#Marc would be just annoyed by Matt...

[catholic-character-tournament]

I would like your opinion on Frank and/or Matt

Frank

one aspect about them i love: I like that he loves and is extremely protective of kids <3

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: I hate cops that use his logo. No critical thinking or self-awareness >:( I want them to know that Frank himself would hate them for doing that

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: that he's a deadling (aka claims to not believe in God but is actually just mad at Him)

one character i love seeing them interact with: Wolverine and Castle are fun~

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: Khonshu. I really want him to be Moon Knight/the fist of Khonshu. They belong together (and Marc deserves a break)

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: I don't think I have one :/

Matt

one aspect about them i love: His dry humor. He's so funny but so lame at the same time "I'm wearing pants right" oh my goshhhhhh matttttt ur so annoying

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: In the Netflix(and She-Hulk) canon, I don't think Matt is a player/slut/manwhore. I know the comics he is but I'm talking specifically about the show. He's literally such a romantic. Mr. "Can I kiss you?" & "Hey, maybe next time I'm in town, I can take you out to dinner" & "if we make it... wherever you run, I... I run with you?" I know he's literally a man and I should hit him w my car but to me he's a lesbian

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character: Matt would be so much better if he were Mexican <3

one character i love seeing them interact with: Matt and Elektra 😊

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: Well now I want him to meet Harrowhawk and the other nominees. I don't think he'd be too upset about losing to her but I do think he'd be bitter about the cats and the mafia members and Eddie Brock surviving the first round lol

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: Can I tell u about my heroes for hire au with wasian!Danny(and everyone else mostly the same) fighting crime and systemic racism and inequality??? Let me tell you about my hfh au--

[usaigi]

7, 17, and 19 for the writer ask game!

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

When my friends say they liked it 🥺 If I make them laugh or feel things, it brings me so much joy.

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

So one of my WIPs is Matt choosing his Patron Saint for his confirmation. I don't know if this is actually canon or if it's just fan-canon that Matt picks St. Michael but that's literally so funny to me. Like of course little 14 year old Matt would pick St. Michael. "He battles evil, he will guide me on my war against evil" (evil being the NYC mayor and his battle is sending yet another angry email about (insert policy he disagrees with)).

There a misconception that your saint has to the same gender as you so I'm having his sunday's school teacher push him to pick St. Joan of Arc. ("You're a girl, you can't pick St. Michael. Pick St. Joan of Arc, she's a rebel just like you") Which is also funny to me because everyone's picks St. Joan of Arc (which is fair, she's amazing but also so mainstream). But also because a lot of queer Catholic look up to her and believe she's the patron saints of lesbians and transgender people.

But tbh, I'm of the belief that your saint picks you and it can change depending who you need at that moment. So maybe St. Michael is looking out for adult Matt when he's going against Fisk and the Hand but I think 14 year old Matt didn't need his guidance yet. I think St. Matthew would be a better Saint for lil Matt. A lost queer kid who doesn't know who he is and what he needs. Feeling like an outsiders. Him struggling with being queer out of fear of being outcasted from the church, struggling with feelings like he killed his dad, him thinking it's his fault Stick abandoned him, and feeling like he has the devil inside of him. But Jesus accepting and forgiving Matthew so maybe he's also has a chance at being forgiven (Note; I don't think Matt M. is responsible or needs to be forgiven for anything. He's just an angsty boy who needs a hug and a forehead kiss and therapy.)

Matt (Murdock) choosing to be a broke defense lawyer because he believes in justice instead of taking a job with L&Z is very St. Matthew core idk.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

It was May 2022 and I was deep in the Moon Knight trenches. I think it was between episode 5-6 and I was getting not-so-silently annoyed at fans saying that just because Oscar Isaac is Latino it doesn't mean MK is. So I wrote a 800 work crack fic where Marc and Jake make fun of Steven for not realizing he's Latino and went on a mini rant in the R/N

Since then, I've been trying to get more comfortable exploring characters outside of one off jokes. I still like my fic first, it's silly and fun and I honestly do think you can explore character through comedy and silliness but I'm trying to balance the jokes and earnest character exploration.

[purple--queen]

How aboute everytime Clint & Matt meeting in a dumbster, their talking about their crushes (just like highschool girls would do it) & than their trying to help each other. 

[bryceslahela]

choices li tag game <33

tagged by the amazing @mvalentine. i love u bestie <3333 also i added commentary, ignore if u want.

also idk who to tag so … @trystcnthorne @kingliamrys @paladinofsol and anyone else who wants to.

across the void - none. book was ass. sorry howdy.

america’s most eligible - the bad boy that wasn’t even bad. the flop boy.

a very scandalous proposal - hate the way british lis are written so stopped playing but i might replay again bc everyone raves abt simon/ava. if that’s their names.

baby bump - rich guy in ill fitting suit. clit covington.

bachelorette party - rich doctor. reed? as much personality as a loaf of white bread. he had rlly big gazongas tho like ik the design team had fun inflating those things.

big sky country - dallas. dallas so beautiful. i love 1 (one) man.

blades of light and shadow - mal volari

bloodbound - adrian raines (didn’t finish tho)

crimes of passion - obviously my #bae trystan thorne

a courtesan of rome - depends on my playthrough, it’s either marc antony and syphax or just marc antony.

desire and decorum - never finished but ernest sinclaire. he’s v pathetic looking and that’s my type.

distant shores - edward mortemer.

the elementalists - beckett harrington (i know he’s a divisive li but idc he’s my nerd 4 lifer 🤞🏾)

endless summer - sean gayle

foreign affairs - y’all already know 🤭 mr blaine hayes. my number one. my shorty. my bae. my boo. my lil doughnut head.

the freshman series - chris bc i didn’t care abt him frfr. james was cute and was my boo for a minute but then he rlly fucking annoyed me. on my replay it was zig, he was hot but i never finished.

hot couture - no one. all were ugly and hazel wasn’t available.

immortal desires - both (but i liked cas more im sooooo sorry gabey wabey 😪)

laws of attraction - gabe ricci. he’s hot, sexy and has a good job unlike some ppl.

mother of the year - thomas mendez. hot single dad ?? purrrrr.

murder at homecoming - black!tyler is sooo pretty but i’m sorry donovan is gonna be my number one.

my first two loves - noah harris. miss him sm but i am not replaying 100 chapters pb got me fucked up fr.

nightbound - none. didn’t finish.

open heart - bryce lahela obviously 🤭. i would write a sonnet abt him but no one would listen 😪romanced ethan and raf for a bit tho

perfect match - everyone. all lis were TOP TIER. damien and hayden were my mains tho.

platinum - raleigh. fine asf. flop mc didnt deserve him.

red carpet diaries - matt rodriguez. no thoughts up there. love that for him frfr.

ride or die - logan? i think.

the royal masquerade - never finished but the pretty boy prince.

the royal romance - liam rys.

rules of engagement - the rich one. forgot his name srry to that man.

save the date - justin mercado (he wasn’t bad at all y’all are just haters)

veil of secrets - i played once when it came out and it was flynn but i replayed and romanced grant even tho he’s bald.

wake the dead - the hot guy. idk i quit playing.

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

please he would threaten to punch her and she would go from ☹️ to 😁

“I’m gonna smack you.”

“Harry, it’s not funny.”

“Am I laughing? Look at my face, do you see a smile on it?”

“Well, no, but—”

“Exactly. Because this isn’t a laughing matter. I am sick and tired of you being mean to my girlfriend. I’m exhausted. Worn away. Eroding. Weathered. I’m sand particles, at this point.”

Y/N attempts to keep a neutral attitude, but his comical dramatics are difficult to resist. “I—”

“So, if you’re gonna keep being mean to her— if you insist on putting her down— then I have no choice but to clock you in the face. Sorry, not sorry. I haven’t spent months and hundreds of dollars making her feel perfect for you to come and ruin it. Can’t allow that.”

“Harry—”

“Assume the position.”

“Excuse me?”

���You’re excused.” Harry comments easily, lifting his fists up as he bends his knees a bit, his posture crouched as he shuffles from side to side, throwing air punches to suggest he’s practicing. “C’mon, hands up. I’ll even let you get into a defense stance before I rock your shit.”

Y/N rolls her eyes, haphazardly putting her arms up as if to block a blow, kinking an eyebrow at him pointedly. “Like this?”

“Your form is utter rubbish, but it’ll do.”

“This is ridi—”

She doesn’t get the chance to finish her insult. Harry charges forward, snaking his arms around her waist and chucking her upwards, throwing the girl over his shoulder as he straightens his body. He spins around sharply with her in tow, cackling as she screams in surprise and pounds at his back, demanding he put her down. Despite her protests, he can her giggling between words, trying to keep a solid front in order to get him to oblige.

Harry tosses her around messily, laughing even harder as she shrieks and grasps onto his t-shirt, kicking her legs in an effort to get him to release her. He turns his head, calling over his opposite shoulder so she can hear, a evil smirk plucking his dimples into place. “You want me to put you down?”

“Obviously.” Y/N spits in fake exasperation, wriggling around wildly to emphasize her point. “If you keep spinning me around, I’m gonna hurl all over your Marc Jacobs t-shirt. Put me down now.”

“Happy to.”

Harry reels around towards his couch, sauntering over with his mind set on the cushions at the very center. Y/N recognizes his intentions immediately, and she begins to thrash with more fervor as she screams more objections and threats. “Harry, don’t! I swear to God, I’ll shave your head in your sleep if you fucking—”

“You said you wanted me to put you down!”

“Not like this!”

He sucks at his teeth mockingly as he tuts in a scolding manner, giving her backside a hard spank just to be annoying. “You should’ve been more specific, blossom.”

“I’ll fucking bite your dick off next time if you—”

Harry leans backwards to gather his strength, grabbing a firm hold of the backs of her thighs to guide her as she tumbles. He lurches forward, her torso see-sawing across his study shoulder as he chucks her onto the sofa, right onto the mound of pillows he’d aimed for. Y/N lands on the plush mountain with a rough exhale, her body sinking in deeply due to the momentum Harry had put into his fling. She blinks up at his chandeliers in a foggy daze, shaking her head to get her bearings back and struggling to sit up onto her elbows.

The second she manages to prop herself up, she wishes she hadn’t. Instead of being met with Harry standing before her, arms folded over his lean chest as he laughs at his own antics, she’s met with him looming over her with a mischievous glint in his eyes that suggests he isn’t done. Harry bends one of his forearms back, patting his elbow with the opposite palm in a gesture that suggests he’s preparing it for use. He squats down as if gathering all his might, a goofy grin splitting his face in half as he bellows in a deep, exaggerated voice that imitates a sports anchor. “Styles goes in for one last move, and it’s not looking good for his opponent, folks!”

“Don’t you fucking dare.”

“He crouches down and jumps into the air, locked onto his target!”

“Harry, I’m serious!”

“The crowd goes wild with anticipation!” Harry simulates the screams of an imaginary audience, his giggles interrupting the sound as he plants his footing appropriately. “He goes in for the final kill!”

“No!”

“The crowd is chanting for blood! ‘TKO! TKO! TKO!’”

“Rot!”

“TOTAL KNOCK OUTTTTTTT!”

