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Babymoon

“Ra, kita punya anaknya dua aja ya?” tanya gue ke Muara sambil duduk di tempat tidur dan menyenderkan badan gue pada headboard tepat di sebelahnya.

Muara seketika mengalihkan pandangannya dari entah buku apa yang dari tadi dia baca “Kenapa emang?”

“Repot soalnya kalau tiap hamil babymoonnya jauh begini.”

“Oh gitu, udah nggak mau direpotin sama anak istrinya?” Muara menatap tajam ke arah gue, pemandangan favorit gue karena Muara selalu kelihatan lebih seksi kalau lagi marah.

“Engga gitu Ra, kok ngomongnya begitu. Maksud aku, kalau misalnya tiga tahun lagi kamu hamil anak kedua, berarti si Peanut umurnya udah sekitar dua tahun, lagi aktif-aktifnya. Emang kamu mau tetep babymoon sejauh ini dengan kondisi hamil besar ditambah toddler?” jelas gue panjang lebar.

“Kan ada bapaknya.” Jawab Muara acuh dan kembali fokus pada buku yang dia pegang.

Gue dan Muara sekarang sedang berada sejauh 11,282 kilometer dari rumah dengan kondisi istri gue lagi hamil dua puluh tujuh minggu, just the two of us. Dari waktu trimester pertama, Muara emang udah semangat banget soal babymoon. Dari sekian banyak rentetan perintilan perkara kehamilan sampai persalinan, yang paling Muara tunggu-tunggu adalah babymoon.

“Aku udah bilang ke Mbak Diana, nanti aku mau babymoon ke Lausanne dan nginep di rumahnya yang super lucu itu.” ucapnya suatu hari selepas dari konsultasi kehamilan yang rutin kami lakukan setiap bulan sejak Muara dinyatakan hamil anak pertama kami. Gue nggak pernah bisa nolak permintaan Muara, bahkan setelah bertahun-tahun kenal dari cuma tetangga, teman dekat, crush, naik status jadi pacar, sampai sekarang sudah jadi suami pun, her wishes will always be my command. Gue nggak pernah merasa direpotkan sama semua kemauannya, ekspresi senang dan excitednya Muara udah jadi candu buat gue. Gue berjanji pada diri gue sendiri kalau kebahagiaan dia dan anak-anak kami kelak akan selalu jadi prioritas gue. Jadi, di sinilah kami, di negara yang salah satu gunungnya sangat iconic karena identik dengan bungkus kemasan cokelat merk terkenal.

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“Kalau udah ngantuk dilanjut besok lagi aja Ra bacanya.” gue memutuskan untuk nggak melanjutkan pembahasan soal babymoon. Gue sadar betul, mau punya argumen sepanjang apapun gue pasti kalah lawan Muara.

“Kamu nggak tidur? Emangnya nggak jetlag?”

“Kamu duluan aja Ra, aku mau ngecek kerjaan bentar abis itu langsung tidur kok, janji.”

“Awas ya kalau aku kebangun dan kamu masih melek, aku ngambek!”

“Iya, Sayang.” gue tersenyum simpul sambil membantu Muara menyamankan posisi tidurnya. Semenjak perutnya semakin membesar, Muara kesulitan untuk mencari posisi tidur yang nyaman—hal yang paling sering Muara keluhkan—ia bahkan membutuhkan bantal khusus. Muara tidur menyamping ke kanan menghadap gue diapit dua bantal besar, satu dipeluk, satu lagi gue letakkan di belakang punggung Muara.

“Have a good sleep, Sweetheart.” gue kecup kening istri gue singkat sambil memberi elusan lembut di lengannya. Muara memang selalu tidur lebih awal dibanding gue. Dari dulu dia nggak pernah bisa begadang, bahkan setelah menikah, agenda nonton pertandingan bola bareng yang Muara janjikan berujung ketiduran di 15 menit pertama.

Gue menyelesaikan pekerjaan gue dua puluh menit kemudian. Gue letakkan iPad di atas nakas lalu gue matikan lampu tidur yang jadi satu-satunya sumber penerangan ruangan ini. Sebelum benar-benar memejamkan mata, gue pusatkan pandangan gue ke arah istri cantik gue—kegiatan favorit gue setiap hari sebelum tidur sejak nikah sama Muara—yang sekarang sedang tertidur pulas.

Tuhan, terima kasih sudah hadirkan kebahagiaan dalam bentuk raga cantik yang jiwanya teduh dan hatinya seluas samudra. Tolong kasih kesempatan satu hari lagi untuk bangun di sisi Muara.

Begitu doa gue setiap malam sambil terus mandangin istri gue seakan kalau gue lengah sedikit Muara bakal hilang dari hadapan gue. Kadang sambil gue elus rambutnya. Kalau lagi usil, diam-diam gue kecup bibir ranumnya.

Sampai detik ini, gue masih suka ngerasa nggak nyangka bisa jadi suaminya Muara. Naksir dari jaman SMA, sampai pernah mau nyerah—karena Muara nggak putus-putus sama pacar jaman kuliahnya—dan akhirnya kabur jauh banget sampai ke utara Amerika. Masa-masa gue di rig sebenarnya adalah momen paling berat di hidup gue. Jauh dari keluarga, jauh dari Muara. Memang alasan utama gue cabut karena mau nyoba move on dari Muara, tapi ternyata justru makin tersiksa.

Muara nggak pernah tau dan nggak pernah sadar kalau dia udah jadi penyelamat di hidup gue. Muara selalu bilang ‘makasih yah udah jadi teman hidupku’ padahal kenyataannya gue yang selalu diam-diam berterima kasih dan bersyukur Muara milih gue untuk jadi suaminya.

Kehidupan sebelum ada Muara rasanya hampa. Gue nggak pernah bener-bener tau mau gue apa, tujuan hidup gue apa, kenapa gue ada di dunia ini. Sampai akhirnya perempuan dengan rambut hitam sebahu yang gue lihat hampir sebelas tahun lalu sedang berdiri di depan rumah samping kiri rumah gue sambil sibuk sama iPodnya masuk ke dalam hidup gue. Gue sadar sejak detik pertama gue lihat dia senyum, gue jadi tau apa yang gue mau, dengan egoisnya gue mau selalu jadi alasan atas setiap lengkungan yang tercipta di bibir Muara. Sejak detik pertama gue dengar tawa renyah Muara, gue jadi tau tujuan hidup gue, gue harus hidup dengan baik biar selalu bisa mastiin bahwa tawa itu nggak hilang. Sejak detik pertama gue liat satu tetes air mata turun dari mata indah yang selalu gue kagumi itu, gue tau alasan gue ada di dunia ini adalah untuk nggak ngebiarin ada tetes-tetes berikutnya yang jatuh membasahi wajah Muara—kecuali tangis bahagia, of course.

