#NO MORE COLLEGE WORK FOR ME WOOOOOOOOO

[mochalottie]

Me throwing my dissertation into the submission folder literally two minutes ago:

also me two seconds ago:

yeah I'm gonna need a few hours to process the fact that I've handed in 10,000 words of academic writing...

(also @hella1975 we match now! :)

[katiekatdragon27]

First project for college wooooooooo-

More details under the cut:

I made this for school as a sort of interactive self-portrait. I think I misinterpreted the prompt (even if it was super vague anyway), but honestly, getting to draw all these ocs was worth it.

Here are their names and some bare-bones stuff about them:

The Orange Cat: Cattington Stamper

A Battleblock Theater oc. He was a stowaway on the ending ship and grew up in the city on the mainland. A nervous wreck with trauma and daddy issues.

The Shiny-ish Furret: Katt Furrocy

A Pokémon Mystery Dungeon oc. She is a writer with psychic powers who basically "documented" the "real world" story of my old PMD series. She is the most normal one here.

The Blue-Green Slugcat: The Herbalist

A Rain World oc. They were tasked with helping an iterator with an airborne rot. They are semi-aquatic but have breathing problems, hence the mask.

The Purple StoryBot: Raven Reallystressed

A StoryBots oc. She's a transfer from my old computer into my new one, resembling the use of my computer in a scholarly way. She's an introverted jerk who writes fanfiction.

The Grey Grumpus: Skrunckly "Skunck" Scrincklyscrimblo

A Bugsnax oc. He is the reason I got my footing on Tumblr. This guy is my journalist interpretation: clumsy, indestructible, and probably made of Bugsnax.

The "Watchdog": Iris Lash

A Wonder Over Yonder oc. She is from a different galaxy where "Watchdogs" are called "Seekers and Seers." She is smart, strong, and wants to overthrow the government.

The Strawberry: Strawbeary

My old OSC objectsona. I have since retired her from that role, but now she is more of a beast who is fairly bloodthirsty.

The Sketchpad: Sketchpad "Sketchy"

My OSC oc. They are the host of a show I'm working on called SPIRIT. Will I ever complete it? Unlikely, but I can try. She is eccentric and friendly but very tone-deaf and oblivious.

The Purple Dragon Cat: Katelyn Kendelle

An oc. She has been one of my forefront characters for YEARS. Despite all the changes to her character over that time, some things stayed the same: her obnoxious height, her intelligence, and her ability to reset the universe once before death.

The Blue Rodent: Kyt Sycamore

An oc. This is probably one of my most fleshed out characters since I am writing a novel for the guy. He is hot-headed with a lot to prove. No one really respects him, tho :/

The last two are me ✌️✌️.

And the little drawing on the board is Cup, my South Park oc of both Canadian and American descent. An abomination, if you will.

So yeah, enjoy the rambling and come say hi if you wanna talk about any of these with me👍

[weird-dere-writes]

Alright you know why I'm here! Ichidere college au lore let's go!

Wooooooooo!!!! 💃🏾✨

More Ichidere lore in the College Byakujas universe >:))))))

I like to think that after that time he was kind enough to help me look for you when I was lost, I just couldn’t stop thinking about him. I could be doing just the most mundane thing and he will pop into my head. Even more so than before when I was simply crushing from afar.

I will be brushing my teeth and his voice will pop into my head and then I’ll accidentally make myself gag. I will be filling my car up with gas and start thinking about how he walked me off campus after I gave you your thing, and then I will have spent a little more money than intended when i come to and look at the little screen on the pump. Casually eating lunch and thinking about how stronk his arm looked when he raised it to scratch the back of his head and I bite my tongue about it and sob cus OW MY TONGUE.

Like I have only experienced the man for at most a couple hours that one day but I am an entire mess lmao.

Quite licherally spinning him around on a rotisserie in my brain and I cannot control it.

AUGH and when you let me know and you Byakuya have noticed my fondness for him I am lowkey bashful when I’m with you guys going around campus. Cus I feel like y’all are always looking and me and wondering if I am looking to see Ichigo (which I might be sometimes, but y’all don’t have to know!!).

Now I am just casually hanging around the school even though I haven’t started attending yet. But! With you and Byakkun’s help I have started the process of applying. Because it’s a little late, I’m unsure if I’ll make it in but my fingers are crossed! Would be cool to graduate the same year as (what is hopefully) my college sweetheart like the bestie and her Byakkun 🫶🏾.

Ichigo also thinks about our first time meeting from time to time, though nowhere near as much as me since he actually has stuff to focus on with his internship and prepping for his first grad year starting soon.

Specifically he thinks about how I was almost about to cry when he found me. Like you said, he’s polite! So he didn’t say anything then. He was glad he was able to get along well with me and help out to make those watery eyes go away. Sometimes tho he finds himself wondering if he’ll see me around on campus again by chance. He hopes if he does that I’m not so upset.

He doesn’t like to see anyone sad, but he felt something a little different when he thought about me specifically. He wasn’t sure why. Maybe it was because I was your friend? And you were sort of an extension of his mentor Byakuya to him?

One time he’s working with Byakuya on something. And it’s on something a little more to do with your expertise. As you’re drafting up a little paper to help Byakuya you realize because of my Psych degree I might be able to help with a part you’re a little unsure about. We were hanging out at your house at the time having a little sleepover, so I was also able to write some notes of my own on the sheet.

Byakuya brought it with for the project. Ichi knows Byakuya’s handwriting, so he figures he didn’t write this reference page they were both looking at from time to time. He asks who did, to be told that the purple ink is in your handwriting, and that the pink ink is mine.

