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what should he have said?

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Swolemates Ch. 6

Hi friends! I'm posting the full chapter here since I didn't get a lot of comments on AO3 :( and I want your suggestions! Comments! Criticism! Questions! What do you want to happen next? How do you feel about Luigi's fan club? 😂

Trigger warnings: none

The heavy crashing of barbells, earthy smell of lifting chalk, and blinding fluorescent lighting overhead greet you as you step into the crowded weight room on Thursday evening.

Making your way over to the stretching area, you grab a yoga mat. Luigi had texted that he was running late today, citing something about a project for Operating Systems Design class– whatever operating systems are. You sit down on the mat and move through your stretching routine. When you finish you go to the only empty squat rack and set your gym bag down. You begin your first set with just the bar to warm up your muscles.

Straightening up all the way with a deep exhale, you look into the mirror in front of you and fix your hair which is already starting to frizz. Suddenly, you catch a guy looking at you from another rack across the room. The tall, red-headed boy continues to hold your gaze and you blush, quickly glancing away and reaching for your water bottle.

You complete your next set smoothly, though you swear you see the same guy looking at you from the corner of your eye. When he leaves his rack you exhale, feeling tension dissolve from your shoulders. You need 45 pound plates next, so you cross over to the now-unoccupied squat rack and grab one in each hand.

“Whoa,” a deep voice says. “Don’t hurt yourself, there.” 

You startle, turning your head so quickly that a flash of pain runs through your neck muscles. You wince. 

“Excuse me?”

“That’s a lot of weight!” he chuckles. 

You smile at him curtly, biting back a rude retort. “I’ve got it.”

The guy smirks down at you as if he’s doing you a favor. “Are you sure?”

You gaze up at him in disbelief, half expecting him to laugh and reply that he’s just kidding. 

“Yes,” you hiss from between your teeth. 

You don’t usually let yourself be this bitchy in the gym anymore. You’re less sensitive than you used to be. More confident. But something about the way this guy grins at you– just short of being condescending but clearly expecting that you’ll say that yes, you need his help– makes you lose your patience. Read the fucking room, asshole.

“Ok!” he says. “Just trying to help you out.”

You grit your teeth, feeling anger rise in your throat. He has no right to make you feel like you don’t belong here. Still, you feel your shoulders shrink instinctively, as if trying to make yourself smaller in response to his condescending comments. And that just makes you feel like a disappointment to yourself.

Exhaling sharply through your nose, you straighten up to your full, albeit short, height. 

“I don’t need any help,” you reply firmly and turn away from him. As you walk away you try to ignore the strong feeling that he’s staring at your ass. You shudder.

When you see that Luigi has finally decided to show up your spirits lift slightly. You lean over, dropping the plates on the ground, and let out an exasperated sigh. “Hey.”

Luigi’s dark brows furrow. “Hey,” he says. 

His hand comes to rest lightly on your arm, touching you carefully as if testing whether you’re comfortable with the gesture. “You ok?”

For a moment your breath catches and your heart rate picks up rapidly, your stomach fluttering. Luigi has been touching you more lately: little shoulder taps to get your attention, occasional pats on the back, and fist-bumps whenever he’s especially excited. 

You swallow, flustered. “Yea,” you say, wrinkling your nose, “that guy just gives me the ick.”

Luigi narrows his eyes, studying you intently as if trying to decide if you’re telling the truth. He glances across the room at the guy in question, pursing his lips. “Hmm.” 

Then he grins. “Well,” he says, rubbing his hand lightly up and down your upper arm, “since he’s squatting less than two plates, I think you’re the one winning here.” 

His fingers draw goosebumps along your skin that make the guy’s snarky comments fade into memory. You bite your lip, trying to shove down the tingles spreading down your arm and fail to hide the wide smile that breaks over your face at Luigi’s sweet comment. 

“Yea,” you decide. “You’re right. Loser.” 

Luigi grins back at you even more widely and grabs one of the plates off the ground, muscles flexing as he lifts it up to the barbell with ease. You follow his lead, picking up the other plate.

“So,” he asks after the bar is loaded, “what are you doing this weekend? Besides being my lifting accountability buddy, obviously.”

You giggle. “I’m going to the art museum with Alex on Saturday! I never made it there last year– I mean, freshman year– because of…” you glance down at the ground as your words trail off. “Well, you know. And it’s a really famous museum! I’m so excited, Lu.”

