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votederpycausemufins · 4 years ago

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We’re back with Summoning family! I’m referencing Rustic House Club in this fic, so you might want to go read it, especially the bonus chapter as it has a bit that leads into this chapter, though it’s not necessary to read.

also ay yo @petrichormeraki ! new chapter!

The moment Jrum had seen Sam, he rushed to the redstoner and attached himself to one of his legs. Grum quickly followed to help pry his younger brother off the man, but Jrum made it as difficult as possible. “I am sorry for my brother. I assume you are Sam?”

“Yeah, that’s me. Can I ask what that was about?”

“Your mask. It resembles that of a creeper in such a way that it makes you resemble someone we are familiar with. Jrum likely saw the mask and presumed you to be him. He is already rather homesick.”

“Hey, don’t worry. I’m happy to help you two. Puffy said you needed help with some redstone?” Sam asked, earning a nod from Grum.

“Correct. We are robots that are powered by redstone. Our circuitry is complex enough that we do not have a way to easily self recharge, thus a charger for us will need to be constructed. Jrum? The blueprints if you please?”

Jrum handed a sheet of paper to Sam. It had various orthographic views of the device as well as interior images and instructions on how to build it. “That’s the tweaked version since our dads could make it smaller.”

Sam looked over the blueprints. “Hmm, yeah, this is gonna be pretty big, but it’s manageable. Do I need to make one for each of you?”

“No, we should be able to share.” Grum replied. “Though two would indeed be a better option, we would not want to force you to do more work, and once we have one charger, the two of us will be able to make a second ourselves without any looming deadline.”

“Alright then, let’s start making this thing.”

Sam took them to an open area which he also explained was where they could build a place to live around the charger. Grum thought that was a good idea as he mapped out the area for Sam and Jrum to start working. Grum also helped out as much as he could, but he had given much of his battery charge to Jrum, and soon it showed.

“You doing okay there?” Sam asked Grum, who’s movements were stuttered and slow. Grum didn’t respond, just continuing to work. “Hey kid? Uh, Jrum I think? Something’s up with your brother.”

Jrum stopped what he was doing and came over, looking at his brother. “Oh… h-he’s in low power mode. I… Grum do you want some of my charge?” Grum didn’t respond. He didn’t want to use any power for it. “Here, let me just connect us up.” Jrum started to pull out a cable, but Grum stopped him. “Don’t. Finish the charger. Instead. I’ll be. Fine.”

Jrum still looked worried, but slowly put the cable away. Sam went back to working, and Jrum almost did as well, but then Grum collapsed, now completely out of power. “No!” Jrum was immediately back at Grum’s side and started shaking him. “Please wake up! P-Please! I don’t want to be alone! W-wake up!”

Sam wanted to comfort the robot, but what just happened showed just how important this project was. So instead he just started working as fast as he could without messing up. Jrum reluctantly joined him after a few minutes, working slowly.

They had almost completed it when Jrum’s movements also became stiff and laggy. Sam paused what he was doing again to be next to Jrum, not wanting to leave him feeling alone. “What. If I. Don’t wake. Up again?” Jrum asked.

Sam gave a comforting hug to the robot. “You will. I promise.”

Jrum slowly hugged the man back. Sam held on until he felt Jrum’s grip loosen, and when he pulled away, Jrum was also completely off, save for the symbol of an empty battery before it disappeared, leaving everything dark.

“Now are you all sure this is a wise decision?” Xisuma asked, admin panel open and ready to send the group of six to Helscraft.

“Yes! This is probably the last place we have to look!” Tommy shouted at Xisuma, surprising him. “And if we have to fight for them back! So be it!”

Mumbo put a hand on Tommy’s shoulder. “Calm down. This isn’t exactly the first time we’ve lost someone in there. I’m sure if the bots did end up in Helscraft, they’re probably in safe hands.”

Tommy looked over at Grian who gave a sad smile and nodded. “We’ll just need to be a little careful. Last time we were there I got mistaken for someone else, and since that person was the empress of the world, it could happen this time too.”

“Okay, someone good will have the kids, people are going to try and kill Grian, we protect him. Great! Got it! Let’s go!”

Xisuma rolled his eyes but smiled at his newest hermit before sending the group off to the hels dimension.

The group found themselves standing on a small island made of mycelium as well as being on fire. The water surrounding the burning island was a blood red color, though it otherwise looked like water. Mumbo walked over to a chest and pulled out some boats before putting them down. “Alright, we’re heading to that main island in the distance over there.” He pointed. “We’re going to need to find a portal that’s made of something that looks like glowstone, but isn’t. From there we follow a path lined with blue clouds. No questions, just get in the boats.”

The only time Tommy had heard Mumbo that serious was when he was scolding the bots, so he immediately listened and got in a boat, Tubbo getting in behind him. He followed behind the boats Mumbo and Techno were rowing, going towards the main island of the world. Looking at it was a bit jarring. He could tell this was like the hermits’ cowmercial district, but it also looked like it was a part of the SMP with how destroyed and griefed it looked.

Grian led them to a portal that looked like it was made from a golden material with blue magic in the middle. When Tommy went through, he was surprised to see something that looked so much like the standard overworld. Though it resembled a plains biome, something Tommy absolutely hated, it also didn’t with its mint green grass and blue dirt. Trees with light green, blue and navy leaves speckled the land, and unfamiliar mobs roamed the land. There was also one other difference. The place was absolutely freezing.

“Wh-wh-where a-are w-we?” Tommy chattered out before he was handed a blanket made out of wool. Mumbo had one of his own and was handing out one to each member of the party, save for grian who was using his wings instead. One blanket had been brought for the avian though, and Techno took that one too, as being a piglin already made the overworld chilly, so this was on a different level.

“This is the aether. It’s what they have instead of the nether in Helscraft.” Grian answered. “And while The nether is supposed to be closer to the core of the world, making it much hotter, this place is far up in the air, making it extremely cold. The spawn here has something to make the air here breathable, but outside of this place, you need extra gear to breath for very long as there’s not much oxygen. Fortunately the path we’re going on has something set up, which is why those blue clouds are there. But also do not touch them because it will not end well for you.”

After Grian’s warning, everyone was very careful as they walked the marked path. Beings made of clouds attempted to attack as they walked, but the group had bows that made quick work of the mobs. Finally, as they drew close to the end of the path, a large rustic style mansion stood completely undamaged like the main island had been.

“Alright, now hopefully the bots are there.” Grian said, half under his breath before running towards the mansion. Tommy was the first to run off after him, the others all following behind. Just before they reached the front door, it opened, and Grian walked out.

“Oh! Grian! You came for a visit! How nice!” The second grian spoke before setting down a picnic basket and hugging his double.

“Nice to see you too NPG, but… please tell me you at least thought I would visit.”

The other Grian, NPG, tilted his head. “No, I’m sorry but I didn’t. Was I supposed to know? Did I forget a planned gathering?”

“No… I just… Grum and Jrum… they got k-killed… and their respawn… th-they didn’t show b-back up… w-we thought they m-might be here and…”

“Oh no! That sounds horrible!” NPG covered his mouth in shock. If there’s anything I can do to help, I will. I just need to visit Sense first.” NPG picked up his basket again. “If you want you could come with?”

Mumbo put his hands on Grian’s shoulders. “I don’t think that would be a good idea after their last meeting.”

“What the fuck did this Sense guy do?” Tommy asked, making NPG look over.

“Oh hello! I don’t believe I caught your name.”

“I’m Tommy. These are Tubbo, Philza and Technoblade. Now what about this Sense guy?”

“It is nice to meet you all. Perfect sense is the Hels counterpart to Mumbo here. From what I can tell, the first meeting between him and Grian did not go well at all.”

“How so?” Phil asked, dad instincts cropping up.

“He got extremely handsy with Grian.” Mumbo answered. “To put it lightly, clothes almost came off and Grian was left with a bruise on his neck. After that he tried to kill the both of us along with NPG.”

“Oh I remember seeing that bruise.” Tommy replied. “Now I get why Grian got so upset about my comment about your guy’s love life.”

“I wouldn’t mind meeting the guy.” Phil spoke up. For all we know, he could have some answers about your kids. If he was willing to mess with you before, he could be doing it again.”

“Alright then! Follow me!” NPG started to lead them off before doubling back and grabbing masks for everyone to wear. Once they were on, then NPG started leading the group through the unprotected land. A number of creatures attacked, but the group was relatively safe.

Eventually they reached a large chasm, the sky below going down for miles, any ground below obscured by clouds. If there even was any ground below. “Okay now this is probably going to be scary for most of you, but what we’re going to do is jump onto this small purple cloud. Once you do, try not to move, there are blue aerclouds below, but it’s not the most fun thing in the world trying to get back to the start. Here, I’ll go first.”

NPG jumped onto the purple cloud and was immediately launched into the sky, rocketing forward until he hit another purple cloud that caused the same effect. He kept at this for a bit before finally landing on another island on top of some while clouds. The robot then turned around to face the others and waved them over.

There was a bit of screaming from some of the group as they were thrown over the chasm by the clouds, glad to be back on solid ground by the end. Once Grian had gotten over - flying instead of using the clouds much to everyone’s dismay - NPG started walking again until they finally reached a clearing. There wasn’t a single mob in sight, but there was a small house made of some unfamiliar wood, similar to what NPG’s mansion had been made with.

“Sense! I’m here to visit again! And I brought some friends!” NPG called out and then there was the rattling of chains coming from inside the building. The group immediately drew weapons, ready to face whatever game out of the building, but they lowered them as someone stepped out.

The man for the most part looked like Mumbo, but there were a number of things that made him different. His hair was much longer and looked matted, with something similar going on with his mustache. He had a blue tie that had stains which Tommy recognized as being from blood. The stains themselves were all near the top of the tie, where a large scar was present on the man’s neck, just above the fabric. His wrists were cuffed, about a foot of chain connecting them and his hands were stained bright red from redstone dust. His feet were in a similar situation, the ankles cuffed and connected, but a much longer chain was also linked to one of the cuffs, leading back into the house. Finally, the man was rather skinny. Mumbo himself was lanky which added to his height, but this man was so thin that some of his bones could be seen and his clothes hung on him loosely.

“Okay! So I got you some beef, though I made sure to soak it in broth all night so it’s nice and soft. I’ve also got some swet gummies that have some essential vitamins as well as some milk and blueberries. And then, once you’ve had all of that, I brought youuuuu” NPG dragged the word out as he slowly pulled something out of the basket. “A candy cane!”

Sense grabbed at the food and NPG was soon helping the helsmit eat. Grian and Mumbo were absolutely horrified at the scene, and even the group from the SMP were taken aback at the state this man was in. He was so weak, he could barely chew without help, which was very different compared to the evil genius Grian and Mumbo had the displeasure of meeting before.

When Sense was done eating, NPG went back to the basket. “So I know last time you said your dust was wearing out, so I brought you a new piece to play with!” The helsmit’s eyes lit up when NPG handed him a bit of redstone dust. He messed with it a bit before putting it away in his pocket, and then pulling out a death ray and pointing it at Mumbo, who was currently standing closest to him other than NPG.

Tommy took a step closer, drawing his sword and immediately the weapon was pointed at him. However, Sense was still weak and his hand was wobbly. Before he could hold it steady, NPG smacked the ray gun out of his hand and put it in his own inventory. “Bad Sense! Next time you won’t get any candy!”

“Did True do this to him?” Mumbo asked, now even more worried about meeting her to make sure the boys weren’t there.

NPG looked back and tilted his head. “What? Oh no. The new emperor did!”

“I thought you said True was the empress again.” Grian spoke. “You said that Sense got dethroned a few days later. Wouldn’t that be True?”

“Nope! Someone different. In fact I’m his second in command! Or running mate. Either works! He didn’t need one since it wasn’t an election or anything, but he insisted. Oh! We should go talk to him and see if he knows anything! He doesn’t really use any communicator so I have to visit him if anything comes up. But if Jrum and Grum are with him, I’m sure they’re just fine since I talk about them so much to him!”

Before anyone in the group could say anything else, NPG led them away and over to a large campfire. Techno raced to it once he could see it and held his hands out to warm himself. “Oh, you don’t have to do this. This will just take us back to the main island. There’s only really supposed to be one, so it takes you back to where you entered the dimension in, but Xannes made more!”

“Who’s that?”

“Oh, that’s Evil X’s name. I get to call him that because I’m his friend!m Anyway, let’s go!”

The group used the magic of the campfire to pull them back into the overworld. NPG Was almost immediately off running towards the castle, leaving the rest of the group to catch up. They went through a number of halls in the castle before finally getting to a set of large decorated double doors. “Okay, so he’s in here. I’m pretty sure he’ll let you guys come in and say hi and ask your questions, but I don’t want to be rude and assume, so I’m gonna go in there and ask.”

Everyone was perfectly fine with that, getting a moment or two to catch their breaths since none of them were robots like NPG. The door was still cracked open, so everyone was able to hear as he spoke to the emperor, so they listened in as they waited and rested.

“Hi! I just finished visiting Sense!” There was a pause, none of them hearing the emperor. “He managed to make a death ray. I think he kept lying when he said his redstone was wearing out. But he wasn’t able to use it on any of us.” There was another pause, this one much shorter. “Oh! Some friends came to visit! Grian and Mumbo had a question for you and also brought their friends along named Tommy, Tubbo, Philza and Technoblade! They were wondering if they could come in and talk with you.”

Everyone couldn’t help but hold their breath at the pause before a small cheer erupted from NPG and he was almost immediately back at the door. “Okay, he said you can come in and ask him things!”

The robot pushed the door open all the way before running back into the room. Grian watched as his creation sat down in a smaller chair next to a large throne centered against the far wall. Tommy gave a quick laugh at the cheery robot before his gaze moved over to the one sitting in the throne and it suddenly felt like he couldn’t breathe. Beside him, Tubbo was having a similar reaction and both Phil and Techno drew their weapons.