Byakkun goes back to working but Ichigo is looking at the paper for a moment, blinking to himself. When Byakkun steps away, Ichi is lightly stroking places where my handwriting is. He thought my writing was pretty…

Lmao also thinking about if something goes wrong with Ichi’s car, so you end up volunteering me as his ride and i wanna KILL U CUS HOW COULD U DO THIS TO ME!! IM NOT MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THIS PLS 😭. At first it’s a lot of the three of us (me, you, n Ichi in the back). But then you start making moves. Insisting Ichi sits in the front with me (“Oh I just need to go through my bag and it might get messy!”). And then eventually you just yeet all together and start getting rides with Byakuya, leaving me ALONE. And you’re smirking about it but I am a WRECK cus I’m so silly about him HELP. This point is when he and I exchange numbers since we no longer have you as a middle person.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Your matchmaking is VICIOUS but i know it’s out of love lmao <333333.

[worldwright]

Good evening !

My roommates are currently playing synthesizer, one of them being in a, hm, music field in college ? i don't get your uni system AT ALL, but in short, she studies musicology and plays music ?

I voted today, next sunday same thing, urgh, forced to see my parents bc I vote at the same place they do but at least I can see my sweet doggo <3 she was so happy seeing me today, so was I

Have a wonderful morning my friend ! See ya later if you're still good for the call :}

yayyyy doggo time!!! some consolation lol

hehehe music night sounds fun, at least more friendly and lively than your old place

finally got myself to keep going in magnus archives lol. i am 1.5 episodes from the entire end of it all. slightly less scared but. ah well we'll see where it goes. some absolutely genius storytelling decisions happening

my parents and sister all come up to hang out yesterday, it was Very chaotic. it was technically for my dad's birthday (and father's day, they happen on pretty much the same day) but we were also celebrating my sister being done with a really shitty job she'd had, and my mom's birthday (it's next month) AND me getting into college officially

OH HEY I FORGOT IF I TOLD YOU, I GOT INTO COLLEGE OFFICIALLY

i wasn't realllyyy worried that i wouldn't be accepted, but it was still stressful to not know for sure. anyway I'M A COLLEGE STUDENT WOOOOOOOOO

my mom got me some chairs and a table for my deck, and my dad brought up a computer that he wasn't using anymore that's WAY better than my laptop lol. and a new wifi router because he felt like upgrading mine ig. no idea why, it worked fine. but whatever he wants lmao

hope you have a wonderful evening, friend!!

[vanilla-vivillon]

Happy Wesper Week! We are doing a Wylan POV because I can’t write charm at all. This is a modern AU bachelor party. The grisha powers exist but everything else is made into there real life equivalent

TW very brief mentions of sex trafficking.

What am I doing here? Wylan thought to himself

When his boyfriend Jesper insisted on throwing there good friend Matthias a bachelor party Wylan thought maybe they would go to a nice bar or play some party games

Not get crazy drunk, Not set fire to the Dutch Garden, not get chased by cops, not perform a gas station heist and not catch one of his best friends making out with a gas station cashier

However it seemed the universe didn’t care for the thoughts of little ole Wylan Hendricks

“Let’s get this party started!” The Australian yelled

Wylan had to remindhimself he loved his boyfriend Jesper

“Can you not shout?” Matthias, the groom to be, begged

Wylan, Jesper, and there friends Kaz and Kuwei were throwing a bachelor party for Matthias

It took a lot to convince the Norwegian that this was indeed a great idea

Wylan had never been to a bachelor party before but he was excited for his boyfriend who adored them

“Do we really have to go to this bar Jesper?” Kaz groaned seeing the crazy bright neon sign

After years of knowing Kaz Brekker Wylan could tell that Kaz was cursing Inej for telling him to come

Nevertheless the boys all walk in and start ordering shots

“Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!” The boys chanted egging on Kaz and Matthias drinking contest

Well it was mostly Jesper and Kuwei chanting Wylan after having a couple drinks was staring at the twinkle in Jespers eyes

He really was beautiful Wylan thought to himself

Wylan attended the University of Amsterdam to mostly escape his father.

There he met his lifelong friends

Matthias a grumpy international exchange student who grew up in a very prominent and dangerous cult in Norway. He wants to be a Norwegian ambassador

Nina Zenik, a heartrender turned corpse witch who was actually a russian spy back in the day. Now she’s working to become an ambassador

Inej Ghafa, she started a non profit to help stop sex trafficking whitch takes her all over the World but she used to. be an acrobat and after that worked with Kaz as his spy

Kaz Brekker, someone who Wylan after years of knowing him isn’t quite sure if there truly friends, or the semi illegal activities he gets up to. Wylan thought his hacking days would be done after University but Kaz has built an online criminal empire

Kuwei Yul Bo a scientists apprentice from China. He was currently working on his masters degree along side Wylan.

And Jesper. How to describe Jesper Fahey. He was an exchange student from Australia. A fabricator with a gift with Guns. While Jesper loved his pistols he actually works for a nonprofit dedicated to gun safety and regulation

After a highly illegal heist on there trip to Norway during college they all bonded as a group

Especially Wylan and Jesper

Jesper with that twinkle

Jesper with that laugh

Jesper with the way he looked at him now

After many more drinks Kuwei had the idea of the century

“Yooooooo y’know what’s a good idea?” Kuwei said bringing his head up from where it was previously glued to the table

“More shhhhhhhhhots?” Jesper suggested clearly as drunk as Wylan

“A couple blocks away is The Dutch Garden, wanna see some prrrrrrrrrrretty flowers?”

Fun fact this is a real place in Amsterdam

Wylan turned towards Kaz expecting him to veto it then and there but to Wylans shock and horror Kaz said “Hell yeah”

“But, but, it’s super late it’s gonna be closed!” Matthias spluttered out

“We can sneak in from the back fence” Jesper said

When Jesper drank his Australian accent whitch had soften over the years of living in Amsterdam came through in all of its glory

When Wylan first met Jesper he thought he was completely out of his league

And that damn accent drove Wylan Insane

While Wylan was contemplating the wonder that was Jesper Llewelyn Fahey it seemed the group made a decision without him

And Wylan thought for the first time in this bachelor party

What am I doing here?

