#please put it on youtube canal+

[petit-papillion]

has the canal documentary come out?? I saw some clip of charles playing with Leo but that's pretty much it ☹️

Thank you!

I've seen several clips as well. I think it aired after the GP yesterday, but not sure if it's available to watch on demand or whatever, as I can't get Canal+. Any French moots/followers who can chime in?

If you have Twitter, redvroomguy has a wonderful thread with some clips (+ translations) from the documentary, including Charles playing guitar and piano, recommending a restaurant to Carlos, eating pizza, and loads of snippets with Leo.

[mcufan72]

Sugar and Cinnamon

Loki x female reader/ 18+

Chapter 6

Chapter 5

Warnings: contains fluff, smut, sex, oral sex, angst, alcohol, soft!dom/sub vibes, jealousy, dirty talking. It's a very long chapter (~9.5k words) so please be prepared! Some of you asked for it and I delivered.

Note: the dancing scene came to my mind when I walked through Soho/London a few weeks ago. It's also inspired by the dancing scene from the movie "Last Night in Soho" and you can find it on YouTube, and this is the song Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith dance to... just to get a bit of the vibe ...and I couldn't resist to let MS make an appearance

I couldn't resist, my lovely @lokisprettygirl You already know that. Thanks for your help and for answering my special question and I sincerely hope I got it right...

This special part of the chapter is for you, my dearest (you'll know it when you read it)❤️🩷💚🤍

Loki couldn't remember the last time he felt that nervous and excited before an event. It must have been on Asgard when he was a young innocent prince, attending for the first time to a ball at the Asgardian Court, expected to dance with a princess for the very first time. He was delighted when Rhea sent him your confirmation for tonight's gala dinner and he looked forward to seeing you again. It wasn't even a real date, officially he booked you as his companion or as you were calling it, his arm candy. Nonetheless, he was grateful that you still wanted to spend time with him.

Dressed in black briefs after a relaxing bath which he took after returning from a run in Morris Canal Park, he stood in his closet and began to dress himself for the evening. For the gala dinner, he chose a black three-piece suit, perfectly tailored, excellently wrapping and emphasizing his muscular body. He combined it with a tight-fitting black shirt, and a dark-green tie which perfectly matched with the dark-green details of the waistcoat and the dark-green evening gown he gave to you, and finished his look with black leather shoes. He wished you would wear the dress tonight. He'd feel honoured. He had a further, little surprise for you. It was nothing special but he hoped you'd like it.

Nervous, nauseous, and excited. Three words to describe your condition. With trembling hands, you did your makeup and put on the dress. Why were you always so nervous when you had a date with Luke? You already slept with him so there was no need anymore to be nervous. You pulled your hair into a sleek tight bun like you always did, the knot high on your head this time. You'd prefer to wear your trainers but of course, you chose the elegant golden high heel sandals you had bought for events like these. They were just a further pair of beautiful little beasts but they perfectly rounded up the elegant design of the gown. You finished your look with the dark red lipstick and there she was: Sugar, ready to meet Luke. You grabbed your golden box clutch, studded with shimmering rhinestones, from the dresser and left your apartment, leaving all your problems behind. You wanted to enjoy this evening to the fullest. You deserved it, didn't you?

When you arrived at the event location, Luke was already waiting for you. Because of the evening darkness and the tinted car windows, you couldn't see what he was wearing but you were sure he would be the most handsome man tonight. He was always eye candy but for tonight he was your eye candy. Luke opened the door for you and offered you his hand helping you to get out of the limousine. You smiled brightly at him, happy to see him again. How could he look better every time you met him? He looked dashing in his tailored suit. Did his tie have the exact same colour as your evening gown? You found his attention to detail remarkable and adorable. What a man. What a wonderful, attentive man. Why wasn't he already taken? There must be a woman who would appreciate and want to be with a man like him.

Loki helped you to get out of the limousine and the first thing he saw were your beautiful legs and the elegant golden high heel sandals with the delicate straps on your feet. When you had left the car completely he smiled lovingly at you. You were wearing it, the evening gown he had chosen for you and you had no idea how happy you were making him. The evening gown hugged every curve of yours perfectly and the strong updo allowed an excellent view of your smooth neck and nearly bare back. You were so damn beautiful, and for tonight you were his and nobody would take you away from him.

“Good evening, Sugar. You look stunning in that dress. Absolutely gorgeous,” he gushed, one hand still hidden behind his back.

“And you look very dapper in your black suit. You're such a handsome man, Luke. And I like your tie, it looks gorgeous. I'm so happy to see you,” you complimented him.

“I hope I didn't overstep a boundary by sending you the evening gown. I just thought you might like it. Thank you for wearing it tonight. I feel extremely honoured,” and a hint of shyness appeared on his face.

“You didn't overstep, Luke. The dress is fantastic and I love it. It's perfect. You have an excellent taste for fashion. I don't deserve such a generous gift and I appreciate it. And also thanks for your lovely letter and I can assure you, I'm not mad at you. How could I, you don't owe me any excuse,” you explained to him sincerely.

His answer was a thankful smile and then he gave you what he had hidden behind his back. A little bouquet of multi-coloured wildflowers, tied together with a small green ribbon.

“Oh my god, Luke! Thank you! Thank you so much…how beautiful,” and your eyes teared up. You've gotten a lot of bouquets from some of your clients but none of them compared to this one. You never got a bouquet as pretty as this. You were sure he had poured his heart into it.

“Did you pick the flowers yourself?”, and you caressed the flowers.

“I did. I collected them in Morris Canal Park. I hope you like them,” he told you and you recognised a bit of shyness in his gaze.

“No man had ever done this for me. Thank you, Luke,” you whispered and pressed the flowers gently to your cleavage. You wanted to hug him but you didn't dare do it.

“It's nothing special but I…”

“Don't underestimate the beauty of self-picked flowers…and they are special. They're special to me because they're from you and I love them,” you interrupted him. You didn't want the flowers to wither and so you gave them to Walker who promised you to take care of them.

Loki felt like a little boy, trying to impress his first crush. He had never expected this cute reaction. He could've impressed you with a giant bouquet of roses but it seemed you appreciated the wildflowers more than any rose or lily he could've bought for you. You were amazing. How could you still be without a loving man by your side? You were so adorable… and naughty as well. A perfect combination.

“Shall we go in?” and as the gentleman he was, he offered you his arm.

“Yes, I'd love that!” and you two entered the location.

Loki introduced you to some of his business partners and finally, he wanted to introduce you to the host of the evening, Mr.Smith, who was still in a conversation. But he had already made eye contact with you. And then you understood what Rhea meant when she said, he's an attractive man. He wasn't a classic beautiful man but he definitely had an extremely charming aura. Almost as tall as Luke, he was lean but bulkier, had dark blonde hair and a sly smile which gave him something boyish and devious but in a very sympathetic way. His green deep-set eyes were sparkling with mischief and fun, and they had nearly the same stare as Luke's. The way he moved, spoke and behaved could captivate everyone under his spell. His elegant black tux and black bow tie perfectly rounded up his impressive appearance. You were sure a lot of women wouldn't say ‘no’ to him and your gaze wandered to an Indian beauty in an amazing black lehenga dress. This absolutely beautiful and elegant three-piece ensemble consisted of the actual lehenga, a long ankle-length and voluminous skirt, embellished with golden intricate embroidery, the choli, a well-fitted blouse top which emphasized her perfectly formed torso and the dupatta, a scarf which she had draped around her stunning outfit. Her waist-length and nearly black hair shimmered like black velvet and cascaded over her back, her big and sparkling dark-brown eyes were the most beautiful eyes you had ever seen. She was such a stunning eye-catcher and you didn't miss how Mr Smith looked at her from time to time. You knew that kind of gaze very well, not just from your clients and every time their gazes met, they both quickly looked away. It was kind of adorable. One might think he was totally smitten by the Indian beauty and nobody could blame him for this, she was one of the most beautiful women at tonight's gala.

“I don't like the way he looks at you,” Loki growled quietly.

“Do I hear some jealousy in your voice, Mr.Larsson?” you teased him. You didn't want to annoy him, you just wanted to see his reaction. You didn't want him to fall in love with you, he paid for your company but nonetheless you wanted him to desire you. You knew that was weird but tonight you were just his, and he was just yours, right?

“What? No, of course not! You're my escort, not my wife,” he frowned, pressing his lips firmly together, his jaw clenching.

“No, I'm not your wife. A pity, actually,” you teased him further and he side-eyed you, the expression on his face unreadable.

At this moment Mr Smith ended his conversation and came over to you two.

“What a beautiful sight at my friend's side… good evening, Miss…?

“...Black, I'm Miss Black,” you greeted him and he took your hand in his and gave a brief kiss to your knuckles.

“You look gorgeous, Miss Black, a further sparkling diamond at my party,” his deep-settled eyes staring flirtatious into yours and a sexy smile curved one corner of his mouth. He grabbed a glass of champagne from a waiter, who passed by with a tablet of filled champagne glasses, and gave it to you.

“Thank you for completing me, Mr Smith,” and you took the offered glass of champagne from his hand. “It's a pleasure to meet you,” you responded tantalizingly and held his gaze.

“The pleasure is all mine, Miss Black and I hope you enjoy the evening. Eat, drink, dance and have fun,” he encouraged you and he turned towards Loki. Mr.Smith was such a player, a sexy lad, you've already sensed that.

“Luke, my old friend, what a pleasure to have you here. I hope you enjoy the evening,” and he shook Loki's hand and placed his other hand amicably on Loki's shoulder.

“Matt, it is a pleasure to meet you, as always and thank you for the invitation," he answered, slightly annoyed and both appraisingly staring into each other's eyes. After a short conversation, Mr.Smith left to order a drink for himself at the bar.

You sensed the tension in Luke's shoulders and you suppressed a grin. He was a bit possessive over you, wasn't he? Since you worked as an escort lady, you were used to a man’s behaviour like Mr.Smith’s. You did everything to get these reactions, through clothes, style, and attitude because every man you saw could become your client. But all of this was a costume, a mask. That wasn't you. Luke would never want you or even like the woman and her problems, who were hidden behind that mask. The woman behind all the makeup and the dark-red lipstick. The woman who called herself ‘Sugar’.

“He was just being polite, and there's nothing wrong about it. He's interested in someone else so, relax Luke, he really was just being nice,” and he side-eyed you again, with raised eyebrows.

He was just being nice? Interested in someone else? You were a head-turner, an eye-catcher tonight and he just saw this guy lustfully staring at you and the only thing he could think about was that no man should ever chase after a girl on a friend’s turf. He saw you taking a sip of champagne, turning your head and grinning at him.

Between the main courses and the serving of the desserts was a pause so that everyone could take a short walk, have some drinks at the bar or enter the dance floor. Shortly before Loki wanted to ask you to dance with him, Mr.Smith came back to you, a glass of bourbon in his hand. With the biggest mischievous smirk on his face, he addressed Loki with a question.

“Would you allow me to dance with your charming companion?”

“You don't have to ask me. You have to ask the lady,” he said to Matt, giving him a fake smile.

“I think I should allow our host of the evening to dance with me, shouldn't I, Luke?” and Mr.Smith took you by your hand.

You would never understand why you had fun annoying Luke and where your self-confidence came from. Why did you want to provoke a reaction from him? And what kind of reaction did you expect? You didn't understand yourself anymore. Did you expect him to fight for his right to dance with you because he paid you for your company? You knew that Mr Smith just wanted to provoke a reaction from that gorgeous-looking Indian lady his eyes had been glued to for over several hours now. He couldn't fool you.

“I'm on to you, Mr. Smith but…Let's play a little game," you said to him while he led you to the dance floor. “But don't you dare play with her, she likes you,” you warned him.

“What do you mean, Miss Black?” He tried to play ignorant.

“Mr.Smith, don't fool me. I just dance with you when you spend the rest of the evening with her and dance with her only,” you answered demandingly, smiling at him.

“Her? Who is ‘her’?”

“The beautiful lady in the black lehenga.”

“I don't dare ask her. I'm sure she doesn't find me pretty enough, not good enough for her.”

“Then you probably should stop eye-fucking each other all evening… it's pretty obvious that you like her… and she likes you,” and you sensed he felt caught.

“Likewise,” he mocked you, "Mr Larsson is eye-fucking you as well, so… you two are not any better than us. It's obvious how possessive he's over you,” and he crowned his statement with a smug smile.

“I see we're speaking the same language, Mr.Smith. Get your girl, she likes you more than you think and believe me, you are very attractive and charming,” you tried to convince him.

“Thank you for saying that, you're very kind...And you go and get your man before he combusts with jealousy… he's addicted to you. And by the way, call me Matt.”

Before you could answer anything the music started to play and Matt began to dance with you.

“You're not his girlfriend, are you?” And he twirled you around.

“What makes you think I'm not?” you asked when you faced him again.

“Don't get me wrong, you're beautiful and charming but he's more the type for fake dating, he never wants to be connected to someone or be close to someone, nonetheless…,” you danced several steps away from him and twirled back into his arm, “…he's undressing you with his eyes,” and he twirled you around again and when you danced face to face again, he held you by your midriff, swaying to the rhythm.

“Why does it bother you? You should mind your own business, Matt. And to be very clear, I'll never date you, it'll always be him and you better take care of the Indian beauty over there. You should really ask her to dance with you … I'm not the one that you want,” you said kindly.

“Yeah, you might be right. I think if Luke is addicted to your personality and not just your body, then he may be falling for you.”

“I think we shouldn't play cruel games with them. We both have what we want, both are furious with jealousy. We should redeem them from their suffering, shouldn't we?” you suggested.

