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wonderfulworldofmichaelford · 6 months ago

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Michael Before Midnight: "Houdini" by Eminem

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Eminem is one of the most controversial rappers of all time, and this reputation isn’t entirely undeserved. I mean, the man has an entire song that’s just six straight minutes of him acting out violently murdering his ex. Uncontroversial artists do not make songs like that. But I think people do give him a lot of shit and really try to underplay his genuine talent too, mainly because of how a lot of his work just hasn’t aged great.

You have to understand the time and place Em rose out of. The 90s was all about being nasty and politically incorrect, and the rap scene reflected that. The rise of gangster rap had guys talking about how cool the thug life was, and there were all sorts of vulgar tunes being cranked out (“Pregnant Pussy” is from the 90s, if that tells you anything). As a white boy in a cutthroat industry where black men are the kings being taken under the wing of the man who produced “Fuck tha Police,” Marshall Mathers really wasn’t gonna do anything other than assimilate into the culture of the time to survive. And it worked; he’s pretty much the only white rapper besides maybe the Beastie Boys who has kept a long and generally well-liked career. He played by the rules, made sure to acknowledge his place, kept his ego in check outside his songs, collaborated with the right people, and boom! Rap has its token white boy.

But the edgy violent white boy schtick that made Slim Shady so funny and… “endearing” back in the day is not really something people like in 2024. Since the 90s, edgy white boys like the Slim character have shot up schools, sexually assaulted women and gotten away with it, openly supported fascism, and whined about queer people and black people being in Star Wars. No one fucking likes a Slim because they’ve been ruining our world for a while now, so this character who was once a beloved aspect of Em’s career just doesn’t sit right with the people of today. Add onto the fact that he’s a middle aged man, and he can’t just be doing the same crap all these years later without looking like the cringiest man alive, a rapping Elon Musk. With all that, and the fact his upcoming album is called The Death of Slim Shady, you’d think maybe he’d drop a single to showcase how he’s evolved over his career, how his sobriety and fatherhood have changed him, and how the Slim persona is well and truly in the past.

Instead he released “Houdini.”

For better or for worse, this is a return to that classic late 90s/early 2000s Slim style, with everything that implies. Get ready for lots of references, offensive jokes, and more, cuz I’m going line by line to talk about the content of Slim Shady’s final comeback. And while I am going to analyze some of the lamer and more questionable jokes, I want to make it clear that I understand the Slim character is satirical and whatever. I'm not fucking dumb, and I've been listening to Eminem for 24 years now. Being satire is not an excuse to be unfunny.

After an ominous skit where Em’s manager Paul Rosenberg tells him he’s own his own for this album, we have an intro to kick the song off:

Guess who’s back, back again? Shady’s back, tell a friend Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? Guess who’s back? (Da-da-da, da, da, da, da, da, da) (Da-da-da, da, da, da, da)

As should be obvious to anyone with a passing knowledge of Eminem, this is a reuse of the intro of his classic “Without Me.” This is a double-edged sword; on the one hand, it is a fun little callback to his earlier career and helps once more establish that he’s bringing it like he did back then. But on the other hand, you’re reminding the audience of one of your best songs right off off the bat, so if this one doesn’t live up to that, you’re in for a world of hurt.

Now’s also a good time to mention that the song heavily samples “Abracadabra” by the Steve Miller Band. From what I’ve gathered, a lot of people find that song unbelievably corny… but that’s why I love it. And I mean, the song’s called “Houdini,” so why not sample the massive smash hit song that’s named after the famous magic words? Again, for me at least, sampling a song I already love means you’re gonna have to really kick it into high gear to make me want to listen to yours over what you’re sampling. There’s about a million songs that sample “When the Levee Breaks,” but how many of those do you think I’m putting on over Led Zeppelin, y’know?

Well, look what the stork brung (What?) Little baby devil with the forked tongue And it's stickin' out, yeah, like a sore thumb (Bleh) With a forehead that it grew horns from (Look) Still a white jerk (It's him), pullin' up in a Chrysler to the cypher With the Vics, Percs and a Bud Light shirt Lyrical technician (Yeah), an electrician (Yeah) Y'all light work (Haha) And I don't gotta play pretend, it's you I make believe (What?) And you know I'm here to stay 'cause me (Why?) If I was to ever take a leave (What?) It would be aspirin' to break a feve' (Yeah)

So far it’s been pretty solid. It’s pretty clear Em’s still got it, great flow, delivery, subtle nods to his past work, boasts about his skills, talking about how he started from the bottom… It’s nothing really groundbreaking, but it’s at least continuing the idea that Slim is back, baby! I sure hope he doesn’t derail his momentum in the next couple of lines with a stupid, cringeworthy jab at a woman who literally never did anything to him!

If I was to ask for Megan Thee (What?) Stallion if she would collab with me Would I really have a shot at a feat? (Haha) I don't know, but I'm glad to be back like

So a little context here, for those not in the know: In 2022, rapper Megan Thee Stallion accused fellow rapper Tory Lanez of shooting at her feet and saying, “Dance, bitch, dance” like he’s a comic book mobster. The case was taken to court, where Lanez was found guilty and then sentenced to up to 22 years in jail. Now, the two have shouted out each other before—Em interpolataed the hook of Megan’s song “Body” in 2021’s “Killer (Remix),” while Megan referenced “The Real Slim Shady” on her feature on Lil Nas X’s “DOLLA SIN SLIME”--but I’m not really sure the two are close to the point where it’s cool for Em to jokingly reference the time some psychopath acted like a Batman villain to her. The fact Megan’s 2024 diss track “Hiss” referenced Mariah Carey’s “Obsessed,” which was about Eminem, does make me side-eye this bar.

But hey, one corny, cringey joke is whatever. Let’s see how the rest of the song goes:

Abra-abracadabra (And for my last trick) I'm 'bout to reach in my bag, bruh (Like) Abra-abracadabra (And for my last trick, poof) Just like that and I'm back, bro

So this is the chorus, and I have to say it’s incredibly lazy and boring. It’s just an Eminem-themed parody of the original chorus, and it’s not especially interesting. That being said, by token of being a chorus of a song I already like just with lyrical alterations, I don’t think it’s bad either. I just expect a little more cleverness from Eminem.

Now, back in the days of old me (When?) Right around the time I became a dope fiend (Oh) Ate some codeine as a way of coping (Mm) Taste of opiates, case of O.E. Turned me into smiley face emoji (Woo)

Here, now we’re back on track! Em is reflecting on his old self and talking about his drug-addled early career! Surely he’ll stay the course here and dig deep into his manic persona that was partly created by his addictions, and not veer off into alt-right talking points and child abuse jokes!

My shit may not be age-appropriate But I will hit an eight-year-old in the face with a participation trophy 'Cause I have zero doubts That this whole world's 'bout To turn into some girl scouts That censorship bureau's out to (Shut me down) So when I started this verse It did start off lighthearted at first (Hmm) But it feels like I'm targeted

Hoo boy, we’re whining about how “sensitive” the world is becoming and how censorship is coming to get you! Eminem is going full boomer now. But hey, maybe he has a point! You can’t sing songs where you violently murder the mother of your child and then abduct said child anymore, because of woke. You can’t rap about mass shootings right after they happen either, also because of woke. Whatever, grandpa. Let’s see if you have anything of actual substance.

Mind-bogglin' how my profit has skyrocketed Look what I pocketed Yeah, the shit is just like y'all had been light joggin', and I've been runnin' at full speed And that's why I'm ahead like my noggin', and I'm the fight y'all get in When you debate who the best, but opps, I'm white chalkin' when I step up to that mic, cock it then "Oh my God, it's him! Not again!"

Just some pre-chorus boasting topped off with a throwback to his song “As the World Turns.” It doesn’t completely erase the bad taste of his whiny boomerisms out of your mouth, but it’s at least something.

Sometimes, I wonder what the old me'd say (If what?) If he could see the way shit is today (Look at this shit, man) He'd probably say that everything is gay (Like happy) What's my name? What's my name? (Slim Shady)

Em’s had a long, troubled reputation with queerness. He came under a lot of fire for homophobia back in the day, but then his friendship with Elton John happened. There’s also his brief appearance in the Seth Rogen movie The Interview, where he plays himself as a closeted gay man. Even still, he’s often used queerness as jokes in his songs, mainly as an attempt to emasculate his opponents (something he even did to an actual queer rapper, Tyler the Creator). As a bisexual man myself, I do find it tasteless in general, but in the context of this song I thing it’s ok. Like yeah, the homophobic crackhead Slim Shady persona would call the world we live in gay. The line still feels a little weird, though; is the Slim persona actually singing this song, or is this Em reflecting on the Slim persona? It kind of muddies the water, and makes it hard to figure just how seriously we’re supposed to be taking everything here.

So how many little kids still wanna act like me? (Haha) I'm a bigger prick than cacti be (Yeah) And that's why these (What?) Words sting just like you were being attacked by bees (Bzz) In the coupe, leaning back my seat (What?) Bumpin' R. Kelly's favorite group (Uh), the black guy (Guy) pees (Pees, haha) In my Air Max 90s White Ts, walkin' parental advisory

Verse three starts off pretty good! The R. Kelly joke is extremely juvenile and crass, but that’s the sort of thing I enjoy from Slim. It may be low-hanging fruit, but that’s the fruit you wanna grab the most. Now what wacky sort of humor is Slim going to bring to this verse next? Surely he won’t make some incredibly stupid and corny joke that isn’t funny in the slightest and derails the whole song!

My transgender cat's Siamese (Why?) Identifies as black, but acts Chinese (Haha)

According to Genius, this line might actually be a reference to a Dave Chapelle bit from 2019’s Sticks & Stones. If that’s the case, I really don’t need to say much more. There’s no way to read this line in anything other than the worst possible light.

Like a motherfuckin' Hacky Sack, I treat (What?) The whole world 'cause I got it at my feet (Yeah) How can I explain to you (What?) That even myself I'm a danger to? (Yeah) I hop on tracks like a kangaroo And say a few things or two to anger you

So he does openly admit he says fucked up stuff to get a rise out of people. Going in to the song, I knew this. The guy’s a provocateur, it’s what he does, and the Slim persona has always been about being as flagrantly offensive as possible. But the thing is, even the stuff here I’m taking issue with doesn’t make me mad; I’m more disappointed than anything, really. Like he has to know that times have changed and people really aren’t all in on this sort of humor anymore, right? What is the point of bringing Slim back to a world that has evolved beyond him, even if to finally kill him off? If that’s what he wanted to do he could do it without trying to showcase the dated humor. This is the musical equivalent of watching an 80s sex comedy like Porky’s or Revenge of the Nerds. Like maybe it was funny way back when, but looking back at it through a modern lens it’s just really gross and unpleasant and full of terrible messages.

But fuck that, if I think that shit, I'ma say that shit Cancel me, what? Okay, that's it Go ahead, Paul, quit, snake-ass prick You male cross dresser (Haha), fake-ass bitch And I'll probably get shit for that (Watch) But you can all suck my dick, in fact Fuck them, fuck Dre, fuck Jimmy, fuck me, fuck you Fuck my own kids, they're brats (Fuck 'em) They can screw off (Yeah), them and you all (Uh) You too, Paul (Punk), got two balls Big as RuPaul's (Woah) What you thought you saw ain't what you saw (Nah) 'Cause you're never gon' see me Caught sleepin' and see the kidnappin' never did happen Like Sherri Papini, Harry Houdini I vanish into the thin air as I'm leavin' like

The rest of the final verse, save for another tired shot at cancel culture, is fine. I might even say it’s a bit funny; I like him taking at shot at Dre, himself, everyone he’s worked with, his own kids… That part is where it is really obvious the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek, because he is by all accounts a good and loving dad. Making fun of RuPaul and Papini are fine in my book too.

So I’ve been pretty critical of this song and rather unamused by a lot of its jokes. This must mean I hate it, right? Well… no. I can’t say I love it, but I really don’t think this is awful. Trust me, I’ve heard awful Eminem and this isn’t it. “Just Lose It” and “We Made You” are light years ahead of this song in terms of awfulness. On top of that, this is also the first single off of an album that’s all about killing Slim—I don’t really have the full context. For all I know, this could be part of an overarching concept of the album, Slim’s last ride before his inevitable death, and in that regard this is definitely a perfect modern take on the classic Slim Shady song, warts and all. We just live in a world where his kind of humor doesn’t age badly, it just ends up dead on arrival more often than not.

If nothing else, it still showcases Eminem has great flow, great wit, clever writing… and that’s what he should stick to instead of making tired, unfunny boomer jokes about cancel culture and queer people just to rile people up. Hopefully that’s what the rest of the album will be like when it drops. I doubt I’m going to review every single song on it since I’m no Todd in the Shadows and my musical knowledge is very casual, but maybe I’ll give my opinions. Until that time, though, I think I’ll just listen to “Venom” again.

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randomnameless · 9 months ago

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i know you said hopes had negative character development for the cast, but who do you think is better in hopes than in houses?

Better like in better writing, or better as in I appreciate them more?

Without a doubt, I'd say Felix and Sylvain who are better in Nopes than their FE16 versions, and in a way... Rhea herself, thanks to having more screentime when she isn't PTSD'ing lol

Call it chauvinism, but Sylvain in Nopes was scrubbed out of everything that made him... unlikable/feel flat in Houses.

His sob story about people only wanting to fuck him for his title/crest really felt... straight out ripped from some High School AU, with John McChad acting like an ass because the only girls who want to date him are interested in his situation as a heir of his dad's big company, and not because they love him. Yay. Great. Perfectly what I'm looking for in my medieval fantasy game where you whack people with swords.

Add to that the focus on crusts being the supposedly only reason why people are lusting over him - and not because, hey, you're a member of one of the most important noble houses in the Kingdom - to play in the general "crust bad" orchestra that can lead on the Supreme path, and the fact it's never ever adressed, and we have... this, which completely, to me, hides the other parts of Sylvain's character - like being someone who thinks outside of the box and resolves to lessen the reliance on his relic to defend the border by... creating a situation where they'll be no tension at the border, aka, a peace with Sreng.

Now, Sylvain works so well in Nopes partly because all of his "wah ladies only want my penis because i'm rich :'( " is erased, so we see a character who takes his duties as the heir of Gautier seriously, assists his Lord and friends and bring "new ideas" to help everyone. Sylvain, under his frivolous appearance and behavior, actually thinks and learns and suggests a lot of things that are quite useful, a bit like a "what if Sain wasn't only interested in courtship, but was raised as a future lord and had insight and suggestions on what to do". So sure, it's not as quirky and memorable as John McChad's sophomore year of school, but it fits better, imo, in the FE series.

As for Felix, well, it's more or less the same, his entire "duh boar bad chivalry bad and stupid - but wait no don't die and i'm sorry to have hit you dad i liked you but I was too busy playing the tsundere that I never got to say it to you before you died" schtick felt... old and annoying in FE16.

Sure, Felix can have his own, personal feelings about Dimitri being a hidden boar, but Felix is also the only heir of Rodrigue, and will become the next Duke Fraldarius, aka the second most important person in the Kingdom after the King himself, and the one tasked to protect it. Should Felix completely ignore his feelings and do what is expected of him, or take his role seriously? No, and Nopes has him give some "boar this, boar that", but Felix isn't a petulant 16 years old who wants to be "edgy" anymore, Felix is the next Duke - something he never shied away from, especially in his FE16 paralogue! - and has to start learning the job, thinking about Faerghus in something else than small jabs thrown at Dimitri and how to protect its people and second the King.

