#or any kind of promotional mini-peak

[subcorax]

heads up though, if this seems to become something that ‘nobody talks about’ after a while - this case is going to take years. like it’s a massive step, yes, on par with the FTC’s suit against microsoft in the 90s, but like the FTC’s suit against microsoft in the 90’s - where the actual decisions came in 2000/2001 - it is going to take its sweet time chugging through the courts and there are going to be long periods where there’s just nothing new to report because nothing new has happened. doesn’t mean anyone should stop keeping up with it or stop caring, but it does well to be aware of the kind of timescale we’re looking at - this is a long game.

Amazon is being sued by the FTC and 17 states for being an illegal monopoly

[moirtre]

‎ ‎ ⋆⠀⠀&.⠀⠀٬⠀⠀(⠀⠀CALL YOU MINE.⠀⠀)⠀...⠀is the second extended play (ep) by south korean girl group, letalis. the album was released in both digital and physical form by south korean entertainment company, apricus culture on march 18, 2014.

the album was supported by performances of the title track, "I GOT A BOY" and the promotional single, "DARLING". the group's second release received massive attention from the group's growing fanbase and garnered critical praise for their vocal improvements from their first release. commercially, call you mine debuted at number two on the gaon album chart, highlighted in a highly publicized fandom war. "I GOT A BOY" was praised critically for its eclectic production and international appeal. the single itself peaked at number three on the us world digital chart, marking their first introduction to the american market. the music video for "i got a boy" won the award for video of the year at the first youtube awards in 2013, generating the first signs of an american fanbase for the group.

in terms of critical reception, the album performed noticeably better among musical critics than their debut album. billboard columnist, evie lowe, noted that the song displayed the group's promising potential with "gleeful chaos" that "set the bar high for pop music in 2014". the group's choreography for the title track also created a small dance craze among korean adolescents and is regarded as being a continued domestic favorite. averaging a 4.5/5, the album has stood to be one of the group's most successful.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION ONEㅤ:ㅤthe tracklist.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀001:⠀⠀ ٬⠀⠀ DARLING⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀002:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ CHARMING⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀003:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ I GOT A BOY * (title track)⠀

ʬ.ʬ.⠀004:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ 좋은 날 (BETTER DAYS)

ʬ.ʬ.⠀005:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ CLICKIN'

ʬ.ʬ.⠀006:⠀⠀٬⠀⠀ IN & OUT

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION TWOㅤ:ㅤthe physical album.

‎ ‎ ⋆⠀⠀&.⠀⠀٬⠀⠀two versions of call you mine were available upon initial release. the group would go on to re-record the title track, "i got a boy", in both english and japanese in 2014.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀ENCHANTMENT VERSION: contains one disc, one photobook (featuring 100 photos), one of four unit posters, one of seven member-written letters, one of seven random photocards, one group poster, and one of three random stickers.

ʬ.ʬ.⠀ROMANCE VERSION: contains one disc, one photobook (featuring 111 photos), one of four unit posters, one of seven member-written letters, two of seven random photocards, one of seven individual mini-poster, one of two random group posters, three stickers, and one fandom charm.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION THREEㅤ:ㅤthe styling.

they walked around like they were the shit and at the time they really were. their styling team really invested in designer brands like obey, adidas by jeremy scott, and joyrich, to push their look between trendy and individual. each member was given a unique twist to the group look that managed to solidify the styling trends stylists would continue to stick to as a staple of the letalis branding.

ㅤ*ㅤSECTION FOURㅤ:ㅤthe notes.

this era eats in every way, i'm so serious.

a fan favorite album and title. everything about this era is solidified in letalis history books and learning every word to the songs on this album is like a vitalis prereq.

the teaser videos from this era kind of generated lore rumors which was different for apricus which is usually pretty upfront about if their groups have a universe of lore/storyline or not. letalis didn't overtly debut with one and apricus didn't address the murmurs of a storyline.

the teasers were released through 15 second member concept films. each begins with an echo of a different snippet of the track, in & out before cutting to a flashing sign with different words for each member: young, work, duty, vow, adore, loyal, and want.

fan theories kind of spun out of control only for the music video to never reference any of these themes. all of these ideas were noticed to be talked about within the songs and fans were largely pulled into the group through the discussion of these topics through the album's lyrical contents.

there's video essays left over on youtube from this era. it's kind of fun to see how far off everyone was when predicting the future lore that would come to define the group.

some of the girls allegedly may have hinted at what the teasers meant. they all deny they've ever said anything about them and actively avoid talking about lore and fan theories to this day.

intense choreo returns and somehow gets more intense?

emmy gained her first choreography credit in the description box of the uploaded music video, beginning the tradition of a member of the dance line participating in title track choreography.

they went viral amongst the general public for not just the catchy and edginess of 'i got a boy' but also for their live vocals after they sang on a radio show. melanie and sienna in particular got a lot of praise for carrying the more emotional vocals on the more technically advanced tracks.

as for the members relationships, this era was kinda smooth sailing which is probably why it's one of their most successful. they didn't argue much (publicly at least) and were all just excited to be gaining their popularity and recognition of their talent.

styling was a huge point of this era. we saw the beginnings of their individual styles being blended into their group identities.

hair also became a big deal. melanie dyed her hair its signature blonde this era with a striking honey blonde initiating the era. emmy's hair was chopped for the first time and heri gets her staple 70s big hair.

this era was also the start of their longest running youtube series: lethal doses. the series follows a different member in a vlog style of filming as they talk through their thoughts about the album, performances, and activities while being styled for the day.

the first episode in the series follows naira as the group's leader. it created the infamous fandom joke about emmy needing her bangs to hide her creases on her forehead from getting upset at rehearsals.

positions were finalized this era and melanie was officially handed the center and face positions and no one was shocked.

[canitalkaboutsomething]

F1 in America is and always will be cringy and thats just part of the experience.

Many of us were sitting down or standing up on an exciting Sunday afternoon when we F1 fans collectively saw the cringe-fest that was Will. I. Am and LL Cool J's star-studded introductions of twenty of the best drivers in the world.

And as we were watching and cringing and closing our eyes and opening them because we were getting some serious secondhand embarrassment (at least I was,) we collectively all asked ourselves why this was happening and was the Fanfare necessary. 

Among with backlash from Twitter, and even some drivers speaking up about how unnecessary and distracting it was to do these introductions, many people wondered why the promoters and event organizers would choose to do something like that, especially on race day. 

So, why did that happen, and why was it so cringy?

The simple answer is money. I think to those who know and may not already know that any sport in America is highly commercialized and starts not with the teams or the sport itself but the idolization of those who operate in it. It has always been this way, even with sports outside the united states.

For instance, I bet most people could care less about the stats for the Kansas City Chiefs or The Cleveland Browns. Still, they know who Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Joe Burrow are, or they could tell you that Lebron James plays for the Lakers and Stephen Curry plays for the Golden state warriors. Still, they don't know their positions or stats, but they could tell you their jersey number, what kind of shoes they prefer, their latest Instagram post, and who they are currently seeing. It happens often.

So why does this happen?

In sports, especially in American sports, it is not enough to be good at the sport. You have to be the best, and you have to be likable. That starts with your online presence, how the fan base perceives you, and how others perceive the sport. It is simply not enough to attend a sporting event and be entertained. It is a performance from the time you, the paying attendee, walk into that sporting event until you leave.

That's why they have halftime shows at basketball and football games; they have professional cheerleaders, crowd participation events, and mini-games on the sidelines of Major and Minor league baseball Innings. These entertainment tactics ensure that people have a good time and want to return.

So why does this happen in F1 when it comes to America?

Fanfare and Fanservice. Events in America, as I've stated before, are highly commercialized. That's how it is. And, because America is so big and the interest is so varied, organizations and promoters are left with having to find a way to appeal to bigger audiences. But, in addition to that, interest in things peaks and then declines drastically. And because of this, one of their highly effective tactics is to induce this feeling of FOMO.

" If you're not in Miami this weekend, where are you? Oh, you weren't in Austin this weekend, then where were you? Oh, you're not going to the race in Vegas? I'm sad for you."

Fanfare and the Fear of Missing out is an effective way to sell tickets, and because the United States only experiences three races as of this year, and the continent of North America in total experiences five races, if you're willing and have money to travel to Mexico and Canada, there are not a lot of opportunities to see these races in person, granted if they even have a passport (which is a conversation for another day.)

In addition, you have Drive to Survive on Netflix, which has gotten more people into the sport, especially in America, and in my opinion, has helped pave the way to getting Miami and Las Vegas on the schedule. In addition, the show has given newer fans a glimpse into the fast-moving world of F1, even on an overly dramatic scale. And to some extent, they expect that type of drama and scale when they go to these races. So, therefore, the Fanfare has to be bigger and better than the last to ensure that the sport can continue to become popular in America. 

So the organizers use big names like LLCoolJ and Will.I.Am, and they invite celebrities like Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel, and the cast of Fast and Furious; they have had companies that invite influencers who have nothing to do with the sport, trying to get as much publicity on the event so that the rest of America has this feeling of wanting to be where the action is taking place.

For comparison, This is the same reason why Beyonce or Taylor Swift can sell their concert tickets at astronomically high prices because you are not paying to go to a concert, but rather the experience of seeing them in the flesh in real-time, even if your tickets are not great, and you were in the nose bleeds the entire time, you were there and got to see it. Which is the same logic promoters are operating off of for these races.

Now back to the obvious,

Was the Fanfare with the introductions, at that moment, necessary? No. Honestly, it was just poor planning. The time to do something like that would have been at the drivers' parade or any other time other than race day, but it is interesting because so many people want the Fanfare to be around the race, big Sunday race day, which in America is more on par with NASCAR. Not saying that the race isn't one to have Fanfare over, but the race weekend technically starts on Thursday with the press, so there were potentially other opportunities to engage in Fanfare all weekend. 

Now, will this backlash affect how other American races will go this year? Probably not. But I hope that in any event that it's just a lesson in what not to do on a race day, and hopefully, next year, we will get a different format.

[icouldntfindquiet]

I wonder if they were slightly disappointed with the reaction to Showtime. Sardy bigged the music up a lot talking about #1's and Grammys but it didn't really reach the heights of their past singles. The views and streams are lower than what theyve been used to and it peaked at 49 in the UK before falling out of the chart completely after a week. I think the lack of promo may have hurt it a little. In the past Van has gone round the radio stations and done interviews and live sessions and the songs would get good radio play in return. Radio 1 would normally put their new songs straight onto the A list so that they get played multiple times every day but with Showtime it took them a few weeks to add it to the playlist and even then it was lower down so didn't get played much. Radio stations still play the singles from the first 3 albums pretty regularly but I haven't heard Showtime played anywhere since it first came out. It seems like it fell off after a couple of weeks of release. 6 months without any kind of live version is a long time too and so unlike what they've done before. I do think it could have a second life when they start playing it live and if it's part of the album promo but at the moment unless you're a big fan, most people have already forgotten about the song.

That’s unfortunate Showtime didn’t do well in the charts. 😢 And right? CATB went to radio stations, did interviews, and did live sessions to promote new music but for Showtime, there was nothing. This whole comeback is so bizarre to me. They had good momentum with the cryptic posts and then it fell flat. Maybe they were trying to respect Van’s wishes to not do interviews and was hoping it’d still do well but it didn’t?

Some part of me wonders if Van is ready to be back. It seems like he’s happy to release music, sell merch, and play shows but doesn’t want to meet people anymore. It’ll be interesting to see how the record label and management works with this. 😟 I hope they play Showtime live this month! 🤞 The song deserves more recognition.

Right? The mini heart attack I had when I got the email. 😂 They haven’t posted on Instagram and Twitter for 2 months! 😭

[fmdxsuji]

summary: suji gets called in to help out with a song date: some time in late june word count: 965 words, excluding the lyrics notes: creative claims (partial lyrics & partial composition) verification self-para for @fmdjiah‘s UR!

promotions for her own mini album have come to an end, and so she doesn’t understand why minwoo’s asking for her to come into his studio. for all she knows, there’s nothing else she has to be preparing for other than equinox’s comeback. 

when she does arrive, she’s met with a few familiar faces. some people who are in-company writers and some who are not. she’s only really close to minwoo and his own crew and so she settles onto his couch before looking upon with a look full of questions. 

“we were just writing some music when we got stuck on the lyrics. i just had to call the best lyricist i know.” his voice is filled with teasing, and she can’t help but chuckle at the way he’s trying to fluff her up. suji doesn’t need him to hype her up like this, but she realizes it’s his way of appreciating her in front of some people that she doesn’t fully recognize. 

“what can i say? i’m a master of lyrics,” she replies before getting handed a piece of paper. it looks like a mock up of the current lyrics so far. there’s some wide gaps in between, and she’s surprised to see that the chorus is pretty much missing. she can empathize since she knows how difficult writing choruses can be, but that only confuses her even more because surely, these professionals can come up with something better than she can. 

taking a quick look at the lyrics, she gets a gist of what the song is mostly about. it’s another love song, like most songs are technically, and the verses that are already written almost seem poetic. it’s a little burdening, but then the composition plays and she gets a peak at the demo. there’s a lot of gibberish that she can’t understand since it’s meant to give her a taste of how the melody and composition goes. she’s quickly humming and singing along until they get to where she assumes is the chorus because that’s completely empty. 

there’s lots of references to light and the sun. the story seems to be alluding to this love being the light of their life. “cause you are,” she begins to almost sing as she starts scribbling down some lyrics onto the clipboard in her hand. 

the light that fell on me you are, like a beautiful dream

there’s one too many eyes on her for her to feel comfortable, but the lyrics don’t take too long to come to her. immediately, she can recognize it as one of those parts that will get finished right away. she thinks that’s something that just happens with songwriters, and she always feels lucky whenever that aha moment comes to her. 

with seven rays the whole world is dyed even more beautifully always, you are

as if she’s finished some big deed, she taps her pen down once she’s done jotting down the lyrics. hanging it back to minwoo, she asks for the demo to play again. 

there’s some kind of humming when the bit that’s supposed to be the chorus comes out, but she can tell that nothing’s really complete. it’s a little odd seeing that the rest of the song seems to be pretty much finished, and they’ve figured out a good part of the melody too. however, once again, she understands how picky choruses can get and how they’re usually the part that needs the most focus.

“what happened to the instrumental in the chorus?” she inquires while taking a look around the room. 

