#the gang plays pickleball

[andromedism]

just to let you know your fanfic changed me and all my friends lives. we all make references to it. we are the gang plays pickleball unofficial fanclub

oh, this is the one. you’ve just fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine, anon (making something that becomes lore in another person’s friend group). thank you a million times over.

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[aburningconstellation]

things that i think thrawn + the ascendancy gang would love (part 2)

thrawn: earning as many doctorate & masters degrees as possible (he loves being able to say that he’s a master at everything from art history to underwater basket weaving - & he has the diplomas to prove it)

eli: the dying crafts list + being the one person preventing so many crafts from not being practiced anymore (he tries to teach them to the sky-walker girls with varying degrees of success)

ar’alani: women’s sports in general, but also really niche sports (you know she was playing pickleball way before everyone else, but now that it’s kind of popular she’s moving on to like roller derby or something)

wutroow: the duolingo owl - not the app, the owl specifically (even though she speaks like 5 languages already & will 10000% learn another just so she can gossip without other people being able to eavesdrop). also chappell roan.

che’ri: spontaneously chopping off all your hair in the bathroom at 2am (&& probably giving yourself bangs too for good measure)

samakro: renaissance festivals (you know he’s got a giant turkey leg in one hand, a mug of ale in the other + is booking it to axe throwing)

thalias: modern adaptations of jane austen novels (no one appreciates yearning like she does)

faro: driving late at night with your windows down & a killer playlist blaring (bonus points if it like just rained & you can smell it in the air)

ba’kif: sam reich on game changer (he wants his cedf officers to experience just a fraction of the stress they put him under so badly)

thrass: the headspace meditation app (also under so much stress, but handling it in a very different way)

thurfian + zistalmu: the reesa teesa ‘who tf did i marry’ tiktok series (this much hot goss? for free?! they’re sat)

[lonestar-s5countdown]

*Paul refuses

** but he swears he’s having the time of his life in prison

***much to TK’s delight and Carlos’s distress

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[meanwhileinstasiville]

This will take a while for how short these things are; when I was young, I used to take surveys followed by "do I have to be 18 to take this..?" Disgusting the poll takers into hanging up on me.

So, trying to take this like grandpa ogren even though I'm a clone of grandpa dunn.

Airlines work exactly like the kkk; everyone on earth pays into the airlines, some people fly regularly and a whole lot of people never do. And then, you think, "yeah there's coach…and then there's first class!" but that's not really a dividing line though it can look like one. No, that's flying whenever you want privilege; airfares being prorated by proximity to takeoff. A couple grand out of pocket for what would be a ninety dollar or something "puddle jumper" trip. And this is because you can get on all the way through boarding time and to even wheels up time. So there's that.

I used to sit up at cotton memorial a lot, because it was always quiet there and seldom used; sort of a locals only thing tucked away up a road. (This is going somewhere, so bear with me). It grew a circle of guys between all the benches. It grew "Peggy's tai chi circle". It grew an old guy who drove all the way there to cook on a camp stove every morning and for a very long time; until a bear almost ate him, choosing to take and eat a deer right in front of him instead. Was quiet

I used to watch pickleball, had favorites among the playing teams. Now seldom seen alone or with spouse or partner. I do hear curious score calls from nowhere, where a tourney would call them out sequentially. "6,2" "6,1" "3,2,2" and so on, with none of them beginning with a zero and I'm paying a more or less rapt attention to it. Staged, I'm thinking today since all the left side courts have people topping out at 5'4 at the most. All the far right side are "regular American size" men and women. People always come to these things with their rituals; clothing changes, taking shirts off, putting sunglasses on, changing shoes, stretching of a dubious performance benefit etc, and intending to improve their game by it, somehow.

And then after a while, wherever I'd sit to watch people began sitting between me and the courts. A simple thing to do on purpose but randomly impossible because it's a big lawn. I'd started seeing "everyone is built like a latina" day. "All men with their shirts off" day. As most serious players are actual couples and many marrieds acting as teams, it's a little odd to see. And that was before the cooper drive-bys and back in the "red honda" and blue ford era. Today somebody pulled the yellow cooper out of mothballs somewhere to drive by, and not before a porche going the other way. I would like to think that in some way these things are associated with proselytizing by degrees, but then all these aged "was once a hate or gang member" complete with tattoos and "single dad stroller pushing" as often as not keep walking by.

(And I'm no stranger to "how things work" conversations backed up by murder, but these are a little impressionistic for my taste)

I hate england and english stuff; there's a shop n kart starting point for "royally" pissing me off. There's a growing troupe of "beardys"; a lot of guys who look like italian religious reliefs following me around, or laying in wait as cotton memorial guy who was there for like twelve hours stretches. And I'm not interested. Not in the religion, not in the men with shorts but no shirts crowding the pickleball courts now and again. It takes empathy for these things to go places, and a sympathetic response within that I'm not offering.

