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mariabtsos · 6 months ago

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Unsinkable ||j.jk|| — Chapter 6

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Description: The 1910s are the peak of passenger ships, it was also the peak of classism, Jungkook is a third class immigrant from Korea, and you are a first class “prisoner” not wanting to go back to a life of strict standards. Once you meet Jungkook, life seems worth living, but when tragedy strikes, will you guys make it out to live the life you planned?

Genre: Titanic AU, poor/artist!JK x rich!f reader, angst, fluff, very slight smut, forbidden love.

Warnings: ANGST, major character death, mention of grave injuries, blood, thoughts of death and drowning, descriptions of mass panic.

Word Count: 1.4k+

Jungkook was stressed, or maybe that was an understatement. He was almost able to get away from Yoongi's grip if it wasn't for the Master-at-Arms being right there. They left him in that room, handcuffed to a pipe whilst the aforementioned went back to the main deck to assist with the evacuation of the ship.

Jungkook didn't think that he would die in a sinking ship, he had done so many other dangerous things in his short life. He reminisced about the time he was ice fishing with Chris and the ice gave out underneath him, the water was so cold, but he was quick to get out. He’d been to those county fair roller coasters and gotten off just before a piece of the track fell apart. He didn’t usually consider himself to be lucky until now, when he realized he had taken all the other times he had escaped being seriously injured or worse for granted.

How long had he been handcuffed?

The room slowly filled more and more with water, slowly tipping over where he had to hold on to a pipe to ensure he wouldn't hurt himself or his wrist. He'd hoped his death would be quick, then again he'd known from a book one of his parisian muses let him read, that if pain is what you wanted, drowning was the way to go. He wished he could've seen you one more time, that he would have kissed your lips one more time.

His laments were interrupted by a door being broken open, and he was shocked to see you there, water almost up to your waist, accompanied by Chris and an ax. “Yn? Chris? What the hell are you doing?” He questioned as both of them pushed through the water to make it to him, “we're not going to let you die, Jungkookie,” Chris said.

Getting to Jungkook had been challenging, you had to escape your mother, Namjoon and Yoongi after they had dragged you to the first class staircase to wait, it took strength and you spitting on Namjoon's face, but you'd be damned to go live a life that would be worse than dying on this boat.

On your way down, you ran into three young men who you found rather quickly to be Jungkook’s friends, and at first, when all three found out what your lover's fate was, they wanted to go with you, Chris however, insisted if anything were to happen Jungkook would be angry if all four of them died.

It was a funny thing to have to think about at such a young age, death. They were all in their early 20s and you were barely 21, you had so much to live and yet right at this moment, it was uncertain whether you'd be alive in the next hour. Ultimately, Chris came with you because Jungkook had been his friend for the better part of 4 years, and he was not going to leave him to drown, at least not on his own.

Chris had walked you through how to use the ax and had you make a couple practice swings, before you moved on to your main target.

“You've got this darling, I know you won't hurt me,” Jungkook assured you, and you were doing your best to hold back your tears, because one wrong cut and you coming down here would be for nothing. But luckily that wasn't the case, the cuffs around his wrist split and now they were like two bracelets, you let go of the ax which made a big splash

He wasted no time bringing you into his arms, hugging you tightly and kissing your head, and then hugging Chris, “we have to go if we want to make it to a lifeboat with Taehyung and Jimin,” the latter said, and you all made your best effort to run since there was no way of telling when the next burst of water would make it through.

It was unfortunately too soon.

The water came quick as you ran to the last working elevator, it sounded like a stampede of horses was running through the ship, the sound ever close as you finally had started to notice a difference in the water's height, you were starting to see your feet again, although a little too late.

You heard a loud groan, seeing that Chris had fallen behind, “Chan!” You heard Jungkook call, was that also Chris' name? “There was a hole in the wood, my foot’s stuck,” he struggled as attempted to get his foot out, Jungkook immediately jumped to help him, trying his best to be gentle, “damn you and your big feet,” his doe eyes were filling with tears they could now see the water coming quickly toward them, if they didn't get him out of there quick enough they would be dragged back, and would likely die.

“I don't care if my foot is hurt, just pull me out”

You joined in their attempts at liberating the poor man, and the screams that followed made you nearly burst into tears, it was just in time, as his foot popped out — you didn't dare look at it, afraid of it's condition — the water gushed down the hallway, loud impact of the waves against the walls of the ship, running for the small box that would bring you up to the main deck.

But it wasn't there, the gate was closed, and the lift was gone from where you had left it. You could feel your eyes swell with tears. Was this how you were going to go? Drowned in a ship never to be seen again? Because your body would most likely stay with the ship, would it even survive the depths of the ocean?

“There's a staircase this way!” Chris yelled, you saw the two men starting to run and so did you. As the water level kept getting lower thanks to what you could only assume was the way the ship was sinking.

It took some time, but you made it up the main deck just in time to see the chaos and panic. Men rushed to help lower the lifeboats, as well as women of all classes yelling for their husbands as they were placed in boats, or yelling for their children as they frantically looked through the main deck.

“LUCY?! Please has anyone seen my Lucy?! I can't leave the ship without her!” A mother screamed next to you, running through the crowd of people, looking through every nook and cranny. You watched as she went inside the boat once more, and you hoped she would be able to get out if she went any lower than any of the higher decks.

Your attention was ripped away when you heard the sound of gunshots ring.

“NO!” You heard a loud scream, seeing a circle forming in front of one of the lifeboats. The voice sounded familiar, and you hadn't realized you were moving until you felt Jungkook's hand sliding into yours, “you move quickly through a crowd,” the small joke making you chuckle. It was refreshing and appreciated. You pushed through, and once you finally made it to the front of the circle you dropped Jungkook's hand.

Yoongi was crying over Namjoon's body.

“I told you to stay back, women and children only!” The officer standing with his gun drawn spat back. “So you shoot him?! You incompetent fuck?!” Yoongi's eyes seemed to have a never ending stream of tears, his voice uneven. You knew that Namjoon and him were close since childhood, Yoongi had been working with Namjoon for a long time, his dad had worked with the aforementioned's family before Yoongi started to years later.

You slowly walked up to Yoongi, placing your hand on his shoulder “WHAT?!” He turned to you, his features softening, something he'd never done toward you, you looked down to see your ex-betrothed, his white shirt had a large scarlet stain in his stomach. “Ynie?” You heard him call, “Yoongi hyung?”

“We're here Namjoon-ah,” Yoongi sobbed, even in his weak state, Namjoon's dimpled smile made an appearance, “I'm sorry for being for being an ass to you Ynie,” you couldn't help the few tears that spilled from your eyes, the dragon eyed man stared up at your lover, giving him a stern nod which the younger man reciprocated, you sobbed watching the wordless exchange. “Take good care of them hyung,” he sighed.

You watched as Namjoon's grip on Yoongi's shoulder was slowly losing strength, until the only thing keeping their hands together was Yoongi desperately holding onto his best friend. You watched as he continued to sob for a few more minutes, the crow's dispersing in their own panic trying to reach a lifeboat, until he only sniffled.

“Let's get out of here,” Yoongi said sternly, “where are the rest of your friends Jeon?”

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randomliverpool · 8 months ago

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A large fire was witnessed by residents of Liverpool Student Lettings accommodation in the early hours on January 27 2024. #LiverpoolEcho

Village of the damned: Inside the Fox Street fire

Special investigation: For years, Matt O'Donoghue was told about major problems at a controversial development in Everton. Then the dire predictions came true. By Matt O’Donoghue.

“Block D is an inferno right now”, the first message reads. “Look what’s been torched.” More follow. “Not sure how other blocks are faring, they’ve been evacuated.” Some have video or photos attached. “Seen this. I feel sick.” One simply reads: “Fox Street’s final chapter.”

Block D at the stalled residential development of Fox Street Village sits on the edge of Everton. It is ablaze, and a lot of people want me to know. As the firefighters battle to hold back the flames that threaten to leap from block to block, frantic calls, dramatic videos, and heartbreaking messages light up my phone screen. Many of those getting in touch are people I met over the past five years I’ve been reporting on the sorry saga of Fox Street Village. They’re all saying the same thing: “It was only a matter of time.”

“Something like this had to happen,” says Chris Burridge, who owns one of the Fox Street Village apartments as he surveys the damage. It’s Sunday, January 28th and the day after the fire. Steel girders are bent and buckled like roller coaster tracks; the metal cools and creaks, and loose material flaps in the wind. “There’s been no decent perimeter fence for some time, even though we’ve been reporting incidents. We were lucky Block B didn’t go up. The flames and heat were ferocious. Mersey Fire saved those buildings.”

