#why is he pimping her up does he wanna sell her or something

[naiimo]

im scared of what Akiyama wants to make Lily do i hope he wont be gross

[phoenixmakeswords]

Behind the scenes of what caused Kai to finally leave his mother.

TW: Rape, human trafficking, CSA, physical abuse, self-harm

My head pounds when I blink my eyes open. Everything hurts. I know I shouldn’t have drunk so much whiskey last night, but I had to do something to get some sleep. I know it’s not healthy, but I don’t exactly have a plethora of resources. Not being what I am.

I can still feel their hands. Scrubbing my skin raw didn’t help. Chopping off my hair didn’t help. I can still feel their hands buried in my hair as they make me gag and choke. The thought alone makes me retch. I hate the men who rented me last night.

“Kai!” my mother shrieks.

That does wonders for my hangover.

Rubbing the back of my neck, I pad into the hall to see what she wants. The house smells like drugs. It’s filthy. I can’t do everything between work and being sold so she can buy drugs. I know it wouldn’t matter if I tried to do better; I won’t ever be enough.

She slams me against the wall.

“They complained about you,” she informs me. “I didn’t get paid as much as I was supposed to because of you.”

“What’d they complain about?” I don’t want to be here. Like, I don’t even want to exist at this point. Why should I keep existing if it’s just gonna hurt?

“Everything. They were extremely unsatisfied, Kai. Do you know what happens now?”

Yeah, I do. I get a beating.

“You’re not touching me,” I snap. I push past her and grab what I need to leave: My work tablet; my phone; my boots; my smokes, and my leather jacket. I’m not coming back.

I sprint to the only person who halfway tolerates me: Eirnin. Running hurts. But I have to. She might chase me.

My lungs throb as I pound their doorbell. I did something to my right ankle hopping over their low fence.

The door swings open to reveal a very grumpy-looking Fae. I probably should have taken my thumb off the doorbell at some point.

“Kai? What’s wrong?” they ask, softening. “Besides you trying to break my doorbell?”

“Can I crash here? I’m sorry. Did I—Were you in the middle of something?”

“What happened? Come in. It’s raining. You woke me up.”

“Do you ever wanna hit me?”

I didn’t realize it was raining.

I hobble inside unsteadily. My ankle hurts. My throat hurts. My everything hurts.

“No. I don’t. I mean, yes, you’re one of the most difficult people I’ve dealt with. But I don’t want to hurt you. What’s going on? Why are you having trouble walking? You smell like whiskey.”

“My mom. She tries. Really. I know she does. I could do better. I know that. I’m…hurt. I hurt my ankle jumping your fence, plus some other stuff. I’m hungover. Can I like move in? Permanently?”

They cock their head at me curiously. They haven’t glamoured their eyes yet. I love the warm chocolate color their eyes are naturally.

“Go sit. Get off your feet. I’ll bring an ice pack for your ankle. Where else are you hurt? As long as you behave,” they sigh.

I slink to their massive leather sectional. Sitting hurts.

“Where else are you hurt?” they repeat, sliding an ice pack under my ankle.

“I was raped, Eirnin.” I hate the ice in my voice. It’s not their fault.

Anger flickers in their eyes for a moment.

“How long ago?” they ask. Their voice comes out strained.

“Last night. It wasn’t the first time.”

“Do you want me to take you to have a rape kit done?”

I nod shakily. I didn’t think they would be kind. Not after how I’ve acted.

“I’m sorry. For everything,” I mumble.

“We can talk when we get home. Let’s get you taken care of, yeah?” They offer to help me up. I refuse. I don’t want anyone touching me.

“Go back with me?” I don’t want to be alone with the doctors.

“Of course.”

Getting up sucks. My ankle throbs and pulses when I try to stand on it. Everything else isn’t helping.

“I’ll put out as often as you want,” I mumble as I follow them to the garage. “Even the stuff I don’t like. I mean, I’m not really that into sex anyway. It’s tolerable with you, but it’s not something I really enjoy.”

They pause to put the ice pack away.

“I’m not expecting you to sleep with me in order to live here. Especially not the stuff you’re not into. I didn’t know you weren’t into it,” they assure me gently.

“So, you’re gonna stand me on the street corner and make me earn my keep that way? I just—It’s meh for me. Like, I get more out of knowing you enjoy it. I just—I’d rather watch a movie or something. I mean, I like getting off. I just prefer to not…have another person involved. Does that make sense?” I sit gingerly in the passenger of their nice white Chrysler.

“No. Kai, is someone pimping you out? It does make sense.” They shut my door for me before getting in the driver’s seat.

“Yeah. Um, you’re going in your pajamas?”

“Your mum? Getting you taken care of is more important. How’s your hangover?” They back out of the garage and down their somewhat long driveway.

“Yeah. She sells me and then beats me if I don’t do well enough. Men, women. Whoever will pay her. Been doing it since I was a kid.” I really need a smoke. “She uses the money for drugs. If I was just better, it wouldn’t be like this.”

“Oh, Kai. I’m sorry you’ve been dealing with that. It’s not your fault, boyo.” They smile gently. “How’s your hangover?”

“I haven’t thrown up.”

“You cut your hair.” They sound surprised.

“It looks bad, doesn’t it?”

“It, um, it could use some help.”

“I don’t want you fixin’ it.”

“Kai, I wouldn’t do anything to you.”

“I don’t want someone with the same…equipment as the people who hurt me touchin’ my head.” I glare but it’s half-hearted.

“Oh. I understand.” They don’t seem mad. Maybe a little hurt.

“I’ll look up videos and figure it out.” I sigh. “I’m sorry. I know you won’t do that.”

“I’m not upset.” They turn at the stoplight.

Anxiety knots my stomach as we get closer to the hospital. I’m scared to be checked out.

I have a panic attack during the exam. I don’t mean to. I know Eirnin probably isn’t happy with me. I know not meaning to is just an excuse and won’t help. I know they’ll probably hit me. I deserve it.

I’m given PeP pills and the number for the counseling center for assault survivors. I don’t know if I’ll call. Why would they help someone like me?

“Kai? You ready to go?” Eirnin asks gently, pulling me from my thoughts.

“Are you his significant other?” the doctor asks.

“Roommate.”

“Ah. Mr. Henderson, no penetrative sex for at least six weeks to give your injuries time to heal. No oral sex for at least three to four weeks to allow the damage to your mouth and throat to heal.”

“Not a problem, doc. Can I file charges?”

Eirnin arches a manicured brow in surprise.

“Yes, of course. I’ll have the cops come out and talk to you.” He smiles kindly before he leaves.

“Am I gonna lose my job?” I ask quietly.

“No, of course not. If you need some time off to deal and recover, it’s not a problem. I don’t expect you to come to work and act like everything is fine when you’re dealing with trauma. Whatever you need to do. Granted, I’m not Adrian, so he might say something different. I already called us both in for today.”

I didn’t expect kindness.

“Thank you.” I try to smile, but it feels mangled and broken. Just like me.

It’s a relief to get back to their place. The cops went with us to get my stuff. As long as they don’t know what I am, they’ll help me.

“You okay?” they ask once my stuff is inside.

“I need to smoke.”

I’m far from fine. I need five minutes to get it together before I break. If I fall apart, I don’t know if the pieces will go back together.

They find me sobbing on the back porch. I feel like I’m drowning in snot. My lungs burn from hyperventilating. I flinch, covering my head defensively. I don’t know if they’re mad. I don’t blame them if they are.

“Kai, give me the cigarette please,” they say quietly. I obey reluctantly.

I didn’t think they would be sadistic. I hold my hand out, palm down. My teeth sink into my lip as I wait for them to put the cigarette out on my skin.

They stub it out in the butt can they set up for me a while back.

“It’s okay. You could’ve—I know I’ve been bad,” I murmur.

“You’re a person. Not an ashtray or a punching bag. Or a sex toy with legs. You don’t need to worry about me hurting you,” they reply firmly. “I was afraid you might accidentally set your hair on fire. That was why I asked for the cigarette. I’m sorry. You’re safe.”

They kneel in front of me.

“I’m sorry. I—I had a panic attack. And—and I can’t—I can’t quit crying,” I hiccup.

“Kai, it’s okay. You’re safe. I’m not upset. I’m not mad. I’m right here.”

They stay until I’m calm. I still wait for them to hurt me.

“Do you want some warm tea?” they offer.

“Can I have some of your fancy Fae tea?”

“Allflower or dream lily?” They hold the door for me.

“Allflower. Gold.”

I like the sweet taste of gold allflower. It tastes kinda like a pear but not a pear.

I settle in at the white marble island. Their cream-colored Frenchie tip-taps around the kitchen happily. She’s so cute.

“Thank you. For doin’ this,” I mumble, tracing the veins in the marble.

“I wouldn’t have let you be homeless. Earl Grey? I’ll get you set up in one of the guest rooms.”

“I figured you’d turn me into a squirrel or somethin’. Yeah. Can I stay in your room? I don’t—Alone isn’t good.” I just got clean. It’s been a week since I last cut. And I wanna throw it away. I need the control. Because my world is just spinning off its axis.

“Will that be good for you mentally? I’m not expecting you to do anything. Okay? You can just exist in peace. How are you doing?” The glance they give me asks what they don’t.

“I don’t know. I know bein’ alone won’t be. I can do other things if you change your mind. I’ve been solid for a week.”

“Kai, no. I don’t want you to put out. Okay? A week is really good!” They set a tea bag on the counter before putting a kettle on to boil.

“I’m offering so you won’t make me miserable. Figured if I didn’t offer, you might just take it. It’s the longest I’ve gone.”

“I’m not a rapist. I’m proud of you!” They grin at me.

“Thank you. I, um, if I bring up a pic of a haircut, do you think you could do it?”

“I’m not a stylist, but I can try.” They smile gently. “So, what happened between us? Things had been good. Really good. You were one of my best friends. We were talking a relationship. I tried to have a bit of fun. What happened?”

I don’t want to explain. I don’t see how it will matter.

“I wanted to dye my hair as a control thing. As a way to get some control over my life. Why do you think I hurt myself? When you played your prank, you were just one more person in my life takin’ my control away. I was hurt and angry. I couldn’t believe you would do somethin’ like that. I felt like you did it to make fun of me. To hurt me. I acted badly. I know that. I wanted you… to leave me alone. I was in love with you. And I figured that maybe you didn’t feel the same way and just wanted sex so that was why you did it,” I mumble, staring at the island. I can’t look at them.

“You could have just told me that. I was in love with you too. I didn’t understand why you suddenly hated me. Kai, your behavior was very hurtful. You were abusive towards me.”

“Yeah, well, I don’t exactly have great communication skills. I’m sorry. Seriously.” I smile uncertainly. “I’m gonna do better. I don’t wanna be her. And I probably need therapy.”

“I noticed. We’re good. Okay? I mean, I don’t trust you, but we can rebuild. I think you do. How are you feeling?” They pour water from the kettle into two mugs. They add a pinch of dried allflower to mine before passing it to me.

“I’m glad. If I can find one who takes screwed-up werewolves, I’ll go. Drained. Broken. Like I got hit by a semi.”

“You wanna lie down and I’ll hold you?”

I don’t cuddle. I think I’ve maybe cuddled with them twice. They love it. It’s one of my least favorite things about sleeping in their bed; they wrap all their limbs around me like an octopus and I can’t move.

“No. I don’t want touched,” I tell them. I wait for some sort of retaliation. Some sort of blow up.

“Then I’ll respect that.”

Yeah, sure. Things like me don’t get respected. Things like me don’t get treated nicely. I’ve been reminded of that fact my entire life.

“You didn’t glamour your eyes.”

“Getting you help was more important than my vanity.” They pick at the chipped maroon polish on one of their nails.

“I like the color of your eyes when you don’t.”

What am I doin’? I wonder, sipping my tea. It’s wonderful.

“You do?” They sound pleased.

I nod. I don’t know how to tell them I could drown in the liquid chocolate pools. I don’t know if I can.

“Maybe when you’re better, we could go out?” They’re trying to sound nonchalant, but they’re tracing the edge of their mug with their pinkie like they do when they’re nervous.

“Maybe. No promises. If I’m good for you.” I’m not good for anyone right now.

“If you’re not, then we won’t. If you need help with your shower or anything, it’s cool. I won’t do anything. I promise.”

“I need you to keep an eye on me. Please. You leave me alone with anything sharp and it ain’t gonna be pretty.”

“I got you.” They smile gently.

I decide to be useful after supper and wash the dishes. They’re outside with their dog. There’s no knives. They even locked the silverware drawer so I can’t get to one.

Lost in my thoughts, I don’t hear them come in until they call my name from behind. I drop the mug I was washing. I watch as it falls in slow motion to the floor, shattering into pieces against the tile.

Crap. Crap. They’re gonna be furious. I’m in so much trouble! Maybe they won’t break any bones, I fret, curling up on the floor. Maybe if I make myself small enough, they won’t hurt me. Ceramic shards slice my palms and my knees, crunching beneath me as I press against the cabinet.

“Kai! You need to get up.” Their voice sounds like they’re underwater. Probably because of the blood rushing in my ears.

They hurry towards me, ceramic crunching under their fancy leather shoes. I whimper as I cower away from them. I hope they don’t kick me. I brace expectantly for some sort of pain.

“Sorry! Sorry!” I whisper.

“I’m not mad. You need to get up.” They reach for my hand and I recoil, bashing my head on the cabinet behind me.

My jeans are damp. Great.

“Oh, Kai. Give me your hand,” they sigh. “You’re gonna hurt your—Never mind. I’m not gonna hurt you, boyo.”

They crouch in front of me. They’re too close.

“I peed my pants,” I whisper.

“Can I help you up?” Their tone is gentle. They don’t seem mad. Their breathing is calm.

I let them help me. I wait to be shoved back into the shards.

“I’m sorry,” I murmur.

I don’t deserve help. They’ll probably beat me once my mess is cleaned up.

“I’m not mad.” They’re being patient.

“Do you want me to go get my belt? It’s fine. I’m used to it. I won’t hate you.”

“No. I’m not beating you. You—I scared you and you dropped a mug. If anyone should be upset, it’s you.” They lead me to the table by my elbow. “Sit. I’ll be right back.”

I obey. I don’t want them to hurt me. I didn’t mean to be bad. It was an accident.

They come back with a broom. My stomach drops. I’ve been beat with a broom before. I won’t be walking for a while after this; they’re stronger than my mother.

“Please. Please don’t. I’m sorry. I’m sorry!” I plead.

“I’m just cleaning the glass up. Did she hit you with a broom?” They keep their tone gentle.

I nod. I’m pathetic. I deserve being beat and kicked and sold. I deserve being screeched at and told how stupid I am. I deserve them beating me.

“Kai, no. I won’t hurt you. You’re safe. I’m not mad, boyo,” they soothe.

I know I’m probably wearing on their nerves. I’ve been here less than 24 hours and I’ve already broken a mug.

“I’m sorry. I’m not tryin’ to be difficult. Or be bad.”

“You’re doing fine, okay? I’ll help you clean up as soon as I’m done sweeping.”

I nod.

Whatever happens, I deserve it.

I flinch as they examine my hands. Their warm, soft hands are gentle as they clean the shallow cuts. My palms hurt.

“I’m sorry. I’m trying to be careful,” they assure me.

“Do you have any fancy Fae stuff you can use?”

“You mean Elven medicine?”

“Same thing.”

“Do I look like I have pointy ears? ‘Sides, Elves are white like you.” They smile teasingly.

“Sorry. It really hurts.” I don’t complain about pain often. The last time I complained before today was when I had my ribcage tattoo done.

“I know. I’m sorry for digging around. I’m trying to make sure there’s no pieces in there. I’ll peroxide them and I have a balm we can use. It’s silver-free. I actually got it just in case you needed it.”

