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mostlysignssomeportents · 4 months

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You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly

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If you're running a business, you can either invest at being good at your business, or good at Google SEO. Choose the former and your customers will love you – but they won't be able to find you, thanks to the people who choose the latter. And if you're going to invest in top-notch SEO, why bother investing in quality at all?

For more than a decade, Google has promised that it would do something about "lead gens" – services that spoof Google into thinking that they are local businesses, pushing down legit firms on both regular search and Google Maps (these downranked businesses invested in quality, not SEO, remember). Search for a roofer, a plumber, an electrician, or a locksmith (especially a locksmith), and most or all of the results will be lead-gens. They'll take your call, pretend to be a local business, and then call up some half-qualified bozo to come out and charge you four times the going rate for substandard work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html

Some of them just take your money and they "go back to the shop for a tool" and never return:

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/when-a-fake-business-used-a-real-st-louis-address-things-got-weird-32087998

Google has been promising to fix this since the late aughts, and to be fair, it's a little better. There was once a time when a map of Manhattan showed more locksmiths than taxis:

https://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/02/18/google-maps-proves-more-locksmiths-in-nyc-than-cabs/

But GMaps is trapped in the enshittification squeeze. On the one hand, the company wants to provide a good and reliable map. On the other hand, the company makes money selling "ads" that are actually payola, where a business can pay to get to the top of the listings or get displayed on the map itself. Zoom out of Google's map of central London and the highlighted landmarks are a hilarious mix of "organic" and paid listings: the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, the Barbican, the London Eye…and a random oral and maxillofacial clinic in the financial district:

https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1764711667663831455

Hell of a job "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful," Big G. Doubtless the average Londoner finds the presence of this clinic super helpful in orienting themselves relative to the map on their phone screens, and it's a real service to tourists hoping to hit all the major landmarks.

It's not just Maps users who'd noticed the rampant enshittification. Even the original design team is so horrified they're moved to speak out about the moral injury they experience seeing the product they worked so hard on turned into a giant pile of shit:

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182

Now, when it comes to locksmiths, I'm lucky. My neighborhood in Burbank includes the wonderful Golden State Lock and Safe, which has been in business since 1942:

https://www.goldenstatelock.com/

But you wouldn't know it from searching GMaps for a locksmith near me. That search turns up a long list of scams:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/locksmith/@34.1750451,-118.369948,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu

It also turns up plenty of Keyme machines – these are private-equity backed, self-serve key-cutting machines placed in grocery stores. Despite Keyme calling itself a "locksmith," it's just a badly secured, overcaptilized, enshittification-bound system for collecting and retaining shapefiles for the keys to millions of homes, cross-referenced with billing information that will make it easy for the eventual hackers to mass-produce keys for all those poor suckers' houses.

(Hilariously, Keyme claims to be an "AI" company):

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200114005194/en/KeyMe-Raises-35-Million-to-Further-Its-Mission-of-Building-the-Premier-Locksmith-Services-Company-in-the-Nation

But despite the fact that you can literally see the Golden State storefront from Google Streetview, Google Maps claims to have no knowledge of it. Instead, Streetview labels Golden State "Keyme" – and displays a preview showing a locksmith using a tool to break into a jeep (I'd dearly love to know how the gadget next to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven will drive itself to your jeep and unlock the door for you when you lose your keys):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/KeyMe+Locksmiths/@34.1752624,-118.3487531,3a,75y,350.19h,90.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssHrtqjqvgFir3NBauMy13Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x80c2959cd65dbb1b:0x4b3744cf87492a71!2sBurbank+Blvd+%26+N+Hollywood+Way,+Burbank,+CA+91505!3b1!8m2!3d34.1750025!4d-118.3493484!16s%2Fg%2F11f37_3lq8!3m5!1s0x80c2951cedbf4d39:0xe8ff9fd5872e66e9!8m2!3d34.1755176!4d-118.349!16s%2Fg%2F11mw7nr4fx?entry=ttu

It's pretty clear to me what's going on here. Keyme has hired some SEO creeps and/or paid off Google, flooding the zone with listings for its machines. Meanwhile, Golden State, being merely good at locksmithing, has lost the SEO wars. Perhaps Golden State could shift some of its emphasis from being good at locksmithing in order to get better at SEO, but this is a race that will always be won by the firm that puts the most into SEO, which will always be the firm that puts the least into quality.