“You're an amazing woman, Miss Black, no man can fool you, indeed.”

“Not in this case, I guess, and… you can call me Candy,” you responded and with that the song ended, your dance was over and you both left the dance floor, walking towards Loki who was waiting for you with an annoyed expression on his face.

That was it. That was the reason why he hated it that you worked as an escort. Other men touching you, lustfully looking at you, dancing with you the tantalizing way Matt just did… This guy was too close, his hand too low on your back, his gaze at you too intimate. Loki fumed with jealousy. All those men didn't deserve you. He didn't deserve you either but he must do something to get you out of the escort business and he better not run out of ideas.

“Thank you for this nice conversation and the dance, Matt,” you thanked him with a bright smile.

“The pleasure was all mine, Candy. Thank you very much for telling me about your opinion and enjoy the rest of the evening.” Loki looked unbelievingly back and forth between you two, frowning.

“Relax, mate, she talked about you only,” Matt said to Loki, patted his shoulder and walked over to the bar.

“Candy? What?” Loki was confused.

“It's my second name, don't think about it further…oh and you can relax, Matt is off the market, he's no competition for you. He never was,” you smiled defiantly at him, clearly feeling the tension in his body. When the next song started, you saw Matt entering the dance floor with the Indian lady. ‘What a beautiful couple,’ you thought and smiled.

You could be such a bratty girl. You did it on purpose, didn't you? You had forbidden him to fall in love with you but you didn't hesitate to tease him like this? Maybe he should give you a proper and all-devouring kiss, here and now so that you and everyone else know, you belong to him. No, no he should not do that. You didn't belong to him. You were your own person and you could do whatever you wanted to do. But he had enough. He grabbed you by your upper arm and pulled you with him into an undisturbed, dark corner and pressed you with his whole body against the wall, breathing heavily.

“What are you thinking you're doing here, hm? Teasing me like that, here in public? Want me to fuck against the wall? Now? Hard, quick, deep?”

“Maybe? You wanted to show me pleasure…”

“You're such a tease. You in that dress… have you any idea what you're doing to me?”

“You wanted me to wear it…”

“Oh yes, because I knew how amazingly sexy you would look in it. And I wanted you to be one of the most gorgeous-looking women tonight because you deserve it. And I'm proud to be the man by your side,” he growled softly.

“Why didn't you want to dance with me? You let him dance with me but don't demand your right to a dance from me? You pay for me and my services. Why don't you force me to do my job?” you asked him quietly, still caged between him and the wall.

“I don't chase, I attract and to make myself very clear, I won't force you to do anything!” His voice dropped to subzero temperatures, dryer than gin.

“And believe me, Sugar, the kind of dance I'm thinking of, is not meant for the dance floor. All you have to do is ask me.”

“You can ask me the same question, I'm your escort, you pay for me, you can possibly demand it from me,” you provoked him further, a tantalizing smile on your lips.

“I'd never do that. I'd never force you. I'm still not sure if you want to do it at all so you'll have to be the one to ask!”

There it was again. He tried to give you the feeling that you were the centre of everything, that he was there to please you, not the other way around. You grabbed his tie and pulled his face closer to yours.

“I want to sleep with you, I want to make it up to you, I want to erase my mistake. I want you to play with me. And I want to try new things,” you whispered, your lips slightly brushing his earlobe, making him shiver. “Play with me, I allow you to kiss my whole body, if you want to, except my face,” you offered him sweetly.

“So you allow me to play with you? Are you sure?”

“Yes, show me pleasure, Luke. Show me how to give in to you, show me how to do it right. I won't disappoint you again,” you promised him.

“I'll do whatever you want and whatever you allow me to do. You won't regret it and believe me, you did nothing wrong or disappointed me,” and he pressed a gentle kiss on the soft flesh of your throat, his hand caressing the part of your naked thigh where the gown had the slit. Your hands clasped his shoulders and you felt his muscles tensing. You lifted the leg he was caressing and hooked it around his waist. He immediately pressed his hips against your throbbing core and you felt his cock hardening.

“We should stop doing this, Luke. We don't want to cause attention, do we? We should continue our ‘dance’ in the hotel suite later,” you moaned faintly.

“You have a valid point there. I don't want anyone to look at you while I tear you apart,” and he gave your butt a gentle squeeze. You felt so good in his arms, too good.

You giggled like a schoolgirl and loosened yourself from his lustful grip, took him by his hand and intertwined your fingers with his. It felt so familiar as if he were your lover, not your client.

“Let's get something to drink. And I need to sit down somewhere…my feet…”

“…are killing you. The little beasts, right?”

“Yeah, sorry. I shouldn't complain so much.”

“It's alright, sweet thing. We'll drink something and you can put your aching feet on my thighs if you want… underneath the table, of course. No one has to see it,” and he winked at you.

“You're adorable, Luke. I don't deserve it. Come, I need a cool beverage now… and…”

“…a dessert, yeah. I already know that. Sometimes I think it's the only reason why you escort me to dinner events,” he joked and teased you and he got a heartwarming laughter from you. You were so devastatingly beautiful when you were laughing. He shouldn't allow himself the feeling but you grew on him more and more.

“You might be right, Mr.Larsson,” was the only thing you could answer him. Desserts were definitely your weakness.

On your way to the dining area, you saw Matt and his beautiful Indian lady heavily making out in another dark corner of the location, both completely melting into each other's arms and forgetting the world around them.

“Shhhh,” you gestured to Luke, “we don't want to disturb them” and you both sneaked silently past them. You couldn't deny that you wouldn't mind Luke Larsson kissing you the same way Matt kissed his girl but unfortunately … you'd never kiss a client.

“I don't like desserts. I don't have a sweet tooth.” Loki complained when you both sat at a dining table to eat some dessert, sitting opposite to each other.

“Who doesn't like desserts? I still don't get it. It's the best thing about a meal. The culmination of every menu… sweet and a melting pleasure on the tongue…,” you gushed.

“I hate it, okay!”

“No, you don't!”

“I do!”

“No, you don't!”

“I do...mpffhh…” and you shoved a spoonful of chocolate mousse with cream into his mouth before he could speak further nonsense. The delightful glance in his eyes when the taste buds of his tongue were pleasantly surprised by the dark chocolate, told you otherwise. A blissful moan rumbled in his throat, making you smile.

“As I said. You don't hate desserts,” you stated knowingly.

“You forced me to eat it!” He frowned and pouted, licking the last droplets of mousse from his lips. “Can I have some more?” He whispered, barely audible to you.

“What did you say?” You mocked him.

“Can I have some more, please?”

“I'm sorry, it was the last one on the buffet… Well, you shouldn't be too disappointed that you can't have more, Luke, because you hate desserts, right?” A mischievous grin curved your lips.

“Hm!” He pouted and crossed his arms in front of his chest, trying to avoid showing his disappointment. “It's not as bad as I thought it would be… but, yeah you're right. I still hate it.”

You chuckled silently and recognised how cute he was at that moment. Trying hard to hold on to his opinion about desserts and not to show you how much he truly liked it after tasting it. Gosh, he was so adorable.

“You can tell me that you've changed your opinion about desserts. It's nothing to be ashamed of. And we can share my chocolate mousse if you want,” you told him softly.

“I appreciate it, Sugar, thanks. Enjoy your chocolate mousse. Come, place your foot on my thigh, sweet thing,” and you did.

Loki opened the straps of your sandal, took it off your foot, placed it on the free chair next to him and began to massage your aching foot and the toes tenderly but with the right amount of gentle pressure.

“Gosh, that feels so good,” you sighed blissfully and enjoyed his tender hand kneading your foot for several minutes.

“Now the other foot,” he said and gave it the same attention and care as he did with your other foot. You moaned blissfully again and the way Luke glanced at you was arousing you. When his fingers massaged around your ankle, you jumped at the opportunity rubbing your foot over his crotch and you felt him getting hard. You looked enticing at him and his pupils dilated with arising lust.

“You're such a bratty girl,” and he pressed a thumb into your bunion, hitting the right spot. You hissed lustfully and a dull throb in your core made you feel all giddy.

“Shall we leave for the hotel?” You asked him and he just nodded. He came over to you and gave you your shoes and when you put the first sandal on he bent down on one knee and fastened the straps.

“Luke, please, get up. I can do this on my own,” you begged him vehemently. He wasn't your servant and he certainly did not have to do this.

“You wear this torturous footwear for me so helping you with your shoes is a bare minimum,” he declared.

You stood up from your chair and stood close to him. He leaned into you and you put your hand on his shoulder. Your cheek gently touched his cheek when you whispered a soft “Thank you” into his ear.

Your closeness and your scent intoxicated him. His one hand wrapped automatically around your middle and pulled you closer to him. The way you gave in to his movement without any hesitation came so naturally that he immediately felt wanted. He couldn't believe that you were just pretending to want him. But it was maybe just your art of seduction and your magic allure that blurred his mind and made him succumb to you.

When you arrived at the hotel and finally in the same suite as the last time, you both didn't waste any time. You quickly prepared the things you needed to be prepared and put your kimono and a lace bra on the backrest of the chair. The purpose of being here again was more than clear. Loki took his jacket off, as well as the waistcoat and the tie. He would need the tie later. He opened his shirt completely but let the hem stay in the waistband of his trousers. He took a seat in the armchair and spread his long legs wide.

You stood opposite him, getting off of your high-heeled sandals and watching him getting partly undressed and taking a seat in the leather armchair, his shirt completely open. Every muscle in his arms and thighs and torso was flexing and relaxing while doing it and it sent a shiver down your spine and directly to your cunt. When there was one thing you hated, that disgusted you to the core, it was men sitting with wide-spread legs. Normally it disgusted you but Loki doing it did something to you, you had never expected. It aroused you, you wanted to sit on his lap or … humping one of his beautiful, muscled thighs. God, if you didn't shove those thoughts away immediately you would've turned into a wanton whore sooner than you thought. Nonetheless, you couldn't stop staring at his prominent bulge. This man was too sexy. His whole body screamed sex.

“Do you like what you see?" he teased you, an arrogant grin on his face while slowly rolling up the sleeves of his shirt.

"W…what?"

“I asked, do you like what you see?” And he placed his now bare forearms on the armrest of the armchair again, his long fingers curling around the ends.

“I hate it when a guy sits like a man whore.” Loki chuckled darkly, smugness written all over his face.

“You like it!”

“I hate it,” you murmured.

“Liar! Come here, Sugar!” Loki pronounced every single word, his voice deep and rich.

You looked at him and a smirk appeared at the corner of your mouth. You shook your head lightly and rolled your eyes. You wanted him to play with you and the game had already started. You both were all in.

“Come.Here.” His voice dropped to subzero temperatures. Harsh, cold as if he could freeze the whole room into an ice cave.

A shiver ran down your spine again and you obeyed. You walked slowly toward him until you stood between his spread thighs. You stared down at him, his ocean-blue eyes glancing up and down between your eyes, your lips and your cleavage. You wanted to be cool and collected but you couldn't help the wetness between your thighs drenching your lace underwear. Why was he able to cause such arousal in your body? It was just sex. A sex appointment. A date, set by your escort agency. A consensual sex date to get some steam off. Just a natural need that you and he wanted to satisfy.

“Strip off your dress,” he commanded seductively.

You obeyed again. You loved to be told what to do next. Since when? You reached behind your back to pull the zipper down but had some struggle finding it.

“Could you please unzip me?” And you slowly turned around. You couldn't see him but you felt his gaze wandering up to your shoulders and down to your buttocks where his eyes remained for a moment.

He could smell you. The subtle scent of your perfume, the natural scent of your skin and the heavy, beguiling scent of your arousal.

“You're outrageously beautiful, Sugar,” he murmured and pulled your zipper slowly down. It was the most arousing sound you had heard for a long time. He was so close to you and you felt his breath fanning over your skin. You let your green dream of a dress slide down your shoulders and it pooled around your ankles and you stepped out of it, kicking it carefully aside.

Slowly he let his hands slide over your shoulders and flanks to your front and cupped your naked breasts carefully, teasing your nipples with his thumbs, making you sigh and moan. A warm tingling rushed through your veins but a coolness rushed over your skin as if a god would touch a mortal to make said mortal shiver in submission.

“Get your bra,” he whispered to your ear, nibbling at the soft skin of your neck. You did as he told you and he took the flimsy lace bra from your hand, put it on you, and closed the clasp of your bra. From the last time, he remembered that you felt better leaving your bra on. And he wanted you to feel comfortable.

“Am I still allowed to play with you?” He asked quietly.

“Yes, yes you are,” you whispered and turned around to face him.

Loki made some steps backwards, sat down again in the leather armchair, leaned back and spread his long legs wide.

Loki's heartbeat quickened and his mouth watered when he saw you in your tantalizing black lingerie. The flimsy lace bra emphasized your cleavage and cupped your breasts perfectly. Your peaked rosy nipples were on display for him through the transparent lace and he felt his cock throbbing with anticipation. He was on edge and he would've loved to take you instantly, roughly, thrusting his cock deep inside of you until you were a dripping mess, screaming his name. But he wanted to take his time with you, enjoy you, seduce you slowly till you were begging him to fuck you. And he would make sure you never needed to fake an orgasm again. With him, every orgasm of yours would be a real one. He would take good care of it and he wanted you to enjoy it to the fullest without feeling ashamed or bad.

“How do you want me?” You asked him softly, your lips slightly parted. Your plump lips drove him crazy. He wished he were allowed to kiss these beautiful lips of yours. He could just imagine how deliciously they must taste.

“I want you to suck my dick. I want you to suck and lick it extensively,” he demanded, testing you. How far would you allow him to go? The imagination alone of your lips wrapped around his cock made him harden.

