago, taking over from her previous voice actress, Breanna Yde, and she still voices her to this day today.

At the time of me making this video, this was posted 2 days after The Casagrandes Movie was officially announced and I told Miguel Puga (the guy who is a Co-EP/Director on the series and the upcoming animated film) about my Cameo video from Izabella doing her Ronnie Anne voice wishing me a Happy Holiday.

Also, my first Cameo video that I got from a person who is a Hispanic descent, and after I got ones from most of the main cast of The Loud House.

And speaking of where I live (as you guys know that I'm based in the greater Chicago, IL area), it does snow here every winter season from December to the new year in March.

@theloudhouse

@nickelodeon

#ronnie anne santiago #the casagrandes #the loud house #nickelodeon #cameo #christmas 2023 #christmas

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teenmomcentral · 1 year ago

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Teen Mom Jenelle Evans has claimed her husband David Eason possesses ammunition, explosives and guns including an AR-15 in terrifying past court papers.

In Jenelle's own words in a 2019 order of protection, which are being fully revealed for the first time by The U.S. Sun, the former Teen Mom 2 star begged a local court to protect her and her three children from David, while detailing his arsenal of deadly weapons.

In a lengthy statement on the court filing, Jenelle stated: "I married David on September 23 of 2017. Since then, he has been abusive and violent toward me. Because of this behavior, I want to leave him.

"As he has realized this over the past couple of days, he has escalated his threats.

"Although we previously lived together in North Carolina, my children and I moved to Nashville earlier this week.

"David does not currently know where I am. But once he learns, I'm afraid he will try to come and find me and hurt me."

She continued in the court filing: "Because of his recent threats, his history of violence, his erratic behavior and his large stockpile of weapons, I'm scared for my life and the life of my children and my children's well-being."

"I have provided below details and documents in some of his past incidents of verbal and physical abuse, property damage, animal abuse and his most recent threats of violence against me."

"These are not all of the events that have happened, but they provide context for why I'm afraid," she continued before giving 11 jarring alleged instances for which she was pleading the court to protect her from David, now 35.

"I've put them in chronological order below and the dates and the dates are the best estimates that I can recall."

The first incident she listed she estimated happened on or about December 12, 2017.

"About three months after we married David became angry at me. He grabbed and squeezed my arm causing a bruise.

"That same day, David took my car without asking him not tell me where the car was. Without the car, I couldn't easily leave my home," Jenelle alleged in the court documents.

The second incident she listed she estimated happened around October 7, 2018.

"David got angry and destroyed our master bathroom. He tore up the new shelves, broke my prescription glasses, smashed my hair straightener and destroyed a glass vase in the bathroom.

"I don't know what started the argument that led to his actions, but after I confronted him about destroying my things, he came to the bathroom while I was taking a bath and screamed in my face as loud as he could to scare me.

In the third incident, she wrote: "Approximately one week later I called the police on David after I was injured from a fall.

"I don't remember exactly what happened but I know that we were arguing the next thing I remember falling down with him falling on top of me. The fall caused me to injure my collarbone. This was a week after I had septoplasty and was still recovering from surgery," Jenelle alleged in the incident which she believed happened around October 13, 2018.

In the fourth instance, in December of 2018, Jenelle wrote: "David posted a threat on social media against President Trump and Speaker Pelosi."

'"He was angry because he believed they were going to ban certain types of guns. "

The post, which we've referenced Trump and Pelosi in the caption, showed David shooting an assault rifle.

'As a result of the post the Secret Service came to our house to talk to him. In response to the officers' visit, David posted videos threatening to shoot Secret Service agents and showing off his stockpile of ammunition.

"He has a large amount of ammunition, explosives and guns in the house, including semi-automatic firearms like an AR-15.

The day before Valentine's Day in 2019, in a frightening alleged incident involving their daughter Ensley, 6, Jenelle said: "David became angry at me again.

He said 'I'm going to break everything in this motherf*****,' gesturing at the house. I took a video of this incident and it shows him going into the master bedroom and shutting the door.

"On the video, you can see a hole in the door from a previous argument. The video shows spilled coffee on the floor and our daughter Ensley can be heard crying in the background.

"I have attached pictures as Exhibit 6 that show broken glass, turned-over barstools, spilled coffee all of which were a result of his actions."

In a terrifying alleged incident involving Jenelle's son Kaiser, 9, this time, the former MTV star wrote to the court that on February 17, 2019: "David told me 'You can die for all I care. You're a piece of sh***. Biggest piece of s*** I've ever seen.' When he said this, I was recording him on my phone. When David saw I was recording him he flipped off the camera.

"That same day, I took a video of David locking my car door with the car running with my son (his stepson), Kaiser, inside the car. He did this because he was angry at me.

"I had to tell Kaiser to unlock the car. While Kaiser was trying to unlock it, David continuously locked it again with my spare key, scaring both me and Kaiser."

Then, in May of 2019, in a penultimate move that saw Jenelle ousted from her cushy, lucrative MTV gig, and had her children removed from her home by CPS, Jenelle detailed how her husband ruthlessly shot dead their family dog.

"A few months later, our family pet, a French bulldog, nipped our two-year-old daughter Ensley. David was very angry and responded by taking out his gun and shooting the dog to death. This incident led to our children being temporarily moved from our home by CPS," Jenelle wrote.

David has since also admitted to shooting the dog, whose name was Nugget.

The last four incidents that Jenelle chose to outline for the court in her plea for protection against her husband David happened over the span of a week in October of 2019, which led up to her filing the order of protection.

On October 23, Jenelle alleged: "Recently, there have been even more strains in our relationship. It got so bad that David became angry from little things, this time because I had to go to a doctor's appointment.

"As he got angrier, he began to verbally abuse me and threatened me to 'go inside the doctor's office and yell.' I took a video of this incident."

On the 25, Jenelle claimed: "I had to travel out of town for business meetings and find a way to get away from David. But, because I was afraid of David's reaction, I did not tell him I was leaving.

"One worry I had was that he would hide my car keys or take my wallet, so that I couldn't leave. So I made arrangements with children's care before I traveled. But I left without telling David where I was going. In response, he sent me a stream of text messages, accused me of cheating on him and threatening me with harm."

Jenelle said she texted him: 'Because of your threats, I think it's best that I not come home. I picked up Ensley so you don't need to get her. Please stop sending me threatening texts. I'll let you know my plans when things have settled down.' He responded by texting 'f*** you a******' and 'You're a piece of s***.'