Whenever I write about this stuff, people inevitably ask me which search engine they should use, if not Google?

And there's the rub.

Google used predatory pricing and anticompetitive mergers to acquire a 90% search market-share. The company spends more than $26b/year buying default position in every place where you might possibly encounter a new search engine. This created the "kill zone" – the VC's term of art for businesses that no one will invest in, because Google makes sure that no one will ever find out it exists:

https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android

That's why the only serious competitor to Google is Bing, another Big Tech company (Bing is also the primary source of results on Duckduckgo, which is why DDG sometimes makes exceptions for Microsoft's privacy-invading tracking):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies

Google tells us that the quid-pro-quo of search monopolization is search excellence. The hundreds of billions it makes every year through monopoly control gives it the resources it needs to fight spammers and maintain search result quality. Anyone who's paid attention recently knows that this is bullshit: Google search quality is in free-fall, across all its products:

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think it has a problem. Rather than devoting all its available resources to fighting botshit, spam and scams, the company set $80 billion dollars alight last year with a stock buyback that was swiftly followed with 12,000 layoffs, followed by multiple subsequent rounds of layoffs:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

The scams that slip through Google's cracks are sometimes nefarious, but just as often they're decidedly amateurish, the kind of thing that Google could fix by throwing money at the problem, say, to validate that new ads for confirmed Google merchants come from the merchant's registered email addresses and go to the merchant's registered website:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

Search is a capital intensive business, and there are real returns to scale, as the UK Competition and Market Authority's excellent 2020 study describes:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fe4957c8fa8f56aeff87c12/Appendix_I_-_search_quality_v.3_WEB_.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think that its search needs that $80 billion to fight the spamwars. That's the thing about monopolists, they get complacent. As Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine the AT&T operator" used to say, "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."

That's why I'm so excited about the DOJ Antitrust Division monopolization case against Google. Trusting one company to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," was a failure:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies

I understand why people want to know which search engine they should use instead of Google, and I get why, "There aren't any good search engines" is such an unsatisfactory answer. I understand why each fresh round of printer-company fuckery prompts people to ask "which printer should I get?" and I understand why "There are only six major printer companies and they're all suffering from end-stage enshittification" isn't what anyone wants to hear.

We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it's so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you'd like, you just can't shop your way out of a monopoly – that's like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones.

That's why the new antitrust matters so much. The answer to monopolies is to break up companies, block and unwind mergers, ban deceptive and unfair conduct. "Caveat emptor" is the scammer's motto. You shouldn't have to be an expert on lead gen scams to hire a locksmith without getting ripped off.

There are good products and services out there. Earlier this year, we decided to install a (non-networked) programmable pushbutton lock. I asked Deviant Ollam – whom I know from Defcon's Lockpicking Village – for a recommendation and he suggested the Schlage FE595:

https://www.schlage.com/en/home/products/FE595PLYFFFFLA.html

I liked it so much I bought another one for my office door. Eric from Golden State Lock and Safe installed it while I wrote this blog-post. It's great. I recommend both of 'em – 10/10, would do business again.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#vapor-locksmith

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solarpunkwitchcraft · 2 years

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So I’ve written a number of posts to the extent of “don't worry about conscious consumerism, the best way to change the world is to get involved in environmental action!” But I wonder how actually accessible getting involved in local action feels to people. So, as someone who has been able to find cool activist groups to join both when I was in college and now post-graduation, here’s my advice for how to get involved in something happening in your area!