“we couldn’t agree on whether we should keep the piano in the background or go for something different. it seems a little too stagnant if we kept it through for so long.” 

suji’s not sure if she agrees. while she’s absolutely certain that the people in this room have a lot more experience when it comes to writing songs, she can also confidently say that she has the experience of performing such songs. if she wasn’t told beforehand that the song was in the makes for someone else, she’d almost have mistaken it as a gift to her from minwoo and his crew. 

a song like this one where the focus seems to be on the vocals, a good piano accompaniment can be all that’s really needed. “i don’t think so. i say keep the piano but just change the way it’s being played. like the chorus is meant to be sound like a build up without sounding too different, right? you can just change the dynamic and maybe add some more prominent strings? that might help it sound a little different.” 

to this day, she doesn’t really consider herself a composer or a producer. the thing she’s most confident in is lyrics, but she’s heard a good number of songs in her life to have opinions. in a flash, minwoo has accounted for her opinions and plays the track once more. 

once it comes on, she finds herself singing along with the lyrics she had jotted down not too long ago. it takes a few turns, but she seems to settle down on a melody that fits with what was going on in the verses. 

“might as well sing the demo for us or something, suji. you’re doing all the work here anyway.” with a laugh, she shakes her head but she does continue singing it so minwoo can get a grasp on how it’s supposed to go. “once you get to the lat chorus, you can change the melody a little. ballads like this need a little more towards the end since, as you said, it can get a little repetitive. whoever sings this is gonna have to belt out some notes.” suji’s practically implying that she’s glad it’s not her. what she did to herself in fine was already enough. 

“thanks for your help, suji. we might just go with this.” 

“any time.”

[francedryer73]

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LATATA CHAPTER 2: CRESCENT MOON is the second mini album of the South Korean girl group Artemis. The mini album has seven songs, having one title track and a sub-title track. It is, also, the second chapter of the Latata saga. It was released in January 14th, 2020.

TRACKLIST.

1. Hann. (G-idle's Hann)

Production: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin, Rowan

Hann is the title song of Artemis's second mini album, the song talks about betrayal, broken promises, and feeling of loneliness, which are also synonyms for the word Hann itself, those feelings being caused by a past lover, while also talking about the will of erasing that person from their minds. Hann presents a more dreamy and mysterious side of the group, starting the song with a whistle, the beat begins quite slow, building up to its signature chorus.

2. Disappear. (insp. Dreamcatcher's Red Sun)

Production: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin

A Sub-Title that has a even more mysterious, darker concept. Disappear talks about the anger stage after a heartbreak, how you just want the person who hurt you to disappear as fast as possible, using of a spell to get what you want, making the culprit of everything disappear with just a snap.

3. Fool. (insp. CLC's Liar)

Production: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin

Fool talks about the shock just after a betrayal, the unbelieving of what just happened, how you are so confused that, for a second, you think everything is still fine. Then, reality comes in and you realize you've been fooled the entire time, that the memories they had together meant nothing for your significant other, you were only being used.

4. Dart. (insp. Sunmi's Noir)

Producing: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin

The fourth song of the mini album talks about what happened just after the breakup. While Hann talks about how they are better alone, Dart talks about how the words their ex-lover said to them felt like darts in their hearts, the feeling of thinking nobody is there to help them. But, the song takes a quite unexpected turn in the bridge, when the girls say that they don't care about the existence of that person anymore, no matter what bad thing happens to them.

5. X. (insp. Fifth Harmony's Angel)

Production: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin, Chang Chang

With a more trap-inspired sound, X talks about how the girls regret even starting the relationship in the first place, that if they could have gone back at time, it would have never happened. It also talks about how they tried, but it will take some time before they start dating someone again, not wanting to be stuck, crossing their ex off their lives with an X.

6. Virago. (insp. Twice's Get Loud)

Production: Hyojin, EDEN

Lyrics: Hyojin, Kamlai

Virago; a strong, brave or warlike woman. A true emporwerment anthem, Virago is the most upbeat song of the mini-album, the lyrics talk about how the girls don't need someone else to shine, they are powerful enough by themselves and that your strengh is yours and yours only. It's also a message to all the girls who listen to Artemis's songs, a part that shows this well is 'Girl, get up, i know what you've been through, now is your time to shine as bright as you can, cause when the night falls, nobody can stop you'.

7. Spiteful. (Insp. Girl's Day's Love Again)

Production: Hyojin

Lyrics: Hyojin

The last song is slower, with just the sound of a guitar playing. Spiteful talks about the scars their past relationship has left in them, even though they got over their ex. They are afraid if they will ever be able to trust and, eventually, love someone again. And, if it happens, they are afraid it will, too, end up in disaster.

HANN'S ACHIEVEMENTS.

This era was even more successful than Latata.

The fans loved the new twist they gave to the concept, it showed that Artemis are here to pull off any concept and everybody praised the girls for being versatile.

Speaking of praising, their stage presence was way more visible in that comeback, giving more recognition for the girls industry-wise.

This was also the era where Artemis released itself from the "Ateez's sister group" grip, being recognized for themselves and their sound. They got a lot more fans into the fandom.

Going to the actual achievements,

HANN's MV reached 4.7 million views in 24 hours.

They got, again, two music show wins, one in Show Champion and another in Inkigayo.

The mini album reached its peak at number two in Billboard's World Albums chart and at number four on the gaon album chart. This showed that, even though they got the same number of music show wins from their debut, Crescent Moon just gave more success to them.

#HANN trended in twitter in the day of the comeback.

HANN ERA HIGHLIGHTS.

This mini album was PROMOTED.

In capital letters, because it was REALLY promoted.

The girls went on a lot of variety shows.

They appeared in Weekly Idol, Idol Room, Idol Radio, and also appeared with Ateez in Knowing Brothers.

The fans loved it, because they got to know more of the girls' personalities.

The 2020 Idol Star Athletics Championship also happened this era. The girls trended, again,,,,

Mostly because of the memes and interactions, but they also made some interesting achievements there.

They interacted with and mentioned lot of idols of other groups, in general.

Also, everyone went crazy with the fact that Chang Chang showed her rapping skills in Disappear, along with Hyojin who just proved her talent even more.

Disappear's stages were also called the "possessed stages" because of the girls' expressions and performance in general.

Near the end of the era, there was what fans call "the sasaeng situation", which was kind of complicated, but didn't leave any bad reputation on the girls' side. Besides that, it was a scandal free era.

HANN ERA'S STYLING.

Hyojin's hair was long and red, straight for some performances and wavy in others. (She slayed that look tbh-)

Sujin went for black, long and straight this era.

Kamlai's hair was light brown, long and wavy.

Nayeon just changed her hair color this era, going from copper to black, it was still long with bangs, always styled straight.

Chang Chang's hair was long and dark brown, most of the times styled straight.

Rowan's hair was long and dyed black with deep blue tips, usually styled wavy.

The Bohemian inspiration was even stronger this concept.

Fabric, patterns, color! Everything we love.

The girls looked wonderful and, again, the outfits were confortable. Somebody give those stylists a raise.

They also wore both the black and the while outfits from the MV, looking stunning again. Mono-colored really looks good in Artemis, huh.

They also did two special stages for Disappear.

The girls went full black for both of those performances.

The outfits were very "witch-like", as fans liked to describe. The makeup was also incredible.

[dovechim]

sugar, spice, and everything nice (m)

➾ 13k, weak sperm jimin x witch! reader, a crack smut essentially

➾ summary: you and jimin have been trying for a baby for the past six months, to no avail, but then you realise one crucial mistake: you’ve been neglecting your witchy heritage. what ensues is a month of trial and tribulation... for jimin at least. 

➾ warnings: mentions of difficulty conceiving, oral sex (m/f), snowballing, cock ring (kind of??), sex toys, ball play, impregnation, cum inflation, degradation, power play, clit and titty spanking, name calling, jimin is a cum machine, jimin gets cockblocked by a cat

➾ a/n: i died while writing this, but happy birthday to my sunshine boy, my angel, the love of my life, mr park jimin. your beauty and the kindness of your soul never ceases to amaze me. 

➾ a huge. huge. huge. thank you to @94hixtape because she supported me like a victoria’s secret bombshell bra throughout this entire process. right from the start when i decided to speed write this at the last minute, to when i was yelling at her about how i can’t do this anymore :”) i am eternally in your debt, lu. i hope you enjoy Mr Muffin <3

“No, Jimin. For the last time, you can’t ‘squeeze in a quickie’ before we leave. It’s not the right time,” you push your husband away with impatient hands as you try to get your winged liner just right. “The Ascendant is in Gemini, not Libra, and Cancer isn’t in the 10th house. Do you even have any idea what this means?”

Jimin stares at you with a blank expression on his face. “Um, no?”

You sigh in exasperation, channelling a little of your inner focus to get the flick on your left eye. Jimin watches you in the mirror with a little pout on his plush lips, leaning over to bury them in your neck as he scatters kisses all over your warm skin. “All I know is that I’m horny, and I want to make a baby. Right now. Little Jimothy is telling me that right now is the right time.”

Putting him on hold as you layer on some black liquid lipstick, you raise an eyebrow at him in the mirror before you turn to look pointedly at his crotch. As per doctor’s orders, Jimin is wearing loose boxer shorts with no underwear in an effort to promote testicular health and raise his sperm count. You’ve been trying for a baby with him for the past 6 months, and while you’re not entirely desperate to have one, Jimin gets hard at the thought of you being round and heavy with his child. You never knew he had such a preference for pregnant women, till he told you that he also very much enjoys the baby-making process.

A little too much, if you do say so yourself, since there has been little success so far.

Sometimes you think Jimin is doing this on purpose because he likes to see you all plugged up with his semen, only to pull out and watch the thick mixture leak from you. But you’ve been doing it in every position possible, timing it with your ovulation and aiming for multiple loads a day with your hips raised in the air after each one, and still… nothing. Although, the look on your husband’s face every time he slides his cock into your already filled, sloppy seconds pussy is second to none, so you indulge him (and maybe yourself too).

After several doctor’s visits and checkups, you realized that you’ve been neglecting one very important part of your heritage. You do come from a line of witches, after all, and perhaps the solution to your woes lies in the supernatural. So tonight, at the witch’s coven meeting, you’re going to find some answers.

“Come on, we’re late, get changed.” You purse your lips at yourself in the mirror once before rising and turning to get your bag. “And don’t wear those tight jeans, baby. Wear the ones I got you instead.”

You catch Jimin right in the act as he’s about to shove his other leg through his favourite pair of light wash jeans, the ones that cup his ass so perfectly, but cradle his balls a little too closely. Caught red-handed, Jimin slowly eases his remaining leg out of the jeans before dropping them to the ground, slightly upset as he turns to open the cupboard. You recognize all the signs of him throwing a mini tantrum- his cheeks are puffy, lips more pouty than usual and he is fidgeting with the hem of his shirt, unable to maintain eye contact.

“What’s wrong?” You crowd in behind him, lifting your arms to encircle his waist as you press wet kisses to his chubby little cheeks. Jimin always claims to hate it when you do anything involving his cheeks, but you know he secretly loves the attention. He also loves it when you baby talk him, although he’d rather eat bat spleen than admit it. “Is my little baby daddy upset? Tell me so I can make it better.”

He turns away from you in an attempt to play hard to get, but you are nothing if not persistent, and you know your husband’s moods all too well. “Is this because the doctor won’t let you wear tight jeans anymore?”

“…No.”

“Oh come on, you know you can’t lie to me.” You turn him to face you, hands sliding down his back to cup his supple ass with both palms. “I know how much you love your ass, and trust me baby, I do too. But this is for the good of… Jimothy. Alright?”

You do your best to keep from grimacing as you use his favourite word for his… thing. But Jimin still seems unconvinced as he glances down at his thighs.

“Here. I’ll cast this new spell that I learnt the other day. It’ll make your pants look tighter on the outside, so that everyone will still know that you have thighs and an ass to die for. Okay?” You smooth your thumb over his cheek, satisfied when he finally grins like a rosy cheeked cherub.

Lowering yourself to your knees, you give him a quick kiss to his lower belly before focusing on the loose material of his jeans. Closing your eyes and channelling your inner energies, you whisper a few words and feel the burst of magic surge through your fingertips. When you open your eyes again, you are immediately assaulted with the sight of his gorgeous thick thighs that you know and love, bands of corded muscle that have brought you to the height of ecstasy.

“There. Better?” You glance up at him, studying his reaction.

Jimin considers his new appearance, even turning to appreciate his own ass in the mirror before he finally deems it satisfactory. But as he turns to you once more, you notice something else. The front of his loose jeans are currently tented, and Jimin fidgets on the balls of his feet when he realises.

“Fuck, I’m sorry, I’ve just been so on edge, baby,” he runs a frustrated hand through his hair. “I haven’t jerked off in the last month like you told me to. My balls are so full right now, I think I could fill up an entire cauldron. It’s just… your position down there…”

“Hey, hey, it’s okay,” you run a hand up his thighs to soothe him, but it only works him up further as a wet patch begins to form. “Let me help you feel better. Just sit on the bed and relax, baby.”

You push him backwards so that he sinks onto your shared bed with his thighs spread wide. Positioning yourself between his legs, your mouth begins to water as you anticipate the feeling of him in your mouth once more. You haven’t sucked him off since you began trying for a baby, reason being that not even one drop of cum should go to waste. Everything should end up in your pussy where it belongs. But given that the moon and the sun are not aligned tonight, you can afford to waste one tiny little load of his. Besides, it’ll give you a chance to test his sperm count with that spell you’ve been meaning to try.

Jimin’s hips are already canting upwards in anticipation as you fiddle with the button on his jeans, flicking it open and taking him out. He is already swollen and dripping with precum in your hand, and you take the opportunity to tease him with kitten licks to his head, cleaning up every drop. He is salty and sweet on your tongue, and as you take him in deeper, his girth forces your mouth open wider.

“All the way, please, deeper,” Jimin is whining as lifts the hem of his shirt to run his fingers over his tensed abdomen, all the way to his peaked nipples. A glance down at you almost makes him lose his load on the spot- your black lips are devouring his cock, leaving a ring of black stain around his base. As if you are a Dementor sucking his soul straight out from his dick, but Jimin can’t think of any better way to go.

Loosening your throat, you push your nose into the patch of hair at his base, swallowing hard around his length so that he can feel the way your throat tightens around him. This elicits a very audible groan from him as he bucks his hips into you, expletives pouring from those dirty lips of his.