“Okay. But you won't cum in my mouth. I don't like swallowing your sperm. You can cum over my breasts…and don't hit my face!”

“With that I can deal,” Loki answered darkly.

You didn't like sucking cock at all and the last time you completely ruled it out. Not to talk about swallowing sperm. But it seemed possible to suck him, this handsome guy and you wondered why. You told him you wanted to try new things and so you wanted to give it a try.

You knelt between his thighs, unbuckled his belt and opened his trousers. You reached into his briefs and pulled out his dick along with his balls. Loki moaned quietly and you could just let out a small gasp when you saw his erection. You saw his cock for the first time tonight because the first time when he slept with you, he had blindfolded you before he got rid of his clothes. Loki was a bit bigger down there than the other men you had had sex with. And his cock was… beautiful, pretty even. Perfectly formed in length and thickness, his tip swollen and leaking pre-cum, the veins on the underside pulsating in anticipation, his balls heavy and hot. Your mouth watered and you couldn't wait to suckle him. You had never expected to think about a guy's cock like you did right here and now.

“Am I allowed to place my hands on your thighs?”

Loki hesitated for a moment before he permitted you to do so. If he lost control, nothing would be noticeable there for you. And he still wasn't sure if he was able to stand your touch. But he gave it a try.

“Yes,” he moaned, and you placed your hands there.

You lowered your head and licked a stripe from base to tip. Torturously slow. Once, twice, then you took his cock head gently into your mouth and let your tongue swirl over and around his sensitive tip. You released him with a plop and licked your lips. He tasted so good. Sweet and salty and you craved for more. You gave him a devouring look and turned your attention to his balls. With your hand, you gave him light strokes while you kissed and sucked his balls and when you bit them gently, Loki whimpered loudly. His cock got rock-hard, aching for your warm mouth. How could he even get harder than he already was?

His scent intoxicated you. The smell of musk and the natural scent of his skin, manly and heavy, awoke a kind of lust in your body that you didn't know you had inside of you. Unbridled, initial desire. You were dripping wet and you weren't sure if you were already soaking the floor with your juices.

His breathing became heavier, filled with whimpers and moans. Loki was so turned on that he nearly forgot to blindfold you.

“Should we get you more comfortable, Luke? Lift your ass for me,” you asked him quietly and pulled his trousers and his briefs completely down and took them off completely. While his ass wasn't placed back on the armchair again you took the chance and you caressed his buttocks and kneaded them firmly. Loki sat down again but now he rather laid in the armchair than sit on it so you were able to continue cupping his ass cheeks in your hands and kneading them tenderly. You started to lick his cock again and he gently blindfolded you with his tie.

You flattened your tongue and licked his tip like a popsicle, stimulating his frenulum tenderly but firmly, testing the waters of what he might like. You didn't want to hurt him. Your one hand fondled his balls, carefully and tenderly scratching over the skin. Loki moaned and sighed heavily, writhing under your merciless but delicious torture. You took his unbelievingly hard cock into your mouth again, hollowed your cheeks and started to suck the life out of him.

“Fuck…Sugar I can't…I can't take it…much longer,” he whimpered.

You sped up your pace, your head bobbing up and down in a steady rhythm, sucking and licking him until his eyes fluttered shut, his head leaning back against the armchair's backrest, his fingers clawing into the armrest. You felt him tensing up and shivers ran through his body and you were sure he would come soon. His arousal and writhing and the way he allowed you to own him in this moment made your cunt throbbing and dripping with need. You wanted to get off as well, you never felt so needy before. Never before was any other man able to do this to you.

“I'm…fuck…I'm coming…fuck…,” and he withdrew his cock from your mouth instantly, grabbed his cock and stroked himself two more times. The coil in his lower abdomen snapped and a mind-blowing orgasm washed over him, and he ejaculated in thick ropes all over your breasts. The sight of you blindfolded and letting him come all over your precious bosom doubled his satisfaction.

“Luke…please…” You didn't know what you were begging for but the feeling of his warm sperm running down your cleavage made your head spin. You still knelt between his legs, still blindfolded and dying because of arousal, your clit throbbing and yearning for attention. Loki came slowly down from his high, his cock still hard.

“Come here sweet thing,” and he grabbed you carefully by your upper arms and pulled you onto his lap.

“You took me so well, you're talented, sweet thing. You know exactly what you do, don't you? And now you will get off on my thigh, sweet girl. Want to ride my thigh, hm? Rub your needy clit over my leg and drench me with your arousal. Come, sweet thing, drive me wild…” he moaned lasciviously, guiding your hips when you began to gyrate them back and forth to get the friction to work yourself to much-needed relief. You placed your hands on the backrest of the armchair, your forehead close to his. You felt the warmth of an orgasm rising in your stomach and you moaned and whimpered breathlessly. It felt heavenly, he felt heavenly. And these feelings were all you had because you were still blindfolded. You were already on edge when Loki took one of your peaked nipples into his mouth, suckling and nipping it through the thin lace of your bra.

“Oh god…please…” you moaned. You needed to cum. Now. But Loki stopped your gyrating movements by holding your hips firmly.

“You will come around my cock, sweet thing. No fake orgasm this time, Sugar!”

“Close…I'm so close…please…”

“I know, I'll let you cum, be patient, sweet thing and don't move,” and you heard how he unfoiled a condom. Mere seconds later he lifted you from his thigh, shoved your lace thong aside and slid you carefully down onto his fully erect length, giving you enough time to accommodate his cock and get adjusted to him. He didn't want to hurt you. He would never forgive himself if he would cause you any kind of pain. You whimpered because of how deliciously he stretched and filled you and you were still in desperate need to cum.

“Are you okay, Sugar?” He asked quietly and concernedly. “Can I move?”

“Yes …yes please, I need you,” you answered desperately.

“Good girl, taking me so well. Fuck… you're so pretty…so tight…you've such a pretty cunt.”

Loki guided your movements, made you hop up and down and when you both had found a comfortable rhythm he thrust firmly upwards, faster, deeper, hitting your inner spot at a perfect angle. He took your nipple in his mouth again, nipping, sucking and licking it until it couldn't get any harder and changed to your other breast to torture that nipple in the same delicious way. At this point, you were a moaning, whimpering mess. You felt his cock throbbing inside of you, every vein and ridge massaging you straight towards your climax. It had never felt that good.

“Cum, cum all over my cock, show me how much you want it, Sugar. Scream for me!” And his one hand reached down to your throbbing clit and he pinched and rubbed your swollen bud purposefully. His thrusts became sloppier, he felt his own orgasm rising and he rubbed your clit faster than before.

“Cum…fuck…cum for me…now…” and right on cue you exploded. Your orgasm was intense and not only your cunt but also your whole body was convulsing and shaking and your toes curling.

“Good girl…you're such a…good girl.” Loki's abdominal muscles tensed up, his body shaking when he felt your walls clenching around his cock and it made him orgasm harder than before. You collapsed against each other, bathing in post-orgasmic bliss. This time you didn't fake it. This time you truly had an orgasm and it felt good, so damn good. For both of you.

When you came down from your highs you both chuckled in unison and Loki removed the blindfold from your eyes. They needed a moment to adjust to the dimmed lights of the hotel room again and you could swear there was a light shimmer of blue on Loki's skin. But then you were sure you had just imagined it and blamed the blindfolding for it.

“I'm sorry. I made a big mess out of you,” Loki chuckled.

“Don't worry about it, Luke Larsson. I'll take a shower after you've left. But we still have some time until midnight.” You released his cock, stood up from his lap and you instantly missed the warm feeling of him inside of you. You were still a little weak in your knees.

“Did you enjoy it this time, Sugar?” Loki asked you softly.

“The more important thing is you enjoyed it,” you answered him smilingly.

“That's not the answer to my question, sweets.”

“Why do men always need the confirmation that they were good and are a grenade in the bedroom department?” You contered sarcastically.

“That wasn't my question either. I don't need confirmation that…”

“You're being very self-confident, aren't you? Do we have a god-complex, Mr.Larsson?”

“Why do you have to destroy it, Sugar? I just wanted to know if you enjoyed it and if you're okay.” Loki sounded disappointed and sad and you instantly regretted your rude answer and your behaviour genuinely. You were afraid of your feelings again. You saw him heading for the bathroom and heard him opening the faucet of the sink. You followed him. He was cleaning himself, tossing the condom into the bin and preparing a washcloth with warm water. You stood next to him, facing him in the mirror.

“I'm sorry, Luke. I didn't intend to be mean. I did enjoy it. It felt good, really. I'm just not used to getting so much attention and care afterwards, you know. But please, Luke…don't catch feelings for me. I'm just your escort.” You smiled mildly at him. Your heart clenched when you saw how sad he looked at you. You liked him more than you were ready to admit.

“No worries about that. I won't catch feelings for you, Sugar.” A lie, a perfect lie from a perfect liar. That was what he always has been and always will be, a liar.

“I just wanted you to feel comfortable around me.” And he turned towards you, the washcloth in his hand. You wanted to take it out of his hand to clean your cleavage and stomach from his now sticky seed but he didn't give it to you.

“Let me do this, sweet thing. It's the one thing I'd like to do for you,” and he began to gently clean you. His actions were so soft and caring. You wished you could have this tenderness every day. But not with anyone, no, it had to be him.

'Don't fall in love with him, just don't, you foolish girl' you cursed inwardly.

“I destroyed your lingerie. I'm sorry for that. You looked so tempting and sexy in it, and it was wonderful to have sex with you dressed in this hot lace.”

“A bit kinky, hmm? Lingerie, a blindfold, commanding me…” you stated and smiled.

“Watch your mouth, sweet thing. Don't be a brat.”

“What if I'm bratty? Will you punish me next time?”

You both chuckled and looked into each other's eyes. There weren't only mischievous and lusty thoughts. There was something else. Sympathy, harmony, trust. You two didn't know how or why but you felt drawn to each other.

“Well, the biggest mess got cleaned,” Loki said after he finally cleaned you from his seed and smiled at you.

“Thank you! That was very sweet and thoughtful of you,” you said gratefully.

“My pleasure!" He answered with his deep voice, wrapping around you like a soft blanket. You wished you had a boyfriend like him. Attentive, affectionate and gentle. And not only in a sexual way. With a boyfriend like him, you surely haven't ended up here, as an escort with a man you liked more than you were allowed to like, not to talk about you weren't allowed to fall in love with. You made these rules yourself and you would never break them. Anyway, a man like him would never want to have someone like you as his partner in life. Why should he choose you when he could have any other woman who was smarter, more beautiful and more decent than you? Under different circumstances, you two might have had a chance but now your life was fucked up. You wished you would've met him before you became an escort but it was what it was and you couldn't turn back the time.

You walked back to the main room, took on your kimono and climbed into the bed. You curled up on one side and pulled the duvet over you.

“Are you okay, sweet thing?” Loki asked you softly when he found you lying in bed under the sheets when he returned to the main room as well, dressed in his briefs and his open shirt.

“Mhmh…,” you murmured sleepily. “I'm just tired.”

Loki climbed onto the bed, leaning his torso against the cushions on the headboard. You looked so innocent and cute with your head snuggled deeply into the fluffy pillows. He watched you dozing and he smiled lovingly at you.

“I'll stay until midnight if it's okay for you,” he whispered and you nodded slightly. It made him smile again. He hated cuddling after sex and cuddling without sex even more. But suddenly you came closer and in your sleepy state you draped your leg over his, curled your hand around his waist and your head snuggled into his chest as if he was a damn comfy pillow or a plushie. A sugar angel sleeping in the arms of a monster. He shouldn't enjoy it. He shouldn't touch you. His hands were the hands of a killer, a liar. Hands that fit easily around a gun or a neck. He shouldn't hold a precious woman like you in his embrace.

He wrapped his arm tightly around you and pulled you closer to his chest. You must've fallen asleep, your breathing became calm and deep. You felt so soft and warm and good in his arms and he stole a little kiss by pressing his lips softly on the top of your head. It wasn't a direct part of your face, was it? He closed his eyes for just one short moment because he had to leave soon but he wanted to enjoy every minute he had with you. Maybe aftercare wasn't as bad as he probably thought.

A loud banging at the hotel suite’s door and a loud man’s voice woke him up.

“Sugar? Sugar!” The banging became more violent. “Sugar, are you okay? Sugar, open the door, if not I'll have to break down the door.” It was Walker, deeply concerned because you hadn't been back by the limousine right in time. You also hadn't sent an emergency message. Loki shook you awake when he got aware that you both had fallen asleep.

“Sugar, wake up, Sugar…,” Loki tried to wake you up.

“I'm so tired…I just want…to sleep. Just… a few minutes…just a bit longer…,” you murmured, still sleepy when you heard the banging at the door.

“Sugar, I break the door open! Now!”

All of a sudden you were wide awake. You jumped out of the bed and ran to the door hurriedly. You flung the door open right in time before Walker would break it down.

“I'm okay, Walker, I'm okay,” you gasped in shock, breathing heavily. “Everything is fine,” you told Walker, appeasing.

“Are you sure?” Walker asked concernedly. He peeked into the suite and saw Loki getting dressed.

“Yes, I'm absolutely sure, Walker. I'm so sorry for frightening you but…we…we fell asleep. Mr.Larsson did nothing wrong, I assure you, he behaved decently,” you told Walker and he trusted you. You'd tell him if there was anything that wasn't okay for you. “Please give us a few minutes, we will just get ready,” you asked him.

“Okay, I'll wait for you by the limousine,” Walker answered, throwing a warning look at Loki, who didn't show any reaction towards Walker. You nodded once at Walker and closed the door, leaning against it and taking a deep breath.