1. Just show up to stuff. Ok, I know this sounds stupid and obvious, but I do feel like this is truly the best way to get a sense of what’s going on around you. Search online for activist groups near you, check local news for references to anyone doing work that you care about. Find those organizations and see if they have any public actions, info sessions, or other public events that are coming up. This could be anything from a protest, a rally, an onboarding session, a tree-planting festival in the park, an educational event, a local union standout outside the grocery store, a farm volunteer day, what have you. You can even go to a town meeting, although I can’t promise that will be interesting. It may be that the organization you find is not working on an issue that you’re the most interested in or that you don’t like the way they operate or something, but going to events can be a great way to learn about other orgs or campaigns where you live that maybe have less of a high profile. By showing up to these kinds of events, you will get a better sense of the activism landscape, which will help you find out if there are orgs that you want to join 2. In-person events are better for getting to know people, I find, but if you aren’t able to go to in-person events for health reasons, or because you are in rural area, virtual events are great too! I recently moved to a city, but previously was working with a regional activist group while I lived in a rural area, and I basically worked with them on Zoom that whole year. 3. If you’re going to an in-person event, bring a friend! Maybe they’re also interested in getting involved in activism, maybe they’re just going to help you out, but its good to have a buddy, especially if you’re at a rally or a protest. Not only is this safer, this way you have someone to debrief with and talk through whether or not this is a group that you want to commit to. 4. Sometimes, other orgs will be mentioned in an activist meeting. If those interest you, check them out, especially if they are more aligned to the kind of work you’re interested in doing. 5. Talk to people at the event! I know this can be intimidating (believe me I’m an introvert), but this is honestly the best way to get information about the general vibe of this group, or if there are other groups in the area doing things closer to you or more aligned with the work you are interested in. In my experience, people at activist events are always excited to help other activists. 6. Keep a critical eye! All activist groups are imperfect, some are deeply dysfunctional, some are legitimately dangerous. If you’re at a group or event and you think they seem sketchy, disorganized, ineffective, or anything that you are not interested in, leave! Don’t settle to join a group that you have bad feelings about because they seem like the only game in town. That could be frustrating at best or dangerous at worst. 7. Don’t commit to anything at the first meeting! Maybe you’re at an activist meeting for the first time and you think, hey this group is amazing, I want to get involved right away! Or maybe you’re thinking, this is the only group I could find, so I guess I better commit. Don’t do that on your first meeting! Go to a few more public events, meetings, or info sessions. This will let you have a better sense of the group before you commit and will let you see if this is a group that you really want to join. If an activist group requires you to commit to anything at this first meeting (or if they strongly suggest that you do), run! That is a very bad sign, 8. This is the exception for most volunteer opportunities, which may need you to commit for a certain amount of volunteer shifts before you show up. That’s fine! Volunteer groups are also great because they’re a lot more common than activist groups in my experience and more likely to exist in small towns. Some, like Food Not Bombs, have an explicitly political angle which makes them a great place to get to know fellow leftists in the area. Others, like your local soup kitchen, won’t have that angle. But it’s a great way to get involved in your community, get to know people, and do something material to help others. Other kinds of volunteer opportunities may be helping with refugee resettlement projects, pulling up invasive plants, helping a nonprofit with administrative work, all kinds of things! 9.Be patient. I spent most of my late teens/early 20s beating myself up that I wasn’t involved in the kind of activist work that most interested me. But then I met someone at a larger nation-wide event that was from my area, asked for similar things to get involved with at a local level and joined that org. Now, I am doing the activist work that I always dreamed of doing.These things take time and you may not find the exact right kind of opportunity right away. That’s ok! Take your time, keep your wits about you, and don’t be too hard on yourself.

I hope that is helpful! Please let me know if you have any other questions about my experience or my advice and I would be happy to answer them :) Solidarity!