It does something to me knowing they got a special balm in case I needed it. I didn’t think anyone cared that much. I feel special. Shocked. Touched.

“Could I hug you?” I ask.

“As soon as I’m done.”

“How’d you learn this? I mean, it’s not like you didn’t have people in the Court to do this.”

“Willow’s family taught me. Being kicked out means I had to learn to do a lot of things. Not like I can just run to a hospital and have them poke at me. Pretty sure my reaction to steel would freak out a human doc. I need help, I have a couple of Elves on speed dial. I need to see the ones on your legs.”

“Yeah, that would freak them out. I need clean pants anyway.”

I hope they know how much trust this is taking right now.

They don’t comment on the amount of scabbed over cuts as they clean the shallow slices from the mug. I’m trying to remember how to breathe. If they were to do something, I can’t get away right now. I have them in front of me, the linen closet on my right, and the bathroom sink on my left.

They stop touching me.

“Kai, it’s okay. You’re safe. Would you feel more comfortable cleaning them yourself?” they say quietly.

I forgot they can read emotions.

“You’re almost done,” I mumble.

“Do you want me to keep going? Or would you feel better if you did it?” They don’t seem mad.

“It’s fine. I’m fine.” I feel like I’m starting to check out. I do that sometimes when I’m really stressed or scared. It happens a lot during sex, especially if I bottom. Or if I’m trying to give someone with a penis oral. Even Eirnin, and they’ve been nothing short of kind and gentle with me.

They wait until I feel calmer to ask again.

“Um, I’d be less stressed if I did it,” I whisper.

They press the warm washcloth into my hand with a smile before standing.

I didn’t think they would be nice to me.

“I’m sorry,” I whisper.

“No. Kai, it’s okay. I’m gonna get the salve out, okay?”

If I can believe they’ll keep being good to me, I’d love to stay here forever.

[takottais-oc-askblog]

Oc bullshittery pt.7

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Bei: I trust flesh!

T.y: You think he knows what he's doing?

Bei: I'm not sure I'd go THAT far.

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Rico: [Finds a crumpled up piece of paper] Hey, what’s this?

Quinncie: Oh, that’s my to-do list!

Rico: Wow, you’re being so productive, good for you, I never thought that–

Rico: [reads what on the list]

Rico: This only has my name on it...

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T.y: What do you normally do when I’m gone?

Flesh: wait for you to come back...

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Peach: why is Quinncie crying?

Elliott: He's drunk and saw a picture of Rico's boyfriend

T.y: But he is Rico's boyfriend

Elliott: Like I said, he's drunk

Quinncie: [crying on the floor in the fetal position]

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Eva: [on day three of no sleep and forgetting to eat, looking completely dead inside] Self-care is for the WEAK!

Cake: [coughs]

Eva: [frantically swaddling her in blankets] We need an ambulance!!!

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Flesh: [Talking about Eva] Don’t worry! She likes your butt and your fancy hair.

Cake: [As she runs her hand through her hair] She thinks it’s fancy?

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Camie brown: Wait, you're gay? As in, gay...gay? As in, you like women?

Peak Lilly: I thought I was being...

Peak Lilly: Crystal queer

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Bei: alright boys ready to g– Thomas where’s your vest?

Elliott: [smiling mischievously] yeah Thomas where’s your vest?

Diel: ...

Diel: about that..

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Pimp: Quinncie, baby. How can I get back on your good side?

Quinncie: It’s gonna take about three weeks of not talking to me.

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Peak Lilly: Why aren't the dishes in alphabetical order!?

Camie brown: WhAt thE FuCK dOeS thAT eVEn MEAn!?

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Flesh: [being kidnapped] Will I need my toothbrush?

Kidnapper: Shut up!

Flesh: I'm assuming that means you'll be providing the toothbrush.

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Bei: [on the TV] Boss won't get off your back? Girlfriend won't stop nagging you?

Bei: Did that fuckstick Eva sell you a bullshit dagger that broke almost immediately despite the fact that you spent half your goddamn savings on it?

Bei: Have you considered... murder?

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My oc's as popular vines:

Quinncie: so no head?

T.y: what the Fuck is up Kyle?!

Peak Lilly: Look at all those chickens!

Flesh: Hi welcome to chilis

Chii: Fuck ya chicken strips!

Poppet: ThAtS My OpInIoN!!

Charlie: Chris is that a weed?!

Diel: what up I’m Jared, I’m 19, and I never fuckin learned how to read

Peach: Wooow

Bei: Ms Keisha? Ms Keishaaaa!? oh my fuckin god she fuckin dead!

Paston: Hi my name is Trey I have a basketball game tomorrow.

Camie brown: I wanna be a cowboy baby!

Elliott: Im a bad bitch you can’t kill me!!!

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Flesh: [on the phone] dad? i need your help! Th–

Chii: is the apartment complex on fire?

Flesh: ...no?

Chii: then it’s not an emergency. [hangs up]

Dax: well?! what did he say? what do we do about the portal to hell in the living room?!

Flesh: [shrugs] apparently it’s not an emergency.

T.y: [being strangled by a demon] HOW THE FUCK IS THIS NOT AN EMERGENCY??

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Diel: [muttering]

Bei: Diel what are you doing?

Diel: I’m having an argument with myself so I can finally win something for once.

Bei: would you mind not doing that right now? We need to be quite-

Diel: Well I actually would mind, because I’m losing right now.

Bei: How can you lose an argument to yourself?

Diel: the voices in my head decided to join in, and they’re making some pretty solid points on why I should just kill the bad guys and take their money.

Bei: well that’s........ mildly concerning...

Elliott: MILDLY????!?!!

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Chii: In terms of instant relief canceling plans is like heroin.

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Chii: I hope flesh liked the shirt I got him yesterday. Oh, he called.

Voice mail: You have 17 new messages.

Chii: What?!

Flesh: Hey dad, thanks for the Bazinga t-shirt it's… great. I was just calling because I might need a ride later tonight. T.y can’t drive and I ran iris's car into a ditch after we watched Fast Five on Netflix together.

Iris: You still owe me for that.

Flesh: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Cars are really flammable, did you know that? I didn’t know that. Well, I do now.. but anyway I’ll call you later if we need a pick up from the show, alright?

T.y: [groans]

Flesh: t.y, you’re up! Talk to you later, dad!

Voice mail: End of Message.

Chii: I’m not listening to all of these.[skips to the last message]

Voice mail: Message 17.

[loud screaming of pure terror as a booming demonic roar pierces the air]

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Rico: hey i used to b uglier believe it or not.

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Camie brown: What is the worst thing you've done sexually?

Charlie: .... I'm not sure what I'd want to call a worst..

Peak Lilly: A man..

Coccoh: pppfffttttt!

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Eva: Stay the fuck away from my man, I won’t tell you again!

T.y: BITCH! I don’t wan yo man. Nobody wants yo man. That’s why he’s wit you!

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Peak Lilly: It was the 80s, we did a lot of drugs back in those days.

Bren: How could she even do drugs?! She's a fucking alien!

Camie brown: Your mother found a way.

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Random cop: STOP RIGHT THERE! YOU ARE ALL MENACES TO SOCIETY!

T.y: [decks said cop]

Bei: why did you do that??????????

T.y: I am not emotionally involved in this situation!

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Eva: i sleep with a bow and arrow under my bed.

Bei: oh yeah? i sleep with a gun under my pillow!

Ashton: weak! i sleep with a nanobotic suit ready to be equipped!

T.y: damn, you's all are paranoid as hell!

Eva: yeah? what do you sleep with?

T.y: Elliott.

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Flesh: So how about a change of name?

Diel: You know, one that sounds marginally less like a porno than your current one!

Bei: [unsheathes sword]

Diel: [running away] You just had to open your mouth!

Flesh: [ducking under a blade swing] My mouth? My mouth?!! This is your fault!!!

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Eva: [slides flip phone across floor] Fuck this and fuck you! You little spawn of Nokia!

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Peach: I wonder why I don't like anything around my neck.

Poppet: maybe you were hung in a past life?

[heavy pause]

Peach: I THINK IT MIGHT JUST BE BECAUSE I'M AUTISTIC, POPPET!

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Eva: -and that's why I think God doesn't exist!

Cake: sorry sugar, I wasn't listenin'.

Eva: what, why?

Cake: look hun, I just really want a cupcake

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Paston: wow, that jacket is so soft that if someone hugged you they'd die on impact. And I have a deathwish! So come here!

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Quinncie: [singing to the tune of "We Just Got a Letter" from Blue's Clues] I just got a message, I just got a message, I just got a message, and it's from your man!

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T.y: Bitches be like "You mine".

T.y: First off I'm on probation, "I" belong to the state.

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Bei: I was so angry at everything when i was 13. And i was right.

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Bei: [get assigned a mission out of the city]

Bei: [drives off]

T.y: [storms into the apartment]

Rico: [sorting files]

Flesh: [at the computer]

Iris: [sharpening knives]

T.y: ATTENTION SIMPLETONS! Bei has JUST left the building!

Iris: ....

Flesh: ....

Rico: ....

T.y: and guess who’s been deputized as sheriff of this complex!

Rico: [hesitantly raises hand]

T.y: M E! 

Rico: [hand goes down]

T.y: now [presses play on bluetooth speaker] work bitches!

[Work Bitch by Britney Spears echoing throughout the apartment]

Flesh: uuuughhhh not agaaaaain–

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Iris: [putting on makeup]

Flesh: [watching]

Flesh: Why do you use so many brushes for makeup?

Iris: Was Mona Lisa painted with one brush? 

Iris: NO!

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Bei: [walks into the kitchen]

Apartment complex 404 Fam: [eating breakfast]

Bei: just a reminder; it’s Throat Punch Thursday

Bei: [leaves]

T.y: [checks imaginary watch] damn, that time again already ?

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Quinncie: I made a fool of myself today and I will make a fool of myself tomorrow. Good night!

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Eva: the only two important Michaels; Jordan and Jackson.

Peach: [while pulling out Michael Myers mask] wooooow aight bet–

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T.y: they kicked me outta church bc i yelled “fuck the devil!” I thought we all hated that motherfucker!?

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Peak Lilly: You know, one day you could be a great dad!

Chii: I already am.

Peak Lilly: flesh doesn't count.

Chii: HE IS MY CHILD!

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Chii: so, what did I miss?

Dax: flesh died twice.

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Diel: my goal is not to be the best, but to inspire someone enough to one day surpass me.

Bei: you can’t just say that every time you fail a mission.

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Iris: wow i need a drink.

Iris: [pours chocolate milk into a shot glass]

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Flesh: I think your calculations might have been off.

Diel: Well, they can't be off if I didn't do any.

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Iris: [to Elliott] You... you... you rude person!

Dax: Go easy on him, iris.

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T.y: [comes downstairs to find bei up and about]

T.y: wow you sure are quite the night person..

Bei: buddy I’m barley even a person!

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Bei: No one expects an angel to set the world on fire. But than again I'm no angel.

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T.y: oh yea? Well apparently, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

T.y: [Points at flesh] But this one got ran over by a fuckin lawn mower!

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Diel: I look like I'm supposed to be stalking senpai in this outfit.

Diel: Who's senpai? Hell if I know but I'm stalking him that's for sure.

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[mysteryinc-hq]

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” 

Full Name: James Augustus Roy IV

FC: Lorenzo Zurzolo

Age: 21 (Looks 19)

Type: Supernatural, Demon

BIOGRAPHY:

content warnings for: violence, injury, drug use / mention, ( implied ) abuse, severe mental health issues, suicidal ideation, excessive cursing.

He was always meant to be something more than this, more than the bruised knuckles and black eyes and cocaine-dusted nostrils and leather jackets flapping along to the wind as he speeds through never-ending roads on his motorcycle.

He never meant to make himself a caricature.

Once, he wanted to be happy.

( Now, he supposes anything will do. )

—

Ask James Augustus Roy IV about his past and he’ll tell you to fuck off.

( Ask him when he’s drinking and he’ll tell you to fuck off with a fist to your face. )

—

He’ll tell you he comes from nothing, but really that’s a barefaced lie. He’ll contradict it with his Harley Davidson motorcycle, his jackets that aren’t just faux-leather but actual leather like the shit they sell in high-end boutique stores, his way too soft hands that has obviously never known a day of work, his almost limitless supply of cash, his cocaine habit ( because that shit’s expensive, didn’t you know? ), his fluency in several languages, his fancy-ass name, and him never knowing just how much a fucking banana costs.

He’ll tell you he got raised by a pimp and a crackwhore that both hated his existence until he got enough and run away, at which point he decided he might as well experience everything that the US of A can offer him.

He’ll tell you that the reason why he fights so well is because he’s used to violence, because of course he is. What did you take him for, someone fucking weak? He can hold his own in a fight, he can take a fucking punch. He can take anything you give him. Wanna try it out, motherfucker?

( And like any other person caught in their own storytelling, he won’t notice that his narratives are verging so close to the truth. )

—

There’s a story here about how he can take a punch like it’s nothing, about how he immediately knows where all the exits are in a room, about how he’s so conversant in the language of violence.

James knows he can tell that story, but why should he? It’s such a lousy one, really, and in here where nobody knows him and his name, he can be anything he wants to be, anybody that he always wanted to be and never could.

( And yet there’s a small black box in his mind that contains things he denies, contains things he doesn’t talk about, contains things he doesn’t even want to think about—and it tells him just what he is exactly that he’s trying so hard to deny. )

—

So he doesn’t talk about it. He doesn’t need to talk about it anyway.

( In the absence of evidence, doubt begins to trickle in. It’s why so many people go from that point to believing evidence of absence—which is to say: he’s asking himself, did it really fucking happen or was I just making it up? )

—

But let’s not think about that.

James Roy is nothing but your coked-up resident bad boy asshole. He does nothing but cause shit to go down, acting out like he’s got a chip on his shoulder and something to prove, lashing out at every imagined slight, preempting anything horrible by doing the horrible things instead.

And maybe being horrible in a town that’s just had one of its girls vanish isn’t exactly the best thing he could do, but James isn’t a good person. He isn’t. He knows himself well enough and he’s a piece of shit, so why should he stop being who he is to his core—which is, in essence, just rottenness all the way through? He’s a bad person; he knows he is. There’s nothing in him left that could have gone for anything better; maybe there never was.

Now there never will be.

( Ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy? )

—

The thing is, he’s living like there’s no tomorrow because there isn’t one, because he doesn’t think there’ll be a tomorrow for him, because he doesn’t think he deserves it, because his story is that of endings and leaving and conclusions, because he’s halfway sure that there’s an ending for him just waiting around the corner and it will be purely poetic in a fucked-up narrative sense.

( This is a story of self-caused ends. )

—

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——— CODA.

No matter how many miles he puts between himself and where he came from, there’s no running away from himself.

( And perhaps that’s the most tragic thing of all. )

CONNECTIONS:

NOAH MCMANN — Resident new kid on the block causing trouble wherever he goes meets resident sheriff of a town currently in the grips of a crisis… this almost writes itself out in terms of tension and difficult encounters. Maybe it would help if James wasn’t so antagonistic, but it’s not like he knows how to stop himself.

TODD HOLCHAN — Call it an alignment of the stars, something that could almost be called fate, or just two people being where they needed to be for things to happen as they are. Two strangers meet in a bar—stop me if you’ve heard this one before—and the rest, they say, is history. Between the two newcomers to Coolville, an unlikely friendship has been struck.

RAMONA PHILLIPS — He looks at her with a childlike wonder that wouldn’t be out of place on the face of a kid seeing some exotic animal at a zoo. Her fidelity to her role is something that is almost a wonder to see, and he can’t help it: he’s intrigued.

[nellygwyn]

Harlots Season 3, Episode 1 - Reaction, thoughts etc.