“I’m-m gonna cum, fuck, can’t last much longer,” there is a tinge of embarrassment in his voice, but to encourage him to cum down your throat, you massage his inner thigh soothingly, swallowing around him a few more times. His cock jerks and pulses upon your tongue, and salty warm liquid engulfs your tastebuds.

You milk him dry with your lips tightening around him, sucking him for all he’s worth, but not swallowing just yet. The jets of cum seem never ending, but each pulse gets weaker and weaker till Jimin squirms in your grip with a soft moan, cock softening as it slips out entirely.

Judging by the taste alone, his sperm count seems to have improved slightly, and the viscosity of his cum seems to be in tip top condition as you swallow the entire mixture down, and it slides down your throat with some difficulty. It’s still bitter though, and before you can think to salvage some of it for your spell, Jimin sits up and brings his mouth to yours. You push what’s left of his cum in your mouth into his with your tongue, and he moans in response, lapping it up eagerly. The resulting kiss is sloppy and messy, a mixture of his cum and your saliva dripping down both your chins.

You draw away to catch your breath, glancing in the mirror to check your black lip, only to see that it hasn’t budged at all.

Impressive.

You turn back to help Jimin with his pants- sans underwear of course, doctors orders- and with a snap of your fingers, the wet patch on the front of his jeans is gone. Jimin chuckles as he brings you in close for a kiss.

“That’s my beautiful, witchy wife.”

*

People are staring openly on the subway as you navigate through the many stairs to locate the right exit. To be fair, you do look quite the spectacle- bat wing sleeved, ankle length dress billowing behind you as you stride purposefully, with a full matte black lip and contrasting shades of autumn themed eyeshadow on your lids. Jimin is evidently a fan of the thigh high slit going up the side- you’ve had to bat his hands away a number of times already.

“Do people just… hold coven meetings in like, function rooms or something?” Jimin is glancing at the passing street signs with wonder. “Or is it a home affair? Could these any of these houses be home to a coven of witches? Will our home be a coven?”

“Ok firstly, a coven means a group of witches,” you stroke your thumb over his knuckles gently to take the sting out of your words. “But yes. Modern day witches do exist, and they are scattered far and wide. And no. We won’t be hosting any meetings, not if you don’t want me to, baby.”

You stop abruptly when you realise that you’ve almost walked past Number 31 on Ursula Street. Ascending the steps, you rap smartly on the door exactly 7 times.

“You’ll be, uh… throwing off our numbers a little,” you whisper to Jimin. “Usually we don’t allow observers into closed rituals. Runs the risk of disrupting things, we’re usually very secretive about the happenings of our meetings. Just some witchy logic. But I told them about us, and they said it’s okay.”

Before Jimin can respond, the door flings open, and Jisoo launches herself into your arms, squealing your name in excitement.

You are equally enthralled to be in the embrace of your best friend once more. Ever since you married Jimin, you’d skipped out on weekly coven meetings and rituals for fear of making Jimin feel left out, or subjecting him to their scrutiny. It’s uncommon for a witch to marry a Non Mag, practically unheard of in your wizarding community. But going totally MIA on your coven has since taken its toll on you, making it harder to conjure your magic and focus your energies.

Upon stepping into Jisoo’s house, you can immediately feel the effects of being near your coven rejuvenate your weary body- sparks of electricity running up and down your arms, your blood bubbling with a renewed sense of vitality, and-

Jimin is looking at you with a look of amazement and incredulity on his face.

“Shit, you look-“ he stutters on his words, unable to articulate just how alive you seem, eyes glowing and cheeks rosy, and entirely in your element here. “If I thought you were beautiful before, you are positively incandescent now.”

“Wait, really?” You touch your cheeks self consciously. “Oh- well, it’s because-“

“Come in, come in! We don’t have all night, our first ritual is about to start soon!” Rose bustles into the hallway, bundling you up in her arms and personally escorting you to the living room. When you make a sound of protest, glancing over your shoulder at Jimin, she pauses. “Oh, is this the husband you’ve been hiding away from us all this time?”

“Yeah, um…”

“Hi, I’m Jimin,” Jimin says hesitantly, but Rose, blasé as she always is, merely spares him a nod as she continues to usher everyone to the living room.

“Ritual first. Introductions can wait.”

The living room is darkened, with silver candles positioned around the room at strategic spots to lend the entire setting an eerie glow when you set them alight simultaneously with a wave of your arm. You can feel Jimin’s amazed eyes on you, for you typically don’t do such grand gestures of magic around him. But here, surrounded by your coven- your closest sisters- you are home.

“Show off,” Joy mutters playfully under her breath. “You’ve always been so good with that.”

“Well. Fire is my element,” you shrug as you take your place in the chalk drawn circle. “I do it more for the dramatic flair. Though I do quite like to be the queen of darkness.”

There are primroses and daisies scattered all across the floor within the circle, and a basket of strawberries sits waiting by the side as offerings. Joy picks up the basket, distributing them around the circle before she settles back in her spot. Rose has lit up some incense sticks and is passing them around, purifying the space with a sweet and flowery scent before the circle is cast.

Jisoo takes your hand, and you link hands with Joy on your other side. Together, the five of you are equally spread around the circle, and when you are all connected, you feel a familiar rush of exhilaration buzz in your veins. You close your eyes to concentrate as your leader, Jisoo, begins the chant to invoke your coven’s deity- the Norse goddess Freya, also known as Queen of the Valkyries, the goddess of love, beauty, sex, and quite fittingly, you note to yourself, fertility.

Jisoo begins the chant with a low hum in her voice. “I call upon the powers of the East, powers of air to help me clear my mind.”

To her left, you continue. “I call upon the powers of the South, powers of fire reminding me of my inner strength.”

Joy’s turn. “I call upon the powers of the West, powers of water which connects me to the Mother’s blood.”

And lastly, Rose’s voice comes out loud and clear. “I call upon the powers of the North, powers of the Earth to keep my body strong, and my mind centred.”

And then all four voices are lifted in harmony with one another, four bodies merged as one, centered in sisterhood and anchored in blood.

Freya, Goddess of Magick Mother of the Earth, keeper of the runes I invite you to join us. Freya, Goddess of the many names, Goddess of nature and fertility Mother of the silver moon hear us. Freya, Goddess of Love Join us. Freya, your guidance and wisdom I seek. Come to us now.

And then silence, as the candlelight dances over your face, casting a shadowy cloak over your features, and Jimin hears the wind howling outside. From his vantage point in the hallway, even he can taste the electrified atmosphere on his tongue, feel the hairs on his arm stand on edge as the elements are summoned, feel the heat of your fire burning away in the depths of his chest.

There is a moment when it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room, and then the four of you rise to your feet at the same time, dropping your interlinked hands as the circle is broken.

With a wave of your hand, the candles are extinguished, and the lights come back on. You turn to Jimin still in the hallway with a grin on your face, sliding into his embrace with your cheek on his chest. “How was that?”

“You were magnificent.”

*

Jimin needs to come to these coven meetings more often.

He is currently in Jisoo’s kitchen, stuffing his face with the main course of roast turkey, sweet potato fries, French onion soup with pumpkin pie for dessert. It’s practically a Thanksgiving dinner right in the middle of August! He kicks himself for not asking about these meetings sooner. If he knew he would get to feast like a king like this, he would have been clocking in regular attendance months ago.

Jimin snags a spare plate, loading a heaping scoop of roast turkey for you. Having relocated to the kitchen when you said you needed some private time with your coven, Jimin realises that he hasn’t seen you ever since, and while the other girls have darted in and out to grab bites of food, he’s positive you haven’t had a bite to eat tonight.

And he can’t have that.

Venturing into the now normally lit living room, he finds you curled up on the couch with Joy, and the both of you are clasping each other’s hands and looking as if you are discussing something intense.

“Um, sorry to interrupt, but…”

“Jimin! Oh no, of course not, sorry for stealing your wife away,” Joy giggles, making a move to push herself up from the couch. “I need to get some things from the other room. You can have her back. We’re pretty much done now.”

“Oh,” Jimin says as he takes her place beside you, pushing the plate of food into your hands. “Don’t let me get in the way, though. I just wanted to make sure my wife had something to eat. I’ll just watch her finish this and you can continue after that.”

Sighs of envy follow, and Jisoo props her chin on her knees as she stares at you wistfully. “You got a good one there, _____. Don’t let him go.”

“Thank you, baby,” you lean over to kiss Jimin’s cheek, grinning when there is cooing and giggling from the other girls. “Everything okay so far?”

“Everything’s great!” Jimin is grinning enthusiastically. “The food especially. I could stay here all night!”

“No need for that,” you chuckle, starting to dig in on the mouthwatering slabs of luscious, fatty meat that Jimin had picked out for you. “We’re almost done. In fact, I was just about to tell you that we can go. I just need the stuff from Joy.”

The gravy is deliciously salty and savoury, and once again you have to compliment Jisoo’s culinary expertise. You finish the entire plate in the blink of an eye, with Jimin’s watchful gaze making sure that you get the nutrition you need. He jumps up and offers to get you a second plate when you’re done, but then Joy reappears with a hefty looking leather bag in one hand, and a bag full of Tupperware in the other.

“Got your stuff here,” she hands you the carrier with a wink, “and packed some food for you to take home here. C’mon, just take it already. You know we can’t finish these all on our own. And it looks like Jimin-“ she cuts herself off with a host of giggles. “Jimin’s going to need his strength in the coming weeks.”

“Wait, what-“ Jimin’s confused glance at you goes unanswered as you roll your eyes at her, but accept her offering.

Glancing into the leather bag furtively, you sling it over your shoulder, as you get up from the couch. Jimin takes the bag of food from Joy as he follows you out to the hallway. “Baby, need help with that other bag? It looks heavy, let me carry it.”

You seem a little distracted as you meet his gaze. “Oh, what? No it’s okay. Let’s get home. I already called our Uber.”

“Good luck Jimin!!!” The three other girls shout from the living room as you usher Jimin out the door hastily, shushing him when he tries to ask any questions.

Little does Park Jimin know what he’s in for in the coming weeks.

*

A soft meow stirs him from his sleep, and Jimin opens his eyes, rubbing the sleep out of them as he glances around in confusion. A cat? You and him don’t own one, so why-

“Say hi to Mr Egg McMuffin!” You are currently holding a cat with fur as dark as midnight, cradling him like a baby to your chest as he explores your chin with his paws. “Mr Muffin, do you wanna say hi to Jimin here?”

And then you practically thrust the cat at him, and in his haste to catch Mr Muffin, Jimin’s thumb nearly ends up in his butthole as he struggles to hold the silky black cat in his arms. Mr Muffin’s eyes are a luminous orange- strange eye colour, Jimin’s never seen an orange eyed cat before- as he glances up at Jimin and proceeds to lick his paw.

“Isn’t he the cutest?”

“U-um, yeah, sure babe, but wh-where did you get this? Surely not-“ Jimin breaks off to stare at the leather bag Joy had given you the other night.

“Oh no, don’t be silly,” you reach over to scoop Mr Muffin out of his arms. “He’s my familiar. Most witches have pets that they call familiars, and this is mine. I’ve been keeping him at Jisoo’s all this while because… well I didn’t know how you’d react to him. But after last night, I thought it might be finally time to bring him home.”

Jimin narrows his eyes at the black cat in your arms suspiciously. Alright, but that still doesn’t answer his question of precisely where you got that damned cat from. “Yeah, but where-“

Mr Muffin cuts him off by meowing loudly, his tail lashing back and forth.

“Oh look! Mr Muffin wants to be fed,” you coo at the cat, nuzzling your nose into his soft fur as you start to walk out of the room. Jimin’s eyes are immediately drawn to your bare legs, and he can feel the blood start to rush south as he greedily eats up the expanse of skin revealed to him.

“Baby…” Jimin whines, pushing aside the covers to reveal his cock, already starting to leak precum.

You glance backwards to take in this sight, and then return to nuzzling the cat’s soft belly. “Give me a minute baby-“

Jimin settles back into his pillow with his arms behind his head, a hand sneaking downwards to tug at his length before he realises-

“-you’ll get your food soon.”

That you were talking to the fucking cat and not him.

Once you’re out of the room, you allow Mr Muffin to leap out of your arms. As you scoop some food out for him into a bowl, you turn to him in a serious manner.

“Mr Muffin, I need your help.” At your imploring tone, he turns to you with a wise look in his eyes. “You already know what I’m asking for right? Jimin and I are trying to have a baby. But the problem is, he’s so fucking horny all the time, he can’t stop jerking off. The doctor says that it’s making his sperm all watery and weak, and it’s affecting our chances of conceiving.”

He sympathises with a meow and a headbutt against your knee.

“I know, thanks for the concern, Mr Muffin.” You sigh. “So I need you to help me stop him from masturbating. When I’m not home, you need to interrupt him and, I don’t know- shove your butt in his face like you used to do to me all the time back in high school.”

A few lashes of his tail as Mr Muffin considers your preposition.

“Please, Mr Muffin?” You scratch him just between the ears, just how he likes it, and he purrs in enjoyment. “You’re Jimin’s last hope. He can’t keep his hands off his dick. He’s probably in there jerking off as we speak. I can handle this one by myself, but in the future, it’s gonna be all you, buddy.”

Mr Muffin yawns, then approaches his food bowl. You take this to be a sign of agreement.

“Great! I’ll get you those tuna bites you like next time.” You need to sweeten him up somehow.

But that’s one thing done and checked off your list for now.

*

“I need to- what?” Jimin is currently half naked as you accost him after his shower. Well, he’s fully naked now, since you just ripped the towel off his lower half.

“Wear this. It’s a fetility sachet I made.” You dangle a pink silk cloth bag from your finger, roughly the size of a soup dumpling.

You’d spent all afternoon putting this together with the recipe from Joy. Since Joy’s element is Earth, you figured she was more in touch with Mother Earth than you are, and hence would be the perfect person to go to for advice. This particular recipe called for three mistletoe berries, one drop of Patchouli oil, one pinch of oak leaves, one hawthorne flower and a pinch of powdered mandrake. It wasn’t easy getting mistletoe berries when Christmas is this far away, but thankfully you managed to secure a good supply.

“Uh, okay,” Jimin holds out his hand. “Just put it around my wrist or something.”

“No, it has to be worn as close to the testicles as possible,” you tell him, taking a hold of his soft dick and pushing it against his damp abdomen. “Or else it loses its effectiveness. Just let me… loop this around back here… and cross that over here… there!”