#solarpunk #environmentalism #activism #environmental action #get involved #local activism

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spiderlilyserendipity · 1 year

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Three Years in the Making 🔞🔞🔞

Summary: You're fresh out of a breakup, and your roommates are getting on your nerves. What happens when you accidentally put on their clothes, and suddenly, all bets are off?

Tags: roommates au, dom!SJ, dom!JK, sub!Y/N, d/s elements but no proper discussions, unprotected sex (keep it wrapped y'all), threesome (duh), sub space, jealous JK, aftercare!!

A/N: painfully unedited, but i trust y'all to forgive me.

WC: 3674 (3.6K)

One thing about your roommates, they are painfully single, albeit for different reasons.

Jungkook is too busy playing games–both online and metaphorical– to really settle down with anyone. In the three years you have lived together, you can count on one hand the number of dates Jungkook has gone on. You suspect your friend could snag any girl he wants, if he really wanted to. After all, Jeon Jungkook is a feast for the eyes, all hard muscle and bold tattoos and a sculpted face to boot. But Jungkook is as romantic as all the above, and he is adamantly against things like blind dates set up by his friends. Unfortunately for Jungkook, he also doesn’t go out enough to meet someone “organically”.

Seokjin is also single, but for slightly different reasons. Like Jungkook, he’s a perfectionist, and that includes in his relationships as well. He has high standards, and he knows exactly what he wants. Mature and reliable, that’s Kim Seokjin for you. And like Jungkook, Kim Seokjin has a physique sculpted by Aphrodite herself. All wide shoulders, lithe figure, and a face that makes heads turn even in the most mundane places like a grocery store.

“How long are you going to mope?” Seokjin asks you, starting to lose his patience.

You push the cart down an aisle full of various chips and dips, ignoring Seokjin’s tone. “About?”

Seokjin sighs, catching up to you in a few quick steps. “About the breakup.” He says, not unkindly. “I mean, I get you really liked the guy, but you two only dated for six months, Y/N.”

“It wasn’t six months.” You feel defensive, grabbing a family sized pack of doritos. “We were friends for two years before then, Seokjin.”

Seokjin rolls his eyes. “That didn’t stop him from cheating on you.”

You freeze in your steps, and Seokjin nearly collides into you. He places his big hands on your shoulders, stabilizing himself. You kick backwards, hitting his shin. Seokjin yelps, making a few shoppers turn and look at him for new reasons.

“Y/N.” Seokjin says, voice pained. You pick up your speed, turning the corner sharply.

You can feel Seokjin’s guilty gaze on you the entire drive home. You can tell Seokjin wants to apologize, but at the end of the day, he knows you well enough to know you aren’t going to accept it right now.

When you arrive at home, Jungkook is waiting for the two of you in the underground parking lot. He smiles when he sees you. You throw your keys at him, which he catches, then storm off to the elevator. Seokjin and Jungkook could bring the groceries in.

You shut the door to your bedroom. You don’t want anyone to see you right now. Not to mention, you got up early this morning to run errands with Seokjin, and now it’s midday. You think you deserve a nap, even if it is a “mopey” nap as Seokjin would call it.

You strip your shirt and your bra off, changing into a baggy shirt you find in the laundry hamper near your closet. You can’t be bothered to remember whose it is right now, but your tired mind assumes it must be your ex’s. You take your pants off, too.

You climb into bed, telling yourself you aren’t going to cry, just take a small nap.

Then, you hear Seokjin and Jungkook’s voices down the hallway.

“Why can’t you just be honest with her?” Jungkook asks.

Seokjin sighs. “You know I can’t. You know we can’t.” He says.

You shut your eyes, trying to ignore their voices. You focus on your breathing instead, trying to sleep. An indefinite time later, your bedroom door opens. You’re half asleep now. You hear Seokjin call your name. You hum.

“It’s time for dinner. Come on.” Seokjin says, coming over to the edge of the bed. You smell the delicious scent of Seokjin’s home cooked meal wafting in from the hallway. You open your eyes just a crack.