Lucky indeed. Fox Street Village was originally intended to be a 400 apartment complex spread across four blocks that were to be four or five stories tall. But Block D was never completed and has remained an unfinished shell for the past five years. The rest of the site, on the other hand, is home to a number of residents. Had the fire spread there, it would have been catastrophic. Letting agents are on-site to support tenants and help with the clean up, while insurance brokers and risk assessors mill about around them. Lifts, heating, and water are soon back on. Black debris litters the ground and the flat roofs of the adjacent blocks, while clumps of burnt insulation and wood continue to drift from above.

A team from Residence 365, the company that manages the Village’s interior communal areas, is helping to get residents back into their homes. “Unfortunately, as the fire started to take hold, many residents in Block A failed to evacuate,” says Carolyn Delaney, Residence 365’s managing director. “Police had to force their way into every apartment to make sure that building was clear and everyone was safe. Those doors and frames will have to be repaired.”

Outside, Block B’s walls and windows are warped from where it faced the fire. The cladding is buckled and wavy, like bad icing on an overbaked cake. Most of the glass is cracked and broken, and window frames have bowed out of shape. The fire breaks under the cladding will have activated and expanded. There will need to be a lot of work to put things right.

“The grounds and estate management company are nowhere”, says an exasperated Burridge. The last he was told, a company called Xenia Estates Limited were responsible for looking after the outside areas. “It’s outrageous. They’ve sent nobody down here to help or make things safe.”

Kevin Robertson-Hale is a local campaigner who set up the action group Everton Together. He was shopping at the ASDA on the Breck Road when he first saw the black clouds rising above his community. He knew straight away what was likely to be burning. “It’s just a miracle that nobody’s been hurt,” he says. Although Block D was not a finished building, homeless people have been sleeping there and using it as a shelter. “The way the place went up, someone asleep would never have got out.” Kevin is horrified by what has happened, but certainly not surprised. “We’ve been saying for years that something was going to happen. Either someone was going to fall off and break their neck, or it was going to go up in flames.”

Beneath the debris and behind the spectacular videos, the plumes of smoke billowing out and up from the bare bones of blazing Block D, are hundreds of stories of loss and despair. To properly understand what went wrong at Fox Street Village, to learn why things must be fixed, we have to understand why they were broken in the first place.

Between 1971 and 1991, Everton’s population dropped by 60% as the area’s fortunes and prospects charted exactly the decline of the British Empire. As Liverpool’s docks fell silent, the huge warehouses and the factories like Tate and Lyle and British American Tobacco were closed. Thousands of jobs disappeared and the communities that once relied upon those goods shipped from all corners of the Empire ceased to exist. An urgent need to improve the area’s housing conditions, the crumbling Victorian tenements, led to slum clearance and demolition on a massive scale. Those once solid communities were broken up with families moved out and housed in places like Kirby, Runcorn and Skelmersdale. It was the perfect storm; shops closed, tower blocks were pulled down and the city’s terminal decline was hastened by Margaret Thatcher’s vicious attempts to starve the upstart council controlled by Hatton’s Militant Tendency into surrender.

Fox Street Village followed the same controversial funding model that has dogged similar schemes across the city, known as ‘fractional sales’. Buyers — many based overseas — are enticed with the promise of a good rent and a solid investment in return for paying a large part of the sale price upfront. But as countless investors at other stalled sites in Liverpool have discovered to their detriment, there’s little or no protection should things go wrong.

When Fox Street Village Limited collapsed into administration, in 2019, it owed creditors £10 million and the city council nearly £700,000. The council told us that an invoice for over half a million pounds remains unpaid but that the building’s new owners will have to pick up that tab. Meanwhile, £6 million that investors had paid out for Block D was instead spent on a new fifth building the developers had added to their scheme. A search of records show creditors who had paid for apartments in Block D came from Birkenhead to Beijing and all points in between. With no money left to complete the job, and no cash to settle their bills, the steel frame and internal walls made of wood have remained open to the elements. The freehold to the site was sold to Manchester-based property investment company SGL1 Limited in 2020 for a reported £1.6 million. The site was split and a separate company run by the same two directors as SGL1 but called SGL3, took over the unfinished Block D. A series of complex court cases followed as buyers battled to gain control and finish the scheme. By 2021, the architect’s original drawings for Block D had been rebranded as “Park View” to be marketed at a new group of buyers. A one bed studio in the unfinished wood and steel shell was being advertised for £85,000. The Post is unsure how many people bought into this new scheme or whether their money is protected.

“I bought a three-bedroom apartment that cost £135,000, which was a really good deal. With hindsight, almost too good to be true. I’ve been firefighting one problem after another since day one.” November 8th, 2023 and I am rattling along the M62 with Chris Burridge. “It doesn’t look that good,” Chris says with detached stoicism and monumental understatement as Fox Street Village Block D comes into view. “It would be funny, if it wasn’t so costly and dangerous.” Chris is one of the apartment owners who have been battling over an £80,000 bill to install a transformer that would safely reconnect their electricity to the grid. The builders left a hot-wired connection into the mains, which Chris says the buyers only found out about after they’d secured the right to manage some of the site. It was just the latest in a long line of hidden surprises that have revealed themselves over the five years since tenants moved in. “The biggest block, Block D, is just a shell that should have been finished years ago,” Chris tells me as we pull up alongside what looks like a building entirely made of wood and wrapped in tin foil. “There should have been one large, shared entrance area, an underground car park for 170 vehicles, shops, a cinema room with communal laundry, and a bike store. All of those amenities were what made this site so attractive.”

Chris pauses to re-imagine what could have been, before reality kicks back in. “None of that exists. What we’ve actually got are great apartments next to the rat-infested fire trap of a mess that is Block D.”

By Matt O’Donoghue

Chris Burridge on Fox Street. Photo: Matt O’Donoghue.

The building on Fox Street. Photo: Chris Burridge

Stand on the edge of Fox Street today and look towards the gleaming glass skyscrapers and modern penthouses and it’s obvious, the regeneration that has breathed new life into other parts of Liverpool in recent years seems to run out of steam as it creeps towards this area’s streets. According to the last census, Everton West — where Fox Street Village sits — has the third highest numbers of children on free school meals. This neighbourhood has some of the poorest health indicators, including the lowest life expectancy, across the whole of the city.

As Liverpool’s reputation grew as a great place to study, the last decade has seen residential housing for the influx of students become the city’s short-term planning solution and a way to kickstart Everton’s economy.

Residents in this area have been complaining to me about the rats for as long as I’ve been investigating Fox Street Village. Back in April 2019, I broke my first story on the slow-motion car crash that has taken place here — months of work as part of an ongoing investigation for ITV’s Granada Reports. Back then, tenant Ross Lowey told me on camera: “We don’t feel safe. Every time we come back round that corner, we expect to see flames coming out of it.” He was far from alone in his unhappy prophecy.

Six months before that first ITV News report, in November 2018, I had been on a separate investigation into how developers duck out of paying the millions they owed to their cash-strapped council. It suddenly took an unexpected twist. While I ploughed through a mountain of conflicting planning documents that link to this case, a buyer tipped me off that their building was about to be the first on Merseyside to be shut down and issued with a Prohibition Notice. It was the last-ditch resort for a city council that had run out of ideas on how to make this site safe. “Serious construction issues will contribute to the spread of fire,” the Prohibition Notice reads. “Fire will spread quickly and possibly unnoticed.”

Put simply, the problems that the buyers had uncovered at their completed flats were so severe that they put lives at risk. While Block D remained unfinished, three of the four blocks that people had already moved into were so dangerous that everyone would be forced to move out — immediately. Judge Lloyd would later brand the project “disgraceful” as she fined the developers £3,120 for breaching planning conditions. She expressed sympathy for the residents and investors who had been affected. Planning inspectors said the development was “poorly finished” and failed to meet standards. Those problems have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to put right.

By Matt O’Donoghue

Chris Burridge on Fox Street. Photo: Matt O’Donoghue.

The building on Fox Street. Photo: Chris Burridge

Fox Street after the fire. Photo: Chris Burridge

The author Matt O’Donoghue on ITV. Photo: ITC/IMDb.

The council say that it was only after the buildings were largely constructed that it became apparent there was a failure to comply with conditions or the plans that had been passed. When the new owners submitted another application to make up for the missing car park, a fresh deal was struck for them to pay towards a cycle route and parking scheme. But planning approval was refused when no money was forthcoming.

