#no. 6 was so full of arrogance that he forgot why he wanted to become a theatre actor in the first place and

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which one

Reblog with the worst thing your Blorbo has done.

[darlenicy]

Okay, so I watched Winx season 4...

....and I am not okay with it!

These are my full notes & thoughts.... aka one big rant👀

Okay so a quick reminder that I watched the German dub of season 4 so if I mention voice actors it's always the German ones. Oh, and I don't consider anything post movie #1 canon. Okay that's it, thank you. Now let's start the rant.

Episode 1:

the opening cringed right in 🙄

all of a sudden Faragonda comes to mind, that there is another stage of transformation - all of a sudden

the Trix picture in the Hall of Enchantments saved my day

Of course, Bloom has to touch everything again (the curtain in front of the wizards' picture was there on purpose, bloom!)

Winxologie doesn't sound arrogant at all, Tecna

Layla thinks dancing is also a class

"The winx are all totally in love with themselves" Clarice yes, you so right

Amaryl is still with the freshmen 🤣

if Bloom had said she hadn't done it, Faragonda would have believed her - poor Alice isn't extra enough yet to be the teacher's pet. Maybe if she is also the princess of a lost kingdom she eventually has the chance to become Faragonda's new favorite

he (Ogron) talks (has the same voice actor as) like cool cake (Codatorta don't ask why I call him cool cake I just do)

Episode 3:

how ruthless the Winx are (again I forgot what they did. probably them totally failing every fkn job)

zombie stuffed animals wtf girls

these animals are so UGLY and not cute

Episode 4:

why are you so shitty with the boyz? They just want to help you??!! Another hint, that skloom is dammed

no seriously the boys are just there being nice, ready to help and the Winx (mainly Bloom) are UGHHHHH YOU DON'T TRUST US

>:((((((((((

Episode 5

why don't you use fairy dust to turn the ass ugly fairy animals back? Rainbow be like: FCK CONTINUITY!

the Winx are the problem, not the specialists (they treat the boys like shit 😭)

Roxy's dad is lol. how can you have such a bad memory? best thing is calling HELIA -> TOBIAS xD

Why is Musa's bear called Pepe? Wasn't there another name? The name is already taken, Rainbow! :(

Episode 6

why this new hairstyle boys? helia looks so stupid. he was the cute, mysterious cool boy and now he is the freak with the bangs

Episode 8

it's no wonder, that Stella wasn't allowed to drive a car on Solaria. i mean it's stella and i don't want to know how high radius' bill was for all the crashed cars 😂

of course everyone can ride a horse now! Didn't bloom say she can't ride a horse in the 2nd movie? fck continuity

at least Musa is allowed to sing alone in this ep! give musa the musical attention she deserves and fck bloom. give the fire girl an instrument and let musa sing, she's the goddamn fairy of music!

nabu and timmy are the only non toxic bfs lmao i love them

Episode 9

Erendor suuuper inconspicuous

you were on Sparx? Sparx? Not Domino? U sure?

i love Erendor's rant. still why can't he rule? does this man need vacation so badly? why is sky even king? sense come out where u hiding

the bed is minimally exaggerated

Episode 10

Roxy be like: I'm not like you, Bloom. I don't want to be special. lemme be a normal earth girl and chill. no need to make me a PRINCESS IN THE FUTURE *cough*

you're listening to the police radio, Tecna? ok how criminal of you lmao

not Musa being a toxic bitch again. that's why i ship driven

Stella x Musa (even though musa is wrong but this cute. i love when they are sweet with each other. in s1 and s2 they had their problems but since s3 they're such besties)

Episode 11

musa, jason is your producer, not your boyfriend

➡ nothing against age gaps but he is clearly interested in her because she has talent, not because she has boobs

➡ and wTf you HAVE a boyfriend, musa! poor riven, my boi 😭

nabu x layla!!!!! (i will say it again and again, they built them up to destroy them and that is unnecessary drama! 😭

Episode 14

yes musa, short hair does suit you better

➡ also stella saying that long hair is the best thing ever is pretty rude against tecna? but hey, she's cool with it: stella: hair is the most effective weapon of seduction a girl has - Tecna: oh really, i though it was the brain - burrrrrn (in the German dub it's even meaner of stella because she explicitly says LONG hair is the most effective weapon a girl has)

Bloom didn't want to be a fairy at first like Roxy?? gurl, you were totally into it! it was you stupid dream after all

if stella had seen brandon being nice to a girl she's be mad? Ehm, they used to make a game out of who flirts with more people. real stella would chill, s4 stella would explode

yes riven, you just don't have a relationship base this season makes it more obvious than ever

and the animals just stay free in the city? ok...

Episode 15

YOU BROKE UP WITH HIM, MUSA! don't act as if HE was the problem🤯

Also do we see Mitzi as a fairy ever again? no? ok

Episode 16

oh brilliant Faragonda can't solve the mystery of the white circle? loser

who said that Bloom is the one singing? who is the music fairy? i think it's not her for sure!?

WHY DOES BLOOM SING?!

Poor Riven bb

yes Riven, change yourself completely, then everything will be fine. i mean rivusa shipping aside, it's never good to change yourself for another person. musa fcks up just as much as he does. maybe they just have to face that they don't work together? never ever try to become someone you are not. if a person wants YOU to change, better question the relationship with that person

➡ ngl rainbow could have written them better. it's a mystery why they don't make them break up before s7. it's simply not working

bloom has to address twice that she is a clever fairy to sky in case he forgets

➡ WHO HAS TO CALL ONESELF CLEVER AGAIN AND AGAIN MIGHT BE NOT SO CLEVER IRL I DON'T MAKE THE RULES

Episode 17

 Tir Nan Og is near Ireland BUT it's a tropical island. makes sense

ehm is it just me or does Morgana looks exactly like the mermaid queen of andros' whose name i forgot?

hm not even that much. maybe it's the shape of their faces

Episode 18

Roxy is veeeeery emotional

brandon, don't say "you act like ex-lovers", that's very mean

you have been arguing a lot lately, musa? You argue ALL THE TIME!

Episode 19

essential oils or essential fairies? 🤣 why? i can't take them serious with that name. it sounds like "This is eucalyptus, this is peppermint, and this is lavender"🤣

do they build up nabu x layla so lovely, so that the end is even more tragic?? fck you rainbow

not stella patting the snake 🐍🤣 i love how she is not AHHHHH :0 but t AWWWWWW >.<

Episode 21

not musa kissing andy in fkn front of riven!!!

since when has it been the winx's dream to become musicians? since yesterday? ok

ogron, you serious? Don't give them the black circle

not musa worrying they'll be late for their show. i mean girls, it's the world that has to be saved again. fck your damn gig

not the German dub putting the cherry on top again with giving us some extra lines when in the original is just a "huh" when the winx discover sybilla's pan fairy minions:

➡ bloom: cute *v* - stella: ..you really think so? (same girl)

bloom: we have the gIfT oF hEaRt!! Stella: the power of prudence would be a more suiteable one - omg stella slay

riven sings.. he really sings. that proves again which's bf he is

no but seriously it's so nice that the boys want to play out time to make sure the winx will have their performance too later

➡ musa: YOU WANT TO STEAL US OUR SUCCESS!!!! >:(((((( JKLDFHIDHFSFHK they made it to guarantee that YOU can still perform!

Episode preview: The Winx….and Roxy

➡ as much as you try Roxy, you'll never be a Winx 😂

Episode 22

Tecna...

....who put you in that dress???

the wizards are all 4 my boyz and i love them

Episode 23

bloom isn't thinking at all again EWEWEW I WilL fIgHt YoU! Yes, go on. Fight against the fairy of WAR. you sure got good chances. and why she alone? why of all things HER?

nebula: you will pay for your arrogance ➡️ Yes girl

Aurora be like: worried…but for my ice tower!

➡️ love it how she gives no fcks about nebula but is only worried about her home

is it that simple? Roxy just gotta say please please and Morgana is aw okay I won't go on with the war against the humans

black gift: ah good, you can prevent a death, well you certainly won't act in haste i'm sure (spoiler: in the end it's not their fault at all and that is really a plot twist. i already saw bloom saving some stranger just to waste the gift so that nabu has to die. but it's not that case. idk how to feel about it. yaay fairies you did your best?)

Episode 24

Totally normal that a rabbit pays for pizza. wtf Gardenia you all high there?

layla speculating about the future 😭

nebula that ol' bitch was always the fairy of peace - now of war WAHAHA i think that's kinda neat. also nebula is a queen

until he (nabu) awakens?? Isn't he quite dead?

ok he is completely dead. then don't spoil us with little hints of hope that he might open his eyes again ok?

bloom: too baaaaad......not that i could use my dragon flame healing bring ppl bak to live powers on him nooo *whistle*

Episode 25

Layla is now eViL

do these tragic flashbacks have to be???😭😭

Red Fountain?? wtf German dub, it was always Rote Fontäne!, duuuh

another tragic flashback 😭

hard cut and at the end enchantix again? which animator was sloppy here?

nebula is such a queen

layla badass

secret revealed: morgana is roxy's mom - yes come on we ALL saw that coming

we give a fck about continuity again and act as if it wasn't centuries ago that the fairies were defeated at earth WTF. how is it even possibible that morgana was with claus?? sense, wherever you are, COME OUT

Episode 26

to name an episode without ice & fire without having ICY in it, is mean tho

one could have made nebula's and layla's change of mind more exciting

➡️ it was like: Oh, OH we're GOOD again! <3

nebula the real queen and she got what she deserved, i love that

Overall:

yeh this season is so cringe, okay? i watched 26 episodes and i feel like nothing really happened? the plot was so lame and slow. i mean, look what happens in s1-s3 in all the episodes. there was so much more going on. it was just relationship drama and unncecessary i gotta say. if they have to write rivusa so toxic then why don't they simply break them up and give them a harmonic ending? maybe being friends is better for them? also no fan of musa becoming a girly bitch with long hair. give me back my tomboy. i have to say too: a season without the trix is no real season even though the wizards are cool. also faragona is so useless let's don't talk about that. and the winx were teachers for ONE episode and after that they are like: meh no we live now our ugly love and pet life in gardenia. the pets, the PETS. i HATE them. they are so ugly. I mean the pixies had a plot they had to fulfill. they had a SENSE in the winx universe. the pets are just ...ugh. not cute. Then Roxy: my opinion on her: she's a bit over dramatic but fine i guess? still wonder why her wings are so big if she is no believix fairy. nebula, diana and aurora were really cool but come on, we did not really need this season. then the criticism that everyone has: wtf with the second movie. where does it take place? why is nabu alive? why do they have their beliviex? it's just that this season was rushed and the plot was meh. and i know it gets worse so let's face it. winx ended after the first movie and this is an ass ugly boring and lame written ff au.

And yes, I will go on with the detailed comments on s1. these notes here were just randomly taken on my phone and i felt the need to share them.

[vajranam]

Cup Of Tea

What Tea Can Teach You

There was a Japanese Zen master named Nan-in who lived during the Meiji era (1868-1912). During his days as a teacher, he was visited by a university professor curious about Zen.

Being polite, Nan-in served the professor a cup of tea.

As he poured, the professor’s cup became full, but Nan-in kept on pouring. As the professor watched the cup overflow, he could no longer contain himself and said, “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

Nan-in turned to the professor and said, “Like the cup, you are too full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

The Beginning :

first things first I am Ngakpa Konchok Dorje Tsondon, this blog had several life’s because sometimes the provider played update tricks sometimes was myself who wanted different things.

I am a yogi from the Drikung Kagyu Lineage but my roots of Buddha Dharma are from Karma Kagyu, Nigmapas, Gulugpas and Shaigon, Zen I had lot of different teachers, because my view was build on Jagung Kuntrul Rinpoche teaching and Kalu Rinpoche teaching “Rimey”. After lot of chaos and tones of challenges one day I found Garchen Rinpoche who became my vajra master.

Let have a cup of tea

I heard that a lot why do you teach? My answers are on my Ngakpa vows there is some point about that but my real answer is Bodhicitta that why I teach, I am just an insect compare to the big Rinpoche but if one of my text help one being I rejoice in it.

Attitude To Dharma

The Buddha teach about the three pots, this teaching is extremely important because learn us the right view we need to take. The Tea teaching is another one why is before all of the teachings. Well not just because I love Koan and I love do Koan but more because today we are all full as a cup of tea.

Recently I heard something on the radio about a scientific who been to India talked with the Swamies and Lamas. He was surprised about the full effect of meditation but he forgot one thing to empty is a cup.

Like that scientist, we all come with a massive cup full of judgement, views, information and mostly let’s call it massive ego.

When I touch the holy land of India I had a simple question in my head how to stop suffering but even with that, I had to learn to empty my cup because not doing it will be like asking the Dalai Lama for help and not take any of his advice.

Dharma whatever dharma you take isn’t like going to church and eat kinda truth and everyone happy, whatever you take Vedic, Buddha or Sikh dharma be ready for the ride. That means dharma is base on experience a teacher will show you the way but you got to do 100% of the efforts to get there.

No one will save you from your “mistakes” Christian call that sin we call that non virtue, non virtues are like putting a mine in road that you drive and forgot about it. The problem when the mine gonna to explode that when the problem start.

The right attitude to dharma well whatever level we are we always learn, new ways there for we should develop the student attitude. Keep mind open and keep humble.

50 Verses of Guru Devotion

Composed by Ashvagosha

L1. Bowing in the proper way to the lotus feet of my Guru, who is the cause for me to attain the state of a glorious Vajrasattva, I shall condense and explain in brief what has been said in many stainless tantric texts about Guru-devotion. (Therefore) listen with respect.

2. All the Buddhas of the past, present and future, residing in every land in the ten directions, have paid homage to the Tantric Masters from whom they have received the highest initiations. (Is there need to mention that you should too?)

3. Three times each day, with supreme faith, you must show your respect to your Guru who teaches you (the tantric path), by pressing your palms together, offering a mandala as well as flowers and prostrating (touching) your head to his feet.

4. Those who hold ordination vows, if (your Guru) is a layman or your junior, prostrate (in public) while facing such things as his scriptural texts in order to avoid worldly scorn. But in your mind (prostrate to your Guru).

5. As for serving (your Guru) and showing him respect, such as obeying what he says, standing up (when he comes) and showing him to his seat — these should be done even by those with ordination vows (whose Gurus are laymen or their juniors). But (in public), avoid prostrating and unorthodox actions (such as washing his feet).

6. In order for the words of honour of neither the Guru nor the disciple to degenerate, there must be a mutual examination beforehand (to determine if each can) brave a Guru-disciple relationship.

7. A disciple with sense should not accept as his Guru someone who lacks compassion or who is angersome, vicious or arrogant, possessive, undisciplined or boasts of his knowledge.

8. (A Guru should be) stable (in his actions), cultivated (in his speech), wise, patient and honest. He should neither conceal his shortcomings, nor pretend to possess qualities he lacks. He should be an expert in the meanings (of tantra) and in its ritual procedures (of medicine and turning back obstacles). Also he should have loving compassion and a complete knowledge of the scriptures.

9. He should have full experience in all ten fields, skill in the drawing of mandalas, full knowledge of how to explain the tantras, supreme faith and his senses fully under control.

10. Having become the disciple of such a protecting (Guru), should you then despise him from your heart, you will reap continual suffering as if you had disparaged all the Buddhas.

11. If you are so foolish as to despise your Guru, you will contract contagious diseases and those caused by harmful spirits. You will die (a horrible death) caused by demons, plagues or poison.

12. You will be killed by (wicked) kings or fire, by poisonous snakes, water, witches or bandits, by harmful spirits or savages, and then be reborn in a hell.

13. Never disturb you Guru’s mind. Should you be foolish and happen to do this, you will surely boil in hell.

14. Whatever fearful hells have been taught, such as Avici, the Hell of Uninterrupted pain, it is clearly explained that those who disparage their Gurus will have to remain there (a very long time).

15. Therefore, exert yourself wholeheartedly never to belittle your Tantric Master who makes no display of his great wisdom and virtues.

16. (If from a lack of awareness you have shown disrespect) to your Guru, reverently present an offering to him and seek his forgiveness. Then in the future such harms and plagues will not befall you.

17. It has been taught that for the Guru to whom you have pledged your word of honour (to visualize as one with your meditational deity), you should willingly sacrifice your wife, children and even your life, although these are not (easy) to give away. Is there need to mention your fleeting weath?

18. (Such practice of offering) can confer even Buddhahood on a zealous (disciple) in his very lifetime, which otherwise might be difficult to attain even in countless millions of eons.

19. Always keep your word of honour. Always make offerings to the Enlightened Ones. Always make offerings also to your Guru, for he is the same as all the Buddhas.

20. Those who wish (to attain) the inexhaustible (state of a Buddha’s Wisdom Body) should give to their Guru whatever they themselves find pleasing, from the most trifling objects to those of best quality.

21. Giving (to your Guru) is the same as making continual offerings to all the Buddhas. From such giving, much merit is gathered. From such collection comes the supreme powerful attainment (of Buddhahood).

22. Therefore, a disciple with the good qualities of compassion, generosity, moral self-control and patience should never regard his Guru and the Buddha Vajradhara as different.

23. If you should never tread even on (your Guru’s) shadow, because the fearsome consequences are the same as destroying a stupa, is there need to mention never stepping on or over his shoes or seat, (sitting in his place or riding) his mount?

24. (A disciple) having great sense should obey the words of his Guru joyfully and with enthusiasm. If you lack the knowledge or ability (to do what he says), explain in (polite) words why you cannot (comply).

25. It is from your Guru that powerful attainments, higher rebirth and happiness come. Therefore, make a wholehearted effort never to transgress your Guru’s advice.

26. (Guard) your Guru’s belongings as you would your own life. Treat even your Guru’s beloved (family) with the same (respect you show for him). (Have affectionate regard for) those closely around him as if they were your own dearest kin. Single-mindedly think (in this way) at all times.

27. Never sit on the (same) bed or seat (as your Guru), nor walk ahead of him. (At teachings do not) wear your hair in a top-knot, (a hat, shoes or any weapons). Never touch a seat (before he sits down), or if he happens to sits on the ground. Do not place your hands (proudly) on your hips or wring them (before him).

28. Never sit or recline while your Guru is standing (nor lie while he is sitting). Always be ready to stand up and serve him skillfully in an excellent manner.

29. In the presence of your Guru, never do such things as spit, (cough or sneeze without covering your mouth). Never stretch out your legs when at your seat, nor walk back and forth (without reason before him), and never argue.

30. Never massage or rub your limbs. Do not sing, dance or play musical instruments (for other than religious purposes). And never chatter idly or speak in excess (or too loudly) within the range of (your Guru’s) hearing.

31. (When your Guru enters the room) get up from your seat and bow your head slightly. Sit (in his presence) respectfully. At night, at rivers or on dangerous paths, with (your Guru’s) permission, you may walk before him.

32. In the direct sight of his Guru, (a disciple) with sense should not (sit) with his body twisted around, nor lean (casually) against pillars and such. Never crack your knuckles, (play with your fingers or clean your nails).

33. When washing (your Guru’s) feet or his body, drying, massaging (or shaving) him, precede such actions with (three) prostrations and at their conclusion do the same. Then attend (to yourself) as much as you like.

34. Should you need to address (your Guru) by his name, add the title “Your Presence” after it. To generate respect for him in others, further honorifics may also be used.

35. When asking for your Guru’s advice, first announce why you have come. With palms pressed together at your heart, listen to what he tells you, without (letting your mind) wander about. Then (when he has spoken), you should reply, “I shall do exactly as you have said.”

36. After doing (what your Guru has told you), report (what has happened) in polite, gentle words. Should you yawn or cough, (clear your throat or laugh in his presence), cover your mouth with your hand.

37. If you wish to receive a certain teaching, request three times with your palms pressed together, while before him on your (right) knee. (Then at his discourse), sit humbly and with respect, wearing appropriate clothing that is neat (and clean, without ornaments, jewelry or cosmetics).

38. Whatever you do to serve (your Guru) or show him respect, should never be done with an arrogant mind. Instead you should be like a newlywed bride, timid, bashful and very subdued.

39. In the presence of (the Guru) who teaches you (the Path), stop acting in a conceited, coquettish manner. As for boasting to others what you have done (for your Guru), examine (your conscience) and discard all such acts.

40. If you are (requested) to perform a consecration, (an initiation into) a mandala, a fire puja or to gather disciples and deliver a discourse, you may not do so if your Guru resides in that area, unless you receive his prior permission.

41. Whatever offerings you receive from performing such rites as (the consecration known as) “Opening the Eyes”, you should present all these to your Guru. Once he has taken a token portion, you may use the rest for whatever you like.

42. In the presence of his Guru, a disciple should not act (as a Guru) to his own disciples and they should not act towards him as their Guru. Therefore (before your own Guru), stop (your disciples) from showing you respect such as rising (when you come) and making prostrations.

43. Whenever you make an offering to your Guru, or whenever your Guru presents you with something, a disciple with sense will (present and) receive this, using both hands and with his head slightly bent.

44. Be diligent in all your actions, (alert and) mindful never to forget (your word of honour). If fellow disciples transgress (what is proper) in their behaviour, correct each other in a friendly manner.

45. If because of sickness you are physically (unable) to bow to your Guru and must do what normally would be prohibited, even without (his explicit) permission, there will be no unfortunate consequences if you have a virtuous mind.

46. What need is there to say much more. Do whatever pleases your Guru and avoid doing anything he would not like. Be diligent in both of these.

47. “Powerful attainments follow from (doing what) your Guru (likes).” This has been said by (the Buddha) Vajradhara himself. Knowing this, try to please your Guru fully with all the actions (of your body, speech and mind).