"He also claimed to have seen me ride by the house with my 'boyfriend.' I don't have a boyfriend and the only person I was in a car with that day was my mother and children driving to Tennessee.

And finally, on October 30, Jenelle claimed: "David continues to try to call and text me. He posted a picture of me and my daughter on social media saying 'If I had to live without these two I wouldn't want to live at all.'

"Given his actions and knowing his temperament. I believe that he's implying that he would kill himself if I do not come back to him.

"For all these reasons I'm afraid that David will harm me or my children, and that he will continue to threaten me using text messages, phone calls or on the Internet."

Jenelle was granted the temporary order of protection in early November 2019.

By January 2020, Jenelle and David had reconciled and the former Teen Mom 2 star filed to have the order dropped.

About a year later, Jenelle posted a YouTube series about her tumultuous time taking the kids away from David and moving to Tennessee.

In the finale of the series, which she titled Addicted to Growth, David is featured prominently.

He had a very different take on the events that had transpired the year prior.

In the video which was posted to YouTube on October 14, 2020, David alleged that he and Jenelle had separated for entirely different reasons.

David said into the camera: "I know Jenelle and I, we split up for a couple of months, but she just had to go party, get it out of her system. She realized life is not greener on the other side. It's more fun at home, with me, go fishing and stuff."

David was charged with child abuse last week after allegedly assaulting Jenelle's son Jace, 14, just before the teen's third runaway attempt.

According to David's criminal summons, first revealed by The U.S. Sun, he allegedly left marks on Jenelle's son's neck.

Also in the fallout of the alleged attack, Child Protective Services took custody of Jace and he is back living with his grandmother Barbara, who raised him.

#teen mom 2 #mtv #news #court #jenelle evans #david eason

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alteredphoenix · 1 year ago

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The Mountain Wakes Chapter 1 (MKR Bad End AU) 2nd Snippet

It's been a long time since I worked on this, and mainly because my interest dwindled and, at the time, I was so focused on the "reader numbers means the story is good" line of thought (which, honestly, is neither a good nor healthy mindset to have, and I wish I'd known that back then).

But a couple weeks I got a very lovely review from someone who had never commented on a fic before, and it actually makes me want to get back to this again. I'm not sure when that will be, because my interests now lie in the Tales of fandom (as well as some of the big gacha games because GIRLS), but I thought I should post another snippet of the second chapter as compensation.

This one I did work on recently, about over a year ago (January 27, 2022, to which the last update before that had been July 19, 2019), but I remember stopping because I didn't want it to blow up into a 10-20k piece for just one chapter alone, so please forgive how clunky some of the writing comes off as. I think, once I can make the time for it and have the chance, I can figure something out.

This features an OC as the primary POV for the chapter, as a means of providing a glimpse into the world post-Crash (e.g. Zagato and Emeraude force the Pillar to keep running in spite of the emotional and psychological danger they represent to it and as a result cause a global cataclysm that opens up the Roads). I wouldn't get too attached to him; in more than one way, he's not in the story for very long.

This one's for you, SunburstSenshi.

At the moment he anticipated the sound of the third ring the rain came down in a stentorian burst that it drowned out the tinny static on the other end of the line. He swore out loud, banged his fist on the glass of the booth, and leaned in closer until his forehead was touching his arm draped over the top of the payphone. It was pointless even with the receiver jammed as hard as it would go against his ear, but like a fool he listened for the sign of the call to be answered mid-ring, the plastic knocking of a device on its charging station being removed, the static snow humming in the background.

A third ring.

A fourth ring.

“Come on,” he grumbled. “Come on….”

A fifth ring.

A sixth ring.

Silence. He held his breath.

A dull click, like a blocky light switch being flipped. Then came the automated voice message that gave him the same scripted rundown the past three attempts. “We’re sorry. The number you are trying to call cannot be reached at this time. Please insert the appropriate change to make a call and remain on the line or wait for an operator for further assistance.”

“Goddammit,” Phedra snarled under his breath. “Fucking asshole.” He drew away, nestled the phone within the crook of his neck, and dug around in the pockets of his poncho. He bent to the right as he pawed deeper within, bottom lip jutting in a pout, grit his teeth as he recognized the snag of fibers with each pull. He groused, moved his left hang to the spot on the outside of the fabric opposite his right hand on the bottom, jigged his fingers up and down until he felt the threads let go and the keyring give way.

He drew out the wallet, a simple bifold thing made out of leather. He undid the snap, flipped it open and peered inside the gap. His index finger prodded the three large coins resting one against the other like the walls on a house of cards. The handsome faces minted on them stared back at him, cool and unimpressed.

“Shit.” Phedra frowned. He scooped the coins up, dumped the wallet back into his pocket, and spread them out flat on the palm of his hand. He took one between his fingers and put it in the deposit slot; it fell inside with a loud, hollow thunk. He inserted the remaining two one at a time, jabbed the number in, and moved the strain off his neck and shoulder by keeping the phone glued to his ear.

First there was the electrical buzz of the landline. Then it stopped.

It dialed once.

It dialed a second time.

Phedra glanced out of the windowpane. The downpour was still going but the sheet that had come down moments before had let up. He could discern the distorted, fish-eye silhouettes of people scurrying back and forth across the platform, moving in and out of the awning’s shelter. Separated by several feet along the entranceways to the station the shapes of large, stone lions stood sentinel. Their blue and green eyes glowed in the gloom; even from here, he could taste the ozone of magic on the tip of his tongue, feel the cotton-soft sensation on the back of his nape. They were unmoving. Their gaze was forward, focused on the trains.

They did not look at him.

A third ring.

A fourth ring.

It cut out in the middle, replaced by a metallic shuffle on the other end, an intake of breath.

“Hello!” Phedra said. “It’s me! Phedrasos! I picked up the packages you wanted from the shop. The small, delicate ones, that have to be stuffed with newspaper and foam...no. No, I did not have too much trouble getting them...Yes, there was a line. A big line. But I showed them the card you gave me, the laminated one. I showed them and they let me go up to the front to get them.” He grinned. “You were right. It was that easy. Yes. Yes, they’re still with me. No, I won’t lose them; I know how long you’ve been waiting for them. It may be a few more days but I will bring them to you. I promise, they’ll be in one piece. Okay...okay. If anything happens, I’ll give you a call. Okay. Okay. I'll see you soon. Bye."