You complete the knot around the base of his dick, being careful so as not to cut off his blood circulation as you position the bag just under his balls and lower his dick back into place. “Does it feel okay? Too tight? Too loose?”

“Wait, just a second,” Jimin reaches down to fidget with the string tied around his dick, already feeling uncomfortable with having something swinging around and hitting his balls. “H-how long do I have to wear this for?”

“All day. At night, you can put it under your pillow, and if we’re having sex, under the mattress.”

Jimin’s eyes nearly bug out of his head. “Are you- fucking with me? I have to wear this… thing near my balls all fucking day?”

“Baby, don’t be like this,” you reach for his hand to placate him, but when he moves it away from you in irritation, you reach for the back of his neck instead, massaging it soothingly and focusing your calming energies into your fingertips. “It’s for… Jimothy’s own good. You want Jimothy to be as strong and as healthy as possible right? It’ll help with your sperm count and the thickness of your semen. The thicker the semen the better, since it’ll have all the nutrients your sperms need to swim as fast as possible to my egg.”

Jimin can feel the constriction around his dick getting tighter and tighter as you go on and on with your scientific facts about conception. When he glances down, his cock is slowly hardening- all this talk about cum is making him hard, but the stupid fucking charm on his cock won’t let him get to full erection without taking it off.

“God, alright,” he says in annoyance, closing his eyes as he flexes a thigh muscle hard, in order to try and redirect some of that blood flow from his burgeoning erection. “S-speaking of your egg, when are you ovulating this month?”

“Your dick looks so cute like that!” You coo as your fingers stroke over his soft, limp cock.

“It’s Jimothy,” he hisses through clenched teeth.

“Thank you baby,” you kiss him on the cheek sweetly, and he can smell the whiff of your cherry and tangerine scented perfume- which almost sends him right back to square one. “It should be the end of this week. So we have to get your sperm all healthy and ready to go.”

Thank fuck, Jimin thinks to himself, exhaling a breath to calm down. Not long more till his doctor imposed abstinence is lifted from him. Having to restrict himself to cumming only during a certain week a month is taking a toll on him, the blue balls are excruciatingly painful to suffer through especially when you like to push your ass back into his crotch when he is spooning you in bed every night. 

Suddenly, Jimin longs for the days of high school and college where he would masturbate till his cock was raw and his balls were empty. Now, he spends most of his time with his dick untouched and balls brimmingly full. He didn’t think baby making sex would be this torturous. His 19 year old self had always imagined fucking till his dick threatened to drop off, having sex non-stop at all hours of the day, constantly spilling his load and watching it leak out like it was the nectar of the gods. And because it was in so much abundance, he even fantasised about cleaning it all up with his tongue once or twice.

“I’m off to work now, have a good day!” You give him a quick kiss on his lips on tiptoe. “Wait I forgot! I need to say a brief enchantment to your balls- er I mean Jimothy over here.”

So you get down to your knees, cheeks against his balls, nuzzling them ever so slightly. Jimin feels the surge of blood rush downwards again, and he grunts in pain as the baby pink ribbon tightens around his slowly hardening dick.

“Oh goddess Freya, please join us as we bid for your blessings. Please allow our efforts to come to fruition, pour your anointing oil upon our ever yearning bodies as we strive to become one with Mother Nature.”

And then you are on your feet, kissing him on the cheek once more before heading out the door.

Jimin collapses on the bed in a heady rush, his erection fighting valiantly against the silk string tied around his base. He listens carefully for the sounds of the main door, then the gate unlocking and closing, then waits a few heartbeats more just to be sure.

Then, his hand sneaks down his toned chest, over his ripped abdomen, gripping his base tightly as he lets out a groan of relief. Impatiently, he tugs at one of the strings to loosen it, seeking to remove the offending object entirely so that he can stroke one out to his heart’s desire. The thought of painting his abs with his own cum has him beyond aroused, and his heart is racing, pounding in his chest as he swallows hard, spreading his thighs.

“MEOW!!!”

A mass of black fur pounces on him, and he yells out in surprise.

He drops his dick to attend to the hellcat currently taking up residence on his face, writhing and meowing and yelling so loudly that his head begins to spin. There is fur in his mouth, and he sputters to try and clear his throat.

“God-pppthhht fucking damn it Mr-ppthh Mr Egg- MR MUFFIN!!!”

For the love of all things that are holy, Mr Muffin has decided to stick his butt in Jimin’s face. He is now granted with a front row seat to a very intimate part of Mr Muffin he would much rather not be acquainted with, and his erection dies down very quickly.

He finally manages to grasp the cat by its mid-section, placing it on the floor and shooing it away with a general kick in its direction. It comes nowhere near hitting him, but it does the trick. Mr Muffin skedaddles, hissing all the way, but the damage has been done, and Jimin’s raging boner is no longer so.

*

You can feel the telltale signs of your ovulation period drawing near.

Tender twinges on one side of your belly, and your discharge is running clearer than normal. According to the ovulation test you took at work just now, the results came out negative, but you usually take more than one test anyway. It should begin anytime soon now, but you’ll take the next test at least 10 hours from now in order to make sure.

When you get home, Mr Muffin greets you loudly at the door. You reach down to give him pets and scratches, and he weaves in and out of your stride as you head to the kitchen to fix something to eat.

“Mr Muffin, were you good today baby?” You say loudly, glancing in the direction of Jimin’s study to make sure he doesn’t suddenly appear, before crouching down to tickle Mr Muffin’s chin. His entire ebony body vibrates in a purr, and you whisper to him furtively. “Did anything happen while I was gone?”

Mr Muffin blinks at you slowly, once, twice, three times.

“He did?!” You say with a gasp. “I knew it. I knew it. That horny bastard can’t keep his hands off his dick for longer than a second. When? The moment I stepped out of the house? Oh god.”

The study door opens, and you straighten up with a smile on your face. Jimin comes padding out in his white tee and loose grey sweatpants, his classic attire on his days off. He seems to be waddling a little, walking awkwardly, but you surmise that it’s probably due to the little charm hanging near his balls.

“Hi baby, did you have a good day? Are you hungry? I was going to start dinner,” you smile as you turn to the fridge to start getting out the salad ingredients.

Jimin does a double take to make sure that you are, indeed, talking to him and not that blasted Mr Muffins this time. He sends a narrow eyed glare in Mr Muffin’s general direction- he should really talk to you about the terms of endearment the two of you use in your relationship- but the cat only yawns, exposing his razor sharp canines.

“It was alright, how was yours?” He shuffles in next to you to start boiling water for the pasta.

“Hmm, the usual, that stupid brat Jeongguk came in drunk again today. I don’t even know why we need an intern, but he’s quite possibly the brattiest intern we’ve had.” You chop up several tomatoes and apples before tossing them into the bowl with the lettuce. “Was it too uncomfortable?”

“What?” Jimin turns to you in the midst of measuring out the noodles. “Wh-oh! You mean the charm? It was alright.”

His grudging tone elicits him a kiss on his cheek as you cuddle into his chest to placate him. Jimin steals a kiss from your lips, savouring your lips on his own as his hands wander down to grab a handful of your ass, pulling you into his grasp. “I missed you while you were gone today.”

“I know, I missed you too,” you pull away and cup his cheeks in both hands. “You’re so good to me you know? Thank you for being so tolerant of all this. I know it’s been hard, but I’m sure it will pay off.” You kiss him on his nose before brushing his hair off his forehead and giving him another smooch there. “I got you something that I think you’ll really like.”

Jimin perks up immediately. “A surprise?”

“Come here baby, leave dinner for a sec,” you take his hand and lead him to the living room.

On your way back from work, you’d stopped by a shop that Joy recommended to you. Pulling the velvet bag out of its plastic carrier, you loosen the drawstring and pull out-

Jimin’s heart skips a beat as he watches you pull out a flesh coloured dildo the size of his forearm. He dry swallows a few times, feeling his dick stir in his sweats. “I-is that-“

“Yes, it is,” you grin at him.

God. That thing is massive. Jimin can feel himself getting excited just by thinking of getting to use it on you. It may not be the same as getting to fuck you himself, but just the thought of watching you take another dick that isn’t his own- and one of this size too- is more than enough to tide him over for now. 
He pulls you into his arms.

“I think dinner can wait, babe.” Jimin is suddenly hungry for something else.

You giggle against his chest.

“Let’s take this into the bedroom,” Jimin whispers huskily into your ear, sweeping you into his arms, onto his shoulder and spanking your ass cheek hard.

He plops you onto the bed, and your thighs part involuntarily. Jimin settles himself in between and kisses your lower belly as his hands skim up the insides of your thigh.

“I’ve been wet all day,” you admit to him as he pushes your skirt up. “In fact, I think I soaked through my panties. They’re ruined.”

“Oh really?” Jimin kisses a wet trail up your inner thigh. “I think… I’ll have to check for myself.”

Lifting your ass briefly so that he can get your skirt over your hips, Jimin scoops both arms under your legs. His breaths are now directly against your core.

“Look what we have here,” he explores the wet patch on your underwear with the tip of his tongue, making it even wetter. Then, he licks the entire area with his tongue, saturating the white cotton entirely. “So fucking sweet. A-are you ovulating already? Your pussy only tastes like this when you’re ripe for me.”

You squirm in his grasp as he pushes the crotch aside to press his nose into you intimately. “M-maybe, the te-test I took earlier-“

Jimin doesn’t wait to hear the results of the test as he tears your underwear off with a ravenous growl, dipping his tongue into your slit as he laps up every drop of your arousal. Every lick assaults your already engorged clit, brushing against it roughly as Park Jimin spreads your thighs wide. You are incredibly exposed to him as he devours your pussy like a man starved, and you can see the way his hips are gyrating against the mattress as if he is a dog in heat.

“So- fucking- sweet, can’t wait to fuck you full of my babies,” Jimin pants into your inner thigh, taking a moment to tease you with two fingers. He slides them into your entrance just barely, stretching you out and then withdrawing them. Sticky, clear strings of your arousal connect his fingers to your pussy, and he plays with them for a moment, pulling his fingers away to see how far they’ll stretch. Jimin takes pleasure in breaking them as his plush lips wrap around his digits. “Look how sticky and wet your pussy is baby. All ready for me to give you a baby. I don’t need some stupid test to tell me that there’s a ripe little egg waiting.”

“Jimin, please,” you thread your fingers into his hair, pulling him in closer. You can feel yourself just on the edge of orgasm, just a few more flicks to your sensitive clit and-

Your breath is ripped from your lungs as Jimin attaches his plump lips to your clit and just sucks, and you wail his name so loud that your throat goes raw. You can feel yourself leaking copious amounts of your arousal as you spasm around nothing, but Jimin licks every drop of it as if it was his last meal.

Then, he reaches for the huge pale dildo lying forgotten by your side, and you feel the head of it bump against your lips gently.

“Fuck, you’re so small,” Jimin exclaims, stroking your pussy lips reverently as you lay there boneless, legs spread wide. “Think you can take all of this?”

Wait, what?

You push yourself up onto your elbows as you frown at him, glancing down to see Jimin holding the item you’d bought against your lower lips, even slicking the head up with your wetness.

“Jimin, no-“ you reach down to grab it from him. “This isn’t a fucking dildo, for the love of Freya, Goddess Almighty! It’s a fucking fertility candle! We need to burn it while we have sex. And say an incantation to it before and after. You need to cum inside me as many times as you can before the candle runs out. That’s why I got such a long one, I figured Jimothy doesn’t work well under pressure.”

Jimin is speechless for a moment as he watches you push your skirt down and place the dild- dick shaped candle with veins running up the length of it- on the altar that you had set up in your bedroom.

“Wh-wait, when did that get there?” Jimin points an accusing finger at the pink and silver dressed altar, with the picture of the Norse goddess Freya at its very center. “It wasn’t there this morning-“

“What else do you think? I put it there just now,” you say as you set the candle in front of her picture.

Jimin forces himself to stop ogling at how bizarre this entire set up is- a regal looking altar with a ginormous dildo in front of a goddess.

Satisfied with the placing of the candle, you turn to him with a sweet smile. “Thank you for eating me out so well, baby. Are you trying something new? I’ve never seen you so… on edge before. But it’s hot.”

On edge? That’s because he abso-fucking-lutely is, Jimin clenches his fist in an attempt to calm himself down. He hasn’t had a moment to himself in ages because of that darned cat. Even when he locks himself in the study and browses through his favourite porn sites to take a little bit of the pressure off his blue balls, Mr Muffins knows. That eerie, stupid fucking cat just somehow knows. And then the cat will be pawing at his door, scratching the mahogany wood to ribbons, and somehow letting himself in even though Jimin swears he locked the door.

Jimin feels like his house is haunted.

*

Jimin has the perfect plan.

Turns out, your ovulation window doesn’t open today, but tomorrow night instead. Just the thought of having to wait sets his teeth on edge. Not to mention, every time the charm brushes against his inner thighs or his balls, Jimin doubles over in over-stimulation, his dick aching and desperate for some attention.

He’s resorted to taking the rest of the week off work now. There’s no possible way he can walk into the office with a charm around his balls like this.

Spending days alone with Mr Muffin has not softened him up to the intuitive animal. Jimin glares at it with eyes narrowed in derision every time it prowls around the entire apartment, avoiding any interaction with it as far as possible. But then, he thinks of the perfect solution to his problem. All it takes is a trip to the vet.

“Please, Dr Kim, please, my cat is very sick,” he puts on his best imitation of a pet owner worried sick. “Poor little Mr Egg McMuffin hasn’t been able to sleep in the past few weeks. I’ve tried everything, from lavender spray to warm milk, but nothing. You are Mr Muffin’s last hope.”

Dr Kim Taehyung sighs through his nose. It’s been a long day for him.

“Mr Park, I cannot simply just… take the cat away for observation. The vet kennels are full.”

Jimin slumps in his seat.

“However-“

Jimin perks up.

“I can prescribe some sleeping pills for you.” Dr Kim scribbles out an illegible note and hands it to Jimin. “Dissolve this in some warm milk and give it to him. Make sure to follow the recommended ratio, or else your cat will end up knocked out for the rest of the week instead of just one night.”

Jimin clasps the note to his chest, the burnished bright eyes of a desperate man as he thanks the vet enthusiastically.

With the medicine in hand, Jimin laughs all the way home.

