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whimsicallywiddershins · 16 days ago
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Its interesting.
I'm upset, but also not that suprised. I'm worried about what will happen, but hopeful that Trump is lazy and full of shit and that the wheels of government move slowly, which should hopefully stop him from doing too much.
But my mom is panicking. She's horrified. She was like this in 2016 too, and now it's worse.
She used to believe in the government. She believed that presidents actually cared about ordinary people. So to her, Trump is a horrible person and it broke her to realize he doesn't care. That was what really really hurt her. She just kept repeating it. "He doesn't care. How can he not care about us?"
I never had faith in the government. But I guess the older generations do, which is why maybe so many people voted for Trump. They were brainwashed years ago that the government and the president cares about you, and don't realize they need to pick the lesser evil.
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apopcornkernel · 1 year ago
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poppy's watched cdramas
與君歌 stand by me/dream of chang'an
i... did not finish this drama 😭 i only watched this because my mom was watching it and we were stuck in quarantine together, so. it was fun i guess but ultimately mid
蒼蘭決 love between fairy and devil
loved it, the ending was a little too abrupt for me but it still ended well! lived for the villain romance, had so much fun booing changheng (sorry), had even more fun staring at dylan wang's cheekbones. also i love how ride or die the main couple is for each other, it's absolutely not one-sided in that regard which <3 yes. and also episodes 30(?) to 36 i cried nonstop it was so cathartic. episode 35 specifically....... aha
琉璃 love and redemption
STUPIDLY long and rather cringe at times im not even gonna lie but the main characters had me by the THROAT i could not stop watching. yu sifeng is so so so unfairly pretty with bangs and chu xuanji in god of war mode,,,, i lvoe her sm. i loved how the gender roles of a typical cdrama relationship was more or less flipped, with sifeng always being the damsel in distress (not even joking or exaggerating about this one) and xuanji being the badass hero. i feel like a lot of cdramas tend to say their female mc is the hero and stuff but then in execution its ALWAYS the male lead saving the mc from danger and its just,,, idk i'm a little tired of it so i like that chu xuanji exists <3 and fuck haochen
傳聞中的陳芊芊 the romance of tiger and rose
REALLY REALLY GOOD one of the most perfect dramas ive ever watched. cinematography really high quality, an mc that i never got annoyed at and is so lovable, a petty murder cat love interest who is unfairly handsome at every angle. i was smiling and giggling with every episode. it's the true definition of a happy pill. i only wish Those 2 Specific Scenes did not exist
星落凝成糖 the starry love
i did not finish this 😭 i onyl watched it because it was the only thing i had downloaded on my phone. i don't recommend it tbh, sorry, the concept was interesting but the execution didn't do it for me. it was also really obvious how low budget it was and the acting & writing didn't really make up for it enough so,,,
今夕何夕 twisted fate of love
THIS IS THE BEST CDRAMA IVE EVER WATCHED I KNOW IM BEING SUBJECTIVE BUT LET ME BE SUBJECTIVE THIS IS MY BLOG okay okay so general travels back eight years to stop a great war but unfortunately she lands smack dab into feng xi's residence, who is an ally of the Bad Guy and very morally grey politician who will not hesitate to kill people for his goals. she keeps trying to assassinate feng xi's ally (the Bad Guy) meanwhile feng xi is just trying to put a ring on it. they are SO so funny and you KNOW i love villain(ish) romance so i ADORED this cdrama even though it was objectively mid and even though the last episode was trash. I DONT CARE i will defend this one with my life JUST WATCH IT im very incoherent ik but in my defense it's kinda hard to explain just trust me
星漢燦爛 love like the galaxy
currently watching!! it has zhao lusi who i trust with any drama, and the cinematography is great! some of ling buyi's dialogue i dont like but im still on board the main ship,,, i think i wouldve liked lou yao but i keep remembering he's daole from twisted fate of love and it jars me so bad.... also i have this thing where i automatically boo the second/third leads so really lou yao had no chance im sorry 😔 i find it really funny how obviously down bad ling buyi is update: i dropped this drama :(( i got all the way to episode 20 something and then i just couldn't be bothered to continue, i was honestly bored :((((
雲之羽 my journey to you
my sister rec'd this drama to me and oh man i tried. i was so ready to be hooked. but i just couldn't. like, it had gorgeous cinematography and beautiful costuming and i was happily surprised to realize the leads were clj's changheng and xiaolanhua, but omfg gong ziyu (changheng) pisses me off so bad he's like omg guys im an underdog they all hate me im struggling so bad i'm being oppressed etc etc AND THEN HE'S BEING OPPRESSED FOR BEING A RICH BABAERO NA PALAGING NAGBABAR LIKE BE SO FOR REALLL also shangguan qian and gong yuanzhi's scenes are infinitely more interesting than anyone else's, their one battle of wits already had me more interested than the entirety of the previous 5 episodes... and then when it switches back to include shangjue or gong ziyu or yun weishan i immediately feel all my energy get sapped. like they're so boring it hurts fgksjhg and the way yun weishan and gong ziyu speak don't help at all it's like 有時候……我也……睡不着…… DO NOT WASTE MY TIME LIKE THIS AND ALSO PLEASE SPEAK NORMALLY so yeah i got fed up by episode 6 and dropped it despite my sister's urging
天盛長歌 the rise of phoenixes
started watching this right after i dropped my journey to you BECAUSE FUCK YOU i swear that cdrama made me see cdramas as a chore again. anyways im loving it. ning yi looked so miserable in the first episode which is a great portend for things to come, and feng zhiwei is great i love her already and the cinematography is not bad as well, i'm just worried i'll get lost on the machinations and everything but i'm still having fun so far anyways hehe update from episode 19 or something!! i'm really enjoying it this is so good!!!! a little slower paced so if that's not your thing be warned but i am really liking it hehe
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empty-blog-for-lurking · 2 years ago
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i know youre focusing on Kuron in this au, but how's Hunk doing?(propably not great)
I am so sorry this is so late! Anyway Hunk my little guy, my precious babygirl!! I admit i dont have a LOT for him either orz but i do have some ideas!
Hunk has gotten into coalition as a member to try and support the cause and is.... going through it. Like technically speaking he's the one who is getting shit done. Hunk at the start was doing his whole catering thing or whatever it was he was reduced to, but the thing is when you are working this close to politicians and are also as snoopy as Hunk, you kinda learn a thing or two through gossip and Hunk did not like what he learnt at all. There are corrupt politicians and capitalists wanting to do corrupt politicians and capitalist things in coalition.
That was few months (maybe even a year or two) before the present. At first Hunk didnt want to get involved in this. For starters he trusted Shiro and other coalition members to deal with it, and he was Very happy with where he is and what he is doing and is Totally ok with just standing at the side letting things sought themselves out. He is Fine! It is Fine! The Coalition doesnt Need him to jump in and Fix and Micromanage Everything and he Doesnt Need to get involved at all! He'll absolutely Mind his own business! Definately!!!
Anyway so Hunk does get involve in this because he absolutely can not mind his own business and he can not just stand back cause people's life are on the line and while coalition says it doesnt need Hunk's help or him to micromanage everything (lies) that is what he's going to be damn well doing.
Hunk gets into diplomacy and he's fighting to be taken seriously (because those coalition vids turning him into a joke did not help. Thanks Coran/sarcasm) and trying to lead. And as he's being involved the more he realizes he needs to be prepared to do anything for the goals, including playing dirty. So sometimes he has to fight to be taken seriously but other times he doesnt because it is better if people especially his enemies underestimate him. And if it means he has to work harder, mediate, lie, manipulate, and find dirt on others he will do it. He is not happy about what others think of him and the slippery morals involved in this and he never really wanted to even be involved in coalition or the war but if he has to he will do it. Because if he doesnt who else will?
So Hunk just compartmentalizing all his feelings and everything, like just putting a neat little carpet over on his on-fire garbage mental stability. Haha nothing to see here! And Lance's running away and coma and Kuron Shiro thing doesnt help at all, he has pushed all of his worry away and is just under a lot of pressure and about ready to snap. He thinks Shiro's being a little bitch, he does not trust Kuron, he doesnt understand why Lance did whatever he did and yes he hadnt talked to him in a while but he assumed Lance would have been just fine.
So in conclusion, no he is not doing great
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jackoshadows · 4 years ago
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Why did Jon Snow refuse the offer of Winterfell from Stannis?
Read Jon XII, A Storm of Swords. An entire chapter dedicated to Jon’s though process on why he refuses Stannis’ offer.  To make it easier I will highlight the relevant parts:
He sat on the bench and buried his head in his hands. Why am I so angry? he asked himself, but it was a stupid question. Lord of Winterfell. I could be the Lord of Winterfell. My father’s heir.
It was not Lord Eddard’s face he saw floating before him, though; it was Lady Catelyn’s. With her deep blue eyes and hard cold mouth, she looked a bit like Stannis. Iron, he thought, but brittle. She was looking at him the way she used to look at him at Winterfell, whenever he had bested Robb at swords or sums or most anything. Who are you? that look had always seemed to say. This is not your place. Why are you here?
The warmth took some of the ache from his muscles and made him think of Winterfell’s muddy pools, steaming and bubbling in the godswood. Winterfell, he thought. Theon left it burned and broken, but I could restore it. Surely his father would have wanted that, and Robb as well. They would never have wanted the castle left in ruins.
You can’t be the Lord of Winterfell, you’re bastard-born, he heard Robb say again. And the stone kings were growling at him with granite tongues. You do not belong here. This is not your place. When Jon closed his eyes he saw the heart tree, with its pale limbs, red leaves, and solemn face. The weirwood was the heart of Winterfell, Lord Eddard always said . . . but to save the castle Jon would have to tear that heart up by its ancient roots, and feed it to the red woman’s hungry fire god. I have no right, he thought. Winterfell belongs to the old gods.
Thorne and Marsh will sway him, Yarwyck will support Lord Janos, and Lord Janos will be chosen Lord Commander. And what does that leave me, if not Winterfell?
Ygritte wanted me to be a wildling. Stannis wants me to be the Lord of Winterfell. But what do I want? Would I sooner be hanged for a turncloak by Lord Janos, or forswear my vows, marry Val, and become the Lord of Winterfell? It seemed an easy choice when he thought of it in those terms . . . though if Ygritte had still been alive, it might have been even easier. Val was a stranger to him.
I would need to steal her (Val) if I wanted her love, but she might give me children. I might someday hold a son of my own blood in my arms. A son was something Jon Snow had never dared dream of, since he decided to live his life on the Wall. I could name him Robb. Val would want to keep her sister’s son, but we could foster him at Winterfell, and Gilly’s boy as well. Sam would never need to tell his lie. We’d find a place for Gilly too, and Sam could come visit her once a year or so. Mance’s son and Craster’s would grow up brothers, as I once did with Robb.
He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me.
And finally:
“Gods, wolf, where have you been?” Jon said when Ghost stopped worrying at his forearm. “I thought you’d died on me, like Robb and Ygritte and all the rest. I’ve had no sense of you, not since I climbed the Wall, not even in dreams.” The direwolf had no answer, but he licked Jon’s face with a tongue like a wet rasp, and his eyes caught the last light and shone like two great red suns. Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre’s. He had a weirwood’s eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.
He had his answer then
Jon thinks he could become Lord of Winterfell and make Ned proud. He thinks Ned and Robb would want him to restore Winterfell. He thinks of Ygritte and Val - how he could make a life with Val. He thinks of his precarious situation at the wall - with Thorne and Slynt wanting to get rid of him. He thinks of Sam and Gilly and Mance’s son.
