#nd also a ton of wcs >:)

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" a small part of me dies whenever someone doesn't get my joke . "

[ajokeformur-ray]

okay thank u!! im 5'1, i had bpd and sh issues, i take tons of medicone, im schizoaffective nd i love reading. i take human services classes (like social work) and i smoke a lot of pot. i have rly bad impulse control issues and i like to help people w their feelings. this is for the joker match up btw!! i have black hair w red streaks and hazel eyes :)

Arthur // wc: 368.

Arthur is drawn to you from the very first day he bumped into you at the pharmacy to collect his medication. You were there to pick up your own cocktail of medications; collectively could Arthur and yourself run your own pharmacy, or so it seemed. As you had turned from the cashier, you had dropped the brown bag which contained your medications, and a mustard yellow sleeve had shot into your sight as automatically did Arthur bend down to help you out. From that day on, you were inseparable. You love to read and one of your favourite times of day is curling up in bed with Arthur and reading to him the latest chapter of the book you’re reading; fiction or not, it’ll lull Arthur to sleep, as will the sound of your heartbeat in his ear. These moments with you are pure bliss for such a tried and tired man.

He’s the biggest supporter of your classes - he’ll do anything to help you with any of the work, and he would spend weeks building up the courage to ask his social worker for any advice you need, as well. One day he comes from his therapy with tons of pamphlets and a few phone numbers and even a few future job prospects, all for you. He presents everything that he got for you with such an enthusiastic flourish that he almost hits you in the face with the thick sheath of paper. Oops?

You had bad impulse control issues and Arthur would do his best to help you in any way that he could. He secretly wishes that he could express his own impulses too, but he’s way more concerned about you so he focuses only on you. He’d do anything you needed him to, and he’d also do tons of research into your various disorders; going to the library on his rare days off just to help you. Arthur truly loves you and he knows how hard it is to fight yourself daily when you’re still so exhausted from yesterday. It’s something he’d really admire and respect you for and he’s overall super protective of you. He loves you so much, no matter what.

Joker // wc: 527.

You’ve been with Arthur through it all and you’ve only ever fallen more in love with him. If he was loyal as Arthur, then now he’s in it for life. He needs to get all the messy paperwork to make what he considers to be marriage entirely legal. Oh, yeah. Maybe he should actually ask you, too, but he’s comfortable enough within what the two of you have built up together over the years to know that you’ll say yes. He knows you that well, despite what his mind tells him most often. He’s stopped taking his own medications and he feels much better for it, or at least, that’s what he tells you, but even so does he make sure that you take yours. All of them. He meticulously keeps track of everything, not because he doesn’t think you can or anything like that, but just because he’s always so worried for you and he desperately wants you to be as well as you can be for you. If you’re late to take your medication by even five minutes, Joker’s there with a glass of water in one hand and your medication, in whichever order or all at once if that’s how you take them, cupped in his other hand, both outstretched to you. “Here, doll. Open up.” You smirk and say something like, “That’s not the first time you’ve said that to me.” and as you take your medications, you enjoy the blush so prominent it’s visible even through his greasepaint. Your bedtime reading routine is still a huge part of your days, except now does Joker like to read to you, too. He has to ask what some words mean or even how to pronounce them, and it just brings you even closer together than you already were.

Joker is your biggest supporter in anything that you decide to do, no matter what. So if you need help revising or arranging anything, Joker is there for you. You smoke a lot of pot and though Joker would worry because he’s never smoked or taken drugs like that before, he’d take care of you when you do partake and he’d ask that you only smoke when he’s around because he really is just so worried for and about you. He likes to sit beside you and smoke cigarettes, a smirk on his face as he watches you under the influence of the drug and also under his watchful, practiced eye after all this time of knowing and loving you. 

Joker is all about giving into his impulses and doing and saying what he wants after a lifetime of not being able to do so for various reasons, all of which were beyond his control, but when it comes to you, he knows exactly what to do and say to help you in any way that he can. He loves you so much and he loves redyeing his hair in the bathroom, while his green dye sets he helps you with the red streaks in yours. He really does just completely devote himself and his life to you; so deeply and completely does he love you.