“C’mon Wylan just climb!” Kuwei whisper screamed at Wylan

The drunken lads had made it to the Garden and had found an area where there was a fence they could climb with relative ease

All of the others made it to the other side

Except Wylan

“Don’t you want to seeeeeee the flowwwwwwwers?” Kaz insisted

If Wylan needed any more proof he was the soberest man out of all of them Kaz saying the word ‘pretty’ that isn’t referencing Inej was a clear sign

“Baby pleeeeease” Jesper begged

Oh

Oh no

Not that face

Wylan thought of himself as a sensible person who doesn’t succumb to pressure easily

But when his boyfriend made that face

Where his cool grey eyes went big

And his face had a slight flush to it

Wylan

Broke

“Fine! But if we get arrested it’s on you guys!”

With the ease of a spider who’s leg got chopped off by a middle aged housewife who’s husband is cheating on her climbing up a wall Wylan somehow got across

It wasn’t pretty

And it wasn’t gonna make Kaz proud

But it was completed

Panting Wylan on the ground said “I think this is my biggest accomplishment”

“Not…. Putting away your father? Or growing past your Internalised homophobia? Or writing your first essay on your own?” Matthias suggested clearly bewildered

Hey so i know Wylan can’t actually read. But seeing as this is modern day and plenty of dyslexic people can read with help, I figured that Jan would refuse to take Wylan to a doctor or get him help with his dyslexia believing it was weak making Wylan unable to read. Buuuuut when he’s older it makes sense to me he does learn. I’m not trying to invalidate his experiences or “fix” him but for the sake of a modern AU I had to change some things.

“Nope. It’s climbing this fence” Wylan laughed as Jesper helped him up

“Everyday you remind why your my favorite human” Jesper said with a laugh

“Ewwwww it’s like you guys like to remind how I’m the only single one” Kuwei said with a throwing up motion

“Thanks Jesp- wait human?” Wylan asked confused

“Well my favorite thing is Milo of course” Jesper winked

“The- the goat in Russia?” Kaz inquired not quite wanting to believe what Jesper was saying

To Wylans knowledge Kaz, Inej and Jesper did some job in Russia before he ever met them

“Why of course” Jesper slung an arm around Wylan who was not quite sure how to feel about this goat

Kaz went to go look at some purple flowers and contemplate his life choices

“Oh my god guys…….” Matthias started “the flowers! They’re- they’re”

“Cmon Matty, share with the class” Kaz said apparently bored with the purple flowers

“They’re so preeeeeeeetty” Matthias eyes welled up with tears

“Oh Saints tell me he’s not crying” Kuwei Moaned

Jesper walked over to where Matthias was stroking a hydrangea

“They are soooooooo pretty” Jespers eyes also Welled up with tears

“Fuck this shit” Kuwei said taking out a lighter and cigarette

“Hey! Smoking is very bad for you Kuwei!” Wylan lectured

“Wylan. I’m an inferni. Smoking foesnt affect us” Kuwei rolled his golden brown eyes

“Yeah but we’re in a highly flammable garden! And the rest of us aren’t inferni!” Wylan said

It seemed during Kuwei and Wylans arguement Kaz had also joined the cult of flowers that Matthias and Jesper were fixated on

“Wylan stop smoke shaming me!” And the scientists went back and fourth

“KUWEI YOU PIECE OF-“ Wylan started then sniffed the air “is that, is that smoke?” Wylan asked

“Holy shit dudes there’s a fire!” Kaz yelled pointing at where the cigarette Kuwei droppped

It seemed that the cigarette lit fire to a big wall of flowers

“This is why I never wanted a bachelor party!” Matthias moaned

The boys could hear voices coming towards them

Then all of the men looked at each other

And all of them yelled “RUN!”

All of them starting sprinting to the fence

And Kaz with his limp scrambled up that fence the fastest

Guess his determination to not get caught was strong

Wylan started climbing as fast as he could whitch wasn’t very fast

“Cmon Merchling!” Jesper said at the top reaching out a hand to his boyfriend

Wylan took it and stared at the steel eyes that had first enraptured him years ago

“Hey Stop!” Looking back Wylan and Jesper saw three security guards running towards them and yelling at them to stop

Jesper yanked Wylan up and they both fell off the fence in a pile

Jesper took Wylans hand and they all started booking it to Wylan’s car

Wylan who had sobered up in the whole endeavor determined that he was probably sober enough to drive

Piling in they all shoved themselves in the car

Wylan turned on the gas and starte to get the car back on the road

“I can’t believe we ran from cops!” Matthias said in between panting

“That was awesome!” Jesper exclaimed from the passenger seat

Wylan laughed

He had never been a spontaneous person

It seemed this night was a lot more fun then he thought

Until he heard the sirens

From the backseat Kaz turned

And three police cars were zooming towards them

“I am not going down for arson!” Kuwei yelled

“Wylan stop driving like a grandma and go faster! There gaining on us!” Kaz screamed at Wylan

“I can’t there’s a stoplight!”

“Run it!” Jespers shrill voice screamed at him

And Wylan did what he swore to never do

He took a deep breath

And ran that light as fast as he could

They were flying

Wylan had never seen how fast he could make his car go

Turns out it was fast

Wylan used some of his dads money to buy a sports car just to rub it in Jans face

With the top off and blood rushing through Wylans head he had never felt more alive

His boy beside him

His friends behind him

“WOOOOOOOOO!” Kuwei yelled throwing his hands up

Jesper joined Kuwei as the car sped down the street

Matthias was looking a little green

“Matty you okay back there?” Wylan shouted back at the Norwegian

“No!” Matthias shouted over the roar of engine and Jesper and Kuweis yips and yells

Some point during this Kaz called Inej

“Inej I hate thissssss!” Wylan couldn’t hear what Inej said back but from the pieces Kaz gave it was obvious

“No im not drunk!……. Psh of course those aren’t sirens…… Inej we might’ve bended the law but I swear it wasn’t my fault!…….. alright bye. ….I love you to….”

