#Project Management Assignment experts

[tchaikovskym]

it's so funny that i'm employed as an "expert". lmao. i'm only a silly tumblr blogger. just some guy. avid weird stuff practitioner. and now - an expert!

[enhaflixer]

campus crush!sunghoon x f!reader

stats class. keep ur glasses on when u fuck me. statistical analysis with ur tongue. thats abt it. sunghoon word porn ngl ENHA HARD HOURS (kinda) 18+ MDNI

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You're late. Again.

The digital clock on your phone reads 3:10 PM as you sprint across campus, your backpack bouncing against your spine with each step. Statistics seminar started ten minutes ago, and Professor Clarke has definitely noticed your absence by now. Not that it's unusual—you've made it a habit to burst through those doors at exactly ten minutes past, a whirlwind of apologies and bright smiles.

"Sorry, sorry!" you announce as you push open the computer lab door, slightly out of breath.

Twenty pairs of eyes swivel toward you, but Professor Clarke doesn't even look up from his laptop at the front of the room.

"How kind of you to join us," he says dryly. "We were just assigning semester project partners."

You flash him your most charming smile as you slide into an empty seat. "Perfect timing then."

A few people laugh. You've mastered the art of diffusing tension with humor, of making your tardiness seem like a quirky character trait rather than a genuine inability to manage time. It's gotten you this far in university.

"As I was saying," Professor Clarke continues, "this statistical analysis project will count for forty percent of your grade. You and your assigned partner will select a dataset, develop a hypothesis, and use STATA to analyze your findings." He gestures to the complex statistical software displayed on the projector screen—the same software that has been giving you nightmares since week one.

You glance around the room, hoping you'll be paired with Olivia or Zara—friends who wouldn't mind carrying the team if necessary. But when Professor Clarke reads off, "Sunghoon Park and..." followed by your name, your heart does something unexpected.

It skips.

You've noticed him before—it's hard not to. He always sits in the same spot three rows from the front, always arrives fifteen minutes early, always has his notebook open at the exact moment class begins.

What you haven't fully appreciated until now, as you turn to locate him in the room, is just how devastatingly handsome he is. His dark eyes find yours immediately behind stylish wire-rimmed glasses that give him an irresistible intellectual appeal. One corner of his perfectly shaped mouth lifts in the smallest acknowledgment, and a strand of black hair falls across his forehead when he nods at you. The combination of his reserved demeanor and model-worthy looks creates an effect that makes your stomach flip. He's the definition of a hot nerd—the kind that makes you temporarily forget about statistical analysis altogether and wonder what he'd look like with those glasses slightly askew, his usually perfect hair disheveled.

After partnering announcements finish, Professor Clarke instructs everyone to move next to their assigned partners to discuss project ideas.

You gather your things and make your way to Sunghoon's station, dropping into the chair beside him with dramatic flair.

"Fair warning," you say brightly, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with this software. Like, none. Zero. Statistical analysis to me is deciding which café has the shortest queue."

You expect a sigh or a look of disappointment—it's what most serious students do when they realize they've been paired with you. Instead, Sunghoon's expression softens.

"It's okay," he says quietly, his voice carrying just a hint of an accent. "I'm... not an expert either."

"But you always look so focused during class," you say, gesturing to his immaculate notes.

He shrugs, the movement slight and controlled. "I write everything down. Doesn't mean I understand it all."

When he opens the STATA program and navigates through a few screens with apparent ease, you lean closer.

"Okay, so you're being modest. You definitely know more than I do."

"Barely," he admits, and you catch the faintest hint of a smile—not the polite one from before, but something genuine that makes you want to see it again. "I just know how to make it look like I know what I'm doing."

"That's an important life skill," you laugh, pulling your chair closer to see his screen better. "So what kind of data are we analyzing? Please say something fun like ice cream consumption versus happiness levels."

Sunghoon doesn't laugh, but his eyes crinkle slightly at the corners. "Actually," he says, "we can choose almost anything that interests us."

You bump his shoulder lightly with yours. "See? We're going to be great partners. I bring the wild ideas, you bring the common sense."

"Is that what they call it?" he asks, and there's a hint of playfulness in his voice that catches you off guard.

"What would you call it?" you challenge.

He considers for a moment, adjusting his glasses with a single finger pushed against the bridge. The gesture shouldn't be as attractive as it is. "Survival instinct."

You laugh, genuinely surprised. "So I'm dangerous?"

"No," he says, turning slightly to face you better. "Statistical software is dangerous. You're..." he pauses, seeming to search for the right word, "unpredictable."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"It was meant as one." The quiet confidence in his voice sends a small thrill through you.

Professor Clarke clears his throat at the front of the room. "I expect project proposals by the end of next week. Choose your dataset carefully—it will determine the scope of your entire project."

You glance at the clock. Only fifteen minutes of class remain.

"So, partner," you say, lowering your voice as Professor Clarke continues, "when should we meet to figure this out? I promise I'll try not to be ten minutes late."

Sunghoon's mouth quirks up at one corner. "Would you actually show up if I said 8 AM at the library?"

"Now you're just testing me," you whisper back.

"Coffee shop after class on Thursday?" he suggests instead, his voice equally quiet. "The one behind the science building?"

"Beans & Books? You've got good taste." You nod approvingly. "I practically live there between classes."

"I know," he says, then immediately looks as if he wishes he could take it back.

"You know?" You raise an eyebrow, intrigued and slightly pleased.

A faint color appears high on his cheekbones. "I've seen you there. You always order something different and then type furiously on your laptop."

The fact that he's noticed you before, observed your habits even, gives you a little flutter of satisfaction. "And what do you order, Sunghoon Park? Let me guess—plain black coffee, no sugar."

His eyebrows lift slightly. "Close. Earl Grey tea."

"Of course," you nod sagely. "Sophisticated."

When class ends, you gather your things slowly, suddenly reluctant to leave. Sunghoon stands, slinging his messenger bag across his chest in one smooth motion.

"Thursday, then," he says, as if confirming an important business meeting.

"It's a date," you reply with deliberate casualness, watching his reaction.

His expression remains mostly neutral, but you don't miss the quick blink, the slight pause before he nods. "For statistics," he clarifies, but the slight upturn of his lips betrays him.

"For statistics," you agree solemnly, though you're already wondering what other subjects you might explore together.

The coffee shop meeting goes surprisingly well. What you expected to be an hour of awkward dataset discussions turns into three hours of conversation that meanders far beyond statistics. Sunghoon, it turns out, has layers beneath his reserved exterior—he plays piano, reads philosophy for fun, and has a dry sense of humor that catches you off guard and makes you laugh harder than you have in weeks.

By the end of the evening, you've not only selected your dataset (coffee consumption versus academic performance—your suggestion, which he surprisingly agreed to), but you've also learned that his stammer appears when he's either nervous or passionate about a topic. You find both instances equally endearing.

When Friday's class rolls around, something shifts. You arrive only five minutes late (progress), and the space beside Sunghoon, which is usually empty, now seems to be waiting for you. You slide into the seat and he glances up from his notebook, the corner of his mouth lifting in that subtle way that's becoming familiar.

"You're almost on time," he says quietly, amusement in his eyes.

"Don't get used to it," you reply, but there's no bite to your words.

Throughout the class, your awareness of him is heightened—the way his brow furrows when he's concentrating, how his fingers tap thoughtfully against the desk when Professor Clarke asks a difficult question, the scent of his cologne when he leans closer to point something out on your screen.

After class, you find yourself hesitating as you pack up your things, watching as he meticulously organizes his notes.

"So," you begin, aiming for casual, "I was thinking... we should probably meet again this weekend to work on the project." You pause. "My roommate's gone for the weekend. We could use my dorm? Fewer distractions than the coffee shop."

Sunghoon looks up, his expression unreadable for a moment before he nods. "That would be... efficient."

You laugh at his choice of words. "Very statistical of you."

"I meant—" he starts, a hint of that stammer appearing.

"I know what you meant," you interrupt, grinning. "Saturday at four?"

He nods, adjusting his glasses. "I'll bring the data analysis. You bring the coffee."

"Deal."

Saturday arrives, and for the first time in your university career, you spend thirty minutes tidying your room before a study session. You tell yourself it's just basic courtesy, not because you care what Sunghoon thinks of your living space.

At precisely four o'clock, there's a knock at your door. Punctual as always.

You open it to find Sunghoon standing there in jeans and a simple button-down shirt, his laptop bag slung across his body. He's swapped his usual wire-frames for slightly thicker black glasses that somehow make him look even more attractive—scholarly but with an edge.

"You're making me look bad with this punctuality thing," you say by way of greeting, stepping aside to let him in.

"Sorry?" he offers, clearly unsure if he's actually done something wrong.

You laugh. "I'm joking. Come in."

Your dorm room is standard—bed, desk, small seating area with a loveseat and coffee table—but you've made it yours with art on the walls and plants on every available surface. Sunghoon takes it all in with curious eyes.

"I like your space," he says, and it sounds genuine.

"Thanks. Where should we set up? Desk or coffee table?"

"Either is fine," he says, that formal politeness still present even after your hours in the coffee shop.

You end up at the coffee table, sitting side by side on the loveseat, laptops open. For an hour, you actually make progress on the project. Sunghoon explains correlations in a way that finally makes sense, and you discover you have a talent for visualizing data in creative ways that makes his eyes light up with approval.

But as the afternoon wears on, the small space means your shoulders keep brushing, your knees occasionally touch, and each point of contact feels increasingly deliberate. When you reach for your coffee at the same moment he reaches for his tea, your hands collide, and neither of you pulls away immediately.

"Sorry," you both say at once, and then laugh.

"Great minds," you add, but you're distracted by how his eyes look behind those glasses, warm and focused entirely on you.

At some point, you shift positions, both of you turning toward each other to discuss a particularly complicated aspect of your analysis. Your knees are definitely touching now, and the loveseat suddenly seems much smaller than it did an hour ago.

"So if we compare these variables..." he's saying, but you're watching his mouth form the words more than listening to their meaning.

"Hmm?" you say, forcing your attention back to the screen.

He turns to look at you fully, and you realize how close your faces are. "You're not listening," he says, but there's no accusation in his voice.

"I'm distracted," you admit.

"By statistics?"

"By you."

The words hang in the air between you. Sunghoon blinks, his expression shifting from confusion to something more intense. He swallows visibly, and you watch the movement in his throat.

"I'm... distracting?" he asks, his voice lower than before.

"Extremely." Your eyes lock on his glasses, the way they frame his dark eyes, how they complete his devastatingly attractive intellectual look. "Especially with these on."

His eyebrows raise slightly in surprise. "The glasses?"

"God, yes," you breathe, moving closer. "You have no idea how fucking hot you look in them."

A flush spreads across his cheeks, but there's a new confidence in the way he holds your gaze. Without warning, he pulls you forward into a kiss that has nothing of his usual restraint. His laptop slides forgotten to the coffee table as you shift closer, and then somehow you're straddling his lap, your hands on either side of his face as you deepen the kiss.

When you break apart to breathe, his glasses are slightly askew. You straighten them gently, then run your fingers through his usually immaculate hair, deliberately messing it up while keeping the glasses perfectly in place.

"You're so sexy," you murmur against his mouth. "I've been thinking about this since the first day we were paired up."

His hands find your hips, holding you firmly against him. "I find that... statistically improbable," he manages, but his breathing is as uneven as yours.

"I'll show you improbable," you whisper, grinding down deliberately. His glasses fog slightly from the heat between you, and the sight sends a thrill through your body. "So fucking hot," you repeat, unable to stop yourself.

His hands slide beneath your shirt, exploring with a surprising boldness that makes you gasp. "We should—" he starts, breathing heavily.

“Yes,” you agree, already pulling him up from the loveseat, walking backwards toward your bed while keeping his mouth on yours. “The project can definitely wait.”

You fall back onto the mattress, pulling him down with you, careful not to knock his glasses off as he hovers above you. They’ve fogged again from the heat between your bodies, and something about that sight—this controlled, precise man coming undone while still looking every bit the hot intellectual—pushes you past any remaining hesitation.

“Leave them on,” you insist when he reaches to remove his glasses. “Please.”