I am just gonna be as candid as possible about all this, and give you my honest thoughts (albeit borne out of a 3am migraine and period pains) about episode 1. I think I might break my thoughts down by storyline. Spoilers ahead:

• Charlotte Wells - So, initially, I was loving Charlotte. She was the Charlotte I know and love. Even when the Pincher storyline began to unfold and Isaac appeared in her life, I initially thought 'Charlotte is dealing with this in the Charlotte way. He's hateful to her so she laughs at him and plays him at his own stupid game.' Unfortunately, it appears that there is going to be some kind of romance between the two, or at least a sexual relationship, which began to unfold in the last part of the episode. This is a violent pimp, a class of people Charlotte has always hated, who lied to her, choked her and wants to bleed her dry. He threatened the girls in her house and then, he set fire to it, with Nancy and Fanny's baby inside. And this is supposed to be sexy? No. Like, I can't predict how this will ultimately end but I'm sorry, if the season finale isn't a shot of Isaac Pincher dead in the Thames, I really....really am disappointed they decided to sell this relationship as anything other than ooc for Charlotte and illogical. Also, can I just say that bawds and pimps worked with each other all the time? This is why Charlotte should never have BEEN a bawd. Bawds are not the pinnacle of feminism, they were often awful (and if not awful then morally grey) and pimps, that they often worked alongside, were worse. I don't think most of the bawds in the show are wholly bad but they were never wholly good either and presenting them as 'the sisterhood'...hello????

• Isabella - Now you guys know I do not like Isabella. I did like her and then at the end of Season 2, she threw Charlotte and other sex workers to the metaphorical wolves. However, S3 opens a year later and everything is...fine again, apparently? Charlotte forgives her, is probably even having sex with her sometimes. Even Nancy was nice to her, despite how much she riled against her at the end of S2. HOW IN THE HELL have we got here? Isabella's character has kind of done a complete 180 too. She's kind and mild. Maybe they want to make Fitzwells work as a ship but idk about my fellow bi girls or even lesbians out there....how do you feel about a bi woman throwing herself at a sexually perverse violent man and leaving a woman who is kind and affectionate to her in the dust? Is that portrayal something you want? Anyway, Isabella was okay in the episode, nothing super exciting. Sophia was BORING AS HELL and I do not DO NOT care about her elopement. Like...okay? This feels irrelevant and unnecessary?? Also, another historical note: Isabella wanted her friends to give money to Charlotte and her house, right? Their refusal obviously wasn't surprising to me, it was a massive risk on Isabella's part (ooc? Ooc) but when one of the women said 'You want us to give charity to harlots?' in a disgusted tone, I was just thinking like....that's exactly what you all already do. With the Magdalen Hospital and the Foundling Hospital. Late 18th century aristocrats were all about charity to sex workers. Not for the right reasons and not always in the most helpful ways but that was de rigueur. It wasn't the charity part that should've raised that lady's eyebrow, it was the fact Isabella was asking them to fund a brothel essentially.

• Emily Lacey - Her relationship with Hal Pincher is okay but like, again, he's a pimp, less violent than his brother but...birds of a feather flock together! I'm not really sure why she suddenly isn't very ambitious anymore but if she wants a lower middle class keeper? I support her. Also, lol, 'I wanna learn about commerce' as if 'commerce' wasn't also Georgian era slang for 'fucking.'

•Charles Quigley - I haven't forgotten how that little shit behaved at the end of Season 2 but I admit, I felt some sympathy with him or rather, pitied the fact that he was wallowing in his own sorrow. I wonder if he's left London for good...it did seem like they are trying to set up a romance between him and Fanny which...first of all, NO. Second of all, if he has to have a romance with someone that isn't Emily, why not Cherry? She adores him. But I feel as if she's used for comic relief a lot of the time, as if we're supposed to giggle at the fact that 1) a disabled sex worker exists, and 2) that she has quite a strong sexuality as well as having a disability. So maybe we won't see that, idk.

• Harriet - Harriet is based on a real person, a black woman who lived in Georgian London and decided to open a brothel populated purely with sex workers of colour. So I am glad they are finally getting into that storyline for her. We only met Rani properly, out of all her girls, and I adore her. Honestly, Harriet's storyline actually seems like it is gonna be great but also very minor, which is disappointing.

• Lydia - I hated the Bedlam storyline when it began and I am still unsure of it now. HOWEVER, since that's how things stand, I have to really praise Lesley Manville's acting power for making me root for Lydia and making me want her to be free again and bring a semblance of (evil) normality back to Covent Garden. What I REALLY hated was Catherine's intersecting storyline. Listen, lots of young girls got sent to Bedlam in the Georgian era but not usually for having sex with a servant. I know we often think of the past as being rife with doctors diagnosing sexually active women with hysteria and the like, but that wasn't really a thing at this point. In fact, attitudes towards the differences between men and women were just teetering on changing. Women were still seen as naturally hot blooded, men their prey at this point, and it wouldn't be until later on in the 18th century and into the 19th century that women were seen as naturally sexually modest and subservient and men, the hot blooded, libertine ones. It just feels...so dumb. I mean, I liked Catherine, I just want to know why that reason was used to chuck her in Bedlam. You know what might have actually been interesting? If she had some kind of depression or mental disability. Or even just for being a little weird, or non-conforming. They threw lower class women in for all those things and more.

• Lucy - One of the highlights of the episode, for me, was Lucy's storyline which intersects with new characters, Elizabeth Harvey and her son, Fredo (who is gorgeous and so foppish and ugh...it is a shame his character seems solely attracted to men because I...am a little bit in love). I was a little annoyed that Lucy wanting to be a bawd was presented as some kind of...regular ambition for a sex worker? As if being a bawd naturally followed being a courtesan. This isn't true. It's not like getting your undergraduate degree and then going to do your master's. Bawds were a very specific thing and most courtesan didn't want to essentially exploit women in that way. Anyway, after that fiasco, she does indeed go to buy a house and throws her lot in with Elizabeth and Fredo who want to open a mollyhouse. So, Lucy is a molly bawd now which to me, is a lot less awful than being a regular bawd. I'm excited to see where this goes, Elizabeth and Fredo were some WELCOME additions for me, along with Rani. Unfortunately, there were a lot of allusions to sodomy being a capital crime and Mrs May has a share in the house too so...I'm as worried about the outcome as I am excited to see mollyhouses explored.

All in all? I did enjoy the episode, perhaps because I was warned prior about some of the unsavoury things that happened and had time to prepare. I'm obviously very upset about the whole Charlotte and Isaac thing which does appear to be the dominant storyline, and that's not good. This season doesn't really understand what continuity is and Isabella walking into a gentleman's club to tell all the men there that she had a child out of wedlock made me laugh out loud because it was so absurd. Violet, Amelia, Florence and Justice Hunt have disappeared without a trace. Will and Jacob will be in the season but weren't in episode 1 (apparently they are in Scarborough, boxing, which....wig). BUT (and it's a very tentative 'but') this episode had enough small saving graces to spur me on to continue, if only to see Fredo say 'It's a hanging offence so it pays a lot, darling' again, and the gorgeous (GORGEOUS) costumes. Am I disappointed overall? Yeah. Do I think it is an irredeemable season? No, not yet. Watch this space.

[fallen029]

Crush.3

Previous Chapter

"Alright, so yes, we can both admit, right here and now, that you, Lisanna, are a major failure in all things involving this plan and should be forced to buy me dinner, probably, if not just pay my half of the rent for the month, given that I had my heart set makin' things right with the boss only for your shitty ability to get anything done ruined that."

She sat there, Lisanna did, on the couch as Freed, who'd been the one to let her in, frowned at how Bickslow was addressing his supposed friend.

It was him, thankfully, that spoke. Because Lisanna had a few things she wanted to say, but none that would have sounded too in form for her. But Bickslow was slowly breaking down every ounce of composure she had in those days.

"Remember your tone, Bickslow," the letter mage reminded. "Not to mention, I have grown curious as to what the two of you are doing together. Did I hear you mention Laxus' name?"

"Nope." Bickslow even shook his head. "Not his name."

Lisanna made a face at him, but Freed merely sighed.

"Perhaps, one day, Lisanna," he remarked as he walked off, no doubt back to his bedroom, "you tell me what sort of friendship you could possibly find with Bickslow."

"You'll be in for a tale," she offered back, but Bickslow only snickered, finding this hilarious for some reason.

"Got me good, kid," he continued as, with Freed gone, she only came to take a seat on in the chair as he stayed flaked out on the couch. "Getting better at it. Wit."

"I'm getting better at it?"

"You have none of it, actually. Or at least ya didn't, before. But now, oh, man, I'm the best influence on your life currently. You've learned so much, kid. Almost makes the fact that you completely wasted these past few days by screwing up the plan-"

"How did I screw up?" She huffed, deciding to focus on that. Bickslow had a thing about derailing conversations and she didn't wish to allow him to continue. "You're the one that screwed up."

"Ah, no, Lissy, I didn't. Can I call you Lissy?"

"No."

"Lissy, listen," he went on as she only glared. "I'm a man of action. I saw the boss, I acted. You saw me, you acted. That's the problem. Me and you, we're one and the same."

"We're nowhere close to being the same. And my eye's fine, by the way. Thanks for asking."

"Your eye's golden." He waited. Then he frowned over at her. "Get it? I hit ya with a gold coin, yer eye's golden? Ah, you'll get wit someday, kid."

"I doubt you will."

He laughed. Or at least it seemed like a laugh. He let out a sharp, "Ha!" and that was all, but Lisanna figured, for him, that counted as expressing humor. Maybe. The man had a large spectrum.

"So I made," he said as he sat up then, fully, to look at her with a bit of a serious gaze, "a mistake. Sue me. I'm a tragic, dark knight. It happens to us. Our own hubris is always our downfall. We start to believe that we can make no wrongs. But we can. The natural conversation was derailed because rather than fostering it, I decided to hit ya in the eye with a coin. My mistake. Jokes are my one weakness. I enjoy entertaining others."

She was silent for a moment, taking in the most sincere he could be, before saying slowly, "You've not entertained me once since we teamed up on this."

"Don't lie to yourself, kid. I'm way more fun than any other other lame stuff you spend your days doing." Falling back again, he said, "But enough apologies. You're not a big enough person to give one to me, like I just did you, and that's understandable. The young and their hubris."

"My hubris? You just said you're the one with-"

"And then to interrupt. Disrespectful. You know, you and your sister both-"

"I thought that we came here to regroup. Bickslow."

He tossed a punch in the air. "That's the plan. Well, that's what we're gonna come up with. A new one. Boss won't take to the bar again for a bit, I imagine."

"Yeah, you kind of saw to that."

"Whatever you say, DNR."

"DNR!" The babies had been rather bored up to that point, but enjoyed circling around the woman then. She ignored them though, int hat moment, unbothered by this, and instead just glared over at their father.

"So what," she insisted, "should we do then? Bickslow? What's next? If we don't force them into a conversation up at the hall-"

"We...we… We make 'em meet up! Somewhere. Yeah, just happen upon one another, you know. Fateful encounters. Faithful encounters. Chance encounters. Lucky encounters."

"Enough," she griped, "encounters."

"Just one encounter, Lisanna." The babies were desperate for some attention from the woman. "Just one."

"I know," she told them, finally, and that got a cheer from the wooden dolls. Still, to their father, she kept up, "But it has to be one that means something. Mira didn't seem to think anything weird was happening, or at least no more than usual, but Laxus didn't as-"

"Dumb? Idiotic? Stupid?"

"Trustworthy. That's my sister, you know."

'Oh, I know. I know a lot about Mirajane."

"What does that mean?"

He had no idea. But if he said it in the tone he had, well, it sure sounded dirty, eh?

Still, Bickslow bounced up then, to stalk around the room. Rather than speaking to the woman, he asked his dolls, "Where do you think the boss and the Strauss should meet up? Babies? Has to be somewhere that doesn't look setup. So some place the boss would go, normally. With me, of course. Where would the boss and I go?"

"Park!" If there was anywhere their papa went, it was there. "Park, Papa!"

"Ah-ha!" He snapped his fingers too, coming to stand before Lisanna. "You think you could get your sister to go to the park with ya? Kid? You and your sis, out on a stroll, while me and the boss are...are… Oh! Hey, I could tell him that I wanna go trainin'! Or to go practice some tricks, yeah? Show 'em off to 'im. There ain't a good chance he'll go with me, but if I just goad him a bit, promise him somethin' in return, and oh, will I return, once he finally gets to lay with the, uh, Lord of Darkness, yeah?"

"Your sister she's Satan, ain't she? Got his soul?" Bickslow whistled then. "She could book herself that way. Make a lot of jewel. A night with the Ruler of Darkness himself. Or should she book it as herself? Both, I think. Attract more customers."

"Are you...asking me to tell my sister she should be a prostitute?"

"That is a harsh and unnecessary- Oh, I thought you said whore. Yeah, though, to both."

As Lisanna fumed though, there was someone far less in the know that overheard that and became extremely concerned. Freed had the misfortune of walking out of his room at that exact moment and, well, it wasn't the best conversation to just suddenly find yourself thrust into. As he quickly turned and rushed back into his bedroom, Freed felt his mind begin to race out of control.

Just what were Bickslow and Lisanna doing together?

And how soon would he be forced to act upon his insider information? He could not stand by and let Mirajane Strauss be...pimped out by...Bickslow.

What a horrible sentence to even consider.

Out in the living area, Lisanna wasn't even entertaining it. As she stormed off, out of the apartment, Bickslow only reminded her that they should enact their new plan (the non Mirajane going into business for herself, selling, well, herself) the next afternoon.

Strike while the irons hot!

And because the boss might head off to who knows where soon and, well, honestly? By the time he returned, there was a good chance Bickslow wouldn't even care anymore.

But it was all he could think about, the next morning, when he awoke. Well, closer to noon, but who was counting?

Lisanna.

Who he was supposed to meet at noon, in the park, with Laxus.

"So," Mira prompted as they walked about the open area together, arm in arm. She was far more excited, her sister inviting her out in the middle of the day, to 'talk' as Lisanna put it. Yeah. Sure. Talk. "What was it that you wanted to talk about? Lisanna?"

She thought she knew, Mirajane did. And oh, she was excited. She'd waited for a long time for this moment. This very one. Her baby sister. All grown up. Wow. To think, only a few years prior, she would have thought that this never could have come. That it was lost along with Lisanna herself. But no, here it was, present as the girl was. No. The woman.

"W-Well," Lisanna began slowly as she tried to think of something to talk about her sister with. She'd had an idea, the night before, as she went to sleep. It was such a good one too. What they could speak on. She was so excited, for some weird reason, to get to the very moment she was dreading in that second, because she knew exactly what they would speak on and it would just feel so natural. All of it. The way that the setup back at the bar was going to. They would just happen upon the guys, fate and all, and then bam!

Bam.

Mira and Laxus would…

Wait, why was she even doing this all again?

"Can't we ever just go for walks?" Lisanna asked her sister then and Mira considered it, but only for a moment.

"You said talk though, when you wanted me to take off work and leave Kinana short handed, during the lunch rush, just to come out here."

Mira wasn't as dense as they all thought. Her sister was well aware of this fact, of course, but sometimes she just had to be reminded was all.

"It's okay, Lisanna," she was quick to insist then as she picked up on her younger sister's hesitance. "You know, it was a really big shock to me, when you first came back, that you didn't immediately, like, start dating around. It's what I would have done. Gone for two years? It's a whole new world."

Lisanna remembered then. Exactly why she was going to completely embarrass her sister (and innocent Laxus) with this whole charade. Mira, recently, had begun to incessantly insist that she should start dating or oh, isn't that a nice guy to get to know or, oh, you sure are spending a lot of time with so and so.

It was annoying.