[rvkyungil]

hey dudes ! this is moon kyungil, he’s the bassist and main rapper for journey and under the cut is a lil more about him if anyone would like to plot  ––  just like this and i’ll message you here or on discord!

you can call him kyungil or kyung he really doesn’t care

he can be super closed off around people he’s not friends with and in front of big crowds or cameras, he’s honestly just super introverted

hes also . a literal beanpole which doesn’t help how awkward he can be bc hes 6′4 and skinnie nd he really needs to stand up straight more often

his voice is way too deep unfortunately its at a near subterranean level

wears too much black. he’s like the long lost brother of an eboy without knowing what an eboy is.

he really comes out of his shell when it comes to music . he started learning guitar as a kid in busan and soon afterwards taught himself bass and he loves it  ( and ngl hes really good at it )  and so whenever hes playing or even just talking about it with other musicians / idols he fully brightens up

kyungil comes off as intimidating on stage sometimes or to fans because .. he’s a tree and also wears too much black and rarely speaks up in front of people but hes really just a dork . a doofus . a goober

just really loves his friends n is really giggly and never really takes thing seriously with them he’s finally joking around for once whenever he’s hanging out with them

really doesn’t feel like an idol at all he knows that technically he’s in an idol band but he has never even tried to dance  ( and he shouldn’t it’d be a mess )  and really all of his training that liberty gave him was just trying to get him to not completely fuck up in an interview

honestly kyung just lets the other members do most of the talking when theyre on shows or in interviews he doesnt even mean to he just instantly retreats back into his shell when he’s around a ton of other people

idk basically he’s just a tall awkward boi and even though he debuted years ago he’s still working on coming out of his shell more often

plot / connection ideas !

he’s got a wc for one of the open spots for a journey members to be one of his best friends from busan that he always played music with and just messaged around ... js

someone who he just is always awkward around no matter what he does its just always off

any sort of ship thats technically always an option

whoever dyed his hair pink lmao it definitely wasn’t a stylist who did it it was just him thinking it’d be a fun thing to do when he’s bored n then got scolded by liberty for it

>super close friends that he’s made since he first moved to seoul for journey

former classmates in seoul bc he didn’t go to college but he still had like a year or to high school when he debuted

a future cat co-parent honestly . just puttin that out there

other musicians even if they don’t do music together just honestly anyone who plays an instrument he is down to be buds with really

[boloorsportsmania]

#698 1999 world cup flashback - SA’s 2 moments of madness which triggered Australian domination and more..:-)

It has been 2 decades since Australia started their dream of world cup wins in England. I had just finished my Engineering when world cup had kick started. India had a dream run till 1998 when Sachin and Kumnle had inspired India to series of wins. 1999 world cup started a on a poor note for India. India faced SA in first match in Brighton. India started off well. Sachin and Ganguly had a fifty plus stand before Kluesner dismissed the former. Sachin and Dravid then had 130 run stand. By the time Dravid was dismissed, India were 197-2 in 42nd over. Score of 270 looked likely. But India just managed 253-5. Ganguly’s 142 ball 97 was a point of discussion as he slowed down immensely in 90s. India reduced SA to 68-3 as Srinath had dismissed both the openers. But Kallis’s 96 and some late hitting by Rhodes gave SA 4 wicket win with more than 3 overs to spare. India then lost of Zimbabwe as well. Sachin missed that match as his father had expired. India had to make a serious run to make it to Super 6. They did. They beat Kenya, Lanka and England to make it to Super 6. Sachin scored century against Kenya , a day after he returned from his father’s funeral. India had to literally win all 3 matches in super 6 to make it to SF. They lost to Australia in first match thanks to masterly ton by Mark Waugh and Mcgarth’s early spell. India came back by beating Pakistan in a tense match. Venkatesh Prasad grabbed a 5-fer. By the time India faced NZ in final match, it was clear that India cant make it to SF. They lost to NZ.

Australia also had a poor start. They had lost to NZ and Pakistan in league matches. They needed to beat SA and they did. Gibbs dropping Steve Waugh was critical as Australia gained lot of confidence form that. Australia looked supreme in super 6. In SF, Pakistan outclassed NZ. Kluesner had won handful of matches for SA till this point of time. In SF, Australia struggled as they just managed 213. Shaun Pollock grabbed 5 fer. Steve Waugh and Bevan scored fifties to Australia some chance. SA started confidently as they reached 48-0 in 13th over. In 2 overs, Shane Warne changed the complexion of the match. He castled Gibbs and Kisten and later dismissed Cronje. Cronje later claimed that he had not hit the ball. SA 53-3. Kallis 50 and calm Rhodes took SA closer to target. By the time Kallis was dismissed by Warne for 53, SA needed 39 from 32 balls. It was Kluesner time again. He took the match to the last over. SA needed 13 runs of the last over. Only 1 wicket was left. He smashed 3 back to back boundaries of Fleming. Nobody moved when he hit those boundaries. Scores were tied. SA had to beat Australia and not just tie as Australia would advance to finals based on the fact that 1987 champions had beaten SA in league match. 3 balls were left to score 1 run. SA looked like progressing to finals. But they did the unthinkable. Kluesner hit the ball towards mid on and went for the run. Donald at the non striker was ball watching. He eventually was run out. Kluesner’s 31 from 16 was not enough as Australia progressed to finals. They outclassed Pakistan in finals. Australia never looked back till 2007 . They won 3 back to back world cups. They in fact were unbeaten in 2003 and 2007 world cups. Those 2 moments of madness by SA  (Gibbs drop catch and Donald ball watching) had triggered an Australian domination. They went from strength to strength post that world cup win. Kluesner was star of the world cup but Australia played intense cricket when it mattered the most.