#mywriting #fanfiction #magic knight rayearth #the mountain wakes #mkr bad end AU

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dorothydalmati1 · 1 year ago

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Obscure Animation Subject #13: ThunderCats Roar

Originally posted on Twitter on January 13, 2023.

Developed by Victor Courtright and Marly Halpern-Graser, it is based on the ThunderCats franchise created by Ted Wolf, and the third show for the franchise following the original 1985 series and the 2011 reboot.

Premiering on Cartoon Network on February 22, 2020, its produced by Warner Bros. Animation and features a similar premise to the original series, but with a more light-hearted comedic tone compared to previous incarnations. It lasted only one season of 52 11-minute episodes.

The final episode aired on December 5, 2020, and following his death on October 25, 2022, this is the final production Jules Bass worked for, as well as his only work without involvement of Arthur Rankin Jr., who died on January 30, 2014. May both Bass and Rankin rest in peace.

Unfortunately, this show ended the career of Bass on a sour note, as this show is universally panned and often compared to TTG, even when it was announced in 2018. The show was originally scheduled for a 2019 premiere, but was postponed to 2020 thanks to the backlash.

And not gonna lie, after watching the first episode for a few seconds I stopped watching. It made me watch the first episode of the original series instead, because it made me cringe! It’s one of the most annoying shows I had seen, it never shuts up and is loud and obnoxious!

The animation is awful with the ugly color palette, eyesore designs and feeling like an amateur YouTube animation. The humor is hot garbage, and so brain dead. It also has a horrendous gasp from the source material, being far from an actual ThunderCats show and more like a spoof.

The characters also all became dumb asses who act happy all the time, with Lion-O being the worst offender. And speaking of TTG, they had a crossover episode with that show, and typical for TTG, mocked the show’s critics! This truly shows that the crew can’t handle criticism.

Not helping is that Jessica Borutski of The Loud House fame is a director on the show, and she already have involvement with other terrible shows like Bunnicula as developer and other roles and Ren & Stimpy: APC, where she was an animator on the episode Stimpy’s Pregnant.

PLEASE! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW AT ALL! Even if your a diehard of ThunderCats, don’t watch it and stick with the previous shows! I’m not a ThunderCats fan myself, but I know it has its fans and Roar is insulting to them, after the 2011 reboot was cancelled.

#thundercats #thundercats roar #obscure animation

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Yeah, I totally agree with you as you said!! Nickelodeon has a big history of cancelling Shows that are underperforming!! Like, so much big!! They cancelled every single good Nick Jr shows like Oswald, The Backyardigans etc. And I think the cancellation of Peter Rabbit, which was my favorite series even before Prodigy came out, after 2 seasons run made Nick Jr less watchable and less creative, like they are focusing on PAW Patrol only, they even cancelled Dora the Explorer in 2019!! And For main Nickelodeon rated TV-Y7 shows, they canceled The Casagrandes, Middlemost Post (maybe), Welcome to the Wayne and so many!! Only Spongebob SquarePants and The Loud House remained!! And yeah!! Not everyone have the access to Paramount+ Subscriptions, even though Cable premiere on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons channel is a thing!! Because TV is more accessible than streaming!! And Star Trek: Prodigy has great story arcs and great Character development and executions in S1 all 20 episodes!! Because I can't stand with Miraculous Ladybug anymore!! It's going nowhere!! I started hating more on this series, ever since the creator of Miraculous, Thomas Astruc, blocked me on Twitter, for asking him a mere question about it's end point!! He is so rude on Twitter, not like Hageman Brothers Or Aaron J. Waltke, you know!! And MLB's likely most of the fandom is toxic!! The Story's Execution and Character Development are outright worst!! And they're claiming their show as Worldwide Phenomenon!! I loved Miraculous Ladybug in the first place, because it was fun to watch, the Basic Concept was back then entertaining, but now it has wasted their potential seasons after seasons!! They are now merch-driven basically!! Merchandises are good for promoting a show, but the overhype killed the series entirely!! Thomas Astruc should know that he is not Walt Disney or something!! And Mostly, Miraculous Ladybug is now overshadowing every single series which are better than Miraculous itself, including ST: Prodigy!! Even Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and The Owl House and Bluey are better than MLB!! We haven't learn anything from Netflix and HBO Max's Animation Purge last year!! It's threatening for Animation as a medium!! And I don't consider MLB fans to be the actual fans of Animation!!

And that's my frustration!! I hope ST: Prodigy slowly, but steadily gain enough fans to just thrive it!! And yeah, Paramount should focus on some Prodigy Merch even more, but not hampering the actual series itself!! If Only Dal and Gwyn's ship could have been acknowledged by the fans even more than 110% of what they are trying to acknowledge Marinette and Adrien's ship (like OMG, that ship is too toxic to talk)!! But I think That will take time!!

Thanks so much for replying!!

Hi, @sunnyvalentine

It's me, Aniket!! I want to ask you, if you don't mind!! I'm here to tell you that Star Trek: Prodigy is one of my favorite series to watch as you are!! Before I started watching Star Trek: Prodigy, I never watched any of those Star Trek Series Or Movies at that time!! And I mean it!! I started watching it in curiosity, because it's a Nickelodeon Series and I'm an Ardent fan of Animation Media!! And it turned out to be on one of my favorites list of Animated TV Series!! Granted, at first episode, it was giving much more like Star Wars vibes, but none of these impacted the series whatsoever or disconnect me watch any further like others did!! Great First Season overall!! But the series isn't getting much attention as of today!! I'm not talking about Star Trek fans, in general!! I'm talking about Animation Fans, who aren't even Star Trek fans, who didn't even try to watch the series in curiosity!! They don't realize they're missing the gem of Currently Animated TV media now!! Maybe the "Star Trek" Name in the title dissuading them to watch, IDK!! But I think they should try to watch atleast once!! But they are not sure about if they will give it a shot or not!!

What do you think?? Will the Animation Fans ever give ST: Prodigy much attention?? BTW, can't wait for S2 this winter!!

Hello,

Well, I think there are two main reasons why general animation fans, who are not Trekkies, don't jump onto Prodigy as much as the show deserves.

1.) It's a Paramount problem.

