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dakotakazansky · 2 years ago

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Look What You Made Me Do

OC x Jake 'Hangman' Seresin

Written for @cherrycola27 1k Celebration Top Gun: Taylor's Version. 18+ MINORS DO NOT INTERACT. NSFW, Enemies to Lovers, Smut 3k Word Count

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Today was like any other day of training, except for some reason Mav only had single pilots out today. Both Rooster and Hangman come up behind me, and like clockwork I know Hangman is about to ridicule me again, as Bradley wraps an arm around my shoulders.

“Hey Swift, if your father is the legendary Iceman, why is your callsign Swift, shouldn’t you be more along the lines of Frost, since you’re always giving us the cold shoulder.” Hangman says, as I do give him the cold shoulder.

“Ignore him Mack, he’s just trying to get under your skin.” Rooster says rubbing my arm trying to keep me calm before I go off and do something I might regret or worse, get me kicked from the program or the Navy as a whole.

Hangman isn’t getting the reaction he really wants so he tries even harder, “For being called Swift, I've never seen you do so in your entire career, and for you Rooster, you’re always snug on that perch just waiting. Honestly you two are the perfect pair for each other.”

I take the sharpest, most deepest inhale I think I’ve ever done in my life, while Rooster is holding on to my shoulders, as I whip around to face Hangman, “Listen here you little shit, I don’t like your little games you are trying to play, I don’t like how you try to play me for a fool. If you want Swift, oh buddy, you’ll get Swift today.”

“Oh come on Darlin’, you know you can’t keep your mind off me, you’re definitely in love with me.” I freeze in my tracks, and lightly shove Hangman backwards, spitting back at him with as much venom in my words as I could muster, “Listen here, I. Don’t. Like. You. You’re cocky, arrogant, annoying as all fucking get out, and the only thing you’re good for in the sky is leaving your team high and dry. You’re not even worthy of being called a Wingman.”

Rooster and I walk off towards our seats in the hangar while we wait for our hop today, while unbeknownst to us, Hangman was standing where we had left him, hurt written all over his face. We waited while all the rest of the single pilots joined us in the hangar, Hangman eventually taking the seat the furthest away from Rooster and I, but I could feel the daggers he was boring into the back of my head.

Maverick drones on about how he wants to see how each of us solo pilots are doing so far in the program, and that today we’ll be joined by another instructor. We all turn to look behind us, as the aviator now comes into view, I slump down into my seat, of course it would be my father. “Today we are being joined by Admiral Kazansky,” Mav introduces before joking with Iceman, “It’s for you guys to decide who’s the better pilot.”

“Swift. Hangman. You two are up first.” Maverick says as he and my father walk off towards their jets. I look over to Rooster, sighing, “Well this oughta be fun.” I run my hands down my face, before pushing up out of my seat, and placing my silver rimmed aviators on my face. Hangman quips in front of our class, “How does it feel Swift, knowing you’re about to have your ass handed to you in front of the legacy that is your namesake?” I pinch the bridge of my nose, pushing my aviators down my nose a bit, before looking up at Hangman with the most deadly glare I could ever give to one person, “I don’t know, how about you tell me how it feels when I become the actress starring in your bad dreams?”

I’m now full of rage, venom, and an ungodly amount of spite. I walk over to my jet, do my pre-flight checks to make sure that little arrogant asshole hasn’t sabotaged my plane. Once I determine everything is as it should be, I start my climb up the ladder to my cockpit. I reach the height that is where my name is on my jet, and I run my hand over the painted-on letters of Mackie “Swift” Kazansky. It was something I always did for good luck before flying, just like how some people would touch the outside of a commercial plane before flying.

I finished my climb into the cockpit, and did my pre-flight controls checks, and made sure all my planes flaps, navigational equipment, and other instruments were working. “Fuel, both engines full, Check. Primary Flight Display, Blue over Brown currently, Check.” I mumble to myself finishing my checks. I make sure all my gear is on accordingly, i’m all strapped in, and place on my helmet and oxygen mask. I speak into my mask, “Swift to Maverick, checks complete, ready on your go.”

Not too much longer, everyone was ready and we were up in the sky. “Alright Swift and Hangman, your guys goal is to work as a team, to try to shoot both Admiral Kazansky and I down. If we shoot you down first, that’s 100 push-ups, and a mile run. Fight’s on!” Maverick says and Hangman immediately goes into pester mode. “Hope you’re ready to run when you get shot down first.”

As I'm checking the sky around me once, I say venomously, “You know Hangman I keep a list of all the people who have wronged me, to show myself I eventually prove them all wrong, Your name just happens to be in red and underlined. Eat my jet wash.” I check the sky around me twice now, spotting one of the Jets below me, and mutter, “Shit. There’s one coming up on my tail, Hangman!” I look over to Hangman’s jet, and hear him softly question, “So if one’s on Swift, where is the other?” That’s when Hangman spots my father out in the distance. “Swift, you look like you’re doing alright, I’m going after Ice!” I groan, really annoyed now, “Don’t you leave me Hangman!”

He scoffs, “You’re fine! I’m going to get Ice!” I hit my fist against the canopy, saying “Time to get smarter, in the nick of time.” and immediately break off to the left, as Hangman leaves me breaking off to the right to go after my father. I start flying and dodging as much as I can, remembering everything both of these pilots had taught me when I was younger, and in class at my current age. I’ve heard all the stories about Maverick and his exploits and use that to my advantage, and I swoop around behind him. Maverick drops low thinking this is the perfect chance to confuse my targeting system but what he doesn’t know is that Ice taught me how to target with a dead eye, and not my system.

What I hadn’t expected was to now watch my father zoom in front of Maverick, allowing Maverick to get missile lock on Hangman. He was out. I got Maverick into missile lock, getting him out, now it's just father versus daughter. I was sure I was about to have my ass handed to me. “Alright Swift, time to rise up out of the dead, you can do this.” I say trying to convince myself that I can in fact do this. After what felt like forever, chasing, and evading my father, he got me into missile lock. I was out, but at least I had put up one hell of a fight to prove I could be the best here.

As we all landed our jets, Jake and I did our push-ups. “Swift!” he calls out to me, just before we are about to start our run. ”I’m sorry, but the old Swift can’t come to the phone now, Why? Oh cause she’s dead,” I growl, “You realize if that was a real mission, you’d have to explain to Mav and my father why I’m dead right?” He gives me pleading eyes, “Swift please.” I scoff, and run off to start my mile run.

After my 13 minutes of peace and quiet I called the mile run, I started to make my way back into the building and towards the locker rooms. Jake was definitely faster than I was so he was waiting by the door as I walked in. “Well I’m glad I got smarter when I did, thanks for living up to your name yet again.” I said my voice was laced with snark. “Swift, come on.” I heard Hangman plead as I walked away giving him the cold shoulder.

I feel two callused strong hands on either of my shoulders, pushing my back against the wall. “Mack, please just listen to me.” I bring my knee up to connect with his stomach, “oh, look what you made me do.” I say smarting off to him. “Does that at least make us even now Mack?”

I’m now fuming, smoke pouring out of my ears, “No! Not even remotely close to even.” I growl beginning a tirade to him. “If that was a real mission today you’d have killed me, you’d have to explain to my father and uncle mav how your arrogance got me killed, and how do you think Rooster would feel…” I’m stopped by his soft lips crashing against mine as I’m pushed up against the wall again. “Mackie please,” he pleads once more, giving me those huge green puppy dog eyes, that would be so adorable if I didn’t hate this man’s guts. I’m still stunned by the kiss, so he takes this moment to speak again. “Mack, listen to me please. I’m so sorry, I got too full of myself. When I first saw you it was love at first sight.”

Love at first sight, this man can’t be serious. He hates my guts. I think to myself. “Mack I didn’t know how to tell you and I got so jealous seeing you so close with Rooster, that instead of being honest I just made your life a living hell and made you my enemy, but I don’t want that anymore, I want us to start over. Please.”

I’m too stunned to speak, he really just admitted this all to me. “But..I thought you hated me.” Was the only thing I could choke out, while he shakes his head no towards me, “Mack, no, I could never hate you, I really am sorry I made it seem that way.” I grab him by his flight suit and pull him towards me, capturing his lips in a needy kiss, which he immediately reciprocates. He slides his hands up the sides of my flight suit, until he makes his way to the zipper, slowly unzipping it before I push us apart, my hand square in the middle of his chest. I whisper to him out of breath from that kiss, “no, not here. Follow me.”

I grabbed his hand interlacing our fingers together and began pulling him towards the women's locker room. “Mackie, wait, are you sure about this?” He says apprehensively. I nod to him, “Jake it’s fine, I’m the only solo female pilot, there’s no else here.” I say dragging him into the locker room with me.

Jake wastes no time, as soon as we are in the door, he’s pressing his body tightly against mine up against the door, once again taking my lips in his, for another needy and longing kiss, which I don’t resist. He swipes his tongue against my bottom lip begging for entrance, I part my lips for him, and our tongues dance along with each others. He tastes of sweat and spearmint, not that I’m complaining. Without disconnecting our lips, we both quickly rid ourselves of our flight suits and boots. After what felt like a mind numbing forever, we break apart panting, and Jake questions between pants, “Mackie, will you please be my girlfriend?” I nod while panting for air.

He leans down to place a soft kiss, on the sweet spot of my neck, nipping at it lightly, and that's enough to already soak me. He whispers in my ear, “Jump.” I do as he says, jumping up into his arms and wrapping my legs around his waist, as he leads us further into the locker room. He pushes my back against the cold lockers, going back to the sweet spot on my neck, one of my hands grips his bicep tightly, while the other hand makes its way up his arm, up the back of his neck, and into his hair. He kisses down my neck to my exposed collarbone, before getting fed up at my shirt. He teasingly slides his hands slowly down my sides until he reaches the hem of my shirt, pulling it off over my head before discarding it somewhere along the floor of the locker room. I take the quick chance to pull his shirt off, tossing it near mine, before placing my hands on his pecks, and admiring the man in front of me.

I can’t take it anymore, I take his lips in mine again, kissing him until we are breathless once more. He takes the chance to remove my bra, bringing one hand up to caress my breast, and keeping one hand on the small of my back to support me. I let out a soft moan at his touch, his calloused fingers knowing exactly what to do. My right hand finds its way back up to the back of his head, tangling into his hair again, while my left hand trails its way down his pecks, his gorgeous washboard abs, and to the front of his pants as I begin to palm him through the fabric.

He lets out a low guttural groan, and I smirk, because two can play this game. “Mackie..” he gasps as I slip my hand up to his waistband, pushing his pants down the best I could. He drops me down to my feet, discarding the rest of his pants and boxers, and then discarding mine in the process as well. He picks me back up, and begins walking us towards the shower, as I kiss and nip at the sweet spot of his neck, while taking his dick into my hand and begin pumping him slowly and teasingly. He moans into my ear, which just soaks me even more. He turns on the shower, and presses my back against the wall, and his eyes darken, “Enough teasing Mack, my turn” he says while pinning my hands above my head, taking one breast into his mouth, and his other hand finding its way to my slick folds. He toys with my already sensitive clit, and I arch my back off the cold shower wall, and let out a whining moan. “Jake please..” I gasp as I feel two fingers enter and pump against my velvety walls until he finds that rough spongy bit that makes me scream.

He releases my hands and I grab his bicep, digging my nails in, and roughly pulling on his hair. “Oh god, that.. Feels so good..” I moan. I reach down once more taking his dick into my hand, pumping him greedily. “Jake please, I need to feel you.” I say whining as he pulls his two fingers out of me. He kisses my lips softly, then looks me in the eyes, “Are you sure you’re okay with this?” He asks, making sure this is 100% what we both want. I nod to him, but he shakes his head no, “Darlin’ I need to hear you say it.” I groan as he rubs his dick between my folds lining up to enter me, “Yes baby, please.” He enters with such a slow and agonizing pace, I whine “faster Jake. ” he chuckles, “You’re so needy for me darlin’” as he grips my hips, and begins to thrust into me faster. We are both moaning messes, he begins to slowly circle my aching bundle of nerves, which sends me even closer to the edge. “Jake please, just like that, I’m so close.” I moan, tossing my head back against the shower walls, and my eyes rolling back. “Look at you all cockdrunk for me baby, cum for me darlin’.” He says while rubbing a little harder on the bundle of nerves enough to send me over the edge. My walls clench around him, as I finally hit my climax moaning all sorts of profanities, which causes him to reach his climax as well. He shoots his thick ropes of cum into me, and we ride out our climaxes together. Once he goes soft, he pulls out and we hear a knocking on the locker room door, before it opens slightly. I quickly cover Jake's mouth, as I hear, “Mackie you in here?!” I whisper, “Shit, it’s Bradley.”

Jake takes advantage of this, and begins to fondle my breasts, as I try to quickly yell back without giving away what’s going on in here, “Yeah, don’t come in, I’m showering, what do you need?” Bradley replies, “A few of us are going to head to the hard Deck for drinks tonight, did you wanna tag along?” I groan quietly at Jake before replying, “Yeah that sounds great! I’ll be there in say an hour?” I try to swat away Jake’s hands from my body, when Bradley replies back, “Sounds good see you then! Hey, have you seen Seresin anywhere? We wanted to invite him along too?” Jake then trails teasing touches along my sides, down towards my clit again, and I yell back sounding a little flustered, “No, I haven’t but don’t worry, I’ll be the bigger person and invite him.”