The time had finally come for Mirajane to see what it was like, when you had someone else trying to pull background strings in your personal relationships. Relationships that didn't even exist.

Lisanna didn't fight her sister on a lot. Mira, honestly, was more like her mother than her own had been. She had no real memories of the woman. Not truly. Whether from the trauma or just the memories fading with age, anything she knew of her true mother was from stories her sister told she and Elf when they were growing up. While the Master definitely served as a huge figure in her life, it was far more like a kind grandfather.

Mira was the only parental figure she knew.

And gosh was she killing her with the dating, falling in love shit.

So yes, Lisanna was going to trick her into dating Laxus, which would no doubt go sour and then she could lord it over her sister that she'd been the one to bring this awkward relationship about and then…

Well…

Crap.

Lisanna forgot to think of a true endgame.

"But," Mira was going on as Lisanna was stewing over the fact she'd been hammering home to Bickslow the past few days about how important planning was only to, you know, not plan at all, "to see you now, spending so much time with...well, Lisanna, I have to admit it's a bit shocking, but I think the two of you are endearing together. Have you gone on an actual date yet?"

"Have we- What are you talking about?"

"Don't play coy." Not when Mira was the master at it. "You and Bickslow."

"Me and… Mira, no, we're not-"

"Oi, boss, did ya see me? How many flips was that? Did ya count? Did ya? Babies, did you?"

Lisanna could only pale some as they stumbled across Bickslow and Laxus in the park. It had been a mad dash for the seith, getting there on time. He happened upon Laxus, actually, on the way, and it really was fate, when you thought about it.

Or maybe he'd actually kind of known that on that specific day of the week, the slayer normally ate lunch alone, in the park, at noon.

One or the other.

He chose to believe in fate though. It's how he got away with being a shitty person all the time. Blame fate and not yourself.

The true trait of a dark knight.

On top of sacrificing big moments for jokes.

Lisanna felt like her whole life was a joke as Mirajane was grinning like mad then and dragging her over that way. Bickslow was on the ground once more, after balancing on his babies and flying high up in the air, only to do some impressive tumbles back down to the ground. He smiled too, at the grinning Mirajane and scowling Lisanna. She matched Laxus, who'd more than become suspicious, after the previous day, and now felt as if everyone else was in on a joke he wasn't.

And they were. Kind of. More like each person had their own agenda that didn't quite add up just right, but maybe, intercepted at certain points. The problem was that they were all going to continue to run over one another, following this, and though Laxus couldn't quite figure out what was going on just yet, he could spot trouble from miles away.

"Hi, Bickslow," Mirajane greeted with a wide smile. Then she glanced over at the slayer and added, "And you too, Laxus," which was enough to make the man forget all about all about figuring things out as he just kicked at the ground and grumbled something.

"Interrupting again, I see," Bickslow griped in reply. "You know, every step a Strauss takes, they regress. You can't seem to quite get the hang of this, Lissy here, can't quite seem to just accept that she's the one who-"

"Bickslow," Lisanna hissed at him because he was doing it again. Sacrificing the plan for the sake of something that might resemble wit, maybe. Ah, the plight of the accursed.

"Lissy?" Mirajane let go of her sister's arm as she threw her hands over her mouth. "Is there something that the two of you, uh, want to tell us?"

"Whatever it is," Laxus complained as he glared at Bickslow, "I ain't interested. I came here for lunch. Not for whatever this."

"This is purely coincidental, boss. Fate, but coincidence. Can those coexist? Who am I to judge? The status quo is hardly something a mere mortal, a man of such little worth such as myself, can judge." Then he paused. "Now, someone who is also both Satan himself and dimwitted as a doorknob-"

"Hey," Lisanna complained again, but the doorknob- err, Mirajane, was too blissed out to care.

"You two," she giggled as Lisanna glared and Bickslow wagged his tongue in response, "are so cute together!"

"Come again?" Laxus asked because everyone else was ignoring her and though he couldn't look the woman in the eyes, he still felt the need to respond to her.

"Yes, boss, that's it!" Bickslow was quick to nod. "Come again!"

"Come again," the babies agreed. "Boss!"

"Well, I was thinkin' the doorknob," Bickslow mused, "but I guess-"

"You're," Lisanna told him in no uncertain words, "the worst."

"This is the best day of my life," Mira gushed and she bounced then, clapping her hands excitedly. "Oh, Bickslow, Lisanna, I can't believe this. I really can't."

"Neither can I," Bickslow assured her with a grin. "Mostly because I don't know what it is."

"That you and Lisanna are dating, silly, of course."

"You're what?" Laxus growled in anger, suddenly animated, as he turned to his lackey.

"I'm what?" Bickslow asked in astonishment, looking to his supposed date.

"I'm not," Lisanna insisted in annoyance, as she glared at her sister.

"I've never been happier," Mira went on with little shame. "Never. At all. Not once. I can't think of a single moment. Out of the many."

There was a brief pause where the two guys both found themselves looking to Lisanna, but she was too busy trying to figure out how to damage control the situation to notice.

"We're not-" she began, but enough seconds had passed that Bickslow, that slick dog, that slay feline, on, man, always thinking on his feet, he was already doing what he did best; completely forfeiting the idea of a plan and just going with his gut.

It never led him wrong!

"Oh, man, me and the kid here? We're fuckin' like rabbits," he proclaimed loudly and proudly as Mira blissed out, Lisanna looked ready to slug him, and Laxus mostly tried to understand why any of this was happening.

Still, he did offer the sage advice to Bickslow, "I really wouldn't put the word kid in that sentence. Especially in a park, full of them."

"Oh, boss, you. Always looking out for my best interest."

"I mostly don't want to be associated with you when you say shit like that."

"Why," Mira was insisting then as she took to bouncing some more, "did no one tell me about this? For so long? Oh, man, I can't believe this. I honestly can't. You guys have to tell me, honestly, was your first date magical? Was it? I hope it was. Are you in love? Are you going to get married?"

"Does she ever shut up?" Bickslow was tired, it seemed, of enthusiasm. Or at least he wasn't used to it in response to his antics. Usually disdain and annoyance. "Hey, Mirajane, tell ya what."

"Anything," she insisted.

"We can tell ya all about it, me and the ki- woman, here, Lisanna, all womanly and shapely and other things that make someone a woman-"

"Mostly," Laxus griped with a frown, "a uterus."

"Mostly," Lisanna sobbed miserably into her palms.

"But not only," Mira offered, helpfully.

"Well, whatever it is that Lisanna has, that makes her one of those," Bickslow went on, undeterred, "me and her will tell you all about it and how we got together. Tomorrow. For dinner. A date. A- Oh, wow, boss, you standing there all silently, I almost forgot about ya. Say, hey, now that I'm takin' these two ladies here out, on a date, why don't you slip in? Huh?"

"Come again!" his dolls yelled and Lisanna felt it then. Real tears, running down her very red cheeks.

"W-What?" Laxus took a step back, but just as quickly one forwards as he glared at his friend,. "Damn it, Bickslow-"

"Oh, yeah, that would be cool." Mirajane stopped bouncing and clapping just to grin at Laxus. "Like a double date."

"I don't-" the slayer tried, but Lisanna was finally fucking useful (Bickslow swore, he did all the heavy lifting of the pair) as she let out a long breath.

"Come on, Laxus," she got out around her clearly stricken choked sobs. "What's the worst that can happen?"

It was happening.

The worst thing.

"Don't tell me I'm not your type, Laxus?" Mira went on with a giggle and he growled again, the slayer did, before stomping off. There was a yes though, in the growl that he left them with and as Mira took to cheering along with Bickslow's babies, the man himself was grabbed by the shirt collar and drug slightly away by Lisanna.

Her tears were gone and all she had now were glares as she told him harshly, "The idea of dating you, even pretending, is so gross."

"Oh, give it time, Lissy," he snickered back, but from behind his visor, she could see his eyes were turned into just as hard stones. "I can get a lot grosser."

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Broken Dolls

TITLE: Broken Dolls

BY: @2lovekorea-blog

WORDCOUNT: 1,610

10-Minute Screenplay Format

Warnings: Cussing. Threats. Talk of Prostitution.

****ORIGINAL WORK****

SETTING:

We are in a crappy diner away from the rest of the patrons.

CASTING NOTE:

BROKEN DOLLS has two main characters and a waitress. It can involve more people for background but is not necessary because the main characters are in a more secluded part of the diner.

CHARACTERS:

DEBRA MILLER………………………………………… 30s. She is very plain looking. No make up and hair partially put back. She is dressed professionally.

TIFFANY “ANTOINETTE” ALVAREZ… Early 20s. Very pretty. Seems older than she is. She is wearing make up and her hair is down. She is dressed professionally.

TIME: late evening, Present

SETTING:

DEBRA and TIFFANY are having a conversation at a booth in the diner.

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OPENING

(DEBRA sits in a booth waiting. She looks very professional. She has a legal pad and a pen out. She taps her pen as she waits. She also has a large-ish purse next to her in the seat. TIFFANY finally walks in. TIFFANY and DEBRA see each other as DEBRA sweetly waves to TIFFANY with a smile. TIFFANY approaches the booth and DEBRA gets up to greet her.)

DEBRA

(Big smile)

Hi Tiffany. I’m glad you could make it.

(They shake hands)

TIFFANY

(TIFFANY smiles)

No problem. I’m so sorry, what was your name again?

DEBRA

Debra.

(DEBRA smiles as she says her name.)

TIFFANY

Oh, yes, that’s right.

DEBRA

Have a seat. You hungry? You want anything to eat? Maybe something to drink? It’s on me.

(DEBRA smiles)

TIFFANY

Oh, no. It’s ok. I’m good.

DEBRA

Alright then, lets get started. Could you state your name?

(DEBRA has her pen and paper ready to go.)

TIFFANY

Tiffany Alvarez.

DEBRA

How old are you?

TIFFANY

23.

DEBRA

What is your current profession?

TIFFANY

I’m a receptionist at Taemin Law.

DEBRA

Do you like it?

TIFFANY

Being a receptionist?

DEBRA

Yeah, being a receptionist?

TIFFANY

Oh, yeah. I love it.

DEBRA

I bet. (Beat) It seems better than your last job?

TIFFANY

What do you mean?

(DEBRA grabs some photos out of her purse and tosses them on the table. TIFFANY sees what the photos are of and quickly pulls them toward her flipping through them.)

How did you get these?

DEBRA

Well, Antoinette…

TIFFANY

(Interrupts in hushed tones)

I don’t go by that name anymore!

(Starts trying to leave)

DEBRA

Does Steve know that name?

(TIFFANY stops)

TIFFANY

What…

DEBRA

I said, does Steve know that name? What about sweet little ol’ Mrs. Kincaid from apartment 150? Does she know what you used to do for a living?

(TIFFANY sits)

TIFFANY

How do you…

DEBRA

Know that? (Beat) I’ve kind-a made it my job to know, Tiff-an-y.

TIFFANY

And why would you make that your job?

DEBRA

I have my reasons.

TIFFANY

What do you want?

DEBRA

I don’t want something, I neeeed something from you.

TIFFANY

What is it?

WAITRESS

(The WAITRESS walks over to their table with a notepad and a pen. She stops next to TIFFANY’S side of the booth.)

Yay! You’re friend made it.

(WAITRESS smiles)

Now, what can I get started for you ladies?

DEBRA

I’d like a turkey club, please.

(DEBRA smiles.)

And my friend Tiffany here, or do you prefer Antoinette? Eh, it’s ok. She would like a stack of pancakes a mile high.

(DEBRA smiles big.)

WAITRESS

Alright. I’ll get that started for you guys.

(WAITRESS walks away)

DEBRA

Look, Tiffany, I just need some information from you. That’s all. And you won’t have to worry about the safety of your handsome boyfriend Steve or Mrs. Kincaid.

TIFFANY

If this is about Taemin Law, they don’t let me see the case files.

DEBRA

I don’t care about Taemin Law. This is about your hooking days. I’m interested in an old friend of yours, Sophia and a former ‘John’ she was involved with. (Beat) I wanna know where they are.

TIFFANY

I left that life behind and everyone that was in it.

DEBRA

Tiffany, Tiffany, Tiffany.

(DEBRA pulls out her phone.)

If you are going to lie to me your only going to make things harder for yourself.

(DEBRA starts playing with her phone coyly.)

TIFFANY

I don’t know what you want me to tell you. I don’t know where they are and I don’t care.

DEBRA

Well, you better start caring. Because if you don’t, something bad could happen.

TIFFANY

I’m no stranger to bad things.

DEBRA

I know. But I thought you were making a change and trying to be more caring, more … open? (Beat) I guess you just don’t really care about Steve or that old lady.

TIFFANY

(Through her teeth)

How am I suppose to get you information I don’t have?

DEBRA

I don’t know. Figure it out.

(The WAITRESS rushes back to their booth.)

WAITRESS

Oh, my gosh, ladies. I am so sorry. I didn't even bother asking if you would’ve liked anything to drink. What can I get for you?

DEBRA

I’d just like some water. Antoinette, what would you like?

(Tiffany doesn’t answer, she just stares at the table)

WAITRESS

Order any type of drink you want, it’ll be on the house.

(Tiffany still doesn’t answer. She just stares at the table. She is very stiff and still.)

DEBRA

(The WAITRESS looks to DEBRA.)

She’s having a bad day. Her boyfriend was in an accident.

WAITRESS

That’s terrible. I am so sorry. I hope he’ll be ok.

(WAITRESS looks to DEBRA and says quietly)

I’ll bring two waters.

(WAITRESS leaves.)

DEBRA

You better pull yourself together…

TIFFANY

(TIFFANY interrupts)

Or what? Something bad will happen.

DEBRA

You think you’re funny.

(DEBRA pulls up a video from her phone and shows it to TIFFANY.)

This is live!

TIFFANY

Don’t you fucking hurt her. She doesn’t know anything.

DEBRA

Relax. We’re just keeping an eye on her. Nothing will happen to your sweet old lady as long as you cooperate.

WAITRESS

(WAITRESS enters with two glasses of water.)

Here you are ladies. Please let me know if you’d like anything other than water to drink. The drinks will be on the house, ok?

DEBRA

Thank you.

(The WAITRESS rushes off. DEBRA gets up from her side of the booth and goes over to TIFFANY’S side and sits down.)

Tiffany, I’m gonna need you to cheer up. Can you do that for me?

TIFFANY

Why are you doing this? What is so important about Sophia and that dude?

DEBRA

(DEBRA puts an arm around TIFFANY and squeezes her tight.)

Nothing, much. (Beat) Just they ruined my life.

(DEBRA squeezes TIFFANY harder and digs her fingernails into TIFFANY’S arm)

TIFFANY

Ouch! You’re hurting me.

DEBRA

(DEBRA softens her grib.)

Sorry. I just get filled with a certain type of rage when I think about them.

TIFFANY

Why??? What did they do to you?

DEBRA

Like I said, they ruined my life.

TIFFANY

What? How would they have ruined your life?

DEBRA

Because you filthy whores do nothing but fuck with other women’s men and spread disease. You guys are fucking disgusting! Do you guys really like sex that damn much that you’ll just do it with anyone that walks by?

TIFFANY

(Offended)

You think we sell our bodies because we like sex that much?! Are you kidding me? You have no idea what I had to go through on the streets. You don’t know what it’s like to do what I did! How dare you fucking judge us! You don’t even think of us as human do you? Or worthy of your time and compassion. Do you know what it’s like to be raped, and robbed, and then beaten by your fucking pimp, because you lost the money you spent hours earning? No, you fucking don’t! Do you know what it’s like to never be taken seriously by cops, especially when you need their fucking help? Or to be further victimized by those mother fuckers who have taken an oath to serve and protect?!

