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C106: Wanna try it?
I Have to Be a Great Villain - Masterpost
An unexpected plot twist causes Wang Yi and X to run off in the middle of the night.
Wang Yi: Hah?
WY: You don't know why you split up bodies tonight either?
X: Mm. Too many things I didn't understand suddenly entered my consciousness. But they're different from the knowledge and civilization here, so I need time to sort them all out.
WY: It's not as simple as regaining memories of a past life like the Qin Xian in the last world?
X: It seems to be different. (The language and characters are all foreign to me.)
X: But X will decipher that unknown civilization ASAP.
X: And do [my] best to understand the message from that consciousness.
WY: ! (Ba-thump)
(Ba-thump ba-tHUMP)
WY: Talk if you must, but why are you so close to me?
WY: (Ahhh ahhhh)
WY: (Getting flustered seems almost normal now.)
Machine: [Beep, welcome back to the institute.]
Researcher: No, it’s really gone!
Researcher: How many times has it been since we’ve had specimens missing?
Researcher: Where could something that big run off to? Search closely, the higher-ups treat him as a big deal! Wahhh, I don’t want to work overtime—
WY: What’s going on? Gathering together in the middle of the night?
Researcher: Dr. Wang, you’re finally back!
Researcher: We tried contacting you but your cell phone was off the entire time.
WY: Ah.
WY: It ran out of battery because I was out for so long.
X: I can back him up on that.
WY: What happened in the lab? Another specimen went missing again?
Researcher: Yes.
(Various blank speech bubbles of panic)
Researcher: During a routine inspection tonight we discovered the mermaid was missing.
Researchers: ? !
Researcher: Assistance Xiao went missing too.
WY: Mermaid? Assistant Xiao?
WY: (The male and female protagonists? Didn’t they just go for a simple “date?”)
WY: (In the original novel there were many sections where the female lead took the merman out to play)
WY: (But no matter what they’d return before nightfall to pretend nothing ever happened)
Xiao Yu: Hurry in, people are coming!
WY: (So following them today was just to get in on the action, not to send them back to the labs.)
WY: (Did something happen?)
WY: (Or did the resolution of the novel, where they run away together, arrive ahead of time?)
[LAB]
WY: SAO LING!
S-0: (shocked) (woken up from nap)
S-0: Huh? What’s up?
WY: Check the progress of the plot, I have a bad feeling.
S-0: You’re in such a rush because…
S-0: WTH?! (MRRREEOW—)
WY: Don’t scare me, what’s with the big reaction.
[He Came from Horizon's Edge - Novel World Mission Progress: 90%]
WY: 90% COMPLETION RATE?!
WY: Then isn't the only plot event left "the female lead sends the merman back to the sea?" In the original novel Xiao Yu took a long time to smuggle the mermaid out of the institute, but why is it suddenly moving so quickly?
S-0: I dunno. (spiritless)
S-0: Host always makes the plot more complicated and confusing…
WY: I swear to God I really didn't do anything to the female lead! (The plot made a move first!)
X: Hmm…if the mission is finished, will Wang Yi have to leave this world again?
WY: !
S-0: !
WY: …logically speaking, as long as the Dr. Wang in the novel didn't die, I should be able to stay? (The ending came prematurely in the last novel world.)
S-0: Uh-huh.
[SPECIFICATION: If the host's character dies, the transmigrator will move on; otherwise they can stay.]
S-0: Since this is a vacation novel anyways, I can submit a request for Host if stay behind if you wish.
WY: Hmph
WY: Cat, did you convert to Buddhism or something? You've been frighteningly accommodating since coming to this world.
S-0: Urk— (stab in the head)
S-0: S-0 has always been kind, okay.
S-0: But the most important task for Host is to find the female protagonist and the rest to give this story a satisfactory ending.
S-0: I can provide you with a map.
(Raindrops)
Xiao Yu: Huuu~ Wuu…so cold.
XY: We couldn't catch the last bus, so we can only spend the night here for now.
XY: Where's your home, anyways?
XY: Is it very far to walk?
Merman (telepathy): [Mm.]
Merman: [My home is in the east, one has to keep heading eastward.]
XY: The East? Like the East Sea?
XY: But I only see the sky.
Merman: [It's at the edge of the eastern sky.]
XY: The edge of the sky? It sounds so romantic.
XY: I don't know where I can help Mr. Merman walk to.
XY: But since you said even someone as strong as Dr. Wang is doing his best to let his tentacle boyfriend live a good life,
XY: I feel like I've done something—rather remarkable too. (Because I saw their example first, I finally resolved to take you back home.)
Merman: [Mhm mhm…]
Merman: [Xiao Yu has always been, super strong.]
WY: ….
WY: Why did we decide to drive through the mountains in the middle of the night.
WY: DAMN IT, THE CAR BROKE DOWN!
(SFX: Shaaaaaaa~)
WY: It'll take ages for a tow truck if we call for one now! I'm almost freezing to death!
X: Huu.
X: There's a way for people to get warmer.
X: Wanna try it?
WY (bad premonition): Ah?
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[OC] yoali doodl,,,,
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It’s The Avengers (03x15)
Loki x Reader Avengers The Office AU (Slowwwwww Burn)
Season 3 Episode 15: Not All Rainbows
Series Summary: Living in the Avengers facility post-apocalypse in a better timeline Tony Stark has decided to capture every moment by pulling The Office on the Avengers. All of housemates are pretty used to the idea except for you, who had just come here to finish her degree, and the newest member- Loki.
Warnings: did someone just go and tell the otp about the otp?
Word Count: you know that feeling when you have had a bad experience on some project or assignment or homework before. And you know that thing is going to come around again next month or something like that. And you just age yourself by giving yourself anxiety by thinking everything that could go worse in that area. Yeah. So, I kinda shut that off for a few hours and wrote this.
MASTERLIST in bio, darlings. Tags are open (check bio)
An ice pack sits partially on the sofa’s arm and partially on the head that is being knocked softly- but repeatedly- by its designated owner. The fist taps that forehead with the vigour of a dedicated hammer that is softly checking the tensile strength of its mettle. The second camera takes the liberty to zoom in on Tony’s face that has the tension the size of the Alps looming over his head. Other spectators sit around, going about their activities with their five senses while the sixth was stuck on Tony. One camera panned on Wanda’s figure standing in the kitchenette, stirring her coffee cautiously, locking eyes with the lens.
Wanda: Only if you could see the monstrous cloud looming over his head. *stretches the corner of her lips* It’s made less of anger and more of worry and embarrassment. *blinks and furrows her brows* And choco-chip ice cream for some reason. *shrugs* Though I'm just glad that nothing was broken or smashed today. *stops midway* *raises her index finger* Although...
Scott: *glows inside out with a big smile stuck on his red face* *swings from side to side in the chair* Huh? What? *shakes head* Nothing. Just *inhales* I'm worried about Tony *continues to smile*
"So-" Steve took the first step and everyone held their breath- "now we know why we weren't able to reach Carol before. She is clearly...kinda...sorta stuck right where Y/N and Loki are? I think the kids are safe now." "Oh? The kids are safe? I must have missed the scene where they returned home with another weird pet," Tony remarked monotonously with his eyes still closed. Peter leaned in towards Scott. "So Loki is one of the 'kids' now." Both the shippers fist-bumped discreetly before looking all serious. The camera swivelled right towards Wanda, who shared a look of bewilderment while pointing at the joy of the shippers who were clearly not reading Tony's wavelength. And Tony was not the only one on the wavelength. There in the corner on the dining table, Clint sat lost in some thought so deep that his resting face was now a resting bitch face while he dipped his arrows in tiny bottles- the purpose of which only he knew- and handled them like his own babies. "You still have to find a way to stab him with these," Natasha was quick to mention as she walked towards her friend and sat opposite him. "Oh, I'll find a way. I was in his head too, remember," Clint pointed out. "He completely underestimates me." "Hmm," she scrunched her nose, "just remove that itch-like thing on your neck before you go after him though." "Where?" He asked as he scratched the side of his neck with the end of his arrow, his furrowed brows suddenly releasing themselves at the dawn of realisation before disappearing from the camera frame to fall down from the seat with a thud. "Told you not to wipe both ends with the same cloth," she muttered while wistfully looking down at an unconscious Hawkeye.
That One Steamy Dungeon™ No one knew how, when or why Lulu was sitting there in Carol's lap like he knew her for ages. No one knew why Carol was stroking him with the back of her fingers while her eyes were stuck on you like two magnetic poles finding that one direction and sticking to it. And you genuinely did not know why you could not stop looking at Carol. All of Carol Danvers. Especially her lips. "What?" Carol finally dismissed the silence with one casual word. "Ag-sa-wuu-you're looking beautiful," was what you came up with. Loki stared at Lulu's camera with one long blink of...slowed surprise. The buzzing camera caught all three of you sitting in the returning silence over dried hay, looking at each other before you scooched down a little to hide the embarrassment visible over your face.
You: *whisper* W-well, she does look pretty despite all the dirt she's lying in. I mean *violently points at Carol in the background* look at her!!! How can someone look sooooo fucking beautiful??? *lick your lips* Except for Loki of course. That dude is on a whole another level.
Carol threw a shirt over Loki's face from her backpack. "Weren't your looks enough this time?" "Wasn't your hairstyle enough this time?" came the retort. You sat there in the middle, your eyes moving between both of them to calculate this new chemistry you were seeing. The camera caught you pulling your legs closer to your chest. "I didn't know you two were so...close to each other."
Javier: *signing* Why? *Furrows his brows* does that make you furious, Y/N? *wiggles his brows up and down in question* Hmm? *zooms in on his face* Hmm? *turns the camera towards the screen from which he and Green are watching the live broadcast*
"Close? I met him on one mission and this punk would have been dead had I not saved his ass back then." Carol smirked through the sentence and you did not realise any time sooner that you were staring at her, your mouth almost at the edge of drooling. "You blew my cover," Loki stressed while putting on the grey free size shirt. "And then she had the audacity to make me pay for her bar bill on the next stop," he gasped while looking at you. Javier took the opportunity to make his drone zoom at your iris, catching your pupils dilate in 4K as soon as Loki started narrating the story to you while you nodded in enthusiasm. "You do realise your ex-girlfriend wants to cut off your new girlfriend's head right this moment, right?" Carol was generous to point out while getting up and wiping off all the dirt and hay. "I'm not his girlfriend." "She's not my ex-" Both of you had the synchronisation of an orchestra. Carol took this opportunity to let her eyes pass the judgment- which played from one face to another and back for sheer entertainment.
Carol: *shrugs* *runs her hand through her pixie cut hair* Priorities, I guess. *nods*
"Anyways," Loki tried to cut this weird air surrounding the three of them that apparently Lulu was the only one enjoying, rubbing himself all around Carol's leg, "do you have a plan to get out of here?" "Of course," Carol simply jerked her shoulders, "punch my way through." You blinked at the camera.
You: Is that why they are called Captain? It has to be, right?
You shook your head and looked around in the ground, leaving Loki to do the bickering on your part as well. "Well, Miss one-punch woman, this time you are not the only one that needs to escape." You found a stick in the corner. It seemed to be made of the same ashen wood that Aellae sat on in her throne room. "We have tiny mortals to save too." Carol chuckled. You raised the stick your eye level, feeling the weight in your hands when suddenly your eyes grow wide and your mouth turns into a horror-filled 'O' "What? Where is the comedy?" A violent grunt came from your lungs, turning both Carol and Loki into attack and defence mode in your direction. Lulu's camera caught you taking the stick out of the orc's stomach. The dull creature blankly looked at the blood turning into sparks flying against the gravity before slowly consuming the whole creature, taking him with them. The next twenty seconds were a pause on every breath. You finally turned around, the stick still in your hand. "Did I kill him?" you asked in a whisper. Loki and Carol shared a glance. "It was just a bruise" Loki shoved your concern away with his hands. "He's in heaven now," Carol sang. "He was a bad guy, right?" "Yes," both of them nearly shouted. "It's good that he disappeared. You helped the universe get rid of a bad guy," Loki clapped his hands before give you an awkward thumbs up. You blinked at both of them. The smile eroding on your lips slowly turned the duo uncomfortable. "Good." Was all you said for your stature completely transformed. "Because that felt..." you did not finish the sentence, clearly concerning your company. Well, Lulu seemed to like whatever vibes you were giving off. “Y/N,” Loki pretty much sang your name cautiously, slowly lifting his hands in the air to have a word with you to process whatever you were feeling. But you were already running outside with the most suspicious giggle the room had ever heard. Carol even shivered a bit to shake it off of her.
My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun You better run
The one buzzing drone in the hallway caught the slow-motion emotion of you walking into the hallway with the ash stick in your hand like a gun- locked and loaded- with something fierce burning in your eyes. Behind you Loki was trying to catch up with the adrenaline rush you were feeling, calling out your name to stop you. Carol was close behind, cheering you on as much as she could.
My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga
The orcs didn’t even seek you out. One of the reasons was the fact that you were running towards them first, swinging your arms with as much force as your body allowed, screaming your lungs out and jumping with fueled excitement whenever they went up in flames. Loki had to take a moment out of those crucial seconds to look at you. To look at that animalistic look in your eyes. Pausing for a millisecond to consciously question whether to admire it or fear it, he almost smiled. He might have stood there for a few seconds more had he not felt the blue plasmic force run by his side to destroy the one orc aiming for you from your blindside.