Seokjin tugs on your duvet, trying to wake you. You groan, pulling the duvet back toward yourself. “Come on–” Seokjin says, pulling harder.

You let out a sound of surprise as he snatches the duvet back. A chill passes over you, forcing you to open your eyes. You expect Seokjin to look annoyed, but to your surprise, he looks stunned. His eyes aren’t on your face, however, trailing down your body.

You frown, looking down at yourself. The baggy shirt has ridden up, revealing your black lace panties and a slip of your stomach. A moment that feels like infinity stretches out between the two of you, where you see Seokjin–usually an unfaltering gentleman–shamelessly eyes your thighs and hips.

Then, the moment breaks. Seokjin swallows audibly. “Why are you wearing my shirt?” He asks, sounding like a man who hasn’t had a drop of water in weeks.

“G-Get out!” You yell, and you don’t have to tell Seokjin twice. Seokjin spins on his heel, walking out of the room like a robot with a toy key.

You fluster, hopping out of bed. You grab the first pair of sweatpants in the laundry hamper, throwing them on. Then, you go to the bathroom, freshening up. You try hard to ignore the moment that just passed, but something in your lower belly churns as you recall how Seokjin looks at you.

Like he wanted to eat you whole.

Don’t be stupid. You tell yourself. This is Seokjin. He would never look at you like that.

Once you gather your bearings, you make your way down the hall to the living room. Seokjin is setting the table, and you see Jungkook stirring a pan of stir-fry. You watch for a moment, taking in Jungkook–or rather, his arms. His tattooed arm rests on the counter, but his left hand expertly flicks the food in the pan, and you see his veins bulge.

You swallow, moving over to the table. What is wrong with me today?

You sit down, and Seokjin sits across from you. The older roommate doesn’t meet your eyes, simply grabbing the three bowls on the table. You watch him walk over to the rice cooker, piling the rice into mini mountains as he always does.

When Seokjin returns, so does Jungkook. Seokjin takes his seat across from you, and Jungkook reaches over you to place the pan on the trivet in the centre of the table. Your eyes find the bracelet on Jungkook’s wrist, watching it glint, as if to tease you.

“By the way, Y/N.” Jungkook says, startling you. You look up, finding Jungkook leaning over you. His eyes dart down to your sweatpant-clad legs. “Why are you wearing my pants?”

You lick your lips, feeling parched suddenly. Jungkook’s eyes dart down, and when they return to yours, they remind you of Seokjin’s. Dark, and full of want.

“Sorry!” You blurt. “I didn’t know they were yours. They were just in the laundry hamper so I grabbed them. I’ll change after dinner.” You ramble.

Jungkook takes his seat next to you. “No need.” He says, spooning food onto his plate. Then, he glances back at you. “You look good.”

You look at Seokjin, wondering if he can feel this weird atmosphere as well, but the older man just stares directly at the table. You watch him, seeing the muscles flex in his jaw as he eats.

Dinner is a painfully tense ordeal. You eat the fastest, standing up as soon as you’re done. As if an invisible spell has been broken, Seokjin looks at you. “You’re not getting seconds?” He asks.

“No!” You say, surprising even yourself with the volume. Then, you look at Jungkook. “It was really tasty, but I’m just not hungry. Thanks so much though.” You say, then pick up your plates to take to the sink.

You hear Jungkook’s chewing pause, knowing he must be weirded out that you just thanked him. The three of you stopped saying thank you for little things a long time ago, choosing to simply return the favour instead. You scrub your dishes, trying very hard to not think about what “returning the favour” would look like tonight.

You’re almost done doing the dishes when Jungkook comes up behind you. He places a hand on the small of your back, craning his head to look at you. “Y/N.” He whispers. You purse your lips, trying not to look at him. “You don’t have to do the dishes if you don’t feel well.”

“No, it’s okay. I mean, you cooked, so.” You say, scrubbing harder.

Finally, Jungkook sighs. He sets the remainder of the plates in the sink. “Okay. Thanks.”