Heck, Felix's support in Nopes with Dimitri where Dimitri confesses about the ghosts, where Felix tries to carry him, the more or less cutscene where the general feeling is him saying to Dimitri he can count and rely on them... Given how FE16's Felix was written, even in AM, I can't see it happen before Rodrigue's death... and yet, in AG, Rodrigue is still alive (his optional death doesn't change those scenes), so when FE16's Felix realises there were more important things to do to help both his friend and country and dad but he only noticed it too late because he was too busy... being edgy, Nopes has him drop the edgy act (not completely drop it though, else it wouldn't be Felix anymore!) and act (lel) as his FE16 self, but only, without needing his dad to die first.

As for Rhea...

Having more screentime seriously helps, just like being allowed to talk about non plot relevant things with someone else than Billy or about Billy, I gushed a lot about the Nabatean paralogue, but it depicts her relaxing with her family (pissing on the "u r the only person i can talk to myself not the archbishop" pandering shit from FE16 even if FEH pissed on it first) and making tiny baby steps at apologising and confessing part of her guilt (for something completely stupid like Seiros the Warrior "borrowing" Cichol's shield to gift it to Willy!) to a member of her family.

Would that mean she would have confessed about the rez Sothis plan to Seteth earlier on? I... don't know, don't think so, and we don't have enough interactions between the two.

Compared to FE16 where she is an oyster until Billy turns green and Seteth nags her again and again and again, here she willingly makes the first step to apologise... sure, it's for something silly and not, resurrecting their mother, but it feels like a small progression (tiny baby steps) from FE16 where she has to be reveal stuff due to forced circumstances.

I also like how it sort of teases (or maybe that's just me lol) Seteth realising that Rhea still misses days long past to an unhealthy degree (tfw too much nostalgia), or just, having to remind her twice that those days are gone. Would he later realise her strange nostalgia hides something more deep, and ultimately her wish to "return" to those days by resurrecting Sothis?

idk, it's fuel for HCs and AUs, but for what it's worth, this paralogue and Nopes in general help flesh out Rhea more than what FE16 does, aka tying 80% of her mentions/appearances to Billy and Sothis.

(hell, in Nopes, she finally has lines with Flayn!)

#anon #replies #3 nopes #i confess i recently read fanfics about Faerghus and I'm just wondering why FE16 leaned so hard on the high school AU tropes #when written seriously and in the context we're only told about but never shown in game #those characters shine more?#Rhea is her own category lol #the Julia tier #when the plot drops the pandering she can finally interact with her network and acquaintances #in FE4 the pandering is towards Seliph #like seriously you want me to believe no one from Tine to the Jobros to Altena never heard about the Imperial Twins and Julius's sister?#Especially Tine who's supposed to be close to Ishtar?#but that plot point is completely dropped so Julia is just a waif with amnesia who befriends Seliph and Lana apparently #in this paralogue Rhea can finally talk to Flayn and Seteth for something else than plot related stuff #heck in her battle lines when you use her they all seem to be close Rhea even plays with Flayn #that's not the kind of stuff we could have had in FE16 bcs alone b4 u

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insanitize · 1 month ago

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okay I've been thinking about it some more and here are some things i like more about digimon than pokemon:

gender. digimon do not have genders. english speaking fans do he/him or she/her them a lot and i think the subs and dubs for the various anime series do but canonically speaking none of them are Girls Or Boys

for this reason it's also possible for a very masculine looking digimon to evolve into a very feminine looking one and vice versa. because these concepts mean nothing to them. and that's badass forever to me

evolution. technically speaking any digimon can evolve into any other digimon so long as it's one of the level above them. this makes fanmade evo lines possible. so if you have a favorite of every level you can very much just imagine a digimon who evolves into all of those

digimon also devolve. so evolving isn't permanent

character. so the thing about digimon in comparison to pokemon is that digimon tend to be more like people than pets. there are some exceptions to this but ultimately a digimon partner is your beast friend who would die for you not your dog. so most digimon can also talk. this means that in the anime series especially when they want to add a digimon they also have to write a character and that can be really fun. there are digimon i likely wouldn't think much about otherwise that i love to death just because one version of them is a great character. looks directly at impmon

this also means that if you're like me and insane. the digimon are often more relatable than the humans are because they have the opportunity to be

anime. pokemon as an anime isn't bad per-se except for when it is. but not a lot happens in it that isn't standard shenanigans and basic children's anime stuff. digimon is also for kids so it's not like high art or anything but its anime tend to have an enormous deal more to say for themselves than pokemon's anime does. like if you watch especially either adventure or tamers you'll get a lot more out of it. a lot of times it's sort of "what if whatever edgy pokemon fanfic you wrote as a tween actually happened". and i like that

death. the digimon can die sometimes instead of just being functionally immortal but fainting. this is because they're originally based on tamagotchi. i think that's pretty cool

cards. i like how digimon cards look more than pokemon cards sometimes. some of those illustrations are absolutely batshit

designs. this is obvious but i just generally think digimon look better than pokemon do. yes digimon tend to look much busier than pokemon but post like gen3 pokemon have just been getting more and more awkward to look at whereas digimon has remained fairly consistent. i also like that a lot of digimon are just Guys. i know a lot of pokemon fans absolutely despise it when a pokemon is so much as bipedal but digimon often evolve into just full on guys. sometimes hardly distinguishable from humans. and they look kickass nearly every single time. the royal knights who are my favorite ever are basically just knight or animal themed gundam most of the time and yes they are enormous and yes it is exactly as cool as you think it is

worldbuilding. to put it simply i like digimon's world more than pokemon's world. pokemon takes place in a version of more or less our world where all of the animals are these things called pokemon which is cool. but digimon exist in an entirely parallel world to ours called the digital world with its own rules and appearance and mythology and culture and ecosystem and whatnot. generally the two worlds aren't supposed to overlap either so it's fun to imagine. but the digital world is also. digital. so sometimes its manmade too. and that's cool also

jogress. you don't have to make fanmade mashups here sometimes the digimon just fuse

and that's all i can think of smiles

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kalashni-cola · 5 months ago

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Lets go..

@Shithead... no that's not right, @usefulidiot? Eeeeeeh @jamielovesjam since I have to.

Where to start..

Age of majority

The age of majority refers to the age at which an individual will be legally considered an adult. It is the age at which one will be subject to the full legal rights and responsibilities of an adult, including the right to vote, the right to join the military or the right to sign a contract. After reaching the age of majority, one will become fully responsible for their own actions, contractual obligations and other undertakings. Parental duties of support will also cease. It is important to note that the age of majority does not necessarily conflate with the drinking age, smoking age, driving age, voting age, age of sexual consent, marriageable age etc. These will also vary from state by state and country by country. United States: 18/19/21* Netherlands: 18 United Kingdom: 21 Austria: 19 Sweden: 18 Canada: 18/19* Australia: 18 Switzerland: 20 Germany: 18 Japan: 18 France: 21 Belgium: 18 (Countries based on stupid purple circle graph by the US. SG office) (**Alabama and Mississippi being weird and some Canadian territories) The age of majority is 18 years in almost all OECD countries (Table PF1.8 A). (That's a official pdf) https://www.oecd.org/ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Oh and yes I did spell that right. They can't get their copyright right yeesh)

General consensus among most people is that at 18 you are an adult, Uncle Sam says you're old enough to be drafted at 18. The World Health Organization is a United Nations political tool that does not have a great track record at all. The UN/WHO have no say in US politics or policies at the end of the day.

Relative frequencies are often used to inform the general population instead of experts and they have some advantages for this use case:

relative frequencies always allow for integers instead of fractions, which is useful if the variable of interest only makes sense in integer format (e.g. 0.5 out of 100 humans or 0.3 out of 100 births is not helpful). If the occurrence is very low (say 1 in a million), percentages are also not pretty (0.0001%)

relative frequencies might be easier to visualize: 1 in 10 may make us think of 10 people we know; 10% is rather abstract. As Greg Snow pointed out, relative frequencies have a relation to the real world. If 100 000 people live in my city, 85/100 000 is easier to grasp.

there is actually also scientific theory about this, the "frequency format hypothesis": "The frequency format hypothesis is the idea that the brain understands and processes information better when presented in frequency formats rather than a numerical or probability format." (from Wikipedia)

and, finally, percentages are sometimes given without a reference class (% of what?)

So when you proclaim 36.4 per 1m with your purple graph, that's 0.00364% chance of death between your chosen demographic.

0.00364%* 1 in 15,300 people has a better chance of getting hit by lighting. (according to News Nation) That's 0.00653%**

See, pretty interesting how its not much of a difference in percentages but the numbers are widely different.

(I'll add the source of that 36.4 per 1m here (at least the Office of the USSG spelled the organization correctly, I'll give them that.)

I mean there is also the whole PDF by them.. You know so people can read the whole thing on which this data pieced from. before we dig into that PDF, lets go to the Unified Crime Report (UCR) from the FBI, our favorite Table 8.

I want to you look at these numbers carefully. Total homicides for 2019, 13,927 - The FBI include suicides in these statistics for the UCR, as suicide is typically recorded as a homicide/murder. Lets go over to the mess I like to call the "Crime Data Explorer", this is the new administration trying to be edgy for no reason with their data. Data set to the same year 2019.

That's 6,618 uses of weapons in a homicide. A little different than the 13,927 from the UCR. Lets go over to Table 9 You might like this because of the age brackets. Important to note we're still at 13,927 victims.

669 victims of homicide under the age of 18, and if you want to be semantic, 1,462 deaths of 19 and under. Some would think "Wow that's a big leap!" 17-19 account for a massive jump from 270 to 1,042. Most can and would attribute that to gang violence. Now lets jump to the new CDE.

1,048 victims 19 and below. Pretty close but no cigar to the UCR this time. Wondering where I'm going with this ey? Well there hasn't been a new UCR out since 2019. And quiet frankly the CDE is horrible to interact with and considering the variables I've found in it, I'd find them not very accurate. But if I would..

If we believe the CDE trend wise homicide is down, minus since 2020 its spiked a really shitty border might be a reason for that but I digress. (that means gun violence is as well by the way but otherwise down.) And if we want to look at 2022;

That's one hell of a jump if you ask me but also closer to the old UCR data though mildly increased. So in comparison the CDE does not have a good breakdown of their data into tables like the UCR. So all in all, I'd love to know where "48,204 total people died from firearm‑related injuries, including suicides, homicides, and unintentional deaths." As the PDF graphs you've give me to read. (Their number 2 source doesn't give the data they used for that quote btw) Because if they're trying to include suicides say from AFSP the say there were 27,032 suicides by firearms in 2022, but that doesn't stack well when there are suicides reported with homicide numbers in the UCR. So be it as it may. I see your PDF and I would trash it, even if it had some interesting tidbits like this;

I'd say Gang related or socioeconomic conditions may have something to do with this in urban centers and it's not necessarily a firearm issue. But anyways. Your tags are lame and there is no "etiquette of tags" on Tumblr reblogs. I tag things when they have relevance so I can find them later, or an initial post. Suck on my tags as they say.

#gun control #gunblr #firearms #FBI #FBI UCR #FBI CDE #info #debate #gun rights #freeblr #death rates

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unrealblacklightvirus · 1 year ago

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talking about fics...

90% of my Alex's headcanons and personality and characterization is based on either rhythmantics' works (especially the marvel crossover one) or theyreburninghthewhales' fic called "RE:" if you haven't read RE: PLEASE READ IT IM BEGGING YOU it is one of the best works I've ever read in my life (and rhythmantics I think they both occupy the best fanfics in the world I can't put one over the other)

it's a fix it of sorts where instead of alex finding the worst in the world and becoming Edgy(-er) and an Evil Villain, he finds a place that makes him see humanity in its best light UGH its so good and Cross is there and they talk about his biology (how his skin can consume and the hivemind and all that ITS SO GOOD) Alex is also ace aro I think? And that was the biggest inspiration for my alex just occasionally "loosing himself" in the memories of people he consumed and wanting to be a better person. Also alex becoming more human (hobbies). That whole fic could serve as a one to one character background for my alex. Just saying.

Rhythmantics' works I used for defining dana and alexs relationship and they used SUCH COOL designs and concepts, especially about how alex knows he's this monster who can try to be good but deep down he knows his existence relies on the death of people just for him to survive. how he connects to the hivemind and how strong he truly is (there's a scene where he gets mad at Tony stark because it's Tony stark being Tony stark and it's so good because they really wrote it well how alex is a thousand million billion pounds of biomass that is essentially unmovable) is just so well written .

Also the last one I have to mention is "A Dead World" by Laluzi on fanfic.net it's a fallout new vegas crossover (if you aren't familiar with that game it's a lot more confusing to read but new vegas is also my favorite game of all time so...) Alex gets frozen by.... someone? Idk it's not finished yet and I'm still reading it... and winds up hundreds of years in the post apocalyptic future and he is released into the world of fallout new vegas' Nevada. It's beautiful it satisfies EVERYTHING I've ever wanted in a fallout fic AND a prototype fic (alex struggling with himself, his autism attitude which honestly same alex, finding people to eat when there's a fraction of the population left in the US, GREAT characterization of not just alex but Courier 6 and all the companions, UGH just EVERYTHING) ALSO one of the best fics in the world. All three share top spot!!!!!!@

rant over

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rappaccini · 1 year ago

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gonna dump my btsv spec, salt and wishful thinking here

general thoughts:

no way in hell is this movie coming out in under 3 years. it's gonna be long and extremely hard to animate and they can't even start recording lines yet due to the sag strike, assuming the script is even done and won't need lots of reworking.

i am totally fine with that. the animators were treated terribly during atsv and i hope they get better conditions this time around, including more time to work. and if they're treated as badly or worse i hope they loot the studio like a viking raiding party.

miles's arc is probably good to go. maybe it won't hit its full potential, but it seems pretty safe to say that his character is in good hands.

gwen's is probably fucked since she'll likely be The Girlfriend at the end assuming they don't fridge her.

itsv emphasized miles's bond with aaron, atsv emphasized his relationship with jeff. btsv should emphasize miles's connection to rio to balance it all out.

jessica's going to turn on miguel, to either save jeff from his canon death or gwen from hers.

the movie will start with miles in 42, and follow him traveling home to save it from the spot.

we know they'll stop by in 138 at some point, probably around the halfway mark.

we've heard that margo will play a 'larger role than we expect' -- idk if that's just 'margo pushes the send-miles-to-42-button' or 'she's going to factor heavily into btsv.' i hope it's the latter.

so hopefully, hobie and margo are built up with much more prominent supporting roles and like. actual character arcs. that don't revolve around being the disposable corner of a love triangle whose consolation prize is cheering the main couple on. we met punk and byte in across. let's get to know hobie and margo in beyond.