It started with the hayloft a-creakin' Well, it just started in the hay (loft) With his longjohns on, pop went a-creeping Out to the barn, up to the hay Young lovers and they are not sleeping Young lovers in the hay (loft) With his gun turned on, pop went a-creeping Out to the barn, up to the hay (loft)
"Seriously?!" He shouted at the glowing Captain who flew past him. "Catch up. Catch up!" she teased him while leaving a trail of bodies in her way. "ANARCHYYYYYY!!!!!!!" You howled as you ran, following your new crush. Loki sighed, his head trying to hang as low as possible as he looked at the sleek shackles around his wrists. Breathing in a lungful, he grabbed the nearest iron rail from the window looking out at the barren mountains and bent it till it broke in his flexing hand. "Is this why I am still alive?" He whispered to himself while continuing to walk in the direction you just dashed in.
My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun You better run My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun My daddy's got a gun Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga
Throne Room Aellae sat on the ash throne frozen in thought when one of her underlings interrupted her daydreaming with its presence. "What?" She did not disguise her displeasure. There has been a mishap on the laboratory floor, my lady." Her body automatically shifted on her seat. "Four guards are dead. The source is unknown." "Is it the woman?" "No, my lady. I just checked up on her after locking Master Loki up." "Then who is it?" "We are yet to find out. My lady." "Then why are you wasting my time by standing here and doing nothing about it?" The skinny elf-like underling bowed down to her and scurried in the opposite direction. It had reached the entrance of the throne room when a weak scream left its lungs and it stepped back- falling down in the process- to make way for the uninvited guest. The poise on Aellae's face took a turn as she looked at the person casually sauntering in her direction, never realising when she got up. "Oh, don't stand on my account," White mentioned breezily with a smirk, coming to a halt right in the middle of the room. "Zune." She called out the name like spitting a curse. "It's been a while, my least favourite Witch of the West Galactica." Zune smiled his precious smile, standing bright in stark contrast to his dull surroundings. "Last time we met, you were grovelling on the floor, begging for mercy in front of the Silver Court, asking them not to punish you for the endless crimes you committed in the last century." The composure was evidently crumbling away in little pieces. Aellae's stone-like glare was slowly turning into fast blinks. Her usually unruffled breaths were now a mocked laugh. "And the court decided to send you to arrest me? Where is the rest of the coven?" She pretended to guess before snapping her pale fingers. "Oh, right. I burned them all. Poor boys. J'uke, Fae and Mi'in were still so young." Zune huffed and smiled. "Hmm. They were really young when they fought you, weren't they? And to answer your question, no. The court did not send me here." Now this made Aellae burst into laughter. "So, you are here for revenge? For your mates?" Licking his teeth, he bit his lip and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, all the playfulness in his feature draining out with every passing second. "I am just here to clean up the mess that you made. But they are the ones who are here for revenge." Taking a step back, Zune gave Aellae a few seconds to realise that they are not the only ones in this room. And just when it dawns upon her, she sees the rest of the 'coven' come out of the shadows, surrounding her from every probable escape route this place could have. "Fae," she whispered with a deep-rooted horror in her throat, backing up into her throne when she looked at the familiar red figure walking towards her. "When you were setting us up on fire-" Fae carried no empathy in his eyes as he moved closer with every step- "you forgot that you cannot make Gods made up of ancient stars disappear when you please." Every cell in Fae's body vibrated with a demonic aura that made the witch go down on her knees. Her breaths shook and her eyes watered. The claustrophobia resulting from just his presence made it hard for her to breathe. "No," she shook her head, trying her best to mask her fear. "No. This cannot be. I destroyed you. I destroyed the senate. I destroyed everything that stood in my path. I cannot fail this time. This world needs to kneel before my power. That God needs to kneel before me. NO!!" The six looked at their leader to begin the ceremony. "Aellae of the covens abandoned, child of the dark refugees, you are hereby sent to the endless pits of the universe for your crimes against the creatures of the universe." The screams of the witch echoed throughout the castle till every last ounce of life in her voice could be heard fading away by the other group at the far end of the other wing. By the time Carol arrived, all that was left were the seven boys and a pile of ash resting by the throne. “That was fast,” she did not refrain from mentioning, “I thought it would take more than that to get her to give up.” Zune shrugged. “Well, it was easy because we had you and your friends this time. She did not have much to distract us with, unlike the last time she was in prison.” Carol smiled a kind smile at them. “I hope they didn’t give you any trouble?” Fae stretched the corner of his lips. “When you first called us to go around the universe to look for a human, we were a little sceptical. But we were glad to have met her.” “Especially Zune,” Mi’in quipped, earning a yank by the ear from the leader. “Thank you for protecting her.” “No biggie. We would have protected her even if you didn’t tell us to.” Carol furrowed her brows at the statement. “Because Loki had already asked us for that favour,” Zune mentioned, clearing any doubts, “and we owed him from way back.” Feeling the ‘ah’ of a satisfactory conclusion coming on her face, she stopped midway to hear your scream turn louder the second you got closer till you turned the corner to enter the hall with your stick, forcing yourself to stop your lungs from going any further than that. “Oh,” you straightened your stance, giving up on the attack position as soon as you realised there was no more threat, “looks like you guys already cleaned the place.” “You almost sound disappointed,” J’uke stressed, judging by your disapproval of the lack of bad guys. Loki stepped in next, clearly having taken care of whatever tried to attack them from the back. "She hurt my friend. I at least wanted to watch her burn," you simply shrugged. Fae patted your head softly. "Don't worry. You'll get your chance." He smiled the most ridiculously comforting smile. "How?" You whined, "you guys already finished her." All the seven boys, Loki and Carol shared a look with each other while you stomped her foot in the ground while staring daggers at the pile of ashes. "Yeah-" Zune blurted out, scratching an itch in the back of his neck- "we definitely, for sure, totally killed her. Like-" he pretended to chop the air with his hand- "so smooth." Everyone nodded in agreement. Our elder boys of the group supported their leader while Carol gave them soft applause. Loki gave them a thumb's up.
You: *turning away from the scene in the background where everyone now sits outside the castle having a chat with each other* Aww *smile widely* it feels so good to watch them get along like that!! *start staring in the distance* *smile still stuck on your face* I wish my family could get along this well too. You know. *tilt your head* If all of them got along with Loki, I feel like half of the world's problems would vanish just like that. *watch Javier sign something to you* What? Merch store? *reads some more* Manga?? *looks closely at Javier as he continues to sign* Fanfi-what does any of it have to do with Loki? *camera pans in on your confused innocent face*
"Here's my little monster!" Carol talked in a tone that one used on babies while stroking a very excited Lulu. "Who's a scary boy! Who's a scary boy!!! You are!!! Yes!! You are!!!" You chuckled, watching Lulu enjoy the love and attention from the Captain, bumping his head with hers, wiggling in her lap before settling down in her arms, his adrenaline going down. "Who's that?" Carol asked him, pointing at you. Lulu chirped. "And who's mamma's boy?" Lulu chirped again. "Aaaand who's gonna protect mamma from bad guys?" Lulu growled. And then he chirped again, hiding his faceless husk hairy face in his paws. "Oh my God, he growls!!!!" you gasped. "Oh, he is got a lot more to show you, mamma! Give him time." You sat down next to Carol and stroked a yawning Lulu, who was now making biscuits in her arms. "This one's helped me a lot through this weird, fatal, dreamy galactic trip," you mentioned wistfully. The camera- as well as Carol- noticed how your brows furrowed slightly before your teeth bit down on your lower lip and you turned your gaze up to search for something in the rocky terrain before finally resting on Loki. Carol watched this subtle shift, patiently spectating how Loki too was stealing glances your way while having some serious looking chat with the boys.
The boys and Loki: *standing in the grey terrain like a bunch of Gods modelling for luxury hair products* Loki: It's spelt Z-U-K-O Zune: You named a dog after the fire God? Loki: Wha-no. It was all her *points at you*. Apparently, Coco was a bit too mushy for her. Something about 'Zuko reminding her of a guy who was in his redemption arc right now'. Whatever that means. Zune: *looked at the camera panning in on his face*
"So, you wanna go back now?" Carol asked you, her hands still busy stroking a purring Lulu. You inhaled to answer but felt yourself turning to look at Loki. Carol noticed it too. "Of course. H-how, long will it take?" you scratched your forehead. "We were actually pretty close to getting Loki free of his...cuffs. And I'm sure two powerful beings is always better than one." Carol chuckled and nodded. "Tell you what-" she took your hand in hers, something that you were not expecting- "I will go and take care of a couple of things for our return journey. Till then-" she stroked your hand- "you find out for yourself. Whatever it is that you're looking for." That gentle tone and those cryptically simple words changed some spectrum of the emotions on your face. You stared at her for a long while with your mouth agape. "What are you talking about?" Your breath asked in exasperation. "Cuffs, I guess?" she proposed softly with a knowing smirk. You forced out a laugh. "I have no idea what you're talking about," You chuckled and found yourself looking back at Loki again.
The boys- well, at a few of them- tried to calm down the God who seemed to be picking up a rock from the ground. "Okay now-" Gin, our green jellybean, raised his hands- "let's all calm down and talk about this." "Yeah, yeah. How about we all go to the nearest oasis and have a cup of starry vodka and discuss how we are all alive. Right, Mi'in?" Me'isri, sweet yellow candy boy suggested casually. "Right," Loki nearly sang. His every step towards the boys made them retreat two. "We should be happy that the witch is gone for now. What could we possibly have had to do with her anyway? Hm? What's that? Oh! She was the one who stole my essence you say?" "Look," Ho, the sky blue cheery lad was suddenly not feeling so cheery at all, "we did not know-" "You numbnuts were the one who told me that!" Loki was practically hissing through his teeth right now, his steps breaking into a jog that was letting out some potential screams waiting in some lungs. Lulu was having a gala time just jumping in whichever direction the boys ran into as Loki chased them.
#loki#loki x you#loki x y/n#loki x reader#loki fluff#loki smut#loki series#marvel#marvel fluff#marvel fanfic#loki fanfic#loki fic#marvel smut#fanfic#mcu#mcu loki#mcu fanfic#mcu fluff#mcu smut#It's The Avengers
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I made a sticker design wuu I want to do more of them! Today I just tested the style I wanna go with c: (haven’t even watched the episode this loki is from yet lol)
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4, 7 and 13 :33
4. What are you looking forward to?
Right now, I'm looking forward to finishing my extended essay for school because I had to start over today unu. But I also look forward seeing and hugging my friends, quarantine has kept us apart for months and I really miss them.
7. What was your life like last year?
Last year, 2019, was certainly something. The first months were kind of meh but from summer it got interesting ig. I became president of a MUN committee and that was an experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone in so many ways. I also started discovering stuff about myself and explored my traumas and insecurities with some friends, we used art class as therapy sessions. I became friends with so many people from other semesters and classes, I have no idea how that happened since I'm a ball of anxiety. I think it was also the year when things really started to get better (^^).
13. How do you feel right now?
Tired lol, my sleep schedule is so messed up and I am overworking myself as always wuu.
Thanks for the ask 💚💖💚💖
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WIP Writing Game
Wuu! Tagged by @ambitiousskychild
I know everything says “line line line” but pfff fuck that.
Fanfic: I Feel Everything (Cause it’s the last fic I physically typed to that can sort of work for this lol.)
The first line of the work: Lance is giddy. It’s the most exciting thing to happen to him since the king spotted him meandering around his court and decided to befriend him. Now, not only did he have favor with his king but he had been given a job. He was being useful.
The first line of your current chapter | One-shot: first line of the tenth paragraph: There are... things people don’t know about being a devil.
Keith doesn’t think even the witches know, and at the way everything in him screams not to say it, not to ask, not to scream, he knows it’s like this for all of his new brothers and sisters.
That little voice in his head is just so angry.
It’s angry that it’s been a year since he last saw his father. It’s angry that his skin still feels like it’s on fire. It’s angry that Shiro isn’t there yet. It’s furious he hasn’t heard back from Allura. He’s fuming that he can smell Lotor near by and he doesn’t know what it is about him that’s just — screaming—
He’s angry.
The voice is angry.
The last line you wrote: Keith eyed him warily, “so... was I in danger or no?”
Lotor, in a way that Keith had grown to notice was kind of rare, went a little slack in the jaw and appeared heavily uncomfortable.
“Oh… you were absolutely in danger.”
A line for a chapter/part you haven’t written yet: (Oh no but I haven’t written it yet for a reason pfodkpgbo fuck)
There is a couple of guys arguing deeper in the club and that’s the first thing Keith registers when the confusion subsides. Lance shrugs his shoulders and tells him to wait there and to try and stay out of trouble. Keith doesn’t have the energy to rebuttal that it was Lance who had last gotten them into the messy situation that involved his needing to feed earlier anyway but he definitely thought it. As an added measure, he started to wonder how devils went about imposing their thoughts on others and if he could just, from now on, non verbally communicate for the rest of his life.
That would just be… grand.
It took Keith another minute to realize he was thinking without the aid of the angry little voice and he released the breath he hadn’t realized he seemed to be perpetually holding.
Sure, he somehow got stuck with Lance but today was already looking up.
And then, very suddenly, one of the guys from earlier screamed in outrage. There was a noise like a mug being slammed down on the table and then moments later someone who looked and sounded like Angel had found their way over to Keith. But then, what he did really didn’t seem like something Angel would do.
“Oh, hey Keith.” The smaller devil said with a little smile as he pulled away, his lips slightly puffy from having just been pressed against Keith’s, “You’re officially a devil now? Congrats.”
Keith raised a brow but didn’t really complain given his hand was resting on Angel’s hip, “Hey Angel… yeah uhm… what was that for?”