To your surprise, Luigi’s expression doesn’t reflect your enthusiasm. “Oh. Cool,” he replies, not sounding like he thinks it’s cool at all. “Are you two working on a project or something?”

“No, just exploring,” you smile widely. Warmth fills your chest, nearly buzzing in anticipation at the thought of finally, finally seeing the Penn Museum. “We’re going to try to see as much of it as we can! Might take the whole day, actually. I’m not sure if I’ll have time to lift…”

Luigi raises an eyebrow. “I see. Do I know him?” he asks almost coolly.

“Who?” you frown.

“Alex,” he replies. His eyes focus on you expectantly, careful yet hesitant.

“It’s a she,” you laugh, “and she’s my classmate from Ancient Roman Political Art.”

Luigi’s shoulders relax and he smiles brightly, raising his arms overhead in a broad stretch. “Ah, so you��re going to be learning about my people. Let me know who’s more jacked, me or the statues.”

You roll your eyes, feeling heat that suddenly flood your cheeks. “Stop being ridiculous,” you laugh, turning around to grab your water bottle and force the feeling away. “You know I’m not going to answer that. You already have enough fans feeding your ego.” 

You look pointedly over Luigi’s shoulder to the stretching area where Becky and a pretty redheaded girl are poised over yoga mats in downward-facing dog, their legs somehow both perfectly skinny and toned.

Luigi glances behind him and then back at you with a chuckle, watching you with smugness written all over his face. He raises an eyebrow, the corner of his mouth pulled up in a smirk. 

“That’s ok, Amber, I already know the answer.”

You roll your eyes again. He’s just a dude being a dude, yet something that feels faintly like disappointment flickers in your chest. What must it feel like to be that beautiful? How different would your life be if you were always trailed by your own personal fan club?

“Stop showing off to the audience and spot me,” you reply, your tone coming out snappier than you intended. 

“I’m not showing off,” he protests with a grin, coming over to your side. “I’m just excited for you to see the Roman statues.” 

He smiles with that special one that always makes your heard thud, so contagious that you can't help but smile back. 

With more effort than you care to think about, you curve your lips up into a grin and settle underneath the barbell, pushing down the faint unsettling feeling that still lingers behind.

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happy 5 months to mullet papa

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https://www.tumblr.com/fligniuz/789435176202731520/how-much-u-wanna-bet-tracy-breaks-off-her

what is this

anon i hope you don’t mind that i’m using your ask to make this post but i feel like it’s the best one to use so:

for starters i want to make it very clear that i haven’t been ignoring the anons i’ve gotten about this specific ask i posted, and i want to thank those of you who shared how you felt and who called me out. i’ve had a lot going on in my personal life lately, so much shit is just floating around in my head, and the honest truth is that i haven’t had the time to sit down and write something that i think properly addresses the problem, not to mention read it over a few times and all that, and i wanted my response to read as genuine as i feel. so i apologize firstly for the time it’s taken to get any word out of me about this ask

out of my interest for transparency i’m not going to delete the post—i feel like that’s a cop-out and i want people to be able to reference exactly what was said—but from the bottom of my heart: i am very, very sorry for the racially insensitive undertones of this ask, aspects that i (out of my own ignorance, of course) did not recognize at first glance. many anons have pointed out to me that this ask perpetuates stereotypes about asian women and could very fairly be described as a microaggression. i said in response to this anon that the hashtag part of the ask was humorous to me, and i want to clarify that this was only out of its absurdity and not out of the actual implications it was making, but regardless of how i, a white person, felt, it was not only disrespectful to tracy and her fiancé but it was downright offensive to some and i absolutely regret that. i hate that i made my blog a forum for echoes of rhetoric that maligns minorities. i wish i did not post it as was my first instinct but what’s happened has happened so all i can say now is that i am truly sorry, and i want everyone to know i do see the problem with it and my ears are completely open to the feedback i got. i love you and i apologize.💚

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HATE that I found this 8min (!!!) video and this is the only clip of lu in it 😭 he didn’t speak one word. NOTHING. I’m starting to believe he hates being filmed lmao. it felt like he was actively trying to stay out of frame other than these 3 milliseconds 😩

edit: swapped vid with a better quality one

bonus points for the camera man pressing the stop record button IMMEDIATELY after the guy they’re talking to looks over at lu’s pink Penn shirt and says “I imagine you go to Penn 😀”

fuck u man.

we could’ve had extra clips of lu talking. but NO

hope his pillow is warm at night

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On Luigi Mangione’s 14th birthday (May 6th, 2012), the Hubble Space Telescope captured the following photo:

“This Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling jewel box full of stars captures the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun-like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy’s ancient central hub, or bulge. Most of the bright blue stars in the image are probably recently formed stars located in the foreground, in the galaxy's disk. Astronomers studied 10,000 of these Sun-like stars in archival Hubble images over a nine-year period to unearth clues to our galaxy’s evolution.