(wishful thinking: make them the love interests for gwen and miles instead of each other.)

we know gwen's death is going to be a canon event explored in this movie. it was teased with the 'in every universe...' line and gwen's overall behavior, gwen's literally wearing the Gwen Death Colors (green and purple) in her civvies (... which even have the green top/short bottoms/black leggings silhouette of the Death Outfit), and she ended atsv accepting her place as miles's girlfriend (gag) and with none of her trauma regarding her peter's death resolved, as she's about to throw herself into danger to redeem herself to miles, who she treats as a peter replacement.

and chronologically speaking, after the death of the captain, gwen's next. atsv was all about The Death Of The Captain. so gwen's next.

we know we're meeting alternate gwens. candidates include gwen42, gwen8, gwen138, gwen1610, gwen616, ... and a possible revisiting of gayatri and gabi. also, we've seen glimpses of gwenom in the canon event web and gwen's penguin stuffed animal is a reference to spider-guin. possible for them to appear too. (earth 42 seems like the most apt place for a gwenom to appear since gwen probably won't get her symbiote and gwenom would probably be viewed as the Dark Edgy Corrupted version of gwen (sigh), and now that ham's in the cast, we could drop into his dimension, where guin fits in)

please not earth 8 anything but earth 8. if gwen and/or miles fucking meet their stepford wife selves and are told 'see? you CAN be a couple' and decide its somehow a good thing i will start biting people. if gwen gets starry eyed and decides 'wow! i CAN have a future! as miles's wife!' i'm gonna rip the seat off. if she pulls a sitting in a tree and takes their future children into the fight as reinforcements, i'm gonna jump into the screen and start tearing it apart.

big fear: that the spiderverse trilogy will be revealed as an earth-8 gwiles origin story, complete with them abandoning their arcs to be a couple and leading an eight-person hero team called the amazing eight. or having their worlds smashed together so they can be together.

i doubt the writers have read that deeply into gwen's comics to know about the council of spider-women. if they have, i don't think they'll be smart enough to put it together that the council doesn't exist to say 'yes gwen! go be someone's girlfriend!'

gwen needs to meet an alternate version of herself a la miles and miles 42.

act i:

the 'let's do this one more time/differently' monologue sharing a character's backstory should be miles 42's. show us a quick montage of his story from his pov, leading up to him meeting miles.

miles and miles 42 gain each other's trust and come to an understanding instead of fighting. miles processes his grief over his aaron, helps miles 42 do the same with his jeff, and miles meets rio 42. there's probably some impersonation. miles learns about the state of earth-42 and decides to help miles 42 save new york, given the stole-your-destiny angst. they learn who each other could've been.

gwen and co land in earth 42 (where they know miles is thanks to margo) and start looking for miles. maybe they get held up by the sinister six cartel, or confuse miles 42 for miles 1610. my guess is we get some indication that gwen 42 is dead to start planting the Gwen Death Seeds (that, or she's the venom of this dimension).

(praying that gwen 42, should she exist, isn't either miles 42's love interest or even worse, his love-interest-who-died-to-give-him-manpain. praying that gwen42 is a gwenom, because peter b parker / miles g morales / gwen m stacy is a theme. and gwen m = gwenom.)

miguel, jess and ben prepare to interfere in jeff's death and apprehend miles, but realize miles isn't coming and that the spot's about to swallow this world up. jess probably turns on miguel to protect jeff.

act ii:

miles reunites with gwen and co, probably as they all work together with miles 42 and aaron 42 to take out the sinister six cartel. (my kingdom for a tiana toomes cameo as one of vulture's followers.)

miles is probably going to be harsh to gwen after they reunite. she gave him a shitload of trust issues.

(also, fingers crossed but no hope, he's over his crush on her-- the reason why he's fixated on her has been resolved: he doesn't need gwen to help him with his grief, because aaron 42 did that; he doesn't need validation because he just found it with miles 42; and he doesn't want to leave his community on 1610 anymore-- he wants to go back to save it.)

(fingers crossed, zero hope x2: we expand on gwen's survivor guilt and death anxiety. she thinks that saving miles and/or being his love interest is how she can redeem herself not just for betraying his trust, but for outliving peter. miles has everything he needs to get over gwen, but she has nothing to help her get over him.)

wild guess: interdimensional fuckery ensues, which tips miles and co off to the spot being in 1610. or jess straight-up calls them and says so.

wild guess: dimension-hopping ensues. to 138 at the minimum, because it was confirmed we'd see more of it.

probably also to 616 and ham's world, since both have alt gwens (spider-guin, and og dead gwen).

maybe a quick return to mumbattan (especially given that gayatri's there and it already has spot damage), or a passthrough of noir and peni's worlds because of how artistically distinct they are. (hopefully margo's too because why leave her out if we're doing the rest. plus given that margo's powers are only through her avatar, it'd be funny to see a totally normal girl juxtaposed with seven superheroes)

this is probably where we introduce the twist that gwen's death is the big canon death miles is actually going to contend with. and that she has probably internalized and accepted it given that she's accepted her place as miles's love interest. so, miles learns, through the dimension-hopping, that gwen's death is a canon event, that's what had her worried this whole time, and that it's oncoming and she isn't doing anything to prevent it.

wishful thinking: please give us more of what gwen and hobie were up to in his dimension. if we're gonna spend more time there, let's fill in that gap. (please have the balls to not friendzone them)

i'm guessing if they split the characters off into trios, they'll be miles-gwen-peter, pav-hobie-margo, peni-noir-ham.

meanwhile in 1610, jeff, rio, ganke, visions academy and miles's community react to the spot causing havoc as the spider-society debate whether to intervene or allow his world to be destroyed. hopefully ganke gets to do something in this movie.

btsv's big Take That at how editorial's treated miles will probably be at how they let his universe be destroyed, so the movie will emphasize just how special his world is and how terrible it is to let it die.

i'm also wondering if miguel's going to catch on to miles in 42 and start chasing him through various dimensions.

again, jess is going to turn on miguel if she hasn't already.

act iii:

the return to 1610 to save the dimension from the spot.

miles's identity is revealed to his parents. they love and support him.

the spider-society, led by jessica drew and/or peter b, rallies to protect 1610, and possibly miles as well if miguel goes after him.

maybe the spot threatens earth 65. after all, ~it's another parallel between gwen and miles~ that their worlds are seen as disposable compared to 616.

gwen probably performs a heroic sacrifice to save miles or a member of his family, maybe even jeff. it'll most likely involve the clock tower, given how it was set up in atsv and it's where the last cinematic gwen stacy died.

hopefully, gwen doesn't die for miles's manpain and a Gotcha, You Predicted The Wrong Canon Event moment. i doubt that'll happen but you can never underestimate men when it comes to thinking that fridging is 'satisfying.'

(.... are they going to kill rio instead. i know his mom dies in the comics pre-616 move, and that so far the movies have structured itsv as the Aaron Movie and atsv as the Jeff Movie. there's one adult in miles' life left, and one movie to go, and he's about to spend time with her variant on 42. i'm worried.)

anyway it's probably gwen. the canon event involves gwen stacy falling from a great height, often unconscious, as spider-man tries and fails to catch her. and this occurs during a conflict with the archvillain.

so gwen will probably fall or dive from the clocktowerduring the spot battle, might be knocked out, and miles will try to catch her.

.... hopefully she jumps instead of falling.

hopefully, gwen's survival doesn't revolve around miles either-- either by being saved by him, or saving herself/being saved by someone else so she can be his girlfriend. (fingers crossed, zero hope! they keep cramming in moments where miles ~catches gwen as she's falling~ for a reason.)

i really wonder if gwen will end up falling through the spot's teleportation holes and ends up in an alternate universe, presumed dead.

(big fear: she lands in earth-8, realizes ~i can have a future as miles's babymaker~ and rejoins the fight with their kids as backup like in sitting in a tree.)

(big hope: she lands in earth-617, and she and gwen-617 inspire each other to do better, like in the life of gwen stacy)

regardless, ideally gwen saves herself for her own sake. another acceptable alternative is jessica saving gwen and redeeming herself for being a bad mentor. an alternate gwen doing it would be even better as long as it isn't gwen 8. just no men saving gwen.

(or using their electricity powers to 'restart her heart'. staring hard at ism2 and wondering if lord and miller want to snatch that plotline.)

anyway that heroic sacrifice is going to re-endear gwen to miles.

miguel sees the light. maybe it's because of gwen, since if gabi's his gwen, he won't respond well to seeing an alternate version of his daughter in danger/dying. either way he either lays off or joins in to protect 1610 at the end.

miles 42 probably shows up to help (maybe aaron too). probably has an emotional moment with jeff.

anyway 1610 is saved and miles is affirmed as the ultimate spider-man.

miles comes to the understanding that he isn't the only one who deserves to redefine his narrative-- everybody does. gwen is the natural conduit through which to realize this, as the character with the most pressing consequences weighing down on her, and the one whose relationship with him has the most narrative weight.

(-- and also because miles letting gwen go is the greatest fulfillment of his arc because of how selfless it is. if gwen stays locked into her narrative, then he gets to have her as a girlfriend and be her hero. if she breaks out, then he won't get those things anymore. he gains nothing from encouraging her to be her own person, but it's still worth doing because it's the right thing to do.)

what'll probably happen is the movie will stop at 'wow isn't it so subversive that spider-man and his gwen got to end up together! good on gwen for choosing miles instead of peter! miles is Different for some reason!' and they'll have their big upside down kiss and become a couple because the writers don't understand gwen and want miles to have his cake and eat it too. gag.

(fingers crossed, no hope: my pipe dream is that miles helps gwen realize her feelings for him are rooted in her survivor's guilt, and that living for herself is what she actually needs. i hate that it's a girl needing permission to be independent from her male love interest when her original canon storyline is her coming to that conclusion all on her own, but we'll take what we can get: they let go of their crushes on each other, reaffirm their friendship, and support each other in defining their own paths.)

in the end montage, it'll be confirmed that miles is still in contact with his interdimensional spider-friends, that the spider-society probably still exists but has reformed somehow and miles is a part of it (... something tells me it won't end), that his family and friends support him in being a hero, and he's going to art school (because his interest in physics was all in finding the validation he no longer needs, and these movies are a celebration of art at their core. no way is he not gonna be an artist at the end).

also unfortunately i think they'll throw in fluff about how gwiles are going to stay together forever, get married and have those damn earth-8 spiderbabies. gag me. i wish them a very divorce.

(fingers crossed, no hope: give us a margo-miles ship tease instead. miles doesn't need a girlfriend right now because he needs to find himself. once he does, he's ready for love. my kingdom for a casual reference that margo has a middle name that starts with the letter j, aka she's been an mj all along. it follows thematically that in a story about how any boy can be spider-man, we should also discuss how any girl can be mary jane.)

(and if gwen's gotta end up with someone, my kingdom for it being hobie. they have a past that could easily be brought up on 138, margomiles have a future. let the disposable corners of the love quadrangle be the ones who win out in the end. let gwen fall for a spider-man without him getting her killed or turned into a sidekick gf. let hobie have something that humanizes him.)

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ourflagmeansgayrights · 2 years ago

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19 and 24 for the asks

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

i cant think of anything i actively like despite my better judgement at this current moment in time. so i guess im mad/ashamed/horrified at myself for sticking out through h0hw for so long and being like "well it has its flaws but it's soooo well written, i can look past the issues!!" like i should've fucking known. when the author threw in the transatlantic slave trade for edgy flavor or whatever i was like yeah ok i shouldve seen this coming.

(obligatory "dont send the author hate" disclaimer like harassment is not the answer here. i am criticizing a fic on my blog but that doesn't mean i condone hate.)

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

izzy hands and race lol. like alex sherman said that the writers hadn't written izzy to be explicitly intentionally racist and that apparently gave people the right to shut down anyone who wanted to analyze like, subtext or the connection between "izzy's revenge" and "montezuma's revenge" and the historical significance of that joke. and on the other side of it, some fuckhead heard "izzy hands is racist" and jumped to "that means anyone who likes izzy is racist! im going to go harass izzy likers and anyone who even reblogs art of izzy–" (hi, that's me, im an izzy hater who got called racist for reblogging fanart of izzy lol) "–right now so that they stop talking about izzy."

OR alternative possibility, someone who likes izzy hands wanted to derail every single conversation about izzy hands and race ever so they started sending asks that stole "izzy critical rhetoric" and now nobody can, for example, make a meta post about izzy and homophobia without someone coming in the comments yelling at you for putting your post about izzy hands in the izzy hands tag. or whatever.

like idk who was harassing the fandom on twitter and instagram and tumblr for months but the one thing they did succeed in is derailing what started out as a thoughtful analysis of izzy that was primarily being led by fans of color. every time i see the phrase "izzy critical rhetoric" i lose braincells because the majority of that "rhetoric" came from fans of color, but those interpretations get brushed aside because someone on anon used their arguments in a death threat.

🔥choose violence ask game🔥

#ofmd #our flag means death #anon discourse #wearfinethingsalltoowell #ask #mine #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr #txt #ask game #ofmd fandom crit #og

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gayspock · 2 years ago

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ok some thoughts

ok i do have complicated feelings on nat's death. firstly like air this one out rq: real fucking fuming that some ppl serioussllyyyyy are attacking freaking juliette for it, like? ok.... so your response to "its really fucked up that they killed nat who had finally found peace and was starting to overcome her addiction etc." was to attack the actress who has every right to leave a job if she wants to. i guess in other news 1+1=4.

but anyways sigh i have mixed feelings like.... i think theres a Part of me that kind of. ok. super unpopular opinion bc i know this ME & my own cyncism and "issues" or whatever & kinda shy to say this both bc it makes me look edgy as fuck but also like.... idk as someone whos had mental health problems, lets say, and has sort of resigned to this idea of like. oh i died a long time ago & theres a point in my life where i just think i stayed , and i dont think theres any way of going back, something something about living on borrowed time and it feeling meaningless . or whatever. stares at you pretend i didnt say all that. my point is i dont know i kind of- its bc i dont wannaaaa say ppl cant recover, that natalie was too far gone, this that and the other, bc i dont think you can make those judgements abt others (fictional or not) only yourself but... idk my point is. i fuckin get it when shes on the plane like that, as shes dying or just dying when she felt like she should have bc ever since its just been fucking horrible and well okay. sorry man i do kinda feel it even though i acknowledge its a shitty message.

i dont think it helps either that her "recovery arc" wadnt my favourite not bc i like. AGAIN im not saying this bc i dont think you can recover or get better its more like.. i was never a fan of the execution of it. i felt like it happened a bit too fast, and i would have preferred more scenes with natalie and lottie rather than natalie and lisa and natalie and the rest of the cult and i feel like that would have been more powerful to me bc the cult themselves feel kind of just... underdeveloped, and very much functional as a means for lottie and whats going on with her . i fully expect them to never be mentioned again after some point and to be completely ignored with the way this show has been going

and like i dont mind lisa that much but i dont now im kinda uninterested in characters that just get introduced and we immediately get SO much focus on them when theres, as i said , other more interesting and efficient ways to explore similar things (natalie and lottie a better dynamic for example) AND other stuff thats getting ignored big time.

like as an aside. i dont mind lisa as much BUT one example is also fucking walter and i dont like how theyre using him to kinda reduce misty to a bit of a joke AND cheap out on her own development (i think she can carry fine on her fucking own without him) but also bc he takes up so much runtime with his goofy little bits that just dont do it for me when again we're missing other shit from, like, FUCKING SIMONE FOR EXAMPLE whos barely been mentioned which is crazy. actually crazy. that she has barely been mentioned and tai's whole storyline has been ignored like that

but anyway even with lisa, i dont know- the whole thing with going to se her family, ugh... call me a jaded asshole, but like it just felt so. unsubtle. with the waythat whole scene was kinda executed. is that a cunt thing to say. but i dont know theres also other parts of the cult i just cant fuckin vibe with- i just feel like its so... clumsily done at times, and i cant quite articulate why i think that.

anyways . i get why a lot of ppl dont like natalies death in the end bc yeah it is kinda... a shitty message to send, even if i do kinda feel like well yeah damn yeah you know. but like also i do think theres the other obvious issue of like... with the way this show is, and as good as it is, i feel like theres gonna be more problems that develop and exacerbate over time. i really feel like they needed to introduce more characters earlier on and/or reveal less in present day bc whilst i dont think the tension is everything , and i dont think the shock value of ppl being hunted/dying in the past timeline is everything i do think its gonna have effects on the present time line and them trying to compensate. nd anyway now theyre just gonna do shit like try to tragically kill the women in the present vis a vis nat for like kinda no reason imo bc i do think it was . ultimately such a weird fucking way for her to die and to end even if i did resonate with her dying scene

and i do think there IS some bite that kinda being lost and its a bit weird when they write themselves into holes and have to try and flesh out new characters in the past that we know are just gonna straight up die so soon. a

its why i also didnt really like the idea of krystal. fuck i dont like the idea of krystal and walter being introduced to have a rapport with misty and i think thats just bc i LIKED her being alone . i liked no one fucking liking her. maybe its bc i projected too hard, but also its just like... i dont know it feels so fucking WEIRD that misty has had 0 friends and then she incidentally only just realises that some girl on the soccer team shes been orbitting for forever is like her type of weird and whatever whatever bah bah bah LIKE... theyre clearly trying to spin stuff for her to do, the same with the inclusion of walter, and its like. i dont know again in MY opinion and maybe its my fault for both projecting and setting an expectation but... i think a much more interesting thing to explore would be ownership of herself and her own fucking weirdness and being able to do that alone without needing the validAation of the others . am i crazy. like again i keep thinking abt her in the future and her and walt and ugh how much more i would love it if it was her fighting by herself to try and get natalie out of there. YES its harder to execute in a tv show but i do think it owuld be so much more interesting than taking the . in my opinion lazier route of just sticking in other characters to use to give her storylines

anyway what else was i gonna say fuck this was meant to be about natalie yeah like. thats also what im kinda mad at and why i dont like the inclusion of the extras like walter and lisa, like... i thinkits so much stronger when its just focussing on the dynamics of the girls (and their established ties, from the beginning of s1, i.e callie or simone, etc.) and i think mistys arc this season would have been better if it was a focus on her and nat, even if it was totally onesided rather than fucking walter and

ok im done can i also say. cant wait for shauna to ascend to antler queen in the current timeline. let her go fucking insane i say

#Egg.txt #yellowjackets liveblog

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aboredneet · 6 months ago

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I roll up my sleeves and turn to the toddler, "No point in waiting to start magic lessons with a mother like that, lets practice pentagrams and death metal growls for a bit". I look at the child for a second awaiting a response, but all I get is a blank stare followed by them puking on the floor. "Ah..." I say with all the apathy and disappointment of a hot topic employee looking at a conservative Karen, "...maybe I was overestimating this one. Maybe we should just start with some breakfast?" With a flick of my wrist the vomit comes alive and slunk its way into the garbage, 'thank God I don't have to clean that up by hand' I think to myself. Once again I turn to the child and ask, "What do you want to eat, or what can you eat?" Then I said more to myself then my intrepid ward, "Maybe I should call a succubus, they can let it suckle some milk... or maybe it's too old for that... wait! Is it even house broken!" I turn back to the child, or rather the empty space that my ward had occupied last I had laid eyes on it. Frantically I looked everywhere for the little brat, here, there, where oh where...And there it was just standing at the trash can playing with the vomit slug I had made. I suppose kids are just simple minded moneys after all, not much is needed to distract them, but that does give me an idea.