Two companies were involved in the development of Fox Street Village: Linmari Construction Limited and Fox Street Village Limited. Both were run by company director, Gary Howard. In 2013, Howard was left as the sole director of Fox Street Student Halls Limited after his business partner, Lee Carroll, was forced to step down. Carroll had been found guilty of being a gang master under legislation brought in to tackle labour exploitation after an investigation into a recruitment company that Carroll ran with John Howard. Carroll was banned from being a company director for 12 years.

While nothing should be inferred from Gary Howard’s previous business history, six companies where he was a director and shareholder have a County Court Judgement against them. Just like Fox Street Village Limited, seven firms that Howard also once helped run have gone into administration owing money to creditors — two of which were also residential developments in Liverpool designed for student living. We’ve been unable to contact Mr Howard for a comment.

“The frameworks that are supposed to deliver safe buildings, protect their owners and keep those inside safe are not up to the job,” says Dr Len Gibbs, whose doctoral thesis focused on the problems with unfinished developments in the Liverpool area.

That regulatory framework — to get a building through from an architect’s drawings to the point of being occupied — can be roughly broken down into two stages: planning and building control. The first part is strictly controlled by rules and regulations that must be met and followed to the letter. A council department controls the planning process, and everything has to be approved by a committee after a rigorous assessment by trained officers. Once it passes and everybody agrees that the buildings are what the council and community needs, the proposals are said to have ‘gained consent’.

When developers have their planning consent, a building control team comes on board to oversee every step of the construction. Site inspectors visit to approve stages such as the foundations and drains, and the relevant paperwork is filed with the city council to confirm everything has progressed according to the plans that were submitted and in accordance with the required regulations. In theory, these two functions operate independently but in support of one another to deliver a building that doesn’t kill the people who move in.

That’s something of a simplification, but these are incredibly complex areas that require years of training to properly understand. Only when every step has been followed can a completion certificate be issued against the building and each individual apartment. These final pieces of paper confirm that everything is up to standard and legally ready for tenants to move in. If all these steps are followed correctly, then a development of buildings that were once judged to be a threat to the lives of residents should never be occupied. Yet they were occupied.

#liverpoolstudentlettings #Liverpool student letting #2024 #fire #Liverpool echo #fox street studios #video #viralpost #liverpool #student #Liverpool students #January 2024 #blaze #merseyside #Fox Street Village #Matt O'Donoghue #itv

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insert-the-4thwall-entity · 3 months ago

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Here's something new regarding dreams -

Last night i dreamt about two things, but i'll focus more on the first part cause it's has to be.

It was mainly pingu themed, because later in the dream characters from other media show up. The main plot of is that Robby the seal had opened a full blown theme park, toped with rides, artist corner full of those makeup and ect., it doubled as a water-park(i think), had a shop area and had some roller-coasters. I don't know how he'd maneged to do such thing, but with this part of the dream progressed i think none of it was legal in anyway and it contain what the later characters what to retrieve, plus the park was so self-centered around Robby, which is so out of character for him.

There was a moment where I, MYSELF was in the shop area's clothing section, looking for my parents, probably because i noticed something, but I got my eye on some black fingerless elbow-high gloves. I took it to beg them to buy it, despite being roughly $69 and then i found my parents. Then it cuts to Pingu walking around the park panicked, probably upon realizing something. Then Pingu comes across Robby and this is the part were we see how out of character Robby has became. The seal had malicious intent towards the poor penguin.

Then it cuts to the climax were it's when our guest characters come in - some characters from Metal Cardbot and Sans undertale. There's also this new cardbot characters that my sleeping brain made up, who's what i assume to be a big hybrid between a normal communal bus, some aspects of a party bus and a tour bus, but the ones that are used for school field trips and by that i mean with this interior(at least in my country they let the schools use them for field trips). Me, sans and the cardbot bus were evacuating the park guests as we're posing as if it was on the authority's behalf, while what i assumed to be Pingu, Jun and Bluecop are trying to take down Out-of-character Robby. Meanwhile in the bus, every park guest, including mine and Pingu's families, Sans and i are sitting next to each other. We also placed a bet for something, where if he wins - i own him ketchup and if i win - he owes me those fingerless gloves.

And that's where this part ended. The other part was about a duology of some non-existent movies about a dapper shadow-demon with the first movie being his tragic backstory where he was human and the inclusions of Thomas the tank engine and other characters, but I just wanted to talking about the first part, because it's the first dream that had Metal Cardbot characters in it.

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ihatesocialmedia45 · 2 months ago

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Chapter 12: God's Gonna Cut You Down

Stan calls the Seven in for a meeting after the Valentine's Day Massacre

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everybody ha-ates Sage! 🎵 "Starlight": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ecmtqd7LE "Seven Therapy Session": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK71ZfaZO4

Starlight walked in a stiff-legged march with the rest of the Seven, her face stony as she stared ahead. The rest of them had been silent as well, the echo of their footsteps resounding in the hall. Deep had tried to lighten the mood with a joke, but he'd been swiftly shut down; this was no time for his antics. Starlight flicked her gaze around the group, the knot in her stomach tightening.

Firecracker had gone completely pale, the sheen of her sweat sickly as it reflected the fluorescent lights above her. Her lip was quivering, her body stiff, as Deep wrapped an arm around her, murmuring assurances and holding her hand. A-Train sauntered smoothly down the halls, chin jerked in the air, a light swing in his arms as he moved; a bolt of fury lit her from within - Starlight wanted to smack him across the face, jerk him around until his eyes rattled in his skull, scream at him till her voice gave out. Thousands of people are dead! You asshole, the thought burst in her mind. You asshole...

What brought her up short, though, was Maeve; she walked on, head held high - but a dark tinge of something Starlight couldn't place had settled over her eyes like dust, leaving her filmy and out of reach. Her step was resolute, her shoulders squared... but she wore her despair quietly, behind that awful, murky veil, tucked away behind the mask of her indifference. No, Starlight thought, an ache whirling in her heart.

Not indifference. Resignation.

She understood it now, that slow, painful cessation of hope, the withering of belief that sat in the throne room of Maeve's soul - better than she wished to. Since her arrival at Vought, she'd been admittedly judgmental of Maeve and her ground down approach to life; scoffing at her decisions to leave civilians rather than take the time to ensure their safety, her indifference to the bloodshed that all but painted the walls of Vought... she'd even shouted at her once, voice cracking, the intensity of her disgust so potent that she'd exploded the lights in her room.

"You can lift a fucking airplane hanger with one hand! Or turn a building into sand! But you can't, I don't know, take 30 minutes to evacuate a burning fucking airport?!"

She'd stood tensely, hunched from the exertion, waiting for Maeve to react - to scream in turn, to slap her... but she'd only put her cigarette out into Starlight's water, and raised a brow as the hiss sounded lazily through the air. Starlight sighed, and turned her gaze away. She'd felt justified in her anger - a part of her still did, even now. But in the wake of this atrocity, Starlight gave pause, her throat catching as the visions came back to her, stunning her into stillness.

Homelander, streaking through the sky, blood cresting like the wave of a tsunami behind him, the screams snuffing out like candles.

The crash of the roller coaster - he'd crushed a fleeing family , their car rendered annihilated by his despair.

The sky raining blood, running down her face, her eyes, seeping in through her clothes and puddling in her boots. Viscera, caked under her nails.

And worse of all... worst of all...

The snatch of the two of them she'd caught as she looked over her shoulder, entwined like snakes, Homelander's head bowed as he prayed into her mouth, the squelch of blood ringing out as she pulled him closer.

Starlight bit back a gag.

Before, Sage's plan had seemed so sure. They'd grab her at the first opportunity, let her know that she could give up the charade and come with them, and Homelander would never find her again. She must have been terrified, trapped with him in her apartment for days on end, just for him to haul her over his shoulder and take her to Vought when Stan had coming calling. That had been at her insistence, she remembered, feeling ill.

But the look in her eyes when Maeve had grabbed her, told her of what he'd done, the people he'd killed, the way he'd tortured them... she'd fixed them all with that gaze of terrible calm, even as the screams and wails blared behind her, and laughed.

"I think you'd better let me get back to him," she'd said, gesturing to the carnage piled around them. A gust of wind from Homelander's flight blew her hair sharply over her face, obscuring her from view - and when the air settled, her face emerged from the dark mass, a small smile gracing her lips.

Starlight couldn't help the retch that churned within her; she held a hand to her mouth, eyes watering, turning her bleary glare onto Sage when she scoffed.

This was all your fault, she thought, expression darkening until the shorter woman turned away.

The air in Stan's office bore an oppressive quality as the Seven gathered around him while he sat. He looked them over, each one, eyes dark - angry. In all his time as CEO of Vought, Stan had never so much as quirked an eyebrow toward anyone... but now, when he opened his mouth to speak, the voice that escaped him was not of the man they'd come to know. He wasn't Stan anymore; in his fury, he became something else entirely.

