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[cherrybyunss]

Masterlist

Ridin Club! Series (NCT Dream x Reader Streetracer + Smut AU)

« Ongoing »

Members’ Routes:

Mark Lee:

Dangerous Woman Pt. 1  

Dangerous Woman Pt. 2  

Park Jisung:

34+35 Pt.1

Make Me Feel Lightweight (Park Jisung x Reader Smut AU ft. Dreamies)

Work under progress...

Park Jisung: 

Allow Me 

Lee Jeno:

Solace

When It Gets Risky (NCT Dream x Reader Smut AU)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31129871

Excerpts from Chapter I:

Mark Lee:

Flashback

Lee Jeno:

Now You’re Ready

Aftercare

Lee Donghyuck:

Troubled

Promise

Intoxicated

Baby Girl

Na Jaemin:

Adrenaline Rush

Finale: Breathe

Excerpts from Chapter II:

Huang Renjun:

Best Friend

Lee Jeno:

Master

Lee Donghyuck:

Ridin

Good Girl

Na Jaemin:

Dangerous

Good Girl

Cold Water

Liu Yangyang:

Cigarettes

The “Is There Somewhere” series

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3154008

Is There Somewhere (Mark Lee x Lee Donghyuck | Haechan)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32663752

Stay Here With Me (Huang Renjun x Lee Donghyuck | Haechan)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42176826

[youngonescast]

Prez Would Save Us Part 2: Smiley vs Corndog

Last week we discussed how a more than 40 year old comic wound up being creepily prescient about modern politics. But that isn’t the half of the story, or perhaps exactly half depending on who you ask. In 2015 Prez v2 was released by DC and cancelled quickly thereafter, if you read the previous article you Know why. Written by Mark Russell, penciled by Ben Caldwell, inked by Mark Morales, and colored by Jeremy Lawson. A whirlwind tour-de-force of modern politics it managed to slam, lambaste, and eviscerate the state of modern politics based on one simple premise: In 2036 the government allows people to vote in elections via Twitter. If Prez v1 is any indication of the oracular power of the Prez brand just be ready for that to actually happen. Through the doing we get the President we need, Beth Ross, ambiguously brown teenager. But it isn’t that simple. It’s never that simple.

Prez opens with a political party in disarray, you might even recognize the type from 2016, who have lost their sitting President ‘The Pectsecutioner’ who has just posted a personal ad offering what seems to be BDSM services at name your price. They can’t find a good replacement candidate who doesn’t have too many old selfies or is closeted to fit the bill. Their choice is between someone who betrays core values of the party or someone completely boring. They settle on the dumbest of two choices. Sounds f a m i l i a r. It’s worth noting, of course, that this was before the most recent primaries. The election is held and due to a dark horse candidate championed by the hacktivist group Anonymous no one gets enough votes to win the election. Hacking has a big impact on this whole story in fact, just like hacking had a huge impact on the 2016 election only by the Russians.

Weird

This dark horse candidate is our protagonist, Beth, who has recently been rocketed by internet stardom to take Ohio as a write-in candidate: Corndog Girl. Her claim to fame is having her luxurious braid dipped in a deep-fryer. Beth is 19 and her father is dying of a virus that the failing health-care system refuses to fix so she has to run a SickStarter that isn’t making the four million dollars needed to save his life. Gosh, health-care anxiety, wonder what that’s like. She tries to go onto a game show where the challenges are life threatening. A contestant seeking to bring his family over the gigantic border wall is forced to shoot himself in the leg through a loaf of bread to win the money. That’s a damning indictment of game shows. She doesn’t make it onto the show because no one expected him to win. Her father dies.

So it is with the senate in a dead tie, with Beth getting one vote, that everything begins to crumble. Senators begin voting for Beth to convince the Presidential candidates to bribe them with favors. Whole NASAs are auctioned off, Senators are actually getting whipped by the majority whip, naval bases for landlocked states, shark aquariums, and in the end previous abstain vote from Delaware goes to Beth Ross and she becomes president. Chaos engulfs the Senate. And one aging 50+ year old Preston Rickard, whom no one has heard of, whose contributions were erased from the history books, yes, Prez himself, scoops up Beth in a helicopter and tells her the only way she’s going to survive is if she has a Vice-President that no one wants in office.