“Okay sounds good, I’ll see you later Mackie!” Bradley says shutting the locker room door. Jake gives me his biggest puppy dog eyes, and a pout, “Aw look what you made me do Darlin’.” I hiss back at him, “You almost got us caught!” he chuckles, “Well we still have an hour.” Wiggling his eyebrows, I catch his drift as we go at it for another round before finally finishing our shower, changing and then heading out to the Hard Deck, hand in hand together.

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callsignthirsty · 2 years ago

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Stuck in the Middle — Chapter 2 — Iceman

Co-written with a friend who isn't on tumblr. Pairing: Tom “Iceman” Kazansky x F!Reader (this chapter), Ron “Slider” Kerner x Reader x Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (overall) Summary: The one where Maverick’s sister is on a mission to give her brother a heart attack by sleeping with not one, but two of his colleagues. Word Count: 3200 Warnings: Smut, public sex, dirty talk Chapter: 2/3 Read Previous Minors DNI

To say that your brother kept a close eye on you since "The O Club incident" would be an understatement. Like calling a thunderstorm a bit of rain. Pete followed you like your own personal rain cloud: grumbling anytime you and Ice got too close and drawing distinct lines in the sand with enough shade and precipitation to dampen anyone's mood. The sudden downpour of his protective streak left you with little choice but to watch Ice through the proverbial storm and hope that when it finally passed, you'd be allowed to moor closer to each other. But tropical storm Pete had no plans to leave Fightertown any time soon, much less without his sister.

Your only solace in all of this is that Pete still doesn't know about Slider.

You'd thrown yourself in the shower as soon as you'd gotten back from The O Club and been in your pajamas by the time Pete came home. Your eyes lingered on his bruised cheek, both worried for your brother and proud that Ice had managed to get at least one punch in.

The two of you spent most of that night arguing in circles. Pete couldn't accept that you'd sleep with Tom "stick-up-his-ass" Kazansky. You couldn't believe you were even having this conversation. You're an adult. You don't tell Pete who he can and can't sleep with. But for all the world, Pete was convinced this was different.

It's almost been a week since the incident — six whole days of looking at but being unable to touch Ice. At least you have one of your boys. Pete and Goose are so focused on watching Ice that Slider slips under the radar.

Then, it happens.

Pete isn't keen on you tagging along, but he can't exactly ban you from the public beach. That doesn't stop Pete from speeding off without you. But you're cut from the same cloth — stubborn enough to walk to the beach out of spite but not vindictive enough to push over his bike in the parking lot.

The volleyball game has already started by the time you arrive. You sit on the bleachers and apply tanning oil to your arms and legs. Wolfman helps you get your back once you're down to your bathing suit, earning a glare from Ice, who receives one in turn from Pete. None of this ruins your enjoyment of the game, however.

Ice and Slider work well together, but that's no surprise to you. That doesn't stop you from watching them as they toil beneath the sun: skin slick as they dive into the sand and scramble back up for a spike.

What is a surprise is that Pete leaves after the second game when the score is tied. "You heading out?" you ask as he pulls his shirt on, brushing the sand from his hands before grabbing his jacket.

"Yeah," he says, wiping the sweat from his brow. "And so are you. Come on. I've got a date."

"I'm not going anywhere."

"Come on, Mav," Goose says, joining you both by the bleachers. "Just one more game. That evens it up."

"I'm not leaving you here." The with Ice part goes unsaid.

"I'm an adult —"

"I'm already running late."

"Just one more game. Please? For me?"

"— and it's a public beach."

"Dammit," Pete says as he rechecks his watch. "Goose, keep an eye on her for me." Goose sighs, shaking his head as Pete runs off. He waves his friend off and plods over to the water fountain for a drink before the next round starts.

Hollywood and Wolfman pull their shirts off and pass the volleyball back and forth to warm up when Slider takes a seat next to you, excess water dripping down his chin and onto his chest. "Enjoying the view?" he asks, and you whimper, your eyes trained on Ice where he's bent over the fountain, Adam's apple bobbing as he slurps up the cool water, sunkissed skin shining in the afternoon light.

"Please, Ron," you whine. "He's all sweaty and gorgeous, and I haven't been able to touch him since Pete found out."

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Distract him," you say with little hesitation and throw a pointed look in Goose's direction. "Anything. Please."

"God," Slider groans, readjusting himself in his sweatpants, "you're so hot when you beg." And you're listening to him, but your eyes are still on Ice as he makes his way back to the volleyball court, watching the way his muscles bunch and flex as he passes the ball with Hollywood and Wolfman. "You need him to fuck you, baby?" Your eyes slip closed at the question whispered darkly into your ear, and you bite your lip to keep a moan at bay. A wet kiss is pressed to the base of your neck, and you shiver despite the heat. "Don't say I never did anything for you."

Slider snags the ball out of the air when he gets back onto the court and squeezes it between his hands. "Ball's flat."

"No, it's not," Goose says, catching the ball and giving it a squeeze to assess for himself before tossing it back to Slider, who immediately passes it to Wolfman.

Wolf pulls a face as he tests the ball himself. "It could use a pump."

"It's fine."

"C'mon, Mother Goose," Slider says, aviators sliding down his nose as he gives Goose a look, "afraid the ball's gonna hurt your delicate lady wrists?"

"Lady wrists?!" Goose looks like he's bitten into a lemon, and his arms cross over his chest.

"You heard me. That wife of yours has you whipped," Slider needles as Hollywood snickers. "Didn't realize you were so soft." And Goose might be a sweetheart, but he's got an ego to defend just like the rest of the Top Gun crew, and he isn't going to let Slider imply that he's made of softer stuff.

"Fine." Goose takes the ball from Slider's hands with a huff. "Who has a pump?"

But Slider isn't done yet. You can pinpoint the exact moment that Goose begins to see red. "Carole keeping your balls in her handbag or something?"

"Listen, you fucking dick."

And that's your cue to leave.

Goose is so caught up in getting into Slider's face that he's none the wiser when you grab ahold of Ice's hand and drag him down the beach. When you're far enough away, you duck behind a shuttered beach shack, the spot just secluded enough to give you the illusion of privacy behind tall trees. If you have any doubts before, they disappear when Ice practically pounces on you. He's just as touch-starved for you as you are for him, a whine falling past his lips as he licks into your mouth, hands grabbing at every bit of you revealed by your bathing suit.

"Tom," you gasp when your lips break apart for a much-needed breath. "Just touch me. Missed you so much."

"I know, baby. Missed you, too," Ice grunts when you mouth at the bruise coloring his jaw. As your fingers tangle in his hair, you wish you could kiss it better — the purple splotch of your brother's fury marring his otherwise perfect jaw. Instead, you steer his lips back to yours, arching as Ice brushes your bathing suit top aside and pinches your nipple to attention, sparks arcing from the sensitive bud straight to your core. "Slider showed me your panties," Ice husks, and you feel him through the thin layer of his pants as he grinds against your hip. "He said he filled your pretty pussy up and sent you home dripping."

Your head thunks back against wood slats as you gasp. Cunt throbbing at the memory of cum-slick thighs and the smug tilt to Slider's lips as he disappeared with your panties in his pocket. He had likely waited until no one was looking and slipped the fabric into Ice's hand, still smelling of sex as he leaned forward to give Ice a play-by-play of what had happened while he was hissing and spitting at Pete. "Yes."

"God, that's so hot." He catches your moan of agreement on his tongue, lips insistently pressing yours open to roll your tongues together. One of his hands finds its way down to your ass and uses it to roll your hips together, the hard length of him dragging over your clit this time. "Gotta have you," he pants, adam's apple bobbing as he swallows thickly. You look at him through half-lidded eyes, ready to plead for more, when Ice beats you to it: "Please, baby, it's been too long. Need you." And you're not used to this desperation from Ice, but you like it — can feel the same need simmering beneath your own surface, so you nod.

Impatient fingers find their way into Ice's pants and give him a firm tug as your other hand shoves his waistband down just far enough to get his cock out. "Up," Ice commands and hitches your legs around his waist when you jump. He presses your back into the sandy, worn wood of the shack you’re hiding behind as nimble fingers pull your bathing suit bottoms to the side and slip inside of you. "You're so wet," he groans, sucking at the sensitive skin of your neck.

"No marks," you rasp instead of answering. The quick tug to his hair meant to discourage him does the opposite, and he groans deep in his chest.

"Yes, marks." He nips at you to drive the point home, and you shudder as his teeth click closed.

"Tom—"

"They already know," he says, nuzzling into the blooming pink and giving it another wet kiss. "No use hiding it now. Besides—" a second finger rubs at your entrance alongside the first "—I want Maverick to know that no matter what he does—" a kiss "—no matter how closely he watches us—" a toe-curling bite "—you couldn't stay away." He slips the second finger inside you, and you moan helplessly at the stretch. "Because you're mine."

"And Ron's," you supply weakly as Ice's fingers crook into your sweet spot.

"Not right now, you're not," he whispers directly into your ear, breath ghosting over your lobe before he gives it a bite. "Definitely not right now."

Ice's cock grinds into your thigh as a third finger teases at your core, and you shake your head. Ice trembles with the effort to stay still as you continue to cling to him, hands slipping from his hair so your nails can dig into his shoulders. "Wanna feel it," you babble, shifting against the fingers still inside you. "Please, Tom. Just do it. Wanna feel you. Need you."

Ice doesn't need any more prompting. You barely have time to miss the stretch of his fingers before he lines his cock up and sinks into you, the sweet torture drawn out so you can both savor this moment after so many days forced apart. A small part of you hopes, as Ice's hips press flush to yours and you both let out heady moans, that Slider has things handled by the volleyball court. Because Ice is being uncharacteristically vocal, and if anyone comes looking, they'll surely hear the both of you. However, that doesn't stop you from canting your hips against Ice's. Little gasps escape your lips each time he rubs over your sweet spot, your hips jolting and walls desperately trying to pull him in deeper.

Ice inhales sharply. "I'm not going to last long if you keep doing that," he pants, hands tight on your hips to hold you still even as his own give half-halted rolls, and he lets out a strangled noise.

His lips are close enough to kiss, but you're so dizzy from breathing him in that you can't bring yourself to close the distance. Swept out to sea by a torrent of fervent desire. Content to lie precisely where he has you pressed into sun-bleached wood and let him do what he wants. What you both need. But he isn't moving. Forehead against yours, eyes shut as he licks his lips and attempts to regain some of that ever-present composure he prides himself on.

But you don't want ice-cold, no mistakes. You want fire. Heat. Wet and wanton and oiled up. So your walls flutter when you use your heels to drag him closer to you and nibble on his full bottom lip. "Don't want you to," you confess against his mouth, blinking up at him as his eyes open — the glacial blue nothing but a ring around lust-blown black.

You keen as Ice ducks into your neck, lean into his lips, teeth, and tongue as he works to leave a mark you won't be able to hide. "Who knows when we'll get the chance again?" he asks, hips stilling as he readjusts his grasp on them — both of you slick with sweat and sun oil. A breeze rolls across the beach, shadows dancing until the sunlight turns his hair into spun gold. "Gotta make it last."

He has a point there, but you're fucking on borrowed time. Eventually, Goose will realize that you've managed to slip the tight leash that he and your brother have been keeping you on, and when that happens, you don't want Ice to be balls deep inside of you.

But you stop caring when Ice finally moves. Slow, at first. Testing his grip on you and the position before he draws back further and shoves your hips together. He groans when your nails drag fire down his back, and you let out a half shout. "You needed this, didn't you?" he asks, and you nod dumbly as he rocks into you again. "Tell me."

Your tongue peeks out to wet your lips. "God, I fucking need it, Tom." He groans, falling forward to cage you against the shack as one of his hands plays with your bathing suit where it's stretched aside for your coupling. Dexterous fingers snapping the elastic against your puffy lips and making you buzz.

A startled shriek looses from your lips at the unexpected sting of your bathing suit against tender flesh, and you slap a hand over your mouth. The fingers petting around your stretched pussy snatch your wrist and give it a sweet kiss before pinning it beside your head, weather-worn wood itching the back of your hand. "Gonna give 'em a show?" Ice taunts. Your eyes bulge, your head snaps to the side and your body attempts to lock up as you make sure you don't have an audience, but Ice doesn't give you any reprieve. If anything, he picks up the pace. Grinds against your clit until you're keening past your bitten lip. "It's okay, sweetheart. Everyone already knows," he husks, nosing along your jaw and leaving a trail of rough kisses down your neck to your collarbone. "If I'm gonna have to keep my hands off of you again," he squeezes your wrist between calloused fingers, kneads at your hip, "I want to hear those pretty noises."

"That's what got us into this m-ah!" A pitiful cry is wrenched from you when Ice's hand connects with your ass. A wretched moan that has his lips parting in a dagger grin. He grinds against you, your legs tensing as sparks light up your spine in tune with the smarting of his five-fingered signature on your rear. Another souvenir to add to the collection you'll be hauling back to Fightertown's worst babysitter.

"That's it," he encourages silkily. His head settles into the crook of your neck, each groan making you buzz as he alternates between licking, nipping, and panting into you with each flex of his hips. When he finally releases your hand, you drop it into his hair, trying to guide him back to your lips with a tug that has him hissing and his rhythm faltering.