This is important:
When Jon closed his eyes he saw the heart tree, with its pale limbs, red leaves, and solemn face. The weirwood was the heart of Winterfell, Lord Eddard always said . . . but to save the castle Jon would have to tear that heart up by its ancient roots, and feed it to the red woman’s hungry fire god. I have no right, he thought. Winterfell belongs to the old gods.
Stannis precondition for  making Jon Lord of Winterfell is that he has to burn down the Winterfell Godswood and convert to the Lord of Light. Burn down the Old Gods. And Ghost returning at the end of the chapter is what reminds Jon of the oaths he made before the Godswood, his duty to the NW and the Old Gods of the North.
The direwolf had no answer, but he licked Jon’s face with a tongue like a wet rasp, and his eyes caught the last light and shone like two great red suns. Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre’s. He had a weirwood’s eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.
He had his answer then
To reiterate, Jon does not refuse the offer of Winterfell from Stannis for Ned, Catelyn, Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran or Rickon. He does not refuse Winterfell for love of his family.
He does it because of sworn oaths to the Old Gods.
There is only one time over the entire 5 books that Jon makes a very important decision because of love for family - specifically one member of his family. And that’s when he breaks his sworn oaths at the tail end of ADwD to go save Arya from Ramsay Bolton. And yes, he is pretty much walking a thin line throughout the book by helping Stannis and sending Mance out to get Arya - but the end is where he decides to go attack Ramsay as Lord Commander.
So yeah, Jon’s arc is about overcoming societal biases and doing right and leading as just a bastard. It’s about not giving into his selfish impulses and envy unlike his character foil Theon Greyjoy.  
But Jon is also a character who wants to wield power. He wants more because all his life he’s been told he cannot have it by virtue of his birth.
You can’t be the Lord of Winterfell, you’re bastard-born, he heard Robb say again.
Imagine how he is going to feel when Robb then makes him KITN?!
Would Jon refuse being Lord of Winterfell when the same offer is made to him by his beloved brother Robb? Who does not demand that he burns down the Godswood? Who has legitimized him as a Stark? A Jon who has been assassinated by mutineer NW brothers and who has always wanted Winterfell? Who wants an united North to face the threat of the Others? 
It’s okay for Jon to want to rule Winterfell. He does not have to accept the circumstances of his birth - because those circumstances are unfair and unjust.
And yeah, Jon’s not going to be endgame king. There’s a good chance he ends up in the Lands of Always Winter at the end of the series. At the same time, this does not mean that his narrative arc and journey does not include climbing that ladder as high as possible, to the very top. There’s a reason GRRM spend 13 chapters on Lord Commander Jon Snow being a savvy politician, strategist and leader in ADwD.
Jon Snow is going to be ruler of the north sometime during the next two books and Robb’s will is there for a reason.
GRRM SSM, August 2000
Q: I have a question, since Robb actually  legitimized Jon and named him his heir for Winterfell and the North  before the Red Wedding (granted no one knows about this and is still  alive or free, the Greatjon knows as does Edmure, but I dont see them  getting out of the Twins any time soon and Catelyn would probably die  before telling anyone) does this make Jon’s rejection of Stannis’ offer  moot?
A: Edmure and the Greatjon are prisoners, true… but you are forgetting  the envoys that Robb sent to Howland Reed… Galbart Glover, Maege  Mormont, Jason Mallister… they are all alive and free... As to what is and is not moot… the key point is, only a =king= can legitimize a bastard……
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queerqollective · 4 years ago
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I had thoughts on this Jessica Krug thing😷😷😷😤😤😤
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(Image Id: a series of tweets from Rainbow Brigade @/QueerQollective in response to Hari Ziyad @/HariZiyad's tweet which reads:
"Jess Krug, professor at @/GWtweets, is someone I called a friend until this morning when she gave me a call admitting to everything written here. She didn't do it out of benevolence. She did it because she had been found out..."
The RB tweet thread reads:
"This hurts. I literally have no words to express the kind of pain that being black is and the idea that people steal everything from us and pretend to be us and kill us and hurt us constantly is just...
This kinda shit doesnt help the deep, entrenched, guttaral distrust of non-black people that is rooted in our culture and that we constantly try to fight. Like yall realize how much shit hurts right?
I remember as a kid my parents telling me and my sis to be guarded around nb's and us being like 'yall are extra' cuz we'd been fed the 'racism is over' lie by school and media. But then life happens and we learn.
But because we are hopeful, we fight it and ignore it but then 2020 happens and we see ourselves dying in the street. Politicians disregarding us. Nonblack people mocking and belittling our culture. And then on top of it all someone admits to infiltrating our spaces
Like black people are so open and trusting and inviting. We share and welcome people into our circles cuz we know what its like to be outcasted. We called Bill Clinton the first black president ffs. Yall dont have to pretend to be us.
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(Terfs dont even fucking look at this post. Someone pretending to be a different race and to prominence while race faking is not the same as trans ppl. While people of a shared gender may share many experiences, there is no shared female culture. The discrimination faces by woman is not the same as systematic dismissal and destruction based on race and trans women face that shit too. Trans women are women, but you cannot change your race)
I'm so tired of the blackfishing, race faking, racist ass fuckers. I'm tired. I'm horrified. I'm so fucking done. Non black people, yes including nonblack latines and asians, stop with the blaccent and appropriation. Stand by us, stand with us, but stop tryna be us
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dragonanarchist1155 · 1 year ago
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Gringos don't understand voting.
Primaries and the times close to them is when you have the politicians by the balls, it's then when you have the chance to get them to promise you shit, to do things you need/want, to force them to commit to causes by declaration or action.
The election, ballotage/segunda vuelta (when you vote for one of two candidates) is when they HAVE to beg you to vote for them, it's the time when THEY court YOU, either by showing you how the other candidate is bad or they themselves are good. Sadly due to what yall are going through this is when Americans haven't got really as much power as our people do in actual multiparty democracies (y'alls two party state is not a multiparty democracy don't lie to yourselves), so you kinda have to go through the motions, but YOU CAN signal to the candidates that your voting intent and campaigning efforts (which if I'm not wrong are a lot more important over there due to y'alls voter registration fuckery) are CONDITIONAL to their action or inaction in certain issues.
After the elections they got the power, but before them you have situations where YOU, THE ORGANIZED PEOPLE, have the power to dictate the tone and direction of policy. Everyone telling you be silent, to not demand things, to not condition your participation is unknowingly KILLING your democracy by acquiescence to the bi-party state system. The BIGGEST THREAT to your democracy is apathy, so you'd think people would have a brain to make and incentivize active political engagement, but the characteristics of your system and frankly a large amount of ignorance about the democratic process beyond simple voting have turned a lot into "folding paper enthusiasts" rather than pro-democratic activists. Voting is not that all-inclusive act of democracy, but engagement, debate, demand and action are. If you tell a person to swallow their beliefs because fascists will come to power you'll sadly realize too late what has happened every time before fascists come to power: political apathy is 100 times more powerful a tool for the facist than voting him out. You forget the fascist is not a democracy advocate, does not play by your rules, doesn't really care about the process and will call the results a lie anyways. The fascist wins when he gets to alienate someone from the process. He wins when he convinces people that elections are a sham. He wins when he dismantles away the engagement and debate of democracy. DONT DO HIS OWN WORK FOR HIM.
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something for everyone who is like "you have GOT to vote for biden or else we'll have trump as a president again!!!!", you're basically saying "as long as republicans remain as morally reprehensible and evil as they are, democrats don't need to be held accountable for anything because they're the 'better' option"
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thetaylorfiles · 4 years ago
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Republican anon here. I love politics so happy to come back. Let me preface with my problem with democrats is they live in the twitterverse, which is one heavily censorshiped and two not really used by as many people they think, (I think there is even a study that shows 80% of the activity is by 20% of the users). They make their decisions by the radical left that live there and think thats a populas thought. 4 weeks ago if you had asked me who I was voting for I would have said Biden. Unfortunately if I had to walk into today, I would vote for Trump. Its not a vote for him its a vote for the constitution. I don't see Biden as strong enough to fight off Sanders, AOC and Pelosi and also think we all know it's gonna be President Harris. So I cant vote for his tax hikes, packing the court, eliminating the electoral, adding seats and the green new deal. I didnt realize what a flawed candidate he was until I really looked into his 47 years in politics, and both him and Harris just come off of as liars. I'm waiting for something to change my mind in the next week but honestly I dont know what it could be because he has been caught in so many lies I can't believe him. Also everything with Hunter scares me because he clearly owes someone something (and clearly its China). I cant have a President willing to sell out our interests if his son becomes compromised. My biggest group of friends are basically like me liberal conservatives and conservative liberals and we all sort of feel the same. Thats probably why one of the biggest google trends is "can I change my vote". I also think you cant not acknowledge the huge gains Trump has made with the hispanic and conservative black votes. I think this year we are looking at another redo of Regan 1984. Either way whatever happens happens and I will just deal with it and hope Pelosi doesnt 25th amend him. Although to wrap up this ramble the twitter thing I memtioned is the same as the original tumblr point I made. No one in politics cares about people shipping in Tumblr or the trending topics on Twitter. So again I just find it funny they dont know enough about it, but think they know everything about it.
Hopefully that makes sense... Also hope I didn't disappoint you on my voting answer. It's really a tough decision this go around.
I don’t want to get into this too much because I don’t think it’s ideal to discuss politics online. It’s much better done in person because you need tone of voice and humanity. For me, anyway.
And while I get what you don’t want (and believe me, I am not as far liberal as the ones you fear taking over. And I also strongly disagree with the fact that they will take over), I think that to be able to gloss over what an abhorrent and unintelligent man Trump is is to truly do a disservice to our country.
And I when I say this, please know that I’ve never been a supporter of Republican presidents as I didn’t love their policies and such, but I sure as hell respected them. And I sure as hell admired them. And I thought them all to be genuinely great men. People who I believed to have the country’s best interest at heart and any persons best interest at heart. I trusted them, and their leadership, even when I didn’t agree with the decisions they made (some not all).
For as far back as I can remember, I have respected each Republican President. Trump is an absolute game changer. His character and lack of empathy and care and honestly, intelligence, plus the fact that the man is incapable of lying every second sentence, is something that I feel like should supersede any “voting for the constitution”.
Biden? At least we know he’s a good man. Both sides of the aisle - everyone has said that the one thing they can say about Biden is he’s a truly good man. And I long for a genuinely good person in office. Because we don’t have one now.
What you think is going on with Biden’s son should t matter for two reasons: one - most of it is unsubstantiated and two - no one cared about what the presidents children or siblings or family was doing before Trump brought his whole damn family on board into the White House. If you want to talk corrupt? Having something on them? Let’s look to the Trump family. If it doesn’t bother you there, why would Hunter bother you?
Those are rhetorical questions. I really don’t want to get into this. I am happy that it seems to be that the polls are showing a good lead in favor of Biden. Is he ideal? Of course not. But he’s moderate compared to the liberals out there ans I personally think he’ll do a good job of keeping it that way. I am liberal and I think my side has gone too damn far left. Biden isn’t perfect, Biden isn’t amazing, Biden isn’t going to make America a superpower. But he’s genuinely a deeply good man who knows his way around politics and respect and is liked by both sides of the aisle. All we need right now is some good leadership to get us out of this shitshow that is Covid. We need a president who doesn’t lie to us about it. Who doesn’t send us mixed signals. Who listens to scientists. Who gets us to where the other countries are who have beaten this thing down better than we have.