(You guys will stay right where you're at since I was in kindergarten)

I have to wonder too with these guys and strollers, where the risk assessment comes in because a whole lot of them are bringing "look upon me and dispair" ubermensch attitude. And I'm sure your sex lives are SO GREAT that whoever gave birth the first time, would have absolutely no problems getting pregnant again and through the grief.

When it was black people and they were having thier empathic responses manipulated by the kkk, it created major league sports. All the black kids everywhere, now have a one shot chance from the projects except sports have to come before school. Schoolhouse education never got nobody out of the projects, focused voting at caucus level power being a direct product of higher education. Athletes have access to celebrities. Barak Obama was the one in a million shot, being the perfect kind of guy from the perfect academic background and irrespective of race. Meaning a real progress from the criminally run America of the kkk. (IMHO, they seem like drug dealer builds the billionaires from amazon and facebook and such)

So where black people may well have voted their respective ways from "ball is life" and "thug life chose me" attitudes, toward everything from saving money to marrying; they're right back in the "we got out of the negro league!!!" With respect to prioritizing sports over education.

(They seem like adult size middle school kids from the 90s; all those billionaires. Zuckerberg was where "people went for weed" or Bezos was "somebody's cocaine hookup" or something)

So that appeal of really making it to empathy and for black people, gave us 100 million dollar basketball player vs subsistence farm cleans up spit for fourteen hours per day. And those appeals don't work on latinos because they have class consciousness; redlining makes things extra expensive BUT there are no specific prohibitions against them as there are for black people. Notably baseball as a long time kkk sports legacy (and not a good one) has a whole lot of [Dominican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Associated Latin Americans] where sports as an industry would expect black people.

(Latinos (and grandpa ogren) see where a need is met and is not met; there's no "feeling good" about being malnutritioned or not drinking enough water; they don't want a shirt to make them feel like a member of a major league team)

Marketing doesn't work on latinos because they don't buy things they don't need. Black people on the other hand, (America is in a deep dark hole because of this) were selectively bred long enough that they raised white people to treat them as forgettable second and even third class citizens. And that's the version of "whiteness" that northern mexico heard first; that and that "sick people thought the desert would fix them".

So as a bottomless pit sort of, when black people finally give up on superstardom for voting through education to improving conditions for everyone; no one is going to be playing any of those sports for stadium audiences. Not being about "merch" not playing "half court basketball while hoping to get into the bigs". And Penny Arcade's "greater internet fuckwad theory" while it's sort of on topic, that's really what the kkk did to America. Whenever people disagreed, they'd go commit a hate crime to make nice. And then, they were all armed and minorites wouldn't go anywhere near them (barrios ethnic towns and so-called inner cities anybody?). So they started beefing with each other where anonymous people who have long known all the identities, they're picking an odd man out to keep things copacetic. Getting a wicker man treatment one by one.

Why all the kkk talk? And it's because the kkk demonstrated how this stuff could work, and then black runaway slaves "explained it to mexicans", who then built it into the drug trade. "Siccarios all have girlfriends" Mexican news was saying about the narco situation way back. "Girls are becoming siccarios because they don't want boyfriends; they want houses". So American one-upmanship has taken on a latino character that way. What's the "merit badge" that gets you a job that goes somewhere? Gets you insurance? Gets you into the parties and hanging out with the cool kids? Being on good terms with the drug trade, right?

In my experience, it wasn't the smartest kids, best athletes, or even the prettiest girls who were getting places. (And I know how "the system works" with America when the kkk was running it).

How to win friends and influence people; this was a template for how to be a period billionaire. And you're born in the right place, to the right family, with a good name for whatever end they had in mind, "but if everyone acted like that!?!". Yeah, it's like getting a "random selection" for airport strip searching. So I've heard that beanstalks with their ribs showing were a sex symbol during the dotcom era. Someone in a store once talked up his "oh yeah got a second laser in there" gestures like he has any idea how a technology works DVD player back in the 01-02 years. White guy talks like that. Like his car is self driving or something and having that in there is getting him cheerleaders.

(Latinos really grabbed onto that set of ideas)

So what was "pay them better" is now "torture them less" white people beginning to act a lot like black people did at the turn of the last century.

(Grandpa ogren is who this is dedicated to, because people keep seeking me out like they expect me to say something)

Today people honestly seem to believe that "growing up on a six figure head of household or more" income, isn't "the thing". It's wearing the shirt or keeping the hours or the "word choice" where these super PAC meetings are weighing in at billions of dollars, and they're not distributing any of that money but it's feeling included.

And empathy is a weakness in those cases. Latinos that are close to lacking it entirely, they apply makeup and lipstick like it's a spray on bed liner. "one coat at a time and then the dates?" (The commercial represents the whole experience, and their not seeing results looks like the exception) Applying perfume "with a fog machine until you start getting compliments" as dilbert put that particular problem.