Angel shrugged and motioned for a dark-haired boy some tables away staring at the pair like he was torn between crying and tearing into someone’s throat. Keith saw it and a small part of him was able to read the strangers vaguely possessive thoughts.
“Did you… just kiss me in front of your boyfriend?”
“Yes, but he deserved it—” Angel started, but Keith couldn’t really listen to the rest of Angel’s explanation as very suddenly his chest tightened. Anger buzzed through his head again like a vicious serpent. And yet the voice was still silent. It wasn’t his anger. It—
“Gonna introduce me to your friend here, mullet…?”
I tag: @meli-reads-all @sleeping-mara @keith-in-shibari (Hi! We’ve only ever talked on my NSFW I think but thought why not??) annnnnd @crumbcakeworld again just because and also because I have no friends lol whoops. Also because I’m sure she has more than one WIP like me lmao
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Mostly we weren't sayin anythin today. I call u, u answer and we just don't say much. Well, maybe at first. It doesn't matter cos u don't ask to hang up anyways. And somewhere down our discussions, your habit of crackin ur knuckles as usual kicked in and I was in a playful mood
"You're crackin ur knuckles? Wanna fight me?"
As I cracked mine too and put my fist near the camera. You smiled ever so smug and proudly said
"You wouldn't last a fight with me"
"What? I wouldn't last a fist fight with you? Ha. I would tho. How do you know?"
My pride was slighty hurt and my ego was quite rising
"You wouldn't"
You arrogantly insisted and you got tht well pleased expression on your face. I realized where it was goin and I think I knew why
"I would. Why do you say that? Why would you say that I wouldn't last a fight with you"
It was fuckin pretentious of me to ask that. You contemplated for a bit and just gave me a half-assed answer
"Cos I would take my clothes off and I would be just naked and you wouldn't fight me"
I just went along with your self-deception explanation
"Oh, you'd do that? We should rly fight then. C'mon, fight me" taunting "I know you wouldn't do it (being naked) but I'm quite curious up to how far you'd take it"
And we both just smiled and treaded carefully cos we didn't want this to go in another way hahaha
I think we both know the real conclusion as to why I wouldn't last a fight with you.
I could. But, I wouldn't.
And you knew.
Ohdearme, am I tht easy to read? Well, I did lay out all my cards on the table long before you had your hand dealt upon you. Metaphorically speaking iykwim..
That may have fuelled my obnoxious side and clearly you were 'suffering' from it.
You were getting irritated in a cute way imo, when we were talkin about fruits and you compared me to you as I kept askin
"I know.. You hate small talks."
"Exactly. I don't want to waste my energy on useless things"
"Oh, so you're wasting energy when u talk to me? I'm useless? Ouch. I'm gonna sulk now"
As I cover myself up with my black fleece throw
"Stop being dramatic" firmly but amused a bit
"I'm not dramatic"
I shoved the blanket on the side, made faces and stuck my tongue out. Then you raised your middle finger
"What? Don't you do tht to me" bewildered
"What"
"Don't u flip me off"
"I don't care"
"You know that's the third time you said 'I don't care' to me right now. You're quite fuckin rude sometimes you know.. Hahhh"
I'll just sigh it away
"Now you're annoyed, aren't you?"
Yes, indeed I am. Cos I can't fuckin touch you and choke the hell out of you, and bite you and kiss you till you can't breathe. Oh, my thirst is showin. My apologies.
But yeah, as much dramatic I can sound, I am quite offended at times and might take everything personally from my pov, but tht's why I say it out loud. Even though in a jokin kind of way, but my point still stands. I need to let it out so I won't hold grudges. Even if my ways are kind of immature at times.
I was prepared to let you go as u were almost asleep but I still kept calling your name in a very attention-seeking way, you'd get annoyed and say "Whahaat?" in a tone were you were almost begging me to stop, me furthering it til u open ur eyes then say "Nothing"
"Wulaaan......... Look at me one more time"
"What?" you whined "Why are you being needy" but you still complied and faced me
"Hahaha I don't know" I'm not sure though
I was quiet for few seconds and u thought u're off the hook, right? Nope.
"Wulan.......... Wul-laaan.......... Wuu-laan?"
"Whahaat?" you cried
"Goodnight."
See? As much as you hate it, you do like it too cos u just giggled and smiled endearingly
"Goodnight"
"Can you call tomorrow before you go?"
"I'm not sure"
"Just call pls"
"No"
"Yes"
"I'll see"
"Do call tomorrow, ha?"
"I don't know"
"Okay, but do call okay? Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
"Call okay?"
"I can't promise you anything"
"Don't promise, just do"
And you were being cute with your silly antics
"Goodnight"
"Goodnight"
I was buying time babe, to get u to stay a little longer. But I had to let u hang up cos I'll end up watching u sleep agn. And you do know I'm just messin with you, right? Although not-so-secretly hoping you would, I won't wait. Cos I don't think you would, but yeah
Goodnight.
#you're nakakagigil#i'm a bawel#i think i'm annoying the heck out of you#and i know why#and now you do too#our sweet conversations#goodnight my trouble
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0-4 [SaeYuki Version]
Type Of Story: Undefined…..
Genre: Undefined…..
Attach……
“Don’t kiss me like that. You are giving me heart attack. I don’t wanna have another scandal with other student. Enough with the rumor that I had previously…. I don’t wanna create another…”
I said to her while push her away from me. I slowly stand up from the couch and continue saying,
“I’m not joking when saying please respect me as your lecturer. I would be in trouble if someone saw you kissed me… or going out with me. Please don’t give me another trouble…”
As I move my body wanna walk away, she’s suddenly stopped me by holding on my hand.
“Wait…. You wanna leave already?”
She asked me.
“Yep… I’m sorry. I think I’ve made a mistake by following you….”
I pull my hand but then, she offered me…
“Sorry for my sudden confess…. But please, let me take you back to the campus, okay?”
She looks deeply into my eyes.
“Okay then if you insist to….”
I just accept her offer. After that, she sent me back to the University. Once we’re arrived at the campus, I quickly get off from the car and didn’t even look back to her. I ignore her while furiously heading to the office. I really hope this would be the first and last meeting with her as I don’t wanna meet with her again.
Just enough with her sudden confess, somehow makes me feeling creepy. I think this is the first time I’ve met a student like her….
Suddenly wanna attached to me just like that…..
Who wouldn’t be surprised if a student has been stalking on you like a very long time?…. Of course I would get shock! She’s suddenly told me that she was watching on me, and being my secret admirer? What the heck…? I’m not an idol as I’m a lecturer… a graphic lecturer, Geezz what’s with those kids these days?
Wait I forgot that she almost has same age as mine, so I think she’s the weird one. Never met a person like her…
While I was keep thinking about her, I’ve arrived in my office. Without waiting any longer, I’m packing up my stuff and ready to go back home. I really need to clear up my mind and forgot what had happened to me just now.
“Ouhh… what a day….”
I accidentally say it out loud, making one of my colleagues heard my sigh…
“Yep! I could feel you, Sae-san! Gambatte ne! Just remember, tomorrow is a new day! Keep it up!”
Said the person named Matsubara Natsumi, as she’s my senior though we’re from the same age. But due to she’s already working in the workplace longer than me, so I’ll be considered as her junior. She’s very understanding person and also very kind. She helps me a lot when the moment I’m being a lecturer in this campus.
“Ahh… hha—haii! Gambatte! Hehe… jaa, I’ll go back now! See you tomorrow Natsumi-san!”
I smile awkwardly to her and after that, I’m furiously leaving the place.
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Next day….
Around 12pm….
As per scheduled, I just finished my class and now, I think I wanna search some foods for my lunch. I’m so hungry because having back-to-back class previously… from early in the morning and until now. Thank goodness that I’m having a peaceful day today, as I’m not meeting with that student. I’m not sure if that student would still stalking on me but so far, I didn’t bump with her…… yet. Not yet I guess…. But still, I really hope she would never appear in front of me anymore.
Hopefully….
While I was walking, I check up on my phone as usual. In the time like this, I would get a lot of messages, from students and also from my boss of course. Lot of things that I need to handle for this semester and it’s really tiring me up. I keep reading on the message until….. I didn’t realize that someone in front of me is suddenly snatching the phone from my hands.
“Konichiwa, Miss Miyazawa~ We meet again~”
‘My Gosh! She’s the same student from yesterday! It’s Yukirin!’
As I screamed inside my mind while widening my eyes. I’m feeling really shock to see her standing in front of me for once again. She smiles to me while showing the phone that she snatched from me. I guess my pray was hopeless because I still meet with her today!
“Give me back my phone please!”
I said to her.
“Wait, give me a second coz I wanna take your number~”
She keeps smiling and with fast movement, she tried to make a call from my phone to her phone, making me trying to get back my phone from her hand.
“No! Don’t do that! Give back my phone!”
I tried so hard to grab my phone from her hand but it seems useless. She moves away her body from me while walking to other side. I cannot catch her or touch her because it would seem so weird to other people if they saw a lecturer and a student to be ‘really’ close with each other. We’re in public right now....
“Wait… wait…. Okay~ That’s it~”
She gives back my phone after made a miss call from my phone to her phone.
‘God damn it! This girl is so annoying!’
As I said inside my mind while harshly grab my phone once she hands it to me.
“Just disappeared from my sight! I don’t wanna see you anymore!”
I’m quickly moving away from her to the separate way.
“Have you had your lunch Miss Miyazawa?!”
I was just ignoring her screaming and keep walking on the corridor. Thank goodness that she’s not following me anymore….
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After class session….
Around 5pm….
“Alright, class! That’s all for today’s session! You can dismiss now and don’t forget to submit my assignment on tomorrow morning!”
I’m finishing my class while slowly packing my stuff, as I’m ready to go home.
“Haii! Haii! Thank you Miss Miyazawa! See you tomorrow!”
After that, all of students disappear from here and leaving me alone inside the class. It’s actually a lab computer. I taught them to use editing software so that they could create a visual poster and that’s for the assignment that they need to submit tomorrow.
Before leaving the lab, I need to check everything so that the lab is tidy as before. When everything seems fine to me, I wanna make my move but then, someone is suddenly burst into the class. It’s really surprising me because the person is Yuki and I don’t know why she keeps appearing in front of me again and again….
This time she’s making another weird move by locking the class after she entered it…
*CLICK!* (Sounds of lock)
“Wuu—wait! What the heck are you doing?! And why are you here?!”
I get really nervous when seeing her movement! I don’t wanna get caught with her inside this class!
“You just finished your class huh? What a coincident to see you here~ Miss Miyazawa~”
It seems that she wanna get closer to me but then I stop her by saying…
“There have CCTV in this class so please keep your distance from me. Please don’t do stupid thing like hugging me or kissing me or what so ever if not we’re both would be in trouble, okay?!”
As I remind her.
“Okay, okay…. I’ll keep my distance from you. I just need your help for my assignment as I don’t really know how to do it….”
She explained to me and making me accidentally hold my laugh…
“Puuftt…. What? You’re kidding me right? I think you should ask from your lecturer that related with your course and not me because I’m not a lecturer from your faculty. I know you are not from graphic course! How can I help you? Geez…. Leave me alone!”
As I wanna move my body but then she keeps begging to me…
“Sae please… I need your help…. Yes I am from different faculty. I’m a business-marketing student. I know it’s kinda different from your major but I think it’s also related to your subject because I need to create a poster to promote a product. Could you please teach me how do it? I don’t really know how to use a software….”
Okay, I think she just wanna make an excuse to get close with me.
And of course…..
I don’t wanna help her….
“No, I don’t want to…”
I said to her with firm voice and at the same time, I grab my bag, as I wanna leave this class. I continue my words to her….
“You can ask other lecturer to help you and besides me, there’s a lot of graphic lecturers who can help you. Tskk…. ”
I’m furiously unlocking the door as I wanna leave this lab. However, when I wanna walk to my office, something had capturing my eyes….
It’s…
It—it is one of my ex-students…..
Taniguchi Megu…. I used to call her Megutan…..
She was the student that I really close with previously….
She’s the reason why I had those rumors….
The rumors saying that ‘I have scandal with a student’…..
She was the student….
She’s the reason why I’m being like this heartless and dead….
I’m feeling like I’m useless because of her….
After every single thing that I have done to her….
What I’ve done for her....
I help her to finish her assignment. She’s a graphic student. She was one of my students before. The different one because I helped her a lot….
I helped her in her study and also…. Giving her expenses in every month because she told me that she has financial problem and her parent couldn’t afford to give her daily expenses since her family is very poor.
Yeah, I was the stupid one because willing to give her everything and really trust her….
After everything she got from me….
After she took advantage on me….
She was just leaving me without saying anything….
And then, the rumors spread, stating that I’m the one who was always messaging her on every night and expressed my feeling to her?!
What the fuq….
She’s actually the one who done that….
She’s actually the one who gets close to me really hard….
I just wanted to help her....as a lecturer.
I had never imagined having a relationship with her, of course! Because she’s my student!
I didn’t even think to ‘try’ her!
But this is what I get from her....
After everything I had done for her....
And whenever I accidentally bumped with her or seeing her face, I’m feeling like wanna….
Puke….
“Ouuftt!!”
I quickly hold my mouth with my hand. My mind becomes blank and dizzy! This feeling is coming again; it was like I’m feeling incoherent. My heart is feeling really hurt and I hardly to breath. I think if I’m not holding my throat, for sure I already vomit at this place!
As I turn around my body and wanna search for the toilet, unexpectedly, there’s someone is hugging me tightly….
“It’s okay…. I understand your feeling very well…. Just forget about her and focus to only me…..”
It’s Yukirin….