The vampire launches himself into the air, screaming incoherent bloody murder as he lands on top of his girlfriend with a muffled thump, the matte leather couch shifting with their conjoined weight. He doesn’t hit her with his elbow at all— the posing had simply been for theatrics— but he does dive his face right into her neck, blowing raspberries into her skin until she’s a giggling, bucking mess under him. He weaves his arms around her hips, pulling her close to keep her from escaping his attack, continuing to nip and prod as he wreaks havoc across every pressure point where he knows she’s ticklish. Y/N shoves at him futilely to try and get him off, but she’s too caught up in the moment to actually garner any success. They’re a mess of flailing limbs and contagious laughter as Harry torments her, and she’s practically forgotten all about her concerns from earlier. In the face of Harry’s efforts, her insecurities have shrunken away and dissolved all together, just as he’d intended.

When the immortal finally rolls off her in a merciful ceasefire, he lands on his back beside her on the couch, the motion accompanied by an empty grunt and a shit-eating smirk. He glances over at the human, her hair a rat’s nest and her clothes wrinkled and bunched due to his actions. Even with her disheveled appearance, the bright smile adorning her features lets him know his little act had worked out the way he wanted it to.

He reaches over, moving a strand of hair off her cheek with his index finger, delicately tucking it behind her ear. He then nurses the back of that same digit over the apple of her cheek, the gesture as tender and caring as his voice. “Feel better?”

She cranes her head to meet his gaze, chewing into her cheek to stifle the warm fondness flooding her heaving chest. “Maybe.”

“Good.” He pinches her cheek playfully, putting on a serious demeanor for the sake of the joke. “Take this round as a warning, then. I won’t be so nice next time.”

“Consider me warned.”

[liaromancewriter]

Hope you’re having a lovely day today! I’ve got some questions for you regarding Ethan and Cassie, as well as Maxenna <3

As a music lover, I’m curious about their music taste. If they were in charge of the music anywhere, what would play? What’s in their respective playlists and what are their favorite songs?

Hi Avy,

Love this question because I’m a huge music fan too! This answer is super long. Sorry 😬

Ethan & Cassie:

Cassie has eclectic tastes and enjoys music that tells a story or something she can dance to. She enjoys Top 40, pop and indie music, as well as oldies. “Dream A Little Dream” is their song and she’ll always want to dance when it comes on. Ethan sometimes plays that song because he knows she cannot resist. 

Her favorite musicians include The Black Keys, Lana Del Rey, Kelly Clarkson, Christina Perri, Imagine Dragons, and Matt Nathanson, among others. Ethan cannot stand when she plays Matt Nathanson’s “Come On Get Higher” because that was her song with her ex, Jackson. She loves the song though and will listen to it with headphones on out of respect for his wishes. (Except when he rubs Nigella in her face; then she’s blasting that song to annoy him!) 

Her running playlist is designed to keep her pumped up for a 5-mile run, so it’s a mix of rock, dance and pop.

Ethan listens to opera and classical symphonies for the most part, much to Cassie’s dismay who is trying to educate him on more recent music. Like her though he enjoys oldies and jazz standards like Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke and Annie Lennox, particularly when he’s cooking in the kitchen or wants to dance with Cassie. 

When he was younger, he was into rock and post-grunge. One of his favorite bands in his teens and through college was Green Day. He even went to their concerts and still has a t-shirt.

Max & Sienna:

In my background for Sienna, she grew up in New Orleans and therefore was exposed to jazz and blues from an early age. When she’s baking her playlist is primarily composed of jazz, blues and soul music with songs from artists like Marc Broussard, Joe Bonamassa, B.B. King, Bonnie Rait, and Keb’Mo, among others. 

Like Cassie, she listens to Top 40 and pop songs too, especially something fun to dance to when they go clubbing or at weddings. When they lived together, they would put on these songs and just dance in the living room or go out on the town. After she got married, the tradition continued whenever Cassie would visit, often dragging Max along with them. (Not that he minds 😄)

Max is not a huge fan of pop music, but he can tolerate it (with his sister and then his wife, he has no choice 😂). He enjoys classic rock, but his favorite genre is Blues with some Jazz thrown in. His playlists are full of established and emerging artists such as B.B. King, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Gráinne Duffy, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Clapton, and Eva Cassidy, among others.

Since, Sienna and Max both love blues music their favorite activity (well, second favorite 😏) is to spend an evening at the blues club in their Georgetown neighborhood. They love dancing together, at home, as well as hitting night clubs if the mood strikes. So, music is a huge part of their lives.

Here’s a look at both couple’s wedding songs.

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[blissfulalchemist]

returning fire with multiples of 5 for sahar (in honor of moon knight dropping soon) >:))

I didn’t forget Macy! Just slow!

5. What’s their most useless, weirdest, or least marketable skill?

Sahar finds her most useless skill to be being able to correctly guess where the daily doubles are in Jeopardy each time and yes on both earths as well. It would only be useful if she was able to compete but sadly she cannot so it’s useless as no local trivia nights use the double jeopardy tactic.

10. What do they fantasize about?

You’d have to be a little more specific on just kind of fantasies. Domestic? She wants her old life a little with Marc and the gang by her side, mostly the money and slightly nicer living space. Romantic? She wouldn’t mind the old school romantic evening honestly, not that she’ll ever admit to it. And sexually? Well buy her some dinner first and you might find out.

15. How would they describe themselves?

Sahar would describe herself as somewhat of a hermit even prior to her incident (This is untrue as she had a social life and always something happening). She’d tell you that she’s blunt and uncaring (false. she is very caring), willing to lie and cheat to get her way (within reason), and someone that in the long run is insignificant and shouldn’t be treated as someone that is worth more than what she actually is. Her views on herself are much more negative, though occasionally you will get her more “I love myself” Sahar now and then just not as often as prior to her breakdown. Woman needs some therapy, though she does get a little more confident when she jumps worlds and uses it more as a front to keep people far from her.

20. Who’s their go-to person for advice?

Her absolute go-to people for advice is still her best friends and its because of this that she gets herself caught with her hallucinations. When they don’t provide the advice she needs or wants she will turn to Marc or Rheese to give some guidance with Dr. Badar on some occasion as he was her first mentor. When on the new earth she turns primarily to Yelena and Matt, Steven after awhile as she trusts him the most given his more open nature. It does take some time for her to go to Marc for any kind of advice though.

25. What’s one thing they’re utterly incapable of doing without the help of someone else?

Patching herself up after a fight. Sure she’s good at helping others but she can’t patch herself up to save her life beyond like scrapes and minor cuts. She’s partially just too stubborn to realize she needs to treat herself with more care. Should have seen how many times that neck wound would open and how badly she’d try to sew it up at home.

30. What’s their political stance?

Comics politics is out of my depth and so I can’t give much of a proper answer. Her core values though boil down to doing the right thing even if you have to do something that’s against the law in order to do so.

35. Do/did they want children?

Sahar doesn’t want children no. She loves the idea of being the cool aunt with all the cool presents more so! Though she also feels that if it happens then it happens for her and she’ll come to terms with a decision should it ever happen.

40. What do other people find annoying about them, if anything?

Her hot and cold nature. She can be very friendly and open but then just as quickly turn around and be shut down and making you go away, think very much like an untrustworthy cat and that’s Sahar. They do also find her speed at Jeopardy to be annoying though this is probably due to the fact that she’s in competition with everyone else.

45. What kind of movies do they like?

Sahar is more the B-Movie Horror genre and historical dramas (which can include things that just happened within the last 20years honestly). A good Shakespeare rendition is also something that she loves and will watch over and over, especially the more accurate to the story it is (so no direct lines isn’t a requirement).

50. Do they have any insecurities?

Her biggest one is losing herself in her own head. Its feels so vast in there and so few people understand it enough to find her within it that she hates telling too many people. She also just can’t stand the stigma around it especially when they find out that she’s still technically has her biological brother as her legal guardian, which leads to questions on how that came to be, and then judgement on her potential for violence at any given moment.

55. Who do they look up to most?

Sahar always looked up to her father the most. They spent a lot of time together and he was a good man. He always treated everyone he met with the same level of respect and worked with various charities until he was no longer able to but even in his old age he was part of a mentoring program with their local mosque.

60. What are some of their simple pleasures?

Her bath bombs and Nest New York Turkish Rose Perfume Oil. Sahar has quite a bit of money still and access to it all but has majorly toned down her lifestyle, however her perfume is one such commodity that she will gladly spend the $100 per 1oz bottle. She does try to not go over 4 bottles a month though which was about the norm prior.

[miss-mishka]

I just watched Matthias et Maxime (2019) directed, produced, written by & starring Xavier Dolan. I am in love with this “drama focusing on a group of friends in their late 20s.” Here are some screengrabs of my favorite lines with a brief rundown of the central characters.

Matthias (aka Matt, played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) - Clearly trying to be the ‘grown up’ of the group. He’s gorgeous, but a total type A personality, severely repressed sexuality issues & is so emotionally constipated that it hurts to witness. I’ve watched the movie through 3 times already & still can’t decide if I like him or not, but he’s top billed in the title, so he gets the first slot on this post.

Maxime (aka Max play by Xavier Dolan) - The boy everyone loves & I adore him. Maybe he’s an underdog, maybe he’s comedic relief, maybe he’s just that buddy they could always rely on. Whatever it is, he’s the heart of the group. This whole movie is about his moving to Australia for a bit & the gang just wants to enjoy the time that they have left together because they know it’s time for growing up & probably all of them moving on. This particular line wasn’t his funniest or best, but I chose it because it’s the most important line of the whole movie & when Matt just left him there like that? It’s what adds the most weight to the “Don’t” side of the scale of whether I like Matt.

Rivette (aka Marc-Antoine according to his mother or Marco per his sister, played by Pier-Luc Funk) - My absolute FAVORITE! Picking just one line for him for this post was physically painful & I’m working on screengrabs just dedicated to him. He’s a psych major at Cambridge, mostly grown up, bossy af, funny af, gay? (according to his sister), dating a professor? (implied by the guys) & the cool rich kid whose parents always let him throw parties for his friends. He is, I think, the glue that’s kept them all together beyond high school & college.

Frank (aka Frankie played by Samuel Gauthier) - The protector & my precious. This line doesn’t do much to capture his character, but I still loved it. Frankie has a temper, but, I sense that, he’s the guy in the group that would be the first to protect & defend his friends. We see that when he refuses to let Matt’s bs ruin Max’s going away party, even though his fight with Matt totally ruins things for Max.

Brass (played by Antoine Pilon) - he’s the stoner dude-bro of the group. He’s not a standout character, for me, but he’s very included in the group & I love how they all are together so I, by default, love him.

Shariff (aka Benjamin Shariff per Matt's mom, played by Adib Alkhalidey) - This is not an image for him from this movie & he has some good lines in the movie that I could have grabbed, but I don’t care. When I saw that this was his IMDB profile picture, it immediately erased any other image I have for him. His character in this movie, though, is the “hipster rocker” that Matt is referring to in his picture above. Shariff is the cool, sexy one. Even Matt’s mom is crushing on him. (I also love Matt's mom in this movie.)

Required Inclusion:

Erika (played by Camille Felton) - Rivette’s little sister. She’s probably supposed to annoy everyone as much as she does Matt, but I love her. More than that, I love the insults that her brother has for her. “$24,000 a year to talk like a bimbo & Instagram her breakfast burrito” said Rivette on Erika & her efforts in film school. Here, she’s calling Matt & Max another generation when she can’t possibly be more than a few years younger than them. She is so pretentious & condescending with these guys. Most importantly, she’s the catalyst for the events in this movie. If you don’t know what it’s about, here we finally go.

