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moonlit-imagines · 3 years ago

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Father of the Year (Part 3)

Tony Stark x child!reader

Quentin Beck x Stark!reader (platonic)

warnings:

a/n: again...and again...and again, it’s just a different take, tony is fictional, dont come at me, love u, bye. also you’d better not let this flop or else there wont be a part 4 ://

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part 1 part 2 part 4 part 5 part 6

“Can we come in? We’d like to discuss some things with you.” This “Quentin” character asked you, yet you stayed silent. “We brought snacks.” He lifted up a white plastic bag that slightly rustled with the movement and you groaned, undoing the chain lock and deadbolt before letting them inside.

“You have five minutes.” You warned, keeping your repulsor on your arm.

“I see you’re still using daddy’s tech.” Quentin shot at you and you raised your eyebrows at his courage to already start antagonizing you. “You’re right, I’m sorry. Won’t happen again.” He raised his hands in defense. “By the way, this is my associate, Bill.”

“It’s nice to meet you, Mx. Stark.” He reached his hand out to shake. “I mean, we have met before. It was when you were much younger.”

“We have?” You tried to recount your childhood, but it was nearly impossible. You had met so many people as a kid, it was hard to keep track.

“You see, y/n, me and Bill here both worked for your dad some years ago. Let’s just say...it didn’t end on good terms.” Quentin emptied out the contents of the bag onto one of the motel beds and tossed you a bottle of soda, plus some chips.

“That doesn’t surprise me.” You cracked open the drink and let your guard down, sitting on the other bed. “So, what are you guys up to these days?”

“We’re looking to get back at your—Stark.” He corrected himself as quickly as his voice would let him. “A team of intelligent people who Tony has wronged, and you, y/n, you are the perfect candidate.” Quentin was convincing, you’ll give him that. And this idea that he had, getting back at your dad after everything he’s done to you and this planet, it seemed too good to pass up.

“We saw what you did the other day, it was brilliant.” Bill chimed in with a proud smile. “Building your own robot, showcasing your abilities, and exposing your father on live television. We couldn’t ignore that.”

“He’s right, my friend.” Quentin agreed, backing up his associate’s words. “Listen, y/n. May I call you ‘y/n?’” You nodded your response. “Great, so y/n, let’s start with the obvious. You’re a genius, your skills and expertise are critical to our cause. And your motive, a child whose father failed to appreciate any bit of your excellence. Not to mention your knowledge of Tony Stark, his technology, his connections and utilities, his life—”

“Get to the point, Beck.” You spun a finger of your repulsor hand around in a quick circle, telling him to hurry up. It’d been more than five minutes, but what can you say? You were intrigued by the pitch.

“Y/N...we can give you everything he didn’t. There’s more of us, you know? And they’re dying to meet you.” Quentin sat beside you on the bed, getting very serious. “We’ll appreciate your work, help you succeed, and be there for you through it all. I know he never did that for you, we were there. We saw how he treated you.”

“I have to ask, what exactly did Tony do to you guys that brought you to me?” You saw their expressions drop a bit, but Bill went first.

“I worked at Stark Industries until about ten years ago. Obadiah Stane tasked me and my men to create the arc reactor and...I was just doing my job. Tony wasn’t too thrilled with me, let all of us go.” He admitted to you and you remember exactly who he was.

“And you?” You turned your attention to Quentin.

“Mine was only about a year ago, at MIT. I created what Tony presented and he made a mockery of it. When I addressed it, I was fired on the spot.” He explained with a hint of rage in his voice. “But as I was leaving, I saw you. You were just sitting there all alone and I watched you try to get his attention. I saw him ignore you and go on his way.”

“Yeah, he’s a real asshole, I know. It doesn’t help that he took in this fifteen year old as his own. He’s been mentoring the kid and everything, but won’t give me a second of his time.” You sighed, scratching your head and seeing the two men meet you with worried expressions. “Alright, time’s up. You have a card or something? I’ve got some things to think over.”

“I do have a card!” Quentin flipped open his wallet and pulled one out, you inspected his contact info and set it aside. “And y/n? My team is going to love you. I hope to hear from you soon.” He let himself out with his friend and before you closed the door, you said:

“Thanks for thinking of me.”

—————

It took you a week to work up the courage to give Quentin a call, but something inside you took over and you dialed the number without another thought. “Hello?”

“It’s y/n. I’m in.” You plainly stated and hear a gasp from his side of the phone.

“Y/N’s in!” He shouted and you heard a group in the background of his call cheering. “That’s wonderful to hear y/n. Do you need us to come get you?”

“Just send me an address, I’ll be there as soon as I can.” You told him and hung up the phone as quickly as possible, tossing it on the bed and falling into it facedown. “What am I doing?” Soon after, the phone chimed with an address and a little message.

Unknown: You have no idea how happy we are to have you.

You couldn’t help but smile. Someone actually wanted you around. After that, you threw all of your stuff together, packing your bags full of clothes, stolen toiletries, snacks and leftovers, and a couple very important flash drives. You returned your keys to the front desk, checked out, and made your way to Quentin’s base.

—————

The building was inconspicuous to say the least, but Quentin was already outside waiting for you, which was a plus. You didn’t think that you’d actually stay and poke around if he wasn’t.

“Y/N, you made it just in time! Come on, come in!” He announced as you parked your car and climbed out. He quickly grabbed your bags from you and led you inside to a group of people crowded around a TV with a familiar voice playing. “Everyone, I’m so excited to introduce the newest member of the team, y/n!”

“It’s nice to meet you, now pull up a seat. You’re gonna get a real kick out of this.” One of them instructed and as you moved to get a glimpse of the screen, you saw none other than your absentee father himself giving a statement and public apology on live television.

“And it is with a heavy heart that I announce that my child, y/n, has run away. I don’t know what I ever did to deserve this, but I will say that, y/n, if you are watching this: please come home. Me and everyone else are worried sick about you.” You burst into laughter and tears at the same moment and all eyes were on you.

“You doing okay, y/n?” Quentin placed a hand on your shoulder.

“Me? Oh, no, I’m okay, I’m sorry. I just...god, I hate him with every nerve of my body.” You tuned back into the broadcast.

“To all who were affected by y/n’s outburst and violent attack, I am truly sorry. Let it be known that when I find my child, I will make sure that nothing of this sort every happens again. Stark Industries will be donating a large sum to organizations focused on mental health in response to this attack.” You just shook your head and took your bag from Quentin without a word, kneeling down and sorting through it all.

“I don’t know how that man sleeps at night after lying through his teeth like that.” One of the team members commented.

“Y/N? What are you looking for?” Quentin kneeled down next to you.

“This.” You pulled out a handful of hard drives and files. “Right before I made a run for it, I downloaded tons of my dad’s files. We’ve got schematics and blueprints to some old stuff we can repurpose...and some next-gen stuff so we can give him a taste of his own medicine.” You looked up at Quentin and the rest of the gang and watched their faces light up, brighter than you’d ever seen.

“I like the way you think, y/n.”

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rwood2477 · 4 years ago

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This is Justine Damond. She happened to be white. She was shot to death by officer Muhammad Noor (who happened to be black.) It happened 3 years ago in the exact same city of Minneapolis, where all the rioting is happening now. Unlike Mr. Floyd, she had no criminal record (he had multiple convictions including for armed robbery.) Nor was she being arrested (as he was, for passing a bad check.) In fact, she had called the police to report an apparent assault behind her house and was running toward the police car to tell them what she had heard. She was in her pajamas. Officer Noor drew his weapon and shot her dead, apparently without any provocation at all. There were no riots.

Let me be crystal clear. Both officers are clearly guilty. I've seen the video of the Floyd incident. It's quite clear to me the officer in his case is guilty of first degree manslaughter, at least. He's entitled to his day in court. But, frankly, I can't even imagine what his defense attorney could say that would change my mind.

Sadly, there are bad cops who do bad things. They need to be punished.

But I'm far more concerned about the riots.

The riots will kill far more people.

There are powerful forces that are trying to destroy America. (Yes, LITERALLY destroy.) And there is a serious chance that they'll succeed.

These forces are mostly in media and entertainment and sports. Some are in politics.

They have decided that every bad thing a white person does to a black person must be interpreted, immediately,in the light of race. This, even though in a country of 330 million people sheer randomness will account for these incidents just as easily.

Black on white crime (far more common) will be ignored.

Black on black crime (most common of all) ignored.

White on white crime? (Are you kidding?)

But all white on black crime must be portrayed as a racial incident without any evidence whatsoever.

And it must be the lead story on national news immediately. Regardless of how many identical stories (with the wrong racial makeup) have been ignored.

Next the race hustling celebrities will make outrageous statements to the effect that all black people live in constant fear of being killed by any white person who comes anywhere near them.

Then the social media, that will censor any conservative statement such as "I like Trump," because its dangerous "hate speech," will allow all those incendiary comments to stand. Then they'll sit back and watch the fireworks.

The final stage, will be the infantilization of the rioters. Because the poor dears, who live in constant fear of murderous white people can't be blamed in they snatched a television or two, you know, for the sake of social justice.

This is the greatest danger facing America today. (If you know me at all, you know I dont often admit to a greater danger than the national debt.)

If we're going to win and save our country from turning into Bosnia, we need to lose our fear of speaking the truth.

Start with this:

There used to be ACTUAL racism in this country (and every other country.) Today there is NONE.

By "actual racism" I mean the sort that actually prevents people from living their lives as they wish and pursuing their dreams.

By "none" I mean zip, zero, nada.

Today, in America, we have the least racist society that ever was. Let's save it.

For our children.

And for the memory of Justine Damond and Gregory Floyd.

#kag

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dayasbun · 5 years ago

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Fame - Angus Cloud (3)

Summary- a luckily timed audition leads to you falling for your new and unexpected co-star.

Warnings- okay HI welcome to my first multi chapter series woah?! this is actually so exciting for me like wow especially since angus doesn’t have any fics yet im just really really excited- so warnings! smut for sure, bad words, lotsa fluff, angst- everything in one basically. here comes a ride and I hope you enjoy :)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 {reading now}

Well, needless to say you got the role.

The final run through with Drake was successful, he started spewing off about how talented you were. You did your usual which was smile and nod, and Angus told you to "Stop being so shy mamas. You gotta get used to this."

Time flew as you turned in forms, focused on moving closer to set, and grew your social media audience. It was all exciting but also overwhelming, however you already loved it.

You and Angus seemed to be getting more comfortable with each other, the tension was wearing off and a simple friendship was forming. The luxury apartment you were moving into for when filming ceased was conveniently just a few doors down from his apartment, you two were going to be in the same complex. You talked quite often and filming hadn't even started yet, and you almost felt silly for feeling intimidated, if that was even the word, by him before. He'd offered to come over to help you move in- and even though the tension had faded, your {sometimes} inappropriate thoughts of him hadn't.

But today was the day everything kicked into gear, because today was the first day of filming.

You and Angus decided to meet up at a small, locally owned coffee shop before heading to set. You could both go together, and since he offered to drive, you could save some gas.

You got there early, you two were to meet at 7:30 am, you were there at 7:25 due to leaving time to dodge the traffic. Angus came through the door yawning at 8:17- due to oversleeping.

"Do you always do this?" you laughed sliding a donut over to him as he sat down across from you in the booth.

"Do what?" he asked, eating half of the donut in one big bite.