Which means, Paramount badly sucks at successfully promoting their own amazing show. There is such a horrible lack of merchandise, it's almost physically painful to see how much money the studio looses because it DOESN'T promote and sell Prodigy to the wider range of fans. Where are the Murf plushies? The Protostar playsets? We get a little bit of T-shirts, some books and a ( very good ) videogame, but there could be soooooo, so much more.

And Paramount itself is not a studio known for their widely available animation content, like, fans who mainly watch animation most likely do not have a Paramount+ subscription. Locking Prodigy away on Paramount+ only is such a waste. Okay, it's on Nickelodeon too, but let's be honest, that channel is mostly there for parents of elementary school aged kids, who want to switch on the TV so the kids can watch something colourful and the parents will have a quiet hour for themselves. Prodigy is also wasted on that. Nickelodeon doesn't promote the show much either anyways.

The show should be on Netflix or Amazon Prime. The kind of channels where fans watch the good stuff like 'The Dragon Prince' or big, known shows like 'The owl house' and 'Miraculous Ladybug'. When the fans go and watch that stuff, they need to be recommended Prodigy as next show to watch. So they will actually know that it is there.

Conclusion: Star Trek Prodigy is just hard to find and access, unless we, the fans ourselves, promote it around the Internet and to animation fans who actively look for new, good shows to watch.

2.) Star Trek Prodigy is TOO good.

Shows with a lot of fan activities are usually shows with flaws. Fans watch their show and then go online to discuss how their characters could be better, they write fix-it fanfics and create their own version of the show by making it better as the actual Canon is.

But what is there to 'fix' about Prodigy...?

Nothing much.

The character arcs are flawless, the story is three dimensional and well thought through. You can watch the show and be fully content with it the way it is. No real need to rewrite anything really. Fans watch it, express their love for it online, agree with other fans about how amazing everything about it is and then sit there to wait for the story to continue.

That's it.

Actually, I am currently glad that Prodigy has a smaller fandom as other animated shows. The big ones tend to attract drama and annoying, pointless discussions or fights about fans having different opinions about ships or character arcs.

I am happy for see new fans finding and enjoying the show, I welcome them and hope they will keep loving Prodigy, but I personally am content in my nice, little corner with some great mutuals who love to talk Prodigy now and then.

#star trek prodigy #star trek #animation fandom #animation #nickelodeon #Yeah #waiting for Season 2

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shinovii · 6 years ago

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And now for a little fun (don't take it personally).

What your favorite/least favorite Loud House character says about you!

Rita Loud

Fave: You're a fanfic writer with great ideas and a caring heart. The kind of person who's not afraid to tell people off if they hate on your work. Likely to be the team mom of the group.

Least Fave: You don't know how to handle feedback when your fanfic needs a lot of work. Probably hasn't relaxed in years.

Lynn Loud Sr.

Fave: You're a novice cook that wants to try new recipes at any given moment even if it turns out bad. Most likely read a big book of puns just to be a hit at parties.

Least Fave: Never tasted good lasagna before. Enjoys the faceless parents schtick from season 1.

Lori Loud

Fave: Can't get off their phone even when on vacation. Checks Tumblr every second to see if something new popped up on their dash. Mostly chats through Messenger or WhatsApp. Plays Mario Golf everyday.

Least Fave: Only watched season 1 and refused to like her ever since. Wishes they could cuss at her something fierce.

Leni Loud

Fave: The nicest friend anyone could have. Watches fashion vlogs on YouTube everyday. Plays character creator flash games all the time.

Least Fave: You gave your heart to darkness...

Luna Loud

Fave: You probably ship her and Sam relentlessly, but are open to putting her in other ships. Likely has heard every Gorillaz song over 5 times. Has played Guitar Hero, Rockband, or Samba de Amigo frequently. Drinks root beer regularly.

Least Fave: You hate "L is For Love, Really Loud Music, or House Music". Has only listened to "Feel Good Inc" and nothing else. Probably had a pixie-cut at one point and hated it.

Luan Loud

Fave: Is a fan of Chuggaaconroy because of his witty puns. Has probably watched Home Alone one too many times, and attempted the same traps at one point. Listened to at least one Abbot and Costello routine.

Least Fave: Has constantly fallen for the joy buzzer. Hates the April Fools Day episodes with a burning passion. Can't prank anyone and gets irritated everytime they fail.

Lynn Loud

Fave: You completed every Mario sports game there is twice. You likely grew up watching pro wrestling and haven't stopped. You were that one kid in Dodgeball who showed no mercy.

Least Fave: You hated No Such Luck, and refused to like Lynn ever since.

Lincoln Loud

Fave: You either ship him with Ronnie Anne, or you ship him in harems of varying levels, there's no in-between. Adorkable. Makes people laugh by accident. Likely reads Scott Pilgrim. Really a fun person to hang around with.

Least Fave: You were the kid that got pelted by dodgeballs. Has bad taste in anime. Only plays FPS games.

Lucy Loud

Fave: You subscribed to RebelTaxi on YouTube. Likely watches Hellsing Ultimate. Has probably written a poem or two at some point.

Least Fave: You call every goth character edgy because it's the cool thing to do.

Lana Loud

Fave: You had many pets growing up, and remember them fondly. Jumped in the ball pit everytime. A kind person who's not afraid to bite back.

Least Fave: Has not seen her focus episodes yet.

Lola Loud

Fave: Angelica was your favorite character when you watched Rugrats. Can be sweet, but chooses to intimidating. Takes all the stars and coins in Mario Party.

Least Fave: You watched her in season 1 and hated her ever since. Hates the bratty characters in cartoons.

Lisa Loud

Fave: Probably carries a mini thesaurus around. Is a massive Dexter's Laboratory fan. Science was your favorite subject in class.

Least Fave: You had one of those chemistry sets as a kid and got bored with it a week later. Could be a B or C student.

Lily Loud

Fave: You are the fun babysitter everyone calls for. Likely a talented artist. Mains Isabelle in Smash because she's adorable.

Least Fave: You literally take candies from babies. Mains K Rool in Smash.

#the loud house #rita loud #lynn loud sr.#lori loud #leni loud #luna loud #luan loud #lynn loud #lincoln loud #lucy loud #lana loud #lola loud #lisa loud #lily loud #first loud house post of 2019 from me!

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ghost-of-you · 2 years ago

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Catch 22 - CH - Part 1

Paring: Calum Hood x Original Female Character

Word Count: 5.2k

Warnings: Some swearing but I think that’s it, this part is pretty chill.