48. After a disciple has taken refuge in the Triple Gem and developed a pure (Enlightened) motive, he should be given this (text) to take to his heart (how to abandon his own arrogant self-will and) follow in his Guru’s footsteps (along the Graded Path to Enlightenment).

49. (By studying the prerequisite trainings of Guru-devotion and the Graded Path, common to both the Sutra and Tantra,) you will become a (suitable) vessel (to hold) the pure Dharma. You may then be given such teachings as Tantra. (After receiving the proper initiations,) recite out loud the fourteen root vows and take them sincerely to your heart.

50. As I have not made the mistake (of adding my personal interpretation) when writing this work, may this be of infinite benefit to all disciples who would follow their Guru. By the limitless merit I have gathered in this way, may all sentient beings quickly attain Buddhahood

[robininthelabyrinth]

Three Gates - on ao3 (for content warnings check Ao3) - on tumblr: pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5

- Chapter 6 -

When Nie Huaisang was five, almost six, his mother suddenly started to show an interest in him again.

It was all that awful Madame Yu’s fault, Meng Yao thought. It’d started right after the Jiang sect had come to visit, a nice official visit purportedly meant to introduce the two young sons that were about the same age – Madame Yu was Madame Jin’s friend, and therefore hated Meng Shi on her friend’s behalf, but she was so much smarter about it. She was as vicious and poisonous as the spider mentioned in her title, and Meng Yao’s mother was good and talented and sneaky but she was as susceptible to flattery and wiles as anyone else, especially since she’d never been the target of such poisonous words poured into her ear before, all designed to incite her into doing something she’d regret.

Meng Yao figured out what was going on pretty quickly, and even Nie Mingjue was wary of her belated interest in Nie Huaisang, although in Meng Yao’s opinion he focused a bit too much on the possibility of harm to Nie Huaisang’s feelings and not quite enough on the fact that the only thing standing between Meng Shi and the significantly more secure position of first wife was him.

Meng Yao had his first real out-loud argument with his mother over it.

Nie Huaisang didn’t care at all, indifferent as he was to Meng Shi after all this time, except of course in the sense that he was upset that Meng Yao was upset. Nie Mingjue was charmingly worried sick about their reignited and intensified cold war – so much so, even, that he went behind everyone’s backs and arranged for Meng Yao’s first mission with Chiwen to be a bodyguarding escort mission to take Qinghe’s current mistress on a shopping trip.

Sometimes Meng Yao wanted to strange him.

Irritatingly enough, it worked out just as Nie Mingjue must have planned. There was a limit to how much teenage sulking Meng Yao could get up to on an extended road trip that required a month’s travel in each direction, and his mother wasn’t so stubborn that she couldn’t be convinced regarding to exactly how underhanded Madame Yu’s instigation had been. Anyway, in the end, she did love him more than anything, and that made forgiveness easy.

Soon enough they were back to their old ways, living in each other’s pockets as they always had, only this time they had money in their pockets and the arrogance of having a Great Sect backing them up. They made a point to stop by Yunping again to rub their good fortune into the faces of the brothel owners and other prostitutes that had once so tormented them, and even ended up buying his mother’s old friend Sisi’s freedom at a much-discounted price, given what had happened to her face.

“No one will notice in Qinghe,” Meng Shi assured her old friend, clutching at her hands with a smile brighter than anything Meng Yao had ever seen on her; it made her look ten years younger. “Half the women there have scars – scars, and sabers, too, if you look inside the main house. We’ll say you’re my maid so that you can stay with me all the time, but I won’t make you lift a finger – I promise!”

Meng Yao thought it was a good thing. His mother would have company which she’d lacked, especially since Lao Nie had stopped visiting her courtyard, and even better it was company she already knew she liked. They could sit together and play games, or music, do their hair and make-up and clothes, and never have to think even once about what a man would think of them.

Meng Yao was in a very good mood.

He probably should have realized that something terrible was going to happen.

He should have, but he didn’t, not until they rode straight back in through the gates of the Unclean Realm and Nie Mingjue rushed out in a panic to meet them. He had a black eye and bruises on his neck that Meng Yao identified at once as being caused by a man’s hand – he’d seen it before in the brothel, though not since – and although Nie Mingjue was ignoring it he favored one leg over the other in a way that suggested that his ankle was swollen and maybe even fractured under his robes.

“Da-ge!” Meng Yao cried out in pure shock at how wrong it was. Although there were spars every day in the Unclean Realm, even vicious ones that were only a shade away from true fights, no one should be able to lay a hand on the eldest young master of Qinghe like that without getting their head chopped off for it, and even a night-hunt surely couldn’t have gone that badly. “What happened –”

“I’ll tell you later,” Nie Mingjue said, and his voice was harsh, but with terror, not anger. “Come with me right now. He can’t be allowed to see you. Either of you.”

Meng Yao had many questions, but Nie Mingjue permitted none of them; he ushered them up to the guest quarters, the mediocre ones where neither honored guests nor hated enemies were housed, and hidden inside, wrapped in blankets and yet shivering, pale-faced with fright, was Nie Huaisang.

Meng Yao rushed to him at once, of course, and Nie Huaisang burst into relieved tears at the sight of him – silent tears, which was unusual for him; Nie Huaisang had always been prone to wailing.

“Don’t let him make noise,” Nie Mingjue instructed, and it was at once apparent why Nie Huaisang was doing his level five-year-old best to turn sobs into whimpers and heaving breaths into quiet pants. Meng Yao turned to look at Nie Mingjue – Meng Shi and Sisi turned, too, expressions of shock and confusion painted onto their features. Nothing like this had ever happened before, and they’d been here for years; there had to be a reason for all this panic.

“What happened?” Meng Yao asked, and “You need to see a doctor,” but Nie Mingjue shook his head, promised Later, and left, locking the door behind them – locking them in.

Nie Huaisang tugged on Meng Yao’s arm. “We have to move the table,” he said. “Da-ge said, as soon as you were here, we need to move the table.”

“Move the table…? Where?”

The answer, it turned out, was in front of the door. The table, and a bookcase, as if they were planning on resisting a siege.

“Are we hiding from a monster?” Sisi asked Nie Huaisang, trying to make light of a situation she clearly didn’t understand – that none of them understood, because Nie Mingjue hadn’t explained anything.

She was trying to make light, but Nie Huaisang nodded solemnly as if she’d only said the truth. “It’s not his fault, though,” he said, his lower lip quivering. “It’s not A-die’s fault that he’s a monster now.”

Meng Yao was so steeped in cultivation lore that he forgot himself for a moment, thought immediately of possession or demonifiation or a curse or something, and then his mother said, “When did he start hitting your brother?” and Meng Yao remembered that powerful men didn’t need an excuse to be monsters.

But no, that didn’t make sense either – perhaps it would have, if he hadn’t lived here for years, if he hadn’t known Lao Nie, but he had. Lao Nie had a fierce temper and a tendency to hold grudges, a heavy hand and a cold rationality in his heart that Meng Yao understood at first glance and that Nie Mingjue hadn’t quite figured out for all that he tried to parrot his father’s teachings, but he was generally speaking not a bad man. If he sometimes raised his hand to his sons, it was meant to teach them something – he wasn’t some customer at the brothel whose always-bruised children stayed home with shadows in their eyes.

Or at least, he hadn’t been.

Meng Yao got some broken parts of the story out of Nie Huaisang with some difficulty, being as Nie Huaisang was five and self-centered and had no tendency, as Meng Yao had at his age, to listen at doorways. There was a night-hunt, apparently, and it had ended badly – Lao Nie’s saber, Jiwei, had shattered, entirely unexpectedly, and the creature had taken advantage of the moment to gore him, with only Nie Mingjue’s quick reactions saving his life.  He’d been in a coma for three days.

Three days, and then he’d woken up, his eyes bloodshot with ceaseless rage, and he’d called for Nie Mingjue to bring him his saber.

“Qi deviation,” Nie Mingjue told him later that night, climbing in through the window with a few more bruises and a cut high on his forehead so new that it was still scabbing over. His eyes were dull with exhaustion. “He doesn’t understand that she’s gone, no matter how I try to explain it.”

It wasn’t that Meng Yao hadn’t heard all the stories about the Nie clan’s tendency towards explosive and early deaths, but this was too early – Lao Nie hadn’t actually been all that old, for all that he’d waited longer than most of his ancestors to have children, and weren’t there supposed to be warning signs about this sort of thing? And the saber breaking, a Nie saber breaking –

“It was Wen Ruohan,” Nie Mingjue said. “At the dinner party, some months back. You remember. They had that back-and-forth about that fancy new saber he got as a present.” He shut his eyes. “I was standing next to him when it happened. I felt the echo of Wen Ruohan’s cultivation right before it happened – he did something, weakened it somehow, unbalanced her. Shattered her.”

His hand had found Baxia’s hilt as he spoke, his fingers white with pressure of holding her; Meng Yao couldn’t say anything, his own fingers tight around Chiwen – Nie sabers were spiritual weapons, so tailored to their makers that one might almost think they were conscious, and there were whispers that if you cultivated enough they would really become so, rising to semi-sentience and maybe even full thought one day. A Nie disciple cultivated their saber using their own soul and spirit, making it part of themselves…even imagining such a thing was like a nightmare come to life.

Meng Yao took a deep breath and held it for several seconds before exhaling. “Okay,” he said, even though it wasn’t okay, not at all. “What happens next?”

“You stay here with Huaisang,” Nie Mingjue said at once. “I’ll bring you food, water, everything you need – there are servant’s passages in the walls, or I can fly Baxia to your window –”

Meng Yao reached out and caught his waving hand. “No, not – what happens next? We can’t cower here like trapped rats forever.”

But Nie Mingjue only looked tired, tired and afraid. “Meng Yao…”

“We can’t,” Meng Yao insisted. “And you – look at you, look what he did to you –”

“He’s still sect leader,” Nie Mingjue said. “And my father. He’s entitled to do as he likes.”

“There has got to be some sect law permitting the removal of a sect leader for madness!” Meng Yao exclaimed. “This isn’t a surprise; it’s hereditary – someone must have put in place measures –”

“Measures that require three-fourths of Nie sect elders to participate, enough to fill a quota, and an heir old enough to make a reasonable argument for inheritance,” Nie Mingjue said, and they both knew that he wasn’t. He was only fifteen; who would respect him? “There was some underhandedness a few generations back, someone trying to frame someone else for it in order to steal their position, so madness is a high bar to reach. I’ve sent letters to summon back everyone above the right age, as many as people as I can spare, but until they all come – we can’t let anyone know.”

Meng Yao hunted for words, but his silver tongue could not do what his mind knew was impossible; there really was nothing for it. Tensions with the other sects were too high. Even putting Wen Ruohan aside, there was Jin Guangshan in Lanling, always avaricious, and dozens of small sects dreaming of becoming bigger at the Nie sect’s expense. It was one thing to say that Lao Nie was injured and healing; yet another entirely to reveal that the Nie sect’s leader had gone mad, mad with anger, and that they were as rudderless as a raft on the open ocean.

They couldn’t openly demand that their traveling sect elders all come rushing back at once without alerting everyone to the problem – they couldn’t even ask the other sects to help find them.

No one could know.

“So, what are you suggesting,” Meng Yao said, his smile even gentler than usual in his rage. He might not show his fierce anger the way the Nie clan did, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel it. “That we just put up with it until we gather enough people to do it right, or else until he dies? How long will that take?”

Nie Mingjue rubbed his face. “I’m not sure. A year, maybe?”

A year.

“That’s implausible,” Meng Yao pointed out. “Sect business still needs to get done.”

“I’ve been doing what I can,” Nie Mingjue said, because of course he was. He was the heir – he was the rightful sect leader, even though he was far too young for it. “Great-uncle says he thinks I can pull off being eighteen, so that my signature will be sufficient for most documents…”

“I’m going to help,” Meng Yao said, and held up his hand when Nie Mingjue tried to protest. “You know I’m ten times as good at household accounts and logistics as you, and it can be mostly done on paper, so there’ll be no need for me to go out of here to do the vast majority of it. You’re not stopping me. You need me.”

“Fine,” Nie Mingjue said, because he did and he knew it. “Fine. But for the few things you do have to come out for…listen, I tell you to run, you don’t argue, okay? I don’t know if he’s still angry at you about what happened at the Discussion Conference a few years back, but I’m not planning on finding out.”

Meng Yao shuddered. “He still – remembers?” he asked, because that was worse, somehow. So much worse to know that the monster that beat Nie Mingjue to limping, that wrapped his hand around his neck and tried to squeeze the life out of him, still had the same memories as Lao Nie, who used to look at his son like he’d been a star in the night sky that he’d placed there himself. Who’d never let his disagreements with Meng Shi affect the fairness with which he treated Meng Yao, who had once put his hand on his shoulder and told him he was doing well, that he was promising, that he was glad to have someone like him in his sect…

“It’s not so bad all the time,” Nie Mingjue told him. “Sometimes he forgets, for a little while, before it starts up again.”

That just made Lao Nie unpredictable, Meng Yao found, and he hated it – he hated the way Nie Huaisang cringed at doors, the way he’d started to wet the bed again, the way they’d had to let all his pet birds loose after Lao Nie destroyed one of their cages in a fit of unexpected fury. He hated the way his mother and Sisi both donned veils to hide their faces, lest they draw attention, and took to sneaking through the servants’ quarters; he hated the way Nie Mingjue stopped fighting about going to see the sect doctor the way he always had and started making a visit there every week like clockwork and sometimes in between, and didn’t even seem to realize anymore how bad it had gotten; he hated the way it almost seemed sometimes like Lao Nie was still in there, somewhere, confused about what was happening like a man lost in a fog that he thought might be on the verge of thinning and asking for someone to fetch his saber as if it were a lantern that could help guide him out of the dark.

But his saber was gone.

“I’m going to kill Wen Ruohan for this,” Nie Mingjue said one night, lying with the side of his head pressed against the cool stone wall to help reduce the swelling – Lao Nie had thrown something at his head again, trying to get at Baxia; he’d mistaken her for Jiwei again.

Meng Yao was sitting next to him, trying to compose a response to Lan Xichen’s latest letter – it was cheerful, talking about plum blossom tea and lessons in etiquette and a new guqin for Lan Wangji, the only sour note a reference to his mother’s illness not having yet resolved, though he hoped it would by the next visit they had scheduled. Meng Yao was having to wrack his brain to come up with some sort of fiction about what they were supposedly up to in Qinghe that would not bleed resentment through the lines.

Maybe he could say they got a dog? An especially rabid one, vicious and cruel, with a tendency to turn against everyone with teeth bared and no care for how they bled even though they loved him –

Maybe not a dog.

“You can add it to all the other crimes he’s committed,” he said absently, and he knew that Nie Mingjue would take it as referring to the man’s overall maliciousness – Wen Ruohan was an iron-fisted tyrant, vicious and mean, and he wasn’t quiet about his enjoyment of ‘punishments’ that were more torture than anything else; Lao Nie had vocally criticized him over it, and with him no longer there to rally disdain against it, Wen Ruohan would undoubtedly only get worse – but actually Meng Yao had meant the crimes Wen Ruohan had committed against them. Against the Nie sect, against the Nie clan.

Against Nie Mingjue.

Death was too good for the bastard, but for once Meng Yao would be fine settling for less so long as it happened.

Nie Mingjue huffed in agreement, as Meng Yao had expected, and finally closed his eyes to sleep the way Meng Yao had been on his case about doing for the last half-shichen. When he was deeply asleep at last, breath regular and easy for all that his brow was still furrowed in fear and worry that no longer went away, Meng Yao, who had been staring at the hypnotically beautiful sight of Nie Mingjue’s chest steadily moving up and down, alive and not too hurt, saw a shadow out of the corner of his eye.

“Huaisang,” he said, not even bothering to sound stern. “You should be asleep already.”

Nie Huaisang came up to him and put his head on his shoulder. “I want to help,” he said softly.

Meng Yao blinked. “With what?”

“Whatever we have to do,” Nie Huaisang said. He was watching Nie Mingjue breathe, too. “Whatever we have to do to make it right.”

Meng Yao wasn’t sure what to say. “Huaisang –”

“I want to help, er-ge,” Nie Huaisang said, and there wasn’t any doubt in his voice, any uncertainty. “Da-ge may be stronger, but you’re meaner. If anyone’s going to kill the one who did this, it’ll be you, and I want to help.”

Nie Huaisang ended his pronouncement with a huff, a familiar sound, and for all that it was a sound more characteristic of the Nie than his mother, Meng Yao couldn’t help but smile because he knew what that sound really meant: it meant I hate him, it meant he hurt da-ge, it meant I don’t know how to care about the world, I only know how to care about the ones I love, and for them I will burn it all down.

Meng Yao knew exactly how that felt.

It seemed that Nie Huaisang was vicious thing after Meng Yao’s own heart, underneath it all, and Meng Yao marveled all over again at his luck at having a living brother of his own blood – not any of those hypothetical bastard half-brothers and sisters Jin Guangshan sowed like he was trying to grow grain for the harvest, but his mother’s child.

A monster, just like him.

“All right,” he said. “If I can, I’ll let you help.”

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Soooooooo... because I’ve completely lost my mind: “Light and L in Hogwarts during the year that Harry Potter was” AU ideas (and I know a lot of people have already written them into Hogwarts, so I’m probably just unknowingly copying people’s ideas. But shh).

Light is a Gryffindor and L is a Slytherin (same year). Really, Light should also be a Slytherin, of course. But this helps them to be rivals better. He probably asked the Sorting Hat to put him in Gryffindor--ala Harry--and the Sorting Hat took his choice into consideration.

And they are rivals. Because like in canon, they’re very much the same and Foils to each other. They both definitely become prefects and Head Boy of their year (sorry, Ron. I guess I’m stealing prefect from you for this AU. I’m so sorry, baby!). And everyone is constantly comparing the two, so they hate each other at first. They’re also both on their respective Quidditch teams, because of course they’d be. I’m imagining they’re Beaters, because “he who attacks first, wins”, and since Harry’s still got to be Gryffindor Seeker.

And getting the obvious out of the way: L loves Honeydukes, of course.

But I imagine the reason these two start to become friends is this: Light realizes there’s something wrong with Snape jumps down Harry’s throat on his first day. Like, he reads fear and humiliation on Harry’s face or something--or knows that even the most basic wizard should have known the answers Snape was asking about--he questions him about it... To which Harry admits that he didn’t even know he was a wizard--or about the wizarding world--until a few days ago. Though I doubt Harry would be this open about it to a stranger, but shh. And this ticks Light off--to know that Harry’s aunt and uncle treated him so dirty, and that Professor Snape just made this poor, defenseless kid look like an idiot--and he plans to go to Snape about it. But anyway, L had secretly been listening this whole time--but hiding like a cat--and he makes his appearance known now. He’d come to the same conclusions and also wants to help Harry out, because he’s “justice” too, after all. And it’s here that Light and L develop a grudging respect for each other. And they probably do go to Snape. But Snape being Snape doesn’t listen to them, and he takes points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin for their “insolence”... At which point, they might decide to make Snape’s life a living Hell, and thus a friendship begins.

The two of them totally become aurors when they graduate, and enjoy seeing Harry and Ron at work.

Light and L may think that Ron isn’t the smartest wizard in the world--and somewhat un-deserving to hang out with Harry and Hermione--at first, but their opinion of him changes pretty quickly. And even when they did think this of him, they didn’t dislike Ron. They liked the dude pretty well, since Ron’s pretty sociable, but just didn’t think he would ever be a rival to them. Let’s put it that way. But when they learn about all that Ron does in his, Harry, and Hermione’s adventures, they give him mass respect.

Light and L are the biggest supporters of Neville Longbottom that you’ll ever see, as they both saw his potential and realized pretty soon that it was abuse keeping him from unlocking his full potential. 

Light and L are “fans” of Harry at first--though not starstruck--and then just flat-out respect the Boy Who Lived once he just becomes one of their peers. Granted, they don’t think baby Harry really did anything to earn all his fame... but you’ve still got to give it to the infant that somehow tripped up Lord Voldermort and stopped his reign of terror.

Light and Hermione... get on pretty well. I’d maybe go as far as to say they’re acquaintances. And, naturally, everyone thinks they should date: since they’re the two smartest Gryffindors and prefects. But this would never happen. They probably even laugh at the idea together. Hermione has just never had any interest in Light, for whatever reason (maybe because she had a crush on Ron pretty early on). And Light is most definitely gay.

I forgot to mention that L in this is probably a clue to the Golden Trio earlier on that Slytherins aren’t all bad.

Speaking of: L and Draco are friends (but only because Draco’s pretty much the best person he can find in Slytherin house). And this maaaaaaaaaybe convinces Draco to switch sides earlier than in canon.

As he would, Light definitely loves to use avada kedavra against evil people... Though no one really has a problem with this, because most people use that spell during a war (in fact, even our heroes in Harry Potter often don’t understand why he won’t use the killing curse). L maaaaaaaaaaybe tells Light that he thinks this is a bad thing. But it isn’t something they’re going to turn into enemies before. And L’s certainly used the spell himself in dire situations. But similarly to Death Note canon, Light thinks that all criminals should be avada kedavrad. L questions that one time, though, in asking Light, “You want them to suffer for what they’ve done, yes? So wouldn’t it be worse for them to live out their years in Azkaban? Or have their souls sucked out by the Dementors?”

But back to Light and L still being rivals... There’s one time where they’re both in the halls after curfew--probably because Light and L sometimes get roped into the Golden Trio’s adventures, or their own adventures, because they’re too smart not to be--and L leans over to Light and says, “Know that I love you,” before kissing him on the lips... He then gets on his broom, or something, and quickly flies away so he won’t get caught, but Light is and Gryffindor loses points. So the game is on.