We are an embarrassment around the world. We never were before Trump. And now we are. People pity us and laugh at us. Thanks to Trump. I’m so tired of being a laughingstock.
I hope you reconsider. I hope the scare tactics don’t get you. I genuinely believe Biden will not step down so that we will have a Harris presidency. I genuinely believe he will be moderate and work to keep things the least devisive as possible. Please vote for a man who doesn’t call people names. It’s like, the number one thing you teach children: don’t be mean. Don’t call names. Don’t hurt feelings. Let’s strive to be better than that. Let’s have a President that doesn’t call anyone and everyone he doesn’t like a mean name and who also doesn’t lie constantly. (I know politicians all lie to an extent, but no one can argue that Trumps grandiose sense of self causes massive lies to erupt every time he speaks).
I beg of you to reconsider.
Thanks for having this discourse with me.
Ans btw, agreed about Twitter. It’s a cesspool of the worst of the left in an echo chamber. Trust me. I can see the worst of my side!
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rossetteaaaaang · 4 years ago
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Hope For Humanity
“Let us not lose Hope For Humanity”
“Who are we as human beings if we ignore the sufferings of others” I have read this in pinterest by Cozy little house blog and I find this quote a big slap in our faces. Because we all know that today’s generation is really hard to just tell them to care and turn their head and face on those who suffer.
“When we start to act hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope - look for action. Then the hope will come.” Greta Thunberg , spoke about hope and the global need for immediate action. Even if we turn our world upside down, we can't change the fact that some of the people only do the “talk” but not making an “action” they are more on words than act what they have been telling others. “There’s human but no humanity” I know everyone will agree to this because all of us already noticed people that are more like just “Humans”. Do you agree with that? Will you let those people who can help us, ignore someone like us? And help those who they know instead of we, who really needed help?
Hope? It is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Are we hoping for something? Humanity? Humanity is the human race, which includes everyone on Earth. It's also a word for the qualities that make us human, such as the ability to love and have compassion, be creative, and not be a robot or alien. But think about it, do those people know the words “love” “compassion” “be creative” and not to be robot or alien? Do they know the value of each one of us?
Hope for humanity? Are we hoping? Hoping to have a better life away from danger? From harm? Are we hoping to be loved? And feel fulfillment? Are we hoping to seek justice? Are we hoping that someone needs to change? Are we hoping to feel fairness in all aspects? Whether we think about it or not, hope is a part of everyone’s life. Everyone hopes for something. It’s an inherent (existing in something as a permanent) part of being a human being. Hope helps us define what we want in our futures and is part of the self-narrative about our lives we all have running inside our minds. So let us not stop hoping until we reached what we hoped for.
“Who are we as human beings if we ignore the sufferings of others” I have read this in pinterest by Cozy little house blog” isn’t it in us to help where and when we can? I hope so. But, how can people take it? Take to see someone who suffers? How can they sleep at night knowing that there are many people who need them to take actions for, from the wrongdoings of others? By their wrong doings?
Today’s generation is really hard plus the fact that we are experiencing the pandemic today. There are many people who suffer from financial problems and they need support from the local government. So, does the government really do help us all of their hearts? Or they just help us but are not really focused on us? More like “yes we will help but you do the rest, we already did our job” we cannot lie that some of the local government personnel are really corrupt and they do just focus on the people they know and do not really need the help than we, people who really needed it.
I have noticed from different sources that not only our Barangay who suffered from unfairness thus, many of the barangays here in the Philippines have been suffering from it. For example, those times that the government provided some “ayuda” or relief goods to different barangay. Do they focus on those who really needed something to eat? No, they didn’t. I have noticed that, as long as they already distribute and give it to the people inside the barangay, it is already “Job well done” to them. Haven’t you noticed that they are playing safe? I mean, think about some of them who just give, without digging deeper so that they would know, who they really need to focus on and who they will be prioritizing for the foods?
Here in our Barangay, people who have been given an “ayuda” are those people who are “stable” I mean, yes they needed it thinking about the pandemic but do they need to be prioritized? How about those people who don’t really have nothing? Can we take, knowing that those stable are much being prioritized? Just because they have someone related to them? Or just because they are stable? Think wisely, think about it. How can we give hope in humanity if those who have power are the one giving them loses their hope. Many of the people here, including us, were really happy knowing that the government provided us something to eat and a small amount, that is enough for the everyday needs of a family. But those happiness changes knowing that those people who needed it more, didn’t receive some at all. I am curious about what they’ve felt about their wrong doings. Are they upset about doing so? Or happy? Or sad? But we can’t change the fact that they are being unfair. Someone like me, or even the worst life living in this world needs justice, it is not yet too late.
“When we start to act hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope - look for action. Then the hope will come.” Greta Thunberg. We have Local and national politicians who at first were so good in words. Telling us to not worry, if they win they will change the negative things in our country or in our city, etc. Feeding us words that for sure some of us will bait, especially those people who are looking for “hope” thinking they might be the solutions to their problems. Not knowing if it was sincere. Many of the people who became politicians are more focusing in their self than thinking of what should they would do to take actions of what they have been telling us when they are in the stage of “convincing people” So instead of being drawn by the words and voting without judgement, or voting them because their speech was good. We better dig deeper first, know the politician first of what he/she is really up to. If they will have a good or bad effect in our Country or City. It will always have a big help in our country and in us humans. That’s the least we can do to lessen the chaos our world has. Let us look for action rather than looking for “hope”. “Vote wisely”.
It saddens me thinking that there are “humans” but no “Humanity” it saddens me thinking that there are a lot of people who are blinded by money. That, they can help but their mindset was “better not” because they just think about themselves, their happiness, their own good.
It saddens me thinking that there are people who live in the street and have nothing to eat yet the government dont have anything to say about it. It saddens me thinking that those who don’t need much help are more likely to be noticed than those who really needed it. It saddens me thinking that there are many people who starved to death while many of the people just waste their food. It saddens me thinking that there are many children who want to go to school but don't have enough money to do so while many also have the chance but are futile because they are not serious and focused to do it themselves.
“It saddens me that there are people who have pure souls who have been poisoned by greed that has become limitless in its ability to seek destruction. We have become masters of the diffusion of responsibility, claiming to be humane and linguistically convincing ourselves and those dear to us that we seek change, the existence of a better world and the well-being of others whilst our souls can not reflect such pure intentions.”
It saddens me thinking that many of us have the chance to help, have the chance to save the world but remain to be quiet because of negative thoughts that have been around us. It saddens me that there are no much humans that do not feel as saddened as those who think about the world being to be better, like me. To not just think about themselves but also to others. There are so many people who don't have much yet they are ready to help the world and humanity. And it saddens me that those who have much are most likely to not care about “humanity”.
And it saddens me more knowing that there are so many people who do not realize it yet.
But, it is not yet too late. We can still change the world. We can still help. We still have a chance to reach what we have sought for. We still have time to make people realize. We still have a chance to let them change. It is not yet too late. We cannot wait for those who have positions to help us, anymore. So, we will help each other by being these ways; It is so much help for us. This is for our sake.
Here are some ways to be a better human being. The least we can do but not the least possible that we can make the world a better place.
(1)We can help each other, we need to inspire them by doing good to others. Of course those people just need someone who can make them realize that “ah, I need to be good so that they will treat me the same way” just by that, you can make them change in a good way.
(2) By being fair enough. Of course you need to be fair. Being fair minded can help us develop mutually supportive relationships with those people around us. Let us treat all people alike without reference to one’s own feeling or self interest, or like, the feeling of others. By, friends, family, HUMANITY.
(3)By not being a negative person. Let us not be negative. We must share positivity so that it can make you feel better and to the fact that you have shared positivity in other people. It is a very big help.
(4)By making gratitude a focus. It can help people to have more positive emotions, relish good experiences and build stronger relationships.
(5) By being more trustworthy. It is important especially in our humanity. It is one of the most important qualities in life. Being trustworthy means that we can do more together with our family, friends etc.
(6)Be kind. Of course this is so obvious but there are still many people who forget how to be kind. When people are kind to each other, it's contagious. Kindness breeds kindness, and there's nothing wrong with that. I believe it takes more energy to be unkind, so why bother? There is a magnet on my refrigerator that says, "Be kind. No exceptions."
(7)Care about and help others. This is so important. We need to care for others and help them in all aspects that we can. Helping others, it should be a basic human instinct. When you see people in need, ask what you can do to help. Donate to charities when you can, even if it's a couple of dollars. We need to be a more compassionate society.
(8)Be grateful for what you have for. Be grateful because not everyone have, what you have in your hands. Be grateful and help other people instead. For so many these days it's all about what they don't have instead of what they do have. Let's stop trying to outdo each other and instead be grateful for what we've got. I think Anne Lamott says it best: “Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.” And it says it all.
(9)To “listen” it is important especially for those who have trust issues. It is hard to listen when you have already set your mind up with your judgement to a certain person. But there is no wrong in trying to listen to others. It is also important to help those who have problems to at least lessen up their pain. It. Is. A. Big. Help
(10)To forgive. This might be the toughest thing on this list. I also struggled with forgiveness, as so many other people do but an Anne Lamott quote finally convinced me that forgiving is the hardest yet the most satisfying thing you can do for yourself. “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.”
And to reach all of your dreams without giving up. Rest, but do not give up. Those are just problems. You are strong, don’t let it destroy your future and what you can do for the future. You can still help those people who need someone like us. So to those who are still studying, please. Please do it right, let us please help one another. Let us be professional someday and do good deeds to other people. So at least now, we are studying and we cannot yet help but being those 10 “ways” are the least we can do for the people around us. Fighting!
There is no wrong nor no sin of doing these ways. “Be a human, be humane and gain an understanding of the thin line that lies between aiding humanity and being part of a political and social structure that makes you believe that you are aiding humanity.” Again, do not lose hope, hope still and let it become real. Fighting.
LET US SPREAD HOPE FOR HUMANITY.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-ways-to-be-a-better-hu_b_5760778
https://medium.com/@larahmed/a-world-composed-of-humans-but-no-humanity-87fa9ec92e07
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starry-bi-sky · 5 years ago
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Malevolent Au
It’s not complete, but on the Felinette Discord we made an au based off the song ‘Queen of Mean’!
@unmaskedagain idk if this’ll help you get ideas, since I found your fic after I made the au, but I hope you like it anyways!
Me - Black, Bee - Orange, Lefty - Blue
Okay but guys
A modified version of ‘Queen Of Mean’ as an akumanette
Idk if this has a bittersweet ending or a bad ending but either way it’s salty and not ending in the class’s favor
Her akuma item would probably be her ribbons because I don’t want that for tikki
I’m thinking that Akumanette has an outfit that looks like a suit but there’s a skirt-tail type thing that ends at her ankles. Idk how to explain it other than it’s fancy but practical
It’s black and red
There’s black paint on her face that serves as the mask and she has her hair in a braided ponytail and she has a circlet with black framing and a red gem in the center
She’s terrifying and one of the more fashionable akumas
I don’t have the story fully fleshed out but smth happens that Lila blames Marinette for and Alya, when she’s yelling at Marinette, calls her the ‘Queen of Mean’ and Marinette, tired of literally everything just says ‘if that’s what you think, then fine’ in this really cold tone before storming off
Maybe she goes to the theater room or something, she just goes to an empty classroom to rant
She’s too exhausted to fight back the akuma and maybe Tiki says ‘you deserve a break, it’s not healthy to keep all these emotions bottled up, I know you won’t do anything bad’ but just to be safe Marinette takes out the earring before the akuma gets close so it possesses the ribbons instead
Akumanette (who I will be calling Malevolent for the time being) manages to get CN’s ring and the other miraculi too, but instead of going to Hawkmoth she goes to her room to hide them before going on the hunt for Hawkmoth because she needs his miraculous too
I have no doubt that she toys with them, picking them off one by one
Then gets Hawkmoth in a big spectacular moment
Or maybe she's made copies of the miraculous for cosplay and goes to meet him with those, the old switcheroo and she takes him out while hes distracted
Could be interesting if, as part of her power, she could corrupt the miraculouses and give them to the people who upset/offended her. But instead of giving them powers, they were warped to instead punish the wearer in a way that fits the miraculous's original intent. Kinda a reversal on the way she gave out the miraculouses and granted powers before. Like, the Black Cat Miraculous, it causes the person to relive their most painful memories as the element of destruction, and the fox one forces the wearer to tell the truth no matter what, or traps them in an illusion or something.