“Didn't you tell me, you don't do aftercare?” you questioned Luke teasingly and slightly laughing.

“I did.”

“Do you know what it's called what you did for me in the bathroom and by lying in bed with me sleeping?”

Loki buttoned his shirt upwards, leaving the last three open, buckled his belt, put his waistcoat on, slid into his shoes and looked smilingly at you.

“You tell me,” he asked you and grabbed his jacket from the sofa and his tie from the armchair and draped them over his arm.

“The loveliest aftercare I've ever gotten. Thank you, Luke… also for this wonderful evening, the dress and…”

Loki walked towards you and cupped your head gently between his large hands. They were so soft and felt comfortably cool on your warm skin, that you had to suppress a shiver. He leaned down and pressed a tender, featherlight kiss to your forehead and you closed your eyes.

“No, Luke, please…please don't do that …,” you whispered with teary eyes.

“I know I'm not allowed to kiss your pretty face but I care about you and I want you to know that. I know you could call Walker immediately and tell him to beat me up and throw me out… but it's worth the risk.”

He leaned his forehead slightly against yours and his warm breath fanned over your face. And there it was again. The spicy aroma of something you couldn't specify mixed with his comforting scent of fresh cotton, sandalwood and orange blossoms.

“I just hope that all the other men you meet handle you with all the respect and care you deserve. Thank you for this wonderful evening and night, sweet thing. It was such a pleasure. I felt very comfortable with you. When can we meet again? What about tomorrow?” Loki asked, his voice dark and smooth. He was a picture of pure elegance and arrogance but also gentleness, and his eyes staring longingly at you while waiting for your answer. Would you ever be able to be without him?

“I'm sorry Luke. I already have appointments for the next three evenings.”

“Okay. Then I call the agency tomorrow and ask for another date with you. A club night? Dinner? Would you like that?” He asked you softly.

“Uh hmmh! Sounds good.” You seemed insecure and indifferent but he didn't ask you further.

“Good night, Sugar and take care of you.”

“Good night, Luke… and sleep well.”

Should you hug him? Should you tell him that he's the only one you were sleeping with? Did he already sense it? He had almost left the suite…

“Luke…”,you stopped him in his actions by calling his name and he turned around, facing you. You ran to him and fiercely flung your arms around his neck which obviously caught him off guard. He hugged you back, not knowing what to say.

“Luke Larsson, you might be the only one I take with me to this suite,” you whispered into his ear and for a brief moment you felt safe in the arms of a man who'll never love you back. “Say something …please say something,” you begged him and let go of him to look into his eyes.

He rubbed a thumb tenderly over your lips, his eyes teary.

“You shouldn't be an escort. You should leave the agency. You're too precious for that business. But if you'd do that, I'd never see you again. So I don't know what I should wish for. You being an escort so that I can still meet you but sharing you with other men or knowing you're safe and protected, away from that business but never be able to see you ever again. It both hurts, Sugar… and I know I've already let you come too close to my heart.”

“I can't quit this job, Luke. And maybe someone like you is the only reason that keeps me going. I'd love to meet you again next week. We could go to a nightclub, it doesn't have to be Vivian's Velvet. You can choose another one and afterwards you can have me again,” you offered him, your voice almost breaking. You better contain yourself and not show him that you don't want to let him go.

“In the beginning that was exactly what I didn't want and somehow you convinced me otherwise. You already know that I want to meet you again next week. You, and you alone decide what you want to do afterwards and please don't feel obliged to sleep with me. But you should also know that I'd never deny you. Good night, sweet thing. Promise me to get dressed now and let Walker drive you home. You need some sleep.”

“Promised,” you nodded. He was right. You were tired beyond belief.

When he finally had left, you opened your hair bun, got dressed in casual clothes and Walker drove you home. The whole time until you arrived at your apartment you held the wildflower bouquet in your hand, thinking of him.

“I'm sorry if I scared you, y/n but I was truly concerned.”

“It's okay, Walker, you just did your job. I should be sorry for frightening you… we just fell asleep, I was so tired.”

“Understandable, you are on the road seven days a week. You should take a break. You won't last forever.”

“I know Walker but I have no other choice,” you sighed.

“There's always a choice, y/n…and Mr Larsson likes you if not more,” and he grinned at you through the rear-view mirror, watching you gently touching the flowers Luke had given to you. You smiled tormented back at him.

“He doesn't know me, it's just my pretty shell he likes.”

“You might underestimate him. Sometimes you just have to ask for help and help will be given to you,” Walker told you wisely. Maybe he was right. If it just were that easy.

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Bem vindo ao meu blog 💤

Aqui posto Locks quase todos os dias,a ask tá aberta, sinta-se a vontade pra fazer seu pedido,seja claro ao pedir seu pedido,coloque o nome do idol e o grupo e no caso de atores o nome correto, não quero cometer erros ao entregar seu pedido.

Faço Locks de cantores de kpop,cantores asiáticos,atores/atrizes,animes e icons. Caso queira sua Lock com filtro,favor dizer qual.

Seja educado(a).

Eng.

Here I post Locks almost every day, the ask is open, feel free to make your request, be clear when asking for your request, put the name of the idol and the group and in the case of actors the correct name, no matter what

I lock kpop singers, actors/actresses, anime and icons. If you want your Lock with filter, please say which one.be polite/polite

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[luchitohamilton]

Hi! Can you please tell me where do you find all of the post race interviews?

Thank you for your hard work with the transcripts!

Hi, I think the best option is to check youtube because the post-race interviews always get uploaded there by fans, but let me tell you how i get them just in case. I mostly just get the entire post-race segments/analysis each channel has to offer, so i get all the interviews for all the drivers and any extra thing there might be, or i check their twitter for hd interview clips, cuz sometimes things uploaded to youtube are like uploaded at 480px or something

Canal+ (french)

I get the entire post-race program, Le Mag, and then I just clip the interview I want, or

You can check if they uploaded the interview clip you want on their twitter account and then download it from there

ORF (german)

I check if they have a Formel 1: Motorhome episode up for the race and then I download it and clip the interview I want

Servus (german)

They post all their post-race interview on their own sometimes so I download it and then clip what interview I want, or I get the post-race analysis segment which also include the interviews

DAZN (spanish)

I always get their post-race (and pre-race) segment and then I clip what i want or check their twitter as they sometimes post them there

ESPN (spanish)

I always get the entire ESPN stream which includes the pre and post-race segments but you can check youtube ( for japan I found someone who put all lewis interview for spanish speaking broadcasts togethe, so that was neat)

SRF (german)

I always check this just in case, but they havent put a lewis interview in a while. They post Bottas once in a while tho

RTBF Sports (french)

I check their twitter as their website asks for login to view the clips :/

Band Sport (portuguese)

I check here or their youtube page

and then I also check Sky italia and germany if they have clips of their own.

hope that helps :-)

[suvnee]

⸻ 💌 hello fwens ! agatha de este lado, presentando a mi first born: sunee aquí abajito les dejo algunos datos que pienso podrían servir para conocerla un poquito más y también para que vean si esta chiquilla podría servirles para alguna conex. y bueno, basta con darle like a esto y les buscaré por dm o discord.

𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐚. * form. * lista de conexiones.

tiene veintiséis años, es originaria de bangkok, tailandia. es estudiante matriculada en st. beatriz d'este y actualmente está cursando el cuarto año de la carrera de actuación.

viene de una familia conocida en tailandia, pues la familia de su mamá está metida a full en la política y la de su papá en los negocios. así que she rich rich y aparte medio famosilla por sus tierras. tiene un hermano mellizo mayor que ella, que también estudió en st. mary pero que ya terminó sus estudios porque inició antes que ella. su familia no está de acuerdo con que esté estudiando actuación y no haya seguido el camino de los negocios, pero prácticamente sunee se pone en plan pearl a gritarles “please, i’m a star” cada vez que les ve.

fun fact! antes de entrar a st. mary vivió en nueva york y llevó algunos cursos de actuación. igual tuvo un papel de extra en una obra de teatro, casi que fue el árbol número tres pero para ella es uno de sus mayores logros.

es la vicepresidenta del consejo estudiantil. presidenta del club solidario (bc le gusta ayudar y aparte llevarse crédito por ello😼) actriz en el club de teatro musical, parte del club de equitación y del club de lengua de señas francesa.

copy and paste de su personalidad: de ideales fijos, sabe lo que quiere; como lo quiere y va por ello sin pensar mucho en qué podría pasar si llega a fallar. apasionada en todo lo que hace ¿por qué dar el cien por ciento si puedes dar un doscientos por ciento? de personalidad magnética, simpática; siempre sabiendo jugar sus cartas para caer bien. amigable y cariñosa con las personas que pertenecen a su círculo social. firme, no es de dejar que nadie avance más allá de lo que ella desea. podría decirse que tiende a ser un poco egoísta, pues si quiere algo, lo consigue sin pensar mucho en que quieren o dirán los demás; defecto que viene con ella de nacimiento y que nadie puede quitarle. perfeccionista, todo debe salir como ha planeado y si no es así, hará de todo hasta que las cosas marchen como debería ser.

wannabe influencer? kinda. tiene un canal de youtube donde sube vlogs de su día a día en la universidad y también recrea escenas de sus películas, libros o series favoritas. igual no es raro verla grabando tiktoks por la escuela, she’s really trying to get the spotlight de alguna manera u otra.

she puts the bi in bisexual. románticamente es buena pareja pero la verdad si llega a tener un punto donde hay trust issues de su parte y siente que es mejor terminar. pero de noviecita es el tipo de gf que querrá bajarte la luna y las estrellas con tal de que estés con ella (spoiler: esto puede ser usado en su contra) y the type of girl que aceptaría cualquier rollo rápido porque quiere divertirse.

sobre los becades, she doesn’t give a f. piensa que es lindo que tengan la oportunidad de estudiar.

y bueno, con sunee busco conexiones de cualquier tipo. porque siento que podría amoldarse a muchas de la lista dada por la administración e igual a bastantes dinámicas desde amiguites de clubs, de carrera, enemistades por clubes o carrera, a gay panic. lo que seaa.

[skiplo-wave]

It's been in the talks the past few years. But now the past 3 weeks the conversation about the Eye of Sahara in West Africa has been in talks again about it being Atlantis. Please watch Bright Insight Channel on YouTube & a channel called The Inbetween.

It fits in with the maps and what Plato described and they found old maps putting Atlantis right there in the eye. The problem is they are not allowed to dig. It's not a natural rock formation. People are starting to travel to it more and more. New discoveries there so far:

>> The type of rocks Plato said was there in Atlantis is in the Eye of Sahara.

>> There are rocks nearby engraved with people on chariots and elephants. Plato said Atlantis had elephants (they didn't have boats big enough to transport them to a Island everyone has been thinking of all these years). He also said there was horse races. THEY WAS HORSE RACING EVEN WAY BACK THEN LONG BEFORE EGYPT.

>> They found remains of what looks to be structures and towers. They found man-made water canals when there use to be water. They found SALT too.

>> They found vases that doesn't appear to be from anywhere they ever seen before.

>> There are mountains nearby the spiral (which would possibly be the capitol of Atlantis), mountains Plato said was seen from Atlantis.

>> They can tell by satellite imagery that in the area, they was a massive flood and mud slide just as Plato said when Atlantis went under, the pathway was covered in mud. They couldn't get to it and thus was lost. They discovered at this same time that Atlantis sunk is when a volcano went off in North-East direction of Africa. There was a Tsumani in the Mediterranean Sea, which called a huge wave of water to wash through Northern part of Africa. The line would had went through the Eye of Sahara as seen on the maps.

That means the remains of Atlantis are likely under tons of mud in the island. However, the land and the spiral which it sat still stands.

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[emzeciorrr]

Amsterdam Ahoy! from Joerg Daiber on Vimeo.

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands. Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The city is notoriously suffering from over-tourims pretty bad. So during peak pandemic in 2020 I decided that it might probably be a good time to visit the city with much less tourists than usually. However, I still thought it was pretty packed and don't want to imagine what it normally looks like. This footage has been sitting on my hard drive for a very long time now, before I came around to finally put it together. Enjoy this thrip through the city in only 3 minutes.

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[poohsources]

hello!! i've always loved your blog from afar, and feel free to ignore if you cannot help with this, but i was wondering if you happened to have any tips on writing nsfw content for the first time? i'm quite new when it comes to writing those sorts of themes, but would like to give it a try as i'm trying to branch out writing-wise. ( of course, i am of age, if you must know, but very inexperienced. ) i'm worried about coming off as "cringey". any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you and have a nice day! ♡

hi there ! i gotta be honest here, i haven’t regularly written smut since like 2018 but i’m gonna try to help you as best as i can anyway. 

so the best thing to learn how to write smut is by reading smut other people have written. it will give you a general sense of what to include and how to write the action, feelings, details, etc. in short it will help you understand what is expected to happen ー especially if you yourself are inexperienced when it comes to sex. as weird as it sounds, another thing that helps to get a better feel for it is by watching porn. not those over the top, super unrealistic things of course, but the more lowkey, home-made, amateur stuff. ( i’m not gonna get into how and where you can watch that, but i’m sure you’ll figure something out. ) it helps to better visualize certain actions or positions or whatever else you might need to describe.

now, once you have a general idea of how things work, the most important thing to be able to write good smut is to be in the right mood. i’m not saying you need to be horny ( although it can help ー but it can also distract ) but certain emotions just don’t work well when trying to write something sexy. to get into the right mood you could maybe try to put on some music ( just search for smut playlists on youtube and you’ll find a plethora of music to set the mood ) or dim the lights or whatever else you may need. oh, also make sure you have some privacy because nothing is more weird than having to explain that you’re writing smut.

as for not making it cringey, it’s best to avoid certain phrases. it can really take you out of a scene when someone suddenly starts using things like his throbbing meaty manliness or her slick love canal or any of those other godawful, ridiculous expression. rather stick to the typically used and accepted terms like describing things ー cock, pussy, dick, ass, vagina, etc. words are definitely gonna get repeated but it sounds a lot better to switch between those ones than to come up with some strange euphemisms no one in real life would ever use. ( adding to this, you can look at this post i’ve made in the past which will lead you to a fic that gives some great help especially when it comes to synonyms and what kind of words to use. )

one thing to note though, is that the first time writing smut might feel a little weird. it’s probably easier to keep everything rather short and simple. don’t have too many gymnastics involved or get right into the hardcore stuff but for the first time try to keep it a little more on the vanilla side of things. it will take some time to get used to it and the more practice you get, the better your writing will be and you can venture into the more ... experimental side of things. 

most important piece of advice i can give you is to have fun. writing smut isn’t always for everyone and it’s perfectly okay if you try it and realize you don’t like it.

i hope this helps and if you have any further questions please let me know! :)

[thevictorianghost]

If you could rewrite legend of korra and make it your own(or just in general better) how would you do it? The villains would stay the same and korra and crew are the same(personalities you can definitely tweak a bit. I would definitely not have any love triangles and make korra and asami happen in the beginning) how would you do it with your ships being canon as well?