Sitting on the throne was a man. His elbow rested on one arm of the throne as his hand pressed against his cheek, holding his head up. His legs were crossed as well, giving him the look of someone who was bored or just didn’t care. A bandana was tied around his face like a bandit, covering his mouth and nose. A single brown eye was visible, starting down towards the group, meanwhile the other eye and the rest of that side of his face was covered with a mask of white porcelain, a simple smiling face carved into it.

“Dream…” Tommy spoke aloud, his voice trembling.

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northcarolinanative · 4 years ago

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𝙲𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 (𝟻)

Chapter 5: The Bigger Picture

A/N: WOW! Y’all are so sweet and amazing <3 Here is Chapter 5. Tension is building, kinda. This is so s l o w burn that it’s hurting me. I kinda want this to be about more than just a romance tho? Especially in the beginning, but I am working on the other chapters, and where it is heading, I promise! Bare with me haha! Also I have no clue if those maps exist or if that’s even a thing. I’m just making it up, but it could be right haha.

I practically dragged JJ through the front door of the Chateau. “What’s all this about Y/N” JJ finally asked as you both walked through the kitchen. I pulled my keys out of my pocket, fiddling on the keyring, finding the small golden key. I held it up to JJ, rattling the other keys, a smile plastered to my face. “A key? How exactly is that supposed to help us Y/N?” I rolled my eyes in response. I turned to the door, just on the side of the living room.

My dad’s office.

As long as I could remember, I was never allowed in there for extended periods of time. I would wander in some late nights when he left the door cracked, or to bring him a glass of water and a snack. I could see him now thinking back, hunched over the desk, glasses low on his nose, pen in one hand, the other holding the map that he was marking up.

“Ah. Y/N. Taking care of your old man, making sure I stay alive I see” and he would chuckle, but I didn’t. I left, and days later her disappeared, he was killed all because of that stupid shipwreck, just like my brother.

I rummaged through a few things, pulling binders down and looking through the first few pages. JJ looked over at me, honestly worried. I mean if I was watching someone else in my position I probably would be too. I know I probably looked crazy, I was grasping at short, short straws. It was all because I was not ready to give up on my brother just yet. I found the binder labeled “Ship maps”. I pulled it out and handed it to JJ. Okay, maybe this was a little far-fetched, but it was something.

JJ took it carefully out of my hand. He hesitantly looked at me before looking down at the map, slowly unfolding it. I started to tap my fingers against the table. My nerves were on edge as JJ looked between the map he was unfolding and me. His hand reached down to cover mine that was tapping at an annoyingly fast pace. I bit my lip as he looked over the map.

He furrowed his brows and looked up at me. “What am I looking at exactly?” He questioned. I laid the map out on the table. I couldn’t blame him, if my dad had not been into this stuff I wouldn’t know what was happening either.

“Okay so here,” I pointed to one of the lines that were on the page, and traced it down the coast of North Carolina, to where it landed in a port in Charleston, “is the route that the ship was recorded to talk, based off of the sonar and the GPS in it. Ya know, the kinda thing that the bigger, hauling, cargo ships have? For the long trips?” I finished looking for the key.

JJ slowly nodded his head looking at me. He could tell I might be on to something, he just was not quite sure yet. I flipped up the side of the map, just the first panel, and it showed an elaborate excel table, filled with numbers and symbols. “Here” I pointed to one of the highlighted symbols along the path that I previously traced, “Is…” I took my other hand to skim the table to the side, trying to find the matching color and symbol. “Ah. Here.” I tapped the symbol in the table, JJ leaned closer to me making my breath hitch involuntarily, we were so close, we were touching, practically no space between us. “See here it says that this ship reached 35.1146° N, 75.9810° W, on Saturday, May 14th, 2007, at…” I followed the line with my finger, 16:45” I finished my rant.

“Okay.” JJ breathed out, his brows still knitted close together. I could see the worry in his eyes. At this moment I could not see it, but he thought I might have been going crazy, things are starting to get to me.”Y/N, this is great, but I don’t know what this has to do with John B.” He sighed. “But I'm not gonna lie, a girl who knows her way around the ocean, the commanding voyage out to sea, boss babe style, kinda hot Y/N” JJ joked, trying to lighten the mood and his worry, then he realized how close we were, but he didn’t move.

I let out a laugh. It felt natural, which was nice. “I'm being serious JJ,” I said, still laughing and pushing his shoulder back.

“Whatever you say,” He paused. “Princess.” I rolled my eyes looking back over the map. “What does all this mean though? How is this map, from before we knew what the Merchant was, going to help us find John B?”

“Ah, you have to think bigger JJ. You see if we can get the coordinates of the Phantom’s last signals, where it was found, or where it could have been between last night and when they pulled it up, we can cross-reference that, with any boats that may have come through. If we can somehow get a map from any of those larger companies, maybe the ferries, hell we might even be able to get it off the internet. We can see if any boats came around then start from there?” I said, but it sounded like a question. “I know that it’s barely anything, but it’s something JJ!’ I continued rambling. “If the ships picked up JB and Sarah, pulled them on board, then maybe…” I didn’t know how to finish the thought. I looked up from the scattered maps to JJ.

JJ stared blankly at the maps then up at me. He both put his hand on the sides of my face and just looked at me. He probably thought I was crazy, that I was losing my mind. “You’re a genius Y/N” He then placed a quick dramatic kiss on the top of my forehead. “Seriously, I never would have even thought to look into any of that.” He stepped back. I was slightly taken about by his actions had we always been this touchy with one another when John B was around. “So where the hell do we start Nancy Drew?” JJ said, rubbing his hands together making me laugh.

“The ferry would be a good place?” I said shrugging my shoulders. “But I haven't exactly thought that far ahead” I laughed a little, and saw a smile still on JJ’s face.

“Then we’ll start at the ferry’s office!” JJ said moving out of the office. I looked up and around the room. At all the research that my father did. All the books that line the walls, the maps hung up, all of it. I wanted to get rid of it. My skin felt hot and I could feel it turning red. I gripped the table tightly, hoping the anger would pass. A picture frame on the wall caught my attention. I lifted it from the hook it was sitting on. In the frame was a picture of the Royal Merchant, labeled and matted. Stuck on the outside of the glass, covering the lower corner of the Merchant was a picture of the three of us, John B, my dad, and I. It was taken a few summers ago by our neighbor, we had come back from a long day out on the boat fishing. I felt tears start to form in my eyes. My back was facing the door so I didn’t see JJ enter the room. He came up behind me, putting his hands on either of my shoulders. He looked down at the photos in my hands.

I reached one hand up to wipe a stray tear. I was so sick of crying. “I can’t believe that a shipwreck from the 1800s made me lose two of the most important people in my life.”

“I know” JJ spun me around to look at him. “You have a plan,” He said smiling

“We’ve got a plan” I corrected him. “Actually, before we head out on this chase, do you think you could help me with something?” I said softly.

“Anything,” JJ replied. The worried look still in his eyes.

“Can you help me clean up here?” I looked around at the mess, from when I got here, and the mess that I had just made. “I don’t know, I just want to clean it up, lock the door, and not think about it for a while,” I said, starting to fold-up maps.

“Of course.” JJ smiled starting to close up binders and arrange them on the shelf. “If you were going to use me as a maid Routledge, you could have at least bought me one of those cute costumes?”

I pretended to gag. “JJ that is an image that I did not need in my head.”

“You may not have needed it, but I bet you’re enjoying it.” He winked in my direction. I felt the blush creeping back onto my face.

“In your dreams J,” I said with a laugh.

CH 6

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pandapupremade · 4 years ago

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Danger (Part 2)

WORDS: 1,305 (three more words than part 1)

WARNINGS: Mentions of explosions/weapons/evil plans basically

PART 1 HERE

Only one more part to go also Flim actually shows up this time. aka self ship time and lots of Darkwing VS Negaduck moments. reblogs very appreciated <3

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It never was as easy as it seemed for the Fearsome Five to succeed, and the fifth and most powerful member knew this well. Still didn't mean he was happy when they failed.

"Curse those ingrates," Negaduck grumbled once his feet were firmly on the ground. Having landed his strangely designed aircraft on the convention center roof, he could now go downstairs and blend into the crowds. This was no trouble for an expert criminal like himself, but the clock was ticking. How long did he have? Less than twenty-five minutes. Why did he come here at all? None of your concern.

Marching grumpily down the stairwell, he only almost tripped on his cape once. Okay, maybe twice. It was a small price to pay for fashion...But hey, his hat blocked the glare of the sun on morning drives nicely. And possibly his line of sight in general. Ah, wait, there was a more serious matter here! There were a stupid amount of bombs about to go off, and likely at least a hundred people in this convention.

Er, not that he, Negaduck, gave a flying duck about the majority of those people but...There was just one he wanted to - uh, help? Was that the word? Rescue? No, not something so dramatic...Who did he think he was acting like right now? A hero? He shivered at the thought, reaching the convention area. Seriously, the only thing that could make this whole situation worse would be someone mistaking him for the sickeningly heroic counterpart of his known as -

"DARKWING DUCK!"

He jolted, spinning on his heel. Had someone...? No, no, it was okay. Nobody saw him...Oh, but Darkwing Duck WAS over there. Negaduck slipped into the crowds, watching his goody-two-shoes version standing at a PODIUM of all things. What an egotistical...Negaduck paused.

Ah, this might just be the opportunity he needed.

"...and so, fair citizens of St. Canard," Darkwing was saying, his voice echoing into the mic, "Along with buying some priceless art from the booths here, you can rest easy at night in your beds, knowing that the terror that flaps in the night will in fact, be always vigilant. Always alert!..."

"Always late to the party." In a moment's notice, Negaduck yanked the mic from Darkwing and pushed him to the ground. The people of the convention gasped.

"W-w-wha - NEGADUCK?!" Darkwing's eyes were wide, then narrowed as he jumped to his webbed feet, "I-I mean, of course! Y-you were always there, this whole time, you were-"

"Actually just got here." Negaduck looked at the crowd, gripping the microphone. "Attention, St. Canard! This entire Southern section of the city has been rigged with bombs by yours truly, Negaduck."

At this declaration, there were gasps and murmuring amount the crowd. Fearful ones that would normally fill Negaduck with delight, and admittedly still sorta did. But right now, his eyes seemed to survey the group of people as if seeking a particular person...

But he wouldn't find the person before a fist came flying at his face from the side and he was knocked off the podium. People around began to scatter.

"I should've known you'd show your unsightly, unappealing mug, Negaduck!" exclaimed Darkwing Duck, lifting the other by his collar and pulling him in close and personal. "What's on your awful agenda this time?!"

"...I just told you."

Darkwing stared blankly. Negaduck sighed. "I was GOING to send you a message, but you know...Destroying this stupid convention might not be so bad if it gets rid of you too." He gave a sharp smirk. "According to my calculations, you have fifteen minutes to evacuate this half of your precious St. Canard before some very innocent people get hurt."

Technically, he had nineteen, but Negaduck liked to round time limits down. Regardless of the specifics, you could see Darkwing's color drain from his face. "H-h-half - half the city?!"

"...You really weren't listening, were you."

"Y-you'll never get away with it!...What kind of evil has possessed you?!" "A fearsome evil.Now let GO!" Smacking foreheads with Darkwing, Negaduck broke free and ran for it. He didn't look back. Didn't have the seconds to spare. Unfortunately, the dunce would soon be hot on his trail. Years of slapstick comedy hardened a man...or duck.

"C-come b-b-back and fight, you coward!"

"Sorry, you purple annoyance, but I've got bigger matters to attend to. Like not getting blasted to smithereens!"

As he turned a corner, he reached into his coat and pulled out a mysteriously hidden grappling hook and fired up at the ceiling. On his way up, he knocked over a display of free paint samples - spilling them in time for Darkwing to slip and slide his way into several OTHER displays.

"LOSER!" shouted Negaduck, only to...well, how to say this delicately? He smashed into the ceiling because he was not paying attention. On his way down, he only felt a little bit of shame and a lot of pain. And when he smacked into the ground, well we can assume it hurt his pride (and his body) even more.

He groaned and struggled to his hands and knees...Could this possibly get any -

"...Negsy?"

His eyes shot open. That voice...He looked up to see a pink flamingo in front of him.

"Um...W-what are you d-doing here?"

Negaduck's hands trembled on the ground for a moment, before he used them to push to his feet - clumsily. "Well, fancy meeting you here, little dove...." He grinned, though, and seized the bird's wrist. "Good thing."

"W-wha- wait...! W-where are we - ?"

"Unhand that civilian, you sneaky scoundrel!" Ah, a paint-splattered Darkwing Duck had made his way over. Negaduck groaned loudly, released his captive, and reached into his coat again - this time pulling out...Something that really shouldn't have fit into his coat -

WHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

And just like that, there was two ducks in combat. Okay, actually Negaduck was just swinging his chainsaw, and Darkwing was dodging for his life. "W-woah, woah! Can't we - can't we talk this out?!"

"I Don't. Have. Time. For. THIS!" Negaduck swung with each word. At long last, Darkwing lost his footing, and Negaduck seized his throat...

"N-Negsy!" A pink hand had grabbed onto Negaduck's cape. "St-stop it!"

It was the Flamingo.

"....N-Negsy?" Darkwing choked out, and dropped limp to the floor as Negaduck released him, gasping for air. "W-wh-"

"Flim- "

"W-what are you doing here, Negsy?" Flim gripped his cape tighter. "You kn-know I have a panel here, and..." She blinked. "Oh my gosh, is - is this why the convention was in a panic?"

"Smart, aren'tcha...This place is going to be going sky-high within - oh, I dunno - ten minutes."

"W-what?! Why would you -?"

"It wasn't me, it was the incompetent lot that works for me." He put the chainsaw over his shoulder, "If that's all your questions, then can we PLEASE get out of here?"

"W-we should evacuate people first..." Flim shook their head. "I-I'm not leaving if other people aren't!"

"Oh, how sweet and noble of you." Negaduck gagged, grabbing her hand again. He began to pull her along. "Leave the extras to Deadwing here."