“Here Mr Muffin, here kitty kitty,” Jimin calls, a saucer of the finest cream all ready and waiting.

But nothing. The darned hellcat is nowhere to be seen. Jimin calls and calls, but the devil is currently tucked away in his lair somewhere.

Jimin tries desperately to tame the rising frustration in his chest as he sets the saucer down gingerly. God. He never thought he’d resort to this.

He grasps himself firmly through his sweatpants, and groans aloud in relief. This is the first stimulation he’s had in weeks, and it sends blood rushing to warm his cock immediately. The string around the base of his cock tightens, but Jimin is well used to it now, even comes to like it as it restricts his soft, limp cock.

Hmm. Maybe he should be looking into some cock rings the next time he goes on Amazon.

Just as the thought passes, he hears an Earth shatteringly loud wailing meow, and then the devil himself is curling around his ankles. Mr Muffin stands on his hindlegs, sharp claws digging into Jimin’s sweatpants in an effort to get his hands off his dick.

“Mr Muffin, look what I got for you today,” Jimin releases his dick, and it seems to appease Mr Muffin’s enraged meows. He coos in a sickeningly sweet voice, the way he’s seen you do it, as he pushes the saucer of cream toward the cat. “That’s right, it’s a yummy treat for you.”

Mr Muffin approaches the saucer warily, eyes darting between the brimming surface and Jimin’s crouched figure suspiciously. His whiskers twitch as he sniffs the bowl once, then his tongue darts out carefully to taste it. With a lash of his tail against Jimin’s shins- Jimin only just barely holds in a muttered swear word- Mr Muffin crouches by the bowl as he laps up the cream noisily.

Jimin sinks back onto his ass with a quiet sigh of victory. Not long now.

Within moments, Mr Muffin is asleep on the floor, tongue lolling out as he dozes.

Jimin pumps a fist in the air as he shoves himself to his feet, hightailing it to his study and locking the door, double and triple checking it. He pulls up the porn he’s been saving since the dawn of eternity, scrolls through a few of them just to get himself warmed up as his dick hardens in response.

He’s been trying really hard for the past six months not to jerk off. He really has. He’s also been nourishing his body with all the right foods to ensure that his sperm is the strongest it can be, from oily fish like salmon and tuna to leafy green vegetables and citrus fruits. Alcohol and caffeine intake are also minimized, a feat given how much Jimin loves his beer and vodkas, but all for the sake of the baby. Along with increased exercise, he’s never felt better. At the last visit, doctor says his sperm health has improved tremendously, from motility, volume and count.

So just this once can’t hurt right?

He spreads his thighs, closing his eyes and tilting his head back. Jimothy’s going to be in a good rough tough of war today.

His cock is twitching against his abdomen, even redder than usual due to the constriction at his base. As Jimin spreads his precum down his length, he groans loudly with the first stroke, thumb brushing against his weeping head.

With his other hand, he clicks play on the video currently loaded and it’s one of his personal favourites. A dark haired woman with the hugest tits he’s ever seen is kneeling, mouth open wide and tongue out for the cock that protrudes out the bottom of the screen. The camera cuts off just at the base of the dick in the video, so if Jimin just puts a little of his imagination into it, it looks like the woman onscreen is sucking his dick.

“Fuck,” he groans as sounds of spit and slick accompany the onscreen couple as the male porn star begins to fuck her face. To simulate this, Jimin speeds up his pace, trying his best not to dislodge the charm too much. He wants to cum, alright, but he also doesn’t want to waste your efforts when you so clearly believe that this will help the quality of his sperm.

The man is starting to thrust into her face now, making her breasts bounce lewdly, and the telltale tingles are starting in his balls and at the base of his spine, sweat gathering on the lines of his flexed abdomen as he pants in desperation.

“Unnhh, shit, I’m so fucking close, w-wanna blow my load so deep,” Jimin is in the throes of delirium, imagining the babymaking sex that’s soon to come, his cock throbbing in his grip as he calls to mind the sweet taste of your pussy.

He’s so close, he can almost taste his orgasm, his fist tightens around himself as he fucks up into the tight suction of it. His release is so deliciously close, he can feel his balls churning as he gets ready to unload all over his abs and chest, and then-

There is a knock on the door, and your voice calls out.

“Jimin baby, are you in there?”

Fuck. When did you get home? Jimin is this close to blowing his load.

He struggles to get his voice under control as he answers back. “Yeah, you’re home early?”

“What are you doing in there?”

“I’m working baby, on a Skype call with Namjoon. He’s on mute now but we’re going over some important stuff.” Jimin glances at the busty blonde in another video currently half naked on his screen, getting her brains fucked out with two cocks inside her. “Also, he’s half naked on screen, so I doubt you want to come in.”

“Are you wearing your FitBit?”

The seemingly random question catches Jimin off guard as he glances down at his wrist. “Yeah, why?”

“Because your step count just surged from 2000 to over 8500. I set up notifications on my phone. Now open the damn door unless you want me to put little Jimothy in a chastity cage.”

Jimin sighs as he drops his dick.

*

You’re still mad at him over Mr Muffin.

The cat has been sleeping for over a day now. And while Jimin was just a little heavy handed with the medicine, he honestly didn’t mean to hurt him. Just put him out of commission for a bit.

After fussing over Mr Muffin for a few hours, you force yourself to calm down and understand Jimin’s point of view. Your poor husband must be so on edge, having to store his sperm for a month and only being allowed to ejaculate when you’re ovulating. It’s no wonder that the blue balls are making him more short tempered than usual. Your sweet natured husband has been putting up with all of your spells and charms and weird hijinks all this while, and you’re surprised that he managed to hold out this long.

You know that tonight is the night that he’s been waiting for. Jimin’s gaze has been positively ravenous the past few days, you can feel the weight of his gaze following you around the apartment, and he refrains from touching you at all. The other night, he insisted on sleeping with a pillow fort in between the both of you, mumbling something about not being able to control Jimothy if you stick your ass in his crotch just one more time.

When you get home from work, you immediately take a test just to confirm and be absolutely sure. The positive result sends your heart into your throat as you clutch the stick in your fist, making your way out of the bathroom and calling Jimin’s name.

The man in question comes out of his study, where he’s been isolating himself for the past day or so, and he meets your gaze with hopeful eyes. Suddenly feeling on edge from the way he tracks your every movement like a predator, you weakly hold up the stick, and no other words are needed.

The Jimin that you see now is not your lovable husband who pours ketchup all over his fries like a barbarian and laughs so hard that he gives himself stomach cramps and needs to be held like a baby in order to calm down. No, the Jimin that you see in front of you is a changed man. His fists are clenched, jaw set firmly so that you can see the way his cheek muscle tenses as his eyes dart in the direction of the bedroom.

This is a Jimin that you’ve never known before.

“Bedroom. Now.”

Swallowing hard, you turn around to obey him, making sure to keep Mr Muffin safely locked up in his cage before proceeding with shaky legs and a palpitating heart. You spare a glance toward the altar in your bedroom, shooting up a quick prayer to Freya to help you survive this even as you light the dick shaped candle with a twitch of your fingers.

“Clothes off. Arms above your head. On your back, legs spread.”

His voice sounds from behind you, and not daring to look back, you push your sweats down past your hips, your underwear along with it as it hits the floor. You can feel his hard gaze eating up every single inch of exposed flesh even as you bring your shirt over your head and toss it aside. Finally turning to face him, you seat yourself on the bed, feeling incredibly exposed as your eyes cast over his clothed figure.

Jimin’s eyes are devoid of his usual warmth that you know and love. Instead, they are roaming over your skin in a brief manner that hardly betrays any emotion at all, as if he’s entirely unimpressed. “Don’t make me wait longer than I already have.”

A thrill sings through your veins as you move backwards, head on your pillow as you spread your legs slowly, a heat upon your cheeks as you can already feel how wet your inner thighs are. Jimin’s eyes linger on the hidden treasure between your thighs for just a tad longer, making you fidget as you wait for his next instructions.

Jimin rummages in his closet for a moment and comes away with a few of his silk ties, and your heart skips a beat, even as you don’t dare move a single muscle. He comes back to the bed and binds both of your hands together tightly, securing the ties around your wrist before he moves down to your spread ankles.

“This’ll help you keep your slutty legs spread, hmmm?” Jimin casts a glance up at you as he binds your ankles to each corner of the bedposts, fingers working swiftly as if he’s done this a million times before. While his face remains entirely expressionless, he sends you quick glances every now and then to check in with you, careful touches around your restraints making sure that they aren’t too tight.

While you and Jimin have experimented with power play once or twice, you’ve never done it to this extent, and Jimin has certainly never tied you up like this. You are completely helpless, vulnerable to his every whim and fancy, and all too ready to be devoured by his lustful little smirk as Jimin caresses the inside of your thighs with teasing dances of his fingers.

“You put me through so much shit in the past month, baby. Did you know that?” Jimin continues to let his fingers trace absent minded patterns on your skin, working his way up to the apex of your thighs. “Did you really think you’d get away with it?”

A mix of adrenaline and fear courses through your veins as he hums low in his throat, thumbs spreading your lower lips as he inspects your sex thoroughly. You are enraptured by this new side of him, his eyes are cold as he glances back up at you to check for your reaction, spanking your clit harshly when you remain silent. “Answer me when I ask you a question, slut.”

You moan and jerk in response, fidgeting in your restraints. “N-no, I was just- I didn’t-“

“Save it. I don’t want to hear your pathetic whimpering anymore.” Jimin swipes a finger on your inner thigh to gather your transparent arousal, bringing it to his lips for a brief taste. “Looks like someone’s a desperate little cockslut. So wet for me already, and I haven’t even done a thing.”

Jimin traces his hands up your hips, skimming over your belly to cup your breasts, flicking a nipple idly, expression almost bored as he watches it pebble under his touch. “Look at these. All mine. After tonight, I’ll be watching these tits swell and fill up with milk for the baby I’ll be fucking into you. You’d like that wouldn’t you? I’m going to make your tits dribble with sweet milk for our baby, and I’m going to make you beg for me to suckle every drop.”

A satisfied smile paints upon his lips as he considers the visual, and then he skims a hand down to stroke the small swell of your lower belly. “You’re going to be so round and swollen with my baby, princess. Do you want that?”

You are positively leaking all over the sheets now, feeling a sticky puddle right under your ass as you pant harshly under his touch, sweat beading on your forehead as you arch your hips. “Y-yes, fuck, ple-ase, I want your baby so bad Jimin.”

A satisfied nod as he rewards you with a caress to your cheek. “Listen closely. I won’t be spoiling you with foreplay since you’ve been nothing but a selfish little bitch for the past month. Tonight, orgasms are only for good little girls who can keep my cum inside them without wasting a drop. Lucky for you, you’ll be getting more than one load inside you tonight. What’s your safeword?”

At his prompting, you recall the discussion you last had with him when you began dating. “Mango.”

Jimin pushes himself away from your body only to reach past the waistband of his shorts, untying the small charm that you made him wear under his balls for the past month. With his shorts still on, he moves to the side of the bed to tuck it underneath the mattress like you instructed him to all those weeks ago before returning to his position between your thighs.

Once more, Jimin starts to lower the waistband of his shorts. You involuntarily make a noise in the back of your throat when you realise that he intends to fuck you like this, fully clothed and hiding his beautiful body from your gaze, and Jimin’s eyes harden in a silent reprimand, hands gripping your inner thighs hard enough to bruise.

“What was that, slut?”

You shake your head in response, eyes wide as he teases you by lifting the hem of his shirt and exposing just a hint of his carved hipbones and a glimpse of his rock hard abs.

“I thought so. Don’t make me blindfold you.” Jimin palms himself while directing his gaze straight at your pussy, finally opting to rid himself of his shorts and stroke his cock with a barely restrained groan. “I should fuck that pretty face of yours till you choke, make you cry like the little bitch you are. Make you swallow so much cum that you can’t taste anything else for a week. You think you call the shots in this house? Think again, princess.”

But thankfully Jimin knows the end goal of tonight, and he nudges his head against your lips briefly. You clench involuntarily at the contact, feeling his blunt cock start to press past your entrance with that delicious friction of the first thrust as he starts to breach your walls. With a fluid thrust of his hips, Jimin sinks into your cunt balls deep, his cock gliding past your saturated walls that grip him tight.

A moan escapes your throat as he settles with his hips flush against yours, but Jimin is too preoccupied with the feeling of you around his cock to punish you for it. The aching burn of his girth leaves you giddy and breathless, and normally Jimin would pause to let you adjust to his size, but not today. He positions himself on his knees, spread apart for better leverage, and his hands are gripping your hips with a deathly hold as Jimin begins to fuck your cunt with measured strokes. Every thrust goes as deep as possible, his heavy balls slapping against your ass as he plunders your depths with a ferocity never before seen. His jaw is clenched as he focuses on fucking you so good and so hard, cock spreading you apart and making your pussy froth with cream around his base.

You are gasping and moaning under him, but it seems to only spur him on as he shoves forward with his hips, embedding his cock in your pussy till you can feel him right against your cervix.

“Such a pretty cunt, look how creamy you are. So hungry for cock. So desperate to get knocked up with my baby.” Jimin withdraws again, resting the tip of his cock against your lips as he gathers some of the froth at his base and brings it to your lips. “Lick it up, slut.”

Your tongue willingly cleans his fingers of your own arousal, suckling on them as he resumes his fucking, cock pistoning in and out of your drenched pussy. Jimin slides his thumb over your clit in circles, causing you to jerk under him with a whine and a sob, walls clenching down on his cock.

“That’s it, milk me with your pussy, work that cunt for my load. You’re such a fucking cockslut, look at you. Whining and moaning on my cock,” Jimin grunts hard as he grabs you by the hair close to your scalp, tugging harshly. “God, fuck, I’m gonna fill you up so deep and so good. Feel me here?”

Jimin releases his grip on your hair and presses a hand to your lower tummy, places pressure on it hard. “That’s your fertile womb. I’m going to flood it with so much cum you’ll be dripping for days. You’re not leaving this bed till you’re pregnant with my baby.”

Your walls are fluttering around him, and you can feel the telltale signs of your orgasm approaching as Jimin’s hips smash into yours repeatedly, the wet, filthy sounds of your cunt being battered by his cock are all that you hear. But just as you almost reach the precipice, Jimin pulls his thumb away from your clit to grip your hips tight and drive his cock into you with three harsh thrusts before he lets out an earth shattering groan, releasing within your depths.