At long last, his thumb glides over your clit, sun oil easing each press and roll until your lips fall open on a litany of luscious noises. Back arching until your shoulder blades are your only connection to the shack. "You're close," Ice says as he presses you back to the wall with a grunt. "Gonna let me cum inside you?"

You moan, dizzy with the thought.

"You like that, huh, baby?" You can only nod as shivers wrack your body. Legs spamming around Ice's trim waist. "I feel the way you're squeezing me. God, you want it, don't you?" He doesn't expect an answer, slots your lips together with a hum, and only pulls back when your teeth click together. "Tell me," he rasps. "Tell me what you want."

"Fuck, Tom," you gasp, unable to catch your breath. "Want it." He groans, teeth bared and jaw clenching as he tries desperately to hold out for you. But you're his undoing: expression dazed as you look up at him from beneath thick lashes, eyes half-lidded and lust-blown, cheeks stained hot by the sun, and cunt so wet, hot, tight. "Cum in me, Tom. Fuck! Give it to me."

The combination of fingers on your clit and the warm bloom of him filling you to the brim is enough to send you over the edge with him. Nerves lighting up like sparklers as Ice continues to rock against you until you're both practically melting down the side of the shack, Ice cradling you in his lap as his knees finally touch down in warm sand.

You take a moment to pull yourselves together, but you know you're a lost cause. Your neck is littered with enough evidence to send Pete to an early grave without mentioning the throb of your asscheek or the steady accumulation of wetness in the gusset of your bathing suit. Or the telling smile on Ice's face.

Ice walks you back to the volleyball court, an arm slung around your waist and fingers tracing absentmindedly at your hip bone. Goose is sitting on the bleachers, his head down between his shoulders as if he knows — which is probably the case — that he's been baited and bested. By the net, Slider plays some bastardized version of volleyball with Hollywood and Wolfman on the other side of the net. Two against one.

When Goose looks up, Ice brings you into a filthy kiss that's more for show than anything else — hands on your cheeks as he ravages your mouth. He lets go of your lip with a pop. "Tell Maverick I said 'hi,'" he tells you before turning to join Slider and revealing the nail tracks that run from his shoulder down between his shoulder blades.

"You ready to go?" Goose asks when you make it back to the bleachers. The walk to Goose's car is silent. Once you're both in the car, Goose finally turns to look at you, eyes sweeping over you to take in the damage. "Mav's gonna kill me."

"You're being dramatic," you say as you buckle yourself in.

Goose shakes his head. "No, I don't think I am." You roll your window down, waving at your boys as Goose pulls out of the parking lot and self-consciously cross your legs. "Do women wear scarves in summer?" Goose asks when you roll up to a stoplight. "What if we stopped somewhere and got you a nice scarf?" You throw your head back as the light turns green, laughter lost out the open window.

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saywhen · 3 years ago

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muses by doc under the cut!!!

TOM ‘ICEMAN’ KAZANSKY; TOP GUN

perfectionist navy pilot, winner of top gun 1986, will write him from teen to present day as admiral and chief naval officer of the entire us navy

JOHN HENRY ‘DOC’ HOLLIDAY; TOMBSTONE

former dentist, has tuberculosis, currently a gambling man who moves from town to town making money and sometimes, when the need arises, murderer, *shrugs*

NICK RIVERS; TOP SECRET

international heartthrob edgy rock ‘n’ roller. think elvis but spoofed.

LUKE McKENNA; OC - FARENHEIT 451

after beatty burns montag alive bc he mad af, beatty gets removed from his post and mckenna comes in to replace him as captain. (i utilize val kilmer in spartan as the fc).

LIAM ANDERSON; OC - TAYLOR SWIFT’S ‘WILDEST DREAMS’

hot headed actor in his prime filming a movie in africa and ready for an intensely passionate affair with his co-star oOP

MASTER GUNNERY SGT BOBBY SCOTT; SPARTAN

he is a no nonsense, unquestioning his orders marine to his very own death. once he has a mission, literally nothing will stop him from completing it. he suffers from PTSD and is covered in scars from head to toe. he has night terrors from the PTSD and as such, does not allow himself to sleep often. he runs on caffeine and spite.

JOHN HOLMES, AKA JOHNNY WADD, PORNSTAR; WONDERLAND

addicted to drugs and an adult film legend w/a 14 inch... you know...

BRUCE WAYNE AKA BATMAN

burton verse obvs

RAY LEVOI; THUNDERHEART

former fbi agent, part cherokee who is just trying to discover his ancestor’s roots and spirit

SIMON TEMPLAR; THE SAINT

orphan, thief for hire, master of disguises, he has no idea who he really is

MADMARTIGAN; WILLOW

expert swordsman who lost a random, very important baby to a hawk. it’s a long story.

CHRIS KNIGHT; REAL GENIUS

actual genius, party god, avid slipper collector. college senior or college professor (verse dependent), twin brother of montgomery knight.

MONTGOMERY KNIGHT; THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU (1996)

former neurosurgeon, has become more of a vet these days on the island of dr. moreau where there are genetic experiments on animals. twin brother of chris knight.

JAMES T. DAVIS AKA JOKER; FULL METAL JACKET

recast of joker to kilmer bc i do what i want

BEN AINSLEY; OC

his family is from old, old money and he uses that to book up time on hunter reserves in africa so actual hunters can’t hunt. he hates hunting and has never killed an animal. instead, on his trips, he explores the reserves.

WAR; SUPERNATURAL BASED RECAST OF ONE OF THE FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE

on a red motorcycle... he’s comin for you!!!

CASTIEL; SUPERNATURAL RECAST

to val kilmer because again, i do what i want

LUCAS MATSSON; OC

lucas is a history professor at a large university. his favorite things are egyptian and nordic lore. he has originals and replicas of armor, royal garbs, and weaponry for every period of world history. single ship with thxwxlf.

ROBBY GALLAGHER; RED PLANET

with three ex-wives and an elvis obsession, robby was chosen to be the first group of astronauts to colonize mars after the introduction of algae to mars in 2025.

KING PHILIP; ALEXANDER

king of macedonia. drunk. asshole. father of a bastard.

WILLIAM ‘SPOOKY’ MCPHERSON; CONSPIRACY (2008)

marine with horrific ptsd that he tries to chase away with drugs and alcohol to no avail. shell of who he used to be.

CHRIS SHIHERLIS; HEAT

caught up in the mob life. now on the run.

DR. NICHOLAS PINTER; DOUBLE IDENTITY

doctor without borders physician, framed, blackmailed, untrusting.

JOHN SMITH; FELON

after his wife and daughter were rxped and murdered, he found their bodies and a reckoning happened. approx. 17 people were murdered which included the two men that did it and their entire families. he has no regrets about it.

JOE MANDITSKI; KILL THE IRISHMAN

cleveland pd detective who is Tired™ and desperate to bring the mob down in his city

PAUL PRYZWARRA; DEJA VU

tired TM fbi agent. divorced. works WAY too much.

JAKE HARRIS; MINDHUNTERS

fbi instructor at quantico. thinks outside the box. loves cake.

MARK CORNELL; HARD CASH

corrupt fbi agent working to launder money with the local mob.

TOM VAN ALLEN / DANNY PARKER / JIMMY FINN; THE SALTON SEA

after tom’s wife was murdered, he became danny and seemed to be spiraling into drugs and alcohol, but it was all a well-thought-out ruse to bring down the two corrupt law enforcement officers who were responsible for his wife’s death. after he got his revenge ten-fold, he became jimmy and moved away from the salton sea. you can find him anywhere but california.

MOSES; THE TEN COMMANDMENTS MUSICAL/PRINCE OF EGYPT

the actual moses. i do not rp with animated fcs or use one and i will be using val kilmer as the fc and not accepting discourse on this matter. he did an amazing portrayal. my decision is final. ope

#muses #muse list #ooc

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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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Hickman’s X-Men Line: One Year in Part 1: Prelude, House and Powers of X, X-Men and New Mutants (Hickman)

Under the cut is an explination of how hickman’s run happened (the mass decay will be covered another time probably), and dives into his x-books: house of x, powers of x,x-men and his breif run on new mutants and what i thought. Pax Krakoa baby.

One year ago, I breathed a sigh of relief as I read the utterly masterful house of x #1. See for the past few months, i’d been waiting on baited breath for this comic with a level of anticipation not matched by any before or since. Even the debut of a spinoff to Chew, one of my faviorite comics of all time that i deftnetly need to do a retrospective on, this week got within the same galaxy and it still wasn’t on the same level. This was big, grandiose and everything I hoped for. And whatever issues I had as House and it’s sister series came out slowly died out as the full story unfolded, my jaw dropped and my faith in Hickman to save the x-men was fully delivered. At last the x-men were back on top. And it was going to be one hell of a ride.

As you probably know the x-men had been treated pretty badly at marvel due to fox having the movie rights, a move that still baffles and frustrates me. Instead of making money to rub in fox’s face by promoting the hell out of them in merchandise, animation, video games and of course comics ALONGSIDE the avengers, they basically ignored the x-men and fantastic four to give fox less to work with to spite them while fox.. entirely ignored this as since both franchises have been around since the 60′s and the x-men had had mountains of spinoffs to give them mountains of characters. So in short: a decision to spite and hurt their compeitors only cost marvel money, pissed off fans and fox’s eventual absortion as far as I can tell had absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

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Thankfully marvel DID stop being stupid eventually and relented: The Fantastic Four came back a year before house of x with a decent run by dan slott, which is thankfully more like earlier spider-man work and ff work, and less like what his spider-man run became from superior onward despite the ocasional misfire but i’ll talk about both runs another day. I mostly bring it up because with this revivial, marvel also slowly reintegrated the four back into the marvel universe and made their return feel like a big deal. The X-Men however took a bit: while they got an earlier shot at returning with ressurxion. Buuut with the idea of having hickman return in their back pocket, marvel apparently refused, at least according to cullen bunn who I fell has no real reason to lie, to let the writers rock the boat too much and the era perdictably was just meh, especially flagship book X-Men Gold which was written bafflingly by Mark Gugenhiem and outside of one or two good ideas basically felt like the comics equivlent of one of those party store albums where every song is a cover done by someone who couldn’t give half a damn. There were bright spots though with Cullen Bunn finishing out his awesome x-men tenure with x-men blue, Sina Grace’s wonderful iceman that took the wonky execution of Bendis’ decision to make bobby drake gay and made it work beautifully, and the decent if somewhat baffling x-men red. But overall it just felt like a missed opportunity and with the fox deal in bloom and a new EiC, marvel NEEDED something bigger, bolder and grander to do with marvel’s strangest heroes of all. After all all eyes would be on them while Marvel’s Movie department took a few years, probably longer now thanks to the pandemic, to let things cool off before bringing the x-men into the mcu. Enter Jonathan Hickman: Writer of another one of my faviorite runs of all time, his Fantastic Four run, along with an enjoyable but heavily flawed avengers run, a secret warriors run i’ve read half of that was a hell of a ride, tons of ultimate comics, and a bunch of indies I haven’t read but are probably great. A wordy weirdo and i’m convinced the second coming of grant morrison, and I hope one day the two work together on something tha’ts equal parts weird and amazing.

The morrison comparison is also apt as both came into the X-Men at a time when the x-men badly needed them: Just like Hickman morrison had to deal with a largely stagnant x-men and changed them to fit the times. And yes unsuprisngly i’ll also be covering morrisons run, warts and all, and it’s also one of my faviorite comics of all time. However Hickman was given a huge advtange his spirtiual predecessor, and really few comics writers EVER have gotten: full control of the x-men line. Unlike morrison who wasn’t even allowed to use certain characters despite writing the main fucking x-book, Hickman got full creative control: full say in the direction of the story, full say in who came on board and to let them pitch whatever they wanted to do. And honestly it’s an apporach that’s not only reovlutionarly but makes the books FEEL like their actually occuring around the same time. Sure their all still seperate entities, but it DOES feel like one coheisive universe. Contrastingly with the avengers Black Panther’s solo has had him on a year long sojurn in space, before returning to earth.. while also running the avengers over in jason aaron’s run and having his own spinoff team, without any fucking clue as to when intergalactic empire of wakanda takes place in relation to everything else. Tony Stark is currently just taking back both his own damn name and the iron man name in his own book, but is also a major player in avengers, and empyre with no mention of his seeming drunken spiral (itw as a ploy) or arno taking up the armor and I feel these issues rather than the neglect the x-men once had are why krakoa’s impact isn’t being felt more in other titles. I’m not saying don’t let books do their own thing, but I am saying let them have fucking consequences and weight instead of just acting like one isn’t happening or at the very least have a character be absent for an arc so you can fit the other stories into continuity easier. As X-Men’s shown it dosen’t stifle inovation and hell even immortal hulk easily fit into no road home with a fucking note saying “this takes place before x issue” it’s not that hard. This advantage was likely part of Hickman’s terms for coming back. See the x-men were the one thing at marvel he never got to do. The Gillieon and Aaron runs and Bendis runs meant the spot simply wasn’t open and by the time he was leaving it was clear marvel wanted to bury the x-men not praise them, so his ideas had no run. But the X-Men were what got Jonathan into comics. A shocking fact I learned at last years comic con, during which most of the dawn of x titles were revealed, was he WASN’T a fantastic four or avengers fan as a kid, not hating them but like me with the avengers for some time, not really caring about them. But with both runs, he did his homework, read as much as possible, and BECAME a fan, and it shows as both runs show a deep love for both marvel and the teams present. With X-Men they were his dream, his golden goose, his windmill, he just never was in the right place at the right time... but with Marvel needing his starpower and creativity and having nothing to loose with the x-men and badly needing a big run to hlep keep intrest in the x-men till the new movies, he finally was. So seeing the company needed him and he could get his dream and the control he needed, while dc had just taken bendis, didn’t need him and until very recently was ran by a moron, his choice to come back to marvel instead of go to dc as he’s admitted, was obvious. And it ended up being the right one. House and Powers of x were massive creative and commerical hits and the following titles have all been mostly praised. The new direction has been a boon for the franchise,k the fans and marvel. So being a fan of this direction, as you can tell by the massive intro, to give my thoughts on each book so far: what I think their doing right, where some went wrong etc, since I’d rather wait another year or so befor ediving into these and let some more of hickman’s plans and future story hints spread throughout his books pay off first. WIth that all out of the way it’’s time for a deep dive of x.So grab some plant based snacks, your x-shaped helmets, and your krakoan coffee, it’s time to finally get into hickman’s era of x-men.