"Are you always late- like on set? Because most of my scenes are with you and I-"

"You think ahead a lot, I just like sleeping, you should like it too you feel what I mean? Sleep is just that bitch...if there was a girl like sleep then I would have a girl."

Half of the time the things Angus came up with made zero sense to you, but you always just agreed and moved along. For example, yesterday night he called you at 12:32 am just to let you know that the Frosted Flakes box had 'of corn' in small writing under the bold logo. You said you'd never noticed that- which was the truth, and then that led to him telling you the complete history of Mandela effects. You didn't get back to bed until 1:54.

"And to be fair Y/N, you kept me up last night with that Mandela effect shit." he said with a smirk as he finished off the donut.

Your mouth fell open as you rolled your eyes "Boy as if! You wish I-"

"So you quoting 90s movies now? That's new, don't really know how I feel ab-"

"Lets go," you shook your head standing up and tossing your coffee cup into the garbage.

You two walked out and into the warm LA air. "You read the scripts at all?" He asked you as you headed to his car.

"I did! We have a lot of scenes...some are quite different."

"What you mean? Not boutta lie I didn't read anything past the first episode cuz them other shits too far away."

"Well, sex is always a given in Euphoria."

"Yeah them nude scenes finna make me feel a bit violated if you know what I mean."

"You'll be fine, all you show is your ass but I have to-"

"Oh shit I gotta show my cheeks? For real? On television- aw nah I gotta talk to somebody about tha-"

"I have to show everything except my baby maker so...who really has it worse?"

"Yo' baby maker? Is that them gorgeous eyes cuz it sure does make me want to make a baby wit' you."

Was that a joke-

He did this alot. You never knew if he was actually flirting or if it was just him joking around, but you always assumed it was the latter.

"Was that a...was that a joke from you Angus? How rare!"

He flipped you off with a goofy grin at the next red light and you laughed. "No all jokes aside though Gus, I gotta show my whole body, titties and all. Like my parents are going to watch this how do I? Explain?"

“Well we can fuck wit’ all that when we get to it.”

“Oh baby...” You said sarcastically. “You didn't actually read the first episodes script did you?”

“What you mean?”

You pulled the script from out of your tote, clearing your throat before you started to read. “Jess looks at Fez with a gleam of interest in her eyes. ‘Its been awhile tiger’ she says in a certain way, a way that makes Fez adjust his- yeah I’m not reading that- ‘It has’ Fez says biting his lip. He wants her, but he doesn't know if she wants him too...he thinks she doe-”

“We gotta have sex the first episode? Nah you lying.”

“Episode 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8.”

“Holy shit what?! Aint nobody have that much sex last season...”

“Yeah but its because of our storyline. Jess and Fez constantly want each other and they think the only way to let it out is through sex- they are both terrible with commitment and Jess is afraid of Fez’s dealing; even if she wants to be with him that's keeping her away.”

“Damn, my manz Fez gettin’ the short end of the stick.”

“Jess is the only one getting a short stick Angus.”

It took him a minute to understand what you said, but as soon as he comprehended it his eyes widened. “Girl no you didnt- you know I’m packing- how you gon’ do me like that?!” he said defensively as he parked. You couldn't help but to laugh as you hurried out of the car. “Imma get you back for that!” He yelled after you. You shook your head and walked to the main trailer where everyone was to gp.

Walking in you saw only Z and Storm, Queen Bey played softly in the background showing the girls in front of you were in their element. “Hey girl!” Z said giving you a quick side hug. “Dont worry about being late, its all good. You came with Angus didn't you?”

You nodded whilst rolling your eyes and took the key she was holding out, walking back out and to your trailer.

The trailer was cozy, comfortable and not too small. It had quite a modern look to it, and the look on the outside didn't match the inside at all. You smiled as you sat on the sofa, seeing a white envelope on the glass table. On it was scribbled ‘Angus and Y/N’. Before you could get up to go over to his trailer, he walked in- no invitation, no knock, no anything. “Gee!!!! Good thing I wasn’t naked!” You said sarcastically as you glared at him.

“Yeah whateva. We gotta read this letter together I guess.” He said plopping down beside you.

“Yeah yeah okay, I can read it out loud.” You said cracking open the envelope and pulling out the bright white printer paper. “Okay here we go...it's from...Drake?”

“Ah shit.”

“Don’t worry yet, it's probably just- let me just read.”

Angus nodded and got more comfortable on the sofa as you started to read. “Angus and Y/N. On behalf of your upcoming roles I wanted to tell you guys to loosen up. Theres alot of sexy time to film, and I don't want the viewers to feel the sexual tension from Angus and Y/N, I want them to feel it radiating from Jess and Fez. Make kissing casual, make being naked around each other casual too. Don't make that shit weird. And Angus, make sure you can get it up. If it takes...oh-” you stopped for a moment.

“What?” Angus looked at you and you cocked your head to one side still inspecting the letter.

“Okay- here, he said: If it takes walking around each other unclothed then do it, take care of that tension between you two. I could feel it in the final run through, meaning that the viewers would be able to sense it as well. I'm only saying all this cuz its your first time filming together. I need art, not high school production shit. You guys have the passion, and you click. But there's something missing. Make the fuck out and get this show on the road. I'm always a call away if its not working out-- Drake.”

“Well damn. What he tryna say?”

“Angus it's clear what he's saying- I mean come on I feel the tension between us too, and I don't know what it is but hes right, whatever it is we need to get over it, and move on from that. This is business- an art form we have to work through. Ight?”

“Ight. So what I’m hearing is we gotta make out and get naked.”

“We aren't doing anything until ya girl takes a nap.”

“How you sleepy we just got here and you woke up 3 hours ago?”

“Listen man it is not my fault I only got 4 and a half hours of sleep-”

“SO you tryna say it’s mine?!” “It is! With your mandela effecr loving ass.”

He chuckled under his breath. “Okay okay, fair. But lemme sleep wit’ you.” “What? Why?”

“You the one that read the letter, we gotta drop this tension lil mama. And if we legit just sleeping, ion see nun wrong wit’ it, do you?”

You thought it over, and he had a point. There was nothing wrong with it, sleeping is sleeping...and besides, you two would have to do much worse.

“Whatever, come on.”

“Let’s go to my trailer though.”

“What? Why? Ion wanna walk come on Angu-”

“I can carry you then. But my place more homey, you just got here and your bed ain’t even got sheets.”

Damn, why is he always right? “Okay fine but carry me.”

He hunched down in front of the sofa “Get on my back and we can go.”

You grabbed your phone getting onto his back and holding on tight, your arms around his neck and your thighs squishing his sides. “Go go go!” You giggled, feeling safe as you rested your chin on the top of his head.

He ran to the trailer, causing you to laugh and hold on even tighter. Dropping you onto the bed, he looked around the small trailer-bedroom for more covers.

“You know girl,” he said looking into the closet “You kinda cute. How you was laughing out there had my heart beating fast and shit.” He found a throw and turned back around to ask you if it was good, but you were already out, completely sound asleep, and cuddled into a pillow. “Damn so you ain't hear none o’ that huh?” He sighed. “Probably better on my end. Can’t be catching feelings and shit.” He covered you over and lay beside you.

In your sleep your body detected the body heat, so you unknowingly turned over, cuddling into his chest. A smile formed on your lips as you moved closer, practically wrapping yourself around him.

The man sighed placing his lips to your forehead and leaving a light kiss. “Yeah. No catching feelings.”

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 years ago

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Pluralistic: 12 Mar 2020 (No health care for part-time TSA screeners, Akil Augustine on Radicalized, Wendell Potter rebuts Joe Biden, best Covid-19 explainer, Boeing's self-inflicted wounds, EU Right to Repair, virtual classrooms)

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Pluralistic: 12 Mar 2020

TSA boss doubles down on taking away health care from part-time screeners: They're touching your junk with diseased hands.

Akil Augustine on Radicalized: My book's Canada Reads champion lays out the case for Radicalized.

A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD: Wendell Potter is the prodigal corporate villain.

Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic: Beth Mole has outdone herself.

Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering: The $43B they incinerated through stock buybacks would sure come in handy about now.

Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic: Sick leave is cheaper than pandemics, but pandemics generate cost-plus contracts for the donor class.

The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics: Snoods cocked at Apple and other US Big Tech monopolists.

How to run a virtual classroom: Masterclass from the 14-year-old Stanford Online High School.

This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

TSA boss doubles down on taking away health care from part-time screeners (permalink)

TSA agents handles the personal belongings and touch the bodies of millions of fliers. Part time agents don't get health-insurance. If they think they might have Covid-19, they might not be able to afford to seek care.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/tsa-health-care-part-time/index.html

TSA chief David Pekoske told Congress that the Trump administration's decision to take away health-care from part time TSA employees was a good one: "I have no intention of restoring health care coverage for part-time workers. I think that was a good decision."

About 100 TSA agents have been sent home after it was believed they came into contact with Covid-19. The TSA will not try to track down passengers who also might have come into contact with sick people.

Akil Augustine on Radicalized (permalink)

My book Radicalized is a finalist for the Canada Reads national book prize. Each of the five finalists is defended by a Canadian celeb: my champion is the amazing and articulate Akil Augustine.

Akil just appeared on the @CBC's Canada Reads podcast to give us a preview of his defense, which he will field during several nights of nationally televised debates next week.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1708600899815/

He did an OUTSTANDING job! Here's the MP3:

https://cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_CNDAREADS_P/media/cndareads-3NLwEPaV-20200309.mp3

A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD (permalink)

In a recent and important essay, Maria Farrell wrote about the road-to-Damascus conversions that ex-techies are having in which they recant the damaging product design work they did and begin to campaign against their former employers.

https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

Farrell noted that these techies had missed an important step in their transformation from venal attention mercenaries to noble attention freedom-fighters: they had yet to hit bottom, to truly repent their earlier sins.

They skipped like stones over the waters of privilege, and never sank, unlike so many of their victims.

Contrast those journeys with that of Wendell Potter, the former Cigna exec turned whistleblower, who has devoted decades of his life to revealing dirty tricks and lies. Potter campaigns tirelessly – and shrewdly – for Medicare for All, and is always at pains to point out that the anti-M4A talking points his adversaries parrots were all developed by him, when he was on the wrong side of history.

Take this thread, rebutting Joe Biden's FUD about M4A, delivered in the midst of a pandemic that has been worsened by the 77 million un- and underinsured people who can't get care or screening and disproportionately work in food-service and cleaning.

https://twitter.com/wendellpotter/status/1237438497218105344

As Potter points out, Biden's assertion that M4A costs $35T is just a lie. Once you factor in the savings of not paying for private healthcare, M4A SAVES at least $450B/year.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext

Biden's plan to cap premiums on a public option at 8.5% of your income is more than double what M4A would cost you. The corporate plans Biden lionizes shackle good workers to bad employers, and put millions at risk of having their care arbitrarily withdrawn or limited. And, of course, private care doesn't cover much. Surprise bills, deductibles, co-pays, out-of-pockets… Our plan – a blue-chip employer's top-of-the-line Cigna plan – costs us $24K/year.

We're rationing our family's health care because in addition to the $20K/year we're paying out of pocket, Cigna refused to cover a pain procedure that my doc – the most-cited pain doc working in California, who runs a major university pain clinic – says I would benefit from. That procedure might let me get a good night's sleep for the first time in 15 years and allow me to live a more normal, pain-free life. But because Cigna won't cover it, it would cost $55K, which we do not have. So I'm foregoing it.

Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic (permalink)

I've been reading Beth Mole's outstanding science journalism for many years and I've always admired it, but even by the high standards of a Beth Mole explainer, this soup-to-nuts Covid-19 explainer is just spectacularly good work.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/

Mole's calm and comprehensive coverage relies on the most reliable sources and turns the results of our best evidence-based studies into a coherent narrative, from the disease's origins to its spread to its symptoms to its resolution.

Just this symptom-by-symptom breakdown was enormously informative and filled in a huge gap that I had previously mentally signposted as "flu-like".

According to data from nearly 56,000 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients in China, the rundown of common symptoms went as follows:

88 percent had a fever

68 percent had a dry cough

38 percent had fatigue

33 percent coughed up phlegm

19 percent had shortness of breath

15 percent had joint or muscle pain

14 percent had a sore throat

14 percent headache

11 percent had chills

5 percent had nausea or vomiting

5 percent had nasal congestion

4 percent had diarrhea

Less than one percent coughed up blood or blood-stained mucus

Less than one percent had watery eyes

The sections on transmission, self-protection, and care during a social distancing lockdown or quarantine are likewise levelheaded, clear and informative.

This is a tab you should just keep open in your browser, IOW. Mole's updating frequently, too.

Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering (permalink)

Boeing is experiencing a potentially terminal slump. Between losses due to its 737 Max scandal (a self-inflicted injury), and the dropoff in travel during the pandemic, it has had to draw down its entire line of credit and institute a hiring freeze.

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/03/11/boeing-crashes-as-43-billion-in-past-share-buybacks-turn-into-existential-threat

Obviously, Boeing can't be blamed for the pandemic.

But you know what is absolutely the company's fault? Its financial engineering.

Since 2013, Boeing squandered $43 billion on stock buybacks, whose sole purpose was to goose its share-price.

As Wolf Richter writes, Boeing, this "master of financial engineering – instead of aircraft engineering – blew, wasted, and incinerated $43.4 billion on buying back its own shares."

The company just had to borrow $13.825B. Its shares are down 46% since March 2019.

The entire company – a jewel of American industry – might not survive, because it focused on short-term enrichment of shareholders, rather than safe aircraft or financial prudence.

Reality has a well-known anti-capitalist bias, part MMMLVII.

Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic (permalink)

Senate Republicans have killed emergency sick leave legislation, a move that will force millions of low-waged cleaning and food-service workers to choose between homelessness and potentially spreading Covid-19.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-paid-sick-leave-us-republicans-block-senate-bill-new-york-washington-a9395821.htm

The GOP says that paid sick leave will endanger the fragile bottom lines of employers and also that the feds have no money to pay for such a thing – despite finding it easy to blow $2.3 trillion on tax-cuts for the super-rich.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/tax-cuts-trump-gop-analysis-430781

They also found $20 BILLION in the senate's sofa cushions to give to the Pentagon, an agency whose auditor found more than a trillion dollars in off-the-books transactions in its financial records.

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/12/19/pentagon-finally-gets-its-2020-budget-from-congress/

Refusing to help poor Americans stay fed and sheltered isn't just cruel, it's lethally reckless, and it demonstrates the moral hazard of oligarchic capitalism. Subsidizing sick-leave would merely afford survival to millions of Americans, after all.

Whereas the crisis that this will produce – a pandemic that is made worse and longer – will cost billions more, but that money will go to the donor-class, the Beltway Bandits whose cost-plus, no-bid contracts will transfer even more money from the poor to the wealthy.

It's disaster capitalism at its worst. The Senate GOP is dooming you and everyone you love to the risk of disease and death because preventing that risk would help millions of poor people, whereas creating the risk helps a handful of ultrarich people.

The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics (permalink)

The EU Commission's latest "Circular Economy Action Plan" has enormous significance for Right to Repair and electronics.

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular-economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_action_plan.pdf

In addition to a host of eminently sensible, long overdue measures (bans on single use items and the destruction of unsold goods), there's a renewed emphasis on electronics, through the "Circular Electronics Initiative".

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/11/european-lawmakers-propose-a-right-to-repair-for-mobiles-and-laptops/

The initiative mandates that components be reusable, repairable, and upgradable, and requires long-term software support to keep IoT devices useful for longer. These mandates – also long overdue – show that the EU is finally willing to ignore the priorities of Apple and other US Big Tech companies in favour of Europeans' rights to the long-term enjoyment of their property and the right not to drown in e-waste).

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/08/ghost-flights/#eurighttorepair

How to run a virtual classroom (permalink)

For 14 years, Stanford Online High School has been running fully virtual classrooms, with continuous, ongoing improvements in their tech and methods. They've just published a new guide to "the essential steps for preparing to teach online in a short period of time." They're also conducting a series of webinars on the subject.

https://ohs.stanford.edu/how

(I just realized that I've got a decade-old mail rule that autodeletes anything containing the word "webinar" that I probably need to turn off now that the term is being used by people other than hustling spammy grifters)

This day in history (permalink)

#10yrsago Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright https://craphound.com/BPDigitalEconomyBillweeklyminutes.pdf

#5yrsago Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone https://news.streetroots.org/2015/03/06/homeless-phone-charging-thief-wanted-security

#5yrsago How Harper's "anti-terror" bill ends privacy in Canada http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/why-the-anti-terrorism-bill-is-really-an-anti-privacy-bill-bill-c-51s-evisceration-of-government-privacy/

#5yrsago RIP, Terry Pratchett https://web.archive.org/web/20150312202353/http://www.pjsmprints.com/

#1yrago Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org), Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).

Hugo nominators! My story "Unauthorized Bread" is eligible in the Novella category and you can read it free on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

Upcoming appearances:

Museums and the Web: March 31-April 4 2020, Los Angeles. https://mw20.museweb.net/

Currently writing: I'm rewriting a short story, "The Canadian Miracle," for MIT Tech Review. It's a story set in the world of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. I'm also working on "Baby Twitter," a piece of design fiction also set in The Lost Cause's prehistory, for a British think-tank. I'm getting geared up to start work on the novel afterwards.

Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.

Latest podcast: A Lever Without a Fulcrum Is Just a Stick https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_330/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_330_-_A_Lever_Without_a_Fulcrum_Is_Just_a_Stick.mp3

Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627

(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020.

"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a very special, s00per s33kr1t intro.

#pluralistic

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Meant to be

Pairings: KamilahxMC

Everyone was gathered in Adrian's office talking about the Feral problem. When their meeting was done before anyone could get up and leave Lily spoke up "So we haven't hang out in a while and i planned us a sleepover!" Amy looked excited but Kamilah didn't even considered it "denied" she walked away but Amy grabbed her hand "please Kamilah we haven-" "i said no" and with that she left. Lily felt bad for Amy because she knew they didn't saw eachother much and her best friend was sad "Come on Ames we will have fun on our own" she said hugging her.

On Lily's and Amy's apartment

"Girl throw it already" Lily said as Amy threw the popcorn in her mouth "WOOO i have a target" she said laughing. "So how do you feel?" Lily asked concerned Amy sighed "I dont know..its like she doesn't care" she took a deep breath "but lets focus on having fun where is the vodka?" "Now we are talking!" Her friend said as she went to the kitchen.

Their doorbell rang and it was strange since it was 1pm. "If its a serial killer at least i will die sexy" Amy giggled. She was wearing only a long T-Shirt and her underwear. Lily defensively opened the door. She gasped as it was Kamilah a face of guilt she never saw. "Oh hey KAMILAH" her friend said and Amy's cheeks became pink. "May i come in?" "Oh sureeeeee AMY KAMILAH IS HERE" Amy ran to her bedroom embarrassed she has vamprire hearing shit

"I see you two have quite the fun" Kamilah implied as she walked in the apartment. Lily was surprised "so your majesty had the honour to come?" Amy said getting out of her room. She was wearing short jean shorts and a crop top now and Kamilah's eyes scanned every part of her body. "Ahem. I can go if yo-" "ugh just sit down Grinch" Lily said as Amy giggled.

After a while of drinking Lily had an idea. "Okay so lets tell a story from our lives, i bet Kamilah have some fascinating ones" Kamilah looked like she dont like sharing but then she saw the excitement in Amy's eyes, how can she deny her mortal? "Okay sure." she said. "I will start!" Amy said excited.

"I was around 7 when i found myself lost in New York, i had a huge fight with my aunt so i left her house" she looked a little sad "well i miss her now that she is gone..i should have took advantage of each moment we had" Kamilah gave her an apologetic look, she wanted hug the girl but her selfishness held her down. "But you know what? She didn't let me eat ice cream for dinner" Amy said as she crossed her arms making an exaggerated frown "You are ridiculous" Kamilah said smiling "Girl you fought for your rights!" her best friend said laughing. "Where was i? Right..and so i left and started running in the streets, i wanted to cross the road but i was so small that a car didn't see me" she took a deep breath "i saw a car coming my way and before i could react a woman pushed me away" Kamilah was listening carefully and the memories hit her.

16 years ago

Kamilah was walking down the street lost in thoughts, as always work occupied her mind. Passed her a little human was running uncontrollably "what parents leave their kids run this late on the streets?" was her only thought, she rolled her eyes "mortals". But suddenly the fragile little girl ran on the road and thats when Kamilah's instincts kicked in. In a blink of an eye she was pushing the girl out of the way before the car would ran her over. The little girl looked lost as tears ran down her cheeks "i am so sorry" was the only thing she could say as sobs took over. Kamilah was not used to this nor she will ever be. But she couldn't let her like that "where is your mother?" the girl was regretting leaving her aunt's house, she didn't knew the way back. "I am here with my aunt" "and what are you doing here alone?" little Amy crossed her arms "i am not supposed to talk to strangers" Kamilah rolled her eyes "this stranger saved your life" she said as she pointed at her chest. "Tell me where your aunt's house is i can ta-" "i dont know where it is" Kamilah took a deep breath trying to calm herself "you are a little troublemaker aren't you?" little Amy giggled "thats what everyone says"

Later in Kamilah's penthouse.

"Woooooooooow" the girl said as she looked at the apartment "dont touch anything" Kamilah said seriously "i will go make a call in my office we will find your aunt. For now just sit on the couch" Amy of course didn't do as she was told.

As Kamilah was talking to the phone she went to the kitchen playing with everything she touched. She ended up holding a glass of orange juice as she placed the second one on the table.

Kamilah finished with the call and as she walked in the living room she saw the girl drinking her juice watching TV. "I see you made yourself at home" Kamilah said crossing her arms "my aunt never let me watch television this late sit down with me" What happen to normal Kamilah who wouldn't care for a small mortal? She took a deep breath "alright but only because i have to be kind" little Amy giggled "you are funny" Kamilah's brow arched "funny?", "Yes you play it hard, now drink your juice" she said handing her the glass "you did this for me? Oh you didn't have to" she said as she touched dramatically her heart the little girl laughed "i wish my mother was like this..we never have time together" Kamilah felt something unfamiliar in her heart, is it compassion? Before she could think further the little girl fell in her hug "Thank you, here take this" she handed Kamilah her favourite bracelet"oh no you dont ha-" "just have it" Kamilah took it in her hands shocked by this movement.

The little girl fell asleep in Kamilah's lap. "I suppose humans aren't that bad" she thought as she stroked her hair. The sun would be out soon so carefully she carried the girl to her car. She drove to the police station and before she could let her "be safe" she said as she kissed her temple.