The study reveals that the Milky Way’s bulge is a dynamic environment of variously aged stars zipping around at different speeds, like travelers bustling about a busy airport.

The researchers found that the motions of bulge stars are different, depending on a star’s chemical composition. Stars richer in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium have less disordered motions, but are orbiting around the galactic center faster than older stars that are deficient in heavier elements.

The image is a composite of exposures taken in near-infrared and visible light with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The observations are part of two Hubble surveys: the Galactic Bulge Treasury Program and the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search.

The center of our galaxy is about 26,000 light-years away.”

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"Trump, Enemy of Humanity"

Seen in Guatemala City

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

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small announcement: i’m not posting a fic this month

to be frank i’ve been too depressed to write and i’ve wasted so much time this month being insecure about both stuff unrelated to my online life and about my blog as a whole. you guys deserve better than something i threw together and wrapped up at the last minute, especially since study buddies is a well loved series, so i hope you can understand where i’m coming from

the good news is that i have some little posts sitting in my drafts i can put out to quench your thirsts for now, mostly just lil blurb things or concepts i like thinking about, so maybe some of you will find them sexy. i’m sorry that i can’t bring you the bigger and more exciting thing i promised, i haven’t been myself lately, but i’m trying to find steady ground again, so please stay tuned💚flig loves you

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Luigi’s in the same detention facility where ice detainees are kept

ice victims being made to eat off plates like dogs. Denied medical care and lifesaving medications. Dying. Being taken out of the hospital without pain meds. Beaten. Sent to an “icebox” so cold they can’t sleep. Women having to use the toilet in front of men. Toilets covered in shit. Starved.

everyone here should be outraged about these conditions even more than about Luigi. I truly believe this could be the beginning of a second holocaust. We must call our representatives, participate in ice watch initiatives, and protest.

let this be a reminder that injustices are intersectional and Luigi’s case is a sign of the descent into fascism that’s now harming thousands upon thousands of innocent humans.

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How to send images and memes to Luigi Mangione — A Tutorial

( Luigi Mangione and his lawyers both want more memes, he thanks people for them and encourages the use of freeprints, it keeps his morale high ) Please follow these instructions closely!

This is what it will look like if you send Luigi Mangione images over free prints. He prefers this method and wants people to send him memes (he misses the internet)

1. Make sure the image you send him does not include any code or cyphers, porn, threats, nor information about what he's incarcerated for. Please be aware prison staff screen everything. There's rumors they're lax on the rules but they still have no qualms throwing inmate mail directly in the trash.

2. Make sure the images you want to send him match the below example with a white border called a margin added around it. You can add this border in an image program. Margin should be no less than 5% of the image size!! Include your mailing address and first and last name. No initials, no signature. Example with image:

3. If you don't include your name or address, he will still receive the mail but he will not know who sent it and will not be able to send you a reply. DO NOT put your return address or name on the white border around the image because the white border gets cut off when printed.

4. Download the FreePrints app and click 'Begin'

5. Select the photos from your camera roll. On the next screen you can use the crop icon to rotate or resize (best if you resize to 4x6 beforehand, this will also fit the template example used above)

6. Enter his shipping address like below

7. If you forgot or ABSOLUTELY WANT TO BE SURE that there's a white border, click 'add white border' here. It will just make extra sure your address and name don't get cut off so he can reply to you. I'm unsure, but 'select matte finish' may also be useful as inmates aren't allowed glossy prints. If anyone knows more about whether matte or glossy is better, please let me know!

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happy mark rosario day !

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send this to other bloggers that you think are wonderful !!!!!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷 keep the game going, make someone smile!!

thank you ml <3

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send this to other bloggers that you think are wonderful !!!!!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷 keep the game going, make someone smile!!

🥺thank you!!

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i need luigi to fuck me okay IM GOING INSANE FUCK ME PLEASE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

😔don’t we all

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summerween with luigi <3

what’s summerween…😥i live under a rock sorry

like halloween but during summer?