"D-don't call him names, Negsy..." To be fair, Darkwing was looking pretty dead on the floor there. Still, Flim tried to pull free again. "H-he's hurt, thanks t-to you! Just help him evacuate people..."

Negaduck looked increasingly irritated, and glared at Flim....But in a few moments, his expression became...Softer? Less angry, at least. He averted his eyes.

"....Fine, little dove. I'll play your evacuation game. But then you're coming with me."

"D-deal!"

"W-w-wait! No deal, no -no deal!" Darkwing cried, butting in between them and physically pushing them apart, "Y-you can't just agree to be a HOSTAGE!"

"U-um, Mr. Darkwing -" Flim began, but Negaduck bopped Darkwing on the head with the blunt of his chainsaw, and the hero fell limp once again.

This was gonna be a long ten minutes.

#⚡💞 Stinky Ducksband (Negaduck)#🦩⚡ NegaFlim (Ship)#🦩🧸 Flim (Self Insert)#kermitwriting

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tfw-no-tennis · 4 years ago

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mtmte liveblog issue 19

it’s 2021 now!! time for more transformers

we start off w/a flashback showing tyrest retrieving ultra magnus’s body from the ship - and we get a look at magnus’s spark, which is the green color of a 0.1%er [eyes emoji]

tyrest punching magnus..... grrrrr leave my dad alone bastard man

‘the divided self’ what a good title

rodimus is like listen man this is a lot for my poor thot brain to take in

in flashback land, we see tyrest immediately launch into a crazy person spiel about how he can and will edit the law as he sees fit to conform to the situation, because that doesn't seem like a blatant abuse of power or a huge conflict of interest or anything

oooh the screen in the corner that says ‘thought warfare,’ I see that

oof, poor magnus. its gotta be rough to hear your boss rant about how bad at your job you are....especially bc this is right after overlord called magnus a joke and nearly killed him

its especially brutal bc as magnus says, his job is his life

augh, I love the panel where the armor is falling off around minimus, and then the one where he’s holding the ultra magnus head...poetic

its fascinating that there was an ‘original’ magnus who was an actual guy, and then tyrest chose to make him into this legacy symbol - I'm assuming the OG magnus had no say in this, and probably didn't even know that he was gonna become this lawman legacy figure

I do wanna know though - obviously everyone thought that ultra magnus was one dude, but how did the different guys wearing the armor deal w/that? like, did minimus have people coming up to him like ‘hey ultra magnus old buddy! remember when we fought those guys in that one place? good times!’ like, do they have to study up on the lives of the past armor wearers to prepare for the role of ultra magnus?

augh poor minimus, of course he’s been wondering about what happened with overlord after he was KO’d

oof, drift...I feel like minimus looks surprised and a little skeptical at the idea that drift was the one behind the entire overlord thing - which is interesting bc as we saw at the beginning of the story, he doesn't exactly trust drift, but it’s still pretty far-fetched that one person orchestrated the entire thing

tailgate :(

the concept of a load-bearer is SUPER cool, I love it so much

it also puts a much-needed limit on things - as in, there IS a limit to how much weight/mass a normal cybertronian frame can carry, which is why you don't see everybody upgrading to be Massive - bc they actually CANT

oof, the worst part is that tyrest is RIGHT, minimus essentially DID have a nervous breakdown after the war ended bc of the rigid way he views the world

mental health support is clearly in shambles for cybertronians, yikes. they literally have 1 therapist for their entire race, and he’s not even licensed anymore due to hipaa violations. what a mess

the ‘attention deflectors’ thing is so cool and clever and also a great explanation as to why ratchet or anyone else never said ‘hey wait a minute, you're actually a much smaller dude in a trench coat’

I love tailgate knowing all the stuff about the autobot code bc of magnus...my BOY

and THATS why minimus was asking about skids specifically earlier!

oh minimus, please don't put so much stock in tyrest being stable and resonable...

aaaand there's skids and swerve! brainstorm says it best - ‘because something unexpected hasn't happened for at least nine seconds.’ lmao ily brainstorm

finally checking in w/whirl and cyclonus - god I love that. whirl asking cyclonus how many cons he killed and cyc is like psh I wasn't keeping count....................ok it was six

hhhhh cyclonus IS looking for a cure for tailgate, even though he told tg that there wasn’t anything to hope for....excuse me as I go be emo

and now we flash over to the unethical medical conduct hell zone, where pharma is being weird and horny and ratchet is appropriately horrified

I seriously love how unhinged pharma looks, the art & colors do such a good job conveying his feral energy

ratchet has some massive dick energy for taunting pharma when he’s currently just a head and pharma has dual chainsaws for hands

ugh, I love whirls speech about anger...and I feel like he really does see cyclonus as a peer, despite cyclonus wanting to kill him, which is why he tells cyclonus all of this

I fuckgin love that cyclonus’s reaction to very suddenly getting stabbed thru the abdomen is to just glance down at the sword, looking mildly inconvenienced

back over to ratchet - and at first its like oh wow I can’t believe pharma was stupid enough to let ratchet goad him into this contest....but then you see first aid and ambulon and its like UH OH this is gonna be BAD

the idea that getting sliced in half is no big deal for a cybertronian is wild

‘you're gonna let doctor djd cut us in half?’ yeahhhh that's an appropriate reaction, yikes

FUCKING LENGTHWAYS GOD

pharma you piece of shit

poor ambulon :( :( :( that's fucking brutal. amazing panel but....jesus

and like, to further my point from last issue’s liveblog - the fact that this very gore-y panel is okay, but swearing isn't...that's really funny honestly. I guess robo-gore is acceptable, while I'm guessing regular ole run of the mill human gore wouldn't be

then back to cyclonus, who is still looking only vaguely put out by the sword stuck right thru him

and then cyclonus just pulls it right out, which is a very bad idea for humans but probably not as big of a deal for big near-immortal alien robots

circle of light stuck in capitalistic urban hellscape cubicals

poor skids, being asked to stand trial while having no idea what his crime is due to Big Amnesia

OH SHITTTT I totally forgot that getaway shows up here

that is super clever though, with chromedome confusing the name ‘getaway’ with the concept ‘needing to escape’

cant believe tyrest is really dumb enough to tell minimus all his evil plans

BUT that means its time for some very important forged vs constructed cold lore

jro spelling ‘program’ as ‘programme’ made me remember when he said that he considers everyone on the lost light to be british, which is perhaps the least valid thing he’s ever said vhbghjsdbfjkhasbjk

the idea that they used the matrix - which is portrayed as kind of a holy object - in reproductive experiments is really interesting

AUGHHHHH this is all so good and interesting...im really fascinated w/this particular brand of like, alien robot racism/constructism/whatever you wanna call it - I feel like it does such a good job as a plot device, where many other ‘fantasy racism’ concepts from other franchises fail, bc there's not really a ‘human metaphor’ being used here (as far as I know/can tell) - as in, this isn't a thinly veiled metaphor for something that happened/could happen in human history

in fact, this type of bigotry (or w/e you wanna call it) isn't something that is even really possible in humans - I guess if there was a stigma against being born via ivf or something...? but there isn't, so there's no obvious real-world equivalent, which I take as a sign of good writing and worldbuilding - it makes the cybertronians feel more Real, bc of course they would have their own types of bigotry based off of completely different things than humans

additionally - and this is crucial - tyrest is wrong: there’s no like, inherent moral corruption in cold constructed bots. there's no difference at all, other than method of construction. fantasy racism plotlines often flounder here, with the oppressors having a ‘valid reason’ for oppressing the oppressed, but tyrest is just operated on religious zealot bs and some biased science

like, dude, did you ever think that maybe there are other reasons why your trials only condemned cold constructed bots? like, maybe the trial itself was biased? or societal conditions were to blame? correlation is not causation, my dude, especially when the conclusion is ‘cold constructed bots are inherently SINNERS’ lmao

like, tyrest rlly said ‘FUCK separation of church and state,’ huh

anyways I just think the whole cold construction vs forged thing is really interesting and well-done, and serves as a good precursor to the more fleshed-out functionism stuff we see later

so tyrest is clearly off his rockers w/the whole drilling thing - dude, you accidentally gave yourself a lobotomy, okay - but I find it kinda funny that he’s right about a lot of that stuff he said at the end, about primus and the guiding hand and stuff being real

cyclonus saying ‘tailgate and the others’...I see you, man, I see you

also cyclonus looks fine now??? didn't he just get stabbed???

ah, tyrest sprinkling a little light genocide onto his plan to find salvation. nice, dude!

MINIMUS NOOOOOOOOO

‘fully deserved’ SHUT UP BIIIIITCH

poor minimus is taking a lot of Ls this arc, geez

oof, great issue! again, as usual....I loved the lore we got this issue, its so interesting...and some good character stuff too. I love minimus, I feel like he’s gonna be my fav this readthru; my first read my fav was brainstorm, second readthru was whirl, and I feel like its minimus/magnus this time. I just love his character arc...

hype af for more B)

#lj rereads mtmte

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hcrror · 4 years ago

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✨💌 self promo time: reply with five of your favorite creations and pass this on to some of your favorite creators! Thank you for making such lovely things 💌

thank you so much roxy!!! I have more than five favorites (that sounds kinda narcissistic but I am proud of some of the edits I make lolol) but i’m gonna name ones I don’t really gush about often.

my recent oliver marks edit: who saw this coming? me, I did. this style of editing of mine is my favorite to do idk why but I love it. I used my remus lupin edit as inspo sfdghsdjk. THIS EDIT THOUGH, despite it being my kin character, TOOK ME A WEEK TO FINISH!!! it was sitting in my drafts and- the coloring just drove me insane. I don’t use psds so I kept having to desaturate and saturate and mess with the temperature. in the end it looks.....muted and brown...but I hope it’s not too shgkjd not appealing to look at?? I love the edit, I do, it’s my baby oliver how could I not?? I battled with if the fancast was good for it because the way the text sits on his face felt weird to me at first, but it turned out ok.

my cassian edit: this one I was so worried about doing because finding a fancast for cassian was hard. however, I decided to do it in the style of my remus lupin edit so I only had to find one photo lolol. I went with a cabin in the woods vibe because he is an illyrian and he does his training in camps and in the woods. I was frustrated because I couldn’t find a wing picture that I liked to show he was illyrian but that last panel with the bird in the background is a nice touch. cassian is one of my favorite characters and this was an edit I spent several hours on and expected to flop but it didn’t. I really do like it and I’m glad others do also.

my slytherin house edit: so I am a slytherin and I just one day felt like making a hogwarts house aesthetic edit. the coloring for this is a muted dark green with minty green accents with the text. I love the vibe of the edit which is very much dark academia. my favorite quote in the welcome message on pottermore is the caption: “Now there are a few things you should know about Slytherin - and a few you should forget...” I am more slytherin than what people think but I think I am also a mix of hufflepuff and slytherin. idk jfgshdjg I am rambling but this is my beloved hp house edit and I love it a lot.

this tessa gray edit: I love this more than the past tessa gray edit i’ve done. I got the inspiration from my friend iniya’s (@daji) annabeth chase edit which is stunning. I loved how I placed the “do not seek revenge and call it justice” quote with the line in between. this one was just so easy to put together and I didn’t really need much feedback on it because I was/am proud of it.

this hadestown typo edit: you can thank coco (@laststop) for getting me obsessed with this musical. I now have a multifandom sideblog themed after hadestown. making edits of musicals is what i’m still figuring out how to do, but for this one I just decided to do a typography edit. I chose the song “flowers” and did a contrast between the lyric “dreams are sweet, until they’re not” one photo being in color, the other being in b&w. I had an exact idea of what font to use which coco provided me with. and this turned out really pretty. I love it a lot and I plan to make another hadestown edit soon.

I ramble too much sfjkshjf

#asks #roxy tag #mutuals

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holographic-chogi · 6 years ago

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Protector pt.2/23

Author: holographic-chogi

Pairing: still a surprise!! Sticking with fem!readerxstray kids

Rating: this chapter is PG

Warnings: none for this chapter

A/N: I’ve been releasing shorter chapters so I can release updates more frequently, I have finals going on so unless I write shorter updates there’d have to be a huge gap between chapters. Also there is major handmaiden’s tale inspo for this series (if you couldn’t tell) with the whole theme of the dystopian gender divide.

Summary: a virus has wiped out most of humanity, and society has collapsed. People survive in groups where they live in constant fear and a struggle to survive. Women were the primary victim of the virus, leaving few behind. You are one of the few, kept in secret since the beginning. However, you’ve just been caught.

Masterlist

The panic attack from earlier wore you out. At this point you only register that you are outside and it’s dark out. Someone to your left pulls your arm around his shoulders so he can support you more. Your guess, is it’s the nice freckled boy with the deep voice from earlier. He does most of the work but that doesn’t stop you from tripping on various rocks and plants, and eventually potholes.

You must be traveling on the highway. You’ve been walking a while. Your eyelids keep drooping and you try to keep your hold on the boy but you keep feeling yourself slip.

You hear an annoyed huff from behind you, and suddenly you feel two strong arms behind your knees and back, and then you were being carried bridal style. You’d feel awkward if it weren’t for the sleep pulling at you. Before you close your eyes you look up, feeling a bit curious.

Huh. Changbin was carrying you. You didn’t expect that.

Hours later you come to. Your eyes remain shut as you feel the softness of the blankets above you. This is much nicer than you’re used to, you can’t remember the last time you’ve slept on a mattress. It wasn’t like Jiho deprived you of that on purpose. Actually, all the blankets in your old room went to you, while he would usually fall asleep in that wooden chair near the door.

You feel your heart prick. You hope he’s okay. You know he didn’t leave you. He couldn’t have.

When you finally decide to open your eyes, you wince from the flash of sunlight. Must be daytime.

Your eyes adjust and you gasp at your surroundings.