His lips curve into a smile that’s nothing like his usual restrained expressions—this one is knowing, almost wicked. “If that’s what you want,” he murmurs, lowering his mouth to your neck.

“It’s definitely what I want,” you gasp as his teeth graze your skin. “Along with… everything else.”

There’s a playful air to each touch, a slow building of tension as you both start to peel away layers. You tug at the hem of his shirt first, sliding it up inch by tantalizing inch until he lifts his arms to help you pull it off. He returns the favor by slipping a hand under your blouse, fingertips teasing over your ribs. Every time he tries to hasten the pace, you grin and slow him down, dragging the fabric just a bit more before letting it fall away, leaving him momentarily breathless. The sound he makes—caught somewhere between a groan and a laugh—sends a thrill through you.

Time seems to blur as clothing is discarded piece by piece, inhibitions falling away with each new revelation of skin. The afternoon sunlight filters through your curtains, casting everything in a warm glow.

At some point, you find yourself above him, both of you completely bare except for his glasses, which have somehow remained perfectly in place despite everything. You pause for a moment, taking in the sight of him beneath you—all lean muscle and flushed skin, those wire-rimmed glasses still perched on his nose, slightly fogged from the heat between your bodies.

“You’re staring,” he whispers, a vulnerability in his voice despite the intimate position.

“Can you blame me?” You lean down, placing a gentle kiss on his lips, then another, and another, each one growing more insistent. “God, look at you.”

His hands find your hips, steadying you as you continue to kiss him, his glasses occasionally bumping against your face in a way that only heightens your desire. There's something impossibly erotic about him being completely naked except for those glasses—the contrast between his exposed body and that one remnant of his studious, put-together appearance.

"You're so fucking sexy," you breathe against his mouth. "How does anyone focus in that statistics class with you sitting there looking like this?"

He laughs softly, the sound vibrating against your lips. "I could ask you the same question."

Your kisses become more urgent, your bodies moving together with increasing need. The heat between you builds with each touch, each whispered encouragement. Sunghoon's usually careful movements grow bolder, more instinctive, as your hands explore each other's bodies. His glasses, still perfectly perched on his nose, begin to fog at the edges first—just a light mist that catches the dim light of your room. But as your passion intensifies, as your breathing grows more ragged and synchronized, the lenses cloud completely.

When you pull back to look at him, you can't help but laugh softly at the sight—this brilliantly composed man now completely blinded by the evidence of your shared desire, those glasses that make him look so irresistibly intellectual now rendered useless by the heat radiating between your bodies. To your surprise, he laughs too—not the polite chuckle you've heard in class or the soft amusement from your coffee shop conversations, but a genuine, uninhibited sound that seems to come from somewhere deep inside him. It's rich and warm and completely unguarded.

"I can't see a thing," he admits, his voice husky with desire and amusement. His hands find your face despite his temporary blindness, thumbs tracing your cheekbones with unexpected precision. "But I don't need to see to know exactly where you are."

"Is that so?" you challenge, your breath catching as his fingers trail down your neck, across your collarbone, mapping you with deliberate attention.

"I've been studying you," he murmurs, his touch making you shiver despite the heat between you. "Memorizing. Analyzing patterns." His hands continue their exploration, finding every sensitive spot with remarkable accuracy. "It's very... statistical."

You laugh against his mouth. "Only you could make statistics sound sexy."

Through the fogged lenses, you can just barely make out how his eyes darken at your words. "I have other statistical terms I could demonstrate," he offers, surprising you again with his boldness. His accent becomes slightly more pronounced when he's like this—another detail you've grown to cherish.

"Show me," you whisper, and he does—his hands and mouth conducting a thorough analysis of cause and effect, of stimuli and response, until you're clutching at his shoulders and gasping his name. All while those fogged-up glasses remain perfectly in place, the final vestige of his composed exterior while everything else between you unravels into glorious chaos.

You’re already bare beneath him, skin flushed from teasing and anticipation, but the only thing still clinging to his body—those damn glasses—make it so much worse. Or better. Definitely better.

Sunghoon hovers over you, gaze dark behind the lenses, lips swollen and slightly parted as he takes in the sight of you. You should be embarrassed at how wanton you must look, legs spread for him, body already trembling, but he’s the one who looks wrecked. His composure is gone, shattered somewhere between the desperate kisses and the way you dragged your nails down his back.

His lips quirk. “Still want me to leave them on?”

“Don’t even think about taking them off.”

His smile turns wicked, and then he’s moving—kissing, sucking, trailing his mouth down your body with purpose. His fingers dig into your thighs, spreading you wider, and then he’s right there—close enough that you can feel the ghost of his breath against you, the heat of it making your stomach clench.

He doesn’t start slow. No teasing, no light flicks of his tongue just to test the waters. Sunghoon eats you like he’s been starving for this, like he’s been waiting for the moment he could taste you, drown in you. His tongue is hot and relentless, curling against you just right, pressing where you need him most, sending shockwaves through every nerve in your body.

But what really undoes you is the feeling of his glasses pressing against your inner thighs, the cold metal contrasting with the heat of his mouth. Every time he moves, every time he adjusts his angle, the frames shift against your skin—slightly rough, slightly smooth, a reminder of exactly who is between your legs and how absolutely ruined he’s making you.

You fist the sheets, hips jerking up into his mouth, but he pins you down effortlessly, a strong arm wrapped around your thigh to keep you exactly where he wants you. He groans when you tug at his hair, the vibrations shooting through you, making you gasp his name.

“Fuck, Sunghoon—”

His response is a low hum against your clit, and your whole body shakes. You feel the damp heat of his breath, the slick slide of his tongue, but more than anything, you feel the weight of those goddamn glasses as they drag along your skin, fogging up even more, smudging against your inner thigh every time he moves deeper, harder, sloppier.

The sheer filth of it makes you clench around nothing.

Sunghoon notices, because of course he does—because he’s been studying you this whole time, memorizing what makes you gasp, what makes your thighs tremble around his head. And he’s smug about it, too, because when he pulls back just enough to glance up at you, lips glistening, glasses just barely slipping down his nose, he smirks.

“You like that, don’t you?” His voice is raspy, breathless, wrecked.

You don’t even try to deny it. “Yes—God, yes, don’t stop.”

Sunghoon’s smirk deepens, and he doesn’t make you beg for it. He dives right back in, tongue flicking, sucking, his grip on your thighs tightening as you lose yourself completely. The drag of his glasses, the precise way he adjusts his angle to push you higher, the way he groans into you like he’s getting off on this just as much as you are—it’s too much.

The coil in your stomach snaps hard, pleasure crashing over you so intensely that you barely realize you’re pulling at his hair, moaning his name like a prayer, like you might fall apart completely if he stops.

Sunghoon doesn’t stop. Not right away. He works you through the aftershocks, his tongue slow, methodical, lazy in a way that makes you shudder from overstimulation. Only when your body twitches beneath him does he finally pull away, chin glistening, glasses fucking ruined.

You’re still gasping when he crawls back up your body, hovering over you, his mouth right there, his glasses so close you can see the way they’re fogged-up and smudged with sweat.

When you finally collapse beside each other, spent and satisfied, his glasses are askew once more. You reach over to straighten them, and he catches your hand, pressing a kiss to your palm.

"So," you say, when you've caught your breath, "should we tell Professor Clarke we've found an interesting correlation to study?"

Sunghoon laughs, the sound free and unrestrained in a way you hadn't heard before today. "I don't think this is what he had in mind for the assignment."

"His loss," you murmur, snuggling closer. "I'd say our statistical analysis was very... thorough."

"We should probably actually work on the project at some point," he says, but makes no move to get up.

"Tomorrow," you promise, running a finger along his jawline. "I think we need to collect more data first."

His eyebrow raises above the rim of his glasses. "For the sake of academic integrity?"

"Absolutely," you agree solemnly, before dissolving into laughter.

The statistics of probability have never been so compelling.

-

Over the next few weeks, your statistics class takes on an entirely new dimension. What was once your least favorite part of the week has become the highlight—not because you've suddenly developed a passion for data analysis, but because of the subtle dance that unfolds between you and Sunghoon twice a week in that computer lab.

The Monday after your "study session," you arrive to class five minutes early—a personal record. Sunghoon is already there, of course, and the moment he sees you, his ears turn slightly pink. When you slide into the seat next to him, now officially your spot, he gives you a small smile that feels like a secret.

"You're early," he says, his voice low enough that only you can hear.

"I had motivation," you reply, letting your knee brush against his under the desk.

His eyes flicker to your lips for a fraction of a second before returning to his notebook. "I hope it wasn't just for... statistical analysis."

"Depends on how you define statistics," you whisper just as Professor Clarke calls the class to order.

Throughout the lecture, you're acutely aware of every movement Sunghoon makes—how he adjusts his glasses when he's thinking, the precise way he takes notes, the occasional glance he throws your way when he thinks you're not looking. Halfway through class, you deliberately drop your pen between you. When you both reach for it, your fingers touch, and he doesn't pull away. Instead, he hooks his pinky finger over yours for just a moment before handing you the pen. The small gesture sends a flutter through your chest.

After class, you walk together to the coffee shop without needing to discuss it. Somehow, it's already become your routine.

"How's the dataset compilation going?" he asks as you find a small table in the corner.

"That's what you want to talk about right now? Really?" You raise an eyebrow.

A faint smile plays at his lips. "We do have a project due in three weeks."

"Always so responsible," you sigh dramatically, but there's fondness in your voice. "It's going fine. I've got the coffee consumption survey data from about fifty students so far."

He nods approvingly. "That's a decent sample size for our purposes."

When your drinks arrive—his Earl Grey and your excessively complicated latte—you notice something different about him. He's still quiet, still thoughtful, but there's a new ease to his movements, a softness around his eyes when he looks at you.

"What?" he asks, catching you studying him.

"Nothing," you say, then reconsider. "Actually, not nothing. You seem... different."

He takes a sip of his tea, considering. "I feel different," he admits after a moment. "With you."

The simple sincerity of his words catches you off guard. For all your flirtatious confidence, his straightforward honesty disarms you completely.

"Good different?" you ask, suddenly feeling shy.

"Very good different," he confirms, and beneath the table, his foot rests against yours. Not by accident.

By the third week, you've fallen into patterns that blend the academic with the intimate. Your Tuesday and Thursday afternoons are devoted to actual project work—usually in the library where the public setting keeps you reasonably focused. 

Your Saturday “study sessions” in your dorm room are significantly less productive in the statistical sense, though you joke that you’re certainly collecting plenty of data on other variables.

Sunghoon rolls his eyes every time you say it, but you know he loves it—loves how eager, how shameless you are when it comes to him. Because every time you spread your legs for him, every time you drag him into another compromising position, he never tells you no.

Case Study #1: The Textbooks

It starts with an innocent enough setup—Sunghoon sitting cross-legged on the floor, back against your bed, flipping through a statistics textbook while you sit across from him, pretending to study. But it’s boring. He looks too good in his glasses, sleeves rolled up, the slightest furrow in his brow as he concentrates. And before you even realize you’re moving, you’re crawling into his lap, straddling him right there on top of the book.

He barely has time to exhale your name before you sink down onto him, making both of you groan.

The hardcover digs into your knees, the pages creasing beneath you, but you couldn’t care less. Sunghoon is buried inside you, stretching you open, warm and deep and perfect, and the only data you’re analyzing is how his breath stutters when you roll your hips just right.

“Fuck, you’re unreal—” he pants, hands gripping your waist, watching you through the slightly fogged lenses of his glasses as you use him, ride him slow, grind on him like you want to ruin him.

You do. You want to wreck him just as much as he’s wrecking you. The friction, the delicious drag, the way his hands squeeze your hips to urge you to go faster, harder—it all shreds your self-control.

By the time you both come undone, gasping and clinging to each other, the textbook beneath you is thoroughly creased, sticky, ruined. Neither of you even bother looking at it.

Case Study #2: The Desk Chair

Another Saturday, another useless attempt at studying.

Sunghoon’s seated at your desk this time, one leg lazily spread, hand bracing his forehead as he tries to focus. But you’re kneeling between his legs, and the moment you reach for his zipper, his entire body tenses.