I didn’t realize that she’s still here. She’s not leaving the place yet…
She hugs me tightly while softly patted on my back. It feels really warm and comfortable for a while….
I could smell her sweet fragrance from her body. I don’t know why she’s doing this, but she seems like wanna make me calm at the moment. I’ve tried very hard to make the vomit feeling disappears inside me. As I close my eyes and stayed focus to her words….
While she continues her sentence by saying….
“It’s alright Sae….. everything’s gonna be fine because I’m yours…. Just stay calm and focus to only me….”
Hearing that, I move back my body and broke the hug. I’m widening my eyes as look deeply into her eyes while keep thinking…
‘I don’t want any troubles but yet…. Trouble was always coming to me…..’
Why is this always happening to me?
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El Prestamo - Maluma | Justin Bieber fans accuse the Colombian of copying the video What Do You Mean ?.
But the "Bonnie & Clyde" style video, filmed in Miami, shows him and a sensual woman (Playboy model Jenny Watwood) involved in a bank robbery. The two finished bathing barely dressed in money, in the style of the movie "Indecent Proposal", pursued by the police. Apparently, there will be another follow-up video / mini movie since it ends with "continue". Maluma has returned with a new single, "The Loan", and you can listen to it and watch the video right here. The 24-year-old Colombian superstar dropped his last song on Friday (March 9). "The Loan" (in English: "A Loan") is the last single from Maluma's upcoming album, F.A.M.E. Follow his blockbuster hits of all genres Billboard Hot 100 "Happy The 4" and "Heart". He joked with some hip-hop tunes like "GPS" and "23", but returns to his Latin pop sound in "Loan." The Spanish guitar and the sunny synthesizers support him trying to recover his love from an old flame. He has returned to his playful playboy way, blowing kisses on the song. Maluma offers its fans another rhythmic and irresistible dance track. The third single from the album, "El Préstamo", which debuted today, along with the song's music video, was inspired by the love of the Colombian singer for Bonnie and Clyde, the infamous couple who traveled the country robbing banks during the Great Depression. Directed by his lifelong collaborator, Dominican music video director Jessy Terrero, the video focuses on a pair that will do anything to stay together, until one of them decides that a greater monetary gain is more important than his union and flees with all the money that has been stolen .... Speaking behind the scenes at Madison Square Garden while sipping an espresso, he is serious, enthusiastic, likes to describe things as "a beautiful experience" and delightfully conspiratorial: "You deserve everything," he says, before enumerating some of the contributors ( Daddy Yankee), Prince Royce, Jason Derulo) on their next album, FAME, due out in May. Where Maluma walks, the cheerful buzzing seems to follow, minutes after he passes, a security guard driving the elevators distractedly begins to whistle the singer's last blow, "Happy the 4". (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.12'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));MALUMA Oiga Chan, súbeme un poquito ahí el micrófono Le tengo que decir un par de cosas que, ella no quiere escuchar Rudeboyz Sólo por curiosidad te tengo que preguntar ¿Me lo deja' o te lo vas a llevar? (a-ha) No ves que lo tengo que usar Contigo y con otras más (jaja) Prometí no volverlo a maltratar, oh no (mua) Perdona pero tengo mis motivos, ouh-no-no En el juego del amor mucho he perdido (así es) Así me convirtió el pasado Y prefiero hablarte claro (Maluma baby, mua) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté Lo más grande que tenía y no lo quieres devolver (Maluma, baby) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (jajajaja) Te entregué todo mi amor y no lo quieres devolver (alright, alright) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (a-ha) Lo más grande que tenía y no lo quieres devolver Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (jaja) Te entregué todo mi amor y no lo quieres devolver (alright, alright) A post shared by MALUMA (@maluma) on Apr 15, 2018 at 12:01am PDT ¿Qué pasó bebé? ¿Que te iba a regalar qué? Ya llevo varios meses Dándote lo que mereces Tres por la mañana y por la noche otras dos veces Parece que ésto crece y crece Ojala no olvides de pagar los intereses No llegaste en el mejor momento Si digo lo contrario te estaría mintiendo Analizo y lo concluyo Cada loco con lo suyo No te quedes sola Hombres hay de sobra Por qué no te buscas quién te ame y te enamoras No te quedes sola Hombres hay de sobra Por qué no te buscas quién te ame y te enamoras (Maluma baby) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (jajajaja) Lo más grande que tenía y no lo quieres devolver (wuu) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (rra, rra) Te entregué todo mi amor y no lo quieres devolver Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (yo no, yo no) Lo más grande que tenía y no lo quieres devolver Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (yo) Te entregué todo mi amor y no lo quieres devolver (alright) Perdona pero tengo mis motivos, ouh-no-no (tú me entiendes) En el juego del amor mucho he perdido (I'm sorry baby) Así me convirtió el pasado Y prefiero hablarte claro (Maluma baby, mua) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (jajaja) (Alright, alright) Lo más grande que tenía y no lo quieres devolver (Y esto es F.A.M.E Maluma baby) Yo no lo di, yo no lo di, yo lo presté (Kevin ADG y Chan El Genio Rudeboyz) Te entregué todo mi amor y no lo quieres devolver (Dímelo Ha-ash Esta es la fórmula parceros Jajaja, mua) Tweets by maluma Read the full article
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Victims of Plane Crash in Costa Rica are 10 American Tourists and 2 Costa Rican Pilots
10 US Tourists, 5 of them members of the same family, Bruce, Irene, Matthew, William and Zachary Steinberg along with Leslie Weiss, Sherry Wuu, Amanda Geissler, Thibault Astruc and Charles Palmer all found tragedy today in Costa Rica, when the Nature Air light aircraft they boarded on route to the Juan Santamaria Airport, crashed 10 minutes after takeoff in the mountains of Guanacaste and exploded upon impact on the ground. Aside from the 10 passengers, the pilot Juan Manuel Retana Chinchilla, cousin of former President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla, and Ema Lucía Ramos Calderón, both Costa Rican also lost...
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MGA Chapter 2135
Chapter 2135 – Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique “Divine Punishment?” Hearing those words, Chu Feng’s heart immediately shivered. Merely by listening to the name, Chu Feng was able to tell how frightening it would be. “By Divine Punishment, it means that it is a Self-punishing Mysterious Technique above Heaven Punishment.” “If Mortal Punishment draws upon the lightnings from one’s bloodline, Earthen Punishment from the earth and Heaven Punishment from the sky…” “Then, Divine Punishment will no longer only be drawing upon lightning at all. Instead, a Divine Tribulation will descend upon you.” “The descent of a Divine Tribulation will cause destruction to both heaven and the earth. It is a sort of power that surpasses one’s ability to endure.” “However, if you wish to reach a breakthrough, you must withstand that sort of power. You will only be given two choices, success or failure. Furthermore, if you are to fail… not even your soul will remain.” “If the other Self-punishment Mysterious Techniques unleash punishments that are still within one’s ability to endure.” “Then, the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique will unleash punishments that surpass one’s ability to endure.” “Thus, those that train in the Divine Punishment Mysterious Techniques will all obtain a true transformation with every breakthrough,” Chu Xuanyuan explained. “Father, has there been anyone that has successfully practiced such a powerful Self-punishment Mysterious Technique before?” Chu Feng asked in a serious manner. “The Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique is not something that just anyone can attempt. As far as I know… only two people have ever trained in it,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Who are they?” Chu Feng hurriedly asked. “Those two people…” “One is your grandfather, Chu Hanxian.” “As for the the other, it is I, your father, Chu Xuanyuan,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Ah,” Chu Feng was startled upon hearing those words. Originally, he had thought about finding an excuse to refuse. However, upon hearing those words, he was unable to find any excuse to refuse. Both his grandfather and father had trained in that Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique. Furthermore, they had both succeeded. If he were to choose to cower at this point, he would truly be an utter disappointment. Not to mention how others would view him, he himself would also feel that he had disgraced the honor and reputation of his grandfather and his father. Furthermore, after knowing that his father and grandfather had both trained in that Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique, Chu Feng also started to feel interest toward the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique from the bottom of his heart. “Feng’er, back then, your grandfather did not force me to train in the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique. As such, I will also not force you.” “The reason I mention this to you right now is so that you are given the opportunity to choose. Heaven Punishment and Divine Punishment, you decide which one you want to train,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Divine Punishment,” Chu Feng said without the slightest hesitation. He had long since made the decision in his heart. “Why? Are you not afraid of death?” Chu Xuanyuan asked. “I am. I don’t think there’s anyone that would not fear death,” Chu Feng said. “Then, why did you still insist on choosing the Divine Punishment?” Chu Xuanyuan asked. “Father, I am not arrogant, conceited or acting recklessly. I merely wish to obtain better achievements. I wish to prove myself.” “The path of martial cultivation is a double-edged sword to begin with. If one wishes to reach a greater distance, one will have to undergo greater danger.” “Although the path that I plan to take is a dangerous path, I am not the first one to take this path. Before me, my grandfather and my father have already walked that path. Thus, by comparison… the path is already much safer now that it has come to me.” “At the very least, I know how to walk the path. Thus… there is no reason for me to not choose the Divine Punishment,” Chu Feng said. “Well said. As expected from my son,” At that moment, a smile filled Chu Xuanyuan’s face. “Feng’er, your way of thinking is correct. Although the Divine Punishment is very dangerous, one will also be able to obtain a greater harvest from it.” “The wielders of Heavenly Lightning Bloodlines all possess identical characteristics. I believe you’ve also seen that brat from the Ying Heavenly Clan. He possessed all the power that you possess right now. For example, there is the Thunder Armor and Thunder Wings that can increase one’s cultivation. Then, there’s the heaven-defying battle power.” “However, the power of Heavenly Lightning Bloodlines will be transformed in the Martial Ancestor realm. After reaching the Martial Ancestor realm, the nine Heavenly Lightning will fuse into one. This is commonly referred to as the Nine Lightnings Fusion. “After the Nine Lightnings Fusion, one will be able to form a Lightning Mark. Those that trained in Mortal Punishment Mysterious Techniques will form a Mortal Mark. Earthen Punishment Mysterious Techniques will form an Earthen Mark, and Heaven Punishment Divine Techniques will form a Heaven Mark.” “As for Divine Punishment Mysterious Techniques, it will form a Divine Mark.” “The different sorts of Lightning Marks will show others how powerful the possessor of the Heavenly Lightning Bloodline is, as well as what sort of Self-punishment Mysterious Technique they trained in.” “However, that is not the important aspect. Most importantly, the more powerful one’s Lightning Mark, the stronger the power it will bring to its master. Their future accomplishments will also be greater.” “In other words, one’s Lightning Mark symbolizes one’s status and strength. When you form a Divine Mark, very few people will dare to disrespect you.” “The reason for that is because not everyone possesses the courage to train in Divine Punishment Mysterious Techniques, nor are they something that just anyone can practice, or something that one can learn just because one wishes to learn it,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Father, I understand.” After hearing of the profoundness of the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique, Chu Feng had become extremely impatient to know exactly what the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique was like. “Feng’er, have you really made your decision?” Chu Xuanyuan asked. “I’ve decided. I am going to train in the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique,” Chu Feng said. “Since that’s the case, I, your father will teach you the cultivation method for the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique,” As Chu Xuanyuan spoke, he placed his finger onto Chu Feng’s forehead. “There will be a slight pain. You’ll have to bear with it,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Mn,” Chu Feng nodded. “Buzz~~~” Suddenly, light shone on Chu Xuanyuan’s finger. Then, a boundless power entered Chu Feng’s head from Chu Xuanyuan’s finger. “Wuu~~~” At that moment, Chu Feng immediately felt a sort of unbearable pain entering his head. It was a sensation where he felt as if his head was about to explode. However, that was only the beginning. The pain in his head soon spread through his entire body. At that moment, Chu Feng realized that the pain didn’t seem to be as simple as entering his body. Instead, it seemed more like it was trying to fuse with his soul and his bloodline. From today on, it would be destined to live and die together with him by becoming part of him. Finally, everything stopped. Chu Feng was covered with sweat and gasping for breath. Even though the pain had passed, Chu Feng still felt lingering fears. “Father, is that the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique?” Chu Feng asked Chu Xuanyuan. He discovered that the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique was different from all the mysterious techniques that he had trained in before. For other mysterious techniques, one would merely need to follow a designated cultivation path with one’s martial power. With that, one would be able to stabilize one’s cultivation and increase one’s strength. However, the so-called Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique was completely different. It was a method that completely fused with one’s soul. In other words, Chu Feng had yet to attempt to train in the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique. However, if he were to train in it, he felt that his Inherited Bloodline would definitely become completely different. “That is the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique. How are you feeling?” Chu Xuanyuan asked with a smile. “This feeling is extremely good. I feel that my Inherited Bloodline, my soul and even my physical body were all promoted.” “I truly wish to experience the true charm of the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique right now,” Chu Feng said. What Chu Feng said was the truth. He was truly impatient to completely grasp the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique. He wanted to further increase the strength of his Inherited Bloodline. “Since you wish to experience the charm of the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique, go ahead and train in it,” Chu Xuanyuan said. “Father, doesn’t this Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique require one to become a Half Martial Ancestor to train?” Chu Feng asked in astonishment. Although the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique had fused with Chu Feng’s soul and bloodline, it had yet to completely fuse with Chu Feng. Chu Feng was able to sense that it was not up to him to decide if the Divine Punishment Mysterious Technique fused with him. Instead, it was decided by his cultivation. 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“Earthing the Most Important Health Discovery Ever!” First published in 2010 (now in it's second edition), translated into more than 12 languages, a book I think should be read by every health professional, so that's why I dove in and created this review, just for you.