And maybe how she goes to a new school. And meeting the others was maybe when shes revealed as the akuma she claims shes had enough of her classmates shit and exposes what they did to her live on tv and her parents transfer her because of all the stress they put her under. She's never become an akuma before. And just because of one lying little brat, their daughter has become one of the strongest akumas they've ever seen
And she gives the miraculi back to Fu apologizing out her butt for everything...but he just lets her keep the earrings, fearing that something grander may be at scale...but he refuses to give the ring back to Adrien because had he been by Mari's side, they wouldve been able to prevent the akuma and help Mari over come Lie-la.
And now Fu chooses a new Black Cat for Mari....
I would assume that the peacock is still lost....maybe Adri could find it amd becomes determined to get both his ring and. "His" lady back from that Fake Cat
And maybe before the ring gets taken Adrien has no idea who the akuma is because Marinette returns to class all normal if just closed off and even after he doesn’t know until it’s revealed to everyone. The whole of Paris is wondering where tf LB is everyone Malevolent shows her face
Or she could claim that she took the earrings before Ladybug even had a chance~
So the whole of Paris is rightly terrified
And the QK kids are slightly cautious but they see the nerd trip and get flustered then they just decide that she's totally fine to hang out with
Ooh why would they be cautious?
The QK would totally be the ones to find out Marinette’s the akuma first and they’re all really concerned for their friend because she’s been an akuma for MONTHS now and what happened that made her such a powerful akuma?
But if she just transformed back and went to the new school, wouldnt u be cautious too
Like
ThTS THE GIRL WHO BROUGHT PARIS TO ITS KNEES TO BEG FOR MERCY
and she chose mercy
Imagine...what it would take to bring her, the strongest akuma to kill all of Paris
(I should probably point out that I’m still going off the idea that Marinette is still Malevolent when she goes to her new school, feel free to ask for clarification if you’re still confused)
“Be wary of the quiet ones, the sweet ones, the kind ones, because they’re the ones with the saddest smiles, the darkest pasts. They’re the ones you watch out, for even demons run when good men go to war.”
Hawkmoth, once he realizes that Malevolent is on the prowl for him, tries to call back the akuma, but because of Marinette’s sheer stubborn will power and the help of Nooroo he can’t do it
So he’s basically useless as Malevolent numbers his days as a super villain
Maybe Malevolent only comes out at night. She has less chance of being seen, less chance of being caught
Except that just makes her 10x more terrifying because in the daylight she’s scary enough as it is, but at night the shadows highlight only half of her face and it makes her harder to see
Maybe Malevolent decides to torment her classmates first before picking off the heroes, so perhaps by the time she’s at her new school and prowling at night she’s picking off the heroes one by one
Maybe she does it slowly instead of night by night
And like the first half is her taking the heroes and Hawk down while the other half if her recovering and learning about the new villain and her new allies
She fucking stalks her classmates, planting incriminating evidence. Maybe for Lie-la she records the girl bragging about her lies and how much shes dragged Mari through the mud while shes at home, then the next morning a video is released on the Ladyblog....
The class is rightly scared out of their pants because there’s an akuma after them but they don’t know who and she hasn’t been caught yet
LB is gone and Malevolent, even in the daylight, is hard to see so other than the major bad luck and her first debut there’s almost no trace of her
Her debut was video taped so Paris knows that there’s an akuma on the loose but she’s so quiet that it leaves everyone on edge
Maybe while Malevolent is hunting Hawkmoth she stops other villains like low level (and high profile) criminals and outs corrupt politicians and the likes
And they've obviously taken poor Mari because Mari could never get akumatized! Shes too good!
Oooh!! Going back on the ‘Mari can change out of villain form’ maybe the only proof she’s Malevolent in her civilian form is that her ribbons are a darker red than they should
And poor Mari makes herself smaller and scared hah, as if. These idiots dont know whats gonna hit them.... she looks...terrified~
Her parents try and reassure her that the akuma will be caught and Mari feels bad for tricking them but at the same time she’s still angry so that anger outweighs the guilt
Marinette is paler than she was before akumatization and maybe her eyes are a bit more dull
Or perhaps just a smidge too bright
It’s not noticeable, but there’s just something.. off about her eyes
They look... almost brighter than they should be
Maybe too attentive
Too... analytical
But then the look is gone and perhaps you were just imagining it?
That seems likely
The QK, when they first meet Marinette, adopt her immediately because she’s so pale and small and she looks so tired
And at first Marinette is wary but after Claude trips and falls flat on his face trying to cheer her up she warms up to them
Then one day someone gets a clear full body shot of Malevolent and while QK are looking at it Marinette approaches them and they start noticing... similarities
Like how her ribbons are the same color as her circlet, or how her eyes hold the same wary attentiveness and are the same bright blue
And maybe they try to deny it
But it’s all there
I’m still trying to figure out how Marinette reveals herself as Malevolent
Perhaps a rude encounter with her classmates? Maybe someone tries attacking her friends (Hawkmoth has resorted to using the peacock miraculous at the point maybe) and she saves them??
When she transforms her ribbons wrap around her in a whirlwind
That’s all we got!! Maybe it’ll be continued on, maybe it won’t, but it was super fun to think up!
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redyarns · 5 years ago
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hey can ya do a short story for ariel/moana? tysm u dont have to tho-
ask and you shall receive!
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Ariel used to sing these songs. 
They weren’t particularly about anything or anyone - they were just little tunes in her head that she’d constantly hum and put words to, and despite the gibberish that usually fell out of her mouth, everyone around her always praised her for her wonderful voice. 
Her voice was something she loved - after all, wasn’t it the best form of love? To tell someone that you love them, to speak your affection, to comfort them on on a hard day. She could sing like a siren, she was often told, and she was proud of it, so proud that she had an ability to soothe aches and calm down tears. 
Then it stopped. 
It stopped. 
Abruptly like her mother’s death, her mother who was so kind and generous and looked exactly like Ariel, taken like a leaf in the wind on a windy autumn day. Ariel had tried, of course, to speak and to sing after that. Words never came out, though, like they were caught in her throat and she couldn’t cough them out. 
Her sisters were the first to notice and the first to help. 
Sign language was difficult to learn - it required precision, speed, and a lot of intuition that she hadn’t built up. By the end of her first day’s lesson, she was in tears, wanting to scream her frustrations but unable to. 
Slowly, though, she learned, practicing with her sisters until dawn when all seven of them were tired, wrists sore, and with large bags under their eyes, and she loved them all so much for taking the time to learn alongside with her. 
The worst part, however, wasn’t the devastated look on her father’s face when he realized that it could be months or years before she was ready to speak again, maybe not even for the rest of her life. It was the way she couldn’t tell him sorry, to tell him that she loved him, to sing to him because he always said her songs were what made him happy. 
It was haunting to realize that her voice, her most prized possession, was lost. 
The years flew by. Her father was never the same, but then again neither was she. She lost her position as her school’s most gifted singer. She wasn’t bullied but she wasn’t noticed, either, becoming nothing more than the paint on the walls because of her lack of words and her sad eyes. 
It all, however, came crashing down only two weeks after Ariel pursed her lips, decided to move out, and officially became a student at the University of Disney. She had been on a walk back home, her hands full of groceries and her mind churning about that essay she had to turn in by the end of the day, before she was smacked in the head with something. 
She didn’t make a noise, not that she expected herself to, but she crumbled like paper and her face made contact with the ground. She lied there, more stunned than in pain, and she vaguely thought to herself that the eggs she bought were definitely the crunchy, slimy sensation she felt against her arm. 
There was frantic apologizing, even more frantic cleaning, and Ariel looked up in a daze to see who had so viciously attacked her head with apparently what was a soccer ball. 
It was a girl. 
Her name was Moana, she had thick, dark wavy hair, eyebrows that could probably cut glass, and the most beautiful voice. More beautiful than Ariel could ever remember. 
She was also gorgeous. 
Moana apologized over and over again, her face so gentle despite the strong and calloused hands helping Ariel up, and she couldn’t help it - she was enamored. How could she not be? There was something magical with the way Moana stuttered and stumbled, the rich darkness of her skin, how her smile was crooked but also revealed a small dimple on her cheek. 
In one week, they were friends. 
In a month, best friends. 
In three, they were officially dating, and Ariel felt like grabbing the moon and smearing stardust across her cheeks, because that’s what it felt like when Moana first kissed her, her warm hands cupping Ariel’s face like the most precious cup of water. 
“I love you,” Moana said, and Ariel cried, because how could she say it back when even now, her words caught in her throat, never leaving and never coming? 
Moana didn’t seem to mind. In fact, she hardly even notice, it seemed, because from day one she was well-versed in sign language and could switch between speaking and signing without hesitation. When she spoke, it was loud and confident, like she was trying to speak with Ariel instead of for her, and when Ariel cried, Moana only smiled, kissed her tears, and murmured the words again into her skin. 
“You don’t need to speak for me to know,” Moana said quietly. “Actions are louder than words.” 
Ariel felt thunderstruck. She’d never heard of such a thing - it was always speaking, after all. The world was built on sound, on truths, on lies. Everyday, she watched news of celebrities speaking tactlessly or politicians subtly threatening each other with war. Her classes were filled with words, complicated studies or questions or books, all circling her head and mocking her because she couldn’t ever speak them out loud. 
So Ariel tried to prove Moana right. Everyday, she tried, tried to pour every ounce of love she had into everything she did. She cooked with care and comfort, smiling when Moana cooed at it even if sometimes the dish came out a little burnt, she brushed Moana’s hair patiently and gently, taking time to undo each knot, and when they lied in bed, side by side, she tried to show her love by holding her hand as tight as she could. 
Ariel had lost her voice, her greatest treasure, but maybe it was okay if in exchange, she got to lie there with the girl who could make her feel like words were nothing more than ink on paper and had her soaring through the stars. 
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hereforaus · 6 years ago
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Now Breathe || pt 2
pairing: jeon jungkook x reader
genre: bodyguard!jungkook , rebel!reader , numb!reader, smut, angst
“people invading your personal space is one of the top most annoying thing to ever exist on earth and your overprotective politician mother hiring a personal bodyguard for you didn’t help at all”
wordcount:5.7k
WARNINGS! : 18+ , foul languages, violence, mentions of bully, smut (on future episodes) 
A/N: I made a trailer of this fic for yall to watch [here] :))))) thankyou for the love that yall showered for the first part and i hope you like this one,,,:)
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“MOM!!!” Your nose is literally flaring right now as if there’s gonna be smoke coming out of it in no time. Upon entering the house, you decided to head to where you’re most probably gonna find your mom, her little office.