Okay so I’ve never actually watched LOK. I’ve heard A LOT about it through watching countless video essays on Youtube and reading Tumblr posts about it. I know the who, the what and the how, I just haven’t wanted to watch it because, even though it looks cinematically gorgeous, the story was written by Bry/ke and there’s a LOT of it, worldbuilding and storywise, that I just can’t bare to watch.

So here goes. This got long. Enjoy!

1) Remove the Decopunk world. 

A Decopunk world is a world where technology is 1920s-ish, but very advanced. We have cars, tanks, radio, bobs and faux bobs, cloche hats, short skirts, nice suits, etc. I adore Decopunk. The 1920s are one of my favourite eras. An optimistic way of looking at the world, partying, illegal alcohol, the remnants of the Great War... I love it. I really do. But it doesn’t work in the pre-established world of Avatar. It brings elements that are far too imperialistic and colonial in nature (which prompted the comics to be imperialistic and colonial in nature, with the Northern and Southern Water Tribe, you can find many posts about that), which came along hand in hand with the Industrial Revolution, as this article puts it so well. Please read it, it’s awesome.

Why did they feel they had to denature Avatar’s world? They already had everything they could possibly want. 

The Fire Nation could be more Steampunk, which is a little less advanced than Decopunk (First Industrial Revolution vs Second Industrial Revolution) because there were elements of Steampunk in the Fire Nation Army (such as the tanks, the navy and the dirigibles). But it could be for them only. It could show us how Zuko transformed the Fire Nation from a war industry to a steam-powered country. This could be the new way to channel firebending (and please, no more “anyone can do lightning bending”, you don’t need lightning bending to get electricity and it makes  Zuko, Iroh, Ozai and Azula weak in the show!). 

We’ve seen waterbending used in clever ways in the Northern Water Tribe. How could Katara’s waterbending and Sokka’s engineering influence the Southern Water Tribe to make them use waterbending more? Canals, waterfalls, waterways, etc.? In new and different ways? Could the Southern Water Tribe use hydroelectricity, but in a clean, sustainable way? Why does the Southern Water Tribe port look so... mundane? 

The Earth Kingdom already had a working train system in Ba Sing Se. And the postal system in Omashu. Toph could have taught earthbenders how to follow the Badgermoles way and dug tunnels throughout a nation in peace. Then boom. Subways. But instead of machines pushing the people along, you can have benders do it. Instead of messenger hawks, the postal system could run through the entire kingdom instead of just Omashu and be much more efficient. The Earth Kingdom could be praised for its fast postal system that could, maybe, work as telegrams.

I’ll come back to the Air Nomads.

Those are just examples from the top of my head. I don’t mean “never allow technology to “””progress””” (I use that word veeeeery loosely because it has huge imperialistic undertones). I mean instead of trashing the fun parts of bending to make way for Decopunk technology that doesn’t need bending, work with it! Get creative! This worldbuilding feels... too easy. When Avatar: The Last Airbender was praised for its worldbuilding.

I adore Decopunk. I enjoy it far more than Dieselpunk and it’s much less known that Steampunk. But it has no place in the Avatar world.

2) That doesn’t mean “remove Republic City”.

First of all, it should honestly have a better name. It’s kind of like naming a city “Democracy City”. Which is way too on the nose. Harmony City sounds better, and that’s the first thing that came to mind. Anyway.

I really like the idea of a city being built in the spirit of Iroh and the White Lotus. To allow the Four Nations to live together in harmony in one city. But why is Republic City literally New York City with an “““Asian””” flair? What is up with that? I know New York is the MOST Decopunk city ever (you can’t encounter anything Decopunk without seeing New York, with its Art Deco buildings, the Harlem Renaissance, the Prohibition, etc.). But they do NOTHING with it! They just take New York, change some names, add some Asian flair, and call it a day. 

I don’t want 1920s New York for Republic City. I want Zootopia.

What happens in a city where all the Four Nations are represented? How does Water, Earth, Fire and Air work together? Big cities tend to be quartered in neighborhoods, so each neighborhood could be a smaller version of their nation. We could have a Northern Water Tribe next to an Earth Kingdom next to... you know what I mean? Each neighborhood could be a small-scale introduction to the nation for Korra first, then you can send her to that nation afterwards!

Which leads us to this.

3) Have Korra follow a traditional Avatar’s journey. 

I really don’t know why they decided that Korra would learn three elements before the age of sixteen (when that’s the age Avatars usually START their journeys) and then only have her learn Airbending during the entire show. Wasn’t the structure of each Book being about Aang learning one element at a time a good structure? Why go out of their way to NOT do that? Why was it the White Lotus’ prerogative to train the Avatar in the first place, too?  

So let’s have Korra know waterbending first (and show Katara teaching her, please!), then she can learn Earth, Fire and Air. By going to the Earth Kingdom, to the Fire Nation, and to the Air Temples. This could help develop each nation and show us how they have grown through the years. And it could lead Korra and the audience to figure out that there’s not only Aang who has had children to represent the Air Nomads, but there were other Air Nomads who survived the genocide and we can actually see the Air Nomads as a thriving culture.

So about Republic City. As I said, we could keep it. But now that Korra is going on a traditional Avatar journey, you could have, say, one episode at the beginning and one episode at the end of each season taking place in Republic City. To show us how each Nation’s neighborhood works and as an introduction to Korra before she actually takes the plunge to travel to that nation. 

Please! Build upon the Avatar world at large more! Come on!

4) Stop it with the love triangles. 

Many have talked about the Mako, Korra, Bolin and Asami love triangles. I’ve read once that they don’t exactly feel like friends, they’re only colleagues who share the fact they all dated Korra at one point. Which is sad. Knowing that the Gaang is so beloved because they’re such GOOD FRIENDS first!

So work to build strong, healthy friendships first, THEN start thinking about romance if you have to. And please, if you want a ship to be endgame, don’t have it so you have to confirm it on Twitter. 

Don’t.

Oh! And also. Bolin and Eska’s relationship was unhealthy as all hell and treated as “funny” and “comic relief” because a woman was being emotionally abusive to a man. That’s terrible. Please don’t do that.

5) Don’t let Katara fall to the side like she did. 

Many, MANY before me have talked about how Katara got the short end of the stick in LOK. Where’s her statue? Where’s her recognition as the Greatest Waterbender in the World? Why is she day in and day out in the healing hut, when she said “I don’t want to heal, I want to FIGHT”? Does she even have a waterbending school? Or is that completely fanon? Why does she allow Aang to take one of their children on life-changing field trips while leaving their other kids behind? Aren’t they also Air Nomads by birth??

It’s okay to worship the old Gaang because, well, we all love them! I do love Aang, even if I give him a hard time a lot, but I love the character. I just don’t like the way Book 3 Aang was written. But some characters shouldn’t have everything while others have nothing. Aang is LITERALLY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. But where was Katara’s statue? And also, what happened to Suki?? What happened to Mai or Ty Lee, too?? Or even Sokka?? He died some time ago and... that’s it??

Which brings us to this.

6) Zutara, Taang, Sukka and Mailee.

I’ve seen that picture of Toph, Aang, Sokka and Katara being edited with Zuko and Katara next to each other, Toph and Aang next to each other, and a (suddenly alive!) Suki next to Sokka. I think that’s so good! It feels so healthy!

Not all relationships that started when people were kids work out. Sokka and Suki seem the strongest relationship at the end of the show and they’re probably the only ones I could see working out in the end. Sokka could become the Southern Water Tribe Chief and Suki could become his Queen when she’s retired from the Kyoshi Warriors.

Katara and Aang would be lifelong friends, of course they would be, but I don’t really see them lasting. Aang was twelve when they started dating. They’d date a few years, then they’d decide they want other things. That’s a good thing to show kids!

I’ve written many metas about Zutara, but Ambassador then Fire Lady Katara would show a changing world, where the Fire Nation, now no longer a war industry but a Steampunk country, is moving forward, with Zuko literally marrying a woman the Fire Nation tried to wipe out. They would be equals and leave an equal mark upon the world. Together.

Toph and Aang would be amazing together. They’d be a great team, working in the Earth Kindom, helping rebuild the old Temples when the Air Nomads came out of hiding, and bringing peace around the world. I don’t think they’d be a conventional relationship. They’d do their own thing for a while, find each other for a while, work together on some projects, then continue doing their own thing. Aang being the Avatar who travels the world and Toph teaching metalbenders and working with the King in Ba Sing Se and Bumi in Omashu and wherever she’s needed. I think Toph would be much more fulfilled than what we’ve seen of elderly Katara. She doesn’t have Katara’s abandonment issues (I’ve talked about them here) and she’s more independent, I believe.

I know I haven’t talked about them much yet, but I want Mai and Ty Lee together in the end. Badass ladies challenging their respective stereotypes and create a new world for themselves. Mai could find herself away from the Fire Nation court (I don’t know what she’d do, but circuses love people who throw knives, don’t they? She could be a circus performer for a while), and I think Ty Lee, in this version, could work at the circus and with Aang to rebuild the Air Nomads. I love the idea of Ty Lee being a descendant of the Air Nomads.

All of them should be shown creating Zootopia-like Republic City. Because of course they should be! They’re the Gaang!

So yeah, that’s how I would see the world of Avatar grow beyond the borders of the original show! :)

[leaschuller]

Women’s International Fixtures 26/11 - 01/12

Thursday 26 November 2020 Georgia - Malta - 11:00 GMT|12:00 CET|6:00 EST Slovakia - Iceland - 17:00 PM GMT|18:00 PM CET|12:00 EST Norway - Faroe Islands cancelled Friday 27 November 2020 Kazakhstan - North Macedonia - 11:00 GMT|12:00 CET|6:00 EST Albania - Cyprus - 13:00 GMT|14:00CET|8:00 EST Croatia - Lithuania - 15:00 GMT|16:00 CET|10:00 EST - Youtube (Usually broadcast) Germany - Greece - 15:00 GMT|16:00 CET|10:00 EST - ARD/ZDF Estonia - Turkey - 16:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST Russia - Kosovo - 16:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST - Matchtv Northern Ireland - Belarus - 19:00 GMT|21:00 CET|14:00 EST Portugal - Scotland - 19:00 GMT|21:00 CET|14:00 EST - BBC Alba/Canal 11 Spain - Moldova - 20:00 GMT|22:00 CET|15:00 EST - Teledeporte/+tdp France - Austria - 20:00 GMT|22:00 CET|15:00 EST - Molotov TV (VPN)/ BeIN Sports Saturday 28 November Chile - Zambia - 14:00 GMT|15:00 CET|9:00 EST Tuesday 1 December 2020 Georgia - Bosnia and Herzegovina - 11:00 GMT|12:00 CET|6:00 EST Turkey - Russia - 14:00 GMT|15:00 CET|9:00 EST - Matchtv Czech Republic - Moldova - 14:00 GMT|15:00 CET|9:00 EST Israel - Malta - 14:30 GMT|15:30 CET|9:30 EST Hungary - Iceland - 14:30 GMT|15:30 CET|9:30 EST Croatia - Romania - 15:00 GMT|16:00 CET|10:00 EST Denmark - Italy - 16:15 GMT|17:15 CET|11:15 EST - DRTV Slovenia - Estonia - 17:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST Slovakia - Sweden - 17:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST - SVT2 Republic of Ireland - Germany - 17:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST - ARD/ZDF Ukraine - Montenegro - 17:00 GMT|18:00 CET|12:00 EST Netherlands - Kosovo - 17:30 GMT|18:30 CET|12:30 EST - Kijk (VPN) Austria - Serbia - 17:30 GMT|18:30 CET|12:30 EST - ORF Sports + Portgula - Albania - 17:45 GMT|18:45 CET|12:45 EST Northern ireland - Faroe Islands - 19:00 GMT|20:00 CET|14:00 EST Belgium - Switzerland - 19:00 GMT|20:00 CET|14:00 EST - SRF Wales - Belarus - 19:15 GMT|20:15 CET|14:15 EST - BBC Two Wales Scotland - Finland - 19:30 GMT|20:30 CET|14:30 EST - BBC Alba (maybe) Spain - Poland - 20:00 GMT|21:00 CET|15:00 EST - Teledeporte/+tdp France - Kazakhstan - 20:00 GMT|21:00 CET|15:00 EST - Molotov TV (VPN)/ BeIN Sports INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY Friday 27 November 2020 USWNT - Netherlands - 17:30 GMT|18:30 CET|12:30 EST - ESPN 2/TUDN or Kijk (VPN) List is incomplete for now but as I find links I'll post them, be sure to check sites like USAGOALS for games if you don't have a VPN for the above sites that require one, if it's live on an official channel it will be there. You're also more than welcome to ask for a match link on the day and I'll send over/post what I can find. If you do have any other links please feel free to add them to the post.