Gue ingat tepat dua tahun enam bulan gue tinggal di lepas pantai, Muara tiba-tiba nge-facetime gue sambil nangis. Perasaan gue hancur banget menyaksikan Muara sekacau itu dan malam itu berubah jadi malam paling menyiksa di hidup gue. Terlebih penyebab dari tangisan Muara adalah laki-laki yang sudah dia pacari dari tahun kedua bangku kuliah ternyata selingkuh. Gue merasa jadi laki-laki paling nggak berguna karena nggak becus melindungi perempuan yang paling gue cintai kedua setelah Bunda dari rasa sakit. Gue tau itu semua bukan salah gue, tapi kalau aja saat itu gue lebih keras kepala lagi merjuangin perasaan gue buat Muara, Muara nggak perlu ketemu laki-laki brengsek itu dan ngalamin kejadian kayak gitu dan gue nggak perlu nahan marah dan nyesel karena nggak bisa langsung lari meluk Muara—dan menghajar laki-laki sialan itu—dan bilang kalau gue ada di sini and everything’s gonna be alright.

But you know what they say, every cloud has a silver lining. Ternyata, tangisan Muara jadi satu-satunya yang bisa ngalahin bujukan kedua orang tua gue untuk pulang dan tinggal di Indonesia, karena tepat 3 minggu setelah malam itu, gue akhirnya menginjakkan kaki di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta dan bertekad nggak akan pergi jauh lagi kecuali Muara ikut.

Our pasts has brought us here. Semenyakitkan dan segelap apapun masa lalu gue dan Muara, gue bersyukur karena berkat semua itu gue dan Muara ada di titik ini. Even if I had to go back to the past, I would still choose the same path and love you the same way all over again, Ra.

Nggak sadar pandangan gue mulai buram karena ternyata air mata gue udah numpuk di pelupuk. Dinginnya malam di Lausanne nggak bisa ngalahin rasa hangat yang menjalar di tubuh gue setiap kali mikirin segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan Muara. Gue cium kening Muara sedikit lebih lama. Selanjutnya pandangan gue turun ke arah perut Muara yang di dalamnya tumbuh anak gue dan Muara, bukti nyata dari cinta kami berdua. Gue letakkan tangan kanan gue di atas perut Muara dan mengusapnya pelan.

Sehat-sehat ya anak Ayah, jangan buat Bunda susah.

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Rajuli Almaseid ~ Jangan Dulu Pergi |Seventeen cover| [Indonesia 🇮🇩]

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Pick a Novel: Keywords/prominent themes in your life

Pick the novel that draws your attention the most. If you can't decide between two, then look at the 2 readings. This is a general reading, so not everything will apply. Please take what resonates and leave what doesn't behind!

#1

Keywords: love, lust, passion, fun, temperament, cafe, sweet, bicycle, pen, books, music, loyalty, winter, sofa, furniture, thoughts, light, intuition, soulmate, art, obsidian, cake, carbonated water, skincare, socks, cooking

Celebrities/Public Figures: Audrey Hepburn, Min Yoongi, IU, Claude Monet, Angela Merkel, Andrew Carnegie, John Johnson, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Howard Schultz, Sam Walton, Amancio Ortega, Queen Elizabeth I, Jane Austen, Jennie Kim

Countries: Italy, Canada, South Africa, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Greece, Madagascar, Qatar, Sweden, Zambia, Taiwan, Solomon Islands

Numbers: 11, 1, 5, 9, 80, 888, 6

Brands: Hermes, Tiffany, Apple, Instagram, Taobao, Lamborghini, Deloitte, Microsoft, Chopard, Givenchy, Patek Phillipe, Chloe, Alaia, Kraft,

Kpop songs: Young Forever by BTS, Shine by PENTAGON, Me Gustas Tu by GFRIEND, Run to You by DJ DOC, Love Lee by AKMU, Deja vu by TXT, Back Down by P1Harmony, Love shot by EXO

#2

Keywords: economy, job loss, new opportunities, play, drama, anger, frustration, lost, compass, computers, battery, feet, head, brain, summer, pearl, avocado, junk food, fried chicken, challenge, frugal

Celebrities/Public Figures: Grace Kelly, Billie Eilish, Keanu Reeves, Rosé, Jung Hoseok, Salma Hayek, Pablo Picasso, Princess Diana, Thomas Edison, Sergey Brin, Mary I, William Shakespeare, Lee Nayeon

Countries: New Zealand, USA, Maldives, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Lithuania, Nepal, Portugal, Poland, Lebanon, Mali, Netherlands

Numbers: 4, 99, 101, 33, 13, 14, 0

Brands: Masion Margiela, Amazon, facebook, Shein, PWC, Missoni, Moschino Couture, Toyota, citi bank, Chaumet, Polene, Pizza Hut,

Kpop songs: Love Dive by IVE, Shangri-la by VIXX, Sweety by Clazziquai, I NEED U by BTS, The Chaser by Infinite, Magnetic by ILLIT, My House by 2PM, ICY by ITZY

#3

Keywords: tales, gossip, lies, funny, movies, theatre, cell phone, cool, kpop, magenta, ancient, history, claws, cats, tiger, fall, jealousy, games, aquamarine, lemons, makeup, pencil, groceries

Celebrities/Public Figures: Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Morgan Freeman, Kim Seokjin, Jang Wonyoung, Matt Damon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Shinzo Abe, Steve Jobs, Voltaire, Kim Jisoo,

Countries: Ethiopia, France, Russia, Ireland, Argentina, Afghanistan, Libya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Pakistan, Morocco, Malta, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Iraq,

Numbers: 2, 7, 69, 25, 55, 79, 1182

Brands: Saint Laurent, miumiu, Starbucks, Mercedez-Benz, Nestle, Oracle, Tod's, Bulgari, Rolex, KFC, SUBWAY, Carrefour, Kellog's

Kpop songs: Supernova by aespa, Maestro by seventeen, Not by the moon by GOT7, Alone by Sistar, Hip by MAMAMOO, Good Day by IU, Bite Me by ENHYPEN, Work by ATEEZ, The Feels by TWICE

#4

Keywords: foreign, spicy, peppery, rice, no, objection, resistance, control, storms, thunderstorms, shower, tension, crush, pop, paper, mango, legs, fragrance, emerald, clothing rack, tomatoes, defeat,