I feel like Light and L would probably hate and dislike Dumbledore, after they realize some of the shady stuff he does. L might somewhat respect his cleverness, but ehh.

Also, Light and L are brilliant... So they never once doubt that Voldermort is back when Harry says he is. And they do, in fact, join Dumbledore’s Army and help Harry teach... Even though they probably hate the name. They also help bring it back with Neville, Luna, and Ginny, when the Golden Trio are away in year seven.

They fight in the Battle of Hogwarts, of course. And in the battle in Hogwarts at the end of book six.

L is probably the first Gryffindor to stand up to his house, like “Uhh, no. We’re not going to sacrifice Harry to Voldermort to save ourselves.” And speaking of... there’s a chance that a good portion of L’s house hates him for clearly siding with Harry over Voldermort when the war begins.

I had some ideas about Misa, but I’m sort of forgetting them now. She’s definitely a Hufflepuff... But I want to do something different with her, than most people usually do. Yes, Light is kind of annoyed by her because he thinks she thinks they’re dating or is trying to force it? (She probably does something to help him? And then Light thinks she’s insinuating he owes her. IDK?) But what if in reality, she’s ace or something and just wants a friend? And Light is just assuming the worst--and for once, being dumb--by just not talking to her? But eventually he does, and then they’re sort of cool with each other. And she then sometimes helps Light and L, because this is the happy Death Note AU (in Hogwarts), everybody.

...I feel like I had so many ideas, but now I think I’ve forgotten them all. Oops. I’ll add to this if I remember them, I guess. 

Also... there’s a good chance that Light and L figure out the Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew thing before anyone else--near instantly, when they learn about it--but I also don’t know if I want to commit to that? Because I don’t want to steal the Golden Trio’s thunder too much here? But at the same time, if I’m not going to have the Death Note characters slightly change things, what’s even the point?

Edit: The two geniuses probably do create some new spell or potion or something together. 

Edit 2: Harry and L totes bond over being orphans.

Edit 3: All the students in Hogwarts know that Light and L are gay for each other. And are constantly like, “Where’s your boyfriend at?” to their annoyance, probably because even in this universe Light and L are in denial about their feelings for each other for the longest time for some reason.

Edit 4: Light and L have the same patrous (to their annoyance. And at first, it’s not because they love each other--though maybe later it partly is--but because they’re that much alike). And it’s probably a cheetah or something.

Edit 5: Back to the whole Light and Misa thing, L actually realizes she doesn’t want to be Light’s girlfriend and is cool with her before even Light is. Since, oddly enough, it seems that Slytherin and Hufflepuff are close, and Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Later, when Light asks how he figured it out first, L sites his deductive reasoning schools and this as the reason.

Edit 6: I just thought of how this gets dark, and how Light and L maybe turn against each other... Light being tempted to create horcruxes by using the kills he makes in self-defense. L tells him not to do it: to not be like Voldermort. And Light perhaps listens to that... or doesn’t, in being so arrogant that he thinks he won’t become a dark wizard if he’s tasted immortality. On one hand, I feel like Light wouldn’t want to rip his soul apart. But if he thought it was for the greater good--so he could continue fighting crime as an auror--then he might do it...

Edit 7: Light and L do probably resent their professors some, in thinking that they’re more capable than they are.

Edit 8: Light and Hermione might actually go on one “date” together. To “The Slub Club”, because they want to make Ron and L jealous.

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July 13th-July 19th, 2020 CTP Archive

The archive for the Comic Tea Party week long chat that occurred from July 13th, 2020 to July 19th, 2020.  The chat focused on Super Galaxy Knights Deluxe R by snuffysam.

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BOOK CLUB START!

Hello and welcome everyone to Comic Tea Party’s Book Club~! This week we’ll be focusing on Super Galaxy Knights Deluxe R by snuffysam~! (http://sgkdr.thecomicseries.com/comics/)

You are free to read and comment about the comic all week at your own pace until July 19th, so stop on by whenever it suits your schedule! Discussions are freeform, but we do offer discussion prompts in the pins for those who’d like to have them. Additionally, remember that while constructive criticism is allowed, our focus is to have fun and appreciate the comic! Whether you finish the comic or can only read a few pages, everyone is welcome to join and chat with us!

DISCUSSION PROMPTS – PART 1

1. What did you like about the beginning of the comic?

2. What has been your favorite moment in the comic (so far)?

3. Who is your favorite character?

4. Which characters do like seeing interact the most?

5. What is something you like about the art? If you have a favorite illustration, please share it!

6. What is a theme you like that the comic explores?

7. What do you like about the comic’s story or overall related content?

8. Overall, what do you think the comic’s strengths are?

Don’t feel inspired by the prompts? Feel free to discuss anything else that interested you!

carcarchu

I'm only 5 pages in so far, but this comic has a great sense of humour i've already laughed out loud at some of the jokes

Deo101 [Millennium]

god yes the jokes all hit so well

carcarchu

i noticed an error on tapas, page 42 and page 45 are identical

Deo101 [Millennium]

oh no

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

@carcarchu fixed, thank you for pointing that out!

carcarchu

i'm 63 pages in now and i'm really enjoying this comic so far. it's solidly paced with an interesting cast of characters. the banter is really fun to read and i'm loving how the world building expands with each new character introduced

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

glad to hear it!!!

shadowhood {SunnyxRain}

Damn I feel bad for only reading this now

I love the comedic pauses in between the jokes, and it makes the situation more awkward and hilarious for me!

Also fourth wall breaking and lampshades

Feather J. Fern

I really like the line "I can't hear you from over there." Lampshading why people monologue but they are stepping away from the listener

I really enjoy these types of jokes, this comic has really good comedic timing.

Also It is long, but easy to digest, so I'm speeding through quite easily.

Also Sir Pokes a Lot!! My favourite character, and you killed them! (I love the animated parts of the comic too)

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

thank u!!!

and yeah, sorry about sir pokes-a-lot

Deo101 [Millennium]

Can not wait for y'all to meet my fave

shadowhood {SunnyxRain}

Wait WHAT SIR POKES A LOT DIES WHAT THE HELL

Oh yes, the animated parts always get me by surprise and I love them too

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

imo, there's an even sadder death in book 2...

RebelVampire

I like that the beginning just has a lot of comedy even while establishing the exposition parts. So you don't really even notice you're learning about characters, the world, and so forth, because the jokes just really make the entire experience vastly entertaining. My favorite moment in the comic is probably now when all the governors show up and Electric Zebra to fight the demon. Cause it was like a party of badasses, had lots of great comedy, lots of great fighting, and just all around it was nice to see everyone else embrace Mizuki's strengths too. My favorite character is a tie between Electric Zebra and Sword Warrior/Taci. Electric Zebra because I love that he works for the gov but also hates the gov while also moonlighting as a musician. He just all around is a fun character for me who could do no wrong. Taci I like because he's simultaneously arrogant, smart, caring, and selfish. I also like that he just blatantly announces his plans to become dictator. As for the art, I really love the colors. The entire comic is just a really colorful experience without being over-saturated, and I really think that makes it stand out, regardless of the other 3D aspects and such that make it stand out as well, of course. I like in the current book it explores the nature of making friends. Since Mizuki is trying hard to make friends with Stella, and Stella isn't having that. So I enjoy this exploration in terms of kind of what do you even do in those situations and how can you peacefully co-exist and overcome that grump gap.

As for the overall related content and the comic's strength, these are one in the same for me: the comedy. This is by far one of the few comic's that clicks for me in terms of comedy. Not only does it have fantastic timing, but a lot of it is really smart with lots of callbacks to things that happened - and damn do I love that sort of continuity. It's not even just the one-liner jokes though. Sometimes it's just the stories overall way of solving problems in comedic ways that is the best, so all in all, just a great entertaining comic.

Krispy §[Ghost Junk Sickness]§

The dialogue is so funny to go through, I love the way Snuffy characterises and just has fun!

also the cell shaded rendering is so cool! I love the aesthetic and design !

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

@RebelVampire regarding continuity stuff, this is basically the ending of book 2 lmao(edited)

mathtans

Hm, so this is somehow a trickier one for me to analyze since I've been reading it since the first CTP. Admittedly I fell behind after Book2 (busy months) but I just got caught back up (SpaceMySpace...) so I guess I'll do some further pondering and check back in later. ^^

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

ok so i finished re-reading my comic the only joke that made me legit laugh out loud this re-read was the dancing in panel 3 of this page: http://sgkdr.thecomicseries.com/comics/255 just because i completely forgot i put that gag in there lol

tbh my favorite character in the comic is taci. like, before his introduction, the comic was incomplete, in a sense. but with him in the picture, all the writing just fits together. (even past the fact that books 3-5 wouldn't happen without taci being a total weirdo who mailed hundreds of letters to the galaxy knights under fake names, lol)

Deo101 [Millennium]

taci is also my favorite,,, as you know, aha

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DISCUSSION PROMPTS – PART 2

9. Given the comic’s emphasis on comedy, what was your favorite joke insofar? What made it stand out to you compared to the others? In what ways does the comic’s comedy stand apart from other comics?

10. What do you think of Mizuki’s tactics for using magic? Is she crazy as many characters imply, or do you think she’ll continue to make it work far into the future? How will this decision affect her skills as a strategist?

11. What do you think King Zebugu is doing participating in Galaxy Knights trials? Do you think he’s finally changed his ways, or is he up to something? Also, will this help Taci achieve his own goals?

12. Do you think Mizuki will be able to become a Galaxy Knight? If so, what other trials will she have to work through? Additionally, what will become of some of the other characters such as Stella, Taci, and Pejiba in the trials?

Don’t feel inspired by the prompts? Feel free to discuss anything else that interested you!

Deo101 [Millennium]

Okay my favorite joke so far was DEFINITELY this one, it's the first one I think that really made me like, fully laugh out loud. I dont know why it got to me so much. Also it made me love cahe very much as well.

SPOILER

Also I think Mizuki's magic probably IS something to do with her abillity to copy other's magic really easily, and probably more efficiently.

and kinda combo of 11 and 12 but I hope they all become galaxy knights and be friends :)

(including king zebugu)

back about the magic thing I KNOW weve been told anyone can do any magic, it's just very draining and hard, so they use their own magics always... but People have also commented on her ability to actually utilize other's magics SO i feel like theres more to it than just her being incredibly stubborn.

RebelVampire

I'm sorry Cahe. You used to be my #2 fave character, but then Taci.

Deo101 [Millennium]

LITERALLY SAME

RebelVampire

My favorite joke changes each reading, but right now I'm gonna go with Book 2 when Mizuki is remarking about forgetting something important and then we see Enetoro still stalling for the talent show. It was such great timing since it was long enough most readers probably forgot about it in the front of their mind but still recent enough you're like oh yeah. And I just like that long ass joke setup for the entire book. As for how the comic's comedy in general stands apart, just superior timing. A lot of comedy is about timing, and this comic is just spot on everytime. As for how Mizuki uses magic, it's probably a bit of both. She is crazy, but she will probably make it work for a long time to come just out of sheer force of will and stubbornness. But I think her having to learn so many abilities and find ways to utilize them together can only increase her skills as a strategist, since it allows her to assess the full potential of every ability and command others to reach that potential. King Zebugu is probably up to something again. I don't think he's as evil in the first books, but I def think there's something going on that he isn't telling anyone that he'll reveal towards the end and say, "Well good luck Mizuki peace out." I don't think it'll help Taci though. I think Taci will just wind up getting roped in and never get even one step closer to becoming the dictator he always wants to be. I do think Mizuki will become a Galaxy Knight. As for other trials, I'm not entirely sure. I imagine there's gonna be some sort of tournament arc though cause otherwise how is Stella supposed to say something about how this is a true contest for warriors. I think Stella will befriend Mizuki, and Taci will at least win something he can brag about. I think Pejiba won't win though, but I also think Pejiba would be content to try again and just go back to skipping around with Cahe.

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

There's... somewhat of a tournament arc coming up? The structure is gonna be weird compared to other tournament arcs, but it's definitely one of the more interesting chapters I've written lol. So... have fun speculating on that for the next three years lmao

Regarding some of the other questions - there's currently enough information in the comic to figure out all the 11th-hour plot twists for Book 3. I won't say there's enough information to easily figure the plot out, lol, but you could figure it out. Though - there is absolutely something going on that King Zebugu isn't telling anyone about (it's kind of a habit at this point, lol).

mathtans

1. You know something I like about the beginning? The links to the original artwork. It's just a subtle thing down at the bottom, but it simultaneously shows the progress made by the artist, and allows anyone thinking 'wow I could never do anything like that' to realize that it didn't happen overnight.

Also the gradual world building is really well done. You don't get too much at once.

2. I think my favourite moment remains how Mizuki defeated Zebugu near the end of Book 1. It was just really clever in terms of reincorporating something subtle (the comic's good at that in general) to turn the tables, and played off his personality more than his magic, which was also clever. There's lots of other great moments too, but that one stands out over time, I think because we were looking at a climax there.

3. Favorite character is probably Zaxaty. Yeah, yeah, mathtans going for the major lesbian, big surprise, but hear me out. She's connected to the King, a major antagonist, but has her own personality and I don't think she's afraid to slap him down if needed. She might even end up connected to the major protagonist (because of reader ships). She's into art, there's that whole bizarre roller skating thing just to point out she's not normal. I possibly enjoy hairstyles like hers. And she sustained major injuries in the big Book 2 battle but sucked it up and still did what she could. So there.

(Before Zaxaty it was probably Pejiba. She seemed smart and capable.)

4. Character interaction... possibly Mizuki and Taci, simply because I tend to enjoy their interactions with everyone else in the cast. So when they get together, whew... possibly related, Mizuki has a tendency to be oblivious due to inexperience or failing her perception checks, while Taci can be oblivious because he's so full of himself. Their battle and the Sword Warrior revelation was another good moment overall.

5. Again, I'm hardly a person to be commenting on art. But the rendering effects and the occasional animated panels kind of blow me away.

(Not the first person to remark on that, admittedly.)

6. I'm not great with themes either. Perseverance is probably one, based on what/who Mizuki has to put up with. Also friendship, which Rebel referenced, and can even be seen in the earlier bits with the group coming together (Cahe and Pejiba taking it to the next level). And how those in power aren't necessarily the best at decision making (is that a theme)?

Then there's mystery, like what are peoples' goals. Is that a theme? I don't know what I'm talking about, let's face it.

7. Something about the story and content is how much development's gone into it. I don't know if the side stories were started in part due to StArt Faire, or if it provided some perpetual motion, but for example Gynu and Suzigu have this entire childhood backstory in there, and we never saw that much of them in Book 1. (Maybe that one was to highlight more Galaxy Knight stuff? But there's others that expand on otherwise minor characters.)

Then there's the cast page, which seems to be constantly updating, and includes extra random trivia and even what seem like really really minor characters (like the Ferryman).

I have no clue how snuffysam manages to do all that stuff and yet continue to update multiple times in a week. With, as Rebel pointed out, very good comedy too, both situational and connected to character personalities.

8. Comic strength is I think at times doing the unexpected. Like throwing in animation, or referencing someone new or something that adds new pieces to the magic dynamic. Like you want to keep reading to know what comes next because even if it's what you think it might be, there's probably some new aspect you didn't expect that will be there too.

Anyway, there's some thoughts, and for all I know it's similar to stuff I already said in a previous chat. If so, whoops. More tomorrow. I type slow.

(Incidentally, related to the stories, the "wingwomanicon" story won't load for me... it's a blank pdf. And the link in the story proper for when it first went up seems to link to the wrong story.)

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

@mathtans I really should test my links lol... the story should be fixed now

Comic Tea Party

DISCUSSION PROMPTS – PART 3

13. What are you most looking forward to seeing in regards to the comic?

14. Any final words of encouragement for the comic?

Don’t feel inspired by the prompts? Feel free to discuss anything else that interested you!

mathtans

9. I'm not sure I could pick a favourite joke. Mizuki's habit of breaking the fourth wall tends to be cleverly done. Coruby's wit matches well with his character. I'll echo what Rebel said about the timing too; there's effective use of beat panels and the like too.

10. Mizuki's probably crazy, or perhaps it's more her obliviousness, but she's very good at working with what she has to minimize the drain. She also must have a really good memory. I think the main problem with her ability to strategize is she's not great at long term planning, everything seems to be more "in the moment".

(I figure you've got a lot going on as is there. ) Sorry, must scamper again, back later. Should we comment on ships too here, or is that mostly covered by the comic itself?

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

Hey, you can comment on ships as much as you want!

mathtans

Zebugu and Taci might be a ship. Can't be that much animosity without deeper feelings somewhere, right?

RebelVampire

I can't decide how I feel about Zebugu/Taci. That is a ship that makes sense as much as it doesn't make sense. I am stuck in a loop.

I am looking forward to more Taci because Taci. There can never be enough Taci in the comic, and I think I just really enjoy how he works off Mizuki because it offers lots of beautiful comedic potential. My final words are just amazing comedy comic that everyone should check out.

mathtans

11. I think King Zebugu is in the trials in part because he doesn't like that his wizard and his accountant were former Galaxy Knights. Maybe it's the ace they play to get him under control at times, maybe they don't need to, but I think he's trying to gain more power over his underlings, and by extension the planet. He's always got an angle. As to Taci, for him it's probably more ego driven, but he does have two abilities so maybe he wants to see how he compares off planet. I don't see either of them winning, I see them potentially cancelling each other out so the other guy doesn't win.

12. I think Mizuki could become a Galaxy Knight, but I don't think it'll happen in Book 3. In particular Bily is being set up as an antagonist against her (she has a similar ability to duplicate the spells of someone else, though she does need to touch them AND she has a beef with Mizuki over being the one to knock her brother out of contention). Other trials, I'm not sure... there might be one where they have to team up with someone else. Mizuki and Stella would be an interesting situation, as would Taci and anybody. I don't think Motorcycle Man or Willpower-Copy Lady will get far since the cast page only gives them minor character status. But then that could be part of the joke in the end.

Rebel's analysis regarding the others looks pretty good, actually. I'm not sure how hammer guy fits in, is one thing.

Fun that Stella's officially out now, incidentally. I don't see her going for shorter women though. Also, I wonder what constellations she might have that are in no way tied to the stars as we know them? And for that matter, she made a "Frozen" reference, which is usually Mizuki's domain. Perhaps she's also aware of the 4th wall (or "Frozen" went international there on 'SpaceMySpace' or something). Anyway.

13. Well, that last Starstuff Story is only one page long, so potentially looking forward to reading the rest of that. Seeing how the tournament plays out will be interesting... I'm more hyped about it than the gatherings plot of Book 2, maybe it's the extra title drop, dunno. Also vaguely curious about what's happening with everyone back on the planet during this time... like, if the King's away, who's running the place? (Zaxaty?)

Incidentally, the Galaxy Knights must be pretty well off financially. They set up housing and roommates for EVERYONE, then almost right away had a challenge and eliminated most of the people. Like, a lot of those rooms they didn't need.

Random question too, how DID the Starstuff stories get their start?

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

@mathtans I dunno how I keep screwing this up... anyway, I checked, and the newest story is now 100% fixed.

The original reason for Starstuff Stories was to flesh out characters' move pools for potential video game adaptations. Like, that's why Green Archer uses explosive arrows and chain arrows in her story, and why Chill Bro has ice armor in his. Though it evolved over time to just being interesting stories that I wanted to tell that wouldn't necessarily focus on Mizuki.

mathtans

Sorry, was needed elsewhere. Then read the story. I didn't expect ears to be a thing, and that poor woman is cursed. ^.^ That's a neat origin idea, I hadn't thought along those lines. Looks like the story has evolved too, there's been some scenes without Mizuki too (though I guess they were in some way related).

14. For final words, just keep at it I guess, you've got a very interesting world set up and do well at engaging your audience too, from what I can tell.

Deo101 [Millennium]

Zebugu/taci huh...? I can see them being exes or something

mathtans

Maybe that's the real reason Taci wants to kill Zebugu.

Deo101 [Millennium]

Zebugu forgot to tell taci they broke up, and stood him up!

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

That does sound like something Zebugu would do...

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

also, regarding something @mathtans said - Looks like the story has evolved too, there's been some scenes without Mizuki too (though I guess they were in some way related). yeah i had to rewrite book 3 like two times before I realized the story worked better if it didn't focus on mizuki all the time. like, book 3 introduces the most new characters out of any book so far, and i was completely neutering it by forcing all their arcs to relate to mizuki in some way. thanks to breaking that mentality, i'm able to include stuff like characters having rivalries with each other in ways that mizuki wouldn't even find out about, which helps keep the book from getting bogged down imo.

mathtans

It's cool that you draft everything out to that extent. And it's not out of the blue, she wasn't there for some of the big battle ending Book 2 either.

(Or at the talent show for most of the story. )

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Odious Love Part 8 (M)

This gif is not mine…….

Author: I’m still very new to writing so I hope you all will forgive my mistake and grammar too. I’m so sorry for the late update, I had killer shoulder pain, the doctor asks me to rest of the whole month. I hope you enjoyed the new chapter. It is longer than before. And I’ll tire to updated more regularly.  

It is a long chapter and has a bit of Smutty stuff.