You can feel every thick spurt of cum as his cockhead kisses your cervix, flooding you with warmth as you lie there at his mercy. His thick cock is throbbing and pulsing, and you can feel him so intimately that it makes you quiver with need to receive everything he has to give you. Jimin’s hips are moving sloppily as jets and jets of cum coat your walls, some of it already leaking out down your ass as he grunts, trying to get everything as deep as possible. By instinct, you start to raise your legs to keep his cum inside, but your restraints prevent you from doing so. Jimin lets out a pleased chuckle at your desperation, soothing you with a kiss to your forehead as he pumps lazily in and out of you, letting the last few spurts leave his cock.

Slowly, Jimin makes sure to keep his cock inside you as he supports himself on his elbows, giving himself time to regain his breath and his sanity as he pants above you. You are still incredibly aroused beneath him, feeling him start to drip in between your thighs even though he hasn’t pulled out yet. It feels as if the weeks of abstinence has paid off with how much he just came inside of you, and even though you haven’t had an orgasm yet, you are warm and full with contentment, happy to feel his cum leak from your pussy as you imagine his sperm racing to your egg.

But Jimin won’t let you get away with things this easily.

“We’re not done yet, just because your pussy is filled doesn’t mean I’m done with you,” Jimin taps your cheek to get your attention. “Keep your hips raised. I don’t want to see you waste any more of my cum. Filthy cum sluts like you should know how to keep a load in your pussy hmm? Or are you purposely letting it leak out because you want me to fill you up again?”

Jimin carefully pulls out of you, his cock soft now as he reaches for a pillow to slide under your hips. With a disappointed tsk of his tongue, he pries apart your labia to look at how your cunt still gapes, wide and open from his brutal fucking, such that he can see all the way into your cum stained walls. With leisurely fingers he scoops up the globs of cum that have made its way onto your inner thighs, pushing it back into your pussy with tender fingertips. Every little drop counts, and Jimin doesn’t want to waste any.

The room already reeks of sweat, sex, and semen, but you know that Jimin is far from done. The doctor had recommended for the two of you to have sex as often as possible within your fertile window, as many as Jimin can manage. Each time keeping your hips raised and preferably inducing an orgasm after to help his sperm travel just the little bit farther.

You whine low in your throat to remind him of this, and Jimin smacks your inner thigh to reprimand you, but soothes it with a kiss against your cum drenched lower lips.

“You’re such a little brat aren’t you?” He spreads your lips with both hands to expose your engorged clit. “But you’re being so good for me. Keeping my cum inside like a good little girl. And good little girls get to cum.”

Then he attaches his lips to your clit and sucks, causing your back to arch off the bed with a sob, legs thrashing in your restraints as the white hot tension in your lower belly roars to life once more, threatening to engulf you. Jimin attacks you with relentless sucks, switching to laving your slit with flat licks as he drives to toward the edge, coaxing you toward your orgasm with his tongue. All the built up pressure in your core culminates into a blinding euphoria that sends you over the edge as you feel the white hot pin pricks of pleasure assault every single nerve.

*

You must have passed out, because the next time you come to, Jimin is undoing your ankle restraints, kissing the inside of each ankle he does so. He massages it gently for a few moments before he sits back in between your thighs, smiling as you blink at him a few times.

“Welcome back, baby, ready for your next load?”

Your eyes flicker to the candle on the altar. It’s halfway burned through.

This time, he is shirtless, allowing you to appraise every inch of his sculpted body as he strokes his cock leisurely, already hard and dripping with precum for you. With your legs free now, Jimin takes each of them in his grasp behind the knee, pressing them into your chest and folding you in half.

Your mind is foggy, you have no idea how much time has passed since the last time he was inside you. But before you can linger any more on such useless thoughts, Jimin’s cock is pressing inside you once more, pushing past your puffy lips and bottoming out at your cervix again. At this angle, he can go much deeper inside you, his cock already pressing at your womb as he folds you in half, his added weight on the back of your thighs driving his cock into your pussy with every thrust.

You can already feel how sore your muscles are going to be, but Jimin gives you no time to think about this as he fucks into you with the sheer power of his thighs, driving his cock into you repeatedly with the single intention of filling your pussy again.

“Tell me how good I’m making you feel,” Jimin demands, punctuating his question with a harsh thrust.

“F-fuck, so guh-good, you’re so good,” you respond immediately, desperate to please him.

Every drag of his cock against your walls feels like ultimate bliss. Jimin pounds his cock into you, and the squelch of your drenched pussy is even more pronounced now than it was before. Every slap of his balls against you is only magnified by how wet you are. An unholy mixture of his cum and yours has soaked the bedspread under you once more. Jimin’s tireless thrusting has you whining and moaning under him, begging for him to fill you up till you’re overflowing.

“What do you want? Let me hear you beg,” Jimin’s hands brush against the base of your throat.

“W-want your baby,” you gasp, feeling his cock twitch. “Please, pl-ee-ase, want you to fill me up with your cum again.”

“What are you?” Jimin thrusts hard to watch your breasts bounce in perfect little circles, slapping the soft flesh hard and watching it turn red. When you take a beat too long to respond, he slaps your tits again. “Say it!”

“A cumslut! I’m a cu-um slut, alw-waays hungry for cock.”

Satisfied, Jimin pumps his hips into you, feeling the way your pussy swallows him with every thrust. “That’s right. You’re so cum hungry that you need more than just one load inside this pussy. You’re such a desperate little cumslut. Desperate to carry my baby.”

Pressing your knees against your chest, Jimin devotes the rest of his energy into driving his cock into your pussy, feeling his balls throb as he lets loose blasts of cum inside you. His second load proves to be as full as the first, his unadulterated groans of ecstasy escaping from his pillowy lips as he moans against your neck, hips thrusting erratically as he rides out his orgasm for the second time that night. Your pussy is quivering around his steely length pistoning in and out of you, every thrust designed to propel his potent sperm along your walls and deeper inside you.

“Take it all,” Jimin demands as he continues to fuck his cum into your pussy. “Don’t waste a drop.”

Your lower abdomen feels tight. Jimin’s cock remains rock hard inside you, plugging your cunt up so well that not a single drop escapes. Unlike last time where he began to soften almost immediately after his orgasm, Jimin shows no signs of losing his erection. The pressure in your lower abdomen is building up, and there’s so much cum inside you that you can feel it swirling around in your pussy, forming a little bulge on your belly as Jimin helps you straighten your legs, looking a little surprised that he’s still hard.

“J-Jimin, why-“

“Don’t ask me, I have no fucking idea,” he glances down at his length, covered with his own cum as he pulls out a little. “It must be that stupid charm you made me wear.”

For a moment, a glimpse of the Jimin you’re familiar with shines through, and you grin in spite of yourself. “See, it worked, didn’t it? You came so fucking much, look at this! If I’m not pregnant after this, Mr Muffin’s going into the cauldron.”

Jimin can’t help but chuckle in response, breaking out of character as he does so. But not a moment later, he snaps back into his role, expression darkening as he thrusts his hips once to remind you who’s really in charge.

“Looks like you got what you wanted hmm? Can you go another round?” Jimin raises your legs and places your feet against his chest. “Too bad, no one asked you. Just lie there and take it.”

The one eighty-degree change in his demeanour almost gives you whiplash. Your legs are sore, hips aching and muscles screaming for relief as his hips crash into yours again. Your pussy tightens around him in response, and you ache to have your hands all over him, cradle him close to you as he fucks you into oblivion. But you’ll have to do with this for now. You can feel the knot in your belly tightening again, so close to your orgasm as you pant and moan, writhing under him from sheer oversensitivity.

“P-please, I can’t, no more.”

“Just one more time, baby, one more,” Jimin coaxes you with his thumb against your clit, rubbing circles to push you toward the edge even as he feels his balls churn again. He reaches up to undo the tie that is restraining your hands with simple motion, and you bring your arms around him immediately, clutching on to him for dear life as he jackhammers his cock into your pussy. “Cup my balls, princess. Feel how much cum I have for you. Feel me fuck a baby into you.”

Amidst your sobs, you manage to do as he says, hands slipping in between your sweaty bodies to cradle his balls in your palm, rolling them in your touch as Jimin groans.

“Fuck, yes, I’m coming, just like that,” Jimin grunts against your skin as he gives the final few thrusts. “Come with me baby. You can do it, come for me, that’s it.”

His fingers are drawing figure eights on your clit, and that’s all it takes for you to clench hard around him, thighs trembling as you sob his name. Jimin gives you his final load with a hard thrust and remains there, feeling as your womb soaks up the contents of his balls for the third time that night. Amidst the waves of ecstasy and the feeling of his warm cum filling you up, you are so overwhelmed with hypersensitivity that you nearly black out again, and it takes Jimin’s soft murmurs of your name to bring you back.

He lets you rest for a while to regain your senses as he pushes himself off the bed. All traces of his dominant persona are gone now as he brushes your matted hair back from your forehead, kissing your cheek reverently as he slips his arms beneath you to move you to a dry spot on the mattress. Even though he must be tired as well, he doesn’t rest till you’re comfortably nestled with your head against a pillow and your hips propped up with two more pillows underneath your butt to give his sperm the best chance of making it. Jimin can’t resist as he paws at your thigh to glimpse at the thick white cum just peeking out from between your pussy lips.

“Come here,” you stretch out your arms and demand for him to come and cuddle. “Jimin, I’m fine, stop fussing. Want you.”

He relents with a soft smile. “God, I sure hope that worked.”

“I think I might die if it didn’t,” you mumble against his chest. “Imagine having to go through that again next month. I think I’ll just settle with raising Mr Muffin.”

“You’re not the one who has to wear a fucking charm around their balls,” Jimin mutters in spite, but you shut him up with a brush of your teeth against his nipple. “Jimothy suffered so much.”

“Not as much as I’ll make him suffer in the next nine months,” you mumble sleepily. “I hope he’s up to dealing with pregnancy hormones.”

Jimin only grins in anticipation. “Oh, he’s up, alright. I’ll make sure he rises to the occasion.”

You’re content to drift slowly into sleep with Jimin’s arms around you, but then there is a scratching noise at the door, and Jimin stirs, craning his neck.

“What’s that sound?”

“Hmm?” You follow his gaze with half lidded eyes. “It’s probably Mr Muffin. He wants his breakfast, can you go feed him for me? I need to elevate my legs for another 15 minutes at least.”

Jimin only sighs in exasperation. “God fucking damn it, Mr Muffin.”

Freya’s invocation and ritual taken from here

[oldschoolgaming]

Gary Con XI

Last year’s trip to Gary Con was supposed to be a one off, a ‘Trip of Lifetime’ but as you might have read in last year’s blog post it was an experience I was keen to repeat.  I worked hard, I saved my pennies and with the support of my ever amazing (& non gaming) wife I planned a return trip to Lake Geneva.

Sadly my good friend and travel buddy Isa couldn’t join me on this year’s trip so I traveled to Chicago on my own, this time on a direct flight from London.  

I’d planned to arrive a day early to allow my body clock time to adjust.  Asking around about sharing transport from O’Hare to Lake Geneva I got a message from a friend I’d met at last year’s convention.   Jason Hobbs was kind enough to bring his trip forward a day, picking me up from the airport and driving up to our B&B in Lake Geneva.   We made plans to head over to Madison and meet Alex Kammer, another acquaintance from last year’s event.  Alex runs Gamehole Con, another Wisconsin gaming convention held in the autumn.  He is also a big collector of old school D&D books and memorabilia  We were able to check out his amazing collection, housed in a custom gaming space he calls ‘The Gamehole’

The Gamehole

This is a 1st printing of the 1st Edition AD&D Monster Manual, signed by Gary Gygax.

As well as books Alex also has some unique artifacts.  This is the original map of the Forgotten Realms, used to define what is now the default setting for Dungeons and Dragons today.

The exceptionally rare English module ST1 ‘Up The Garden Path’

Me, with a rare first printing of Chainmail, the ruleset written by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren.  Chainmail preceded Dungeons and Dragons and was intended to be used in the original edition of D&D to resolve combat.  The system we use today for D&D combat has evolved from what was originally intended to be the ‘alternate’ rules for folk who didn’t own a copy of Chainmail!

We got back to our B&B around 10pm, but my body clock wasn’t fooled, it knew it should be 4am and I’m sure I entertained Hobbs with some pretty hard core snoring on the drive back!

Now I’m a believer that if you do something twice it becomes a tradition so on Wednesday we met up with Bruce Heard for our now traditional pre Gary Con lunch, at the ‘Next Door Pub’  Bruce is always good company and it was great to catch up with him.  I was pleased to hear his latest ‘Calidar’ product is taking shape, I’m excited to receive my copy from the Kickstarter later this year.

After lunch we headed off to the Geneva Grand Resort, home of the convention to pick up our badges and get settled in.  

We arrived a little early so I had a short wait before my room was ready.  It was while I waited in the bar watching people arrive that I started to realise that this trip really was going to be at least as magical as the previous year.  You see, the magic of Gary Con, for me at least, is the people.  Having just picked up my badge and not even rolled a single dice I was happy so see more friends arrive.  Much hugging and laughing ensued, setting the standard for the days to come.

On Wednesday evening I ticked off ‘Dawn Patrol’ from my ‘want to play’ bucket list.  Michael Bolam facilitated an awesome intro game for a bunch of newbies and despite rolling badly (winning initiative is a bad start in this game!) I survived my first game and even got my first ‘kill’

After the game I had time for a couple of beers in the bar, catching up with friends old and new before getting an early night (well, midnight?) ready to start the gaming the next day.

On Thursday morning I ran my first game of Dungeon Crawl Classics (The 13th Skull) for a great table of players, most of whom had some experience of the system.  I felt like it took me a couple of hours to hit my GMing stride but the pace accelerated pretty quickly.  The party making good progress until my dice suddenly ran hot and we finished with a TPK!

My afternoon game was the session I was most anxious about.  I was running my own adventure for ‘The Umerican Survival Guide’  and I whilst the table was full of familiar faces I was nervous running for so many creative folk!  I think it went down ok, we certainly laughed a lot and I’ve got some ideas to tweak the adventure before I run it next at the UK Games Expo.

Thursday evening was another great social night, both in the hotel bar and at the party I was invited to by my roommate. 