I animated all the kids toys and had them reenact Shakespeare for the rest of the day, it all went smoothly apart from teddy hamlet becoming sentient towards the end and committing suicide (I put a bit too much soul in that one) but that's just par for the course with Shakespeare. As for food I ended up just feeding it cheese and crackers, seems fitting after all cheese is just chewy milk and crackers are simple enough for any age as long as they have teeth and I did verify that he did beforehand. The kid loved it.

Eventually as the evening wore on the little bundle of hyperactive energy tired itself out and fell asleep on a pile of stuffed animals as they quietly spoke about incest and vengeance. I covered them with a blanket from the couch and ordered some pizza for myself, a treat most jobs don't permit me to have.

With this new found peace and quiet I perused the book shelves around the house, mostly new age mumbo jumbo and other literary trash. Until that is I got to the bedroom, on a shelf hidden by a house plant I found a bunch of edgy looking books most were just 'I'm a 14 goth girl' edge but a few were authentic demonic tomes, makes sense. Ding-Dong! Man that door bell is surprisingly loud in this peaceful silence, must be the pizza guy. Off to the door I walked with a joyful spring in my step, casting a quick glance to my ward on the way to make sure the bell did not disturbed them, it had not. Diiiiing-Dong! How impatient can a human be, I mean really. I swing open the door and grab my prize, the smell is spectacular. "Hey, you gotta pay for that, dipsh*t." I grab the mans soul and devour it in a single bite, and with a flick of my wrist the lawn devours his corpse. "Here is your tip 'don't p*ss off hangry demons!'" I yelled at the empty yard before slamming the door.

Checking on the kid once more I slunk to the kitchen to devour my prey. Heavenly, wonderful, better than sex even. Oh, how I wish you could get pizza in hell but that might defeat the point. Mid way through my ontological debate with myself about the ethics of ordering pizza in hell, the front door banged open and the mother walked in with an armload of various things.

"The kid is asleep over on the pile of plushies." I say around a slice of hot Italian pie. "You didn't feed him THAT did you?" She asked looking at my box of half eaten pizza. "No, this is only mine. I gave them cheese and crackers." I say around yet another slice of hot Italian pie, "Anyway, I'll be on my way". "But what about your payment? Don't you want my soul? Or would you rather we work out some other payment..." she said with a flirtatious wink.

"Nope, I got pizza so I'm good" I say over my shoulder as I walk out the front door. Off in to the sunset I walk with my prize in hand.

The end

You’re a demon. One day, you’re summoned into a living room, and an exhausted woman quickly rambles about needing to get to work and being unable to find a sitter before flying out the door. Now, you stand in your summoning circle, a toddler staring wide eyed at you.

#writers #writing prompts #demon #wholesome #demonic #good pizza great pizza #pizzalover #pizzatime #pizza #based #shakespeare #tags #original content

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8bitsupervillain · 11 months ago

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End of the Year 2023: Games I didn't like

The Bads

With the worst games I played list I decided to exercise more restraint with it. If I listed every game I thought was simply fine or a bit below average this and the meh list would've combined into a big twenty plus monster. So instead I decided to focus on the ones that I just found particularly bothersome. The first two on the list are given the dual honor of being a Dishonorable Mention as well as being a numbered entry because of the short amount of time I spent with them.

Dishonorable Mention/10: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

I went into this somewhat blind. I saw people vague raving about it, but I don't really know what it's about other than cannibalism and murder. That being said I made it roughly ONE minute into this game before I decided that this isn't the game for me. The dialogue that was on display for the four whole minutes I gave it before I abandoned it to the wilds just annoyed me. According to the Steam page for it the complete story will be done some time next year, maybe then I'll be more willing to engage it on its terms. I'm sure the edgy Hot Topic teens love this game. Also, is it Lay-lay or Lee-lee?

Dishonorable Mention/09: The Last Oricru

This game is on here simply for the fact that for the thirty minutes I owned the game I literally could not play it. It's allegedly a Soulslike, but I wouldn't know. After doing the character creation the game would load with my character falling out of some sort of hibernation chamber/grave into a featureless black void until they let out a pained death scream, where it would reload and do it again. The game itself would not let me actually interact with it in any way. Keyboard didn't work, Xbox and PS5 controller wouldn't work, and hitting ctrl alt del just caused my computer to crash. Eventually I just called it quits, because unless the game is absolutely stellar I was not, and am not, willing to put up with this.

08: Magic the Gathering

I want you to imagine a world in which we were back in set blocks that lasted more than one set at a time. I know Wizards claims there's market research that proves that people like less time spent on individual planes at a time, but for the purposes of this just imagine we went back to the two sets a block model. Imagine if storylines got a chance to breathe and weren't in such a mad dash to wrap everything up instantly. Imagine if Phyrexia: All Will be One got another set to establish and solidify what a monstrous enemy the multiverse had to face against in the Phyrexians.

What if March of the Machine had a chance to expand the war into an actual war, and took advantage of the extra design space to make some of the stranger designs from the set be better defined. What if Incubate, or the Battle cards actually got stuff to really take advantage of the designs? Plus you'd get the better feeling of the Phyrexian Invasion/War being a larger event than the rather sad showing that we did get. Planeswalker deaths could've been more substantive, and less a thing where you go "oh, Lukka died." But this is all narrative stuff, I'm also saying Magic has been kind of bad this year because of the fact that since there were so many narrow one and done sets things just feel kind of sloppy.

I truly think that some of the mechanics from MoM, or All Will Be One, or Wilds of Eldraine could've been easily expanded upon to be a lot more ironed out. Incubate could have been a really neat variation of the Emerge mechanic from Eldritch Moon. It could have worked in a very flavorful way to convey the mechanical horror of Compleation. But since we had to go instantly from March of the Machine to Lord of the Rings; Incubate, and the Battle cards just exist in their rather half-baked shell, and that's a damn shame. Discover, and Descent from Lost Caverns of Ixalan could tie in very well with Explore, but we won't get anything else for it because we're off to the Murders at Karlov Manor.

Sure people might have gotten sick of the Phyrexians if we stuck with them for five or so sets straight (anyone else remember Eldrazi Winter? Where people got sick of the Eldrazi after TWO sets?). But I think even if we didn't get Dominaria United 2, The Brothers War 2, and just got Phyrexia: Two Can Be Just as Bad as One, and March of the Machine part two before we got the Aftermath I think it could've worked pretty decently. Hell, Magic Arena had a chance to act as a pseudo second block set for these sets but they decided to do nothing of value with Alchemy again. Much as I like the Lord of the Rings set, and some of the cards from the Doctor Who set, making them actual sets in between the other premier sets really stole some of their thunder.

07: Yeah! You Want "Those" Games Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them!

A fine enough idea, making an actual game out of all of those mobile game ads where people struggle with the basic concepts of the game. For the first six or so hours of my time with it I was more than prepared to give it a glowing recommendation. But the imprecise controls and aggravating levels as each of the games progress started to grate on my nerves. You can definitely tell that the developers love the ads for those games where you pull the pins to drop a guy into a pile of treasure. That genre of game gets a blistering one hundred levels, where as the other games get either fifty (Color Lab, and Number Tower), or less than thirty (Cash Run, and Parking Lot). I just wish that mouse controls, or hell even keyboard controls were better implemented than they are in this. Also I despise the fact that there's a steam achievement that requires you to get a million in game dollars, but the game itself is very stingy with actually doling out the in game cash. I am not going to keep coming back to this game daily to grind out a useless game currency when I already did all of the levels in all of the games. I also completely refuse to use a grinding method that requires me to sit here and press the enter key for twenty hours straight.

06: Dragon Age: Origins

https://8bitsupervillain.tumblr.com/post/711486689646952448/dragon-age-origins-review

But if you want the quick, nitty gritty:

The story doesn't hold up as well as I remember it, although that may be down to a million other fantasy series more or less using the same shtick. The gameplay was passably decent, but made all the worse when the game kept crashing hard and fast every two seconds. Whatever enjoyment I might have had with the game was just constantly checked by the fact that the game was so crash happy it aggravated far far more than it entertained. Also my issues with the plot could probably be handwaved away with the idea that my proposed fixes for them come from more than a decades worth of time to think about the storyline in Dragon Age. This is actually one of the few times that I would recommend a game from my worst lists (aside from Magic, I'm ride or die with that shit), because it's always education to go back ten plus years and see how a genre has evolved or not during the intervening years.

05: Diablo Immortal

https://8bitsupervillain.tumblr.com/post/724989316514938880/8-bit-reviews-diablo-immortal

A quick summation:

An extremely boring ARPG that doesn't respect your time by making you do multiple hours of fetch quests in an attempt to just soul steal as much time from you as possible. There are some legitimately good ideas in Diablo Immortal, but so much of it is just completely swallowed up by the insane free to play MMO bullshit that drips from every orifice that there's basically no reason to play this game.

04: Shining Song Starnova

https://8bitsupervillain.tumblr.com/post/738121163470946305/8bit-reviews-shining-song-starnova

To keep it brief:

An annoying story that feels really blatant which parts are just filler meant to just waste some of your time until you get to unlock the storyline that actually matters. It has decent art for the most part, but also has some of the absolute worst phrases and metaphors for sex I have ever seen anywhere. The only emotion it was able to wring out of me was a confused guffaw when a character was revealed to have been sent to prison. You'd also think that a story about an idol group would have more songs from said idol group instead of generic music, but aside from maybe two songs the game/VN offers you nothing.

03: MyHouse.wad

That's right, I'm putting a fan made "level" in as one of the worst things I've played this year. I'm sure a lot of work went into this, from a purely technical objective standpoint it's pretty well-made. But true objectivity is impossible, at the end of the day what matters is how you feel about the experience, and quite frankly I found MyHouse.wad to be extremely annoying to play. I don't particularly care if this makes people think that I'm an idiot, but I don't think it's good design to just throw out puzzles with no hints or suggestions that you might be doing the right steps to solve it.

02: Euphoria

https://8bitsupervillain.tumblr.com/post/738294071653728256/8bit-reviews-euphoria-the-game-not-the-show

For those with no time to spare:

A rather disgusting visual novel that eventually ran out of steam and I just started feeling bored with. Sure the villain characters are written pretty decently, but that's it really. I wouldn't recommend it. Holds the dubious honor of being the visual novel with porn in it that had the least amount of bad porn dialogue.

01: Pathfinder: Kingmaker

https://8bitsupervillain.tumblr.com/post/738586159481012224/8bit-reviews-pathfinder-kingmaker

If you don't want to listen to me whine for a time:

A thoroughly miserable time. Just positively wasted potential for the vast majority of its ridiculous run-time. Nearly ninety hours of wishing and praying you were doing literally anything else, but you stick with it because in your diseased head you think that maybe, just maybe it'll pull itself together and somehow stick the landing. It really doesn't. Play literally any other CRPG. Play either of the Pillars of Eternity, play Tyranny, play the original Baldur's Gates games! There are so many better choices for how to spend your time than playing this miserable pile. I played the game for eighty nine hours and I regret ever starting it. This one game may have completely and utterly ruined the idea of any Pathfinder game for me. Normally I have to be invested in a series before something comes along and ruins an entire franchise for me. Pathfinder Kingmaker did it with its very first entry.

#end of the year #worst of the year #bad games #euphoria #pathfinder kingmaker #magic the gathering #diablo #diablo immortal #shining song starnova #starnova #the coffin of andy and leyley #the last oricru #doom #myhouse.wad #dragon age

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icyschreviews · 2 years ago

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A Review of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

The Bloody Mary of the Franchise

Yes, I often lie awake at night wondering how this game came to be. Imagine you’re some creative director at Ubisoft and Sands of Time just came out. It’s a commercial and critical success and you think to yourself: wow, let’s make a sequel.

The game you just created could serve as a strong foundation for an upcoming franchise. Stories set in the Middle East are a rare treat and you’ve barely scratched the surface. You established a complex and well-liked protagonist and it’s only natural to continue his journey. So where do we go next from maharaja’s palaces and the sound of Oriental music?

Enter Godsmack. Yes, Godsmack. I mean, if someone only played the prison sequence from SoT, I guess they might come to the conclusion the franchise was all about hard rock and bloody walls. For everyone else the shift in direction is seizure inducing.

From a cynic’s point of view none of this is surprising. It’s a dumb corporate move to cash in on the recent success, while also fixing the issues of the first game and making it more mature (and let’s interpret maturity as more blood and nudity while we’re at it). You know what is surprising? It’s that this game actually turned out good.

It’s crazy to think that Warrior Within came out only a year after Sands of Time was released. Even back in the day, when games were smaller, this was insane. You’ll realize the two games share the same DNA as soon as you pick up the wooden branch in WW’s first level. A keen ear will notice that hitting a rock with it will produce the same metallic sound effect it does in SoT when you hit a wall with your sword. I’d normally call this an absurd oversight, but in a game which suffers from an identity crisis hearing the old sound effects helps ground WW within the same franchise.

Watch me beat the Dahaka with this piece of wood.

The Holy Trinity which SoT was composed of were the story, the platforming and the combat. What’s interesting is that each of these aspects got handled differently in WW. The story (which I’ll couple with the presentation) experienced a full 180, the platforming remained the same and the combat was added onto like toppings are layered over a waffle. Let’s break each one of them down starting from the story.