So "as an outlier" as latinos might call me, social media gets to cry ask "are these firearms registered???" and "showing interest in things doesn't grant access to them" AND every single ad server of all social media sites had explicitly threatened to kill me including Google's "you will be murdered, this is not a joke". Concurrently. And I'm from the station family wise to have the interests for all the right reasons, but I call myself an impoverished patrician because that's what it amounts to. It's telling me to vote for Obama so I can be rich (riiight), and then it's leaning toward vote for Kamala, or swat will show up and shoot you (huh) this election cycle.

Which makes me an all around unpleasant subject to make an excessive post a little shorter. All those Afghan families with western standard of living many of which became terrorists after the USSR went in there. (What had happened with the kkk, was that it didn't entirely understand how it was running everything, most dangerous lawless period in American history following reconstruction, and required gradually disbanding to avoid taking the whole united states with it).

So there. Can't vote yourself out of poverty.

No matter how compelling a subliminal argument is, it can't massage your feelings into covering for an unmet biological need. What black people are going to do "without the projects" and/or the so-called "school to prison" pipeline, is a really important discussion to have because *Latinos don't have those and they thought America was so advanced as to defeat their criminals*. What kind of a future America is looking at on account of those things?

All a latino kkk would require is about 10-15 million people to form into an organization. That's enough collective bargaining weight to selectively breed white people who are poor (highest birthrates among whites, right?).

[kate-kasparek]

Boy, did coming back early from our big trip pay off. Another incredible Kleber filled day!!

Kyle is a videographer and plays drums for a mega church in Bentonville. Got to watch that talented nephew of mine dance with his drums. Wow. (The preacher said the Bible calls for believers to assemble together and chided people to return to church. I just wish he'd also encouraged vaccination so they could gather together safely. It's like there's no danger of COVID anymore in Arkansas. Course Wimbledon fans think the same. 😥😳)

Scooted over to a sweet place for lunch with the whole gang. Then Mom, Jeff, Christy, Karyn, Blair and I headed off to play pickleball. After a rain delay, we had at it. Hotter than hades. Best part was holding Blair and watching them play. 😎

Next up: fancy cocktails to cool us off. Had so much fun we packed up and went to Local Lime for zucchini salsa, carnitas tacos and cilantro lime rice. Simply a heavenly last day!!!!!!

[sneakydragon]

Sneaky Dragon Episode 478

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to episode 478 of the podcast that is never late!

WARNING: Wonder Woman 1984 spoilers ahead! Starting at 1:07:40 and ending at 1:50:44. (Sorry! With no Fansplainers, we just had to get it off our chest!)

This week: pandemic brain; in the closet; Pee-nuts; in the dog house; French root beer; no to TV dinners; cat damage; the ultimate stupid sacrifice; call me Sparky; ice rink money; no time for comedy; studio system; Hitchcockian; on set indulgences; robot actors; we destroy the things we love; me and my Shadow; Ian recommends In & of Itself; the older Ron Howard; beautiful exposition; the new horrible people; respectable gambling; buy low, sell sugar high; not so Wonder Woman; off-screen hilarity; the stolen body; non-secret; the devil isn’t in the details; woman power; get to the point, movie; no agency; practice makes too perfect; well, the plane is disguised; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; the give-away eye patch; Sea of Love love; the only fan; useless plastic fangs; football or football; controversial Danger Man opinions; pickleball for all; Press Gang rec; embarrassing praise; Bananaman clarification; find that show for Ian; Dark Shadows update; and, finally, forward into their past.

Thanks for listening.

Question of the Week: What was your favourite board/card game growing up? Sub-question: Your chance to Fansplain! What movie would you like to fix and how?

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[sheilasministry]