Author's note: Okay, so, this story is my nemesis. If you follow me you probably saw me complaining about this at least once. I’ve been writing this since April 2019 and I’ve tried to write some form of it many times since 2013 so the fact that I'm actually posting this is quite impressive to me. This started as a one-shot of a fight and, well, I thought about how I could make the full story work this time and it got out of my control. It’s kinda like if I wrote the guy my 17 yo self was building in her head while he kept pulling shit on me.

About the story: the full thing is about 60k long, and it’s a slowburn, it’s unconventional, but still a slowburn, they just go around and around, you’ll get what I mean. Honestly, when I think about this story I think about how I met your mother and the quote “If you have chemistry, you only need one other thing: timing. But timing is a bitch." I really like chronic bad timing as a plot point and the interesting thing about bad timing is that once it's wrong it's really hard to get it right, add that and a shit ton of denial and we have them. Oh there's also a lot of best friend Michael cuz this is self-indulging okasoasas

quick shoutout to @in-superbloom and @hoodharlow for the feedback on this and literally everyone that had to listen to me talk about this in the past 3 years or so.

The title for this one is from State of Grace by Taylor Swift.

read it on ao3

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And I never saw you coming

2011

Sitting on the floor of Michael's room while losing to him in whatever video game they are playing is a common thing in Emma's life. What isn't as common are the other boys that crashed into it. Although they are quickly becoming a constant in her routine: getting home from school, listening to the loud sounds coming from the house next door, crashing rehearsals, and talking about music.

Days like this, where there isn’t someone playing some instrument, are rare, but the Mario Kart match escalated, and Michael and Luke not wanting to admit defeat had turned the game into a full tournament. Emma is betting on Michael and Calum, on Luke.

"Of course, Michael is going to win, playing is all he ever does," she states, gesturing to both boys in the bed while sitting on the floor next to Calum, and that makes Michael protest with a "hey.”

"But Luke is better at this game," Calum says as a red shell hits Luke, allowing Michael to pass him in the last curve.

"Is he, though?" Emma points at the screen, grinning at Calum, making him roll his eyes.

"Victory!" Michael says, dropping his controller, and she leans forward to high-five him.

"That doesn't prove anything," Luke complains as the podium sequence plays on the screen.

"Wasn't that the whole point of the last 30 minutes? Come on it's just a stupid game, who cares?" Emma says, running her hands through her hair.

"I do!" Both boys answer in unison.

“You guys are ridiculous. This game takes more luck than ability. You can be the first, take a blue shell just because you’re loading too much of the track and loose, or Michael can be second during the whole thing and get a red one and pass Luke in the last second. You’ll never settle this. We’ll be here forever at this pace.” She doesn't realize how frustrated she sounds, throwing her hands up, as the two boys looked at her dumbfounded.

“She’s got a point, mate,” Calum says by her side, pressing his lips to stop himself from laughing, and she bursts into laughter when she turns to him. She doesn’t really know why she’s laughing so much. It all just feels so funny to her. So she throws her head back, laughing until she’s out of breath. The boys following as if the girl losing it was the funniest thing that happened that day. Not Michael pushing Calum off the bed when he was about to pass him. Or the terrible race between Emma and Luke where she somehow finished it a full five minutes after he won.

“No, I don’t, not really,” she says when she finally catches her breath again. “That was intense for someone that’s saying you’re the ones too invested,” she adds, looking at Michael, who has an amused expression on his face.

“Does that mean you don’t want me to win?” He asks her with a grin.

“Well, it would be good for your ego to lose sometimes. It’s not like I’m that big of a competition,” Emma shrugs, “at least Luke makes you work for it.”

“So it means you’re admitting I’m the best?” He brags, making her roll her eyes.

“Wouldn’t you like that, M? Maybe you should start another tournament, it’s not like you’re gonna settle this anytime soon.”

“Or we could rehearse like we were supposed to,” Calum says, eyeing them.

“Cal's right,” Luke says, picking up a guitar.

“So, you’re giving up?” Michael questions and Luke just sighs.

“Winning by default it’s not really winning,” Calum says.

“But I already won.” Michael protests, looking around his friends.

“Did you? Did you really?” Calum adds, making Emma choke on a chuckle.

"After this, I want a rematch," Michael replies, pointing at Luke before picking up his guitar.

"You want a rematch for a game you won?" Emma asks, with a giggle. "See, I told you losing would be good for your ego."

"That doesn't make any sense, trouble," he says, giving her a confused look.

"Of course it does," she shrugs as if telling him to let it go. "What song are you doing next?"

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"Hey," Emma says before sitting down on the curb and nudging the boy already sitting there with her shoulder and Calum turns and smiles at her, removing his earphones.

"Hi," he replies, while she takes her backpack off her shoulders and places it in front of her.

"It's M not home yet?" She asks, wondering why he's sitting outside alone.

"Nope," he answers, fidgeting with the cable in his hands.

"Shouldn't you be in school with him then?" She tilts her head, studying him, his brown eyes staring back into her hazel ones.

"I skipped it today," he replies, voice low.

"M is at school and you're not?" She laughs, sounding confused before pausing and looking at him for a moment, “are you okay?” She adds, still trying to read him.

“Yeah, just tired,” he nods and rubs his eyes before going back to playing with the cable, twisting it between his fingers.

“Okay,” she decides not to push it. “What are we listening to?” She asks, taking the earphones from him, putting one side in her ear, and listening until she recognizes an All Time Low song playing. She nods to it, scooting closer to him and offering him the other side. He raises an eyebrow to her, before letting out a chuckle and taking it, placing it in his ear.

They stay like that until the song changes, and he relaxes beside her, dropping his head to her shoulder. She giggles when he yawns and lowers her head to his. That’s how Michael and Luke find them after a few songs, sharing earphones on the sidewalk.

“Awn,” Michael says, making Emma roll her eyes and Calum dart away, taking the cord with him, making Emma turn to him, laughing at the alarm in his face.

“You good?” She asks, getting up, and the boy nods. “Come on,” she offers her hand, helping him stand up and stopping in front of him, still holding his hand. “You sure?” She whispers, tilting her head, searching his face. Something about his expression softens, looking at her, and he nods again, letting go of her hand.

“This is like, the first time in months, I’m home before you guys get here,” she turns to the other boys, greeting them with fist bumps, before picking her backpack from the ground, “but I’ll see you tomorrow,” she says and waves, walking away backward.