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Earthing therapy "Earthing" three authors, Clint Ober, Steve Sinatra, and Martin Zucker have put together their individual earthing experience, expertise, research, and down to earthing, writing skills to prove their point: that they have found the earthing therapylink to the exponential increase in immune and inflammation related diseases over the last 20 years. Maybe you suffer from one of them too.
The authors claim to have found a cure that they deem “the most important health discovery, ever”! And on the “praise for Earthing” title page, author Ann Gittleman’s third party authority statement reads, ”Earthing therapy ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin.”
"Earthing Therapy"? How on earth can that be?
In my mother language, the German synonym for earthing, “erden” is an electrical term, meaning “grounding”. So that title is right on, and I am not going to google it now, because the bare footprints on the book cover give it away. Anyway, in my youth, barefoot health seekers were a common sight, wading in line through morning wet meadows glistening in the sunlight. Folk doctor Pfarrer Kneipp’s health recommendations still reverberating in their ears. I remember just how enthusiastic they seemed. Now these people are looked upon as health nuts, or what they are doing as something even ridiculous, or at least unscientific.
Finding myself in that kind of mindset while taking a first glance at the book I found it hard to believe, what I was reading. That merely by touching the ground with your bare feet or merely touching the surface of the earth, you could get the wide benefits of earthing therapy by being electrically charged up with energy, just like a rechargeable battery.
That the earth has an electrical charge, and that it is negative, and that the body has a voltage with a positive charge that accumulates when out of touch with the earth, and so on, all that I did not have the foggiest idea earth therapy, or at least was not fully aware of.
Doubting the claim that merely grounding yourself was supposed to literally charge you up like a car battery and thus take care of major illness, I read on.
I was familiar with the concept of the body as a battery, from using a microcurrent device on myself, but at least that is running on double AA batteries. The concept that the earth itself, or “herself” I am tempted now to write, that “Mother Earth”, (how unscientific a term), should give off these healing forces directly, off grid, even without Double AA batteries, did not settle so easy yet in my brain. The earth having current and giving it off to us with every barefoot step we make?
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Can earthing therapy cure you and relieve screaming pain?
Could it then do the same like my electrostim device claims it can do,could do, reduce pain, energize, and rejuvenate, including taking care of illnesses, as the book claims? Even solving the current health crisis like the authors claim?? In my opinion, only a miracle could do that.
In that book full of miracles, “Autobiography Of A Yogi” Yogananda quotes that very image of the body as battery when he writes about teaching a class of boys a secret technique, how to charge themselves up with energy. “Realizing that a man’s body is like an electric battery, I reasoned that it could be recharged with energy…”. But he goes on saying, that it was done with “powers of the human will”, i.e. mental power. Yogananda does not mention the electric charge of the earth, as far as I know.
And this is something most of us are not aware of even nowadays with all the talk about physics and even biophysics.
But most medical doctors did not know.
Steve Sinatra, M.D. comments on this, “electrical engineers know, that the earth is pulsating with free electrons. Medical scientists didn’t know that, but they did know that the body is electrical in nature” and that only a man like Clint Ober, was able to “put two and two together”, with all his knowledge of electricity and grounding cable TV systems that helped him to grasp grasped the idea of earthing therapy with all its health implications.
Clint Ober, as an electrical engineer knew about interference. Being disconnected from the earth created that.
It made him think further...
It slowly dawns on me, that grounding earth therapy or going barefoot indeed can charge us up enough to get over our health problems, as the book suggests, such as pain, sleep problems, arthritis, fibromyalgia, even diabetes and heart problems, all inflammation related.
And In this book there are plenty of studies, research results, tables, charts which prove it, and lots of testimonials, from doctors, therapists, practitioners, and clients.
One might get worried, thinking, am I going to read all about diseases and research? Is the book maybe too technical for my scope of understanding? The answer is, yes, and no. Yes, it does challenge your attention span and willingness to learn something new, and no, it is written for the lay person in search for a better world.
No medicalese or in Latin!
Even better, this reads like a book written with a cause, with passion, human touch, personal anecdotes, and enthusiasm, and it is definitely about health, not just sickness, and comes with a grand vision and solution, and it is written in an endearing style by these down to earth authors: First of all, Clinton Ober, (see the bio section at the back of the book), who as stated before but stated again because it makes a good story, started as a cable TV salesman, rising into the largest U.S. cable marketing and service industry and then crossing over into computer streaming.
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Then there is Gaetan Chevalier, biophysicist and electrophysiologist, “specializing in the body’s electrical wiring” who contributes and covers the science side.
And they all claim, their “ Earthing” is “the most important health discovery ever!” And, “we believe this book is the first ever written about Mother Earth’s natural vibes and how they keep us healthy...
The first earthing therapy book ever written, how can that be?
Did not folk doctor Kneipp have it down already? The book even mentions several other names, predecessors in the barefoot tradition, an Adolf Just, who already in the early 1900 wrote a book on earth power, “Return to Nature”, advocating walking barefoot and sleeping on the ground.
Then there was the late Dr. William Rossi, a Massachusetts podiatrist, quoted at length, who in his writings strongly disapproved of fancy dress shoes, identifying them as the culprit and emphasizing the “intriguing connection between the foot and the ground”, and also a Frenchman Matteo Tavera who in 1969 in a “largely unnoticed book” wrote about the unhealthy insulation from the ground, blaming separation from Nature as the cause of degeneration and illness.
More or less it’s the same reasoning then as now, only that today we have arrived at a level of degeneration and illness where medicine is unable to prevent nor treat all this chronic inflammation and the wave of illnesses that stems from it. Inflammation and inflammatory disease, the book quotes, is the number one most researched yet unsolved health problem that cuts through all age groups, even children. There is, globally, an ”unprecedented rise” in inflammatory and immune dysfunction, like allergies, just to name one, and the mind puzzling question keeps researchers occupied, with 20,000 new studies on inflammation now every year.
However, author Clint Ober insists, and already has, for 15 years now, that he has found the missing link, and it is grounding people to give them earthing therapy.
I must admit, not until I got to the part when coauthor and cardiologist Steve Sinatra writes in detail about the multiple studies he did on grounding, that I stop doubting the book and its claim. Is it, because he has an M.D. to his name? How brain washed can I get?
Is it that same prejudice, that Clint Ober had to endure when he tried to break into the scientific community with his discovery? Turning to doctors and scientists to back up his observations on grounding people and what it could do, and only getting shrugs, or even laughter, as a response. And only that, until, finally, at an electromedical conference in San Diego, he meets a like minded doctor in Stephen Sinatra, and showing him back to his RV in the parking lot, introduces Sinatra, and two other scientists, to his earthing hypothesis. As Sinatra puts it in the book, for him at that moment, “a door to a new healing frontier had been pushed open”, and that, “by the most unlikely of individuals”, Clint Ober, a man (,here we go again), successful in the cable TV and computer worlds.
As Ober describes, the whole idea about earthing came into being, when, one day he was resting on a bench, focused on tourist’s feet how they moved in and out of his field of vision. This scenario, maybe not by accident, happens to take place in Sedona, which attracts tourists for its new age power place appeal, vortexes and “earth magnetism”. Could it be, Ober reasoned there, that thick soled running shoes, as they were worn by these tourists, could insulate them from “Mother Earth” and so interfere with their health? Ober was getting on that train of thought, because he himself was suffering from terrible chronic pain, was on pain and sleeping pills, constantly, and was seeking a solution.
Wondering about and asking himself that question about these running shoes, he got impressed by the possible consequences.
Suddenly he felt, he had found an answer to a mystery that would solve the riddle and it made him feel that suddenly, he had found his purpose in life, something he had been looking for all this time and up to this point. Getting hooked on earth therapy and that connection he made between the running shoes and health, right there and then he decided to take off in his van and go to California. He wanted to prove it, first to himself, and then, to other people that grounding was the answer. Little did he know how hard it would be to convince others once he had proven it to himself. Nobody had even thought about any of this. As he remembers ...
“ I came to the conclusion that nobody had researched the grounding-health connection”.
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Sinatra writes, “he had just a bare beginning of scientific evidence to back up his observations”. It had been a long haul even before he got counsel from university sleep lab students on how to conduct double blind studies which would count in a scientific world. To begin with, he had grounded countless families knocking on thousands of doors in search for volunteers to do a study on grounding, with a nurse in tow who was very helpful in making the connections and following up on grounding tests, for many years. And then venturing into manufacturing products to make earthing more attractive and even doable took years.
The way Ober describes it, and again, this makes a good story, following his self inflicted mission must have been sheer agony and no joking matter, but Ober jokingly remarks,
“I never for a moment thought I would be in the sleeping or bedding industry”,
when suddenly there was a demand and he came to design viable grounding bed sheets, which nowadays are readily available on Amazon.
“Gratification of seeing people losing their pain...kept me going everyday on an adventure that has been exhausting, challenging, and, at times, quite lonely.”
Reading through his story was worthwhile for me, just to get an idea how resistant people as a society could be to
“anything out of left field”
not only the doctors and scientists but myself included, because I admit, when I first read about it, earthing being a "earthing therapy" sounded hard to believe, that merely walking barefoot you could reverse inflammation and the most serious health conditions.
And what exactly is it about the earth’s earthing therapy influence on the body? Here I quote Ober’s explanation:
"the natural frequencies of the Earth (and he spells it always with a respectful Capital “E!” )…”are waves of energy caused by the motions of subatomic particles called free electrons...Electrons have a negative charge.
It is these electrons that give the Earth’s surface a natural, negative charge….Maintaining contact with the ground allows your body to naturally receive and become charged with these electrons.
When thus “grounded”, you automatically absorb them, which in turn reduces electrical imbalances in the body and the oxidative free radicals involved in chronic inflammation and multiple diseases. The body’s natural electrical state is restored.”
At the same time, he humbly states:
“Neither I nor the researchers and doctors I have worked with have a full understanding of the depth of physiological changes that occur with Earthing.”
From the huge amount of measured evidence in scientific tests done, one could say, it’s not just one thing earthing therapy does. A father-son doctor’s team in Poland, the Sokols, after many studies on grounding, preferred to summarize in a more general statement, that
“Earthing influences human physiological processes”, ... helps “regulate correct functioning of the nervous system and significantly influences the electrical activity of the brain”.
Amazing, (and here we go again once more), that a medical lay person like Ober coming from cable TV’s electric engineering would visualize a medical breakthrough like that, when doctors could not come up with any of this, nor would most of them even listen to him.
Ober had shared with Sinatra his
“frustration with the medical and scientific community that had shown little or no interest in grounding”.
To that Sinatra replies,
“he was having a hard time getting his foot inside the door of science.”
With Sinatra joining in, and with other names in electrophysiology and biophysics, like Gaetan Chevalier, biophysicist James Oschman, Ph.D., author of “Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis”,and another cardiologist Richard Delany, earthing therapygrounding studies started really rolling, revealing and measuring f.e. dramatic thinning and decoupling of blood cells, after 40 minutes of grounding.
Another study measured a 270% improvement in zeta potential (degree of negative charge on surface of red blood cells which repels, preventing unwanted aggregation), after two hours of grounding. Sinatra explains: zero zeta potential means sludge, thick slow flowing blood with more risk of clumping or clotting, causing “traffic jams”. After grounding and earthing, red blood cells moved along briskly, whereas before there was barely any movement observed through a dark field microscope.
What a big leap from Ober trying at first in vain to make doctors lend him volunteer patients for his first grounding studies. And then, while getting his hair cut hearing people talking about their health and figuring
“that a beauty salon could be a good source of volunteers.”
The reward for volunteering was always “improved sleep and feeling rested from it”, which for Ober was always significant even only as subjective statement, especially since there are an estimated 70 million people in the U.S, with sleep problems, and then there was another volunteer’s statement, “pain reduction”, a subjective measurement also. These initial discoveries led Ober to study the Earth’s electrical properties. He reasoned,
“Earth’s electrical charge is always negative,” and…”.. able to reduce a positive charge. “ And since grounding reduced people’s pain, “that suggested”, that “pain is related to positive charge”.
Then Ober, after his own sleep study with volunteers, had lucked out in winning over a doctor who, at least, wanted to “prove” him “wrong”.
“Whereas the first study was based on people’s subjective statements, this second study measured cortisol levels, “thus providing an objective measurement of how earthing would improve sleep problems, pain levels, and stress”, or not.
The study, published in the “Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine” showed “an alteration and significant stabilization toward normal cortisol levels”! What a giant step from humble beginnings. (Link below)
It takes a good mind to follow in the definition of “inflammation”, by now identified as the source of all trouble. Inflammation is a response from the body needed for healing, initially.
Only when it gets out of hand “taking a progressive shift”, switching “ into overdrive” and, turning into chronic inflammation, it starts overproducing rampant free radicals that attack and oxidize healthy tissues causing a multitude of inflammation related illnesses. There is a table in the book with a long list of them, and even heart disease is among them as one of earthing therapy benefits. I am surprised to hear that, but should not have been. I learn that already Virchow, German pathologist in the mid 1800
“had recognized that injured and inflamed arteries might be a source of heart attacks”.
Nowadays, the cholesterol theory is going strong, and the lowering of cholesterol “has become a medical obsession”, the book states. However “medical research has shown that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur among people with normal cholesterol levels”. Harvard cardiologist Paul Ridker, M.D. observes that normal to low cholesterol levels can lull people into complacency, when instead it is elevated CRP( indicating the presence of inflammation) that can put them at ”increased risk for cardiovascular trouble” without them knowing about this. Dr. Ridker, lead researcher in this Harvard heart disease study, concludes that “we have to think of heart disease as an inflammatory disease”.