After what seemed like an eternity Wylan finally lost the police

Laughing the Wylan pulled into a gas station for refill

Wylan stepped out of the car and began to refill his car and thought for the millionth time what am I doing here?

“Wylannnnnn” Kuwei moaned

“What Kuwei?” Wylan said already exasperated

“Wylan I’m hungryyyyyy”

“Then go grab some chips or something!”

“But I don’t want to pay for it!”

“Then I guess that sucks for you!”

“You got like a million dollars from stealing me from Norway! You owe me!”

Ghezen Wylan hated drunk people

“Let’s perform a heist on the gas station!” Matthias said apparently done feeling sick

“What? No! We aren’t stealing from the gas station!” Wylan lectured

“It might actually be fuuuuuuun Wy” Kaz begged

The rest of the party were already getting out of the car ignoring Wylans protests

“We will do a simple distract act, Kuwei will go in first and lead the cashier away, and then we go in and steal chips” Kaz explained

It seemed even drunk Kaz could scheme

“This is insane!” Wylan exclaimed

“You said that about rescuing Kuwei from the Norwegian government but that ended up great” Matthias replied

They were gonna do this with or without Wylan

With a sigh Wylan thought what am I doing here?

Kuwei had gone in and had given the single

Wylan had walked in after pretending to look at some sodas and after Kuwei went into the back room with the cashier Wylan sent a quick text to the rest of the guys to come In and get raiding

Like clockwork Matthias, Jesper, and Kaz went in and they started ransacking the place

Wylan was in charge of Sodas, Matthias was in charge of Chips, and Jesper was in charge of Candy

Kaz had the most important job of all

He had to hack into there computers and wipe the security cameras

If Kaz couldn’t do that then Kaz would have to actually hack into the computers from his phone

It almost suprised Wylan how quickly efficiently, and quietly, a bunch of drunk guys could ransack a gas station

Wylan did feel guilty for a moment

But then he remembered how the CEO of the company the gas station is owned by has had multiple sexual misconduct allegations and Wylan felt better

Wylan got all the soda he could carry and rushed back to the car dumping them in the backseat

Soon after Matthias followed then Jesper and a little while after Kaz

Wylan did a quick headcount “wait where’s Kuwei?”

Wylan checked his phone

No texts from him

Shit shit shit

“Someone has to go back in” Kaz said

“I’ll go after him” Wylan said with a sigh

He loved Kuwei like a brother

But like an annoying little brother constantly getting himself in messes

Wylan Walked in and saw the e cashier wasn’t back

Wylan walked through the store and then heard something towards the men’s bathroom

Walking closer to the door the noises were getting a bit louder

Wylan opened the door slamming it against the wall

There stood a wide eyed Chinese kid and from the green uniform Wylan guessed was the cashier

The cashier who was standing between Kuweis legs. Kuwei who was sitting in the edge of the bathroom sink

There’s arms were around each other

Wylan was confused

What was Kuwei doing?

Oh

Oh

“Get your ass in the car Kuwei!” Wylan yelled

Kuwei gave whispered sorries to the cashier while collecting his jacket he apparently threw off

Wylan dragged Kuwei by the arm outside the store

“Kuwei. When we say distract the cashier, that means distract, not make oht with him!” Wylan lectured

“Cmon Wylan you saw him, he was cute!”

“Your drunk Kuwei!”

“Aren’t we all a little drunk in life?”

“That makes absolutely no sense” Wylan said with a sigh “just go to the car”

Kuwei happily skips away

Wylan had just dropped off Matthias at his and Ninas apartment after dropping off Kaz and Kuwei

Leaving just Wylan, Jesper, and an unhealthy amount of snacks in the car

“Hey Wylan” Jesper said

“Yes Jes?”

“I love you”

“I love you to Jesper”

“No wylan” Jesper took Wylan’s face in his hands

“I really love you” Jesper Pushed a ginger lock away from Wylans face

Jesper then reached into his pocket and pulled out a rumpled purple flower and tucked it into Wylans hair “I really really really love you”

Wylan blinked. Jesper was so drunk.

Wylan gave Jesper a soft smile and placed a kiss on his mouth

“I love you to Jesper”

And suddenly Wylan knew exactly what he was doing there

Finnally finished this in the Nick of time! @neilperryisalive I hope you enjoy this! I was seriously worried I wouldn’t be able to finish it but I did! I’ve never written Wesper but I really enjoyed it. My ask box is open and I take any Grishaverse requests

[auburnfamilynews]

Hello friends and welcome back to the Theater of Pain, Auburn Football Theater 2020. Last week, we had some fun and watched the 1996 Independence Bowl between the Tigers and Army as we hit the half way mark of the countdown. This week though, we get back to the DEEP HURTING as we dive back in to games that make no since and often remembered with an OOF or UGH or I remember getting really drunk after that game. Some will argue that this week’s selection should be flipped with the 2015 Jacksonville State game and after doing a rewatch, those people are probably right. So, if you are of that camp, read this writeup, then re-read the Army write up, then re-read the Jacksonville State game, and you are happy…or insane…not sure exactly which one, but hey, that would be you! This week, we revisit the 2011 season for the Auburn Tigers as they welcome home the fans for the first game after the magical 2010 season…this is Utah State vs Auburn from 2011.