Jesus says it’s time I have some more time with Him about some things on me & not anyone else. That is this. I know God is helping me to get to someones home in time but I’m not sure who’s but I will be there if I’m not doing what it seems to be with me or my mom or someone else’s place or someone else’s car or work or something about someone signing a check or me going for my salad & getting my favorite drink with it. Then coming back home to say your car is ready & I’m going back to my place.  I will see you later & I’m happy you have your car back & it runs well. In the mean time I’m here to say God Is Jesus with God Jehovah. I know this & I try to say it to someone who REALLY NEEDS God’s help but they just don’t get Prayer at all but I Pray for them all the time to get them out of hot water or into a place for financial purpose of being with me but not. I can see it’s going to be another fine day & I’m down $827.28 but who is counting but me. That is more then my house mortgage that I just paid not that long ago & was trying to save for our property taxes but that’s out the door so to speak & into someones car & not mine. Okay I’m not mad but I feel sad that I can’t save either with things going on in my life but this one person keeps saying; How come it happens to me that I have to come up with this money that so far they have NOT come up with one dime but all have contributed to their cause & it’s like they don’t say; Well you have to give up your money for me & them to but how am I going to pay this all back to all who said; Well just give me some of it back but some said give me none of it back. I guess their life financially is better then mine but not. Okay I have a good paying job that is not good with not much money coming in for me now. It’s half of what my friend makes with me. I know it’s not  good to say I have to be here for anyone but me but I have to survive in this world along with the rest of everyone on this planet. Someone will say; Well you should feel lucky you can help. I do but next time if you tweet me your phone number & address I can send anyone from my family & friends to your place for another time to stay or needed money. Can you do that please? I mean I would like to say it’s not been one time but many times for me the most. I guess God says I need to pay it back because I didn’t pay Him tithe's for long but that’s because I didn’t have enough over for me to do that. Plus I don’t go to Church to give more money out. I did give once or twice but I need that money for me & my family & someone who  might say; I heard you give out long term loans with no interest of pay back with the money we won’t ever pay back to you. I will say; I’m going home to my Heavenly Father & He can give me more money but that is not going to happen. So if I can be here for this. You can to. Don’t loan out your money expecting them to pay it back sometime soon or ever. I have done that & it’s gone for good but God says I can still work. So can they but they have an excuse like me & besides I’m old & they are younger then me but I have to say my Social Security is not good but I will say I will have some money in time but not much with some business online. So that’s it for me. I’m here to say I have a nice place but it will be okay to live here & not the other one but God says it’s for me only if I say Thank You God Jesus again & again & I have but we don’t have this place paid paid off so I don’t know how that is going to work out going to a place where my husband will say; Okay I can do this. NO YOU CAN’T! I will say & then he will say; How do I fix this & this & this? I don’t know but I hope that elevator works. I need it when I hurt my knee or leg or ankel or anything at my age that I can say; Praise God Jesus I have an elevator to go down in. Okay I’m here if anyone wants to know I’m stuck in the elevator. Well what are you doing in that thing? It’s like a hundred years old. Okay my husband needs something to do today. Hey can you get Goldie out of our elevator? You know the one they said NOT to use for at least a week so they can fix it. Well they can fix it with her in it. That way we know it won’t get stuck with us in it. Well that’s true. Hey is anyone hungry? I’m going out to eat. Okay I want to see that before I go back & someone to have some fun with while you are here for what? Forever & a day? Maybe but I can be out with you to. No not with  me not now & not ever anymore. Not like this. It’s too much for me to  handle this kind of attention. Oh we will be back but you have fun in time with all this while they are working on it okay? Okay have a fun time. Hey it’s been what a month or two? Maybe. I have to admit she has been out in the tree house to have some fun but it’s not good to be by yourself like she is so much. Her husband is there but he says he is having more fun just staying in their home to have people over for pickleball & she plays & then leaves for her tree house. Okay let’s say we are coming over but if we do it’s just for a day or two. It’s to, you know not done for me to say I want to be there to be in their way. Okay this is not done but it’s coming together for them. Okay is her friend available to have some fun with us & her to? No we can’t do this with her not like this. We have to say it’s not for them to decide for her. Let’s see what it’s like in these parts of the woods okay? Fine with me. It’s beautiful down here & it’s so quiet with no one here. This is nice & we say it’s not fun here. This is nice to the max is what she would say. Okay let’s have some fun with her this time & bring out the gang for some slumber party to help her to decide to say I’m good here to but not. Okay this is a fun day with someone like this & I didn’t see anything going on with her this time. Is she okay with us here? Or is this too many people for her to deal with at one time? No this is no problem for her at all. She knows it’s time for her to have some fun & I think she is having some fun now. I can hear some people down there now with her. Oh let’s go & see what is going on. There she is but who are all those people with her? And we thought she was alone without us. Okay  I’m glad we had to see this for ourselves. This is the most fun I have seen her have in a long time. What are they doing up there in those tree’s? Well she has some rope from one tree to the next & there is her friend to. Okay now I see why she hasn’t said anything about us being here for her & her friend. They have traveled some place & just got back & her friend said she was not going home for about a week. It’s just too much fun here in these woods for them to say they miss us but we do miss them right?  Well not as much as they miss being with each other. They are friends to the max. Okay I’m good with someone here to be with me  today & it’s her friend but she is not with me for now so I’m good with  that. I will have to say I’m glad because she is a lot of work but the most fun I have ever had in my life. So why do you say that then? You know that you don’t want to be with them or her together with her in her life now here? Oh I didn’t say that. I mean that if I take home her friend it would be for me to have some fun but when I have her with me it’s like so much fun that I can’t stop laughing. I try to not laugh but she says it then I say; Fine with me & there we go again laughing. Okay so you want her as a friend but not now or ever then? No I want her as my family in my house like now but her friend is my friend to so I want them to have that much fun when they are together with me & with me when they are with me. She says she does have that much fun with you. She says not to say this to you but I will. She miss’s the times you had but it’s just  starting with her. If you can hang in there for one more time with her in a moment of fun in a tent then she will be the happiest person alive. Okay I’m not going to judge you but you had better make sure she is right for you before you do anything like that. You know have fun like that in a tent with themself & you & her. Okay I know her well & she says these things to me or to people to get a reaction from you or for her blog. It’s fine. I’m  not that kind of gay but I’am. That means I’m happy which means gay  but I’m here to say to you & to all of you that we are fine in our life with