It is the most pleasant looking room you’ve seen in awhile. The two windows let in loads of sunshine, lighting up the whole space. The walls are a light, cream color and the ceiling is made from wooden panels, with beams spread across the top. There are stalks of old, dried lavender pinned to the walls amongst a few other flowers. The bed has an old-fashioned looking wooden frame and a plaid, baby blue comforter stretched across its surface (that you were currently underneath). The bookshelf on the wall near the door is full of old books, and the nightstand beside you has a couple placed upon it as well. Framed photographs were lined up along the dresser. They’re of a young woman and her family, they look like farmers. You’re guessing that this room was inside a farmhouse, it looks a lot nicer than the cell block.

That awful cell block. There were four cell blocks within the prison, and you (along with your group) had been staying in B. In short, the group would usually just call it Block B. It wasn’t an ideal place to be. The condition that the group had for you staying there, was that you would be hidden away. Women after the virus were a rare commodity, and they didn’t want a target on their back more than they already had.

Pretty much the only things you knew about your old group were their names. Before and after joining them, you spent all your time with Jiho. He tried his best to make your “room” comfortable, but with no windows to see the time of day or surface to sit on besides cement, there wasn’t really any way to make it better. As bad as it was, both Jiho and you knew it was dangerous to be without a group. Especially with you tagging along.

You’re brought back out of your thoughts from the sound of two guys laughing outside. Oh right. You shouldn’t get too comfortable.

There’s one thing first that you need to know.

You sit up more in bed and lift the covers to look down at your clothes. You feel relief wash over you to see the same jeans and grey hoodie that you’d been wearing last night. Sure, maybe some sweatpants would’ve been more comfortable to sleep in, but you’d rather not be unclothed in a group of what you assume are all men. After all, most groups are these days.

You swing your legs over the side of the bed and walk to the door. You feel hesitant to open it, but then chuckle to yourself. Deja vu much?

You open the door to reveal a hallway with (surprise) even more windows to let the sun in. So many doors...must’ve been a big family that had lived here before. You head down the wide, wooden staircase to the main floor.

The stairs end at the middle of the main floor. Directly in front is the front door, currently propped open with the screen shut, letting a nice, warm breeze brush past. To your right is a living room and to your left was a kitchen, and oh my. The undeniable sent of scrambled eggs fills your nose and you feel your mouth water. You definitely don’t get to eat often and when you do, it certainly doesn’t smell this good. You tiptoe towards the kitchen, hoping that the meal was left unattended.

You peak around the corner and into the kitchen. Someone is whistling quietly while they prod at the eggs in the frying pan, a soft hiss from the oil everytime he does so. You recognize the soft orange hair and know that it belongs to the freckled boy from last night. You muster up some courage and step forward.

“Um...hello.”

He jumps a bit, then turns around with a flustered smile. He must not have heard you. “Hi! You’re awake! I was actually just about to go bring you some food”.

You wrap your arms around yourself, “I’m sorry if I startled you, I’m just quiet on impulse. Thank you for making me food.”

You look at him and force a smile. He seems sweet, but you still have your guard up. The only other person to treat you this well in a long time is Jiho.

The freckled boy let his own smile stretch wider, “no worries at all. Did you sleep alright?” His gaze flashed to one slightly less comfortable and he looked at the tiled floor. “I know jeans aren’t very nice to sleep in, but I figured you wouldn’t want any of us to change your clothes. I hope that’s okay”.

“No that was the right call, thank you for that. The jeans weren’t that bad to sleep in either, I usually sleep in much worse conditions.” You chuckle to yourself. If only your old group could see where you slept last night.

The boy’s eyebrows furrowed, he looked displeased. “What kind of conditions?”

You didn’t like where this was going. Time to change the subject. “My name is Y/N, what’s yours?”

His intense gaze melted away and his smile returned a little bit. “Name’s Felix. It’s nice to meet you Y/N.”

You weren’t gonna lie, his smile was heart-melting. Maybe it was a trap. “Where are we?”

He leaned back into the counter a bit, “We’re miles from the prison. This place is some farmhouse that was abandoned after the virus. We’ve been here about a year and a half.” His eye smile grew again, “We have animals. Do you like animals? We have crops growing too, that’s my favorite part of the farm, actually.”

You dug your nails into your forearm as you tried to keep eye contact. This has to be a trap, he was way too nice. Your gaze sinks to the floor as the dread sinks in. You’re miles from Jiho, and you aren’t sure if he even knows where you are. And miles in what direction? You wouldn’t even know where to run. You feel trapped, at the complete mercy of the boys in this farmhouse. You’re snapped out of you thoughts quickly at the feeling of hands on your forearms. You look up to see Felix’s worried face.

“Hey, I’m sorry, did I say something wrong?” He rubs his thumbs in a soothing motion on your skin, in an attempt to calm you down.

You look up at him, no longer trying to hide the fear on your face. “W-why are you being so nice to me?”

His lower lip sticks out in a sad pout, “do people not usually treat you nicely?”

Just as you are about to answer, the screen door swings open. You flinch and scramble out of Felix’s grasp; spinning around to lock eyes with Changbin. He looks at you and then narrows his eyes at Felix. His voice comes out in his usual grumble, “Give her her food and head out, meet us by the water pump.” he looks back at you quickly before adding, “we’re having a family meeting. Wouldn’t wanna miss it”.

It doesn’t take you long to wolf down breakfast. Not only were you hungry, you also have the tendency to stress eat. You were sat down in the living room on one of a couple couches, trying to scope out the area outside. They’re most likely unaffiliated with a district. If they were from the YG or SM districts, you’d be within a city, not some farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. The JYP district wore their signature initials everywhere, and you haven't seen those on anyone. This was a good thing though, the districts were dangerous for women. Your kind was a rare commodity, and the districts, especially YG and SM, were notorious for not letting women leave. YG was easily the worst, being you would literally be property. At least SM has the courtesy to pretend you’re a normal citizen, not a prisoner. JYP is who you knew the least about. Jiho told you that they don’t have a central city, they’re more just a collection of groups spread out across the territory that answer to the most powerful group. Not as bad, but you still figure you should still steer clear.

From the front living room window, you can only see so much. The most obvious is a handmade fence, made from several pieces of other mismatched fences that stretches pretty tall. There are two perches on either side of the entrance for what you presume are for keeping lookout. Since the meeting had started, Changbin and someone else had been alternating the perch on the right. That probably isn’t the best way to escape. Maybe there’s a back entrance. You get up from the couch to move closer to the window and get a better look, but just as you do, you see everyone except Changbin heading back to the house. You quickly dart back to the couch, trying to look as inconspicuous as possible.

The screen door opens, and the whole crew files in, making their way into the living room. Most look at you with warm smiles, while some look with curiosity. One particularly young looking boy, most likely in his late teens, shies away behind the others. Felix shoulders his way to the front, and kneels in front of you to get to eye level.

“Are you doing alright, Y/N?”

You nod, keeping your eyes down.

“Our leader, Chan, has an offer to make you if you’re willing to hear it.”

You look up at Felix. His smile is warm as usual. “Which one is Chan?”

One of the boys you remember from last night steps forward. “That’d be me. We met yesterday, but it was pretty hectic so I’d understand if you didn’t remember.”

You did remember him, he scolded Changbin when he tried to point a gun at you. You were grateful for that. “I remember you. Thank you, for telling him to put the gun away.”

He looks almost bashful at your remark. “O-oh. It was no problem, really. He shouldn’t act so impulsively all the damn time.” He straightened up a bit, “anyway, I have a proposition.”

You nod again, waiting for him to continue.

“We can protect you here. You shouldn’t be without a group, and we won’t have any problem taking you in. I understand you’re waiting for Jiho, but we can’t say for sure when he’ll be around to come find you. If we bring you in, we’d have to let Jaebum know you’re with us. He’s in charge around here, so we gotta keep him filled in.”

You stare at him, one eyebrow cocked in confusion, “aren’t you in charge around here?”

He nods, “I’m in charge of the group, Jaebum is in charge of the district.”

What? Your eyes widen, the familiar look of fear on your face. “We’re in a district?” Your panic becomes evident, and you wrap your arms around yourself. “Where are we? Am I trapped here?”

Felix instinctively reaches out for you, hands on your shoulders. “Hey… you aren’t trapped, I promise.” feeling your shoulders shake, he pulls you closer, “shh...you’re okay. You’re alright.”

The others watch, clearly off put by the affection Felix was giving. After a moment, Chan pulls Felix away. “That’s enough. Give her some space.” He looks back down at you, trying to stay stern. “You’re in the JYP district and you aren’t trapped. Women aren’t prisoners here, you can leave whenever you want. However, I don’t think it’s a good idea to be on your own.”

You sniffle. You hate that you’ve cried in front of them so much. You hate feeling weak and you hate that no matter how you view it, you need to stay here. At least for now. You look up at Chan, wiping tears from your face. “I don’t think I should leave either.”

#stray kids #skz #stray kids fanfiction #stray kids reactions #stray kids scenarios #protector

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superkidd5 · 4 years ago

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Was gonna post these, yesterday. At the last second, I decided to play around with IG’s filters to see what effect they had on my pictures. The Ludwig filter made the snow a lot whiter (vs an initial strong blue tint). I really liked the look so I jumped back into Lightroom to play around and see how that was done. Using the color sliders on the bottom panel, I first tried lowering the blue saturation to get rid of the blue tint. This did not work. After playing around a bit more, I realized the effect was caused by lowering the saturation of the red color. This sacrificed some of the red in the rocks, so instead of 100% I lowered the saturation by 50%. This was a nice middle ground. (Quite literally the middle.) I like this image well enough. As has become customary, I threw in a b&w photo. I think I’ll keep doing this for the foreseeable future. (at Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNkPP4AY6z/?igshid=15qnibpo374cm

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chamomilehoneytea · 7 years ago

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Kimi ni Todoke Chapter 120 Translation

Hello my fellow Kimi ni Todoke fans!!

This chapter marks the beginning of the end - it will be the first chapter in the final volume. As I said in an earlier post, we still don’t know how many chapters we have before the conclusion, but we are definitely in the final arc (after this chapter, I would guess that we have 3 - 4 more, based on the typical page count of previous Kimi ni Todoke manga volumes).

Before you start reading, I just want to put out my usual disclaimer. I can read Japanese and I study the language in my free time, but I’m nowhere near fluent. I have no experience as a translator (with the exception of the KnT summaries and translations I’ve written). Sometimes I can’t figure a line out or I make mistakes, and while I do my best to convey the sentiment I found in the original dialogue, there are times when it sounds pretty stilted. So I just want to warn you that what you’ll be reading is what I understood, whether it’s right or wrong - I’m trying to share what I personally got from the chapter, errors and all. But hopefully this gives those of you who can’t read Japanese a sense of what’s happening, even if the translation isn’t exactly right. It’s just to tide you over until the official version is released! :)

As far as I know, the next chapter will come out in the October issue of Bessatsu Margaret (September 13th); like this chapter, it’s going to have a colored title page! I would really encourage you to purchase the magazine, if you’re able to financially - not only is it a great way to support Shiina-sensei, it makes for a really cool collectible since the series is almost over!

Now pack your bags guys, cause we’re going away to college~~

If you clicked this read more and don’t want to see SPOILERS, TURN BACK NOW.

“This is a line of spoken dialogue” and (This is a thought).

Okay, let’s see how Sawako, Kazehaya, and Kurumi did on their entrance exams!

Kazehaya sits in front of his father, waiting in a tense silence.

Kazehaya’s Father: “A house!! Let’s look for a house!!”

Sawako: “…ah! Kazehaya-kun!!”

Sawako: “Congratulations on passing your exam!!”

Kazehaya: “Huh??? Wow, you came all the way here after seeing my email?! I’m so happy!! Thank you!!!”

Sawako: “I just couldn’t contain myself!! Ah!”

Sawako: “Were you planning to go somewhere?”

Kazehaya: “After this? To look for an apartment.”

Sawako: “An apartment!!”

Kazehaya: “Dad told me to go look for one immediately. He said he’d go too, later.”

Sawako: “He’s striking while the iron’s hot!!”

Kazehaya: “Yeah, you’re right, that’s the kind of person he is. Haha!”

Sawako: “An apartment, huh?”

Sawako: (…Kazehaya-kun’s new life is about to begin…)

Kazehaya: “Next up…it’s your turn, Kuronuma.”

Sawako: “…right!”

Sawako: (…the graduation ceremony also went smoothly. Kazehaya-kun passed his university entrance exam. Next is…)

Sawako: (…Kurumi-chan’s and my turn.)

Sawako: “A…Are you nervous…?”

Kurumi: “O-Of course I am…!!”

Kurumi: “Sawako-chan, you’re calm…”

Sawako: “…I can’t stop shaking…”

Kurumi: “…”

Kurumi: “...M-Me too…Look…”

Sawako: “Y-You’re right…”

Sawako: “…it’s cold…”

Holding hands, Sawako and Kurumi approach the bulletin board to look for their numbers. If their numbers are posted on the board, it means they passed.

Sawako: “Excuse us…”

Pin: “Oh! You came!! How’d you do?!”

Kurumi: “…I’m going to tell my homeroom teacher…”

Pin: “Oh. Right!”

Sawako: “…b…”

Pin: “‘B’?! As in ‘bad’?!”*

Sawako: “…both of us…passed our exams…!!”

*Note: Sawako says, “…ふ…” (…fu…) because she’s about to say “futaritomo” (meaning “both of them” “both of us” etc.). Pin thinks she’s about to say a word that begins with the kanji “不” (pronounced “fu”) – he has a good reason to be nervous about that, as most words that start with “不” have a negative connotation.

Pin: “YAY!!”

Kurumi: “Sawako-chan, let’s go.”

Sawako: “Oh, okay…!”

Pin: “After this you guys’ll be looking for a place to live, huh?”

Sawako: “Ah – yes!”

Pin: “Moving is tough~!! It’s a huge pain!!”

Pin: “Take care of yourselves.”

Sawako: “Sensei, I…”

Sawako: “…”

Sawako: “…I’d like to be a teacher like you, Arai-sensei…!”

Pin: “Kuronuma.”

Pin: “It’s hopeless. Give up. I’m the only teacher like me.”