Erika has tagged along with Rivette to their parent’s “cabin” to work on her film project, much to the dismay of her big bro’s friends who are there for a weekend party. She has a few of her own friends with her & was supposed to have a pair of actresses there to be in her film project for school, but they bail at the last minute so she asks for two of the guys to stand in. Max agrees to help her out because he's "the chillest" according to Erika. Matt loses a bet & has to do it. The roles they’re to play? Just a couple of guys making out for the camera. We don’t get to see what her camera captured & I demand a DVD or BluRay release of this film ASAP with that unedited footage. (Please, I beg whoever may hear me & have the power, tell me that this will happen!)

Whatever happens between Matt & Max during that filming session sends Matt into a bit of a tailspin. He obviously wants Max, but it’s clear that he feels he shouldn’t. Whether it’s self-imposed or something impressed upon him by a father we never meet in the movie, Matt has an obvious idea of what it means to be a grown man & loving Max isn’t part of that. His friend group is not part of it. His childhood dream of owning/running a farm with Max is most definitely not a part of it. But Max’s going away & that stupid film are threatening to derail his perfectly planned future where he’ll advance quickly through the ranks of his stuffy corporate(lawyer?) job & likely marry his very nice girlfriend Sarah.

How does it end? Ambiguously, I fear, for the romance. But I still love it because this group of characters outlined here? They work. Their story, as a whole, is very good, even if Matt & Max are the focal points. The cast chemistry is very believable & I hope some, if not all, of the cast are friends in real life.

[malereader-inserts]

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Fandom: The Vampire Diaries Pairing: Kol Mikaelson x Male!Reader Summary: Kol has a reputation to uphold, you’re just there to feed his ego Word Count: 1,061 Request: @marc-isthename  “Cliché trope InCoMiNg: highschool sweetheart x badboi™ which is basically Bughead 😛 But with, if possible, Kol,” A/n: Why do Bad boys always have angsty backgrounds, is there a bad boy because he just wants to be?

No one knows how you’ve fallen in love with the school’s bad boy.

God knows how Kol managed to be blessed to be with you.

Because Kol is hopeless, you are out of his league as Rebekah puts it. You’re too good for him, he thinks, he doesn’t deserve you but you say otherwise.

But somehow, you both work out really good. It’s like grease, you were the sweetheart that everyone loved, no faults about you. You got top grades in most, if not all, your subjects. You were kind and sweet - some could mistake you for being so innocent. But then comes in Kol - the bad boy of the school.

Kol never expected to find himself in High School, that was his sister’s cover-up and to get in with the local gossip. Kol could find entertainment however upon arrival, he was smitten with you. 

He almost begged Elijah and Rebekah to introduced himself to you because that’s how he only noticed you. It was your joyful laughter that allured him to you, standing there at the grill laughing at Rebekah’s whining about Klaus as Elijah stood there rolling his eyes.

Kol had never felt so nervous around a person, butterflies in his stomach that are out of control that he felt like throwing up. So, Rebekah dragged him into high school and pushed him into you, knocking you over. So, with cheeks so red he offered to carry your books and bag.

Still, he was only cutesy with you and everyone else found him intimidating. He drives a motorcycle just to spite you and his sister, he doesn’t go to any of his lessons unless you’re in his class so he can distract you. He never participates in gym class because “who actually wants to be alethetic, (Y/n)?” as Kol puts it.

“Just because you’re a vampire and actually don’t need sports to keep active you can’t judge other people who are fanatic about sports.”

“It’s just stupid,” Kol complains, rolling his eyes, “Come on, skip gym with me!”

“In your dreams, boo,” You hummed, kissing his lips before pushing yourself to enter the changing room.

“You know, I still don’t know what you see in him,” Matt greets you, leaning against the locker, looking confused.

“Kol?” You questioned, as he nodded but you shrugged, “Dunno, he’s just... sweet.”

“Sweet?” Matt scoffs, shaking his head, “Dude, Kol is terrifying, have seen that guy? He glares at everyone and everything, how are you dating that guy?”

“Aren’t you dating his sister?” You asked, pulling your gym top on, “Same difference.”

Matt huffs, agreeing with your statement as you two leave the changing room into the gym hall. Sure, you understand why your friends always second doubt your relationship with the Mikaelson.

He’s a psychopath, the needy middle child who is reckless and impulsive. He always needs to get his way, as Klaus bitterly says. Your friends remind you that he’s a vampire, he’s vain and he’s a killer - he has no morals, for all you know he could be using you to get to Elena for Klaus.

Yet, despite their complaints, you don’t see that. In fact, what you see is a man who has been pushed away continuously by his siblings. You see a man who’s so out of life, confused, and unloved. Yes, he was needy, but could you blame him? All he wants was your attention, your love.

So, he comes off cold, bad, unwanted to fend himself - to ward off people who could hurt him further. To him, you were a lifesaver, you were a grace sent by god, you were everything to him. 

“You’ve softened Kol, (Y/n),” Klaus announces as he sees you strolling into their kitchen to raid, “He’s not Kol.”

“And is that a bad thing?” You asked, challenging and tinted with a know it all tone.

“Not necessarily,” Rebekah comments as you rip open some large crisp packet, “It’s sweet, I’d say, he’s nicer.”

“You know, if you were just as nice to him he would be nicer back,” You informed them, knitting your eyebrows together before relaxing, “It’s not rocket science, you want respect you give respect back - you have to give to get, you know?”

You stroll back out to Kol’s room, exclaiming you could beat him in another round of some shooter game. Leaving Rebekah and Klaus dumbfounded in the kitchen.

“He’s right,” Elijah calls out to his siblings, “We don’t give Kol much credit than we think we do.”

“But-”

“Kol is smarter than what he leads on, maybe we should try listening to him.”

“I don’t understand why you even go to school,” You say, as Kol leans on the motorcycle whilst you adjust your backpack.

“Well, I’ve been affectionately named as Mystic High Bad boy, I can’t just let that go...” Kol says, grinning at you, “Plus, it annoys Beks beyond belief that I get more attention that she does.”

“Why? She’s the queen bee, she’s taken Caroline’s title,” You say, eyebrows furrowed, “And you’re doing this to keep up a reputation or feeding your ego?”

“Please,” Kol scoffs but pulls you into an embrace and kissing your hair, “A title is not feeding my ego, having the hottest boyfriend is.”

You chuckled into his chest, knowing that heat was slowly rising from your neck to your cheek, you wrapped your arms around his waist.

“You’re a dork,” You mumbled.

“You’re a real sweetheart,” Kol compliments you, “But, you can’t call me a dork when I have a reputation to hold!”

You push him off you, rolling your eyes and scoffing but a big grin on your face. You two looked at each before laughing, though it was cut off when the bell rang.

“Let me guess? You’re going to skip class?”

“No,” Kol says, wiggling his eyebrow suggestively, throwing his arm over your shoulders and glaring off anyone who dares to look at you, “You say Klaus’ hybrid’s giving you shit? I have the first period with him.”

“Don’t-”

“Don’t worry, love, you’ll get an apology at the end of the day from him,” Kol says, walking you to class, not caring that he’ll turn up to his late as he could hear some girls gushing over him, enlarging his stupid menacing grin on his face.

“Don’t murder him.”

“No promises.”

[daresplaining]

Mike Murdock Cometh!

    So... Marvel just released their August solicitations. Check them out if you haven’t yet, because August is clearly going to be the Month of Daredevil (well... actually, it seems to be the Month of the Fantastic Four-- and they’ve earned it. But we’re getting a ton of DD too)! All of it looks great, but the reason I’m feverishly writing a post about these issues three whole months before they even go on sale is:

DAREDEVIL #606 Spinning out of the events of THE HUNT FOR WOLVERINE: WEAPON LOST, a nightmare Matt Murdock never knew he’d have has come true — MIKE MURDOCK IS FLESH AND BLOOD IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! Now, there’s someone running around with Matt Murdock’s face, which can only spell trouble for the Mayor Without Fear!

DAREDEVIL #607 Once Matt Murdock’s alter-alter ego and fake twin brother, Mike Murdock has been made flesh and blood thanks to the Inhuman Reader. But Mike Murdock has motivations of his own, and all the cunning and skill of his “brother” Matt at his disposal to make them come to fruition. And things only get worse as Mike zeroes in on the people Matt cares about most!

    I’ve been pretty vocal around these parts about my adoration of the entire concept of Mike Murdock, both as a hilarious Silver Age joke and a surprisingly compelling examination of Matt’s psyche. He’s a chunk of Daredevil history that-- thankfully-- just won’t die, and echoes of his presence can be found in all of the subsequent volumes... and even, for one glorious moment, in the dark-and-gritty depths of the Netflix show. Mike persists as an easy gag, a personification of Matt’s id, and-- as much as Matt would hate to admit it-- one of his most memorable alter egos. The guise of Mike was so enticing to 1960s Matt that he even toyed with the idea of making him his main identity! That’s a persona with power, part of the reason I find him so interesting, and why these solicits are 100% dead-center right up my alley. 

    This isn’t going to be Matt’s first close encounter with his other alter egos. A few writers have taken great, mind-bending advantage of his plethora of personalities, bringing them together en-masse to give him a little psychological jolt. But I’ve always been sad that these multi-Matt get-togethers never included Mike.  

Daredevil vol. 5 #19 by Charles Soule, Marc Laming, Miroslav Mrva, and Matt Milla

Stick: “Y’know, I could fill this whole cemetery with the people you’ve been. The lives you’ve discarded. The masks you’ve worn. Remember Mike Murdock? Now that was a good one. But what say we limit this to a study of your major incarnations.”

Daredevil vol. 1 #349 by J.M. DeMatteis, Cary Nord, and Christie Scheele

    This tantalizing concept of giving “life” to Matt’s various alter egos has always been extra appealing to me in regards to Mike, just because he’s so out-there and fun, and because the idea of Matt coming face-to-face with him is so entertaining. (If I had written Shadowland, it would have ended with Mike emerging from the depths of Matt’s subconscious and one punch K.O.ing the Beast, but hey, maybe that’s just me...) The closest we’ve come so far was in DeMatteis’s run, when a mysterious yellow-suited DD started swinging around town, claiming to be the “original” Daredevil. This was eventually revealed to be Matt, who’d reverted back to his loudmouth, swashbuckly 60′s persona... and while he’s never identified as such in the text, I’ve always wishful-thinking-ly taken that to mean Mike. 

Matt: “So tell me, Fogster-- why do you keep sabotaging yourself?”

Foggy: “Wh-who are you?!”

Matt: “Who do I look like?”

Daredevil vol. 1 #345 by J.M. DeMatteis, Ron Wagner, and Christie Scheele

    But while Mike's memory has stuck around to annoy his “twin brother”...

Reporter: “Now, wait-- I thought you were the second Daredevil. Wasn’t there another who preceded you--? The brother of that blind lawyer, Matt Murdock?”

Matt: “(Caught again in the ‘big lie’! [...] I wonder-- will that one insane idea of creating a third identity for myself ever stop plaguing me?)”

Daredevil vol. 1 #100 by Steve Gerber, Gene Colan, and Stan G.

...he’s never officially physically manifested... until now! (Well, August.) 