Celebrities/Public Figures: Judy Garland, Margot Robbie, G-Dragon, Jeon Jungkook, Pharrell Williams, Emmanuel Macron, Bill Clinton, King Charles, Warren Buffet, Cleopatra, Kim Mingyu

Countries: South Korea, Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Albania, Guatemala, Malaysia, Iran, Romania, Honduras, Georgia, Croatia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Gambia, Guinea

Numbers: 31, 75, 412, 43, 486, 640

Brands: Chanel, Prada, Bentley, Gucci, Samsung, Disney, BMW, Hyundai, cisco, Van Cleefs & Arpels, Dior, Loro Piana, Shake Shack

Kpop songs: Gee by SNSD, If you by BIGBANG, Antifragile by LE SSERAFIM, Up and Down by EXID, OMG by NewJeans, Lion by (G)I-DLE, Hello by TREASURE,

#5

Keywords: death, mystery, mirror, reflection, shadow, black, grey, white, funeral, video, sprint, pool, gym, streets, metro, subway, chocolate, broken, knees, moon, ruby, surgery, teeth, race

Celebrities/Public Figures: Marilyn Monroe, Barack Obama, Kate Winslet, Kim Taehyung, Aamir Khan, Marie Antoinette, Elon Musk, Robert F Kennedy, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Edward VIII, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Park Bogum,

Countries: North Korea, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Germany, India, Israel, Laos, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Mongolia

Numbers: 3, 97, 17, 19, 52, 98

Brands: Ralph Lauren, Celine, Ferrari, Huawei, Uber, intel, UPS, Calvin Klein, Piaget, Guerlain, Berluti, Pepsi, Cadbury

Kpop songs: Shut down by Blackpink, Seven by Jeon Jungkook, God's Menu by Stray Kids, Love Love Love by Epik High, Very Nice by SEVENTEEN, Birthday by Jeon Somi, Psycho by Red Velvet,

#6

Keywords: travel, toxic, break away, departure, memory, dreams, truth, unveil, diary, journal, coffee, jacket, shoes, hands, social media, news, competition, autumn, diamonds, electricity, TV, cheat, fashion

Celebrities/Public Figures: Jane Birkin, Kim Jiwon, Gigi Hadid, Charlize Theron, Park Jimin, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Maximilien Robespierre, Bill Gates, Queen Elizabeth II, Vladimir Putin, Henry Ford, James Joyce, Lalisa Manobal

Countries: Japan, Australia, Mexico, Iceland, Finland, Eritrea, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Bolivia, Botswana, Bahamas,

Numbers: 8, 646, 152, 37, 49, 22

Brands: Louis Vuitton, Lexus, Tesla, Fendi, Walmart, Nike, Siemens, Google, Cartier, Burberry, Ferragamo, Burger King, Unilever

Kpop songs: ROCKSTAR by LISA, Cherry bomb by NCT 127, Move by Taemin, Dramarama by MONSTA X, Love Scenario by iKON, Get a Guitar by RIIZE, Replay by SHINee, Candy Sugar Pop by ASTRO, Mr. Simple by Super Junior

[reality-detective]

Harrowing footage captures the moment tsunami waves crashed into a beachside concert in Indonesia, sweeping away members of the pop band "Seventeen” and many concertgoers.

The band was performing at a state-owned electricity company event in 2018 when the stage collapsed under the force of the water.

After the tsunami hit, the group reported that their bass player, guitarist, and road manager were found dead, while two other band members and a performer’s wife were still missing.

Over 200 people died following an eruption from a nearby volcanic island that triggered the tsunami. 🤔

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Atrocities US committed against ASIA

Between 1996-2006, The US has given money and weapons to royalist forces against the nepalese communists in the Nepalese civil war. ~18,000 people have died in the conflict. In 2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military aid to the Nepalese government.

In 1996, after receiving incredibly low approval ratings, the US helped elect Boris Yeltsin, an incompetent pro-capitalist independent, by giving him a $10 Billion dollar loan to finance a winning election. Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin’s democratization led to international monopolies hijacking the former Soviet markets, arbitraging the huge difference between old domestic prices for Russian commodities and the prices prevailing on the world market. Much of the Yeltsin era was marked by widespread corruption, and as a result of persistent low oil and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia and the other former states of the USSR. Under Yeltsin, Between 1990 and 1994, life expectancy for Russian men and women fell from 64 and 74 years respectively to 58 and 71 years. The surge in mortality was “beyond the peacetime experience of industrialised countries”. While it was boom time for the new oligarchs, poverty and unemployment surged; prices were hiked dramatically; communities were devastated by deindustrialisation; and social protections were stripped away.

In the 1970s-80s, wikileaks cables revealed that the US covertly supported the Khmer Rouge in their fight against the Vietnamese communists. Annual support included an end total of ~$215M USD, food aid to 20-40k Khmer Rouge fighters, CIA advisors in several camps, and ammunition.

In December 1975, The US supplied the weaponry for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea.

In 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis, the CIA helped topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, by telling Governor-General, John Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, to dissolve the Whitlam government.

In 2018 after the release of a suppressed ISC (International Scientific Commission) report, and the release of declassified CIA communications daily reports in 2020, it was revealed that the US used germ warfare in the Korean war, 2. Many of these attacks involved the dropping of insects or small mammals infected with viruses such as anthrax, plague, cholera, and encephalitis. After discovering evidence of germ warfare, China invited the ISC headed by famed British scientist Joseph Needham, to investigate, but the report was suppressed for over 70 years.

Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover.

In 1971 in Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. The US gave W. pakistan 411 million provided to establish its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. 15 million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. Between 300,000 to 3 million civilians were killed, with 8-10 million refugees fleeing to India.

In 1970, In Cambodia, The CIA overthrows Prince Sihanouk, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, whose forces suppressed the large-scale popular demonstrations in favour of Sihanouk, resulting in several hundred deaths. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge (another CIA supported group), who achieve power in 1975 and massacres ~2.5 million people. The Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, carried out the Cambodian Genocide, which killed 1.5-2M people from 1975-1979.

In 1969, The US initiated a secret carpet bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia, called, Operation Menu, and Operation Freedom Deal in 1970. An estimated 40,000 - 150,000 civilians were killed. Nixon lied about this campaign, but was later exposed, and one of the things that lead to his impeachment.

US dropped large amounts of Agent Orange, an herbicide developed by monsanto and dow chemical for the department of defense, in vietnam. Its use, in particular the contaminant dioxin, causes multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, still births, poisoned breast milk, and extra fingers and toes, as well as destroying local species of plants and animals. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.

US Troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians, including women, children, and infants, in South Vietnam on March, 1968, in the My Lai Massacre. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Soldiers set fire to huts, waiting for civilians to come out so they could shoot them. For 30 years, the three US servicemen who tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned and denounced as traitors, even by congressmen.

In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.

In 1965, The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Indonesian leader Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, aided by the CIA, massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist, in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. The US continued to support Suharto throughout the 70s, supplying weapons and planes.

Between 1964 and 1973, American pilots flew 580,000 attack sorties over Laos, an average of one planeload of bombs every eight minutes for almost a decade. By the time the last US bombs fell in April 1973, a total of 2,093,100 tonnes of ordnance had rained down on this neutral country. To this day, Laos, a country of just 7 million people, retains the dubious accolade of being the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita.

From the 1960s onward, the US supported Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The US provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, which was crucial in buttressing Marcos’s rule over the years. The estimated number of persons that were executed and disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. After fleeing to hawaii, marco was suceeded by the widow of an opponent he assasinated, Corazon aquino.

Starting in 1957, in the wake of the US-backed First Indochina War, The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections, specifically targeting the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government, and perpetuating the 20 year Laotian civil war. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an “Armee Clandestine” of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. drops more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves. This was later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were killed.

In 1955, the CIA provided explosives, and aided KMT agents in an assassination attempt against the Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai. KMT agents placed a time-bomb on the Air India aircraft, Kashmir Princess, which Zhou was supposed to take on his way to the Bandung Conference, an anti-imperialist meeting of Asian and African states, but he changed his travel plans at the last minute. Henry Kissinger denied US involvement, even though remains of a US detonator were found. 16 people were killed.

From 1955-1975, the US supported French colonialist interests in Vietnam, set up a puppet regime in Saigon to serve US interests, and later took part as a belligerent against North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was later found to be staged by Lyndon Johnson. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 source to 3.8 million.source Some 240,000–300,000 Cambodians,source23 20,000–62,000 Laotians,4 and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict, with a further 1,626 missing in action. Unexploded bomb continue to kill civilians for years afterward.

In the summer of 1950 in South Korea, anticommunists aided by the US executed at least 100,000 people suspected of supporting communism, in the Bodo League Massacre. For four decades the South Korean government concealed this massacre. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers. Public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death. During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre.

In 1984, documents were released showing that Eisenhower authorized the use of atomic weapons on North Korea, should the communists renew the war in 1953. The 2,000 pages released show the high level of planning and the detail of discussion on possible use of these weapons, and Mr. Eisenhower’s interest in overcoming reluctance to use them.

In the beginning of the Korean war, US Troops killed ~300 South Korean civilians in the No Gun Ri massacre, revealing a theater-wide policy of firing on approaching refugee groups. Trapped refugees began piling up bodies as barricades and tried to dig into the ground to hide. Some managed to escape the first night, while U.S. troops turned searchlights on the tunnels and continued firing, said Chung Koo-ho, whose mother died shielding him and his sister. No apology has yet been issued.

The US intervened in the 1950-53 Korean Civil War, on the side of the south Koreans, in a proxy war between the US and china for supremacy in East Asia. South Korea reported some 373,599 civilian and 137,899 military deaths, the US with 34,000 killed, and China with 114,000 killed. Overall, the U.S. dropped 635,000 tons of bombs—including 32,557 tons of napalm—on Korea, more than they did during the whole Pacific campaign of World War II. The US killed an estimated 1/3rd of the north Korean people during the war. The Joint Chiefs of staff issued orders for the retaliatory bombing of the People’s republic of China, should south Korea be attacked. Deadly clashes have continued up to the present day.

From 1948-1949, the Jeju uprising was an insurgency taking place in the Korean province of Jeju island, followed by severe anticommunist suppression of the South Korean Labor Party in which 14-30,000 people were killed, or ~10% of the island’s population. Though atrocities were committed by both sides, the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress the rebels were especially cruel. On one occasion, American soldiers discovered the bodies of 97 people including children, killed by government forces. On another, American soldiers caught government police forces carrying out an execution of 76 villagers, including women and children. The US later entered the Korean civil war on the side of the South Koreans.

In 1949 during the resumed Chinese Civil War, the US supported the corrupt Kuomintang dictatorship of Chiang Kaishek to fight against the Chinese Communists, who had won the support of the vast majority of peasant-farmers and helped defeat the Japanese invasion. The US strongly supported the Kuomintang forces. Over 50,000 US Marines were sent to guard strategic sites, and 100,000 US troops were sent to Shandong. The US equipped and trained over 500,000 KMT troops, and transported KMT forces to occupy newly liberated zones as well as to contain Communist-controlled areas. American aid included substantial amounts of both new and surplus military supplies; additionally, loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars were made to the KMT. Within less than two years after the Sino-Japanese War, the KMT had received $4.43 billion from the US—most of which was military aid.

The U.S. installed Syngman Rhee,a conservative Korean exile, as President of South Korea in 1948. Rhee became a dictator on an anti-communist crusade, arresting and torturing suspected communists, brutally putting down rebellions, killing 100,000 people and vowing to take over North Korea. Rhee precipitated the outbreak of the Korean War and for the allied decision to invade North Korea once South Korea had been recaptured. He was finally forced to resign by mass student protests in 1960.

Between 1946 and 1958, the US tested 23 nuclear devices at Bikini Atoll, using the native islanders and their land as guinea pigs for the effects of nuclear fallout. Significant fallout caused widespread radiological contamination in the area, and killed many islanders. A survivor stated, “What the Americans did was no accident. They came here and destroyed our land. They came to test the effects of a nuclear bomb on us. It was no accident.” Many of the islanders exposed were brought to the US Argonne National laboratory, to study the effects. Afterwards the islands proved unsuitable to sustaining life, resulting in starvation and requiring the residents to receive ongoing aid. Virtually all of the inhabitants showed acute symptoms of radiation syndrome, many developing thyroid cancers, Leukimia, miscarriages, stillborn and “jellyfish babies” (highly deformed) along with symptoms like hair falling out, and diahrrea. A handful were brought to the US for medical research and later returned, while others were evacuated to neighboring Islands. The US under LBJ prematurely returned the majority returned 3 years later, to further test how human beings absorb radiation from their food and environment. The islanders pleaded with the US to move them away from the islands, as it became clear that their children were developing deformities and radiation sickness. Radion levels were still unacceptable. The United States later paid the islanders and their descendants 25 million in compensation for damage caused by the nuclear testing program. A 2016 investigation found radiation levels on Bikini Atoll as high as 639 mrem yr−1, well above the established safety standard threshold for habitation of 100 mrem yr−1. Similar tests occurred elsewhere in the Marshall Islands during this time period. Due to the destruction of natural wealth, Kwajalein Atoll’s military installation and dislocation, the majority of natives currently live in extreme poverty, making less than 1$ a day. Those that have jobs, mostly work at the US military installation and resorts. Much of this is detailed in the documentary, The Coming War on China (2016). 