each other okay? Well good for you. I didn’t know you were you know the other kind of person but if you are I support you & her for good. No I’m not like that with anyone or her but it’s fun how she get’s it going for me to have to explain it with God with me & not her. Oh she is fun & funny that is for sure. There is a yacht Captain that is gay in her life but not like me & her. We have God in our life but this one person doesn’t. Okay  you have better let her say it to us because now we are all confused  about you & her & being gay but not but you are. I know it’s that darn thing we call an encyclopedia that is the problem. They took God’s word gay & put it in with the homosexual, lesbian & bisexual people have now made it their word. Don’t go there with her on that word. She will confuse you, me & all around you & me & her but she knows exactly what she is saying & how she means it for God Alone. Okay I can’t say I’m for you  being gay but I know I have had some people around me being gay. I’m gay but not gay like that. Okay how are you gay then? Well see what I mean? You have to step around the lesbian word but she just says it for God to make me deal with me being gay with her & I’m not that gay at all. Well how much are you gay? Are you just for her or you by yourself or just you know happy gay as in happy lesbian but no intention of taking it further gay? Or is it just that you are a happy you know normal gay kind of person? Yes I’m normal like you & the word means happy like I’am now & I’m going to get that kid there. She said that to you for a reason & that is to have some fun with me. It makes her happy gay with me having to explain who I’am with God Jesus one more time but there is a movie I have coming out that I’m not sure if she knows about it or not but when it comes out I will have some fun with her. Okay when is that coming out? I want to go see that. Anything with her in it I want to go see. Well I’m in it to but not much until the end when she does something that I have never seen her do before & it’s in the movie. It’s the clincher for  me to say it will be a blockbuster hit. So be watching for me to say when I will be having this movie come out. I had some people watch it for the first time from Hollywood buzz town & they said they couldn’t even stop to eat their popcorn because it was fun, funny & really like down to the point of them knowing that she didn’t really think I was going to make it out alive but I do & she didn’t know that. So watch this. Sometime when I’m with her she will put her hand on my back & give it a good rub for me to know that she is with me for good & Forever in Heaven. She knows that life is precious & she knows it will be her in time but she has said; I have had more time then you. Better you then me. Now go! That’s what she said when I thought we both would not make it out but I did. Then I saw something I had never seen her do before for me. She gave me  a hug & said; Give that to my children. Each of them please. I said I would but I felt bad knowing that I would be out & she wouldn’t but she would because she didn’t know it was all set up. Hollywood can make it real but when you hear her say; Go & don’t forget we have a pickleball  tournament tomorrow. Play on & don’t think of me. I’m sure my friend can play. Then she said; WAIT! I think that’s for the next movie you & I are in when I say that. Okay I know she knows but she is so much fun  that some day I know I won’t be with her when it does happen. What is that? You know all of us have to die & when we do it will be more fun for me & her to be in that tent for good & Forever with God with us to. Okay that doesn’t sound right. I know but when she said that to me when I was big & her little I couldn’t stop laughing until she said; I’m here for a moment & then I’m done. She crawled upon my lap & fell asleep & then woke up with me smiling at her. She said; Thanks for that time with me & God with you. Well if we can figure out whether or not you two are gay or not it would make a lot more sense. No it wouldn’t. You have to know her & her sense of humor that God gave her just for Him & me to enjoy in the Presence of Who He Is as God with God Jehovah & The Holy Spirit as One God Alone but Three in the Presence as One God Alone Still & Forever. Okay you have to be with her long enough to understand what is going on with her & me together when we are alone. I don’t think I  want to know that do you guys? No but I have a feeling it’s the word that is making this so confusing for anyone to say anything about them being gay & happy & we say; They are gay so much that God’s word is not used anymore. Well it is now. We all have her to say thank you for that. I think the last tabloid said we all were very gay with her in being with God Jesus to the point of her saying; Hey look we made the headlines again. That is you & not me. Well good for us I said. She said; Don’t worry it will catch up with me to but I’m not gay about that but I know you will be gay as  long as the day spends with me with you in laughing about me being  happy with you in that old tent for about a day or two. See what I mean. I can’t even stand to say it but I can’t even think about not being with my gay friend at all but when I know it’s time to be with her like now she  won’t hesitate to give me a hug & kiss right here. Watch for the for you to & keep into your life is what she has said to me a lot lately. You might die & I might not be with you before for another Blessing from God for  that kiss right here on the cheek. I always say; If I die before I see you  will you be seeing me in Heaven first or will I be here with you for you know another day or two? She says it’s up to God. I told Him to take you home for good but He says wait a day or two & I will make up my mind on that right there. I always say; No problem on that. She just  wants me for another movie anyway. So if you take her home to be with you it will be one right after another for her to say this to me; Go there & move on my que & don’t move over there so far. She get’s bossy with me all the time. Well God says this to her to say to you? That’s not good to say from her to you all the time is it? You have to see what I see to know why she says it that way. No one has to say that to me. She said that to me the other day. Okay who are you to say that to me I asked? She said; You are not with God much but you have to die to know that you are with Him Forever. I asked why do I have to die to be with God?  She says it shows that you are about ready to kick the bucket & God  said to me this about you; Don’t go over there with him your Kurt babe. He will not be with you much if you cross over to the other side. I thought she meant for me in dying but then she said Gods says to explain this to you. I can’t believe that Angie here was laughing so much she couldn’t even hold her part of the deal up with me with this kid in front of me. I  said; Who is this kid here in front of me saying I’m going to kick the bucket like quick when I go & not slow like some people do? Oh I can’t even move now. I have to say she says it straight up but when she  looks you in the eye it’s for real isn’t it? Yes it is. How old is she anyway? Well you ask her & she will say to you how old she is for now. Okay how old are you? I’m seventeen months old & seven seconds & seven minutes seven hours as of now & hanging in there for this time here with you two for me to say I want to hang with you two in my tent Gods says I can pick out for us all to sleep in because He said you won’t want to be with anyone else after I’m with you for one night. Okay now I can’t be here for this one last line. It has to be she will say I will be here for this camping trip or not right? You have to ask God for that one. I’m here to say it like a child says it. When I’m big it will take not much time but when I’m with you two it takes like a long time to be with you. Something about me being fun & funny to the point of you not hearing what God is saying to me to you from Him through The Holy Spirit. I know it all makes sense but you two have to be with me in some cave to. I’m not going to be there with much on because I take them off for babe here. Who is that me or her? Her. She shows up with practically no clothes on at all saying my name like you know in this cave & all. Are we supposed to make any sense of this at all Angie? I don’t but I can’t wait until she says it in a blog with her smiling like now. I have to say it’s already in that blog God said to do before I met you two people. Okay that is it for now. I’m  having someone over for tonight & I have to be here for her & for me & now for you. Why me? I’m good with me. She is not good with me or you it sounds like. I’m here for both of you. You can’t even hear little alone be with me for about you know the tent going on thing. Okay I don’t want to hear anymore about some tent with you here or ever. I’m too old for anything more with me in camping. I don’t even like camping.  