"And then i woke up in my bed" Lily giggled "maybe it was a dream" Amy smiled "No it happened indeed because i wasn't allowed to do anything for the rest of the year alone" Kamilah was zoned out like she was relieving the moment until Amy snapped her fingers "Earth to Kamilah did you heard my story?" Kamilah's eyes were wide "it was you.." Lily and Amy were looking at her confused "its me..i saved you" Amy laughed "Oh Kami stop messing around" but then she reached in her wallet holding out the bracelet she gave her. Amy stared in disbelief, "H- how?" Kamilah shook her head "i guess we are meant to be", she said as she kissed the girl softly. "And just you know you haven't changed in the troublemaking part" Kamilah said as they laughed all together enjoying the rest of the night.

Tag list:@lightning-fury @galaxyside-0

#kamilah is my queen #choices kamilah #kamilah sayeed #bb kamilah #kamilah x mc #lily spencer #bloodbound

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From Sunrise to Sunset, Portrait of My Life

Each day, life offers us a blank page in the book of our existence. It is up to us to write and paint the colors we want..the shades that suit us best…something that can make us happy and alive! There will always be the darker shades thru the course of our journey but it will make the portrait of our life be more beautiful and interesting.

There are 7 billion people in the world, meaning there are 7 billion stories to be told. My story is not the extraordinary one. Simple. Yeah that’s the operative word that can describe my life. Iam a sucker of simplicity. I was born and raised in a little town called Lallo.

Born in August the 9th nineteen hundred and seventy nine! According to my Mamala’s story my mother left me to her care when i was 9 months old. For what reason, i still do not know up to this time. Glad i was bred in a manner i dont regret anything until I’ve reached this age. I owe it all to my old folks.

Moving on..

Ive spent my elementary days at Lallo North Central School (Lallo Central School before) where in ive collected a lot of good and not so bad memories.

As a kid, my school days flew away very playfully. The studies too went on like a breeze without any sort of pressure. I’ve received my high school diploma with honors at Lallo High School (now, Lallo National High School).

High school life is said to be the best life that a teenager could ever experience. I agree. Ive have had the most colorful and happiest high school days. I’ve got good friends, had my first crush and first love. But then ive also experienced my first heart break, first pain and first downfall. Part of life nonetheless!

Life then was not easy in our family. We lived in different worlds. My father was an overseas worker and my mother stays at home & takes care of my siblings in Manila. While i stayed in my Grannie’s care enjoying the simple side of life in the province. I thought i was not gonna go to college when i finished high school. I was dumbfounded when my father announced the news one morning. I was utterly disappointed. I cried but to no avail. With the turn of events, I decided to go to the city (Manila) then. I stayed at my uncle’s place. But 2 weeks after, my prayers were answered. My uncle sent me back home. Then I took the college entrance examination immediately and was enrolled upon the completion of my requirements. I took Bachelor of Science in Biology. I graduated on top of my class after 4 years.

After graduation i must admit i did all the wrong decisions and choices which landed me in a not so good situations. But today, when i look back ive got nothing to regret about. I was 27 when stroke took my father’s life. I was devasted…but then life must go on.

Ive landed many odd jobs after i rejected all my first offers after graduation.

I had fun working tho. One particular job i have had was being a Pharmaceutical Healthcare Representative.

I was employed by a prestigious company based in Manila. The nature of my work then was practically living on the road, chasing doctors and attending conventions. It was a bliss. I was single (with boyfriend), earning my own money and i was good at my job.

It was when i was diagnosed with gastroenteritis that i decided to quit and settled down with my boyfriend. We eventually got married. I had my first baby girl at the age of 25. ‘Twas the happiest day of my life. After giving birth, we moved in Manila. Hubby and I had our jobs there. How i missed the joy of acquiring our own very first table, our own sofa, bed, kitchenwares and television. Something we can call ours, out of our hard earned money. We stayed in Manila for 6 years. We’ve experienced a lot. From abundance to nothing, from happiness to sadness, in sickness and in health. To all of those, hubby and I and our first born stuck together. 4 years after i have given birth to our first baby, our second bundle of joy was born. Hubby was ecstatic and so was I. But then, our life was not all about flowers and peaches and chocolates and roses all the time. It was in the month of October that my mother in law was diagnosed with lung cancer. Our world have gone into shambles. Then Hubby’s company was shutdown due to bankruptcy. “When it rain it pours” it practically applied to us at that moment. We made the hardest decision during that time. I quited my job because we need to go back home and stay there for good. I was on the family way with our 3rd child. My mother in law passed away after 6 months.

Life continued..

While my kids and I stayed in the province, Hubby tried his best to make ends meet for our family. He tried hard and even harder but his health failed. He developed hypertension. Again, we made a decision. I have to go abroad…and i did. At first, i was hesitant. But when i saw my children deprived of the things they wanted, my defenses were defeated. It broke my heart leaving them.

I stepped in the red soil (Hongkong) in December 2010. I was cold, tired, and hungry when we reached the agency in Mongkok. My mind and heart was left in the Philippines but i made a firm decision that i have to do it come hell or high water. So the next day my employer picked me up at the agency and brought me to their home. I was given a warm welcome by the family. It was then that my life changed, totally! A life by my own without my husband, without out my kids. I practically lived with strangers in an instant. But eventually, the Yung family considered me as their own family.

Years passed…

It was my 3rd vacation in the Philippines when everyone in our family was in a state of euphoria.

My first born happened to be graduating during that time. I went home with a happy and full heart. We enjoyed every bit of my stay. We roamed around the valley and even went on the other side of the region to experience the scenic places there.

Our hearts were filled with happiness and joy. But as always, nothing lasts forever. After a month of togetherness with my family, i went back to my jobsite. I had the weirdest feeling when i boarded the plane back to Hongkong.

Events after that said vacation, my world had an abrupt turn to 360°….i went upside down!

#life #motivation #memories #storyofmylife #truestories #love #family #positivity

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home - chapter ten

robin buckley x reader

a/n: thank you for all of the positive feedback :) it means a lot

warnings: language, light smut

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chapter ten - at your own will

sofia and robin had spent the last two weeks getting to know each other more and more. sofia took robin to school and picked her up and hung out with her at the store on the days she wasn’t with the kids. once they found out about her going to see the byers they all immediately begged to go with, turning it into a full fledged family trip as long as they didn’t ruin the surprise that they were going which only joyce knew about. they had to push it back a week from its original date though because they had an av event that weekend and sofia would never pull her children from their passion.

it was the friday evening before they all went on the trip and sofia had gone to drop off food for steve and robin. steve’s only concern was the tacos he had in front of him while robin had other things on her mind. as much as she saw sofia, she remembered how much she missed her.

she missed her touch

robin watched as steve was munching on his four large tacos until she redirected her attention to sofia, motioning her to follow her

robin led sofia into the storage room which housed supplies of all varieties

sofia walked in to have robin close the door immediately after her entering

“what are we doing here-“

she was cut off by robin slamming her lips into hers, pushing her again the now closed door

robin reached her hand behind the other girl’s body and found the doorknob, locking it

the kiss was heated and passionate and only intensified as robin pushed harder and moved towards sofia’s neck

the two had only ever made out a lot and i mean a lot like every single time robin goes to sofia’s apartment they make out like its nobody’s business sofia was more experienced than robin and was making it her mission to take things slow with her, she didn’t want this one to be like any of the other relationships she had been in. and she told robin this, their entire relationship past their first sober kiss was handled with perfect communication on each party. robin was just a horny teenager and was constantly wanted to touch the girl she had been spending so much time with

robin kissed the other girl’s neck and they both tried to keep quiet. sofia smiled as robin “worked her magic” so to speak, causing a small moan to escape from sofia’s lips, “come over tonight”

robin stopped, looking at the other girl, “for-?”

sofia nodded

robin smiled and kissed her once more before pulling back, “can’t wait”

the two kissed a few more times before they opened the door to see steve standing there with a mouth full of tacos haha “mike is here”

he was still only focused on the taco cutie

robin and sofia were slightly blushing as they walked past steve and saw mike standing behind the counter

“just wanted to stop by and call shot gun for tomorrow”

robin quickly stepped towards him in a defensive way “uh no, front seat is mine”

mike protested “sofia? tell her its mine”

sofia enjoyed seeing robin interact with the kids “rob gets the front seat kid”

mike started to storm out of the store as sofia yelled “7 O CLOCK DONT BE LATE IF YOU WANT TO SPEND AS MUCH TIME WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND AS POSSIBLE”

the three older ones laughed as he stormed off, robin said she’d meet sofia at her apartment after work so they parted ways for those next few hours

once the end of steve and robin’s shift ended, robin started to get her bike before steve offered to take her home. she warned him that she was going to sofia’s and that she just needed to drop by her house for clothes and he still insisted.

on the ride robin began talking to steve about sofia, “you know i really cannot for the life of me understand how and why sofia was friends with you and all of them”

steve began to talk in a playfully defensive tone, “listen her and i, were practically married in kindergarten”

robin laughed, “you’re kidding”

“nope nope not at all, our parents were convinced we would date later on but just never happened. we saw each other almost every day our entire childhood’s and never once even kissed or anything, guess i wasn’t her type”

robin laughed to herself, seeinf the irony

steve laughed, “she wasn’t even friends with them, she was just friends with me. she HATED tommy more than anything and she said she wanted to knock carol out every time she opened her mouth but it was ok because she was cool with me”

robin smiled thinking back to a rant sofia had about how much tommy h annoyed her

“she made me a better person rob..it was different when she left”

robin furred her brows, “why did you stop being that person?”

“i was angry and confused and cared more about my reputation than actually talking about how i felt so i went on to being a douchebag”

“did you love her steve?”

“yes. she was like a sister to me. she still is but i got over her leaving and i still don’t know why exactly she left but i trust her. she knows better than any of us do”

once they arrived at robin’s house, she ran up to her room and grabbed the bag she had packed the night before and placed some extra clothes in for the night

steve and robin continued to talk about some of his happiest memories with sofia

once they got to sofia’s apartment, robin thanked steve for the ride and off he went to hang out with the boys aka mike lucas and dustin

robin knocked on the door and on the other side she heard yelling “ITS OPEN”

she opened the door to find sofia in the kitchen

she had on small shorts and a pullover sweatshirt with the name “illuminous” sewed onto the pocket area in a small font

the beautiful girl was also occupied by her thin framed glasses and her hair up slightly, as much as her hair could go up because of how short it was

she was stirring a pot as she told robin “you can put a movie in if you want”

robin nodded before approaching the girl to kiss her neck and then whisper “that smells good” in the pot was a small portion of pasta, just enough for two

sofia turned her face to meet robin’s and kiss her gently, “stop distracting me freckles”

after eyeing the cuisine a little longer, robin went a found one of her favorite film, a streetcar named desire which she knew was also one of sofia’s favorites so she started to set it up as sofia called her into the kitchen and asked her to get plates and what not set

domestic

robin set the table and poured two cups of italian cream soda

once the pasta was finished, sofia placed the pot onto the table and admired her work to then turn to robin “if it blows i’m blaming linda”

the two ate and talked, tonight’s topics were whether or not truman capote was in love with perry smith, how long lucas and max would last until their next fight, and what movie genre was the best

after they ate, robin layed on the couch taking up almost every inch before sofia made her way to the area, giving robin a displeased look “you left me zero room rob”

robin looked at her and scooted slightly into the couch’s back cushion

sofia walked towards the television and took out the movie, “fine, we can watch it in the bedroom”

robin got up and followed sofia into the singular bedroom of the apartment and jumped onto the bed as sofia put in the movie and quickly followed robin into the bed

they cuddled right away bc softies

about an hour into the movie robin looked at sofia as she was watching to movie closely, even though she could feel robin’s eyes on her and began to laugh “what?”

robin smiled at her, “nothing, you’re just..”

sofia looked at her, “im just what?”

robin didn’t even finish her sentence before going to kiss the other girl who had previously claimed her shoulder as hers before pulling away to finish the mystery “you’re beautiful sof”

sofia smiled into the next kiss “you’re not so bad yourself buckley”

robin’s hands found their way to sofia’s neck as she deepened the kiss and positioned herself onto sofia’s lap

robin took off her shirt to reveal the black bra she had worn to which brought out a “holy shit” from sofia as she continued to kiss robin and quickly began to move to her neck. although it was intense as things began to escalate more and more, robin felt safe and was aware if she felt uneasy at any time sofia would respect her take notes

sofia pulled away from her neck to then place one more gentle kiss to robin’s lips before whispering,

“anche tu sei bella you’re beautiful too”

next chapter

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LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING [SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF]

pairing: eddie kaspbrak/richie tozier chapter count: 1/5 summary: eddie kaspbrak runs an advice blog online, and he finds that maybe he’s starting to develop feelings for the cute, regular anon he gets gushing about their crush. meanwhile, richie tozier opens up his heart about falling in love to an anonymous advice blogger. read on ao3.