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After reading all this evidence given from tests done with grounding, and the implications for medicine, things get really exciting for the reader.
Suddenly all my doubts are gone, and while I keep reading I get my partner to order a grounding sheet and grounding pillows, after I have taken a pass on getting too distracted on line by all the different kinds of attractive grounding shoes and sandals, just for now.
All kinds of products are being designed now to ground and to take care of the rampant “electron deficiency” humanity is suffering by living modern lives, the book informs.
Luckily we now get to know, the earth surface has an abundance of negatively charged electrons, and by being in touch with it, electrons are replaced in our electron deficient bodies, the inflammation generating free radicals are nullified, and health can start happening again.
So finally, as coauthor Martin Zucker puts it aptly, and with humor, earthing would mean, “exploiting our planet- for a change in a most magnificent way”. The book’s contributing scientist, electrophysiologist Gaetan Chevalier, UC Irvine, writes, under the headline “The Physics of Earthing, simplified”: “Our research leads us to conclude that a lack of grounding leads to internal electrical instability” which becomes a “precursor” for dysfunction and illness.
Are you electron deficient? Then Earth Therapy is your answer.
So this is serious stuff, and people don’t seem to be aware of any danger signals. In much detail he explains Earth’ negative charge, and under another heading, “Technical Notes on Grounding and Earthing Methods”. These details would involve studying more in depth for a lay person like me, and I cannot responsibly reiterate but I am glad I browsed over them, because it reassures that all this is scientifically sound and grounded, and measurable.
“Contact with the surface of the Earth maintains the body’s electrical stability, and its “self regulating and self healing mechanisms”. That remark stands out for me, and now I can’t wait to test out for myself if grounding alone can do the things my microcurrent device has done for me, like “recharging my battery,” energize, reduce pain, relax, even rejuvenate.
I can’t wait, to go ahead and start earthing, and, like Martin Zucker puts it in his dedication “To Rosita”, with the “prospect of exploiting our planet- for a change in a most magnificent way”. I can’t wait to follow James Oschman’s suggestion, in the book’s foreword, earth’s “limitless healing energy, “it’s there and always there, and yours for the taking”.
P.S.
I have not gotten far enough in my grounding and electricity studies to have my many questions answered. Or are they possibly “ungrounded”? Is my double AA battery run microcurrent SCENAR or DENAS doing a similar, or even the same thing? Is it “just” the earth frequency of 7.8 hertz that I am getting with grounding? How does that compare to the 7.8 hertz with a special micorcurrent frequency in my DENAS PCM 6 device. Do both approaches to remedy the electron deficiency in the body have the same result? Could they be used interchangeably? What does one add to the other? Do they complement each other? What are the differences? How is earth electricity different from microcurrent? Can they replace each other? But that would be a whole different discussion.
Dr. Sinatra does mention microcurrent devices, but his focus in this book is naturally on researching grounding, and in the meantime the answers to these questions will have to be found elsewhere.
P.P.S.
I wanted to conclude this Part One of my review with some good news, the grounding sheet has arrived yesterday and I already have been tested it out last night. Since we live off grid here on home made solar power equipment, on the Big Island of Hawaii, we had to fix up a socket in order to be able to plug into a grounding wire, and I slept grounded, even felt slight tingles, and had an good night.
In part two I will go over more research data, mining out the book once more, and update more of my own experience with grounding and earthing therapy.
Author Lin de Berger
Author Lin de Berger: a German documentary maker turned psych and alternative nurse used microcurrent to recover from 10 years of COPD. She is a strong advocate of daily use of microcurrent. Retired in Hawaii she practices yoga daily and loves gardening.
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References:
Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants
Effects of Grounding on Body Voltage and Current in the Presence of Electromagnetic Fields
The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress.
Grounding After Moderate Eccentric Contractions Reduces Muscle Damage
One-Hour Contact with the Earth’s Surface (Grounding) Improves Inflammation and Blood Flow—A Randomized, Double-Blind, Pilot Study
The Effect of Grounding Earthing Therapy the Human Body on Mood
Grounding the Human Body during Yoga Exercise with a Grounded Yoga Mat Reduces Blood Viscosity
Research Review: The Effects of Grounding (Earthing) on Inflammation, the Immune Response, Wound Healing, and Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases − Journal of Inflammation Research
Grounding the Human Body Improves Facial Blood Flow Regulation
Differences in Blood Urea and Creatinine Concentrations in Earthed and Unearthed Subjects during Cycling Exercise and Recovery
Earthing Therapy (Grounding) the Human Body Reduces Blood Viscosity—a Major Factor in Cardiovascular Disease Additionally, to view the Blood Viscosity Video Clip click here
Earthing the Human Organism Influences Bioelectrical Processes
Research Review: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth’s Surface Electrons −Journal of Environmental and Public Health
The Neuromodulative Role of Earthing Therapy
Emotional Stress, Heart Rate Variability, Grounding, and Improved Autonomic Tone: Clinical Applications
Earthing the Human Body Influences Physiologic Processes, Editorial: Chronic Disease: Are We Missing Something?
Pilot Study on the Effect of Grounding on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness
Changes in Pulse Rate, Respiratory Rate, Blood Oxygenation, Perfusion Index, Skin Conductance, and Their Variability Induced During and After Grounding Human Subjects for 40 Minutes
The Effect Of Earthing On Human Physiology, Part 2
The Effect Of Earthing On Human Physiology, Part 1
The Effectiveness of a Conductive Patch and a Conductive Bed Pad in Reducing Induced Human Body Voltage Via the Application of Earth Ground
The Biologic Effects of Grounding the Human Body During Sleep as Measured by Cortisol Levels and Subjective Reporting of Sleep, Pain, and Stress
Medical Thermography Case Studies on Earthing 2004-2005
Earthing Commentaries
James Oschman, Ph.D., Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D., A. Clinton Ober, Biophysics of Earthing Therapy (grounding) the Human Body, in Bioelectromagnetic and Subtle Energy Medicine (CRC Press), 2015.
Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D., The Earth’s Electrical Surface Potential A summary of present understanding
James Oschman, Ph.D., Can Electrons Act as Antioxidants? A Review and Commentary
James Oschman, Ph.D., Charge Transfer in the Living Matrix
James Oschman, Ph.D., Perspective: Assume a spherical cow: The role of free or mobile electrons in bodywork, energetic and movement therapies
James Oschman, Ph.D., Earthing vs. “Good” and “Bad” Free Radicals
Gaétan Chevalier, Ph.D.,Earthing, Inflammation, and Aging – Something to Think About
Matteo Tavera: A French naturalist’s vision of the importance of “natural electricity” to life
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Discover whether Earthing Therapy is the perfect anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant for people recovering from inflammatory diseases?
Discover whether Earthing Therapy is the perfect anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant for people recovering from inflammatory diseases?
Earth Therapy is only for wuu woo barefoot hippy, nudist natural health nuts?
“Earthing the Most Important Health Discovery Ever!” First published in 2010 (now in it's second edition), translated into more than 12 languages, a book I think should be read by every health professional, so that's why I dove in and created this review, just for you.
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Earthing therapy "Earthing" three authors, Clint Ober, Steve Sinatra, and Martin Zucker have put together their individual earthing experience, expertise, research, and down to earthing, writing skills to prove their point: that they have found the earthing therapylink to the exponential increase in immune and inflammation related diseases over the last 20 years. Maybe you suffer from one of them too.
The authors claim to have found a cure that they deem “the most important health discovery, ever”! And on the “praise for Earthing” title page, author Ann Gittleman’s third party authority statement reads, ”Earthing therapy ranks right up there with the discovery of penicillin.”
"Earthing Therapy"? How on earth can that be?
In my mother language, the German synonym for earthing, “erden” is an electrical term, meaning “grounding”. So that title is right on, and I am not going to google it now, because the bare footprints on the book cover give it away. Anyway, in my youth, barefoot health seekers were a common sight, wading in line through morning wet meadows glistening in the sunlight. Folk doctor Pfarrer Kneipp’s health recommendations still reverberating in their ears. I remember just how enthusiastic they seemed. Now these people are looked upon as health nuts, or what they are doing as something even ridiculous, or at least unscientific.
Finding myself in that kind of mindset while taking a first glance at the book I found it hard to believe, what I was reading. That merely by touching the ground with your bare feet or merely touching the surface of the earth, you could get the wide benefits of earthing therapy by being electrically charged up with energy, just like a rechargeable battery.
That the earth has an electrical charge, and that it is negative, and that the body has a voltage with a positive charge that accumulates when out of touch with the earth, and so on, all that I did not have the foggiest idea earth therapy, or at least was not fully aware of.
Doubting the claim that merely grounding yourself was supposed to literally charge you up like a car battery and thus take care of major illness, I read on.
I was familiar with the concept of the body as a battery, from using a microcurrent device on myself, but at least that is running on double AA batteries. The concept that the earth itself, or “herself” I am tempted now to write, that “Mother Earth”, (how unscientific a term), should give off these healing forces directly, off grid, even without Double AA batteries, did not settle so easy yet in my brain. The earth having current and giving it off to us with every barefoot step we make?
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Can earthing therapy cure you and relieve screaming pain?
Could it then do the same like my electrostim device claims it can do,could do, reduce pain, energize, and rejuvenate, including taking care of illnesses, as the book claims? Even solving the current health crisis like the authors claim?? In my opinion, only a miracle could do that.
In that book full of miracles, “Autobiography Of A Yogi” Yogananda quotes that very image of the body as battery when he writes about teaching a class of boys a secret technique, how to charge themselves up with energy. “Realizing that a man’s body is like an electric battery, I reasoned that it could be recharged with energy…”. But he goes on saying, that it was done with “powers of the human will”, i.e. mental power. Yogananda does not mention the electric charge of the earth, as far as I know.
And this is something most of us are not aware of even nowadays with all the talk about physics and even biophysics.
But most medical doctors did not know.
Steve Sinatra, M.D. comments on this, “electrical engineers know, that the earth is pulsating with free electrons. Medical scientists didn’t know that, but they did know that the body is electrical in nature” and that only a man like Clint Ober, was able to “put two and two together”, with all his knowledge of electricity and grounding cable TV systems that helped him to grasp grasped the idea of earthing therapy with all its health implications.
Clint Ober, as an electrical engineer knew about interference. Being disconnected from the earth created that.
It made him think further...
It slowly dawns on me, that grounding earth therapy or going barefoot indeed can charge us up enough to get over our health problems, as the book suggests, such as pain, sleep problems, arthritis, fibromyalgia, even diabetes and heart problems, all inflammation related.
And In this book there are plenty of studies, research results, tables, charts which prove it, and lots of testimonials, from doctors, therapists, practitioners, and clients.
One might get worried, thinking, am I going to read all about diseases and research? Is the book maybe too technical for my scope of understanding? The answer is, yes, and no. Yes, it does challenge your attention span and willingness to learn something new, and no, it is written for the lay person in search for a better world.
No medicalese or in Latin!
Even better, this reads like a book written with a cause, with passion, human touch, personal anecdotes, and enthusiasm, and it is definitely about health, not just sickness, and comes with a grand vision and solution, and it is written in an endearing style by these down to earth authors: First of all, Clinton Ober, (see the bio section at the back of the book), who as stated before but stated again because it makes a good story, started as a cable TV salesman, rising into the largest U.S. cable marketing and service industry and then crossing over into computer streaming.
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Then there is Gaetan Chevalier, biophysicist and electrophysiologist, “specializing in the body’s electrical wiring” who contributes and covers the science side.
And they all claim, their “ Earthing” is “the most important health discovery ever!” And, “we believe this book is the first ever written about Mother Earth’s natural vibes and how they keep us healthy...
The first earthing therapy book ever written, how can that be?
Did not folk doctor Kneipp have it down already? The book even mentions several other names, predecessors in the barefoot tradition, an Adolf Just, who already in the early 1900 wrote a book on earth power, “Return to Nature”, advocating walking barefoot and sleeping on the ground.
Then there was the late Dr. William Rossi, a Massachusetts podiatrist, quoted at length, who in his writings strongly disapproved of fancy dress shoes, identifying them as the culprit and emphasizing the “intriguing connection between the foot and the ground”, and also a Frenchman Matteo Tavera who in 1969 in a “largely unnoticed book” wrote about the unhealthy insulation from the ground, blaming separation from Nature as the cause of degeneration and illness.
More or less it’s the same reasoning then as now, only that today we have arrived at a level of degeneration and illness where medicine is unable to prevent nor treat all this chronic inflammation and the wave of illnesses that stems from it. Inflammation and inflammatory disease, the book quotes, is the number one most researched yet unsolved health problem that cuts through all age groups, even children. There is, globally, an ”unprecedented rise” in inflammatory and immune dysfunction, like allergies, just to name one, and the mind puzzling question keeps researchers occupied, with 20,000 new studies on inflammation now every year.
However, author Clint Ober insists, and already has, for 15 years now, that he has found the missing link, and it is grounding people to give them earthing therapy.
I must admit, not until I got to the part when coauthor and cardiologist Steve Sinatra writes in detail about the multiple studies he did on grounding, that I stop doubting the book and its claim. Is it, because he has an M.D. to his name? How brain washed can I get?