DEBRA

You’re right Tiffany, I have no idea. Plus, why would the cops waste their resources on the fleas of society. One of you could get knocked off, three more would pop up. You guys are like an infestation. It’s fucking sick.

TIFFANY

I’m going to assume here that Sophia must have ran off with your guy. His name was Dave right? (Beat) You are fucking stupid if you really thought he ever gave a fucking shit about you. (Beat) You wanna know what he would say about you? (Beat) He would say.

(Giggles to herself)

He would say, “that bitch can’t suck cock for shit!” and he’d also say that when he would fuck you, you would just lay there like a dead fish.

DEBRA

(DEBRA grabs the butter knife off the table and jabs the blunt end into TIFFANY’S ribs. TIFFANY lets out a yelp.)

You don’t know what you’re talking about. What the fuck do you know?! You’re just some fucking slut!

TIFFANY

(TIFFANY is now grabbing her side and trying to breathe without it hurting.)

You are going to be in so much shit.

DEBRA

And why’s that?

TIFFANY

(TIFFANY trying to breathe through the pain.)

Because my cousin is in the FBI.

DEBRA

Bullshit!

TIFFANY

I’m surprised you didn’t know that since you’ve been following me around. (Beat) You’re right about the police not wanting to waste resources on us “filthy prostitutes.” But luckily for me my cousin has a soft spot for helping out those ‘fleas.’ (Beat) You fucked up. I texted him while you were talking to the waitress. He knows where I’m at and if I go missing, he will definitely find you.

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Father blames 'body broker' after son dies in drug rehab

© Credit: CBSNews SAN FRANCISCO -- It has been dubbed "the Florida Shuffle." Drug addicts from across the country get lured to the Sunshine State with the promise of treatment, only to be traded from one unscrupulous drug rehab to another. Meanwhile, the patient's insurance company gets milked for tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges.

Many have overdosed and even died in the process, prompting Florida lawmakers to crack down on the scam. 

Now, some bad actors are luring their victims to California, CBS SF Bay Area/KPIX 5 reports

."He called me when he was in treatment and started telling me about California," said Rich Strickling, who lives in Ohio.

He said he had a feeling something was up when his 22-year-old son Alex, a recovering heroin addict, called to tell him he was planning to leave his treatment center in Florida for a new rehab facility in California. Days later, he got another call: Alex had overdosed and died in a motel room just a few miles from his drug rehab facility. "Somewhere I was building some type of wall waiting for the day that it happened to my son, but nothing prepares you for that," said Strickling. 

When he learned how the overdose happened, the pain turned to anger. "There was somebody whispering in his ear," said Strickling. 

It turns out that a person Alex met in treatment was offering him money and airfare to switch to a new rehab in Beverly Hills. "I had all the text messages after my son passed away," said Strickling. In a first text, a person asked: "Wanna go to Cali?" 

"I'll send you like $200 to get you established out there and on top of that you get 2 packs of smokes a day, haircuts and gym."

"I'm pretty sure I am down," Alex responded. Days passed. Then the messages became more urgent.

"What's the word homie? You ready? Cali's calling your name," the next set of texts said.

Then the person spells out in detail what was needed: "Send me your insurance info and I'll run it to get you approved."

Another text said, "Send it tomorrow I'll throw you the cash after 17 days, broski."

"I trust you lemme get back to you tomorrow with my info," Alex responded.

After Alex sent his insurance information, radio silence followed. Strickling now knows why. "That same person that does that hard sell on you, they're going to tell you towards the end of that process that, you know you have to fail your urine test in order for them to justify getting you into treatment," said Strickling. 

It was that relapse that cost Alex his life. 

The person who was trying to lure Alex to California is what's known in the industry as a "body broker." Unethical treatment centers will pay former addicts kickback money to recruit someone with good insurance to come to their facility.

Then that rehab center will run the addict's insurance for unnecessary testing, making millions. "A body broker, to use an indelicate word, is a pimp," said David Skonezny. He moderates a Facebook group called, "It's time for ethics in addiction treatment."

"And most often those people will be bought and sold over and over and over, including being paid to relapse often times," said Skonezny.

On the Facebook group, he flags what he suspects might be unethical rehab centers. Gretta Sudekum and Brandie Baca both responded to one such post about a rehab facility called UMNPA Treatment in Anaheim.

"I felt responsible, because I was bringing people in," said Sudekum.

"It was just like a flop house, basically," said Baca.

The two former rehab center employees and others KPIX 5 spoke with reported to authorities that the center was paying for patients.

"I really feel sorry for the people who are really there to get well," said Baca. The two women said that while they were working at UMNPA Treatment, there was no credentialed clinical staff on location as required by law. They also said patients used drugs.

Records show police responded to the center on calls concerning a near-death heroin overdose, possible meth use, battery and an attempted suicide. The two former employees provided KPIX 5 a balance sheet with a line item for $341,030 dollars for marketing. They believe that money was actually used to pay for clients.

"We would never pay a client to come to treatment," said the treatment center's president Indigo Allendorf when KPIX 5 inquired about money going to people receiving treatment.

KPIX 5 asked her: "One of the line items in UMNPA Treatment's budget is for marketing/referrals and that this past year you guys spent about $341,000 on that? Who are you paying that money to?"

"We have a very reputable marketing firm that we pay a substantial monthly payment to," said Allendorf. She provided the name of the marketing company, but when KPIX 5 called, they had never heard of UMNPA.

Brad Lamm operates a treatment center in the Hollywood hills. He is the only rehab owner in the state who supported a bill aimed at banning patient brokering that recently became law.

"It's sort of like Wack-A-Mole. One area of scamming is cracked down upon and then the scammers find another way to exploit the sector," said Lamm.

He said there are so many bad actors that operators like himself who refuse to pay for clients struggle to stay open.

"You wonder how in the world do people sleep at night, preying on this vulnerable sector," said Lamm.

Governor Brown recently signed the new law that outlaws patient brokering in the treatment industry. If caught, a treatment center would be fined and could lose its license. That penalty is less strict than Florida's law, which makes the practice a felony.

Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/father-blames-body-broker-after-son-dies-in-drug-rehab/ar-BBPuliV?srcref=rss

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Snoop Dogg's I Wanna Thank Me Tour

[ Originally published for independentphilly.com ]

Written by Andy Blackman Hurwitz | Photography by Jen Strogatz

The first really cold night of another globally warmed winter cast a spell upon this writer and his photographer as we huddled in line at the Fillmore. Once through the doors however, we were immediately warmed by the vibe and energy inside: “Damn. Everyone’s so... happy!” remarked my partner in journalistic crime.

And by the time we checked our coats and made our way to the bar DJ Green Lantern let us know why: “We just come here to have a good mother fucking time y’all” and it was unmistakeable that everyone was following his cue.

The air was thick with the dank smells of really good weed - no kids stuff, boutique Philly “Beyond/Hello” medicinal shit -  as the thirty-something crowd threw their hands in the mother-fucking air to welcome seminal west coast rapper Warren G to the stage.     Looking mature and stately, Mister G (aka Warren Griffin III), together with Nate Dogg and Snoop, was part of the seminal trio 213 which eventually crumbled when Snoop went solo. Backed by Green Lantern himself, one of the greatest DJs in the history of the game,  G tore through a 30-minute set that displayed his (still) incredible voice, delivery and ability to celebrate the magic of Mary J. “R U High Yet?” he asked before sharing a spliff with a lucky lady in the front row who was “kind” enough to offer up her lighter.

Way before Snoop became the poster child for Weed, Warren G set the bar high with his epic “Indo-Smoke," a stoner anthem that went on to sell over 3-Million copies back in the day.  When G left the stage, Green Lantern kept the party going strong ripping through West Coast classics until suddenly... the music stopped and the room went dark.

A massive screen behind the stage flickered on to project a montage of Snoop’s greatest moments from a young thug to a modern day superstar.   Then magically  it seemed that the man of the hour jumped right out of the video and onto stage wasting no time with salutations, launching  into Next Episode to the crowds delight.

Wearing pressed kaki pants, white Converse low-tops, a Joseph and a technicolor Death Row leather jacket Snoop looked like a million bucks.    With his  trademark shades, braids to his waist and a huge Blunt in hand he proceeded to peel off hit after hit, letting the crowd know that before he was a bona fide global celebrity, he was one of the baddest ass rappers in the land.  Like a proven veteran he just threw the fuck down.   No banter, no bullshit. Strictly business.

“Bitch Please”, “Countdown”, “Snoop’s Upside Ya Head” and the 50 Cent Cover “Pimp” were all delivered with astounding freshness.  When Snoop brought Warren G on to preform the 213 hit “So Fly” (with major nods to Nate Dog) it felt like we were all back in late 1990s. The showman that he is, Snoop kept things visually interesting with a constant parade of  back up singers, mascots (the giant Nasty Dogg), strippers (on massive stripper poles on either side of the stage) and the widely entertaining video playing in the background showing a mix of home movies, football clips, gangster films and stoney treats.

One unexpected surprise was the introduction of Philly’s own legendary gangsta raper Freeway who took the energy up 3 notches with his intense performance that left Snoop sitting on one of the stage’s two picnic benches,  smoking a flat blunt and nodding with approval.    Following Freeway, Green Lantern kept the Philly vibe alive by dropping a dope Grover Washington Jr “Mister Magic” remix for Snoop who added Slick Ricks’ “Children’s Story” on top.

After a quick “smoke break” that left Lantern in control of the dance floor,  Snoop returned sans jacket to reveal a Unity T-shirt and began a “tribute” segment that began with a poignant and sincere paying of respect to the late great (and former Compton mate) Nipsy Hustle covering his song  Question #1 (which Snoop himself guested on).   The tributes kept flowing as Snoop covered some of his dead homies paying  respect  (and brining their images to life through the screen) Easy E (“Real Mother Fuckin Gs”), Biggie (“Hypnotize”)  and Pac (2 of “Amerikaz most wanted”).

Snoop brought it all back to the star of the show — himself — by asking the crowd “What’s my Mother Fucking Name?” before launching into “Big Mouth”, “Gin & Juice” and then stopping the music completely to take off his glasses, look the whole crowd in the eyes and sincerely thanking everyone before sliding into the set’s last tune — the Wiz Khalifa collab “Young Wild and Free”.

Lantern kept playing exit music as the lights went on revealing a crowd that was mixed in every way, reflecting the global attraction of Mr. Doggy Dog.   As we slowly moved out of the venue there was a common feeling of true  joy amongst all.   Sure, everyone was high as fuck, but Snoop also brings a necessary vibe of peace and love.   IT was refreshing.  Happy people celebrating life.   He’s Snoop Dogg after all - everyone’s favorite Uncle.

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Men and SW

Specifically, your man if you're a sex worker. Dudes who date us are weird. Either you get the wannabe pimp, or the dude who uses your escort life as a reason to fuck whomever he wants. The wannabe pimps are lame for the most part bc all they wanna do is sell you to the set. Not a good idea. If you're posting your own ads and managing your own phone book, then you don't need the wannabe pimps. I seem to avoid those types bc I'm really straightforward and say what's on my mind. That always gets mistaken for me being a bossy bitch, so dudes don't bother me bc they know I won't listen. A lot of sex addicts and man whores love to date sex workers as well and use that as a reason to cheat. They use every excuse to go and fuck everyone out there bc that's what escorts do. However, sex as an escort isn't fun for me. It's work lol. I have to make sure the client is satisfied, and sometimes that has nothing to do with me being stimulated how I want to. I guess that men who date sex workers mistake clients for a boyfriend which is total bullshit. Lol some of my clients are really nice guys, but might be married, or not my type or something. Sex isn't a relationship at all. It's more of a client finding someone he likes to fuck that he doesn't have to be in a relationship with. That is the only reason why they come back. Lol bc we ain't dating. The sex isn't exciting or special to me, but he's enjoying it, so that's all that matters. Take your money and enjoy it. Society looks way too deeply into sex and to me, it's just something that you do when you see someone hot. Sometimes I see a dude who I think is really attractive, So I wanna fuck him. That does not mean I wanna date him and wake up together and meet his kids just bc he's hot and good in bed. Some dudes are good in bed and total assholes, or cheap, or abusers. Who wants to deal w all that just because you're giving him pussy? Not me. Client's feel the same way...they see an attractive provider and pic her, have a great time, and come back. It's nothing to do with feelings at all. Trust me. In my personal life however, I prefer an open relationship bc most dudes just want unlimited pussy. I prefer more than one boyfriend bc some dudes may have different interests or personality traits, but we have good chemistry, so he is boyfriend material. I can't tell you how many chicks are keeping a dude around and knows he only wants her for sex, or a crib, or her car. Them kinda men will never be faithful and they just love to stick their dick wherever it can go. Sad part is that they usually have qualities no one wants anyway. Lol. Men still suck. Dating is even harder as a sex worker because you actually KNOW that men suck. They really can't run game on you, and already know that he's definitely fucking other people (just) because you are. It doesn't matter if it's work! Men will compare it to fucking his homegirl he cheated on all his exes with!! Still, I love men. Lol yeah they're absolute trash and cheat on everyone, I still want like 5 boyfriends who are fucking hot with their own goddamn money that they spend on me. It's happened before.

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Best car insurance for my children while they're at university?

My two children (aged 20 and 18) have gone to university this year. They've left their car (VW Polo) at home. What is the best way to insure this car now? It's only getting used when they pop home, and a bit more over Christmas and Easter, probably summer too. However I can't find any insurance that will take this into account. I've got my own car, so theirs is just sitting there for 8 or 9 months out of the year. Does anybody know of any insurance providers that will insure a car while taking this into account?""

What happens if someone without insurance rear-ends me?

Here's a scenario. If I have a motorcycle with no insurance. Someone hits me at the red light and they don't have insurance. And it cost $25000 in damages. Considering they don't have insurance, it means they are poor. How can I get my money?""

Can I put car insurance in someone else name when financing a car?

Im gonna be financing a 04 mustang soon. Thanks.

How much Roughly for first car + insurance?

I am 15 looking to start saving for a first car in in the UK by the way. Also I'm talking about insurance for when im 17/18 year old my guess would be around 5-8k for a first car plus insurance? Thanks

""Someone backed into me in a parking lot, is this insurance company lying?""

Foreigners backed into my car in the parking lot, they had insurance, I called the insurance company and they asked for an estimate on how much it would cost to fix it, I did, and they said okay and that they would mail it on Friday morning. It's now Monday and I haven't gotten it. They are in a state not far from us. Is this insurance company full of crap or do I just need to wait longer? Thanks :)""

Does Texas have a state health insurance for children?

In NY we have child health plus which is inexpensive & if your income is low it is free of charge.

Does car insurance cover brakes?

i have full coverg on my bmw and it need front and back brakes and pads will my insurance cover this

How are car insurance companies regulated?

Are car insurance companies regulated by any state or federal offices?

Site for FREE vehicle history report?

my girlfriend is looking to buy this car, and we took down the VIN number, so we can look up the history on it, to make sure it's good enough to be bought, but i was wondering if you guys knew any sites that had FREE vehicle history report, that you typed the VIN # in, and didn't have to pay for. because auto check, and carfax and some other one, you have to pay monthly for. and i think that's absolutely ridiculous. i just wanna look it up real quick, and that's it. thanks for your help, guys. =)""

How much would a car payment be and insurance?

I know this is very broad but that is what Im' looking for...a ballpark estimate. I'm 20 years old been driving for 3 years with no accidents and no tickets. I have no credit and no one to cosign. Looking into a 2006 honda civic for about $18,000 or whatever car for about $18,000. How much would payments and insurance be I make about $1,500 each month with no bills to pay.""

""Home insurance, what can i expect on a newly built home?""