Eddie wondered if it was a little sad how excited he got when the message in his inbox started with a little purple heart emoji. Because his little heart definitely jumped in his chest every time he saw it at the front, and that message always got instant priority over whatever else was in his inbox.

omg cute boy did the most perfect thing today. i dont even have a genuine question here, or anything i just need to express how perfect this tiny human is and i think all my friends are tired of hearing about gfhdlgfhakjahsjlga i wanna hold his stupid tiny hand.

Eddie smiled to himself, clicking on the reply button. The past few weeks, Eddie’s spur of the moment advice blog had suddenly gained a ridiculous amount of popularity after a screenshot of one his posts had made its way onto a Buzzfeed article. With all the new followers, a great influx of messages had come along as well. Including this specific purple heart emoji anon, who seemed to be completely and utter smitten with somebody who worked in the same place as he did. And Eddie well, maybe Eddie was a little in love with how in love his anon was. Or maybe he wanted somebody to love him that much.

“Good moooooorning, beautiful!”

Eddie startled, quickly slamming the lid of his computer down. His advice blog was a top secret of his, the only person who knew he did was his best friend from high school, Mike. They’d both made blogs back in the early years of high school, and Eddie had clung to his as a perfect escape from the bullshit of the real world. He didn’t think Mike still used it, but he was the only person who knew that Eddie used his. And what he used it for.

Richie worked at the Starbucks across from Eddie’s store in the mall, and he’d seemed to latch onto Eddie on his very first day on the job. They were both college students trying to make ends meet with part time jobs when they weren’t in their classes or sleeping, and Richie had declared them kindred spirits. That had been almost two years earlier, and Eddie had officially been selling skinny jeans and sweaters to teenager girls for way too long.

“Sure slammed that shut pretty quick,” Richie commented with a small whistle. He raised his eyebrow and cocked his lips up into half a grin. His small overbite was barely obvious from that smile, but it was still annoying adorable. Eddie supposed that must things were annoyingly adorable about Richie Tozier. “Are you looking at porn on the job, Kaspbrak? Or do you just have deep dark hidden secret out there on the Internet?”

Eddie flushed. “You’re not supposed to be behind the counter.”

Richie held his hands up in defense, each one holding a Starbucks cup and rolled his eyes. “Fine. I’ll just take your iced coffee back over to work and dump it out then.”

“You’ll do no such thing!” Eddie cried, flopping forward in his chair to make grabby hands at smaller cup. Richie let out a laugh and handed the drink to Eddie, tucking his own empty hand into the back pocket of his jeans.

Eddie took a sip of the drink and let out a loud sigh. Richie had perfected his drink to the point where Eddie wouldn’t go to Starbucks if Richie wasn’t working. On the nice days when Richie’s shift started before Eddie’s, Eddie wouldn’t have to get up and get it himself at all. “Are you done now?” Eddie asked, glancing at the clock on the wall behind him. It was a little after noon, a bit early for Richie to be finished his shift but he knew that Richie did like to take shorter shifts during exam season.

“Nah. Not done until three.” Richie said, sipping at his red-coloured, syrupy iced drink that Eddie was never brave enough to ask what was in it. “I’m going on my break. Want to go see the outside world with me and remember what it’s like to be free?”

Eddie clucked his tongue, and turned on the chair to look at his coworker, Kay. “Is it okay if I go on my break now?” It was a little early to Eddie to take a break, and he knew he’d probably regret it later when he had to move through the last several hours of his shift in one go, but he was still going to jump at the chance.

Kay looked up from the binder of the summer sales that were coming in, and smirked as she caught sight of Richie standing with Eddie. “Yeah, we’re completely dead,” Kay replied. “I’m not sure why Barb insists on scheduling two people in the middle of the day when our entire target audience is in school.”

“K thanks!” Eddie jumped down from the chair, sticking his tongue out at Kay as Richie turned around. He supposed that his raging crush on the lankier guy hadn’t exactly been subtle over the last year or so, but it was subtle enough that Richie hadn’t seemed to notice and that was what mattered in the long run.

He remembered how annoyed he’d been when he’d realized that he’d fallen for the stupid barista boy like a goddamn internet cliche. But then again, Eddie had never claimed to be anything more than an Internet cliche, so what the point in fighting it? He’d let himself fall full forward into liking Richie, and found that he enjoyed Richie even more than he’d originally realized. Once he stopped fighting his crush, and let himself genuinely find Richie funny and amusing, life became so much lighter.

Richie jumped up onto the curb stop once they’d gotten outside, and swung his leg around while drinking from the red drink of death. “So... are you going to invite me to Mike’s party this weekend?”

Eddie raised one eyebrow, a challenge. “I’m assuming that since you’re asking about it, that Mike has already asked you.”

“Well, yeah.” Richie huffed, but he was still smiling. “But you didn’t ask me, Eddie. And that hurts. I thought we were lovers.”

Eddie rolled his eyes, but he knew that he was blushing. “I don’t know whatever gave you that idea, Richard, but I’ll have you know that I didn’t invite anybody to this party. Because it’s Mike’s party, for his weird fuckboy boyfriend. I just happen to live in the same house as that party. I’ll be spending it in my room, probably watching re-runs of the Office with Chinese food.”

Richie jumped off the curb and landed in front of Eddie. “Well then- invite me to that.”

Eddie narrowed his eyes. “You want to spend your Saturday night sitting alone with me watching the Office?”

“My favourite show with my favourite boy?” Richie reached out and pinched Eddie’s cheeks. Eddie swatted him away with a grumble. “Honestly, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather do on Saturday. It’s not like I’d be drinking anyway.”

Eddie nodded, knowing all about Richie’s long and poor history with alcohol that had peaked the year before they’d met. Still though... parties seemed like something Richie enjoyed, as somebody who thrived on social environments. “You're welcome to come over and watch the Office with me,” Eddie said with small smile. “And I promise I won’t be offended when you ditch me for the music and chatter of half the school in my tiny living room.”

Richie tossed an arm around Eddie’s shoulder and pulled him into him. “I would never ditch my Eds!”

xxx

“I swear,” Richie said, gesturing towards Eddie’s small bedroom television set. They were both laying together, Eddie’s small enough that they were pressed together from top to bottom. It wasn’t the first time they’d been seated in Eddie’s bed like this, but it made Eddie’s heart race everytime. “It takes Pam and Jim longer to get together every time I want this show.”

Eddie let his head lull to the side, crinkling up his nose. He, personally, could barely hear the show over the raging music from the party outside the walls. Mike had promised to try and keep it down for them, but Eddie hadn’t really expected much. “They get together in the same episode every time.”

“Yes, Edward.” Richie rolled his eyes, letting his hand come down and start to fiddling with the rainbow pride rope bracelet that Eddie always wore on his left wrist. “In my old age, I just find myself a little less tolerant of all this slowburn. They’re obviously soulmates, why must we sit through so much bullshit when they should just have gotten together at the start?”

Eddie chuckled, hoping Richie couldn’t feel his blood rushing under his hold on his wrist. “I like the slowburn. It’s interesting, you know? Two people who obviously right for each other but had to the get the timing right too. That’s the whole part of it. I think Jim and Pam wouldn’t have been nearly as interesting and powerful as couple if they’d gotten together right at a beginning and never had to like... really go through it together.”

“I just don’t think love should always have to be such a struggle.” Richie said, moving on from playing with Eddie’s bracelet to simply rubbing at Eddie’s wrist. “Why can’t just once I see a couple get together and then nothing bad ever happens, the end.”

Eddie smiled softly. “Why, Richard Tozier, I didn’t know you were such a closet romantic.”

“There’s lots you don’t know about me, Eds.” Richie tilted his head back down and smiled at him. Eddie blinked sleepily at him, letting his smile turn slightly confused. Richie let out a sigh. “Like, uh... I probably never told you this, but I think the best decision I ever made was going over to talk to you that day when you surrounded by all those preteens that were freaking out that you guys were sold out of those new Kardashian jeans.”

Eddie groaned, head falling into Richie’s neck. He told himself he imagined that Richie’s seemed to jump underneath him at the pressure of Eddie’s body.“Oh my God, that was the worst fucking day.”

“Wow,” Richie chuckled, moving Eddie’s body with his. Richie had always been a touchy feely friend, but Eddie didn’t think they’d ever been this close. “Guess I’ll just die.”

“Obviously the only good part of the day was the big gangly losers coming over and handing me a coffee even thought he’d never met and wasn’t sure how I even took it.” Eddie laughed, shifting so he could look at him, chin resting on Richie’s chest.

“Hey.” Richie waggled his eyebrows. “I made a wicked iced coffee that day.”

“It was edible.” Eddie said dryly. “But I think I was so high on anxiety, you could have handed me hot piss in a cup and I would’ve drank it without a second thought.”

“That’s disgusting,” Richie laughed, leaning in to press a quick kiss to Eddie’s forehead. “I thought I was supposed to be the disgusting one.”

Eddie’s entire face flushed. “You’re not that disgusting.”

Something odd and soft came over Richie’s face, and he was leaning closer... closer... Eddie took in a shaky breath, closed his eyes...

A loud crash, followed by Mike swearing, broke them apart. Eddie rolled his eyes and paused the show. “Want to help me kick some ass?”

“Every single person in that room could kill me with one punch,” Richie replied, smiling cheekily. “But I would happily die in a fight for my Eddie Spaghetti.”

“Oh my God, fucking gross, how many times do I need to tell you not to call me that?”

“At least once more, apparently.”

xxx

After Richie and the party guests had all gone home, Eddie quickly logged into his blog and clicked onto his ask box. Right at the top was a message from the purple heart.

fuck i almost kissed the cutie today! he seemed into it but this stupid party interrupt it and now im like??? do i try to kiss him again or was i over thinking it? ah ah ah pls send help. i need a whole army of strong men to carry me through this.

Eddie frowned.