Well you will when this person here says for you to show up prompt or she will take away some of your money for not doing your part in this movie God has out but not now for me because I’m here with you & her & not at the movie like I’m supposed to be. What movie? It’s the one like you know the other side of a sparrow thing but not. What is  that about? You will see when you see it with me in time. Okay I have to say she has a big imagination but not. She says it for God so we have to say we have to figure this out with us or ask her. Well how do you  think we can do that with her now in this place where she lives now? Well she likes go-karts & she says she likes it when people want to go on a go-kart with her. Let’s do that. Let’s say we are going to have some fun with her on a go-kart. I’m not going on a go-kart. Hey can we get one of these things for our kids & me? I want one now that I have seen her on one & I said why not & she said just go have fun on it. Well I did & now I want one of my own. She said I can keep it at her place so when we come out to see her which will be a lot she says. Then we can go go-karting & have a nerf gun fight & throw water balloons. Who does that? Who says let’s go go-karting & we all go like it’s something we do all the time. I was not dressed in an outfit to say; Oh wow I’m going to go with her go-karting. I can’t wait for that. Okay I can’t move but I felt the same way when I first was with her in any situation of fun but this thing right here in this tent thing. I never laughed so much in my life. I couldn’t say anything about God to her then. She knew it all. Someone comes around here to say anything about God not being God Alone Jesus & I will be with God on that like an apple on a tree with good tasting caramel on it. Okay I said & what else can you say to me about God Jesus before we both go to sleep tonight? Well He says you don’t snore much but I will say this to you while you are asleep & then you will turn over to not snore with that thing on your face. What thing on my face? The thing that  drops down to see what it is that is making that noise like this & she made this noise for me & I thought I have to be with her for how long in this tent God Jesus? I don’t know how long it would be but she said to me; Don’t worry you will have fun with me in time but first you have to get to know me & then it will really happen with you the most with  me in this tent. I said I don’t know if I want to hear anymore. She said; Don’t worry your kids are fine with me so don’t go there with me on that situation with me & your kids not wanting to have a balloon fight with you getting like pummeled to the max & then as always I get blamed for what it is they do but they get to stay & have fun with you while I get sent to my room for being me with them. Okay I won’t send you to your room to be mean. I will say go to your room to think about what you did but I won’t do that. Well you will in time with me but I look at you & you say;  Don’t ever touch my car without me knowing first what it is you are doing to it. I’m not ready to be up there like that & then bounce around all the way down to the ground. That’s because you kept putting your foot on the break. I told you to not put your foot on the break & it will be a smooth ride all the way down. I’m glad I put on some stoppers for Goldie to be safe. Otherwise she would have flown home the wrong way in her car like up side down kind of. What are you saying to me? That you took her car to the max of doing it to her car to? No it was a fix up for her car to be better in flying but God said He would have me fix that later when He said to if you let me out of my room after about a week or so. That’s if you don’t get mad about the other thing I fixed for you here in your home to. Okay what is that? Do I have to squeeze it out of you or tickle it out of you or what? Well if you look up there in the ceiling there used to be no crack in the ceiling I think. You think? What crack? There. I took it  to the max my car. You don’t have a car. Yeah I do but it’s not big but I can give it back if you want. Is that the crack you did? Or is that a crack I did when I hit the ceiling with that old thing right there? You know the thing I thought was my remote to my tv that you wanted & I hit this button here & you said to not touch that button & I did & it flew out of my hand & into the ceiling up there? Yes to that long question but I did say not to touch that button & you did it anyway. Well why wouldn’t I touch a button on my own tv I bought just for you. Well it’s not exactly the same tv now. I took some things off of it for something else I’m afraid to tell you about. Well I had better go to bed now. I think I’m getting that look from you that  means you have had enough of me for now. Oh you don’t get off that easy. You have to say why you took this very expensive tv apart to you know put something else onto what another toy of yours? No it’s not a toy & it’s not from me. God says if it comes out right we can fly into space with just a tiny car or two or maybe more for it to be a big you know capsule or more room for you & some of our friends. You have got to show me what it is you are doing. I will believe you okay? Okay  I knew you would. Well after that out there how can I not believe you have something from God again. Okay I know that someone else will not know something that I need to know but God will give them what it is I need to know to finish this one but it’s someone I don’t know but he will say I took it from him but I will never have met him so God says I will be safe here for now but it’s time for me to say this. God is not for me alone but for you to. You need to know that with God Jesus. This doesn’t make any sense but it will in time when God says it will. Okay when will that be & yes you will always be safe with me here. I know but it won’t always be here. It will be some place else I will go if God God says yes. And that is where? To the moon & back? We’ve already been there right? Or have we? No one knows who does what they do to say it first but it was real for a bit & then maybe not. It could be a way to say it first or not. It could be a way to be there first but not. It could be we could be there first if you & I landed there to say; Hey we are here for the first time. Where the moon? No another place on this earth with some place like no other anyone has or will see until God says it to me to say; Okay let’s go for a spin in this car & we will & there we go down the road like faster then fast but in the speed limit legally of course.  Okay I’m not into this now. I have to say your imagination is one like I I have never heard but you are a child like I have never met. You know me like now. You know me for real. I’m here to say I will go to my  favorite place of food in my red car & eat one chip with my bean burrito & no more pop today but if I do stay at home I can have one can of pop with my salad & it won’t be much to gain but not at all in finally saying  I can eat what I want but I can if I don’t want to lose the weight with me now but I can see what it is I want for dinner. That’s it for me & God says it will be a surprise for me to get a check for anything I do for God Jesus but I’m here to say I will think about dinner tonight. I won’t lose the weight but I will have fun eating it but I can see that I will lose it more fast now that I’m here to say it for me to say; Good for the four mile jog & I did but now I have to say I want food but I can’t have it but God says I can but not the way I want it all but I could but I had my pop today so I will see what it is I want. Bye for now.