After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Douglas MacArthur pardoned Unit 731, a Japanese biological experimentation center which performed human testing of biological agents against Chinese citizens. While a series of war tribunals and trials was organized, many of the high-ranking officials and doctors who devised and respectively performed the experiments were pardoned and never brought to justice. As many as 12,000 people, most of them Chinese, died in Unit 731 alone and many more died in other facilities, such as Unit 100 and in field experiments throughout Manchuria. One of the experimenters who killed many, microbiologist Shiro Ishii, later traveled to the US to advise on its bioweapons programs. In the final days of the Pacific War and in the face of imminent defeat, Japanese troops blew up the headquarters of Unit 731 in order to destroy evidence of the research done there. As part of the cover-up, Ishii ordered 150 remaining subjects killed.

In 1945 during the month-long Battle of Manila, the US in deciding whether to attack Manila (then under Japanese occupation) with ground troops, decided instead to use indiscriminate carpet-bombing, howitzers, and naval bombardment, killing an estimated 100,000 people. The casualty figures show the US’s regard for filipino civilian life: 1,010 Americans, 16,665 Japanese and 100,000 to 240,000 civilians were killed. Manila became, alongside Berlin, and Warsaw, one of the most devastated cities of WW2.

US Troops committed a number of rapes during the battle of Okinawa, and the subsequent occupation of Japan. There were 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture alone.1 American Occupation authorities imposed wide-ranging censorship on the Japanese media, including bans on covering many sensitive social issues and serious crimes such as rape committed by members of the Occupation forces.

From 1942 to 1945, the US military carried out a fire-bombing campaign of Japanese cities, killing between 200,000 and 900,000 civilians. One nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. During early August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing ~130,000 civilians, and causing radiation damage which included birth defects and a variety of genetic diseases for decades to come. The justification for the civilian bombings has largely been debunked, as the entrance of Russia into the war had already started the surrender negotiations earlier in 1945. The US was aware of this, since it had broken the Japanese code and had been intercepting messages during for most of the year. The US ended up accepting a conditional surrender from Hirohito, against which was one of the stated aims of the civilian bombings. The dropping of the atomic bomb is therefore seen as a demonstration of US military supremacy, and the first major operation of the Cold War with Russia.

In 1918, the US took part in the allied intervention in the Russian civil war, sending 11,000 troops to the in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions to support the anti-bolshevik, monarchist, and largely anti-semitic White Forces. 

In 1900 in China, the US was part of an Eight-Nation Alliance that brought 20,000 armed troops to China, to defeat the Imperial Chinese Army, in the the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-imperialist uprising. 

In 1899, after a popular revolution in the Philippines to oust the Spanish imperialists, the US invaded and began the Phillipine-American war. The US military committed countless atrocities, leaving 200,000 Filipinos dead. Jacob H Smith killed between 2,500 to 50,000 civilians, His orders included, “kill everyone over the age of ten” and make the island “a howling wilderness.”

Throughout the 1800s, US settlers engaged in a genocide of native Hawaiians. The native population decreased from ~ 400k in 1789, to 40k by 1900, due to colonization and disease. In 1883, the US engineered the overthrow of Hawaii’s native monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, by landing two companies of US marines in Honolulu. Due to the Queen’s desire “to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life” for her subjects and after some deliberation, at the urging of advisers and friends, the Queen ordered her forces to surrender. Hawaii was initially reconstituted as an independent republic, but the ultimate goal of the US was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was finally accomplished in 1898. After this, the Hawaiian language was banned, English replaced it as the official language in all institutions and schools. The US finally apologized in 1993, but no land has been returned.

[ishikawayukis]

Seriously, Japan aside, I don't get why people think Seventeen needs to prioritize the US all the time. If we're even to talk demography, the most populated countries in the world are China, India, US, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Regardless of Seventeen's market, do people actually realize how big Asia really is......

Always annoyed at people for saying shit when kpop idols don't push the US agenda lol

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most usamericans are used to being the center of the universe and always being catered towards so when they're not they throw a temper tantrum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[soneirolojy]

Introduction

Hello!

I'm 손/SON. SON is my family name.

I am a big fan of K-POP and love learning languages.

Especially, I love ATEEZ, SEVENTEEN and BTS.

Actually, this is my first time using Tumblr. 😅

I joined Tumblr because I think it’s a great opportunity to talk about my favorite K-POP and learn about your languages and cultures as well.

Currently, I can speak English, Deutsch(German), Español(Spanish), 日本語(Japanese) and little Bahasa Indonesia(Indonesian).

Feel free to be friends with me.

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[fy-wonwoo]

241019 wonwoo and mingyu for allo bank indonesia

[lizziexmeow]

The 38th Golden Disc Awards🏆

JUNGKOOK

- BEST ALBUM 🏆 (GOLDEN) (BONSANG)

- BEST DIGITAL SONG 🏆 (SEVEN) (BONSANG)

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

- INDONESIA FANS CHOICE with mandiri🏆

- BEST ALBUM 🏆 (THE NAME CHAPTER: FREEFALL) (BONSANG)

SEVENTEEN

- BEST DIGITAL SONG 🏆 (SUPER) (BONSANG)

- BEST ALBUM 🏆 (FML) (BONSANG)

- ALBUM OF THE YEAR 🏆 (FML) (DAESANG)

[mirageofficial]

— WELCOME TO THE UPSIDE ! !

with a total of 22 shows and 16 stops across eight countries, MIRAGE finally takes center stage at their very first headlining concert series: ENTER THE UPSIDE! the setlist is an attempt at performing the group’s staple hits (and solos) while feeding fans with the most beloved b-sides since debut—it also features the unreleased songs monster + shooting stars (their latest english song). the live songs will share a glimpse of MIRAGE’s lore, friendship, and lessons learned in real time. the members were able to promote their english hits at broadcasting stations and festivals throughout the many countries they visited.

tickets were in high demand before the presale period opened, especially due to the fact that the majority of booked venues were smaller-scale arenas (minus south korea, japan, united kingdom, and indonesia’s stadiums). VIP, meet & greet, and standard tickets sold out within hours overall—some instantly in certain countries— and it’s reflected MIRAGE’s overlooked global popularity beyond south korea. since the announcement of the tour, netizens have been discussing whether or not KQ ENTERTAINMENT, their small label, has the strength (and money) to continue managing/supporting MIRAGE as they continue to climb to the top of the charts… or would a different label ruin the group’s strategies?