Is it that same prejudice, that Clint Ober had to endure when he tried to break into the scientific community with his discovery? Turning to doctors and scientists to back up his observations on grounding people and what it could do, and only getting shrugs, or even laughter, as a response. And only that, until, finally, at an electromedical conference in San Diego, he meets a like minded doctor in Stephen Sinatra, and showing him back to his RV in the parking lot, introduces Sinatra, and two other scientists, to his earthing hypothesis. As Sinatra puts it in the book, for him at that moment, “a door to a new healing frontier had been pushed open”, and that, “by the most unlikely of individuals”, Clint Ober, a man (,here we go again), successful in the cable TV and computer worlds.
As Ober describes, the whole idea about earthing came into being, when, one day he was resting on a bench, focused on tourist’s feet how they moved in and out of his field of vision. This scenario, maybe not by accident, happens to take place in Sedona, which attracts tourists for its new age power place appeal, vortexes and “earth magnetism”. Could it be, Ober reasoned there, that thick soled running shoes, as they were worn by these tourists, could insulate them from “Mother Earth” and so interfere with their health? Ober was getting on that train of thought, because he himself was suffering from terrible chronic pain, was on pain and sleeping pills, constantly, and was seeking a solution.
Wondering about and asking himself that question about these running shoes, he got impressed by the possible consequences.
Suddenly he felt, he had found an answer to a mystery that would solve the riddle and it made him feel that suddenly, he had found his purpose in life, something he had been looking for all this time and up to this point. Getting hooked on earth therapy and that connection he made between the running shoes and health, right there and then he decided to take off in his van and go to California. He wanted to prove it, first to himself, and then, to other people that grounding was the answer. Little did he know how hard it would be to convince others once he had proven it to himself. Nobody had even thought about any of this. As he remembers ...
“ I came to the conclusion that nobody had researched the grounding-health connection”.
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Sinatra writes, “he had just a bare beginning of scientific evidence to back up his observations”. It had been a long haul even before he got counsel from university sleep lab students on how to conduct double blind studies which would count in a scientific world. To begin with, he had grounded countless families knocking on thousands of doors in search for volunteers to do a study on grounding, with a nurse in tow who was very helpful in making the connections and following up on grounding tests, for many years. And then venturing into manufacturing products to make earthing more attractive and even doable took years.
The way Ober describes it, and again, this makes a good story, following his self inflicted mission must have been sheer agony and no joking matter, but Ober jokingly remarks,
“I never for a moment thought I would be in the sleeping or bedding industry”,
when suddenly there was a demand and he came to design viable grounding bed sheets, which nowadays are readily available on Amazon.
“Gratification of seeing people losing their pain...kept me going everyday on an adventure that has been exhausting, challenging, and, at times, quite lonely.”
Reading through his story was worthwhile for me, just to get an idea how resistant people as a society could be to
“anything out of left field”
not only the doctors and scientists but myself included, because I admit, when I first read about it, earthing being a "earthing therapy" sounded hard to believe, that merely walking barefoot you could reverse inflammation and the most serious health conditions.
And what exactly is it about the earth’s earthing therapy influence on the body? Here I quote Ober’s explanation:
"the natural frequencies of the Earth (and he spells it always with a respectful Capital “E!” )…”are waves of energy caused by the motions of subatomic particles called free electrons...Electrons have a negative charge.
It is these electrons that give the Earth’s surface a natural, negative charge….Maintaining contact with the ground allows your body to naturally receive and become charged with these electrons.
When thus “grounded”, you automatically absorb them, which in turn reduces electrical imbalances in the body and the oxidative free radicals involved in chronic inflammation and multiple diseases. The body’s natural electrical state is restored.”
At the same time, he humbly states:
“Neither I nor the researchers and doctors I have worked with have a full understanding of the depth of physiological changes that occur with Earthing.”
From the huge amount of measured evidence in scientific tests done, one could say, it’s not just one thing earthing therapy does. A father-son doctor’s team in Poland, the Sokols, after many studies on grounding, preferred to summarize in a more general statement, that
“Earthing influences human physiological processes”, ... helps “regulate correct functioning of the nervous system and significantly influences the electrical activity of the brain”.
Amazing, (and here we go again once more), that a medical lay person like Ober coming from cable TV’s electric engineering would visualize a medical breakthrough like that, when doctors could not come up with any of this, nor would most of them even listen to him.
Ober had shared with Sinatra his
“frustration with the medical and scientific community that had shown little or no interest in grounding”.
To that Sinatra replies,
“he was having a hard time getting his foot inside the door of science.”
With Sinatra joining in, and with other names in electrophysiology and biophysics, like Gaetan Chevalier, biophysicist James Oschman, Ph.D., author of “Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis”,and another cardiologist Richard Delany, earthing therapygrounding studies started really rolling, revealing and measuring f.e. dramatic thinning and decoupling of blood cells, after 40 minutes of grounding.
Another study measured a 270% improvement in zeta potential (degree of negative charge on surface of red blood cells which repels, preventing unwanted aggregation), after two hours of grounding. Sinatra explains: zero zeta potential means sludge, thick slow flowing blood with more risk of clumping or clotting, causing “traffic jams”. After grounding and earthing, red blood cells moved along briskly, whereas before there was barely any movement observed through a dark field microscope.
What a big leap from Ober trying at first in vain to make doctors lend him volunteer patients for his first grounding studies. And then, while getting his hair cut hearing people talking about their health and figuring
“that a beauty salon could be a good source of volunteers.”
The reward for volunteering was always “improved sleep and feeling rested from it”, which for Ober was always significant even only as subjective statement, especially since there are an estimated 70 million people in the U.S, with sleep problems, and then there was another volunteer’s statement, “pain reduction”, a subjective measurement also. These initial discoveries led Ober to study the Earth’s electrical properties. He reasoned,
“Earth’s electrical charge is always negative,” and…”.. able to reduce a positive charge. “ And since grounding reduced people’s pain, “that suggested”, that “pain is related to positive charge”.
Then Ober, after his own sleep study with volunteers, had lucked out in winning over a doctor who, at least, wanted to “prove” him “wrong”.
“Whereas the first study was based on people’s subjective statements, this second study measured cortisol levels, “thus providing an objective measurement of how earthing would improve sleep problems, pain levels, and stress”, or not.
The study, published in the “Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine” showed “an alteration and significant stabilization toward normal cortisol levels”! What a giant step from humble beginnings. (Link below)
It takes a good mind to follow in the definition of “inflammation”, by now identified as the source of all trouble. Inflammation is a response from the body needed for healing, initially.
Only when it gets out of hand “taking a progressive shift”, switching “ into overdrive” and, turning into chronic inflammation, it starts overproducing rampant free radicals that attack and oxidize healthy tissues causing a multitude of inflammation related illnesses. There is a table in the book with a long list of them, and even heart disease is among them as one of earthing therapy benefits. I am surprised to hear that, but should not have been. I learn that already Virchow, German pathologist in the mid 1800
“had recognized that injured and inflamed arteries might be a source of heart attacks”.
Nowadays, the cholesterol theory is going strong, and the lowering of cholesterol “has become a medical obsession”, the book states. However “medical research has shown that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur among people with normal cholesterol levels”. Harvard cardiologist Paul Ridker, M.D. observes that normal to low cholesterol levels can lull people into complacency, when instead it is elevated CRP( indicating the presence of inflammation) that can put them at ”increased risk for cardiovascular trouble” without them knowing about this. Dr. Ridker, lead researcher in this Harvard heart disease study, concludes that “we have to think of heart disease as an inflammatory disease”.
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After reading all this evidence given from tests done with grounding, and the implications for medicine, things get really exciting for the reader.
Suddenly all my doubts are gone, and while I keep reading I get my partner to order a grounding sheet and grounding pillows, after I have taken a pass on getting too distracted on line by all the different kinds of attractive grounding shoes and sandals, just for now.
All kinds of products are being designed now to ground and to take care of the rampant “electron deficiency” humanity is suffering by living modern lives, the book informs.
Luckily we now get to know, the earth surface has an abundance of negatively charged electrons, and by being in touch with it, electrons are replaced in our electron deficient bodies, the inflammation generating free radicals are nullified, and health can start happening again.
So finally, as coauthor Martin Zucker puts it aptly, and with humor, earthing would mean, “exploiting our planet- for a change in a most magnificent way”. The book’s contributing scientist, electrophysiologist Gaetan Chevalier, UC Irvine, writes, under the headline “The Physics of Earthing, simplified”: “Our research leads us to conclude that a lack of grounding leads to internal electrical instability” which becomes a “precursor” for dysfunction and illness.
Are you electron deficient? Then Earth Therapy is your answer.
So this is serious stuff, and people don’t seem to be aware of any danger signals. In much detail he explains Earth’ negative charge, and under another heading, “Technical Notes on Grounding and Earthing Methods”. These details would involve studying more in depth for a lay person like me, and I cannot responsibly reiterate but I am glad I browsed over them, because it reassures that all this is scientifically sound and grounded, and measurable.
“Contact with the surface of the Earth maintains the body’s electrical stability, and its “self regulating and self healing mechanisms”. That remark stands out for me, and now I can’t wait to test out for myself if grounding alone can do the things my microcurrent device has done for me, like “recharging my battery,” energize, reduce pain, relax, even rejuvenate.
I can’t wait, to go ahead and start earthing, and, like Martin Zucker puts it in his dedication “To Rosita”, with the “prospect of exploiting our planet- for a change in a most magnificent way”. I can’t wait to follow James Oschman’s suggestion, in the book’s foreword, earth’s “limitless healing energy, “it’s there and always there, and yours for the taking”.
P.S.
I have not gotten far enough in my grounding and electricity studies to have my many questions answered. Or are they possibly “ungrounded”? Is my double AA battery run microcurrent SCENAR or DENAS doing a similar, or even the same thing? Is it “just” the earth frequency of 7.8 hertz that I am getting with grounding? How does that compare to the 7.8 hertz with a special micorcurrent frequency in my DENAS PCM 6 device. Do both approaches to remedy the electron deficiency in the body have the same result? Could they be used interchangeably? What does one add to the other? Do they complement each other? What are the differences? How is earth electricity different from microcurrent? Can they replace each other? But that would be a whole different discussion.
Dr. Sinatra does mention microcurrent devices, but his focus in this book is naturally on researching grounding, and in the meantime the answers to these questions will have to be found elsewhere.
P.P.S.
I wanted to conclude this Part One of my review with some good news, the grounding sheet has arrived yesterday and I already have been tested it out last night. Since we live off grid here on home made solar power equipment, on the Big Island of Hawaii, we had to fix up a socket in order to be able to plug into a grounding wire, and I slept grounded, even felt slight tingles, and had an good night.
In part two I will go over more research data, mining out the book once more, and update more of my own experience with grounding and earthing therapy.
Author Lin de Berger
Author Lin de Berger: a German documentary maker turned psych and alternative nurse used microcurrent to recover from 10 years of COPD. She is a strong advocate of daily use of microcurrent. Retired in Hawaii she practices yoga daily and loves gardening.
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Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants
Effects of Grounding on Body Voltage and Current in the Presence of Electromagnetic Fields
The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress.
Grounding After Moderate Eccentric Contractions Reduces Muscle Damage
One-Hour Contact with the Earth’s Surface (Grounding) Improves Inflammation and Blood Flow—A Randomized, Double-Blind, Pilot Study
The Effect of Grounding Earthing Therapy the Human Body on Mood
Grounding the Human Body during Yoga Exercise with a Grounded Yoga Mat Reduces Blood Viscosity
Research Review: The Effects of Grounding (Earthing) on Inflammation, the Immune Response, Wound Healing, and Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases − Journal of Inflammation Research
Grounding the Human Body Improves Facial Blood Flow Regulation
Differences in Blood Urea and Creatinine Concentrations in Earthed and Unearthed Subjects during Cycling Exercise and Recovery
Earthing Therapy (Grounding) the Human Body Reduces Blood Viscosity—a Major Factor in Cardiovascular Disease Additionally, to view the Blood Viscosity Video Clip click here
Earthing the Human Organism Influences Bioelectrical Processes
Research Review: Health Implications of Reconnecting the Human Body to the Earth’s Surface Electrons −Journal of Environmental and Public Health
The Neuromodulative Role of Earthing Therapy
Emotional Stress, Heart Rate Variability, Grounding, and Improved Autonomic Tone: Clinical Applications
Earthing the Human Body Influences Physiologic Processes, Editorial: Chronic Disease: Are We Missing Something?
Pilot Study on the Effect of Grounding on Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness
Changes in Pulse Rate, Respiratory Rate, Blood Oxygenation, Perfusion Index, Skin Conductance, and Their Variability Induced During and After Grounding Human Subjects for 40 Minutes
The Effect Of Earthing On Human Physiology, Part 2
The Effect Of Earthing On Human Physiology, Part 1
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Matteo Tavera: A French naturalist’s vision of the importance of “natural electricity” to life
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GIỌNG ANH VÀ GIỌNG ÚC
Bình thường 90% các bài so sánh giọng điệu (accent) toàn là giữa Anh và Mỹ. Mình thì thấy nhàm quá và ai cũng biết hết rồi, với cả thắc mắc từ lâu đó là giọng Anh và giọng Úc khác gì nhau, vì nghe nó thực sự rất giống nhau, nhưng người nước ngoài ai cũng có thể phân biệt được, mà mình thì lại chả biết gì nhiều về giọng Úc. Một số người sẽ có thắc mắc (đặc biệt với bài share hồi chiều của mình) là mình đã nói là không có giọng nào là giọng chuẩn, thực ra có rất nhiều giọng khác nhau ở Anh, có rất nhiều giọng khác nhau ở Mỹ, và cũng có rất nhiều giọng khác nhau ở Úc. Vậy thì làm sao mà so sánh được? Well đúng là thế, nhưng mỗi nước đều đặt ra một giọng gọi là "giọng chuẩn" - một cái thanh tiêu chuẩn riêng cho nước đấy. Ở đây nghe mâu thuẫn nhưng mình cần hiểu là cái thanh tiêu chuẩn này là về mặt lý thuyết. Còn trên thực tế để chúng ta đạt được cái "tiêu chuẩn" này thì thực sự là không bao giờ. Bởi vì chính cái "tiêu chuẩn" này trên thực tế cũng bị ảnh hưởng bởi rất nhiều các yếu tố khác nhau và biến đổi ít nhiều. Chỉ có trên lý thuyết chúng mới giữ nguyên.