THE PREGAME

As mentioned before, Auburn had just won the National Title and was still basking in its warm glow. Cammy Cam had taken off for the NFL, along with Darvin Adams, Nick Fairley and most of the offensive line so to say that Auburn was looking to rebuild would be an understatement. Utah State was led by Gary Anderson who was breaking in a true Freshman quarterback from the Houston area named Chuckie Keeton who would take the reigns and run with them on offense and on defense were spearheaded by senior linebacker Bobby Wagner. Utah State had been a pesky team to some but had never beaten a Top 25 team away from home and had only won 1 game against a ranked opponent in 55 tries so Auburn looked to be safe as they kicked off the season…OR WERE THEY.

THE GAME

The bourbon of choice for this one is Mitcher’s Small Batch, for those keeping score at home.

So far on the countdown we have seen a lot of…winners…in the press box *COUGH* ROD GILMORE *COUGH* MARK JONES *COUGH* but there is one who has been absent for the most part. She make her only countdown appearance today

AND WITH FORMER OREGON COACH MIKE BELLOTTI no less. How mean is it for ESPN to send the coach that just lost the national title to the team that beat them’s opening game? While I am not a fan of Beth’s tenor and cadence, she calls a pretty good game, so don’t expect much in the way of that grating on me.

Kickoff happens with Utah State getting the ball first. Both teams begin the feeling out process and trade 3 and outs to start the season. Utah state with it for their second drive as they begin from the 36. They would have the ball for 3 plays and on that 3rd play

Yeah…that’s a quiet JHS right there, and just like that its 7-0 Aggies.

Auburn would get it and, in 3 plays, would answer right back.

Mmmm, that Emory Blake acceleration. And after 12 offensive plays, its 7-7 as we should settle in for a track meet apparently.

Well, I spoke too soon, Utah state gets it from their 20 and begins a march, however it looks like the defense has then hemmed in on a 3rd and 20.

That doesn’t bode well. The Aggies would get it inside the 5 but would be cut just short on 4th down and they will kick the FG right?

It might be a long day at the stadium friends. With the 4th down conversion, it’s a 14-7 USU lead.

Auburn would then get it from their own 27 before punting it away after 3 plays and Utah State would begin a drive that actually made me check to make sure it wasn’t the one from before. I say this because, this happened.

And it was followed by this

The only way I was sure that it wasn’t the same drive was because the first one was 15 plays and the second one was 16…So Utah State now has a commanding lead over Auburn at 21-7. What Auburn has to do on this next drive is methodically work down the field and give that defense a rest because they’ve been on the field for 31 of the last 34 plays without a true res…

DAMN IT TRE! The guys just put on the oxygen masks! But it’s a score and Auburn definitely needed that! So now its 21-14 and it doesn’t feel so bad, as long as Utah State don’t have an 18 play drive to respond.

Luckily, it’s a quick 3 and out and the Tigers get it back at their own 36. After 7 plays and running down the clock as much as they can, they punt down to the Utah State 2 and the half comes to an end with USU leading Auburn 21-14 and it’s time for another pour of bourbon. Taking a look at the stats from the first half, Auburn had a total of 16 offensive plays…16. And somehow they are only down by 7.

Auburn will get the ball to start the second half and will get nice field position from the 25. I really nice drive followed that used 11 plays and was capped with a big 3rd down play from the MVP of the BCS title game…if you guys didn’t know that.

That Dyer run put things back at level and it’s a brand new ball game.

Utah State would follow up with a 7 play drive that picked up 17 yards before they gave it back to Auburn at the 12, where the Tigers would look to build on their previous drive.

So a punt followed.

The Aggies would get it back at the Auburn 45 and hit it big with a huge 33 yard pass play from Keeton that set them up for a field goal attempt.

That made it 24-21 Aggies as the crowd at JH started to get a touch restless.

Auburn would get it from the 28 on the kick and would reach in to their bag of tricks to wake up the offense.

Huge play to get it in to USU territory, and Trotter would look to build on to it the very next play

Not sure I’ve ever seen the snap go right through the Quarterback’s hands like that. In all seriousness though, he would make up for it on the play after that.

BROKE YOUR DAMN ANKLES SON!!! WOOOOOOOOO! Legends say that dude’s jock is still on the 5 yard line.

So after the ambulance came out and help that poor child, it was Auburn’s lead 28-24. Take a moment to enjoy this, cause not much good happens for the rest of the game…till the end of course.

Utah State would get the kick from the 20 (after it went through the freaking uprights) and would do that thing where they have a sustained drive and Auburn can’t stop them until.

Until they reach the endzone, at least then Auburn gets the ball back. So Utah State breaks back out on top 31-28

Auburn would get the ball at their own 34 and look to answer.

So a punt was the next play.

Utah State would take it from their own 35 and look to work the clock and get the score to put this one way.

They would get deep in to Auburn territory and face a 4th down field goal attempt to go up 6 on the Tigers.

Oh those tricky tricky Aggies….

As you can probably guess, this was 2 plays later.

And now its starting to feel real bad, with just over 3 and a half to play, Auburn is now down 10.

The Tigers would get it from their own 35 and have a nice drive that would be capped in a fitting way.

No Lutzy dance but that’s cause there is still work to do. So Auburn is back with in 3, that’s the good news. The bad news is that there are only 2 minutes left and the Tigers only have 1 time out to go. So that means its time for uat’s second favorite play, only behind a Field Goal attempt, the onside kick!

Ok, let’s real talk here. How is it a dead ball if you recover an onside kick? If you have the chance to run with it, take off! Either way, Auburn would get the ball from the Utah State 44 and would get to work. After 7 plays, the Tigers had worked inside the Aggie 5. Play 8 would push them ahead.

30 seconds to go and Auburn is on top 42-38

Utah State would get 3 plays out of the clock but would be stopped on a screen play at the final gun and Auburn held on for a 42-38 victory to start the 2011 campaign.

THE AFTERGLOW

Following this Auburn would fall out of the top 25 but would beat a ranked Mississippi State team the following week before dropping a road game to Clemson. If you want a deep dive on the 2011 season, click over to the South Carolina game and I hit up the rest of that season.