“How was the concert sweet pea?” she said with that so sweet tone she use with you eversince you were young. Eyes never leaving the paper she’s been holding since you arrive.
“The concert? OH HELL SO LIT. The bodyguard you just hired permanently for me? AWFUL
“Tell you what, he’s the best in his job despite the age” she’s not even looking at you. Like she does not know the weight of her actions.
“For fucks sake”
“Language”
“But mom! Are you seriously gonna do this to me? You do remember the only thing I ask of you in exchange of behaving well and staying away from fights right? I just need privacy, that’s all I ask” You look defeated. Awfully defeated.
“Yes sweetie. I remember everything but I need you to do me a favor for now” for the first time she look at you, her eyes looking so tired under her glasses and you notice the dark circles under her eyes seemingly heavy. She needs sleep, she looks drained out of life. “I’ve been receiving death threats for the past few days. At first it was just me and I can take that, but just yesterday you’ve been included. Hell they even know your university, the dance classes you take and the gym you’ve been conducting your boxing sessions during weekends. I don’t want to force you to not go to these places anymore since I know you can’t do that so that’s the least I can do”
You understand her and you can be a brat sometimes but you love your mom above anyone else, seeing her like this hurts you too. She’s already tired from work, you can see that and thinking that she’s been stressing over the threats on you must’ve been horrible. You can’t imagine how distressed she is and you know that the only thing you can do is to not add from her worries therefore you abide.
“Yes mom, I understand. But can you please rest? I hate seeing you like this”
She smiled.
“I know you’re such an understanding person. I will rest in no time sweet pea, for now you should go to bed too”
“I will. I love you”
“You’re always a sweet kid. I love you too”
-
“Morning miss” he said right after you open the door of the car to your spot on the front seat. Oh yeah, your driver has been replaced too by no other than Jeon Jungkook. His presence irritate you more than you like to but the only thing you can do is to shrug it off, put your earphones on, blast something off a Childish Gambino song, and wait till you arrive to your school not even giving a glance to the person next to you.
You exited the car without any word, almost missing the little wave Jungkook gave you because the car door was slammed quickly right after you set foot on the school grounds.
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“You WHAT?”
“You heard it right, I have my personal bodyguard now”
“Woah woah! so what’s gonna happen now?” Sometimes talking to Lea makes you tired. Aside from the nonstop talking she always do, she also always have lots of questions.
“I guess he’s gonna follow me around everywhere? I dont know really. I’m not gonna be surprised if he’s outside this classroom right now”
“That’s cool!!!”
“Oh yeah for you” and then she’s standing up. “Hey where are you going?”
“Outside. I’m gonna see your body guard”
She’s a headache.
You quickly hold onto her wrist and pull her back to her seat. “I didn’t say he’s actually there”
“I’m just kidding” here she goes with her grin again. She turn her body to her left, directly facing you and she position her left palm under her chin. “So, how does he look like? You know some private agents are hot, just like what I see in the movies”
He’s hot, not gonna lie. “He is almost balding and quite got a cute belly”
At that she slam her hands from her face to your desk. “Bad luck”
“It’s not bad luck love, it’s just that movies are the opposite of real life, and you little peanut, should let that sink in”
“I swear sometimes you got no jams”
“I’m just being realistic and i don’t give all my time fantasizing unlike you. Don’t you get tired tho? of being disappointed all the time?”
“No. Sometimes hoping is tiring but saves you from sadness” She’s the opposite of you in every ways, and maybe that’s why your friendship works out. They say opposite attracts afterall and similar repels.
Just in time, your prof walk in the class. By the sound of his morning greetings, you can tell that he must’ve had his favorite coffee for breakfast, no doubt his day has been great so far.
You could only hold your pen tighter, very ready to continue the poem you started last night. You were just waiting for him to start the class (Chemistry, your least favorite) so that you can already pretend that you’re taking notes from every nonsense that’s coming out from his mouth when suddenly there seems like an announcement.
“Okay class” he spoke with authority but you can only care less as you’re already so deep into the world of poem and words.
“We have a new friend here today. Please intoduce yourself now”
“Hello, my name is Jeon Jungkook and I hope we get along well”
You shook your head. What’s up with boys named Jungkook nowadays and not just that they sound similar too… WAIT… they’re actually similar!
Upon realizing this, you snap your head to the front only to see Jeon Jungkook, your personal bodyguard, in all his glory, wearing the same uniform as all the other guys in that room, his beaming face earning coos from all the girls, right then and there you realize that your situation… couldn’t get any worse. In no time he’s gonna be your boxing coach too, at the same time sparring partner, maybe he’s gonna be one of your dance mates too. Great.
After his short speech that left everyone a fan of him for sure, he made his way to the vacant seat beside you. Of course he will, what did you expect?
“Hi mate”
You can only sigh at this.
“Hi creep”
“Bad morning?” you’re getting tired of his voice already.
“You know better than anyone else” you took off your eyes from your notebook for a while to look at him directly. “Do you want me to sit on your lap now? I think that’s the only thing left to do, is it?” This is gonna be an endless banter and you can smell it. Seeing that he can’t seem to find out how to use his mouth to speak, you return your eyes to your notebook not missing a roll of it upon doing so.
Just like that, Jungkook was left wide eyed, his expression quickly changing into that of a cocky one and a smirk soon followed suite. He’s gonna love his job for sure.
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“Isn’t he cute?”
“Every single one here is cute for you Lea, stop speaking and eat your food already”
“This is different. He’s cute and hot Y/N and I think he likes you”
You lift your head and eyes from your food in order to look at her dead in the eyes, a true indication for her to just shut up and eat her food already. The school cafeteria is packed and noises from different groups of people can be heard. She nod her head behind you, a gesture that made you look over your shoulders. And you saw him. Who else but him.
“He does not like me okay? I can tell you that. So now let’s eat peacefully yeah?”
“I mean he’s been checking you out even earlier at class, you’re the first one he laid his eyes into”
You hissed.
“Okay I’ll shut up”
Finally.
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“Our way to dance class miss?”
“Yes” you said, voice plain. “and please call me Y/N”
“Y/n” he repeated. Your name tasting good coming from his mouth.
“Yes you creep, hurry up or i’ll beat you up if I get late”
Soon after, the only sound in the car that can be heard is the list of songs from Amy Winehouse’s album called Frank and even though you know that it’s not a normal thing to be hearing from someone your age, you couldn’t care less. Halfway through the drive you urge yourself to speak, this question has been lingering on your mind for quite some time now.
“Tell me, what else did you do aside from entering the same school as mine and the same class too like a creep?”
“Don’t worry, nothing else”
“That’s a surprise”
“You know what, you have to treat me as your friend now, your mother told me to treat you as one cause you don’t get along with our kinds so it’s better if we can just be friends or something”
“I’m not friendly so you can scratch that thought already”
“Who hurted you to be like this?”
Jungkook didn’t mean it the hard way but as soon as you process his words, your mind goes blank. You immediately snap your head to his direction, thankfully enough he isn’t looking at you because his focus is on the road. He can see you from the corner of his eye but not entirely. He failed to see the look of vulnerability in your eyes that only three person in this world has seen. First your mom, second Lea, and third, your dad…
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“Pull over”
“What?” Jungkook looks confused.
“I said pull over”
He did.
You got out of the car and opened the door to the driver’s seat where Jungkook is currently seating.
“Get out”
“No I can’t”
“I said get out, let’s exchange seats”
He obeyed.
No other words was exchanged because soon, you’re speeding up to somewhere he cant pinpoint where.
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“Let’s have a deal”
You’re now inside the gym, a boxing ring located in the very front of it.
“What kind of deal this time?” Jungkook is now walking beside you.
“You’ll find out”
Soon enough there are two guys in front of you, beaming.
“Y/N!” Hoseok said, his eyes resembling that of crescent moons while making his way closer to you for a hug in which you complied to immediately. Seokjin also did the same resulting to a group hug that almost suffocates you. You love them, oh you surely does.
“Did I hear Y/N” you heard yoongi from a far following some footsteps that you can tell is headed towards you.
“Yoongi”
“Why are you here? You don’t come during weekdays” he said with slight amusement in his tone. Only you can get to stir up an emotion from him and that, you consider is your legacy.
“I needed to let out so badly. Do you have clothes for this guy?” you gesture towards Jungkook. The guy now in spotlight looking lost for a while but soon composed himself trying not to look dumb in front of the unfamiliar but quite intimidating faces.
Yoongi nodded, gesturing for jungkook to follow him while Seokjin and Hoseok produces baffling noises from excitement. You headed to one of the lockers owned by Seokjin to get some clothes that you left there purposely as a stock for emergencies like this. When the both of you had changed into gym clothes, Yoongi was quick to hand the gloves and head gear to the both of you.
“Yoongs, we’re not gonna be using that” Yoongi can only smirk. He knows more than anyone else in that room what’s going on inside your mind right now and the mere thought is enough to produce a smirk to his face.
You’re quick to head to the ring slightly bending your body forward to fully enter it. Less to your surprise Jungkook is still standing with the 3 boys.
“Hey creep! Get in here. We have a deal to finish” He does not need to be told twice because within seconds, he’s already in front of you. “If you win, you’ll get me to comply to one thing that you want me to do but the other way happens when I win. Sound fair?”
“Rules?” He does not back out from challenges.
“Freestyle match” The three guys can’t help but shout from excitement upon hearing this from you. If there is one thing to describe you, it is that you’re a beast inside the ring specially if there are no rules. Truth be told you’re not as serene as you appear to be, never. Eversince you were 11 (the time when you discovered that there’s a thing called punching bags and you can actually not use it because there’s a thing called sparring matches too) you were always involved in fights. Be it when Lea was once bullied by two guys because of her pigtails, in which those poor boys ended up with a broken nose and missing teeth and your first record from the guidance office or when you got pissed off by a random girl because she tried to act almighty in front of you attempting to trip you once when you were on your way to the table you share with Lea in the cafeteria (she ended up transferring schools after that because of an almost broken jaw which resulted to a workload of compensation money and letters from your mother).
After that incident, no one, not a single lost soul has dared to touch you or Lea. It’s not because of what you did but because of what more you can do. You being an asshole of a warfreak isn’t the only case because you act like you have nothing to lose, and that is the scariest thing about you. Well that’s not totally true because you have your own weaknesses, everyone does, but you will never let anyone know about that. The more they know, the higher chance they can take advantage of you. You believe that the more you expose yourself, the more you show fragileness and looking vulnerable in front of someone is scary. For you, not being able to lay flat all your emotions on the table is better than people having the chance or ability to hurt you. So just like that, you almost forget how it feels like to feel and it does not make living any better or easier because choosing to abandon your emotions is like entering the space. It’s like you’re just a floating thing on space, just there but do not actually has a purpose. Like you’re existing but you’re nothing.
You grew up like that. No idea on how to actually express your feelings other than through couple of punches. You would come to the gym every weekend to let out anything you’ve been keeping inside once in a while. You grew fond of the three boys that own this gym. They’re actually the only breathing human being with balls that can get along with you right from the start because at some point, the four of you are not far from same. You never have stopped being involved in fights but you do everything in your power to keep yourself away from it specially if you’re inside the school grounds.