“Wait, you’re not coming?” Michael asks, frowning at her.

“Nope, sometimes I need to catch up on my school work, if you’re gonna be the famous one, I need to be the smart one,” she jokes, stopping to see his reaction.

“What are you implying?” He frowns harder at her as the other two boys laugh, and she raises her hands.

“You can get whatever you want from that,” she shrugs, “I’ll love you anyway.” She turns on her heels, mock-saluting them, “I’ll see ya soon.”

She reaches her gate and waves again to the boys still on the sidewalk, before going in.

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"Let's go to the beach," Emma offers, getting up from the floor. They are in Calum's house, supposedly at band rehearsal, now that school is out and they are actually a band, but Emma could tell they were drained. Michael was playing the same note repeatedly, and Ashton was just slowly hitting the same spot on his cajón again and again. They all look at her like it's a terrible idea. "Come on, you guys haven't come up with anything since we got here. You need to get your energy flowing," she adds but they still didn't look convinced. "It's a beautiful day, please, you'll feel better and I like a spot not far from here," she says, looking at Ashton with pleading eyes, knowing that if she convinces him, then the others will follow.

"She's right," Calum says, taking her by surprise, but she smiles at him.

"Come on," she says moving to Michael, taking the guitar away from him with no resistance, taking his hands and pulling him to his feet, "we can take a ball, it will be fun."

"Are you trying to convince me by using a ball?" He gives her an unimpressed look.

"I'll let you throw it at people's heads," she jokes, making them laugh.

"Fine," he agrees, making her let out an excited "yes!" As she spins on her heels, "you do have a ball, right?" She says to Calum, making the boys grin, and Calum smirks and raises an eyebrow at her, "don't you dare," she warns him, raising her eyebrow and he raises his arms in defense, "I meant a football or something, didn't you used to play?"

"I do have a football or something," he looks like he's going to add something, but she shoots him another warning look.

"Great, go get it and let's go!" She shoos him, laughing and he frowns at her but does what she asks while she moves around the room, getting the rest of the boys to get up.

The walk to the place Emma wants to go is short, passing quickly as she stops Michael from throwing the ball into random strangers.

"But you said you'd let me," he pouts when she finally takes the ball away from him.

"Yeah, I meant Luke's head," she replies, earning a "hey" from the blonde while the rest of them laugh.

They finally get to the beach, a spot by the end of it, rock formations to the left, and a patch of sand with not much around.

Emma kicks her sneakers off, picking them up and making a beeline straight to the sea. She's laughing and kicking water, Michael joining her.

"Is it cold?" One of the boys asks as she jumps to Michael's back.

"Yeah," she answers and laughs when Michael pretends to throw her into the water, making her hold on to him harder. He's holding her by her thighs and walks them back to the rest of the boys.

"So? You're all just gonna stand there?" She asks, giving a disapproving look, resting her chin on Michael's shoulder.

"What are we supposed to do?" Luke asks.

"How should I know? I just wanted to get you all out of that room. You need some fun," she says with a grin.

"You could throw the ball at them," Calum suggests handing him the ball, and the blonde grins turning back to Emma and Michael, making her screech and jump off Michael's back the moment the ball hits him. He surprisingly catches it and throws it back, hitting Calum, who turns it into a game of dodgeball.

She doesn’t know how it happens, but all 5 of them are lying in the sand, Emma laughing so hard her belly hurts about how the ball bounced off Luke's head into Ashton's.

"I'm gonna go find us something to drink," Ashton says while getting up. "Does anyone want to come?"

"Yeah, sure," Luke says while he and Michael stand up.

"I'm fine right here," Emma says, and Michael looks back, looking conflicted.

"I'll stay with her," Calum tells him, who nods, and the boys start walking to the street, leaving them alone and Calum moves closer to sit beside her.

"How are you not freezing?" He asks, making her look down at her tank top and his hoodie while sitting up. The sudden change in the weather took her by surprise, the sun hiding and the salty wind picking up speed, making her painfully cold now that he had pointed it out.

"Oh, I am," she reaches her hand to him, touching his cheeks with ice-cold hands and he curses.

"I would offer my hoodie, but then I'd be cold," he jokes, making her roll her eyes. He looks thoughtful for a second and shifts in the sand, getting behind her, legs outstretched on both of her sides, "come here," he pulls her towards him, making her gasp, but melt into him when he wraps his arms around her, "no reason why any of us have to be cold."

"God, you're warm," she drops her head to his shoulder, leaning back on his chest, trying to get as much heat as she could, while she sneaks her hands into his sleeves.

"And you're an ice cube," he states, taking her hand from his arm, making her move her head so she could look at him. "You know, for someone that's claiming to love the beach, you'd think you wouldn't be transparent," he jokes, laughing at how white she is as he looks at her fingers between his.

"Hey, I'm tanner than M," she protests and he laughs.

"That's not hard."

She is about to protest when he pulls the ends of his sleeve, covering his right hand and taking her left, intertwining their fingers, effectively covering hers too. He does the same with the other hand, and she settles back against him.

"God, I love you," she closes her eyes, enjoying the heat.

"Nah, you just love how hot I am," he teases, and she laughs.

"Yeah, you're right."

They start talking about the plans for the holidays, her head moving to lay on his arm, so she could look at him, making him shift his leg up to rest his arm on his knee, making it more comfortable.

"Guys," Ashton's voice startles them both, making Emma jump and Calum drop his head to her shoulder with a sigh, while the boys sit down on the sand next to them, Michael shooting her a weird look and she mouths a “what?” and he mouths back “you two are cute,” and winks at her making her roll her eyes.

“Here,” Ashton throws a bottle to Emma, but Calum is faster, letting go of her hand and catching it before it falls. She laughs, looking at Calum and back at Ashton, getting her hands ready to pick up the second bottle he’s about to throw. She catches it and drops her head on Calum’s shoulder, and the boys start talking about some game, and she just relaxes, the last few rays of the sun making her content with just being there.

It doesn’t take long before the sun is completely gone, and thunders start rumbling, bringing them back to reality.

She detaches herself from Calum, getting up, shaking the sand off of her, and reaching a hand out to him to help him up. He takes it, holding on to it for a second too long. When they get to the street, Calum takes his hoodie off and hands it to Emma.

"I thought you weren't going to offer," she teases, accepting it but looking unconvinced down to it.