Pairing: Junmyeon x Reader  

Genre: Angst, Fluff, Smut, CEO! AU

Prologue, Part 1(M),  Part 2,  Part 3 (M),  Part 4 (M),  Part 5 (M),  Part 6, Part 7 (M)

Summary:  

Suho and you were sleeping together for the last 3 year. You were in love with him but he was not. He just wanted to depend upon someone emotionally. You were okay with it, you wanted to be with him in whichever way you can. You were not his girlfriend but he never treats you less. One day he got married to other women because of business. You thought everything was over between you two but he came back to you. He spends his wedding night with you leaving his wife all alone. 

Part 8

You were living in a dream, which you never dream off. Your heart was unsteady because Suho never let go of your hand till your honeymoon suite room. It is not the first time he held your hand, still why it feels different today? You’re asking yourself. The answer was simple. Today he did something you never thought he would ever do. Today you were above his work, his everyone. Today for the first time you got feeling he won’t leave you.  

The suite looks cozy, still elegant. While Suho saying something to the bellboy in whatever Thai he knows, you go to the balcony watch the sunset. You hear the door getting open and closed. Suho silently comes to you, wrap hands around your stomach, your back pressed on his chest. He perfectly cages your body with his. For a while, you both stay like that, pleasantly. He gives a light kisses around your shoulder and neck, not in a sexual way. “Why you didn’t tell me about this plan?” you asked. You can feel his smile near your earloop while he replies, “I needed your time without anyone interruption. And there is no meaning if asking you. Your answer is would have been no.” It was true. It has been too long, you both have got some time to together alone, but you would have never come here. Even though you love to spend time with him, alone, you cannot forget Youra is his wife, at least for the world. You were afraid of people finding out about you and Suho, not scared of what they will say, but it will make him leave you, immediately. Only if he would have loved you back, you were ready to fight the whole world.

Again, there was comfortable silence. Sun was ready to vanish from the sky. It has created a beautiful and colorful view. He breaks the silence, “I’m sorry for everything. I have tried to stop this marriage. Princess, you know my father. He mess……” You stop him in between, “Don’t make me hate you by saying it?” You turn around, look in his eyes, sunset light making his skin beautifully glow, “I mean your sorry. I know I used to complain about it, but when you said it, it hurt’s. It is the worst thing I ever heard from you. Suho, we cannot change what has already happened, and I know you have done your best to stop everything, that is enough for me.” You give him a small smile, “I don’t know what will be our future, I only know, I want to stay with you. And I don’t want to hear your sorry anymore.” It was true, you have stopped caring about the thing a long time ago. You want to stay by him, forever if it is possible.  

He smiles widely. You were expecting a long and passionate kiss, but you got a sweet forehead kiss. Your expression said all, and he loudly laughs on it. Doorbell ring, he orders you to stay where you are. He comes back with cake, happy birthday written on it. He happily announces, “We are celebrating your belated birthday.” You cut the cake while he sings birthday song like we used to do as kids. You roll your eyes, “You didn’t even wish me on my birthday, and now you’re making a fuss.” He pouts, “How I am supposed to when I was full of guilt. That day mom forces me on a date with Youra.” You smile, pull him in a hug, ensuring it is okay. He breathes in your ear, “I still have your birthday gift.” You look at him with one raised eyebrow. You wish he hasn’t purchased an expensive gift. You avoid taking the expensive item from him, as for today, his expression says he will make you accept it by any means. You nod, it did excite to see what it is. If it is a valuable thing, you won’t take it, but nothing is wrong seeing it.  

He continues, “It is expensive, and you are taking it, no argument.” Before you can say anything, he removes the blue velvet box from his jacket pocket. He opens the box, show you a blue color diamond in the shape of a water drop pendant with a platinum chain. It was beautiful, “Princess, please don’t argue. Just take it, I have especially made for you. I cannot make you wear the ring of my name, and show the world that you are mine. Please don’t think about stupid expenses, see my sentiment behind it. And just like you, I’m scared that someday you may leave me. However, this neckpiece will reassure me that you are not going away.” He said quickly, emotionally blackmailing you.  

It doesn’t feel right to accept high-priced jewelry, but you cannot bring yourself to argue, “Okay, I’ll take it, but only if you promise that any point of time, if we ever get separated, you have to take it back.” Giving you warning look, he sighs then nods, “Okay, whatever, promise. But just for your information, I will never let you go, and if you try to leave me, I’ll tie you to my bed, permanently. Now wear it.” You roll your eyes then laugh. He helps you with putting it, took a step back and took a proper look on you, and smile, “It looks perfect on you.”  

Then you both had a perfect dinner and got the best cuddle sleep after tired from a long journey. In the morning, Suho said there is a change of place. You wined as you liked suite, but he ignores it. You take a nap in the car while reaching your new destination.  

When Suho wakes you up, you astonished. “Are we stay alone here?” you asked. You were in the lawn of the two-storey villa in the center of place look like a small forest. Indeed, it was beautiful, still will be scary to stay isolated. He smirks, “No one goes on honeymoon with family or servant. So yes. Just you and me.” You wanted to say something but becomes a loss of word. “Princess, Why are you afraid? The town is just 30-minutes away from here. And keeper will come to check in every two hours.” You nod and reassure yourself; you are with Suho. He gives you a tour of the villa. In the down floor, a large main room, playroom with have most of the indoor games, back of the villa, outdoor pool and kitchen. In the first floor, a small rooftop garden, large bedroom, and a bathroom. From the balcony view of endless sea, little far there was a small beach as the villa was in little peck. Every single thing was so stunning. You get to know Suho’s new talent, arranging holidays. Coming back to the main room, he grabs your waist, thugging you closer seductively said in your ear, “So from which room we shall start exploring? We merely have today, from tomorrow I have planned outdoor activities too.” From a moment you couldn’t understand it. What he wants to explore then he looks in your eyes with lust, you got it. He desires to explore each other bodies, although nothing has left to discover.  

Honeymoon is like a honeymoon. As Suho said, in the day there was a lot of outdoor activities. You feel like you have seen half of Thailand. After dinner, there is lots of sex until you both get too tired and fall asleep. Your heart skips a beat every time someone calls you Mrs. Kim. Within five days, you have collected so much of warming memory.

You had many dates, vacation with him, neither of them has given this kind of feeling. In the start of your relationship, it has been about sex, and you fall in love with him. Slowly you become his friend more of his emotional support. More time spend, more you get to know each other, it becomes like a relationship; Still not even for once thought about the real relationship, marriage or any other things like that crossed in your mind. You only thought to spend your whole life beside him, if you get lucky enough. However, you feel something change after his marriage. He is treating you with unsaid emotion. He married someone else yet he is becoming yours more. Like maybe this unnamed relationship will get some name.  

Going back home was a pain. Youra was waiting at the airport. She gives you a look full of loathing, but she didn’t look sad or miserable after a way Suho has treated her, she didn’t even complain to Suho mother about it. Maybe because she doesn’t want to feel embarrassment, you thought. Suho keep you along with him so Youra cannot approach you and also ask you to avoid her.  

And for the last 15 days, you were doing it. It was a little hard to get used with different Suho. You like it, but you also miss old him. At work, everyone was busy, working hard to achieve a government project, it would help to improve company image more. And hard work pays off, and the company gets the project. Mr. Kim calls you in the mansion, and give the responsibility of arranging a success party. While Suho was busy talking with his father, you collect all document and get ready to go home. Youra comes and sits next to you. “So how is it going with you and Junmyeon? I forgot to ask. How was the honeymoon? Did he enjoy himself with you?” she asks with an arrogance. You look around in fear if anyone has heard it or not. Before you can say something, she continues, “As a good wife, I hope he has fun and stays happy. Please do satisfy him, give him a good fuck until he gets bored with you. Out of a little curiosity. What Junmyeon gives you after sex? I check your background. You don’t have much money, so then what?” In deadpan, you replied, “Youra, this is not a place to talk, and I get what are you referring too. Let me make it clear nor Suho is using me for sex, nor I want anything from him…..” She cut you, “Do you think he loves you back as you do?” She hit in the right place in your heart. “Y/N sweetheart, you are a simple fuck. He doesn’t love you. Don’t have high hopes. Sooner or later, he will leave you.” You cannot let her win this, you brightly smile, “Say whatever you want, at least he has given me right to call him Suho unlike you. And if I’m not wrong, right now, I’m the only one who can call him Suho for others he is Junmyeon.” She becomes red with anger. You ignore her, take leave from Mr. Kim and go to the penthouse.  

Suho penthouse has become your new home after the honeymoon, you were staying here, next to Suho. You don’t even remember your small apartment until today. Suho will come after dinner with his father, so you also finish your food, take a shower, and go to bed. You start to think about what Youra said. Suho never promised you anything not before nor now. Just because he doesn’t want you to leave now, doesn’t mean he wants you permanently. You played every memory from the day you met him until today in your mind. She was right. Indeed you got your hope higher than necessary. You are not a simple fuck or anything like that. You were his friend, his partner, his emotional support. He will always be with you, maybe needs you too.  

After start you get involved with him, for all forward months, you thought you were okay for breaking your tie with him (slowly) when he falls in love. You always through, when he will get his girl, as she and he gets closer, he will keep nagging you about it. Slowly, slowly your sex engagement will stop, gradually you both will able to let go of each other. But Youra came so suddenly. Before you could understand, he got engaged, then married. You didn’t get time to let him go, and it made you emotionally unstable. When he comes back to you, you couldn’t think of anything besides holding him. And he changes a bit, you foolish start thinking, he has a feeling toward you. Now it is making you worried, if he finds someone, how will you take it. The selfish part of your wish, he never finds someone else, and always stay with you. You hate that part, it is not right toward him.

You realize you were crying and your pillow already wet from tears. You also realize Suho is back and silently watching you, near the bed with fold hands over his chest. You grasp as he said with rage, “What the fuck that bitch said?” You open your mouth to lie, he continues, “Don’t dare to lie. I saw her talking with you. She has said something which made you cry like this.” You sit up silent, not knowing how to tell him you were hoping for him to love you back. He glances you, waiting for an answer. When you didn’t answer, he tightened his jaw, “Fine, I’ll go and ask that witch only.” No, he cannot, she is staying in the mansion, Suho parents are there too. You quickly said, “She didn’t say anything.” He sniffs, “Oh really, you were okay and happy till we go to the mansion, then suddenly you crying. And before you say ‘I’m missing my parents.’ Please spare me with your lies. If you would have missed them that much, you will order me to allow leave.” He started to walk toward the door. You to stop him, without hesitation and with sobbing voice, you said, “She didn’t say anything, I just realized, somewhere I still want you to love me back as I do. I’m worried about my desires.” He stops at the door, silently. He always feels guilty for not loving you back. You always try to avoid this sort of conversation. You look down, “Suho, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you guilty…..” You didn’t accept him to be angry. He roughly pushes you, making your back hit the bed and coming above you, his lips find yours. He brutally sucks your lips, not even given you much of chance to kiss him back. You can feel his angry but much more worried. His body tightly pressed on yours. Unexpectedly he stops. He was mad, grabbing your jaws tightly, he said, “So Youra said, I’ll leave because I don’t love you and you believe her. How many fucking times I have told you, I’ll never leave you. Even forgetting about fucking marriage, I’m with you, but you choose to believe her, not me, but her.” He stood up, “You know what leave now, and don’t come back if you think I will ever leave you.”

You sob, “Suho…”

He grabs his hair, “Don’t. Fucking don’t. I know what are you going to say. 'Youra didn’t say anything, I was thinking about it.’ And you want me to believe it. Y/N, It has been around two years, last time we talk about it. Until she said it, it was okay. Even when you come to know my marriage, you directly ask me to get rid of her. And suddenly, you are crying. It is her. I know it is that bitch. That is why I wanted you to stay away from her.” He was breathing heavy with wrath, and you were sobbing. You go to him, tightly wrap your hands around him. He immediately hugs you back. You get to relax by hearing his heartbeats. He gets relaxed too. You look up, lean to kiss him. His lips find yours, this time session going sweetly, gently. Silently, without breaking the kiss, your hands start unbuttoning his shirt. He breaks the kiss, stops you, “Not now princess, I will hurt you, I won’t be able to go easy, you will have all purple, pink and red marks everywhere.”  

“Maybe, because you have changed and only behave sweetly with me, make me think you will leave me.”  

He smirks, “If you were missing your daddy or owner, you should have directly said to me. And I was behaving sweetly because that is how husband behavior with his wife.” You narrow your eyes. Husband and wife, it is a new thing like the stupid role plays. He gives you devil smile, “Did you dare to look me like this. I’m still angry on you baby girl. And I thought of perfect punishment for you. Get ready you won’t get good sleep nor will be able to walk tomorrow.” You roll your eyes, but smile thinking about it. It has been long when you had a hard fuck.

Before anything could start; your phone starts ringing like hell. It made Suho irritated, “Who the hell is calling you this late at night, PRINCESS?” You give him an awkward smile, take your phone in hand. He snatches it, put on speaker. As soon as male voice come, he dangerously smirks. You cannot believe, a few minutes ago he saw you crying over him, and now he is giving you look 'How dare you to speak with any male.’ like old times. Well, last time, a random person call you late and ask on a date. And Suho almost killed you with his games.  

'Miss Y/N, I’m guard at office gates. Someone broke inside the office. Please don’t tell Kim sir. I’ve taken 2 minutes of a smoke break, and someone comes in. I don’t want to get in trouble, so I called you.’ For a moment, you breathe in relief.

Unfortunately, Suho already heard the poor guard, and his look is saying, that guy will lose his job. Before Suho say anything, you said, “Can you identify the person?” “Yes. His name is Huang Zitao. He seems bruise. I call for a doctor, but he refuses. And the problem is he keeps asking for Junmyeon sir. If sir coming know someone was able to break-in, I’ll lose my job.” Huang Zitao, Suho and you were confused. You told the guard to make him wait until you reach there.  

Suho was confused and worried it has a long year last time any of his friends have properly talked. We reach the office. The guard was shocked to see Suho with you. Suho was not angry with him, as he knows Tao well. Tao is good at breaking into any place. You assure guard nothing will happen to his job as the lead where is Tao waiting. As soon as Tao sees Suho, he hugs him and starts cry. Saying like an orthodox person, Tao cry like girls, you have never seen a guy crying like this. Suho ask what happen, he sobbing and mixing Chinese said something which you cannot understand at all but looked as Suho understood everything. Suho always said their bond was so strong now you can see that. After Suho consoling, Tao suddenly stops crying, and whines he wants to stay with Suho, forcefully inviting himself to the penthouse. He was a child in a giant physique. You give an unimpressed look to Suho. When three of you reach the car, Tao look at you, “Why are you coming with us? You should go back home. Hyung and I won’t need you at night.” Before you said anything, Suho said to him, “No, she is coming with us.”  

Tao again says to you, “Your hoodie look too large for you. You don’t have any fashion knowledge.”    

Again Suho answer, “It is my hoodie. She was working late with me, so she cannot go home, so I lent her my hoodie to sleep comfortably. Now stop question and get in the car.” Thank God Tao stop questioning, nope your mistake. Suho open driving seat door, Tao said, “Hyung why are you driving? She is your assistant, so she will.”  

You were about to take a step toward driving seat, Suho huff, “NO. Y/N, dare you. Go and sit in the backseat. And Tao if you want to come with me, be quiet.” After an uncomfortable car ride, you reach back to the penthouse.  

Suho asks Tao to go the guest room, again he whines about a ghost being there he cannot sleep alone at night. Suho was about to take Tao to his bedroom. You stop him. For a moment he felt confused then remember your all personal item is lying here and there. And of course, Tao sees you both. After a small question and answer, Tao decides to sleep in the guest room with Suho and you in Suho room. You take a step. Tao stops you, “Wait, I’m getting hungry. As I know Hyung cannot cook, so can you cook for me.” You made a mistake by sarcastically asking, “Why not. Would you like french fries with eggs.” His brightly smile and nod.  

You go to the kitchen, start cooking. By now, you were entirely irritated. Tao is keeping eyes on your every moment. Even if Suho smile toward you, he looks questioningly. Suho joins you in kitchen, “Nice combination. Oversize hoodie, sweatpants with the heel. After my punishment sex, next time you would be dress like today.” You roll eyes, “It is your fault, you don’t let me keep my clothes or other footwear here, and we will have sex if that whining child leave.” He cups your face, “You look perfect in only my shirt and bare feet in my house. Tao will go tomorrow. For now, please bear him with us.” You smile, he leans for kiss and Tao call him, you have felt if Tao stays he will not leave Suho alone even for a minute.  

Suho saying come true the next morning. You cannot sleep because Tao keep asking something or something and you cannot walk because you were on heel hold night, Tao didn’t even give you a minute to rest or remove your heels. You were surprised to see Tao at the office following Suho everywhere. Somehow you complete your days with tiredness, thinking you can sleep in Suho arms tonight, and it never came.  

It has been five days Tao was still with Suho. He follows Suho everywhere. In the meeting room to the washroom, it doesn’t feel right. Suho be a supportive friend by saying, Tao is in emotional trouble and needs his time in aid. When Mr. Kim come to the office, he asks about Tao. You tell him what happen and close sentence with irritating tone 'He follows Junmyeon like puppy follows his owner.’ Mr. Kim looks with wide eyes as you use unprofessional language then laugh. Unexpecting thing again happens, when Suho scolds Tao for following him during work, Tao starts following you when Suho gets busy. And Tao makes you tired with nonstop talking and never-ending demands. Physically you have never been this tired not even after having hard sex. In other hands, you get busy with party arrangements but miss Suho like hell. He is always in front of you, and you cannot even have one kiss. Technically, you didn’t have a proper look at his face. Beside work hardly there is any talk.  

You enter his office to get a few cheques to sign from him. When you couldn’t find Tao, you lock the door behind. He laughs and invites you in his laps. Happily, you sit, kiss him showing how much you missed him. He kisses you back with equal passion. Your hands start moving fast. His tie was loosing, three shirts unbuttoned and start kissing expose skin. He rests his hands on your waist, said, “Princess, Tao will be back soon. If you still want to continue, then I’m also okay.” You groan then stop, “Sorry, I know you love him, he is your soul brother and everything, but when he is going back?” He laughs, “You know, you are behaving like a wife who wants her husband attention and hates all of his friends.” He is torturing your heart by husband and wife talks. You give him a sharp look. He again laughs, “After the party, he is going, I have to make sure of it. He will go.” You breathe in relief, “I’m missing you like hell.”, “Me too, Princess. Just wait till for more two days.” You smile. You were missing your parents to, you ask for leave which agreed to give you after a week.

Your time was going slow without Suho. Finally, then party day arrives. Although there was no theme for the party, CEO floor decides to have one and wear only blue. You hope everyone like the arrangement, and Mrs. Kim praised and confirm it is good. Her good mean excellent. When Suho father was CEO, she used to do parties organization. There are many stories about how wonderful she used to be.  

Suho was also wearing a blue velvet suit. Everyone thought you said to him to wear blue. (Which you don’t.) Suho confirm it by telling them. Everything was going smooth until Suho suddenly looks aggressively toward you from far. He look you like this when you let anyone man closer to you. (Only to piss him.) But tonight have been behaving. You excuse yourself, go to the empty washroom to talk with him.  

As soon as Suho entry the washroom, he grabs your shoulder tightly, roughly pushes to near wall, “I LEFT YOU ALONE FOR FEW DAYS, AND YOU ALREADY FOUND SOMEONE ELSE?! Y/N what the the hell?” You were bewildered. You want to get angry for doubting. Who is he talking about exactly? “Now, don’t look confused.” Neglecting shoulder strain, you cup his face and politely ask, “Suho, what are you talking about?” not wanting to get angry and make things worst. He let you go, huff, “Oh! Really? What is this?” He shows you the pictures on his phone, of you and Namjoon. Today morning you met him while picking in up Mr. Kim jewelry. (She doesn’t trust anyone beside you in case of money.) Namjoon wanted you to gift a gold ring to his mother. You guys hug, and you drag him to the same store from which you have to pick up jewelry. As there are always new designs and you can trust the quality. While selecting, he tires ring in your fingers. Suho phone had all the picture, where you hug, as placed ring on the ring finger and by your surprise Namjoon give you goodbye and Thank you kiss on your cheek. You know this hard to explain, it was just a friendly gesture which Suho never like, worst is his possessive nature, he never takes a kiss or hugs lightly, and your silence is not helping.

He angrily runs hand on his hair then grab your arms tightly, “Who the fuck is he?” You said Namjoon; he immediately recognizes, “That army guy, whose party you want back then.” You nod, still don’t know how to explain. “Fuck. He is your parent plan. They always ask you to get married. Now they have started finding a man for you. And you. You also want to get married, that is why you were trying rings from his hand.” Angry made his eyes, red and teary. Finally, you get your voice, “Suho listens to me, please. Namjoon came to buy a gift for his mother. I accidentally meet him, as my town person, I was helping him. Nothing else. Yes, I was trying rings so he can select, the hug was friendly, some as I hug Mark and the kiss, I was also surprised by it; There is nothing nor my parent is planning anything, I promise you.” He loses a grip a bit and gets a little bit relaxed. You speak again, “Suho. He is just a friend. I’m sorry.” He let your arms go, cup your face and said, “Sorry doesn’t mean anything, Princess. You think it friendly behaviour? If I go this close to Youra, you will know how I’m feeling. When Tao shows me pictures and others, telling his is your boyfriend, I just wanted to fuck the hell shit out of you in every way I know or to kill you. Anyways, Tao is going, but I don’t want to see you at my place.” With this, he left. It is going to be hard to explain to him. He is very mad. You look the bruises already form , thank god you dress will not let it expose, going back to the party hall and start to think of some way to pursue him.