Occasionally you would go home with purple bruises on your face. There is this one time when you happen to stumble to a couple of girls on your way back home from grocery with an ice cream on your left hand. The three of them looks like some gals your age, enjoying the freedom of youth, seemingly broke out of their wits because of clubbing plus cigarettes and alcohol. That time wasn’t the time for girls like you to be out in a dangerous city like seoul with no company of a male friend or relative but the three of them didn’t seem to mind it as they walk towards you, looking as if they can swallow you whole with their over manifestation of eye mascaras just so to look fierce and to have the “im young and wild and free so don’t touch me” vibes. You ignore them as you’re already trying to pass through them, a girl with blonde shoulder length hair and a bubblegum being chewed in his mouth grabbed your right wrist. At first you look at her, carefully scanning her features and you gave her a sweet and innocent smile but the looks she gave you in return screams something between the lines of “you should beg on your knees right now” as if the bubblegum on her mouth isn’t the cliché-est thing you’ve seen through out your whole life. You weren’t really planning on picking up on those girls and you’re already building an invisible bubble consisted of the substance called patience around your brain when halfway through talking them out of the situation, the girl slapped your left hand causing your favorite ice cream that took you a lot of effort to buy from the market to be shove out of your hand and to the floor. The moment you saw the ice cream meeting the dirt on the ground, you let out a scowl. If those girls knew you, they should’ve known better than stand there and continue the mocking expressions on their faces just from the sound of your snort but they don’t know you and they don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. So you lost it. The bubble patience wore out and the only thing left was raging anger. Needless to say, they must’ve stayed away from clubbing for 2 months after that incident because you’re sure as hell, one of them was on the brink of losing her eyeballs from a jab you did that ended up straight to her face. You’re not dangerous, you always say that to yourself but you’re always proven wrong whenever you can’t control yourself from wanting to punch just anything in front of you.
Hoseok, Seokjin and Yoongi knows how to calm you down by now. Seokjin being the most caring among all of them has been your exclusive doctor for years now. He would always have his first aid kit checked for empty bottles of disinfectant or pain killers, he can’t afford to run out of them because he can’t afford to see your wounds too. Yoongi has been the only trainer who managed to keep up with your temper whenever you would go overboard because of a specific bullshit in your life. Hoseok have long since learned how to catch your jabs and not get injured whenever the two of you would go sparring, he’s your long life partner, you can’t thank him enough.
Going back to the current situation, you look at Jungkook straight in the eyes, examining if there’s uncertainty on them but much to your surprise, you found none. You realized he’s just as stubborn as you and you can deal with that. “The game ends with a pin. Aside from that, you can do whatever during the match. Are we deal now?” You can feel your insides starting to heat up.
“This is gonna be great” he said in response “but don’t forget that i’m your body guard with a reason y/n, are you sure you want to do this?”
You can’t tell whether he’s being worried or being cocky but you don’t have time to dwell on that any longer. “Let’s see and find out for ourselves shall we?”
“You shouldn’t take her slightly kid” Hoseok knows what to say. He flashes Jungkook one of his blinding smiles.
“That’s Jungkook for you” And then the match started.
The first 2 minutes was spent blocking each other’s attack by hands. Majority of your antics was quickly avoided by him. He’s much stronger and well built than you, you can tell because of the times you lay your hands on his shoulder through out the fight that his muscles aren’t one to mess with. You would attack him countless of times but he won’t do the same for you. You can tell that he’s taking you easy. “Remember our deal. You won’t like it if I win” You said in between attacks.
“Who said i’ll let you win”.
tension
He’s now lurching forward. Left fist attempting its first contact to your face. missed. You grab his left arm still positioned in the air from the previous attack with your right hand. Pulling it towards you, he stumbled forward. Then a kick from your left knee to his torso followed. First hit.
The sound of skin grazing and making contact to each other came to a halt when the both of you paused. Jungkook has taken your left arm behind you by now. His left hand tangled in it with a force. His other arm came wrapped on your neck. Your whole body is aginst his. You can’t move.
Smell of sweat mixed with both your scents is strong in the air. The sound of Jungkook’s ragged breathing filled your ears and the feeling of his wet skin against yours overwhelmed your body.
A kick on the back of your knee sent you to the ground. Coming face to face to him, he hovered over your body. But before he can perform his next moves, you inch your face close to him, your arms made its way around his neck, and then your lips came in contact with each other causing his mind to shut down, eyes wide with the sudden move. 1…2…3…, before he can even comprehend anything, you broke the kiss. Your left knees swayed forward to his lower region. He growled in pain, it caused him to lay crouching on his back, instinctively holding his private part because of the electrifying pain. Then the last move you go, pin.
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Right after the match ended, you bid your goodbyes with your good friends then you hop to the driver’s seat of your car, your mom’s car. Jungkook was quick to enter the car.
Both of you stayed silent. Jungkook seemingly deep in thoughts because of earlier and you, focused on the road. Jungkook does not have an idea where you’re heading to and by the looks of you, the destination is far from reach so he decided to break the silence.
“So… the deal”
“Yeah the deal” you tap your tumb on the stirring wheel repeatedly before continuing what you has to say “I need you to do this one thing”
“As long as it does not meddle with my work, i’m more than willing to obey”
“Sure” pause “ I need you to lie”
“W-what?”
“I know the system Jeon. You’re my bodyguard, and everyday you send a report to my mom. I’m not dumb”
“If you know the system then you should also know that I can’t lie to your mom because loyalty is a part of my job”
“Your job is to protect me Jeon. You’re my bodyguard and you also have the responsibility to be loyal to me. Besides, you lost the deal so you don’t really have a choice”
“What exactly do I have to lie to?”
“Maybe we have to rephrase that. You don’t need to lie, you just need to skip some details”
“Please be more specific maam” he released a scoff
“Follow me”
The both of you ended up in front of a seemingly abandoned, four story high building somewhere in the most secluded part of Seoul where only the most dangerous people who’ve been feared by normal citizens are able to walk on the streets at night. Jungkook can tell from observing the place on your drive up to here that the whole area isn’t a place that a normal person would visit or would plan to. Majority of the buildings around are abandoned and graffitied. There aren’t much streetlights and the houses are small, murky and right next to each other, not to mention, litters are everywhere.
You opened the pealing door surrounded by iron chunks that reveal the interior of the skyscraper you just entered. The ground floor displayed the presence of nothing that even doors separating the multiple rooms are missing. The whole floor is mainly consisted of thick dusts and the very few slightly dimmed flickering lights that is only enough to aluminate the pathway to the stairs. Jungkook kept following you from behind, both your steps leaving an echo through out the place. You made your way down to the underground and upon your second step from the stairs, you halt causing Jungkook to do the same. You turn your face to the side.
“Watch where you’re going Jeon” then you gestured to his feet. Just then, he notice a very thin thread that is almost invisible to him. He carefully took his next step, doing his best not to touch the thing.
“Is that supposed to kill me?” he point his finger to the thread.
“That’s connected to a land mine” you said, voice filled with seriousness
“ARE YOU SERIOUS?! What if I didn’t stop there? I might be roasted right in this moment!” He look at you straight in the eyes, looking angry for a moment. The silence lingered in the air as the two of you seemed to have an intense staring contest going on… but what Jungkook didn’t expect was when you burst out laughing. You’re crouching down, holding your stomach and a tear took its place on the corner of your eye threatening to drop at any moment while your giggle filled the room.
“Connected to a land mine” you repeat your words from earlier while doing your best not to end up laughing again. “There’s no such thing as that Jeon. That will just alert someone down here” and then you continue your steps, ignoring Jungkook’s dumbfounded look until you’re standing in front of a room. You entered a code to open the lock on the door and upon entering the only room that seems to be gifted with colors other than gray, Jungkook saw a man slumped on one of the tables, his whole surrounding consisted of computers lined up next to each other, codes on green font appearing then disappearing on them,some computer showing the situation of each room on the building from a camera installed on the corners of it. He definitely didn’t expect any of these.
“Joon” Upon hearing his name, Namjoon jolted from his seat, almost knocking the coffee lying on his left side. Upon recognizing the source of the voice, he wiped his tired eyes, hazily grabbing the glasses on his head and repositioning it so it rests on his nose.
“Y/N” Namjoon is beaming now although you can hear the exhaustion tainting his voice.
“How’s it going?“
“Few codes and I can access his computer already. Actually I didn’t expect this to be risky. Their system is protected with a security software that would alert their main computer if someone is trying to manipulate their pseudonyms. Good thing I found out about it sooner, we almost got caught there” you hum in response, just by then, Namjoon noticed the shadow behind you, he found a nameless man looking slightly dumbfounded gazing back at him. “You didn’t tell me that you’ll be inviting a guest today. Mind if you introduce him?”
“Oh yeah. He’s Jeon Jungkook. My bodyguard” They both eyed each other. Few seconds later Namjoon decided to direct his glance at you, his left eyebrow scrunching up as if to silently ask you what’s going on.
You decided to speak again. “He asked me about the thing that he should lie to. So here it is, I’m showing him the one and only thing that he can never tell my mother because once she knew about this, it’s gonna be over for the two of us”
Fact.
“Wait” Jungkook spoke for the first time. “What exactly is this?” he gestured his hands around.
“You’ll understand this soon once Namjoon finishes his job” You threw a smile on Namjoon. Not a second later, he’s getting back to his work, hands tirelessly typing out words that even you can’t quite figure out. He worked with three computers, constantly switching from time to time.
10 minutes passed, only the sound of Namjoon slamming his fingers on the keyboard and the nonstop clicks from the mouse can be heard. You waited for 1 more minute until Namjoon decided to hit the enter button more loudly than the rest to signal the end of his reverie.  
“Off you go y/n” he removed his glasses. Lying it on his table, he turned back to you and Jungkook to flash you another smile that shows off his deep dimpled cheeks. “Lotus club. I traced the location of his phone and he’s currently there. I also hacked on the cctv of the club a few days ago and I found out he goes there often to get wasted and bring home some girl he can have a good time with on his bed. I need you to do something to get this task 75% done” he pause for a minute, his gaze switching between you and Jungkook. “We need to install something on his phone” he then pull out a small card in between his fingers.
You know what he’s implying already, you’ve done this before on one of your missions and you’re more than excited to do it again. You scurry your way to Namjoon, snatching the micro card on his fingers with a flick.
“Got it pal” then you’re off with Jungkook.
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scige-alt · 5 years ago
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YOUR ALIAS & NICKNAMES — james bt usually its spelled JAMES bt irl i’ve been called jimbo and jam and jammies and jimjam n w/e endearing terms bc i am precious
AGE — 20
TIMEZONE — est
PREFERRED PRONOUNS — she/they bt the she is more out of convenience fr others n also nothing bothers me
MBTI — istp i share this with bri and also my character viktor bt ive also gotten infp before i think which is almost the complete opposite so! take tht as u will
HP HOUSE — oh wait i actually know this i took a fckn quiz hold on. ok i took this fucker right here and i got burned gryffindor primary, model hufflepuff primary, gryffindor secondary, n model hufflepuff secondary which boils down 2 ... i dont know
ARE YOU A STUDENT? WHAT DO YOU STUDY? — technically yes but i havent taken a class in a year bt i used to be a social work major n then i was gna switch to english n then i wanted to do environmental / coastal / marine biology / science bt then i realized i cant do math so idk
ARE YOU ENJOYING IT? — i was :/
LINKS TO OTHER ACCOUNTS & SOCIAL MEDIA — i dont like being perceived bt my twitter is @fauxcherub and my pinterest is @offbrandsodapop / big tid and im too lazy 2 link them so im sry bt also my rph is @svrgcnts​ n my theme is unfinished ignore it
DISCORD USER — sniff#3644 i think
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FICTION GENRE? — i like modern fantasy / urban fantasy just like. modern magic. modern. bt mostly fr books. fr like films n tv shows i dont know i binge watch gossip girl and eat several oranges
TOP FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS — i ...... dont know .... pride n prejudice, austin powers, halloweentown n co’, the princess bride, the princess diaries or ella enchanted
A BOOK YOU FEEL “CHANGED” YOU? — i read the darkest minds when i was a freshmen in high school and it was the first book that ever made me cry and i think it unlocked the part of me that genuinely feels emotion because ever since i read it i cry multiple times a week to every single day at like. everything. so. its not even a revolutionary book i just really liked it
A MOVIE YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? — probably pride n prejudice i wont lie but also if something stars mike myers chances r that its on my mind
WHAT IS YOUR SIGN? — aquarius sun, aquarius moon, cancer rising
ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY? — not 2 the point where i hate u if ur a gemini i just think its fun 2 b like ‘haha i do that’
WHAT PLATFORMS HAVE YOU ROLEPLAYED ON? — facebook n club penguin
WHAT OTHER HOBBIES DO YOU HAVE? — im a shell of a person.