Sawako: “Y-Yes…!!”

Pin: “You’re fine just the way you are!”

Pin: “Do your best, you two!”

Sawako: “We’ll do our best…!”

Kazehaya: “…oh.”

Sawako: “Kazehaya-kun!!”

Kazehaya: “Congratulations on passing your exam!!!”

Sawako: “Oh, thank you~!!! And coming all the way here to tell me!!!”

Kazehaya: “Ahaha! You did the same for me, right?”

Kazehaya: “And you too, Kurumizawa!! Congratulations on passing!!”

Kurumi: “…thank you…”

Kazehaya: “You did it!!”

Kazehaya: “Yoshida and the others also congratulated you! Can you go to Ryu’s house after this? Yano is coming too!”

Sawako: “W-Wow~~I want to go…! Since I’ll be celebrating with my family tomorrow…!!”

Kurumi: “…”

*Note: Over Sawako’s head in the middle panel, it says, “Nostalgic 3-Person Shot” lol.

Sawako: “K-Kurumi-chan too…!!”

Kurumi: “What?!”

Sawako: “H-How about together we…?”

Kurumi: “No, I actually…!”

Sawako: “No, I know that I’m saying something selfish, but, uh…”

Kurumi: “H…Hold on, Sawako-chan!!”

Sawako: “…I want us to celebrate together!!”

Kazehaya: “Come with us, Kurumizawa!! If you don’t have any plans at home, that is!!

Kazehaya: “There won’t be many more opportunities like this! Right?”

Kurumi: “…okay…”

Chizu: “Ack!! Kurumi’s here!!”

Kurumi: “…”

Chizu: “My rival!! The cram school group!! No way, no way, no way~!!! Today especially I want to be with Yano-chin and Sawa!!”

Sawako: “Uh – Say, Chizu-chan…”

Sawako: “Kurumi-chan and I both passed our exams!! So you see, I was so happy that I invited her a bit forcefully!!”

Chizu: “Huh?! You seriously passed?! That’s amazing, Kurumi!!”

Chizu: “Well, I guess there’s no helping it!! Come on in!!”

Kazehaya: “…it’s Ryu’s house though…”

Sawako: “Oh!! And one more thing, Chizu-chan!!”

Chizu: “What?!”

Sawako: “About Kurumi-chan’s rival…it’s me…”

Chizu: “You’re standing your ground too, Sawa…”

Kurumi: “…Chizu-chan.”

Kurumi: “Where’s Ayane-chan? Can you call her over before I come in?”

Chizu: “Sure, but why are you being so cocky?”

Chizu: “Wait, Kazehaya – go call Yano-chin!!”

Kazehaya: “Sure, but why are you speaking so rudely to everyone, Yoshida?”

Ayane: “Kurumi!! Did I hear you passed?! Congratulations!!”

Kurumi: “You too, Ayane-chan.”

Kurumi: “Because I didn’t congratulate you.”

Ayane: “Haha, we were the ‘just barely’ girls, weren’t we?”*

Kurumi: “We ‘just barely’ girls won the fight, didn’t we?”

Ayane: “I know, right?”

Chizu: “Grrr…their friendship deepened in that world I don’t know…!!”**

Kurumi: “Ayane-chan, Chizu-chan…”

Chizu: “What??”

Kurumi: “…I’m sorry.”

*Note: Ayane refers to them as “ギリギリ組” (“girigiri gumi”) – “girigiri” can mean “just barely” or “at the last minute” and “gumi” means “group” or “class”. I interpreted this to mean that they saw themselves as underdogs when it came to passing their exams, but it might mean something else. Basically this nickname for their little group just rubs it in Chizu’s face that Ayane, Sawako, and Kurumi share a bond that she isn’t a part of lol.

**Note: The “unknown world” Chizu refers to is cram school / preparing for exams together.

Kurumi: “I’m sorry…for what I did when we were first years.”

Kurumi: “…I really regret what I did…”

Chizu: “…there’s nothing…”

Kurumi: “Huh?”

Chizu: “To apologize for!! Congratulations!!!”*

Chizu: “We’re gonna have a huge celebration!!!”

Ayane: “Chizu was touched by something deep inside…”

Chizu: “Alright, let’s get this party started!!”

Chizu: “Ryu, you got the drinks?!”

Ryu: “Oh, yeah.”

Ryu: “…uh…?”

*Note: Really not sure what she’s actually saying, but this is my best guess. The sentiment probably isn’t as straightforward as “you did nothing wrong” – it’s probably more like Chizu is letting bygones be bygones, or letting what happened go.

Ryu: “………..Donguriza…”

Kurumi: “It’s Kurumizawa. Thank you for having me!!”

Chizu: “Okay then, let’s go!!”

Chizu: “Yano-chin, Sawako, Kurumi, oh, and while we’re at it, Kazehaya too!!”

Kazehaya: “While you’re at it?!”

Chizu: “Congratulations on passing your exams!!!”

Everyone (Sawako? Kazehaya? I’m not sure…): “Thank you!!!”

Sawako: “Sanada-kun, were you in the middle of packing…?”

Ryu: “Oh, yeah.”

Chizu: “He’s leaving this Saturday!!”

??? (Probably Kurumi or Ayane): “Wow, that’s really soon!!”

Kazehaya: “Have you had a hard time packing up?”

Ryu: “Not really. I’ll be living in a dorm so I’m not bringing much.”

Ryu: “What about you? Have you found a place to live?”

Kazehaya: “Yeah, I found a place!”

Chizu: “Yano-chin, you’ve already found a place to live too, right? Huh? Wait a sec – that’s right, did I ask what day you’re leaving?”

Ayane: “I wonder…did you?”

Chizu: “W-well…”

Ayane: “Sawako and Kurumi, you two will probably have to look for a place to live now, right?”

Sawako: “R-Right. I’ll go looking this Saturday…!”

Ayane: “I hope you find a nice place!!”

Sawako: (That’s right. Everyone is leaving…)

Chizu: “But I’m staying here!!”

Sawako: “Oh no!! Was I talking out loud?!”

Chizu: “Huh?! What?!”

Kurumi: “…Since Sawako-chan and I will be at the same university, I think I’ll probably live somewhere nearby.”

Sawako: “Oh!! That’s right!!

Kurumi: “From now on I’ll be spending even more time with Sawako-chan! Isn’t that right, Kazehaya?”

Kazehaya: “I…I guess so…”

Kazehaya: “Huh…? What…? Why??”

Kurumi: “I just said what popped into my head~~~”

Kazehaya: “Kurumizawa, your personality has really changed a lot…”

Kurumi: “Do you really think so~?”

Chizu: “Hey, didn’t that girl like Kazehaya?”

Ayane: “She swapped rivals!! That’s tough for Kazehaya!!”

Sawako: “…Ayane-chan!”

Ayane: “Hm?”

Sawako: “When you decide what day you’re leaving for Tokyo, let us know…!”

Ayane: “…”

Ayane: “Ok.”

Sawako: (I thought that someday it would come. The day everyone will set off is coming so soon.)

Pin: “Huh?”

Pin: “Are those guys still getting together? They’re so loud!!!”

Ryu’s Dad: “Ryu will be moving pretty soon, so this is the last time! Pin-chan, are you gonna head up there?”

Pin: “…nah.”

Pin: “That’s enough already, isn’t it?”

Pin: “Those guys, they’ve all left the nest.”

Sawako: (It’s not the end, is it?)

Sawako: (…because everything is just starting.)

Sawako: (Always…We’ll always be able to return, to our place…)

Kurumi: “…oh.”

Kazehaya: “Oh, uh, the bathroom is right around the corner.”

Kurumi: “T-Thank you.”

Kurumi: “Thank you for inviting me today…”

Kurumi: “…because of that, I was able to talk normally like this.”

Kurumi: “…in the end I guess I was…running away a little…”

Kurumi: “Back when I liked you, my head was always going around and around in circles whenever I faced you. Now…I feel a little clear-headed…”

Kazehaya: “…around in circles?”

Kurumi: “It was really, really, really unpleasant.”*

Kurumi: “Maybe I still get like that though…”

Kurumi: “Then…Sawako-chan was also there, and to me…Sawako-chan…”

*Note: I can’t figure out what she’s saying here – I’m sorry! I guessed that it might have to do with “unpleasantness” but beyond that I have no clue. She might also be implying that she did “unpleasant” things when she liked him.

Kurumi: “I thought she took you from me, but…I was wrong.”

Kurumi: “Kazehaya, you were the one who gave Sawako-chan to me…”

Kurumi: “…thank you.”

Kurumi: “…I…even though it isn’t romantic, I’ll love you for my whole life after all…”

??? (Not sure who’s saying this): “Thank you for having us!!”

Chizu: “See you!!”

Sawako: “U-Until next time!!”

Ayane: “See you!”

Ryu: “…Are you crying? Feeling lonely??”

Chizu: “I’m not crying!!”

Kazehaya: “Kuronuma.”

Kazehaya: “Since the convenience store is close by, I’ll take this way home. Let’s go together!”

Sawako: “Oh – okay! What are you going to buy?!”

Kazehaya: “Well, actually…”

Kazehaya: “…that’s not really true, is it? Because it’s a lie.”

Sawako: “H-Huh?! A lie?!”

Kazehaya: “It’s a lie, I was kidding.”

Kazehaya: “I’ll walk you home!”

Kazehaya: “Please get used to it.”

Sawako: (And then…)

Sawako: (…the day of parting came.)

Ryu: “Chizuru.”

Ryu: “I’m leaving now. Chizuru.”

Chizu: “Safe travels!!”

Ryu: “That’s a good place to cry.”

Ryu: “After I graduate, we’ll get married.”

Chizu: “…seriously, I’ll be waiting for you!!!”

Chizu: “Do your best, idiot!!”

Ayane’s Mom: “…Ayane, make sure you eat properly.”

Ayane: “I get it! See you soon!!”

Ayane’s Mom: “Is this really okay? Not telling your friends that you’re leaving today?”

Ayane: “…it’s fine.”

Ayane: “I’m off!”

Sawako: “Ayane-chan!”

Chizu: “Yano-chin!!”

Chizu: “Ha! Ha! Ha!! Surprised, aren’t you? Don’t underestimate my intelligence network!! How do you like that?!”

Ayane: “…Didn’t you just call my house to ask?”

Chizu: “Ack!! How did you know?!”

Ayane: “No wonder my mom was saying things like that…I thought it was strange!”

Chizu: “You’re being so distant, Yano-chin!! Leaving without saying anything!! At least let us see you off!!”

Ayane: “…but…”

Sawako: “Please eat this on the train!”

Ayane: “T-T-Thank you!!”

Chizu: “Is that all we were to you, Yano-chin?!”

Ayane: “But –”

Chizu: “Geez, not even a single word!!”

Ayane: “But –”

Chizu: “But anyway, this is our win!!”

Ayane: “B –”

Chizu: “You lost, Yano-chi – ”

Ayane: “…my makeup will be ruined!!!”

Ayane: “I didn’t tell you because I knew it would end up like this!!! Our meeting the other day was enough!!!”

Chizu: “What are you saying?! Your makeup’s pretty good!!”

Ayane: “I wanted to look beautiful when I left!!!”

Ayane: “Because I knew…that I’ll definitely miss you…!!”

Sawako: “Thank you so, so much…thank you!!”*

*Note: I don’t think the translation has quite the same impact as the original. Sawako is effectively saying “many, many thanks” – I don’t want to change the line too much, but I don’t think it would be a stretch to say she’s saying, “Thank you so much...for everything!!”

Ayane: “…That’s my line!”

Ayane: “Chizu. Sawako.”

Ayane: If I ever get disheartened, I’ll remember you!!”

Ayane: “…I’m going to do my best!!”

Chizu: “…Yano-chin!!”

Chizu: “Yano-chin!! Do your best…!!”

Sawako: (I’m glad that we were able to see you today…)

Sawako: (I’m glad that we were able to meet you.)

Thank you for reading! I’ll try to post my thoughts on the chapter soon - it’ll probably just be ugly crying noises honestly! :’) I think the next one will focus on Sawako as she makes her own preparations for university life...I’m excited to see what will happen between her and Kazehaya!