Somehow you and Youra along with Mr. Kim is the same group of people. Were talking about business growth and business acquisition. Youra endup saying to Mr. Oh(CEO of Law firm), to buy hotel chains, so it will save meeting cost with his client. Mr. Kim chokes his drink, and others try hard not to laugh. It was stupid for the daughter of a businessman to not know the basic things of business. Mr. Kim in a low voice, he asks you to be with her or make Suho be with her, not wanting further damage to their image. You cannot be near her, so you went to Suho. As he sees you coming toward him, he changes his the direction. After a while, he listens to you. Laughing at Youra stupidity, to your surprise, he agrees without an argument. The way he smirks at you, he is ready to make to super jealous. His a little playful side come out.  

You see the torment. It would be better if you have stayed around Youra. For two hug with Namjoon, Suho hand wrap around Youra waist for more than half an hour. For a small kiss, he countless kisses her hair and forehead. She was too close. And of course, she was enjoying the attention, she even smirks toward you. Well, she was stupid, Suho is doing all this to make you insecure. You hardly control yourself when someone commented on how lovely couple they are. For the first, it was hard for you to maintain professional behavior. Even your workmates ask you question as you look red with angry. After the torture of the whole one hour party got over. After irritating you for long, Sohu message you to come home along with him, it makes you brightly smile. 

You waited while he send-off guest and his parent. Out of nowhere, the car speedily cames toward Youra. Suho saves her before car crushes her. Kim security personnel run after the car. No one can understand what happened, maybe the driver was drunk to drive the fast near the hotel entryway. You call the cops. Youra got frightened, tightly hug Suho, not ready to leave him. Right now, you don’t care about it. You are glad she is safe. Cops arrive soon, take the details, promise to find that culprit. Youra was still shivering uncontrollably in Suho arms. Suho said he is going to Mansion along with Youra. You didn’t like it for a moment, then try to control your jealous, and decide to understand Youra feelings. You went to the penthouse. Thinking about Suho and Youra closeness made you cry. It was foolish, but that is how people fall in love, by accident. They start caring for each other. Without changing clothes or removing makeup, you sleep in a bed and keep crying while thinking for him soon fall in sleep.  

——-//——  

Suho was in the car with Youra. He got irritated with her whining about the incident. He was with Youra for sympathy and his image. He knows you have gone to penthouse and he wants to be there with you because of Tao, he could even talk with you properly for the whole week. Now all he can think about is you. Thinking about Tao, something was odd about him. Like he was collecting information by staying close. Suho is willing to wait for Tao to come and say why he does it. He trusts his friends. They will never hurt him in any way. As soon as car stop at Mansion gate, Suho asks Youra to get out. Youra starts throwing the question, in annoyance Suho said, “Whatever I did, did it because I wanted Y/N to get jealous and irritated. And saving you, I would have done it for anyone. Now get fuck out the car, I have to go, my girl is waiting.” Youra argues, “You didn’t see the picture. Y/n is cheating. She wants your money or……….” “SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHE IS NOT A CHEATER. I KNOW HER. Yes, she makes me jealous, but cheating is not her.” “But you were angry with her.” “Only because she let him come close to her. Just get down. Don’t waste your time and energy on me or make me regret saving you.” Youra huff and get down. She though Suho starts getting found of her, but no. She knows she has to do something consequential to make him dislike you. In the penthouse, Suho breathes in ease seeing you in his bed. He desired one of two things, sleeps while holding you, or to have sex with you for every night of his life. For him, you are the only person who loves without asking anything in return. Even after getting hurt by him, you still stay with him. The only one who is trying and understand him. He cannot let you go ever. He still remembers the day when he is the first time he saw, the first time you submitted to him, the first you cried while say 'I love you.’ even after having an only sexual relationship, you were still able to see through him. 'I love you.’ it was a luxury to hear it. Whenever you say it, Suho craves to announce that the world, he has someone who is just his without any condition, he doesn’t know why, but it boosts his ego. It wouldn’t be wrong to say you have reached his heart. Nevertheless, he is worried, someday someone will take you away. He wants to find a way which describes you will never able to leave him. It was selfish, but he cannot lose you. Well, there was a way if he would have married you, it would’ve done, you cannot leave him. However, it didn’t cross his mind until he got married to Youra. He curses himself forever for it. Another stupid idea runs in his mind. He wants to transfer some properties in your name, so you’ll won’t be able to leave him because you are not into money, you will feel a burden. He pushes all stupid plan away. He was about to wake you up, to eat and change. Today he has irritated you a lot which makes you forget to have dinner. He has tried hard not to be angry, but the picture of Namjoon being this close to you, make his blood boil and assume you will leave him. And if you want to go, he will never stop you. He has a heart which desires to have you, but not more than your happiness. He didn’t tell you, he is trying to seek divorce with Youra. After that, if you allow, he will announce to the world, he belongs to you. He smiles which stroking your hair, and seeing you sleep. He keeps admiring his beautiful girl for a while then finally sweetly wakes you up. In sleep, you whine. His hand reaches on the under pillow realizes you were crying today also. “Princess, wake up now, I want to talk.”, he commands while shaking you a bit. You open your eyes, in sleepy voice said, “What are you doing here? How is Youra?” He finds your voice so sexy. However, he curses inside. Who cares about Youra? When his princess was crying. You sit up. “Fuck her and tell me, why were you crying? Why haven’t you change? You didn’t eat, did you?” You yawn while saying, “I was tired, just want to sleep.” You try to sleep he pulls by hip, making you sit, steadily, “You are not sleeping before you eat and don’t ignore my question. Why didn’t you cry? Since when did you become crybaby.” Your eyes widely open, “I’m not a crybaby. And it is your fault. You were too much at the party then going to stay the whole night with her. I got jealous.” He knows you better than you think, “Princess, I’m here with you and let me guess, you thought like movies my love story will start with her, just because I go with her?” He starts laughing, “You are truly insane. Sometimes, I cannot understand you at all. You get worried about her then get jealous over her.” You look down in embarrassment, “ And Princess, how many time I’ve told you, I dislike her from the core of my heart.” Pulling you over his lap, in a serious tone while looking in your eyes, he continues, “And if I want to start any love story, I’ll start with you. My Princess.” You try to kiss hear it, but turn his face, “No kiss or anything else, until you eat.” You get down from his lap, in upset voice said, “Fine let’s eat. And I won’t let you touch me. You have teased me a lot. Now time to punishment.” He snorts, “Really, Why? I should be the one who gives you this kind of punishment. I was not the one who let Namjoon hug and kiss me. Wait. You know what, let’s have a bet, whoever loses control and kiss first will lose. And the winner can ask for anything in return.” You rest hands on her hips, in sensual voice said, “You know I never lose, game on love. I’ll make you beg.” One more sentence in this voice, Suho would have lost it before even starting. From outside, it seems like you’ve submitted yourself to him. The reality is he has submitted with all of his heart, mind, and soul to you. He firm himself, he has to win. Suho comes near you, without touching you, he leans forward, in a low voice said in your ear, “You’ve to lose it. Just form information, I haven’t forgotten about punishment sex then your odd attire sex, trust me when we start you are going to see  another world.” He saw you getting a little aroused by it. He chuckles after intimating you, and back off, “First eat.” You roll your eyes. He can see, you were determined to win this game. He was all so ready for this game. After food, you start teasing him. Get naked in front of him before going for a shower, keep the bathroom door open. Suho eyes linger body. Every moment makes his grasp; his breath gets heavy by every passing minute. He curses when you fake moan while taking a shower before he loses he runs out of the room. He was feeling so hot. He goes to the guest, take a cold shower then right away start working on the laptop. He cannot see you. He knows you were going to tease the hell out of him. He didn’t want to lose or get a boner. Even after all this year, you affect him. He waited until you sleep. He peeks inside the room saw you sleeping. He curses again, seeing you sleeping only lacy nightwear with cover. You were teasing him even when you are sleeping. Same time, he recalls hiding all nightwear then how did you find it. Now, he has to find a new place to hide. Not wasting any time, he changes the hiding place. Coming back, he wrapped himself around you, like always, in your sleep you adjust, and start breathing from his neck. He loves it. It was Sunday, both of you had a good sleep by waking up at 10:00 a.m. Usually, you both get up by 7 a.m., so it was pretty late. If the night was your day was Suho’s. Suho comes out of the shower in front of you, only in the jogger. He didn’t dry out his hair, so waterdrop keeps dripping on his shirtless body. You dry gulps while seeing him. To tease him, you only wear his white shirt. Last night, he worked hard to gain control over his desire. Somewhat, he knows you will do this, and he was ready for it. Whenever you wiggle your body, he comes near you, cages you between his hands or breath from you then back off. It was hard for him to control, but he was not willing to lose today. Suho goes inside the kitchen for coffee. You also follow him. Giving him back hug as you roam your hands on his bare front body while he makes coffee, you say, “Suho, how long we are going to play this game.” He smiles. Yes, you going lost it soon. He can feel you are getting seduced by his ignorance. He bites his lip and says, “It must be more than a week, last time, I’ve touched you. It is hard to control, but you have to lose. I want something from you so I cannot lose it.” You breathe out, “Fine, I lost. I will do whatever you ask. Now can we do something.” Suho’s eyes sparkles. He off the coffee machine, pull you in front of him, “Princess, are you sure? Whatever I ask, you need to do it, without any argument.” You nod. Suho smile, “Then lose it by kissing me first.” Without wasting time, you pull him by the neck and kiss him. Passionately, your soft lips move hungrily on his. He didn’t hold back. As lips moves, he pulls you by your waist, slamming his hips on your, he shows his erection. Between kiss, you moan on his action. It turns him on more. He breaks the kiss while catching breathe said, “How about having sex here, in kitchen isles.” You only smirk in agreement. You both empty island put all things to the other sides. Suho lift you up by your waist, placing you on the edge of the island. Again kiss start, pull close to each other, feeling every skin. Not breaking the kiss, he unbuttons your shirt and pushes it down. He breaks the kiss, to see how lazily, his shirt hangs on your body. From back only your bare ass was cover and the long sleeves of his shirt covered your half hand. Back of his mind, he catches the elevator door ding and footsteps noise coming inside the penthouse. He pushes it away, try to concentrate on you like you were doing. He attacks your neck, collarbone, leaving sweet marks while your hand tight hold his neck and hair while he assaults your skin. Subconsciously he again catches noise of grasp and cough, he looks up and sees his nine friends looking at him with shock. He shouts, “WHAT HELL ARE YOU All DOING IN MY HOUSE?” While Minseokd reply, “We need to talk. Wait, who is she? We went to Mansion first and saw Youra there.” he hurriedly pulls a shirt over your shoulder. Eight pairs of eyes have already seen your bareback, which made him angry. As he does the button to prevent more damage, you paralyzed, silently your teary eyes ask a question, “Is this end of your relationship?”  

[amosbarot]

( cismale ) haven’t seen AMOS BAROT around in a while. the DEV PATEL lookalike has been known to be (+) INSOUCIANT & (+) KEEN, but HE can also be (-) TROUBLED & (-) DERISIVE. The 24 year old is a SENIOR majoring in COMPUTER ENGINEERING. I believe they’re living in AUDAX but I popped by earlier and no one answered the door. ( james. 20. EST. she/they. )

hello !! here is my other baby, who is...somehow, more of a mess than naeva !! no dilly dally, let’s jump right into it !!

TW: drug addiction/abuse, car accident. mental illness. 

a e s t h e t i c s ( except i am a sham of a person and sorta very much forgot to save my aesthetics so ! winging it ! )

floral suits and a light air of mock-arrogance, charming smiles and a mischievous glint, easy sarcasm and raised eyebrows. rolling joints resembling cigars, smoke drifting towards ceilings as conspiratorial rambles escape intoxicated lips,  wild gestures and toppled book stacks, four expresso shots at the stroke of midnight and equations leading off whiteboards. heavy eye bags and warm smiles, dismissive words and excuses. sleepwalking to the middle of the quad for the third time that week, donning white boxers littered with red hearts...again. secret glances and barely contained excitement, distractions from the obvious.

general info !!

full name: amos ronak barot

nickname(s): n/a !!

b.o.d. - january 17th, 24 yrs old, capricorn

label(s): the academic, the ebullient, the fallen, the icarcian.

height: 6′2″

hometown: london, uk ooo fancy

sexuality: wildly. chaotically. bisexual.

his stats can be found HERE

and his pinterest can be found HERE !

biography

introducing...another one of indira’s cousins !!!! 

born to olena barot, member of the american embassy in london/future U.S. ambassador to the UK and ronak barot, CEO of his very own computer company. needless to say, he and his younger sister alya were born into a certain wealth

they hopped between the US and the UK and wherever else they desired to go on vacation to with ease; UK for school and US for breaks, rome or paris or wherever else, simply whenever.

despite this though !! olena and ronak had always wanted their children to find their own success, to be financially stable without their assistance once they got older. therefore, it was a known fact in their household that they’d be cut off financially by the time they were 21.

luckily, neither of them really minded this? both children had always had an extreme thirst for knowledge and a wonder for things. even so--their childhood wasn’t quite typical, as their competitive natures led to them trying to one-up each other?

alya and amos grew up extremely close to each other, being so close in age it really didn’t feel as if she was the younger sibling; they were more like twins than anything. obviously, amos still gloated about being the eldest, but their bond was tight.

there were moments in their childhood where if anybody, and i mean anybody--spoke ill of alya, amos would get into physical alterations. he’s much more peaceful now, but the history is still there.

by the time amos entered sixth form, his studies were--while still very important to him--less frequent. he’d go out nearly every night, gone whole weekends, partying or being a general hooligan. 

alya, however, did not partake in these activities. this is where they differed--amos had always been an extrovert, fond of crowds and people and being in the center of it all. causing ruckus. wrecking havoc. alya’s always been...reserved, in the best way possible. few knew just what a gem she was, but she really was to be treasured. even so--the less time amos seemed to spend at home, the more distant alya became towards him.

but, surprise: despite being literally, incredibly smart, amos got BIG DUMBASS ENERGY and was very very oblivious to the why and how of this. which really, really did not help.

unfortunately, there wasn’t any time to dwell about this.

around the same time, tragedy struck the barot family.

after one of his lil’ runabouts, amos came home to find furniture being escorted out of their house, police--his sister crying, his mother ashamed, his father nowhere to be found. 

and soon after, amos found out that his father was arrested for a scandal that sent many into a tizzy. essentially: the company fucked over their own customers via stealing their info, committing some fraud, y’know, credit cards and social security numbers, sellin’ it. just. some nasty white collar crime.

it also wound up fucking up olena’s newly acquired position as the US ambassador for the UK. she was released from the embassy during ronak’s trials.

he ultimately wound up in prison, and olena moved their family back to the U.S.

and amos--being the big dumb baby he is, figured the best thing to do was to pretend it hadn’t bothered him one bit! so he did exactly that!

i imagine that they moved close to indira’s family, and amos spent a lot of time with her from there then.

however, in between pretending things were fine and dandy, and home life, and the drag and pull of parties, anxiety weighed down amos’ bones like...constantly. his family was now, essentially, poor with a mass debt thanks to their father. the expectations for amos to do good, to be better--the fall of amos’ biggest role model.

it was all too much. anxiety attacks became frequent, provoked by the slightest thing--he could only lay awake at night, sleep infrequent. he was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and insomnia, and treated for both--some days it still doesn’t feel like enough.

getting a scholarship to lockwood is probably the best thing to happen to him in a long time. it was a new look into a potential future.

got into the uh...career, of sorts, of doing people’s assignments for them for a hefty payment, alongside his normal job. just to make sure he had spending money and whatnot.

involving tatiana: their friendship bloomed after he did a few assignments for her, y’see--then came the midnight adventures, and whatnot. i wouldn’t have called them close by any means, but they had fun together when they weren’t arguing. their friendship ended after a pretty bad car accident--neither were fatally hurt, but the car was wrecked and it was amos’ fault and it just. sorta was the end of that.

he’s got a...reliability on his sleeping pills, if you will. it’s not healthy in the slightest, but he’s convinced it’s nothing serious. it’s pretty serious.

his eyesight is also getting worse--expected to become legally blind by the time he’s forty.

more on those l8r

personality

there’s a lot of words you can use to describe amos! pretentious, sarcastic, provoking, hardly ever serious, immature, petty, Just Like That, full of himself, smartass, big dumbass energy. y’know. just an infinite amount.

he can be so dramatic! everything he does is exaggerated. he rolls cigar-sized joints at every party. goes around with a horrible ‘20s mobster voice, voicing his lil’ conspiracies.

it’s both hard and very easy to forget that amos graduated as valedictorian of his high school (stealing it, from somebody else--i should mention, as he came in halfway thru the year and kinda just. snatched the title.) because he can be a real idiot sometimes.

because he tries to hard to mask his insecurities, he overcompensates with just. being childish. he’s fun to be around but sometimes he can just be. exhausting.

so like, he went into computer engineering because that was just sorta what he always wanted to do? besides programming? he really wanted to take after his father--but with him being in jail and whatnot, kinda puts a damper to that dream. still, he can’t stop.

so he’s just. really good with computers tbh?? built his own, programmed his own firewall. his dream is to open his own cybersecurity company.

VERY STRESSED LIKE CONSTANTLY like catch him in the library with six empty coffee cups surrounding his work, it’s 2am--he hasn’t slept, in fact his eyes are likely taped opened. he works a lot.

but parties...a lot more! he tries rly hard to not mix his medication with anything so that leads to him...not always taking it, or overcompensating when he misses. it’s a mess. he’s a mess. he thinks he knows what he’s doing but he’s NOT.

i think...i’d consider him lovable. he’s a lil eccentric, a lil high energy.

LOVES HIS FAMILY. like, listen. he still loves his dad. would protect his cousins and sister and mother with his mf life.

alya and him aren’t on the...best terms rn. so that Hurts.

he can be really petty tbh ?? like he can’t take arguments seriously so he just becomes this fucking manchild. he will mimic u. he’ll mock u. he can be hurtful.

god...i don’t even know what else to say. just take him TAKE HIM

wanted connections

as always, i am a big slut for every connection.

give him his Lads. his buds. his pals. his broskis. his bromances.

ride or die(s)

people he tutors !! people whose work he does for them !!

somebody who goes to him b/c of computer troubles n he’s just like...r u going to pay me or nah

high school friends??

party pals??

his sister may become a WC in the future but idk quite yet, we do stan her though !!

drug dealer pls n thank

ex friends ?? fake friends ?? toxic friends ??

bad influences ?? good influences ??

hook ups ?? like a lot of ‘em ??

confidante ?? just somebody he can. rant to.

academic rival just b/c i really love intense study-offs

enemies for whatever reason ??

exes ??

particularly this one ex he was really, really in love w/ but life just got really stressful and idk it affected their relationship and they sorta just. ended it. idk who ended it w/ who but it probably wasn’t mutual and he’s probably really still hung up about it. 

i mean i’ll take...anything...did they run into each other once and now just see each other everywhere??

unrequited things??

really cute close friendships??

[frankbelloriley]

top ten wrasslin’ matches of 2018

So before I get into this, I’m gonna lay down some ground rules--well, more like tell you the rules I gave myself and those rules are 1) did it make me laugh a bunch and forget about how stupid the world is? (which is the basis for every one of these kinds of lists really) 2) would I show this to someone who had never seen wrestling before? and 3) one (1) match per episode/pay-per-view with one (1) exception for a good reason With that in mind, I’m going to get some honorable mentions out of the way:

Kazuchika Okada vs Tetsuya Naito for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, Kenny Omega vs Chris Jericho for the IWGP US Championship, and the Fatal Four Way for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship between Marty Scurll, KUSHIDA, Hiromu Takahashi, and Will Ospreay from Wrestle Kingdom 12-- they’re all really good and fun and worth checking out, but another Wrestle Kingdom 12 match is going on this list

The other two Chris Jericho NJPW matches versus Tetsuya Naito and EVIL--not on this list literally only due to the “one match per ppv” rule, but they’re all very fun, Chris Jericho is delightfully dickish and you should watch them in order to see Chris Jericho become a progressively more goth dad (he out gothed a dude named “EVIL” (all caps theirs, not mine) that’s how goth Chris Jericho got)

As much as it pains me and as much as it is a testament to what good wrestling there was in 2018, none of the Johnny Gargano-Tommaso Ciampa matches (1, 2, 3, which I can’t find online and whatever) are on this list (my favorite is probably their second match), and neither is Velveteen Dream-Tommaso Ciampa which rips (can I interest you in a fight between a Prince inspired wrassler who refers to himself in the third person and whose act became a giant subtweet of Hulk Hogan against just the biggest asshole in the world?). There is only one Johnny Gargano match on here, and if I’m writing a list of the best character arcs in 2018, the list goes Gargano’s redemption only to succumb to the dark side, Kazuchika Okada’s existential crisis after losing the championship, and Becky Lynch becoming The Man in that order. Becky’s arc really only started four-five months ago and much of it was spent by creative trying and utterly failing to get the crowd to boo her, and Okada’s arc was, by design, slow and frustrating after he lost the championship, but Gargano basically started the year as Luke Skywalker getting his hand cut off and ended the year as Kylo Ren yelling at a ghost on the salt planet, with every character turn making sense. It’s fascinating.

Speaking of, no Aleister Black-Johnny Gargano at NXT War Games 2 match which might be as pure a classic wrestling story as there is, second only to the Gargano match that is actually on here. (In real life, Aleister Black hurt his leg, so in story, they explained it that he got attacked in the parking lot by an unknown person, so the mystery of who attacked him would go on for months (coincidentally the same amount of time it would take someone to recover from an injury like Aleister Black’s) until Johnny Gargano fessed up to the act by kicking him in the face, so now Aleister is seeking justice. Wrestling is delightfully extra.

Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair vs Asuka TLC match for the Smackdown Women’s Championship (no link, couldn’t find)-- whew (not “woo” in this house we boo the woo) Asuka was finally Asuka again (her first and last ppv matches in 2018 (this and against Charlotte at Wrestlemania) are super great and everything else is super not), Becky Lynch continued being the actual greatest, and I literally do not know how Charlotte Flair did not end up in the hospital after this. It’s not making the list for how the match ends in bullshit fashion even though it ends perfectly in character with consistent story logic (a pleasant fucking surprise from WWE especially considering, again, the rest of Asuka’s year)

None of the Shayna Baszler-Kairi Sane matches (can’t find NXT Takeover Brooklyn 4, but I found Evolution and NXT War Games II) (NXT was really good this year), which is a shame because all of which are great, but my personal favorite is on Evolution, and another match beats it out. As I’m writing out the list, I realized there aren’t a bunch of women’s matches, but that’s because WWE’s creative ideas for its women’s division was garbage until the Becky Lynch turn happened in August and got a crowd reaction they super didn’t want and tried to change until they were finally forced them to lean into it. However, Evolution was easily the best main roster WWE ppv.

Nothing from All In literally only because that show is for Wrestling Fans, and this list is supposed to be a “if you’ve never watched wrestling in your life” list. All In is good good fun, but if you show it to someone who’s never seen wrestling before, they’re gonna ask why are there dick druids, and you’re gonna have to explain that Joey Ryan, a dude who wrestles with his dick, came back to life after being murdered and the number one suspect was the guy from Arrow (really). Get into wrestling, then watch that PPV.

Good god, that’s a lot of honorable mentions. Anyway:

10. Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens, an open Intercontinental Championship Challenge on Monday Night RAW, August 27th - this is just a really fun wrestling match between two talented guys who were stuck in other feuds that were prolonged needlessly in 2018, and it was just fun to see these guys branch out, do something different, and tear the house down against each other like, “oh yeah, these two are really good at what they do, I almost forgot.”

9. Andrade Cien Almas vs. AJ Styles - Smackdown Live on September 18--Like Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins, AJ Styles was stuck in bad storylines that meant to make him look like a strong champion but ended up making him look like a plot armored goober. Here we have the story of the cocky upstart Almas taking the veteran champion Styles to his absolute limit with a finish that is smooth as hell.

8. Hiromu Takahashi vs. Will Ospreay, IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship at NJPW Dominion on June 9th - Spoiler for the number two entrant but this is where I’m breaking the “one per ppv rule” because Hiromu Takahashi has a broken neck and no one knows if he’ll ever wrestle again, so this might be his swan song. (He doesn’t break his neck in this match, I wouldn’t introduce him like that) These are two dudes who flip with zero caution to themselves with some incredible flippy shit. Watch it and pray for Hiromu to make a full recovery.

7. Six Man Ladder Match for the NXT North American Championship with Adam Cole, Ricochet, Velveteen Dream, EC3, Killian Dane, and Lars Sullivan - Okay, so, about this. Excepting Killian Dane and maybe Lars Sullivan, everyone here has had a better match elsewhere this year (Lars probably had a better match against Keith Lee, Adam Cole had his best match against Ricochet, Ricochet and EC3 had their best matches against Velveteen Dream, and Velveteen Dream had his best match against Tommaso Ciampa), but everyone gets a moment to shine here, and this is the NXT introduction of Ricochet who is basically a flippy videogame cheat code who is made out of some sort of alien substance. At one point the two large men Lars Sullivan and Killian Dane toss Ricochet across the ring to each other like they’re playing fucking catch. It’s hilarious and maybe the fifth most insane thing that happens here. If someone was to come up to me like, “I know nothing about wrestling, what should I watch to find out if I like it?” I would probably show them this.

6. Kenny Omega vs. Tomohiro Ishii,  G1 Tournament Match - I’m laughing just thinking about this match. I don’t think anyone would call Tomohiro Ishii the best wrestler in the world, but I love him with my heart. Kenny too, but a boyish giggle comes out of me every time Tomohiro no sells someone slapping the utter shit out of him and he says (presumably) something like “that it?!” (I’m a fan of this gif of Pete Dunne slapping a no-selling Tomohiro for Pete Dunne shaking his hand afterwards. Physical comedy!). Anyway, the story here is Kenny Omega has gone 6-0 in this tournament, Ishii (who he has a competitive history with) has gone 0-6 in the tournament, so Kenny takes him for granted and when he realizes his opponent won’t go down that easily, it’s too late. It’s quick, it’s fast paced, and very fun.

5. Meiko Satomura vs Mercedes Martinez, Mae Young Classic Quarterfinals - I had no idea who these women were before the Mae Young Classic, but I loved Meiko with her first match in it, while Mercedes was just, you know, fine. But this? Wheeew. Two veterans giving it their all, and if you don’t turn into a Michael Scott crying gif after when they show each other respect, we ain’t the same.

4. Johnny Gargano vs Andrade Cien Almas, NXT Takeover: Philadelphia -  Going with this one because it’s the most newbie friendly match, it kicks off Johnny Gargano’s year storyline at the finish, and Andrade Cien Almas is really really good at his job. It’s a simple “good guy versus arrogant heel” match, and Andrade comes out to a masked mariachi band as his entrance.

3. Kota Ibushi vs Cody Rhodes, Wrestle Kingdom 12 - there are probably better matches from Wrestle Kingdom 12 but this is my list so fuck you but this is the match where pro wrestling finally clicked with me after starting to watch it because of GLOW. Folks, this is a 20 minute Jackie Chan fight with Kota as the daffy Jackie Chan-like hero and Cody as Anime Biff Tannen. It is fast, has some wild acrobatics, and it is funny as hell.

2. Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega, 2/3 Falls Match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (Part 1, Part 2), NJPW Dominion on June 9th - If the last one was a comedy, this is an epic. This thing last an hour and a half, and it goes by in a flash. The entire Okada-Omega series is basically wrestling’s Lord of the Rings, and this is its Return of the King. The only reason it’s not number one because of the match’s lack of follow through in the months since, but man, this is great.

1. Becky Lynch vs Charlotte Flair, Last Woman Standing Match at Evolution (start at 29:45 then watch the end here)- *types then deletes a bunch of unintelligible vowels* Okay, so this is the first match that really took advantage of the NXT Horsewomen since their call up in a good long while and it rules. I’d say Bayley, Sasha Banks, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch had been given nothing for 2018 until August, but “nothing” would be a step up in some cases *cough* group therapy *cough* *cough* Nia Jax injuring every single one of them plus others and the only reason she still has a job is that she’s The Rock’s cousin *cough* Charlotte had her Wrestlemania match against Asuka, but this? This is mean, this is rough, this is the story of a girl, no this is the story of two former friends wanting to throw the other through a table. When pro wrestling is bad, it’s “what the fuck am I doing with my life watching this shit” bad, and when it’s good, there is nothing like it. This is the latter (not the ladder, but there are those here).

[sheikah]

In the books wasn’t there 3 treasons, and one of them was a treason of love or something? Maybe daario will be danys final treason? I guess it could happen but honestly daario and Cersei just sounds odd to me. Even if he’s bitter and wants revenge, he knows exactly what dany is capable of and knows he’d be on the losing end.

Hey, anon. I’m going to use this ask to make a post about all of these “leaks” in general. Hope you don’t mind. The supposed leaks can be read here. More of my answer under the cut. 

Yes–in Dany’s book visit to HOTU she is warned of three treasons and one is “for love.”

Because of that, I agree that the idea of Daario working against her to be possible. But if I’m really analyzing it, I think that Daario leading the Golden Company would be the betrayal for gold–because he would be getting paid by Cersei/Euron/The Iron Bank, and I don’t think he would fight Dany “for love” of Cersei. It doesn’t add up. And I also don’t believe Daario was genuinely in love with Dany, so I can’t see his alliance with Cersei as like a spurned lover’s revenge. 

So to answer your question, Daario could be the final treason. But I think he fits better into the treason for gold than for love. 

Anyway, I also agree that it seems odd for this Daario plotline to be legitimate at all. So I’m going to address first the reasons I think the “leaks” are suspect. 

1. Tyrion and Varys are not mentioned. To be fair to OP, OP claims to only know details of episode 1 via a conversation with a source, and a few scattered details about the rest of the season thereafter. So possibly episode 1 is not heavy on Tyrion or Varys activity. However, OP didn’t mention this (at least not at the time that I read the leaks. He/she could have edited. I haven’t checked) which tells me Tyrion and Varys slipped their mind, which tells me that they just made up this episode plot and left them out. Say what you will about D&D and their flaws this past season, but Tyrion would be part of an episode they wrote in which everyone gets to Winterfell. He’s a mediator and would certainly be involved in the Jon parentage conflict, as well as some sort of interaction with Sansa at the very least. Tyrion is one of the big 5. He’s going to be around. 

2. The way OP described certain parts of the plot sounds “fanficy.” For example, they are vague and not very detailed when it comes to several plotlines, but they described in great detail how Jon supposedly kisses the tears away from Dany’s face when she cries about the Night King taking over Viserion. 

It also sounds overly cheesy and oddly detailed that Jon tells Arya that seeing her again feels better than coming back from the dead. Not to mention that Jon didn’t seem to enjoy the feeling of coming back from the dead at all. 

3. Certain parts of this don’t make sense considering what we know of last season. My understanding of the final shots of 7.07 is that Bran used ravens to spy on the Night King again, and that he was able to see the Night King riding Viserion and blowing a hole in The Wall near Eastwatch. You can see the scene again here. 

Based on this, the leaker’s claim that the season opens with Bran seeing this seems a little odd. We should believe that Bran already saw it, and instead begin the season by dealing with the aftermath. With only 6 episodes left, I can’t see a re-hash of this scene, a scene which already delivered its emotional payload and would be a weak opening for the final season imo. 

Furthermore, the leaker claims this revelation disturbs Bran and that he is so bothered by it, he is distracted and doesn’t address Jon’s parentage with him right away when Jon returns to Winterfell. I can see why from a writing perspective they would hold off on this revelation for tension, but it shouldn’t be because of Bran’s supposed emotional turmoil. Season 7 did its best to convince us that Bran no longer experiences emotional turmoil. This would be very inconsistent. 

4. Why would Jaime swear his sword to Dany upon arriving at Winterfell? We already know that Dany has abandoned the mentality of demanding oaths of fealty considering all that is going on, so we must assume Jaime does this of his own volition. But it doesn’t make sense. Jaime is disillusioned about Cersei, yes. But disliking Cersei does not equal respect for Dany. Jaime tried to murder her in 7.04. I’m not sure he’s going to be kneeling to her any time soon. His oath is to help in the war against the WW. That doesn’t require an oath to Dany personally. 

5. Speaking of Jaime, I think his death is more likely than Brienne’s. I see Jaime finally redeeming himself as “Kingslayer” by possibly slaying the Night King himself and maybe dying in the process. I know this is a long shot but I would love for him to be the one to deliver the final blow to NK as the true Kingslayer and one the realm would remember fondly forever. I do think it’s likely the Jaime/Brienne romance will proceed and that one of them will die. I just think it’s more likely to be Jaime than Brienne. 

6. Daario leading the Golden Company seems odd to me. How would he become the leader of this group when last we heard, he was maintaining peace and freedom in the former slave cities? When Daario was a mercenary, he was a Second Sun, not a member of the Golden Company. This seems strange to me.  

7. OP claims to know nothing of the ending. I think this is awfully convenient. OP claims to know that Jon and Dany stay together despite Jon’s angst over parentage reveal. OP claims to know the ending of Jaime/Brienne storyline. OP claims to know that Jon and Dany are likely to survive because Melisandre dies to save them. But OP doesn’t know specifics of Night King’s death? Doesn’t know for sure who survives the series? What kind of scenario exists where OP is told all of these super specific details but doesn’t actually know the ending? It seems like OP just didn’t want to write that part because their “tidbits” remain easier to swallow without the finality of the series’ end there as part of them. The other “leaks” presented ludicrous endings and were immediately shut down for it. Without presenting an ending at all, OP seems more credible in some ways. But it also makes me doubt them. 

8. OP never mentions Dany’s pregnancy plot until prompted in the comments. Again, just like Tyrion and Varys, this strikes me as odd. If there is indeed a Targaryen baby, which OP says there is, this would be a huge plot point. So for OP to know this, as they claim to in the comments, but leave it out of their description of the plot in the post itself, makes no sense. This tells me again that OP is making all of this up, forgot about the Targ baby, and had to cover their ass when it was brought up in the comments. 

All that being said, of all the leaks so far, these were some I was most inclined to believe. Full disclosure: that might be because these leaks are the only ones so far that don’t give us a sadistically horrible ending for Jonerys. So maybe I was ready to accept these simply because of my Jonerys obsession. But I do think there are other reasons to give these a little more credit than other “leaks” we’ve seen thus far. 

1. The Greyjoy plot makes sense. I’ve seen other fake leaks that present Euron as the real threat and villain of season 8, as the last man standing after Night King and Cersei fall. In these theories, Euron is some sort of evil mastermind that manages to kill many principle characters. I just don’t see that. So this leak sounds closer to the mark. We can already see that Cersei’s agreement with Euron is fragile and that she is using him. When he discovers that, he might very well go back to the Iron Islands to protect what’s his or gather his forces to retaliate. 

We’ve also now seen the beginnings of Theon’s redemption arc that I personally believe will culminate in saving Yara. Theon saving Yara wouldn’t be that significant if Euron is still in King’s Landing with Cersei instead of at Pike posing a threat to Theon’s rescue mission. So all of what the leaker presents in this regard sounds right to me. 

I also think that Yara ultimately dying despite Theon’s efforts is in keeping with the tone of the series. We can’t have everything we want and I would be sad but not surprised if Yara is killed. It would also be the final straw to shake Theon out of his indecisiveness and inaction–his rage over this could believably compel him to kill Euron, providing a fitting and satisfying end to that subplot. 

2. I’ve always thought that Arya would admire Dany, and the leaker says as much. Arya is canonically aware of Visenya Targaryen and even the name of her sword. It’s not a stretch to think that Arya would look at Dany–a Targaryen woman who is brave enough to ride into battle alongside her men, a woman who tamed three dragons–and see her childhood hero, Visenya Targaryen, a warrior queen. It also fits with Arya’s character to trust someone based on Jon’s opinion, and according to OP, Jon still defends Dany to the Northerners, and Arya would see that. 

3. Even though I question it above, I don’t think the Daario plot is as crazy as others seem to think. Everyone is happy to constantly remind that there are only 6 episodes left. That being the case, I would be very surprised to see a host of new characters introduced as the captains of the Golden Company, because no matter who the writers choose, they will be a new character to show!canon. Having Daario lead the Company doesn’t make sense, especially to more invested fans like us. But the GA would probably enjoy the angst of him landing on Westeros to oppose Dany, and would also like a familiar face instead of a new character as the leader of the GC who only shows up briefly to likely be killed off a couple of episodes later. 

I also don’t think it’s that surprising that Daario could sleep with Cersei. One of the things that Dany always lamented about Daario in the books is that he clearly loved her for what she was, not who she was. Daario is arrogant and enjoys a challenge. He loved Dany because she was an impressive conquest–the Mother of Dragons, the Queen of Meereen. She was formidable in every way. He admired her power as much as her beauty. 

Dany on the other hand, was taken in by Daario’s persistence and charm. In other words, he’s good with women.

Now take Cersei. Despite her inability to truly oppose Dany’s and Jon’s forces, she is still Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. She is still a beautiful woman, the Light of the West. She is exactly Daario’s type. She is also no prude. Cersei has slept with inappropriate men besides Jaime before, and in the book she even subtly propositioned Ned Stark in an attempt to save herself when he revealed that he knew the truth about twincest and the illegitimacy of her children. So sleeping with a man casually, or with a seemingly unlikely man, is not OOC for Cersei. I don’t think that after suffering the loss of Jaime and the miscarriage of their last child, that Cersei would be in a position of confidence. She might crave the attention and comfort of a man like Daario who is 1. attractive 2. charming and 3. (assuming he really is the leader of the GC) a powerful ally. 

And of course, these two sleeping together would explain why Euron ditches Cersei, which I fully expect to happen.

4. The Melisandre story works. Sort of. I don’t really know what “army” she could pull together from Volantis but we know she’s leaving Westeros, we know there must be a reason. We know she knows about the WW and wants to prevent their destruction of humanity. We also know that according to what she told Varys in 7.03, she will return to Westeros and die there. 

Considering all of this, her dying in some way to save Jon and Dany after bringing aid doesn’t strike me as crazy. I think it’s fitting, actually. She’s another dynamic character who has changed a lot over the seasons and who has seen the error of her prophecies and her assumptions, but I think her belief in Jon and Dany and what they could do for the realm is genuine. She also said she had been ready to die for a long time. So her dying to save them makes sense. 

And of course, no one is kinder or a better judge of character than Dadvos. I am totally on board with him forgiving her in the end, after seeing that she gave her life to try and right her mistakes. 

5. As I said above, it does make sense to me to hold off on Jon’s parentage reveal immediately upon seeing Bran, so that part sounds in keeping with a good plot structure for the final season. 

OP’s descriptions of Jon’s reaction are also in line with what I’ve been saying–that Jon will handle this revelation the way he advised Theon to handle his own identity crisis. I think it sounds very in-character for Jon to accept his heritage from both families and to ultimately embrace Dany and their love despite the complications. Overall, I don’t believe this is a true leak. But parts of it sound okay, and we need to keep that in mind if we are interested in a potential real leak in the future. Because if one were to come about, it’s entirely possible that some of this information might overlap. After all, some fan theories have been correct in the past. 

So we can disregard this leak and we should. But I’m not going to dismiss the whole thing outright because to do so might be to dismiss or overlook a future, genuine leak the way many people did with Lads. After all, the wight hunt sounded ridiculous–and imo it kind of was. But it was real. Who knows what D&D are capable of lol?

[theklancecollection]

Happy Birthday Lance!

Although it’s belated, but I just want to say a very happy birthday to our blue Paladin, Lance! There will never be enough words to adequately describe the amount of love we have for him but we can certainly try.

Below the cut are 25 fics celebrating Lance’s birthday. Since I haven’t read them all, they are to be considered unofficial. So read them at your own discretion.

Hope you all enjoy! :)

Lance's Birthday 2017 - teddy_parade

Word Count: 6, 311

Summary: Lance is homesick thinking about what his family would usually be doing around his birthday. Keith will do anything to make Lance happy again.

Birthday Boy - Snoop_Kat

Word Count: 3, 091

Summary: Lance misses home and it's his birthday.

Happy birthday, Lance - torib0o

Word Count: 1, 262

Summary: Lance reflects on his latest birthday.

Happy Birthday - trashbender

Word Count: 1, 909

Summary: Modern AU. One-shot, Klance.

It's Lance's birthday, of course Keith is going to do something for it.

Birthday Bash - Els_writes, Marshmallowtea

Word Count: 687

Summary: Lance's birthday is coming up. Lance fucks up real bad. Lance fixes his fuck up

Rated T for foul language if you can't fucking tell by this summary.

Pizza, Cupcakes, and a Birthday Surprise - Pipsquek13

Word Count: 2, 371

Summary: Modern AU: Keith plans a night for Lance's birthday. It starts with some good stuff and ends with great stuff.

Aguamarina - xPhoenixFlamex

Word Count: 2, 963

Summary: After three years, Lance returns home.

He didn't realize he was returning on his birthday.

All Around Lance Love - Persepinecone

Word Count: 3, 535

Summary: It's Lance's birthday but nobody remembers. Or so it seems. Everyone actually planned a big surprise party and Keith gives Lance the best. present. ever.

what to tell the other when we wake - Rebellion042

Word Count: 431

Summary: It's midnight, and it's Lance's birthday.

Memory book - Luckybug

Word Count: 2, 409

Summary: It's Lance's birthday and Keith gives him the best present

7.28 - meh12

Word Count: 3, 792

Summary: It's Lance's birthday, and Keith has things planned...but you know what they say about "best laid plans."

aka, Lance is sick on his birthday and Keith is the best.

Make a Wish - sunshine_daises_daffodils

Word Count: 2, 657

Summary: It's Lance's birthday, and all the passengers aboard the Castle of Lions are ready to show how much they care about their Blue Paladin.

Even Keith.

behind blue eyes - chosenforthedamned

Word Count: 2, 078

Summary: It's Lance's birthday and the other Paladins want to surprise him. Lance is homesick though and Keith comforts him, leading to an unplanned confession.

Hold the World with Gentle Hands - Kingpin

Word Count: 1, 148

Summary: It's Lance's birthday, but what do you get the Blue Paladin of Voltron as a gift when traditional human presents aren't an option, and alien stuff can be questionable? Furthermore, what do you get him when you're the Red Paladin?

This is for Real - kickfoxing

Word Count: 3, 560

Summary: It's Lance's birthday and all he wants to do is spend the day with his new found family. When a mission throws a wrench in his plans, will he be able to have the birthday he hoped for? (Of course he will! He'll just have to deal with a doped up sappy boyfriend for a bit first.)

feliz cumpleaños, mi amour - ollyalexander

Word Count: 5, 488

Summary: "Tell me about Cuba," Keith says abruptly. Lance glares at him, blood rushing to the surface of his skin as he coughs into his fist, his fingers vibrating slightly. Keith, out of all fucking people... "Why?"

"Curious."

— OR, it's Lance's birthday, and his present gets... postponed. Keith takes it upon himself to give him a replacement.