( full setlist ! )

( opening VHS ) intro: end of the world

act i the jinx

i + opening roll the dice

ii ( mashup ) black mamba + illusion

iii bewitched

iv breathe

v addicted

vi + act i finale secret story of the swan

act ii changes

interlude ( visuals ) natural

vii interlude: illusions

viii changes

ix relapse

x the happiest girl

xi + act ii finale rainbow spectrum

act iii maknae unit + elder line's solos

xii + extended intro monster ( xepher, nako, & arin )

xiii halfway ( nari )

xiv + act iii finale queen of the night ( eunae )

act iv vivace

interlude + VHS WE ARE THE PIXIES

xv starlight

xvi greedy

xvii ( mashup ) alive + outro: vivace

xviii ( mashup ) a little different [eng. version] + not a stereotype

xix + act iv finale shootings stars ( unreleased eng. song )

act v our promise

xx wanna:be

xxi + special VHS for PROMISE domino

xxii chillin' with you

( finale ) our promise

( encore ) mago

DID YOUR FAVORITE SONG MAKE IT TO THE SETLIST?

between the first two opening nights in seoul and the first half of tour, many kpop stars came out to see MIRAGE in action! which guests do you think caused the most commotion/drama on stan twitter?

ATEEZ

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

NCT ( taeyong, mark, jungwoo )

WAYV ( winwin, kun, hendery, xiaojun )

THE ROMANTICS ( rue )

MANIA! ( byeol )

UNIVERSE-4 ( jihun, marley, sakura, AJ )

FROMIS_9 ( saerom, jiheon )

SEVENTEEN ( seungkwan, DK )

THE BOYZ ( kevin, sunwoo, new )

PENTAGON ( jinho, kino, shinwon )

NOAH ( @qtnoaly )

AESPA ( qiao @darkestlovers )

TAGLIST | @qtnoaly @neocityocs @alixnsuperstxr @darkestlovers

JOIN THE TAGLIST HERE

[singerboyvids]

Rajuli Almaseid & Ayah ~ Jaga Slalu Hatimu |Seventeen cover| [Indonesia 🇮🇩]

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Hello this is part of me if you want to know me more, I'm a cyber account with He/him as my pronouns and my name is Leon Zachary I born 21 Agustus 2002 so I'm already on legal age also my zodiac is Leo. Everyone who knows me calls me Jeko, Jaki, Jo, Jod or kak/bang ( if they're younger than me ). My MBTI is ENTJ but, I don't know my love language. Sometimes I use Jay by ENHYPEN, Kyungjun by TNX, Taesan by Boynextdoor, Eunho by PLAVE and Choi Hyunwook (actor) as my persona ( because they're 2002 liners).

Now talk about my interest. I hope this is not boring at all.

I'm interested in that: PLAVE, TREASURE, TNX, ENHYPEN, PHARMONY, BOYNEXTDOOR, DREAMCATCHER, REDVELVET, SNSD, BLACKPINK, WINNER, iKON, RIIZE, AESPA, NCT, SEVENTEEN, MONSTA-X.

Listening: SZA, Keshi, Bon Jovi, Bryan Addams, Travis Scott, Billy idols, Avril Lavigne, One ok rock, King Gnu, Yuuri, Kim Taeyeon, Jay Park, BiBi, Camo, J-min, DPR, Day6, Simon Dominic, Ash Island, Paramore, Adele, oceanfromtheblue, Baek Yerin, Zico.

Watching over: K-drama, K-movie, Movie, Anime, Serial, Thailand lakorn ( loving all genres LGBT or gore too much), serial Indonesia (not indosiar).

Learning about that: some daily quotes, dark academia, Manga or comic, manhwa/manhua, doujins, Wattpad, webtoon, some prompts or phrases.

Do you have the same interest with me? And you want to be my friend? Here I hope that you're welcome to be my friend and I hope you enjoy my daily tweets.

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Decoherence, Ch. 13: Radicalize

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“It was so easy for an old normal to make way for a new one, so easy to blot the memories of that old normal.” - Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

WC: 2917 - Rated: T - CW: swearing, alcohol -

2027, April 29 - London, England

Remus stared unseeing at Lo’s calculations on the wardrobe mirror. He’d spent that strange day glued to his not-brother’s side, staring at his too-perfect teeth and trying to ignore the misplaced tattoo. By bedtime, he’d chalked up the dizzying sense of wrong to a killer hangover.

The next day, Remus had woken up with the tattoo on his right arm where it belonged. He walked into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that afternoon.

Lo squeezed his hand and smiled softly, but didn’t ask where his mind had gone. Maybe he didn’t need to. Remus nodded and kissed his knuckles, then stepped closer and returned his attention to Lo’s explanation.

“Each universe is different, though some… differ dramatically. Some… like the ranch appear to differ by decades. Centuries, perhaps. With… radical differences.” He cleared his throat and straightened his glasses before sketching another wave point. “As far as I’ve been able to ascertain, there are… many with some combination of the two of us.” He looked back at Remus, hesitation… no, fear in his eyes. “How many… how many do you remember?”

Moving closer, Remus looped one arm around his waist but looked away. “A… a lot,” he finally said, voice shaking. “I don’t… you weren’t… you weren’t always there. I…”

“It’s okay, Meus,” Lo whispered, reaching up and cradling his jaw between both hands. Moving very gently, he guided Remus’ gaze until their eyes met. “What do you remember? There’s no wrong answer.”

“I… I remember the ranch, it…” His brow furrowed and he shook his head, eyes scrunched shut. “It wasn’t now, though. We didn’t have a phone or… computers or…” He cracked one eye open and Lo simply nodded, a small, encouraging smile on his face.

“I remember that, too,” he murmured. “We were working on a generator… steam, I think. We hadn’t quite worked it all out yet. That was while we waited for the light experiment.”

“Double slit… yeah…” Remus shook his head. “I remember… New York—” He squeezed his eyes shut, Lo’s death certificate in his hands. His voice grew shaky. “Indonesia, Geneva… Some giant, drafty house right out of Wuthering Heights… D.C.” Lo stepped behind him and wrapped both arms around him, holding tight. Lo’s hands were warm through his shirt, real.