And during all of this there he stands, the great enemy, Boss. F-ing. Smiley. No longer content to be the only emoji-faced icon of greed and destruction he is the leader of a shadowy cabal of CEOs with names like Pharma-Duke(Great Dane), Grizzly Tobacco(Angry Bear), Sassy Pork(Pig), and Senor Corn(Corn and it’s Monsanto) and faces to go with. He’s also now the CEO of Amazon. It’s really explicit. Smiley is a shipping and distribution company that makes nothing themselves, nothing but time. This cabal seeks to extort the government, gets de-regulation passed through bribery. They withhold the vaccine for the virus that killed Beth’s father. In a move that echoes the present trouble we are having surrounding gene patenting, Boss Smiley makes a play at copywriting the genomes of all living things.

It’s more difficult to discuss Prez v2 than v1 because there is so much more going on. Far from decompressed every page bursts forth with content and Prez v1 wasn’t a slouch about that either. Ubiquitous holographic advertisement provides context to this fleshed out and well developed world. Debate style television programming is shown lampooning partisan TV again and again, skewering the traditionally conservative talking points of suggesting that the poor receiving benefits are using them improperly or how the deregulation of heavy industry is framed behind bills that seem to protect the consumer. While everything is over the top dystopian fare it all rings incredibly true to the American experience.

Such as the so called ‘Beanbag Warfare’ program, a system of drones that polices the globe killing thousands of people indiscriminately while the operators sit in their chairs with identifiable game controllers. The drone bombing we engage in presently spun out to it’s First Person Shooter logical extreme. That alone would be a harrowing bit of commentary but it doesn’t end there! The military industrial complex invents a new autonomous drone to replace the drone operators with AI and ‘lo and behold the War Beast drone gains sapience and becomes a born again Christian named Tina. It’s a wonderful look into the concepts of AI personhood. This series cannot be recommended enough.

Of course, cancelled halfway through its intended run we never get to see how Beth manages to turn the country around. There are tons of plot-threads left dangling, so much unresolved. It’s a damn shame. In this, one of the most politically volatile times in recent history, we could really use such scathing, bold, and heartfelt critique of the problems that lie festering in the soul of America, the horrors and complicity we as the electorate choose to turn our faces away from, the problems Beth Ross would confront head-on. This comic is all of the things described and so much more. Prez would save us, if only we let her.

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Written by Everett Christensen, Young One’s Lead Editor

Cover art: Jules 

Images:  PREZ #1-6 W:Mark Russell, P:Ben Caldwell, I:Mark Morales, C:Jeremy Lawson, L: Travis Lanham

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram||Mark

marktmcconnell: Gross.

british_belle: You don't mean that, especially because you wanted us together.

[militaryhunterclarington-blog]

Insta|| Mark

marktmcconnell: That looks like a whole lot of dairy.

Huntorbehunted: It's a meringue so not too much.

[theawesome-lucassharper-blog]

marktmcconnell replied to your photo: @lucasharpson: So it’s officially official! I...

marktmcconnell: Congrats Lucas!!

lucasharpson: Thanks Mark. This is so fucking unreal. I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t think I’d get married at all. Only Ollie would put up with me for good and bad.

[emmalinequinzel]

“Does that require pants?” (mark)

@inhumanxsim

“Course not. Go pantless if you wanna. I’m not gonna stop you if you don’t wanna wear pants out in public.”

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram||Mark

marktmcconnell: Cooking with no shirt on is just bad form.

british_belle: I'm not going to complain in the least.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram||Mark

marktmcconnell: Always the centre of attention.

british_belle: The piano always is.

[militaryhunterclarington-blog]

Insta||Mark

marktmcconnell: Look how tiny the ears are!

@huntorbehuntedclarington: All of it was small. Significantly less drool than Lucy too which is a bonus.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

@marktmcconnell: These are for me, right?

@british_belle: Well I did have you in mind. You aren't eating them all though.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram||Mark

@marktmcconnell: Cute.

@british_belle: I think for an amateur photographer, I did pretty well.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram|| Mark

@marktmcconnell: I'll help you ruin it with ice cream if you need an extra pair of hands.

@british_belle: You almost made yourself sick doing that the other day.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram|| Mark

@marktmcconnell: Those are for me, right?

@british_belle: Oh? Was I supposed to save you some? I didn't think you liked doughnuts.

[theawesome-lucassharper-blog]

marktmcconnell replied to your photoset:@lucasharpson: This dog will eat anything, I told...

@marktmcconnell: I have never related to anything more in my life.

@lucasharpson: He’s amazing isn’t he!

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

Instagram|| Mark

@marktmcconnell: Can we get a cat though...

@british_belle: Probably not. It's your apartment anyway.

[british-bellecrawford-blog]

@marktmcconnell: What a man.

@british_belle: At some point I have to see you dressed up to the nines too.