He let the silence roll over them for a moment, hands steepled in front of his face, before turning his gaze onto Sage, eyes murderous.

"The smartest person alive..." he started lowly, "and your first thought, when confronted with the dilemma of an intensely unstable man and his obsession... was to separate them."

"Sir, I didn't know-"

"You're right. You didn't know. You didn't know just how far she'd go for Homelander... or what kind of creature we're up against at all. You didn't know her history. You didn't know the lengths he'd go to, to keep her - somehow."

Stan paused, letting his words sink in, his eyes piercing through Sage, before they flashed again, a streak of cold rage passing over his face.

"You didn't know anything... except that I'd made it clear that this situation was handled. And yet, you acted."

The team hung their heads, afraid to meet his gaze; Stan tutted and, sighing quietly, rose to his feet, moving to the center of the group.

"This woman... is something we have never seen before. Homelander bonding with... anyone, is an unprecedented scenario. But with this in mind... it should go without saying that now is not the time to form diverging plans." He gave one last sharp look toward Sage, before nodding curtly.

"From now on, we will continue as normal; you all will proceed with your therapy sessions with Dr. Rangel... and no-one is to intervene in regards to the current mission at hand without my knowledge or approval."

Stan stepped out of the circle. "You're scheduled to meet with Dr. Rangel in 10 minutes. I suggest getting there early," he said smoothly, watching as they left. One by one, they quickly filed out of the office, with Starlight softly closing the door behind them. Stan sighed, and made his way to his desk, before returning to the files he'd been reading before the meeting.

Vought International - Official Application to Host a Super-Abled Embryo

Vought International - Confidential Document

Application to Host a Super-Abled Embryo

Application No: 9

Applicant Information

Full Name: ________Jane Wright______________________________________

Date of Birth: _______01/14/1968_______________________________________

Social Security Number: ____546-67-1649__________________________________

Current Address: ______524 Timpson Pl, Apt 34_____________________________________

City, State, ZIP Code: ___South Bronx, New York, 10455_____________________________________

Phone Number: ________(546) 352- 7701_____________________________________

Marital Status:

Single *

Married

Divorced

Widowed

Number of Dependents: ____0____________________________________

Medical Information

Primary Care Physician: ___N/A____________________________________

Physician's Contact Information: _______N/A_________________________

Height: _____5'5''_________________

Weight: ______130________________

Blood Type: __N/A_________________

Do you have any known allergies?

Yes

No *

If yes, please list: __________________________________________

Do you have any chronic medical conditions?

Yes

No *

If yes, please provide details: ________________________________

Have you ever undergone major surgery?

Yes

No *

If yes, please provide details: ________________________________

Current Medications:

N/A

Family Medical History:

N/A

Personal and Psychological Information

Have you ever been diagnosed with any mental health conditions?

Yes *

If yes, please provide details: __Depression, CPTSD, Generalized anxiety______________________________

Do you currently participate in therapy or counseling?

Yes

No *

If yes, please provide details: ________________________________

Describe your current living situation (e.g., apartment, house, etc.):

Apartment

Do you have any experience with children?

Yes *

If yes, please provide details: _Oldest sibling____ ___________________________

Why are you interested in hosting a Super-Abled embryo?

The stipend.

How do you plan to prepare for the physical and emotional responsibilities of hosting a Super-Abled embryo?

Taking supplements, eating healthy, sleeping more. Getting clean.

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Have you ever been convicted of a crime?

Yes

No *

If yes, please provide details: ________________________________

Are you currently under investigation for any legal matters?

Yes

No *

If yes, please provide details: ________________________________

Are you willing to undergo a comprehensive background check, including medical, psychological, and financial assessments?

Yes *

Are you willing to sign a confidentiality agreement regarding the hosting process?

Yes *

Do you understand and agree that hosting a Super-Abled embryo is a binding contract with Vought International, subject to specific terms and conditions, including potential legal actions for breach of contract?

Yes *

Financial Compensation and Benefits

Vought International offers a compensation package for hosting a Super-Abled embryo, which includes:

Weekly Stipend: $2,000

All medical expenses covered by Vought International.

Complimentary lodging at Vought International facilities (if required).

Additional benefits as outlined in the hosting agreement.

Do you agree to the terms of financial compensation?

Yes *

Declaration and Signature

I, the undersigned, declare that all information provided in this application is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand that providing false information or omitting relevant details may result in the termination of my application and any associated agreements with Vought International.

I also acknowledge that hosting a Super-Abled embryo involves significant physical, emotional, and legal responsibilities, and I am prepared to undertake these responsibilities as outlined by Vought International.

Applicant’s Full Name: _Jane Wright_____________________________________

Signature: ______Jane Wright__________________________________________

Date: _______05/03/1986_____________________________________________

For Vought International Use Only

Application Received By: _____Stanford Edgar_______________________________

Date: _____05/08/1986_______________________________________________

Medical Review: [*] Approved [ ] Denied

Psychological Review: [*] Approved [ ] Denied

Background Check: [*] Approved [ ] Denied

Final Approval: [*] Approved [ ] Denied

Notes:

Subject seemed eager to start hosting trial. Young woman, White, no living family. Subject excelled in school, but failed to pursue higher education - look out for despondency as trial commences, and (if applicable) post-partum. Subject is to be monitored weekly by Vought Executives, and kept calm at all costs.

Confidentiality Notice: This document contains sensitive information and is the property of Vought International. Unauthorized disclosure or distribution of this document is strictly prohibited.

Vought International Pioneering the Future of Super-Abled Innovation www.voughtinternational.com

Dr. Rangel smiled warmly at the Seven as they settled into their seats; she'd brought exercise balls this time, and Deep chuckled as he bounced, his arms waving at his sides. He secured the ball between his legs, bounding over to Noir, bumping him playfully and laughing as Noir gave chase on his own ball, hopping madly after him. Maeve watched from her perch, a smile tugging at her lips in spite of herself, letting out a yelp when A-Train bumped her, before speeding off. Sage sat cross-legged on her ball, eyes still hot from her confrontation with Stan, and Firecracker rolled her spine as she sat. Starlight stood for a moment, before resting on the floor beside her ball, her expression lost. Dr. Rangel cleared her throat.

"Alright, everybody. I know that this has been a particularly troubling week - and you must have so much to say, so much that you're thinking. If you'd allow me... I'd like to hear about it."

The Seven quieted to a hush then, moving off the exercise balls to sit on the floor, joining Starlight. The mirth from earlier seemed to fade into the air as they looked on, eyes unfocused and murky. Maeve spoke first.

"I don't think anyone is really mad at Sage," she started, running a hand through her hair. "Not really. We all believed her plan would work - that's why we followed it." A-Train scoffed. "Yeah, easy to say when she's your girlfriend. She knew Stan told her to stand down, and she didn't listen because he put her pride on the line." Sage bristled.

"No! I didn't know she was just as fucking crazy as he was!"

"Nobody did," Starlight muttered, her eyes haunted. She looked up. "I mean... you saw her. So sweet, and girly, and just... cheery. She fucking waved at us, like she was shy! For fuck's sake... we all thought he was holding her hostage or something... anything other than the truth." The vision of the woman's smile flashed before her eyes again; Starlight let out a shuddering breath as the tears started to gather in her eyes.

"How the fuck was anyone supposed to predict this?"

Firecracker nodded. "All those people... all those people..." Deep rubbed her shoulder, pressing a kiss to her there, and grabbed her hand.

"And... the way they kissed after," Firecracker continued, wringing her hands. "They just... stood there, in the blood, wrapped around each other."

"That was fucking nasty," A-Train conceded, finally shaking his head.

Noir spoke up then, donning his pen and pad and sketching. The Seven and Dr. Rangel leaned in as he worked, drawn to the skittering of the pen. He drew for a moment, shading violently with his pen - so hard that he ripped through the page, earning a gasp from Deep - then, finally, he revealed his work.

He'd drawn the woman's face, split down the middle, the group saw: on one side, she smiled, her face bright and open, a twinkle sketched in the corner of her eye.

On the other, he'd scribbled out all features by her eye, glowing ominously against the dark ink. Above her, he'd written one word, bordered with hearts. Homelander.

Dr. Rangel nodded. "Yes, it does seem that way, doesn't it? Like the woman posed as something completely opposite of who she was truly, and this attempt to rescue her -"

"Was a complete failure," Starlight said, her voice ground to ash. The room quieted.

Dr. Rangel sighed. "It's easy to feel that way. But it's important to recognize, as Maeve pointed out, you didn't know - or what you pointed out, that you couldn't have known."