Coming back to WW after some time, I was worried I’d find the game’s edginess a bit juvenile. I first played WW when I was a kid and the Prince’s acts of defiance always resonated with my own refusals to do my homework or clean my room. A part of my concerns proved to be justified, but for the most part I was surprised to see that the game is a lot cooler than I ever gave it credit for. The moment that intro hits you and the Prince stands up to the Dahaka with his swords up, you know the game means business. I think that despite the tacky rock music, the over-saturated blood effects and the fact that the Prince sounds more like Kratos than a posh Brit, the game still manages to resonate because of its strong emotional core.

The story picks up a couple of years after SoT, with the Prince being chased by death itself, the Dahaka. Most games try to convey the characters’ emotional struggles through cut-scenes, but WW does it right through gameplay. You know exactly what drove the Prince to fight for survival like a cornered animal because you’re forced to fight for survival throughout the entire game. The enemies are blood thirsty, the traps are unforgiving and the Dahaka is constantly breathing down your neck. You have to become a savage to get through this game and there’s no wonder there’s nothing left of the naive youth we got to know in SoT. Nowadays I wouldn’t be caught dead listening to Godsmack, but no other music better reflects the despair and rage which fuels the Prince in battle.

If I could turn back time...

In a lot of ways WW’s story is more than the sum of its parts, but there are parts that still stick out. First off, the women in this game are absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know who’s worse: the metal thong pirate or the empress with her vague Italian accent (totally not a stand-in for Monica Bellucci). Kaileena sort of has an arc, but I just can’t take Shahdee seriously. Some of the game’s attempts to sound more mature, like the Prince calling Shahdee a bitch, just made be burst into laughter.

Likewise, the time travel in SoT required some suspension of disbelief, but in WW that is stretched to the maximum. The game has no idea if cause and effect apply to any of its scenarios, let alone how to make sense of the convoluted plot. The Mask of the Wraith is a shameless MacGuffin and if it weren’t for the emotional pay off in the end, the whole plot would just cave in.

The pre-rendered cut-scenes still look sick by today’s standards and are probably the main source of inspiration for the mountains of fan art dedicated to the game. On the contrary, the in-game ones are hilariously clumsy. The dialogue is wooden and awkward and the cuts are often unexpected and jarring. Thankfully the story is told through more than just cut-scenes. While I’ll always hold SoT as the superior game, there is one aspect of WW which surpasses its predecessor and that’s the level design.

I think I'm just gonna stand back and let you ladies settle your differences.

Don’t get me wrong. I think SoT’s level design is superb. Each level was beautiful and instantly memorable. The platforming sequences were masterfully laid out to allow for exciting combos and each level told a unique story of this once mesmerizing, but now devastated palace. While in SoT the levels were stringed together and after completing one you’d move straight onto the other, in WW everything is connected. The Island of Time feels like a living breathing ecosystem which you get to explore in a significantly less linear fashion.

I simply adore the idea of jumping between the past and the present and experiencing the levels in different ways. I feel WW got the chance to be a lot more contemplative with the design of its obstacles. Observing a room and how it used to operate in the past and then witnessing the way it fell apart in the present gives the world of WW a whole new dimension. The levels don’t only play, but also feel different. The past makes you an intruder in this alien world of ancient mystery and the present cruelly reminds you of the imminent doom that awaits both you and the Island of Time.

I’m amazed at how confidently the game lets you retread levels. The moment that really impressed me was when I missed the health upgrade in Shahdee’s boss room. I decided to try to go back for it much later and was surprised that the game actually let me do it. It had to account for both the ruined staircase leading up to the boss room and the collapsed hallways from a previous Dahaka chase, yet it still put in the effort. This immense sense of inter-connectivity becomes even greater once you put on the Mask of the Wraith. That’s when the game takes you by the hand and leads you behind the curtains of each level.

Welcome to the Island of Time! The throne room is up ahead, lavatories to the left.

This strange world is presented in much different colors than the ones you found in SoT. Gone are the bright yellows and calming blues of the Orient, replaced by murky greys and browns and lots and lots of red. The contrast within the palette is nothing revolutionary, but it does the trick. Inside combat music fiercely pounds in your ears and blood sprays from each enemy you slay. Outside of combat more melancholic tracks accompany your exploration of the ruined citadel and the slow sinister darkening of your screen signals the dreaded arrival of the Dahaka. The atmosphere couldn’t be more oppressive, yet the environments are still as captivating as ever.

The one thing that fell pray to the game’s art style is the visibility of its obstacles. WW’s palette is pretty bleak and while I get this is brought on by the themes of the game, I don’t think you should let your art style degrade your gameplay. Some things like the red drapes are properly accentuated, but I often died or got stuck because the next ledge or beam just didn’t pop out of the background. The bird’s eye and first person view don’t help much and potentially exhilarating sequences are transformed into guess work.

But none of this excellent level design could be appreciated if traversing the world of WW wasn’t satisfying, which gives me a great segue to talk about the platforming in the game. As I mentioned earlier, WW imports SoT’s platforming mechanics. Instead of modifying them, it just utilized them even more. While SoT’s platforming sequences could be challenging, WW really pushes the limit putting all of your skills to the test.

There are new traps along with the old ones - the ropes and the extruding blocks being the first to come to mind. But new obstacles aren’t the sole reason why the platforming is so good in the sequel. The first reason are the later parts of the game when you put on the Mask of the Wraith. This is when the platforming sequences becoming devilishly difficult and would be frustrating if it weren’t for the regenerating sand tanks. I felt that some of the ideas presented in these sequences, like the tilted walls you had to jump off, had enormous amounts of potential.

Some poor chump is putting in the effort to wash the curtains even after the plaster has fallen off.

The second reason, and you’ve guessed it, are the Dahaka chase sequences. In WW the Dahaka is the main driver of the plot. It’s the main source of tension and the reason behind the Prince’s emotional state. Usually games let you fight your antagonist, but I think it’s so much more effective that the only thing you can do against the Dahaka is run. Each time you travel back to the present, there’s a looming fear of when the beast will appear next and each time it does, your adrenaline spikes through the roof. Not only that, but the Dahaka puts all of your platforming skills to the test. You’re asked to perform the same stunts you practiced earlier in the game, but this time with flawless precision and no time left to spare on the clock.

As much as I praise the Dahaka’s every appearance, the final boss fight against it is abysmal. The worst kind of difficulty is the one that’s a product of bad game design and you could easily fill a bingo card with just this fight. A good boss builds up on all of the skills you’ve learnt so far, but none of the advanced combos or techniques you’ve been perfecting during the game are viable against the Dahaka. Its attacks aren’t properly telegraphed, your dodges don’t provide consistent iframes and you can’t block or counter-attack it. The only option you have is to spam roll + attack until your fingers give out or you’ve chipped enough of its health bar to be able to finish it off with the Cyclones of Fate. It’s a test of your good will and patience and certainly not of any skill you've acquired while playing the game.

And here comes another perfect segue to talk about the final aspect of WW - the combat. You can tell that Ubisoft is proud of WW’s combat system since they called it something as stupid as “Free Form Fighting”. To put in plainly, Ubisoft decided to take SoT’s combat and use it as a foundation. On top of that foundation they build a house which is WW’s combo system.

Run, you fool!

The promo materials sure like to brag about all the possibilities this system has to offer and for the most part they are not exaggerating. The sheer amount of combos is impressive to say the least. I guess you could button smash your way through most fights, but the game is the most satisfying when you perform a deliberate set of actions and see heads flying as a result. Combos are broken down into categories and while its impossible to memorize all of them in a single playthrough, you’re sure to use a wide variety to get you through different encounters. The system offers a lot of room for creativity, so while you’ll perform a lavish move like the Angel Drop in one room, you might feel inclined to steal an enemies axe and chop its head off in another.

Having said all of that, while WW’s combat is its most marketed and talked about feature, I think it’s also one of the game’s most flawed elements. SoT’s combat was far from ideal and left a lot to be desired. However when deciding to use it as WW’s foundation, Ubisoft didn’t fix a single one of those issues before neatly stacking a combo tree on top of it. As a result the whole house is shaking.

One of SoT’s most critiqued features was its camera. It had a tendency to go bonkers whether that was in the platforming sections or in combat. SoT did some simple tricks to circumvent this. Mainly, the levels in that game are wide and spacious, not giving the camera many chances to get stuck on random objects.

Contrary to that, the Island of Time is a labyrinth of tightly weaved corridors which invites a whole new set of issues. More often then not you won’t be able to turn the camera because it’s smashing against one of the nearby walls. Getting it to do what you want is like trying to tame a stallion. The prime example of this are the golem fights where the camera’s main objective must have been to induce motion sickness.

The tight corridors also narrow your field of view, which spells disaster for a lot of the enemy encounters. The enemies are much more aggressive, so while in SoT you could just wait for them to come to you, in WW you constantly need to be on your guard. They’ll rush you from off screen without any prior indications and usually while you’re in the middle of performing another move. I’m having war movie flashbacks just thinking about the bloody hedgehog dogs.

I almost regret the fixed camera angles from the tutorial section. Almost.

Speaking of combos, the biggest sin this game commits by far is not giving you any iframes during your finishers. This is such a huge and glaring misstep that I honestly don’t know how it made it into the final product. If I perform a complex button combination and initiate a high damage combo, shouldn’t I be rewarded for it? You could say that initiating a combo in the wrong moment should punish the player, but that’s not what I’m arguing against.

In WW you might assess the situation and determine that it’s the right time to perform a certain move. However while your in the combo’s animation the status quo can drastically change. I’d be fine with this if the game let you break out of combos, but once the animation starts rolling you’re stuck in it until the end. What’s worse is that some enemies can break you out of your own combos, even though you yourself don’t have that power. The assassin ladies are the worst since their jump attack can not only break you out of an animation, but also lock you in their own.

The hit boxes don’t abide to fairness either, so sometimes enemies can stand far enough not to be hit by you, but also somehow close enough to do damage to you with their own attacks. So while you’re stuck in an animation, some cheeky bastard could happily chip away at your health. Mix that in with enemies rushing you from off screen and you’ll soon find yourself smashing you head against the desk.

You could always play more defensive, but then what’s the point of the combo system? Shouldn’t you be encouraged to charge into crowds like a blood thirsty beast and unleash all hell around you? The promo materials show off all of these fancy moves, but outside the sterile testing environments fights can get extremely messy.

Which one of you smart asses would like to smack me over the head first?

I’d honestly like to attribute all of this to my shortcomings as a player, but having beat the game on the hardest difficulty multiple times I’m beginning to see a clear line over which my combat prowess gets subjected to chance. A game shouldn’t base its difficulty on unpredictable attacks and mechanical hiccups, but on mastering its systems and learning how to spot and take advantage of enemies’ weaknesses.

Environmental combos, while some of the best looking, aren’t the most joyous to perform either. Some of the controls for platforming and combat overlap and the game can have a hard time determining which action you want to perform. E.g. wall running and blocking occupy the same button, as well as attacking and doing stunts with pillars. It’s insanely annoying when there’s an enemy waiting for you on the other side of a pit and you can’t initiate a wall run because the Prince keeps blocking instead. Though I do love that you can swing your secondary weapon and wipe the smile of their face (die hedgehog dogs, die).

Having criticized the game’s combat so much, I have to admit that when the cards are just right WW can provide some of the most satisfying scrumptious carnage there is. Seeing your carefully executed moves in glorious slow motion, ending with an enemies last whimper, will leave you gloating every single time.

I also like that the game encourages you to use sand more often. In SoT, my tanks were usually half full, while in WW I was constantly begging for more. This is certainly the result of the higher difficulty, but I don’t condone it. However the game can get itself into trouble when it forgets to take into account your sand consumption. There are certain environmental obstacles which you can only overcome by slowing down time, but sometimes you’ll get to them with no sands left in your pockets. This wouldn’t be a problem if the game remembered to put one or two jars in the vicinity, which it doesn’t always do.

Buddy, you're done for.

On the technical side of things, I encountered some minor issues (though they might be exclusive to the Steam version). The save system is pretty buggy. After a reload, enemies that should be dead reappear and enemies that should be alive are nowhere to be found. The secondary weapon you’ve been carrying can disappear after death. This seems like a nitpick, but it’s especially aggravating when you’re fighting the Dahaka for the fifth time and need your Light Sword. The game can sometimes freeze during loading screens and you’ll have to close it by force. Also, skipping cut-scenes only works after you’ve seen them for the first time and the game completely forgets about this if you decide to reload your save or, God forbid, exit the game.

If I were to give one final note, it’s that Stuart Chatwood is probably the best investment Ubisoft made with the entire franchise. Lots of tracks in that game had a hint of hard rock and Chatwood masterfully flipped them inside-out to get what we now know as WW’s OST. You might have thought that the sound of WW is pure rock, but the Oriental roots of the franchise are interwoven with the guitar riffs in a lot more tracks than you’d think. It makes the two OSTs perfect mirror images.

Warrior Within is probably the best PoP game to bring up over a beer. It’s a game based on numerous contradictions and seeing how each of those manifested itself in the final product is fascinating. It was scrutinized upon launch, but amassed a cult status over the years and is now remarked as a diamond in the rough by many. Time took off my rose-tinted glasses and made me see Warrior Within as the flawed ride it truly is, but even so I’m taken aback each time I boot it. I know only a few games that take this many risks and even fewer that manage to pull it off this well.

Right to retcon the sequel or left to cash in from the movie tie-in? Oh, man.

#game review #review #prince of persia #warrior within

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catastrophe-at-sixteen · 4 years ago

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strawberries and cigarettes (m)

Jungkook x reader

“For a biology project, you and your class are going on a field trip to collect evidence for your hypothesis. It is all going well until the dark haired nuisance called Jeon Jungkook decides to piss you off.”

Also - a nerd. The resident bad boy. The police. Annoying friends. A loose psycho killer. What could go wrong?

This is my first time ever uploading any fics !! im super nervous haha - i'll probably post a little of each one and see how it goes !!

Jungkook x reader.

This is your classic enemies to lovers but with a slight little twist!

This is set in the 80s/90s and is your typical bad boy/nerd girl trope- but , there is a killer on the loose. I mean this is kind of based on jack the ripper (serial killer) and my teenage fantasies of falling for bad boy jungkook. I hope you’ll give it a go and tell me what you think !!! <3

Tw : cursing, killings, descriptions of death and psychopaths, masturbation , making out, smut.

WC : 11K

also a big massive thank you to @ggukkiereads for helping me gain the confidence to write and dedicate time to finishing this ! ik its been a while since we spoke but much love to u angel <3 may u always have the best !

Begrudgingly the students lag off the bus at 10pm, finally having reached their destination.

Tired and sore from their journey the teachers find no trouble in distributing bedrooms for everyone.

When your name is called out along with Tiffany you internally groan - great you think one of the most plastic girls in the school all to myself.

You grimace but make no argument as you could have gotten worse you suppose.

As you grab your belongings and ignore her protests that she doesn't want to room with a loser like you, a dark clad figure pushes past you, almost tripping you over.

Angrily you shout

"Watch where you're going you prick"!

Yet he doesn't so much look in your direction.

Under the dim moonlight you can faintly make out the low blunt of a cigarette in a tattoo clad hand - so it was the infamous Jungkook.

Honestly you didn't understand why all the girls fawned over him when he was just a rude and ignorant asshole. Sure, he had a pretty face but no good soul to match.

Calming yourself, as it was unlikely that you'd ever receive an apology from the school rebel you just head to your new room.

The school had organised a biology trip so that you could gather authentic evidence on the correlation of birds and wood growth in a certain designated area and honestly you were excited- not having enough expenses to get out of town when you were younger meant that this was a treat for you and paired with you being a biology major your inner geek was surfacing pretty quickly.

You move into your room and begin unpacking your things ignoring the chatter coming from your new roommates.

You set everything nicely, precisely -just to your liking. Maybe some would call you fussy, but you like to think of yourself as organised and classy.

You don’t have many thoughts that night as you lay down for bed, but you do hear the news playing in the background.