Thank you to @allylobster, @aregentsblog, @everlarklette, @bettieh10 for helping put everything together.

[glorianasims]

THIEF!!!STEELING CC!!

HELP! Help!

A thief! Egain !

ALL THE PACKS SHE STOLED FROM FREE CC CREATORS!

This person is steeling mine free cc and putting it on her own drive(links) without crediting me and not only that, she stole from other black cc creator and din't credit them, she also deleted other people's comment when she get called out! I reported her and send a copyright on YouTube but I need your help guys!

Those cc were free from day 1 it not about The mesh scratches! It about how she is talking people's work and claiming it as her own! It useless to call her out, just repost her and she will get the message.

Simsfom did the same with mine cc and everytime I check my patreon I keep seing the same simsdom links, please reblog this so other simmer can it, it not about me but this channel is popular for steeling sims4, sims2 and sims3 cc and putting them on paywall without crediting the creators, this could happen to You as well

links of my stolen cc  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2w-Mt8o69I

and the link to ALL the FREE CC CREATORS!

https://www.youtube.com/c/ClaraBittencourt/videos

!!!!!HOW TO STOP HER?!!!! 

in order to shut her down,you will need to go to the  website who host her blog

contact them : ----> https://blogpixie.com/contact and explain what she did,put her blog and the cc pack (i took mine for exemple since she stole from me as well ) 

----->https://www.simsparadownload.com.br/2020/06/ts4-pack-roupas-africanas.html

all of you should file the same complain in order for the host of the website to shut down her activity.

also: this is the peoples who got their stuff stolen: @shespeakssimlish​ @leahlillith​ and myself i din’t watch other video but,from the look of her thubnails,she stole from a looot of creators!  @peppermint-ginger​ @digitalangels​ @aklira​ @titlesimslemon​ this person  @whysim​ 

@charlotkas-simblr

portuguese:

Esta pessoa está preparando meu cc grátis e colocando em seu próprio drive (links) sem me dar crédito e não só isso, ela roubou de outro criador de cc preto e não deu crédito a eles, ela também deletou o comentário de outras pessoas quando ela foi chamada ! Eu a denunciei e envio um copyright no YouTube, mas preciso da ajuda de vocês!

Esses cc estavam livres desde o primeiro dia, não se tratando de arranhões na rede! É sobre como ela está falando sobre o trabalho das pessoas e reivindicando-o como seu! É inútil chamá-la, basta reenviar e ela receberá a mensagem.

Simsfom fez o mesmo com o meu cc e sempre que verifico meu patreon continuo vendo os mesmos links do simsdom, por favor, distribua para que outro simmer possa, não é sobre mim, mas este canal é popular para endurecer sims4, sims2 e sims3 cc e colocá-los no acesso pago sem creditar os criadores, isso também pode acontecer com você

(i made a god fund me)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-to-shut-down-thieveswebsites?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B2300-co-team-welcome

(why a go fund me?)

the will help me to terminate her blog legally!

it expenssive but,it nothing compare to all the money she is making off all the free cc from the other creators!

a lot of creators do cc for free so,i will not tolerate peoples like her to steel from nice peoples like “shespeaksimlish” or any good sims2 creator who make cc for fun! i want to give her a lesson before i take a break! 

[trashyswitch]

Papa J and his Little Virgil

Virgil is in his little space, meaning he had regressed to the mind of a child. In this case, Virgil has been known to regress to the mind of an 8 year old. Still quite young, but filled with curious facts and endless energy. Janus was the first person to ever know about Virgil's little space. So, Janus had taken on the role as his caregiver when he's regressed.

This prompt was suggested by an anonymous person who signed off with a ~🐶! It was SO CUTE! And thank you for the cute prompt! And I hope you enjoy, oh secretive one!

Also, Happy Birthday Virgil! 💜

Virgil was running around the house in his pj’s, pretending to fly a toy plane. He was making raspberry sounds to imitate the plane sound and was running through the different rooms in the house. One of the rooms that Virgil happened to run into, was Janus’s.

“And now, we are flying over North Korea: The most mystery country ever! No one really knows a lot about this country.” Virgil narrated at Janus’s room door. Suddenly, Janus opened the door. “Who taught you that?” Janus asked with a smirk.

Virgil smiled. “Logan did.” Virgil replied with a giggle.

“Hmm...So I’m North Korea: the mysterious country. Tell me:” Janus leaned in with a smile. “Which country is Logan?” Janus asked.

Virgil put his hand on his own chin and rubbed it. “Hmmm…” Virgil hummed. “Swizzerland!” Virgil declared.

Janus laughed. “That’s really accurate, actually!” Janus reacted as he started walking out of his room and down the hall. “What about Patton? What country is Patton?” Janus asked.

Virgil looked at Janus eagerly. “That’s easy! Canada!” Virgil replied proudly.

Janus giggled. “Not bad! Not bad at all!” Janus kept walking around the house. “What about Roman?” Janus asked.

Virgil thought for a moment. “Oh, oh, oh! France!” Virgil declared.

“Aah, yes. Specifically Paris: the country of love, and theatre.” Janus added.

“Yes!” Virgil replied.

Janus smiled. “What about Remus?” he asked with a big smirk.

Virgil laughed. “USA.” Virgil replied.

“Make America gay again.” Janus joked. Virgil laughed and nodded.

As the boys entered the kitchen, Janus started looking in the cupboards. “What would you like for lunch, Virgey?” Janus asked.

Virgil quickly turned to look at Janus. “Macaroni and cheese please!” Virgil declared.

“Would you like hotdogs mixed in?” Janus asked.

“Oooooh! Yes please!” Virgil replied.

Janus quickly put together a pot of mac & cheese with hotdogs and placed two bowls down. “Lunch is served!” Janus declared.

“Thank yooouuu!” Virgil cooed happily and dug right in.

Janus smiled. “You’re welcome, sweetheart.” Janus replied.

The two of them enjoyed the macaroni and cheese and talked non-stop. Whenever Virgil entered into his little space, he was a surprisingly talkative boy! He always had something to talk about! Whether it was the tv show he watched on youtube, or which stuffies he played with this morning! He always found something new to talk about.

After lunch, Janus played doctor with Virgil. Janus let Virgil be his doctor, and Virgil used the different doctor kit items on him! Janus had bought Virgil two separate doctor kits, for realistic or childish moments. He bought Virgil a Future Doctor’s Medical Kit for realism and actual education, and a Kidzlane sturdy doctor kit for playing pretend! Right now, Virgil was playing with a bit of both.

“Your heart’s good.” Virgil told him, removing the end of the stethoscope off Janus’s shirt and taking the ear pieces off himself.

Janus smiled. “That’s good.”

Next, Virgil grabbed the otoscope and started looking in Janus’s ears. For this, Virgil used the realistic one to look inside his ears canals. Then, he looked through the other ear. “Your ears look clean!” Virgil declared as he removed the otoscope cover piece.

Janus clapped his hands. “Yay!” He cheered.

Virgil grabbed the thermometer from the kid's case, and started pushing the tip against his head. The tip was springy, so the tip of the thermometer would push into the thermometer rather than his forehead. “No fever! You’re healthy!” Virgil declared.

“Hallelujah!” Janus replied happily.

“And now for reflexes!” Virgil grabbed the reflex hammer and started lightly tapping it onto Janus’s knee. “Okay. Your reflexes are good.” Virgil told him.

“That’s good. Now, can I test your reflexes?” Janus asked.

Virgil nodded with a smile and handed him the reflex hammer. But Janus put the reflex hammer down beside him and instead, started squeezing his sides. “EEEK! Hahahahahahaha! Pahahapahaha!” Virgil giggled. “Yohohou’re tihihicklihihihing mehehe!”

“No I’m not. I’m trying to test your reflexes but you’re being very squirmy.” Janus told him as he moved to his belly.

“Ihihihit tihihicklehehehes, Jahahahay! Thahahahat’s whyhyhy Ihihi’m squihihihirmihihing!” Virgil told him.

“Oh! You’re squirming because my reflex-testing is tickling you?” Janus asked.

“Yehehehehehessss!” Virgil giggled lightly.

“Well now, why didn’t you tell me this sooner?” Janus asked as he moved his hand away.

“Ihi dihihid though. Ihihi told you thahat whehehen you wehere ticklihing mehehe!” Virgil reacted, still a big giggly.

“Hmmm...I don’t think that’s how it really went though…” Janus teased.

Virgil would’ve protested to that statement, but his words caught in his throat when he saw Janus’s hand moving a little. Virgil widened his eyes. He knew EXACTLY what Janus was planning. “P-papa! Your hand!” Virgil reacted.

“Huh?” Janus looked over at his own hand and sure enough, it was twitching and moving, supposedly on its own. Janus gasped dramatically. “Oh no! It looks like the eeevil tickle hand is back! And he’s getting reeeeaaally hungry!” Janus reacted as he started crawling his hand around a bit more.

Virgil shrunk down with a blushy face and an endless stream of giggles falling out of his mouth. “Pahahahapahahaha! Cohohome ohohon!” Virgil giggled.

Janus looked over at the hand. “Now, what on earth does THAT mean?” He asked the hand. “Does it mean ‘come on and hurry up’?” Janus asked playfully.

“Nohohohoho!” Virgil giggled, covering his mouth as giggles continued to spill out of his mouth.

“I think that’s exactly what he means! Virgil wants tickles just as much as you want some delicious laughy snacks!” Janus declared to the hand.

Janus let out a roaring sound and lightly tackled Virgil down with his hand. Then, the hand crawled around and started tickling his belly and belly button.

Virgil squealed and burst into a fit of giggles and laughter! “HEHEhehehehey! PapahahAHAHAHA STAHAHAP!” Virgil yelled as more and more laughter poured out.

“What? I’m not doing anything! The hand is doing all the work!” Janus lied.

“STAHAHAP TIHIHIHICKLIHIHING MEHEHEHE, EHEVIL HAHAHAND!” Virgil declared.

The hand paused its tickling for a few moments. Virgil took the moment to slightly recover from the slight loss of oxygen from the laughing fits. But soon, the hand walked itself up to Virgil’s vulnerable ribs and started digging and squeezing. “Oh my! It looks like the hand has decided to have some delicious ribs with barbecue sauce on them!” Janus declared. “And telling by the looks of his digging, it seems to REALLY like it!” Janus added.

Virgil squealed and laughed happily. “RIHIHIB EHEHEHEATIHIHING TIHIHIHICKLEHEHES! AHAHAHA LOHOHOHOT!” Virgil admitted.

“Does it really tickle that much? I wonder...would cows be laughing too if their ribs were being eaten?” Janus asked.

“NOHOHOHOHO! COHOHOWS AHAHAREN’T TIHIHIHICKLIHISH!” Virgil yelled back.

“Oh yeah...I guess you do have to be ticklish in order to laugh when touched on the ribs.” Janus muttered out loud. “Oh well!” Janus declared as he started to pretend ‘pull some of the rib meat off’ and brought it up to himself. “Ooooh!” Janus pretended to eat it. “Mmmm! Thank you, evil hand!” He said politely to his own hand.

Virgil threw his head back with a wheeze. “EHEHEHEWWW! THAHAHAT’S SOHOHOHO GROHOHOSS!” Virgil reacted as he laughed.

“Is it?” Janus asked. Then, he skittered his fingers on his ribs again and ‘pulled some more rib meat off his ribs’. Janus lifted the hand up to Virgil’s face. “You want some?” Janus asked casually.

Virgil dropped his jaw in surprise and pushed his hand away. “Ew! No!”

Janus just lost his serious composure completely and bursted out laughing! “YOHOHOHOUR FAHAHAHACE!” Janus laughed.

“You’re more yucky than Remus!” Virgil reacted with a giggle.

“Yeheheah...Ihihi ahaham.” Janus replied.

“Maybe I should be nibbling on your ribs too!” Virgil declared, walking up to Janus and pinned him down. Virgil bent down and started pretending to nibble on Janus’s lower ribs first. “Om nom nom nom nom! Om nom nom nom nom nom!”

Janus squeaked almost immediately and covered his mouth as laughter started spilling out. Even though Virgil was technically a little right now, he was genuinely really good at tickling people! And it didn’t help that Virgil was in the body of an adult.

But the retaliation didn’t last very long before Janus was tickling him back. “NO! WAHAHAIT! WHAHAHAHAT?! WHAHAHAT HAHAPPEHEHENED TO REHEVEHEHENGE?!” Virgil asked.

“Revenge is over! It’s my turn now!” Janus picked Virgil up by the armpits and blew a raspberry on his belly.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NOOOOHOHOHOHOHO FAHAHAHAIR!” Virgil pushed against Janus’s head in a fruitless attempt to push him away.

Janus blew raspberry after raspberry onto Virgil’s belly to keep him in an endless stream of giggles and laughs. Virgil was wiggling and waving his arms around wildly, laughing hysterically. His belly button was way too ticklish to be tormented with so many raspberries. Why must Janus be like this?

“OHOHOKAHAHAHAY! BREHEHEHEHEAK PLEHEHEHEASE!” Virgil told him.