You hear him cross the dining area and settle onto the sofa with Seokjin. The two of them flick through Netflix, looking for a movie to watch. Finally, once you finish the dishes, you feel the thrumming of your heart slow.

You walk over to the couch. Your eyes fall on Seokjin and Jungkook, sitting together with only half a foot of space between them. You usually sit in the middle, but you don’t mind sitting at the end tonight. You’re about to do so when Seokjin’s hand slides over your wrist, pulling you down in between him and Jungkook. You look at him, startled. Seokjin has a look in his eyes you can’t decipher. Behind you, you feel Jungkook’s arm slide around your waist, too.

You glance at Jungkook, who stares at the screen ahead.

You settle in as Seokjin puts on a new film. None of you are fans of action, but the reviews for this movie have been glowing, so you give it a go.

It’s not bad at the start, but the twists and turns have you shifting in your seat, trying to get comfortable. Seokjin notices, and pulls you in. Your eyes go wide as he leans you in against his chest. “It’s okay.” You protest, your back against Seokjin’s firm chest. Seokjin wraps his arms around your middle, holding you in place. Jungkook taps your legs, indicating for you to put them up. You let him, placing your legs in his lap. Jungkook’s hands are warm, massaging your calves.

The tension only seems to build, with your two roommates’ touch. Finally, close to three quarters through the film, it hits its max.

The hero and heroine make out, leading to a bedroom scene. It’s explicit, more explicit than you expected.

“That’s it.” The hero praises the heroine. “I’ve got you.”

You swallow audibly, and the action catches Seokjin and Jungkook’s attention.

“What?” You ask Jungkook, who is looking at you very intently right now.

Jungkook leans forward. You lean back against Seokjin, and Seokjin chuckles. Jungkook’s hand comes up to cup your face. The moans of the hero and heroine echo throughout the room. “You look so pretty.” Jungkook breathes.

“Jungkook…” You whisper.

Jungkook’s eyes darken. “What do you want, baby?”

You grind down unconsciously against Seokjin’s lap. “I think she wants us to touch her.” Seokjin says, and you can hear the smirk in his voice.

“Please.” You hear your own voice come out weak. “Please kiss me, Jungkook.”

Jungkook surges forward, capturing your lips in a searing kiss. He’s passionate, more impatient than you expected. You sigh into his kiss, but he swallows the sound down, not giving you a moment to breathe. You feel Seokjin’s hands slide up and down your sides, sending goosebumps down your body. When you break the kiss, both you and Jungkook are breathing heavily. You turn to Seokjin, eyes full of want. Seokjin leans in and kisses you. His kiss is harder, but slow, more patient than Jungkook. You feel Jungkook’s eyes on your body as Seokjin kisses you.

When you break off, Seokjin is the first to speak. “My room. Now.” He orders.

The three of you climb off the couch. It’s a blur how you get to the bedroom, and you only come to when you hear Seokjin shut the door with unusual force.

As soon as the door is closed, the two men turn to you. “Take your pants off.” Jungkook orders, folding his arms over his chest. You swallow, but listen. You shimmy out of his sweats, letting them fall to the ground. Seokjin and Jungkook’s eyes burn into you. You stand still, clasping your hands. Jungkook smirks. “How polite.” He says, coming closer.

“You should’ve seen her when I pulled the covers off.” Seokjin murmurs, stepping up beside you. His hand trails down your bare thighs, then comes to cup your heat. You gasp, but don’t protest the action. Through the material, Seokjin plays with your clit. You grab his bicep, then look at Jungkook. Jungkook grins, enjoying the sight of Seokjin playing with you. Against your thigh, you feel Jungkook harden. “So pretty in my clothes. Completely unaware of what she was doing to me.” Seokjin coos, then withdraws his hand.

“She never knows what she does to us.” Jungkook talks like you’re not there, despite making direct eye contact. “Every time you brought that fucking guy over and I had to hear him pleasure you through the walls, I wanted to rip his fucking eyes out.”