Hello guys, I am planning on building my own home, i lived with my parents for 3 years so i have some money accumilated. I am planning on a 250,000 dollar home with a 3 car garage and mostly electric components. It will be in a rural setting, in a subdivision or close to one. HOw much should i expect. And it will be 3 or 4 bd, 3 bath, and about 3,000 sq ft total monthly? thanks""

""In California...If i drive an insured car, do i need my own personel insurance?""

In California...If i drive an insured car, do i need my own personel insurance?""

Where can I get a fair priced car insurance for a first time driver at the age of 17 and Male?

I'm just about to do my second test, I failed the first with only 4 minors but I misjudged a speed limit and got failed for dangerous driving when doing 40 in a 30. I've been looking at a Ford Fiesta 1.4 Zetec 16V that I would really enjoy to have except I can't find insurance anywhere cheaper than 2700 and I think it's ridiculous because I'm not a maniacal driver and I don't see why I should have to pay that much until proven that I will cause that sum of damage. Is there any way I can get a cheaper premium? It's really putting me off driving because the price is just absolutely horrendous. PS UK ONLY PLEASE""

What a cheap small car insurance company ?

Not a big company like geico , State Farm , or nation wide""

16 yr old..car insurance rate?

I am a 16 (almost 17) year old girl. I just finished all of my hours/behind the wheel/drivers ed. I would not be the primary driver and I would not have my own car. I am an honors student with pretty decent grades. About how much money would it be for me to get car insurance?

Which company gives best insurance to young drivers?

I'm currently 17 and the cheapest quote i've got at the moment is 4000 on my own car as the main policy holder but with my dad as the main driver i've found a quote for 1500. but does anyone know which companies are good for young drivers?

Getting free insurance when buying a van new?

I'm Ste & I'm 21. I've just passed my license a month a go and I'm struggling to get a decent quote from any insurance company. That's made me think about buying one new as I know some car showrooms do free insurance policies for young drivers (Mainly over 21) which is lucky as i've recently celebrated my 21st. So, are there any van company's with free insurance? I've got no no claims and I've had my license a month. Any help would be brill! Cheers, Ste.""

""How Can i keep my car, without paying insurance?""

I have a car that i DONT want to sell, but i will not be using very often, can i keep it WITHOUT paying insurance, because obviously it would be a waste of money to be paying insurance on a car that i do not drive.""

Where do i go to see a physician without any health insurance in California?

Hi , I'm 21 and I don't have any health insurance, I want to see a physician so I can get more information on estrogen pills because I want to have smoother skin and look more like a girl than a man but i still want to keep my man-hood . Can anyone help?""

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

""I'm 19, have a permit, but do I need insurance to drive with my mom?""

Ok I got a permit, I got it last year..it expires on April 30th. So I was wondering..if i go out and drive with my mom who has a license, do I need to get my own insurance as well? My moms car is insured. I live in California. I haven't driven a whole year because i can't afford my own insurance right now. Lol so do I need to get my own insurance even though my mom and her car are insured? If I get stopped by the cops will I get in trouble? Thnx in advance""

California car insurance - any tips on what online carrier gives the best rates?

Ive been looking for ages for someone in my state to give me a good rate on a policy. Im not a high risk candidate and im in my forties.

Motorcycle insurance?

Anyone know where I can get cheap bike Insurance I'm looking for basic coverage on a 650cc Yamaha Maixm I just got my licence in May. I live in Ontario Canada.

Auto Insurance question not my car?

my uncle just bought a 2010 civic coupe and hes letting me drive it, can i add to my uncle car to my insurance if its not my car""

Car Insurance in CA with AZ vehicle?

Ok so I have a multi part question. My dad is about to get his car reposed. He lives in Phoenix AZ and obviously bought the car there. Its not under his name yet cause hes still paying for it. So he wants me to take over the payments and give me the car. I live in Los Angeles. So my question is, can I get insurance here in Cali even though its a AZ car and its still under the peoples name? If not, he can get insurance there. Also, isn't there a period of time an out of state car can be here being out off state still? What should I do? I don't want to get all sorts of fines or tickets. Thanks in advance""

""How did the United States healthcare system develop? e.g. health insurance, Medicare.?""

Why does the United States have health insurance? It is optional to have health insurance, because it is not required by any law, unlike auto insurance. I would like to know where the system of health insurance got it's roots.""

How bad would a 2006 nissan altima be on insurance for an 18 year old?

I'm on my moms policy right now as the primary driver of a 20 year old sports car and it costs 900 a month. I used to be the primary driver of a small 2002 kia rio sedan and it cost about 700 a month. How much will it be if i am now the primary driver of a 2006 nissan altima? Also how much would the insurance for the actual car be? My mom drives an 06 taurus and she pays 800 so i'm guessing around that price?

Do you need car insurance in order to buy a car?

I just want to buy the vehicle for now until i am ready for the car insurance. How would I be able to transport it to my place and store it?

Low Cost Affordable Individual Hmo Health Insurance Question:?

Are there any easy to access resource for low cost affordable individual hmo health insurance? I've looked a little, but found nothing. Any tips, or ideas? low cost affordable individual hmo health insurance sites? Anything you can share would be cool. Thanks""

""Car Insurance, age limit on Family Plan?""

Okay my parents have their cars plus my younger brother on their home/auto insurance policy. My car is also included but I am wondering, is this okay or a problem since I am 25 yrs old and no longer living with them? I could get auto on my own but it is way more expensive compared to my 'share' with my parents policy. Is there a law or rule? What if I was living with them? I am in CA""

Is ICBC Prejudiced against young drivers a 120$ a month insurance rate cars?

I am a young drivers just starting out and I drive just like anyone else, I don't consider my actions dangerous why is it though I must pay premium prices if I drive well. These rates only adjust after driving for a longer time. it can be that of statistics ? I know that amount a month for insurance alone is exorbitant and when I ask older drivers some say they pay around 50$ a month. Are there other licensures in BC for licensing for driving a car, perhaps much cheaper than ICBC ?""

Car insurance?

how much would it cost to insure a car. if the driver was sixteen. it wouldnt be a fast car. so how much for third party insurance. and how much to get my car insured

No Deposit Car Insurance Companies?

Hi, I'm looking to get a car in a few months time but i am young so it's going to be really expensive. Even for a insurance group 1 Vauxhall Corsa it's like 2400-2600 and then they've got the cheek to ask for a 500 deposit so it's like 3000 for insurance. I'm sure you never used to have to pay a deposit it's ridiculous. Does anyone no any companies that offer no deposit car insurance? I did find one website that said MORE THAN don't want a deposit but everytime i try to get a quote it says sorry we cannot offer you a quote. Please help, Many thanks.""

Car insurance question following dui arrest?

If you were arrested in 2009 for dui and your case was dismissed :1) will your insurance rates go up once insurance company sees you were arrested (it's now 2012 and rates never went up but is this because insurance company never noticed the arrest record?). I would like to get a new car but when I am renewing insurance, it will ask if I ever had a dui. How do I answer this? Can I say no if the case was dismissed? Will I have to wait for 5 years to pass since I was arrested? I know it was a stupid thing to do but any advice would be appreciated.""

Range of Insurance rates for a 25yo Canadian (New Driver)?

I am a 25 year old Canadian, buying my first car. It will probably be 6+ years old, valued at less then 5,000. I'm wondering about insurance. I spoke with a broker telling me prices range from 4,000 - 4,500 a year (~$333/mo). This sounds excessive. She also said with third-party coverage the type of car I drive shouldn't matter, which left me with doubts. What should I expect to pay?""

Do you have health insurance?

if, so, How much is it per month? How old are you? what kind of deductable do you have?? feel free to answer also if you do not have insurance.""

What happens when your employment insurance ends?

i am receiving regular benefits at the moment because i got laid-off but i want to know what happens when it ends..can i still apply for another one since i submitted only one record of employment to service Ontario but i have records of employment from my previous work can i use that one to claim another?

Do I need business insurance for my small cleaning jobs?

I'm looking to start a VERY small residential cleaning business. I would be the sole worker, just looking to make a little extra money. I'm not planning to hire any employees and I'm hoping for just maybe 2 or 3 houses a week. Do I need a business license as well as Property and Casualty insurance for something this small? Can anybody offer any advice? Bonding, insuring and licensing can be costly and if I can put this off until my business grows, that would be excellent. ANY advice is extremely helpful :)""

Will my health insurance pay for my surgery?

I hurt my back one month ago and had no insurance. I am now employed with insurance and need back surgery. Will the insurance company call this a pre existing condition and not pay? Is there anything I can do to avoid the fight?

What should I do if my attorney is not paying me my insurance money(california)?

ok.. I've filed a claim against my home insurance company through a lawyer. It was a house related claim. I was told my claim was settled and signed the settlement paper from attorney's office about 5 months ago and still have not received the money yet. So I called the actual insurance company and found out that the money was paid out 4 months ago. When I called my attorney's office, 4 different agents told me different stories and I noticed they might be trying to keep the money. is there any way to file a claim against lawyers? Please help""

""Affordable dentistry in Dallas, TX?""

I am currently looking for an affordable orthodontist this will most likely not be covered by insurance, so if you can please recommend me to an affordable dentist in the Dallas area, yes I have tried searching but sometimes its easier from hear abouts. Thank you""

Cheapest California health insurance plans?

I don't make a lot of money

""Car accident, insurance and no insurance, what happens?""

So I got into a car accident, both cars totalled. I have insurance for the car and the other person does not have insurance, what happens? thanks""

Ball park how much extra to add my boyfriend to my car insurance policy.?

I'm paying alot because i'm a new driver to the UK, just wanted a ball park of if it will be alot more to add my live in boyfriend as an occasional driver.""

How much will motorcycle insurance cost me?

I am 18, live in Wisconsin. My license was suspended for a year, I get it back this October. When I get my license reinstated, complete the MSF course how much should I expect the insurance to cost annually. My driving record is below, -December 2011> Driving 1 to 10 miles per hour over the speed limit (3 POINTS) -April 2012> Imprudent speed (8 POINTS) -June 2012> Driving 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit (12 POINTS) -August 2012> Imprudent Speed (8 POINTS) -No accidents whatsoever. I plan on getting a Yamaha R6 or similar motorcycle after taking a MSF course. Thanks guys, love ya ;)""

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

Am I eligible for Affordable healthcare act?

55 years old, no income this year. Pre existing condition. Florida resident. own non homestead property. The way I heard it, no job/ no income people aren't qualified. I lived off ...show more""

""What would it cost for 15 yrs insurance, life?""

I don't smoke, drink, just like to fish.""

Cheap auto insurance in Nevada?

im looking for a cheap auto insurance in NV. ranging 100-150. Any suggestions? no accidents, new driver""

Does anyone know the insurance group prices in the UK?

looking at car insurance does anyone know how much is group is like 3E, 5 and 12 or summit is there any websites where you can find them? if anyone has any suggestions please leave below!""

Where can I get the best Auto Insurance Quotes?

My semi-annual auto insurance renewal is coming up. I've shopped before and I think I'm already getting a damn good rate, but still I'd like to try to get an even better rate. I've tried both Geico and Progressive, and both quoted me over $200 higher per year than I already pay. Any other good suggestions? This would be for coverage in California.""

What color vehicles are the cheapest for insurance?

What color vehicles are the cheapest for insurance?

Where can i find long term and short term disability insurance for a diabetic?

i need a great insurance but yet inexpensive.

""I recently got a dui in florida, I'm 19 and i'd like to know what does everyone pay for their sr22 insurance?""

trying to find cheap sr22 insurance, i juss read that its going to be required that i have it in order to reinstate my license. Been lookin around online for quotes and I was wondering what other people in similar situations are paying monthly and by which carrier. Thanks""

Health insurance after i drop out?

hello everyone i am a 17 year old male who chose to drop out of school after getting clean from drugs. now that i am dropped out and sober i am very happy but there seems to be an issue. in january, january 28th to be exact i will be 18 and my mother insists that unless im in school i cannot be covered under health insurance anymore. so my question to you all is, is this true? is there a way i can be covered under her health insurance even after dropping out? if no what other affordable options are there for me pertaining to health insurance? i know of cobra but 500$ a month is a little absurd. so any information would be much appreciated thank you so much!""

Cheap motorcycle insurance company for young riders?

Anyone recommend any companies? I have blasted a fair few, including BikeDevil and Lexham (Lexham is in the lead though it does have a 600 excess). If you know any good companies of which are cheap please let me know, as being 17 makes insurance hard to find. Thanks""

Integra to Mustang: how much will my car insurance go up?

I am currently insured with ING for my acura integra '1992 at $55 a month. I'm 23 years old with a clean driving record and the insurance is one-way (damages to my car in an accident are not covered, but damages to another car/property are covered) and is also protected from theft and attempted theft + vandalism. I am planning on switching to a 95 Mustang. Can I expect a small or significant jump in my insurance premium? I would apply the same coverage. (The car has an alarm system and I put on a steering wheel lock when I leave it parked.)""

What is private health insurance?

can anyone give me a definition of private health insurance please? thankyou!

Imported motorcycle insurance?

Does anyone know of any companies that tend to do cheap imported bike insurance? Iv wrang around a few now and the best quote i can get for third party only is 305 pounds from adrien flux. The bike in question is a Honda storm SDH 2006 import. I know that as an imported bike it is going to be a little more expensive but it shares most of its parts with the Honda CG, will telling them this help the quote at all, and do you know any good insurers?""

What car insurance do you have and do you like it?

I'm about to get my license and my parents asked me which insurance I want. I want to know your personal experience with your insurance company and would you recommend them? Judging by what my parents have explained to me so far I plan on getting full coverage not the bare minimum just because its cheaper (which is stupid in my opinion). Right now I'm driving our 2007 Mitsubishi eclipse but my parents plan on giving me the Saturn since the eclipse is more my moms car than mine. Do you know approximently what it will cost to insure the saturn. Also what do you think makes your insurance better than others?

What are the associated costs of adding different types of coverage to auto insurance?

What are the associated costs of adding different types of coverage to auto insurance?

So I'm looking into buying a Honda Element but I want to know how much insurance n gas n all that would be?

Help please lol and if overall if its worth it

What is the difference between Insurance Brokers and Insurance Agents?

What is the difference between insurance brokers and insurance agents?

""Home insurance, what can i expect on a newly built home?""

Hello guys, I am planning on building my own home, i lived with my parents for 3 years so i have some money accumilated. I am planning on a 250,000 dollar home with a 3 car garage and mostly electric components. It will be in a rural setting, in a subdivision or close to one. HOw much should i expect. And it will be 3 or 4 bd, 3 bath, and about 3,000 sq ft total monthly? thanks""

Why are some people's health insurance rates going up?

I've heard a lot of stories about people's insurance rates doubling or tripling. My wife's insurance just went up. What's going on? I thought Obamacare was supposed to make insurance more affordable? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/24/one-man-obamacare-nightmare/

Car insurance. Using car but insurance under my moms name!!!?

HI my mom gave me her car which is insured only under her name and i took it to California from Illinois. I registered the car in California and switched the title to only my name. Can I legally drive around using the insurance card with my moms name on it which is also from Illinois?

What Auto Insurance Company do you use and would recommend?

And have you ever heard of western general insurance company / Insure Express? They have a pretty good rate, but I've never heard of them before.""

Can someone obtain car insurance in CA with no drivers license?

I have a friend who will be a first time driver at age 30 (she had no need for driving where she previously lived). She has the opportunity to buy a car, but cannot register it until she has car insurance. Now, normally, she could just wait to buy the car when she finally gets licensed, but she's been offered an amazing deal and would have to buy now. Is there any insurance company that will cover an unlicensed driver or even someone with a permit? Thanks!""

Car insurance rates for a new teenaged driver?

So we have State Farm car insurance and our 17-year-old daughter is attempting to get her license. She has straight A's and is doing their Steer Clear program. Does anyone have an estimation of how much this will increase our insurance rates?