" a killing has not been sighted for a time breaking the pattern of the 1-week intervals in which they have been happening, but police still advise to remain on high alert at all times. "

You shudder as you think about it, a killer on the loose in the country and everyone powerless to stop him.

He fed of the insecurities of people, the fear of not being safe. He did a damn well good job at it as well.

You look outside and see the police on night duty setting up, the country while terrified also was reluctant to admit the threat and instead of protecting you properly they had merely sent police force units as glorified bodyguards to ' keep you safe '.

You sigh, as you climb under your covers those problems seem like a long way away from you as you drift off with an empty mind.

It was morning, the sun was shining brightly through the windows giving an orange glow to the room.

You were up before your roommates, had brushed your teeth and were already preparing for your project.

You had to do well, you were depending on a scholarship for university, your family could simply not afford it otherwise.

When your first signs of morning hunger begin to strike you venture outside your room in order to satiate yourself. You find that it’s still quiet only a few students up like yourself, you find a coffee machine and immediately begin to make one for yourself.

“While you're at it could you make one for me too".

a deep voice drawls out.

You almost jump out of your skin at the sound his voice breaking the silence you had been enjoying. Jeon Jungkook.

You scowl at him, choosing to ignore him carrying on making your own cup.

He whistles under his breath.

“wow, edgy or a bitch? I can’t decide".

He taunts you.

You roll your eyes at him and sigh in annoyance, his eyebrows raise at this.

“you’re clearly not a morning person".

He speaks.

You mutter under your breath.

" or maybe I’m just not a YOU person, not everyone lives to be nice to you. "

He lifts his hands up in a mock surrender.

“Okay, okay I get it it's a bad time for you jeez.... I suppose I'll have to make my own coffee".

He moves closer to you, totally invading your personal space, clearly, he had never heard of a personal bubble! You scowl and try to move away but he’s faster and is hovering over you before you know it. He looks down at you with those pretty dark eyes.

They’re so gorgeous.

Not that it matters to you because he is still an asshole, and he still ruined your morning.

“get out of my face Jeon Jungkook".

You say between clenched teeth.

You’re not some sort of pushover.

Yes, you're clever, as society classes a nerd but you're not one to let people walk all over you.

If he’s shocked, he doesn’t let on, just hums and lets you walk away, which you do, a little aggressively. You got back to your room and let out a sound of annoyance, the girls are still sleeping.

You sigh.

This was going to be a long trip.

After an uneventful morning, the wait was over and finally the teachers had called you to gather in the common area. Much to your dismay however there would be no actual data collecting until the police had secured the area, which meant that your whole day was pretty much wasted. The other students were chatting and gossiping and being idiots as per usual.

It’s not that you thought you were better than them, it's just that they were so mundane, so lifeless. They were just living on with no sense of direction. You suppose that's what you get for attending a school for rich kids though.

You could never fit in.

So, you never tried. People took pity on you every now and then offered you a smile. You smiled back but that was it. Your thoughts are running and to clear your head you decide to go outside for a little breather.

There isn’t much, just a few abandoned train tracks that seemingly lead into nowhere, a few broken fences and lots of grass. Not much time after this you head to bed.

Finally, the day had arrived, you could collect your samples.

You are so glad that it’s an individual project because you honestly cannot even imagine working with one of those air heads.

You shudder at the memory of having to work with Taehyung last semester for a chemistry practical.

You had to basically pull all the weight for your grade.

So, you get on working your way through your work and proving or disproving your hypothesis.

You’re pleased at the work that you completed. Not entirely satisfied but satisfied enough, for now.

You let out a stiff yawn, you need to stretch and need a little fresh air since you had spent the last few hours writing up your data and making graphs to compliment them.

You forgo your jacket since the weather isn’t so bad.

It’s nice.

When you go outside there are quite a few students already there, goofing around. There is also a pretty scenery, that in all honesty you had not appreciated until right now.

“Wow" you mutter under your breath.

Maybe I should try living outside my own head sometimes.

You spot some students surrounding a police officer and the curiosity gets the better of you and your soon wandering around the outskirts of their conversation.

Alas, it was merely a fruitless conversation. The police officer telling the other about his escapades and how they will be good in hands.

You lose yourself to your own thoughts again and look at the scenery. Until a little scuffle, breaks you out of your thoughts.

“What was that? There was a movement down there!! “

A boy called Josh calls out.

The police officer had also noticed it, then a sound of a gunshot sounds through the air.

The police officers curse and begin to get ready to scout the area. They want you all to go away, be safe inside but you’re all young adults- you want to see what’s going on.

Everyone gathers, watching the officers.

You scan the area; you spot the balcony that looks over the area just in front of the cabins.

Perfect you think that’s the perfect spot to see what’s going on.

So, you begin to climb up the steps to that room, when you get there, you can see everything.

You see a dead dog, a dead bird and the gun which had killed them laid out to where the officers were heading.

Fear grips your heart; your heartbeat is erratic. You think you see the shape of figure retreating into the distance but before you can look again, you feel the ground give way under you.

You let out a shriek, feeling yourself falling.

Is this truly how my life end you wonder I didn’t even get to complete my PhD?

Yet, instead of the hard fall that your body had been anticipating; your landing is softer and lets out a low grunt.

You're sure you're dead and have entered heaven.

Slowly you register a warm feeling under your legs and a secure one at your waist.

oh, this feels nice.

you think, eyes still closed until you hear some chaos in the distance.

what's happening?

Why is heaven so noisy? Are they partying because I’ve arrived? Was I actually an angel all this time am I coming home?

Ah you think this must be the angels- I knew all those days spent doing charity would help me.

You open your eyes and you’re met with bambi eyes staring back at you.

Slowly you begin to piece the rest of your angel together.

“Jeon Jungkook? “

You try and raise your voice to compliment your surprise, but it comes out in a more whisper.

“But this, Jungkook, you were an angel all this time? “you say.

His eyebrows knot together in confusion.

“What are you talking about strawberry?”

You gasp.

"Do we all get code names in heaven? You’re a pretty angel Jungkook. “

Then your eyes zero in on the scar on his cheek.

“Aren’t Angel’s supposed to be blemish free? Is that? Are you fallen? Wait.... for me? Are you my angel Jungkook? “

His eyes, which had previously shown confusion are now coloured with amusement.

“You talk a lot don’t you my little strawberry”.

You vaguely hear the sounds behind you before you begin to feel drowsy and fall limp the arms of your unexpected angel.

Jungkook was, of course no angel, your delirious ass was just doing and saying delirious things. You were going to be mortified when you woke up.

When you come to your room in a dark room, tucked into a warm bed. Your headaches aches as if someone is using a sledgehammer to hit it every second.

‘Agh’ you let out a pained groan.

What even happened? you wonder in your head.

You move quickly, getting out of bed ignoring your protesting limbs. You almost reach the doors until a pair of arms trap you.

‘woah woah where do you think you're going?’

You let out a scream, completely startled. A hand comes to cover your mouth.

‘man, you really do have a set of lungs, don’t you? ‘

You stop struggling in his embrace to match his voice to a face. Its familiar.

‘Jeon Jungkook?’ you let a little unsure and panic still evident in your voice.

‘your one and only’

You frown.

‘mine?’

He smirks at you,

‘that's right yours strawberry’.

You shake your head.

‘are you smoking something? Are you high right now?’

He pouts a little then, it changes his look completely. He looks a little cute.

‘you don't remember? ‘ he cocks his head to the side and points to himself. ‘I'm your angel’.

You scoff.

‘Please in what world are YOU an angel? You're far from it’.

Then it all comes back to you.

Jungkook watches as the realisation begins to show on your face.

‘Oh my god I had a concussion, you cannot be serious right now ‘

He chuckles.

'The words still came out of your mouth' Jungkook counters, he leans closer to you, his face way to close for your liking.

You feel your face grow warm from his proximity, but you don't give him the satisfaction of knowing that.

You scoff and push him away.

‘You're insane’.

He accepts the distance you've placed between the two of you and he chooses to smirk at you from where he is standing.

‘And you're crazy for me’.

You let out an incredulous laugh, not believing him.

‘Oh, my lord, please shut up for the sake of my sanity’.

He chuckles at your flustered state and you scramble your brain to find a change of subject.

‘okay whatever now just excuse me because I need to go back to my room’.

You move to begin walking to the door, but his voice halts your movements.

‘This is your room now’.

You whip around to face him.

‘What?! Ha as if Jeon, why would they room us together- were supposed to separate for the opposite genders- which I totally get when you're involved’ you say disbelief painting your voice. You whisper the last part though.

He puts his hands into his pockets and shrugs.

‘Protection?’

You set him a hard stare.

‘Save your lame ass men superiority talks for someone else i am having a severe case of I'm not interested’.

Why the hell would you need Jungkook for protection, it reeks of patriarchy and you hate it.

He shrugs.

‘Listen princess I don't know why either really to be honest but I'm not complaining-’

You don't bother entertaining him for much longer.

This can't be true. You cannot be paired into a room with him. He cannot be your new roommate - heck now tiffany doesn't seem so bad. Flirting asshole, you mutter under your breath as you begin searching for your teacher.

You only learn a bitter truth, due to the collapsing of the room you had to be relocated into another room and the only person without a roommate was Jungkook. They ‘trusted’ you enough that you would be able to handle it and not to do anything you were not supposed to.

‘We trust you, y/n’ was what she had told you.

You spend your time cursing out both her and Jungkook as you gather your belongings to move into your new room.

You're so caught up in your own thoughts that you don't notice a foot that comes out to trip you.

You look up and see the faces of three stupid bitches.

Tiffany Jessica and Irene.

They seemed to consider themselves above everybody else, though you've no idea why. Aside from flawless looks they seemed to live pretty empty life in your eyes. They were living definitions of empty shells walking around.

You get up quietly from the ground, you'll gain nothing from engaging with them, maybe you'd lose a few brainless. You just want to go back and rest - your head is killing you.

But to your disappointment they begin to talk.

‘Well, well well, if it isn't the school's new slut moving into MY boyfriend's room’.

You have to let a little laugh at this. This one is seriously deluded. Jungkook didn't do relationships you knew that. Everybody knew that. They had hooked up about 3 months ago and even though he does his best to ignore her she still insists that he is her boyfriend. It's just pathetic and a bit sad you suppose. Her obvious attraction to him which he just does not reciprocate.

She becomes enraged at your actions.

‘listen here you little bitch you better not even think of starting anything with my man-’ she spits out at you.

You snap back then, unable to hold your tongue.

‘I am not a slut, and I will not go after your man- which fyi he is not. He is a human and he doesn’t belong to you he never has’

She grows red at your words.

‘you little piece of shit-’

She raises her hand but just then a voice interrupts her and she halts her actions.

‘well if it isn't my new roomie, l’ll take that from you strawberry’ Jungkook says, too cheery for your liking, your still contemplating hitting Jessica.

Jessica begins speaking up, but he ignores her turning to you.

Your mouth almost drops open at his dismissal of Jessica but then again, she is annoying, and he cannot be immune to that.

‘Jungkoooook’ she whines when he doesn’t respond to her the first time.

He still doesn’t entertain her.

He moves to take your things from you, but she speaks again, latching onto his arm.

‘just leave her -cshe's just an annoying stuck-up bitch’.

He responds to this under his breath laughing.

‘reminds me of someone ’

She doesn't understand his comment.

‘huh?’ she says almost comically.

‘who baby?’ she pouts at him ‘my poor baby having to deal with such people, just leave with me and we can-’

‘no’ he sets her with a hard stare.

It's like she has forgotten that you're there, so you decide to use this to your advantage, letting Jungkook deal with them. You move to get your suitcase, but a hand stops yours. Its Jungkook.

‘I don’t think so strawberry - I'll be getting those for you’.

You turn to look at him scowl adorning your features.

‘I don’t need your help Jeon’.

He smirks at you.

‘no no - I insist’.

He dismisses Jessica with a wave of his hand and begins to walk away your suitcase in his hand, which prompts you to follow along.

‘What. Was. That. Jungkook?!’ you say when the door closes, you’re fuming because he had made it seem as though you were dating or doing things together which meant that they would keep bothering you, which is just something that you don’t want.

He turns around to face you.

‘oh, don’t get your panties in such a twist, I just needed to get the fuck away from her’.

He sounds angry and this is the Jungkook that you are more accustomed to. Not the flirty one you have been seeing. Hopefully he had given up on whatever he was trying to achieve with that. He was a rude asshole who was just to used to seeing things come out in his favour.

‘excuse me, you just fuelled her whack ass thoughts and next time don’t use me as your escape route’ you say matching his hostile tone.

‘oh, don’t be such a priss, it saved you as much as it saved me’.

An exasperated noise escapes your throat.

‘well maybe you should have kept it in your pants lover boy’.

He sets you with a hard stare.

‘oh, shut up - you don’t know me’ he grits out.

You cock your head to the side much like he had done to you earlier in the day.

‘hmmm I think I know you pretty well Jungkook, you're not as unreadable as you like to think, Jeon Jungkook the infamous bad boy who uses girls to fuel his ego and is used by girls to fuel their own ego and status quo among their own stupid--’

You do not get to finish you sentence however because you're harshly being pinned to the door. His grip on you is hard and it stings but you meet his gaze.

‘shut the fuck up y/n’ the tone of his voice is almost carnal, animal like.

You seriously had hit a nerve.

‘I go beyond your perceptions of me- you little miss goody two shoes’.

You spit back in his face.

‘I've yet to see you act more like a crazed rabbit Jungkook and to be honest I don’t plan on finding out the depths of your character either. I don’t fucking care about you’.

You push him aside and move to unpack your suitcase.

He mutters something under his breath that you can't hear, and he walks out slamming the door behind him.

‘well, that was fun’ you say and begin to take out your notes and books that you will need through the day.

When you wake up the next you feel like you’ve been hit by a ton of bricks. The painkillers had given you the illusion that you were okay. You look a mess, you're tired, you cannot believe that this happened. You had been looking forward to this for so long, they had told you that another student would be collecting your data. Your new roommate. Jeon Jungkook. He was going to be collecting your data.

This is preposterous! He would probably sabotage you on purpose! This cannot happen, but they wouldn’t budge from their choice. You huff as you look out of the window, where you could be collecting your data along with the other students. Darn you and your curiosity.

They always did say didn’t they- that curiosity killed the cat.

Your walking around the room, pacing- that’s how bored you are. You had reorganised your things 3 times and colour coded all you notes, redrew your graphs, you had done everything that you thought would keep you busy but here you are sitting with nothing to do. You look around the room see Jungkook's things laying on the ground.

You sigh into the empty room again and just lay down waiting for them to come back. You end up falling asleep.

You're stirred from your sleep, quite rudely by a book being thrown at the foot of your bed. You sit up, still groggy and look at Jungkook.

‘what the hell man’

He stares at you blankly.

‘There's your work priss’

You're not bothered by his hostile tone instead open the book and seeing what he had done, or you suppose looking at it what he had not done. The more you look at the work the more the frown on your face deepens.

‘what the hell is this Jungkook?’

He looks up at you annoyed.

‘the work? Thought you were meant to be a genius?’

You scowl at him.

‘this Jungkook? Is unacceptable a nursery kid could do way better than this !’

He rolls his eyes at you.

‘and? That’s what you're going to get priss so deal with it’.

You make an exasperated sigh.

‘you've used the wrong measurement and everything Jungkook’.

‘look - I don’t care. I didn’t want to do this for you anyway’.

‘like I wanted YOU to do it for me’.

You sigh,

You keep bumping into him everywhere, you know he is your roommate but he is always there at the cafeteria taking the last donut which you had been craving pushing in line, making unnecessary comments and he makes the room so messy!

It’s the same thing for the next few outings, Jungkook comes with the same half assed versions of the data you need.

You try, you really you try so hard to use the data sets he provided but its no use. They're absolutely useless, so you decide to take matters into your own hands.