HOUSE OF X AND POWERS OF X The opening salvo and just with two mini series that are one, though why he DIDN’T just have them be one big mini series I genuinely do not know, probably to justify having two diffrent artists to carry the load, is an utter masterpiece. Plain and simple. Let’s get the status quo the series set up out of the way so I can dig into it more: Magento and Xavier were revealed to have been working together for years behind the scenes.. with Moira Mactaggert, one of my favoirite x characters who the series changes utterly and forever. See instead of being the one human who consitantly is on mutants side and one of the x-men’s staunchest allies who sadly hadn’t been resusrected in 20 fucking years, she was a mutant herself, her ablility being reincarnation.. and thus had lived through 9 of her 10 lives seeing mutantkind always loose so told xavier and magneto about this in the hopes of breaking the wheel and letting mutantkind live this time. However hickman , while revealing the alliance does brilliantly still make it work in continuity for me: it’s clear from moira’s notes in one issue, as house and powers and any following titles love having charts or text based sections that I feel give the comics a unique flavor and really help boost most issues, that Charles optimism she was trying to break him of and faith in humanity took years to fully shatter: he plotted and schemed with her to protect his species but it was clear he probably felt it woudln’t be necessary that humanity would prove her wrong.. and by this series it’s clear, no they haven’t changed, the majority of them just want to genocide mutants and have tried again and again and again while the rest who don’t necessarily want it, paticuarlly the superheroes did nothing while Magneto chaffed against her after the whole “alter his infant self after he was deaged by a mutant he made into a baby to be more pacificsitc which naturally pissed him off when that wore off”. Yes that’s a thing that actually happened pre and post retcons it’s why a survivor of the holocaust is , while not a YOUNG man, still healthy and vibrant. It’s a clever way to not undermine those stories while still telling this one and this retcon is a move I like as unlike most retcons it’s both there to tell a good story and excuted in a way that outside of moira dosen’t undermine anything. The Moira retcon I was and to a degree still am mixed on. While the new version of her is brilliant, creative and intresting and I can’t wait to see what happens with her next time she shows up, I do mourn the old as the x-men had few human allies and now their only big one is now a mutant herself, but it IS in service of a really damn good narraitive and the twist that the bad futures presented were in fact other lives of moira was brilliant, and it’s nice to see SOMETHING done with her. I’d rather something that i have a small problem with lead to really great things and be worth the sacrifice of her former character, than just changing things because “fuck it I want to do this and their letting me do this’ as a lot of retcons tend to be. Hickman’s story needs moira and her cycle of defeat to truly soar to the heights it’s reaching, and to make Charles and Xavier’s back alley actions make sense, so i’ll glady sacrifce one version of a character that I really liked for another version of her that’s also really good. The other big swing though I was completley on board for: Hinted at early on by serveral dead mutants being alived, after a sucidie mission against new big bads and mutant hating extermists orchis, who are far better written than other extermists, it’s revealed just why death has seemingly taken a holiday: the big plan that has been decades in the making for xavier and co? That will reshape mutant kind and required working with mr sinsiter of all people? Revivie all dead mutants. See in a brilliant reveal Cerebro isn’t just a mutant tracker; It’s a copier, copying their essecnes reaguarly and storing them for later, updating them every so often and thus meaning any who died can come back. Why it took Chuck so long to do this is also explained as he needed 5 specific mutant power sets to do it and thus had to wait till they had everything they needed: Goldballs, yes goldballs, spits out his giant golden balls, phrasing, which hickman in an insane and awesome turn revealed to be EGGS. Yes EGGS. Proteus, Moira’s son and former villian whose now pacificed since this body cloning process means he has an infnite suply of xavier bodies to burn through and thus isn’t killing people, warps reality to mamke the eggs viable. Elixir, a healer whose been through some shit the poor guy,gives the eggs , once injected with the mutant in questions dna via syringe because of course, life, and Tempus, goldballs former classmate fellow bendis creation and mistress of time, speeds it up a bit so they don’t have to wait a good few decades for some mutants to rerez. The fifth that makes all this possible is hope summers, mutant messiah and adopted daughter of cable returned to promence once more, whose power is revealed to be power maniulation and thus can boost their powers to the degree neded for this. it’s a BRILLIANT turn that not only undoes all the pointless deaths mutants have undergone, but changes the game: Genocide is now near impossible, as humanity has no idea bout any of htis, and instead of mutant lives going down, they can only go once.. as one man once put it...

And as an x-men fan having watched characters I love die again and again for stupid reasons, especially int he placeholder run right before house of x, this was so satsifying. Everyone the x-men had lost, every character I loved who was gone and forgotten.. they were back or would be back. And thanks to Krakoa they were thriving: By giving mutantkind a homeland instead of a headquarters, a nation given to one of their own because he demanded itbasically, or an island fortress designed to give a dying species refuge, they have a goregous sentient island (I’ve always loved krakoa for the record though I wonder what happened to his clone son), with abundant food, teleporting gates across the world to visit wherever they like or live in the various worldwide habitats if they please, and peace and security they’ve neve rknown. No more being woken up to get to a panic room because a sentienl attacked. No more having religious maniacs blow up busses containing your tine. No more having the vast majority of the superhero community do nothing as a fucking plauge cloud wipes out your species. Anything apporaching krakoa now has hundreds of the most powerful beings alive defending all mutants.. and that includes the worst of the worst, all given amntesty.. but they must tow the line or else be given a fate worse than death. After years of pain and suffering and misery mutantkind is free safe and happy. They still have to fight to get the rest of their kind out of racist hands and to saftey, the fight’s not over.. but now the odds are in mutantkinds favor. It’s paradise. And yet this mini, and this whole run dosen’t run from tough issues; The mutants are now isolationists and only mutants are allowed on krakoa itself.. on the one hand this is a bad idelogy and potentially dangerous, instead of fighting for harmony fighting for my land alone.. but it’s also see why Mutantkind has taken to it. The X-Men have tried for at the least a decade in universe and at the most and most likely 15 years to live in harmony, fight for mankind and make peace with them.. and only a small chunk has acutally tried to help them with that. The other large fraction? They either build death machines to try and wipe out all mutants, and in the case of Cassandra NOva who while not a human is still a racist genocidal bitch, SUCCEED in wiping out a large chunk, or do nothing while mutantkind suffers. The series forces you to think about the implications that marvel comics themselves previous ignored: That with all the superheros in this world who arent mutants.. more often than not htey’ve done fuck all when terrible shit happens. When Genosha died, not a one asked the x-men what happened or tried to hunt down those responsible. When Decemation happened, the avengers were more concerned with helping the x-men cover it up than helping them move on and did nothing as the goverment made xavier’s into a reservation, even after regrestration happened and the goverment had more heroes than ever to spare to helping them. When the T-Mist happened years later instead of stopping terrigin or asking the inhumans to stop it for the good of another race, the rest of the heroes just did fuck all. Sure the avengers were on a budget and the ff were asbent, but there were enough heroes in the world still and enough teams to do something about it and only the ones with mutants on them did!. IT’s hard to say “well you shoudln’t exclude them”.. when the rest of superhero kind has been subtly doing it their whole lives. But it dosen’t shy away from the claims of racial superiority the isoaltion or the fact the x-men basically sued for nationhood by making requiring recognizing their nation hood the price for trading for their life saving and extending, world changing drugs, which you would still need to buy. There’s other issues, one that i’ll get to in a moment as it was only revealed in x-men. Various characters, Corsair in issue one of the ongoing, the fincial summit in issue 4 and the ff both in house of x #1 and ff/x-men, all question this and some of the ethics. Hickman brilliantly decides instead of just painting the x-men as absolute moral rights, to show their new nation warts and all: the genuine good their doing and trying to do but also the price they have to pay for it and the mistakes they may be making. And the compromise necessary to build a nation. It’s all chiling, compelling shit that’s even more releveant in a time when bigotry is piling up like crazy. Both house and x-men, which i’ll get to in a second, ask questions with no easy answers and it makes them a compelling read. Also compelling is the two mini series use of flashbacks: The two previous moira timelines, which we learn are just that as we go, are compelling with the apoclaypse timeline having loveable heroes were are heartbroken to see die in the struggle, while the last timeline seemingly sees the mutants turn as bad as the humans.. only to peel back a layer at the end and reveal humans are still very much the real monsters, and them evolving via machine is a threat to mutant kind's natural evolution. It was a good story twist and of course there’s FAR more to dig into in both books, and I defintely will at some point in the future as I said. But there’s tons of great ideas here: Sinsiter not only being a mutant but a reluctant ally, the same of apocalyspe, the heavy questions I got into above, the idea of machines being mutants greatest threat which makes a ton of sense, and the various ones I already went into. I can’t gush about this book enough, but since this is already long enough i’m trying. The point is both mini series are great and how you do a self contianed event perfectlY plenty of consequence, plenty of scope but enough character and brilliant ideas and a FUCK TON of quotable and iconic lines, all blend into one of the very best series i’ve ever read. And lead directly into..

X-Men I talked about a lot of what this book represents above as it’s a direct continuation of the above, but the book on it’s own is still something diffrent. while it continues setting things up, playing with the new toybox hickman set up, and asking the tough questions, x-men does it in a diffrent way. House and Powers bounce around through time while all telling one huge story and one huge bundle of setup for this status quo. X-Men instead is a bunch of single issues. It’s still a ton of setup, though with enough payoff to house and powers that it at least so far hasn’t become tedious, especailly since hickman specifically has plans for all of it and has shown in the past he’s a long game man when it comes to storytelling, but through more action packed stories that, with the exception of mistque’s spotlight issue so far, have one shared element: Cyclops, aka Scott Summers, who as grand captain of krakoa is the nation’s ruling council’s go to guy for missions and who he himself can form any team he once for any mission. Cyclops, like the x-men hadn’t been treated well for years; Various characters lambasted him after the phoenix force drove him mad and lead to him killing charles xavier, and before that his run as leader of utopia, not helped by x-force painting him as a cold heartless dickweed, had him forced to make questionable decisions that made fans turn agains thim despite the hard position he was in. But now with the burden of absolute leadership of mutantkind in other hands, HIckman writes scott beautifully and has restored him to his proper place. WIth Xavier taking over as absolute leader of mutantkind and his race no longer hanging by a thread for the first time in years scott can relax and ENJOY himself. As the first issue shows he has everything he ever could have possibly wanted: A healthy marriage with Jean again, and an open one at that with him free to still see emma and Jean openly seeing Logan. Logan himself no longer trying to murder scott for his mistakes or kill his teenage self due to bad writing, but being his best friend again and also living with him and presumibly having threeways because they have connected bedrooms and of course jean would want both at once. Maybe they also just fuck each other sometimes again the details haven’t exactly been clear but it’d explain the tension disappearing. Maybe the schism would’ve ended quicker if Cyclops and Wolverine just fucked each other after children of the atom. Hey not every question is a deep personal one on krakoa sometimesm it’s just “Are these two fucking and could it have solved things faster in the past if they did?”. Also I almost forgot to mention, and added this near the end of writing this, in additoin to everything else scott now lives ON THE FUCKING MOON, on the blue area with a breathable atompshere, on a moon house with his family and fuckbuddy and Vulcan’s buddys. It’s fucking amazing. But moving back to other things scott’s gotten besides logan’s wang up his butt, as seen in issue one thanks to the gates his dad can now visit anytime, his brothers live with him with Vulcan going from genocidal dickweed to weirdo thanks to his experinces between his “death’ and this series, and he’s just. happy. And as a leader he takes the x-men on thrilling missions: the series combines action with character and worldbuilding and it is great. The worldbuilding part has been tremendous; we’ve seen new foes in the returning children of the vault and horticulture, aka what if the golden girls were tv ma, and also plant based supervillians plotting a better future for mankind that krakoa’s drugs clash with. We’ve seen nimrod creeping close, charles and magneto not playing ball with mystique start to backfire, the return of krakoa’s lost love, and in my faviorite arc, we’ve seen broo, one of my faviorite x-people and intellegent brood, eat an egg and thus become god emperor of the brood, not only giving the vicious race a chance to reform but giving the x-men a huge advatange in space, doubeldby events we’ll get to in a second. And biggest of all we saw the crucible: Since those depwoered by the decimation can get power back by dying again, and to prevent overworking the five with mass sucidies krakoa came up with a nasty solution,: earning resurection via ritual combat. And like the above there aren’t easy answers to this: mass sucidie isn’t better or faster, but having mutatns forced to EARN repowering by dying brutally isn’t a great solution either and is kind of sick. And it also opens up questions about ressurectoin that Nightcrawler feels made need reegion to answer htem. It’s again good heavy instreating stuff. We also got my faviorite issue #4 where the x-men go to a fincial summit, and while security detail cyclops and gorgon fight off hired goons...