For Utah State, they would have a rougher go of it, as they entered November with a 2-5 record but rallied to win out till their bowl game, a 1 point loss to Ohio in the Humanitarian Bowl, to finish with a 7-6 record.

That’s it for this week’s look back at one of the more forgettable games in Auburn history. Next week we begin with the Top 3 and a game I can honestly say, I remember watching a little bit of, but I had to go to bed because it was past my bed time (I don’t know why I had a bedtime on a Saturday night but I vividly remember it), so this will be my first true watch of next week’s game. Until till then, stay safe and please bring back football…even if its hard to watch.

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Writing Under the Influence

On Tuesdays I like to go to one of my favorite bars and partake in their writing club. The organizer comes with four prompts and we write in 20 minute chunks. Here's what I came up with last night. Enjoy! 1. Pretend you’re in a tree-house eating breakfast around a table with a number of other people. Someone enters the tree-house and gives you an important message. Describe the ensuing events. A psychic friend of mine invited me to a treehouse in the middle of a Pennsylvania mountain range with five strangers. I was getting sick of the New York City heat, the hot train tunnels and unbearable bike rides to coffee shops with cranked ACs, so it seemed like the perfect getaway when I responded to the email. We were sitting in the treehouse having breakfast when a crow flew the window with a message and dropped it on top of the pancakes. My friend, the organizer, fished it out of the syrup with her fingernails, unfolded it and said. “Find A or else B.” I chewed on a piece of sausage and washed it down with a swig of coffee and it scalded my whole throat. “Find A or else B, what does that mean?” A friend of a friend said. I didn’t know him, we had just met last night. There wasn’t a distinguishable quality about him and I doubted I would see him again after this trip, but I trusted my psychic friend that this man must have something going for him, maybe that he was so unrecognizable, almost translucently pale with milky blue eyes. “Find A or else B, that could be anything,” chirped another friend. She was a little more recognizable than the man, with blunt blonde bangs and a dime-sized birthmark on her cheek. She was a hairdresser, spunky and quick-witted. “So who dies first?” Said Raphael, my friend from college, tipsy from a few glasses of mostly champagne mimosas. “It’s very vague,” I said, agreeing with the hairdresser. My psychic friend inspected the piece of paper, folded it up and opened it again. It was on a notecard, written in pencil. “Well, it looks like the owner has a game for her guests. What starts with A, and ends in B.” “I don’t know, you’re the clairvoyant one,” Raphael chirped, raising his eyebrows and pouring himself a forth mimosa without the orange juice. “How much time do we have?” I said, “How are we supposed to play if we don’t know the window?” “I think we should wait,” said the hairdresser, wrestling a pancake onto her plate. “Nothing good comes out of acting in fear or panic. The white man looked even whiter. “This concerns me,” he said. “I knew this wasn’t a good idea, I knew I shouldn’t have come to this treehouse in the middle of Pennsylvania. This is so unlike me.” He started breathing very heavily, pressing his fingers into his temples. “Calm down,” said my psychic friend, “I hear something, there’s a voice whispering.” 2. Write an elliptical conversation. Maybe they’re speaking about a grave matter that they don’t mention, or maybe they’re just being elliptical for the hell of it. You decide. “There’s a snake in my bed and I keep trying to tell it to go to go away but it keeps coming back. It laid an egg in my ear and now I feel sick.” This is what his son said to him from his hospital bed at the psych ward. He had been there for two weeks and hadn’t stopped hallucinating. “Seriously, dad. I don’t have a problem, I just need to get away from this snake. I promise I won’t use again, I swear.” His son had overdosed on methanthetamine, xanax and fentanyl 17 days ago for the third time in two years. He had been admitted to rehab five times, clocking in at a grand total of 6 hours in rehab. He remembered when his son was younger and they’d buy trading cards at the grocery store when he was well-behaved, and how often that was. Then at the end of the trip, while he was in the check-out line, his son would pick through the packets of trading cards until he found the one he wanted, then placed it at the end of the line-up of food for the week. When his son was 12, two shiny packs fell out of his pocket when they were loading groceries into the van. Instead of reprimanding him, his father decided to ignore what he saw. Maybe he paid for them with his allowance money. He wanted to trust his son. His son was a good boy. He got his homework done and picked up around the house, said please and thank you. He didn’t want to accuse his son of stealing if he wasn’t stealing, and most of all, he wanted his son to like him more than his mother, especially in the middle of the custody battle. Even if he did steal two packs of cards, so what? They were just playing cards, and when he was younger, he had pocketed candy bars and cans of soda, too. It’s something that he grew out of when he realized that the cashiers and people who worked at the grocery store were the ones who got in trouble when things were stolen. He knew because he pushed carts at the grocery store down the block from his house in high school. His son would learn naturally. There was a certain order about the world that could be followed, but in the middle of a heated divorce, he didn’t seem to know why to tell his son to follow rules and what they would be good for anyway. He had followed all the rules growing up and look where he ended up, at a corporate office, the same one for ten years, continuing to ask for a raise but not getting one. “Dad, the snake, get it out of here or get me out of here. I am sad and I want to go home. I will never use again.” 3. Find a piece of artwork over 300 years old on the internet, and write a story about it. The men gathered the young king and shifted him onto a cot made of blue silk and golden tassels. This is where the man’s body would stay while his people prepared his burial site. Underneath his home, workers sifted through his belongings, finding a brass and onyx gong that was a gift from a neighboring kingdom, one that he restored peace with and created trade sanctions. He was a diplomat, a father of ten, but that’s not who he was now. In the afterlife his body would find sanction in a tomb built just for him, his family and his legacy. He would be buried right next to his father, buried right next to his father’s father. With turquoise, rubies, and statuettes of the gods to protect him as his soul was ushered into the spiritual realm. In his new form, he felt weightless yet saddened that he had to leave his family so soon. He was 50, and had passed of natural causes. He had prepared for old age, said his respects to his family, assigned his second born son as the heir to the thrown, since his first born son had died in battle, in an effort to make piece with the neighboring country who had gifted the gong. His guards carried the gong and the king’s body out into the air, and rang the gong to announce to the community that the king had passed away, that there would be a successor to the throne. The king’s soul was torn. He wanted to stay to watch his body be prepared for burial, he wanted to feel himself anointed with fine, aromatic oils, but knew that he would never feel his skin from inside. His bones were not his — now they were the earth’s, and they would stay wrapped together in place with a thick winding cloth, then placed in a sarcophagus that would defy time, dust, and war, discovered hundreds of years later by a rich civilization from another hemisphere hell-bent on a treasure hunt. But for now, he would find his son. 4. Write a story in a style you don’t normally use. It’s changing things are changing wooooooooo can you feel it things are changing. It’s fall and the bugs are still biting they are making little holes in legs and arms, necks and cheeks, fleshy smelly holes. Lick the sweet sweat from your lover’s side and know that you are exactly where you need to be right here right now. Nowhere is how it feels to be everywhere all at once without reason. Find a purpose and stick to it like a mosquito finding a fleshy crevice to drink out of. Pour yourself a Guinness and start tapping on the keypad anything that comes out of your fingers is magic. No disrespect to the mosquitos they’ll keep on doing what they came to do but how do you concentrate if you’re always itchy and irate. Grrrrr you bugs you bugs find your own earth. Let’s collect all the mosquitos and put them in the trunk of an old car then send it to space. Let’s smash all of those bodies into the trunk and send it off to space. Let them eat each other make them feel the weight of their blood, human blood, all of it. Don’t you feel itchy reading this it makes me woooooooo zyyyy. There’s no one but you and I and this fly that’s on the table, circling around the candle. That fly is telling the other flies where to find the light, don’t you see. We are doing that too, we find the lights and like flies, like mosquitoes my draw more people toward it. There’s something to it, something to the light. It’s California. Let’s pack all of the people you know in a city bus and send them out west where it’s warm and bright and see how they live there. Let’s evacuate the flood lines before Miami’s submerged. Don’t you love how it feels to live fearfully of the flies and the waves, doesn’t it feel nice. Don’t you want the heat. When you have these worries to distract you what can you really get done. It’s so easy to focus on the flies and mosquitos. If we just pack them up and put them somewhere couldn’t we get more done. Who do you think you are telling me how to focus my attention when there’s this fly buzzing around my head and mosquito bites all down my legs. I’m afraid for my attention span. Wooooooooooo one point for admitting what comes naturally it’s who I am. I suck the life out of writing prompts and pound the table to find my voice. I drum my fingers and mosquitoes fly out and they bite my face as I bike home and it’s all I can think about, how I’ll have more bites and do I really need bugspray in October? WINTER IS IMMINENT so why worry at all about the bites isn’t there something like Zika in the air or West Nile virus or sssssssssss who is this person typing these words I don’t recognize them I think I’m going crazy because I should be writing pop music not this and I should always be writing something that I’m not writing but it’s more fun to just write and not look back. Like the horse, the horse that runs away with the reigns and there’s nothing you can do except keeping riding because consciousness just keeps on coming and you have to find a step back from it and watch the process from a distance, what’s really going on. There’s a beauty in not controlling it, it cuts through the mosquitoes, it feels triumphant to let the horse go crazy and you’re just riding it hoping that it goes forever but even horses get tired, even mosquitoes get tired and have to sleep. The flies die in the winter and then they come back again. Once the horse rests it will keep going for awhile. It starts and stops so when there is this motion you might as well ride it wooooooooooooooooooo