"I'd like to take a moment, actually, to congratulate you all - yes, Reginald, congratulate you," she said when A-Train fixed her with a look of disbelief.

"Why?" he asked, disgust coloring his tone. "We didn't save one person - actually, this happened because we tried to save one person." Dr. Rangel raised a finger.

"That's exactly why I'm congratulating you," she said, looking around the room. "You saw someone that you believed needed saving, against the most powerful Supe in the world, no less - and you did your best to rescue her."

The Seven looked to her then, their faces barely daring to betray the hope her words stirred within them. Deep shifted, holding Firecracker closer.

"Well... yeah. We did try to save her. Like... who would have thought she loved him back, right? Nobody was going to have guessed that - I thought she was on Vought's payroll for, like, two weeks." the group laughed quietly. Deep continued, encouraged.

"Yeah, and moving in three days after they met? Like... he's kidnapping her! There's no other way! There was, like, a one in one million chance she was just as batshit as he was... that's just, like, bad odds."

The group nodded slowly, before Rangel started again, the room a shade lighter now.

"Now... this might seem a like a sudden shift from the current topic of discussion... but I'd like to ask your opinion on how we should proceed with future sessions. Today, I've brought the exercise balls, but for our next session, I turn the floor to you: what exercises would you be interested in doing, as we progress?" Deep's hand shot in the air. "Animal therapy," he said immediately. Firecracker nodded earnestly. A-Train lifted his head, watching as Dr. Rangel took notes. "Anyone else?"

Noir took to his pad again, sketching a small painter's easel with a question mark beside it. "Art therapy," Starlight said, nodding. "Yeah, I like that one, too."

The group got to discussing, each growing more animated, until they turned to Rangel with their choices, and she smiled at them, the chain of her glasses reflecting the light as she nodded.

"These are all great suggestions. I'll make sure to incorporate them into our next session," she said, pleased with their efforts. Just as she finished, the buzzer sounded, and the Seven let out a breath as they rose to their feet, filing out.

Dr. Rangel sighed after they'd left, her brain churning in the wake of the session. Stan had tasked her with something truly monumental, she thought ruefully. But the Seven had shown promise - namely Deep and Starlight, with Maeve and A-Train beginning to come around. Firecracker didn't seem to have anything to say if Deep wasn't involved, something she'd made note of after the first session... but she'd seemed to come out of her shell today. Noir was, as always, enigmatic as ever, his drawings speaking to the group in a way words never could - she wondered about him, even as she acknowledged his binding presence within the group. And Sage... she really had been trying to prove she was a member of the Seven, after all this time. Therese felt a stir of pity move within her.

Taking down her tight bun, she shook her hair out, and settled into her seat. She would have another session, soon, per Stan's instructions: couple's therapy, with Homelander and the woman. She gave a bitter chuckle, sweeping her eyes closed. Lord...

She took a few deep breaths, composing herself, before opening her eyes again - this time, catching a small, folded square of paper lodged under the leg of her desk. One of Noir's drawings. Prizing it from its place, she unfolded it slowly, before gasping softly.

Noir had drawn the inside of a house, coquettish and sweet in its decor, and nearly life-like in its accuracy. He'd captured the essence of the place, wherever it was; the cheery floral wallpaper, the portrait of Homelander, a soft-looking couch... but the focal point of the piece made her pulse spike in her chest; underneath the table, he'd drawn a white, bearskin rug, with a human heart resting in its jaws. She looked on, eyes widening.

Underneath the picture, he'd written one thing, in jagged, fearful print: the woman's name.

#diabolica writes #homelander #don't save her #homelander x reader #the boys #homelander x you #the boys amazon #the boys tv #i updated!!

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autoblur · 5 months ago

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Your Name: by Makoto Shinkai

I have watched this film a few times and it still is one of my favorite Japanese films alongside Howl's Moving Castle. This is more my cup of tea because I love romance in anime. However, unlike most romance stories in other animations which can be repetitive, this one had such a lasting impact on me. I remember the first time I watched it I genuinely started crying. It tells the story of Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu, two high school students. Although this anime does take themes and common tropes from other animes, it does so in a very unique and beautiful manner. Their love story transcends time and space.

The two strangers begin switching bodies without ever actually meeting each other. These episodes occur for an entire day, and then they return to their original bodies. Whenever Taki tries calling Mitsuha on the phone, the body-switching stops.

An important element of the film is the natural disasters that it depicts. The most important phenomenon is the comet Tiamat which was expected to pass near Earth during the autumn festival. This is my favorite part of the movie, I had never watched such a beautifully written story. When the body-switching stops Taki tries to find Mitsuha only to find out that the village had been destroyed by the Comet three years prior. The two were not only switching bodies, but time traveling. They were traveling between the years 2013 and 2016. Mitsuha was one of the 500 people killed by the comet.

The red ribbon is also a crucial element of the move in my opinion. I always loved the symbolism of the red ribbon which connects people's fates. Mitsuha had visited him three years prior but he had lost the memories and given him the red ribbon he always wore. Taki again awakes in Mitsuha's body and tries to save the village and their timelines cross. This was such a beautiful and memorable scene, the image of the scene is still engrained in my head. Taki returns the ribbon, and they try to write their names on each other's palms. Both of them had been losing their memories of each other. When Mitsuha returns to her body she convinces her father, the mayor, to order an evacuation that saves the city. However, she loses memory of Taki, but learns that he wrote that he loves her on her palm instead of his name. Years, later they meet again in Tokyo but they have lost their memories of each other. However, the red string of fate has connected them throughout different timelines and universes. They feel the connection between them, and they ask each other for their name.

This film was an emotional roller coaster for me. I love watching romance films because although they endure challenges to their love, the ending usually is predictable which is comforting. However, this film truly takes fate into a different direction. There was a point where I didn't know how everything was going to work out, but it did.

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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 1 year ago

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Guest Killed, Nine Injured After Being Thrown From Coaster

On June 25 2023, a train at the Jetline roller coaster attraction at Grona Lund Park in Stockholm, Sweden, derailed, sending passengers on board plunging to the ground below. One guest was killed, and nine more sustained injuries necessitating transport to a local hospital. The scene was described by witnesses at the park as chaotic as the front of the train vehicle at the roller coaster attraction looked as though it jumped off the tracks before coming to an abrupt halt. One train car was left tilting toward the ground below. “The front of the train partly derailed and stopped on the track at a height of between 6 and 8 meters (between 20 and 25 feet),” said Grona Lund Park chief executive Jan Eriksson. “A total of 14 people were on board, of which one person has died, and several are injured.” Three of the individuals were children, each of them with minor injuries. “The car just stops, and people fly out, fall out of the car,” said witness Ziba Assadi, who witnessed the accident as it happened. Assadi was reportedly standing under the coaster tracks, and she saw the wheel assembly of one of the train cars crash to the ground. Other witnesses say that two to three people fell from the ride vehicle, one of whom was able to cling to the track. Photos from the chaotic scene reportedly depict a man sitting below the stopped train atop a beam. “So he sits there straddling [the beam] and waits,” Assadi said. “There was complete panic.” Immediately following the coaster accident, the entire theme park was evacuated. Grona Lund remained closed for seven days as a full investigation into the accident was conducted to determine what caused the train car to derail. Police have also launched a criminal investigation on possible charges of involuntary manslaughter, causing danger to others, and causing bodily harm.

#Grona Lund Park #roller coasters #accidents #theme parks #news

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eyesoverinfinity · 2 years ago

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Murphy and Delvin

Keith Murphy belongs to me, Keith Delvin belongs to @sheepkebby and Keith Marshall (mentioned in passing) Belongs to @explodingsparks

Story under the cut:

Murphy looked into the strange blank space that they had decided to call the "Keith meeting" room.

They had found this room and each other only a month ago.

A month of surprise and fun.

A month before all their worlds went to shit. A lot had happened since then, They had all evacuated, at least tried to, once they had been told but they had all lost their way.

The Keith's had stopped using this place as a party room and started using as a shelter.

Though as safe as it was as only a Keith could get in, there were three big problems.

One, you couldn't use it to hide or wait something out. The portal that took you in spat you out at the exact time and place that you leap in. It wouldn't let you enter other worlds either, but with the virus rampaging throughout all of them it's not like you'd be escaping to anything better.

Two, you couldn't use it to store supplies. Sure, you could bring things in, but the moment you left it'd spit them back out unless another Keith took them. Then you couldn't take that thing into your world because the room thinks it belongs to the Keith you gave it to. at least things could be given to the ones who need it more.