You shiver, not realizing your roommates had been able to hear you and your ex all those months. Then, in one swift movement, Jungkook pulls your shirt off you. He groans at the sight of your bare chest. He cups your breasts in his hands, playing with your nipples. You whimper, and Seokjin takes the opportunity to kiss along your neck. “Relax.” Seokjin whispers, his voice low and deep. You whine, grinding against his leg. Seokjin chuckles. “We’re going to take care of you, baby. Just trust me.”

Then, in one fluid movement, Seokjin bends you over his bed. With your belly to the blankets, you feel exposed. You feel Jungkook’s hand roam down your back, and then Seokjin’s hands tug down your panties. You gasp, feeling Seokjin’s fingers circle your entrance. When he finally slips a finger in, you moan. “Good girl.” Seokjin praises, and you grind down. The two of them laugh, laugh at you.

“I told you she likes this stuff.” Jungkook says to Seokjin, sounding proud of himself. Then, he walks around the bed. You push yourself onto your hands as Jungkook climbs into the bed, now shirtless himself. He sits in front of you, legs spread comfortably. He gives you a quick kiss, then unzips his pants. You look down at his hard member hungrily, and Jungkook chuckles. “Are you just going to look?” He asks. You shake your head, leaning down to suck him off.

You feel Seokjin lean over you, kissing down your back as he works you open. Simultaneously, Jungkook runs his hands through your hair, murmuring praise as you take him. The three of you continue like this, until Jungkook pulls you off him with urgency. “That’s enough.” He says, eyes glinting. He pulls you up onto his lap, turning you to face Seokjin.

You watch as Seokjin strips, first his shirt then his pants. He palms himself, looking at you in Jungkook’s lap. “What do you want, baby?” Seokjin asks, but his voice is strained, like he is having a hard time being patient with you. “Me or Jungkook?”

“Both.” You whisper, and Seokjin sighs dramatically, like you’re killing him.

“Who first?” Seokjin asks.

You glance back at Jungkook, who is now tracing small circles onto your hips. Then, you look back at Seokjin. “Jungkook first, then you.” You answer, although you feel bad for choosing for some reason.

Seokjin smiles, leaning in to kiss you. “Okay.”

“I-I have a question though.” You say, piquing both men’s attention. You look down at your lap. “C-Can I come?”

Jungkook hisses like you hurt him, gripping tighter. Seokjin smirks. “As many times as you want.” He says.

With that, you nod. Taking it as permission, Jungkook flips you over until you’re on your back. He kisses you, his hands now roaming freely. You feel the bed dip as Seokjin sits next to you, touching himself. With little delay, Jungkook lines himself up to your entrance. The two of you moan as he fills you up slowly, bottoming out. He’s big, bigger than you’re used to.

You arch your back, and Seokjin runs his hand down your stomach. “Relax.” He tells you again, and slowly, Jungkook grips your hips.

“Need a minute?” Jungkook checks, although he’s panting.

You shake your head. “Move, please.” You whisper.

Jungkook lets out a breathless laugh, endeared. “So cute.”

But there’s nothing at all cute about the way Jungkook fucks you. You scramble for purchase in the sheets, the bed rocking from the force of Jungkook’s thrusts. Moans fall from your lips, against your own permission. Within minutes, you feel yourself clenching hard. “Please, please.” You beg Jungkook for an orgasm, but it’s Seokjin that answers you by sliding his hand between your legs. You look up at him, desperate. Seokjin smirks, rubbing your clit.

“Come.” He tells you, and the orgasm that wrecks through you is enough to make your whole body shake. The force of your orgasm sends Jungkook over the edge. He growls, burying himself within you. You grip his forearm as he lowers himself to you, kissing you deeply. The two of you come down from your high slowly.