Your going to sneak out early in the morning, you have to sneak past the guards which as you’ve gathered won't be as hard as one may think because they are not good or much invested in their job anyway.

You prepare yourself and head to set out in the morning. You quietly get up so as not to disturb or wake Jungkook. If he sees you, you know that there will be trouble.

You throw on a hoodie and grab a notebook, a pen and your watch. You have to be back before anyone can notice that you're gone. You steel yourself one last time, giving yourself a pep talk and sneak out. You hold your breath as you walk past the room of your supervisor and out the back door of the cabins.

This isn't so bad you think. Once you're out of sight of the guards and you think your safe, you let out a sigh of relief and do a little shimmy out of your happiness. You are so pleased and proud of yourself. What you didn’t know that behind you, watching your every move was a boy covered in tattoos with a cigarette in his hand watching you with an amused face.

Jungkook was, not as you thought asleep when you had snuck out. He was also outside, leaning on the side of the building a cigarette in his hand, he couldn’t sleep that night, it happened to him on most nights so he routinely wakes up to have a smoke. On this particular day there is not the usual eerie morning silence that he is used to, but a few grunts and hisses to accompany it. He furrows his brows.

Is that? He thinks y/n!?!?!?!?!?

No way he thinks what the hell is she up to?

Then he catches sight of your notebook and pen.

'Oh, what a nerd' he mutters under his breath. Then he smirks.

He can totally use this to his advantage.

He stubs his cigarette, pulls his hoodie over his head and follows you.

Your heart is still racing you honestly cannot believe that you. l/n f/n are doing this.

‘What a badass’ you say into the silence.

‘Badass? Sneaking out to do bloody work is your idea of badass?’ a voice speaks up behind you.

You shriek startled and are met with Jungkook.

Why is it always him?

‘what in the bloody tarnation's.... are you trying to kill me Jungkook?!’ you say putting your hand on your heart.

He grins pleased at the reaction he had elicited from you.

He cocks his head to the side.

‘what the hell are you doing here ?!’ you hiss at him.

‘could ask you the same thing strawberry’ he replies.

You look at him.

You were so sure that you had been quiet, how could he be here to ruin everything.

‘you do realise that I actually have name, and it's not strawberry’ you say to him.

He shrugs.

‘Yeah but you always smell like them’.

You scoff;

‘and you always reek of cigarettes.’

He frowns but then asks you again.

‘what are you doing here?’

You think of excuses,

‘I'm - I'm on a walk’ you say.

He lifts his eyebrow up.

‘a walk?’

You nod.

‘that's right for my daily exercise its been a pain to be stuck indoors’.

He snorts.

‘you're on a walk with your graph paper pad and pencil case?’

You curse inside your head.

‘yeah I am a nerd after all’ you say, hoping and praying that he’ll just let you go on your way.

He doesn’t

‘I don’t know, you look awfully suspicious to me, do tell why you're heading to the sight of our data collection points when the trail track is in the opposite direction?’ he says.

You rack your brains for an answer.

‘well, I like an adventure’ you say, standing straight.

‘oh, is that so?’ he says laughter infiltrating his tone.

‘yes’, you say meeting his eyes.

‘hmm’ he says ‘I don’t believe you’ he says.

‘do you wanna know what I think?’ he continues.

He takes one step closer to you.

‘I think that our resident miss goody two shoes is sneaking off when told specifically that she can't’ his gaze burns into yours

You feel yourself going red out of embarrassment.

‘I literally have no idea what you're talking about Jungkook' you say breathless.

He leans closer and you can feel his body heat, he continues to bore his eyes into your own and you almost fall into his gaze until you feel your book being snatched out of your hand.

‘HEY!’ you say reaching for it.

But he holds it higher than himself, opens it to the last written on page.

‘new data collection points’ he reads out ‘and oh would you look at that ! It has todays dates written on it’ he says looking down at you with a squint in his eyes.

You huff.

‘well obviously I had to do this because how on earth could I let your lame ass results and data reading be used for my final piece – I'm not looking to fail’ you say venom laced in every word.

He scowls at you.

‘there was nothing wrong with my results princess’ he grits out.

‘oh, please save it’ you snap back ‘you didn’t even use the same measurements – your hopeless’.

‘well, if I'm so fucking useless you should do my work for me’ he says.

You set him a level stare.

‘what?’

‘you heard me’ he says with a roll of his eyes.

‘and why in the hell would I do that? I don’t care if you fail Jungkook, heck I don’t care if you get kicked out’ you tell him.

He shakes his head.

‘well, I mean I could go back right now and tell Miss Taylor-’ he begins.

You narrow your eyes at him.

‘You wouldn’t dare’.

He holds a staring contest with you.

‘oh, wouldn’t I?’ he says.

You both hold each other's gazes before you give in.

You cannot believe the audacity of this asshole.

‘fine whatever asshole’ you say folding your arms and turning around.

He grins in victory and places your notebook back into your hands.

‘chop chop partner get to it’ he says.

You glare at him.

‘partners pull equal weight Jungkook ‘

He rolls his eyes.

‘I don’t really care – you just need to get a move on’.

You turn around no longer wanting to deal with his annoying ass.

You make it forward a few steps before you stop and turn around.

‘why are you following me?’ you ask him.

He rolls his eyes at your apparent dumbness.

‘well smartass, there is a killer on the loose if you didn’t know’.

You freeze up for a second,

Shit

You had almost forgotten. You don’t let him see that you're scared.

‘and? ‘ you say feigning composure.

‘what the hell are you going to do if he pops out of the woods anyway?’

He shrugs.

‘I dunno actually a lot more than you could do anyway’

You stare at him.

‘I could be a black belt in karate for all you know’.

He laughs.

‘okay princess whatever - I just need to make sure that you're not going to fuck this up’.

So, you turn going to the place you need to, to collect your data pieces.

With having to do Jungkook's work as well, it takes a lot longer to complete than you would have liked.

He is surprisingly bearable in the mornings that you both sneak off though. He doesn’t say much. Just watches you – pretends he isn't though.

You catch him once. Its been about 2 weeks since you started this godawful task, and Jungkook's notes and work were in dire need of help so its taking you time. This time however you meet his gaze before he is able to pull away.

You cock your head to the side.

‘what are you staring at?’ you say placing your hands on your hips.

He says something inaudible under his breath.

‘what was that?’

He snaps at you.

‘do you think you have tie to stand around making idle talk with me? The work ain’t going to do itself princess.’

You huff in annoyance.

How dare he! This was just plain wrong anyway I should not even be doing this, but you knew it was the only way. You couldn't risk getting caught and with Jungkook you wouldn't be surprised if he really did rat you out you to all the teachers. And if he did well, you wouldn’t be receiving a very good reference.

It was during an early morning that you hear Jungkook walk off into the distance. Probably to smoke, such a bad habit you tsk.

But you're also done for the day – so you begin to head back on your own.

You feel the grass brush against your feet as you walk back. You’re humming along to that song that was always on the radio, when you hear it. A little whimper - then a cry. You know that you shouldn’t go to look, you know that you're paying for your curiosity already and you don’t need another thing to happen, but you just cannot help yourself!

You follow the sound, going on a detour from the track.

You do consider yourself somewhat of a badass but a serial killer? Yeah, they kinda scare the shit out of you. You hold your breath and walk as quietly and slowly as you can. You hear the whimper again to your left but its deeper into the woods.

As you walk closer you see a pool of blood - your eyes widen, and your heartbeat becomes erratic.

‘what the fuck?’ you whisper into the silence.

You walk closer to the body of the animal and you can feel your knees grow a little weak you can see a white paper which has been tainted red with the blood of the animal that was killed.

You gasp, taking it up in your hands. Your hands also become stained with the redness.

It's in Morse code.

-.-- --- ..- / ... .... --- ..- .-.. -.. -. .----. - / -... . / .-- .- -. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / --- ..- - / .- .-.. --- -. .

(YOU SHOULDN'T BE WANDERING OUT ALONE)

You look at it for a while and rack your brains to be able to translate it but no such look. Your mind is busy running at 100miles per hour. As you try and clear your head and look at the note one more time, but a noise in the distance pulls you way from any semblance of concentration that you could have obtained.

You frantically look around trying to locate where the sound had come from. Your senses are all on a high right now. You shove the piece of paper into your pocket and begin to go back the way that you came. After the first few steps you begin running your head running wild with the idea of being found dead in ditch. Your nearly at the main path which you had strayed from. You make it onto the path, and you bend over catching your breath when two arms encircle you from behind.

You let out a scream.

A hand is placed over your mouth.

‘shut the fuck up y/n’.

You recognise THAT voice. Its Jeon Jungkook. Why is this motherfucker always trying to scare you? Your turn around and hit him on the chest,

‘what the actual hell Jeon, you gave me a bloody heat attack and a half’.

He doesn’t respond. He is looking at you, his eyebrows are furrowed and his eyes have a glint of anger. He is furious.

‘where the fuck did you go y/n?’ he says, he holds your wrist stopping you from hitting him again.

He holds it in the air holding your gaze.

‘I was.... walking back’ you didn't want him to know what you had found. He would probably tell you it was a bad idea to even translate it. Which it was, but what is life if not for taking risks?

You yank your hand from his grasp.

He looks at you an unreadable expression on his face.

“you’re a fucking liar “he says.

You scoff.

“oh please, what’s it to you anyway jungkook, you left me first “

He doesn’t say anything, but observes you, trying to look for signs of what you’re hiding.

He had found one too, a dead animal and a note written in Morse.

But he could read it and he knew he was in trouble

“Be careful, or your little girlfriend may be snatched from right under your arms “

He swore under his breath as he read it and immediately began to make his way back to you.

“strawberry?” he calls out but you’re not there.

You’re not there and he hates the feeling of dread that sits in his stomach.

He runs back the way you came, but he still finds no trace of you

“fucking hell where did she go?”

He almost gives up and is going to tell the police when you appear before him, out of breath and you look terrified.

He knows you’re lying, if you were where, you said you were, he would have seen you.

He narrows his eyes at you again.

“I left for two seconds and you ran off. Where the fuck did you go? “

He asks, he wants you tell him, needs you to, he’s overcome with this sense to protect you but you don’t trust him. He needs to change that.

He lets you believe that you have him fooled, that he believes your story and he begins to walk back to the cabins right before the call for breakfast is sounded. You follow after him breathing in a sigh of relief that he had believed you.

That night you find it difficult to sleep. You need to find out the meaning of the Morse code, but you don't have access to a book that will help you translate, meaning that you will have to ask around without looking too suspicious.

You decide that a police officer would do nicely, if you seem overly invested in their job, they would just give you the information.

You spot the officer who looks younger than most, you remember his name.

Park Jimin.

You approach him cautiously.

“Officer park?”

He turns around to face you, smiling softly.

Oh, he’s cute you think.

“yes miss?”

You smile at him warmly.

“nothing serious it’s just that I was wondering if you would like some company, it must be a little boring for you out here on your own “

You say to him and you’re glad you asked him because either way his face breaks out into a smile that has your heart fluttering.

“how very kind of you miss! And yes, a little company wouldn't hurt “, he grins at you.

As you strike up conversation, with the officer you fail to notice a figure dressed in black listening in on your conversation. Jungkook listens in as you try and get information out of officer. He knew it. You had also come across the same note, as he had. He wonders what yours said.

He leaves after a bit, leaving both of you oblivious to the fact that he was even there in the first place.

When you get back to your room, you see Jungkook sitting at the foot of his bed frown on his face.

You ignore him and write down the information you'd just got given by Officer Park. You felt a little bad manipulating him when he was so nice but you just had to know what it meant.

Jungkook speaks up.

“that was a nice conversation you were having with Officer Park “

He says,

You whip you’re head up to look at him and closing your notebook harshly.

“What? Were you eavesdropping on my conversation?”

He rolls his eyes

“Why would I be listening to the conservation of the school nerd with a cop? No, I just happened to hear in passing “

You let out a breath that you didn’t know you were holding.

“That’s mighty rude of y-" you begin to retort before he cuts you off

“what’s a biology nerd like you need with Morse code?” He asks.

Your mind malfunctions for a moment until you bring yourself back together.

“A little extra knowledge hurts no one you know?” you say appearing nonchalant.

He narrows his eyes

“I know it”

You look at him

“you do?”

He nods,

“why need something translating?” he tries.

You think about it, but ultimately decided against showing him the note you found.

You have no clue what it says. You don’t want him understanding before you do.

You shake your head,

“No, I don’t “

You say, deciding enough is enough and you need to sleep now to be up in the morning.

The next morning you sleep in, meaning that you couldn’t do the work that was set out for you. You stretch and moan as you get out of bed when you sit up and open your eyes fully your locks onto the Bambi ones from across the room. You let out a shriek!

‘What the hell why were you watching me you creeper!’ you say pointing a finger at Jungkook.

He rolls his eyes at you.

‘oh, please don’t flatter yourself’.

‘why didn’t you wake me up? Its so late !’ you question him.

He looks at you and says words that you don’t think that you would hear.

‘I think that we should lay off for a bit strawberry’

You look at him in shock

‘but why!?’

He doesn’t really give you much of an answer in his usual Jungkook manner.

You sigh.

Over the next few weeks, you rarely bump into Jungkook, you see him sometimes in the cafeteria and you can always feel him just watching you it makes you grow warm when you notice his staring.

Jungkook is also going crazy. You drive him crazy.

You guess that you'll have to work at the same pace as everyone, truthfully you had actually caught up with your work that was missed a while ago, you were just doing extra readings to stay ahead. One step ahead of everyone. But you guess that that is going to be changed now.

It had been a while since you had been on your morning trips with jungkook and though you hate to admit it, you kind of missed it.

He wasn't as bad company as you thought he would be, he was oddly quiet which meant that without him talking as much, you really got to admire his beauty. And good lord was he handsome, you understand why people are attracted to him, when his mouth is closed, he’s fine. Basically, you became a little horny when you saw him, it had been ages since you had had sex even masturbated, since you now had room with him.

Jungkook has such strong sharp features which sometimes go all soft, if he pouts while he’s thinking or a bird catches his attention, his eyes will go big and doe like. It's cute. Everybody had two sides you suppose, yours was your horny side (lol what)

Okay maybe, more time to admire him was a bad thing, you did not need to have sexual fantasies with him, no, that was a big no no.

It's been a few weeks since Jungkook had asked you to lay low for a while and in that time, you had been asking around about the killer to the police. You tried your best not to seem suspicious about it though, if they caught on – well it wouldn’t exactly end well. So, you make slow progress, you did make progress though, however.

You could now understand the note and while it scared you, it also ignited something in you that you didn’t even know that you possessed inside of you. You wanted to outdo him, you want to find him, lead him into a trap or something like that anyway. You want to catch him.

Something in the back of your mind is telling you begging you to stop being so stupid, but you ignore and continue to daydream about catching this bastard.

But it can only cure your boredom for a while – you get bored and what better to do when you're bored than to read erotica novels?

You had packed this book with you – the secrets of the alluring painter in France. You had taken to reading at night time on some nights.

Like tonight.

You need a wind down, so you pull out your book, and it has such racy scenes that leave you clenching around nothing.

Your sexual imagination goes wild when you read the erotica in the book and the way they make it seem so fiery, you were no virgin - you knew what sex was like, but never has it been close to the way it is in the book.

You’ve allowed yourself to fall into this horrible habit, at night, when Jungkook is asleep to touch yourself, play with yourself, pretending it is you who is being touched by Kim Taehyung the painter with many secrets.

You feel yourself growing more frustrated with each passage you read, it becomes a little irritating and, you have to touch yourself or you'll go crazy, the man in the book was doing it so well, so hot.

Kim Taehyung, he was described as an utter beauty, soft black hair and soft eyes, a deep voice that just made the reader swoon, you close your eyes and reach your hands down to your shorts, they slip past the hem.