[andromedism]

Hi, not to quote your own fic back to you but:

“It feels like fidgeting with a ring of keys until you find the right one, turning it in a lock, and hearing that satisfying click. It’s incredible, and terrible, and worst of all, it’s easy. Of course, it is.”

“It’s dizzying to know every ridge, every curve, every freckle he’s moving against by heart. Hands are tugging lightly at his curls, lips dragging across his jaw, noses brushing in a way that hurts so much it’s exhilarating. No matter what happens, he’s not going to let on that this might permanently damage him.”

“We are finally having it out, Dennis thinks, biting Mac’s lip with the intention of devouring him. He is going to eat him whole, he’s decided, coveting the way their hands search for each other over the leather of the couch, the press of his knees deep into the cushions, grounding Mac in their shared gratification, their devotion to touching every part of each other, unceremoniously divine.”

THIS IS ALL NUTS. THIS IS ALL INSANE. I HAVEN’T STOPPED THINKING ABOUT THIS CHAPTER. IT’S BEEN WEEKS. These are just my three examples off the top of my head but I definitely have way more and I will be coming back here to yell about it. My god. You brought them to life in a way that’s truly haunting. They’re so real to me. I can see them fumbling with each other in their living room. Dennis in the priest outfit. Mac in the bathrobe. You GOT them. I’m so excited for the next chapter. It’s killing me. You GOT them, soupgay on tumblr. THANK YOU. 

i am giggling like a schoolgirl, anon. i’m so glad you like it and you came here to tell me! come here and quote my own fic back to me anytime! i love it! thanks for making my night!