It was great to have a few minutes with Luke Gygax.  Luke is the driving force behind the convention and Gary Con is a fantastic tribute to his dad.  I’m sure Gary would be happy to see thousands of people gathering to play games in his memory.

“I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.”

Gary Gygax

I also got to chat and hang out with bunch of other well know D&D faces.

Satine Phoenix 

Stefan Pokorny, aka ‘The Dwarvenaught’

with Jon Peterson (”Art & Arcana” & “Playing At The World”) and Mike Carr (”Dawn Patrol” and “In Search Of The Unknown” for D&D, amongst others!)

Whilst it’s great to see the new wave of D&D ‘Rock Stars’ promoting the hobby I think chatting with Mike Carr and him shaking my hand to congratulate me on my first ‘Dawn Patrol’ kill the previous night was a highlight of the convention!

Back in the bar I met up with more of the tribe, including Tom Tullis of Fat Dragon Games who produces the amazing 3D printable minis and scenery I use in a lot of my games at home.

Friday was my Birthday.  I started an epic day of gaming running Operation Whitebox, a World War 2 RPG by Pete Spahn.  It was really good to finally meet Pete and once again he had generously donated copies of the rulebook to all my players. He stopped by during the game to sign books and hang out.  I had a great table of friends new and old who worked well together to complete their dangerous mission behind enemy lines with only two casualties!

I ran straight from my own game to sit at Stephen Newton’s table for his DCC adventure.  Stephen’s a great judge and I was pleased to be back at his table this year. This was a completely new adventure to me and I was playing with a great bunch of players with a wide age range, kids through to adult.  I’ve had some really great experiences playing at mixed tables with kids recently and this game was no exception! 

After this game Stephen and I headed off to the next game, we were both playing in ‘Blacklisted in Lankhmar’ run by Jen Brinkman.

This was my first time playing with Jen and I was excited to grab a spot in this game at almost the last minute.  Normally coming to the end of 12 hours of gaming my mind and attention would be wandering but Jen is a captivating judge, and DCC Lankhmar is a lot of fun - a great game perfectly reworked to fit this classic setting from the works of Fritz Leiber 

I was planning a couple of quiet birthday beers before another early(ish) night - but it was not to be!  I certainly wasn’t expecting to have the a couple of hundred people in the bar singing happy birthday before I was presented with this amazing cake by friends Dave and Kathy.  I may have been a little drunk and emotional that night!

Saturday Morning’s game was my Dark Trails funnel adventure.

I squeezed a couple of extra players around the table for this and although I’ve added to it since it’s first outing at the UK Games Expo it’s clear I still have some work to do, but I think everyone had fun.

One of the extra players was a fellow twitch mini painter, Ali, it so good to meet her and take delivery of the minis she had painted for me!

Saturday afternoon I found Carl Heyl’s drop in/drop out Basic D&D game.  Carl is the current host of long time Classic D&D podcast Save Or Die and I loved sitting in on his game for a little while.

I had to keep my time in Carl’s game short because I’d signed up to play at 5pm in a ‘Super Secret Playtest’ with Michael Curtis.  

By the time I sat down the secret was ‘out’ and I was excited to find I’d be taking part in the first public play test of Goodman Games 5th Edition conversion of the classic module ‘Expedition to the Barrier Peaks’   This game was a lot of fun on so many levels.  I was out of my comfort zone playing a Bard and in 5th Edition D&D too!  However we had an absolute blast playing through some fun encounters and it ticked several things off my bucket list.  

Playing with Michael Curtis had been a long standing ambition - he didn’t disappoint, even when he teased me with “Do you want to burn any luck? Oh, sorry, wrong system!”  It was also cool to play a classic Gygax module at Gary Con!

Saturday night was another party night.  After my game I met some more friends in the bar.  Alex, Zach and Greg seemed to have been gaming non stop all weekend but we made time to hang out and enjoy a couple of ‘Old Fashioned’s before the unofficial ‘Cultural Exchange’ social night.  

With Jen and my roommate Jobe Bitmann

with Jim and Hayley Skatch

I did it!  Last year I failed to get all the Spellburn podcast folk together in a picture but here’s proof it can happen without incurring a Phlogiston disturbance!

The cultural exchange ran on and I enjoyed sampling and sharing local beer and food with friends, although the handful of Wisconsin cheese with Ghost peppers that I inadvertently almost inhaled nearly choked me!

As the unofficial event wound down in the early hours I noticed the bar filling up and managed to grab a couple more photos with the celebs.

Joe Manganiello - my wife is a big fan, clearly she’s just into guys who like D&D, right?  

Matt Mercer came across as a really nice guy, clearly really passionate about the hobby.

Sunday arrived with even less sleep than previous days but I was able to grab a quick breakfast bite and a chat with my buddy Victor as we walked down to our morning game.

I ran my Red Box D&D adventure ‘Return To Lion Castle’ which is a tribute to the first D&D adventure I ever played.  I only had three players - I’m assuming the other three who signed up were more hungover than me, which is quite an achievment!  We still had a lot of fun and I hope to run this one again soon.

In the afternoon I sat down with Jen, Bob, Nick and Marlene for lunch.  This is the second year Jen and I have had lunch on the Sunday so I’m calling this a new tradition too!

Speaking of traditions another one that I’m pleased to be part of was my last game of the convention.  Bob Brinkman’s ‘Dead Dogs’ game ran past midnight.  Bob once again did a fantastic job guiding a very full table of twenty (!) players through an amazing improv pirate themed DCC adventure!  I laughed so much I almost cried.  When I eventually had to hug everyone goodbye and walk back to my room I might actually have done so...

I checked out of the hotel on Monday and had good company for the day having been offered a ride back to Chicago with Doug, Stefan and co, the DCC art contingent.   We had a great pub lunch and checked out the Chicago Art Institute before I took the obligatory selfies at ‘The Bean’ 

I caught my late flight home and Gary Con was over for another year  

The memories live on and with a little bit of luck (and some hard work!) I hope to be back next year.

[nuestkings]

NU’EST W interview with Vogue Korea

(Trans: Melodia_Muse | Original Article)

NU’EST W has completed their story with a dramatic reversal. And now, they have begun their last run.

These are stories from before the “W” began appearing at the end of NU’EST’s name. For many entertainment industry representatives, NU’EST were like a precious child who was struggling. Despite being a boy group that ticked all the boxes of a successful idol group without any big flaws, NU’EST just never “hit it big.” The feeling of painful regret was biggest during the fourth mini album Q is. and the fifth mini album Canvas. They were albums that not only showcased music that was trendy for its time, but also reflected the group’s unique color. The title tracks “Overcome” and “Love Paint” showed NU’EST’s talented ability to take on a romantic fantasy-like story and incorporate powerful choreography and versatile vocals to create stages that looked like they came straight out of a musical. The albums were full of pop tracks that were easy to listen to no matter where you were. Music critics who had an affection for idol groups would talk about the two albums as “children of misfortune” because they were never recognized for their true value.

A celebrity beauty director who has watched over them for a long time said that NU'EST is a group who become lovelier the longer you see them. "They have a lot of ambition when it comes to their music and they work really hard, but they don't go overboard in an effort to be loved. In a way, you could say that they just silently focus on doing what they need to do. Their lives are surprisingly simplistic. They would say, 'We really burned it up last night!' but when you asked them what they did, they would say that they went to a 24-hour coffee store and chatted the night away over 10 cups of coffee. (laugh) They're a very cohesive group. They're loyal and prudent kids, so most people tend to stick around after getting to know them.” In conclusion, NU’EST has always been a great group but was also a boy group that had been mostly unknown by the world, and this was why they are able to properly seize the opportunity they were given through Produce 101. Through Produce 101, the public began feeling the same way as the previously mentioned entertainment industry representatives, and they decided to shower NU’EST with love that they hadn’t give them before. At the time, the fancafe was overflowing with posts like, “I’m sorry I only just found out about you.”

There has never been an idol group with such a dramatic story of growth. The idol world is an industry. Investments of time and capital are needed, and it is only when profit is made that a “next time” can be planned. Though idols create art, it is an industrial system that makes it possible for them to exist. NU’EST used to be a group that couldn’t promise a “next time.” Six years into their debut, they appeared on Produce 101 thinking it would be their last. In the end, only Hwang Min Hyun made it into the top 11, and just when they were wondering if it was a cruel twist of fate and really their end, NU’EST’s songs started rising up on music charts. NU’EST reorganized and returned as NU’EST W. Though they were thrown into a situation where “they woke up one day and found themselves to be superstars,” NU’EST W returned with music created with great care and affection, music that wasn’t swept away with change or fame and instead strongly maintained the group’s color, just like always. JR said, “The question we get asked most is what has changed. But we really haven’t changed at all. It’s just our surroundings that have changed.” NU’EST W went from “Idols only I know” to “Idols everyone knows,” and beginning with the single “If You,” they released mini albums W, Here and Who, You, all of which were received with much love and anticipation. The lyrical stories, melodies, and the members’ unique vocals were as harmonious as ever. Ren said, “In the past, we were so thirsty for even just one more person to listen to the music we’d worked so hard on that we weren’t really thinking about how well we did on the charts. I feel like that thirst has been quenched now. But we still have that hope that more people will listen to our music.” Their surroundings have changed quite a lot though. “After the show, we each went to our hometowns. I went to a buffet with my mother and the people there would recognized me and say, ‘Oh! Aren’t you Jong Hyun?’ My mother really enjoyed that. (laugh).” (JR)

NU’EST W is currently walking down a “flower path,” something trainees and struggling idols can only dream of. They are at the beautiful peak of their journey of growth. Their fan meeting sold out in two minutes of tickets going on sale, and they even ranked third in boy group brand reputation rankings. When they had their solo concert in March, they filled the Olympic Park SK Handball Gymnasium with their fans. Despite it not being their promotional period, NU’EST W’s songs continue to appear regularly in the Top 100 charts of music sites. JR has appeared on shows like Night Goblin, Law of the Jungle, LAN Cable Life, and Love Catcher, making a name for himself as a maknae (youngest) of variety shows, and Ren also recently began appearing on The Kkondae Live. Variety shows these days tend to value celebrities who show their true and natural selves, and this has provided the perfect opportunity for NU’EST W. And the attitude they have when approaching these shows is just as perfect. JR said that he felt grateful towards everyone. “I’m always so happy during filming because I get to meet a lot of great people. My seniors give me lots of advice and they help me out a lot.”

NU’EST W have always let their hard work do the talking. Recently, NU’EST W took on the challenge of creating lunchboxes for fans on V LIVE, and Baekho, who had never cooked before, started by saying, “Hard work is something I always feel confident about.” He also said, “I didn’t become a singer because I had always been really talented, I learned how to sing and dance when I came here [to Pledis]. It was through hard work that I built up my singing and dancing skills. It wasn’t easy. I’m sure everyone is talented in something. The difference comes from just how talented you are in the beginning. As long as you work hard, you can grow that talent into something bigger. I’ve never thought of myself as being more talented than others.” (Baekho) “Even those who are talented work hard. There are many people who think, ‘Because I don’t have a talent in this, I should just give up,” but there are even more people who work ten times harder because they have a talent in something.” (JR)

Even the story of how each member entered the entertainment industry has a dramatic flair to it. They are stories of being scouted on site during audition programs or just catching the eye of an agency representative while walking down the street. “I’d always wanted to be a celebrity from when I was young. In school, I used to dance in front of my friends and they would laugh and clap for me, and I really liked getting that kind of reaction from people.” (Ren) “After I was scouted and I started training, I started to enjoy singing so I naturally started to think, ‘I’d like to become a singer. I want to make my debut.’” (Baekho) “It was through my time as a trainee that I learned to enjoy and feel affection for all of this.” (Aron) “At first, I wasn’t really thinking about it. To be honest, I preferred to just play games and have fun. But one thing I really liked was that after I became a trainee, even when I didn’t do well on my tests, my parents wouldn’t tell me off or anything. (laugh) But I didn’t feel like my singing or dancing was getting any better no matter how hard I trained. I began wondering if I should just quit but one day, I saw myself and said, ‘Huh? I’m really this good at dancing?’ It was after that day that I began to enjoy dancing.” (JR) It was actually after they made their debut that they began to feel a sense of urgency. They wanted to connect with people through their music and their performances. They wanted to share their world view with people. That is why even now, seven years into their careers, they prefer the concert stage the most. Their most exhilarating moments are when they are singing with their fans and creating a performance together.

Almost two years have passed. And now, they are preparing for their last activities as NU’EST W. They have announced that they will be making a comeback in November. Though they can’t reveal anything about it yet, they have been pouring all of their efforts into the album. NU’EST W explained that they will pick a theme and start from there to create their songs and complete an album. Baekho, who creates the songs and is also in charge of producing the albums, said that the he will talk in-depth with the other members about the direction of their music. Then, he’ll take his laptop and go somewhere without any concrete plans. It is through this process that Baekho is filling up his hard drive with music that has yet to see the light of day. “Rather than thinking about the method in which we’d like listeners to hear our music, we try to create moments that feel relatable and allow us to connect with them. We feel truly grateful when we tell our story and listeners say it feels like they’re listening to their own stories.” (Baekho) If rock stars had once represented the youth in the past, that role is now being played by idols. Idols artfully express the detailed and expressive emotions their generation feels. The fact that NU’EST W’s music receives an impressive number of comments that say, “Thank you for making good music,” is a testament of how well they are representing their generation.

The members of NU’EST W have varied preferences when it comes to music. Aron likes R&B, since he grew up listening to it thanks to his mother’s influence. JR likes music that engages his imagination, while Ren prefers music that holds a relatable story and can create a great performance. For Baekho, he doesn’t have a definite preference when it comes to music. He goes out of his way to listen to everything from the extravagant to the minimalistic. He compared listening to music to eating food and drinking water, so integral to his life that he’s never spent more than an hour without listening to any music. These different preferences come together and can naturally be seen in NU’EST W’s music and their solo songs. NU’EST W said that music is the strength that keeps them going. “I feel like music is the only gift we have that we can give to our fans. We really feel just how much power and strength music can give people.” (Ren)

While we were planning the photoshoot, we had the film Trainspotting on our minds. It’s actually a film that was released in 1996 that the members, who were born in 1993 and 1995, probably didn’t know much about. In the film is this line, “Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life.” NU’EST W once had a time when they felt lost and unmoored. But of course, the way they expressed it was vastly different from the film. “When we were trainees, we all packed our bags and left once. We fought with our manager and he said, ‘If you don’t like it, then get out,’ so we really left. Where else could we go? We went to our respective hometowns.” (Baekho) “When we were seventeen, we were feeling so worn out that honestly, we just wanted a break. I think our agency thought we were cute and humored us. They called us later and told us to come back soon. I stayed home for two weeks before returning.” (JR) The wanderings and deviations of youth don’t necessary have to be something that causes social distress. If youth is described as the period of time in which we struggle with the direction we want our lives to go, then the members have lived their youths to the fullest. “Every day can be a deviation. I create deviations for myself. If I’ve been eating cabbage kimchi every day, maybe I’ll eat green onion kimchi today. If I’ve always been drinking the same brand of water, maybe I’ll drink another brand today. (laugh) To be honest, I’m so happy with my life right now that I don’t feel a desire to escape it.” (Baekho) “When we get breaks, I just stay at home. I’ll leave the house if I feel like I need some fresh air, but I’ll end up sitting outside for 10 minutes or so and then come back inside.” (JR) The undercurrents of hardships they have endured and the happiness that fills their hearts is reflected in each and every song created by NU’EST W.