Thắc mắc lâu đâm bực nên mình có dạo nhẹ qua Google thì biết là... gần như không một ai nói về vấn đề này, tìm trên Youtube cũng ko ra một video nào (trừ mấy cái về slangs, mình đang nói ở khía cạnh phonetics), tìm cả trên Google Scholar cũng ko ra. Được một bài thì lại nói về sự hình thành (formants) của từng giọng, không thấy nói gì về lịch sử hay những đặc trưng cơ bản của các giọng, xong lại 3 tỉ cái biểu đồ 6 tỉ cái công thức tính toán nên mình cũng tự động đi ra. May thay tìm ra Quora nơi mọi phiền muộn đều có thể giải quyết. Và dưới đây chỉ là mình tổng hợp lại những cái khác biệt nhất giữa giọng Anh và giọng Úc qua các bình luận trong Quora, và thực ra chỉ là cái đặc trưng của giọng Úc thôi, còn ai muốn biết nó khác biệt như nào thì cần phải biết về giọng Anh trước (mình sẽ ko nói ở đây vì như thế giáo viên sẽ ko có gì để dạy nữa =]]).
Về cơ bản có 3 sự khác biệt lớn nhất ở giọng Úc so với giọng Anh (thỉnh thoảng sẽ còn so sánh sự nhầm lẫn với cả giọng Nam Phi - South African):
1. Sự biến đổi (inflection) ở cuối mỗi câu nói trong cuộc hội thoại của người Úc.
Các câu nói của người Úc thường kết thúc với ngữ điệu của một câu nghi vấn, cảm giác nghe người Úc nói bình thường câu nào cũng là câu hỏi hết vậy. Ai học ngôn ngữ (kể cả là không học) đều biết một câu trần thuật với một câu nghi vấn thì ngữ điệu phát ra là khác nhau rõ ràng. Lí do cho việc này được một người Úc bình luận giải thích là vì họ muốn thực sự biết rằng người nghe có đang hiểu được, bắt được cái ý mà họ đang nói hay ko.
2. Giọng Úc có phần giống với giọng Cockney nhưng mang thiên hướng giọng mũi (twang) hơn một chút.
Cái này mình không biết giải thích như thế nào =)) Chỉ biết là người Anh coi cả giọng Cockney lẫn giọng Úc là một kiểu giọng như thế nào đấy "khó nghe" và dành cho người "kém cao quý hơn".
3. [KHÁC BIỆT LỚN NHẤT] Cách phát âm NGUYÊN ÂM giữa 2 giọng.
Người Úc khi phát âm thường kéo thật dài nguyên âm của họ ra, kéo dài cảm tưởng người nghe sắp ngủ được đến già vậy.
today /təˈdeɪ/ nghe sẽ như to die /təˈdaɪ/
"Brits have odd pronunciation rules, but follow them accurately; Australians have straight-forward pronunciation rules, but end up saying stuff as if they were zombies."
Người Úc phát âm /t/ nhẹ đi và nó gần giống với âm /d/ của người Mỹ.
butter /ˈbʌdə(r)/
water /ˈwɔːdə(r)/
Người Úc hầu hết ko phát âm âm /t/, /d/, và /l/ và thay vào đó là âm thanh cảm giác như bị khựng lại, cắt bớt.
boot /buːt/ nghe sẽ giống boo
food /fuːd/ nghe sẽ giống foo
full /fʊl/ nghe sẽ giống fuw
Người Úc rút gọn các từ lại và thêm âm /o/ vào cuối từ hoặc là bỏ qua âm cuối của các từ và thay đổi nó
afternoon -> arvo
business -> bizzo
supper /ˈsʌpə(r)/ -> suppah
after -> aftah
order -> ordah
dinner -> dinah
Người Úc gần như không phát âm âm /r/ (flapped r)
car /kɑː(r)/
Người Úc bỏ qua các âm cuối cùng của các từ
what -> wha
meeting -> meetin'
running -> runnin'
Mình tổng hợp được có vậy qua đống "tài liệu" siêu ít ỏi này :v Ai muốn nghe giọng Úc thì có thể tìm nghe một số người như: Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Liam Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, etc. Còn về việc vì sao 2 giọng nó lại giống nhau thì nó liên quan đến lịch sử hình thành 2 nước và quá trình hình thành 2 giọng. Nói gọn lại thì những người định cư đầu tiên của nước Úc đều từ Britain mà ra, hầu hết là Ireland và London, 1 số thì từ Scotland, Wales, và một số thuộc địa của Anh. Toàn bộ việc này cùng với Cơn sốt vàng (the gold rush) vào những năm 1850s đã thu hút thêm nhiều người từ khắp khu vực trên thế giới về định cư tại Úc, dần dần ảnh hưởng tới quá trình hình thành giọng điệu nước này. Theo ông Moore (2008), những yếu tố góp phần vào sự đa dạng về mặt âm thanh tạo nên giọng Úc bây giờ phần lớn là từ phía đông - nam nước Anh (vì trong Cơn sốt vàng trên có khoảng 2% số cư dân của Vương Quốc Anh di cư tới các thuộc địa của New South Wales và Victoria.
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MGA Chapter 2036
Chapter 2036 – Spreading False News Relying on the masks created by Chu Feng that could track down the people from the Dark Hall, the Ancient Era’s Elves unleashed an all-out counterattack against the Dark Hall. The Dark Hall’s camps that were gathered outside the various Ancient Era’s Elves’ territories were mostly breached by the Ancient Era’s Elves. Those that managed to defend themselves from being breached would also immediately flee quickly. At that moment, the people from the Dark Hall all went into hiding. However, the Ancient Era’s Elves did not stop their attacks on the Dark Hall. After fighting those battles and reversing their fortunes, they turned their focus to the Heavenly Law Palace and the Mortal King Palace. While it was true that the Ancient Era’s Elves had promised Qing Xuantian that they would not exterminate the Heavenly Law Palace and the Mortal King Palace, the Heavenly Law Palace and the Mortal King Palace were actually working with the Dark Hall. As such, even if they were to not eliminate them, they must still crack down on them. Merely, when the Ancient Era’s Elves’ army reached the Heavenly Law Palace and the Mortal King Palace, they discovered that all of the elites had left. Only a group of elders and disciples that did not know the truth remained. The Heavenly Law Palace and Mortal King Palace had become two empty shells. As for the Ancient Era’s Elves, they would naturally not attack those innocent people. As such, they could only drop the matter. However, in order to prevent their allies from being attacked by the Dark Hall, the Ancient Era’s Elves began to provide reinforcement troops to the Four Great Imperial Clans and the King Monstrous Dragon Race. Only the Underworld Palace, which possessed the strength to defend themselves, did not receive assistance. However, surprisingly, the Dark Hall was extremely well-behaved. After their massive defeat, they did not show themselves again. This caused everyone to feel that the Dark Hall had grown afraid. This also allowed the Ancient Era’s Elves to retrieve the sensation of being being absolutely superior, absolutely unrivaled. However, Chu Feng did not dare to act carelessly. He kept feeling that the Dark Hall had not unleashed their full strength. They had only managed to eliminate the Dark Hall’s camps and kill some Ancient Era’s ferocious beasts and a small portion of the Dark Hall’s experts. They had yet to be able to actually cause harm to the Dark Hall’s strength. At that moment… At a location several tens of millions of miles away from the border of the Elf Kingdom was a person. That person fell weakly to the ground. He was a Martial Emperor. Furthermore, his cultivation was not weak. He was a rank three Martial Emperor. However, he was seriously injured. He was wearing a black cloak and a mask. His outfit had revealed his identity. He was someone from the Dark Hall. Beside that injured Martial Emperor from the Dark Hall were two other people. One was sitting on the ground, resting his eyes. As for the other, she was squatting before that Dark Hall’s Martial Emperor and saying something to him. As for those two people, they were Chu Feng and the Snow-haired Immortal. Chu Feng felt that the Dark Hall would definitely not leave the matters as they were. Thus, he had been relying on the masks to search for people from the Dark Hall the entire time. Today, he finally found one. Merely, after catching this person from the Dark Hall, Chu feng did not do anything to him. Instead, he handed him to the Snow-haired Immortal to take care of. As for Chu Feng, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his awareness cast into his world spirit space. In his world spirit space, Chu Feng was also sitting cross-legged on the ground. Merely, he was sitting before Eggy. “Milady Queen, when will you wake up? Even though we appear to be holding superiority in the battle against the Dark Hall, I keep having the feeling that it will not be that simple.” “If you were here now, it would truly be great. You would be able to analyze things with me and give me suggestions,” Chu Feng said those words not only because he was longing for Eggy. Additionally, he was also feeling uneasy. They had to win this battle. If they lost, it would definitely be a calamity for the Holy Land of Martialism. Furthermore, as that Dark Hall’s Hall Master was likely Chu Feng’s fellow clansman, he felt that he had an enormous responsibility in this matter. As such, the pressure on Chu Feng’s heart was enormous right now. In fact, the pressure that he felt surpassed the pressure the Elf King felt. “Master, I’ve succeeded. Quickly, come look. I’ve succeeded in unsealing his mask.” Right at that moment, a joyous voice suddenly sounded. Chu Feng hurriedly cast his awareness back into his body. It was then that he discovered that the Snow-haired Immortal was looking at him with a beaming smile on her face. This woman who was always grim, unfeeling and deemed to be a witch by others actually had a childlike smile on her face. It was also her who had called out ‘master’ earlier. “Senior Snow-hair, please don’t call me that. I am unqualified to be your master,” Chu Feng shook his head with a smile. Ever since she had experienced Chu Feng’s various world spirit techniques, the Snow-haired Immortal, that witch who had wholeheartedly wanted to make Chu Feng her disciple, now wholeheartedly wanted to become Chu Feng’s disciple. She insisted on following Chu Feng wherever he went. Today, the two of them had finally managed to obtain some results and capture a person from the Dark Hall. With Chu Feng’s current level of world spirit techniques, he was capable of unsealing the self-detonation formation contained within the bodies of the people from the Dark Hall and remove their masks. And that… was precisely what the Snow-haired Immortal wanted to learn from Chu Feng. Chu Feng had taught it to her. And now… the Snow-haired Immortal had managed to grasp it successfully. “Okay, I’ll do as you say. After all, you’re already my master in my heart. Regardless of whether you will allow me to call you that, you will still remain my master,” The Snow-haired Immortal smiled again. Then, she moved to remove that Dark Hall’s expert’s mask. Seeing the Snow-haired Immortal acting like this, Chu Feng sighed in his heart. Back then, she had nearly tormented him to death. In Chu Feng’s heart, the Snow-haired Immortal was an enormous witch to the core. Yet now, not only was she calling him master on and on, she was also following his every order obediently like a well-behaved girl. The contrast was truly enormous. “It’s actually someone from the Heavenly Law Palace. Indeed, the Heavenly Law Palace has joined the Dark Hall,” After removing that Dark Hall’s expert’s mask, the Snow-haired Immortal revealed a disgusted expression. The reason for that was because the old man before them was an elder from the Heavenly Law Palace. He had possessed quite a decent status in the Heavenly Law Palace, and had thus met with the Snow-haired Immortal before. “Speak, what is your purpose in coming here?” Chu Feng asked. “Wuu~~~” The old man started to shake his head repeatedly. He did not dare to say anything. “Rest assured, we have already removed the self-detonation formation you have in your body. You can speak the truth now,” Chu Feng said. “If I am to tell you the truth, will you spare my life?” That old man asked while trembling with fear. “If you turn a new leaf, I will spare your life. If you are able to provide meritorious service to assist us in defeating the Dark Hall in the future, I will also reward you,” Chu Feng said. “Little friend Chu Feng, my life and death actually don’t matter to me. I merely wish that you can agree to a condition of mine. As long as you agree to it, I will tell you all that I know,” The old man said. “Speak,” Chu Feng said. “Please save my family from the Dark Hall,” As he said those words, the old man’s eyes grew moist. “Very well, I’ll agree to it. If possible, I will definitely save your family,” Chu Feng nodded. “In that case, I’ll tell you. Little friend Chu Feng, I was originally going to definitely die by coming here. The reason for that was because I planned to pass news to you,” That man said. “What is it?” Chu Feng asked. “I am here to tell you all that an ambush lies in wait at the Dark Hall’s headquarters. You all must absolutely not go there,” That old man said. “What sort of ambush?” Chu Feng asked. “I am uncertain. My status is very petty and low. I have never even been to their headquarters before. Even the fact that there’s an ambush there is something that I have only heard from others by accident.” “I have come here with the intention of dying to begin with. The reason for that is because my family are all in the hands of the Palace Master. If I do not die, they will definitely be killed.” “However, since little friend Chu Feng saved my life, I am willing to turn a new leaf and work for you. But, little friend Chu Feng, you must save my family,” As the old man said those words, he was already weeping bitter tears. He did not appear to be lying. It could be seen that he was deeply worried for his family. Previous Main menu Next Click to Post
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