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Xavier, Magneto and Apocalypse discuss with world leaders about the implications of krakoa’s policys, with Magneto not hiding his love of flexing his superiority. And Charles ends the confrence, after it’s revealed one hired them in an utterly masterful moment: Taking off his helmet to reveal no this is charles, this is him and that even after they tried assintating him he has and always will love humanity he’s just sick of being treated like crap and suffering for doing it and his people suffering for it and he won’t tolerate this sort of shit again. See it for yourself it’s an absolute triumph:

It’s a great scene. Overall an utterly great title that really keeps the momentum moving and I feel is only setting up for even more things.. the only real issue is that A) the title’s been slower at coming out than the other dawn of x titles, though in the case of the empyre tie in’s it’s not hteir fault but the rest sure as shit are, and B) that it has mostly been just setup but it’s been good enough and enjoyable enough and I feel payoff is coming, so I truly don’t care. At long last we have a main x-men book that’s not only fantastic but uttterly engaging and I read most issues multiple times. An utter slam dunk

Giant Sized X-Men: This one is incomplete, so I can’t fully say what the full picture is.. but for the three released so far it’s a mixed bag, though the art in all three is gorgeous as Hickman brought on the best artists in the buisness but it’s telling that while New Mutants bellow had issues that bugged me but was still kinda fun, and the above havem y utter priase I nearly forgot to include these issues. None of them are bad and all have gorgeous art as I said, these are some of the best in the buisness, they feel padded. These were supposed to be annuals, but when they decided to change this to one shots.. they shoudl’ve just made them regular length instead, as there simply isn’t enough story here to fill them and so far only Davis’ issue has both had huge setup (both revealing doug’s fusion with warlock is a secret for some reason and that he is indeed still fully alive and revealing what happened to the x-mansion), and due to Davis background as a writer/artist the pacing to fill one issue and even then it could’ve been trimmed. Not bad and I don’t fault the artists for not being used to being writer/artists or having to do so while also conforming to a larger narriative which likely didn’t help or in the third one’s case having to take over for someone else entirely, but it’s , while not bad no ton par with the two above books and I expect better from hickman.

New Mutants (HIckman’s Issues) I’ll cover Brisson’s issues next time as they feel like a diffrent run entirely, but New Mutants was.. a disapointment. I was utterly pumped for this title going in being a huge fan of the team thanks to finally reading the claremont and sikenwitz run and before that re-reading abnett and lannings utterly great run and hey jonathan hickman who’d already done gangbusters was writing it! It had a great roster!

And it starreed one of hickman’s faviorite mutants and one he’d taken a shine to on avengers, and one of my faviorite superheros, Roberto DeCosta, aka Sunspot. On Avengers hickman took Roberto , already a decent character and made him amazing. He was still rich, young and a playboy as ever.. but he used said wealth and his love of fun wisely. When undercover at an AIM casino instead fo throw down, he offers the agents a free day of partying and gambling on his huge dime, then puts them on payroll as his undercover agents. So to recap Roberto DeCosta won the avengers two valuable double agents in what at the time was one of their biggest threats.. by buying them tons of beer and gambling and presumibly hookers. And later got the loyatly of the rest of AIM through these guys, and when Steve found out tony betrayed him and went off hte deep end hunting him instead of stopping the end of the goddamn world, TOOK OVER AIM HIMSELF IN COMBAT WITH THE AIM SUPREME, and then formed his own avengers.

Literally. He got his own avengers team, most of which left after the apocalypse but he simply found younger and hungrier replacements, and aim.. with blackjack and hookers. The man is a legend. And knowing Roberto if hookers were actually involved he probably treated them with respect and overpayed them because he’s a class act. Then under Al Ewing’s mighty pen, Roberto not only formed another avengers team since most of the avengers he formed to stop the end of the world were busy elsewhere, of young and great avengers, while dying of the aformentioned death cloud, but became an utterly brilliant chessmaster, only failing ONCE becaue of hydra cap getting into his head while AIM was working for the us goverment towards the end as the USAvengers. And yes that’s a real team. It’s as insane and beautiful as it sounds. And his new avengers once fought american kaiju, a godzilla with a flag painted on it chaning usa. Al Ewing is the best and I love him. But he also became a master stratigest and schemer with schemes within schemes within schemes, his crowning one being faking his own death and using his fake funeral to clear out any remaning enimies in AIm, and only quitting AIM to keep it out of goverment hands and in the hands of a trusted friend. He was and still is one of the best avengers there ever was and ever will be. But here, as the new mutants go on a road trip to get sam? He’s a fucking dumbass who hires the worst space laywer possible, only gets off trial because Sam and his wife save them, glad they weren’t broken up by the way, and is utterly useless most of the time. It’s like HIckman forgot the last part of his run.. granted time runs out isn’t very good but still, that wasn’t a good thing to forget and like Hickman wants to ignore ewing’s work for no damn reason, even though Ewing did great things with Roberto and kept him relevant when marvel was choking the x-men to death. It’s fucking embrassing and disapointing to see. The rest of the New Mutants aren’t much better mostly being happy but also not really acting like themselves, with only mondo really standing out since he gets great moments and hasn’t done anything in a while. And Doug, who I negelcted to mention above is one of my faviorite mutants and thanks to being krakoa’s primary method of commuincation, is now one of krakoa’s most important mutants, has a seat at the council with krakoa, and weirdly has his best friend warlock hiding on his arm for reasons that haven’t been explained yet. In Short doug went from beign forgotten to being used awesomely again. Roberto instead of getting the same is set back as a character and ends the arc deciding to stay in space because he misses sam, and will likely become third in his marriage i’m sure, and wants to bone deathbird, x-men villian and frequent shiar usuper. But while rahne actually being happy is a good sight to behold they , except Dani, really dont’ do much. Though Magik gets a fucking amazing scene where she asks the various assasians sent ot kill them if they want to make out , not only revealing she’s bi, but that she’d prefer that to killing them all but does so when they dumbly refuse .. I mean seriously who, whose not in a relationship that’s open or way older than her, not take her up on that? The plot their thrust into isnt’ great either, mostly just more setup but not present as well as in x-men about Gladiator giving the shiar empire to xavier’s daughter.. yes charles has a daughter that was created from his and his ex wife lilandra, whose still dead’s dna, and letting DEATHBIRD Of all people teach her instead of his damn self. Xandra taking over isn’t a terrible idea it’s just handeld poorly. It just feels disapointing.. like hickman WANTS to do a JLI style book here but the combination of him only doing one arc and not really wanting to write the characters as they should be, an issue that only pops up here and in the new mutants cameo during x-men proper and not for doug ever, that makes it fall falt.. I mean there are utterly great moments like the above, and hte image i used to lead off their just stifled by misusing roberto and everyone else.

But overall hickman’s works on x-men are fucking great, intresting and engaging. I’ve read the issues a ton and will again. One small mistep dosen’t take away from all the large good he’s done and he’s made the franchise feel alive again and hopefully the MCU take on it will take after this run, as it’d be a great way to break from the endless xavier vs magneto battles of the fox universe. So yeah overall 2 great books and a thankfully short misfire, HIckman’s on top. And next time we’ll see who he picked to help him carry the x banner home to us all, and who did well with it and whose stumbled a bit as part two delves into the rest of the dawn of x. For now subscribe for more comics stuff as I plan to get back on that, including I hope a restrospective on the fox era x-men sometime soon, animation reviews, and more fun stuff. And until then, courage.

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artistdoreen-sfw-blog · 5 years ago

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Super man rom: spare the world by murdering robots and an underhanded researcher

Each computer game darling more likely than not knew about uber man, the well known game created by capcom. The best thing about meg man is that is still viewed as one of the most renowned and cherished games in the field with a huge number of players. From the arrival of 1987 to 2018, a few new branches and continuations have been discharged, the most recent one being the uber man 11. This acclaimed game falls in the sci-fi class, alongside the activity, pretending, confuse, hack 'n slice, and run and firearm. In this manner one can say that it has the correct blend of nearly everything that everyone can appreciate while playing. This game likewise covers a colossal number of stages like Xbox One, Wii, Xbox 360, sega uber drive, PlayStation (1,2,3,4), Nintendo (DS, 64, 3DS), android, ios, game kid, and so forth among numerous others

There are altogether of 11 games and furthermore many side games and journeys in megaman rom which one can play. The storyline is additionally running in continuation, and it very well may be said that it is still a long way from arriving at its end. Likewise, every game will in general pursue the storyline in conjugation, aside from a couple of discharges like star power and fight organize.

STORYLINE

The storyline of the super man resembles some other sci-fi slice activity motion picture or computer game. In the game, the story begins when dr. Light the great researcher and a robot making master, makes robots savvy enough to help individuals in their day by day life. anyway one day these robots began assaulting and vandalizing the city and the individuals living in it. he additionally had five modern humanoid robots to be specific iceman, cut man, bomb man, guts man, elec man, and fire fighter. They additionally are carrying on clouding and after some examination was discovered this is going on in view of the dr. Wily. Dr. Willy is the person who needs to control the world by dominating and is likewise an adversary to dr. Light for a considerable length of time.

Presently to spare the city and the individuals living there, dr. The light transforms his robot assistant called rock into a warrior called uber man. Presently the main target that uber man has is of overcoming the dr. wily and the six robots work for modern objectives. Uber man will overcome those six robots and furthermore will ensure that their focal centers are removed and rebooted back to the dr. light office. At last, the uber man will follow dr. wily on an office work by dr. light on pacific and will likewise effectively crush him.

In numerous adaptations which are dispersed outside japan, it has a marginally extraordinary storyline. In this adaptation of megaman rom, dr. light and wily are accomplices in mechanical development and they have made super man and the six robots together. Later dr. wily betrays his accomplice and utilize the six robots to assume control over the city of beast clean.

CHARACTERS

The significant characters of the game are recorded underneath:

Super man: the principle character, the uber man was a lab partner for dr. light and was later reconstructed to overcome dr. wily. He additionally has an extraordinary weapons framework which enables him to duplicate the weapons of robot ace.

Dr light: he is the researcher who made stone the assistant and a few different robots. Yet, later convert the stone into a uber man who is a battle master robot.

Dr wily: he is the fundamental opponent of the game, who was at first an accomplice of dr light and later had a difference in heart. They made numerous robots, yet later felt sunned when the whole acknowledgment of growing such incredible robots went to his accomplice.

Other than these three characters present in the game, there are numerous robot experts and numerous foes who show up in a similar game or come in the different continuations and parts.

Ongoing interaction

The ongoing interaction of the uber man is very basic and bother free. In the game, the fundamental goal is to vanquish the robot ace toward the finish of the level. In the game, there are 6 level stages that one should cross. The levels can be picked arbitrarily with no specific course of action to pursue. There are different weapons and vitality cells to gather while playing the game. As the individual will vanquish the obstructions and adversaries during the game levels, one will get their ammo renews. The super man will likewise have a wellbeing measure that can be renewed over and over just when the vanquished foes will drop the vitality cells.

To cross each level one should vanquish the robot ace who will show up toward the finish of the level. Each robot ace has some sort of weakness towards some kind of weapon. In the wake of crushing the robot ace at last, the player will get the extraordinary weapons conveyed by him/her and will likewise get the intensity of playing his mark assault of the ace. As the weapons gave and gathered are fixed and furthermore rely upon the robot ace one has vanquished, it is imperative to pick the levels cautiously. to ensure that the one has the weapons that are the shortcoming of the robot ace of a specific level, it is critical to settle on smart decisions to gather the necessary weapons en route.

Previously, there used to be a scoring framework, however now it has been evacuated of late as it didn't give a specific advantage to the player. In the scoring framework, the players use to get focuses to pass a level, for gathering weapons and for vanquishing the root ace.

After every one of the degrees of robot ace are crosses, the player will run over the last stage. In this stage, the game will happen in a production line set that has a place with dr. wily. There are put away 4 levels integrated up in the last stage. Each level in megaman rom will likewise have a supervisor ace who is to be vanquished. Likewise one should confront the robot aces once more while playing the levels. finally, the experience will be between the uber man and the dr. wily.

TIPS FOR PLAYING

As referenced, heretofore meg man is an enormous game with different levels and steps to finish before arriving at the end. There are numerous old players and numerous new ones who might want to find out about the game. The same number of new players may locate the game is troublesome and need some persistence and focus. There fore a few hints and deceives most likely will help in acing and understanding the game rapidly.

One life left! Slaughter the super man: If one is stuck at a specific level or is beginning another one and on the off chance that the existence left is just one, at that point it is fitting to murder the uber man. This will ensure that the new lives are recharged, as one can't cross a solitary level with just a single life.

Shrewd use of weapons: Use the weapon astutely as all of them will in general have a specific use. The typical buster si to beat the adversaries, however to beat the robot experts one needs to save and the weapons and ammunition cunningly.