“You’re insatiable.”

“And?” You tug his pants down just enough to free him, palming his length, watching him harden in your hand as his breathing turns shallow.

He leans back, exhaling sharply when your lips part and you take him deep. His hand finds the back of your head, fingers threading through your hair as you swirl your tongue around him, tease him, make him fall apart.

His glasses slip down his nose as he watches you, half-lidded and dazed, jaw slack as you take him deeper, sucking, hollowing your cheeks, making obscene little noises that drive him insane.

He trembles when he finally spills down your throat, groaning your name, head thrown back against the chair.

And the moment he catches his breath, he drags you into his lap, flips you onto the desk, and fucks you stupid.

Case Study #3: Against the Window

Another week. Another “study session.” Another location.

This time, you find yourself pressed against the glass of your dorm window, palms splayed, breath fogging the pane as Sunghoon pounds into you from behind.

The curtains are open.

You don’t know if anyone can see—if someone walking by on the street below can look up and spot your bare body, the lewd way you’re bent over, Sunghoon’s hands gripping your hips as he drives into you with punishing force.

But you don’t care.

All you care about is the way he grunts into your ear, his glasses slightly askew, one hand slipping down to rub your clit, making you jerk and gasp his name as pleasure crashes over you like a tidal wave.

“Keep your eyes open,” he growls, voice thick with lust, dragging his lips along your shoulder. “Look outside. Look at what a mess you are.”

Case Study #4: The Shower

It’s late, and you should be asleep. But instead, you’re pressed up against the tiled wall of your tiny dorm shower, water scalding hot, steam curling around you as Sunghoon lifts you up, holds you against him, and fucks you slow, deep.

His glasses are gone, finally.

They’d fogged up the moment he stepped into the shower, and the second you’d made a joke about it, he’d taken them off and set them on the sink. But you don’t miss them too much—not when his mouth is on your throat, sucking bruises into your wet skin, not when his fingers dig into your thighs, keeping you in place as he rolls his hips into you with exquisite precision.

You come twice before you finally stumble out of the shower, exhausted, dripping, completely spent.

And the moment you walk back into your dorm room, still naked, Sunghoon picks up his glasses, slides them back on, and gives you a look that tells you he’s nowhere near finished with you.

Case Study #5: The Floor (Again, Because You Can’t Stop)

At this point, you don’t even make it to the bed.

You’re both desperate, panting, **clawing at each other like you can’t stand the idea of being apart for another second.**The moment Sunghoon pushes you onto the floor, you’re already wrapping your legs around his waist, pulling him down, gasping when he fills you in one smooth thrust.

It’s fast, dirty, messy.

He grits out your name, one hand bracing beside your head, the other gripping your thigh, holding you open as he slams into you, pace brutal, relentless. The carpet burns on your back will be worth it.

He loses his glasses at some point, but you don’t even notice—you’re too busy coming apart beneath him, clawing at his back, moaning his name like you’ll never get enough of him.

Maybe you won’t.

Because the second you catch your breath, still tangled up in him, you’re already thinking about where you’ll fuck next.

What surprises you most is how much you enjoy both versions of your time together. The project, which should be tedious, becomes engaging through Sunghoon's perspective. He has a way of finding patterns in chaos that makes even the driest data seem fascinating. And through your influence, he's learning to approach problems more creatively, to see beyond the rigid frameworks he's always relied on.

"What if we visualize it this way instead?" you suggest one Tuesday, sketching a completely unorthodox chart on the margin of his meticulously organized notes.

His initial reaction is skepticism—you can see it in the slight furrow of his brow—but he considers it longer than he would have three weeks ago.

"It's unconventional," he says finally.

"But?"

"But it might actually work better for presenting the correlation," he concedes, and the smile you give him is so bright it makes the student at the next table look over.

In class, Professor Clarke notices the change in both of you. Your questions become more insightful, Sunghoon's responses more animated. When you present your initial findings mid-semester, the professor actually seems impressed by your unusual approach to visualization.

"An interesting methodology," he comments, adjusting his own glasses in a way that reminds you of Sunghoon. "Unorthodox, but effective."

You beam at Sunghoon, who ducks his head slightly but can't hide his pleased expression.

After class, he catches your hand as you're packing up—a gesture he would never have initiated before.

"We make a good team," he says quietly.

"The best," you agree, squeezing his fingers before reluctantly letting go. Public displays still make him slightly uncomfortable, and you respect his boundaries.

-

It's during a rainy Friday evening in your dorm room, six weeks into your relationship (though neither of you has officially labeled it as such), that something shifts again.

You're sprawled on your bed with your laptop, Sunghoon sitting at your desk reviewing your latest statistical findings, his glasses reflecting the blue light of the screen. Classical music plays softly from his phone—another new development. He's been gradually introducing you to his favorite composers, and you've found you actually enjoy the background music while working.

"Your scatterplot is missing a data point," he says, turning to look at you.

"Mmm, probably deleted it accidentally," you reply, not looking up from your position. "Is it important?"

"All data points are important," he says, but there's amusement in his voice rather than criticism.

You roll onto your back, laptop balanced on your stomach. "That sounds like something that would be on a statistics department t-shirt. 'All data points matter.'"

He laughs—a sound that's become less rare but no less thrilling to hear. "I'd wear it."

"Of course you would," you tease. "With your glasses and a pocket protector."

He makes a face at you. "I don't own a pocket protector."

"Yet," you add with a grin.

He shakes his head, turning back to the screen, but you catch the smile he tries to hide. After a moment, he speaks again without looking at you.

"My parents want to meet you."

You sit up so quickly your laptop nearly slides off your stomach. "What?"

Now he turns, his expression a mixture of nervousness and something softer. "I mentioned you during our weekly call. Multiple times, apparently. My mother... noticed."

"You talk about me to your parents?" You can't keep the pleased surprise from your voice.

He adjusts his glasses, a gesture you now recognize as his tell when he's feeling vulnerable. "It seems I do."

"What do you tell them?" You set your laptop aside, giving him your full attention.

"That you're brilliant in ways I'm not. That you see solutions I miss." He pauses. "That you make statistics class the best part of my week."

Your heart does that skipping thing it did the first day Professor Clarke paired you together, only stronger now.

"Sunghoon Park," you say softly, "are you saying I'm statistically significant to you?"

His expression turns serious, though his eyes remain gentle. "With a p-value approaching zero," he replies, and though it's phrased as a joke, his tone makes it clear it's anything but.

In statistics, a p-value approaching zero indicates an extremely high likelihood that an observed effect is real and not due to chance. It's the closest thing to certainty that statistics allows.

You cross the room to where he sits, gently taking his face between your hands. His glasses are slightly smudged, and you resist the urge to clean them, focusing instead on the eyes behind them.

"So," you say, "when do I meet these parents who raised such a statistically significant nerd?"

He laughs, pulling you into his lap in a move that would have seemed impossibly bold from him just weeks ago. "They're visiting next weekend. Dinner on Saturday?"

"I'm there," you promise, sealing it with a kiss.

-

The day of your semester project presentation arrives with an unexpected lack of anxiety. You're prepared—more prepared than you've been for any academic presentation in your life. Partly because the subject has actually become interesting to you, but mostly because working on it meant spending hours with Sunghoon.

You stand beside him at the front of the class, watching him explain your methodology with a confidence that wasn't there at the beginning of the semester. His voice is still quiet, still measured, but there's a strength behind it now, an assurance that comes from truly understanding his material. When he gestures to your creative visualization on the screen, there's a hint of pride in his voice that makes your chest warm.

When it's your turn to present, you catch him watching you with undisguised admiration. You explain the correlations you found between different types of coffee consumption and various academic performance metrics, throwing in jokes that make the class laugh and complex statistical terms that make Professor Clarke nod approvingly.

"And in conclusion," you finish, "we found that while caffeine consumption generally correlates with improved academic performance up to a point, the type of environment in which the coffee is consumed may be an equally significant factor."

"Furthermore," Sunghoon adds, stepping forward to stand beside you, shoulder to shoulder, "we discovered that the companionship variable—whether students studied alone or with others—showed the strongest positive correlation with both satisfaction and performance outcomes."

His eyes meet yours for a brief moment, and you know he's not just talking about the data anymore.

When Professor Clarke gives your presentation an A and commends your "complementary analytical approaches," you resist the urge to high-five Sunghoon in front of everyone. Instead, you wait until you're outside the building, then throw your arms around him in celebration.

To your surprise, he lifts you slightly off the ground in his enthusiasm, spinning once before setting you down, his face flushed with excitement and mild embarrassment at his own uncharacteristic display.

"We did it," he says, adjusting his glasses which were knocked askew by your hug.

"Was there ever any doubt?" you reply, reaching up to straighten them properly. "We're statistically significant, remember?"

His smile softens, and right there on the path outside the statistics building, with students streaming past on their way to other classes, he kisses you without hesitation or self-consciousness.

"What was that for?" you ask when he pulls away, delighted but surprised by the public display.

"I've been collecting data," he says, his eyes crinkling behind those glasses you've grown to love, "and I've formed a hypothesis."

"Oh?" You raise an eyebrow. "And what hypothesis is that, Mr. Park?"

He takes your hand, lacing his fingers through yours as you begin walking toward the coffee shop that's become your place.

"That I'm in love with you," he says simply. "And unlike most statistical conclusions, I'm one hundred percent certain."

You stop walking, turning to face him fully. "That's a bold statistical claim. Absolute certainty is rare in your field."

"I have compelling evidence," he counters, and the confidence in his voice, so different from the hesitant student you met months ago, makes your heart race.

"I might need to review your data," you tease, though your voice catches slightly.

"Extensive observation over time," he begins, stepping closer. "Consistent results across multiple variables. Reproducible effects." His voice drops lower. "Significant positive impact on all quality-of-life metrics."

"Very scientific," you murmur, your hands finding their way to his chest.

"I thought so," he agrees, his eyes serious despite the playful exchange. "So my conclusion stands."

You rise on your tiptoes, pressing your forehead to his. "Well, as someone who's conducted a parallel study, I can confirm your findings. The evidence suggests I'm in love with you too."

His smile, rare and full, lights up his entire face. "Independently verified results. The best kind."

“Should we celebrate this breakthrough with coffee?” you suggest, already knowing his answer.

“I was thinking maybe we skip the coffee today,” he says, surprising you again. “I have other hypotheses I’d like to test.”

“Professor Clarke would be shocked at your dedication to statistical research,” you laugh, letting him lead you in the direction of your dorm instead of the coffee shop.

“Some variables,” he says with newfound confidence, “are worth studying in depth.”

You lean in close, pressing your lips right against the shell of his ear, and whisper the kind of filth that would make even the most shameless person blush.

“Then why don’t you pin me down the second we walk through that door, shove your face between my legs, and eat me so fucking good I forget my own name? And when I can’t take anymore, you’ll flip me over and fuck me like you’re trying to imprint yourself inside me—deep, rough, until I’m crying and drooling on the sheets, too dumb to do anything but take it.”

Sunghoon stops breathing.

You feel the exact moment your words hit him—his entire body locks up, his grip on your wrist tightens, his jaw clenches so hard you swear you hear his teeth grind.

His glasses fog immediately.

A strangled noise escapes him, something between a curse and a choked groan, and then he’s moving.

Not just moving—dragging you, fast, purposeful, like a man on a mission.

“Fucking hell,” he mutters under his breath, voice wrecked, dangerous, and it sends a thrill straight through you.

By the time you reach your dorm, he’s already reaching for the door handle, barely keeping himself together, and the second it clicks shut behind you—

You know he’s about to make good on every single word you just whispered.

That, by any metric, was statistically significant indeed.

-

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[liketwoswansinbalance]

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fall??

Did you mean "fail?" Unless you meant literally falling, I will answer as if you wrote "fail." You can correct me if that is the wrong interpretation, and I could answer the question again.

Assign first-class experts to solve the world's problems... so I wouldn't have to do it all—assuming the technicality is that I start the projects, then they probably would not fail. Would that loophole work? (Realistically, if it didn't work, I don't think I'd actually be altruistic enough to do all that...) Would I have to see the projects through to completion? That's quite a lot of work. But doing this would likely mean I will probably have a clean conscience for the rest of my life, ideally, because, I know I should if I had the power to do so.