Common Causes of Forgetfulness - somethingaboutamoose

Word Count: 4, 254

Summary: Growing up in a huge family, birthdays are a pretty big deal to Lance. Of course, the entire team knows this, he's only been reminding them about his birthday forever.

So it's not like they could forget it.

Right?

Nothing sweeter than you - Queerklancing

Word Count: 6, 626

Summary: “I expect something big from you for my next birthday!”

That were Lance’s exact words a few month ago when Keith told him what really happened on Valentine’s day. And now Keith is standing in the dining hall, completely frozen - because Hunk is sitting on top of a ladder with a birthday garland in his hands.

“Hunk.”

“Yeah?” Hunk asks, not turning away from his task. “Please don’t tell me that it’s Lance’s birthday tomorrow.”

Hunk freezes, hand in mid-air. He turns around slowly, and Keith grimaces when he sees Hunk’s shocked face.

“You forgot about it again?!”

french toast - viscrael

Word Count: 2, 898

Summary: “It’s your birthday.”

“Well—I mean, yeah, but that doesn’t mean you had to do all this…”

“Of course it does. I’m your husband. And besides, even if I wasn’t, I care about you. You only turn twenty-eight once.”

--

lance has his first bday back on earth. keith is a good husband.

A special day for a special person - sasuhina_gal

Word Count: 5, 817

Summary: It's Lance's birthday and Keith is going to make it a special one

Open Your Gift - KnightlyLauMaid

Word Count: 1, 626

Summary: It was Lance's Birthday and he was safe to say that Keith had blown it out of the water.

Setting a bar for him to beat next year.

That was until the final gift was given to him.

Keith was always full of surprises.

Lucky - WhiteLionOfVoltron

Word Count: 3, 654

Summary: Lance is about to turn eighteen, and it's his first birthday without his family, so the crew decides to make it a memorable one.

Sing me to Sleep - ged565

Word Count: 9, 106

Summary: It's Lance's birthday, and the paladins are throwing a surprise party for him. Or...are they?

with confetti on top - kxgayxmx (killjoycatlady)

Word Count: 14, 196

Summary: Hunk and Pidge decide to throw Lance a space birthday party, and Keith is assigned the task of distracting Lance.

--

“Who’s going to make sure that Lance stays away from the castle as long as we need?”

“Oh.” A small, devilish grin played on Pidge’s lips. “Right. I almost forgot. Looks like everyone has a job, so, uh, Keith, looks like you’re going to have to take care of that.”

“What?” Keith asked, his voice rising in pitch with shock. “I can’t do that!”

Frost and Time - Dumbtard (sophiethung)

Word Count: 18, 475

Summary: Lance still cannot fathom how Keith, an incompetent and reckless child, has become Shiro's second in command. He's brash, petulant and... breathtaking. Nevertheless, his skills are limited to combat, and he's in no way fit to lead the team.

Keith hates the childish, arrogant bastard that is Lance McClain. He repeatedly compromises missions, doesn't contribute to the team in as a trivial manner as all the others and makes diplomatic ties impossible with his flirtatious behavior. His... godlike features don't distract from the fact that he's a liability.

Keith and Lance have a deep-rooted hatred for eachother - in their own words. The fragile balance between them shatters on Lance's birthday, where Keith realizes more than he wishes to.

[booksareawayoflife]

City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare

‘Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love.’

 Book Review: no spoilers

This part of the review will be spoiler-free. I have read the first three books in The Mortal Instruments but that was about 6/7 years ago. My reading tastes have changed slightly since then. Luckily, I can say that I actually liked this book more now, than when I first read it. I think it is a combination of me being able to relate to the characters more through my life experiences, and the fact that I absolutely love the TV show. Because I love the TV show, I want to read every single thing relating to the characters to better understand the origins of the characters that I love so much. I feel like I do have to say that this book may have it’s flaws, but I really liked it. I am surprised to say that so far, City of Bones is on my favourites of all time, and I hope the rest of the series joins it. It’s nostalgic to read a Young Adult Classic like City of Bones.

I remember the character of Simon being really funny, because Cassandra Clare did make me laugh out loud the first time I read it. I didn’t remember that a lot of the other characters are also funny, and SO FULL OF SASS. I love all the sassy comments that the characters said to each other. It made the characters seem like real people. I remember liking this book so much that on a day trip to Oxford, I literally read this book the entire time I was there. This book is captivating, entertaining, and a really good, fun read. I am so looking forward to continuing this book, and the rest of the Shadowhunter Chronicles.

Overall, I gave this book 10/10 or 5/5. I am surprised that I liked this book so much after re-reading it... but I do. I could easily see myself reading this book again, and I hope that is the same for the rest of the series. So far, City of Bones is on my favourite books of all time, and I hope that it stays that way.

 SPOILERS

From here on out, I’ll be talking more in depth on the specifics of the books. If you haven’t read this series, I would recommend not reading any further.

Plot/writing - I did feel like there was a lot of info-dumping through Jace’s dialogue. But us, as the readers, we are novices about the Shadow World, as Clary is. Though, I do wish there were more things Clary could have learnt through experience, that way the dialogue would seem less info-dumpy. I do think that Alec/Isabelle should have had a more prominent role in this book, and accompany Jace/Clary on every “mission” that they went on, because I feel like the characters wouldn’t let Jace go out on his own without backup. I wish we saw Magnus healing Alec so badly. Overall, I think it was a decently written book, that set up the Shadow World very well.

Clary - I love how much of a fighter Clary is, and how she doesn’t take shit from nobody. Not from Jace, or Alec. I wish TV show Clary had a bit more of a spine, like book Clary in the first couple of episodes of Season 1. I loved it when she told Jace not to call her Fray, because it’s what Simon calls her. I love their friendship. But, when Simon is escorted from the Institute, the first time he arrived there, I wish Clary would have asked for him to stay. I feel like he would have really helped her deal with everything that happened to her. She is my favourite character in the series so far.

Jace - Jace is a very hit and miss character with me. I don’t mind his arrogance, because Clary is very good at putting him in his place. But I didn’t like him after he got kidnapped by Valentine... though I don’t think that you are supposed to like the change in him. I did find it stalkerish when he turned up a Java Jones, just to find Clary, and suss her out. Right now, I like Jace more than I dislike him.

Simon - I remembered liking him the first time I read this book, and I loved him more this time round. Simon deserves the world because he is such a sweetheart. My heart went out to him when he told Clary that he has loved her for over ten years. I just wanted to hug him. I also like the fact that Simon, as a mundane, isn’t completely helpless. I LOVE the fact that a mundane saved 4 shadowhunters from a greater demon by using Alec’s bow, and shooting it at the sky light. I wish that was in the TV show, because I would have loved to have seen Alec’s reaction. I hope in the later books, I like Sizzy, because I am more of a Climon fan. I don’t remember how Simon gets transformed into a vampire, so I am looking forward to reading that. I am not looking forward to his love triangle though. He is definitely one of my favourite characters.

Alec - I didn’t like Alec the first time I read this book. I’m glad that I liked him more this time round, but that is more because I love TV show Alec. The first time that I read this book I think that the ending, where Alec and Clary reconciled, went over my head because I never forgave Alec for being rude to Clary, but now I can. I wish we saw more of him, and more of Malec, but I am looking forward to the rest of the series. I’m glad that the TV show went another route about the revelation of Alec being gay. It was a longer plot line, and a more intriguing one, because you wanted to find out what Jace would think. Also, it makes Alec seems less prone to violence, because book Alec threw Clary against the wall, and issued her a death threat. I much rather preferred Alec being intimidating, and not actually violent. Alec is one of my favourite characters in the TV show, but I am indifferent to him in the books. I hope that changes.

Isabelle - I’m not sure how I feel about Isabelle. I didn’t really care for her in the TV show, but she has grown on me a lot. In this book... I didn’t like her at all. It seems like she’s stringing Simon along, and the fact that she didn’t properly look out for Simon at Magnus’s party is the reason why he got kidnapped. She also didn’t like Clary... until the end, where she’s says I’ll learn to have a female friend. I’m not sure what to think of her, but I do hope that I like her in the later books.

Magnus - I love Magnus, AKA The King of Sass. I wish he was in the book more, and more of MALEC. MALEC is OTP. I didn’t like the revelation of Magnus’s backstory though. I wish it could have been in a Malec scene, or just done in a way that it didn’t seem like Magnus was garnering for pity. I wanted Magnus to be better developed, but I have a feeling he’ll be better developed in the later books. I love Malec in the TV show, and I hope to see more of them in the later books. I can’t wait for the Magnus Bane Trilogy. I think the casting of Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus is perfect. No other person could ever be Magnus as perfectly as he can. I do think that the introduction of Magnus in the TV show was better, but that was more because Magnus took a more prominent role from the beginning of the show. He is my favourite character in the TV show, and I hope that I love him as much in the books.

Luke - I was really surprised at how rude Luke was towards Clary. I knew that he was basically going to abandon her, to keep her safe, but I forgot just how rude he was. I think I prefer TV show Luke to book Luke. Luke could have also contacted Clary after he became Pack Leader of the wolves in New York, as opposed to let her think that she was alone in the world. I haven’t forgiven book Luke for that yet. I love Luke in the TV show, and I hope that I start to grow on him in the later books.

Valentine - I prefer TV show Valentine, because he is a ruthless killer/leader. Book Valentine just seems deluded. I love the fact that in the TV show Valentine ambushed Luke into a werewolf den, which lead to him becoming a werewolf. It makes Valentine seem more evil, and more ruthless/calculating than book Valentine. I hope book Valentine becomes a better ruthless bad guy.

TV Show - I wish that Church was in the TV show, just for a Malec scene where Magnus would come to the Institute, and Church would love him. Alec would then come along, and be like, “He normally doesn’t like people.” For Magnus to reply, “I’m hardly normal, Alexander.” Apart from that, I wouldn't change the TV show all that much. I think that it is golden, and it is the main reason why I am reading the series now. I think that they took the books, and made it better.

I am looking forward to reading City of Ashes!

 Love Lou xx

[onceuponanolicity]

This is for the Olicity Hiatus Fic-A-Thon, Week 12. The prompt was Impaired Judgment.  

I am still trying to catch up to the current week so the chapters are shorter than normal. 

                                                                                                           Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy for another who is stricken by misfortune. It was something felt a lot when Felicity visited the animal shelter for her volunteer work. It was something that had been sent her way as a child after her father had left. But, never had she expected that she’d feel it for Oliver. He was The Hood after all. Oliver seemed like he could make his way through anything, but not his recent injury. At least not the mental one.

           “You’re getting stronger,” she said to him as he carried a bunch of stacked chairs around Verdant without effort. Something he couldn’t manage just two weeks ago.

           There was a brief nod of acknowledgement on his part. “Pain killers help.”

           Felicity hopped down from the bar stool she sat in somewhere in the middle of the large space. “I thought you weren’t taking them anymore.”

           “They help me sleep.”

           “Oliver?” Felicity walked over to him and laid a hand on the small of his back. “Talk to me.”

           “I’d rather not.”

           He shrugged off her hand and walked around her, avoiding all eye contact. If he thought his surly attitude would make her go away, he didn’t know her very well. Diggle seemed to understand that. Which was why he drove her over here after a few weeks of Oliver avoiding her.

           “Are you on them now?”

           Oliver swung around, his gaze hard. “Why? Are you afraid they’re impairing my judgment?”

           “Maybe.” Felicity crossed her arms. When Oliver turned hard like this he scared her a little. Usually, he would look at her and his eyes would soften slightly. Not today. Today, his anger, pain, and frustration overwhelmed everything else.

           “Maybe you should leave then. I wouldn’t want my impaired judgment to hurt you.” His words were sarcastic, but for a moment the softness appeared. Felicity knew he would never hurt her and it seemed to hit him that he could while he might not want to.

           “She’s not going anywhere, man.” Diggle appeared off to the side. “You can’t keep going like this. You’re body’s stronger, but the other archer took your confidence.” He stepped further into the small bit of space the flood light gave off. “He took that piece of you that made you jump off rooftops and take down criminals without thought.”

           Oliver waved toward Felicity but his frustrated words were directed to Diggle. “How’s she going to help me get that back?”

           Okay, Felicity tried really hard to not take that personally. However, a tear still formed at the corner of her eye. “It was a mistake to come here.”

           “Those must be some damn good drugs if you think that throwing Felicity out of here is a good idea.” Diggle crossed his powerful arms and met Oliver’s hardened stare straight on. “I’ve never seen you so focused. That all happened after you started seeing her. It was like she settled you somehow. Keeping you from some of the stupid shit, but making you want to do more. Not just take down the people on that damn list of yours.”

           “Thanks?” Felicity said softly at Diggle. His shoulder lifted slightly at her word which was the only indication he heard her.

           Oliver shot a finger in her direction, telling her to wait. His gaze never shifted from Diggle, though. “Who said it was her?”

           “I need some air.” Felicity went over to the stool she had sat on and grabbed her jacket that she had laid over the surface for a lack of anywhere else to put it. She didn’t bother to listen to the rest of what was being said. What was the point?

           Felicity huddled inside her coat as she restlessly roamed around the front of Verdant. It was empty now, but tomorrow workers would be coming back to set up for another full day of work.

           “I’m sorry.”

           Turning quickly, Felicity found Oliver standing there against the doorway. He looked no more than the arrogant, rich, party boy he was known to be. His white dress shirt lay slightly open at the throat and his sleeves were rolled up revealing the strong forearms he possessed. He barely looked like someone who was inside moving furniture. Only the slightest bit of wrinkling to his shirt gave him away.

           “Aren’t you cold?”

           Oliver shook his head and straightened from his position. “No. I’m pissed off. At myself,” he clarified. He walked over to her and took her folded arms into his hands. Oliver rubbed them trying to invite more warmth into her body. “I’m sorry.”

           “You already said that.”

           “Not enough.” He leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of her head. “I do appreciate the fact that you showed up.”

           Felicity bit her lip to keep from smiling as she felt compelled to tease him. “Well, you’ve been gone and I’ve been starving. I waited for weeks.” At his confused and concerned look, Felicity let the smile loose. “You owed me lunch.”

           She heard him curse under his breath. “I forgot.”

           “I figured and I’m teasing.” Felicity unfolded her arms and laid a hand on his chest. “I’m just happy you’re getting better.”

           Oliver raised a hand and nudged her chin up so their eyes could fully meet. “Outside my family and Digg, that means a lot.”

           “Wow! I’m higher than Tommy? Or Laurel?” It wasn’t sarcasm. Felicity was honestly surprised that he would place her so high in his life. Why would he? He still barely knew her.

           His other hand gripped her hip and tugged her closer. “Who’s Laurel?”

           “You’re ex?” Did he seriously not remember? Was his head hit harder than they all believed?

           “My what?” His eyes twinkled down at her and now she knew he had been teasing her.

           Felicity slapped at his chest, eliciting a sound of pain from Oliver. Her eyes sharpened. “Are you still hurt?”

           “No.” Oliver captured her hand under his.

           “Right. The pain meds.”

           “Not the pain medication,” he denied. “You. Diggle was right. You make things different.” Oliver shifted their hands so that they now rested over his heart. “Here.”

           Felicity felt the speed in which his heart pounded. Hers was faster. Just being near Oliver made that happen.

           “Come back inside,” Oliver mumbled into her hair as he let his forehead rest on the crown of her head.

           Shaking her head under his touch, Felicity stepped back. She had to be away from him until he got his head back together. “I need to go. I have a bunch of stuff to do before I head back into work tomorrow. Do you think Mr. Diggle could drive me back?”

           “I’ll do it,” Oliver told her. “Just give me a minute to grab my keys.”

           “If you don’t mind, I’d prefer Diggle.”

           Oliver stood there next to her. His expression betrayed his hurt. She felt bad putting it there, but after what Oliver had said earlier she wasn’t sure if he was completely capable of driving her. His moods seemed to shift too fast. That didn’t even take into consideration the amount of drugs he was on. Oliver needed time to recover whether he knew that or not. She wasn’t about to put more pressure on him in the meantime.

           Finally, Oliver nodded. “I’ll get him.”

OQFSOQFSOQFS

           Oliver hated to admit that Diggle was right. Not that he wasn’t most of the time. After freezing when confronted by the arsonist Laurel asked him to look into, Oliver had no choice but to do so. The Dark Archer had taken that piece of him that allowed him to go around without fear.

           He needed to find that piece of himself again. Only instead of figuring out where to find it, Oliver searched out Felicity. Somehow, it felt more important. Especially as Oliver hadn’t seen her since the day she left Verdant. Five thousand reasons to seek her out had come to him since that day. Not one had seemed legitimate enough for her to believe he was there honestly.

           That didn’t mean he had not seen her. Twice he found himself driving past her apartment. Only one of those times did he stop. He ditched his bike on a side street and swung up to a vantage point to see inside her living room window.

           Felicity had come home late that night exhausted. Yet, there was a satisfied smile that graced her face. Oliver couldn’t help but wonder where she had been. She had left QC four hours ago.

           Oliver watched as she kicked off her flats by her front door. She disappeared for a few minutes, but returned with a glass of wine which she set on a table near her couch without taking a sip. Felicity pulled her hair from the ponytail holder and collapsed on her plush couch. A smile still tilted her lips upwards as she lay her head back.

           She was dressed casually. More casually than he had ever seen her before. Jeans and a long sleeve t-shirt of a peach color that made her features brighten. It was in that moment Oliver realized how much he missed her.

           That was a week ago. Now, he was involved in this arsonist case and he did not have the extra time to go looking for her. Yet, Oliver wanted her there even more. He wasn’t fully ready to become the vigilante again, but with her support he might.

           “You okay?” Digg asked the second Oliver dragged his ass through the hidden door into the lair.

           “Yeah.”

           Diggle shot Oliver a look that said he did not believe him. Of course he didn’t. Diggle always knew when things went sour. The older man vacated the chair in front of the computer while Oliver stripped out of his suit. “Your mom and Tommy called while you were out. You might want to give them a call.”

           “I will.” Oliver came towards him zipping up his grey sweatshirt over his bare chest. He picked up his phone from the table he left it on. “No other calls?”

           “Is that your subtle way of asking if Felicity called?”

           Oliver felt his cheeks heat up. “No.”

           Diggle chuckled. Oliver decided retreat was his best option. Diggle was beginning to know him too well.

OQFSOQFSOQFS

           Felicity did not know when, or if, she’d hear from Oliver again. They had not parted on the best of terms. But, she thought that maybe he would have tried to contact her before now. It was not like he had a lot of Hood business to take care of. There were several news stories questioning his disappearance. More and more as violence began to escalate with his continued absence.

           Her life was turning normal again. Almost like the time she had known Oliver and The Hood were some long dream that expanded over several nights, rather than actual reality. A dream she was missing. Oliver had made the boring, mundane life she had fallen into exciting. Something she thought she didn’t need anymore.

           A knock on her door had Felicity’s heart racing. Maybe just thinking about him brought Oliver to her door. Felicity straightened her hair and glasses and rose from her desk chair. “Come in.”

           A young man in a courier outfit entered. “Miss Smoak?”

           “Yes.” Felicity sat back in her chair, deflated. “Can I help you?”

           He reached into his messenger bag and pulled out a white envelope, handing it to her. “This is for you.”

           “Thank you.” Felicity stared down at the crisp, white envelope that only had her name on it. Nothing indicated who it was from. She reached for her purse to tip the guy when she realized he was already gone.

           Felicity dropped the envelope on her desk and stared at it. Should she open it? For a second, Felicity contemplated calling security to examine it. Only that would cause a company-wide incident. And what if it was from The Hood? That would mean everyone would find out about her involvement with him. She couldn’t have that. No matter how upset she may become, Oliver’s secret was his own to share.

           Picking up her scarf, Felicity wrapped it around her face and grabbed a letter opener. Better to be safe than sorry. Felicity grabbed her spare pair of wooden chopsticks from her desk drawer and proceeded to hold the letter out before she slid the letter opener through the top.

           So far, so good. Felicity dropped the envelope back on her desk and separated the edges with the chopsticks. Nothing appeared to be inside other than some sort of invitation.

           With a deep gulp, Felicity unwound the scarf before wrapping it around her hand. Tentative, silk-wrapped fingers extracted the slip of paper from the envelope.

           It was an invitation. Nothing more. Felicity laughed at her own overly anxious brain that made it out to be something else. All that time spent with Oliver was apparently making her think people were after her.

           The invitation invited her to the Fireman’s gala being held by Tommy Merlyn and Oliver Queen in honor of the recently fallen firemen. There was an RSVP number at the bottom. It wasn’t one she recognized, but she called it anyway.

           “Tommy Merlyn.”

           “Umm. Hi. It’s Felicity Smoak,” she explained. “You sent me an invitation.”

           “Right. The blonde from Verdant who Oliver was seeing over a month ago.” Felicity could hear a smile creep into Tommy’s voice. “Oliver asked me to include you as an invitee.”

           “I have a question.” Felicity hesitated. She felt silly. “What exactly does one wear to a gala?”

           “Something nice,” Tommy said with a small chuckle. “It’s not too formal. Well, it can be, but it’s not necessarily expected.”

           “I might not have that,” Felicity admitted thankful that he was on the other end of the phone and could not see her embarrassment.

           “Whatever you have is fine,” Tommy assured her kindly. “Don’t go all Pretty Woman. I don’t think Ollie could handle it. He’s been through enough.”

           Felicity covered the mouthpiece of her phone so her snort couldn’t be heard on the other end. Tommy had no idea. “Just to be safe, I better decline.”

           “Ollie told me that declining wasn’t an option.”

           “Then why have an RSVP?” Felicity asked in exasperation.

           “For you,” Tommy amended. “He wants you there. I have to say you have me intrigued. I’ve never seen Ollie interested in a woman this long before.”