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Ben Carson: March 4 2016

Donald Trump Tells Oprah in 1988 What He Would Do as President

You would be forgiven for forgetting that at one point last fall, Dr. Ben Carson was tied with Trump for first place in national Republican presidential preference polls. They were two different versions of the “outsider” candidate Trump, the brash billionaire and reality TV star; and Carson the quiet doctor propelled by faith. ;In;November, Trump went on the attack. He turned to Carson’s own autobiography for ammunition, noting with skepticism Carson’s story of how his religious conversion began when he attempted to stab a friend only to have the knife blade break on the friend’s belt buckle. “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” Trump asked. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?” At the time it seemed a direct challenge to evangelicals that could only hurt Trump, but it was Carson who began to slip in the polls. The doctor did poorly in the early primaries and dropped out after Super Tuesday. A week later he endorsed Trump, saying the two had “buried the hatchet” and that he believed there are “two Donald Trumps” the bombastic public figure and the private man who is “cerebral” and willing to consider other views.

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Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.

One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet. Trump knew the preacher personallyCreflo Dollar had been among a group of evangelical figures who visited him in 2011 while he was first exploring a presidential bid. During the meeting, Trump had reverently bowed his head in prayer while the pastors laid hands on him. Now he was gleefully reciting the impious details of Dollars quest for a Gulfstream G650.

Trump seemed delighted by the scam, Cohen recalled to me, and eager to highlight that the pastor was full of shit. Theyre all hustlers, Trump said.

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According to those conducting the recount, the purpose of this project is to address a prevailing concern among some voters that the 2020 election was illegitimate. And if the final result is that there was no fraud? That’s fine, too.

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Bette Midler Apologizes For Sharing Fake Trump Quote: But It Sounds So Much Like Him

Singer/actress refuses to take down the fictitious meme after her apology

Bette Midler apologized on Monday after posting a fake quote attributed to Donald Trump where he purportedly disparaged Republican voters in a 1998 People Magazine interview.

I apologize; this quote turns out to be a fake from way back in 15-16. Dont know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true!, the singer/actress

I apologize; this quote turns out to be a fake from way back in 15-16. Dont know how I missed it, but it sounds SO much like him that I believed it was true! Fact Check: Did Trump say in 98 Republicans are dumb? via

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In addition to her apology, Midler also included a link to the Reno Gazette Journal debunking the quote. It read, If I were to run, Id run as a Republican. Theyre the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and theyd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific.

The photo accompanying the quote shows a younger Trump around the time he was a real estate developer in New York City and long before he became a political candidate.

Dumb and Dumber @GOP, he said in a tweet before deleting. Narisetti is also an alum of the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and News Corp.

The memes providence dates back to at least 2015 when Snopes, a liberal-leaning fact-checking website, fact-checked the quote and proved it was false.

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Wait A Minute Bamboo Fibre

Yes. According to one volunteer, John Brakey, they’re investigating whether fake ballots may have been snuck in from overseas.

“They use bamboo in their paper processing, people in southeast Asia,” he told a local CBS television station.

Brakey is quick to say he doubts such fraud is real, but the investigators apparently want to leave no stone unturned, untested and unsubjected to ultraviolet light.

As mail-in Arizona ballots are matched against registered voters, multiple votes cast by the same individual would have been flagged.

Donald Trump’s Most Controversial Quotes

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Guns

He also praised the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment, describing his sons as serious NRA. His praise of the Second Amendment comes just days after an Uber driver went on a deadly shooting spree in Michigan, killing killed six people.

I want to begin by thanking my boys, Eric has been all over the place making speeches. Hes getting better than me so Im a little jealous. And Don went to , you were all over, right?

He loves the rifle stuff. This is serious rifle. This is serious NRA, both of them, both of them. We love the Second Amendment folks, nobody loves it more than us, so just remember that.

Guantanamo

Trump is promising to keep the controversial detention camp open after President Obama’s repeated pledges to close it, something he reiterated in his victory speech.

Were going to keep as you know Gitmo, were keeping that open, and were going to load it up with bad dudes. Were going to load it up w a lot of bad dudes out there.

Walls

Finally, he repeated his most familiar campaign promise: to build that big beautiful wall, and make Mexico pay for it.

Were going to have our borders nice and strong. Were going to build the wall, you know that. Were going to build the wall. And I have a lot of respect from Mexico and you just heard we won Hispanics. But let me tell you Mexico is going to pay for the wall, right? Its going to happen.

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Jeb Bush: Feb 20 2016

A year ago, Jeb Bush was at the forefront of an historic fundraising juggernaut, with a super PAC that raised more than $100 million by June. But Bush could never generate the passion and enthusiasm of Trump. The billionaire branded Bush a “low energy” candidate;and proceeded to tie George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq around Jeb Bush’s neck like a lead weight. During a , Trump said President Bush had lied about the pretext for the Iraq War.;Jeb rose to his brother’s defense. ;”While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe and Im proud of what he did,” he said. But Trump fired back: “The World Trade Center came down during your brother’s reign, remember that. That’s not keeping us safe.” A;week later Trump won the winner-take-all Palmetto State primary and Bush dropped out of the race.

Tale Of The Tape: The 16 Contenders Trump Has Knocked Out

Oprah asks a 42-year-old Trump if he’d run for president

Donald Trump clobbered his opponents in Indiana, knocking out Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ;and;Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Cruz whom Trump labeled “Lyin’ Ted” acknowledged Tuesday that he had no path left to the nomination and suspended his campaign, and;Kasich threw in the towel;Wednesday. Even RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has called the fight for Trump, declaring the billionaire the presumptive nominee.

Heres how Trump has dispatched the contenders who stepped into the ring with him during this years presidential contest:

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Jeb’s Campaign Releases Video Of ‘the Real Donald Trump’

Jeb Bush’s campaign is ratcheting up its attacks on Donald Trump, releasing a video that paints the Republican presidential candidate as an unabashed liberal. And Trump is firing right back.

The spot, titled “The Real Donald Trump,” plays on two separate occasions a clip of the billionaire candidate saying that he “lived in New York and Manhattan my whole life” and that “my views are a little bit different than if I had lived in Iowa.”

“Liberal Things That Trump Says,” the text on screen reads before flipping to “Liberal Things That Trump Believes.” Trump has made a point of embracing his eclectic policy views in the past, something that Bush’s campaign is seizing upon in the latest spot.

Trump is shown in a 1999 “Meet the Press” interview telling Tim Russert that he is “very pro-choice,” though a dozen years later, Trump announced that he opposed abortion in most instances, except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the health of the mother.

The spot also highlights Trump’s praise of single-payer health care systems in Canada and in Scotland during last month’s GOP debate, though it does not include his qualifying statement that although he thought it was a good idea for the U.S. in the late 1990s, he does not believe that to now be the case.

Im Getting The Word Out: Inside The Feverish Mind Of Donald Trump Two Months After Leaving The White House

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Seventy days had passed since Donald Trump left Washington against his will. On March 31, 2021, we ventured to Mar-a-Lago, where he still reigned as king of Republican politics. We arrived late that afternoon for our audience with the man who used to be president and were ushered into an ornate sixty-foot-long room that functioned as a kind of lobby leading to the clubs patio. A model of Air Force One painted in Trumps proposed redesigna flat red stripe across the middle, a navy belly, a white top, and a giant American flag on the tailwas proudly displayed on the coffee table facing the entrance. It was a prop disconnected from reality.; Trumps vision never came to be; the fleet now in use by President Biden still bears the iconic baby blue-and-white livery designed by Jacqueline Kennedy.

Trump had invited us to Mar-a-Lago to interview him for this book. He had declined an interview for our first book about his presidency, and when A Very Stable Genius was published in January 2020, attacked us personally and branded our reporting a work of fiction. But Trump was quick to agree to our request this time. He sought to curate history.

But future elections were not front and center in his mind. A past election was. Trump was fixated on his loss in 2020, returning to this wound repeatedly throughout the interview.;

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Wisconsin Gop Wrestles With Just How Much To Indulge Trump

The former president set off infighting among state Republicans by saying they were not working hard enough to challenge the 2020 results, accusing them of covering up election corruption.

By Reid J. Epstein

Wisconsin Republicans were already going to great lengths to challenge the 2020 election results. They ordered a monthslong government audit of votes in the state. They made a pilgrimage to Arizona to observe the G.O.P. review of votes there. They hired former police officers to investigate Wisconsins election and its results.

But for Donald J. Trump, it wasnt enough.

In a blistering statement last week on the eve of the state partys convention, the former president accused top Republican state lawmakers of working hard to cover up election corruption and actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit of the election results.

Wisconsin Republicans were alarmed and confused. Some circulated a resolution at the convention calling for the resignation of the top Republican in the State Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos, who in turn announced the appointment of a hard-line conservative former State Supreme Court justice to oversee the investigation. The Republican State Senate president released a two-page letter addressed to Mr. Trump that said his claims about Republicans were false but that made sure to clarify in fawning language the state partys allegiance to the former president.

Fact Check: Trump Did Not Call Republicans The Dumbest Group Of Voters

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An old quote falsely attributed to Donald Trump has recently resurfaced online. The viral meme alleges Trump told People magazine in 1998 that Republicans are the dumbest group of voters in the country. This is false.

While the quote has been debunked several times since it apparently surfaced in 2015, users have recently been resharing it on social media. Examples can be seen here , here , here , here

The meme reads: If I were to run, Id run as a Republican. Theyre the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and theyd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific. – Donald Trump, People Magazine, 1998

Snopes first wrote about the false quote here in October 2015 . Since then, the quote has been debunked multiple times .

People magazine has confirmed in the past that its archive has no register of this alleged exchange.

People looked into this exhaustively when it first surfaced back in Oct. . We combed through every Trump story in our archive. We couldnt find anything remotely like this quoteand no interview at all in 1998., a magazine spokesperson told Factcheck.org that year .

In December 1987, People published a profile on Donald Trump titled Too Darn Rich. The article quoted him saying he was too busy to run for president .

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Donald Trump Quotes That Should Horrify His Evangelical Supporters

After months of campaigning, flip-flopping on important issues,;and generally wreaking havoc on the party that for decades has presented itself as defenders of Christian America, Donald Trump took to the stage at the Republican National Convention and thanked the evangelicals who helped him get there.

At this moment, I would like to thank the evangelical and religious community because Ill tell you what. Because the support theyve given me, and Im not sure I totally deserve it, has been so amazing. And has had such a big reason for me being here tonight. True. So true.

So true, its cringeworthy.

White evangelical Protestants are a considerable force in the elections making up one-fifth of all registered voters.;While a number of evangelical leaders have pointed out that Trumps policies and actions are decidedly un-Christian, rank-and-file white evangelical Americans have in fact thrown their support behind the candidate. According to the Pew Research Center, 78 percent of white evangelical voters;say they would vote for Trump if the election were held today.;

But if you place Trumps quotes, principles and policies next to the ideals set forth by Christianitys founder, the gap is startling. Trump has little regard for some of the fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ showing love for your neighbor, welcoming the stranger, and asking for Gods forgiveness.;

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Perks of Coincidences (Ch. 2) Characters: Hanji Zoe x Levi Genre: Humor / Romance

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Much to his displeasure,Levi caught a slight upward tug of his lip as he fixed his rearview mirror."What the fuck are you smiling for?" he scoffed at himself as he turned his key at the ignition.He had to admit,that thing at the café was pretty funny.In his defense,He simply entertained the woman because he thought she just needs a place to sit considering the whole place was packed.He didnt know she's supposed to meet someone.Besides,Who in their right mind goes on a date without at least asking for a photo of the guy they're meeting with?'Pathetic' he breathed as turned a knob on his car stereo blasting his radio to distract him.That shitshow took enough time out of his hands already.