Remus took a deep breath. “So how many of these have you counted that have… have us?  I mean…” he smiled, still shaky, and reached for Lo's hand and brought it up to his chest. “As we are like this? Together?”

“Seventeen.”

“Seventeen? Only seventeen…” His eyes scanned the coherence equations. Infinite universes… “Only seventeen out of… 

“One thousand, three hundred and nineteen.” Lo shrugged and tacked on an extra line at the end of the equations system. “Taking all the variables I’ve tracked…” He drew a square around the final number. “Out of one thousand, three hundred and nineteen different universes in which you and I are reasonably close to who we are now,”  He looked up, that gorgeous little smile tugging at his lips. “There are seventeen in which we are married or about to be. I’ve observed several others where we have various different relationships. There are some where…” He swallowed hard and looked away, the muscles in his jaw twitching.

“There are some in which I know who you are but…” Pink dusted his cheeks even as his smile grew sad. “I haven't caught your attention yet.”

He made a few more marks on the board and pressed his lips together as he stared at his notes. Finally, he gave him a sad smile. “There are two in which Virgil is our son.” He didn’t elaborate and a cold, icy rock grew in the pit of Remus’ stomach at the implications. “In total, I've personally observed ninety-seven universes where you appear to be, well…” He shrugged. “You. But even here…”

Lo looked around the bedroom, eyes lingering on ordinary objects like the mirror over the bathroom sink, the clothes in the wardrobe. “The Remus who is here at other times…” He shook his head. “He has your tattoos, a job at Digitel, but… he’s not you. It’s… it’s why I couldn’t stay here in our apartment.”

“Yeah…” Remus muttered, moving closer and wrapping both arms around his middle. “Yeah I found you… in Geneva at CERN and in Jakarta…” He chuckled, a weak broken sound. 

What could he possibly say about New York? “I’ve been looking for you.” He shook his head. “But… well, at least in Jakarta you didn't even know who the fuck I was. That…”

“That hurt,” Lo nodded and pulled Remus a little closer. His eyes grew glassy with tears. “I've encountered you before, as well, Meus. Well, not you, but…”

Remus held him close, nuzzling against the soft, warm skin at the side of his neck. “So now that we’ve found each other…” he brushed tiny kisses against the side of Lo's head, smiling at the way his hair tickled his nose. “How do we stay like this? How do we make it so you come with me again?”

Lo slowly pulled away, both hands cradling Remus’ face. “I… I can’t leave yet, Meus.”

“What? But… but I—” he drew closer, matching Lo's movement, and covered his hands with his own. “No!” Remus shook his head. “No, I can’t lose you again, Lo, I—I just can’t.”

“I… I stayed for a reason,” Lo said carefully, looking toward the window. The last glow of the sunset had begun to fade and they could barely see each other in the dark. “There’s… There’s someone here who needs me.” 

Remus’ stomach sank and a roaring filled his ears. Slowly, he forced his hands down from Lo's body as he pulled away. “Oh…” he croaked. “There’s—there’s someone else?”

“Oh, Meus, no!” Lo's eyes flashed in the dim room, wide and panicked. He grasped Remus’ hand. “No, it’s… it’s my brother.”

Remus shook his head. “I’ve known you for years, Lo. You don’t have a brother,” he muttered, cursing the crack in his voice.

“But I do,” Lo said, gently drawing him closer. “Meus, do you remember that man we saw behind the counter at Aldi’s? The day… the day I left?” Remus nodded, shaky and stiff. 

“You called him Lucas,” he whispered, grasping at his swirling memories and finally coming up with the face that had looked so very much like Lo's. “I thought I’d imagined that.” How many more times had he seen a man with Lo's features and thought he was his Lo? “But I… I don’t understand.”

“Lucas and I traveled together. Car to car, train to train.” Lo leaned his head forward and his tears wet Remus’ hands. “Like you and I do.”

Remus tightened his arms around Lo’s shoulders and murmured into his hair. “Come, let’s sit down. Tell me about Lucas.” They settled together on the bed, Remus’ back against the headboard with Lo curled against his chest. “Why have you never mentioned him before?”

“I lost my brother a little bit at a time,” he whispered and Remus stroked his back. “Day by day, and sometimes…” He gripped Remus’ hand, pulling him that much closer. “Sometimes I’d get him back, almost like he was before, but…”

Lo shook his head. “He’s six years older and… When he was in high school, he started drinking. And then… then he started running away, staying out all night. Not…”

He sighed and looked up at Remus. “I think… I think it was just the real Lucas, well, the Lucas I knew, who I hopped with. Other times… he was there, but…”

“…Follow me and I’ll mace you,” Lo calls up to me from the next landing down.  “Fuck off…”

“Lo, please,” I whisper, but he’s already too far away to hear me. One more plea spills out anyway as I slide down and sit on the dirty steps. The taste of his kiss still in my mouth, my skin grows cold and the lobby door slams shut. “Please.”

“But it wasn’t him,” Remus nodded.

“Yeah.” Lo got quiet and his tears slowed. He let out a slow breath and curled a little closer. “I found him one day, when I was in college, a little before we met. I…” He shrugged and hung his head. “I’d just turned twenty-one and… I was lonely. I went to a bar and they… they didn’t even check my ID,” he laughed humorlessly.

“Lucas was there, bartending. He… he was already hammered. He didn’t recognize me.” The pain in his eyes cut right through Remus’ heart. That empty look in those same eyes as he’d looked back at him in the other worlds.

Remus shivered and kissed his head. “What happened?”

“I… I stuck around and had my first drink. Had my first four drinks. When closing came… he…” Lo fiddled with his wedding ring. Despite it all, it felt so good to see it on his hand. “Lucas couldn’t drive home, not like that. I… I lived close and walked home and put him to bed on my couch.” Lo met his eyes. “We were both there the next morning.”

He brushed back his hair, those steel blue eyes still glittering with tears. “Why didn’t you tell me any of this?”

“I… I was scared. I… I was mostly sure but what if I was wrong? What if he wasn’t hopping with me? What if you weren’t? What if…” Another sob choked off his words and he clung to Remus’ sleeves. “What if it really was all in my head.”

Lo scrubbed at his face. “But this, all of this, proves it. But I… before this, I didn’t have that proof yet and I was scared.”

“Virgil remembers you.”

“Really?”

Remus nodded. “In Wyoming, he made a doll of you,” he whispered. Lo looked up, eyes wide. “He remembers you. He… he talked about you. Even when no-one else did.”