“Oh yeah! I guess you need to breathe, huh?” Janus mentioned before laying Virgil down onto his back. Janus laid beside Virgil and rested his hands against the back of his head.

“Thahahank yohohou-” Virgil turned his head to Janus, only to get an elbow into the forehead. “Pahapa! Your elbows are stealing all the room!” Virgil reacted.

“Oh are they? How unfortunate.” Janus joked.

Virgil giggled and started very lightly spidering his fingers on Janus’s inner arms. “Move over.”

“Janus quickly pulled his arm against his own side and giggled. “Hehey now! What did I say about tickling your papa’s arms?” Janus asked, bouncing his pointer finger at him.

Virgil smirked and rolled himself onto Janus. With one quick swoop, Virgil pinned Janus’s arm down and resumed spidering. Janus squawked in surprise and couldn’t help the giggles that bubbled up and out of his mouth. “Ohoho geheheez! Nohohohoho! Hahahahahaha!” Janus bapped his arms with his free hand as he struggled to get himself unpinned. “Knohohock ihihihit ohohohoff!” Janus told him.

“Am I not allowed to get revenge on my ticklish papa?” Virgil asked.

“Nohohohoho!” Janus replied.

“That rule was never made before. And I don’t like that rule.” Virgil declared.

Virgil slowly moved his fingers to Janus’s vulnerable armpit. Janus quickly started tugging harder as more hysterical laughs started spilling from his mouth. “HOHOHOHOLD OHOHOHON! VIHIHIRGIHIHIL!” Janus laughed, shaking his head back and forth. “STAHAHAHAHAP!”

“Tickle tickle tickle, Papa J!” Virgil teased.

“TEHEHEHEASIHIHING TOHOHOHOO?! YOHOHOU AHAHARE IHIN SOHOHO MUHUHUHUCH TROHOHOHOUBLE!” Janus warned.

Virgil just gave Janus a toothy smile and continued to tickle Janus on his armpit. But Janus, being the strong man he was, started scratching little Virgil’s side to gain the upper hand again. Virgil quickly let go and reached down to stop him, but Janus was already one step ahead of him. Janus pulled Virgil into a big hug and started tweaking and squeezing his ribs again.

“AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! STAHAPIHIT-” Janus climbed himself onto Virgil’s waist and quickly skittered his fingers everywhere he could reach. “NAHAHAHAHAHAHA! JAHAHAHAHAN!”

“Why would I stop if you like it?” Janus asked, lifting up his arm and tickling in his armpit.

Virgil giggled and tugged on his arm weakly. “Ihihihi guehehehess thahahat’s truhuhuhue.” Virgil added. Janus could tell this was also the inner adult Virgil talking.

“So you admit it? You like being tickled?” Janus asked.

“Ohohohof cohohourse Ihihihi dohohoho! Whohoho wohohouldn’t lohohove beheheihing tihihihicklehed?” Virgil asked.

“Lots of people actually.” Janus replied, stopping his fingers.

Virgil looked up at Janus with sad, big eyes. “What?” He asked.

“Some people don’t like being tickled. Some people find it annoying, embarrassing or childish. Logan is a good example of someone who doesn’t like being tickled.” Janus explained.

Virgil frowned and pouted with his arms crossed. “Logan’s thinking old. He needs to stop acting like an old man.” Virgil told Janus.

“I know. But try telling a man who speaks with logic in all his sentences.” Janus told him.

Virgil looked up at Janus. “He sounds smart, but I know there’s something he doesn’t know.” Virgil told him.

Janus smirked. “Like what?” He asked.

“Like how fun being tickled can be!” Virgil added. “And how to see without glasses.” Virgil added.

Janus laughed at that last part. “Ihihi don’t think you can learn that, buddy.” Janus muttered to him. “But do you wanna go bother Logan for a bit? Maybe show him your doctor kit?” Janus asked.

Virgil gasped and quickly gathered up his pretend doctor kit. “Yes!” Virgil picked up the case that carried the doctor items and ran to the nerd’s room, yelling “LOGAN! LOGAN! LOOK WHAT I HAVE!” into the room.

Janus sat himself down and gave himself a much needed break. It was quite amusing and fun to look after Virgil when he’s a little. Yes, it was tiring, but it was always somewhat rewarding. Tickling was always one thing that he really enjoyed, especially what he’s a little. So Janus always makes sure to add some tickles into their playing.

...And then there’s Logan who ends up getting destroyed with tickles, whether he dislikes it or not...Little Virgil never did understand the meaning of ‘no’.

[criquette-was-here]

Long Awaited Replies

Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since my last activity here. Stuff’s just got real last few months and I am now experiencing some heavy RLS which makes the future of the whole Feverfew project quite uncertain. I’m very annoyed by the fact I have to move the release date over and over again, but, fingers crossed, I’ll be able to manage to make it this year. But before I post any updates, I need to answer my inbox!

@landgraabsims​ said:

feverfew is absolutely gorgeous!! is it inspired by any real-life places or towns? i live in england and it reminds me of a few in-the-middle-of-nowhere villages i've visited c:

Thanks @landgraabsims​! Yes, Feverfew is based on British countryside aesthetics without any towns or villages in particular. It has a bit of everything, really. It’s a fantasy place after all. But I do use a lot of real life references for making landmarks for it.

Anonymous said:

any idea of the date of release for feverwood? just redownloaded sims 2 and im in loveee

Hey Anon! I’m glad you like it! I really hope to make it happen this year.

Anonymous said:

i would die (or pay) for zagoskin omg it looks like TS3

Oh, thank you, Anon!

@katzengirl​ said:

Hello Criquette! I don't have a challenge or a question or a request. I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the things you've shared with us! I hope you're having a good day.

Hello Kristina! That is so sweet, thank you ^___^ I hope you’re doing fine too!

Anonymous said:

Hi there, Criquette. Been having fun with your Rural Charm set and the Better Lighting.  Ran into one small problem with the RC. One of the narrow curves picks up the texture from a road section with a crosswalk, so that looks a bit odd (30degree inner?).  And a question - is there a Better Lighting for the Iron Bracket street lamp with the seasons banner?  Thought the iron bracket would work, but it's not. Anywho, Thank You for ALL the work you put into making our hoods look fantastic!

Hey Anon! Thanks! Depending on the road DR you’re using, there can be some  texture issues here and there since Rural Charm is optimised for road texture without any markings (apart from the broken white line). As for the Iron light post with a banner – no. I’ve only made 2 Maxis’ base game lamp posts.

Anonymous said:

It's amazing how this one game embraces so many different types of players. I'm planning to create my very own nh from scratch, and I'd be a liar not to recognize how your game pics inspired me to the task (not to mention your ever impressive work of hood deco cc throughout these years). For all that, as much as I'm just another anon, thank you, sincerely. But that left me wondering: do you also/still play with the other ts2 game modes or they no longer interest you?

Oh, that is so kind, Anon. Thank you! Yes, I do love to actually play the game. I enjoy building/decorating lots as much as live mode. In fact, I often get carried away during playtest sessions and just keep playing in lot mode and that’s why there are lots like ‘The Tower Inn’ or ‘The Moose & Beaver’ or sims like Tilda Phidbach, WHT-FC28 servo and their field lab.

Anonymous said:

Criquette, do you know something about this project? thesims1master tumblr (the idea is to make the game look like the beta version. I ask, because I liked it so much, but I haven't been able to find the person behind it and I'm very curious to see more or download it, as well as his world, which I've been waiting for since last year lol)

Hey Anon! Oh, I don’t think I know anything about this project, no. But it looks rather interesting!

@forever-evenfall​ said:

Hey Criquette! I just downloaded your Lighting Remedy (because I only just realised I needed to change the txt file and not just download it lol) and when I placed your lighting text in the program files, the lighting itself worked, but the terrain itself was flashing red. Do you know what I did wrong? I literally don’t think I can play without the fix lol. I am using UC and I placed it in the Fun With Pets/SP9/TSData/Res/Lights folder. Should I have put it somewhere else?

Hello Eve! I might be wrong, but isn’t it Mansions & Gardens SP that stands for UC? Anyway, flashing red terrain is really weird consequence for just replacing a txt file. Neighborhood terrain doesn’t have any dynamic light. It has a light map instead which comes with Lighting remedy too. If you only just replace the lighting txt file without putting LR light map into your ‘Downloads’ folder, the only issue you should get would by unsynchronized light directions for hood decos and the terrain itself.

Anonymous said:

I'm having a problem: not all the decorations I put in the neighborhood are showing up in simulation mode, even with the fade off and the long-range vision on. I think there is some code that I need to add to the game files to make all the decorations appear. But I can't find how to do this: c Can you help me?

Hello Anon! Basically, there’s only one type of hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode and that is neighborhood effects. All the decals, flowers, fields, all the animated stuff (except for texture animation, e.g. Maxis’ marquee sign) is not showing up in lot mode. There’s nothing we can do about it. Yet. If you think that there’s a proper hood deco that isn’t showing up in lot mode, please PM me with some screenshots and we could try to sort it out.

Anonymous said:

Hello--Anon who asked about additional pieces for the Rural Charm set--I see now, thank you for explaining about the floating intersections.  Is there anything you recommend then, to add on to existing roads? Otherwise, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Hello Anon! Oh, you’re most welcome. There is a tedious way to replace a texture on the existing tile of the real road, to make in into intersection so that it would connect better visually with decorative road pieces. But that takes time. What you have to do is to determine the tile you want to edit using technique described in this tutorial and then you have to change the texture name in the corresponding line. The texture names for the intersections (their index name parts) can be found in any road DR beforehand.

@sunradersimblr​ said:

Hi, I'm just wondering if you've ever done hood deco of a highway rest stop like the type we see in the U.S. along interstates and state highways, just a green space, usually, with toilet facilities and a place for a picnic and parking lot? I need one for a story and thought I'd check with you. Thanks for all the great work you share! 

Hello Sunrader! That would be really nice addition for the highway set, but I haven’t made it. Thought it’s quite possible to make something similar if you use ‘One side exit piece’ from the motorway set and add some picnic tables, umbrellas and benches using street tables & benches set. There’s also many 4t2 deco conversions for toilets and other small size decos that would help to create a decent resting stop.

@nataliepop​ said:

Hi there Criquette! There's a new game called Townscaper which I think you'd like. The architecture has an English aesthetic and you build cities or towns but it all starts on an ocean. It's in early access, so I hope by the time it officially releases they add boats and piers. Look it up on Steam or Youtube. I saw it via someone who usually does Cities Skylines videos. Btw, have you ever played that? Also, apart from sims what else do you enjoy playing? Anyway, hope you are having a good day!

Hey Natpop! Thanks for a lovely game suggestion! I’ve checked it out and it looks really fun. Can’t say I’d play it though XD All my free time (which I don’t have atm) is reserved for simming hood deco making working on Feverfew ^^

Anonymous said:

hey~ i love all of your stuff, you're so talented (๑♡⌓♡๑) i wanted to ask, do you think you'll ever release feverfew's sc4 map? 

Thank you Anon! That’s very kind. I’m not sure if there’s any point in releasing SC4 map I used for Feverfew because it’s completely differs from the way it looks now. The road layout is different, there’s no canal, no islands on the river, hills are different, etc. It has been heavily terraformed and edited during development process. I’d recommend just to wait till the Feverfew neigborhood release.

Anonymous said:

Hi! Do you have any idea of when Feverfew will be released? :) 

Hey Anon! It will be released this year, hopefully!

Anonymous said:

Hello :D Is it possible to get your linden trees as lot objects in build/garden section? I love them and they beautify my neighborhood but could really use an option to select them on lots too :)

Hello Anon! Yes, that’s possible, though I can’t say if I could make it myself. What I can say though, is that there’s a linden trees redux coming soon. It would make linden trees look better and highly optimised so that it would only take 4,5 Mb instead of 60 Mb without any losses in texture quality and resolution. 

[howcanibebetter2]

I made it to two bible talks today and somehow both people that I was expecting to come, did not.

I am cheered up though, I spent my day walking along the canal but I didn't feel better until I had some time to socialise and be encouraged.

Christine shared about the servant girl of Naaman in 2 Kings 5 today.

2Kings 5:3

She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

She's a girl who was taken captive and found no excuses to not help her master even though she could hold the grudge. She found a way to tell Naaman's wife about God's prophet who could heal his leprosy.

She had no fear to approach her master who has a higher standing than her in society to tell her the good news.

She understood how much Naaman needed help for his health, she has put others above herself by going out of the way of helping others.

She kept herself loyal to her God and to God's promises and made Naaman worship God. 2Kings 5:17

“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord.

It speaks volumes really to find no excuses to do good that we ought to do. To really share the scriptures to someone else and not forget I need to be reminded of these scriptures too.

The one from Luke's bible talk was about leprosy and how it links to numbing our feelings since leprosy is loss of sense of touch. It is a disease that cannot be cured instantly by doctors, but God can cure it instantly.

When feelings are numbed, only God could cure it and God can cure it instantly.

Numbing out is terrible because I couldn't cry over sad tragedies if I am numb. I couldn't express anger when I see something I dislike. I couldn't feel happiness when I experience joy. I've been through numbing out phase by watching youtube just so that I can go to bed after stressful days. I am really grateful for being able to speak to Jackie and Josie last night and pray this morning.

At one point, I just felt like I achieved everything with studying in the UK, entering university and travelled to enough places to think that I know every language and culture that I even felt numb about the next destination rather than happiness and eagerness and excitement. I'm grateful to have numbness removed so that I can experience my travelling life again just because I don't see travelling as something to give me happiness. It is only God that gives me happiness.