"I can take it back if you don't want it," he reaches for it, but she pulls it away.

"No!" She says, her voice high-pitched, "I was just wondering."

"My house is the closest, love, it's fine."

She looks at the hoodie in her hands and back to his face before pulling it over her head, not even noticing he had just called her love. It goes down to her thighs, almost covering her shorts. She's folding the sleeves so she can use her hands when she notices him looking at her.

"What?" She shoots him a questioning look, and he shakes his head and says, "nothing," at the same time Michael calls for her.

She’s still looking at Calum as the soft smile fades from his face when she moves away from him.

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Emma doesn't even have time to question herself on why she is there. The rain took her by surprise, and now she's knocking on Calum's door, her feet taking her there because she has no idea where else to go. She's painfully cold and soaking wet from the run, praying for him to be home.

"Emma?" Calum takes in the sight of her with confused eyes, and she almost cries out in happiness at seeing him.

"Hi, can I wait here?" She says trying not to think about how cold she's feeling, "I called my dad but he can't pick me up yet and I'm cold and I'm wet and I didn't know where else to go," she rambles all in one breath making Calum laugh.

"You were at the beach," he states, “get in here,” moving to let her in, and she nods while getting into the house and she tries not to get water everywhere while following him to his room.

"Here," he hands her a towel, and she wraps it around her shoulder, too cold to try and dry herself. "What happened?" He asks while she stands in the middle of his bedroom, now unsure of what to do.

"I didn't notice the weather changing," she holds the towel closer, teeth chattering, and he walks to his dresser.

"No, why were you alone at the beach distracted enough not to notice the rain?" He asks, turning back to her, handing her a black piece of cloth, making her frown at him. "Dry yourself and we can talk without you breaking your teeth," he jokes and steps out of the room to give her privacy.

She stares at his closed door for a second before shaking her head and looking at the fabric in her hand, a plain long-sleeved black shirt. She dries herself as best as she can, before pulling his shirt over her head.

She looks around the room, confusion spinning in her head for a second, before walking out of the room to look for Calum, finding him sitting in the kitchen.

"Thanks," she stops by the door while grabbing the ends of the long sleeves and closing them in her hands, trying to keep in as much heat as she could, "for the shirt," she says when he turns to look at her.

"Can't let you freeze," he shrugs and she smiles at him swinging her arms around her while stepping into the kitchen.

"Are you alone?" She asks, looking around the room.

"Yep," he says, popping the p, and she stops.

"You sure it's okay for me to be here?"

"No, I should totally throw you back out in the rain," he teases, voice heavy with sarcasm, and she rolls her eyes, closing the distance to the chair beside him, leaning into the back of it.

There's a moment of silence where he's looking at her with a soft expression on his face, and she doesn't know what to do with herself.

"I just didn't want to be home," she blurts out, and he tilts his head, face puzzled. "You asked why I was at the beach," she states, and he shakes his head.

"No, I asked why you were distracted on the beach," he corrects, and she shrugs.

"Same difference."

"Is it?"

"I just lost track of time, I guess. I like being there. It’s calming."

"Is this why you like being there so much? ‘Cause it's calming?" He asks, looking intently at her.

"I'm not really calm in most places y' know?" She tells him after a beat.

"Not really," he chuckles.

She pulls the chair back, moving around it to sit facing him.

"It's just that, most of the time, I'm way too conscious about everything around me, so when I find a place that makes me stop feeling like that, I tend to forget about anything else." She pulls her feet up to sit with her legs crossed, leaning forward to prop her chin in her hands, "so on a bad day I run to the beach," she thinks for a second, "that if M is not available," she chuckles and Calum is looking at her, trying to understand it, and a small part of her wonders why she’s so comfortable around him.

"That sounds stressful."

"Maybe? Most days I barely notice it. Some days I don't notice it at all, some days are hell though," she frowns and shakes her hand to move the sleeves up so she could use her hands, "I don't know, does it make sense?"

"Not at all," he says, shaking his head.

"Well, it doesn't make much sense for me either," she tucks her hair behind her ear, "like, if I'm in class or something, I'm really conscious of everything, but if I'm at M's place and we are playing something, I'm not."

"Are you stressed now?" He leans forward a bit, his gaze so intense Emma feels like he can see her thoughts. That alone should've been enough to make her freak out, but when she looks back at him, she's as calm as she possibly could.

"Not really," she shakes her head.

"Good, come here," Calum says, standing up, taking her hand, and pulling her with him.

He walks them back to his room, still holding her hand, only letting go to sit down. She sits on his bed, kicking her shoes off and sliding into the bed while he fumbles around with his computer.

She laughs when Avatar The Last Airbender starts and raises an eyebrow at him when he turns around.

"What? It's good," he replies, standing up, "I was watching it before you got here. Now make room for me," he adds, making her roll her eyes while moving, crossing her legs, and leaning against the headboard. He settles beside her when the recap ends, and a clap of thunder makes her jump.

"God, I hate storms," she whimpers and unconsciously leans closer to him.

The episode is barely in the middle, Emma's head leaning on Calum's shoulder, when there's a flash, another thunder shaking through the house, and all the lights go out, leaving them in the dark.

"I fucking hate storms," she grunts again, burying her face in his shoulder and making him laugh. "What?" She asks, lifting her head.

"Nothing, I just don't think I've ever heard you swear before," he replies, making her groan and fight the urge to roll her eyes even though he can't see it.

“Really? Me saying fuck is funny? How old are you? Ten?” She frowns, leaning back to the headboard.

“Yeah, something like that,” he replies with a chuckle and she laughs.

“You want me to say fuck more often? For you to get used to it?” She jokes, watching his silhouette become clearer as her eyes get used to the dark.

“No, you’re too cute for me to get used to it.”

“Cute? Sure, I’ll take it,” she chuckles, and he gets up searching for something.

She watches, trying to see what he was doing until a song she didn't know starts playing on his phone.

"Come on, get up," he says, holding his hand out to Emma, who just looked up at him, confusion on her face.

"What? Why?" she asks, not moving, frowning at him suspiciously.

"I just want to try something," he takes her hands, and she lets him pull her to her feet.

She watches as he takes her left hand and puts it on his shoulder before doing the same with her right.

"Cal, what are you doing?"

“Can you just trust me, love?” He leads, making them move from side to side, and she chokes out a laugh. But she lets him move them, awkwardly dancing until it’s not awkward at all.