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Your Wednesday Morning Roundup

It’s finally time.

The Sixers play a meaningful game tonight. More meaningful than any game in the past few years. Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Markelle Fultz will all play with each other tonight against the Washington Wizards.

Embiid, who sported cornrows yesterday, will be on a minutes limit which he isn’t happy about, Simmons will be making his NBA debut, and Fultz, who will also make his NBA debut, is still working on his shot.

There’s still problems with the team, but the expectations for many are a fighting chance for a playoff spot.

We’ll have more Sixers coverage later today. But for now, Kevin Kinkead was at practice yesterday and writes that you shouldn’t expect Simmons guarding John Wall tonight.

Embiid also did a funny video with DraftKings pranking fans.

The Roundup:

The Flyers’ offense continued to stay hot, as they took care of the Florida Panthers 5-1 behind a four-goal second period. Sean Couturier stayed hot, while Nolan Patrick added an assist on a Dale Weise goal. Wayne Simmonds did leave in the third period with a lower-body injury. He’s day-to-day.

Michal Neuvirth got his first win of the season and was awarded with the team’s Ric Flair robe as player of the game:

Ric Flair robe given to #Flyers’ player of game. Tonight, it was Neuvy. http://pic.twitter.com/6EtvRUT1ZE

— Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) October 18, 2017

WOOOOOOOOO!

Anthony SanFilippo takes you inside the team, and he discusses how Robert Hagg is making Shayne Gostisbehere better this season.

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The Eagles had their first practice since Thursday night’s win over Carolina. Lane Johnson and Wendell Smallwood returned to practice.

From an awful start to training camp to being one of the best corners in the league, Patrick Robinson has regained his confidence:

His rough training camp threatened to send his confidence sinking again, his lamentations over his poor play becoming a daily ritual throughout late July and August. He was hard on himself but maintained perspective.

“It’s never as bad as you think it is,” he said, “and it’s never as good as you think it is.”

Of course, he and his coaches would acknowledge it’s much better now.

“He never lost his confidence, and we never lost our confidence in him,” Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said. “He’s been through the ringer, so to speak, and he understands, and he has the maturity and the confidence and the experience to be able to deal with those things. He understands the business.”