    There are a few details that make me extra excited about this arc (beyond the obvious). One is that the artist will be Phil Noto, who is brilliant. I never imagined I’d ever get to see him draw Mike Murdock. Another is the cameo by Reader, a character Soule introduced during his Inhuman (2014) run. Reader is blind, and has the power to cause anything he reads to physically manifest. He’s a great character, and it will be fun to see him interact with Matt-- though it’s doubtful Matt will be too happy with him, given the circumstances. And finally, there’s the idea of Mike as not just an annoyance, but as an actual threat. Obviously, I don’t want a full-on evil Mike. That’s not his personality. But he is self-serving above almost all else, and this could easily put him at odds with Matt. And who knows what his attitude will be regarding the nature of his existence? The situation is full-on Frankenstein-esque: Matt created this thing, gave it certain characteristics, and now it is being unleashed on his world and he’s going to have to actually deal with it. 

    Mike is, in many ways, the perfect adversary for Matt, and as such, has the potential to be highly dangerous. He has Matt’s combat skills, his intelligence (if not necessarily his attention span or motivation), and he’s not blind. And there’s the added factor (and it will be curious to see if Soule delves into this) of Mike literally being a facet of Matt’s personality. Everything that made Mike who he was-- possibly minus the nutty sunglasses-- came from Matt. Mike was a Matt free from secret identity concerns and societal restraints. He was an embodiment of a lifestyle that Matt, on some level, longed for. Since Matt has loosened up quite a bit since the 60s, this it probably no longer true. But it will be wild to see how he and Mike react to each other. I’ve been really enjoying Soule’s run, especially lately, but it’s been a while since I was quite this jump-up-and-down excited for an issue. I can’t believe that Mike Murdock: Born Again is happening in my lifetime. Expect more essays on the topic when August arrives.  

[bryceslahela]

who were ur lis in each book?

this was really hard..... i had to think for this and i hate thinking but thanks for the question! i obviously didn’t include single li books like tna but some of these books, i haven’t really played so i did it from just my experience and who i was romancing before i stopped playing. also i added some commentary, cause is it really a response from me if i don’t add some unnecessary comments? 🙈

oph: raf, ethan and bryce but bryce is my main (as y’all know).

acor: marc antony and syphax but syphax was my main

ilitw: lucas thomas

ilb: it was parker but he was a pussy and a cop so....

mtfl: noah

es: sean

qb: would have been carter ☹️

te: beckett but i switched to griffin (beckett got so annoying)

ame: the customisable dude (i forgot his name)

rcd: matt (he was soooo hot but boring 😭)

bp: reid (he boring asf tho, i mainly played for the girls)

d&d: prince hamid

bsc: dallas but i think i payed for a scene with the cowboy guy

bloodbound: adrian (but i barely played that book so)

tf: all the dudes bro 😭 i was technically with chris but cheated on him whenever i got the chance 😭

th:m: the driving dude but i’m gonna replay and romance eris ❤️

hero: KENJI!!! y’all know da vibes 😏 tho grayson nd eva were both hot 🙈

hfth: wyatt was ugly, holly was barely there so i think it was nick

hss: my bby michael <3 miss him <\3 i wanted to romance julian at one point tho

hss:ca: rory? ajay? idk i hated that series, only played like three chapters to see my hss mc

lovehacks: ben, leah and mark but cole had my heart <3 i think i eventually picked ben tho

moty: i romanced them all 😭 but i picked thomas cause he’s hot, rich and i wanted to adopt luz <3

trr: yoo i romanced asian liam cause i wanted to be queen but hana is so stunning nd ion know what it is with choices fanartists and making maxwell hot but they love to do it 😭 now i kinda think he’s hot and i hate myself

ptr: the footballer? ahmed i think his name was

perfect match: im glad u asked cause i been dying to talk abt it for a hot minute, i romanced everyone and i mean everyone. i was in a poly relationship at the end with five people and it was worth it <3 but my mains was asian m!hayden and damien.

rod: logan <3 but i might replay with colt idk.

trm: the dude with the black leo dicaprio esque hair, the king one. he was hot.

roe: the rich one, william?

vos: flynn? for like three chapters until i found out he was annoying and short (pick a struggle) so i chose grant, the hot lawyer who was nice <3

std: should have been simon but idk what it is about natural blond men.... so i picked justin (yes he was rude but he’s rich ion care).

wishful thinking: aubrey, he was nice but he started scaring me???? idk why 😭 i didn’t finish the book so i might switch lis, especially since anna is hot and everyone seems to love jaime/jamie ion know how to spell his name

nb: didn’t play that long but when i did, it was nik.

sunkissed: they all terrified me i’m sorry especially the lifeguard one, he was horrifying i had nightmares.

bolas: tyril and mal, also nia. she was so pretty 🥺.

baby bump: the rich man, clint eastwood. he was in that stupid fucking suit and i was like.... this book is so unrealistic as if i would let any of my mcs fuck someone who dressed like colonel sanders unironically 😕 let alone be impregnated by him. i wish mc coulda just took a plan b 💔

tc&tf: the flashy purple man, tevon? luv me some confident men, and it took a shit ton of confidence for him to wear that outfit outside <3

ds: edward? ig? but i didn’t play that book long enough to find out.

across the void: the pretty boy? the robot one? had pretty marks on his face idk his name but he was very pretty <3 but i swear there was another dude i was gonna romance and he looked very earthy, kinda like a lumberjack or sumn.

thofbm: eleanor was v pretty but i prefer my lis alive 💔 so ig the friend who ubered mc in the beginning?

[minikate--24-05]

This ask is almost as cute as you ughh Rose Lace Wish Velvet Pearl Sunlight Matte Gloss Satin Kiss

omg blushhh

Rose – What makes youbeautiful? I’d say my eyes.

Lace – How would youdescribe your best friend(s)? 

First we have this dude who I always say “isempty”, cause he’s very fair skinned and blond, so no melanin, and he’s 0-, sono blood proteins. He’s the funniest guy I’ve ever met and I love him as if hewere my brother. He’s the only person (as far as I know) I can be with for morethan 24h without needing a social break.

Then we have this sweet, pure, sassy human being with whom I have thedeepest and also silliest conversations. We’ve talked practically every daysince we met and my face always lights up when I see a message from her. Oursnapchat streak is 186 y’aalll. Her hair is so long and beautiful, just likeher. She’s the bravest and most encouraging person I know and I love her so, somuch that I can’t believe how lucky I was to meet her.

Next is my twin from the other side of the world. A beautiful mind in abeautiful body. A truly amazing writer. A Disney lover, Hawkeye Piercereincarnated. We also talk almost every day and her imagination always leavesme speechless. I love her wittiness and her dog tags. When we’re notencouraging each other we’re plotting our revenge on writers. She was my firsttumblr friend and I love her very much.

Then there’s my 2 geek uni friends, ride or die gals. We’ve gone throughthe 2 first years of Medicine together and we’re always there for each other.Whenever we try and study we end up talking about fandoms. I laugh so much withthem. I love them.

Wish – What are yourfavourite memories? Seeing without glasses, winning basketball leagues, thattime I got the victory for my team in the last second, meeting my globalfamily, reading Harry Potter and Dragún for the first time, finding outasexuality was a thing, the TLOK finale, meeting my favourite basketballplayer.

Velvet – Describe your dreamhome: It’s a house, no annoying neighbours. It has a lot of natural light andplaces to sit on the windows. There’s not too much of anything, just the neededstuff, and everything has its place. Good internet connection. Nice views froma nice neighbourhood. There’s at least one green room. I have my books and moviesand shows with me, as well as awesome merchandise and pictures.

Pearl – What is yourfavourite scent, flavor, sound, texture? Scent: vanilla? I don’t know. Flavor: spongecake. Sound: silence. Texture: anything soft.

Sunlight – List five things youfind to be beautiful: sunrise, people talking about their passions, sashaalexander, eye colors, hugs.

Matte – What is something youare proud of? My friends’ achievements, who I am as a person.

Gloss – List ten songs youlove right now:

My heart is broken by Evanescence

La islabonita by Madonna

Laura noestá by Nek

Estamadrugada by Amaral

Soledad by La Oreja de Van Gogh

Deja que tebese by Alejandro sanz and Marc Anthony

Tu enemigo by Pablo López and Juanes

House on fire by Sia

Can’t take my eyes off of you by Gloria Gaynor

Reaper by Sia

Satin – What never fails tomake you happy? Sasha alexander’s face, music, my bffs, star wars, peace andquiet, kids smiling, cats

Kiss – What do you want fromlife right now? Can the world just get fixed pls. also, right now? I want a break

[iboatedhere]

Who are your favorite hockey players, excluding Sid cause we all know he's your #1 love

So I’ve made a post like this before, but I’m at work and it’s wicked boring and I did omit some players that I really shouldn’t have.

Geno- like I’m ever gonna make a list that doesn’t include Geno. Front and center, Geno. Front and center. 

Bryan Rust- A Cute. (That’s how you grow a beard Sidney- take notes from one of your kids) 

Conor Sheary- Smol. So small. I’ve seen him with my own two eyes and he’s small. (also acceptable facial hair.) 

PK Subban- Find me someone who doesn’t like him and I’ll sit them down for a 1.5 hour lecture about how they’re wrong. 

Jamie Benn- Body like a fridge. Eyes like a Sad Cow. 

Jordie Benn- I just think it’s really nice that he gets to play with his brother. I know there are siblings sprinkled throughout the NHL but idk. I like this. (looks exactly like Yukon Cornelius) 

Tyler Seguin- I still don’t want to talk about it. (I have lots of feelings about this gif….It’s like the guy you bring home to meet your parents and the guy your parents must never know about.)

Jake Guentzel- Baby Penguin. 

Marc-Andre Fleury- I left him out of my last post and 20 minutes after I posted it I was like, I FORGOT FLOWER. 

Patric Hornqvist- Clothing hates him. Find him annoying a goalie. Gets punched in the face and hops right back up. 

Carl Hagelin- Find him wherever Horny is, probably. 

They’re best friends. 

Trevor Daley- Gives the best hugs. Loves Sid. 

Braden Holtby- A shocking addition. He wore me down.

Kris Letang- Salty and sweet. Here is he no doubt corrupting the youth. 

Olli Maatta- Sweet boy with hair as bright as the sun. 

Phil Kessel- Stanley Cup Champion. Looks like he always needs a nap. Relatable. 

Same, Phil, same. 

Justin Schultz- One of the few Penguins not sleeping on the couch after the Bruins game. (even if his goal went in off the stick of a Bruins player) Pops his front tooth in for interviews because he’s classy. 

Scott Wilson- I don’t know much about him except I thought for sure he was a goner when he landed hard on his arm a few games ago but then he showed up the next day for practice and was like ‘I was surprised at how good I felt’ and I was like- I would be out for a year after that. I would retire. Fights a lot. 

Matt Murray- Have you seen his dog? Tall and young. 

Chris Kunitz- I was shocked when I heard he was 37. Looking good.

Nick Bonino: From Connecticut. I watched a youtube video the other day and I thought he was really charming. 

So. In conclusion:

[travelingthroughtimejjs]

Heartbreak

598 days. Who knew someone could have such an impact on you in 598 days. I knew who Katen was in high school, but we didn’t really talk, she had no idea who I was. I always thought she was a good looking girl, but I had a girlfriend and didn’t think twice about it. But three years after we had a very fateful night. A story I truly believe equaled the right girl at the wrong time.