Interestingly, India start 2019 world cup also against SA. India are also one of the favorites like they were in 1999. Though Australia are defending champions , they start off as underdogs . Would history repeat itself or would SA stop choking in WC or would England finally win a world cup?? Cant wait for 2019 world cup to begin!!!

[lotsasmilesphoto]

I’m constantly learning.  But I love building on my skills and improving.  How boring would this world be if there was nothing new left to learn?  There aren’t as many items as last year, but while I’m finding fewer things that really improve my art each year, I hope to never stop growing.

Here are a few things that drastically improved my photography in 2017:

I learned lenses have a sweet spot

Shooting landscape, and want to have everything in focus?  Max out that f-stop at 22, and I’ll have a perfectly sharp image!

Wrong.

This was a hard lesson to learn, as I shot most of Yosemite like this.  When I got back to my computer at home, I was dismayed to find my images were oddly soft – despite using a tripod and manual focus.

It wasn’t until afterwards that I learned lenses don’t perform well at the extremes; they have sweet spots.  I would have had sharper pictures if I had shot at f/8 or f/11.

This also applies to the low end (f/1.4), as well as zoom distance (if not a prime lens), and high ISO (which should be obvious).

I bought an ND filter

I never thought I needed one.  Shooting in the Pacific Northwest, I deal with a lot of cloudy days or very well-sheltered waterfalls.  My problem was in not getting enough light; why would I want to diminish it more?

But in an effort to play more with long-exposure photography in my landscapes – and after a few instances where my 1-stop polarizer wasn’t enough – I bought one.. and I wasn’t disappointed.

Now, even in bright light, I can blur clouds and water alike, and it really adds some punch to my photos.  It’s one more tool in my arsenal, and I’m having fun with incorporating it into shoots.

I bought a bazooka

This is a photography blog, folks.  My only firearms are camera equipment. 🙂

The Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 II is now one of my favorite lenses.  It sure cost a pretty penny, but it was worth every cent.  It’s beautifully sharp, it focuses lightning-fast, and that f/2.8 is a godsend in the abysmal lighting of conspace.

It’s barely long enough to serve as a wildlife lens (and it still performs well on top of an extender), but it was the perfect replacement to my cheap (and literally falling-apart) 75-300mm.  This lens weighs a ton, but I’m hard-pressed to not want to cart it around with me everywhere.

I started to really market my images

For the longest time, I was afraid to sell my photography.  If someone actually placed an order, I’d need to make sure those photos were the absolute best I could provide.  Can I trust the print shop?  Do my images have any flaws?

While I still have a few reservations, I’m thinking about this from the start.  Therefore, before I even mark a photo for sale, I make sure it’s wall-worthy.  This might mean editing takes a little longer, but it’s worth it for the higher quality.

Additionally, I have signed up on a few stock photography websites.  These have quality regulations as well, and I want to increase my chances for sales, so I’m being more meticulous with each photo.

I put myself in inspiring places

I obviously love to travel.  One can grow tired of shooting the same places, so a change in scenery simply makes me want to shoot everything around me; it’s all new.  In 2017, I went to Yosemite – which is a photographer’s paradise.  I also went to Washington’s Palouse.  And Costa Rica.  And Alaska.

All are incredibly photogenic.  And being truly inspired to shoot more means more practice and a stronger drive to do these magnificent locations justice.  A photo will never truly replace an experience, but I keep working on narrowing that gap, and these beautiful places ignite the fire within me to do so.

I keep learning, year after year.  But art isn’t something you ever completely master.  I’ll look back in a year from now, surprised at the additional skills I’ve acquired since – at the growth I’ve achieved… yet knowing even then I’ll still have so much more to learn.

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WC: 5 Things that Drastically Improved My Photography in 2017 I'm constantly learning.  But I love building on my skills and improving.  How boring would this world be if there was nothing new left to learn?