“Fuck.” Jungkook says eloquently, pulling out of you. His eyes watch intently as his come slips out of you, dripping onto the sheets. Then, he reaches up, brushing your hair out of your face. “Good girl.” He tells you earnestly, and you lean into his touch. You feel yourself sinking into a softer state of mind, where every touch makes your heart flutter. From the way Jungkook is smiling at you, looking proud of himself, you think he can tell. Jungkook leans down, kissing you gently, like he can’t get enough of you.

You glance at Seokjin, who is still smiling at you. He doesn’t look upset at all that the two of you have had your orgasms and he hasn’t. But you know Seokjin–despite his kindness, he has needs, too. You open your arms. “Jinnie.” You say.

Jungkook swaps with Seokjin, allowing the older man to take his place between your legs. Seokjin pulls you into his arms, kissing you. “Feeling soft, baby?” He says, and you nod. You have never felt like this before, so safe and protected by Jungkook and Seokjin. Seokjin looks at you fondly. “Can you take another orgasm?”

“Yes.” You answer immediately. “Please.”

“Please, what?” Seokjin asks, wanting to hear exactly what you want.

You blush. “Please fill me up like Jungkook did.”

Both men groan at your words, and Seokjin pulls you in for a heated kiss, no longer bothering to be patient. He licks into your mouth like he wants to live in it. Then, he breaks the kiss. He pulls you up into a sitting position, facing Jungkook. You spread your legs, and Seokjin comes behind you, sliding into you. The two of you groan, and you feel the heat of earlier returning to your belly. You grind down, and Seokjin stops you, pulling your arms back. You whimper as Seokjin folds your arms behind your back, pinning them between your back and his chest. “Behave.” Seokjin warns, and you get the distinct feeling he will only tell you once.

“Yes.” You answer, tightening around him.

Seokjin groans. “You like that? Like me using you, telling you to do what I want?” He asks.

You can only look at Jungkook, who is now on his knees, too. His hand slides down between your legs to your clit, never breaking eye contact. “Love it.” You say, that soft feeling still messing with your head. “Love you.” You say, and simultaneously, Jungkook and Seokjin let out soft sighs. With that, Seokjin begins to thrust. You cry out, and Jungkook begins to rub your clit.

“Good girl.” Seokjin praises, and Jungkook echoes it.

“So perfect for us.” Jungkook tells you, and you grind down, loving the feeling of being under their control.

The second orgasm that wrecks through you is as hard as the first, but by then, you’re too deep into the soft feeling. You clench around Seokjin as he fills you up, humming in pleasure.

“Doing okay?” Seokjin checks as he slips out of you. He lays you down gently. You lay on your side, Seokjin behind you. Beside you, Jungkook gets up. You grab his wrist, looking up at him.

Seeing the panic in your eyes, Jungkook leans down and kisses your forehead. “I’ll be right back.” He says.

You watch him walk into the bathroom attached to Seokjin’s room. You hear the tap turn on. A moment later, Jungkook comes out with three small washcloths, all of them wet. He passes one to Seokjin, who accepts it with a nod. Then, Jungkook comes over to you, wiping you down gently. You shudder. The water is cold. “We’ll shower when you’re ready, okay?” Jungkook promises. Then, he wipes himself down. Once he’s done, Jungkook takes back all the dirty washcloths and throws them in the nearby laundry basket.

Then, he slides under the covers with you and Seokjin. With Seokjin to your back, and Jungkook to your front, you feel so safe.

Both of them chuckle. You open your eyes, confused. “Did I say that out loud?”

“You did.” Jungkook says, teasing.

You groan. “I can’t believe this all happened over some laundry.” You say.

“I know. I should’ve put my clothes in your laundry basket a long time ago.” Seokjin says. You giggle.

“Y/N?” Seokjin says, now serious.

“Yes?”

“We love you, too.” He says.

You blush, remembering the stupid confession you made minutes ago. “That was too sudden, wasn’t it?”

Jungkook kisses you, his face full of adoration. “No. It’s been three years in the making. For all of us.”

With that, you smile. Three years in the making.

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