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Do all of them now damnit

i figured this would happen haha

1. What is you middle name? Clarice2. How old are you? 183. What is your birthday? June 234. What is your zodiac sign? Cancer5. What is your favorite color? Green!6. What’s your lucky number? 9, also 2597. Do you have any pets? a wonderful rabbit8. Where are you from? a place barely anyone’s ever heard of and we’re known for great sweet corn even tho we’re in upstate new york9. How tall are you? 5′ 4.25″10. What shoe size are you? like 8 i think11. How many pairs of shoes do you own? 9 or so but i wear like 312. What was your last dream about? i… don’t remember honestly, i haven’t been sleeping great (or much) the last few nights b/c i’m on vacation and sharing a bed w/someone you’re not gonna spoon with makes for light sleep lmao13. What talents do you have? i can write poetry for dayssss14. Are you psychic in any way? maybe? my intuition is on p o i n t and i tend to just know things, ya know? 15. Favorite song? jfc um… “Little Infinity” by Make Out Monday16. Favorite movie? fuck… the three videos that make up Monster Factory’s Fallout 4 destruction w/The Final Pam b/c that’s almost 90 minutes so it counts17. Who would be your ideal partner?@jimboakimbo ngl, which is super great b/c he /is/ my partner18. Do you want children? at the moment, no19. Do you want a church wedding? idgaf, but my wedding will be so Aesthetic™20. Are you religious? not really21. Have you ever been to the hospital? yeah, but to visit people22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? nope23. Have you ever met any celebrities? i high-fived/hugged 3 out of 4 members of Marianas Trench, also i met Andrew McMahon once and it was absolutely amazing he’s so sweet24. Baths or showers? Already answered!25. What color socks are you wearing? None atm26. Have you ever been famous? haha nope27. Would you like to be a big celebrity? depends what i’m doing, but i’d like it because of the impact i could have on other people’s lives28. What type of music do you like? mostly alternative29. Have you ever been skinny dipping? yep30. How many pillows do you sleep with? Already answered!31. What position do you usually sleep in? Already answered!32. How big is your house? Not very big, it’s a little ranch-style house i think but it’s perfect :)33. What do you typically have for breakfast? i don’t usually eat breakfast b/c i get sick if i eat too early…34. Have you ever fired a gun? airsoft, yeah. but actualy bullets? nope35. Have you ever tried archery? yep, but only target practice i could never shoot an animal oh god36. Favorite clean word? Entropy37. Favorite swear word? either fuck or shit isk lmao38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? like almost 44 hours b/c i wanted to see how long i could make it39. Do you have any scars? Already answered!40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? Nope41. Are you a good liar? Depends on how big the lie. the smaller, the easier42. Are you a good judge of character? y e s and i wish people listened to me more when i tell them someone is not a good person43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? i can do british and southern, but the rest aren’t very good44. Do you have a strong accent? no…? but no one thinks they themselves have a strong one so?45. What is your favorite accent? probably scottish or irish tbh46. What is your personality type? INFP-T47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? my senior prom dress probably48. Can you curl your tongue? yep49. Are you an innie or an outie? innie50. Left or right handed? right51. Are you scared of spiders? only if they’re on me, usually52. Favorite food? any asian food honestly i love it (but not sushi)53. Favorite foreign food? … see above question oops54. Are you a clean or messy person? organized mess?55. Most used phrased? “i get that” probably56. Most used word? i have no idea haha57. How long does it take for you to get ready? like 10-15 minutes58. Do you have much of an ego? i seriously doubt it59. Do you suck or bite lollipops? both60. Do you talk to yourself? yes61. Do you sing to yourself? y e s62. Are you a good singer? i’ve been told i am but /i/ don’t like my voice much63. Biggest Fear? tornadoes and where i live hardly gets any ever so everyone’s like “oh that’s irrational uwu” and now i can be like “no tf it’s not we just got a few like a month ago the fair almost didn’t happen”64. Are you a gossip? no, i like to hear it but i don’t spread it65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? The Imitation Game, probably66. Do you like long or short hair? on me? short. on others? w/e they like ^-^67. Can you name all 50 states of America? yep! in under 20 seconds68. Favorite school subject? science69. Extrovert or Introvert? introvert70. Have you ever been scuba diving? no, but i’ve been snorkeling71. What makes you nervous? existing lmao72. Are you scared of the dark? nope!! My night vision is fantastic anyway from all the times i’ve been stargazing73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? depends on both the person and the mistake74. Are you ticklish? pfft what me no pssh nope not at all pfft nope pssh75. Have you ever started a rumor? nope76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? yeah i was the president of my high-school’s GSA in senior year which was good b/c the person running against me lost and got VP and is just terrible77. Have you ever drank underage? yes78. Have you ever done drugs? nope79. Who was your first real crush? my best friend i think lmao, but that’s been gone for a while now80. How many piercings do you have? just one in each ear81. Can you roll your Rs?“ yep82. How fast can you type? average speed i guess83. How fast can you run? not very84. What color is your hair? dirty blonde, but now it’s a little blonder b/c summer sun85. What color is your eyes? green…ish-gray with hints of blue? they aren’t as cool as they sound86. What are you allergic to? nothing that i know of87. Do you keep a journal? for witchcraft, yes but not for day-to-day stuff88. What do your parents do? my dad’s pretty much an engineer for our cousin’s company which is cool89. Do you like your age? yeah, but i don’t like the drinking age tho lmao90. What makes you angry? when people refuse to see the other side of an argument when that other side has actual rational points, that’s actually the worst oh my fucking god not everyone shares your opinion91. Do you like your own name? yeah92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? nope93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? don’t care, i mean i don’t want kids right now but even if i did i wouldn’t care94. What are you strengths? i’m pretty smart, i can hold conversations with pretty much any age group, i’m apparently pretty easy to get along with, and i have a pretty creative mind95. What are your weaknesses? not being able to help enough in certain fields, dogs (esp samoyeds my fluffy babies), animals in general, putting people too high on a pedestal, getting attached to anyone who shows me any kindness ever, cream soda, black cherry cream soda, question 74 shut up, big soft pieces of clothing, cats, The G Note™ shut up, i also get flustered really easily which can kind of be a problem sometimes, also i cry a lot96. How did you get your name? my middle name - Clarice - comes from my great-grandmother Clara, and my first comes from the italian word for angel b/c my mom had trouble becoming pregnant and was told that she probably wouldn’t even survive being pregnant with me or the birth… but she did, and here i am. I assume that’s why, at least97. Were your ancestors royalty? not that i’m aware of98. Do you have any scars? Already answered!99. Color of your bedspread? it’s a bunch of mismatched blankets tbh100. Color of your room? like wood paneling it’s kinda weird but i like it

Thanks Sarah!!!

#jfc that took a long time #abt me #galacticstar117 #answered #friend

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tinseltine · 6 years ago

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By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I don’t follow comic books, but I do consider myself a “Blerd” (Black Nerd). I’m all about superhero movies, Sci-Fi Flicks, Game of Thrones, totally love Fantasy, so I see every MCU & D.C. movie that comes out, but the excitement for BLACK PANTHER starring Chadwick Boseman was palpable, building since Captain America: Civil War. Whenever I’d get depressed about something, I'd console myself by saying, but Black Panther is coming out soon! I took a day off from work to see the press screening, I bought a T-shirt, I even bought a comic book during the @AmalgamPhilly Black Panther panel discussion and party! It’s a major event to have Disney & Marvel provide an A-List Hollywood marketing roll out for a movie starring a mainly black cast, written and directed by a black man (Ryan Coogler) who I got to interview way back in 2013 when his first film came out Fruitvale Station and I’m ashamed to say it, but he seemed so uncomfortable with the attention that movie was receiving at the time, that I didn’t think he’d amount to anything. So I was blown away when he wrote & directed the Rocky movie Creed, but this… Wow, he’s really arrived. And the black community came out to support him. Of course you can’t talk about Black Panther without talking about the strength of the female characters – Tech Genius. Warrior General. Activist Spy. Queen Mother. None of them are fighting over a guy, being catty or needing to be saved. They are fierce, proud, intelligent and capable. How are you not gonna love the all bald female warrior army “the Dora Milage”. Can’t help but wonder who would win in a fight between them and the Amazon’s of Themyscira? It might be the Dora Milage because when Gen Okoya (Danai Gurira) stops that charging armor plated Rhino in its tracks, just by her mere presence, I mean that’s cool! Not to mention, a female Production designer, Hannah Beachler and Costume designer Ruth E. Carter and Oscar nominated (Mudbound) Rachel Morrison as cinematographer. I’ve seen Letitia Wright (Shuri) in that famous episode of Black Mirror with the Black Museum, but didn’t pay the actress as much attention as the show. But she’s got my attention now as the “Q” of Wakanda. I've added to my Netflix queue the movie Urban Hymn (2015) which she starred in about a troubled girl in the system who’s encouraged by a social worker to find herself through singing. From the trailer it looks like Letitia has a great voice too. And Oscar winner (12 Years a Slave) and fashion icon Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia) gets to be the object of affection and desire, while at the same time being all about her mission, which T’Challa totally respects despite obviously wanting her to be his queen. To be fair, I was also excited last year with Hidden Figures portrayal of super intelligent black females at NASA. That movie took pride in encouraging women to enter the STEM fields of (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and now these women in "Black Panther" have taken it all to a new level. As a black woman, my heart almost burst with pride and excitement. Thank you Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole for writing this story and thank you MCU for allowing them the freedom. These guys understand the tropes of good storytelling. They borrow themes we’re familiar with like from James Bond & The Lion King but use them effectively, so as not to feel copied, but a shorthand. I’m also not taking anything away from Anthony Mackie as The Falcon or Don Cheadle in Iron Man, but of course we all know they are sidekicks and really would never warrant their own movie. What I like about Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of Black Panther is his lack of ego. He’s really there to be King first, Black Panther second and accepts the fact that it literally takes a village to protect Wakanda and their way of life.

After the screening a whole mess of Black Tribbles stayed to tape an episode of SPOILED TRIBBLES which you can listen to below:

which will also get embedded here soon as it posts. And my 2.20.18 live segment on That's Show Biz w/ Chuck Darrow (WWDB-Talk-869) will feature Black Panther, which I'll link to podcast. Which brings us to the simplistic yet inspired storyline of Wakanda itself, which is a wonderfully expressed dilemma; a big part of me feels like a sure fire way of turning a Utopia into a Dystopia is to let in outsiders. On the other hand, if your way of life, technology, funds can help the rest of the world, do you have a duty to share? Coogler says he based aspects of his version of Wakanda on Lesotho, which were able to resist both the Zulus and the Boers, and was only lightly colonized by the British. Which reminds me - love when Shuri calls Martin Freeman’s character “Colonizer” this term for the white race, kinda makes me think of "Muggles" in Harry Potter - those without magic.

I also guested on THE LAMBcast BLACK PANTHER Podcast

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Totally didn’t see two villains coming in this movie. I assumed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) would be a henchman to Klaue/Klaw (Andy Serkis) who is great fun; however, I feel we don’t really get the full sense of his long standing villainy with Wakanda, they talk about never having captured him before, but he doesn’t seem to possess as much power as I understand Klaw does in the comics. I think they down played him a bit because you also have Killmonger, with a great backstory, who truly at times is hard to see as a villain, except when he demands they burn all the purple flowers which gives the Black Panther his power. Which makes me wonder, why don’t they all just drink of the flower and become super human? It takes a lot of loyalty for the people to refrain and agree it’s only for the Black Panther/King to drink.

The first challenger M’Baku (Winston Duke) the leader of the White Gorilla tribe, who have lived separately from the rest of Wakandian society, is also a well-written side character. I understand in the comics he’s called Man-Ape and this is why this movie had to be written and directed by a person of color, because otherwise he might still be referred to as such in the movie, and that would have created a bad backlash. M'Baku is fierce and sexy, but also provides a couple of very humorous moments, telling Ross (Martin Freeman) to be quiet or they’ll eat him, cracks himself up, and then admits they're vegetarians! Gorgeous world building, love the opening sequence explaining the Vibranium meteor that hit this part of Africa and how that created their way of life. I was expecting a slightly more pronounced visual opening of the city. When T’Challa, Nakia and Okoya first fly into Wakanda, we go from seeing the treetops to just being inside the Capital City. However, the Virtual Reality car chase and flight battle - leading-edge! When the Wakandans aren't speaking English they're actually speaking Xhosa, a language spoken by the Bantu in South Africa. South African actor John Kani, who plays T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka, suggested using it while filming Captain America: Civil War and taught it to Chadwick Boseman. Now I just wonder with the success of Black Panther is the D.C. Movie Universe going to move up the Cyborg movie with Ray Fisher which isn’t scheduled until April of 2020.

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How to Franken-mesh clothings: top and outfit (please refer to part one of this video here for more info) I’m going to be skipping a few steps as I’ve already written them on part one, so if you need to know how it works or some sort of written instructions, please refer back. [xxx]

STEP 1: blender shortcuts (i’m just gonna leave this here so y’all don’t have to go back to part one of the video)

A key: select/deselect all G+Z: moving objects vertically G+X: moving objects horizontally G+Y: moving objects back and forth CTRL+ALT+Q: quad view S: scaling/sizing objects S+Z: scaling the object vertically S+X: scaling the object horizontally (you can press x twice for another type, just try messing around and see which fits your liking) Mouse>scroll wheel: to rotate the whole thing and view around blender L: to select a whole chunk of the mesh part (just make sure your mouse is pointing at that part of the mesh you want it to be selected) Right click: to select the dots Shift+right click: to selected multiple.. parts of the mesh (or dot) W>merge Ctrl+J: joining two meshes together

STEP 2: removing the unwanted parts of a mesh//appending the second mesh//merging 2 meshes together

note: again, same advice as part one of the video, remember your outfit’s geometry because you will need it as it needs to be the same number as the outfit you’re going to use to import to in s4s. what I did is I open up the top mesh first and check on which parts I need and remove the ones I don’t. I would then save it. but important part is actually the outfit mesh. as all in all, what you’re trying to create is a new franken-meshed outfit so... open up your outfit mesh on blender. again, same thing, check for the parts that you need and remove the ones you don’t by right clicking and delete.

In my case there really wasn’t any so go to file> append> locate the top mesh> go into object folder> select s4studio_mesh_xxxxx to append it. now on the right panel you will see a few new things, including the bone & rig01 (remove those two)

you probably have more than one mesh appended by now right? you can toggle on and off the little eye on the right panel to see which mesh belongs to which section of the body, once you’ve located the ones you don’t need, remove them by right-clicking it on the right panel and select delete. now, go into edit mode from the middle-bottom section of the screen. move your cursor over to the unwanted part of the mesh and press L to select all and X to delete the vertices. you can also toggle on and off the visible view of the mesh on the bottom which eventually you’ll see me doing. you can also press B then drag your mouse over the mesh parts you don’t need to kind of select a whole bunch.

once you’re happy with your result, merge your top mesh to the outfit mesh by first selecting the top mesh then press shift and click on the outfit mesh on the right panel and click CTRL+J. joined? ok now time to fill up the gap around the tummy area. Go back into edit mode and use your mouse to scroll in real close, right click to select the edge of two sides of the gap (careful not to select the other dots) and then press W> select merge> then... center. (i usually pick center but I’ve seen other creators go for either first or last or something) done? yay! (the remove doubles & clean up option is optional i guess but I always do it cos i’m weird) now save as> give it a name and now, time for the texture part.

Step 3: joining two diffuse maps together in Photoshop (i literally just copy and paste this part from the part one of the video cos im lazy)

open up your first diffuse map on photoshop, then drag your second one on top. I used magic wand to select the second one then paste it on another layer and remove... uhm, do i have to explain this part?? like.. ugh, i don’t really know what to say. :((( but yeah, basically you just create layers and remove the unwanted parts like the long sleeve and the holes etc etc then merging them together. I then make the image as white as possible and create another layer for coloring. (please note all this is done in png format, you’ll need to save as later as a dds file for the diffuse map) once you’re happy with your results, time for step 4!