You wish you could moan, wish that you could be vocal, like you were in your bedroom when it was just you and your pillow, but there was one big problem and that was Jeon Jungkook.

Why did you have to room with him?

You lighten your breathing and listen for signs of him being awake, but he seems to be breathing really deep, he is asleep you assure yourself.

You turn the lamp off, at the side of your bed, setting the book on the bedside table.

You trail your hand down your stomach, much like Taehyung had done to the main character, he slowly lets his fingers flutter over the top of her shorts, and you do the same. You build the tension, like it's his beautiful hands working against you.

You pause and let your fingers slip past the hem of your panties, you trace over the fabric covering you - first over your mound, stroking sensually.

How had Taehyung done it?

Right yes, he had used his nails slightly and grazed over lightly, a slight pressure but nothing that hurt - it was just enough to make you squirm under your own touch.

You feel your own wetness, feel how obscene it is in the darkness of the night.

Jungkook is right there, and while it scares you, it also thrills you, you feel a new wave of arousal and adrenaline when you remember he is there.

Slowly and as quietly as possible you shuffle, moving to take your shorts off, it's a little loud but you think that you're okay, Jungkook is out like a log. After a moment you continue to tease yourself.

Running your fingertips over your lips, pressing down on your hole and clenching, withholding the need to hiss.

You raise your hand further and your fingers land right at the centre of your pleasure.

Your clit. Oh, the beautiful bundle of nerves.

You cover your mouth with a hand to stifle the moan that you almost let out when you begin to rub small circles around the sensitive nub.

When you can’t get enough your panties are next to go, and when the cold air hits your wet centre you have to hold your breath, shaky.

You reach down and gather your slick slowly, spreading it all over your centre, making yourself drown in your own arousal, you use your middle and ring finger to slide up and down at a pace that leaves you edged and eager for more, you need to bring yourself to the very edge to get yourself the release that you’re after, you free hand travels up to your ever sensitive boobs, you play with them, brushing over the nipple, making them perk and then groping them while you rub at your clit.

A dirty thought crosses your mind, when you remember the boy who was asleep across from you.

What if, he was the one to touch, the one touching you, with those beautiful hands of his, those big hands.

You stifle another moan, as you think about him, hovering over you, giving it to you just right. You had heard that Jungkook could actually make a girl cum while having sex, that made you a little interested. It’s just he always opens his mouth and is an ass and ruins everything. But right now, in your imagination, only his looks and reputation matter, you twist and turn his character to be someone that you can gain pleasure from.

You can the pleasure increase and you begin to fasten your speed until you feel the signs of your orgasm and then you pull away. Edging yourself.

Your breathing is a little heavy and your work on controlling it, both your hands go to fondle your breasts and you unconsciously lift your hips, humping the air, you lean down again and enter three fingers easily into your own heat.

The squelching sound heard is deafening in the silent room, your cheeks burn red and you pull out slowly, so that was a no no, you would have to focus on your clit for you orgasm. Which was fine because you were so sensitive from playing with yourself, you know that it would only take a few more strokes to get there.

You press the fingers that were just inside of you, against your sensitive bud and you rub in slowly circles and then fastening your place and then slowing once more.

Jungkook comes into your mind again, ugh, now his lips, his pretty pink lips and the way he licks them, and the way they glisten under the sun. What if they were attached to your clit, if he was using his face to give you pleasure, like Taehyung had done to the main character of the novel, God it was so filthy.

Its driving you insane and you love it, the frustration will only make your release all the more powerful.

After a while you feel the fire blooming in your bottom of your stomach, and you quicken your pace to the point where you feel light and the waves of pleasure rack over your whole body.

You press your hand to your mouth again to conceal the gasps that are escaping you, you sigh and fall back onto your pillow feeling so much better and lighter.

Gosh did that feel good. You were aware that in your mind alarms were going off in your mind. You had thought of Jungkook while masturbating. It was a line you have no idea why you crossed. How would you look him in the eye now?

After a while, you pull up your panties and shorts and you promise yourself a shower in the morning.

What you didn't know was that the raven-haired boy of your fantasies was in fact awake and now painfully hard as he listened to your filthy little moans and gasps, he grabs his own member in his pants, strokes slowly. He spreads the pre-cum over his member before setting the fast pace that he liked, his breaths through his nose – to conceal the way his breathing has become strained. His hair becomes damp from sweat and it sticks to his forehead. He came much faster that he would care to admit the thought of you right there yet unreachable the fact that you were so NAUGHTY under all that good girl.

Turning him on, making him needy.

He breathes heavy, thinking of you under him as he squirts out cum into his pants, Jungkook too showers in the morning after you.

After this Jungkook stays up at night, listening to you, seeing if you would do it again, you do and, on those nights, Jungkook cums at the same time as you. He feels a little pathetic, he knows that he can fuck a lot of girls in the class right, but it wasn't you, God he wants it to be you writhing underneath him.

It’s the next morning and you're getting ready for your shower.

You're gathering your clothes and shampoo and creams into a little bundle and are about to open the door to the shower, when it is opened for you. The song that you were softly humming gets stuck in your throat when you register that the door was opened by Jungkook.

A very naked Jungkook.

Your face grows red, and your eyes wander over his gorgeous body, the tattoos that trail up his arm and a few on his waist, God they looked amazing.

Your ogling comes to a stop when he clears his throat. Oh, shit you think - I was staring. You quickly look up and your eyes meet Jungkook's.

He is smirking at you and as soon as you meet his gaze, he lets his own wander over body – taken in the skin that was exposed in your pyjama shorts and a t-shirt that had been small for you since you turned 13 years old.

He looks up and down your body brazenly before meeting your eyes. He licks his lips, and you zero in on it. God it was so annoying that he was this hot.

How could this be happening now? When you had spent a while avoiding him? And him you? Why did this happen after you were thinking of him last night? Oh god you grow red again and you think what if he had heard you? God, that would be embarrassing. You look at his lips again, avoiding his gaze again but maybe his eyes would have been a better option because as soon as you look at his lips, the same filthy thoughts come back to you - you shift uncomfortably trying to calm yourself. In that time, you don't notice but Jungkook has come closer to you.

You register his closeness when a water droplet from his hair falls onto your cheek. You move away slightly.

You don’t realise it but in your extended silence of checking each other out the both of you have moved closer to each other. There is no longer what people would call a healthy distance between the two of you anymore. He looks down at you and licks his lips again. His hair is wet and the way he runs his hand through it – he looks so good like this. Your dirty thoughts run wild again. Its only when another water droplet from his hair falls onto your cheek that you finally snap out of it. You move a step back.

“You look a little hot strawberry is anything the matter?” He asks you, a teasing lilt on his voice.

It’s way too early for this, you cannot be dealing with this right now, not when your mind has gone on a memory flashback to last night and he was right here in front you, so very naked.

Still, you feign your ever composed self.

“I’m just fine” you say through gritted teeth.

“I need to shower and your kind of standing in my way” you tell him.

He chuckles, a deep chuckle, gosh how are you this horny in the morning? Stop it y/n you think.

“I don't think you really mind though do you strawberry, you seem to have a very different secretive side” he says, cocking his head to the side.

You blush, shit had he heard you?

“I have no idea what you're talking about Jungkook” you say to him “I need to shower though”.

You move to get away from his hearted stare but just before you enter the washroom, a hand grabs onto your wrist and pulls you back.

Jungkook looks at you, a deep and confusing stare.

“Be careful, it’s quite wet in there” he says and then his tongue pokes into the side of his cheek. Then suddenly, he lets you go and walks off to his side of the room, your left in shock at his words and quickly scurry to get into the bedroom before more heated tension breaks through.

You shake your head of all thoughts and quickly go into the shower, what you don’t realise is that you accidently drop something, the note with the raven-haired boy who you had left in the bedroom.

Its later on during this day that Jungkook approaches you.

'Hey strawberry’ he says to you.

You raise your eyebrows at him, what’s with his sudden kindness.

‘hey’ you reply voice dipped in surprised.

‘Oh, shut up, I just came to talk to you’.

You look at him.

‘I didn’t say anything but okay…. talk then’ you gesture your hands between your two bodies.

He lets out an exasperated gasp.

‘The note – did you find one?’ he asks. You still in the next sip of coffee that you were going to take. You feel yourself grow cold. How did he find out?

He looks at you.

‘So, you did’.

‘I didn’t say that’ you say tone slightly higher than normal – you were a terrible liar.

He laughs at you

‘Hmm is that so?’

‘I have no idea what you’re talking about Jungkook’.

He looks at you, more serious this time.

“Listen y/n there's no point playing dumb, I found your stupid note anyway”.

You watch mortified as he pulls out the note that you had thought was in your pocket. Well shit then.

“I- I have never seen that before in my life Jungkook” you can't let him know; he would ruin everything - you convince yourself.

He looks at you, he’s getting annoyed that you're lying to him. He pokes his tongue against his cheek again.

“I suggest you stop lying”.

You scoff.

“Why would I ever need to lie to you your nobody to me Jungkook”.

Something akin to hurt flashes across his face for a few seconds before he slams his hands on the table.

“I don’t think you know what you're even getting into strawberry”.

You gather your belongings getting up, you need to get away from him.

“And I don't think you know what the fuck you're talking about Jungkook”.

You walk off leaving him there, but he follows after you,

“Listen I found one too, you don't need to be miss hero or anything”.

You carry on walking, not bothering to give him an answer, he would want to tell the teachers and everyone, they would cancel the trip and then how would you finish gathering your evidence? No, he was insane.

“I don’t know what you're talking about”.

‘you think your so fucking slick, don’t you? Asking around and acting unsuspicious but your wrong I could sense your stupid plan from a mile away’ he says to you, pulling you on your arm effectively stopping you so you can't walk away from him anymore. You struggle out of his hold.

‘and so, what? So, what if you know? What the hell are you going to do Jungkook? Tell on me? Are you going to threaten to tell the teachers because you know what? I’ve been thinking about it and I think they would much rather take my word for yours and all this work I’ve been doing for you – I could easily go right now and show the teachers and say that you forced me to do it!! ’

He looks at you angrily, looks like he is going to swear or curse you out but then his face relaxes.

‘you say that baby, but the truth is I have money and you don’t if I want to manipulate something I can because I have the means and power to do so, my dad's made himself something while yours totted away in the fucking garbage can’.

You feel the anger come over you and he smirks at you.

‘real fucking classy Jeon, yeah insult my parents – like it's their fault they were born into a world where people are born with silver spoons on their mouth, and at least my parents love me Jungkook’

His eyes flash with hurt

‘how do you now my parents don't love me you little bitch?’

You laugh an empty laugh at his face.

‘just look at you – you’re the very definition of boohoo my parents don't love me so I'm going to kick up a mess, so they notice me for once’.

He groans in frustration at your words then.

Somehow amidst your confrontation with Jungkook you had managed to reach your room, why are you here? Why did your feet have to leave you here?

You walk into the room and as soon as he gets in, Jungkook grabs you by the wrist and pins you against the door, your books and pencils fly across the room and while your mortified - he doesn't even bat an eyelid.

Your breathing is both heavy as you look each other in the eyes, waiting for the other to say something.

You struggle against his hold, uselessly, curse him for doing his workout routine every morning.

“You found the fucking note y/n when you went missing in the woods that day, the note that’s in Morse code, the note that you spent a week trying to decode, don't act fucking dumb” he grits out.

You still try and keep up your act,

“I have no clue in the world what you're talking Jeon, I think you're going fucking insane” you seethe out

He growls, yes, he growls.

“Your seriously fucking pissing me off now, I know you did, I know you found it”.

“Fuck off, Jungkook does it look like I care if I am fucking pissing you off”.

He looks into your eyes again and whispers something like “fucking priss” before he is connecting your lips in a kiss, a kiss that is full of ego, passion and heat. You can feel in searing through your body so fiery, setting your nerves alight.

He is relentless in his pace. His mouth against yours and God indeed Jungkook is good kisser. Before you knees grow weak you move your hands to tangle in his hair and you pull at the end causing him groan against his lips, when he does you swipe your tongue into his mouth getting a taste. You pull harder, and he groans again. It was a sound that you know you would like to hear again.

His hands move from the door and one tangles in your hair while the other presses harshly on your waist. You gasp at the pleasure and at this he takes over, he fights your own tongue for dominance and once he wins, he is rough, he wants all his saliva in your mouth, wants his taste on you, wants you to feel him in every way.

When he knows that your just as enthralled by his kisses he pulls back to taunt you - whispering the words against you bruised lips.

“You act like such a fucking little priss don't you? Act like your better than me? Lying to me? Fuck you drive me insane”.

He attacks your neck now, leaving open mouthed kisses along your ear and neck. He nibbles lightly at a few areas and when he gets to just the right place - where your breath hitches and you move your thighs together he bites down harshly without warning and you try you best to suppress your moans. Not wanting to give him any satisfaction.

“I am better than you” you say to him breathlessly, “I don’t just act like it, I am”.

He bites harder at that and you wince - Jungkook is painting you skin wine and purple and your letting him and it feels so goddamn good. He pulls you back by the hair to look at him,

“You don't look much better than me when you are bending at my will, when you're looking so fucked out and I’ve done is fucking kiss you”.

Your answer is swallowed by a moan that you let out as he takes you breasts into his big hands, and squeezes hard, you pull him up from your neck and kiss him again, his lips, your lips bruising and fighting against one another.

He trails his hand down further and dances around the hem of your pants for a while, and you place your own over his, just as your about to lead him further down a knock is heard at your door.

You both freeze

“y/n?” A voice calls out.

You calm yourself before answering, still a little shaky.

“Yes?”

“Our guest speaker has arrived, I just thought you might like to ask him a few questions before he gives his talk”.

Jungkook swears under his breath, raking a hand through his hair.

“You fucking nerd”.

He pulls you back by your pony tail and the back of your head lands on his shoulder, he tilts you slightly, so he has better access to kiss and leave more marks against your skin.

“Ah- I thank you, I’ll come in an ah- while” you say, and you hear the footsteps walk off, Jungkook spins you around and he goes to kiss you again, but you pull away.

“No, just, stop I have to go and talk”.

He looks at you “you fucking nerd” he kisses you once more, like he can't get enough of your mouth.

You pull away again.

uh what in the fuck just happened you think.

This was not meant to happen.

“Look Jungkook, I did, that is my note and I- I’ll, we can talk just not now, okay? I-I have to go. This is important"

He doesn't say anything, just watches as you fix your appearance in the mirror, an appearance he had ruined, and he smirks a little in triumph. He watches as you gather your books that had been thrown onto the floor and he watches as your ass is on display for him and God, he wishes he could grab a handful, but he doesn’t. He just watches.

You walk out the room, without so much as looking at him again and he feels oddly rejected.

He knows that you had felt good, he had heard you groan against his mouth, grind against his clothed member but he hadn't ever been walked out on before. He's not sure what exactly he is feeling. Its not a good feeling - that he was walked out on and for some old ass lecturer too.

He watches the door close, and he sits and waits for you to finish being a nerd. But truthfully it is a little hot to him that you’re so independent, you do things for yourself, your confidence and your wit, it makes you fun, you piss him off, but your company is nicer than the ones that he is used to.

He sighs what the fuck is he getting himself into.

You take a breath as you exit the room,

What in the fuck just happened? you think.

Well, when you promised Jungkook that you would talk to him you hadn't been in your right mind. Why did you agree to that like fuck? You have no idea what to even say. How do you even start that conversation like...?

"Hey, was just wondering if you would like to you know? Go on a hunt for a serial killer with me?"

Gosh this was so stupid and the kiss, gosh your face heats up as you remember the way he had kissed you - oh so sweet and so naughty!

Gosh you were in bad, as an adult you decide to deal with the problem logically, you'll just ignore him. That will work, Jungkook had a small attention span anyway. You're sure he would forget. You really hope he does.

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