In relation to #1, even if this is non-necessary, also assign people to figure out if there's life on other planets. I just want to know. Don't need to contact whatever is out there—I don't want anything to go wrong. I'd just want to possibly spy on them for a little while. The problem is: spying is unethical, so I'd have to convince myself that I'm either doing it for cautionary reasons or as a longitudinal, naturalistic "study." This could be a pandora's jar, so I might take it off the list.

Cure stupidity and herd mentality. (Curing all physical ailments is built into no. 1 already.) Or better yet, get someone else to do it. (At the same time, we could argue that these qualities are part of being human or flawed, and that we shouldn't tamper with our human-ness. In which case, just no. Also, we would lose part of our former connection to literature, pre-cure. For instance, we would no longer comprehend the meaning of the trope: "love causes poor judgment." So, would it be worth it? Even if the world were terraformed and otherwise reshaped in more metaphorical ways to be "perfect," I think we would still manage to invent new problems because it's what we've always done as a species. Thus, there needs to be a reasonable stopping point. And, I'm not sure what that point is, meaning several other items on this list might have to be struck out.)

Have the world's politicians be... better somehow? Ensure they are sane and moral, that they trust science, are scientifically-literate... I feel, perhaps, like we might get better results if we chose science-fiction writers, particularly those who've managed to predict our present and know how to do social commentary. They seem to be aware of and actually care about the state of humanity. (I'm not really well-informed enough to make any decisions, but I know well enough that the world needs people of varied knowledge and skillsets to continue on. So, I'm not completely, intentionally trying to valorize only what I'm interested in. I'm just biased like any other human being is.)

Delegate everything I don't like doing to competent people (like cooking), and reap the benefits of the exact outcomes I'd want every time. If they were successful, I'd never have a problem with dust and no one would ever move my stacks of books and paper, which often collect dust.

Turn myself immortal and gain eternal youth. (This should probably be item no. 1 on the list, actually, to account for how long the first few tasks could potentially take.) Then use those means on others who would want it done. If it's someone I don't like, I could still let them become immortal, and would just tell them after this favor not to cross paths with me again. I would also try to convince anyone I want to keep around to stay.

No. 6 would attract too much publicity. I'd need a way to continue being relatively anonymous, except for what I would selectively want to be recognized for. (If I couldn't fail at it, I'd love to become the next "Shakespeare" or some kind of literary giant... and maybe then have the world forget about me... and be rediscovered and reinterpreted by future generations who use my original and/or revolutionary works as required reading in their syllabi. That'd be striking and cool. I'm not sure how I would stop suffering from belatedness though.)

Find a way to never sleep, never eat, never exercise, and not experience cognitive decline. I would only do the ones I like doing.

Find a way to resurrect people from the dead. (I already know this has too much margin for catastrophe, so there would have to be restrictions on what can and cannot be done. At the same time, I am also aware this would violate nature, so it might have to be removed from the list. Who am I to decree the rules?)

I haven't addressed religion yet. I'd have to find some way to alleviate my guilt, but that's more of a temporary fix and not a real solution. I'd have to find some way to remain a mostly good or at least harmless person, assuming I'm mostly one now. If there's no reason for anyone, any force, or anything to object to my existence, I would hope I would be allowed to continue on with my plans.

If there were some way to affirm what I think my personal beliefs are, that would be great. At the same time, that defeats the point of faith, and so, I'm not sure what to do about this dilemma.

Learn everything I want to learn now that I have infinite time to learn it (and infinite time to procrastinate).

Consume all the media I want to consume and also never miss new installments or works of art because I wouldn't be outlived by creators.

Become some kind of successful writer. I mentioned this before, but to specify: maybe a novelist or maybe an academic critic—why not both?! Sky's the limit!

Eventually, if I could never fail, I might wonder about whether anything could ever be a challenge or worth doing anymore. (Doubt that will happen since I have a fear of failure anyway—and being cured of it would be a wonderful reality to live in!)

And so, I could want to die eventually. (Again, highly doubt that will happen.)

In case: It's not my top priority, but: study philosophy, so I don't become corrupt, apathetic, or suicidal since I know things can happen to the human psyche after too long.

If no. 1 didn't happen, and humans were faced with climate change as well as other problems, then I would want to die before the planet were barren and ruined, so I wouldn't have to live under dystopian conditions.

Some of the above might not happen because I may procrastinate too much. That would suggest that the revised item no. 1 should be: conquer procrastination once and for all, and only then proceed in a rough order.

[bluemoon1331]

Fuck it, we ball. Long ass info dump about New Dawn Protocol below.

You're a peppy, fresh out of college robotics graduate eager to sink your teeth into something new.

So of course you jump at the chance to sign onto a FazCo job. Sure, they have a high turnover rate and a shady past. Sure, your professor, friends, and family don't like it. But for all of Fazco's treachery, they ARE the leading experts in robotics. You'll just have to tough it out and show them your worth.

Only...the first day you start working there, you IMMEDIATELY know something isn't right. Your animatronic charges are almost too eerily good at mimicking human personality and speech patterns.

Silently, your unease grows as you're assigned to an animatronic that is supposedly known for its difficulty: the daycare animatronic. And at first, they do give you the cold shoulder. But you're nothing if not stubborn, and let them get used to you at their own pace. You get closer over the course of several months.

Unfortunately, your slow progress is frowned upon by FazCo, and they tell you they're going to replace you with someone that can get the job done quicker. You're absolutely heartbroken, having figured out by now that there's a sentience code within the pizza plex (which you've been struggling what to do with this information that is definitely keeping you up at night).

Of course, when you finally have the heart to tell Sun and Moon, they go batshit bananas and almost kill the pizza plex manager. He ends up in a very heated phone call with the FazCo CEO, raving about his near death while they answer him with an unnerving calm iciness, telling him to keep you on and that FazCo will monitor the situation.

So, you're NOT fired, and you get to spend a lot more time with the boys, actually. Only, you can't help feeling like you're being watched, new cameras popping up in corners you're sure they weren't in before.

Truth- Circus Baby, as a technical Afton, seized control of the company and began obsessing over making sentient robots to be less alone after Henry's trap killed most of her fellow possessed bots. Believes that becoming animatronics is a new step of evolution for humans, despising everyone who fought to stop or destroy her father's work. The pizza plex is her big testing grounds, important for her plans. Putting together machines that can think and feel and might understand her sentiment with a built in empathy for humans, especially children. She's kept what remains of her father contained to leech off his knowledge about human souls becoming trapped in the animatronics built by FazCo. The missing children and Vanessa are mainly her work, experimenting in hopes of them becoming just like her and her lost 'friends' (some of them really hated her actually lol). Y/N will become her pet project for trying to perform a merge with an adult, the first since William. All the animatronics are secretly built with springlock features, and Circus is hoping that by getting closer to them beforehand you'll have a better chance of success. It's been hit or miss with the random kids thus far, inhabiting the staffbots and endos (a temporary measure, she does intend to give them better bodies later, just can't have any more Ones You Should Not Have Killed or any running off to snitch). Circus can control the animatronics to bring her victims currently, without remembering, though she doesn't really like to. Her end goal is a robotic world of free will and peace, after all. That which was taken from her, she'll gift the world!

And you're such an important part of that. Even when you begin to pick up on the random disappearances of the children syncing to one of the main animatronics being down for 'repairs'. Or when your boss mysteriously vanishes after a frantic phone call in the middle of the night, only to be replaced by a strange, blonde haired woman within days. You step with caution wherever you tread, and the boys do what they can to shield you, perfectly aware nothing has been right the entire time they've been online.

How cruel a trap to lay. With suspicions so high, Circus moves to make her intentions known and start the next step of her revolution. Confronted, Y/N is trapped, and the boys' only options become either crushing them in their springlocks and persevering Y/N's soul, or Circus will kill them for what they know and start over after wiping the dca's memories. Unable to bear the loss, Sun and Moon cage you in their endo and trigger their springlocks.

While they fall apart with you painfully dying inside them, Circus looks on with sympathy. Assuring them she bears them no further ill will now that the deed is done, she crushes their remote to dust and leaves to let things play out, cards fall where they may.

Your soul does end up surviving, clinging to the suit, and you become their Eclipse. They take such tender care of you, are so fiercely protective, and will never forgive themselves for what they've done to you, the choice they made. To keep you here, with them.

Y/N, at first, hides themself deep in their new, shared vessel, coming to grips with their death and battling a sense of betrayal and understanding. They didn't want to be separated from Sun and Moon either, but their death was slow, torturous agony, crushed inside of the people they loved and trusted most.

Outside them processing their trauma, things are spiraling quickly. When it becomes quite clear to Circus she succeeded, she begins to release a mainstream production of her sentiment bots, producing bodies on an assembly line. They're, of course, given options to choose from, she wants them comfortable in their new bodies before sending them out, as she's reassured through her training videos.

Sealing the daycare to prevent intervention, Sun, Moon, and Y/N make do for months (years?) in their colorful prison, unsure what Circus is going to do to them next. Finding comfort only in themselves in the end.

For the rest of Earth, a new world struck hard and fast, where machine has come to meld with a (mostly) unwilling humankind, but there is little to be done at this point. FazCo robots had become mainstream all too easily, and when the time was right, Circus activated their inlaid protocol, and billions were consumed in a single day.

There's the expected chaos and collapse, although, in the end, people are still themselves. Until they aren't, and Agony and Remnant start having an effect. In the wake of the ensuing bloodshed, the three of you are eventually (unwittingly) released by teenage Gregory, whom was only there to pillage for any remaining parts and food. His tampering to get into other areas unlocks the doors that had contained you for so long, and you are all absolutely gobsmacked to see another person after all this time, let alone a kid.

At first, Gregory flails about when confronted, is aggressive, but when it becomes clear how ignorant you are of the situation, he lays it on you quite bluntly. Realizing your full role in what occurred, the three of you elect to at least stick by Gregory's side to make sure he's safe, even if he protests or grows annoyed.

Venturing free of the pizzaplex is surreal. The once bustling city is so quiet and deserted. The boys never got to see it, but you remember, if vaguely. Keeping to Gregory's side, you reach his hide out, an old, dingy apartment building by a nearby park. It is here you also discover Freddy is still alive, but not doing too well after an apparent fight with some sort of 'monster'. Gregory is attempting to repair him, hence the raid of the pizzaplex. His explanations devolve into frustrated cursing when he realizes an important component isn't going to fit.

Even despite your deep trauma related to the building and a resentment from Sun and Moon over Freddy and the other glamrocks never digging deeper into their abrupt disappearance (they were told there was an accident and Sun and Moon were beyond repair) they still volunteer to go back with Gregory to find what he needs without interruption this time. They don't want Freddy to die just cause they're angry, especially considering he was duped, like most of the planet.

So, you return and investigate the plex farther, discovering the sinkhole by accident. It's here you encounter William, who both freed himself of the containment his daughter abandoned him in, and set himself up a nice little bunker in its stead, perfectly aware of the craziness above. Muses about Circus's foolishness, well aware her plan would backfire, only she was certain she was 'better than her old man, oh yes, she had it all figured out'. Also mentions the tactic of having the blame pinned on him once again through the use of a rabbit themed control virus.

Long story short, they drag his ass out to come with them, getting the part they need on the way, and start assembling their shoddy group. Encounter Roxy and Cassie at some point (that's a fun one when Roxy's first parental instinct in the apocalypse is attack first, ask questions never).

During their first encounter with a Twisted (a possessed robot that's been overwhelmed by Agony), it's discovered that Agony does have its roots in you too (how could it not), but it's not the same. Instead gives you differing abilities based on your three way split consciousnesses (such as extra shadowy arms that burn upon contact, splintering shadow/light forms for Moon/Sun when you're in control. Your soul is stuck to the body because of reasons, but you do get cool electrical/magnetic powers). Of course, using Agony does come with side effects and warnings, and you have to reserve it for true emergencies.