           “Really?”

           Tommy chuckled, but his voice turned serious. “It’s like all the demons he brought home with him begin to disappear. He becomes the Ollie I remember before he left.” Felicity made a noise to speak, but Tommy continued. “Better. He’s a grown up version of himself.”

           Felicity didn’t know what to say to that. Fine. She had one thing. “I’ll try to be there.”

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[lemonnyx]

Your Love Is King 

Nyx x Reader

PART II

Angst/Fluff/NSFW

Word Count: 1796

 The sight of the feminine figure in the light caused your mouth to fall agape. A flame began to burn in your heart, your breathing started to become shallow and sharp as you stare in disbelief at Nyx and this woman lying in the bed you once shared together. With every step closer to Nyx tears attempt to force their way from your eyes. With what little strength you had left in you, you held them back wanting to release all your energy and rage out on Nyx for his betrayal. Now hovering over the two of them you could get a closer look at the woman. Her built was small with a pale complexion, her brunette hair tied in a loose bun on top of her head held together by a large pearl pendant. Though she wasn’t laying on top of Nyx she was awfully close to him, their skin almost touching. Nyx’s back was facing her, his body laying adjacent to the wall, as if he was giving her more room on the bed.  

He looks exhausted, was it because he fucked her?

“Nyx get up”, you commanded faintly. You still couldn’t believe what was happening, that you were literally about to speak these words to him.  Your grabbed the blanket that was covering Nyx legs tossing it violently across the room.

“NYX get the fuck up!” your pupils began to dilate at the sight of his face now staring at you in confusion.

“Y/n, what…what’s happening, what are you doing here? Why… why are you in my bed?” Nyx questioned while almost leaping from the bed at the sight of this woman lying next to him.

Nyx moves his focus back on to you, removing himself from the bed he starts to make his way towards you, attempting to grab your arm. However, you quickly swat it away backing up closer towards the door.

“Who is she, why is she here?” Steeling your heart, you force your gaze to the floor, knowing that if you were to look Nyx in the face as he gave you his answer that you would come undone with emotions.  

Nyx attempts once more to move closer to you, his body almost begging to be near you.

“Y/n, it’s not what it looks like, I swear to you” Grabbing your arm Nyx stops you from moving closer to the door.

“I knew this would happen, that all of this was too good to be true.” You couldn’t hold back anymore, you forced you gaze into his soft blue eyes. Nostalgia of the years that you had spent together, of all the years you had hoped to spend together were now beginning to vanish. Tears now flowing from your eyes. Gripping his arm, you force his hand from you as you made your way to the door to leave.

“WAIT!” Nyx demands as a crushing force grabs your wrist. “Seriously, y/n it’s not what it looks like. That… that is the granddaughter of Camelia Claustra, the Princess of Accordo. I was put on a NTK mission of watching her until she can meet with the King to talk about a possible alliance.”

You stop in your tracks as a wave of skepticism and embarrassment fills your mind at the thought of this truly being a misunderstanding. Nyx’s grip still holding tightly on to you.

“Need to know mission? I…I would have known about the Princess of ‘wherever’ coming here Nyx. Do you forget who my father is? He tells me everything, especially when it comes to something like this.”

Your father had been great friends of Regis since you had been born. Eventually earning him a spot as one of his councilmen and head chiefs of foreign affairs, and although you were not a council member your father trusted your judgement and often called for your opinion in meetings when other territories were involved.

Nyx releases his hold on you, hoping that perhaps now that you understand the situation.

“Call him then. Call you dad and ask him”, his voice full of confidence.

Pulling out your cell you give a haunting stare to the so-called Princess now standing in the corner of the room attempting to make her presence hidden.

A bitter sigh departs you as you see your phone is dead. “Can…can I use your phone?” you ask slightly ashamed. “Mines dead from all the times I tried to call you on my way over here.”

Turning from you Nyx makes his way into the kitchen to unplug his phone that was sitting on the counter. Scrolling through the call log his eyes widen as he remembers what tonight was meant to be.

“Y/n, I’m so sorry. I… honestly with everything that came up last minute I forg—“.

“You still forgot though Nyx”, you said swiping the phone from him as you turned to face the door.

You bit down on your lip as you typed in your father’s number. With every ring came ache, embarrassment and resentment that was almost too much for your heart.

What if this is just a joke to him? Does he think my father would have forgotten to tell me something as important as this? And besides he still forgot about tonight, about OUR night.

A deep grumble of a voice finally answered the call. “Ulric…why are you calling me this late? Is something wrong, is y/n okay?”

You let out a slight giggle at the sound of your father’s drowsy voice and his concern about you. “Dad, it’s me I’m okay. I’m with Nyx.”

Edging your way closer to the door, your prepared for your escaped, expecting your father to have no idea of this so called disclosed mission.

“So dad, about Nyx I need to know about this mission—“

“Ahh, yes y/n dear, that reminds me—“,  your father then begins to go on for some time. Explaining in explicit detail of how Ulric is to escort the Princess of Accordo to the safe house, a.k.a. Nyx’s old apartment; until the meeting the following day.  

Your brows begin to furrow as you scratch your forehead after hearing your father’s words. Realizing the seriousness of this mission, while still being slightly pissed that Nyx forgot about what was planned for tonight.

After saying your goodbyes to your father, you turn on your heel to face Nyx pushing the phone slightly into his chest to return it to him.

“So? What did he say?” Nyx asked, a charming smile beginning to form on his face.

“He said that you’re an asshole, and… and that your right” You start to move further into the apartment, your gaze now wandering back towards the Princess.

“Then what was she doing in your bed?” Now glaring intensely at Nyx, waiting to see what his excuse for this would be. 

“I…I don’t know” he said now looking towards the princess almost as if for an answer.

“Don’t look at her Nyx, look at me and answer the question. What was she doing in YOUR bed with YOU? Did you sleep with her?”

“NO! y/n, I don’t know why she—“

“Because that chair is disgusting, covered in filth” a haughty voice answered from the corner of the room.

“What, what did you say” you question her, you full attention now back on the Princess.

“What kind of host doesn’t even offer proper sleeping arrangements for a Princess?” she stated, now walking towards the two of you her arms crossed in a displeasing manner.

“I offered her the bed earlier, but she said no, so I took a nap. She said it was okay.” Nyx said now looking at the princess for reassurance.

Crossing your arms, you swayed back slightly in disbelief at the two’s story. “Still doesn’t explain why you were in his bed though”

“Uhhh, because I got tired, duh, Ive been cooped up in this dingy apartment for 6 hours now! Seriously what kind of arrangement is this where your safe house isn’t even safe!” The once quiet Princess now is eager and intense with her words.

“What kind of guest doesn’t even have a spare bedroom? How is it safe that a Princess has to sleep in a filthy bed next to a stranger?”

For all of her elegant appearance her personality was full of arrogance and entitlement.

“I suggest you two work together to go and find me a proper bed so I can be well rested for tomorrow’s meeting with the King” the Princess commands now sitting crossed legs on the so called ‘filthy bed’.

You hear a relieved chuckled escape from Nyx standing behind you.

“I really am sorry about tonight—“

Cutting him off you take Nyx’s hand in your own, forcing him into the hallway. Pushing him against the cold concrete wall you then turn to make sure the door is closed behind you. Turning back to Nyx his signature devilish smile has returned to his face. A smile that you know all too well, and what is soon to follower after.

Lustful eyes are now piercing at you as Nyx attempts to move closer to you. Unexpecting to him however you aggressively push him back up against the chill of the wall. A sharp tingle fills his body at the sight of you being so domineering towards him. Advancing your body closer to him your lips ruthlessly clash against his. Your hands linger on his warm chest as your tongue connects deliciously with his.

“Y/n” Nyx moans silently into your mouth, as his hand begin to move lower towards your waist.

“Shut up” you respond while slapping his hand away. You pulled back from him, now staring deeply into his sea blue eyes.  

Placing both of your hands on his chest you begin you dig you nails teasingly into him. You start to seductively snake your hands lower and lower until they hover just slightly above his erection. Placing your left hand under Nyx’s chin you bring his gaze back onto you rather than the sight of you about to take him in your hands.

“You, Nyx Ulric", you state while planting a passionate kiss upon his lips.  “Belong to me.”

“I know y/n, I kno–” a low moan stops Nyx’s words as he feel’s your other hand grip slightly around his throbbing member.

“And this”, placing another kiss upon him, “this belongs to me too right?” You ask, replicating that same signature grin of Nyx.

Passion fills him as he grabs your waist, thrusting himself into you. His soft lips attack your own as his cock twitches pleasurably against you.  

Kisses begin to trail up from your collarbone, towards your neck eventually making their way to your ear. A husky tone fills your ears with a soothing confidence as Nyx whispers.

“Always”

Part III

This chapter was a little shorter than I wanted it to be. I wasn’t sure if I wanted it to be super smutty or nah. But Part III will be 90% smut. Stay tuned :D

Thank you again to all my new followers I love you all. <3

Tagging everyone who commented on Part I :D

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Circumcise your heart to be able to receive GOD’S WORD

I wonder what the fake stream media will tell the masses next?  I bet you will hear them speak of aliens or something to that effect.   Do you think they want you to loose your focus?  Focus from what?  2020 Election????  Will they throw you a bone to get you off focus?  Are you that easily led astray????   They committed E  L  E  C  T  I  O  N     F  R  A  U  D and they have to resort to something to pull your focus off the F  O  R  E  N  S  I  C     A  U  D  I  T.  They think we are dumb cattle that just needs a little prodding to move in the direction they want you to go.  Will you prove them wrong???? The choice to know is yours and yours alone.  You will not be able to blame anyone if you sleep through this civil war.  When it is over, you will realize what side of the fence post you were on.  Recall what CHRIST told the church of Laodicea??? [Rev 3:14-22 KJV] 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. REREAD VERSE 16 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: RICH=We have on paper a thing called the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INCREASED WITH GOODS= BILL OF RIGHTS which is supposed to give us FREEDOM.   At one time we even had a FREE ECONOMY . What happened.  Israel always gets lazy, proud, and arrogant when they had it really good.  You know when FATHER blessed them a whole lot. FATHER even gave them a pet name when they grew fat with goods, freedom and peace. [Deu 32:15 KJV] 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. What is the first thing Israel does when they got it so good? ....then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. How would you say they forgot GOD.  Who is GOD?  What is HIS NAME? [Rev 19:11-13 KJV] 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12  His eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. Why has socialism and now communism taken over???? Recall, ...."then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation." Go to 10 churches on ten separate occasions,  at church time, not Sunday school, church time.  How many times will you hear GOD'S WORD taught chapter by chapter verse by verse and line by line????   It is HIS NAME.   HE is the LIGHT, [Jhn 8:12 KJV] 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. [Jhn 9:5 KJV] 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Again, reread...."As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.  How many churches are walking in HIM? Here is a description of the church, the TRUE CHURCH. What part are you??? [1Co 3:9-21 KJV] 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. 10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. yet so as by fire. yet so as by fire. yet so as by fire. 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. How does one profane the temple of GOD which you are supposed to be????  What do you spiritually feed upon.  You either feed upon [Jhn 6:35, 48 KJV] 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. ... 48 I am that bread of life. or you feed upon [Eze 4:12-13 KJV] 12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Reread verse 12 and think..."that cometh out of man, in their sight." "that cometh out of man, in their sight." that cometh out of man, in their sight." 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. Special sermons are needed WHEN YOU HAVE STUDIED A BOOK OR CHAPTER THAT NEEDS FURTHER INVESTIGATION.  Otherwise, you should be serving CHRIST line upon line, chapter by chapter and verse by verse NOT man made sermons that tickle the ears of people. [Isa 30:9-16 KJV] 9 That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: REREAD VERSE 10 OVER AND OVER.  What things, you know things like tribulation, no rapture.  You are going to have to stand on one side or the other type of things.  Ask yourself when the 11th hour arrives will you be the gold, silver, and precious stones that can withstand the fire because you either have the seal of GOD in your forehead or the Ephesians 6:11-18 FULL ARMOUR (ALL OF GODS WORD) on and in place.   Or will you be the wood, hay, and stubble because you did as the 5 foolish virgins did in Matthew 25 and lost your virginity to the first messiah that comes your way?  The first one coming is Antichrist NOT CHRIST.  CHRIST comes after the 7th trumpet and to believe otherwise means you will be damned. [2Th 2:1-12 KJV] 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Returning to Isaiah 30... 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit. 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. NOTE WHAT THEY SAY.  DID THEY REJECT GOD'S WORD LINE UPON LINE CHAPTER BY CHAPTER AND VERSE BY VERSE THAT TEACHES THEM HOW TO SEE WHO THEIR ENEMY IS??? 16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. RETURNING TO REVELATION 3 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; REREAD VERSE 21 OVER AND OVER AND OVER 21 Therefore let no man glory in men...... We are very close to losing this once CHRISTian nation.  We are in a civil war.  Again, are you fighting?  What are you fighting with??? [2Co 10:4-5 KJV] 4 (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; Whose imaginations??? [Mar 7:9, 13 KJV] 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ... 13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. The tares crept in because the majority of people have rejected GOD'S WORD line upon line chapter by chapter and verse by verse [Jde 1:4 KJV] 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. What did CHRIST say about being ashamed of HIM? [Mar 8:38 KJV] 38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. [Luk 9:26 KJV] 26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and [in his] Father's, and of the holy angels. "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words..." What is CHRIST?  IS he a little verse here and a little verse there out of context to make a sermon to invoke a certain emotion from the people.  You know themes such as happy sermons, sad sermons, loyalty sermons, damnation sermons??????????? The Bible hasThe Bible has 1,189 Chapters; The Bible has 31,102 verses; The Old Testament has 929 chapters; The Old Testament has 23,145 verses; The New Testament has 260 chapters; The New Testament has 7,957 verses. Have you been  served all of the above when you attend church so that you have an opportunity to put on the Ephesians 6:11-18 FULL ARMOUR OF GOD on??? Again whose name is being served.  Don't forget Revelation 19:13.   If someone, anyone, thinks I am against church, they need to reread this post. I AM MOST DEFINITELY FOR GOD'S CHURCH.  Our country is only as strong as GOD'S CHURCH is and for the mere fact we have all the things listed in Leviticus 18 being alright with the people is an exact indicator just how weak the churches are.  The enemy would not be able to move into this country if we, the majority of WE THE PEOPLE stood on the foundation of JESUS CHRIST.  Read Deuteronomy 28: 1-14 and compare it with verses 15-the end of that chapter.   Returning to  Revelation 3... 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. FATHER, in the name of JESUS, I pray for the Many Membered Body of CHRIST.  The dragon... [Rev 12:9 KJV] 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. ...is heavily waging war upon the two peoples listed in Revelation 7.  The first people= Revelation 7:4-8 & the Second group is the Revelation 7:9-17 people.  We do win the war, but until then we have battles that need to be attended to.  Don't remain or go to sleep on your watch.   [Mat 24:42 KJV] 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. [Mat 25:13 KJV] 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. [1Th 5:6 KJV] 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. [Rev 3:3 KJV] 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

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'The Last Dance' proves why Michael Jordan's the only athlete who could ever be loved as both hero and villain - CBS Sports

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'The Last Dance' proves why Michael Jordan's the only athlete who could ever be loved as both hero and villain - CBS Sports

The greatest trick Michael Jordan ever pulled was becoming a villain right in front of our eyes — and looking like a hero while doing it. That’s the essence of what has to be acknowledged as the most enjoyable and enlightening Jordan interview excerpt we’ve seen so far from “The Last Dance,” which is now eight episodes deep into its 10-episode run.  On Sunday night, millions saw the clip that’s going to birth two or three more everlasting M.J. memes.  The Gary Payton reaction clip.  Near the end of Episode 8, director Jason Hehir once more pulls a move that has served this documentary-as-cultural-event so well. Hehir hands Jordan a tablet for him to watch interview subjects speak about him, in the present day, with Jordan getting the benefit of being afforded a last word on whomever it is he’s provided to roast or rebel against.  I am here to tell you that Michael Jordan reacting to Gary Payton talking about Michael Jordan is as pure a look into the mind of M.J. as you’ll ever get of the man — at least away from his greatness and killer instinct so often laid bare on the basketball court. 

Payton is one of the best defenders in NBA history. He was as good of a trashtalker as Jordan could claim to be, and in fact Payton did a great job guarding and harassing 23 in the ’96 Finals. Payton was the Defensive Player of the Year in 1995-96, and he helped Seattle sidestep infamy by dodging a presumed sweep at the hands of the 72-win Bulls. Loaded up alongside Shawn Kemp, Payton and the Sonics worked to a respectable six-game defeat. Like more than 100 other interview subjects, Payton agreed to have a chat, to reminisce on his team getting worked by Chicago. He could have said a few platitudes, offered up a nice quip of a quote and been done with it.  But that’s not the Glove’s style.  And so it had to come to this. On Sunday night, Jordan took off the cape, donned a proverbial villain’s mask and ended Payton. There is no coming back from this. Whichever reporters wind up tracking down Payton for a follow-up, well, that will be forgotten about almost immediately anyway. This video is what makes Jordan, and this documentary, so irresistible.  You’ve got Payton being so damn sure of himself, saying things would have been different if he guarded Jordan from the outset. Jordan can’t wait for this. The cackling. The big eyes, the raised brow. Jordan busts a gut again when Payton says, “It was a difference with beating him down a little bit.” Then, a beat to take it all in.  “The Glove,” Jordan says. Oh, it almost sounds reverential for just a second there. The Glove. One of his contemporaries during the golden years of the NBA. 

“I had no problem with the Glove.”  As smooth as it is savage in delivery. Like Jordan forgot about this man for two decades before needing to be handed a tablet to remind him of who he played against in June of 1996. Jordan in fact averaged 27.3 points on 41.5 percent shooting against Seattle. It was indisputably his worst Finals; it’s the only time he failed to average north of 30 points and shot worse than 45 percent. Payton does have a case.  But the Bulls won the series in six and Jordan was the MVP. That’s all anyone remembers or cares about. The 1995-96 Bulls culminated the most dominant wire-to-wire season in NBA history by winning a championship in Jordan’s first full season back in the league. That’s the legacy, and it’s really what sets the table for the 1997-98 doc to even happen anyway. But that clip is so telling. Of Jordan, but also of us. It’s compelling as hell. Jordan comes off looking like some sort of unhinged supervillain — and we like him even more because of it. He’s laughing at roadkill 24 years in his rearview. With the hand-back of a tablet, Gary Payton and SuperSonics are disposed of. It is affable arrogance, and there isn’t another athlete alive today who can pull it off.   Watch it again; you know you want to. Jordan looks more villainesque than at any other point during Episodes 7 and 8, which is notable because Sunday night was supposed to be the night we had to reckon with Jordan’s abusive behavior to teammates. These two episodes were to be what made us feel uncomfortable about all the praise from the prior six. These were supposed to be the two episodes that humanized — and villainized — the greatest basketball player in history. 

Instead, the documentary continued to blast Jordan’s legend and likability beyond the stratosphere. Buzzed-about behind-the-scenes footage of Jordan picking fights with (or just plain picking on) teammates were practically muted compared to legends of his alleged abusive behavior. We predictably saw him rag on Scott Burrell and yes, we got firsthand accounts from both Jordan and Steve Kerr recalling when Jordan took a closed right fist directly into Kerr’s eye socket. But even that long-established anecdote was wrapped with a bow on the doc with Kerr proclaiming it was “the best thing I ever did” to further his career and push the Bulls closer together in the infancy of that historic 1995-96 season.   Sunday night brought into focus the murder of Jordan’s father, James, and how that set into motion his earth-stopping retirement in the fall of 1993. We learned two things from Jordan in Episode 7: that when the Bulls won the ’93 title, his dad was the only one who really knew he was planning on retiring, and that the final conversation James and Michael Jordan ever had included a father telling his son to chase his dream of playing baseball.  James Jordan was next to Michael after the Bulls’ championship-winning nights in 1991, 1992 and 1993. He’s in the photos, soaked in celebration, sitting or standing beside his son in celebration. 

This was juxtaposed against Jordan’s beloved villainy, which was laid out in his sociopathic motivations. Inventing grudges or actions that pushed him to new levels of vengefulness. But the devil of it all is that Jordan balances this by showing how human and fragile he can be. He cares so much, his joy for killing his competition so genuine, that emotion is a finality for every ending in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 and 1998. Each time is catharsis. And it never seems staged, forced or fake.  That’s why this documentary is reeling millions in. Jordan gave a damn more than anyone ever gave a damn and losing was death.    The end of Episode 8 brings around that ever-familiar image of a stretched-out Jordan on his stomach, in Chicago, crying in solitude after winning Game 6 against Seattle. His father’s been dead for almost three years. You’ve seen this video tens if not hundreds if not thousands of times. But did you ever actually hear it? On Sunday, yes. You can hear the heaves, hear the expulsion of misery and regret, the outpouring of joy and emission of probably three or four other types of emotions that Jordan himself would have trouble articulating to this day.  That coming at the end of Episode 8 wraps a ribbon around the even more powerful conclusion to Episode 7, where again we see Jordan as villain as much as we do as hero. But instead of being animated in a comical way, he’s the most emotional we’ve seen him so far in this doc. What a moment. And just before that clip, Jordan’s most intense, clear-eyed quote of this entire thing: ��You ask all my teammates? The one thing about Michael Jordan was: He never asked me to do something that he didn’t f—–g do.”

That’s power, that’s intimidation and that’s 100 percent accurate. He was the hero and he was the villain and he was everything you wanted him to be while being nothing no one else could ever be. 

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