Three, your body, biologically speaking, is frozen. You can't eat, drink, sleep, gain or lose body heat or heal from wounds. and Murphy was pretty sure that, while he WAS breathing, no air came into or left his lungs. Granted, you didn't need to do any of that in here. But if you needed to, say, recover from extreme temperatures or wait for a cramp to go away. That's not happening in here.

Some people also heard voices asking them questions, but that was neither here nor there.

What this place was good for though. Was a chance to think and to know that you're not alone.

He stepped into the the dull white void that had been called the "main hub", being the room that connected all of the doors. None of them looked too different to be honest, not to start with. but the one thing that didn't leave this world was permeant marker stains.

So they had drawn all kinds of pictures and their last names to know who was who.

He smiled at the memory of drawing them, that had been fun.

He wondered if the Keith he was looking for was going to be there. Granted we welcomed being able to talk to any Keith, a friendly voice went a long way nowadays. But he wanted to talk to one in particular.

He looked over to his door, to find him sitting just outside of it. Devlin was resting, seemly thinking through some things. His ginger hair knotty and unkept, with his pale skin newly wounded and green eyes unfocused. Despite being two years younger than Murphy, Devlin was far bigger in size and strength.

Devlin was a selfless man. But Murphy could tell he was nervous about how people thought of him. Personally Murphy couldn't give a damn, life was too short for things like listening to a strangers hissy fit.

But he had also noticed that he maybe the only Keith that reached that conclusion.

No matter, he'd talk to them all in time.

"Howdy other me!" Murphy called out to Devlin. He was snapped from his thoughts and looked around, spotting Murphy instantly.

"Hey Murphy!" Devlin replied, "How've you been?"

"Not dead yet, can't complain. And you?"

"That story's a fucking roller-coaster. You got some time on your hands?"

Murphy jokingly jesters to the space they're both in.

"Fair enough man, come on over!" Devlin laughed.

His story was as long and exciting as any adventure a Keith would have, although no other Keith's had a dog yet, and Murphy listened well.

He was glad that Devlin was in a safer position now. And while he had something else to talk about, that could wait till after.

As Devlin finished his story of heroic survival, he turned to Murphy and said:

"How about you buddy? Anything interesting happen lately?"

"No actually," Murphy admitted. "I've holed myself up at an abandoned military base. My leg's still jank and hasn't recovered since the last time we talked, so I'm going to stay there till I can walk properly again."

"Fair, at least you still have both your legs." Devlin shrugged, taking his own fake leg off. "Nothing cool at the base?"

"Think everything that worked was taken when the military left or by other survivors. The only thing I found was papers with outdated info about the green flu."

"How outdated?"

"Didn't know about the charging things, acid chicks or the laughing ones."

"That's pretty outdated."

"Danm right."

The was a pause, a moment to comprehend the reality of them doing better than the military. They had learnt very quickly that, while there was differences, the fate of their worlds seemed to be going down the same road. And form the looks of it, it was not well made one.

Murphy broke the silence with a sign.

"I... I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Shoot little guy!"

"I'm two years older than you."

"Whatever grandpa, I'm an open book. There's nothing that you could say tha-"

"Are you gay?"

Devlin stopped mid gloat. He went red in the face and ears and immediately broke eye contact.

"WHAT??!" He yelped in an undignified manner. "Pfff, No! Of course not! What gave it- I mean suggested that?!? I mean that's ridiculous, I'm as straight as a-. a-."

"Circle?" Murphy suggested

"Yes.- NO!"

"Man, Ellis and Dave said I was bad at lying," Murphy thought to himself, "But I didn't realise I was THAT bad."

"I'm as straight as a ruler!" Devlin exclaimed, "Yeah... a ruler."

Maybe Murphy HAD picked up something useful at the military base, Murphy took a pink bendy ruler out of his back pocket and waved it around.

All Devlin could say on response was:

"Oh fuck you." and dug his face into his hat.

"Look man, there's no shame in it." Murphy said.

Devlin mumbled inside of his hat. Something along the lines of 'how would you know'

"Dude, you know I'm gay right?"

There was a pause. Then Devlin scrambled to take his hat off his face and looked at Murphy with a new light his eyes.

"R-really?" Devlin asked

"Yep! I never hid it! I just exist as I am and make it someone else's problem."

"Your not kidding?"

"No. I gave you so many hints at the party we threw before all this, you were just like, 'lets see if we could stack all of our hats!' and didn't notice!"

"The hat stack was pretty cool though."

"Oh yeah, it was great!"

Devlin was blushing less now.

"Now I feel stupid... I thought I was the only one."

"You remember that I'm you right? Also Marshall is Bisexual."

"The Keith that's become some kind of half zombie? That Keith?"

"Yeah, He's still a cool dude! Although I think he thinks we're hallucinations now?... Not sure what's up with that..."

Another pause.

"Anyway. Your not the only one dude, don't worry about it."

"Thanks Murphy... Just to check though, your hint's weren't you hitting on me right? "

"OH DEAR GOD NO! I live in Georgia not Alabama!"

"Yeah, Multiverse incest is something I want to avoid too." Devlin said. He put his fake leg back on and stood up.

"Well, I better be getting back! Zombies to kill and all that."

"Same here. I need some sleep. See you Devlin."

"Till next time Murphy... thanks."

"No problem man."

They walked their separate ways. As Murphy watched Devlin disappear into his own world, he felt happy to help.

And he was going to keep helping the other Keith's too. Even if it met forcing them all to hold hands and take them talk about their feelings!

....

Ok, that sounded a lot cooler in his head. But he'd still do it!

He opened his door and allowed his reality to pull him back.

#l4d2 keith #left 4 dead 2 #left 4 dead #left 4 dead au #Keith meeting #keith meeting #Keith gang #l4d2 #l4d #valve #l4d2 au

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ramblingdisaster73 · 2 years ago

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Rambling thoughts on Episode 4x08 Control Freak

I knew the tux scene would be in the beginning – it was too perfect of an introduction to the full extent of Owen’s Dadzillaness – and Rob played it well (I feel sorry for his sons when they get married – I also love how they roast him all the time)

I love how Mateo has NEVER been afraid or shy of showing his emotions – going all the way back to when the 126 found out about Owen’s cancer in Season 1

So, if they are wearing the tuxes at Owen’s house – that means they already bought them – Dude – they aren’t cheap – let them wear the traditional stuff if that is what they picked out.

“I don’t have words” then continue to spew a lot of words.

I love the build up that we see in both TK and Carlos – How they are trying to humor Owen – even though it is making them both miserable.

The Grant guy kinda reminds me of Matthew Lillard from Scream.

That is some perfect lipstick on Marj.

Trying to figure out when the girl put the note on Marj’s bike

This was exactly what driving with my mother was like – I made it a whole entire block before refusing to drive with her in the car. This dad is so much like my mom.

When my mom was pregnant with me, my father drove up the guidewire of a power pole. He was 16 and dumb as fuck. He did it on purpose and didn’t make it that far up, but the whole car was on the wire. – Fortunately for my mom (and me) she refused to be in the car when he tried it. He is a fucking moron.

So much of this call is terrifying. The kid does an awesome job.

When do they have time to play operation? Do they have it in the firehouse game cabinet?

This reminds me of having to evacuate people from Roller Coasters on the lift hills when I worked at Cedar Point. It was kinda terrifying at times for the people (and depending on which coaster – for me too) and the security of it felt about the same as this rescue.

I am loving Paul – I love how he is so blunt when trying to rescue people – it can really help to get them out of their heads – this time he just needed an assist from the kid in the car. “Just shut up and let me help you.” Wesley.

I honestly thought we were going to get the first death of the season (outside of the nazi storyline) – I really liked the high risk of this rescue

TK is so used to control freaks that this dad doesn’t even faze him – just push the dad in the back of the rig and move on

Ahh the lunch scene is so cute

50% of wedding guests leave after the cake is served & toasts/first dances are done – this is my experience from the literal 100’s of weddings I have been a part of. If you have a cash bar – you lose another 20% with in an hour of the cake/dances.

I love the looks that each person gives Mateo when he corrects Carlos on the monk fruit.

Somebody has to stand up to him – so you call Mom.

I am on team Tarlos with not wanting their parents planning their wedding – sorry – but it is their day.

I find it absolutely fucking hilarious that Carlos “control freak & pushy bastard” Reyes called Owen a control freak. He wasn’t wrong – but it was a little bit funny.

I have had some pretty decent gluten & vegan free cakes.

Coach Beiste – I love seeing Dot-Marie Jones on anything – I love her

I love PI Marj

“Better you a kook then her dead.” That is actually a really powerful line. Doing/saying something in the face of domestic violence can be scary, but is so fucking necessary. I have no regrets for the times that I have stepped in, none. I can’t imagine the regrets I would have if I hadn’t done anything.