His drive was pleasantly quiet,He passed kids who sat in front of their white picket fence yards crouching on their handheld devices and rich do-nothing-wives out on their afternoon jog.The place couldn't be more...'suburban-y' he thought.He immediately spotted his blond friend waiting at a park bench as he parked his car.Erwins face perked up as he saw the raven haired man emerge from his car approaching him.Erwin looked as dignified as ever.Levi thought.The blond always dressed like a guy who's running for office.

"I thought you already forgot about me"The blond stood up while waving a bouquet of flowers on his hand.

"Please tell me those are not for me."

"Unfortunately,they are.Marie wanted you to have these."The blond reached out the bundle to his friend.Just as he did,the bunch of the previously mentioned do nothing wives passed them blushing and giggling.Levi and Erwin shared an equally disconcerted look as they realized what the whole scene looked like.

"Just put it on the damn bench."Levi sighed as he took a sit.

"It's not like you to be late.Did you have an interesting afternoon?"

"I just got caught up with a...thing"Levi deadpanned as he looked at the skies now tinted orange signaling sunset.

"What thing?"

"This thing called none of your business."

Erwin chuckled at his friends reponse.He can sense Levi had an eventful afternoon by the way he stared into space and paused to pick his words.His friend is not one who enjoyed telling stories.Not that he preferred listening,but sometimes people often misunderstood him because of his coarse manner of speaking.Truthfully,even Erwin has a hard time understanding him sometimes.

"I don't know if you've noticed,but you've been gone for three years.Is it so wrong to ask what you've been up to this afternoon?"

Levi can see that Erwin is trying his best to close the three-year gap they had behind.He hesitated and in the end decided that telling him wouldn't hurt.Its not a big deal anyway.

"Apparently,I've been on a date."

"Apparently?"

Erwin listened intently as Levi told him the whole story.A deshiveld science crazed woman mistaking him for someone else.Levi even went on about animals that doesn't shit.Despite the negative words coming out of his friends mouth Erwin can see a slight glimmer of amusement in Levi's eyes as he carried on with his story.The blond tried and miserably failed to stifle a chorlte.

"She sounds like a party."Erwin started.

"More like a riot if you ask me.A really noisy messy riot...How's Marie?"Levi added deliberately changing the topic.

"Still the same,she's pretty busy taking care of Quinn.Shes turning four next week.Speaking of which,you should come with us and celebrate"Erwin pulled a small envelope out of his pocket and handed it to his raven haired friend.Levi slid out a small paper inside the envelope holding details of the party and a photo of Erwins child wearing a Tinkerbell costume.

"Huh,I used to think that you'd have a pretty ugly kid.Good thing she takes after her mother"Levi said as he pocketed the invitation.

"Careful now,I wouldn't want to uninvite you"

Levi only scoffed at his friend's empty threat.Its been three years since they sat down and talked like this.As much as he didnt want to admit,he missed Erwin.

"Well,I hope to see more of you these following days...dont be a stranger."Palacing a firm hand on Levi's shoulder as Erwin stared at the skies."Its getting dark.I need to pick up groceries before coming home.Don't forget your flowers!"Erwin gestured at the bouquet that sat on the bench.

"Yeah"Levi picked up the bouquet as he watched his friend walk away.

Hange was rarely get embarrassed by things.One of the perks of growing up in a scientific household she thought.As a child,Shes always been inquisitive.One time she asked her father how girls and boys differ anatomically so he sat down and explained that men had penises and testicles while women had vaginas and vulvas.Hange spent the next week telling her friends that boys had tentacles like octopuses.She even asked some of them to show her where they hide tentacles which landed her a trip to the principals office.On the way home,she sat in the car and told her father that she's so embarrassed that she misunderstood him.She feels stupid.She can still recall the warmest most genuine smile his father gave her as he told her that embarrassment is a waste of emotion and sometimes mistakes lead us right where we should be.If not for that trip at the principals office she might have never realized that his father meant testicles and not tentacles. Why is this all coming back to her all of a sudden?

'Oh yeah...thats why.'she sighed.That date was admittedly the best one she had in a while.Its not some guy who talked for hours about their workout regimen or what their food preferences are.She found the raven haired man interesting to some degree.He's straight forward and doesnt bullshit.A very refreshing attribute thats very rare nowadays.

On top of that embarrassing "date",she also had to endure Nanaba's wrath when she got home.The blonde was accusing her of bailing on her date.After an hour of talking her ears off Hange found out that she went to the wrong Sina cafe and the one they're supposed to meet was the one on the other side of the town.

The brunette laid on her couch as she stared on the rotating fan in the ceiling.Reruns of The Twilight Zone played on the television in the background keeping her company.Her scientific proposal just got approved so all she has to do is to wait for the funding and start working on her project.She had a lot of free time on her hands right now.Good thing she signed up as a substitute professor at a University under a recommendation of a past colleague.Hange was at the verge of falling asleep when she heared the door ring.

Nanaba and Rico stood by the door carrying bottles of red wine and boxes of pizza.Apparently,Rico had a fight with her boyfriend and Nanaba was kind enough to invite her to stay at their house fo a couple of days. Its been a while since they got together like this.Rico sat on the couch beside Nanaba While hange sat on the floor.The silver haired woman went on about Ian forgetting to lift the toilet seat up and messing up the groceries while Nanaba and Hange laughed at how shallow their fight was.

"Enough about me...Whats new with you two?"Rico asked whilst pouring herself another glass of wine.

"Still working on some wedding stuff.Mike and I were still looking for caterers."Nanaba responded.

Rico just made a yawning gesture and laughed.

"My research proposal just got approved and Im starting teaching this upcoming semester."Hange added.

There was silence after that.

"What happend to us?when did we become so miserable?"Rico somberly replied as she stared into her wine glass.

"Hey!My work is fun."Hange playfully threw a napkin which Rico dodged.

"No!Work is just...work.It does not qualify as fun.Come on girls!When was the last time we had fun? as in an actual fun night out just like we did back in college?"

"I got an idea!"Hange exclaimed dropping his fist to her palm

"What?please tell me were not streaking "Nanaba asked.

"Then I got nothing"The brunette spouted as she took a bite of her pizza.

"We are too old to do that!..Hmm?Do you guys Remember Nancy Jefferson?"The silver haired woman asked.

"How can I can forget her?She broke Hanges arm one summer,stole my boyfriend at the time and spread around rumors about you getting a nose job"the blonde responded

"Its time for a little payback"Rico smiled mischieviously.

This is not what Levi expected when he agreed to Erwins invitation to attend Quinns birthday party.He expected a simple brunch with the family and maybe a few of their friends but instead he found himself standing inside a family entertainment establishment where he's greeted by kids running around screaming and fighting.

"Levi!" Marie called his attention while she carried Quinn.

Levi carefully walked towards her avoiding three kids hitting each other with baloon swords.

"Look at you!Youre even more handsome than I remember."Marie reached out to him to give him a half hug.

"Dont let Erwin hear you."Levi playfully responded still sporting his blank face as he handed Marie a stuffed animal he bought for Quinn.

"Dont worry it'll be our little secret!"She winked at him as she handed his gift to her child.

"What secret?"Erwin appeared out of nowhere and kissed his wife on her cheek.

"It wouldn't be much of a secret if we tell you"Levi said matterfactly as Quinn giggled.

"Oh you like uncle Levis jokes huh?"The blond poked his daughters nose.

"Do you wanna play with your uncle Levi?"Marie asked their daughter

Quinn blushed gave her mother a small nod.

"Here take her."

Levi wanted to say no but Marie is already handing her daughter to him."Uncle lets play over there!"Quinn pointed at the bouncy castle swarming with 5 year olds.

Levi gave Erwin a Save-me-from-this-mess look but he simply shrugged him off with a youre-on-your-own look.

Thirty minutes later,Levi found himself sitting on a ball pit while Quinn sat on his shoulders playing with his hair.

"Having fun?"Erwin asked Levi as he picked up Quinn.

"Yeah,whats more fun than submurging yourself in a pit full of germs and bacteria."

"Oh lighten up Levi!Come on,its getting late!Lets blow her candles."

Socializing has always been a tiresome chore for Levi.As much as he wants to bitch about the whole endevor,seeing Erwin live out his dream of having a family gave him a sense of relief.

'You lucky son of a bitch.' he thought as he watched his friend carry his daughter helping her blow out her candles.

Hange and the girls spent around 900 dollars to buy themselves bicycles to roam around town.They threw toilet paper and egged Nancy Jeffersons house.She straight up made their high school life miserable.As petty as the whole plan sounds the influence of alcohol got the better of them.

After all that,they decided to eat at a local diner they used to hang out when they are younger.

"Now that was fun!"Rico giggled as she sip on her coffee.

"Thats the most fun I had since I got enggaed!"The blonde admitted.

"I hope she doesnt figure out its us."Hange laughed nervously as she touched her arm remembering where it got broken.

"Lets do something else...How about that?"Rico pointed at the establishment accross the diner.

Hange and Nanaba looked out the window and accross the road was a sign that says "FUN EMPORIUM"

The ladies looked at eachother and nodded in unison as they laughed.

Levi didnt expect to get a call from Erwin in the middle of the night.His blond friend asked if he can go with him to look for his daughters toy at that wretched party place.He'd like to say no but Levi suffered with insomnia.Hes been lying on his bed for the past hour staring at the ceiling trying to fall asleep.Hopefully,this adventure with Erwin will help him feel tired in order to sleep.

Erwin picked up Levi at his house around midnight.Levi sported his signature scowl as he placed his seat belt in place.

"Remind me again why I'm doing this"

"Quinn refused to sleep without her new favorite toy.Its that stuffed animal you gave her earlier so Its partly your fault.Also,I refuse to look for her toy alone.That place looks creepy at night."

"Here I thought Erwin Smith was supposed to be a beacon of courage.Besides,How are we supposed to get in there?"

"I know the guy who owns the place.The security will let us in."

"This is not what I imagined when you said you wanted to see more of me."

that statement earned a smirk from the blond as he turned the ignition of his car.

after almost a half of hour drive Erwin and Levi arrived at their destination.Erwin talked with the guard gave them the keys. The place did look creepy at night.The animatronic band looked like murder machines and just the general vibe of an empty play ground looked errie.Erwin and Levi decided to split up to cover more ground.Levi proceeded to look at the play area while the blond headed over the dining hall.

Levi searched every nook and cranny of the bouncy castle and even inside the shoe racks.Then he remembered the ball pit.He sprinted and tripped at the colorful foam mat layed on the floor.He looked back to check if Erwin saw him trip.Good thing the blond is still preoccupied searching underneath the tables.

His face scrunched up as he dipped his feet at the pit.He can only imagine the sweat and snot the kids left in this bacteria infested pit.Nontheless,he started searching and swiped his hands along the hollowed balls reaching for the bottom trying to find the toy.The sooner he finds that damned toy the sooner he can get out of this place.As he searched the pit,he stepped into something round hard and flat against his sole and ducked to get it.The raven haired man was somehow confused when he inspected the item.A ring with a square sapphire stone.It looks expensive.He wondered who is the idiot who lost it.He pocketed the ring then proceeded on the task at hand.Half way trough his search he grabbed unto something soft and warm...it almost feels alive.He pulled it out of the pit and revealed a bespectacled woman who looked familiar.