“He doesn’t know he’s ‘not meant’ to remember. Maybe we’re all entangled,” he whispered, then shook his head, trembling. “There’s still so much we don’t know. I don’t even know for certain if…”

Remus was still confused. “So how did he disappear? How did Lucas not stay with you when you hopped?”

Lo looked up at him, tears freely flowing. “The same way I stayed here. The same way I have stayed here.”

“The alcohol.” A cold ache spread through Remus’ chest. Lo’s eyes when he’d tried to convince him, begged him to drink that night. “You doped yourself to stay.” Lo nodded and hung his head. 

“Oh, Love,” he breathed, cupping his cheek. “Why didn’t you tell me what you were doing? I would’ve… I would’ve stayed with you.” A lump grew in his throat as he drew his hand through Lo’s hair, desperate to soak in the lost feel of him.

“I… I didn’t know for sure,” he whispered. “What if… what if you really were an alcoholic? That it really was just dreams? I was afraid I’d hurt you, if—”

“You did hurt me.”

Lo nodded and buried his face in the crook of his neck. “I’m sorry. I was afraid what happened to Lucas would happen to you. That you’d both be gone and it would be my fault.”

“Lo? Lo, where’s Lucas now? You saw him… you saw him at Aldi’s but he wasn’t there today.”

Lo nodded. “I’ve been watching. He only works three days a week. Usually late mornings…”

“That’s why we never saw him before,” Remus murmured.

He let out a low sigh, and sagged in Lo’s arms, dragged down by the realization of just how easy it might have been for them to have never again crossed paths. 

“I… I followed him… home.” Lo’s voice broke. “He’s in a half-way house. Rehab with day passes, as far as I can tell.”

“Are they medicating him? He seemed…” Remus didn’t want to say fucked up but…

Lo shook his head. “I don’t think so. It looks like alcohol withdrawal. It goes away after his lunch break.” He buried his face against Remus’ chest, a choked sound coming out of throat. “I have to help him. I have to get him back.”

“No, you don’t,” Remus whispered and Lo’s head jerked up. “We do.”

“Meus, I can’t ask you to—”

“You think there’s any universe out there where I wouldn’t help you if you asked?” He smiled back at him, Lo’s cheek so perfectly nestled in his palm.

“I know that’s not true…” Doubt clouded his eyes and Remus remembered the ache of sitting with the not-his-Lo back at CERN. The disgust in Dr. Sander’s eyes in Jakarta.

Drawing close and breathing in the scent of his Lo, Remus grinned. “Have you asked?”

“Will you help me?” Lo’s voice was barely a whisper.

“Try and stop me,” Remus said and pulled him in for a slow kiss. They’d kissed a thousand times, a million times before, by campfires, at crowded Tube stations, in the dark while they waited for silvered photoplates to develop.

But the whole world shrunk down to just this, Lo's soft lips against his, the sweet heat of his mouth and the clash of teeth. The little hum as the last of his worries melted away and Remus deepened their kiss, one hand drawn through his love’s silky locks. His Logan, right here in his arms. They were home, whichever world they were in, together they were always home.

When they finally broke apart, their lips tasted like salt, both crying freely. “I missed you, Lo,” Remus pressed their foreheads together and breathed in the imagined scent of antiseptic and latex. “I thought I’d made you up. I thought—” 

“I’m right here, Meus,” he whispered back. “I’m right here and I’m yours.” 

~

“Despite the rehab, he’s still drinking.” Freshly showered, Lo sat curled against Remus’ chest, the spicy scent of his shampoo lingering in his damp hair. “I suspect that’s what’s keeping him here. And… it’s… He’s been sent home a few times for being drunk by the end of his shift.” 

“And if he stops drinking, and goes to sleep sober, he’ll hop with you?” Remus stroked Lo’s bare arm, tracing the familiar curve of his shoulder, the bend of his elbow. Memorizing, savoring. “With us?”

“At least, that’s the theory. It’s difficult to prove without a functional MRI during sleep, but… your dreams seem to confirm that’s where the pilot waves merge and branch again.”

“When people cross to the next train car,” Remus murmured. “When we hop.”

“Exactly.”

Remus reached for the glass of amber liquid waiting for him on the nightstand and held it up to the light. “So this will keep me here?” His nose scrunched, the burn of the alcohol familiar and… unwelcome. “Keep me here with you?”

Lo nodded, taking his own glass. “You told me what happened the last time you drank.” Remus met his eyes, the bright blue dimmed with an ache, not just for himself, but for what his brother must feel each morning, has felt each morning for decades. “Imagine not being the one who’d been left behind but…” Lo curled closer, moving slowly on the bed, cautious. “Your mind pulls. It wants to go… it’s entangled. It… it will hurt.”

“But I’ll be with you,” he whispered, cupping Lo’s cheek with his other hand. “And when we wake up, I’ll take care of you.” Lo closed his eyes, diamonds of tears dotting his eyelashes. He rubbed his cheek against Remus’ palm and nodded.

“Ready?”

“With you?” Remus grinned. “Always, Lo.”

Together, they drained their glasses, the cold liquid burning Remus’ throat. It was harsher than he’d remembered and he shook his head. “How the fuck did I ever like that?”

“The foibles of youth,” Lo muttered with his crooked little grin and refilled their glasses. “One more should do it,” he said, clinking their tumblers together and finishing his in two gulps.

Remus swallowed down the second glass and nodded, the impossibly familiar warmth already spreading out from his gut. Smiling gratefully, he accepted the water Lo wordlessly offered him. 

“With Lucas gone… when our parents died in some of the universes, I was…” He shook his head but sank into Remus’ embrace, and his breathing slowly softened. “I was angry and… lonely. 

“And scared.” Lo’s voice trembled. He shook his head and curled against Remus’ shoulder, fresh tears fighting their way past screwed shut eyes. Remus stroked his hair, brushing back his fringe and letting his fingers trace over the crinkle in his brow. “I was alone for so long.”

Remus nodded slowly and when Lo didn’t finish, he murmured into his hair. “And then we met.”

“And then we met,” Lo murmured. He tucked his face into the crook of Remus’ neck and just breathed against his skin for a while. Remus thought that perhaps he’d started to drift off when he finally spoke again.

“I’d lost track of which world was his,” he said slowly, shame dragging at each word. “I… Early on, even after you and I met, I tried to find him. I’d even think about…” He waved his hand toward the bottle on the nightstand. “But… I never did. I’d—” 

A soft sob broke through and Remus held him closer, making shushing sounds in his hair.

“I’d given up finding him, until…” His words fell away into another shaky sob and he nodded against Remus’ chest.

“But you found him, Lo,” Remus whispered. “You found him, and together we’re gonna bring him home.”