I woke up on the Friday after the first Ag night ready for round 2. Matt was coming to Saskatoon and we planned on going to the U of S football game. The beer gardens were going on at this point on campus and I was texting everyone I knew trying to find someone to go with, but no one really wanted to. Then I texted Maria and she was like yeah let’s go, so we did, we sat there for 2 hours with a couple of her friends and she invited me to her party that evening. I told her that me and the boys might show up later. I went home and started to pre drink for the football game when Matt texted me and let me know that he was going to be late, so we probably wouldn't make the game anymore. The plan changed and Jackson, Josh, Matt and I were going to go to Maria’s party. Well we showed up and it was an absolute mess. Maria was crying because her and her boyfriend were having a fight and this guy named Justin was being super annoying and would not leave us alone, so after 15 minutes we said fuck it and left. We just started walking towards Boychuk Drive. I was texting a girl that I knew from school because she was having a party and she said I could come but when I told her I was bringing 3 friends she wasn’t down anymore. So we gave up on trying to find a party, Josh got us an Uber and it picked us up instantly, off we were to go home.  On our way home I was watching stories in the back of the Uber and Amanda Puetz had a story with some people drinking in a van. So I snapchatted her and asked what’s up, she said they were at a party, so I asked if me and the boys could come, she said yes, I asked for the address but she wasn’t answering. Her snap map was on though so the Uber driver pulled a fat right hand turn into Sutherland for the boys and we walked around until we found the party. Here we met up with Amanda and she was with Katen among other people. The party ended up getting shut down about 20 minutes after we got there so we invited them back to our house, but they said they didn’t have a ride. So we got an Uber and Marc and Greg joined us. We were sitting at home when Amanda texts me saying that they got a ride and were coming over, so the boys and I grind cleaned the whole house so fast. Me and Katen clicked instantly, we just talked all night.

I was still technically dating Eden at this point but we didn’t really talk at all. She was just ignoring me all the time because I was going out with my friends. So I started talking to katen. And when Eden finally broke up with me, I didn’t really talk about it to anyone. Matt asked me about it so I told him, but less than a week after when I was talking to Katen I suggested to her that we should go on a date, and that’s how I broke the news to her that I was now available.

This girl was so fun loving, so goofy that it brought me joy. I loved being silly with her and seeing her smile. I’ve always been super attracted to ambitious women. Women that have a plan to do something in their life and strive to make a good life for themselves. Characteristics of strength and independence. And that was part of the beauty of this girl, we could spend hours just laying around together doing nothing and I’d be happy.

The next few months me and Katen were absolutely obsessed with each other. I would do anything to spend even just a little bit with her. I would have an hour in between classes so I would go and sit with her in her lecture. We would go back to one of our places for lunch or a nap, or go to the library together. We would be busy with school work but then go to each others houses just to sleep at night, even if that meant getting up super early for me to go home and get ready for school. She would come over just to watch survivor or when I was doing school work just so we could be around each other. We weren’t even dating and I took her to the most special place in my heart, a garden located at the back of the U of S. I had a bunch of school work to do on her birthday, but I wanted to be with her on her special day so I made it work, went and hung out with her and some friends before they went for supper and then came back after and spent the night with her. Jackson and josh always said that katen was one of the homies when we were living in Saskatoon, they loved how fun she was to hangout with. She would come pick me up when I needed a ride, bring me my favourite snacks. I was always super embarrassed about my money situation with katen when we were in Saskatoon because I couldn’t afford anything. She was always buying us late night skip the dishes but I couldn’t return the favour because I didn’t have extra money.

Josh would always poke at me, saying that I loved her. He knew it, I was falling in love with her. But that terrified me, I wasn’t ready to be in another relationship yet, and I communicated that with katen, and she was sooooo patient with me about it. She was cold sometimes, but the more I think about it, she was being respectful of the situation and not trying to be super pushy towards me. Halfway through March I decided I needed to let her go until I was ready for her, I felt too bad keeping up with how things were when I knew I couldn’t give her everything she deserved. So I had that hard conversation with her.

We still continued to be BEST friends, like I would tell her everything, there was no one I trusted more in the world. Over the next two months I was sitting at home thinking about the situation and I came to the conclusion that I need to make it work, she felt too right to let the timing end things. So I stopped talking to everybody else and focused on building a relationship with katen out of our friendship.

Well a week later she told me that she was going to hangout with someone, which killed me. At this point my plan was ruined, so I told her how I felt and she didn’t really believe me. So we ended up spending sometime not talking, which was realllllllly hard for me because we had talked all day everyday for the past 7 months. One night I had a really bad panic attack because of my anxiety and I called her and told her that I needed to see her. We smoothed things over, and after giving her some space for a couple weeks (on and off because I’m so bad at it) we ended up finally officially dating on June 6th.

The summer was super fun, we did a lot of cute things together. Even when school started I was still just working at the cemetery so we’d have study dates and do work together and then spend some alone time together after we were done working. Everything was good, all of the rest of 2020 we were attached at the hip. I’d bring her to my friends houses because they all loved her. And the way she got affectionate when she was drunk drove me into an insane pit of happiness. Katen was different, she let me come to her friends cabin and spend time with her other friends. After what happened with eden and Brayden there was no way I was going to talk to another girl when I was dating katen. I wanted her to have no doubt that she was my only, I cut ties with all of my female friends and would only text them by need. Anytime I was having a tough day at work, I would call her at lunch and she would comfort me.

This girl was equivalent to sunshine to me. She felt like home. Have you ever been homesick before? Without her that’s all I felt. When I spoke so highly of her all the time Caleb would say that she’s perfect and I always agreed. I’ve never felt my soul so connected to anything. I tried to remember every single detail about this girl to show her I cared.

When things got hard for me I didn’t show Katen that I appreciated her enough. I still hungout with her whenever i wasn’t working but I was in a funk and I couldn't show her what she needed to see. My dad said to me a few times that he didn’t get how she put up with me when I was so busy all the time, but I always just told him she was the most understanding person I knew. She did try to address this with me, but I never wanted to talk about it. When I was with Katen that was my time away from all the other stresses in my life, that meant I wanted to keep the stress out of our relationship. This ultimately wasn't fair, you should always be up to have those hard conversations no matter what’s going on in your life. I always thought she was understanding of the situation and that things would change once summer came but that was me being complacent. Don’t EVER get complacent. Value EVERY moment, no matter what’s happening in your life.

In March Katen told me she was looking to move back to Saskatoon soon, but selfishly I didn't want her to go. I had a whole summer plan of spending time with her after work most days, but I didn't want to sound like a psycho boyfriend and tell her not to go. So I got defensive about it when we would talk about it, instead of just telling her how I felt. I’m glad she went, her opportunities are endless.

By the time my mood had improved it was too late, Katen had made up her mind but I didn’t even realize. She was being pretty distant to me, but she had also told me she was really stressed about school so i didn’t want to press her and add to her stress. When I really knew something was wrong was when I brought her a couple of gifts just randomly, but she wouldn’t look at me, and wouldn’t give me a kiss when I was leaving. I should’ve addressed it right then, but I didn’t. It was quite ironic that giving her space ended up being my downfall. That was basically the end, after almost 11 months of officially dating and a year and a half of being the best of friends, she was gone just like that. She asked me for space but I was terrible at that. It’s so hard to let go of someone you thought you’d never have to.

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20 Penguins Thoughts: The timeless art of hating your friends

JASON MACKEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette jmackey@post-gazette.com

 NOV 12, 2019

As if playing against his former team wasn’t enough, Dominik Kahun wrestled with another reality last week as the Penguins prepared to host the Chicago Blackhawks.

On the other bench would be Dominik Kubalik, Kahun’s good friend and former linemate. Born in Czech Republic towns located less than an hour from one another, Kahun and Kubalik grew close during their time with Chicago.

Now, Kahun knew it was time to flip that proverbial switch, turning Kubalik from friend to foe.

“It’s fun,” Kahun said of the inevitable reality of sharing the same slab of ice with a good friend. “You usually don’t see them often. You always talk to them a little bit during warmup. I’m excited.”

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 What transpired Saturday was exactly what one might expect: There was some talk during a close game, a 3-2 Penguins shootout win, and Kahun and Kubalik, without anything overly noticeable, went their separate ways, their second and final meetup this season not until March.

While playing against a good friend never lacks for fun — ask Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, Evgeni Malkin and Marc-Andre Fleury how those meetings have gone — they usually aren’t overly physical, the opposite of former football teammates occasionally trying to exact revenge.

Well, except for that one time …

2. It was Nick Bjugstad’s first full NHL season, in 2013-14. Early November game, in Washington, and the Florida Panthers would lose in a shootout.

But it wasn’t the result that Bjugstad remembers. During one particular post-whistle scrum, Bjugstad reached for the closest Capitals player he could find and put one of the league’s more talkative defensemen into a headlock.

Turns it out it was fellow Minnesota native Nate Schmidt.

“We didn’t know it was ... each other,” Bjugstad said. “So we both kind of got each other in a headlock. Then I realized it was Nate. He realized it was me. We just kind of laughed.”

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 Playing against good friends — Bjugstad has another in Maple Leafs defenseman Justin Holl, a fellow former Minnesota Gopher — might produce some funny moments, and these guys aren’t out to maim one another.

But Bjugstad said playing one of your buddies is hardly approached with a laissez-faire attitude.

“You want to have the bragging rights, so you don’t want to get beat in any way,” Bjugstad said. “It’s fun to get competitive.”

3. For Jake Guentzel, yet another Minnesota guy, his awkward, on-ice confrontation revolves around Brock Nelson, who’s from ... you guessed it.

Whenever the Penguins play the Islanders, things are bound to be a little more intense, with the on-ice chatter always a little more than usual.

“It was a weird time last year in the playoffs when we were going at it,” Guentzel said.

But back home in Da Beauty League, Minnesota’s terrific summer hockey outfit, any bad blood was quickly shoved aside, even if they had wanted to rip one another’s head off just a few months prior.

“It’s just a battle,” Guentzel said. “I think guys know it. It gets intense. After the game, it’s like nothing happened.”

4. There was a fun sidebar to this story that really didn’t fit anywhere else.

In the Penguins dressing room, Bjugstad and Jared McCann are almost always seated next to one another. They’re also good-natured, almost always available and great with offbeat topics such at this one.

After chatting with Bjugstad, I went next door and posed the same question to McCann, who surprisingly wasn’t much help at all.

“I don’t really have one specific story, no,” McCann said. “A lot of my buddies I grew up with don’t play hockey anymore. I’m not from Minnesota, where everybody plays hockey.”

McCann, who does a pretty good Minnesota accent, is from Stratford, Ontario, which is about two hours west of Toronto. McCann’s dad owned his own construction company and literally created a hockey rink in his backyard.

Also, it’s Canada. Can-a-da. Where hockey trails only eating, drinking and sleeping.

5. Anyway, McCann said his best friend on another team was probably James Reimer, formerly of the Florida Panthers and currently the backup in Carolina.

One small problem here, though: There’s very little trash talk that goes on between the two good friends — McCann actually stayed at Reimer’s house to watch his dog when the latter’s wife gave birth to their first child — because they like each other so much.

“Would I chirp him? No, he’s too nice,” McCann said with a laugh. “I would feel so bad if I did. He’s just such a genuinely good person. He’s never chirping or anything. He’s just an honest hockey player.”

6. Speaking of chirping, a few of the Penguins I talked to for this story flat-out stink at talking trash.

“I’m no good,” Marcus Pettersson said. “I just try to stay out of it.”

Added Bjugstad, “Usually when I start chirping, it backfires on me.”