The centerpieces he was doing were no where near as dramatic as I had imagined. (the pic above was my idea of Owen’s wedding moodboard.) The ones in the floral shop looked vastly different & were much more dramatic.

Carlos’ “Really?” when Owen said that his feelings wouldn’t be hurt if Andrea picked the other cake makes me laugh – like he is so so very doubtful.

They are so cocky coming in – the grins, the smirks, the looks.

I love silent communication – my husband and I are very similar and it is so convenient.

They are so mad that they liked that cake – like regretting so many things right now.

Carlos is trying so fucking hard to remind his mom that she is on team Tarlos not team Dadzilla.

Orchids are fucking expensive & fragile as fuck

The dawning of the awareness that Andrea turned zilla was so well done. Ronen and Rafa always have such amazing facial expressions.

I had a feeling the girl wouldn’t leave in the semi – it seemed like it was too easy and clean of a conclusion to their story – curious on if she is in the next ep or if it is just him.

Those are insane for each table – totally overwhelming

Fuck the flower arches too

I do like that they are not just forgetting that Carlos was married – like that we aren’t expected to forget about it.

“There’s a flower arch now?” the rise in TK’s voice is the beginning of him getting ready to go off and I fucking loved it

I love him.

That scene was amazing and everything I needed from them – the wedding is about the couple and what they want/feel – I loved that TK was the one to snap

This dude is fucking nuts – maybe

I love the talk between Owen and Andrea – I love how she admits to him what her biggest regret was.

I love how she tricked Owen while eating cake.

“Their ideas were just dull” – “At least they were their dull ideas”

They were mostly coming from a good and/or understandable place – but, I am glad that they realized that TK and Carlos need to be the ones to make the decisions on their wedding.

I kinda thought Marjan was going to be in the motorhome – but tied up in the back (before it was revealed that she was riding behind them)

Nice use of the fire extinguisher Marj – I was wondering if that would come back into play when she told them to keep it

I am hoping that the woman stays away from the guy in the next ep – like I hope that she doesn’t go back to him when he gets out of jail – I didn’t see her in the promo, but they love to hide shit with editing on those.

“Slightly overboard?” – slight exaggeration.

I wonder when Owen’s mom passed (really I am assuming she did, but who knows) for him to think that TK wouldn’t still need his dad after he got married.

Like I have been married for over 10 years and I still need my mom.

I think TK will leave tea bags in all mugs forever around Owen now.

I was actually worried that I wouldn’t like the talk between TK & Owen – this show likes to make TK blame himself for things & I was worried that they were going to go in that direction – so I was so fucking happy with the talk that they had.

This was a talk that felt more like them, like father and son instead of coworkers & sarcastic quips at work.

Owen did something with TK that he has a VERY hard time doing – he showed his vulnerability to him, his fear of not being needed in TK’s life.

I am looking forward to next ep – how much shit does Marj go through? She looked really messed up & I wonder if Paul or Paul and Judd (from the stills we got before the season starts) find her when they all go out looking for her & happen to be the ones that save her from the abusive guy.

#my rambling thoughts #911 lone star season 4 #911 lone star spoilers #episode 4x08 #tk strand #carlos reyes #owen strand #andrea reyes #marjan marwani

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yournightowl · 1 year ago

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Your NightOwl #028

For me, the interesting parts of the oldnet are the human parts- how people used to interact with one another, how tech was integrated in their lives, what they were writing in their e-journals back in the 2030’s, etc. It’s hard to find those parts.(┛◉Д◉) ┛彡┻━┻ I have to pick them out amongst endless reams and reams of raw data. Pure numbers and text. Normally that’s all chaff to me, the crap i’m shoving aside to get to the good stuff.

But raw data does have its uses. Numbers are very good at conveying certain things- most notably, escalation.

The climate’s gotten worse in the last hundred years (duh)(◐‿◑). Some say that we’re through the worst of it and starting to round the bend, but if so, i haven’t noticed. The worsening isn’t as simple as rising temps, either (though that is a pretty big goddamn deal). The problem’s more like

Rising chaos? Or increasing entropy, ¯\_(シ)_/¯ if you want something that sounds more scientific.

Droughts are longer. Floods are worse. Winters are colder and Summers are hotter. Spring and fall are compressed into a few short weeks of normalcy.

Higher highs and lower lows, like a roller coaster that looks fun but creates a line for the bathroom a kilometer long. (´＊｀)

The whole planet’s polarized and radicalized- taking a cue from its dominant species, i guess.

And i think this is all best exemplified by the storms.

Originally there were only 5 categories of tropical depression. Cat 5 was as bad as it got- the wind could blow harder and the rain could fall faster, but additional tiers don’t matter when much when everyone should’ve evacuated once it crept past 4 anyway. It’s funny that i can see the exact date on the oldnet where that changed- Samson, in 2051.

Samson was a horrible storm. Incredibly powerful, deadly, and disastrous. But it was also dragged out. It stuck around. And that made it extremely expensive.

It bore down on the land like a drill, years of erosion occurring on an accelerated timescale. Checking photos from the news, the city looked a half century older when the skies finally cleared. And when the dust finally settled and the accountants started poking around, their estimation for the cost of rebuilding was jaw-dropping.

It took a couple years for the scientific community to grant Samson the honor of the world’s first cat 6, but for once, the governments of the world beat them to the punch. After only a few weeks of surveying and tallying up the damage, things started to change.

The water levels were rising everywhere (still are, to this day ⤜(⚆ᗜ⚆)⤏). It couldn’t be stopped, ignored, or stalled. And storms were going to keep rolling in, stronger and bigger in increasingly lengthy hurricane seasons.

So the governments of the world started building walls. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Mega-levees aren’t a very creative solution, neither in their naming or their implementation (-_-)ゞ, but they are undeniably effective in protecting coastal cities. Now when a cat 6 rolls in and sets up camp, ports can raise shields and close down for days instead of months. Looking down on them from above, from the skyscrapers and Canopies that the rich and powerful call home, mega-structures like them must look awfully impressive.

But looking at them from the ground level, to me, they always look like big goddamn cages.

Makes me feel like i'm trapped at the bottom of a well.

Which is not a good place to be when the flood’s-a-comin’.

Treading water,

Your nightowl

#unfiction

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Exercise 1 - Immersive World-Pictures

I miss the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.

It's not just that I have spent my past summer going as much as I can into this ride before I have to take two buses to get to my workplace, it’s that sometimes I feel I'm still there. It's not just the adrenaline of a normal ride but as a Marvel fan it hits different, as if you actually were part of a movie, just imagine this you get up at 6:58 am to make the virtual queue that’s exactly at 7 this will determine if you get into the ride in time for work or not, anyways, you make it and after checking with your friends today´s plan you go back to sleep. Later that day you arrive at Epcot after almost ignoring the ball and all the people around chatting and laughing just trying to take pictures and enjoying their vacation. Running through Connections Eatery only smelling the pizza and coffee because you don’t have time to waste you are only there to take a shortcut, finally, you get to the entrance. As you step into the building a refreshing air and a strange but pleasant futuristic scent welcomes you, of course, it is Disney they have a smell for everything you just don’t know what it is. But then you see it, the most insane projection up in the ceiling it’s all about the big bang and cosmic explosions and nebulas and color-changing lights with a soft robotic woman's voice that tells you are now visiting the pavilion of Xandar (the planet where the ride is set) simulating to be one of the countries.You get involved in the ceiling show the music, the story, the futuristic scent that goes all over the line, the galaxies, the oval shape of the room but the line is moving and you have to continue, you walk up in the middle of the metal cold handrails that serve as dividers of the stand by and the lightning lane. Talking to your friends about which song each one hopes to get, they explain to the newbie (the one friend that never got in the ride before) there's 6 different songs that makes the ride feel unique each time, most of you are trying to get them all. Passing through the setting you see the encapsulated screens with the Xandar landscapes and its people telling you about their lives, a scale model of their city, where everyone gets to lean just to rest a minute before the line pushes you to continue. See the replica of the spaceship obviously you need to take pictures with your friends, a few steps and there's the MILANO ship replica is necessary more and more pictures, suddenly a giant screen with the real actors in character giving an interview made just for the ride, at this point you only want to hear them. Finally, you pass to the room where Terry Crews welcomed you in the preshow and security skit, how did they even get him for this. Your friends tell the newbie to prepare as the doors opens and all of you rush to a specific place in the next room, to be ¨teleported¨ into a ship, this is it, the real pre-show you see all the Guardians in a screen at the other side resembling their ship all of a sudden, the villain attacks and the Xandar Captain needs to evacuate all the people visiting. But the guardians have a plan and are going to use you to follow the bad guy through the jump points, the atmosphere, the story, the visuals, the epic music, and the ambiance it's mind-blowing. The doors open and everyone runs and shout trying to be the first on the next line, I always say the running is part of the experience, there’s only a bridge between you and the most amazing ride, the newbie finally gets to see the cars finding out it’s a roller coaster, getting excited because it does look and feel like an evacuation port. Your group is finally asked how many, but you ask the cast member to go in the back, and they put you aside, after all you have waited what is two more cars, then you finally see the roller coaster approaching, moment to take the video for your stories showing which song you get the ones your missing, at last, you step into the car put your stuff on the side, you wish, cross your fingers and shout for the song that you want, as you feel the first impulse of the ride.