HAVE ANY PETS? IF SO, TALK ABOUT THEM! — harley n bodhi i love them and so do u harley is a pit mix maybe possibly idk? and bodhi’s a shiba and theyre opposites. harley is so nice. bodhi is an asshole. i love them so much
IS THERE A TV SHOW YOU RECOMMEND A LOT? — i rly liked fleabag but schitt’s creek mostly. i also liked the politician but i want to punt ryan murphy so. i think the haunting of hill house is also a good show
ANY SHOWS YOU LIKE SOME MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT YOU DO? — i think im too predictable bt if anybody wants to tell me the answer to this please do
WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? WOULD YOU RECOMMEND IT? — god i think i was reading strange the dreamer by laini taylor or smth like that bt ya i was enjoying it even though i stopped halfway thru and havent picked it up in a year
CURRENTLY READING? — i cant read
LAST FILM? REC IT? — the joker and no.
THREE MOVIES YOU NEED TO WATCH — practical magic bt i told myself i wouldnt watch it until i do my replies, perks of being a wallflower, n uuuhhh beautiful boy (thank u neen)
WHAT MOVIE DO YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN THE MOST TIMES? — austin powers or halloweentown or shrek i wont lie its probably shrek yeah its shrek
WHAT ALWAYS PUTS YOU IN A GOOD MOOD? — the gc usually :/
WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICIAN / BAND? LIST IF THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE. — lady lamb bt im mad at her bc she hasnt toured to florida and all i want is to see her live bt im really feeling bay faction lately bt also mcr bc im emo but im kind of a few songs frm every artist type of person n not like entire discographies except fr the bands ive just listed
WILD NIGHT OUT OR QUIET NIGHT IN? — house parties r cool bt i like 2 be. in bed most of the time
ANY PHOBIAS? — none tht i can recall atm bt i have a lot of anxieties in general :/
DO YOU LIKE BUGS? — depends on the bug ...
BIRDS? — mostly no but ig it depends on the bird ... i like them frm afar bt their talons scare me
ARE YOU A CAT OR DOG PERSON? BOTH? — im v allergic to cats bt i want a cat so mf badly. but also ig im a dog person bc ive. always owned a dog
BIGGEST PET PEEVE? — like. not being self aware. passive aggression. the rpc
FAVOURITE THING ABOUT THE RPC? — this is a trick question
TOP TEN FAVE FCS TO USE? — dev patel, avan jogia, natalia dyer, bill skarsgard, medalion rahimi, naomi scott, ella purnell, freya mavor, liana liberato, sky ferreira.
FIVE YOU LIKE WRITING AGAINST? — i dnt rly focus on the fcs of other muses so i dnt think i can answer this. austin butler.
FAVOURITE TYPE OF FOOD? — mexican food i would eat it everyday if i could
WORST FOOD? — i think sushi is gross
DO YOU PLAY VIDEOGAMES? IF SO, WHAT ONES AND ON WHAT PLATFORM DO YOU PREFER? — not frequently. i like the bioshock like. series. universe. bt i like point n click adventures a lot ... deponia is my favorite game series theres like four of them n ive finished them in 8 consecutive hours each. i only use pc
ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE TAG? — im so sleepy
LASTLY, HOW DID YOU FIND US? — drama SJNKDFMG
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thedancingsoldier · 5 years ago
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My Top Song for The Second Half of 2019
⚠️Warning Long Post⚠️
Sam Smith: How Do You Sleep?= Lies, LIES. Lying out your teeth. The question is how do you sleep when you lie to me? This song is addictive to me. Sam Smith speaks in this song wondering how does this person sleep with all the lies that he’s been told? Sam Smith regrets staying in the relationship with this person as long as he did because he also couldn’t stay away from this person. But now he realizes he has to leave and he hopes that the love that he left, keeps this person up at night. Because he’s done. It doesn’t help that the beat is infectious and Sam Smiths voice just floats. I literally just melt into this song, and I lose myself.
Charlie Puth: I Warned Myself= This song sounds like a hook-up that went terribly wrong. In this song Charlie Puth explains how he met this person who was in a relationship with somebody else oversees. Charlie actually liked this person, so with him being skeptical, he went along with the shenanigans anyway. Later this person threatened to kill him, if he told anybody about what they did together. With that being said, Charlie regrets going about the whole thing, and blames himself and this person for messing with his heart.
Keiynan Lonsdale: Rainbow Dragon= This song is a mix of everything, but it is ultimately a message of excelling for yourself, excelling for the world, getting back up from when you fell, and changing this world for the better. Keiynan delivers some shade to the politicians as well, which is always great. One line stuck out to me, “if I can slay, you can slay too b***h.” It’s simple but powerful in its own way.
Rat City: Deliriously Good= This song is a basic admiration for a girl that Rat City finds “deliriously good”. This song makes me smile every time I listen to it, or hear it in the distance even when the volume is too low for anyone else to hear it. The beat is so disco, so retro with that modern electronic dance flavor attached to it. I can’t get enough of this song. It’s doesn’t help that Rat City made a trilogy of videos not to match the lyrics of the songs but as a story with the songs just being background music. It’s good background music though. And good marketing and good production. So kudos to Rat City for that.
Jax Jones, Martin Solveig, Madison Beer & Europa: All Day All Night - Jax Jones & Martin Solveig Presents Europa= This song speaks about another toxic relationship. The singer Madison Beer speaks of getting no sleep because of this person she can’t stop thinking about, and that she fell in love with and that she’s tired of it. This person just left her out of the blue, and never came back. Jax Jones, Martin Solveig and Europa collaborated on this song, and they did it beautifully. It’s perfectly electronic dance music, with some tropical house influence. It’s perfect.
Camila Cabello: Shameless= This song can be interpreted in so many different ways. One way I interpreted this song was, it’s one person expressing their love for the other person. Going all out with it. The other side thanks to @camrencabregui on the comment section of genius.com. They see it as a lgbt relationship. Being all out with their love and shouting it from the rooftops, not caring what anyone thinks. Either way it’s needing someone more than you want them. It’s loving someone shamelessly and with pure love in your heart.
Bebe Rexha: You Can’t Stop The Girl (From Disney’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”)= Side note, I’m so glad Bebe Rexha released this song. It reminds me of her earlier songs that she came out with. And the message is as powerful as ever. It’s so Disney and that’s what makes it great and so influential. It’s breaking that glass ceiling, that still not totally broken. It’s accomplishing your dreams, and not letting anyone stop you.
Charlie Puth: Cheating On You= With this song, Charlie Puth states, on the album cover for this single, “This song is not about a person, it’s about a feeling I’ve never had.” I love that he puts that out there. It’s a song anyone relate to. It’s about both parties of a relationship leaving each other. But, one person is still attached to the other. Even, when this person meets a different person, it doesn’t feel right. This person hasn’t moved on enough to feel love for another person, other than the person they fell in love with in the first place. This song is a masterpiece.
Zedd: Good Thing (with Kehlani)= This song is an introverts theme song. Honestly it is. It basically states that the alone time this person has is already serene and perfect. To broaden this persons horizons the other view that someone else shows them, has to be better than this persons world. And according to this person, everything, and everybody else has yet to excel against that.
Yuna: Forevermore= The Malaysian artist that broadened my horizons on music. Somehow, they managed to fuse Malaysian influences with modern influences and subtle funk influences as well. It’s truly spectacular. The song talks about reaching for the stars. Finding that strength and sticking with it no matter how scared you are or how scary it gets.
Labrinth & Zendaya: All For Us - from the HBO Original Series “Euphoria”= This song is based off of the show on HBO called Euphoria starring Zendaya and Storm Reid. It’s a also a remix from the original that’s on Labrinth’s 2019 album “Imagination & The Misfit Kid”. In the show (From Genius.com), the main character of the show is Rue (Zendaya), a 17-year-old recovering drug addict struggling to find her place in the world. While her father was in the hospital, she began taking his medication. To cope with his death, she started to abuse drugs and ultimately became an addict, realizing she can’t find happiness or love without the drugs. The song takes cues from a bunch of sources, from the subtle trap beat in the background, to the choir that slowly builds and barges in at the “climax” of the song. It’s a really great song.
Emeli Sandé: Honest= This song attacked me in a good way. And it kept attacking me. And it will probably attack you too. To be honest. It simply states, “stop acting as if you can’t be honest to yourself”. Live in the present. Dont live in the past so much that you forget what is happening now in the present. Emeli Sandé did what? THAT. Honestly explaining this song does not do it justice. You’ll have to listen to this song to get it. And once you’ve done that, listen to it again, and again.
Selena Gomez: Look At Her Now= Rising from the ashes. Being in a relationship that was bad for you, and coming out of it learning about yourself more and growing from that negative experience. That is what this song is talking about. Self-preservation & resilience. On top of a beat that’s infectious. And a voice that’s soothing to the ears.
James Arthur: Quite Miss Home= You know how some songs make you want to cry? This song did that. It’s about being away from those you love. Missing them while your away. It’s really self-explanatory. But it’s a beautiful song. My side of the story is too long to tell, but this song’s chorus basically covers that.
Panic! At The Disco: Into The Unknown - from “Frozen 2”= To get this song you will have to watch or go see Disney’s Frozen 2. But I will tell you this song is the ultimate challenge song if you want to try to hit any notes that seem impossible to hit. Brendon Urie goes higher than I’ve ever heard him. I’m pretty sure his fans have heard him hit these notes, but not me. It’s incredible.
Billie Eilish: everything i wanted= This one is about a dream that Billie had. According to Billie, in the dream she committed suicide and no one cared and everyone came out and said that they didn’t like her anyway. I love that this song about a dream she had. It’s different than anything I’ve heard this year. And the melody is so perfectly blended together with the vocals. It’s captivating, honestly. Billie also molds together her relationship with her brother and how close they are in this song. And how they have each others backs no matter what happens. Billie and her brother wrote this song. Another reason why i love this song.
Taylor Swift: Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince= After finally listening to Taylor Swift’s newest album, I found a couple of gems that I come back to jam to or meditate to. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince is one of them that caught my attention. According to Taylor, “this song is about our disillusionment with our crazy world of politics and inequality, set in a metaphorical high school.” On the surface it’s about, finding someone who sees who you really are through all the noise that everyone else is spouting about you. I felt it was a very compelling and complex story to write. That’s why I love this song. I love a song that takes me a while to decipher. It makes me think. I love that!