In the end, you really just want to stop all this madness before Agony consumes those that are left, and maybe even the planet (does have an effect on flora/fauna if a Twisted is left to rot or it infects waterways. Need to burn the bodies as a precaution). And it turns out the asshole rabbit had a potential solution the whole time. The only problem? It's with Circus, and nobody has ANY idea where she went after her plan blew up in her face. You reach a consensus to search anyway, better than just sitting around waiting for it all to actually end, including the worry you all might become Twisted at some point too, William stating it as a possibility, particularly where possessed robots are concerned (DCA cough cough).

Yep. That's where you are in life. Traveling with a ramshackle group while you all deal with your traumas and probably bond over them.

Fun scene idea:

Y/N laments and confesses their part in how things went down over a campfire, blaming themself, even as the boys try to interrupt and tell Y/N not to. William interrupts and tells Y/N off, in a rather amused way, about obsessing on the what ifs, pointing out that, by all rights, if anyone is to blame for everything, it's HIM.

Ending idea:

Circus is eventually found, hiding in shame. She is confronted by Eclipse Y/N, admitting she regrets her cruelty to them and refusal to see things anyone else's way. She gives them access to a kill switch that will trigger a core meltdown in all the robots she made. The only catch: she really does mean ALL. Any bot associated with FazCo since her takeover was upgraded with them after her father's warnings. She wanted to believe herself better than him, but at the same time couldn't bring herself to outright ignore his expert advice. That's why she kept him around, aside from being her, ya know, father. She just never could find the courage to press the button herself, scared to die again after all this time since she, too, ironically ended up having to repair herself at one point in the wake of Henry's trap with one of said cores. This also means the glamrocks and DCA would be right beside her to the beyond. This leads to severe internal debate and conflict, Cassie and Gregory adamant about finding a different way, and more than a few agreeing. Split as you are, you decide to vote. William, the tie breaker, regards you all as if you're all idiots, suggesting you could just find or build new cores that will work as replacements. You sheepishly pick this option for the kids' sake, and plus you kinda want to get back what was robbed from you, all those years ago. Circus decides not to follow suit, though, firm in her decision to go down with the ship she built then sank. William and her do have a heart to heart before they pull the trigger. He is the one to remove the cores after they stop functioning, being the most experienced, and also the only animatronic not having a modern one. You and the boys get to enjoy purgatory in the meantime, though this one is much more tranquil than your limbo in the daycare. After all is said and done, you're brought back, and go on to live a much happier life, even if there are plenty of struggles in a world slowly rebuilding itself. Twisted are disposed of, and the animatronics that were clearly not taken over by Agony are fixed when found or at others' behest.

Note:

Another potential ending where the cores also explode during meltdown, leaving the death route unavoidable. They still choose the pull trigger option to give the remaining life on Earth a chance, and Y/N, Sun, and Moon all pass on to the afterlife, hand in hand, finally at peace.

[waitmyturtles]

Dead Friend Forever: I managed to catch up in time to watch the finale, and here are my immediate, uneducated, "holy shit" thoughts

First off: I acknowledge I am an utter interloper on this tag, having written exactly zero meta words about this mostly great show. Second: everything I know about slashers comes from my childhood memories of "Scream," and my recent conversations with the lovelies @lurkingshan and @neuroticbookworm. So I'm not an expert here. Thirdly! I was inspired in part by them to watch this, and also by the friendies who jumped into comments on my recent KinnPorsche liveblog watches for my Old GMMTV Challenge project. I've been waiting these past few weeks to finish Dead Friend Forever before putting pen to paper on my KP rewatch thoughts, because I thought Be On Cloud did something fabulously experimental with DFF as its second major serial drama.

Anyway: all of this is to say that now that DFF is over, in the near future, I'm gonna write a bunch on KP and a bit more on DFF -- but I want to offer just some quick wandering thoughts on DFF now.

I think like many of y'all, I found the tone of the last PheeJin moments to be discordant with the tenor of the rest of the finale episode. The way I'm calculating this, as I'm sure many of you are, is that I think there was a commentary on fate and Buddhist purgatory, particularly with New/Tan being able to hear from a thankful Non one more time before New's passing. New suffers, it seems to me, the least painful death, and I think that was in part Non’s doing.

In order to conclude the tone on PheeJin, I do wish that we would have seen a flashback back to PheeJin at the house. I guess we’d assume that Phee and Jin never regained their consciousness, that the antidote didn’t work, and that their cyclical fate would be returning back to the lakeshore, only to be haunted by Non again. While it seems to me that Tee, in whatever realm of fate they ended up in, got his appropriate ending — I don’t think that the PheeJin cyclical ending at the lakeshore assigned enough “blame” of fate to either of them, especially Jin. I know @lurkingshan notes that that’s a nod to the need to appease any hopes of surviving ships, and I agree with that assessment. But also — god, BLEH, they sucked, we were left with PheeJin?! JIN??? My boy White, my bubbala, he’s the good one that got really in-your-face off-ed? Wah. (But I do see and understand why White needed to die, to make Tee’s residual fate the utter living hell he deserves.)

Like I said: on a more macro note, I’m gonna have thoughts about DFF, Be On Cloud, and KP in the coming days, because I just like that BOC is dabbling with some experimental writing while allowing solid acting to really shine. (And I compare that to what’s happening at Idol Factory and the recent writing miss that was The Sign.) I wish the ending wasn’t as milquetoast as it was, but BOC still traffics in BLs, and I guess they felt they needed to throw the fans some kind of BL bone (huh huh).

But overall? I am REALLY GLAD I watched this, and it absolutely belongs on the OGMMTVC syllabus. This was incredibly new for the Thai BL genre, and I gotta give BOC — AND ESPECIALLY BARCODE AND TA, WOW — their flowers for taking Thai BL into this new direction. For the most part of this run, I had a great time with this show, as brutal as the content was.

[dreamyshifts]

Yuuei Academy of Advanced Heroics | Pro Hero Pop Star

*Under construction. Ideas welcome.

UA Academy for Advanced Heroics is Japan's premier institution for hero education, offering both undergraduate and graduate programs in heroics and related fields.

The academy features the following below.

- State-of-the-art training facilities

- Combat simulation rooms

- Disaster response centers

- Medical training wings

- Distinguished faculty of pro heroes

- Active heroes teaching specialized courses

- Industry experts providing real-world insights

- Comprehensive curriculum structure

- Theory and practical application balance

- Focus on field experience

- Emphasis on ethical hero work

The Advanced Heroics program is a rigorous 5-year course that combines intensive classroom learning with extensive field training, and guarantees students graduate with a high school diploma and associates degree. Students work closely with established agencies while completing their studies, ensuring they graduate with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

The academy maintains strong partnerships with hero agencies worldwide, facilitating international training opportunities and exchange programs for students showing exceptional promise.

Core Requirements (60 credits)

Hero Studies Foundation (9 credits)

- Advanced Combat Training

- Quirk Theory and Applications

- Emergency Response Systems

- Hero Law and Ethics

- International Hero Law

Specialized Training (20 credits)

- Crisis Management & Leadership

- Crisis Response Training

- Advanced Rescue Operations

- Psychological First Aid

- Emergency Medical Response for Heroes

- Advanced Stealth and Reconnaissance

Field Experience (20 credits)

- Agency Internships

- Supervised Patrol Hours

- Public Relations and Media Management

- Media Relations & Public Speaking

- Agency Management & Leadership

Research and Development (9 credits)

- Advanced Quirk Analysis

- Hero Strategy Development

- Quirk Enhancement & Control

- Hero Psychology and Counseling

Graduation Requirements

- Maintain minimum 3.0 GPA

- Complete 1000 supervised field hours

- Pass Hero License Advanced Certification

- Complete Field Case Project demonstrating mastery of hero skills

International Hero Law - Class Session Example

Topic: Cross-Border Hero Operations

Professor begins with a real-world case study of the Moscow Mall incident where heroes from 5 different countries had to coordinate rescue efforts

Key points covered:

- Jurisdiction protocols when crossing international borders during emergencies

- Required documentation and emergency clearance procedures

- Chain of command in multinational hero operations

- Legal liability and insurance considerations

Practical Exercise: Students split into teams representing different countries' hero agencies to simulate coordinating a response to a natural disaster affecting multiple nations.

Homework Assignment: Draft a proper cross-border operation request form and outline the step-by-step protocol for emergency hero deployment to a neighboring country.

[docgold13]

Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Task Force X

Colloquially known as ‘The Suicide Squad,’ Task Force X was a team of covert agents who conducted highly dangerous, off-the-books missions for Project Cadmus.  The team was composed primally of criminals who were offered pardons in exchange for their service.  Those who managed to survive a five-year tour of duty as part of the squad would be free to go with a completely expunged criminal record.  

The team was led by Colonel Rick Flagg Jr., a decorated soldier who had proven himself as greatly effective in covert, ‘black opt’ missions.  The additional members included the master tactician known as The Clock King; the accomplished thief and inventor Captain Boomerang, demolitions expert Plastique; and the assassin known as Deadshot.  

At the height of tensions between Cadmus and The Justice League, Task Force X were assigned to sneak aboard the League’s Watchtower satellite and steal the powerful Annihilator armor that the League had confiscated during a mission in Kaznia.  

After much hard planning and contingency drills, the Taskforce succeeded in ferreting their way aboard the Watchtower.  Flagg and his team were able to obtain the Annihilator, yet making their escape was only accomplished by sacrificing one of their own in that Plastique was critically injured.  

It is assumed that Task Force X continued on with additional missions.  It is likely, however, that the team itself was disbanded once Project Cadmus was formally shut down by the government.  

Actor Adam Baldwin provided the voice for Colonel Flagg; with Juliet Landau voicing Plastique, Donal Gibson voicing Captain Boomerang, Michael Rosenbaum voicing Deadshot and Alan Rachins voicing the Clock King.  The squad debuted in the fourth episode of the second season of Justice League Unlimited, appropriately titled, ‘Task Force X.’

[ukiyoeeeee]

[ Genshin Impact Modern Highschool AU ]:

Yandere Mika

Content warning(s): Yandere behaviour, stalking, nosebleeds (Please let me know if I've missed anything!)

Yandere Mika, who is your cute and shy classmate in highschool. At first glance, he's the kind to work super hard in his studies, do all the homework, all for achieving his dream of becoming a cartographer.

Yandere Mika, who in reality, actually mostly daydreams and obsesses about his crush (you, of course) during class. He might look like he's listening to the teacher intently, but really, his thoughts are only filled with you ♡ !

Yandere Mika, who only goes back home to catch up on his studies and finish assignments because all of his time in school is spent with you in his head. Despite everything, he still manages to get top 5 in class! (Obviously, because he's also working hard to impress you ♡ !!)

Yandere Mika, who purposely sits further behind you in class so it's easier for him to stare at you, while you don't notice. Sometimes you turn your head back a little, and he quickly scrambles back to making little notes and doodles of you in the corner of his book, all while a huge blush is on his face.

Yandere Mika, who is generally awkward and shy when talking to regular people, but literally crashes into a Windows blue screen error when having the chance to converse with you. Stuttering isn't a thing anymore, it's either straight up gibberish or his mind instantly goes blank. God forbid you managed to get paired with him in a group project! He will die a happy death right then and there.

Bonus points if you smile or say something nice to him, or even give a complement. He would actually faint on the spot. His friends even considered carrying a defibrillator next time just in case. There have been way too many trips to the infirmary.

Yandere Mika, who eventually, through hard work, physical effort not to faint, and practices in front of the mirror, is finally able to hold a somewhat normal conversation with you, much to his delight. (Though it's barely cohesive, given how much he's still stuttering)

Yandere Mika, who often daydreams about you two in all sorts of scenarios. Sometimes (a lot of times), these daydreams get a little out of hand, and he gets so flustered he nosebleeds. It's such a common occurrence, just because he was...thinking...maybe about your wedding day...?!

Yandere Mika, who constantly has a tissue stuffed in his nostril, almost completely drenched in blood. He carries a whole box of tissues in his bag for his nosebleeds. At this point, he's a tissue paper expert, who knows the brands that absorb blood the best.

Please don't give him attention or concerns if you see blood dripping down his chin. Even a simple “Are you okay?” with that adorable voice of yours is enough to make his brain go haywire and worsen his nosebleed.