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So for smart foundation technology and earthquake systems and buildings. They need the do people count Residential or commercial. The system needs to count the number of physical heads, but it also needs to estimate body weight and do statistical measurements of the people. Height, width Meaning shoulder length, Then it can measure the torso as well as the length of the legs and arms and yes, even the neck dimensions of the head. No, this is for safety systems for airplanes in that knowing the statistical dimensions of individuals can help with evacuation systems. Also, it goes into the position of weight on the plane. Taller people spread out weight, more shorter people condense weight. You're counting the people, but you're also taking measurements of the people as well. Go for football stadium. It knows exactly how many people are in a particular section at anytime and what are the weight configurations that are in those sections of the stadium. The reason for this is smart earthquake systems need to adjust with the weight of a particular area of the building to offset the sway and vibration. So they need to calculate into the system the amount of resistance they're going to receive. And so the London I also needs to do this for people mine so they can count the number of people and also ghetto hide and weight calculation. So when they're loading the cars, they can balance out the Ferris. Wheel smart Ferris wheel design. Because if there's an earthquake. Or some other system failure, you need to be able to offset negative issues. And to do this, you need to know the dimensions and the weight that you're dealing with at any particular point on the ferris wheel.... So you also have to account for anything that's brought on besides people as well. Besides, the weight of the individual car of the Ferris wheel and I need to do this on roller coasters than that as well. So improving the safety of theme parks.. .

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So, whether it's a trailer on a car or a truck. To prevent sway, you will see that it needs balance and to do this.It needs to know the position of the weight. So even in the individual cars that people can move around or in a building, it needs to track where the weight of people are at any particular time. Because if an earthquake hits as an example or if you're experiencing a tornado or some strong heavy wind gusts. And they can use these systems to count people going in and out on a construction site, how much material they're bringing to each of the floors and how much material is being brought and people put on any of the commercial elevators for construction sites. What I'm saying is. It can count where the weight is at any time related to people who move or animals who move. So we can offset. Even on a fighter jet, as it shoots missiles or a helicopter, the weight changes. It might shoot a missile from one wing and not another, and so one wing weighs more than another wing. This affects handling capabilities. I'm just giving you different examples of how things change. Even astronauts moving around the space station changes where the wait is in the space station and so they need the count where people are and they need to know the weight of those individual people plus whatever there. They bring on or take off. So the load factor is dynamic and it's constantly changing. Even how much waste ISIS in the toilet? The waste is in the individual's spokennoise and then they start using the toilet on a plane. The waste builds up as the flight is longer and it gets deposited in a specific area of the plane. Changing the dynamics of the weight of the plane. Where the load factors are on an individual plane. Also, as they consume the food and beverages. They empty out the galley.And the galley gets lighter, but the restroom tanks get heavier. So it's repositioning the weight as people consume food into them and then into the waste units. So this all does matter.

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So you can look down the lane with these people, counters and do the dimensions. And they can tell the attendance which of the roller coaster cars to put people on and which ones to skip?So they can properly distribute load factors. They can even tell them to put these people on this particular car and these people, and these particular cars. So sometimes they have to break up groups for safety....

So as people move through a stadium, for example, they're stepping and those steps causes vibration. Or as they jump up and down at a concert, it causes vibration. So for smart structures to offset for these vibrational loads. They need to know the load factors in any particular seat. And then put those individual seats into a combination.That gives the load factor per area. But it also gives the pounds per square inch on each inch of the stadium. It also tells and can calculate how much force somebody is applying on each step. Yes, if they're going downstairs compared to going upstairs, the force application is different.... So suppressing vibration, people moving up one side and down another. Making sure you're offsetting. This is why directional patterns matter on streets, not everybody intermixing. And zigzagging back-and-forth, creating chaos, but people moving in orderly up one side Down another... Oh, when you're trying to offset these things even in a plane when they go to the bathroom. Depending on the direction they're walking. They should walk down one side of the aisle, compared to the other side of the aisle coming and going. And if no one's there, then they should walk down the Center of the aisle. But you have to have these predictable. Flows and movement, so the systems can offset spokennoise even on the plane for vibration. That's caused by people. Moving and flight attendants, moving and then moving these food conveyors back-and-forth on the planes as they distribute the load. They're heaviest at the beginning and lightest at the end. So the weight on the plane is constantly changing and the systems can calculate the changing weight. So we can constantly do this on a train when you have dynamics when you're dealing with people moving and providing them food. And beverage and other services? You have to account for this. In the movement, these changing movements, if they're jumping up-and-down, or if they're walking up and downstairs, or if they're moving from the right to left. So the systems can see how the people are.Moving and gets the load feedback and can change the offset for their movements...

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Vibration isolation

Active vibration isolation involves sensors and actuators that produce disruptive interference that cancels-out incoming vibration.

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Remember, technology is only good as the information going into the system, and if the system is giving it information and using these people calmer and changing them to car counters and estimating the weight of cars crossing the Golden Gate Bridge or trucks for the load factor. So the smart sway systems can change the tension on the mines of the bridge to stabilize the bridge depending on where the load is on the bridge, so we can scan the vehicle and determine the weight from the vehicle for the truck. So there has to be a scale that they go over before they enter the bridge. And then the system tracks that particular vehicle's movement and every other vehicle's, movement or bicycle or people walking across the bridge. And it's easy to estimate people's weight and bicycles and people riding them. And then you need the scales in the center of the street. Measures with the camera. They can count the dimensions of the car and knows that that car passed two sets of tires. Meaning the car has 2 axles. A motorcycle has 2 axles. Hey, semi trailer has five or six axles. So the camera knows to count the weight of the vehicle as it goes across the weight on each axle. And this is important for a ferry, loading cars and unloading cars. Even ships with containers, loading containers, unloading containers. So it can constantly change the tension on the ropes that are holding the ship anchored, or if they're moving cargo off the ship in the water and on the ship in the water, or if you're moving cargo off a plane in the air to another plane. Spokennoise you're zip Mining. It can two planes connected, and you can't zip line cargo like in a military from one plane to another. So one plane that's offloading would set up higher. And the plane that's receiving would sit up lower, and they would be on a zip line. That has a bungee system, so the line can stretch, expand and contract. So if the planes move inner outward, the system will expand and contract to accommodate a certain amount of movement in the plane. So they can zip line transfer cargo from one plane to another. So the plane that's unloading would sit higher up and send it down to the plane.That's lower than it that's receiving. So we have to do air cargo transfers... But you need to know where all the weight is. Where the cargo is? And then where it is moved to in a plane? Even planes that are dropping things via parachutes. The cargo is more upfront. And then the cargo gets moved to the back of the plane, changing the waiting on the plane and it needs to know exactly where the weight is. Every second or fraction of a second, so it can stabilize the plane. So it's very important with the systems to recognize. Where the weight is, and what is going on with it are the people jumping up and down and be able to calculate the force of people jumping up and down celebrating to winning a football game, the load factors on the stadium...

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They also need this to tell where people are in a mall...

Here is the mall collapse in South Korea. So knowing this, they know where the people are and they know the load factors and they can also over the speaker. Tell people to move into the appropriate areas and this works with an active shooter as well. You know where the people are in the mall, and you should be able to track the shooter and you could have people move away from the shooter....

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Even the car needs to know. Does it have people in each seat? And what the weight of those people are in each seat?So we can change the dynamics with the suspension to handle the load factors.

So in stadium, seating, just and it's played.The can have weight sensors in them.That gives the weight of the person that's sitting in the seat... But this can go into cars as well.Giving the weight of the person in the car, but also giving the weight of the stuff in the trunk. Also, it can have sensors in the roof rack that calculate the load factor that is put on top of the roof of a vehicle.. Then it can also have cameras that look at the roof. They calculate the shape of the objects put on the roof, so it knows airflow dynamics... So we can help with calculating load factors on the suspension of the car, the offset for all these weight dynamics and wind Dynamics.

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Sensor to detect if someone is sitting in a chair?

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