Can I register and insure a car with a suspended license?in tampa Florida?

Can I register and insure a car with a suspended license?in tampa Florida?

Why is it mandatory to buy car insurance?

I understand if it's on a leased car but why on 100% paid off private cars? Mortgage companies make borrowers buy home insurance as a condition to get the Liam but once the mortgage is paid off you're free to not insure your property. Why is it legal for insurance companies to force all car owners to buy coverage? It's not constitutional no different than forcing them to buy health insurance.

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

Richland Center Wisconsin Cheap car insurance quotes zip 53581

How do I cancel Primerica life insurance policy?

I was briefly a Primerica rep about 2 years ago. While I was a rep, I purchased a Primerica Life Insurance policy at their suggestion. About 6 months later I quit. I still have the policy. Now it seems like a complete waste of money. It is $37 per month, and I really have no need for life insurance. I am a bachelor, and nobody depends on my income. I called the Primerica number, and the recording said to cancel a policy, send them a letter in the mail requesting cancellation with the policy number. That seems awfully vague. Is there anything else I need to put on the letter? Do I need to send the letter certified mail so they can't say, We never received it, and keep charging me every month? Dumb questions. Sorry.""

Approximate price of monthly insurance.?

Does anyone know, or can you give a decent guess at the approximate price of monthly insurance on a 2003 Audi TT? Non Convertible. I'm interested in buying one, I'm just curious as to the price of insurance. Thanks!""

Car insurance for a beginner driver?

how much do you guys reckon it will cost a total new driver (17, male) to insuare either: mark 2 golf mark 2 golf gti any VW corrado thanks""

How to convince parents to let me have auto insurance?

I've had my license for a little over three months now. However, I have no insurance, and therefore cannot drive (in California). Their reasoning is that I am an unsafe driver which I disagree with because I quite easily passed my driving test at the DMV and always think before I do anything when I drive. However, they seem firm on their decision... It's a bit frustrating having my license for so long but still being unable to drive. I'm tired of having to always ask friends for a ride or my parents; I just want a taste of independence. Of course, I'm not trying to be too arrogant or stubborn, I've respected my parent's decision, it's just bugging me a bit now haha. I offered to do a six-month plan instead of a year plan since I'm heading off to college in Septemberish. I'm about to turn 18 in a couple weeks also. Does anyone have any advice?""

Low cost car insurance in California?

I'm a young driver with no previous driving experience who needs low cost auto insurance coverage in California, where can I get it?""

At what point should I call up my insurance company & insure the car I plan on purchasing?

New to purchasing a used car, but I notice that DMV will require proof of insurance when registering the car, and even my bank will need proof of insurance to complete the transaction. Do I call my insurance company to setup insurance on the car before even paying for it!? I don't really understand the process.""

Dental discounts or affordable insurance in NJ?

I do not have dental insurance for myself and I need a good amount of dental work done, i was wondering if anyone could tell me an affordable dental plan or insurance that isnt exspensive in NJ? Im not applicable for NJ familycare dental""

How much does an automatic 2004 Nissan 350z insurance cost in vancouver b.c?

How much does an automatic 2004 Nissan 350z insurance cost in vancouver b.c?

Do you have to report a DUI to the car insurance company?

My friend got a DUI not too long ago. This is the state of Florida, and she has Allstate. I understand that her getting a DUI is now public records because she spent the night in jail. Because the fact that it's public records now, is she required to inform her Allstate insurance company about her DUI? Also, what will happen either way whether she reports it to insurance company or not? Will they remove her from her insurance or jack up the rates? It is her FIRST DUI and other than that she has a good driving record. Thanks.""

Will my car insurance be cheaper if I have a motorcycle licence?

I have always been put off learning to drive and buy a car due to the stupidly high insurance prices for first time drivers. The thing is, I have a full motorcycle licence. I have been riding on the road for about 4 years with no accident. Will this be taken in to account when I take out car insurance for the first time and will it make a huge difference to the amount I pay?""

Advice on cheap car insurance ? UK?

hello i am a 17 year old who is currently learning to drive and hoping to buy a car afterwards, however insurance is very expensive and am seeking advice on how to get cheap car insurance, E.G. what car to buy, where to look etc.""

Business Class car Insurance?

Can some one explain the different classes of car insurance....I have business class1 and my partner uses the car to drive to work - I think they are covered but would like clarification before I ring up insurer tomorrow and check..... Would I need to change the class of insurance and if so to what?

Motorcycle insurance for an 18 year old?

I'm 18 and I want to buy a 1984 900cc kawasaki ninja motorcycle. I have an 84 camaro and I'm on my dad's insurance which means it's only around $80 a month. He is 50 and has alot of experience with motorcycles. I know that insurance is sky-high when your under 25 so my question is, if I'm on my dads insurance will it be cheaper like it is on my car or will it be just as expensive?""

""Families who live in America, how much is your health insurance per month?""

In an earlier question I mentioned that my boyfriend's parents are paying for his 24-year-old sister's health insurance after she got laid off and couldn't find another position and can't afford health care on her own, to the tune of $175 a month (and she's perfectly healthy) and was floored when someone said that was actually inexpensive. Btw, her parents insist on her having health care coverage for fear of her getting in an accident or whatever. I'm 17 and am quite obviously naive about the costs of health insurance, but I'm really curious about it, and would like to know how much it usually costs for a family to have health insurance in America. I'm in California. I don't know if it's more expensive depending on your state. If if you don't mind answering, how much do you pay per year, and how many people are in your family? Does it become more expensive as your kids get older? What kind of plan do you have? Through work or your own? Are you supportive of universal health coverage? Also: does anyone understand how Medicare / MediCal works and who decides who is covered and who isn't? Is it based on your yearly income? I'm asking because one of the reasons my boyfriend's parents want his sister to have insurance is that another family friend of ours broke her jaw in a roller blading accident when she was 26 and didn't have insurance because she was unemployed at the time, and not being able to pay the $15,000 hospital bill killed her credit score. Sorry for all the questions. I'm just really curious about all this.""

Car Insurance question..Im confussed ?? ( uk )?

O.k so Im a new driver and bought a car and signed up with insurance which worked out about 60 a month. My car broke down beyond repair and I have suspended my insurance as had to scrap the car. Now I been on car insurance websites to compare many different cars to see which is cheapest and all my other details are same but no matter what car details i put (different ages/ values) but all small cars similar to my last vehicle the quote comes up double the cost at over 110. Why is this ?

Any idea how much insurance for a new male driver 25 years old?

passed test january 2009, car with smallest engine something like a corsa 1.0 nothing flashy ,just need a quick kind of quote ....split up with partner whos taking me off car insurance....any insurance companies reccomended .cheers emma for a friend xxxx""

Wats the cheapest insurance in oklahoma?

Wats the cheapest insurance in oklahoma?

How do i know what my car insurance covers?

I recently got into a car accident, just yesterday. There was 3passeners in the car. I, one of the 3. My sister who is 21 was driving the '99 Ford focus. It was not her fault. we were at a four way intersection and had a green light to go. Everyone was stopped besides our light going south &the other going north. An elderly woman on the right hand side who was going to turn, crashed into my side. (The passenger front, as well as the back door.) It is all crashed inward. We then hit a palm tree on the side of the road and landed on top of it. Some yellow/green fluid leaked out. Us 3 passengers in the Ford taurus all went to get checked at the hospital. We are all fine. But now we have no idea what to do with this wrecked car, that has now been towed. The Ford Taurus we were in, only has liability insurance. how will the car be fixed or can it even get fixed? This car accident all took place in Avon park, FL. The car we were in has Insurance from Michigan. Since that is where my father and his girlfriend purchased the car last year. The insurance &everything is under his girlfriends name. So Shes the one who said it only has liability insurance.""

""How much is car insurance supposed to be for people or just me, im 18 (i turn 19 in nov.)?

drove some cars afew times but never had a permit and i am trying to get my license so ill be ready to move out immediatley after i graduate next year (2013) but my stepdad keeps saying no i dont have the money for the insurance your gona have to get a job. but if insurance is under $600 for new 19 year old drivers than i have that money in my drawer. will that be enough for me to pay for my own insurance policy ?

How much would insurance be for a first time driver thats 19?

im gonna buy a brand new 2012 volkswagen gli thats 25k and its my first car and was wondering what would the insurace cost monthly for me

Is it any difference between Insurance agent and broker?

Is it any difference between Insurance agent and broker

Can I claim my car insurance back? It was cancelled after my car was written off & I couldn't afford another.?

My car insurance company cancelled my insurance because I did not buy another car. I could not get another as I'm still waiting for my excess to be paid out. I had paid 4 months of my annual car insurance so had to pay the remaining balance when they cancelled it. The accident was not my fault. I understand that I have to pay a full year's car insurance but wondered if I could claim for the months which I have not been able to benefit from due to the accident rendering me car-less!

Car Insurance for youth?

What car insurance company is usually cheapest for a new driver with a car in the early 90's (1991 Grand Prix) for liablity only. I would go on with my parents but the company they have forces me to pay on every car they own and its just waaaay to much for me since im just starting out in the workforce

Can a 16yr old register a car in his name in TEXAS and can he still be on parent's insurance?

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[jivingcryingboy]

Song Topicz

What do people write about in music? 90% of stuff I hear is directly about love. Makeups, break ups, sexy jams, love as a feeling. Even if it’s not the main theme, it’s still present. And even though we get to similar destinations, there are infinite routes to get there. The Pixar films have the same kind of structure. Good guys, bad guys come along and the good guys win, the end. But each on film contains a separate world, filled with different colours which somehow allows us to make the experience seem totally fresh.

A lot of great music is pure introspection. It almost teaches you everything whilst remaining in the same place. It searches for meaning where there is no explanations, and that is a reason in itself. The yearn for meaning, the actual process of beginning a journey searching for reason.

In music, film etc. people like dynamism. You couldn’t have a film with 2 hours of a blank screen. You need movement. In drama to comedy, there needs to a progress. That’s why there is that battle of the good guys vs the bad guys. You get that in all levels, kids films like Pokemon, to dramas. There needs to be payoffs, or more importantly the strive for that payoff/victory. Why we need that is a completely different post I might do. That’s some Nietzsche stuff right there and it’s too late to get into that shit now, I’ll do some other time. 

Anyway, the need for movement in songs/albums is vital. It’s what I admire about Kanye West. There are so many artist who have released one good album and will release the same album all over again. With Kanye at least you are getting a totally different set of songs. And I think to stay relevant in terms of success both outside and personal, you need to change. It’s why we try new restaurants, holiday locations, drinks etc. there’s that need for change. Nowadays, music is so disposable, we have playlists full of artists with one song who get bunched together to make a vibe. That is fine and that’s always been around in some way, but the focus of a long term project, an album per se, is getting lost. 

What I try and do in my songwriting both musically and lyrically, is try something new all the time. Whether that’s the way I approach a song melodically, genre wise, instrument wise etc. and lyrically speaking I try and create different stories. I think lyrics do revolve around love, and more specifically, love and hate, pain and relief. The destinations are broad but few in my opinion. But it’s the world you create that allows it become dynamic. Everyone hears about write what you know. That’s good and I think that’s what everybody does to an extent. It’s good to talk about experiences especially fresh ones, different ones. But it’s also good to talk about experiences that you haven’t had. Create scenes where you are unfamiliar with, like an actor going in to a role who’s life they would initially find it difficult to sympathise or comprehend with. Like right now, I’m writing a new song about a female Pimp who has a lot of male prostitutes on her rooster (need to do some more research into this obviously) and convinces a man to earn money selling his body and it talks about how the man had dreams but finds it hard to get away from being a prostitute. (It may change but that’s a rough premise). I don’t know what that’s like from first hand knowledge. But I’m gonna read about it and make a song. Share the same destinations, share my dreams. This male character has dreams. I have dreams. He can have the same feeling of longing as I do but in a completely different setting. It’s stuff like that which keeps it fresh I think. However in all these changes you need to keep the substance there. Style can overpower people’s experiments, leaving you with pretty music talking about nothing. 

I don’t think this a straight forward path. I think artists have so many ups and downs with creating material. I know I have and I’m small time.

Like I keep saying though. Add to the bow, expand your perspective and learn more about the world around you. You’ll interoperate stuff a lot more accurately than you did. Whether this is a totally good thing, I don’t know. Maybe it makes you think too much and do less. That ignorance is bliss shit. But I guess I hope it makes your thirst for life more quenchy, whatever the fuck that means.

*****

Gonna post that song up next week, got this half marathon I need to do and don’t wanna get the two muddled up online. Next week gonna continue my search in some open mic nights, night running etc. More ideas down too xx

[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs, week thirty-three

brief reviews of the songs which debuted on the billboard hot 100 the weeks of 23 august 1997, 25 august 2007, and 26 august 2017

8.23.1997

25) "You Make Me Wanna..." by Usher

It's at once extremely difficult and painfully easy to stand out amongst the sea of R&B dudes. It's difficult because there's so many, but easy because, on some level, all the other R&B dudes are singing about devotion. They're either pledging eternal love or pledging eternal love on the condition that their intended return, either way, they are saying you're the one, you're absolutely the only person. Usher isn't even going to say he's going to leave his current girl for you. He's saying he wants to, but he's not saying that he's going to start that new relationship, he just really wants to, he wants to ditch this girl for the person he should have been with all along. It's one of the greatest songs about indecision ever made, well deserving of its place in the cultural consciousness.

58) "Hole in My Soul," by Aerosmith

Imagine the look on Steven Tyler's face when he realized hole rhymed with soul. "We can write so many songs now!" I like to think he exclaimed to his other, equally excited band members. "This changes everything!" I dunno, you're asking me to write about a song Aerosmith made at least five years past their prime and 20 years later. Like, I'm not gonna find gold in this swamp just 'cuz I brought a pan to it, y'know?

67) "After 12, Before 6," by Sam Salter

This is an okay song about fucking, but how many horny-ass R&B songs have we heard out of 1997? Like, just by making a song touching on infidelity in a novel and fun way, Usher makes his song more memorable than this synthy ballad of many runs. (Another point in "You Make Me Wanna..."s favor: whoever played guitar on that song did a stellar job.) Like, why would I wanna hear another slow jamz after "You Make Me Wanna..."? What is the utility of this decades-old song about schtuppin'? Hello hi it is 3 AM on a Wednesday I am behind on everything I got a super late start on this post I've barely started the Fall Out Boy post and I wasted ten minutes I don't have trying to wrap my mind grapes around this song.

76) "Have a Little Mercy," by 4.0

how come in songs like this from a group of r&b dudes every member of the group is singing in the first person. like shouldn't the other three dudes say "you should take him back," or am i supposed to believe that all four of these men are spurned lovers who are simultaneously making their pitch. "heck are these other three girls doing here?" "efficiency. our plea will not work unless we are harmonizing." like i wouldn't take any of these dudes back simply because none of them made me feel special.

77) "Supernatural," by Wild Orchid

We have brought up in YAS the idea that, if we didn't know who Fergie was, we would not mind her songs at all, but because they come with the Fergie package, we are annoyed by them, consider them horrible, awful things. I can now introduce ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE to the trial, which is the best kind of evidence IMHO. Wild Orchid had a song in the Top 20 for a little bit. Because I encountered "Talk to Me" in one of those periods where I don't feel like "learning" anything about the thing I'm gonna talk about, I didn't look up who the individual members of Wild Orchid were. TURNS OUT, WHEN I DION'T KNOW FERGIE WAS INVOLVED IN A PROJECT, I ENJOY THE RESULTS OF THE PROJECT A LIL' BIT. This isn't quite as fun as "Talk to Me," and I'm a little disappointed this isn't the '60s jam the first few seconds of the video led me to believe it was going to be, but it's a fun '90s pop/r&b ditty, and also that key change.