Jack Johnson said playing a good buddy isn’t necessarily about talking trash for him. In fact, Johnson said he’s actually liable to take it a little easy on a good friend.

“You hit each other hard, but he doesn’t get the extra slash or cross-check,” Johnson said.

He also doesn’t get any phone calls or text messages, Johnson said. Both times they’ve met in the playoffs, Johnson and Penguins captain Sidney Crosby refused to talk to one another during the series.

“First time we talked was in the handshake line,” Johnson said.

7. My favorite anecdote from this story wasn’t directly related, unfortunately.

Bryan Rust was the first player I approached, knowing he and Islanders captain Anders Lee — a pair of Notre Dame products — are close.

That playoff series was especially awkward for them, although neither one runs around like an idiot. Just good, hard fun.

“In warmups you try and make eye contact,” Rust said. “You pass each other a puck and have a little bit of fun. On the ice you might say a few things to each other from bench-to-bench.

“I think everyone is pretty good at kind of drawing that fine line between having fun but still going out there and trying to win a game.”

The funny anecdote was this: Rust actually learns other languages to try and annoy players of different nationalities on the ice. Some serious respect there.

“I try and learn a few different languages to maybe say some inappropriate things to guys and catch them off-guard,” Rust said.

Caught me off-guard, too. Definitely didn’t see that one coming from Rust.

8. Moving on.

I’ve beaten this drum plenty before, and I also know it’s early. But at this rate, assuming this sort of stuff continues, I really hope Mike Sullivan gets some love for the Jack Adams Award.

This can be kind of a funky thing. Mike Babcock has never won it, and that, by itself, is absurd. But it tends to go to the guy who has helped his team author the best story or overcome the most odds. Barry Trotz with the Islanders last year was a perfect example.

Sullivan has done that this season. Almost every forward on their roster has been injured at one point or another, including Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist. They traded Phil Kessel. Oh, and Kris Letang is hurt, too.

Coming off that playoff loss to the Islanders, Sullivan has adjusted his system to apply more puck-pressure and change how the Penguins play.

If there’s been a better coaching performance around the NHL thus far, I haven’t seen it.

9. The power play should also be factored into Sullivan’s performance this season, but I’m not sure which way to take that.

Obviously it has been terrible, but I’m also fairly confident Sullivan isn’t coaching them to over-pass, over-think or flat-out botch their breakouts. If he is, they should definitely adjust that strategy.

As Sullivan said after Saturday’s game, it’s hardly been one thing. He also admitted his guys are pressing.

Here’s a borderline insane suggestion: While Crosby is out, how about taking Alex Galchenyuk and putting him in the right circle, where he often thrived with the Coyotes?

What’s the worst that could happen, they don’t score?

10. Rust had one of the more confounding starts to a season I had ever seen in 2018-19, when he scored just one goal in his first 29 games, then exploded for a hat trick when the puck followed him all night during a 6-3 loss at Chicago on Dec. 12, 2018.

What a difference a year makes.

In an interview before the season, Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford had some interesting things to say about Rust and others who were a little too content with their success.

“Not that he played poorly, but he’s an example of a guy who I don’t think played at the level he was capable of a year ago,” Rutherford said. “That just gets to contentment. But he’s not the only guy. I’m not trying to single him out or pick on him.”

Rutherford went on to say that, “Bryan Rust was our best player at camp this year.”

After Rust was forced to hit the pause button on that when he was injured blocking a shot in the final preseason game, we’re seeing what Rutherford — and others — saw all through training camp.

11. With his third-period goal on Saturday, Rust extended his point streak to a career-high six games, where he’s scored a total of five goals. All of those since he returned from injury on Oct. 26.

“I guess things feel good,” Rust said with a smile. “I might know better than anyone else that things can turn just as quickly for the bad. I just have to keep plugging away here.”

I asked Rust to describe his approach coming into training camp and what has helped him rediscover his scoring touch.

“Just a fresh start,” Rust said. “Try to put everything in the past behind me. Obviously I felt really good through training camp. Felt great to start the year. Obviously an unfortunate injury with five minutes left in the last preseason game. Kept me out of some games there. I just kept working hard off the ice and kept wanting to play well.”

12. It’s no secret that the Penguins love Rust. Sure, he’s been big in playoffs games. Has scored a bunch of huge goals for the Penguins over the years. He has also played both wings well and has moved up and down the lineup with ease. Recently he’s been very good on Malkin’s wing.

Rust’s game — being hard on pucks and an all-around pain in the butt — has also meshed extremely well with the Penguins’ new identity.

“The biggest thing for me that Rusty has shown since Day 1 of training camp is just a sense of urgency and a certain hunger to his game,” Sullivan said. “When he plays his way, that’s when he’s at his best. I think he’s done that consistently game in and game out, day in and day out, even in practice.”

13. In that preseason interview, Rutherford also said he thought the addition of Brandon Tanev — another versatile and tenacious wing — would be good for Rust. Turns out that was probably right, too.

“We always talk with our players about being a next-effort team,” Sullivan said. “I think Rusty right now probably personifies next-effort play. He’s like a dog on a bone on the puck. He’s relentless.”

With some pretty solid scoring touch to boot.

14. Funny quote from Rust after Saturday’s win: “[Coming back from another deficit] shows a lot of character in this room, but we’re really not making it very easy on ourselves.”

The Penguins spotted their opponent three-goal leads on Monday and Thursday of last week. On Saturday, it was a 2-0 hole they had to erase.

Not exactly a recipe for success, but give the Penguins credit: They’ve found ways to win.

“We have a great group,” Sullivan said. “We’ve got good people. They’re buying in right now, and they’re playing hard for one another.

“I give our leadership a lot of credit. The guys in the room, our veteran guys, they’re leading the way there. And then some of our younger [guys] are bringing a certain level of enthusiasm.

“When you get that combination, for me, that’s a fun combination to be around. And we’ve had that a lot of this year.”

15. The impact of Malkin is absolutely noticeable.

I know it’s hardly a surprise, but similar to Rust, what happened to Malkin last season was hard to describe; at times it was like he suddenly forgot how to play hockey.

That’s in the past now.

I thought Sullivan captured this perfectly after Saturday’s game in talking about Malkin’s game, saying that they don’t want to stifle the star center’s playmaking ability, but they do need to compromise on some things.

“He’s buying in to how we’re trying to play,” Sullivan said. “He’s trying to play a more north-south game even though his instinct sometimes is to play east-west.

“We’re not trying to change Geno. That’s what makes him what he is. That’s what makes him unique. All we’re trying to do is we’re asking him to meet us halfway a little bit, and he’s done that. He’s done a great job since he’s been back.”

16. I thought Justin Schultz quietly bounced back very nicely during an eventful game Saturday night.

His ill-timed pinch, with zero support, led to the Blackhawks’ first goal. A Schultz shot attempt that never found the net inadvertently led to Chicago’s second goal.

But in overtime, Schultz made a terrific play to knock the puck away from Alex DeBrincat on a two-on-one.

It doesn’t show up on the scoresheet, but it was a huge play at the time.

17. Loved the pass by John Marino on Rust’s goal. Such poise for a young kid. Most players Marino’s age would’ve taken that shot, but he wisely took an extra second and found Rust all alone at the bottom of the left circle for a beautiful back-door goal.

“He’s just getting better with every game that he plays,” Sullivan said of Marino. “I think he’s getting more confident every game that he plays. That was a real nice play he made. Just the puck poise, the patience, the vision to see Rusty on the back side. It was just a terrific play.”

It’s pretty much impossible to think of the Penguins’ top-six on defense at this point without Marino. He has absolutely earned a regular spot in the lineup.

18. It’s noticeable that Galchenyuk is lacking confidence.

Three times in the first period Saturday, Galchenyuk had chances to put the Penguins ahead early. Three times, Galchenyuk could not beat Corey Crawford, including one nifty attempt between his legs.

Wrote about this some last week, but the Penguins need Galchenyuk to find it. It’s there, but he’s thinking entirely too much when the puck is on his stick.

19. Number of the week: Plus-12.

That’s McCann’s rating over the past five games, the best on the team. He also has two goals and six points during that stretch.

I’ll admit that I was a little surprised that Sullivan sent McCann out as his third shooter in the shootout, but McCann made his coach look smart by firing high over Crawford’s right shoulder for the shootout-deciding goal.

I’m not backing off my prediction that I think McCann will get 20 goals this season.

20. Non-hockey thought of the week:

I was saddened to learn last week the Wilson’s BBQ on the North Side burned down. Incredible place. My favorite to get BBQ in Pittsburgh. Their spicy sauce was nothing short of incredible.

I’m glad everyone is OK, but I’m also rooting for owner George Wilson Jr., hoping he’s able to build his business back up.

Pittsburgh is what it is because of awesome local businesses like Wilson’s and also Nancy B’s, where I went last week for my birthday. Another have-to-go recommendation.

Jason Mackey: jmackey@post-gazette.com and Twitter @JMackeyPG.

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Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he’s strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. – James Wolcott • After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad’s Army shirts, accessorised by a cat’s basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. – Jenny Eclair • After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding… we both tore Christopher’s character to shreds. It was wonderful fun…. He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. ‘And he could get them right anyway by magic,’ Millie told me, ‘if he wasn’t too lazy to learn how…. But the thing that really annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person’s name. If a person isn’t important to him, he always forgets their name.’ When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten my name. – Diana Wynne Jones • Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts. – Moliere • Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white gauze. “Okay, now take off your shirt.” (Isabelle) “I knew there was something in this for you.” (Jace) ~pg. 329~ – Cassandra Clare • Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I’d allow it, she’d love to dress me everyday―perhaps several times a day―like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll. – Stephenie Meyer • All right. 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Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.- Cindy Gerard • An old market had stood there until I’d been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market. – Neal Stephenson • And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don’t have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt? – Jonathan Safran Foer • And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.- Russell Brand • And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I’d be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that. – Charlize Theron • And speaking of on board, she’d moved into John’s room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin’ romantic. – J.R. Ward • And speaking of scary things, I need to leave. My guides are fading even as we speak. (Talon) I hate when you commune with the dead in front of me. (Kyrian) Are you the asshole who sent the ‘I See Dead People’ T-shirt to me? (Talon) That would be Wulf. (Kyrian) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. “You’re a mess,” I sneered “You’ve lost it big time. What’s happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can’t just be that someone else called me, surly?- Jonathan Stroud • Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • As astute followers of ‘Life in Hell’ will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. ‘Peanuts’ was very important to me. – Matt Groening • As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I was wearing faded jeans, boots, and a snug pink Juicy T-shirt I got on sale at TJ Maxx last summer that said I’m a Juicy girl. “I bet you are,” he murmured. – Karen Marie Moning • As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire’s shirt. “What?” “Ask him where he got the boots.” “You ask.” Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers. • At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage. – Florence Welch