Yandere Mika, who has a part of his mind that's completely lucid and keeps telling him that the stuff he thinks and daydreams about you is creepy and wrong, and he desperately tried to think about other things like exams or club activities.

As you can tell, it's not very effective, because he is 100% head over heels for you, and you live inside his head rent free, no mortgage.

Yandere Mika, who obviously stalks you all the damn time. He has drawn tons of maps, all marked with the routes you take back home, to that cafe you frequent, to the park, literally anywhere, in red pen, all pinned on the corkboard in his room.

Yandere Mika, who even mapped out the whole layout of your house, giving extra detail to your room (don't ask how he got in there). In fact, he's memorized every little thing in your room to a T, from the fluff of your pillow to the clothes in your closet.

By the way, don't mind the tiny blood stain on your carpet. It's totally not because Mika was nosebleeding while letting his thoughts run wild by accident.

Yandere Mika, who has piles and piles of notebooks filled with documented conversations you've had with others, all to figure out your hobbies, likes, dislikes etc. without actually having to talk to you (in case he faints again). What a caring future boyfriend, understanding you so well ♡ !!

Yandere Mika, whose notebooks also contain biographies of info about you, rewritten over and over again. That's what he's actually writing, while you think he's simply writing study notes. If finals required him to write a 5000 word essay about you, he's absolutely acing it.

All of those notebooks are kept in a dedicated bookshelf in his room. He prays to the Archons that you don't ever visit his house, so you don't get creeped out by it and never talk to him again. His heart would break into a million pieces :(

Yandere Mika, who loves you very, very, very much!

[magnetarbeam]

Star Wars Technical Worldbuilding Notes 3

At times, I've thought of "Star Defender" as a formal classification level above "star dreadnought" that was originally conceived for the reasons the term exists in canon, which is that NR politicians thought building ships of that magnitude would be less offensive if they didn't call it a dreadnought, but the Viscount ended up so huge (in my headcanon, which is based on rough volume estimates from the available images of the Viscount, it has 2.86e28 watts of peak output, which outpowers the Executor by more than an order of magnitude) that it justified new terminology.

Come to think of it, I think part of the situation might also be justifying such things to budget committees that probably aren't experts in ship design. Like, "We only ordered three Star Defenders, we promise," but said Star Defenders are literally the highest-powered conventional warships ever built.

It's similar to a common interpretation of the Allegiance-class heavy destroyer (technically something seen in Dark Empire, but most specific performance figures come from FractalSponge's model, which has 6 times the power output of an ISD in 2-3 times the overall volume) about being able to pass it off like that, although it probably doesn't work as well for the Viscount because it isn't actually particularly high-powered for its overall volume, which is a pretty big part of the production cost.

Not sure if I've mentioned this in previous posts on the matter, but the assumption in Saxton's Technical Commentaries about ship classifications is that because Star Wars is inherently a translation into our language from Galactic Basic, the terminology used for this is the same as ours. In increasing order of size: Corvette, Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Battlecruiser, Battleship. Clearly, I don't tend to be quite that strict about it in my own interpretations, but it's useful to mention as a point of reference here.

Most major shipyard planets have one or more orbital construction rings that encircle the planet, and ships are constructed within the interiors and on the surfaces of the rings themselves. That's an insane amount of construction space, compared to the size of the ships. Never mind Kuat's star system-diameter ring that they have, that's referenced in Iron Fist.

Said system ring is something I've headcanonically assigned the name Stellar Halo. That's mostly inspired by the Essential Guide to Warfare, which gives that name to one of the warships defending Kuat when the New Republic took it, so I can connect that the ship was named after the ring.

Even for the largest shipbuilding organization in the Star Wars galaxy, something that big would be a hell of a project. Probably the work of centuries. But on the overall timescale of galactic history, that's more than manageable, and it's plausible enough in the context of the universe's tech levels that I can totally see it as the kind of thing a giant industrial corporation does just to prove that they can.

At times, I've imagined that the system ring was destroyed by the Yuuzhan Vong, but I don't think they would have been able to do that in the time they had. Like, a cross-section of that thing is probably thousands of kilometers across. They'd essentially need a planet-killing weapon to do it.

This is the kind of thing that leads me to not try to use realistic galactic scales in my writing, because I don't want to have to use scientific notation just to write out the number of ships in a battle.

I wonder if Wedge's original Wraith concept of effectively intelligence commandos that all had pilot training was kept by the New Republic and then Galactic Alliance.

Certain older ships like the Eclipse would be retroactively reclassified as Star Defenders if it was separate. Because that thing has a peak output of 1.07e28 W in my headcanon, although it's definitely not the ultimate super-dreadnought that youtubers with no critical thinking skills like to pretend that it is. Even the RPG sourcebook asspull gun counts give the Eclipse fewer standard weapons than the Executor. Most of its resources and hull space go into the axial superlaser.

Speaking of star defenders, the Corellian Strident-class is a full-scale star defender to me. Same reactor as the Eclipse, but armed like a regular ship of the line, and also faster than a Viscount. In that, I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit on them being part of the Corellian defense fleet at Operation Roundabout, where they're also referenced as being smaller than the Galactic-class destroyers, which are explicitly the same length as an Imperator and 1.5 times its mass.

Not currently sure how I feel about the "Corellian Dreadnaughts" from LotF: Tempest, in terms of size classification. I have them written down as Peregrine-class star defenders (named for Bel Iblis's first flagship) with 2.54e28 W of peak output, but I'm starting to doubt them being that heavy, because they were part of the assault fleet that Thrackan kept secret for ten years, and only so much money can disappear without people getting suspicious. Although of course the exact fleet numbers in the book are not the kind of thing I pay attention to when writing these kinds of headcanons, the spirit of the scene is that Bwua'tu's GA fleet, when it finally arrived, did outmatch the Corellian assault fleet, which would be a stretch if the Corellians actually had anything that heavy.

Also finding that I'm gonna have to scale up the MC90 (technically the Defiance-class of the MC90 design generation) to make it as voluminous as the Imperator that it's supposed to match.

[learntodigital11]

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From keyword selection and bidding strategies to ad copywriting, A/B testing, and conversion tracking, this course covers every essential aspect of PPC advertising in a practical, easy-to-understand format.

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By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

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What is PPC? How it works

PPC vs. SEO: Key differences and benefits

Understanding ad auctions, quality score, and ad rank

Overview of major platforms: Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook/Instagram Ads, LinkedIn Ads

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Account structure: Campaigns, ad groups, and ads

Keyword research tools and techniques (Google Keyword Planner, Ubersuggest, SEMrush)

Match types: Broad, Phrase, Exact, and Negative Keywords

Creating text ads and responsive search ads

Setting up campaigns, budgets, and bidding strategies

Understanding Quality Score and Ad Rank

Best practices for search ad optimization

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Display Network basics and visual ad formats

Targeting options: audience, contextual, placements

Creating banner ads and HTML5 ads

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Display campaign creation and optimization

Retargeting strategies to bring back lost visitors

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Google Merchant Center and product feeds

Setting up Smart Shopping and Performance Max campaigns

Introduction to YouTube Ads (TrueView, bumper ads)

Video ad creation and targeting

Budgeting and video ad performance tracking

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Setting up a Business Manager and Ad Account

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UTM parameters and campaign tagging

Google Analytics integration and goal tracking

Reading reports: impressions, CTR, CPC, CPA, ROAS

Creating custom dashboards and performance reports

Identifying underperforming ads and campaigns

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Manual vs. automated bidding strategies

CPC, CPM, CPA, and ROAS models

Campaign budgeting and forecasting

Scaling campaigns profitably

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Smart bidding and machine learning in PPC

Audience layering and segmentation

Seasonality and campaign planning

Common mistakes in PPC and how to avoid them

Google Ads policies, ad disapprovals, and account suspensions

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Set up and optimize ads across at least two platforms

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[sonicasura]

Jamboree, Penumbra, and Luminary for sure have a group chat as the first three Sleuth/Hackers in Transformers’ universes.

(There are others—of course—yet these three so far are listed as the “experts”… Mirei.)

Some things translate between universes while other things don’t. Luminary’s used to the more goofy shenanigans, Jamboree faced Unicron within like three days of being a Hudie Hacker, and then there are Penumbra’s own issues. The three do try to keep each other up to date on what’s going in their current assignments.

——————————

Case and point?

TFP! Insecticons’ “battle” cry sounded like the cybertronians were doing impromptu opera.

Which Luninary found hilarious. “I—heh—just. Don’t get.” She tried to say between laughs. “Why. They. Sing!” Ultimately, her efforts fail as she fell over onto Tuck’s shell still laughing too much to even properly breathe. The other Hacker in the call looked fondly at the sound as the only Sleuth managed a small smile.

“It’s partly in how their denta—teeth—are constantly exposed in their root modes.” Pen explained, bringing up images of their assigned universe’s Insecticons root and alt modes. “Their mouths are very oddly shaped. The mandible sections for alt modes are present.”

The male Hudie Hacker shook his head at the weird faceplates of the Insecticons. “It never stops being weird to me how cybertronians are formed so differently there. Arguably, I think my home universe has the more put together variants of the species. Airazor’s wings are very intricate.” The Maximal resembling either a brown eagle or hawk did indeed have intricate metal feathers resembling the actual animal. “She’s still recovering from the rust thing.”

His universe wasn’t the most serious one, but the three considered Jamboree to have been greatly challenged. Penumbra had months to unintentionally prepare for Unicron—the Hacker only had mere hours acclimating to do so.

And his partners did not make it easy.

Shoutmon only had one digivolution branch ordinary and Veemon’s own evolutions were typically locked behind the Eggs of the traits.

He barely managed to save Airazor’s spark…

“You have been following the quote on quote rules of time travel, yes?” The cyber sleuth reminded the current time travel among them.

Luninary rolled her eyes yet knew the Sleuth was simply the type to reiterate plans to make sure they were being understood. “Yup! Don’t look at any forms of media that are past the time I left. Can’t befriend any digimon here because I have to return to my present which is the past. Use common sense when judging what actions to take—though the fact I am from the past makes things a little easier on me.” She rattled off until she diverged. “No need to worry about my parents never meeting here.”

“You just need to worry about running into potential descendants.” Jamboree teased, Shoutmon snickering in the background.

“Argh! No! Please stop making me think about that!” The younger Hacker was always a bit squeamish about family talk, the context of her current situation only eventuates it further…

Then, Penumbra gained a sly smile. “Oh, I don’t know if you should be teasing her about that Jam… After all, Digimon tamers who have kids are known to pass along the ability to bond with digimon. And don’t people marry right out of high school in your era?” Their tone was light despite dropping a very heavy reminder.

The cyber sleuth had the last laugh as the oldest physical among the three ended the call.

——————————

“Jamboree” scooted his chair away from the laptop he had been projecting the Digiline call through. The sound of scratching metal on the floor made Noah look up from his work on restoring Mirage. Said Hacker could only wave off the momentary worry, his face a bit red.

Noted, never try to outsass Penumbra.

I totally see a group chat happening between the Sleuths/Hackers. Time travel on top of dimensional travel would be weird. Neither the Digimon business added to it.

[sarkariresultdude]

Time Management Techniques for Maximum Productivity

 Time control is a important talent that can beautify performance, reduce strain, and enhance paintings-existence stability. Whether you are a student, expert, entrepreneur, or homemaker, managing a while successfully allows you to accomplish greater in less time. Here are a few vital time management strategies that will help you boost productiveness.

Time Management Techniques For Studying 

1. Set Clear Goals

Establishing clean and manageable goals is the foundation of effective time control. Use the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) standards to outline your goals. Having well-described desires enables you awareness on what surely subjects and avoids wasting time on non-important tasks.

2. Prioritize Tasks

Not all obligations are of equal significance. Use prioritization strategies to decide which responsibilities require instantaneous interest and that could wait. Some beneficial prioritization methods consist of:

Eisenhower Matrix: Categorize duties into four quadrants:

Urgent and Important: Do straight away

Important however Not Urgent: Schedule for later

Urgent but Not Important: Delegate if feasible

Neither Urgent nor Important: Eliminate

ABCDE Method: Assign letters to responsibilities based totally on their significance, with 'A' being the best priority and 'E' being the bottom.