Step 4: importing your franken-mesh and diffuse map

okay, now open up your sims 4 studio> select create 3D mesh> look for the outfit that had the same geometry as I said earlier. give it a name> import the diffuse dds, remove the rest (cos idk how the others work) and go into meshes tab> import ALL LODS which means all 0,1,2,3. and you should be done. hopefully.

and that’s it, your very own franken-mesh. sort of. if any problems, please let me know and I’ll try to help. or that you see me doing something dumb and wrong, let me know too. sharing is learning right? together? or something? blablabla??? ty for taking your time to read my dumb tutorial but yeah, hope it helps and that you guys learn something, even a teeny tiny bit is cool. and that’s it. happy simming!

there will be a follow up video of how to edit a mesh later on & also the final results of the cc in game.

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Impeachment witness provides firsthand account of hearing Trump demand ‘investigation’ of Bidens by Ukraine

By Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade, John Hudson and Toluse Olorunnipa | Published Nov. 15 at 7:09 PM ET | Washington Post | Posted Nov 15, 2019

President Trump specifically inquired about political investigations he wanted carried out by Ukraine during a July phone call with a top U.S. diplomat who then told colleagues that the president was most interested in a probe into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, a State Department aide said Friday in closed-door testimony that could significantly advance House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

David Holmes, an embassy staffer in Kyiv, testified that he overheard a July 26 phone call in which Trump pressed U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland about whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would “do the investigation,” according to three people who have read his opening statement and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe its contents.

“Ambassador Sondland replied that ‘he’s gonna to do it,’ adding that President Zelensky will do ‘anything you ask him to,’ ” Holmes said, according to these people.

Holmes’s testimony, first reported by CNN, directly implicates Trump in an alleged scheme at the heart of the impeachment probe, which Democrats have pursued in an attempt to prove that the president leveraged military assistance and an Oval Office meeting in exchange for investigations into Biden and a debunked theory concerning Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

It came just hours after Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told the House Intelligence Committee that Trump recalled her after a “smear campaign” aimed at advancing corrupt interests in Ukraine. Yovanovitch, who said that she had felt threatened by Trump’s previous negative comments about her, was forced to respond to a fresh attack by the president while she spoke.

“It’s very intimidating,” she said after Trump took to Twitter to criticize her career during her testimony.

Holmes testified that he overheard parts of Trump’s phone call with Sondland during a lunch in Kyiv, because the president was speaking so loudly that his voice was audible through the phone to others sitting at the table nearby, according to the people familiar with the testimony.

Holmes’s testimony, which confirmed an account relayed Wednesday by acting ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr., increases pressure on Republicans, who have dismissed other witnesses as relaying hearsay and speculation about Trump’s motives in withholding almost $400 million in aid from Ukraine. It also raises the stakes for next week’s testimony by Sondland, who will be pressed to answer questions about the call. Sondland didn’t mention the call during closed-door testimony before lawmakers last month, according to a transcript. Instead, he claimed little knowledge of any link between Biden and the investigations sought by Trump.

Holmes testified that when he asked Sondland about Trump’s views concerning Ukraine after the phone call, Sondland said Trump didn’t care about the country and was primarily interested in the investigations it could provide into allegations of corruption by Biden and his son Hunter being pushed by the president’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani.

During her testimony, Yovanovitch criticized Giuliani and Trump, saying “foreign and corrupt interests hijacked our Ukraine policy” with their help.

Yovanovitch said that when she first read how Trump had talked about her to his Ukrainian counterpart in a July phone call — saying ominously that “she’s going to go through some things” — the color drained from her face.

“It sounded like a threat,” she said.

Yovanovitch’s five-hour testimony, which began with a passionate defense of American diplomacy and ended to a crescendo of applause, took a dramatic turn when Trump took to Twitter to denigrate her again as she spoke.

“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Trump wrote shortly after the diplomat’s opening statement.

Trump’s attack on a widely respected Foreign Service officer — while she calmly but forcefully denounced previous attempts to smear her — drew widespread criticism, with many Democratic lawmakers calling it witness intimidation and some Republicans distancing themselves from the president’s scorched-earth tactics even as they pushed back against the Democrats’ charge.

Yovanovitch called the tweets “very intimidating.”

“I can’t speak to what the president is trying to do,” she said after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) read Trump’s tweets to her. “But I think the effect is to be intimidating.”

While the second day of the House public impeachment hearings ended with both parties still firmly entrenched behind their battle lines, Yovanovitch’s highly personal testimony put Republicans on the defensive, undercutting GOP talking points with a sober account of what she called a “smear campaign” conducted by Trump’s allies in Ukraine.

While her interactions with Trump were minimal, Yovanovitch described how actions by the president and Giuliani served to undermine American interests in Ukraine. A campaign led by Giuliani and supported by corrupt officials led to her abrupt ouster from her post in Kyiv, she said.

She also methodically dismissed several Republican attempts to advance theories embraced by Trump and Giuliani, ranging from alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election to the charge that Biden and his son had been involved in corruption in Ukraine.

Republicans attempted to play down Yovanovitch as irrelevant to the impeachment inquiry, pointing out just how much she didn’t know, and questioning why the Intelligence Committee was interviewing her.

“I’m not exactly sure what the ambassador is doing here today,” the panel’s ranking Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), said, suggesting that Yovanovitch’s predicament was little more than a personnel dispute that would be “more appropriate for the subcommittee on human resources on foreign affairs.”

Nunes and the GOP’s counsel, Steve Castor, asked Yovanovitch questions to prove her irrelevance, asking whether she was involved in preparing for the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, or whether she had taken part in plans for a White House meeting between the two heads of state, or whether she had ever spoken with Trump or his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, among other queries. Yovanovitch answered no to all of them.

“The ambassador’s not a material fact witness to any of the accusations that are being hurled at the president in this impeachment inquiry,” Nunes said.

But Trump’s tweet could ultimately make Friday’s hearing a more central part of his own impeachment.

Schiff told reporters during a break in the hearing that the nation had just seen “witness intimidation in real time by the president of the United States.” Other Democrats discussed drafting an article of impeachment related to obstruction of justice.

Some conservatives also criticized the tweet as misguided, and several Republican lawmakers contradicted Trump by praising rather than attacking Yovanovitch’s public service.

Former independent counsel Ken Starr, a frequent Trump defender, said on Fox News that the president “was not advised by counsel in deciding to do this tweet. Extraordinarily poor judgment.”

Earlier Friday, the White House released a rough transcript of Trump’s April 21 phone call with Zelensky, a largely congratulatory conversation after Zelensky’s election victory.

While Trump viewed the call as exculpatory, it quickly became a controversy of its own after discrepancies between the rough transcript and a previous White House readout of the call were discovered.

The White House readout, which serves as the administration’s post-call description of the conversation, said the call underscored “the unwavering support of the United States for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” The readout also said Trump spoke with Zelensky about “reforms that strengthen democracy, increase prosperity and root out corruption.”

None of those topics are mentioned in the rough transcript released Friday.

The White House seemed to tacitly blame Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who has delivered damaging testimony against the president, for the discrepancy in the official readout offered in April and the memorandum of the phone call.

“It is standard operating procedure for the National Security Council to provide readouts of the president’s phone calls with foreign leaders. This one was prepared by the NSC’s Ukraine expert,” spokesman Hogan Gidley said Friday.

But Vindman was not responsible for making the final update to the readout, according to a person familiar with his account. The official readout was based on talking points that the president did not follow, according to a person briefed on the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. After the call, the White House staff did not update the readout to reflect what Trump actually said — and what he left out.

Yovanovitch’s dramatic first-person narrative of her abrupt recall this spring from Kyiv, where she had served as ambassador since 2016, dominated much of the second day of televised impeachment hearings.

In addition to criticizing the “smear campaign” that forced her to book an unexpected flight to leave Ukraine on short notice, Yovanovitch also described in detail how it felt to read a rough transcript of Trump’s July phone call with Zelensky when it was published in September — and to learn that the two world leaders had traded insults about her.

“I was shocked, absolutely shocked, and devastated frankly,” she said.

Even as she spoke, back at the White House, where aides said Trump did not plan to watch the proceedings, Trump was tweeting about the former ambassador.

“She started off in Somalia, how did that go?” Trump added, referring one of the numerous hardship postings the veteran diplomat held in her 33-year career.

“Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him,” Trump continued. “It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.”

Back in the hearing room, Schiff informed Yovanovitch that the president had been tweeting about her, even as she spoke, and said he wished to give her an opportunity to respond.

She at first appeared taken aback. Schiff began to read aloud. A small smile crept onto Yovanovitch’s face, as she heard the president had blamed her for troubles in war-torn Somalia.

“I don’t think I have such powers,” she replied. “Not in Mogadishu, Somalia. Not in other places.”

She went on to say she believes she and other U.S. diplomats have made things “demonstrably better” in the nations where they have served, particularly in Ukraine, which she said has made strides in strengthening democratic institutions in recent years.

Asked later to respond to allegations that he committed witness tampering by tweeting disparagingly about Yovanovitch during her testimony, Trump pivoted and said the real tampering was done by the Democrats for not allowing the White House lawyers to ask questions or the Republicans to call their own witnesses.

“I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech, just as other people do,” Trump told reporters at the end of a White House event on lowering prescription drug prices.

The House impeachment inquiry is expected to intensify in the days ahead, something the White House decried Friday.

“It is difficult to imagine a greater waste of time than today’s hearing, and yet unfortunately we expect more of the same partisan political theater next week from House Democrats,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.

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Carol Leonnig, John Wagner, Rosalind S. Helderman, Colby Itkowitz and Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.

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Zelensky planned to announce Trump’s ‘quo’ on my show. Here’s what happened.

By Fareed Zakaria | Published Nov. 14 at 8:19 PM ET | Washington Post | Posted November 15, 2019 |

The phrase “quid pro quo” is usually translated as “something for something.” In the case of President Trump’s communications with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it appears that the “quo” was supposed to have been a declaration of Zelensky’s commitment to undertake investigations into the 2016 election and Joe Biden. The New York Times has reported that a public announcement was set to be made on my CNN program. So I think I owe readers my best understanding of what actually happened.

Ever since Zelensky was elected president in April, my team and I have been interested in having him appear on the show. He is a fascinating political figure, a total outsider who swept into power. I had visited Ukraine several times and interviewed the previous president of the country three times, so I was familiar with the place and had good contacts.

We began the process of establishing connections with the new administration, which was cordial and efficient throughout. Heads of state often find it useful to give interviews around the time of the annual U.N. General Assembly in September, and that was our target.

About a week before the main U.N. gathering, another major conference was taking place in Kyiv, an annual event that brings together Ukrainian elites with Western politicians, diplomats, intellectuals and journalists. Since I was scheduled to participate, I queried as to whether I could meet with Zelensky to secure the televised interview and get him comfortable with me. His office readily agreed.

On Sept. 13, I met with Zelensky in Kyiv, on the sidelines of the conference. He came across as smart, energetic and with a much sharper feel for politics than you might expect from a neophyte. It was a brief conversation, but we did discuss most of the big issues he faced — Ukraine’s relations with Russia and the United States, economic reform and corruption. We also talked about whether he wanted to do the interview in English — which he speaks well — or Ukrainian. I left with the sense that all was well. Zelensky had perhaps seemed a bit distracted, but I assumed that this was because of the many challenges he faced.

It’s a testament to Zelensky’s skill that he did not let on in any way the immense pressure he was under. As we now know, for months the Trump White House had been mounting an intense campaign to force him to publicly announce the election-related investigations. He had tried to resist and put them off in various ways, but ultimately decided he would have to give in, according to the Times. His team apparently concluded that since he was planning an interview with me anyway, that would be the forum in which he would make the announcement, though neither he nor any of his team ever gave us any inkling that this was their plan. However, after my meeting with him in Kyiv, my team began to discuss potential logistics of the interview with his team — time and place.

But I had not realized how much the ground had already begun to shift before our meeting. On Sept. 5, The Post published an editorial revealing that it had been “reliably told” that Trump was trying to force Zelensky to investigate Biden. On Sept. 9, four days before my visit to Kyiv, House Democrats initiated an investigation into the allegations. That same day, the intelligence community inspector general notified the House and Senate intelligence committees of the whistleblower complaint. The next day, Sept. 10, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter to acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire demanding that he turn over the complaint. That is also the day Trump announced he had fired John Bolton as national security adviser. And then, on Sept. 11, aid to Ukraine was unfrozen with no conditions.

Imagine Zelensky’s dilemma. By the time I met with him in Kyiv, he knew the aid had been released, but the backstory had not yet broken into public view. Ukrainian officials I spoke to about the release of the aid were delighted but a little surprised and unsure as to what had happened. Zelensky and his team were probably trying to figure out whether they should still do the interview.

A few days later, on Sept. 18 and 19, The Post broke the story wide open. The interview was called off. We are, of course, still trying to get it.

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Roger Stone guilty on all counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering

By Spencer S. Hsu, Rachel Weiner and Matt Zapotosky | Published November 15 at 2:02 PM ET | Washington Post | Posted November 15, 2019 |

A federal jury on Friday convicted longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone of tampering with a witness and lying to Congress about his efforts to learn of hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The panel of nine women and three men deliberated for less than two days before finding Stone, 67, guilty on all seven counts resulting from his September 2017 testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, which was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Kremlin’s efforts to damage Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Stone, in a gray-blue suit, stood at the defense table with his left hand in his pants pocket, watching impassively as the verdicts were read. He sighed and frowned as he left the courtroom, offering a half-smile to reporters who had covered the proceedings, while his wife hugged crying supporters.

Michael Caputo, a Stone friend, was kicked out of the courtroom for refusing to stand for the jury after the verdict and — when ordered to do so — turning his back to the panel.