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[andromedism]

miss soup your pickleball fic is the funniest and most in character fic ive ever read im so serious. its genuinely so well written i cannot wait for future chapters

sorry for the delayed response to this, omg. thank you for reading my work and taking the time to come here and leave such a sweet comment!

hope you’re having the loveliest day!

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[andromedism]

listen, listen, very much in love with your fic. i don't know how you're doing it, but you're really balancing the funny with the sexy. like i am not a dennis girlie, but i am so in love with him in this fic, idk. it might be his bitchiness, it might be the priest disguise, it MIGHT be the broken nose (it's definitely the broken nose). never wanted a man so bad in my life. keep it up.

i am so sorry for just getting to this, anon, but this is so fucking funny. my intention is one hundred percent to indoctrinate my readers into loving dennis as much as i do. priest dennis is such a vibe! there needs to be hundreds of fics about him! it’s been soooooo fun to write him this way!! i didn’t intentionally mean to fleabagify him—it just sort of happened, but i’m glad i did, and i’m glad you like it. please keep sending me feedback, y’all are making my life bearable during a super busy season at work.

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[andromedism]

your pickle ball fic is amazing, i am in love with the way you write every single character. it’s flawless. dennis’ pov on everything is so unbelievably perfect. i just read all four chapters and can’t wait for the next. thank you so much for blessing us TOT — sincerely a sunny fan who’s been in the fanbase for like 5 years and hardly reads fanfics because i’m too damn picky

oh my goodness, thank you! i’ve also been a sunny fan for years and i love hearing from other fans who have loved the show as long as i have! i hope you’re having the best day anon! thank you for your kindness, and thank you for reading!❤️

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[andromedism]

Bro you are such a gifted writer. I just finished chapter 5 of your fic and my jaw dropped so many times at the combo of prose + the quippy dialogue between Mac and Dennis. The back-and-forth between them is like a dance or a dual and it’s sooooo…wow. I don’t know what I expected from a fic about pickleball but it was NOT THIS LOL. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Great work.

THANK YOU LOL? i feel like such a mediocre writer and y’all are inflating my ego tremendously. “a gifted writer.” no absolutely not. i am literally a toddler putting magnet letters on a fridge and hoping something sticks. anon, i am kissing you consensually on the mouth. thank you.

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[andromedism]

Your pickleball fic is the exact opposite of "he would never fucking say that". Every one of them would say all that you've wrote. Keep it up you're doing the Lord's work 💪

oh, FUCK that’s a high compliment. thank you so much. it means the world to me to know i’ve put something out there that is believable (as believable as an iasip plot can be hehe)! thanks for reading!

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[andromedism]

The layers of Dennis’ psyche that you are able to dig into esp in the most recent chapter of your fic. Namely the “I am God, Ronald” scene. So good. He’s such a hard character to write bc he’s so complicated. You gotta strike the right balance of deeply fucked up and shockingly redeemable. I feel like you nailed it. Can we expect an update this weekend? No pressure!

Thank you so much anon! The “I am god” bit was such fun to write because it’s all about how Dennis wants to be seen by Mac and others. He wants to be their perfect golden boy. He craves reverence. But in this fic, it’s the need to be worshipped that attracts Mac to him, not the act of worshipping itself. I wanted Mac to come across a little bit like “You’re so silly, I look at you like you hung the stars in the sky not because you’re godlike to me, but because you’re you.” I have more to say but I just got back from the bars with some friends and I’m HAMMERED and I have to be up at the crack of dawn for a white house event so I’m sorry if this is not the most fruitful contribution.

Also I know you sent this to me last week, so I am sorry to disappoint you by not providing an update this last weekend. I was at the live show and because of that, I’m probably not going to have an update out until at least next weekend! I appreciate your patience with me! Thanks for the ask! :)

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[andromedism]

WOAH! you are an amazing writer?!? i’m literally in love with your fic!! The fact that not only is your dialogue spot on and so much like an episode of sunny, but your world building is also immaculate!!

AHHH! you should be so happy with your fic, and i literally cannot wait for what is next. thank you!!

oh, you! thank you so much for this sweet comment! i have no idea what i’m doing at any given moment, so your validation means the world to me!! i wanted to wait to respond to this until i had time to update this fic (don’t want to show up empty handed), and fortunately i have!

chapters 3 and 4 are out now!

[andromedism]

i have no idea what pickle ball is do you think i can still enjoy your fic?

absolutely anon! it actually kind of has nothing to do with pickleball. it’s sort of just the background for all of the gang’s charades and schemes - sort of like the gang goes bowling or the gang hits the slopes (i’ve never even played pickleball and i know virtually nothing about it).

in an attempt to mimic the canon, i pulled an rcg and said “ok what’s like a niche trending topic that people are kind of talking about that i can use to tell a story” but there’s always a possibility i went TOO niche.

also i feel like whenever we get macdennis crumbs, it’s always in an episode titled like frank becomes a dog groomer or something like that, so that’s stylistically what i was going for.

thanks for the great question!

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