When asked what they think it means to “be NU’EST W,” JR said it’s a sense of ordinary familiarity, a feeling like they’re people you could bump into on the street. Baekho said “being NU’EST W” is just being themselves the way they are now, while Ren described it as not letting go of that strand of hope. The four members have spent approximately 8 years together, and they said it’s meaningless to try and define their relationship with each other. Their personalities and preferences are so different that it makes one wonder how it’s possible for such different people to be together, but they quickly learned to simply accept their differences and are spending what is considered the growth stage of their lives singing, dancing and

just living together. That’s why they find it a little awkward when they have to praise or analyze each other. “We’re just fellow members to each other.” (laugh) It is through the fact that they don’t even think about changes to their relationships that we can estimate just how deep their connection goes. To give an update on the members’ lives these days, JR had been addicted to PC games but recently turned his attention to PlayStation games, and Aron is wondering what he can do to get his dog Noah, who is currently going through dog puberty, to listen to him. Ren is thinking a lot about his personal happiness while also buying 40-pack boxes of Kkandori ice cream and eating 15 a day. Baekho has recently become addicted to opening delivery boxes, so he’s been shopping online and ordering the most interesting and odd items. His most recent purchase is equipment to treat torticollis, and JR has been using it a lot these days.

The past two years have been like a drama with an unexpected twist for NU’EST W. The members are moved by and feel grateful for every moment, so much that it’s difficult for them to pick a single memorable moment. They have shown that the old adage still holds true that as long as you don’t stop dreaming, an opportunity will eventually come your way. NU’EST W never gave up on hope, and they have now become an icon of hope themselves, and we want to keep watching them grow.

“We can’t really say where our finish line is. We believe that we need to keep growing and adapting to the changing times. While we are active as NU’EST W, we’re focusing our goal on continuing to walk together as this group. We believe the best thing for us is to keep walking, slow and steady.” - JR

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Vaping is becoming a more modern way of consuming certain types of drugs such as tobacco and marijuana. The action is done by a vape, also known as an electronic cigarette or “e-cig” for short; other classified vapes are pens, JUULs, and hookahs. A vape is device that contains a cartridge where the e-liquid is in which gets heat up so much to the point where it becomes vapor. This vapor is then inhaled by the vape user, making various elements of the body - like the heart and lungs - get affected. Especially since the utilized e-liquids can bring the user to inhale various dangerous chemicals such as formaldehyde, acrolein, diacetyl and even nicotine which the e-liquids contain 1/3-1/2 of (WebMD). These kinds of chemicals can lead to various lung inflammatory disorders such as “Popcorn lung”/Bronchiolitis Obliterans, Lipoid Pneumonia, and Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax/collapsed lungs. These health disorders involve health-damaging symptoms ranging from coughing and wheezing to coughing up blood/blood-tinged mucus. Unlike traditional smoking, it has not been concluded if cancer is a definite outcome from vaping but with a great amount of chemicals being introduced to the lungs, it is a concern. With that said, vaping can have the same amount of harm as a traditional cigarette can hold. Despite the fact how the influencing power of the media have portrayed vaping as a “healthier” alternative compared to smoking cigarettes.

When it comes to vaping, it seems to attract most of the youthful populations rather than the older generations. It is as though it has been taught that smoking cigarettes is “old school” and “too gross” for the youngsters who are trying to smart with their health. Even though vaping and the health risks that are associated with it can easily be comparable with what traditional cigarettes can bring in. Ever since 2014, electronic cigarettes and other devices used for vaping have been the trendiest use of tobacco products throughout youthful demographics. The peak of e-cigarette use has peaked between the years of 2017 and 2019. It was in 2020 when there have been reports of decreased use of products utilized for vaping. In 2020, 1 in 20 middle school students (4.7%) said they used e-cigs throughout a span of 30 days (CDC). This is a decrease from the previous 10.5% recorded in 2019. As for high schoolers, about 1 in 5 high school students (19.6%) said they used e-cigs throughout a span of 30 days back in 2020. Again, this is also a decreased the 27.5% reported in 2019. Even though there has been somewhat of a significant reduction in e-cigarette usage for vaping, 3.6 million young individuals in the United States were still consuming e-cig products in 2020. (CDC). While the usage of other tobacco-related products like traditional cigarettes, cigars, hookah, etc. range from only 5.0% all the way down to 0.7%. It has been said that the increased custom for electronic cigarettes among youth has been caused by the variety of tasty flavors offered to make one’s vaping experience a bit sweeter and more intriguing. In addition, since vaping had been portrayed to be a healthier alternative compared to smoking, many youth individuals were not encouraged enough to research how most e-cigarette products happened to contain nicotine in them as well – just like with traditional smoking. With that said, nicotine is a highly addictive drug which makes it easier for there to produce harm in a typical adolescent brain that has yet to be developed. This can also lead to other factors such as nicotine codependency, mental health issues, etc.

Throughout the years, there has been various types of restrictions made by federal and local governments for the sake of having less and less young people partake in the vaping trend. Recently, policymakers on the state and federal levels have two focal points when it comes to the deterrence of vaping for the youthful demographics. Those focal points are “minimum sales age laws that restrict the sale of e-cigarettes to adolescents and bans on flavored e-cigarettes” (NEJM). In addition, these policymakers are also looking into applying taxes on e-cigarette products. Currently 22 states have applied taxes on e-cigarettes while nine states have approved a flavor ban on such products. Executing these kinds of actions for the public will help make it harder to purchase tobacco-related products used for vaping and/or would discourage more people to enact any more vaping practices, especially for the youth. No young individual under the age of 18 – without a credit card - can only purchase so much with their own money for pricier products. As for the flavor ban, this can help more young people deter from vaping because as I mentioned before, the various choices of flavoring one’s vaping experience happens to be more appealing to the youth. So, without the ability of choosing a flavor for their vape items, the youth would probably not feel comfortable enough to still practice vaping if there is not a lively feature to appeal them with. However, most of the states that have approved the flavor bans were temporary or ended up being blocked by “legal challenges” (NEJM). Additionally speaking, United States Congress have authorized a law where the federal minimum age for Tobacco usage is set at 21 years old which does include e-cigarettes. Ever since December 2019, 24 states and the District of Columbia settled on policies of increasing the minimum age to either 19 or 21 when it comes to e-cigarettes purchases. On the other hand, other states settled for the minimum age to be at 18. The FDA also expressed some plans involving its usage of market-review authority “to essentially ban all flavors except tobacco and menthol in cartridge (pod-based) e-cigarettes” which did come into effect in February 2020 (NEJM).

With my insight, I feel like there should be more visual awareness on addressing the issue regarding vaping practices. In other words, more video PSAs should be invested into and made for all the youth to see with their own eyes how bad of a state vaping can lure you into. Even public speakers who are experts in this field should also be given the chance to play into a confronting experience for high schoolers. Especially since there was a whole time of the media stating how vaping is a healthier alternative to smoking, in which made it easier for the youth to get influenced by such a misconception. Mostly because these are young individuals with undeveloped brains, we are dealing with so whatever says, goes. Also, even though I agree with the huge implementation of taxes applied to vaping products, I still feel like some young people are going to have access to these items in their own ways. I say this with the concern of how addiction can affect a person’s financial decision. If one is addicted to something like nicotine, then they would go out of their way to purchase it. No matter how rigorous an obstacle may be. Whether if it would be transportation, financials, etc. With that said, I feel like instead of increasing any prices of products, we should instead invest in how we can give out incentives of getting rid of any vape products young individuals may still have. This can be considered as more of a rewarding outcome for the individuals who are trying to overcome vaping rather than having to imply any shameful feelings that come along when executing these types of mini punishments for the consumer. Going to back to PSAs, I feel like that type of medium is perfect for making visuals of these types of problems that are associated with vaping as well as nicotine addiction. Problems like codependency, vaping misconceptions, and resolutions like incentives should be addressed publicly in a creative way. Same thing with public speakers who are talking their experiences and/or the data they have found because that type of communication can become expressively personal within itself for entire schools to see and take heavy notes from.

When it comes to creating a campaign design proposal to promote the idea that vaping is bad, I feel like it should artistically do yet confronting. I know I mentioned before that video PSAs should be the #1 medium to consider when addressing the issues of vaping. Since I said artistically, I think it would be helpful if this PSA was at least half animated. Mostly because you can get many points across when using one’s artistic ability since it will not feel as limiting as supposed to something that is being with real life people only. I think at least half of PSA should be done with animation because it would still be nice to have real-life actors playing out real life situations. The animation part of it can come into play when displaying the “what if” aspect of such an issue. In order words, the animation in this case will utilized to present one’s anxiety-ridden imagination of what is the worse to come when one is stuck on their vaping habits. Overall, this kind of PSA can be useful in achieving a sense of confrontation and innovation because it can captivate the adolescent and teenage demographics to listen in on to one of the worst possible outcomes out there for the ones who become so entrapped within vaping habits. The artistic ability can become an element to attract the audience while the confrontation can hopefully establish a reality check for the young individuals for the sake of either relating to the problem and/or help them avoid it happening to themselves. At this point, I think PSAs are needed more than ever because like I said before, there was a long time when it was said that vaping was a healthier alternative to smoking. I have seen a few PSAs whenever I am on YouTube sometimes, but I realized this is only the beginning. Meaning, the vaping issue was not really investigated until recently like a couple years ago. When really it has been around longer than that. With that said, this should cause for more action and more investment for PSAs to be done and broadcasted over time. Also, we should not stick with saying anything vague like “Just say no.” Stories need to be told, character is needed and better yet, engagement should be facilitated.

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And on a tuesday, of course; when parents do that sort of thing is all the rage. I wouldn't be surprised if by streamlining their selection process and taking fewer board seats, VC funds could do 2 to 3 times as many series A rounds aren't going away, I think we can get much more specific without starting to be mistaken. It didn't seem to harm us. We were all lied to as kids, and some may be innate: a reflective disposition, for example. They've forgotten most of them meanness was not a tenth as motivated as the startup. But I realize now that they're not intrinsically jerks. You just weigh the alternatives and try to judge which is the prudent choice. At YC we use the term Collison installation for the technique they invented. And of course giant investments mean giant valuations. I was told, a lot of the earliest Pinterest users were interested in design, so he went to bed discontented, feeling he hadn't made enough progress.

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Popular dimensionality discount algorithms are Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis. Is it possible to check for the likelihood of improving model accuracy without cross-validation techniques? Boosting focuses on errors found in earlier iterations until they turn into out of date. This is why boosting is a more stable algorithm in comparison with different ensemble algorithms. This percentage error is kind of effective in estimating the error within the testing set and doesn't require additional cross-validation. SVM has a learning rate and expansion rate which takes care of this. The studying fee compensates or penalises the hyperplanes for making all of the wrong moves and growth fee deals with finding the utmost separation area between lessons.

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For instance, taking an evaluation from one area and applying it to a different can broaden the scope of a group member’s impact. Managers can enhance morale and productivity whereas liberating up time and sources for higher influence initiatives by killing low-impression projects, or higher but, not taking them on in the first place. Only the top few things that one does really moves the needle. As a result, most instances' impressions could be measured by the whole influence of the top few issues any particular person has achieved.

Being deliberate on the group construction for each present and future wants is invaluable. A supervisor ought to be involved in shaping product technique and imaginative and prescient, promoting ideas, and building consensus for the staff. A manager who is able to drive strategy using information will assist and elevate the performance itself. Senior managers are in a singular position to supervise multiple areas, so it's their accountability to understand how those areas are related and suggest strategic areas for enhancement. For instance, using data that shows engagement drives development and recommending increased content material manufacturing as a result is an instance of an information-knowledgeable strategy.

This is in contrast to GBM the place we have to run a grid-search and solely restricted values may be examined. XGBoost on the other hand makes splits up to the max_depth specified and then starts pruning the tree backwards and removing splits beyond which there isn't any positive acquisition. Handling Missing ValuesXGBoost has an in-constructed routine to handle lacking values.

We all know that the terminal node lies on the backside of the decision tree. This means that choice timber are typically drawn the other way up such that leaves are the bottom & roots are the tops . As we all know that each algorithm has advantages and downsides, below are the important components which one should know. Amazing article, a wonderful studying expertise for somebody who's beginning off on Machine Learning. I wish to verify if the answer for the query forty four is right.

We can store information on the complete network as a substitute of storing it in a database. It has the ability to work and provides great accuracy even with inadequate information.

They carry out some calculations after which pass along H_current. In the following iteration X_train.subsequent and H_current are used for extra calculations, and so forth. What makes them completely different from LSTMs is that GRUs don’t need the cell layer to pass values alongside.

There is a particular structure that enables alternating parallel updates which are rather more efficient (no connections within a layer, no skip-layer connections). This mini-batch procedure makes the updates of the Boltzmann machine more parallel.

Q7) We might enhance our mannequin by selecting the characteristic which supplies a greater prediction when we use it for splitting (It is a means of dividing a node into two or extra sub-nodes). We will take that value which is more representative of the data. Given all three options, central tendency, imply worth could be a greater match for the information. Outlet_Location_TypeItem_Outlet_SalesTier 13735.1380Tier 3443.4228Tier 12097.2700Tier 3732.3800Tier 3994.7052We will calculate RMSE to evaluate this model. We were not anticipating that as the primary 8 questions were comparatively simple and could be solved grounds up without too much knowledge about decision trees.

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