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We’d be out of business. – Marc Jacobs • Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Steig Larsson • Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt- John Green • Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They’ll probably offer me lemonade.” Excuse me? You’re going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat’s horn?” Yes, ma’am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it. – Nancy Werlin • But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder and scraped the side of Annie’s house. Watching those muscles bunch and flex every time he moved had made her crazy and she’d finally grabbed his shirt, thrown it at him, and delivered a stern lecture on the depletion of the ozone layer and skin cancer. – Susan Elizabeth Phillips • By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It’s funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off. – Kellan Lutz • Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close. ʺBut for what itʹs worth, I think youʹd be a great queen too, Princess Dragomir.ʺ ʺYouʹre going to get dirty,ʺ she warned. ʺAlready am. Oh, you mean from your clothes?ʺ He wrapped his arms around her, heedless of her damp and muddy state. ʺI spent most of my childhood hiding in a dusty attic and own exactly one dress shirt. You really think I care about this T-shirt?ʺ – Richelle Mead • Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God’s sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He’d read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider’s guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock and key. But just as he was aware of all that aligned them, he was even clearer on how they were damned to be ever apart. – J.R. Ward • Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith. – Colum McCann • Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that’s why I did it….Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest. – Jennifer Donnelly • Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth. Rachel Caine • Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why…Let’s just say friends are really better when they’re fully clothed. – Kelley Armstrong • Did she just-” “Yes.” “But I don’t-” “Yes you do. We both stink.” “Well, I’m not-” “Yes. You are.” He huffed. “You wont let-” “No. No complaining. Let’s go.” I grabbed a clean shirt and pants from my saddlebags. “Well, she could have handled it better,” he grumped. “No. She couldn’t.” He settled into a sulky silence as we visited the bathhouse. – Maria V. Snyder • Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song “Stayin’ Alive.” A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt. – Rick Riordan • Don’t cry.” “How can I not?” I asked him. “You just said you loved me.” “Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?” He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. “The Furies wouldn’t be trying to kill you if I didn’t love you.” “I didn’t know,” I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. “You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so… wild.” “How was I supposed to act?” he asked. “You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face. – Meg Cabot • Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts. – Antonio Tabucchi • Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. – Donatella Versace • Even now if I see someone working out, in great shape, like a 40-year-old guy with his shirt off jogging I always think, “Look at that idiot.” That’s why everyone in my movie is kind of goofy because I’m a champion of the goofball. What sucks is I have to work out now not to die. I was always happy not working out because I never wanted to be someone who worked out to look good, but now I have to try to not die, which is such a drag. – Judd Apatow • Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we’re saying, “Don’t make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.” We’re sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. – Jaron Lanier • Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people’s hearts. – Karen White • Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. – Shaun White • First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld. – John Crowley • For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could. – Cassandra Clare • For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame. – Anne Fortier • For me, it’s important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it’s got somebody’s name on the back. That’s kind of a cool thing. – Roger Federer • For my prom, I was so fancy, I got t a suit tailored. I wanted a three-piece suit. I thought it would be cool to wear all black – black shirt, black tie, I figured it would be the coolest thing I’ve ever done. That was my first suit. I put the suit on two years later and it was so big on me and absurd and didn’t fit. I still have it. I won’t throw it out. It’s too fun. It reminds me where I come from. Actually, I have an evolution of suits in my closet. It starts with that one and goes up to the suits that I get to have now. – Gabriel Macht • Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together. – Douglas William Jerrold • Foul!” yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. “Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now. Sarah Rees Brennan • From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn’t understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That’s why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph – he owns that garment. – – Simon Spurr Girlfriend, Lilies, Abby • Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading. – Ian Mcewan • Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, ’cause it’s okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. – Charlotte Gainsbourg • Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt. – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, ‘Whatever.’ – Douglas Rushkoff • Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties. – Ryan Reynolds • Having stuff that fits you perfectly makes the craziest difference. I remember the first times that I was introduced to that – having a shirt that’s actually tailored to your body and not just made for your average American. It just changes your life. – Mayer Hawthorne • He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if he’d get his eyes open again. He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldn’t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldn’t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didn’t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldn’t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest. – Julia Quinn • He does this on purpose,” Stephanie’s mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear at the front door, shrug into his jacket, tuck in his shirt, go to step out, and then pause. “He looks like he’s about to sneeze,” Stephanie remarked. – Derek Landy • He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN’T HAVE LASTED. • He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath years ago. – Melissa Marr • He strips his shirt over his head and I catch my breath, watching those long hard muscles ripple. I know how his shoulders look, bunched, when he’s on top of me, how his face gets tight with lust, as he eases inside me. “Who am I?” “Jericho” “Who are you?” He kicks off his boots, steps out of his pants. He’s commando tonight. My breath whooshes out of me in a run-on word: “Whogivesafuck? – Karen Marie Moning • He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died. – John Green • He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn’t have any muscles). – Rick Riordan • He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water came up to just below her breasts and her wet shirt stuck to her body. William’s gaze snagged on her chest. Yep, keep looking, Lord Bill. Keeeeeep looking. – Ilona Andrews • He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they’re somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets. – Warren Ellis • He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. “Fleas?” I said. – Kelley Armstrong • Headbangers’ are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts. – Dave Barry • He’d changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. – Rick Riordan • Here’s a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn’t dead. And believe me, I know dead. I’ve been there, done that, and got the frickin’ T-shirt.” – Stevie Rae – P. C. Cast • His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death. • How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn’t even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad’s spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly. – Lilith Saintcrow • I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. – Bridget Hall • I am one who is very meridione – Southern Italian. I am proud of this. I design everything with my team, which is fantastic and small. I design by look. For example, people always comment to me, “When you do men’s shirts, you always keep them closed on the catwalk.” That’s my thing. – Riccardo Tisci • I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy.” “Wow, you’re wearing each other’s clothes now. That’s, like, best friend stuff.” “Feeling left out?” said Kyle. “I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too.” “As long as everyone’s wearing their own pants.” “I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.” Eric poked his head through the curtain. – Cassandra Clare • I can’t even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars. “Sorry” he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean. – Meg Cabot • I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, “This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe! • I couldn’t meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him–the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. “When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence.” The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. “What did it feel like?” he asked in a low voice. “Like…coming home,” I admitted. – L.A. Weatherly • I do feel that film and TV are often behind when it comes to the way women look, they often dress them in khakis and denim shirts, but women and mothers these days look great and films need to reflect that. Real people look very fashionable, moms are at the forefront of the style. But things are getting better in that way. – Kristin Davis • I don’t have any elaborate uniforms; I come to the ring in a T-shirt, a pair of sneakers and some shorts. – John Cena • I don’t know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy – her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend’s shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg’s blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain. – Marc Jacobs • I empathize with women in their high heels so I’ll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I’ll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them. – Marc Jacobs • I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? – Sarah Ferguson • I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. – Dashiell Hammett • I go outside, and I’m wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, ‘What’s wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.’ – Kristen Stewart • I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat! – Benedict Cumberbatch • I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter. – Lisa Kleypas • I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I’m home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I’m in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt. – Nicki Minaj • I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, ‘I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn’t let them put that shirt on me.’ – Jesse Eisenberg • I know dead. I’ve been there, done that and got the freakin’ T-shirt. – P. C. Cast • I know that’s an endorsement I’ve been waiting for,” Skye added. “Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt – Susan Mallery • I like having the vinyl, but it’s not like we’re going to sell an umbrella or something. I don’t like the idea of selling something that’s not music – I mean, I like going to shows and buying the shirt, but beyond that, I don’t know. There’s a lot of crap in the world. – Robin Pecknold • I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. – Gustave Flaubert • I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts. – Tommy Chong • I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me. – Marc Jacobs • I once had a boyfriend who couldn’t write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. – Susan Orlean • I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can’t remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day – it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning. – Michael J. Fox • I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl – I’m not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds – and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. – Kelly Clarkson • I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they’re gonna have to make ’em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there’s no reason to get out of your bed! – James Caan • I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don’t know, but I’m almost there. I hear my friends calling. – Jeff Lindsay • I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid. – Kami Garcia • I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said ‘Guess’. – Demetri Martin • I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational. – Barry Commoner • I simply adore ‘The Simpsons.’ I go to bed in a ‘Simpsons’ T-shirt.- Steven Spielberg • I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson’s show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy. – Ellen DeGeneres • I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling. – Pablo Neruda • I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear – something you’ll remember more down the road than a shirt. – Ryan Reynolds • I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I’m headlining a show, I don’t walk off stage. I’ll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes, until everyone has everything signed. – Luke Bryan • I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: ‘Well, it won’t be good, but at least it’ll be good-looking. We’ll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.’ – Hugh Laurie • I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I’m also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.- John Green • I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I’ve got a brand new look – I’ve moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change. – Rafael Nadal • I used to wear sweats and a T-shirt to auditions, but my agent would yell at me and tell me I had to look nice and presentable. So I had to drop that habit. – Kellan Lutz • I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. – Cameron Diaz • I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes – since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation. – Paul Weller • I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes… they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas… you wouldn’t even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school. – John C. Reilly • I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here – it’ll be better for all of us. – Charles Bukowski • I would go with my husband to the tailors where he gets his shirts made, and I would watch the bespoke process. I would ask them, “Would you be able to make that for me?” And they would always say, “Well, yes, but no.” They were very French about it. I decided I would just do it for myself. And I started doing that. Then other people would notice, and want it. So I started doing things for friends, little pieces, and my own line grew that way. – Minnie Mortimer • I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it. – Jerry Spinelli • If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans – but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don’t have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that. – Daniel Radcliffe • If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don’t despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train. – Suketu Mehta • If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory) Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn’t you guys come down in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-shirts?” “We should order those,” Shelby said. “Mine’s in the laundry,” Arriane said. – Lauren Kate • If you were a woman, all I’d have to say is ‘Colin Firth in a wet shirt’ and you’d say ‘Ah. – Shannon Hale • I’ll look through ‘Us Weekly’ and I’ll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I’m like, ‘Wow, they just… they look so good. Even if they’re like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.’ – Moby • I’m a jacket man. And if I’m without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don’t know how to operate in shirt sleeves. – Bill Nighy • I’m an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them. – Dwyane Wade • I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me. 0 Joe Biden • I’m pretty low-key; you’ll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt. – Olivia Wilde • I’m really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It’s a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops. – Christian Louboutin • In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea. – Vir Das • In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We’re such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn’t really get dressed up to go to school. – Lauren Conrad • In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time – body hair, odors… So I’d go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day. – Will Ferrell • In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers – if I can go barefoot, that’s even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit. – Penelope Cruz • Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no “erogenous zones” (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance. – Roland Barthes • Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?” “If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked. – Cassandra Clare • It doesn’t hurt.” “But my eyes do,” said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn’t heard him; closing the door behind him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon’s shirt down. “Molesting the vampire while he’s too weak to fight back, Iz?” he asked. “I’m pretty sure that violates at least one of the Accords.” “I’m just showing him where he got stabbed,” Isabelle protested, but she scooted back to her chair with a certain amount of haste. – Cassandra Clare • It finally happened, he thought as he burrowed under his shirt and took hold of his heavy cross. All his life he’d wondered why he’d never fallen in love, and now he knew: He’d been waiting for this moment, this woman, this time. The female is mine, he thought. – Manny – J.R. Ward • It’s just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I’m in my boxer shorts and shirt. I’m going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it’s really dark in the room. – Danny DeVito • It’s like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable – different reactions to the same temperature. – Maggie Stiefvater • I’ve always loved wearing a suit. When you have on a crisp shirt and a tie you always feel like you’re going somewhere. It feels like a bit of an occasion. – Jamie Redknapp Jamie Redknapp • Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. “No thanks, I’m not hungry.” “Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet,” nodded Trudy sagely. “Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. – Alexandra Potter • Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?” Butters replied. “I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There’s snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That’s like asking for an ironically broken neck. – Jim Butcher • Keep your shirt on,” she said with a laugh at her bad joke. “Your clothes are at the laundry. They’ll deliver them as soon as they’re ready.” “And in the meantime?” “Looks like you’re naked.” His jaw worked as if he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “I beg your pardon?” “Beg all you want, you’re still going to be naked.” Tabitha paused at the wicked image in her mind. “Come to think of it, a gorgeous, begging, naked man… that’s the stuff of fantasies. Begging won’t get you your clothes, but it could get you something else.” She wiggled her eyebrows at him.