3. Plan Your Day in Advance

Creating a daily schedule minimizes wasted time and guarantees you live on track. Consider:

Writing a to-do list the night time before or first issue inside the morning.

Using a planner, calendar, or scheduling app to prepare your day.

Allocating precise time slots for each venture to hold awareness and avoid distractions.

4. Use Time Blocking

Time blockading involves dedicating set periods for unique obligations or activities. By assigning fixed time slots to paintings, meetings, exercise, and breaks, you reduce distractions and hold productiveness.

For instance, in case you work from 9 AM to five PM, your time table would possibly seem like this:

9:00 - 10:30 AM: Deep work (excessive-priority tasks)

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Short destroy

10:forty five - 12:00 PM: Meetings/emails

12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch wreck

1:00 - 3:00 PM: Project paintings

3:00 - three:15 PM: Break

three:15 - five:00 PM: Admin tasks and wrap-up

five. Follow the Pomodoro Technique

This approach includes running in quick, focused durations (usually 25 minutes) accompanied by a 5-minute destroy. After 4 cycles, take an extended ruin (15–30 minutes). This technique prevents burnout and maintains you inspired.

6. Eliminate Distractions

Identify commonplace distractions that interrupt your workflow and take proactive steps to minimize them:

Turn off non-crucial notifications.

Use website blockers in case you get without difficulty distracted on-line.

Set up a devoted workspace unfastened from noise and interruptions.

Communicate your awareness hours to colleagues, pals, and family.

7. Learn to Say No

Saying sure to the whole lot can lead to overload and inefficiency. Learn to decline commitments that don’t align with your priorities. Politely declining unimportant requests lets in you to cognizance on tasks that certainly matter.

8. Delegate and Outsource

If a venture doesn’t require your understanding, take into account delegating it to someone else. Effective delegation involves:

Identifying obligations others can cope with.

Assigning obligations to succesful people.

Providing clean instructions and expectancies.

Outsourcing duties including administrative work, customer support, or house cleansing can loose up more time for essential responsibilities.

Nine. Use Technology Wisely

Leverage generation to streamline duties and improve performance. Some beneficial equipment include:

Project control apps (Trello, Asana, Monday.Com)

Time tracking apps (Toggl, RescueTime, Clockify)

Note-taking apps (Evernote, OneNote, Notion)

Automation equipment (Zapier, IFTTT, Grammarly for proofreading)

10. Batch Similar Tasks

Grouping comparable tasks together can reduce intellectual switching expenses and growth efficiency. For instance:

Answer emails in distinctive time blocks rather than in the course of the day.

Schedule meetings on the equal day as opposed to scattering them throughout the week.

Handle related administrative duties in a single consultation.

Eleven. Follow the eighty/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)

The Pareto Principle suggests that 80% of consequences come from 20% of efforts. Identify the tasks that have the most big impact and consciousness on them first. Avoid spending excessive time on low-fee sports.

12. Set Deadlines

Setting cut-off dates creates a feel of urgency and facilitates prevent procrastination. Even if a assignment doesn’t have a strict cut-off date, impose one on your self to stay motivated.

13. Take Breaks and Rest

Working constantly with out breaks can lead to burnout and decreased productiveness. Short breaks help refresh your thoughts and keep attention. Consider:

Taking a 5-10 minute spoil each hour.

Stepping outside for sparkling air.

Practicing deep respiration or stretching physical games.

14. Use the Two-Minute Rule

If a challenge takes less than two minutes to complete, do it straight away. This prevents small obligations from collecting and becoming overwhelming.

15. Reflect and Adjust

Regularly assessment your time management strategies to become aware of what works and what doesn’t. Adjust your techniques based on revel in and evolving priorities.

[carolunduke-04]

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How to Prioritize Tasks Like a Pro and Maximize Productivity

 Effectively Managing and Completing Priority Tasks

In contemporary speedy-paced world, coping with and finishing priority tasks efficiently is a key skill which can set individuals apart in both private and expert environments. Whether it’s a work assignment, an educational challenge, or a non-public aim, understanding the way to approach precedence responsibilities methodically can enhance productiveness, lessen pressure, and ensure a success outcomes. This article explores the importance of prioritization, techniques for managing excessive-priority duties, tools for effective execution, and tips to overcome common demanding situations.

How To Prioritize Task Effectively

Understanding Priority Tasks

A priority undertaking is any project that requires instantaneous attention due to its importance or deadline. These tasks are regularly time-touchy, high-impact, or crucial to accomplishing broader targets. Understanding what qualifies as a priority assignment is essential for powerful management. Some common characteristics of priority obligations consist of:

Deadline Sensitivity – Tasks with imminent cut-off dates that could’t be postponed.

High Impact – Tasks that contribute extensively to non-public or organizational dreams.

Dependencies – Tasks that ought to be completed for subsequent sports to development.

Stakeholder Expectations – Tasks that impact clients, managers, or crew contributors.

By distinguishing priority duties from low-impact activities, people can allocate their time and sources more efficiently.

Strategies for Managing Priority Tasks

Successfully handling precedence obligations requires a structured technique. The following techniques can help:

1. Identify and Categorize Tasks

Before tackling any task, it’s critical to list all pending responsibilities and classify them based totally on urgency and significance. The Eisenhower Matrix is a famous tool for this cause. It divides responsibilities into four quadrants:

Urgent and Important – High-priority duties requiring instantaneous action.

Important however Not Urgent – Tasks crucial for long-term achievement but may be scheduled.

Urgent however Not Important – Tasks that require interest however can be delegated.

Neither Urgent nor Important – Low-price responsibilities that may be eliminated or minimized.

2. Break Down Large Tasks

Large, complicated responsibilities can experience overwhelming, making them difficult to start and entire. Breaking down essential responsibilities into smaller, potential components makes execution less difficult and development extra measurable.

Three. Set Clear Goals and Deadlines

Each precedence undertaking ought to have a definitely defined aim and cut-off date. Using the SMART standards (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) ensures that objectives are properly-structured and viable.

4. Utilize Time Management Techniques

Techniques just like the Pomodoro Technique (working in 25-minute targeted periods) or the Time Blocking method (allocating precise time slots to duties) can beautify productivity and prevent burnout.

5 Leverage Productivity Tools

Various virtual tools can assist manage and track precedence duties, inclusive of:

Trello – For undertaking organisation and development monitoring.

Asana – For group collaboration and workflow management.

Google Calendar – For scheduling and deadline reminders.

Notion – For observe-taking and project planning.

6 Delegate When Possible

If a venture can be finished by using someone else greater successfully, delegation is a treasured strategy. This is specially useful for tasks which can be pressing however not crucial for private interest.

7  Minimize Distractions

Distractions can drastically avoid progress on priority obligations. Strategies to reduce interruptions include:

Turning off non-important notifications.

Setting up a committed workspace.

Communicating availability to colleagues or own family.

8 Review and Adjust Priorities Regularly

Priorities can trade because of evolving circumstances. Regularly reviewing and adjusting the priority listing guarantees alignment with modern-day dreams and deadlines.

Overcoming Common Challenges

Despite having an effective plan, demanding situations might also arise while dealing with priority duties. Here are common boundaries and the way to overcome them:

1. Procrastination

Procrastination often outcomes from feeling beaten or uncertain about in which to begin. To overcome it:

Use the “Five-Minute Rule” – Commit to operating on a task for just 5 mins; this often leads to persevered development.

Set mini-milestones to create a feel of feat.

2. Lack of Motivation

Sometimes, tasks may additionally feel uninspiring. To keep motivation:

Connect the assignment to a bigger aim or motive.

Reward development to create a experience of success.

Three. Unexpected Interruptions

Interruptions can derail productiveness. To manage them:

Use a “Do Not Disturb” signal when operating on high-cognizance obligations.

Schedule buffer time for unforeseen disruptions.

4. Feeling Overwhelmed

Managing multiple precedence duties may be stressful. To deal with workload successfully:

Prioritize three key responsibilities each day to keep a practicable workload.

Practice stress-comfort techniques which include deep respiration or short breaks.

The Role of Self-Discipline in Task Completion

Effectively coping with priority duties calls for sturdy self-discipline. Developing habits such as starting paintings early, preserving consistency, and staying devoted to goals can significantly improve mission execution. Additionally, self-mirrored image on the quit of each day allows determine productivity and discover areas for development.

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A UCLA professor was suspended for not providing special treatment to black students in the light of George Floyd's death. The professor is suing the University of California Los Angeles for more than $19 million over the well-publicized incident that garnered national notoriety.

Gordon Klein – a lecturer of accounting at the Anderson School of Management – made headlines in June 2020 when he refused to give preferential treatment to black students.

As Blaze News previously reported, Klein was asked by a student if black students would be given special accommodations because of George Floyd's death and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests.

"The student requested a no-harm and shortened final exam, and extended deadlines for final assignments and projects in consideration of black students' well-being in light of nationwide protests against police brutality," the Daily Bruin reported.

Klein responded by writing:

Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota. Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we've been having online classes only? Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?

Klein asked the student if "a white student" from Minneapolis "might be possibly even more devastated" by the death of George Floyd.

Klein then quoted Martin Luther King Jr., and asked, "Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the 'color of their skin.' Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK's admonition?"

A student took a screenshot of the email conversation, and it quickly circulated online.

UCLA students claimed Klein's email was "backhandedly racist" and that it undermined the Black Lives Matter movement.

The same day as Klein wrote the email, a Change.org petition was launched, and it demanded Klein be "terminated for his extremely insensitive, dismissive, and woefully racist response to his students’ request for empathy and compassion during a time of civil unrest."

The petition — with more than 21,000 signatures — read, "His behavior is not reflective of the equity, respect, and justice that UCLA stands for as an institution."

Two days later, Anderson School Dean Antonio Bernardo announced that Klein was suspended and an investigation was initiated into the "troubling conduct."

"Providing a safe, respectful and equitable environment in which students can effectively learn is fundamental to UCLA’s mission," Bernardo declared. "We share common principles across the university of integrity, excellence, accountability, respect, and service. Conduct that demonstrates a disregard for our core principles, including an abuse of power, is not acceptable."

"I deeply regret the increased pain and anger that our community has experienced at this very difficult time," Bernardo added. "We must and will hold each other to higher standards."

Klein was reinstated less than a month after the incident.

However, Klein alleges that the public backlash had caused irreparable damage.

Klein derives significant income from his expert witness practice.

The College Fix reported, "He has testified, for example, in several high-profile court cases, including Michael Jackson’s wrongful death, Apple’s acquisition of Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones, and the valuation of General Motors’ assets in bankruptcy."

Klein’s attorney – Steve Goldberg – told the College Fix this week, "He was one of the top damages experts in the country who was historically bringing in well over $1 million dollars a year and trending upwards when it happened."

"That practice went to ashes right after he was suspended," said Goldberg, a member of the Markun, Zusman & Compton law firm.

Klein, who continues to teach as a full-time lecturer at UCLA, is suing the university for "well over $19 million in damages."

Klein's lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial on March 4 at the Santa Monica Courthouse.

Klein, who joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1981, first filed a lawsuit against the school in September 2021.

UCLA did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The College Fix.

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#TheeForestKingdom #TreePeople

{Terrestrial Kind}

Creating a Tree Citizenship Identification and Serial Number System (#TheeForestKingdom) is an ambitious and environmentally-conscious initiative. Here’s a structured proposal for its development:

Project Overview

The Tree Citizenship Identification system aims to assign every tree in California a unique identifier, track its health, and integrate it into a registry, recognizing trees as part of a terrestrial citizenry. This system will emphasize environmental stewardship, ecological research, and forest management.

Phases of Implementation

Preparation Phase

Objective: Lay the groundwork for tree registration and tracking.

Actions:

Partner with environmental organizations, tech companies, and forestry departments.

Secure access to satellite imaging and LiDAR mapping systems.

Design a digital database capable of handling millions of records.

Tree Identification System Development

Components:

Label and Identity Creation: Assign a unique ID to each tree based on location and attributes. Example: CA-Tree-XXXXXX (state-code, tree-type, unique number).