Carson Wentz has been unbelievable against the blitz. Take a look at these stats:

Carson Wentz is the MOST blitzed QB in the NFL! Blitzed on (39.3%) of his dropbacks!

Wentz has thrown 5 TDs & 0 INTs vs blitz#JawsStats

— Ron Jaworski (@jawsespn) October 17, 2017

He and Ertz are also one of the best connections in the NFL this year:

Consider these numbers from ESPN Stats & Information: Their 34 completions this season is the most of any quarterback-tight end duo through Week 6. They have six red zone hookups, second only to Carson Palmer and Larry Fitzgerald (7) to this point in the season. Wentz has targeted Ertz eight times in the red zone, which is even with Brady-Gronkowski, while their four red zone TDs is the most of any QB-TE combo.

This isn’t a brand new development. Since Week 8 of last season, Wentz-to-Ertz has connected 101 times, again the most of any QB-TE duo.

Malcolm Jenkins was part of a group of players that joined yesterday’s NFL owners meeting.

Remember when you wanted Marcus Mariota? So do I, because I wanted him too. Glad we didn’t get him? I am.

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Could Giancarlo Stanton nix a deal that could send him to the Phillies?

Some inside the Marlins clubhouse suggest they doubt Giancarlo Stanton would approve the Phillies due to their rebuilding state – though they have some very good position prospects and are deep-pocketed enough to pay big this winter (or afford Stanton).

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An early honor for Villanova’s Jalen Brunson:

Villanova's Jalen Brunson has been named Big East Preseason Player of the Year, per release.

— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) October 18, 2017

A surprising rumor involving the Union’s United Soccer League affiliate:

Ok, so that rumor led immed to a 2nd UNCONFIRMED late night rumor. One source says Bethlehem, Sounders2 also out. Union to aff w/ Rochester.

— Brian Straus (@BrianStraus) October 18, 2017

Philadelphia’s new NLL team name is down to three finalists. Well, the eventual winner and two other names:

The @PhillyLax18 naming contest is down to the final 3 names. Do your job and vote at https://t.co/R07x3G1p5i to make sure they're the Wings http://pic.twitter.com/RWDQ4s4y0A

— Jordie (@BarstoolJordie) October 17, 2017

Vote for the Wings.

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In other sports news, the NBA season opened up last night. The Cavaliers edged Kyrie Irving and the Celtics 102-99. But the biggest moment came early in the game, when Gordon Hayward went down:

WARNING GRAPHIC

Gordon Hayward with one of the worst injuries I’ve ever seen http://pic.twitter.com/O3g8yUQzMw

— Eric Rosenthal (@ericsports) October 18, 2017

It was on par with the Kevin Ware and Paul George injuries. Hayward suffered a dislocated ankle and a fractured tibia. He’ll undergo surgery later today.

In the other game, the Rockets escaped Golden State with a 122-121 win. The Warriors also got their NBA Championship rings:

Warriors unveil 2017 championship rings (h/t jasonofbeverlyhills/Instagram) http://pic.twitter.com/VIAHJe4KHp

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 18, 2017

We said goodbye to the NBA offseason last night, but we got one more unbelievable story out of Chicago. Bulls forward Nikola Mirotic is out indefinitely after suffering fractures to his upper jaw and a concussion after a fight with teammate Bobby Portis:

The players had been talking trash to one another in practice, going back and forth before those exchanges escalated into a physical encounter, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Mirotic charged at Portis twice before Portis threw a punch and connected with Mirotic’s face, league sources said. Mirotic dropped to the floor and lay there for several minutes before getting up, league sources said.

Portis was battling Mirotic for the team’s starting power forward spot. Looks like he got it?

In Game 4 of the ALCS, the Yankees beat the Astros 6-4 to tie the series at two games apiece. Game 5 is this afternoon.

In Game 3 of the NLCS, the Dodgers dominated the Cubs with a 6-1 win. They look for the sweep tonight.

Ricardo Allen with what could be the Twitter takedown of the year:

This is a hell of a Twitter exchange between a Falcons fan and Falcons player. http://pic.twitter.com/USRoDaqG8F

— Michael David Smith (@MichaelDavSmith) October 16, 2017

Former Louisville basketball head coach Rick Pitino is suing Adidas, Louisville’s current athletic apparel partner, for damaging his reputation. In the suit, Pitino says…get this…he has nothing to do with Adidas and has no knowledge of the situation.

De’Aaron Fox thinks In-N-Out Burgers are overrated. I’m fine with that statement. But this:

“Honestly, for me, I don’t count Chick-fil-A, because it’s way too good to be considered fast food,” Fox replied. “So I’m gonna say Wendy’s. Fat Burger in L.A. is better than In-N-Out. My fans know I keep it real. I’ve told so many people I hate In-N-Out, it’s funny. Now everyone can read about it.”

It’s way too good to be considered fast food. That’s the worst excuse I’ve heard regarding your favorite fast food. By the way, Jake’s Wayback Burgers are the best.

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In the news, a freight train derailed in North Philadelphia and caught on fire.

Teens in Colorado broke into someone’s house and had a party. Someone at the party recorded it on Snapchat. Phones can be bad sometimes.

M&Ms are Pennsylvania’s favorite Halloween candy. Skittles is second, while Hershey mini bars are third. Skittles are the favorite in New Jersey, and Delaware loves Life Savers. My top three: Skittles, Hershey mini bars, Twix.

A bull was on the loose in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon.

Same http://pic.twitter.com/xHxHYDzICs

— Agent of NBA Chaos (@World_Wide_Wob) October 17, 2017

Finally, college can be weird:

just another Tuesday at Temple University http://pic.twitter.com/xt8pQpcgaZ

— Barstool Temple (@BarstoolTU) October 17, 2017

Enjoy the Sixers. Trust The Process.

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