- Sherrilyn Kenyon • Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt. – Laini Taylor • Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.) – Kiersten White • Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. – Herbert Hoover Mari Mancusi • Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too. – Rachel Caine • Morelli grabbed the front of my shirt, pulled me to him, and kissed me. It was a great kiss, but I didn’t know what the heck it meant. It seemed to me a breaking up kiss would have had less tongue. – Janet Evanovich • Most little children’s obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed! – Riccardo Tisci • Most of the time, I’m in khakis and a white T-shirt. I’m a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup. – Jennifer Love Hewitt • My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle’s money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed. – Jennifer Donnelly • My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn’t show too much. – Gabrielle Zevin • My Papa’s Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother’s countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. – Theodore Roethke • NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts – we wear those a lot – and NASA T-shirts. – Sally Ride • Never knock on death’s door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. – T-shirt – Darynda Jones • No offense but I don’t relish being someone’s science experiment. Been there, done that, and sold the T-shirt for profit. (Sebastian) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Oh, I can never get enough,” he said. “Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when – ” The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of the shirt, and hauled him inside. The door banged shut after him, and Thomas, sitting bolt upright, seized reins of the horses. A moment later the carriage had lurched forth into the night, leaving Gabriel staring, infuriated, after it. – Cassandra Clare • Okay, I’ll wear the Bite Me shirt,[…]It’ll be my standard response to any-one who tries to hit on me.” I giggle. “Someone can come up and be like ‘Hey babe, what’s your sign?’ and I’ll just point to my shirt.” Rayne laughs appreciatively and tosses me the tank top. “Of course they might think you’re pointing to your boobs in a ‘have at ’em, big boy’ kind of way. • On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you’re getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. – Ilona Andrews • One day she told me that they’d decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys. – Gayle Forman • Only Jace, Clary thought, could look cool in pajama bottoms and an old T-shirt, but he pulled it off, probably through sheer force of will. -pg. 329- – Cassandra Clare • Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville. – Daniel Handler • Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do! – Helen Fisher • Paris answered for him. “Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again.” “I’m surprised you didn’t mention the part where you fainted,” Lucien said wryly. Strider chortled. “Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!” “Hey,” Paris said, frowning at Lucien. “I told you I hit my head midflash.” Lucien Gena Showalter • Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside. – Becca Fitzpatrick • Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes. – Becca Fitzpatrick • People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go ‘oh yeah you look small.’ It kind of ruins the mystique. – Hulk Hogan • People care about my personal life. But really I’m dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog! – Sophia Bush • Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it. – S.A. Bodeen • Producers and studios know what sells. It’s nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off. – Kellan Lutz • Pulling on your country’s shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It’s what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time. – Wayne Rooney • Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look…” Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. “Leave your cloths on, Tori,” Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. “Please. – Kelley Armstrong Rain, Eye, Hair • Ramil met Tashi’s eyes with a mischievous look. “Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us.” He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. “Isn’t it time you returned that shirt to its owner? – Julia Golding • Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. – Gerard Way • Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they’re being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube – guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I’ll make a real go of it this time. – Jonathan Tropper • Rule number one of anime,” Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. “Never screw with a blind monk. – Cassandra Clare • Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. – Daria Werbowy • Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish. – Adam Rex • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. – Dave Barry • she glanced down and saw that a glove of blood covered her lower arm from the elbow to the wrist. The arm was throbbing, stiff, and painful. “Is this when you start tearing strips off your T-shirt to bind up my wound?” she joked. She hated the sight of blood, especially her own. “If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” He dug into his pocket and brought out his stele. “It would have been a lot less painful.- Cassandra Clare • She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that. – Kristin Cashore • She heard Adrian say to Christian, ʺYou know, your shirtʹs kind of grungy-looking. Seems like you could put in a little more effort since youʹre dating a princess.ʺ – Richelle Mead • She sighed. Loudly. “Physical appearance is not what is important.” Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn’t bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she’s only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can’t even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. – Vivian Vande Velde • She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor. – Jennifer Crusie • She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget. – Kami Garcia • She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail. – Suzanne Collins • Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.- Josh Lanyon • Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. “Is it no-shirts festival day?” “Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day,” Alan said absently, but he was frowning too. – Sarah Rees Brennan • Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that’s what I wanted to wear everyday. – Patti Smith • Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I’m carrying spare pants. Then I’d need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I’ve got a house and a car and a savings plan and I’m filling out all kinds of forms. – Lee Child • So what about that key?” I asked. “I knew you’d be asking me about it sooner or later.” He pulled the cord out from underneath his shirt and dangled the key in front of me. “What do you want for it?” I sneered. “Five dollars?” “I don’t want money,” he said with a wicked grin. “What does it go to?” “A kiss will unlock more than this key will,” he whispered in my ear. – Ellen Schreiber • So, ah, I’m not sure if you know this, but you’re not wearing a shirt.” “Distracting, isn’t it? – Lisa McMann • So, what did you get for me?” Angeline paused for a beat. “Jeans.” “What?” croaked Artemis. “And a T-shirt. – Eoin Colfer • Some people have the meat-market mentality, so you’ve got to take your shirt off because it will bring girls into the theater. When that comes up on set, I challenge it. – Josh Hartnett • Sometimes I’m so tired, I look down at what I’m wearing, and if it’s comfortable enough to sleep in, I don’t even make it into my pajamas. I’m looking down, and I’m like, ‘T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that’s fine. It’s pajama-y, good night.’ – Rebecca Romijn • Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season. – Gary Shteyngart • Sweet Jesus. It was The Delicious in the dark shirt and jeans. – Julie James • Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against his chest and back. I wished I had an artist’s skill, that I could make renderings of him in all his states of beauty. He would never want to look at them, or even know about them. I would just like them for myself. Maybe he would want to see them when he was much older, and beautiful in a different way. – Moira J. Moore • The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans. – Bill Hicks • The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You’re never gonna fit in much kid, but it you’re troubled and hurt, what you’ve got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did! – Gerard Way • The door banged open and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. “It’s not what you think.” She said. “It was just – oh OK, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now WHAT? – Rachel Caine • the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don’t know who plans these things. – Stephen Chbosky • The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. “Your injury. Let us tend to it.” He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. “Our world,” he said, “is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you’ll understand shortly.” A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. “There,” said the large man. “The kittens will make your sad go away. – David Wong • The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um…” “You’ve never seen a guy with his shirt off?” “Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don’t have anything I haven’t seen before.” “Wanna bet?” he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. “Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.- Simone Elkeles • The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good. – Donatella Versace • The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut. You don’t really know what it’s about until you bite into it. And then, just when you decided it’s good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt.- Janet Evanovich • The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They’re pale, like a lioness’s, nearly golden, but they also look like they’ve done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any. – Jodi Picoult • Then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron’s picture on it and he quoted “She Walks in Beauty,” which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. –from The Chronicles of Abby Normal – Christopher Moore • There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it’s not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up. – Gretchen Rubin • There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey’s character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go. – Allison Janney • There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus’s vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. ‘Your stomach’s growling,’ I said. ‘I know it,’ he said. – Harper Lee • They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. “Oh, I am planning things,” said Jamie. “Great, great things. I could join a band.” “You gave up the guitar after two lessons.” “Well,” he said, “I could be a backup dancer.” “Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter,” said Mae. “So obviously, I support this plan. Sarah Rees Brennan • This is a team of gay dudes, isn’t it?” What gave it away? The pink shirts, or half our team drooling over you? – Simone Elkeles • This is going to sound crazy, but the first thing I do when I get home is take off all my clothes – at home, just around the house. I take everything off. I can’t stand clothes! I take everything off – my shoes, my socks, my watch, shirt, everything. I am completely naked. – Tom Ford • Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth. – Salman Rushdie • To be the name on somebody’s shirt that they’ve made themselves in preparation for one of your shows – it doesn’t get much cooler than that.Hunter Hayes • T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion. – Karl Lagerfeld • Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt.” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part. – Rachel Vincent • Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. “Does anysing on you vork properly?” Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. “Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.” Ter Borcht tsked. “You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone’s shirt, yes? Following dem closely?” “Only when I’m trying to steal their dessert,” Iggy said truthfully. – James Patterson • Was I wearing my ‘I’m done with my virginity, please get rid of it for me’ T-shirt? – Rachel Vincent • We are not going to die.” Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. “We’re not?” No. And do you know why?” He shook his head. “Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I’m too stubborn to die.” I hauled on the shirt even harder. “And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die. – Jim Butcher • Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight. – Chuck Palahniuk • Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i didn’t think it was the right time to mention his unforunate and obvious fashion impairment. – P. C. Cast • What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • What’s goin’ on?” I ask as I take a seat. “Obviously not this.” He tosses me my shirt from last night. “I found it on the floor of the den. It’s obvious there was some hanky-panky going on.” Okay, so he knows we fooled around. But at least he didn’t find Kiara’s bra on top of my shirt. “Yeah . . . things kinda got a little heated after you and Mrs. W. left the den last night,” I tell him. – Simone Elkeles • What’s it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it’s not altogether pleasant. – Douglas Rushkoff • When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked “is that airbrushed?” So I just lifted my shirt up and my stomach was the exact same thing as in the ads. It was actually kinda nice that she said that, because I’m sure plenty of people probably thought that. That’s one of the reasons I did it – especially when you work so hard to get your body to look like that – it’s frustrating. – Dara Torres When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. – Rihanna • When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end. – Diego Maradona • When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice. – Anne Michaels • When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said “Okay, guess where I hid it.” She even turned around for me, but I couldn’t see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. “Cleavage is great,” she said. “Like an extra pocket. – Kelley Armstrong • Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? – Abdul Kalam • Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep again, her breathing warm and regular against his chest. Alex kissed her head, his arms tightening around her. As he drifted back to sleep himself, he saw a brief flash of the thousands of angels streaming in, but right then it seemed distant, almost unimportant. The only thing that mattered was that he was lying in a bed holding Willow, their bare legs entwined. It was all he wanted to do for the rest of his life. – L.A. Weatherly • With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know. – Hunter S. Thompson • You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your true self. – Jay-Z • You could have the best suit in the world, but if you haven’t got the right shirt and tie with it you could look like a bag of rubbish. I think the shirt is the most important thing – you need a nice collar with it so that you can make it look good. • You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot’s been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?” “Yes. I make your feet tingle.” A smile came to his lips. “Among other things. – Lisa Kleypas • You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night. – Beth Ditto • Your shoes have to match your belt. That’s rule number one for guys. You can’t put the brown shoes with the black belt. Or a brown belt with a black wristwatch. Just don’t do it! Also, I don’t like boots with suits. And when you wear sneakers, make sure they go with your shirt. – Ashton Kutcher • You’re barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them? – Sarah Rees Brennan • Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on…Maybe I had died and gone to heaven. – Meg Cabot • Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked as he swallowed. “It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me.” –Zane to Willow in ‘The Edge of Sin’ in the Real Men Last all Night anthology – Cheyenne McCray [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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