Stone and his attorneys departed the courthouse without comment and went into a waiting vehicle.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set Stone’s sentencing for Feb. 6 and allowed him to remain free until then. Stone faces a legal maximum penalty of 50 years in prison — 20 years for the witness tampering charge and five years for each of the other counts, although a first offender would face far less time under federal sentencing guidelines.

Stone’s indictment was the last brought by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, revealing important details about the Trump campaign’s keen interest in computer files hacked by Russia and made public by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. He was accused of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness, an associate whom prosecutors said Stone threatened in an attempt to prevent the man from cooperating with lawmakers.

Stone joins a long line of Trump advisers and confidants who have either been convicted or pleaded guilty in connection with the special counsel probe, including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.

Though prosecutors sought to prove only that Stone had lied to Congress, they asserted that his motive for the falsehoods was protecting Trump from embarrassment — and thus made the president and his campaign a key component in their case.

Trump seized on the verdict to take aim at a bevy of his political opponents, as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials who were involved in the investigation of his campaign.

“So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr & Nellie, Steele & all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn’t they lie?” Trump tweeted. “A double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country?”

The Justice Department inspector general has alleged that former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe lied to investigators exploring a media disclosure in a case that is now being examined by federal prosecutors in Washington. But there seems to be no basis for Trump’s suggestion that the other people he referenced could be accused criminally of lying.

Stone’s trial re-energized discussions of Russian interference in the 2016 election; it occurred alongside public hearings in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into whether the president tried to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a potential 2020 opponent, former vice president Joe Biden. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), the highest-ranking Senate Democrat, said in a statement that the jury’s decision “sends a powerful and timely message to President Trump and all House and Senate witnesses — past, present, and future — that lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of Congress are crimes and those who commit crimes do so at their own peril.”

Stone’s political foes and those whose messages were hacked and released celebrated the conviction.

“Just about to take off on a long transatlantic flight in a middle coach seat. I think I will just sit back, relax, and enjoy it,” former Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta wrote on Twitter, affixing a link to an article about Stone being found guilty. Podesta’s emails were hacked by the Russian government, and Stone famously predicted — before the emails were released — that it would soon be the Clinton campaign official’s “time in the barrel.”

Donna Brazile, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee, which also had its emails hacked, tweeted that she was “pleased,” adding, “Everyone who aided, exploited and used hacked, stolen DNC emails and other data from #WikiLeaks, should learn from this saga.”

In arguments and testimony over the past two weeks, prosecutors revealed a series of phone calls at critical times in 2016 among Stone, Trump and some of the highest-ranking officials in the Trump campaign: Stephen K. Bannon, Manafort and Gates.

Gates and Bannon took the witness stand, describing how the campaign viewed Stone as a sort-of conduit to WikiLeaks who claimed — even before the Russian hacking was known — to have insider information. Gates testified that he overheard a phone call in which Trump seemed to discuss WikiLeaks with Stone, calling into question the president’s assertion to Mueller’s office that he did not remember talking about the organization with his longtime friend.

Prosecutors buttressed the witness testimony with call and message records, which they said helped show that Stone’s claims to the House Intelligence Committee were false.

In hopes of keeping Stone out of prison, his defense team urged jurors to treat his case as a referendum not on him but on Mueller’s entire Russia investigation.

Stone’s attorneys conceded that a raft of emails, texts and other extensive documentation showed him claiming inside information on WikiLeaks’ releases and wanting to get even more that could be relayed to the Trump campaign. But in its closing, the defense urged jurors to reframe the question from whether Stone lied to whether that mattered, asserting that his hectic efforts to get information from WikiLeaks never amounted to anything.

“So much of this case deals with that question that you need to ask . . . so what?” defense attorney Bruce Rogow said.

Stone’s defense repeated his position that there was “no collusion” with Russia on the presidential race and thus any of Stone’s misstatements, as his attorneys cast them, about his WikiLeaks pursuits were inconsequential. They portrayed their client as hapless and merely engaging in his usual political chicanery. Stone has played on the edge of politics for decades and was first investigated by the FBI during Watergate.

“There was nothing illegal about the campaign being interested in information that WikiLeaks was going to be sending out,” Rogow said.

The attacks prompted a passionate defense from prosecutors — of Mueller’s probe and of the importance of facts.

“If that’s the state of affairs that we’re in, I’m pretty shocked. Truth matters. Truth still matters,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Marando told jurors.

While Stone maintained that none of his WikiLeaks outreach was successful, prosecutors suggested that was not so certain. They pointed to an email from writer and Stone acquaintance Jerome Corsi, saying: “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. . . . Impact planned to be very damaging.”

Corsi referred to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who had been living under house arrest at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London since 2012.

Corsi says he rejected a plea offer from the special counsel and was never charged with a crime. He has denied having any contact with WikiLeaks, saying as Stone did that he was guessing based on Assange’s public statements.

Stone did not testify during the trial, which began with jury selection Nov. 5. Instead jurors saw videos of his television appearances and heard scratchy audio of his testimony before the House committee.

The defense argued that Stone’s voluntary testimony, in which he offered to follow up with more details about a journalist he described as his sole intermediary with WikiLeaks, showed his guilelessness. “This was not the voice of a man who was trying to lie, to mislead,” Rogow said.

But jurors also saw texts in which Stone used vulgarity and threats to pressure that person, comedian and talk show host Randy Credico, to back up his version of events.

“You are a rat. A stoolie,” he wrote. “. . . Prepare to die.”

Stone’s reputation as a dirty trickster who courts attention, good or bad, left him a fringe figure in the Republican Party until his friend Trump ran for president.

“Roger is an agent provocateur,” Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, told jurors as he testified for the government about Stone’s exchanges with him over WikiLeaks’ contact and the campaign’s interest. “He’s an expert in the tougher side of politics.” Trump was such a long shot, Bannon said, that the campaign had to “use every tool in the toolbox.”

Stone himself explained his philosophy in a clip from his House testimony played for jurors. Quoting the writer Gore Vidal, he said, “Never pass up an opportunity to have sex or appear on television.”

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I drive a '97 Ford Escort, nearly 45,000 miles. I'm 21. I have had one ticket (when I was 16 and I got a diversion on that ticket, so I didn't have to pay nor report it to my insurance). I pay $956 every 6 months for full-coverage. I'm with Farm Bureau. Anyone think this is reasonable or should I check out other quotes?""

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Hardwell @ EDC Orlando 2016

Welcome to July! Hope my American friends had a nice Independence Day, and didn’t do anything dangerous. Gotta keep your precious selves ready for this year’s EDC events, right? Tickets for EDC Orlando 2017 go on sale next week, and pricing was just announced via the normal channels a bit ago. I’m excited! Alright, let’s focus on this week’s #ThrowbackThursday. Last week was my first time, so I figured this week would be my most recent time!

Oh, also, this is a big post, so it's the first time I've found it necessary to provide a three part breakdown! Wow! So, should this post you're reading now is not displaying properly, use those links to break it up a bit.

Being the go-hard that I am, I make sure to get there as early as I can (looking this good takes TIME, honey!) and stay as late as they’re open. So, the final set on Day 2 of the most-recent year is where we’re at this week. I’m sure you guessed it already (as if the title wasn’t a dead give-away), but it’s Hardwell! Very highly praised by the industry and fans, this was the first time I had seen him, and he did pretty good!

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram Now those are some cool visuals. Look how intricate! Looks like they’re gonna burn every effect they have, given who it is and it being the end of the festival haha Mike Cervello & Cesqeaux - SMACK! https://soundcloud.com/barongfamily/mike-cervello-cesqeaux-smack-out-now-free-download

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram Well, that’s pretty! I decided I wanted to see how that came out using slow motion feature in iOS, and here it is! I think the high contrast caused a bit of detail to get lost, making this video not AS exciting as I would have hoped. However... Hardwell ft. Jolin Tsai - We Are One (Instrumental) [Unreleased, will add Soundcloud link once Hardwell posts it!] Calvin Harris - How Deep Is Your Love https://soundcloud.com/calvinharris/how-deep-is-your-love

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram I discovered in creating this post that the normal speed video is all that’s saved as a video in iOS, at least when it comes to what’s accessible via Windows via USB/Samba (nerdy tech talk!). There’s an AAE file that contains the edit information, but the original file is untouched. iOS just knows to work with them in tandem, but not Windows of course. As such, here’s the normal speed video as well! How cool! Hardwell feat. Jolin Tsai - We Are One (Instrumental) [Unreleased, will add Soundcloud link once Hardwell posts it!] Calvin Harris - How Deep Is Your Love https://soundcloud.com/calvinharris/how-deep-is-your-love

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram After fooling around with the Slo-Mo function of the iOS Camera app, I decided I’d better not miss this moment because I was messing around with technology haha Hardwell feat. Jolin Tsai - We Are One (Instrumental) [Unreleased, will add Soundcloud link once Hardwell posts it!] Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love https://soundcloud.com/calvinharris/how-deep-is-your-love Hardwell & MAKJ - Countdown https://soundcloud.com/hardwell/hardwell-makj-countdown-original-mix-download

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram I noticed that those hieroglyphics that Insomniac likes to use are bordering the live video. This video’s initial purpose was to document those hieroglyphics for me, so I could decipher them later. In 2015, I deciphered a much shorter phrase that was bordering the top of the DJ booth area, but this was much smaller and longer, and I didn’t wanna fuss with it and miss the show. But, I got nothing but time now haha... it reads: Alright, alright, I haven't deciphered it yet BUT I WILL... lemme finish this post and I'll come back and edit this sentence! Hardwell feat. Jake Reese - Mad World https://soundcloud.com/hardwell/hardwell-feat-jake-reese-mad-world-hoa237-rip-out-now Garmiani - Bomb A Drop https://soundcloud.com/garmianiofficial/garmiani-bomb-a-drop-out-9-febdim-mak

I debated posting this one. I saw some totems and signs during EDC Orlando 2015 that I groaned at, and after learning lots more about the depths of this pretty gross person, I was surprised to see more at EDC Orlando 2016. Trump ain’t PLUR, PERIOD. His words, his actions, nothing about it. Sure, this was made for a laugh, and this was back when most people thought he was a joke and could not seriously take the elections that year (EDC Orlando 2016 was the weekend before Election Day in the US). The husband of the guy behind The Big Gay Lion saw a Facebook post showing off this totem ahead of the festival, and I took a picture of it so he could see that I ran into it “in real life”, plain and simple. Groan!

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram So that this point, I moved up into the VIP area and onto the viewing deck. It was busy BUSY! I’d not been up there during the final set of any day or year prior, so maybe this is normal. Definitely a different crowd up there. Older folks (not a lot of 20-somethings, based on a visual analysis haha), a bit less rowdy, etc. Honestly, the reason I moved is because I was planning ahead. I wanted to get out of the festival exits when it was over quicker than I had in previous years! Unfortunately, you don’t get a great perspective while you’re up there (totally understandable), and you don’t get to experience the cool effects like the confetti cannons! https://soundcloud.com/steveaoki/kid-cudi-pursuit-of-happiness">Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness feat. MGMT (Steve Aoki Remix) https://soundcloud.com/steveaoki/kid-cudi-pursuit-of-happiness DJ Snake - Propaganda (TJR & Nom De Strip Remix) https://soundcloud.com/djsnake/propaganda-tjr-nom-de-strip

Download High Res (86.9 MB) | Download Low Res (8.3 MB) I love the color scheme on this crystallized Night Owl! Effects were going off, and I figured this would be a great time for a future animated GIF!

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram Kinetic Temple is definitely firing on all cylinders now! The only effects missing are the front-lit panels on the walls and the flame throwers on the top! Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In The Name Of Love (W&W Bootleg) https://soundcloud.com/kevin-antonio-blandon-meza/martin-garrix-bebe-rexha-in-the-name-of-love-ww-remix-1 Hardwell & KURA feat. Anthony B - Police https://soundcloud.com/greatest-ids/hardwell-kura-you-aint-ready-extended-mix

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram Okay, things are really popping off, and I’d love to get them in Slo-Mo, so I did it again! Lots of goodness came from this second attempt, so I’m glad I went for it. Hardwell & KURA feat. Anthony B - Police https://soundcloud.com/greatest-ids/hardwell-kura-you-aint-ready-extended-mix

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram I’m especially glad I went for it, now that I know that both the normal speed and slow motion content are available to share with you all! Hardwell & KURA feat. Anthony B - Police https://soundcloud.com/greatest-ids/hardwell-kura-you-aint-ready-extended-mix

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram The guy behind The Big Gay Lion is married, and his husband picked Darude’s Sandstorm out of something... a mix, or a video, or something he had seen. He didn’t believe his husband, but he was totally right! Now anytime he hears Sandstorm, he’s reminded of his hubby ❤ so he took this video for him! Even a decade later, this song still gets people going. I guess that’s why they call them classics! Darude - Sandstorm https://soundcloud.com/darude/sandstorm-radio-edit Lookas - I Can't Get Enough https://soundcloud.com/lookasmusic/cant-get-enough

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YouTube | Facebook | Instagram It’s not often one gets a video of literally the end of a set, and only the end! Talk about timing haha! I think it’s cool how quickly Kinetic Temple can shut down and look ominous, literally seconds after being alive and awe-inspiring!

After walking back to the car (I parked a bar the guy behind The Big Gay Lion is friendly with, to save on parking costs... but MAN, it was a WALK!), and getting some pretty long looks from nearby bar patrons, I was finally off my feet and headed back to real life. My new mane looked great this year, but MAN it was tight on the head! It might show up in a future post, but I pretty much had bruises from the rainbow headband in my forehead for the next few days haha. Beauty is pain!

So, I’ve done the first and the last, now I just gotta fill in the middle! I’ve also got posts planned (in the long run) about makeup, costuming, jewelry, etc. And let’s not worry just yet about my content for this year haha! And if you need it, check out all three parts of this long post. Love ya’ll, see ya next time! 🏳️‍🌈🦁❤

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