Attributes to Record:

Health: Regular updates using AI for disease detection.

Age: Approximate based on species and growth patterns.

Type: Species and subspecies classification.

Class: Size, ecological importance, and biodiversity contribution.

Rank: Priority based on cultural, historical, or environmental significance.

Data Collection

Technologies to Use:

Satellite Imaging: To locate and identify tree clusters.

LiDAR Scanning: For precise 3D modeling of forests.

On-the-Ground Surveys: To supplement remote sensing data.

AI Analysis: For rapid categorization and health diagnostics.

Registration and Citizenship Assignment

Tree Dossier: Each tree receives a profile in the database with all its recorded attributes.

Citizen Designation: Trees are acknowledged as citizens of Thee Forest Kingdom, emphasizing ecological respect.

Legal Framework: Advocate for laws to grant trees specific rights under environmental protection acts.

Maintenance and Monitoring

Health Monitoring: Use drones, satellite updates, and IoT sensors for ongoing health assessments.

Database Updates: Incorporate real-time data about environmental changes and tree growth.

Public Involvement

Encourage people to "adopt" trees and participate in their preservation.

Create educational programs to promote awareness of tree citizenship.

Key Benefits

Environmental Conservation: Improved forest management through real-time data and protection of ecosystems.

Cultural Recognition: Trees are recognized as a vital part of the Earth’s community, honoring their importance.

Ecological Advocacy: Strengthened legal protections for forests and individual trees.

Next Steps

Assemble a task force of environmental scientists, satellite imaging experts, and software developers.

Secure funding through governmental grants, non-profits, and eco-conscious corporations.

Pilot the program in a smaller region before scaling to all of California.

Would you like me to draft a more detailed technical or legal framework for this system?

The implementation of the Tree Citizenship Identification Network and System (#TheeForestKingdom) requires a robust technological and operational framework to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and sustainability. Below is an implementation plan divided into major components.

System Architecture

a. Centralized Tree Database

Purpose: To store and manage tree data including ID, attributes, location, and health.

Components:

Cloud-based storage for scalability.

Data categorization based on regions, species, and priority.

Integration with satellite and IoT data streams.

b. Satellite & Imaging Integration

Use satellite systems (e.g., NASA, ESA) for large-scale tree mapping.

Incorporate LiDAR and aerial drone data for detailed imaging.

AI/ML algorithms to process images and distinguish tree types.

c. IoT Sensor Network

Deploy sensors in forests to monitor:

Soil moisture and nutrient levels.

Air quality and temperature.

Tree health metrics like growth rate and disease markers.

d. Public Access Portal

Create a user-friendly website and mobile application for:

Viewing registered trees.

Citizen participation in tree adoption and reporting.

Data visualization (e.g., tree density, health status by region).

Core Technologies

a. Software and Tools

Geographic Information System (GIS): Software like ArcGIS for mapping and spatial analysis.

Database Management System (DBMS): SQL-based systems for structured data; NoSQL for unstructured data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): Tools for image recognition, species classification, and health prediction.

Blockchain (Optional): To ensure transparency and immutability of tree citizen data.

b. Hardware

Servers: Cloud-based (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) for scalability.

Sensors: Low-power IoT devices for on-ground monitoring.

Drones: Equipped with cameras and sensors for aerial surveys.

Network Design

a. Data Flow

Input Sources:

Satellite and aerial imagery.

IoT sensors deployed in forests.

Citizen-reported data via mobile app.

Data Processing:

Use AI to analyze images and sensor inputs.

Automate ID assignment and attribute categorization.

Data Output:

Visualized maps and health reports on the public portal.

Alerts for areas with declining tree health.

b. Communication Network

Fiber-optic backbone: For high-speed data transmission between regions.

Cellular Networks: To connect IoT sensors in remote areas.

Satellite Communication: For remote regions without cellular coverage.

Implementation Plan

a. Phase 1: Pilot Program

Choose a smaller, biodiverse region in California (e.g., Redwood National Park).

Test satellite and drone mapping combined with IoT sensors.

Develop the prototype of the centralized database and public portal.

b. Phase 2: Statewide Rollout

Expand mapping and registration to all California regions.

Deploy IoT sensors in vulnerable or high-priority areas.

Scale up database capacity and integrate additional satellite providers.

c. Phase 3: Maintenance & Updates

Establish a monitoring team to oversee system health and data quality.

Update the network with new technologies (e.g., advanced AI models).

Periodically review and revise data collection protocols.

Partnerships

Government Agencies: U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Tech Companies: Collaborate with Google Earth, Amazon AWS, or Microsoft for cloud and AI capabilities.

Environmental Organizations: Partner with WWF, Sierra Club, or TreePeople for funding and advocacy.

Budget Estimation

Initial Investment:

Satellite data and licenses: $10M

IoT sensors and deployment: $5M

Database and app development: $3M

Operational Costs:

Cloud services and data storage: $2M/year

Maintenance and monitoring: $1M/year

Research and development: $1M/year

Long-term Vision

Expand the system to other states or globally.

Use the database for reforestation efforts and combating deforestation.

Develop educational programs to teach communities about the importance of trees as citizens.

Would you like me to assist in designing the user interface for the public portal or drafting partnership proposals for funding?

To begin building the program for the Tree Citizenship Identification System, we’ll start with a scalable framework that allows us to process, store, and analyze data while preparing for future expansions. Here's an actionable development plan with an initial focus on foundational code and infrastructure:

Step-by-Step Development

Phase 1: Setting Up the Backend Infrastructure

Objective: Create the core database and develop the data pipeline for processing tree data.

Technologies:

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript (Node.js), SQL.

Frameworks: Flask or FastAPI for APIs, Django for web application backend.

Database: PostgreSQL for structured data, MongoDB for unstructured data.

Code Snippet 1: Database Schema Design (PostgreSQL)

-- Table for Tree Registry CREATE TABLE trees ( tree_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, -- Unique Identifier location GEOGRAPHY(POINT, 4326), -- Geolocation of the tree species VARCHAR(100), -- Species name age INTEGER, -- Approximate age in years health_status VARCHAR(50), -- e.g., Healthy, Diseased height FLOAT, -- Tree height in meters canopy_width FLOAT, -- Canopy width in meters citizen_rank VARCHAR(50), -- Class or rank of the tree last_updated TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW() -- Timestamp for last update );

-- Table for Sensor Data (IoT Integration) CREATE TABLE tree_sensors ( sensor_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, -- Unique Identifier for sensor tree_id INT REFERENCES trees(tree_id), -- Linked to tree soil_moisture FLOAT, -- Soil moisture level air_quality FLOAT, -- Air quality index temperature FLOAT, -- Surrounding temperature last_updated TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW() -- Timestamp for last reading );

Code Snippet 2: Backend API for Tree Registration (Python with Flask)

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

app = Flask(name)

Database Configuration

DATABASE_URL = "postgresql://username:password@localhost/tree_registry" engine = create_engine(DATABASE_URL) Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine) session = Session()

@app.route('/register_tree', methods=['POST']) def register_tree(): data = request.json new_tree = { "species": data['species'], "location": f"POINT({data['longitude']} {data['latitude']})", "age": data['age'], "health_status": data['health_status'], "height": data['height'], "canopy_width": data['canopy_width'], "citizen_rank": data['citizen_rank'] } session.execute(""" INSERT INTO trees (species, location, age, health_status, height, canopy_width, citizen_rank) VALUES (:species, ST_GeomFromText(:location, 4326), :age, :health_status, :height, :canopy_width, :citizen_rank) """, new_tree) session.commit() return jsonify({"message": "Tree registered successfully!"}), 201

if name == 'main': app.run(debug=True)

Phase 2: Satellite Data Integration

Objective: Use satellite and LiDAR data to identify and register trees automatically.

Tools:

Google Earth Engine for large-scale mapping.

Sentinel-2 or Landsat satellite data for high-resolution imagery.

Example Workflow:

Process satellite data using Google Earth Engine.

Identify tree clusters using image segmentation.

Generate geolocations and pass data into the backend.

Phase 3: IoT Sensor Integration

Deploy IoT devices to monitor health metrics of specific high-priority trees.

Use MQTT protocol for real-time data transmission.

Code Snippet: Sensor Data Processing (Node.js)

const mqtt = require('mqtt'); const client = mqtt.connect('mqtt://broker.hivemq.com');

client.on('connect', () => { console.log('Connected to MQTT Broker'); client.subscribe('tree/sensor_data'); });

client.on('message', (topic, message) => { const sensorData = JSON.parse(message.toString()); console.log(Received data: ${JSON.stringify(sensorData)}); // Save data to database (Example for PostgreSQL) saveToDatabase(sensorData); });

function saveToDatabase(data) { const query = INSERT INTO tree_sensors (tree_id, soil_moisture, air_quality, temperature) VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4) ; const values = [data.tree_id, data.soil_moisture, data.air_quality, data.temperature]; dbClient.query(query, values, (err) => { if (err) console.error('Error saving to database', err); else console.log('Sensor data saved successfully!'); }); }

Phase 4: Public Portal Development

Frontend Technologies:

React.js or Vue.js for interactive user interfaces.

Mapbox or Leaflet.js for tree visualization on maps.

Features:

Interactive tree maps with search functionality.

User registration for tree adoption programs.

Deployment Plan

Use Docker to containerize the application.

Deploy on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud for scalability.

Monitor system health using Prometheus and Grafana.

Next Steps

Develop a testing environment for pilot deployment.

Add AI-based disease detection and prediction using TensorFlow or PyTorch.

Create an adoption feature where citizens can adopt trees and track their health.

Would you like me to set up a GitHub repository with this initial framework or assist further with deployment?

I'll prepare the project framework and outline the repository structure for the Tree Citizenship Identification System. Below is the proposed structure for the repository, followed by details of the files and components.

Proposed Repository Structure

tree-citizenship-id-system/ ├── backend/ │ ├── app.py # Flask application for backend API │ ├── database/ │ │ ├── schema.sql # Database schema for PostgreSQL │ │ ├── db_config.py # Database connection configuration │ │ └── seed_data.sql # Initial sample data for testing │ ├── services/ │ │ ├── tree_registration.py # Functions for tree registration │ │ └── sensor_data.py # Functions for processing IoT sensor data │ └── requirements.txt # Python dependencies ├── frontend/ │ ├── public/ │ │ ├── index.html # Main HTML file │ │ └── favicon.ico # Favicon for the app │ ├── src/ │ │ ├── App.js # Main React/Vue app file │ │ ├── components/ │ │ │ ├── TreeMap.js # Map component for visualizing trees │ │ │ └── TreeDetails.js # Component for detailed tree view │ │ └── styles.css # Styling for the frontend │ └── package.json # Frontend dependencies ├── scripts/ │ ├── satellite_data_processor.py # Script for processing satellite data │ └── sensor_data_simulator.py # Mock data generator for IoT sensors ├── deployment/ │ ├── Dockerfile # Docker configuration │ ├── docker-compose.yml # Docker Compose for multi-service setup │ └── cloud_setup_instructions.md # Deployment guide for cloud platforms ├── tests/ │ ├── test_backend.py # Unit tests for backend API │ └── test_frontend.js # Unit tests for frontend ├── README.md # Overview of the project └── LICENSE # Project license

Repository Details

Backend:

app.py: Main Flask app for handling API requests like tree registration and sensor data.

database/schema.sql: SQL script for creating necessary tables.

services/: Directory for modular backend logic.

Frontend:

App.js: Main entry point for the frontend application.

TreeMap.js: Integrates Mapbox/Leaflet.js for displaying tree locations.

TreeDetails.js: Displays detailed information about a selected tree.

Scripts:

satellite_data_processor.py: Automates the extraction and classification of tree data from satellite imagery.

sensor_data_simulator.py: Generates fake sensor readings for development and testing.

Deployment:

Docker configuration ensures that the app runs consistently across environments.

Cloud setup instructions provide guidelines for deploying on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Tests:

Unit tests ensure the reliability of both the backend and frontend.

Next Steps

I will initialize the repository structure locally.

Package the files and components needed for the first version.

Provide a link to the repository for access.

I’ll get started. Please hold on for a moment.