Robot ace shortcoming: Learn the shortcomings of the robot aces already as it were. this is on the grounds that then one will be very much aware of which ammunition to spare and which to utilize. learning of the shortcoming of the robot bosses will likewise give one an edge over the other to strategize keenly.

Gather the ammunition and wellbeing drops: While crossing the levels, one may go over numerous flimsier adversaries and it is imperative to vanquish them too. this is the most ideal approach to gather different things like ammunition, wellbeing, and additional life.

Uber man has consistently stayed one of the most looked for after games, which is amusing to play and hard to ace. In spite of the fact that the storyline is very straightforward, one can't say the equivalent regarding the interactivity and levels to be crossed. It requires some investment to comprehend the foes, the deterrents and the robot experts. To end the game one should beat the dr. wily with the assistance of gathered weapons and their ammunition. While playing remember to find out about the adversaries and their shortcomings and furthermore attempt to gather the drops. also, in conclusion, remember to utilize the weapon as it is now and again the most ideal approach to get out as a victor. For more in-depth information about stay in mega man x . I highly recommend this website stay in mega man x rom

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jshoulson · 4 years ago

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Today’s Poem

Pyrography --John Ashbery

Out here on Cottage Grove it matters. The galloping Wind balks at its shadow. The carriages Are drawn forward under a sky of fumed oak. This is America calling: The mirroring of state to state, Of voice to voice on the wires, The force of colloquial greetings like golden Pollen sinking on the afternoon breeze. In service stairs the sweet corruption thrives; The page of dusk turns like a creaking revolving stage in Warren, Ohio.

If this is the way it is let’s leave, They agree, and soon the slow boxcar journey begins, Gradually accelerating until the gyrating fans of suburbs Enfolding the darkness of cities are remembered Only as a recurring tic. And midway We meet the disappointed, returning ones, without its Being able to stop us in the headlong night Toward the nothing of the coast. At Bolinas The houses doze and seem to wonder why through the Pacific haze, and the dreams alternately glow and grow dull. Why be hanging on here? Like kites, circling, Slipping on a ramp of air, but always circling?

But the variable cloudiness is pouring it on, Flooding back to you like the meaning of a joke. The land wasn’t immediately appealing; we built it Partly over with fake ruins, in the image of ourselves: An arch that terminates in mid-keystone, a crumbling stone pier For laundresses, an open-air theater, never completed And only partially designed. How are we to inhabit This space from which the fourth wall is invariably missing, As in a stage-set or dollhouse, except by staying as we are, In lost profile, facing the stars, with dozens of as yet Unrealized projects, and a strict sense Of time running out, of evening presenting The tactfully folded-over bill? And we fit Rather too easily into it, become transparent, Almost ghosts. One day The birds and animals in the pasture have absorbed The color, the density of the surroundings, The leaves are alive, and too heavy with life.

A long period of adjustment followed. In the cities at the turn of the century they knew about it But were careful not to let on as the iceman and the milkman Disappeared down the block and the postman shouted His daily rounds. The children under the trees knew it But all the fathers returning home On streetcars after a satisfying day at the office undid it: The climate was still floral and all the wallpaper In a million homes all over the land conspired to hide it. One day we thought of painted furniture, of how It just slightly changes everything in the room And in the yard outside, and how, if we were going To be able to write the history of our time, starting with today, It would be necessary to model all these unimportant details So as to be able to include them; otherwise the narrative Would have that flat, sandpapered look the sky gets Out in the middle west toward the end of summer, The look of wanting to back out before the argument Has been resolved, and at the same time to save appearances So that tomorrow will be pure. Therefore, since we have to do our business In spite of things, why not make it in spite of everything? That way, maybe the feeble lakes and swamps Of the back country will get plugged into the circuit And not just the major events but the whole incredible Mass of everything happening simultaneously and pairing off, Channeling itself into history, will unroll As carefully and as casually as a conversation in the next room, And the purity of today will invest us like a breeze, Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can Tip one’s hat to and still get some use out of.

The parade is turning into our street. My stars, the burnished uniforms and prismatic Features of this instant belong here. The land Is pulling away from the magic, glittering coastal towns To an aforementioned rendezvous with August and December. The hunch is it will always be this way, The look, the way things first scared you In the night light, and later turned out to be, Yet still capable, all the same, of a narrow fidelity To what you and they wanted to become: No sighs like Russian music, only a vast unravelling Out toward the junctions and to the darkness beyond To these bare fields, built at today’s expense.

#Today's Poem #John Ashbery #Corona of Poetry

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ocprompts-andsuch · 7 years ago

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LONG POST

So we ended up getting a lot of asks! Which honestly was fun as hell. However, I don’t want to spam our followers with 30+ posts, so, instead I’m making this.

mixolydian98 said:My OC is a misomaniac college professor who was transformed into a grotesque monster by an evil sorceress.

My OC Bor was cursed to live as a beast by a bunch of angry forest spirits -Ven My OC Ursa was cursed to be a werebear-Chris/p>

Anonymous said:My OC is an edgy, beatnik unicorn in a turtleneck sweater.

The closest thing I have is Priscilla, Sunan, and Hala are also very edgy -Ven My OC Cadence wears a sweater his husband made and tells edgy poetry -Chris

djdashieticktock said:My OC (Yesman) is a smelly rotting boi who needs to take a bath and chill on preforming necromancy

1. that’s a mood and 2. Priscilla is the result of necromancy -Ven My OC Beckett is a necromancer who wants to become a lich -Chris

Anonymous said:My OC is a mutated bunny who is a great mother.

My OC Dryn isn’t mutated but he is a great father! -Ven My OC Adrien is a great father and husband!

Anonymous said:I made my OC super trope-y because cringe culture is shit. She’s a witch with dark skin, bright blue eyes, and pink/magenta hair. She’s a bubbly baby who trains dragons for a living and I love her. Fight me Cus I’m having fun with her!

She sounds fun as hell! My OC Nelsis is a beast tamer who loves space and has a dragon (along with a plethora of other beasts that seem very intimidating but actually just act like dogs) -Ven Cringe culture is shit she sounds really cool! My OC Nimbus has naturally pink hair and she designed her hella mechanical wheelchair after a dragin she saw once -Chris

cyrokinetic-iceman said:One of my OCs is named Rory and he’s an Irish maid for Sean Cassidy from the xmen. he had long, frizzy red curls and is more freckles than man. He’s tall and bony with very pale skin. He’s a hemophiliac but also has mutant powers that allow him to take the energy (and in fatal enough cases life force) from organic life forms and he later discovers he can also enhance their energy and life force. He’s very shy but friendly and likes to bake and cook

Priscilla can take people’s life force (well really the demon that’s with her can but whatever) -Ven My OC Orion has a lot of freckles and red hair but he is trash at cooking -Chris

Anonymous said:My gay OC Steven had his arms ripped off by a demon, after breaking up with said demon.

Wow.. hmm.. My OC Tarryn only has two limbs because of an explosion -Ven My OC Nimbus lost use of her legs after being shoved out of a very tall tree by a schoolmate -Chris

PHANTASYMIST SAYS:my oc practices forbidden magic because of hunger for knowledge

my OC EcC0 is a hellish combination of magic and failed technology and he accidentally made himself and his friends immortal through a series of experimental magic and glitches -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My Oc is possessed by the spirit of a Samurai and is immortal because of this. She also owns her own City Apartment building and lives in one of her apartments, she even rooms with one of her tenants

My OC Shelby lives in the top room(home??) of the Penthouse her family owns and accidentally became a Naiad’s sugar momma -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Icarus is the child of Aphrodite but gave up on finding love for themself.

My OC Darcy is a demi-god who always forgets that he passed down his powers to his 6 year old until she starts telepathically throwing his circus group around when having a tantrum -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My Oc Alex attracts portals to a different world and goes through them in order to close them. She knows a bunch of survival skills because of how often she goes and stays there, especially cause there aren’t any civilizations in the other world.

My OC Ken is a dimention hopper who accidentally got stuck in time jail with three alternate universe versions of his friend Angel -Chris

Uuh… my OC Bor knows a bunch of survival skills cause for a while he was a human living in the forest -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Regalius is an 2000ish year old immortal who manages to screw up every relationship he has.

My OC Felix used to be dating an ex war goddess until she tried to leave him for dead (the other gods called her out on her bullshit) -Chris

I have an immortal OC Bor, he never gets into any relationships he just kind of sits in the forest and makes stew and helps lost travelers and protects the forest -Ven

THAT-AWKWARD-FANGIRL-270 SAYS:One of my OC’s is Ethan, he’s about half French and a gay trans boy and I love him so much and he’s also an adorable book nerd and has like a hundred thousand siblings (jk but there’s Lots and everyone is good at braiding like trust me sleepovers there are The Bomb) I love him

My OC Wesley is a french american who’s half succubus and owns a giant library, he’s also a necromancer -Chris

Uuh… I have a gay Hawaiian war vet named Jeremiah with like 9 siblings -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Locke is the headmaster of a guild and he’s also dating another guy also named Locke who tried to steal his money once

My OC Cyrus met his first boyfriend while doing a stickup -Chris

Well… my OC Xaro first met Cinder when Cinder tries to steal his stuff? They’re not dating or anything tho Xaro literally ends up adopting him -Ven

BUNNIKKILA SAYS:My OC is a member of the HEMA Alliance! Her dream is to open her own fencing school, as most of the schools in her immediate area focus on Olympic fencing.

My OC Telly fences in his spare time and is teaching his boyfriends daughter how to -Chris

My OC Cinder loves fencing and is very good at it, but didn’t actually get to start until he was 15! -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC took Tae Kwon Do as a tween. She was one belt away from getting the black belt (highest rank), but financial issues made her have to quit.

My OC Poppy knows Capoeria -Chris

I have an OC who gets to the 7th dan of Judo by age 14 -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:I have an OC based off the planet Neptune….her name is Neptune.(I know, real original name :/ )

I named my OC Castor after Pollux and Castor since I wanted a constellation name and I’m a Gemini -Chris

I have an OC named Snow White -Ven

REMEMBER-THERAIN SAYS:my OC Stevie is a 14-year-old aromantic/pansexual bounty hunter who travels the galaxy with her robot Lux :))

Oh cool!! My OC Dryn is also pan and sometimes does bounty hunting, he also travels a lot -Ven

my OC Castor ran away from home at 15 and is now one of the most renowned Space travelers of his species -Chris

DRAGONIANGIRL SAYS:My OC Nimladrie is a cleric of a drunk god that accidentally swore a blood oath but she can’t remember for what or to whom.

My OC Beckett accidently became a cult leader because he thought it was a Bards club -Chris

((Amazing)) Well uh… the closest thing I have is my oc Priscilla has blood contracts with like a shitton demons/daemons/etc

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Yilim is… well. To plainly state it he one ugly ass mofo.

My OC Scrib is just,,,,, literally a poorly drawn doodle, i usually draw him left handed -Chris

My main OC Tarryn is also considered ‘ugly’, another OC I have is unarguably ugly because his face is literally a deer skull -Ven

ATQEVALE SAYS:My OC Matisse wears a really freaking ugly salmon colored hoodie to school every day and my other OC Sparrow has a crush on her in spite of this

My OC The Boy has no fucking clue what fashion is and neither does his mom Ursa (he’d get it from his dad to if he wasn’t a giant Stag) -Chris

Uhhh… my OC Mike is colorblind and until he memorizes his wardrobe he has to ask people he lives with what color the stuff he’s wearing is?? It led to an Outfit Disaster a couple of times -Ven

WEARETHERUSSIANTWINS SAYS:My oc Hayley Williams (aka Sailor Aries) has schizophrenia and ADHD

My OC Finch has ADHD to! -Chris

My OC Mike has ADHD(a few others do as well but I haven’t hashed that out yet) -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My OC Janice comes from a planet with pink water, and secretly prefers it over earth water.

My OC Scravenlay comes from a world that is mostly covered in turquoise freshwater that is extremely buoyant -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:My oc Vlansen forgot all about his past and is in love with a hallucination!

My OC Cadence woke up in the middle of a battlefield with no memory of what side they were on and they later married the soldier who found them! -Chris

ANONYMOUS SAYS:i have so many OCs. But my mains are a Schizophrenic ex-hitman who runs a daycare and a half alien-human hybrid that has the ability to control plants and crystals ;v;b

My OC Brin is a (retired later in the story) Rebel Leader with a softspot for kids and animals and my oc Scravenlay was supposed to be the king of his species/people but decided he preferred to be an adventurer after an assassination attempt -Chris

Well… the closest I have is an assassin who also has a soft spot for kids? -Ven

THE-TINY-KRAVIST SAYS:My OC, Binary, is an android who is terrified of water!

My OC Rhys is a self made android (makes more sense in context of the story) who runs a roller rink -Chris

My OC Mike is terrified of water. He’s not an android he just can’t swim -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:my oc has a brand on her left side right below her heart from where she forced to fight in an arena

One of my OCs used to have something like that, now the closest I have is Tarryn has a lot of scars from fights! -Ven

My OC Beckett has a lot of scars after the gang who owned him tried to kill him for trying to escape - Chris

ECHOING-NIGHT SAYS:My OC iasi is claustrophobic.