"Four eyes?"

Hange squinted whilst repositioning her crooked glasses trying to identify him. "Shorty?"

Both exchanged an equally baffled look.Erwin then,emerged from the corner.

"Hey Levi have you found the...?"

"Erwin Smith?"Hange exclaimed.

The trio shared confused looks until the blond decided to break the tension by addressing Hange's presence.

"My,my What's the brilliant Hange Zoe doing in a ball pit in the middle of the night?"

"Oh you know...just a typical night out with the girls.We lost Nanabas engagement ring so...here I am."Hange answered nervously as she scratched the back of her head.

"Is this what you're looking for?"Levi pulled out the ring from his pocket.

"Let me see"Hange reached for the ring and inspected it against the light seeping trough the windows.

"How did you know this freak?"Levi asked Erwin; while Hange poined at her self as if asking him if she's the one he's referring to.

"We met at a charity gala a few years ago.I also recommended her as a biology professor at the University I'm teaching in.How did you know her?"

"Its a long story."Hange interjected.

"Oy Erwin!I cant find your brats toy just tell her I'll buy her a new one tomorrow"

"OH!I think I found a toy somewhere a while ago.Is it a pink rabbit wearing a dress with really long ears?" Hange dived back at the ball pit then emerged carrying the said stuffed animal

"You're a life saver Hange!Now my daughter can finally sleep."The blond offered a hand to help the brunette get out of the ball pit which she graciously accepted.

"Do you need a ride home?"

"Oh no!I Have my ride parked at the back"

"Great!You still live at 49th street right?Maybe you can drive my friend home He lives at 52th.I really need to rush home and give this to my daughter.Marie and I havent slept in days."

"Oi Erwin what the hell?"

"Dont worry she's harmless" Erwin turned his head to Hange "Drive safely Ms.Zoe,See you on Monday!"waving his hand as he walked away.

"You've got to be shitting me...This is your ride?" Levi stared at the teal bicycle that laid on the ground.

"Yeah.Erwin and I might had a little...misunderstanding."Hange lifted the bike from the handle.

"What do you think youre doing?You smell like alcohol.Ill drive"

"Can you ride a bike?I mean this is a pretty tall bike I'm not even sure if you can reach the pedal..."

Levi just glared at Hange.

"Just shut up four eyes and sit at the back."Levi grabbed the handle from hange and sat on the bike seat. Hange sat at the back rack of the bike holding on to a handle underneath the bike seat to keep her steady.As soon as she's settled Levi started peddaling.

Levi cant believe he's biking in the middle of the night.He's suppoesd to be sleeping at this hour.Well not really.The only positive thing he can come up with this situation is that this activity will probably tire him out and hopefully help him fall asleep when he gets home.He's pulled out of his thought when he felt Hange shuffling behind him probably making herself more comfortable.

"Stop moving so much,do you wanna die in this death contraption?"

"Oh,You're being over dramatic were not gonna die.Did you know bicyclist deaths have decreased over 28 percent since 1975?Besides,most of the bicycle related crashes are..."

Hange rambled about bike safety for what seemed like an eternity.He wondered how she knows this much about bike safety.Did she google this before buying a bike?Or does she read about bike safety just for fun?Who does that? Despite of Levi's silence,Hange is still speaking.He decided to shut her up or else his ears are gonna bleed out.

"Okay!Okay!I get it bicycles are safe..just shut up for a bit."

He felt a gentle tug underneath the bike seat.he slightly turned his head back to see whats the brunette is up to.Her hands are stretched out and back leaning backwards while looking at the skies.She looks like a kid whos seing the stars for the first time.Her big brown eyes had a glint of jovial curiosity and plain mischievousness.Nothing good comes out of that hazel orbs he thought.As if feeling his stare Hange turned her gaze at him and beamed a ridiculously bright grin at him.Levi simply tched and turned his eyes back on the road.

"So...how did you know Erwin?"Hange started.

"No four eyes!You don't get to ask me questions.I could be home now sleeping instead I'm pedaling in the middle of the night."

"Oh come on,it has to be at least 2 miles until we get to my house.We got lots of time to kill we might as well get acquainted."

~There's no use arguing with her.

"You said you snuck in with your friends.Where are they?"

"Oh when we heard the door open we scrammed but my friend lost her ring and she wouldn't leave so I offered to stay behind and look for it.That's when you guys found me."

"Ah"

Levi didn't add anything his eyes were focused on the road.Hange can see he's not much for talking.Its as if the whole endeavor exhausted him.Usually,Hange had the weird need to fill in the silence but surprisingly she doesn't feel like talking this time.This kind of silence somehow comforted her. The brunette took a deep breath.The combination of wine and the cool air brushing across her face made her lids feel a bit heavy.She leaned her face on Levi's back.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

"I just need to close my eyes for a bit"

"If you sleep you're gonna fall off this bike!"Shrugging her off.

"I wont fall asleep,Ill just close my eyes for a bit."

"I swear to God if you fall over this bike I'm leaving you behind"

"I doubt that."

Levi can feel her smug smirk on his back.

~Don't waste your breath on this woman Levi.

He knows this woman wont listen to him.She seems like the type that takes fun out of doing whats she's not supposed to.Besides,he appreciated the silence that came along with it.The raven haired man kept on pedaling for almost a mile until he felt something wet dripping on his back.

"Hey four eyes you better not be drooling on my shirt."

No response.

"Hey!Shitty glasses!"He raised his voice.

"W-w-what..I-I'm not asleep"Hange sounded disoriented as she made a slurping sound whilst wiping the dribbling drool out of her mouth with the back of her hand.

"You are drooling on my shirt."

"Oh!Sorry about that."Sloppily wiping the wet spot on his shirt.

"Stop that!Youre spreading your drool all over my back!"

The brunette's nervous chuckle was inturrupted when she saw the street sign wtih the number 49th wirtten over it "oh look were here!Those are my friends!"

The brunette pointed on a white victorian style house.Where two ladies sat on the sidewalk.

"Ricoconut!Nanabanana!"The brunette shouted and jumped out of the bike making the ride wobble.

"Oh for fucks sake."Levi grumbled under his breath.

'Hange!Oh my God!Are you okay?did you get caught?"Nanaba ran towards her.

"I'm fine.I believe this is yours?"Hange pulled the ring out of her pocket and handed it to her blonde friend.

"Oh my!You found it!Thank you!Thank you!"Nanaba held her face as she kissed Hange on her forehead and both her cheeks.

"Who's this guy?"Rico grimaced at Levi.

"Thats is Levi.He found Nanaba's ring."

"Oh...you did?What are you doing at the Fun Emporioum at the middle of the...you know what nevermind.Who Am I to judge?"Rico chuckled.

"Do you want to go inside?We still got a few bottles of wine and boxes of pizza lying around."Nanaba offered.

"No,I should get going."Levi deadpanned.

"More wine for us then...Lets go inside" Rico linked arms with Nanaba and tugged her towards the house.

"Thanks again Levi!Nice meeting you!"Nanaba turned her head at him giving him a small wave as she was dragged away by the silver haired girl.

Levi turned his attention to the brunette.

"Here's your bike four eyes."

"You're from 52nd street right?Thats altleast three blocks away from here.Take it.Return it whenever you can.No rush."

Levi paused to contemplate her offer.Walking alone in the streets in the middle of the night is a recipe for disaster.Hesitantly,he nodded his head and hopped back on her bike.

"See you around four eyes."

She smiled at the familiar situation.

"See you around Shorty!"Hange waved him goodbye.

"Sometimes,mistakes lead us right where we should be" Her fathers words echoed in her head.

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ithisatanytime · 4 years ago

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When i predicted that the media would shift focus to new cases instead of deaths months ago, those of you who were paying attention, when you read this kind of stuff where i go, SEE!? SEEEE1??!!? do you just wave it off as a coincidence? or do you think im a crazy guy who makes so many wild predictions some of them are bound to stick?

people my mothers age who are skeptical of the system but not one hundred percent on board with this whole establishment jews thing, the establishment throws them a story about the dreaded BILL GATES, or JEFF BEZOS and they run with it. the establishment hates those rich goys any damn way, so for them this whole corona thing was bill gates secret plan to inject microchips into peoples arms or install 5g towers, basically technology bad, fire bad, fire scary! i dont mean to be too harsh on them, but nothing they predict ever happens, and they just forget about it, for them its a matter of opinion whats going on in the world, which is absurd, you are right or wrong about whats happening and if in time not a single goddamn person has a bill gates mark of the beast chip in their arm, but the things i predicted came true, logically it follows that i have the clearer picture about what is going on these days, but so powerful is the propaganda, (DONT THINK RACIALLY, DONT BE A RACIST LIKE THOSE VILLIANS IN THOSE MOVIES WE MADE) that they cannot accept reality, despite seeing the evidence with their own eyes.

Luckily every young man who grew up less with television and movies, more with the internet, they dont have quite the same sensibilities. they grew up in internet forums where being wrong about even one insignificant detail results in being “FLAMED” mercilessly (flamed is what we used to call trolled back in the day) so for them, they value being correct much more than being politically correct. this sounds absurd to boomers, because they are relegated to the shallow end of the internet pool that is largely establishment controlled and they see nothing but young women spouting the virtues of communism and racial equality, but below the tip of the iceberg is a mass of young men growing increasingly angry now that they know that they know that they know just who is responsible for this twisted modern hellscape, and they will be unwilling to forgive and forget.

This is not meant to be a boomers vs millennials circle jerk. I love boomers with all my heart, and in truth i feel sorry for them. they were the only generation of man to be born and raised and grow old in the most thorough propaganda machine the world has ever seen. american mass media with the advent of the television set was the most effective propaganda campaign ever devised and by a wide margin too, it did a serious number on them. they are good people, decent people in their hearts, but they were the subjects of a lifelong experiment in the efficacy of lying. they spent hours every single day of their entire lives being lied to, they also were made to feel subconsciously responsible for the decline of western civilization, they realize that things now are not even half as good as when they were children, they react defensively and blame participation trophies and millennial weakness for the state of things. if any of us were in their shoes we would do exactly the same! don’t be fooled. if they should lash out at you and your generation, give them a break, remember what i said. they are actually decent people who have been badly propagandized by hollywood jews. when the time comes they will likely do the right thing, i see them at protests cursing out the news media all the time, and this gives me great hope for the future.

We are not different in our hearts and souls, we just had vastly different experiences growing up, the older generation doesn’t appreciate the breadth and depth of the internet, to them its liberal millennials whining, pornography sites, and facebook, the establishment wishes this were so. they are never as savvy as a person who grew up with it, in the same vain us millenials are less handy with car maintenance and household repairs because ownership of these things declined massively. there does not exist a fundamental difference between us, nothing intrinsically different other than what i mentioned previously in this post. hell even millennial women who bought the lie! i love them with my entire heart. i view them as captives, pows in this war against the truth. they are not the enemy, they our are sisters and daughters and mothers. in time the entire machine will be undone thanks to the internet, and once the source of the lie is cut off, these people will wake up as if they were in a life long dream. these things will happen sooner than you think, we will all live to see it and the age of prosperity that follows.

unrelated history trivia: just two years after the people of germany elected the evil hitler to office (may he burn in hell) the german economy completely turned around. they went from the poorest nation in the western world to the most prosperous in less than two years! it was known as the german miracle. this is just a neat little factoid and has nothing to do with anything i said prior.

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