He moves a piece of her hair away from her face, and she feels her face heat up as his hand lingers on her cheek, and for a moment she's thankful there's not enough light around them, so he couldn’t see her blushing. She can barely make out his features in the low light, so she doesn't know if she is imagining the intensity in his gaze.

They stop moving, and Emma can feel her heart hammering in her chest. She wonders what's going through his mind, and she thinks he's leaning in when her phone starts ringing and the lights come back on, making them jump away from each other.

She clears her throat and shakes her head, moving to pick up her phone from the table while Calum scratches the back of his neck and starts looking at everything in the room but her.

"Hi, dad," she answers, sounding a little baffled before she can put her thoughts in order, "no, I'm not in the rain, I'm at Calum's," she pauses, listening, "you know, dark hair in the band with M? You drove us here the other day. Yeah, yeah, near the beach," she pauses again. "Okay, see you in a bit." She hangs up and puts the phone in her back pocket, turning to Calum, "he's already coming to pick me up," she motions to her back, "maybe I should wait outside, he said he's close," he only nods at her, whatever was happening before is clearly gone now, "okay." She mumbles fidgeting with the ends of her sleeves, before putting her shoes back on. "I'll give you your shirt back next time I see you," she says, even though she still hasn’t returned his hoodie, and moves out of the room with Calum following her.

"Yeah, don't worry about it, love," he says from behind her.

"Thank you," she murmurs when they reach the door, and she hears her father honking. Calum opens the door, and in a moment of boldness, Emma stands on her tiptoes, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. "See ya, Cal," she says, rushing to her father’s car, leaving the boy standing there.

He's still watching when the car turns, and she can no longer see him in the rearview mirror.

______

Emma jumps when her phone rings on the counter, making her almost drop the tray she's about to set next to it. She puts the tray down before checking the phone.

From Cal: are u home?

She blinks a couple of times before responding, still startled.

To Cal: yeah…

To Cal: why?

From Cal: I think im early for rehearsal.

She laughs and makes her way through the house, stepping out to the porch and seeing Calum sitting on the sidewalk.

"Hey!" She calls for him, and when he turns around, she waves him over before buzzing the gate open.

"Hi, love," he greets her.

"Hey," she motions for him to follow her inside.

"I've never been in your house," Calum says, looking around.

"Really?" She frowns at him.

"Yeah. I wanna see your room," he states, and she laughs, leading him to it.

She learns against her wardrobe as he studies the room. His attention is drawn to her bed or the wall behind it.

"We have more pictures together than I thought," he says, getting closer to the pictures she has been taping there for a while now. Michael is the person with more appearances even if they never planned a lot of them. "This is cool," he adds without turning around.

"Yeah, I like pictures. And they make the room feel more, mine, I guess." She moves to sit in the bed, watching him when he points to a picture of the two of them. Her favorite. Not that she had really stopped to think about it. One where they're on the beach and she's sitting between his legs, back to his chest, head on the arm he’s resting on his knee looking up to his face, and Calum looks really concentrated on whatever she was telling him at the moment.

"I don’t think I’ve seen this one."

"Oh, M took it and sent it to me," she shrugs, “I thought you saw it too.”

“No,” he says, distracted, turning to look around.

There's an awkward pause, and she catches herself staring at him as he moves, his gaze going to the other side of the room.

"You have a guitar?" He points to the acoustic guitar she has set in a corner, sounding surprised.

"It was my dad's. He said I could have it if I learned how to play it. I never did, though, not really, anyway," she explains, but his attention had already shifted to her keyboard.

"You play that?" He asks, sounding impressed as he moves towards it, making her laugh.

"Yep," she tells him, getting up from the bed when he sits on the bench near it. He looks back when she comes to stand behind him, looking a little in awe.

"You're kidding," he says, and she shakes her head, "no way, how did I not know that?"

"I don't know," she shrugs, "you never asked, I never told you."

"We're friends 'cause of a band and the subject of you playing something never came up?" He turns, and she shakes her head. "Okay, any other talents I need to know?" He adds, making her laugh.

"I bake?" She tells him, sounding more like a question, and he looks a little surprised.

"You bake?" She nods, and he frowns, "you?"

"Yeah, me."

"That's something that should've been mentioned at some point," he exclaims, making her laugh.

"I didn't feel like having to feed you all," she jokes and he opens his mouth and closes it again, thinking of a comeback.

"You know what? That's fair."

"I was taking some brownies out of the oven when you texted me."

“Really?” His eyes light up and she laughs.

“Come on,” she says, motioning for him to follow her and going back to the kitchen, with Calum in her heels.

Emma fumbles through the drawers, looking for a knife when she hears his cursing and starts laughing.

“I meant it when I said they had just come out of the oven,” she says, turning to him and seeing him pouting slightly, her heart skipping a beat as she registers how cute he looks. She shakes her head, moving to the counter, “just sit down, and prepare to be amazed,” she laughs and he gives her an impressed look.

“Okay,” he replies, sitting on the stool by her side while she cuts the brownie into squares.

“Here,” she pushes the plate towards him, before sitting and looking at him expectantly.

He takes a bite and lets out a pleased groan that makes a grin show on her face.

“You’re my new favorite person,” he says and she starts giggling, “please marry me.”

“You’re that easy?” She asks, trying to keep a straight face before breaking down laughing.

“Yes,” he tells her, laughing too.

“All I have to do is supply you with brownies?”

“Yes, the only string attached.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” she giggles, taking a piece for herself, “I think M is home,” Emma says, as a muffled guitar starts to play. She gets up and takes the plate with the brownies, and Calum follows her when she remembers something. “Wait,” she hands him the plate and runs to her room.

“I keep forgetting to give this back to you,” she says when she comes back, and he's still standing where she left him with a confused but amused frown, handing him the hoodie he lent her that day on the beach. “The shirt is washing, though, so you’re gonna have to wait,” she adds.

“It’s fine, love, don’t worry,” she smiles and takes the plate from him.

“Let’s go then.”

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#5sos fic #calum hood fic #i dont know how to tag fics #so yeah #mywriting #catch22 #calum hood fanfic #calum hood x oc #5 seconds of summer fanfic #if this gets literally any interaction im posting part 2 tomorrow soasokas #im doing it folks #also shoutout to my best friend #he wont see this but he was pivotal in me writing this cuz he remembers how shit went down better than i do and he has some great insights #i just wanna add this somewhere

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