[ladyanatui]

Ultimate Daiken Playlist, Pt. 2

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

This is the abridged version of my Spotify playlist for all things Daiken, organized from the start of 02 to...eventually.

Part 2 specifically covers from Ken finding Wormmon’s Digi-Tama to just after XV-mon and Stingmon Jogress-evolve into Paildramon.

TRIGGER WARNING: This post discusses depression, suicide, emotional abuse, and PTSD quite a lot. Take care of yourselves, folks!

Spotify Playlist

Click the song titles for YouTube links (apparently you can’t have more than five videos in a post), and otherwise, enjoy me rambling about Daiken.

One final note: Within the lyrics, I’ve emphasized meaningful words, such as night/nightmare, dark/darkness, miracle(s), kind/kindness, courage/bravery, friend/friendship, sun/star/light, fire/burn/ignite, angel(s), and words related to water/drowning.

“What If This Is All the Love You Ever Get?” by Snow Patrol

What if it hurts like hell? Then it'll hurt like hell Come on over, come on over here I'm in the ruins too I know the wreckage so well Come on over, come on over here What if this is all the love you ever get?

If “Tell Me Why” by Three Days Grace focuses on Wormmon’s death, this song focuses on Ken’s trip to the Village of Beginnings, where he finds Wormmon’s egg and brings him back. Because Ken is absolutely scared that he won’t be able to find Wormmon because, as far as he believes, he doesn’t deserve to have him back. Obviously, that’s not true, and the pair is reunited and Wormmon even evolves to Stingmon between episodes (unfortunately).

“Aftermath” by Adam Lambert

Wanna scream out, no more hiding Don't be afraid of what's inside Gonna tell ya you'll be alright In the aftermath

Alright, this song is probably pretty obvious. Ken has to deal with the aftermath of what happened to him/what he did, and so do the rest of the Chosen Children. The others are cleaning up the Digital World while he’s learning to be an eleven-year-old boy again and allowing his parents to get to know him for the first time, even while he still tries to figure out who he is.

“Demons” by The All-American Rejects

Am I even here? Is it still even me? Am I some of the man that I still claim to be? It's like losing a fight, I'm alone in the ring You come to fix me? Would you believe, could you believe you need me?

Obviously, it’s not that easy, though. And when we experience trauma the way Ken does, having his choices and very personality taken from him, there’s a long road of recovery.

“Sinking Man” by Of Monsters and Men

Cold, dark sea Wrapping its arms around me Pulling me down to the deep All eyes on me

I pushed you away Although I wished you could stay So many words left unsaid But I'm all out of breath

I associate this song especially with the scene Ken and Daisuke share by the canal, where Daisuke asks Ken to apologize and join the team. The moment apologizing is mentioned, Ken agrees--which, of course, has Daisuke over the moon--but then he asks if Daisuke thinks the others would forgive him, if a mere apology would make up for everything he did.

Although he’s certainly right about them not accepting an apology without action and follow-through to back it up, he’s also (surprise, surprise) self-sabotaging. And that’s even more apparent the moment Daisuke calls him their “partner.” Ken flips out and runs off pretty quickly.

“The Real You” by Three Days Grace

And it seems like I've known you forever I'll keep you safe for one more night Need you to know that it's all right I see the real you Even if you don't I do I do

And this is the other side of the coin. Daisuke’s perspective of that same scene/situation. Because Daisuke looked into the Digimental of Miracles and he knows that Ken is good. He knows it with all his freaking beautiful heart, and he’s willing to completely ignore the other Chosen Children when they outright tell him they don’t want Ken on the team. He doesn’t care what they say because he knows how wrong they are, and he knows how wrong Ken is about himself.

It’s pretty safe to say that Daisuke is the only person in all of 02 who sees Ken for who he really is, and he’s willing to put everything on the line, including the team morale and dynamics, to support Ken.

“Numb” by Linkin Park

Can't you see that you're smothering me? Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control 'Cause everything that you thought I would be Has fallen apart right in front of you Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow Every step that I take is another mistake to you Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow And every second I waste is more than I can take

What playlist about a character with depression would be complete without this? “Numb” is an iconic depression song, made even more so by Chester Bennington’s death, though Linkin Park has so many songs related to depression and mental health.

**Okay, it’s pretty safe to say the next six songs have to do with the two-part episode (episodes 26 & 27) revolving around Daisuke and Ken’s initial Jogress evolution. It’s kind of a big deal, so it’s a big deal in the playlist as well. The event functions as 02′s midpoint and centerpiece, so it’s one of the most emotionally charged and important scenes in the whole season. It really can’t be summed up in a song or two.**

“This Is How I Disappear” by My Chemical Romance

Can you hear me cry out to you? Words I thought I'd choke on figure out I'm really not so with you anymore I'm just a ghost So I can't hurt you anymore

This song in particular is about Ken’s suicidal ideation, the technical term for suicidal thoughts. Ken is what is sometimes called “gray suicidal” (since people often think of suicide in black and white terms, which isn’t accurate) because he has no specific plan to kill him, he’s never attempted suicide, and he doesn’t want to actually die.

And yet, he thinks about death a lot and that he deserves to die and that his death would help fix things because he can’t hurt anyone if he’s dead. He wants to punish himself, and he wants to carry all of the burden because he thinks he deserves it. (Obviously, this isn’t true, as Ken’s story arc is more about overcoming trauma than about redeeming himself--but you’d have a hard time convincing Ken of that fact.)

“Friend, Please” by Twenty One Pilots

Would you let me know your plans tonight 'Cause I just won't let go till we both see the light And I have nothing else left to say But I will listen to you all day, yes, I will

So basically, these next couple songs sum up the argument Daisuke and Ken have before their digivices light up for the Jogress evolution. First, Daisuke tries to convince Ken to let them help, that they’ll work together, but...

“Save Yourself” by My Darkest Days

I’m the devil’s son straight out of hell And you’re an angel with a haunted heart If you’re smart you’d run and protect yourself From the demon living in the dark There’s nothing to be gained cause I can never change And you can never understand my sickness

Oh, look, Ken is being stubborn and frustrating and self-sabotaging yet again. He legitimately thinks the others will be better off if they leave him alone, and he means that both because if he’s the only one inside the base when it explodes, they’ll survive and because if they keep their distance from him in regards to friendship, he can’t hurt them emotionally. And worst of all, he’s roped Wormmon/Stingmon in on this suicidal atonement thing. *smh*

Ken: I won’t let people suffer anymore because of what I did...no more. ... I want to restore the Digital World with my own hands, but things just keep getting worse. I can’t stand it! Stingmon (to XV-mon): If there’s any way I can atone for the sins I’ve committed... Ken: It doesn’t matter what happens to me! Right now, I have to stop this reactor.

Bonus points for references to angels and hearts, though since this is from Ken’s perspective, Daisuke would be the “angel with a haunted heart.” Not sure that imagery works well, but the rest of it does.

“Die for You” by Starset

Some day when galaxies collide We'll be lost on different skies I will send my rocket ship to find you Because I know you're lost when you run away Into the same black holes and black mistakes Taking all my will just to run alone Until I bring you home

And what’s Daisuke’s reaction to Ken being stubborn and stupid? Bitch-slap him! He fucking needs it. (That’s everyone’s solution in this show, I swear.) And Daisuke isn’t going to let him get away with that shit. He yells and shouts and berates Ken until he finally looks at it from someone else’s perspective:

Daisuke: You idiot! *slap* How can you say that? Daisuke: Think of who would be sad if you were gone. If I let you go now and you never come back, I’ll regret it forever. So I won’t let you go! Daisuke: You may be okay with it, but I’m not. Ken: Motomiya... Daisuke: Live! Daisuke: If you die now, you won’t be able to accomplish anything. I don’t want that. Ken: I don’t want that either. There are still many things I must do. Ken: Besides, I don’t want to make my family sad anymore...

Note: I cut out XV-mon’s lines to Stingmon here because Daisuke’s words are the important part of this conversation, but I separated Daisuke’s lines where XV-mon spoke for clarity.

“Divide” by Bastille

Why would we divide when we could come together? Just bodies that collide, lost and found each other So don't, don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone, don't leave me alone Why would we divide when we could come together?

It’s only after that, after they understand each other on a monumental level, that they are able to Jogress evolve. And boy is that an experience. No other Jogress partners (except maybe Taichi and Yamato) have this intense of an experience with Jogress evolution, none have their bond.

And quite frankly, this song is about as poorly veiled a hint at sex as Jogress evolution is. Just listen to it. You’ll see.

But this song also shows Ken’s hesitation when it comes to Jogress. They work so well together, they’re completely in sync, they understand each other, but he’s definitely not ready to join the team or be Daisuke’s partner.

“Heartlines” by Florence + The Machine

Your heart is the only place that I call home Can I be returned, you can You can, we can

Just keep following The heartlines on your hand

Okay, and last one about the Jogress evolution! This one should be pretty damn obvious too: When Daisuke and Ken have their initial Jogress, one of the most notable things that makes it different from all others’ Jogress experiences is the fact that they can feel/hear each other’s heartbeats.

Soul fucking mates.

“Pieces” by Sum 41

This place is so empty My thoughts are so tempting I don't know how it got so bad Sometimes it's so crazy that nothing can save me But it's the only thing that I have

But when everything is over and Daisuke explains exactly how the experience was for him (“When our Digimon combined, our thoughts and feelings flowed through each of our bodies. Our hearts beating as one…it was an amazing feeling of unity! That’s when I knew we were partners.”), Ken panics and tells him, “I’m qualified to be your partner yet,” and walks away before Daisuke really has the chance to process what happened. Despite Daisuke’s words before they Jogress-evolved, Ken is still determined to redeem himself before allowing himself to join the team.

“Run” by Snow Patrol

Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you, dear

Of course, that would require Daisuke to know how to take no for an answer. Even if Ken isn’t going to listen to him and join the team, he still includes him as much as he can, and he is determined to stick by Ken’s side even if he doesn’t want him there.

And it may look to an outsider like Daisuke isn’t respecting Ken’s wishes, which yeah, that’s technically true. But by this time, Daisuke understands Ken better than anyone, save Wormmon, and while Daisuke may not respect Ken’s wishes, he respects Ken more than Ken respects himself. More than anything, he wants to help Ken, and he will be there for Ken to lean on if he ever needs to.

“Not Today” by Twenty One Pilots

Heard you say, "Not today" Tore the curtains down, windows open now, make a sound Heard your voice, "There's no choice" Tore the curtains down, windows open now, make a noise

I'm, I'm out of my mind, I'm not seeing things right I waste all this time trying to run from you But I'm, I'm out of my mind

To an extent, it is because of Daisuke’s forwardness that Ken keeps running away, as Hikari says on multiple occasions. He keeps trying to run away from Daisuke, from the other Chosen Children, but for some reason (*cough* Daisuke *cough*), it doesn’t seem to stick.

“Arch Drive Goodbye” by Eve 6

Wanna keep you from breakin' Wanna keep you from shakin' Wanna keep you from keepin' You down Wanna keep you from sinkin' Wanna keep you from drinkin' Sometimes Wanna keep you from keepin' You down

Ringing in my head All the things you've said All the things you've done I wish I could compromise But there's only one way to go And I'm going alone I'm going alone

I see this song as a sort of duet. There are sections/lines that would be from Daisuke’s perspective (the first quote, though obviously ignore the line about drinking--they’re eleven) and sections that would be from Ken’s (the second quote). Daisuke wants to help him so badly, but Ken is still so determined not to need help and to go it alone.

“Someone to Save You” by OneRepublic

All right Sit down and spill your heart

Let’s start from the very start 'Cause I can see by your eyes You're wasted Your energy comes and goes You taking your time, you know Nothing can change what happened

Not that Daisuke will listen to that, right? No matter how much Ken insists he can go it alone, Daisuke is always there to be supportive. He’s just as determined to help Ken as Ken is to refuse help. Actually, no, Daisuke is way more determined. He will always, above all else, persevere.

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Journal of a quarantine (2): The war of subscriptions

As we are all confined in our home for the time being, the main activity of people is, without surprise, to consume content online. I have myself started down my list of “must-watch” movies, which I never have time to do. 

Just yesterday I have watched a movie that I recommend: “The two popes”. The film is basically a long dialogue between a conservative pope and a more progressive cardinal on how to run christianity. In our time of crisis, this is a beautiful message of hope, respect and open-mindedness. 

While watching movies online is great source of distraction from the outside world, it is worth taking a look at what is going on with platforms right now. Netflix, Youtube and Amazon Prime have had to reduce their streaming to avoid internet overload, which is saying a lot.

While de worldwide economy is slowing down and we are expecting a catastrophic economic crisis, it has never been a better time to be in the SVOD business. The big players of the market know this is a great opportunity for them. All of them are trying to play their cards right to take in all the new consumers who have nothing but time to watch movies and TV shows.  

In France, Canal+ made a bold move and decided to be free for all! This causes many legal problems due to the special place Canal has in the industry. Of course they knew it was illegal for them to go free, but who was going to be the jerk who stops them ? In this hard time for the people of France, Canal+ made a generous gesture for the country! It could not last forever and the CSA put an end to it, but it was a well played strategy. 

Surprisingly, Disney+ who was supposed to launch in France by the end of March postponed its grand opening to the 7th of April. Disney says they have done so to please the French government who was asking them to shift their opening date. Either that or their servers are not ready to handle too many people. Whatever the reason, I am curious to see how the market is going to react to Disney+. Are consumers going to stop Netflix and subscribe to Disney? Are people going to pay for two subscriptions?

While the big companies are fighting for a piece of the cake, I think it might be interesting to take the time we have to discover a new platform. Their are many small companies out there who now more than ever need subscriptions to survive.