My OC Beckett tries to fit into small spaces when he gets nervous or scared -Chris

My OC Xaro is also claustrophobic! -Ven

ANONYMOUS SAYS:Uh my OC is a detective in the 1940’s

My OC Lost was a private investigator until he got possessed (this is close enough right?) -Chris

#we answer #long post #ocs

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3 IN, 3 OUT – Body Blow – Seahawks vs. Cardinals

by fellow 12 Clinton Bonner

OK Flock… this one might be on me. At about the 19min mark of last week's special video edition of #3i3o I implored our beloved ‘Hawks to get out of the desert with a W any way we possibly could. I failed to request to the Hawkra gods that we leave the greater Phoenix area intact… So, I'm administering a self-enforced #DoBetter and asking for a cleansing of our collective Hawkra. I needed to get that off my chest Flockers!!!

With that, this game certainly had it's INs and OUTs… and hey, we got the W, and hey… we are 6 – 3… and hey, we still have one Russell Carrington Wilson! So, all is not lost Flock, let's demand some bacon as we make lemonade outta some of these lemon, shall we?

Deion says, “If you ball, you get the call.” … I think he stole that from us TBH. Because, when we WIN we start with an IN, so let's have it!

IN – Legion of Whom?

First, let's thank Richard Sherman for all he has given to our franchise over the last 7 years. We may even take Big Perm, Big Sherm for granted as crazy as that sounds. He, along with Earl Thomas (yeah #29!!!), are 1st ballot HoF-ers. Big Sherm, you know the Flock loves you… Heal as quickly as you can and we'll see you back on the field in 2018. From every single #12, thank you #25 !!! Hey Seahawks, why don't we dedicate the rest of this year to Sherman… what do we say???

Here's the bottom line. You don't replace Richard Sherman, you learn to play your best football without him. In a Thursday Night tilt that didn't have a lot to offer in terms of enjoyment (we'll get into that in a bit), and with no Earl Thomas on the field for the 2nd straight week, others needed to step up.

This IN is a comic book meal-deal where the IN love gets spread around to a few unlikely heroes.

We all know the X-Men… but remember those a'ight off-shoots like X-Factor, X-Force, and the New Mutants? The Legion of Whom?… is bringing us some new heroes we need to recognize are ready for the primetime love.

1st, McDougald played a very, very solid game. This ‘sneaky good' signing in the offseason was one the boys from the pod talked about in the dog days of August. IMO, McDougald starts at Safety on 2/3rds of other NFL rosters. With Earl literally learning how to walk again in the off-season, McDougald has been a great signing, contributing on ST and playing solid Seahawks football as part of a banged-up LOB. Hat tip to you Bradley… Dilly, Dilly !!!

2nd – Shaq continues his ascent to stardom. If Sherman has to go all Professor X for a few months, then it's time for #26 to step into the Action Green limelight and emerge as our next LOB super hero.

3rd – Kam… OK, he's not new, but he deserves the love here because in a game where Earl was on the sidelines, Kam stood out and had his most impactful game of the year. No Cardinals reception went without a punishing hit from Kam and his presence as a 4th LB during run downs was seen over and over and over again, including his safety-inducing tackle to put our ‘Hawks up 9 – 7 in quarter 2! In a match where the LOB was more than just dinged… the Dark Knight stepped up and made sure we got out of that building with the W.

While we all can surely name multiple members of the X-Men, let's not forget that off-shoots like the New Mutants brought us brand new heroes …

… Right now some of these members might be known as the Legion of Whom? But history tells us, they are ready to step up and step into the natural evolution of the one, the only… Legion of Boom!!! Shaq, your time to shine kid!

OUT – Terrible REFerences

Sorry Flockers… I know nobody wants to read about some poor old sot bi$%h*%^ about the refs, but this goes deeper than our ‘Hawks losing a game… obviously we won.

The point here is that this game should NEVER have been close. Of course some of that is on our offense that can't run block at all, but the ONLY way the Cardinals were allowed to stay in this game was via terrible, terrible defensive penalties called against our ‘Hawks in the first half.

PIs, Hands to the Face, and other calls that simply were complete and utter #FakeNews ‘sustained' 2 Cardinals drives, kept our defense on the field for approximately 10 extra minutes in the 1st half, and ultimately lead to this game being close deep into the 3rd quarter.

Calls like this are an abomination to the sport …

Here's the pass interference penalty that extended ARI's drive on 3rd down and led to only ARI points. If this is pass interference, how are players supposed to play defense? http://pic.twitter.com/Dxmj2hNz7i

— Ben Baldwin (@guga31bb) November 10, 2017

Now you might be saying Flock… so what? We still won… Yes, we won in spite of a disgusting display by the NFL, but my anger flows downstream a bit more than just the game.

This was the type of game that should have been an absolute blowout by the mid-3rd quarter where the Cardinals, maybe, would have scratched together 3 points at that time.

The refs (combined with some offensive ineptitude) kept the Cardinals in this game. This kept our defense on the field deep, deep into the match and IMO directly lead to the batch of injuries we witnessed our defense suffer.

The mob has turned on TNF in general… I don't love these color-enhanced games by any means, but to me, it's a much greater/deeper problem for the NFL that due to terrible officiating, many games, including this one, are simply a bad product, and very, very difficult to stomach. NFL … #DoBetter !!!

OK, swing to the positive… we need it!

IN – K to the J

If we are the X-Men, then KJ Wright is Iceman … and no, not Val Kilmer's “You can be my wingman” Iceman… let's keep our pop-culture references tight Flock!!! Mind you this is no knock to KJ, but on a team with Wagz, Kam, Bennett, Avril, Sherm, Earl and others… hey, we all can't be Wolverine.

KJ Wright was a monster on this day. I didn't embed this tweet above to celebrate Kam's 2-point tackle because I wanted to save it for K to the J!!! KJ blew up this play, clearing a huge lane for Bam Bam Kam to fill… and then watch KJ stick with the play until we were all assured that AP was going nowhere but backwards on this futile attempt to escape his own End Zone.

#Seahawks defense = brick wall

That's a SAFETY, and the second in two weeks for the @Seahawks!#TNF #SEAvsAZ http://pic.twitter.com/2j2l7dGpsn

— NFL (@NFL) November 10, 2017

This wasn't KJ'S only highlight by a long stretch.

AP averaged 1.4 yards per carry… 1.4 !!!

KJ ended up with 9 tackles on the day, with big tackles for a loss or right at the line on repeat! He may be our Iceman of the group, but dang KJ is a huge part of why we win… The IN to you KJ !!!

OUT – Downright Offensive

This OUT will be short and sour. Germain Ifedi isn't cutting it. About a quarter of the way through the season our pass-blocking was starting to gel. Joeckel got dinged, we moved some pieces around and it's been a mixed-bag since. It's almost as if when Duane Brown took Ifedi's #76, he took Ifedi's abilities with him. Call it a reverse Spinal Tap if you will as 76 – 65 = 11… only this time, ‘going to 11' has resulted in Ifedi forgetting how to play football.

At one point both Ifedi and Rawls combined for 1/2 a terrible chip block, resulting in another Red Birds sack of RCW.

Ifedi + Rawls = half a chip block???

— Clinton Bonner (@clintonbon) November 10, 2017

And let's not discuss our run blocking … because it just doesn't exist. Like I said: short and sour.

IN – The RedZone Barron

Jimmy.

Somewhat despised, certainly kicked around by many a 12… not me.

Look now… Jimmy is tied for TDs by TEs in 2017. He's ahead of Gronk, he's ahead of Kelce.

In our last 5 rumbles Jimmy has:

24 receptions

6 TDs

And perhaps most importantly … Russell Carrington Wilson is learning to hit Jimmy from within 10 yards and routes that aren't low-probability fade routes!!!

No tenía oportunidad de parar a Jimmy Graham (Lleva 5 TD's en sus últimos 5 juegos)http://pic.twitter.com/qud2GurWt0

— Cobertura NFL (@CoberturaNFL) November 10, 2017

As our schedule turns up down the stretch, we'll need Jimmy to be this big if we're going to turn out!

We hear you Jimmy!!!

OUT – Just Beat It

Ooooof toofie Flock … 2 separate members of our O-Line ending up on the wrong side of the ledger in the same week against a bad football team… Que lastima!

But, the truth shall set us free… right?

Pocic has gotten a bit of a pass this season and I think it's been fair. He's a rookie who has been asked to play and practice at every position on the O-Line and when he's been plugged in, he's done OK enough to not be signaled out.

Well… Thursday night wasn't a good showing for the young Padawan. When Brown went down, I expected Tobin to get pushed around (boy did he)… but I didn't expect Pocic to be routinely beat on running downs… yet here we are.

Pocic is in year 1 and has been asked to do a ton… we recognize that. But Thursday he was mostly bad… let's clean that up and get prepped to take on the Dirty Birds at the CLink next Monday night !!!

From the Flock!

Our fave section because it's all about the Little Flockers getting their opinions heard, word! Let's see what members of the Flock waxed poetic this Thursday night!

Ross Bell brought the VERY late night, UK snark to us all on TNF – a-thank-you Ross!

The one plus to #skycam is watching AP repeatedly running in to his own blockers and/or Bobby Wagner #3I3O #in (I think)

— Ross Bell (@RossBell1984) November 10, 2017

Well done Young Choi…

DCH = Always Wise !!!

The Pod and Ash combined to remind us all that apparently a catch, 3 steps and a fumble… is… an incomplete pass??? Once again NFL #DoBetter !!!

#3i3o. Apparently 3 steps after catching the ball is out.

— Ash (@ashthecuz) November 10, 2017

1,2,3… What's Next!???

Dirty, dirty birds come to our house on Monday night!

Mamma Cleo likes our chances.

Mamma Cleo likes Dwight Freeney to get to Matty Ice and surpass his sack total all of last year with ‘dem dirty birds.

Mamma Cleo likes a more aggressive LB core to cause more pressure with Big Perm, Big Sherm sidelined.

Mamma Cleo likes Russ to carry the night in primetime.

Get the W and stay healthy boys… Go ‘Hawks!!!

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14 Billionaires & Celebrities Get Coached

Helping you get to where you want to go in life, faster.

I. The Feeling That Just Won’t Go Away

The world is screaming at you, like a monstrous wave, coming faster, a million miles per second. Your teeth are sweating. You’re in a place you’ve never been before in your life. Impossible decisions. Immovable objects. Unstoppable forces. Problems abound, financial, career, health, relationships, life.

How are you supposed to perform at the world-class caliber level you’ve worked your ass off to achieve, in spite of this seemingly never-ending stress?

That knot in your stomach isn’t in your stomach any longer. The cords have wrapped themselves around your bones, up your neck, into your head, down your arms and legs, and into your toes. Someone is on the other end of that rope, both feet propped up on your back, and they’re pulling as hard as they possibly can to tighten that invisible chain, attempting to collapse you into an immovable ball.

How did we get here?

The people in this world who achieve incredible things, and people who just want to live a happy carefree life, have to go through this wretched pain. A hero’s journey.

If any of this sounds familiar, you might just need to find yourself a life, wellness, or executive coach.

You could call it a teacher, a therapist, a mentor, or a coach, but in the end we all need a little help getting to the next level. That could be that hyper-competitive class with the bomb teacher who helps get you into the League of Ivy. Or maybe someone who teaches you how to be empathetic to your colleagues, removing the roadblock to the promotion you’ve been passed over a few times. Or, dealing with some deep-rooted pain that’s existed since childhood. Of course, it could be as simple as getting the confidence you need to go out and tackle something that seems just slightly out of reach.

If your arm is broken, you go to the hospital and get a “coach” to fix it. But in all other areas of life, there really isn’t much of that. Isn’t that sad?

We can do better.

So we put together a list of big name people who’ve gone an alternative route, and used it to great effect. Lets just all stop adulting and live like kids again. Life would be so much more fun.

Enter: The Coach.

II. Billionaires & Celebrities Get Coached

It’s not a coincidence that these people are where they are. Achieving incredible results isn’t just luck. It’s suffering. Suffering for years, for decades, until all that work compounds, adds up, and finally pays off. But they don’t rest on their laurels. They keep going. Keep pushing. They…get coached.

Running A Huge Tech Company. Chairman of Alphabet (formerly CEO of Google), Eric Schmidt, says the best advice he ever got was to hire an executive coach. A famous Venture Capitalist and Board member, John Doerr, was the one who suggested it. But Eric was a longtime executive that was already running a successful global business that was growing like a weed. He didn’t need a coach. And so he resisted. But eventually turned the corner, gave it a shot and in a later interview with Fortune Magazine, he said “everyone needs a coach.”

Building A Massive Media Brand. Oprah is such a household name that you don’t even need to include her last one. She built her brand from a local news station into one of the most trusted advisors of consciousness in America and maybe, the world. She’s attributed part of that success to her life coach, Martha Beck, and has been a major advocate of it. Oprah’s even gone so far as showcasing various life coaches to her audience over the years and recommending one for everybody.

Recovering From Childhood Stardom. Sometimes it’s not about achieving success that’s the problem. Sometimes it’s dealing with what happens afterwards that is. If you remember Danny Bonaduce from The Partridge Family days, you’ll remember a precocious red-headed kid bound for success. But after struggling with drug abuse, legal issues, and homelessness, it wasn’t until a life coach entered the picture that things got better. He’s now a life coach on air, helping others just like they helped him.

Achieving Super Bowl Champion Status. The Denver Broncos star linebacker, Von Miller, has had issues with the law in the past. And we all know where that will lead if left unchecked. There’s no Superbowl rings in jail. He got a coach to help turn his life around and since those low points, he’s now a Super Bowl champion and, wouldn’t you know it, MVP.