Taylor Swift: Daylight= Chills. I get true chills when I listen to this song. Another song that I get lost in, and another song that caught my attention from Taylor’s album, because of how the melody and the lyrics and the meaning sucks me in. It’s the last song on her album “Lover”. And she did it so right. With this song it’s like she sees, like the title implies, daylight. Reading the lyrics of the song, it’s Taylor talking about herself, but also it can be a message to everyone else. Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for your past mistakes, for past situations that may not have ended in the way you wanted or envisioned them to end. Look at the bright side, and see that you can grow from that, and from that, rebuild a better you.
Labrinth: Something’s Got To Give= Normally, when I hear a remix of a song. I tend to go with the remix rather than the original. But this song, I went with both. Because the beat got me, the message got me, and Labrinths masterful mixing and production got me as well. I love a song that, beat-wise, can take me on a rollercoaster. I love a song even better when there’s a great message tied to it. Labrinths talks of when going on faith and the going gets tough, you’ve got to give a little more. Going for your dreams and never giving up no matter how hard it gets. It’s bass heavy, it’s message heavy. It’s everything I hoped for in a song. And it’s something I think almost everyone will love as well.
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whenidiehallelujahbyandby · 6 years ago
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so what exactly is ur alternate proposal then? not an attack just genuinely curious bc i agree with everything ur saying but theyre all just Ideas. yes good to understand that all politicians suck but what then? not voting doesnt really do anything to aid a revolution all /i/ know is that conservatives are notoriously present at the polls & are much more prone to vote than blue voters, so if we dont vote i feel like the ONLY thing that would happen is that we'll let the republicans win
the problem lies within the way you phrased this question, even; if we don’t vote, what’s to stop the republicans from winning? i’ve got three problems with this
1. “if we don’t vote…”: we do. democrats won the popular vote in 2016. in fact, the voting base is actually rather stable, and has been since the turn of the century. the 20th century. since then, voter turnout has hovered, within a ~5 degree margin of error, right around 55% of the eligible population. aside from that, the margin between the winning and losing candidates’s popular votes hasn’t exceeded 10% since reagan’s reelection: the american voting base is very stable and rather evenly divided. (also worth mentioning that both gwb and trump lost the popular vote and still proceeded to be elected by the electoral college.)
on top of that, while we’ve already seen the attempts at voter disenfranchisement made by the establishment since the 2016 election, i hardly believe that this is the last, or the worst, of what’s to come. the white house has been instilling fear in the american populace since trump’s election—fear of “foregin interference,” fear of a “too politically correct” culture in american politics, fear of a conversation on oppression which has become “uncivil”. it’s easy to see how these fears can be exploited by the ruling class and give rise to fascism. recognize this as a deliberate attempt by the government to cast doubt over your mind, and reject the status quo that they set out to promulgate.
2. “the republicans”: my issue here is that you’ve identified the opposition party as “the republicans,” where in reality, the opposition party is the entire us government. democrats aren’t going to save us from the inevitable capitalist catastrophe. democrats and republicans are two sides of the same coin; they are corrupt, power hungry politicians who are willing to leverage the needs of the oppressed as bait to secure funding and popular support. the fact that the republican party is going fash at full-tilt pace is nothing more than an expression of the pent up frustrations of the nationalistic face of the american public. realize that the xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, misogyny, nationalism, etc. etc. of whoever you identify as the “bad guys” is in no way exclusive to the republican party. they are aspects of the system as a whole, and as such, the system must be excised as a whole. 
3. “… what’s to stop [them] from winning?” nothing, if we don’t vote, and the same amount of nothing if we do vote. now is the time to realize that voting simply isn’t enough, and considering current trends, will not be enough. the only thing that CAN stop them from winning is mass political mobilization, and voting is the american system’s way of channeling that mobilization into the most futile form of political display possible. in the “civil” eye, voting precludes all other political action because the power of the vote preceeds the power you hold in your hands. the mentality of rejecting the vote isn’t simply about abstaining from voting, it’s about realizing that there are much more important things that you CAN do, and that the vote is ultimately a meaningless display of deference to the status quo. 
so then, what can be done? what is there to do, before the vote? become a member of your community. be actively engaged. look at the world beyond your sphere of influence, beyond the digital barriers that divide us. take a homeless person out to lunch. donate your time, your money, your used belongings, to those who need them. talk about politics. get your friends enraged. get your family enraged. help them realize that the solutions to the flaws of american society do not lie within the same system that creates them, and defends their right to be flawed more than anything else. bring together resources and knowledge, put them in the hands of people who can use them to create a better world. free yourself from the trappings of capitalist society, to the fullest extent that you can. challenge yourself, your beliefs, the beliefs of those around you. 
the world, as it is, is not going to be fixed. it is going to break, just as it does every time such a great tension arises. do not aim to be the last fibre which snaps only when it is clear that there is no going back. be the spark which ignites the fire around you. and when the smoke clears, be the sapling in the ashes, and grow into a better world.
and for the love of god, don’t be civil
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bydfi · 2 years ago
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The great Sam vs. CZ crypto war, a visual recap [Meme level over 9000]
PART 1 - THE RISE Once upon a time in crypto land, the owners of the two biggest crypto exchanges were friends. Their names were Sam (FTX exchange) and CZ (Binance exchange). CZ had actually helped Sam start his exchange back in May 2019. For that, CZ got a bag of goodies. Aww they were friends Sam's FTX exchange grew quickly. Sam became a billionaire! Three months ago, it was even said that Sam would be the next Warren Buffett. Spoiler: no he is not. ​ PART 2 - THE SECRET WAR(S) Yet there was trouble in crypto paradise. Sam had been talking to other men such as regulators and politicians behind CZ's back and CZ did not like that. So CZ planned to get back at Sam while CZ continued to be friendly. First, CZ dropped the fees on Binance, luring in users from FTX. ​ THE PLOTTING BEGINS Slowly, Sam started to realize that CZ was gunning for him. ​ SURPRISE ITS ME PART 3 - THE START OF THE GREAT CRYPTO WAR In 2022, Sam overplayed his hand and made a joke about whether or not CZ would be welcome in DC. CZ decided to start the great crypto war. The battle was on. Who would win between these two giants? ​ A fight between two titans They picked their fighters. CZ picked Twitter, SFB picked regulators and politicians. ​ Goodness were they strong ​ PART 3 - THE MIDDLE OF THE GREAT CRYPTO WAR The fight began in November 2022. CZ walked in with the sink to the Alamede Research headquarters. ​ Let that sink in ​ CZ quickly used his Twitter attack. The Twitter attack is super effective At first, the community was entertained. They had not seen a great crypto war before. At first it was fun But soon, the community started to get worried and hit by the collateral damage. F in chat. F Sam valiantly defended himself. CZ is coming after us but we are fine, no worries! it was a lie PART 4 - THE END OF THE GREAT CRYPTO WAR But CZ's Twitter attack turned out to be too powerful. Sam surrendered. ​ PLZ have mercy There was truly no SOLace for Sam. CZ gloated and paraded Sam around. Yeah thats taking it too far CZ ​ PART 5 - AFTERMATH CZ went for the killing blow. CZ WINS! ​ As Sam was laying there, lifeless, he saw his crypto life flashing before his eyes. F in chat The celebrities who had fallen in previous wars were already waiting for Sam Does Sam get to go to crypto heaven with the likes of Do Kwon? But CZ had other plans and resurrected Sam. No crypto heaven for Sam And so, Sam was forced to work for CZ until the end of his days. He kept saying "I dont want it". Now the question is, will CZ burn us all? submitted by /u/Beyonderr [link] [comments] http://dlvr.it/ScTxht
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polyscripts · 7 years ago
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Shuga Shuga (snippet 2)
Prompt; another Sugar Daddy! AU snip 
Pairing(s); TJeffs x reader
Warning(s); lil baby angst :) (update: lie)
A/N; honestly don't even know how to start this story, but for now THESE ARE ONLY SNIPPETSSS !
read the first snippet here <3
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update ; this sucks lol
¨remember this place?¨ you walked ahead of him, skipping towards the edge of the balcony, the sight of the flowing river below. You smiled, the fairy lights dangling above caused the water to twinkle, reflecting off the dark water like stars in the sky. Thomas lingered behind, staring as you stood on the tip of your toes just to peer over the ledge.  
¨Its where we first met..¨ he spoke after a while, just remembering that day made his heart race. You were so scared that night and if he hadn´t acted as quickly as he did.. He didnt know what would come of you, this made his hand tighten around the object in his pants. 
¨Yea..¨ you turned around when you realized he hadn´t come to stand beside you yet. He stood almost awkwardly, hesitant to step towards you in case someone inside decided they wanted to get some air as well as you had.
¨No ones coming out anytime soon Thomas..¨ you could read his body language clearly, and he hated it. His mind went back to the man, to the meeting.. 
¨I- we need to talk..¨ he began slowly, almost as if he was calculating the words his mouth was making without his approval. You turned to face him fully now, taking a step in his direction.
¨Are you sure your okay? If its what Alex said, he didn´t mean-¨ but before you could apologize, apologize so easily, he cut you off.
¨I think we should end this.¨ he felt his throat tighten, his head began to ache at just the though of ending your relationship. His grip tightening, like it was the only thing holding him down at this point.
¨What?¨ you looked confused as well as to why he had decided to tell you this here of all places. You found yourself going to fiddle with the charm around your neck, the one he´d bought you months ago on your vacation.
¨This-¨ he motioned to the both of you, ¨this shouldn´t go on anymore¨ he had to look away at the shattering look on your face. 
¨Wait- Tommy, think about what your saying-¨
I’m not, I´m doing whats best for you, for me.. for us
¨I don´t need to think about this YN, this is over¨ the fact he didn’t identify what you both had, broke your heart. He didnt use your pet name, he couldnt even look you in your eye as he broke things off. He was a coward, he knew that now. ¨You dont mean that! whos making you do this?¨ you gritted out, glaring up at him with tears subconsciously welling up in your eyes. His jaw clenched, eyes hard as he looked back at you and forced the 4 words out his mouth that would leave you wrecked.
¨I don´t love you, I never have, loved you!¨  he sounded numb, and of all the times to hear the lie in his tone, you were to blind to do so. 
“Stop it Thomas-” but he kept speaking, kept saying words that he’d just regret later when he lost the only light in his world.
“You and I both knew this wouldn't work, some low class with a politician?” he forced a bitter chuckle to leave his lips, but it sounded weak in his own head. Thats what he was, weak, why couldn't he just stand up for himself, for you.
“Stop-” you choked out, you sounded hurt, he knew he hurt you, but he couldn't stop the ball from rolling. He had to make it real.
“I’m only stating the truth YN, you were just my pawn in a much bigger game, a tool, so why don you just run on back to-” he felt nothing but a sting, it burned and he realized that you had just smacked him.
You had tears rolling down your cheeks, you were sobbing like he thought you would've. You were staring at him a fire burning behind the broken look you wore.
¨You can leave, but don´t you dare bring him, into this!¨ you hissed, wiping furiously at the tears streaking your face. He stared down at you in shock, but he knew he went to far.
¨Then leave¨ he hissed, fighting the urge to apologize and kiss you, he kept his cold reserve, returning to the man he had been before meeting you.
okaaay so a little longer? but idk,, im looossing my spark for this story, idk, i had a whole outline but i just wanna write the dramaaaaaaa, ya feel????? :(
request open until further noticee <3
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