91) "Stranger in Moscow," by Michael Jackson

So we're all in agreement that Michael Jackson made a lot of great songs and was probably a pedophile, right? I dunno. Like, he's dead, so listening to his music probably won't hurt anyone, but at the same time, I'm not sure I'll be able to say anything of value regarding this song, because I'm either going to ignore the fact he was probably a pedophile or make a dumb joke about a sensitive topic, I dunno, this item on the list is like a treasure map with no Xs. I'm not about to dig in a billion places just to find one nugget.

92) "Free," by Ultra Nate

All dance music sounds more or less the same to me, yet I somehow mind this a lot less than the rest of the dance cohort. I guess I just think it makes sense to build a dance track around the line "you're free to do what you want to do." Like, yeah, that's a sentiment worth dancing to, I can do what I want, and that includes the hully-gully and other fashionable dances.

8.25.2007

22) "Ayo Technology," 50 Cent ft./Timbaland & Justin Timberlake

"We need a hook for this song. We have the biggest stars in music, the hottest producer on the track doing his usual thing, we just need that hook, something that people will SCREAM in the clubs!" What if we have J Timbies complain about technology? "...Hm. OK. OK. Tell me, I can't remember Fifty's ver -- sorry, Fiddy's verses, but does he mention technology at all?" Nah. "So J Timbies is going to complain about technology..." Just because. "Well should we add any references to technology to the song at all?" Nah. "I LOVE IT! Hit 'em with the suckerpunch! Gentlemen, and you are all gentlemen because this is 2007, we've done it! Another hit which will last in the public consciousness forever! Let us enjoy rich people drinks, like scotch probably!"

45) "If You're Reading This," Tim McGraw

this is boring and we don't talk enough about how tim mcgraw and josh groban at some point became the same entity

56) "The Pretender," Foo Fighters

Rock might be the one genre where "they just don't make songs like this anymore" is an actual statement worth making. Like when's the last time we heard a rock band attack a song like Foo Fighter does here? Even the latest Foo Fighters song felt perfunctory, like rock for the sake of making rock music in 2017, and not for the sake of making something cool and rebellious. And that's not to say there isn't great pure rock being made outside of the mainstream (shout out to Sheer Mag!), but the rock music that's trying to break into the mainstream either feels stale or is Imagine Dragons. Nothing feels even a tenth as dangerous as the first half-minute of the song, where things feel too quiet, where you know Foo Fighters isn't releasing one of their acoustic songs as a single and are waiting for something to happen to fuck you up. Rock in the mainstream doesn't have that danger anymore, and even this song, I'm describing a wait for something you know is gonna happen, not an anticipation of anything that could happen. I enjoy this song, is what I tried and failed to say in the rest of this passage. We're comin' up on 3:45 and I'm only vaguely aware where I am right now because I so rarely leave my apartment.

65) "S.O.S.," Jonas Brothers

These delightful little scamps made a whole bunch of adorable, enjoyable pop/rock music that isn't really worth any sort of deep analytical plunge! I still don't understand how one of these kids ended up making "Chains." Like, I get that Nick Jonas wanted to shed that Disney image, but he didn't need to prance around shirtless like a gigolo just so he could seem more "adult." (Bob are you trying to comment on how we treat male pop stars as opposed to female pop stars?) I'm just saying, I would respect Nick Jonas a lot more if it seemed like he respected himself. I don't think it's very meninist to try to sell sex, y'know? (Bob don't post this.) WATCH ME

74) "International Players Anthem (I Choose You)," U.G.K. ft./OutKast

This song is a miracle we don't deserve. "So I typed a text to a girl I used to see/Sayin that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be/And I apologize if this message gets you down/Then I CC'd every girl that I'd see see round town" This song STARTS with those lines. And like Dre's verse obviously gets attention, but gosh, the way the beat is pared down to just the drum and bass when Big Boi begins his verse and the whole song goes quiet as a mouse as he says what he needs to say, it's so good. This song is so good, it's worth forgiving the minor homophobic slur tossed out by Pimp C. Like, aside from that one small unfortunate misstep, this song is absolutely perfect, peak OutKast, almost peak Southern rap, it's SO GOOD! It's so good, man. Hold on tight to the memory of this song, stormy waters ahead.

93) "I Got it from My Mama," will.i.am

"Be a good girl and thank your mama/She made you steamin' like a sauna." BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP BOOP BOOP BEEP "Hello, my daughter!" "Hi, Mom!" "To what do I owe this call on this lovely Tuesday morning?" "I just wanted to say thank you." "Aw! Sweetie! You just made my day!" "Yeah will.i.am wants to fuck me because of how you made me so hot." Who on earth okayed this song. Who heard this and said, "okay." Your reaction to this song should not be "okay."

94) "Over You," Daughtry

One of my favorite things on the World Wide Web (aka, The Infonet) is "How You Remind Me of Someday," which plays one Nickelback song in one ear and a different Nickelback song in the other to show how Nickelback uses the same chord progressions and drum fills in two songs they said were different. There is a video that no longer exists, likely because Vote for the Worst no longer exists (I think they made it), which played this song and Nickelback's "Photograph" side by side to similar results. What I'm trying to say is, rock died despite Foo Fighters' best efforts and now we all have to listen to Imagine Dragons because Daughtry couldn't be bothered to try harder.

99) "Wake up Call," Maroon 5

Like all Maroon 5 songs, this is acceptable.

26 August 2017

70) "The Race," by Tay-K

This was certainly a freestyle. I feel like I'm missing something here, like there's some reason this song charted beyond my limited scope. A lot of the search results on YouTube brought up Lil Yachty, so maybe there's a remix of the freestyle, but I honestly don't give enough of a shit to contend with Lil Yachty after Billboard said I wouldn't have to. I hope he's set free or whatever assuming he's innocent of whatever people claimed he did or that he’s served enough time for whatever he did, again, I’m not going to research because his rap name is dumb and I don’t feel like sifting through Google. I’m sure it’s bad, whatever the situation is.

76) "Patty Cake," by Kodak Black

Nope!

81) "OMG," Camila Cabello ft./Quavo

This is actually a reasonable trap song. I can't tell if I'm actually enjoying this or if I'm reacting to the novelty of a pop starlet trying her hand at a trap impression, but I'm pretty convinced this is a strong, strong attempt at a trap song from someone who probably has no business trying to enter into this genre. I'm also kind of refreshed by a trap song which doesn't create a new gross dick descriptor in every verse. It's pretty alright!

82) "What About Us," by Pink

This is a tasteful amount of '90s dance influence. Maybe it's not just '90s dance but dance in general, I don't think dance music has undergone a ton of change in the past ever, but like y'all get it probably, the way this song is more propulsive than the standard "we've got to do something!" ballad. It has a nice kick to it, is what I'm trying to say, and a nice kick is generally what Pink has delivered in her long and storied musical career, as she becomes the 32nd member of the '07-'17 Decade Dance Club. Would that Choice had hit and Pink could join Tim McGraw and Jay-Z in the Double Dance!

84) "Perplexing Pegasus," by Rae Sremmurd

look. when you put the word pegasus in your song title, i have certain expectations. i am not looking for a boilerplate trap song about how foreign cars make girls horny. i am expecting something MAJESTIC AS IS BEFITTING A WINGED HORSE. this song has utterly failed to meet my rigorous standards for songs about pegasi. i am being informed that the pegasus is also a foreign car and i 100% do not give a shit, give me fantasy trap or give me death.

94) "B.E.D." by Jacquees

This dude seems like a legit vocalist. I dunno, I think 2007 took me to dizzying highs, and 2017 is giving me a bunch of songs that would get a B like it usually does, but in this case, this song gets a B because I think the dude aims to one day do better, more ambitious things than this song. Also, let's consider the moral downfall of America as told by the progression of '90s R&B music. In 1997, we had Usher considering leaving his girlfriend before taking up with a new lover and four nice boys begging that a young woman (or four!) show them mercy and forgive them for hurting her, and the one song that was about fucking was laden with innuendo and operated under a set fuck schedule, “fucking will be taking place in the designated fuck hours.” Like, it was about fucking, but the fucking was inferred, not stated. In 2017, we have this young man saying "I don't wanna love/I just wanna fuck" in the chorus of a song that was released to radio. Also, a Nazi wasn't president in 1997. It truly was better back then.

95) "Chillin' Like a Villain," by Sofia Carson, Cameron Boyce, Booboo Stewart & Mitchell Hope

WE NEED TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR THESE DELIGHTFUL DANCING TEENS. This song is woefully bereft of Captain Hook's gay son, yes, but most songs are, so we won't hold that against this delightful dance jam I am in no way qualified to speak about, since I have not seen the film and am also turning 28 on Saturday, like what is this life choice I have made for 30-some weeks in a row.

99) "Havana," by Camila Cabello ft./Young Thug

This is gonna make for a dope Postmodern Jukebox because it's already halfway there, it already kind of sounds like someone listened to "The Girl from Ipanema" and said, "How much can I water this shit down before the song is ready for 2017 pop radio?" A lot, but also, I love the way horns herald Young Thug's arrival, and I think this is the most I've enjoyed a Young Thug guest spot since his verse on that one Drake song. It's really cool that Camila Cabello is exploring all these different genres, and I've ended up enjoying all the songs she's put out this year. I mean, I miss Lorde? I wish we would've kept Lorde around? But Camila Cabello's been pretty dope, her songs are a lot of fun, and I'm okay with her being the current queen of pop, if that's what the world has decided it wants.

Who won the week?

These girls are smart, Three Stacks, these girls are smart. Play your part.

2017: 12 1997: 11 2007: 10

2007 on that comeback trail! They’ve got a few weeks to collect Ws before it settles in for what looks like a long winter. Can it overcome 11 songs of 1997 nonsense and whatever OK songs 2017 will bring to us next week? BET ON IT BET ON IT BET ON IT BET ON IT

[apathetic-revenant]

(part six)

FMZeth: I love how apparently in the early years of the Federation it was totally cool to just crash on some rcently discovered planet without any real precautions

FMZeth: or at all really

The Time Being: Sure why not

The Time Being: we got plenty of 'em

The Time Being: it's almost starting to seem like maybe we should have picked an explored planet for this

The Time Being: -also, just wanna say, one of my classes this semester is Gender in Arthurian Mythology, and what just happened made pretty much as much sense as 95% of anything that's happened in what we've read

The Time Being: You'd think a Vulcan of all people would be able to handle this planet

The Time Being: "Sulu!" "Captain!" "Spock!" "Rodrigeuz!"

FMZeth: Populate the planet with Vulcans: come back to find it covered with geometric shapes for no real reason.

FMZeth: I guess McCoy just assumed that given Barrows was in fact highy attractive, Kirk would jsut swoop in by default and never bothered trying that hard.

The Time Being: It's a pretty reasonable assumption

The Time Being: I mean, when's the next time Bones gets a love interest? Season three?

FMZeth: sounds right

FMZeth: The blue one is the prettiest.

The Time Being: ...you said that just as the shot switched to the bridge

The Time Being: so I'm going to assume you mean Spock?

The Time Being: "Start the important swirly thing!"

The Time Being: "Mr. Spock, get this woman off me!" "...Never thought I'd hear THAT."

The Time Being: so wait, can anyone just wander into Kirk's room whenever?

FMZeth: I was thinking the same thing

The Time Being: *My* room has better security than that

FMZeth: I like how Red and Green fail at seducing a target a piece, meanwhile Blue is taking on hallways at a time.

The Time Being: huh

The Time Being: that's not just a different colored shirt Uhura's wearing, it's made slightly differently

FMZeth: maybe hers was missing after a disagreement with production so they had to cobble one together

The Time Being: ...that sounds like a mighty interesting disagreement with production

FMZeth: Well if they didn't want to pay her, she may have been leaving at some point

The Time Being: "I'M LEAVING AND I'M TAKING MY SHIRT WITH ME!"

FMZeth: I was thinking more along the lines of it bein reused for somethign else

The Time Being: I like my explanation better

The Time Being: I like how he said "I do my own cooking" like there was any other option he could have been using

FMZeth: "I MAKE THAT THIRD GUY DO ALL THE COOKING! *I'M THE HEAD MINER!*"

The Time Being: "NBC did not choose this episode as the second pilot mostly because they were worried about the central theme of "selling women throughout the galaxy" and the guest stars being "an intergalactic pimp" and "three space hookers". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp 65-66)"

The Time Being: Thank you NBC

FMZeth: She says Sarek wrong

The Time Being: everyone is so surprised she contributed something useful

FMZeth: And she keeps calling him Ambassador

FMZeth: are they married or does he employ her

The Time Being: I dunno

The Time Being: maybe he employs her to be his wife

The Time Being: did they bring all their own plants with them?

FMZeth: maybe

FMZeth: When you have as fewplants as you do on Vulcan

The Time Being: dang he's tall

FMZeth: you grow attached to them

The Time Being: it really makes me happy that all of the mind-altering juju or whatever going on in this episode has almost entirely taken the form of violence directed at Wesley

The Time Being: this calls for the old Bones method of just getting everyone on the ship really high

FMZeth: You know Sarek hasn't actually had that much screen time at this point in the series

FMZeth: it's pretty noteworthy that seeing him like this can be so heartrending

The Time Being: that's because Sarek has always been awesomest

FMZeth: mmhm

The Time Being: mostly because Mark Lenard was awesomest

FMZeth: mmhm

The Time Being: Hey!

The Time Being: there's that tactician guy in the background

FMZeth: Hm?

The Time Being: I forget his name

The Time Being: Kolrami

The Time Being: From Peak Performance

FMZeth: hm

The Time Being: just hangin' out

FMZeth: wonder if that was purposeful or just reused costuming

The Time Being: If it was it was reused makeup too

FMZeth: ew.

The Time Being: Not like that

The Time Being: >_>

FMZeth: "Hold still while I just scrap this latex off..."

The Time Being: "The Enterprise finds a deserted planet and a downed ship's lone survivor, who has no memory but possesses extraordinary healing powers."

The Time Being: THEY FOUND BONES

FMZeth: He never did trust those transporters.

FMZeth: "She must SEE the electricity in your eyes."

The Time Being: "She must see your eyes at all, in the first place."

FMZeth: "She must SEE the fire in your eyes." "She can't Worf." "Oh, I--I'm sorry--" "she doesn't have infrared vision like me."

The Time Being: what's this about his heart needing "direct neural input" anyway?

The Time Being: I'm no biologist, but uh, the heart's a muscle

The Time Being: stimulate it

FMZeth: That actually makes sense

FMZeth: she's saying that his brain isn't telling his heart to beat because of a damaged connection

The Time Being: Well that I get

The Time Being: what I don't get is the connection that "therefore we need to hook a brain up to it"

The Time Being: he's a vampire!

The Time Being: or Wolverine!

The Time Being: or...who else has super healing powers?

FMZeth: "We found these metal appendages lodged in his skeletal system...we just can't explain it captain!"

FMZeth: Riker: "Reminds me of an ancient fictional legend: The Wolverine."

FMZeth: Picard: Hm, I recall he associated with that... Professor X fellow. All nonsense."

The Time Being: "The myths say his ability to regenerate grew to be...truly ridiculous." "Come now Riker, don't tell me you'r superstitious."

FMZeth: "We were lost on a pod, an escape pod. Being chased by...an insane...military commander..."

The Time Being: WAAAALAIALLALALAAIAIIIOOOOOOHHHHH

FMZeth: oMG

FMZeth: he's a monarch butterfly

The Time Being: what

FMZeth: he's metamorphising and on an unstoppable journey

The Time Being: this is a stage of the monarch butterfly I didn't know about

The Time Being: wait

The Time Being: why was Data down

The Time Being: just...in sympathy...?

FMZeth: I'm going to guess yes

The Time Being: "Everyone's on the floor! This must be a human thing."