Becoming a Famous Actress. Nia Long has been a successful actress for two decades. She’s come out and said living a happy and fulfilling life is a result of working with her own coach.

Rock Star Status. Famous rock bands are no stranger to family fueds. When you spend that much time together, add in a mix of fame, fortune, and social power, the mix can be downright disastrous. In Metallica’s case, this rang all too true. In fact, there was even a documentary made about it. So they got themselves a life coach named Phil Towle who helped them work through the issues, resulting in their subsequent album reslease. Now that’s what I call success if I’ve ever heard it.

Oscar-Winning Actor. There’s famous, and then there’s really famous. Leonardo DiCaprio is the latter. And he spared no expense with his life coach, going all the way to the top to, you guessed it, Mr. Tony Robbins. Leo keeps tight-lipped about his experiences, but it’s hard to argue with the results. If the struggle found within the plotline of The Revenant is analogous to the struggle of becoming one of the greatest actors ever, then it stands to reason that the DiCaprio-Robbins dynamic duo is going to be one for the history books. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get your own?

Leader of the Free World. You know what’s a hard job? Being a leader. You know what’s even harder? Being responsible for 300 million people. Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States is also a proud customer of Tony Robbin’s coaching. And I’d say it paid off. That job is pretty darn hard to get. In the entire history of the country, he was only the 42nd person to have been promoted into the role.

Tennis Goddess Overcoming Injury. Let’s throw in one more Tony Robbins customer for good measure. In this case, we’re moving from acting to leadership to sports. Serena Williams to be exact. Her big struggle was one of a steady stream of injuries. When you play such a hard-hitting sport like tennis for your entire life, it’s bound to add up. Tony helped her work through the pain, get her mind right, and get back on top. Not just any top. Grand Slam top. Nice volley, you.

Tennis Star Overcoming Addiction. Let’s shift gears to another tennis star on the other side of the gender divide. He was so great at his sport that even decades later, he’s still a household name. But did you know that Andre Agassi was once ranked 126th in the world? He eventually became #1 in the world, but that came with different issues, like drug abuse, which he’s been open about. We happen to be family friends with the coach who helped him through it. Both incredible people with incredible stories. Everyone struggles, but it’s the people who lend a helping hand that become your family, whether by blood or otherwise.

Musical Prodigy Grows Up. We’re all familiar with the musical prodigy, Justin Bieber. He’s had his ups and downs transitioning to adulthood. But when Hillsong’s Carl Lentz stepped in, things started moving in the right direction. He now appears happier, more motivated, and driven with a purpose he didn’t quite have before. Coaches can be called many names. In this case, Justin called him Pastor first, and friend, second.

Wolverine’s Personal Improvement Plan. Sometimes you’re not struggling as much as you are focused on getting a little bit better every day. And so you go out looking for novel ways to achieve that. For two decades, Hugh Jackman had been wanting to work with Tony Robbins (another one!) based on all the positive feedback from his peers. When he finally had the chance, Tony’s first words to him were, “I have a gift for you.” I don’t know about you, but I really want to know what that gift was. Of course, it’s so personalized that it wouldn’t much matter to you, but that’s the whole point of coaching, no? The personalized tactics?

MMA Mental Fights. By now most of us have heard of the MMA. It’s a brutal sport that requires both physical and mental stamina. And one of the best to ever do it was Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell. He also spent time working with Tony Robbins (noticing a pattern?) to get his mind right. The body is a tool, and can only be driven by the mind. So if the mind’s off, your body will be too. Chuck gets it. You should too.

III. Secret Bonus: The Star Wars Hero’s Journey

In all of the cases above, you’ll see a similar story. The mechanics are the same:

Struggle + Coach = Achievement

If you remove the struggle, there’s no need for a coach because it means you’re not working towards anything great. If you remove the coach it means you might just fail emotionally, intellectually, physically, or spiritually and never achieve what you want either. What’s required then is both, working together as one, to get to where you want to go.

You might be surprised to learn that Star Wars may never have happened if it weren’t for one man’s dedication during The Great Depression. It was his work that directly influenced George Lucas’s success. Read on to discover his secret sauce:

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Race Report: Radial Tire Racing Association Rebellion at North Star Dragway

The Radial Tire Racing Association returned to North Star Dragway over Labor Day weekend with the TurboBullet “Rebellion” race held over August 31st-September 2nd. This bout, originally scheduled for early June, was rained out so fans were eagerly anticipating three days of small tire drag radial action at one of the most reputable tracks in the country. North Star Dragway, in Denton, Texas, has proven to be the place to race for radial tire racers looking to go fast. This weekend’s race attracted the most feared entries from across the southwest and was welcomed by an extremely mild forecast, which opened the door for teams to turn it up and let em’ eat in Texas.

Mindful of their brothers and sisters to the south still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Harvey, racers and fans did their best to focus on racing, but it was a task that proved harder than most for those closely affected by the storm and its unforgiving path of destruction.

On tap this weekend was the three-second players of the Pro Drag Radial category along with the highly competitive X275 and Limited 275 classes. Saturday fans were treated to three additional classes including True Street, Small Tire No Time & 6.50 Index all in a ‘luck of the draw’ shootout format. The action got underway with a Thursday night test session that proved to be a teaser of what was to come throughout the remainder of the weekend.

Friday night hosted three heads up qualifying rounds under the lights as teams dialed in their tune-ups on a wildly sticky racing surface primed to produce numbers, which it did. The big boys provided plenty of excitement as Tim Slavens’ twin-turbo Camaro charged to the top of the list in Pro Drag Radial with a 3.870 at 204 mph. Slavens didn’t sleep easy because Mark Woodruff’s 3.871 at 200 mph and Jeff Naiser’s 3.88 at 194 mph put the pressure on. Rodney Whatley’s 3.93 and Taylor Lastor’s 3.94 rounded out the top five qualifiers after Friday’s qualifying.

During the opening round of Pro Drag Radial qualifying, Josh Long’s blown 1968 Mustang from Wichita, Kansas had everyone holding their breath as a very scary situation unfolded at the top end of the racetrack. His first pass of a 4.20 at 187 mph quickly turned into a scene every race car driver dreads to experience. As he crossed the finish line, the chutes deployed and blossomed, but immediately came off the car and flew high into the air. Long did everything he could to get his machine but ran out of real estate, as the car missed the sand trap by just a few feet and came to a rest stuffed under the fence at the end of the property with heavy damage. The safety team was on the scene quickly and to their relief saw Long climb out and walk away completely uninjured. A chute pin failure caused the chutes to be ripped off the car, leaving Long basically helpless behind the wheel.

Hometown runner Eric Moore, who lives literally one mile from North Star Dragway as the crow flies, busted off a 4.40 at 153 mph to top the charts in X275. Defending series Champion Clint Downs in his wicked Nova from Oklahoma qualified second with a 4.44 at 159 mph followed by Chris Groves from New Mexico with a 4.46 at 159 mph. A pair of 4.47’s from Shane Fisher and Tyler Stubbe rounded out the top five heading into eliminations of the 21-car field.

Limited 275 racers showed no mercy in their three Friday night qualifying sessions as Nathan Bevilacqua picked up where he left off in April with a 4.71 at 142 mph to lead the charts by over half a tenth. Bevilacqua had set the Limited 275 elapsed time record in April with a 4.73 and improved on that mark on Friday night to pace the field. Mark Brewton’s 4.78 at 148 and Ben Curry’s 4.79 at 145 mph joined Bevilacqua in the ’70 zone’ with Brian Wise’s 4.80 and Tyler Crossnoe’s 4.83 rounding out the top five qualifiers in the twenty car field heading into Saturday’s eliminations.

The main event on Saturday was jam packed with action which kicked off with a 30 mile required cruise for the True Street and 6.50 Index shootout racers. These, along with the Small Tire No Time class, were ‘luck of the draw’ paired by drawing chips and run straight off the trailer with no time trials, all paying $2,000 and winner-take-all. The cruisers filled the staging lanes and departed in an impressive line of seriously fast street cars. Upon arrival back through the front gates, chips were drawn and ladders were set, it was time to race and the first round of shootouts kicked off the action.

As the rounds dwindled down the shootout final rounds were set and it was time to dish out some cash. Duane Thomas met Mike Harris in the final round of the 6.50 Index category. Thomas had this one from start to finish with the better reaction time coupled with a 6.614 at 102 mph to defeat Harris’ 6.617 at 100 mph. The True Street ladder shook out with Stefan Slisz ready to take on Judith Kay in a battle of Mustangs. Slisz is no stranger to final rounds and winners circles in True Street competition and racked up another tally in the win column to claim the $2,000 pot in this no-time class. We can’t give the numbers, but Slisz would have been hard to beat in this one. Finally, the Small Tire No Time class welcomed any car on 28’s or 275’s as a wide range of entries made up this unique class which also included street outlaw Chris “Boosted GT” Hamilton. When the dust settled, Keith Smith’s Louisiana based “Iceman” nitrous powered Chevy S-10 lined up with Duane Biddle’s “Dragonfly” 1987 Ford Mustang to battle for the cash. Smith’s truck took the win as Biddle went red on the starting line.

In the opening round of Pro Drag Radial a pedal fest unfolded between top qualifier Tim Slavens and Hunter Holt as both drivers struggled to find traction. Slavens gathered it up first and his 6.05 at 165 mph luckily held off Holt’s 7.05 at 136 mph. Next up, Jeff Naiser clicked off a clean 3.89 at 194 mph to narrowly defeat Mike Keenan’s extremely-close 3.90 at 199 mph in a great side-by-side race. Rodney Whatley posted his best time of the event in first round with a 3.89 at 178 mph to defeat Taylor Lastor.

In the semi-finals, one of the most spectacular driving jobs of all time unfolded in one of the wildest drag races in RTRA history. Whatley lined up next to top qualifier Slavens, and at the flash of amber both drivers were off with identical 0.031 reaction times. As they left the line, tires spun and the pedal fest was on, both drivers on and off, battling for traction and eyeing the finish line. Whatley’s 5.70 at 142 took the win light over Slavens’ 5.74 at 186 mph and that big speed top end charge quickly turned into a hair raising top end fiasco for Slavens. Halfway through the shutdown area, his twin turbocharged Camaro started bouncing when he jammed on the brakes after his parachutes wouldn’t deploy. Slavens veered out into the pasture, wheeled his machine around a large dirt mound at the far end of the property, then still at a high rate of speed, drove past the sand trap and back onto the racing surface before coming to a safe stop at the second turn off. Safety crews and fellow racers at the top end were shocked at what had just unfolded while Slavens and company celebrated their safe stop, driver uninjured and a racecar no worse for wear.

After defeating Mark Woodruff with a 3.87 at 195 mph Naiser charged into the final round to take on Whatley, who was looking to defend home turf in his menacing, blown 1963 split window Corvette. Naiser, a name you’ll likely recognize in Pro Modified racing, was making his drag radial debut this weekend and hoping to cap it off with his first win in the class, but he had to get around that wicked Corvette of Whatley to do so. At the flash of amber, Naiser’s perfect reaction time of .000 didn’t give him much of a gap as Whatley was .004. They charged side-by-side in what looked to be a very close race, but just past half-track Whatley’s transmission failed, and he could do nothing but watch Naiser blast past, with flames belching from the pipes, to a 3.88 at 194 mph to score an impressive win in his debut on drag radials.

X275 provided great side by side performances as usual, as Bob Bales blew past Joe Johnson, Clint Downs, and Odie Sturgeon to advance to the final round in his flame-throwing, nitrous assisted Trans-Am. Bales met top qualifier and hometown racer Eric Moore, who had defeated Todd Moyer, Mike Buttafuoco, and Tyler Stubbe in his march to the final round. Moore was the favorite on paper for this race, his turbocharged Ford Mustang running about a tenth quicker all weekend in spite of the fact that Moore had blown his only turbocharger in testing on Thursday. He and the team thrashed and borrowed parts from fellow racers to keep their car in contention this weekend. Moore took this one from start to finish, as he left first and clicked off a 4.45 at 153 mph to score his first win in X275 competition over Bales’ respectable 4.53 at 155 mph.

Limited 275 racer and Houston native Mark Brewton had water levels up to his garage door at his home, but he made it safely to the event and found himself in the finals facing top qualifier Nathan Bevilacqua. Both cars had been on a string during eliminations and both had re-set the Limited 275 elapsed time record in their earlier rounds. In the final, Brewton took a slight starting line advantage and posted a strong 4.712 at 148 mph to hold off a quicker but losing 4.702 at 143 mph from Bevilacqua, margin of victory .008 of a second. Brewton’s 4.701 at 149 mph from his quarterfinal round held up to claim the elapsed time record as he left North Star Dragway a class winner and record holder after one of the scariest weeks of his life, praying for survival during Hurricane Harvey. What a week for Brewton and company as we extend our congratulations on a dominant performance at North Star Dragway.

One final event remains for the Radial Tire Racing Association series as the tour will return to Denton, Texas on October 19-21st for the Texas Small Tire Throwdown! Points champions will be crowned and we can only hope some cool fall Texas weather will welcome more record setting capabilities at North Star Dragway. Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to RTRA founder and North Star Dragway owner Gene Nicodemus and crew on a job well done. Until next time, keep the glue down and the tire stuck as we anticipate the conclusion of the 2017 RTRA drag radial season next month.

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